The News Condensed

ON the I2;li Dm' Huiraliaa controyersy oeeupiod thi pnrt of the time of the senate. Senator Gallinfter (M. H I introduced a substi ti t i ror : ■ ■ ' I v.liili declares ihatlnvlew of ti" ■ read industrial dem ït is the e ■ ■ sonate ttaal it is imwise to attempt any ebunga in the tarill laws In the house a bilí authorizing the ex■ ■'■ if tlr.ie for the coi ruclii i of the high uri river at se l. '; i-i1 urgency deüctoncy J and a message was received frpin the president transmitting ín the Hüvaiian ma 1 1 r In the senitie Lue Fïawaiiun resolution was again : l of i )ion on the 13th. Senator Gra i 'ka sald thát the administra tion had ceasëd iisefforts in böbali I é öcthn i monarch In the the time waï spent in debate on the UlaiKl seignorage b IL The time oí the United Stntes senate on the 1-1 tli was oonsimed in the discussion of the house bill oompelling the Roe : [sland liailroad company to stop its Irains at the new tons of Enid and Round Point in the Indian tferritory. Tne uominatioa of Benjamin Lenlhier, of Massuchusetts, who has heen three times uomiruiicd. and is now servins without coniirm.aion ',vh United States consul at üaherbrooke, Cn , was rejected... ,In Ihe house Messrs. Quigg aml Straus, members-eleet trom New York city to succeed Messrs. Fellows and Fitch. were sworn ia The seigniorage bill was further discussed. In the senate on the loth the newly-eleoted senator from the state of Mississippi (Mr. McLaurin) made hts flrst appearance and took the oatli of office A bill eompelling ruiiroads in Indian territory to establish stations was passed In ihe house the Bland seigniorage bill was further discussed. Wheeler H. Pbckham's nomination for associate justice of the supreme court was rejected in the senate on the lOth by a vote of 41 to32 Senator Hoar introduced a bill for the suppression of lotteries. It defines the word "lottery," which is made to embrace raffles and gift enterprises In the house Mr. Curtis introduced a bill deflning the crimes of murder in the first and second degrees, manslaughter and criminal assault, providin? punishment for them and abolishing the death penalty for oi.her offenses. An eflort to flx a time for voting upon the Bland seigniorage bill was defeated. The flrst evening session for the consideration of pansion bilis was blocked by the lack of a quorum. DOMESTIC. A BTOKM, which was almost unpreeedented in tJie area eovered and the amount of snowfall, swept through the western states, cansing gTeat damage to property and the loss of many lives. At Cross, O. T., Sherman Stone killed his wife and uve childreu to prevent them from ireezinjr and then took his own life. The law íd Arkansas for the taxing of Pullman cars and telegraph and express companies was declarad uncoastitutional. Business was stopped by the combination of northern blizzard and Southern hurncane which swept over Chicago. Fkeight trains collided on the Wheeling &. Lale Erie road near Bellevue, O., and Engineers Connell and Stowell, Fireman McMullen and Brakeman Johnson were killed. Louis J. Silva., who erabezzled $176,000 from the RainwaterBradford company of St. Louis, has returned and will ! stand trial. Sisïo Wesley, a Mexiean woman, while visiting the grave of her child near Silver City, N. M.. was devoured by bears. The Farmers' Mutual Elevator company at Crookston, Minn.. failed for $240,000. A big tannery at Sand Bank, N. Y., was burned, causing a loss of $100,000 William H. Ahtman, a farmer living near Teil City, Ind., killed his wife and oldest son, aged 12. No cause was known. A CYCLONE passed over the states of Louisiana aud Mississippi and left in its wake many easualties and a vast amount of destruction. Over half the business portion of Genoa, O., a village of 2,000 inhabitants, was destroyed by fire. The Gibson Heights Land Improvement ('ompany tiled deeds of assignment in St. Louis with liabilities of $150.000. Duriiïg the recent blizzard in Oklahoma thirty persons were frozen to death, including a Creek Indian woman aged 