People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligent From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL* Rtgular Sesalon. On the Slat the Hawaiian resolution was further discussed in the .senate after a lively debate between several members on the tariff question. ..In the house Mr. Bland again failed to secure a quorum on his motion for a Tote on the seigniorage bill, and after four hours of fruitless roll-calls the house adjourned. In the senate on the 22d a resolution was offered to instruct the finance committee to prepare a bill for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Also a resolution directing the judiciary committee to prepare a joint resolution, providing for the election of senators by a direct vote of the people. Adjourned to the 26th.... In the house a bill was introduced to enforce reciprocal commercial relations between the United States and Canada and one to repeal that part of the act of 1875 which authorizes the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds. Exciting events growing out of the wholesale arrest of members for being absent led to disorder and tumult, vhlch. aftaf coutinlng for hours, was suddenly terminate in an adjournment Th* senate was not In session on the 23d.... In the house the members under arrest were finally discharged from custody by dispensing with further proceedings under the calL Mr. Bland, in another futile effort to secure a vote on the sliver seigniorage bill, called the filibusters anarchists, and said: "We were senthere to do our duty, and a timo when the cities are thronged with mobs and the people cannot go to bed in peace and comfort is not the time when mob law should obtain here.” At the evening session to consider pensions the lack of a quorum prevented the transaction of any business.

On the 24th the senate was not in session.... In the house roll call followed roll call, the opponents of the seigniorage bill throwing aside nil pretense of not filibustering and boldly injecting motions to take a recess and to adjourn in order to prevent a vote on Mr. Bland's motion. Finally Mr. Bland said: “It Is quito evident that the bondholders have control over this country and I, therefore, move lhat the house adjourn." The motion prevailed. In the senate on the 26th the committee on foreign relations presented the report of its investigation of Hawaiian affairs. The report declares emphatically against monarchism; supports Minister Stevens’ recognition of the provisional government, but disavows the protectorate; favo:s annexation without making any direct recommendation; condemns Queen Uliuokalanl and finds that she was the aggressor in the revolution that secured her overthrow.... In the houso Mr. Bland, being unable to secure a quorum on the selgniorago bill, concluded to allow the debato on the bill to proceed for another day. DOMESTIC. The business portion of Watertown, Conn., was destroyed by fire. Five woodchoppers were caught in a suovvslide near Verdi, Nev., and only one was rescued alive. The report of Statistician Robinson, of the agricultural department, for January shows that on January 1 there were 101,783,453 farm animals in the country. Footpads attacked Dr. Francis M Abbott at Indianapolis. He shot one of his assailants and was himself fatally wounded. The British steamer Fairy, of Victora, engaged in smuggling Chinese into thiß country, was seized near Point Morrowstone, Wash., by the revenue cutter Wolcott Charles Crouch, who died at Fay ■etteville, Ark., confessed on his deathbed that he had murdered three persons in the last few years. Rev. J. F. Hensley, of the Methodist Episcopal church, who had been holding- a series of protracted meetings near Flora, 111., was killed by a runaway team.

Eight men were killed by an explosion in the coal mines at Blossburg, N. M., and three others were injured. Mrs. Freda Rothschii.d, of Omaha, was badly disfigured by a tramp pour Ing coal oil upon her and setting her on fire. * It was understood in New York that Erastus Wiman would plead guilty to forgery and trust to the court’s leni «ncy. Secretary Morton has written a letter Baying the government has no business appropriating money for thistle extermination.

Repeated attempts to burn Pecatonica, 111., have aroused the residents to excitement and extra precautions. Washington’s birthday was observed In many places throughout the tryThe executive board of the Knights ®f Labor declared a general boycott on tit. Louis’ English syndicate beer. The Culver building in St Louis occupied by the Tyler Desk company an the Udell Woodenware company was destroyed by fire, the loss being $250,©OO. The steamer Oceanic arrived at San E ran cisco, bringing news that nothing of importance had occurred in Honolulu since last advices. A bronze tablet was erected in Baltimore to mark the spot where the continental congress met in 1776. Five men were killed and severa Injured by the explosion of a boiler m m mill at Compte, La. Jacob Heaston, living at Warren, lud., handed over $1,500 to three masked midnight robbers, turned over and 'went to sleep. Alderman Wadsworth hoisted the English flag above the American at Philadelphia, but residents made him lutul down the first The fanners of the Indiana gas belt luve organized a series of detective associations for the apprehension of criminals. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 23d aggregated *691,491,780, against *789,281,711 the previous week. The decrease, compared -with the corresponding week in 1893, maa 48.2. A plot to bum and loot Gadsden, A&3-, was frustrated by the arrest of fmr c ft the conspirators. Gotham’s millionaires were subscribing liberally to the fund for relief of the jkemployed. \V. W. Astor gave »«0 ,094 Jacob A. Moore, aged 86. and Mra Slack, h id housekeeper, aged 90, were found murdered in their home in Bushrills, S’. Y, was the motive.

