The News Condensed

A. BILL Tras passed in the United States sen ate on the 8th to repeal the act requiring lifesaving appliances on steamers so lar as it relates to the carrying of line projectiles and the means of propelling thera on steamers plying exclusively on any of the lakes, bays or sounds of the United States ...In the house the time was mostly spent in discussing the world's fair appropriation Wil, and it was flnally referred to the appropriation committee by a vote of 124 to 104. A bilí was introduced providing that $2,000,000,000 be issued by the general government in paper certificates, to be lóaned to individuáis. In the sena te bilis were reported adversely on the 9th to increase the circulating medium by issuing treasury notes based on gold and silver coin and bullion; for the retirement of national bank notes; the free coinage of silver; promotion of the international free coinage of silver, and for the loan of money to the farmers of Indiana In the house bilis were introduced to promote the safety of national banks; authorizing the detail of army offleers for special duty in connection with the world's fair; providing that persons employed to guard or defend property of any kind shall be residents of the state where the property is located. The bill placing the secretary of agriculture in the line of presidential succession after the secretary of the interior was passed. On the lOth the time in the senate was oecupied in discussing the bill providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents. Mr. Gorman, oí Maryland, presented the credentials of his colleague, Mr. Gibson, and the oath of office was administered In the house a resolution for the appointment of a committee of flve to investigate the methods of business in the bureau of pensions was adopted. Mr. Bland's bill for the free coinage of gold and silver and for the issue of coin notes was favorably reported. A resolution was introduced providing for the final adjournment of the flrst session of congress on Tuesday, May 31. In the senate bilis were introduced on the llth appropriating $16,000,000 to improve navigation on the Mississippi, and for statues to Gen. John Stark and Gen. Zachary Taylor. The bill to amend the law as to the coasting trade on the great lakes was passed. Adjourned to the 15th In the house a bill was introduced to repeal the sugar bounty law. The military academy appropriation bill was taken up and consumed the remainder of the day. The senate was not in session on the 12th In the house the military academy appropriation bill ($396,665) was passed and in committee ol the wbole several bilis for claims against the government were considerad, but no action was taken. DOMESTIC. Fire broke out íd a mine at Lehigh, I. T., burning two men to death. The Capital City opera house, the principal theater at East Des Moines, Ia., was burned, causinga loss of $100,000. At El Rene, O. T., mobs seized residences and looted stores of settlers whose titles were in doubt owing to a decisión of Secretary Noble. The steamship Indiana, under the American flag, will leave Philadelphia February 20 for Russia with a cargo of provisions contributed for the famine sufferers. Amiza Williams, a womanwith four husbands, has been committed to jail in Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the charge of bigamy. A barrel floating in the river at Nashville, Tenn., was found to contain the remains of a man. Charles Beavers (colored) was lynched by a mob at Warren, Ark., for assaulting Chloe Wright, a 16-year-old girl. Dabling Bros., contractors and builders at Worcester, Mass., failed for $175,000. All of the offieers of the Louisiana Lottery Company were indicted by the grand jury in the United States circuit court in Boston and warrants were issued for their arrest. Emma Abbott's ashes have been sealed into the beautiful monument at Gloucester, Mass., erected by the fa-, mous singer before her death. The national convention of United Mine Workers assembled at Columbus, O. Gov. McKinley made a short speech. American millers and the people of Minneapolis have contributed 3,000,000 pounds of flour and 1,000,000 pounds of eorn to the Russian relief fund. An enormous "spot" is reported on the sun's disk at the present time. At Salt Lake City the dry goods store of Grossbeck & Houghton was burned, causing a total loss of nearly $150,000. In the New York legislature a bilí was introduced to repeal the electrical execution law and substitute the old form of the rope. Foety persons were poisoned by drinking coffee at a banquet in El Dorado, Kan. AU will recover. Two Ohinamen - Lee Wong and De Mong- had their throats cut from ear to ear at the Parqua Halla (A. T. ) mining camp. The object was robbery. Charles Maginnis was tried at Muncie, lnd. , on the charge of stealing an overcoat. He wae acquitted, and after the verdict was rendered confessed the crime. The annual estímate of farm animáis in the United States cousolidated from local returns of January to the department of agrieulture show the number of horses to be 15,478,000; mules, 2,314,000; cows, 10,416,000; other cattle, 37,651,000; sheep, 44,938,000; swine, 52,398,000. Eleven Chinamen were indicted by the United States grand jury at Deadwood, S. D., for using the mails for the transmission of lottery tickets and literature. Seventeen persons in all - eleven women and six mea - is the suni total of the dead by the burning of the Hotel Royal in New York. Negotiations between the United States aud Canada in regard to