People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Second Session. Sbnatob Hill (N. Y.) introduced a bill In the senate on the 7th to repeal the Sherman surer purchase act of July I*, 1890. Senator Cullom (Ill.) presented a petition to limit the free entry of -wearing apparel the output of foreign manufactories....ln the house a "bill was introduced to provide for the perpetuation of the national hanking system and the restoration®! state bank notes on a safe basis, also a bill lbr the establishment of a uniform revenue customs duty upon sugar and the abolishment of the payment of sugar bounties. The senate on the Bth ratified the treaty With Chill A memorial was presented from the ChicagQ Women’s elub for the repesl of the provision of law requiring the world's fair to be closed on Sundays. Adjourned to the 12th.... In the house the annual report of the secretary of the treasury was presented and referred to the committee on ways and means. The senate was not in session on the 9th.... In the house the public printing bill was passed and a bill was introduced to reduce postage on first class mail matter, except postal cards, to one cent per half ounce. The secretary of the treasury sent word that the deficiencies of the government for the current fiscal year were estimated at 814,636,520, of which 810,500,000 is on account of pensions. Adjourned to the 12th. IH the senate on the 12th bills were introduced to amend the Sherman act ao sya to provide for free silver coinage: to encourage the construction of electric railroads, and firovVling that hereafter the tax on distilled spirits bo fixed st 11.25 a gallon. The following nominations were received from the president: Peter S. Grosscup, of Chicago, to be United States distriot Judge for the northern district of IHnois; Genio M. Lambertson, of Nebraska, to be assistant secretary of the treasury, and Person G Cheney, of New Hampshire, to be minister of the United States to Switzerland....ln the house the army appropriation bill and a bill to prohibit the employment of convict labor on public works were reported.

DOMESTIC. MEBEDrrH Stanley jumped in A|pcession from the five bridges across tlie Ohio at Cincinnati The height ranged from 100 to 120 feet. Time, one hour and twenty minutes. Da Charles R. Keyes, assistant state geologist, has discovered rich nickel ores near Keokuk, la This is the first discovery of the kind ever announced from lowa. A building at Burlington, Ind., occupied by John A. Graham for saloon purposes, was blown np by dynamite and completely destroyed. The great Mercer county (0.) gas field has given out. A total population of 300,000 was dependent upon the field and more than 1,000 industries would be compelled to clofse on this account. A terrific blizzard prevailed in Kansas, stopping all railway traffic and freezing to death hundreds of cattle. During the season just close<Jniuetyfive lives were lost in navigawng the great lakes. The death list is much longer than for many years in the lake marine. In pmperty the losses of the season aggregate $2,050,000. Attorney General Miller in his annual report to congress says that during the fiscal year 1892 the expenses of his department aggregated $3,748,239.08, and 2,009 civil suits and 18,724 criminal prosecutions were terminated. The attorney general says that the increase in the number of southern war claims (ntor aggregating $400,000,000) is a subjOTt that demands the immediate attention of congress. The number of convicts pardoned by the president during the year was 71 out of 505 applications. Sentences were commuted in 82 cases. James H argijs, of Nevada, Mo., fatally shot Miss Pearl Mann because she refused to marry him and then . killed himself. Jacob B. Crowell, of Greencastle, Pa., was buncoed out of $5,000 in the usual way by a man who “wanted to buy a farm.” After a long fight the home for disabled and indigent confederate veterans has been accepted by the Georgia legislature. John S. McDonald, assessor of the city of Boston, was burned to death by the upsetting of a lamp. Postmaster General Wanamakbr sent an order to New York for 8,000,000,000 Co’umbian postage stamps, to be delivered in 1893. In a railway collision on the Central road in Jersey City, N. J., a young woman was fatally injured and ten other persons were badly bruised. The city armory at Cleveland. 0., was completely gutted by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The Jefferson woolen mills at Jeffersonville, Mass., were burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The relief committee at Homestead, Pa., is caring for seventy-five families which are destitute as a result of the strike.

A poll of both branches of congress on the subject of restriction of immigration shows that sixty-three senators and 156 representatives favor restriction, while sixteen senators were non- . committal. The Hock Island railway telegraphers went on a strike, and it was thought they would be joined in their struggle by the conductors and switchmen. In the United States the leading clearing houses reported exchanges of $1,450,562,872 during the seven days ended on the 9th, against $1,882,966,886 the previous seven days. As compared v*ith the corresponding week of 1891 the increase was 18.3. E. E. Patjllson, aged 55, a wealthy Detroit (Mich.) man, killed himself with a revolver at a hotel in Boston. William Eamsev. a pioneer farmer of Sunman, Ihd., 80 years old, was mangled to death by a hog. Gov. Flower has nardoned Polly Frisch, who, in 1859, was indicted in Genesee county, N. Y., for killing her husband and two children by poisoning them and sentenced to life imDennis McCarthy and Stephen Hite (white) apd Grant Thomas and Nelson Lewis (colored) were banged from the .same scaffold in the jailyardat Louis. first quadruple hanging in the state. Jl &.. 4 ,aw.4’ *.! jHk.-

