People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSICNALReguiar Session. Ok the 6lh Senator Voorhees introduced a bill in the senate which declares a pension a vested right, regulates suspensions of pensions •nd grants appeals to the supreme court of the District of Columbia A bill was also introduced to amend the internal revenue laws. Senator Hoar's resolution calling on the president for information regarding affairs in Hawaii ■was adopted....ln the house Mr. Grosvenor offered a resolution containing 1,900 names of Ohio pensioners who were dropped from the rolls between March 4 and October 1, 1893, and requesting the secretary of the interior to furnish the house a detailed statement as to the reasons for these suspensions. Mr. Hitt introduced a resolution relative to Hawaii and declaring the sense of the house in the matter. IN the senate bills were passed on the 7th to amend the railroad land grant forfeiture acts and granting a pension of tIOO per month to ■Frances Corse, widow of Gen. John M. Corse. Adjourned to the 11 th....1n the house the general debate on the bankruptcy bill was closed. A bill was passed to increase the force of capital employes. A bill was introduced to repeal the provisions of the last army bill prohibiting the reenlistment of privates who have served ten years or more who are over 35 years of age. There was no session of the senate on the 8th....1n the house the Torrey bankruptcy bill was defeated by a vote of 142 to 111 on a motion that the enacting clause be stricken out Adjourned to the 11th In the senate on the 11th Senator Hoar offered a resolution attacking the president's Hawaiian policy and Senator Gray made reply. The bill to repeal the federal election laws was referred to the elections committee ... In the house bills were introduced to prevent strikers interfering with mail trains, to provide for a uniform system of bankruptcy, and a bill making changes tn postal affairs. The ways and means committee changed the time when the unff bill will go into effect from March I to June 1, 1894, and also made several changes in the measure.

DOMESTIC. The Brazilian war ship America, which recently sailed from New York, was disabled by a traitorous member of her crew. Attorney General Olney’s report was transmitted to congress, lie urges abolishment of the fee system. Turner hall at Allegheny, Pa., was -burned, and Janitress Benninghoff and one of her children were suffocated. Farmer John Kersey, living near Owasa, la., was shot and killed by robbers while drawing water from a well. At Albany, N. Y., three men were fatally injured by the explosion of a calcium light cylinder. At the annual meeting in Cincinnati of the Journeyman Barbers’ National union it was decided to favor Sunday closing of shops everywhere. One hundred cases of grip were reported at the Michigan City (Ind.) penitentiary. Seven hundred families applied to the township authorities at Springfield, 0., for aid. The new cruiser Marblehead developed a speed of 18.94 knots in a trip on the sound. Hungarians and others had a bloody fight at Hollister, 0., ai.d two men were fatally injured and a dozen others hurt.

Bob Greenwood, a negro, was beaten to death by a mob in Cross, county, Ark., because his family offended the wife of a white neighbor named Wilson A Colorado town has been named for United States Senator Dubois by admiring free-silver residents. An epidemic of the grip was prevailing at Jefferson City, Mo., and among those disabled were Gov. Stone, Secretary of State Leseur. Auditor Siebert and Treasurer Stephens. Thieves entered the South Bend (Ind.) national bank at the noon hour and snatching $15,900 escaped. Creal Springs, a noted health resort in Williamson county. 111., containing a population of 1,500, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The State bank of Veedersburg, Ind., went into voluntary liquidation. Ben Tennis was hanged at Harris"burg, Pa., for killing Agnes Cooper Bright, a girl 9 years old, on September 18 last. Farmer Baker and his wife were poisoned by drinking whisky from an old barrel which was bought at Cooper, Tex. The estimated value of all the exhibits at the world’s l|air is $14,000,000, and the customs duties paid to the United States government amount to $488,159. The second trial of Daniel Coughlin for the murder of Dr. Cronin began in Chicago. A citizen of Nauvoo, 111., in a lit of rage bit both his wife’s ears off. Joseph Deitch, an aged Hebrew, died at Indianapolis, and $94,000 in gold was found concealed in his bedroom. The Kauffman iron mines near Alburtis, Pa., have shut down for the first time in fourteen years. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Bth aggregated $1,118,427,587, against $790,870,812 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 22.7. At Pittsburgh, Pa., Jaeob Holtzmann while drunk killed his 10-months-old boy, shot at his wife and committed suicide. There were 380 business failures in the United States in the sevens. days ended on the Bth, against 278 the week previous and 271 in the corresponding time in 1892. Harvey Pate and Frank Stires were hanged in the county jail at Danville, 111., for the murder of Henry Helmick August2s. 1893. A banker, sheriff and tax collector at Portland, Ore., were charged with stealing public money to the extent of $160,000. Trade of all kinds was reported dull throughout the country. George Bishop, Walter Huel, William Edwards and August Caerway, Maidents of New Orleans, we re dr o w ned the capsizing of a boat in the Misjfifaafopi river at College Point

The Louisiana state lottery is preparing to move from New Orleans—probably to Honduras. J. W. Edwards, who lived near Fulton, Ky., fatally shot his wife, tried to kill his sister-in-law and then ended his own life with a bullet The final report of Treasurer Seeberger shows that the total disbursements of the Columbian Exposition company were $31,679,045.94, while the total receipts were $33,594,147.87, Thus a balance of $1,915,101.93 was left to the credit of the company.

