People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONALRegular Session. Is the senate the Hawaiian question was discussed on the 20th and Senator Hoar in his remarks said that the president had no power to appoint a paramount commissioner without the advice and consent of the senate. A resolution was adopted directing the committee on foreign relations to inquire Into and report on the whole matter. The urgent deficiency bill was passed.... In the bouse the New York and New Jersey bridge bill was passed. The committee on territories reported in favor of admitting Oklahoma as a state in the union. Senator Proctor (Vt.) Introduced a bill in the senate on the 21st to annex the territory of Utah to the state of Nevada. Adjourned to January 3.... In the hoose It was decided that debate on the tariff bill would commence January 8. The foreign affairs committee presented a resolution condemning the action of ex-Min-ister Stevens in Honolulu and the minority report denounces the course taken by President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham. Adjourned to January 3. DOMESTIC. The annual report of the secretary of the treasury says that the probable deficiency for the year ending June 30 will be $28,000,000. This, he says, it will be impossible to raise by any practicable plan of taxation as soon as it will be required, and he recommends that he be authorized to issue and sell bonds at not less than par and not exceeding $200,000,000 in amount bearing 3 per cent, interest to meet the necessary expenses of the government Sixty thousand persons were said to be out of employment in New \ork, the .majority of them heads of families. Anton Baltz, a miser who died in Baltimore of starvation, was found to have $4,085 in bank. Seventeen hundred men were given work by the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., at one dollar a day.

Thirteen hundred families were said to be without employment or support at Richmond, Va. The claims of world’s fair concessionaires for $638,707 were settled by the adjustment bureau for $215,216. The house of Charles Stecke at Braddock, Pa., was burned, and Mrs. Stecke and a 5-year-old boy perished in the flames. A rich vein of gold was discovered north of Burlington, la., and a company was formed to work it. Not a single passenger was killed by the cars in Ohio during the year ended November 15. After fasting for sixty-two days and breaking the best record by forty, eight hours Mrs. Ann Cook died at Burlington, N. J., of starvation. An abscess of the liver prevented her eating. Two women named Williamson and Alexander were drowned in the river at McCary’s Ferry, Ala., while attempting to rescue the child of the latter. The child caught to a bush and was saved. In a drunken row near Lattv, 0., two moonshiners were killed and several badly wounded. The Louisiana rice mill at New Orleans was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. One fireman was killed by a falling wall and another hurt.

The business portion of Wahahaehie, Tex., was swept by fire, the loss being $120,000. Irregularities aggregating millions of dollars are said to have been discovered by experts in the New York custom house. The St Nicholas bank in New York city closed its doors. Rector R. W. Graham, of the Church of the-Good Shepherd at Columbus. 0., resigned because the financial stringency has made it impossible to meet his salary. Water from an old mine broke into an adjoining shaft at Delaware, Pa., and three men were drowned. Schwartz & Graff, wholesale carpet dealers in Philadelphia,. made an assignment with liabilities of $275,000 and assets of $330,000. Patterns accumlated for twenty .year* were burned with the Dry Dock company’s plant at Wyandotte, Mich Louis Paquet, arrested at Crawfordsville, Ind., turns out to be a noted forger who has been operating heavily. Football men met in New York to change the rules so there may be less liability of accident. A package of letters outlining a plan for kidnaping Ruth Cleveland, daughter of the president, and holding her for a ransom, was found at Abilene, 2£an.

Allen Cousans was handed at Knoxville, Tenn., for the murder of his wife in May last Marcus Luxd, Miss Alma Lund, his -eister, and Mrs. Charles H. tund, his sister-in-law, were killed by the cars at a. crossing’ near Hollis, N. H. Fire destroyed the Mason flats in Duluth, Minn., the loss being 8100,000. Tramps caused a reign of terror at •Oskaloosa, la., and the streets were patrolled by soldiers. Cleveb shoplifters carried away a tray of diamonds valued at 82,500 from the store of C. D. Peacock in Chicago. Secretary Smith has ordered the purchase of additional supplies for the destitute Indians in Oklahoma. Seven hundred men started out from Minneapolis. Minn., on a wolf hunt and returned without a scalp. Pedestbian Weston completed his walk to Albany from New York city. He claims to be as good as twenty-five years ago. The exchanges at the leading clearing bouses in the United .States during the week ended on the 22d aggregated i 1,953 ,184,972. against $1,915,852,558 the previous week The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 86.8. Thebe were 344 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 339 the week previous and 283 in the corresponding Jt»© in 1892.

