The News Condensed

The west-bound passenger train on the 'Frisco road was wrecked by a broken rail 1 mile east of Phülipsburg, Mo., and Baggag-eman Albert Diekerson and News Agent Floyd Harwood were killed and twenty persons were injiired. Clement M. Cum.mixg, a New York stock broker, failed for 5200,000; assets, $30,000. The remains of Emil F. Dreier, the Danish consul to Chicago, who died on board the steamship Hecla, were cremated at Fresh Pond, L. I. The secret service división at Washington has discovered a counterfeit of the new issue of the two-dollar silver certifícate, 1886, check letter B2226, W. S. Rosecrans register, James Hyatt treasurer. The railroad record was broken by the empire express on the New York Central. The run from Rochester to Buft'alo, sixtv-nine miles, was made in seventy-one minutes, and for ten minutes a speed of ninety miles per hour was attained. The death of Mrs. Harrison is the thirteenth in President Harrison's private and official household sinoe the beginning of his administration. Arthub L. Thomas, the governor of Utah, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior says that polygamy in the territory is on the decline. The rules adopted by the national commission of the world's fair say that the exposition shall be open for the admission of visitors during the six months commencing May 1 and ending October 30, 1893, on each day of the week except Sunday, and that the gates shall be opened to the public at 8 o'clock a. m. and closed at 7 x. m. A FIRE which started from oigarettes throvrn by boys destroyed many buildings in Hummelstown, Pa. S. J. Zeigler, a prominent New Orleans merchant, failed for 8119,000; assets. &!00,000. The city of Ashland, Ky., was flooded with counterfeit quarters of the desijrn of 1H92. ElGHT wríters, representing an association of twenty American authors, met in New York and organized a cooperative association to be known as "The Syndieate oí Associated Authors." The stockholders of the Western Union Telejjraph Company in session in New York unanimously voted to increase the capital stock 813,800,000, makinLr a total of $100,000,000. The receipts of wheat at the eight primary western markets for the first sixteen weeks of the current erop year aggreg-ate 119,000,000 bushels, against 99,000,000 for the corresponding: time last year. Ten coal mines north of Denver, CoL, haTe entered into a combination. A CITY court at Albany, JN. Y., holds that a liurmese eannot become a citizen of the United States because he is neither a white alien nor an alien oí African nativity, nor a person of African deseent. If a fire which destroyed the stable and residence of F. L. Duncan at Chico, Cal., the stallion Duncan Wilkes, valued at 510,000, was burned to death. Whilb workinjf in the air ohamber of a steel caisson near Alton, 111., three nnknown men were smothered to death. Moüntain fires In the vicinity of Tower City, Pa., were destroying thousands of acres of valuable timber. Lawlessness was increasing at Homestead, Pa., not a day passing without assaults upon non-union worknien, and it was thoujjht the towii would be placed under martial law. Thükk was a heavy fall of snow in the Catskill mountains in New York. The new return postal cards hare been placed on sale at the post offices throughout the United States. A. B. Coi,lkn and his wife and Curtis Goddard and John F. Glasnier were asphyxiated by gas in Chicago. John Sirixxox and his wife and two children were burued to death in a fire at Cleveland, O. Twenty-oxb persons, mostly flremen, ■were nearly suffocated by smoke during a fire in the cellar of a leather establishment at Pittsburgh, Pa. In a railway wreck at Palos, Ala., Engineer Harry Monroe and Fireman William Church were instantly killed. Two men, Joseph Koontz and Henry Bowers, who were tryinsr to extinjjuish flames at Lima, O., fell hito a limekiln and were roasted to death. A fire in the Chinese quarters in San Francisco destroyed eight buildings and contents. Loss, 8100,000. Henry Irvino, a desperate burglar, was sentenced at Houston, Tex. , loseventy-four years' imprisonment. Seven couples eloped írom Kentucky in one day and were married by Justice Keigwin at Jeffersonville, Ind. Stamboul has secured the world's stalliou record, trotting1 a mile at Stockton, Cal., in 2:08J4, beating Palo Alto's record one-quarter second. The wheatyield of Ohio this season is placed at 40,000,000 busliels, being short of last year's erop about 5,000,000 bushels. It is estimated that about 4,000.000 bushels of the cropof lastyear is still in the producers' hands. Capt. Porter, of the United States secret service, says there is abroad one of the nicest two-dollar counterfeits ever executed. The bilí is a Hancock certifícate of the issue of 1882, check letter D. During a fire at Clarksville, Mc, that caused a loss of 880,000, Thomas Crowley and William Schubert were crushed to death by a falling wall while fighting the flames. A fire in the Croker block at Cleveland, O., caused the Koblitz Bros., rag warehousemen, a loss of 8100,000. Two girls perished in the flames. Eight negroes on trial at Chestertown, Md., for the murder of Dr. Hill were declared guilty. Flamks that started in the second floor of the American Sugar Reünery Company coopershop in Jersey