People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Extra Session. 1 Ox the 11th a bill to pension the widow of the late Gen. John M. Corse at the rate of f 100 per month was reported in the senate and placed on the calendar. The silver purchase repeal bill was discussed, and it was announced by Senator Voorhees that the senate would continue in session until the measure was disposed 0f....1n the house a joint resolution providing for a recess of congress from October 14 to November 1 was referred to the committee on rules. The bill to amend the Geary Chinese exclusion bill was taken up and the author of the measure, Mr. McCreary (Ky.), spoke in its Savor.

The senate, after a continuous session of forty hours, adjourned at 1:45 o'clock on the morning of the 13th, and thus the bill for the unconditional repeal ot the silver purchase law was carried down to defeat. During the debate on the 12th an amendment to the bill was offered by Senator Harris (dem.) which provides for the coinage of all the silver bullion in the treasury into full legal-tender dollars at the rate of 3,000,000 per month, and it was thought this amendment would lead to a Anal compromlse....ln the house the McCreary bill to -amend the Chinese registration and exclusion act was discussed and many petitions were presented asking for the repeal of the Geary Jaw. Several amendments to the silver-purchase repeal bill were reported in the senate on the 13th. A resolution to change the rules in refer ence to compelling the attendance of absent senators went over. In answer to an inquiry as to moneys borrowed by the government since March, 1885, the secretary of the treasury sent word that no money had been borrowed ....In the house the McCreary bill to amend and modify the Geary Chinese registration and exclusion act was further discussed. A bill ■was passed increasing from 75 to 100 the number of army officers who may be detailed for military instruction at educational institutions. In the senate on the 14th various important amendments to the rules were offered. Senator Jones addressed the body in opposition to the silver purchase repeal bill, after which the senate adjourned....ln the house the session was occupied in a discussion of the Geary Chinese law. In the senate on the 16th a bill ’was introduced to provide for the control of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads until the debts due and to fall due to the government are fully paid up and secured. The silver purchase bill was further discussed.... In the house the bill to amend the Chinese exclusion act was discussed and finally passed by a vote of 167 to 9.

DOMESTIC. Harry Evans and Johnnie Davis, each 13 years old, drank what proved to be horse medicine from a bottle they found at Alliance, ()., and were fatally poisoned. One of the most terrible wind and rain storms ever known was raging along the Florida coast and exten.ding inland about 50 miles. Reports from •St Augustine were to the effect that the city was practically submerged by water backing over the sea walk William Lucklin, a Detroit (Mich, lad aged 7 years, was given a verdict of $75,000 against the Michigan Central railroad for the loss of both legs last April. Chief Nicholson and Firemen Schofield, Kay, Kendall and O’Brien were •arrested at Council Bluffs, la., for starting fires. Rosa Belle, the handsomest squaw on the Puna reservation in Arizona, was beaten to death by her drunken husband.

Conductor Erd was killed and burned to ashes in a rear-end Northwestern freight collision at Dayton, la. Harry Roman, of Oshkosh, sentenced for life from Waupun, Wis., for murder, has been pardoned. He has served twenty years. The New York sloop Vigilant won the third successive race for the America’s cup, defeating the English sloop Valkyrie. The time of the winner in the 30-mile race was 3 hours 53 minutes and 52 seconds. This ends the ■contest Twelve persons were killed and twenty-one injured in a rear-end collision between New York excursion trains on the Michigan Central tracks at Jackson, Mich. The first train was standing at the depot when the second ran by the semaphore and, the air brakes failing, dashed into its rear coach. The rear two coaches were telescoped and the third thrown from the track. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 13th aggregated 8903,810.297, against $909,846,755 the previous week. The decrease, compared ■with the corresponding week in 1892, was 23.7.

An unknown steamer was sunk in Boston harbor and many persons were believed to have been drowned. The Missouri river threatens to take away Winthrop, Kan., at the first freshet and many families have moved away. Three hundred acres were taken away above the town during the summer by caving banks. The home of George Rossnatki, near Minot, N. D., was burned and his four young sons were cremated. Business failures to the number of 823 occurred in the United States in the •even days ended on the 13th. During the week previous the failures numbered 320, against 2Gu in the correspnding time in 1892. During the last nine months the failures number 11,174, against 7,378 in the same time last year.

During the six days ended on the 13th the paid admissions to the world’s fair numbered 1,925,109. Grand total since the opening day, 17,625,096. While at dinner the office of County Treasurer William Campbell at Black Sock. Ark., was robbed of 4,731 incash. Mies Anna Bowers, aged 21, who se«nred a valuable claim in the Cherokee strip, died from the effects of exposure while waiting upon the line and making the run. Sioux Indians were again indulging in ghost dances near the Rosebud reservation and settlers were preparing for trouble. < t In a drunken fight at a camp meeting near Sacred Heart. O. T., Deputy Marshal Charley Bruno killed his brother Abe and another man. M. V. Gannon, of Chicago, has resigned the presidency of the Irish National league of America.

