Domestic

The constitutionality of the quorum count of Speaker Reed in the Fiftyfirst congress has been afflrmed by the United States supreme court Storms in the región about New York wrought damage to shipping and to property alonjf the beach at summer resorts. At Atlantic Highlands, N. J., the tide was the highest ever known. J. M. Bn.LiNesBT, a sleeping car porter at St. Paul, has fallen heir to 860,000 by the death of an uncle in New Mexico. Trains collided in Milwaukee owing to a misplaced switch and seven workmen were killed. Lambert N. Goldsmith, of Columbus, Ind., sentencedto five years in the penitentiary by a jury, was released on bail because there were only eleven men in the jury. Josiah Baker, Jr , and his wife, at Slater, Mo., were caught in a folding bed and almost smothered to death. An unknown man was killed in a violent vindstorm at Reading, Pa. Houses were unroofed and sheds blown down. The public debt statement issued on the Ist showed the total debt to be J?97'2,3S2,S90; cash in the treasury 5188,16,204; debt less cash in the treasury, S840,1'20,GS6. Decrease d uring1 February, $1,703,403. The Indiana state reformatory for women and girls, in which 350 female prisoners were confined, was destroyed by fire at Indianapolis. Loss, 8350,000. All the inmates escapea. The state department at Washington reeeived a list of the verified claims oi all but six of the sailors of the Baltimore against the Chilian government for injuries alleged to have been received during the riots at Valparaíso Jast October. The total amount asked is 82,065,000. The Lima (O.) National bank was closed by order of Comptroller Laeey. At Louisville, Ky., Williara Brand made two attempts to kill Mrs. Laura Good because she ref used to get a divorce from her husband and marry him. C. A. Boyle left Albuquerqe, N. M., for Pittsburgh, Pa. He will ride the entire distance on a bicycle, and by the route to be taken he will cover 5,000 miles. The Pittsburgh (Pa.) Lawand Order league is keeping up the war against the Sunday newspapers. Se venteen more suits have been brought against newspaper dealers for selling papers on that day. Rev. Harrison Thompson, aged 72 years, of Lebanon, I1L, committed suicide by jumping into a cistern. He was deranged by the grip. At Detroit fire damaged the stores of William T. Eeid, a glass dealer, and the Michigan Fruit Tablet and Confectionery Company to the extent of S200,000. Fifteen persons were injured, two fatally, in a wreek on a branch of the Baltimore & Oh'io near Parkersliurg, VV. Va. A fabulously rich strike of gold has been made in the Humbug district of Arizona, and the miners are flocking there by the hundreds. The American Strawboard Company's mili at Chestertown, Md., was destroyed by fire, the loss being 8170,000. In Sitnpson county, Ky., Briggs Caldwell shot and killed Fount Justice and Charles Hancock on account of an old feud. Edward Norstrum was drawn through the rolls in the McKeesport (Pa.) rolling milis and crushed out of all semblance to a human being. William Smith, his wife and two sons were found murdered in their home at Sherman, Tex., and a negro named Sam Marsey had been arrested as the murderer. Oklahoma's delegates to the republican national convention were instructed to vote for President Harrison. Charles Kepple, aged 11 years, hanged himself at Freeport, Pa., because his father reproved him. During the four rnonths ended on the lst the packing houses of the west packed 7,750,000 hogs, against 8,173,000 for the corresponding period last year. During a qiiarrel in a primary election in Fayetteville, Tenn. , Gaton Eogers, a prominent farmer and anee man, and his son Torn were íatally shot by Officer Sam Hunter. í The state supreme court has decided that the Massie law, taxing railroads i 51 per inile of track operated in Ohio, ! is unconstitutional. (íeobge Rankin, a drnnken driver in New York, while in a írenzy of rage '. held his wife upon a stove until she was fatally burned. Stephen T. Hopkins, of the New ; York custom house, was found dead by a railway track near Pieasantville, N. J. How he carne to his death was unknown. Mr. Hopkins represented the Seventeenth New York district in the Fiítieth congress. A statement prepared by the commissioner of internal revenue in regard to sugar bounty shows that 2,523 claims for bounty, amounting to 86,914,654, have been received, and that 925 claims, amounting to 82,952,020, have been paid. Near Nashville, Tenn., Ed Eussell and Al Robinson fought with knives and killed each other. An oíd family feud was the cause. Dr. Henky