The News Condensed

The United States supreme courthas taken away one of the last resources of convicts in the District of Columbia, ny.mely, an appeal to it, these appeals as a rule being taken chiefly to delay the execution of a sentence. Thecourt holds thatunder the statutes it has no jurisdietion over criminal appeals from the local court. Thk sixth annual convention of the Association of American Agriculturai Colleges and Experimental station be(,'an in New Orleans. The one hundred and twenty-fourth annual dinner of the Sew York chamber of coramerce was held at Delmonico's in that city. Henby L. Owens, after servingeighteen months in the Wisconsin state prison for obtainiug money under false pretenses, was found to be innocent. Jack Chinn, the starter at the East St. Louis (111.) race track and one of the best-known turfinen in the west, was shot and dang-eroussly wounded at the track by Pólice Oflicer Anthony. A. Sandstbom & Co., Chicago foundrymen, failed for $800,000. The chief of the bureau of statistics reporta that the total value of the export of domestic beef and hog products from the United States October was $9,714,01(5; dairy products, 8829,016. The St Paul plow works at Gladstone, Minn., were burned, the loss being $300,000. Abram Blain, a negro barber, died at Johnstown, Pa. He was 98 years old and was the first colored man who ever served as juror in the United States court. James Still, a colored inmate of the reform school at New Brunswick, N. J., oompleted the sixty-eighth day of a long fast The National Farmers' Alliance met in animal session at Memphis, Tenn. President Harrisox has appointed William Potter, of Pennsylvania, to be minister to Italy. The cereal returns of November to the department of agriculture place the corn yield in the country at 600,000,000 bushels and the wheat erop at 500,000,000 bushels. Wii.liam Burjiett (colored) was taken from jail at Oxford, N. C., by a mob and lynched. He was charged with murder. Mrs. E. A. Kinney, a widow living alone at Saranac, Mich., was terribly beaten by thieves and robbed of 83,000. The old homstead and birthplace of John Ureenleaf Whittier at Haverhill, Mass., has been purchased by a syndicate and will be restored to its former condition and preserved as a memorial. COMMANDER BALLINGTOJT BOOTH, of the Salvation Army, and his staff officersin New York are making arrangements for a continental congress of delegates from all of the Salvation Army posts throughout the country. Fibe destroyed the store of the Koch & Loeber Company in Milwaukee, the loss being $100,000. President Harrison has appointed Silas Alexander, of New Mexico, to be secretary of the territory of New Mexico, vice Benjamin M. Thomas, deceased. Marcus A. Schwert, town collector of Hamburg, N. Y., was missing, and his accounts were short 815,000. The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Army of the Tennessee convened in St. Louis. Mikk Brown and George Hanks, notorious cattle thieves, were killed by regulators in Fremont county, Wyo. Pour other outlaws have been killed in that vicinity within two weeks. The next Q. A. R. national encampment will be held in Indianapolis during the week commencing September 4, 1893. The National League of Baseball clubs in session in Chicago awarded Boston the pennant for 1892. The Alab'ama legislature conven ed at Montgomery. Mrs. Elizabeth Berrt and Garrett Storms were placed in jail at Hackensack, N. J., to serve four days each for husking corn on Sunday. A successful experiment of a cotton harvester was made on a plantation near Dallas, Tex., and the work was done eleaner than by pieking. The Robinson & Stokes Company, dealers in notions at Omaha, Neb., failed with assets of $200, 000 and liabilities of 8100,000. The Georgia supreme court has decided that telegraph companies need not deliver messages on Sunday, as by the code it is unlawful for any person to pursue his business or the work of his ordinary calling upon the Lord's daj. Guiseppe Petana, an Italian in Boston insane over the death of his wife, killed his two children and then cut his own throat. At the annual meeting1 in St Louis of the Knights of Labor the treasurer reported that total receipts during the y ear were $60,614.14 and the total expenditures $59,748.82, a balance on hand July 1, lS9;a, of S865.37. The total membership was given at over 260,000. Near Hiawatha, Kan., two of Farmer Beetles' children found a match and touched off a stack of straw. Their clothing caug-ht fire amd they were burned to death. In Modesto, Cal., fire destroyed the gram warehouses of flaslacher & Kalm. Loss, 5110,000. The villag-e of Red Bud, in Randolph county, 111., was almost completely rubbed off the map by a cyclone. Over cighty buildings were blown down, a boy, Willie Kopp, was killed outright aDd scores of others were injured, many of them perhaps fatallv. The rtamage will exceed 8150,000. Vandals painted the tombstones of all the veterans in the Wilbur cemetery at Martinsville, Ind., with red paint. Frank Garvix was convicted at Pittsbnrgh, Pa., of vohmtary manslaughter for killing his wife, f orinerly Cora Redpath, of Chicago, the third day after their marriage. The monument the Army of the Tennessee was to have erected to the late Gen. W. ï. Sherman