The News Condensed

Thb senate was not in session on the 2d In the house the conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was objected to and a new conference was ordered. Kulogies were delivered in respect to the memory of E. K. Wilson, late a senator from Maryland. Adjourned to the 5th. The tariff and appropriations were discussed in the United States señóte on the 5th. A house bul to provide for the care of dependent chUdren in the District of Columbia was passed. ... In the house the entire day was wasted in fruiiless efforts to geta quorum that would vote on the motion made by Mr. Bland to refer the silver bill to the committee on coinage. In the senate on the 8th the sundry civil bill f39,797,798) was reported, and a resolution for final adjournment July 20 was introduced. A bill was passed to increase the pensions of those who have lost limbs in the service of the United States. The conference report on the riverand harbor bill was agreed to....In the house the river and harbor conference report vas agreed to. Filibustering prevented any action on the silver bill. A resolution was discussed in the senate on the 7th for an investigation of the Homestead (Pa.) affair. Items in the sundry civil bill approprlatlns; 5500,000 for the government exhibit at the world's fair and 1320,000 for the national commission were passed In the house a resolution was passed to investígate the Homestead conflict. The senate free silver bill was referred to the committee on coinage, weights and measures, and the anti-option bill was referred back to the senate without I ment. The senate passed a bilí on the 8th changlng the date for the dedication of the world's fair from the 12th to the 21st of October next. Twenty pages of the sundry civil bilí were disposed of - In the house bilis were passed reducing the duty on tin plate and making it free after 1894: limiting the amount of wearing apparel which travelers may bring into this country free of duty; amending the land-forfeiture bill of 1890, and providing a local government for Utah. DOMESTIC. Fire in the wholesale dry goods house of George Etterwell & Co. at Montgornery, Ala., caused a loss of 8300.000. A tenemesít house at New Castle, Col., caught fire, and the three small children of David Kingfield were burned to deaih. The eldest was 9 yearsof age. Pbop. G. A. Rogers, a veteran aeronaut, and Thomas Fenton, his assistant, were killed while making an ascensión in Boston. M. M. 1jiekce, of Pottsboro, ïex., killed his hired man, Morgan Hatch, killed his wife and then took his own life. No cause known for the terrible crime. Two young sons and two daughters of John Westerman, of Kansas City, Kan., were fatally burned by a powder explosión. Immiöbation to this country for the month of May last was 92,242; for the same inonth lastyear, 85,941; for eleven months ended May 31 last, 546,200; for the same period last year, 467,179. Arthur Hazeltine and wife and Nellie Narramore, of Cochranton, Pa., were drowned by the capsizinsr of a skiff. Haslan beat Hosmer about 10 feet in a 3-mile race, with three turns, on the Connecticut river at Hartford. Tirae: 18 minutes 55 seconds. Two me.v and eight horses lost their lives by the burning of James Kane's livery barn in New York city. MR8. it.MII, CHIFfLET, wife of the COOk of the Hotel Metropole at Catalina Island, Cal., and her 4-months-old infant were burned to death by the explosión oí a gasoline stove. A WOMAS the name of Mrs. Jessie Garrett white a balloon ascensión and parachute descent at Bluffton, 0., was killed by the failnre of the parachute to work. Anthony E. Craig killed his wife and then took his own life at Dubuque, Ia. lío cause known. Forty-one buildings were burned at Rockland, Mich., the loss .$750 - 000. A CYCI.ONE in Maine passed over the towns of Paris, Buckfield. Sumner and Hartford, wreckmg many building-s, injuringf severa! persons and killing live stock. Joseph, Zacharia and Henry Martin, three brothers, aged 29, 17 and 15 years, icoptruiiveiy, were arowned at Hurón, Cal., while bathing. The tanuery of Priehett & Bough at MUnn's Choice, Pa., was burned, the loss being $110,000. Ax unknown negro was riddled with bullets by a posse of eitizens near Jasper, Ala., for to assault two white women. Smith Toolet and John L. Adams (colored) were hanged by a raob at Vicksburg, Miss., for Uillinga mercJiant numed Blake. George Benzer accidentally shot and killed William üehs at Louisville, Ky., and then, seeing what he liad done, hhot himself dead. William Tylek. president of the Vincennes (Ind.) Nat on al bank, shot and killed hiraself while seated on his daughter's gi'ave. The northern portion of Mississippi was deluged by a rainstorm and bridges were washed away and hundreds=of head of cattle drowned. While trying to ford Cedar creek at Hiteman, Ia.. