People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Epitome of the Week. [ARTICLE]

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. On the 13th the wool section of the tariff bill sras discussed in the senate, senator Sherman <O.) making a vigorous speech against free w 001.... In the house a bill to disapprove of the treaty heretofore made with the Ute Indians (or their removal to the territory of Utah was passed. The Indian appropriation bill was further considered. In the senate, on the 14th. bills were passed to authorize the appointment of women as public school trustees in the District of Columbia, and for the development and encouragement of silk culture in the United States. The tariff bill was further discussed.... In the house the time was occupied in considering the Indian appropriation bill. In the senate on the 15th an amendment to the tariff bill to leave the duty on wool the same as in the McKinley bill was defeated by a vote of 29 to 37. The bill providing for the deflciency in the appropriations for the government printing office was passed, and the post office appropriation bill ($87,236,599) was reported.... In the house the Indian appropriation bill was again considered. At the evening session private pension bills were discussed. The silk and woolen schedules of the tariff hill were disposed of in the United States senate on the 16th, the republicans being successful in securing modifications in the latter.... In the house the Indian appropriation bill was passed after striking out the clause providing for the removal of the warehouse from New York to Chicago. On the 18th the senate entered on the twelfth week of the tariff debate. The paper and book and miscellaneous schedules of the hill were completed. Senator Hill failed in an attempt to 'have coal and coke placed on the free 1i5t....1n the house the deficiency bill (4,890,693) was reported und the anti-option bill was discussed.

DOMESTIC. Strikers at Staunton, 111., stopped freight trains and broke the seals of all the cars to see if coal was being carried. Miners in the southern part of Lawrence county, Pa., were reduced to the verge of- starvation by the strike. At Crawfordsville, !nd., a little girl swallowed a screw and died. Hastening to her assistance, a man fell from a pump tower and was fatally injured. E. V. Miner, of Indianapolis, broke the world’s 10-mile bicycle record, making the distance at Louisville in 20 minutes and 54 seconds. Fifty Coxeyites seized a fast freight train at Fairfield, 111. The National Association of Millers of the United States in annual convention in Chicago elected A. C. Lorning, of Minnesota, as president. American flag day was celebrated on the 14th by the Sons of the American Revolution of several states. The day commemorated the 117th anniversary | of the adoption of the stars and stripes as the national ensign. Vernon Bros., New York paper dealers, lost stock valued at 8200,000 Jby fire. In the state senate investigation it was shown that New York police gave protection to green goods swindlers, and that millions of dollars Were received by them for ‘‘protecting” saloonkeepers, thieves and other disreputables. J. H. Day, suspected of incendiarism, was hanged by a mob at Monroe. La.

United States marshals arrested twenty-two Coxeyites for seizing' a train at Fairfield, 111. The United States troops stationed atHartshorne and Alderson, I. T., began the removal of intruders from the Choctaw nation. Ten carloads of Ohio militia were eent to Sherrodsville, where striking miners burned the depot and some cars. Db. Geobge M. Wagner and Civil Engineer S. R. Lewis, attaches of the government engineering corps, were browned while bathing in the Mississippi near Festus, Mo. Johann Kauffmann. of Cramp Hill E. J., murdered his wife and three children and then killed himself. Poverty was the cause. A. C. Tbaatman, the largest wholesale grocer in northern Indiana, failed at Fort Wayne for 8100,000. James B. Cabpenteb was hanged at Middletown, Pa., for the murder of his lather on December 11, 1893. Geobge Bbock, aged 45, murdered his wife and little boy and then killed' himself near Borden, Ind. The man had become desperate froip poverty. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 15th aggregated $852,863,697, against 8904,353,826 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 19.5. Woman suffragists at Kingman, Kan., arrayed Editor Brown, who opposed them, in a gown and paraded him through the streets before a brass hand. Thebe were 232 business failures! in ithe United States in the seven days ended on the 16th, against 216 the week previous and 313 in the corresponding time in 1893. A detailed report of damage by the Eecent flood in the northwest places the total loss at over $2,000,000, the loss to the Union Pacific railway alone in Oregon being $1,500,000. The Dodge roller mill, valued at £IOO,OOO, was burned at Wiiliamsville, ;2L Y., and Henry Dodge, one of the owners, perished in the flames. An incendiary at Monroe, La., taken [from jail for execution by a mob, was .permitted to hang himself. Van Wagoneb won the LockportrOlcott 12-mile handicap bicycle road (race at Lockport, N. Y., in 32:13, making a new record. William Henshaw, a dissipated reharacter at Grand Rapids, Mich., facially shot his father-in-law and killed flumself. At a wedding feast at Suffernville, JIL. John liacori shot and killed two PMm, the result of an old feud. T** supre me court of Illinois decided 'that I# bad no jurisdiction in the senajjartpf apportionment cases.

