People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. SENATOR MANDERSON, president pro tem., read Washington’s farewell address in the senate on the 22d. The sundry civil bill was passed....In the house the post office appropriation bill was passed. An effort to bring up the anti-option bill was defeated by a vote of 132 to 12. A resolution was introduced to ascertain the debt of Hawaii. THE senate passed the diplomatic and consular and the military academy bills and a bill for the relief of George W. Jones, first United States senator from Iowa, on the 23d, and the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill ($22,000,000) was considered. The nomination of Benton Hanchett, of Michigan, to be United States circuit judge for the Sixteenth judicial circuit, to succeed Judge Jackson, was received....In the house a bill was passed for the relief of George W. Jones, first senator from Iowa, and the conference report on the army bill was agreed to. ON the 24th a resolution was introduced in the senate directing the finance committee to ascertain during the recess of congress the effect of the tariff laws upon imports and exports and the effect at home and abroad upon wages. ....Mr. Harter (O.) introduced in the house a bill to provide for the free coinage of silver and gold at the present ratio and upon equal terms. The Indian appropriation bill was considered and the item for the support of Indian schools was increased from $1,000,000 to $1,075,000. THE legislative appropriation bill was passed with amendments in the senate on the 25th and a conference with the house was ordered. A motion made by Mr. Sherman to go into executive session to consider the Hawaii question and presidential nominations was defeated.... In the house an attempt to consider the sundry civil appropriation bill was defeated by filibustering. ON the 27th the pension appropriation bill was passed by the senate without any amendments. It appropriates $166,500,000. A conference was ordered on the sundry civil appropriation bill... In the house the Indian appropriation bill, the car-coupler bill and a bill continuing for one year the present tariff on fine linen goods of not less than 100 threads to the square inch were passed, and the conference report on the military academy appropriation bill was agreed to.

DOMESTIC. MANY summer cottages at Salisbury beach, in Massachusetts, were swept away by the waves during a storm. THE total receipts from internal revenue for the first seven months of the present fiscal year were $96,414,786, being $7,815,577 more than for the same period last year. CHARLES M. JACKSON, of Grayling, Mich., ex-treasurer of Crawford county, was arrested on the charge of being $13,000 short in his accounts. THE Lincoln league, a republican organization at Watertown, N. Y., has started a movement for the purpose of aiding Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, in his financial embarrassment. JOHN W. FOSTER, secretary of state, has retired from President Harrison’s cabinet for the purpose of assuming the management of the case of the United States in the Behring sea arbitration. THE house of Adolph Neise, a laborer at Ottumwa, Ia., was burned, and his wife and child perished in the flames. Neise was arrested on a charge of causing the fire in order to secure the insurance on his wife’s life. PETER T. E. SMITH, paying teller of the First national bank at Wilmington, Del., is a self-confessed embezzler to the amount of $55,900. THE South Dakota legislature has passed a bill requiring six months’ residence before a plaintiff can begin action for divorce and in all cases where service is by publication requiring a year’s residence. FIVE men were arrested in Des Moines, Ia., while in the act of robbing graves.

IT seems to be pretty well understood that nothing will be done in the Hawaiian annexation matter at this session of congress. THE Beaupre Mercantile company of St. Paul, Minn., failed for $400,000. The assets are $200,000. THE jarring of a tilt hammer at the Abram box stove works in Philadelphia caused the fall of a wall which killed three men. FRANK HOLLAND, who on March 6, 1892, killed three men, was hanged at Brazoria, Tex. THE doors of the Gate City national bank at Atlanta, Ga., were closed, owing depositors $550,000. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 24th aggregated $1,215,938,075, against $1,252,252,897 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 12.2. NINE business houses at Oakland, Ia., were destroyed by fire. BUSINESS failures to the number of 230 occurred in the United States in the seven ended on the 24th, against 301 the preceeding week and 270 for the corresponding time last year. CLOTHING manufacturers of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Rochester met at the first-named city to organize a permanent association and also to take steps to disunionize their factories. A SUICIDE club has been formed at Bridgeton, N. J., with about fifty members. A supper is to be held each year on Washington’s birthday, and the member who draws the black ball must die within a year. JOHN STURGEON, of Bucyrus, O., was arrested at San Francisco for embezzling nearly $20,000 from estates of which he was executor. IN the criminal court at Nashville, Tenn., Harvey Weakly, on trial for murder, when asked if he had killed the victim said he hoped God would strike him dead if he had. Hardly had Weakly spoken when he fell dead to the floor. AT Hahnville, La., a negro named Underwood was hanged for murdering Oscar Lamon, a white man. GOV. LEWELLING has fully decided to reorganize the militia of Kansas, increasing the number from 18,000 to 60,000. Orders have been issued to remove all disloyal line aud staff officers and replace them with men who will obey the governor’s orders.

