People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Regular Session. The time on the 14th in the Unitedd States senate was occupied in discussing the Bland seigniorage bill. A motion to reconsider in order that the bill might be opened to amendment was defeated.... In the house the sundry civil appropriation bill was farther considered, but no action was taken. A bill was introduced providing that no more than two persons shall be appointed receivers for any corporation By a vote of 44 to 31 the Bland silver seigniorage bill was passed in the senate on the l&th. The bill now only lacks the president’s signature to become a law. A bill was also passed authorizing the building ot a bridge across the Missouri river near Sioux City, la. ....In the house a bill was-introduced to authorize managers of soldiers' homes to employ medical officers other than soldiers disabled in the service, as the law now requires The sundry civil bill was further considered. The senate was not in session on the 16th.... In the house the army appropriation bill (823,•77,284) was reported. Mr. Cummings (N. Y.) Introduced five bills affecting the administration of naval affairs The sundry civil appropriation bill was further considered. On the the 17th there was no session of the United States senate.... In the house Mr. Curtis Introduced a bill to restrict immigration, saying he wanted to keep land for unborn Americana A resolution authorizing the enlisted men ot the army and navy to wear a badge on public occasions was adopted. The sundry Civil bill was further considered, and eulogies were delivered on the late Congressman Enochs, cf Ohio. No business ot importance was transacted in the senate on the 19th, the entire day being consumed in the consideration of bills on the calendar, and most ot these were matters of small importance ... The house spent the day In discussing the sundry civil bill The last paragraph was considered, but no definite action was taken on any item.

DOMESTIC. The Western Baseball league magnates met at Milwaukee and adopted a schedule. The season will begin on April 25. Fbki> Hill shot and killed P. H. Geelan. uostmaster at Big Springs, Kay-; ecause wou no t resign his position. Nuns who taught in the Riverside school at Pittsburgh, Pa., have withdrawn because of the stopping of their salaries. Prof. Milton Whitney has been made chief of a new division of the weather bureau in Washington which will study agricultural soils. Indian creek reservoir in Idaho "burst its banks and fifty houses in Nampa were ruined and two lives were lost Near Elba, Ala., the charred remains of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas were found in the embers of their home. A passenger train on the Oregon Short line was ditched near Mountain Home, Idaho, resulting in the death of the fireman, mail clerk and three tramps. Sixteen houses were wrecked and a large number of barns and other buildings were destroyed by a cyclone on the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma. Frederic Gebhard, of New York, ■whose wealth and admiration for Mrs. Langtry brought him prominently before the public some years ago, was united in marriage with Miss Louise H. Morris, a celebrated belle and heiress of Baltimore, Md. The barn of Isaac Catanch at Rushville, Wis., was burned, and he and twenty-two cows and two horses perished in the flames. Richard Puryear (colored), who murdered Christian Ehler at Stroudsburg, Pa., escaped from jail, but was chased by a mob, caught and hanged. Gov. Waite with a body of state troop attempted to forcibly install his new appointees on the fire and police board in Denver. He was met by an armed force of police and deputy sheriffs, and a bloody affray was barely averted by the arrival of federal troops and the intervention of prominent citi zens.

Charles Goode celebrated his 100th birthday at Platteville, Ilk Frank Juc, lacking railroad fare, "walked 125 miles to answer a summons as a witness in a liquor case in the federal court in Chicago. Nearly 2,000,000 bushels of grain, loaded in vessels, are held in Chicago because insurance cannot be secured until April Fire in the old Athenaeum building In Chicago drove the audience from the Schiller theater and did damage amounting to SIBO,OOO. Three bandits, supposed to be Mexicans, robbed the stage coach running between Sherwood and Ozena, Tex. Mullins & McClain’s cold storage ■warehouse at Omaha was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Ching Ming Lee was under arrest in Chicago for importing Chinese actors iand embezzling 155,000 from the theater .in Midway plaisance during the world’s lair. The interior of the Pickwick club building, the handsomest in the south, “was destroyed by fire at New Orleans, the loss being $173,000. The census bulletin on manufactures In the United States shows the total number of manufacturing establishments to be 355,401, against 253,852 in 1880. The capital was 16,124,475,306; (miscellaneous expenses, 1630,944,058; Aggregate of the average number of employments, 4,771,812; wages, $2,282,823,265; cost of materials used, $5,158,868,353; value of products, $9,370,107,624. Thebe were 264 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 16th, against 248 the week previous and 190 in the corresponding time in 1893. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 16th aggregated •885,001,934, against $736,852,864 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 30.7. Mbs. Agnes Fuby, of Baltimore, Md.. was scared to death by a small fire in her residence. Because he refused to allow them to 1 ride, revengeful tramps fatally shot a railway conductor at Taopi, Minn.

