Summary Of The Week

In the Señale on the üOth the tie was occupled In ducugsiug the tUhcrie trctj In the House a bil! was iniroduced to define trusts and to punlsb persons connectod wtth them. The most of the day was spent in discussmg the Chfnese Imm gration Kestrlctlon bllL whlch Was ilniiUy passed, wltb nn atnendment provldlag tkat the repealloc cluuse sLall go lnto effect only upon the rallfication of the pending treaty. The Senatc refused on the 21st to ratify the flsheries treaiy by a vota of 80 to 27. Bills were lntroduced to prevent the introductlon of contaglous diseases (rom one State to another, and to pension soldlers' wldows regardless of the cause of the soldier's death, provlded thoy were marrled during bis military service. Ninety-three prívate bllls were passed.. ...In the House a bilí was Introducod to changa the time for asscmbïing subsequent Congresses from the lirst Monday in December to the lirt Monday In Marcb. Tbe Deflcicncy bill was con¦idered. A JOINT resolutlon was passed In the Senate on the 'JSd appropriating 12)0,000 to prevent the spread of tnfectious diseases in the United States. Mr. Chandler N. H.) called up bis reiolution relativo to fraud and violence in the last Loulsianaelection, and msAf a lenrttiT address... In the House the conference report on the Army Approprlatlon bilí I-,S8 1,000) was agreed to. The DeBclency Approprlatlon bill was further consldered. Mr. Chandi.ih concluded hls speech in the Senate on the i'Sd on the Louislana electlon frauds. A resolutlon was adopted accepting and returnmg thwks for a bust of Garlbaldl presented to the United States by the Hallan citlzens of this country. A message was recelyed from the President on the rejecteii fisherlaa treaty, and anotfasr vetolng six private pension bilis ...In the House the President' s message on the rejected flsheries treaty was read. A bill was lntroduced providing for a tax upn Canadian tonnage passing through American canals. The conference report on the Army Aprropriatlon bill was rejected, and the DeBclency bill was further consldered. The President' s message on the subject of the rejcctlon of the flsheries treaty was laid before the Sonate on the 21th, and Senators EJmund and Hoar made speeches atuckiag the President' posltion anJ Senator Morgan spoke In lts favor. Adjourned to the 27th.... In the House the Defic ency bill was taken up, but nothlng was done as no quorum was present. Al the evening session iorty-Qve prl rale pension bilis were passed. DOMESTIC. Wili.iam Cole was lynched on the 20th at Guide Rock, Neb., for shooling two mea. A WIXD-9T0BM on the 21st at Wheeling, W. Va., did damage to the extent of $250,000. A ctclone passed acros9 Delaware on the 2Lst about six miles below Wilmington, cutting a path two hundred (eet in width, leveling trees, orchards and out-buüdings, and djinj; damage estimated at f150,000. Three men were killed. The Hermann Berghoff Brewing Company's new brewery at Fort Wayne, Ind., was burned on the 21st at a loss of 1100,000. A pire on the 21 st at Rondout, N. Y., did damage to the extnt of $ 100,00a Cathsrine Willes, aged thirty-one years, committed suicide on the 21st at Cincinnati through fear of becoming an old maid. Captain Nat Kinnet, the notorious chief and founder of the Bald Knobbers' organization, was shot and instantly killed at Ozark, Mo., on the 21st by Bill Miles, an enemy. 8. R. Post, a well-known New York grain dealer, failed on the Sist for $750,000. A violent wind-storm swept both sides of Chesapeako bay on the 21st. Frame houses and barns were demolished, entire fruit orchards were destroyed, and corn fields were in many instantes swept clean. A flash of lightning on the 2l9t did f20,000 worth of damage on Ueorge Rainsford's ranch near Chugwater, Wy. T. Eighteen horses were killed, includiug a magnificent mare valued at $5,000. Storms in Louisiana had on the 21t done great damage to the rice and sugarcane crops, and cotton crops in Tennessee and Alabama had also been injured. Theke