The News Condensed

The second nossion of the Fifty-second oongress convened at Washington on the óth. Vice President Morton called the senate to order.and Chaplin Butler opened proceedings with prayer. The usual committeea were appointed to inform the house and the president that the enate was ready for business, after which an adjournment vras taken ior the day Speaker Crisp called the house together and the blind chaplain, Rev. Dr. Milburn, delivered a prayer. The credentials of new Tnembers to flll vacancies were presented. Billa were introducod to open the world's fair on Sundays! to change the time of the meeting of congres to the ürst Monday in Maren after eleotion; to repcal the federal election law, and to provide for the issue of $75,000,000 in bonds redeemable in coin at the option of the United States after ten years, to be applied to the p;vyment of the denciency in the United States treasury. Aftkh the president's message had been read in the United States senate on the 6th bilis were introdticed to repe;il all statutes relating to supervisors of eleetion and special deputies and for the suspension of immisrration for one year In the house the presiden t's message was read and a bilí was jntroduced for the better protección of commerce and to establish a national quarantine. Mr. Outhwaite (O.) announced the death of Kepresentative John G. Warwiclt, and in respect to the memory of the deceascd the house adiourned. Senator Hii.l (N. Y.) introduced a bilí in the senate on the 7th to repeal the Sherman silver purchase act of July lí, 18U0. Senator Cullom (111.) presented a petition to limit the free entry of wearing apparel the output of foreign manufactories In the house a bilí was introduced to provide for the perpetuation of the national banking system and the restoration of state bank notes on a safe basis, also a bilí for the establishment oí a uniíorm revenue customs duty upon sugar and the abolighment of the paymentof sugar bountles. The senate on the 8th ratifled the treaty with Chili A memorial was presented from the Chicago Women's club for the repeal of the provisión of law requiring the world's fair to be closedon Sundays. Adjourned to the 12th....In the house the annual report of the secretary of the treasury was presented snd referred to tha committee on ways and means. The senate wasnot insession on theOth. ... In the house the public printing hlll was passed and a bilí was introduced to reduce postare on ürst class mail matter, except postal cards, to one cent per half ounce. The secretary of the treasury sent word that the defleiencies of the government for the current fiscal year were estimated at $14,630,520, of which L10,500,00013 on account of pensions. Adjourned to the 12tü. DOMESTIC. A FLOOD carried away part of the dam of the Honey Lake Valley Land & Water Compauy in Lassen county. Cal., causinjj a loss of $50,000. The annual report of Superintendent White, of the railway mail service, shows that for the year ended June 30 last the service handled the enormous total of 9,585,862,589 pieces of mail matter. NeLS Olandeb, a hardware dealer at Hallock, Minn., was robbed in his store of L2,3K0 in cash. A IOKXADO near Atlanta, Tex., swept houses and outbuildings and left death and destruction in its path. The home of Samuel McAdams was destroyed and he and three children fatally hurt. John Lasher, a farmer, was struck and killed by lightning while standing in his barn door near Danville, 111. The annual report of the civil service cominission shows that from July 1, 1891, to June 30, 1892, the whole number of applicants examined for the five branches of the classified service was 19,460, of whom 12,160 passed and 7,300 failed to pass. The whole number appointed in the year was 3,901, a decrease of 1,434 over the previous year. A Burlington freight train broke in two near Corona, Col., and the two parts collided, wrecking the greater portion of the train and killing four carpen ters. A fire in Eaymond, N. H., destroyed twenty-five buildings. Loss, SllO.OOO. The entire business portion of Alexandria, Ind., was destroyed by fire. The wholesale mercantile firm of Wilczinski & Nelson at Greenville, Miss., failed, carrying down with it three other firms, the total liabilities being 8400,000. The handsome building in Philadelphia of the Public Ledger, owned by George W. Childs, was partially gutted by fire entailing a loss of about $225,000. The annual report of Secretary Foster, of the treasury department, shows that the government revenues from all sources during the past fiscal year were $425, 68, 260, and the total eipenditures $415,953,806, leaving a surplus of L9,914,453. Por the present fiscal year the revenues are estimated at 463,336,350 and the expenditures at $461,836,850, leaving an estimated surplus for the year of $2,000,000. The available cash balance in the treasury at the end of the present fiscal year was 55120,992, 377. At the annual congress in Baltimore of the Natioual Prison association of the United States ex-President Hayes, of Ohio, was elected president. POSTMASTEK GENERAL WaNAMAKER has issued an order to go into effect January 1, 1893, reducing the fee for each piece of resristered mail matter from ten cents to eight cents. Poort health caused Lehman Ullman, the leading dry goods merchant at TitusviDe, Pa., to take his own life. The will of the late Jay Gould disposes of property valued at $100,000,,)U0, all of which goes to his six children except 5525,000 to each of his two sisters and one brother. Chakles Rogers Moultois', aged 32 years, shot and instantly killed Mrs. Mary S. Storey at Seattle, Wash., because slie refused