Epitome Of The Week

The conference report on the blll forthc allotrrient oí lands in severalty to Indians was agreed to in the senate on the 2M, and the bill for the establishment oí a bureau in the agricultural department for the promotion of the silk culture industry was favorably reported. The sundry civil appropriation bill was discussed In the houae tho post ofllce appropriation bill was passed and the deilctency appropriation bill wasconsidered. Mr. Wike ÍI11.) introducedresolutions asking ior the impeaohment of Speaker Reed. Thb sundry civil appropriation bill waa discussed in the senate on the 24th, and the nomination of Charles Poster, of Ohio, as secretary of the treasury, was conflrmed In the house the senate bill to refund the direct tax levied twenty-eight years ago to support the war for the union was passed. It carries an appropriation of $15,227,632. In the senate on the 25th Senator Gorman, of Maryland, announced the death of hia colleague, E. K. Wilson, and after adopting resolutlons of respect to hls memory the senate adjourned In the house the immigration bi 11 and the agncultural appropriation bill were passed and the general delicicncy bill was discussed. The sundry civil appropriation and the military academy appropriation bilis were passed in the senate on the 26th and tho Indian and legislativa appropriation bilis were reported. A bill was also passed appropriating ïa.000,000 for a new mint building at Philaclpiphia In the house the defldenoy bill and a bill transferring the county of Logan from the northern to the southern judicial district of Ohio were passed. The president sent to the senate on the 27th uit. the nomination of Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire, as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to China, and the nomination was conlirmed. The legislative appropriation bill was passed. House bilis were passed to amend the various acts relativa to immigration and the iïrjportation of aliens under contract or agreemcnt to perform labor, and for the relief of certain volunteer and regular sol diers of the late war and the wur with Mexico. ...In the house a substituto for the senate eMpping bill was passed after a long debate. DOMESTIC. Floods at Yuma, A. T. , had done $150,000 damage and threateued to sweep the town away. Gus Lee was örowned in bod. Near Winchestei-, Ky., A. C. Barrow and Thomas Barrow were swindled out of S4,80ü by the gold briek scbeme. The charge against Banker Cowles, of Clarks, Neb., of killing his wife on Kebruary 4, was withdrawn by the county attorney. Frank Gavki., a tax collector near Honesdale, Pa., disappeared, taking ÍÜ'2,000 belonging to the county. lx the case brought by Marshall Field A Co., of Chicago, to test the legality oí the United States revenuelaw, Judge Blodgett decided in favor of the government. A fire in Armourdale, Kan., destroyed an elevator, owned by J. P. ampbell & Co , forty freight cars and übout 100,000 bushels of grain, eutailing a loss of about $150,000. The Windsor national bank of Wind■or, Vt., assigned. Depositors would ie paid in full. May WSIGHT Nkwai.i., of Indiana. ■as elected president of the National ouncil of women of the United States at the session in Washington. Hydkopiiohia was raging in lirandywine township, Indiana, and many boga, cattle and horses had been killed to prevent its spreading. HuSDitwifi of acres of bottom lands were under water at Covin-ton, Ind., caused by the overflow of the Wabash river. Thomas Hall, the inventor of the ■ ,.rliine water wheel, was killed by au Erie train at Rahw:iv. N'. .!. Joski'H IIoi.i.ask, a l'olish miner at Iron River, Mich., angered by some boys who had been throwing snowballs at him, shot Peter Iloctor, a bartender, and Ed Scott, chief of pólice, wounding both mortalty. Rohkiit (Juaysox and Charles McComb diacovered a heavy vein of silver in Grayson's farm on Silver creek, in Clark county, Ind. THE business portion of Edina. Mo., was swept by fire, eausing a loss of upwards of SIDO.OOO. A laJígk meteor burst with aloud report near Madison, Mo. It was Koen in all parts of the State. In a wreek on the Reading road near Gordon, Pa., five oil tanks, four freighi cars and four engines were demolished, causing a loss oí' si 50. 