People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. IN the senate a resolution was passed on the 1st providing that the decision of the commissioners of immigration in regard to admission of aliens should be final .. The contested election of Moore against Funston, from the Second district of Kansas, occupied the time of the house, but no decision was reached. ON the 2d a bill was introduced in the senate by Senator Hill providing that no alien anarchists shall be permitted to land at any port of the United States. The house Hatch antioption bill was reported... In the house the army officer at Omaha who ordered target practice on Sunday was scored by Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. The contested election case of Moore vs. Funston was decided in favor of Moore. IN the senate the last of the appropriation bills, the deficiency, was passed on the 3d and the bills for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona to statehood were reported and placed on the calendar.... In the house a resolution was introduced by Mr. Bland (Mo.) to place all sugars on the free list and to raise $100,000,000 revenue by an income tax. A bill was introduced by Mr. Baker (Kan.) to establish reservoirs for the storage of rainwater for the tillable lands west of the 96th meridian, and Mr. Blair (N. H.) offered a resolution for the investigation of lynchings in this country in the past ten years. Adjourned to the 6th. IN the senate on 4th bills were passed to amend the quarantine regulations so far as they apply to vessels plying between United States ports and foreign ports on or near the frontier and to subject to state taxation national bank notes and United States treasury notes. On the 6th the bill for restricting immigration and for the deportation of anarchists was passed in the senate. A resolution affirming that taxes can only be rightfully imposed to raise revenue for support of the government was offered by Senator Mills.... In the house Mr. Richards (O.) introduced a bill providing that every session of the legislative body of the national congress shall be open to the public.

DOMESTIC. THE Baker City (Ore.) national bank suspended, owing depositors $75,000. THE treasury department monthly statement shows a decrease of $6,486,993 in the money circulation throughout the country during July. The total circulation of the country was placed at $1,657,574,239, a per capita of $24.19, against $1,611,099,017 a year ago. TWO FIREMEN were killed and five injured in a fire which destroyed the Mill building at Philadelphia. AFTER three months of idleness the miners at Streater and Braceville, Ill., decided to return to work. HENRY MUNSON and Lon Gordon, members of the Cook gang of Indian territory robbers, were killed by marshals at Salpulpa. BECAUSE it is not self-sustaining the Leadville branch, 324 miles long, will be abandoned by the Union Pacific road. ADDITIONAL claims for damages aggregating $55,000 against the city of Chicago on account of labor riots were filed. WITHOUT any rioting work was resumed in the repair department at Pullman. American Railway union men were not employed. BRUCE MILLER and the two sons of John Underwood were killed and two men injured by the explosion of a thrasher engine at Dahlgren, Ill. C. A. KELLAR, an organizer of the American Railway union, was arrested for conspiracy on complaint of Danville (Ill.) merchants. A FIRE that started in the lumber yard of Hunton, Myles & Weeks, in Detroit, caused a loss of $100,000, and Eugene McCarthy, a fireman, was killed. LAMOURE, a town in North Dakota, was practically wiped out by fire, the loss being $150,000. SENATORS in Washington suspected of having dabbled in sugar stock were exonerated by the investigating committee’s report. AT Waltham, Mass., Henry C. Tyler rode a mile, standing start, on a bicycle, in 1:57 3-5, making a new world’s record. FIRE detroyed the lumber yards of the John Spry company in Chicago, the loss being $100,000 and also a building occupied by manufacturers, who lost $125,000. THERE were 219 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 3d, against 249 the week previous and 436 in the corresponding time in 1893. FARMER CITY, Ill., was swept by flames, many business houses being burned. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 3d aggregated $764,890,968, against $770,418,388 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 21.3. AT Spencerport, N. Y., fire broke out in the residence of Cornelius Place and three of his sleeping boys were burned to death. FIRE started in a gas plant at Marion, Ia., destroyed a business block, entailing a loss of $120,000. WARD EBERLY, of Dayton, O., died suddenly from drinking lemonade. He was 17 years old and weighed 500 pounds. PART of a freight train on the Pennsylvania road was burned near Bucyrus, O., and four tramps who were stealing a ride were burned to death. GOVERNMENT officials were after New York counterfeiters who had issued $1,000,000 in bogus notes. ORANGE PAGE, the murderer of a negro woman more than 100 years old, was hanged for the crime at Raleigh, N. C. REV. J. M. CLEARY, of Minneapolis, was elected president of the Catholic Total Abstinence union at the annual meeting in St. Paul. AT the convention in Chicago of the American Railway union officials it was decided that they could not declare the strike off, and that such action must be taken by the local unions themselves on each line of road affected by the strike.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND set aside the court-martial sentence of Lieut. Maney for the shooting of Capt. Hedberg and restored him to command at Fort Sheridan, Ill. THIRTY-FIVE buildings, comprising the business portion of Lake View, Mich., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $130,000. HENRY DAHME shot and killed his sleeping wife in Chicago and inflicted wounds upon himself which resulted in death. THE Pullman Palace Car company announced that no labor agitators would be given employment in the shops. THE Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway shops were being removed from Brazil, Ind., because no protection was given non-union employes. A SAILBOAT in which were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Campbell, of Burlington, Ia., capsized in the Mississippi and they sank clasped in each other's arms. THREE Englishmen who indulged in derogatory remarks concerning America and Americans were soundly thrashed by "Uncle Billy” Shull, of Omaha. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 4th were: Boston, .647; Baltimore, .634; New York, .624; Cleveland, .578; Pittsburgh. .535; Philadelphia, .531; Brooklyn, .518; Cincinnati, .471; Chicago, .447; St. Louis, .411; Louisville, .345: Washington, .291. HENRY E. SMITH & CO., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes at Worcester, Mass., assigned, with liabilities of $200,000. CAPT. ADOLPH FREITSH sailed from New York in the Nina, a 40-foot boat, in which he proposed to cross the Atlantic. ACTUATED by jealousy, Mrs. F. J. Froman, at Buffalo, N. Y., threw sulphuric acid in the face of Miss Louise Leber, burning out her eyes. RAYMOND LEIMER, aged 59, father of twenty-nine children, twenty-three of whom are living, hanged himself at Danbury, Conn., in a fit of despondency.

