People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence 'Fwm All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. X* the we® te the Nicarsf«a canal bill was favorably reported on the -31»t, the anti-opttoa Sill was tarther discussed, and the concurrent resolution for the holiday recess was agreed to. „... In the house no quorum was present and ao business nf importance was transacted. I« the senate on tbe-22d a bill was introduced Wo enable the people >cff Oklahoma and of Use Indian territory tolorm a constitutional and -state-government and Wb be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original Ad journed to January In the house a bill was introduced as a substitute for the Itouse bill relating to the restriction of immigration, which provides for the partial or total aua•penslon of immigration from any port or place, by water or land, whenever and for so long as in the judgment of the president and secretary of the treasury such suspension may Qaanccessary. g,Adjourned to January 4 DOMESTIC. Near Port Smith, Ark., Deputy United States Marshal Bruner and his ’posse had a brush with the notorious •Gtan Bowe and his band in which Joe Raven was killed, Rowe fatally 'wounded ’and Ned Downing captured. True bills were returned by the grand jury at Pittsburgh against Hugh F. Dempsey, Robert Beatty and J. M. Davidson for administering poison to ■the non-union men at the Homestead steel works. The number of pedons who died from the effects of poison number thirty-two.

Jack Olsen, who died at Milan, Tenn., confessed before his death that he murdered Monroe Errick and his wife and .child on December 16, 1879. Robbery was the motive. Edwin D. Weaby, a Isaesman for A. H. Andrews & Co., of Chicago, was charged with defrauding the firm out •of SIOO,OOO. A crude oil tank at Springfield, 0., exploded, throwing burning oil over a number of employes. William Kohler was practically cooked Alive and many others were thought .to be fatally burned. A fire in the village of Duquesne, Pa., rendered twelve families homeless. Mrs. Anna M. Smith, the slayer of August Hoppe, who was convicted of murder in the third degree, was sentenced at St. Paul to twenty-five years in the state prison. The dress goods and clothing mills of F. A< Bashman & Co. in Philadelphia were burned, the loss being $235,000. B. B. Pierce, bookkeeper, and G. W. 'Garrett, clerk and telegraph operator ®t W. P. Richardson’s store in Altoona, Da., were shot and killed while in their room by some one unknown. The chief of the bureau of statistics reports that the number of immigrants Arriving in this country during the •eleven months ended in November, 1892, was -520,768, as compared with 562,078 for the preceding eleven months. In a fire in buildings belonging to the West End Street Railway Company in Boston four motormen, John Majginnes, John Clarke, Luke Glennon and George Wallis, were suffocated ;and property valued at 5200,000 was destroyed. In a railway wreck at Lenexa, Kan., Engineer Souerland was killed, seven persons were injured and railway prop•erty valued -at $50,000 was destroyed. A white man named Cora sued a •Creek Indian for unpaid wages and secured a judgment in the United States oourt at Guthrie, O. T. A party of In■dians called at the man’s house, bound Rim and carried him into the woods, where his body .was found hanging to .a tree.

The house of Marcus White at ■Waverly, Tenn., was burned, and his ■three children perished in the flames. The continued prevalence of cholera In Europe excites apprehension in administration circles in Washington and 'the conviction is forced upon government officials that, .as predicted by many scientists, the disease will reap’pear with increasing violence in the «pring. <OWE of the witnesses in the Surratt trial, an ex-policeman named Lloyd, whose testimony connected Mrs. Surratt with President Lincoln’s assassination, died in Washington, aged 68 years. Thomas B. Carter, chief of the secret service bureau, predicts that the country will be flooded with bogus world’s fair souvenir coms. Mbs. James Price;, .of Thurman, Q», aged JBO years, was burned to death by her .elathing catching Are from a stove. Ovsk 4,000 miles of railway track were laid in the United States during the past year. A very distinct earthquake shock was felt at Seymour, Ind. Edward H. Hallinger, the negro who murdered his white mistress, Mary Patterson, April .5, 1881, was hanged in the county Jail at Jersey City, N. J. Drunken Indians engaged in a fight Mt Barker, Miam., and during the fracas ■J ohn Launtery .and his non were shot (dead. Robert EL Bjuehnebt, .an attorney at (Cincinnati for building associations, se4Wed 528,800 by fraud and fled. The entire plant of the Home bleach Mnd dye works at Valley Tails, R. L, was destroyed by fine, the loss being >IOB,OOO. , While fooling with a gun supposed to be unloaded Henry Grover, of New Haven, Iml, shot and killed his two little brothers. A tjfjfxa bridal couple registered at a hotel in Denison, Tex., as Mr. and Mrs. Friday. The bridegroom lost his left leg, right arm a.ud right eye in the eonfederate service, while the bride is minus her left arm and limps on a cork Exchanges amounting to 81,512,261,9n were reported by the leading clear-, teg houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the 88d, against f 1,855.138,210 the previous seven days As compared with the corresponding week of W9l the increase was 24. 3. I

