The News Condensed

A joint resolution was introduced in the senate on the lst requesting the president to return to Mexico the flags captured by the American army during the Mexican war. The Mexioan award bill, known as the La Abra claim, was passed In the house bilis were introduced to créate a government department of mines and miningi to amend the postal laws so as to provide that publications of the aecond class shall go through the mails at the rate of one cent per pound. The proposcd new rules were again discussed. In the senate a joint resolution was introduced on the 2d to amend the constitution so as to have United States senators elected by popular vote. Many memorials were presented for the closing of tbc Columbian exposition on Sunday In the house a bill was introduced to prevent aliens and alien eorporations or associations from coming into the United States and buying up and owning large bodies of land. The proposed new rules were further discussed. A bill was introduced in the senate on the 8d continuing for ten years all laws now in force prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons. The joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitutioii of the United States relating to marriage and divorce was discussed and the bill for the creation of a fourth judicial district in the territory of Utah was passed .... The house spent the day in the discussion of the rules. In the senate on the 4th a bill was introduced for the erection of a monument at Put-in-Bay, O., to commemorate the battle of Lake Erie in 1813. The report of the committee on privileges and elections in the case of the Florida senators (declaring Mr. Cali entitled to the seat) was adopted. Adjourned to the 8th In the house the new rules were adopted. Resolutions were introduced directing an inquiry into the affairs of the World's Columbian exposition, and directing the committe on judiciary to make an investigation and report whether congress has the constitutional authority to appropriate money for the exposi tion. Therb was no session of the senate on the 5th. ..In the house bilis were introduced to place a duty of one cent a pound on tinplate or taggers tin; to repeal, af ter July 1, 1893, the duty of four cents a pound on pig tin: providing for a patent on any new plant, fruit or flower. A resolution was introduced instructing the ways and means committee to report a bill for the admission of all agricultural implements free of duty. In the contested election case of Craig vs. Stewart, from the Twenty-fourth district of Pennsylvania, Craig (dem.) was given the soat. DOMESTIC. The of Mrs. Robert Atwell, a bride of 17 in Cherokee county, Ala., caug-ht fire from a stove and she was burned to death. A mail car with its eontents, mostly papers, ivas burned on the Hudson River raiiroad near Syraeuse throug-h tlie explosión of a lamp. President Harrisox lias issued a proclamation in regard to reoiprocal trade relations withGermany and making- public the modifications of the tariiï laws of the Germán empire as to certain products of the United States. Thk supreme court of Oklahoma has sustained the "sooner" law ousting all settlers who entered land before the hour set by law. The supreme court of Wisconsin has authorized the attorney general to suit to test the reapportionment act passed last winter by the leg-islature. The New York legislature has passed a bilí allowing newspaper men to witness electrical executions and publish the details thereof. David Porter, deputy collector at the port of Savannah, Ga., was shot dead by his son while his wife. lx a fig-ht between officers and outlaws in Paris, Tex., two of the latter were killed and one of the ofiicers fatally wounded. The depot of the Evansville & Indianapolis raiiroad at Clay City, Ind., was burned by inoendiaries. Minister' ömith, at St. Petersburg-, reports to Secretary Blaine that 14, 000,000 persons in Russia are in a starving condition, and that the loss to Russia by the famine was placed at $500, C00,000. At Easton, Pa., Preston M. Gernet, a lawyer on trial charg-ed with propnating fro.OOO, committed suicide by shooting. Frederick Niedick, aged 63 years killed his wife and himself in Milwau kee in a quarrel over money matters Tliey leave thirteen children. Great destitution was reportec among the coloree! settlers of Oklahoma. The explosión of an alcohol condenser in a bat factory in Newark, N. J., caused the death of three persons and injured severul others. The historie old Appomatox courthouse at Richmond, Va., was destroyed by fire, and all of the county records were entirely consuined. The Commercial loan and savings bank at Kearney, Neb., closed its doors. with liabilities of $150,000 and assets a bout the same. Lattimer & Wiktom's bank at Aldison, N. Y., was entered by burgTars who seeured $15,000 in mone'yA fküd between the Partéete and Landon in Cedar Grove. Tenn., has resul tedio three deaths. Sevex mail pcraehes were stolen from mail wagons while Crossing; on the ferry boat from New York to Hoboken. The doors of the National bank of Siiver City and the First national bank of Deming. N. M., have been closed. The two banks are allied. ' The wife and child of Dr. F. C. Peasley were suffocated by coal gas in their home at Norwalk, O. A. street car at Pittsburgh filled with non-union employés was blown up with dynamite by strikers, but no one was injured. Mattie Toiíian and a 2-year-old daughter of James