People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Part*. CONGRESSIONAL. Second ScMlon. Hi the senate on the 15th the anti-option bill iras further discussed and a .favorable report was made on the bill to prohibit foreign vessels from transporting merchandise from one United States port to another United States port via any foreign port. Adjourned to the 19th....1n the house bills were Introduced to repeal the act of June 17. 1890, granting pensions to soldiers and sailors and to widows, minor children and dependent parents of soldiers and sailors, and to provide for the election of the president and vice president by the direct votes of the people. A resolution for a holiday recess from Thursday before Christmas until Wednesday after New Year's was agreed to. THE senate was not in session on the 17th.... In the house bills were introduced to make the pansy the national flower and to make certain changes in the United States flag. The death of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, was announced, and as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the house adjourned. Resolutions expressive of the senate's profound sorrow at the death of Senator Gibson, •f Louisiana, were adopted in the United States senate on the 19th, and in respect to bis memory an adjournment was taken.... In the house bills were passed increasing the pension of pensioners of the Mexican war from 18 to 112 a month, and limiting the jurisdiction of the circuit and district courts of the United States.

DOMESTIC. The National Fire Insurance Company, established in 1888, one of the oldest insurance corporations in New York, has decided to close up its business. The negTO who outraged Emma O’Bryan, an 8-year-old white girl, near Nashville, Tenn., was hanged by a mob and his body cremated. Michael Adamski, aged 104 years, was badly injured by the cars near his home in Chicago. Roderick Crisp, an aged man living near Mounds, IIL, died in his chair while at home and the same day his aged wife fell down and expired. The factory of the Huggins Cracker Company at Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by lire, the loss being 8175,000. In a fire in a boarding house at Union Park, a suburb of St. Paul, Mrs. Jennie Eames and her son and daughter, aged respectively 7 and 5 years, were burned to death. The 2-year-old horse Reese fell in his stall at Columbus. Ga., and received such injuries that he had to be shot. He was owned by J. J. McCafferty, who had&efused $25,000 for him. Charles A. Benton, a United States prisoner under sentence of death at Leavenworth, Kan., for the murder of Mrs. Teresa Mettman in 1889, committed suicide in his celL The office of the Times at Wabash, Ind., was gutted by fire. A fire in St. Paul, Minn;, caused SIOO,OOO loss to occupants of the John Mann block. The National bank of Newton, Kan., closed its doors. In a frenzy of insanity Mrs. Henry Baxter, of Rogers City, Mich., destroyed the sight of her year-old babe by thrusting a knife into each eye. The business portion of the town of Beacon, 111., was wiped out by fire. Chris Miller, 'a wife-beater living near Canton, 0., was tossed for an hour in blankets by white caps and then probably fatally clubbed. The leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges of $1,855,133,210 during the seven days ended on the 16th, against $1,450,562,872 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1891 the increase was 8.7. John Burns, the murderer of Maurice Higgins, was executed at Missoula, Mont.

During the seven days ended on the 16th the business failures in the United States numbered 804, against 297 the preceding week and 835 for the corresponding time last year. Joseph Jenkins (colored) was hanged at Mouut Pleasant, S. C., for the murder of John Morgan. Mrs. William Jackson, aged 60, living near Springfield, 0., pulled a needle out of her left shoulder, which has been sore for years. Mrs. Jackson swallowed the needle when 17 years old. Nelson F. Evans, aged 70, who was largely instrumental in wrecking the Spring Garden national bank at Philadelphia, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. A mail pouch made up at Fairbury, IIL, for Chicago, and containing over SIO,OOO in drafts, besides many registered letters, is missing. \ Charles Haltimies, a stockman at Sherbrook, N. D., has failed for SIOO,000. Ah Yung, a Chinaman condemned for the murder of Ferdinand Inijado, committed suicide in his cell at Los An,geles, CaL, by hanging himself with his queue. Dick Edwards, alias “Texas Jack,” •was arrested at West Superior, Wis., *ud will be sent to Texas, where he is wanted for murdering four women at Denison. J. W. Hot, aged 50 years, a leading physician at Bloomville, 0., dropped dead while walking from his office to his residence. John Beal, while excavating at Richmond, Ind., penetrated a grave of human skulls and bones. The skulls are of gigantic size, and by measurement are thought to have belonged to persons 8 feet tall. The Beading company entertain fears for the safety of their Beechwood colliery at Mount Laffee, Pa. A mine fire which has been burning in the old Wadesville shaft near there for thirtyfour yean is working its way toward , Cyrus Mitchell and another prisoner were smothered to death in the Jail at Batavia, 111, by escaping steam Unm a coil of ateampipes which had bun K Eckert. confidential clerk tor BL B, Rea A Ca, pork packers at Pittsburgh, Pa, was charged with embezzling *90,000. _

