People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Part*. CONGRESSIONAL. Extra SeMion. In the senate bills were Introduced on the 18th to direct the purchase of silver bullion and the issuance of treasury notes therefor, and providing for the issue of treasury notes, their redemption and for other purposes....ln the house Mr. McCall (rep., Mass.) spoke in favor of the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman bill and Mr. Bryan idem., Neb.) spoke In opposition thereto In the senate a bill was introduced on the 17th to provide for a more extended use of gold by the people of the United States....ln the bouse speeches were made favoring an unconditional repeal of the silver law. The death of Representative Chipman, of the First Michigan district, was announced by Mr. Weadock. Ms. Voorhees, by direction of the finance oommittee. introduced in the senate on the 18th a bill to repeal the silver purchase clause of the Sherman law. Mr. Vest presented a2oto 1 ratio substitute for the bill. A bill was introduced in aid of the California Midwinter International exposition. Adjourned to the 215 t.... In the house the debate on silver was continued, speeches by Messrs. Sibley (Pa) and Everett (Mass.) in favor of bimetallism attracting attention. The senate was not in .session on the 19th.... In the house several speeches were made in favor of the unconditional repeal of the silver purchase law. The senate on the 21st passed the bill in aid «f the California Midwinter International exposition. The bill discontinuing the purchase of silver bullion was taken up, and Mr. Morrill <rep., Vt) spoke at length in favor of the bill ....In the house the speaker announced the standing committees. In the silver debate Mr. Powers (rep, Vt) supported repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act Mr. Hooker (dem.. Miss.) opposed unconditional repeal. Mr. Cooper (dem., Ind.) opposed free coinage and Mr. Alexander (dem., N. C.) favored it

DOMESTIC, Michael Clenan, a fireman, was killed and several others injured at a blaze in St. Paul which did SIOO,OOO damage to the music house of W. J. Dyer & Bro. More than 5,000 unemployed men in New York smashed doors and windows and took forcible possession of a hall. “Ton King,” the notorious woman horse thief, was arrested at Denison, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schultz, an aged couple living near Cherokee, la, were murdered and their borne ransacked by robbers. The firm of T. J. Davis & Co., wholesale dry goods in New York, failed for <200,000. The Pennsylvania railroad shops in Altoona, Pa., have been ordered to work half time. The shops employ 8,000 men.

The supreme council of the American Legion of Honor in session in Milwaukee elected J. M. Gwinnell, of Newark, N. J.. supreme commander. The National bank of commerce at Denver, Col., that suspended recently, reopened its doors. The Standard Wagon company at Cincinnati, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the west, failed for $700,flOO; assets, $1,200,000. Fire destroyed the Grand opera house, city hall and 200 feet of the* Pennsylvania railroad depot at Atlantic City, N. J., causing a loss of SIOO,000. Western Kansas politicians want the capital removed from f Topeka to their section. McPherson is the town suggested.

Treasury officers in Washington have received an appeal from dis tieguished Frenchmen asking closer trade relations with the United States. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 18th aggregated *782,542,203, against $729,905,224 the previous week.. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 27.6. Benton, IIL, was visited by a fire which destroyed the city hall, post office and the Chronicle office. Three children of J. L. Casey, of Little Rock, Ark., are dead and the rest of the family seriously ill from drinking water from a polluted well. Near Martin's Ferry, 0., a traction engine became unmanageable and ran backward down a hill, killing Carrie and Nellie Ackerman, aged 5 and 11 years, respectively, and fatally injuring £lla King. Business failures to the number of 455 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 18th, against 208 the preceding week and 201 for the corresponding time last year.

In a bicycle race at Minneapolis J. 8. Johnson made 3 miles in 7:15%, lowering the record 15% seconds. William J. Jamison, a negro herb doctor, who murdered Supervisor Charles N. Aaron April 19, 1892, was hanged at Quincy, 111. This was the third hanging in Quincy in sixty five years. Twenty members of the Meachim gang have been killed near Jackson, Ala, within ten days. Five others were surrounded, but escaped. Twknty-*wo pensioners at the soldiers’ home in Marion, Ind., received notice that their pensions had been discontinued. This makes over a hundred Suspensions at the home since May. Eppingeb & Russell, lumber dealers In New York, failed for $400,009. A circular, dated Chicago, been sent to labor organizations thrdughout the country urging the unemployed to move on Washington. All the banks in Le Mars, la., suspended. They were the First national and Le Mars national, with a capital of *IOO,OOO each, and the Le Mars state •ad German savings banka A table prepared by Acting Director dfiae Mint Preston shows the stock of S gold possessed by the principal conntries to be as follows: United States, t Britain, *550,000,000; JO; Germany, *600,000,,000,000. The silver ie CDuntries is given sd States, *615,000,000; 9100,000,000; France, any, *211,000,000; Rus-

Lieut. Gov. Daniels, of Kansas, has memorialized congress to establish an income tax, which he believes would give the government an annual revunue of $2,000,000,000 and would solve the financial problem. Mrs. Foster, her two children and her sister were drowned at Bonnot’s mill, 12 miles east of Jefferson City, Mo. A carriage was struck by a train a* Leroy, N. Y., and L. J. Bovee and his wife and daughter and Miss Nancy Wycks and Miss Emma Bowden were instantly killed. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 19th were as follows: Boston, .701; Pittsburgh, .608; Cleveland; .581: Philadelphia, .579; New York, .521; Brooklyn, .484; Cincinnati, .479; Baltimore, .448; SL Louis, .448; Chicago, .423; Louisville, .378; Washington, .344.