120 years. Several persons in Kansas also perished in the storm. Onf, thousand acres of rich coal were found on the farms of George Boyd, Mrs. Virtue and Mrs. Hurst near Fairview, O. The unemployed at Indianapolis, Ind., refused to work at shoveling snow when given the opportunity. Neari.y 3,000 minersnearPittsburgh, Pa., went on a strike against a reduction of one-half cent per bushei in the mining rate. Calvin Armstrong, convicted of embezzling $18,000 of Tipton county (Ind.) funds, escaped from the jail at Kokomo. Thirteen lives were lost in a mine at Plymouth, Pa. The men werecaugiit by a cave-in. Dh. Arthür Duesthow fatally shot his wife and then killed his little boy in a drunken frenzy at St. Louis. William H. H. Strousk, aged 70, chaplain of the Indiana prison at Jeffersonville, dropped dead. He was a government scout during the war. George and William Lutz, 10 and 14 years of age, were pinioned to earth by a falling tree at Charleston, Ind., and fatally injured. Tiie Northern Mili company at Minneapolis made an assignment with liabilities of over $200.000. Tivo MASKEDmen held up and robbed the mail stage at Brice vil Ie, Mo , and secured a large sum of money. Fire in the iron vvork.s at Bath, Me., caused a loss of $155,000. At San Antonio, Tex., fire destroyed the St. Leonard and Central hotels, the loss being $100,000. Three firemen were fatally injured. Paul Jones started from Boston naked on a tour around the world, but soon had made money enough to buy a paper suit and at the end of twentyfour hours had $50 which he picked up in various ways. Thk American national bank at Springfield, Mo. , was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. Amehica's gold output for 1803 will exceed $37,000,000, an increasc overlS92 of $4,000,000. The production of the world will reach f 150,000,(100, an increase of 813,000,000. The Massaohusetts house of representatives, by a vote oí IOS) to ."'.. passed a bilí abolishijng fast days in that state. FlBB belleved to be of ineendiary origin destroyed the g'reater portion of the colonnade on the worid's fair groum Caklo Thieman, a lion tamer, was attacked by three lions in the arena at the midwinter fair in San Francisco and mangled so that he died. The annual review of the whale fishery for 1893 says that the season in the Ai-ctie ocean was a phenomenal one. Thë total of towheads by the entire was 294, agaiust 214 in 1 I By the breaking of the levee at Hom Lake . below Memphis, Tenn., 5.000 acres of land were inúndate! The Burlington (Ia.) Fire and Tornado Insurance company, doinsf a business of t!L8,000,000, assigned. FniE destroyed the entire west side of the city square at Sarcoxie, Mo. Thb Old Kentucky Pnper company was placed in the hands of a receiver at Louisville vvith liabilities of 100,000. 'j'iiii value of breadstuffs exported froin the United States during the seven raonths ended January 31 last was $108,927,568, aainst $122,668,880 durinsi the time in 1893. The firm of George H. Altweli & Sous, shoe manufacturera in Milwaukee, failed for 170,000 1?ob Coli.ins, a respectable ne"ro, was dragged from his home at Oglethorpe, Ga., scraped and cut with a blunt knife and left naked nearly seven hours in a freezinfr atmoBphere. ie died just after beinn' found. Prixce Colonna was awarded his childrea by the BVench courts. Meanwhile they are with their mother in America. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the National Arnericau Woman Suffrage a-ssociation beyau in Washington. A FiKic in the Miller bloei: at Columbns, O., uid damag'e to the extent of S350,000. Jamks E. Stone, who murdered the entire family of Denson Wrattan, six in number, at Washington, Ind., on September 18, 1893, was hanged in the prison at Jeffersonville. Prominent residen ts of Chicago have formed an organization the mission of which is purificatioD of municipal politics. The state normal and training school at Oneonta, N. Y., was burned to the ijrour.d, the loss being 8150,000. John Y. McKank, charged with intimidation of voters