People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. IN the senate on the 8th the following bills were taken from the calendar and passed: For the relief of certain settlers on public land in the Tucson district, Arizona; to amend the act establishing a court of private land claims; for the examination and allowance of certain awards made by the board of claims to certain citizens of Jefferson county, Ky.; to exempt veterans from competitive examination in the classified service of the United States. The senate then went to the hall of the house of representatives, to count the presidential vote, after which it resumed consideration of the car-coupler bill ....In the house, after a joint count of the electoral vote with the senate, consideration of the legislative appropriation bill was taken up and discussed. THE entire session of the senate on the 9th was devoted to a discussion of the railway automatic car-coupler bill.... By a vote of 152 to 143 the house decided that it would not take up and pass a bill for the repeal of the Sherman silver law. The legislative appropriation bill was favorably reported with an amendment providing that hereafter no public building shall be draped in mourning; that executive departments shall not be closed out of respect to deceased officials, and prohibiting the use of public funds for funeral expenses of government officials or employes. THE house bill to provide for sundry lighthouses and other aids to navigation was passed in the senate on the 10th, as was also a bill prohibiting the transportation of merchandise from one American port to another American port through a foreign port....In the house the pension appropriation bill was discussed, but no action was taken. At the evening session several private pension bills were passed. IN the senate on the 11th the fortifications bill and the bill to promote the safety of employes and travelers upon railroads by compelling railroad companies to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes were passed.... In the house a resolution to limit the time for debate on the pension appropriation bill was defeated. AS REPORTED to the senate on the 13th the sundry civil bill carries a total appropriation of $40,350,114, an increase of $924,161 upon the bill as it passed the house. The New Mexico statehood bill was refused consideration. The bill intended to secure the construction of the Nicaragua ship canal was discussed... In the house the conference report on the fortification appropriation bill was agreed to. A bill was passed regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia.

DOMESTIC. DEPUTY MARSHALS RUSK, Bruner and Knight were shot and killed near Tahlequah, I. T., by Bill Pigeon, an Indian desperado, whom they were attempting to arrest. THE legislature of Minnesota has adopted a memorial to congress urging the election of United States senators by popular vote. EIGHT men were badly injured and four of them will die by a collision of stock trains near Brush station, Ia. THE New York legislature has adopted a resolution urging congress to take steps to establish a protectorate over Hawaii with a view to ultimate annexation. PRESIDENT HARRISON, assisted by the members of his cabinet and other distinguished persons, will on February 22 raise American flags upon the Ininan line steamers City of New York and City of Paris. IN a factional fight in Greene county, Tenn., E. K. Johnson and his wife and Thomas Hixon were shot dead. The Johnsons have six grown children who say they will avenge the killing of their parents. CARL NOLD and Hernry Bauer, charged with being accessories to Bergman, the anarchist, in the attempted killing of H. C. Frick last July, were found guilty at Pittsburgh, Pa. THE county farm insane asylum 4 miles from Dover, N. H., was burned, and forty-four of the inmates perished in the flames. IN a fit of jealousy Charles Brown shot and killed his wife and Dick Sly at Jackson, Mich. THE residence of Patrick Sullivan was burned at Chapel Cove, N. F., and he and four of his children perished in the flames. FRANK HARREL and Willie Felder, members of a gang of negro incendiaries who have been a terror to the people of Dickery, Miss., were lynched by a mob.

HEIDER'S hotel at Cincinnati was completely destroyed by fire, and four persons, employes of the hotel, were burned to death. JOHN B. ROYSTER, the negro who murdered John P. Eppes July 29, 1891, was executed at Norfolk, Va. THE town of Wells, Nev., was nearly wiped out by fire. THE Continental hotel at Centerville, Ia., was burned, and Samuel Lewis, a merchant, and Mrs. McKee, the landlady, were burned to death. FOUR men were killed in a snowslide on the Virginius road near Ouray, Col. EIGHTY-ONE men were convicted at Clinton, Tenn., of aiding and abetting in the riots of Coal Creek and Olivers last August and sent to prison for terms ranging from ten days to two years. IN the United States during the seven days ended on the 10th the business failures numbered 266, against 301 the previous week and 276 for the corresponding time last year. A BILL has passed the Minnesota legislature that makes the smoking and use of cigarettes in the state a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $25 to $50 or by imprisonment for thirty days. TWELVE buildings in the business center of Dexter, Mo., were destroyed by fire. WILLIAM CONDON, an experienced prospector, reports the discovery of ruins of an old Aztec city 25 miles northwest of Phoenix, A. T., different from any before discovered. The indications showed that there were at least 60,000 inhabitants. COOLING, WEED & CO., lumber manufacturers and dealers at Honesdale, Pa., failed for $100,000. FRANK BROWN found buried in the ground on his father’s farm in Peru township, O., $1,762 in an old tin pail. NEARLY the entire town of Belcherville, Tex., was swept away by an incendiary fire.

