People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. ON the 16th the session of the senate was occupied in the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. An amendment involving the continuance of the office of supervisor of elections gave rise to a long and heated political discussion. ..In the house the pension appropriation bill was further considered, and proposed amendments relative to the transfer of the pension bureau to the war department, to rerating upon the basis of ability to earn a living, to the limitation of persons receiving an income of less than $600, and to soldiers’ widows were overruled. During the debate a personal collision between Turpin, of Alabama, and Waugh, of Indiana, was prevented by friends. IN the senate the sundry civil appropriation bill occupied the time on the 17th. The amendment to continue in force the law for federal supervision of elections was carried by a party vote.... In the house the pension bill appropriating $166,400,000 was passed without amendment. The post office appropriation bill was considered without final action. The senate bill extending to the North Pacific ocean the provisions of the statutes for the protecting of fur seals was passed. BY a vote of 30 to 16 Senator Sherman’s amendment to the sundry civil bill was passed in the senate on the 18th. It authorizes the secretary of the treasury, at his discretion, to issue 3 per cent. five year bonds to an amount not exceeding $50,000,000, in order to recover gold to the treasury. In executive session the nomination of Judge Jackson to the supreme bench was confirmed....In the house the post office appropriation bill was discussed, and tributes of respect to the memory of the late Representative John G. Warwick, of Ohio, were paid. IN the senate the sundry civil appropriation bill occupied the senate on the 20th. The house bill to provide for the publication of the eleventh census was passed ...After the disposition of two private bills the naval and agricultural appropriation bills were called up in the house, under suspension of the rules, and passed. DOMESTIC. BUCKSTAFF'S vitrified paving brick works were burned at Lincoln, Neb. The plant was valued at $200,000. SCHEELER QUILLAN and John Ewing, railroad laborers, fought with pistols over a girl near Catlettsburg, Ky., and both were killed. REV. E. M. BUSWELL, leader of the Christian science faith healers, was indicted by a grand jury at Beatrice, Neb., for illegally practicing the art of healing. THE funeral of the late Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, took place in Louisville, Ky., and the remains were interred at Calvary Hill cemetery. THE republicans seem to have won the battle at Topeka, Kan., Gov. Lewelling having given them possession of the legislative hall, withdrawing the militia and sending the populists to another room. The deputy marshals were also withdrawn. This action of the governor was to afford a temporary settlement of the difficulty or until the courts could decide it. JOE DONOGHUE, the amateur champion skater, was defeated in a fivemile race at Red Bank, N. J., by John S. Johnson, of Minneapolis. Johnson’s time was 18 minutes and 4 seconds. PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a proclamation creating the Sierra forest reserve, compromising 6,000 square miles in the counties of Mercer, Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California. THE sulphite pulp mill, owned by the Richards Paper company, in South Gardiner, Me., was burned, the loss being $200,000; insurance, $180,000. WILLIAM McCOY, a negro, who murdered his mistress, Molly McGruder, in Kansas City, on the night of April 6, 1891, was hanged at Lexington, Mo. IN a riot between teamsters and laborers at Mark Center, O., over immigration some fifty took part, and it was reported that several were killed and others were seriously injured. DAVID CANWAY, aged 75, died from starvation in the cellar of an old house at Pittsburgh, Pa. THE Indiana house of representatives voted down a bill providing for an appriation of $50,000 to be expended in entertaining visitors at the grand army encampment to be held in Indianapolis next September. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 17th aggregated $1,252,252,897, against $1,370,808,981 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1893 was 2.7. IN the United States during the seven days ended on the 17th the business failures numbered 233, against 266 the previous week and 299 for the corresponding time last year. GOLD was said to have been found on Newton H. Huston’s farm in Calhoun county, Mich. COL. GEORGE W. KENDALL, aged 55, a millionaire, and one of the best known business men in the west, committed suicide in his room at the Wellington hotel in Chicago. Sickness was the cause. TWO YOUNG men named Robinson and Meniffe were cooked to death by escaping steam in the engine room of the Big Four road at Covington, Ind. M. B. VANDEGRIFT, a highly respected citizen, aged 65 years, dropped dead at the Wabash depot in Chillicothe, O. SEVEN persons were injured, three fatally, in a railway wreck near Brazil. Ind.

THE legislative struggle in Kansas has come to an end, the republican house having accepted the terms proposed by Gov. Lewelling which leave the republicans in possession of the house, leave the populists in possession of their hired hall down town, send the militia home, stop those en route, disperse the thousand deputies and leave the situation as to the legality of each house in courts. ROBERT L. WALKER, a prominent banker and capitalist at Youngstown, O., made an assignment, with liabilities of $200,000 and assets of $100,000. The failure involves Gov. McKinley, who indorsed Walker’s notes, and the indications were that every dollar of property owned by the governor would be swept away.

