The News Condensed

THK bilí to increase the natlonal bank circulatlon was discussed In the senate on the 28th and a blll was reponed for the repeal of the federal election law. lt was decided by a voto of 32 to 29 that Mr. Mantle, of Montana, anrt Mr. Allen, of Washington, are nol entitled to seats and that a of a state has not the right to appoint a senator to 1111 vaeancies. In the house the blll in favor of the unconditional repeal of the sil ver . urdíase clause "f the Sherman act was passed by a vote of 240 to 116. The average of sentiment on free silver was shown in the votes on the ratios at 16 and 20 to 1, respectively, in both oases there belng a trifle more than 100 majorltj r-'anist silver. In the senate on the 'JUth Mr. Voorhees, chairman .of ther nuance eommittee, reported back the nouse bill repealinf part of the Sherman act wilh a umendment in tlie nature of a substitute. Tlie difforenc-e bet ween the house bilí i and the Voorhees bill is found in the attachment to the latter of a paragraph declaring that it is the polioy of the United States to use both gold and silver as money metáis and to preserve parity. No action was taken - In the house an inlmated discussion took place over the rules between Speaüer Crisp and exSpeaker Reed. Mr. Springer introduced a bill to provide for the coinage of the seignorage silver in the treasury. which was referred. Senator Shekmah addressed the senate on the 30th in favor of the repeal of the silver law, hut s:iiil the Dresent flnaneial troubles werenot due to silver, and tnat alterations of the tariff laws would prove disastrous to the country. A bilí was introduced providing for the dismissal from the government service of all persons not citizens of the TJnited States.. . .In the house tht urgency deflciency appropriation bill (Ï300,000) was passed. The ,new code of rules was discussed. Senatou Wolcott (Col.) spoke in thesenate on the 31st uit. against the repeal of the silver law. A concurrent rcsolution was introduced directing the secretary of the treasury to issue ccrtiücates not to exceed 20 per cent. of the amount of gold coin and bullion in the treasury In the house the new code of rules was iurther discussed. Senatok Vookhees' requestonthe Istfor unanimous consent that the senate bill be substituted for the house bill repealing the purBhaslog clause of the Sherman act was objocted to by Mr. Cockrell. Mr. Vanee spoke against the repeal of the silver law and in favor of freo coinage The time in the house was passed in discussing the rules. An amendment was adopted prohibiting smoking in the chamber at any time. DOMESTIC, SrscE January 1 last 154 national banks have suspended. Of this number one has gone into voluntary liquidation, fifty-seven have been placed in the hands of receivers, sixty-two are in the hands of national bank examiners with prospects of early resumption, and the other thirty-four have reopened their doors. Further advices from the tornado in South Carolina say that fully 100 lives were lost at Port Royal, at Beaufort and neig-hboring points by drowning. In Savannah, Ga., fifteen persons were killed. The official count of the treasury cash, begun May 31 last, necessitated by the transfer of the office of treasurer of the United States from E. II. Nebeker tb D. N. Morgan, has been completed and Treasurer Jordán has signed a reeeipt in favor of E. H. Nebeker for Ï74O,817,419.78K. In counting and weighing this vastsum not one cent was found missing. The total weight of the coin counted was about 5,000 tons. Indianapolis thievesstole a safecontaining Í300 under the nose of a policeman, who thought the watron a baker's cart. The state labor commissioner of Colorado estimates 35,000 unemployed in the state and the discharge of farm laborers will add 15.000 more. The business portion of Baltimore, Md., was flooded by a storm and great damage was done. Homer Ukarb, a well-known Kent county (Mich.) farmer, and his wife were fatally injured in a runaway accident near Cedar Springs. The schooner Three Sisters was wrecked and abandoned off Cape Fear and Capt. Simpson and Mate Heede were drowned. Chkrokee strip boomers are said to have f ast horses in training for