In her trip from New York to Queenstown the Cunard steamer Lucania made an average of 21.73 miles an hour. Maggie Powers, aged 17, of Cincinnati, donned male attire in order to become a tramp. She was arrested in Indianapolis. Gov. Waite, of Colorado, agreed to submit his altercation with the police board to the supreme court and to abide by the decision. This determination ends the prospect of bloodshed which for two days kept Denver in a fever of excitement Jkrry Harlbeck was hanged at Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Constable Hazel. Liankauf <fc Straus' wholesale dry goods store at Mobile, Ala., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. Brooding over the elopement of a young daughter Mrs. Bender, of Bluffton, Ind., has become a raving maniac. The boot and shoe manufacturing firm of Isaac Prouty <fc Co. of Spencer, Mass., one of the biggest concerns of its kind in the country, made-an assignment, throwing 2,000 persons out of work. At Beattyville, Ky., John Burnsand Joseph Donerel were killed by Grant Cecil at the wedding of the latter at the home of Miss Rhoda Mays, the bride. Cecil escaped. According to a bill introduced in the New York legislature only the American flag may fly from public buildings in the state. Four highwaymen held up two policemen, shot a citizen and robbed a store in Chicago. Pugilist Corbett in an interview says he will quit the arena after his fight with Peter Jackson. At Brooklyn. N. Y., the tinware manufactory of llsley & Co., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $200,000. The Poorman lead mine in the Cceur d’Alene district in Idaho has been bought by English capitalists for half a million dollars.

Elijah Harrison, a nonunion potter of East Liverpool, 0., frightened by threats of strikers, appealed to the British ambassador for protection. In a sermon at St. Paul Archbishop Ireland said foreign nationalism should give place in church and state to Americanism. *7" Fontanelle, la., Isaac dayman shot his t. v. , , ... .. . , /Hied her objecting father and tried to ena Told by a companion in a jesting way to kill himself, Fritz Gighnaer, of St. Joseph, Mo., blew out his brains. Liuhimiw destroyed a bam belonging to John Koop at Owensboro, Ky., and nine fine trotting horses perished in the flames. Stanley’s brewery at Lawrence, Mass., was burned to the ground, the loss being $125,000. Troops were sent to Altman, Col., to aid the sheriff in maintaining order among the striking miners. Many farmers lost everything by a prairie fire in the Cheyenne country in Oklahoma. Fire in the business part of Gloucester, Mass., caused a loss of 8100,000. John Brady killed his wife and blew out his own brains in a Roman Catholic church at Oakland, Cal. Domestic trouble was the cause. Mbs. Mollie Martin and daughter and Miss Nellie McCarthy were drowned in San Francisco bay by the capsizing of a yacht. Bill Nye announces that his present lecturing tour, ending in Galveston, Tex., in four weeks, is the last one he will undertake.

Eighteen persons were killed, five in one family, three fatally hurt and many others seriously injured by a cyclone in the vicinity of Santa Anna, Tex. Heavy rains in western Tennessee and Arkansas washed away the growing crops and wrecked a number of houses.

While sitting at the supper table Mrs. John Johnson and her son, of Lawrenceville, Ga., were killed ’by lightning. Ihe senate finance committee decided to restore the old tax vn cigars in response to the protest of workmen. In the vicinity of Spencer, I. T., four lives were lost by a cyclone. The Union depot at Denver, Col., one of the finest in the country, was burned, the loss being $300,000. . Eastern roads have announced a rate of a cent a mile for the Grand Army encampment in Pittsburgh in September. Twenty persons lost their lives in the storm which swept Texas, while 100 others were injured. Edward H. Bennett and Charles P. Spencer, two students at East Greenwich, R. 1., were drowned in the bay while duck hunting. Nearly 7 inches of rain fell at Memphis, Tenn., in thirty-six hours, and much damage was done by floods. A yachting association was formed at Cleveland which will include in its membership all the important clubs on Lake Erie and Detroit river. Ministers at Kansas City, Kan., have started a crusade against the numerous lottery concerns which flourish throughout the state. Fire destroyed Frederick Rumpe & Brothers’ big mill property in Philadelphia, the loss being $242,000. In the chapel at St. Joseph’s academy at St Louis twenty-five young ladies took the vows which separate them from the world. A populist paper at Wichita, Kan., says if Secretary Carlisle issues more bonds a million armed men should march on Washington. Esther Jacobs was awarded $50,000 damages in a breach of promise suit in New York against Henry B. Sire. . '1 ramps were flocking to Massillon, 0., to join the commonweal army. Sheriffs along the line of march were preparing for trouble. A counterfeiter, to whom officers and farmers gave chase near Walcott, la, killed himself with a revolver. Half a million silver dollars were said to have been put in circulation by a counterfeiting gang operating near Omaha, Neb. A -terrific wind and electric storm passed over the southwestern portion of Arkansas and farms were devastated, fences blown away and ruin spread in every direction.

