The News Condensed

Mrs. Susan Manak, one of the Esquimaux colony on the world's fair grounds in Chicago, gave birth to the first child born on the grounds, and it was named Columbia Susan Manak. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 31st uit. was: Wheat, 161,635, 000 bushels; corn, 31, '295,00o bushels; oats, 8,485,000 bushels; rye, 1,048,000 bushels; barley, 2,301,000 bushels. Thf. Burling-ton and Missouri hotel at MeCook, Neb., was burned, and two persons - Mrs. Granger and Mrs. Cole - perished in the flames. A water tank near Wadsworth, Ala., feil on a car containinr forty laborers, and two were killed and thirteen others seriously injnred. Two brothers named Burgess, who were in jail at Lebanon, Va., charged with the murder of Oak Sutherland, were taken f rom the prison by a mob and lynched. An American woman in a Philadelphia hospital has every symptom of leprosy. The patiënt is 67 years old and always lived in the Quaker City. Two men held up a train on a southern railroad near Piedmont, Ala., and got $750 and some valuable mail packaffes. The government reeeipts from all souices during the last ten months of the current fiscal year aggregated $132,281,701, against $119,746,995 for the corresponding ten months of the preceding year. Max Schoenthal, a New York hop and malt dealer, has failed for upwards of $250,000. The public debt statement issued on the lst showed that the interest and non-interest hearing debt decreased $196,280 durmg the rnonth of October. The cash in the treasury was $766.202,480. Fierce forest fires were raging in Pennsylvania along the mountains from Óhio Pyle to Delaney's Cave, a distance of 20 miles, doing great damage. At the annual session in Denver of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Miss Francis E. Willard, of Chicago, was reelected president. Three men robbed the bank at Spearville, Kan., of $10,000 in cash. A new telephone system just pleted in La Porte, Ind. , and known as the Strowger automatic telephone system, does away with the "helio" girl, the switch board and switching being operated and performed automatically by the person who rings up and the one he calis and who rings off. Durixg 1891 109,515 persons emigrated from Russia to America. In 1890 the nnmber was 85,588. Ferdinand Wiltzer, while training a team of colts at Winamac, Ind., feil between two stumps of trees, became wedged in, and the colts started on a run, tearin;r his head off. It is the expectation of the mint officials that by the middle of this month they will be prepared to strike the souvenir world's fair silver half-dollars and that they wili be ready for distribution about Thanksgiving day. Dr. O. W. Kelly, one of the leading physicians of Jefferson county, Ga., in an insane fit threw his 8-year-old child into a well and killed his sister-in-law. Freight trains collided near Cabin Creek, Ark., and Engineer Hugh Jones and Fireman William Darby were killed. William Ripple and Barney Whalen, soldiers at Fort Brown, Tex., fought over a woman. Whalen was shot dead by Ripple, who, to avoid arrest, then killed himself. The sugar trust has placed a contract with John Bailey, of Philadelphia, for 5,000,000 bags, in which all sugars will hereafter be shipped instead of in barrels. Mks. Sarah Shepard, aged 104 years, was burned to death at her home near Brazil, Ind., by her clothes catching fire from her pipe. Helen Nichols lowered the world's 2-year-old running record by going a mile at Columbus, Ga., in 1-AlliPegram & Bro. , extensivo dealers at Lincoln, 111., in grain, agricultural implements and wheel goods, failed for 8150.000. The tug Amadeus was wrecked on Lake Erie off Point au Pelee and three of the crew were drowned. The steel steamer Giloher, owned by Cleveland parties, was, with her cerw of twenty men, given up as lost in the recent storm on Lake Michigan. The recent gales on the lakes were probably the most destructive to the lake stopping in the history of the inland inarine. The losses in five days were estimated by underwriters to be about 850,000, fully a dozen boats having passed out of existence, and not less than twenty-five seamen having been lost. One of the most destructive forest fires ever known in the vicinity of Johnstown, Pa., was raging, and farmers and stock raisers would be heavy losers. Ebnest Voss, who stole 2,000,000 marks from a savings bank at Verden, Germany, in 1884, was found dead in his room in Hoboken, N. Y. E. O. Leach, director of the mint, in his report to the secretary of the treasury says that the coinage of the mints during the last fiscal year aggregated 113,556,124 pieces, valued as follows: Gold, 535,506,987; silver dollars, 88,329,467; subsidiary silver, 86,659,812; minor coins. $1,296,710; total value, $51,792,976. From January 1 to October 31 there have been 8,685 cases of diphtheria in Philadelphia, and of these 1,095 were fatal. The ravages of the disease continued to increase. WnxiAM Johnson, 17 years old, hanged himself at Elgin, 111. Reading ilime novéis unbalanced his mind. TnE city jail at Sonoma, Cal., was burned, and two trainps arrested for drunkenness were burned to death. In thirty-six hours seven incendiary Sres were discovered in different parts of Beaver Falls, Pa. They were attributed