People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Extra SeMion. • Senator Peffer made the only speech made in the senate on the 28th on the silver repeal bill. His remedy for the financial troubles is the adoption of an amendment offered by him to restore the free coinage act of 1837. A joint resolution to permit the state of Wisconsin to have placed in the statuary hall of the capitol at Washington a statue of Pere Marquette was introduced. ...In the house Mr. Black (III.) made a speech in favor of the repeal of the federal elections law. Mr. McKaig (Md.) presented bills aggregating 1231,000 against the governmen t for claims growing out «f the raids of Gen. Jubal Early during the ■war. As an outgrowth of filibustering Mr. Fithian (HL) called Mr. Morse (Mass.) a liar, but no blows were struck. Mr. Harris (Tenn.) and Mr. Morgan (Ala.) spoke in the senate on the 29th against the silver repeal bill. Mr. Cameron (Pa.) presented a petition from Philadelphia manufacturers representing 175,000,000 capital, employing 100,000 men with a yearly product of 1150,000,000, in favor of legislation to preserve the protective character of the tariff and the integrity of silver as a money metal... In the house arguments were made for and against federal supervision of elections. A communication from Secretary Carlisle stated that there were 106,888 Chinamen in the country, and of this number 13,243 were registered. In the senate on the 30th ult the silver question was further discussed.... In the houses resolution was Introduced providing for the submission of the question of free silver canage to a popular vote. Messrs. Patterson ana Warner argued for federal election law repeal and Mr. McCall defended the measure. The silver purchase repeal bill was discussed in the senate on the 2d, Senator Kyle (pop., S. D.) addressing the senate in opposition to the bi 11.... In the house the election laws repeal bill was further discussed by Messrs. ■Cooper (dem., Fla) and Clark (dem., Mo.), who spoke against the bill

DOMESTIC. Something of a sensation was created at the white house by the advent of a lunatic, who claimed to be President Cleveland’s son. At Hazel Patch, Ky., a Louisville & Nashville passenger train was wrecked and Express Messenger Jim Kelly, Mail Agent Smith and Fireman Lew Ryan were killed and Arthur Pearce fatally Injured. A dozen persons have lost their lives in prairie fires in the last few days in the western part of the Cherokee strip in Indian territory. Henry Maher, a wealthy operator of western silver mines and cattle ranches, dropped dead on Bank street in New York. In his pocket was found 13,000 in money. The entire business portion of Casa Grande, A. T., consisting of hotels, stores, saloons and a few dwellings, was destroyed by fire. The supreme council of the Minnesota Knights of Pythias in session at St. Paul decided not to admit saloonkeepers as members of the order. Marion Hedgepeth was found guilty at St. Louis of train robbery and sen'tenced to a term of twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Mrs. J. H. Raisley killed her husband at Paola, Fla., and then took her own life. Domestic trouble was the cause. Jim McGrath, a notorious Chicago bully, fatally wounded a companion and was afterward killed by two police officers. In a head-end collision on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road Dear Streator, 111., Engineer Gribbell was killed and eleven other persons were injured. Frank Kendrick, a bank cashier at Syracuse, N. Y., confessed that he was a defaulter for 130,000. Near Gulfport, Miss., a passenger train went into an open switch and three persons were killed and eight others injured. H. C. Tyler made a new world’s bicycle record at Springfield, Mass., going 2 miles, with standing start, in 4:15 3-5. Clifford M. Claverty, a tight-rope walker, fell a distance of 90 feet at Trenton, N. J., and sustained fatal injuries. John Turpie, a brother of the Indiana senator, has returned to his home in Delphi after being, mourned as dead for a quarter of a century. Louis King, a Chinese merchant at Seattle, Wash., was denied citizenship in the United States court. At an African Methodist conference in Indianapolis Bishop Walters said that the lynching of negroes in the south for trifling offenses, and in many cases innocent negroes, was increasing to an alarming extent and called for vengeance. Dr. Thompson, of St. Louis, urged the negroos to avenge their wrongs with blood. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 29th aggregated >772,068,725, against $798,807,399 the previous *week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 27.0. Henry Coleman, Jr., a negro who attempted to assassinate Capt. Thomas Lyles at Midway, was hanged by a mob mear Benton, La

Business failures to the number of 829 occurred in the United States in the «eren days ended on the 29th, against 319 the preceding week and 177 during the same time last year. During the past three months the total number of failures was nearly 4,000 and the aggregate of liabilities about $150,000,400, greatly surpassing the record of any previous quarter. Robert T. Hunt shot and killed his wife and himself at Indianapolis. He was a dissolute artist W. C. Percival, cashier of the Na-i tional shoe and leather bank of Lewiston, Me. , died in the state prison at 'Thomaston. Milo Wilson, who killed 11-year-old Jm Warman because she would not marry him, committed suicide by blowing his brains out at Williamsburg, O At # meeting of the Greene County baptist association at Springfield, Mo., Elder J, M Carter, as well as the Ash •Grove baptist Church, was expelled for

