People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Extra Session. IN the senate the silver repeal bill was further discussed on the 20th. an effort to curtail debate being defeated....In the house, after a bitter wrangle, the report of the committee on rules was agreed to. Mr. Tucker (Va.) reported the federal election bill and it was placed upon the calendar. IN the senate on the 21st the time was mostly occupied by Mr. White (Cal.) in a speech against repeal of the silver law. A heated discussion of parliamentary points took place over an attempt to force a ballot.... In the house an order was adopted setting aside two weeks, beginning on the 26th, for the consideration of the Tucker bill repealing the federal election laws. A bill was introduced tor the admission of Arizona into the union as a state. MR. ALLEN (Neb.) introduced a bill in the senate on the 22d for the coinage of silver money. Messrs. George (Miss.) and Hansbrough (N. D.) spoke against the repeal of the silver bill....In the house a bill was introduced by Mr. Loud (Cal.) appropriating $500,000 to enforce the acts regulating and prohibiting Chinese immigration THE senate on the 23d discussed the resolution proposing the establishment of a cloture rule and then, on motion of its author, Senator Platt, referred it to the committee on rules....No business of importance was transacted in the house. SENATOR STEWART (Nev.) in a speech in the senate on the 25th on his resolution declaring that “the independence of the coordinate departments of the government must be maintained," charged the president with violating the constitution in seeking to influence the legislative department of the government, and said that the chief executive lacked the education necessary properly to rule over the destinies of the republic. Don Cameron (Pa.) spoke on free silver and the repeal of the bank tax law....In the house Mr. Oates (Ala.) introduced a bill providing that hereafter money orders shall be issued by postmasters upon verbal requtsts and abolishing the use of written applications. Mr. Morse (Mass.) charged the commissioner of pensions with assuming legislative as well ns judicial power in overriding the laws of the country.

DOMESTIC. THE directors have unanimously agreed that the Columbian exposition should be opened for the last time October 31. MRS. BLINN, residing north of Brazil, Ind., gave birth to a child that had no arms and only one foot; otherwise the child was perfectly formed. D. L. JONES, Charles O'Dwyer and James Harden, the three men who attempted to rob the New Orleans limited express train on the Illinois Central road near Centralia, Ill., have been captured. THE eighty-first annual session of the supreme council, thirty-third degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, was held in Chicago. FIVE men were killed and six injured by an explosion of gas in a colliery at Plymouth, Pa. THE Society of the Army of the Cumberland at its annual meeting in Cleveland reelected Gen. W. S. Rosecrans as president. Ex-President Harrison was chosen orator for the next meeting. NEW gold reefs were discovered in Itasca county, Minn., the specimens shown indicating that the new finds are among the richest ever made in the Rainy river district. HEAVY damage was done on the world’s fair grounds by a storm of wind and rain. The loss was estimated at $50,000. Portions of the roof of the Manufactures building, the Art gallery and other buildings were broken in. NEARLY a dozen charred bodies were found in the wake of the Pawnee reservation fire in the Indian territory. THE negro Thomas Smith, whose crime was the occasion of the riot at Roanoke, Va., that resulted in nine men being killed by the state militia and nineteen wounded, was finally lynched by a mob and his body burned. RAIN has extinguished the forest fires in Wisconsin.

THE British schooner Windermere was wrecked in a squall near Mobile, Ala., and Capt. Charlton and his wife and three sailors were drowned. THE five men who held up and robbed the Mineral Range train in Michigan have been arrested and the $70,000 stolen has been recovered. FIVE HUNDRED laboring men who were absolutely starving arrived by the Atlantic & Pacific road at Mojave, Cal. The men claimed to be from the Cherokee strip in Indian territory. IT was reported that a train on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley railroad was held up at Fulton, Ky., by robbers and that the engineer, fireman and two passengers were killed. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 22d aggregated $798,807,399, against $792,853,539 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 33.0.

FIRE destroyed the sash and door factory of the Charles Betcher Lumber company and a large amount of dry lumber at Red Wing, Minn., the loss being $175,000. BUSINESS failures to the number of 319 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 316 the preceding week and 188 during the same time last year. CATHOLICS and members of the American Protective association came into collision in Kansas City and many heads were broken. IN a dispute over a land claim at Waukomis,O. T., Joseph Williams killed a man named Liddle and his two sons. AT Frederick, Md., Daniel Jones was given thirty-nine lashes on the bare back for wife-beating. IN his annual report to the secretary of the interior Pension Commissioner Lochren says the number of pensioners on the rolls of the bureau is 966,012. During the year 24,715 claims for increase of pensions and 31,990 for additional pension were allowed, and in the same time 115,221 claims were rejected. The amount of money paid for pensions during the year was $156,740,467. TRAINS collided on the Wabash railway near Kingsbury, Ind., and eleven persons were killed and twenty-four injured, some of them tatally.

