People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

important feitelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. After debate for three months ani one day Xhe tariff bill, amended to take effect August 1, 1894. passed th'* senate on the 3d by a vote of 4M to 39—e, strict party vote, except Mr. Hill, 'who voted with the repnbllcans against the measure The populists divided their strength, Kyle and Al fen voting in favor of the bill and and Stewart against It. The action®! the commiTtee of the whole in exempting the •salartos of United States judges and the president <f tlze United States frem the operation of the income tax was reversed. Adjourned to the 6th.... Th* hcusewas not in session. TKK senate was not in session on the SUL.... In the house the tariff bill f.s passed toy the senate was reported. A bill to subject to state taxation national bank notes and United States treasury notos wttc •discussed, tout no action was taken. Im the United no business of tm- : Bortance was transacted or., the 6th, and an adjournment was taken until the 9th....1n the •house the bill for the state taxation «f green- ■ hacks was passed by a large majority. The point of interest inthe day’s proceedings was the taking of thetariff bill from the -speaker's table and its reference to the committee on ways and means. Several unimportant • bills wdre passed The evening session was devoted to private pension bills. The senate was not in session on. the Tt.h.... In the house the senate amendments of the tariff bill were disagreed to and the measure sent to conference. On the Sth the naval appropriation bill was passed in the senate. Senator Peffer Introduced a resolution providing for government control of railways and mines, that wages of employes be regulated by law and paid promptly in money; and that all revenues of the government be raised by taxes on real estate.... District of Colombia affairs occupied the attention of the house. A bib ior an equalization of real estate values was passed.

DOMESTIC. Prendergast, the murderer of Carter H. Harrison, was found to be neither insane nor lunatic by a jury in Judge Payne’s court in Chicago and he will be executed on the 13th unless the governor interferes. The midwinter fair in San Francisco came to an end. Since the opening day, January 27, the total attendance was 2,140,154. Nearly the entire town of Hudson, Mass., was destroyed by fire, the loss being nearly 8750,000. An explosion of fireworks at New Haven, Conn., caused a loss of 8125,000 by fire among business houses. By the explosion of gasoline at Louisville, Ky., Henry Zimmerman was fatally hurt, his wife lost her life and their little boy was badly burned. Mrs. Maggie Brannum in a deathbed confession at Knoxville, Tenn., implicated four men in a murder and robbery that occurred four years ago. Fire originating in an explosion of fireworks destroyed the greater part of the town of Honey Grove, Tex., the loss being 8200,000. The jury in the Shea murder trial in Troy, N. Y., returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. Shea killed Robert Boss last election day. The village of Whittlesley, Wis., was completely wiped out by a forest fire. As a result of the increase in the tax on whisky Cincinnati distillers advanced the price of spirits three cents b gallon. In a dash at Paterson, N.. J., Fred Royce lowered thequarter-mile bicycle record to 29% seconds. At Jeffersonville, Ind., a drunken negro cut the throats of Emmons Endrich and. his wife, an aged couple Against whom he had a grudge. Albert Kent .and Mrs. Golden were drowned in the St. Joe river while rowing near Font Wayne, Ind. Col. James M. Van Hook shot and killed Anton Schaefer at Charleston, Ind., in a quarrel over a woman. In reply to a request from Gov. Altgeld that federal troops be recalled from Chicago President Cleveland said their presence was necsssary.

At Warrensburg, Mo., Lear Knobnoster, who had been separated from his wife for some time, went to her home and shot her and then shot himself. Seven of the world’s fair buildings in Chicago were destroyed by fire. David Anderson, a spectator, lost his life and others were seriously injured. Twenty-six persons started out from South Haven, Midi., on a small steamer for a three years’ trip around the world. In the music teachers’ national convention in New York Albert A. Stanley, of Ann Arbor, Mich.., .was elected ’ president. Samuel Coates and his 'daughter -Sarah were killed by the ears near New (London, la. In a quarrel at Sheboygan, Wis. ~Aug"ust Schulke and Frederick -.Gaul were fatally stabbed. ■At the internal revenue -office in Peoria, 111., the record for a single ■day 7 s business was broken, the .amount •f .whisky tax reaching $239,104).. “Sue exchanges at the leading clearingtoouses in the (United States during the szeek ended oat the 6th aggregated against $761,049,570 the previous week. Tllie decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, ®cas 19.2. Thes® were 164 iausiness failures iin *the Unjted States in the seven day's .ended the 6th. against 139 the week 2previou£*nd 319 in fibs- corresponding time in L*B»3. Twbkij- bridges neag Hot Springs, A D., were washed ar«y by a clouddxrst, and railroad tra-eks were badly <damaged. While playfing with a gaau a 3-year-*ehild of Benjamin Wyant, of Tiffin, 0., Mhot the top of its bead off. E®t.E Allen, of St. Paul, who killed I John D. Clapp in a quarrel over a vromafl. ended hk life by shooting himself at Lake Minnetonka. Lee Richardson, of Chicago, aged I*. rode * half mile backward ou a bicycle in2:43 1-5 at Fort Wayne, Ind., tte fastest time on record. : liWMiso miners at Spring Valley, • looted the company's store, carryW •<»/ * stock valued at fTi.OOO. I

