People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Proceedings of the Second Session. THE report of Admiral Walker on the subject of Hawaii was laid before the senate on the 19th. A bill was passed to open for settlement abandoned military reservations in various states and territories. A bill was also passed to establish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh. The Nicaragua canal bill was further discussed....In the house the time was occupied in debating the Carlisle currency bill. IN the senate on the 20th bills were reported to revive the grade of lieutenant general in the army, to forfeit lands granted to aid in the construction of railroads and to provide a suitable residence for the president ....In the house bills were introduced to amend the national banking act, authorizing the deposit of legal tenders instead of bonds to secure circulation, the eirculating bank notes to be exempt from taxation; to provide a residence for the president, and an urgency deficiency bill of $575,000 to complete the census. A bill was passed to pension the widow of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks at the rate of $100 a month. The currency bill was further discussed. THE senate was not in session on the 21st.... In the house Mr. Wilson (W. Va.) introduced a bill repealing that portion of the new tariff act which imposes a differential duty on onetenth of 1 per cent, a pound on sugars imported from countries paying a bounty on sugar exported. A bill was passed for the relief of homesteaders in Wisconsin and Minnosota whose property was devastated by the forest fires last year. Mr. Springer introduced a substitute for the Carlisle currency bill. On the 22d., Senator Morgan addressed the senate in favor of the Nicaragua canal bill. A resolution was introduced for information as to why all United States ships of war had been withdrawn from the Hawaiian islands. Adjourned to January 3, 1895. .... In the house a bill was introduced to exclude political influence in the appointment of postmasters. Mr. Bryan (Neb.) spoke against the Carlisle currency bill. Adjourned to January 8, 1895. DOMESTIC. H. S. MARK & CO., of Milwaukee, clothing manufacturers, were closed by holders of mortgages aggregating about $160,000. CHICAGO capitalists were said to have purchased all the private mines at Rock Springs, Wyo., the consideration being $20,000,000. EUGENE V. DEBS and his associate officers of the American Railway union, concluded to make no further attempt to avert their punishment. SAMUEL COHN & BRO., New York shoe dealers, failed for $400,000. THE business portion of Stone Mountain, Ga., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. TWENTY indictments of men charged with repeating in the recent election were handed down by the grand jury at St. Louis. EIGHT eloping Kentucky couples crossed the Ohio river to Jeffersonville, Ind., and were married. FOUR boys and one man were killed and three others injured by the explosion of a boiler in a planing mill at West Bay City, Mich. MASKED men entered the home of John Collins near Sioux City, Ia., and robbed him of $4,400 in gold. IN a dispute about a right of way at Cripple Creek, Col., R. R. Newell, chief engineer of the Midland Terminal road, was killed by Van Houghton. C. J. COOK and his wife were fatally burned at Elyria, O., in a fire that destroyed their home. FOUR HUNDRED men were thrown out of work and a loss of $100,000 was sustained by a fire in the Spring Hill collieries at Halifax, N. S. TWENTY-FIVE Buffalo (N. Y.) lodges of Knights of Pythias seceded and formed a new order because of the abolishing of rituals in foreign languages. IT was said that Congressman-elect John J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was inelegible, never having been naturalized.

MISS EVA DOOLEY, of Boston, Ind., had both her limbs amputated at the knee because of their poisoned condition, resulting from wearing[illegible]ed stockings. FIVE men were injured, two prob ably fatally, by the falling of a scaffolding at Janesville, Wis. GEORGE H. BARBOUR, mourned as dead, was reunited to his father in Chicago over the corpse which had been positively identified as his own. DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS’ report upon the Columbian exposition will be submitted to the president within the next month. FRED W. JOB has been commissioned as consul general of Hawaii for Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. NOT a passenger was killed on a Michigan railroad during the past year and but eleven were injured. THE clothing manufactory of H. S. Mark & Co., at Milwaukee, was closed by holders of mortgages aggregating about $160,000. THE twenty-ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Louisville, Ky., beginning September 11, 1895. DIVELLO PIKE, of Burdett, N.Y., was found dead in his buggy, his body being frozen stiff. JAMES ALLEN (colored) was shot to death by a mob at Brownesville, Tex. He was charged with burning barns. STEVE ADAMS was hanged at Greenville, Miss., for murdering James Iverson last May, and Judge Gilbert was hanged at Friar’s Point, Miss., for killing his wife. THE grand jury voted to indict twen-ty-six of the men charged with lawlessness at the polls on election day in Chicago. Three of the number are policemen. FIRE at Napoleonville, La., destroyed seven blocks, including most of the business portion of the town. Loss, $125.000. STATUES of Daniel Webster and Gen. John Stark were unveiled at the national capital with appropriate ceremonies. THE body of Mrs. A. D. Matson, murdered ten days ago, was found at Topeka, Kan. She had been criminally assaulted and robbed.

