The News Condensed

On the 30th uit. the time in the senate was ccupied in discussins the tanff bill - In the ouse the army approprlatiou bill was passed fter adopttng an amendment limHing the umber of asaistant adjutant generáis to lour. After the chapUin's opening prayer in the enate on the lst the death of Senator Stock)ridge, of Michigan, was announced and the enate adjourned In the house no business was transacted on account of the death of Sentor Stockbridsre. Sbnatob Squire (Wash.) delivered a peech n the senate on the 2d in steneral opposition to he tariff bill.... In the house bilis were lntroduced torepeal the tax of 10 per cent on the lrculatton of state banks and to reorganizo he affaira of the Union Pacific Railway comjany. A resohuion was intrcduced to appoint a special commiltee to ilevlse means for the mployment of tbe idle men of the country, retrict immigration, strt np mines, increase he currency and prohibit the issulng oí interest-bearing bonds without authority of coueress. The aenate on ihe 3d passed the house blll authoriztng the wearing of a dis Un o ti ve arm y and navy badge on public occasions, and the nomination of Thomns E. Benedict, of New York, to be public printer was conürmed. The tariff bill was further discussed In the house the time was taken up in the consideration of the river and harbor bill. Mr. Brookshire (Ind.) introduced a bill providin? that no greenbacks shall be issued of a smaller denomination than S10. As amendnzent to the naval appropriation bill authorizing the construotion of twelve new torpedo boats was fuvorably reported in tbe senate on the ithaud the tariiï bill was further discussed.... The only business of importance transacted in the house was tüe pass;iffe of ihe river and harbor approprimion bill after a long discussion. DOM E3TIO. A DECISIÓN by the suprerae court in Washington in the case of Mrs. Jennie Campbell ag-üinsl the Pullman Car company is in effect that traosportation companies are responsible for injuries or indig-niües inflictei by employés. Gen. Horacb Porter was reelected president of the Sons of the Revolution at the annual congress in Washington in which twenty-eight States were represented. )t was decided to offer annually in the schools medals for essays on American history. George Hacson and wife, of worth, Ia., while out driving1 were struck bj' a train at acrossin and both were killed. The Erie canal was opened for navig-alion. The public debt statement issiied on the lst showed that the debt increased il, 160,971 during the month of April. The cash balance in the treasury was 8970,826,000. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to 11,01 7,586,970. Gen. Easuall, with 450 men, started froin Chicago on the march to ington. In an endeavor to keep smallpox out of the state Indiana health officials wiil prohibit the sale of clothing made in Chicago sweat shops unless thoroughly disinfeeted. Feank Rhoser & Co., manufacturera of furniture in Kew York, failed for $100,000. By a vigorous use of clubs the District of Columbia pólice prevented Coxay's commonwealers from inv&ding the capítol grounds. The general tried to make a speech, but was hustled to his carriage, while Chief Marshal Browne and Capt. Jones were put under arrest. The children's home at Temesca, Cal., was burned. One hundred babies and chüdren were safely removed. Pennsylvania populists ia convention at Karrisburg sent greeting to Coxey and norninated a ticket headed by J. T. Allman, of Juniata, for governor. Thkough the efforts of the business men of St. Paul and Minneapolis the Great Northern railvvay strike was settled. A treasury statement shows that during April the receipts aggregated Í22,O92,364 and the disbursements $32,072,830. Seven thodsand unemployed men paraded the streets of Cleveland, 0., and several riots occurred, ín which street cavs were wrecked and a number of persons injured. The coinage at the United States mint in Washington during the month. oí April was: Gold, 10,184,000; silver, 1554,000; 5-cent pieces, 118,500; total coinage, $10,750,000. The