The News Condensed

On the 19th a bilí was introduced in the senate o lmpose a discriminatinK duty on tea imported f rom this slde of ihe Cape of Good Hope. Thé bilí to repeal the federal elecMon laws was discussed. The nominatioii of Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvanta, to be ambassador of ihe United States 10 Italy was received from the president In the house a resolution was ofiered and referred to the committee on rules for the appointment of a coirrtnluee of aeven to investígate the Hawatlan question and the privileges of the house in such matters. The Wilson tariff measure was reported, and the urgent defleiency bill was passed. IN the senate the Hawaiian question was dlscussed on the 2Oth and Senator Hoar in hi9 remarks sald that the president had no power to appoint a paramount commlssioner without the advice and consent of the senate. A resolution was udopted direoting the committee on loreign relations to inquire into and report on the whole niattfr. The urgent deficiency bill uiis passed In the house the New York and New Jersey bri [ge bill wai paued. The committee nu territories reported in favor of admittin? Oklahoma as a state in the union. BSSATOB PBOOTOR (Vt.) introduced a tiill in the senate on tbe 21st to annex the territory of Utah to the state of Nevada. Ailjnurned to January 3... In the it was decided that debate on the tariff bill would commence January 3. The foreign aftairs committee presented a resolution condemning the action of ex-Minister Stevens in Honolulú and the minority report öenounces the course taken by President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham. Adjourned to Januür . '■'■ DOMESTIC. Unitku States war ships will be sent in nuinbir to Bruzilian waters to maintain the print-.iples of tlie Monroe doctrine. The Richmond Southern Pacific express train was held up by robbers near Houston, Tex., the express messenger and fireman were killed and the express safe robbed. C. A. Cbawford and O. P. Fost sold the Little Annie Gold Mining company's property at Summitvilla, Col., to the Consolidated Gold Mining company for $2,000,000. COLXJS I'. HuNTINGTON has sold the control of the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern railroad to the Illinois Central for Í5,000,0l)0. ' Half the pólice forcé of Jronvrood, Mii 11 . was under arrest for stealing la sent to the starviug Gogebic minera. Mart Gould, of NewBedford, Mass., has been sleeping for about three weeks. The case is attractiny attention. MOBB than sixty girls, from 14 to 18 years of age, have disappeared from Lynn. Mass., within the last three or four weeks, and it was thought they had been enticed away and bidden in Boston. W'ii.i, Fkrgusox, for informingr on Adel (Ga.) gamblers, was dragged to a swamp and killed to prevent him testifying. Huxtkk Wilsox was killed and his wife fatally wounded by robbers in Baxter county, Ark. Robbers held up the attendants in a gambling house in Chicago and got away with $4,000. The private bank of Olmsted & Storms at Galesburg, Mich., has suspended. Whilb sleigh-riding at Burbank, S. D., Miss Dolly Hemphill and Miss Kate Stefani were fatally shot by . their escort, a man called "Shorty" liabcock, who then killed himself. No cause was known. L. P. Rïas and wife, aged 81 and 78 respectively, were found murdered at their home near Winchester, O. The firm of Kleine, Timberman & Co., dealers in woolen cloths in Cincinnati, failed for $125,000. In the Virginia legislature Gen. Eppa Hunton was elected United States senator for the short term and Thomas S. Martin for the long term. The banking 6 of Joseph Steiner & Sons at Greenville, Ala., failed for $100,000. Hebman Kleving, a carpenter out of work, fatally cut his wife's throat and his own in Cincinnati. The annual report of the secretary of the treasury says that the probable deficiency for the year ending June 80 will be f28,000,000. This, he says, it will be impossible to raise by any practicable plan of taxation as soon as it will be required. and he recommeuds that he be authorized to issue and sell bonds at not less than par and not exceeding Í2u0,000,000 in amount bearing 8 per cent. interest to meet the necessary expenses of the government Sixty thousand persons were said to be out of employment in New Vork, the majority of them heads of families. Antón Baltz, a miser who died in Baltimore of starvation, was found to have $4.685 in bank. Seventeen hundred men weregiven work by the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., at one dollar a day. Thirteen hundred families were said to be without employment or support at Richmond, Va. The claims of world's fair aoncessionaires for $688,707 were settled by the adjustment bureau for 91S,318, James Mathis and Henry Scott, two negroes, were shot and killed at Live Oak, Fla., by City Marshal Peary while resisting arrest. Expobts exceeded imports during November by $40,881,028, according to the bureau of statistics at Washington. Out of work and despondent, Henry ■Yeber, a New York tailor, hanged himself in sight of his three motherless children. The Union Pacific Coal company sustained a loss of $7 50, 000 in the destruction of a mine at Almy, Wyo. Joe Kangley drank four cups of bad whisky at Gifford, Ia., and died of congestión of the brain. An attempt was made to kill President Engle of the Exchange bank at Breekenridge, Col., with a dynamite botnb. David Stout, a farmer living near Indianapolis, was robbed of flO.000 in gola which he had buried in his cellar. 