were five new cases of yellow fever and one death at Jack sonviüe, Fla., on the 21st. Daniel Ltons was hanged in the yard of the Tombs prison in New York on the 21st for the murder of Joseph Quinn on July 6, 1887. A statement prepared on the21st by the Treasury Department at Washington estimated the surplus for the fiscal vear endingJune 30, 1889, bascd on House appropriations, at $26,950,530. Mr. Mack Brown while sitttng in the rotunda of the Peabody Hotel at Memphis, Tenn., on the 2Ut was fatally shot by Leiris Lane. When questiosed as to the motive for the deed Lane sid he feit like killing somebody and shot Mr. Brown because the latter was not looking at him. Advices of the 21st say that the recent storm in Saline Oounty, Mo., did damage to the extent of $300,000. The loss at Norborne and vicinity alone was estimated at Í1U0.000. Theke were nine new cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fia., but no deaths during the twenty-four hours endeJ on the 22d. Bt an accident on the 22d to a train running from Springüeld to Columbus, O., a dozen passengors were badly injured. Tbe damage by doods throughout Ohio and West Virginia had on the 23d reached $3,000,000. Six lives were lost in Ohlo. Durixo a heavy fog in the bay of Ban Francisco on the 22d the steamer Oceanic ran into the City of Chester, damaring hor so badly that she went down in Uva minutes, and thirteen persons wers drowned. Whilk preparing üre-works on the 22d at Bradford, Pa., for a celebration, an explosión occurred, killin? Edward DuelL, Robert Hurley and W. C. Curtis and wounding others. Dispatches of the 22d say tbat nlne persons lost their lives in the recent cyclone atStill Pond, Md., and others were badly injured. High water in Pennsylvanla had on the 22d caused a loss of $100,000 in Westmore land County, and the entire loss in other portions of the State was estimated at $1,000,000. Four persons lost their lives. The Decar Hill yarn works at Darby, Pa., were burned on the 23d, involving a loss of $100,000. Nicolo Femmesetta was hanijed at Buena Vista, Col., on the 23d for the murder of Michacl D. Casey at Uranite in Maren last. Dispatchis of the 23d say the damage throughout Western Pennsylvanla by the recent üoods was estimated at $1.500,000. The water was subsidiog and railroad trafile had been partially resumed. Secret service olllcera arrestad a gaag of counterfeiters at New York on the 23d who -were engaged in manufacturing and "shoving" live-dollar silver certitii-ates of very fine workmanship. There were two hundred cases of lead poisoning in Newark, N. J., on the 23d, attributed to the use of beer drawn through pipes and "soft" drinks from bottles rinsed wlthshot It was discoveeed ia ew York on the Í3d that a registered packhife contaiuinR WO.ÜOa hal been stolen while in trausit f rom Portland, Ore., to tho Chemical Na tional liauk of New Ifork. Bï a storm on the 23d in Miiskingum Coi.nty, O., bridges and culveru were washed away a'ud crops tustained consid arable injury. President ('i.kvki.anu on the 23d sent a message to both houses of Congruas ask ing for legislatlon authorizinj? hira to issue a proclamation forbidding the transporta tion of foroijrn goods in bond across tha United State in retaliation for discrimi nations agalnst American ñshermen by Canadtans. Tkkif. murders were committed on the 23d at Pinevlllc, Ry. Qoorge Carrón and a railway boss got in a quarrel and fatally snot each other, and two Italian laborera quarreled about a woman and one stabbec the other to death. Near Monticello, Ga., on the 23d, at a re ligious association meeting, a fight oc curred between the T.vler and Malone fani ilies. Ttiirty shots were lired, and James Malone and Bam Tyler were instantly killed, Ert Tyler mortally wounded and several others severely injured. Horácb Chkisti.er, a farmer livine near Topeka, Kan., was murdered on the 23d by a ueignbor, John Carter, orcrtrouble arising from their joint possession of a cornplantcr. H. H. Marshall, postmaster