pension disbursements for ten months of the fiscal yenr amount to $117,305,184, against $133,078,345 for the some period last year. Two persons were burned to death. ; and three otliers fatally injured in au j explosión and nre iq a JNew lorlv i ing establishment. The Marietta & North Georgia railroad sliops at Marietta, together with locomotives and cars, wore cieBU-oyed by fire. Loss, t:25,ü()ü. H. 0. Ïouthworth, meniber of the firm of Southworth & üratton, grocers at Stockton, Cal., failed for 1334,000. Gen. Coxey was placed under arrest while in courtin Washington attending the trial of his lieutenant. He declared he and his men would remain in VVashington until their bilis were passed. I he Lexington (Ky. ) Ministerial unión passed resolutions condemning Col. Breckinridge's course and denouncing his canvass for renomination to congress. Eepkesentative Isaac B. Tompkins, of New Bedford, dropped dead in the Massaehusetts state house. Henky C. Buown, a millionaire aged 70 years, surprised everybody at Denver by marryinff Miss Louisa Matthews, a 22-year-old school-teaclier. Suven thousand of the unemployed of Cleveland, O., wrecked u number of business establishments and drove out the men at work. Thcy were dispersed by the pólice after raany had been injured. The grand council of the American Protective association convened at Des Moines, Ia. Lapham & Co.'s tanyard and bark milis were burned at Staunton, Va., the loss ?100,000. Ux a ranch near Karaoh, Col., Joseph Ada shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Rosa Rich during a quarrel and then killed himself. David B. Jones, who died near Eurr Oak, Wis., left ten wives'in various portions of the country. Stockholdekr in the World's Columbian exposition will receive a dividend of 10 per cent. ' upon their holdings June 9. FOSTMASTER GENERAL BlSSELL has made a rule that no man shall be appointed postmaster vvho has sold liquor in the town from which he is au applicant. Accokdino to Commissioner of Labor Wrig-ht there are 5,838 building and loan associations in the country, with net assets of ?450,667,893. Thb feit mili at Kenwood. N. Y., owned by Mrs. Sarah Townsend, was burned, the loss being 8250,000. The association of general secretaries of the Men's Christian association of North America, representin# a memberhip of 800.000, met at Cedar Rapids, Ia. All the Colurabian postage stamps are gone except a few of the eight-cent denomination. The entire issue distributed throughout the country was 2,000,000,000. Richard Thompson, aged 28, Carrie McKibben, aged 20, and Hannah Peters, ag-ed 30, were drowned in the river at Keokuk, Ia., by the upsetting of a skiff. By a vote of 37 to 1 the democratie senators in caucus adopted a resolution agreeing to support the tariö bill of the Bnance conimittee. The one vote in opposition was cast by Senator HUI, of New York. H. H. Kohlsaat has sold his interest in the Cnicago ínter Ucean to William Penn Nixon for $400,000. Mes. Maky A. Eulison, of St. .loseph, Mich.. aged 80 years, cornmitted suicide by hanging'. Family trouble was the cause. Two 6OK8 and a daughter-in-law of Satn Gamraon, who lives near Cockrell, Mo., were killed by foul air while ing out an old well. Three hundred Coxeyites captured a Northern Pacific freig-ht train atOrling, Wash., and started east. Fi.ames in a brick íactory in Cincinnati eaused a loss of $100.000. Am agreement has been entered into by the American turf eongress and the jockey club discountenancing winter racing. E. S. Fulfokd broke tsventy straight targets in the interstate snoot at Spring-field, O., tying the world's record, held by Young-. Minebs in convention at Albia, Ia., by a vote of 65 to 55 ordered a strike, ïhis will take out 9,000 men. Poles of Chicago celebrated the centennial anniversary of the insurrection ag-ainst Iíussia with a parade and speeches. A REPOBT on the valuation of building- stones produced in the United States durinff J893 shows a decrease of over $13,000.000 from that of 1892. The Hollander, Bradshaw, Folsom companv, conauctinfr a departnient