People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

* Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Us tire senate eo the 18th a bill was passed to Veeerve (or ten years In each of several states X;0*6,000 acres of arid lands to be reclaimed «nd sold in small tracts to actual setters, and the Indian appropriation bill was farther considered....ln the house bills were ‘ passed to regulate enlistments in the army; to authorize the board of managers of the soldiers’ home to transfer and maintain the inmates of any branch in case of emergency; to place MaJ. Gen. John L. Green on the retired list. On the 19th the senate agreed to the confer<ence report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and passed the Indian appropriation bill The house message on the tariff "bill was laid on the table.... In the house the tariff bill was sent back to conference with instructions to the conferrees to stand Arm against the amendments which the senate placed upon the bill. During the debate a letter was read from the president favoring the bouse bill. In the senate a lively debate took place on the 20th over the tariff bill. Senator Smith (N.. J.) spoke for the senate bill, Senator Hill (N. Y.) indorsed the president’s letter to Mr. Wilson and Senator Vest (Mo.) said the •mended bill would pass or none other. Adjourned to the 28d.... In the house a bill was passed whleh provides that consuls shall examine immigrants before they are admitted to the United States. The night session was devoted to pension business. Thu senate was not in session on the 215 t.... In the house a resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution providing for the election of senators by the direct vote of the people was passed by a two-thirds majority. The senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bills were disagreed to and conferrees appointed. A petition from residents of Des Moines. la.. asking for the impeachment ot Attorney General Olne.v was presented. Senator Gorman (dem., Md.) in a speech In the senate on the 23d which occupied three hours in delivering, charged the president with duplicity in connection with the tariff hill and three of his associates testified to the truth of his charges.... In the house no quorum was present and no business was transacted.

DOMESTIC. Wilmore, a small town in Jessamine county, Ky., was badly damaged by a cyclone and at least a dozen people were injured. At Minneapolis the new Central market building was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $500,000. Thirty horses and thousands of fowls lost their lives in the conflagration. One hundred strikers charged with participation in the riot at the Pratt mines, Inhere seven negroes and deputies were slaughtered, were in jail at Birmingham, Ala. Charles S. Weaver, of Chicago, representing the Kittson estate, bought the St. Paul Globe at auction, paving $65,000. Senator Hill, of New York, has been informed the possibilities of revenue from the income tax are from $12,000,000 to $39,000,000. At Duncombe, la.. Kilby and Lyon, the Ottumwa senior double, broke all state regatta records, rowing over the course in B:o6}^. Swindlers Bold to the First national bank of Albuquerque, N. M., a supposed gold brick, weighing 666 ounces, which was found to be copper. Lord Clinton won the free-for-all trot at Detroit in 2:09, making a new record for geldings. Wheat touched 54 %c, the lowest price for cash ever made in Chicago. Toledo and Detroit closed l%c under Chicago. Near Hudson, 0., the boiler of a thrasher engine exploded, killing one man, fatally injuring two others and destroying much property. Three miners were killed and two others badly injured by an accident to a hoisting car at Williamstown, Pa. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated $857,811,437, against $885,645,777, the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 15.5. Howling mobs pursued the people employed in the laundry at Pullman to their homes and one ‘ girl was very roughly handled. Through the carelessness of a barber .fire was started which destroyed thirty-three business houses at El Paso, 111., causing a loss of $250,000. Fire destroyed the business portion «f Somerset, a village in Indiana. There were 236 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 20th, against 237 the week previous and 467 in the corresponding time in 1893.

Woixiam VYaitk, aged 40, of Chesterfield, Ind., was found leaning against a tree dead. He had been there thirty--43 ix hours. By .the wrecking of an excursion train near Oakland City, Ind., one man was killed and three others fatally injured. Dun’s review of trade says business is still paralyzed throughout the country by the recent great railway strike and slow work in congress. Gov. Autoeld inspected the Chicago atoek yards district and ordered the troops kept in the vicinity indefinitely. Trains on the various railwaj’s were Tanning as usual The drought in several .western atates, which was threatening the deatruetion of crops, was broken by a general rain. At Ogden’s grove, in Chicago, memfcers of labor organizations hissed the name of President Cleveland and firaisad Debs and his officers. Six Coxeyites were arrested for begging bread in the cicy of Washington. Hanger has mude the commonwealers desperate. Capt. John Cbaxgle, a lake navigator, shot his wife twice and then killed himself at Bacine, Wis. He was insane from sll health. Twenty-five families were rendered homeless by fire in the thickly settled tenment district of Newark, N. J. At the Y. M. C. A. bicycle meet in Jamestown, N. Y., A. B. Goehler, of Buffalo, broke the American 5-mile Mcord, winning the race in 12:31.

