The News Condensed

Bii.i.8 were passed in the seiiate on the 23d to fix the corapensation of keepers ' and crews of life-saviug stations, and to provide tor a commission on the subject of the alcoholic liquor trafile. Bills were introduced to créate the vecora and pension división of the war department for the preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer armies, and to provide for the examination and promotion of enlisted men in the army to the grade of second lieutenunt . . . . In the house Mr. McMillin was elected to preside during the absence of the speaker. A bilí was introduced to establish a national sanitarium in northern New Mexico or southern Colorado for the treatmeat of consumption. A few reports were made from cotnmittees and placed on the appropriate calendar. Bills were introduced in the senate on the 24th referring to what is known as the "green goods crime" and a bilí to protect foreign exhibitors at the World's Columbian exposition was passed. A special message from the president on the world's fair was read.... In the house a resolution was adopted authorizing an investiga tion of the operations and effect of the eighthour law in the government service. Thelndian appropriation bill was considered. Petitions for further pension legisla tion, and protcsts against free coinage of silver were presentcd in the senate on the 25th. Senator Vest spoke at length against the reciprocity clause of the tariff act and Senator Hale spoke in its favor.... In the house a favorable report was made on the bill to prevent desecration of the United States flag by using it as an advertising medium. A memorial was introduced praying congress to adopt a national alphabet for phonetic spelling. In the senate a bill was introduced on the 20th to punish intruders on the lands of cither of the five civilized tribes in the Indian territory. The bill introduced by Mr. Sherman lo prohibit the coming of Chinese to the United States was reported adversely. Adjourned 10 the 29th. . . . In the house the urgency delïeiency bill ($438. 6W) was passed. Andrew Stewart, of the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania district, was unseated and Alexander K. Craig, the deniooratic contestant, was given the seat. A concurrent resolution was introduced that after March 31 no further bilis shall be introduced d uring the session except such as shall te reported from committcps. DOMESTIG, Corinthian hall, one of the largest ■buildings in Atchison, Kan., suddenly collapsed, and is a great mass of iruins. No one w as injured. David Gallway and Henry Grippey, farmers, attempted to cross the Mississippi river at Eagle Point, la., on the ice. Gallway went through an air hole and was drowned, and Grippey was so frightened at his companion's fat-; that he became a raving raaniac. In the United States the visible supply of fjrain on the 2Sd was: Wheat, 41,473,188 bushels; corn, 10,033,217 bushels; oats, 3,639,735 bushels; rye, 1,901,108 bushels; barley, 1,624,692 bushels. The Pennsylvania express ran down a pleasure party near Pittsburgh, Pa., fatally iniuring Aliee Gaskill, Williani Dewar and M. G. Zeigler. One of the largest silver strikes known in Colorado for years was made in "Last Dollar" mine near Telluride. The ore, it is said, runs 40,000 to the ton. Leslie E. Keeley, of Dwight, 111., has elosed a contract to put his remedies for the liquor and opium habits in the national and state military homes of the United States. An incendiary fire at Malvern, Ark., caused a loss of $100.000. Charcoal burners at Emerson, Mich. , thrust a dissolute woman into a charcoal kiln and left her there five hours. Though the fire was not hot enough to burn her, the woman was overeóme by smoke and was suffocated. Two chtldben were burned to death at McKeesport, Pa., and their father, Michael Lynch, almost lost his life in the vain efi'ort.to rescue them. Unless rain falls in Arizona within the next three weeks the losscs to tle-owners will be immense, it is said. Aï Pittsburgh, Pa-, Charles Kodrus shot and probabiy fatally wounded his : vvife because she refused to share a recently-inherited fortune ivith him. An appeal for funds is made by the executive of the Irish National league to Irish nationalists and friends of home rule in America Adelbebt D. Slye, the self-convicted Glendale (Ma) train robber, has been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. At Varner, Ark., a mol) ynched George Harris, charged with the murder of one Parks, a machine agent, at Tyro last September. Pebby Bkck, a young farmer living at New Ross, Ind. , oommitted suicide by shooting himself. The wadding of the gun ignited the clothing of the suicide and burned the body to a charred mass. Stockholdkrs of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad have authorized the issue of $70,000,000 in bonds for iinprovements. Chahi.es T. Wili.8 has foreclosed a mechanic's lien on Dr. Talmage's tabernacle in Brooklyn, and the structure would probabiy be sold by the sheriff. The thirteenth anniversary of the founding of the government Indian training school at Carlisle, Pa., was celebrated. A negro outlaw at Sedalia, Mo., assaulted two women, plundered a house and committed a highway robbery within two hours. J. W. Collins, president of tb e California national bank which suspended recently at San Diego, was arrested on the charge of ernbezzling $200,000. James Hilt, a St Louis negro, murdered his brother and then deceived an officer into ca.rrying the body away with the statement that his brother had a