The News Condensed

In the senate on the 4th Senator Cullom (IH.) spoue in favor of unconditional repeal of the sllver law. Senator Peffer (Kan.) spoke in favor of free colnage. A bilí was introduced for the repeal of the 10 per cent. tax on state bank circulation The house was not in session. A BILL was introduce! in the senate on the 5th by Senator Peffer (Kan.) for the creationof a department of education, the construction of a college of sclentilic learning ín the District of Columbio, tho appropriation of 20,000,000 for the purpose, and the further appropriation of 18,000,000, the intei-est of whieh is to form a fund for the support of the college. Mr. Stewart (Ncv. ) spuke in favor of free coinage of silver The house was not in session. In the senate bilis were introduced on the 6th to liquídate expenses arteing from the war and to ropoal all acts provtding for the cre:ition or muintcnance of sinking funds. A resolution for the appointment of a joint select committoe on tinance was placed on the calendar. The house purohasing clause of the Sherman act wm disoussed ... In the house the new rule were adopted wltn an imendment providing that eulogies on deceased members of the house and senate sliall be delivered Sundays and on no other days. Adjourned until the 9th. Mr WOLCOTT (CoL) introduced a resolution in the senate on the 7ih for the immediate repeal of the McKinley tarilT law. The Sherman repeal bill was further diacussed, Mr. Stewart (Nev.) concluding his speech in favor of free eoinage of silver and Mr. VValthall (Miss.) speaking in favor of bimetallism The house was not in ses Mu. FAÜLKBXB (W. Va.) advocated the suspension of silver purchases for four years in the senate on the 8tb_ The following nominations were received from the president: Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, to be ambassador toGermany; Albert S. Willis, ol Keutucky. to be minister t(t the Hu .vitiiim islunds; Heury M. Smythe, of Virginia, tobé minister to Haytl; Ellis Milis, of Virginia, to be consul general to Honolulú, and William Carroll, of Maryland, to be consul general ut Dresden, Germany The house was not in session. DOMEST1C, The family of William Sagus, living1 near Burrows, Ind., was poisoned by something in their food and two children died and three other members of the family were not expected to live. Ben Klii'ki! and wife were drowned in Pine Island lake near Belmont, Mieii., by the of a boat. At the annual session in St. Louis of the international Sunday school convention B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, was elected president. Labor day was generally observed throughout the United States The Western Wheel company atTerre Haute, Ind., the trust which eontrolled 90 percent, of the entire wheel output of the west, has gone to pieces. Bv au explosión of a boiler at Hart's Creek, W. Va., John H. Boyd and wife were killed. Zimmeiíman's time for a mile on a bicycle, flying start, was lowered 1 L-5 seconds at Columbus, O., by John S. Johnson, of Syracuse, X. Y. Johnson's time was 2:07 1-5. Dana's woolen and bagging mili at ■Vestbrook, Me., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. One man was killed and six were badly hurt in a collision on the Big Four road near Batesville, Ind. The barn of George Williams was burned by tramps near Rardin, I1L, and nine horses were cremated and thirty tons of broom corn destroyed. Marshall Boswokth, a farmer at Stnithwyn, S. D., poisoned his wife. three children and himself witta strychnine. No motive was known. Effie Poweks lowered a 3-year-old record at Indianapolis, Ind., by pacing a mile in 2:12%. John Hart, aged 34 and demented, murdered his two sisters, Mary and Nellie, aged 20 and 28 respeetively, at their home in Rockford, 111. In a railway collision at Rarden, O., Robert Little and Marión Weaver were killed and George Glascow was fatally injured. Several cotton and iron milis throughout the east that had been shut down have started up. The government weather bureau erop report says the continued drought in the corn states is injuring the erops. Capitalists have organized a company at Duluth, Minn., with $30,000,000 capital, to control the iron product. Returnino from Logansport, Ind., William Sager, of Clinton, found their four children dead from eating bread covered with rat poison. Thiktef.n miners were injured in an explosión at Shelburn, Ind., five of them fatally. The Pan-American medical congress was formally opened in Washington by a weleoming address from President Cleveland. lx a quiirrel at Roeky Comfort, Ark., over a corn cob pipe W. F. Crow and his son Clinton and J. B. Burke were killed. The yacht Daisy that lelt Haverhül, Mass., for Portland with Charles Wright and wife and two children and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon andonechild was reported lost An entire block in New York containing laundries and stores was burned, the total loss being $150,000. ïSeli. & Rentfrow's eircus train was wrecked a mile from Grass Valley, Cal., and Andrew Hirst and Henry Jones were killed and six other men were injured. Policemax Davis, ofj Hopkinsville, Ky., killed üfficer West, against whom he held a grudge, and was himself mortally wounded. The American national bank of Pueblo, Col., and banks at Omaha, Neb., and Manicato, Minn., have resumed business. The house of Charles Allen was destroyed by fire at Gladwin City, Mich. , and Allen perished in the flames while to secure $1,000 in money