PRESIDENT HARRISON, it was stated, would send a special message to congress at an early day recommending the immediate passage of an act annexing Hawaii to the States. TWO MEN were killed and one was fatally injured in a rear-end collision near Manton, Mich., on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road. The total expenditures of the world’s fair thus far amount to $15,029,539; total receipts, $15,603,419. A HEAVY earthquake shock occurred in the western part of Fremont county, Col. IT was reported that a rich vein of silver had been found near Brazil, Ind. A PERU (Ind.) jury gave Fred Snyder a sentence of seven years for beating his wife in a brutal manner. PROBABLY the smallest child on record was born in Kokomo, Ind., to Mrs. J. Enders. It is a girl, and weighs, with its clothing, twenty-one ounces. MRS. MICHAEL HOUTEY, of Minneapolis, Minn., is heir to the principal part of the estate of Sir Henry Coghlan, of England, which is valued at £3,000,000. PRESIDENT HARRISON has accepted the resignation of Gen. T. J. Morgan, commissioner of Indian affairs. JOHN BALLINGER and Matilda Ballinger celebrated the seventy-sixth anniversary of their wedding at Mattoon, Ill. The husband is 101 years of age and the wife 94. THREE men were drowned while skating on the Mystic river near Boston. A GREAT mass of stone fell into a marble quarry at West Rutland, Vt., and seven men were instantly killed and a number of others injured. THOMAS NEAL, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Jackson (white), the wife of a prominent farmer near Germantown, Tenn., was lynched by a mob of white and colored men. A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn., destroyed the stocks of goods belonging to Sol Frankland & Co., dry goods, and J. H. Fall & Co., hardware, the total loss being $200,000. A SLIDE in the wall rock on one of the tunnels at the Orient mines near Villa Grove, Col., killed six men and six others were injured. THE Tennessee legislature has adjourned for thirty days on account of the illness of Gov. Turney. NEW ORLEANS is to have a masonic lodge, the members of which will all be Chinamen. It will be the first of the kind organized in the south. BOSTON'S fire loss during the first five weeks of the present year was over $2,000,000. THE eighty-fourth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was observed on the 11th in many cities and towns throughout the country. A NEGRO named Pick was lynched by a mob near Plant City, Fla., for dangerously wounding a night watchman. THE town of Lykens O., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. FARMERS have lost over fifty horses and cattle in the vicinity of Decatur, Ill., by reason of their slipping on ice. A GANG of counterfeiters was arrested in Chicago while busy making spurious ten cent pieces. FIFTY Italian laborers were arrested at West Pittston, Pa., for working in streets on Sunday. A JOINT resolution was introduced in the Ohio legislature to procure apparatus by which the voting may be done and roll calls made by electricity, as is now done in the French chamber of deputies.

TWO NEGROES were murdered by unknown persons at Palestine, Tex. MRS. THOMAS OGDEN, aged 81 years, wife of an old pioneer of Alliance, O., was fatally burned by her clothing taking fire from a grate, and her aged husband, who witnessed the scene, was so prostrated with grief that he would probably die. THE will of the late James G. Blaine was filed for probate at Augusta, Me. It gives practically his entire estate to his wife in fee simple. MICHIGAN is the only state in the winter wheat belt where the ground is covered with snow as well as ice. There are no reports of damage of any kind. AUGUSTUS GONZALES, a convicted wife murderer, hanged himself in the Beeville (Tex.) jail. THREE negro children who were burned to death at Kansas City, Mo., were buried in one casket. THREE Chinamen arrested while passing through Philadelphia were said to have been landed in this country by Spanish smugglers. MESSRS. KIMBLET and Adams, lumbermen, were crushed to death by a falling tree in Lake county, Tenn. CHARLES RODDINS and a man named Canfield were killed near El Paso, Tex., by men who were attempting to recover stock the pair had stolen. THE United States ship Constellation arrived at Hampton Roads, Va., after a cruise of 12,800 miles in ninety-four days in the interests of the Columbian exposition. A CASE of cholera was reported at Gorten, Conn., which must have been contracted by germs in the wall paper from a patient who died in the room thirty years ago. The patient who is now sick removed the paper a short time ago.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. SAMUEL L. WHITE died at the Everett house, New York, aged 79 years. He enjoyed the distinction of having been in the hotel business longer than any man in this country. IT was said on good authority that Judge Gresham would be the secretary of state in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet THE president sent the senate the following nominations to be United States consuls: Henry G. Kress, of Wisconsin, at Cork; Josiah E. Stone, of Massachusetts, at Nogales. EX-CONGRESSMAN LOUIS ST. MARTIN died in New Orleans after an illness of six months, aged 72 years. THE people’s party of Michigan in convention at Ionia nominated Edward S. Greece, of Detroit, for supreme justice, and Byron S. Arkley, of Jackson, and Myron O. Graves, of Petoskey, for regents of the state university. HENRY C. DE MILLE, a well-known playwright, died suddenly at his home in Pompton, N. J.

