People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From Al! Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Thb first regular session of the Fifty-third congress convened at noon on the 4th. In the senate a large number of Oills and resolutions were Introduced and referred to appropriate committees. After the reading of the president’s message the deaths of Charles O’Neill and William Lilly. late representatives from Pennsylvania, were announced and the senate, as a mark of respect, adjourned.... The speaker called the house to order at noon and H. S « Bundy, of Ohio, and Mr. Griffin, of Michigan, new members, took the oath as office. The deaths of Messrs. O'Neill and Lilly were announced. After the reading of the message from the president the house adjourned. DOMESTIC. Colorado's gold output for 1893 will show an increase of over 100 per cent, over 1892, which was up to that time the largest yearly output in the history of the state or territory. The Mexico (Mo.) Daily Intelligencer, edited by S. B. Cook, secretary of the democratic state central committee, has suspended.

At Oak Harbor, 0.. a boiler in a sawmill exploded, killing Edward Gordon, engineer. Edward W. Monroe, sawyer, and David Wright, laborer. The general assembly of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit association in session at Indianapolis voted to consolidate with the other farmers’ organizations of the country. In answer to Commissioner, Blount's report on Hawaiian affairs ex-Minister Stevens alleges a conspiracy to discredit Harrison’s administration. For the first five months of the present fiscal year the government expenditures have exceeded the receipts by <34,000,000. Newton Jones, who killed O. G. Herndon, was lynched at Baxley, Ga. He was taken from the officers who had arrested him. Secretary Lamont in his annual report of the war department says the total strength of the army on September SO, 1898, was 2,144 officers and 25,T 79 enlisted men. The organized militia in the states numbered 112,597 men. The expenditures for the year were <51,966.074.

Of th? grand jury which recently adjourned at Columbia, Mo., three members are dead and another was ill” John R. Proctor has been appointed civil service commissioner in place of G. D. Johnston, removed by the president. Seventeen business houses were burned at Jasper, Ala. It was reported that thirteen persons were drowned in the Missouri opposite Blaire, Neb., while trying to cross the river with cattle. In a drunken row among miners at Eckman. W. Va., six men were killed and four others were fatally injured. Miss Edith Erskine, of Pleasureridge Park, Ky., won fifteen barrels of whisky by guessing on world’s fair attendance. The annual report of Secretary of the Navy Herbert shows that the total number of serviceable war vessels in the United States navy is forty-one, •fifteen of which are armored. In addition there are sixty-four vessels on the list, mostly wooden cruisers, tugs and monitors that are set down as unserviceable for war purposes.' The United States ranks seventh in the list of naval powers.

Protesting his innocence of the murder of his wife and mother-in-law Van Baker died of consumption in the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville. R. E. Preston, the director of the mint, in his annual report says the value of the coinage executed at the United States mints during the fiscal ■year was $43,685,17a The stock of metallic money in the United States in July, 1893, was estimated to have been: Gold, $97,697,685; silver, $615,861,484. The amount of money in active circulation, exclusive of the amount held by the treasury, was stated as $1,596,701,255. An incendiary fire destroyed Jackson City, the Monte Carlo of the district of Columbia. Promoters of the new town site at the gold discoveries in Colorado have named it Balfour, in honor of the English champion of bimetallism. Twenty-one horses were burned in a fire at Lexington, Mo., and five others were made useless by their injuries. Fibe destroyed the interior of a large clothing store in Chicago, the loss beng $185,000.

Helen Dauvhay, the actress, was granted a divorce from John M. Ward, the ball player, by a New York judge. The public debt statement issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased <6,715,898 during the month of November. The cash balance in the treasury was $95,199,617. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $961,568,316. Flames in the worsted mill of J. F. Cochran & Bro. in Philadelphia caused a loss of $225,000. There were 278 business failures in the United States iu the seven days ended on the Ist, against 387 the week previous and 236 in the corresponding time in 1892. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Ist aggregated ♦790,870,812, against $957,775,035 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 42.8. The secretary of the interior in his annual report says the policy of removing from the pension rolls those who are not legally thereon will be continued, and denies that the purpose has aver existed at an extreme and unrvMnnjble manner of suspending pen•BMMira. He say* the work of the Indian bureau shows that they are steadfly advancing in civilization. He MKnvometuU that Arizona, New Mexico and Utah be admitted as stau s into ♦be nnion

