The News Condensed

Thb free coinage of silver bill was discussed In the senate on the 4th, Mr. Morgan speaking In favor of the measure and Mr. Sherman Bgainstit....In the house the tariff discussion was closed by the reading of an address from Mr. Springer. The Chinese exclusión bilí, which absolutely prohiblts the coming into the United States of all Chines persons, except the minister from China, hls attaches, servanta, etc., was passed by a vote of 179 to 42. AN adverse report was made in the senate on the Sth on Mr. Pefler's bilí to créate a fund for setting our army of laborera at work on publio improvements. The Indian appropriation bill was discussed.... In the house a bill was reported authorizing the state of Wlsconsin to place in statuary hall a statue of Pere Marquen. No vote was reached on the free wool bill. Thb senate passed the Indian appropriation bill on the 6th. Senator Woloott (CoL ) spoka in favor of the free coinage of silver.... In the house the debate on the free wool bill came to an end, but no vote was taken. A bilí, was introduced in the senate on the 7th to naturalizo Chinamen now residents of this country. The district of Columbla appropriation bill was discussed In the house the free wool bill was passed by a vote of 192 to 60. Favorable reports were made on public building bilis appropriating for Ann Arbor, Mlch., $60,000, and íor Clinton, Ia., 50,000; also on the bill for an estímate cost of construction oí a ship canal from the great lakes to navigable waters of the Hudson river of sufflcient capacity to transport the tonnage of the lakes to the sea. Bills were passed in the senate on the 8th appropriating $100,000 for entertaining the twenty-sixth national encampment of the G. A. R., and to establish sub-ports of entry at Ashland and Superior, Wis. Adjourned to the llth - In the house a bill was introduced to authorize the liolding of an international monetary congress in Chicago, to commence August 8, 1893 The bill to admit cotton bagging free of duíy was discussed. DOMESTIC. Billy Mukphy, a half-breed Indian in the Tellico mountains of ïennessee, killed his flfth man. He sayshe is going to kill ten before he stops. No one dares attempt to arrest him. A heavy snowstorm in western Nebraska caused the abandoning of all railway trains. A hailstorm in Belmont and Jefferson counties, O., did damage to the extent of 8100,000. Six raftsmen were drowned at Lock No. 6 on the Kentucky river. Brownsville, á small town in Pickens county, Ind. T., was wiped out by a cyclone and two persons were killed and several injured. T. J. Wilson, a member of the Methodist church at Charlotte, N. C, secured a license to keep a saloon and was expelled from the church. At Piqua, O., one of Cronkill & Co. 's furniture factories was destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. During a fire at Fort Madison, Ia., S. V. Kitchen, his wife, three children, his wife's sister, Miss Sidney Day, and August Knemeier, a boarder, were burned to death. Heavy rains in Central Illinois damaged crops, overflowed farm lands and carried away bridges and fences. The South Dakota supreme court has áecided that private parties may do a banking business without incorporating. A Hungarian at Johnstown, Pa., was instantly killed while trying to light his pipe at an electric light. William Maiïb, of Wheeling, V. Va., shot and killed his wife because she refused to give him a kiss. Eev. Joshua Schultz, aged .82 years, while assisting in the funeral services of Abraham Kreiuss at Palm station, Pa., died suddenly in the pulpit. The world's fair grounds in Chicago were visited by a cyclone whioh did $30,000 damage. Four persons were killed in a wreek on the Northwestern road near Waukesha, Wis. A TERKiFic cyclone struck Olean, N. Y., wreeking ten houses and a church. One woman was killed and a number of persons seriously injured. At a church luncheon in Nashville, Tenn., fifty persons were poisoned by eating ice cream. All will recover. Thousands of cattle have perished in the recent storms in Oklahoma and Indian territory. A Union Pacific express train passed throngTi a shower of mud in Kansas which plastered it with a layer of mud an inch thick, darkening the windows and obscurini the headlight. Many people were injured, dwellings wrecked and barns blown down by a storm in Logan pounty, Ky. Nearly every house in Milton, Ala., was destroyed by fire. Tm Northern Pacific hosüital at soula, Mont., was burned, but all the patiénts were saved. Seven horses were burned to death in a fire at Blissfield, Mich. A GAK6 of eight negroes killed a peddler named Patrick Kelly near Fishville, La., for his money. Four of the gang were caught and hanged. The skeletons of four men were discovered in a mound near Marshall, Mo. An Indian pipe was also found in the tomb. Tse straits of Mackinaw were reported clear of ice and navigation is now open to both lakes. Miss Bettie Fleischman, daug-hter of a millionaire yeast manufacturar in Cincinnati, has broken her engagement with Count Logothetti, of Hungary, because he reí used to be naturalized. Cabpentebs in six cities will on May 3 detnand an eight-hour day, and in seyenty-one cities they will demand a nine-hour day. The Chinese minister has informed Senator Sherman that if the Chinese exclusión bilí becomes a law China will sever all diplomatic relations with this country. The Georgia