GEORGE GRIER, who built the first log house in the eastern part of Auglaize county, O., was found dead in bed. He was 90 years old. THE report that Edwin Booth would return to the stage, making a farewell tour next fall, is denied. PROMINENT iron manufacturers and capitalists in Cleveland have tendered Gov. McKinley a loan of all the money he desires to pay his liabilities growingout of the Walker failure in Youngstown. The total amount for which the governor was liable was said to be $61,000. MRS. J. HILTON, living near Shawnee, O., fell against the grate in a fit during her husband’s absence and was burned to death. IN a rear-end collision on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad at Monroe, Ind., Engineer Knode, Fireman Graham and Brakeman Blackford were fatally injured. SEVERAL schooners were driven ashore and other sailing craft disabled during a blizzard on Chesapeake bay and six sailors were drowned. JOHN HUGHES, a negro, made insulting advances to a young lady on the street in Moberly, Mo., and soon afterward her three brothers riddled him with bullets. AN engine exploded in the Texas & Pacific yards at Fort Worth. Tex., killing John Mills and fatally injuring three other men. HUGH O'DONNELL was acquitted at Pittsburgh of the charge of murder during the labor riots at Homestead. TRAINS collided near Bath station, Col., and three men were instantly killed and several others were seriously injured. A POSTAL car on a train was burned at Lancaster, Pa. It contained mail matter from Chicago for Europe, and fifteen bags were destroyed. THE dry house of the tobacco firm of John Finzer & Bros, in Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. A SERIES of earthquakes in the Yellowstone national park did considerable damage. AT Toledo, O., Mr. and Mrs. Schieferstein, an old and wealthy couple, were suffocated by natural gas. McKEE RANKIN, the noted actor, has retired permanently from the stage. TWO MORMON preachers who had been in Lewis county, Tenn., for some time preaching Mormonism were assassinated by some one unknown. IN a six-days’ contest (eight hours a day) which ended in Syracuse, N. Y., Aggie Harvey, of Pittsburgh, broke the world’s record for women for that time by walking 200 miles. THE Philadelphia common council by a vote of 70 to 2 passed an ordinance prohibiting the employment by contractors on municipal works of other than American citizens. THE National Wallpaper company’s big storage building in New York was burned, the loss being $225,000. CHARLES J. STALEY, a Pittsburgh (Pa.) electrician, shot his wife and cut himself fatally. Jealousy was the cause. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 80,216,000 bushels; corn, 14,708,000 bushels; oats, 5,687,000 bushels; rye, 917,000 bushels; barley, 1,908,000 bushels. THE Farmers’ bank at Harrisburg, Pa. closed its doors voluntarily. Depositors would be paid in full. POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER says that the popularity of the Columbian postage stamps is best attested by the financial results attending their issue. During January, 1892, at 103 firstclass offices the sale of stamps amounted to $1,870,483, while in January of this year the amount was $2,254,476, of which $1,708,666 was from the Columbian.

THE struggle in the special congressional committee at Washington over opening the world’s fair on Sunday is over and the Sunday closers have won. IN a wreck of a freight train on the Illinois Central railroad near Lena, Ill., two cars containing forty-two valuable horses were destroyed and thir-ty-five of the animals were killed. ONE HUNDRED shots were exchanged by the striking miners of the Gatsburg Coal company’s mine near Monongahela, Pa., and the colored non-union-ists, but none of the shots took effect JAMES CRAWFORD and his son were struck by a train and instantly killed at Springfield, O. THE value of the gold product from the mines of the United States during 1892 was approximately $33,000,000, about corresponding to the average product of recent years. THE large hominy mill of the Hndnut company at Mount Vernon, Ind., was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. DURING a fierce gaie in Brooklyn, N. Y., fifteen houses were blown down, but no one was injured. JOHN C. ENO, who in 1884 fled to Canada in order to avoid arrest and prosecution for having embezzled nearly $4,000,000 of the funds of the Second national bank in New York while its president, has returned and will stand trial. THE Philadelphia & Reading railroad has passed into the hands of three receivers. THE fire losses in the United States during the week ended on the 18th amounted to $1,373,500. The total losses from January 1 to date were $20,703,000.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. GEN. ABRAM DALLY, aged 98, the oldest survivor of the war of 1812 with England, was found dead by neighbors in a cottage in Williamsburg, N. Y., where he had a room. MISS ELIZABETH APPLEMAN, familiarly known as “Aunt Betsy," who celebrated her 101st birthday December 11, died at her home in Middletown, Md. MRS. F. W. PALMER, wife of the public printer, died in Washington of paralysis, aged 57 years. EX-CONGRESSMAN BARKSDALE, of Mississippi, aged 70 years, died of heart failure on his Yazoo county (Miss.) plantation. J. STERLING MORTON, of Nebraska, has been chosen by Mr. Cleveland for the cabinet position of secretary of agriculture.

