People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. IN the senate on the 25th debate on the tariff bill by paragraphs was begun, Messrs. Palmer, Aldrich and Platt taking part....In the house an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill requiring consuls at principal ports to turn all fees into the treasury was defeated. Mr. Meyer’s seigniorage bill, said to have administration approval, was postponed for the session by the committee on coinage. IN the senate on the 26th Mr. Jarvis, recently appointed senator from North Carolina to succeed Senator Vance, was sworn in. Senator Allen’s resolution censuring the district author ities for proclaiming against the admission of the Coxeyites to the District of Columbia was discussed and the tariff bill was further considered ...In the house the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill ($1,513,538) was passed. THERE was no general business transacted in the senate on the 27th, the time being occupied in discussing the tariff bill. A proposition by Senator Aldrich (R. I.) to take an immediate vote on the bill was defeated....In the house twenty-one private pension bills were passed. The bill making appropriations of $2,450,000 for the support of the department of agriculture for the fiscal year 1895 was reported. IN the senate on the 28th ult. the tariff bill was further discussed and Senator Hale declared that a plan to reconstruct the measure was being secretly considered.... In the house the army appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, but an adjournment was forced owing to the lack Of a quorum. ON the 30th ult. the time in the senate was occupied in discussing the tariff bill.... In the house the army appropriation bill was passed after adopting an amendment limiting the number of assistant adjutant generals to four.

DOMESTIC. THE business part of Floriston, Cal., a small town on the Central Pacific, was destroyed by fire. A SIXTY-DAYS' drought in California was broken by showers and fruit prospects were good. PHILIP BOLAND, a switchman, shot and killed his wife in Chicago because she pleaded with him to stop drinking. UNION Pacific railway earnings in 1893 showed a deficit of $2,595,841, compared with a surplus the previous year of $2,069,757. TWO NEGRO convicts, Henry Singleton and Horace Smith, were hung in the Jackson (Miss.) penitentiary for murdering another convict, Lula Payne. THE Union house at Cheboygan, Mich., was destroyed by fire and Dr. Howell, a veterinary surgeon, and a man named Clune were asphyxiated. FATHER DOMINICK O'GRADY shot and killed Mary Gilmartin in Cincinnati. He was in love with the girl, whom he had followed from Ireland. ALL the business houses at Jacksonville, Ill., were closed because of revival services being conducted by Rev. Chapman. REPORTS from all sections of the United States say that the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of odd fellowship was appropriately observed by over 1,000,000 members of the order. THE Colorado smelter at Butte, Mont., was burned, the loss being over $100,000. THE commissioners of the District of Columbia say that members of Coxey’s army will not be allowed to hold openair meetings in Washington. THE McKinley Tariff league, with headquarters in Washington, issued a call for a convention of the colored republican clubs of the United States, to be held the first Monday in July. EDWARD RYAN, JR., and his sister Nellie, of Boulder, Mont., were drowned on their way to the Crow reservation in search of a ranch they could take up. COL. SIDNEY I. WAILES, one of the best-known men in Maryland, was charged with forgery in Baltimore to the extent of $30,000. SEVEN horse thieves were killed by vigilants in Oklahoma near the Texas line.

REV. C. E. BUTLER, an Episcopal clergyman at Fort Meade, Fla., hung himself. THREE children of Philip Schneider, who lives near Scranton, Pa., were burned to death during a fire which consumed their home. COL. J. A. WATROUS, of Milwaukee, was chosen commander of the Wisconsin department G. A. R. at the encampment in Janesville. ALL overtures for a peaceful settlement of the Great Northern railroad strike were declared off. NICK MARTIN, a member of the coroner’s jury investigating a murder at Omaha, was arrested for the crime. WILLIAM C. GREEN killed a woman who had lived with him for years at Adams. N. Y., and then killed himself. AT Jacksonville, Fla., Abram Corrant died at the age of 94. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Indian wars and had been married twice and was the father of forty children. REPORTS from twenty-three states and two territories give a total production of 11,507,607 long tons of iron ore in 1893, a decrease of 29 per cent over 1892. THE officials of St Joseph's Roman Catholic church at Denver sued Father Malone for $12,066, which he was charged with converting to his own use. FLOYD RADBAUGH, a young farmer living near Big Springs, O., rendered desperate by domestic troubles, hanged himself and his two children. DEPUTY marshals engaged a gang of desperadoes in battle near Coal Creek, I. T. and three of the bandits and one officer were killed. GASPORT, a village in western New York, was practically destroyed by fire. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 27th aggregated against $858,568,059, against $909,889,815 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 20.6. SAMUEL VAUGHAN was hanged at Fayetteville, Ark., for the murder of John Gage in September, 1891. THERE were 180 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th, against 219 the week previous and 216 in the corresponding time in 1893.