The Famous shoe house at St. Louis was damaged by flames and water to the amount of $150,000. Harry Starks, Harry Dunbar and Charles Gallagher, of the schooner Hustle's crew, got astray on Grand Banks, near Gloucester, Mass, and were drowned. The big belting establishment and tannery of James Davis at Pawtucket, R. 1., were burned, the loss being $125,000. Leaving her two little ones to go down-town at Kansas City, Mo.-, Mrs. Nichols returned to find them fatally burned. Gov. Crounse, of Nebraska, will investigate reports of starving farmers in the western section of the state. The wants of the suffering Gogebic (Michigan) miners have been temporarily relieved, but the men and families will need help all winter. It has been settled that the CorbettMitchell fight will take place at the state fair grounds in Jacksonville, Fla. Ben Minter and Bob Wilkens (negroes) were lynched at Berlin Ala., for robbing a store and killing Reuben Smith, a clerk who slept therein. Three business firms at Syracuse, N. Y., wore burned out, the total loss being $200,000. The manufacturing jewelers of Plainville, North Attleboro, Attleboro Falls and Attleboro, Mass., ninety-six in number, have suffered losses aggregating 5500,000 by reason of failures in the pas to y ear.

Edward Webb and Samuel Kerr took their own lives in Chicago because they were out of work, needy and despondent. Commander in Chief Adams, of the G. A. R., has issued an official circular asking all comrades to report any person known to be in receipt of a pension to which he is not entitled. The Colorado Slag Portland Cement company of Denver claims to have a process which will revolutionize the cost of Portland cement. A million dollars for charity in Chicago this winter is the demand made by the people who are most intimately acquainted with the suffering and destitution of the city’s unemployed. Charles Channels killed his wife, who was suing him for divorce at Greencastle. Ind., and then shot himself. Five men rode into Plano, Tex., and blowing open the safe of the First national bank secured $20,000. Superintendent of Poor Clug says he never saw such suffering as exists among the unemployed of Milwaukee. Souvenir coins are to be melted ’down and recoined. The amount is estimated at $1,700,000. Of 7,987 car loads of exhibits received at the world’s fair only 2,546 have thus far been shipped away. Twenty-two passengers were hurt bj r the wreck of a Southern Pacific train at Landsburg, N. M. The Lehigh railway officials have

adopted the plan of reducing wages as a rebuke to those employes who went on strike. Gen. Alger has induced owners in the Michigan peninsula to open their mines and employ the starving men. Thousands of letters containing money have been stolen at South Bend, Ind., and government oilieers were investigating. The Mutual Fire Insurance company at Knox, Ind., collapsed and the officers were said to have taken the funds and fled. Two reports were made by the civil service commission, one favorably re- 1 viewing the work and the other criticising it Farm products show a decline according to agricultural department reports for the month of December. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the llth was: Wheat 78,785,000 bushels; corn. 6,151,000 bushels; oats, 4,012,000 bushels; rye, 030,000 bushels; barley, 2,874,000 bushels. Robbers “held up” an express train on the International & Great Northern near Austin, Tex., and secured SI,OOO from passengers. James Elam, Emmett Barber and Joseph Wernett, young men of Seattle, Wash., were drowned in Lake Union by the capsizing of a boat. James Hilliard and Mark De Witt were arrested at Youngstown, 0., for making counterfeit money. Fob murdering his wife and Mrs. Arthur Hern and burning their bodies in a farmhouse Matthew Bitson was sentenced at Janesville, Wis, to life imprisonment.' Fire destroyed Jacob Stearing’s livery stable at Merced, Cal , and William Murphy and nine horses were burned to death. The officers of the Mutual Insurance company at Knox. Ind., left for parts unknown, taking all the funds of the company, upward of $120,000. The dwelling of Gus Hinch at Fayette, Mo., was burned, and his aunt, Delphia Brooks, over 100 years old, perished in the flames. - Henry S. Cochran, the ex-chief weigher of the Philadelphia mint, was sentenced to seven years and six months’ imprisonment in the penitentiary for embezzlement The valleys of the Cedar, Black and Duwamish rivers in the state of Washington were under water and the damage would be heavy. Twenty thousand dollars a month will be required to feed the unemployed miners in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Receivers were appointed for the immense agricultural imp. ement establishment of C. Aultman & Co. at Canton, O. The liabilities were $1,000,000; assets, $2,700,000 '1 he American Federation of Labor met in thirteenth annual convention in Chicago.