DtfßtNG the seven days ended on the ,9th the business failures in the United Slates numbered $97, against 269 the preceding week and 810 for the corresponding time last year. Frank Keener, under a twelve-years* sentence for wife murder, committed snicide in the Berks county (Pa.) jail by hanging himself. Martin Buree, one of the three men convicted of the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago in 1889 and sentenced te life imprisonment, died in the prison at Joliet of consumption. Only one of the three (Dan Caughlin) is now alive, O'Sullivan having died last winter. A prominent cattleman from northwestern New Mexico says that for more than two years no ram has fallen there and that over 75,000 head of cattle have died from starvation and lack of majber. In his annual report Secretary of the Navy Tracy says the new navy consists of forty-two first-class vessels, and also says that the progress by which the United States has emerged from its condition of helplessness at sea and by the employment of its own resources has distanced its most experienced competitors and marks an epoch in naval development not only of this country but of the world. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, are $24,571,498, being $2,713,141 less than those for the last fiscal year. Charles A. Chanter, a botanist aged 55 from Kilbourne City, Wis., was crushed, to death by an ascending elevator in the Masonic temple in Chicago and his mangled remains fell fifteen stories to the bottom of the shaft. The Denver & Rio Grande railway roundhouse with its contents were burned at Salida, Col., the loss being $400,000. The principal business portion of Sumter, S. C., was destroyed by fire. In a collision between two freight trains near South Ford, Conn., Engineer Thompson and Engineer Beebe were killed and the trains were badly wrecked. It was 6aid that a conspiracy to poison non-union workmen at Homestead, Pa., had come to light, and that several prominent labor leaders were implicated. At least two deaths and perhaps a number of others had been traced to the work of Robert Beatty, the tool iclected to carry the murderous plan into execution. Thbee squares of business houses and residences were burned at Plaquemine, La., causing a loss of $150,000. Tommy Warren, the former featherweight champion, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary at Waco, Tex., for murdering a negro saloon porter.

Francis Murphy, the temperance evangelist, is to establish a home for fallen women in Pittsburgh, Pa. Fbkd Schnessler worked for Farmer McAff, near Lima, 0., for some time without getting pay. He asked McAff for his money, whereupon the latter killed him with a piece of wood. Cornelius Coffee, who shot Officers Dillon and Barton at Bluefield, W. Va., was captured by a mob at Pocahontas, Va., and hanged to a tree. The Minersmith hotel at Milford, Conn., was burned with its contents. It was over 200 years old and was used as headquarters by Washington. Flames in Milwaukee that started in the art store of C. Henuecke & Co. caused a Joss of $130,000. Josephine Mallibon, the murderer of John Hobbs in Philadelphia, has been sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. A fire in the house of Ole R. Albertson at York, N. D., caused the death of his two little children. John Daley, a wealthy farmer living near Springfield, Mo., aged 76 years, was swindled out of $2,000 by confidence men who worked the old gold brick scheme. O. C. Wing, a young farmer near Quincy, 111., ended his life because he thought he was too wicked to live. The entire family of Robert Brown, of White Oak, 0., was poisoned by eating meal in which arsenic had been placed to kill rats. Many lives were endangered and a loss of over SIOO,OOO was entailed by the bursting of a water main in Chicago. George I. Bagi.ey, the United States express messenger who took a package of money amounting to SIOO,OOO and gave it up the next day, pleaded guilty at Davenport, la., and was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment. Miss Susan B. Anthony, of Rochester, N. Y., the well-known woman suffrage advocate, has been appointed manager of the state industrial school by Gov. Flower. The twelfth annual session of the American Federation of Labor opened in Philadelphia. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 12th was: Wheat, 75,571,000 bushels; corn, 10,711,000 bushels; oats, 7,027,000 bushels; rye, 1,350,000 bushels; barley, 2,238,000 bushels. The Cincinnati presbytery found Prof. Henry P. Smith, of Lane Theological seminary, gtfilty of teaching heresy. By a decision of the United States supreme court the Southern Pacific railway has lost its title to millions of dollars’ worth of California lands. Great excitement prevailed *at Phoenix, A. T., over a gold find in new placer grounds on the San Juan river. A negro woman in Edgefield county, S. C., was accused of murdering her 2-year-old babe and then serving, it cooked to her friends at a party as roast pig. The value of dairy products exported from the United States during the seven months ended November 80 was $7,677,146, against $7,422,685 during the same period in 1891. The beef and hog exports in November were $10,448,524, against $9,040,554 in November, 1891. The Texas cotton crop this season is estimated at 2,000,000 bales. That of 1891 was 2,200,000. Thomas Q. Lamar while resisting arrest was shot and killed at Aiken, S. CL, I by Majof R. A. Chaffee, who was in torn fatally wounded, and Marshal Bobert Gaston was likewise fatally l ahot ' j

