People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Proceedings ol the Second Session. The Fifty-third congress commenced its second session on the 3d. In the senate after organization and listening to the president's message several resolutions were offered, Among them being one by Senator Peffer for an Investigation into the legality of the issuance of bonds....ln the house the secretary of the treasury’s estimate of appropriations required lor the service for the fiscal year ending June 30,1898, aggregating $410,435,079. was received. Mr. .Hartman, of Montana, introduced a bill providing for the free coinage of silver. The president's message was read. DOMESTIC. The corner stone of a new §IOO,OOO courthouse at Winamac, Ind., was laid under masonic auspices. James Dean, John Jones and Henry Taylor were fatally injured by an explosion of gas in the Jack Oak coal mines near Albia, la. In his annual report Superintendent Brooks says the foreign mail service has attained a high degree of perfection. Six armed men went into a faro bank at Baker City, Ore., and took all the money on hand, about §1,160, The business part of the town of Athena, Ala., was almost totally destroyed by fire, the loss being §150,000. The Shelley hoop and stave factory at Holgate, 0., was burned down by employes who went on a strike.

Ambrose Woods, a farmer, and his wife were killed by the cars at Carey, O. John Pensey'EKS rode a straightaway unpaced mile at Buffalo, X. Y., in 1:52 2-5, lowering Johnson’s world’s bicycle record. Secretary' Herbert in his annual report recommends the construction of three additional battleships and twelve torpedo boats. During the year five ships have been added to the naval list, the Marblehead, Columbia, Olympia, Montgomery and Minneapolis. The Bank of Canova, S. D., suspended payment. Secretary' Gresham asked an explanation of Great Britain as to her occupancy' of the Mosquito reservation. Owing to the hard times receipts from stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards fell off over §2,000,000 during the year. The Indiana supreme court decided the fee and salary law unconstitional as applied to county treasurers. Dr. George R. Fortiner, of Camden, N. J., died of bristles from a toothbrush that lodged in his throat eight months ago. Tjie Missouri Pacific abandoned night trains in the Indian territory because of the prevailing terrorism. The extensive potteries of the Galloway Terra Cotta company were destroyed by fire at Philadelphia, the loss being §IOO,OOO. At San Francisco the James Lick monument, completed at a cost of £IOO,OOO, was unveiled. Georgia representatives refused to make an appropriation for the state militia and it may have to disband. The annual report of Superintendent Kimball, of the life saving service, shows that during the year ended June 80, 1694, there were 894 disasters; value of property involved, §10,000,420; property saved, §8,763,215; property lost, *2 ,237,205; number of persons involved, 4,521; persons lost, 68. The sugar trust closed its refineries in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, throwing 50,000 men out of eminent.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Miller’s annual report shows a falling off in receipts during the year of §13,836,540. The business portion of Murdock, Minn., was destroyed by fire. 14 The Lozier bicycle factory at Toledo, 0., where 25,000 machines were being constructed, was destroyed by fire, the loss being §500,000. The schooner Gracie 11. Benson was sunk in a collision in Boston harbor and six of her crew were drowned. Metamora, a village in Ohio, was almost obliterated by fire, seven stores, a church and several residences being destroyed. Engineers are at work surveying for' the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, which is to be an air line from New York to Chicago. In his annual report Secretary Morton suggests exporting dressed beef instead of live cattle, in view of the prohibition of foreign governments. Football players riding to a game were struck by a train at Southbridge, Mass., and two were killed and sixteen Injured, three of them fatally. Mss. YV. K. YValtebs, of Palarm, Ark., locked her three children in the house and returned to find all of them burned to death. The annual report of Secretary Hoke Smith, of the interior department, deals largely with Indian affairs. The report also shows that the total disbursements to date for the eleventh census amount to §10,365,676. The entire number of pensioners upon the rolls June 30, 1894, was 969,544. The estimate for the fiscal year 1896 is $140,000,000.

G. N. Richards at Watkins, N. Y., murdered Miss Kittie Quirk and then committed suicide because jealous. Mbs. Jacob Schoppenhelm and her two children were burned to death in a fire at St. Louis. About 1,800 feet of the water front of Tacoma slipped into Puget sound, killing* two persons. In his annual report Secretary Lamont urges an increase sn the army to 80,000, and praises the men for their work during the strikes. The exenditures for the last fiscal year were (,089,000, the appropriations for the current year are #52,429,112, and the estimates for the next year arc $25,*18,029. . ' ' ■“ •***-'t ■* . / .

