The News Condensed

Gütliep Mevers was struck and killed by Hghtning at Denver, Col., during a thunderstorm. He was standing on the street corner at the time, and just before the fatal stroke exclaimed: "There is no God. This fear is all folly." Silas Stbele, 16 years oíd, took a dose of pcison and died at Germán town, N. C, because his mother severely whipped him. The biggest strike in the liistory of Jimtown, Col., has just been made in the Shallow Creek district. It has a lead of quartz rich in sulphurets, which assays írom 88o to 1,000 ounces ín süver. The National Letter Carriers' association convened in annual session at Indianapolis. Much business of importance would be transacted. Roanoke, Va., was visited by acloudburst, doing great darnage. Stores were flooded in the business portion of the city, whieh is on low land, the damaye being estimated at 81,000,000. The miners' strike in the Upper Monongahela coke región has ended disastrously for the Miners' union. The eompanies refused to recognize the united mine workers organization and the men were returning to work. Rev. John B. Jacobs, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Webb City. Mo., was drowned while in the river there. Georgb Talcott, a coachman, was shot and killed at Cleveland, O., by Edward Hutehinson, whom he was trj'ing to eject from the house for persecuting a servant girl. Hutehinson then oommitted suicide. Gloucesteb, Mass., celebrated the 250th anniversary of her founding with appropriate exercises. Neab Harían Courthouse, Ky., during a free-for-all fight, John Nolan, a school teacher, shot and killed Edward Pace and one Sitzer, with whom he had been on bad terms. It was officiallyreported that cholera was epidemie in Hamburg and Havre, and quarantine ofBcers at Staten island, I N. Y., were promptly notifled to use every precaution to keep the disease from this country. Near Medill, Mo., nine cars of California pears and peaches were vvrecked on the Santa Fe. The fruit was carried away by wagon loads by the farmers. One hdxdsed and twenty-foük Laekawanna switchmen and flfty oí the Buffalo, Pittsburgh & Roehes ter Railroad Company's switchmen at Buffalo struck entirely from sympathy f or the other strikers. . T_he national conyention of the Brethren chureh convened in annual session at Warsaw, Ind., 500 delegates being in attendance. A terrifio rain storm occurred at Center Rosalía, lower California, the seat of the great French copper mines (the "Boleo" mines), destroying $100,000 worth of property. The American Bar association convened in annual session at Saratoga, N. Y., members of the legal fraternity from almost every state in the union being present. P. il. Berlo rode a bicycle 2 miles at Sprino-fielti, Mass., in four minutes and forty-eight seconds, breaking the world's record four minutes forty-eight and four-fifths seconds made by Taylor last f all. Three members of the Broek gang of thieves were reported killed near Grand Junction, CoL, by Deputy Sheriff W. E. Davis. -Lxtensive forest fires were raging in the South mountains, 10 miles west of Carlisle, Pa., and large tracts of valuable timber land had been burned over. As the result of an unsuccessful effort to involve other railroad organizations in the switchmen's strike at Buffalo, it was officially declared off by Mr. Sweeney. Sthong preeautionary measures will be put into operation at New York, Boston, PMladelphiaand other Atlantic pdrts to keep cholera out of the country. William B. Cochran, the fugitive secretar}' of the Bushwhacker Mining Company, of Aspen, Col., was arrested in San Francisco. Thomas Smith shot and killed his wife and himself at the home of a friend near Denver, Col. Jealousy was assigned as the cause. John H. Tavlor, an alleged horse thief f rom Franklin, Ky., was shot and killed by Sheriff A. J. HUI at Nashville, Tenn. In Longview lunatic asylum, near Carthage, O., Georg-e Geotz, an insane inrnate, stranpled to death Henry L. Gerwing-, another insane inmate. A nkcíro man who was a witness in the trial of whitecaps at Brookhaven, Miss., some weeks aeo, was shot and killed while returning home f rom work. Perry Turner, the Kentucky outlaw, ivas found guüty.of the murder of Isaac Lewis, and was sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. The treasury department at Washington has issued a circular requiring consular certificates of disinfection with all importations of foreign rags from foreign ports, and absolutely prohibiting the importation of rags from districts known to be infected with the cholera. Gertie Carss, the female balloonist who has been making aseen sions at the Detroit exposition grounds, was killed by falling from a great height. At the meeting of the National Letter-Carriers' association at Indianapolis, Ind., Frank E. Smith, of San Francisco, was elected president and Kansas City selected as the next place of meeting. A man named Unger, living near East Liverpool, O., shot and killed his brother-in-law and then killed himself. Family trouble was the cause. Not satisfied with the stoppage of the strike by Grand Master Sweeney, and with alleged grievances of their own, the switchmen on the Lackawanna and Kickel l'late roads at Iiuffalo quit work again. The total assessmeat of railroad property