The press of the npper peninsula has started a movement in favor of making that part of Michigan a separate state. Albert Whittaker, for fourteen years librarian of the mercantile library in San Francisco, has been dismissed for embezzling $1,320. s Business failures to the number of 301 occurred in the United States im the seven days ended on the 23d, against 304 the preceding week and 335 for the corresponding time last year. The Chicago express on the Santa Fe road was derailed near Halstead, CoL, and twenty-one passengers were injured, two fatally. George Austbaw and his son, of Ligonier, Pi., were struck by a train near Bradenville and fatally injured. Martin A Ritchie, a wealthy firmer residing a few miles north of Litchfield, 111., was swindled out of $5,000 in a three-card monte game. A Santa Fe train was wrecked near La Junta, CoL, and eight empty Pullman coacbfp were demolished and burned. Josiah M. Fiske, one of the oldest merchants in New York city and the oldest director of the American exchange national bank, dropped dead in the bank.

The renewal of an old feud over the location of a country road near Showhomish, Wash., resulted in the murder of two well-to-do farmers, Foulks and Smith, by two boys, 14 and 15 years of age, named Langston and Robinson. The South Carolina" legislature has passed a bill providing for a state liquor dispensary with county dispensaries, the location of which will be confined to towns. They will be in charge of officers elected by state authorities and only liquors that are analyzed by state chemists and found pure can be sold. They must be sold in sealed packages and the purchaser cannot break the seal in a dispensary. Fire destroyed the Fargusson building in Duluth, Minn., causing a loss of about $250,000 on building and contents.

The famous case of Father McGlynn, of St Stephen’s church, New York, has finally been decided by the restoration to him of authority to perform his priestly functions. All the thirty-three Hudson county (N. J.) ballot-box stuffers in the state prison at Trenton have been pardoned. The iron supports to the roof of a power house in Baltimore fell and injured eleven men, one fatally. The New York and Chicago express struck and killed two men and two women near Elmira, N. Y. A call has been issued by Secretary Thompson, of the Duluth board of trade, for a convention in Washington January 12, 1893, to discuss and promote the construction of a deep-water ship canal to connect the great lakes and the Atlantia There was great suffering in St. Mary’s, 0., the natural gas supply having completely given out. The weather was intensely cold and there was neither coal nor wood to be had. William C. Lattin, one of the witnesses in the Cronin trial, was killed in a saloon row in Chicago, making the thirty-fourth Witness in the famous murder case who has died since it was ended. Three Italians, going from Bainbridge, N. Y., to their shanties, were struck by a coal train and killed. An Erie coal train was wrecked near Hutchins, Pa., and Flagman j, A. Houseknecht and Brakeman J. O’Conner were caught in the wreckage and ■lowly burned to death.

In a six days go-as-you-please contest in St. Louis Moore won with 500 miles; Guerro second with 487 miles, and Hengelman third with 480 miles. The winner gets 5700. In a fit of despondency Henry C. Varnum, aged 45 years, killed his wife and little daughter in Worcester, Mass., fatally wounded Mrs. Silvia Wright, his mother-in-law, and then took his own life. John L. Woods, a wealthy, retired lumber dealer, gave 8125,000 to the medical college of Western Reserve university at Cleveland as a Christmas present A fire at Wyoming, N. ¥., burned the Methodist Episcopal church, six stores, seven dwellings and three barns Total loss, 8100,000. A Eire in “The Berlin” dry goods stone in Brooklyn, N. Y., caused a loss of 8125,000. Two women, Fannie Ward and Maria Jones, and two children, all colored, were asphyxiated by coal gas in Baltimore. Mrs. Alice Faulkner, 40 years old, while in a fit of despondency choked her 12-year-old daughter to death and then killed herself in Paterson, N. J. , In the raee from New York to Liverpool between the steamers City of Paris and the Etruria the latter won by four hours. WThe business section of Slater. Mo., was wiped out by fire. E. S. 'Corses, a Minneapolis real estate dealer, failed for 81,000,000. Speculation in wheat was the cause. The thirtieth legislative assembly of New Mexico convened at Santa Fe.