People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1892 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Becoud tteMion. / The secend session ot the Fifty-second cons p-ess convened st Washington on the 6th. Vice President Morton called the senate to order.and Chaplin Butler opened proceedings with prayer. The usuad committees were appointed to Inform the house and the president that the senate was ready for business, after which an adjournment was taken for the day.... Speaker Crisp called the house together and the Mind chaplain. Rev. Dr. Milburn, delivered a prayer. The credentials of new members to fill vacancies were presented. Bills were introduced to open the worM’s fair on Sundays; to change the time of the meeting of congress to the first Monday in March after election; to repeal the federal election law, and to provide for the issue of *75,000,«06in bonds redeemable in coin at the option of the United States after ten years, to be applied to the payment of the deficiency in the United States treasury. DOMESTIC. The electric light plant at Des Moines, la., valued at 9100,000, was ruined by fire. Mbs. Ada Delong has been acquitted ©f murdering her Misband at Binghamton, N. Y., November 4 last He beat her and she shot him. Agent Tingle, in his report of the operations of the division of special agents of the treasury department during the last fiscal year, says that smuggling of dutiable merchandise across the Canadian and Mexican frontiers has largely increased during the past year. A fast train on the Erie road struck a wagon at a crossing in Elmira, N. Y., and Edward Blanchard and his wife and Mrs. W. Conklin and Mrs. Maggie Pitts were killed. At Webb City, Mo., in the zinc-min-ing region, a shaft was run into a bed of subterranean fire. The heaviest snowstorm prevailed on Long Island since the blizzard of 1888, the fall being 2 feet. A fire broke out in Hart’s sawmill in Tacoma, Wash., causing a loss of 9100.009.

The public debt statement issued on < the Ist showed that the interest and non-interest bearing debt decreased 9397,452 during the month of November. The cash in the treasury was 916,035,117. The national debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $834,913,881 The annual reports of the postmaster general’s assistants show that during the past year the inland mail service cost $41,335,372 and the foreign mail service $806,145. The net increase of -post offices over the year was 2,790, and the total number in the United States is 67,119. There were 5,520,788 domestic mailable letters received at the dead letter office and 557,643 domestic unmailable letters. The annual report of Superintendent Kimball, of the life-saving service, shows that there were 242 lives saved last year, 18J. on the Atlantic and fortyeight on the lakes, and twenty were drowned. The total wrecks numbered sixty, the loss being $5,078,510. The government receipts last month aggregated $28,750,000, against $27,000,000 in November, 1891, and in the five months of the current fiscal year amounted to $163,640,979. The expenditures in the past five months were 9161,000,000. Joseph Kane, a Lake Shore railroad employe at Erie, Pa., killed his wife and himself. Domestic trouble was the cause. * By the explosions of a locomotive boiler at Brownsville, Pa., Engineer Barry was killed and Fireman Neifert was fatally hurt. i A PACKAGE containing $2,000 was Stolen recently from the United States iExpress Company from a train on the '.lllinois, Indiana & lowa railroad near iDwight, UL y> I The aggregate internal revenue collections of the United States during the last fiscal year were $158,857,544.35. ' Several boats were capsized near West Berkeley, Cal., and seven Italian fishermen were drowned. The street railroads of New Orleans have been sold to a New York syndicate for $10,000,000. In the United States the leading clearing houses reported exchanges of 91,382,966,386 during the 'seven days ended on the 2d, against $1,108,600,048 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1891 the increase was 8.8. ' Jack Fields was hanged at Wharton, Tex, for the murder of Henry Kearby ; and his wife. . ''Seven safes in the Equitable building in Chicago were blown open by in one night and about $1,500 in cash secured. * The county seat of Bayfield county, Wis., has been removed from Bayard to Washburn. During the seven days ended on the 2d the business failures in the United States numbered 269, against 209 the preceding week and 330 for the corresponding time last year. * During the month of November twelve men perished at the hands of assassins in Chicago. Foub of the desperadoes who held up a Great Northern train near Malta, Mont, were captured at Great Falla A fire in a tenement house in Brookly, N. Y., resulted in the deaths of Michael Doyle and his little daughter. An earthquake shock Was felt in Chattanooga, Tenn., extending to the summit of Missionary Ridge, an area of about 2X miles square. A babbed-wibe trust has been formed with headquarters in Chicago to control the output in the country. Near Sanford, N. C-, two elderly sisters named McDonald were killed by Charles Anderson, aged 10, killed his younger sister at Wichita, Kan., with a shotgun which he thought smotv. * * Three new banks with an aggregate capital of $1,400,000 opened their doors

