People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. Is the senate on the 2d the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed and the resolution for the annexation of Hawaii was referred to the committee on foreign relations. The nomination of Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. to be associate justice of the United States supreme court, vice L. Q. C. Lamar, deceased, was received from the president. . In the house the sundry civil bill was passed with an amendment to do away with federal officers at elections. A bilt was introduced to revise the pension list The rapeal of the Sherman act, or at least of the suspension of the silver bulHon purchase provision of it was discussed in the senate on the 3d. after which fitting tributes were made to the memory of the late Senator Barbour, of Virginia ... In the house the anti-option bill was referred to the committee on agriculture, the deficiency appropriation bill was passed and the Indian appropriation bill was reported. Eighteen house bills were passed in the senate on the 4th and the quarantine bill was called up, but no action was taken....ln the house the diplomatic and military academy appropriation bills were passed. The feature of the day’s session was the spontaneous expression of regret manifested by his colleagues at the voluntary retirement of Mr. Blount, of Georgia, from the seat which he has filled for twenty years. A motion by Senator Hill in the senate on the 6th to take up the silver repeal bill was defeated by a vote of 12 to 23 The credentials of Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, for his fourth term were presented. The house bill granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the marine hospital service was passed....ln the house filibustering to prevent the consideration of the anti-option hill prevented any business being transacted. DOMESTIC, Several buildings, including the Hotel Rockton, Grand Central hotel and the Metropolitan block, were burned at Little Falls, N. Y., the loss being $200,000. Counterfeit silver dollars, halves, quarters and dimes of the issue of 1892 were in circulation in Chicago. Snowslides at. Aspen, Col., killed three man, aud at Carbondale one man lost his life in the same manner. The First national bank of Little Rock, Ark., closed its doors with heavy liabilities. James Mitchell and his wife and child were frozen to death in their house near Topeka, Kan. President Harrison sent to congress a message dealing with the subject of the importation of foreign goods into the United States across the Canadian border under consular seal in which he says that the present system shows favoritism to Canadian transportation routes and seaports against those of our own country. The advance sheets of Hoffman’s Catholic directory, the official publication of the Catholic church in the United States, gives the total Catholic population in this country at 8,808,095. The total number of priests is 9,388; children attending parochial schools, 738,269, and children in orphan asylums, 26,533. There are 127 Catholic colleges, 656 academies, 3,587 parochial schools, 463 charitable institutions and 8,477 churches. The 13,000 miners in the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys in Pennsylvania will hereafter work eight hours a day. It has been determined to remove the remains of Jefferson Davis from New Orleans to Richmond for interment on May 30. 4 The Reading Railway company says that if the bill before the New York legislature to fix the price of anthracite coal becomes a law they will not bring any coal into the state at all. Five weekly newspaper offices in Topeka, Kan., were destroyed by fire. A verdict of guilty was rendered at Pittsburgh, Pa , in the case of Robert J. Beatty, charged with poisoning the non-union workmen at Homestead. Mbs. Jacob Plimeeb, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a handsome woman of 30 years of age, after a brief quarrel with her husband shot him fatally and then shot herself dead. Db. Lancaster Drew, treasurer of the Central Savings Fund, Trust & Safe Deposit company at Philadelphia, was said to have embezzled SIO,OOO. A lamp explosion set fire to the house of Alfred Burgerson in Chicago and Mrs. Burgerson and her baby were fatally burned. The total number of deaths reported in the state of New York for the year 1892 was 130,750. This makes the death rate for the year 20.78 per 1,000 population. An explosion in the Conygham shaft near Wilkesbarre, Pa., burned nine men, two of them fatally. Sam Smith, a 19-year-old negro, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of Isaac Burger nine months ago. The boilers of the Planters’ Compress company at Vicksburg, Miss., exploded, killing three men and injuring twelve others. The Chicago Milk Shippers association, with a membership of 2,200, failed for SIOO,OOO. Wallace Holmes was hanged at Springfield, Mass., for the murder of his wife on election day in November, 1891. Exchanges amounting to $1,390,815,788 were reported by the leading clearing houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the 3d, against $1,373,829,603 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the increase was 5.0. In the United States during the seven days ended on the 3d the business failures numbered 801, against 295 the previous week and 297 for the corresponding time last year. Geobge Goodrich, a colored middle weight, was instantly killed in the ring at New Orleans by his opponent*, loe Green. Goodrich was knocked lows, and the fall broke his neck. The total nunioy circulation of the »untry on the fit was placed at sl,197,958,439, or a per capita of $24.23, kfainst f 1,603,865,128 at the same time

