People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Ok the 9th the tariff bill was discussed In the senate and during the debate Senator Mills (Tex.) announced that under no circumstances -would he support'the amendments proposed by the compromise Di11....1n the house the bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at tit Louis was passed and a bill was favorably reported by Mr. Springer (I1L) to suspend the taxation of 10 per cent on stale bank Issues After bearing Gen. Ooxey the committee on labor decided to report a resolution for a joint investigation by a special committee of the senate and house of the Coxey movement and the depressed condition of labor In general Is the senate on the 10th, John Patton, Jr., the new senator from Michigan, took the oath of office to succeed the late Senator Stockbridge. The resolution to investigate the alleged police clubbing. May 1, was discussed, but no sctlon was taken. The tariff hill was farther considered....ln the house s bill was Introduced for pensions at the rate of one cent per day for each day ofzservioe and one forja currency commission to be composed of fifteen persona not more than seven to be bankers, to Investigate the currency question and report to congress In December. Mr. Talbot briefly announced the death of .his colleague, R F. Brattan, of Maryland, and the customary resolutions were adopted. Ok the Utta the tariff bill was considered in the senate and several of the amendments were adopted. Senator Qalllnger spoke on his amendment providing for a retaliatory clause against Canada, but no action was taken... In the house the bill providing that the first session of each congress shall begin the first Tuesday after March 4, Instead of waiting until the following December, and the second session to begin on the first Monday in January, Instead of December, as at present, was favorably reported. The civil appropriation bill was discussed. Most of the time in the senate on the 12th was occupied in disposing of the items relating to tannic and tartaric acids and alcoholic perfumery in the tariff bill The military academy appropriation bill (J 410.203 was reported and a bill was passed placing Maj. Gen. George S. Green on the retired list of the regular army as a first lieutenant ...In the house a resolution providing for a committee to investigate the causes of the Industrial depression was offered by Mr. McGann. of Illinois. On the 14th petitions were presented in the senate praying for the recognition of Lincoln’s birthday as a national holiday. A bill was Introduced making it a crime punishable by imprisonment from one year to twenty years to retard or obstruct the passage of any train carrying the United States mail The tariff bill was further considered.... In the house the resignation of Representative Complon, of Maryland, was received. Several District of Columbia bills were passed.

DOMESTIC. A storm of unprecedented severity swept over Stillwater, Minn., and sidewalks and street pavings were torn up and a number of houses were undermined. The general federation of women’s dubs met in biennial convention at Philadelphia. The report on mineral resources in the United States for .893 shows an aggregate valuation for the product of •609,586,083. a decline of over $175,000,COO from the previous year. The twenty-three members of Galvin’s commonweal army who were arrested for attempting to capture a freight train were sentenced at Pittsburgh to twenty days in jail each. A careless man sitting on an oil barrel and smoking a pipe caused the destruction of SIOO,OOO worth of properly on a dock in New York. John Porter, an Izard county (Ark.) farmer, tried to ford Strawberry river •with a wagon and hiß wife and three children were drowned. Passenger and freight trains collided st Menomonie Junction, Wis., and Engineer James Jeffreys was killed and four other men badly injured. Business houses and residences in Indianapolis were unroofed by a violent storm, and a child of S. J. Huntsman was killed by flying debris. Sanders and his band of train stealing Coxeyites surrendered to United States marshals at Scott City, Kan. Richard Choker has withdrawn from the leadership of Tammany hall in Hew York. Ex-County Recorder J. P. M. Goodman died at Ashland, 0., after having lived thirty-nine days without eating anything. Patriotic women unveiled a monolith to the memory of Mary Washington at Fredericksburg, Va. President Cleveland made an address. Commonwealebb at Elkhart, Ind., seized a Lake Shore train and started «ast.

Chief Hazen, of the secret service, will wage active war on firms counterfeiting world’s fair medals and diplomas for advertising purposes. I Official figures show that nearly xme-fourth of the old corn crop of Illinois is yet in the hands of the prooncers. E. B. White, a painter at Houston, fTex., killed his wife and himself. Beven men armed with Winchesters robbed the bank in South vest City, Mo., sos $4,000, and shot four citizens. Maj. J. W. Powell, at the head of the government geological survey, has resigned, owing to failing health. T&s total number of Chinese that registered throughout the country under the exclusion act was 105,812. The total Chinese population by the census Of 1890 was 107,482. The freight depot of the Pennsylvania Railway company at Columbus, ©., was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Women of the Ashland district in Kentucky have determined to petition Breckinridge to withdraw from the congressional race. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during t-Ha week ended on the 11th aggregated $908,225,545, against $955,219,455 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1898. was 84.2. Thebe were 206 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 11th, against 233 the week previous and 257 in the corresponding lime in 1898. “Tip, ” the ferocious elephant in Central park, New York, who has destroyed eight men, was killed by poipon by the authorities

