People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Impcrfant Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONALKoffutar s<ss!on. In the senate the Hawaiian question was again discussed on the 13th and a resolution calling upon the president for further information in the matter was referred to the committee on foreign affairs.... In the house the bill for the admission of Utah to statehood was passed without diivsion with an amendment prohibiting polygamy forever. Mr. Hatch's new anti-option bill was introduced. It reduces the tax levied by tho former bill one-ha!f. Senator Voorhees introduced a bill in tho senate on the 14th for the coinage of silver dollars and the retirement of small denominations of gold and paper. The house bill to repeal the federal election laws was reported and placed on the calendar. Adjourned to the 18th.... In the house the bill to improve the methods of accounting in the post office department was passed. An effort to proceed w ith the bills admitting New Mexico and Arizona as states failed owing to the lack of a quorum. The senate was not in session on the 15th.... In the house the bill for the admission of Arieona as a state was passed by a vote of 185 to 61 and the bill to admit New Mexico was discussed The urgent deficiency bill was reported. No session of the senate was held on the 10th.... In the house the urgent deficiency bill was taken up and during the discussion Mr. Hannon (Ill.) severely criticised the pension policy of the administration. A bill was introduced to protect tho forest reserve. In the senate the president s message on the Hawaiian matter was read on the 18th and a motion referring the document to the roreign affairs committee went oter lor the day. A bill was introduced to provide funds for immediate use in relieving the want and distress of the country.... In the house the Hawaiian message was read and provoked an exciting discussion. In tho debate on pensions Mr. Dolliver (la.) denounced the policy of the administration and Gen. Sickles (N. Y )_ said he did not believe wholesale fraud existed in the ptn•ion rolls. DOMESTIC. W. A. Richards, agent of the Sun Insurance company of San Francisco, disappeared with SIO,OOO belonging to the company. Robbers broke into a jail at Paris, Mo., and stoic a large sum of money from a drunken prisoner. John Armstrong was hanged at Athens,Term., for the murder of French Sharp in April last. The large sale stable of 11. L. Denenick at California, Mo., was destroyed by fire, together with eight valuable horses.

Renounced by Ida Hall, his sweetheart. Edward Handfield shot her fatally at Denver and then killed himself. Fire burned William H. Frear’s dry goods house in Troy, N. Y., the latest In the city, the los-> being 4400,000. OWING to failure of the government to pay overdue lease money the Kavv Indians in Kansas were said to be starving. The New York boa.' 1 of health declares consumption to l contagious and asks for a hospital for its exclusive treatment. Influenced by a dream Mrs. Radio Hewitt, of Mount .Summit, Ind., refused to marry William Norton on the wedding cay. Thf, '•un Vapor Street Light company at Canton. 0., went into the hands of a receiver, with liabilities of over $300,000. E- R- D* ee. the big cigarette manufacturer at Durham, N. C., failed for $500,000. An express train on the Pennsylvania road was wrecked near Nanticoke, Pa., and twelve persons were injured. Seven men were injured, three probably fatally, by the falling of a section of the roof of an icehouse at Bellaire, O. Tiie Bank of Rushville, Neb., was closed by the state banking board. Three miners were fatally injured by a falling cage in Ward’s mine at Moberly, Mo. The J. W. Warren & Co.’s hardware establishment at Troy, N. Y., was burned, the loss being $'200,000. Vicab General McCabe, of the Providence (R. I.) diocese, was found dead in bed at the parochial residence. During the yeai now closing nearly 13 per cent, of the entire railway mileage of the United States, representing over 12 per cent of the entire capitalization, has gone into the hands of receivers.

Barber shops in Kansas City, Mo., ■will hereafter be closed on Sunday. Ex-Congressman John Cessna died •t Bradford. Pa., in his 72d year. He was a member of the Forty-first and Forty-third congresses. Chairman Carter of the republican national committee issued a call for a meeting of the executive committee at the Arlington hotel, Washington, January 11. Earthquake shocks were felt at •Carmi and Albion, 111., and at Evansville and Mount Vernon, Ind. No damage was done. Great suffering was reported among the farmers in northwestern Nebraska on account of failure of the crops during the last three years. For killing father, sister and stepmother Charles J. Lucky was hanged at Brockviile, Ont lie protested his innocence. The Farmers’ national congress at -Savannah, Ga., elected D. F. Clayton, of lowa, as president John Y. McKane, the Gravesend (N. Y.) chief of police, was sentenced to thirty days in jail and a fine by Judge Barnard for offenses against the elective franchise at the last state election. After a, separation of fifty years William C. Burner and Mrs. Childs, a sister, met at Lima, O. Anoelo Zappa was hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa., for murdering Frank Helmstetter in July, 1892, in a row growing out of a quarrel between the wives of the two men. The Arcade and several blocks at Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $750,000. Bv direction of the president becre- ; tary Carlisle called for twenty-four ! resignations in the treasury service. , The Indiana supreme 'court holds ■ that residence property can recover damages caused by the presence of a j •aaloon. j