Sanpow, the “strong man" was hypo* tised by Dr. C. H. Mersereau, of New York, and made to do many strange things. Futtt-onk coal miners convicted of rioting at Mansfield and Bunola, Pa., were taken to the penitentiary and workhouse to serve out sentences varying from six months to two years. Seven of the eight members of the Kruger family near Michigan City, Ind., died from the effects of eating pork containg trichina. A buggy containing Walter Blackman, aged 10 years, and Miss Minta Rogers, aged 01, was struck by an engine at Shelby, G., and both were instantly killed. At a meeting in New York of the Newspaper Publishers’ association J. W. Scott, of Chicago, was elected president Six of the anarchists accused of conspiring to kill the emperor were sentenced at Vienna to various terms of imprisonment. Mrs. John B. Martin, formerly Victoria Woodhull, told her life story on the hearing of her suit against British museum trustees in London. The number of immigrants that arrived in the United States from Europe in January was only 8,19 a against 11,330 for January, 1898. Many settlers will be dispossessed by a decision establishing Nebraska’s claim to 25,000 acres in Boyd county. Indictments were found by the grand iury at Lansing, Mich., in the election frauds case against Attorney General ElKs, Secretary of State Jochim, Treasurer Ilambitzer, Land Commissioner Berry, and Clerks Warren, Potter and Bussey. At Ashland, Ala., the courthouse was broken into and the county records stolen and burned by parties under criminal indictment. Richard Prior, a negro burglar, shot and killed Christian Ehler, a merchant at White Oak Run, Pa., and fatally wounded his wife.

Mary Smith and Orange Page, an exconviet charged with the murder of Rosa Haywood, a Raleigh (N. C.) woman 100 years old, were arrested. One hundred families in Niles, 0., were without food. They had been supplied by the city authorities, but further aid was refused because there was no more money for that purpose. The Knights of Labor want the negroes fin the United States removed to Liberia, or some other purt of Africa. Harry Hall, a railway employe at Ottawa, Kan., fatally wounded Mrs. Leeds, a widow, because she refused his suit, and then committed suicide. Eugene PreNdergast was sentenced in Chicago by Judge Brentano to be hanged Friday, March 28, for the mnr der of Mayor Harrison. Another fire of incendiary origin damaged the beautiful Agricultural building at the world’s fair grounds. William Lockely shot and killed Daniel Edwards and the latter’s son in a quarrel near Red Lodge, Mont. The Daughters of the American Revolution in session in Washington reelected Mrs. Stevenson, wife of the vice president, as their president Drought has transformed the once fertile and prosperous Rio Grande valley in Texas into a vale of desolation.

Daniel Slaughter, a cattle buyer of Virginia, was taken from the jail at Sparta, N. C., by a mob and lynched for murdering John Bare at a wedding. A house was burned near Murfreesborough, Ark., and John VVert, a farmer, and his wife and five children all perished in the flames. Flames destroyed a portion of the state home for feeble-minded children at Vineland, N. J., and J. H. Sage, the engineer of the institution, and his wife, were burned to death. An earthquake shock at Arcadia, Neb., jarred windows like heavy thunder and shook plastering from ceilings. Rudolph J. Pe«chman was sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the murder of Mrs. Schrums at Milwaukee. The Waco (Tex.) Electric Railway & Light company was placed in the hands of a receiver with assets of $300,000 and liabilities of $200,000. The stock barn of George Schambs, north of Mansfield, 0., was destroyed by fire with a number of fine trotting hoi-Res, including the famous stallion “Old Crow.” Rev. A. J. Warner called a convention of negroes at Birmingham, Ala., for March 21,the object being to discuss the general immigration of the race to Africa The Golden Rule bazaar and contents were destroyed by fire at San Francisco, the loss being $230,000. W. N. White, a prominent contractor at Seattle, Wash., fatally shot James 8. Holt and then killed himself. White charged llolt with too intimate an acquaintance with his wife. Matthew Johnson (colored) was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., for the murder of Emil Kuokclhorn, December 9, 1893. Joseph Dick, a full-blooded Creek Indian, was shot to death near Eufala, L T., for the murder of another Indian named Grey. Carrie Copper, Jennie Keiks and Katie Betsclieider, school children, broke through the ice on the canal at Massillon, 0., and were drowned.

