Epitome Of The Week

The House bilí to umend the census !aw go as to compel unlBOArporated cxprcssoompanies to givü tnfonnation atiout their business was pass4 by the Umtoit States Senateon the lath. Debate on the turilT UU was renowi-d In the House a concurrent resolution extending to August OS the approprlatlona for the support of the Uovernment nut alrcariy proviüed for in appropríatiun bilis was passed. Sonate amend ments to the House blll lor the establishment of a National park at ühinkamauga were nonconcurred in and a conference ordered. A RRsii.iTTioN was passed in the United States Seuate on the 13th directing the Secretary of tlie N.ivy to investígate tbe allcged counterivit stamping of steel plate at the Linden stee! works. The conference report on the Iiulian bill was agreed tn. The lariff blll was furlher dlscussed....ln the House a btll was passuel authori.iug the Seoretary of the Intorior to sell erlaln land and to Krant the pro cceds of Iho sale to the town of Pellcan, Oneida County, Wis. A bill was passed authoruiiiK the construct on of a bridge across the Missouri rivur at St. Charles, Ma The oonference report on the fortilication appropriation blll was afreed to. Tnn joint resolution appropriattng for the relief of destftution in Oklahoma the unexpondod balance of tlie appropriatlon made last April for the relief of thi district overfloweü by the Misslssippl rivcr was passed in th United States Senate on the llth. The tarlft blll wal furttaer disctissi-d In the House no business of was transaoted asid from the discussion of the Nat Mclvay bill, na quorum belng presont. Aftïb. disposlns of routine business in the United States Sunate on the I5th the river and harbor bill was taken up and dlscussed. In the House tbe conference report on the ludían appropriation bill was agreed to. A vote was then taken on the passage of the McKay bill, whlch snowoil no quorum present. At the eveninx session 108 private pension billa werd pa lied. DOMESTIC. TnR strike on the New York Central & Iludson River raüroad was practically ended on the 12th. Passenger ti-ains wore running on schedule time and tbe freight blockade had been raised. Whii.ï an OJd Fellows' excursión was passing throux'h Harrison, N. J., on the l'ith Michal Karney put his head out of acarwinduw a:id was struck by a pole and instan tl y killed. Tmt woolen mili of C. E. Goisendorft & Co., of Indianapolis, was burned on the ISth. Loss, 100,000. Four men Aere kiiled and a number seriously injurod by the explosión oí '2,000 pound of molten metal at the Illinois Steel Compuny's works at Joliet, I1L, on tho litth. All the original package saloons in Mason City, la., wereclosed on the 12th on an order issued by the mayor. The liquor men would combine and carry a test case to the higher courts. Evf.iïy passen? r conductor on the Louisville, St. Louis & Texas railroad was discharpod 01. the l'ith and their places fillod by promoting freight conductors. No teason for the changa was known. The Chicago & Atlantic railroad was sold at lidian polis on the lüth by order of the court for S5, 000, 000, the Erie road being the puruhHser. Thk first anmial report of the New Hampshire Comniissioner ot Agriculture, issued on the l'ith, shuwed that of 1,342 abandoned farms in the State a year ago 301 were now ocoupied. Thb Secrotary of tlie Interior on ths 12th received a telegram from Governor Prince, of New Mexico, asking for troops to suppress white-cap outrages. L. L. HucKii.t, an oxpressmessenger, was killed and several others injured in a collision on the Louisville & Nashville railroad west of Lexington, Ky., on the 13th. Samuioi, H. Bkahd, an attorney, aged 60 years, threw himself in front of a train at Leesburg, U., on the 13th and was instantly killed. Cbnsus figures, oompiled on the 13th, credit Vermont with a population of 332,000, a falling off of as6 since the census of 1880. The oil refinery of George Kice, at Marietta, O., exploded on the 13th, killing one man and causing a loss of L25,000. It was found on the l.'.th that Hume Clay, a member of the Clay family of Kentucky, had forgd tho name of his grandfathor at Winchester, Ky., to notos aggregating about $100,000 and fled the country. In South Dakota forest fires were raging on the i:J.th, and in tbe same sectlon prairie fires had destroyed much property. The remains of the late John Boyle O'Roilly were laid to rest in Mount Calvary Cemetery, near Boston, on the lüth. The funeral cavalcade was said to be one of the largest ever seen in Boston. Lk;h ininh struck a farm-house three miles northwest of Nehawka, Neb., on the liith, instantly killing a young man named Wilkinson and a young woman named Josie Hobock. William Si.oan (colored), residing on Lake plantation, Mississippi, called his wife to tho door of their cabin on the 13th and shot her through the heart. Tbe woman had her infant in her arms at the time and it was shot through tho heart. The murderer escaped, but was captured by his noighbors and lynched. Joseph A. Sakoent, agid 75 years, and his grandson, aged 4 yeats, of Erving, Mass., while crossing the railroad tracks on the 13th wero struck by a train and instantly killed. Rockwell &. Co's tannery at Warren, Pa., was damaged by flre on the 18th to the extent of Slou.OiM. Gexkkal rains foll throughout Illinois, Iowa and Missouri on the 13th and crops were rported in good condition except in district injured by hail. It was said on tho 14th that a plan was on foot to establish in New York City a National university, to be modeled after tho great institutions of Europe, with an endowmont at the outset of $20,00'). dOO. John D. Iloekefeller and Rev. R. S. MacArthur, of the Baptist church, are the promoters of the enterprixe.