The Texas state treasury was said to be bankrupt. A tremendous rain poured down at Pine Bluff. Ark., and with it came millions of small frogs. The streets in the business part of the town were so covered with them that it was difficult to walk. Counterfeit twenty-dollar bills were in circulation in Chicago. The bills are wood-cut imitations of a silvej certificate of the series of l»80, check letter A. Its number is B 3132168. Snow fell in portions of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Forest fires were raging near Winchester, 0., and in Jefferson township, and many farmhouses and barns had been destroyed. Five negroes were hanged together on one scaffold at Mount Vernon, Ga. Tnrea of them murdered Alexander Peterson, a rich merchant, last July; the fourth killed a 5-year-old child and the fifth murdered a negro companion. The Michigamme river broke through the Mansfield iron mine near Crystal Falls, Mich., drowning twenty-eight of the employes at work directly under the stream. Laborers in making excavations near Mechanicsburg, 0., exhumed twenty skeletons of an ancient race. One of them, richly decorated, sat upright and evidently had been a chief. A dog sat by his side. The league baseball season ended with Boston the winner of the penant The percentages of the clubs at the close was as follows: Boston, .667; Pittsburgh, .628; Cleveland, .570; Philadelphia, .558; New York, .515; Cincinnati, .512; Brooklyn. .508; Baltimore, .488; Chicago, .441; St Louis, .432; Louisville, 400; Washington, .308. Wilhelm Marquardt, on the day that he was to have been married, climbed into a freight car at Chicago and blew out his brains. John M. Schaeffer was accidentally shot and killed by Edward Egeberdt at a Carthage (Ill.) amateur theatrical rehearsal. Bandit Sontao has made a confession at Sacramento, CaL, with a view to having his life sentence reduced.

William Hunt fell headlong into a well near St Joseph, Mo., striking George Anderson who was at the bottom doing some repairing. The skulls of both were crushed. It was said that the bodies of the twenty-eight victims of the mine disaster near Crystal Falls, Mich., would never be recovered. Foreign nations are contributing articles to be woven into the “international peace rope” for the new liberty bell. Diphtheria has become epidemic at Grantsburg, Wis., the disease being of the worst type. Many persons were dying daily. During the progress of funeral services at the residence of Assemblyman Bow, at Kingston, Wis., the floor gave way, precipitating 100 people into the cellar. Several were seriously injured, one fatally. The relatives of the Wrattan family offer a reward of 11,000 for the apprehension and conviction of the parties who murdered that family of six on the night of September 18 at Washington, Ind. Mrs. Daniel Griffin, of Sandy Hill, N. H., and Mrs. L. L. Griffin, of Tampico, 111., were instantly killed by a locomotivs at Dunham’s Basin, N. Y. The recent heavy gale on Lake Michigan resulted in a long list of wrecks being added to the already disastrous marine season. Dr. Foglesong was sentenced to solitary confinement for life at Hillsdale, Mich., for poisoning his wfe. Henry Coleman, Jr., the negro who attempted to assassinate Capt. Thomas Lyles at Shreveport, La., was taken from jail by a mob.and lynched. Centerburgh, a town in Ohio near Mount Vernon, was almost destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Commercial travelers organized a national league at New York with a membership of 300,000. The public debt statement issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased $834,793 duringfehe month of September. The cash in tne treasury was $106,875,633. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $961,386,975. At a special meeting of the world’s fair directors it was decided to admit children under 14 years of age for ten cents each beginning with October 10, and children under 6 years of age free. Resisting an attempt to hold him up at Sioux City, la., John Rohrer was shot and killed. MuncSe representatives have appealed to *Gov. Matthews of Indiana for aid for the smallpox stricken town. One of the worst storms in years visited the vicinity of Mobile, Ala. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted and several persons were reported to have lost their lives. Mannio Levandie, an insane Greek sign painter, drew a roll of money from his pocket at Pittsburgh, Pa., and burned $l5O before he was stopped by the police. . The Kentucky law, passed at the last session of the legislature, requiring separate coaches for white and colored passengers has gone into effect and the colored people have organized and will file suit to test the constitutionality of the statute.

Roughs attacked a meeting near Jonesboro, Ga., and in the fight two men were killed outright and several seriously wounded. John W. Bell, a prominent attorney of Plymouth, 0., has disappeared and is said to have left a shortage of $30,000. Maa' Catharine Werner, oa widow 74 years old, was killed at Joliet, IIL, by being struck by an engine. Geobge McFadden, a negro, was lynched at Moore’s Crossroad, S. C., for assaulting a Ifi-year-old white girl Repobts from the whaling fleet in the Arctic are to the effect that nearly all the vessels have had good luck and that the catch this season will be unUMally large. Four persons were reported to have been killed by falling walls and seven badly injured by a fire which destroyed the Farnham Street theater at Omaha, Neb. The loss on the building an(i property destroyed was $200,000.

