People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. In the senate on the 15th the conference report on the civil service bill was presented and adopted. A letter was read from Secretary Carlisle in regard to the four pending bills— free iron, coal, sugar and barbed wire—declaring that if the four bills became laws there would be a deficit at the end of the present fiscal year of about $30,000,000, of which over $28,000,000 would be caused by the free sugar bill alone....In the house no business of importance was transacted beyond the introduction of a resolution by Gen. Black in regard to silver coinage, who asked for unanimous consent for its immediate adoption, but it was referred to the committee. IN the senate on the 16th a joint congratulatory resolution from the United States to Hawaii was adopted. Tariff bills relating to sugar and other articles in dispute were referred to a committee, and Senator Hill's measure providing for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists was passed without division....In the house there was but a bare quorum present. The deficiency appropriation bill was further considered, as also was the silver coinage resolution. IN the senate on the 17th a motion was made to appoint Senator White to the vacancy on the finance committee caused by the death of Senator Vance. Senator Murphy was also put in nomination, but under the rules the nomina tions went over. The conference report on the deficiency bill was submitted....There was hardly a quorum in the house, as members were anxious to get away and were leaving on every train. No business of importance was transacted. IN the senate on the 18th it was decided that there should be no further legislation over which there is a contest at this session of congress. The resolution to appoint Senator White to the vacancy on the finance committee was adopted. A resolution was adopted to instruct the finance committee to report back an amendment to the free sugar bill providing for the McKinley bounty on raw domestic sugars. After the passage of the bill for the relief of the Oklahoma settlers, the seriate adjourned ....The house was in session but a short time, no business of importance being transacted. IN the senate on the 20th the amended sugar bill and the coal, iron ore and barbed wire bills were reported. The bills placing wool, coal and iron on the free list were ordered placed on the calendar. The senate then went into executive session, but owing to a lack of a quorum adjourned until the 22d....No quorum could be got together in the house, consequently no session was held.

DOMESTIC. REPORTS to the director of the mint show that since July 1 the number of silver dollars coined amounted to 833,000, of which 410,000 were coined since August 1. INTERESTING memorial services were held at the old homestead of William Cullen Bryant at Cammington, Mass. Letters were read from a large number of literary people. THE northwestern interstate fair— which includes the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska—was dedicated with appropriate cremonies at Tacoma. J. M. LOGGAN, a notorious incendiary, who has destroyed property worth thousands of dollars, was arrested at Kansas City. FOUR Detroit (Mich.) school inspectors, charged by Mayor Pingree with having received bribes, were put under bonds of $5,000 each. ALDACE F. WALKER was appointed receiver of the Santa Fe road in the place of President J. W. Reinhart, who recently resigned. RESIDENTS of Buffalo, N. Y., saw the City of Toronto, 56 miles distant, pictured in a remarkable mirage of the third order. CHARLES GEORGET, an engineer of Hoboken, has discovered old deeds entitling him to valuable real estate in St. Louis. HEIRS of Richard Bishop in Pittsburgh will lay claim to ten acres in the heart of Indianapolis, Ind., worth $2,000,000. CHRISTOPHER BERNHARDT, of Buffalo, N. Y., aged 87, despondent over the loss of his wife, committed suicide at her grave. AT the joint convention of the populist and labor parties at Columbus, O., a state ticket was nominated headed by Charles R. Martin for secretary of state. TITUS broke two world's competitive bicycie records at Denver, riding a mile in 2:10 3-5 and five miles in 12:19. A COTTON expert estimates, after a trip over the entire state, that the crop in Texas will be about 2,500,000 bales, or one-half million bales over last year. DR. JOHN SEATON, one of the most prominent physicians and specialists of Indiana, was found dead in bed at his home at Fort Wayne. BANK EXAMINER MILLER, while temporarily insane, shot himself through the temple at Altoona, Pa. THE Commercial & Savings bank of Ludington, Mich., suspended business by order of its president, Antoine E. Cartier. CHARLES ROBINSON, first elected governor of Kansas, died at his home in Leavenworth. DAVID HALL, of Jonesville, Va., was shot and killed by Tom Denny, 18 years old. Hall had Denny indicted for abusing his child and Denny took his revenge in the murder. THE body of Col. Lang C. Winston, of Passadena, Cal., who was lost in a snowstorm last November while with a hunting party up the San Gabriel canyon, has been found. THE Cunard line steamer Campania, which arrived at New York from Liverpool, made the passage in 5 days 9 hours and 29 minutes, the fastest time on record. THERE were 226 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 17th, against 251 the week previous and [illegible]55 in the corresponding time in 1893. THE first bale of cotton of this year's crop, from Eagle Point, Miss., was sold at auctiou in Memphis for ten cents a pound. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 17th aggregated $700,683,185, against $774,451,986 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893 was 8.0.