M. Scüddeb, of Chicago, was arrested on the charge of murdering his mother-in-law, Mrs. F. H. Dunton. Estimates based upon the new census place the population of New York city at 1,900,000, while that of Brooklyn is 1,685,000. John McGrath, 23 years old, and Edward Kent, aged 21 years, were asphyxiated by gas at Weekhawken, N. J. A fire at East Liverpool, O., detroyed the stores of H. E. Porter & Co., J. P. Ikert & Co., Crosser, Og-ilvie & Co., and L. S. Wilson. Loss, $125,00. ÍN a fit of jealousy Mary Galvin, of Duquesne, Pa., threw a bucket of lye on her husband and her two children and all were fatally burned. J. W. Coi-i.ins, president of the Cali'ornia national bank at San Diego, committed suicide by shooting. The Kansas City lead and oil works were burned. Loss, 8105,000; insurance, $86,000. Fire destroyed the Boston and Maine passenger depot at Ne wbury port, Mass. Michigan railroads earned $96,472,329.60 from January 1, 1891, to January 1, 1892; They earned 893,075,802.67 durng the same period in '90-91. Two stock trains on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy were wrecked at Hinsdale, 111., and Brakeman Home and Fireman Burkhalter were killed, besides a large number of cattle and hogs. Thb Cold water (Mich.) National bank was rob bed of about $20,000 in cash; also a private deposit of $40,000 in Philadelphia and Reading deferred bonds. One thousand dollars reward is offered for the arrest of the robbers. At Black Eiver Falls, Wis., members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union tore down the indecent bilis of aburlesque troupe and declared a boycott on the opera house. At Richland, Ind., a man named YViUiams shot his wife, killing her instantly, and then shot himself, dying shortly after. Jealousy was the cause. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 4th numbered 240, against '70 the precedmg week and 265 for the correspondinpr week last year. The Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted against admitting woinen to the general conference, 136 noes to 37 ayes. Timothy IIopkixs, of New York, the adopted son of Mrs. Mark HopkiusSearles, has compromised his suit against Edward F. Searles for $3,000,000. POSTMABTER GENERAL WaNAMAKER is investigating a system of locating and nunabering country houscs with a view to extending the free delivery of mail. Gold ore which assayed $30 a ton was said to have been found at the foot of Spanish peaks, near La Junta, Cal. The vein was 8 miles in length. J. B. Rykr & Co. 's upholstery goods manufactory at Fhiladelphia was burned, eausing a loss of 8150,000. Eight employés were badly burned. Fouk men were killed and six wounded by a boiler explosión in FarrelFs sawmill at Longview, Tex. The corner stone of the Grant memorial monument in New York will be laid on Gen. Grant's next birthday, April 27. Mark B. Conu and liis brother Abraham set fire to their store in St. Louis to secure an insurance of $5,000, but they were burned to death before they could escape from the building. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 4th aggregated 31,213,823,088, against 1,072,468,401 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 14.3. Fivk men were fatally injured by a fire-damp explosión in the Elmwood colliery at Mahanoy City, Pa. PERSONAL AND POLITIÖAL. Wïlliam Boone, of Hudson, Mich., celebrated his lOOth birthday. He claims to haveseen George Washington at Philadelphia in 1797. Ex-Gov. W. W. Holden died at his home in Raleigh, N. C, aged 75. Ann French, of Belfast, Me., aged 90 and worth $100,000, married an itinerant peddler aged 36. Wïlliam H. Bradley, the venerable clerk of the United States circuit and district courts for the northern district of Illinois, dropped dead in Chicago, aged 76 years. Michigan democrats will hold tneir state convention on May 4 at Muskegon to elect delegates to the national convention. Myron B. Wright was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania district, anc democrats of the Sixteenth Illinoi district renominated G. W. Fithian. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Wakdwell, of Bris tol, was nominated for governor o: Rhode Island by the democrats. Dele gates to the national convention wer instructed to vote for Cleveland. Lucy Eidi.ey, an old colored wom an, died in New York at the age o: 117 years. She was a slave nearly ninety years. The republicans of the Fourth Indian district have nominated Capt. Samuel M. Jones, of Versailles, for coneress. Capt. Timotht Meaher, a veteran ïteamboat man, died at Mobile, Ala., iged 79 years. He imported the last :argo of slaves brought to the United States. Noah Pobteb, ex-president of Yale college, died at his home in New Haven, Conn., aged 81 years. The Iowa state republican convention will be held at Des Moines on March 17. Pedro Montt, minister to the United States from Chili, has resigned on account of his election to the Chilian congress. The Nebraska prohibition convention at Lincoln adopted a platform declaring for government ownership of railways, telephones and telegraph systems and woman suffrage and elected twenty-seven delegates to the national coavention. FOREIGN. Twenty thousand people in northern Huugary are reported to be starving, the government refusing them aid because they are of the Slav race. A crazy shoemaker named Reveil, living at Broadsworth, Eng., killed his four children bv cutting their throats. Immigration has been prohibited by the government of Queensland. To encouragk the manufacture of otton goods Russia proposes to refund ie import duty on raw cotton to exjorters of the manufactured product. Muir, the shoemaker who murdered lis mistress, was hanged in Newgate )rison, Ijondon. Thikteen men were injured by the all of a scafEold in Liverpool, eight atally. In the final races for the world's kating championship at Christiana, weden, between Smart and Hagen, he latter won, going 2 miles in 5 minutes 34 4-5 seconds. By a collision of trains on the San Yaucisco & Recipe railway near Cuyambuca station, Brazil, more than ifty persons were killed and a larga number wounded. By a premature blast in a quarry at Aschen, Germany, nine workmen were killed. During a blizzard and snowstorm in Mnity bay, Newioundland, íorty sea! ishermen perished. Most of those who were lost were f athers of families. Bordonk, who was Garibalda's chie: of staff during the Prussiwi war, died in Paris. Rev. Edgar Pinkerton, amissionary rom Cineirmati, died at Bahia, Brazil of yellow fever. Eighty-three married fishermen were drowned in the recent gules on ;he coast of Portugal, and their widows and children were in danger of starvation. Two powerful dynamite cartridg-es were placed in the doorway of the Paris pólice quarters, but f ailed to ex jlode on account of the rain. The steel works at Friedrichsfelde, Germany, were destroyed by fire, the loss being 81,000,000. Thousands of unemployed workmen in every large city in Gerrnany are clamoring for bread. In Dantsic they broke open shops of every kind and carried off everything in the nature of food. LATER NEWS. The United States senate was not in session on the 5th. In the house a bilí was reported providinjf that congress should meet on the second Monday in January, that the 4th of April be substituted for the 4th of March as inaujuration day and that the term of congressmen should expire on December 81. Thirty of the most prominent citizens of Marine City, Mich.. were arrested for smuggling. F. L. Montague, an artist, shot his wife in Washington at her request &nd then took his own life. Despondency was the cause. The Kansas democratie convention to elect delegates to Chicago will meet at Salina April 20. In a race fight near Memphis, Tenn., Deputy Sheriffs Cole and Harold were fatally wounded by negroes. Edwards Pierbepont, who was attorney general in President Cirant's cabinet, died in New York, aged 78 y e ars. James Dubois drowned his infant child at Cincinnati because he said he could not support it. The boiler in White's sawmill at Port Huron, Mich., exploded, kiüing Frank Moran and fatally scalding five others. The Ocean and Beach hotels and three cottages at Tybee beach, near Savannah, Ga., were burned. Ttvelvk thousand loaves of bread were distributed ainongr the poor in Vienna, along with a quantity of meat, sausages and milk. At Dexter, Mo., fire destroyed the Iron Mountain depot and fourteen business houses, causing a loss of $150,000. The barn of James Harverstick near Noblesville, lnd., was burned, together with contents, including eighteen milch cows and eight horses. The election of Barrios as president of Guatemala was reported. In a fit of jealousy Edgar G. Drew shot and killed his wife in Lowell, Mass., and then took his own life. Ludwig Bii.ineir and Felix Green, employed in a Chicago" livery, were asphyxiated by gas. An attempt was made to destroy the British embassy in Brussels with an infernal machine. Bob Currie shot John Butler and Sarah Washington at Brownsville, Tex., because he was jealous. Jn a fight between negroes and white men near Edmonton, Ky., four of the former were killed and four wounded and two of the white men were seriously hurt.