THE Diamond Jo line at Dubuque, Ia., announced the withdrawal of all boats on account of low water. This is the shortest river season on record. OF the 988 deaths in New York city in seven days the unprecedented number of fifty-one were due directly to the heat. DELEGATES from twenty-four American Railway unions met in Chicago and declared the strike off on all roads but the Santa Fe and Eastern Illinois. WHEELMAN HARRY C. TYLER made a mile with flying start in 1:53 4-5 on the Waltham (Mass.) track, lowering the record a second. JOSEPH HUNT, of New York, killed his wife because she refused to permit him to pawn his clothes to buy liquor and then shot himself. THIEVES broke into the post office at Scranton. Pa., and stole $8,300 worth of stamps. MRS. GEORGE POOLE, who as Mme. Osborne had won operatic laurels, died penniless in New York, her wealthy husband having deserted her. MARK RICHARDSON, of the town of New Diggings, Wis., killed his brother George as the result of a ten years’ quarrel over their father’s estate. AN address to the voters of the United States was issued in Chicago by the A. R. U. It recites the inception and progress of the strike and appeals for the election of legislators pledged to the enactment of arbitration laws. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 6th was: Wheat 60,001,000 bushels; corn, 3,737,000 bushels; oats, 1,597,000 bushels; rye, 214,000 bushels; barley, 807,000 bushels. PETER WILLIAMS and wife, of Linwood, Ark., went to church, leaving two children locked up at home. The little ones burned the house and themselves. REV. J. H. PIERCE died at Trenton, N. J., after a prolonged attack of hiccoughs aged 56 years. JOHN and Charles Moore were drowned near Toronto, O. A FREIGHT train on the Oregon Railway & Navigation company’s line went through Alto bridge, falling 96 feet, and three men were fatally hurt. A GREAT crowd witnessed the start of the relay bicycle race from Washington to Denver. Messages are carried for Gov. Waite and Gen. McCook. IN the 2-year-old pace at Buffalo, N. Y., Carbonate forced Directly to pace a mile in 2:12, a new world’s record. EXTRA meetings were necessary to accommodate the crowds of visitors to the Moody conference at East Northfield, Mass. THE farmhouse of C. O. Ostenson near Willmar, Minn., was burned and he and his four children were cremated. A TRACTION engine on which Charles Hudson and Will Dandelien were riding broke through a bridge near Springfield, Ill., and the men were killed. CAPT. RICHARD D. BLINN, one of the country’s most noted race-track builders, died in Chicago. THE Gossard Investment company at Kansas City, Mo., failed for $200,000. MICHIGAN'S total tax levy for 1894 is $1,889,135, or $242,078 less than last year’s levy. GOV. CROUNSE, of Nebraska, was petitioned to convene the legislature that measures may be taken to relieve the people in the drought-stricken sections of the state. A RECEIVER was appointed for the Warren Live Stock company of Cheyenne, Wyo, The liabilities were stated at $200,000. FIRE destroyed $180,000 worth of property in St. Paul, the Northwestern Fuel company being the heaviest loser. THE total receipts from internal revenue since June 30, 1894, was stated at the treasury department in Washington to be $30,394,661. against $17,708,558 during the same period last year. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. CAPT. THOMAS C. FULLERTON, republican candidate for congress in the Eleventh district, died in a hotel at Fairbury, Ill., of heart disease. He was 55 years old and a veteran of the late war.

