People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Part*. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. ©N the 11th the senate adopted Senator Daniel's resolution commending the course of the president In the railway strike and denouncing as treason the acts of the men who were practically levying war against the United States. An amendment favoring arbitration was defeated by a vote of 11 to 35. The diplomatic and consular, the invalid pension and the military academy appropriation bills were passed. ....In the house the land grant forfeiture bill arss passed. The measure will restore 54,000,•800 aores to the public domain. Ik the senate the army and the fortifications j»ppropriation bills were passed on the 12th «hd some progress was made on the river and harbor bi 11.... In the house the senate amendments to the bill for the admission of Utah as a state were agreed to. This passes the bill and it goes to the president. On the 18th the river and harbor appropriation bill and a bill for the construction of a Thridge across the Mississippi river at Dubuque, jla., were passed In the senate.... In the house ♦he report of the conferrees on the pension appropriation bill was agreed to. The evening aession was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. In the senate on the 14th the time was occupied in discussing the legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bi 11.... In the house a bill was introduced providing for a national ■board of arbitration to be appointed by the president to settle disputes. A bill to create a retired list for officers of the revenue marine service was discussed and eulogies of the late G. W. Houk, of Ohio, we e pronounced. On the 16th the legislative, executive and judicial and the District of Columbia appropriation bills were passed In the senate and •the agricultural appropriation bill was considered .... In the house a resolution was adopted indorsing the action of the president and the administration in suppressing lawlessness In connection with the railway strike. The Bailey bankruptcy bill was considered.

DOMESTIC. Publishers of tlie city directory for 1894, which was being distributed, estimated Chicag'o’s population at 1,685,©OO persons. At Brazil, Ind., four men and boys were found guilty of murdering Engineer Barr and were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each. At a meeting of laboring men in ■New York Henry George made a bitter attack on President Cleveland for sending federal troops into Illinois. Winfred Smith, a wealthy young man, cut the throat of Western B. Thomas, a prominent man of Anderson, Ind., at Brighton Beach, a resort near Indianapolis. President Cleveland, it was said, would appoint a committee to inquire Into the railway strike and recommend Snethods for settling it. Mike Stapleton, aged 30 years, committed suicide at Lenoir, N. C., by drinking seventeen bottles of Jamaica ginger. Railroad managers report an unusually large corn crop everywhere. It will require two years to move it to market.

At New Haven, Conn., Frank A. Dame, a painter, shot Miss Mary G. Perry because she refused to marry turn and then killed himself. Chicago workmen were slow to respond to the order fora general strike, less than 16,000 in all having quit work. Alien miners near Uniontown, Pa., ■threatened to kill the imported negro laborers and a general uprising was feared. At Asbury Park. N. J., the National Educational association elected Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, professor of philosophy in Columbia college, as president. The cost to the United States of putting down the railway strike in the west was estimated by government officials at fully 81,000,000. L. D. Alexander & Co., commission merchants in New York, failed, with liabilities of §200,000 and assets of $50,©OO less. Thirty evangelical denominations were represented in the Christian Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O. The attendance was very large. It was estimated that thousands of acres of grain in Minnesota and the Dakotas had been ruined by excessive beat. In a collision of freight trains near Chicago two deputy United States marshals were killed and two others seriously hurt.

Fire almost entirely destroyed the Tillage of Edon, an Ohio town of 800 inhabitants. Eighty buildings were burned. There were 237 business failures in the United States in the seven days «nded on the 18th, against 164 the week previous and 374 in the corresponding time in 1893. The Great Northern Express company was robbed of $511,600 at Wickes, Mont. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 13th aggregated <885,545,777, against $852,566,087 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1898, was 11.7. The Kentucky state treasury was announced to be bankrupt and payment was refused on all warrants. Patrick Eugene Prendergast was banged in Chicago for the murder of Carter H. Harrison on the night of October 28 last; Tom and Calvin Corley, -brothers, who slew a Jewish peddler! were hanged at Louisburg, N. C.; Richard Pierce, a wife murderer, paid the extreme penalty at Cape May. N. J.; Jim Galloway and Joe Woodley, who billed Ed Grant, were executed at Montgomery, Ala.; Robert A. Anderson was hanged at Livingston, Mont., for murdering Emanuel Fleming, and John H. Osneswas hanged at Fort Renton, Mont., for the murder of Ole Lilledall. Herbert and Arthur Rudd, young m>ns of J. J. Budd, were drowned while swimming in the river at Burlington, la. Masked men took a negro named "William Bell, alias Drew, from his borne near Clarksville, Tenn., and rid4!ed him with bullets for burning <barns.

