People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Kesalar Session. Os the 28th resolutions were introduced in the senate asking the secretary or war whether subordinate employes and laborers engaged by engineer officers have been employed or discharged for political reasons; directing the finance committee to prepare a bill for the repeal of all laws authorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds ot other interest-bear fng obligations without; specific authority, and one calling for information regarding changes made in the weight or fineness of silver coins of silver standard countries. A bill to provide for the free and unlimited coinage of silver was Introduced by Mr. Stewart, of Nevada.... In the house an attempt to discuss the two election cases of O’Neill vs Joy and English vs. Hilborn showed the lack of a quorum. In the senate the pension appropriation bill was reported on the 29th and the house Joint resolution appropriating SIO,OOO additional to carry out the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act and the McGarrahan land claim bill were passed....ln the house the president’s message vetoing the Bland silver seigniorage bill was received. No business was transacted. The senate was not in session on the 30th tilt... In the house Mr. Bland gave notice that on April 3 he would move to pass the seigniorage bill over the veto. No business was transacted. On the 81st ult the senate was not in session ....In the house bills were introduced for the free and unlimited coinage of silver dollars of 41314 grains and for an additional district Judge for the Northern district of Illinois. The river and harbor bill was reported, and the remainder of the day was devoted to eulogies upon the life, character and public services of the late Representative O’Neill, of Pennsylvania. In the senate on the 2d Senator Vcorhees (dem., Ind.) opened the tariff debato and in his speech denounced the protective system of tariff taxation. The nominations of Thomas E. Benedict, of New York, to be public printer, and James D. Yoemans, of lowa, to be interstate commerce commissioner, were received from the president.... In the house a fruitless attempt was made to secure a quorum in order to bring the O'Neill-Joy contested election case to a close.

DOMESTIC. The town of Sutherland, Neb., was totally destroyed by fire. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway and the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific railway have been consolidated. A revival reached such a stage in Bloomington, 111., that business houses and saloons closed during the day appointed for general prayer. Kentucky women were signing a petition asking congress to impeach Col. Breckinridge. Three families, comprising fourteen persons, were buried in a snowslide at Canyon Creek, Wash. Miss Sarah Billings and her sister Linda, aged 85 and 40 years respectively, took their own lives with poison at Winchester, 0., because they were about to be separated by marriage. Jim Godsey, sentenced to five years at Terre Haute, Ind., for forgery, said his father had trained him in crime from childhood.

At Antigo, Wis., William Nonnetnacher pleaded guilty to murdering his ■wife and three children and was. given a life sentence. At Indianapolis seven members of a family were poisoned by eating sausage containing trichinae. Col. Breckinridge took the stand in his own defense in Washington and told of his intrigue with Madeline Pollard. Thomas Holloway, a populist farmer, ■while watching Coxey’s army in Columbiana, 0., dropped dead from apoplexy. Howard S. Long, an installment goods agent at Springfield, 0., met Miss Lydia Brown, of Urbana, for the first time, and in half an hour they were .married. Receiver Fat box, of the Lima (0.) National bank, which closed two years ago, claims a shortage of 890,000 for which he can get no explanation. Cherokee, la., has been selected as the location for a new insane asylum to accommodate 1,000 patients and cost more than $1,000,000. John Witt’s residence at McKendree, "W. Va., was burned and his eight little children and Miss Mollie Hettrick perished in the flames. A cold norther did millions of dollars Of damage in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, killing almost everything green. Oliver Jackson (colored), one of the Grant murderers, while en route to Montgomery, Ala, was taken by masked men from two deputies and shot to death.

A general strike of the 10,000 coke ■workers and miners of the Connellsville (Pa.) region was ordered. Gov. Tillman called on the militia to assist in enforcing the dispensary law in South Carolina. Tint California supreme court holds Irhat the act of the last legislature in removing the capital from Sacramento to San Jose was illegal. B. McManus, of Livingston, Mont, ehot and killed his wife and then cut his own throat Domestic trouble was the cause. Prof. John M. Ellis, of Oberlin college at Obeylin, 0.. died on a Santa Fe train as it entered Chicago from California. Theaters, cards and dancing have keen tabooed as vices by the Ep worth league of Michigan. Senator Yoobhees declined to allow the factory girls of New England to appear before the Benate finance committee in opposition to the tariff bill. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 80th ult aggregated $741,401,766, against $885,001,934 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 29.3. Executions took place as follows: Israel Johnson (colored) at Union Springs, Ala., for the murder of Wash Boberts (colored) January 15 last; at Paris, Tex., E. R. Gonsales, for the murder of John Daniels, May 16. 1893; Manning Davis for the murder of John Roden December 26, 1891, and Jim Upkins for the murder September 6, 1893, Of bis 6-year-old step-daughter.

