People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. U. S. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION. RESOLUTIONS of the Massachusetts legislature favoring the annexation of the Hawaiian islands were presented in the senate on the 15th and laid on the table The committees of the senate were reported and agreed to. The president sent in a long list of appointments, among them being that of William McAdoo, of New Jersey, to be assistant secretary of the navy, and Edward B. Whitney, of New York, to be assistant attorney general. IN the senate on the 16th the only business transacted was the presentation of various memorials from the legislature of North Dakota and the reference of a resolution for the appointment of a clerk to the committee on national affairs at $1,440 per annum. Adjourned until the 20th. THE senate received the following nominations from the president on the 20th: James B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be minister to France; Theodore Runyan, of New Jersey, to be minister to Germany; John E. Risley, of New York, to be minister to Denmark; Ernest B. Baldwin, of Maryland, to be first auditor of the treasury; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to be commissioner of railroads; James G. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, to be United States circuit judge for the Seventh judicial circuit.

DOMESTIC. FIRE at Eureka Springs, Ark., destroyed between fifty and sixty houses of the cheaper class. IN a fit of despondency Abner Carter and his wife shot and killed each other near Relfoot Lake, Tenn. DURING the absence of Thomas Dixon his house at Rutherfordton, N. C., was burned and his wife and two children perished in the flames. THE Wheeler opera house was totally destroyed by fire at Toledo, O., the loss being $200,000. MRS. VINCENT OLIVER, Mrs. Walker and the latter’s child were killed at New Iberia, La., while crossing a railroad track in front of a train. TURNER hall at Paterson, N. J., a building covering a block, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. Eight persons were injured, two fatally. NEARLY 300 new hotels have been erected in Chicago for the entertainment of world’s fair visitors. AUTHORITY has been given to Secretary Gresham to exchange with Minister Grip certificates of ratification of the extradition treaty between the United States and Sweden recently ratified by the senate. IT has been decided to name the new military post to be established near Essex Junction, Vt., Fort Ethan Allen, in honor of the revolutionary patriot. THE Kinyon block and the Jones block were destroyed by fire at Oswego, N. Y., the total loss being $175,000. HOWARD J. SCHNEIDER, who murdered his wife and Frank Hamlink, his brother-in-law, January 31, 1890, was hanged in Washington. LIZZIE B. HINCKLEY, the 12-year-old wife of Henry Hinckley, of Bridgeport, Conn., gave birth to triplets, two girls and a boy. THE firm of William Schwab & Son, album dealers in New York city, failed for $225,000. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 17th aggregated $1,231,454,629, against $1,301,830,716 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 2. 1. THE Platte river in Nebraska overflowed its banks and carried away stock and houses as well as changing boundaries. IN the United States during the seven days ended on the 17th the business failures numbered 220, against 225 the preceding week and 240 for the corresponding time last year. FLAMES at Newton, Ala., destroyed the hotel, town prison, the post office and all the stores and their contents. THE project to build an electric railway between Milwaukee and Chicago has been revived. THERE were 7,000 families along the Kansas border awaiting the grand rush to the Cherokee lands and it was thought that the Indians were anxious to close the sale of the strip. If the opening is delayed until fall 5,000 people will be destitute. A PETITION was presented to the Massachusetts legislature which provides that intoxicating liquors shall be sold only by salaried appointees of the state.

A MAIL pouch containing over $25,000 in drafts mysteriously disappeared somewhere between Akron, O., and Pittsburgh, Pa. LEWIS A. WRIGHT, aged 17, has confessed to starting the recent large fires in Boston. WILLIE DUFFEY, aged 7; James Dougherty, aged 11, and Willie Gettis, aged 13, who were picked up on the street in Pittsburgh, Pa, by the police, were found to be unconscious and in a dying condition from the effects of liquor. THE new American passenger steamer New York arrived in New York in six days and twenty-two hours from Southampton. HERR MOST, the chief of anarchists, has been expelled from all anarchistic circles in New York. He is accused of betraying secrets to the police. POSTMASTER GENERAL BISSELL ordered the discharge of thirty-nine fourth-class postmasters in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia. SHERIFF RUTHERFORD, of Anderson county, was killed in a free-for-all fight at Caryville, Tenn., and three other men were mortally wounded. NICHOLAS SMITH, of Stroudsburg, Pa., aged 95, who has been totally blind for twenty-seven years, has regained his eyesight THE aggregate collections from internal revenue for the first eight months of the current fiscal year were $107,820,542, an increase over the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year of $7,154,194. THE largest shaft ever forged in America was sent from the Bethlehem (Pa.) iron works to the world’s fair. It weighs 89,320 pounds.

