The News Condensed

IH a fight at Coney Island, N. Y., John Griffin knocked out James Lynch in five rounds and was declared lightweight champion of the world. Portions of New York city were flooded with counterfeit $2 bilis of the Hancock series. Samukl Aiken and his mother were. fatally hurt in a runaway accident at Calcutta, O. Under an old "blue law" notices have been posted at Stonington, Conn., saying that "the using of profane or obscene language, alsoshouting, brawling and quarreling" are in violation of the law, and that hereafter that law will be rigidly enforced. Five of the notorious Jackson ganij of moonshiners were captured by federal officers at their illicit distillery in the Tennessee hill fastnesses. The estáte of the late George William Curtis, of New York, amounts to Ebout 870,000. Tiie steamship Pennsylvania, from Antwerp, A'ith over 500 immigrants on board, was releasedfrom quarantine at Philadelphia. The McCahan Sugar Eefining Company, which is opposed to the sugar trust, organized at Philadelphia with a capital stock of 552,000,000. Frederick Mellenburö raurdered his wife and fatally wounded his daughter in Paterson, N. J., and then committed suicide. Lena Schmitt, a Germán woman at Bordentown, N. J., while insane murdered three small children by choking them to death. Five members of a band of smugglers were captured by custom house guards near Del Rio, Tex., with large quantities of dutiable goods In their possession. In a collision on the Western Railway of Alabama near Opelika Lon and Tom Hillis, the engineer and fireman, were killed and six persons were seriously injured. Thbee men were killed and three seriously injured in a wreek on the Vandalia line near Greenville, 111. Steffen Zeoha, of Lake Elmo, Minn., in a fit of jealousy killed Mary Mendlick, his sweetheart, and tlien took hia own life. The Knickerbocker Fire Insurance Company of New York, a Corporation which has had a life for over eighty years, will go out of business. The finest residence portion of Fort Bragg, CaL , was destroyed by fire. Col. William P. Canaday, ex-serg-eant-at-arms of the United States senate, who was charged with theft by his partner in business, committed suicide by shootincr himself. The reapportionment act passed by the special session of the Wisconsin legislature has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court. A woman named Montrose charges chat within a period of ten months iorty new-born infants were murdered by Dr. H. C. Beale at his hospital in San Francisco. A cloudbürst at Bmnswick, Ga., did great damage to property. Thk schooner May Gibbon was sunk by a hurricane off the Texas coast and four of the crew were drowned. Valuablb discoveries of onyx have been made at Bridgewater, Va. The annual report of Thomas J. Morgan, commissioner of Indian affairs, notes a continuance of the policy of allotting lands to the Indians as individuals and treating them as future citizens of the United States. Eventually, the commissioner thinks, the agency system will be destroyed and also the Indian bureau. At Kent, 0., Fred Wuersterand Louis Huhn while crossing the Erie railroad in a wagon were struck by a train and instantly killed. T.HE world's record for the light harness horse, either trotting or pacing, was lowered at Terre Haute, Ind., by Nancy Hanks, who trotted a mile in 2:04. John Hildinger, a shanty boatman near Paducah, Ky., kicked his child to death because he did not wish to care for it while his wife was sick. The entire business portion of the coal mining town of Runnells, Ia., was burned, 118 buildings be ing destroyed. Thk White StarlinerTeutonic, which arrived at quarantine, New York, made the quick time of 5 days, 21 hours and 8 minutes. Samuel Adkinson's residence at Telcup, Kan., was struck by lightning and Mr. and Mrs. Adkinson and their two children were killed. Fike destroyed thirty-one small cottages in New Orleaus. A poBTlOJí oí' the large works of the Singer Manufaoturing Company at Elizabfthport, N. J., were destroyed by lire, the loss being 8150,000. The woolen mili of Sayles & Jenks at Warren, Mass., was destroyed by fire, the loss being f300,000. A graxd jury in Chicago voted to indict Mlcbael C. McDonald for attemptng to bribe Justice Woodraan. THBKKj-oung men, Oril S weet, Charles Ketchum and Charles Smith, were s truck by a train at Northeast, Pa., and kiüed. At the annual meeting in Dallas, Tex., of the Switchrnen's Mutual Aid association John O. Wilson, of La Grosse, Wis., was elected grand chief in place of Frank Sweeney. The faculty has shutdownon another time-honored custom at Yale college, New Haven, by proliibiting the annual rush betivecn the sophomore andfreshmen classes. It was reported that the milis controlled by the paper trust would be closed until the middle of November, rendering idle 50,000 men throug-hout the country. Boo.mers set fire to the grass on the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma, and thouBands of acres were burned over, causing the loss of inar.y cattle. James Scott, a negro, was hanged at Brandon, Miss., for the murder of his wife. Thibteen buildings, including the opera house, the bank, post office and Star office were destroyed by fire at North Bend, Neb. A cablegram