People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Extra Session. IN the senate on the 23d a resolution introduced by Mr. Peffer to inquire of the secretary of the treasury as to the conduct of national banks in refusing to pay promptly in currency the checks of their depositors was discussed, but went over without action. Mr. Hoar spoke in opposition to repealing the 10 per cent tax on state banks. By a vote of 35 to 30 it was decided that Lee Mantle was not entitled to a seat as a senator of Montana....In the house the silver bill was further discussed. MESSRS. PEFFER (Kan.) and Allen (Neb.) spoke in favor of free silver in the senate on the 24th. Up to date 687 bills have been introduced in the senate, among them being measures for an income tax, one cent postage, to repeal the federal election laws, thirty-seven pension bills, thirty-nine for public buildings and twenty-four for the advancement of commerce and American trade. In the house the time was occupied by many members in five-minute speeches for and against the silver bill. IN the senate on the 25th Mr. Hill (N. Y.) spoke in favor of the repeal of the silver bill and Mr. Stewart (Nev. ) spoke against repeal Adjourned to the 28th.... In the house the leading speeches were in favor of repealing the Sherman silver law and were made by Mr. Burrows (Mich.) and Mr. Springer (Ill.). THERE was no session of the senate on the 29th....In the house the feature of the silver debate was the speech of Thomas B. Reed (rep., Me.) and that of Bourke Cockran (dem., N. Y.) in favor of repeal of the Sherman silver law. The debate was closed by Mr. Wilson (W. Va.). THE bill to increase the national bank circulation was discussed in the senate on the 28th and a bill was reported for the repeal of the federal election law. It was decided by a vote of 32 to 29 that Mr. Mantle, of Montana, and Mr. Allen, of Washington, are not entitled to seats and that a governor of a state has not the right to appoint a senator to fill vacancies. ... In the house the bill in favor of the unconditional repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman act was passed by a vote of 240 to 116. The average of sentiment on free silver was shown in the votes on the ratios at 16 and 20 to 1, respectively, in both cases there being a trifle more than 100 majority against silver.

DOMESTIC. THE safe in Ham Brothers’ store at Scottsville, Ky., was blown open by burglars and $10,000 in cash taken. A SPECIAL grand jury returned an indictment against eighty-six men in Chicago charged with violating the ordinances against gambling. THE Navarro Mill company in San Francisco failed for $1,000,000. AT the annual meeting in Madison, Wis., of the International Botanical congress Prof. E. L. Greene, of the University of California, was elected president. A STEAM mangle in a laundry in New York exploded, scalding nine persons, three of them fatally. THE Daily Journal office at Fond du Lac, Wis., was destroyed by fire. THE buildings in St. Louis occupied by the Western Brass Manufacturing company were burned, the loss being $140,000. THE coast from the capes of the Delaware to Massachusetts was strewn with wrecks by a hurricane that started in New York, and forty-eight lives were known to have been lost and forty-sev-en more persons were thought to have perished. THE Farmers’ exchange bank reopened at San Bernardino, Cal. MRS. WILLIAM HAPNER and a daughter aged 17 were struck and killed by a train between Lexington and West Alexandria, O. A FIRE in South Chicago destroyed twenty acres of dwellings and made 1,500 persons homeless. The total loss was estimated at $600,000. SPARKS from an engine set fire to a hay field near Valparaiso, Ind., and seventeen head of cattle and five horses were cremated.

GUSTAV SCHARFF, of Milwaukee, has confessed to drowning Mrs. Ollie King and her 6-year-old daughter Grace. STRIKERS in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) district attacked negro miners and one man was killed. Further trouble was feared. INCENDIARIES set fire to woolen and flour mills in Merced, Cal., causing a loss of $200,000. ZIMMERMAN lowered the mile bicycle record at Indianapolis, covering the distance in 2:21¾. He won a $1,000 cup PLANS to blow up the Detroit (Mich.) waterworks and then fire the city were discovered. NEAR Palo Pinto, Tex., Edward Nall, in a fit of jealousy, killed Miss Ida Beatty, his sweetheart, and James W. Bly, a supposed rival, and then took his own life. OFFICIALS of the world’s fair say the outlook for the discharge of all indebtedness is encouraging. THE Dillon national bank at Helena, Mont., went into voluntary liquidation. HEAVENRICH BROS., one of the oldest wholesale clothing firms in Detroit, failed for $121,995. FLAMES were sweeping the prairie southwest of Momence, Ill., and farm products in large quantities had been destroyed. THE Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway company has sold its road and all other property to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company. BUSINESS failures to the number of 410 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 25th, against 455 the preceding week and 201 for the corresponding time last year. DELEGATE O'BRIEN of the Seamen’s union in Detroit was shot and killed by Capt. William Lennon while leading an attack on the non-union crew of his schooner, the Reuben Doud. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 25th aggregated $674,212,389, against $732,542,203 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 33.3. CHIEF FOLEY, of Milwaukee, was elected president of the Firemen’s National association at its session in the Cream city. NANCY HANKS trotted an exhibition mile in 2:08 at Springfield, Mass., and Walter E. and Hal Pointer lowered track records.

