Epitome Of The Week

Ivfv. Fathbb McGoken, a Catholie priost. visiting at Newport, Kv., feil bead first from a high sidewalk into a mudhole and was suftocated. Abohbishof IIïam, of Philadelphia, has issued au order that in futuro Catholics will not be permitted to bury any of their relatives or friends on Sundays. A FBKIGHT crasned intoa gravel train near Woreester, N. Y., and h've Italians who were in a box car were killed, three of them being burned to death in the wreek. A siniüi.ai: disease, an abnormal swelling of the tongue and throat, was attacking the borses in southern Indiana. SCOGGAN BboS.' chestnut colt Vallera won the Tennessee Derby at Memphis. Silverado was second, lionnie Bird third. A deai, whereby the strongest tack and wire-nail concerns in the country are combined was consummated at Taunton. Mass. A FilíE destroyed three acres of sheds and 137 head of cattle at the Pittsburgh (Pa. ) stock yards. Rumoks of much sufforing among the coke strikers of Scottdale, Pa., were current, and it was thought the longfought struggle was nearing1 its end. A CLOUDBURST at Hawthorn Junction, Kan., washed away a mile of the railroad track. Two DAUOHTBRS of a farmer named Holcomb, near Lacentor, Wash., were killed and Holcomb and his wife seriously hurt by an explosión of giantpowder which he liad put in a stove. W. T. Bakeb, president of the Chicapo board of trade, luis been elected president of the world's fair directory. At Geuda Springs, Kan., five farmers, in imitaticn of cowboys, rode their horses into a schoolroom and broke up an exhibition that was beintr p-iven. TWENTY-FOÜB statcs were represented by delegations at the opening of the great western States congress in Kansas City, Mo. CoiiA MiJtKAY and Emma Peterson, both aged 1 1 years, were thrown from a buggy and killed in a runaway while driving to school near Hartford City, Ind. A NATIONAL convention of all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the regular army and navy ha.s been called for July 4 next in New York, at which time the plan is to organize as a national body of the union. Fivk negro railroad laborers were killed near Melrose, N. C, in a train collision on the Spartanburg railway. The first national congress of whist players of America conve.ned at Milwaukee. Miss Km ma Leete, ayed 35 years, was trampled to death at Ouilford, Conn., by a vicious horse. The country opposite New Orleans was almost entirely under water owing to i break in the Ames crevasse, and three persons had been drowned. Whitk settlers in the vicinity of Rolla sino St. John, N. 1).. sent a petition to the lndian bureau for a fort and a detail of soldiers at St. John. The settlers say their stock has been run off und a general sense of insecurity spread throughout that región by a band of 2,000 Indians and half-breeds camped in the Turtle mountains. Natubal (.as has been discovered at Pleasanton, Cal. The twenty-sixth anniversary of the teath of Abraham Lincoln and the thirty-seventh anniversary of the formation and of the republican party was observed in Boston on the 15th. The legislature of Massachusetts has provided for a state world's fair coinïnission and appropriated 875,000. The steamship Garrick, from Santos, arrived at New York with two cases of yellow fever. The reply of Secretary Blp.ine to the Italian government on the subject of the New Orleans massacre on March 14 ■was made public. Mr. Blaino says aliens can claim nothing from a government which it does not afford to its own citizens, but says that, under eertain conditions, congress may be asked to help the widows of the men killed. The secretary quotes Daniel Webster to sustain the position taken by the United States. In a shooting encounter in the Big Horn basin in Wyoming a four-year-old child was used as a shield by the father. The child was killed and the father received a fatal wound. T. Mabtin, ex-president of the Dover (N. H.) Shoe Company, has been arrested for einbezzling stock to the extent of 850,000. ExPORTS of breadstuffs during March -were 812,882,180, against $15,778,229 the same month last year. Exports of beef, 'hog and dairy producís were 812,304,153, against $10,665,658 during the same month of 1890. A FüElGHT train went through a bridge near Mount Sterling, O., and four men were f atally hurt and several fine blooded horses were killed. Mant fatal cases of spotted fever have occurred at Mesquite, Tex., and vicinity. A rei.ative of Page McPherson, the missing broker of St. Louis, Mo., admitted that McPherson had sold securities worth 885,000 belonging to other persons and lost the money speculating in wheat. The steamer Gura, from Naples, with 922 Italian immigrants, arrived at New York. ANOTiiEn two dollar, counterfeit silver certificate was received at the treasury department... lt is of fhe series of 1886, check letter 15 1S03. The note beurs the portrait Oí (en. lluncock, and is signed by W. S. Rosecrans as register and, James V. 113-att as United Mates treasurer. . The ''i"' in register is not dotted and tlie "t" in statesis notcrossed, Dr. John R. Piper, a prominent physician of W heeling, W. Va., and Taylor Föreman, superintendent of the county farm, have been arrested for grave yobbing-. Lieit. SrnwATKA started for Alaska to explore the