People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Part*. CONGRESSIONAL Regular Session. A treaty which provides for restricted Chi aese immigration has been negotiated and was under consideration in the senate on the 215 t.... The house was not in session. In the senate on the 22d a number of bills of minor Importance were acted upon. Mr. Sherman introduced a resolution directing the committee on Judiciary to investigaie the charges of “simulation" of United States coins or of the coining of standard silver dollars. After a brief executive session the senate adjourned until the 26th.... The house spent almost the entire day in filibustering over the O'NeillJoy contested election case from the St. Louis district. The bill for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela at Pittsburgh was passed. The senate was not in session the 23d.... In the house a joint resolution appropriating *lO,000 for the salaries and expenses of additional deputy collectors of internal revenue to carry out the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act was passed. The struggle over the O'NeillJoy contested election case was resumed and occupied the remainder of the session. There was no session of the senate on the 24th....1n the house the post office appropriation bill was considered. It carries 587,470,599, which is 13,142,851 less than the estimates and -<*,466 ,285 more than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. An amendmen tto set aside *20,000 for the purpose of free delivery experiments in rural districts other than towns and villages was adopted In the senate on the 28th the death of Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, was announced, the customary resolution of regret was adopted and a committee of ten senators was appointed to accompany the remains to Macon, Ga., after which the senate adjourned. ...The house adjourned after a brief session on account of the death of Senator Colquitt.

DOMESTIC. McQuaid, Emslie, Hurst, Lynch, O’Rourke, Stage and Smartwood have been selected as umpires of the National Baseball league. W. G. Dye, one of the oldest residents of Winona, Minn., also one of the best-known odd fellows in the United States, committed suicide by shooting. The inter-state silver convention met at Des Moines, la. Phelps Perrin, the Hurley bank robber, was released from the Wisconsin penitentiary on a pardon from the governor. Secretary Gresham charges Great Britain with dereliction in presenting legislation concerning the Behring sea dispute Lawton A. Sherman, aged 99, and Nancy, his wife, aged 97, celebrated the seventy-eighth anniversary of their ■wedding at Providence, R. I. Miss Annie Bauhart, of Massillon. 0., has been chosen to ride the white horse at the head of Coxey's army of peace

The lowa senate passed the mulct tax liquor bill and it was ready for the governor’s signature. It was feared that thousands of sheep perished in the blizzard in Wyoming. A herder was found frozen to death. White caps at Fayette, Mo., terribly ■whipped a negro woman and ordered her to leave the county under pain of death. At Denver the Champa building was partially destroyed by fire, entaiiingoa total loss of $300,000. Judge Chetlain, of the superior court at Chicago, has granted Patrick Eugene Prendergast, murderer of Mayor Carter H. Harrison, a fourteen days’ lease of life, to inquire as to his sanity or insanity. Bimetallists in conference at Des Moines, la, decided to support only free coinage candidates for congress. SilaßGove, the self-styled Immanuel, the prince of peace, died at Auburn, Me., at the age of 85 years. At Norfolk, Va, Mrs. Henry Hugo 4ihot and instantly killed Frank Watts, aged 15. for a criminal assault upon her daughter. At Wilkesbarre, Pa, John Shandon fatally shot a man, killed a baby, fired into a posse and narrowly escaped lynching. Ambrose Hoffman, in a fit of anger, Stabbed his wife to death at Lima, O. The fifth international penitentiary congrfess is to meet at Paris in June, <895, and this government has been invited to participate by sending delegates thereto. The commissioner of patents in his annual report for the calendar year 1893 says the total number of applications for patents received during the year was 37,298. There were 23,670 patents granted, including designs; 99 patents reissued, and 1,677 trade marks registered. The number of patents which expired was 14.J72. Phenomenal strikes in the Cochiti gold mining district have set New Mexico wild, and the prospectors are pouring into Cochiti from all directions.

A production of {fold throughout the •world of 1150,000,000 for the calendar year 1898 is the latest estimate of the bureau of the mint at Washington. Louis Butscher, a prominent citizen of Parkersburg, W. Va., insane from exhaustion and grief, shot and killed Himself at the bedside of his dying mother. H. A. Sutherland, of Saugus, Mass., coughed up a bullet from his lungs. It had been lodged there since October 11, 1863, when he was shot in the neck at a battle during the war. It was said that a discrepancy of 91,500,000 has been discovered in the Kew York state comptroller’s office. The president has approved the bill granting a pension to Hannah Lyons, 91 years of age, daughter of John Rus•ell, the revolutionary soldier, whose •tatue stands on guard at Trenton Battle Monument. Thebe will be 188 new money order offices established throughout the country on April 2. Thebe were 244 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28d, against 264 the week previous and 190 in the corresponding time In 1893. SiK months ago Samuel H. Gard disappeared from El wood. Ind. His body fcea been found in the Arkansas river ml Little Bock.