in Arkansas for 1S92 amounts to ;;;iS, 785,280, an increase of St01,04(i over 1S01. .11 me tjieüuitti aebsiuu ui une su preme lodge, Knights of Pythias, a Kansas City, Mo., W. W. Blackwell, o Kentueky, was elected supreme chati cellor. The ladies' auxilliary, i'ythian Sisters of the Woi'ld, chose as supreme chief Mrs. Hattie A. Eobinson, Mus. Jenxie Mobtox, who was bitteai by a pet dog tbirteen years ago, died in great agony of hydrophobiaat her home near Brazil, Ind. At Coal Creek, Tenn., the trial of the leaders of the insurgent miuers was begnn, and the troops captured a few more of the law breakers at Oliver Spring-s. Henry Fisher was killed and sev eral others seriously injured by the engine on which they were riding go ing through a bridge at Dixonburg, Pa Chaxcellok Mcgill, of New Jerse3' delivered an opinión in the Reading coal combine, so far as it relates to that state, holding1 that the trust vvas iliegal. At the houses in tho United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 26th aggregaten $1,008,010,887, against SI, 009, 774, 883 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week ol 1891 was 6.7. By the caving in of a sewer at Huntington, W. Va., three workmen lost their lives. Five persons were injured in a railroad collision at Pittsburgh, sotne, it was feared, fatally. In the United States the businesi f ailures during theseven days ended on the 26th numberedlöö, against 172 the week and 226 for the corresponding week last year. Fibe at Muncie, Ind. , destroyed the rail mili resulting in a loss of 100,000. Dukixg a storm m Georgiaa bay the steam yacht Wail; went to the bottom and Hiram rfibley, the New York millionaire, his wife, son and daughter, Isaac Bearing-er, a millionaire man of East Saginaw, Mich., and Miss M. IÍ. Pond and Miss F. W. Durbin, bothof Rochester, N. Y., were drowned. Pive metnbers of the crew were also drowned. Jacob Yoxdkll and Adelphena Hanson, were married in Milwaukee by Court Commissioner Kate Pier, it being the first marriage ever solemnized in Wisconsin bjr a woraan. John Randoi.ph Tucker, of Virginia, was elected president of the American Bar association in session at Saratoga, N. Y. A bulletin issued by the census bureau States that there are 2,240,354 eommunicants in the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States, represented in 102 annual conferences. James R. Morton was hanged in the coimty jail at Camden, N. J., for the brutal murder of Mrs. Lydia Ann Newby, an old colored woman. Thomas H. Rodman, formerly district attorney of Kings county, N. Y., was accidentally scalded to death in a bath tub at New York. The failure is announced at Jackson, Mich., of W. F. Cowan, carriage manufacturer, whose liabiiities were estimated at 8260,000. Four chütlren in one family by the name of Wilson were fatally bitten by rattlesnakes near Athens, Ga. At a meeting of the executive committee of the international conference of state boards of health at Indianapolis an international quarantine inspection commission was appointed, and it was suggested to memorialize President Harrison with the object of stopping immigration from cholera-infested ports. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ex-Gov. Myron H. Clark, of New York, died at his home in Canandaigua. He was elected governor of the state íd 1855. E. Louis Lowe, ex-governor of Maryland, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 71 years. E. A. Warren, a veteran journalist, and for several terms president of the Arkansas Press association, died at Texarkana, Ai-k., aged 52 years. Congressíosal nominations were made as follows: Iowa, Sixth district, Frederi k White (dem.); Illinois, Ninth district, N, S. Scrirens (people's); Minnesota, First district, WMiam H. Harris (dem.); Tennessee, ii .venth district, N. N. Cox (dem.). Judge Lewis T. H. Irvixg, 65 years old, of the court of appeals of Maryland, died at his home in Princess Anne. Col. E. C. Smeed, of Omaha, Neb., the chief eng-ineer of the Union Pacific Eailway Company, died in delphia. República n league clubs of Wisconsin held their state convention at Milwaukee and selected deleg-ates to the National league at BufEalo. Nojunations for congress were made as follows: Iowa, Fourth district, T. Updegraff (rep.); Seventh district, E. A. Ott (people's); Tenth district, James Kyan (dem.); Eleventh district, Don Campbell (people's); Fourth district, Walter H. Butler (dem.). Ohio, First district, Iiellamy Streeter (rep.); Second district, John A. Caldweü (rep.). Georgia, Seventh district, John W. Maddox (dem.); Eighth district, Thomai G. Lawsen (dem.). Pennsylvania, Twenty-eighth district, Georg-e F. Kribbs (dem.). Michigan, Fourth district, Georpe L. Tapie (dem-peo.). Wisconsin, Tenth district, Nils P. Haugon (rep.). Over 200 men f rom the Twenty-ninth street Pittsburh mili of the Carnegie Company quit work in sympathy with the locked out men. The Burton family, of whom hundreds reside in the vicinity of Mitohell and the Wabash in Indiana, held a reunión at Mitchell. Gband Masteb Switchman Sweenet was assaulted and knoeked down by Arthur Quinn, a striking switchman, at Buffalo, N. Y., who wanted to continue the strike. WiTH the death of Rhoda Sparrow (colored) St. Louis loses its oldest aitizen. She