People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. In the senate on the 29th ult. a bill was Introduced making it unlawful for any person to send obscene literature or any other matter of indecent character, or any article intended for immoral use by express. The tariff bill was further discussed... In the house debate on the state bank tax repeal bill was begun. Mr. Cox (Tenn.) speaking in its favor and Mr. Johnson (Ind.) presenting the opposing arguments. Adjourned to the 31st ult. On the 31st ult. the senate adopted a resolution declaring the senate to be in favor of a policy of non-intervention with Hawaiian affairs. Senator Sherman spoke on the tariff bill, and during his remarks said the McKinley bill had been persistently misrepresented as a bill to increase revenue, when as a matter of fact it decreased revenue $30,000,000 a year. An amendment making all lumber duty free was adopted.... In the house a bill was passed for the appointment of an additional judge of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois, and the bill to repeal the state bank tax was further discussed. In the senate on the Ist a petition was presented from the “New England Industrial Army" asking legislation that would guarantee work to the unemployed. The tariff bill was taken up and the great battle over the sugar schedule began .. . .In the house the senate bill providing for the carrying out of the award of the Paris tribunal of arbitration for the protection of seals in Behring sea was passed. The state bank bill was further considered. At the evening session private pension bills were discussed. The debate in the senate on the 2d on the sugar schedule was preceded by' three hours of discussion of a resolution to throw open the doors of the committee investigating the method of forming the sugar schedule, but no vote was taken.... In the house a resolution was introduced for non-interference with Hawaiian affairs. A reduction in tife wages of laborers to one dollar a day by the district commissioners caused a resolution of inquiry to be offered. On the 4th the tenth week of the tariff debate began in the senate and an amendment was presented to the bill declaring all combinations, conspiracies, trusts, agreements or contracts to be contrary to public policy and illegal and v0id....1n the house the time was occupied in discussing the state-bank tax bill. A senate joint resolution appropriating SIO,OOO to defray the expense of the sugar investigating committee was agreed to.

DOMESTIC. Secretary Morton has appointed James D. Cooke, of Michigan, chief clerk of the weather bureau. Arthur Davis and Guy Gilbert, two jockeys, were killed in a hurdle race at Phoenixville, Pa. Three men were killed and one seriously injured in a freight wreck at Sharon, Mass. At Village Springs, Ala., Thomas Early, a miner, shot and killed Wash Bailey and his wife and then fled, pursued by an officer, who shot and killed Early. Doyles bronze statue of Horace Greeley was unveiled in Greeley square in New York. The large briik livery stable of J. T. Roberts at Galesburg, 111., was burned and twenty horses perished in the fire. I. T. BUROIS, a negro preacher charged with a vile conspiracy avainst white women, was lynched by a mob near Palatka. Fla. Ex-Justice Sutherland must suffer imprisonment for two years and eight months for connection with the Gravesend (N. Y.) election frauds. The railway telegraphers at their annual meeting in Wichita, Kan., elected W. V. Powell, of that city, as grand chief. Nearly 300 war department clerks in Washington were dismissed by Secretary Lamont in compliance with the provisions of the appropriation bill. A cyclone 200 feet wide passed over the northern portion of Sedgwick county, Kan., destroying a church and several other buildings and damaging crops. In a fit of jealousy Michael Jansen fatally shot his wife at Butte, Mont., to whom he had been married thirty years, and then shot himself. Great excitement prevailed over the discovery of rich gold fields near Boise, Idaho.

Fire at Arlington, Mass., destroyed four large icehouses and other property valued at $125,000. The bank at Enterprise, Kan.,closed its doors with liabilities of $20,000. Coxeyites in Wisconsin took possession of passenger cars on the St. Paul road and rode to Avoca. Pueblo, Col., was visited by the worst flood in its history. Several thousand people were rendered homeless, property was damaged to the amount of SIOO,OOO and some lives were lost. An official treasury statement shows that the expenditures of the government for the eleven months of the current fiscal year have exceeded the receipts by $72,000,000, the aggregate standing in round numbers: Receipts, $268,000,000; expenditures, $340,000,000. The boiler at a sawmill near Adelphi, 0., exploded, instantly killing Engineer Joseph Shewler, Theodore Sawyer and Sherman Waite. Officers dispersed strikers who were terrorizing miners at work at Pana, 111., and many arrests were made. Fire destroyed the greater portion of the business part of Maysville, Mo. Count Herbert Bismarck, son of Prince Bismarck, and family were passengers on the Normania which arrived in New York. Corbett has declined to fight Jackson in Europe and has accepted the offer of the Jacksonville (Fla.) club. The Central Trust Company of St. Louis failed for SIOO,OOO. # The four-story building at Omaha occupied by the Manger Printing company and the Columbia Clothing company was burned, the loss being $200,000. Conconully, a village in Washington, was swept away by a flood and Mrs. Almira Keith was drowned. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Ist aggregated $711,060,979, against $854,506,902 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1993. was 21 ].