The exchanges at tjie leading clearing booses in the United States during the week ended on the 30th uIL aggregated 81,803,820,000, against $1,019,959,895 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 2.9. There were 289 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 30th ult., against 322 the week previous and 271 in the corresponding time in 1893. While August Miller and wife, living near Gettysburg, S. D.. were away, their home was burned, together with their three children. Three negro prisoners at Polkton, X. C., were burned to death in a fire they themselves started. The report of James Kerr, clerk of the house of representatives, shows that for the year ended June 30, 1894, the salaries of members and other expenses of the house amounted to §930.930, of which total §256,539 was for the hire of members’ clerks. After a mysterious absence of three years Frank Smith returned to St. Joseph, Mo., and found his wife married to James Burns. The government receipts from customs during November were §10,260,C 92; from internal revenue, §7,784,074; from miscellaneous sources, §1,376,037, making the total receipts for the month §19,411,403, and for the last five months §136,398,917. The disbursements for the month amount to §27,507,770, making the disbursements for the five months §158,909,043. The city coifncil of Abingdon, 111., lias prohibited the practice of hypnotism on anyone under 21 years of age. Rain in southern Illinois broke a drought of two months and benefited growing wheat crops. A dispatch from Minister Denby to the government at Washington said that Peking was in a state of chaos and that the American legation was in danger of being sacked. George Michael Centrel was hanged at Belleville, 111., for the murder of Frederick Kahn near East Carondelet on August 7 last. A Detroit firm of chemists is making preparations for the manufacture of anti-toxine, the new remedy for diphtheria.

John King resigned the presidency of the Erie railroad and Vice President Thomas was promoted to the place. G The Wisconsin legislature will be asked to pass a law compelling saloons to be closed on Memorial day. John Burns, the English iabor leader, reached New and was welcomed by trade-unionists. Frank Waller, of Chicago, won the twenty-four-hour professional bicycle race at New York, making 434 miles. The coinage at the mints of the United States during the month of November was as fellows; Gold, $2,040,000; sflver, §1,073,000; minor coins, §94,900; total, §2,207,900. An earthquake shock, which was accompanied by a rumbling sound, was felt at Pittsfield, 111. The first rain for *our months fell in Arkansas, putting out the forest fires which had done great damage. The eleventh annual report of the United States civil service commission shows that from Ju’y 1, 1893, to June 30, 1894, 4,372 appointments were made in the classified service, an increase of eighty-three over the previous year. J. M. Raport, who made,abetof §5,000 that he could leave Nevy York May 15 and walk to San Francisco bebefore midnighU December 1, won the wager with only five hours to spare. The Great Western Electrical Supply Manufacturing company of Chicago failed with liabilities of §300,000 and assets of $700,000. Two men and two women who had been engaged in smuggling Turkish embroideries were arrested at Detroit. Henry Stunkle, probably the wealthiest farmer near Wichita, Kan., was swindled out of §5,000 by the three-card monte and tin box swindles. By the burning of a dwelling in Philadelphia Mrs. Ella R. Smith and Miss CulleDden lost their lives. A statement prepared at the internal revenue bureau shows that the receipts for the four months ended October 31 were §64,749,529, an increase of §10,824,325 over the previous four months. In his annual report Comptroller Eckles advises a change from a bond to a safety fund security as a basis for bank circulation. Four men who robbed the post office at Ticonderoga, N. Y., were captured by a sheriff's posse after a desperate fight. Secretary Gresham declared untrue the report that Minister Denby had cabled that the legation at Peking was in danger. Corrected treasury figures show the receipts from all sources during the month of November to have been §19,411,403, disbursements. §28,477,183, which leaves the deficit for the month §9,065,785 and for the five months of the present fiscal year §22,295,152. The public debt statement issued on the 3d showed that the.debt, owing to the receipt of gold for bonds, decreased §81,744,552 during the month of November. The cash balance in the treasury was §144,507,605. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to §879,582,919.

Another cut of one-eighth of a cent per pound was made in sugar, bringing it to the lowest price on record. Thomas Johnson, of Odin, who had been searching for his father for twenty-three years, found him in the St. Clair county poorhouse at Mascoutah, 111. J. S. Zebb, a New York electrician and inventor, brought suit for §400,000 against the YVestinghouse company for infringement of patent. East-bound shipments from Chicago were at a lower ebb than at any corresponding period for fifteen years. One of the finest buildings in Utica, N. Y., occupied by Comstock Bros., wholesale druggists, was burned, the loss being §125,000. At Galliopolis, 0., Oliver Anderson was murdered by Elswick Boster and Harry Martin was shot by Roster's son. t

