The News Condensed

Bills were introduced in the senate on the 14th to allow national banks to increase their circulation to the extent of the face value of the bonds deposited by them as security for circulation notrs; to repeal the federal eleclion luws; to repeal the state bank tax; to provide for the Issue of }300,00u,000 of flat money, exchangeable for government bonds at par, and to establish additionul regulations concerning immigration to the United States. In the house the silver debate oocupied the time. Sknatok Vooriiees' bill providing for the issuiug ol circuJating notes to national banks to the par value of governmeut bonds on deposit to secure circulation was favorably reported in the senate on the lñth and a bill was introduced to suspend for six months the operation of the law taxing the notes of national state banks 10 percent In the house the silver debate-was continued. IN the senate bilis were Introduced on the lOth to direct the purchase of silver bullion and the issuance of treasury notes therefor, and providing for the issue of treasury notes, their rcdemption and for other purposes In the house Mr. McCall (rep., Mass.) spoke in favor of the repeal of the purebasing claune of the Sherman Wil and Mr. Bryanidem., Neb.) spoke in opposition thereto. In the senate a bill was introduced on the 17th to provide for a more extended use of gold by the people of the United States In the house speeches were made favoring an unconciitional repeal of the silver law. The death of Represen tative Chipman, of the First Michigan district, was announced by Mr. Weadock. Mr. Voorhees, by directlon of the finance committee. introduced in the senate on the 18th a bill to repeal the silver purchase clause of the Sherman law. Mr. Vest presented a 20 to 1 ratio substitute for the bill. A bill was introduced in aid of the California Midwinter International exposition. Adjourned to the 21st.... In the house the debate on silver waa continued, speeches by Messrs. Sibley (Pa.) and Everett (Mass.) in favor of bimetallism attractiDg attention. DOMESTIC. The Hammond colliery breaker at Girardvüle, Pa., was destroyed by fire, the loss being .Y150,000. MORBOS Smith, a negro whoassaulted Mrs. D. E. Sears, a white woman, near Spring1 Hill, Ala., was hanged by a mob. A thief grabbed a bag containing $5,000 in gold at the First national bank in St. Paul and made his escape. The crops in western Pennsylvania were being destroyed by grasshoppers. The Crescent flour milis and elevator at Denver were destroyed by tire and one fireman was injured and $250,000 loss was inflicted. The A. R. Beek Iumber company, with yards and offices in South Chicago, 111., assigned, with assets of $621,000 and liabilities of $560,000. Bridget Boyle, of Philadelphia, cut off nearly the whole of her lip and broiled and ate it. She said she had been ordered to make a sacrifice to God and took this method of obeying. The S. P. Taylor Paper company of San Francisco failed for $190,000. Eight thousand unemployed workingmen gathered on the lake front in Chicago and adopted a resolution to march to the city hall and demand work. An official report made by Auditor Ackerman shows that the world's fair directory up to the lst inst. expended for construction and administration 132,182,428.93. It still had outstanding liabilities of $1,190,462.32, besides $4,444,500 of debenture bonds. The total gate receipts to dale were $3,447,037.51, and from coneessions 91,178,846.98. lx a tight between eattlemen and sheepmen near Parachute, Col., three of the former were killed. In an address in Chicago before the congress on África Bishop Turner declared his belief that black was the original color of mankind. Eight masked men boarded a New Orleans Pacific train at Mansfield Junction, La., and relieved the passengers of their valuables. The national eneampment of the Sons of Veterans met at Cincinnati and the reports of officers made a favorable showing. Gkeat damage was caused by a cyclone near Humboldt, Neb., and Mis. G. Schultz and her son were fatally injured and horses and cattlewere killed. The Tubbs hotel