The News Condensed

IN the senate the silver suspension ana the quarantine bilis were discussed on the 9th, but no actlon vras taken In the house the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed and the bilí to promote tho eflielency of the militia was eonsidcred. A bill was favorably reported for the establishment of a national quarantine. Senator Vilas concluded hls argument in the senate on the lOth against the antioption bill. The quarantine bill was diseussed. . . . In the house a joint resolution providing that the new oongress shall lake hold the January following the November election at which it was chosen and changing the time of Inauguratlne the president from March 4 to April 30 was rejected by a vote of 121 to 49. Kinatoh Kkn.va's death was announced af ter the readlng of the journal in the senate on the llth and the usual resolutions were presented and adopted, and then, as a f urther mark of respect, the senate adjourned The house also adjourned without doing any business out of respect to the dead senator. In the sf nat do business was transacted on the 12th owing to the funeral services over the remaint of the late Senator Kenna In the house a bill was Introducid lncreasing from one to two dollars per barrel tbe internat revenue taz on fermeuted liquors. A recess was taken to attend the funeral of the late Senator Kenna. IN the senate a bill was Introduced on the 13th to extend to the North Pacitlc ocean the orovisiona of the statuus for the protectlon of fur seáis and other íur-bearing animáis. A resolution was adopted cslllng on the secretary of the treasury for a copy of the opinión of the law ofnoer of the department under whlch he is disbursing the 6,000,000 souvenir colns In ald of the Columblan expositlon, condltloned on Sunday clostng In the house fllihugterlng against the consldaration of the private war claims bill resulted in nothlng belng acoompliahed. DOMESTKX F. W. Thornton, of Fayetteville, N. CL, dry goods dealer, failed for $200,000. Flames in the stores of Berliner, Strauss & Danzor. and Altman, Summer & Co., neckwear manufacturera in New York, cauted a loss of &Í50.000. RESinENTS of the state of Washington are protesting against the use of Wash. as an abbreviation for the name of the state. Wn. is suggested as more dignitied and sutisfactory. Judoe Lathrop, of the supreme court in Boston, ordered that the FiveYear Benefit order, one of the largest endownient orders in the oountry, be placed in the hands of a receiver. The jury at Pittsburgh in the case of the ten Duquesne strikers charged with riot found thcm guilty. The punishment is two years in jail. Thrke of the largest silk milis in the United States have formed a syndieate with a capital of $7,000,000 to control the production of fine grades of silk in this country. Ed. R. Gimberson, a liveryman at Omaha, Néb., committed suicide after fatally shooting Mrs. Nellie Beach'. Jealous.v was the cause. Simón Goldman, paying teller of the Germán national bank at Denver, Col., was missing, and his shortage was thought to besomewhere betwen $10,000 and f30,000. Thk State Agricultural society of Minnesota haa decided that on account of the Columbian exposición to be held in Chicago no state fair would be held this year. A fire that started in the wool store of Hecht Bros. & Co. in Boston caused a. loss of 1,900,000. Robbkrs wrecked a fast train on the Illinois Central road near Beaurefrd, Miss., and the cngineer, flreman and express agent were badly hnrt. The robbers fled without any booty. The metheds of smuggllng opium and Chinese ïn'o Califoiia from British Columbia were revealed by the confession of five sailors of the steamer Louis Olsen. who were under arrest. ATEvansTille, Ind., Mrs. Will Crump (colored), 17 years old, had both hands shot off at the wrists by her husband in a quarrel. Paul. íJcrcgos and Henry Allen, who murdered, robbed and then burned Kube Atkinson, his housekeeper, and her little daughter near Cotton Plant. Ark., were taken from jail by a mob and hanged. A DiSTiNCT shock of earthquake was feit in the western part of Frederick county, Md. Goods were thrown from the shelves of stores in Jefferson. The shooks lasted five to ten seconds. In a runaway at Alton. Kan., Frank Nelson, a merchant, and Mrs. Webb Cross received fatal injuries. "Dr." W. H. Hale, aliac John Murray, alias Dr. Gordon Smyth, the expert counterfeiter and swindler. wanted on nearly 100 charges in this country, has been sentenced in Liverpool, England, to eighteen months at hard labor. Gov. Lbwellino, of Kansas, has indicated that it is his intention to enforce the state prohibition laws. An explosión in a coal mine at King, Col., killed twenty-one Italians, one Scotchman r.nd two Americans. Ir was stated that the coal magnates of Pennsylvania, acting with the Canadian Pacific railway, had about concluded a deal by which almost the entire coal fields of Nova Scotia were to pass under their control. Firk destroyed John York's dry goods, clothing and furniture store in Chicago, causing a loss of 2S5,000. Flames at Chateaugay, N. Y., destroyed almost the entire business portion of the town. Loss, $175,000. The wife and daughter of Jacob Ringger, a farmer near Alma, Wis., died from eating diseased pork. Another consignment of world's fair souvenir half dollars was received at the sub-treasury in Chicago, making in all 1,200,000 thus far receired. Hans Andebsox, aged 14 years, who murdered Marcus Hoinerfeldt, an old man, near Ogeina, Wis., was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The