People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Regular Session. The senate adopted a resolution on the 6th Tor the appointment of a special committee of five senators on the existing public distress The tarill bill was- further considered, and a ■bill was introduced to preserve the purity of national legislation....ln the house the bill to repeal the tax on state bank circulation was defeated by a vote of 172 to 102. On the 7th the action of the attorney general in claiming 115,000,000 of the Stanford estate was discussed in the senate, after which the tariff bill was further considered....ln the house a bill for a new public building at Elgin, Hl., was favorably reported, as was also one for the survey of a ship canal route from the Ohio river to Lake Erie. In the senate on the Bth the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill ($1,579,438) and the army appropriation bill ($23,606,148) were reported. ■ The tariff bill was further discussed. A resolution to set at rest the claim of the ■United States against the estate of Leland Stanford was laid on the table.... In the house the Indian appropriation bill was considered. It was decided by the committee on Interstate and foreign commerce to report a bill for the acquirement of the Nicaragua canal by the government and for carrying on the work to completion. The senate passed a bill on the 9th dividing the salaries of railway postal clerks into seven grades varying from SBOO to SI,BOO per year. Several schedules in the tariff bill were disposed 0f.... In the house the session was brief, and practically no business was transacted. A bill was introduced to limit the rates of sleeping cars to one-half of one cent a mile for lower berths and one-third of one cent a mile for upper berths. On the 11th the senate entered on the eleventh week of the tariff debate and nineteen pages of the measure were disposed of ...In the house no business was transacted because of the lack of a quorum.

DOMESTIC. Car thieves at Vincennes, Ind., bound and gagged Claude McAlpin, who knew of their work, and shipped him to Mexico in a closed car. Two more regiments were sent to Belmont, 0., on account of increased mining troubles. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Bth aggregated $904,353,826, against $711,060,979 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 22 2. Morton & Chesley, builders in Boston, charge their cashier, T. C. Faxon, ■with embezzling $50,000. There were 216 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the Bth, against 183 the week previous and 322 in the corresponding time in 1893. Five persons were seriously injured in a railroad wreck at Golden, Col. Out of nine of the horses entered in the 100-mile race at Chadron, Neb., four died from the effect of the race. It was won by a common broncho in twelve hours. An assignment was made by the Union Warehouse company of New York, with liabilities of more than $1,000,000. Claims for 22,500.000 pesetas for customs duties have been filed by the United States against Spam. Forty-seven graduates of the naval academy at Annapolis were given diplomas by Secretary Herbert. In many large cities a serious coal famine was reported and numerous factories had been closed. Robert Bonner, of New York, was reelected president of the Scotch-Irish society in session at Des Moines, la. Dispatches from Ardmore. I. T., state that Bill Dalton, the outlaw, was killed by deputy marshals near Elk, I. T. For denouncing a shooting affair at Newport News, Va., Dr. Stone, a British subject, was tarred and feathered. Lawrence Spiller was hanged at Staunton, Va., for the murder of Lottie Roe on April 28 last. Citizens of Cairo, 111., starved Gen. Kelly and his commonwealers into an agreement to get out of the county. Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, was upheld in his strike restraining order by the report of the minority of the congressional investigating committee

The great strike at Cripple Creek, Col., was said to be at an end, the striking miners having surrendered to Gen. Brooks, commander of the state militia. Five men were seriously hurt and property worth 8310,000 destroyed in a fire in Kansas City, Mo. Isaac Kemp, a negro, who murdered Deputy Sheriff Ned Carver in Westover, Md., was taken from jail by a mob and shot to death. Nettie Powell and Sallie Hines were drowned at Bridge ton, N. J., while out boating with two young men. The National bank of Pendleton, Ore., went into the hands of a receiver. With an avowed purpose of upholding the public school system, a new political party has been formed in Pennsylvania. Train robbers attempted to hold up ■ Santa Fe train near Gainesville,Tex., and one of them was fatally wounded by officers. Alfred Johnson, a Swede laborer at Delano, Minn., cut his wife’s throat and then killed himself. Loss of money had made him crazy. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 9th were: Baltimore, .727; Boston, .641; Pittsburgh, .632 Cleveland,. 629; Philadelphia, .629; Brooklyn, .583; New York, .500; St. Louis, .462; Cincinnati, .371; Chicago, .297; Washington, .283; Louisville, .278. People who were rendered homeless by the floods in Montana were out of food and much suffering was reported. In a fight between strikers and deputies at Uniontown, Pa., one miner was killed and two fatally injured. The three national banks at Deadwood, 8. D., were consolidated and will be known hereafter as the First national bank.

