People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Regular Session. In the senate on the 23d Senator Corman defended the tariff bill in a speech. A motion to lay the measure on the table was defeated by a strict party vote of 28 to 38 ... The house continued its onslaught on the civil service commission by striking out of the legislative appropriation bill the paragraph transferring department clerks to the classified service. A <>lll was favorably reported providing a fine of #SOO and imprisonment as a penalty directed at any ex-soldier who postdates his voucher for pension before the 4th of the month. Senator Kvlb urged the passage of his resolution in the senate on the 24th declaring that It was not the purpose of the United States to use force to restore Llliuokalani as queen of the Hawaiian islands, but it went over for the day. The tariff bill was further considered.... In the house the amendment to the legislative appropriation bill to strike out the provision for contingent expenses of the civilservioe commission was voted down and the measure was passed. The bill to Incorporate the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias was also passed, and a resolution was adopted setting aside Saturday, June 22, for eulogies on the late Representative Houk, df Ohio. Tub Hawaiian resolution was considered •gain for half an hour in the senate on the 26th but no action was taken. The tariff bill was further discussed.... In the house the time was occupied In the discussion of an omnibus resolution from the committee on war claims, grouping together thirty-seven claims for cotton, etc., aggregating $1,040,000. In the senate on the 26th Senator Hill (N. Y.) again attacked the tariff bill and was bitter in denouncing the Income tax. A bill was introduced providing that all persons who receive pensions less than sl2 per month shall have their pensions increased to that amount, and special provision Is mado that no widow’s pension shall be loss than $13... .In the house the bill to remit the 10 por cent, tax on clearinghouse certificates and other notes issued by private and state banking associations was discussed

DOMESTIC. Resolutions denouncing' President Cleveland and calling- for his impeachment were adopted by the populist state convention at Sacramento, Cal. At Dorseyville, La., Adolph Block and Jules Lake engaged in a gun fight with a negro and all three were killed. A negro who assaulted the 14-year-old daughter of Washington Smith, living near Arlington, Ga.. and killed Mr. Smith, was taken from jail by a mob and hanged and his body riddled with bullets. The floods in Pennsylvania were receding, The loss at Williamsport and in Lycoming county was placed at 81,000,000. Losses in other portions of the state were also heavy. 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. Snow to the depth of 5 inches fell at Bristol, Tenn. John Crow, for whose murder John Van Nimmangs is serving a life sentence in the prison at Jackson, Mil'll., is alive and well at Muncie, Ind., and has just learned of his supposed death in 1885.

Hearing of the case of Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison in Chicago, has been set for .June 11. John Schindler, of San Francisco, supposed to be dead thirty-five years, returned to St. Joseph, Mo., and claimed a fortune left by his father. Peter Cruser fatally shot Annie Brane in Philadelphia and then killed himself. No cause was known for the deed.

John Roeschlein and Frank Grany found a package containing $1,500 worth of diamonds in Chicago and hunted up the owner, though both were out of work and had eaten nothing for two days. Warrants were issued at Colorado Springs, Col., for the arrest of W. D. Richmond, who is charged with having six wives in various places. A succession of light earthquake shocks, accompanied by a rumbling noise, were felt at Anna and Cairo, 111., Bnd at Cape Girardeau and . St. Louis, Mo. Gov. Northen. of Georgia, was elected president of the American Baptist Educational society in session at Saratoga, N. Y. Appropriation of public moneys to sectarian schools was opposed by speakers. Five members of the bar of Beatrice, Neb., were committed to jail for contempt for being absent when Judge Bush’s docket was called. Fifty-nine indictments were returned by the special grand jury against persons charged with violations of the election law in Chicago. Four bandits robbed a Longview (Tex.) bank of #2,000 and in a fight with citizens killed one and wounded four. George Bennett, one of the robbers, was also killed. A thousand striking miners marched to the Mission Field coal mines near Danville, 111., and compelled the 200 men at work to come out and take an oath not to return. Business men of the northwest met at Minneapolis and formed an association whose object is to build up a home market for home-manufactured goods. The business portion of the town of Luten, la., was destroyed by fire. The entire tobacco crop of northern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York was destroyed by.the recent flood. At the session of the state constitutional convention in Albany, N. Y., petitions with 32.000 signatures in favor of woman suffrage were presented. A CYCLONE at McKinney, Tex., destroyed houses, trees and fences and frilled one man. The bank of Tempe at Phoenix, A. T., closed its doors. B. F. Hughes, R. F. Weed and Charles O’Brien, leaders of commonwealers who stole a Union Pacific train at Montpelier, Idaho, were sentenced at Cheyenne, Wyo.. to five months’ imprSeoament, and twelve others were aenteoced to four months' in jail.

