The News Condensed

A report froni the conference committee on the sundry civil bilí was presented to the United States senate on the 25th. A resolution was introduced requesting the president to open negotiations to secure and maintain the uniform value of silver as a money metal throughout the world In the house the conference report on the general deficiency bill was nonconcurred in and a new conference was ordered. IN the senate on the 26th the report of its conferees on the defleiency bill was adopted, leaving only the sundry civil bill to be disposed of. Mr. Hale's resolution as to the relative eftects of the republican pollcy of "protectton," and the democratie policy of "tariff for revenue only," was discussed. The nomination of Judge Shiras as a supreme court justlce was ftrmed In the house bilis were passed setting apart lands in Oklahoma territory for school purposes, and ïorbidding railroads to charge over three cents per müe on passenger fare in the Indian territory and Oklahoma. The ferenoe report upon the deticieucy bill was agreed to. The appropriations aroount to $5.900.319, being Ï323.589 less than as passed by the sánate and $1,081,087 more than as passed by the house. The anti-option bill was discussed in the senate on the S7th, a bill was passed to facilítate the enforcement of the immigration and contract labor laws of the United States and the j following nominatinns were conftrmed: Watson A. Sperry, of Delaware. to be minister to Persia; Truxton Beale, of California, to be minister to Roumama, Servia and Greece, and A. Barton Hepburn, of New York, to be trolier of the currency. A resolution permitting foreign exhibitors to brmg into the United States skilled laborera from abroad in connection with the world's fair was passed - In the house a motion to concur in the $5,000,000 world's fair appropriation made by the senate for the world's fair was carried, 117 yeas, 105 nays. IN the senate on the 28th a motion favorable to the anti-option bill was passed and the house resolution for Iinal adjourament was referred to the appropriation committee. An eight-hour law as to public worka of the United States and of the District of Columbia was passed In the house a favorable report was made on a bili appropriating Í50.000 for the relief of the southern flood sufferers. Filibustering táctica were pursued to defeat the worid's fair appropriation and a motion to adjourn sine die on the 30th was passed. The Hale resolution as to the relative merits j of the republican policy of "protection" and the democratie policy of "tariff for revenue only" was discussed the entire day in the senate on the39th In the house Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, read extracts from a people's party campaign book in which the charge of drupkenness on the floor was made, and Mr. Watson, of Georgia, the author, will have a chance to submit hls proof before an investiga ting committee. The remainder of the day was spent in füibustering over the worid's iair ainendmenL DOMESTIC. The labor organization in New Orleans caused the arrest of several merchants who kept their stores open Svmday. John H. Wthhk murdered. his wife and stepdaughter at Burns. Tenn., and soon after he was lynched by a mob. A. B. Hepburjt, of New York, has been named for comptroller of the eurrency, to succeed Mr. Lacey, resigned. A firb at North English, Ia., destroyed all but two buildings in the town. A heavy thunderstorm in St. Paul did a large amount of damage to property, but no fatalities were reported. A SEWER in St. Louis exploded, wreeking several buildings, killing' seven persons and fataüy injuring many others. The total collections from all sources of internal revenue for the fiscal year i just ended were $153,857,543; for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1S91, i 035,615; increase, 87,822,128. A SLiOHT shoek of earthquake was feit at San Francisco. Further advices from the great fire at Bay City, Mich., show that Í235 dwellings, two churehes, thirty stores ar-d saloons, three hotels, thirty-eight barns, twenty-four lumber yards, four roller rinks and several other structures were burned. Jesse M. Miller, an old resident, was burned to death. Hundreds of persons were