People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Part*. CONGRESSIONALII* talar Session. Th» time of the United States senate on the 14th was consumed in the discussion of the house bill compelling the Rock Island Railroad company to stop its trains at the new ‘towns of Enid and Round Point in the Indian territory. The nomination of Benjamin Lenthier, of Massachusetts, who has been three times nominated, and is now serving without confirmation as United States consul at Sherbrooke, Can., was rejected....ln the house Messrs. Quigg and Straus, mem-bers-elect from New York city to succeed Messrs. Fellows and Fitch, were sworn in. The seigniorage bill was further discussed. IN the senate on the 15th the newly-elected senator from the state of Mississippi (Mr. MeLaurin) made his first appearance and took the oath of office. A bill compelling railroads in ■lndian territory to establish stations was passed.... In the house the Bland seigniorage bill was further discussed. AVhesleb H. Peckham's nomination for associate Justice of the supremo court was rejected in the senate on the 18th by a vote of 41 ■U> 32 Senator Hoar introduced a bill for the Suppression of lotteries. It defines the word •lottery,” which Is made to embrace raffles and jift enterprises ... In the house Mr. Curtis introduced a bill defining the crimes df murder In the first and second degrees, manslaughter and criminal assault, providing punishment for ,them and abolishing the death penalty for other offenses An effort to fix a time for voting upon the Bland selgniorago bill was defeated The first evening session for the consideration of pension bills was blocked by the lack of a quorum. Thesepate was not in.seesion on the 17th.. ..In the house Mr. Bland was again unable to secure s quorum to close debate on the silver seigniorage bill Mr. Hicks (Pa.) Introduced a bill for the encouragement of the mining of silver In •the United States and the formation of silver 1 guarantee banks. Eulogies were pronounced on the late Representative Lilly, of Pennsylvania. On the 19th the Hawaiian resolution was called up in the senate and Senator Daniel (dem., Va.) spoke in support of it The nomination of Senator Edward D. White, of Louisiana, as associate justice of the supreme court was received from the president and was confirmed ... In the house the effort to secure a quorum to order the previous question on Mr. Bland's motion to close debate on the silver seigniorage bill was unsuccessful DOMESTIC. The Calumet Paper company and the Chicago Toy and Fancy Goods company in Chicago were damaged 5125,000 by fire. The American national bank at Springfield, Mo., was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. America’s gold output for 1893 will exceed $37,000,000, an increase over 1892 of $4,000,000. The production of the world will reach $150,000,000, an increase of $12,000,000. The Massachusetts house of representatives, by a vote of 109 to 59, passed a bill abolishing fast days in that state. Fire believed to be of incendiary origin destroyed the greater portion of the colonnade on the world’s fair grounds. Carlo Thikmax, a lion tamer, was attacked by three lions in the arena at the midwinter fair in San Francisco and mangled so that he died. The annual review of the whale fishery for 1893 says that the season in the Arctic ocean was a phenomenal one. The total of towheads by the entire fleet was 294, against 214 in 1892. Br the breaking of the levee at Horn Bake landing, below Memphis, Tenn., 6,000 acres of land were inundated. The Burlington (la.) Fire and. Tornado Insurance company, doing a business of $28,000,000, assigned. Fire destroyed the entire west side of the city square at Sarcoxie, Mo. The Old Kentucky Paper company was placed in the hands of a receiver at Louisville with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. The value of breadstuffs exported from the United States during the seven months ended January 31 last was $108,927,508, against $122,608,880 during the corresponding time in 1893. Bob Collins, a respectable negro, was dragged from his home at Oglethorpe, Ga., scraped and cut with a blunt knife and left naked nearly seven hours in a freezing atmosphere. He died just after being found. Prince Colonna was awarded his children by the French courts. Meauwhile they are with their mother in America. The firm of George IL Altwell & Sons, shoe manufacturers in Milwaukee, failed for $170,000. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association began in Washington. A fire in the Miller block at Columbus, 0., did damage to the extent of $250,000. James E. Stone, who murdered the entire family of Denson Wrattan, six in number, at Washington, Ind., on September 18, 1893, was hanged in the prison at Jeffersonville. Prominent residents of Chicago have formed an organization the mission of which is purification of municipal politics. The state normal and training school at Oneonta, N. Y., was burned to tbe ground, tbe loss being $150,000. John Y. McKane. charged with intimidation of voters and gross election frauds, was found guilty in 2f. Y., of all the counts in the charge. May Brookyn, leading actress of the Palmer company, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid at San Francisco. Gen. Jitbal A. Early, aged 80 years, the ranking officer of the late rebellion, fell down stairs at Lynchburg, Va., and was probably fatally injured. Cleveland, O m is favored as the place for holding the general conference of Methodists in i 896. Tb Ohio serate passed a bill requiring that all physicians must be examined, and providing a hoard for the purpose: The exchanges at the leading clearing booses in the United States during tbe week ended on the 16th aggregated against $888,216,856 the prewioas week. The decrease, compared **tb the corresponding week in 1893, was S7.J. Frank H. Harper, said to he a clever I »wg«r. swindled two Chicago banks ot SOO by raised check*,

