People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Extra Session. SENATOR PEFFER introduced a bill for a bimetallic money system in the senate on the 13th. A resolution for a committee of inquiry as to senators owning stock in national banks and the silver bill were discussed.... In the house bills were introduced to annex the territory of Utah to the state of Nevada, to pension all letter carriers after twenty-five years of service and on reaching the age of fifty years, to abolish the tobacco tax, and to reduce the duty on barley from thirty to ten cents a bushel, on malt to twenty-five cents, and on hops to eight cents a pound. IN the senate on the 14th the time was occupied by Mr. Daniel (W. Va.) in a speech against the passage of the repeal bill. Mr. Faulkner (W. Va.) offered an amendment to the repeal act which provides for the coinage of silver dollars (not less than 3,000,000 a month) at the ratio of 16 to 1, coinage to cease when the aggregate of (800,000,000 is reached.... In the house an effort to report the Tucker bill to repeal the federal election laws was defeated. ON the 15th the senate listened to the advocates of the repeal of the Sherman law. Senator Cullom presented a petition from ex-soldiers of Illinois asking protection from government detectives traveling in disguise who visit the homes of pensioners and deceitfully seek to find some clew to furnish information to the pension office to deprive veterans of their pensions .... In the house the time was passed in correcting the journal and in delivering eulogies upon the late J. Logan Chipman, of Detroit, Mich. A RESOLUTION was introduced in the senate on the 16th for legislation to punish persons guilty of robbery and murder committed on interstate trains Senator Allison (Ia.) spoke in favor of repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman law ...In the house a resolution was introduced directing the committee on interstate and foreign commerce to investigate recent train robberies. An attempt to bring up the federal elections repeal bill was defeated by the lack of a quorum. IN the senate on the 18th the resolution directing the committee on interstate commerce to investigate the recent train robberies was discussed, but no action was taken. Senator Stewart (Nev.) submitted an amendment to the silver repeal bill authorizing the president to invite the governments of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti and San Domingo to join the United States in a conference to be held in Washington to secure the adoption of a common silver coin..... In the house a bill proposing the payment in full of pensions growing out of the late war was introduced by Mr. Hudson, of Kansas.

DOMESTIC. A NEW YORK paper prints dispatches from nearly 1,000 cities and towns in the west and south giving the views of bankers and business men on the business outlook. Those interviewed say the panic is a thing of the past and the outlook is most cheerful. RESIDENTS of several counties in Kansas reported that the crops were a failure and help must be given. NORTHERN Wisconsin was being devastated by forest fires and the homes of over fifty farmers with all their belongings had been destroyed, and several lives lost. The city of Marshfield and the village of Junction City were said to be burning. THERE has not been a national bank failure since August 28 and during that period twenty-eight suspended national banks have resumed. IN Rockford, Ill., the Union Furniture company, the Mantle and Furniture company and the Rock River Planing Mill company made assignments. FIRE destroyed the large hay and grain warehouse of Hereley Bros.’ in Chicago and ten horses perished in the stables.

AFTER a conference the world’s' fair directors called a special meeting to discuss the feasibility of extending the exposition until January 1, 1894. THERE were 152 prostrations from heat on the world’s fair grounds in Chicago on the 14th, it being the hottest day of the season, the mercury registering 95 degrees LAURENS S. MEINTJES rode 26 miles and 50 yards in one hour on a bicycle at Springfield, Mass. THE draw span of the Terminal Railway company’s bridge between Council Bluffs, Ia., and Omaha was completed and turned in position. It is 520 feet long and exceeds in length anything of its kind in the world. THE Moore & Smith Lumber company at San Francisco failed for $600,000; assets, $2,000,000. ALIX trotted a mile at Washington park, Chicago, in 2:06. AT Le Mars, Ia., on a regulation track, Free Coinage lowered the 3-year-old pacing record to 2:11¾. COLLECTOR J. W. REICKLEY, of the Indianapolis Gas company, absconded, taking with him a large amount of the concern’s cash. FIRE in the business center of Emporia, Kan., did $100,000 damage. Thir-ty-five horses were cremated. L. C. HUGHES, governor of Arizona, in his annual report says that the assessed valuation of the territory in 1893 was $28,486,183, against $27,924,162 in 1892. The total bonded debt is $2,956,000. The governor makes a strong plea for the admission of Arizona into the union as a state. He says that the shrinkage in the value of silver has resulted in the closing of almost all the silver mines, so that the output during the year was less than $300,000, as against $6,278,895 in 1891. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 15th aggregated $792,853,539, against $733,575,705 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 28.6. FIVE THOUSAND ounces of gold, worth $134,000, have disappeared from the Philadelphia mint. THE express car of the Mineral Range passenger train in Michigan was held up and robbed by bandits a half mile from Boston station and the robbers secured $75,000 in cash, money intended for the employes of the Calument and Hecla copper mines. WHILE placing a negro under arrest near Southport La., Judge Victor Estopinal was killed and bis son fatally wounded. AFTER an all night fight residents of Deadwood, S. D., succeeded in saving their city, threatened by forest fires.