W. C. RIPPEY, partially insane through losses in mines and mining stocks, shot and slightly wounded John W. Mackay, the mining millionaire and president of the Postal Telegraph company, in San Francisco, and then fatally shot himself. THE agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road at Adair, I. T., was robbed by three desperadoes of $8,700. AT Johnstown, Pa., Joseph Zetzoch undertook to drink two quarts of alcohol for a wager of two dollars. He drank one quart and was eating some sausage when he fell dead. THE Daughters of the Revolution in session in Washington elected Mrs. Stevenson, the wife of the vice presi-dent-elect, as president general of the society. THE paint and car shops of the Southern Pacific and fourteen passenger coaches were burned at San Antonio, Tex., the loss being $100,000. PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the act granting a pension to the widow of the late Maj. Gen. Doubleday. FRANK GILBOUGH, aged 28 and a popular young man, shot and killed Miss Dora May Watson, aged 17, at Galveston, Tex., because she refused to marry him, and then killed himself. S. GLEITZ and wife, of Tarentum, Pa, returned home from a funeral and found their two children burned to death. SAMUEL PRICE, a railroader, who was badly frozen in a blizzard, had his hands and feet amputated at Pittsburgh, and it was said that he would live. AT Bermuda, Tex., Mrs. John Stewart, a farmer’s wife, gave Jeff Masten, for insulting her, 100 lashes with a horsewhip while her husband covered him with a revolver. PRESIDENT HARRISON issued a proclamation convening the senate in extra session March 4. THE Kansas supreme court decided that the republican house is the legal house of representatives of the state. HENRY DAVENPORT, an old farmer near Knoxville, Tenn., was roped in by the gold brick ancient fraud for $3,500. AN immense deposit of rich bessemer ore was discovered on a 40-acre tract located in St. Louis county, Minn., owned by W. R. Burt, of Saginaw, Mich. It was calculated that over 10,000,000 tons were in sight. FOUR oyster boats were wrecked near Laurel, Del., and seven oyster men were drowned. FIRE destroyed the building and stock of the Minnesota Shoe company in St. Paul, the loss being $200,000. THE planing mill of the Commercial Lumber company at Felton, Ga., was burned, entailing a loss of $150,000. James Berry, the night watchman, perished in the flames. MISS JULIA FORCE, sister of the leading shoe merchant of Atlanta, Ga., shot and killed her two sisters. She was thought to be insane. AN Erie vestibule train was wrecked near Vandalia, N. Y., and ten persons were iniured, but no one was killed. FIVE members of a life-saving crew were drowned near New Bedford, Mass., while going to the rescue of a wrecked brig. WILLIAM MILLER, a pugilist, died in San Francisco from a blow received during a fight with Dal Hawkins. A LEATHER trust with a capital of $45,000,000 has been formed by New York and Boston leather houses. A BARN owned by W. Chesrown near Olney, Ill., was burned, and fifteen horses and five cows perished in the flames.

The Cofrodt & Saylor company, controlling the Reading (Pa.) rollingmills, failed for $500,000. Charles R. Carter has been sentenced at Mount Vernon, Mo., to hang April 14 next for the murder of Robert Crockett seven years ago. Samuel Brown and bis sons Sidney and George fell a distance of 125 feet in a coal mine at Coalton, 0., and were killed. Joseph Payne, a negro, was lynched by a mob at Jellico, Tenn., for assault on a white girl named Nannie Cecil. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 27tli was: Wheat, 79,564,000 bushels; corn, 15,094,000 bushels; oats, 5,450,000 bushels; rye, 915,000 bushels; barley, 1,872,000 bushela Frank H. Jenkins, of Roxbury, Mass., a driver of au express wagon, shot his wife and himself fatally. Domestic trouble was the cause. The entire senate, without distinction of party, united in tendering a complimentary dinner to Vice President Morton and in bearing testimony to the admirable manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of the upper chamber of congress for the last four years. A block of twenty houses and stores was burned at Pocahontas, Va., the loss being $160,000. Lee Taylor, wlio lately met with financial reverses, deliberately lay down on the log carriage at a sawmill at Mud Run, Pa., pulled himself up to the rapidly revolving saw, and his head was severed from his body. Freight trains collided on the Boston & Maine road near St. Johnsbury, Vt., and Fred Clark, Fred Green and Charles West were killed. John Smith and his wife and three children and John Kunze and his wife were killed in their homes in Chicago by the falling of a wall of a partially burned store building. * The wail crushed the houses in which the victims were sleeping. A hot blast furnace at Benwood, W. Va., exploded, fatally burning four men. John and Thomas Fagan, aged 79 and 81 respectively, were found dead in their farmhouse near Holly, Mich. They had been dead nearly a week, and, although both were rich, died of lack of proper food and general exposure. In the placer district on Hasayampe river in Arizona a white man ' named Michaels killed two Mexicans who attempted to jump his claim. John Wanamaker’s broker sold him out of his entire holding of Reading stock, and the net loss of the postmaster general trade was about •000.00 a

Thomas Hill, a white man, convicted of assault on a woman and sentenced to twenty years in the chain gang, was taken from jail at Spring Place, Ga., by a mob and given his freedom. The worst snowstorm and blizzard of the season prevailed in the northwest, delaying railway traffic Mrs. Matilda Huntington, of New Orleans, is only 38 years old, though she has just married her seventh husband. She began her matrimonial career at 14.