Nineteen’ commonwealers from the state of Washington were sentenced to ninety days in jail at Helena, Mont., for stealing a railway train. Four jockeys were hurt and two horses killed in the handicap steeple chase, the first of the season at Hawthorne, near Chicago. In Chattanooga, Tenn., the grain warehouse of J. T. Thomas, Son & Co., covering nearly an acre of ground, was burned. Forest fires in Michigan swept a district 1 mile wide and 5 miles long and wiped out the town of Sagoda. Rev. A. B. Smart has contracted for 20,000 acres of farm land in liamline county, S. D., for a temperance colony, and each deed will contain a provision which voids it in case any liquor is sold. Near Talequah, I. T., an Indian desperado killed a man, woman and boy and was later shot by the son of his victims. Coxey, Browne and Jones were released from jail in Washington and departed for the commonweal camp at Bladensburg. Three young persons were drowned by’the overturning of a boat in the lake at Vermilion, O. Henry Hay and Charles Ileusman, members of the senior class at Beloit college, were drowned while bathing in Green lake near Elkhorn, Wis. Seven persons were overcome by heat at Warsaw, Ind., and three of them would probably die. Mrs. August Nold, of St. Louis, whose husband essayed to beat her, killed him with a baseball bat. Four members of a boating party were drowned by the capsizing of their boat on a lake near Brewster. N. Y. Mrs. Jane Shattuck, of San Francisco, goes to prison for life for killing her daughter’s lover. Strikers at Salineville, 0., blew up a railroad bridge. They were charged by troops, who dispersed them with bayonets. After twenty-one years’ close confinement Arthur Winner and A. J. McNutt were released from the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. Flames in the lumber-yard district of Dubuque, la., destroyed property worth 8500,000. Sixteen horses were burned todeath in a fire in the rear of Hostetter & Co.’s coal yard in Chicago. Strikers destroyed three more railroad bridges in the Alabama mining, district.

The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 11th was: Wheat. 58,211,000 bushels; corn, 7,514,000 bushels; oats, 2,764,000 bushels; rye, 205,000 bushels; barley, 87,000 bushels. Officers were elected by the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum in session at Detroit, C. W. Hazzard, of Monongahela, Pa., being chosen regent. The supreme lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen began its annual session in San Francisco. A St. Bernard dog suffering from hydrophobia bit five men and two women in Dallas, Tex., three of them being fatally’ injured. Five young women got into a fight at Breeden, W. Va., with knives,and pistols and Mrs. Lizzie Maynard was killed and Jennie Morris mortally wounded. The national section of the Cadets of Temperance held their annual convention at Hoboken, N. J., delegates from all parts of the United States being present. Immigration to the United States has fallen between 60 and 70 per cent, below normal figures, while travel to foreign countries is much larger than ever before. Chief Justice Beasley decided that the legislature of New Jersey could not confer upon women the right to vote for any public officers. D. L. Harkness, dairy and food commissioner of Wisconsin, died at his home in Berlin of blood-poisoning. The big mining strike has been settled, an agreement as to wages, to last for a year, being unanimously adopted by the conference at Columbus, O. Three members of a “suicide club” died within a short time of each o’dier at Bellevue hospital in New York. A tomb lined with cement was uncovered in a mound at Egan, S. D., and in the compartments were twenty-two male skeletons averaging eight feet in height. A rude altar and many bronze utensils were also exposed. James Pebry, a Virginia negro who introduced smallpox into Knoxville, Tenn., was killed by unknown persons. Congressman Breckinridge is no longer on the honorary roll of the Union League club of Chicago.