NEW Jersey’s legislature is to be petitioned to permit the consolidation of Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken, Orange, Paterson and Passaic. AT a soldier's reunion at Oblong, Ill., David Eaton wantonly killed Donald McDonald and wounded John James. IN a speech before the bimetallic conference at Washington Congressman Bryan recommended the dropping of all other issues but that of free coinage. UNITED STATE JUDGE CALDWELL has ordered the Santa Fe receivers to pay employes promptly, borrowing money if necessary. A DOUBLE wedding was celebrated at Pana, Ill., in which Edward Munday and Thomas Ellison were married to each other’s divorced wife. APPROPRIATIONS made by the present congress are $49,309,169 less than those of its predecessor. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 19th were: Baltimore, .649; Boston, .646; New York, .608; Cleveland, .564; Philadelphia, .543; Pittsburgh, .515; Brooklyn, .510; Chicago, .474; Cincinnati, .453; St. Louis, .414; Louisville, .340; Washington, .309. AFFECTED by her son’s conversion, Mrs. Jane Newberry dropped dead at a church revival at Surveyville, Tex. RATHER than be censured for reckless driving, John C. Peck, a member of the Philadelphia fire department, killed himself. THOMAS HEWITT, an iron molder of Kearney, N. J., stabbed his wife and children and killed himself by leaping from a window. MRS. SIMMONS, once a noted belle of Lexington, Ky., was arrested at Wichita, Kan., charged with murder. AT Sherburne, Minn., Lee Walker seized the trailing rope of an ascending balloon and was killed by the fall. MAJ. WILLIAM WORTH, court-mar-tialed for ordering target practice on Sunday, was acquitted and released from custody. GEN. FELIX ANGUS, of Baltimore, proposes to secure a Maryland lake and fill it with salt water for scientific cultivation of the oyster. FOUR powder houses of the Speer Hardware company, located at Fort Smith, Ark., blew up, killing three persons and doing great damage. HERBERT R. HESS, a brilliant young lawyer of Chicago, was found dead with a bottle of morphine by his side. He had been despondent over the death of his wife and child. RICH gold discoveries were reported along the Rio Grande in New Mexico and people from the surrounding states were flocking into the territory. AT Thornton, Ind., Hiram McDonald was killed by John Sexton with a broomstick. Sexton alleges he acted in self-defense. ANIMATED by jealousy, William Vogel, of New York, fatally shot his mistress and then killed himself. KOLB, the defeated candidate for Governor of Alabama, has issued an address intended to incite his followers to rebellion. THE skeleton of a giant found in a swamp in Indiana turns out to have been manufactured by speculators. FIVE men were drowned by the capsizing of a government boat off the coast of Washington. LARGE numbers of due bills which have been circulated as currency in Kansas were seized by secret service officers. FIRE broke out on the clipper ship General Knox while she was lying at her dock in New York and caused $100,000 damage. WOMEN of Dalton, Ia., marched to a house in which two disreputables were lodged and after horsewhipping them drove them out of town. THE SIOUX City (Ia.) Athletic club has offered a purse of $25,000 for a fight between Corbett and Jackson. THE river and harbor bill has become a law without the president's signature. GOV. ALTGELD visited Pullman and found about 500 families on the verge of starvation. Means for their immediate relief would be devised.

FOREST fires were raging in northern Wisconsin and thousands of tons of hay were destroyed in the vicinity of Grantsburg. THE cases against the assailants of Adjt. Gen. Tarsney of Colorado, were dismissed, the grand jury having failed to find indictments. MRS. MACK ABRAHAMS, of Frankfort, Ky., quarreled with her husband because he went to hear Breckinridge speak, and took morphine and arsenic with fatal effect. AS A result of a religious revival at Hammondsville, O., seven women left their husbands because they would not join the church. PROFITING by the bitter experience of the present year, many Nebraska farmers were preparing to vote bonds for the introduction of irrigation. CHARLES BERKLUND and a companion were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the bay at Gladstone, Mich. DURING a thunderstorm near Clayton, Ala., lightning struck the residence of James Houston, instantly killing three of his children. ON the Wabash railroad a freight train struck a horse 2 miles west of Jonesburg, Mo., ditching the locomotive and nineteen cars and killing the engineer and three tramps. Eight other persons were injured. ELEVEN THOUSAND employes of the textile works at New Bedford, Mass., went on strike on account of reduction of wages. GABRIEL BROCK was shot and killed from ambush and Mrs. Mary Edwards wounded while driving near Hot Springs, Ark. THE thirteenth annual encampment of the national order of the Sons of Veterans convened at Davenport, Ia. The order has 1,549 camps and a membership of 39,859. VETERANS of the German wars met in annual convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., and the parade witnessed by enthusiastic thousands. AN ammonia tank belonging to the Heidreiger Ice company exploded at St. Louis, killing an employe named Wilson Sanders.

