The News Condensed

Ou the 13th bilis vtere lntroduced in the senate for the suspension of immigration undei certaln circumstances: to facilítate promotion inthenaTy; to provide for a natlonal encampment of the militia at the World'8 Columbian exposition, and to amend the interstate commerce law In the house a resoluiion was adopted to ascertain the present condition ol the treasury and future probable revenues under existing laws. The senate bill enlarging the provisions of the act for the dtstribution of the La Abra awards made under the conven tion between the United States and Mexico was passcd The McGarrahan claim was discussed in the senate on the Mth, the anli-option bill was considered and the resolution calllng for Information on the subject of tbe civil service was taken up and afreed to . . In the house the army appropriation bill (Í24.2O2.740) was passed and the publication of 10,000 copies of the prestdent's annual message was ordered. The claim of the Lee family of Virginia for f217,ï86 for supplies of wood and timber taken for the use of the quartermaster's department during the late war was fávorably reponed. In the senate on the 15th the antl-optlon bill was further discussed and a favorable report was made on the bill to prohiblt forelgn vessels from transporting merchandise from one United States port to another United States port via any foreign port Adjourned to the 19th In the house bilis were introduced to repeal the act of June 17, 1890, granting pensions to soldiers and sailors and to widows, minor children and dependent parents of soldiers and sailors, and to provide for the electlon cf the president and vice president by the direct votes of the people. A resolution for a holiday recess from Thursday before Christmas until Wednesday af ter New Year's was agreed to. DOMESTIC. Miss Susan B. Anthony, of Rochester, N. Y., the well-known woman suffrajre advocate, has been appointed manager of the state industrial school by Gov. Flower. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 12th was: Wheat, 75,571,000 bushels; corn, 10,711,000 bushels; oats, 7,027,000 bushels; rye, 1,350,000 bushels; barley, 2,238.000 bushels. By a decisión of the United States supreme court the Southern Pacific railway has lost its title to millions of dollars' worth of California lands. A nkgbo woman in Edgefield county, S. C, was accused of murdering her 2year-old babe and then serving it cooked to her friends at a party as roast pifj. Two old woraen, Purrie and Merrill by name, who had been telling fortunes for a week, were arrested at Wilmington, Del., charged with witchciaft. Jay Gould's will, containing 6,000 words and disposing of $72,000,000 worth of property, was filed for probate in the surrogate's court in New York. The coal operators of the Hocking Yalley, in session at Cincinnati, decided to form a trust company for the commercial handling of the output of all their mines. The Cincinnati presbytery found Prof. Henry P. Smith, of Lañe Theoloffical seminary, gnilty of teaching heresy, and suspended him from the ministry. The Black Hills national bank at Eapid City, S. D. , closed its doors. A cyclonk passed 2 miles above Summit, Miss., killing four persons, badly injuring several others and destroying a large amount of property. The cyclone cut a path 800 yards wide. By th explosión of a boiler in Swif t's rolling mili at Newport, Ky., two men were killed and two mortally wounded. The barn of Snyder Bros., cattle and horse dealers, near Georgetown, Tex., was burned, together with twelve thorou(fhbred horses. Georoe Koogler, a wealthy farmer, white, and Lou Keyes, a light-colored negro woman, were found murdered at the woman's house in Yellow Springs.O. BUHN8 Wingfibxd, a wealthy farmer near Springfield, O., dropped dead atter as pall bearer at a friend's funeral and returning home and telling his family he would die before night. Mbs. Ka.tk Painter, of Greensburg, Pa., was imprisoned on a charsre of poisoning two husbands to secure the ir life insurance. Edward J. Hood, master of tho Columbus (0.) Switchmen's unión, has disappeared, taking with him sereral hundred dollars belonging to the union. Mrs. Jacob Mayweil, living near NeTada, Mo., by mistake gave her 8-year-old son strychnine instead of cream of tartar, causing his death. Four Italian miners workin" in a mine near Jacksonboro, S. C, were shot and killed by a padrone named Andreas. Robert Means, of Kenton, O., and Charles Ranck, of New York state, two students at Kenyon colleg-e at Gambier, O., were drowned by tlie upsetting of a boat. John J. Cbohin, who saw William McColman fall from the roof of a building at Portland, Me., became a raving maniac and died in a few hours. Six large warehouses and 16,000 bales of cotton were destroyed by fire at Baltimore, the total loss being over $700,000. Thbee of the Brovrn family at White Oak, O., who partook of a oake with which vat poison had been mixed, have since died and three others were in a critical condition. It was said that skilled counterfeiters were preparing to flood the country with spurious world's fair souvenir coins. Secretary Charles Foster, of the treasury department, says there will be an arailable balance of 820,000,000 in the treasury at the close of the fiscal ye ar. Thomas Coi.lins and B. Forgey were arrested at Huntington, W. Va., forthe attempted robbery of the Ohio & Chesapeake train near that place, and lms made a confession. Arthur Wuili,meau, the Frechman