People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Is the senate on the Bth a bill was introduced to “prevent professional lobbying." Bills were passed to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations and to further encourage the holding of a world's exposition at Atlanta. Ga., in 1895....1n the bouse a bill was introduced to regulate the cutting of timber on public lands. Most of the session was taken up in considering public building bills. A resolution for an Investigation of the effects of machinery on labor was adopted. The senate on the 9th was in session only a little more than an hour and a half and no business of any importance was transacted.... In the house a favorable report was made on the bill to make oleomargarine and all other Imitation dairy products subject to the laws of the state or territory into which they aro transported, and a bill to prevent the free use of timber on public lands was introduced. On the 10th a resolution was offered in the senate directing the committee on privileges and elections to investigate the recent election In Alabama and ascertain if frauds were committed. Senator Hill offered a resolution for Information as to the work of the conferrees on the tariff bill, which went over for the day. The remainder of the session was devoted to the consideration of the Chinese treaty.... In the house the time was occupied in discussing projects for a government exhibit to cost *200,000 at the Atlanta exposition and to give each of the arid land states 1,000.0>» acres of arid lands to encourage the reclamation of these deserts. Os the llth in the senate no business of importance was transacted beyond the discussion of Senator Hill's tariif resolution, it being antagonized by a motion for an executive session, for which the rice president cast the deciding vote.... In the house the time was occupied in the discussion of a proixjsition to give each of the arid land states 1,000.050 acres of surveyed arid public lands to be reclaimed by irrigation, and the bill to appropriate $250,000 to purchase a site for the government printing office. In the senate on the 13th no business of importance was transacted beyond the confirmation, la executive session, of the Chinese treaty, the vote standing 47 to 50.... At a caucus of democrats of the house members, shortly before convening, a resolution was offered by Speaker Crisp which v. as carried, advising the recession from the disagreement to the senate's amendments to the Wilson bill, the passing of the amended bill, and the introduction of separate bills making coal. iron, sugar and barbed wire free of all duties. When the house convened in regular session the resolution was carried by a vote of 130 to 21. At a session held in the evening it passed separate bills for free ■ugar, Iron, coal and barbed wire.

DOMESTIC. The constitutional convention at Albany. X. Y., refused to substitute life imprisonment for capital punishment. At Scranton, Pa., a deserted mine caved in for a distance of three blocks, wrecking 1 twenty-three houses and - causing a loss of 8250,000. Over one-third of the village of Dawson, Minn., was destroyed by fire. At his home in Hope, !nd., James Hardy (colored) died at the age of 100 years. Hardy was Jefferson Davis' valet during the war. He was married s;x times and the father of fortv-six children. Ax express train on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific plunged through a trestle 50 feet high into a creek near Lincoln, Neb., killing eight persons and wounding many othres. Thousands of acres of valuable timber were destroyed by a forest fire 50 miles in length in Wisconsin. Twenty-one stores, two grain elevators and lumber sheds were destroyed by fire at Gifford, 111., the loss beinjr *IOO,OOO. b During a temperance camp meeting at Purcellville, Va., a tent was blown down, killing one man and fatally injuring five women. Twenty-five persons were injured, some of them seriously, in an electric car collision near Oakdale, Pa. Misa Vernik Mayer and Miss Barnhart, young ladies about 16 years old, were .drowned in the lake ht Benton Harbor, Mien. Seven members of the family of J. Walker at Oelwein, la., were poisoned by a summer drink. Three were dead and the others were dangerously ill. Rev. Chabi.es England, a Swedish minister at Michigan City, Ind., was drowned in the lake while bathing in the surf. Fantasy trotted a mile at Buffalo, N. Y., in beating all 4-year-old marks save that of Directum. A MONUMENT to the memory of Frederick J. Frelinghuysen was unveiled at Newark. N. J. Charles Hendrickson and Charles Heglan, young men of Batavia, 111. were drowned in Fox river while rowing. Work was resumed in all but two of the departments of the Pullman car works at Pullman, 111., virtually ending the long strike. The Second national bank of Altoona, Pa., closed its doors. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 10th aggregated *774,451,986, against 8764,890,968 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1898. was 3.4. Ephraim A. Brown, a millionaire of Bloomfield, 0., died of heart disease while asleep. He was 87 years old. §' Thebe were 251 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 10th, against 219 the week previous and 894 in the corresponding time in 1893. The removal of the battle flags of lowa from the arsenal to the state capitol in Des Moines was made the <Vca«ion for a great demonstration. Investigation shows that twentylour persons were killed and eleven injured in the Rock Island railway wreck at Lincoln, Neb. AV Ilham and Solomon Lower, owners of a traction engine, were fatally hurt by falling through a bridge at Waterloo, Ind. Sctzs men and boys seeking shelter under a tree during a storm at De Kalb, Tex., were killed by lightning. Mim Lulu Randall, an aeronaut of Detroit, Mich., was thrown from her parachute by a tree and killed at Nashville, Tens.

