People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONALRegular Session. The bill that passed the house to repeal the federal election tews was passed in the senate on the 7th by a vote of 39 to 28....1n the house the McCreary resolution condemning Minister Stevens and sustaining the Hawaiian policy of Mr. Cleveland was adopted by a vote of 175 to 57. Senator Perkins presented memorials in the senate on the Bth of the San Francisco chamber of commerce praying for the annexation of Hawaii. Senator Wolcott (Col.) presented a resolution providing for the submission of a constitutional amendment prohibiting the states from denying suffrage to any person on account of sex. A memorial of the wool growers against the Wilson bill was presented by Senator Sherman.... In the house tho deadlock on Mr. Bland's silver seigniorage bill was broken after hours of continuous filibustering, when, by a vote of 176 to 4, Mr. Bland's motion to go into committee of the whole for consideration of his bill was carried. In the senate no business was transacted on the 10ih....The entire day in the house was consumed in the debate on the Bland silver seigniorage bilL The senate was not in session on the 10th ... In the house resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Representative Houk, of Ohio, were adopted and an adjournment was taken. On the 12lh the Hawaiian controversy occupied the greater part of the time of the senate. Senator Gallinger (N. H.) introduced a substi tute for the Wilson tariff bill which declares that in view of the widespread industrial depression it is tho sense of the senate that it is unwise to attempt any change in the tarllT 1aw5....1n the house a bill authorizing the oxtime for the construction of the high wagon bridge across the Missouri river at Sioux City, la., was passed. The urgency deficiency bill was also passed and a message was received from the president transmitting additional correspondence in the Hawaiian matter. DOMESTIC. In a fight near Warm Spring's, Va., between officers and moonshiners two of the former and two of the latter were killed. Judge J. W. Proctor, of Glenwood, Fla., was married to Miss Elizabeth Maddox, of Athens, Ga. They had courted by correspondence and had never seen each other. As William Purvis was swung off the scaffold at Columbia. Miss., the rope broke, and the sheriff refused to hang Tim again. Peter Degraff was hanged at Winston, N. C., for murdering his sweetheart, Ellen Smith. The Kansas supreme court decided that Gov. Lewelling had no authority to remove Mrs. Mary E. Lease from the state board of charity. Frederick Marvin, cashier of the Third national bank at Detroit, Mich., has flea He was said *o be SIOO,OOO short in his accounts. At San Francisco the schooner Bangor arrived fifteen days from Honolulu. The captain of the Bangor reports everything quiet at Honolulu. New York anarchists placarded the houses of Depew, Vanderbilt, Astor and other rich men with warnings written in Latin. Frequent post office robberies in Ohio and Indiana lead the government inspectors to think an organized gang is at work. A cyclone swept over the northwestern portion of Mississippi and plantations were devastated, farmhouses were wrecked and the debris scattered over the country for miles around. Several persons were injured and one woman killed. Many persons were hurt, much property destroyed and a negro child killed by a cyclone at Port Hudson. La.

Profane language is to be penalized by the National Baseball league. Gold is reported to have been found in rich deposit on a farm 2 miles from Portland, Ind. Statistics issued from the census office show that the farmers are the most prosperous class iD the whole country. In the New York legislature the bill submitting the proposition to annex Brooklyn and other Long Island towns to the city of New York was passed by the assembly. Phe publishers of Godey’s Magazine made an assignment in New York. Godey’s Magazine, which was formerly called Godey’s Ladies’ Book, is one of the oldest publications in tne United States, being sixty-four years old. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 9th aggregated *868,216,856, against *768,522,347 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1898, was 29.0. The entire plant of the Ute Pass works at Colorado City, Col., was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Edwabd Benson, aged 16, while playing at “hanging” was strangled to death at Jackson. Tenn. The Indian school building at Pine Bidge agency was destroyed by fire. Only $69 of the assets of the Exchange bank of Seville, 0., could be found by the sheriff. It had $50,000 deposits. Thebe were 385 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 9th, against 336 the week previous and 222 in the corresponding time in 1893. John W. Love, the president of Watkins, N. Y., and cashier of the First national bank, absconded with $50,000 of the funds of the bank. J. Clayton, living in Cumberland county, Ky., was tortured by robbers until he revealed where SI,BOO was hid den. Rev. John Dingledey was convicted of cruelty to inmates of an orphan’s home at Richmond, Ind., and fined *6OO. , Jack Phince, bicyclist, beat a horse In a 10-mile race at Jacksonville, Fla. John Habt. convicted of killing his two sisters at Bockford, 111, was sentenced by Judge Shaw to be hanged on Friday, March 16. James Boss, aged 38 years, attempted 4* Irill his wife and mother-in-law at Pittsburgh, Pa., and then committed suicide. Domestic trouble was the

