News Summary

June 16, Hocsb - Mr. Randall oí Pennjylvania, írom the committee on approprialions, reported tbe sundry civil service appropriation bilí, and gave notico that he tvould cali it up for actlon at the earllcst poBsible moment. It appropriates $23,714,nw The house then went into committee f the whole on the army approprlafeion bilí. A.U amendment was adoptcd appropriatlng 1800,000 for the construction of a new military post near Chicago, 111. Mr. Ford of Michigan moved an amendment appropriating f30,000 for the purchase of powderto Bre the moruing and evening guus at military posts. He and Mr. Tillman of South Carolida made eloquent appoals for the hon)r of the tlag and called attention to the Tact that the United States, since the 4th of March last, had saluted the flags of comino lores of every of her nation, but not its own 9ag. The amendment was adopted. The rommittee thcn rose and the bill was passed, ifter which the house adjourned. Jcne 18, Sknate. - The bill providing for the representation of the executive departments of the government at the Columbus pentennial exposition was passed with an unendment appropriating $40,000. Among the senate bilis taken f rom the calendar ana passed were: relinquishing to the United States a portion of the Fort Hall Indian reer vat ion in Idaho for a to wn site ; authorizing the sale of a part of the Wlnnebago reservation in Nebraska; authorizing tbe ïonstruction of a railroad bridge across the Missouri at Parkwell, Mo., ; granting to the ity of St. Augustine, Fla., the postofflce ind custom house lot for a public park; appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Dakland, Cal.; authorizing the construction if a railroad bridge across the Hississippi it Alma, Wis. ( authorizing the building of i railroad bridge at Fort Smltn, Ark, ; also the house bill authorizing the ponstructlon )f a wagon and. foot passenger bridge across the Noxhube near Oainesvüle, Ala. The ronf erence report on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to, and the treaty providing íor a re-opening oí the claims of American citizens agalnst the Venezuelan fovernment, was ratified. House. - Bills were passed appropriating (50,000 for a public building at Brownsville, Texas, and the same amount for the completion of the public building at Wichlta. Kansas. Consideration of the sundry civil ippropriatiuii bill occupied most of the time 9f the house. : Junk 19, Sexatk. - The senate took up the business on the calendar, and a number of bilis of minor importante were passed. Among them was one authorizing the conitruction of a railroad bridge across the Red River of the north. Adlourned. Hofuse.- The house went into committee )f the whole on the sundry civil appropria:ion bill, and after debate the provisión apprepriating $500,000 to the congresslonal library building was stricken out. The ommittee then rose and, after passing a Lí 11 authorizing the appointment of an addiiional associate justice for the Dakota, adlourned. _ GENERAL. Seven men were buried by a cave-in of a ;lay bank in Menominee, Wis., the other iay. Two of them were taken out dead, ind another died a few hours later. The jthers were more or less injured. Colored people are euiigrating to Qklahaina in large numbers. PoBtmaster-General Dickinson is preparing an exhibit of his department to be sent to the Cincinnati exhibition whieh opens July 4. The Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, has .■■laiiaed another victim. Pólice Oftlcer rimothy Sullivan, who was on of the ietail which stood the damage of the ïnarchist bomb on that memorable nigbt, lied on the 14th inst. He received a bullet in the thigh and the blood poisoning whi.-h intervened gradually sapped his strength until death ensued. He had been 3ii the force six vears and was married. Two young (iermans at Fullerton, Neb., were experimenling by tipping a boat. It was capsized and they were drowned. A reunión of the survivors of the Union navy will be held during the Q. A. R. enampment in September. The monument that marks the spot wliere Stonewali Jackson received the wound trom which hu died, was dedicated at Chan;ellorville on the 13th inst. Mr. McLane, United States minister to Paris, has returned to his post of duty. Swinton's Knglish Hlstory has been exiluded f rom the Boston public schools on the jround that it treats the doctrine of induljence in a manner offensive to Catholics. Hon. John Schultze has been appolnted Ueunan-governor of Majitoba. Heavy damage was done throughout Minnesota by a storm on the 14th inst. Democratie clubs of Illinois have organized a state league. Martin H. Phlpps of Gallatin county, Ky., who disappeared in 1877, haviug become p'artly deranged owing to