People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONALReffular Session. THE lime in the senate on the 10th was occupied in discussing the resolution declaring •gainst any moral or physical interference in Hawaii pending the conclusion of the senatorial investigation, but no action was taken.... In the house the tariff bill was further discussed and Mr. Johnson (dem., O.) attacked the democrats for the timid manner in which they had handled the tariff question and charged them with cowardice all a'ong the line. Mr. Dalzell (dem., Pa.) made a speech in defense of the tariff. The senate further discussed the Hawaiian matter on the 11th and the minority report of the committee on privileges and elections on the bill to repeal the federal election laws was presen";d.... In the house the time was occupied in discussing the tariff bill. Speeches were limited to one hour and many members took part in the debate. The session of the senate on the 12th was devoted to executive business. The nomination of Mr. Preston to be director of the mint was confirmed. Adjourned to the 15th.... In the house a resolution calling upon the president for all information in his possession touching recent reported events in the Hawaiian islands was reported favorably and temporarily laid on the table. The tariff bill was further discussed. The senate was not in session on the 13th. .... In the house a message from-the president on Hawaiian affairs was read and referred to the foreign affairs committee. The tariff bill was further discussed. ON the 15th the senate by a vote of 30 to 24 rejected the nomination of William B. Hornblower, of New York, to be an a .ociate justice of the United States supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Blatchford.... In the house the consideration of the tariff bill under the five-minute rule was begun and the debate concluded with a tilt between Mr. Cockrim anti ?.fr. Heed.

DOMESTIC. Charles Bennett, the famous catcher of the Boston baseball club, was run over by a train at Wellsville, Kan., and had both legs cut off. C. Schapflin & Co., Plainfield (N. J.) clothing manufacturers, assigned, with liabilities of >179,548. W. T. Bef.k & Co., commission merchants in San San Francisco, failed for $750,000. An Elmwood (Ind.) man found 185 in gold coin in a head of cabbage he had bought at his grocer's. The factory of the Starr I’iauo company at Richmond, Ind., was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Five men held up a fast train near St Joe, Mo., and looted the express and mail cars. A large sum was secured.

T. F. Barkeb, for twenty years an employe of the Consolidated national bank of Philadelphia, confessed to stealing 847,000. The midwiuter fair will be formally opened in San Francisco on Saturday, January 27. A lone highwayman held up the stage between Bowie and Solomonville, Ari, and secured SBOO. Colorado’s legislature met in extra session at Denver and listened to Gov. Waite’s message, which the senate de dined to print The dock of the Alabama Coal & Coke company in Jacksonville, Fla., collapsed, killing three men and fatally injuring another. A new order, known as the Ancient Order of Loyal Americans, was formed at Lansing, Mich. The members are required to labor against any foreign influence in the affairs of the nation, either political or religious, to break down trusts and to promote liberty. None hut native-born Americans can join. January 22 is set as the day on which the order is to be instituted in all the various states of the union. Six men were injured in a train wreck near Grinnell, la., caused by a car breaking in two. Springfield has been selected as the permanent site of the Illinois state fair by the board of agriculture. Samuel and William Walker (brothers) and Ezra Baer, their brother-in-law, were crushed to death under a mass of atone at Somerset, Pa. Ed Dansey (colored) was hanged at Ocala, Fla., for killing Deputy Sheriff Binnicker. A boiler in a sawmill at Delphi, 0., exploded, killing Noah Hiffman, Amos Stevens and Silas Wilson and fatally injuring John Wilson. Secretary Carlisle will be compelled to issue bonds under the law of 1875 unless congress enacts new legislation.

Sherman Wagoner, a wife murderer, was lynched by a mob near Mitchell, Ind. Three men were killed and one fatally hurt in a hand car accident near "Woodward, Ala. Mayor McNeill, of Eddyville, la., dropped dead in the streets. Heart disease was the cause. Treasury* officials in Washington estimate the gold production of the -world at nearly 8150,000,000 for the year 1898. Frank D. Jackson was inaugurated governor of lowa at the capitol in Des Moines. Simplicity marked the proceedings. Chris Evans, the noted bandit, raided Fowler, Cal., robbed several men, shot a constable and escaped. Lewis Eedmire has been found guilty of embezzling $103,000 from the Gate City bank at Atlanta. Ga. The Indiana appellate court decided that Sunday theaters could not be operated in the state. After a continuous sle«m of fortyeight hours George Burgess died at Caro, Mich., on the day that he was to have been married. Within a week nine counterfeiters have been arrested in St Louis. Judge Bartlett, of Brooklyn, N. Y., refused to quash the indictments against McKane and twenty-one others accused of election fraud. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 12th aggregated $1,000,181,461, against $990,800,551 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 21.0.

