People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. On the 11th the tariff bill was discussed in the senate, but only a few senators were present.... In the house a bill designed to establish a banking system which would supplant the present one as bonds mature was introduced. Lack of a quorum prevented the transaction of business. In the senate a joint resolution was introduced on the Ixth proposing a constitutional amendment relative to marriage and divorce. A bill was introduced providing that no one shall perform any labor or engage in any amusement on Sunday to the disturbance of others in any territory, district, vessel or place subject to the exclusive jurisdiction ot the United States. The tariff bill was further discussed. .... In the house a rule which the committee on rules brought tn, imposing a fine of ?10 for every refusal of a member to vote, caused a long wrangle. A resolution was adopted revoking all leaves of absence, except on account of sickness. In the senate on the 13tb the urgent deficiency biil and the tariff measure were further discussed. A bill introduced by Senator Peffer requires the secretary of the treasury to issue •150,000,000 of treasury notes, to be used to meet all the expenses ot the government and to be lent to states, counties, towns and individuals on proper security and without interest ... In the house no business was transacted owing to lack of a quorum. In caucus the democrats, by a vote of 80 to 44, instructed the committee on rules to report a new rule to ascertain and record the presence of a quorum, whether voting or not. Senator Quay said in a speech on the tariff bill In the senate on the Uth that it was framed in the interest of foreign pauper labor. Sever-’ al amendments to the rules intended to prevent filibustering were offered by Senator Hi 11.... After a vain attempt to approve the journal the house adjourned. The new quorum counting rule would he reported immediately. Funeral services over the remains of the late Senator Vance, of Georgia, were held in the senate chamber on the 16th. No business ■was transacted.. .In the house a rule which provides for counting a quorum and for fining absent members was agreed to. The Ind’an appropriation bill (16,455.866) was reported. It abolishes the office of superintendent of In dian schools, reduces the special agents from five to three and the inspectors from five to two.

DOMESTIC. A GENERAL strike, to begin April 21, ■was ordered by the United Mine Workers of America in convention at Columbus, O. The strike will involve ever 200,000 men and will cover the whole territory between eastern Pennsylvania and Colorado. The condition of winter wheat as reported by the statistician of the department of agriculture averages 86.7 per cent for the entire country, against 77.4 last year. Twenty society people at Platte City, Mo., were indicted by the grand jury for playing progressive euchre. While pouring molten metal in a steel mill at Middleport, 0., ten men were horribly burned, four fatally, by the hydraulic apparatus giving way. One man was killed and two fatally injured in a freight wreck near Hartford City, Ind. Great damage was done by a storm along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Baltimore and many vessels were wrecked and more than a score of lives were lost A mob of Hungarians attacked the Frick works at Youngstown, Pa., and compelled the guards to surrender fifty employes. Mrs. Louis Larson and her 1-year-old baby were burned to death in a fire at their home in Wild Rice, N. D. The sight of Ollie Roberts, of Sedalia, Ma, aged 12, was ruined by the exploeion of a cigarette loaded with powder by another boy. W. G. Livingston’s stable and storage warehouse in Chicago was burned and twenty-two horses were suffocated. The incendiary who has been causing ■o many fires in Springfield, 0., turns out to be an unknown man who parades in woman’s attire. Postmaster General Bissell has issued an order providing that hereafter only names of one word shall be accepted for newly established post offices.

Col. Breckinridge announces that he will run for congress regardless of the result of his present trial. The old guard house in the United States jail yard at Fort Smith, Ark., was destroyed by fire. The building was noted as having held many famous union and confederate prisoners during the late war. A sneak thief stole $3,500 from the Wailace exchange bank at Beaver Falls, Pa., An explosion of natural gas at McKeesport. Pa., wrecked a house and fatally hurt Mrs. William Malseed and her 12-year-old daughter. Jack Redding and David Harper, owners of the celebrated Dos Cabazos mine in Old Mexico, shot and killed each other in a quarrel at Deming N. M. David G. Ackerman, superintendent of a jewelry factory in Newark, N. J., ■was accused of robbing his firm of •25,000 in gold. Long distance telephonic communication between Washington and the Chicago post office has been established. * The plant of the American Glucose company burned at Buffalo, N. Y., the loss being about $1,000,000. Richard B. Girabd, a discarded lover, fatally shot Miss Laura B. Martin on a train at Charlottesville, Va., and then shot himself. California commonwealers, 1,300 atrong, seized a train of twenty Union Pacific coal cars at Uinta and were coming east Frank Crews, a farm hand near Col linsburg, Tex., killed his employer, Thomas Murrell, Mrs. Murrell and a •on in a quarrel over wages. The total number of hogs packed in the west the past winter was 4,884,000, an increase of 250,000 compared with last year. Edward Wright and John Miller, aged respectively 15 and 13, of McMillan, quarreled at Guthrie, O. T., and the Miller boy plunged a pocketknife Into Wright, kiHing him. Ar Chadron, Neb., a bandit stole •2,500 from a bank and locked the president of the institution in. the vault