NICHOLAS BOGART, a colored man, who had served the late Secretary of State Seward for over forty years and was cared for in his old age by the Seward family, died in Auburn, N. Y., aged 100 years. REAR ADMIRAL AUGUST LUDLOW CASE, U. S. N., retired, died in Washington. He was born in 1813 and placed on the retired list in 1885. MAJ. N. A. HAMBRIGHT, U. S. A., retired, died in Lancaster, Pa., from a cancerous affection, aged 74 years. GEORGE E. SPENCER, ex-United States senator from Alabama, died in Washington of dropsy. THE legislatures of Oregon and Wyoming adjourned sine die, the latter without breaking the senatorial deadlock, and the governor will appoint a United States senator who will serve two years. MISS FANNIE EDWARDS, aged 14, died at Martinsville, Ind. She was one of the most successful evangelists in the state, and effected over 600 conversions during the three years that she had preached. THE democratic state committee of Kansas at a meeting held in Topeka adopted resolutions denouncing the actions of the governor in the legislative troubles and calling upon all true democrats to completely and forever separate themselves from the populists. PIERRE GUSTAVE TOUTANT BEAUREGARD, the last survivor of the confederate military leaders who attained the full rank of general, died suddenly in New Orleans of heart failure, aged 73 years. WILLIAM N. ROACH (dem.), of Grand Forks, was elected United States senator from North Dakota on the sixtyfirst ballot.

FOREIGN. FRANK E. TRAINOR, deputy United States consul general to Mexico, and formerly of Williamsport, Pa., died in the City of Mexico. ADVICES from China say that this has been an unusually severe winter there. In Canton alone 300 beggars died in jail from exposure to the cold. A SEVERE hurricane swept the island of Nofou of the Samoan group, and thousands of trees were leveled to the ground, the old Wesleyan church was swept away and many houses were destroyed. IT was reported that flames swept away 10,000 houses in Peking, China, and that a great number of lives were lost. A WOMAN died in the poorhouse at Sweerness, Great Britain, who was born in the institution ninety-two years ago and had lived there all her life a public charge. BARON BLEICHROEDER died in Berlin. He was the richest banker in Germany, the fortune left by him being estimated at 100,000,000 marks. THE golden jubilee of Pope Leo XIII. was celebrated in Rome. THE drought which has caused such destitution and suffering among the people in the states of Durango and Coahulia, Mexico, during the last four years has been completely broken. OWING to the failure of the cortes to approve the financial schemes of the ministry the cabinet of Portugal has resigned. THREE fishing boats went down in a storm off Banff, on the Scotch coast, and twenty-eight fishermen were drowned. FEUDS of the natives at Rocktown, Liberia, culminated in a battle in which forty persons were killed and 200 were wonnded. THE rebels forced an entrance into Wazan, Africa. The citizens attempted to annihilate the attacking forces and hundreds were killed.

LATER.

THE time in the United States senate on the 21st was occupied in considering the sundry civil appropriation bill. In the house the hours were mostly employed in filibustering against the carcoupler bill. Mr. Butler, of Iowa, introduced a bill to establish a truer figure of constitutional liberty and another to amend the general seal of the United States. SPOTTED fever was said to be epidemic in Marshall county, Ky., and fifty deaths were reported. It was reported that George W. Jenks, of Brookville, Pa., would be the attorney general in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet. MORE than one-half of the business portion of the village of Strasburg, Ill., was consumed by fire. MICHAEL SLINEY, the murderer of Bob Lyons, was sentenced by Judge Ingraham in New York to be executed in the electric chair during the week beginning April 10. FIRE in Strangeways, a suburb of Manchester, England, did damage to the amount of £90,000. BY a cave in at shaft No. 3 on the South Joplin (Mo.) Mining company’s ground four miners were killed and another hurt. AN explosion at the Skalis mine in Styria caused fifteen deaths and twenty other miners were seriously injured. IN consequence of the destruction of crops by frost last summer famine and disease are now prevalent throughout Finland, and more than 200,000 persons are dependent upon charity. THE coal barge Reliance was wrecked near Block Island, R. I., and five of the crew and the captain’s wife and child were drowned. THE factory of the Harry Bissenger Tobacco company in Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $250,000; insurance, $150,000. GOV. McKINLEY, of Ohio, will be compelled to pay $105,000 as indorser for Robert D. Walker, that being the amount of paper he is on which has not been paid. RICHARD MAYS, a negro, was lynched at Springville, Mo., for an attack on a white woman. HUGH O'DONNELL, Jack Clifford and Hugh Ross, leaders of the Homestead (Pa.) strike, charged with murder and treason, were released on $10,000 bail each. FOUR masked men attempted to rob the City bank at Leechburg, Pa. They were discovered, had an encounter with the police, and William Shaffer, chief of police, was fatally shot.