OFFICERS investigating the Shearman murder at Jamestown, N. Y., found the picture of one of the murderers photographed on the dead woman’s eye. THE Iowa supreme court rendered what was said to be a final decision in the “Jones county calf case,” which has been in the courts over sixteen years. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY hunters from various Colorado points killed 1,000 jack rabbits in a day’s hunting at Lamar. STATE department officials discredit the report that Great Britain is planning to secure possession of Hawaii. A SHORTAGE of $9,000 was discovered in the accounts of J. H. Henderson, late treasurer of Bureau county, Ill. WISCONSIN courts have decided that the Illinois Order of Forresters is without legal right to do business in that state. THE president has respited for the fourth time Thomas St. Clair, sentenced to be hanged in California for murder committed on the high seas. THE Babbitt block, a four-story structure at Morristown, N. J., in which were the First national bank and Kelse’s clothing store, was burned, the loss being $100,000. CHARLES PETERSON shot his wife in New York, killing her, and then killed himself. Five young children were left orphans by the tragedy. WHILE fooling with a gun Simeon Bowen shot and killed the two little daughters of Zeke Bryant near Troy, Ala. THERE were 849 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 21st, against 349 the week previous and 334 in the corresponding time in 1893. THE National Educational association, department of superintendence, is to hold its annual meeting February 19, 20 and 21 in association hall at Cleveland, O. EN ROUTE from Celina to Versailles, O., Andrew Baumgartner met a stranger who proved to be his brother, who left home twenty years ago and was believed to be dead. A GASOLIN stove exploded in the home of James A. Forsythe, a farmer living near Vilas, O. T., and he and his wife and two small children were fatally burned. EXCHANGES at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 21st aggregated $1,020,040,544, against $1,019,089,669 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 8.4. FIRE in Cleveland, O., destroyed buildings and their contents valued at nearly $250,000. IN New York Police Capt. Schmittberger, of the force, gave very damaging evidence before the Lexow committee against high officials. OWING to a recent supreme court decision wholesale dealers in oleomargarine in Maryland have ceased to handle the product. INVESTIGATION shows that decrepit horses and mules are utilized in making sausage for the saloon trade by Indiana manufacturers.

Calvin J. Christie was hanged at Kalispel, Mont., for the murder of Mrs. Lena Cunningham last April. New York bankers were credited with a movement to have Secretary Carlisle removed by the president. Senator Hoar’s oration in Washington at the unveiling of the statue to Daniel Webster is pronounced the gem of the century. William G. Culberson, mayor of Mount Vernon, 0., dropped dead on the street while going to his office. The most successful of the annual jack-rabbit hunts at Lamar, Col., has resulted in the killing of about 1,000 of the animals. “The Sailors’ House” in Vallejo, Cal., was burned and three of the boarders were cremated. Two young Alabama ruffians fired into a schoolhouse near Brownridge, fatally wounding four of the pupils. Two hundred people left Elberton, Ga., for Texas, where they go, they claim, to better their condition. Men women and children composed the party. The stagnation of business in Newfoundland was said to be complete, every labor-employing concern on the island being closed. Dun’s review of trade says gold exports and uncertainty about financial legislation are depressing trade everywhere.

A train was held up in the limits of Sioux City, la., by four men, and the passengers relieved of money and jewelry. The wife and 0-year-old son of Yellow Bull, of the Rosebud Agency, S. D., a subchief of the Sioux, were found murdered in an isolated spot. A statement prepared at the internal revenue bureau in Washington chows that the net decrease in the receipts during November, 1894, from those of November, 1893, was $4,111,314. George King, a desperate negro, was lynched at New Orleans, and James Williams met a like fate at Mount Brook, Fla. The Nebraska state relief commission says there are over 2,800 families in the state needing aid because of crop failure. Micajaa Rowsey, a desperado, was killed at Junction City. Ky., by Town Marshal Ellis, whom he resisted. Rowsey was the last of a father and seven sons, all of whom died with their boots on. E. D. Witt & Co., proprietors of the East End theater, Pittsburgh, Pa., assigned with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Henry Ivinnett, a farmer living near Preble, 0., was bunkoed out of $3,000 by the tin box scheme. The killing of Joseph H. Isom, a white man, near Quitman, Ga , led to a race war in which seven negroes had been shot and more shooting was expected. Ringleaders of the gang which robbed David Slocum and wife of Erie, Pa., of SIO,OOO after torturing them, were captured. While drunk, George F. Ashford, of Vancouver, B. C., killed his wife and one child and fatally wounded another.