The executive committee of the American Federation of Labor and the representatives of other national organizations in session in Chicago decided against ordering a general strike in support of the American Railway union. The conference also decided against local sympathetic strikes by the trades unions, and requested the members of the organizations already out to return to their places. George M. Pullman raa ie public a statement in New York in which he explained his refusal to arbitrate difficulties with his employes, fie said he was running his shops at a loss and merely for the benefit of his men, and because they were refused more money they struck. E. V. Debs, president of the American Railway union, addressed to the General Managers’ association in Chicago a proposition that he would declare the strike off if the roads would take back into their employ the men on strike, except those who engaged in violations of the law. The railway managers decided that as they had never recognized Debs they could not take any notice of his communication. They also announced that they would manage their properties hereafter independent of labor unions. Thirteen men, including an aiderman and superintendent of the waterworks, were arrested at Ladd, 111., for conspiracy and burglary. New Berlin, a thrifty Illinois village, was almost destroyed by fire, which was attributed to burglars.

Agitator Phelan, who interfered with trains at Cincinnati, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by a federal judge. Judge Barrett, of New York, granted an order admitting Erastus Wiraan to $30,000 bail. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended or the 14th were: Baltimore, .672; Boston, .667; New York, .597: Pittsburgh, .565; Brooklyn, .556; Philadelphia, .548; Cleveland, .538; Cincinnati, .470; St. Louis, .429; Chicago, .373; Louisville. .328: Washington, .275. Two children of Charles Carlston, one 6 and the other 4 years old, were killed by a passenger train at Bordentovvn, N. J. Prairie fires in South Dakota on the ceded lands burned over a tract 50 by 90 miles and the Russian settlement on Yellow Medicine creek was wiped out.

The wife and four children of William Trusty were drowned at Lead Hill. Ark. Satisfied that the strike was over the General Managers’ association adjourned sine die in Chicago after auditing a number of bills. It was estimated that the strike cost the railroad companies in Chicago alone from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000. The president of the American Railway union declared that the strike was still on and that soon the railways would be tied up again. In her trial trip at Boston the cruiser Minneapolis made 28.05 knots an hour, breaking all records and earning a premium of $400,000 for her builders. Forest fires did great damage in the vicinity of Bradford, Pa., several million feet of hemlock being burned. A marshal’s posse overtook Longview bank robbers at Eagle Town, I. T., and three of the band were killed. The safe, containing $12,000, stolen from the Great Northern Express company was found in the bed of a mountain creek near Wickes, Mont. The exports of merchandise for the year ended June 30 were $892,111,280 and the imports were $654,835,873. At Waltham, Mass., Julian P. Bliss lowered the mile bicycle record to 1:54 4-5 with flying start, and 2:00 with standing start. The homes of James Butler and John Carter at Steelton, Pa., were wrecked by dynamite. They had taken the places of men on strike. Mail from the east which had been delayed for seven days reached San Francisco by way of Seattle. Animated by jealousy Robert Logan shot and killed Dan Lordock and Fred Sullivan in a stage coach in Nevada, and was in turn killed by his wife, whose life he had threatened. Commonweal b:rs encamped in the vicinity of Washington were in dire straits for food and desertions were daily taking place. An area of more than 5,000 acres in the vicinity of Egg Ilarbor, N. J., was swept by forest fires. It was believed that congress would adjourn not later than August 11. All important legislation, with the exception of the tariff, was out of the way. S. M. Walker and his two sons were drowned near Burlington, la., while bathing. Twenty dwellings were destroyed by fire in San Francisco and two little sons of E. Leidecker were burned to death.

The president of the American Railway union said on the 16th that he would not concede that the strike was lost at Chicago, and that it would be carried on with renewed vigor at points west of the Mississippi river. The railway managers announced that all trains w’ere running on schedule time. By an explosion in Chicago of an ammunition chest belonging to battery F of the Second artillery from Fort Riley, Kan., four soldiers were instantly killed, eighteen other people. soldiers, and spectators, were wounded and nine artillery horses were killed. Edwin Tkaughbeb (colored) was lynched by a mob near Adairville, Ky. The cause was unknown. Rkckiveus were appointed for the umbrella trust by Judge Gildersleeve, of New York, the liabilities being estimated at $1,200,000. Sevi,n men Were killed and a score wounded as the result of an attack by strikers on colored miners at Pratt's. Ala. Miscreants loosened a rail on the Grand Trunk at Battle Creek, Mich., wrecking the Atlantic express, and the fireman was killed aud fourteen persons were injured. Richard W. Woodward, of Marshalltown, Pa., claims to be heir to property in the heart of New York city worth $400,000,000.^

