The News Condensed

In the sfloate en the sth tho Hawaiian qnestion was discussed and Senator Prye (Me.) made an atternpt to secure a vote on his resoiution declaring against American interi'erence at Hawali, but it was object d to In the house a quorum was secnred and af ter udopting a rule íixing January 25 for u vote on the Wilson bill the tariff debate was oponed and Mr. Wilson (Va.) epobe in support oí the mensure. On ihe 9th the house bill for tne repeal of the fedoral election.s luw was brought up in the senate., but action was postponed till Monday next In the house Mr. Wilson (Va.) linished his speech in favor of the tariff bill and Mr. Burrows (MioïC) spuko against the measure. In ihe house a favorable report was made on the resol ution offered by Mr. Boutelle (Me.) calliag upon tiie secretary of the navy to inform the houae by nrhai autnority instructions were iksued plauing the naval forces under the orders of Minister Blouut, and io furnish copies of all orders or su?gestions issDfid by himself or any offleer of the navy aince March 4, 1893, coacerning the naval fufúes ai the Hawalian Islands. The lime in the senate on the lOth was occupied in cliscussing the resolution declaring against any moral or pbysical interference in Hawaii pending the coxiülus'onbf the senatorial in ves tigra t ion, hut no ction was takun In the house the tariff bill was furiner discussed and Mr. Johnson (dem ,O.) attacked the democrats for the ümid rnanner in which they had handled the ranff cuestión and charged them with cowardice all a'ong the line. Mr. l)ulz# (dem , Pa.) made a speech in defen.se oí the tariff. The senate further discussed the Hawaiian matter on the llth and the minority report oí the cornmittee on privileges and elections on the bill to repeal the federal election laws was presen ted... In the house the time was occupied in discussing the lariff bill. Speeches were limited to one hour and many members took part in the debate. The session of the senate on the I2th was devoted to executive business. The nomination of Mr. Preston to be director of the mint was confirmed. Adjourr.ed to the 15th In the house a resolution calling upon the president for all Information in his possession touching recent reported events in the Hawaiian islands was reported favorably and temporarily laid on the table. The tariff bilt was further discussed. DOMESTIC, The government erop report for 1893 shows a yield of 396,000,000 bushels of wheat, 1,619,000,000 bushels of corn, 638,854,850 bushels of oats, 26,555,440 bushels of rye, 69,869,495 bushels of bnrley, 12,132,311 bushels of buckwheat, 183,034,203 bushels of potatoes, 483,023,903 pounds of tobáceo and 65,7Öö,158 tons of hay. In a bill for divorce in Chicago Morris Lakalske says he was led to the altar blindfolded when he was but 15 years old. Albert Knop, treasurerof thevillage of Riverside, O., who has been missing l'or a week, is $15,000 short in his ac counts. The furniture plant at Sheboygan, Wis., of the Halstead Manufaeturing company was burned, the loss being 100,000. Three men entered the pawnshop of Samuel Greenburg in Chicago in broad I daylight and carried off jewelry valued at $10,000. The business portion tt Pocahontas, Ark., the county seat of liandolpb county, was burned. Wllliam Kimbbeix, his wife and ehild, near Dodge City, Kan., were fatal iy wounded by an unknown assassin. The net treasury balance in gold at the close of business on the 9th was $73,618,655, the lowest gold reserve ever reached. The unusually cold weather in ern California seriously damaged the orange and lemon erop. Fike destroyed the Casino, Music hall and Peristyle on the world's fair grounds and damaged the Manufactures building. One fireman was killed and another fatally injured. Many exhibits awaiting removal were burned, and the I total loss was estimated at about $1,000,000. The flames were thought to have been of incendiary origin. A dozen persons were poisoned, some fatally, by eating ham and eggs in a St Louis hotel. The Citizens' bank at Ogden, Utah, closed its doors. lts capital was $150,000. Hknry Saner and his wife were ! found murdered at their farm 3 miles from Marrietta, O. He was a wealthy farmer, his family consisting of himself, wife and one son. Sam Smith, a negro, was lynched near Greenville, Ala. He had shot and fatally wounded E. L. Harnson'who was his arrest. The best portion of Bellevue, Mich., was swept by a fire that (lid damage to the extent of $100,000. It was allegred at New Orleans that the Loxiisiana anti-lottery law had been found detective and would not stand a test in court. The Ming-o Mountain Coal & Coke company at Louisville went into the hands of a receiver with iiabilities of $100,000. Maud Davis, a ,5-year-old girl in St. Louis, died of hydrophobia in horrible eonvulsions andspasms. She was bitten by a pet dojf two years ago. The bank at Port Washington, Wis., O. D. Bjorquist & Son, proprietors, discontinued business. Arcadia, Kan., a town of about 2,000 inhabitants, was almost destroved by fire. A baby 2 months old was offered for sale in the east market at Indianapolis by a woman with whom it had been left. In St. Louis Western Union Buildingand Loan associations Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 were placed in the hands of assig-nees. To test the Florida law the Duval Athletic club has arranged a