People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Extra Session. Senator Hili, offered resolutions in the senate on the Ist to amend the rules and pre vest endless filibustering, and providing for an amendment to the rules to authorize the presiding officer to count a quorum present but not voting.... In the house the senate repeal bill was passed by a vote of 193 to 94, and was soon after signed by the president. An analysis of the vote shows that 12t democrats. (58 republicans and 1 populist (Cannon, Cal.) voted tor concurrence, and 70 democrats, 15 republicans and 9 populists against the motion. In the senate a bill was introduced on the 2d by Senator Stewart (Nev.) for the free coinage of silver. The house bill to amend the act of May 5, 1892, prohibiting the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, was passed.... In the bouse a resolution providing that congress adjourn at 3p. m. on the 3d was passed, as was also a resolution allowing the ways and means committee to sit during adjournment A favorable report was made on the bill to admit Utah as a state in the union. A bill was introduced by Mr. Cooper (Ind.) authorizing states to tax national bank notes and greenbacks, and all other notes circulating as money. Anter routine business the senate on the 34 adjourned sine die.... In the bouse a final adjournment was also taken. DOMESTIC. Twenty persons were injured in an accident on the International & Great Northern road near Hearne, Tex. Mrs. Robert Vance, of Simcoe, Ont. who was injured in the wreck at Battle Creek, Mich., died at the Nichols hospital, making twenty-eight victims from the collision. The coinage executed at the several mints of the United States for the month of October aggregated 7,782,140 pieces of the value of $10,003,900. In his Thanksgiving proclamation Gov. Pen noy er, of Oregon, asks for prayer that congress and the president may be favorably disposed toward silver. At Willow river, near Hinckley, Minn., lire did $250,000 damage, the Hames sweeping away the Fox & Wisdom Lumber company’s mills and 250,000 feet of lumber. George O’Neill, a Chicago policeman, was arrested for burglary and a jimmy was found in his possession when taken in custody. By the explosion of a boiler at New York half a dozen men were killed and nearly a score injured. Harding’s planing mill and lumber yard at Zanesville, 0., were burned, the loss being 1100,000. The American Federation of Labor ■will hold its thirteenth annual convention in Chicago on December 11. Fred T. Poston, cashier and confidential clerk for the commission firm of McCoy & Underwood at the stock yards in Chicago, disappeared with $35,900 belonging to his employers. The 2-rnile foot race at Albany, N. Y., for a purse of SSOO and the championship of the world between Smith, of Albany, and MoClennand, of Pittsburgh, Pa., resulted in a victory for Smith, who won in 9:84 3-5, finishing 200 yards ahead. The post office in the government building dispatched 7,937,407 pieces of mail matter during the world's fair. Col. Gilbert S. Jennings, U. S. A., retired, was suffocated by gas at his borne in Detroit, Mich.

S. Blaisdell, Jr.. & Co., large wholesale dealers at Boston and many other places in cotton and wool stocks, failed for >275,000. By a Pennsylvania market train running into a freight caboose at Philadelphia James Hamilton was killed and several persons were injured. Greenlander trotted two ‘miles in 4:34 at Terre Haute, Ind., beating the stallion record. The boiler of an engine on the Iron Mountain road exploded at St Louis and George Schroeder, the engineer, was killed, Thomas Scott, the fireman, was fatally injured and a brakeman, Ed Koeper, was blown into the river and drowned. J. Hampton Hoge, United States consul to Amoy, China, was notified of his removal by the president when about to sail from San Francisco. At the fourth annual convention in Chicago of the non-partisan W. C. T. U. Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney, of Cleveland, was elected president Patrick Eugene Prendergast was arraigned before Judge Horton in Chicago and pleaded “not guilty” to the charge of willfully murdering Carter H. Harrison. More than 10,000,000 persons were fed on the exposition grounds by the Wellington Catering company during the fair. Farmer Trauger's cupidity got the "better of his judgment near Pleasant Unity, Pa., and he exchanged >5,000 for paper scraps. None of the sellers who offered the €4,000 ounces of silver to the treasury, all of which was declined, responded to the counter tender of the treasury. Bo the October purchases of silver wound up all silver purchases under under the Sherman law. The first snow of the season fell at St. Paul, Minn., with the thermometer at freezing point The big woolen mills of the Southwork Mills company at Philadelphia shut down, throwing 1,100 persons out of work.

Sixteen joint resolutions and seventeen bills became laws at the extraordinary session of congress. The whaling bark Alaska that arrived in San Francisco says that never in the history of the world has the present catch been equaled. The total number captured by the fleet was 339. There were 358 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 3d, against 846 the week previous and 238 in the corresponding time in 1892. Masked men robbed the passengers on a train at Oliphant, Ark., and killed J. P. McNally, the conductor. The president issued his annual proclamation naming Thursday. November •0, aa a day of thanksgiving.

