People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular SessionOx the 57th the entire session of the senate ■was occupied in discussing the tariff bill An effort to strike out from the income tax the ■exemption in the case of salaries of state, county and municipal officers was defeated.... In the house a resolution was adopted extending the appropriations for the current fiscal year for thirty days from the 30th inst. The New Mexico statehood bill was considered, but no action was taken. Ix'the senate on the 28th the income lax section cf the tariff bill was completed and a motion by Senator Hill to strike out the entire section was defeated by a vote of 40 to 84.... In the house the bill for the admission of New Mexico aa a state was passed, as was also a bill for the relief of the trustees of the Presbyterian church of Bethel Springs. Tenn., on account of the occupancy of the church by troops la the ■civil war. Iw the senate the tariff bill was reported out ■of the committee of the whole on the 2Sth tilt., dler which the senate adjourned until July 2 ....In the house the time was consumed by a filibuster over the contested election case of Watson against Black of the Tenth Georgia district, the seat finally being given to Mr. Black, the sitting member. On the 30th ult. the senate was not in session .... In the house the calendar was cleared of all pension and desertion cases which had been agreed to in committee.

DOMESTIC. Railroad officials in Chicago diacov«red a conspiracy among their own defectives by which the Western Indiana ■was robbed of property valued at more than $50,0000. Thk end of the great strike of coal miners was announced. Twelve to fourteen persons were reported killed in a cyclone near Sleepy Eye, Minn., and a dozen or more farmhouses were blown to pieces and many barns wrecked. James Smith Allen, a farmer residing 6 miles north of Greencastle, Ind., murdered his wife and then killed himself. Domestic trouble was the cause. In the 4-mile boat race at New London, Conn., Yale defeated Harvard, making the distance in 23 minutes and 47 seconds. Because of her refusal to marry him Jacob Ising shot and killed Mary Tefolt, the daughter of a wealthy farmer by whom he was employed near Nichols, la., and then shot himself. Japanese, according to a decision handed down by Judge Colt in the United States circuit court at Boston, are not eligible to citizenship. Rev. James G. Stone, a Methodist minister, was fatally shot by Gus Evans at Watson, lad., in a dispute. Ten persons were reported killed by a tornado which swept over Minnesota and South Dakota and five others were fatally injured. Mormons have secured land and money to establish a college at Lamoni, la. The board of supervisors at Muscatine, la., found that ex-Auditor Johnson’s shortage amounted to $20,000. He also took $5,000, it was charged, from business men when he fled. Michael Gessner, a New York tailor 37 years old. shot and killed Annie Sauter, 17 years of age, and then took his own life. No cause was known. Members of the Kings county (N. Y.) Women’s Christian Temperance union decided to boycott all grocers who sell liquors. Charles E. Hite, of the University of Pennsylvania, left Philadelphia with four companions to explore the interior of Labrador. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 29th aggregated #761,049,579, against $847,973,101 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 20 5. Ulyssub Hayden, a negro, was taken by a mob from the sheriff at Monett, Mo., and hanged. He was arrested for shooting Boltz Greenwood, a brakeman. There were 214 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 29th, against 214 the week previous and 307 in the corresponding time in 1893. The total number of failures in the last six months is 6,528 and total liabilities $82,555,000.

Gus Weisbrodt, defaulting ex-city treasurer of Middletown, 0., pleaded <uilty to embezzling over $25,000 publie money. Flames in the Woodruff storage warehouses in Brooklyn destroyed property valued at $1,075,000 and caused the loss of three lives. The trust advanced the price of whisky and spirits three cents per gallon in anticipation of the new tax. E. R. Chapman and John McCartney were indicted in Washington for refusing to answer questions of the senate sugar investigating committee. Harry Jones was hanged at Independence, Mo., and John Clark at Kansas City, for the murder of Mme. Wright in Kansas City. W illiam Aldifer, cavalryman, on a wager jumped twice from abridge into the Potomac river, a distance of 00 feet. Ar Logansport, Ind., George Thompson shot Police Superintendent Morrissey in the face and was himself Icilled. John Williams was lynched by a mob at Sulphur Springs, Tex., for the murder of Albert Waits and his wife. The railway strike against Pullman cars was said to be assuming vast proportions, trains being held in many places. At Cairo,lll.,troops were called for, and at Hammond, Ind., no trains were allowed to move. The managers of the various railroads centering in Chicago decided to fight the strikers to the bitter end. At South McAlester, 1., T., Louis Bruner received fifty lashes on the bare back for stealing a bell off a cow. William Wilson, aged 23. and Howard Sullivan, aged 16. were killed by the accidental discharge of their guns while hunting near Alliance, O.