lumberman's exchange was organized in Macon. It is a trust embracing forty-five firms with a capiital of $20,000,000. Tin in large quantilies has been discovered near Chattanooga, Tenn. Five men were f atally injured by the explosión of a locomotive boiler at Long Island City. The large express companies are gradually but persistently discharg'inif all employés belonsing to the brotherhood. A waterspout in the vicinity of West Point, Miss., destroyed miles of railway track, many houses were washeÜ awaj' and four colored families were di-owned. The house of Matt Williams at St. Louis was burned, three of his children, Isaac, aged 12, Margaret, 9, and Nettie, i }, perishing in the flames. Dix & Phtfe, New York bankers, have been robbed of $68,000 by three smployes. The capstone of the Mormon temple at Salt Lake City was laid by President Woodruff in the presence of 40,000 people. 1t was stated at Washington that a renewal of the modus vivendi on the Behring1 sea question had been agreed upon between Sir Julián Pauncefete and Secretary Blaine and signed by President Harrison. An organization to be known as the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic was effected at Springfield, 111. It differs from the Woman's Relief Corps in admitting only the mothers, sisters and daughters of veterans. A sealed package of 810,000 was lost between New Orleans and Washington while in the hands of the United States Express Company. Thk negroes of Clark county, Ark., were said to be planning an exodus to África. Daniel McDaniei.8, 40 years old, killed Minnie Hayes, aged 18, at Hanging Rock, O., because she refused to marry him. A cycloxe in the northwestern part of Faulkner county, Ark., swept over a distance of 7 miles. One man was killed, many other persons were injured and a large amount of property destroyed. Büd Pbice, of Rockfield, Kj., killed a negro named Bud Mahone. The deputy sheriff who tried to arrest the murderer was attacked by Price and his brother-in-law and shot them both dead. It was reported that many negroes had been drowned in Mississippi by the overflow of rivers. A great number of horses, cows and other stock have also been lost. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges the week ended on the 8th aggregated 91,241,890,287, ágainst 81,083,628,886 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 17.8. At Cantón, O., John McCurdy shot and killed L. T. Waltenbaugh, shot his wife, but not fatally, and then took his own life. Jealousy was the cause. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 8th numbered 208, against 218 the preceding week and 243 for the corresponding week last year. The Trentdale Distilling Company's plant at Portland, Ore. , was burned, the loss being 100,000. At a meeting in Chicago of the directors of the world's Columbian exposition the following ofncers were elected for the ensuing year: President, W. T. Baker; vice president, H. N. Higinbotham; secretary, H. O. Edmonds; attorney, W. K. Carlisle; treasurer, A. F. Seeberger; auditor, W. K. Ackerman. Only one-quarter of the average maple sugar erop of Vermont has thus far been produced. The loss to the farmers will be fully 81,000,000, it is said. Tweive persons were injured in a railroad collision near Mount Vernon, O., through negligence on the part of a flaginan. At Toronto, Ark., A. Frazer was hanged for assaulting his 13-year-old stepdaughter in October. It was reported that a battle took place in the southern part of Montana, near Dülon, between ranchmen and cattle thieves in which the ranchmen were repulsed, losing eight killed and many wounded. The thieves also lost heavily. Samuel Stout, A. E. Lea, David Holmes and Alfred J. Poli were arrested at Waupaca, Wis., charged with the inurder of Banker Mead in 1882. Eeports f rom the cattle districts oí Nebraska show that thousands of cattle perished in the recent blizzard. A saioonkeeper in New York started to put a tramp out of his place and in the altercation which ensued he discovered that they were both married to the same woman. Forest fires near Cedarbrook, N. J., destroyed several houses and hundreds of acres of woodland. The fire losses of the United States and Canada amounted to the sum oi $10,648,000 during the month of March, against $12,540,750 in March, 1891. The losses during the first three months oi this year were $35,126,900, against $32,998,150 in the same time last year. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Geït. W. S. Singleton died at Baltimore, Md., aged 82 years. In 1865 President Lincoln intrusted Gen. Singleton with a mission to Richmond, whither he went four times and conferred with Jefferson Davis and others. Joseph M. Kendalt,, son of the late Congressman J. W. Kendall, has been nominated by the democrats to succeed his father in the Tenth Kentucky district. Thb republicans of Oregon held their state convention at Portland. The platform opposes the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States; congratúlate the country upon the prosperity that has marked the administration of President Harrison; denounces free trade and f avors reciprocity. Congressman Binger Hermann was nominated to succeed himself in the First congressional district. Willabd Saulbbury, chancellor of the state of Delaware since 1874 and United States senator from 1859 to 1871, died at his residence at Dover, of apoplexy. The