People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Extra Station. * In the senate bills were Introduced on the Sth to liquidate expenses arising from the war and to repeal all acts providing for the creation or maintenance of sinking funds. A resolution for the appointment of a joint select committee on finance was placed on the calendar. The house purchasing clause of the Sherman act was discussed ... In the house the new rules were adopted with an amendment providing that eulogies on deceased members of the house and senate shall be delivered Sundays and on no other days. Adjourned until the 9th. Ma Wolcott (CoL) introduced a resolution fat the senate on the 7th for the immediate repeal of the McKinley tariff law. The Sherman repeal bill was further discussed, Mr. Stewart (Ner.) concluding his speech in favor of free coinage of silver and Mr. Walthall (Miss) speaking in favor of bimetallism.... The house was not in session. Mr Faulkner (W. -Va.) advocated the suspension of silver purchases for four years in the senate on the Bth. The following nominations were received from the president: Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, to be ambassador to Germany; Alberts. Willis, of Kentucky, to be minister to the Hawaiian islands; Henry M. Smythe, of Virginia, to be minister to Hayti; Ellis Mills, of Virginia, to be consul general to Honolulu, and William Carroll, of Maryland, to be consul general at Dresden, Germany.... The bouse was not in session. In the senate the principal speech on the silver question on the 9th was made by Senator Teller (CoL), wno advocated the free coinage of the white metal A bill was introduced by Senator Morgan (Ala.) which has for its object the keeping of silver in circulation.... In the house bills were Introduced to pension soldiers of the Indian wars as Mexican war soldiers are pensioned; to make the pension for total blindness 8100 a month; to prohibit the suspension or stoppage of any pension until after a full hearing and examination: to Increase the pension for total disability from 872 to 1400 a month; to repeal the reciprocity clause of the McKinley law, and to place binding twine and cotton bagging on the free list. Mr Dolph (Ore.) presented in the senate on the 11th a petition of the conference of the , Methodist Episcopal church in Oregon for the repeal of the Geary Chinese exclusion act Senators Teller (CoL) and Pugh (Ala.) spoke against the repeal of the silver law. In the house no business was transacted.

DOMESTIC. A. A. Zimmerman, the world’s bicycle champion, went a mile at Springfield, 0., in 2:05 3-5, breaking his previous record. H. Hellman, dealer in general merchandise at Kyle, Tex., failed for 8100,000. Arrangements have been made to open a spiritualistic college at Liberal, Mo., the first school of its kind ever founded in the world. In session at Indianapolis the ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic elected Mrs. Amanda J. Withern, of Minnesota, as president. The Woman’s Relief Corps selected Sarah C. Mink, of New York, as president. Robert L. Gruschow, cashier of the Pabst brewing company, was held up in his office in Chicago and robbed of •8,000. The twenty-seventh national encampment at Indianapolis of the Grand Army of the Republic adjourned after adopting the report of the pension committee which deny that the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of pensions have power to drop pensioners from the rolls without first giving them a hearing; declare against the presumption of fraud until charges have been proven, and say it is the duty of the pension commissioner to at once restore to the rolls the thousands of pensioners now standing illegally suspended. Gov. Flower, on behalf of the state board, presented the New Y’ork building on the world’s fair grounds to the board of lady managers, the magnificent structure to remain in Jackson park as a permanent museum of woman’s industrial work. A cyclone struck Lockport, La., killed six persons, seriously injured several others and left the town a mass of ruins. An outbound world’s fair special on the Pan-Handle road and a inbound Valparaiso accommodation on the Pennsylvania road collided near Colehour, a Chicago suburb, and eleven men were killed, fourteen were seiiously and five were slightly injured. Mrs. Wilson Berry and her son were killed near Fairfax, Va., by Mrs. John Scott and her son. A quarrel was the cause. The three national banks at Mankato, Minn., reopened their doors after having been closed a little over a month. Nancy Hanks went a mile in 2:04% at Indianapolis. This was within threequarters of a second of the wonderful mare’s record. Mrs. Caroline Tegen, aged 45, died in St. Louis of self-imposed starvation. For twenty days nothing but one glass of lemonade passed her lips. Cashier Blackley, of a Delta (Col.) bank, was killed by robbers. Two of the highwaymen were killed by a resident

Robert McEvoy, a trusted clerk in the Merchants’ national bank in Chicago for twenty years, played the races and is a defaulter to the extent of $25,€OO. He was missing. Twenty thousand persons in the track of the recent hurricane in the south were said to be in danger of starvation. The town of Baldwin, Wis., was almost entirely wiped out by fire, the loss being over SIOO,OOO. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Bth aggregated $733,575,705, again5t5661,152,209 the pluvious week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 34.9. Four children of James O’Neal (negro) were burned to death in their home near Versailles, Ky., during the absence of their parents. Anarchist Claus Timmerman was sentenced in New York to six months in the penitentiary for inciting to riot Business 'failures to the number of 838 occurred in the United States in the •even days ended on the Bth, against 885 the preceding week