prize tifjht between two negroes to take place shortly. In a Buffalo hotel John L. Sullivan was knocked out by his wife with an Indian club. He was unconscious for an hour. William H. Curtiss, once a well-todo real estáte dealer in Buffalo, N. Y., shot his vvfe and eldest dauyhter fatally while insane. Tuk factory of the Ktarr Piano compr.nv at Eiclimond. Ind.. was clestroyed by fire, thp loss beinff f100,000. Kivr men held vid a íast train near St Joe, Mo., and looted the express and mail curs. A large sum was secured. Tun midwiiiter fair will be íormally opencd in San Francisco on Saturday, Januury 27. C. Schafflin &Co. , l'lainfield (N. J.) clething1 manufacturera, assigned, with liabilities of $179,548. W. T. Beek & Co., commission merchanta in ban San Francisco, failed for 3700,000. Ax Elrnwood (Ind.) man found in g'oUl coin in a head of cabbage he had bought at his g'rocer's. T. F. Bakker, for twenty years an employé of the Consolidated national bank of Philadephia, confessed to L47.000. A i.one highwayinan held tip the stuye bétween Bowie and Soloraonville. Ari. , and secured ?B00. Colobado's legislature inet in extra session at Denver and iistened to Gov. VVaite's message, which the senate declined to print. The doek of the Alabama Coal & Coke company in Jacksonville, Fla. , eollapsed, killinp three men and fatally injurmg1 another. A HTBTW order, known as the Ancient Order of Loyal Americans, was formed at Lansinj?, Jlich. 'l'he meinbers are required to labor against any foreign influence in the uffairs of the nation, either political or religious, to break down trusts and to promote liberty. None bilt native-born Americans can joiii. January 22 is set as the day on which the order is to ba instituted in all the various state-sof the union. Six men were injured in a train wreek near ürinneil, la., caused by a car breaking' in two. Si'Eingfield has been selected as the permanent site of the Illinois state fair bv the board of ag'nculture. Samuel and William Walker( orothers) and Ezra Baer, their brather-in-law, were crushed to death under a mass of stone at Somerset, Pa. Ed Dansef (colored) was hanaed at Ocala, Fla., for killing Deputy Sheriff Binnicker. A boiler in a sawmill at Delphi, O., exploded, killing Noah fliffman. Amos Stevens and Silas Wilson and fatally injuring John Wilson. Skcretaey Carlisle will be compelled to issue bonds under the law of 1S75 unless consjress ecacts Dew legislation. Shebman Wagoner, a wife murderer, was lynched by a mob near Mitchell, Ind Tuiïee men were killed and one fatally hurc in a hand car accident near Woodward, Ala. Fkask D. Jackson was inaug-urated povernor of Iova at the capitol in Des Moines. bimplicicy marked the proceedinfrs. Mayor McNeixl, of Eddyville, Ia., dropped dead in the streets. Heart disease was the cause. Chris Evans, the noted bandit, raided Fowler, Cal., robbed several men, shot a constable and escaped. Tkeasury officials in Washington estímate the gold production of the wovld at nearly SI50,00U,000 for the year 1S98. Lew is Redmire has been found g'uilty of $103.000 iromtheGate City bank at Atlanta, Ga. The Indiana appellate court decided tliat Sunday theaters could not be operated in the state. Aftkk a continuous sleep of fortyeiyht honra Geovge Kurg'ess died at Cavo. Mich. , on the day that he was to have been married. Witiiin a week nine counterfeiters have been arrested in St. Louis. JüDGE Bartlett, of Urooklyn, N. Y. , refnsed to quash the indictments apainst McKane and twenty-oiie others accused of election fraud. . The exchanges at the leading clearing' honses in the United .States during the week ended on the 12tli asrgregated $1,006,181,451, against f990,800,551 the previous week. The deorease, coinpared with the corresponding' week in 1S93, was 41.6. Saiiuf.i, Welsob was hanged at St. Louis for the mnrder of an abandoned woinan. ile had adinitted the killing-. ! TiíKHE were 4T4 business failures in the United States ia the seven days ended on the 12th, afrainst 511 the week previous and 2Sö in the eorresoonding time in 1893. Threk ele vators and a malthouse in Chicago belouging to líales & Curtis were destroyed by fire, oansing a loss of t300,000. r'oru negrpes entered the home of Frederick Benny, a farmer near St. Louis, fatally wounded Benny, who is over 70 years old, and his wife, aged 65, securëd $800 and lied. The business portion of Davis, Md., was destroyed by flre. Five Iiritish sailors and a ferryman were drowned in Baltimore harbor "by the swamping of their boat. Eoscoe Parker, a 16-year-old negro, was taken from jail by a mob and lynched at West Union, O., forthe murder of Rit Ilhiue and his wife, an aged couple. Ed Lewis, a young earpenter in Cincinnati, shot and killed his wife and then took his own iife. Domestic trouble was the cause. Burgi.aks raided Courtland Ala. Every business place was broken into, wagons being used to carry off the plunder. Gov. Waite's proposition to make foreign eoins legal tender in Colorado was rejected by the legislature. A fire in the car shops of the Erie Railroad eompany at Jersey City, N. J., eaused a loss of $100,000. The business outlook throughout the c ountry was said to be improving. A section of a drawbridge, between Brookyu and Long Island City gave way, throwing sixty persons into the water, and seven were known to have been drowned. French exhibitors at the world's fair now state their loses by the recent fire on the grounds will amount to over $80,000. Bleached bones of over twenty-eight Chinese, packed in a tin box, hermetiically sealed, were shipped from Chicago to the flowery kinsrdom. A Missouri Pacific south-bo ;.:n l train was fired into by robbers neax Monett, Kan., but the eugineer did not stop. The post office at Cory, Ind., was robbed of $185 in stamps and a larga sum of mone3'. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. J'S the presence of a vast erowd William McKinley took the oath at Columbus as governor of Ohio for a second time. Rev. Samuel Carter died in Des Moisés, Ia., aged 102 years. He was born a slave in Virginia in 1792. RlVAX senates were organized in New Jersey. Holdover democrats secured possession and were recognized by the governor, but the house recognized the new senate. William Lindsat was elected United States senator by the Kentucky legis lature to succeed himself. Chables E. G. Whttebs, a veteran of four of the great wars of the nineteenth century, died at Port Jervis, N. Y. , in actual want. Tuk democrats ia state convention at Karrisbnrg-, Pa., nominated James D. Hancock, of Franklin, lor congressman at large. John Kaiser, ordinance sergeant of the United States army, died in Buiïalo, ÍÍ. Y. He had served in the Mexieau and civil wars. Reak Admiral Doxai.d Mc'vkiij, Fairfax of the Uniteci States navy, retired, died at his honie in Hagerstown, Md. , aged 70 years. Johs Cabboll Power, custodian of the Lincoln monument at Spiñnjjfield, 111., since its dedication in 189H, is dead. Joseph Manley, of Maine, succeeds Thomas Carter, oL Montana, as executive committee chairman of the republican national committee. FOREIGN. An alleg-ed rabbi was said to have carried on an extensive business in divorces in Winnipeg-, Man. The great mili works at Charlottenburg, Germany, were burned by anarchists, the loss 400,000 marks. ES a battle in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the insurgents killed 500 of the government troops andeaptured the remainder. Vaiu.,ant, who threw the bomb íd the French chamber of deputies in Paris, was found guilty and sentenced to death. A 8TRANGEB walked into the'National bank of Mexico, picked up a sack containing $1,000 in silver and walked ofP i with it. The "provisional" has been dropped and the Hawaiian gwernment now stands as an independent sovereignty. The danger was believed to be past, and if any royalist uprisin was attempted it would be put down. Troops fired on a mob that had attacked the house of the mayor of Corato, Sicily, and seven persons vvere killed. A heavy shock of earthquake lasting ten seconds was feit at Godeboute and several other places in Canada. M. Dupuy was asrain elected president of the French chamber of deputies by a good majority. Mrs. Willum Makepeace Thackeray, widow of the novelist and satirist, died at Leigh, Enland. She was 75 years old. Advices from Rio Janeiro state that the bombardment of the city by the insurgents had recommenced. The Jesuit eollefre at Antwerp, Austria, a noted and extensive institution, was burned, the loss 150,000 ! francs. Five men were killed on the Brazilian insurgent ship Almirante Taiiaudare by the bursting of a cannon. LATER. The United States senate was. not in session on the 18th. In the house a message from the president on Hawaiian affairs was read and referred to the foreign affairs committee. The tariff bill was further discussed. Ik China tire destroyed 100 houses at Cantón and 800 houses near Fooehow. Thomas T. Pkatt, a Valparaíso (lnd.) meichant, related the details of a dream of, death and the next he was found dead. Th Meadville (Pa.) saving-s "bank closed its doors. The lïritish bark Clan Grant, en route from Aruoy to New York with tea valued at $375.000, was lost in the Java sea. Nearly o00 vromen and children were burned to death at .Ninn-o, China, by a fire whieh destroyed a temple. J. G. Büktost, Williara (iay and his son, John Gay, were lynched by a mot at Russell, Kac. The men were suspected of the murder of Fred Dinning last July. ■Sax Francisco papers say Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, will claim damag-es from the United States. Wbiik in a drunken frenzy Edward Hoffman shot and killed his wife at Sistervüle, V. Va., and then took his own life. The Syndieate block at Minneapolis was burned for the third time, causing a loss of $113,000. Captains of Florida militia companies have been notified to hold their men in readiness to stop the CorbettMitehell fig-ht announced to take place on the 26th inst. Two little g-irls were burned to death at Des Moines, la. Mrs. Dobson, the mother, left them alone in the house. The total value of domesuc breadstuffs exported from the United States in 1893 was $182,939,902, agfainst $243,305,227 the previous year. The en tire Arg'entine maize.crop has been ruined by the droujfht and the outlook was critical. President Cleveland has transmitted to congress all corresponednce relatin to Havvaii since his last messatfe. Charles J. Frost's twin sons, ajred 14, were drowned near Joliet, I1L, while bathing-. John Bovd Thacher as chief of the bureau of awards of the Columbian exposition says in his report to the national commission that there was 65,422 individual exhibiters, and the judges made awards to 21,000 individual exhibitrs.