Bradstreet’s reports business as partially paralyzed by the strikes. It was said that Knights of Labor were moving in the matter of securing the impeachment of Attorney General Olney for interference in the strike. James Allen (colored) was hanged in Upper Marlboro, Ind., for assaulting a girl living near Woodmore. .Torn Titsworth, a Green Ridge (Mo.) farmer, killed his wife hy firing four shots into her body, and immediate!}’ afterward blew his own brains out. It was estimated that 75 per cent, of Chicago's factories would have to close on account of the embargo on fuel and •supplies. Anticipating a spread of the strike to that city, New York police have been recalled from vacations and ordered to suppress any attempt at violence. Members of the American Railway union in Peoria, 111., where thirteen railroads center, have refused the order of President Debs to strike. John Gridley, of Milwaukee, aged about 14 years, was accidentally shot and instantly kilted at the bovs’ brigade camp on Beaver lake. Adolph Oremdorf, an insurance agent of Cincinnati, was lured into a house and fataffy assaulted by a colored family. Freight shipments eastward from Chicago during the week ended on the 7th were the smallest in thirty years—less than 12,000 tons of all kinds. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 7th were: Baltimore, .690; Boston, .683; New York, ,607; Philadelphia, .596; Brooklyn, .593; Pittsburgh, .571; Cleveland, .500; Cincinnati, .458; St. Louis, .422; Chicago, .339; Washington, .302: Louisville, .262. The railroad blockade was complete in California except a few points in the south and vast quantities of fruit were rotting. President Cleveland declared martial law iu Chicago. All good citizens were warned to keep off the streets, and all persons who take part in riotous assemblages were to be regarded as public enemies. A cloudburst at Conconully, Wash., destroyed nearly every building left standing after the disaster of last May. A' mob of foreign miners looted the stores at Spring Valley and Ladd, 111., whose proprietors refused to accede to their demands. Many of the residents fled to other cities. Fike iu the Phoenix building at Providence, 11. 1., did damage to the extent of SIOO,OOO. By a fall of coal in a slope of the Susquehanna Coal company mine at Nanticoke, Pa., three men were crushed to death. Col. George E. Gouraud sailed from New York for England with an invitation to Gladstone to visit America. Kelly’s eommonwealers who seized a freight train were captured by West Virginia militia at Kenova. Orders placing the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific and Central Pacific roads under military control and instructing commanding officers to use force to prevent interference with trains were issued by President Cleveland. Dr. Frederick A. Cook and his party of sixty excursionists sailed from New York on the Miranda for the polar regions. The factory of the Quick Meal Stove company at St. Louis was burned, the loss being $500,000. Four incendiary fires in the business part of Ogden, Utah, caused a loss oi 8100,000. In a factional fight at Catlettsburg, Ky., John and Ballard Faulkner (brothers) were killed and David and Charles Justice mortally wounded. Gustavus Peters and Clara Christopherson, a young couple of Racine, Wis., ended the>r lives with poison. They were engaged to be married, and no cause was known for the deed. Department Commander McDowell offered the services of the grand army veterans oi Illinois to Gov. Altgeld to aid in suppressing disorder. In Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and California railways were tied up by the strike. Seven valuable race horses were destroyed by a fire in the stables at the Mystic Park track in Boston. One, Narcissus, was valued at 820,000. A proclamation was issued by President Cleveland calling on persons obstructing traffic in far western states to cease their unlawful work. At Westville, 111., troops fired over ; the heads of riotous miners and killed ' two women and mortally wounded a man. I An insurrection in the prison at South ■ Boston, Mass., was suppressed only i after a volley had been fired by officers, j One convict was wounded. i At the request of Mayor Hopkins, Gov. Altgeld ordered twelve more companies of Illinois militia to Chicago. Committees representing the Chicago i council and trade and labor organizations failed in a last attempt to induce the Pullman company to agree to arbitration.