GEORGE PRICE, a farmer, on trial at Bloomington, Ill., for the murder of John Hay, also a farmer, was found guilty, the jury sentencing him to the penitentiary for forty years. FLAMES in Milwaukee in the building occupied by the Friend Bros. Clothing company and the Straw and Ellsworth company, manufacturers of hats and gloves, caused a loss of $100,000. E. J. W. MORSE & CO'S large brick cotton thread factory at South Easton, Mass., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. HISTORIC Tremont temple was totally destroyed by fire in Boston, the entire loss being $500,000. The temple was owned by the Union Baptist Temple society and portions of it were leased, among the occupants being six newspapers and the offices of the Baptist foreign, home and state mission societies. WHILE Oscar Brown and wife were visiting some of their colored brethren at Cheneyville, La., their cabin caught fire and two of their children perished in the flames. A MEMBER of the Winnebago tribe died on the reservation near Pender, Neb., at the great age of 120 years. JESSE JONES (colored), who shot Sheriff John Burnett at Jacksboro, Tenn., was taken from jail by a mob and lynched. THE government expenditures up to date this month are $22,131,000, exceeding the receipts by $405,000. NEW YORK and Brooklyn Chinamen are reported to have raised $30,000 to test the constitutionality of the Geary registration law. THE bureau of statistics has completed a statement of exports and imports which shows that for the twelve months ended February 29 the exports were valued at $4,897,249,993; imports, $911,502,805; excess of imports over exports, $32,252,814. EIGHT large buildings were burned at Athens, Ala., the loss being $100,000. Oscar Brown and William Chandler perished in the flames. THE residence of Mrs. Dr. Arentzen was burned at Kenosha, Wis., and her husband, John Hanson, her father and an unknown boy perished in the flames.

THE total number of immigrants that arrived in this country during the twelve months ended February 28 was 216,925, against 309,484 for the corresponding period last year. The greatest number, 65,000, came from Germany, the next largest, 56,000, from Russia, and the third in point of numbers, 23,500, from Italy. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 79,021,000 bushels; corn, 15,241,000 bushels; oats, 4,676,000 bushels; rye, 946,000 bushels; barley, 1,390,000 bushels. THE large glass plant of the United States Glass company at Tarentum, Pa , was totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $150,000. THE explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Rome, Ia., killed John Adams, Eugene Gates, T. Boldozier and a boy named Eshelman, and fatally injured Michael Hovern, the proprietor of the mill. THE first woman ever naturalized at Kansas City, Mo., got her papers. She is Miss Agnes Euphemia Cleland. SCOTT JONES and a woman with whom he lived were shot and killed in St. Louis by Louis Kammande, a drunken bartender. AT a meeting of the Congregational club in Washington Justice Brewer, of the United States supreme court, held that it was an injustice for congress to discriminate against and ostracize the Chinese. He also said that aliens should not be allowed to vote until after a residence of twenty-one years in the country. ABINGDON BAIRD, the English sportsman who died in New Orleans, left Mrs. Langtry, the actress, $200,000 a year and the whole of his racing stud and his magnificent establishment at Newmarket. THE Texas legislature passed a bill requiring the railroads to provide separate depots for whites and negroes. PROF. ELISHA GRAY, of Chicago, has invented an instrument called the telautograph, which will reproduce writing of any description at any distance. MR. BROCK'S residence at Bristol, Pa., was burned and his mother, Margaret Brock, aged 83 years, and two sons perished. THE makers of playing cards throughout the country have formed a trust, with headquarters in Cincinnati. THE large wholesale grocery concern of Tompkins, Fassett & Crocker at Elmira, N. Y., failed for $200,000.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A CONFERENCE of ministers and prohibitionists interested in the formation of a new national political organization was held in Pittsburgh, Pa. The platform recognizes God as the author of civil government; equal rights for all without respect to race, color or sex; abolition or suppression of the drink traffic; and such other moral, economic, financial and industrial reforms as are needed in the country. MRS. FRANCES HILLER, of Boston, the eccentric widow of Dr. Hiller, who is the possessor of $5,000,000, has married Peter Surrett, her coachman. HENDERSON SMITH died at Quincy, Ill., aged 119 years. He married his second wife at the age of 90. MRS. SARAH RUSHMORE HICKS died at her home in Old Westbury, L. I., aged 103 years. SAMUEL KNIGHT, aged 40 years, the ex-champion pool player of America, fell dead in New York. GREEN B. RAUM, commissioner of pensions, sent his resignation to the president WASHINGTON DALE, colored, aged 109 years and worth about $50,000, died of pneumonia in Kansas City, Mo. He had a careful record of his birth and life, with statements of ownershipsince his 10th year. ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY has appointed Frank Strong, of Arkansas, general agent of the department of justice, vice F. C. Foster, resigned. CAPT. DANIEL SMITH HARRIS, the oldest settler of the state of Illinois, died at Galena, aged 85 years.