In a cave-ln at Carnegie’s new mill at Homestead, Pa., fourteen workmen were killed and four badly hurt. At Benton, IIL, Judge W. H. Williams was fatally shot from ambush by J.o*hn Martin, whose divorced wi/e he had married. The barn of J. L. Shallcross, a stockman at Anchorage, Ky./was burned, together with thirty horses and 100. head of cattle Pour men were killed and five injured by a boiler explosion at a lumber mill near Knoxville, Tenn. Two women named Thibodeaux and their three daughters and a Mr. Miller were drowned in Grand lake near Mermenteau, La., by the upsetting of their boat. Oliver & Roberts’ wire mill at Pittsburgh, Pa., closed down for an indefinite period, throwing 1,500 men out of work. Telegrams from 119 important cities throughout the country indicated that the total number of employes in industrial and other lines out of work at this time, together with the total number of people directly dependent for support upon those so rendered idle, is nearly 3,000,000. Treasury officials at Washington were worried by the decrease in the cash balance, which was but $90,589,737. A loss of S2OO, UOO was caused by a blaze in a six-story building in Boston occupied by manufacturing concerns. Gov. Mitchell refused a charter to the Duval Athletic club of Jacksonville, Fla., before which Corbett and Mitchell were to fight. Judge Taylor, of Terre Haute, Ind., decided a pupil could not be excluded from school because of failure to be vaccinated. Low water in the Ohio caused the sinking of barges which contained over 400,000 bushels of coal. Manchester Center, Vt, suffered the loss of its principal business section by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Four masked men, supposed to be white caps, murdered Pleasant Hendricks, living near Lynchburg, Va., and set fire to the house. Roscok Parker, a negro, confessed to killing L. P. Ryan and wife, aged 81 and 78 respectively, at their home near Winchester, O. A New York business agency says that, the features of the business week ended on the 22d were the increased uniformity in reports that general trade was quite as much or more depressed than previously; that heavy trading had been unsatisfoctor.y and far below that of a year ago, and there was continued closing down of important industrial establishments, reduction of wages and increased instances where short time was being enforced. War on firms which sell patent medicines at cut rates will be made by the National Wholesale Druggists’ association.

In a race war at Laguna del Gallo, N. M., five Americans and nineteen Mexicans were killed. The mayor of Philadelphia made an appeal for aid for 50,000 unemployed workmen in that city. Miss Stella Colby, of Crown Point, is the first woman in Indiana to take advantage of a decision of the supreme court permitting women to practice law. Three receivers were appointed for the Santa Fe railroad upon application of the trustees for the bondholders. The liabilities are said to be $240,000,000. For the murder of Ben Nabors, his employer, Sloan Allen, a negro, was hanged and burned by a mob near Wests, Miss. Mrs. Fanny Landers, aged 30, died at Bangor, Me., from starvation. She refused to take food for fifty-five days. Despondency over the death of her husband caused her action. The old house in New York of Albert Haager & Co., importers of laces, failed for $150,000. Richard McGovern, a Tacoma (Wash.) character, had $7,000 in gold taken from his room at a hotel. Eight men attempted to rob a Mobile &. Ohio train near St. Louis but the messenger refused to open the safe. Eight convicted white caps at Jackson, Miss., were pardoned by Gov. Stone, who urged them to become good citizens. A great discovery of silver was reported near the town of Shatter, Tex., in a district which contains several abandoned mines which were worked a century or more ago by the Spaniards. Hundreds of Chinese were said to be crossing the Rio Grande into the United States.

Rich & Silbeb, one of the leading dry goods firms in Milwaukee, and the A. W. Rich Shoe company failed, the total liabilities being $331,000. JosEpn Donjon, a man who has been writing threatening letters to prominent public men, was arrested in Washington. The Bank of Greensburg, Kan., closed its doors, with liabilities of $68,000. Countekfeiters flooded Cincinnati with alurpinum dimes of the date of 1893. This was the first counterfeit ever made of aluminum. Printing and engraving firms at San Francisco, Cal., were burned out with a loss of $350,000. A six-day bicycle race commenced at Madison Square garden, New York, with a big field. While a crowd looked on a thief at Marshall, Tex., knocked down an express messenger and stole SB,OOO. Gov. Waite has issued a call convening the Colorado legislature in extraordinary session January 10. Gov. Fisiiback, of Arkansas, wants the government to exercise authority in stamping out Indian Territory outlawry. The barn of the Keystone stock farm near Kittaning, Pa-, owned by Bowser Brothers, was destroyed by lire and twenty-two valuable horses perished in the flames. All the policemen of Ironwood, Mich., arrested for stealing goods sent to destitute miners, were convicted. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest of over fifty men indicted, by the New York grand jury for election frauds.