Thekb were 823 business failures in the United States in the -seven days ended on the 16th. against SBS the week previous and 197 in the cotkesponding time in 1898. Farr and, Williams & Clark’s wholesale drug house in Detroit, Mich., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $170,000. All but $2,000,000 worth of the new 5 per cent, bonds have been paid for anS the money covered into tiie treasury. The lowest Drices ever known iu this country were reached during the week ended on the 16th in wheat, silver, eoke and some forms of iron and steel. Dissatisfied land owners brought work on a Florida road to a stop byplanting dynamite bombs along the right of way. Joe Dick, an Indian, who murdered Thomas Gray last August, was executed at tho county courthouse near Eufala, I. T. Encouraging reports of the progress of the movement were made to the national woman’s suffrage convention in Washington. Because he married an actress Robert L. Cutting, of New York, forfeited all interest in his grandfather’s immense estate. i No IMPROVEMENT was reported in the business situation throughout tho country. William Leonard was hanged at Frederick, Md., for the killing of Jesse Anderson, a railway trackman, on September 0, 1898, at Lime Kiln. He is said to have had four living wives. Effigies of Secretary of Agriculture Morton were found hanging at several points iu Nebraska City. Eiqht unrecognizable corpses and the timbers of two vessels were washed ashore near I’rovincetown, Mass. The George Clark lands in New York will be sold, after having been in tho family- since 1706. Dorris Hammer was convicted of a white cap outrage at Double Springs, Ala, and fined SSOO. It was the first conviction of the kind in the state. Two negroes who assaulted Mrs. Annie Rucker, an aged white woman, were lynched by a mob near Birmingham, Ala. A cyclone did great damage to property near Horner, La., and killed two children. Edward C. Gramm, sent to jail Rt Harrisburg, Pa, for assault and battery upon the oath of a brother, committed suicide. Ikki> Meyers and Anton Skinhoi were suffocated by gas in a hotel in Kenosha, Wis. Grain men say the recent heavy snow will make a wheat crop of 100,000,000 busheis in Kansas. Thirty-seven of the fifty-eight coal miners charged with riot at Pittsburgh, Pa., were found guilty. By a mistake Mr. Luke, of Nashville, 111., was confirmed by the senate as postmaster at Nashville, la The steamer Australia sailed for Honolulu, Hawaii, from San Francico, bearing fifty- cases of rifle cartridges. Rev. Joshua C. Briggs, supposed to have been killed by a train near Ottawa, 0., was murdered. Fire partly destroyed the Illinois state building on the world’s fair grounds. Two WOMEN were fatally hurt near Olanthe, Kan., by the explosion of dynamite placed in a stove to thaw. The lumber output of the Pacific northwest lias decreased during the last year 700,000,000 feet. Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, claims to be a mason and says she will organize lodges of women throughout this country. School officials of Concordia, Kan., have resolved to withhold the pay of any woman teacher who marries during the term. The works of the Griswold Oil company at Warren. 0., were destroyed by fire with 80,000 barrels of linseed product. Loss, $175,000. Gov. Rich, of Michigan, formally removed from office Secretary of State Jochin, Treasurer Hambitzer and Land Commissioner Berry, the erring officials who failed to canvass the returns upon the salaries amendment last spring. Chas H. Luscomr, of New York, was elected president of the League of American Wheelmen at the annual meeting in Louisville. Jim Mitchell, of Richmond, Tex., a man long known for a desperate character, shot to death three men, one little child and wounded a woman in the railway depot at Houston. Surrounded near Visalia, Evans and Morrel, the notorious California bandits, surx-endered to the officers.

A suit which involves St. Louis property valued at $50,000,000 has been brought by the heirs of Jean Baptiste Becruitt. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Gov. Hogg, of Texas, who was said to have killed a deer in the close season. Three boys were killed and six injured by the explosion of a boiler on a plantation near Houma, La. Indianapolis laboring men refused to work in relays with their unemployed fellows and a riot was narrowly averted. In South Chicago 470 families, J,500 poverty-stricken persons, were depending upon the relief society for the necessaries of life. Mrs. F. J. Adge and Mr. McDonaidson were fording a swollen stream near Colfax, Cal., when the wagon overturned and they were drowned. The immense tin can and japanned ware factory in Chicago of Norton Bros, was burned, the loss beinsr $600,000. Six hundred employes were thrown out of work. Chaska, the Santee Indian at Cheyenne River agency, S. D. who was married to Cora Bell Fellows three years ago, has eloped with a coppercolored belle. Matthew R. Ashton, convicted of murdering his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Stone, died of smallpox in the Dane county (Wis.) jaiL John Y. McKane, the “boss” of Gravesend, N. Y., was sentenced by Judge Bartlett to six years’ imprisonment because of election frauds committed last November.