reciprocity of trade relations were formally opened at Washington. Chicago agents are said to be negotiating for English capitalista to obtain control of all the oolitic stone lands in Indiana and opérate them as a trust. Is' eau Ouray, Col., a large body of ore was found in the Midnight mine, on Red mountain, running 40 to 50 per cent. lead and 200 ounces in silver to the ton. Secretary Blaine emphatically denies the report that he is about to revien from the sabinet. At a dance near New Albany, lnd.. Peter Cassidjr fatally cut two men with a knife. He then attacked Edward Guenther, wheu Guenther shot him, inflicting a fatal wound. The failure of Phillip Bur,ns, with liabilities of $400,000, was announced on tï e New York stock exchange. The house of J. W. Sweatman near Ladonia, Ala., was entered by shíners during his absence, and Mrs. Sweatinan and her little boy were shot dead. A fire in McCune's block in Columbus, O., caused a loss of 8100,000. Miss Cora Blair jumped from a second-story window and was killed. James Couch, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Chicago, was rúa over by a heavy truck vvag-on and died in a few hours from his injuries. He was 9a years oíd. Two bkautiful young girls, daughters of W'illiam Criswell, a wealthy citizen of Cameron, W. Va., were killed by the cars. Application was made for a receiver for the type-founding firm of Farmer, Little & Co., of New York. Maimón Hbaspeth, wanted át St. Louis for complicity in the Glendale (Mo.) train robbery, was arrested by detectives in San Francisco. A Fort Waynb passenger train running- 30 miles an hour crashed into a street car in Chicago, injuring eleven persons and killing John Waylan. Neae St Joseph, Mo. , a discharged hired hand named John Hémele set fire to the dairy barn of W'illiam Rudke, and it was burned with sixty head of cows and tvventy-five head of horses. Leading negroes in Little Rock have organized a national association with $2, 500,000 capital stock, the object being to opérate business houses for colored people. William Jones and Perry McKnight were run down by a railroad train near Hopkinsville, Ky., and fatally injured. William Hendricks was bunkoed out of 85,000 at Lima, O., by a confidence man giving his name as Henry Owens. H. A. Brüns, president of the Merchants' bank of Moorhead, Minn. , waa arrested on a charge of defrauding depositors. At Cimmaron, Col., the Denver and Rio Grande round house was burned together with four locomotives. The Russian charge d'affaires at Washington was formally notified that over 5,000,000 pounds of flour had been contributed by the millers of the United States and the people of braska and Minnesota for the relief of famine suffers in Russia. Hamp Biscoe, his wife and son, who were arrested and placed in a small house at Keo, Ark., were all shot dead by two masked men. The ürand Central hotel at El Paso, Tex., was burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, 895,000. The first volume of the blue boot for 1891 shows that there are employed in the postal service of the United States in all capacities 184,431 persons and in all other departments of the government 62,863 persons, making a total of 247,294. On the New York stock exchange the total sales of railway stock on the Hth were 1,452.613 shares. The transactions were the greatest for one day in the history of the exchange. Caroline Gardneb, 15 years old, of Federal Station, Pa., died of fright. Two men chased her, causing her to have convulsions, from which she died. Samuel, Keixy shot and killed Julia Long at Marshalltown, Ia., and then killed himself. Unrequited love was the cause. The 83d birthday of Abraham Lincoln was observed in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. At the leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 12th aggregated 81,349,331,172, against 1,319,874,432 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week ol 1891 was 26.7. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 12th numbered 276, against 319 the preceding week and 297 for the corresponding wee'i last year. The dead bodies of two Americana were found in an adobe hut near El Paso, Tex. The murder was thought to have been committed by renegade Indiana. Eeports from the leading cities throughout the country indicate a general improvement in trade. The national board of control has approved the programma for the I catión of the Columbian exposition buildings in Chicago on October 12, 1892. Dubing a storm at North Adams, Mass., a fall of red snow occurred, covering many square miles and greatly alarming the country people. The notorious Cooley gang of outlaws, who have terrorized the counties of Fayette and Westmoreland, Pa., for years, has been broken up and the members scattered. Will, Lavendeb, acolored man who attempted to assault Alice Perry, a white girl, was taken from officers at Eoanoke, Va., by a mob and hanged. Members of the Grand Army of the Republic are contributing for a statue of Gen. W. T. Sherman to be erected in Washington. At Monterey, Ala., Tom Traweek, a 16-year-old white boy, shot and killed two negroes, nained Bill Thomas and Jim Jackson, who had assaulted Traweek's 4-year-old brother. The boiler at a saw mili near Eaton, O., exploded, killing William Kisling, son of the proprietor, and a hired man named Shiverdecker. The schooner Wave, bound from Norfolk, was wreuked in Pimlico sound, and the captain and crew were drowned. . A fire in the opera house block at Monmouth, 111., caused a loss of 8150,000. The treasury