Two Coxetites were shot and 100 captured in a fight with officers at North Yakima, Wash. P. J. O’Connor was elected president of the National Ancient Order cf Hibernians at the Omaha meeting. Gcs Meeks, his wife and two children were murdered at Browning, Mo., by men against whom they were to be called as witnesses. Mrs Kate Bradford, who secured $200,000 from gullible hew York people, has disappeared. The money was lost on Wall street Chari.eß D. Walcott, of New York, has* been appointed to succeed Maj. Powell as director of the United States geological survey. At the session in Philadelphia of the general federation of women’s clubs Mrs Charles Henrotin, of Chicago, was elected president, * New York men have commenced action to secure possession of lands in Lyon county, la., valued at $389,200. Inquiry into the affairs of the Northern Pacific railroad at New York shows that a transaction for over $8,000,000 was not recorded on the books. Ten business blocks at Red Jacket, Mich., were destroyed by fire. Charles Whittle, aged 25, son of Maj. Whittle, the evangelist, was killed by a train at Wheaton, IIL He was riding a bicycle between the rails and failed to see the train approaching. James Ebert Moore, one of the best known financiers of the northwest, shot himself dead at his residence in St. Paul because of financial reverses. Judge Worthington, in the principal circuit court at Peoria, 111., granted twenty-seven decrees of divorce in one day. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 12th were: Cleveland, .765; Baltimore, .684; Pittsburgh, .667; Philadelphia, .632; Boston, .611; New York, .556; St Louis, .471; Cincinnati, .467; Brooklyn, .389; Louisville, .313; Chicago, .267; Washington, .150. Talmage’s Brooklyn tabernacle and the Hotel Regent were destroyed by fire and many other buildings were damaged. The total loss was put at $1,000,000. Chief Justice Raney, of the Florida supreme court, has resigned. Salt Lake eoiumonwealers stole a Union Pacific train, but were brought to a stop at Provo. U. T., where their leader was placed under arrest for delaying the mails. At Half Moon Bay, Cal., Joseph Cantano in a fit of jealousy gave strychnine to his wife and himself and both died.

Twenty thousand persons witnessed the launching of the torpedo boat Ericsson at Dubuque, la. Orderf.d by the authorities to abandon its camp in Washington, Coxey’s army moved to BLadensburg, Md., 3 miles away. In the midst of a sermon on the uncertainty of life in Emanuel Methodist church in Philadelphia Rev. J. W. Langley was stricken with paralysis. A tank of benzine exploded during a fire in Bradford, Pa., and at least thirty persons were burned by the flaming oil Forty canary birds added to the interest of a sermon on “Spring,” delivered by Pastor Dobbins, of the Lincoln Park Baptist church of Cincinnati. Nine Coxeyites who captured the ferryboat at Zillah, Wash., were drowned in the Yakima river. George Rose, the murderer of Assistant Postmaster Kuhl at Cottonwood Falls, Kan., was taked from jail by a mob and hanged. Mrs. Harriet Paxton, Mrs. Ellen Hutchinson and Mrs. Mary A. Reeves enjoy the distinction of being the first women elected by a vote at the official polls in Ohio. Mrs. Reeves lias the additional honor to be the first Ohio woman to vote. The election was for trustees of Miami township. The dam at Lima., Mont, broke and houses, barns, fences, haystacks and all kinds of stock were carried away. Maj. B. F. Worrell, for seventeen years an employe in the treasury department in Washington, committed suicide by shooting himself on the steps of the treasury building because of his dismissal from service. Naval veterans of the civil war decorated Farragut’s grave in W'oodlavvn cemetery. New York. William Hogan, leader of the Montana Coxeyites, was sent to prison for six months for stealing a Northern Pacific train, and the engineer and fireman who ran the train and the forty captains and lieutenants were given thirty days each in the county jail. Over 3,000 men employed at the national tube works in McKeesport, Pa., went on a strike for increased wages. A motion to expel Congressman Breckinridge from the Union League club of Chicago was adopted by the board of managers without a dissenting vote.

J. S. Dvgraff, a Keokuk (la.) insurance agent, killed his divorced wife because she refused to be reunited and then fatally shot himself. A new gas well struck near Fostoria, 0., shot a steady flame 150 feet into the air. Lucius P. Wilson died in the electrocution chair at the penitentiary in Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Detective Harvey on July 31, 1893, in Syracuse. Edwabd and Charles Malloy, aged 12 and 14 respectively, were killed by an Erie engine near Hancock, N. Y. The United States supreme court affirmed the decision of the lower court denying a writ of habeas corpus to John Y. McKane, now in Sing Sing prison for election frauds at Gravesend, N. Y. An army of 150 common wealers, fifty of which were women, captured a train at Washington, la., and pulled out under the direction of Commander Bill Beamer. Near Remsen, la., Annie Hansen was shot dead by Herman Peters, her uncle, who, after saying it was an accident, killed himself. Two hundred Coxeyites drove a marshal’s posse from a train at Montpelier, Wyo., and started east Troops were ordered to intercept them. The village of Palmyra, Neb., was amost totally destroyed by fir a