at East Oakland, Cal., was burned, the loss being $200,000. The Armourdale bank at Armourdale. Kan., and the First national bank of Fort Scott, Kan., whieh suspended recently, have resumed business. A HAII.8TORM at Goodland, Kan., wrecked several buildings and fatally injured a man named Wood and his two sons. The Hartford bank oí Phtenix. A. T., assigned, and Johnson, Buck & Co., bankers at Ebensburg-, Pa., witfa branch banks at CarroDtovvn and Ihistings, elosed their doors. C. O. Rice & Co., of St. Paul, dealers in earpets and wall paper, made an assigmuent with liabilities of $113,000. A cali, has been issued for a convention of the Pan-American Bimetallic association to be held in St. Louis on Oetober 3 next. An attempt by city officials to tear up a track of the New lí aven road at North Abington, Mass., led to a riot in which twenty persons were seriousl3' hurt In Wisconsin the Union national bank at Eacine and the banks at Iliver Falls and Ellsworth elosed their doors. The private bank of Levi Hall at Oswego, 111., and the Cardington Banking company at Cardington, O., also suspended. Impeachment of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle is demanded by the Advocate, the organ at Topeka of the Kansas populists, for failure to purchase the prescribed quantity of silver in July. Ox judgments aggreg-ating $150,000 the sheriff seized the works of the Gilbert Car Manufaeturing company at Troy, N. Y. Michael Clenan, a fireman, was killed and several others iujured at a blaze in St,. Paul which did $100,000 damage to the music house of W. ,T. Dyer & Uro The Northern Pacific railway company has been placed in the hands of receivers. Bukgi:ss Rkkd. lij vears old, James Reed, aged 14, and James Carner, aged 17, were killed by the explosión oí a can of powder near Ilomewood, Pa. By the giving way of a bridge near MUton, Va,, three ours were dropped 00 feet and scven persons were killed and four injured. Kef.i.er & Jenninos' carriage factory at Rochecter, N. Y., was damaged by fire to the extent of $100,000. The treasury department in Washington is in receipt of information that B sohenie is on foot in Australia to invelgle young woraen from that country to the United States under false pretenses. Cyhüs Brown, of Cincinnati, in a fit of anger shot and killed his wife, to whom he had been married thirty j'ears. Skvkxtv-fivk Holland firms are saiil to have been using the world's fair as a medium tor windlinar operations. The following bank failures were reported: First national at Dubuque, Ia., National bank of South Pinn at Hyndmau, Pa., Farmers' oooperative bank at Meadville, Pa-, Kendall county bank at Yorkville, 111., and the bank at Albany, .Mi. Twki.ve persons were injured by a collision on the Chicago, Milwankee ifc St. Paul railroad near Dubuque, Ia. The Oliver Iron & Steel company of Pittsburgh, IJa., failed for $700,000; assets, Í1, 00,000. The firra of John K. & G. 15. White, operating tanneries near Hyndman, Pa., failed for $300,000. Ska hik L Wkiistkr, shoe manufacturers at Haverhill, Mass., failed for il, 000, 000. More than 5,000 unemployed men in Xew York smashed doors and windows and took forcible possession of a hall. "Tom KixG," the notorious woman horse thief, was arrosted at Denison, Tex. Mit. and Mrs. Martin Schultz, an aged couple living nenr Cherokee, Ia., were murdered and their home ransacked by robbers. THE firm of T. .1. Davis & Co., wholesale dry grods in Xew York, failed for $200,000. The Pennsylvania railroad shops in Altoona, Pa., have been ordered to work half time. The shops employ 8,OU0 men. The supreme conncil of the American Legión of Honor in session in Mihvaukee elected J. M. (iwinnell, of Xewark, N. J.. supreme commander. The National bank of commerce at Denver, Col., that suspended recently, reopened its doors. The Standard Wagon company at Cincinnati, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the west, failed for Í700,000; assets, $1,200,000. Fire destroyed the Grand opera house, city hall and 'Í00 feet of the Pennsylvania railroad depot at Atlantic City, X. J., causing a loss of Í100,000. WKSTKRH