The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 15th aggregated $1,915,882,558, against *1,118,427,587, the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 22.7. The fourth span of the great bridge over the Ohio from Louisville, Ky., to ! Jeffersonville. Ind.. fell and thirty- ] three workmen were killed and many others were injured. There were 239 business failures In the United States (including seven banks) in the seven days ended on the I 15th, against 385 the week previous and 279 in the corresponding timo in 1892. Tiie Crane Iron company of Philadelphia failed for $709,009. In the Indiana gas belt over 20,000 men v.ere out of employment and their families dependent on charity for support. Executions took place as follows: Arthur Courtney and Henry Taylor (colored) at Princess Anne, Md., for the murder of Capt. Cooper, and Dick Robinson at iSedalia, Mo , for the murder of a German domestic named Johanna Scholl man.

Efforts will be made by the police to keep out the horde of tramps now Hocking to Chicago. A wreck on the New York & Pennsylvania road about 0 miles north of Dunkirk. N. Y., resulted in the loss of eight lives and the injury to others. Harrisburg, 111., was struck by a tornado which unroofed houses, uprooted trees and did other damage. The available stocks of wheat in the United States and Canada, according to Rradstreet's, are 107,826,000 bushels. Farmer Jacob Fox. living near Lima, 0., signed a thirty-day note for $5,000 believing it was a contract for a piano. An old lady named Mrs. Jettie Eitel was sent to the deaconess home at Evansville, Ind., and cried herself to death. Treasurer Armstrong, of Tipton county, ind., was found guilty of embezzling 530,000 and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. In a fight between cattlemen and “drifters” near San Angelo, Tex , four men were killed. A stone wrecked an express train at Hamford Station, Pa., and sixteen persons were injured. I iiat female teachers are driving males out of the profession is shown by the report of the school superintendent of lowa. Trade throughout the country was said to be. very dull, distress among idle operatives was conspicuous, and contributions in aid of the suffering unemployed were a feature of the holiday season. Efforts were being made to save the neck of Wilson Howard, held at Jefferson, Mo., for over thirty murders. On her official trial trip the United States cruiser Olympia made a record of 21.67 knots an hour. Pete Noi.an, a pugilist, had both ears chewed half off in a fight at Cincinnati with Jim YV aters, a circus man.

The aldermen of Mankato, Kan., passed an ordinance fining anyone whistling ‘-After the Ball” fifty cents. □ One hundred volumes of the original edition of Prof. J. D. Dana’s work on “Crustaceae of America” were consumed in a fire at New Ilaven, Conn. They were valued at 4100,Out). Henry (1. Givicns (colored) was lynched near Nebo, Ivy. He was accused of poisoning stock. By a wreck on the Seaboard Air Line road near Athens, La., twelve passengers and several trainmen were hurt. Mrs. Adder, near Brighton, la., thresher husband into a well and then filled him with bird shot. A. 11. Piiilley was swindled by “Kidney” Meyer and Joe Blum at Sioux City, la., and he shot and killed both men. Tiie grip was epidemic- in Connecticut. Reports showed that there were more than 1,500 cases in the state. The National Carbon company’s works in Cleveland, ()., were burned, the loss being $175,000. Three persons and 300 hogs and 100 cattle were killed in a wreck on the Chesapeake Sc Ohio Southwestern road near Louisville, Ky. South Buffalo, N. Y., was flooded by the overflow of a creek and 2,500 persons were homeless as a result. Thirty miles of streets and all adjacent land were under water. The Terminal Elevator company’s buildings at Buffalo, N. Y., were burned at a late hour. Loss, $1,000,000. The American Federation of Labor in session in Chicago reelected Samuel Oompers president by a majority of ninety-two votes. In many localities in Texas cattle were perishing by thousands. No rain had fallen for five months. It was estimated that the cost of the Lehigh valley railway strike to the several brotherhoods would reach $105,000.

Louis May, his wife, Bassy Paul, bis father-in-law, and James Hilliard and Henry Williams, of Freeport, Fla., were capsized while crossing Choctawhatchie bay in a skiff and all were drowned. P. E. Haldeman, superintendent of a coal mine at Piedmont, W. Va., was killed and robbed of $5,000. The president’s Hawaiian policy, with all the accompanying correspondence since March 4, 1889, with a special message, was spread before congress. The president gives his reasons for the belief that the overthrow of the queen was the result of the active efforts of ex-M inis ter Stevens. Having asserted that the United States was responsible for the revolt, the message deals with the moral obligation of this government to right a wrong. The president says Mr. Willis was Instructed to advise the queen that this country desired to repair the wrong done her by restoring her to the throne, providing those engaged in the revolution were not punished, and that the queen declined to accede to the condition of amnesty. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 18th was: Wheat, 80,129,000 bushels; corn. 6,852,000 bushels; oats, 3,984,000 bushels; rye, 598,000 bushels; barley, 2,732,000 bushels.