homeless. Kavanaugh Tiptox, Thomas Howard and George Ra3'burn were shot and killed near Frenchburg, Ky., by a horsethief named Hurley. A F1KE in the American Cracker Company's building in New York city caused a loss of $300,000. During a heavy thunderstorm thousands of small frogs were rained down upon Port Morris, N. J. The British steamer Coquitlane and her cargo of seal skins, recently seized by the United Stutes government at Alaska, have been released upon the payment of 8125,000. President Harrisox has approved tne act to enloree reciprocal commercial relations betweenthe United States and Canada. The terrible heat stili prevailed throughout the country on the 26th. In Chicago seventeen deaths occurred, and in St. Louis, Phüadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities and towns nuineroua deaths and rnany cases ol prostration were reported. EviDEMCBS of an anarchist plot tE murder H. C. Frick were said to be developing at Pittsburg-h, and severa! persons charged with being aceomplicea of Bergman, who shot lr. Frick, have been arrested. Thk pólice of Boise City, Idaho, ordered all Japanese residents to leave the city, and the order was generalij complied with. Farmers in South Dakota were complaining of the jjreat scarcity of laborers to trather the bountiful harvests. Several thousand farm hands were needed in the central counties. In Phüadelphia Stock Broker Charles H. Pasje, junior niember of El D. Page & Bro., was killed in his office by Ronald Kennedy, a uustomer, who committed suicide. Hudsojí, Wis., and the surrounding country was visited by the most severe storm ever knpwn in that section. Stores in town were flooded and great damage was done to crops. The steamer City of Paris has beaten the record for the westera trip across the Atlantic. Her time was 5 days, 15 cours and 5S minutes. Fibb almost totally wiped out the little town of Dane Station. Wis. The entire business part of Oakesdale, Wash., except the Commercial block. was burned. Loss, S25Ü.Ü00. The business portion of Bodie, Jfev., was burned, the loss being .8100,000. The bank at El Reno, O. T., was robbed by two men of SI 0,900. The 750,000 acres of laad in California forfeited to the government by the Southern Pacific Eailroad Company have been opened to settlement. The supreme court of Michigan has deelared the legislative apportionment of 1891 uneonstitutional and ordered the elections for senators and representatives to be called under the act of 1881. Four mfeo were killed and a fifth fatally injured by the explosión of the boiler in Hartnell & Smith's shingle mili near Gaylord, Mich. Thkre was a killing frost in Montana ou the 28th. At Harve the mureury was down to 30. The cold wave was g-eneral over British Columbia. The heat in Chicago on the 28th caused twenty-one deaths and twentysix prostrations. In the evening a cool wave carne to the relief of sweltering humanity. Texas fever was raging in Oklahoma, wiping out whole herds of cattle. Three children were suffocated in a closet at Medford, Mass. They pulled the door shut and a lock made thera prisoners. One-half of the town of Sisson, Cal., was destroyed by fire. lx New York city the re were thirtyeight deaths from the heat on the 28th and ten in Philadelphia. The weather had become cooler. At the leacling1 clearing houses in the United States the xchanges during the week ended on the 29th ag-gregated $991,715,149, ag-ainst 81,052,306,769 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1S91 was 18.1. Julius Wise, a oolored man, was hang-ed at Lexington Courthouse, S. C, for murder. In the United States the business failnres during the seven days endedon the 29th numbered 93, against 187 the preceding week and 247 for .the correspondmg week last year. Lee McDasiüu (colored) was hanged by a mob at Oaks Crossing-, Tenn., for an attempted assault on Cleiumie Woods, a young white lady. Frank Parp.ott, 22 years of age, shot and killed Annie Clover, aged about 17, at Cameron, Mo., and then shot himself dead. Jealousy was the cause. Georöe Hite and his son were suffocated by gas while digging a well at Uniontown, Ind. A counterfeit of the two-dollar silTer certifícate has appeared in Richmond, Ind., and government experts pronounced it the most