People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. A bill was Introduced by Senator Palmer (11l tin the senate on the ISth repealing the •late bank ’ax but prohibiting the issuing ot ■toney by state banking institutions or by any other corporations or persons except national banks. Senator Morrill <Vt > spoke in opposition to the tariff bill, while Senator Turpie <lnd.) defended the measure....ln the house the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill ■was further discussed and the debate touched ■ wide variety of subjects and was full of personalities. The time in the senate on the 19th was almost entirely consumed by a speech against the pending tariff bill by Senator Perkins, of California.... In the house the time was occupied in discussing the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill IM the senate on the 20th Senators Gallinger and Dolph spoke against the tariff bi11....1n the house a bill was Introduced for a survey ot a ship canal route, connecting latke Erie and the Ohio river, by way of the Ohio canal and Muskingum river The rest of the day was ■pent in the fruitless discussion of the bill to aetUe some Tennessee war claims against the government amounting to 122.001 The evening session wa. devoted to pension business. Om the 21st the tariff till was further dis•cuseed in the senate and a message was received from the president transmitting Hawaiian correspindence. ..In the house the slip.omatio appropriation bill was further considered and eulogies were delivered on the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana. Is the senaie on the 23d the tariff bill was further discussed. A bill was introduced by Senator Peffer "to dispose of idle labor and discourage idle wealth in the District of Columbia.'’.... In the house the time was devoted to District of Columbia business. The bill allowing racing and pool selling in the district was defeated.

DOMESTIC. The New York publishing’ firm of Charles L. Webster & Co., of which Mark Twain is a member, made an assignment, with liabilities of about 1150,000. Andrew Spence, aged 73, and wife Hannah, aged 60, were found dead in bed at their home in Boston, having been suffocated by gas. Mrs. Mary Harking, 95 years old, was killed by falling off a foot bridge while walking m her sleep at Marlboro, O. At Nashville, Tenn., Saloonkeeper Tom Ramsey shot and killed Riley Forman and Tom Fagin, who had assaulted his bartender. For paying too much attention to a woman not his wife George Keim, of Deshler, O„ was nearly hanged by a mob, while the obnoxious female was drenched with water and driven out of town. Mrs. Mary Cleary, a widow, and her sister, Mrs. William Doyle, of Menominee, Mich., started a fire with kerosene and were burned to death. A receiver w’as appointed for the West Superior Iron & Steel company of Milwaukee. The company’s authorized capital was 12,500,009. A match falling into a keg of powder caused an explosion which wrecked a country store near Sullivan, Ind., and injured three persons. The opening games of the national league ball clubs resulted as follows: Baltimore 8, New York 3; Boston 13, Brooklyn 2; St Louis 11, Pittsburgh 3; Washington 4, Philadelphia 2. Patriots’ day, created to commemorate the battle of Lexington, was enthusiastically celebrated in Massachusetts towns. Dock Bishop and Frank Latham were lynched by the settlers living near Watonga, O. T., for horse stealing. Robert Mitchell, a wealthy farmer of Mahaska county, la., was bunkoed out of 15,000 by three-card monte men. In a cyclone which swept over Summerville, Tex., V. M. Keel’s house was blown down and his wife and three children were killed. A decision which practically annuls the South Carolina dispensary law was rendered by the supreme court of the state. The bill to abolish days of grace on notes was passed by the New York legislature

The annual convention of the National Society of Sons of the Revolution commenced at Annapolis, Md., in the senate chamber where Gen. Washington resigned his commission as general of the army and delivered his farewell address. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated 1909,889,815, against 1890,769,077 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 26.9. Otto Shanamon and Thomas Powell ■were killed at North Industry, 0., by a caving brickyard wall. Thebe were 219 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 20th, against 218 the week previous and 186 in the corresponding time in 1893. Bicharu Huekt, a miner, met a horrible death at Mountain View mine near Butte, Mont. He fell 1,000 feet down the shaft At Glassboro, N. J.. Hannah Chard celebrated her 105th birthday. Among the guests was one lady who will be 102 years old this summer. Mrs. Chard’s oldest daughter, aged 80, was also present Evert liquor dispensary in South Carolina has received orders to close immediately as the result of the governor’s acquiescence in the supreme court decision that the law is unconstitutional Patrick J. Sullivan was hanged at Ban Quentin, Cal., for wife murder. John Mason and J. J. Morgan, merchants of Barria, Ark., whose business rivalry led to personal enmity, settled their difficulties in a street battle with revolvers in which both were kil led. Dispatches from Ingalls, O. T., confirm the reported battle between the Daltons and officers. Three of the former were fatally wounded and two officers were killed. The works of the Crown Linseed Oil company at St. Louis were destroyed l>y fire, entailing a loss of fWO.oox

