People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From Ail Parts. "" V CONGRESSSONAL. Kegular Session. IX the senate on the 22d the members present at the opening session numbered twentyone—less than half of a quorum. The vice, president announced his signature to the deficiency bill. A motion was made that the serjeant-at-arms be directed to request the attendance of absent senators, which he did. and an executive session was held. The house was not in session. After an hour's wait the senate on the 23d was unable to secure a quorum, and adjourned. A clerk reached the capitol with some important nominations, but owing to the absence of a quorum they could not be laid before the senate.. .In the house the chairman of the committee on naval affairs presented the preliminary report upon the investigation of the armor plate and billets furnished to the government by the Carnegie Steel compiny. The bill to give the Hutchinson & Southern Railroad company two more years in which to build the road through the Indian territory was passed In the senate on the 24th the house joint resolution was adopted for a final adjournment August 28 at 2 p, m., after which an executive session was held, and all nominations to which no objections were offered werd confirmed.... In the house a joint resolution was adopted for a final adjournment on the 28tb. The antianarchist bill was brought up and an amendment to it offered, but objection being made to Its consideration the bill went over. The senate held a short session on the 27th and adjourned without transacting any important business....ln the house a resolution was offered to print the tariff biJi, and Mr. Wilson said the senate bill, which is now a law. would increase the basis of taxation $63.000.000 over the McKinley law. The death of Congressman Shaw, of Wisconsin, was announced, and a committee was appointed to attend the funeral.

DOMESTIC. By a decision of the attorney general women will hereafter be allowed to vote for superintendent of public instruction in North Dakota. Henry R. Pearson killed himself in Kansas City. He was short in his accounts with the Plano Manufacturing company. •James Hale was murdered by white caps near Pennington Gap, Va, His offense was the whipping of a boy. George Baldwin was foully murdered in the presence of his family by Deputy Sheriff Jackson Lily and a posse in the Choctaw Nation. The national encampment, Sons of Veterans, in session at Davenport, la., elected Col. William E. Bundy, of Ohio, commander in chief. Three men were killed and three seriously injured in a wreck on the Chicago & Northwestern road near Fort Atkinson, Wis. Squire William Bland, a prominent citizen of the Conemaugh, committed suicide at Johnstown, Pa., while , melancholy from business reverses and drink.

A. S. Tucker, a prominent board of trade broker at Chicago, committed suicide. Unfortunate speculation was assigned as the cause. Prof. Charles J. Hinkel, who for years occupied the chair of Latin and Greek literature fit Vassar college, died from heart failure at Amagansett, L. I. Slav and negro miners indulged in a fight at West Overton, Pa., during which one man was fatally shot. The great textile strike has developed into a lockout, and as a result 25,000 mill operatives of Fall River, Mass., are idle. Before the American Bar association Moorfleld Storey said public honesty and trust had reached a low ebb. Adam Stivetts, father of John Stivetts, the Boston baseball player, was accidentally killed in a coal mine at Ashlands, Pa. Miss Madge Howe, of Springfield, 111., was elected president of the Ladies’ Aid society, auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans, at the national encampment at Davenport. There were 234 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 24th, against 226 the week previous and 410 in the corresponding time in 1803. Twenty-five of Rybakowski’s commonwealers were injured in a fight with deputies at Buffalo, N. Y.,and 150 more were placed under arrest. William Day, former champion cross-country runner of the country, hanged himself because he had been accused of embezzlement. Henry Henrici, jobber in woolens at New York assigned with heavy liabilities. According to the report of Patent Commissioner Seymour, 21,496 patents were issued during the year, and 13,167 expired. John Vermillion and William Jackson were killed and a number of others seriously injured by the bursting of a sawmill boiler at Frankfort, Ind. Two men were killed and eleven injured by an explosion ol gas in the Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa. An explosion of gas in a mine at Franklin, Wash., imprisoned sixty-two men, thirty-seven of whom were taken out dead. Gaft. H. O. King, a mechanical engineer of Memphis, was killed by Alex Carr, an employe to whom he was indebted. Notwithstanding industrial disturbances and the continuance of drought in certain sections, trade continues to show steady improvement, according to Bradstreet’s. Riley Walker and Richard Jordan, two negroes convicted of murder, were taken from a train at Mitchell’s Station, Ala., and lynched. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 24th aggregated 9813,498,631, against $790,683,185 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 19.5. Philip Petebs (colored), was hanged at Helena, Ark., for killing his wife. Cajkl la>wer, an ex-employe, fatally wounded Alois Mehetretter, a tailor, at Buffalo.