In a decision Judge Grosscup, of Chicago. says the interstate commerce law is inoperative and of no value, for the reason that it will be impossible to convict anyone of violating any of its provisions. Erastus Wiman appeared in court in New York and pleaded not guilty to the indictments against him for forgery. He is under $25,000 *ail. John Y. McKane, of Gravesend, N. Y., convicted of political crimes, must go to Sing Sing prison, Justice Cullen’s decision being ayerse to the ex-boss in every particular. Cornell trustees at Ithaca, N. Y., have voted SSOO to be used iD finding the students responsible for the recent fatal hazing. Petitions w r ere being circulated in Colorado for the silver states to secede and join the republic of Mexico. John W. Fanoheh, who disappeared from Columbus, 0., twenty four yeara ago, has been found in Colorado

Charles Clash, a fanner near Middlepoint, 0., was cut to pieces with his own ax by Samuel Seitz. Thom a s Douglass, aged 18 years, who killed Officer John Cowlett at Sherman, Ala., while he was levying on a cow belonging to his mother, was hanged by a mob and his body riddled with bullets.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Capt. C. B. Graham died at Whatcom, Wash. He was a member of the famous light brigade, immortalized by Tennyson, and one of the survivors of the 600 who rode into the “valley of death” in the great charge of Balaklava. Rev. James A. Stone, 84 years old died in Omaha. He was one of the most prominent Baptist ministers in America. Lillian Durell, an opera singer, died in New York of consumption. She had been on the stage for eleven years. Chairman Wilson, of tariff bill fame, was dangerously sick in Mexico, typhoid fever having set in. Norman L. Munro, the publisher, died at a hotel in New York from a surgical operation. He was 57 years old and worth over $2,000,000. Steele Mackaye, the noted playwright, aged 58, died on a train near La Junta, CoL, while on his way to San Francisco from Chicago. 11. B. Straitt. who for twelve years represented Minnesota in the lower house of representatives at Washington, died in a Mexican Centrul train at fil I’aso, Tex. Harrison L. Plummer, the portrait painter, known throughout this country and Europe, died at his home in Haverhill, Mass., aged 80 years.

FOREIGN. Brazilian officers were said to be forcing American colonists into service and the American consul had been appealed to. Advices refceivedin London say Guatemala has suspended payment on its external debt, owing to silver’s decline. Signor Biancheri was elected president of the Italian chamber of deputies, receiving 191 votes on the second ballot The Indian mission school at Neah Bay, B. C., was burned and several Indian children lost their lives. The British bark Montgomery Castle encountered fearful storms near the Azores and eight of her officers and crow were drowned. A. M. Beattie, Hawaiian consul at Vancouver, B. C., appointed by President Dole, received his exequatur. This shows that Lord Roseberry lias concluded to look upon the provisional government as a fixture. After an absence of two years exploring northeast Africa Lieut Ludwig Ritter von Holinell returned to Vienna. During a hurricane a train was swept from a bridge at Auritius Island, England, and fifty lives were reported lost Senor Guzman, the Nicaraguan minister at Washington, received news that his country’s war with Honduras was at an end. Twenty-five men were killed and ten were seriously injured by a boiler explosion in an iron mill at Alexanderowslc, Russia. Bellamy & Co.’s granaries in London were destroyed by fire, the loss being $300,000. Mother Mandelbaum, of New York, notorious the country over as a shoplifter, died at Hamilton, Ont., of a complication of diseases. A thousand unemployed men sang revolutionary songs in Vienna. The police charged and dispersed the mob.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 21 th a large number of petitions were presented protesting against a reduction of the existing duties on wool and various other features of the tariff bill. A bill was introduced for the establishment of a national university. In the house resolutions were presented to investigate the action of several United States judges who have issued injunctions in railroad cases. A bill was introduced to amend the revised statutes so as to permit, in civil cases, the verdict of three-fourths of the jurors constituting the jury to stand as the verdict of the jury. The silver seigniorage bill was further discussed. Judge Willis, of St. Paul, decided that newspapers taking sides in a case on trial was contempt of court. An incendiary fire in Boston partly destroyed the building owned by the Boston Real Estate company. Loss SIOO,OOO. Officials of Chicago railway lines have decided to pay n 6 further attention to the interstate commerce law. Anderson Carter and Bud Montgomery, in jail at Mountain Home, Ark., for murdering Hunter Wilson on December 18 last, were riddled with bullets by a mob that overpowered the guards. Rumors of the retirement of Mr. Gladstone from office were being renewed and were agitating the English, The bill to unite New York and Brooklyn passed the legislature and pnly awaits the governor’s signature to become a law. Russians and Germans were reported to have fought a banks on the frontier in which several were killed. Isaac P. Berg and wife, a young couple living near Marion Junction, S. D., were suffocated in their beds by coal gas. The wife of David Rosenberger, of Kittaning, Pa., gave birth to five children, three girls and two boys. They were all doing well. Mack Wright, a prominent farmer, and two young companions perished in a snowstorm near Jackson, Tenn. George C'steu was instantly killed RRd illiam Rose, Charles Carson and Andrew Onn were fatally injured by an explosion of gas near Philadelphia. Cart, Jonas, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, was appointed consul general at St Petersburg by the president. The condition of 15/00 miners in Ohio was said to be deplorable, and un less something was done to relieve their distress and suffering the result would be fearfuL