George Crowe*, of Brighton, Wia, has confessed that he murdered John Callaghan on the night of February 29. A New York commercial agency reports a greater volume of business in the country, but at prices lower than ever before Hungarian strikers at Paterson, N. J., beat nonunion men severely and were holding the citizens in a state of terror.

The Knights of Labor are said to have declared war on the twenty or more breweries in St. Louis controlled by Englishmen. Mrs. Barclay Hoy, an aged widow of Johnstown, Pa., was terribly abused by robbers, who thought she had money hidden. Thomas Higgins was hanged at Chicago for the murder of Peter McCooey. Bi' the explosion of the Acme Powder company’s works near Pittsburgh, Pa., Bix persons were instantly killed, four of them being women. At Roma, Tex., two boys, aged 15, in love with the same girl, fought a duel with daggers and one was fatally hurt. Unknown forgers have victimized various banks of St. Louis' to the amount of $20,000 by a new scheme. It was decided by the lowa legislature to adjourn April C. Government officials have discovered new counterfeits in circulation. One is a two-dollar treasury note and the other a one-dollar silver certificate. The Chicago, St Louis & Cairo railroad, with $9,000,000 capital, has been organized to build an air line from Chicago to St Louis. Coxey’s good roads army, numbering 200 men, left Massillon, 0., on their march to Washington. Reports from Wyoming indicate that a blizzard which lasted seventy hours caused great loss of live stock on the ranges. Prince Besolow, a student at Williams college, has been recalled to his home in Africa to become king of his people. In an interview at Louisville Pugilist Corbett declared he would fight Jackson for the championship only on American soil.

J. D. Gage, adjutant general of Nebraska, is charged with having wrecked the state bank at Franklin, of which he was president. Murdered for his hoard, the body of Joseph Petrow lay for three weeks in a hovel in Chicago. Enraged at the crying of his baby, Andro Bartelli, of Barbertown, Pa., threw it into a stove, where it was fatally burned. A veritable bandits’ cave, comfortably furnished, was discovered near Winfield, Kan., by two boys while hunting. Henhy Vargerson was shot by a traveling river showman atUniontown, Ky., and fatally wounded. Every Jew in Troy, Ala., has received a notice from white cups to leave town under penalty of death by hanging.

The Colorado supreme court has decided it had no jurisdiction in the Denver fire and police board controversy and the case was referred to the circuit court. It was said that President Cleveland was suffering with a combination of gout and rheumatism and was able to move about with difficulty. Doubt is expressed by many attorneys as to the power of any court to again pass sentence on Assassin Prendergast, the murderer of Carter H. Harrison. Eight dwellings, a business block, a saloon and a church were swept away by fire at Ford, Ky. Two women were fatally hurt and four others badly bruised in a runaway accident at Hollidaysburg, Pa. W. S. Ferrell, a wealthy West Virginia land owner, was shot and killed by one of the notorious Riddle brothers. Maj. Randle, of Dallas, Tex., after expending $120,000 to avoid punishment for a murder, was sentenced to twenty years. Lillian Willis, aged 75, of Homer, Ga., who killed her father to save her mother’s life, was acquitted by the jury. Mrs. Sawyer was found frozen’ to death on the prairie in South Dakota. Her starving dog had eaten one of her arms. Dick O’Brien defeated Billy Hennessy at Boston in the eleventh round, thereby becoming champion middle weight fighter. The American ships Lewellyn J. Morse, the Edward O’Brien and the J. B. Walker, started on a race to the Golden Gate from three Atlantic ports. The Milwaukee Young Men’s Christian association and the Ministerial assoeiation joined hands for a crusade against immoral and indecent lithographs posted about the city on billboards.

Rev. Oscar Leibeb Mitchell was ordained in Boston to the priesthood of the Episcopal church. He is a young colored man. and is the first of his race to be ordained in the Episcopal church in New England. The First national bank of Great Falls, Mont., has resumed business. Foub duck hunters were caught in a gale on Black lake near Holland, Mich., and drowned. Lazarus Silverman, the Chicago banker who failed for $1,780,000, is again in charge of his estate. He will pay in full. Henry S. Louchheim & Co., bankers and brokers in Philadelphia, assigned with liabilities amounting to $300,000. James Mullen, a farmer living near Reeseville, Wis., murdered his wife and committed suicide. Family troubles were the cause. Fears were expressed that the recent cold snap had greatly injured the crop of winter wheat Mail robberies at South Bend, Ind., continue and the detectives were unable to find the mysterious thieves. Sixteen of the Gravesend (N. Y.) election inspectors associated with John Y. McKane pleaded guilty and were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 26th was: Wheat, 72,164,000 bushels; corn. 19,165,000 bushels; oats, 2,713,000 bushels; rye, 441,000 bushels; barley, 686,000 bushels.

