People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. A bill was passed in the senate permitting horse racing in the District ot Columbia, but prohibiting pool selling and book making. Sen•tor Allison concluded his speech on the tariff bill Senator Mills followed, confining himself chiefly to a defense of the ad valorem system.... In the house the committee on banking and currency reported in favor of subjecting .greenbacks to state and municipal taxation. The effort to pass the seigniorage bill over the president's veto failed by a vote of 116 to lit Mr. Hillborn (rep), of California, was unseated in favor of Mr. English (dem). In the senate on the sth Senator Hill (N. Y.) gave notice that on the 9th he would submit a few remarks on the pending tariff bill. A resolution to reduce by 20 per cent all official incomes not protected by the statutes of the United States was referred to the judiciary committee. After a short debate on the bill appropriating 51,000,000 for the destruction of the Russian thistle the tariff bill was further discussed.,.. In the house the urgent deficiency bill, which carries something over 81,000,000, was passed, and the post office appropriation bill was discussed. In the senate on the 6th a resolution introduced by Senator Wolcott, looking to the drafting of a treaty with Mexico by which the United States should coin silver dollars at its mints, was discussed. Senator Peffer spoke on the tariff. A petition was presented from the millers of St Louis praying for the retention cf the reciprocity clause of the McKinley law ....In the house the time was occupied in discussing the post office appropriation bill. The evening session was devoted to pension bills. On the 7th a motion to consider the Chinese treaty in open session was debated in the United Slates senate but was not disposed of ....In the house a bill was introduced to provide for the coinage ot standard silver dollars and for the issue of new bonds in lieu of bonds heretofore authorized. in the senate on the Sth Senator Hill (N. Y.) spoke in opposition to the tariff bill and attacked the Hawaiian po'icy of the president and Secretary Gresham. Mr. Walsh was sworn in as senator from Georgia. A resolution repealing all laws which authorize the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds was referred to the finance committee.... In the house the time was occupied in discussing District of Columbia affairs.

DOMESTIC. A courier from the scene of the Indian troubles in the Cheyenne country said thirty men, half of them Indians, were killed in the recent fight and a general war was feared. Judge Wiley has decided that the drainage law of Indiana is unconstitutional. Thousands of acres of swamp lands are involved. Coxey’s army was in a state of siege at Allegheny City, Pa. Thirty of his men were arrested as vagrants and sent to the workhouse.

.Nine men were killed outright and a 'dozen more seriously if not fatally wounded in the riots in the mining regions near Connellsville, Pa. Mrs. Sarah Morris, of Union township, Ind., whose husband and child were murdered by Cheyenne Indians in 1863, has sued them through the United States government for $20,000. Three hundred miners in the Mas■Killon (O.) district were reported starving. A barn belonging to George Rhodes, a farmer near Sedalia, Mo., was burned and eighteen hcrses and mules were cremated. The large livery stable of John "White at West Troy, N. Y., was burned and twenty-six valuable horses perished. The murderous coke strikers in Pennsylvania were intimidated by the killing of several of their number by deputy sheriffs and it was thought the strike was practically over. The Massachusetts senate by a vote of *23 to IS defeated the woman suffrage bill that passed the house. Gov. Tillman has issued a proclamation announcing that the South Carolina insurrection is at an end. Robbers wrecked the safe in the post office at Hicksville, 0., and secured $3,QOO in cash and stamps. By the capsizing of their boat four * fishermen were drowned in the Chattahoochie river at Columbus, Ga. Col. Breckinridge formally closed bis defense in the Pollard case in Washington. The rebuttal testimony was ▼ery damaging to him. Father James A. Walter, the bestknown Catholic clergyman in Washing'ton, dropped dead while preparing to answer a sick call. Gov. Flower, of New York, has signed the bill making hazing a felony. Flames at Lancaster, N. Y., wiped out a great portion of the business section of the town. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Judge Caldwell’s decision in the Union Pacific wage conference at Omaha favors the employes at every point Cokey’s army fought its way out of Allegheny City, Pa, and marched to Homestead. It numbered 600 men. Joseph Reich, who deserted his family ten years ago in Austria, was confronted by his wife in Chicago a few moments after he was married to another woman. Ttac concentrating plant and hoisting works of the Horn silver mine at Frisco, U. T., were destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Robbers stole $15,000 from a bank in Fldorado, Kan. Mbs. Cornelia Frances Coster, who died in New York, left a will directing that her entire fortune of $1,000,000 be devoted to building a mausoleum in "Woodlawn cemetery. Wisconsin’s new law, now in effect, abolishes the customary three day’s grace on notes. Commercial paper must be met on the day it falls due. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 6th aggregated $948,<62,181, against $74L401,756 week. The decrease, compared Wi’Ah the corresponding week in 1803. was 21.& An Indianapolis doctor discovered diphtheria the cover of a public library book. \ Thebe were 249\business failures in the United Slates 'iin the seven days •nded on the 6th, / against 238 the *week previous and 1195 in the corresponding time in 189*