John Bussell, a bank cashier at Palmyra, Mo., and his wife were shot by burglars whom they surpised in their home. Coal operators ?n six states notified the leaders of the strikers that they proposed to open the mines by force. Advices from Portland, Ore., say that the flood in the Columbia river continued to increase, and the fertile bottom lands along the river from the Rocky mountains to the sea. a distance of 600 miles, were all inundated, crops were all ruined, houses washed away and stock drowned. Thousands of persons were homeless. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, aged 80, of Greenville, Pa., was chloroformed and robbed of SI,IOO, every cent she possessed. In the bribery investigating at Washington Representative Warner, of New York, testified that he had been approached by agents of the sugar trust.

Morgan White was executed at Columbia, S. C., for murder. Frank Bullard,a negro, was lynched at Jackson, Tenn., for attempting to murder Miss Thomas, a white girl. Bv the capsizing of a sailing boat at Buffalo, la., Mrs. 11. Hoppens and her two children were drowned. Bradstreet's financial review says uncertain tariff legislation and strikes have caused general stagnation on Wall street, New York. By the explosion of a keg of powder at a mine near Jermyn, Pa., seven men were burned, some of them fatally. The public debt statement issued on the Ist showed that the debt decreased 8640,879 during the month of May. The cash balance in the treasury was 8117,854,335. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to 8895,062,225. AV heat dropped on the Chicago board of trade under any price heretofore made. July getting to 54$£c and June to 53 Xc. The government receipts from all sources during May aggregated 823,066,994, about 8500,000 more than during the preceeding month of April, and nearly 88,000,000 less than in May a year ago. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 2d were: Baltimore, .679; Cleveland, .667; Philadelphia, .667; Pittsburgh, .667; Boston, .636; Brooklyn, .531; New York, .485; St. Louis, .471; Cincinnati, .867; Louisville, .323; Chicago, .313; Washington, .235.

Alexander McCurdy, who terribly mutilated his stepbrother, Charles Berry, was taken from the Golden (Col.) jail and lynched after being sub- : jected to horrible brutalities. Two brothers named Donath while , digging a well at St. Cloud, Minn., struck gas at a depth of 45 feet, and before held could reach them both were I dead. Five blocks of dwellings and business houses in Ottumwa, la., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $225,- i 000. A boy was burned to death. A further postponement of the in-I sanity trial at Chicago of Prendergast, the murderer of Carter Harrison, until the fall term of the criminal court was agreed upon. In an address before the International Temperance congress in New York Neal Dow denied that prohibition had been a failure in Maine. Floods continued to do great dam- ; age throughout Colorado and Oregon. The farm and well machinery plant of R. R. Howell & Co. at Minneapolis was destroyed by fire, the loss being 8180,000. Jeff Crawford, the negro murderer of W. P. Blackburn, of Bethesda township, S. C., was lynched by a mob. Andy Johnson, who killed five people at Pineville. Ky., in one day, was killed by Jim Horn, whom he tried to arrest at a dance. Horn was also killed. J. L. Bell, second assistant postmaster general, resigned to become traffic manager of the Jersey Central railroad. The Winters Lithographing company at Springfield, 0., failed for $151,000. Harry Gill (colored) was taken from the jail at West Lancaster, S. C., by a mob and lynched, and Hill and Parker, in jail for murder at Colfax, Wash., met a like fate. In the United States district court at Owensboro, Ky., Judge Barr handed down an opinion declaring the separate coach law for whites and blacks unconstitutional.

The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 4th was: Wheat, 59,395,000 bushels; corn, 7,49(5,000 bushels; oats, 2,606,000 bushels; rye, 252,000 bushels: barley, 100,000 bushels. Cyclones swept over Tacoma. Wash., and Fort Scott, Kan., and a number of persons were killed and great damage to property was done. United States deputy marshals were guarding the Santa Fe road from strikers under orders from Judge Grosscup. Strikers fired upon Powellton (W. Va.) miners and killed four of their number. Steele & Walker, wholesale grocers at St. Joseph, Mo., assigned, with liabilities estimated at £700,000, Leonard W. Marsh, of Kansas City, shot his wife and daughter, but their lives were saved by their corsets. Colorado mine owners agreed to a settlement of the strike proposed by Gov. Waite, who had ordered out troops to secure its enforcement. Judge Baker sentenced F. A. and Percival B. Coffin, the Indianapolis bank wreckers, to imprisonment for ten and five years, respectively. Jealousy caused Joseph Lozeinski, a Toledo, 0., contractor, to kill his bride of two weeks, and then to end his own life. In a battle between the striking miners and the Indiana militia near Farmersburg four of the former were shot dead. The strikers were burning railroad bridges to prevent moving coal trains. Robbers ditched a Mobile & Ohio passenger train at Fisher’s Lake, 111., and the engineer and fireman were fatally hurt and many others injured.