Nebraska supreme court handed down a decisión denying the application I of John M. Thayer for a reopening of the gubernatorial contest. Gov. Flower has signed the bill allowing women to vote for school commissioners in New York. The prohibitionists have nominated L. T. Yoder for congress from the Twenty-seeond district of Pennsylvania, and J. J. Porter from the Twenty-third. Akkansas republicans in state convention at Little Rock instrueted delegates to the national convention at Minneapolis to vote for Harrison. The democrats of the Eighteenth Illinois district have renominatcd V. S. Forman for congressman. Later returns from the Rhode Island election give the following resulta: Brown (rep.), íor governor, polled 27,466 votes; Wardwell (dem.), 25,429; Gilbert, (pro.), 1,180; Burton (peo.), 186; scattering, 75. These figures show a purality of 2,046 for Brown and a majority oí 196. The legislature is republican in both branches. The Massachusette democrats in state convention at Boston elected delegates to the national gathering favorable to Cleveland. The resolutions adopted favor a tariff for revenue, approve the f ree wool bill now bef ore congress and oppose the free coinage of silver. The republicana of the Second district of Tennessee have renominated John C. Houk for congress. Miss Alicb Durant Field, daughter of Cyrus W. Field, of New York, was adjudged insane. The Wisconsin labor party will hold their state convention in Milwaukee May 34. FORE1GN. A conspiracy to blow up the Spanish chamber of deputies at Madrid was discovered and the pólice arrested two anarchist leaders, each earrying an eightpound bomb, at the door of the cortes. Five cadete in a Roumanian military academy have cotnmitted suicide by shooting themselves with revolvers. They belonged to a suicide club. IT was reported that the members of the French expedition under Capt. Menard had been massacred on the Upper Niger in África. Aït explosión in a powder factory at St. Petersburg killed nine men. At Angers, France, anarchists partly destroyed a pólice station and injured a policeman by means of a dynamite bomb. Gen. Piannelix who it was generally believed would lead the Italian forces in the next war, died at Verona, Italy. Díaz has been reelected president of Mexico by a practically unanimous vote. Cattle were said to be starving to death by hundreds along the Mexican National railroad. The British ship Erato capsized and sank at Hamburg and fifteen persons were drowned. Five bandits were shot at San Pedro, Mex. Trade statistics show that the total exports from Germany to the United States have largely decreased during the past year. Advices from Samoa indícate that war between King Malietoa and Chief Mataafa is imminent. At El Porvenir, Cuba, 18,618,000 pounds of sugar cañe were destroyed by fire. Gaia, Andekson & Co., lumber merchants of Toronto, Ont., failed for L 150, 000. The steamer Hausa was sunk by colliding with the steamer Falkenburg near Bremen and seven of the crew were drowned. Dr. Poninsky, a high Polish ecclesiastic, was assassinated by anarchists near Koscieleg, Prussia. The assassins were pursued and two were killed. The other two rather than be captured committed suicide. LATER NEWS. The United States senate was not in session on the 9th. In the house the bill putting cotton bagging and ties on the free list was passed by a vote of 166 to 46. A bill was introduced to përmit railroads to sell to commercial travelers 1,000-mile nontransferable tickets. A number of eulogies were delivered upon the late M. II. Ford, of Michigan. An entire business block at Temple, Tex., was burned, causing a loss of 8100,000. In the floods in Mississippi twenty persons have been drowned and dreds of others have been made homeless. The loss of tliree vessels with tlieir crews of forty-eight persons and property to the value of about S'24S,000 was feared at Philadelphia. The steamship Phillis arrived at New York from Santos minus seven of her crew. Yellow fever was the canse. Rheinheld Pretzel, aged 35, Marx Bertz, aged 50, and Lewis Lewenstein, ag'ed 35, were drowned in the harbor at New Haven, Conn., while fishing. Mrs. Mabt A. Wikel, of Atlanta., 111., celebrated her lOOth anniversary. Mrs. Ross, wife of a farmer near Topeka, Kan., was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of her 12-year-old son. Newkoundi-and has granted licenses to United States fishing vessels, but refused them to Canadians. Incendiaries fired the city hall at Chester, Pa., which is historie, having been erected in 1700. The building was badly damaged. Louis Anastay, who murdered Baroness Dellard, was guillotined in Paris. In a wreek near Connellsville, Pa., a fireman and brakeinan were killed and the engineer seriously injured. In the annual boat race on the Thames between the Oxford and Cambridge crews Oxford won by two and a half lengths. The f amine in Russia has caused a loss to the imperial treasury of 300,000,000 roubles. The wife of Customs Inspector Weinherdt, of Bremerhaven, Germany, drowned herself and her five children. She was thought to have been insane. The prohibitionists in the First district of Iowa have nominated S. B. Glasgow for congress. The search party in the Hiil Farm mine at Dunbar, Pa. , have brought out the bodies of Barney Maush and David Hays, who were entombed there in June, 1890. This makes twenty-seven bodies recovered.