At Rockport, Ind., it was discovered thatunknown persons had been robbing graves. Elizabeth Goss, widow of the pugilist Joe Goss, committed suicide in Boston by inhaling gas because she was threatened with a criminal suit to recover a loan of J6OO. General trade throughout the country is said to have been injured by the numerous strikes in progress, 00,000 people being made idle thereby. The scores of national league ball games on the 20th were: Cincinnati 10, Chicago 6; Baltimore 12, New York 0; Philadelphia 9, Washington 8; Louisville 10, Cleveland 3. United States marshals arrested strikers at St. Cloud, Minn., for interfering with mail trains and Gov. Nelson threatened to use the militia to suppress further violence. Men in sympathy with Kelly’s industrial army seized a train at Council Bluffs, la., and offered it U> the leader of the army, but he feared to accept it Amos Waters, aged 40. and John Rickards, aged 48, linemen for the Bell Telephone company, were killed by coming in contact with anelectric light wire in Philadelphia. Rich discoveries of gold were reported from the Dixie district in Idaho.

Walter L. Bragg, a j’oung lawyer, and Dr. J. H. Naftel fought with revolvers in a Montgomery (Ala.) drug store and the former was killed and the latter fatally wounded. During a school debate near Winchester, 0., a free fight began in which Nathan Mansfield was stabbed to death, Edward Carroll had his skull crushed and Henry Steman had his brains beaten out The Boston division of the commonweal army was scattered by a mob, which tore the banner to shreds and roughly handled the leaders. The percentages of the basebail clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 21st were: Baltimore, 1,000; Boston, 1,000; Cincinnati, 1,000; Philadelphia, .666; Louisville, .500; St Louis, .500; Cleveland, .5'00; Pittsburgh, .500; Washington, .333; New York, .000; Brooklyn, .000; Chicago. .000. The plant of the Deweese Wood-Iron company at Pittsburgh, Pa., closed for an indefinite period, throwing 1,000 men out of work. Elbert B. Monroe, a member of the United States board of Indian commissioners, dropped dead at his country home near Tarrytown, N. Y. In the school elections held throughout Illinois women took a prominent part, electing one of their number at Vandalia

Tom Black, John Williams and Toney Johnson (negroes), charged with incendiarism, were taken from the jail at Tuscumbie, Ala., by a mob and hanged and their bodies riddled with bullets. The fire losses for the week ended on the 21st, estimated from telegraphic reports, amounted to 12,22 9,000. The steamer Los Angeles ran on the rocks at Point Bur lighthouse near Monterey, Cal., and sank, and four of the passengers were drowned. Judge J. F. O’Brien, recently appointed United States attorney for North Dakota, was found dead in his office at Devil’s Lake from . heart disease. While working at the Arcade file works in Anderson, Ind.. William Davis had both eyes gouged out by a piece of flying steel. Mrs. Frank Warner was killed and three other persons fatally hurt in a runaway at Decatur, Ind., while going to a funeral. Col. T. R. Ripy, of Lawrenceburg, Ky., the largest distiller in the state, made an assignment with liabilities of 1500,000. The fishing schooner Dauntless was wrecked on the north California coast and four men were drowned. Because a colored waiter refused to marry her, Edna Lehman, a white girl of St. Paul, drowned herself in Lake Calhoun. Nearly 130,000 miners in states east of the Mississippi obeyed the order of the United Mine Workers to suspend work. A reconciliation is likely between Princess Colonna. ‘’Bonanza” Mackay’s daughter, and her husband, to escape whom she fled from Paris.

11. T. Dick and wife, of Newmarket, Tenn., celebrated their golden wedding, and the same minister and attendants were present who saw them married a half century ago. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 23d was: Wheat, 68,425,000 bushels; corn. 14,546,000 bushels; oats, 2,665,000 bushels; rye, 371,000 bushels; barley, 300,000 bushels. Jeff Tuggle, a negro who killed Fred Haman, a coal miner, near Weir City, Kan., was taken from officers by a mob and lynched. The District of Columbia commissioners issued a manifesto advising commonwealers to remain away from Washington and saying the laws would be rigidly enforced. Two little girls, aged 2 and 6, were found murdered in the woods near Tuscogee, Ala., and in a millpond near was found the body of an insane negro, who, it was thought, killed the children. At Bessemer, Mich., John Gest was accidentally killed by his wife. She became a raving maniac and died within a few hours. The state president of the United Mine Workers says 24,000 miners are on strike in Illinois, out of a total of 53,000. The Pennsylvania coke strike was said to be spreading. His wife having become hopelessly insaue from the grip, M. A. Hunt, a Terre Haute (Ind.) florist, committed suicide. Chief of Police Brennan was ordered by the council to prevent any of the divisions of the commonweal army entering Chicago. The coal miners’ strike was rapidly spreading, and it was estimated that 140,000 men were idle. It was reported that mines in the Hocking (O.) valley had been fired by strikers. Mrs. Amelia Mueller, a Cleveland (O.) widow, probably fatally injured her father and mother and then killed herselt

The forty gambling houses in Denver, Col.. jvere promptly closed in compliance with an order of the new police judge.