Count Rybtlowski's 1 oli ,h commonwealers were expelled from Toledo, 0., by the authorities, aud on returning were put in jail. Mbs. Polly Hoch, aged 82, was burned to death while smoking a pipe at her home in Winamac, Ind. The Chippewa Indians at a grand pow-wow held near Fond du Lac, Wis., chose Aunimosson to be head chief of all the Chippewas. A bolt of lightning struck the steamship Mexico at Algiers, La., and injured twelve persons besides killing Peter Thompson. Steamship agents in New York say the steerage rate war now on has created a rush of foreigners to their homes and the labor market will thus be relieved. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Nominations for congress were made as follows: Ohio, Fifth district, J. L. Snook (dem.); Sixth, J. L. Stevens (dem.); Twentieth, C. B. Beach (rep.). Indiana, Third district, S. M. Stockslager (dem.). Georgia, Third district, Charles F. Crisp (dem.), renominated. Mississippi, Third district, T. C. Catchings (dem.), renominated. George R. Graham, founder of Graham’s Magazine, died at Orange, N. J., at the age of 81 years. John Comby Birdsell, Sr., of South Bend, Ind., inventor of the clover huller, died at New Carlisle, Ind., where he was visiting, aged 79 years. Col. V. W. Warner, of Clinton, was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Thirteenth Illinois district on the 620th ballot. Tiie prohibitionists in state convention at Weirs, N. H., nominated Rev. D. C. Knowles,' treasurer of Tilton seminary, for governor, and Dr. Edgar L. Carr, of Pittsfield, and David fieald, of Milford, for congress. Nathaniel D. Wallace, of New Orleans, a member of congress in 1886-’B7 from the Second Louisiana district, died at Asheville, N. C., aged 48 years. South Dakota prohibitionists put a ticket in the field headed by M. D, Alexander for governor.

FOREIGN. Fire destroyed 400 houses at Lovete, Hungary, and six persons perished. The Palais d’Ete theater, recently opened in Brussels, was destroyed by fire, the loss being 1,000,000 francs. Miss Marie Schroeder, daughter of an American millionaire, was married to Count Pompeo Fieri at Rome. Twenty Spanish fishing boats out during a recent storm were missing, and seventeen men were known to have perished. Fears were entertained that Explorer Wellman and his polar expedition party had been lost in the ice above Spitzbergen. Thirteen men and women working in a field at Delno, Prussia, were killed by lightning. The spread of cholera was causing alarm in Germany and strict measures were being taken at the frontiers to keep out the pest. The recent earthquake shocks near Constantinople killed over 200 persons and damaged property to the extentof $25,000,000 Two Mexicans so fiercely resisted arrest at El Paso, Tex., that Sheriff T. A Bendy was compelled to kill them. Viceroy Chang Ghismung’s new gun factory at Ilansan. China, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of over j a million taels. | The cholera epidemic was assuming alarming proportions in Russia, the present visitation being of a much more intense and fatal character than were the outbreaks of the two previi ous years. LATER. Senator George introduced a joint resolution in the United States senate on the 17th for an amendment to the constitution providing that eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s work for persons doing manual labor. The agricultural appropriation bill was discussed and an amendment appropriating $1,000,000 for the destruction of the Russian thistle was adopted. In the house the Bailey voluntary banki ruptcy bill was passed and the remainder of the day was devoted to business reported from the judiciary : committee. j The New York constitute ' convention decided by a vote of , to to let the present jury system sta ~d. j A Northern Pacific locomotive attached to a passenger train was j wrecked near Missoula, Mont., by dynamite, which had been placed on the track. Three railroad bridges were also burned. | Crops were in need of rain throughout the northern states. In lowa and Wisconsin corn was in a critical condition.

| Three sisters, Emma Faber, aged 20; Mary Faber, aged 18, and Dorothy Faber, aged 4, were drowned while bathing near Nananimo, B. C. Forest fires in New Jersey obliterated the village of Greenbush. The residents, aware of their danger, had driven their stock to a place of safety. Oscar E. Varda man, a Chicago stock yards engineer, was attacked by strikers and fired into their midst, fatally wounding Albert Miles. Dynamite, which was being dealt out in a mine at Stockton, Pa., exploded, tearing eight men to pieces. President Debs, Vice President Howard and Director Rogers, of the A. R. U., were arrainged for contempt in violating an injunction of the federal court in Chicago and committed to jail in default of bail. A break in the ranks of the Pullman strikers was reported, 150 track graders being put to work at their request. I The following' congressional nominations were reported: Illinois, Eleventh district, R. R. Gibbons (dem.) Fourteenth, J. V. Graff (rep.). Fifteenth, Col. B. F. Marsh (rep.), renominated; Twentieth, Rev, W. C. Willey (pro.). Ohio. Twelfth district, D. K. Watson (rep.); Seventeenth, A. S. McClure (rep.). Kansas, Fourth district, T. J. O’Neal (dem.) Missouri, Fourth district, W. S Messener (pop.). Indiana. Tenth district, William Johnson (rep.). Georgia, ‘ First district, R. E. Lester (dem.)