store inBoston, failed for $141,000. Jitib Vipincr divorced fourteen vears AFTEH Deing" cuvorceu iourtt:t;u yctio Isaac A. Whitney, of St Paul, Mina., and Mrs. I. A. Whitney, of Chillicothe, were once more married. A NUGGET weighing; 3,300 pounds and containing silver worth $25,000 was hoisted from a mine at Aspen, Col. It is the largest ever fouüd. A report sharply criticising Judg-e Jenkins, of Milwaukee, was submitted by the congressional committee which investigated his Northern Pacific strike order. At a meeting-in DesMoines, Ia., of the Eupreme couneil of the American Protective association a growth of membership in the United States and Canada of about 500,000 was reported, making the present membership nearly 2,000,000. The states have the largest number of members: Michig-an, 65,000; Ohio, 63,000; Illinois, 60,000; Iowa, 45.000; New York, 50,000; ifornia, 12,000. Mose Fax, a negro, was hanged at Chester, S. C, for the raurder, five years ago, of Xke Wilson, a colorea man. The president has resig-ned frora the law firm of Cleveland, Stetson & Uangs, of New York, with which he became conneeted at the close of his first term. BlCYCLES are to be taxed at Xorth Bridge, Mass., the money to be used for improving the roads. The First national bank of Sedalia, one of the oldest financia! institutions in central Missouri, closed its doors. The bank had a capital of $250,000. Pojb'hons of Lyon and Osage counties in Kansas were visited by a waterspout fchat flooded the country and ruined crops. In and Olivet every window pane was shattered. A bolt of Hg-htning' struck a wire fence in a pasture near Crown Point, Ind. , and killed eight horses which were lmtldled against it. THEBB were 2S'ó business failures íd the Uniied States ia the seven days ended on the 4th, against 1S0 the week previous and 216 in the eorrespondinjf time in 189:5. A CHARAVAKI party broke into a Lester (Miun.) house on being refused money with which to buy beer and three of its members were shot. The exchanges at the leading clearinn- houses in the United States durmg the week ended on the 4tli asrgregated 1955,819,435, against $858,568,059 the previous week. The decrease, compared vvith the week in 1898, was 30.9. Trade reviews report business as smaller in volume throughout the country. Jacob Buowsr, a negro convict who murdered Frank Mackin, a f ore man at the penitentiary, in 1892, was hanged at Jefferson City, Mo. The coke strike resulted in a "bloody riot at the Painter vvorks near i-Seottdale, Pa., in whieh fifteen persons, ineluding a number of women, were shot. some of them t'atally. THE'secret service of the treasury was informed of the existenee of a new and dangerous counterfeit of the two-dollar treasnry note. It is of the series of 1891, check letter "]?." The figure "3" in the lowerright coi-ner face of the genuino is missing in the counterfeit. Mbs. Margery McIntyre, aged 73, was burned to death in a flre which destroyed the Glenn house at Rochester, N. Y. The National Stove Manufacturera' association in sessiou in Chicago elected George D. Dana, of St. Louis, as president PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Frank Hatton, editor of the Washington Post, and postmaster general in President Arthur's cabinet, died ia Washington from a stroke oí paralysis, aged 48 years. The North Dakota democrats will hold their state convention atGiand Forks oa June 20. Paul J. Sorg (dem.) was elected to congress from the Third Ohio district. RKPOBT8 from fifty-five towns in Indiana show that fifty were earried by the republicana at the municipal eleetions. and five were carried by the democrats. F. C. Layton was nominated for conpress by the democrats of the Fourth district of Ohio. Julián O. DAViusoN,whohad achieved fame as a marine painter, died at Nyack. N. Y., aged 40 years. Georgk W. Abell. ma.na.ging proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, died suddecly from pneumonía, aped 52 years. The Georgia populists will hold their state conveiition at Atlanta May 16. Chesteb I. Long was norainated by the republicans