Fire destroyed the most important portion of East End, New Orleans’ most popular summer resort, the loss being 8100.000. Representative Davis (Kan.) has made a careful estimate of the different bands of Coxeyites on the way to Washington and claims that there are 5,000 men tramping or riding on boats and borrowed trains toward the capital. John Dewright, a well-to-do farmer, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., aged 72 years. Nothing but water passed his lips for forty-six days before death. He was determined to starve himself to death and succeeded. Tboops were ordered to La Salle and Centralia, 111., to suppress striking miners, who defied the local authorities. Five strikers were shot to death and a dozen wounded in a fight with deputy sheriffs at Stickle Hollow, Pa., and three deputies were injured. The J. K. Gill company, wholesale dealers in books and stationery at Portland, Ore., failed for 8180,000. Michael Bash and wife, an aged couple, started from Clinton, la., in a roadcart drawn by a mule for an overland trip to New York city. The Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa., closed down in all departments, throwing over 2,500 men out of work.

Mistaking his 17-year-old niece for a burglar, Ephraim Bills, of Fairbury, 111., shot her, probably fatally. Gov. Flower vetoed the bill to prevent display of foreign flags on New York public buildings. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 25th aggregated 8854,506,902, against 8887,677,573 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1803, was 18 2. There were 237 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 25th, against 220 the week previous and 259 in the corresponding time in 1893.

Strikers at Kangley, 111., drove out the miners near that place and wrecked the mine by tilling it up with debris. Suit for 8100,000 damages, caused by fire in the Manufactures building January 8, has been commenced in Chicago by the republic of France against the Columbian Exposition company. An organization to be known as the American Congress of Liberal Religious societies was effected in Chicago with Rev. 11. W. Thomas as president. The grand court of the United Commercial Travelers of America began its annual session at Cleveland, O. It was said the discovery had been made that congressmen had been drawing salaries for employes who do not exist and pocketing the proceeds. Adolph Brenner, a Chicago anarchist, attempted to kill a family in New'York and then shot himself. Investigation shows that farmers of the northwest have abandoned wheat as their onty crop. The decrease this year will be 25 per cent. Charles W. Buttz was found guilty by the investigating committee in Washington of attempting to bribe senators.

Bradstreet’s trade review says that the unfavorable conditions prevailing in commercial and industrial circles throughout the country, together with the prospect for no material improvement during the summer, mark the present season as probably the dullest relatively for twenty years. Strikers visited a coal mine near Ottawa, 111., burned the tools and destroyed the mine by removing the props. Striking.miners blew up a gold mine at Cripple Creek, Col., killing eleven men who were at work in the mine. The giant Cunard steamer Lucania made the trip from Liverpool to New York in five days twelve hours and fifty-seven minutes, beating all records. Austin Brown (colored) was hanged at San Antonio, Tex., for the murder of Anderson Harris, an ex-police officer. Joseph Guiles, alias John D. May, was hanged at Kansas City, Tex., for the killing of Fireman Frank Martin while attempting to rob a train. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 26th were: Cleveland, .720; Philadelphia, .680.; Baltimore, .667; Pittsburgh, .667; Boston, .607; New York, .500; Brooklyn, .462; Cincinnati, .458; St. Louis, .429; Louisville, .391; Chicago, .308; Washington, 111. Twc negroes were lynched near Clinton, Miss., for burglary. The New Jersey legislature adjourned sine die. The Presbyterian general assembly in session at Saratoga refused to entertain the appeal of Dr. Henry P. Smith from suspension for heretical teachings. The fire losses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th were estimated at #2,492,000. Mrs. Riley Yates gave birth to her twenty-fifth child at Springfield, O. She is 46 and her husband 61.

The city council at El Paso, Tex., passed an ordinance that no woman shall be allowed on the streets wearing what is known as the divided skirt. The coinage of gold at the Philadelphia mint during the present fiscal year will reach $80,000,000, the largest in its history. Nine million dollars was offered by an English syndicate for the Elgin (Ill.) national watch company. Three companies of militia were ordered to Minonk, HL, where traffic on the Illinois Central had been stopped by armed miners. A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train was wrecked by a landslide near Pine Grove. Md, and the engineer and fireman were killed. A slab believed to have been inscribed in 1654 and to be a relie of the anti-nomain sect was unearthed at Fredonia, N. Y. Judge Gresham’s decision denying the power of the interstate commerce commission to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers was overruled by the supreme court.