and gross election frauds, was fouad guilty in Iirooklyn, N. Y., of all the counts in the charge. May Bbookyn, leading actress of the Palmer company, cominitted suicide by taking' Cdjibolic acid at San Francisco. Gen. Jubal A. Eari-y, aged 80 years, the ranking oilicer of the late rebellion, feil down stairs at Lynchburg, Va., and was probably fataily injured. Cleveland, O., is favored as the place for holding the general conference of Methodists in lSUii. Tuk ühio serate passed a bilí requiring that all physicians must be examined, and providing a board for the purpose. Thb exchanges at the leading clearing liouses in the United States during the week endecl on the Kjth aggregated 8789,281,711, against Ï8S8,216,858 the prevVms week. The decrease, coinpared with the eorrespondiiig week iu ÏK'JS, was 37.1. UovKBHM&fcT ownership of the Nicaragua caual and annexation of Hawaii were favored by the trans-Mississippi congress in session in San Francisco. Thkre were S23 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 16th, against 385 the week previous and 197 in the corresponding time in 1893. Robbers ditched a Southern Pacific train at Roscoe, Cal., and secured considerable booty. A fireman and a tramp were killed. FkANK H. Harper, said tobeaclever forger. swindled two Chicago banks out of Sö.SOO hy raised checks. Farknu, Williams & Clakk's wholesale drug house iu Detroit, Mieh., was destroyed by fire, the loM being $170,000. All but i'2,000,000 worth of the new 5 per cent. bonds have been paid for and the money covered iiito the treasurv. The lowest prices ever known in this country were reached during the week ended on the löth in wheat, silver, coke and some iorms of iron and steel. Dissatisfied land owners biought work on a Florida road to a stop by planting dynamite bombs along the right of way. Joe Dick, an Indian, who murdered Thomas Gray last August, was executed at the county courthouse near Eufala. I. T. Encouragihg reports of the progress of the movement were made to the national woman's suürage convention in Washington. Because he married an actress Robert L. Cutting, of isew York, forfeited all interest in his graudfather's immense estáte. Nu IMPKOVEMENT was reported in the business situation throug-hout the country. Wili.iam Leoxard was hanged at Frederick, Md., for the killing of Jesse Anderson, a railway trackman, on September 6, 1893, at Lime Kiln. He is said to have had four living wives. Effigies of Secretary of Agriculture Morton were found hanging at several points in Nebraska City. Eighï unrecognizable corpses and the timbers of two vessels were washed ashore near Provineetown, Mass. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mrs. Nancy Callahax tned suddenly j at Urbana, O., at the age of iOñ years. Mrs. Myra ISradwell, the fouuder and editor of the Chicago Legal News, who was distiuguished as the first. woman in the United States to apply for admission to the bar, died in Chicago, aged 63 years, John Barkett has been nominated by the president for minister to Siam and T. R. Jurnigan as consul general to Shanghai. Col. J. D. Stevensox, who went to California in 1S47 and headed the regiment of New York volunteers which went to that state the Mexican war, died in San Francisco, aged 94. Gen. Edward F. Hixcks died at Cambridge, Mass., from wounds received while in the civil war. He was the first volunteer. Thomas J. Parker, a '49er and one of the captors oí Jeff Davis, died at Allegan, Mich., asred 72. Uxcle SeIGRANT, 07 years of age, died at Dahlonega, Ga. At the age of 98 he married for the first time. A. Hf.kr Smitii died at Lancaster, Pa., aged 79 years. He served in the Forty-thirá, Forty-fourth, Forty-flfth, Forty-six, Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth conjri's FOREIGN. John Waiaace and his Mexican bride were murdered on a. ranch near Monclavu, Mexico, by Juan Martínez, a disharged foreman. Col. Gtïegorieff was hanged as a Kpy at Odessa. For two years lie liad betrayed Itussian military secreta to Austria. A