DR. NORVIN GREEN, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, died at his home in Louisville, Ky., aged 75 years. MRS. MARY SHEETS, residing on a large farm near Dayton, O., celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary. CAPT. LEVI ALLEN, the oldest resident of Buffalo, N. Y., and the master of the first steam vessel that ever navigated Lake Erie, died in that city, aged 90 years. MRS. BETSY CROSSETT, aged 100 years, died at her home at Battle Creek, Mich., of general debility. She had been a resident of that city since 1853. JUDGE JOHN SCHOLFIELD, for the last twenty years a member of the supreme court of Illinois, died at his home in Marshall of peritonitis, aged 59 years.

FOREIGN. THIRTY-SEVEN of the crew and four passengers were lost in the wreck of the British steamship Trinacria off Cape Villano. IN the Panama canal cases in Paris M. Ferdinand de Lesseps was sentenced to be imprisoned for five years and to pay a fine of 5,000 francs, his son Charles must go to prison for five years and pay a fine of 3,750 francs, M. Marius Fontaine and M. Cottu two years each and pay a fine of 3,750 francs each, and M. Eiffel two years and to pay a fine of 20,000 francs. The defendants were found guilty of swindling and breach of trust. THE cry of fire created a panic in a crowded restaurant at Leipsic, Germany, and eight persons were crushed to death. ADVICES from Honolulu state that United States Minister Stevens has established a protectorate over Hawaii pending and subject to the negotiations at Washington. THE total damage done by the re- | cent flood in Queensland was estimated at $15,000,000.

HANLAN and Gaudaur signed articles at Toronto to row for the championship of America and $1,000 a side at Toronto on July 22. LOUIS JENNINGS, journalist and author, died in London. He was editor of the New York Times several years, and the overthrow of the Tweed ring is directly traceable to his influence. THE sloop Cornelius, which left Cadboro (B. C.) bay early in December with forty-five Chinamen on board destined for California, has been given up as lost. THE United States legation at Constantinople has learned that a Moslem mob burned the American Girls’ college in Marsovan. THE Allan line steamer Pomeranian, from Glasgow January 27 for New York, returned to Greenock after losing twelve of her crew and passengers in a heavy storm. DR. KEMPSTER, a special health officer of the United States, stated in Berlin after a tour of inspection that he was convinced that the present year would witness a fierce outburst of cholera and that the plague would sweep the whole of Europe. IN Switzerland four skaters were drowned in Lake Radolfzeli, near Reichenau, and three were drowned in the Lake of Morat. GOV. FLORES, of the Mexican state of Durango, believes that he has discovered the famous mountain of gold, the legend of which is a household story in Mexico. IN the British house of commons Mr. Gladstone spoke at length upon the features of the Irish home-rule bill. THE Tehauntepec railroad across the Mexican isthmus is nearly completed. The road will be nearly 250 miles long and will connect the east and west coasts.

LATER. IN the United States senate on the 14th the Nicaragua canal bill and the sundry civil appropriation bill were discussed and the House bill incorporating the American university at Washington was passed. In the house Mr. Houck (O.) introduced a resolution permitting the world’s fair gates to be opened on Sunday after 12 o’clock meridian. The invalid pension bill was considered, but no action was taken. THE masonic grand lodge of Kansas will build a home for indigent masons’ orphans. BRUCE CARR, ex-auditor of state, died at his home in Indiana, aged 44 years. He was distinguished as the youngest soldier in the late war, enlisting as a private when a boy of 15. JUDGE WILLIAM LINDSAY has been elected from Kentucky to succeed J. G. Carlisle in the United States senate. ANDY BLOUNT, a negro suspected of criminally assaulting Mrs. W. A. Moore, a widow 51 years of age, was lynched by a mob at Chattanooga, Tenn. THE Wegman business building at Fort Smith, Ark., was burned, causing a loss of $100,000. WILLIAM WILKINSON, one of the bestknown men in Pittsburgh, Pa., and his wife died within four hours of each other. Both took sick the same day and both lay on the same bed until claimed by death. MANY rivers and creeks were out of their banks in central Illinois, and railroad and wagon bridges were swept away and roads rendered impassable. TWO children of James Freeman were burned to death in his home at Hartville, Mo., and the father was severely hurt.

A BUGGY containing Mrs. P. D. McSweeney and Miss Mary McSweeney was upset at Lima, O., and both women were fatally hurt. NATURAL gas has been discovered at Brinkley, Tenn. THE island of Samothraki in the AEgean sea, in Greece, was shaken by an earthquake, and all the buildings on the island weie destroyed. Many lives were lost. THE body of Henry C. DeMille, the well-known playwright, was cremated near Maspeth, L. I. MR. CLEVELAND has officially announced the names of four members of his cabinet as follows: Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois, secretary of state; John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, secretary of finance; Daniel S. Lamont, of New York, secretary of war; Wilson S. Bissell, of Buffalo, postmaster general.