People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Regular Session. The bill passed by the house appropriating 145,000 for the rescue of the armament and ■wreck of the Kearsarge was passed In the senate on the 7th, and the silver seigniorage bill •Iso passed its third reading. After five days of debate the pension appropriation bill, carry* tag 1151,000,000, was passed by the house without division. On the Bth the resignation of Senator White, •t Louisiana, was announced in the senate The Bland seigniorage bill came up as unfinished business, but a vote was postponed for one day. The bill for the sale of unsold portions of the Umatilla reservation in Oregon was passed.... The president transmitted some additional Hawaiian correspondence to the house. The conference report on the urgent deficiency bill was presented and agreed to The bill abolishing the office of commissioner and assistant commissioner of customs in the treasury department was passed. IN the senate on tbe Vth Senator Peffer intro* duced a resolution for an investigation into the senatorial sugar speculation. The house bill authorizing a bridge over the East river between New York and Long Island was passed. The seigniorage bill was discussed, and it was decided to postpone voting on the measure until the 15th. Adjourned to the 12th.... In the house the District of Columbia bill was considered. The night session was devoted to the passage of Individual pension bills The senate was not in session on the 10th.... In the house the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed and it was announced that the sundry civil appropriation bill would be considered next. The resolution by Senator Peffer for an investigation as to whether senators had been ■peculating in Wall street was defeated in the senate on the 12th by a vote of 33 to 27. Newton C. Blanchard was sworn in as senator from Louisiana to succeed E. D. White Senator Peffer introduced an independent tariff bill •mending the McKinley law in various particulars. The seigniorage bill was further discussed.... In the house the time was devoted entirely to the consideration of a bill for allowing a street railroad company in Washing ton to change its system of motive power. DOMESTIC. The president sent to congress the latest correspondence in relation to Hawaii, the important feature being a statement that steps had been taken to provide for a new constitution and a new form of government for Hawaii. The Nicholson hotel at Nashville, Tenn., one of the largest and best known in the south, went into the bands of a receiver with liabilities of <IOO,OOO. The Bank of Harrison, Neb., closed its doors. Depositors would be paid in full. Jebse Hauselman. of Ravenna. 0., aged 15, started west to fight Indians. He was arrested at Massillion and sent home.

Judge Smith, of the Cincinnati superior court, granted an order forbidding members of the district carpenters’ council preventing non-union men from working at a mill where there was a strike. Owing* to heavy rains towns to the south of Chicago were under from 4 to 6 feet of water. William Weib, a prisoner sent to the Ohio penitentiary from Cleveland on a three-year sentence for passing counterfeit money, died while entering the prison.

John Geschwilm killed his wife at Columbus, 0. Five years ago he killed his brother and served a two-year term for it John Hallock, confidential clerk in New York of Theodore Pabst & Co., importers of glass and chinaware, was arrested on the charge of embezzlinu •65,000. The Virginia legislature defeated a bill to require the United States flag to be raised on public schoolhouses. Thbee men were killed by the explo•ioD of a Lehigh Valley locomotive near WVilkesbarre, Pa. The democratic members of the senate finance committee laid before the full committee the Wilson tariff bill as they have amended it. Many duties *re raised, and sugar, iron and coal are taken from the free list. The income tax remains. The date when the free list «hall go into effect is changed from June 1. 1894. to June 80. 1894. Caleb S. Bragg, a Cincinnati millionaire, died on a Pennsylvania train near Pittsburgh, Pa., while homeward bound. Bohemian strikers assaulted Italian laborers with a shower of stones at Cleveland, 0., and one man was badly hurt.

Mrs. Martha C. Atchison was incinerated, as she had requested, at the crematory in Graceland cemetery, Chicago. Two Denver police commissioners cecured an injunction preventing the governor and mayor from ejecting them from ofiice. Two thousand striking silk weavers Paterson, N. J., roughly treated, one wan who refused to quit work. James B. Billings, dealer in boots and shoes in Boston, failed for SIOO,OOO. The Aeeond trial of Daniel Coughlin oa the charge of complicity in the murder of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin in Chicago came to a close after a session of nearly four months by the return of • verdict of acquittal by the jury, who were oat only six hours. John Geter was swindled out of •550 in Chicago by W. F. Ohlran, who represented he had counterfeit money for sale. Bev. R. Mac Neill, of Emporium, Pa., received a fortune by the will of an old woman, whose spectacles he picked ua Boundless, the famous race horse, broke a tendon at Little Rock, Ark.’ and may never run again. Five minutes after taking a tablespoonful of wine as a toast at a reception in honor of the wedding engagement of his son, Joseph Racker, of Bosenbayn, N. J., died in terrible convulsions. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United .States during the week ended on the 9th aggregated •736,852,864, against *838.528, l«0 the pre viou# week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893,