THE Columbian Liberty bell, in which were cast many revolutionary relics, was shipped from the Clinton H. Meneeley bell foundry in Troy to New York and will later be sent to the world’s fair. THE Fourth national bank of Louisville, Ky., reopened its doors. BISHOP TURNER declares the negro has nothing to hope for by remaining in America and urges him to emigrate. SPEAKING at the celebration of colored people’s day on the world’s fair grounds Fred Douglass bitterly denounced the American people for the treatment of the negro. Dr. W. H. WILLIAMS, editor and owner of the St. Louis Central Baptist, dropped dead on the depot platform at Alexandria, Mo., while waiting for a train for St. Louis. IT was thought that the number of persons who perished in the hurricane on the Atlantic coast would exceed a hundred. C. H. LEPALLIEUR, a defaulting bank teller from Montreal, Can., was arrested in Chicago. He stole $7,530. THE Ford county bank and the First national bank at Paxton, Ill., closed their doors.

THE 17-year-old daughter of Ferdinand Meyer, a St. Louis millionaire, was married to a street car conductor in her parents’ absence. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 26th were as follows: Boston, .696; Pittsburgh, .588; Philadelphia, .574; Cleveland; .556; New York, .530; Brooklyn, .505; Cincinnati, .480; Baltimore, .461; St. Louis, .451; Chicago, .412; Louisville, .402; Washington, .343. THE Sercomb-Bolte company of Milwaukee, bicycle manufactures, failed for $100,000. IN a short but bloody battle between a score of Chicago policemen and an angry mob of nearly 1,000 idle men five of the bluecoats were injured and many of their assailants were badly wounded. WHILE drunk Andrew Gibson, of Fall River, Mass., cut the throat of Charles H. Conner, producing instant death, and then committed suicide. THE Rosenbaum dry goods and clothing store at Mount Vernon, Ind., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. TRAINS collided on the Long Island railroad at Berlin, N. Y., and fourteen persons were killed and twenty-nine others were injured, some fatatly. GEORGE E. REED, a Baltimore paver, while drunk cut the throat of his wife, killing her instantly, and then killed himself in the same manner.

THE Central Illinois Banking and Savings association at Jacksonville closed its doors. The assets were $360,000 and the liabilities $320,000. TOMMY CONNEFF ran a mile at Boston in 4:17 4-5, beating W. D. George's world’s record three-fifths of a second. ANTONIO BACHETICH died in Philadelphia after having fasted for seventy-six days. During that time nothing but water passed his lips. D. M. CRAIG, Italian contractor for the Goodyears, of Buffalo, lumber merchants, was robbed of $11,000 at New Bergen, Pa. HENRY J. HELMICK, a farmer living near Pilot Chapel, Ill., was fatally shot by four highwaymen while going home from church. MAGGIE SULLIVAN, 15 years old, was shot and killed at Dubuque, Ia., by Edward Whelan, 19 years old, who was fooling with a gun supposed to be unloaded. FIVE persons lost their lives by a head-end collisipn on the Harlem road near Brewsters, N. Y. PINKNEY HUMPHREYS, aged 30 years, and his mother, Eliza Humphreys, aged 65, were shot and killed by William Meadows at Trenton, Ky., during a quarrel. FOUR young men and a girl were drowned in the lake at Chicago. A CONVENTION will be held in Albuquerque, N. M., on September 20 to memorialize congress for admission as a state. IN a fit of jealous rage Carlos Wilbur, of Binghamton, N. Y., shot his wife and then killed himself. THE issue of standard silver dollars to the mint and treasury offices for the week ended on the 26th was $656,704; for the corresponding period of 1892, $641,019.

THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 28th was: Wheat, 57,239,000 bushels; corn, 5,369,000 bushels; oats, 3,017,000 bushels; rye, 339,000 bushels; barley, 401,000 bushels. THE First national bank at Lockhart, Tex., and the First national bank at Marcos, Tex., resumed business. GUSTAV SCHARFF was sentenced in Milwaukee to spend the remainder of his life in state prison for the confessed murder of his wife and her 4-year-old girl eight days ago. A STRANGER entered the Builders’ exchange in Cincinnati while it was crowded and abstracted a $1,700 package from the safe. THE County national bank at Waupacca, Wis., reopened its doors for business after a suspension of less than a month. FOUR persons were killed and 100 houses blown down by a cyclone which swept Kernesville, N. C. WILLIAM HOWLATT, aged 30, a resident of New York, fatally wounded Mary Yakowsky, his sweetheart, at Williamsburg, N. Y., and then committed suicide. A MOB attempted to loot the big store of Siegel, Cooper & Co. in Chicago, but prompt action by the police prevented any damage. Later a mob composed of Poles looted stores along Milwaukee avenue and were dispersed by the police only after a hard fight. THE First national bank of York, Neb., failed to open its doors. A HURRICANE swept over Savannah, Ga., doing heavy damage to property and causing the loss of fourteen lives as far as known. BY the capsizing of a yacht in Lake Champlain George P. Witherbee and five companions of Port Henry, N. Y., were drowned. LEONARD TAYLOR (colored) was taken from jail at Newcastle, Ky., by a mob and hanged for murdering an Italian boy peddler.