Charles Buddensiek, the New York builder who was sent to prison June 24, 1885, for manslaughter, has been discharged from Sing Sing, his term having expired. The efficiency of the different corps is the subject of comment in the annual report of Secretary of War Elkins, and the revival of the grade of lieutenant general is urged. The expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, were $51,218,970.52. The superintended of immigration shows that 979,663 immigrants arrived in this country during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892. The annual report of Secretary Noble to the president covers in detail the doings of the interior department. The work accomplished during the present administration is shown to greatly exceed that of any like preceding period in the history of the department George W. Reed, press agent for the Leslie Davis Dramatic Company, committed suicide at a hotel in Fort Wayne, Ind. The Elm Park Methodist church at Scranton, Pa., which had just been completed at a cost of $200,000, was destroyed by fire. Fire on the Northwestern coal dock at Superior, Wis., caused a loss of SIOO,000.

Ernest Nicholson, a farmer, his wife and two children, were drowned in a creek near their home at Pleasanton, Cal. They were driving through the creek when the wagon upset. By the caving in of a bank at Woodville, Miss., the three little girls of Dr. J. P. Carro were killedThe entire business portion of Cumberland Gap, Tenn., was destroyed by fire. Most of the business part of Cranford, N. J., was burned. The treasury department has decided that a Chinese boy inay enter the United States for the purpose of receiving an education, provided he has the permission of his own government to visit the United States. Col. T. H. Boyd, editor and proprietor of the Morning Olympian at Olympia, Wash., was shot and killed at Seattle by his wife. Domestic trouble was the cause. For many months a comparison of outgoing and incoming steerage passengers in New York has shown the arrivals greatly in excess of the departures, but now the tide is turned the other way and the departures are in excess by the thousands daily. Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine hospital service, in his annual report to the secretary of the treasury recommends that immigration be suspended for at least one year from the first of January next Secretary Foster, of the treasury department has submitted to congress the book of estimates for the fiscal year 1893-94. They aggregate $421,612,215. The appropriations for 1892-93 were $423,861,970.67. David Block, manufacturer of tinware in New York city, failed for $132,000. Postmaster General Wanamakeb in his annual report says $5,000,000 have been added to the gross revenue, the deficit has been reduced $1,000,000, 2,790 new offices have been established, and the experiment of free delivery in villages been successful. He also says that one-cent letter postage is a near possibility. At the annual meeting in Baltimore of the National Prison association Judge Wayland, of New Haven, said the three principal causes of crime were unrestricted immigration, the saloon and neglect of children. He suggested as the remedy the perpetual imprisonment of all habitual criminals, paupers and drunkards. Louis Newman, managing editor of the German edition of the New York Evening News, fell dead while at lunch in a restaurant.

The pianoforte workers of Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other centers of the industry have decided to organize a national union. Abthur Wiullmean commenced a fifty days’ fast at Cleveland, O. Parker Crane was arrested at Middletown, 0., and identified as an escaped prisoner who was under sentence of death at Vincennes, Ind., in 1883. Fred Marsh, one of the most dangerou& counterfeiters in the country, was anested in Milwaukee. An explosion of powder at Scottdale, Pa., wrecked J. M. Bradley’s house and fatally injured his two children. A flood carried away part of the dam of the Honey Lake Valley Land & Water Company in Lassen county, Cat, causing a loss of $50,000.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Gov. Tillman, of Edgefield, and Lieut Gov. Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville, were inaugurated at Columbus, B.C. Chauncey Moblan and Annie Bell were married in a New York city museum. The bridegroom is 21 years old and weighs 442 pounds. The bride is a ye'ar younger and tips the scale at 570 pounds. Alice Maud Stone, for whom the celebrated trotter Maud S. was named, was married at her home in Cincinnati to Albert Carey, of New York. Henry Hayt, who was governor of Pennsylvania from 1878 to 1888, died at his home in Wilkesbarre, aged 62 years. The funeral services of Dr. Scott the president’s father-in-law, took place in Washington, after which the remains were taken to Washington, Pa., for burial. The official count of the presidential vote in Texas gives Cleveland 289,148; Harrison, 77,475; Weaver, 99,888; Bidwell, 2,165. The official vote shows that at the late election in Minnesota Harrison received 122,736 votes; Cleveland, 100,579; Harrison’s plurality, 22,157. Harriet Foster Obb, widow of the late Gen. Joseph Orr, died in La Porte, Ind., aged 96 years. The official canvass in Kansas for members of the legislature gives the nouse to the republicans and the senate to the populists. On joint ballot the populists have a majority of one.