All classes of employes on the Great Northern railway between Larimore, N. D., and Spokane, Wash., were on a strike. Tee exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 18th aggregated (890,769,077, against (948,662,181 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 26.1. Dogs raided a flock of seventy-five sheep near Alliance, 0., and killed sixty-five of them. The total production of coal in the United States for the year 1893 was 179,326,612 tons with a valuation of 1205.256.479. William LEWis(colored) was hanged by a mob near Lamison, Ala., for murdering Robert Shields, a white planter. George Ashworth, who mortally wounded a woman near Indianola, la., killed himself to avoid arrest Nearly 100,000,000 bushels of available wheat in the United States and Canada was reported by Bradstreet’s Dr. James A. Hutchinson, Thomas G. Knight and Frank IV bite were drowned while duck shooting near Rockville Center, L. 1. The Massachusetts legislature defeated the bill prohibiting treating in places where liquor is sold. Judge Dundy ordered the Union Pacific receivers to restore the wages of employes which were cut last September.

Charles Wisdom (colored), aged 22 years, was hanged in the jail yard in St. Louis for the murder of Edward A. Brexler, a tobacconist, on the night of April 24, 1892. The gold production in the United States in 1893 was valued at $35,950,000, an increase of $1,578,423 over the previous year. Striking coke workers drove employes from their work at Uniontown, Pa. Gov. Pattison was asked for troops. Thirteen persons were said to have lost their lives in the fire at Buffalo, N. Y., that destroyed the glucose works. J. W. Watkins, a well-to-do farmer living near Hiawatha, Kan., fatally shot his wife and then committed suicide by taking poison. Domestic trouble was the cause. Operators threatened to put negroes at work in the Blue Creek (Ala.) coalmines, and a race war was likely to follow. During the year ended March 1 the city of New York expended over $15,000,000 upon its needy population. The schooner Jennie Carter went ashore at Salisbury Beach, Mass., and the captain and his niece and six sailors were drowned.

Twenty-four buildings in the heart of Santa Cruz, Cal., were destroyed by an incendiary blaze, the loss being 1255,000. At a conference of representatives of women’s organizations in Washington resolutions asking congress to consider the Breckinridge ease were adopted. New York society leaders are actively at work to secure an equal suffrage amendment of the state constitution. Seymour Newland (colored) was hanged by a mob at Rushsylvania, 0., for assaulting Mrs. Jane Knowles, a respectable white woman 81 years of age. Jack Crews, the murderer of four persons at Gainesville, Tex., was lynched by a mob. The jury in the case of ex-Secretary of State Joachim, of Michigan, charged with falsifying public records, was unable to agree and was discharged. The residence of August Krinkie near Janesville, Minn., was burned and three of his daughters, aged respectively 10, 8 and 6 years, perished in the flames. Madeline Poli.ard was awarded sls- - in her damage suit in Washington against Congressman W. G P. Breckinridge. The West End Land company at Nashville, Tenn., owning about 500 acres of suburban property, failed for $150,000.

Charlie Radbourn, the widelyknown baseball pitcher, formerly of the Boston club, had the misfortune to lose an eye while hunting near Bloomington, 111. Many houses were washed away and much stock drowned by a cloudburst at Troy, Tex. Official figures obtained at the treasury show that for nine months and a half of the present fiscal year the government expenditures have exceeded the receipts by $63,000,000. Perry Baker and Miss Rail Conklin were killed by the cars near Muncie, Ind. The young people were soon to be married. Judge Nott, of the court of claims in Washington, decided that the president could lawfully approve a bill after the adjournment of congress. Gov. W aite was upheld by the Colorado supreme court in his contest with the Denver police board. Charles C. Stevens, a wealthy member of .the New York cotton exchange, was found dead in his berth on the Rock Island road at Wichita, Kan. Nearly 9,000 miners were on a strike in Alabama. A lone highwayman robbed the stage near Milton, Cal., of the WellsFargo treasure box containing $2,000. A boiler exploded in a sawmill near Bainbridge, 0., killing two men and injuring four others. Alex. Johnson, a Richmond (Va.) negro, was whipped by white caps until he was almost dead.

