Weekly News Summary

Tuksday, Keb. 17.- In the Senate th ill authorizing tht sale of part of the ands of th Winnebago Imlians ia Neiraska was passed. The Auti-Foreigu Contract Labor bilí was conaidered. ín the House the ApproprUttton ('ommittee -eported the Naval t.ill, cullin lor M:i,.-1,08. Mr. Donheimar introduced a bilí to regúlate the colnage and promoto Ui squal rirculation of golil aml silver. The Legislativo bilí was passed. Wednksday, Keb. IS. - The Sonate paBsed the Anti-Foreign Contract Labor bilí by a vote of 50 to '.. Tho bill forbids the importation of aliena into the United States to perform labor. Exceptions are made in favor of artists, actors, leoturers, lingera and domestic gervants. A bill was reported to enablo the President to negoliate for the opening of Oklahoma, providiug a penalty of fine or imprisonmriit for entering upon the lands without authority of law. In the House the time was OOOOpled in diecussiug the CUrar and llarbor bilL Thursday, Feb. 19. - In the Senate the Texas Pacific Land Oiant Forfeiture bill was passed, as was also a resolution appropriöting $,500 for inauguration expenses. The Post-Oflice Appropiiatiou bilí was reported. In the House further consideration of the Kiver and bill occupied the greater part of the session. KridaT, Feb. 20.- The Sennt pMMd the Agricultural Appropriation liill nnd discussed the Post-otllce ApproprUtton bill at considerable length. In the Houso nearly the entire day was OOCUpled in further consideration of tho Itivcr and Hailior bill. At the evenin B'-s.sion liity pmiioD bill were passed. DOMESTIC. In the Circuit Court ai Chicago on the 17th Mrs. Della Oardner was acquitted of the murder of her husband and babe, last November, tho jury being convinced of her insanity at that time. She also shot herself in the head, but has recovered from her wound. A woman representing herself as Mrs. Scoville, the sister of Ouiteau, has been defrauding merohants and othera at Canieron, W. Va. At Bloomington and other places in Illinois a coal fumine prevailed on the 17th, owing to the railroads being blockaded by snow, and actual suffeiingwas reported in some smoll towns. Farmers were burniug fencing and corn. It was stated on the 17th that uew warrants would be issued at Wichita, Kan., for the arrest of Captain Couch and other invaders of Oklahoraa, returnable March 6. General Hatch had gone forward to f orestoll another raid. In the northern and western portions of New York State a flerce snow and windstorm prevailed on the 17th. At Troy,' Buffalo and other poiuts great damage was done, and the railroads were completely blockaded. C. A. Coffin & Co's shoe factory in Lynn, Mass., was guttod firo on the 17th. Loss, $100,000; insured. C. B. Tebbett's shoe factory was damaged $1)0,000; insured. Elizabeth Bony, ninety-six years old, committed suicide on the 17th by burning herself to death in her house near Falmouth, Ki A pktkoleum well, gushing twenty-flve bairels an hour, has been struck in Dallas, Wy. T. Twilvk hcndred men were on the 18th thrown out of employment by the closing of the Victoria iron mines and f urnace in Rockbridge County, Va. Unknown persons recently disinterred half a dozen bodies in Pisgah Cemetery, near Point Pleasant, VV. Va., and left the corpses strewn about. Lam Hiuulua.n was on tne lStü Irozeu from shore to shore. The ice varied from eight inches to three feot in thickness. In Hawkins County, Tenn., James Keynolds recently put kerosene on the heads of his three children to kill vermin. Two of the little ones died, but the third survived. The steamers Ida Darragh and City of Helena, with full cargoes, and the wharfboats were burned at Memphis on the 18th, the losses aggregating $100,000. A firk in Hon. Harry Oelrich's barn near Cheyenne, Wy. T., a few afternoons ago destroyed the iinported stallion Brudant, which cost $15,000, Cleveland Boy, worth $5,000, and three other horses and a namber of carriages. Bray Bros., grain commission merehants at San Francisco, have failed for $500,000. It was announced on the 18th that thirty persons lost their lives by the recent snowslide at Alta, Utah. With the exception of the Pepperell Company the cotton-mills of New England report a losing business for the last half of 1884, production being still in adyance of consumption. Riots were reported on the 18th in the Virginia coal-fields near Pocahoutas, ing u) me uiatuartf ui uiiirts uu ncvuuub of business depres9ion. At Hogdenville, Ky., Ben Coombs shot and