his attentions and then killed himself. A mob at Jellico, Tenn., lynched an unknown man for criminally assaulting and then murdering Miss Mildred Bryant, a handsome and most estimable young lady. John White (colored) was hanged at Meridian, Miss., for the murder of James Logan, an officer, who was trying to arrest him. Before his death White confessed this crime and three ether murders. He gave his correct name as Frank Pate Townes. Judge Grksham, of Chicago, in a lonjí opinión refused to grant a petition to compel interstate commerce witnessess to testify and produce books, holding that the court could not be made subsidiary to and a subordínate auxiliary to a non-judicial and administrative body. Meredith Stanley jumped in succession from the five bridjfes across t!ie. Ohio at Cincinnati. The hoight ranged írom 100 to l'2O feet. Time, one hour and twenty minutes. Db. Charles R. Keyks, assistant state geologist, has discovered rich ,Jckel ores near Keokuk. Ia. This is the first diécovery of the kind ever announeed írom Iowa. A building at Burlington, Ind., occupied by John A. Graham for saloon purposes, was blown up by dynamite and completely destroyed. The g-reat Mercer county (O.) pas field has given out. A total population of 300,000 was dependent upon the field and more than 1,000 industries would be compolled to close on this account. A tebrific blizzard prevailed in Kansas, stopping all railway traiïic and freezing to death hundreds of cattle. During the season just closedninetyfive lives were lost in navigating the great lakes. The death list is much longer tlian for many years in the lake marine. In property the losses of the season aggregate $2,050,000. Attokxey General JIilleb in his annual report to congress says that the fiscal year 189:2 the expenses of his department aggregated S3,748,39.08, and 2,009 civil suits and 18,724 criminal prosecutions were terminated. The attorney general says that the increase in the number of southern war j claims (now aggregating 8400,000,000) is a subject that demands the immediate attention of congress. The number of convicts pardoned by the president during the year was 71 out of 505 applications. Sentenees were commuted in 82 cases. James Hargus, of Nevada, Mo., fatally shot Miss Pearl Manu because she refused to niarry him and then killed himself. Jacob B. Crowell, of Greeneastle, Pa., was buncoed out of 85,000 in the usual way by aman who "wanted to buy a farm." After a long fight the home for disabled and indigent confedérate veterans has been accepted by the Georgia legis1 ature. John S. McDonald, assessor of the city of Boston, was burned to death by the upsetting of a lamp. POSTMASTKR GENEBAL WaNAMAKEB sent an order to New York for 3,000,000.000 Co'umbian postage stamps, to be delivered in 1S93. In a railway collision on the Central road in Jersey City, N. J., a young woman was fatally injured and ten other persons were badly bruised. The city armory at Cleveland, O., was completely g-utted by fire, the loss being $100.000. The Jefferson woolen milis at Jeffersonville, Mass., were burned, the loss being 5100,000. The relief committee at Homestead, Pa., is caring for seventy-five families which are destitute as a result of the strike. James Needles and Frank Lewis fought during a revival in a church in Monroe township, O., and both were fatally injured. Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, a colored preacher, was assassimited by a band of negroes at a church 12 miles west of Newport, Ark. A poll of both branches of congress on the subject of restriction of immigration shows that sixty-three senators and 156 representatives favor restriction, whilesixteen senators were noncommittal. The Rock Island rail way telegraphers went on a strike, and it was thought they would be joined in their struggle by the conductora and switchmen. In the United States the leading clearing houses reported exchanges of $1,450,562,872 duriug the seven days ended on the 9th, against $1,382,960,380 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1891 the increase was 18.3. E. R. Paullson, aged 55, a wealthy Detroit (Mich. ) man, killed himself with a revolver at a hotel in Boston. During the seven days ended on the 9th the business failures in the United States numbered 297, against 209 the preceding week and 310 for the corresponding time last year. William Ramsey. a pioneer farmer of Sunman, Ind., 80 years old, was mangled to death by a hog. Gov. Floweiï has pardoned Polly Frisch, who, iu 1859, was indicted in Genesee county, N. Y., for herhusband and two children by poisoning them and senteneed to life imprisonment. Dennis McCabthy and Stephen [lite (white) and Grant Thomas and Nelson Lewis (colored) were hang-ed from the same scaffold in the jailyard at Louisville, Ky., for raurder. Tiiis was the first quadruple hanging in the state. Frank Kerxf.ií, under a twelve-years' sentence for wife murder, committed suicide in the Iierks county (Pa.) jail by hanging himself. Martin Bürke, one of the three men convicted of the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago in 1S89 and sentenced to life imprisonment, died in the prison at Jolietof eonsumption. Only one of the three (Dan Caughlin) is notv alive, O'Sullivan having died last winter. A prominent eattleraan from northwestern New Mexico says that for more than two years no ram has fallen there and that over 75,000 head of cattle have died from starvation and lack of water. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Frederick Bradley, one of the best known marine underwriters in the country, died at his home in Brookline, Mass. The complete official returns of the late election show North Dakota to have been the closest state in the union. Two republicans and one fusión elector are chosen. Dahl (rep.) for secretary of state has 723 majority. On the remainder of the ticket the iusiouists have from 1,000 to 2,000 majority. The official count of the votes cast in Kansas at the recent election shows Weaver to have received 163,111; Harrison, 157,237; Weaver's majority, 5,874. No votes were cast for Cleveland. Max John D. Adams, state commissioner of agriculture, and Arkansas' representativo on the world's fair board of commissioners, died at his home in Little Rock, aged 65 years. Prof. John Stbong Newbury, one of the most eminent geologists in the United States, died in New Haven, Conn., aged 70 years. The official vote of Massachusetts was: Harrison, 202,314; Cleveland, 176,813, a republican plurality of 26,001. Russell's plurality for governor over Haile is 2,534. The article of amendment to the constitution abolishing property qualification for the office of gorernor was adopted by 141,321 yeas to 68.04S nays. Mes. Makt McKinley died in Chicago, aged 100 years and 2 months. The official vote of California at the recent election was: Cleveland, 117,908; Harrison, 117,75(5; Weaver, 25,226; Bidwell, 7,187. One republican elector was chosen. The vote of Montana on presidential electors at the recent election was: Harrison, 18,883; Cleveland, 17,534; Weaver, 7,259; Bidwell, 517. Dixon (dein.) was defeated for congress by Hartman (rep.) by 220 votes. Col. .John Ryax, who fought with Sara Houston for Texas independpnce, died a pauper in the hospital at Kansas City. The recount of the 26,000 ballots cast for congressman in Kent county, Mich., gives Belknap (rep.) a plurality of two in the district. The official returns on the recount of the vote of Nelson county, N. D., give a sufficier.t majority to elect all the Weaver presidential electors. FOREIGN. The lunatic wing of the poorhonse at Lampis, Finland, was burned and seven of the inmates were cremated. A 8EVEKE faraine was prevailing in Khiangmai, Burmah, and the American missionaries were feeding the starving people. Five miners lost their lives by a fire in the sulphur mines at Lucia, Sicily, and ten otliers were fatally injured. Db. Wehneb Siemens, the eminent electrician, died in Berlin, aged 75 years. A numbeb of anarchists at Jerez, Spain, were sentenced to terms ranging from twelve years to life imprisonment and solitary confinement. A passenger train collided with a freight train near Niederwise, Germany, and four lives were lost. During a gale in the province of Catanza three vessels in the harbor of Santa Veners, Italy, were wrecked and ten persons were drowned. A band of Chilasi tribesmen attaeked a Cashmere guard near Chitral, India, and fif ty of the former were killed. Influenza has again broken out in Berlin. The fearful cold in north Germany was causing intense suffering. Four farm laborers were frozen to death at Havel. Countess Vrs Tokte and her maid were murdered in the countess' vüla at Valeria, Italy, by a Germán named Schumann. Robbery was the motive. Over 30,000 cotton operators in Lancashire, England, were said to be in a starving condition. In the province of Sassari, Sardinia, the gendarmes surprised and surrounded a band of brigands and killed five of them. Floating ice in the Mug-glesse, near Berlin, Germany, crushed in three canal boats and üve lives were lost. LATER. It was said that a conspirauy uo poison non-union workmen at Ilomestead. Pa., had come to light, and that Beveral prominent labor leaders were implicated. At least two deaths and perhaps a number of others had been traced to the work of Robert Beatty, the tooi selected to carry the murdero;is plan into execution. Three squares of business housea and residences were burned at Plaquemine, La., causing a loss of 8150,000. Georgk Habbington, formerly assistant secretary of the treasury and minister to Switzerland under President Lincoln, died at sea while on his way from Xew York to Hamburg. The Denver & Rio Grande railway roundhouse with its contents were burned at Salida, Col., the loss being L400,000. In a collision between two freight trains near South Ford, Conn., Engineer Thompson and Engineer Beebe were killed and the trains were badly wrecked. Thr principal business portion of Sumter, S. CL, was destroyed by fire. CoBNELirs Coffke, who shot Officers Dillon and Barton at Bluefield, W. Va., was captured by a mob at Pocahontas, Va., and hanged to a tree. The Minersmith hotel at Milford, Conn., was burned with its contents. It was over 200 years old and was used as headquarters by Washington. Miss Ëlizabeth Applemah, of Middletown, celebrated the lOlst auniversary of her birth. She is the oldest white woman in Maryland. A fiiíe broke out in a d welling house at Fredeiiksburg, a suburb of Copenhagen. and seven of its inmates were killed. Josephisfe Mallison, the murderer of John Hobbs in Philadelphia, has been senteneed to twelve years in the penitentiary. O. C. Wing, a young farmer near Quiucy, 111., ended his life because he thought he was too wieked to live. Is his anntial report Seeretary of the Kavy Tracy says the new navy consists of iorty-two fir:it-class vessels, and also says that the progress by which the United States has emerged from its eondition of helplessness at sea and by the employment of its own resources has distanced its most experienced competitors and mai'ks an epoch in naval development not only of this country but of the world. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, are 824,571,498, being S2, 713, 141 less than those for the last fiscal year.