People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Epitome of the Week. [ARTICLE]

Epitome of the Week.

COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Os the 20th the tariff bill was further ciseussed In the senate and it was voted to put logs and lumber, including dressed lumber, «n the free 1i5t....1n the house Mr. Crain {Tex.) introduced a bill to place on the free list all products controlled by trusts. The outl-option bill was further considered. In the senate the income tax feature of the tariff bill was discussed on the 21st, Senator Hill (N. Y.) speaking against the measure In Vigorous terms....ln the house several bills And resolutions were passed and the anti option bill was further considered. ON the 22d bills were passed in the senate to Incorporate the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias and making the first Monday in September of each year (Labor day) a legal holiday. The tariff bill was discussed.... In the house the anti-option bill was passed by a vote of 140 to 87 and the general deficiency appropriation bill was taken up. Several amendments to the tariff bill offered In the senate on the 23d' by Senator Hill looking to a reduction of the limit of taxable Inoomes were voted down. Senator Allison introduced an amendment to Increase the tax on retail liquor dealers from $25 to SSO and on ■wholesale dealers from SIOO to S2OO, but no action was taken.... In the house the deficiency appropriation bill was further discussed. In the senate on the 25th the death of President Carnot was the sole theme, and after adopting resolutions of sympathy an adjournment was taken. ... in the house resolutions sympathizing with the people of France in their national bereavement were passed, and then the house adjourned.

DOMESTIC. Clara Newton and .Maude Madison, each aged 17 and of prominent families,’ were drowned in the river at Anoka, Minn., while bathing. Mrs. John Nelson and Mrs. William Paasta took their own lives at Plymouth, Wis. No cause was known. The Black Hills national bank of Rapid C ity. S. D., closed its doors. The twenty-fifth annual reunion of the Army of the Potomac was held at Concord, N. H., and Gen. A. S. Webb, of New York, was elected president. A cyclone swept over the country a mile west of Hooneville, Mo., unroofing houses, blowing down trees and fences and causing great damage to crops. Colgate university celebrated its seventy-fifth annual commencement at Utica, N. Y. Dr. Gustaves Drolbhagen and his •wife were murdered by an assassin who entered their home at Lawtry, Fla., while they were sleeping and crushed their skulls with an ax. Extensive floods were raging in New Mexico and western Texas, doing immense damage. William Whaley (colored) was banged in the penitentiary at Columbus, 0., for the murder of Allan Wilson in Greene county. Violent storms swept over lowa, Minnesota and portions of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, doing much damage. Six persons were killed by lightning. Thomas Kane, the rejected lover of Mamie Quigley, of Philadelphia, killed ber and then committed suicide. The wife and three children of Benito Garcia were drowned near Brownsville, Tex., by the upsetting of a boat. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 22d aggregated C 847.973.101, against 8852.863,697, the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was . 180.

One of Armour & Co.'s warehouses at the stock yards in Chicago was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. There were 214 business failures in the United States in the seven days «nded on the 22d, against 232 the week previous and 273 in the corresponding time in 1893. Henry and Andrew Lear, aged 12 »nd 10 respectively, were drowned at [Pittsburgh, Pa. Henry lost his life trying to save his brother. Diphtheria was ranging in Brown county, Ind., and six children in the jfamily of George. Peters, at Mount Zion, died of the disease. Harry and Frank Rice, 10-year-old, twins, were drowned in Hoover’s lake near Lima, O. Henry Capus, a negro who attempted to assault three ypung ladies at Magnolia, Ark., y was swung to a limb by a mob and his body riddled with bullets. The supreme court at Columbus, 0., •declared the cigarrette tax law constitutional. Tillie and Fanny Levy, aged 16 and 14 years respectively, were given tickets from Chicago to New York, three dollars in money and started to Russia by their father. Dun’s review of trade says merchants »re disappointed that the end of the strikes has not brought better busi ■ness. William Dunbar, aged 16, was drowned at McCausland, la., and ’William Triton, while trying to save bim, also lost his life. Union stockyards officials at Sioux City, are accused of stealing §900,000 by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust company. During the past fiscal year the value of bullion coined at Denver was $3,240,000, of which $3,220,000 was gold, the iremainder being silver. This is a gain over the fiscal year of 1893 of $1,830,000. The Commercial Travelers’ Protective association in session at Milwaukee elected John A. Lee, of St. Louis, ms president. Pullman cars will be boycotted by the American Railway union, beginning June 26, unless a compromise is effected in the Chicago strike. Mrs. Lizzie Halliday, convicted of the murder of Mrs. McQuillan in Montieello, N. Y., was sentenced to death by electricity early in August Great damage was done by an overflow of the Arkansas river, and Wichita, Kan., was almost under wster. Frederick Bahk, of New Brunswick, W. J., killed his wife and then himself. Be to believed to hare been insane.