Judge Dallas filed *n opinion in tbe United States court at Philadelphia holding that Chinamen cannot be naturalized. In discussing the right of the south to secede the debating society at Maple Creek, Neb., broke all the furniture and several members were badly injured. One person was killed, fifteen injured, four of them probably fatally, and property worth $40,000 destroyed by the collapse of a water tower at Peoria, IIL The Maryland legislature passed a bill making it obligatory on the courts of Maryland, under certain conditions, to send inebriates to gold cure institutes for treatment Judge Louis S. Lovell died at Stanton, Mich., aged 78. He was on the cir cuit bench in the eighth district for twenty-four years. Fkitz Kloetzler, a shoemaker and a socialist, murdered his wife and four children and then committed suicide at Dolgeville, N. Y. The acting secretary of war has formally decided that a deserter's release is in no sense a discharge from the army nor does it in any way remove the charge of desertion. Excitement was aroused by the find of a pronounced vein of silver near Virginia City, Wis. Five blocks in the central portion of Barry, 111., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. Four persons were killed and three badly wounded in a fight near Darlington, S. C., over the enforcement of the dispensary law. Gov. Tillman ordered troops to quell the disturbance. William R. Laiplaw was awarded damages in New York of $25,000 in his suit against Russell Sage, who used him as protection against a dynamiter. Nuggets of pure gold were washed from sand dug out of a well at La Veta, Col. South Carolina, was almost in a state of anarchy, nearly all the troops having refused to obey Gov. Tillman in the dispensary war. He had placed the counties of Florence and Darlington under martial law.

Miss Annie Van Dorn, of Passaic, N J., has just discovered that she was married to the wrong man in 1592 while under the influence of drugged liquor. Four persons were injured in a collision between passenger trains at Ander son, Ind. Robbers secured $8,200 from the safe of the township treasurer at Frankfort, Mich. W. B. Bkozell, a well-to-do farmer of Hurd county, Ga., shot his wife and then shot himself fatally. Four men were burned to death and one fatally and two others seriously injured by a natural-gas explosion at Alexandria, Ind. Five tramps were thought to have perished in a fire which destroyed the Rock Island hay barns at Geneseo, 111. An employe of the American exchange national bank of New York conspired with an outsider and swindled the concern out of $33,000. Because a tag was pinned to his coat John Williams stabbed Walter Johnson to death at a revival meeting in Olive, O.

Competition and a falling off in business caused the collapse of the brewing pool made up in September, 1892. Three men were burned to death in a summer cottage at Squantum Beach, Mass. During a riot at a political meeting in Milwaukee half a dozen men were stabbed. The trouble was started by Polish laborers. Fire which started in a flourmill at Borden, Ind., burned six stores and eighteen residences, causing a loss of SI 20.000. Four hundred drunken strikers terrorized the town of East Liverpool, 0., and non-union men were beaten and the police cowed. Four members of the Louisville (Ky.) city council were indicted for bribery and perjury. The regular monthly treasury statement for March shows that the total receipts were $24,842,797, against $34,115,809 for March, 1593. The disbursements were $31,187,520, against $31,633.482 for March, 1893, leaving a deficiency for the month of March of $6,294,703, and for the nine months of the present fiscal year of $55,432,027. The visible supply of grain in the

United States on the 2d was: Wheat, 71,530,000 bushels; corn. 18,539,000 bushels; oats, 2,713,000 bushels; rye, 415,000 bushels; barley, 636,000 bushels Moroni Duncan, a stockman, formerly owner of the Rock Springs (Wyo,) Review, perished in a blizzard which swept over that state. Holland English was taken from the jail at Bakersville, Va., by a mob and hanged. He was charged with killing his wife. In a boiler explosion near Tompkinsville, Ind., Alex Ritter, the owner of the mill, and two brothers named Fowler were killed instantly. Striking mill operatives at Paterson, N. J., attacked five working women, but a squad of police rescued the defenseless party. Champion Corbett says that Jackson will put up a defensive fight and will be beaten inside of twenty rounds. The decomposed body of Rev. M. Nolan, a traveling evangelist claiming Richmond, Va., as his home, was found riddled with bullets near Homer, Tenn. Bill Dalton, the famous outlaw, was fatally shot in a fight with officers in the Indian territory. The residence of a Mr. Price at Kentville, Ind., was burned, and his three children perished in the flames. In a fight between Indians and white settlers in the Cheyenne country west of El Reno two white men and five Indians were killed. Christopher Wilkie and Henry Wells, farmers living at Columbus, 111., killed themselves with poison. They made an agreement to take their own lives several weeks ago, owing to ill health. Four thousand painters and paperhangers in Chicago struck against a reduction of wages. The Howland Falls (Mo.) pulp mill, out buildings, offices and one dwelling were burned, the loss being $150,000.

