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

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Extra Sesuon. Several speeches against the silver repeal bill were made in the senate on the 25th....1n the house bills were introduced providing for the retirement of the national bank notes and for the issue in their place of United States notes, and providing that no pension claim heretofore or hereafter allowed shall be annulled, suspended or set aside unless it Is shown that the pension was obtained by fraud or perjury. The bankruptcy bill was further considered. On the 26th discussion of the silver repeal bill occupied the time of the senate.... In the house the death of the chaplain, S. W. Haddaway, of Maryland, was announced, and a committee of seven was appointed to attend the funeral The senate resolution extending the acknowledgment of the United States to foreign governments for their participation in the world's fair were concurred in. The bankruptcy bill was further considered. Senator Peffer's amendment to the repeal bill providing for silver coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 was defeated by a vote of 39 to 28 in the senate on the 27 th, which was taken as meaning that the Voorhees bill would become a law. The measure was further discussed... In the house a resolution calling for information as to state banks was the cause of animated discussion, and an attempt to pass it disclosed the presence of less than a quorum, •whereupon an adjournment was. taken until the 30th *’ The urgency deficiency bill was passed in the senate on the 28th. Various amendments to the silver bill were defeated, and Senator Sherman closed the debate, saying, during his remarks, that the further purchase of silver and making it the standard of value would, it was believed, work irreparable injury to the business of the whole country, to the wages and property of every citizen of the land. Several amendments were voted upon and defeated by about the nominal majority of 11, but the proposition introduced by Senator Barry (dem.. Ark.) to revive the Bland-Allison act was defeated by the narrow margin of four, the roll-call standing 33 yeas to 37 nays. ....In the house the bankruptcy bill was further discussed. In the senate the three months' campaign for unconditional silver repeal practically ended on the 30th ult. A few minutes after 7 o'clock in the evening the Voorhees bill was passed by a vote of 43 to 32. The bill now goes to the house.... In the house Mr. Oates (dem., Ala.) called up his bill to amend the naturalization laws and said the object of the proposed law was to restrict the looseness existing in the naturalization of aliens. The bankruptcy bill was further discussed.

DOMESTIC. Jrmes Stone now says he alone killed the W rattan family near Washington, Ind., and that the men implicated by his first confession are innocent Under clondy skies and with a chill wind Manager paced in 2:06% and fritamboul trotted in 2:09% at Terre Haute, Ind. John Gannon’s residence in Pittsburgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire and two children were cremated and their mother seriously burned. Richard Tate, the absconding treasurer of Kentucky, was captured in Arizona. The first annual national convention of the order of Daughters of the King, composed of women of the Protestant Episcopal church, convened at Baltimere, Md. The work of fixing of a boundary line between the United States and Canada is in progress in Cleveland, O. The Phonolite Glass company, incorporated at Denver with $500,000 capital, will manufacture glass by a new process. House, Lawson & Connor, wholesale dealers in dress goods in New York, failed for $150,000. Nelson Brady, ex-cashier of the Central Michigan savings bank at Lansing, was arrested for misstating the bank s condition. The penalty is twenty years’ imprisonment Nearly 2,000 miners in Colorado in the Walsenburg district struck because of payment in store checks. The Pacific Mail company’s steamer City of New York went ashore in a fog in ban Francisco bay and was wrecked, the loss being over $500,900. Six men were horribly burned by an explosion in a pulp mill at Ashland. Wis., and two would die and the others will be crippled for life. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, offers S2OO reward for the conviction of each white cap engaged in burning cotton gins. The governor of Massachusetts has selected November 30 as Thanksgiving day. J. Irving Latimer, the Michigan matricide, was placed with the other prisoners after nearly seven months’ solitary confinement. Six masked men broke into the house of Peter Painter at Holmesville, 0., tied the inmates and took $760. Mrs. John Williams, of Duluth, Minn., was run down by G. L. Robbins with a bicycle and her neck was broken. A fire in the foundry house of the State penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. A package containing $22,000, consigned from New York to the Whitney national bank of New Orleans, via American express, was stolen by some one unknown. Mrs. Lizzie Lee and Peter Adams, of Richmond, Ind., were arrested for grave robbing. Adams was caught in the act Henry Starr, Kid Wilson and Alf Chaney were found guilty of train robbery on six counts at Fort Smith Ark. Information was received at Milwaukee from Rome that the Order of Good Templars had been placed under the ban, so far as Catholics are concerned. Plunging into a sink hole near Hamburg, Mich., an Ann Arbor freight train caught fire and Engineer Beaulieu, Fireman Albers and Head Brakeman Mulligan were burned to death. The weekly pay law passed by the last legislature was declared unconstitutional by the Illinois supreme court. The Oregm, the largest battle-ship in the United States navy, was launched st San Francisco. Louis J. Silva, cashier for the Rainwater Hat company in St Louis, was said to be a defaulter for over SIOO,OOO, and a result of his peculations the Urm was forced to assign. I

The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 27th aggregated $928,141,581, against $934,566,636 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 20.3. President Palmer has selected the committee of national commissioners to write the history of the world's fair. The explosion of a barrel of whisky in the warehouse of the Chautauqna Lake Ice company at Pittsburgh, Pa., caused the destruction of over $500,000 worth of property and serious injury to eight persons. Cowed when given the oath of his own country, Jun Jeck Lin confessed to the murder of Jung Din Kok.

