The News Condensed

A TRAIN on the Ohio Southern road jumped the track near ötorm's Station, o. . and twcnty-DiH' passengere were injured, some fatal ly. John L. Osmond siiffered death in the electrieal chair at Sing Sing, N. Y., for the murder of his uife Mary and his cousin John C. liurcheil on October 3, 1891. The American Wheel company's factories at Crawfordsville, Ind.. Memphis, Tenn., Padncah, Ky., and Humboldt, Tenn., were closed for an indefinite time. Tuk vacht Pllgrim, built by a Boston syndicate to defend the America's cup, was lannched at PhiladelphiaJ The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 18th was: Wheat, 68,662,000 trashels; corn, 8,159,000 bushels; oats, 3,031,000 bushels; rye, 693,000 oushels; barley, 376,000 bushels. Thk coinage of Columbian souvenir quarter dollars wasbegun at the United States mint in Philadelphia. A six-story building1 in New York filled with sweater shops caught fire, and in the wild rush to the Street four persons were killed, twoothers were fatally injured and five others were badly hurt. Eight cowboys left Chadron, Neb., on horses for a race to Chicago. The distance is !)11 miles. The Franklin liugfty company at Columbus, O., has been put in the hands of a receiver with liabilities of f 100,000. Thk sveamer Winthrop. valued at$125,000, was burned at Eastport. Me. It was owned by the Mallory company of New York. Wii.i.ia.m Shorter, a negro, was taken írom a train by masked men near Winchester, Va., and lynched. He was on his way to his trial for assaulting a girl. The Nashville (Tenn.) Savings company, of which Thomas B. Mans is owner and president, filed an assignment with liabHities of f282,876. Dr. James McCann. one of Pittsburgh"s prominent physicians, died frorn blood poisoning, contracted while performing an operation. Tuk bank at Everett, Waafa., elosed its doors with liabilities of 165,000 Flames destroyed ten buildings at Wakloboro, Me., oausing a loss of $100,000 Vin and Elbert Long-ley, ag-ed 11 and 17 years, respectively, sons of E. W. Longley, a prominent citizen of Little Rock, Ark., were accidental' drowned. A shortaue of $70,800 was found in the funds of the Irving savings institution in New York, and the president, secretary and teller resigned by request. The Pioneer Lithographing company of Denver made an assignment with liabilities of $134,380.28. A paper on "The Philosophy of Crime," read by C. II. Reeve, of Plymouth, Ind., caused a warm discussion in the world's congress of charities and correction in Chicago. Mr. Reeve advocated the wiping out of the penal code as it now exists. The aAmeriean national bank at Omaha suspended with liabilities of $600,000. Mrs. James Kirkendai.l, of Paradise, Wash., fatally poisoned her little girl and herself while temporaria insane. The village of Alba, Mich., with a population of 800, was wiped out by fire. W. Z. McDonald, inspector of workshops and factories, has been removed from office by Gov. MeKinley, of Ohio. A shortage of $5,000 was found in McDonald's accounts. Whu.e three children of M. Lakin were playing with a gun at Frisco, O. T., it was discharged and a son 11 years old and daughter 12 years old were fatally injured. In a railvray wreek on the Missouri, Kansas fe Texas road near Butler, I. T., Ames Frame, engiueer, and his fireman were killed and many passengers were injured. The interstate convention of the American Sabbath union met at lndianapolis and formnlated a protest against Sunday of the world's fair. The one hundred and forty-sixth annual commencement of Princeton college took place at Prineeton, N. J. Women may practice law in Indiana courts according to a decisión of the supreme court. For the first time in American history there was a general eelebration at Philadelphia of the anniversary of the adoption by congress June 14, 1777, of the stars and stripes. In every school the story of how the first ílag was made was told. The worthy grand lodge of good templars in session at Des Moines, Ia., voted to change its designation to the international supreme lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars. F. C. Campbell, of Minneapolis, was elected most worshipfnl grand master of the Loyal Orange Lodge of America at the session at Minneapolis. Til?: Baackes Wire Nail company at Cleveland, O., made an assignment with liabilities of $::-2.j,000 and assets of $900,000. Mus. 1'hii.ip Kerch, the wife of ■ well-to-do farmer near Pleasant lüll, W. Va., while insane murdered four of her children and then committed suicide. In a riot at Reading, Pa., two Hungarian strikers at the Henry Clay furnace were fatally injured. Five men were injured, one fatally, and twenty cars smashed in a wreek on the Nickel Píate road at Hamburg N. Y. The third floor of the old government building at Pittsburgh collapsed and four men received probatly fatal injuries. E. E. Kipi.ing, a New York importer of precious stones. failed for $100,000 The dry goods store of Jiauer, Foster & Co. at Dayton, ()., was burned, the loss being $100,000. The International Typographical union in session in Chicago decided to demand a nine-hour Work day for all printers employed ín the United States und Canada on book and job work. The