hidden in the building. A. A. Zimherman, the world's bicycle champion, went a mile at Sprinsrfield, O., in 2:05 3-5, breaking his previous record. Enlistments in Uncle Sam's army have been so numerous of late that the quota is now nearly filled. At the Grand Army encampment at Indianapolis the report of Adjt. Gen. Gray showed that the order had gained 56,363 members during the year, and lost by dcath, discharge and suspension 59,025. The total metnbership in good standing is 807,223. the year the order disbursed $297,000 in charity. John ;. Adams, of Lynn, Mass., was elected commander in chief for the ensuing year and the encampment next year will be held at Pittsbuxüli, , The Dusiness portion of White Cottage, O., was almost totally destroyed by tire. At the national convention of brewery employés in Milwaukee it was decided to debar militiamen from membership. A hehui.i'tion recommending the establishment of a g-overnment department of health was introduced in the pan-American medical congress in session in Wabhington. H. Hei.lmíx, dealer in general merchamlise at Kyle, Tex. , failed for $1110,000. AmtAxtiKMKNTS have been made to opon a spiritualistic college at Liberal, Mo. , the rirst school of its kind ever founded in the world. In session at Indianapolis the ladies of the Grand Armv of the Republic elected Mrs. Amanda J. Withern, of Minnesota, as president. The Woman's Belief Corps selected Sarah C. Miuk, of New Vork. as president. BOBEKI Li. GbüSCHOW, cashier of the Pabst brewing compariy, was held up in his office in Chicago and robbed of $8,000. Thb twenty-seventh national eneampment at Indianapolis of the Grand Army of the Kepublic adjotirned after adopting the reporto! the pension committee whieh deny that the seeretary of the interior and the commissioner of pensions have power to drop pensioners from the rolls without tírst giving them a hearing; declare against the presumption of fraud until charges have been proven, and say it is the duty of the pension commissioner to at once restore to the rolls the thousands of pensionera now standing illegally suspended. Gov. Flowkb, on behalf of the state board, presented the New York building on the world's fair grountls to the board of lady managers, the magnificent structure to remain in Jackson park as a permanent museum of woman's industrial work. A cvci.oxK struck Lockport, La., killed six persons, seriously injured several others and left the town a mass of ruins. An outbound world's fair special on the Pan-Handle road and a inbound Valparaíso accommodation on the Pennsylvania road collided near Colehour, a Chicago suburb, and eleven men were killed, fourteen were seiiously and five were slightly injured. Mus. Wii.son BKBBT and lier son were killed near Fairïax, Va., by Mrs. John Scott and her son. A quarrel was the cause. The three national banks at Mankato, Miun., reopened their doors after having been closed a little over a month. Nancy IIanks went a mile in 8:04% at Indianapolis. This was within threequarters of a second of the wonderful mare's record. Mus. Caroline Tegex, aged 45, died in St. Louis of self-imposed starvation. For twenty days nothing but one glass of lemonade passed her lips. Cashier Blacklky, of a Delta (Col.) bank, was killed by robbers. Two of the highwaymen were killed by a resident. Robert McEvoy, i trusted clerk in the Merchants' national bank in Chicago for twenty years, played the races ;ind is a defaulter to the extent of 125,000. fle was missing. Twenty thousand persons in the track of the recent hurricane in the south were said to be in danger of starvation. The town of Baldwin, Wis., was almost entirely wiped out by fire, the loss being over $100,000. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 8th aggregated 1788,575,706, against 9661,158,309 the previous week. The decrease, coinpared with the correspondía week in 1S92, was 34.9. Foru children of James O'Xeal (negro) were burned to death in their home near Versailles, Ky., during the absence of their paren ts. Anarchist Claus Timmerman was sentenccd in New York to six months in the penitentiary for inciting to riot. Business failures to the number of 3:23 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 8th, against 385 the preceding week. 1ÍK.N JACKSOH, a negro, was taken from the jail at Quincy, Miss., and hanged by a mob. líe had poisoned a well. DlSCOVEBY of extensive forgeries of eleaiing-house certificates caused consternation in business circles in liirminghain. Ala. ii.i.iam Smitii, a Camden (Ark.) negro who murdered a man named Pierce last fall, was executed at Camden. OwiNG to the collapse of several world's fair hotels Nelson, Matter & Co., one of the oldest furniture houses in Grand Rapids, made an assignment with iiabilities of $400,000. Two MBS captured a mail wagon at Torre Haute, lnd., and gagged the driver and rifled the pouches. JoSEPH Dysart. lieutenaut governor of lowa from 1874 to 1878, died at his home in Vinton, aged 75 years. Richakl) M. Hooi.ky, the veteran theatrieal manager, died at his home in Chicago, aged 71 years. The world's fair directors say the total disbursements up to the lst inst. amount to $25,516,35(5 and the balance on hand was $5(12,901.99. At Dunlap, Tenn., Lafayette Grimes was murdered by white caps whose arrest he had proeured. At Bayport, Mich.. Peter Straubus, a bridegroom, was shot and mortally wounded by a party of serenaders. The office of the Adams Express company at Akron, O., was entered and $7,000 taken from the safe. Ai.most the entire business portion of the town of Cayucos, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The receiver of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad was dismissed and the road restored to the stockholders. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The prohibition republicans held a convention in Des Moines, Ia., nominated L. S. .Coffin, of Fort Dodge, for governcr and left the rest of the ticket blank. The platform repudiates the. doctrine of local option or license or any other device by which the saloon may gain a foothold in lowa and urges that esDeeial effort ie. made to eiet prohibitionists to the next legislatura in order that the teraperance law be not changed. The Iowa populist in convention at Des Moines nominated J. M. Joseph. of Crestón, for governor; E. A. Ott, of Des Moines, for lietenant governor; A. W. C. Weeks, of Winterset, for su preme judge, and Mrs. E. J. Woodrow, of Marshalltown, for school superintendent The platform demands freo coinage of silver, the abolition of trusts, denounees attacks on pensioners, and favors the taxation of mortgajes and the present state prohibitiou law. Benjamin Cjiurchill, the last of the pensioners of the war of 1818 at the Chicago agency, died in Galesburg, 111., affed nearty 100 years. Thk prohibitionists met in state convention in Worcester. Mas. , and a state ticket, headed by Rev. Louis Albert Banks, of Boston, for governor, was aominated. At the state convention in L,ynn, Mass., of the people's party George H. Cary, of L3nn, was nominated for governor. Mus. Sarah Wii.son celebrated her 102d birthday at the home of herdaughter, Mts. William Skinner, in Kalamazoo, Mieh. Ha.mii.ton FlSH died of heart failure at his country residence at Garrison's, X. Y., aged 85 years. In 1S42 Mr. Fish was elected to congress, in 1848 was elected governor of New York, and in 1851 was made United States senator. Mr. Fish was also secretary of state during President Grant's administrations, from March 11, 1809, to Maren. 1-2, l-77. South Habita demócrata in convention at Scotland nominated Chauncey L. Woods, W. H. Stoddard and Henry C. llinckley for supremo court judges FOREIGN. Rev. Mk. Swann. a ívturned English missionary, said in London that Erain l'asha was devoured by cannibals in the Congo country. FoUB women were murdered and mutilated in Jack the Kipper style in Ostburg, a small village in the Netherlands. Eighty-fivk students, eight professors and five women of rank were arrested at Vienna for plotting against the czar and would be sent to Siberia. Mus. Elizabetii McNair died in Montreal, aged over 110 years. Her husband died some years ago at the aga of 107 years. Hayti is said to be on the eve of another revolution. Fall in silver has caused great business depression. The latest news from Rio de Janeiro reports that a revolution has broken out there under the leadership of Admiral Custedio José Mello. In the Hritish house of lords the Irish home-riile bill was rejected by a vote of 419 against to 41 in favor of the meas ure. Thk steamship Campania made the run from New York to Queenstown in live days.fourteen hours and fif teen minutes, making a new record. LATER. The principal speech on the silver question in the United States senate on the 9th, was made by Senator Teller (Col.), whoadvocated the fre coinage of the white metal. A bill was introduced by Senator Morgan (Ala.) which has for its object the keeping of silver in circulation. In the house bilis were introduced to pension soldiers of the Indian wars as Mexican war soldiers are pensioned; to make the pension for total blindness $100 a monthj to prohibit the suspension or stoppage of any pension until after a full hearing and examination; to increase the pension for total disability from $72 to $100 a month; to repeal the reciprocity clause of theMcKinley law, and to place binding twine and cotton bagging on the free list. Benxett's casino, a variety theater in Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned, the los-s being $150,000. Precisely at noon on the flth President Cleveland was made a father for the second time, the new baby. like its predecessor, being a girl. Mrs. Cleveland and her daughter were reported to be doing well. Fire destroyed the United States marine hospital at Port Townsend, Wash. Geohok SlCOB, Frank Fare and David ; Simmons. United States marshals at Dennison, Tex., became involved in a row which resulted in all three being fatally shot. lx filling a lighted gasoline stove Mrs. Maxwell, of Clinton, Ia., and her daughter Stella were fatally burned. JAMES II. Walker, of l'hiladelphia, j and Joseph L. Kilran, of Ehvood, lud., died at the same hour on passenger trains at Pittsburgh, l'a. The distillerv at Lynchburg, O., owned by Freiburg A: Workum, was burned, the loss being $100,000. Twenty business houses and residences were destroyed by fire at Canby, Minn. , the total loss being Í200. 000. Five childreo of F. W. Whitney, near Silver Ilill, Ark., were burned to death while their parents were at ch urch. Except Í13 the Í5.000 stolen from the Adams express at Akron, O., has been recovered and the thieres arrested. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the üth were as follows: Boston, .714; Pittsburgh, .607; Philadelphia, .584; Cleveland: .560; New York, .549; Brooklyn. .528; C'incinnati, .(;: Ba-ltimore, .446; St Louis, .41ö; Chicago, .416; Louisville, .3S3; Washington. .327.