The News Condensed

In tiie senate on the 13th the pension appropriation bill (1146,737,000) was reponed. Mr. Peder spoke in favor of nis bill to increase the currency and provide for its clrculation. to reduce the rate of interest, and to establish a bureau of loans....In the house billa were passed providine that Indian children shall be declared tobecitizens when they have reached the age of 21 years; to protect settlement rights where two or more persons settle on the same section of agricultural public lands before survey thereof. Only routine business was transacted in the senate on the 14th Chief Clerlt Towles, of the house, gave notlce of the death of Mr. Stackhouse, and appropriate resolutions were adopted, after which the senate adjournea In the house a bilí was introduced providing for the election of representatives by proportionate representation. Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, announced the sudden death of his colleague, E. T. Stackhouse, and the customary resolutions of respect were adopted and the house adiourned. Senator Pkffer presen ted a petition in the senate on the 15th from colored citizens of Kansas, protesting against aouthern outrages. Senator Paddock presented a petition from Nebraska citizens urging that in the future the salaries of all senators and representatives in favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver be paid them in silver and silver only. The silver bill was discussed ... In the house the fortiflcation appropriation bill (Si, 412,372) was passed and the revenue bilis were discussed. Senator Morrill (Vt) addressed the sen ate on the 16th in opposition to the bill to provide for the free coinage of gold and silver and Senator Stewart (Nev.) spoke in its favor. Senator Poffer (Kan.) presented a petition in relation to the prevalence of lynch law anü said it was time for the American congress to take action in the matter.... In the house the tin plate bill was discussed, but no action was taken. In the senate nothing was done on the 17th In the house the conference report on the rlver and harbor bill was presented, and another conference was ordered. The remainder of the day was consumed in fllibustering over the Sibley claim bill for the use of his patent tent by the iíovernment. A bill was reponed for the issue of 10,000,000 silver half dollars, to be used as souvenir coins in aid of the world's fair. DOMESTIC, A COMMITTEE of vigilantes were ia oharg-e of aft'airs at Guthrie, O. T., and the threatened race war had been averted. In a quarrel over a woman at Arkansas City, Kan., ,T. A. JIcCormiok and D. C. Jones shot each other dead. A huericase accompanied by a terrific downpour of rain swept over Chicago and killed and injured severa] persons, as well as destroying property valued at over 8200,000. The greatest damage was done on the south side, where great plate glass windows were blown in, buildings unroofed or fired by lightning and telegraph poles leveled. Foubteen members of the crew of the Boston were killed by an explosión of shells at Mare Island navy yard in San Francisco. The International Typographical union began its fortieth annual session at Philadelphia. Dubing May the exports of breadstuffs from the United States were 819,410,349, against 812,330,231 in May, 1891; of provisions, 510,501,592, against 87,068.006 in 1891. One hundred buildings were burned at Chicora, Pa., and the fire was stil] burning. Joel Edwakds ,-ind his little son aged li years and David Edwards were drowned while bathing at Cresent City, 111. A fire which startcd in the George Ruder Brewing Company's mammoth plant at Wausau, Wis., caused a loss of S100.000. The one hundredth anniversary of the passage of the law inaugurating the national militia was celebrated at Omaha, Neb., by a great militia tournament. A cycloxic wind swept over Orno Point at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, and wroun-ht great damage. Seveke eaithquake shocks were feit at Santa Ana and Eiverside, Cal. One person was killed, twenty were injured seriously and 200 houses were damaged by the storm which passed directly across the town of Galva, 111. Mrs. Geobge Beaudry, of South Bay City, Mich., jumped into the river with two of her children and all were drowned. No cause was known. A frkight train ent throug-h a trestle 135 feet high at Lonesome Hollow, Ky., and three of the crew were killed. A locomotivk exploded on the Chicago & Grand Trunk raihvay near liattle Creek, Mich., fatally injuring the fireman and brakeman. The town of Moville, Ia., was almost wiped out by a fire. A fire in Baltimore, Md., destroyed the wharves and freight houses of the Bay Line Steamboat Company, two large schooners, the offices of James Corner & Sons, dealers in naval stores, and other propertv, the total loss beine81,'iOO.OOO. Mus. Jules Lkroy, wife of a coal merchant at Imperial, Pa., and her two children were fatally burned by an explosión oí kerosene oil. A topeado eapsized a boat at líangor, Me., and eig-ht persons were drowned. Missoula, Mont., was flooded and many houses and bridges were swept away by the Missoula river. The Illinois Wesleyan university has conferred the degree of doctor of laws upon Gov. Fifer. Gustave and Eric Eng and Axel Peterson, aged 8 to 14 years, who were supposed to have run off with a circus, were found drowned at Moline, 111. Twins were presented to Mrs. and Mr. Harrison Breedlove, of Carson, Nev. Mr. Breedlove is 70 years old and his wife is 63. They are believed to be