The News Condensed

In the senate remonsirances were presented on the U2d against the Wilson tarifl bill and against the issue of government bonds. A bilí to codify and arrange the laws relating to pensions was introduce. The nomination of Wheeler H. PecUham, of New York. for assoeiate justice of ihe supreme court, více W. 13. Hornblower, rejeoted, was received frotn the president In ihe house an amendment to the tarifl bill placing sugar on the free list was adopted. A bill was mroduced to provide for the withdrawal of the discrettonary power of the secretary of the treasary to issue bonds. T'ae president's message on Hawaiian affalrs was received. On the 2."íd a resolution was reported in the senate from the committee on foreign relations declaring that the provisional government in Hawaii, having been duly recognized, should be allowed to pursue lts own line of policy. The federal election law was discussed... In the house a bill was introduced for the free coinagu of silver dollars. A joint resolution was presented declaring the sympathy of the United Staies with the effort now being made to establish a republican form of government in the Hawaiian islands. The tarifl bill was further consiüered, and it was voted to place coal on ihe free list. IN the E-enate the Hawaiinn cuestión was asain brought up on ir.e ï4th and after an hour's discussion went over for the day. Ihe bill rtpealing the feaeral election laws was iurther discussed....In the house an amendment to the iron suheduie in the tanff bill placing iron ore on (he free list was adopted. The income tax bill was reported from the committee on ways and meuns. In the senate on the L5th the federal election law was discussed and protests were presented against the placing 01 coal and lumber on the free hst in the lariff bill In tht. house an amendment to the taiiff measure calling for the free admission of all cotton machinery was defeated. An amendment to repeal the reciprocity section in the McKinley bill was adopted. At a democratie caucus it was decided to attach the income tax bill to the tariff bill. On the 26th the session of the senate was deYoted to a discussion ol Senator Call's public land resolulion and a general coiloq.uy over the federal election bill. Adjourned to the 29th.... In the house the only amendment to the tariif bill adopted was one increasing the duty on diamonds, unset, to 30 per cent. ad valorem. The members of the judiciary committee adopted a resolution declaring that the secretary of the treasury lias no auihority to sell bonds to meet the current expenses of the government. DOMESTiC. The visible supply of grain ia the United States on the 22d was: VVheat, 80,384.000 bushels; corn. 13,856,000 bushels; oats, 4,117,000 bushels; rye, 855,000 bushels; barley, 2,194.000 bushels. Samuel, Ganagi, a prominent attorney at Wapakoneta, O., left for parts unknown with g60,000 belong-infr to several estates of which he was administra tor. The new city directory of Indianapolis contains 57,598 names, which it is figured g-ives that city a population of 143.995, an increase of nearly 7,000 over last year. Nunaby, a Choctaw said to be a centenarian and a miser, was murdered by another Indian at Tallihina, Ind. T. Bubglaks tortured Charles Pease and nis housekeeper, living near Cleveland, and made the former siffn a check for 5550. Iowa miners of the Des Moines district, numbering about 600, struck against a 25 per cent reduction in wages. Iowa's .supreme court refused to reconsider its decisión declaring void tha prohibitory amendment of 1882. C. M. Wilson was identified at Cireeley, Col.v as A. C. Knowlton, the absconding treasurer of Knox township, Vinton county, O. ' JI. H. Smith, president of the Bank of Sterling, Col., was sentenced to ! three vears in the penitentiary for ceiving money on deposit aíter he becarae insolvent. Thikteen schools in L3ron eounty, Kan., will be obliged to close on account of the Santa Fe road failing' to pay its tax assessment of $14,000. Pbager Bros., dry {joods dealers at Portland, Ore., failed for $230,000. Fbask Meagheb was fatally wounded and his wife killed by an assassin near Petulma, Cal. Gov. Kien, oL Michigan, says he is determined to probe to the bottom the frauds in connection with the salaries amendment electiou. The national board of trade in annual session in Washington declared in favor oí foreign skilled labor being admitted and paupers barred out Explorers returning to West Superior. Wis., from the Rainy lake gold country, near the Canadian and Minnesota border, state that gold is found in paying quantities all along the shores and on the islands. Aboüt $50,000 in counterfeit money was unearthed at Louisville, Ky., by a woman who was digging some roots for tea. The steamship Normannia, which left New York on the 18th inst. for Al giers, Genoa and jN'aples, Was struck by a tidal wave when 700 miles out and so badly darnaged that a return to New York was necessary. Secretaby Carlisle has issued a circular telling how and where the new bond issue can be purchased. . Thbough an anonymous letter an alleged plot to burn Danbury (Conn.) bat factories was discovered. Alonzo Keed, of Perry, 111., shot and killed his wife and infant and then ended his own worthless life. Mrs. Aütnie Lindgren's life was crushed out in a mad struggle of the hungry at tlie eounty agent's office in Chicago. John S. Johnson, of Minneapolis beat the quarter-mile skating record, going the distance in 0:31J, flying start, at Madison, Wis. Herman Hakms, of Utica, Minn., who has