The News Condensed

Bills were introduced in the senate on the 15th appropriating $15,000,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi river; to reorganizo the artillery and infantry branches of the army and to increase their efficiency, and the urgent deBciency bill. The public printing bill was passed In the house a resolution directing an inquiry as to the present tariff upon agriculture to be made was adopted. A bill was introduce1! to repeal the section ot the McKinley bill which puts wearing apparel of persons returntng from abroad on the free list. A bill to establish lineal promotion in the army was passed. AN adverse report was made in the senate on the 16th on the bill to provide an income tax to pay pensions and salaries of postmasters. The urgency deticiency bill was passed In the house, by a strictly party vote, the ways and means committee reported favorably the Springer free wool bill and the Bryan Iree binding twine bill. Bills were introduced to repeal the interstate commerce law; authorizing railroad companies to grant reduced rates to commercial travclers, and to prohibit granting charters to national banlts. A joint resolution was reported proposing a constitutional amendment for the election of senators by the people of the several states. A resolution requesting the committee on foreign relations to inquire whetherit was practicable to icquire certain portions of the rcpublic of Mexico was reported adversely in the senate on the 17th. A bill was passed requesting the president to return to Mexico twenlyone battle flags now in the museum of the United States military academy which were capturéd by the army of the United States during the war with Mexico In the house the time was occupied in considering the Indian appropriation bill. In the senate Senator Palmer (111.) spoke on the 18th in favor of the election of United States senators by the people. Eulogios over the life and oharaoter of the late Senator Plumb, oí Kansas, were delivered In the house a bill was introduced appropriating Ï10.000 for a monument in memory of the soldiers, to be erected in Washington. Mr. O'Neill (Pa.) presented a protest oí the Philadelphia board of trade against free coinage. The Indian appropriation bill was discussed. A BILL was passed iD the senate on the 19th extending for ten years the operations of the Chinese exclusión laws. Adjourned to the 23rd In the house a bill was introduced providing for a survey of a route for a ship canal to connect Lake Erie at Toledo with the Ohio river at Cincinnati. The silver bill was discussed. Adjourned to the 23rd. DOMESTIC, One of the Dobson carpet m lis near Philadelphia was burned, causing a loss of $150,000. The stables of the Norfolk (Va.) City Railroad Compauy were burned and eighty horses perished in the fiaiiies. The eighty-eighth anniversary of the Economite society was celebrated near Pittsburgh, Pa. Otto and Edith Sincox, aged 12 and 14 years respectively, broke through the ice at Sunbury, Pa., while skating and were drowned. It is estimated thatno less than 5,000 people have been converted to Christianity in Cincinnati by the efforts of Mr. Mills, the revivalist. Hans Milder and John Kneutzen, two farmers living near Lyons, Ia., were thrown from a wagon while drunk, and Miller was instantly killed and Kneutzen received fatal injuries. Isr the last four months seventy moonshiue distilleries have been destroyed in Cleburne county, Ala. . Elijah Hoffman, 65 years old, living near Red Oak, Ia., returning home late at night was attacked by a pack of wolves, but escaped uniniured. The Associated Keeley Bichloride of Gold clubs was organized at Dwight, 111., with S. E. Moore, of Pittsburgh, as president. It includes fifty clubs, with an aggregate membership of 3,50ü. J. D. Bnow.f, an mmate of the Mississippi hospital for the insane at Jackson, set the main building on finand perished in the flames. The other inmates, 600 in cumber, were saved. The buildings were half destroyed, causing a loss of 100,000. A solid silver vein 26 inches thick was discovered near Florrisant, Col. Gov. Fleming, of Florida, has issued a proclamation calling for aid for Russian famine sufferers. The holding of a national conference of independent voters from all over the north is proposed by the Massachusetts Reform club. Hbnby Black, of Red Bluiï, Ark., shot and killed his stepdaughter because she interfered when he was whippinff his wife. James Hicks, a desperado at the tían Antonio (Tex. ) poor farm, Lorethe bandages from his amputated leg aad died from loss of blood. Cor,. J. B. Simi'Son, who had been at the head of a dozen business firms in Dallas, Tex., is a defaulter to the extent of $300,000. Waltkk Austin (colored) w;is hanged by a mob for Bert Hard, a white man, at Arcadia, Fla. A n.oT to wreek express train No. 4, east bound, on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway, was discovered at Areola, Ind. In tryinsr to light a candis at Biddeíord, Me., Alice Bo.svvering set her on ore and was burned to death. Her mother was fatally burned while to extinguish the llames. An extra session of the Missouri legislature opened at Jefferson City to rearrange the congressional distriets. Two BMA.LL children of Mr. Oliver while playing in an organ box at Trinidad, Col.; built a íire which igDited their clothes, and they were Ijurned to death. Fi.ames business houses in New Orleans caused a loss of &2,000,000. Severai. slight earthquake shocks were feit at Louisville, Ky. The movement was from east to