the oldest couple on record who have been favored in this way. Michigan erop reports indícate a big yield of grain and fruits. A fihe at Elizabeth, W. Va., deetroyed faetones and sawraills valued at 8300,000. A fekryboat Crossing Bayou La Fotirche at Napoleonville, La., was pverturned and five persons were drowned. An express train collided with an eng-ine at Oreland, Pa., killing William Fenton, the engineer, and injuring twelve persons, some fatally. At their couvention in Cleveland the National Association of Dancing Masters eleeted E. W. Masters, of Boston, as president. At a meeting in Des Moines, Ia., of the executive committee of the Irish National league a resolution was unanimouslj' adopted condemning the división now in Ireland and deelaring that "we will not contribute one cent to either party until they unite." One wornan and two men were instantly killed and several others were injured by a bolt of liffhtning that struck the Grant statue in Lincoln park, Chicago, a .storm. The statue itself was not damaged. Wiixiam Henry Paixtost, the murderer of Mrs. Miehael Strominger, was hanged at York, Pa. The report of the condition of national banks in the United States at the close of business on the 16tli shows the resources to be $3,479,035,128. The liabilities include 8082,232,158 of paid-in capital stock and individual deposits of SI, 743, 787,545. Frank Westoe and George Murray, of Grand Rapids, Mich., aged 6 and 8 years, respectively, quarreled at the river. when Frank tried to push George into the water. Both feil in and were drowned. In a saloon fight at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., four men were killed. A CYCLOHB swept over the southern Minnesota counties of Jackson, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn, Blue Earth, Mower and Fil] more, and at least seventy lives were lost. The destruetion of property vvasenormous. Five business houses were destroyed by fire at Eich Hill, Mo. At Scranton, Pa., 10,000 men marched in the parade in honor of the reunión of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. The venerable university of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia held its one hundred and thirty-sixth annual commencement. l'oi'K Itaüans were lynched near Sedro, YVash., for imirdering John A. Xelson, a mine foreman. The g-rand lodg-e of masons of Xebiaska, in session at ürnaha, decided that no liquor dealer could become a member of the order. The national convention of Loyal Ürang-emen in session at Pittsburgh, Pa., adopted a resolution declaring ag-ainst the world's fair on Sunday. .FETER UAKNKJt, a farmer living near Adel, Ia., was robbed of 82,500 by three crooks. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 17th aggregated $1,138.301,289, against 81,183,487,730 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 12.1. It has been decided by a judge at Mount Vernon, 111., that the woraen members of the school board could not hold office. IH the United States the business failures the seven days ended on the 17th numbered 179, against 192 the preceding week and 253 for the correspondin{f week last year. J. Marsh & Co., private bankers and merchants at Vermont, 111., failed for 8100,000. Two women have been elected to fellowships at Yale university, and they are the first to receive this distinctioii. Mus. Ella Dayson, wife of Thomas Dayson. a lumberman at Ford's Mills. N. Y., gave birth to quadrupiets- three girls ard a boy. The Michigan supreme court rendered a decisión sustaining the constitutionality of the Miner election law, which was passed by the last legislature. Joe W allace, th ! murderer of Henry Cote, was hanged near Jasper, Marión county, Tenn. The execution was witnessed by 10,000 people. Paul, Rudolph, Edith and Maggie Pittock and Edna Riehardson, ranging from 12 to 15 years of age, were drovvned in the Ohio river at Neville island, near Pittsburgh, Pa. The Master Plumbers' association in session at Washington elected Jeremiah Sheehan, of !St. Louis, as president. What remained of the village of Eockdale, Ia., since the disaster of 187Ö, was wiped out by a storm. Geasshoppers vveic'destroying many cotton fields in Mississippi. A clouburst flooded Chatsworth, 111., doing great damage. The body of a woman with head and arms gone was found near Oeonomowoc, Wis. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Gen. E]j T. Stackhocsk, member of congress froin the Sixth district of South Carolina and a prominent member of the Farmers' Alliance, died suddenly ia Washington. The democratie state convention of Arkansas in session at Little Rock nominated a f uil state ticket headed by William M. Fishback, of Fort Smith, for gfovernor. Nelson W. Aldsich was reelected United States senator from Rhode Island. Minnksota'8 Farmor's Alliance has seceded from the people's party and called a eonvention of its ovvn to be held in St. Paul July 7. Thk 80th birthday of Harnet Beecher Stowe was celebrated at her home in Hartford, Conn. Congressmen were nominated as folio ws: Illinois, Seventh district, J. E. AlcPherran (dem.); Kentucky, Third district, Isaac H. Goodright (dem.) renominated; Kansas, Seventh district, Jerry Simpson (people's party) renommated. B. L. An-tonv (dem.) was elected at Dallas, Tex., to fill the unexpired term of ex-congressman, now Senator Roger Q. Mills. The democrats of Ohio in convention at Columbus nominated the following ticket: Col. W. A. Taylor, of Franklin county, for secretary of state; John P. Drigg-s, of Mon-oe, for