receivod at Danvers, Mass., tells of the murder of Capt. G. P. Buckley and his wife by sailors on his vessel. All reports from the detained steamships at the upper and lower quarantine stations in New York were favorable, and, with Fire island and Camp Low depopulated, the cholera may be said to be stamped out. Mrs. Ja.mks Pikk, to settle an old grudge, shot and killed the 8 and 10year-old daughters of Charles Billups near Jluntington, W. Va. W. W. WlMDLB lowered the world's 5-mile bicyole record at Springfield, Mass., riding the full distance in 11 minutes, 41 seconds. In the free-for-all pace at Terre Haute, Ind., Maseot lowered the world's pacing record to 2:04 Eleven minera were imprisoned by a cave-in in a shaft in the Norrie mine at Ironwood, Mich. A rescuing party was working, but with little prospect of success before the men suffocated or starved. Yale university at New Haven, Conn., celebrated the one hundred and ninety-tbird year of its existance. POSTMATEB GENERAL 1ÏAXAMAKKE has decided to issue what will be known as the Columbian series of postage stamps. James Koon and Charles Mosely were killed by Mexican cowboys near St. Hediery, Tex. A FiiiE in a building in New York occupied by Otheinan, Dyer & Southwick, dealers in woolen goods, oaused a loss of S100,000. Hp;nry L. Pfeffer secured a verdict of $20,000 against the Buffalo (N. Y.) Street Railway Company for the loss of both of his feet in an accident. The Spar City stage was held up about 20 miles from Creede, Col., by a lone highwayman and the passengers robbed of their valuables. Over 50,000 acres of government land were sold in Michigan at prices ranging from So to S12.50 per acre. Fred Payettk and Maggie Dubeour were affianced lovers at Stillwater, Minn. Payette was killed by the fall of a tree and when Miss Dubeour heard of the accident she drowned herself in the lake. Michael Brennen and Andrew Srakol, "fillers-in" at the blast furnaces of the Edgar Thompson steel works at Braddock, Pa., were literally cooked to death by molten metal falling upon them. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 30th uit. aggregated 81,057,541,070, against 81,191,409,182 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 16.9. J. W. Smith killed his wife and child at Redding, Ual., and was soon aiter lynched by a mob. Thk famous signal station building at the buramit of Pike's Peak in Colorado was burned. In the United States the business faiiures during the seven days ended on the 80th uit. numbered 208, against 211 the preceeding week and 230 for the corresponding time lastyear. The North Germán Lloyd steamer Murchin, froin Breinen, arrived at Baltimore with 1,200 immigrants on board. All were well. Antón Pilger, a farmer living near Columbus, O., has been notified that he is solé heir to an estáte of 82,000,000, left by George Miller, an English army officer. Foub powder milis at Schaghticoke, N. Y., blew up, causing great damage to property. Lord Walteb S. Bebesford, alias Sidney Lascelles, the noted Enjflish forger, was sentenced at Rome, Ga., to six years hard labor in the penitentiary in that state. Abraham Thompson, one of the entombed minera in the Norrie mine at Ironwood, Mich., was rescued. The other twelve would probably perish. R. G. Dün & Co., say in their weekly review that "business continúes larger than ever at this time of the year and the commercial sky is without a cloud. Money is every where in ampie supply and collections have rarely been more g-enerally satisfactory." By the explosión of a locomotiva boiler near Grove Summit, N. Y., Levi "W'ise and Charles Flynn, engineer and fireman, were blown to Dieces. H. T. Nippal, sheriff of Cowley county, Kan., was shot and killed by bandits in the Osage country. Fire at the Union stock yards in South Omaha, Neb., detroyed 10,000 worth of sheds and burned or smothered 993 head of sheep. Aftrb a cruise of over two years and six months the steamer Mary G. Hume arrived in San Francisco. Her catch for the cruise was thirtyeight whales, whose bone and oil repseuted a valué of 8400,000. THBstorag-e tanks of the Eureka Pipe Line Corapany at Sisterville, W. Va., were burned, and Cbief Engineer Davis ana foreman A. Foole Jost their lives. The supreme court of Pennsylvania in session at Pittsburgh issued warrants for the arrest of the members of the advisory committee of the Homestead strikera on the charg-e of treason for up in defiance of the constituted authority of the state a traitorous and rebellious government of its own in Homestead in July last. Fifty freight cars and the transfer sheds of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railway in Chicago were burned, the loss being 8100,000. The six children of Peter Heldt, of Eacine, Wis., all died of diphtheria within two weeks. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The democrats of Colorado have indorsed the people's party state notninations. The followinpr congressional noniinations were made: Illinois, Second district, E. ü. Smith (dam.); Wisoonsin, Second district, Lucien B. Caswell (rep.); Michigan, Second district, J. S. Gorman (dem.). The people's party has nominated H. F. Hixon for congress in the First district of Wisconsin and Dr. Powell in the Seventh. In state convention at Grand Eapids the Michigan republicans nominated Frank A. Hooker, of Charlotte, for justice of the supreme court. Wiixiam Dwigan, smallest member of the masonic fraternity known, being only 40 inches high, died suddenly at his home in Shellsburg, Ia. Massachusf.tts demócrata in state con vention in Boston renominated WilJiam E. Russell for governor. The Michigan peopie's party in state convention at Lansing nominated Williatn Newton, o{ Flint, for associate justice of the supreme court. Ex-JUDGB TuEODORE W. BABNETT, of Indiana, died snddenly of apoplexy in New York. He was 84 years oid and well known all over the country. The peopie's party has nominated Marcellus Audier for congress in the Fifth district of Wisconsin. Iïev. R. H. Allen, seeretary of the Presbyterian board of missions, died at Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 71 years. The official figures of the gubornatorial vote at the recent election in Maine give Cleaves (rep.), 67,585; Johnson (dem.), 55,073; Massey (pro.), 3,781; Knowlton (labor), l,8(!0; Bateman (peopie's), 3,005; scattering, 17; total, 129,629; Cleaves' plurality, 12,512. The Michigan prohibitionists have nominated P. T. Butler for congress in the Third district. The democrats in Kansas opposed to fusión will hold a state convention at Topeka on the 7th inst FOREIGN. Waldemab Liiíbebt, cashier of the new Hotel Briston on the Unter den Juinden in Berlin, absconded with 75,000 marks in money and the bulk of the jewels and other valuables deposited in liis charge. Speeches denouncing the American government for excluding the Chinese vrere made at the Pan Presbyterian council in Toronto. Thk number of deaths from the cholera within the whole Russian empire from the beginning of the epidemie up to the 26th is offlcially reported at 185,640. Two minino prospectors, William Corlett, of Galveston, Tex., and Henry Gesford, of St. Paul, Minn., were attacked and devoured by mountain lions in British Columbia. Marión Sharpe, once known on tho stage as Ruby Russell, and Dr. Woodburn Heron, an army surgeon, took their own lives in London. The coupls had been living together. Twelve persons died at Anponleme, France, f rom the efEects of eating what they supposed to be mushrooms. In honor of the birth of his daug-hter Emperor William, of Germany, will pardon all female prisoners servingf terms for firstoffensescommitted while in distress or in fits of anger. It was reported that the schooner J. W. Dean, a Nova Scotia boat, with a crew of fourteen men, had been lost. Two men were killed and five injured by the explosión of a boiler at Embrun, Ont. Gkn. Carl Mulxeb, the last surviving Germán officer who took part in the battle of Waterloo, died in Hanover, Germany, ag-ed 99 years. Further reports from the typhoon n Japan show that 2,600 houses were wrecked in the prefecture of Tokushima and 400 persons were killed. If the Tory landlords of Ireland persist in enforcing wholesale evietions of their tenants in arreara for anti-home rule purposes the liberáis promise a bitter land war in retaliation. LATER. The public debt statement issued on the lst showed the total debt to be 8173, 287, 79 2; cash in the treasury, $181,895,918; debt less cash in the treasury, 81,441,391,874. Increase during August, 82,743,753. Theodore Lizenby, aged 100 years, feil dead at YVinamac, Ind., in the midst of a hearty laugh. He had lived in Indiana since 1818. Charles Johnson, a attorney, and son of the wealthiest man in Evansville, Ind., shot and killed Jacob App, a railroad engineer, during a quarret at a club house in Evansville. Ex-Coxökeslman Jacob Benton was thrown from his carriage in a runaway at Lancaster, N. H, and rece ived injuries írom whieh he died. The boiler of a thresher exploded at Indiana, Pa., and Harry Myer, aged 14, was blown to pieces, and Aaron, John and Frank Gromley were fatally injured. In a quarrel near Jeffersonville, lnd„ John Johnson and Jim Turner were m urde red by Osa Chambers and James W'ilsou. Aunt Mary Taylok (colored) died at Keokuk, la., aged over 100 years. Tebbible prairie fires were doinff immense damag'e west of the Missouri river in North Dakota. James Gomes and J. A. Loomis, aeronauts, were fatally injured by falling' from a balloon while performing on the horizontal bar at Peoria, 111. Mus. Jamks Iíesxell, aged 70 years, was burned to a crisp in a fire which destroyed her house at Youngstown, O. David Cade, in a fit oí jealousy, killed his wife near Whitehall, 111., and then took his own life. Man v persons were injured in a terrifichailstorui that passedover St. Paul, Minn. Eiïnest Renajt, the famous author and philosopher, died at his home in Paris, France, of congestión of the lungs. The University of Chicago entered upon its educatioual mission on the lst. The suprenie court of Wiseonsin has declared the second apportionment of the state unconstitutional, and the governor vviü cali another special session of the legislatura to make a reaoportiomnent. The situation vith regard to the cholera in Sew York is so reassuring that the health department will issue nu more bulletins on the subject. The theft of 3440,000 from the Auer Iccandescent Light Company at Philidelphia by Tyndale Palmer was disjovered.