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Innis and their 4-year-old child were drowned. The Illinois and Spoon rivers have again inundated thousands of acres of farming land in Fulton county, HL, entirely destroying this j'ear's crops. The livery barn of August Holzer at Elg-in, Ia., was burned and eight horses perished. President H arrisox has signed the bilí S50.000 for the erection of a statue of the late Gen. W. T. Sherman in Washington. During riots between workmen and Pinkerton men at the Homestead (Pa.) milis of Carnegie & Co. nine Pinkerton guards and eleven workmen were killed and eighteen workmen and twenty-óne Pinkerton men were injured. In addition to this at least 100 guards who had surrendered and laid down their arms were seriously injured by the strikers while on their vvay to a place of safety. Opón assigning-a portion of a prospectire legacy to Stiles Carter, to whoin he owed $245, Phillips Bullion was released f rom the Goshen (Ind.) jaíi, wbere he had beeneonfined nearly three years for debt. The business portion of Pocomoke City, Md., was burned, the loss being $100,000. Edgar Jones (coloredj, wlio killed Michael Turney, was taken f rom the Weston (W. Va.) jail by a mob and hanffed. Lestes H. Gale, teller, and VVüliam E. Turner, bookkeeper of the City savings bank at Nashville, Tenn., have fled with S10,000 of the bank's money. Bv the falling of a roof in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., John Williams, John McCaffery and Thomas Jones were killed. Ovkr tiventy persons were poisoned by eating ice cream at the race track at Catlettsburg, Ky. , and the condition of many was serious. A LAEGE portion of the town of Shoshone, Idaho, was destroyed by fire. Rorkrt L. Garner sailed from New Yrk to the west coast of África to endeavor to converse with big monkeys ín the interior, it being his claim that he has mastered their language. For against the f ree coinage bill recently passed by the senate in Washington indignant citizens of Ogden, Utah, hanged Senators Warren stnd Carey, of Wyoming. in effirv. The eleventh international convention of the United Society of Christian Endeavor opened in Madison square g-arden, New York, over 20,000 delegates being in attendance. The report of the secretary showed 25,000 societies with a total membership of 1,370,200. all bui one business house and several residences were burned at Jollietville, Ind. Mrs. Annie Broderick and her three children were suffocated in a fire at their home in New York. William Helms, an old resident of Fulton, Mich., while insane fatally injured his wife with a knife and then killed himself. The oat erop in the country is about 100,000,000 bushels short, or 038,000,000 bushels, against 523,000,000 bushels in 1890. A revised list of those killed and injured in the riot at Homestead, Pa., shows six workmen and five Pinkerton men killed, and thirty-six of the former and 143 of the latter wounded. The death of those most serious'y injured may swell the -amber of f atalities to twenty. The greater portion of the town of Areola, Miss., was destroyed by fire. .fcj.MER i'OiQHNER and Barbara Bolden were married at Huntington, Ind. The bride had three hours before been ffranted a divoree from her former husband. The Marshall county (W. Va.) almshouse tvas partially destroyed by fire and Wesley Holmes and E. Duncan, two of the inmates, perished in the flaines. Johx Jones, a piano factory hand at Springfielu, O., feil into a vat of boiling water and was scalded to death. The supreme court of Tennessee says that Col. Clay King, of Memphis, lawyer, soldier and author, must hang by the neck until dead on August 12 for ! the murder of David H. Posten. At the leading clearing housesin the United States the exehanges during the i week ended on the 8th aggregated Sl,140,S01,T6T, against Sl,031,6S5,86S the previous n-eek. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 16.7. Thbek men were killed by a falling1 wall at MempMs, Tenn., and railway property valued at $118,000 was destroyed. In the United States the business failures during the seven days endedon the 8th numbered 17ö, against 197 the preeeding week and 247 for the corresponding week last year. The corn erop of Texas would, it was said, be enormous - the largest in the pait fifteen years. The drygoods house of Js'euhassel Bros. was completely destroyed by fire at Toledo, O., a loss of $200,000 Fivk persous were drowned in the bay just off Bedloe's island, New York. They were in a small row boat and were struek by the steamer Ccphus. George Stone (eolored), and murderer of William Birklev, was hano-ed at t ayetteville, Tenn. The town of Troy, W. Va-, was wiped out of existente b.y fire. Cook & Waitbt's circus was wrecked near McGregw, Ia., and thirty valuable horses were killed and several of the show people were injured. Pkof. Calvin, of the state university, has been ohosen as Iowa's state geolog-ist to conduct a new survey. Fire destroyed the largest part of the business district of Bethany, Mo., the loss beinff 8100,000. Nine long-term prisoners escaped from the state prison in Uoston through the sewer in the middle of the yard. Edward O'Kelly, w-ho killed Bob j Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, was found guilty at Lake City, Col., of murder in the seeond deree. PERSONAL. AND P0L1TICAU The nationai convcution of the people's party met in Omaha and nominated James B. Weaver, oí Iowa, for president, and James G. Field, of ginia, for vice president. The platform ■ demands a nationai currency safe, I sound and flexible, issued by the i eral government; the free and unlimited coinage of sil ver; a graduated income tax; postal savings banks, and denounces alien ownership of Jand. Col. Benjamin Gbesham. aged 65, j brother of Judg-e Walter Q. Gresham, died of dropsy on his farm at ; ville, Ind. Ratb Fox Jexcke.v, famous as one of the Fox sisters, the flrst producers of spirit rappings, died at her horue in New York, aged 53 years. William J. Campbell has declined the ehairmanship of the republican national committee on account of private business affairs. Johx W. Messick, who at the age of i 8 years joined