ON a farm near Freidville, Ia., Henry Behrens and his son were killed by foul gases in an old well. BOSTON police were looking for T. R. Richardson, senior member of a leather firm, who swindled banks and other institutions out of $175,000. FIVE persons were injured in a wreck on the Queen & Crescent road near Birmingham, Ala. A rail had been removed. FOURTEEN members of the mob which killed Solomon P. Bradshaw at Kingston, Ill., have been indicted by the grand jury. PROF. S. A. KING and Miss Josie Morris, who made an ascension in a balloon at the world’s fair, were rescued from the lake by the cutter Andy Johnson after an exciting experience. BECAUSE it conveyed a trainload of sports to Lawrenceburg to witness a prize fight forfeiture of the Ohio & Mississippi’s Indiana charter is asked. AT the meeting in Milwaukee of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows it was resolved to permit the formation of a grand lodge in Sweden. CHARLES A. BOWDEN was hanged at Eureka, Cal., for the murder of Mrs. Lillie M. Price, who had discarded him for Price.

Utah commissioners reported in Washington that polygamous marriages in the Mormon territory were a thing of the past. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 23d were as follows: Boston, .665); Pittsburgh, .610; Philadelphia, .577; Cleveland, .557; New York, .540; Brooklyn, .520; Cincinnati, .488; Baltimore, .456; Chicago, .432; St Louis, .429; Louisville, 400; Washington. .323. Five non-union sailors in San Francisco were killed by a dynamite bomb fired in front of their boarding house. Members of the Seamen’s union were charged with the crime. After drinking nearly two kegs of beer Harvey Allender and Robert Wagner laid down at Allentown, Pa., and died.

L. A. Kurtz, a farmer near Jeffersonville, 111., and his wife were killed by gas from a well. The Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs railroad foiled an attempt to rob one of its passenger trains, killed two of the bandits and captured three others at Francis, Mo. Adolph Krug in the four months that ht held the office of treasurer of Seattle, Wash., embezzled a little over $300,000. Five Choctaw Indians were found swinging to a tree about 40 miles from Caddo, I. T. It was thought that the recent election was at the bottom of it. Abe Wilsey fatally shot his wife at Petoskey, Mich., and was in turn shot and killed by Henry Sik. In a drunken row at Dripping Springs, Ky., Robert Singleton was killed and D. D. Slaughter fatally shot. Frank Ives defeated John Roberts, the English champion, in the match games of billiards at Chicago, the score standing: Ives, 6,000; Roberts, 5,303. Two men were killed and three fatally hurt by the cave-in of a sewer at Indianapolis. In an effort to recover a ball that had fallen into a well at Hazard, Neb., Fred Dudley and his father and another man lost their lives. Nine negroes and threewhite men convicted of theft were publicly whipped at Newcastle, Del. Lafayette Leroy, to whom a monument had been erected at Saginaw, Mich., returned after eight years’ absence. Confined in one cage on a recently arrived ship in New York were a young lion and a lamb who were great friends. Samuel Rightly, a cripple, agde 84 years, and his wife, two years younger, who lived alone on their farm near Newton, Pa., were murdered by some one unknown. A police census shows nearly 80,000 idle persons in Chicago. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices for the week ended onjhe 23d was $496,545; for the corresponding period of 1892, $741,689. The Venice bridge across the Big Miami river near Cincinnati was burned by an incendiary. It was built nearly half a century ago and cost $75,000. Willard Morgan, one of the most noted moonshiners in the country, was captured by a marshal’s posse in West Virginia. Sentenced to death at Birmingham, Ala., for murder, William Bell has succeeded in establishing his innocence. At Calamity, Pa., Mrs. August Reese was killed by anarchists, whose secrets she had learned, and her husband was wounded.

Fike destroyed three solid blocks of the finest retail houses in St. Joseph, Mo., entailing a loss of $1,000,000. Five persons were injured, one probably fatally. At Adrian, Mich., Nelson Kuney fatally shot Maud Brainard and then killed himself. The couple were to have been married next month. No cause was known for the deed. An attempt was made to burn Trinity Episcopal church in Chicago, but the prompt efforts of some ladies saved the edifice. An armed mob looted the Chinese houses at La Grande, Ore., and marched the Chinamen to the city limits and ordered them to leave. The Milwaukee national bank, which closed its doors in July during the height of the panic, has resumed business. George Dixon, of Boston, featherweight champion of the world, in seven rounds defeated Solly Smith, the California pugilist, in a fight at Coney Island, N. Y. E. L. Simpson, a New York banker, failed for $300,000. The United States fishery steamer Albatross made deep-sea soundings off the coast of Alaska, reaching a depth of 4,500 fathoms. This is the greatest depth ever reached. Gold in paying quantities was found on the farm of Seth C. Weed near New Canaan, Conn. An assignee was appointed for the D. D. Merrill Stationery company of St. Paul Their liabilities aggregate $350,000.