at 8t. Clair Pa., disappeared on the (d. His accounts were $1,600 short. A pai'Ek-mili. at Menasha, Wis., caneht fire on tho 38d, and when the firemen turnod water on the immense rcvolving bleach In the healing-room an explosión resulted and ten tons of boiler debris were hurled into tho crowd of spectators, killInR iourtrrn perspns outright, fatally injuridj scven and wounding raany more. Fivc HiKlUEii witnessos who were taken toOrnfiivillc, S. C, to testify against the "moonshiners" were said to be in a starving condition on the 23d, the United States Court being short of funds to pay them fces. Dirino the seven days ended on the 34th there were 157 business failures in the United States, against 151 the previous seven days. Amile swimming race for the amateur champlonship of the United States for women tooit place at New York on the Ï4th, and was won by MissDaisy Blantdey, aged twelve years. A riRS on the 24th at Clinton, Ind , de stroyed a dozen business houses. Ei.hvex head of horses, together with Mark Lebcrman's house and bam, were burned on the 24th at Wilmington, DeU Bil new cases of yellow fever were reported on the 24th at Jacksonville, Fla., and two deaths. At a colored rcligious meeting on the 24th at Carter's Wharf, Va., three perions were struck by lightning and killed. A hïavt shock of earthquake occurred at Stevcnson, Ala., on the 24th, alarming the colored resident so that nearly all of them rushed into the streets. A ton of powder in the drying-house of the Grant Powder Company, near West Berkley, Cal., exploded on the 24th, killlng two white men and three Chinamen. Two SI3TBR9, Be. Ie and Jessie Ferguson, of St. Paui, Minn , severely horsewhipped and clubbed J. M. Hawthorne, a young attorney, on the 24th because he made unpleasant remarks about them. Louis Codex, a Noeales (A T.) chant, was murdered by thieves on the 24th, whocarried off one thousand dollars. Jacob Moxter, a prominent dealer in planos in St. Louis, sat down to one of his pianos on the 24 tb, played the "Dead March," and tben blcw bis bralns out. Business trouble caused the rash net. Bi.ai'K measles oí a most virulent type prevailed on the 24th among the negroes on the rice plantationson the Santce river, near Columbia, 8. C. Fifty deathg had occurred, and the disease had become epidemie, creating a panic. Natu tsiüi. R Lith, Jr., deputy collector of the port of Ogdensburg, N. Y. ; William J. CummUky, janitor of the Government building, and John W. Stone, a prominent attorney of that city, were arrested on the 24th on a charge of stealing and disposing of smuggled opium. Dr. J. W. wis, of Hartford, Conn., was on the 2-lth elected president of the American Microscopist' Society at Cleveland. Obercampf, the Chicago mail-box robber, was on the 34th held for trial in (5,000 bail. New York coal agonts on the 24th increased the price of coal from twenty-flve to fifty cents a ton, according to distance of shipment. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Buioadikk General Absalom Baird, Inspector-General of the army, was on the ÍOth placed on tha retired list, and Colonel Kogor Jones was appointed te succeed him witb. the rank of Brigadier-General. Robrt M. Hauui.et was renominated for Congress on the 20th by Seventh Pennsylvania district Republicans. A colored woman nained Mrs. Phoebe Clark died in Detroit, Mich., on the 20th, aged hundred and three years. She was a native of Delaware and bom in slavery. Sïcod Alabama district Democrats on the 21st nominated Congressman H. A. Herbers for the seventh term. E. H. Conokr, Representativo of the Seventh lowa district in Congress, was renominated on the ílst by the Republicans. Nels P. Hauokn was renominated for Congress on the 21st by the Republicans of the Eighth Wisconsin district Rioht Rev. Samuel 8. Harris, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Michigan, died at London on the 21st from a stroke of apoplexy, aged forty-seven years. J. P. Dolliver was nominated for Confrress on the 21st by Tenth