Crotchett were both burned to death near Padueah Ky. Anthony Bsows, of Pittston, and Miss Harriet Rutledge, of Duryea, were suffocated by g-as in a room at Wilkesbarre, Pa. They were to have been married the next day. After an absence of ten years James McGuire, an iron orker, surpriaed his wife and six children at Youngstown, O., by suddenly re turn ing. He is a mental wraok, and can give no account of himself except that he was in Cali■firnia Earthquakb shocks at Omaha, Neb., caused a bank of earth to cave into the street, a house and fatally injuring one of its inmates. Shocks were also feit in Portland and Astoria, Ore. John A. Morris, the principal owner and director of the Louisiana Lottery Corapany, announced that he intended to withdraw his proposition for the recharter of the company, and that the concern would winti up its affairs and retire f rom the field when its charter expired in 1894. Jüdge Johin Ritter, cashier of the defnnet Glasgow (Ky. ) bank, pro ves to have been short $25,000. Mbbedith Stahly andhis wife, both dressed in tights, jumped simuitaneously írom the railroad bridge at Cincinnati, 100 feet, into the Ohio river. Keither were injured. At the Sloss f urn ace in TSirminghara, Ala., two men were killed and six injiired, three fatally, by the falling of a scafEold. Twkntv-five saloonkeepers at Ottumwa, la., were arrested for neglecting to cancel the stamps on empty liquor casks. The braiding shop of the John Roebling's Son's Company at Trenton, N. J., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $150,000. The 865,000 memorial hospital at Johnstown, Pa., was dodicated. It was erected by the state flood commission. The work of laying a cable between New York and the Bahama islands has been completed. The house of A. M. Lennig at Jacksonville, Fla., was burned, and his wife and two children perished in the fla,mes. Mahcy, Geer & McCann's bank at Eaton, N. M., was closed, with liabilities of 880,000. A mob near Hendersonville, Tenn., attacked two negroes who had been acquitted of a charge of barn-burning, shot through the window of their cabin and killed their aged mother. Fitzsimmojts, the Pittsburgh thief and murderer arrested in New Orleans recently, committed suicide in the parish prison by cutting his throat with a penknife. James Odem, who wantonly killed two negroes in Louisiana, was shot dead while resisting arrest. The steamer üulfton, frora Brazil, was quarantined at New York with yellow fever on board. Five of the crew had died and four were down with tli3 disease. S. V. White and P. VV. Hopkins, representing the firm of S. V. White & Co., stock brokers, of New York, which failed recently, have been reinstated by the stock exchange. In Kentucky William Puckett was hanged at Irvine for the murder of William Hall; Robert Chariton (colored) was hanged at Henderson for the murder of Minnie Hoskins, and William Bush was executed at Stanford for killing his wife. At the leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchangesduring the week ended on the 5th aggregated $1,319,874,432, against $1,208,579,817 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 11. 1. Five deaths f rom "spotted f e ver" weve reported from Dangerfield, Tex. , and the people oi the affeeted locality were greatly alarmed. The supreme court of Texas holds that receivers of railway cotnpanies are not liable for daniages resulting in death. In' the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 5th numbered 319, against 297 the preceding week and 293 for the corresponding wee1;: last year. The barb wire trust, which comprised al) the barb wire plants of the country, has been dissolved. President Hakrisox has issued his proclamation promulgating a reciprocity trcaty with the British West India colonies. Ca tt. W. E. Edwakbs, a prominent tobáceo dealer of Louisville, was bnrned to death in a fire which destroyed the Central tobáceo warehouse. E. Godbabd & Son, mülers at St. Louis, made an assig-nment with liabilities of $150,000 and ssets of $97,09Ö.4S. Seth Dorsev, Henry Dorsey and a negro named Overton were killed by a falling1 wall at Glasgow, Ky. Hamilton, N. D., was nearly destroyed by fire. The town of Morganfield, Ky., was nearly wiped out by fire. The Western Farm Mortg-ag-e Company at Denver has failed for $1,000, 000. A lioht shock of eartliquake was feit at San José, Cal. Frederick Zenner shot his sweetheart in New York and then took hia own life. At Salt Lake the liberal territorial convention adopted a memorial to congress ag-ainst the admission of Utah as a state. Four newsdealers were fined 825 and costi each for papers on Sunday at Pittsburgh, Pa. The orange erop of southern Cal ifornia was said to be a failure, and many growers would be bankrupted. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Eicharü Anguín and his wife, who had lived sixty years of their lives together, died within a few hours of each other at Galena, 111., of the grip. Georöe W. Ladd, a metnber of the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh congress, died at his home in Bangor, Me., ag-ed 73 years. Miss Mamie Shaffer, 16 years old, was tnarried at Red Hook, N. Y., to Jeretniah Moore, whose age is 72 years. The labor organizations of New York state have indorsed a bilí to enable all self-supporting vromen to vote at all elections. Moses Hopkins, the well-known capitalist, died in San Francisco of heart failure, aged 75 years. Jacob P. Leese, the first white settler in California; died in San Francisco, aged 82 years. John Ferries, the oldest man in the neighborhood, died in Garry Owen, Jackson county, Ia., aged 112 years. Rfssell Sage, Jr., nephcw of the noted New York financier, died in New York, aged 53 years. Mus. Mary Wray celebrated her lOOth birthday anniversary at her home in Fairbury, 111. She was in good healtli. The democratie state committee of Iowa has decided to hold at Council ! Bluffs, May 11, the convention for selecting delegates to the national convention. Wisconsin prohibitionists wül hold their state convention in Madison May 81. Miss Bridget McCaffrey, the oldest inhabitant of Montgomery couDty, died at liridg-eport. Pa., at the age of 110 yoars. bhe was bom in Ireland. Rkphkkkntatives of the prohibitionists and people's party of Michigan met in Jackson and decided to consolídate the two parties. Rev. I!. J. FbeYj for twenty-twoyears editor of the Central Christian Advocate, organ of the Methodist church, died at his home in St. Louis, aged 68 years. John Hogan, who laid out the site of the city of Chicago, died at St. Louis. HaMILTON Geay, the oldest postmaster in the United States, died near Kingston, Tenn. He had served as postmaster at Gray's Hill since his at pointment by President Polk. Gen. J. F. RoBINSON, for twenty years president of the Kentucky Turf association, died at his home in Lexington. FOREIGN. The steamship Eider, of the North Germán Lloyd Steamship Company, which left New York for I'remen on January 23, went ashore on the Atherfield rocks, Isle of Wight. Her passengers were safely landed. An explosión in a colJiery at Horononai, China, killed seventy persons. There was great rejoiciii!? amonj the Afghansover the defeat of the English tobáceo monopoly in Persia. A. Dupiïee, of Montreal, placed rozen dynamite cartridges on the stove to thaw and they exploded, and he and his three daughters were fatally injured. The wife had become a maniac. Twentï persons lost their Uves as a result of election riots in Hungary. A HUCK8TEH named Gosgroski and his two children and two laborers named Kurs and Schutz were burned to death in Berlin. Foük sailors of the British war ship Belle Isle were drowned at Dublin by the capsizing of their boat. Natives of Dahomey have ravaged the country around Popo in Sengal, 3,000 slaves. Trade was at a standstill. In Eussia's famine districts the thermometer registered 30 to 40 degrees below zero and many people were freezingto death. The Austrian government lias instrueted all the frontier officials to stop all moneyless Jews seeking to enter Austria and Hungary. Incendiaky fii-es in Santiago, Chili, causee! a loss of 2,000, 0U0. At Valparaíso, Chili, Judgeof Crimes Foster passed sentence in the Baltimore assault case of October 16, 1891. Carlos Arena was sentenced to 920 days' imprisonment for wounding William Turnbull, José Anumada to 320 days' imprisonment for injuring Turnbull, and Frederico Rodríguez to 140 days' imprisonment for wounding Charles YV. Riggin. Thikty barg-es were torn from their moorings by drift iee at Breslau, Germany, aad several of the barges sank and forty persons were drowned, including many women and children. A JUDICIAL inquiry at Nensatz, Hunjary, resulted in the indictment of ;hree old women for the mnrder of ten peasants. LATER NEWS. Trere was no ses;ion of the United States senate on theOth. In the house no business of iinportance was Iransaeted. K-A-NSAS deraoorats vvill hold their Btate convention at Leavenworth M ai-eli 5. Fbank Xyi.kis and his wife were joth crushed todeath while attempting to repair au on their farm near Gurdon, Ark. TiiE steamer Venezuela, valued at $400,000, and loaded with a cargo of ccffei; valued at L000,000, was wrecked off Barnegat Forty-kight contract laborers were return ed to Enropo f rom the immigration station "at Ellis Island, N. Y. The Hotel Roy al in New York was destroyed by fire and thirty or more lives were lost The property loss was 250,000. One of the guests had $12,000 in money burned. Miss Kittie Shaw, daughter of a prominent Pittsburgh physieian, dropped dead while dancing. In a letter of a few lines addressed to James S. Clarkson, chairman of the republican national committee, Mr. Blaine positively announces that he is "not a eandidate for the presidency," and that his name "will not go before the republican national convention for the nomination. " During a quarrel at a dance near Silver Point, Tenn. , two men named Anderson and a Miss Carr were killed. The fast express on the Chicago & Alton road collided with a freight train near Larrabee, Mo., and Engineer Ellington and Firemen Keiler and Hinderman were killed and several persons were badly injured. A fïiïe at the architectural iron works of the Haugh-Ketchum Company in Haughville, Ind., caused a loss of $120,000. Rear Admiral Andrrvv Bryson, United States navy, retired, died at bis residenee in Washington in the 70th year of his age. A negro in Todd, County, Ky. , charged with making insulting threats against white men, was takn from jail last night and beaten ahnost te death. A tornado passed through the soutliern part of Wood county, O., unroofíng houses. uprooting large trees, blowing down fences and doing other dam age. Miss Louisa Sherman, one of the handsotnest young women in Séneca P'alls, N. Y., had both feet amputated because of wearing tight shoes, which resulted in a disease of the bone which medical skill could not cure.