THE premises of La Porte, Martin & Co., wholesale grocers at Montreal, were burned, the loss being $150,000. CITIZENS of Burlington, Ind., rid the town of an obnoxious saloon by burn ing the fixtures, wrecking the building and spilling out the stock of liquors. JIM ROBINSON and Benjamin White were hanged at Manassas. Va. TWENTY-FIVE business buildings and twelve dwellings were destroyed by fire at Cadiz, Ind. THE New York legislature adjourned sine die. FRED GRUBE, under arrest at Creston, Ia., for mailing obscene letters, hanged himself in his cell. CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN was arrested in Washington for lecturing without a license and left the city in disgust. FAILING to come to an agreement the Great Northern road was tied up by a strike from St. Paul to the coast. HENRY NEWMAN & CO., importers of clothing supplies in New York, failed for $1,500,000. IT was said that hundreds of people in Iron Mountain, Mich., were on the verge of starvation, and Gov. Rich had been appealed to for aid. SEVENTY-FOUR valuable horses were burned in a fire in the stable of Richard Fitzpatrick in New York city. THE 72d anniversary of the birth of Gen. Grant was appropriately observed in many places throughout the country. A LATE census report shows that there were 2,154,615 widows in the United States. SHELL CLAXTON, Comp Claxton, Scott Harvey and Jerry McCly, negroes accused of the murder of A. G. Boyce, were hanged by a mob at Tallulah, La. HUNDREDS of elk were found in the vicinity of Lander, Wyo., that had died from starvation. MRS. MARY FINNIGAN, of Buffalo committed suicide at Niagara Falls by jumping into the American rapids from Willow island. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 28th ult. were: St. Louis, .857; Philadelphia, .750; Boston, .714; Cleveland, .714; Baltimore, .571; Cincinnati, .571; Pittsburgh, .429; New York, .429; Brooklyn, .286; Louisville, .286; Washington, .250; Chicago, .125.

THE famous St. Charles hotel in New Orleans was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $400,000, and four persons were said to have perished in the flames. TEN THOUSAND people turned out to witness the arrival of Coxey’s army at Brightwood Driving park, near Washington, where the commonwealers went into camp. JAY SEYMOUR, aged 48, of Sturgis, Mich., while drunk beat his son, aged 16, and was killed by the latter in selfdefense. FIFTY of the Coxey recruits who stole a Union Pacific train at Troutdale, Ore., were in jail at Portland, and the rest were imprisoned in box cars. CITY MARSHAL WHITNEY, of Missouri Valley, Ia., was killed while trying to effect the arrest of two burglars. WINCHESTER, Va., suffered a loss of $100,000 by an incediary fire, the second within a month. REPRESENTATIVE trade unionists met at Philadelphia to form a new national labor organization which it is intended shall absorb all others. JOHN SLATE and Frank Storer were crushed to death in an elevator shaft at Warsaw, Ind., and William Shinn was fatally injured. A PERMANENT commercial museum where manufacturers can show goods suitable for export will shortly be opened in New York. A NEW trial of the Breckinridge-Pol-lard suit was refused by Judge Bradley in Washington. THE entire division of the industrial army marching under Col. Galvin, who stole a train, surrendered at Mount Sterling, O., to the sheriff. THE Vaughn library building and contents and other buildings were burned at Ashland, Wis., the total loss being $175,000. MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER was said to be very poor and a benefit would be tendered her in Brooklyn. UNITED STATE MARSHAL CRONAN was given command of 200 regular soldiers in order to effect the arrest of Great Northern strikers in North Dakota.

A CYCLONE swept over Kansas City, Mo., doing great damage to property and causing some loss of life. NEAR Abilene, Tex., a cyclone swept trees, fences and outbuildings from the face of the earth. AN anonymous letter was received by the postmaster at Paris, Ky., giving warning of an alleged plot against the life of Congressman Breckinridge if he attempted to speak in that town. THE business portion of the village of Davidson, Mich., was practically wiped out by fire. A WATERSPOUT in the northern portion of Adams county, Ia., did great damage to property and twenty-three head of cattle belonging to George C. Calkin were drowned. FIRE destroyed a block of business buildings at Hot Springs, Ark., the loss being $100,000. A PASSENGER train on the Burlington road was wrecked in the northern part of St. Louis and two persons were killed and several injured. JUROR ALVIN ARMSTRONG, who offered to hang the jury in the Indianapolis bank wreckers’ trial for $5,000, was sent to prison for eighteen months for contempt of court. THE Scandinavian and Finland Emigrant company of New York, which did an annual business of $4,000,000, has failed. JOHNSON, the burglar who shot Town Marshal Whitney at Missouri Valley, Ia., was lynched by a mob. A DECISION by the supreme court in Washington in the case of Mrs. Jennie Campbell against the Pullman Car company is in effect that transportation companies are responsible for injuries or indignities inflicted by employes. GEN. HORACE PORTER was reelected president of the Sons of the Revolution at the annual congress in Wasnington in which twenty-eight states were represented. It was decided to offer annually in the schools medals for essays on American history.