A riBE in Birmingham, Ala., destroyed property valued at $600,000. Petek Davis, Dan Washington and Charles Ezell (all colored) were hanged on the same scaffold at Montgomery, Ala., for murder. Owing to the hard times over 6,000 foreigners, principally Italians, Slava and Hungarians, have left Cleveland, 0., for Europe. In an address at a picnic of the people’s party of New York “Gen.” Coxey urged the sending of all idle men to Washington, to be provided for. John F. Wabneb, the young man who left Chicago January 23 to make the circle of the globe without a dollar to pay his way, accomplished the task in less than six months. A cloudbubst in the mountains of the Prieta district, southwest of Saltillo, Mexico, washed hoases away and drowned fifteen men. A new counterfeit S2O national bank note was discovered on the national bank of Barre, Vt. Refused food by the residents of Fremont, 0., Count Rybalkowski’s Polish commonwealers set fire to the county fair buildings. A confebence of bimetallists has been called to meet in Washington August 16 to consider plans to bring about a change m the government’s monetary policy. ' W. J. Mabtin, a Muncie (Ind.) glass worker, drank two gallons of water on a wager and died two hours later. The schooner Golden Rule, from the West Indies for Boston, was wrecked and her crew of seven was lost. Col. Bbeckinkidge’s name is missing from the newly printed list of members of Lexington (Ky.) lodge of freemasons. William II a tin fatally wounded Mrs. Matilda Schatzhubqr and then killed himself in the saloon owned by the weman’s husband in Chicago. An appeal for the support of the public in the fight with the Pullman company was issued by the officers of the A. R. U. Thomas Brown, a Coal City (Ill.) miner, shot and instantly killed his wife and then killed himself. Jealousy was the causse.

The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended or the 21st were: Baltimore, .667; Boston, .662; New York, .597: Cleveland, .663; Brooklyn, .559; Philadelphia, .537; Pittsburgh, .526; Cincinnati, .479; St. Louis, .434; Chicago, .403; Louisville. .324; Washington, .270. Directors Doyle, Goodwin, Hogan, Elliot, MeVean and Burns of the American Railway union were arrested in Chicago on indictments found by the federal grand jury. The mediation committee of the Sacramento (Cal.) A. It. U. declared the strike off unconditi nally. A violent rain and hailstorm swept Niagara county, N. Y., and did damage which would probably exceed sl,000,000. The James D. Avery mansion, which was associated intimately with the colonial period of American history, was burned at Groton, Conn. It was built more than 250 years ago. Casimiro Areno shot and killed his wife and her paramour, Refugio Ortiz, at Antonito, Col. Strikers prevented the reopening of the Allen paper car wheel works at Pullman by threatening the lives of the employes if they deserted the ranks. Forty-nine employes of the Great Northern road were arraigned in the United States court at Minneapolis, Minn., charged with conspiracy and interfering with the mails. A bomr was exploded upder the home of a nonunion workman in Dunbar, Pa., wrecking it, but none of the family was injured. The striking railroad employes at Portland, Ore., formally declared the strike off. A heroic statue of John A. Logan was unveiled in the soldiers’ home at Hot Springs by the South Dakota Memorial association.

At Burney’s Station, Ind., George Herron, the keeper of a “quart shop.” was taken from his bed by masked men and given fifty-three lashes with a beech gad. Deputy marshals, backed by federal troops, arrested 200 residents of Pond Creek, O. T., for train wrecking. Mr. and Mrs J. W. Edwards and son and a book agent whose name was unknown were drowned in Otsego lake near Cooperstown, N. Y., by the capsizing of a boat. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, issued a proclamation declaring the liquor dispensary law to be in full force.

Eugene V. Debs and nine other members of the American Railway union were held for trial on charge of conspiracy by Commissioner Bloodgood at Milwaukee. A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl, 7 feet and 3 inches tall, died of consumption at her home near Fort Wayne, Ind. The gold reserve in the treasury on the 23d was $60,000,000, the lowest on record. Seven men were killed in ahead-end collision between cannon-ball trains on the Texas Pacific near Queen City, Tex. Michael L. Doyle, dry goods dealer in New York, failed for SIOO,OOO. The Rosebud mill at Cripple Creek, Col., one of the most complete gold ore reduction plants in the country, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000. Three persons were killed and fifteen injured in a collision on the Big Four at Griffiths Station, 0., due to an engineer’s forgetfulness.

