The News Condensed

The switchmen of the Air Line roac quit work at East St. Louis because their demand for another man to be added to each crew was not granted Their places were filled withnon-union men. H. B. McClelland, a poor schoo teacher near San Antonio, Tex. has. fallen heir to an English estatvalued at 83, 000,000. John Howard and his wife, Lulu arrived in Chicago, having walkec every step f rom Seattle, Wash., a dis tance of 3,700 miles, for a purse of 15,000. Valuadle beds of terra cotta clay have been discovered at Petoskey, Mich. The clay has been examined by experts, and is said to be of the finest quality. Thbkh men in a barn near Redwood Falls, Minn., were struck by lightning and killed. James Crossett and George Brown, of Montpelier, Vt., were killed and nine persons were slightly injured in a railvvay collision near Burlington. Vt stephen Haberman, bookkeeper for Gottlieb Heubner, a drover of Bethlehem, Pa., was wanted for embezzlin Y10,000. John A. Casey's refining works in Brooklyn, N. Y., wcre destroyed by fire. The loss was estimated at 8125,000. Fire destroyed the Palk, Jung & Brochert brewery in Milwaukee, causing a loss estimated at $250,000. July 4, 1889, the company's brewery on the same site was destroyed, causing a loss of nearly 8500,000. Lewis Richard, conductor; Andrew Rule, eng-ineer, and Bagg-age-m aster Shinn were killed in a railway collision at Whitehall, N. J. Nickly Bennett and wife, an old couple, while driving across the railway track near Rensselaer, Ind., were strnck by an engine and killed. A daughter of the couple was on the train which struck them, coming home to pay her parents a visit. The Kentucky Life Underwriters association was organized at Louisville with Charles D. Jacobs, of that city, as president. One hundred and eight is the total number of informations sworn out by Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company, charging the Homestead (Pa.) locked out men with murder, riot and conspiracy. Among them is Chairman Hugh O'Donnell. At Bangor, Me. , the stallion Nelson was sent to beat the world's record of 2:15} on a half inile track, made by him tn-o years ago, and trottedthe mile in 3:18%. William Hali. and William Shimer, both residents of Brooklyn, Ia-, were killed instantly by falíing through a bridge with a steam thrasher. Twenty-two deaths from cholera occiured on board the steamer Moravia which arrived at New York from Hamburg. The bodies were buried at sea. The vessel was sent to quarantine. Ax explosión at a minina camp near Deadwood, S. D., killed James Vaughn and John Campbell and fatally injured iour other raen. Naxcy Haxks beat the world's trottinfr record at Independence, la., niaking a rnile in 2:05. The schooner City of Toledo was driven on the beach at Pierport, Mich., capsized, and Capt. MeMillan and his daug-hter and six men were drowned. The man who claimed to havO saved the Pennsylvania limited f rom being wrecked recently at EnoD, Pa., is said to have confessed that he himseli placed the ties on the track and af terward removed them for the purpose oi obtaininf? a re ward from the company. A small boat capsized on Lake Superior near Bayfield, Wis., and Fred Conlee, Fred Masher, Ira Richardson, Charles Thora and an unknown man were drowned. Twkxtv-six members of the Chautauquacountv (Kan.) farmers' alliance were arrested on the charo-e of mufdering John S. Frazier, a wealthy cattleman, June 28, 1S90. The alarming reports ábout cholera reached this country caused President Harrison to abandon his trip througrh New York state and, instead, he went at oncè to Washington to discuss the advisability of callingan extra session of congress to take the necessary action to shut out all immiR-ration. W. E. ISrooks, of Smith's observatory, Oeneva, N. Y., announces the discovery of a cornet The public debt statement issued on the lst showed the total debt to be S1,82,(5S1.!)4i); cash in the treasury S24-2,548,9.SS): debt Jess cash in the treasury, $838.074,075. Decrease during August, 52,254,573, THR old state house was burned at Des Moines, Ia. It was built in 1855 and tifteen assemblies were held in it. Pbesidkxï Haruisox has issued a proclamatiou prescribing a twentydays' quarantine for all vessels carryimmiarrants coming to this country from any foreign port Immigration is stopped not because of the persons being immigrants but because they come from the cholera-breeding districts. Rocky Bar, an Idaho mining town, was destroyed by fire, a loss of S100.000. One hundred and fifty .persons were horueless. The freight steamer Western Reserve was lost off Sable banks, near Deer Park, Mich., and of the twenty-seven persons on board only one was saved. Among the lost were Capt. Minch and his wife and two children. A fast mail train on the Hudson River railroad ran into an open draw at New Hamburg-, N. Y., and was wreeked, and the engineer and brakeman and a mail elerk were killed. Ne ar Steubenville, O., a farm hand named John Skinner shot his employer, George Feetner, and the latter's wife and mother and then committed suicide. A quarrel over money matters was the cause. Wii.liam Lively, a farmer near East Pepperel, Mass., killed his wife beeause she accidentally broke