the jjreat race for land September 16. Almosï the entire business portion oí Elgin, Ore., was destroyed by fire. The recent storm which raged on the Atlantic seaboard was one of the most terribly destructive, both in severity and extent,that have ever been reported. About 700 persons were supposed to have perished and the property loss was enormous. In Georgia and South Carolina the cotton and tobáceo were razed from the soil and in Delaware the peach erop was cut off. Virginia reported the destruction of crops of all kinds. New Jersey lost vast quantities of fruits and corn, and in Connecticut the oyster beds were ruined as well as the fruits. Dikectum trotted the fifth heat of the free-for-all race at Fleetwood park, New York, in 2:09%, lowering the 4year-old record. A deficit of $109,114 in the cash accounts of C. L. Niehoff & Co. has been discovered. The Chicago bankers have disappeared. A BECEIVER was appointed in New York for the Nicaragua Canal Construction company. Fire caused a loss of over f150,000 to occupants of Lindsay Bros.' block in Milwaukee. The McCormick Harvester eompany and the Transfer & Storage company were the principal losers. Tuk sixteenth annual convention of the American Bar association met in Milwaukee and in his annual address President Tucker said the election laws were inadequate. The paeking-box factory of lieorge York & Co. , the pianoforte factory of Squire & Sons and several other places in London were burned, the total loss being $400,000. Dit. Anna I!. Ott, who died in a Madison (Wis.) insane asylum, confessed to the theft of 88,000, for which an express agent suffered a quarter of a century ago. The international Suiviav-s'-hoolooD] trention beffan its session ;it St. Louis. The First national bank of Dubuque, Ia., and the First national bank of Grand Junction, Col., resumed business. Seventy bodies of victims of the recent storm were taken f rom the Coosaw river in South Carolina. The Old Guard armory, one of the landmarks of New York city, was burned, tog-ether with many paintinps, relies, battle llaps and historie bric-abrac, the losa beins10ü,000. tuk property loss by the recent cyclone in Charleston, S. C, was placed at over $1,000,000. Ed Fisheií, a convict in the penitentiary at Lararaie, Wyo., is suffering frora a genuine attack of leprosy. Tiihee children playing under an apple tree at l'etersham, Mass., were Btruck dead by lightning. FXJBTHBB advices say th at since the recent storm in the south 390 dead bodies have been found on the islands about Beaufort and Fort Boyal, S. C, and that the total number of dead would reach 1,000. Over $2,000,000 worth of property was wrecked near the same points. Near Jacksnnville, Fla., fourteen dead bodies were found. and the damage to fruit trees and orange groves was enormous. At the seventh international Sunday school convention, held in St. Louis, the report of Secretary l'orter showed the number of Sunday schools of the United States and Uritish America to be 180,197; teachers and officers, 1,872,558;80olaTS, 10,870,104; total, 11,242,062. lx a freight train wreek near Hrenham, Tex., fivè tramps and Jack Swanson, the eng-ineer, were killed and Fireman C'ameron and Brakeman Ford were fatally injured. 1t was reported from Washington that there was a defieiency of from 000,000 to $11,000,000 in sight already in the treasury, and the revenues were running behind the expenditures to the amount of fully S300,000 a day. Leo Stafford, wbAlecarelessly handlinij a revolver supposed to be unloaded, shot and killed his bride of six weeks at East Liverpool, O. CoMMISSiONBÜ LOQHBAN of the pension bureau has issued an order that hereafter there shall be no suspensions except in cases where the record shows on its face that the soldier was not entitled to any pension whatever. the collapse of a bridge near Chester, Mass., the Chicago Limited ex press on the Boston & Albany road bound east was thrown into a ravine and fourteen persons were killed and twenty-eight were injured. Dr hing the first four nionths of the vvorld's fair the total paid adraissions numbered 9,990,699. By raonths the attendance was: May 1,050,037, June 2,075,113, July 2,760,363, August 