bakn near Penselin, Germany, in wliich a number of school children songht shelter during1 a hurricane, was blöwn down and five of the children were killed. The Turks killed 1 25 Armenians a.nd wounded S40 duricg the recent riots at Yusgat, Turke.y. Ha.ns VON Hui.ow, the distinguished Germán pianist, died at Cairo, Egypt He was born at Dresden January 8, 1830. In the recent storm in Germany six Cshing boats on the Baltic sea were lost and twenty-two men were drowned. At Altona, on the Elbe, eleven persons were drowned, and eight foresters were killed near Ziegermort. Thheats to assassinate President Carnot were contained in anarchist manifestoes circulated in Paris and Algiers. Japanese advices say that a fire at Kagoshima destroyed 500 dwelling houses and four men were burned to death. Gov. Gakveli,, of the Canadian province of Prince Edward'slsland. is dead. In a railway accident near Jelan, Eussia, two engines and twelve carriages were destroyed, thirteen persons killed and a large number injured. A Fkench anarchist was blown to pieces in a London park by falling upon a bomb in his pocket. President Dole, oí Hawau, gives his grounds for complaint against the United States in a long' letter to Minister Willis at Honolulú. Thkee shots were fired by the fïrazilian insurgents at a launeh from the United States war vessel Newark. While going from Port Albert to Melbourne, Aiisti-alia, the steamer Alert was suuk and all but one of her crew of fifteen were drowned. While the Germán cruiser Brandenburg was on her trial trip near Stollergrund her boilers burst anti forty-one men were killed. Seventv-five Temachians were killed in a battie with Mexican troops near El via, and twenty-üv.; who were made prisoners were shot. The American line steamship Paris was disabled when two days out from Southiiinpton and was compelled to put back. The death of Kina1 Lobengula was confirmed The Afriuan monarch succumbed to disease, not to a British bullet LATER. The United States senate was not ld session on the 17th. In the house Mr. Kland was again unable to secure a quorum to close debate on the silver seigniorage bill. Mr. Hicks (Pa.) introduced a bill for the eneouragement of the mining of silver in the United States aud the formatiou of silver f'uarantee banks Enlogies were pronoiinced on the late Representative Lilly, of Pennsylvania. Frank Randali, and his wife and three ehildren were drowned in the river near Vrisido, Mexico. Mm Lease, of Kansas, claims to be a masón and says she will organize lodges of wo'.nen throughout this country. Juma Tunison (colored) died at Newark, N. J., aged 114years. Two WOMES were fatally hurt near Olanthe, Kan., by the explosión of dynamite placed in a stove to thaw. The lumber output of the Pacific northwestr has decreased during the last year 700,000,0u0 feet. Repokts that Braailian insuifienta fired upon a launch belonging tu ie Newark, of the American navy. are denied. 1-lRK partly destroyed the Illinois state building on the world's fair grounds. Grain men say the recent heavy snow will make a wheat erop of 100,000,030 bushels in Kansas. Rev. Joshua C. Brigqs, supposed to have been killed by a train near Ottawa, O., was murdered. Thirtt-seven of the fifty-eight coal miners charged with riot at Pittsburgh, Pa., were foxind guilty. By a u.istake Mr. Luke, of Nashville, 111., was confirmed by the senate as postmaster at Xashville, Ia. Two negroks who assaulted Mrs. Annie Rucker, an aged white woman, were lynched by a mob near Birmingham, Ala. A CYCI.OXE did great damage to property near Homer, La., and killed two children. Edivakd C. Okamm, sent to jail at Harrisburg, Pa., for assault and battery upon the oath of a brother, committed suicide. Fred Meters and Anton Skinhoi were suffoeated by gas in a hotel in Kenosha, Wis. Thk loss of the tug Millard ofï the coast of Niearaugua with sixty souls on board was contlfmed. The works of the Uriswold Oil corapany at Warren, O., O., were destroyed lire with 80,000 barrels of liuseed product. Loss, $1 70,000.