west. Thk national real estáte congress convened at Nashville, Tenn. Union carpenters throug-hout the country will deraand an eight-hour working day after May 1. Thk American Newspaper Publishers' association met in annual session in New York. While skating on c creek at Council Bluffs, la., the ice broke and Fraak Cook and Frank Kingsbury, each aged 6 years, were drowned. ÍUsr Kussían Jews are applying daily ht the oflice of the Eussiau consul general in New York to be sent back to Russia. They are unable to make a in the United States. Five nien were badly burned, one fatally, at a foundry in Pittsburgh, Pa., by an explosión of molten metal. Capt. Gault and four seamen of tho sealing schooner Osear and Hattie were drowned at Nestucca, Ore., while tempting to land in a small boat. The death of Henry Armstrong, aged 60, who had lived and voted at Junta, Tenn., for twenty-five years, disclosed the fact that Henry was a woman, naraed Myra Lawrence. She served during the war as a man, and kept her secret until the end. The timbers in the Arnoid ore mine at Ferona, N. Y. , gave way, and four men vvere killed and three others were badly injured. The New Yorklegislature has passed a resolution looking toward the suppression of the proposed eoal combine. St. Louis hotels declined to give apartments to Sarah liernhardt unless she would forego the company of her snakes, dogs, parrots, etc. She refused, and remained in her private car. IIarbt Daley, aged 9 years, has just died at Baltimore f rom the effects of a mosquito bite last summer. An extensive cave-in occurred in the surface workings of the coal mines at Luzerne, Va,., and a number of dwellings were completelv wrecked. Thb dry goods emporium of the F. M. MeGillin Company at Cleveland, O., wasdestroyed by fire involving a loss of L500,000. The lower house of the Mississippi legislatura has rassed a bilí ereating s I new county to be called "Jeff Davis. ' Twf.xty-fivk Italian and Hungarian laborers were sent back to Europe f rom New York because they wert contract laborers. James Maktin and Frank Farrell, aged about 16 years, were drowned in j Sandy Lake (Pa.) ereek by breaking through the ice. Henry Hüxenbebo, oí Floodwood, Minn., while attempting to save his horses from a burning barn was overeóme by the heat and burned to death. Four men were fatally burned by molten steel at the Edgar Thomson steel works at i'ittsburgh, Pa. Gen. IIobacb Pokter was elected president of the Grant Monument association at New York. JBebey Turneb, the noted outlaw, was captnred near Middleboro, Ky., and hanged to a tree. The Wisconsin anti-saloon league, a non-partisaa temperance organization, was formed at Madison. H. J. K0YE8, of Eichland, Wis., was elected president of the National Dairy and Cheese Makers' association in session at Madison, Wis. Tom Maguire, of Lehigh, Ia., and Mrs. Wilford Carson, of Dayton, Ia., have been notified they are heirs to a fortune of seventeen millions from an old Scotch estáte. Seventeex horses perished in a fire in Thomas Farrell's boarding stable in New York. O. A. Kentner, president of the Citizens' bank at Carroll, Ia., has disappeared, leaving debts aggregating 831,000. At tho leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 19th aggregated 81,389,912,453, against 81,849,331,173 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corrösponding week of 1801 was 36. 0. The internal revenue receipts for the first seven months of the current fiscal year were 889,700,094, an increase of 81,299,110 over the corresponding period of last year. One of the most features of the internal revenue exhibit is the continued increase of receipts from oleomargarine. The receipts for six months of 181)1 show an advance of more than 50 per cent. over those for 1890. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 19th nnmbered 299, against 27ö the preceding week and 290 for the corresponding wee'i last year. A WBECK on the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass railroad 6 miles from Houston, Tex., killed three train hands and severely injured three others. The New York world fair appropriation bill was amended in the assembly b.y a provisión that the exhibit should be closed Sundays. Charles Cummings, a negro, was hanged at Savannah, Ga., for killing David Wiliiams (colored) in November, 1890. William Smith (colored) was executed at üretna, La., for murdering Dominic Comvnerio, and John B. Lehman was hanged at Custer City, S. D. I?f the lower house of the Utah legislaturc a memorial for an anti-polypamy amendment to the United States constitution was killed. A VRiN of quartz was struek in the Keystone mine in Pennington county, S. D., that pays $20,000 to the ton. The vein is three-quarters of an inch thick. The senate and house committees of the Iowa legislature have agreed to recommend the appropriation of $220,000 for an Iowa exhibit at the world's fair. Twenty-six states and two territories have thus far made appropriations for their representation at the world's fair, the aggvegate amount of the appropriations being 82,695,000. Sixty-nine foreign nations have signified their determination to participate, the total appropriations being 85,000,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. E. F. Dbake, of St Paul, Minn., died at Coronado Beach, Cal. , ag-ed 78 years. He was a prominent and wealthy railroad builder Capt. Geobgk A. Stevens, United States navy, retired, died in Boston, aged 69. He served in the Mexican and civil wars. The Warmouth faction of the Republican