Dr. F. O. Vincent, a wife murderer, was hanged at Fresno, Cal., Ike Williams (colored) was executed at Madison, Ga., for the murder of Harriet Williams, and Marshall B. Taylor was hanged at Wise Court House, Va., for killing Ira Mullins and his wife and daughter and his brother. John Mullins. Capt. Aaron Kingston with a party of ten left Pittsburgh, Pa., in three boats on a voyage to the Antarctic and Arctic seas. A nude wild man was caught in the woods near Logansport, Ind. The entire neighborhood turqed out in the hunt.

Marshall Field has promised sl,000,000 toward a fund to assure for Chicago a Columbian museum. Miss Daisy Garland, aged 34. daughter of the ex-attorney-general, shot herself through the heart with a revolver at her home in Washington. No cause was known. Joseph Miller while drunk at Continental, 0., shot and killed George McDonald and fatally wounded Andy Hamilton. The Georgia house of representatives passed a bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes in the state. J. V. MitcheLl, clerk of Faulkner county, Ark., has disappeared and so has SIO,OOO intrusted to his care. The post mortem on a supposed baby found in the Battle Creek (Mich.) railway wreck showed the find was a bologna sausage. Business failures to the number of 352 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th. During the week previous the failures numbered 346, against 187 in the correspnding time in 1892. A thirteen-foot vein of natural stove polish was found near Fort Dodge, la. It is a zinc sulphate. Five persons were seriously and thirty-five otherwise hurt in a riot by Boston Italians, who sought an officer’s life. The proposed fight between Jim Corbett and Charley Mitchell for the championship of the world before the Coney Island Athletic association in December has bebn officially declared off. Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago, was shot and killad at his home at about 8 o’clock on the evening of the 28th by Patrick E. Prendergast, a newspaper carrier, who was thought to be insane. Mr. Harrison was 68 years of age, and was serving his fifth term as mayor of Chicago. He was a widower and leaves four children. He was to have been married November 16 to Miss Annie Howard, of New Orleans. The paper mill at Salina, Kan., was manufacturing paper from wild sunflowers. Several tons of the weeds were made into paper which was far superior to straw paper. Official delegations from fifty-four American cities and towns assisted at the reunion of American cities of the nation at the world’s fair.

A committee appointed by a convention of negro lawyers recently held in Chattanooga, Tenn., arrived in Washington to urge upon congress the recommendation of the convention, in case the government does not protect the negro, that $1,000,006,000 be appropriated with which the colored people of this country may be colonized. They seem to favor some part of South or Central America. Effie Smith, quartered in the female section of the Peoria (HL) bridewell for vagrancy, turned out to be a man. Hugh Gordon was frightfully burned by acid placed upon his blowpipe by a union glassblower at Wellsburg, W. Va. Rev. N. S. Holmes, of Columbus, 0., created a stir by declaring in his pulpit that foreigners control the labor unions of this country. Benjamin Sanford, correspondence clerk of the New York Continental bank, is accused of stealing over $50,000 from the firm. Saloonkeepers at Eureka, S. D., angered because they were blackballed, set fire to the masonic and pythian lodge rooms. Philadelphia celebrated the 211th anniversary of the landing of William Penn. Levi H. Ross, of West Lebanon, 0., two weeks ago advertised for a wife to share with him a fortune of SIO,OOO and up to date he had received 100 offers. The paid admissions to the world’s fair during the week ended October 28 were 1,554,572; total since May 1,21,322,422. S. E. North, of Carbondale, HL, claims to have discovered the secret for welding copper. He says the discovery is worth millions. The World’s Columbian exposition came to an official end on the evening of the 30th. The attendance was as follows: Paid admissions, 21,477,212; passes, 6,052,1.88; total attendance, 27,529,400. Altogether the treasury received over $14,000,000 since the first day of May from gate receipts, com cessions and incidental sources of revenue. Against the income from all sources, including the $4,500,000 of bonds and $5,600,000 of stock, there has been a charge of $19,000,000 for construction and the operating expenses have been about $7,000,000. The stockholders have a prospect of a dividend ,oi between 15 and 20 per eent on their subscriptions. The reorganized National GermanAmerican -bank at St Paul, which eloe£d its- doors during the financial stringency August 4. has resumed business. _