Polish commomvcalers demanded food in Clyde, 0., and were driven from town by the local military company. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Nominations for congress were made as follows: lowa, Sixth district, John F. Lacey (rep.), renominated; Seventh, J. R. Barcroft (pop.); Ninth, A. L. .Hager (rep.). Illinois, Fifteenth district. Truman Plantz (dem.). Indiana, Tenth district, Valentine Zimmerman (dem.). KaDßas, Second district, 11. L. Moore (dem.). Kentucky, Third district, C. A. McElroy (dem.). J

In state convention at Boston the people’s party nominated George H. Cary, of Lyn n, for governor. The platform demands the abolition of all banks of issue and the establishment of postal savings banks, an eight-hoar working day, universal suffrage and a graduated income tax. Congressional nominations were made as follows: Illinois, Eleventh district, T. C. Fullerton (rep.). Arkansas, Fifth district, John C. Peel (pop.); Sixth, A. T. Tanner (pop.). Wisconsin, Seventh district, George B. Shaw (rep.) renominated. Maryland, Seventh district, G. P. Tippin (pop.). Missouri, Fifteenth district, C. A. Burton (rep.). North Carolina, Third district, J. G. Shaw (dem.). The Minnesota prohibitionists in convention at St. Paul nominated a state ticket with H. S. Ilillebee, of Wilmar, for governor. The platform, besides the usual prohibition planks, declares in favor of retaliatory tariff reform, with the question of revenue simply, incidental thereto. Richard R. Pearce, father of seventeen children, and the oldest man in Rock Island county, died at Moline, 111., aged 95 years. Congressman Breckinridge, of Arkansas, has been appointed to succeed Minister White at St Petersburg, Russia.

In convention at Grand Forks the North Dakota republicans nominated Roger Allin for governor and M. U. Johnson for congress. The platform declares in favor of woman suffrage and favors both gold and silver. The following congressional nominations were reported; Wisconsin, Third district, J. W. Babcock (rep.) renominated; Sixth, Samuel A. Cook (rep.). Missouri, Twelfth district, N. O. Nelson (single tax); Fourteenth, Norman A. Mosley (rep.). Arkansas, Second district, J. A. Norris (pop.). The populists in state convention at Little Rock, Ark., nominated D. E. Barker for governor. James R. Godefroy, the last chief of the Miami tribe of Indians, died at his home near Fort Wayne, Ind. George E. White was nominated for congress by the Fifth district republican convention in Chicago. Frederick F. Low, governor of California from 1803 to 1807, died at San Francisco, aged 66 years. J. G. Cannon was renominated for congress by the republicans of the Twelfth Illinois district.

FOREIGN. Advices from Honolulu announce that the Hawaiian islands have been declared a republic with Sanford B Dole as president. John H. Chapman, of Chicago, was reelected president of the Baptist Young People’s union at the annual meeting in Toronto. Officers investigating govermental accounts in Salvador state that Ezeta and his assistants left a shortage of $10,000,000. The spread of cholera was assuming alarming proportions at St. Petersburg, Russia, the deaths numbering 100 daily. Over a thousand persons are now known to have lost their lives in the recent earthquakes in Turkey. It was rumored in Shanghai that war had been declared between China and Japan and that both nations were hurrying troops to Corea. A drought which had prevailed for five years and caused the loss of many cattle in the vicinity of Durango, Mexico, was broken by a heavy rain. Storms and floods in Western India caused much damage to the crops and many lives were lost.

LATER, There was no cnange in the tariff situation in the United States senate on the 24th. Discussion of the conference report was resumed, and Senator Hill (N. Y.) devoted more than two hours to a defense of the president in reply to Senator Gorman’s attack of the previous day. In the house a bill was passed for the reinstatement of clerks dismissed from the railway mail sei rice oetween March 15 and May 1, 1889. Mr. Harter (O.) introduced a compromise tariff bill. Three men and a boy were killed by the caving walls of a cesspool they were cleaning at Winona, Minn. Samuel Mills, of Johnstown, N. Y., shot his wife in a fit of jealousy and then himself. They leave six small children. Marsan & Brosseau, Montreal hay shippers, failed for $200,000. Incendiaries saturated thirty residences in Jeffersonville, Ind., with oil and set fire to one of them in an attempt to burn the city. Actual hostilities were reported to have been begun in the dispute between China and Japan. According to government reports corn in low-a, Minnesota and the Dakotas was perishing owing to the lack of rain.

Frank Matchicz, Michael Delenneg and Charles Drewiacz were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Plymouth, Pa., by a boat capsizing. Fire started from a locomotive spark, destroyed the business portion of Chenoa, 111., entailing a loss of $500,000. One hundred horses were cremated by a fire which destroyed the stables of the Knox Transfer and Adams Expres companies in Washington. Three men were killed and two others seriously injured by the breaking of an elevator drum in a New York brewery. In discussing the Hawaiian question the president’s cabinet concluded that the new government must be recognized. Seven of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Kruse, of Humboldt, S. D., died of diphtheria. After hearing all the arguments advanced by both sides Judges Woods and Grosscup decided in Chicago that the contempt proceedings against E. V. Debs and others of the American Railway union were in the nature of proceedings in equity and that therefore the defendants could not be discharged on their denial of the charge*, but must stand triaL