The backbone of the great miners strike was considered broken, many strikers having accepted the compromise scale. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 16th were: Baltimore, .737; Boston, .667; Philadelphia, .659; Cleveland, .600; Brooklyn, .595; Pittsburgh, .591; New York, .545; St. Louis, .442; Cincinnati, .341; Chicago, .326; Louisville, .313; Washington, .311. A shortage of 875.000 in the funds of the Citizens’ state bank of Hampton, la., was made good by the president and cashier, who have resigned. Col. W. L. Hemingway, ex- treasurer of Mississippi, who was serving a fiveyear sentence in the state prison for embezzling 8315,000, was pardoned by Gov. Stone. He had served three years. At Rolla, Mo., Hugh Bunch shot to death Miss Ida Gallahorn, to whom he was engaged to be married, and then committed suicide. Parental opposition to their marriage caused the crime. Cornell beat Pennsylvania in the annual boat race on the Delaware. The Ithacans led all the way and won by five lengths. A fire in Chicago did SIOO,OOO damage. Hayes & Tracy, Franklin MacVeagh <fc Co. and the Chicago Stove company were the losers. Lightning struck the house of John Anderson at Menominee, Mich., and of the five inmates Nels Berkstrom, Peter (irenon and Peter Rosmussen were killed. Fruit prospects are poor, according to department of agriculture reports. The peach crop will probably be a failure. Indiana miners in convention at Terre Haute rejected the Columbus compromise and deposed President Dunkerly for agreeing to it. The Central Stock and Transit company’s abattoir in Jersey City was destroyed by fire with 5,000 sheep and lambs. The loss was 81,000,000. Ten thousand miners in Kansas will strike in an endeavor to force a settlement of the trouble in Missouri and Indian territory. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad broke the record in running 691 miles in fifteen hours and sixteen minutes. A Washing on paper claimed to have discovered a plot to destroy the capitol hatched by H. J. Jaxon and other Chicagoans. In a railway wreck near Batesville, Ind., Tommy Haley, of Wheeling, Va., and Michael Cunningham, of Plymouth, Pa., who were beating their way east, were killed. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 18tli was: Wheat, 67,106,000 bushels; corn, 7,077,000 bushels; oats, 2,517,000 bushels; rye, 240,000 bushels; barley, 85,000 bushels. Owen Ogletrek (colored), who assaulted Mrs. Wright near Forsyth, Ga., was hanged by a mob. Work was resumed at the mines in the Hocking valley and before the expiration of the week it was believed all Ohio shafts would be in operation. The American Railway Master Mechanics association began its twentyseventh annual convention in Saratoga, N. Y. On the Waltham (Mass.) track John S. Johnson rode a mile on a bicycle in 2:03 3-5, breaking all previous records. An express train ran into an electric car in Paterson, N. J..and three of the passengers were fatally and five seriously hurt. Goodwin & Swift, of New York, elec trie railway builders and promoters, made an assignment with liabilities of $750,000.

Emma and Dora French and Fanny Carpenter, all under 10 years of age, were drowned by the capsizing of a boat near St. Joseph, Mo. Coal operators in the Springfield (111.) district refused to pay the scale agreed on by the miners. Fifty Coxeyites, all that remain of the army of 1,300 which left Denver two weeks ago for Washington, started down the Platte river from Julesburg, Col., in boats. The Missouri river was rising rapidly and at Sioux City and Kansas City hundreds of acres were inundated. Five men were severely injured and nine valuable race horses killed in a wreck on the Wisconsin Central road at Stillman Valley, 111. The expedition for the relief of Lieut Peary, under command of Henry G. Bryant, left Philadelphia. A big crowd and a brass band welcomed Coxey, of commonweal fame, on his return to Massillon, O. He proposes to make a lecture tour. About 16,000 of the 20,000 idle miners in Pennsylvania resumed work. The West Virginia miners generally were returning to work, but the Alabama miners at a mass meeting decided to continue the strike. Chazed with grief at the death of his wife, James F. Forshay, of New York, shot and killed his son Walter, aged 12, and then ended his own life with a bullet.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The populists of Kansas in state convention at Topeka renominated L. D. Lewelling for governor. Lobenzo Danfobd was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Sixteenth district of Ohio. Cong sessional nominations were made as follows: Wisconsin, First district, Rev. A. S. Kay (pro.); Second, John J. Sutton (pro.); Third, J. C. Martin (pro.); Tenth, Rev. John Holt (pro.). Indiana, Second district, J. L. Bretz (dem.); Fifth, E. T. Baker (dcm.). Ohio, Seventh district, G. W. Wilson (rep.) renominated; Eighteenth, R. W. Taylor (rep.) renominated. Illinois, Seventeenth district. J. A. Connolly (rep.). Missouri, Second district, U. S. Hall (dem.) renominated. New Hampshire, First district, J. H. Whittier (pop.); Second, E. M. Blodgett (pop.). The Wisconsin prohibitionists in convention' at Milwaukee nominated a full state ticket with J. G. Cleghorn, of Clinton, for governor. The platform favors prohibition, reform in naturalization laws, money issued direct to the people, just pensions and the withholding of state aid from sectarian schools.