who started to fast fifty days in Cleveland for the benefit of science, has Btopped because there is no money in the job. A. B. Clark, a wholesale groo.er in Cincinnati, failed for 8100,000. Mrs. David G. IIbdrich, wife of a coal merchant at Reading, Pa., was taken with such a violent coughinff spell that she ruptured the inain artery in her lung-s and bied to death in ten minutes. A fiiíis that started in Hornet erg' bakery at F ui ton, lio., caused a Iobi oí SI 00,000. Theodork D. Fisk was arrestad at Buffalo, N. Y., on the charge of havinga dozen wives in and about Chicago and the eastern states. The povernment building1 on the world's fair crounds in Chicago is now ready for the installation of exhibits. Skcretary of War Elkins announces tliat the nevr fort which is beinjf built at Helena, Mont, will be known as Fort Harrison in compliment to the president of the United States. Evkby dry (joods store, the banks, railway offices, many saloons aud other places of business in Omaha closed for three hours on the 14th that all employed might attend revival services beinp held by Rev. ü. Fay Mills. The National Fire Insurance Company, established in 1838, one of the olde&t insurance corporations in New York, has decided to close up its business. Emanuel Brunswick, a wealthy billiard table manufacturer oí San Francisco, was killed in Chicago while trying to board a State street cable train. The negro who outraged Emma O'Bryan, an 8-year-old white girl, near Nashville, Tenn., was hanged by a mob and his body cremated. Michaei. Adamski, aged 104 years. was badly injured by the cars near his home in Chicago. Roderick Cbisp, an aged man livinjj near Mounds, II)., died in his chair while at home and the same day his ajred wife feil down and expired. The factory of the Huggins Cracker Company at Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by tire, the loss being 8175,000. In a fire in a boarding house at Union Park, a suburb of St. Paul, Mrs. Jennie Eames and her son and daug-hter, aed respectively 7and5years, vvere burned to death. The 2-year-old horse Reese feil in his stall at Columbus, Ga., and received such injuries that he had to be shot. He was owned by J. J. MeCafferty, who had refused $25,000 for him. Charles A. Benton, a United States prisoner under sentence of death at Leavenworth, Kan., for the murder of Mrs. Teresa Mettman in 1889, committed suicide in his cel]. The office of the Times at Wabash, Ind , was gutted by fire. Is a frenzy of insanity Mrs. Henry Baxter, of Rogers City, Mich., destroyed the sijfht of her year-old babe by thrusting a knife into each eye. The business portion of the town of Beacon, 11)., was wiped out by fire. Chris Milleb, a wife-beater living near Cantón, O., was tossed for an hour in blankets by white caps and then probably fatally clubbed. A FiBB in St. Paul, Minn., eaused 8100,000 loss to occupants of the John Manu block. Thh National bank of Newton, Kan., closed its doors. The leading houses in the United States reported exchanges of 81,355,183,210 during the seven days ended on the 16th, against $1,450,562, 872 the previous seven days. As compared with the corresponding week of 1891 the increaso was 8.7. John Bubss, the murderer of Maurice Higgins, wasexecuted at Missoula, Mont. Dubikg the seven days ended on the löth the business failures in the United States numbered 304, against 297 the preceding week and 835 for the corresponding time last year. Joseph Jknkins (colored) was hanged at Mount Pleasant, S. C, for the murder of John Morgan. Mus. Wiixiam Jackson, aged 60, Hting- near Springfleld, O., pulled a needie out of her left shoulder, whlch has been sore for years. Mrs. Jackson wallowed the needie when 17 years old. Nelson F. E vans, aged 70, who was largely instrumental in wrecking the Garden national bank at Philadelphia, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. A mail pouch made up at Fairbury, 111., for Chicago, and containing1 over $10,000 in drafts, besides many registered letters, is missing. Charles Hai.timies, a stockman at Sherbrook, N. D., has failed for $100,000. Ah Yung, a Chinaman condemned for the murder of Ferdinand Inijado, committed suicide in his cell at Los Angeles, Cal., by hanging himself with his queue. Dick Edwakds, alias "Texas Jack," was arrested at West Superior, Wis., and wïU be sent to Texas, where he is wanted for inurdering four women at Denison. J. W. Hoy, aged 50 years, a leading physician at Bloomville, O., dropped dead while walking frorn bis office to nis residence. At Alpena. Mich. , August Grossman was found guilty of murder in the first degree in caused the death of Albert Molier, a Eogers City lumber man, Beventeen years ago. There are twelve others charged with the same crime and their trials will follow shortly. John Beal, while exeavating at Richmond, Ind., penetrated a grave of human skulls and bones. The skulls are of gigantie size, and by measurement are thought to have belonged to persons 8 feet tall. The Eeading company entertain fears for the safety of their Beechwood eolliery at Mount Laftee, Pa. A mine fire which has been burning in the old Wadesville shaft near there for thirtyfour years is its way toward this eolliery. A concerted movement has been started by the Chinese of the United States to resist the Chinese exclusión act They demand the repeal of the lavv and say if the movement fails the Chinese government will abrógate all treaty rig-hts and wiil withdraw protection