fit; meanwhile the murderer made his escape. John and William Aylky, brothers, were murdered near Kingsville, Mo. Both were killed with an ax and their bodies chopped to pieces. They were wealthy and robbery was the motive. Chaki.es and Julia Smith arrived in Boston from Chicago, which place they left over two months ago. They made the trip by wagon. Mes. Benjamin Harrison was reelected president of the Daughters of the American Revolution at their se.ssioa in Washington. The tliteentn annual cönvention of the jS'ational Klectric Light association opened at Búllalo, N. Y. MORTGAGES aud notes worth S200.000 belonging to W. W. Townsend, of Minneapolis, have been lost iii tlie mails between Minneapolis and West Superior, Wis. In a fire at the refinery of the Standard Oil Company in Whiting, Ind., twenty-two valuable horses perished. TWO UUNDBKD Ar kansas negrocs oti their way to Liberia were stranded in New York for want of funds. Charles F. Jtjmoxville, ior twentytwo years receiving teller of the Canal bank at Kew Orleans, absconded with $8,000 of the bank's money. Twenty years ugo his father stole$100,000 from the same bank. Negotiations for the establishment of reciprocity relations are about to be commenced between Austria and the United State.;. Atlanta, Ga., was flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. Ar San Francisco the jury in the case against Actor Curtís ior the killing of Officer Grant reportad that they were unable to agree and were discharg-ed. They stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal. Thk University of Chicago has received another million dollars endowment from John D. Rockefeller, making his total gift to this institution $2, - 600,000. The Pittsburgh Tost Publishing Company was fined 8800, and Messrs. Barr and Mills, president and editor, respectively, were fined 850 and costs each in the Quay libel suit. Mrs. Helen Johnstone, of Englewood, 111., and her daughter, Mrs. Hartman, were fatally injured in a runaway at Minneapolis, Minn. CONDUCTOB ROBERT DUPFY, of the Omaha road, died at West Superior, WifcV, as the result of injuries received. His father dropped dead when told the news. Sechetary Blaine has sent a letter to Premier Salisbury strongly protestr ing against Canada's refusal of copyright to United States citizeas. Lbwis Asher, a farmer who lived at . Edenton, O., died as the result of a ■ hog bite received nearly a year ago. Will Gibson and Rube Marshall, two white convicts, were fatally shot at Wetumpka, Ala., while attempting to escape. At San Antonio, Tex., the Maverick building', containing many offices and stores, was burned, the loss being 00,000. The artillery company at Newport. K. I., eelebrated its 150th anuiversary and made arrangements to be at the world's fair. Prof. William McAdams, of Alton, 111., dug up a bundie of fossilized vegetation which he estimates had been buried nearly 2,000 years. üov. Markham, of California, has deeided to declare Labor day, which is the ñrst Monday in Septeruber, a legal holiday. Suburban trains collided in a tunnel in Cincinnati and Engineer George Collins was instantly killed and five other persons were wounded, two fatally. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 26th aggregated 81,07-2,468,401, against 1,389,912,453 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 32.8. Dick Cullen was lynched by a mob at Marshfield, Ho., for killing a little boy. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 26th numbered 270, against 299 the preceding week and 290 for the corresponding wee'i last year. The Newmarket (N. II.) Savings bank suspended, withdeposits of about 6191,000. The Kniglits of Pythias of Ashtabula, O., have undertaken to raise a fund for the erection of a monument in memory of the uurecognized dead who perished in the terrible railway disaster in 1876 at that place. All contributions should be sent to Lucien Seymour, Ashtabula, O. Frank Bkieans, a farm hand, was found in a box car on a sidetrack near Lawrenceville, Ind. , almost dead. He had by som'e blunder been imprisoned in the car for eight days. Afïer serving twenty years of a life sentence in the penitentiary at Wheeling, W. Va., it has developed that John M aley is not guilty of the crime of murdering his young wife, for which he was convicted. At Newport, Ark., a Mrs. Swearingen was shot a few hours after her ïnarriage by an unknown member of a charivari party. öevf.n fittsburgh (Pa.) newsdealers and carriers were fined S25 and costs each for selling newspapers on Sunday. The Empire state express on the New York Central road, which runs a mile a minute, is too much for the ice yachts on the Hudson river. Several races have oecurred and the ice yachts invariably got the worst of it. Wheat in southern Minnesota is in bad condition, it is said, on account of a lack of snow. Many fields will be plowed this spring. Petek Smith (colored), of Springfield, O., has patented a binder that uses straw instead of twine for binding. John Robinson, a negro who made a murderous assault on Mr. Carey, a merchant at Shaw's Station, Miss., and then robbed Carey's safe of $500, was hanged by a mob. Jonathan Crago and his wife were killed at Denver, Col., by a Union Pacific train. A. Si'iEGLEB & Co., tanners at Camp Washington, O., assigned with liabilitles of 8100,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Democrats opposed to the nomination of David B. Hill for president met in Albauy, N. Y., and issued an address to the democrats of the state in which they declared that primaries had been carried where only two democrats were present; that caucuses had been held in out of the way places so as to annoy the voters, and that 300,000 democratie voters in the state had been toially disfranchised by Hill and his methods. A cali was made for a state eonvention May 31 at Syracuse. ]Mks. Axgelisb Martin, aged 10S years, and probably the oldest woman in the state of Wisconsin, died of old atfe and gi'ip at her home in Green Bay. The Rhode Island prohibitionists met in state convention at Providence and nominated Alexander Gilbert, of Woonsocket, for governor. 