Fourteen men were seriously injured, one fatally, in an explosion at the Star foundry in Worcester, Mass. Flames in a tenement house in New York caused the deaths of Morris Cohen and his wife and little girL Gov. llogg has issued instructions to the sheriff of Lamar county to arrest every person implicated in the burning of the negro Smith at Paris, Tex. The value of the honey and wax produced in the United States during the past year is estimated at $20,000,000. Pauline Newcombe, aged 20, and Willard Woodworth, an engaged couple, were drowned at Marysville, Cal., by the capsizing of a boat. The fire losses of the United States and Canada for January amounted to $17,958,400, which is a larger aggregate than for that month in any year since 1882. ate advices from Alaska are to the effect that the citizens of that territory are earnestly working for home rule. In the Minnesota legislature Representative Bieecker introduced a bill to prohibit the manufacture of hoopskirts within the borders of the state. An iron roller mill was burned at Irondale, Minn., the loss be-ingsl2o,ooo. A natural gas explosioa in the home of John D. Shofstall at Urbana, 0., killed his daughter aged 23, and Mrs. Clark, aged 68 years. At Humphrey’s ranch, near Pine Ridge, S. D., Two Strike’s band of Indians killed four white men. Mounted police were dispatched to the scene of the trouble aud in the encounter with the Indians five of the latter were killed. The Delland chemical works at Fairport, N. Y., were burned, the loss being $200,000. The Hawaiian commissioners stated their case to Secretary Foster, in which they left no doubt as to their desire for annexation. The sentiment in congress was said to he strongly in favor of annexation. At Fergus Falls, Minn., a train on the Northern Pacific road ran down an embankment, badly injuring a dozen persons. Secretary Rusk has issued an order requiring that all cattle imported into the United States from Canada must he held in quarantine ninety days. The report that Canadian cattle are afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia caused the order. Otto Serfling, a farmer living near West Scio, Ore., shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. Bessie Pitman was fatally shot in a resort in Indianapolis, Ind., by Philip Pahbach, who then turned the revolver on himself and blew his brains out. Jealousy was the cause. Three members of the family of Andrew Berglund at New Bedford, N. D., were asphyxiated by coal gas. John S. Johnson, the C3 r clist and skater, broke the amateur 5-mile record of America at Minneapolis, making the distance in 15:20 4-5. By a fall of slate in Prince’s coal mine near Zanesville, 0., four miners were fatally crushed. Hundreds of head of live stock have died from the recent blizzard in Kansas. A fire at Copper Rasin, A. T., destroyed the reduction works of -the Commercial Mining company, causing a loss of $200,000. The governors of all the southern states will meet at Richmond April 12 for the purpose of formulating a plan for developing the resources of the south and offering inducements to capital and labor Frank Lewis, the Waverly (Kun.) bank robber, who murdered A. P. was found guilty of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for one year and then to be hanged. A Central Hudson passenger train, west hound, ran down and killed four men near Syracuse, N. Y. In a message to the Texas legislature Gov. Hogg says that the recent burning to death of the negro Smith at Paris was the most revolting execution of the age and a disgrace to the state, and to contend that his executioners who publicly murdered him can neither be indicted nor tried iu the county where that crime was committed is a pretense and a mockery. A jury at Toledo, 0., awarded Mrs. Henry Kahlo a verdict of SIO,OOO damages against Mrs. Caroline Meyers for alienating the affections of the former’s husband. Burglars entered the house of Martin Baker at Kansas City, Mo., chloroformed him and his wife, and in departing left a window open and their two little twin babies were frozen to death. John Wilder and Steve Morrisko were killed and Anthony Torrosko and Charles Johnson fatally injured by falling down a mine shaft near Hazleton, Pa. Fire destroyed a stable belonging to I. C. Roberts near St. Joseph, Mo., and twenty-two head of horses were burned, including the fast stallion, Russell Chief. A. H. Barnhart, a bachelor of temperate, industrious habits, living near Watervliet, Mich., was found in his bed frozen stiff and half his face eaten off by his pet cat. Doubtless he had been dead a week, as one of his horses and all his poultry had starved to death. John Marks and his daughter and aged mother perished in a fire which destroyed liig home near Lindsay, Ont. During a fire caused by a gas explosion in New York one man was killed and many persons were seriously injured. Charles Mohr, wife and son all died from inhaling gas at Lima, O. The Northern Pacific snow plow going west struck and killed three men about a mile east of Perham, Minn. The grape sugar works at Peoria, 111., were burned, the loss being over SIOO,OOO. The superior court of Marion county, Ind., handed down an opinion declaring the firemen’s fund pension law passed by the legislature of 1891 unconstitutional. In a wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio road near Williams, Pa., John Nez, conductor, and George Wallace, engineer, were killed and three other persona were injured.

