People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence from All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Ok the 16th tariff discussion occupied the time of the senate. A resolution for an investigation of the charge that bribery had been attempted to defeat the tariff bill was offered.... In the house the joint resolution authorizing an investigation of the industrial depression was reported from the committee on labor. A bill was introduced for the erection of a national memorial home for aged colored people in Washington. The agricultural appropriation Mil was considered. In the senate a resolution for an investigation of the charge that bribery had been attempted to defeat the tariff bill was adopted on the 17th and a bill providing tor the admission of Utah as a state was reported. The tariff MU was further discussed.... In the house the agricultural bill was passed. On the 18th a resolution calling upon the attorney general for information as to the existence of a sugar trust in violation of the law was adopted in the senate. The tariff bill was considered.... In the house the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was dis ’ cussed. At the evening session private bills were considered. Adjourned to the 21st. On the 19th a bill was Introduced in the sentrie to authorize several American citizens to accept decorations and testimonials from the Hawaiian government. Several bills of minor Importance were passed.... The house was not tn session. TH* debate on the tariff bill occupied the time of the senate on the 21st. An amendment to put iron ore on the free list was defeated ....In the house in committee of the whole an amendment to the legislative appropriation MU declaring the statute authorizing the ser-geant-at-arms to “dock" members for absence to Lave been repealed was carried.

DOMESTIC. Tennessee bankers in convention at Memphis passed resolutions opposing the repeal of the slate bank tax law. A storm of wind and rain swept over portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin and several million dollars’ worth of property was destroyed, all the railroads running through that section were blocked and four persons lost their lives. Charles Samsmuller, aged 50. killed his mother, aged 90, in New York and then took his own life. Poverty was the cause. lowa prohibitionists have organized for a three years’ fight for a temperance amendment to the state constitution. Gaudaur broke his own 8-mile world’s fair record of 19:08 at the professional regatta at Austin, Tex., beating Peterson in In Chicago Election Commissioners Keenan, Hutchings and Schomer were fined 11,000 each for contempt by Judge Chetlain for refusing to turn over ballots to the grand jury. Dr. Samuel A. Mutchmore, of Philadelphia, was chosen moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly in ses«ion at Saratoga, N. Y. H. li. McDowell, of Pontiac, was elected department commander of the Illinois G. A. R., and Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace, of Chicago, was elected president of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Bankers, brokers and investors report no improvement in the general business situation and are correspondingly depressed. Wheat touched 58Scents, the lowest price ever known in Chicago. A FIKE which started in the United States appraiser’s office in Boston caused a loss to the government of 1150,000 and other losses amounted to $30,000. The conference of coal miners and operators came to an end at Cleveland, nothing having been accomplished toward settling the strike. Owing to the coal famine the Grand Trunk railroad refuses to accept lake and rail shipments of grain from Chicago. Norwegians in Chicago celebrated the eightieth anniversary of Norway’s independence. Hailstones 3 inches in diameter fell at Decatur, 111., and much damage was done to windows and vegetation. A cyclone passed one-fourth of a »nile west of Kunkle, 0., doing great damage to property and killing Daniel Barrett and his wife and their two grand-daughters, Myrta and Martha Caso, and George Oxinger. Charles Cole and his wife were fatally injured. Over 13,000 sheep perished in a snow and windstorm on the Sierra Nevada ranges. During a terrific gale on Lake Michigan the beach from Glencoe to South Chicago was strewn with wreckage. Eight vessels came to grief and at least ten lives were sacrificed. The financial loss was estimated at SIOO,OOO. The scene off the lake front was unparalled in Chicago’s history. During the storm the old cottonwood tree in Chicago, marking the Fort Dearborn massacre of 1812 was blown down. There were 220 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 18th, against 206 the week previous and 247 in the corresponding time in 1893. Plans have been formulated whereby the Pacific railroads may liquidate their debt to the government in fifty years. John Applin, a farmer in Wood county. 0., was swindled out of $4,000 by two confidence men who engaged him in cards. Five men and a woman were drowned by the wrecking of the schooner M. J. Cummings at Milwaukee. The anniversary of the establishment of the first post office in America was celebrated at Breeze cottage, Garden City, L. I. Mbs. Matilda A. Peterson, of Chicago has petitioned congress to appropriate $5,000,000 to purchase lands on which to settle unemployed thousands. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 18th aggregated 1887, 677,578, against $903,225,545 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893 was 37.6. Aw agent for the Missouri Pacific bought the Kansas City & Beatrice railroad at auction for >IOO,OOO.