district lowa Republicans. Joseph B. Chzadi.k wa renominated for Cougress on the 21st by the Ninth Indiana district Republicans. Wisconsin Republicans mot in State convention at Milwaukee on the 22d and nominated the following ticket: For Governor W. D. Huard; lieutenant Governor, G. W Ryland; Secretary of Btate, Ernest G. Timme; Treasurer, H. R Harshaw; Attor ne.y General, C. K Estabrook; Buperintendent of Education, J. B. Thayer; Railroad Comminsioner, Atley Peterson; Inaurance Commissioner, Philip Cheek, Jr The platform indorses the Republican National platform and candidates, praues Republican administration of State aff airs and eulogizes Governor Rusk. Hon. Charles W. Cathcart, ex-Congressman and ex-United States Senator, died at his home near Trestville, Ind„ on the 23d, aged seventy-nine years. The Republican State convention for West Virginia met in Charleston on the KJd and nominated General N. Goff for Governor by acclamation. Mr. Goff now represent the First district in Congress. The Democrats of Missouri met at Jefferon City on the 22d and nominated D. R. Francis, now mayor of 8t. Louis, for Governor. Nomixations for Congress were made as iollows on the 22d: Fifth Ohio district, Wilson Vanee (Rep.); Second Indiana, T. N. Braxton (Rep.); Tenth Indiana, Judge Owens (Rep.); Fifth New Jersey, Mahlou HoaglanJ (Dem ); Nineteenth New York, James A. Holroyii (Rop) ; Ninth Kontucky, Thomas Puyutor (l)uui i Tur Juv.ii Kt-jiublicuD Btate rouvention was h(!d at I). Moino on the 22d, and the folio win t cket was nominated: Por Sivrotary oí Btate, Frauk D. Jackson; Auditor, J. A. L.vous; Treasurcr, O. P. Twombley; Supremo Judfro, C. T. Grangcr; General, J. T. Stone; Hailroad Commissioners, F. T. Campbell, Spencer Km.th, John Mallín; Eloctors-at-large, ex Govcrnor Stone, C'olonel H 'pburn. Tha platform iudornes the Kopublican National nominees aud platform; comracnds Governor Larrabee's udministration; congratúlate the pcople on the temporáneo legislation and tlie rasults of the Prohibitory law, and íavors, gold, silver and greenbacks a currenoy. Ex CO.NOKESSMA.N J. B. KvEUHAUT, ilgcd sixty-eight veiirs, died at West Chester, Pa., on the &{d. He was a memoer of the Forty-cighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. Govebnor Thatek, of Nebraska, was renominated bv the Republican State convention at Lincoln on the 23d. Canuidates for Congrens were nominated as f ollows ou the 23d: Ohio, First district, Benjamin Butterworth (Rep.) renominated; Second, John A. Caldwell (Rep.); Fifth, Nelson J. Vanee (Rep.). Indiana, Second district, Thomas W. Braxton (liep). Kenlucky, Ninth district, Thomas H. Paynter (üam.). Iowa, Third district, David B. Henderson (Rep.) renominated; Seventh, W. L. Carpenter (Union Labor). Virginia, First district, H. B. Browne (Rep.) renominated. Maryland, Fifth district, Sidney E. Mudd (Rep.); Sixth, Louis E. McComas (Rep.) renominated Idaho, James G. Hawley (Dem ). J. H HcGisN'is was nominated for Congres on the 24th by the Republicans of the Third district of West Virginia, and G. A. Mathews received a like honor in Dakota. FOREICN. A wind and rain-storm on the 20th in the viriuity of Kornenburg, Austria, destroyed one hundred houses and seriously injured fifty persons. Other villages were subnaerged. Three persons were killed in Aspern, and twelve at other places. Many bead of cattle and crops ere destroyed. . Fóbést lires wero raging on the 20th óver an área of two hundred kilometers on the Italïan frontier and a number of villages had been burued. Harland & Wolpf, ship-bullders, of Belfast, Ireland, on tne 20th closed their yards owing to a partial strike of their employés. Five thousand hands were affected by the shutdown. Aiivices of the 21st say that the eruption of the volcano Bandaizan in Japan, followed by earthquake shocks, killed 250 persons. It was reported on the 21st that the wheat erop in India would reaeh two hundred and sixty million bushels of sixty pounds eách. Advices of the 22d say a violent