The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 30th ult. were: Baltimore, .712; Boston, .667; Brooklyn, .623; Pittsburgh, .614; Philadelphia, .569; New Y’ork, .564; Cleveland, .549; Cincinnati, .434; St Louis, .431; Chicago, .327; Washington, 281; Louisville. .255. The railway strike against Pullman cars was assuming vast proportions. Every railway centering in Chicago was crippled and‘ some had completely abandoned all service. Troops were ordered to Danville and Decatur. 111., and five companies of United States troops were sent to Trinidad, Col., where mail trains were held by strikers. At some points in Illinois trains were ditched and in Indiana railway property was destroyed. During the six months of the present year only 495 miles of new railroad were built in this country. That is less than for any previous half year for many years. During the fiscal year ended June 80 bounties were paid on sugar as follows: Cane, $11,216,304; beet, $558,733; sorghum, $10,926; maple, $116,122; total, $12,108,085. Jones & Laughlin’s iron works at Pittsburgh closed down, throwing 4,000 men out of work. Harry Kling, who claims the title of the world’s champion long-distance walker, walked from New Orleans to St. Louis, 723 miles, in seventeen days and five hours. The coal trade and shipping interests of Baltimord, Md., lost over $2,000,000 by the coal miners’ strikes in the Cumberland region. The town of Mogollon, Col., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The coinage of the United States mint in Philadelphia for the fiscal year ended June 30 shows a total of $78,554.234.06. Mich aEI and James Steine (brothers) and Martin Terian were drowned while bathing in Lake Calumet at Chi cago. Prof. Moore, of Chicago, says the month of June was 120 degrees hotter than its normal temperature for twenty years. Accounts with world’s fair concessionaires have been finally adjusted. The receipts from all sources show a grand total of $3,887,602.11. While insane as the result of a quarrel with her husband Mrs. Merrill Baker, of Montgomery, Vt., hanged her four children to bedposts. The exports of manufactures from the United States during May reached $15,199,402. Eastern Arkansas and western Tenn essee were swept by a windstorm of unusual severity. The railroad strike was causing scarcity of food at many points. Cleveland was threatened with a fresh meat famine because of the stoppage of supplies from Chicago. August 10 has been designated as Battle Flag day by Gov. Jackson, of lowa, who recommends its observance as a public holiday. Gen. Ciiari.es Ezeta, the fugitive ex-president of the republic of Salvador, arrived in New York. The secretary of the navy issued an order discontinuing all work at the New York, Norfolk and Mare Island navy yards, throwing 3,500 men out of employment.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. At Syracuse, N. Y., the prohibitionists made the following - nominations for state offices: Governor, Francis E. Baldwin, Elmira; lieutenant governor, Justus Miller, Troy; judge of the court of appeals, Zachariah P. Taylor, Rochester. The platform declares for prohibition, woman suffrage and the settlement of the tariff question by a nonpartisan commission upon the lines of protection. In convention at Springfield the Illinois democrats nominated Franklin MacVeagh, of Chicago, for United States senator, and the following state ticket: For superintendent of schools, Henry Raab; for treasurer, Bernard J. Claggett; trustees of the University of Illinois, Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, Taylor C. Clendenin and Calvin L. Pleasants. The platform indorses Gov. Altgelt’s administration, favors free trade and free coinage of silver and indorses an income tax. The following congressional nominations were reported: Illinois, Tenth district, Philip S. Post (rep.). lowa, Fifth district, W. H. Calhoun (pop.). Missouri, First district, John M. Loudon (pop.). Arkansas, Third district, T. C. Mcßae (dem.); Fourth, W. L. Terry (dem.). Indiana, Thirteenth district, Charles L. Conn (dem.) renominated.

W. W. Tracy, of Illinois, was reelected president of the National Republican league in session at Denver and A. B. Humphrey, of New York, was reelected secretary. The platform declares in favor of protection to American labor. American industries' and American homes, reciprocity with foreign nations, the use of gold and silver as money metals maintained on a perfect parity and interconvertibility, demands that new safeguards be incorporated in our immigration and naturalization laws, and commends to the favorable consideration of the republican clubs of the United States as a matter of education the question of granting suffrage to women. Pennsylvania democrats in convention at Harrisburg nominated William M. Singerly, of Philadelphia, for governor. The platform demands tariff reform and sound money. J. C. Bucher and 11. K. Sloane were nominated for congressmen-at-larse. lowa prohibitionists in convention at Des Moines nominated Rev. Bennett Mitchell for governor, C. H. Gordon for auditor, R. C. Moulton for treasurer, R. A. McGinniss for attorney general and J. H. Harvey for supreme court judge. The platform declares for an educational quali- j fication for suffrage, demands the bal- ' lot for women, direct taxation and free ! trade, gold, silver and paper currency on a per capita basis, abolition of the national banks, civil-service reform, liberal pensions and one day of rest in seven. >