A concerted movement has been started by the Chinese of the United States to resist the Chinese exclusion act They demand the repeal of the law and say if the movement fails the Chinese government will abrogate all treaty rights and will withdraw protection to the 1,500 merchants and the several hundred missionaries now in China. • Freiberg, Klein & Co., wholesale liquor dealers at Galveston, Tex., failed fbr $250,000. A fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., caused a loss of $400,000 to W. B. Jurgens, wholesale grocer. The Inman steamer City of Paris, now holding the eastern record, and the Cunarder Etruria started from New York for a race across the ocean. The Indiana supreme court has decided unconstitutional the apportionment act passed by the legislature two ye are ago. At the annual meeting in Philadelphia of the American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers was reelected president. N. R. Jones was shot and instantly killed and his son Jesse shot and fatally wounded near Leicester, N. C., while resisting arrest for refusing to work on the public roads. Ibwin Roberts (colored), charged with the jnurderof Landon Crosswhite, was lynched by a mob near Bristol, Tenn. A large number of illicit distilleries in Wilkes and Catawba counties, N. C., were seized by government officials. In a wreck on the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific road near Danville, Ky., Charles Fagin, baggage master, and Express Messenger Kinney were killed and several passengers were injured. A freight train telescoped the caboose of a wrecking train on the Great Northern railway at Nelson, Minn., and eight men were killed and five more were badly injured. The first published official information concerning the foreign trade of Germany for 1890 shows that 60 per cent of Germany’s imports come from the United States, while 12.2 per cent, of her exports come to the United States. President Harrison has signed the bill giving Mary North, aged 100 years, an increased pension. She is the widow of a soldier in the war of 1812. A fire in the building of the Falk Manufacturing Company at Buffalo, N. Y., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. Suit has been entered in the United States circuit court at Pittsburgh against the South Fork Fishing club by Mrs. James Jenkiu3, of Youngstown, 0., for $25,000 damages for injuries received in the Johnstown flood. An explosion in the large fuse factory of Ensign, Bickford & Co. at Simsbury, Conn., fatally injured three persons. Four negro convicts working in a camp near Helena, Ark., died from poison which some one unknown placed in their food and a dozen were probably fatally ill Edward Foerstel, assistant city treasurer of St. Louis, embezzled $63,000, und upon the crime being discovered he shot himself dead. As the result of a fire in the mills of the Fort Orange Milling Company in Albany, N. Y., three firemen were crushed to death and four others received serious injuries, and a loss of SIOO,OOO was incurred.

A fire originating in the Udell Woodenware Company’s building in St Louis caused a loss of $450,000. John Frthoff, a German gardener at Lima, 0., killed his wife and then filed into his own heart the contents of a shotgun. No cause was known. Dennis E. Siblet, a prominent Chicago board of trade man, made an assignment to M. A. Seymour for $268,000. Fred McGuire, who murdered Mrs. Noah Gregory near Middletown October 14, 1891, was electrocuted at the state prison at Sing Sing, N. Y. The police census gives Philadelphia a population of 1,142,653, an increase of 95,689 over the governmeht enumeration of 1800. A national convention of working girls in the different branches of the linen industry will be held in New York on January 8. During a row between colored men at Walton, Ky., over some money four men were killed with razors. An attempt was made at Cherokee, la., to blow up with dynamite Zion parsonage, occupied by Rev. John Patterson and family. Mr. Patterson lias been active in prosecuting Hquor dealers. A shortage of $50,000 was discovered in the Louisville & Nashville freight office in Cincinnati. • Hugh F, Dempsey, “a district master workman of the Knights of Labor, was arrested in Pittsburgh pn.a charge of administering poison or causing it to be administered to the non-nuion men at the Homestead steel works. The inventory of the estate of the late John (}. Whittier was filed at Salem, Mass. The total valuation of the property is $183,729. Jim Bond, a negro, was lynched by a mob at Guthrie, Ky., for attempting to outrage Mrs. Clarence Covington. Mbs. D. Kamp and her 5-year-old child were fatally, burned near Richmond, Ind., by exploding turpentine.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. % B. L. GißsdN, United States senator from Louisiana, died at Hot Springs, Ark., after a long illness, aged6o years His remains were taken to Lexington, Ky., for burial The New York state canvassers announce the total vote cast at the recent election for the several presidential electoral tickets was as follows: Cleveland, 659,908; Harrison, 609,459; Bid well, pro., 88,198; Weaver, people’s, 16,430; Wing, capitalist labor, 17,958; blank, scattering, etc., 29,652. The official count in Idaho compiled by the secretary of state gives Weaver' 10,480; Harrison, 8,709; plurality of McConnell (rep.) for governor, 1,409. Leopold Morse, a congressman from Massachusetts from 1876 to 1886, died suddenly in Boston of paralysis while attending a banquet He was 58 years of aga, !L_