Edward Brennan, of New York, fell into the river at Niagara Falls and was carried over the precipice. Every house at Somerville, N. J. was damaged by a wind and hailstorm, and in the surrounding country many houses and barns were completely de stroyed and five lives were lost Monroe Smith (colored) was lynched by a mob for an attempted assault at Old Spring Hill, Ala. James McHugh and Charles McFadden, both young men, were instantly killed on the Reading railroad at Manayunk, Pa. Charles Tart, a federal prisoner, was lynched by a mob near Fort Smith, Ark., for wounding Capt. C. C. Peete with a gun during a struggle. Mrs. Frank Rheinhardt, a widow in St. Paul, has been apprised that she is an heir, if not the only heir, to an estate in India valued at $25,000,000 left by her brother. ' OSCAR H. Burbbidge, a Chicago stock broker, was said to be missing with SIOO,OOO in cash belonging to customers. A dozen immigrants from the cholera infected districts of Europe have succeeded in entering this country at Niagara Falls. As the result of a long spree Douglass Curtis, of Chicago, killed his child, fatally wounded his wife and then took his own life.

After forty years of married life Mrs. Anna E. Scholtka brought suit at Milwaukee for divorce from Christian Scholtka on the charge of cruelty. The couple havo nineteen children. The Union and People’s national banks at Denver, Col., have resumed business after a short suspension. Three negro children perished in a cabin at Charleston, Mo. The old woman occupant was reputed to be a voodoo and the fire was charged to superstition. The government’s experiment of transporting reindeer from Siberia to arctic Alaska is a success. Most of the mills at Fall River, Mass., were closed for an indefinite period, throwing thousands of persons out of work.

Five persons were fatally injured by lightning during a Denison, Tex 9 David Harley & Co., dry goods dealers at Pawtucket, R. 1., failed for SIOO,000. A large portion of the town of Dickson, Tenn., was destroyed by fire. The government receipts for the present fiscal year thus far have been $46,575,776 and the expenditures $61,882,858. Buffalo, N. Y., was alarmed by repeated and persistent attempts to burn the lumber yards along the water front A statement prepared by the mint bureau in Washington shows that the production of gold and silver since 1792 to 1892 aggregated $10,783,869,000, of which $5,678,908,000 was gold and $5,104,961,000 silver. Of the gold produced $3,582,605,000 has been coined as money and the balance has been used in the arts. Ot the silver produced $4,042,700,000 has been coined ks money and the balance used in the arts.

The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 21st was: Wheat, 57,813,000 bushels; corn, 5,389,000 bushels; oats, 2,370,000 bushels; rye, 331.000 bushels; barley, 413,000 bushels. Over 1,000 ’longshoremen went on a strike in New York against a reduction of five cents an hour in their wages. The First national bank of San Marcos, Tex., suspended. Mrs. T. J. Lossing died at Kansas City, Kan., after six weeks of treatment by Christian scientists. She refused to receive a physician, and died professing faith in the Christian science method of cure. Lee Bentley, a young farmer near Newport, Ark., seeing that his wife was about to die swallowed laudanum with fatal effect. His wife breathed her last soon after he expired and they were buried together. Fire destroyed a large part of the business houses in Thayer, Mo, The Ohio river at Galliopolis, 0., was lower than ever before known. No steamers could run, and people were driving across with teams, something that had not been done for fifty years. The Columbian museum of Chicago will be at once incorporated and steps taken to secure objects of interest from the fair.

E. T. Donaldson, late of Kansas City, Mo., secretary of the Union Trust company of Sioux City, la., president of the First national bank of Marion, Kan., and of eleven lowa banks, left for parts unknown, taking with him about 1800,000 of the people’s money. All of the institutions he was connected with were in receivers’ hands. The first encampment of the National Farmers’ Alliance opened at Mount Gretna, Pa. ' The issue of standard silver dollars from the mint and treasury offices during the week ended on the 19th was 609,384; for the corresponding period in 1892, 487.855. The following suspended banks resumed business: The People’s national and Union national at Denver, Central national at Pueblo, Col., Greeley national at Greeley, Col., Hamilton county slate bank at Webster City, la., Hamilton county state bank at Fort Dodge, la., and Henning’s bank at Piano, IIL