James Howard, while drunk shot and killed his wife at Pineville, Ky. She was holding in her arms a baby and her dead body fell violently on the child, crushing its life out PERSONAL AND POLITICAL In convention at Indianapolis the Indiana populists nominated a full state ticket headed by C. A. Robinson, of Fountaintown, for secretary of state. The platform recommends the free coinage of silver; advises an increase of the currency to 850 per capita; denounces national banks and interest bearing government bonds; recommends the election of United States senators and postmasters by a direct vote of the people, and favors an income tax and local option. Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Tenth Indiana district The Michigan democrats will hold their state convention at Grand Rapids on June 28. Dr. Smith, charged with heresy, argued his case for five hours before the Presbyterian general assembly at Saratoga, N. Y. Arthur 11. Taylor was renominated for congress by the democrats in the First district of Indiana. Dr. Thomas Wilkinson, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died at the age of 95 years. He was a veteran of the war of 1812. W. W. Herrick, aged 62, a wellknown capitalist of Minneapolis, died on a train en route home from California, where he spent the winter. The republicans of the Sixth Kansas district nominated Abram H. Ellis for congress. Rev. Edgar H. Gray, a well-known Baptist minister, who was chaplain of the United States senate at the time of President Lincoln’s assassination, died at San Francisco, aged 80 years. Valentine Blatz, president of the Blatz Brewing company of Milwaukee, died suddenly in St, Paul, where he had gone on business. He was worth 815,000,000.

FOREIGN. Ai.l England was en fete in honor of the 75th birthday of Queen Victoria. A gigantic anarchist plot to bombs in various European cities was discovered in Paris. At a meeting in Friedrichroda of the German Banking association a resolution in favor of a gold standard was unanimously adopted. Drunken Canadian soldiers tore down the American flag in front of the United States consul’s office in St. Thomas, Ont. The Rookery cotton mills at Huddersfield, England, were burned, the loss being 8200,000. , F. Stomre & Co., steamship owners and brokers of London and Liverpool, failed for 8560,000. Craven & Craven, worsted spinners at Bradford, England, failed with liabilities amounting to 810,000.000. At St. Petersburg Count Sollogaub and four other persons, including two lawyers, were banished to Siberia for forging a will. Five of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Norden were killed by the explosion of one of her boilers in the Bay of Biscay. The czar of Russia issued a ukase depriving ministers and governors of the power of appointing or dismissing subordinates. In the chess match at Montreal for the championship of the world Lasker beat Steinitz in the nineteenth and decisive game. Sir Francis Johnson, chief justice of the supreme court of Quebec, died ot Montreal, aged 88 years.

LATER. The United States senate spent eight hours on the 28th discussing free lumber, the debate being upon Mr. Hale's proposition to transfer lumber to the dutiable list. In the house the time was occupied in discussing District of Columbia matters. A heavy frost did great damage to fruit and other crops in Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Signor Don Claudio Vicuna.who was elected to succeed Balmaceda as president of Chili, was sentenced by the courts in Santiago to fifteen years’ exile. An order from the secretary of war was received at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for three companies of military to move immediately to McAlester, I. T., to suppress the mine trouble and restore to owners the property held by strikers. The 115th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Moore was celebrated at Central music hall in Chicago. Rev. Dr. O’Reilly, of Detroit, was the orator. Gen. Coxey has commissioned Gen Frye as coramander-in-chief of the commonweal army of the United States. The soft coal operators of Pennsylvania decided that they would parley with their striking miners no longer, but would immediately procure new hands and work their mines, even if each workman required the protection of a deputy’ sheriff. Princess Josephine of Belgium and Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sig-maringen were quietly married at Brussels. Magnificent presents were received. A protest against the admission of Utah as a state was adopted by the Presbyterian general assembly at its closing session in Saratoga, N. Y. A fire in the incubator establishment at Franklin, Ind., destroyed 30,000 newly-hatched chickens. i Lyman Palmer, aged 75, of New Orleans, was married to Mrs. Mary Palmer, aged 75, of Waukegan, 111. The i couple have each been married three ; times and in spite of this the bride has never changed her name, all her husbands being Palmers. The American Baptist Missionary union began i s eightieth annual meet , ing at Saratoga, N. Y. i In the United States court at Indianapolis Percival B. Coffin, Francis A. Coffin and Albert S. Reed were convicted of bank wrecking. Julia Marlowe, the actress, was married at Philadelphia to Robert Taber, formerly her leading man.