Thousands of Kansas City people were suffering from the grip. Fire destroyed the Newell block at Utica. N. Y., the loss being 8140,000. Victor F. Cyrier, a drug clerk employed by E. L. Caron in Chicago, and Mrs. E. L. Caron, the wife of Cyrier’s employer, committed suicide at the Virginia hotel. They, left letters indicating that the pair had been too intimate. Abe Stein & Co., importers of goat skin, hides, etc?, in New York, failed for 81,000,000. George Armstrong (colored) was hanged at Taylorsville, Ky., for the murder of Kate Downs; John Reiter was executed at Astoria, Ore., for the murder of Victor Snellman, and Charles Johnson (colored) was hanged at Swainsboro, Ga., for the murder of a negro named Shields. The leather firm of Edwards A Barrett. of Boston, failed for 8500,0Gu. The government receipts from all sources during November aggregated 823,979.400, or nearly 85,000,000 less than during the same time in 1892. The expenditures last November were $31,302,026, or $1,750,000 more than in November, 1892. The town of Durant, I. T., was completely destroyed by fire. Leroy, alias Edwards, the murderer of Mrs. Dr. Haynes and three other women in Denison, Tex., was sentenced to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment. It was reported that a large number of Chinese were coming into the United States at a point a few miles below Debrio, Mexico. During the recent blizzard Nicholas Bergstrom and two daughters were killed by snow slides at Glendale, Mont., three miners met a like fate at Hecla, Mont., and near Pine City, Minn., Mrs. Russell and her daughter were frozen to death. The New York board of education will try to put an end to cigarette smoking among scholars In Baltimore three large manufacturing buildings and the University of Maryland were burned, causing a loss of $400,000. The failure of members to meet their obligations has caused the collapse of many building associations in western Pennsylvania.

In navigating the great lakes in the season just closed 123 lives were lost, fifty-three boats, with an aggregate tonnage of 24,258 and valued at $1,040,400, passed out of existence, and partial losses by stranding, collisions and fire bring the grand total of losses on boats to 82,112,588. Woman suffrage was carried by 6,347 majority in Colorado and Gov Waite has issued a proclamation giving women the right to vote at all elections in the state. A shortage of more than $40,000 has been discovered in the accounts of Lewis A. Arthur, treasurer of Bedford county, Va. Swearing he would not go to jail for life Alfred Anderson swallowed poison in a Fort Madison (la.) court. Three men seized the Luzerne (la.) depot, robbed every person who came along and imprisoned them in the freight room. Judge Stover, of Kansas City, Mo., decided shaving unnecessary labor and that barber shops should be closed on Sunday. Mrs. Macßeady, of Florence, Kan., was suffering from hydrophobia taken from a chicken that had been bitten.

Judge Winters, of Indianapolis, ordered the receiver of the Order of Iron Hall to wind up its affairs. Three men were killed while descending the shaft of a slate quarry at • Welshtown, Pa., by the breaking of I the cable. The special committee sent to the upper'Michigan peninsula by Gov. Rich reports the miners in urgent need of relief. For stealing cattle to feed starving families six men received a one-year sentence at Cheyenne, Wyo., the lowest penalty. Houses Nos. 1 and 2 of the Union Dock & Warehouse company at Duluth were burned, causing a loss of $105,000. Pauline Cushman, the noted female scout of the rebellion, died at San Francisco from an overdose of morphine. A fire swept through the commercial center of Baltimore, entailing a a loss of $700,000 and throwing out of employment over 500 persons. Lucius Holt, a negro arrested at Concord, Ga., on suspicion of the murder of Wilbur Reynolds, was lynched by a mob. A bronze statue of Roscoe Conkling was unveiled in Madison square, New York.

The annual report of the comptroller of the currency shows 3,796 national banks to have been in operation at the close of the report year, with a capital stock of $695,558,120. W’ithin the same period 158 banks suspended, with a capital stock of $30,300,000. Of this number eighty-six, with a capital stock of $18,205,000, resumed, and sixty-five passed into the hands of receivers, with a capital stock of $10,885,000. The seventh annual report of the interstate commerce commission elaitns reforms have been made, although short of expectations. A fire at Corsicana, Tex., cremated thirty-five horses and burned other property, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 4th was: Wheat, 78,091,000 bushels; corn. 7,948,000 bushels; oats, 4,255,000 bushels; rye, 594,000 bushels; barley, 3,342.000 bushels. In aVfitof insanity John Dunlap, a in Chicago, shot his wife and himself fatally. Crazed by business troubles O. B. Sawyer, of Palestine, Tex., shot his wife and then killed himself. John Delfino, an Italian barber, was successfully electrocuted in the state prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., for the murder of Caroline Gissell in Brooklyn eleven months ago. E. C. Williamson, mayor of Hazelhurst, Miss., was beaten to death with a baseball bat by Kirby Miller. Three hundred men resumed work in the Pullman repair shops at Wilmington, De!., at a reduction of 20 per cent in wages.