Thirty-eight buildings were destroyed by fire at Birdseye, Ind., and seventeen families were left homeless. Maj. John C. Lui.lman, real estate broker, financial agent and capitalist, committed Buicide at his home in SL Louis on account of business reverses. Silas Wilson, known as a “bad negro,” was lynched 10 miles from Leavenworth, Kan. The report that soldiers killed four haymakers in a collision near Hunnewell, Kan., was said to be unfounded.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The lowa republicans in convention in Des Moines nominated Frank D. Jackson, of Des Moines, for governor; W. S. Dungan, of Chariton, for lieutenant governor; G. S. Robinson, of Storm Lake, for supreme judge; J. W. Luke, of Hampton, for railroad commissioner, and Henry Sabin, of Des Moines, for superintendent of public instruction. The platform approves the administration of Benjamin Harrison; favors maintaining both gold and silver as unlimited legal tender for the payment of debt, every dollar to be of equal value; opposes state bank money; says the pension system now in practice is a menace to the honor of the brave and deserving national defenders, and declares in favor of local option. The democrats of Virginia in convention at Richmond nominated Charles T. O’Ferrall for governor and R. C. Kent for lieutenant governor. Norris Maris, aged 90 years, one of the founders of the underground railway during the war, died at Wilmington, Del. John Logan Chipman. member of congress from the First district of Michigan, died at his home in Detroit, aged 63 years. Nebraska democrats will hold their state convention at Lincoln October 4. One of the best known and oldest of American landscape painters. John W. Casilear, died suddenly of apoplexy at Saratoga Springs, N. V., aged 82 years. George A. Beane, aged 67, a member of Denman Thompson’s “Old Homestead” company, dropped dead from apoplexy during a performance at McVicker’s theater in Chicago.

FOREIGN. Seventeen of an excursion party from Kilkee, Ireland, were drowned by the capsizing of their boat in Carrigaholt bay. Carl Mueller, the famous German painter and director of the Art academy at Dusseldorf, is dead. He was born at Darmstadt in 1818. Ten men were killed and twenty-six wounded in a fight between French and Italian workmen near Paris. The number of fresh cholera cases reported in Russia during the seven days ended on the 18th was 2,113 and the number of deaths 768. Thus far this season the catch of seal in Japan waters has been as follows: By the American fleet of eighteen vessels, 19,460; by the British fleet of nineteen vessels, 24,010. The catch is considered a large one. An explosion of firedamp in a pit at Dortmund, Germany, killed fifty persons and injured many others. During a political fight at Romero, Mex., between the followers of Garza, Galan and Cardena, rival candidates for governor, seven persons were killed. Tiie elections in France resulted in a safe majority for the government. A MONUMENT to Abraham Lincoln at Edinburgh, Scotland, was unveiled with appropriate ceremony. The hardware house of William StaiTs Son & Morrow at Halifax, N. S., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $125,000.

LATER. In the United, States senate on the 22d Mr. Voorhees (Ind.) spoke at length in favor of the unconditional repeal of the silver purchase law. Mr. Palmer (Ill.) also spoke in favor of repeal. Mr. Dubois (Idaho) spoke in opposition. Mr. Peffer (Kan.) introduced a joint resolution for the reduction of the salaries of all government officers and employes above *I,OOO. In the house Mr. Hepburn (la.), Mr. Jones (Va.), and others spoke against the repeal of the Sherman law and Mr. Hopkins (Ill.) spoke in favor of repeal. The senate bill was passed admitting free of duty all articles intended for exhibition at the California Midwinter International exposition. *

The Anderson Piano company at Rockford, 111., failed for *IOO,OOO. Eight persons, including Herbert Inglis, marine superintendent for the Cunard Steamship company, were drowned in the Nene river at Liverpool by the capsizing of a sailboat. The business portion of Winlock, Wash., was destroyed by fire. At Bearden, Ark., the house of Abraham Jones, a negro, was blown up with dynamite and Jones and his wife and child were fatally hurt. Bridget Prendergast, aged 20, who had been in a cataleptic sleep in an Indianapolis hospital for two years, has awakened. Samuel W. Clark, the leading lumber dealer of Zanesville, 0., made an assignment, with resources and liabilities of about $1,500,000.

Edward Freeman, a negro puddler at Pittsburgh, Pa., fatally shot Ella Lawton, his white mistress, and then shot himself. Missouri regulators took a 14-year-old girl from her home near Warensburg and gave her a terrible whipping. In a fight at Gilberton, Pa., over disputed railway tracks Richard Amour, Richard Parfitt and W. Hughes were killed and a number of others w T ere wounded. The Ohio Stone company at Cleveland went into the hands of a receiver with assets of SBOO,OOO and liabilities of $250,000. The president has issued a proclamation opening the Cherokee strip in Indian territory to settlement Saturday, September 16. The private bank of J. T. Knapp & Co. at Cedar Falls, la., closed its doors. Fire completely destroyed the Masonic hotel at Harvey, 111., the loss being SIOO,OOO, with no insurance. The hotel was filled with visitors to th« world’s fair.