to the strikers, who threatened to get even with the town council and everybody in general for trying to get the Carnegie compan y to start its mili with non-union men. Whii.e crossing the Erie railway tracks at I'ainted Post, N. Y., Rev. J. C. Kradbury, a retired Methodist prcacher, and his wife, both over 70, were struck by a train, and Mrs. Bradbury was killed and her husband fatally injured. L. W. B arle Y feil across a circular saw at bis mili at Clarksville, Ark., and his body was sawed completely in two. Six drunken Indians were burned to death in a cabin in Okanagon county, Wash., during a debauch. At the final session in Denver of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union resolutions were adopted urginje congress to make a full investigation of the liquor traffic, and to publish the amount of alcoholic liquors manufactured and consumed, and the relation of such intoxicants to crime, poverty and death. In the United States the leading clearing houses reported exchanges of 81,398,793,448 during the se ven days ended on the 4th, against $1,174,159,123 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1891 the increase was 20.2. President Harbison has issued a proolamation appointing Thursday, November 24, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Thehk were 238 business fauures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 4th, against 187 the previous seven days and 255 for the corresponding time last year. Oscar Joxks, a negro, was hanged at Ovvinsrsville, Ky. ,for the murderof Marshal Taylor Vice a year ago. The supreme court of Missouri has decided that official uotices published in Sunday papers are not legal. The annual report of the superintendent of the dead letter office shows a decrease of 48,480 pieces, or nearly 1 percent, less than the numberreceived during the fiscal year of 1891, notwiüistanding the fact that the postal business of the country has increased nearly 8 per cent. A cyclone damaged property in Old Providence and San Andrea in the Caribbean sea to the extent of $100,000. John Mubphy, arrested in New York for illegal registration, was sentenced to three years' imprisonmeut by Judge Benedict, and Judge Martine sentenced G. C. Holland and W. Green to two years each in prison for the same offense. Two SOLDIEKS were indicted at Buffalo, N. Y., for niurder in the second degree for shooting the boy Michael Broderick the strike in that city August 25 last. Nkd Christib, the notorious outlaw who killed D;m Maples, a United States official, a year ago, was shot dead by United States marshals near Tahlequah, I. T. A table issued by the bureau of stacistics in 'Washington shows that the immigration into this country during September, the great cholera month, was 28,239, against t2,706in September, 1891. United States Treasuker Nebkcker in his annual report to the secretary of the treasury shows that the District of Columbia debt has been decreased 83,456,750, leaving the total debt 818,149,000. R. G. Dun & Co. 's Weekly Review of Trade says: "Even in the last week before a presidential election business has continued active throughout the country; indeed the volume is f ar beyond any precedent for a similar period." Henry M. Neil, of New Orleans, estimates the eotton erop of 1892 at 7,100,000 bales, maximum, exclusive of old eotton. Wili.iam Kittrick, a wealthy lumber dealer at Orville, Cal., andA. G. Green, a real estáte dealer at 8an Francisco, committed suicide at that city. W. G. Pollock, traveling agent for a New York jewelry firm. was robbed oi L15,000 worth of diamonds and other jewelry on the St Paul, Minueapolis & Omaha express fifteen miles north of Council Bluffs. Ia. During a row over a game of carda at Bloisburg, Ala., three miners - Lawrence Early, Richard Thomas and P. B. Johnson - were f atally shot by .Toe Murpiiy- PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. WiTHthe words of the hymn "Nearer, My God to Thee," upon her lips, Sadie Scanlan, the well-known actress, died at her home in New York city, aged 25 y e ars. Geohge S. Batchei.lor tendered to Secretary Koster his resignation of his office of United States minister to Portugal. Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, who made his name famous by commanding the expedition to the Arctic región in search of the records of the lost Sir John Frank! in party, died in Portland, Ore., from an overdose of laudanum which he took for stomach trouble. Jane E. Kellogg, wife of Georg-e Kellogg and mother of Clara Louise Kellogg-Strakosch, died of neuralgia of the heart at her home in New York. Judge K. Cravens, oneof theleading lawyers and most widely known jurists of Missouri, died at his home in Kansas City of malarial fever. Col. James Gilbert, who is 6 feet 11 inches in height, and Miss Emma Mossman, (5 feet 2 inches tall, were married at Sauk Center, Minn. Jupge T. W. Kewman, one of Iowa's most prominent lawyers and a veteran of the late war, died suddenly in Burlington of heart failure. Ex-Gov. Merriweather, of Kentucky, who succeeded Henry Clay in the United States senate, celebrated his 93d birthday. Col. Van II. Manning, ex-member of congress from Mississippi, died at his home in Branchville, Md., aged 53 years. Gen. Samuel Wyllie Cbawford, who