People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. THE anti-option bill was taken up in the senate on the 26th, and Mr. Mills (Tex.) made a speech against the bill as being against the existence of state governments....In the house the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill ($21,677,998) for the fiscal year 1894 was reported. The post office appropriation bill ($83,869357) was also reported. The sundry civil bill was discussed. THE death of James G. Blaine was announced in the senate on the 27th by Mr. Hale, who has been for many years one of the closest personal and political friends of the dead statesman. His remarks were followed by a motion made by Mr. Cockrell (Mo.) that the senate adjourn out of respect for the memory of the deceased, and that motion carried.... The death of Mr Blaine brought the business of the house to a sudden termination. A few committee reports were made, including a bill to repeal the federal election laws, and then, after brief and affecting speeches by Mr. Milliken (who represents Mr. Blaine's old district) and Mr. Holman (who served many years with him in the house) out of respect to the memory of the dead statesman the house adjourned. IN the senate on the 30th ult. the general debate on the anti-option bill was closed. Senator Chandler introduced a resolution calling upon the president to enter into negotiation with the provisional government of the late kingdom of Hawaii for the admission of the island as a territory of the United States....In the house the sundry civil appropriation bill was further considered, but was not disposed of. The speaker announced the following committee to investigate the Panama canal scandal: Messrs. Fellows, Geary, Patterson, Powers and Storer. DOMESTIC. WILLIAM FISHER (colored) was hanged by a mob at Algiers, La., for killing Mrs. McMahon and J. Barrett. A DOZEN buildings at Fair Haven, Vt., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. RICHARD PLOCK and David Gurney, two Kansas City (Mo.) capitalists, were fatally injured in a runaway accident. AFTER a married life of fifty years Peter Ford, of Fayette, Mo., asks for a divorce from his wife on the grounds that she had at various times called him “liar,” “old hound,” ‘‘scoundrel” and other equally strong names. THE loss was reported of the steamship Doanti, which left New York December 10 for Lisbon with a load of wheat and a crew of thirty three men. THE livery stable of Archie Putnam at Chillicothe, Mo., was totally destroyed and eleven horses were burned, among which were five valuable trotters.

BY the explosion of some escaping gas in a building in Chicago three people were probably fatally burned. THE tax inquisitors have unearthed $5,000,000 worth of unreported taxable property in Allen county, O., and 300 persons have been caught. THE name of the Kansas City, Nevada & Fort Smith railway has been changed to the Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf. JUDGE GILLETT in the circuit court at Valparaiso, Ind., decided that a grand jury could not make demands upon bank officers for their books containing the names of depositors. PROF. GEORGE P. RUDOLPH, formerly a Catholic priest, while attempting to deliver his lecture, “Why I Left the Romish Priesthood,” at Lafayette, Ind., was driven from the hall by a mob, severely injured about the head and shoulders, and received a bullet in his left hand. MRS. WILLIAM COREAU dropped dead in the presence of her little children at Jacksonville, Ill. OVER 2,000 conversions were reported as a result of Evangelist Mills’ religious meetings at Des Moines, Ia. MANY people were flocking to South Dakota to secure divorce in the hope of acquiring a residence before the legislature extends the period of residence to six months. LEADING men in congress were said to be quietly considering a plan to annex Canada to the United States and for the acquisition of the Sandwich islands. AT Jackson, Tenn., the jury in the case of Arsella Spence against the Illinois Central road for killing her husband brought in a verdict of $12,000 in favor of the plaintiff. IN the United States during the seven days ended on the 27th the business failures numbered 295, against 332 the previous week and 297 for the corresponding time last year. EXCHANGES amounting to $1,373,829,663 were reported by the leading clearing houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the 27th, against $1,464,626,829 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the increase was 13.1. REBECCA SALMON and her two children were fatally burned in a fire at their home in Williamsburg, N. Y. TWO MASKED men robbed the bank of Waverly Kan., of $500, killed A. P. Ingliman, one of their pursuers, and were finally run down and arrested. FIFTEEN business firms were burned out in Chicago, the total loss being $150,000.

JOE DONAGHUE skated 100 miles at Stamford, Conn., in 7 hours 11 minutes and 38 seconds, lowering the 100-mile record four hours. THE business portion of the mining town of Gem, Wash., was destroyed by fire. WILLAIM J. SCROGGINS, a white boy aged 17, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of a Jewish peddler known a Schustig. EDMUND LUTHER, aged 70, of South Bend, Ind., stepped into an office to rest and suddenly dropped dead. ALFRED STOUT, the colored murderer of George Detmar, was executed in the jail yard at Elkton, Md. THE Indiana supreme court denied the petition for a rehearing in the apportionment suit and a new apportionment of the state will be necessary. A GIGANTIC system of robbery which has been carried on for six months on the New Mexico division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad was brought to light at Raton. N. M.

