The News Condensed

In the senate on the 18th bilis were introduced to admit Utah as a state; to amend the constitution so as to elect the president and vice president of the United States by direct vote of thepeople; to forbid the appropriation of public money to any societies under sectarian control In the house bilis were introduced to absolutely prohibit the carrying of Chinese into the United States, whether subjects of the Chinese empire or otherwise; to prohibit the secretary of the treasury from rnaking deposita of United States funds with national or private banks; granting lands to honorably discharged soldiers of the war of the rebellion; to establish eourts for Indians in the various reservations. The senate passed bilis on the 19th to aid South Dakota to support a school of mines at Rapid City : appropriating $20,000 to increase the accominodations of the marine hospital at Detroit; appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Jacksonville, 111. , and $100,000for one at Fergus Falls, Minn In the house a bilí was passed flxing the time for holding terms of the circuit and district courts for the Western district of Wisconsin. THE senate passed bilis on the 20th for public buildings at Grand Haven, Mich., SóO.OuO; Deadwood, S. D., $200,000; and Stillwater.Minn., ïlO0,00O.Bills were introduced for the admission of New Mexico as a state, and to deüne options andfutures and impose special taxes or dealers' tax In the house bilis were introduced for apublic building at Ann Arbor, Mich. ; directing the secretary of the .treasury to cali in at once and cover into the treasury all moneys deposited with national banks and drawing nointerest, and a free wool bill. Me. Stanford the senate on the 21st in advocacy of the bill Introduced by him on December 22 to provide the government with means sufflcient to supply the national want of sound circulating medium". Adjourned to the 25th In the house Mr. Bland introduced a bill for the free coinage of gold and silver and for the issue of coin notes. Bills were introduced for public buildings at Sterling and Dixon, 111., and for the purchase of' the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal. Adjourned to the 25th. DOMESTIC. Pete Baker was murdered near Fort Smith, Ark., and the neighbors suspecting his wife and a man named Johnson of the crime tied them together and hanged them with the saine rope. Henby Johnson, a locomotive engineer of Chicago, murdered his wife and committed suicide at Peoria, 111. Domestic trouble was the cause. The couple had only been married four months. Nink persons, three of whom were from Chicago, were injured in a wreek on the Omaha road at Khepards, "Wis. Unenown persons blew up a portion of the Standard Oil Company's pipe line near Woolwich, Pa., and cut the cornpany's telegraph wires. A passenger train on the 'Frisco line was wrecked near Woolsey's, Ark., and eight persons were badly hurk The collections of internal revenue for the first six months of the fiscal year ending June SO, 1892, were $477,124,990, being an increase of $1,427,847, as compared with the collections for the corresponding period of last year. A riot occurred at a Hungarian wedding at United, Pa., in which Stephen Logani and Marco Lonzo were mortally' wounded and the bride, Mrs. John Sofranki, seriously hurt. Will Stevens, a member of the firm of Weatherby & Co., of Cincinnati, was said to be short 80,000 in his accounts. At Five Points, O., John Burton, recovering from the grip, feil in a faint while walking, and while unconscious his hair turned white. Luke Tierxon, a 8t Louis tinsmitfi, claims one-fifth of a billion dollars' worth of real estáte in the heart of Chicago. A. N. Doe, ex-treasurer of the Bay State League of Boston, was charged with embezzling $15,616 irom the league. F. C. Davenport, of Boston, iraporter of tin plate, sheet iron and motáis. faiied for S?200,000. Mrs. 1'rij[)i;kicka Ct.eson and her 2year-old daughter, Fredella, were burned to death in their home in Chicago, and another child, a boy I-i years old, was fatally burned. A si,i:u;iiiño purty was run down by an engine at a crossing near St. Louis and nine men were killed and six others were badly injured. The firm of' 11. B. Clafiin & Co., of New York. charge Charles Weatherby and W. A. Stevens, their agents in Cincinnati, with embezzling over 70,000. Fire in the barns of the electric street railway at Toledo, O., destroyed 150,000 u-orth of property. The nude in art will be suppressed at the coming annual exhibition of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. The Burnside breaker at Shamokin, Pa., owned by the Reading Coal and iron company, was destroyed by lire, a loss of $100,000. The supreme court qí Ohio has refusod a new trial to W. J. Elliott, the editor and murderer, now serving1 out a Ufe sentence. It was estimated that Texas cattlemen would lose Sl,000,000 as a result of the recent blizzard. At the Retreat poorhouse near Wilkesbarre, Pa-, is a Polander named John Mica who has been for thirteen rnonths and shows no sig-ns of waking np. The official statistics of the anthracite coal production in the United States for 1S91, just made public, show the shipments from the mines to have been 44,446,330 tons. The year was the greatest in the history of the trade and the production exceeded that of 1S90 by 4,59-2,161 tons. The Harvest Stove Company at South l'ittsburg-h, Tenn., failed for 8122,000. Business in Grand Rapids, Mich., was practically