Eight thousand persons witnessed the hanging of Madkins, a negro executed for criminal assault at Raleigh, N. C. Simon 11. Ensign, who had been confined in Moro prison, Cuba, for twenty years, escaped and wandered back to Indiana. J. W. Reinhart, president and one of the receivers of the Atchison road, resigned to promote harmony. The town of Yerinton. Nev., on the Carson & Colorado railroad, was completely destroyed by fire. Almost the entire business portion of Fithian, 111., a town of 000 inhabitants, was destroyed by fire. Four children of William Watts, from 6 months to 4’j' years of age, were burned to death near Williston, S. D., on a ranch. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended or the 12th Boston. .648; Baltimore, .640; New York, .604: Cleveland. .572; Pittsburgh. .545, Philadelphia, .529; Brooklyn, .516; Cincinnati, .462; Chicago. .457; St. Louis, .415; Louisville, .833: Washington, .290. By the collision of mail and express trains near Gibbs, Mo., two men were killed and ten badly injured. Mrs. Mary Sullivan, who was 108 years old February last, died at her home in New York. She was born in County Kerry. Ireland, in 1786. Joseph Burnett, aged 78. well known as the pioneer in the business of manufacturing flavoring extracts, was killed in a runaway accident at Marlboro, Mass. Luthep. C. Chali.is. once among the leading financiers of Wall street and several times a millionaire, died in poverty in Atchison, Kan. Damaging evidence had been secured against George W. Davis, the negro under arrest for wrecking the Rock Island express near Lincoln. Neb.

While playing baseball at Cincinnati John Tanner was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Virginia militia, under orders from the governor, drove the eommonwealers out of camp at Rosslyn and set fire to the huts. At a social gathering at her home in Archibald, Pa., Mrs. John Barry was placed on a horse against her will and in her rage shot two of her guests. Mrs. Alice S. Eavy, Cora Johnson and Grace Lowell, aged 19, 18 and 17 respectively, were drowned in the American river, near Auburn, Cal., while bathing. Heavy showers fell over a large area in Illinois, lowa and Indiana, benefiting late corn and vegetation. Under direction of Mr. Pullman steps were taken to evict striking tenants who were behind in their rent. Five thousand persons would be affected. Madeline Pollard, who achieved notoriety through her suit against Congressman Breckinridge, is to go on the stage, and will make her debut in Chicago. Strong pressure was being brought to bear on the Wisconsin board of health to quarantine Milwaukee because of smallpox. Schedules in the assignment of Goodwin & Swift, of New York, show nominal assets of 81,307,404 and actual assets of but SK)S. Jennie Finch, stolen from Grand Rapids, Mich., eighteen years ago by gypsies, has been returned to her surviving relatives. The Washington-Denver bicycle riders reached Denver thirty-three hours and twenty minutes ahead of schedule time. Ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas, declared in an address at Prohibition Park, L. 1., that there was a Tammany ring in every city and hamlet in the country. P. L. Cook, a Stuartsville, 0., saloonkeeper, was beaten to death with an iron rod by masked robbers. Maj. Charles Worth, of the regular army, will be court-martialed for compelling a private to labor on Sunday Tnr.EE young men, who had been wrecked on a reef in Long Island sound, were recued by Grace Marr and her sister at the peril of their lives. Juliana Landowski, a girl of 17, committed suicide by drowning in Lake Como, Minn., because her mother had scolded and whipped her for running away from home. Three boys, Frank Burns, William Slattery and Matthew Slattery, were drowned while swimming in Bloody Run, near Norwood, O. * Thomas Garner, 101 years old, died at Oakdale, Minn. He was born in Ireland and came to the United States fifty years ago. A cyclone passed over North Madison, 0., devastating forests, orchards, growing crops, etc. Four workmen were crushed to death near Sheridan, Wyo., under fifteen or twenty tons of rock which rolled upon them after a blast had been exploded.

L. W. Bbainard shot and killed his wife at Vicksburg, Mich., and then killed himself. Domestic trouble was said to be the cause. Mrs. Mary J. Shirk, one of the wealthiest women in the west, died at her home in Peru, Ind. She was said to be worth *6,000,000. The Wichita (Kan.) national bank, the oldest banking institution in the southwest, has suspended payment by order of the comptroller of the currency. Fearing starvation Mrs. Adolph Max drowned herself and two children, aged 5 and 1 year, at Lyons, la. Whirligig lowered the race record for 3-year-old pacers to 2:10 at Terre Haute, Ind., and paced three heats in average time of 2:11)^. J. W. Deacon, president of the bank at Watonga, O. T., committed suicide because the concern’s affairs had been inextricably involved by his son. While racing on a country road near Warka, Kan., Fletcher Morris was killed and his sister fatally injured by the overturning of their buggy. The works of the United Salt company were entirely destroyed by fire at Cleveland, 0., the loss being *150,000.