DR. J. B. HOLMES’ private sanitarium at Rome, Ga., was burned, the loss being $100,000. JOHN MICHAELS, his wife and three children, of Hamlin, W. Va., were all frozen to death in their home. SNOW caused portions of the roofs of the manufactures and other buildings on the world’s fair grounds to cave in, the total loss being estimated at $50,000. THE collections of internal revenue for the first half of the present fiscal year aggregated $84,297,428, against $77,124,754 for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, an increase of $7,172,674. THE Erie car works at Erie, Pa., were seized by the sheriff upon executions amounting to $102,000 in favor of Erie banks. NEAR Big Cliff, Ky., a freight train was wrecked by a broken rail and Alexander Price, engineer; George Foster, fireman, and Walter Davis, brakeman, were killed. THE mammoth plant of the Portsmouth wheel works at Portsmouth, O., was burned, the loss being $100,000. THE state troops were ordered out to quell a riot caused by strikers at the Brooks locomotive works at Dunkirk, N. Y. SIX blocks in Oakesdale, Wash., were burned, the loss being $500,000. THE First Presbyterian church at Logansport, Ind., was ruined by fire. THE little mining town of Honeybrook, Pa, was said to be in imminent danger of destruction from subterranean fires. THE pension payments in January amounted to $14,000,000, a decrease as compared with last month of $1,000,000. A COMBINE of forty-one paper mills in various states has been effected. The name of the new organization is the Columbian Straw Paper company, with headquarte rs at Chicago. THE residence of James Malone in Mineral county, W. Va., was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Malone, her son Louis and Edward McCarthy were burned to death. TWO more deaths of victims of the recent oil explosion at Alton Junction, Ill., swells the total list of dead to twenty-eight. IN the United States the visible supply of grain on the 30th ult. was: Wheat, 81,488,000 bushels; corn, 12,535,000 bushels; oats, 5,708,000 bushels; rye, 937,000 bushels; barley, 2,114,000 bushels. JOHN B. HOJDA, a Bohemian ex-priest, killed his two children at Baltimore while he was suffering from delirium. MILWAUKEE is to be the headquarters of a big window glass combine, which will include nearly all the window glass manufacturers of the country. AN ice gorge broke above Louisville, Ky., wrecking seventy-five coal barges valued at $50,000. IT was announced that the estate of the late James G. Blaine would amount to $800,000 and that all is left unreservedly to Mrs. Blaine, she to be sole executrix and not required to give any bond. THE secretary of the treasury estimates the appropriations for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, at $7,392,460. THE fireworks plant of Diehl &. Co., at Reading, O., were wrecked by an explosion and Henry Horn was killed, Gus Groeve and Viola White were fatally injured and many others were hurt. THE death of Bernard Nienhaus at Alton Junction, Ill., makes the death list thus far from the oil explosion foot up twenty-nine.

SHERIFF JOSEPH TUMLINSON shot and killed his wife at Encinal, Tex., and then committed suicide. Family trouble was the cause. MIKE DAVIDSON, Michael Haley and Joseph Smith were instantly killed by a mass of falling rock in a coal mine near Streator, Ill. IT was reported that the contract for the construction of the Chicago & St. Louis electric railway roadbed had been let. FRED SCHUMANN, a well-known citizen of Memphis, Tenn., while near ly insane from business troubles murdered his two children and made a probably successful attempt to commit suicide by taking poison. FIRE destroyed the building in Cincinnati occupied by the American Book company, the loss being $100,000. NINE Austrians who arrived in New York on the French line steamship La Gascogne were ordered to return on the same steamer as they were penniless. LOUIS FRANKLIN and Charles C. Rapp, two well-known citizens, were asphyxiated by gas at Davenport, Ia. C. C. CONN, proprietor of the Conn band instrument factory at Elkhart, Ind., made his annual distribution of dividends on the profit-sharing basis. The workmen received $14,600. ADVICES from New York say that most of the transatlantic steamship companies have stopped bringing immigrants to this country in the steerage.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE New Jersey legislature in joint session chose James Smith, Jr., as United States senator to serve for six years from March 4, 1893. JOHN MARTIN (populist) was elected United States senator by the Kansas legislature. The republicans claimed the joint convention was illegal and sent a protest to Washington. JOHN L. MITCHELL, of Milwaukee, was nominated for United States senator from Wisconsin by the joint democratic caucus on the thirty-first ballot. The vote was: Mitchell, 45; Bragg, 33; Knight, 1. THE Tennessee legislature in joint convention elected W. S. Morgan secretary of state, James A. Harris comptroller and E. B. Craig treasurer. THE funeral of Bishop Phillips Brooks took place in Boston on the 26th and 10,000 persons followed the remains to Mount Auburn cemetery. JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE died at 11 a. m on the 27th at his home in Washington, surrounded by his wife and children. The immediate cause of death was exhaustion. The disease which brought about his end was a chronic