Geneeee Oil company oí Buffalo, N. Y.. made an assignmenl with liabilities of $300.000. THE Kopulist Womans Progressive league of Kansas was organized at Topeka with Mrs. John G. Otis as president. The maple has been selected as the j official tree of Wisconsin by the votes of the school children, Wtt.i.tam Siikkdv and Paul Lewis rere under arrest in Chicago for attempting to steal a one-story frame house. Lorenzo B. Oi.ds, of Helena, Mont., ex-state senator, was charg-ed with swinilliiiff several persons to the extent of $60,000. N. I). RlCHMOWD, of Dunlap, 111., was killed and flveother persons were badly injured in an accident that occurred on the ice railway at the world's fair. Thk Kings Daughters and Sons opened their congress in Chicago with delegates present from many states. The body of Herman Schaffner, a Chicago banker, was found in the lake. He committed suicide owing to financial embarrassment. Accordino to the figures of Auditor Ackerman the total expenses of the world's fair for May were $600,000; total receipts, L720,000; increase. By the capsizing of a boat in the Korth river at New York Rev. Father Charles B. McKenna, '6 years oíd, a priest, and Mrs. Margaret Burchell, his cousin. were drowned. B. A. Dennis, sheriff of Hitchcock county, Neb., was found dead in bed in Council Bluffs, Ia. He blew out the gas. The trial of Chief P. M. Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ior $200.000 damages for alleged ! encouragement of the recent strike on the Ann Arbor road at Toledo will commence at Cleveland September 18. The International Supreme Lodge of Good Templars in session at Des Moines, Ia., elected D. II. Manu, of New York, right worthy grand chief. The Kentucky legislature defeated a bilí to move the capital to Louisville, thus ending finally a fight for removal that has been going uu for forty years. The suspensions were reported of the Farmers' tnd Merchants' bank at Fairmount, Ind. , the City bank at Parsons, Kan., the Exchange bank at Weston, O., and the First national bank at Kansas City, Kan. The International Typographical nnion in session in Chicago for the third time made V. B. Prescott, of Toronto, president. The Lone Star Iron company of Jefferson, Tex., failed for 100,000. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Union Theological seminary in New Y'ork it was decided by a unaniruous vote that Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs should continue his work in the department of Biblical history as hitherto. The Indiana and Arkansas state buildings and the Germán building on the world's fair grounds were dedicated. The seventeenth international and second world's convention of Sundayschool workers will be held in St. Louis from August 31 to September 6, inclusive. Texas women have by their energy completed the state building at the world's fair which the legislature failed to provide for. DMasï wheat fields in Kansas have been ruined by the chinch bug, and since the wheat cutting commenced the bugs have gone to the corn. Figures show that the savings banks in the United States contain $1,700,000,000. Fruit sheds of the Louisville & Nashville road at New Orleans were destroyed by fire. the loss being $100,000. J. VV. Flood, ex-cashier of the Donohoe-Kelly banking company at San Francisco, was convicted of embezzling $164,000. During the week ended on the 16th the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exehanges amounting to $1,031,364,527, against $1,158,384,853 the preyious week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 9.6. Many houses were blown down at Valdosta and Thomasville, Ga., during a tornado. There were 313 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 16th. In the week preceding there were 322, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 153. Ar Fairficld. 111., E. Bonham, a banker. made an assignment with liabilities of $125,000. The total value of the exports of merchandise from the United States during the year ended Maj 31, 1893, II í'-41-.:',7:.845, and duriny the corresponding period of the preceding year 11,022,084,545, a decrease of $174,010,700. The value of the imports during the same period was 1086,001,281 and $828,848,110, respectively, an increase of $108,053,168. Al. Fox & Co., New Y'ork importers of diamonds, have been driven to the wall with liabilities of $141,000. May ( 'oi.vin, wlio, though but 19 years oíd, has been arrested nine times for horse stealin?, escaped from the jail at Carthage, Ma, by sawing an iron I bar with a fork. Mus. Johb Hekmus was chloroformed and robbed of $325 while riding to ; L'innati on an Ohio & Mississippi train. The suprerne lodge of the Independent Order of (Jood Templars in session at Des Moines passed a resolution demandinsf enforcement of the prohibItory law in the world's fair district. The Methodist church and several dwellings at Dundoff, Pa., were destroyed by fire, the total loss being $150,000. Winki.ey, Drksïv.h & Co., Boston stationera, failed for $150,000. Tuk Sons of the American Revolution in session in Chicago elected Gen. Horace Poiter, of New Y'ork, as president. Tjie Highspire dlstillery at Harrisburgh, Pa., was burned with 5,000 barrels of whisky, entailing