Resolutions opposing Breckinridge’* return to congress and calling on Senator Blackburn to aid to bring about hi* defeat were adopted by a mass meeting at J .exington, Ky. A train on the Lehigh Valley road was wrecked near Owego,' N. Y., by an insecure rail, and Willie Mahar, aged 5, was killed and thirteen other passengers injured. , Dr Talmage will not again assume charge of the Brooklyn tabernacle unless $280,000 in cash is raised for a new building and site. Gov. Flower, of New York, has signed the compulsory education bilL PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. republicans of the Twenty-sec ond Illineis district renominated George W. Smith, of Murphysboro, for congress. Finis E. Downing was selected as a candidate for congress by the democrats in the Sixteenth district of Illinois. Congressman Rohf.rt F. Brattax died at his home in Princess Anne, Md., after a long illness. The republicans of the Fifth district of Indiana nominated Jesse Overstreet, of Franklin, for congress. Minnesota republicans will hold their state convention at St Paul on July 11, and the republicans of Missouri will meet at Excelsior Springs on August 14. Thomas Burke, who was 100 years old last Christmas, died at his home in Merritt, Mich. Peter Wapsky, an Indian residing near the village of Hartford, Mich., died at the age of 110 years. Judge Westcott Wilkin, aged 67, and for thirty years judge of the district court, died in St Paul from the effects of a fall. Don CAffery was reelected to the United States senate for the long term, beginning March 5, 1895, by the Louisiana legislature. Ex-Gov. A. C. Hunt, of Colorado, died of paralysis at his residence in Tennallytown, near Washington, aged 65 years.

FOREIGN. An earthquake destrot'ed the cities of Egido and Merida and several villages in Venezuela and 10,000 lives were said to have been lost. The Kingston mill, a large cotton spinning company at Hull, Eng., failed for $400,000. Ex-President Caceres was reelected president of Peru. Elections in Hawaii for delegates to the constitutional convention were orderly. The complexion of the convention will be strongly conservative. In a battle with Braziliian insurgents at Caryha the government forces were defeated with a loss of six officers and seventy-four men In his message to the Argentine congress President Saenz Pena put the cost of the last revolution at $6,000,000 and declared that peace had been solidly established and that there would be no compromise with persons who attempted to disturb it. The loss to crops by last year’s drought in England was placed at over $100,000,000. Two young children of a poor Viennese widow resolved to relieve their mother of their 1 care and jumped into the river and were drowned. President Peixoto, of Brazil, has broken off diplomatic relations with Portugal because of the latter granting asylum to insurgent refugees. Severe earthquakes occurred in the vicinity of Mioko and New Pomerania, N. S. \Y., and almost all of the houses of the missionaries and traders were destroyed.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 15th .Senator Allen (Neb.) called up his resolution to investigate the industrial condition of the country, but it went over for the day. A bill to place Dunbar Ransom on the retired list of the army as captain was passed and the tariff measure was further considered. In the house the naval appropriation bill was passed and the agricultural appropriation bill was discussed. The committee on pensions voted to report a bill increasing the rates of all pensioners of the Mexican war and Indian wars from $8 to sl2 a month. The Ohio Grand Army of the Republic met in annual encampment at Canton. An incendiary fire that started in the baseball park in Uoston burned over sixteen acres of territory, destroying the homes of 400 families and leaving nearly 4,000 persons homeless. The loss was placed at $500,000. Spencer Atkins, a farmer, was taken from his house near .Birmingham, Ala., and murdered by white caps. Three desperadoes disguised as tramps tried to wreck and rob a St. Paul train near Minnesota City. They were captured after a hard fight E. S. Beach, W. C. Truesdell, J. F. Browne and Franklin Whithall, Harvard college students, were drowned in Boston harbor, their sailboat capsizing. Two thousand veterans participated in the parade at Rockford which opened the twenty-eighth annual encampment of the Illinois department G. A R. Ozem J ackson and J. A. Trusty were killed and William Hurst fatally injured by the caving in of a tunnel on the Monon road at Owensburg, Ind. Nim Young (colored) was lynched in Ocala, Fla., for _ assaulting Lizzie Weems, a 10-year-oid white girl. Members of three Logansport (Ind.) families, twelve persons in all, were poisoned by eating cheese and three would probably die. lather O’Grady, the murderer of pretty Mary 'Gilmartin, was starving himself to death in the Cincinnati jail. The Simonds Stove Manufacturing company in New York went into a receiver’s hands with liabilities of $445,500.

Congressional nominations were made as follows: Pennsylvania, Twen-ty-second district, John Dalzell (reD.) renominated; Twenty-third, W. A. Stone (i’ep.) renominated. lowa, Second district, W. I. Hayes (dem.) renominated. Ohio, Eighteenth district J. S. Coxey (pop.) and leader of the commonweaL