People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. SENATOR SQUIRE (Wash.) delivered a speech in the senate on the 2d in general opposition to the tariff bill.... In the house bills were introduced to repeal the tax of 10 per cent. on the circulation of state banks and to reorganize the affairs of the Union Pacific Railway company. A resolution was introduced to appoint a special committee to devise means for the employment of the idle men of the country, restrict immigration, start up mines, increase the currency and prohibit the issuing or inter-est-bearing bonds without authority of congress. THE senate on the 3d passed the house bill authorizing the wearing of a distinctive army and navy badge on public occasions, and the nomination of Thomas E. Benedict, of New York, to be public printer was confirmed. The tariff bill was further discussed.... In the house the time was taken up in the consideration of the river and harbor bill. Mr. Brookshire (Ind.) introduced a bill providing that no greenbacks shall be issued of a smaller denomination than $10. AN amendment to the naval appropriation bill authorizing the construction of twelve new torpedo boats was favorably reported in the senate on the 4th and the tariff bill was further discussed.... The only business of importance transacted in the house was the passage of the river and harbor appropriation bill after a long discussion. THE senate on the 5th received the nomina tions of Seneca Hazleton, of Vermont, for minister to Venezuela, and George Keenan, of Wisconsin, for consul to Bremen. No business of importance was transacted.... The house was not in session. IN executive session the Chinese treaty was debated for six hours in the senate on the 7th. Senator McPherson introduced a bid for the relief of Rear Admiral Stanton and the officers and enlisted men of the wrecked Kearsarge. Senator Lodge introduced an amendment to the tariff bill providing that as against Great Britain or any of her colonies a duty double the amount imposed in the proposed tariff bill shall be levied and a duty of 35 per cent. on all articles on the free list....In the house the New York and New Jersey bridge bill was passed. A resolution was introduced making it in order to amend any general appropriation bill so as to reduce or repeal the bounty and the tariff on sugar, or either of them.

DOMESTIC. The grand council of the American Protective association convened at Des Moines, la. Lapham & Co.’s tanyard and bark mills were burned at Staunton, Va., the loss being' SIOO,OOO. Stockholders in the World’s Columbian exposition will receive a dividend of 10 per cent, upon their holdings June 9. Postmaster General Hissei.l has made a rule that no man shall be appointed postmaster who has sold liquor iu the town from which he is an applicant. David B. Jones, who died near Bum Oak, Wis., left ten wives iu various portions of the country. According to Commissioner of Labor Wright there are 5,838 building and loan associations in the couutry, with net assets of $4 50,(507,893. The felt mill at Kenwood, N. Y., owned by Mrs. Sarah Townsend, was burned, the loss being $250,000. Tiie association of general secretaries of the Young Men’s Christian association of North America, representing a memberhip of 300,000, met at Cedar Rapids, la. All the Columbian postage stamps are gone except a few of the eight-cent denomination. The entire issue distributed throughout the country was 15,000.000,000. Richard Thompson, aged 28, Carrie McKibben, aged 20, and Hannah Peters, aged 20, were drowned in the river at Keokuk. la., by the upsetting of a skiff. By a vote of 37 to 1 the democratic senators in caucus adopted a resolution agreeing to support the tariff bill of the finance committee. The one vote in opposition was cast by Senator Ilill, of New York. H. H. Kohi.BAat has sold his interest in the Cnicago Inter Ocean to William Penn Nixon for $400,000. Mrs. Mary A. Rulison, of St. Joseph, Mich., aged 80 years, committed suicide by hanging. Family trouble was the cause.

Two sons and a daughter-in-law of Sam Gammon, who lives near Cockrell, Mo., were killed by foul air while cleaning out an old well. An agreement has been entered into by the American turf congress and the jockey club discountenancing winter racing. Three hundred Coxeyites captured a Northern Pacific freight train atOrling, Wash., and started east. Miners in convention at Albia, la., by a vote of 65 to 55 ordered a strike. This will take out 9,000 men. The Hollander. Bradshaw, Folsom company, conducting a department «tore in Boston, failed for $141,000. E. S. Fulford broke twenty straight targets in the interstate shoot at Springfield, 0., tying the world’s record, held by Young. Poles of Chicago celebrated the centennial anniversary of the insurrection against Russia with a parade and speeches. Flames in a brick factory in Cincinnati caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. A report on the valuation of building stones produced in the United Estates during 1893 shows a decrease of over $13,000,000 from that of 1892. A report sharply criticising Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, was submitted "by the congressional committee which investigated his Northern Pacific strike order. At a meeting in Des Moines, la., of the supreme council of the American Protective association a growth of membership in the United States and Canada of about 500,000 was reported, making the present membership nearly 5, C00,000. The following states have the largest number of members: Michigan, 65,000: Ohio, 63,000; Illinois. 60,«00; lowa, 45,000; New York, 50,000; California, 12,000. Portions of Lyon and Osage counties 1b Kansas were visited by a waterspout that flooded the country and ruined ««>ps. In Beading and Olivet everv •riodoff pace was shattered.