health offleer reports that there were 10,919 deaths from cholera in Hamburg in 1892, and 26,323 deaths from all causes. Wealthy Farmer Judd, of Tyrone, Ia., mourns the loss of a hired tramp, $900 and a shotgun. A srixxijío mili at Osaka, Japan, was burned with a loss of 125 lives. Most of the victims were young girls. Two hundred and seventy houses in the vicinity of the mili w jre also burned. Kire swept clean ons Street in the business district of Alliance, Neb., involving a loss of over S100,000. It was reported that a gipantic lumber combine had been formed by Main and Massaehusetts parties which would practieally control the lumber business of the United States. Advocates of a canal to unite the great lakes and the ocean met in Washington, líetween seventy-five and 100 i gentlemen vveie present, representing the commercial bodies and the lalce interests of the country. Tuf. westbound Muysville accommodation train collided vvith a freight train at Dover, Ky. , killing the engineer, fireinun and six passengers. Thk National Bicyele Association of America was formeel in Philadelphia. It is allied vrith baseball and its purI pose is to give regular bicycle meetings with cash prizes. A fire in the heart of the retai! district of Kansas City, Mo., caused a loss of 8245,000. Wn.L Broww, aged 18 years. and Alice Smith, a 15-year-old girl, surprised their friends at Spriugfleld, O., by eloping and getting married. Two NEOROES, Ed and DicW Moorman (brothers), were hanged by a mob at Gaston, Ky., for murdering and robbing a farmer. As avalancha swept tonn the mountain side in Salzso, Wash., and buried two ininers, James Swltzer and Martin Flaherty, under 150 feet of anow. An ice bridge of f rozen foam was formed at Niágara FaLls and frozen so solid tliat a number of Dersons crossed it This was the first time in 100 years that these boiling waters had frozn orer. Ai.l but one of the 150 rare manuscript presented to Knox library in New York by Banker John S. Kennedy have been pronounced forgeries by the British museum experts. The trial of Hugh Dempsey, district nutster workman of the Knights of Labor, J. M. Davidson and Robert Beatty, charged with poisoning non-union workmen in the Ilomestead steel mili, began at Pittsburgh. There was considerable excitement in Jackson over reporta of outrages committed by white caps against wealthv Jews in southern Mississippi. At the leading clearing houses in the United State the exchanges during the week ended on the 18th aggregated ïi, 370, 808,981, against 81,06(5,549,436 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1893 was 3. 1. The Hotel St. Louis, the first large hotel ever built in Duluth, Minn., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. YVilliam Baudre and Charles Preston, vailroad men, perished in the llames. Eighteen persons wero badly injured by the telescoplngof a Chicago fe Eastern Illinois accommodation train by the Chicago fe Erie expres at Fiftyfifth street in Chicago. Thkee more negroes were lynched in Monroe county, Ark., on account of the Atldnson murder at Cotton Plant The fonr negroes named Charles Brooks, Frisby Comegys, Fletcher Williams and Moses Brown were hanged at Chestertown, Md. , for the murder of Dr. James H. Hill April 23, 1893. Three of them were 16 and one 18 years of age. Hfnry Sakgest Codman, landscape artist of the World's Columbian exposition, died suddenly at St Luke's hospital in Chicago. In a railway wreek ncar Minshall, Ind., George Stith, engineer, and William Warren, fireman, were killed. As engine with a snow-plow in front daahed into the rear of a Chicago fc Northwestern train at Story City, Ia., injuring twenty-one peoplo, but killinp no one. Ik the United States during the se ven days ended on the 13th the business failures numbered 306, against 340 the previous week and 330 for he corresponding time last year. The national deep water way conrention in Washington effected a permanent organization and a ijournod. The steamer John Warner blew out a flue at Chattanooga, killing two deck hands, and twelve others wero scalded more or less seriously. Irene Fawcett, aged 18, was drowned in the river at Pittsburgh, Pa., while trying to save her 7-year-old sister Bella, who had fallen through a hole in the ice. Twknty-fivk persons narrowly escaped death from asphyxiation by illuminating gas at Pittsburgh, Pa. Ben Lafargue, son of the state superintendent of education, was lynched in Avoyelles parish, La. He killed a negro some weeks ago. A passenger train on the Iowa Central was derailed near Burlington. Ia., killing two unknown passengers and iDJuring fatally Rev. Mr. Miller, of Wayland, Ia.; ElmerReece, of Morning Sun, Ia., and E. S. Drummer, of Wyoming, 111. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. V. M. Fine, one of the most noted sports in the southern states, died in Charleston. S. C. The presidential electors chosen last November met in the capitals of the various states and cast their votes as follows: Cleveland and Stevenson, 278; Harrison and Ried, 144; Weaver and Field, '22. The popular vote for president and vice president, cast November 8, was: Cleveland and Stevenson, 5,579,734; Harrison and Ried, 5,144,409; Weaver and Field, 1,016,659; Bidwell and Cranfil, 288,801. Mrs. Annie T. Florence, widow of the noted actor, W. J. Florence, was married in New York to Howard Coveney, an actor. John E. Kenna, United States senator from West Virginia, died in Washington, aged 45 years. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1895. Ukn. Benjamin F. Butler died suddenly of heart disease at his residente in Washington, aged 74 years. His oareer since his graduation from college nearly sixty years ago as a lawyer, politician and soldier was an active one. The remains would be interred at Lowell, Mass. Dr. Edward P. Wheadon, the pioneer Methodist preacher of Evanston, 111.. died at the age of 87 years. The democrats in the New York legislature nominated Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy, for United States senator. 51 n. Blaine's condition showed no decided change on the llth. He had lost no strength within the last twentyfour hours. Tmc republicana of the Connecticut legislature renominated Joseph R. Hawley for Uuited States senator. Kadsaj has two houses of representativcs in session in the same hall, the republicana and the populists having org'anized independently of each other. Lewis Bakkr died suddenly at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the lOlst year of his age. He leaves three sons - Alexander, ag-ed öO; Nicholas, aged 77, and Cyrus, aged 72. Cpon canvassinp the returns of the election on November 8 in Arkansas it was shown that the amendment to the constitution requiring an elector to exhibit a poll tax receipt before he can Tote at an election was adopted. Dr. Samuel Logan, aged 63, one of the oldest and most prominent physicians in the south, died suddenly ia his office in New Orleans. Thk official canvass of the vote cast in Nebraska at the recent election showed that the republican governor and other state officers were elected and Gov. Crounse was duly inaugurated. Wiixiam H. VVickham, mayor of New York city during 1875 and 1878, died in that city, aged 65 jears. Jerrmiah Harvey, known throughout Indiana as the oldest odd fellow in the state and the founder of the first newspaper in Orant eounty, died at Marión at the age of 88 years. FOREIGN. M. Chari.es de Lesseps has ylven to M. Tibource Franqueville, examining mapistrate, a pocketbook in which he kept notes concernintr the relations of the Panama Canal company to many public men. It shows conclusively tha connection of many senators and deputies with the illegal operations of the company. Amid rojal pomp and splendor and surrounded by European sovereigns or their representatives Princess Marie, of Edinburg, was married at Sigmaringen to Prince Ferdinand, crown prince of Roumania. The Frenen mimstry resifjned and President Carnot immediately charged M. Ribot with the duty of íorming a new cabinet, which was done. A mine at Penzance, England, was flooded and thirty miners were drowned. Thi persecution of the Jews continúes at Moscow, and has assumed a new form, the pólice havinff ualled in house portere to thelr aid in hunting down Jews wbo remain in Moscw contrary to the recent decree. A body of federal cavalry attacked the rebels at Sanotome, in the Argeotine republic, and dislodjjed tbera from their position and fifty of the rebel were killed or wounded. Alaw passed by the Colombian conifress decrees ampie funds for the gradual exchange of paper money for silver. A hand of brigands made a descent upon a cliurch at l'epo, Spain, killed a priest named Suarez and one of bis assistants, and then stola thn altar service. The emigrants who left GermaB ports for the United States in 1891 #mbered 108. B20. LATER. In the United States senate on the 14th the Nicaragua t-hip canal question was discussed. In the house a bilí to ratify an agreement with the Cherokee ■uution of Indians occupied the time. Flames at Brewstcr, N. Y., destroyad several business buildings, causing a loss of 8100,000. Tmt weather throughout Europe was intensely cold. In Russia the mercury feil to 69 degrees centígrado below sero, and in 8iberia to 79 degrees below zero. In Hungary it was 40 below. Jambs Kklly and Tobe Hiñes, two farmers living near Truxton, Mo., engaged in a quarrel that resulted fatally to both. E. C. Ali.kx fatally shot his wife and shot and killed Bert Van Tassel in a restaui ant at Rice Lake, Wis. He allejred that the two were criminally intímate. Diphthkria and scarlet fever wer epidemie at Danville, Pa., and all public gatherings had been prohibited. Intensely cold weather was reported from all portions of the country, the thermometer ranging from 26 degrees below zero in the north to 10 belew in the south. At Knoxville, Tenn., and vicinity over a dozen persons froze to death. James Comstock, a veteran of the Mexican war, died at Carthage, Mo., aged ü4 years. A traix on the Congo railway collided with a wagon loaded with dynamite near Matad i, an explosión followcd and tifty persons were killed. Miss Sarah Herring, daughter of Attoruey General Herring, is the first woman admitted to the bar in Arizona. The country residence of W. C. Harrison near l'hiladelphia was burned with its con tents, the loss being 8125,000. J. N. Mittleberoer, treasurer of St Charles county, Mo., was said to be 816,000 short ia his accounts. Uecaube told that he must go to work Thomas Kilday fatally shot his father, raother and sister in Philadelphia. Fire destroyed the Neufeld manufacturing company's building in Chicago, the loss S100.00U. In a quarrel at Dallas, Tex. , Albert Grant shot Fannie Howard and then kiled himself. State Senator Fred Uokn, the oldest member of the Wisconsin legislature, died at his home in Cedarburg at the age of 77 years. He had served in the legislature alraost constantly for forty-five years, having been elected to the first state senate in 1848.