News Summary

Auo. 2. Sexatb.- The day was pont in xmsidering the llsheries treaty. House.- After routine matters had been lisposed of the house went into oommittee )f the whole on the deficiency appropriation Dill. August 8, Sknatk.- Mr. Cullom oftered i resolution instracting the commlttee on inter-state commerce to investígate the luestion of interference by Canadian railivays with American eommerce, and report wliut act ion was necessary for the protection of the commercial interest-g of the United StateB. After an extended discussiou the resolution was adopted without a Jivision. Consideration of the lishery Lreaty was then resumed. House. - The house speut most of the day liscussing the general deficiency bilí, and ït the evening sessioji passed 3Q priyate pension bilis. August 7, Scsatk.- Mr. Sherman dJressed the senate in opposltion to the flsh sries troaty. A message f rom the Prosideut, retoing a bilí to grant 635 acres of amilitary reservation to the city of Takoma, W. T., for a park, was road and referred to the jonimittee on public lands. The grounds of t.he Presidcnt's disapproval are that the irmy engineers report againstthe grant bo;auso the land may be neeflefl for military purposes. The senate then rssumod considLtration of the bill repoited from the committee on foreign relations to prohlblt the ■umiijK' of Chinese laborers to the Unitod States. Mr. Stewart spoke in Qf the tjill anf} when lp cjospd tho senate adjournHouse. - Dlspussion of the b{U making an ippropriution to enable the executive delart menta to particípate in thoOhio centcniiial exiKJsition nezt ajK} Ootobér took up the pntire time of the house, but no itction win takii on the measure. The published Story tfl the efjfaot Vftat fidlay, O-, i in flangor of beiag blown up by a ubterranean explosión of natural gas n the not very distftnt future is iliacredited by geologist in Washington, George Harris, a 14-year-old boy of Cinolunatl, was ghootlug at a target when his sister aeized the muzzle of the rifle. The weapon wag disoharged and the girl'g head was blown to fragmontH. Indiana republicans unanlmously demand that Gen. Porter accept the nomination for governor. Pifty dolegates and 20 eounties pledge support to the program, The California republioan tate convention ha denounced freo trade, wants a froe ballot in the south, and asks for an apprenticeship law. The prohibltion state oonvention of West Virginia nominated Thos. R. Carscaden for governor, and anathematized the oíd partios, as usual. Qvp.f 3Q0 Jtalians, disgusted at not belng able tn obtuiu einpluyment here, sailed from New York for Italy on tho Ist inst. Archle V. Stewart, who flve years ago was storokeeper at the Longview insane asylum, near Cincinnati, feil short in his accounts to the amount of $13,000. Dotectives have been searching for him ever since at odd times. He was arrested in Indianapolis on the Ist inst. and taken to Cincinnati. !pl}e b,us,inpsg, pqrt,iqn of 8ufflk, Va-, wag destroyoc) by fiie the otber mornlng. Losa $500,000, with light inaurance Dobt statement Issued August V, shows total interest bearing debt, 11,020,554,600; total debt, $1,727,700 324; less available cash, cash toma and cash in treasury, $1,101,447,358; decroase during month, 4,137,398; total cash in treasury, $46,123,365. Yellow fever is dying out in Florida for want of material. J, J, Gogdin, treasurer o Uawlina oouoty, Ark,, ha skipptid with $12,0)0 of the county's funds. Montana stockmeu shipped from Texas 117,000 head of cattle in a fortnight. An iu-'cd couple named Gascón, near Ottawa, Out., quarreled, when she brained him with a shovel. Connecticut prohibitionista have nominated a state ticket on a woman suffrage, no whisky platform. James G. Blaine sailod from Liverpool 0I thé Ut insf. New York diamond importen have been swlndled out of 10,000 by A. G. Radcliffo, a mounter of glaziers' diamonds. The sheriff of Knott county, Kentucky, and a posse were guarding prisoners to the ponitentiary, a inob attempted their release and one of the mob was killed. The posse was attacked later and three persons killed and several wounded. A conference of the leaders of the uniou and united labor partios was held ia Chicago the other day and an off ort made to devise means for merging into one organization. Ail schemes falled, however. For the flrst seven months of this year 28,352 more immigrants landed at Castle Garden than in the correspondlng seven months of last year. The July arrivals were 1,246 more than for July 1887. San Carlos Indians are causing considerable trouble. An effort is being made to prevent them from getting beyond the limits of their reservation. Land Commissioner Stockslager holds for cancelation 70 desert land entries in Wyoming territory, aggregating 47,000 MM. Lumber and salt will not be on the free list in the senate tariff bill. Reported that New England politicians in Washington are trying to bring about the election to the United States senate of James G. Blaine. Blaine's friends deny that he has any senatorial aspirations. Damage to the amount of half a million dollars was done by flood at Duluth the other day. The Dominion government will not allow Mormon settlera to practice polygamy in the Northwest. A Rupposed dynamito boinb, made of asection of gas pipe two feet long