Miss Oaby Raridam, 18 year* old, disappointed in love, committed suicide by poison at Wayretown, Ind. Eighty-eight Coxeyites sent to Jail by the Maryland authorities were put to work on the public roads. Woman suffragists commemorated the 75th anniversary of the birth of Lucy Stone at a meeting in the Woman’s temple, Chicago. Jackson and Corbett met in New York, and the colored man still refusing to fight in the south the match was declared off.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The New York democrats will hold their state convention at Saratoga Springs on September 25. Judge Caswf.i.i. Bennett, chief justice of the Kentucky court of appeals, died suddenly of rheumatism at Hopkinsville. Populists in Wyoming declined a proposition to fuse with the democrats and nominated a complete state ticket headed bv L. C. Tidball for governor. David Hahn, who drove coaches across the Alleghenies before the advent of the railroads, died at Portsmouth, 0., aged 94 years. In convention at Boise City the Idaho republicans nominated a full state ticket headed by Edgar Wilson for governor. The prohibitionists of Indiana officially declined to fuse with the populists, declaring them wild and visionary. The following congressional nom inations were made: Illinois, Fourth district, J. Simmington (pro.); Seventh, 11. A. Llo3'd (pop.). lowa, Tenth district, E. F. Baker (pop.-dem.). Nebraska, Fifth district, W. E. Andrews (rep.). Virginia. Ninth district, H. S. K. Morrison (dem.). Congressional nominations were made as follows: Illinois, Seventh district. 11. D. Lloyd (pop.). Pennsylvania, Twenty-fifth district. W. J. Kirkcr (pop.). Missouri, Tenth district, G. H. Zimmerman (pro.). Ex-Congressman James H. Platte died from a stroke of apoplexy while fishing at Green Lake, Col.

FOREIGN. Felix Geoffriox, who had been a member of the Canadian parliament for thirty-one years, died at Montreal. Earthquakes in Sicily destroyed many houses at Aci Reale and at Zaffarano and killed ten persons. Sandow, the “strong man,” was married at Manchester, England, to Miss Blanche Brooks, the daughter of a local photographer. Sknok Jose Verestegui, chief of the Mexican stamp department, was killed in a duel in the City of Mexico over a woman by Congressman Romero. The sealing vessel Malgen, accompanied by a fast cutter, sailed from Tromsoe to bring back the members of the Wellman arctic expedition. The schooner Pilgrim was sunk by the bark Braekka off Anvil Point and four members of her crew were drowned. In a match race at Paris, between Starbuck and Linton, the latter rode 50 miles on a bicycle in 1:58:59, breaking the record. A cyclone swept over the provinces of Madrid and Ciudad Real, Spain, and over a hundred persons are reported to be either killed or injured. During the progress of the regatta at Tanb3 r , Wales, a small excursion steamer capsized in the Caldy roads, drowning twenty people. Eioiiteen residents of a town in Prussian Poland have died from eating poisoned herring. A large part of the population was made ill.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 14th a message was received from the house informing the senate that the house had passed bills placing coal, iron ore, barbed wire and sugar on the free list, in which it asked the concurrence of the senate. Bills were passed promoting Commodore Louis C. Sertori, retired, to rear admiral on the retired list, and authorizing soldiers’ home managers to extend outdoor relief to veterans. The house was not in session. The government crop bulletin says corn has been irretrievably injured by drought in Nebraska, lowa, South Dakota and Kansas. The corner stone of the Salvation Army' national headquarters building was laid at New York. The building and ground cost 8325,000. At Hazleton, Pa., George Kolilick accused his wife of infidelity, when she secured a butcher knife and plunged it three times into his bod3 r , killing him instantly. In a paper read before the Geological society at its meeting in Brooklyn, Prof. J. W. Spencer declared the North American continent was sinking. Marshall Bostom (colored), charged with criminal assault, was lynched at Frankfort, Ivy’. The national convention of harnessmakers, In session at Pittsburgh, Pa., elected Charles E. Beltz, of Pittsburgh, president.

A cyclone which passed over Cuidad Roal, Spain, injured 200 persons and killed several thousand domestic animals. While endeavoring 1 to save money secreted in his house at Vandalia, Ind., which was on tire, Martin Dowell, a wealthy citizen, was burned to death. The Methodist jubilee convention, to celebrate the fiiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the first conference in lowa, convened at Cedar Rapids with 2,000 delegates in attendance. It was reported at Bridgeville, Del., that a sailboat had capsized in the bay and that twenty-two persons had lost their lives. Fire broke out in the general workhouse atTiume, Austria, and destroyed property valued at $1,500,000. Two negroes were lynched in Lafayette county, Fla., for an assault upon a young girl. John Quincy Adams, a descendent oi a family which gave two presidents to the United States, died at Wollaston, Mass., aged 58 years.