People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Extra Session. SENATOR SHERMAN addressed the senate on the 30th in favor of the repeal of the silver law, but said the present financial troubles were not due to silver, and that alterations of the tariff laws would prove disastrous to the country. A bill was introduced providing for the dismissal from the government service of all persons not citizens of the United States....In the house the urgency deficiency appropriation bill ($300,000) was passed. The new code of rules was discussed. SENATOR WOLCOTT (Col.) spoke in the senate on the 31st ult. against the repeal of the silver law. A concurrent resolution was introduced directing the secretary of the treasury to issue certificates not to exceed 20 per cent. of the amount of gold coin and bullion in the treasury....In the house the new code of rules was further discussed. SENATOR VOORHEES request on the 1st tor unanimous consent that the senate bill be substituted for the house bill repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was objected to by Mr. Cockrell. Mr. Vance spoke against the repeal of the silver law and in favor of free coinage ... The time in the house was passed in discussing the rules. An amendment was adopted prohibiting smoking in the chamber at any time. IN the senate a joint resolution to amend the constitution relating to the election of senators by the people was introduced on the 2d. The house urgency deficiency bill was passed. A bill appropriating $500,000 to enable the enforcing of the Geary Chinese exclusion act was discussed.... In the house the new rules were further discussed. A joint resolution was introduced for the appointment of a commission to inquire into and report upon the recent change in the relative value of silver and the effect thereof on finance, trade, commerce, agriculture and labor. Adjourned to the 6th. IN the senate on the 4th Senator Cullom (Ill.) spoke in favor of unconditional repeal of the silver law. Senator Peffer (Kan.) spoke in favor of free coinage. A bill was introduced for the repeal of the 10 per cent. tax on state bank circulation.... The house was not in session.

DOMESTIC. FURTHER advices say that since the recent storm in the south 390 dead bodies have been found on the islands about Beaufort and Port Royal, S. C., and that the total number of dead would reach 1,000. Over $2,000,000 worth of property was wrecked near the same points. Near Jacksonville, Fla., fourteen dead bodies were found, and the damage to fruit trees and orange groves was enormous. AT the seventh international Sunday school convention, held in St. Louis, the report of Secretary Porter showed the number of Sunday schools of the United States and British America to be 130,197; teachers and officers, 1,372,558; scholars, 10,870,104; total, 11,242,662. IT was reported from Washington that there was a deficiency of from $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 in sight already in the treasury, and the revenues were running behind the expenditures to the amount of fully $300,000 a day. LEO STAFFORD, while carelessly handling a revolver supposed to be unloaded, shot and killed his bride of six weeks at East Liverpool, O. COMMISSIONER LOCHRAN of the pension bureau has issued an order that hereafter there shall be no suspensions except in cases where the record shows on its face that the soldier was not entitled to any pension whatever. BY the collapse of a bridge near Chester, Mass., the Chicago limited ex press on the Boston & Albany road bound east was thrown into a ravine and fourteen persons were killed and twenty-eight were injured. DURING the first four months of the world's fair the total paid admissions numbered 9,990,699. By months the attendance was: May 1,050,037, June 2,675,113, July 2,760,263, August 3,514 286.

ARTICLES of incorporation for a great north and south railroad were filed at Topeka, Kan. Capital stock, $18,000.000. JUDGE GOGGIN declared the world’s fair Sunday opening injunction should stand, overriding Judges Dunne and Brentano and surprising court attendants. THE Royal Sewing Machine company at Rockford, Ill., made an assignment with liabilities of $119,000 and assets of $40,000. NANCY HANKS trotted a mile at Fleetwood park, New York, in 2:06¾. Twelve thousand persons witnessed the little mare’s feat. THE business portion of De Pauw, Ind., was destroyed by fire. SAMUEL DEETERS, of Waterloo, Ind., temporarily insane, shot and killed Amos Bactel and fatally shot Mrs. Lowe, neighbors, and wounded his mother. EMMA GOLDMAN, the anarchist orator, was arrested in Philadelphia at the instance of the New York authorities for making an incendiary speech. EXECUTIONS took place as follows: George S. Turner (a wealthy man) at Spartenburg, S. C., for killing Ed Finger; Wade Cannon and George Bowers (colored) at Laurens, S. C., for arson and John Ferguson for wife murder; Oscar Johnson and Henry Ewing at Berkely, S. C., for murdering Henry Weltman; and Ah Lo Doon, a Chinaman, at San Rafael, Cal., for the murder of William Shentor. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 1st aggregated $661,152,209, against $674,212,389 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892 was 32.5. JUDGE THOMAS COOLEY, of Michigan, was elected president of the American Bar association at the annual meeting in Milwaukee. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt increased $10,442,898 during the month of August The cash in the treasury was $712,857,887. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $853,678,848. BUSINESS failures to the number of 356 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 1st, against 410 the preceding week and 176 for the corresponding time last year.

