News Summary

AnoüST 9, Sexate. - Discussion of the fisheries treaty was resumed. Senator Evarts iioished his spoech in opposition to the treaty, and after a brief address on the subject by Mr. Morgan the senate adjourned. Holse. - Discussion of the French spoilation claims occupied most of the time of the house. August 18, Sbn'ate. - The eutire session was devoted to a discussion of the fisheries treaty. House.- Mr. Dubois of Idaho oftered a resolution, which was referred, calling on the attorney-general for a list of the pardon granted by the president to persons conrieted of unlawful cohabitation in Utah and Idaho since Maren, lSfifi. Mr. Davidson of Florida Intródnced a joint resolution appropriating $200,000 to aid in suppresaing infectious disciiKcs - referred. Bills relating to the District of Columbia were then considered. The senate bill was passed increasing to t-TO a month the rate of pension for total deaftessT Unanimous consent for immediate consideration of the dependent pension bill was asked, but Mr. Walker of Missouri objected. The fortifleation bill was then taken up in committee of the whole. Auocst 10, Senate.- Discussion of the fisheries treaty was resumed. Mr. Keagan of Texas introduced a bill to define trusts j and to próvido for tbe punishment of per; sons connected with them. Hoi;sE. - The session was devoted to the consideration of appropriation bilis. GENERAL. Indians ia the Athabasca district have had a hard winter, and a numberare said to have starved to death. A statue of Gen. Warren was unveiled at : Gettsburgon the 8th inst. The business portion of Litchfield, Conn., was burnea on the 9th inst., for the second time in three years. Wells college at Aurora, N. Y., was almost entirely destroyed by flre on tho 9th inst. The loss is about $75,000. Advices from Kosebud agency of the Sioux Indians Btate that they have unanimously pledged themselves to refuse to sign the treaty opening the settlemení to whites. The evidence before the congressional committeo shows that lnfractions of the al!on labor law are of every day occurrence. Kussians, Poles, Frenen and Canadians have been imported into New York factories without any restrictious whatever. Arthur C. Everett, a K. of L. of Wabash, Indiana, has been expelled from the order ior pronounced atheistic utterances. Justice Harían of Baltimore decides that taking a decoy letter is not a punishable offense. ; Kich finds of gold are reported in Montana and Alaska. Baldwin university at Berea, Ohio, ñus just been given an estáte valued at8ü,000. During an electrical storm in Cincinnati the other night, all of the electric lighta in tho city werp extingnished by a counter current stopping the dynamos. Mayor Hewitt of New York, has brought suit against the New York Press editors for statements charging him with ill-treatiug and ill-paying the workmen of the flrm of Cooper & Hewitt at Ringwood, N. J. Yellow fever is spreading with f rightful rapidit.v at Jacksonville, Fla. All who een leave the city are doing so. Knergetic measures are being taken to stamp out the disease. It is thought that Gen. Schofleld will sucpeed Gou. Shoridaii in comimind of the army. The reunión of Farnsworth's eavalr.v brigade takes place September li instead of September K, as heretotore published. Dr. Walford Nelson, who recently visited tho isthmus of Panama, says that Count do Lesseps. in saying that the canal will be opened in 1S1K), deliberately staUjs vvhat he knows to be impossible. The physical obstacles ave practical]]) insurmountable, and the canal can never par. The bursting of tho scheme, hesays, will ruin tens of thousands, and lead U) an epidemie of suicides. The convent of the Sacred Heart in New York was dest.roycd by flre the other day. Loss $300,000. Gen. Harrison will spenci two weeks at Put-in-Bay, going there on the 20th inst. The question of a coal syndicate is again being discusscd in Pennsylvania. A movement is on foot for a monument to be built by tl contributions from the members of the G. A. R. Fred Haag, charged with embezzling 16,000 marks from the Germán goveyiiinent, is held at Boston, Mass., for extradltion. 'X'he President has signed the bill providing for exteuding the time for the muster 1 and pay of volunteer ofticers and enlisted men. Charles Crocker, the well known railroad man of California, is dead. He leaves an estáte valued at $.3,000.000. Wells College, at Aurora, N. Y., buvned recently, is to be rebuilt at once. Another amendment to the interstate commerce law iias been introduced in the senate. FOREIGN. The bilí providing for a eommission to examino into the charges made by the Times against Parhell and other members of parliament has passed its third readin in the house of commons. In a riot at Paris the other day, the Chief of Pólice Justice and several policemen were seriously wounded. Forty of the rioters wero arrested. Parnell will sue the London Times in the Scotch courts. Queen Natalie of Servia is in Paris, where she is constantly under pólice surveillance, and a daily record of her movcments is leposited in pólice headquarters. A largo reservoir in Valparaíso burst the other morning,flooding the principal streets. Xt is reported that 200 people were drowned. The Empress Dowager of China will retire f rom the goyernment next March, when the Emperor will assume entire responsibility. There is now direct railway eommunication between Paris and Constantinople. Thcodore Juste, the Belgian historian, is dead. There is considerable agitation in Cuba in favor ol annexation with the United States. Five pistol shots were fired at Boulanger as he was driving in, Paris the othor day. Von Moltke, Germany's greatest general, has been placed on the retired list of the army. Gen. Von Waldersee succeeds hiin. Emperor William has nominated Von Moltke as president of country defense. An Itallian force was badly defeated by Abyssinians at Massowah a few days ago. Tlireo hundred and fifty men were niassacred, mostly Bashi-Bazonks. Empress Victoria has turned ovor her late husband's papers to the Germán authorities, Bismurck having refused to open Emperor Frederick's will uniil these papers were transferred, and the Empress's allowance depends on the will.