000. In a tornado at Sun bury, X. C. , two children were killed and much property 3estroyed. A number of persons near Sunbury won1 said to have lost their lives in tho storm. The New York board of aldermen passed a resohition naming the triangular spaee at Seventy-third street and the boulevard "Sherman place," in inemory of the late general. Flamks at Hvirlington, Vt.. destroyed the cotton milis and a himber yard, causing a loss of $180,000. Tuk issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during tho wook ended on the 'ilst was $:;-:s,sii',i. The issue during the eorresponding jjoriod of last year was $305,659. It was reported that gold had been iound along the streams of Brown ctmnty, Ind., sinee the recent freshets. A destrl'CTive tornado visited the región near Jeffersonville, Ind. The greatest damage was done at Utica, ■where many dwellings and business buildings were demolished. Mrs. Cokfee, of Omaha, a poor meohanie's wife, is heir to 875,000,000 left by her father at Bradford, Eng. The woman was the only danghter and was disowned years ago as a result of an undosiralilo üiarriage. John L. SuLMVAN, the pugilist, was soundly thrashed by a train hand in the cars near Athens, Ga., for using insulting language. John l). Mii.i.kh. of Greepsburg, was appointed by Gov. Hovey to fill the vacancy on the Indiana sxipreme bench caused by the death of Judge Berkshire. The laimber exchange, the Edison buikting and adioinüig buildings ■ at JMinneapolis wore burued, causing' a loss estimated at 8500,000. Couxseljian's grain elevator in Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of 9 100, 000. Eighty soldiers were in the hospital and four deaths had occurred at Fort Logan, Col., from the grip. - Four persons were killed in a wreek oi the Kiehmond división of the PanHandle road at llagorstown, Ind., and a large number of passengers were wounded. Foun of a party of five latorers in seareh of work were frozen to death in the Two Medicine mountains in Montana. The bill recently passed by the Arkansas legislatura providing for separate coaches on railroad trains for negroes has been stgned by (iov. Eagle. Wai.tkii Dik, aged 17 years, of Vandalia, Mí)., was killed by lightning while standing in his father's yard. The town of Kennville, Mich., was almost entirrly destroyed by fire. William West was hanged at Washington, Pa, for t.lic' murder of the Crouch family May II. 1890. and Ilenry Marsli was executtjd at Ebensburg, l'a., for the murder of Clara Jones at Gallitzin July 6, I'-'H). The twrni v-third annual convention of the National American woraan suffrage association convened ut Washington. In' a landslide at Bervy, Vt.. hundreds of tons of earth were hurled down and many dweiling hausftS were wreekedor damaged. Dr. üi.anc, chief saaitary inspector of the state board of nealth, announced that therc were in Ne w Orleans twentyfive fnlly-developed cases of leprosy. AiioUT 1,000 Wichita, ('Ido, Delaware and Kechis Indians, near Andarko, A. T. . were reported as eontinuing the dances which commenced during the Sioux troubles. Mks. Ep. Cl.AEKB and child, Superintendent Uope.ll :md lingineer 1!. F. Smily were buried beneath a snowslide at Irwin, Col. Wakuantb to the amount of 815,000,000 on account of pensions were sigue d at Washington by Assistant Secretary Nettleton. The Kansas house by a vote of 72 to 27 defeated the proposition to resubmit the prohibition amendment. Sechktarv Noui.k issued a notice that all persons found on the Cherokee strip or other Indian lands would be removed by force and theirrights to acquire public lands forfeited. At the national conference in Philadelphia of school superintendents resolutions were adopted indorsing the compulsory education law, commending the principies of civil service as applied to the teachers of public schools, and recommending the retirement and pensioning of teachers after a service of thirty years. DlTRING the year 1890 over 70,000 immigrants arrived at New York, Italy sending the largest number. Tiibek men were run over and killed by a railway hand car at Santa Cruz, Cal. The steamship France from Liverpool reached New York four days overdue and badly battered. A succession of gales was oncountered throughout the passage. The second officer was swept overboard. At Fort Edward. N. Y., Dr. Crandall's house was robbed of $'2,(iOO in gold. Maj. J. I!. Hicks, an old settler and one of the Mexican war veterans, was found dead in 'nis bed at his home near Monticello. 