IN convention at Des Moines the Iowa democrats nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, Horatio F. Dale; state treasurer, L. W. White; auditor, John Whitfield; attorney general. J. D. F. Smith; railroad commissioner, W. L. Parker; justices of supreme court, John Cleggett and E. W. Mitchell: clerk of supreme court. L. R. North. The platform demands the election of United States senators by direct vote; favors liberal pensions; holds to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and favors a tariff for revenue only. CONGRESSIONAL nominations were reported as follows: Illinois, Eighteeth district, Rev. Thomas W. Hynes (pro.). Iowa, Tenth district, J. C. Baker (pop.). Indiana, Fourth district, James E. Watson (rep.). Tennessee, Fifth district, J. D. Richardson (dem ). Kentucky, Eighth district, Oswald Thomas (pop.). Texas, Eighth district, C. K. Bell (dem.). Idaho, James Gunn (pop.). Oklahoma, Joseph Wisby (dem.). REPUBLICANS of Wyoming in state convention ot Casper nominated W. A. Richards for governor and Frank Mondell for congress. POPULISTS of Idaho in session at Boise nominated K. J. W. Ballentine for governor. IN convention at Atlanta the Georgia democrats nominated W. Y. Atkinson for governor. Resolutions were adopted for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. NOMINATIONS for congress were made as follows: Ohio, Ninth district, Rev. George Candee (pop.) Illinois, Eighteenth district, Rev. T. W. Hynes (pro.). Nebraska, Sixth district, Matthew Dougherty (rep.) GEORGE INNES, of Mont Clair, N. J., the noted landscape painter, died while traveling for his health in Scotland, aged 69 years. THE following congressional nominations were made: Illinois, Seventh district, George E. Foss (rep.). Wisconsin, Second district, Charles Barwig (dem.) renominated. Minnesota, Fourth district, Edward J. Darragh (dem.). AUSTIN W. BLAIR, the war governor of Michigan, died at Jackson from uraemia, aged 76 years. Mr. Blair was governor from 1860 to 1864, and a member of congress from 1866 to 1872. FOREIGN. THE Japanese government has formally declared war against China. PARISIAN detectives found the $50,000 in gold stolen in transit from New York hidden in a coal heap at Havre station. DISPATCHES from Tien-Tsin say the Japanese were repulsed in the battle at Yashan with a loss of over 2,000 men. SANTO CASERIO, the assassin of President Carnot, was sentenced to death by the guillotine at Lyons. JAPANESE troops attacked the Chinese intrenched at Shan Yehn and drove them out after heavy fighting. GEN. CACERES, elected president of Peru in May, has assumed the duties of his office. INDIANS of Labrador were said to be in danger of extinction from starvation, owing to the scarcity of game and fur-bearing animals. A LONDON paper claims withdrawal of British capital from the United States is due to distrust of the country’s financial future. THE national pawn shop at Roubaix, France, was destroyed by fire, the loss being 2,000,000 francs. SHINICHIRO KURINO, chief of the diplomatic bureau of the department for foreign affairs of Japan, has been appointed minister to the United States. He studied at Harvard.

LATER. ONLY a short session of the United States senate was held on the 7th, the most important event being the pas sage of a resolution directing the president to take steps for the release of American citizens confined in the island of Cuba for participation in the recent rebellions. In the house a report was made from the judiciary committee against the admission of Japanese to citizenship. THE ninth anniversary of the death of Gen. U. S. Grant was observed at Mount McGregor, N. Y. GOVERNMENT reports showed that most northwestern states were still suffering from drought. All unhar vested crops had been injuriously affected. THE total of immigration from the port of New York during the month of July was 19,968. FOREST fires were still raging in northern Wisconsin, and great damage was being done to hay and cranberry marshes. TWENTY business buildings and three residences in the center of Adair, Ia., were burned, causing a loss of $152,000. HENRY F. JOHNSON, was hanged at Allentown, Pa., for the murder of his daughter, and Harry Manfredt was hanged at Pottsville, Pa., for the murder of George Ochs. THE “Lily White” republicans of Texas nominated a state ticket, headed by G. D. Smith for governor. IN the democratic caucus in Washington resolutions urging speedy action by the conferrees on the tariff bill were presented, but finally withdrawn. GREAT BRITAIN, in an extraordinary gazette, assumes a neutral position in the war between China and Japan. AN attempt to hold up a Lake Shore express train at Kessler, Ind., was foiled by the engineer, who ran his train through the obstruction at full speed. THE Citizens’ savings bank at Portsmouth, O., passed into the hands of a receiver. A MOB of French-Canadian Catholics wrecked the mission houses of the Baptist and Anglican churches and the Salvation Army barracks in Quebec. WILLIAM BEAM, a farmer near Bowling Green, O., was instantly killed by a bumble bee sting on the temple. THE fire loss of the United States and Canada during July aggregated the enormous sum of $16,307,000. For the fire seven months of 1894 the total was $77,920,200.