the antics of a wayward daughter, was found by his son recently in the house at Shelbyville, UI. The son traced his father by seeing a paragraph in a paper to the effect that the ld man had been granted a pension aa a Mexican veteran, his address being giren M ShelbyviUe. The President has signed the bill creating a department of labor. An equostrian statue oí Gen. Israel Put(ia:u of revolutionary ame was UQveiled at Brooklyn, Conn., June 14. Paymaster George R. Watkins U. S. N., serving a term for f raud and embezzlement, has been pardoned by the President. Deacon Isaac Bronson and wife of Pokeville, near Forestville, Conn., were found dead in their farm house the othor morning. The woman's head was hanging by a mere thread, and Bronson's throat was gashed by a razor. The theory is Bronson, In a flt of lnsanity, symptozns of which he has lately thown, cut his wife's head off with an ax and then cut his own throat. The nood on the St. Louis river, caused by the heavy storm of the 14th, is the worst known for 20 years. The glassfactory in Tifnn, O., was blown down on the 15th inst. Two brilliant wedding occurred at the Oarfield homestead ia Mentor. Obio, on the 14th inst., when Henry Gariield, the oldegt sou of the late president, and Miss Belle Mason of Cleveland, and J. Stanley Brown, private secretary to President Garfleld, and Miss Mary Garfiold were united in marriage. Mauy distinguished persons were present, including ex-President and Mrs. Hayes. Mr. and Mrs. Garfleld wlll go to New York for the honeymoon, while Mr. and Mrs. Brown after a short trip through the western States, will go to Kurope. A passenger train ran off the track near Alexandria, Va., the other morning, and five persons were killed. Gen. Howard object to tb,e new system of monthly payments Wi the army. Ho aay it tends to ibcrease deserter. Two monumentg commemorat Ive of the late war were dedicated in Rlchmond, Va., the other day. Memorial services for Btnperor Frederick were held at the Lutheran church in Washington the other day. MÍ9S Mary N. Prescott, a volumineus writer of charmlng sketches and poen.s, died at Newburyport, Mass., a few days ago. Fire destroyed $1,000,000 worth of property inDuboi, Pa., the other day, and rendered 3,000 people homeless. Rufus C. Crampton, the third president of Illinois college, died in Jacksonvüle recently. He served as a colonel of volunteerg in the war. Mrs. Ann Maria Treadweil Redfield died at Syracuse, N. Y., last week, aged 88. Kd acated under Miss Emma Willard,, taughv in the old Onondaga academy, a,u usvitution f amous long bef ore Syracuse ueoame a city, and was also the authox pi a tex.t book on zoology. She was one of the best kno wu women in central Nev York, The grciit trial at Nashvtlle, Tenn., of Joseph R. Banks and John Cockrill, for the killing Of John It. Littleton, editor of the National Review, last December, was brought to a close by the Jury reporting 10 for acquittal and two for 15 years' iinprisonmen t. The 1ury was dlsmlssod. St. Joseph's Cathollc orphan asylum, near Newport, Ky., was burned June 19 for the second time in three years. Llghtcd matches in the hands of some of the inmates caused the fire. The 73 orphan escaped. Gen. Sheridan's health continúes 9 iprore. Many .persous b.aye been drawned by floods i.u the st4e '?.( Quanajuato, Mexico. Fonr raen who were at work in a ahed near St. Alexia, Quebcc, in which was itored a quantity of naphtha, Ughted a fire within a few feet of tb building, a apark set the building on flre, the naphtua exploded and the four men were blown to fragmenta. _ FOREIGN. Reported that 1,000 pilgrims on their way to Mecca have been drowned. Several members of the Irish natiouul league have been arrested in Ireland as a result of secret inqu irles. Mr. Parnell gave a banquot in Loudon the other night to the Iriah members of parliament who have lately been in prison ia Ireland. Gladstone has been honored wlth a degree by the university at Bologna. Mlle. Columbia, formerly Miss Scanlac of Chicago, made a succeasful debut in opera in London the other night. The king of Holland's heir, the Princess Wilhelmla, aged 7years, bas been betrothed to the 12-year old Prince of Saxe-Weimar. The marriage will un te Saxe-Weimar and HoUand. Foreat lires have done considerable damage in the vicinity of Halifax, N. S. The village of East Hawdon, Hunts eounty haa been completely wlped out. Several llvea are reported lost, and hundreds of poor people are homelesa. There are grave feara that Stanley the explorer, haa lost hia life. The result of the post mortem on the body of Emperor Frederlok shows that the larynx had been completely destroyed by ancor. The dlreot cause of death, however, was paralyais of the lungs.