111. In the stomach of a cow killed at Seymour, Intl., were found a sil ver half dollar, a lot of needies and pins, several large bones and over one-fourth of a pound of horseshoe and other nails. The cow was apparently healthy. Abraham üivi-.of Port Wayne. Ind., who wagered with Col. Geary that he could fa.st tiiirty days, gave up after fasting twenty-five days and losing twenty-fourpounds. I.v tlie Inited States the business failures flurmg1 the seven days ended on the 27th uit. nuinlxnvd 890, againgt 295 the preceding week and ;01 the corresponding week i ast year. At Tacom i. Wash., J. C. Arnold, a guard, and two pris mers, Charles Oleson and Charles Barrett, were drowned by the capsizing of a sailboat while attempting to reach the mainland. A GA.vo of burglars blew open the safe in the Mulvane (Kan.) post office and carried oif all the cash and stamps. At IJooneville, Mo., . H. Lawrence, who confessed to wrecking a pessenger train last November, was sentenced to live years in the penitentiary. The coldest weather of the winter was sweeping down over the northwest, the thermometer rauging from 4 to 40 degrees bel ow zero. Aftkk a str ke lasting two years the striking glasa blowers at (Jlassboro, N. J., were returning to work. An explosión of gas in iron works at Pottstoyn. Pa., caused several tons oí hot metal t Uow over several men, and fifteen were terribly burned. At Pine Kluft', Ark., a daughter of Frank Rufus (colored) picked up an ax and kiLled her father during a quarrel. Ex-Judge Bobo, of Decatur, Ind., while under the influence of liquor shot his son Roland, aged 2' years, inflicting a fatal wound. Evehv building except two in the village of Yuma, A. T. , was swept awuy by floods. In Tia Juana, Cal., not a building was left standing on its foundation and several persons were drowned. The census bureau announced the population of Kentucky by races as follows: Whites, 1,585,526; colored, 272,981; Indians, 98; Chinese, 29; Japanese 1; total, 1,858,(335. E. L. Wood, of Haverhili, Mass., was fined S50 for allowing women and children to work more than ten hours a day. THE two children of Henry Going, of Silver Lake., Kan., were burned to death during the absence of their parents. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mrs. Mai(;aietTim.moni)s was buried at Hartford City, Ind. 8ha vas born in Ireland in 1789 and wa lüi years old at the time of her deaiji. At the republican convention at Jiickson. Mich., dudge K. M. Montgomery, of Ci-and RapidB, was nominated for supreme judyv. Sen ato i: IC. K. Wilsoíí, of Maryland, died at Washiun-ton on the 24th at his apartments at the Hamilton house of heart diaease, in his 70th year. CiiAiu.ios Foster, the newly appointed secretary of the treasury, took the oath of office at Washington on the 25th. A-MOXö the nominations sent to the senate by President Ilarrison were the following: John A. Anderson, of KanBas, consul general at Cairo, Egypt; Truxton lieale. of California, minister to Fersia, and 'JainesT. tong, óf Pennsylvania, United Statoa consul at Florence. John W. CHAMPÚS was renominated for supreme judge of Michigan by the democratie eemvention at Lansing, and Charles S. Williams and Arthur A. Clark were nominated for regents of the state university. Geokge C. InGHAM, one of the foremost criminal lawyors in Chicago, died suddenly of heart disease, aged 40 years. Anna Dtckinson, the once noted lecturer, was placed in the insane asylum at Danville. Ta. It was said that fear of poverty unbalanecd her mind. The Republican league of the United States will meet in fourth annual convention at Cincinnati April 1 next. At the session in Washington of the National Woman's SufCrage association Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected president nul Susan B. Anthony vice president