The News Condensed

MR. Dolph (Ore.) presentid in the senate on the llth a petition of the conference of the Methodist Episcopal church 1n Oregon for the repeal of the Geary Chines exclusión act. Senators Teller (CoL) and Pugh (Ala.) spoke acainst the repeal of the silTer law. in the house no business was transacted. In the senate addresses were made on the 12th by Messrs. Hitcbell, Teller and Stewart against the ropeal of the silver blll, and by Mr. Hawley in favor of repeal In the house bilis were introduced te strike from the rolls the ñames of ;ill pensioners In recelpt of an income of W00 a year or possessed of property valued at Sö.OOO; li xi nh' thf pension for loss of entire leg or arm at 60 a mon th: for loss of leg or arm above knee or elbow joint at ?5S a month; for loss of hand or foot at 550 a month. and providing that the pensions of all pensioners who are inmates of the soldiers' homes shall oeaM so long as they shall remain liunatef of such homes. Senatoh Peffkr introduced a bilí for a bimelallie money system in the senate on the I3ih. A resolution for a cmnmittee of inquiry as to senators owninp stock in national banks and the silver bill were discussed.... In the house bilis were introduced to annex the territory of Utah to the state of Nevada, to pension all letter carriers after twenty-üve years of service anü on reachini? the atre of tifty years, to aholish the tobáceo tax, anu to reauce me ciuty on b&rley írom lliirty to ten cents a bushei, on malt lo twenty-five cents, and on hops to eight cents apound. IN the senate on the 14th the tlrae was occupied by Mr. Daniel (VV. Va.) in a speech against the passaze of the repeal bill. Mr. Faulkner (V. Va. I Hored an amendment to the repeal act which provides for the coinage of silver dollars (notless than 3,000,000 amonth) at the ratio of 16 to 1, coinage to cease when the aggregate of 5800,000.000 is reached In the house an effort to report the Tucker bill to repeal the federal election laws was defeated. On the 15th the senate listened to the advocates of the repeal of the Sherman law. Senator C'ullom presented a iietition from ex-soldiers of Illinois asking protection from government detectives travelinu in disguise ivho visit the homes of pensioners and deceitfully seek to find some clew to furnish Information to the pension office to deprive veterans of their pensions In the house the time was passed in correctinsï the journal and in deltvering eulogies upon the late J. Logan Chipman, of Detroit, Mich. DOMESTIC. TwBNTT masked men held up the New Vork express train on the Lake Shore road near Kendallville, Ind., and after woundinf the engineer blew open the safe in the express car and stole its contents. In New York and vicinity seven per sons died from eating toadstools, supposinfr them to be mushrooms. Stkikisg Italians took possession of the rnining town of Beadling, Pa., terrorizing the inhabitants. Twencyeight were arrested. Thk following banks have resumed business: First national at Le Mars, Ia., Fiit national at Nashvüle, Tenn., Commercial at Stevens Point, Wis., Western national at Pueblo, Col., and Bank of Florence at Florence, Col. A heavy pall of smoke hung over Lake Michigan and made navigation as dangerous as though it was a heavy fog. It came from forest fires in Michigan. Matz Zeifk. a well-to-do farmer near Fort Dodpre, Ia., hanged himself be cause of the death ui a favorite cow, Coopers in national convention at Milwaukee adopted a strong protest against convict labor competiuon. A GA8 well with a flow of 50,000,000 cubie feet a day was struck on a farm near Findlay, O. A iiMiHWAïMAX took ftiOO worth of property frorn passengers in a stage coach near Klamath Falls, Ore. Quarantixk has been declared against Muncie, lnd., by several of the cities of the state ovvinjr to the spread of smallpox. Labachsville, Pa., a town of 200 inhabitants, is to be put vip at auetion. It has been in one fatnily for 150 years. Timber fires in the vicinity of Deadwood, S. D. , have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of propertv- Ijí the trial trip at Philadelphia of the cruiser Columbia all speed records were beaten. She made 21.3 knots an hour. A drought of eighty-six days in Chicago and of VZ6 days in many western states was broken by rain on the 12th. It was stated that the masked men who held up the express train on the Lake Shore road near Kendallville, Ind. , secured $150,000 from the express car. To build and opérate the world's fair, ineluding obligation in suspense, cost up to August 31 $24, 532, 3159. The liabilities on that date were 81,455,215. The three caravals at the world's fair, exact models of the fleet of three vessels in which Columbus spread his sails for the west in 1492 and discovered the new world, have been preseuted to the United States by Spain. Adulp Kkug, city treasurer of Seattle, Wash., was found to be Í135.000 short in his accounts. He had fled across the border into British Columbia. A schbme to establish a state silver bullion depository, on which certificates are to be issued, is under discussion in Colorado. At a meeting in New York of the trust certifícate holders the great Standard oil trust was formally dissolved and hereafter the companies that were in tne trust wm act ïnaependently. The barken tine Skobeleff of Portland, Me., was lost with her crew of seven men. Hakky Iïakkr, aged 8, walked to the house of a neighbor near Gallipolis, O., in his sleep and was mistaken for a burglar and shot to death. An