party met in state convention in New Orleans and nominated a full state ticket with John E. Breux for governor. There are now four state tickets in Louisiana - two republican and two democratie. Charles E. Hudson died in Boston af ter a voluntary f ast of forty-two days. The Massachusetts republican state convention has been called to meet in Boston April 30. Gov. Hogg has issued a proclamation convening the Texas legislature in regular session March 14. Betsy McKay, aged 106 years, died at Taylorville, Ky. Gilbert Ei.liot Griffin, in the United States post office department since 1837, died in Kingston, N. Y., aged 7'J years. He .introduced the money order and railway systems in the United States. FORE1QN. In a battle between the revolutionists and federal troops at Teinochi Puebla, in Chihuahua, twenty regulara and nine rebels were killed. Michael Davitt says that Irish properties are mortgaged to Engllsh bankers to the extent of L100,000,000. At a cabinet councilin Lisbon it was definitely decided that the finances oí Portugual were in such a condition that it would be impossible for her to tuke part in the Columbian exposition in Chicago in 1S93. Plots in Chili to kill both IJresident Montt and Gen. Canto were diseovered and thwarted. Thbee hundred and fifty persons were arrt'sted at Warsaw in conuection with the aiieged nihilist plots and were exiled to K iberia. President Gabkot has signed the bill appropriating 3,250,000 francs for the Frenen exhibit at the world's fair. A fishing boat foundered off the Irish coast and five of the crew were drowned. Stokms in Oreat Britain prostrated telegraph wires, blpcked railways and highways, stopped paeket service on the English channel and wrecked ?essels on the coast. . Mrs. Ciiippewa, said to be the largest woman in the world, died at Dog Lake Indian reservation, Manitoba, aged 47 years. She was 5 feet 11 inches high and weighed 750 pounds. Seven Arabs who had sought shelter in a grotto at Kou ba, a village near Algiers, were all killed by the collapsing of the roof of the grotto. Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption and is a stream of lava into the Atrio del Covallo. Distuhbances have broken out in the state of Clara, Urazil, and the governor has been driven from the capital. The American bark Tamerlane waa wrecked on the rocks off Puna, Sandwich Islands, and the captain and seventeen men were drowned. During a fire in a drapery store at Lulle, France, five persons were killed by falling walls. They had gone into the building to look for one supposed to be inside. Seventy men were killed and seventeen injured in an explosión at the Horonia coal mine in Japan. In a hotel at Cannes, France, Mr. Edward Parker Deacon, a wealthy American, killed M. Abeille, a French diplómate, whom he found in the apartments of Mrs. Deacon. Ali, the members of the French ministry handedtheir resignations to President Carnot because of the action of the chamber of deputies in connection with the bill dealing with church associations. Wili.iaji Rhodes, Canadiañ minister of agriculture. died in Quebec. Dr. Paul, a French physician, announces that he has discovered a remedy for paralysis. Adoi.ph Lawsee, who lives in a suburb of Montreal, recently took a child and burned its body in a cooking stove to save funeral expenses. Tho magistrates were applied to, but hekl that he acted within his rights. LATER NEWS. Five trains of Pullman cars filled with legislators, foreign ministers and newspaper men arrived in Chicago f rom Washington to inspectthe world's fair prog-ress. Nineteen British soldiers were killed in a fight with the Kachuns in northern Burmah. MSs. M. ö. Bfkdge, aged 81 years, was burned to deatb at her home in Muskfcgon, Mich., her clothes catching fire from a stove. E. Gbay, the oldest man in North Carolina, celebrated his 109th birthday at Delhi. The Bavarian mail coach between Brie ten quessbach and Untermezbach was blown over a precipice and two women and three men were killed. Thk business portion of Joy, 111., was destroyed by fire. In a railroad accident near Smithwiek, S. D., Conductor Benson and Commissioner Humphreys were fatally injured. Thk famine raging in Eussia has extended to Finland and theentire northern part of that country is sufferiug. John Shejrman died at Fitchburg, Mass., aged 100 years and 3 months. He carne to this country from Ireland in 1804. A man and woman were crushed to death in a collision on the Big Four road near Indianapolis. Three young children of Charles De Longchamp were burned to death in their home at Ironwood, Mich., by the explosión of a kerosene lamp. Ed Coy, a negro, was burned to death by a mob on a public street in Texarkana, Ark., for criminally assaulting ': Mrs. Henry Jewell. The toren was applied by Mrs. Jewell. A big plan for flooding Cincinnati with spurious five-dollar bilis was nipped in the bud by the United Statea government authorities and the trio of counterfeiters were under arrest Three hündsed dead wolves represented the work in a hunt in Crawford and Bourbon counties, Kan. A man named Wüliam Cross attempted to rob the American expresa car on the New York Central road near Syracuse. He shot Express Messeneer Mclnerny and proceeded to ransack the packages when the trainmen discovered him. He shot at them and at Lyonis he jumped on an engine, shooting as he went After a hot chase he left the engine and forced a farmer to give him a horse. He was finally captured in a swamp and taken to Lyons jail. Mclnerny was not seriously hurk