• Charles Balmer, one of the best known musical composers in America, and musical director of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, died at his residence in St Louis, aged 75. The official vote of South Carolina in the recent election for president is as follows: Cleveland, 54,699; Harrison, 18,884; Weaver, 2,410; Bid well, none. Miss Sarah Wheeler, of Philadelphia, celebrated the 102 d anniversary of her birth. Henry W. Hillard, ex-minister to Belgium and fifty years ago a member of congress, died in Augusta, Ga. The sfficial canvass of Michigan’s vote for president gives Harrison 222,708; Cleveland, 202,296; Bidwell, 20,259, and Weaver, 19,792. Harrison’s plurality, 29,412, The 85th birthday of John G. Whittier was fittingly celebrated at Amesbury, Mass., by 1,500 citizens, among whom were many distinguished in literature. Rev. .George L. Rogers, aged 99 years, died in Louisville, Ky., where he had resided for seventy-five years. He served in the Mexican war and was the oldest pensioner in the country.

FOREIGN. At Vilna, Russia, a Jewish innkeeper in the outskirts of the city, his wife and four young children were murdered by tramps. An aerolite weighing 40,000 pounds fell near Jeminez, Mexico. It plowed a deep furrow in the earth and rock, revealing a rich vein of silver at one point of its descent. The Michigan Lumber Company’s mill on False creek, Vancouver, was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,000.

Mauna Loa, the great volcano of Hawaii, was in eruption and threatened the destruction of several villages and extensive plantations of cocoanuts. In the towns of Orel and Tanzer, in Russia, a cyclone did great damage and many persons were caught under the falling buildings and killed. A law requiring that Russian Jews shall live only in towns where official boards of trade exist has been promulgated by the Russian senate, with a view of driving more Jews from the country. Final official statistics of the cholera epidemic in Russia show that since the outbreak of the disease in the empire, there has been a total of 265,760 deaths. A block of warehouses in Bootle, near Liverpool, was burned, the loss being $500,000. Two merchants named Junakow and Paitsche witsoh were found murdered in a compartment of a first-class car near Rostov, Russia, and 80,000 rubies which they had in their possession were missing. The cabinets of Europe are arranging for a united protest against the threatened restrictions upon immigration in America. Sir Richard Owen, one of the world’s foremost specialists in comparative anatomy, died in London, aged 88 years. The conspirators, Capt. Garcia and Lieut Bahamande, were found guilty at Valparaiso of suborning revolution and sentenced to be shot A syndicate of American capitalists has acquired virtual control of the island of San Domingo by the purchase of the right to collect the customs revenues of the country. While three daughters of John and William Clarke were walking on the ice at Resolute lake, near North Bay, Ont., they broke through and were drowned. All the 10,000 workmen in the Spring Hill collieries, the largest in Nova Scotia, struck on account of short weights and docking.

LATER. The anti-option bill and the bill to repeal all statutes relative to supervisors of elections and special deputies were discussed in the United States senate on the 20th, and the house concurrent resolution for the holiday recess from Thursday, December 22, to Wednesday, January 4, was reported favorably. In the house Mr. Durborrow, of Illinois, introduced a joint resolution to repeal the law that closes the world’s fair on Sunday. No action was taken. Mr. Durborrow also introduced a bill asking congress for an appropriation of $1,500,000 to pay for a national encampment of the army at the World’s Columbian exposition. While crazy daunk Charles Hazard, of Cincinnati, fatally shot his wife and stepson, Gabriel Benson. During a battle between officers and cattle thieves in the Big Horn basin in Wyoming two of the former and five of the latter were killed. Orlando Mf.tcalf, a prominent capitalist at Colorado Springs, failed for SIOO,OOO. The official count of the vote at the late election in Montana shows that Harrison received 18,851 votes; Cleveland, 17,581; Weaver, 7,384; Bidwell, 577. Hartman (rep.) is elected to congress by a plurality of 172 votes. Twhlve horses in Chicago belonging to the Union Brick Company were cremated by the burning of a barn. Patrick Gallagher, the missing cook who confessed to having been implicated in the Homestead (Pa.) poisoning conspiracy, has been arrested. Three fresh recruits in the garrison at Strasburg committed suicide rather than serve in the German army. At the Canadian express office at Sarnia, Ont., $7,000 were taken out of the safe by burglars while the clerk was at dinner. The robbers made good their escape. One of the greatest gold excitements since the days of ’49 is at present drawing thousands of persons to the new field discovered in Colorado. James Radford, a wealthy lumberman of Ontario, Wis., fell from a box caron a train at Powers, Mich., and broke his neck, dying instantly. Stamboul, the champion trotting stallion of the world, was sold at' auction to D. H. Harriman, a banker in New York city, for $41,000. The $75,000 paid by the Chilian government in settlement in full for all claims arising out of the Baltimore affair at Valparaiso has been placed in the sub-treasury at New York for distribution.