incendiary fire in John Welch's lumber docks at West Bay City, Mich., destroyed 2,500,000 feet of lumber. Fbederick L. Amks, of Boston, vice president of the Old Colony railroad and worth 125,000,000, was found dead in a btateroom of the steamer Pilgrim soon after its arrival in New York. Apoplexy was the cause. A stranger's body was found to occupy the coffin supposed to contain the remains of Rev. J. S. Marquis at Washington, Pa. l'nv, draw span of the Terminal Railway company's bridge between Counci Bluffs, Ia., and Omaha was eompletec and turned in position. It is 520 feel and exceeds in lenpth anything oí its kind in the world. Tuk Moore & S7iith Lumber company at San Francisco failed for f600,000; assets, Í2, 000, 000. Ai. ix 1 rot teil a mi', e at Washington park, Chicago, in 'J:OG. Ajjuis McSwka.n and his wife were obbed and murdered at their country ïome 4 miles from Newton, Ala. The lumber flrm of Bell, Cartwriffht & Co., Cleveland, went into the hands f a receiver with liabilities of 100,l)00. Many of the boomers awaitinj? regisratioD at Arkansas City, Kan., were jrostrated by the intense heat and several deathfl occurred. A.v incendiary fire dcstroyed a large portion of the business section of Stillvater, O. T. The twenty-fifth annual banquet of the society of the Army of the Tennessee was held in Chicago. Oov. McKinley, of Ohio, was the principal speaker. Twkxty-jïINE buildings, ineludinp three hotels, wereburned at SchellCity, Slo., the loss beinj? $100,000. A New York paper prints dispatches from nearly 1,000 cities and towns in the west and south giving the views of bankers and business men on the business outlook. Those interviewed say the panic is a thing of the past and the outlook is most cheerful. I'ocp. nepro prisoners, one of them a woman, charped with a familv, were killed in the county jail at Carrollton, Ala., by a mob. Twelve men who were stealing their way to the world's fair in a freig-ht car were held up with pistola mil robbed by foiir men at Winslow. Ind. RF.siDENTSof several counties In Kansas reported that the crops were a failure and help must be given. Nobthkbh Wiaconsln was bemg devastated by forest fires and the homes of over fifty farmers with kII their belonging-s had been destroysd, and sevonil lives lost. The city of Marshfield and the villag-e of Junction City were said to be burning. Tiieke has not been a national bank failure since Aupust 2S and dnrlng that period twenty-eight suspended national banks have resumed. In Rock ford, 111., the Union ture company, the Mantle and b nrniUire company and the líock River Planing Mili company made assignments. Fire destroyed the large hay and grain warehouse of Hereley Bros.' in Chicago and ten horses perished in the stables. After a conference the vorld's fair directors called a special meeting to discuss the feasibility of extending the exposition until January 1, 1894. There were 152 prostrations from heat on the world's fairgrounds in Chicago on the 14th, it the hottest day of the season, the mercury registering 95 degrees. Laurexs S. Heintjes rode 26 miles and 50 yards in one hour on a bieyele at Springfield, Mass. Collector J. W. Reickley, of the Indianapolis Gas company. absconded, taking with him a large amount of the concerns cash. Decided improvement in business was reported from every part of the country. The cottou milis in Massachusetts were resuming operations, but at a reduction of 10 to 13 per cent. in wag-es. The number of unemployed throug-hout the country was Stil! very large. Fike in the business center of Emporia, Kan., did 5100,000 dainage. Thirtv-iive horses were cremated. L. C. Hughes, governor of Arizona, in nis annual report says that the assessed valuation of the territory in 1893 was Í28.4S6, 183, apainst 187,924,109 in lSai The total bondeddebt is $2,9511,000. The governor maltes a strong plea lor the adraission of Arizona into the unión as a state. Ho shvs that the shrinkafje in the value of silver has resulted in the elosing of alraost all the silver mines, so that the output üuriug the year was less than ?#00,000, as ag-ainst $6,278,895 in 1891. The exehanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the lüth ajrgregated 1793,858,839, against 1738,575,705 the previous week. The decrf-ase, cömpared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 88.6. Fivk THOUSAND trance ol gold, worth $134,000, have disappeared f rom the Philadelphia mint. The expresa carof the Mineral Range passender train in Michigan was held up and robbed by bandits a half ïnile from lioston station and the robbers secureil $75.000 in cash, money intended for the employés of the Calument and llecla eopper inines. While placing a negro under arrest near Southport La., Judge Victor Estopinal was killed and his son fatally wounded. FoüB children of William Staker, living near Logansport, Ind., took poison because they were not permitted to see a parade. An ek an all night right residents of Deadwood, S. D. , smreeeded in suving1 their city, threatened by forest fires. At Washington park, Chicago, Directum lowered the stallion record to and Flying .lib paced a mile iu :04, equaling Mascot"s record. Footpads waylaid some twenty employés of a St. Louis firm on pay day and robbed them of their earnings. Two masked men held up the stage near Tahlequah, I. T. , and af ter robbing the passengerscarried off the mail pouches. Lydia Buli.ivant shot her husband fatally at Spokane, Wash., and then shot herself. No cause was known for