The first of a series of attacks on the income tax law was begun in tbe supreme court of the District of Columbia by John G. Moora Mrs. Charles Cornwall, of Brooklyn, N. Y., lefther three‘children alone and, the house taking fire, they were burned to death. Rich gold-bearing ore was discovered during the sinking of a weU on a farm near Brownville, Neb. Clarence Cox and John Staley were hanged at Maynardsville, Tenn. A crowd of 3,500 razed the stockade and viewed the execution. Robeet Bird and John Spann were killed and three men fatally hurt by the explosion of the boiler of a gristmill at Bonayr, Ky. The Oregon Pacific road, the construction and equipment of which cost 811,000,000, was sold at auction for SIOO,OOO. Fire in the lumber yards of A. Weston & Son at Tonawanda, N. Y., caused a loss of $175,000.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Erastus F. Beadle, the publisher of dime novels, died at his country home in Cooperstown, N. Y., aged 74 years. Theodore Huston, of Macomb, 111, United States consul at Paso del Norte, Mexico, died from consumption, aged 42 years. Samuel M. Bridgeman, a veteran of two wars and the oldest employe of Pinkerton’s detective agency, died at Evanston, 111., aged 76 years. James L. Alcorn, ex-United States senator and former governor of Mississippi, died at his home at Eagle Nest, Miss., aged 78 years. Douglas Putnam, a great grandson of Gen. Israel Putnam, of revolutionary fame, died at Marietta, 0., aged 88 years. The editor’s chair of Harper’s Weekly, which since the death of George William Curtis has been vacant, will be occupied by Henry Loomis Nelson. . Bishop Joseph Thompson, D. D., M. D., of the African Methodist Episcopal church, died at his home in N. Y. Mrs. L. W. Guiteau, stepmother of the assassin of President Garfield, died at Freeport, 111., where she has lived since 1852. Annie O’Brien died in New York city, aged 106 years. Ex-Congressman Marquett, of Lincoln, Neb., died at Tampa, Fla., from rheumatism of the heart, aged 68 years.

FOREIGN. Violent earthquake shocks in south Hungary threw down houses and drove the residents to the streets. In an engagement at Halai, Abyssinia, six companies of Italian troops defeated the Arabs, killing a great numberiof them. During a riot among government troops at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, many soldiers were killed. A number of the men deserted. The Chinese government appointed two peace commissioners, who will open negotiations with the Japanese. Emperor William, iu answer to an appeal, announced that he would protect the Jews in Germany. A hundred persons were sa id to have perished in a storm which swept Great. Britain. Great damage to property was done. A royalist conspiracy was discovered by the Hawaiian authorities and five of those implicated were placed under arrest. Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, wife of the American millionaire, died at Cliveden-on-the-Thames. Ten thousand Chinese, who defended Hait Cheng, were worsted by the Japanese after a four hours’ battle. LATER. Mrs. Emily Robbins Talcott, of West Hartford, the oldest resident in Conneticut, celebrated herlOfth birthday. She was 9 years old when President Washington died. Judge Wall, of Leadville, says that there is no law in Colorado prohibiting a man from burning his own honse. The funeral of ex-Senator Alcorn at Eagle’s Nest, Miss., was attended by SOO negroes, the majority of whom were his former slaves. Mrs. Myrtle Simpson poisoned herself at Peoria, 111., because of her husband’s fondness for a 6-year-old daughter by a former wife. Christmas editions of the San Francisco Examiner and the Rocky Mountain News of Denver were issued by society women. At Vineland, N. J., a fast express train collided with a carriage and killed three of the occupants. While skating in a park at St. Paul three students of the St. Paul college broke through the ice and were drowned. At Huntsville, Ala., Mrs. Ida Ross was given a verdict of $16,000 against the W’estern Union Telegraph company for failure to deliver a message to her husband.

Samuel C. Seely, who stole $854,000 from the Shoe and Leather bank of New York, was sentenced to a term of eight years. A negro named Benjamin was lynched by a mob at Ocala, Fla., for assaulting a white woman. WeariEd of waiting for a lover who had deserted her years ago on Christmas day, Miss Miller, of Johnstown, Pa., ended her life. Eugene V. Debs and other members of the American Railway union were granted a stay of sentence in Chicago until January 8. Mbs. Kelher, of English, Ind., in burning some old letters destroyed $2,400, the total proceeds of the saleot her home. Four concerns doing business in Milwaukee failed with liabilities aggregating $195,000. Sneak thieves entered a b«,rDer shop in St. Louis and stole x oocketbook belonging to Michael Doran containing $28,000. On the ground that the act is illegal, the income tax law will again be fought in the United States senate. George Roeerts, given a life sentence at Terre Haute, Ind., for train wrecking, says he was promised immunity for aiding the authorities to convict his associates.