The News Condensed

IN executive session the Chinese treaty was debated for aix hours in tbe senate on the 7th. Senator McPberson introduced a biil for the relie! of Eear Admiral Stanton and the offlcers and enlisted men of the wrecked Kearsarge. Senator Lodge introduced au amendment to the tariff bill providlng that as against Great Britaln or any of her coloniea a tluty doublé the amount imposed In the proposed tariff bill hall be levled and a duty of 35 per cent on all anieles on the f ree list In the house the New York and New Jersey bridge bill waa passed. A resolution was introduced making it in order to amend any general appropriation bill so as to reduce or repeal the bounty and the Uriff on sugar, or etther of them. IN the senate the new tariff bill was briefly discussed on the 9th In the house Mr. Haten reponed nis anti-option bill and the naval approprla'ion bili was callad up and briefly ex plained in some of its parts. ON the 9th the tariff bill was discussed In the senate and during the debate Senator Mills (Tex.) announced tbat under no circumstances would he support'Lhe amendments proposed by the oompromise Dill In the house the bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississlppi river at St. Louis was passed and a biil was favorably reponed by Mr. Springer (111.) to suspend the taxation of 10 per cent. on state bank issues. A f ter hearing Gen. Coxey the committeë on labor decided to report a resolution for a joint investiga tion by a special eommittoe of the senate and house of the Coxey movement and the depressed condition oí labor in general. IN the senate on the lOth, John Patton, Jr., the new senator from Michigan, took the oath of ofitce to succoed the late Senator Stockbridge. The resolution to investígate the allegod pólice clubbing, May 1, was discussed, but no aciiOD wa's taken. The tariff bill was further considered.... In the house a bill was introduced for pensions at the rate of one cent per day lor eich dtty ofpervice and one forsa currency commisiiTon to be composed oí rifteen persors. not more tban so-ven to be baukers, to investígate the currency queetion and report ta congress in December. Mr. Talbot briefly announced the death of hls colleague, R. F. Brattan, of Maryland, and the customary resolutions were adopied. ON the llth the taritï bill was considered in the senate and several of the amendments were adopted. Senator Gallinger spoke on his amendment providing for a retaliatory clause against Canada, but no action was taken... In the house the biil providing that the flrst session of each congress shall begin the first Tuesdav after March 4, instead of waiting until the following December, and the second session to begin on the flrst Monday in January, instead of December, as at present, was favorably reported. The civil appropriation bill was discussed. DOMESTIC. Miles C. Maïs and his wife (lied within ten hours of each other at Vandalia, 111. They had been married just one nionth, and both were taken sick a week ago on the same day. The steamship La Touraine made the trip from New York to Queenstown in five days and sixteen hours, the shortest time on record. The work oí the senate special committee on the tariff bill was completed and it was reported to the full committee. Fearing he would be hanged for using a canceled postage stamp, a Swede named Johnson drowned himself in Boston harbor. A. N. Schusteb &Co., wholesale dealers in clothingat St. Joseph, Mo., failed with liabilities placed at $500,000. Favorable erop reporte were received at Washington from all sections of the country except the Pacific coast and the southern portion of the cotton región. Organization of the state constitutional convention was affected at Albany, JN'. Y. , by the election of Joseph H. Choate as president. Refusing to obey a request to go around La Porte, Ind. , Gen. Randall and his staff were put in jail. A determined effort was being made to break up the army. A memorial shaft to Edwin Booth was dedicated at the grave of the player in Cambridge, Mass., Rev. Edward Everett Hale conducting the exercises. Miss Della Frank, of Lima, O., who tried to commit suicide a week ago becaune of her poverty, has fallen heir to $9,000. Uov. Jonas Wolf, of the Chickasaw nation, was indicted by the Chickasaw grand jury upon the charge of embezzling between $25,000 and 75,uOO of the per capita funds. The village of Pawnee, 111., was nearly wiped out by an incendiary fire. Coxey, Browne and Jones, the. commonweal leaders, were found guilty in Washington of violating the law. A motion for a new trial was entered. Three convicta in the state prisoa at Jackson, Mich., overpowered aguard and tried to blow down the wall with dynamite. A catastrophe was narowly averted. The steel casting works at Lima, O., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of 8300,000. Disooveky of irregularities at Boston impelled Secretary Carlisle to order an accounting of stock in all the bonded warehouses of the country. William Crawford shot and killed Jessie Lowery and himself at Jacksonville, O. They were lovers, but he was out of employment and despondent. Col. Carpenteb and Capt. Logan, commanding an army at Sutter's Fort, Cal., disappeared with $300 of the industrial funds. At the antiual meeting, in St. Louis of the National Union of Chiefs oí Pólice President Seavy, of Omaha, was reelected. Mus. Mollie Page filed a bill for divorce in Chicapro from husband in the inorning, and meeting him in the afternoon was reconciled. The National Temperance society at lts annual meeting in New York elected Mai. Gen. O. O. Howard president. The patents on type distributing machines, seed planting machinery and f are ï'egisters have'expired. 