Gold ore worth from $7,000 to $lO,000 per ton was discovered in the lowest level of the Victoria mine near Colorado Springs, Col. Santa Anna, the erack racing mare of the Santa Anita (Cab) stables, died of lung fever. She was valued at $50,000. The central and business portion of Dunbar. Pa, was destroyed by fire. The firm of Schacht, Lemcke & Steiner, commission merchants at San Francisco, failed for SIOO,OOO. Patrick Eugene Prendergast was indicted by the grand jury in Chicago for the willful murder of Mayor Harrison. Superintendent Frederick Matthews. of the Postal Telegraph company, was fatally shot by a crank while in his office in New York. The dead body cf a man was found in a trunk at the Rock Island depot in Chicago. A. G. Gurney was arrestfed at JNew Orleans for the theft of the $22,500 package which was stolen from the American Express company October 14. He was a clerk in the express office.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Alexander Beckwell, a lineal descendant of African kings, died in New Orleans, aged 100 years. The Georgia legislature began its fifty-day session at Atlanta. Mrs. Christina Bordner, of Lewiston, 111., attained the 104th year of her age and was in fair health. Justice Williams at Syracuse, N. Y., declared unconstitutional the law of 1892 which gives women the right to vote for school commissioners. Ex-Judge William McKenna, of the United States circuit court, died at Pittsburgh, Pa. He was born in 1816. Maj. Decker, “the smallest living man,” died in Chicago. He was 44 years old, weighed seventy-five pounds and was 32 inches high. Mrs. Harriet Van Derburg (colored) died at Sheffield, HL. at the age of 110 years. King Herod, a colored resident of Atchison, Kan., celebrated his 103 d birthday. He was born a slave in Richmond. Florence Shea, the oldest man in Indianapolis, Ind., died at the age of 104 years. Edwin F. Uhl, of Michigan, was nominated by the president to be assistant secretary of state, vice Josiah Quincy, resigned.

FOREIGN. While on their way to a lumber camp near Parry Sound, Ont., William Lynch, J. Douglas, Narcasse Woods and John Sweet were drowned by the upsetting of their boat. In the City of Mexico the banking house of Pedro Martin & Son, established thirty years ago, failed with liabilities of $1,000,000 and nominal assets of $1,200,000. The Fyfieid church near Abingdon, England, which was built in the thirteenth century, and which was considered an important historical monument, was destroyed by fire. • At Hernesand, a port on the Gulf of Bothnia, the Norwegian bark Nordstjernen ran into a small boat and sunk it, drowning ten persons. In leading a sortie against Riffians at Melilla the Spanish Gen. Margallo was shot dead with seventy of his men. Emilie Zillman was beheaded at Berlin for the murder of her husband. Sir John Abbott died at Montreal, aged 72 years. He was at one time premier of Canada, succeeding Sir John Macdonald. Emperor Francis Joseph accepted the resignation of the entire Austrian cabinet, headed by Count von Taafe.

LATER. In the United States senate on the Ist Senator Palmer (Ill.) reported from the pensions committee a bill stipulating that after July 1, 1893, no pension shall be paid to a non-resident unless he be a citizen of this country, except he has been actually disabled while serving the United States. In the house the passage of the silver purchase repeal bill by the senate was reported and it was plaecd in its regular order on the calendar. Rev. Edward Bagley, pastor of the Christian church in Washington, was selected chaplain to succeed Rev. S. W. Haddaway, deceased. Twenty men wer* killed and eaten by wolves near Shensi, Wash. Coal trains collided near Norfolk, Va., and Engineer Andrews and Edward Bland, a laborer, were killed and five other men were injured. The sugar crop of Cuba for the season of 1894 is estimated at 1,000,000 tons. The steamer Republica rammed the transport Rio de Janeiro, which was conveying 1,100 troops to Santos, and 500 of them went down with the transport and were drowned. James A. Bailey, of Bridgeport, Conn., owner of the Forepaugh show, was robbed of about SIOO,OOO by faithless employes during the past season. Michael Kozak, a Slav banker and steamship agent at Cornells ville, Pa., left town, taking with him about $15,000 of his depositors’ money. By the carelessness of Mrs. John Foley near Anoka, Minn., her two little children were burned to death. The treasury statement for the month of October shows receipts of $36,000,000. The expenditures amounted to $21,000,000.

Two TROTTING horses, Golden Church and Ben, valued at SIO,OOO, were burned to death in a fire at St Joseph, Mo. The body of the murdered mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, lay in state in the city hall and nearly 100,000 persons passed the casket The Non-Partisan National Woman’s Christian Temperance union met in fourth annual convention in Chicago. Highwaymen attacked a mail coach near Brunswick, La., and killed the mail carrier and a passenger but failed to secure any booty. The chief mosque and several houses were burned at Damascus, Egypt, the loss being $5,000,000. The postmaster general estimates that $90,899,485 will be required for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, against $84,004,314, the amount of the present appropriation.