the deed. The Cleveland, Cantón fc Southern railroad was placed in the hands of receivers. STAri.ES Green, a negro, was hanged at Livingstone, Ala., for murder. Ha prayed and sang on the scaft'old and. confessed his guilt. HUSINE88 lauures to tne numberof S14 occurred in the United States in thu seven days ended on the 15th, against a:i ine prececnng weeic ana io uuriug the same time last year. Fiue at Cynthiana, Ky., destroyed a livery stable and fifteen horses v.ero cremated. Forkst fires still ragcd in northern Wisconsin aud hundreds oí persons were homeless. The loss to foresta alone was estimated at $0,000,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Paymaster Johk McMíhos, United States navy, died suddenly of heart failure at his residence in Dorchester, Mass., aged 51 j-ears. Morbaus Ckobbt, of Grand Bapids, who wits lieutenant governor of Michigan in 1ST2, died in Boston, where he bad gone for his health, aged 54 years. L. S. Coffix. nominated for governor by the prohibitionist republicans of Iowa, declines to make the race. The new baby at the white house has been named Esther Cleveland. Miltos Hay, one of the oldest citizens of Springfield, 111., and for tuany years a leading attorney, died at the age oí 7(5 years. Mr. Hay studied law in the office of Abraham Lincoln. FOREIGN. An oflieial decrce has been issued announcing that aD international exposition wfll be held in France in 1900. Alfred I'icard is named as commander jeneral. The Canadian government has refused to ratify the immig-ration agreement made with the New York commissioners that all iinmigrants landing at Canadian ports, but destined for the United States, should be inspected at the port of entry by United States officers. The .steamer Shermoksha was burned on the River Volga in Bussia and teen of the crew and twelve passenpers lost their lives. Advices from the Crimea say that cholera was committing terrible ravages, and that hundreds in the province of Taurida were daily. Ciiaüi.ks pk Lesseps, sentenced in Paris to six years' imprisonment for complicity in the Panama canal frauds, has boen released froin prison. Justin McCarthy has cabled an appeal to the president of the Irish national federation in America askingf for continued financial support. Ik a manifestó of the National Liberal Federation in London the lords are threatened with political annihilation if they continue to oppose the popular will. The steamer Byron Trerice was burned at her doek _in Leamington, Ont., and three of the crew perished. Of 9,000 pilgrims who went to Mecca from Tunis in May 4,500 perished in the Holy Land of cholera and other diseases. Two PAUGHTER8, aged 5 and 3 years, perished in the burning of James Johnson's house at Alvinston, Ont. Barsf.y Wii.kes, the Í20.000 stallion owned by G W. Gale, of Ypsilanti, Mieh., dropped dead on the track at Windsor, Ont. Brazilian insurgents bombarded tho city of Rio de Janeiro, but only little damage was done. Brazilians living in Buenos Ayres believe the success of the revolution meaos the restoration of the monarchy. Two women were arrested in the district of Kuttenburg, Bohemia, who were engaged in the business of murdering1 children whose parents desired to have them got out of the way, Vn.i. a-C anas, in Spain, was devastated by a cloudburst, and sixty persons were drowned. LATER. In the United States senate on the lOth a resolution was introduced for legislation to punish persons guilty of robbery and murder committed on interstate railway trains. Senator Allison (la.) spoke in favor of repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman law. In the house a resolution was introduced the committee on interstate and foreigu commerce to investígate recent train robberies. An attempt to bring up the federal elections repeal bill was defeated by the lack of a quorum. VVili.iam Jacksojï, a negro, was taken from jail at Nevada, Mo., and hang-ed to a tree for assault. Fibe destroyed the lienton club atables at St Joseph, Mo., and 100 vehicles and eleven valuable horses wera burned. Mrs. Eli HaiXOWXIX, the first white woman to immigrate to Illinois, died at Oakland, aged 108 years. Forest fires were still raging in northern Wisconsin, covering an area of nearly 200 square miles, and many lives had been lost. As effigy of President Cleveland was found dangling toa tree in Sacramento, Cal. Neari.y 100,000 persons made the raee for land in the Cherokee strip and in the run six persons were knovvn to have been killed and many others were injured. Ja.mks WlCKS at Niágara Falls fatally injured two Halians andbarely escaped lynching. Tuk fiouring mili at Patterson, O., caughtfire, and before the llames could be checked over a third of the town was destroyed. Volsin, Baslie and Paul Julián (eolored), brothers of Roselius Julián, who murdered Judge Victor Estopinal in Jefferson parish, La., were lyrched by a mob. Nearly the entire business portion of Bunker Hill, 111., was destroyed by tire. The prohibition-republican state committee of lowa nominated Rev. Bennett Mitchell, of Crawford county, for governor, to h'll the vacancy caused by the declination of L. S. Coflin. Y ello w f ever is epidemie in Bruns wiek, Ga. The residents arefllled with terror but cannot leave the city. Fon twelve consecutive hours Chicago firemen fought a prairie tire covering an area of nearly twenty blocloa in part adjoininy the world's fair grounds. Seven Columbian g-uards were overeóme by the intense heat and srnoke, and two will probably die.