People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL* Regular Session. On the 28th ult. the senate held a two hours’ session, the whole of which was given to a speech by Senator Frye in opposition to the president's Hawaiian policy.... In the house the deadlock on tne seigniorage bill was broken after two weeks of filibustering, but upon a question for a special order to discharge the committee of the whole from further consideration ot the bill the quorum disappeared and no action could be taken. On the Ist a resolution was introduced in the senate providing for the establishment of a tariff commission of nine to regulate the tariff on the basis of the difference of wages here and abroad. A bill was introduced for the erection of a statue at the treasury department to Gen. F. K. Spinner. The house bill providing for urgent deficiencies was passed ...In the house the long struggle over the Bland bill for the coinage of the silvor seigniorage and the silver bullion in the treasury was ended by the passage of the bill by a vote of 167 to 180. The senate was not in session on the 2d.... In the house the fortifications bill (f 3,000,000 was passed. The pension bill was taken up aud general debate consumed the remainder of the day. The aggregate of the bill is nearly ti52,u00,000. Ex-Speaker Grow, the newly ■elected congressman at large from Pennsylvania, was sworn ia. At the evening session private pension bills were considered. The senate was not In session on the 3d.... In the house the time was occupied In discussing the pension bill and a bill was passed granting an Increase of pension to Andrew Franklin, aged 101 years, who resides in Kansas and is a veteran of the war of 1812 and of the war of the rebellion The senate held a short session on the 6th and but little business of importance was transacted. A brief debate on silver took place and Senator Stewart (Nev.) offered a free silver amendment to the Bland bill. Senator Morgan, (Ala.) offered a resolution looking to the appointment of a tariff commission, offered as an amendment to the tariff bi 11.... The debate on the pension appropriation bill continued all day in the house and at times considerable spirit was displayed. The principal speakers were Messrs Doiliver, Hepburn, Enloe and Cannon. A total of 41.613,738 Is carried by the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill which was Introduced.

DOMESTIC. Gifts amounting to more than $300,000 were received by trustees of the Western Reserve university near Cleveland, O. Residents of Benton Harbor, Mich., were startled by a rumbling noise and a shaking of the ground which lasted a minute. The public debt statement issued on the Ist, showed that the debt increased $40,064,215 during the month of February. The cash balance in the treasury was $757.07;>,834 The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $1,007,356.015. Charles Salyards was hangeu at Carlisle, Pa., for the murder of Policeman George E. Martin. Henry Baker and William Thompson. negro burglars, killed Mrs. Moore Baker and her child at Franklin Park, N. J., and were themselves killed by Moore Baker after a desperate fight Colby Bros.’ livery barn at Fort Dodge, la., with contents, was destroyed by fire and twenty-eight head of horses were roasted alive. Notices were posted bv white caps commanding all negroes to leave Pike county, Ala, by March 10 under penalty of lynching. White caps took Wesley Thomas and his wife, aged negroes, from their beds at Brantley, Ala., and whipped them ao severely that their lives were despaired of. Members of the Protestant societies would ask the courts for an order enjoining Catholic nuns from teaching in the .public schools of Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Ella May Dickerson, aged 24, and Aunt Betsy Davis, aged 107 years, were fatally burned in the poor house at Muncie, Ind., their clothes taking fire from a grata John Carberry died at Newark, N. •E, of hiccoughs. It was thirteen weeks ago that the disease attacked him. Henry’s opera house and other buildings were burned at North Baltimore, O. the loss being SIOO,OOO. ihank Rippy and Charles Dawson were killed by an explosion in a planing mill ut Warsaw, lnd., and two other

men were fatally injured. Z. T. White was lined SSOO for aiding In the hanging in effigy of Secretary Morton at Nebraska City. A VERDICT of $5,000 against the defendant was given at Indianapolis in the first case tried under the coemployes’ liability law. Nine eloping Kentucky couples crossed the river to Jeffersonville, Ind., and were married. James J. Corbett, the prize fighter, was found not guilty of violating the law by a jury at Jacksonville, Fla. The Columbian Fire Insurance company of America filed a deed of assignment at Louisville, Ky„ with liabilities of $125,000. Burglars killed Township Treasurer Henry Geierman’s wife, seriously wounded him and secured S7OO near Exeter. Mich. The Commercial bank of Milwaukee resumed business after having been in the hands of an assignee for seven months The Dexter (Mich.) savings bank was robbed of SB,OOO by two masked men, who forced the assistant cashier to open the safe. John Y. McKane, convicted at Oravesend, N. Y., of political frauds, was taken to Sing Sing to serve his •entence of six years, all attempts at securing a stay having failed. Six thousand miners quit work in Jackson county, 0., because the operators wished to reduce wages to fifty cents a ton. The exchanges at the leading cleariag houses in the United States daring the week ended on the 2d aggregated 4888.528,166, against 8691,491,780 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 38.0. Two h*n were instantly killed, two fatal]/ burned and five others dangero*l, hurt in an explosion in a coal Wine near Leeds. Ma Waterman 4k Katz, bankers at Port Townsend. Wash., failed tor $120,000.