paralyzed by the burning- out of the telephone exchange. Conqkessman Mills, of Texas, has resig-ned his chairmanship appointments in a letter to Speaker Crisp. A vein of coal of good quality 14i feet in thickness was struck at Niobrara, Neb. Méndez Coíiex, of Baltimore, was chosen president of the American Society of Civil Engineers at New York. Thomas 8. Hutton, of NevadaT Mo., who killed C. C. Diefenbaugh for pureuing- his wife, bas been aoquitted of morder. Neab Port Huroii, Jlieh., several barns belonging to F. A. Beard were burncd, together with eig-hteen horses and thirty head of cattle. In Buchanan eounty, Ia., has been found in large quantities the peculiar liruestone nsed so exteiisively in litho graphic art and which at present ia obtained only in Germany. The oil field of Indiana, like the g-as field, was assuming immense proportions, and new .wells were continually being drilled. W. H. Danforth and his sister, Mrs. Martha Davis, were found frozen to death in their house at Athens, Ala. George Darby's livery stable, together with thirtv-nine horses, was burned at New York. A kirk in New York did about $500,000 damage. Schneider & Caiupbell, Bentano Brothers and Charles E. Bentley were the heaviest losers. Several business blocks in Columbia, Mo. , were burned. Thk executive eommittee of toe ïJational Editorial association has select; ed San Francisco, May 17, for the uext : meeting of the association. The barn of William S. Huil at (Jrand Rapids, Mich., was burned, and the trotters Acmon and Eagle Bird and a gray pacer were cremated. Acmon alone was valued at $20,000. The Rio Grande frontier was covered with snow for the first time ever known. Flames destroyed the Cedar Bluff college at Frank lin, Ky. The sixty female students esoaped. James Iírexnají, the slayer of Sam Wood, was released at Hugoton, Kan., as an unprejudiced jury could not be iound in Stevens county. The total foreign commerce of the port of New York for the calendar year 1891 was 1,040,607,435. Arthuk SüOAHB, an escaped murj derer who killed his step-father and mother, was found frozen to death on the Brule Indian reservation in Nebraska. The United States express office at Dwigbt, 111., was robbed of a package of money containing 33,000. Sevkntekn stores in Ohio City, O., were destroyed by fire. FlVB persons were injured in a wreek on the Iron Mountain road near De Soto, Mo. Miss Fhances E. Wili.ard, president of the National Woman's Christian Ternperance union, sent to President Harrison an urgent request that the tronble with Chili be settled without war. Cornelids N. Bt.irs was reelected president of the Ameriean Protective Tarifï league at the annual meetiijg held in New York. Indians on the Fon du Lac reservation in Minnesota were said to be in a starving condition. At the leadmg clearmg-houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 22d aggregated $1,290,169.822, against 81,213,670,872 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week oi 1891 was 12.5. Jim Lyles and Margaret Lashley (eolorecl) were hanged at Danville, Va. , for the murder of George Lashley, the woman's husband, in Oetober, 1890. At Kansas City, Mo., 300 mules and sixteen horses were burned in a fire at Sparks Bros.' mule market. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended od the 2üd numbered 328, against 330 the preceding week and 411 for the corresponding week last year. In the biliiard match in New York between Jacob Schaefer and George Slosson for $1,000 and the balk-line championship the former won by a score of 800 to 592. The total production of pig iron in the United Statss in 1891 was 8,270,870 gross tons, against 9,202,703 gross tons in 1893. The total production of Hessemer steel rails was 1,218,874 gross tons, a decrease of 577,615 tons f rom the production in 189Í). Twknty persons lost their lives by the burning of the national surgica] institute at Indianapolis, ind., anc twenty others were injured, some fatally. William McHbkbt, a traveling sales man of Cleveland, received four tele grams within an hour, eaeh announc ing the death of a bi-other from diph thei-ia. SucCESSFUL tests of a new war ex plosiva called terrorite have been made at the Presido military reservation in California. In u country schoolhouse at l'hil '.:, Hardin county, O., four boys killed Frank McLaughlin. aged 12, au; fatally injured his sister, who was the teacher. Lucius Dotson (colored) was hanged at Savannah, Ga., for the murder oi Jeff Coats in September, 1890. James Cassidy' and John Herman grot drunk in Iïrooklyn, N. Y., lcnocked down the pipe attaced to the stove and ere sufroeated by coal ft'Caroline Ship was hanged at Dallas, N. C, for infanticide. A max named Ilepler. wbo raurdered Mrs. Goodly and her little son, was hangred at Lamar, Mo., by a mob. IN a colusión on the Atlantic & Pacific road at Blue Water, N. M., Engineev Ta.ylor, Fireman Hag-g-ey, Engineer Moore and Conductor Mora were killed. Miss Delia Nicholson, of Franklin county. Va., and her lover, John T. Pinkhard, committed suicide because the young lady's parents objected to their marriage. A passenger train on the Rock Island road was ditched near Blue Island, 111., three coaches and two sleepers were burned and six persons were injured, one fatally. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A MEETING of the national central eommittee of the people's party will be held at St. Louis February 22 for the purpose of uniting all reform organizations. Frank Kiegbr, ag-ed 104 years, died in Cleveland, O. He was a Bohemian and came to this country forty years ffo. Senators George and VValthall have been returned to their places n the United States senate by the Mississippi lefrislature and Senator Gorman ha been reelected in Maryland. The republicana of Louisiana in state convention at New Orleans DOtninated a f uil ticket with A. H. Leonard, of Caddo, f or governor. John Andeeson, a well-known resident of Springfield, O., who hasseen 70 years, was married to Miss Gertie Young a pretty miss of 20 years. Gen. James E. Huoüenin, apred 74 years, died in Chicago. He was á veteran of the Mexiean and civil wars The Woman's suffrage association in annual session at Washington elected the following officers: First honorary president, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton; second honorary president. Lucy Stanton; active president, Miss Susan B. Anthony; vice president at large, Rev Anna Shaw. Mrs. Peter Fi.yn'x died at Plainfield, N. J., in her 6Tth year. She had been ill since last June with some peculiar stomach trouble, and during all that time she had not been able to take a mouthful of food either solid or liquid. Christopher P. Cranch, the noted artist and writer, died in Cambridge, Mass. Gov. Boif.s, of Iovva, wasinaugurated for his second term at Des Moines. Charles II. Gibson, of Maryland, was elected United ötates senator to serve the unexpired term (five years) of the late Senator Wilson. At a meeting in Washington of the national democratie committee Chicago was selected as the place for holding the national convention and June 21 fixed as the time. Joseph P. Bradley, associate justice of the United States supreme court, died in Washington at the age of 79 years. He was appointed justice by President Grant in 1870. The Maine prohibition state convention has been called at Bangor, May 4 and 5. FOREIGN. Beri-in's society for the homeless last year provided shelter for 100,000 men and 15,000 women. By the collapse of a bridge at Tiflis, Russia, many persons were crushed to death and a large number injured. In addition a large nuinber were drowned in the river. The funeral of the duke of Clarence and Avondale, late heir apparent tothe throne of England, was held in London on the 'JOtli. Duking a storm on the Japanese coast 100 fishermen were drowned. Milt,s & McDougai.l's wholesale woolen house at Montreal was burned. Loss, $150,009; insurance, L90,000. Seventy-three bodies were recovered from the river at Tiflis, Russia, at I the place where the bridge gave way under a multitnde of people who were in reügious proeefsion. Jonx Couch Adams, F. R. S., the well-known astronomer, died in London, aged 73 years. For the first tims in four years rain feil at Durango, Mex. Fipty persóns were killed or injured by the f alling of church roof during services at Slobodskoi, Russia. French troops in the Soudan had an engagement with the tribe of Samory in which the natives were defeated with a loss of several hundred killed. The French loss was six killed and thirty wounded. Margaket Ann Chastings, a widow 32 years' of age, killed her two children, Emily, lüyears old, and Ernest, agc-d 8, at Nottingham, Eng., and after! wards cut her owu throat. No cause was known. LATER NEWS. Advices from Chili state that an ultimatum has 1 een received there from our government cíeelining to tolérate further delpy. Evkrktt & Post, pig lead dealers in Chicago, failed for $118, Ï75. ThoüSANDS of cattle were slowly starving to death in the hills of southern Idaho, and the loss to the stock ïaisers would be tremendous. William E. Eobinsok, a member of the l'ortieth congress, died at his home inBrooklyn, N. Y., ased T8 years. Fiük damaged the historica! old residence of the duke of Arenburg at Brussels, one room which had stood without ehange for 325 years being entirely ruined. Two men robbed the express car of a Missouri Pacific train near Lamar, Mo., but did not secure mucb money. Thbeb children of A. B. Wilson died suddenlyat Williamsburg, Col. Doctors thougbtthey must have been poisonec by something that they liad caten. A HALF bloek of business houses al Pine Bluff, Ark., was destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of L130,000. At Providence, R. I., Wrs. Catberine Harland and her niece, Mary Kellegher, were asphyxiated by escaping gas in their room. Patrick Boyle, the murderer of .lohn Muensch on August 12 last, was hangcd at Edwardsville, 111. Ex-Gov. Jouu Hali, died at Frederika, Del. He was governor of Deleware from 187ti to 1SS2. The parliament of Canada has been called to meet on February 25. Mus. Mabgaret Stovte, an aged lady who lived entirely alone in Cleveland, O., was found dead in her chair. She leftproperty valued at$3,000,000. The First National bank of Downs, Kan., faüed with liabilities of 100,000. Several severe shocks of earthquake were feit at Rome, which caused a panic in the more crowded quarters of the Italian city. A burglab entered the revenue office at Vladirostúck, Russia, and carried awa' 2,750,000 roubles. lx the six-days bicycle race in Chicago Charles W. Ashinger won by a wheel's length, making 727 miles. Stage was second, only a few feet bebind the winner. Fi.ames in the works of the Boston Electric Lijrht Company caused a loss of S200.000. The United States Masonic Benevolent society of St Louis was saiii to be 150,000 in arrears in the payment ol aenefits owing to the large number of deaths caused by the grip.