The News Condensed

senator bTEWABT (Mev. ) In a speecn in tne senate on the 25th on hi rebolution declaring that "the independente of the coordínate dopartments of the government must be maintained." charged the president with violating the constitution in seeking to influence tte legislativo department of the government, and said that the chief executivc lacked the education necessary properly to rule over the destinles of tho republic. Don Cameron (Pa. ) spoke on free süver and the repeal of the bank tax law In the house Mr. Oates (Ala.) introduced a bilí providing that hereafter money orders shall be issued by postmasrers upon verbal requtsts and abolishing the use of written applicatlons. Mr. Morse (Ma33. ) chargcd the commissioner of pensions with assuxning legisiative as -.veil ns judicial power in overriding the laws of the country. On the 30th Senator Palmer (111.) and Senator Voorhees (IntL) defended the president in the senate from the attack made upon him by Senator Stewart (Nev.). The senator from Nevada, however, reiterated all that he had said of Mr. Cleveland and declared that the president was influencing senators with patronage. In the house several speeches were made against the repeal of the federal election law. ON the 27th a reesolution offered in the senate to postpone action on flnancial tariff and federal election measures until January caused asptrited debate between Senators Gorman, Wolcott, Chandler, Mitthell and Aldrich, after whicu the silver repeal bill was discussed In the house the bill to repeal the federal election laws was debated. Senatok Peffer made the only speech made in the senate on the 28th on the silver repeal bill. His remedy for the flnancial troublen is the adoption of an amendment offered by him to restore the free coinage act of 1837. A joint resolution to permit the state of Wisconsin to havo placed in the statuary hall of the capítol at Washington a statue of Pere Marquette was introduced In the house Mr. Black (111.) made a speech in favor of the repeal of the federal elections law. Mr. McKaig (Md.) presented bilis aggregating Ï231.000 against the government for claims growlng out of the raids of Gen. Jubal Early during the war. As an outgrowth of filibustering Mr. Pithlan (111.) called Mr. Morse (Mass.) a liar, but no blows were struck. Mr Harris (Tenn. ) and Mr. Morgan (Ala.) spoke in the senate on the 29th against the silver repeal bill. Mr. Cameron (Pa.) presented a petition from Philadelphia manufacturers representing J75,OO0,0O0 capital, employing 100, 000 men with a yearly product of $150,00X000, in favor of legislation to preserve the protective character of the tariff and the integrity of silver as a money metal... In the house arguments were made for and against federal supervisión of elections. A communication from Secretary Carlisle stated that there were 106,688 Chinamen in the country, and of this number 13,243 were registered. DOMEST1C. A resolution advocatftig formation of a third party was adopted at the session of the Cigarmakers' International union at Milwaukee. Attempt was made to wreek the St. Louis express on the Vandalia near Stanton, Ind. It is believed robbery was intended. The state of Tennessee has purchased 9,000 acres of coal lands in Morgan county and wili set convicts to mining coal. Mrs. Henry L. Stevens and Miss Sophia T. W. Morton while driving were instantly killed at a crossing on the Boston & Maine railroad near Greenfield, Mass. The large furniture factory of B. A. Kipp & Co. in Milwaukee was burned, the loss being ï'200,000. While Undertaker Woodward and James Goodell were driving a hearse across the Erie railroad tracks at North Olean, N. Y. , they were struck by a passenger train and both killed. John M. Washburn, for thirty years treasurer of the Old Colony road, confessed to having robbed the cumpany in Boston of about f125,000. The national council of the Order of American Mechauics in session at DesMoines, Ia., decided to ciiange the name to the Order of United Americans. Charles Herring, 19 years old, killed his 16-year-old wife at Atlanta, Ga., and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. Nine men were killed near Ilillsboro, Tex., in a collision between trains. The vietims were all bridge carpenters. i The business portion of Coral, a village of about 800 inhabitants in Michigan, was destroyed by fire. Samuel G. Stodhart, a car accountant of the Carnegie Steel company, shot his wife at Pittsburgh and then killed himself. Despondency over business troubles was the cause. Seven children are left orphans. Benjamin Tennis, a farm hand, confessed that he outraged and then murdered Agnes Wright, aged 9 years, near Hummelstown, l'a. Missouri's railway commission has ordered the rescinding of regulations to prevent passengers without tickets entering traína In the district courtat Wichita, Kan., Judge Reed declared the state law constituting eight hours a day's labor uneonstitutional. The livery barn of Botkins Bros. at Lima, O., was burned and eighty-five horses, soine of them benig valuable animáis belonging to private persons, perished in the flames. A lumber trust formed at Clinton, Ia., witli a capital of il, 500, 000, embraces every lumber and log magnate doing business on the Mississippi and its tributarles between St. Paul and St. Louis. The directors of the World's Columbian exposition met in executive committee and determined to mark the celebration of Chicago day (October 9) by paying off every cent of the fair s indebtedness. The remains of five men that had been murdered were found iii the Arkansas valley in Indian territory. A passenger train on the Louisville & Nashville road was ditched by train wreckera near Scranton, Miss., and three persons were killed and severa! were injured. Cassu's BuXDOr, a crazy man, fired five shots at members on the board of trade floor in Chicago, wounding three persons and creating a panic. In a collision between a passenger and work train near Crescent City, Ia., tivn men were killed and tWO injured. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 2S)th aygregated 773,068,785, against $798,807,899 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 27.0. Henry Coleman, Jr., a negro whoatteinpted to assasslnate Capt. Thomas Lyles at Midway, was hanged by a mob near " ■ ÏS'f.ar Gulfport, Miss., a passender train went into an open switch aad three persons were killed and eight others injured. H. C. TnJCB made a new world's bicycle record at .Springfield, Mass., going 2 miles, with standing start, in 4:16 ::-.'.. Ci.ifford M. C'i.avkhtv, h tight-rope walker, feil a distance of 90 feet at Trenton, N. J., and sustained fatal injuries. Joü.v Tliïi'ik, a brother of the Indiana senator, has returned to his home In Delphi af ter being mourned as dead for a quarter of a century. LOUIS Ki.N'G, a Chinese merehant at Seattle, Wash. , was denied citizenship in the United States court. At an African Methodist conference in Indianapolis Bishop Walters said that the lynching of negroes in the south for trifling offenses, aml in many cases innocent negroes, was increasing to an alarming extent, and called for vengeanee. Dr. Thompson, of St. Louis, urged the negroos to avenge their wrongs with blood. ri;siNF,ss failures to the numberol 32J occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 29th, against 319 the preceding weel and 177 during the same time last year. During the past three months the total number of failures was nearly 4,000 and the aggregate of liabilities about $150,000,000, greatly surpassing the record of any previous quarter. BOBKBT T. lli'NT shot and killed his wife and himself at indianapolis. He was B dissolute artist. V. C. Pebctvax, cashier of the National shoe and leather bank of I.ewiston, Me., died in the state prison at Thomas ton. MlLO WlLSOX, who killed 11-year-old Ina Warman because she would not marry him, commitied suicide by blowing his brains out at Williamsi.urg, O. At a meeting of the Oréese Connty Baptist association at Springfield, Mo., Eider J. M. Carter, as well as the Ash Grove Baptist church, was expelled for heresy. Harley Johns and Sim Reynolds were sentenced to two years in prison at Macon, Mo. , for attempting to wreek a train. Tuk Texas state treasury was said to be bankrupt. A tremkndous rain poured down at Pine Bluff, Ark., and with it came millions of small frogs. The streets in the business part of the town were so covered with them that it was difficult to walk. Counterfeit twenty-dollar bilis were in circulation in Chicago. The bilis are wood-cut imitations of a silver certifícate of the series of lsSO, check letter A. lts number is B 3132108. Snow feil in portions of Xew York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Forest fires were raging near Winchester, O., and in Jefferson township, and many farmhouses and barns had been destroyed. Five negroes were hanged together on one scaiïold at Monnt Vernon, Ga., Three of them murdered Alexander Peterson, a rich merehant, last July; the fourth killed a 5-year-old child and the fifth murdered a negro companion. ITHIN ten days mcendiary tires at Emporia, Kan., caused a loss of Í10U,000. Firk which swept the western portion of the Cherokee strip in Indian territory caused the loss of many lives and destroyed settlers' property. InckntiIARies tired the stables of the Stark county (O.) fair, causing the destruction of prize cattle and a loss of 875,000. An engine telescoped a special car on the Grand Trunk road at Bellevue, Mich., killing Henry B. Xewland and wife, of Detroit, and wourding five others. With songs of praise and words of thanks the world's parliament of religions held in Chicago came to an end. Geokge Walker, probably the largest man in the United States, died at his home in Rockland, R. I., aged 42 years. He weighed 500 pounds and was 5 feet 11 inches tall. Somkthing of a sensation was created at the white house by the advent of a lunatic, who claimed to be President Cleveland's son. At Hazel Patch, Ky., a Louisville & Xa-shville passenger train was wrecked ainl Expresa Messenger Jim Kelly, Mail Agent iSmith and Fireman Lew Eyan were killed and Arthur I'earce fatally injnred. A dozhn persons have lost their lives in prairie lires in the last few days in the western part of the Cherokee strip in Indian territory. HenBY Maiïkü, a wealthy operatorof western silver mines and cattle ranches, dropped dead on Bank street in Xew York. In his pocket was found f:3,000 in money. Thb entire business portion of Casa Grande, A. T. , consisting of hotels, stores, saloons and a few dwellings, was destroyed by fire. The supreme eouncil of the Minnesota Cniffhts of Pythias in session at St. Paul decided not to admit saloonkeepers as members of the order. MaBION HedOEPETB was found guilty at St. Louis of train robbery and sentenced to a term of twent3'-five years in the penitentiary. Mbs. J. H. Raislby killed her husband at Paola, Fla., and then took her own life. Domestic trouble was the canse. Jim McGuatii, a notorious Chicago bully, fatally wounded a companion and was afterward killed y two police office rs. lx a head-end collision on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road near Streator, 111., Engineer Gribbell was killed and eleven other persons were injured. The Michigamme river broke through the Mansfield iron mine near Crystal Falls, Mich., drowning twenty-eight of the employés at work directly under the stream. Laborers in making excavations near Mechanicsburg, O., exhumed twenty skeletons of an ancient race. üne of them, richly decorated, sat upright and evidently had been a chief. A dog sat by his side. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Eet. E. V). Neill, the first resident Protestant minister of St. Paul, is dead at the apfi ol 0. He had written a iiuLu'.r ui books. Tuk Massauiiusetts clemocratsin state convontion in Boston nominated J. E. Russell, of Leicester, for governor: J. B. Carroll, of Sprinpffield, foi lieutenant ' ifovoraor; secretary of state, J. W. ' Dondald, of Marlborough; attorney general. Charles I, il lie, of Dndley; auditor, John I). Wheelwright, of Boston. The platform calis upon the senate to speedily follow the house in repealin the silver parchase law. Mbs. John Dbew, the actress, joyed the congratulationsof her friemls in Philudelphia on the sixty-sixth anniversary of her appearanee on tho sta (je. The president has nominated Bobert E. Preston, of Washington, to be director of the mint. Thk president has withdrawn the noraination of Leopold .Morse, of New York city, to be consul at St. Christopher, West Indiea. Willis I). Machen, ex United States senator, died at Hoplcinsville. Ky., aged 84 years. Dr. L. P. Dodge, a republican politician of Farmington, Minn., died frotu hiccoughs. i ie was 60 years old. In many counties in Kansas the popui sts have nominated women as their candidates f or coroner, register of deeds and county clerk. FOREIGN. The tovvn of Brenezenica, Poland, was completely wiped out by fire and several persons perished in the flames. John Leys, of Toronto, Can., queen a counsel and manager of several estates, is a defaulter to the extent of Ï300,000. Three Bolduc children at St Evarieste Beach, Can. , aged 5, 6 and 8 years, found some strychnine in a bottle and drank it and all died. Ten thousand persons welcomed Governor General and Lady Aberdeea to Montreal. Immigration into Canada this year has proved a failure. A federal unión of Jthe Central American republics is planned. All but one of the five presidents are said to favor it. The boiler of a steamer plying on the Japanese coast exploded and thirty persons were killed. Floods at Gifri, Japan, swept away 682 houses. killed 238 persons and left 30,205 people homeless. In a speech at Midlothian Mr. Gladstone said that home rule for Ireland was not dead, and he warned the lords in the upper house of parliament that a day of reckoning would come when the electors would be heard. Attemptino to escape from a synagoge at Kalwarya, Poland. suDDosed to be on fire, nine persons were killed and 100 injured. Turkey has been compelled by tho United States government to mako reparation for outrages perpotrated oa American missionaries. Tin: rnins of an ancient town near Laurium, in Greece, havo been uqearthed. Efforts at reconciliation between Emneror William and Prince Bismarcli are said to have come to naught. LATES. In the United States sonate on the 30th uit the silver question was further discussed. In the house a resolution was introduced providing for the submissiOn of the question of free silver eoinage to a popular vote. Messrs. Patterson and Warner argued for federal election láw repeal and Mr. McCall defended the measure. Many people were kilied and scores injured by a severe storm which swept over Jalapan, Mex. John M. Schaeffer was accidentally shot and killed by Edward Egeberdt at a Carthage (111.) amateur theatrical rehearsal. Anarchist Pallas, who threw the bombs at Barcelona, Spain, has been sentenced to death by the court martial. Bandit Sontag has made a confession at Sacramento, Cal., with a view to havinpr his life sentence reduced. Wili-iam BONT feil headlong into a well near St. Joseph, Mo., striking George Anderson who was at the bottom doing some repairing. The skulls of both were erushed. It was said that the bodies of the twenty-eight victims of the mine disaster near Crystal Falls, Mich., would never be reeovered. Da. FOGLE8ONG was sentenced to solitary conflnement for life at Ilillsdale, Mich.. for poisoning his wfe. Centerbtjrgh, b town in Obio near Mount Vernon, was almost destroyed by flre, the Ipss being Y100,000. Mus. Daniel Griffin, of Sandy Hill, ís. 11., ;iiul Mrs. h. L. Griffin, of Tuiupico, 111., were instantly killed by a locomotivs at Dunham's Basin, X. Y. CoMllERClAL travelers oranized a national league at New York with a membership of 300,000. DUBINe the progresa of funeral services at the residence "of Assemblyman iiow, at Kingston, Vis. , the floor gave wav, precipitating 1D0 people into the cellar. Several wore_seriou.sly injured, one fatallyThe relatives of the Wrattan family offer a reward of 51.000 for the apprehension and conviction of the parties who murdered that family of six on the night of September IS at Washington, Ind. Thk league baseball season ended with Boston the winner of the penant. The percentages of the clubs at the close was as follows: Boston, . "i T; Pittsburgh, .628; Cleveland, .678; I'hiladelphia, .558; New York, .515; Cincinnati, .512; Brooklyn. .508; Baltimore, .488; Chicago, .441; St. Louis, A'A-; Louisville, 400; Vi'ashington. .308.