Reports from many places in the west sod south tell of damage to the fruit trees and early vegetation by the recent cold wave. George Ashworth, a youthful farmhand, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. W’ilbur Mason near Summerset, la. Burglars at Great Bend, W. Va., burned one hand and one ear of Basil D. Hall, a wealthy farmer, to a crisp before he would give them $5,000 from his safe.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Judge William McKenzie, father of the minister to Peru, died at his home near Bennettstown. Ky., aged 91. Ohio populists and prohibitionists have combined to defeat candidates of both democratic and republican parties. The supreme court broke the senatorial deadlock in New Jersey which, has existed for eleven weeks by upholding the republican senate and all its acts and ruling that the democratic organization was unconstitutional. George C. Baker, the inventor of the submarine torpedo boat, died in Washington. aged 55 years. Dr. J. H. Rauch, ex-secretary of the Illinois board of health, was found dead in bed at Lebanon, Pa. Edward F. Boland died at his home in De Dalb, 111. He was 107 years old and came from County Mayo, Ireland, fifty years ago. Alfred 11. Colquitt, United States senator from Georgia, died in Washington of paralysis, aged 70 years. In 1859 he was a representative in congress, in 1876 was governor of his state, and in 1880 was chosen senator and was serving his second term. He leaves a widow, one son and four daughters. FOREIGN. Queen Victoria and the prince of Wales have consented to the marriage of Princess Maud to Premier Rosebery. Members of the family of Louis Kos snth, the dead Hungarian patriot, decided to inter his remains in his native land. Because the theaters in Buda-Pesth did not close out of respect for Kossuth they were stormed by angry students. By the explosion of a bomb in the church of Gallien at Grenoble, France, twenty persons were injured, three of whom may die. President Peixoto, of Brazil, has revived the imperial decree of 1838 and will execute without trial all persona who took up arma against the government It was said that Hawaii was about to establish a republic, Minister Thurston having been called home from the United States to assist in the undertaking. Fire in a school conducted by sisters of charity at Laon, France, destroyed the building and cremated six of the pupils. Dispatches from St Johns, N. F., were to the effect that three arctic parties were in course of formation there. Soldiers and foreign warships have left Rio de Janiero and all traces of the recent warfare were disappearing. Aeronaut Wilton fell from his balloon, a distance of 1,500 feet, at Cannes, France, alighting in the sea, and was instantly killed. Forty men were driven to sea on floating ice at St. John’s, N. F., and it was feared they had perished. It was said Mexico was endeavoring to secure an international monetary conference to settle the fate of silver. By the explosion of a parafine lamp in a London dwelling house five persons were burned to death. It was said the several foreign powers had been communicating with a view to united efforts against anarchists.

LATER. Funerai. services over the remains of Senator Colquitt took place in the United States senate on the 27th. No business was transacted. In the house bills were introduced for the reduction of compensation of persons in the government service; to incorporate the “American College of Musicians” for the promotion 'of music in the United States, and to amend the interstate commerce law by repealing all punishments by imprisonment for violations of the interstate commerce act and rendering the offending corporation itself punishable. Tiik republicans of the Fourth district of Kansas nominated Charles Curtis for congress. An assignment was made in Philadelphia by the firms of Wood, Brown & Co. and Haines & Co., the forme? with liabilities of SOOO,OOO and the latter $400,000. A decision was made at the pension office in Washington admitting insane, idiotic and helpless children of soldiers to the pension rolls. Canada’s minister of finance says the government will stand by the national policy of protection. Reports to congress show that exhibits were received at the world’s fair from sixty foreign nations, valued at $28,000,000. Another snowstorm was raging in the west and the few remaining cattle on the ranches would undoubtedly perish. Major W. D. Biokham. for thirty-one years editor of the Dayton (O.) Journal, and a veteran of the late war, dropped dead of apoplexy. He was 67 years old. Ed Cory and John Bailqy were ararrested for prize-fighting at Logansport, Ind., and rescued by their friends. George W. Palmer, of Saville, who has long been considered the second wealthiest man in Virginia, has failed. He was a millionaire. The Missouri populists in state convention at Kansas City nominated O. D. Jones, of Knox county, for justice of the supreme court Violent earthquakes occurred in various parts of Greece and the loss of life was considerable. Reports from various sections in the south and east show great damage to fruits and early vegetables as a result of the cold wave. Along the Atlantic coast railway lines in the south the damage was about $1,000,000. In the grape-growing regions of western New York the buds were destroyed and vast losses would result