deceptive counterfeit ever issued. Peter Edwards (colored) was hanged at Camden, Ala., for the murder of Conrad Kmght. It was Edwards' 19th birthday. John Redmond, a blacksmith, was found guilty in Chicago of the murder of Dr. Wilder and sentenced to irnprisonment for life. AlEXANHEE BERGMAN, the anarchist, who attempted to assassinate H. C. Frick at Pittsburgh, Pa., was given a hearing and held for trial at the September sessions in S24.00Ü bail. ArPLlCATiox was made at Indianapolis for the appointment of a receiver for the Order of the Iron Hall, one of the many secret benevolent organizations of the country. It was estimated that the tronbles at Homestead and other Garnegie plants now a month old have cost SI, 000,000 besides the loss of life and tvounds of victims. üustav Riedel shot his wife and then shot himself at Clinton, Mass. Domestic infelicity was the cause. Andy Beshears and John Willis were lynched by a mob in Campbell county, Tenn., for criminally assaulting Mrs. "William Dilks. lx New York city 170 persons died ol the heat during1 the eight days ended on the 29th and nearly 800 others vvere prostrated. Dubing the six days ended on the 29th ninety-six persons died from the heat in Chicag-o and 200 others were prostrated. Chari.es WlHN and Will Atwell, two farm hands near Evansville, Ind., quarreled, and in the fight whieh follovved botli were killed. Frank Ogden', a guard at the prison in Jeffersonville, Ind., was made totally blind by the heat. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Thelas M. Bisseli.. the inventor of the Bisseli chilled plow, died at his home in South Bend, Ind., aged 68. Mus. Ellen Murphy, a native of Dublin, Ireland, died at the home for the aged in Kansas City, Mo., at the ape of 106 years. CoNGRESSiONAL nominations were made as follows: California, Third district, S. G. Hilboin (rep.), Fifth, Eupene F. Loud (rep.); Arkansas, Second district, W. B. Heartzel (people's), oixth, Robert Neil (dein.) on the 759th ballot; Minnesota, Fifth district, Loren Fletcher (rep.); Washington, J. C. Van Patten and F. M. Knox (people's). John Reed, a member of the old Boston publishinjf firm of Tieknor, Reed & Fields, died in Boston, aged 80 y e ars. He was lieutenant governor of the state in 1851 and a member of congress for several terms. Nominations for congress were made as folloTvs: Maine, First district, Thomas B. Reed (rep.), renominated; Ohio, Fifteenth district, H. C. Voorhees (rep.); North Carolina, Second district, J. E. Woodvvard (dem.); Arkansas, Second district, C. R. Breckinridgfe (dem.), renominated; Indiana, Thirteenth district, Charles G. Conn (dem.)Moses S. Beach, who was for more than twenty yeura either a part owner or solé proprietor of the New York Sun, died at nis home at Peekskill in his 70th year. Pbksidknt H arbiso.x will leave Washington to spend the month of August at Loon Lake with Mrs. Harrison just as soon as congress adjourns. The Wisconsin democrats will hold their state convention in Mihvaukee August 31 to nomínate a state ticket. The Minnesota republicans in convention at St. Paul nominated Knute Nelson for governor, D. M. Clough for lieutenant governor, F. P. Brown for secretary of state and Joseph Bobleter for treasurer. The platform indorses President Harrison's administration, favors protection, recommends arbitration for settling disputes between labor and capital, favors excluding objectionable classes of iinmigrants and liberal pensions for old soldiers. Juj)G;-: MiltöH S. Eobinson, member of the Indiana appellate court, dicd at his home at Aruler.son frora the effects of the heat. He was a republican conjjressman from 1874 to 1878. Dn. J. E. Osborne, of Rawlins, was nominated by the democrats of Wyoming for {rovernor at the state convention in Laramie. H. A. Coffeen was nominated for congress. The people's party of Colorado in convention at Denver nominated a full state ticket, headed by D. H. Waite for povernore. Tuk following congressional nominations were made: Indiana, Eighth district, YV. S. Carpenter (rep.), Tenth, Thomas Hammond (dem. ); Nebraska, First district, A. W. Field (rep.); Missouri, Fifteenth district, Mr. Morgan (dem.), Ninth, Champ Clarke (dem.); Illinois, first district, Alfred