oommanded the Pennsylvania reserves at the battle of Gettysburg, died in Philadelphia, aged 55 years. Miss Parmelia Wright died at Benton Harbor, Mich., aged 102 years. FOREIGN. The four chiJdren of Mrs. Morrier, a widow living near Alexandria, Ont. were burned to death during the ab sence of their mother. The Liberator Building association in London failed for L8,31S,000. In a battle near San Juan, Mex., beween governinent troops ind brigands hree of the latter were shot dead. W. E. Giles, special agent for the Columbian exposition in tbe WVstern 'acifie islands, and his vvife and two hilaren, were drowned near Loma joma by the capsizing of a boat. Ten persons died at Warsaw, Poland, rom eating the flesh of a cow that had been suft'ering with cattle plague. At Ballinadrina, Ireland, Constable 'ilkington in a fit of iiisaüity killed Sergt. Logan and his wife and two children and fatally injured the sergeant's three other children and then cilled himself. A London express train crashed into a freight train near Thirsk, Scotland, and ten persons were killed and a largo number injured. The Belgium chamber of deputies' committee on the revisión of the constitution have rejected the proposal to grant universal suffrage. The vote stood 6 against the proposal to 4 in its aTor. A fai.se alarm that the steeple of a church in Vinagora, Austria, was collapsing, caused a panie among the congregation and twenty-five persons were trampled to death. While the pólice were searching the house of a suspected smuggler in the district of Toujisky, Poland, they discovered the decomposed bodies of nineteen persons. Prof. HeinrichDe Alma, the famous yiolinist, died in Berlin at the age of 57 years. The discovery was made of a baby farm at Macdonald, New South Wales, and the bodies of seven infants had been unearthed. The total number of Chinese who entered Canada and paid the jioll tax of S50 each during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, was 3,276, as against 2,114 during the previous year. Thousaxds of poor persons in Zacatecas, Mexico, were said to be on the verge of starvation, and many had fled to the mountains, where they were liying on the prickly pear, maguey piant and mesquite bean. Oyster boats which arrived at Montreal from the North Shore flsheries stated that the catch had turned out almost a failure. Adviues say that another revolution has broken out in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The government troops charged on the revoluUonists and killed a number of them. A mob at Granada, Spain, burned several buildings because the queen vefxised to unveil the Columbus and Isabella monument. Osman Digna, who has been reported dead dozens of times, has appeared in Soudan. With a number of his followers he has occupied Sinkat, and has raided close to Suakim. The British bark Norcross, which left Philadelphia on October 2 for Rouen with a load of petroleum, was burned in the Seine with a loss of ten lives. Vienna is now declared to be free from cholera and the prohibition of public meetings has therefore been rescinded. LATER. The jury at Pittsburgh, Pa., ia the Iams case rendered a verdict acquitting Cols. Hawkins and Streator and Surgeon Grimm of the charge of assault upon ex-Private Iams. The Continental bank at Kansas City, Mo., closed Hs doors. It was said depositors would be paid in full. A TBAix on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway was wrecked by a cow at Mazie, I. T., andtwomen were killed and seventeen cars destroyed. John Hastings (colorea) was taken from jail at Jonesville, La., by a mob and hanged. lie was charged with mnrder. Fike that started in Robinson & Co. 's boiler shops in Boston caused a loss of 5150,000. The steam whaler Beluga which arrived in San Francisco from the Arctic brought news of the destruction of the whaling bark Helen Mar and the loss of thirty-five of the crew. Nbab Bad Axe, Mich. , Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop, both over 70 years of age, committed suicide by taking poison. Family troubles were the cause. A fike in Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed twenty-lwo buildings, caused a loss of 8500,000, and made fifty families homeless. Mr. and Mes. Fred Taake, Swedish settlers on a claim near Okarche, I. T., were found murdered. The Stewart hotel at San Francisco was destroyed by fire, the loss being 195,000; insurance, 885,000. Au attempt to wreek an express train on the Lehigh Valley road with a bomb was discovered near Corfu, N. Y. Over 50,000 cotton spinners in the vicinity of London struck for an increase of wages. Sixteen members of the Salvation Army were arrested in Pittsburgh, Pa., for violating an order forbidding the holding of street meetings. Lord Melrose, the largest St. Bernard dog in the tvorld, died at Melrose, Mass., of gastnc colic. He was valued at 510,000. A farmer named Jay Johnson, living near Woodstock, 111., accidentally shot and killed the 12-year-old daughter of John Ilackert. Thk wife and child of a farmer living near Deer Fork, O. T. , were devoured by a panther. Foub men were found in camp at Point Barry, Wash., with their heads cut off and all their clothing stripped from their bodies. The crimes were supposed to have been committed by Indians.