Kansas politicians want the capital removed from Topeka to their sectio n. MePherson is the town suggested. Tkeasurv offlcers in Washington have received an appeal from dis tinguished Frenchmen asking closer trade relations with the United States. The exchanges at the clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 18th aggregated $732,54-2,203, against 1739,905,834 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the eorresponding week in 1808, was 27.0. Hkntox, 111., was visited by a fire which destroyed the city hall, post office and the Chronicle office. Thrke children of J. L. Casey, of Little Rock, Ark., are dead and the rest of the family seriously ill from drinking water from a polluted well. Nkar Martin's Ferry, O., a traction engine became unmanageable and ran backward down a hill, killing Carrie and Nellie Ackerman, aged 5 and 11 years, respectively, and fatally injuring Ella King. lii 8INESS failures to the number of 455 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 18th, against 208 the preceding week and 201 for the eorresponding time last year. lx a bicyele race at Minneapolis J. S. Johnson made S miles in 7:15%, lowering the record 1534 seconde. Wii.i.iam J. Jaml-o.v. a negro herb doctor, who murdered Supervisor Charles N. Aaron April 19, 1898, was hanged at Quincy, 111. This was the thinl hangiiiy in Quincy in sixty five years. Twk.nty mernbers of the Meachim gang have been killed near Jackson, Ala., within ten days. Five others wcro rarrotmded, lut escaped. Twkmv-tv.o pensioners at the soldiers' home in Marión, Ind., received notice that their pensions had been dÍ3continued. This makes overa Imndred suspensions at tle home since May. '1'iik First national bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July, was permitted to reopen its doors to business. Chahlbs Vf Aiaont, a negro who cut the throat oí little Sam Koith, 10 years oíd, to secare four dollars, v.as lyached by a mol) near Morganfield, K'y. Eppingeb A BUSSBLL, lumber dealers in New Vork, fallad for $400,000. A ciKcn.AH. dated Chicago, has been sent to labor organizationa throughout the country nrging the unemployed to move on Washington. Ai.i, the banks in Le Mars, Ia., suspended. They were the Kirst national and Le Mars national, with a capital of $100,000 each, and the Le Mars state and Germán savings banks. A table preparad by Director of the Mint Preston shows the stock of gold possessed by the principal countries to be as follows: CJnited States, $004,000,000; Great ISritain, $550,000,000; France, $800,000,000; Germany, $000,000,000; Russia, $250,000,000. The silver stock of these same csuntries is fuiven as follows: United States, $615,000,000; Great ISritain, $100,000,000; France, $700,000,000, Germany, $211,000,000; Russia, $1)0,000,000. Lieut. Gov. Daniels, of Kansas, has memorialized congress to establish an income tax, which he believes would jiive the povernmcntan annual rerunue of $2,000,000,000 and would solve the financial problem. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Pkof. M. A. Newell, one of Maryland's foremost educators, with a national reputation as author of school works, died at Havre de Grace. The Iowa republicans in convontion in Des Moines nominated Frank D. Jack son, of Des Moines, for governor; W. S. Dungan, of Chariton, for lieutenant governor; G. S. Robinson, of Storm Lake fnr supreme iudare; J. W. Luke, of Hampton, for railroad comraissioner, and Henry Subin, of Des Moines, for superintendent of public instruction. The platform approves the administration of Benjamin Harrison; favors maiutaininif both gold and silver as unlimited legal tender for the payra:nt oi debt, every dollar to be of equal value; opposes state bank money; says the pension system now in practice is a menace to the honor of the brave anti deserving national defenders, and declares in favor of local option. The democrats of Virginia in convention at Richtnond nominated Charles '1'. O'Ferrall for governor and K. C. Kenl for lieutenant governor. Norkis Mahis, aged 90 years, one oi the founders of the underground railvvay the war, died