A MOVEMENT was said to be on foot at Pittsburgh looking to the formation of a combination of all the railroad ooal operators of western Pennsylvania. At Columbus, 0., a human ear nfciled to a telephone pole created great excitement It was believed to be a prank of some medical student PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Thomas W. Bennett, ex-governor of Idaho, who was appointed by President Grant died at his home in Richmond, Ind. Mrs. Catherine Robinson died at Oskaloosa, la., aged. 102 years and 11 months. The Michigan supreme court handed down a decision in the contested election case in the Fifth congressional district seating Charles E. Belknap, the republican candidate. Rev. W. J. Tucker, D. D., professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover theological seminary, has been elected president of Dartmouth college at Concord, N. H. . Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of the ex-secretary of the navy, died at her home in New York, aged 45 years. Mbs. Mary Wikel, of Atlanta, 11L, died at the age of 100 years 9 months and 27 days. B. F. Howey, an ex-congressman, died at his home in Belvidere, N. J., aged 08 years. « FOREIGN. The island of Zante, in Greece, was shaken by another earthquake and a hundred houses were wfecked and many persons were killed and injured. An explosion of firedamp in a coal pit at Recklinghausen, Germany, killed eighteen miners and seventeen others were injured. About 500 houses were destroyed by fire at Shibushi, Japan, and many lives were lost • Ira Mulock, president of the defunct hank of Florence, Col., died in Mexico, where he had been exiled for several years to escape criminal prosecution. A fire in Holland Bros.’ furniture warerooms in Montreal camsed a loss of SIOO,OOO. The state legislature of Pueblo, Mex., has abolished bull-fighting. The Banco de Roma y la Plata at Buenos Ayres has suspended payment in consequence of the loss of 81,000,000 in gold caused by the speculation of the manager of the concern. In a riot at Bogota over an article in a newspaper alleging widespread ignorance among the laboring classes 100 men were killed and 500 wounded. Another great gold discovery has been made 100 miles south of Oaxaca, Mexico, and hundreds of prospectors were flocking to the new fields. In accordance with the ancient Roumanian custom the weddings of thirty-two peasant couples, representing the thirty-two districts of Roumania, were celebrated at Bucharest in the presence of Prince Ferdinand and his bride. Incessant rain for several days caused floods throughout Queensland. Several towns were under water, hundreds of persons were homeless, and thousands of head of cattle were drowned. Algernon Sabtoris, who married Nellie Grant, daughter of Gen. Grant, died at Capri, Italy. He had not lived with his wife for some years. Further advices from the floods in Queensland say that several districts were 20 feet under water and hundreds of persons were drowned. The property loss would he immense. Four new cases of cholera and two deaths from the disease were reported in Altoona, Germany. LATER. In the l nited States senate on the 7th the hill for the relief of the assignees or legal representatives of John Roach, deceased, to pay the balance due on the United States ship Dolphin, $68,105, was taken from the calendar and passed. The substitute bill for automatic couplers and continuous brakes was taken up and debated. No vote was reached and the senate adjourned. In the house the entire time was taken up in the discussion of the legislative appropriation bill. The Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes within the commonwealth. William Tillen, of Dexter City, 0„ died as the age of 103 years. He was horn in Maine and lived in Ohio for over eighty years. The house of Oliver Pattie, near Bellaire, 0., burned to the ground aud his three children aged, respectively 12, 10 and 6 years, perished in the flames.’ Judge Allen was elected United States senator by the populists and democrats of the Nebraska legislature. IV illiam Deahl, a well-known farmer of Casey, 111., dropped dead near the water’s edge iten minutes after being baptized.

The 3-year-old daughter of E. M. Butterfield was fatally burned at Little Rock, Ark., by the ignition of her dress while standing near the fireplace. A resolution was adopted in the Maine legislature requesting the gov-' ernor to communicate with Mrs. Blaine as to the reinterment of the remains of her husband in that state. The dwelling of Ernest Bokens (colored) near Lincoln, Mich., was burned to the ground and two of his children perished in the flames. A Big Four east-bound passengei train was wrecked near Pan a, 11l killing the baggageman and injuring six persons. The train took fire anc was entirely consumed. Six firms were burned out in the sho» district at Boston, entailing a loss o* £300,000. High water was causing an immense amount of damage along the Monongahala river in Pennsylvania, and many towns were under water and much property destroyed. W. O. King and T. F. Hurley, of Dallas, Tex., heirs of C. Clay King, of Kingsville, Mo., claim property in the heart of Chicago valued at $40,000,000. Mrs. Mary Wikel, of Atlanta, 111., died at the age of 100 ye:’rs 9 months and 27 days.