country from the Yukon river west, This is his third expedition to Alaska. The census oflieehas issued a letin glvlng the popu'.atlon ot cuies in the country 8,000 inhabitants iir more. The total urban population in 1890 was 18,285,670, or 20.13 per cent. of the total populaüon. In 1880 tlie urban population was 11,313,547, or '2:i..")T per cent. of the wholO. Stcnator Fassette, in the New York legislatura, charged that $250,000 blood mom rtorted monthly by the pólice of New York city from the litjuor iiiteresta of that city. Wilmam Hoffman was struck by lightning and instantly killed at Trenton, .Mu. The new secret order known as "The Knights of Reciprocity" was said tobe rapidly ga'ning a strong footholc throughout the west. Members are required to pledge themselves to support the perpetuity of tlie unión, to favor liberal pensions to soldiers and saüors, to maintain the doctrine of protection of American Industries, and to advocate and work in favor of a free ballol and an honest count. Tiiuke men were killed and two badly injured in a railroad wreek near Baltimore, Md., in which a freight train plunged through a trestle. Tuk body of William Imes, which was buried at Corunna, Ind., two year.s ago, was distinterred and found to be petrified, every feature being preserved, even to the hair. The Western baseball association opened the season with gaines at Lincoln, Omaha and Denver, wet grounds preventm1 a game at Kansas City. Winr.E .1. VV. Jacobs and Abraham Carr, prominent citizens of Jeffersonvill, Ind., were attending a funeral at Bennettsville their horses ran away and both gentlemen were thrown out and probably fatally hurt. The Ross building1, in which Station C, New Yorlc post otBce, was located, was destroyed by flre, involving a loss of 500,000. The mails were saved. C. L. DArlT)SON, of Huil, was elected department commander of the lowa G. A. R. at Dubuque. The Winner Investment Company of Kansas City, Mo. , made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. It was claimcd that its assets exceeded the liabilities by (5300. 000. A TERRIFIC cyclone passed 2 miles west of Ciaud, Tex. One man was killed and another badly hurt. A fiue which started in the wholesale drug house of Charles Leich & Co. at Evansville, Ind., eaused a loss of 8110,000. The Todd milis and elevator at Dallas, Tex., ere destroyed by fire, the loss being S200.000. Womkn burned two saloons with their contents at Scott, O., because their ovvners continued to furnish their husbands with liquor after they had reeeived their protests. Wnx Skaggs, a colored desperado who fatal ly stabbed a white man named Kirby was riddled with bullets near Green, Ky. , by a posse of masked men. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 17th nnmbered 251, against 243 the preceding week and 214 for the corresponding week last year. Walker Bhows (colored) was hanged at Laurens, S. C, for the murder of Noah Ramaga last November. The entire governtnent life-saving service for the Eleventh district, which includes Michigan. Illinois and Wisconsin, has gone on duty. Lavii;kl(, ayoung Omaha Indian at the Carlisle (Pa.) school, is to enter the Presbyterian ministry and will labor among his own people. The oíd east mili of the Norwich Falls (Conn. ) Cotton Manufacturing Company was burned, causing a loss of 8150,000. At Alliance, O., Addie Duncan, a farmer's daughter, feil from a fence and broke her neck, and hogs partly devoured the body before it was found. At Shullsburg, Wis., Mrs. Jacob Blotz shot and mortally wounded her brother, Henry Ivey, as he was entering her house for the purpose of killing her. James Lynch, of New Brunswick, N. J. , af ter being indicted for wife beating, went home and hanged himself. William Green (colored) was hanged at New Orleans for the murder oi Joseph Proper on January 0, 1890. While Alta Foster, aged 10; Raymond Foster, aged 5, and Walter Smith, aged 10, were playing on a skiff in the river near Marietta, O., the boat capsized and all three were drowned. The Ohio State Farmers' Alliance was organized at Columbus. Whtlb eating breakfast Mrs. Nesbit, of Leclaire, Ia., fatally shot her husband and then herself. Domestio trouble was the cause. Geohgk and Fred Dunawas (Indians) were hanged at Tahlequah, I. T. , for the murder last September of Wash Lee, a Cherokee. A terrific windstorm at Marión, Ind., completely crushed the Crosby paper mili and damaged a number of other buildings. Paludora, a little town on the Beaver river in Beaver county, O. T., was entirely destroyed by a cycloue. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Drodat TAYi.on, a veteran of the war of 1812, died in Chicago in his lOOth year. Capt. McKexzie, the noted chess player, died in New York city. Mrs. Anna Walsii, who was 100 years old last fall, died at Plainfield, N. J. Henry M. Stani.ey, accompanied by Mrs. Stanley, sailed from New York for Europe on the steamship City of New York. The report that Mr. Staney had been made governor of the Jongó was officially denied. Rev. John Aikinson died athis home n Benton llarbor, Mich., aged nearly 14 yeara He luid been a Methodist ninistor for seventy-five years. Mits. E. W. IÍAi.poRn, wife of the president's secretary, died in Washington, aged about 40 years. GEN. Kii.norüx Knox, governor of the national soldiers' home near Mil■waukee, died suddenly at the home, aged 49 years. McKinsey Ai.rxanper, aged 6 years, dieJ in Sebastian county, Ark., from ;he bite of a spider. Chaki.ks M atteson, senior justice on ;ho supreme bench of Rhode Island, lias been ïecteil t.y tae ■cgiswcure to the chief justiceship. Thk official count of the wards in Chicago was completer! and showed Hempstcad VVashburne, the republieari candidate íor mayor, t ) have a plurality of 869 rotes. Mb. J. Xaii. and Mr. Ilickmanwerc marricd at QueenCity, Tex. The groom is SU and the bride 84 years old. FOREIGN. The insane asylum at Soran, Oormanv. was totally destroyed by flre and ten inmates perished in the flames. The grip is again epidemie in tho north of England A i.ate census gives Montreal a population of 311,803. Of this nnmber 155,511 are Catholies and 58,885 Protestant 8. Ten fishing smacks were lost in a recent gale ff the eoast of Japan and sixty lives were lost. The cholera was raging in Siarn, there being an average of forty deaths daily. Thk famous Gastle Bouquet, near Namur, Germany, has been burned. The collection of paintings, including many rare and priei'less works, were consuraed in the flames. lx a London tenement-house fire five people were burned to death. Thk insurgents in Chili defeated with heavy loss 3,000 of the government troops at Copiapo, the capital of the province of Atac&ma. The stearaor Oregon, from Liverpool, landed 500 immigrants at Halifax. All were bound for the northwestern states and landed at Halifax to avoid the new immigration laws. Pkemikr Rudini was interpellated in the Italian chamber of deputies concerning the dispute with the United States. He explained the situation, and said in conclusión that in no case could serious trouble between Italy and the United States be expected. In a fight between the Manipuris and British fifty of the former were killed, with no l ss on the British side. As eplosion of flre damp in the Hugo pit near Kattowitz, Prussia, resulted in the instant killing of ten ininers. The British steataer (Jlamorgan was sunk in the English channel in collision with another vessel. Thirty persons were on board and all were saved. The report presen ted to the legislature shows the debt of the province of Nova Scötia to be $3,648,000. Michael Bbowne. the oldest coroner in England, died at Nottingham. He was born in 1800 and had held the office of coroner íifty-five years. The British ship St. Catharine was wrecked off the Caroline islands and niflety persons were drowned. Prof. Gkh.maix Leb, of l'rance, has, he alleges, discovered a new consumption cure. Excellent results, he claims, have already been obtained. Sevkrai, serious riots have occurred in Benares, India, the religious capital of the Hindoos, and British troops have been ordered there to protect the city. The insurgents in Chili routcd Balmaceda's army, killing !.T00 of hissoldiers and wounding 1,000. The battle took place at Pozo de Almonte. The rebels were in absolute control of all the northern provinces. LATER NEWS. Two voung ladies, daughters of Richard Kauffman, a prominent farmer, and a married lady were drowned at Nevada, Mo., by the upsetting of a boat. Two BZPBK88 trains on the Lake Shore road collided at Kipton, O., and six postal clerks, two engineers and odc fireman were killed. Mbs. Frank R. Hyde, of Sioux Falls, S. U.. killed her two children and then took her own life. She left a note saying she feared they were growing insane. Ai-anson Sweet, the last of the twelve men who founded Chicago, died at the home of his son, (jeorge Öweet, aged 87 years. Fi.ames at Little Rock, Ark., destroyed the wholesale dry goods house of Gus Blass & Co. and the stores of B. Levinson, wholesale liquors, and A. Kuttner, millinery. Total loss, L500,000. Johx Milligan died at Mechanicsville, X. Y., aged over 100 years. He was said to have been the oldest member of the (rand Army of the Republic. UuHGLAiis stole jewelry valued at $15,000 from the store of Legrand Jackson atNorwalk, Conn. By an explosión in a silver mine near Aspen, Col., Edward Reed, Thomas Kennedy and John Mahoney were killed. Samuel Clakk fatally shot his wife and then himself at their home in Brooklyn, N. Y. Tuk percentages of the clubs in the American baseball association for the week ended on the 18th were: Boston, .714; Louisville, .700; St. Louis, .600; Baltimore, .710; Washington, .42S: Columbus, .383; Cincinnati, .300; Athletic, .285. , Five men, four Americans and one Italian, were drowned in Laurel creek near Addison, VV. Va. Oxk iir.NDKEi) of the Scottdale (Pa.) coke strikers attacked the deputj sherifl's in charge of one of the mines. The strikers were compelled to retire, but one of the deputies was fatally shot. On board a steamer in Xew York Charles Ommecker shot and killed Louise Ornecker and then killed himself. No cause was known for the deed. Mes. Gkosök Musphy, of Leo, lnd., shot and iiist;mtly killed her 5-year-old lanu'hter. Mrs. -Murphy was insane. At the leading clearing-houses in tho Jnited StutL'.s the exchanges during the week ended on the 1 stii aggregated 51,142,733,263, agatast $1,079,956,933 the srevious week. As compared with the Orresponding week of lsuu the decrease amounted to