at Wilmington, Del. .John I.ogan Chiivmax, member of congress from the First districtof Michigan, died at his home in Detroit, aged 63 years. Nkbba.ska democrats will hold their Btate convention at Lincoln October 4. yNE of the best knovvn and oldest of American landscape painters, John V. Casilear, died suddenly of apoplexy af Saratoga Springs, N. Y., aged 82 years. Gkokmk A. ]kank. aged 67, a member of Denman Thompson"s "Old Homestead" company, dropped dead from apoplexy during a performance at McVicker's theater in Chicago. FOREIGN. Gen. Oliveka has been appointed governor of the province of Iiuenos Ayres in place of Gen. Costa, recently deposed by the radical insurgents. The decisión of the court of arbitration on the subject of the disfjute betvveen the United States and Great Britain as to the rights of seal fishing in Behring sea was rendered in Paris and is in favor of Great Britian ou every point of real dispuse. A fishing float was overwhelmed by a storm in the Baltic off Iiapsal, Russia, and many boats foundered and seventeen persons were drowned. Sevexteejt of an excursión party from Kilkee, Ireland, were drowned by the capsizing of their boat in Carrigaholt bay. A nimbéis of military prisoners at San Salvador belonging to the command of Col. Florse, who was recently shot, tried to effect their escape and seventeen of them were killed. Cari. Muei.ler, the famous Germán painter and director of the Art academy at Dusseldorf, is dead. He was born at Darmstadt in 1818. Ten men were killed and twenty-six wounded in a fight between Frenen and Italian workmen near Paris. The number of fresh cholera cases reported in Russia during the seven days ended on the 18th was 2,113 and the numberfof deaths 7(58. Thus far this season the catch of seal in Japan waters has been as follows: By the American fleet of eighteen vessels, 19,4(50; by the British fleet of nineteen vessels, 24,010. The catch is considered a large one. LATER. The United States senate was not in session on the l'Jth. In the house several speeches were made in favor of the uneonditional repeal of the silver purchase luw. Mrs. Fostek, her two children and her sister were drowned at Bonnot's mili, 12 miles east of Jefferson City, Mo. Ax explosión of firedamp in a pit at Dortmund, üermany, killed fifty persons and injured many others. A carriage was struek by a train at Leroy, N. Y., and L. J. Bovee and his wife and daughter and Miss ïiancy Wycks and Miss Emina Bowden were instantly killed. Monroe Smith (colored) was lynehed by a mob for an attempted assault at Old Spring HUI, Ala. Four hay makers were killed south of Hunnewell, Kan., in a collision with a company of soldiers who were clearing: the Cherokee strip of intrudsrs. Five persons were fatally injured by lightning during a storm at Denison, Tex During a political fight at Romero, Mt'x., between the followers of Garza, Galán and Cárdena, rival candidatos for governor, seven persons were killed. A large portion of the town of Dickson, Tenn., was destroyed by fire. Chahles Tart, a federal prisoner, w:is lynehed by a mob near Fort Smith, Ark., for wounding Capt. C. C. l'eeto with a gfun during a Btruffffle. Oscar H. BuBBRtDes, ;i Chicago stock broker, was s;tid to be missing with $100,000 in cash belending tocustomers. A dozbh Unmiffrants f rom the cholera infected distriota of Europe have succeeded in entering this country at Niágara Falls. The elections in Franoe resulted in a safe majority for the government. As the result of a long spree Donglass Curtis, of Chicaifo, killed his chlld, fatally wounded his wife and then took his own life. Most of the milis atFall River, Mass., were closed for an indefinito period, throwing thousands of persons out of work. Edward Bbbnnak, of New York, feil into the river at Niágara Falls and was carried over the precipice. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the lMth were as follows: Uoston, .701; I'ittsburjfh, .008; Cleveland; .581; Philadelphia, .57'J; New York, .591; Brooklyn, .484; Cincinnati, .479; iialtiinore, .448; St Louis, .448; Chicago, .423; Louisville, .878; Washington, .344.