At Ashland, Wis., an entire blook of business buildings was destroyed by fire. Lightning strnek an emigrant’s wagon near Columbns, Tex., killing husband and wife, but leaving their babe unhurt. David Ferran, aged 20, a deaf mute living at Curtisville, Ind., was run over by a switch engine and his body ground to fragments. A Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul freight train was held up at Deerfield. 111., by two men, who killed a detective who was on the train and robbed the conductor. Mrs. L. B. Christ, together with her two children, was burned to death as a result of a gasoline explosion at Forest City. Mo. A New York syndicate has furnished the whisky trust £5,000.000 to take its spirits out of bond, the Illinois trust and savings bank of Chicago to act as trustee. Hugh Lyon, who killed a peddler on Sanary island, was hanged at New Westminster, B. C. George L. McCahanl of Baltimore, was elected grand high chief of the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons at the convention in Topeka. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 35th were: Boston, .660; Baltimore, .640: New York, .635: Philadelphia. .571; Cleveland, .540; Brooklyn, .525; Pittsburgh, .500; Chicago, .456; Cincinnati, .436; St. Louis, .404; Washington, .330; Louisville, .311. G. E. Williams won the bicycle road race from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, traversing the 234 miles in 20 hours and 37 minutes. The town of Guerneville, Cal., was destroyed by lire. 11. F. Griswold and William Lake, who held up a St. Paul train at Deerfield, .111., and killed Special Officer Owens, were captured after a running fight in which they shot an officer and both were wounded.

Lightning from an almost cloudless sky killed William Carr, aged 20, who was bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. Twenty persons were badly injured by the falling of a bridge in Fairmount park at Kansas City. The steamer New York made the passage from Southampton to New York in six days eight hours and thirtyeight minutes, breaking all previous records. At Washington park, Chicago, Di rectly paced a mile in lowering the world’s record for two-year-olds a quarter of a second. Adam A. Parrott, his wife and two of their three children were drowned while attempting to ford the Scioto river in a wagon near Portsmouth, O. An incendiary fire in the yards of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber company in Chicago destroyed £15,000 worth of property, including twenty-seven horses. Ben Kershaw and his brother John and Robert Thomas were drowned at Waltham, Mass., by the overturning of their canoe. Are Buzzard, the notorious Pennsylvania outlaw, was sentenced to eleven years’ imprisonment for burglary. Thomas W. Heathcote, chairman of the Pullman strikers’ committee, declared the strike at an end. Mistaking a party of young men for burglars, Stephen Albright, of Allentown, Pa., fired at them, wounding six.

The new democratic tariff bill passed by the Fifty-third congress became a law without the signature of President Cleveland. In a letter to Representative Catchings, of Mississippi, the president gave reasons why he did not sign the measure. The Diamond Drill company of Reading, Pa., failed for $115,000. Geronimo and his band of Apaches are to be removed to Oklahoma from Alabama, the climate of which has greatly reduced their numbers. Charlie Bennett, the maimed baseball player, is $6,000 richer as a result of a benefit game played in Boston. The expense to the state of Illinois caused by .the calling out of the militia during the late strike is placed by the adjutant general at $350,000. Coejaree, a Seminole Indian, was executed at We wo, O. T., by being shot to death.. His crime was murder. At Springfield, Mass., Harry Tyler lowered the bicycle record for an unpaced mile to 2:07 2-5, a cut of 2 3-5 seconds. Miss Mary Desha, a sister of Breckinridge's first wife, in an op’en letter calls on the men and women of Kentucky to defeat the congressman. After a pastorate of forty years Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, has retired from the pastorate of the Park church at Elmira, N. Y. The national encampment of Knights of Pythias commenced in Washington. Mrs. Charles Null wrecked the windows add fixtures of a saloon at Delaware, 0., whose proprietor had sold her husband liquor. Forest fires invaded the settlement in Michigan known as Finland and completely wiped it out of existence.