Policeman O’Brien, of th* Chicago, Milwaukee <fc St Paul force was shot and killed by a tramp at Mason City, la. Three persons were killed and three others badly injured by the collision of freight trains near Edgewood, Q. Two employes of the Greenwood cemetery at Brooklyn, N. Y., had a quarrel in the cemetery and as a result of a fight which followed each killed the other with sickles with which they were cutting grass. The following national banka which recently suspended payment have been permitted to reopen for business: The Kentucky national bank of Louisville, Ky.; the Farmers’ national bank of Findlay, 0., and the Union national bank of Rochester, Minn. The United States court of appeals in session at St. Paul, Minn., sustained the decision of the lower court as to the legality of the Trans-Missouri Freight association as a trust The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices for the week ended September 30 was $541,663; for the corresponding period of 1892, $12,925.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The president has withdrawn the nomination of Leopold Morse, of New York city, to be consul at St Christopher, West Indies. Willis D. Machen, ex United States senator, died at Hopkinsville, Ky., aged 84 years. Dr. L. P. Dodge, a republican politician of Farmington, Minn., died from hiccoughs. He was 60 years old. In many counties in Kansas the populists have nominated women as their candidates for coroner, register of deeds and county clerk. A bill was introduced in the national house of representatives to commemorate the beginning of the twentieth century of the existence of the Christian religion by a world’s exposition to be held in New York in 1900. Sister Loretta, directress of the Georgetown convent, is dead. She had been connected with the convent for fifty years, and instructed many of the women of the country who have since become prominent

FOREIGN. Attempting to escape from a synagogue at Kalwarya, Poland, supposed to be on fire, nine persons were killed and 100 injured. Turkey has been compelled by the United States government to make reparation for outrages perpetrated on American missionaries. The ruins of an ancient town near Laurium, in Greece, have been unearthed. Efforts at reconciliation between Emperor William and Prince Bismarck are said to have come to naught Anarchist Pallas, who threw the bombs at Barcelona, Spain, has been sentenced to death by the court martial. France has rewarded the officers and men who distinguished themselves in running the Menam river gauntlet at Siam. Austria has restricted the press, right of public meeting and trial by jury on account of renewed agitation by young Czechs. Many people were killed and scores injured by a severe storm which swept over Jalapan, Mex. A tin pail filled with American silver coins dated previous to 1854 was found hidden in the woods near Perth,Canada. The Golden Dragon hotel, a resort of Rhine tourists near Berlin, collapsed, killing seven persons. Three railway bridges over the Canadian at Canadian City, Purcell and Union City were destroyed by floods.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 3d an amendment to the silver purchasing repeal bill was offered. It revives the free-coinage act of 1837 and remits 20 per cent, of the import auties on goods from countries which accept the American standard dollar. The repeal bill was taken up and discussed. A bill was introduced permitting the railroads to pool traffic under restrictions. The house without transacting any routine business resumed the consideration of the federal election repeal bill and was addressed by Mr. Northway in opposition to the measure. M. D. Bunch, postmaster at Witherspoon, Ark., was fatally poisoned by people against whom he testified in a hog-stealing case. “Aunt Eliza” Porter (colored), of Atchison, the oldest woman in Kansas, is dead. She was born August 16, 1792, in Kentucky. Fire destroyed the immense car barns of the Canton-Massilon Electric Railway company at (Janton,' 0., the loss being SIOO,OOO. Twelve leading residents near Co lumbus, Ind., were indicted by the grand jury for cruelly whipping a woman.

Erastus Wells, ex-congressman, and the first to operate an omnibus West of the Mississippi, died at St. Louis. President Cleveland has made a new rule in regard to officeseekers, and will hereafter refer all applicants for office to the heads of the different departments. It was said that fully 10,000 men were idle in the Mahoning valley, Ohio, and many were suffering for the necessaries of life. The Canadian government has decided to impose a further restriction on Chinese entering Canada. Ralph Smith, aged 13, accidentally shot and fatally injured George Mason, aged 16, at Columbus, O. Richard Noble, aged 80 years, a well-known citizen of Mount Pleasant, la., was gored to death by a mad bulk Some unknown person placed a dynamite cartridge between Eliza Dent and Houston Kelly (colored) at Paris, Ky., killing both of them. Further advices from the terrible storm which swept over a portion of the southern states are more appalling than were at first reported. All along the south coast of the gulf is death and destruction. The total number of lives lost so far as reported was said to be 807, and the property loss would foot np to millions of dollars.