slept. most of the time for sixteen years, and whose case has become famous, bas again awakened and is apparently in a normal state. Aboused by the frequent acts of lawlessness, Pittsburg (Kan.) residents have formed avigilanoe committee. The recently dedicated mechanical hall of Purdue university at Lafayette, Ind., was burned, the loss being $100,000. GOLD ore to the value of 5128,000 was taken from the LHtle Johnnie mine at Leadville, Col., in one day. Elí)BK I ïiAii &MITH, leader of the Seventh Day Adventista of Battle Creek, Mich., says the end of the world is near. The immense properties of the Sheffield Land, Cual A Iron companj were sold at auction at Birmingliajn, Ala., Ten tbousand miners of Ohio have ref r.sed to accept a reduction in wages and their action will close all the Ohio coal mines. At the twelfth annual convention in Columbas, O., 6í lumber dealers of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana, resolutions were adopted denouncing the free lumber schedule of tbe Wilaon bilí and íorth that the lumber interests of the country would be ruined ií it was enacted into law. Kate Johnson, who has four living husbands, was divorced f rom George at Scottsburg, Ind. , because she would not take in washing to support him. Thk strike of the potters at East Liverpool, O., involves tvventy-three out of twenty-six plants and 4,000 men. Thikty families were made homeless by a fire in Pittsburgh. Pa. Bkgujninq February 23 the Sojstbern Pacific road will boycott the Atchison, refusingto sell or honor its tickets. An insane asylum near Boone, Ia., was burned, and of its nine inmates only one escaped. Koetting, the convicted Milwaukee banker, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by Judife Clementson. Ab a resultof coal miners' refusal to accept a reduction in wages Ohio operators have ordered the mines closed. A steam heater in a passenger coach on a Texas road burst, and two fnen were killed and three hijurad. Flames destroyed one-third of the business portion of Solomon City, Kan. The boiler in a sawmill at Newman, Ga., exploded, instanlly killing William Kidd and Oscar Herring. Kidd's head was blown off. Andkew Franbllin, a veteran of the war of 1812, who lives in Coffee county, Kan., and is 102 years old, will probably be given a pension of $50 a month. The First national bank of Fort Payne, Ala., has suspended. The interior of the hide, furand wooj house of Adler, Goldman & Co. in St. Louis and the Germán Evangelical Lntheran church were burned, the total loss being $100,000. 13 y the extravasación oí blood into the muscular tissues following a fit of vomitina Harvey Kenyon, a lad of 13, living at, Walch, O., has been prautically mummified below the knees. Jekemiah M. Mulvihili,, alderman of the Seventeenth ward in Chicago, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a saloon by Mike Fevver, who was drunk, Firk destroyed St. Paul's Episcopal chureh in Louisville, Ky., the loss being 8100,000; insurance, $54,009. The house of a man named Thomson was wrecked by a snowslide in White Bird Guleh, idaho, and his four daughters were killed. By the capsizingof a boa.t in the harbor at Charleston, S. C, six men were drowned. CoiiD weather reduced the pressure in the natural gas fields a round Celina, O., and great suffering was the resul t. ÏWO Fkekpokt (111.) young women 1 sawed several cords of wood donated to their church by a farmer. ïwklvk of the hat factories at Danbu ry. Conn. , have resumed operations with non-union men. B. 13. C'amfsen and Fred Miller and four others were drowned by a boat captiizing near Sullivan island, S. C. Thkee grandehildren of Frank Miggins were burned to death in his house at Crawford's, Ala. Mu1;. Emil Kellar while insane shot and killed her husband. her oíd cJiild and herself in Auburn, N. Y. Thkee victims of superstition were expelied as the result of the witchcraf t trials in the Salem (O.) Methodist church. A tkial of the monster Niágara falls tunnel water power proved to be a sueeess. A BIG frold strike was made 18 miles from Sorocco, N. M. The Sherman üil & Cotton company's mili at Sherman, Tex. , was burned, the loss $100,000Sfveral heretofore reputable farmers and merchants in Jaekson county, la., were found to be robbers and arres ted. Edwakd Thompson and his 10-yeardaughter were aphyxiated by natural gas at lndianapolis. Beckley, of Pittsburgh, is pushing a scheme for benefit ball frames for Catcher Bennett, who recently lostboth legs. In the prize fight at Jao.ksonville, Fia., be tween James J. Corbett, of California, and Charles Mitehell, of England, the latter was "knocked out" in the third round, giving Corbett the title of champion pugilistof the world. England was said to be preparing troops for Egypt. The relations between the two countries were strained. THE exchanges at the leading elear ing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 26th aggregated $840.227,507, against {924,935,528 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1S93' was 3S.0. Seven persons were frozen to death in Oklahoma during the recent blizzard. Thebe were 430 business failures in the United States in the seven da.ys ended on the !36th, against 407 the week prevknis and 255 in the corresponding time in 1893. Tb e old Schuschardt homestead at Newton, L. I., containg many family relies and paintings, was burued, the loss being $100,000. George H. Painter was hanged in Chicago for the murder of Alice Martin od May 19, 1891. He protested his in nocence to the last. Congressman M. R. Baldwin was hanged