During a storm in New Jersey fourteen houses were struck by lightning in Bridgeton, three in Cedarville, four at Newport, two at Dutch Neck, seven at Vineland and several in Millville. . William McKeill was hanged at Mobile, Ala., for the murder of his wife, whom he found to be unfaithful to him. Bookkeeper J. J. Kean, of the Harlem river bank in New York, was charged with stealing $19,000 of the bank’s funds. Frank Goodale, a well-known jockey, was thrown from Judge Payne at Louisville and trampled to death by the horses following him. All the employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad have been requested by the company to submit to vaccination. Violent storms of wind and snow swept over Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, lowa and Indiana, doing vast damage to crops and buildings and causing some deaths. The National Editorial association will meet in tenth annual convention at Asbury Park, N. J., July 2 to 26. Application was made in Philadelphia for a receiver for the order of Tonti. The liabilities were said to reach into the millions.

Experiments in Washington with a new brand of smokeless powder discovered by a Virginian proved it superior to any yet tested. Judge Bookwalter, of Danville, dismissed the suit attacking the senatorial apportionment of Illinois, and the case will be taken to the supreme court.

The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 19th were: Cleveland, .810; Baltimore, .696.; Philadelphia, .680; Pittsburgh, .667; Boston, .565; New York, .478; Brooklyn, .478; Cincinnati, .474; St. Louis, .409; Louisville, .816; Chicago, .800; Washington, 120. Striking miners called Walter Glover, a nonstriker, to his door near Birmingham, Ala., and riddled him with bullets.

The Conemaugh river at Johnstown, Pa., overflowed its banks and the streets were covered with water to the depth of 2 feet. At Cambridge, Mass., James Wilson, 40 years old, murdered his wife by cutting her throat and then fatally wounded himself.

The latest estimate of the loss of life off the harbor of Chicago during the recent storm was twenty-eight. Heavy rains caused disastrous floods throughout Pennsylvania. At Williamsport the boom which contained $1,000,000 worth of lumber gave way. Great damage was done by frosts to growing crops over an extensive range of territory. The effect of the cold wave was felt from the northern line of Dakota to the gulf, and it also went well toward the Atlantic, especially in the southern states. Seven men were killed and a number injured in a collision between Chesapeake & Ohio trains in Standing Rock tunnel near Princeton, Ky. While attempting to rescue the crew of the waterlogged schooner William Shoupe four sailors were drowned near Port Huron, Mich. Ex-General Master Workman T. V. Powderly, A. W. Wright and P. H. Quinn were expelled from the Knights of Labor on a charge of plotting the order’s destruction. The Julius Schiel company’s drygoodsstoreand L. Dannenbaum’s wholesale millinery establishment in Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, the loss being $525,000. Two masked men attempted to hold up a stage near Milton, Cal., and one was killed by the express messenger. 'Aik Kellys and Raffertys at Southville, Mass., settled a long-standing feud with revolvers and two would die and two others were badly wounded. Property valued at $145,000 was destroyed in Akron, 0., by a blaze which started in a planing mill. A cloudburst southwest of Dunkirk, N. Y., caused one of the most disastrous floods known there in many years.

The special grand jury in Chicago decided upon the indictment of fiftyeight persons for violation of the election law at the December and April elections. Among those on the list are two election commissioners, one exelection commissioner, three aidermen, a number of judges and clerks of election and several policemen. The Ohio legislature adjourned sine die. Among the bills passed was one to hold but one session in two years. The Traders’ bank of Tacoma. Wash., suspended payment for a second time. Investigation of the attempted bribery of senators to vote against the tariff bill was begun in Washington Senators Kyle and Hunton and Buttz. the alleged briber, were before the committee. In trying to arrest three outlaws at Yukon, 0., T., two deputy sheriffs were fatally shot and one of the bandits was wounded. Coxey, Browne and Jones, the commonweal leaders, were sentenced to twenty days in jail for displaying partisan banners in the capitol grounds. William Perdue went to the home of Squire A. W. Rundle in Nevada, Mo., and shot him dead and then took his own life. A family feud was the cause. The flood in western Pennsylvania still continued, and boats, bridges, houses and other property had been destroyed and ten lives were reported lost. The property loss at Williamsport alone was placed at $1,500,000. At Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Dansville and Rochester, N, Y., great damage was done by high water. The J. C. Lane Paper Manufacturing company at Elkhart, Ind., went into the hands of a receiver with heavy liabilities. Maby Anderson is now engaged in writing her personal memoirs. She will give for the first time the reasons which induced her to retire from the stage. All the carpenters and mill hands in Cincinnati were ordered to strike be- 1 cause the bosses refused to pay $2.50 for eight hours or $3 for nine hours.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in session in St. Paul adopted resolutions condemning the bill of Senator Walsh to prevent interference with mail trains. The Illinois Congregationalists celebrated in Chicago the fiftieth anniversary of their state organization. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. T. W. Phillips was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania district Nathaniel P. Crane, aged 84, and Mrs. Chloe Gibson, aged 78, were married at Belvidere, 111. The officiating minister is 82 years of age. In the Congregational church at East Northfield, Mass., Emma R. Moody, daughter of the evangelist was married to Arthur P. Fitt, of Chicago. Rev. Dr. Edward Bright, the editor of the Examiner, a prominent Baptist newspaper, died at his home in New York, aged 86 years. The democrats renominated H. C. Snodgrass for congress in the Third district of Tennessee.