THE Thornton worsted mill in Johnston, R. I., was burned, the loss being $225,000. THE national bank note circulation throughout the country increased during the month of August $26,332,054, the circulation now being $198,881,881. THE government receipts during August aggregated $23,890,885, against $33,479,058 in August a year ago. The expenditures were $33,305,228, or about $2,000,000 more than during August a year ago. A. Z. REINHARDT, sheriff and tax collector of Perry county, Ark., was said to be short nearly $40,000 in his accounts. MOSES HUGHES and his two sons lost their lives in a fire in a mine at Horatio, Pa. THE Denver savings bank at Denver, Col., failed with liabilities of $670,000. Depositors would be paid in full. THE silver bullion on hand at the several mints in the country was said to be 134,625,492 fine ounces, valued at $122,302,756. IN a fight between deputy marshals and remnants of the Starr and Dalton gangs near Ingalls, O. T., seven outlaws and three officers were mortally wounded. S. G. HUMPHREYS, for ten years township treasurer of Mount Victory, O., is said to be a defaulter for $25,000. A TOTAL of 806 alarms were responded to by the Chicago fire department during August, beating all previous records.

THE business portion of the town of Copperopolis, Cal., was destroyed by fire. THE firm of Wood & Wood, dealers in stoves and ranges at Baltimore, failed for $100,000. LEE B. DURSTINE, manager at Des Moines of the Iowa business of the Equitable Life Insurance company, made an assignment with liabilities of $100,000. DR. T. THATCHER GRAVES, awaiting trial at Denver, Col., for poisoning Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, R. I., in 1891, committed suicide in his cell by taking poison. THE industrial council of Kansas City has declared a boycott against all the products of Armour’s packinghouses. TWO PERSONS were killed, six fatally hurt and nearly forty injured as the result of an electric car accident at Cincinnati. THE Kansas corn crop is estimated at 200,000,000 bushels, worth $60,000,000. This is the greatest since 1889. FOR the first time in its history the vault in the subtreasury at San Francisco is drained of currency. WILLIAM ARKISON (colored), aged 20, who assaulted a little girl, was hanged by a mob at South Fork, Ky. TWO MEN were killed and a dozen hurt by a Burlington train falling through a trestle at Streator, Ill. CHIEF ENGINEER WEBB, of the burned steamer San Juan, was under arrest at San Francisco for stealing $200,000. BANDITS took possession of the ’Frisco train at Mound Valley, Kan., robbed the passengers and killed Express Messenger Chapman. AFTER twenty years of self-enforced exile in Albert island Henry A. Bell arrived in San Francisco en route to England.

IT was estimated from later advices that 1,500 persons lost their lives in the great storm along the southern coast THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 2d were as follows: Boston, .701; Pittsburgh, .593; Philadelphia, .589; Cleveland; .548; New York, .538; Brooklyn, .509; Cincinnati, .481; Baltimore, .463; St. Louis, .439; Chicago, .407; Louisville, .392; Washington, .343. SIX human skeletons were found imbedded in the sand on President’s island near Memphis, Tenn. THE twenty-seventh annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic convened at Indianapolis. Gen. Harrison and Commander Weissert made the principal addresses. A WHALE weighing fifty-seven tons was washed ashore near South Bend, on the Pacific ocean. Scientists declared that the whale had lived 986 years. IN the Columbus (O.) Cycling club races Zimmerman won the three open events and made a mile in 2:08 4-5. THE famous Ingham college at Leroy, N. Y., established in 1835, has been forced to close on account of financial troubles.

ACCORDING to the secretary of the New Orleans exchange the cotton crop of 1892-93 amounted to but 6,700,365 bales. SPURRED on by a runner, Directum trotted an exhibition mile at Fleetwood park in New York in 2:07, lowering the stallion record. THE entire superstructure of the McLean Coal company’s shaft in Bloomington, Ill., including the extensive coal breakers and screens, was burned, the loss being $100,000. THE issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices for the week ending on the 2d was $544,311; for the corresponding period of 1892, $660,155. THE main business portion of Albany, Ind., was destroyed by fire. CRAPS and selling whisky to minors resulted in sixty-one indictments by the grand jury at Clinton, Ill. Twenty or thirty boys and about every saloonkeeper in the county were caught EVERY department of the Carnegie steel plant at Homestead, Pa., was started, giving employment to about 2,000 men. THE two daughters of George Leroy, aged 11 and 13, and Johnnie Nelson, aged 13, were drowned in a pond near Wautoma, Wis. THE family of William Sagus, living near Burrows, Ind., was poisoned by something in their food and two children died and three other members of the family were not expected to live. BEN KUIPER and wife were drowned in Pine Island lake near Belmont, Mich., by the upsetting of a boat. AT the annual session in St. Louis of the international Sunday school convention B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, was elected president LABOR day was generally observed throughout the United States.