affection of the kidneys, complicated with resulting ailments. Death came without pain and he was conscious to the last. Mr. Blaine was born January 31, 1830, at West Brownsville, Pa. A proclamation issued by President Harrison announced to the country the sad news of his death. EX-JUDGE JAMES CAMPBELL, who was postmaster general in President Pierce’s cabinet, died in Philadelphia of heart failure, aged 80 years. THE funeral ceremonies over the late L. Q. C. Lamar took place at Macon, Ga. Chief Justice Fuller and the associate justices were present at the services. THE Wisconsin legislature elected John L. Mitchell as United States senator. COL. GEORGE E. GROVER, representa tive of the Royal British commission to the world's fair, died suddenly and unattended in the Victoria hotel in Chicago. MAJOR GENERAL SAMUEL SPRIGG CARROLL, U. S. A., retired, died in Washington, aged 61 years. DR. T. M. LEAVENWORTH, one of the prominent figures in the history of California, died at his home in Santa Rosa at the age of 90 years. THE funeral of James G. Blaine took place at the Church of the Covenant in Washington on the 30th ult., after which the remains were interred in Oak Hill cemetery.

FOREIGN. FIVE fresh cases of cholera and two deaths were reported at the Nieleben insane asylum near Berlin, Germany. A PASSENGER train on the railway from Wilna to Minsk, Russia, was wrecked, and fifteen persons were killed and thirty seriously injured. FOUR cases of cholera and two deaths were reported at the Nietleben hospital at Halle, Germany, making a total of 109 cases and thirty-eight deaths. THE Spanish government is understood not to be disposed to grant the request of the United States that missionaries be readmitted to the Caroline islands. AN explosion in a mine at Tokod, Hungary, caused the death of 180 miners. THE thirty-fourth anniversary of Emperor William’s birthday was celebrated in Berlin. HAWAII'S government has been overthrown by a revolution, Queen Liliuokalani has been deposed, a provisional government headed by President S. B. Dole has control of affairs, and commissioners have been sent to Washington with a petition to the American government to annex the Hawaiian islands to the United States. DURING the voyage of the ship Manonar from La Libertad to Valparaiso four of the sailors were confined in the storeroom as a punishment and all died from asphyxiation. THE bark Valparaiso, coming from the south to Valparaiso with a cargo of timber, was wrecked and nine of the crew perished. THE Federal bank of Australia at Melbourne was winding up its affairs with liabilities of $10,000,000 and assets over that amount. ENORMOUS quantities of snow have fallen in the valley of the Dnieper and in other parts of southern Russia. In the valley the snow was on a level with the housetops, and in one province 100,000 sheep had been killed. THE central market hall at Berlin was totally destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 2,000,000 marks. THE British government has instructed Sir Julian Pauncefote, its minister in Washington, to protest against the action of the United States officials and forces in Hawaii.

LATER. IN the United States senate the antioption bill occupied almost the entire day. The bill was passed by a vote of 40 to 29. The credentials of Senator Mills as senator from Texas were received and placed on file. The bill for the construction of a wagon bridge across the Missouri river at Sioux City, Ia., was passed, and the senate adjourned. In the house the sundry civil bill occupied the attention of the house during the entire day. THE will of the late Gen. Butler was filed in the Middlesex probate court at East Cambridge. It bears the date of 1854, with a codicil added in 1862. All his estate is left to relatives, including a wife and mother since deceased. ONE of the worst blizzards for many years swept over the northwest, the cold being intense. At Helena, Mont., the thermometer registered 50 degrees below zero. THE British parliament convened on the 31st ult., the queen’s speech being read. THE 10-year-old son of Henry Lichtmark, near Winamac, Ind., carelessly pointed a gun at his elder brother and pulled the trigger, fatally wounding him. LUKE TATUM, a negro wife murderer, was hanged at Camden, Ark. AT Port Royal, S. C., the official trials of the pneumatic guns of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius were a success. A SUICIDAL mania seems rampant in Louisville, Ky. In one day four men died from self-inflicted wounds and a fifth made an attempt to take his life. THE legislatures of Pennsylvania and Oregon adopted resolutions favoring the annexation of the Sandwich islands to the United States. IT was reported that the liabilities of the Erie car works at Erie, Pa., whose failure was recently announced, would reach $1,000,000. THREE sailors, survivors of the wrecked Norwegian ship Thekla, arrived at Hamburg, and report terrible suffering. For sixteen days they subsisted upon human flesh, the three strangling a fourth companion. HENRY SMITH, the negro who murdered a 3-year-old girl at Paris, Tex., has been caught. The mob determined on the most awful punishment possible to inflict, and he would be burned to death at the stake. THE dwelling house of James Addison at West Newbury, Mass., was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Addison, aged 40, and his son William, aged 16, perished in the flames.