at large. Judge C. C. Kir, of Qarnetsville, Ky., died at the age of 99 years. He was the oldest mason in thé state. FOREIQN. The work of recovering the bodies of the victims of the mine explosión at HUI, .". S., shows the numbar of dead to be 119. Of these 54 were married men, 40 single men and 35 boys. Two ci.eimiyme.n while sleighing at Tamesvar, Austria, were attacked and devoured by wolves. Two night watchmen were also devoured. Italian friendlies in revenge for a raid on the Italian frontier surprised and attacked 600 Sondanese near Buri, África, killing 200, ineluding the leading chiefs. In a fight with bandita and officers in the state of J alisseo. Jlex.. twenty-two of the former and four of the latter were killed. Owixii to a revolt upon the part of the nutives the governor of Xossi-Be, an island and Frenen colony off the northwest coast of Madagascai-, caused the execution of over 100 rebels and killed their wives and children. Genkiïai, da Fonskca, who was chosen provisional president of Brazil at the time of the overthrow of the empire, has been formally elected president of the republic. Mrs. Rose Wai.kkk, 10.Ï years old, was burned to death at St. .Johns, N. B. by her bed-clothes catching fire while she was smoking. It was leamed that during the bombardinent of lquique, Chili, the insurgents sacked and burned six of the principal squares and 300 women and children perished in the ruins. The British f orces capturad the stockadesof the Tsawbwa of Wuntho in upper Burmah, killing twentj'-seven of the defenders. The British loss was thirteen killed or wounded. At Durham, Eng.. 850 strikars wera fined $3.50 each for quitting without notice. A i.AüOK body f .lewish refugees from Bussia, con ,;sting of men. women and children, arrived in London. Fi.oods at San Fcüpe. Mex., destroyed eiglteen !i lusesand many families were made li mélfts. A number of lives were lost ;md many cattle were drowned. LATER NEWS In the United States senate on the 3Sth uit. bilis were passed to repeal the timber culture laws; granting a pension of S3,500 a year to the widow of Admiral Porter; to provide for the reorganization of the artillery force of the army; to define and regúlate the jurisdiction of courts of the United States and to establish a United States land court; to provide for the safe transportaron and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries; the direct tax bill and the Iridian appropriation bill. The death of Senator Hearst, of California, as announced. In the House bilis were passed to prevent book-making and pool-selling in the district of Columbia; providing that nothing in the existing tarifï laws shall be construed as affeeting the treaty existing betwecn the United States and the Hawaiian islands; fcorepeal the timber culture luw, therightóf all existing settlers to be saved. Thomas Kakkr. accused of haring killed s:n men in Kentucky, was arrested at Antifro. Wís. Sknatob Geokqk FIrabst, of California, died at liis residence i:i Washington on the evenmg of the 3Sth uit. He had been il] for a long time. He was 70 years of age, and leaves a wife and one son and an estáte valued at 180,000,000. Six pïbatks were beheaded atMacoo, China, for looting a steamer. Wii.i.iam BROOKS, who escaped in 1868 after being convicted of the miirder of Theodore Urodhead, at Delaware Water Gap, was captured in Washington, Pa. A sevkuk blizzard swept over the Cherokee strip, and several children were reported as frozen to death. The sum of SüO,000 had been raised in New York for the window of ex-Secretary of the Treasury Windom, and 20,000 more would be secured. The boiler in a sawmill at Charleston, Mo., exploded, killing Jeff Cobb, Charles Cobb and John Dawdy. Twe.nty business honses at Hermon, N. Y„ were burned by an incendiary fire. Loss S100.000. The schoonef Robcrt McCarroll, of Charleston, S. C. was reported lost wilb a ere"' of live men. At Yuma, A. T.. 261 honses were ruined by a flood, 1,400 persons were penniless and homeless and not a business house was left standing. It was feared that hundreds of lives had been lost up the Gila valley, and it was known that thousands of oattle, horsea and mules had been drowned.