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lx ttio l nited Stalcs Sonate on the 2Sth uit. the conference report on the post-ollici approprlatlon bill was afreed to and tlic amcultural appropriation bill was reported, also the bill granting a pension of SI, 200 a year to the widow of Major-(!n.ral (ieorgo Cook. A largo number of bilis of minor importance were passed. In the House the time was oncupted in discussing the Federal elections bill. Thbkr si ks of earth(iuake were feit at Sant. i liosa, (.'al., on theSUtb uit. No damast' resul ted. Mausiiai.i. UkvtsotT; of Krackett, Tex., in H lit of jealousy on the 2th uit. shot hls wil; through the hfiart, killing her utautly, and then blew bis own brains out Atkw.n on the Missouri l'aciflc road was wrocked on the 28th uit. near Nevada, Mo., and two persons were killed and Uventv-seven others injured. A cvclovk on tho 2Sth uit. in Michigan wrecked many houses in Portland, Oranjre, Reading aod Dotroit. Ono man was killed, many persons were injured, crops werf ruined and much stock killed. A DÍsVaTCH of the 38th uit. from Massowah says tliai the allies of the Italians had defcatcd 3. Kerin a forcé of 1,000 der vislifs. killiii',' l"0of them. lx the lake at JackaoB l'ark, Chicago, Michael Shchan and his wifo were drowned on the 29th uit. by the upsottinff of a boat. A ToitxAi) Bwept over (lallatin, Tenn., on the "2!th uit., destroying several houses and a church and injuring ten persons, three fatally. Onk KDSDHBD persons were poisoned at a picnic in Wiohita, Kan., on the28th uit. by dtinklng li'iiionadi', a.id one man and thrce children died. At Vilkebarre, Pa., .lolin Mosser, his daughtor and his wife died a horrible doath on tho 28tb uit. aftor eating sausagc. Tuk Oovernmont signal oñlce at Wasliington on the 28th uit. rpports the montli of .lime to have been tho hottest on record in tliis country. M. P. 1'"i:ank was nominatod for Congress on the Jfjth uit. by the Ujmocrats of the First district of Maine. Tiik porcntaifos of the base-ball clubs in the l'layi'i's' l.eaffuo for the week ended on the 28th uit. were: Boston, .025; Philadelphla, .55:1; Cliicatro, .547; New York, .518; Brooklyn, .517; l'ittsburgh, .491; Cleveland. .420: Hutfalo, .229. The clubs in the National League stood: Cincinnati. .686; Brooklyn, .611; Philadelphia, .607 lioslon, .558; Chicago, .510; New York, .428; Cleveland, 333; Pittsbui-gli. .■'.:.