Clark, Second, Edward Connor, Third, J. H. Randall, Fourth, W. H. Van Ornum (all people's party.) Joseph Turney, ex-state treasurer oí Ohio, died at Cleveland, aged 70 years. Ai.exander K. Cbaig, member of congress from the Twenty-fourth district, died at his home in Claysville, Pa. Frangís B. Brewer died at his residence in Westfield, N. J., aged 72 years. He was a member of the Forty-eighth congress. Charles II. Hardin, ex-governor of Missouri, died at Mexico, that state, aged 72 year.s. Coxgre.ssional nominations were made as follovvs: Iowa, Sixth district, E. S. Owens (people's); California, Sixth district, Hervey Lindley (rep.); Minnesota, First district, James A. Tawney (rep.); Missouri, Ninth district, E. H. Norton (dein.). FOREIGN. Eighty houses were destroyed by fira at Male, a town in the Tyrol, and 900 persons were made homeless. The loss amounted to 8250,000. At Guhen, Ireland, an insane woman seized her three ehildren, one after the other, and held them head dovvnward in a pot of boiling water until they were dead. Four of the conspirators convicted of complicity in a plot to murder Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, and his prime minister, were executed at Sofia. John Gurd, the murderer of the uncle of his sweetheart, Florence Adams, and of Policeman Moulton, was hanged at Deweizeo, England. Henry Adams, of New Hampshire, and James Deeresby Walton, an Englishman, were scorched to death in an attempt to reach the crter of a volcano near Colima. Mexico. A Jewish innkeeper living near Warsaw, Russia, and his wife and five daughters were murdered by a band of robbers. Gladstonk's majoritv in the house of commons has been reduced to forty by a recount of the votes in Greenock, Scotland. Durisg a storm in the bay at Toronto, ünt. , a sailboat was eapsized and live nomen and one man weredrowned. Parry Llnt and John Wilson, manager and cashier respectively for the firin of Reynolds & Gibson, cotton brokers in Liverpool, were eharged with embezzling 8750,000. LATER. In the United States senate on the 80th uit. the anti-option bill went over until the next session in December. A bill was passed appropriating SI, 000 to mark by a suitable column the birthplace of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, near Port Conway, Va. In the house no progresa was made with the world's fair matter, and an adjournment was taken out of respect to the memory of Representative Craij?. The cotton factorage and commission firin of Bickman & Moore at New Orleans failed for pver 3250,000. Kei.i.ey, Claude, Walter and Charles Forne.y, aged respectively 15, 13, 11 and 9 j'ears, and Alvin and Winther Broek, aged lü and la years, were drowned near Arlin, Ky., by the upsetting of a boat on the river. President Hakrison has issued a proclamation commanding all persons in Wyomiiifr to keep the peace and cease opposition to the law. Sixty striking families moved out of the company houses at Homestead, Pa., and as soon as the houses were put in repair theywould be occupied by nonunion workmen. FlRE consumedthe home of Frederick Smith at Windsor, Ont., and Mrs. Kmith and her daughter were fatally burned. Anthoxv Kennedy, the only man ever elected to the United States senate as a know-nothing, died in Baltimore, ajred 82 years. Seven robbers were shot by the authorities at Santos, Mex., for the murder of a merchant named Francisco Vallejo and his wife. The La Lauraine, a French steamer, covered the distance between Havre and New York in 6 days 17 hours and 30 minutes, breaking all previou records by six hours. Cjlthekine Tilla (colored) died in New Orleans, aged 112 years. The jury in the Alice Mitchell case at Memphis, Tenn., for the murder oí Freda Ward, returned a verdict finding the prisoner insane and recommending1 that she be confined in an asyluin. Mrs. Katb Libageb was buried at the Uelaware county (Ind.) infirmary, aged 100 years lacking a few months. lx the second series of the National league the percentages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 30th uit. were: Philadelphia, .643; Brooklyn, .643; Cleveland, .643; New York, .615; Baltimore, .571; Boston, .571; Cincinnati, .538; Washington, .429; Chicago, .439; Pittsburgh, .S85; Louisville, .286; St. Louis, .231.