a cheap glass salt-sbaker and then killed himself. A sübdf.jí rise in the Colorado river near Wharton, Tex., drowned huudreds of cattle. The government receipts during August aggregated 834,032,928, against f28,S84,851 in August, 1891. Customs reeeipts aggregated 318,271,668, against 815,104,674 in August a year ago. Internal revenne receipts amounted to Sl4,063,459, against 12,501,829 in August, 1891. At the leading clearing house.? in the United States the exchanges during the V'eek ended on the 2d aggregated 1986,150,621, against ?l,008,G10,8S7 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the eorrespouding week of 1891 was '21.7. Two üoys were killed and two fatally injured by an express train on the Reuding road in Philadelphia. Thk treasury department monthly circulation statement shows a net decrease in the circulation during August amounting to (2,693,741. The total circulation on the lst was placed at SV 599,250,584, or a per capita of 824. 32, against 51,500,131,133 on September 1, 1891. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 2d numbered 170, against 165 the precedingf week and 217 for the corresponding week last .year. President Habp.ison's proclamation regarding the retaliation canal bilí of twenty cents a ton has gone into effect, the first Canadian steamer to complv being the propeller United Empire, whieh paid SI 14 into the custom house at Saujt Ste Marie. Notices have been issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to all freight agents and officers who have charge of stations relative to the disinfection of all buildings along the entire line. At Bangor, Me., Bunco, Jr., paced a mile in 2:13Ji, breaking the world's record on a half-mile track. I ever in the history of western New York have the pluru and peach crops been so larg-e as they are at present. The stables of the Belt Line railroad in Washington were destroyed by Ure and sixteen horses were roasted. Taltou Hall, the noted desperado and outlaw, vras hanged at Wise Court iouse, Va., for the mui-der of Enos B. Hylton on .Tuly 25, 1891. Durfng Hali's career of crime he has killed nineteen nen. Maggie .Tonar, of Kansas City, Mo., shot C. E. Seaman, her lover, and then dlled herself. The family of Charles Leaming at Springfield, O., were poisoned by eating canned corn beef and Mrs. Leaming and her sister would not recover. A mob brolce into the jail at Edmonton, Ky., and killed John Wilcoxsen, a negro, who nmrdered Jarnes Coffee, a white man. Skcretahy Foster announees that vessels earrying no immigrants will not necessarily be subject to qnarantine restrictions for the period of tvventy days as provided by the president's eireular. Thk Nebraska State bank at Crete cloiied its doors. Twkxty-one election inspeetors iound guiity in Jersey City, N. J., of ballot-box frauds in 1889, were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Judge Wuxiam E. Dkck, aged 55 years, for two terms chief justice of the supreme court of Colorado, was found dead in bed at Denver. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The demoerats of Nebraska in convention at Lincoln nominated J. Sterling Morton for governcr. The platform denounces prohibition and favors the election of United States senators by direct vote and of presidential eleetors by congressional district. Conoressional nominations were made as follows: Illinois, Tenth district, J. TV7. Hunter (dem.); Iowa, Seventh district, J. A. Dyer (dem.); Michig-an, Ninth district, H. H. Wheeler (dem.); Missouri, Ninth district, J. B. Clark (dem.), Tenth. Owen Miller (people's); Mississippi, First district, J. B. Uurkett (people's); California; Sërenth district, Olin Uelborn (dem.); Texas, Twelfth district, J. Smithers (dem.); Pennsylvania, Twenty-third district, F. C. Osborac (dem.), Twentyfifth, E. P. Gillespie (dem.). Jüdgb James M. Shafteb died in San Francisco, ag-ed 76 years. He was secretary of state of Vermont, his native state, for seven years. Gov. Peck and the entire democratie ticket was renominated by the deraocrats of Wisconsin m convention at Milwaukee. The platform opposes sumptuary laws, pledg-es the party to economy, and indorses the nominees and platform of the Chicag-o convention. NoMiNATiONS for congress were reported as follows: Mississippi, Fifth district, W. P. Ratcliff (people's); Seventh, C. E. Hooker (dem.). South Carolina, First district. V. H. Brawley (dem.); Third, A. C. Latimer (alliancej; Fourth, G. W. Shell (alliance); Fifth, T. J. Strait (alliance); Sixth, J. L. McLauren (alliance); Seventh, F. W. Morse (dem.). Indiana, Seventh trict, Charles L. Henry (rep.). Maryland, Second district,' G. A. Baker (rep.); Third, Charles Herzog (rep.); Pourth, A. W. Spatts (rep.). The Connecticut prohibitionists met at Hartford and nominated a full state ticket with Edwin P. Aug-ers for g-overnor. Georgb Wii.liam Curtís, editor oí Harper's Weekly, died at his home íd Livingston, Staten Island, ag-ed 68 years, after an illness of several roonths. He leaves a wife and one son and one daughter. IN convention at Chamberlain the South Dakota democrats nominated Peter Couchman for povernor. ASSISTANT SeCEETABY OF THE TrEASury Crounse has formally tendered his resijfnation to President