GEORGE C. CRIBB, an extensive dealer in agricultural implements in Milwaukee, failed for $600,000; assets, $800,000. SCORES of buildings at Jacksonville, Fla., were unroofed by a hurricane and hundreds of trees were blown down. The storm traversed the whole eastern portion of the peninsula, damaging property more or less in a path 40 to 50 miles wide from the coast line westward. LIGHT frosts were reported from South Dakota, northwest Iowa and northern Nebraska. SECRETARY CARLISLE has ordered that the United States mints at Philadelphia and San Francisco be fully manned and the full capacity of both mints be utilized in the coinage of gold bullion.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE president has nominated Joshua E. Dodge, of Wisconsin, to be assistant attorney general, vice W. M. Maury, resigned. BENJAMIN CHURCHILL, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at Galesburg, Ill., aged 102 years. NEBRASKA republicans will hold their state convention at Lincoln October 5. THE Nebraska prohibitionists in state convention at Lincoln nominated Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender, of Lincoln, for the supreme bench and Mrs. C. A. Walker, A. E. Rickey and Mrs. C. J. Heald for regents of the state university. GEORGE R. WEBER, the oldest newspaper publisher in Illinois, died at his home in Pawnee, aged 85 years. JOSIAH QUINCY, of Massachusetts, sent to the president his resignation as assistant secretary of state. MISSOURI populists, in convention at Macon, demanded the free coinage of silver and more legal tender paper. THE New York state democratic convention will be held at Saratoga on October 5 and the Massachusetts democrats will hold their convention in Boston on September 27. MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER celebrated her 82d birthday at the residence of her son, Col. H. B. Beecher, in Yonkers, N. Y. HAYWARD A. HARVEY, the great inventor, died at his home in Orange, N. J., in his 70th year. FOREIGN. BY the loss of the steamer Dorcas off Porter Lake, N. S., Chief Engineer Hennis and his wife and four children and twelve of the crew were drowned. THE village of Newport, Ont., with a population of about 200, was completely destroyed by fire. SIAM has paid the 3,000,000 francs indemnity demanded by France in the ultimatum. IN a conflict of Cardinistos and Galan men near the Mexican line four of the latter were killed. THIRTY fishing boats were wrecked during a storm off Picton Island, Ont., and several lives were lost. IN a battle between Galanists and Cardenistes at Coahuila, Mexico, each side lost from twenty to fifty men. THE eighteen government amendments to the Irish home rule bill were carried in the British house of commons. MRS. JOHN MILLER, wife of the president of the Parry Sound (Ont.) Lumber company, and her eldest son, aged 10, were drowned at Sloop island. IN twenty-one provinces of Russia 4,325 new cases of cholera were reported during the week ended on the 26th and 1,692 deaths occurred. EDWARD HOLMES, the English journalist, reached Vancouver, B. C., having walked from Montreal in 117 days, or twenty-six days sooner than agreed upon.

LATER. MR. VOORHEES, chairman of the finance committee in the United States senate, reported back on the 29th the house bill repealing part of the Sherman act with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. The difference between the house bill and the Voorhees bill is found in the attachment to the latter of a paragraph declaring that it is the policy of the United States to use both gold and silver as money metals and to preserve parity. No action was taken. In the house an animated discussion took place over the rules between Speaker Crisp and exSpeaker Reed. Mr. Springer introduced a bill to provide for the coinage of the seignorage silver in the treasury, which was referred.

THE business portion of Baltimore, Md., was flooded by a storm and great damage was done. HOMER BEARS, a well-known Kent county (Mich.) farmer, and his wife were fatally injured in a runaway accident near Cedar Springs. A METEOR falling on the livery barn of S. V. Barlow at Delavan, Wis., caused a fire that destroyed eleven buildings. DURING a gale in western New York and eastern Ohio almost the entire apple crop was destroyed, the corn crop was swept down and the damage to the grape crop was great. TEN persons died at Lichtenstein, Germany, from eating poisonous fungi which they mistook for mushrooms. FURTHER advices from the tornado in South Carolina say that fully 100 lives were lost at Port Royal, at Beaufort and neighboring points by drowning. In Savannah, Ga., fifteen persons were killed. MRS. B. D. SHEPHERD, aged 40, known on the stage as Marie Prescott, died in New York from a surgical operation. NATHAN FRIEDLANDER, five years ago a planter and commission merchant, but lately a worthless character, shot and killed his wife in New Orleans and then killed himself. ALMOST the entire business portion of Elgin, Ore., was destroyed by fire. A HURRICANE that swept the north Atlantic coast did great damage at Coney Island and wrecked many vessels. In New Haven, Conn., property valued at over a million dollars was destroyed; in New Jersey damage was done at Asbury Park, Salem, Cape May, Trenton and Jersey City, and in Massachusetts property was ruined all along the coast. In Maine a tornado caused heavy damage at Portland and Augusta.