The populists of South Dakota In convention at Mitchell nominated Isaac Howe, of Spink, for governor. Republicans and populists combined in Tennessee on candidates for the supreme bench. The populists made the following congressional nominations: Illinois, Fifteenth district, J. M. Grier. Kentucky, Ninth district, John G. Blair Maine, Fourth district, C. 1). Chapman. Mrs. Irene McKee died at Geneva, Ind., aged 104 years. She was born in New York in 1790. The populists in state convention at Jamestown, N. D., nominated a full ticket with the name of Edward Wallace for governor at the head. Walter Muir was nominated for congressman at large. The republicans of the Seventh district of California renominated W. W. Bowers for congress. In the First lowa district the populists nominated J. O. Beebe. Gen. John Eli.is, of Columbia, Mo., who had seen service in three wars, died in Denver of old age. William Walter Phelps, the distinguished statesman and diplomat, died at his home near Englewood, N. J., aged 54 years. Thomas Bayne, who retired from public life at the end of the Fifty-first congress, after serving eight consecutive terms from the Twenty-third Pennsylvania district, took his own life at his home in Washington in a fit of despondency. William Hart, the noted landscape painter, died at his home in Mount Vernon, N. Y., aged 72 years. Catherine Greer, who was 87 years old when she left Ireland to seek a new home, died in Chicago, aged 107. John W. Easby, U. S. N., retired, died in Washington, aged 75 years Gen. F. W. Butterfield, who fought gallantly throughout the civil war, died suddenly at Excelsior Springs, Mo.

FOREIGN. Property valued at more than sl,000,000 was destroyed by fire in Panama. The cholera was said to be spreading in Russia, China and Turkey. By the capsizing of a boat off the coast of Ireland fifty harvesters; on their way to Scotland, were drowned. John Duke Coleridge, lord chief justice of England, died in London, aged 63 years. Patrick Drohan, Rory McDonald and James Sullivan were killed and three men injured by an accidental explosion of dynamite near Coteau de Lac, Quebec. An immense body of auriferous ore, a mile wide and 2 long, was reported to have been discovered between Rat Portage and Port Arthur in Manitoba. The American yacht Vigilant crossed the ocean in safety, reaching Tory island, off the coast of Ireland, in fast time. Abdul Aziz has been officially proclaimed sultan of Morocco. European powers may not recognize him. Explosions in the Franziska mines at Korwin, Russia, caused the death of 180 miners. A Greek bark and a Russian steamer collided in the Sea of Azov, and both vessels went down with twenty-six members of the crews. In a fight at Apaneca between Madariages forces and a band of former government men the latter were routed with twenty killed. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Premier Crispi as he was riding in a carriage on his way to the chamber of deputies in Rome. The rebellion of Corea had assumed serious dimensions. Government forces were defeated in two engagements.

LATER. Many changes were made in the free list of the tariff bill by the United States senate on the 19th, iron ore, meats, lard and ' quicksilver being among the articles on which a duty was placed. In the house the bill to pension w*dows whose names were taken from the rolls because they had remarried and whose second husbands have died or been divorced was favorably reported. The anti-option bill was further, discussed. Fobty-five passengers were drowned by the sinking of a boat on the River Jek in Russia. An inundation in the vallej r of the Wang in Australia was the worst that had occurred since 1813, over thirty vil ages being submerged. Portions of New Jersey suffered severely from rain and wind and five persons were killed by lightning. The schooner Rose was sunk in a collision with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast and twelve of her crew were drowned. The Nicaragua canal is practically completed. It will be undqr the control of the United States. Drought in the province of Eutre Rios. Argentina, has killed 200,000 head of cattle, 150,000 sheep and 20,000 horses, the whole being valued at $3,000,000. More than 100 members of Sanders’ commonweal army were given fines and jail sentences by Judge Thomas, of B’ort Leavenworth, Kan A cyclone passed 8 miles west of Fort Dodge, la., destroying barns and a number of farmhouses. The towns of Collendar and Moorland were badly wrecked, and a farmer named Goddard was killed. Henry Batton and William Choate were killed by lightning at Lafayette, Tenn. Of the 406,960 males over' 21 years of age in Chicago the names of 236,711 do not appear on the lists-of registered voters. James B. Seward and wife were thrown from their carriage at Raymond, 111., and both were killed. The Michigan republicans will hold their state convention at Grand Rapids on J uly 31. Congressional nominations were ma le as follows: Illinois, Twenty-first district, Edward J. Murphy (rep.). Ohio, Ninth district, J. 11. Southard (rep.). Georgia, Eleventh district. H. G. Turner (dem.). Kentucky, F fth di-trict, Walter Evans (rep.). Texas, Fi th district, Rev. U. M. Browder (PUP-)