More troops were ordered to the mines near Charleston, W. Va. The miners threatened to burn the coal company property and martial law had been declared. The World’s W. C. T. U. is preparing a temperance petition to be presented to all the rulers on earth. George Hensley and W. R. Shelton, Jr., while in a quarrel at a dance in Madison county, N. C., shot each other fatally. Rev. Mr. Roberts, Methodist, of Richland, quit his pulpit for other fields because of the hard times. Kansas farmers secured $47,000 damages at Emporia against Hezier Brothers for bringing Texas fever among their cattle. The State bank at Brookville, Kan., closed its doors with liabilities of $50,000. Theodore F. Baker, former paying teller of the Consolidation national bank in Philadelphia, who stole $47,000 of the hank’s money, was sentenced to seven years and six months in the penitentiary. Grape growers of Ohio have formed a “combine,” alleging as the business is now conducted there is no profit. Orders were issued by the Erie Railway company to hold common freight trains at terminals over Sunday. About 8,000 men will thus be given a day of rest. During a quarrel near Eugene, Ore., Albert Moss fatally shot David Cole man and his two daughters and then blew out his own brains. Lon Tye, a Harlan county (Ky.) negro, was reported to have been skinned alive by a mob and then roasted for kidnaping a white girl. Dave Johnson and Mansfield Washington (colored) were hanged at Baton Rouge, La., for murdering Prof. Emile Van Hose and Michael Kane. Gen. Miles said at Boston that there was not a harbor in this country in proper condition to resist a hostile modern fleet.

Cincinnati has annexed the adjacent villages of Westwood, Clifton, Avondale, Linwood and Riverside, thus adding 15,000 to the population of the city. Two babies, a boy and a girl, twins 2K months old, were smothered to death in bed in Chicago at the home of the parents, a family named Jaequer. John Sachs, a tombstone decorator, dropped dead while placing an inscription on a tombstone at Waldheim cemetery in Chicago. Farmers in Kansas are turning their old enemy, the wind, to account by utilizing it through w-indmills for irrigating. Ed Williamson, of Chicago, one of the most popular of ball players in his time, died at Mountain Valley Springs Ark. At Kosciusko, Miss., Rev. W. P. Ratliffe killed S. A. Jackson and fatally wounded two bystanders. A political sued was the cause. Danny Ruhsei.l and George Siddons fought twenty-seven rounds at Newark, N. J., the latter being awarded the victory on a foul. Gould A. Still, a night operator, was assassinated while at work at his key at Hay Springs, Neb. Thus far in 1894 eighty lives and eighteen vessels have been lost from the fishing fleet of Gloucester, Mass. Records for the year 1893 show that America is by all odds the greatest racing country under the sun. Nebraska homesteaders dispossessed by a recent decision will lose all but their improvements and government fees. The Lehigh Coal & Iron company, which went into a receiver's hands in April, 1893, with liabilities of $1,250,000, has been declared restored to solvency by Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee.

The Jackson Brewing company at Cincinnati failed for $150,000. Daniel McCormack and Mrs. Annie Keliy were suffocated by gas in a hotel at South Framingham, Mass. The business portion of Morgantown, Ind., was destroyed by fire. For accepting a bribe J. T. Bennier was expelled from Louisville’s city council. Four other aldermen are to be tried. Mrs. Chari.es Richfield and Mrs. J. F. MeCuen were killed by the cars while attempting to drive across the Michigan Central tracks at Battle Creek, Mich. A TABLET was placed in Providence, R. 1., to commemorate the burning of British taxed tea in 1775. The resignation of Rev. T. DeWitt Palmage as pastor of the Brooklyn tabernacle has been withdrawn. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the sth was: Wheat, 75,569,000 bushels; corn. 19,100,000 bushels; oats, 2,661,000 bushels; rye, 520,000 bushels; barley, 1,058,000 bushels. A crank, who said he had been directed by God to turn the white house at Washington over to the Jews, was put under arrest Sylvester Rhodes (colored) was lynched at Collins, Ga., for the murder of Ernest Doiier (white). Frank Fuller (colored) fatally shot his wife, another woman and himself at Carrollton, La. Four thousand miners near Bridgeport, 0., resumed work, leaving the settlement of wages of outside laborers to arbitration.

Charles Murray, a colored prisoner serving a twelve-year sentence at Columbus, 0.. for burglary, confessed that in June, 1887, he killed a farmer and his wife near Xenia. Two houses were demolished in a storm at Butler, Mo., and Jasper Smith and his wife and two daughters were badly injured. The governors of a majority of states declare they will do everything in their power to prevent the Corbctt-Jackson prize fight The striking West Virginia miners planned to blow up the Acme mine with dynamite and kill Operator Wyant, but were unsuccessful Charles P. Chateau’s title to 100,000 acres of land in Dunklin county, Mo., has been affirmed after thirty years’ litigation. The plate mill of the Eureka Iron & Steel company at Wyandotte. Mich., was burned, the loss being 8100,030.