Jay Gould, the great financier and railway king, died at his home in New York of pulmonary consumption, aged 56 years. He leaves four sons and two daughters, bis wife having died three years ago, and a fortune estimated at from $60,000,000 to <150,000,000. Commander Roswell D. Hitchcock, Jb., U. S. N., died in New York after a few hours’ illness. The oldest theatrical manager in the United States, Jake E Esher, proprietor of a theater in St. Louis, died at the age of 64 years. Maby Allen West, of Chicago, editor of the Union Signal, and for several years one of the leading lights in W. C. T. U. work, died in Tokio, Japan, aged 55 years. Capt. E. H. Vibgil, one of the pioners in the express business and one of the organizers of the National Express Company, died in Troy, N. Y„ aged 85 years. -- The official returns from the recent election in Nebraska give the vote as follows: Harrison, 87,218; Weaver, 82,256; Cleveland, 24,943. Harrison’s plurality over Weaver, 4,957; over Cleveland, 62,270. The funeral of Jay Gould took place at his late residence in New York city. Maj. Gen. Benjamin W. Brich, U. S. A. (retired), died of congestion of the lungs at his residence in Washington, aged 76 years. Frederick Bradley, one of the best known marine underwriters in the country, died at his home in Brookline, Mass.

FOREIGN. Flames at Buena Ventura, South America, destroyed seventy buildings. Gen. Diaz was inaugurated president of the republic of Mexico for his fourth term and the third consecutively. The famous church of St. Michael at Vienna, erected in 1221 and visited by tourists from all parts of the world, was destroyed by fire. The church, contained many tombstones from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries which were badly damaged by the flames. The Russian government has appropriated $8,000,000 to be devoted to the relief of the inhabitants of the faminestricken districts of the empire. • The Japanese cruiser Sheshinarukan collided with the British steamer Ravenna in the Island sea and was sunk and eighty-five of the cruiser’s crew were lost Robert Olsen was hanged at Dorchester, N. 8., for the murder of Policeman Joseph Steadman in Moncton, August 1. • M. Hannan & Co., wholesale cheese and produce merchants at Montreal, failed for $115,000. Gen. Oppermann, who had the reputation of being the actual planner of the siege of Paris, died at Hanover, Germany. Twenty children ventured on the ice at the Biederitz pond at Sagan, Germany. The ice gave way and eight of them were drowned. Chinese pirates penned up eighty women and children in the caves at Quang Huyea and smoked them to death. Twenty-three persons concerned in the cholera riots in Saratoff, Russia, have been sentenced to be hanged and fifty-six to be imprisoned in Siberia. The lunatic wing of the poorhouse at Lampis, Finland, was burned and seven of the inmates were cremated. A severe famine was prevailing in Khiangmai, Burmah, and the American missionaries were feeding the starving people. Five miners lost their lives by a fire in the sulphur mines at Lucia, Sicily, and ten others were fatally injured.

LATER. " In the United States senate on the 6th, after the president’s message had been read, bills were introduced to repeal all statutes relating to supervisors of election and special deputies and for the suspension of immigration for one year. In the 'house the president’s message was read and a bill was introduced for the better protection of commerce and to establish a national quarantine. Mr. Outhwaite (O.) announced the death of Representative John G. Warwick, and in respect to the memorv of the deceased the house adjourned. Dr. Werner Siemens, the eminent electrician, died in Berlin, aged 75 years. The annual report of Superintendent White, of the railway mail service, shows that for the year ended June 30 last the service handled the enormous total of 9,585,862,589 pieces of mail matter. Nels Olander, a hardware dealer at Hallock, Minn., was robbed in his store of $2,360 in cash. A tornado near Atlanta, Tex., swept houses and outbuild ngs and left death and destruction in its path. The home of Samuel *McAdams was destroyed and he and three children fatally hurt A band of Cbilasi tribesmen attacked a Cashmere guard near Chitral. India, and fifty of the former were kilMd. The handsome building in Philadelphia of the Public Ledger, owned by George W. Childs, was partially gutted by fire entailing a loss of about $225,000.

During a gale in the province of Catanza three vessels in the harbor of Santa Veners, Italy, were wrecked and ten persons were drowned. A Burlington freight train broke in two near Corona, Col., and the two KJjirts collided, wrecking the greater portion of the tr«dn and killing four carpenters. A fire in Raymond, N. H., destroyed twenty-five buildings. Loss, SIIO,OOO. The wholesale mercantile* firm of Wilczinski & Nelson at Greenville, Miss., failed, carrying down with it three other firms, the total liabilities being $400,000. The entire business portion of Alexandria, Ind., was destroyed by fire. The complete official returns of the late election show North Dakota to have been the closest state in the union. Two republicans and one fusion elector are chosen. Dahl (rep.) for secretary of state has, 723 majority. On the remainder of the ticket the fusionists have from 1,000 to 2,000 mar jority.