supreme judg-e (lony term); Thomas Beer, of Crawford. fór supreme judg-e (short term); Y. II. Wolfe, of Fairfield, for clerk of the supreme court. The delegates tothe national convention were uninstructed. Rev. Fatheb Mollingeb, the famous faith cure priest of Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 70, died f rom the effects of a surg-ical operation. He was worth 82,000,000. E. S. Lacey, comptroller of the currency, has resigned. The people's party of Kansas in convention at Wichita nominated S. D. Lewelling for governor. Dl(. E. W. Joiins, forraerly medical purvoyor general of the confedérate states, died at Richmond, Va., aged 63 years. EEPBESEirTATlVE IIor.MAx, of Indiana, and Mrs. Holman celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage in Washington. The peopie's party of Michigan in convention at Lansing elected delegates to the national convention at Omaha and adopted resolutions against fusión with any party and demanding shorter hours for laboring men. Mbs. Elizabl.th Stilgexbauer died at the home of lier son near Columbus, Ind., aged 100 years. The North Carolina people's party in convention at Raleigh made the following' congressional m minations: Second district, E. A. Thorne; Fifth, W. R. Lindsay; Eighth, E. L. Patton. Thk people's party of West Virginia in convention at Parkersburg nominated S. A. Houston for governor. James Bashall was nominated for congress in the First district and N. W. Fitzgerald in the Second. NoMiNATiONS for congress were made as follows: Iowa, First district, John H. Gear (rep.). Indiana, Eleventh district, William Johnson (rep.). North Carolinia, Ninth district, W. T. Craw ford (dem.) renominated. John McElkoy, a veteran of twc wars, died in Scarey county, Ark., aged 81 years. The prohibitionists of the Sixth Illinois district have nominated E. J. Hazelett for congress. FOREIGN. Terrific thunderstorms prevailed in various parts of Spain, causing loss of life and injury toproperty by lightninfr. The hemp spinning wofks at Barmen, Germany, were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 750,000 marks. A mixer named Havelka has confessed that he caused the fire in the Przibram mines in Belgium by which hundreds of lives were lost. Uxited States Consul A. Wim.aud, at Guaymas, Mex., died there of paralysis, aged 67. He was a native of Conneeticut, and had been in the consular service for about thirty years. Twe.yty persons were killed by an explosión on board the British steamer Petrolia, lying near Blaye harbor, Franoe. Pire af, Liverpool that started in the cotton taken from the Spanish steamer Guido from New York caused a loss of $125,000. A cyclone in Canada caused great damag-e to property and loss of life at St. Rose, Lachutte, St. Johns and the Ottawa valley. At St. Rose the sehoolhouse was blown down and the teacher and ten ehildren were killed. Several persons were killed in other places. A cyolone wrecked several buildings at Badalone, Spain, two faotories, and eight persons were killed and a number injured. Emin Pasha's reported death was merely a rumor. In Germany a society has been organized to plácate Franc for the loss of Alsace-Lorraine by a promise of bestowing- Egypt upon the republic. Alarm was feit in Italy over the continued activity of Vesuvius. LATER. The United States senate was not in session on the lsth. In the house the g-eneral defieiency bül (.51.8: ,585) was reported. The senate joint resolution a presidential proelamation for the observance of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America was agreed to. Adjourned to the 23d. Emmons Blaine, the eldest son of James G. Blaine, ex-secretary of state, died suddenly at his home iu Chicago of inflammation of the bowels. ag-ed 38 year.s. The democrats of the Fourteenth Illinois district haverenominated Owen Scott for congress. The race between the White Star steamer Alaska and the Cunarder Aurauia across the ocean was won by the arrival of the former off Sandy Hook in 7 days 5 hours and 43 minutes, twenty minutes ahead of her rival. LlGHTNINQ struck and exploded two kegs of powder in the store of W. H. Ryan at Parmleysville, Ky., and fifty persons were injured, some fatallv. A boat capsized on Lake 5t. Clair near Detroit, Mich., and Lizzie Mogg, ag-ed 18, Carie Uieber, aged 19, and Henry Floethe, ag-ed 38, were drowned. Thk New Jersey Farmers' Alliance in convention at New Brunswick elected deleg-ates to the national convention in Omaha. Thk chief of the bureau of statistics reports that the total value of the exports of merchandise from the United States for the twelve months ended May 81, 1892, was SS2S,767,S58; same in 1891, $840,888,913. Two 80NS and a daughter of John Hartman, residing near Sardis, O., were killed by during a storm while picking berries. Johx Johnson, one of the negroes ïmpncatea in the murder of Merehant Colquhoun at McComb City, Miss., was hanged by a mob. Durinq a riot at a colored picnic near Memphis. Teun., three negroes were killed and a dozen were seriouslv injured. lx the National league the percentages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 18th were: Boston, .632; Brooklyn, .627; Philadelphia, .577; Cincinnati, 569; Cleveland, .556; Chicaffo, .510; New York, .490; Washington, .480; Pittsburgh, .455; Louisville, .404; St. Louis, .358; Baltimore, .294. The percentages in clubs of the Western league were: Coluinbus, .739; Milwaukee, .611; Toledo, .514; Kansas City, .512; Omaha, 488; Minneapolis, .424; Fort Wayne, .343; lndianapolis, .258.