Two old women, Porrie and Merrill by name, who had been telling fortunes for a week, were arrested at WSlndlngton, Del., charged with witchcraft. Jay Gould’s will, containing 6,000 words and disposing of 872.000,000 worth of property, was, filed for probate in the surrogate's court in New York. The coal operators of the Hocking valley, in session at Cincinnati, decided to form a trust company for the commercial handling of the output of all their mines. PERSONAL AND POUTICAL Prof. John St%oxg Newbury, one of the most eminent geologists in ]lhe United States, died in New Haven, Conn., aged 70 years. The official vote of Massachusetts was: Harrison, 202,814; Cleveland, 176,813, a republican plurality of 26,001. Russell’s plurality for governor over Haile is 2,534. The article of amendment to the constitution abolishing property qualification for the office of governor was adopted by 141,321 yeas to 68,048 Days. Mbs. Mary McKinley died in Chicago, aged 100 years and 2 months. The vote of Montana on presidential electors at the recent election was: Harrison, 18,883; Cleveland, 17,534; Weaver, 7,259; Bidwell, 517. Dixon (dem.) was defeated for congress by Hartman (rep.) by 220 votes. Col. John Ryan, who fought with Sam Houston for Texas independence, died a pauper in the tospital at Kansas City. The official vote of California at the recent election was: Cleveland, 117,908; Harrison, 117,756; Weaver, 25,326; Bidwell, 7,187. One republican elector was chosen. The recount of the 26,000 ballots cast for congressman in Kent county, Mich., gives Belknap (rep.) a plurality of two in the district The official returns on the recount of the vote of Nelson county, N. D. t give a sufficient majority to elect all the Weaver presidential electors. George Harrington, formerly assistant secretary of the treasury and minister to Switzerland under President 7 incOln, died at sea while on his way from New York to Hamburg. Miss Elizabeth Appleman, of Middletown, celebrated the 101st anniversary of her birth. She is the oldest white wqman in Maryland. The official canvass of the vote in West Virginia shows: Cleveland, 84,408; Harrison, 80,285; Bid well, 2,130; Weaver, 4,165. MacDorkle (dem.), for governor, a plurality of 3,918.

FOREIGN. Influenza has again broken ont in Berlin. The fearful cold in north Germany was causing intense suffering. Four farm laborers were frozen to death at Havel. Countess Vis Tonte and her maid were murdered in the countess’ villa at Valeria, Italy, by a German named Schumann. Robbery was ske motive. Over 80,000 cotton operators in Lancashire, England, were said to be ie a starving condition. In the province of Sassari, Sardinia, the gendarmes surprised and surrounded a band of brigands and killed five of them. Floating ice in the Mugglesse, near Berlin, Germany, crushed in three canal boats and five lives were lost. A fire broke out in a dwelling house at Frederiksburg, a suburb of Copenhagen, and seven of its inmates were killed. ♦ The city of Hamburg estimates its loss from cholera the past year at $35,000,000.

LATER. Bills were introduced in the United Stales senate on the 13th for the suspension. of immigration under certain circumstances; to facilitate promot'on in the navy; to provide for a national encampment of the militia at the World’s Columbian exposition, and to amend the interstate comm-ice law. In the house a resolution was adopted to ascertain the present condition of the treasury and future probable revenues under existing laws. The senate bill enlarging the provisions of the act for the distribution of the* La Abra awards made under the convention between the United States and Mexico was passed. The Black Hills national bank at Rapid City, S. D. , closed its doors. A cyclone passed 2 miles above Summit, Miss., killing four persons, badly injuring several others and destroying a large amount of property. The cyclone cut a path 300 yards wide. LirMAN & Co., jute merchants at Dundee, Scotland, hanfe failed, with liabilities amounting to $1,250,000. The Cincinnati presbytery found Prof. Henry P. Smith, of Lane Theological seminary, guilty of teaching heresy, and suspended him from the ministry. Four Italian miners working in a mine near Jacksonboro, S. C., were shot and killed by a padrone named Andreas. Six large warehouses and 16,000 bales of cotton were destroyed by fire at Baltimore, the total loss being over $700,000. John Burr, a noted horticulturist, died at Leavenworth, Kan., aged 92 years. North Dakota will this year present an anomaly in the electoral college. .Harrison, Cleveland and Weaver will each receive one vote. The barn of Snyder Bros., cattle and horse dealers, near Georgetown, Tex., was burned, together with twelve thorough bred horses. George Koogler, a wealthy farmer, white, and Lou Keyes, a light-colored negro woman, were found murdered at the woman’s house in Yellow Springs,O. A portion of a limestone mine in Nagayamura, Japan, collapsed, killing thirty-six miners. Four masked men attempted to rob a train on the Chesapeake A Ohio road near Huntington, W. Va., and in the scuffle a German from Cincinnati, who, with his wife, was on a bridal trip tb Europe, wa»;mortally wounded. The robbers left the train without securing any booty.