Three elevators and a malthouae in Chicago belonging to Hales & Curtis were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $300,000. Foub negroes entered the home of Frederick Benny, a fanner living near St. Louis, fatally wounded Benny, who is over 70 years old, and his wife, aged 05. secured S3OO and fled.

The business portion of Davis, Md., was destroyed by fire. Five British sailors and a ferryman were drowned in Baltimore harbor by the swamping c£ their boat. Roscoe Parker, a 16-year-old negro, was taken from jail by a mob and lynched at West Union, 0., for the murder of Rit Rhine and his wife, an aged couple. Ed Lewis, a young carpenter in Cincinnati, shot and killed his wife and then took his own life. Domestic trouble was the cause. Burglars raided Courtland Ala. Every business place was broken into, wagons being used to carry off the plunder. Gov. Waite's proposition to make foreign coins legal tender in Colorado was rejected by the legislature. A fire in the ear shops of the Erie Railroad company at Jersey City, N. J., caused a loss of 8100,000. The business outlook throughout the country was said to be improving. A section of a drawbridge between Brookyn and Long Island City gave way, throwing sixty persons into the water, and seven were known to have been drowned. French exhibitors at the world’s fair now state their loses by the recent fire on the grounds will amount to over SBO,OOO.

Bleached hones of over twenty-eight Chinese, packed in a tin box, liermetiically sealed, were shipped from Chicago to the flowery kingdom. A Missouri Pacific south-bound train was fired into by robbers near Monett, Kan., but the engineer did not stop. The post office at Cory, Ind., was robbed of $lB5 in stamps and a large sum of money. Calvert and Hennon Fleming, two notorious outlaws for whom the state of Virginia offered a reward of $2,000, were killed by officers near Covven while resisting arrest Robert Livingston Cutting, Sr., a wealthy New York banker and broker, died in a hallway of apoplexy while waiting for an ambulance. While in a drunken frenzy Edward Hoffman shot and killed his wife at Sisterville, W. Va., and then took his own life. Captains of Florida militia companies have been notified to hold their men in readiness to stop the CorbettMitchell fight announced to take place on the 26th inst. The Syndicate block at Minneapolis was burned for the third time, causing a loss of SIIB,OOO. J. G. Burton, William Gay and his son, John Gay, were lynched by a mob at Russell, Kan. The men were suspected of the murder of Fred Dinning last July. San Francisco papers say Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, will claim damages from the United States. Two little girls were burned to death at Des Moines, la. Mrs. Dobson, the mother, left them alone in the house.

Thomas T. Pratt, a Valparaiso (Ind.) merchant, related the details of a dream of death and the next morning he was found dead. John Boyd Thacher as chie*f of the bureau of awards of the Columbian exposition says in his report to the national commission that there was 65,422 individual exhibitors, and the judges made awards to 21,000 individual exhibiters. Charles J. Frost’s twin sons, aged 14, were drowned near Joliet, 111., while skating. The Meadville (Pa.) savings bank closed its doom The total value of domestic breadstuffs exported from the United States in 1893 was $182,939,962, against $243,305,227 the previous year. A snow slide near Mullan, Idaho, buried Cornelius McGrevy and John Bollen, two miners. Many Santa Fe railway employes and their families in Colorado were on the verge of staavation because of nonpayment of wages. President Cleveland has transmitted to congress all corresponednce relating to Hawaii since his last message. An insurance agent in Warren, Pa., wrote policies amounting to $15,000,000 on the property of the United States Leather company. This was the largest amount of insurance ever taken out by one concern in the history of fire insurance.

In a letter to the chairman of the finance committee of the senate, pointing out the reduced state of the treasury, Secretary Carlisle urges‘immediate action in order that government obligations may bo met He says the receipts from July 1 to January 12 were $162,080,384, and the expenditures were $205,643,428, showing a deficiency of $43,558,044. A blaze in the George W. Helme company’s snuff mills at lielmetta, N. J., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. At Pikevllle, Ind., James Spradlin shot and killed William Mitchell and his son as a result of a feud. J. M. Guthrie, the owner of extensive sawmills in Homer City, Pa., and of thousands of acres of timber and coal lands, failed for $200,000. The Merchants' bank at Ellis, Kan., closed its doors. Ten persons were killed and more than sixty injured in a rear-end collision on the Lackawanna road near Hackensack, N. J. Rev. Benjamin Baldwin, of Troy, 0., confessed to killing William Henshaw, his rival for a young woman’s hand, in Indiana. At Somerville, Ala., John E. Johnson murdered his wife and two children and then set the house on fire. Disguised as a tramp “Jap” Hill, a notorious criminal, escaped from the jail at Frankfort, Ind. Seven men were killed by the giving way of a bridge under a North Pacific Coast train near San Rafael, Cal.