The cokers’ strike in the Connellsville (Pa.) region was said to be practically ended. Seven hundred young chickens were burned to death on Joseph Farley’s place at Oxford, O. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL-Ex-Congressman Grange Ferris died at Glens Falls, N. Y., of apoplexy. From 1867 to 1871 he represented the Sixteenth district of New York in congress. The republicans of the Second district of Oregon renominated W. IL Ellis for congress. The people’s party in Tennessee nominated A. L. Mimms, of Davidson county, for governor and A. E. Garrett, of Smith county, for judgecf the supreme court

The republicans of the Sixth congressional district of Indiana renominated Henry U. Johnson, of Richmond, tc succeed himself in congress. David Dudley Field, famous as a lawyer and a writer on legal topics, died of pneumonia at the residence of his brother, Rev. Henry M. Field, in New York, aged 90 years. John T. Davis, the richest man in Missouri, died in St Louis, aged 52. His wealth was estimated at $25,000,000. Zebulon B. Vance, aged 64 years, senator from North Carolina, was stricken with apoplexy in Washington and died within a few hours. He had been three times governor of his state and a member of the senate since 1879. In a letter to Gov. Waite, Robert McReynolds. an Oklahoma silverite, urges him to join in a movement for the secession of the western states. Senator Morrill of Vermont, celebrated his 84th birthday with a reception at his home in Washington. The republican state convention of Georgia has been called for August 39. Funeral services were held over the remains of David Dudley Field at Calvary Episcopal church in New York. Many distinguished men were present The remains were taken to Stockbridge, Mass., for interment The death of ex-Governor and exUnited States Senator James M.. Harvey, of Kansas, occurred at his home near Junction City. Col. Oliver Lathrop Shkperd, L t . S. A., died in New York of heart failure. Joseph Ray, the oldest odd fellow in Indiana, died at his home in Westville, aged 99 years. The democratic state convention of Pennsylvania will be held at Harrisburg J une 27.

FOREIGN. San Domingo has adopted a new monetary system with gold as a basis. The steamer Faraday left London with a portion of the new cable to be laid from Waterville, Ireland, to Nova Scotia. Kabba Rega. king of ’ Unyor, has been defeated by the British, and his territory will probably soon be annexed to Uganda John Clark, of the well-known thread manufacturing firm of Paisley, Scotland, died at the age of 67 years. David Wiener & Sons, merchants at Vienna, Austria, failed, with liabilities amounting to $2,500,000. Willie Wilde, at one time the husband of Mrs. Frank Leslie, was married in London to Miss Sophia Lees, an Irish girl of wealth. Restoration of the queen was still cherished by royalists at Hawaii, who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new government. Civil war has again broken out in Samoa and many natives have been butchered. Mr. Gladstone’s sight had grown so dim that he was unable to recognize friends. Complete collapse of the expremier was predicted. Admiral de Mello surrendered his troops to the Uruguayan authorities and the rebellion in Brazil was at an end. Nicaragua has revoked the exequatur of the American minister. The Belgian steamer Deßuyter,which sailed from Brighton March 12 for Boston, was reported lost. She carried a? crew of twenty-eight. The German reichstag adopted a motion to repeal the anti-Jesuit laws, which forbid residence in that countrj’. At Honolulu Admiral Irwin transferred the command of the vessels on the station to Admiral John Walker, taking his own place on the retired lut of the navy.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 17th a motion that all petitions protesting against the ratification of the Chinese treaty might be presented in open session was agreed to. The tariff bill was discussed. A favorable report was marie on the bill for the suppression of the lottery traffic and a bill was reported to set apart 1,000,000 acres for each of the arid land states and territories to be reclaimed in small tracts by means of irrigation. In the house the quorum-counting rule was adopted by a vote of 212 to 47. The diplomatic and consular aporopriation bill was discussed and a large number of committee reports were presented. The Wisconsin republicans will hold their state convention at Madison on July 25. Many counterfeit two-dollar bills were in circulation in St Louis, and the work on them is so good that no one but an expert can detect them. Madeline Pollard declares she will not go on the stage, but will live in Washington and write for a livelihood. Ernest J. Knabe, senior member of the well-known firm of piano manufacturers, died in Baltimore from heart disease, aged 57 years. Henry S. Ives, of New York, known as the ‘‘Napoleon of finance.” died near Asheville, N. G, from consumption. He was 29 years old, The exports of general merchandise in March were $4,750,000 in excess of imports, and for nine months the excess was $223,000,000. The law placing a tax on inheritances was declared unconstitutional by the Michigan supreme court A commercial alliance between the west and south was urged in speeches before the national grain congress at Wichita, Kan. Carbon Lake, the former well-known political writer, died in the state hospital for the insane at Middletown N. Y.

The Australian government has decided to loan money to needy farmers from the savings bank balances. Gen. W. H. Slocum was buried at New York with military honors. Three thousand men were in the procession which followed the remains. The republicans of the Second district of Indiana nominated Col. A. M. Hardy, of Daviess county, for congress. A disastrous cyclone swept over a portion of Pottawatomie and Lincoln connties in Oklahoma and two persons were killed, several injured, and a dozen or fifteen residences swept away, besides much other damage.