HERMAN STOCKEL, who forged notes in excess of $6,000, was held for trial at Galena, Ill. His father, a wealthy farmer, died from grief. GEORGE Hanson and wife, of Ellsworth, Ia., while out driving were struck by a train at a crossing and both were killed. IN an endeavor to keep smallpox out of the state Indiana health officials will prohibit the sale of clothing made in Chicago sweat shops unless thoroughly disinfected. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. GEN. R. S. GRANGER, U. S. A., (retired), died in Washington, aged 83. REV. NATHANIEL BUTLER died at his home in Burlington, Wis., aged 69. For fifty years he had been a minister of the Baptist church. EX-GOV. N. S. BERRY, the oldest exgovernor in the United States, died in Bristol, N. H., of pneumonia, aged 98 years. “INDIAN JOHN,” one of the few Cherokees who refused to leave with his tribe for the west fifty years ago, died at Dahlonego, Ga., age 93. EDWIN TURNER (colored) died at Clinton, Ia., aged 105 years. His wife, 90 years old, survives him. MAJ. JOSEPH KIRKLAND, a wellknown soldier and author, died in Chicago, aged 64. THE Ohio republicans will hold their state convention in Columbus on June5. MISS HARRIET S. BLAINE, youngest daughter of the late James G. Blaine, was married in the historic Washington mansion to Truxton Beale, exminister to Greece. FRANCIS B. STOCKBRIDGE, of Kalamazoo, Mich., died at the home of his nephew in Chicago, aged 68 years. He was elected United States senator in 1887, and was reelected in 1893, and his term of service would have expired March 3, 1899. FRANK HATTON, editor of the Washington Post, and postmaster general in President Arthur’s cabinet, died in Washington from a stroke of paralysis, aged 48 years. THE North Dakota democrats will hold their state convention at Grand Forks on June 26.

FOREIGN. GREAT damage was done by a storm on the Irish coast Forty-five vessels of the Manx fleet were missing and over fifty persons were drowned. RETURNS from all Grecian districts affected by the recent earthquake show 250 persons killed and 150 injured. GREAT BRITAIN, Germany and the United States were corresponding on the subject of the annexation of Samoa to New Zealand. ANOTHER earthquake destroyed many villages in Greece, and it was feared the loss of life was heavy. Among the cities totally wiped out of existence were Thebes and Atalanta. A FIRE at Shanghai, China, destroyed 500 houses. THE bodies of 233 persons killed by the last earthquakes in Greece had been recovered. It was feared many more perished in sea coast towns. BRITISH papers see danger to the American republic in the commonweal movement. A war between capital and labor is prophesied. TWELVE lives were lost and property worth $500,000 destroyed by a landslide and flood at St. Albans, Can. WHILE the pier at Brahilov, Roumania, was crowded with people in holiday attire, bound for Galitz, on the Danube, the structure gave way and 200 persons were drowned. LATEST advices say that the loss of life by the earthquakes in Greece was placed at 400, and there were 20,000 persons homeless from the same cause.

LATER. IMMEDIATELY after the chaplain’s opening prayer in the United States senate on the 1st the death of Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, was announced and the senate adjourned. In the house no business was transacted on account of the death of Senator Stockbridge. GEN. RANDALL, with 450 men, started from Chicago on the march to Washington. BY a vigorous use of clubs the District of Columbia police prevented Coxey’s commonwealers from invading the capital grounds. The general tried to make a speech, but was hustled to his carriage, while Chief Marshal Browne and Capt. Jones were put under arrest. PAUL J. SORG (dem.) was elected to congress from the Third Ohio district. REPORTS from fifty-five towns in Indiana show that fifty were carried by the republicans at the municipal elections and five were carried by the democrats. THE children's home at Temesca, Cal., was burned. One hundred babies and children were safely removed. THROUGH the efforts of the business men of St. Paul and Minneapolis the Great Northern railway strike was settled. F. C. LAYTON was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Fourth district of Ohio. A TREASURY statement shows that during April the receipts aggregated $22,692,364 and the disbursements $32 - 072,836. JULIAN O. DAVIDSON, who had achieved fame as a marine painter, died at Nyack, N. Y., aged 40 years. THE pension disbursements for ten months of the fiscal year amount to $117,305,184, against $133,678,345 for the some period last year. SEVEN THOUSAND unemployed men paraded the streets of Cleveland, O., and several riots occurred, in which street cars were wrecked and a number of persons injured. FRANK RHONER & CO., manufacturers of furniture in New York, failed for $100,000. PENNSYLVANIA populists in convention at Harrisburg sent greeting to Coxey and nominated a ticket headed by J. T. Allman, of Juniata, for governor. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt increased $1,160,971 during the month of April. The cash balance in the treasury was $970,826,660. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $1,017,536,970.