People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Proceedings nt the Second Session. Mb. Peffer's resolution calling for Information regarding the issuance of bonds was adopted in the United States senate on the sth. Bills were introduced for the free coinage of silver, making the silver dollar to consist of 412 H grains of standard fineness; to form the state of Indianola out of portions of the Indian territory, and for an amendment to the sugar clause in the present tariff law striking out all the provisions except that to remove the one-eighth differential on sugar....ln the house a resolution was introduced repealing section 3 of the act providing for the resumption of specie payment, which authorizes the secretary of the treasury to sell bonds. On the Sth Senator Turpie spoke in the senate in favor of the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Bills were passed exempting from duty foreign exhibits at the Portland (Ore.) exposition and for the national dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga national park on September 10 and 20, 1895. Adjourned to the 10th.... In the house a joint resolution was introduced proposing an amendment to the constitution snaking the president ineligible to a second term. The bill making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense for the fiscal year 1895-'96 ($7,357,703) was reported. The senate was not in session on the 7th.... In the house the greater portion of the session was devoted to a continuation of the discussion on the bill to so amend the interstate commerce act as to permit railroad companies to pool their earnings. On the Bth there was no session of the senate ....In the house bills were introduced to permit the mailing of second-class matter elsewhere than at the place of publication: to provide for the appointment of a currency commission to consider the past and present condition of the currency of the United States and the necessity for increasing its volume or changing banking laws now in force. The military academy appropriation bill ($457,676) was reported and the railway pool measure was defeated. ®A resolution was offered in the senate on the 10th calling on the president to begin negotiations to secure the independence of Cuba. Senator Morgan spoke in favor of the Nicaragua canal bi 11.... In the house bills were introduced to annex that portion of Arizona north of the Colorado river to Utah; to prohibit the printing of any words or devices npon the American flag by individuals, and to provide for the settlement of labor troubles by arbitration.

. DOMESTIC. Fubther evidence of shocking police brutality and corruption was brought out by the Lexow committee in New York. A bill to punish usurpers of state offices was passed by the Alabama legislature by a party vote. A St. Louis southern trade journal estimates the year’s cotton crop at 8,600,000 bales. Surgeons in the employ of the Big Four road met at Indianapolis and arranged to establish a chain of hospitals for employes. Kelly was said to be organizing another Coxey army in Sacramento, Cal., to move on Washington and to urge congress to provide work for unemployed American citizens. The governor of Utah was alarmed at the threatened Indian invasion and had furnished arms to citizens. Officials of the post office departpartment were negotiating for street railway mail service in Cleveland, O. The Tremont house, the oldest hotel In Boston, is to give way to a big office building. Members of the National Editorial association met in Chicago and decided to hold their next meeting in Florida. The old Jefferson Davis mansion at Richmond, Va., formerly the white house of the confederacy, will be converted into a museum of confederate relics. Financial embarrassment caused Robert Huston, ex-sheriff of Will county and a widely-known man, to commit suicide at the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago. Burglars blew open the vault of the First national bank at Marceline, Mo., and secured $6,000. John Hoffman, 75 years old, who says he has stolen 500 horses, was arrested at Crown Point, Ind., while making away with a team. Provision has been made by the post office department for a five-cent postal rate on letters to nearly every foreign country, effective January 1. Thirty-five of the forty-two children in the Ayer home for young women and children at Lowell, Mass., have scarlet fever. Thom as James, of Kentucky, betrayed a young woman named Fultz and killed three of her relatives who attempted to force a settlement. The J. W. Fowler Car company of Elizabeth, N. J., failed for SIBO,OOO. Robbers held up a Texas & Pacific train near Fort Worth, Tex., and stole $140,000 from the express car safes.

The navy department has accepted "the cruiser Minneapolis and ordered the payment of 8416,600, the premium she earned. Miss Josephine Brand, of Lawrence bung, Ind., was robbed of 810,500 on the streets of Cincinnati, O. Paul Fierbacheb, a German boy of Guthrie, O. T., has invented a railroad ■tie for which he has been offered $50,COO. Ross Kenyon, his wife and their 8-year-old daughter were fatally burned »y gasoline at their home near Lowell, Mich. The Exchange bank at Goodland, Kan., closed its doors with liabilities of over $30,000. Fires in the Texas panhandle swept northwesterly and southeasterly until about 25,000 square miles of land were burned over. Smallpox has appeared in the lumber camps in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, having been spread by transient laborers. Five men were fatally and one seriously injured at Boston, Mass., by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge. There were. 885 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 7th, against 289 the -week previous and 385 in the corresponding time in 1898.