William Smith, a Camden. (Ark.) negro who murdered a man named Pierce last fall, was executed at Camden. Owing to the collapse of several world’s fair hotels Nelson, Matter <fc Co., one of the oldest furniture houses in Grand Rapids, made an assignment with liabilities of 8400,000. Two men captured a mail wagon at Terre Haute, Ind., aad gagged the driver and rifled the pouches. Joseph Dysart, lieutenant governor of lowa from 1874 to 1878, died at his home in Vinton, aged 75 years. Richard M. Hooley, the veteran theatrical manager, died at his home in Chicago, aged 71 years. The world's fair directors say the total disbursements up to the Ist inst. amount to 825,516,356 and the balance on hand was 8562,001.99. At Dunlap, Tenn., Lafayette Grimes was murdered by white caps whose arrest he had procured. At Bayport, Mich.. Peter Straubus, a bridegroom, was shot and mortally wounded by a party of serenaders. The office of the Adams Express company at Akron, 0., was entered and 87,000 taken from the safe. Almost the entire business portion of the town of Cayucos, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The receiver of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad was dismissed and the road restored to the stockholders. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 9th were as follows: Boston, .714; Pittsburgh, .607; Philadelphia, .584; Cleveland; .560; New York, .549; Brooklyn, .523; Cincinnati, .482; Baltimore, .446; St Louis, .416; Chicago, .416; Louisville, .383; Washington, .327. Five children of F. W. Whitney, near Silver Hill, Ark., were burned to death while their parents were at church. Except 813 the 85,000 stolen from the Adams express at Akron, 0., has been recovered and the thieves arrested. According to the government report the drought has worked greater damage to corn than was expected. Figures on wheat make it the smallest yield since 1885, the amount being about 371,000,000 bushels. Bennett's casino, a variety theater in Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned, the loss being 8150,000. George W. Dye, one of the wealthiest planters in northeast Georgia, is dead, and has left his fortune of over half a million to the negro family who attended him for the last fifty years. An incendiary fire destroyed the property of the Sulphur Mines company at Mineral City, Va., causing a loss of 8100,006. Precisely at noon on the 9th President Cleveland was made a father for the second time, the new baby, like its predecessor, being a girl. Mrs. Cleveland and her daughter were reported to be doing well. Fire destroyed the United States marine hospital at Port Townsend, Wash.

Guiteau's body was buried under the laundry floor of the Washington jlil, and is still there, according to Deputy Warden Russ. It was supposed to be in a museum. George P. Kegariz, a prominent Dunkard preacher, aged 60, hanged himself to a tree at his home near Salemville. Pa. No cause was known. George Sicor, Frank Fare and David Simmons, United States marshals at Dennison, Tex., became involved in a row which resulted in all three being fatally shot. James H. Walker, of Philadelphia, and Joseph L. Kilran, of Elwood, Ind., died at the same hour on passenger trains at Pittsburgh, Pa. The grain elevator of the W. C. Fuhrer Milling company at Mount Vernon, Ind., was burned, the loss being 8100,000. At Chillicothe Richard Brown (colored) shot and killed Nellie Wolfscall (also colored) whom he was about to marry, and then fatally shot himself. The world’s first parliament of religions began a seventeen days’ session in Chicago. In these meetings the delegates from different churches all over the world will present their views of the great subjects of religious faith and life. Twenty business houses and residences were destroyed by fire at Canby, Minn., the total loss being 8200,000. In the past six months thirty-five state banks in Kansas closed their doors, five of which have resumed business. The distillery at Lynchburg, 0., owned by Freiburg & Workum, was burned, the loss being 8100,000. In filling a lighted gasoline stove Mrs. Maxwell, of Clinton, la., and her daughter Stella were fatally burned. Twenty-three men scattered through Jackson and Elbert counties, Ga., were arrested with wholesale counterfeits of silver dollars in their possession. Some fiend or fiends entered the graveyard in Hudson, Wis., and pushed over, broke and otherwise destroyed | twenty-two of the most costly gravestones.

The town of Colfax, Wis., was said to have been destroyed by fire. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury’ offices for the week ending on the 9th was $425,559, against $539,208 for the corresponding period of 1892. Flames in the lumber yards of the Pullman Car company at Pullman, a Chicago suburb, caused a loss of $250,000. Having won the third trial race, the yacht Vigilant has been selected to defend the America’s cup. October 18 and 19 have been selected as the dates for the annual convention of the American Bankers’ association in Chicago. The National Association of Post Office Clerks met in convention in Chicago. L. S. Meintjes, of South Africa, in a race against time at Springfield, Mass., lowered the 5-mile bicycle record to 11:09 3-5. By a vote of 29 to 9 the national commission of the world’s fair decided to adjourn sine die.