department has issued stringent instructions to customs officials that after March 1, 1892, no merchandise shipped from abroad shall be sdmitted to entry unless plainly marked so as to indicate the country of their origin. John Molloy, aged 72 years, killed his wife, aged 72, and then took his own life at Cleveland, O. The wife had sued for a divorce owing to the jealous and cruel disposition of her husband. PERSONAL AND POLITÏCAL. In New York Dr. Marvin Hubbell, aged 29, was married to Eliza Clark, a wealthy maiden, aged 91 years. The New ilampshire democratie 6tate convention will be held at eord May 11. John Jay Kxox, ex-United States comptroller, died at his residence in New York of pneumonía, agedO4years. Db. Newman Horton, inventor of the reclining chair for railway cars, died at Kansas City. He left a large fortune as the result of his invention. FOREIGN. Eiohtebn people were burned to death in one carriage of a Roumanian express train which caught fire. The house of Mr. Rothschild at Mattavva, Ont., was burned, and Mrs. Rothschild, her little girl, aged 6, and a baby of 16 months perished in the flames. IIkavy snows have fallen in Eussia, enabling the government to distribute supplies in the fainine-stricken provinces. Fi.oods in the Otago and Canterbury provinces in New Zealand have stopped all traffic and ruined the crops. The body of Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon lay in state in the Metropolitan tabernacle in London, and it was estimated that 100,000 persons viewed the remains. A mineb at Myclovitz, in Russian Siberia, has just awakenedfrom a four andone-half months' sleep. Sib James Caird, K. C. 15., F. R. S., the noted authority on agriculture, died in London, aged 76 years. Foub anarchists were executed at Xeres, Spain. Railways in Austria have been so seriously blooked by avalanches that it will require a inonth to reopen them for travel. In the Tyrol the snow is 7 feet deep. Mount Nagashoe, a volcano in New Zealand, is in a s.ate of violent euption. The eruption is accompanied by earthquakes. The funeral of Re ir. Charles H. Spurgeon was held in London on the llth. Business was suspended' in the vicinityof Metropol tan tabernacle and along the route taken by the funeral procession. Thkee emigrants were killed, ten woimded and a number taken prisoners in a conflict with gendarmes on the Russian frontier. Accobding to recent statistics the total population of Uruguay is 706,500, of whom 234,000 reside in the department of Montevideo. Bubveys at the Isthmus of Panama demónstrate that the Atlantic ocean is 6i4 feet higher than the Pacific. It was formerly thought that the Pacific was 100 feet higher than the Atlantic. It was said that three ministers of the Brazilian cabinet had resigned and that another revolution was imminent. Famine prevails among the 1,500,000 inhabitants of the districts of Bijapur, Bolgaum and Dhahrwar, in India. In what is known as Great Russia the inhabitants are dying by hundreds from typhus fever, and the supplies ■which arrive for the famishing people cannot be distributed forlack of horses, these animáis having been nearly all used for food. The San Fernando hacienda at Lerdo, Mex. , containing 20,000 bushels of corn recently received from the United States for the famine sufferers in that part of Durango, was destroyed by fire. Total loss, $150,000. LATER NEWS. IHUBE was no session of the United States senate on the 13th. In the house bilis were passed for the better control oí and to promote the safety of national banks; to abolish the minimum punishment for the violation of the revenue laws; allowing the board of managers of the national soldiers' home to appoint as its oflicers soldiers without regard to rank. Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, K. C. B., died in London, aged nearly 101 years. Henry Buller, an aged farmer living- south of Hope, Kan., his wife and mother were discovered murdered in their beds. The state convention of the New Jersey prohibition party will be held at Trenton, April 19. Mrs. Gregoby and her sister were burned to death at Welford, S. C. Mrs. Gregory leaves tbree children and her sister six. Phii.ip Prims and Frank and Willie Scholl broke through the ice on a pond in Humboldt park, Chicago, and were drowned. John Keli.y, the negro who murdered J. T. McAdains at Pine Bluff, Ark., and Culbert Harris, an aceornplice, were lycched by a mob. Elder Eades, the greatest man among the sect of Shakers, died in Louisville, Ky. , at the age of 75. Advices from Alaska concerning the fate of Morris Orton and party of ten miners indícate that the men have been murdered by Indians. Greenwood, Bohm & Co., clothiers and dealers in liquors and tobáceos at Helena, Mont., failed for S250.000. John and Andrew Boahoch were run down by an express on the PanHandle railroad at McDonald, Pa., and instantly killed. Six men working in an amber mine on the coast of the Baltic sea were drowned by an iaundation caused by a storm. The Nova Scotian clipper Loodiana, laden with petroleum, and carrying a crew of thirty-eight men, was burned at sea and all on board perished. The formal claim of the sailors and others of the United States man-of-war Baltimore who were injured in the flght with the mob at Valparaíso foots up in the neighborhood of SI, 305,000. NBA1U.Y the entire village of Burnside, 111., was destroyed by fire. Elvis Porden and his young wife committed suicide in Sumner county, Ky. A note left showed that Porden killed himself first and his wife would not live without him.