WALTER FISHER, a divekeeper at Dayton, O., was shot and killed by his brother Robert, aged 15. FROM an area of 2,071,354 acres Illinois has produced 41,315,099 bushels of wheat, a yield which has been but thrice exceeded. MRS. CONRAD YOUNGA and her niece were killed in a runaway at Rosebud, Ill. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE Ohio democratic state committee have decided to hold the state convention in Columbus on September 18 and 19. CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made as follows on the 16th: Virginia, Sixth district, Hampton Hoge (rep.); Seventh district, R. J. Walker (rep.); Eighth district, E. E. Meredith (dem.); Tenth district, D. H. Tucker (dem.). Michigan, Second district, George Spaulding (rep.); Seventh district, N. B. Farnsworth (pop.). Missouri, Tenth district, M. C. Ellison (dem.); Eighth district, W. C. Aldridge (pop.). Florida, First district, S. R. Sparkman (dem.). Mississippi, Sixth district, C. H. Hawthorn (pop.). Kentucky, Second district, J. D. Clardey (dem.). Nebraska, First district, J. B. Strode (rep.). Pennsylvania, Twenty-eighth district, W. C. Arnold (rep.). THE First district republican congressional convention, after being in session two nights and two days at Nebraska City, Neb., nominated Jesse B. Strode on the 1,236th ballot. THE death of Burton C. Cook, excongressman and one of the makers of history in Illinois, occurred in Evanston. He twice placed Abraham Lincoln in nomination for the presidency. POPULISTS of Lake county, Ind., nominated a full ticket, then reconsidered their action, got into a general fight and adjourned. SENATOR McPHERSON, who contemplated resigning because of ill-heath, was prevailed on by friends to change his mind. JOSEPH BALLS (colored) died at Emporia, Kan., aged 114 years. MRS. EUNICE CONRAD, the oldest woman west of the Alleghenies, died at Parkersburg, W. Va., aged 117 years.

FOREIGN. MANY tin plate works in south Wales which have been closed for some time were preparing to resume work in view of the passage of the tariff bill in Washington. THE Kaffir rebellion in South Africa is spreading. Many women and chil dren have been killed and much property destroyed. AN anarchist plot against the life of Premier Dupuy, of France, was dis covered by detectives. The reds were warned and escaped. MEXICAN soldiers surprised the notorious bandit, Luna, and his wife in the mountains and killed both of them. SEVERAL persons were killed and a number badly hurt by the collision of two trains on the Hidalgo road near the City of Mexico. SIX men were drowned by the destruction of the steamer Uspeikh, plying on the Shepna river in Russia. MANY cases of cholerine have appeared in Paris, while cholera continues to spread throughout Germany and Holland. RIO JANEIRO advices states that by the explosion of a gunpowder wagon in Largo do Sanidad thirty-two persons were killed, many more were wounded, and several houses were demolished. FORTY Moorish rebels were killed by the sultan’s troops at Azimoor.

LATER. THE United States senate was not in session on the 21st. In the house there was not a quorum present when its session began, but members sought to take up several measures by unanimous consent. The senate bill allowing an additional $54,000 for the public building at Little Rock, Ark., was passed. The senate bill for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists was called up, but objection being made to its consideration it went over under the rules. DELAWARE republicans in state convention at Dover nominated Joshua R. Harvill for governor. FAILING in his efforts to induce the car company to relieve the distress at Pullman, Gov. Altgeld issued an appeal to the people for contributions. THOMAS HARPER, a well-to-do business man of Esplenborough, Pa., returning home from a short vacation found his wife murdered and his two children, aged 2 and 4 years, nearly starved to death. FIVE men were arrested at Sedan, Kan., charged with the murder of J. B. Frazer four years ago. SIXTY-SIX of the largest business houses of Beeville, Tex., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100,000. MRS. KATE LUFBERRY and her 5-year-old son were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at Newcastle, Ky. CHARLES McCOY, an architect, and Miss Josie Calwell, aged 20, were drowned in Peoria lake at Peoria, Ill., while out boating. BY the explosion of a traction engine on the farm of Hiram Berksmith near Byron, Ill., two men were killed and four boys fatally injured. REV. D. F. MacDONALD, D. D., died at Gilbertsville, N. Y. He was a chaplain under Gen. Lee during the war. LATE rains have improved corn and vegetation generally throughout the country, though in certain sections drought was still complained of. FIRE in Chicago destroyed the Chicago & Northwestern freight house with all its contents. A HOUSE which was being torn down in Worcester, Mass., collapsed, burying a dozen children and three men. Seven were rescued, severely injured. THE Big Four freight depot and adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire at Cincinnati, causing a loss of from $300,000 to $500,000. AN engineer was killed near Colorado City, Col., by a freight train wreck.