The News Condensed

The antri-option bilí was introdneed tn the senate on the llth. Opening of the world's fair on Sunday was discussed, but no action was taken. A Joint resolution was introducid limiting the term of office ol president of the United States to one term In ths house the conference report on the military academy appropriation blll was agreed to, and a Wil was passcd appropriatlng 150.000 for the publication of the eleven th census. Discussions toolc place in the senate on the 12th on the aundry civil appropriation bilí ana the amendment to close the world's fair on Sunday. A resolution was adopted favoring arbitration in labor troubles and to provide for a labor commission In the house the conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to. THE bill approprtating J5,0OO,COO for the world's fair with tho Sunday closing amendment and the amendment pronihiting the sale of liquor attached, was passed in the senate on the 13th by a vote of 51 to 14... Ir. the house a resolution that the Stewart silver bill be taken up was defeatd by a vote of 136 yeas to 154 naya. In the senate the sundry civil appropriation bill was passed on the 14 th. The bill containa an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the World's Columblnn exposition with a Sunday closing restriction. but the amendment against the sule of intoxicanta was rcjpoted. A bill was introduced to authorize retaliation for certain unjust discrimination by the dominion of Canada against the United States.... In the house the conference reports on the diplomatic and naval I appropriation bilis were agreed to. The conference reports on the legislative, the navy, the army and the fortiflcaAion tion bilis were agreed to in the senate on the 15th. ... In the house all the senate amenchnents to the sundry civil appropriation bili were nonoonourred in except the one relative to the world'fl fair, action upon which wasset for the 19th. A resolution was passed extending the temporary appropriatlons for the government until July 30. DOMESTIC. David Barnktt, Peter McDonald and Daniel Wallace, prospectors, were blown to atoms by an explosión of g-iant poivder in their cabin near Townsend, Mont. The livery stable of H. Vehing at (iianapolis, Jncl., was destroyed by fire and eighteen horses wére burned. A cycLOXE struck the lake at Peoria, 111., and capsized the Frankie Folsom, an excursión steatner with a party from Pekin. and twenty or more persons were drowned. A mob took J. B. Redferin (white) irom jailat Franklin, Ky., and hanged him for killing P. B. Dunn. Bv request of the governor the president has ordered that federal troops be ! sent to the scène of the miners' troubles in Idaho. The national guard of Pennsylvania tookpossession of the Carnegie milis at Homestead. President Harrison delivered an address at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., at the commencement of the annual conventiori of the National Educational association, at the conclusión of which he ?-ave a public reception, lasting two hours. He then took a train for Washngton. A state convention to consider the subject of highway iruprovement in ovva has been called to meet in Des kloines August 16. The National Association of Retail j'urniture Dealers of America was organized in Grand Rapids, Mich., by the lection of J. Chauvin, of Butte, Mont., as president. The reports received by the agriculural department in Washington for the even days ended on the 12th concernng the erop situation throughout the ountry say the season is froin one to vvo weeks late in all districts exeept New England and the Middle Atlantic States. While attempting to release his sonin-lav.from the sheriff's custody in a hotel room at Spokane, Wash., William Masterson, a notorions character, was shot and killed after f atally woundin# Deputy Sheriff Bowles. Rush Babtlktt shot and fatally wounded his wife and 5-year-old son at Bay City, Mich., and then attempted suicide, but will recover. Family troubles caused the tragedy. Dukijto a windstorm at Springfield, O., over 200 houses were badly damageá and a total destruction of $200,000 worth of property inflicted. No person was killed outright, but several were injured. The flrst baseball championship son oí the National leag-ue has ended, the Bostons being the champions. The clubs finished in the following order: Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Louisville, Baltimore. A train struck a wagon oontaining ten persons near Middletown, N. Y.. killing George Walsh, Miss Cassie McCoy, Mr. Frank and Mrs. Frank. Three boys, all aged about 11, were drowned in Lake Hurón at Ausable, Mich., while bathing. The strikers in Idaho have blown up railroad bridge and were preparing to tight the United States troops. A gang of armed strikers overtook seventy unarmed non-union men at Oíd Mission, robbed them of their wages and fired on them while they were running away, killing thirteen. In consequence of the recent proclamation of President Harrison the Canadiau goYernment has adjusted the canal tolls so that there is. no discrimination in favor of Canadian as against American vessels. President Harrison has signed the pension and river and harbor priation bilis. James Morbis and Henry Newman, ajjed 9 and 15 jears respectively, were drowned at Hammond, Ind., while bathing. Neak Sedalia, Mo., a serere rainstorm, accompanied by a high wind, utterly destroyed thousands of acres oi growingr corn. Seyral small buildinjf were also blo wn