The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 23d were: Baltimore, .759; Boston, .654; Pittsburgh, .008; Brooklyn, .604; Philadelphia, .596; Cleveland, .557; New York, .540; SL Louis, .440; Cincinnati, .388; Chicago, .3)20: Washington, 314; Louisville. .240. Four little boys were drowned while bathing in the Delaware river at Camden, N. .1. Key Er. Santa Anita, owned by ‘‘Lucky" Baldwin, of San Francisco, won the eleventh American Derby at Washington park in Chicago in 2:36 in the presence of 40,000 people, with Senator Grady second. Despot third and Domino ninth. Off Bay Ridge, N. Y., a yacht capsized and five persons lost their lives. A 2-vear-old girl was the only survivor. At Frog’s Crossing. Ky., J. I’. Maddox and Mrs. Lewis Maddox and ber two children were killed by a railroad train. An electric launch was caught in a squall on Lake St. Clair, near Detroit, and capsized, and three persons were drowned. Adjt. Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, was kidnaped from his hotel by masked men and given a coat of tar and feathers. The governor offered 81,000 reward for arrest and conviction of the participants. In a storm at Brazil, Ind., the tower of the city hall was blown down, the bell completely wrecking the building. Mrs. John Freeze, living near Joliet, 111., gave birth to quadruplets—two girls and two boys. Threatened with starvation, the Coxeyites determined to break camp at Washington and after marching to New York to give Wall street an object lesson the army will return to Massillon. O.

Mrs. Carrie Rf.id was shot and killed in the office where she was employed in Chicago by an unknown man, who then killed himself. Mrs. Annie Kapchowski started from Boston to make a trip around the world in fifteen months to settle a wager of 820.000 to 810,000 that it cannot be done. Further advices say that forty two lives were lost by the .sinking of the tug Nicoll near New York. General managers of the twentytwo Chicago terminal lines resolved to unitedly oppose the boycott on Pullman cars. Frank Bonouhk, of Aurora, 111., shot and killed his wife, whom he mistook for a burglar. She had arisen to close a window. While suffering from the effects of indulgence in liquor Joseph Misterman fatally stabbed his wife in Chicago and inflicted a mortal wound on himself. Tiik jury in the case of Attorney General Ellis, of Michigan, charged with forgery in connection with the returns on the salaries amendment, failed to agree. The faculty of Yale college has approved the report of a committee recommending abolition of the annual commencement exercises. A concert, in which 6,000 singers took part, closed the saengerfest in New York. Philadelphia was selected for the gathering in 1897. Gen. Frye’s commonweal army arrived at Washington. I he Hyatt school slate factory at Bangor, Pa., was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor. was thrown to the floor by the giving way of a chair at Ogden, N. J., and it was feared that he sustained serious internal injury. Path, Mallett <fc Co., warehousemen in New York, failed for $200,000. A cyclone struck the town of Keighly. Kan., nearly wiping it out of existence and killing several persons. William Stacy, of lowa Falls, la., was hanged by a mob in Texas lor land swindling. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The following congressional nominations were made: California, Second district, G. L. Johnson (rep.); Third, S G. llilborn (rep.); Sixth, James McLuckin (rer-)- Texas, Seventh district, Isaac N. Barber (pop.); Thirteenth, D. B. Gilliland (pop.). Indiana, Thirteenth district J. W. Forrest (pop.). Ohio, Eleventh district, L. J. Fenton (rep.) renominated; Nineteenth, S. A. Northway (rep.) renominated. lowa, Eleventh district, George D. Perkins (rep.) renominated. Bishop W. Perkins died suddenly in Washington, aged 5.3 years. Mr. Perkins was a member of the Fortyeight, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fiftyfirst congresses, and on Januaay 1, 1892, was appointed United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Preston B. Plumb. In convention at Montpelier the Vermont republicans nominated G. A. Woodbury for governor. Morris M. Estee, of Napa, was nominated for governor by the republicans in convention at Sacramento, Cal. The platform indorses the McKinley tariff, denounces the repeal of the federal election law and the administration’s Hawaiian policy, condemns the Wfilson bill as a sectional measure and a corrupt surrender to trusts, and favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Cyrus P. Leland, auditor of the Lake Shore railroad and associated with the line for thirty-four years, died at his home in Cleveland. Congressional nominations were made as follows: Illinois, Twentieth district, J. R. Williams (dem.) renominated; Twentieth, Orlando Burrell (rep.). Indiana, Eleventh district, A. M. Benson (pop.); Twelfth, J. E. Graham (pro.). Ohio, Fourteenth district, W. S. Kerr (rep.); Fifteenth, H. C. Van Voorhis (rep.) renominated. lowa, Seventh district, J. H. Barcroft (industrial.) John F. Dezendorff, ex-member of congress from Norfolk, Va., died at his home there, aged 60 years. In convention at Waco the Texas populists nominated a state ticket with Judge Nugent for governor. Alfred P. Kurbank, the lecturer and reciter, died at his homd in New York of consumption, aged 40 years.