to the 1,500 merchants and the Eeveral hundred missionaries now in China. Cyrus Mitchell and another iprisoner were sraothered to death in the jail at Batavia, 111., by eseaping steam trom a coil of steam pipes which had borst. PERSONAL AND POLIT1CAL. Nokth Dakota will this year present an anomaly in the electoral college. HarrisoD, Cleveland and Weaver will eaeh receive one vote. Rev. Charles Atkinsox, for thlrty I years a Methodist minister in IHnois, and chaplain of the Seventh Ilinoia cavalry durinfj the war, died in Chicago, aged 76 years. The New York state canvassen announce the total vote cast at tie recent election for the several preádential electoral tickets was as folows: Cleveland, 659,908; Harrison, 601,459; Bidwell, pro., 38,193; Weaver, people's, 10,430; Wing, capitalist labor, 17,958; blank, seattering-, etc, 29,652. The official count in Idaho coinpled by the secretary of state gives Weaver 10,430; Harrison, 8,701); plurality of McConnell (rep.) for ijovernor, 1,409. R. L. Gibbon, United States senator from Louisiana, died at Hot Springs, Ark., after a long illness, agedöO yeara. His remains were taken to Lexingtoa, Ky., for burial. Lhopold Morse, a congresstnan frcm Massachusetts frotn 1876 to 1886, diïd suddenly in Boston of paralysis whüe attending a banquet. He was 58 years oí age. Chaki.es Halmer, one of the beit known musical composers in Americn, and musical director of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, died at his residence in St. Louis, aged 75. Thb official vote of South Carolina íq the recent election for president is as íollows: Cleveland, 54,098; Harrison, 13,384; Weaver, 2,410; Bidwell, none. Miss Sarah Wheeleb, of Philadelphia, celebrated the 102d anniversarj of her birth. ' FOREIGN. A riRE in Tokio, Japan, destroyed nearly 700 houses, and serenteen remen vvere injured while fighting the conflagration. A pohtion of a limestone mine in Nagayamura, Japan, collapsed, killing thirty-six miners. Lipman & Co., jute merchants at Dundee, Scotland, have failed, with liabilities amounting1 to 81,250,000. Thb Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, left Vienna for a tour around the world. As explosión occurred at Baumfurlong colliery in Wigan, Eng-land, and not less than fifty lives were lost Thk woman Bedwarska, in Lodz, Russia, tried for haring murderedmore than 10U babies, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. At Vilna, Russia, a Jewishlnnkeeper in the outskirts of the city, his wife and four young children were murdered by tramps. An aerolite weighing 40,000 pounds feil near Jeminez. Mexico. It plowed a deep furrow in the earth and rock, revealing a rich rein of silver at one point of its descent. The L'Esperance, a Frenen vessel, was wrecked on the island of Guernsey and all of its crew were drowned. The Michig'an Lumber Company's mili on False creek, Vancouver, was destroyed by fire, the loss being S100,000. Mausa Loa., the great voleano of Hawaii, was in eruption and threatened the destruction of sereral villajes and extensive plantations of cocoanuts. In the towns of Orel and Tanzer, in Russia, a cyclone did great damane and many persons were caug-ht under the iallinjr buildings and killed. LATER. Thk United States senate was not ia session on the 17th. ]n the house bilis were intioduced to make the pansy the national flower and to make eertain chang-es in the United States flag. The death of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, was aunounced, and as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the house adjourned. Henby V. Hillabd, ex-minister to Belgium and fifty years agx a member of congress, died in Ang-usta, Ga. Final official statistics of the cholera epidemie in Kussia show that since the outbreak of the disease in the empire, there has been a total of 205,760 deaths. Fbkiberg, Klein & Co., wholesale liquor dealers atUalveston, Tex., failed for $250,000. The official canvass of Michigan's vote for president gives Harrison 222,708; Cleveland, 802,296; Bidwell, 20,259, and Weaver, 19,792. Harrison'a plurality, 20,413. A block of warehouses in Bootle, near Liverpool, was burned, the loss being $500,000. Two merchants named Junakow and Paitschewitsch werè found murdered in a compartment of a first-class car near Rostov, Eussia, and 80,000 rubíes which they had in their possession were missing'. A FIRE in Hrooklyn, N. Y., caused a loss of 8400,000 to W. U. Jurg-ens, wholesale grocer. The Inman steamer City of Paris, novv holding the eastern record, and the Cunarder Etruria etartedfrom New York for a race across the ocean. The Indiana supreme court has decided unconstitutional the apportionment act passed by the ifcgislature two years ago. A fibe in the buildinsr of the Falk Manufaeturing Conipany at Buffalo, N. Y., caused a loss of 8100,000. President Hakrisost has signed the bill ffiving Mary Nortn, aged 100 years, an increased pension. She is the widow of a soldier in the war of 1812. At the annual meeting in Philadelphia of the American Federation of ijaoor öamuel liompers was reeleoted president. A large number of illicit distilleries in Wilkes and Catawba oounties, N. C, were seized by government officials. Sin Richard Owen. oneof the world'a foremost specialists in comparativa anatoray, died in London, aged 88 years. A FBEI6HT train telescoped the caboose of a wi-ecking train on the Great Northern railway at Nelson, Minn., and eight men were killed and five more were badly injured.