A monster celebration of the closing day of the world’s fair —to be called Columbus day—is planned by the directors. The Horticultural building on the world’s fair grounds will remain standing during the winter, and with it may be retained three or four other buildings. Wesley C. Rippey, who shot John W. Mackay in San Francisco on February 24 last, was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. J. A. Anderson, a prominent physician of Millington, Tenn., died from poison communicated to his hand in a post-mortem examination of a negro. During a quarrel Edward Sloan beat John Schrecker to death with a large wrench in a Pittsburgh (Pa.) livery barn. Fifteeni persons lost their lives at Magnolia Beach, S. C., by a cyclone from the West Indies. Mrs. R. R. Jones, of Stockton, Kan., committed suicide while insane by hanging herself in a vacant building near her own home. Falling with a lighted lamp in his hand, Cochran Hammond, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., was burned to death. “Bob” Fitzsimmons has issued a challenge to any middleweight in the world, and is willing to take the place of either Corbett or Mitchell in the coming fight A. W. Miller, a prominent lawyer of Memphis, was debarred from practice, being found guilty of betraying and defrauding a client Twenty-eight horses were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a livery barn in Chicago. Two laboring men were struck by a train at Washington, D. C., while walking along the track and instantly killed. The number of persons -who paid admissions to the world’s fair for the week ended on the 14th was 2,083,744 —the largest attendance in any one week since the exposition opened. Railroad men at the world’s fair had a ride on the John Bull train in command of William Finlayson, who was conductor of the first passenger train run in America. Mayor Fisher, of Tryon, N. C., was arrested with two others, as a member of the notorious Barrett gang. With a pair of shears as a weapon Capt W. C. Hale, of Joliet, HL, fatally stabbed his wife and himself.

Crazed by separation from his wife, 11. F. Winn, of Springfield, Mass., cut the throat of his baby boy, then killed himself. The entire chain of lakes was swept by a northwestern gale whose severity has not been excelled for the last ten years. Many vessels were wrecked and a number of lives were reported to have been lost. By the sinking of the steamer Dean Richmond near Dunkirk, N. Y., eighteen lives are believed to have been lost Two negro tramps were killed and three railroad men injured in a collision on the Kock Island road at Paxico, Kan. The main building of the state university at Vermillion, S. D., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,000 or more without insurance. A heavy frost throughout the low’er Mississippi valley did great injury to cotton and vegetation. During the gale at Owen Sound, Ont, the yacht Enterprise was washed ashore and her two occupants were drowned. May aud Edith Coffroth, of Romney W. Va., were drowned in the Cacapon river near Cumberland, Md., by the capsizing of a boat The schooner Minnehaha was driven on the beach north of Onekama, Mich., and her crew of six were drowned.

While playing with a loaded revolver at Topeka, Kan., Bert Myers, aged 17, accidentally shot and killed his 8-year-old brother. A fire destroyed a number of prominent business houses at Detroit, Mich., entailing a loss of $200,000. One man, George Barline, was burned to death. The world’s congress of the Woman’s Christian Temperance union convened in annual session at the Art palace in Chicago, fifteen different nations being represented. Elames destroyed thirty buildings in the business portion of King City, Mo., occasioning a loss of $150,000. Prisoners in the jail at Brazil. Ind., had planned to hang one of their number, but the plot was discovered. Fifty miles of timber, reaching from Montgomery county, Tex., to the Sabine river were in flames. Several towns were in danger. Jacob E. Sawyer, wholesale clothier of Milwaukee, made an assignment, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Dr. W. B. Shumaker, a prominent citizen of Ackerman, Miss., was killed by W. H. Heflin, against whom he had preferred charges of keeping a gambling house. Dr. J. M. Pratt, one of the bestknown physicians of Hill county, Tex., was shot and killed by W. C. Harris, a constable. William Whaten, confined in the Ohio penitentiary, confessed to the warden that he was the author of five mysterious and brutal murders committed near Yellow Springs, Green county, that state.

By the premature explosion of dynamite while charging the village well at Emington, HL, five men were killed and five seriously injured. Out of the five injured only two have any chance for recovery. The explosion shook the buildings within a radius of 8 miles and not a whole pane of glass was left in the town. Spreading rails wrecked a train on the Wabash railroad at Nameoki, 111., and injured more or less seriously about thirty world’s fair excursionists, homeward boundFrank Moese was fatally stabbed in Fort Howard, Wis., by his brother-in-law, Adolph Krause, as the result of a family feud. i Four of the jurors who acquitted Actor M. B. Curtis at San Francisco, CaL, are said to have been purchased for $2,000 each. Chinese residents on the Midway Plazance ushered in the Celestial New Year with the explosion of a million firecrackers.