The annual report of the national home for disabled soldiers states that more veterans applied for admission during the year than could be accommodated. The aggregate average number kept was 70,162, and the whole number cared for during the year was 35,564. The annual cost of the maintenance of each man was $127.45, a decrease from the previous year of $13.50; the deaths were 1,050, an increase of 20. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 7th aggregated $1,163,208,848, against $1,820,000,895 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 5.0. Charles F. Howard was hanged at Rawlins, Wyo., for murdering Charles Horn last New Year’s eve at Dixon during a quarrel about a dissolute woman. John Burns, member of parliament and labor leader of England, says the slums of Chicago are more filthy than those of London. James Cooley was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Columbus, 0., for practicing a pension fraud. The Roman Catholics in Archbishop Ireland’s diocese were being permitted to join any secret society excepting the free masons. Claus Spreckels has purchased 40,000 acres of sugar land and a town and railroad in southern California. President Cleveland cabled the American delegate at Constantinople directing him to investigate the Armenian outrages. The president issued a proclamation announcing the taking effect of the new Chinese treaty. Daniel Pfeffer, of Chicago, and Edward O’Meara broke through the ice while skating at West Bend, Wis., and were drowned. The pension bureau in Washington will hereafter refuse pensions to widows whose income from other sources, added to the procec ds of reasonable effort on their part, affords them comfortable support. Arthur C. Brown and Henry Reesh, both of Auburn, Ind., were killed and Henry Harris, of the same place, was fatally wounded by robbers at Deshler, O. The Shenango glass works at Newcastle, Pa., owned by Knox, Foltz & Co., sustained a loss of SIOO,OOO by fare. The net earnings of the railroads of the country during the year fell off $206 a mile, according to figures compiled by the interstate commerce commission. Names of society women of New York and Chicago who were detected in smuggling were to be published by the customs authorities Fifty-two indictments were found against ex-officials of Woodbury county, la., on charges of malfeasance. A fire in New York’s dry goods district did SIOO,OOO damage, M. Chambers & Co. oeing the chief losers. The national conference for good city government met at Minneapolis. A convict in the northern Indiana prison drank alcohol which was being used in painting and is now blind. A receiver was appointed for the Farmers’ Insurance company of Seattle, Wash. The liabilities were nearly $140,000. Mrs. John A. Williams, of New Britain. Conn., who left a sickbed to horsewhip her husband and his paramour, died as the result of her exertions. Three tramps who were stealing a ride between two box cars were instantly killed near Lebanon, Ind. At Chattanooga, Tenn., the Southern hotel block, covering two acres, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $125,000. The American Federation of Labor met in fourteenth annual convention at Denver.

Henry Boises’ jewelry store at Fayette, la., was looted by three men and watches and silverware valued at 812,000 and SBOO in cash were secured. Gen. John C. Black was appointed United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois. Fred Hanks, John Morton, George Roberts, C. H. Hanks, George B. Floss, George Cook and Hannah Cook were drowned at Littleton, la., by breaking through the ice on a pond. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 10th was: Wheat, 85,978,000 bushels; corn, 6,600,000 bushels; oats, 9,146,000 bushels; rye, 453,000 bushels; barley, 3,582,000 bushels. George Brooker, sheriff 'of Mason county, 111., was fatally wounded by John Fuller, whom he was endeavoring to arrest. The government crop report announced the December condition of wheat as 89 per cent, and the area as 103 per cent, of last summer’s winter wheat area at harvest This makes the growing area 24,224,000 A tornado did great damage at White Castle and Ascension, La., and killed three negroes.

A Rock Island train was held up near Wichita, Kan., and the passengers were relieved of their valuables and the express car looted. The building occupied by the Consolidated Coffee company at Omaha was burned, the loss being 8100,000. Isaac Stein, living near Bowling Green, 0., was held up while on the way from town and robbed of $7,125. The Southern Magazine company at Louisville, Ky., made an assignment Gen. Basil Duke was editor of the magazine. A man supposed to be Samuel C. Seely, the absconding bookkeeper of the Shoe and Leather bank of New York, was arrested in Chicago. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Miss Annie Grace Lippincott, daughter of “Grace Greenwood,” the author, and Herbert Hall Winslow, the dramatist, were married in Washington. Andrew J. Campbell, congressmanelect of the Tenth New York district, died at his home in New York city of Bright’s disease, aged 66 years. Mark Robert Harrison, the celebrated artist who painted “The Death of Abel,” died at his home in Fond du Lac, Wis., aged 76.

