The News Condensed

IN the senaie on the &M the tariff bill was further discussed. A b.ll was inlrocluced by Senator Peffer "to dispose of idle labor and discourage idle wealth in the District of Columbia" In the house the time was devoted to District oí Columbia business. The bill ailowing racing aud pool selling in the district was defeated. On the 2U'a Senator Milla closed the general debate on the tariff bill in the senate. He earnestly advocated its passage, though it did not meet his views In the house the post office appropriation bill was paased. In the senate on tne 25ih üebate on the tariff bi:i by paragraphs was beïun, Messrs. Palmer, Aldrich and Platt taking part.. ..In the home an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill requiring consuls at Drincipal ports to turn all f ees into the treasury was defeated. Mr. Meyer's -eigniorage bill. saii to have administraron approval, was postponed for the session by the coramittefi on coinage. IN the senate on the 2i5th Mr. Jarvis, recently appointed senator from North Carolina to succeed Senator Vanee, was sworn in. Senator Allen's resol ution censuring the district author ities for proclaiming against tht admission of the (Joxeyites to the District of Columbia was discussed and the lariff bill was further considered ...In the house 'he diplomatic and consular appropriation bill (41,513,538) was passed. There was no general business transacted in the senate on the 27th. the time being occupied In discussing the tariff bilL A proposition by Senator Aldricü iR. I.) to take an immediate vote on the bill was defeated In the house twenty-one private pension bilis were passed. The bill making auproprianons of L2,45},UüO for the support of the epartment of agriculture for the fiscal year 1895 was reponed. DOMESTiC. The District of Colurabia cornmissioners issued a manifestó advising commonwealers to retnain avvay f rom Washington and saying the laws would be rigidly enforced. The state president of the United Mine Workers says 24,000 ïniners are on strike in Illinois, out of a total of 63,000. His wife having become hopelessly insaue fro-n the grip, M. A. Hunt, a Terre Haute (Ind. ) fiorist, committed suicide. C'IIIEF OF PÓLICE BRENNAN Was Ordered by the couneil to prevent any of the divisions of the comraonweal army entering1 Chicago. The coal miners' strike was rapidly spreading, and it was estimated that 140,000 men were idle. It was reported that mines in the Hocking (O. ) valley had been fii-ed by strikers. Mes. Amelia Mueller, a Cleveland (O.) widow, probably fatally injured her fat.her and mother and then killed herself. The forty gambling houses in Den ver. Col., were protnptly closed in compliance with an order of the new pólice judge. The California sxtpreme court decided that Florence Blythe Bickley, illegitimate daugbter of the late Thomas B. Blythe, is the rightful heir to his estate, valued at Í4,OOO,OÜO. There were nearly 100 claimants. Ex-PO8TJIASTER GENERAL FRANK Hatton, one of the editors and proprietors of the Washington Post, was stricken with paralysis and was in a dangerous condition. Henrt F. Bachelor, president of the Stock Growers' national bank of Miles City, Mont., was found guilty of willful misappropriation of $400,000 of the funds of the bank. Edwaed J. Wobkman, oldest son of Rev. T. C. Workman, the renowned evangelist, shot his wife and himself on a street in South Lebanon, Ind. Domestic trouble caused the deed. An explosión of dynamite in a blaek6mith shop on Mount, Washington, near Pittsburgh, instantly killed Andrew Hugo, aged J7, and fatally injured Michael Gallagher and his son. YVilliam McGarrahan, whose claim to the Newldria mine in California has been before congress sinee 1S9S, died in a Washington hospital at the age of 66. Edward Rosewater, editor f the Omaha Bee, was senteneed to iraprisonment for thirty days and to pay a fino of L500 for contempt of court. The Merchants' bank of Enid, O. T., failed with liabilities of $'30,000. Depositors pursued the cashier, but he escaped on a train. A boiler explosión destroyed Houser & Foutz' tile mili at Huntington, Ind., and killed Elmer Anson and fatally injured David Houser and Adam Foutz. A waterspout and cyclone destroyed every house at Gilchrist, Tex. , but one. By a gasoline explosión in the home of Casimir Nigg near Carondelet, Ma, two children were killed and Mr. Nigg and his wife and Caroline Vogel, lier mother, were fatally injured. Hogan's brigade of the Coxey army seized a Northern Pacific train at Butce, Mont, and the United States marshal was ordered to capture it at all hazards. A BILL giving women the right to vote in school elections was passed oy the lower braneh of the Ohio legisiature and is now a law. May wheat broke all records and sold on the board of trade in Chicago at HM cents, the lowest price ever recorded. Seven Mempliis firemen were severely injured by the collapse of a bnrning buildinif on whioh they were working-. Mrs. Edward IIofackeu, a bride of a day, committed suicide at Kalamazoo, Mich., with poison. Ko cause was known. The Saranac Lake house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $125,000. Albert T. Beck, a noted Indianapolis lavvyer and politician, was found dead in bed with a bullet in his brain, and opinión was divided as to whether he committed suicide or was murdered. Hogan's industrial army, numbering 300 men, coming east on a stolen Northern Pacific train, was captured by