People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Extra Session. Ik the senate on the 18th the discussion was renewed on the question that occupied the attention of the body the day previous—that of Ute amendment of the journal....Ln the house * bill was passed amending the statutes relating to the fees of United States marshals, cierks and commissioners. The New York bridge bill was then taken up and passed. In the senate on the 19th no business of importance was transacted beyond a spirited discussion of the silver purchase repeal bi11....1n the house a resolution was adopted making the bankruptcy bill a special order for next week. The remainder of the session was devoted to services in memory of the late Representative Mutchler. of Pennsylvania. The senate on the 20th devoted four hours and a half to executive business, confirming the appointment of J. J. Van Alen as ambassador to Italy, and also the appointment of Mr. Xilbreth as collector of customs at New York. During the brief period that the doors were open a few unimportant events occurred.... In the house the attorney general transmitted information relating to the Union Pacific railroad. A joint resolution was passed to remit batt the duty on goods exhibited and sold at the world's fair. In the senate on the 21st Senator Peffer <Kan.) occupied the time in a speech against the silver repeal bi 11.... In the house bills were introduced to provide for an international maritime conference to formulate regulations better to protect and care for animals in traneit on ocean vessels, and to increase the penalty for embezzlement by directors and officers of national banks. On the 23d speeches against the silver purchase repeal bill were made in the senate by three senators from silver states—Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, and Teller, of Colorado.... In the house the public printing bill was passed and a bill was introduced amending the civil service law so as to provide for an equal division of offices among the states and their congressional districts. The Oates bill to establish * uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States was discussed.

DOMESTIC. By a collision between two freight trains on a bridge over the Delaware at Yardley and Trenton Junction, N. J., five tramps were killed. Three New York park policemen •were asphyxiated while asleep by gas in a cottage adjoining Central park, New York city, and it was said that a fourth one could not recover. A Denver (CoL) dispatch was to the effect that Dr. Graves, the famous poisoner, who was supposed to have committed suicide in jail, was not dead. It was maintained that a pine log occupied the coffin instead of a body. Two laborers were killed and several severely injured by the caving in of a trench they were digging at Homestead. Pa. M. M. White, president of the Fourth national bank of Cincinnati, was elected president of the American Bankers’ association in session at Chicago. A monument was unveiled at Trenton. N. J., in honor of the victory of Washington over the British in 1776. Six governors from as many states took part in the ceremonies. Three workmen lost their lives by the collapse of a building at Hopkinsville, Ky., undergoing repairs. Mayor Boody, of Brooklyn, has decided that the Corbett-Mitchell prize fight shall not take place at Coney Island. C W. Wells, Saginaw (Mich.) capitalist, was drowned from a canoe ■while hunting near Duluth, Minn. Fierce prairie fires were raging in the vicinity of Faulk county, S. D., and it was said that many farm houses had been destroyed. William Pettit, the Indiana minister convicted of poisoning his wife, has been granted a new trial by the supreme court. May Marshall paced a mile in 2:oß’< at Nashville, Tenn., which was anew record for pacing mares.

James Harshman was killed and Gus Mills was fatally hurt in a runaway accident near Huntington, Ind. It was said that 1,000 families of Louisiana were arranging to establish a great colony in the state of Colorado. Many children were badly hurt in a Washington (D. C.) school panic bv some person starting the cry of fare. Patrick Kanaley died at a Syracuse (N. Y.) hospital, being choked to death by a sponge which he sucked into his windpipe during an operation. An east-bound special train from Chicago collided with the Pacific Express going west in the yards of the Chicago <fc Grand Trunk railway near Battle Creek, Mich., and twenty persons were killed and burned and two score injured, many of whom will die. After the accident happened the cars took fire and the imprisoned passengers were burned with the wreckage, while scores of people stood about unable to

iend any assistance. Most of the bodies recovered were formless cinders. Four ■cars were burned up and the two engines badly wrecked. The Bank of Silverton at Silverton, Col., which closed its doors July last, lias resumed business. Mrs. Charles Smith shot and instantly killed Oscar Walton at Walton, Ind., as the result of a dispute over the possession of property. At the session of the National Worn«n’s Christian Temperance union in session at Chicago, Miss Frances E. Willard was reelected president. William Maenggi, a carpenter at fit. Paul. Minn., brutally murdered his wife after she had retired for the night by shooting her. The murdered wornW was the mother of sixteen children. General Schofield, in his annual report to the secretary of war, recommended a reduction of the term of enlistment to three years. The exchanges at the leading clearing bouses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated •934,560,636, against >903,810,297 the previous week. The decrease, compared With the corresponding week in 1892, was 32.0. v William B. Hathaway committed •uicide at Cincinnati because he could not get work. He had been disinherited by his father, a retired millionaire of Meriden, Conn.