Abram Filter, more than 100 years old, was killed by a train of cars at Warsaw, Ind. It was discovered that school fund commissioners of Kansas had paid out thousands of dollars for worthless bonds. James Gordon Bennett has purchased the yacht Vigilant and will race the Valkyrie and Britannia in English waters. In granting a modification of his Northern Pacific order Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, asserts that courts have power to interfere in strikes. Dan Ahren, a negro, was lynched at Greensboro, Ga., for assaulting Mrs. Chambers, a helpless old woman. Simeon Mantell, a wealthy farmer at Lebanon, Ind., was swindled out of 12,100 by confidence men. Both houses of the lowa legislature adjourned sine die. Michael Mastropietro, head of a New Jersey Italian bank, has left the country owing depositors 420,000. Statistics compiled in New York for the last three months show a decrease of immigration of nearly 40 per cent compared with last year. The number for the last quarter was 29,292, while that of last year was 49,026. Officers of the naval board at Washington report that the whaleback style of ship is not suited for war. According to Bradstreet's trade was irregular throughout the country, but improving. Unseasonable weather affected general business. Arthur Laperle shot and killed Mrs. Emma Levi and then shot himself in Chicago. Both were prominent in society, and the woman had repulsed Laperle’s suit because of his love for iquor. A receiver was appointed for the J. B. Watkins Mortgage company of Lawrence, Kan., whose liabilities were placed at $5,550,000. Three men were killed and fourteen injured by the premature explosion of a blast at Brinton, Pa. The fire losses in the United States for the week ended on the 7th, estimated from telegraphic reports, were §2,583,085. The losses since January 1 amount to $3(5,287,785. Enormous hailstones fell in a storm at Emporia, Kan., and the windows of nearly every house in town were broken. Robert Jones, a farmer at Madisonville, Ky., killed his wife, mother-in-law and himself. Rev. Clement W. Lewis, the colored pension swindler, was sentenced at Chattanooga, Tenn., to twenty-eight years’ imprisonment By the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Patrieksburg, Ind., four men were killed and another fatally injured. Of twenty-two persons in a Memphis (Tenn.) tenement which collapsed four were taken out dead and five were fatally injured. Eleven men were killed and six injured by explosions following the breaking out of fire in a fireworks factory near Petersburg, Va. All the eastern members of an opium smuggling syndicate, six in number, were arrested by officers at Buffalo. John Stone and William and James Suits ran across a bottle of peach flavor (oil of murbene) at Winston, N. C., thought it was peach brandy and drank it and all died.

Joseph Knisely was awarded the purse of $2,000 in the six-day fasting match with Ashley Fields at Bourbon, Ind. Three married sisters at Van Wert, 0., named Jennie Schroeder, Anna M. Hartin and Emma Howard, filed suits for divorce, one lawyer representing all. The charge was the same in all petitions—desertion. Henry Enregard quarreled with his sweetheart, Emma Stahl, at St. Louis, and fatally shot her and then shot himself. The prairies in western Kansas were swept by destructive fires and many stacks of straw were consumed. William Rooney, one of the election inspectors convicted recently in New York, dropped dead in the penitentiary. All the big world’s fair buildings were sold at private sale to L. C. Garrett, a St. Louis contractor, for $75,000. Alma Rogers, of Dixon, 111., died from the effects of a bullet shot he received in the eye at the siege of Vicksburg thirty years ago. Burglars robbed the safe of the Home Security company of Cleveland, O„ of SIO,OOO worth of jewelry, watches and diamonds.

While fighting a fire in the Davidson theater at Milwaukee nine firemen were killed and a number injured by the giving way of the roof. The property loss was $200,000. Iheodore P. Haughey, ex-president of the Indianapolis national bank, entered a plea of guilty to the principal charges of looting the bank. Sentence was deferred. Six of the crew of the bark Belmont, which was wrecked off Chatham, Mass., went down with the vessel. A tornado which swept through Coffey county, Kan., destroyed many buildings and did great damage to fruit and grain. A storm of unequaled severity raged on the north Atlantic coast, while snow fell at many points in the northwest. In a fire in Mannion’s livery stable at Baltimore, Md., 137 fine animals were burned. The loss exceeded $300,000. J. W. Wood, state treasurer of the A. O. U. W. lodge with headquarters at Marshall, Mich., was said to be a defaulter to the grand lodge to the amount of $5,612.73. William Faber, aged 61, of Chicago, quarreled with his wife, aged 54, and securing a revolver shot her dead and then killed himself. The Glamorgan pipe and iron works at Lynchburg, Va., were destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. A logging train ran into a fallen tree near Whitehall, Mich., and of the nine men on board only two escaped death. Escaping steam caused a panic in the Humboldt school in Chicago in which Daniel Gunstein was trampled to death and nearly a score of other pupils injured. A female keeper of a toll gate near Brownsville, Pa., refused to permit passage of Coxey’s army until $1.89 had been paid.