3,514, 286. Artici.es of incorporation for a great north and south railroad were filed at Topeka, Kan. Capital stock, $18,000.000. Judge Goggin declared the world's fair Sunday opening1 injnnction should stand, overriding Judges Dunne and Brentano and surprising court attendants. The Royal Sewing Machine company at Rockford, 111.. made an assignraent with liabilities of SU9.000 and assets of $40,000. Samuel Deeters, of Waterloo, Ind., temporarily insane, shot and killed Amos Bactel and fatally shot Mrs. Lowe, neighbors, and wounded his mother. Nancv IIaxks trotted a mile at Fieetwood park, NewYork, in 2:0(5%. Twelve ! thousand persons witnessed thfi little mare's feat. The business portion of De Pauw, Ind., was destroyed by firo. Emma Goldman, the anarchist orator, was arrested in Philadelphia at the instance of the New York authorities for makinir an incendiary speech. Executions took place as follows: George S. Turner (a wealthy man) at I Spartenburg, S. C, for killing Ed Fineer; Wade Cannon aDd George Bowers (colored) at Laurens, S. C, for arson and John Ferguson for wife' murder; Oscar Johnson and Henry Ewing at Herkely, S. G, for murdering Henry Weltman; and Ah Lo Doon, a Chinaman. at San Rafael, Cal., for the murder of William Shentor. Thk exchanges at the leading clearing housea in the United States during the week ended on the Ist aggregated $ö61,l.V3,-;0'.. apainst $074,212,389 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corrêsponding week in 1892, was 82.5. Jüdge Thomas Cooley, of Michigan, was elected president of the American Bar association at the annual meeting in Milwaukee. Tuk Equitable Mortgage company oí Missouri, with headquarters in New Ycrk, was placed in the hands of receivers with liabilities of $19,000,000. Thk American national bank of Omaha, Neb., and the American national bank of Nashville, Tenn., have reoponed their doors. '1 'jik public debt statement issued on the ist showed that the debt increased $10,442.808 during the monthof August. The cash in the treasury was 1712,857,887. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to Í853,676,848. The Thornton worsted milt in .lohnston. K. I., was burned, the loss being ?-2i.rj,000. Business failures to the number of 356 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the lst, aprainst 410 the preaeding weelt and 170 for the correspondinff time last year. The national bank note circulation throug-hout the country increased during the month of August 926,889,064, the circulation now ?1U8,881,881. Thk povernment receipts August ag-gregated $23,890,885, against 833,479,058 in August a year ago. The expenditures were ?33,30.r.22S, or about $,000,000 more than during August a year afro. A. Z. Rkinhardt, sheriff and tax collector oí Perry county, Arle, vvas said to be short nearly $40,000 in his accounts. Muses Hughes and his Uvo sons lost their Uves in a fire in a mine at Horatio, Pa. The Denver savings bank at Denver, Col., failed with liabilities oí $070,000. Depositors would be paid in fulL The silver bullion on hand at the several mints in the country was saul to be 134,625,492 fine ounces, valued at $122,302,750. S. ü. lluMPHBKYS, ior ten years township treasurer of Mount Victory, O., is ■aid to be a defaulter for 125,000. IN a fight betwecn deputy marshals and reranants of the Starr and Dalton tfangs near Ing-alls, O. T.. seven outr laws atul three officers were raortally ■woundcd. The business portion of the town of Copperopolis, Cal., was destroyed by fire. A total of 800 alarnos were responded to by the Chicago fire department during- August, beating all previeus records. Thk firm of Wood & Wood, dealers in stoves and ranges at Baltimore, failed for ti 00,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mus. B. D. Siii-.i'HKKi), aged 40, known on the stag-e as Marie Prescott, died in New York from a surgical operation. Thk republicans in state convention at Harrtsburff, l'a. , nominated I). Newlin Feil, of l'hiladelphia, for supreme judge, and Col. Samuel Jackson, of Arrastrong, for state treasurer. Wii.i.iam M. Evarts, the New York lawyer, and his wife eelebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their summer home