'l'iii' house of Charles tjtecke at Bradiloi'k, l'a., was l'u.in'u, and Mrs S and a 5-yeur-old boy herished in the Ban i A Ríen vi'in ol gold nraa ilisc-dvered nortli il Burlington, Ia., and a company was forint'il to work it. No ca ■ vas killed by tbecars in Ohio during the year ended November i" Afteu fastinff forsixtv-two days and breaklng tlie best record by forty.eight hours Mrs. Ann Cook died at Burlington, N. J., of starvation. An abscess of the liver prevented her eating. I.n a drunken row near Latty, O., two tnoonsliiners were killed and several badly wounded. Irukgilarities aggregating millions of dollars are said to have been discovered by experts in the New York custoin house. Tuk Louisiana rice mili at New Orleans was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. One tireman was killed by a falling wall and another hurt. The business portion of Wahahachie, Tex., was swept by fire, the loss being $120,000. Two women' named Williamson and Alexander were drowned in the river ut McCary's Ferry, Ala., while attempting to rescue the child of the latter. Tha child caught to a bush and was saved. Tiib St Nicholas bank in New York city closed its doors. Rector R. W. üraham. of the Church of the (lood Shepherd at Columbus. O., resigned because the financial strinpency has made it impossible to meet his salary. Water frotn an old mine broke into an adjoining shaft at Delaware. Pa., and three inen were drowned. S( j'.vaüïz SfGRAFF, wholosalecarpet dealers in Philadelphia, made an assiifnrnent with liat)ilities of $275,000 and assets of $3:0,000. Pattiikxs accumlated for twenty years were burned with the Dry Doek company's plant at Wyandotte. Mich. Louis 1'aquet. arrested at Crawfordsville, Ind. , turns out to be a noted forger who has been operating heavily. Footbai.i. men met in New York to change the rules so there may be less liability of accident. A package of letters a plan for kidnaping Ruth Cleveland, dauyhter of the president, and holding her for a ransom, was found at Abilene, Kan. ALLEN Cousaxs was han? -1 at Knoxvüle, Tenn., for the murder of his wife in May last. MaRCUS LáUHTD, Miss Alma Lund, his sister, and Mrs. (liarles II. l,und, his sister-in-law, were killed by thecars at a Crossing' near lio! 'ii, N. !I. i-'iiii'. ciestroyed the Mason flats in Duluth, Miun., the loss being Y100,000. Ti'.ami's caused a reign of terror at Oskaloosa, la., and the streets were patrolled by soldiers. Ci.ever shoplifters carried away a tray of diamonds valued at 13,500, from the store of C. D. Peacock in Chicago. Secretary Smith has ordered the purchase of additional suppiies for the destitute Indians in Oklahoma. Seven hixdkek men started out from Minneapolis. Minn., on a wolf hunt and returned without a scalp. Pedkstrian Westo.v uompleted his walk to Albany from New York city. He claims to be as good as twenty-five years ago. The pólice in Kubin, Hungary, killed five peasants who took part in a riot there The exchanges at the loading clearmu houses in the United States during the week ended on the 23d aggregated $1,958, 184,979, against $1,915,882,558 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 36. a Therb were 344 business faüures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 33!) the week previous and 283 in the corresponding time in 1892. Im a cave-in at Carnegie's new mili at llomestead. Pa., fourteen workmen were killed and four badly hurt. At Benton, 111., Judge V. H. Williams was fatally shot from ambush by John i Martin, whose divorced wife he had married. The barn of J. L. Shallcross, a stockman at Anchorage, Ky., was burned, together with thirty horses and 100 head of cattle. Foitr men were killed and five in jured by a boiler explosión at a lumber mili near Knoxville, Tenn. Two women named Thibodeaux and their three daughters and a Mr. Miller were drowned in Grand lake near Mermenteau, La., by the upsetting of their boat. Oi.iver & Roberts' wire mili at Pittsburph. Pa., closed down for an indefinite period, throwinsf 1,500 men out of work. Tklegrams frora 119 important cities throughout the country indicated that the total number of employés in industrial and other lines out of work at this time, together with the total number of people directly dependent for support n pon those so rendered idle, is ! nearly :,000.000. TkïasuBT officials at Washington were worried by the decrease in the cash balance, which wns iut $90,589,737. A i.oss of $200,000 was caused by a blaze in a six-story building in Boston occupied by manufacturing concerns. Gov. Mitcheix refused a charter to the Duval Athletic 3lub of Jacksonville, Fla. , before which Corbett aud Mitchell were to fight. Judge Taylor, of Terre Haute, Ind., deeided a pupil could not be excluded from school because of failure to be vaccinated. Fovr masked men, supposed to be white caps, murdered Pleasant Hendricks, living near Lynchburg, Va., and set fire to the house. Manchester Center, Vt. , suffered the loss of its principal business section by fire. Loss, $100,000. Roscoe Parker, a negro, confessed to killing L. P. Ryan and wife, aged SI and 78 respectively, at their home near Winchester, O. Low water in the Ohio caused the sinking of barges which contained over 400,000 bushela of coaL a rvEW ïobk business agency saya that the features of the business eelt ended on the 29d were the increased uniformity in reporta that general trada was quite as mnch or more depressed than ii'i'vionslv; that heavy trading had been nosatlsfoctory and far below that of a year ago, and there was continued closing down of important industrial establishments, reduction of wages and increased instances where short time was. bei.'is eniorcod.. Wak óo tiriris whiob seli patent medicines at cut rates will be made by the National Wholesale Druggii.ts' association. In a race war at Lagunu del Gallo, N. M., five AmericaDS and nineteen Mexicans were killed. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. John P. Hopkins (dera. ) defeated George B. Swift (republican) for maj'or of Chicago by a plurulity of 1,461. Bert Adams. Jr.. (rep.) was elected to congress from the Second district of Pennsylvania to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Charles O'Neill. Daniel Sinclair, who published tho New York Tribune from 1858 to 1872, died at his residence in New York of pneumonía, aged 71 years. Ex-Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood celebrated his 80th birthday at Iowa City, Ia. Congratulatory telegrams wera numerous. George C. Magoun, the noted financier and railroad man, died suddenly at his residence in New York. Senator Charles Gcinot, who had been a prominent figure in French politics for thirty years, died in Paris at the age of 6(5. James W. Love, consul to San Salvador unaer President Harrison, died at his home in Fremont. Neb., aged 43. Ex-Gov. Alfred Litti.efikld died at his home in Lincoln, R. I. Thomas A. Marshall, one of Mississippi's famous lawyers and publio men, died at Vicksburg in his 83d year. John Dawson, aged 104 years and 1 month, died at Terre Haute, Ind. He attended the funeral of Washington and served in the war of 1812. Gkorge Gorman, who gained a world .wide reputa tion as an amateur oarsman, died at Albany, N. Y., of pneumonía. Col. William C. Youjjg. the oldest gradúate of West Point academy, died in New York. He was boru in 1799. FOREIGN. Mart Doyle, aged 20, her brothers James, aged 13, and John, aged Ï1, and Charles Neal, aged 16, were drowned near Halifax. N. S., while skating. A revolution was said to be brewing in San Domingo and the Kearsarge had been ordered to protect American iuterests. The officials at Honolulú have framed an ultimatum in which they decline to negotiate for the restora tion of the crown and declare that they wi'l resist with military force any and every attempt to overthrow the provisional government A firk that started in the building1 occupied by Hovey .v Sons, drapers, in Sheffield, Eng., causeci a loss of $1,000,000. In a battlebetween Italian forees and dervishes at Nassowah, Egypt, hundreds of the latter, including Mohammed Aliand all the emirs who followed his stan jard, were killed. In a conflict at Kauar, África, between the Arabs and their old-time enemies, the Tuariks, the latter lost uinety men and 700 camels. Dispatches from Pernambueo say that Rio de Janeiro had fallen into the rebels' hands and that Peixoto was a prisoner. LATER. John Ellis, a farmer, was struck by a coal shaft cage and killed at Centerville. Ia. Allen Cousans was hanged at Knoxville, Tenn., for the murder of his wife in May last. In a drunken row near Latty, O., two moonshiners were killed and several badly wounded. World's Fair President Palmer, of Michigan, says he does not care to be governor of the state. Football men met in New York to change the rules so there may be less liability of accident. Ethel Ellis, 6 years old, was burned to death at Anna, 111., her clothes catching fire at a stove. Secretary Smith has ordered the purchase of additional supplies for the destitute Indians in üklahoma. Water from an old mine broke into an adjoining shaft at Delaware, Pa. and toree men were drowned. One of the largest mines on the Gogebic range is soon to reopen. The condition of the miners is hnproved. Thomas A. Marshall, one of Mississippi's famous lawyers and public men, died at Vicksburg in his 8Sd year. Frank Gordon, of Chicago, was murdered for his money by Mexicans in Prendió county, near the Rio Grande. Joseph Francis Leese, Gladstonean, was again elected to sit for the Accrington división of Lancaster, England. Washington officials have instructed the San Francisco collector of internal revenue to open a Chinese registration office. C. P. Huntington, the New York millionaire, has purchased a controlling interest in the Detroit (Mich.) gas plant. Inegularities aggregating milliona of dollars are said to have been discovered by experts in the New York custom house. An advance of from 10 to 80 per cent. in iusurance rates has been made by St. Louis underwriters owing to recent heavy losses. Gladstone announeed in the commons that the duke of Edinburgh renounced one of his allowanees, amounting to Í75.000 yearly. L. L. Kann, alias S. H. Hart, who absconded from Buck'ey, Wash. , with $30,000 fundsof the Buckley state bank, has been arrested in Ba'timore. A ■uccessfol operation was performed at Paria on Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, for doublé bernia oí the stomach. He is roported to be rapidly improving.