down. Thï employés in the upper and lower unión milis oí the Carnegie company in Pittsburgh, Pa., quit work and the as was turned off ia the furnaces. At Homestead all was quiet, the militia eing in control. C. C. WiKTHBOP was beid up by footpads near Center ril Ie, S. D., and robbed of 91,000. Su Italian laborera a sewer at a leather factory in Westport, Conn., were blown up by an explosión of a tank of naptha and four were fatally injured. The miners' war in Idaho was thought to be over, the strikers having no desire to fljfht the federal troops. A passkxger train on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road was held up by a íranjj of masked robbers at Adair, I. T.. and the express car rifled of $40,000. Charles Blackmak was hanjred at Greensboro, N. C, for murdering his wife. Johjt C. QurtfCY, a lawyer, shot his wife and himself fatally at Grand Rapids, Mich. He was thoug-ht to have been insane. Noble Kennedy, of Búllalo, aged about 19, committed suicide by jumping over the American falls at Niágara Falls. He left a card saying disappointment in love was the cause. Jui.ien Moseley (colored) was lycched by a mob at Halley, Ark., for assaulting his 7-year-old stepdaughter. Floods in the Warrior and Torabigbee rivers in Alabama havesweptaway cultivated fields and many houses, causing a loss of millions to planters and farmers. The National Educational association in session at Saratoca Springs, N. Y., elected Albert G. Lañe, of Chicago, as president. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 15th aggregated 81,140,356,980, against $1,140,801,767 the previous week. The increase as comp:ired with the correspouding week of 1891 was 12.8. Peter Daniels (colored) was hang-ed at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of Silvia Tyle, his mistress. In the United States the business failnres the spven days endedon the 15th numbered 193, ag-ainst 176 the week and 274 for the corre! spondmcr week last year. Two ebainmes were probably fatally injured and twenty-seven loaded freisrht cars smashed in a colusión on the Cincinnati, HamiUon & Dayton road near Connersville, Ind. At Spencer, Ky., liffhtningr struck and killed James Wills and Annie and Mary Con nor. News was received in Omaha, Ieb., of the escape of Solomon Gerber, of that city, from Siberia, whither he had been exiled upon his return to pay a visit to his native country, Eussian Poland. Oxe-hai.f of the business portion of Iluron, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The wool clip of Montana will aggregate from l,000,000 to 15,000,000 pounds this year. A windstorm at Des Moines, la., blew down the large ampitheater and other buildings on the state fair grounds. Gex. Carlin arrested 100 union strikers for acts of violence at Wardner, Idaho, and placed them under guard. Mus. John Haekixs, wife of a Philadelphia mechanic, surpassed all previous records by birth to four girl babies within a few hours. John W. Babcock, ex-mayor of Meadville, Pa., dropped dead in the Commercial hotel at that place, aged 5'J years. A stobm at Cineinnati unroofed many buildings and did other damag-e. A tebrific vvindstorm passed over the northern portion of Hamilton, O., causing gre.at destruction to property, and five persons, two fatally. Cal Paeks (colored) was hanged at Caldwell, Tex., for Mrs. Jessie McDonoug-h and her 7-year-old step-son. A package S60.000 intrusted to the care of the Adams Express Company was lost in the transit somewhere between Xew York and New Haven, Conn. Richard Beers' livery stable at Milwaukee was burned, and sixtv fine riage norses perished in the flames. During a thunderstorni in Lac qui Parle eounty, Minn., four men wer killed by lin-htning-. Ir was reported that, owing to th floods, hundreds of people were starv ing and WQuld speedily perish in Sum ter and Marengfo counties, Ala., unies aid was soon given. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Capt. Frakcis Robes Wkbb, wh served in the navy during the war anc who was afterward United States con sul at Zanzíbar and at New Zealanc died at San Dieg-o, Cal. Mrs. Ei.izabeth Uktts, widow oí a revolutionary soldier, died in Harrisburg, Pa., aged 93 years. Kate Castxetox, the noted actress, died at Providenee, R. I., of peritonitis, aged 34 years. Mus. Emeline W. Curtís, oí Greencastle, Ind., died after a fast of fiftythree days, caused by sickness. Her case is the most wonderful known. Cyrus W. Field, who laid the flrst Atlantic cable, died at his home at Andsley park, near Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., after a long illness, aged nearly 73 y e ars. Cíkorok W. Büstoay, poet, writer and orator, died at the home of his son in Bloomfield, N. J., ageá 74 years. P. W. Pope has been nominated for conjjress by the democrats of the Twentieth Illinois district. Robert A. f!hilH was nominated in the Eighth distrid by the republicans, and in the Fourteenth district the prohibitionists nominated Eider E. Cake. The nominations for eonK-reas have been made: Ninth Georgia district, Carter Tate (dem); Second Iowa district, JohnMonroe (rep); Xinth Iowa district, A. L. Hajrer (rp); Eiffhth North Carolina district, Willliara H. Bower (dem); Tenth Indiana district, Darid Yeomans (people's). Thk Kanaas prohibitionisU in conrentiou at Topeka nominated I. 0. Pickerinjf, of Olathe, for gorernor, a full state ticket beinir placed in the field. Rct. J. M. Monroe, of Wichita, was nominated for eonjyressman at largre. Th platform declares for free