Walter Berdan started to ridea on bicycle from Denver, CoL, to Paterson, N. J. The distance is 2,500 miles and he will strive to make a long distanco record. Notice of a cut In the wages of trainmen has been issued by the Wabash road, to take effect May 1.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Charles G Baer, grand commander of the Knights Templars of Pennsylvania, died of spinal meningitis at Pittsburgh, aged 58 years. Geobge Ticknor Cttrtis, the lawyer and writer on political economy and constitutional history, died in New York, aged 53 years. Leading women of Atlanta, Ga., met and organized a Woman’s Suffrage association. Charles F. Crisp, speaker of tho house, was appointed United States senator by Gov. Northen, of Georgia, to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Colquitt’s death. Mrs Jane G. Austin, the novelist, died in Boston, aged 55, after a lingering illness. Speaker Crisp has declined the seat in the senate made vacant by Senator Colquitt’s death. E. G. Rathbone, of Hamilton, 0., was nominated for congress by the Third district republicans to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Houk. Ex-Congressman George E. Halsey died in Newark, N. J., of pneumonia after a brief illness. He was 67 years of age and a millionaire. In the Kansas municipal elections the issue was the fight of women against the saloons and in many instances the former were beaten. In the municipal elections in Ohio and Michigan tho republicans were successful in most of the cities and towns. Patrick Walsh, editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, was appointed by Gov. Northen to fill the vacancy in the United States senate caused by the death of Senator Colquitt.

FOREIGN. The remains of llans von Bulow, the distinguished pianist, were cremated at II amburg. Russia has passed a law against American insurance companies, forbidding, the tontine system. Malays sacked the Spanish station at Lepanto and killed two officers and three women. Henry Lk Caron, who was a British spy upon Irishmen in America, died in London. The 79th birthday of Prince Bismarck was celebrated throughout Germany. The German empire lost its oldest official in the person of Johann Muller, jailer at Wittlich, near Treves, who died at the age of 103. President Bermudez, of Peru, died at Lima from an intestinal trouble. The sixteenth constitutional congress of Mexico assembled in semi-an-nual session at Mexico City. Senoii Borgono has assumed the presidency of Peru, the first vice president declining the office. Numerous riots occurred among the starving residents of Andalusia, Spain. Margaret Walbeh, 53 years of age, was executed in Walton jail at Liverpool, England, for the murder of her husband last November. The Land Securities company of London, formed thirty years ago, failed for $10,000,000. Prof. Brown-Sequard, the eminent physician and physiologist, knowu chiefly to the world at large as the disr coverer of the so called “elixir of life, 1 ’ died in Paris, aged 76 years.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 3d Senator Allison opened the tariff debate for the republicans and he gave an outline of some of the main objections which will be urged against the bill. A resolution directiug the finance committee to prepare a bill for the repeal of all laws which give the secretary of the treasury authority to issue interestbearing bonds was presented. In the house the democrats seated John J. O’Neill as the representative from St. Louis in place of Charles F. Joy. An incendiary fire destroyed the business portion of Hartford, Kan., a town of 2,000 people. The public debt statement issued on the 3d showed that the debt increased $13,786,063 during the month of March. The cash balance in the treasury was $133,950,045. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $1,631,025,138. The Nauvoo Fruit company of SL Louis has been compelled to destroy over 400,000 fruit trees that have been injured by the weather and insects. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, issued a proclamation taking absolute control of the police forces of the towns in the state.

At the city election in Spring Ilill, Kan., women were elected to fill all of the municipal offices, including mayor, councilmen and police judges. The Connellsville (Pa.) coke region was convulsed by a labor war and from one end of the territory to the other rioting and disorder held full sway. Human life was in danger and the destruction of property was being carried on on every hand. The six-story building of Tichnor & Jacobi at Rochester, N. Y., was burned, the loss being $300,000. Bitter animosities that have existed at Kansas City, Mo., between the American Protective association and the Catholics culminated in a pitched battle at the polls in which two men were killed, two fatally injured and two others wounded. Troops were ordered to the Cheyenne country, where the Indians and cowboys were fighting. In the municipal elections throughout Illinois the republicans were successful in fiftv-n ne towns and the democrats in sixtce i. In Chicago the republicans will have a majority of Sixteen in the common council. In Wiscsnoin the republicans carried forty out of fifty-three towns and elected their entire ticket ..in. Milwaukee, hk Minnesota fifteen out of twenty cities elected republican officials.