Fred Fern, the American who was connected with the Garza outbreak in Mexico and who turned state’s evidence, was found fatally shot in Rio Grande City, Tex. A nolle prosequi wae entered at Milwaukee in the case of Judge Jenkins, charged with embezzlement and illegal banking. W. H. Parks and Mrs. Dr. North, a relative, were caught by an express train at a crossing near Newman, Ga. and instantly killed. The ways and means committee of the house have changed the time when the tariff bill will go into effect from March 1 to June 1, 1894, and have made several changes in the measure.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAU The “National Democracy” is the name of a new democratic society in New York whose object is to affiliate with any organization opposed to Tammany. Robert Adams, Jr., ex-minister to Brazil, was nominated by the republicans of the Second district of Pennsylvania to fill the vacancy in congress caused by the death of Charles O’Neil. Nathan A. Farwell, ex-United States senator, died from apoplexy at Rockland, Me. He was 82 years old. Jeremiah H. Murphy, ex-member of congress from lowa, died in ton from dropsy, aged 58 years. He served in the Forty-eighth and Fortyninth congresses and won a national reputation for his advocacy of the Hennepin canal project. Jacob B. Jackson, governor of West Virginia in 1880-84, died suddenly at Parkersburg, aged 65 years. William Edson, a pioneer manufacturer, died at Fond du Lac, Wis. He had slept in a coffin for twenty years. Mrs. Lydia Rezau, the oldest lady in New Orleans, died at her home, aged nearly 102 years. She witnessed Washington’s funeral. The president has nominated Joseph B. Doe. of Wisconsin, to be assistant secretary of war. Henry Goebel, who invented the incandescent electric lamp, died of pneumonia in New York, aged 75 years.

FOREIGN. The Norwegian bark Don Juan was wrecked off Leinvig, Denmark, and all the crew, consisting of fourteen men, including the captain, were lost with the exception of three men. It was reported that the ex-queen of Hawaii had applied to the provisional government for protection, claiming that she feared violence from foreign residents, and the government at once granted her renuest. T. & \V. Murray, general merchants at Pembroke, Ont., failed for $291,774. A bomb was thrown by August Vai - lant, an anarchist, in the French chamber of deputies, and eighty members were injured. The Maison Hanseatique, a famous Antwerp granary, was destroyed by an incendiary fire, the loss being $1,600,000. Eight persons were killed in the tax riots at I’artenico, Sicily, and the heads of the sheriff and his wife were paraded on poles. Thomas Axworthy died in exile at Hamilton, Ont. He was treasurer of Cleveland and in ISS6 decamped with $500,000. A total general loss of £33,231,215 was caused by the sixteen weeks’ strike of English coal miners. A coroner’s jury in London found that the death of Prof. Tyndall, the scientist, was caused by an overdose of chloral given by his wife in mistake. •In opening the agricultural congress at London the earl of Winchelsea drew a dark picture of the situation in England.

LATER. The time in the United States senate on the 12th was occupied in discussing the bill to repeal the federal election laws. The nomination of Charles W. Dabney, Jr., of Tennessee, to be assistant secretary of agriculture was received from the president. In the house the bill to admit Utah as a state in the union was discussed at length. Eighteen youths, forming two gangs of pickpockets, were arrested in Chicago. Four negroes were lynched near Selma, Ala., for attempting to break into the house ~f Mrs. W. G. Jones. This made six lynchings in that section in one week. Gen Vincente Vilada, of the Mexican federal army, was captured by the insurgents and hung. The search of the Paris police for anarchists will probably result in the expulsion of many foreigners from France. The Akron (O.) Iron company went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $500,000. J. W. Davidson, deputy cleric, dropped dead from apoplexy while in the act of swearing a witness In a court at Findlay, O. The plant of the Dealers' Distilling company at Hammond, Ind., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. Moonshiners waylaid United States Marshal Winnie Robinson in Mississippi and after killing him burned his body. Nancy Hanks, the famous trotter, has retired from the race track. Col. Alton R. Easton, who won fame in the Mexican and Black Hawk wars, died at St. Louis, Mo. The fire loss for the country for the week ended on the 9th was estimated at $3,012,500. This brings the year’s loss up to date to $127,300,000. Pancha, a Mexican 113 years old and totally blind, was burned to death in his home at San Diego, Cal. The total value of lowa crops the past year, exclusive of the products of orchards, gardens and vineyards, is placed at $161,097,032. The provisional government in Hawaii was fortifying and preparing to resist restoration of the queen. The officers of the Ottumwa (la) Loan, Bond & Investment company disappeared with the funds. A. S. Robertson, cashier of the wholesale stamp department in the Chicago post office, was sandbagged within his own cage and the government money till looted of between $5,000 and SIO,OOO.