trade, fre Urer, the election of president, rice president, senators, postmaster and all district federal ofiicers bj a direct rote of the peopl. Francis P. Loo.fis, lieutenant forernor of Connectiol ia 1S78-9, died at fcU home in Hartford. Tus paople's party in atat conreBtlon at St. Paul, Minn., nominated Ignatius Donnelly for gorernor. Effort toward fusión Trith the demócrata failed. The following candidates for congress have been named: First Arkansas district, P. D. McCullock (dem.); First Indiana district, Ajrthur P. Twineham (rep.); First West Virginia district, B B. Dorener (rap.); Tenth Georg-ia district, John C. Black (dem.); Eig-hth Illinois district. Norman Kilburn (pro.) Sixth Iowa district, John F. Lacey (rep.); territory of Oklahoma, Dennis Flynn (rep.). The funeral of Cyrus W. Field took place at Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., and the remains were taken to Stockbridffe, Mass.. for burial. Newton Booth, ex-goyernor of California and ex-United States senator, died suddenly at his home in Sacramento. Geokge Gazeixe (colored) died at the home of his son in Adrián, Mich., at the age of 116 years. He was born a slave in 1776. Thk democrats of the Third Tennessee district have renominated H. C. Snodgrass for congress. FOREIGN. A Fbejích convoy feil into a Chinese ambuscade near Bacle and Coinmander Bonneau, Capt. Charpentier and ten men were killed and several others were wounded. Eleven persons were drowned in the river at Strasburo-, Gerinany, by the capsizing1 of a boat. The report that William Waldorf Astor died in London was untrue. Mr. Astor is alive and on the road to recovery. Nearly 150 persons were killed at bt. Gervais Les Bains, a summer resort m Sevoy. by an avalanehe which descended from Mont Blanc. The eruption of Mount Etna was rapidly in violence. An earth shock reduced to ruins the toivn of Giarre, with a population of 1S.000, on the coast of Sicily, and it was feared that many inust liave perished. The whole country suffered severely from the shock. President Carnot has sig-ned a decree for the of an international exhibition at Paris in May, 1900. The g-overnment raihvay works at Breslau, Prussia, were destroyed by fire, the loss 2.000,000 rnarks. The result of the British elections makes the Irish masters of the situation, and in their hands will be the destinies of the next parliament. A school was destroyed by fire at Berkhamstead, Eng-land, and eig-htchildren perished in the flajies. The epidemie of cholera has spread to the ports of the Crimea, Twenty persons were killed by a landslide at Chamoun, France. Mr. Gladstoxe has been returned to parliament from Midlothian bv the sraall majority of 690. The Argentine torpedo catcher Rosalis foundered in a storm off the coast of Uruguay and seventy of the crew were missing-. Strong measures were being taken by the Freneh g-overnment to stamp out cholera, and Spain was on guard at the Freneh frontier. The British East África Company and the Freneh Catholie forces united with the natives and Mohammedans were engaged in a religious war in Ug-anda. Sir Charles Dilke, after six years retirement under a cloud, has been returned to the British parliament by a large majority. LATER. Thk last of the appropriation bilis- that to supply the deficieney for the fisoal year ended June 30, 1892 - was ' passed in the United States senate od J the lóth. In the house the world's fair appropriation was the subject of debate during the entire session. Elbveh persons hare died as a result of the riots at Homestead, Pa. i ifteen huxdrkd houses vvere burned at San Miguel de Mayuno, on the Philíppine islands, leaving 9,000 persons homeless and destitute. Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, has been elected chairtnan of the republican national committee. The Miehig-an democratie state conTention íor the nomination of a state ticket will meet at Grand Rapids August 17. The four sons of Christopher A. Eall were drowned in the river near i'rincess Anne, Md., while bathing. Ir was reported that by a volcanic eruption on the island of Sangir, one of the Philippine group, moso of the 12,300 inhabitants ivere killed. The B;iptist Younj? People's uniou in session in Detroit eleeted Kev. L. L. Henson, of Baltimore, as president. All exeept eig-hteen of the British eleotious had been held and Gladstone was sure of a majority of forty for home rule. The faotory of the Western Linoleum Company at Akron, O., was burned, a loss of 8100,000. Dubing June last the total number of imiaigrants arriving1 at ports of the United States from the principal foreign countries was 73,120, against 68,317 in June, 1891. Emma Sxow, a waiter in a Denver hotel, has fallen heir to 8400,000. The West Superior (Wis.) Iron & Steel Company has closed its works and has notified all employés that no members of the Amalgamated association will be recognized horeafter. At Kokomo, Ind., Johu G. Coombs clied, and Mrs. Coomba, while taking a last look at the remains, feil dead. In the second series of the National league the percentages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 16th were: Brooklyn, 1.000; New York, 1.000; Philadelphia, .500; St. Louis, 500; Baltimore, .500; Washington, .500; ouisville, .500; Cincinnati, .500; Clereand, .500; Boston, .500; Pittsburgh, .000; Chicago, .000. The percentages in the new series in clubs of the Western eague were: Columbus, .750; Minneapolis, .600; Kansas City, .545; Indianapolis, .444; Omaha, .417; Toledo 417.