Dutch Niei.l, of St. Louis, defeated James Barron, of Australia, in a fight of thirteen rounds at Hot Springs, Ark. A syndicate has purchased 1,500,000,000 feet of northern Minnesota pine timber for (6,000,000 in round figures. The suit of Miss Madaline V. Pollard against Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, for breach of promise, began in Washington. Gen. Howard reported to the war department that Atlantic port cities were without modern means of defense. The land office at Washington decided that nearly 69,000 Michigan acres were wrongfully given the Portage Canal company. A statement from the pension bureau shows that there are 966,000 pensioners on the rolls. William Snyder and his wife, both over 70 years of age, were burned in their home at Develan. N. Y. Snyder got out once, but went back to rescue his wife. C. M. Gates, aged 75 years, and Mrs. Caroline Sawyer, aged 72, eloped from Bellevue, 0., and were married in Cleveland. Opposition from the married daughters of Mrs. Sawyer caused the elopement. It was said that customers of the Michigan Mortgage company, with headquarters at St. Johns, had been swindled out of 870,000. During a fire at Warsaw, Ky., which destroyed the Crown flouring mills and a granary, Mrs. E. A. Allen died from paralysis of the heart. During a boxing match in Chicago A. W. Crane struck Mike Sullivan a probably fatal blow. During the year 1893 431,712 immigrants arrived in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, representing four-fifths of tbe whole number which arrived at all American ports. At Alton, 111., Marion T. Skaats shot his wife and killed himself. Jealousy was ascribed as the cause.

Unfinished buildings were greatly damaged by a windstorm of unusual severity which swept Chicago, and John Ginochio, an Italian lawyer, was killed by a falling piece of timber. Capt. Evans’ life saving crew at Louisville, Ky., rescued three medical students from death just as their boat was about to go over the falls. John T. Hiler, who had married and deserted seven wives, was arrested in Chicago. A Fike at Cygnet, an oil town in Ohio, caused a loss of (100,009. The entire plant and stock of the Lansing Lumber company at Dodge, Mich., was burned, the loss being (175,000. Rescued from a wreck thirty-seven years ago, Frank Willis, of Manitowoc, Wis., has just discovered his identity by means of a locket At Atchison, Kan., the Missouri river was cutting a new channel, endangering property valued at 81,500,000. The entire business portion of the village of Omro, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Lease told a Boston audience that the women would solve the business depression if the men would mind the babies. Unknown persons failed in an attempt to destroy the office of the Ironclad Age, an agnostic paper at Indianapolis. Mathias Ludatschka, who shot his wife and her daughter near Prairie du Chien, Wis., escaped lynching by killing himself. According to the government report fanners have reserves of 114,000,000 bushels of wheat and 589,000,000 bushels of corn. Near Marche, Ark., the body of a young mulatto woman was found suspended to a tree. She had been lynched. Rev. Alanson T. Wood, of Omaha, Neb., aged 77, was stricken by illness in church and died in a few moments. Recent assays prove that the great sand hills in the vicinity of Duvan, Col., contain from one to twenty dollars’ worth of gold per ton. Steel works covering 800 acres of land and employing 3,000 men will be removed from Johnstown, Pa., to Cleveland, O.

Mayor Denny, of Indianapolis, ordered the arrest of labor leaders who indulge in incendiary speeches to the unemployed. The J. R. Morin company of Cedar Rapids, la., dealing in eggs and fruit, failed with liabilities of $210,000 and assets of $65,000. Citizens of Greenwood, Ind., have boycotted a saloonkeeper so thoroughly that he cannot buy food, raiment or water. Explorer Wellman was given a silk flag by the National Capital Press club and requested to hoist it at the north pole. Postmaster William Gould disappeared from Stony Brook. L. 1., leaving a shortage of $15,000. J. K. Stratton, a criminal for whom the police of many cities have been searching, was located in prison at Huntsville. Tex. “Billy” Edwards, a well-known sporting man, died at Hot Springs, Ark., from injuries received in being thrown from a buggy. To secure perfect safety for its passengers the St. Paul railway has adopted the block signal system. Senator Voorhees said in Washington that he had no idea that the tariff bill would become a law before the middle of July and it might not be until August The bodies of the thirteen men entombed in the Gaylord mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., on February IS, were reached by rescuers, but were beyond identification. The installation of Edward Douglas White, of Louisiana, as associate justice of the United States supreme court took place in Washington. Navigation on the Mississippi river has been resumed. May wheat made a new low record in New York, declining to 62 5-16 cents, or l-16th below the previous lowest record. Because he was discharged, Jacob Studt, a St Louis carpenter, killed Emil Wuensch. then took his own life. Michael Altifilish and John Kegler, 15-yeur-okl boys, were drowned while crossing the river at Bellevue, la.