Capt. John Pridgeon, the millionaire capitalist and vessel owner, died at his home in Detroit, aged 66 years. John J. Decker, a member of the pw no firm of Decker <fc Son, died suddenly from pneumonia in New York, aged 73 years. W. A Barbour, elected attorney general of South Carolina, is perhaps the youngest attorney general in any state of the union, being but 26 years of age. Dr. J. Hills Bbowne, ex-medieal director and ex-surgeon general of the United States navy, died in Washington of paralysis, aged 63. Gen. E. Parker Scammon died at Audobon Park, N. Y., aged 78 years. He was a widely known soldier, a writer and prominent in college work. The official canvass of the vote in Wisconsin shows that it was 375,449, the largest ever cast in the state by 3,868 ballots. Upham (rep.) has a plurality for governor of 53,900, and a majority over all the other candidates of 17,056. An unofficial list of members elect to the Fifty-fourth congress gives the republicans 244 members, democrats 104 and populists 6. In the present congress there are 219 democrats, 123 republicans and 12 populist members The lowa canvassing board completed its count of the vote cast at the last election: Total, 421,720; McFarland (rep.), 229,376; Dale (dem.), 149,980; Crane (pop.), 34,907; MitcheH (pro.), 7,457. Republican plurality, 79,326. Mrs. Lucy Edwards, a colored woman 120 years old, died at Springfield, 111. Flora Frankenstein died in Detroit, Mich., aged 108 years.

FOREIGN. Consular reports indicate that the production of wheat in the Argentine Republic is enormous and will keep prices down. China has decided to send a representative direct to Japan to arrange the terms of peace. Forged American school bonds to a large extent were found to have been floated in England and Ireland. Ambassador Runyon states that Americans sojourning in Germany must exhibit passports in order to remain there. Ferdinand de Lessers, the famous French engineer and builder of the Suez canal, died at the Lachenaie, near Vatane, in the department of L’lndre, France, aged 84 years. More than IUO houses in the poorer portion of Port au Prince were destroyed by fire. A hurricane swept over the Azores, doing much damage. The brigantine Adelaide was wrecked and most of her crew drowned. Gen. J. H. Preciado, governor of the state of Morelos, Mexico, and a prominent politician, died at Cuernavaca. The greater part of the village of Mount Stewart, P. E. 1., was destroyed by fire. The 300th anniversary of the birth pf Gustavus Adolphus, the great Swedish king, was celebrated with great pomp at Stockholm. President Diaz, of Mexico, has declined many offers of men and money, believing there is no danger of war with Guatemala. Owing to the failure of five fish companies the Commercial and the Union banks of St. John’s, N. F., were forced to suspend with liabilities aggregating several millions. Bicyclist Lenz, who was on a tour around the world, was believed to have been killed by brigands in Asiatic Turkey.

LATER. Senator Morrill (Vt.) spoke at length in the United States senate on the 11th in opposition to various financial measures introduced by Senator Peffer (Kan.) providing for the issuance of large sums of greenback. The Nicaragua canal bill was further discussed. In the house the bill amending the interstate commerce act to permit of railroad pooling was passed by a vote of 166 to 110. Ex-Gov. Tillman was elected United States senator from South Carolina, receiving 131 out of 155 votes cast. Later advices say that the Japanese troops that entered Port Arthur November 21 massacred practically the entire population in cold blood.

Birge’s wall paper factory in Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $250,000. George Brunsen, Charles Smith and Lee Brown, three of the notorious Meachamite gang in Clarke county, Mo., were hanged by a mob. Recent rains have broken the worst and the longest drought ever experienced in the Ohio valley. David Spragg, a wealthy farmer near Ridgeway, Mo., cut the throats of his wife and three children, wounded two others and killed himself. He was thought to have been insane. The Ontario malleable iron works at Oshawa, Ont., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $120,600. Ettsell Adams, a well-to-do farmer living near Florence, N. C., in a fit of insanity shot and killed his wife and daughter and then killed himself. Edwin U. Curtis (rep.) was elected mayor of Boston by a plurality of 2,400. A tidal wave in Panama washed away many houses at Santa Maria and totally destroyed the town of Liara. Fourteen persons were drowned. Daniel Mobley, a farmer near Columbus, Ind., married his 16-year-old daughter Ethel. The steamer Senandoah took from Newport News, Va., to Liverpool 300 bushels of oysters, the first ever sent from this country to England. Judge Dale, chief justice of the supreme court of Oklahoma, decided that colored children must be allowed to attend white schools. The Commercial bank at St Joseph, Mo., failed for $270,000; assets. $325,000. Robert Webster, an aged farmer living near South Haven, Mich., set fire to his barn and shot the eyes out of a neighbor who liberated the animals in it