People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. IK the senate the post office appropriation bill was reported on the Ist and conferences were ordered on the naval and agricultural appropriation bills. The Indian appropriation bill ($16,431,490) was also reported A bill waslntroduced to give effect to the president's recommendation to congress touching the Canadian railways.... In the house an attempt to revive the anti-option bill was defeated by a vote of 172 yeas to 124 nays, not the necessary twothirds. The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to and the war claim bill for the relief of William and Mary college was passed. Ok the 2d the post office deficiency and Indian appropriation bills were passed in the senate ....In the house the senate amendments to the sundry civil and post office appropriation bills were non-concurred in. A joint resolution providing for private clerks for representatives not chairmen of committees was passed as was also the senate bill to facilitate the enforcement of the immigration and contract labor laws. Conference reports on the legislative, post office, agricultural and sundry civil appropriation bills were agreed to in the United States senate on the 3d and the house hill to continue the duties of 35 per cent on linen containing 100 threads per square inch was passed....ln the house the world’s fair items in the sundry civil bill caused a long discussion and finally the sura of 4832,630 was allowed Conference reports on several other appropriation bills were agreed to. The senate on the 4th passed the last of the appropriation bills, and after thanking the senators for their uniform courtesy Vice President Morton declared the senate of the Fifty-second congress adjourned sine die. The oath of office was then taken by Vice President Stevenson .... In the house the customary resolution of thanks was tendered to Speaker Crisp, after which that official declared the ‘house of representatives adjourned sine die In extra session on the 6th the senate confirmed the cabinet appointments made by President Cleveland. Senator Sberman introduced a joint resolution, which waylaid on the table, which proposes that the terms of office of president and rice president of the Fifty-fourth congress shall continue until noon of the 30th of April, 1897; that the senators whose terms would expire on the 4th of March, 1897, shall continue in office until noon of. the 30th of April, and that that time shall hereafter be substituted for the 4th of March as the commencement and terminatioa of the official terms of the president, vice president, senators and representatives in congress. The present roll c*ll of the senate shows 44 democrats, 38 republicans, 1 populist, 1 independent and 1 farmers’ alliance and three vacancies.

DOMESTIC. The public debt statement issued on the Ist showed that the interest and non-interest bearing debt increased $615,699 during the month of February. The cash in the treasury was $764,332,260. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $839,153,665. It was reported that in the next few months 100,000 negroes would leave the south for homes in the west The treasury department’s monthly, circulation statement shows a net decrease in the circulation during February amounting to $8,302,897. The total circulation of the country March 1 was placed at $1,599,655,542, or a per capita of $24,07, against $1,609,558,892 March 1, 1892. The treasury store of money and bullion was as follows: Gold qoin, $139,837,900; standard silver dollars, $458,474,895; subsidiary silver, $10,971,876; silver treasury notes, $5,420,240; United States notes, $32,506,274; national bank notes, $5,578,128; gold bullion, $79,835,042; and silver bullion,

$102,973,771. The Arkansas Baptist college buildings established at Little Rock six years ago by the eoiored Baptists for the education of girls was burned, and the twenty inmates had narrow escapes. It was reported that President Harrison had accepted a professorship in the Leland Stanford, Jr., university «f California He will deliver a series ■of lectures on constitutional law. Charles D. Law, of Fort Wayne. Ind., general superintendent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago SWilroad eompany, was indicted by a Chicago grand jury on a charge of murder. The indictment is based on ■an accident in whieh four lives were lost The Washington legislature has passed a bill making it unlawful in the state to manufacture, buy, sell or give aw.ay, or to have in one’s possession cigarettes or cigarette papers. A iFiEE at Constable Hook, N. J., destroyed seven buildings and rendered fifty families homeless. A cyclone at Marksville, La, caused ffreat destruction, scattered timber and uprooted trees marking the place where onoe handsome residences stood. Two persons were killed. A sole leather trust with a capital ■of $70,000,000 was said to have been formed at Buffalo, N. Y. While launching a vessel at a shipjrard in Bay City, Mich., nine persons were injured and five others were probably drowned. At a meeting of the Homestead (Pa.) relief committee the treasurer’s report showed the total amount of money received to be $5,350.68, and the amount expended $4,432.94, leaving a balance in the treasury of $917.74. No more help was needed. JiOE <Joddarh, the Australian, was knocked out in the eighteenth round in a fight at New Orleans for a purse of slo,oo# .by Ed Smith, of Denver. The organization of the Associated press was completed in Chicago with .Melville E. Stone, of that city, as general manager, sneeeeding William Henry Smith. The last meeting of President Harrison’s cabinet took place on the 3d. All of the members were present, and the president thanked them for the loyal support they had always given him and attributed much of the success of his administration to their wise counsels, faithful services and devotion ‘tojfte country’s highest good. Exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Sdf aggregated $1,670,596,008. against $1,215,938,075 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of im was 18.8. * , -