A party of thirty negroes left Atlanta, Ga., for Africa The emigration fever was epidemic among the blacks aud many more were anxious to go. The best part of the business portion of Dead wood, S. D., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $203,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Rev. Dk. li. W. Patterson, a Presbyterian minister, well known throughout the northwest, died at his home in Evanston, 111., aged 80 years. Jacob C. Horn, who was present at the Fort Dearborn massacre, and in the Black Hawk, Mexican and civil wars, died at Winniecanne, Wia. Ex-Judge J. W. McDjll, of the interstate commerce commission, died at his home in Creston, la., of typhoid fever, aged 60 years. John C. Downey, ex-governor of California, died at Los Angeles of pneumonia after an illness of only three days. He was 67 years old. Gen. Ji'bai. A. Early died at Lynchburg, Va., the result of a fall. He was born in Virginia November. 13 1816. The Colorado legislature adjourned sine die. James Montgomery Bailey, the “Danbury News man ; ” died at his home in Danbury, Conn., aged 55years. Elections for local officers were held in many towns in lowa, and the republicans were in most places successful Mrs. Eliza Davis died in San FVancisco at the age of 103 years 4 months and 18 days. She was a mulatto and was born a slave October 12, 1790. A special election will be held in the Third congressional district of Ohio May 1 to elect a successor to the late Congressman George liouk. The Illinois democratic state convention will be held at Springfield June 27. Municipal elections were held throughout Maine, the republicans being uniformly successful by increased majorities. The republicans at Richmond, Ind., renominated Henry V. Johnson for congress.

FOREIGN. Mme. Janet Monacii Patey, a distinguished contr->lt.r> s : n<rer, died at Sheffield. England, at the close of a song. In a fight between a band of brigands and the police of the town of Iztlahuaca, Mexico, eight of the former and two of the latter were killed. electio .csulted in tne choice of Seno. . . ....eute de Moraes as President Peixoto’s successor. In an engagement between the government troops and insurgents near Saranda, Brazil, the rebels were defeated with a loss of 400 men. Senor Ellaubi was elected president of the republic of Uruguay. At Victoria, B. C.. Green Worlock’s bank closed with liabilities of $400,000. Two memrkrs of an American hunting party were killed by wild beasts in the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico. Advickß from Rio de Janeiro say that the rebel transport Venus was wrecked during a bombardment and the three officers and twenty-nine men on board were drowned. Mil Gladstone’s resignation was accepted by Queen Victoria and Lord Rosebery was offered and accepted the vacant premiership. Queen Victoria prorogued parliament after giving her royal sanction to the local government bill. At the elections for members of the Chilian congress the liberal party was said to have been victorious. Miss Ida Van Etten, an American authoress living in Paris, is said to have died from starvation.

LATER. A bill was introduced in the I'nited States senate on the oth to put an end to railway ticket scalping. The main interest of the day centered about the discussions as to the disposal of the Bland bill, and it was decided to move to take it up and make it the business before the senate until disposed of. The debate on the pension appropriation bill was continued in the house, the feature of the session being Gen. Sickles’ speech criticising the action of Commissioner Lochren. The election returns from the various counties of New York show decided republican gains. The brig Albert arrived at San Francisco from Ilonolulb and reports that everything was quiet on the Hawaiian islands. Business had taken the place of politics. Michael Joyce, on his deathbed near West Union, la., confessed to the murder of his nephew four years ago. For attempted assault on a young girl James Erickson, aged 70, was tarred and feathered by indignant residents at Edgerton, Ind. Arguments upon the governor's right to remove state canvassers were begun before the Michigan supreme court,” Joseph M. Archer, a rich stock dealer, was murdered and robbed of $3,000 in the road near his home at North Baltimore, O. A FIRE destroyed property valued at SIOO,OOO at Cullman, Ala., and three persons were killed by falling timbers. The Dexter (Mich.) bank robbery mystery has been solved by the confession of Assistant Cashier 0. C] Gregory that he stole the missing 83,162, all of which was recovered. Harding, the oarsman, lias issued a sweeping challenge from London. England, to row anybody in the world. Lamson Gregory, an old negro, was taken by masked men from his house near Bell’s Depot, Tenn., and shot to death.

Stephen Geer, a dairyman living i n the suburbs of Jeffersonville, Ind.,”was murdered in his doorway by an unknown assassin. Robert Ross was murdered by Bat Shea, who was wounded, and two others fatally hurt in a Troy (N. Y.) election row. Publishers and printers in St. Paul were in the midst of an animated dispute over the scale of wages. Rufus S. Frost, aged 68, died in his car in a Chicago railway station while bound from Mexico to his Boston home, lie was a noted manufacturer and was a member of the Forty-fourth congress