THE Western Wheel company at Terre Haute, Ind., the trust which controlled 90 per cent. of the entire wheel output of the west, has gone to pieces. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE republicans in state convention at Harrisburg, Pa, nominated D. Newlin Fell, of Philadelphia, for supreme judge, and Col. Samuel Jackson, of Armstrong, for state treasurer. NEW YORK republicans will hold their state convention at Syracuse October 6. MRS. ELLEN PALMER ALLERTON, the Kansas poet, died at Padonia. She was the authoress of the famous Kansas poem, “The Walls of Corn.” IN the Tenth Ohio district H. S. Bundy, of Jackson county, was nominated for congress on the 1,793d ballot. Mr. Bundy has served two terms in congress. THE president, accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland, returned to Washington in excellent health. FELIX SHERIDAN died at Quincy, Ill., aged 101 years. He was a veteran and pensioner of the war of 1812. ALPHEUS DE HAVEN, of Monroe, Wis., who enjoyed the distinction of being the oldest odd fellow in the United States, died at the age of 93. MRS. LAVINA FILLMORE, a relative of ex-president Fillmore and the oldest person in New York state, died in Clarence. She was 106 years old August 13 last. COL. JEROME BONAPARTE died at his summer home near Beverly, Mass., aged 63 years. He was a grandnephew of Napoleon I. MRS. MARY MURPHY died at the residence of her son in St. Louis at the age of 106 years.

FOREIGN. WHILE the Dutch steamer Rajah Atjes, trading between the Penang and the east coast of Acheen, was making a trip the Chinese passengers attacked the crew and killed the English captain and mate and twenty other seamen. IN Hokchang, China, hundreds of persons were dying of starvation and the cholera was raging. EX-PREMIER FLOQUET was stoned by a mob of 6,000 persons on leaving a political meeting in Paris. BY a majority of thirty-four the home rule bill passed third reading in the British house of commons. It now goes to the lords. THE steamer Sarnia, which for twenty-two days had drifted helplessly on the Atlantic, was towed into Queenstown. A MASS-MEETING will be held at Windsor, Ont., to organize a new political party, whose platform will be the independence of Canada. IN Bengal floods ruined the rice crops and destroyed many houses, leaving thousands of persons homeless. FIVE persons were killed in a general fight at Patos, Mex., growing out of a dispute over a cock fight. SEVERAL vessels were wrecked, many houses were destroyed and five persons were killed by a hurricane in the Azore island. MISS LEAL, a young Scotch woman, broke the bank at Monte Carlo. She won $300,000 in one hour. DISBANDED troops seized $180,000 designed to pay the regulars at Nicaragua, killing the escort and fleeing to Honduras. FIVE lives were lost in the destruction by fire of an oil shop in London. REV. MR. SWANN, a returned English missionary, said in London that Emin Pasha was devoured by cannibals in the Congo country. FOUR women were murdered and mutilated in Jack the Ripper style in Ostburg, a small village in the Netherlands.

LATER. IN the United States senate on the 5th a bill was introduced by Senator Peffer (Kan.) for the creation of a department of education, the construction of a college of scientific learning in the District of Columbia, the appropriation of $20,000,000 for the purpose, and the further appropriation of $8,000,000, the interest of which is to form a fund for the support of the college. Mr. Sewart (Nev.) spoke in favor of free coinage of silver. The house was not in session. BY an explosion of a boiler at Hart’s Creek, W. Va., John H. Boyd and wife were killed. MARSHALL BOSWORTH, a farmer at Smithwyn, S. D., poisoned his wife, three children and himself with strychnine. No motive was known. THIRTEEN miners were injured in an explosion at Shelburn, Ind., five of them fatally. THE prohibition republicans held a convention in Des Moines, Ia., nominated L. S. Coffin, of Fort Dodge, for governor and left the rest of the ticket blank. The platform repudiates the doctrine of local option or license or any other device by which the saloon may gain a foothold in Iowa and urges that especial effort be made to elect prohibitionists to the next legislature in order that the temperance law be not changed.

JOHN HART, aged 34 and demented, murdered his two sisters, Mary and Nellie, aged 26 and 23 respectively, at their home in Rockford, Ill. MRS. ELIZABETH McNAIR died in Montreal, aged over 110 years. Her husband died some years ago at the age of 107 years. SEVERAL cotton and iron mills throughout the east that had been shut down have started up. RETURNING from Logansport, Ind., William Sager, of Clinton, found their four children dead from eating bread covered with rat poison. DANA'S woolen and bagging mill at Westbrook, Me., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. THE Iowa populists in convention at Des Moines nominated J. M. Joseph, of Creston, for governor; E. A. Ott, of Des Moines, for lietenant governor; A. W. C. Weeks, of Winterset, for supreme judge, and Mrs. E. J. Woodrow, of Marshalltown, for school superintendent. The platform demands free coinage of silver, the abolition of trusts, denounces attacks on pensioners, and favors the taxation of mortgages and the present state prohibition law.