To show the sincerity of his conversion a Wellman (la.) saloonkeeper burned his fixtures in the public park. The Fire and Marine bank in Milwaukee which failed in the panic of last July has reopened its doors for business. The Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis., has resumed business. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL, The democrats in state convention at Harrisburg, Pa., nominated James D. Hancock, of Franklin, for congressman at large. John Kaiser, ordinance sergeant of the United States army, died in Buffalo, N. Y. He had served in the Mexican and civil wars. Rear Admiral Donald McNeill Fairfax of the United States navy, retired, died at his home in Hagerstown, Md., aged 70years. John Carroll Power, custodian of the Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., since its dedication in 1893, is dead. Joseph Manley, of Maine, succeeds Thomas Carter, of Montana, as executive committee chairman of the. republican national committee. John H. Gear, ex-governor of lowa and present congressman from the First district, was chosen by the legislature to succeed James F. Wilson in the United States senate. Henry M. Rice, one of the first United States senators of Minnesota, died at San Antonio, Tex., aged 78 years. Mrs. Mary Clancy died at Jacksonville, 111., at the age of 103 years. She was born in Ireland.

FOREIGN. The “provisional” has been dropped and the Hawaiian government now stands as an independent sovereignty. The danger was believed to be past, and if any royalist uprising was attempted it would be put down. Mrs. William Makepeace Thackeray, widow of the novelist and satirist, died at Leigh, England. She was 75 years old. M. Dupuy was again elected president of the French chamber of depu-' ties by a good majority. Advices from Rio Janeiro state that the bombardment of the city by the insurgents had recommenced. The Jesuit college at Antwerp, Austria, a noted and extensive institution, was burned, the loss being 150,000 francs. Five men were killed on tlie Brazilian insurgent ship Almirantc Tamandare by the bursting of a cannon. In China fire destroyed 100 houses at Canton and 800 houses near Foochow. Dispatches from towns in Saros county, Hungary, say thousands of peasants there were on the verge of starvation. Nearly 800 women and children were burned to death at Ningo, China, by a fire which destroyed a temple. The British bark Clan Grant, en route from Amoy to New York with tea valued at $375,000, was lost in the Java sea. The entire Argentine maize crop has been ruined by the drought aud the outlook was critical. The house of Thomas Johnson, an Indian at Walpole Island, Ont, was destroyed by fire and his four children were cremated. Hundreds of destitute people were walking the streets of Winnipeg and the distress was great. Sixteen persons were killed and nine injured in a railroad wreck in the province of Matanzas, Cuba. M. Caubet, once a prominent business man in Paris, and his wife and daughter, took their own lives because of poverty.

LATER. The federal election bill and the tariff measure were discussed in the United States senate on the 10th. In the house several amendments to the tariff bill were offered and adopted and others were introduced but not acted upon. Mrs. Fred Houston and her two daughters were burned to death at Barboursville, Ky. A riot followed an anti-Catholic lecture by Father McNamara in Kansas City, Mo., and several shots were fired.

The Third national bank of Detroit, Mich., J. L. Hudson, president, was forced into liquidation Thousands of coal miners in the vicinity of Mercer, Pa., struck because of a 12 per cent, reduction in their wages. Oscar Simcoe, a Terre Haute (Ind.) gunsmith, was reunited to his son, who was abducted during the war. Gov. Markham, of California, designated J anuary 27 as a public holiday in honor of the opening of the midwinter exposition. The Indians on the Pine Ridge agency in Nebraska were said to be dying in large numbers from the grip. In an accident on the Narrow Gauge road at Cazadero, Cal., seven men were killed. Edward McFall, 17 years old, had both eyes shot out by his 9-year-old brother in an accident while hunting at Newman, 111. The Bank of Zumbrota, Minn., with a capital stock of $45,000, has suspended. The Wing flouring mill at Charleston, UL, was destroyed by fira It had recently been rebuilt and the loss was SIOO,OOO. Orders were received to close the two remaining coal mines at Almy, Wyo. This removes the sole industry in a town of 2,700 people. pmeus. men met at Cincinnati and formed a national league, and Ephraim Sells was elected president. An oil car 'On the Western Indiana road exploded at Hammond and two men were fatally injured. Between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 bushels of wheat have been destroyed in the wheat districts of eastern Washington by continued rains.

Trains collided at Chester Court House, S. C., and twenty-five persons were either killed or injured. A number of huts occupied by miners near Escalon. Mexico, were fired by incendiaries and eleven men, women and children were burned to death and ten others were burned so badly that they would die.