Frank Cbipe, wbo has served eleven years on a life sentence for murder in ’ Indiana, was pardoned by Gov. Matthews. THp thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Knights of Pythiaa was celebrated in various portions of the country. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Gen. Edward F. llincks died at Cambridge, Mass., from wounds received while in tho civil war. He was tbe first volunteer. Thomas J. Parker, a’49er and one of the captors of Jeff Davis, died at Allegan, Mich, aged 72. Uncle Skigrant, 107 years of age, died at Dahlonega, Ga. At the age of 98 he married for the first time. A. Herr Smith died at Lancaster. ! Pa., aged 79 years. He served in the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, i Forty-six, Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth congresses. Richard P. Dana, who went around 1 the world five times, died at his New York home. Julia Tunison (colored) died at Newark, N. J., aged 114 years. In a railway accident near Jelan j Russia, two engines and twelve carriages were destroyed, thirteen persons killed and a large number injured. The National Woman Suffrage association in session in Washington reelected Susan B. Anthony as president. Joseph Keppler, the caricaturist, the editor and part proprietor of Puck, | died at his residence in New York, aged 59 years. FOREIGN. Japanese advices say that a fire at Kagoshima destroyed 500 dwelling houses and four inen were burned to I death. President Dole, of Hawaii, gives ; his grounds for complaint against the United States in a long letter to Min- i ister Willis at Honolulu. Three shots were fired by the Bra- j zilian insurgents at a launch from the j United States war vessel Newark. While going from Port Albert to Melbourne, Australia, the steamer Alert was sunk and all but one of her crew of fifteen were drowned. While the German cruiser Brandenburg was on her trial trip near Stoller- ! grund her boilers burst and forty-one : men were killed. Seventy-five Temaohians were killed i in a battle with Mexican troops near 5 Elvia, and twenty-five who were made , prisoners were shot. Tiie American line steamship Paris ; was disabled when two days out from Southampton and was compelled to put I back. The death of King Lobengula was confirmed. The African monarch sue- i cumbed to disease, not to a British • bullet. French imports in 1893 amounted to j 3,936,000,000 francs, this being the first year since 1383 that they have fallen below 4,000,000,000. Reports that Brazilian insurgents fired upon a launch belonging to the i Newark, of the American navy, are denied. A bomb found in one of the busiest , streets caused another Parisian sensa- ! tion. I The loss of the tug Dillard off the coast of Nicaraugua wfth sixty souls on hoard was confirmed. . j Frank Randall and his wife and three children were drowned in the river near Prisido, Mexico. The deaths from yellow fever average sixty daily at Rio de Janeiro. Minister Willis’ reply to President Dole’s letter, recently made public, was given to congress, with other Hawaiian correspondence. LATER. The session of tiie United States senate on the 20tii was devoid of special interest. Senator Daniel (Va.) concluded his speech on the Hawaiian question, and while supporting the course that has been followed by the administration, lie declared that now there was nothiug to do but recognize the new government and wish it godspeed. In the house the deadlock on the Bland seigniorage bill was not broken. The state of Minnesota has filed suit to recover 100,060,000 feet of pine stolen from school lands. , By another bomb explosion in Piiris five persons were hurt. One infernal machine was found just in time to prevent damage. On the Mesaba iron range in Minnesota the thermometer registered -14 degrees below zero.

J. Froman shot his wife at Maysville, Mo., because she would not live with him and then shot himself. The report of the state board of health of Indiana for 1893 shows that 21,149 marriages took place in the state that year. There were 33,769 births and 61,865 deaths. The residence of Simon Jacobson, a San Francisco money lender, was entered by burglars while the occupants were asleep and robbed of 812,000. A bill requiring the United States flag to be displayed on all lowa school buildings during school terms was passed by the legislature. The Second Congregational church at Rockford, 111., was destroyed by tire, tiie loss being SIOO,OOO. With difficulty 213 female inmates were rescued from the burning insane asylum at Rochester, X. Y. The loss was $120,000. A oxE-THousAND-barrel-a-day oil well was struck at Fostoria, O. It was said to be good for 5,000,000 feet of c-ns a day. Galusiia A. Grow (rep.) was elected congressman at large in Pennsylvania by over 150,000 majority. The Masonic Benevolent Association of Central Illinois has failed. It had $11,101.38 to pay death losses of $124331.35. Enraged residents of Stanton, Ala., were avenging the murder of Mrs! Rucker by killing a number of negroes. The barbers’ Sunday closing law has been declared constitutionalal by decision of the Michigan supreme court At their annual meeting in Louisville Denver was chosen by the. national wheelmen for the 'next meeting p!uce» Negroes were barred from memberahip.*