A masked man held np a passenger train near Carson. Nev., and in the express car secured a box of ,coin containing $2,000. The Sigua Iron company of Philadelphia failed for $1,000,000. Henry Renken was said to have embezzled $15,000 from the 1' ariners’ and Merchants’ bank of Talmage, Neb., recently suspended. Henry Bruce, Charley Plunkett and Bob Plunkett were lynched in the Gulch country in Arkansas for the murder of an aged couple The house of Bert Croman, together with his two small children, was burned at Light Street, near Bloomburg, Pa. Henry Snodkrly, aged 91, one of the wealthiest farmers of Union county, Tenn., and his wife, aged 70, were murdered ia their bed by two burglars. At the annual meeting in Topeka, Kan., of the National Farmers’ Alliance Marion Butler, of North Carolina, was elected president. Resolutions were adopted denouncing Secretary Morton as an enemy to the welfare of the American farmers, and therefore to the general welfare of the countryThieves secured the combination of the safe in the poolroom of John Payne at Covington, Ky., and robbed it of $1,400 in cash. A blaze in the Colt Firearm factory at Hartford, Conn., destroyed about 5150,000 worth of property. Mike Gorman, wanted for stealing $12,000 from the United States Express company at Sutersville, Pa., was caught in Ohio. Henry McCray (negro) was taken from a train and hanged by a mob near Knoxville, Tenn., for assault upon Mrs. Sallie Taylor. Two brothers are said to have lived at Acme, W. Va., for forty years on charity. The schooner Samuel 11. Walker that sailed out of Baltimore December 15, bound for Weymouth, Mass., was reported lost with its crew of nine men. A negro named Collins was flayed alive by white caps at Athens, Ga. lie was accused of enticing away servants. The livery stables of W. O. Jones were burned at Atlanta, Ga., the loss being 5100,000. The 1,500 employes of the Washington mills at Lawrence, Mass., struck against a reduction in wages. Flames among tobacco warehouses at Henderson, Ky., caused a loss of $200,000. M. 11. McDonald bnd T. P. Searls resorted to firearms to settle a quarrel at Rush Springs, Kan., and both were fatally injured. Miscreants made four attempts to fire the world's fair buildings. Government reports indicate 92 per cent, of the cotton crop has been sold. The yield was hardly up to average. The board of trade building at Duluth, Minn., was entirely destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Heiirat, of Bonne Terre, Mo., locked her two children in and left the house, and the home and children were burned. Planters of the lower Mississippi valley will import German labor to supplant the negroes, who are unreliable. Malvern Cresswortu, a mining man, claims to have found a deserted city in an unvisited section of Mexico. Lou Ff.hrman was shot and killed by her husband, Charles, at Milwaukee, who then cut his throat.

Jacob and Bobcrt Wilgus and Reuben Conna were drowned in the Ohio river between Uniontown and Shawneetowu in trying to cross in a skiff during a high wind. Twenty indictments for swindling were found against James Thompson and Jesse Arnold, bankers at Columbia City, Ind. Joseph Reindkau was found in the woods near Concord, N. 11., and two persons arrested for killing him were released. The six elevators of the Farmers’ Mutual Elevator company at Crookston, Minn., went into the bands of a receiver with liabilities of $240,000 and assets of $200,000. The government forces in Brazil killed many insurgents in a battle and captured hosts of prisoners. It is estimated 52,795,503 cattle, 45,206,498 hogs and 45,048,017 sheep were in farmers’ hands on January 1. A schooneb ran ashore in a blizzard near Race Point, Mass., and five of the crew were lost Expkbts claim that the ore found on the farm of M. W. Carpenter near Brazil, Ind., is rich with silver and gold. The steamer Roanoke, from Milwaukee to Grand Haven, was probably lost. She had twelve passengers and a crew of eighteen. ' V The 85th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was observed in many portions of the country. A Stobm. which was almost unprecedented in the area covered and the amount of snowfall, swept through the western states, causing great damage to property and loss of many lives. At Cross, O. T., Sherman Stone killed his wife and five childreu to prevent them from freezing and then took his own life. The law in Arkansas for the taxing of Pullman cars and telegraph and express companies was declared unconstitutional. Business was stopped by the combination of northern blizzard and southern hurricane which swept over Chicago. Louis ,T. Silva, who embezzled $176,000 from the Rainwater-Bradford company of St. Louis, has returned and will stand trial. Sisto Wesley, a Mexican woman, while visiting the grave of her child near Silver City, N. M., was devoured by bears. The Farmers’ Mutual Elevator company at Crookston, Minn., failed for $240,000. Over half the business portion of Genoa. 0., a village of 2,000 inhabitants, was destroyed by fire. Freight trains collided on the Wheeling & Lake Eric road near Beiievue, 0., and Engineers Connell and Stowell. Fireman McMullen and Brakeman i Johnson were killed.