FOUR children of William Stager, living near Logansport, Ind., took poison because they were not permitted to see a parade. AT Washington park, Chicago, Directum lowered the stallion record to 2:06½ and Flying Jib paced a mile in 2:04, equaling Mascot’s record. FOOTPADS waylaid some twenty employes of a St. Louis firm on pay day and robbed them of their earnings. TWO MASKED men held up the stage near Tahlequah, I. T., and after robbing the passengers carried off the mail pouches. LYDIA BULLIVANT shot her hnsband fatally at Spokane, Wash., and then shot herself. No cause was known for the deed. THE Cleveland, Canton & Southern railroad was placed in the hands of receivers. STAPLES GREEN, a negro, was hanged at Livingstone, Ala., for murder. He prayed and sang on the scaffold and confessed his guilt. BUSINESS failures to the number of 314 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 15th, against 321 the preceding week and 154 during the same time last year. FIRE at Cynthiana, Ky., destroyed a livery stable and fifteen horses were cremated. FOREST fires still raged in northern Wisconsin and hundreds of persons were homeless. The loss to forests alone was estimated at $6,000,000. WILLIAM JACKSON, a negro, was taken from jail at Nevada, Mo., and hanged to a tree for assault. FIRE destroyed the Benton club stables at St. Joseph, Mo., and 100 vehicles and eleven valuable horses were burned.

NEARLY 100,000 persons made the race for land in the Cherokee strip and in the run six persons were known to have been killed and many others were injured. FOREST fires were still raging in northern Wisconsin, covering an area of nearly 200 square miles, and many lives had been lost. FIVE highwaymen held up fifteen harvest hands near Fargo, N. D., killing one of the workmen and terribly pounding three. REDMOND BURKE was murdered at Breckinridge, Mo., by white caps. He had been charged with frequently beating his wife. VOLSIN, Baslie and Paul Julian (colored), brothers of Roselius Julian, who murdered Judge Victor Estopinal in Jefferson parish, La., were lynched by a mob. JAMES WICKS at Niagara Falls fatally injured two Italians and barely escaped lynching. THE flouring mill at Patterson, O., caught fire, and before the flames could be checked over a third of the town was destroyed. AN open switch caused an accident on the St. Paul road at Oliver, Minn., and George W. Remsen, engineer, Charles Heddings, fireman, and Anthony Brewer, brakeman, were instantly killed. All lived in Minneapolis.

NEARLY the entire business portion of Bunker Hill, Ill., was destroyed by fire. THE First national bank of East Portland, Ore , and the Le Mars national bank of Le Mars, Ia., were permitted to reopen for business. WHILE the family of G. M. Raney, of Decaturville, Tenn., was asleep, robbers entered and robbed them of $4,700 and their jewelry. AN effigy of President Cleveland was found dangling to a tree in Sacramento, Cal. YELLOW fever is epidemic in Brunswick, Ga. The residents are filled with terror but cannot leave the city. LEADERS at Pittsburgh, Pa., were taking steps toward the formation of a new national association embracing all labor societies. HENRY S. COCHRANE, who had worked for the government forty-three years, confessed to stealing $134,000 in gold from Philadelphia’s mint. TWELVE business houses at Manistique, Mich., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000; partially insured. EX-CITY TREASURER ISENOEE, of Whatcom, Wash., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $47,000 of city money. INSANE patients to the number of 300 were given a picnic in Buckeye grove, near Columbus. O. FOR twelve consecutive hours Chicago firemen fought a prairie fire covering an area of nearly twenty blocks in part adjoining the world’s fair grounds. Seven Columbian guards were overcome by the intense heat and smoke, and two will probably die.

IN a collision between two sections of a Big- Four train at Manteno, Ill., seven persons were known to have been killed and twenty injured and it was probable that many bodies were buried under the wreck. IN a fight between Hungarian and American workingmen at Benwood, W. Va., five of the former were fatally hurt. THE Wayne iron works of Brown & Co. at Pittsburgh resumed operations as a nonunion mill. The plant employs 600 men and has been one of the strongest in the Amalgamated association. A GALE swept the Cherokee strip, laying low many of the tented towns. Thousands of persons were leaving the country. Asa Youmans, an avowed “sooner,” was hanged by boomers to a tree. THROUGH the confession of George La Liberte the Mineral Range railway express robbers in Michigan were captured and $14,000 recovered. THE National bank of Ashland at Ashland, Neb., resumed business. MASKED men overpowered the watchman at the Little Johnnie mine near Leadville, Col., and secured ore worth $20,000. FRED MILLER and Will Kessler, two young Germans, were instantly killed by lightning while sitting in a house in St Paul. CRIPPEN, LAWRENCE & CO., a Denver loan concern, made an assignment with assets of nearly $1,000,000, which will cover liabilities.