PERSONAL AND POLITICALThe governor of Idaho has signed the bill enfranchising Mormons. The measure adds about 3,000 to the voting population of the state Gen. W. R. Ankent, one of the oldest aod most prominent business men in Des Moines, la., dropped dead on the street A. C. Beckwith, 0, wealthy stockman of western Wyoming, has been appointed by Gov. Osborne as United States senator for the next two years. Rufus Hatch, the well-known Wall street broker, died at his home in Westchester, N. Y., aged 61 years. Henry T. Thurber, a Detroit (Mich.) lawyer, has been named by Mr. Cleveland as his private secretary. Allen Manvel, aged 56, president of the Santa Fe Railroad company, died at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, Cal., from physical and mental prostration aggravated by Bright’s disease. Mrs. Sarah Hawn died at Oakland, 111., aged 105 years. She was the mother of seventeen children, ten boys and seven girls. Emma Pataillard, known in the museum world as Aama the French giantess, died in Des Moines, la. She was 16 years old, 8 feet high, and weighed 285 pounds.

* FOREIGN. At a masonic social in Weston, Ont, the floor of the hall gave way and thirty persons were injured, nine seriously. Edwardo Lopez, a desperado who had killed a score of men in the vicinity of Sonora, Mexico, in the last five years, was captured by officers near Fronteras and riddled with bullets. The French steamer Donnai was sunk in a collision near Saigon, France, and seven persons were drowned. Special agents of the treasury department were in Vancouver, B. C., investigating the alleged smuggling of Chinese into the United States through forged merchant return certificates. M. Jules Ferry has been elected president of the senate. The chartered banks at Vancouver, B. C., will hereafter only accept Amerean silver at 20 per cent discount The former discount was 5 per cent. Eleven brigands were convicted before the assize court at Caltanisetta, Italy, and all of them were sentenced to penal servitude for life. Jennie Wonch, a 16-year-old girl, murdered her mother and cousin, a boy 5 years old, near Craigleitli, Ont She said she wanted them out of the way so she could marry. While a peasant wedding party was crossing the Dnieper near Ekaterinoslav, Russia, the ice broke and ten persons drowned. Brigands entered the post office in Misterbianco, Sicily, stabbed to death the postmaster, Perinis, and his family, and carried off all of the money. Great suffering existed in Oldham, England, owing to the prolonged struggle between the master cotton spinners and the operatives. The number out of employment in Oldham alone was 34,000 and thousands of these were destitute of food and fuel.

LATER. The naval and agricultural appropriation bills and the hill regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia were passed in the United States senate on the 28th ult In the house the conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was agreed to and a bill was passed providing that after July 1, 1893, pig tin shall be exempt from duty. In reply to a resolution Secretary Foster of the treasury department reported that the total war claims pending in his department amounted to $174,821,000. The village of Gergel.y, in Hungary, was swept away by a flood and hundreds of persons were drowned. Maryland has brought suit against West Virginia to recover the entire terrritory lying between the north and south branches of the Potomac river. Six large counties with a population of nearly 100,000 are involved. Blondin, the world famed ropewalker, celebrated in London his sixtyninth birthday. The eight-story building in New York occupied by the Norman L. Munro Publishing company was partially gutted by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Miss Julia Force, who killed her two sisters at Atlanta, Ga., has been adjudged insane. Dal Hawkins, who knocked out Billy Miller in San Francisco, inflicting injuries that proved fatal, has been held for manslaughter. The great battleship Indiana was successfully launched at the shipyard of the William Cramp & Sons company in Philadelphia. Gov. Mitchell has appointed Samuel Pascoe to be United States senator from Florida. The Michigan democrats in state convention at Detroit nominated George H. Durand, of FLint, for justice of the supreme court, and Henry A. Harmon, of Detroit, and Robert T. Bunker, of Muskegon, for regents. The breweries of Michigan and Ohio were forming a trust with a capital of $20,000,000. Gov. McKini.et, of Ohio, while expressing bis gratitude, has refused contributions from his friends designed to relieve him of his financial distress. The democrats of Chicago nominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor. The report of the congressional committee which has investigated the whisky trust says that fully one-half of the whisky consumed in this country is a compound, made oi>ly i* fart of straight j whisky and the balance of 'biis, es* sences and ethers.