The total fire losses In the United States and Canada during May were 810,777,800, making the losses for the first five months of 1894 aggregate $53,330.900, against $69,637,650 during the same time in 1893. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. James A. Craword. state president of the United Mineworkers, was nominated for congress by the populists of the Seventeenth Illinois district. Dr. Henry Van Aernam died at Franklinville, N. Y., aged 75 years. He was a member of the Thirty-ninth, I Fortieth, Forty sixth and Forty-sev- ’ enth congresses. Rev. W. A. Passavant, Sr., founder ' of hospitals and orphanages in several | cities, died in Pittsburgh, aged 76 I years. Ex-Judge John M. Broomall died at J Media, Pa., aged 78. In 1864 he was elected to congress and served three consecutive terms.

Joseph N. Carter (rep.) defeated O. P. Bonney (dem.) for supreme judge in the Fourth judicial district of Illinois. His majority was estimated at 3,500. Charles E. Van Zandt, ex-governor of Rhode Island, died at the residence of his brother-in-law in Brookline, Mass., aged 64 years. Oregon republicans claimed the election of Lord, their candidate for governor, by from 5,000 to 10,000 plurality. The legislature will also be republican. Herman (rep.) was also elected to congress from the First district and Ellis (rep.) from the {Second. J. W. Wilson, of Chicago, inventor of the sewing machine that bears his name, died at San Jose, Cal., while on a visit to a daughter. Gen. Charles M. Grosvener was renominated for congress by the republicans of the Eleventh Ohio district.

FOREIGN. Two thousand families homeless and a property loss of $3,000,000 was the estimated result of the flood in the Frazer river valley in British Columbia. The rebels derailed a train near San ' Salvador loaded with government ’ troops, and 200 of the soldiers were killed and 122 wounded. The thirteenth international conference of the Young Men s Christian asI sociations of all lands began in Lon- | don. The meeting commemorates the ■ fiftieth anniversary of the organiza- | tion of the first Young Men’s Christian association by George Williams June 6, 1844. Owing to a rebellion in Corea the lives of Americans were in peril and a warship was asked for. Marsan & Brosseau, hay shippers . at Montreal, failed for 8100.000. Despondent from financial reverses ■ Karl Seigr and wife, of Berlin, I poisoned their four children and then killed themselves. i Nearly $300,000 damage was caused | by a fire in St. John’s. N. B. Ex-Premier Casimir-Perier was elected president of the French chami her of deputies to succeed Dupuy. I A CLOUDBURST occurred in the Sierra Madre mountains south o' Durango, Mex., washed away a camp of chaccoal burners and ten men were drowned. During a storm at Yahualica, Mex., several residences were blown down and ten persons were killed. It was announced that the revolutionists in Salvador had triumphed completely and that President Ezeta i had fled the country. Sf.nor Megneo, manager of the Provincial bank of Buenos Ayres, committed suicide. Irregularities had previously been discovered in his accounts to the extent of $1,800,000.

LATER. In the United States senate on the sth the amendment to the tariff bill placing sugar on the free list was lost and an amendment fixing sugar duties, to go into effect January 1, 1895, was carried by a vote of 35 to 28. In the house bills were introduced to provide for arbitration and to prevent hostilities between labor and capital, and to reimburse the soldiers of the rebellion or their heirs for the average annual difference between gold and the value of the paper currency in which they were paid. Indiana miners in Suilivan county outwitted the militia and burned five cars loaded with coal. ■ At the republican state convention in Lewiston, Me., Henry B. Cleaves was renominated for governor. The resolutions favor international bimetallism, the restriction of immigration, and advocate a high protective tariff. Striking miners at Streator, 111., refused to allow the city waterworks to have coal. Drought, cold weather and frosts have greatlj- retarded crops generally in Minnesota, Illinois, lowa and Missouri. Edward Daniels, a young farmer at Perry Landing, Tex., killed three men with whom he hau a dispute. Fifteen frame buildings, comprising three blocks of the largest business bouses in Pleasantville, la., were destroyed by fire. Charles W. Pike, a commission merchant of San Francisco, failed for SIOO.000.

By the explosion of a gasoline generator in a laundry at Portland Ore., six Chinamen were killed and property valued at £IOO,OOO was burned. The Farmers’ and Merchants' bank * at South End, O. T., closed its doors. Five boys, inmates of a Catholic , home in Tarrytown, N. Y., died from ■ eating a poisonous root, and seven othj ers were seriously ill. I Oscar J. Hodgens, of Springfield, 111., killed Mrs. Mollie Jones and then ended his own existence by shooting. A quarrel was the cause. Desperate strikers took possession of McKeesport, Pa., and non-uuion men were terribly beaten and many acts of violence committed. Later advices from the Oregon election give Lord (rep.) for governor a plurality of 15,000. The legislature will stand: Senate —republicans, 17; democrats, 7; populists, 6. House—republicans, 42; democrats, 10; popu lists, 8.