People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONALRecalkr Session. The senate on the 17th after discussion of Ctnl serv’ce reform until the close of the morning hour resumed as “the unfinished business'’ the house bill to repeal the federal election laws, and the debate continued until the close of the legislative day....ln the house Mr. Wilson's amendment to the tariff bill fixing the date on which free wool should go into effect as August 1 was defeated, and the substitute making it CO Into effect immediately on tbe passage of the bill was adopted. Tbe rest of the day was spent discussing the amendment of Mr. Burrows to substitute the print wool schedule for that proposed by the Wilson bllL In the senate on the 18th Senators Peffer and Allen (populists) and Senators Morgan and Daniel (democrats) condemned the bond policy of the administration. Tbe announcement was made of the resignation of Senator Walthall, of Mississippi Adjourned to tbe 22d... Almost the entire day In the house was spent in tbe ooctlnuation of the debate on Mr. Burrow’s Amendment to restore the existing duties on wool, with the result of Its defeat by a strict party vote. TBS senate was not in session on the 19th.... In the house the time was occupied in discussing the tariff bill and the proposed amendment to put steel rails on the free list was lost by a vote of 100 to 79. On tbe 80th there was no session of the senate .... In tbe house the tariff bill was discussed, and messages;were received from the president vetoing the New York and New Jersey bridge bill and transmitting the latest correspondence from Hawaii In the senate remonstrances were presented on the 22d against the Wilson tariff bill and against t,he issue of government bonds. A bill to codify and arrange the laws relating to pensions was Introduced. The nomination of Wheeler H. Peckham, of New York, for associate justloe of the supreme court, vloe W. B. Hornblower, rejected, was received from the president.... in the house an amendment to the tariff bill placing sugar on the free list was adopted. A bill was Introduced to provide for the withdrawal of the discretionary power of the secretary of the treasury to Issue bonds. The president’s message on Hawaiian affairs was received.

DOMESTIC. Gov. Waite has called a convention ■of wool growers to meet in Denver on February 5 to consider the Wilson tariff bill. Negro workmen in a turpentine distillery near Valdesta, Ga., were attacked by an armed party and nine wore wounded. In a fight between post office robbers and police at Danville, Pit., Officer Van ■Gilger was killed and two of the outlaws were wounded. John Buchner, a negro, who had been recently released from the state penitentiary, was lynched by a mob at Valley Park, Mo., for assaulting two ■women. A large meteor hung over Chesapeake bay, brilliantly illuminating the steamers in Baltimore harbor and down the bay. Five masked men held up a train near St. Joseph, Mo., and escaped after looting the express car. Alex. Boss, cashier of the First National bank of Lead City, & D.. was found to be a defaulter to the amount -of 824,893.44. While en route to Washington Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, was interviewed ate Omaha, and said that there was no possibility of the queen being vestured; that matter was settled for good. Fifty negro families in Monroe county, Ark , have arranged with the American Colonization society of Washington, D. G, for transportation to Liberia. The national bank note circulation throughout the country, which reached $309,500,000 during the money stringency, lias declined to $204,500,000. The crusler Olympia, built in San Francisco, made 21.09 knots an hour »nd earned $300,000 in premiums for its builder.

During the year 1898 there were 1,873 fires in Philadelphia, the losses incurred being $1,080,239. Compulsory education, after a fair trial, is reported a failure in Chicago •by a committee of the board of education. The National Farmers’ Alliance in aession in Chicago denounced J. Sterling Morton, the secretary of agriculutre, and called upon him to resign. While drinking water from a brook a boy at Muncie, Ind., swallowed an insect, which devoured his heart, causing death. Three men who robbed a train at Centralia, 111., pleaded guilty and were sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment.

At Princeton, W. Va., Sheriff Hall attempted to arrest the Mullen brothers And the sheriff and both desperadoes were killed. The Colaw ash Indians, of Washington, have asked government permission to burn one of their mecicine men at dhe stake. It was said that the two recent train robberies in Missouri netted the bandits <IOO,OOO. .Milton Bon® and Charles Colt, brothers- in-law, fought a duel at Sullivan, 111., as the result of long-standing family troubles, and both were fatally . *hot. At the annual meeting in New York of the American Protective Tariff league Cornelius N. Bliss was elected president. PaiEWDS of Irvey Harp, of Malvern, Ark., for a joke placed powder in a -cigarette and gave it to him, and in the explosion that followed both of Harp’s eyes were put out The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during ■the week ended on the Iflth aggregated •924,920,525, against 11,006,181,,451 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1593 ■was 80.6. The city council has annexed all suburbs, including five towns, thus adding 20,000 to Louisville's population. It cost the government 8223,586 to psy the bounty on sngar during the fiscal year of 1892. Thomas Bennett (colored) was sentenced at Mascoatah. 111 , to six years fin prison for stealing two cigars. lJ " *