A train on the Union Pacific waa held qp by eight men at Seminole, L T., and the mail and express car and all tie passengers were robbed of all their valuables. An earthquake shock at Bedford, Pa., caused persons to flee in terror from their houses. Farmer Pira, who killed two confidence men at Sioux Cijty, la., was wildly cheered upon acquittal. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Daniel Sinclair, who published the New York Tribune from 1858 to 1872, died at his residence in New York of pneumonia, aged 71 years. Ex-Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood celebrated his 80th birthday at lowa City, la Congratulatory telegrams were numerous. George C. Magoun, the noted financier and railroad man, died suddenly at his residence in New York. Senator Charles Guinot, who had been a prominent figure in French politics for thirty years, died in Paris at the age of 66. Ex-Gov. Alfred Littlefield died at his home in Lincoln, R. L James W. Love, consul to San Salvador under President Harrison, died at his home in Fremont, Neb., aged 43. Thomas A. Marshall, one of Mississippi’s famous lawyers and public men, died at Vicksburg in his 83d year. John Dawson, aged 104 years and 1 month, died at Terre Haute, Ind. He attended the funeral of Washington and served in the war of 1812. George Gorman, who gained a world wide reputation as an amateur oarsman, died at Albany, N. Y., of pneumonia. Col. William C. Young, the oldest graduate of West Point academy, died in New York. He was born in 1799. Mrs. Ann Stimson died at Hancock, N. Y., at the age of 106 years. Ex-Gov Benjamin T. Biggs died at Middletown, Del. He served two terms in congress, from 1868 to 1871. Chauncky H. Andrews, millionaire railroad, coal and iron operator, died at Youngstown, 0., aged 09 years. Ex-Congressman John A. Nicholls died at Blackshear, Ga. He represented the First Georgia district in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh congresses.

FOREIGN. A revolution was said to be brewing in Sun Domingo and the Kearsarge had been ordered to protect American interests. The officials at Honolulu have framed an ultimatum in which they decline to negotiate for the restoration of the crown and declare that they will resist with military force any and every attempt to overthrow the provisional government A fire that started in the building occupied by Hovey & Sons, drapers, in Sheffield, Eng., caused a loss of $L,000.000. In a battle between Italian forces and dervishes at Nassowah, Egypt, hundreds of the latter, including Mohammed Ali and all the emirs who followed his standard, were killed. In a conliict at Kauar, Africa, between the Arabs and their old-time enemies, the Tuariks, the latter lost ninety men and 700 camels. Dispatches from Pernambuco say that Rio de Janeiro had fallen into the rebels’ hands and that Peixoto was a prisoner. Grand river was out of its banks at Brantford, Ont., and water was 2 feet deep in the principal streets. The report that the city of Rio Janeiro had fallen and that President Peixoto had resigned in favor of Admiral Mello was untrue.

LATER. Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, issued an injunction restraining the employes of the Missouri Pacific railway from “combining and conspiring to quit the service of the road.” It is the first order of its kind, it is said, ever issued in the United States. Six Milwaukee concerns, with total liabilities of $490,000, were placed in the hands of assignees. The Mahoning Rolling Mill company, whose plant is located at Danville, Pa., went into the of receivers with liabilities of $340,000. New rules adopted at Washington for the army provide for the givingof commands with a whistle. Four men were fatallj' hurt at Derringer, Pa., in a fight between Austrians and Poles. American Minister Thompson was reported from Buenos Ayres to have recognized the Brazilian insurgents as belligerents. Almon Root, in his 100th dear, died at Whitewater, Minn. A MILLION DOLLARS is needed in Chicago by the Central Relief association and agents will endeavor to secure it by subscription. The Banner Brewing company at Cincinnati went into the hands of receivers with liabilities of $275,000. Three boys, Tracy F. and Oscar Bingham, sons of Bishop Bingham, and John Ashlander were drowned while skating on a creek at Riverdale, Utah. Only a sehoolhouse and one dwelling remained at Gaylorsviile, 0., after a fire, and homeless villagers were bein<r cared for.

A system of electric roads to connect the cities and towns in northwestern Ohio is projected by Toledo capitalists. P. S. Schwartz, a Louisville crank, tried to kill Mayor Henry S. Tyler but was disarmed before he could use his weapon. Calvin Thomas, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Sellers at Bainbridge, Ga., was taken from the jail by a mob and banged. A pleasure party boating on the river at Kiama, N. S. W., was carried out to sea and wrecked in the surf and seven persons were drowned. H. D. Paementer, a farmer near Hays City. Kan., shot his grandson and then himself while insane. A statement prepared at the post office in Washington shows that during the last fiscal year the total number of pieces of mail handled in the country was 5,031,841,076, of which 2,401,810,175 were letters.