The boiler of a Texas & Pacific engine exploded near Eastland, Tex., killing Engineer Charles Elliott, Fireman Charles Bee vers and Brakeman Frank Spence. The Citizens' national bank at Grand Island, Neb., the oldest bank in the city, closed its doors. A canal which will irrigate 1,260,000 acres of land in the Salton desert is projected by a number of Denver capitalists. The Bruen stables near Burlington, la, were burned and fourteen valuable horses perished in the flames. Secretary Carlisle asks for an appropriation for the treasury department for the next fiscal year of $411,879,041. John Davis was horribly burned and his wife and child cremated in a prairie tire in the Cherokee strip. At Erie, Pa, Edward Cady, a Victim of morphine, killed two of his children and then put a bullet in his own brain. Another big gas well whs struck in West Seneca, near Buffalo, N. Y., the flow of which was estimated at 1,000,000 feet per day. Ricord llosseau. president of the Banque Franeaise in New York, fled w ith at least $20,000 belonging to his depositors. The New York locomotive machine works at Rome, N. Y.. were burned, the loss being $500,000. A fire in the store of the Powers Dry Goods company at St. Paul, Minn., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Du. Alexander Guy, aged 93, died at Oxford, O. He gave thousands of dollars to colleges, churches and charitable institutions. Ex-Congressman Phillips, of Salina Kan., died suddenly at Fort Gibson, I T. He served three terms; r the house Gen. William Lilly, congressman at large from Pennsylvania, died at his home at Mauch Chuuk of congestion of the lungs. Judge E. C. Billings of the United States circuit court at New Orleans, La., died from heart disease at New Haven, Conn. Samuel Richards, one of the foremost of American artists, died at Denver of la grippe. Wap Sey, a Pottawattomie Indian living near Hartford, Mich., is liOyears old. The republicans of Chicago nominated George B. Swift for .mayor and the democrats named John P. Hopkins. J. J. Van Alen has declined the appointment as ambassador to Italy.

FOREIGN. In a collision between passenger and freight trains in Italy twenty persons were killed and many injured. Twenty-one persons were killed in a fight- to prevent troops closing a Cathlic church at Krosehe, Russia. The Mexican revolutionists were making it unsafe for travelers to cross the border. Severe earthquake shocks were felt at River Moisie and Seven Islands in Canada. Canada’s new tariff measure will discriminate against the United States and in favor of Great Britain. John Boyd, governor of New Brunswick, died of apoplexy at St John. Prof. John Tyndall, LL. D., the eminent scientist and author, died at Haslemere, Surrey, England, aged 73 years. Advices from Hawaii were to the effect that no change in the situation had taken place. The provisional government was still in power and Minisi ter Willis was awaiting instructions j from Washington.

LATER. In the United States senate on the sth Mr. Hoar offered a resolution requesting the president to communicate to the senate instructions given to any representative of the United States in regard to Hawaiian affairs. Mr. Dolph very severely criticised the administration for its action in regard to H await The nomination of W. D. Hornblower, to be associate justice of the supreme court, was received from the president. In the house a bill was introduced providing for the transfer of the pension bureau from the interior to the war department. The bankruptcy bill was discussed. A receiver was appointed for the Minnekabta state bank at Hot Sprint 8. D. The British ship Jason went ashore off Highland light, near Boston, in a hurricane, and the crew of twenty-six, with Capt. McMillan, were drowned. The Chicago trust and savings bank was placed in the hands of a receiver. Martin Anderson, murdered an unidentified woman in the cellar of his employer’s store at Omaha and then killed himself.

The Lehigh Valley railroad strike was declared off, both sides making concessions. Harper Whitmier, a farmer aged 40, murdered his mother-in-law and sister-in-law and then disappeared in the hills at Butler, Pa. Robbery was the motive. Capt. Bassett has completed his six-ty-seeond year of continuous government service. Daniel Webster made him a page. Mrs. George H. Williams, a Portland (Ore.) religious enthusiast, finished a forty-day fast and resumed eating. The Georgia house passed the bill providing for the issue of currency notes by state banks. A den where counterfeit nickels, dimes, quarters and halves were being made was discovered in Cincinnati and the counterfeiters were arrested. Eight thousand persons in the Michigan peninsula were said to be in need of assistance. Juan Guadalupe was shot by law in the City of Mexico for beating to death his 3-year-old boy who refused to drink a cup of coffee. The influenza was increasing inmany places in Germany, and at some points was largely of a fatal character. Schloss & Co., New York clothing manufacturers, failed for $500,000. The firm was ruined by its confidential manager, who embezzled $75,000.