Twenty-five families have been re duced to destitution by forest fires on the Connelton mountains near Charleston, Kan, Six members of the family of Herman Thuron, living near Plano, IH., were at death’s door from eating uncooked sausage. The president transmitted to congress the final correspondence arising out of the request made by President Dole, of the Hawaiian provisional government, upon Minister Willis for information as to whether or not the United States government would use force to effect the queen’s restoration. The Illinois steel works at South Chicago started up, giving employment to 3,000 men. The works have been idle since last Septembf r.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Capt. Frank E. Brownell, who achieved fame at the commencement of the war as the avenger of the death of CoL Ellsworth at Alexandria, Va., died at Washington, aged 53 years. Mbs. Mary Sheets died at Union, 0., from a paralytic stroke, aged 101 years 1 month and 1 day. It was said that Minister Porter had resigned the Chilian consulship in order to run for congress from Tennessee. The Arkansas democrats will hold their state convention at Little Rock June 27. The populists of Oregon have nominated Nathan Pierce for Governor. Announcement was made of the engagementof Miss Hattie Blaine, daughter of the late James G. Blaine, and Truxton Beale, son of the late Gen. Beale. The 90th birthday of Gen. Neal Dow, of Maine, the apostle of temperance, was celebrated in many citiesand towns in the United States.

Mrs. John W. Noble, wife of the exsecretary of the interior, died very suddenly at her home in St. Louis while talking with friends. Ex-Congressman Washington Townsend, aged 85 years, died at his home at Westchester, Pa., of paralysis. Commodore William D. Whiting, retired, of the United States navy, died in New York, aged 70 years. Mrs. Annie Bailey, a colored woman, died at Philadelphia at the reputed age of 121 years. She was born near Chambersburg, Pa. ronr-fr m King Humbert, of Italy, celebrated his 50th birthday in Rome. President Peixoto, of Brazil, has issued a proclamation decreeing amnesty for the rebel sailors and soldiers who surrendered unconditionally. The British house of commons rejected the amended address in reply to the queen’s speech that does awiiy with the house of lords. In an attempt to destroy a church in Paris the anarchist who exploded the bomb was blown to atoms. Hawaii may cede Pearl harbor to England in the event of the United States proving unfriendly to the Dole government. Two steamers collided and sank in the straits between Bengalis and Cogal in Asiatic waters and fifty persons were drowned. After spending fifty years in a Chinese prision Mariano Gantaano, aged 117, was released. In the annual boat race between the crews of Oxford and Cambridge over the Thames course in London the former won. Eighty thousand persons took part in the trade unionist demonstration in London against the house of lords. Two Mexicans at Guanajuato killed Pedro Letrero, aged 60, and his grandchildren, aged 9 and 5 years.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 20th Senator Voorhees reported the tariff bill and gave notice that on April 2 he would ask the senate to take it up for consideration. In the house the sundry civil appropriation bill ($27,687,930) was reported. The house then adjourned to the 22d. Twenty-seven persons were arrested and would be executed for an attempt to kill the king of Corea. For assassinating 11. G. Bouldin, a wealthy planter at Wharton, Tex., sixteen negroes were arrested and’ were liable to be put to death by a mob. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted and general havoc created by a heavy windstorm which swept over Arkansas. Minnie Schilling, Matthew Graham ane John Sehremp were murdered in one day in St Louis by different persons. . Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, died after a long illness at Turin, aged 92 years. John Reed and Etta. Shaw, two young lovers, committed suicide near their homes in Adams township, about 10 miles from Oskaloosa, la., because their parents objected to their marriage until they were older. Excessive rainfall caused much damage in Tennessee. Railroad bridges were washed away and houses wrecked. Hundreds of people in Exeter hall, London, celebrated the 90th birthday of Neal Dow, the American temperance reformer.

Col. Allen Sells, one of the original Sells Bros, of circus fame, died at his home in Topeka, Kan., aged 58. At the democratic state convention in Providence, R. 1., David S. Baker was nominated for governor. The platform commends the repeal of the Sherman coinage act, the pending tariff legislation and the repeal of the federal election law. At Centerville, la., burglars pried open the door of a bank vault and stole 8,000 silver dollars. By the killing of two members of the Hatfield gang the old Hatfield-McCoy feud in West Virginia has been renewed. Gov. Rich was sustained in removing state officials by a unanimous opinion of the Michigan supreme court and he made the following appointments to fill vacancies: Secretary of state, Washington Gardner, of Albion; state treasurer, James M. Wilkinson, of Marquette; land commissioner, William A French, of Bell. All of the appointees took the oath of office and the incumbents gracefully retired.