At Ottumwa, la., Samuel 8. Sherman, editor of the Daily Republican, was fatally injured by being run over by an electric car. He was riding a bicycle when a slip sent him under the wheels. While a party of men was searching for bodies from the wrecked steamer Dean Richmond at Dunkirk, N. Y„ their boat capsized and George I. Thurber. Frank Cahoon and George Mann were drowned. At Salem, Ind., five white caps were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to five years. Emma Goldman, the anarchist, was sentenced to a yfear’s imprisonment in the penitentiary at Sing Sing, N. Y. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. James A. Hueston, ten years ago manager of the Associated Press, died at New York of cerebral meningitis. Carl Rourke, the largest man in America, weighing 520 pounds, died at Belmont, N. D. His coffin was 7X by 3 feet Thomas C. Eastman, the largest exporter of meat in the country, died near Tarrytown, N. ¥., aged 72 years. After seventeen years’ separation and remarriages James T. Baxter and Mrs. Nellie M. Metcalf were again united at Washington, D. C. Ex-Congressman John L. Thomas, Jr., one of the most prominent men in Maryland and for many years a leader in the national and state councils of the republican party, died at his home in Baltimore, Md. R. W Crawford, at one time the cattle king of southern Texas, died at Hemstead. James H. Stone was nominated for congress by the republicans of the First Michigan district to succeed Logan J. Chipman, deceased.

FOREIGN. A train on the Transcaucasian railroad on which was carried a large sum of money to pay the soldiers at Batoum, Russia, was attacked at Nigoita by brigands, who succeeded in securing the money. Three of the gendarmes on the train and four of the robbers were killed. A mail boat plying between Rousay and May in the Orkney island was upset in a squall and the two boatmen, a woman and three children were drowned. The government has decided to prohibit all further exploring expeditions in German East Africa. Reports received at London say that only the terms remain to be settled by which Brazil will become a monarchy. Nine thousand Derbyshire (England) miners returned to work at the old scale. Police and outlaws fought at Ilan, Mexico, and eight men were killed. Guatemala’s president has declared himself dictator, dissolved the session of congress and ordered a new election. While crossing the English channel the steamer Marie Henriette ran into and cut in half a Danish bark. Six of the crew were drowned. President Peixoto, of Brazil, issued a decree depriving the insurgents of the protection of the flag. Three ferryboats were wrecked and 100 lives were lost by a typhoon on the Yellow river in China. The works of Wagon-Lits compagnie at St. Denis, France, were burned, entailing a loss of 2,000,000 francs. Charles F. Gounod, the composer of “Faust,” was stricken wdth apoplexy at Paris. As he is 75 years old his death was expected. Grand Duke Nicholas, theczarowitz of Russia, has been betrothed to Princess Victoria, daughter ot the prince of Wales.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 17th no business of importance was transacted beyond a lively discussion of the silver purchase repeal bill. In the house the bill removing the necessity for affirmative proof of loyalty of pensioners of wars previous to the civil war was called, discussed and passed. The bill to prevent officers and directors of national banks from borrowing from their banks without written permission of a majority of the directors was also passed. An accident on the Pennsylvania road at Wellsville, 0., resulted in the death of four men and the serious injury of three others. The failure is announced of the Wellman Iron & Steel company at Chester, Pa. The firm has a capital stock of $1,000,000. Count and Countess Blucher were murdered at Berlin by their gardener, who was angry at the dismissal from the count’s service of a pretty servant girl with whom the gardener was in love.

Fire destroyed the principal business block at Mankato, Minn., causing a ■’heavy loss. A car in which were seventy railroad employes was wrecked in the yards at Altoona, Pa. Seventeen were badly hurt Charles Snyder, a notorious thief of Mansfield, 0., was sentenced to sixty years imprisonment for the theft of a surveyor’s outfit It was estimated that the storm of October 14 cost fifty-five lives and caused a loss of over $675,000 to lake shipping. Six men were literally blown to atoms by the explosion of a powder mill at the Servian village of Kragujevatz. At Dunkirk, N. Y., thirteen bodies of victims of the Dean Richmond disaster were washed ashore.

A loss of $50,000 in transit between New York and New Orleans is being investigated by the American Express company. It was said that rapid progress was being made in the framing of a tariff bill and that it would be reported to the house early in December. P O’Connor, a wealthy retired farmer of Lyons, la., was relieved of $2,600 by the gold brick game. Field Marshal Maurice de MacMahon, duke of Magenta, ex-president of the French republic and one of the most renowned soldiers of France, died in Paris, the immediate cause of death bein la grippe. He was aged 86 years.