People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONALKeffular Sessteu. In the eenate the Hawaiian Question was •gain brought up on the 24th and after an hour's discussion went over for the day. The bill repealing the federal election laws was further discussed....ln the house an amendment to the iron schedule in the tariff bill ■placing iron ore on the free list was adopted. The income tax bill was reported from the committee on ways and means. IM the senate on the £sth the federal election law was discussed and protests were presented •gainst the placing 01 coal and lumber on the freelist in the tariff bi11....1n the house an amendment to the tariff measure calling for the free admission of all cotton machinery was defeated. An amendment to repeal the reciprocity section in the McKinley bill was adopted. At a democratic caucus it was decided to •ttach the income tax bill to the tariff bill. On the 26th the session of the senate was devoted to a discussion of Senator Call’s public land resolution and a general colloquy over the federal election bill Adjourned to the 29th.... In the house the only amendment to the tariff bill adopted was one increasing the duty on diamonds, unset, to 3J per cent ad valorem. The members of the judiciary committee adopted a resolution declaring that the secretary of the treasury has no authority to sell bonds to meet the current expenses of the government The senate was not in session on the 27th.... In the house the tariff debate was concluded, so far as it relates to the customs schedules. At least a hundred amendments were shut out It was expected a vote would be taken on the bill on February 2, the interim to be spent in discussing internal revenue. A bill was intro- , duced to increase the revenue by a direct tax on land in the United States. The senate was addressed on the 29th by Senator Teller (Col.) on the president's Hawaiian policy, he taking advanced ground in favor of the annexation of the Hawaiian islands and ultimately of Cuba and Canada. The house bill to repeal the federal election laws was also discussed and a resolution was offered declaring that the secretary of the treasury has no legal right to issue and sell the bonds and other interest-bearing obligations of the government. .. The debate on the internal revenue bill, including the provision for the Income tax, began in the house.

DOMESTIC. Koetting, £he convicted Milwaukee banker, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by Judge Clementson. As a result of the coal miners’ refusal to accept a reduction in wages Ohio operators have ordered the mines closed. A steam heater in a passenger coach on a Texas road burst and two men ■were killed and three injured. The boiler in a sawmill at Newman. Ga., exploded, instantly killing William Kidd and Oscar Herring. Kidd’s head was blown off. Andrew Franklin, a veteran of the war of 1812, who lives in Coffee county, Kan., and is 102 years old, will probably be given a pension of SSO a month. The First national • bank of Fort Payne, Ala., has suspended. The interior of the hide, furand wool house of Adler, Goldman & Co. in St. Louis and the German Evangelical Lutheran church were burned, the total loss being 8160,000. By the extravasation of blood into the muscular tissues following a fit of vomiting Harvey Kenyon, a lad of 13, living at Walch, 0., has been practically mummified below the knees. Fire destroyed St. Paul’s Episcopal church in Louisville, Ky.. the loss being 8100,000; insurance, $54,000. The house of a man named Thomson was wrecked by a snowslide in White Bird Gulch, Idaho, and his four daughters were killed. By the capsizing of a boat in the harbor at Charleston, S. C., six men were drowned.

Jeremiah M. Mulvihill, aiderman of the Seventeenth ward in Chicago, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a saloon by Mike Fewer, who was drunk. Cold weather reduced the pressure in the natural gas fields around Celina, 0., and great suffering was the result Two Freeport (I1L) young women •awed several cords of wood donated to their church by a farmer. Twelve of the hat factories at DanBury, Conn., have resumed operations with non-union men. B. B. Campsen and Fred Miller and four others were drowned by a boat capsizing near Sullivan island, S. C. Three grandchildren of Frank Miggins were burned to death in his house at Crawford’s, Ala. Mrs. Emil Kellar while insane shot and killed her husband, her 9-months-old child and herself in Auburn, N. Y. A big gold strike was made 18 miles from Sorocco, N. M. Three victims of superstition were expelled as the result of the witchcraft trials in the Salem (O.) Methodist church. A trial of the monster Niagara falls tunnel water power proved to be a success. The Sherman Oil & Cotton company’s mill at Sherman, Tex., was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOOSeveral heretofore reputable farmers and merchants in Jackson county, la., were found to be robbers and arrested.

Edward Thompson and his 10-year-daugbter were aphyxiated by natural gas at Indianapolis. In the prize fight at Jacksonville, Fla., between James J. Corbett, of California, and Charles Mitchell, of England, the latter was “knocked out” in the third round, giving Corbett the title of champion pugilist of the world. England was said to be preparing troops for Egypt The relations between the two countries were strained. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 26th aggregated •840.227,507, against 8924,925,535 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893 was 38.6. Seven persons were frozen to death fa Oklahoma during the recent blizzard. Thebe were 430 business failures in the United States in the seven days •nded on the 26tb. against 407 the week previous and 255 in the corresponding «ime in. 1893.