Joe Mitcheld’s house atManistique, Mich., was burned, and two boys, aged 4 and 5 years, perished. Mrs. Mitchell left her children locked in the house while she called on a neighbor. The business portion of Tingley, la., was destroyed by fire. The North Platte (Neb.) national bank closed its doors with liabilities of §75,000. A train on the Delaware & Hudson road went over an embankment into Lake Champlain near Port Henry, N. Y., and two passengers were drowned and several injured. George and Hannah Cord, aged 10 and 7 respectively, were drowned in the Wapsie river near Littleton, la. The Tacoma (Wash.) national bank closed its doors with liabilities of $212,000. In his message to congress the president argues for free coal and iron, adoption of the “Baltimore plan” fora more elastic currency and removal of the differential duty on sugar. PERSONAL AND POLIT'CAL. Judge Isaac Howe, late populist candidate for governor of South Dakota, died at his home in Redfield. Ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown died in Atlanta, aged 73 years. He was the Georgian war governor, was chief justice of the supreme court, and since the war was a United States senator. Miss Maud lonf. Gabriel, aged 20, and Samuel Ward Parshley, aged 70, were married at Chicopee, Mass. Mrs. Maria 11. Whiting, principal of Knox seminary, died at GaleSburg, IIL She was 67 years old and became a teacher at 13. i A meeting of people’s party leaders will be held in St. Louis December &8 to map out a policy for an educational campaign. Col. Oates (dem.) and Capt. Kolb (pop.) both took the oath of office as governor of Alabama. Rev. Dii. Henry M. Storks, who defended Prof. Briggs before the Presbyterian general assembly, died at Orange, N. J. Sherwood Dixon, United States district attorney, died at his residence in Chicago from consumption. Benjamin W. Dorning, who was district attorney of Queens county, N. Y., for nineteen years, died at Sanford, Fla.

FOREIGN. An earthquake lasting thirty-seven seconds did great damage to property at Quito, Ecuador, and many persons were killed or injured. A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Huntingdon, Ormstown and Athelstoue, in Canada. China intrusted peace proposal sto United States Minister Denby. to be submitted to Japan. The king of Corea appealed to the American minister for protection, believing his life in danger. The czar, it was said, would pardon the three members of the imperial family who are in disgrace and exile. Gen. Juan N. Mendez, formerly governor of the state of Puebla, died in Mexico City, aged 74 years. Japan was said to be willing to accept an indemnity of 400.000,000 yen, but would increase the sum if the war was prolonged. The A merican ship Richard Parsons was wrecked on the coast of Mindora and six of the crew were drowned. Kino Humbert opened the Italian parliament and expressed confidence in the maintenance of peace. Twenty Armenian refugees who reached Athens confirmed published reports of the atrocities committed by the Kurds. LATER. In the United States senate on the 4th a resolution was adopted calling for the official letters of Admiral Walker while in command of United States naval vessels at Hawaii. There was the usual deluge of bills and petitions incident to the opening days of a session, none of them, however, being of public importance. In the house’a bill for the establishment of a national park on the site of the battle of Shiloh was passed. Ex-Congressman Daniel W. Connelly" died at his home in Scranton, Pa., after a brief illness. Mrs. Louis Alberti, of Galveston, Tex., in a fit of dementia poisoned her five children, two of whom died and the others were in a critical condition. Oden Bowie, -governor of Maryland and a prominent figure in war times, died at his home in Bowie. Leon Abbett, four times elected governor of New Jersey, died at his ’•esidence in Jersey City from diabetes, aged 58 years. A fire in the New York dry goods district did §250,000 damage and seven-ty-five girls had a narrow escape. Kolb, who claims to be governor of Alabama, issued an address to his followers in which he urges them to refuse the payment of taxes. Exposition hall and the First Baptist church in Omaha were destroyed by fire, the total loss being §175,000. Mrs. Julius Goodrich was granted a divorce at Milwaukee and within two hours was married to S. Marshall Conger. The city council of Jacksonville, Fla., unanimously repealed the ordi« nance permitting prize fighting. Edgar Gf.bo and Chris Wicks, Michigan fisherman, were drowned from a fishboat near Torch Lake in Grand Traverse bay. Victoria Vokes, the last member of the famous Vokes family of actors and actresses, died in London. Japan notified China that she would not entertain further peace proposals unless presented by a regularly accredited ambassador. The big coal-breaker of the Laflin Coal company at Laflin, Pa., was burned, the loss being §IOO,OOO. The annual report of the secretary of the treasury shows that the revenues of the government from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1894, were §372,802,498 and the expenditures §442,605,758, which shows a deficit of §69,808,260. "As compared with the fiscal year 1893 the receipts for 1894 lell off •88,914,068. •- ♦ -