Mose Fair, a negTO, was hanged at Chester, S. C., for the murder, five years ago, of Ike Wilson, a colored matt. The president has resigned from the law firm of Cleveland, Stetson & Bangs, of New York, with which he became connected at the close of his first term. Bicycles are to be taxed at North Bridge, 31ass., the money to be used for improving the roads. The First national bank of Sedalia, one of the oldest financial institutions in central Missouri, closed its doors. The bank had a capital of $250,009. A eolt of lightning struck a wire fence in a pasture near Crown Point, Ind., and killed eight horses which were huddled against it There were 233 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 4th, against 180 the week previous and tiltt in the corresponding time in 1893. A chakavaki party broke into a Lester (Minn.) house on being refused money with which to buy beer and three of its members were shot. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 4th aggregated $955,219,455, against $858,508,059 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 30.9.

Trade reviews report business as smaller in volumo throughout the country. Jacob Brown, a negro convict who murdered Frank Mackin, a foreman at the penitentiary, in 1892, was hanged at Jefferson City, Mo. The coke strike resulted in a bloody riot at the Painter works near Scottdale. Pa., in which fifteen persons, including a number of women, were shot, some of them fatally. . The secret service of the treasury was informed of the existence of a new and dangerous counterfeit of the two-dollar treasury note. It is of the series of 1891, check letter “B.” The figure “2” in the lowerriglit corner face of the genuine is missing in the counterfeit. Mrs. Margery Mclntyre, aged 73, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Glenn house at Rochester, N. Y. The National Stove Manufacturers’ association in session in Chicago elected George D. Dana, of St Louis, as president A cyclone swept across the prairie and through the heavy timber near Royalton, Minn., doing great damage. Ex-Mayor Cuegier has been appointed superintendent of the newly established Indian supply warehouse in Chicago. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the sth were: Cleveland, .818; Boston, .692; Baltimore, .092; Pittsburgh, .007; Philadelphia, .571; St Louis, .500; New York, .462; Cincinnati, .400; Brooklyn, .385; Louisville, .304; Washington, .214; Chicago. .200. Rev. T. DeYYitt Tai.mage completed his twenty-five years of continuous service as pastor of the Brooklyn tabernacle. Miss Florence Kelly, inspector of Illinois factories, reports having found in five months 6,570 boys and girls under 10 at work. Mrs. Dewitt Edwards, wife of a farmer at Honey Creek, Minn., while temporarily insane poisoned herself and a 10-year-old child by putting arsenic in chocolate. In thirty minutes a hail and rainstorm at lowa City did SIOO,OOO damage. At Maine station a dozen houses were blown down and one woman died from injuries received. The W. N. White.y reaper and mower works at Muncie, Ind., were destroyed bv fire, the loss being $245,000, with no insurance.

A band of kidnapers wns supposed to be at work in St Joseph. Mo., as five children had disappeared within two days. A storm in Luzerne county, Pa., caused a loss of over SIOO,OOO. Taiioe City, on the shore of Lake Tahoe, Cal., consisting of about fifty houses, two hotels, stores, etc., was destroyed by fire. Twelve indictments were returned by the grand jury as a result of the investigation into alleged election frauds in Chicago. A hut at Miles switch, near Eldorado, Ark., in which was a negro sick with smallpox, was burned by a mob and the colored man was cremated. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 7th was: Wheat, 65,158,000 bushels; corn. 10,359,000 bushels; oats, 2,659,000 bushels; rye, 352,000 bushels; barley, 225,000 bushels. Col. J. A. Watrous, commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R„ charges that money sent from the north to the Richmond (Va.) post for use in decorating soldiers’ graves has been diverted to other purposes. Charles Cragin, John Hutton and William Dindgrove, papermakers, were drowned in Lake Winnebago, Wis., while fishing. 11. A. Hill, the famous trick bicycle rider, with his manager, Eugene Holtier, started from the city hall in New York on a bicycle for a trip around the world.

Hannibal Purcell, aged 82, and Benjamin Simons, aged 86. engaged in a half-mile foot race at Logansport for SIOO and the championship of Indiana. The former won in 5 minutes and 58 seconds. Unemployed laboring men threatened to burn the business portion of Anderson, lud., unless given aid immediately. The State national bank at Wichita, Kan., suspended, with deposits of $207,000 and assets of $400,000. The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the monch of April, as reported, amounted to $11,540,000, against $14,669,900 during the same period in 1893. f The steamship La Touraine made the trip from New York to Queenstown in five days and sixteen hours, the shortest time on record. The work of the senate special committee on the tariff bill was completed and it was reported to tbe full committed

Miles C. Mays and his wife died within ten hours of each other at Vandalia, IIL They had been married just one month, and both were taken sick a week ago on the same day.