As eagiuc on the LeWgh Valley road exploded her boiler near McKune’s station. Pa., killing William Brown and fatally injuring Charles Sinsabangh, the engineer; Perry Refenburg, the fireman, and John Schott, a brakeman. , In the United States during the seven ended on the 3d the business failures numbered 251. against 230 the previous week and 270 for the corresponding time last year. Fobest fires near Austin, Tex, destroyed much valuable property. “Bob”-Sims, aged 20, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of Ebender Jordan a year ago, and Jose Gabriel, an Indian, was executed at San Quentin, Cab, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Geiser, an old couple. Rev. Henry Laurens Hammond, aged 78, one of the oldest Congregational ministers in Chicago, dropped dead from heart disease. William Coy was hanged at Pittsfield, Mass., for the murder of John Whalen in August, 1891. Five children named Bernstein were suffocated by smoke in a room in which they were locked by iheir parents in New York. A bursting lamp caused the accident. • Peter Carron, a wealthy lumberman of Chippewa Falls, Wis., was robbed of $5,000 while sleeping in a chair in the Union depot in St. Paul. In the family of W. S. Hammaker, of Findlay, 0., five children died within four weeks of a malignant form of diphtheria. A cyclone at Marion, Miss., destroyed a large amount of property, killed Mrs. Meader and her daughter and fatally Injured Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Harrison and severely injnred several other persons. Gould Cogswell, a wealthy farmer living near Havana, N. Y., shot and killed his invalid daughter and then hanged himself. Loss of money was the cause. Lobenz Zeis and his three children died near Mascoutah, liL, from the effects of eating apple butter cooked in a copper kettle. President Harrison approved the car-coupling bill and the pen with which he signed it was presented to EL A. Mosely, secretary of the interstate commerce commissidn. Mrs. Mary Pushman, aged 18, was found guilty of manslaughter at Butte, Mont, for the murder of her baby. She tortured the little one to death with pins. Brewster & Denike, commission merchants at Loredo, Tex., failed for $172,300. Dick Big Bird and Solomon Blue, two Red Lake Indians, who had frequently been witnesses in Indian liquor cases, were tarred and feathered by citizens of Fosston, Minn., and made to run the gauntlet of 100 men, receiving kicks and bruises at every step. E'lames at Covington, Ky., destroyed a hardware factory, tobacco houses and other buildings, the total loss being $350,000. The men convicted of poisoning nonunion workmen at Homestead, Pa., were sentenced as follows: Hugh Denfpsey, master workman Knights of Labor, seven years in prison; Robert Beatty, seven years; Patrick Gallagher, five years and J. D. Davidson three years.

Later news from the cyclone in Georgia says that two persons were killed at Piedmont, fourteen at Barnett, six at Odessa, five at Milner, three at Woodbury and three at Barnesville. A large number of persons were also badly injured. As the result of a feud between the Ross and Morrisen families at Whitehall, Tenn., one of the former and two of the latter family were killed. Further advices say that the cyclone at Marion, Miss., destroyed nearly every building in the place, killed seven persons and injured eight others. The total immigration from Europe to the United States during the year 1892 was 543,487, against 590,666 in 1891. For the six months ended December 31 the immigration was 189,526, against 265,359 in the same months of 1891. In a smash-up in the Little Miami railway yards in Cincinnati Joseph Lee, Charles Walker and Patrick Donnelly were fatally injured. John Malcolm, a respectable farmer living near Milan, Tenn., who was charged with stealing cattle, was bound to a tree by masked men and given fifty lashes. The works of the Kirkham Art Tile & Pottery company at Barberton, 0., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $240,000; insurance, $165,000. The fire loss in the United States and Canada for February amounts to $9,919,900, being about $2,000,000 less than the total for February, 1892. Frank Eck, of Wichita, Kan., murdered his wife and then cut his throat from ear to ear in a hotel in Chicago. Jealousy was the cause. James Bailey, aged 67, a well-to-do farmer of Durham, Conn., was killed and his daughter fatally injured by the cars at railway a crossing. Over 300 families were rendered homeless and destitute in two district# of Lauderdale county, Misa, by the recent cyclone. Ex- President Harrison was tendered a grand reception upon his arrival home in Indianapolis. Habbt Temple, president of the First national bank at Lexington, Neb., and his wife were fatally ill, the result of eating poison which their child playfully placed on meat afterwards eaten by its parents. A succession of severe earthquake shocks was felt sft Portland, Ore., and one building was wrecked. The switchmen on all the railway lines running into Chicago have demanded an increase in wages. Reports from all sections in the lake shore peach belt in Michigan say that the yield this season will be the largest for a number of years. A bill, making gambling a felony was passed by the Oklahoma legislature. At the lastsession of the Fifty-second congress 425 house bills and 235 senate bills and joint resolutions became laws, making 650 acta put on the statute books as the result of the work of eon-