near Windsor, Vt. Olivf.k ïïendell Holmes passed the 84th milestone oí his life in a very quiet manner at his summer home at Beverly Farms, near Boston. Xi.w Yiikk republieans willhold their state convention at Syracuse October 6. MUS. ElXEN I'ALMLR Al.LKRTON, the Kansas poet, died at l'adonia. She was the authoress of the famous Kansas poem, '"The Wallsof Corn." In the Tenth Ohio district H. S. Bundy, of Jackson county, was nominated for congress on the l,793d ballot. Mr. Bundy has served two terms in conpress. The president, accompanied Mrs. j Cleveland, returned to Washington in ] excellent health. FOREIGN. Ten persons died at Lichtenstein, Germany, from eatinff poisonous fungi whicta they mistook ïor mushrooms. A fkw months ago Edward Vezzy and Violet Buckingham were married at Brantiort, Ont, and now it has been discovered that they were brother and sister. They had been separated sinee chililhood. The Gafjui Indiana were on the warpath in Mexico and the government j had been asked for troops to protect the settlers. EoYALiSTS at Honolulú plotted to blow up public buildings, fire the city and restore the queen, but they were foiled. Ovek 60,000 miners in South Wales who struck ior higher vrages retured to work at the old prices. "While the Dutch steamer Rajah Atjes, trading between the Penang and the east coast of Acheen, was making a trip the Chinese passengers attacked the crew and killed the English captain and mate and twenty other seamen. In Hokchang, China, hundreds of persons were dying of starvation and the cholera was raging. Ex-Premier Floquet was stoned by a mob of 6,000 persons on leaving a political meeting in Paris. By a majorityof thirty-four the home j rule bilí passed third reading in the Kritish house of commons. 1t now goes to the lords. Thk steamer Sarnia. which for twenty -two days had drifted helplessly on the Atlantic, was towed into Queenstown. LATER. A joint resolution to amend the constitution relating to the election ol senators by the people was introduced in the United States senate on the 2d. The house urgeney deficiency bill was passed. A bill appropriating f500,000 j to enable the enforcing of the Geary j Chinese exclusión act was discussed. In the house the new rules were íurther discussed. A joint resblution was introduced for the appointment of a commission to inquire into and report upon the recent change in the relative value of silver and the effect thereof on finance, trade, commerce, agriculture and labor. Adjourued to the öth. Six human skeletons were found imbedded in the sand on President's island near Meraphis, Tenn. Dibbanded troops seized $ISO,000 designed to pay the regulars at Nicaragua, killing the escort and fleeing to Honduras. Miss Leal, a young Scotch woman, broke the bank at Monte Cario. She won $300,000 in one hour. Two peesons were killed, six fatally hurt and nearly iorty injured as the result of an electric car accident at Cincinnati. Felix Shkiudah died at Quincy, 111., aged 101 years. He was a veteran and pensioner of the war of 1812. Dr. T. ThatcBBB (in.WKS, awaiting trial at Denver, Col., for poisoning Mrs. Josephine liarnaby, of Providence, R. I., in 1891, committed suicide in his cell by taking poison. The Kansas corn erop is estimated at 200,000,000 bushels, worth $60,000,000. This is the greatest since 1S89. Handitu took possession of the 'Frisco train at Mound Valley, Kan., robbed the passengers and killed Express Mest injrar Chapman. Five persons were killed in a general fight at Patos, Mex., growing out of a dispute over a cock fight. Wiixiam Axkisox (colored), aged 20, who assaulted a little girl, was hanged by a mob at South Fork, K y. Two HKR were killed and a dozen hurt by a Burlington train f all ing through a treatle at Streator, 111. It was estirnated from later advices that 1,500 persons lost their Uves in the great storm along the soúthern coast. The percentages of the baseball clubs n the National league for the week ended on the 2d were as follows: Boston, .701; Pittsburgh, .593; Philadelphia. .589; Cleveland; .548; New York. ,588 Urooklyn. .U9; Cincinnati, .481; Baltimore, .46:'.; St. Louis, .439; Chicago, .407; Louisville, .392; Washington. .343.