There were 407 business failures in tbe United States in the seven days ended on the 19th, against 484 the week previous and 290 in the corresponding time in 1893. Half the business portion of Lewiston, 111., was destroyed by fire. A negro named Williams, suspected of robbing a corn crib, was lynched by a mob in West Feliciana parish, La. Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, will ask an injuction to restrain the contemplated issue of bonds by Secretary Carlisle. The business portion of Catawba Island in Lake Erie, 12 miles from Sandusky, 0., was destroyed by fire. , Mbs. Louisa Lancaster and hep 2-year-old child were burned to death’ in Milwaukee. The Indiana Associated Press was organized at Indianapolis as a branch of the Associated Press. Executions took place as follows Ernest Lacore at Joliet, 111., for the murder of Nellie Byron; John Hardy at Welch, W. Va., for killing a railway employe; Wils Howard at Lebanon, Mo., for the murder of Thomas McMichael, and Albert F. Bomberger at Cando, N. D., for the murder of six members of the Kreider family. There never was more distress In the Hocking valley and other Ohio coalmining districts than at present. Hundreds of negroes in Kentucky and Illinois were swindled by Charles Porter Grove on equities in Montana mines. Never in the history of the country was there so much idle money in the banks as at the present time. William Eodeckeb and his wife and Henry Russell were killed and three others were hurt in a grade crossing accident at Findlay, O. L. LipßChutz. a Waco (Tex.) merchant, was murdered by robbers and his wife fatally injured. L. N. Odell, an aeronaut, dropped 300 feet to his death by the bursting of his balloon at Washington, N. C. Three men were killed and eighteen injured in a private tram road accident near Camden, Ark. The terminal and operating rooms of the Louisville (Ky.) Telephone company were destroyed by fire, the loss being 8100,000. Owing to the election of Mrs. Annie L. Austin as mayor of Pleasanton, Kan., gamblers and saloonkeepers have fled. William Henry Stegner within three days married one St Louis widow, promised to wed two others and swindled all three.

The International Emigration society was incorporated at Birmingham, Ala., the object being to send negroes from the southern states to Africa. The mayor of Cincinnati was authorized to expend SIOO,OOO from the contingent fund for the benefit of the unemployed. The funds of the World's Columbian exposition were dwindling at the rate of nearly 8400,000 a month. Rev. T. Dk Witt Tadmage, of Brooklyn, announced to his congregation that he would resign on the twen-ty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate, which occurs in the spring. Mrs. J. Plummer, living near Pawuska, O. T., drowned her two children and then killed herself. More than 8,000 articles lost at the world’s fair are still in the service building at Jackson park. A hurricane swept over Oak Cliff and south and east of Dallas, Tex., destroying property to the extent of SIOO,000 and killing a boy. James E. Connolly, Catholic priest convicted of criminal assault upon a young girl at Two Harbors, Minn., was sentenced to twenty-one years in prison. M. G. Gamble (colored), who criminally assaulted the little daughter of Bedford France, of Central Jellico Mines, Kv., was lynched. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 22d was: Wheat, 80,384,000 bushels; corn. 13,856,000 bushels; oats, 4,117,000 bushels; rye, 851,000 bushels; barley, 2,194.000 bushels. Pleasanton, Neb., w r as almost wiped out by fire. But one building, a bank, was left in the business district

The Westview savings bank made an assignment at Louisville, Ky., with liabilities of $30,000. Samuel Ganagi, a prominent attorney at Wapakoneta, 0., left for parts unknown with 800,000 belonging to several estates of which he was administrator. Mrs. Alex. Clifton, at Acme, W Va., gave birth to four daughters, but all of them died. A big foreign steamer, the Andes, bound from Costa Rica to New York with a cargo of coffee aud fruits, said to be valued at $1,000,000, went ashore oil Little Beach life-saving station near Atlantic City, N. J. The crew was saved. The First national bank of Helena, Mont., which closed its doors last July, has resumed business.

The new city directory of Indianapolis contains 57,598 names, which it is figured gives that city a population of 143,995, an increase of nearly 7,000 over last year. lowa miners of the Des Moines district, numbering about 600, struck against a 25 per cent reduction in wages. Nunady, a Choctaw said to be a centenarian and a miser, was murdered by another Indian at Tallihina, Ind. T. Burglars tortured Charles Pease and has housekeeper, living near Cleveland, and made the former sign a check for £550. lowa’s supreme court refused to reconsider its decision declaring void the prohibitory amendment of 1882. C. M. Wilson was identified at Greeley, CoL, as A. C. Knowlton, the absconding treasurer of Kaox township, Vinton county, 0. M. H. Smith, president of the Bank of Sterling, CoL, was sentenced to three year* in the penifentiary for receiving money on deposit after he became insolvent. Pbagee Bros., dry goods dealers at Portland, Ora, failed for $230,400. Thirteen schools in Lyon county, Kan., will be obliged to close on account of the Santa Fe road failing to r«y its tax assessment of $14,006.