a loss of $200,000. Frank Aldrich, until recently sealer of weights and measures for the District of Columbia, left Washington owing creditors $20,000. The First national bank of Grundy Center, Ia., closed its doors. The Illinois legislature adjourned sine die after a session lasting 103 days. The sun-ar bountvpaid by the government during thelast fiscal year amounted to 10,800,208. GEOBOI Drier, a Polish Jew who murdered Mrs. PaDnie M. Fadden at j Cape Charlea, Va., October 10, 1891, was hanged at Eastville, Va. Dritixo the twelve raonths ended May BI the exports of gold frora the United States amounted to 8188,096,458 and the imports $30,068,726; excess of exporta, 8103,486.738. During the corr gponding twelve months last year the exports of gold amounted to 148,888,334 and the Imports 549,438,334; excess of imports, 1600,110. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Hoi, mes Coxrad, of Virginia, has i been appointed by the president to succeed John 15. Cotton as assi.tant attorney general. President Cleveland has grown so very stout recently that he has reaorted to the diet system for reducing his weight. Omo democrats will meet in state convention in Cincinnati August 9. Wili.iam Wai.ter Piiei.ps, ex-minister to Germany, and his family arrived in New York on the Spree from Bremen. Miss M. Merta Mitchell, of Salem, Ia., is the tirst woman admitted to ; practice law in Indiana. Wii.i.iam M. MbhXDITH, chief of the bureau of engraving .and printing at Washington, has resigned. The executive eommittee of the Na tional Republican league has made Chicago its headquarters. FOREIGN. A xi'MBKR of pilgrims were erossing the Rhine at Bensburg, Germany, when the boat upset and four women and a man were drowned. MOUJTT HittASHiAZUM, Japan, was in a state of eruption and lüü lives were said to have been lost. Ktffler's cotton mili in Brodetz, Bohemia, was burned, the loss being 1,250,000 francs. Is a fire at Nergersdorf. Saxony, nine persons were burned to death, and at Maihren a whole family, conaiatlng of I five adulta, were burned, together with their homestead. ■ The court of cassation in Paris hold9 that the oases of the Panama canal convicts are outlawed and has ordered the release from prison of M. De Lesseps and his son and the others convicted of. squandering canal funds. It was thought that the opponents of the army bill had been successful in the elections for members of the German reiehstag. Siberia for life is the probable fa te of the Russian monks arrested for robbing the Chudor monasterv. Presiiyterians of Canada are stirred gn-atly over a heresy case. Prof. Campbell is the alleged heretic. Th ree private soldiers were tried by a court martial at Chihuahua, Mexico, for disobedience of orrers anddesertion and sentenced to be shot. A government powder magazine a few miles from Athens, Greece, exploded, and twenty persons, including oflïcers and scldiers. were killed, and property valued at 3,000,000 francs was destroyed. LATER. Chief Justice Fuli-er of the United States supreme court and his associates in the circuit court of appeals, Judges Bunn and Allen, gave a decisión in favor of the Sunday opening of the world's fair. and in the event of no further legal eompüeations Sunday opening was permanently assured. Maktial law wasproclaimed inTonawanda, N. Y., because of strike of lumber shovers. In Wisconain the towns of Virginia and Mountain Iron were destroyed by forest tires and the towns of Mesaba, Biwabik and Merritt were partially destroyed. I. a quarrel over a girl at a dance near Louisville, Ky., John Nagles shot and killed John and Jake Sheeley (brothers). Lyle Kei.i.oo, Will Ford and John Gay, well known young men, were drowned in the bay near Washburn, Wis., by the capsizing of a yacht. Mr. and Mu?. E. G. Eames drove in front of an express train at Koek Island. 111.. ami both were killed. They leave Beveral Mnall ehildren. A FiitE destroyed the Adams building in Chicago, causiug a loss of $172,000 to 0. W. Richardson. carpet dealer, and a loss of over $200.000 to other business firms. In a general fight in the lumber town of Edgerton, Ind. , Levrts Boyer and Hugh Coye, proprietors of the only saloons in the place, were kil 'cd. I'keight trains collided on the Baltimore & Ohio road near Cameron, W. Va., and Engineers Uean and Kinney, Fireman Clem Fisher and two other trainmen were killed. Complete official returns of the Chinese regiatration under the (fai-y act show that out of 110,000 Chinese in the United States 18,189 have registered. A. S. Ahnoi.d, of Leavenworth. Kan., shot his wife fatally and tlu-n put two buHets into hifi.own heod, IdlUng hlmself instantly. Jealoxisy was tLe cause. William Hipes, a wealthy farmer, and his wife and daughter were killed by the cars at a railwa3' crossing near their home at Crawfordsville, Ind. Warren, James and John Keaton (brothers) were drowned while bathing in the river at Merrill, Wis. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 17th were as follows: i Brooklyn'. .634; Philadelphia, 634; Boston, .628; Pittsburgh, .571; New York, .512; Baltimore.. 512; Cleveland, .500; Washington, .463; Cincinnati, .442; Chicago, .439; St Louis, .400; Louisville, .18S.