the Forty-second I ment Indiana mfantry in the late war ! and served three years as a drummer boy, died at Evansville. Ind. AValter C. Lymax, for sixteen years a teacher of elocution and public reader in Chicago, died at the age oí 55 years. Mus. Ruth "Woodworth died at BerHn, AVis., aged 104 years. Hebman Taubbseck, oL Illinois, has been chosen chairman of the executive committee of the people's part3r. At the Kansas democratie state : vention held in Topeka it ivas decided i to indorse the electoral and state ' ets of the farmers' alliance. The Arkansas republieans in convention ut tiittle Rock nominated a ful] state ticket with William G. Whipple, of Little Rock. for governor. Haroi.d M. Se wall, consul general at Samoa, has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted by President Harrison. The demoerats of the Third district of Georgia have renominated Charles F. Crisp for congress. Tuk anti-Donnelly wing of the old allianee party of Minnesota met in convention in St. lJaul and nominated James A. Baker, of Blue Earth eounty, for governor. Addison Moore (colored) died at Meridian, Miss., aged 131 years. FOREIGN. A BI.OODT riot tooit place in the streets of Madrid, Spain, as a result of the new obnoxious taxes, and niany rioters were severely wounded by the civil truard. The ship Petev Stuart, of Liverpool, was wrecked off Yarraouth, N. S., and fourteen lives were lost. Six merabers of the Grand Trunk Boating club were drowned near St. Lambert, Can., by the of their boat. AU the drowned men liTed with their families at Point St. Nicholas. Excited citizens of the town of Wiarton, Ont., tore down an American flag which was hoisted above the house of a Presbyterian minister named Yeomans on Dominion day. Cholera has crossed the Volga, spreading f rom the Asiaticdependencies into European Russia. the English elections Henry M. Stanley was defeated in his race for a seat in parliament. Martial Casillas, one of the most desperate men in Mexico, and three of his followers, were captured near Elzulau by citizens and shot. Five Germán recruits who were on their way to Munster to report for duty were drowned while crossing the river Weirre. Five vaults of a wine vintasre at deaux, France, were burned, a loss of 600,000 francs. The great bicycle race from Paris to Nantes and return, a distance of 622 miles, was won by Allard in 63 hours 28 minutes. Isaac Cooke & Soxs, prominent cotton brokers at Liverpool, failed for ST50.000. Ihk rebels in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have defeated the federáis at Arroy and killed the government leader, Pedro Wanquez. Two DEATH3 from Asiatic cholera in London and one in Paris were reported. The French cruiser Hoche was sunk in a collision between Bona and seilles and two soldiers and three children were drowned. Justix McCarthy, the leader of the anti-Parnellites, has been defeated for parliament by a small majority in the Derry boroug-h. lx a fig-ht bet ween a forcé of Chilian cavalry and a large number of armed I bandits thirty-one of the lattev were killed and as many more wounded. A fihk that was raging in St. Johns, N. F., had destroyed over 500 buildings, including all the principal structures in the city, and over 3,000 persons were homeless. LATER. The United States senate on the 9th passed the bill referring to the court of claims the claim of Jessie Benton Fremontfor certain landsand the improvements at Point San José, San Francisco. It was voted to appropriate 810,500 to Chief Justice Waite's widow and L10,000 each to the widows of Justices Miller and Bradley. In the house the conference reports on the post office and pension appropriation bilis were agreed to. The latter bill carries an appropriation of $148,737,850. Fi.ames destroyed one-half the town of Christiania, Sweden, the loss being83,500, 00). The entire división of the national g-uard or Pennsylvania, about 8,000 men, has been ordered to Homesteadby Gov. Pattison to support Sheriff McCleary in the riots at that place. A fire at the tannery of Wedkind, & Bros. in Louisville, Ky., caused a loss of 8200,000. By a series of explosions at the works of the Giant Powder Company j at Highland, Cal., property worth about $350,000 was destroyed and six persons were killed and rnany were injured, some fatally. George Smith was hanped at Sherman. Tex., for the murder of Marshal Isbel, of Bells, Tex., in January, 1891. Richard Thomas, who was the oldest man in Iowa.died at his home in Marión, aged 111 years. The demócrata of the First distrint rf Kansas have nominated Ed Carroll for eongress. Further advices from St. Johns, N. F., say that over one-half of the city was destroyed by the recent fire, the loss being estimated at 815,000,000. It ivas known positively that twenty persons perished. Six were drowneci, while eight men and six children were burned to death. Ffteenthousand persons are homeless. Fob the first time in the history of Dayton, O., all the saloons were closed over Sunda}-. lx the Xational league the percentages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 9th were: Boston, .708; Brooklyn, .062; Philadelphia, .616; Cincinnati, 577; Cleveland, .553; Pittsburgh, .4S6; Washington, .472; Chicago, .448; New York, .443; St. Louis, .389; Louisville, .384; Baltimore, .254. The percentages in the new series in clubs of the Western league were: Minneapolis, .750; Columbus, .714; Milwaukee, .600; Indianapolis, .600; Omaha, .429; Kansas City, .419; Toledo, .429; Fort Wavne, .250.