Gov. Rich, of Michigan, mays he is determined to probe to the bottom the frauds in connection with the salaries amendment election.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. W. I. Buchanan, of lowa, was nominated by the president as minister to the Argentine Republic. John H. Gear was formally declared elected United States senator for lowa in joint convention of both houses of the legislature. Mrs. Anna Austin was elected mayor of Pleasanton, Kan., by a majority of 8 in a vote of 338. G. F. Rothwell, a member of congress from the Tenth Missouri district from 1879 to 1881, died in Kansas City. Col. John L. Branch, at whose command the first gun of the civil war was fired at Fort Sumter, died at Union Springs, Ala. Chairman Ctttchkon, of the Minnesota democratic state central committee, has resigned, owing Ur the president’s delay in making appointments. In convention at Harrisburg, Pa., the peoples party nominated Victor A. Lapier, of Danville, for congressman at large. Judge C. P. Thompson, aged 67 years, committed suicide at Gloucester, Mass. In 1874 he was chosen congressman from the Gloucester district. William Gaston, who was governor of Massachusetts in 1874, died in Boston, aged 73 years. Mrs. Nancy Adamson, the first white woman in Porter county, Ind., died in Valparaiso, aged 98 years. William Gilpin, aged 80, first territorial governor of Colorado, was found dead in bed at Denver. He was appointed governor by President Lincoln, March 22, 1861.

FOREIGN. Six of the crew of the Dutch steamer Amsterdam were drowned while seeking to rescue fourteen men on a sinking schooner. Advices from Rio Janeiro say that the insurgent warships bombarded the batteries atNichtheroy and killed fifty of the government forces. At Burton-on-Trent, England, Coun cilor Wileman’s coffin lid was removed previous to interment and he was found to be alive. Nine hundred miles of territory were devastated and 200 people killed by an earthquake in China. Two 6-year-old boys, bound together by a ligament as were the Siamese twins, were being exhibited at Hong Cow, China. Two hundred Sofas were killed and seventy-seven made prisoners in a battle with British troops at Bagwenia. A constitution patterned after that of the United States is in readiness for promulgation by the Hawaiian government Great Britain is now talking of the peaceful disarmament of all Europe instead of a war. The Tyrrell brothers, of Toronto, have returned from a trip north of the Saskatchewan in a country never before explored. Duf.ing heavy gales in the bay at Bilboa, Spain, many fishing boats were lost and twenty-five fishermen were drowned. Nearly all the Hebrew leaders of Europe have united on a definite policy regarding the colonization of Palestine. It was rumored that the young king of Servia had been murdered. The report sent out from Vienna that King Alexander, of Servia, had been murdered, proved to be unfounded. President Peixoto, of Brazil, thinks that the insurgents under Mello arc practically vanquished. 4

LATER. A resolution was reported in the j United States senate on the 23d from the committee on foreign relations declaring that the provisional government in Hawaii, having been duly recognized, should be allowed to pursue its own line of policy. The federal election law was discussed. In the house a bill was introduced for the free coinage of silver dollars. A joint resolution was presented declaring the sympathy of the United States with the effort now being made to establish a republican form of government in the Hawaiian islands. The tariff bill was further considered, and it was voted to place coal on the free list. Frank Meagher was fatally wounded and his wife killed by an assassin near Petulma, Cal. The national board of trade in annual session in Washington declared in favor of foreign skilled labor being admitted and paupers barred out Mrs. John Rraddock died at Slabtown, Pa., aged 120 years She was a Russian refugee, escaping forty years ago. Secretary Carlisle has issued a circular telling how and where the new bond issue can be purchased. Ten thousand miners of Ohio have refused to accept a reduction in wages and their action will close all the Ohio coal mines. Alonzo Reed, of Perry, 111., shot and killed his wife and infant and then ended his owu worthless life. John S. Johnson, of Minneapolis* beat the quarter-mile skating record, going the distance in flying start, at Madison, Wis. Emperor William of Germany has become reconciled to Prince Bismarck. About $50,000 in counterfeit money was unearthed at Louisville, Ky., by a woman who was digging some roots for tea. The steamship Normannia, which left New York on the 18th iust. for A 1 giers, Genoa and Naples, was struck by a tidal wave when 700 miles out and so badly damaged that a return to New York was necessary. The strike of the potters at East Liverpool, 0., involves twenty-three out of twenty-six plants and 4,000 men. At the twelfth annual convention in Columbus, 0., of lumber dealers of Ohio, Ptfnnsylvania, Michigan and Indiana, resolutions were adopted denouncing the free lumber schedule of the Wilson bill and setting forth that the lumber interests of the country would be ruin&l if it was enacted into law.