City, N. J. , caused a loss of 8200,000. Eowena, a 2 year-old Palo Alto filly, made a mile against time in 2:18) at Stockton, Cal., being the fastest mile ever jiiK.de bj a 2-year-oW LUx. _ TfiE flavoring extract house of E. W. Gillett & Co. in Chicago was destroyed by fire, the Joss be'mg 100,000. Miss. Tina Mobrings and her 9-yearold son were instautly killed by a Chica go, Burlington & Quincy train at Hawthorne, I1L The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has refused to pay S100,000 insurance on the life of Williain M. Runk, of Phüadelphia, who committed suicide. Mrs. Ei.izahf.th Stenof.r's barn near Naperville, HL, was burned, and twenty-three cattle and seven horses perished in the flames. Mrs. Hajkrison's portrait, to be painted by an artist not yet selected, has been provided for by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, and will be sent to adorn the gallery in the white house. Mrs. Peter Minch, aged 38, living at Og-den, Mich., gare birth to her 8eventeenth child. She has been married ei?hteen years. At ihe leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 28th aggregated S1,1T4,1S,12?„ against SI. 18 1,663,788 the previous week. The decrease as comp;ired with the corresponding week oi Itj91 was 1.8. Threk men were killed and three others were badly injured by an explosión at a nitro-glycerine factory near Lima. O. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 28th numbered 187, against 220 the preceding week and 255 for the corresponding time last year. The annual meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance union opened at Denver with an address by the president, Miss Vülard. Two fires which occurred within an in the heart of the city of Cleveland, O., cau.sed a loss of &250.000, the loss of one life and the senousmjury of half a dozen persons. Five men were probably fatally scalded and burned by the bursting oi a steam pipe in the Webster manufacturing vorks in Chicago. Fire in the dome of the great machinery hall on the world'sfair grounds in Chicago caused a loss of 85,000, and for a time the entire building was threatened. A fire that started in the Union Oil Company's store in Milwaukee spread until the lower part of the Third ward, including much of the most extensive wholesale district, was burned over, causing a loss of nearly 67,000,000. The insurance was estimated at 52,500,000. Several lives were lost and at least 1,500 persons were homeless. Manaoer paced a half mile on the track at Independence, Ia., in l:00}. Eepobts irom Wroming say that the cattlemen's war yet smolders, and that the situation is critical. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company has made a contract with the Adaras Express Company by which the latter will occupy all the lines on that system on and after January 1. Th number of trials by general oourt martial during the year in the army, as shown in the report oi the acting judge advocate general, was 3,000, of which number 1,817 resulted in conviction. A bcow loaded with provisions for a lumber camp at Hig bay, Mich. , was vrrecked on Lake Michigan and six men were drowned. A itUNAWAT car on an incline plant at Mapleton, Pa., ran into passenfrers at the Pënnsylvania railroad station, killing Archie Dill, William Temple and John Barclay. During a quarrel at Ashland, Ky. , George Cook, aged 13, iatally stabbed Vernon Taylor, aped 12. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Caroline Lavixia Scott Harrison, the Tvife of President Harrison, died ia Washington at 1:40 a. m. ou the 25th, ag'ed nearly 57 years. Mrs. Harrison met death with the patience and resijfnation oí a devout Christian, and her last hours were comparatively f ree frora pain. Consumption was the cause of her death. Mr. Harrison and other members of the family were at her bedside when the end carne. "Aunty" Baldy, Indiana's oldest woman, celebrated her 103d birthday at her home in Terre Haute, where she has lived since 1819. As a bel Thornburg died naar Muncie, Ind., ag'ed 99 years, 10 months and 5 days. He had resided in one voting precinot sinee 1825 and was a republican. The Indiana supreme conrt rendered a decisión declaring unconstitutional the registration law which was made to apply chiefly to commercial travelers and residents of the state absent in tho employ of the government. Vital Rjcche, of Rochester, N. Y., oelebrated his 9Sth birthday. He was bom in Nicolet, Can., October 25, 1794. Prof. William Swinton, aged 60, the well-known author of school books, dropped dead at his home in New York city of apoplexy. Allen Spinks, a colored man, died in Hamilton county, Ind., aged 105 years. Gen. James Y. Tuttle, the hero of Fort Donelson, died at Casa Grande, A.. T., of paralysis, affed 69 years. Mrs. Christina Bordner, near Keokuk, Ia., celebrated lier 103d anniversary. She was in good health. Susie Conrad, a fat woman who had been on exhibition in most museums in America, died in Chicago. The body when inclosed in the casket weighed 598 pounds. The prohibí tionists of the Fourth district of Wisconsin have nominated E. L. Eaton for congress. Rey. William J. Pottkr. fnr t.hlrt.tr. three years pastor of the Unitarian church at New Bedford, Mass., has resigned, and his congregation has voted to pay him $2,000 a year for five