William H. Abtman, a farmer living near Tell City, Ind., killed bis wife and oldest son, aged 12. No cauae waa known. A cyclone passed over the states of Louisiana and Mississippi and left in its wake many casualties and a vast amount of destruction. The Gibson Heights Land Improvement company filed deeds of assignment in St Louis with liabilities of $150,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A. J. McLaurin was formally elected United States senator from Mississippi by the legislature. Mrs. Lucy Evans died at the home of her daughter, lifrs. Smitson, near Independence, Mo., aged 110 years. In state convention at Birmingham, Ala., the Jeffersonian democrats, or the Kolbites, and the people’s party nominated a full state ticket, with R. F. Kolb for governor, to oppose the regular democratic ticket. Mrs. Mary Galloway (colored) celebrated her UOth birthday at Alton. 111. Mrs. Mary E. Williams celebrated her 100th birthday at Zanesville. O. James IL Lofland died at Milford, Del., from an attack of la grippe, aged 71 years. He was a member of congress in 1873. George W. llouk, of Dayton, representing the Third Ohio district in congress, dropped dead while making a call in Washington. He was 09 3'eursold. , John Barrett has been nominated by the president for minister to Siam and T. R. Juruigan as consul general to Shanghai.

FOREIGN. Tiie tugboat Estelle was wrecked near Vancouver, B. C„ by an explosion and eight of the crew were killed. Near Campiegne, France, a passenger train was wrecked by a freight and seven persons were killed and many injured. Mr. Gladstone told a correspondent that he would not resign and that he would fight the English lords to the bitter end. R. M. Ballantyne, who gained a wide reputation as a writer of stories of adventure, died at Rome. The most famous ship of the naval service) the old corvette Kearsarge, was wrecked on Roucador reef, off the coast of Nicaragua. Advices from SL Louis, Senegal, state that Col. Bonnies, eleven other officers and 259 French privates were massacred by the Tuaregoras. Signs are increasing that the English house of lords may be abolished as a legislative body. By the explosion of a carboy of sulphurel of carbon in Paris eight firemen were instantly smoothered todeath and seventeen workmen were seriously injured. Twenty persons were injured in a case in Paris by a bomb thrown by Edeon Breton, who shot an officer before he was arrested. Revenge for the execution of the anarchist, Vaillant, was the motive. The crew of the wrecked cruiser Kearsarge were taken from Roncador reef by the City of Para. One man was drowned. Advices from Brazil say that the insurgent cruiser Republica sank the government transport Itapa and 600 soldiers were drowned. John Wallace and his Mexican bride were murdered on a ranch near Monclava, Mexico, by Juan. Martinez, a disharged foreman. Col. Gregorieff was hanged as a spy at Odessa. For two years he had betrayed Russian military secrets to Austria.

LATER. Ihe Hawaiian resolution was again the subject of discussion in the United States senate on the 13th. Senator Gi ay in the course of his remarks said that the administration had ceased its efforts in behalf of the dethroned monarch. In the house the time was spent in debate on the. Bland seignorage bilL Mrs. Nancy Callahan died suddenly at Urbana, 0., at the age of iOS years. A barn near Penselin, Germany, in which a number of school children sought shelter during a hurricane, was blown down and five of the children were killed. The unemployed at Indianapoiis, Ind., refused to work at shoveling snow when given the opportunity. Nearly 3,000 miners near Pittsburgh, Pa., went on a strike against a reduction of one-half cent per bushel in the mining rate. Calvin Armstrong, convicted of embezzling $45,000 of Tipton county (Ind) funds, escaped from the jail at Kokomo. Hans von Bulow, the distinguished German pianist, died at Cairo, Egypt. He was born at Dresden January 8 IS3O. Thirteen lives were lost in a mine nt I lyinoutb. Pa. The men were caught by a cave-in. George and William Lutz, 10 and 14 years of age, were pinioned to earth by a falling tree at Charleston, Ind., and fatally injured. One THOUSAND acres of rich coal were found on the farms of George Loyd, II rs. \ irtue and Mrs, Hurst near Fairview, O. Fire in the iron works at Bath, Me., caused a loss of $155,000. Dr Arthur Duebtrow fatally shot his wife and then killed his little bov in a drunken frenzy at St. Louis. \\ illiam H. H. Stbouse, aged 70, chaplain of the Indiana prison at Jeffersonville, dropped dead. He was a government scout during the war. The Northern Mill company at Minneapolis made an assignment with liabilities of over $200,000. Two MASKED men held up and robbed the mail stage at Briceville, Mo , and secured a large sum of money. Ar ban Antonio. Tex., fire destroyed the St. Leonard and Central hotels, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Three firemen were fatally injured. A rig tannery at Sand Bank, N. Y'., was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO During the recent blizzard in Oklahoma thirty persons were frozen to death, including a Creek Indian woman aged 120 years. Several persons in : Kansas also perished in the storm.