Tite Benwood ironworks, the Top | mill and the Wheeling plants of the Wheeling I rot* and Steel company were closed at BelLaire, 0., because the men struck against a reduction of wages and 3,000 workmen were idle. War between the sheepmen and cattlemen has broken out afresh in Colorado and manysheep have been slaughtered. Edward Payson Weston, the oldtime pedestrian, started on a walk from Bowiing Green, N. Y., to Albany, a distance of 143 miles. During the lake season just closed 10,000,000 barrels of flour were received and handled at Buffalo, N. Y. The value of the product was between *3O - 000,000 and *40.000,000. Wallace, Deaton, Shelton and Bronson, who robbed the International -x» press at Duval, Tex , confessed in court and were sentenced each to thirty-five years’ imprisonment. Abraham Steers, a New York lumber dealer anil manufacturer, failed for $415,000.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The official canvas of the vote at the November election in New Y'ork gives the republicans both branches of the legislature, and the constitutional convention will be composed of Republicans, 110; democrats, 65. Maynard (dem.) for court of appeals was beaten by 101,004. Charles Robert Thorne, the veteran actor and manager, died in San Francisco, aged 79 years. Mrs. Porter, widow of Admiral Porter, died at her home in Washington, aged 74 j-ears. Mrs. Matilda Harder (colored) died at Peoria, 111., at the age of 105 years. I)r. David Thayer, who aided John Brown in his plans to free the slaves, died at Boston. He was 80 years old. John L. Porter, designer and builder of the famous rebel ram Merrimac, died in Portsmouth, Va., in his 81st year. Mrs. Sarah Farley Van Nostrand, died at her home in East Millston, N. J., aged 105 years, 3 months and 10 days. George 11. Babcock, inventor of the shrapnel shell and the chromatic printing press, died at Plainfield, N. J., aged 62 .years. A. I). Jones, of Raleigh, N. C., consul general at Shanghai, China, died on the steamer at sea while on hi* way home on leave of absence. Sai.lie McAllister, whose weight was 750 poinds, died at her home in Springfield. Ky. She had been exhibited in museums. Utah's liberal party, the last vestige of the anti-Mormon organization, has disbanded. FOREIGN. Mexican soldiers were defeated by revolutionists near Calnia Juarez'and 100 regulars and twenty-five rebels were killed. A passenger train collided with a freight train near Soshowico. Poland, and eleven persons were killed. Cholera has broken out in the city of Namur, capital of the Belgian province of the same name. Fourteen persons were killed and fifty injured in a railway collision near Zoznoska, Russia. A Pi.iOA.si re yacht with fifteen people aboard capsized in the harbor at Sidney, N. S. W.. during a squall and seven ui the party were drowned. Flames in several towns in Japan destroyed 340 houses, and in a tornado at Nayasaki 2,235 houses were wrecked and 45 persons were kii ed. Mr. and Mrs. James Williams, living on a farm near Port Credit, On a, were murdered by a farm hand.

LATER. A Rii.n was imrounced in the United Giles senate on tiie It)th to impose a d'criminating duty on tea imported roin this side of the Cape of Good Hope. The bill to repeal the federal eiee; t.ion laws was discussed. The nomination of V. ayue MaoY eagh, of 1 ’ennsylvania, to be ambassador of the United States to Italy was received from the president. In the house a resolution was offered and referred to the com-, mittee on rules for the appointment oi a committee of seven to investigate the Hawaiian question and the privileges of the house in such matters. The Wilson tariff measure was reported, and the urgent deficiency bid was passed. Herman Kleving, a carpenter out of work, fatally cut his wife’s throat and his own in Cincinnati. In the Virginia legislature Gen. Eppa Hunton was elected United .States senator for the short term and Thomas S. Martin for the long term. The banking firm of Joseph Steiner Sc Sons ut Greenville, Ala., failed for SIOO,OOO. Half the police force of lronwood, Mich., was under arrest for stealing goods sent to the starving Gogebic miners.

Robbers held up the attendants in a gambling house in Chicago and got away with $4,000. While sleigh-riding at Burbank, S. D., Miss Dolly Hemphill and Miss Kate Stefani were fatally shot by their escort, a man called “Shorty” Babcock, who then killed himself. Nocause was known. The private bank of Olmsted & Storms at Galesburg, Mich., has suspended. United St ates war ships will be sent in number to Bra«ilian waters to maintain the principles of the Monroe doctrine. John P. Hopkins (dem.) defeated George B. Swift (republican) for mayor of Chicago by a plurality of 1,461. The firm of Kleine, Tim Herman & Co., dealers in woolen cloths in Cincinnati, failed for $125,000. L. P. Rtan and wife, aged SI and 73 respectively, were found murdered at their home near Winchester, O. Hunter W ilson was killed and his wife fatally wounded by robbers in Baxter county, Ark. More than sixty girls, from 14 to 18 years of age, have disappeared from Lynn, Mass., within the last three or four weeks, and it was thought they had been enticed away and hidden in Boston.