years. Diwitt C. Littlejohi died at his home in Oswego, N. Y., aged 75 years. He was a meinber of the Thirty-eignth congress and took the One Hundred and Tenth regiment to the front in the war of the rebellion as its colonel. The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Harrison were held on the 28th in the First Presbyterian church in Indianapolis, the pastor, Kev. M. L. Ilaines, officiating, after which the body was laid to rest in CrcwaüiU cinetery. At 539 in the afternoon President Harrison and uthers of'the party lpft for W abhiugton. FOREIGN. W. M. Conwav, au English mountaineer, has succeeded in climbing to the top of one of the peaks of the Hindú Kush range, on the borders of Kashmir, to the height of 23,000 feet. Advices from Chinan Fu, in China, say that in a recent tlood over 50,000 persons were drowned and that 1,000,000 would starve to death unless the Chinese government furnished them food from now till next spring-. The two Rodique brothers and a man named Moloi, South sea pirates, were beheaded at Manila for murdering the crew oí a vessel. A lakse portion of the village of Sainte Anne de Beaupre, Que., was destroyed by fire. A BOOKKEF.PEB of the Deutsche bank in Berlin was arrested on a charge oí embezzling $25,000. Cholera has made its appearance for the first time in Vienna, Austria. The Crespist forces have captured Barcelona in the state of Bermudez, which completes the subjugation of the adherents of the late government of Venezuela. By an earthquake in the province of Kutair, Russia, five villag-es were entirely wiped off the earth. Herr Lenge, a master cooper of Breinen, Germany, becoming jealous of his sweetheart, shot and killed her and two other women who tried to prevent the crime and then killed himself. Thomas Neiix Cream confessed in London that from 1874 to 1891, when he was arrested in Chicago, he made a practice of dissolute g-irls in Canada. Six persons were drowned by the wreek of the schooner Annie in Loug-h Strang-ford, Ireland. Thomas Listón and his wife, both T4 years old, died within a few hours of each other at Kingston, Ont. In the reeent gale along the Kewfoundland eoast ten vessels wero wrecked and twenty-two lives were lost. At Greenspond the sea unearthed the bodies in two graveyards. The Iloinitz colliery near Berlín, Germany, caught fire, and five miners perished in the flames. Thb house of correction at Goeliersdorf, Austria, was burned, and tvvelve inmates perished in the flames. The British steamer Eoumania was wrecked at the mouth of the Arelho river near Peniche and 113 persons were drowned. VVhile a ferryboat was crossing the River Uouro near Sinfes, Portugal, it capsized, and eleven perïons were drowned. Thi Zacatecas (Mexico) oservatory reports the diseovery of a cornet in th constellation of Cáncer. The steamer Touvre, bound for Bayonne, was wrecked at Penmarch, Finisterre, and seyenteen persous wer drowned. Edouard Manibbs and hls daughter committed suieide in London through fear of starvation. Thc kaiser has reíuaed permission U the Germán regular military bands to go to th world'i fair in Chicago. LATER. Adi.ai E. Stevensox, democratie candidate for the vic presidency, sent his letter oí aooeptanoe to the president oí the national democratie convention. Flamks shipping in Philadelphia caused a loss of nearly 8200,000. Skveral business blocks were burned at St Johnsbury, Vt., the loss being 8150,000, and a man and his wife were ere m ate d. Thr Phoenix national bank at Phoenix, N. Y., vras robbed oí 82,900 in cash. Edward C. Sotar and Miss Ella Colé, of . Scranton, Pa., were killed by the cars neiir Lehigh vrhile returning1 home from a visit to friends. Allen Pakker (colored) was lynched by a mob at New Monroeville, Ala., for burninjj a cotton gin. Furthkr advices say that the great fire in Milwaukee sweep over thirteen blocks of business houses and residences, containing 4fiö buildings in all, caused the loss of four lives, destroyed property valued at 85,800,000 and madu 2,500 persons homeless. Thk town of Callery Junction, Pa., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Accordino to the latest accounts 115 persons were drowned by the wreek of the steamer Roumania off the coast of Portugal. By the overflow of the Saldo river in the state of Paxaca, Mexico, thousands of acres of coffee and cane lands were inundated, causing a loss of 8300,000, and over forty persons and 2,000 head of cattle were drowned. Six iast horses, valued at 810,000, were lost in a fire at Milo Thomlinson's barn near Indianapolis. Mrs. Margarkt Donaldson, aged 105years, was buried from the homo for aged women at Pittsburgh, Pa. Jonathan H. V allace, one of the best-known attorneys of eastern Ohio and a member of congress from 1S82 to 1884, died at his home in East Liverpool, aged 68 years. A building in Chicago oecupied by the Tudor Buggy Company and other manufacturera was burned, the loss being 100,000. Thk boiler of the steamer Wakefleld exploded off Maryland point, Va., and three colored men were killed. Jamk8 R. Bartlktt, one of the survivors of the Jeannette expedition, shot and killed his wife's niece, Lottie Carpenter, in San Francisco, shot his wife in the shoulder and than killed himself. Since his return from the arctic regions Bartlett's mind has been weak.