George P. A. Healy, one of the greatest portrait painters of the century, died at his home in Chicago, aged 81 years. Gkn. William F. Wheeler, who located the first line of telegraph in Minnesota and vras a pioneer railroad builder, died in Helena. Mont. J. Frank Ai.drich was renominated for congress by the republicans of the First Illinois district. Robert Tucker, the oldest negro in Indian territory, died at the age of 113 years. Col. S. H. Boyd, ex-minister to Siam and ex-congressman, died at a fishing resort near Springfield, Mo., where he had gone for his health. Dr. Joseph P. Thomas, president of the Kentucky Medical association and a writer on scientific subjects, died at Hopkinsville. The populists met in state convention at Deer Lodge, Mont., and nominated George W. Reeves for justice of the supreme court. Daniki, Corkery, a democratic leader and millionaire coal merchant, died at his home in Chicago after a shortillness, aged 41 years. Congressional nominations were made as follows: Illinois, Fourteenth district, George O. Barnes (dem.). Maine, Third district. !S. W. Gould (dem.): Third. 0. G. Sheldon (pop.). Pennsylvania. Thirteenth district, P. B. Strubinger (dem.). John H. Giiaig, known as the Kentucky giant,, died at Danville, Ind., aged 45 years. He weighed 700 pounds and was a museum attraction for twenty years.

FOREIGN. The sealing schooner Unga foundered off the Japan coast during a storm, its crew of ten men perishing. Fire in London destroyed a number of factories and other buildings, the total loss being $1,000,000. Dudley Foster, aged 17 years, who had the reputation of being the smallest man in the world, being 30 inches tall and weighing twenty pounds, died at Bridgetown, N. S. Arthur Zimmerman, the American rider, won the international bicycle race at Florence, Italy. Harry Wheeler, the other American rider, was second. Earthquakes in Japan killed many natives at Yokohama and Tokio and destroyed much property. In a battle between Spanish troops and Mussulmans on one of the Philippine islands 100 of the latter were killed. By an explosion in a collier}’ near Port-y-Pridd, Wales, 250 miners lost their lives. A son was born to the duchess of York, wife of Prince George of Wales, the heir presumptive to the British throne. Marietta Albani, the greatest contralto singer of the century, died in Paris. She was the wife of Count Pepolo. M. Sabi-Carnot, president of France, was stabbed bv Cesare Giovanni Santo, a young Italian anarchist, while in his carriage on the way to a Lyons theater and died soon after. The president was visiting Lyons in connection with the international exhibition. The assassin would give no reason for the deed. In the French senate and chamber of deputies announcement of the murder of President Carnot was made by the presiding officers. Italian shops in Lyons were sacked by the enraged citizens. William Arthur Parson, aged 20, Frank B. Skeeles, aged 19, and Walter Bulwer, aged 12, were drowned at Toronto.

LATER. Ajiong the nominations sent to the United States senate on the 26th was that of Charles DeKay, a New York editor, to be consul general at Berlin. An amendment to the income tax provisions of the tariff bill to exempt state, county and municipal bonds was offered by Senator Hill, but defeated. Senator Peflfer gave notice of an amendment to the bill levying a duty of SSO per head upon every alien arriving in the United States. In the house the senate bill making Labor day a national holiday was passed. The bill to increase pensions of survivors of the Indian and Mexican wars from $8 to sl2 a month was favorably reported and the deficiency bill was further discussed. Mrs. Paul Boynton,of Iloosick Falls, N. Y., died at the age of 101 years and 8 days. At the democratic state convention at Lewiston, Me., Charles F. Johnson, of Waterville, was nominated for governor. * The boycott against the cars of the Pullman company went into effect in Chicago and at midnight the switchmen along the line of the Illinois Central quit work. The populists of Vermont in convention at Montpelier nominated Thomas S. McGinnis for governor. W. M. Pinkerton, one of the alleged assailants of Anna Baroski, was stoned by a mob at Spring Valley, 111., the woman completing the deadly work with a pick handle. The National Republican league convention met at Denver, with delegates present from forty states and territories. Masked men held up a train at Homerville. Ga., and secured $1,222 from the express safe. They then ran the engine 11 miles and took to the woods. J. C. Seashots & Co., a well-known dry goodsfirm at Louisville, Ky., failed for SIOO,OOO.

A loss of $250,000 was caused bv the burning of Booth's lumber yard at Chaudiere Falls, Out. At Muncie. Ind., Frank Benadum was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He is a saloonkeeper and killed Lawyer Lemuel Bailey April 22. Sixty thousand coal miners in Scotland struck for higher wages. Thf. democrats nominated B. J. McGillieudy for congress in the Second Maine district and James 1). Fox in the Thirteenth Missouri district and renominated William M. Springer in the Seventeenth Illinois district.