W. O. Barney, treasurer of Defiance county, 0., was found to be >26,000 short in his accounts. Twenty masked men held up the New York express train on the I.a Ire Shore road near KendallviHe, Ind., and after wounding the engineer blew open the safe in the express car and stole its contents. In New York and vicinity seven per sons died from eating toadstools, supposing them to be mushrooms. .Striking Italians took possession of the mining town of Beadling, Pa., terrorizing the inhabitants Twentyeight were arrested. The following banks have resumed business: First national at Le Mars, la., First national at Nashville, Tenn., Commercial at Stevens Point, Wis, Western national at Pueblo, CoL, and Bank of Florence at Florence, CoL The steamer Shermoksha was burned on the River Volga in Russia and fifteen of the crew and twelve passengers lost their lives. A heavy pall of smoke hung over Lake Michigan and made navigation as dangerous as though it was a heavy fog. It came from forest fires in Michigan. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Benjamin Churchill, the last of the pensioners of the war of 1812 at the Chicago agency, died in Galesburg, 111., aged nearly 100 years. At the state convention m Lynn, Mass, of the people’s party George H. Cary, of Lynn, was nominated for governor. Mrs. Sarah Wilson celebrated her 102 d birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Skinner, in Kalamazoo. Mich. Hamilton Fish died of heart failure at his country residence at Garrison’s, N. Y., aged 85 years. In 1842 Mr. Fish was elected to congress, in 1848 was elected governor of New York, and in 1851 was made United States senator. Mr. Fish was also secretary of state during President Grant’s administrations, from March 11, 1869, to March 12, 1877. South Dakota democrats in convention at Scotland nominated Chauncey L. Woods, W. H. Stoddard and Henry C. Hinckley for supreme court judges W. H. Mcllenry, an lowa pioneer and the first mayor of Des Moines, died in that city, aged 77 years.

FOREIGN. Hayti is said to be on the eve of another revolution. Fall in silver has caused great business depression. The latest news from Rio de Janeiro reports that a revolution has broken out there under the leadership of Admiral Custedio J ose Mello. In the British house of lords the Irish home-rule bill was rejected by a vote of 419 against to 41 in favor of the meas* ure. The steamship Campania made the run from New York to Queenstown in five days,fourteen hours and fifteen minutes, making a new record. Advices from China say that recent floods destroyed fourteen villages in the prefecture of Shuntienfu and 16,000 lives were lost An official decree has been issued announcing that an international exposition will be held in France in 1900. Alfred Picard is named as commander general. The Canadian government has refused to ratify the immigration agreement made with the New York commissioners that all immigrants landing at Canadian ports, but destined for the United States, should be inspected at the port of entry by United State* officers.

LATER. Addresses were made in the United States senate,on the 12th by Messrs. Mitchell, Teller and Stewart against the repeal of the silver bill, and by Mr. Hawley in favor of repeal. In the house bills were introduced to strike from the rolls the names of all pensioners in receipt of an income of S6OO a year or possessed of property valued at $5,000; fixing the pension for loss of entire leg or arm at SOO a month; for loss of leg or arm above knee or elbow joint at $55 a month; for loss of hand or foot at SSO a month, and providing that the pensions of all pensioners who are inmates of the soldiers’ homes shall cease so long as they shall remain inmates of such homes. Matz Zeifk. a well-to-do farmer near Fort Bodge, la., hanged himself because of the death of a favorite cow. Advices from the Crimea say that cholera was committing terrible ravages, and that hundreds in the province of Taurida were dying daily. In the trial trip at Philadelphia of the cruiser Columbia all speed records were beaten. She made 21.3 knots an hour. L. S. Coffin, nominated for governor by the prohibitionist republicans of lowa, declines to make the race. A GAS well with a flow of 50,000,000 cubic feet a day was struck on a farm near Findlay, O. Charles de Lessees, sentenced in Paris to six years’ imprisonment for complicity in the Panama canal frauds, has been released from prison. A HIGHWAYMAN took S6OO worth of property from passengers in a stage coach near Klamath Falls, Ore. To build and operate the world’s fair, including obligation in suspense, cost up to August 31 $24,532,369. The liabilities on that date were $1,455,215. Adulp Krug, city treasurer <sf Seattle, Wash., was found to be $135,000 short in his accounts. He had fled across the border into British Columbia. Timber fires in the vicinity of Deadwood, S. D., have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property. Moreaus Crosby, of Grand Rapids, who was lieutenant governor of Michigan in 1872, died in Boston, where he had gone for his health, aged 54 years. A dp.ought of eighty-six days in Chicago and of 126 days in many western states was broken by rain on the 12th. It was stated that the masked men who held up the express train on the Lake Shore road near Kendallville, Ind., secured $150,000 from the express car.