Fob the murder of his wife Nathaniel R. Thompson was hanged in the jail at De Smet, S. D. Business failures to the number of 846 occurred in the United States in the seven days ehded on the 20th. During the week previous the failures numbered 323, against 21<l in the correspnding time in 1892. In a wreck on the Reading railroad near Trenton, N. J., three passengers were killed and five injured. Hamuse's Nightingale, driven at Nashville by Geers, lowered the threemile trotting record from 7:21 X to 6:25XThree masked men bound, gagged and tortured Mrs. McMichael, a lone widow near South Bend, Ind., and robbed her of <l2O. Japan secured 365 of the awards made to world’s fair exhibitors of elegant silk fabrics. William B. Evans and C. A. Hanks, formerly cashier and assistant cashier respectively of the Seven Corners bank at St Paul, Minn., have been arrested for embezzling 1103,000. By vote the Western Traffic association decided to cancel world’s fair rates at midnight October 31. Patrick Burk, a farmer living near Sterling, 111., was found dead in a corn field, and it was supposed that he had been murdered by tramps. William Hauek and Stephen Wray fought a duel at Ettla, Tenn., over a woman and both men were fatally wounded. Engineer Mills and Fireman Buchanan were blown to pieces by the exploding of a locomotive boiler at North Birmingham, Ala. The report of the sixth auditor of the treasurj’ for the fiscal year ended June 30 last shows that the net revenues of the post office department for the year were <77,084,933, and that the expenditures were <81,084,104, making a deficit of <5,178,381. Stratton White, electrical and general implement dealers at Fort Worth, Tex, failed for <400,000. Employes of the Indiana Midland railway who struck because of nonpayment of wages spiked switches, burned bridges and tool houses and tore up many miles of track. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has secured control of the Cleveland & Marietta railroad of Ohio. Thieves went through a sleeping car on a Texas road near Longview and one man lost <16,000 in negotiable bonds and notes. Other passengers lost money, jewelry and wearing apparel. “Lucky” Baldwin, the California millionaire, after twenty years on the turf has decided to sell his string and retire. Trains collided on the Fort Wayne road at Monroeville, Ind., during a heavy fog and four trainmen were seriously and three passengers slightly injured. At Sioux Falls, S. D., Harry Lacey shot and instantly killed his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Lidia Bunker, and then shot himself through the head. Domestic trouble was the cause. Fire in a warehouse in Providence, R. 1., caused a loss of <IOO,OOO. During the week ended on the 21st the paid admissions to the world’s fair numered 1,722,514, making the total paid attendance since the opening day 19,681,307.

Wesley C. Rippey, who shot John W. Mackey at San Francisco February 24 last, was sentenced to pay a fine of >250 or go to jail. Seven persons were implicated in the murder of the Wratten family, six in number, near Washington, Ind., on the night of September 18 last James Stone has confessed. Ned Jenkins (colored) was lynched by a mob in Clybourne county, Ga., for poisoning William Burke’s family. The firm of Frankenthal, Freudenthal & Co., wholesalers of clothing and furnishing goods in Chicago, failed for $350,000; assets, >250,000. A forest fire in the Des Moines (la.) valley burned the timber on over 1,000 acres of land, andajso destroyed many grain stacks and barns. John Gamble (colored) was lynched by a mob near Pikeville, Tenn., for the murder of Miss Rosa Boring, a white girl. A movement is in progress looking to the uniting of all labor orders and unions under a central authority. Six girls of Osceola, Neb., were ‘'Whitecapped” by members of the W. C. T. U., and as a result eleven women were in jail. Six counties in southwestern Kansas have been almost depopulated by crop failures and opening of the Cherokee strips A violent snowstorm raged throughout North and South Dakota and in portions of Minnesota. The male students at the Wesleyan university in Middletown, Conn., have formed a secret society to boycott young women students. Martin Foy, aged 26, was electrocuted in Clinton prison at Dannemora, N. Y., for the murder of. Henrietta Wilson, his mistress, in Saratoga, May 13, 1892. Mrs. George Burbank was granted a divorce by a Tacoma (Wash.) court within three minutes after filing her petition. This is believed to break the record.

The Ingham county savings bank of Lansing, Mich., which closed its doors last May, has resumed business. The close of the fishing season shows that during the year there have been lost at sea from Gloucester, Mass., fiftyseven men, leaving ten widows and thirty-two children. Ten vessels, valued at #60,000, foundered or stranded. The remains of Mrs. A. J. Wagner and her two children were found at Ripley, O. The woman had evidently killed the little ones and herself. Andrew KRiMßiLL,anold and wealthy citizen of South Chicago, and Henrietta Krimbill, his talented and beautiful daughter, drowned themselves in the lake,while temporarily insane. George Meyer & Co., carriage manufacturers in New York, made an assignment withjiabiiities of >IOO,OOO. Five of the directors of the Madison square bank in New York were arrested on criminal charges.