'Ihe tleuiocrats oL New York in cotivention at Albany instructed their delegates to Chicago to present the name of David liennett Hill as a candidato for the presidency. The state convention of Illinois oerats will be held in Springficld April 27. Michigan republicans will liold their state eonvention in Detroit on April 14. Secbetaby of the Tbeasuky Fortkk sailed íroixi New York íor Europe on the North Germán Lioyd steamer Spree. Mattiiew VVilsox, oiie of tlie oldest and best known portrait painters in the country, died at his lióme in Brooklyn. N. Y. ' Harrison delegates to the Minneapolis eonvention were cliosen by the republican primarles thruughout Indiana. A new political combination was formed at the industrial eonvention in St. ]ouis and a prasidential ticket will be nominated July 4. A joint comrnittee of tbe recent industrial conference at St. Louis and the people's party met in St. Louis and called a national convention to meet in Omaha, Neb., July 4 to, nomínate candidates for president and vice president. President Habrisox and family have grme to Virginia Beach, Va., for a week's recreation. FOREIGN. In the city of Sanios, Brazil, the people were saidto be d.ying like sheep of the yellpw fever. Gbeat destitution prevails in Austria among the laboring classes, and the streets of Vienna were f uil of starving people. Gen. Enriquez and party were ambushed near Zacapa by a company of soldiers sent out by the Guatemalau government and shot to death. Melïko show has causeddestructive floods in típain and Portugal. The chimney of a faotory at Checkheaton, Eng., feil, a number of yomig women. Fire broke out and added to the horror. Twelve bodies had been recovered. ■ A discovkry of free milling ore, running 350 in gold to the ton, has been made near Monterey, Mex. Tu, sliip Pearl was wreeked near Peterhead. Scotland, and five persons were drowned and tvvelve otbers were rescued. Eleven men were killed and five injuved by an explosión in a quarry near the royal palace of Ajudah, Portugal. John Douglas, a Jarge real estáte dealer at Toronto, Ont., made an assignment, witli liabilities of $;250,000. A body of 4,0U0 unemployed men in Berlín, aíter listening to inflammatory speeches, marched to make a demonstration before the emperors castle. When near the eastle they were met and after a fight routed by the pólice. Sixty of the workmen were wounded and eighty taken prisoners. The second session of the seventh parliament of Canada opened at Otr tawa. Rioters renewed their disturbances in Berlin and sacked several buildings before they were dispersed by the pólice. The law-abiding residents dared not leave their dwellings. Tiie steamers Loujhbrovv andForest Queen carne into collision off Flamborough, on the North sea, and thé crew of the latter, except the captain, fifty-five in number, were drowned. LATER NEWS. Tiie United States senate Wjts not in Si'ss;od on the '27th uit. In the house a favorable report was made on a resolution substituting December 31 for March 4 as the commencecent and termination of the official terms of senators and representativos in congress and providiDg that the annual meetinfi of eongress shall be heidon the first Monday in January; and also substitutinfi April 30 for Márch 4 as the date of eommencement and limitation of the terms of president and vice president. The Indian appropriation bill was further discussad. Ddking a stor7n at Oporto, Portugal, 300 boats were lost and 300 persous were said to have been drowneói. By au explosión of g-as in a kiln at the Knowles, Tajlor & Knovvles pottery in East Liverpool, O., three employés were fatally injured and a portion of the works demolished. Three men were crushed to death by falling rock in the Anaconda mine at Butte, Mont Ex-Gov. Elias N. Conway was. burned to death in a fire that destroyed his residence at Little Rock, Ark. Carl Hartman, aged 18 years, and Edward Shaffe, aged 16 years, died at Rochester, Pa., f rom roots supposed to be sassafras. John Seger, moved by jealousy, shot Mrs. Elfirst at Byers, Col., and then killed himself. Additionai. details of the of the steamer Forest Queen, run down by the steamer Loughbrow on the North sea, show that the loss of life was fourteen instead of ñfty-five. In a fight over a prisoner at Dexter, Mo., City Marshal Sprinkle, A. J. Cooper and an unknown man were falally shot. A fire at the Hamilton & Dayton railway depot in Cincinnati destroyed two express cars and two postal cars with their contents. The four story of the Burlington (la.) Daily Hawkeye was burned, not a pieced of material beingsaved. Maj. Gen. Georgb W. Cullum (retired) died at his home in New York, aped 73 years. A pire which oripinated in the large clothing establishment of Smith, Gray & Co., in Brooklyn, N. Y., caused a loss of S800,000. Talma and Loman Brown, brothers, who had led a secluded life on a iarm near Palmer, Mass., for many years, died within a few hours of each other of the grip. Loman was 82 and Talma 88 ye ars old.