George H. Painter was hanged Ln Chicago for the murder of Alice Martin oq May 19, )89L He protested his in xlocence to the last. Congressman M, R. Baldwin was hanged in effigy at Duluth. Minn., because of his stand for free iron ore. Near Shannon Citi, la., P. S. Good ale, an aged farmer, was murdered by two youths who were after his money Gov. Wolfe, of Indian territory, in his message to the extra session of the Chickasaw legislature advices against allotment and statehood, and recommends two delegates to attend to all the business of the Chickasaw people at Washington. A. M. Leach, lumber dealer and mill owner at Marysville. Cal., failed for $200,000.

Michigan’s supreme court has confirmed the constitutionality of the general banking law of the state At Encinal, Tex., a Mexican named Valdena shot and killed Miss Josefa Trevino because she would not marry him and then fatally wounded himself. A bill was introduced in the Ohio senate which provides that a parent may not disinherit a child. Judge Ricks refused at Toledo, 0., to restrain the receiver from reducing wages of employes of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railroad. Upward of fifty families in Sedalia, Mo., were found on the verge of starvation. Because the United States Express company is not incorporated in Illinois, L. T. Carson, an alleged embezzler, was set free. Illinois roads paid dividends last year of $28,712,961, against $25,327,515 the previous year. Employes in the state number 71,884. A wave of anarchy, in the train of which followed bloodshed, arson and the destruction of property, passed over the Mansfield (Pa.) coal region. It began at dawn and at dusk it was estimated that 8200.000 worth of property had been destroyed. The feeling was so great at Mansfield that the discharge of all foreign miners was demanded. California’s midwinter fair was formally opened by Mrs. De Young pressing the electric button which started the machinery. BenW. Hughey, AlonzoCarndall and Perry Wilkinson, hunters, were drowned near Shawneetown, 111, by their skiff capsizing. Bad debt collectors have swindled residents in twenty-one towns in southern Minnesota:, securing $30,000.

Only 3,500 out of 10,000 lowa coal miners are at work, and they at greatly reduced wages. In a jealous rage a man named Hawkins fatally shot his wife at Robinson, Mich., and was himself fatally shot while resisting arrest. . The interstate commissioners’ report on railway earnings for 1893 show a net decrease of three dollars a mile. . The mills of the American Cereal company at Akron, 0., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. Mrs. Ella Powers, of Peoria, 111., shot and killed her little daughter and then committed suicide. J. H. Bemis and one of his sons, both of the lumber firm of J. H. Bemis & Co., of Jefferson, Tex., were charged with swindling banks out of $500,000. ' A LARGE portion of the business section of Bath, Me., was laid in ruins by fire. Loss, 8700,000. In the report of the agricultural department at ’Washington the total value of the corn crop for 1893 is placed at $591,625,628, and although the crop is only about 9J)00,000 bushels less than that of 1892 its money value on the farm is $50,500,000 less. The Western Boot & Shoe Manufacturing company and Bernard Gannon’s shoe factory in St. Louis suffered a loss of 8100,000 by fire.

The world’s record for a half mile at skating was broken on the canal at Cleveland. 0., by John S. Johnston, of Minneapolis. His time was 1:16 4-5. The safe of the Planters’ bank at Ellaville, Ga., was blown open and $7,500 secured by the thieves. Chabi.es Owens, living near Diehstadt, Mo , murdered his wife and child, then set fire to the house and escaped. Minnesota’s law directed against ticket scalpers was declared unconstitutional by Judge Willis at St. Paul. James L. Williams, president of the City national bank at Marshalltown, la., dropped dead on his way home to dinner. Fred J. Sharp shot and fatally wounded Miss Kittie Klees at Tiffin, 0., and then blew out his brains A lovers’ quarrel was the cause. The Louisiana supreme court re versed the decision of the lower court in the Olympic club case, thus ending prize fighting in the state. William Botts, a burglar, was sentenced at Toledo, 0., to imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years longer than his natural life by Judge Lemmon. Residents of Topeka. Kan., celebrated the thirty-third anniversary of the state's birth. His suit being rejected, Charles Drether shot and killed Mrs. Bertha Hunicke at St. Louis and then fatally wounded himself. John Costello, an ex-convict, shot his wife and 16-year-old daughter at Pittsburgh, Pa., because they refused to stay in the house with him. John B. Johnson and his son George fought with shotguns and revolvers while drunk at Los Angeles, Cal., and both were fatally wounded. The petition of the Knights of Labor for an injunction against an issue of bonds by Secretary Carlisle was presented in the district supreme court at Washington. Goldsmith & Co., clothiers and furnishers at Salt Lake City, failed for $200,000.