and plugged at both ends, was sent to Inspector Bonfleld at Chicago. Over a million dollars damage has been caused by forest fires in Ontario. Tho British government has made application to the governor of Missouri for a respite in the case of Maxwell, the St. Louis trunk murderer. The government will bring guit against the Eureka mining company of Nevada for $3,670, 741. Thissum.it is alleged, representa the value of charcoal and cordwood manufactured from cedar, pino and mahogany timber unlawfully cut from the public mineral lands in Nevada by or with guilty knowledge of the Eureka company. Millions.of moths invaded Reading, Pa., tho othor night, obscuring the lights. They were pronouuced cotton moths. The governor of Kansas has ordered the second brigade and secoud artillery battery to Stevens county to preserve the peace. Thirteen stores in West Unity, Ohio, were destroycd by flre on the 3d inst., at a loss of f 100,000. W. A. Croffutt, a woll known newspaper correspondent of Washington has been appointed executive offlcor of the geological survey at $3,000 per year. Hon. James Lynch of New York, formerly one of tho commissionors of emigration, is dead. Patenta have been issued to the state of Minnesota for 44,183 acros of swamp land in the St. Cloud district, Crops In the northwest are suffering severely from rust and blight. A bilí has been introduced in the sonate granting a pension of $5,000 a year to tho widow of Gen. Sheridan. Advocates of Henry George's idea, to tho number of 500, mot at Coopr Union in New York the other night. Kcsolutions were adopted indorsing tariff roform and the nomination of Grover Cleveland for president. Henry Goorgo oulogized President Cleveland's tariff message and declared it to be a vital step in the diroction of tho objeets of the singlo tai theory. Pelix Bruno was arrestod in Boston the other day for robbing the Hamburg (Germany) postofllce of $6,000, July 23d. FOREIGN. The czar gave a farewell audience to Uuited States Minister Lothrop on the lst inst. Parnell charges Chamberlain with treachery. The milis of the Eddy manufacturing company, three miles from Ottawa, Ont., were burned on the 1 st i nst. Loss $400,000. It is reported tliut Ktanley is denuded of men and supplies and uemmed in betweeu the Maboda country and the Albert za, and Kmin liey is in an equally ! ous position, neither being able to unite with the other. Advises have boen received from Japan stating that the volcano of Mount Iwahnssi is in a state of activity. Already over 500 live have been lost, and several villages destroyed. Six women were killed by an explosión in a flre-works factory in London on the id inst. ' Emperor William will visit London in November. Tho relations btween France and Italy are severely strained. Eureka, a nmall villago near Ottawa, Ont., has been ontirely destroyed by lire. Forest flres have done great dainagu in the country around Ottawa, Ont. Ma y lumber districts have been entirely bumed over. The fires are the most severo tliut hayo ever visited that seoti), Tho kiffg of Sweden wtll act as god father to Emperor William' youngcst child. Strlkino wevers at Armiens, France, gutted a factory and thcn set it on are, Tho Gorman government has indireotly asmired the Pope that Einperur Wtlliam's visit to King Huwbert will be of a puro military charaoter, and that the relations between the Vatican and Italy will not be touched. Prof. Delbruck, tutor of oue of t!ie late Emperor Frederick's sous, has publlshed some interesting re,mlnlspences of Emperor Ffederipk.. At the Hruze railroad tunnel, near Laon, France, some Italians and French laborera fought about the discharge of na Italian contractor. One ItiUUin was killed and four Italians aiiil four Frenchmen were Wonnded. During a ('norther" two large barks, one English and the other French, unk in the harbor at Valparaíso, ftftor having been in collision. The yrevp of the Engllsu vessel. oiuistinif of seventeen hands, and seven of the French crew were drowned. Five veg■els wero blowu aahoro and dashed to pleceB, Mr. Gladstone says that hls advanced age and ttig prcas of public duties prevent his vigiting the Scotch crofters. The Spanlsh governmont has docided to impoBO a heavy poll tax upon Chinaoien immigrating to the Philippine Jslands. A strike is threatened at Blackburn, Eng., that will throw 80,000 mili operatives out of work. The English government has assented to the addition of a clause in the Parnell commission of inquiry bill empowering the commlsgion to arrest and punish recalcitrant witnesses. At the Hamptonwick depot, London, Eng., a passenger and a goods frain cüllided, telescoping tvyo car and k)Uing the drirer, stoker and four passengers The TurkiaU ombassador at Berlin has notlñed the porte that negotlations between Germany, Austria and Italy on the rian question will be begun, and that the coming moeting between the Russian I ister of foreign affairs and Bismarck will lead to a congross at Berlin. The mcmoiis of the late Emporor Fre4eriok have been returned tp, Qf.rnany, An immciisr ;t!iuat"i ot damage has been do!((! íín (tirinaii orons at F.lbing, Sagar and Konigsberg by heavy rainH. Many cattle have porished. Ilailway trafile is ' terrupted at Bromberg and Gorlitz, and muoh damage has been wrought to property In many places.