A poll o? the new United States senate has been taken by reporters on these questions: The repeal of the Bberman law, repeal of the McKinley tariff and Hawaiian annexation. Of the 83 senators in Washington 39 favor and 2S oppose the repeal of the Sherman law, 16 being noncommittal; 41 favor and S 3 oppose repeal of the McKinley tariff, while 40 favor and 20 oppose the annexation of Hawaii

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Alfred P. Robinson, chief justice of Delaware, died suddenly from heart failure at his residence in Georgetown. B. R. Freeman, commander of Freeman’s brigade in Price’s army daring the rebellion, died near Neosho, Mo., aged 63. His command was the last to surrender its guns in 1865. R. M. Bishop, who was governor of Ohio in 1878 and 1879, died at Jacksonville, Fla, where he had been lying ill for several weeks. The Montana legislature adjourned without electing a United States senator to succeed W. F. Sanders, and the governor will appoint his successor. Anna Robliski, a Polish woman, celebrated her 105th birthday at Coldwater. Mich. At noon on the 4th in Washington Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as twenty-fourth president of the United States. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fuller immediately after the new president had delivered his inaugural address. H. MacCokki.e was inaugurated at Charleston as governor of West Virginia. Lee Mantle (rep.), of Butte, has been appointed United States senator from Montana by Gov. Rickards. Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, was formally tendered the position of assistant secretary of state by Secretary Greshart), which he accepted.

FOREIGN. By a gas explosion at the Ontario silver-plating works at Humberstone, Ont. four men were, fatally burned. The 83d anniversary of the birth of Pope Leo was observed in Rome. Vessels collided in the English channel and thirteen persons were drowned. During the progress of a bull fight at Linares, Mex., a wall of the building fell, killing eight persons a*id injuring thirty others. In western Russia and eastern Germany enormous loss of property from floods was reported. In Hungary also the rivers were overflowing their banks, submerging villages and sweeping away thousands of cattle. Eleven Russians were drowned near Orvinia. A strange epidemic of a character as yet unrecognized was killing thousands of the people in the trans-Cas-pian region in southwestern Russia. Twelve children were found frozen to death in a schoolhouse at Kaluga, Russia. The village of Sandgate, England, was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake shock but no lives were lost. During the march of the Delcommune and Bia expeditions from Katanaya to Stanley Pool in Africa 500 of the explorers died. Advices from Madagascar bring news of the wreck of the French dispatch boat La Bourdonnais near the French island of St. Marie. Twentyseven of the crew were lost. A hurricane at Tamatave, on the east coast of Madagascar wrecked several vessels and many sailors were drowned. Buildings were also leveled and many lives were lost. Over 300 persons were frozen to death in China during the past winter.

LATER. All the members of President Cleveland’s cabinet took the oath of office and assumed control of their various departments. The town of Clark, Mo., was almost totally destroyed by fire. The firm of Stich Bros., wholesale hatters in New York, failed for $175,000, and on account es the suspension Julius Stich, the senior member, shot himself dead. VV. L. Wilkins, considered a wealthy capitalist, left Sioux City, la., owing over $60,000 to creditors. James Duncan and Engineer Legett were killed and another man named Mackenzie fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler at Marthaville, Ont Austin Gibhons defeated Mike Daly in the thirty-first round in a fight at New Orleans for a purse of $20,000. The telephone patents through which the Bell Telephone company has controlled the telephone business of the country for the last twelve years has expired. In a conflict between troops and peasanti-y at Gonashitza, Servia, ten of the peasants were killed and seven others were wounded. Rev. S. H. Buchanan, of the board of trustees of the Arkansas insane asylum, has confessed to the embezzlement of $15,000 and been dismissed from the ministry by the presbytery. Mb. Gladstone says that not only local option but Sunday closing of saloons is receiving consideration by her majesty’s government Hugh F. Dempsey, district master workman of the Knights of Labor, and Robert Beatty, convicted of the Homestead (Pa.) poisonings, were taken to the penitentiary to serve their sentences of seven years each. Most of the inauguration sightseers have departed from Washington, but it is estimated that they have left behind them as a substantial reminder of their visit at least $2,500,000. I rank Stensel and Mrs. Anastasia Bieschke were convicted in Chicago of the murder of John Bieschke, the woman’s husband, and each sentenced to a term of forty years in the penitentiary. Mrs. John J. Jones and her 15-year-old daughter were burned to death near Mount Juliet, Tenn. A policeman at Alleghany City, Pa., found in a clump of bushes the bodies of James Hill and Rose Rutzeler with their throats cut Whether it was a case of murder or suicide was unknown.