The house of Henry Weir at Kennedy. Ala., was burned and three children perished in the flames. Seven hundred Detroit newsboys, whose expenses were paid by Gen. Alger, viewed the fast-fading beauties of the world’s fair. Excluding the value of their goods, American exhibitors claim to have expended from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000 at the world’s fair. Orders to resume the coinage of standard silver dollars were sent to the mints at San Francisco and New Orleans. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 3d aggregated $1,050,712,005, against $928,141,581 the previous wedk. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 24.8. An Ohio Southern train jumped the track near Springfield. 0., and killed five Italians and wounded many other persons. An unknown schponer was wrecked in the recent gales on Lake Michigan and her crew of seven men were undoubtedly lost. All trainmen on the night passenger trains of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad have been armed with Winchester rifles and revolvers to prevent train robbery. Louis A. Wright, an 18-year-old lad of Newton, Mass., now in jail as an incendiary, has confessed to having set the big fires in Boston last spring which caused a loss of property of $3,000,000 and eight deaths. Freight trains on the Central Pacific road collided near Reno, Nev., and six men were killed. Jim Corbett and Charles Mitchell have practically decided to fight before the Olympic club at New Orleans. Experiments are about to be made on the Erie canal looking to the operation of boats by electricity. Extra precautions were being taken to prevent cranks from getting into the white house at Washington, caused by a threatening Idaho man. Almost the whole town of Latham, Kan., was destroyed by an incendiary tire.

An address on the silver question denouncing the repeal of« the coinage clause of the Sherman act has been issued by five senators and a dozen congressmen, • nine of the signers being populists. An express train on the Illinois Central road was ditched by robbers 20 miles north of Cairo, 111., and the fireman and two unknown men, supposed to be tramps, were killed. The wreckers did not secure any booty. Nine race horses were cremated and a stable hand burned in a fire at the Clifton Jockey club track in Paterson, N. J. According to the report of Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell *2,621 fourth class offices were established during the year. A sailboat in which were twentytwo workmen was swamped near New York and ten of the occupants were drowned. Three of the seven men who robbed a train and killed the conductor at Olyphant. Mo., were captured after a hard fight Edward Waggoner, his son, daughter and son-in-law (all colored) were hanged to a tree by a mob near Lynchburg, Tenn., for barn-burning. James E. Stone, the murderer of the Wratten family, six in number, near Washington, Ina., pleaded guilty and was sentenced to be hanged February 16, 1894.

Greenlander trotted 2 miles at Terre Haute, Ind., in 4:32, beating the world’s record. He had previously lowered the stallion record. The courthouse at Brook Haven, Miss., was destroyed by fire and all the records were burned. There were about seventy-five indictments pending against white caps, and they were charged with burning the building. The World’s Columbian commission and the lady managers adjourned sine die. J. W. Rhodes has been appointed receiver of the Phoenix Hotel company at Lexington, Ky. It had a capital of >275,000. The annual report of Commissioner Seymour of the patent office shows that during the last fiscal year the number of patents granted was 23,471; trademarks issued, 1,884. The number of pstents which expired during the year was 13,672. The total receipts for the year were >1,288,809, and the expenditures >1,111,444, leaving a surplus of >177,365. Monday, November 27, has been fixed for the trial of Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. Insanity will be the plea of his attorneys. The annual report of W, T. Harris, United States commissioner of education, shows that the total number of pupils enrolled in the public schools in the United States for the year 1891-92 was 18,234,103. the average daily attendance being 8,552,851. The enrollment for the year 1890-91 is shown to. have been 13,084,282, and the average attendance 8,407,535,

Near Ingram, O. T., a negro burglar cut the throats of three men in order to secure $l6O. Gov. P oster says he will do everything in his power to prevent the Cor-bett-Mitchell fight taking place in New Orleans. After a quarrel in which she received several blows Mrs. John Miner, of St. Louis, seized a revolver and killed her husband. Longfellow, the greatest of American turf sires, died at the Nantura stock farm in Woodford county, Ry. He was 26 years old. While drunk Charles Manning, of Toledo, 0., shot ard killed his wife and her cousin, Mrs. W. R. White, and then killed himself. Seven students of Princeton college at Princeton, N. J., have been indicted for taking part in the hazing of Robert Leopold, of Washington. Treasury department figures show that 430,511 immigrants arrived in this country during the nine months ended . September 30, against 476,848 for the j kame nine months ol 1893.

Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross society, pleaded at Washington for assistance for the unfortunate people of the Sea islands off the coast of South Carolina. She said 30,000 of the people were homeless and without the bare necessaries of life. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Dr. Eli J. Henkle, who represented the Maryland Fifth district in the For-ty-fourth and Forty-fifth congresses, died in Baltimore. Cart. Daniel Marcy, one of the oldest shipmasters of Portsmouth, N. IL, and at one time a member of congress, died at the age of 84 years. Mrs. W. L. Reardon, of Hanna township. Ind., believed to be the oldest woman in Indiana, died at the. age of 103 years. George G. Symes, a member of congress from 1884 to 1888, put a bullet through his head at his residence in Denver. Illness had made him insane. George B. Swift (rep.) was elected mayor pro tem. of Chicago by a vote in the council of 62 to 5. Louis Nash, a historic character in Fort Scott, Kan., and guide to Gen. Fremont on his “Pathfinding" excursions, died at the age of 75 years. FOREIGN. A ferry boat conveying 200 Chinese excursionists to a festival near Hongkong, China, capsized, and twenty persons were drowned. King Lobengula was reported captured in Africa by British troops. I Nearly 3,000 Matabeles were killed in recent battles. In an address to the women of Montreal Lady Aberdeen advocated formation of a national council of women for the dominion. Advices from Yokohama report great floods in Okayama prefecture. Two hundred houses were swept away and over 100 persons were thought to have perished. Two British naval officers, a boatswain and another Englishman, were killed by an explosion of gunpowder at Rio. The famous Chinese giant, Chang, died at Bournemouth, England. In order to extirpate brigandage Sicily has been declared under martial law and will be divided into military districts. At Santander, Spain, the ship Volo, loaded with dynamite, caught fire and exploded and 300 persons were killed, 450 were injured, and property valued at $2,500,000 was destroyed That Italy had plotted to begin war against France during the Toulon fetes is confirmed from official sources. Pierre I. Tsciiaikowsky, the famous Russian composer, died at St. Petersburg from cholera. He was 53 years old.

Refusing to surrender a passenger to the Honduras government the United States Pacific mail steamer Costa Rica was fired on, but none of the shots hit her. Advices from Accra, on the West African gold coast, say the king of Ashantee was stoned to death recently by insurgents in the stret-ts of Coomassie, L;s capital. Further advices from the dynamite explosion at Santander. Spain, say that 1,000 persons lost their lives and many others would die from injuries received. Sir Andrew Clarke, one of the most eminent physicians of the world, died in London, lie was born in Scotland in 1826. Emperor William has issued an edict against gambling in the German army. Gaines of hazzard of all kinds are forbidden.

LATER.

Returns from the various state elections on the 7th indicated that the republicans elected their ticket in New York, headed by John Palmer for secretary of state, by 50,000 plurality and secured the legislature. In Ohio McKinley’s (rep.) plurality for governor was estimated at 50,000; in lowa Jackson (rep.) was chosen governor by 30,000 plurality; in Massachusetts Greenhalge (rep.) was elected governor by 25,000 plurality; in Pennsylvania the republicans elect S. M. Jackson for state treasurer by 100.000 majority; Virginia democrats elected their state ticket by 15,000 plurality; in New Jersey the republicans secured the legislature; in Kansas the republicans were successful and in Nebraska the populists carried the day. During a storm in the Bay of Fundy two vessels were wrecked and twenty men were drowned. The steamer Albany of the Western Transit company and the steamer Philadelphia of the Anchor line collided on Lake Huron off Point aux Barques and twenty-four seamen were drowned. Superintendent Jenkins reports that 2,929 patrol calls, 95 fire alarms and 2,307 ambulance calls were responded to on the grounds during the world’s fair. Levi T. Griffin (dem.), of Detroit, was elected from the First district of Michigan to congress to succed J. L. Chipman, deceased.

Dy the burning of the steamer Fraser on Lake Nipissing, in Canada, nineteen persons lost their lives. Ihe Lycem theater was burned at Memphis, Tenn., the loss being >250,000, and other property destroyed made the total loss >360,000. At Halifax, N. 8., Richard Savage fatally shot his wife and son and then killed himself. He was jealous. The republicans of Chicago and Cook county reelected Joseph E. Gary judge of the superior court by about 7,000 majority. Boilers in the Elrod mills at Sand Mountain, Ala., exploded, killing two men and injuring two others. At Camden, N. J., thirteen persons were injured in fights at the polls between democratic policemen and republican deputies. Republican mayors were elected in the cities of Detroit, Mich., and Brooklyn, N. Y. James S. Lawson, one of the oldest officers in the United States coast and geodetic, survey, having been in the service for the last forty-six years, died in San Francisco.