Malb ticket sellers at all the subarban stations of the Illinois Central road were replaced by young women. Bandits who held up a Bpck Island train near Pond Creek, O. T., met with determined resistance from the guards, who killed one and wounded another. The New Haven (Conn.) chamber of commerce celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. In a runaway at Shelbyville, Ind., Mrs. Charles Tanner and daughter were thrown from their vdhicle ana received fatal injuries. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Loren A. Thurston, Hawaiian minister to the United States, and Miss Harriet Potter were married at SL Joseph, Mich. Further advices from the Rhode Island election give Gov. Brown (rep.) a plurality of 6,153. The senate stands: Republicans, 33; democrats, 3. The house: Republicans, 69; democrats, 3. Theodore Cox, of New York, was elected president of the National College Republican league in session iu Syracuse. Daniel Baugh celebrated his 105th birthday at his home near Jeffersonville, Ind.

Mrs. Margaret Murphy, for more than forty years a resident of Chicago, died at the age 106 years. Ben King, aged 35, the Michigan poet and humorist, was found dead in bed at Bowling Green. Ky. Richard Wistar, who had lived like a pauper, though worth jointly with his brother $8,000,000, died at Atlantic City, N. J. A. G. Cattkll, of Merchantsville, who represented New Jersey in the United States senate from 18(56 to 1872, and was a member of the first civil service commission, died at Jamestown, N. Y., aged 79 years. Elizabeth Addison Williams, who lives 5 miles west of Zanesville, 0., celebrated the 106th anniversary of her birth. “Grandma” Goenen (colored) died in Indianapolis, aged 10!) years 1 month and 1 day. FOREIGN. A fire at Shanghai, China, burned 1,000 houses. Seven persons were killed and several seriously injured by jumping from the windows of a burning hotel in Frankfort-on-thc-Main. Don Rafael Yglesias, the liberal candidate, was elected to the presidency of Costa Rico in succession to Don Jose Rodriguez. An earthquake shock did damage to the towns and villages on the Pacific coast of the isthmus of Tehauntepec. By the collapse of a mine near Breslau, Germany, eleven men were killed. L. P. Leroyal, a French engineer, has discovered a most remarkable cava in southwestern Mexico. Pondoland, with an area of 3,900 square miles and a population of 200,000, has been annexed by Great Britain. Farmers in Midland counties of England lose heavily through the failure of Messrs. New, Prance & Girrards, solicitors, of Evesham, for $1,500,000. Henry Le Caron, the British spy, was said by a London paper to be alive and on the way to a distant colony. President Peixoto’s garrison near Santa Boga, Brazil, were surprised by revolutionary forces, who blew up the citadel and the slaughter was terrible. A fishing steamer ran on the rocks off the coast of Grimsby, England, and six of her crew were drowned. A Moslem band which had committed depredations in Malabar were attacked by mounted police and thirty-three killed.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 10th the resolution for the coinage of Mexican dollars at United States mints was agreed to. A resolution to limit the general debate on the tariff bill to June 4 and to take the final vote on June 5 was referred to the judiciary committee. A resolution for the coinage of Mexican dollars at United States mints was agreed to. In the house the time was occupied in discussing the post office appropriation bill. Farmer Uriah Scanlan was flogged by white caps near Bohrbon, Ind., because he had ill treated his wife. At a caucus of house democrats in Washington a resolution declaring for repeal of the state bank tax was adopted. The Frothingham arcade, one of the finest business blocks in Scranton, Pa., was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Admiral Benham having reached his 62d year was placed on the retired list. Capt Wilson is now commander at Bluefields.

The Aspen national bank of Aspen, Col., went into liquidation. The region about Durango, Col., was in feverish excitement over unparalleled gold findings in the La Plata moun tains. The discovery was made at Protivin, la., that the 15-year-old daughter of J Tuckish was buried alive. An attempt to wreck the Lake Shore flyer at Huron, 0., was discovered just in time to prevent a terrible catastrophe. Capt. Thomas Davison, the last survivor of the battle of Stonington, in 1814, died at New London, Conn., aged 93 years. A mob burned the French missions at Hsianfu, China, and maltreated the priests. France has demanded redress. Edward Cash, aged 21, while attending the sick bed of his young wife at Gatesville, Tex., was called out by a mob and hanged. No cause was known. Returns from the town elections throughout California show that the republicans were successful in the great majority of cases. Two persons were killed and eight injured by the crumbling of the brick support of a frame house in Williamsburg, N. Y. A bill giving women the right to vote in school elections was passed by the Ohio senate by a vote of 20 to 6 In the municipal elections in New Jersey the republicans were successful in nearly every city and town. In Albany, N. Y., tne republicans elected the mayor for the first time in years.