In a row at Atkinsville, 111, William Griffith shot Dennis and Martin Flynn and a son of Robert Wyatt Sixty prominent citizens of Baxter county, Ark., have been indicted under an old law for swearing in public. For lynching the negro Smith at Roanoke, VtL, indictments have been found against six persons, including three police officers. Fire in Corkery’s livery stable at Lc Mars, la., consumed forty head of horses and destroyed other property valued at <IOO,OOO. Three children of Mrs. Adelaide Criltendon fell into a creek near Clayhaltehee, Ala., and were drowned. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Julia C. Conkling, the widow of Roscoe Conkling, former senator from New York, died at her home in Utica, aged 60 years. Lucy Stone, the well-known temperance advote and woman suffragist, died at Dorchester, Mass., aged 75 years. President Cleveland, in declining an invitation to visit Trenton, N. J. r said that he would not leave Washington for any purpose whatever until the important questions which are before congress are disposed of. Gen. Denis F. Burke, who commanded an Irish regiment in the rebellion, died at his home in New York city. Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, an authority on exegesis and church history, died at his home in New York. Miss Sallie Wheeler died in Philadelphia, aged 103 years. Up to the time of her death she was in possession of all her faculties. Mrs. Weltz (colored) died at Rockford, 111., aged 100 years. She was born in Georgia. Henry Mitchell, the pioneer wagon manufacturer of the west, died at his home in Racine, Wis., aged 84 years. John P. Brooks, chief of the New York and New Jersey division of the United States secret service, died at his home in Newark, N. J., aged 64 years.

FOREIGN. Charles F. Gounod, the eminent French composer, died at Paris, aged 75 years. The boiler of the steamship Volga, plying on the river Volga, Russia, exploded at Kasloffka, killing eight of the crew. The great Chinese cotton mill at Shanghai was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being <5,000,000. John Thomas Chappell, builder and contractor at London, England, has failed with liabilities amounting to £220,000. The new Cunard steamship Lueania broke all previous records in steamship travel, the passage from New York to Queenstown occupying only 5 days 13 hours and 40 minutes The Rio Grande do Sul rebels defeated the loyalists in a fiercely fought battle at Abbucy and 1,000 persons were killed. Thirty thousand French troops and all the powers of Europe escorted the remains of Marshal MacMahon to the:r last resting place in the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. The fiftieth anniversary of King Albert’s entering the army was celebrated at Dresden. Emperor William delivered an address. Admiral Mello has proclaimed Frederico G. de Lorena, a captain of a rebel war vessel, provisional president of Brazil. All the Canadian sealers had arrived for the season at Victoria, B. C. The number of sealskins taken this year was 69,471, or 19,000 mon* than last year.

LATER. After discussion es the silver repeal bill in the United States senate on the 24th it was announced that the southern senators opposed to the measure had decided to give up the fight and allow a vote to be taken in a day or two. In the house the time was occupied in discussing the bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy in the United States. A mob lynched two negro thieves near Knox Point, La. The act of the last Michigan legislature permitting women to vote at municipal elections was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. A fire in the freight yards of the Mississippi Valley road in New Orleans caused a loss of >IOO,OOO. George Winegar and his brother William died of heart disease within a few minutes of each other while sitting in a boat on Perch river near Watertown, N. Y. A negro woman named Jordan died in Little Rock, Ark., at the advanced age of 129 years. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices for the week ended on the 21st was >1,191,487, against #867,258 for the corresponding period of 1892, Rev. Benjamin Griffith, D.D., general secretary of the American Baptist Publication society, died suddenly of heart disease while on the way to his office in Philadelphia. A coach on an Indiana & Illinois Southern train left the track near Effingham, 111., and thirteen persons were injured. Fourteen business houses and residences at Benton, Mo., including the post office and jail, were destroyed by fire. The British bark Florence Treat, bound from Singapore to Shanghai, was wrecked in a storm and twenty persons were drowned. A prairie fire in Holt county, Neb., destroyed thousands of tons of hay, and in some places cremated horses, cattle and hogs. James A. Demaree, for twenty years grand reporter of the Knights of Honor, and founder of the order, died suddenly in Louisville, Ky. AtfNTY Baldy, the oldest woman in Indiana, celebrated her 104th birthday at her home in Terre Haute. The fire waste in this country from January 1 to October 1 footed up >121,882,709. The loss during the corresponding nine months of 1892 was >94,992,350; for the corresponding period ol 1891 the loss was >98,960,670.