killed bi3 wife and her paramour, Jake Mason, on the 19th, and then eloped with Hts. Mason. Bob Johnson, a negro boy, who assassinated a citizen near Princeton, W. Va., a few days ago, was taken from jail by a mob on the 19th, tied to a tree and riddled with bullets. A PIRE at Troy, N. Y., early the other morning destroyed $100,000 worth of property. Sbventy-five Mormon converts left Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 19th for Salt Lake City, Utah. They were from East Tennessee, North Georgia and North Carolina. Eider John Morgan, head of the church in the South, said the elders were meeting with great success. Churches were being established in all parta of Virginia and North Carolina. A FRUiT-scHOONKR, the E. V. Olive, went ashore a few nights ago on Dixie Island, at the entrance to Mobile Bay. Five live were lost. Four men were killed by the explosión of natural gaa ut Ashtitbula, O., a few mornings ago. C. Cavaroc's Son & Co., of Chicago, wholesale wiue and liquor dealers, have failed for 100,000. Four men were killed on the l!)th by a collision on the Virginia Midlaud Road, near Alexandria. A stock train on the Alton Road was wrecked at Sai? tíridge, UI., on the 19th, by a broken rail, killing one Ujmlred head of cattle. Gidikre Dat & Co , cotton factors At New Orleans, have failnd for $712,828. A LOSS of nearly $300,000 was incurred in Chicago on the evening of the 19th by the burning of the Grannis block, in Dearborn street, and damage to adjacent property. li was reported on the lftth that at Macksburg, O., new petroleum wells were being openeddaily. Three spouters, averaging seventy-flve barrels each, had been struck, and the population was rapidly increasing. Valüable silver discoveries have been made in Ritchey County, W. Va., and it was asserted on the 19th that the Baltimore & Ohio Road ballastcd its track for miles through the monntains with silver quartz. Horsks and cattle were on the 19th dying inlarge nuinbersinthe Caldwell (Ohio) section from a mysterious epidemie, the loss to farmers thua far reachiug $20,000. Flamks burst forth on the 19th in a cotton warehouse in Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and raged until an entire square was destroyed. Two firemen were killed. The loases aggregated $250,000. A peculiar and fatal hog disease was raging on the 19th in many sections of Massachusetts. The symptoms were loss of appetite, ight and strengih, death invariably rebnlting in three days. Thousand3 of hogs were dying. Fire on the 20th destroyed the Marvin ¦ale factory in New York, valued at $ü80,000. luit.Triifanf the 20tn stta tnac in cnt raúroad 'colIUíóa iu the ÏKrtriok of Columbia caused the death of üre train hands, the loss of about $100,000 la currency in the expresa safe, and the ! tiou of more valuable mail matter than : was ever before known. Fires on the 20th partially destroyed SU Michael'g Orphan Asylum and St. Joseph'a Convent near Pittsburgh, Pa. Nine poople were injured the other uight in a railroad accident near Ashton, Mo. The east - bound train on the Wabash truck a breken rail, and tvro passenger cars plunged over a bridge. At Boston on the evening of the 20th George Oliver held his wife on the floor while he cut her throat with a jack-knlfe, and then cut his own throat from ear to ear. No cause was known for the deed. , The house of a colored woman named Alioe Wilson, living in Buncombe County, I N. C, caught fire on the 20th and her three smoll children were burned to death. It was sald that over one hundred colored children had been burned to death in this manner since October last. The mothers, while at work in the flelds, leave the children looked in the houses. The striking miners in the Tuscarawas Valley, Ohio, have agreed to a reduction of ten per cent. in their wages, and have resumed work. A pabty of snow-shovelers at the Chicago Stock-yards -ere run down by a Northwestern train on the 20th, and two of thenj were killed and several others were injured. The walls of the Qrannis Block, In Chicago, which wu burned the other night, were incased ia a heavy coating of ice on the 20th, and thousands of curious people visited the scène to view the picturesquo ruins. It was reported on the 2Oth that in anticipation of a Socialist outbreak the National Guard in New York City and elsewhere was drüling for street ttghting. Chicago merchanta were also said to be drilling their employés in similar táctica. While Joseph Haberecker, his wife and three children were outsleighing at Muncy Valley, Pa., a few nights ago the horses ran away, overturning the vehicle and dragging it a long distanoe. The entire faniily were killed. A skwxr in the heart of the business district of Chicago, at the corner of Clark and Madison streets, eleven feet below the surface, was on the 20th found to be frozen solid. Near North Vernon, Ind., the sleeper of au Ohio & Miisissippi paksonger train was thrown down an embaukment on the 20th, resulting in the loss of three lives and the injuring of several others. Is the United States and Canada there were 28" business failures during the sevon days ended on the 13th, against 307 the previous seven days. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, 4K; New England States, 27; Western, 90; Southern, .Mi; Paeifle States and Territories, &t; Canada, ai PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A BILL prohibiting the sale of tobáceo U minors bas passed both houses of the Nebraska Legislature. A concurrent resolution was adopted by the New Jersey Senate on the 17th te submit to the people a prohibition ainendnient to the State Con6titution. A Bill forbidding any one to sell or giv tobáceo to minors has been adopted by thfl Iowa Legislature, and on the 17th awaited the Governor's gignature. Geobge HcThïws, son of the founder oí the water business in New York City, died recently from pneumonía, and hts widow died from the same disease twentyfour hours later. In the United States District Court at Chicago, in the Eighteenth ward electionfraud cases, the first witness on the 17th was Jeremiah J. Sullivan, a printer, who admitted that all his testimony of a few days before was false; that it was dictated to him by Joseph C. Mackin, who paid him thereor a total of $i.G0 in four different interviews and promised him a situation in Washington. The resolution for submitting a prohibitive ameudment to the people has passed both houses of the Michigan Legislature. John K. MacIvkr, Secretary of the Detroit Board of Trade, was stricken in the street on the 18th with _heart-disease, from which he expired. The resolution to submit to the people the question of licensing the liquor trafflc was defeated on the isth in the Ohio House. Advices of the 18th frora Washington state that members of the diplomatic corps were resigning daily. Taft of Austria, Astor of Italy, and Young of China, had airead y tendered their resignations, and iutimations had been received at the State Department that the resignations of mos! of the others had already been forwarded. A ballot for United States Senator was reached iu the Illinois Legislature on the 18th, thure being but two absentees. John A. Logan received 101 votes, W. R. Morrison 91, E. M. Haines 4, James H. Ward 1, Frank Lawler 1 and John Smith 1. The wife uf Juiucs Russvll Luwoll American Minister to Eugland, died on th nth in London. General Grant was on the 19th pro nounced recovered from the throat ani tongue ulceration which at oue time it wa feared would lead to a fatal result. The Dakota üouncil bas passeü a bui ror a Constitutional (.'ouvuutioa for the southern portion of the Territory, to be held next September at Sioux Falls. O'Donovan Rossa on the 19th left 8t. Vincent's Hospital and ís now at his house in Brooklyn. He has entirely reeovered from the effects of his wound. Thrke ballot were taken by the Illinois Legislature on the li'th for Uuited States Senator, all resulting alike, Logan receiving 100 votes, Morrison 94, the remainder scattering. ïhree ballots for United States Senator were taken on the 20th in the Illinois Legislature, every meraber being present. Logan twice received 100 votes, and then 101. Morrison had 95, 97 and 98. The bill requiring the securing of licenses to niarry has been killed in the Michigan House. William C. Kinoslky, famous as the builder of the Brooklyn bridge, died at his home in Brooklyn on the 20th, aged tlfty - two years. The Oregon Legislature adjourned tint die on the 2Oth. The Senatorial deadlock continued until the end of the session, and no United States Senator was chosen. FOREIGN. Ir was announced on the lTth that General Wolseley had decided to remain at Korti with the present f orce of 1,600 troops until General Evelyn Wood reported as to the situation at Meteinneh. The Arabs were said to be deserting frotn Metemneh in large numbers, and entering the Bntish camp at Gubat. In the neighbnrhood of Montreal the heaviest snow-storm for years raged on the 17th, and rallroad