of the Seventh Kansas district for congress. The Tennessee repubiicans will hold their state convintion on August 21 at Nashville to nomínate a governor. The funeral of Senator Francia Stockbridge took place at St. Luke'a church in Kalamazoo, Mich. Welliam Eichie, the astronomer, died at Sharon, Pa. A book on which he had been for twenty-five years will be published by his niece in Chicago. Henky Edick died at the house of hi daughter, Mrs. Frank Headley, in St. Joseph, Mich., at the ag-e of 104 years. The Illinois prohibitionists in con vention at Bloomington made the following nominations: United States senator, Dr. J. Gr. Erans, of Abini?don; state treasurer, J. W. Pviterbaugh, of Mackinaw; superintendent of public instruction, N. T. Edwards, of Kewanee, Mbs. Dodson (colored), familiarly known as "Aunty Dodson," died in St Paul, aged at least 107. There were records showing that she was 107, and probably older. Kansas equal suffrag-ists opened the campaign at Kansas City. Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw were ainong the speakers. FOREIGN. The Walter Wellman American expedition sailed irom Tromsoe to Spitzbergen to begin the seareh. for the north pole. The scorpions have made their appearanc.e at Dnrango, Mexico, in greater numbers and with more deadly results than ever before, many deaths bavin? occurred from bites from the poisonons insects. ï'ive hüxdred Mexican troops were said to have been ambushed by Yaqui Indians in the Le liacetet mountains and 200 either killed or wounded. Nune villasres on the island of Euboea were destroyed by the earthquake shocks in Greeee. As international bimetallic conference, under the auspices of the Bimetallic league, began in London. THEenormoussawmills of the arsenal at Mourillon, France, were burned, the ioss being ?1. 250, 000. Anotheb earthquake in Oreece completed the destruction of many houses. , ïsio lives were reported lost. LATER. The EomÍDatiousof Séneca Hazelton, I of Yermont, for minister to Venezuela, ; and Gteorge Keenan, of Wisqonsin, ior consul to üvemen, were received by the United States senate on the 5th. No business of importauce was transacted. 'J he house was not ia session. A CTCLONK swept across the prairie and throug-h the heavy timber near Eoyalton, Minn., great damage. Eev. T. DeWitt Talmage completed i his twenty-tive years of continuous service as pastor of the Brooklyn tabernacle. John Fatton, Je., a prominent lawyer of Grand Rapids, was appointed senator from Michigan by Uov. Rich to suceeed the iate F. B. Stockbridgre. He is but 42 years olil. Kabakicoa, king of Unyoro, was defeated by the A frican expedition and a death blow to the slave trade admiiiistered. Miss Florence Kki.i.y, inspector of Illinois factories, reports having found in five months 6,57ö boys and girls nnder 10 at work. .Mus. Dkwitt Ebwakds, wife of a farmer at Iloney Creek, Minn., while temporarily insane poisoned herself and a 10-year-oid uhild by putting arsenic in chocolate. John Jay died in New York, ag-ed 70 years. lie took a prominent part in the anti-slavery ao-itation and was minister to Austria from 1869 to lSTö. Tuf, W. N. White'.y reaper and mowor works at Muncie, Ind. . were destroyed by iire, the loss being i'245,000, with no insurance. A band of kidnapers was supposed to be at work in Kt. Joseph, Mo., as five children had disappeared within two days. A storm in Luzerne eoun y, ira., caused a loss of over SI 00. 000. Taboe City, on the siiore of Lake Tahoe, Cal., of about fifty houses, two hotels, stores, etc, was cli. stroyed by fire. In thirty minutes a hail and rainstorm at lowa City did $100,000 damaffe. At Maine station a dozen houses were blown down and one woman died from iiija'ies reoeived. The Belgian international exposition was opened at Antvverp by King Leopold. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 5th were: Cleveland, .SIS; Boston, .692; Baltimore, .092; Pittsburgh, .667; Philadelphia, .571: St. Louis, .500; New York, .462; Cineinnati, .400; Brooklyn, .885; Louisville, .'Mi; Washington, .214; Chicago, .'-00.