was born in Delaware 100 yeaj-s ago and had been living in St Louis for the last ninety-five years. Enocii May, ISh., the oldest printer in the west, died in Burlington, Ia., aged 91 years. He was born in Boston and was connected with early journalisin in that city. Gen. John Bidweix, prohibition nominee for president, has issued his letter of acceptance. He declares the liauor traffic to be the cause of about all the evils of the land. Tuk congressional nominations were made: Missouri, Fourth district, D. D. liurnes (dem.); Michig-an, Eig-hth district, H. M. Yournans (dem.); Arkansas, Third district, G. O. Krush (people's); Washington, Thomas Carroll (at larg-e dem.); Illinois, Fiith district, Samuel Alshuler (dem.); Mississippi, Fourth district, Frank Buskitt (people's) ; Texas, Third district, C. E. Kilo-ore (dem.): Georgia, Seventh district, John VV. Maddox (dem.); Eighth district, Thomas G. Lawson (dem.); Iowa, Ninth district, F. V. Myers (people's); Eleventh district. David Campbell (dem.); Eleventh district, Don Campbell (people's); Eighth district, Thomas L. Maxwell (dem.). iDAiio democrats in state convention at Boise nominated John M. liurke, oí Shoshone county, for governor. Judge R. F. Graves, of Seattle, was nominated by the prohibitionists of Washington for governor. Nominations forcongress were made as follows: Arkansas, First district, Hugh Sinsmore (dem.); Third district, J. O. Bush (people's); Illinois, Nineteenth district, J. D. Ilooker (pro.); Fifth district, Henry Wood (pro); Georgia, Fourth district, Charles L. Moses (dem.); Louisiana, Seventh distriot, T. J. Guice (people's); Iowa, Ninth district, A. F. Myers (people's); Kentucky, Seventh district, W. C. P. Breckinridge (dem.); Texas, Fourth district, David B. Culbertson (dem.); Alabama, Fourth district, Gaston A. Robins (dem.). H. J. Sxively, of Yakima, was nominated by the democrats of Washington as their cündidate for governor. FOREIGN. Marshal Deodoee da Fonseca, the Brst president of the republic of Brazil, is dead, aged 57 years. Louisiana lottery agents now in Honolulú offer an immense sum of money in the event that a charter is granted the company by the Hawaii egislature. Feench officers of high rank have Deen punished by retirement for exposng soldiers needlessly to the danger of iatal sunstroke. . All the members of the New British ministry have been elected without op5osition except Sir William Vernon larcourt and John Morley. The British steamer Ang-lom, from alcutta for England, capsized in the iooghly river and fifteen of the crew were drowned. Experts from Paris declared that he cholera, whichis epidemie at Havre, was not Asiatio and much different rom that at Hamburg1 and Antwerp. A DiSASTROtJs flooii oeourred at Gratz, Austria, destroying many buildings, and many persons were reported rowned. Two fatal cases of Asiatic cholera were reported at the Gravesend hos)ital near London. The disease had also made its appearance in Berlin and ther Germán cities. By an explosión in a Welsh colliery 50 miners were caught in the shafts nd it was feared that many, perhaps all of them, were killed. LATER. The socialist labor party held its national convention in New York city ou the 2Sth. Delegates from New York, 3ennsylvania, Massachusetts, New ersey and Connecticut were present, and Simon AVing, of Boston, was nominated for president, and Charles H. Matchett, of Brooklyn, for vice president. Neabi.y 1,000 houses, the government buildings, were burned in BooiscoT, Russia. Forty-one of the 150 Welsh miüers at the Bridgend colliery were rescued from the pit alive on the 27th, but it was feared nearly all the others were de ad. Flames in Augusta, Ga., atnong business building-s caused a loss of 8400,000. The story that Hiram W. Sibley and his party had been drowned in Georg-ian bay Uirns out to have been false. The story was started by a discharged cook of Jlr. Sibley. Is view of the virulent epidemie of cholera in the HamburgAmerican Packet Company decided to suspend entirely its emigrant traffic f rom that port. The Metropolitan opera house in New York, the finest temple of music in America, was gutted by fire, the loss $1500.000. Another fire amongbusiness buildings caused a loss of ?250,000 and one girl perished in the flames. Dexjíis BLackwell (colored) was lynched by a mob at Alamo, Tenn., ior assaulting a woman. All the troops have been withdrawn f rom Buiïalo, N. Y., and business has been resumed ön all the raihvays affected by the strike. In a f ree fig-ht near Lancaster, Ky., Humphrey Best was shot and killed by John Campbell, who in turn was badly wounded. Two littlé children were killed by stray bullets. A west bound passenger train on the Soo line went through a trestle near Barrett, Minn., and six persons were killed and about iorty were more or less seriously njured. A fire in the Northern Michigan Lumber Company's factory at Fanderag-e, Mich., destroyed property valued at 8100,000. In the second series of the National league the percentages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 27th were: Cleveland, .730; Philadelphia, .568; Brooklyn, .541; Boston, .541; New York, .529; Pittsburg-h, .500; Louisville, .500; Cincinnati, .500; Chicago, .472; Baltimore, .457; St. Louis, 368; Washington, .297.