in efïigy at Duluth. Minn., because of his stand for f ree iron ore. Ne ar Shannon City, Ia., P. S. Good ale, an aged farmer, was murdered by two youths who were after his money Gov. Wolfe, of Indian territory, ín his message to the extra session of the Chickasaw legislature advices against allotment and statehood, and recommends two clelegates to attend to all the business of the Chickasaw people at Washington. A. M. Leach, lumber dealer and mili owner at JSiarysville, Cal., failed for .1)00. jIichigan's supreme court has confirmed the constitutionalitv of the general banking' law of the state. A Bill was introduced ín the Ohio senate which provides that a parent may not disinherit a child. At Encinal. Tex., a Jíexiean named Valdena shot and killed Miss Josefa Trevino because she would not marry him and then fatalíy wounded himself. Jüdge Ricks refused at Toledo, O., to restrain the receiver from reducinff -.vag-es of employés of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railroad. Upward of fifty families in Sedalia, Mo. , were found on the verg-e of I tion. Because the United States Express eompany is not incorporated in Illinois, L. T. Carson, an aileged embezzler, -.vas set free. Illinois roads paid dividends last year of $28,712,961, against $25,327,515 the previous year. Employés in the state number 71,884. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mus. John Brapdock died at Slabtown, Pa., atfed 120 years. She was a Russian refugee, escaping forty years ! apo. Mme. Laura Schirmer Mapi.eson, the opera singer, died in New York. She made her debut when but 7 years oíd. Geokge H. Ely, a Cleveland banker, died in Washington, where he went to oppose abolitiou of the duty on iron. Repjíesentative Siblf.y (dein.), of Pennsylvania, forwarded bis resignation to the governor as a me.mber of congress. Col. Richard Ross, said to be the oldest gambler in the country, died at Denver. He was born in 1S12 and was in the Blackhawk war. A. F. Bbowx, one of the oldest and best-known lawyers of Iowa, died at his home in Waverly at the age of 6ö years. He was a delégate írom Iowa to the republican national convention when Lincoln was nominated. FORE1GN. The report sent out from Vienna that King Alexander, of Servia, had been murdered, proved to be unfounded. President Peixoto, of Brazil, thinks that the insurgents under Mello are practically vanquished. The insurgen ts recaptured Mocangue island off Rio Janeiro, killing and woundinsr fifty of the Brazilian government's forces. Emperor William of Germany has become reconciled to Prince Bismarek. Mexico is preparing to lay claim to the three Santa islands off the coast of lower California. The decrees expelling ex-King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie frora Servia have been canceled. A NEW Servian cabinet has been formed with M. Simiteh as pr me minister and minister of foreign affairs. Constance F. Woolbon, the thoress, a grandniece of James Feniroore Cooper, died at Nice, Italy. Timbuctoo was occupied by French troops. The African city is the most important in western Soudat). Fifteen persons lost their lives iu a railroad accident near Samara in the southeastern part of Eussia. Pbiïtce Bismakck was given an enthusiastic welcome to Berlin and was publicly embraced by the emperor. LATER. The United States seaate was not in seesion on the 27th. In the house the tariff debate was eoneluded, so far as it relates to the customs schedules. At least ahundred amendments were shut out. It was expeeted a vote would be taken on the bill on February 2, the interim to be spent in diseussing internal revenue. A bill was introduced to increase the revenue by a direct tax on land in the United States. The milis of the American Cereal company at Akron, O., were destroyed by tire, the loss being 8150,000. Additional advices say that 12,000 persons and 50,000 cattle were lost in the earthquake which destroyed the city of Kuchan, Persia. Mks. Ella Powers, of Peoria, 111., shot and killed her little daughter and then committed suicide. California' s midwinter fair was formally opened by Mrs. De Young pressing the electric button which started the machinery. Bad debt collectors have smndled residents in twenty-one towns in southern Minnesota, securing $30,000. Ben V. Hughey, AlonzoCarndall and Perry Vilkinson,hunters,weredrowned near Shawneetown, 111, by their skiff capsizing. Osly 3,500 out of 10,000 Iowa coal miners are at work, and they at greatly reduced wages. J. H. Bemis and one of his sons, both of the lumber firm of J. H. Bemis & Co., of Jefferson, Tex., were eharged with swindling banks out of $500,000. A lakge portion of the business section of Bath, Me. , was laid in ruins by fire. Loss, 8700,000. John D. Sïewart, who represented the Fifth district of Georgia in eongress for three terms ending in 1S90, died at his home in Grifiin, aged 59 years. The interstate commissioners' report on railway earniugs for 1893 show a net decrease of three dollars a mile. lx a jealous rage a man ramed Hawkins fatally shot his wife at Robinson, Mich. , and was himself fatally shot while resisting arrest. Fike destroyed 124 liouses, thirty godovvns and a temple in the Japanese village of Kaga. A wave of anarchy, in the train of which followed bloodshed, arson and the destruction of property, passed over the Mansfield (Pa.) coal región. It began at dawn and at dusk it was estimated that SJ200.00O worth of property had been destroyed. The feeling was so great at Mansfield that the discharge of all foreign miners was de manded.