GEN. SIMEON B. BROWN died in St. Clair, Mich., at the age of 81. He took part in seventy-three engagements in the late war. GEORGE O. SHARP, postmaster at Kickapoo, Kan., and justice of the peace, died of erysipelas. He was the oldest postmaster in point of consecutive years of service in the United States. “SQUIRE" ABINGDON BAIRD, the pugilist Mitchell’s backer, died in New Orleans of pneumonia. He was a very wealthy Englishman of good family. ROBERT SPRINGER born a slave in Newcastle, Del., in 1774 and consequently 119 years old, died near Morgantown, Pa. DAVID H. ARMSTRONG, who was United States senator from Missouri in 1879, died at his home in St. Louis, aged 81 years. JOHN M. TRACY, the celebrated animal painter, died at Ocean Springs, Mass., after a prolonged illness from nervous prostration.

FOREIGN. AT Barcelona, Spain, six anarchists were arrested, and in their houses were found a number of bombs apparently of American manufacture. IN the city of Brisbane, Australia, and its suburbs the damage done by floods was estimated at $15,000,000. OWING to the spread of cholera in certain districts in Russia a congress of sanitary officers has been summoned to meet in St. Petersburg and arrange for protective measures against the disease. A MINER named Boehme purposely exploded ten pounds of dynamite in the iron mine of Volkmarskeller in the Harz district of Germany and he and six other miners were torn to atoms. The motive was revenge. A SNOW slide on the Mountain division of the Canadian Pacific in Manitoba carried away the track and snow sheds and buried twelve men. Two had been taken out dead.

M. JULES FERRY, but recently elected president of the French senate, died suddenly in Paris of heart disease, aged 51 years. THE government of Argentine has resolved to destroy $1,000,000 each month in order to reduce the circulation of paper notes. FOREST fires in the Sierra mountains, southeast of Saltillo, Mexico, destroyed thousands of acres of timber and many families were made homeless. Several persons perished in the flames. THE senatorial elections in Spain resulted in a sweeping victory for the monarchists. TWENTY-ONE persons lost their lives by a fire among tenement houses in St. Sebastian, Spain. A MAN named Wallace, the keeper of the lighthouse near the entrance of Millport harbor in Scotland, and his four children were drowned by the capsizing of a boat. A WORKMAN suffering from delirium tremens at Alexandroffsk, Russia, killed an old man and three women, and another man, mad with drink, murdered several children. A DESTRUCTIVE hurricane swept over the New Hebrides islands and New Caledonia, destroying many villages and causing great loss of life. IN the vicinity of St Johns, N. F., the worst blizzard known in twelve years caused great damage, and at Salmonier five men were drowned by the swamping of a skiff. RELIGIOUS riots have broken out in Amoy, China, and many native Christians have been tortured and a few have been killed. A CAGE containing eight miners fell to the bottom of the shaft in a coal pit near Chesterfield, England, and all were killed.

LATER. SENATOR BUTLER introduced a bill in the United States senate on the 21st which proposes that with the exception of the legislative, pension, deficiency and sundry civil bills the appropriation bills shall be considered by the committees which have charge of the affairs to which the appropriation refers. No action was taken in the matter. THE Globe Publishing company of Chicago failed for $109,697. DURING the march of a band of convicts to the prisons of Siberia 283 of them died from hardship and exposure. Among those lost were Mme. Lazarov, six other women and four children. THE republican state convention in Providence, R. I., nominated a full state ticket headed by Russell Brown, the present incumbent, for governor. GOV. REYNOLDS has appointed Charles B. Lore, of Wilmington, to the vacant chief justiceship of Delaware. The appointment is for life. AFTER six weeks’ fighting the Big Four yard strike at Springfield, O., was declared off, the strikers failing to gain a single point. SEVERAL priceless statues, including one representing William II., were stolen from the royal museum at Berlin. ON charges of having swindled wealthy Jews all over the country out of $300,000 while pretending to collect funds for the relief of needy Russian coreligionists Phineas Hanucah, who claims to be the son of a wealthy Persian family, was arrested in Chicago. THE cashier of the Bank of Madrid, Spain, absconded, taking 100,000 francs in cash.

S. H. BELL, a farmer living near Fairland, Ill., lost three of his children from diphtheria, and the fourth and last fell into a well and was drowned. THE Exchange Fire Insurance company of New York, owing to its heavy losses by the recent Boston fire, has decided to go out of business. GEORGE HARDING (colored), 35 years of age, a convicted vagrant, was sold at Mexico, Mo., for six months for $19 to John Potts, a coal dealer. IN convention at Providence the democrats of Rhode Island nominated David S. Baker, Jr., for governor. THE Planet mill at Litchfield, Ill., the largest steam winter wheat mill in the United States, owned by Kehlor Bros., of St. Louis, was destroyed by an explosion and fire, the loss being $700,000. John Carr, the head millwright, was burned to death and six other persons were injured.