is in the hands of granite cutters in Conneeticut, who refuse to give it up. Father Thomas E. Sherman, son of the eral, advises the oíd soldiers that they should take it by forcé. A BBOKBN wheel caused a wreek on the Atlantic & Pacific road near Hackberry, A. T., and one man was killed and thirteen badly wounded, a few of of whom will die. At the Non-Partisan W. C. T. U. eonvention in Cleveland, O., Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney was reelected president for the fourth time. At the animal session in St. Louis of the Array of the Tennessee Gen. T. M. Dodjfe, of Iowa, was elected president. A storm blew down a large tree upon the house of Harman Otteng at New Palestine, 111., and crushed it, killing his wife and two children. A VILI.AGE in Durham, Ark., was totally destroyed by a cyclone, every house in the town except the schoolhouse being demolished. T. J. Wendell and Henry Buch, expressmen, drove over a high cliff near VVheeling-, W. Va., and both horses were kille'd ad the men fatally injured. In a collision of f reig-hfr trains on the Wabash road at Monticello, 111., thirtyone head of cattle were killed and many cars were destroyed. Two kkgs of grinpowder that were being used in connection with a democratie jolifleation meeting at Mountain View, Ark., exploded, destroying considerable property and külingfive men and more or lessseverely injurinerfourteen others. Lieut. Peary intends making another efEort to reach the north pole. The National Academy of Science of Philadelphia is behind the present project. A fire in the National brewery at Baltimore caused a loss of S300,000. In the United States the leading clearing1 houses reported exchanges of $1,398,798,448 during the seven da.ys ended on the 18th, ag-ainst $1,176,159,138 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1891 the inerease was 10.6. The total yield of corn throug-hout Kansas last season was 138,658,621 bushels, or 24.74 bushels tothe acre. A case of wholesale poisoning by eating canned meats occurred at Columbus, O. About twenty persons were affected in five different households. By representing themselves as members of the Homestead (Pa.) relief committee a gang of swindlers have been reaping a rich harvest among Chicago workmen. The Weekly Review of Trade says: "No important change appears in the condition of business, the distribution of products continúes enormous, production by manufacturers is greater on the whole than in any previous year, and while some hesitation is seen about entering into new accounts the general tone of business and industries is remarkably healthy." Dubing the seven days ended on the 18th the business failures in the United States númbered 240, against 210 the preceding week and 291 for the corresponding time last year. The strike at Homestead, Pa., so far as it affects the mechanical and laboring departments, has been declared off and the men were rushing back for work. David Schaff, a fish dealer at Visalia, Cal., shot his wife íatally and then blew his own brains out. Domestic trouble caused the tragedy. The couple leave four small children. A prairie fire on the Missouri river bottom south of Sioux City, la., burned over a tract 8 miles wide and 20 miles long, and over 400 stacks of hay, containing at least 45,000 tons, were destroyed, involving a loss of S70,00J. Besides these, many grain stacks, miles of fencing and numerous bridges were destroyed. Mrs. Cherney, of Kewaunee, Wis., who confessed the poisoningof her husband, was sentenced to eighteen yeara in state prison. Snow feil to the depth of a foot over a large part of Wisconsin, Minnesota, northern iowa and a part of Illinois. The postmaster general has decided to adopt a special design for a flag which Is to fly at the mizzen of every United States vessel having on board the United States mails. E. Mommebï & Co., importersin New York oí ladies' dress goods, failed for $100,000. William Maler, the young baker who murdered his bride of six months, was hanged at Wheeling, VV. Va. The residence of Joseph Thatcher, at South Higginsville, Mo., was destroyed by fire, and his invalid child, 9 years of age, perished in the flames. A Bill was introducedia the Georgia legislature to allow state banks to issue biJls. The Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union in session at Memphis, Tenn., elected H. D. Loucks, of North Dakota, as president. Baseball will not be played in divided championship series by the national league next year. The season will open the last Thursday in April and close the last Saturday in September. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Bishop W. H. Miles, senior bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America, died at his home in Louisville, Ky., aged 65 years. Official returns from every county in Nebraska show that Crounse (rep.) is elected governor by 10,258 and Harrison electors carry the state by 4,823. Dr. Enoch Fithiajï died at Bridgeton, N. J., aged 100 years. John Dawson, the oldest man in Vigo county, celebrated his 103d birthdaj' at his home in Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs. Jessik Morris Eussell died at her home in Bay Ridge, L. I., aged 106 years. She was bom in England ia 1780. Wii.liam Kidwbll, a veteran oí the Mexican and civil wars, died at his home near Noblesville, Ind., aged 96 years. Eiavard McCkeadt, Sr, the oldest living gradúate of Yale college, and the senior member of the South Carolina bar, died in Charleston. The official vote for governor in Indiana at the recent election was: Matthews (dem.), 260,602; Chase (rep.), 253,623; Worth (pro.), 12,463; Templeton (people's), 21,602. Matthews' plurality, 6,979. Official returns to the secretary of state from the recent election in New Hampshire give Sinith (rep.) for governor 43,741; McFinuey (dem.), 41,424; Smith's plurality, 2,817; majority, 643. Bknjamix J. Shields died at his home near Chilton, Tex., at the age of 82. He was a contemporary of Clay and Calhoun, being elected to congress in the early day from Alabama as a democrat. Alfbed C. Chapín has resigned aa congressman from the First district of New York. The total prohibition vote in the country at the recent election is given at 327,350, against 249,945 in 1888. Aftek an illness of several months State Treasurer Donald W. Bain died in Raleigh, S. C, aged 51 years. The official vote of Alabama for governor at the recent election was: Jones (dem.), 126,959; Kolb (people's), 115,524. The official election returns frora Ohio show that the republicans elected twenty-one of the twenty-two presidential electors. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ward, the oldest couple in Vermont (97 and 95 years), celebrated their diamond wedding at New Haven. Vt. Ex-CONGRESSMAJÏ MlLTON SAYLOB, of Ohio, was found dead in his bed in his room in a boarding house in New York. Death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. FOREIGN. Cholera, was aguara increasing in virulence at St. Petersburg. During the celebration over a wedding at Salamanca, Eng-land, the walls of a restaurant feil and nine persons were killed and thirty others more or less seriously injured. In a ñ'ght between convicts and troops at Tarragana, Spain, nine of the forrner were killed. With a view to meeting the deficit in the budget the Russian government will raise the excise duties on brandy, tobáceo, beer, phosphorus, matches and petroleum. A Russian named Saoiu, whose candidature for the throne of Bulgaria was announced last year, has escaped f rom Siberia, whither he was sentenced for life. The collier Pretoria, bound from Glasgow to Bordeaux, was burned when near Brest, and the captain and five men lost their lires. A i.aborer named Ruggergrim was courting two girls at Baireuth. Finding that they had both discovered his treachery he strangled one, stabbed the other to death and then committed suicide. Charles J. Mitchell, a messenger boy at the Charlottetown (P. E. I) post office, was arrestcd for the theft of fully 1,000 letters containing large amounts of money. Gabriel Marchaund was executed on the guillotine at Epinal, France, for the murder of his great unele and great aunt. It is said that after his head was severed from the body his heart continued to beat for fourteen minutes. Near Bantzen, Saxony, three powder house exploded, killing seven men. LATER. Herman Siegler, a cabinet maker living in Chicago, shot and killed his father and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Siles, seriously wounded his wife, and filled a policeraan's nose full of buckshot, he in return getting a bullet in his abdomen from another officers revolver. Siegler was insane. A terrific windstorm swept over St Slary's, O., and wroucht great damage to property. (tbobgk Baglky, a messenger for the United States Express Company, stole $100,000 and hid it near Davenport, Ia. Be was arrested in Chicago and went witli officials and gave up the money. The plant of the Desha Lumber & Planing Company at Arkansas City, Ark., was burned, the loss being L500,000. Thk steamer Rosa Lee was burned to the water's edge at Memphis, Tenn., and four passengers lost their lives. The ■ boat and cargo were valued at 8100,000. 13. F. Rynd, a lumber merchant of Allegheny City, Pa., failed for 125,000. Fon no cause known J. M. Vansickler shot and killed his wife at Sil ver Leaf, Minn. , fatally wounded F. C. Brown and then took his own life. Two freiöht trains collided on the Belt railroad in Chicago and John Beauchamp, conductor, Louis Obita, fireman, and E. A. Otto, brakemau, were killed. Thirty sheds containing 220,000 barrels of salt belonging to the Michigan Salt Company were almost totally destroyed by fire in Cummings, 111., the loss being 240,000. A 8AND bank at Taylorsville, O., caved in and Richard Peach, Calvin Waxler and Louis Green were fatally injured. A cyclone struck Harrison, Ark., killing five residents and wounding several others. Many houses were blown down and many cattle were killed. Ekïurxs from the recent election indícate that the democrats have elected 222 members of the next congress, the republicaus 125 and the populists seven, giving the democrats a majority of ninety. Thk great strike at Carnegie's Homestead (Pa.) steel works has been declared off aftera five months's struggle. Tns most valuable half-dollar ever made in this couotry, and probably the most valuable coin in existence, the first of the new world's fair souvenirs, was turned out at the United States mint in Philadelphia. It had been sold for $10,000.