federal troops at Forsyth, Mont. Deputy marshals who tried to stop the army at Billings were surrounded and disarmed. Over 5,000 cotton weavers went on a strike at New Bedford, Mi A SIXTY-DAYS' drought in California was broken b, showers and fruit prospects were good. Father Douinick O'Gkady shot and killed Mary Gilmartin in Cincinuati. He was in love with the 2'irl, whom he ha;! followecl front Ireland. :.and, a switchman, shot and killed his wife in Ghicago becausa she pleaded with him to stop drinking. The business part of Floriston, (Jal., a small tovvn on the Central Pacific, was destroyed by fire. Unios Pacific railway earnings in 1893 showed a deficit of $2,595,841, compared with a surplus the previous year of 12,069,757. Two NEGBO convicts, Henry Sing-leton aud Horace Smith, were in the Juekson (Mis.s. ) penitentiary for murdering another convict. Lula Payne. The UnioD house at Cheboygan, Mich. , was destroyed by fire aud Dr. Howell, a veterinary surgeon, and a man named Clune were asphyxiated. All the business houses at Jacusonville, III., were closed because of revival services being conducted by Rev. Chapman. Reports from all soctions of the Uuited States say that the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of odd fellowsliip was appropriately observed by over 1,000,000 menibers of the order. The Colorado smelter at Butte, Mont. , was burned, the loss being over $100,000. The commissioners of the District of Columbia say mat members of Coxey's army will not be allowed to hold openair meetings in Washington. Thb JicKinley Tariff league, with headquarters in Washington, issued a cali for a couventiou of the colored republican clubs of the United States, to be held the first Monday in Julv. Edwasd Eyan, Jk., aud hissisler Nellie, of Koulder, Mont., were drowned on their way to the Crow reservation in search of a ranch they could take up. Col. Sidxey I. Wailes, one of the best-known men in Maryland, was charged with forgery ia Baltimore to the extent of 830,000. At Jaelcsonville, Fla. . Abram Corrant died at the age of 94. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Indian wars and had been married twice and was the father of forty ehildren. Se ven horse thieves were killed by vigilants in Oklahoma near the Texas line. Eev. C. E. Butler, an Ei iscopal clergyman at Fort Meade, Fla., hung himself. ' HiïEE ehildren of Philip Schneider, who lives near Scranton, Pa., were burned to death during a fire which consumed their home. Col. J. A. Watrous, of MilwauKee, was chosen cora mander of the Wisconsin department G. A. R. at the encampment in Janesville. All overtures for a peaceful settlement of the Great Northern railroad strike were declared off. Nick Maktin, a meraber of the coroner's jury investigating a murder at Omaha, was arrested for the crime. Reports from twenty-three states and two territories give a total production of 11,507,007 long tous of iron ore in 1893, a decrease of 29 per cent. over 1S92. The officials of St. Joseph's Roman Cat.holic church at Denver sued Father Malone for $12,00(5, which he was charged with converting to his own use. Fr.ovp Radbaugh, a young farmer near Big1 Springs, O., rendered desperate by domestic troubles, hanged himself and his two ehildren. WfLLiAM C. Green killed a woman who haa lived with him for years at Adams. N. Y., and then killed himself. Deputy marshals engaged a gang of desperadoes in battle near Coal Creek, I. T., and three of the bandits and one officer were killed. Gasport, a vülage in western New York, was practically destroyed by fire. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States durmg the week ended on the 27th aggregated $858,568,059, against L909,889,815 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 80.6. Samuel Vaughas was hanged at Fayetteville, Ark., for the murder of John Gage in September, 1891. Theru were ]80 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th, against 219 the week previous aud 21G in the corresponding time in 1893. CiTiZENSof Burlington, Ind., rid the town of an obnoxious saloon by burn ing the fix tures, wreeking the building and spilling out the stock of liquors. Foübteen business houses were destroyed in Talequah, I. T. , by an incendiary fire. The premises of La Porie, Martin & Co., wholesale grocers at Montreal, were burned, the loss being $150,000. The general business situation throughout the United States was less favorable, as was shovvn by reports from more than fifty important distributing centei-s. Jim Robín son and Beniamin White ■were hanged at Manassas, Va. Twexty-fivk business buildings and twelve dwellings were destroyed by fire at Cadiz, Ind'. The New York legislat.ure adjourned siue die. Fred Gkube, under arrest at Crestón, la., for mailing obscene letters, hanged himself in his cell. Citizen Geobgk Fhancis Train was arrested in Washington for lecturing without a lítense and left the city in disgust. Faii.ing to come to an agreementthe Great Northern road was tied up by a strike from St. Paul to the coast. Hexry Newman & Co., importers of clothing snpplies in New York, failed for 81,500,000. It was said that hunclreds of people in Iron Mountain, Mich., were on the verge of starvation, and Gov. Rich had been appealed to for aid. Seventy-fouk valuable horses were burned iu a fire in thestableof Richard Fitzpatrick in New York city. The 72d anniversary of the birth of Gen. Grant was appropriately observed in raany places thror.ghout the country. A late census report shows that ! there were 2,154,015 widows in the United States. Shell llaxton, Comp Claxton, Scott Harvey and Jerry McCly, ne-roes ac:used of the murder of A. G. Boyce, were hanged by a mob at Tallulah, La. llrxDREDSof elk were found in the .'iciaity of Lander, Wyo., that had died trom starvation. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Jesse Seligman, of the New York md London banking firm of J. & S. Seligman, died at Coronado Beach, CaL, :;4.-i! 67 years. The republicans ot the Seventh district of Indiana nominated Charles L. Henry, of Madisou county, for congress. Mbs. Claudia Herrera, a Mexican woman, (lied in San Francisco at the age of 120. II. W. Ogdeït (dem. ) was elected to congress at Shreveport, La., to fill the unexpired term of ÍS". S. Blanchard. Indiana republicans met at Indianapolis and nominated a ticket headed by W. D. Owen, of Logansport, for secrectary of state, The platform contrasts the prosperé existing under the Harrison administratiun with tho panic now; commends protection and reciprocity and condemns the hostile attitude of the democratie party to these policies; a eurreney of gold, silver and paper; declares for a liberal construction of all pension lavvs; favors restricted immigration, and denounces the Hawaiian policy of the present admi nistration. George W. Fithian was renominated for congress by the democrats of the Nineteenth Illinois district. Gen. E. S. Grangek, U. S. A., (retSred), died in Washington, aged 83. Eev. Nathaniel Butler died at his home in Burlington, Wis., aged 69. For fifty years he had been a minister of the Baptist church. Ex-Gov. N. S. Bebry, the oldest exgovernor in the United States, died in Bristol, N. H., of pneumonía, aged 98 y ears. "Indian John," one of the few Cherokees who refused to leave with his tribe for the west üfty years ago, died at Dahlonego, Ga. , age 9ó. Edwin Turneb (colored) died at Clinton, Ia., aged 105 years. His wife, 90 years old, survives him. FOREIGN. The total numDer of deaths caused by the earthquakes in Greeee is 227. Nicaragua was said to have seized an American mail boat and to have sold the property of the Nicaragua Canal company for debt The woolen milis at Ivanovo, Eussia, were burned, the loss being 1,750,000 rubíes, and ten persons were killed during the fire. The Wellman American artic expedition sailed from Aalesund, Norway, for Spitzbergen on the steamer Eagnvold Jarl. Of the 213 persons arrested in ffarsaw for taking part in the Kilinskicentennial celebration 209 have been sent to Siberia. Thousands of artisans were affected by the failure of the Discount corporation of Ireland, with liabilities of 82,500,000. Great damage was done by a storm on the Irish coast. Forty-five vessels of the Manx fleet were missing and over fifty persons were drowned. Returns from all Grecian districts affected by the recent earthquake show 250 persons killed and 150 injured. Great Britain, Germany and the United States were eorresponding on the subject of the annexation of Samoa to New Zealand. Another earthquake destroyed many vil lages in Greeee, and il was feared the loss of life was heavy. Among the cities totally wiped out of existeuce were Thebes and Atalanta. LATER. lx the United States semito on the 2Sth uit. the tariff lili was further discussed and Senator Hale declared that a pian to reconstruct the measure was being secretly considered. In the house the army appropriation bili was taken up in committee of the whole, but an adjournment was forced ovving to the lack of a quorum. A fire at Shanghai, China, destroyed 500 houses. The famous St. Char.cs hotel in New Orleans was destroyed by fire, causinga loss of $400,000, and four persons were said to have perished in the tiames. The Ohio republicans will hold their state convention in Columbuson JuneS. Ten thousand people turned out to witness the arrival of Coxey's army at Brightwood Driving park, near Washington, where thecommonwealers went into camp. The bodies of 233 persons killed by the hist earthquakes in Greeee had been recovered. It was feared many more perished in sea coast towns. Wi.nchksteh, Va., snft'er?d a loss of L100,000 by au incediary fire, theseeond within a month. Rei'uesentative trade unionists met 1 I at Philadelphia to form a new national j labor organization which it is intended I shall absorb all others. A xkw trial of the Breckinridge-Pollard suit was refused by Judge Bradley in Washington. CJnitkd States Marshal Cronau was given command of 200 regular soldiers in order to effect the arrest of Great Northern strikers in North Dakota. City Marshal Whitsey, of Missouri I Valley, la., was killed while trying to effect the arrest of two burglars. The entire división of the industrial army marcliing uuder Col. Galvin, who stole a train, surrendered at Mount Sterling, O. , to the sheriff. Maj. Joseph Kirkland, a i known soldier and author, died in . üago, a e 4. The Vaughn library building and xmtenti and other buildings were burntd at Ashland, Wis., the total loss J -ing 175,000. iMrs. Hehry Ward Bekcher was said to be very poor and a benelit would be ;endered her in Brooklyn. The percentages of the baseball clubs n the national league for the week ïnded otj the 28th uit. were: St Louis, S57; Phlladelphia, .750: Boston, .714; Cleveland, .714; Ba timore, .571; Cincinlati, .571; Pittsburjrh, .42Ü: New York, 42; Brooklyn, .286; Louisville, .2SU; Washington, .280; Chicago. .T25.