The following congressional nomina tions were reported: Indiana, Eleventh district, (A. N. Martin (dem.); Twelfth, J. D. Leighty (rep.). Illinois, Twelfth district, Samuel Lerath (pop.). lowa, First district, S. M. Clark (rep.). Wisconsin, Eighth district, E. S. Miner (rep.). Ohio, Fourth district W. D. Davies (rep.); Seventeenth, A. D. Richards (dem.). Kentucky, Fourth district, J. W. Lewis (rep.). North Carolina; second district, G. H. White (rep.). ■ Michigan democrats in convention at Grand Rapids nominated the following ticket: For United States senator (long term), Edwin F. Uhl; for United States senator (short term), John Strong; for govern or, Spencer O. Fisher; lieutenant governor, Milton F. Jordan; secretary of state, Lewis E. Ireland; state treasurer, Otto C. Kerste; auditor, general, James O’Hara; land office commissioner, Peter Mulvaney; superintendent public instruction, Albert J. Jennings; member board education, Michael Devereaux. Wisconsin democrats will hold their state convention September sin Milwaukee. Vermont democrats met at Burlington and nominated G. W. Smith, of White River Junction, for governor. Mrs. Sallie Chapman Gordon-Law, known in the south as “the mother of the confederacy,” died at Memphis. Rear Admiral William Greenville Temple, U. S. N., retired, aged 70 years, died of apoplexy at Washington. James A. D. Richards was renominated for congress by the democrats of the Seventeenth Ohio district. The populists of the Sixth lowa district nominated Rev. J. M. Baugh, of Oskaloosa, for congress. James Lamont, of Rockford, was nominated for congress by the prohibitionists of the new Ninth district of Illinois.

FOREIGN. The trial of Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, of France, will commence July 23. M. Casimir-Perier, president of the chamber of deputies, was elected president of the republic of France at the palace of Versailles by the congress of both houses of parliament. Henri Rochefort says CasimirPerier’s election as president of France means civil war. London anarchists were charged by a crowd while denouncing royalty and fled for their lives. Daniel Shehan made a deathbed confession that he and not his brother, who is now in prison in London, attempted to blow up the parliamentary buildings in 1885. An agreement was made in Paris by which a new company having a capital of 60,000,000 francs will complete the Panama canal. The remains of the late President Carnot, of France, were deposited in the Pantheon after one of the most remarkable civic and military displays in the country’s history. Provisional President Dole was to be declared president of the Hawaiian republic without the formality of a vote in order to circumvent the royalists. As a.result of the assassination of President Carnot European governments will take united action against the anarchists. Signor Bandi. of Leghorn, Italy, was stabbed to death by an anarchist because of articles denunciatory of the fraternity which had appeared in his paper. Henry Thompson drowned himself at London, Ont., and Miss McKechnie, to wh"m he was engaged, took poison he had given her.

LATER. Numerous amendments to the tariff schedule were agreed to in the United States senate on the 2d, one being to make the repeal of the sugar bounty take immediate effect. A resolution was introduced for the appointment of a joint committee of the house and senate to inquire into the cause of the existing railway strike, but no action was taken. In the house a resolution was passed directing the commissioner of labor to investigate the question of the work and wages of women and children. Adjourned until the sth. A Canadian Pacific bridge went down near Greenville, Me., killing five persons and injuring eight. The public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt increased 8251,156 during the month of June. Ihe cash balance in the treasury was 8175,584,436. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $899,3>3,381, against 8838,969,476 on July 1, 1893. Four hundred men were killed in a battle between Circassian settlers and the Druses in Syria. During eleven months of the fiscal year ended May 31 the total number of immigrants arriving in the United States was 288,020, against 430,210 for the corresponding period of last year. Four churches at Greenville, Miss., were blown down by a tornado and several persons were killed.

The use of postal notes by the government has ceased and new forms of money orders were put on sale at the various post offices in the country. A placard found in Paris threatened President Casimir-Perier with death. The prohibitionists of the Thirteenth Ohio district nominated Dr. George W. Dunn, of Tiffin, for congress. The Vermont marble mills at Proctor, Vt., were partially burned, the loss being over 8300,000. The general situation in the railway strike showed little or no improvement on the 2d. Every railroad entering Chicago was crippled and on many of the trunk lines traffic was entirely suspended. Outside Chicago the situation in the west was practically unchanged. Troops were being moved to raise the blockade in many places. At a cabinet meeting in Washington it was decided that the government would take charge of the transportation problem, and Judges Woods and Grosscup, of the United States court in Chicago, issued a sweeoing order forbidding interference with railroads engaged in interstate commerce.