The prohibitionists in state convention at Oakland, Cal., nominated a full state ticket, headed by Henry French, of Santa Clara, for governor. The populists in the Second district of Indiana nominated E. A. Riggins, of Davies county, for congress. The Nebraska populists will hold their state convention at Grand Island on August 15. The republican state convention of North Dakota wiU meet in Grand Forks July 11. Andrew J. Graham, author of the system of shorthand which bears his name, died at his home in Orange, N. J., aged 64 years. Gen. Philip Cook, secretary of state, died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., aged 77 years.

FOREIGN. One hundred German Baptists from Kherson and Volhynia, in Russia, embarked from Liban for America. Religious persecution forced them to emigrate. Testimony given in a Canadian divorce suit connects prominent people of the dominion with several mysterious crimes. Edmund 11. Yates, editor and proprietor of the London World and the author of many novels, died suddenly, aged 62 years. Emile Henry, the author of the explosion in the case of the Hotel Terminus in Paris, was guillotined. The new constitution of Hawaii provides that the new government is to be called the Republic of Hawaii. The cabinet will consist of five members and the senate and house of fifteen members each, congress to meet every two years, the sessions to be limited to ninety days, and all members, must be able to read and write the English language. The new constitution will be presented to the convention on May 30 for its approval. King Alexander of Servia has abolished the liberal constitution of 1888 and restored that of 1869. Many of the radical leaders have become fugitives. Six of the accomplices of Pallas in the attempt to assassinate Marshal Campos were shot on the plaza at Barcelonia, Spain. A fire in Annui province in China destroyed 2,500 houses. The worst wind and rainstorm known in fifty years prevailed at Toronto, Ont., and considerable damage was done. The Manchester ship canal was formally declared open to the commerce of the world by Queen Victoria. LATERSeven paragraphs of the metal schedule of the tariff bill were disposed of in the United States senate on the 22d after eight hours of debate. In the house in committee of the whole the section oft he legislative appropriation bill providing for the civil service commission was stricken out by a strictly party vote of 109 to 71. The committee on the election of the president and vice president voted to make a favorable report on the bill providing for the election of the president by a direct vote.

Snow to the depth of 5 inches fell at Bristol, Tenn. Resolutions denouncing President Cleveland and calling for his impeachment were adopted by the populist state convention at Sacramento, Cal. The floods in Pennsylvania were receding. The loss at Williamsport and In Lycoming county was placed at $lO,000,000. Losses in other portions of the state were also heavy. Col. W. C. Oates was nominated for governor by the democratic convention at Montgomery, Ala. Coreans, enraged at government rule, assailed the government quarters at Sing Latao, wrecked the buildings and killed the governor and forty clerks.

The democratic congressional convention of the Fifteenth Missouri district nominated C. H. Morgan. The Michigan supreme court ordered a recanvass of the returns on the constitutional amendment increasing the attorney general’s salary. A gigantic anarchist plot to explode bombs in various European cities was discovered in Paris. Illinois mine owners will try to settle the coal strike by offering to advance the wage scale in the southern and central districts. Hearing of the case of Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison in Chicago, has been set for June 11. Miss Imhoff, a teacher in the AngloJapanese school at Yonewaia, Japan, who preached against idol worship, was stoned by a mob that afterward tore her eyes out. At Dorseyville, La., Adolph Block and Jules Lake engaged in a gun fight with a negro and all three were killed. The Pan-American Bimetallic association, composed of representatives from the United States, South and Central America and Old Mexico, met in Washington. In his opening address Mr. Fiske said a revolution would come if relief were not granted in the line of free coinage.