FOR sixteen days forest fires had raged on the Laurel monntains in Pennsylvania, doing immense damage. All sources of water supply had gone dry. SIX men were instantly killed by the explosion of a sawmill boiler near Whittier, N. C. THE Bellaire, Riverside and Wheeling iron and steel companies’ works in Bellaire, O., and Benwood, W. Va., started after ten weeks’ shutdown at a reduction of 20 per cent in wages. BURGLARS blew open the safe of Wilbur & Co., wholesale grain dealers at Phillips, Me., and secured $30,000. THE centennial anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of the capitol at Washington was celebrated with speeches and a parade. THE governor’s office at Topeka was flooded with appeals for aid from destitute farmers of western Kansas. They say they must have help or starvation will follow. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE new baby at the white house has been named Esther Cleveland. MILTON HAY, one of the oldest citizens of Springfield, Ill., and for many years a leading attorney, died at the age of 76 years. Mr. Hay studied law in the office of Abraham Lincoln. MRS. ELI HALLOWELL, the first white woman to immigrate to Illinois, died at Oakland, aged 108 years. DR. WILLIAM T. WHITE died of heart disease in New York, aged 64 years. He was one of the founders of the New York State Medical association and the New York Physicians’ Aid society. THE prohibition-republican state committee of Iowa nominated Rev. Bennett Mitchell, of Crawford county, for governor, to fill the vacancy caused by the declination of L. S. Coffin.

FOREIGN. IN a manifesto of the National Liberal Federation in London the lords are threatened with political annihilation if they continue to oppose the popular will. THE steamer Byron Trerice was burned at her dock in Leamington, Ont., and three of the crew perished. OF 9,000 pilgrims who went to Mecca from Tunis in May 4,500 perished in the Holy Land of cholera and other diseases. TWO DAUGHTERS, aged 5 and 3 years, perished in the burning of James Johnson’s house at Alvinston, Ont. BARNEY WILKES, the $20,000 stallion owned by G W. Gale, of Ypsilanti, Mich., dropped dead on the track at Windsor, Ont. BRAZILIAN insurgents bombarded the city of Rio de Janeiro, but only little damage was done. Brazilians living in Buenos Ayres believe the success of the revolution means the restoration of the monarchy. TWO WOMEN were arrested in the district of Kuttenburg, Bohemia, who were engaged in the business of murdering children whose parents desired to have them got out of the way. VILLA-CANAS, in Spain, was devastated by a cloudburst, and sixty persons were drowned. MR. GLADSTONE has accepted the English house of lords’ gauge of battle and will wage a warfare for all reforms. PLANS of an attempt upon the life of Emperor Francis Joseph were discovered at Vienna. LORD ABERDEEN, the new governor general of Canada, was sworn in in the legislative council chamber at Quebec. IN a twenty-four hour bicycle contest at Paris M. Lesna, of Switzerland, covered 433 miles, surpassing the previous record.

LATER. THE bill to repeal the silver purchase act was the theme for discussion in the United States senate on the 19th. Senator Voorhees endeavored to have a date fixed for closing the debate but his efforts were defeated. Senator Mills spoke in favor of repeal. In the house an attempt to report the bill to repeal the federal election laws was defeated. A resolution calling on the secretary of war for information relative to the shooting of settlers on the Cherokee strip by United States soldiers was objected to. A HOUSE in the Whitechapel district of London was burned and a man and four women perished in the flames. THE village of Criglersville, Va., was almost swept out of existence by a flood in the Robinson river, and in the surrounding country immense damage was done to houses and crops. IN New Haven 201 women voted at the school elections. No woman had ever voted before in Connecticut.

DEMOCRATS in state convention at Harrisburg, Pa., nominated Samuel G. Thompson for justice of the supreme court and Frank C. Osburn, of Allegheny county, for state treasurer. THE remains of James Knox Polk, tenth president of the United States, and those of his wife were taken up and reintered on the state capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn. THE new opera house at Canton, Ill., valued at $100,000, was destroyed by fire, and about fifty persons were burned or crushed, several of them fatally. The Mast, Bufford & Burwell Carriage company at St. Paul failed for $1,200,000.

THE entire family of Denson Wratten, consisting of himself, wife and three children and his aged mother, were found murdered in their home 9 miles southeast of Washington, Ind. Robbery was the motive. A REVISED list of the injured in the wreck on the Big Four at Manteno, Ill., showed eight killed outright and fourteen seriously hurt. NONE but American citizens will hereafter be given work at the big plant of the national rolling mill at McKeesport, Pa. FLAMES that started in a livery stable destroyed the business portion of Owingsville, Ky., the loss being $150,000. THE president sent to the senate the following nominations: W. B. Hornblower, of New York, to be associate justice of the supreme court, vice Samuel Blatchford, deceased; James J. Van Alen, of Rhode Island, to be ambassador to Italy.