hurricane swept over Balatony lake, Austria, and a boat containlng a number of reapers with the fruits of their harvesting was capsized and fifteen of its occupant drowned. Advices of the 22d f rom China say that a Spanish priest was attacked by a mob of natives at Antigüe, and that his companion, a Spaniard, shot and kille i fifty of tho would be assassins. Advicbs of the 23d say that one thousand houses had been burned at Orenburg, Rusfiia. and ten thousand factory operatives wore mide homeless by the fire. It was reported on the 24th that a forca of blacks and Krooboya, under three Uerman ofHoer, bad occupied Addelar, on the Gold Coast of África, hoisted the (ierman flag, built a fort and named it Bismarckburg. Dispatchbs of the 24th say that cholera broke out on the Portuguese transport India, while buund from Maccao to Mozambique, and within forty-cight honra there were thirtv-eight cases, twenty-four of which proved fatal. AnviCES of the 24th saf that eight hundrod workmen at Teng-Leon, China, wera drowned by an inundation. It was announced on the 34th that the forces of the Congo State had recapturod the Stanley Falla atation. LATER NEWS. Tuk percentage of the base-ball clubs In the National League for the week snded on tlie J5th was as followa: New Vork, .868; Chicago. .578; Detroit, 526.; Boston, .515; Philadelphia, .510; Pittsburgh, 472; Washington, .389; Indianapolis, .360. American Association: St Louis, .094; Ciucinnati. ,617; Philadelphia, .593; Brooklyn, .885; Baltimore, .402; Louiaville, .391; Cleveland, .3SU; Kansas City, .340. Westsrn Association: Des Moines, .657; Bt. Paul, .650; Omaha, .590; Kansas City, .513; Milwaukee, .4"; Sioux City, .421; Chicago, 400; Daveuport, 318. The boiler in a cotton mili at Bremond, Tex.,exploded on the 25th, killing W. L. Wooton and liis two sons. Fokest tires to the south of lshpeminjj, Mioh., utre doing great damage on the iöth. Twenty houses and several stores were burne.l at Nadean, Bolton and Mumford. One family of seven persons was missing from Mumford and was supposed to have I ecu bui iivd. Farmers had lost buildings, crups and every thing but their lives. The lire was spreading rapiJly. Cigak ii rak, soda and lemonade stands and loe-cream and l.quor saloons were closed in Pittsburgh. Pa., on the 2t!th. A státkmf.nt prepared at the Treasury Department iti Washington showed that 133,004,65 bomls had up to the 25tb been nurchased uuder the circular of April 16. l'he total cost of tho bonds was 140,675,515. Theke were seven new cases of yellow fever at Jac'ksonville, Fia., on the 25th. The total number of cases to dato was ninetyone; totalnumber of deaths, twelve. At twenty six leading clearing-houses In the United Statos tho exchanges during the week ended on the 25th aggregatod 8O7,802,087,against tS71.1f!l,:.ss the previoua week. As c-oin"ircd with tho corrosponding week of ls7 the increase amounted to 14.0 per cent. On the S6tb one hundred and fifty Mormon converts, mostlv of Scandinavian and English birtti, lai.de 1 at Castle Oarden, Nn%v Yurk, and left for Utah in charge of Bix Mormon elders. Advices of the 6th say that tho recent freshet in Louisiana swept away over one hundred houses, left twelve hundred people homeles and destitute, caused the death of sixteen persons, and in the inundated districta, covering four hundred square miles, not a head of stock was left alive. The loss to the State was estlmated at (4,000,000. TnE discovery of a nickel mine near Topeka, Kan., v;is reportad on the 25th. H. E. IIkad, a prominent citlzen of Evansville, lnd., feil from the sixth to the ' main floor of the Palmer House in Chicago on the L'5th and was killed. The United States Scnate was uot in sosaion on the 25th In the House a resolution waa adopted calliog on the AttorneyGeneral for inlormation as to Uie number of convictions that had been made for the offenses of polygamy aud adulterv in Utah and Idaho. An atleinpt to bring up theDefleiency A;ipropriation bill sliuwed no Quorum iiicsunt.