Owtno to Hie numerous “hold-nps" trainmen ou the Michigan Central and Pennsylvania roads have been armed. The corn crop of lowa this season is estimated at 240,000,000 bushels. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL The republican state judicial convention of South Dakota met at Huron and nominated D. Carson, A. S. Kellapi and John E. Bennett for supreme court judges. Eliza Porter (colored), aged 101 years and 14 days, died at Oak Mills, Kan. Abner Kirby, long a resident of Milwaukee and at one time mayor of the city, died at his home, aged 75 years. Mrs. Maria Peterson, who died at Fort Dodge, la. aged 85 years, had never been inside a railway car or ridden on a train. Thomas S. Collier, poet and historian, died suddenly at New London, Conn., of hemorrhage. E. A. Ott, populist cahdidate for lieutenant governor in lowa, resigned because he is only 28 years old, while the law insists a candidate must be 30 or over to be eligible. The town of Mochowa, Russia, was destroyed by fire and several persons were burned to death and hundreds of families were homeless. Benjamin F. Mitchell has accepted the prohibition-republican nomination for governor of lowa. W. L. Malone, proprietor of the Fort Worth Daily Gazette, and the pioneer editor of Texas, died at his home.

FOREIGN. T Part of the shaft of the Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, England, fell in, entombing thirty miners. London dispatches say that Admiral Mello declared that unless Rio Janeiro surrendered at once he would shell the city relentlessly. A fire on the La Escondida hacienda at Tepic, Mexico, owned by Juan A. de Aguire & Co., destroyed $300,000 worth of property. In a bigamy case tried at Toronto, Can., the judge said that an American divorce could not be accepted in Canadian courts as dissolving the marriage ties. TnE Haytian warship Alexandre Petion sank about 50 miles south of Cape Tiberot and eighty persons, inclvding many prominent officials and diplomates of the republic, were drowned. Representatives of Canada and the United States have made a satisfactory agreement concerning inspection of immigrants. The Russian warship Pousalka foundered in the gulf of Finland and ten officers and 150 seamen were drowned. Dispatches from Victoria, B. C., report the loss of the Russian steamer Alphonse Zeevecke with sixty persons. At Hachiogii, in the silk-growing district of Japan, nearly 5,000 house* were destroyed by fire. G. D. Root, American vice consul at Guaymas, Mexico, shot himself in the head, dying therefrom. No cause was assigned Gen. Martinez de Campos and Gen. Castellvi were hurt and one soldier killed and five wounded by an anarchist bomb at Barcelona, Spain. The bombardment at Rio de Janeiro was resumed by Admiral Mello, commander of the rebel fleet, and a number of persons were killed. The existence of a widespread anarchistic plot was discovered in Moravia and seventy-one arrests were made. The town of Brenezenica, Poland, was completely wiped out by fire and several persons perished in the flame*.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 30th Senator Palmer (Ill.) and Senator Voorhees (Ind.) defended the president from the attack made upon him by Senator Stewart (Nev.). The senator from Nevada, however, reiterated all that he had said of Mr. Cleveland and declared that the president was influencing senators with patronage. In the house several speeches were made against the repeal of the federal election law. Immigration into Canada this year has proved a failure. Benjamin Tennis, a farm hand, confessed that he outraged and then murdered Agnes Wright, aged 9 years, near Hummelstown, Pa. The business portion of Coral, a village of about 800 inhabitants in Michigan, was destroyed by fire. Attempt was made to wreck the St. Louis express on the Vandalia near Stanton, Ind. It is believed robbery was intended. Rev. E. D. Neill, the first resident Protestant minister of St. Paul, is dead at the age of 70. He had written a number of books. Mrs. Henry L. Stevens and Miss Sophia T.. W. Morton while driving were instantly killed at a crossing on the Boston & Maine railroad near Greenfield, Mass. The large furniture factory of B. A. Kipp & Co. in Milwaukee was burned, the loss being $200,000. While Undertaker Woodward and James Goodell were driving a hearse across the Erie railroad tracks at North Olean, N. Y., they were struck by a passenger train and both killed. John M. Washburn, for thirty years treasurer of the Old Colony road, confessed to having robbed the company in Boston of about $125,000. Charles Herring, 19 years old, killed his 16-year-old wife at Atlanta, Ga., and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. Three Bolduc children at St Evarieste Beach, Can., aged 5, 6 and 8 years, found some strychnine in a bottle and drank it and all died.

Nine men were killed near Hillsboro, Tex., in a collision between trains. The victims were all bridge carpenters. len thousand persons welcomed Governor General and Lady Aberdeen to Montreal. Samuel G. Stodhabt, a car accountant of the Carnegie Steel company, shot his wife at Pittsburgh and then killed himself. Despondency over business troubles was the cause. Seven children are left orphans.