1W a saloon row at Cleveland, 0., Michael Kennedy fatally shot John Cummings and James McNamara. Navigation on Lake Michigan was resumed, being the earliest opening ever recorded. The health officials of Ohio were alarmed by the spread of smallpox in the state.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL, Gov. Foster, of Louisiana, appointed Congressman Newton C. Blanchard as United States senator to succeed Judge White, whose resignation takes place on the 12th inst The prohibitionists of Wisconsin intend to make a vigorous campaign this year. Gen. Neal Dow, the champion of temperance, will be 90 years old March 2u, and the event will be celebrated in New York city by a great national meeting. James S. Walker, a noted scout on the plains for many years, died at Stockton, Cal. Col. Sylvester Morgan and wife celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary at Jeffersonville, Ind. Rev. Charles Machin died at his daughter’s Chicago residence. He was a Congregational clergyman for sixty years. The republicans of the First district of Tennessee nominated W. C. Anderson. of Newport, to succeed A. A. Taylor in Congress. The seventh annual convention of the National Republican league will commence at Denver June 26. Rev. Gideon Potter, a pioneer Baptist preacher, died in Owen county, Ind., at the age of 106 years. At the charter election in Michigan the republicans were successful in the majority of instances where party tickets formed the issue. Harriet W. Potter, of St Joseph, Mich., will soon wed Hawaiian Minister Thurston, whom she first met at the world’s fair.

FOREIGN. Ex-Premier Gladstone was seriously ill at his home in London from the effects of a chill. Eight persons were wounded by the explosion of a bomb near the Italian chamber of deputies in Rome. Fire in the hold of the steamer Paris, lying at her dock in London, caused a loss of 8100,000. Dispatches received from Calcutta say the British met serious disaster at the hands of Abor tribesmen. Mexican bandits attacked a ranch near Durango but were driven oft with a loss of four dead and five wounded. It was said that about 10,000 Canadian Knights of Labor, dissatisfied with Grand Master Sovereign, would secede from the organization. Premier Rosebery was said to contemplate a scheme of home rule for the whole united kingdom. Fearing a plot to restore the queen, tbe Hawaiian government has placed restrictions on immigration of aliens. A thousand arrests were made as the result of the discovery of a plot to kill the heir to the Corean throne. The crew of the yacht Natalie, fitted out in an American port by Haytian revolutionists, were captured and shot by Hippolyte. In an address to his party Premier Rosebery said the battle for Irish home rule would go forward with unabated vigor. Ludwig August Frankl, the Bohemian poet, died in Vienna, where he had lived for many years. He was 84 years old. Admiral da Gama, the Brazilian rebel leader, offered to surrender if guaranteed protection.

LATER. The time in the United States senate on the 13th was occupied in discussing the seigniorage bill. Senators Stewart and Lindsay spoke for and Senator Dolph against it,holding that its passage would destroy the existing equality between gold and silver. The house be gan consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill and fair progress was made. The schooner Mary Brown was lost off Banks Island, B. C., and eleven persons were drowned. Passenger trains collided at Cap]eton, Canada, and Conductor Cowan, Engineer Dutiie and Fireman McPherson were instantly killed. Minnesota republicans carried a majority of the municipal elections. The New York legislature passed a bill making minor grades of hazing misdemeanors and the infliction of physical injuries felonious. The Ohio legislature has decided in favor of biennial sessions. The war is practically over in Brazil and the cause of the insurgents is a lost one. The rebel forces have surrendered unconditionally, almost without firing a shot.

_ A boiler in a mill at Sombra, Ontario, exploded, and Mr. Cornell, the engineer, and three of his children, who had brought his dinner, were killed. M. O. Shoop, town tax collector, was held up by two highwaymen near Elburn, 111., and relieved ot S4OO in cash. Incendiary- fires have destroyed five barns and a livery stable at Fort Dodge la., in two weeks and over thirty horses were burned to death. The Santa Fe depot at Woodward, 0. T., was robbed of over SIO,OOO by two masked men, who overpowered the agent By the overturning of a lamp at l.er home in Washington Mrs. Pattie Miller Stocking, widow of CoL Stocking, of Andersonville fame, was fatally burned. Navigation of the great lakes for the season of 1894 will be open six weeks earlier than for many years. John Brecht, a farmer, murdered his wife at Ravenna, Neb., and then killed himself. Brecht had previously worked for the woman he married, who was a wealthy widow. Miss Alma Winters was frightened to death by a fire which destroyed her fathers residence at Barrington, 111. In the British house of commons Henry Labouchere's amendment to the queen’s address to abolish the house of lords was passed by a vote of 147 to 145, in spite of the opposition of the government