trafflc was at a standstill, immense quantities of snow haviug drifted on the tracks. A similar state of affaii-s prevailed at Quebec. Charles M. Weed, the absconding boolckeeper of Milmine, Bodman & Co., of Chicago, was held up by detectives inToronto, Can., on the 18th and forced to disgorge Söii.OOO which he had embezzled. The Canadian voyageurs who took General Wolseley's boats up the N.lo were on the 18th preparing to sail from Queenstown for home. Ten of the cornmand were drowned, two died from fever and two were killed on the railway in Egypt. It is reported that the Governor of Sonora, Mex., has given the Mormons ths right to settle in Yaqui County. Tha county is represented to be one of the richest sections in the world. At Blackburn, Eng., the other day the Kingdom Mills were burned. The loss was estimated at $100,000. Two constables were killed by falling walls. In a storm a few days ago the steamer Newcastle City lost one hundred head of cattle overboard near Halifax, boats being also destroyed and hatches wrecked. It was announced on the 19th that the plans of the Soudan campaign had been changed, the main body of the Brltish ariay haring baan ordered to concentrata at Korti. It was be lie ved that General f i m- tj -w-onío ót roMla M Xcav ut London. Pauliame.vt opened in London on th evening of the 19th. No person nut duly autuorized was allowed to pass the gates. Advicks on the 19th f rom Irkutsk, In Kastera Siberia, reportad n revolt raonj the Russian exiles, whioli ftl ]iilld wHIi great difflculty. Nino soldiors and tliirty exiles woro killed. Advices of tho ".'Oth amiouuce the deatu of O-neral Sir H.-rhiTt Btawart, who was w oiiihIo 1 at the battle of Abu-Klea Wjlls. The British Government had called out the militia aud suspendid transfers of olflcers from the regular army to the roserves. The English arsenal wero preparing mor war material for Egypt than was aent to theCriinmi. LATER NEWS. Thí couipletion of tho Washiuzton monument was celobratod on the 21st at the National Capital with great rejoicings. The ceremonies opened with an address by Senator Sherman at the monument. Hon. W. W. Corcoran formally preeented tlie obelisk to tht) United State, anii President Arthur accopted it with au appropriat response. Masonic r tes followed. In tho House of Representativas, where both branches of Congress were as¦embled, Mr. Edmuuds' I riof spoech was followel l.y tho addr.-ss of th day, written by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and read by Representativo John D. Long. At a fire in New York on the 21t ll nipmbe s oL thefamily of Policeman James Murray were burnod to deat:i. At twenty-sx leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchanes during the week ended on the 21st aggregated $670,781,030, against$71(i,CT8,lll the previouh week. As compared with the correspondí ug period of 1884, the falling off amounts to 20.1 per cent. Ten business buildings in New Britain, Conn., valued with contents at $200,000, were burned the Other morning. One man lost bis life. Mail-robbkrs at New Braunfela, Tex., on the 21st killed Hal öosling, United States Marshal and Mr. Manning, his deputy. The two robbers were pursued and shot dead. Bix persons were killed by an explosión of natural gas at Wellsburg, W. Va., on I the 21st, and a considerable amount ol property was destroyed. ¦ General Looan recelved one hundrod votes for United States Senator in the I1H nois Legislature on tho 21st. The Demo orats refused to vote, and broke the quorum. In the District Court at Chicago, after a trial lasting fifteen daya, the jury on th 21st couvicted J. C. Mackin, W. J. Gal lagher and Arthur Gleason of perpetrating electiou frauds, and acquitted Henry Biehl. Motions were entered for a new trial. Mackin and Galla ;her were held in $80,000 bail each, and Gleason in f10,000. Thb Indians about Fort Reno were on the 22d exhibiting symptoms of hostility on account of the recent invasión of the Oklahoma boomers. The troops at Camp Russell had taken refuge in the fort. Consideration of the Post-oflïce bill was resumed in the United States Senate on the 21st, and it was decided to retain in the bill the House paragraph reducing the postage on nowspapers sent frotn publication offices to subscribers to one cent per pound. In the House the Committee on Appropriatimis decidi'd to Insert in tae Sundrv Civil ippropriatlon bill a clanse authm-iziiu the Preidenl bo unpeud fir oneyear trom Juh uexi ii i loage o' ilvcr ¦'cl:ir-.