Harrison. Rrv. Williasi H. Wethinsto.y, the oldest Harvard gTaduate, died at the home of his son in Jackson, Mich., ag-ed 94 years. Johx W. Hopkins died at Bremen, Ind., aped 104 years. He fought in the war of 1812 and had lived in Indiana about fifty years. The congressional nominanations ivere made: Illinois, Eleventh district, Traman Plautï (dem.); Missouri, Eleventh district, J. J. O'Neill (dem.); Minnesota, Third district, O. M. Hall (dem.), Seventh, Henry Feig (rep.); Michigan, ïwelfth district, J M. Finn (dem.); Ohio, Fifth district G. L. Griffith (rep.). Mrs. McGuffet died at Sharon, Pa. in her lOOth j-ear. Oeobsb Vep.nox, probably tbe oldest locomotive engineer in the worlcl, died at his home in Bordentown, N. J', aaed 87. He first handled an engine in 1831. Thk following1 congressional nominations were made: Nebraska, Fifth district, A. A. McKeighan (dem.); Kentucky, Tenth district, M. C. Lisie (dem.); Mississippi, Fourth district, H. D. Moneg(dem.); Alabama, Fourth district, G. H. Craig (rep.); Texas. Seventh district, G. C. Pendleton (dem.) on the l,51öth ballot. FOREIGN. The town of Soevenhaha, near Roab Hungary, was destro.yed by fire a:ic several children and much live stock perished in the flames. Cholera was decreasing in Hamburg and Havre and increasing in Russia A supposed case of Asiatic cholera was announced in London and f our Russian Jews who passed through Hamburg for America were reported strickeu in Liverpool. Marijuis de Mores, who killed Capt. Mayer, a Jewish olficer in the Prench ariny, in a duel with swords, was founc not guilty in Paris by a jury, which also acquitted the seconds ou each side. Louis Lecomte, an employé of the woman's art exhibition in the Palais de L'Industrie in Paris, has disappeared with diamonds and jewelry valued at 250,000 francs, stolen ïrom the exhibition. The head of dock No. 4 at Bremen, loaded with cotton and spirits, was burned, the loss beingf 8250,000. Tras 2-mile scullingr match at Trenton, Ont., between Edward Hanlan and Charles Stephenson, champion of New Zealand, was won by Hanlan by two lengths. Up to the 31st uit. the total number of deaths from cholera throughout the Eussiau empire was 107,647. The disease was on the increase in Hamburg, Germany, and in London sereral cases and some deaths were reported. While Premier Gladstone was walking- in his park at Hawarden he was attackedby a heiferand knocked down, but got behind a tree and was saved from serious injury. Dispatches from Mons, Belgium, say that twenty-five miners were killed by an explosión in the Agriatie colliery. The bona fide sale of a boy of 13 is reported from Quinze Lake, Ont., an Indian named Kogers sold his adopted son to a French hunter for three dollars. Düp.ixg a heavy gale the schooner Nett Woodward went down nearSouthampton, Ont, and three of the crew were drowned. Mp.s. Margahet Rivera, grandmother of Gov. Galan, of the state of Coahuila, died at Monterey, Mexico, at the age of 132 years. Germán' authorities announce that Russian emigrants will not be permitted to pass through Germany. LATER. Two cholera-ihfected ships arrived at New York, both from Hamburg. The Normannia reported nii.e cases nnö five deaths from the disense, and the Bugla nine cases and four deaths. Tne vesseU were quarantined, and six more deaths were reported. The entire city of Misd-Zipla, in Eussia, was destroyed by fire, and 14,000 persons were made homeless. Miïs. ThD Dineex, wife of a young farmer near Yankton, S. D., gave birth to four g-irl babies. All were doni"- well. Cor,. E. P. C. Lewis, aged 55, ex-minister to Portugal, was found dead in bed at his residenee in Hoboken, N. J. Mbs. Mabïha Hardcastle and her daug-hter were bitten by a copperhead snake while berries near Frostburg, Md., and both died in frig-btfül a.urony. So.vk of the strikers at Homestead, Pa., entered the house of a worker named Maple while he and his family were absent and destroyed all the furniture. Firk destroyed the exteusive woodenware manufactory oí Berwick, Sherwood & Co., in Detroit, the loss being 9100,000. In a fit of jealousy Georg-e Willis, a farmer living near Center Lisie, N. Y., shot his wife and Wallace Oliver and then took his own life. The republicans of the Fourth Minnesota district have nominated A. E. Keifer for conress, and in the First Michig-an district & S. Grece is the people's nominee. Up to the present time over 150,000 persous have died of the cholera in Enrope, more than nine-tenths of the deaths in Russia. A of buildings owned by C. H. Dodd was burned at Portland, Ore., the loss being 8100,000. The old palazzo in the Via Taverna at Naples collapsed, inany persons in the ruins. The revolution in Honduras was brought to an end by the capture of Gen. Nuilla, the insurgent leader, and his men near Iriona. Great distress prevailed among the many hundred idle employés of the tinplate factories in Wales. In the second series of the National leag-ue the percentages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 3d were: Cleveland, .738; Boston, .571; Pittsburgh, .571; Cincinnati, .535; Brooklyn, .512; Philadelphia, .512; Chicago, .500; Louisville, .500; New York, .475; St. Louis, .395; Baltimore, .390; Washington, .303.