An attack on the town of Pullman was feared and the military authorities had laid plans accordingly. Many families had fled from the town. Riotous foreigners continued to ex<.cite terror at Spring Valley, 111., and ;fi,t other towns in the vicinity. Many , 'places of business were closed. i Secretary Herbert has ordered out I the entire naval force at Mare Island, : Call.. to assist in preventing rioting in San Three young ladies named Lizzie and Lena Breyfogle, daughters of exfienato- L. W. Breyfogle. and Miss Carrot, were killed by the cars near Lenexa, Kan. Thebe was no material change in Chicago ui the railway str.ke on the 9th. AH the lines were partially opened for traffic and passenger trains arrived and departed on every road entering the city. Rioting wis reported from various places near Chicago, and for the first time in its history the entire militia force of the state, numbering about 5.000 men, was ordered into active service. I

The 108th volume of the New York city directory gives that city a population of 1,937,055.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Wisconsin populists nominated a ticket headed, by D. Frank Powell, of La Crosse, for governor. The platform declares strikers and boycotts failures, and urges universal cooperation. Nebraska prohibitionists in convention at Lincoln nominated a full state ticket. E. A. Girard was named for governor. Ex-Gov. Edwin B. Winans, of Michigan, died from heart disease at his residence near Hamburg, aged 68 years. In the Nineteenth Illinois district the populists nominated Rev. H. M. Brooks for congress. James Sullivan, aged 41, political s editor of the Chicago Tribune, died suddenly in the parlors of the Newspaper club, of which ne was president Kansas democrats in sess ; on at Topeka put a full ticket in the field, headed by David Obermeyer, of Topeka, for governor. The Michigan populists in convention at Lansing placed a full ticket in the field, headed by Dr. A. W. Nicholls, of Montcalm, for governor. Edwin C. Bingham, of Cheshire, was nominated for governor by the Connecticut populists. Thomas Slant and Mrs. Elizabeth Eggman were married at Washington, 111., the groom being 82 and the bride 80. Each had been married twice before. Loren Fletcher was renominated for congress by the republicans of the Fifth Minnesota district.

FOREIGN. President Casimir-Perier’s message was read in both branches of the French parliament. He declared for a single term. Many lives were lost and great destruction of property caused by an earthquake at Yokohama and Tokio, Japan. A thousand rebels were killed in a battle with Brazilian government troops. A ferryboat which was crossing the River Thiess near Tokay, Hungary, was capsized and 100 persons were drowned. A fire destroyed over 1,000 houses in the village of Honmura, Japan. Newspapers in Rome disclose a plot by anarchists to destroy the heads of several European governments. The wholesale grocery firm of Eby, Blain & Co. at Toronto, Ont., which annually turned over 81,500,000 worth of business, was forced to wind up. Twelve thousand square meters of workshops at Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France, were destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to several million Francs. In the house of lords a bill was introduced calculated' to bar anarchists out of England. Ex-President Arce of Bolivia, was assassinated, and his body horribly mutilated by his murderers. The American schooner Henry L. Phillips was seized by the dominion authorities for alleged violation of the fishery treaty. A A. Zimmerman, the American wheelman, beat Edwards, the English rider, in two match races in Paris. In a twenty-four hour bicycle race at Putney, England. H. R. Carter, of London, won, covering 423 miles. Sixty persons were drowned by the sinking of the passenger steamer Vladimir in a collision off the Crimea. The town of Plunjan, Russia, was completely destroyed by fire. Three hundred and seventy-five houses were burned.

LATER. The railroad strike was discussed in the United States senate on the 10th and speeches were made in condemnation of riotous movements and anarchistic sentiment. The rost office appropriation bill and the Utah statehood bill were passed. In the house the bill opening for settlement the Uncqmpahgre and Uintah reservations in Utah was passed. It adds 3,u00,()00 acres to the public domain. The entire business portion of St. Clairsville, ()., was wiped out by fire. Eugene V. Debs, G. W. Howard, Sylvester Keliher and L. W. Rogers, officers of the American Railway union, were arrested in Chicago on indictments for conspiracy found by the federal grand jury. They gave bail for appearance for trial in October. One man was killed and two others fatally injured by the collapse of an overloaded wharf in Boston. General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor has telegraphed an appeal to the members of his organization in America imploring them to cease work immediately and to refuse to return to their places until the present railway strike has been settled. In Chicago it was thought that many trade unions would heed the appeal. Johnnie Wyler, aged 8 years, and Otto Winters, aged 5, were drowned while fishing near Kansas City, Mo. Escorted by a troop of cavalry, a company of infantry and a phalanx of police the first meat train in many days pulled out of the stockyards in Chicago. John Drake, of Anderson, Ind., ended an unhappy married lifq by fatally shooting his wife and blowing out his own brains. Great damage to property was done by two earthquake shocks in Constantinople and fifty or more persons were killed. In a race war at Harrisburg. Ark., several negroes were killed. After fourteen days of the great boycott against western railroads by the American Railway union there were signs of much improvement in the situation. In Chicago trains arrived and departed practically on schedme time from all stations. In St. Louis, Omaha and St. Paul the blockade was lifted, and in Indiana strikers were asking to be reinstated in their old places. In Sacramento, Cal., the strikers were in armed rebellion. Estimates show that the loss to business and the loss in wages of strikers aggregate thus far $28,000,000.