1'IKE in the little villasre of Norway, Me., destroyed seventy dwellings and a number of business places, the total loss beiug $500,000. Co.MMissioNKRS of the district of Columbia declared the eommonweal camp a nuisance and ordered its abatement within fort.v-eïifht hours. Albert Woodlet, a painter, In a üt of jealousy shot and killed Mrs. Jennie Buchanan at her home in Allegueny City, Pa., and then shot himself in the head. At the hotelmen's converttion in Denver the Cuited States Hotel association was disbanded and the Hotelkeepers' National association was organized with 1). C. Slïears, of' Cincinnati, as president. GüS Weibbrodt, treasurer of Middletown, 0., was said to have used 830,000 of the city's funds in trying to beat the races. At Sliaron Springs, Kan., William McKinley and his son, Lewis, were lynched by a mob for inciting a younger son to murder Charles Carey, his brother-in-law. Raïe cutting in the trans-Atlantio steerage business has reduced the price of passage from London to New York to $12.50. A battle occurred atYakima, Wash., between deputies and commonwealers, in which two deputies were shot, one fatally. A storm of unprecedented severity swept over Still water, Minn., and sidewalks and street pavings were torn up and a number of houses were undermined. The general federation of women's clubs met in biennial convention at Philadelphia. The report on mineral resources in the United States for i893 shows an aggregate valuation for the product of Ï609,58ü,083, a decline of over Sl5,U00,000 from the previous year. The twenty-three members of Galvin's commonweal army who were arrested for attempting to capture a freight train were sentenced at Pittsbnrgh to twenty days in jail eacb. A cabbless man sitting on an oil barrel and smoking a pipe caused the destruetion of $100,000 worth of properiy on a dock in New York. JoiiX PoitTEB, an Izard county (Ark.) farmer, tried to ford Stráwberfy river with a wagon and his wife and three children were drowned. E. B. Whiye, a painter at Houston, Tex. , killed his wife and himself. Passenger and íreisrht trains eollided at Menomonie Junction, Wis., and Engineer James Jert'reys was killed and four other men badly injured. Business houses and residences in Indianapolis were unroofed by a violent storm, and a child of S. J. Huntsman was killed by flyinsr debris. Ex-Countt Recorder J. P. M. Goodjian died at Ashland, O., a Eter having lived thirty-nine days without eating anything. Patriotic women unveiled a monoHth to the memory of Mary Washington at Fredericksburg, Va. Presidant Cleveland made an address. Sandeks and his band of train stealing Coxeyites surrendered to United States marshals at Scott City, Kan. Richard Croker has withdrawn from the leadership of Tammany hall in New York. Chiek Hazen, of the secret service, will wage active war on firms counterfeiting world's fair medals and diplomas for advertising pur poses. Official figures show that nearly one-fourth of theold corn erop of Illinois is yet in the hands of the producers. CoMMOüWEAiEBS at Elkhart, Ind., seized a Lake Shoro train and started east. Seven men armed with Winchesters robbed the bank in South vest City, Mo. , of 14,000, and shot four citizens. Maj. J. W. Powell, at the head of the government geological surve3% has resigned, owing to failing health. The total number of Chinese that registered throughout the country unoer the exclusión act was 105,313 The total Chinese popuiation by the census of 1890 was 107,483. The freight depot of the Pennsylvania Railway company at Columbus, O., was burned, the loss being S100.0Ü0. WoMEiï of the Ashland district in Kentucky have deterrained to petition Breckinridge to withdraw from the congressional race. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States duruig the week ended on the llth aggregated 1908,225,545, against f955,219,455 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 34.2. Two Coxeyites were shot and 100 captured in a fight with oflicers at North Yakima, Wash. There were 206 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the llth, against 233 the week previous and 257 in the corresponding time in 1893. "Tip," the ferocious elephant in Central park, New York, who has destroyed eight men, was killed by poison by the authorities. lx accordance with a resolution adopted by the general grievance comniittee 3,500 operators at the Pullman car works in Chicago went on a strike. George Dunlap, crazy from alcoholisnvand eonfined in the bridewell in Chicago, beat hi.s cellmate, Jaines Maher, to death with a bucket. P. J. O'Connor was elected president of the National Ancient Order cf Hiber nians at the Omaha meoting. Gis Meeks, his wife and two children were murdered at Browning, Mo. , by men against whom they were to be called as witnesses. Mrs. Kaïe Bradfohd, who secured $200". 000 from gullible New York people, has disappeared. The money was lost on Wall street. Charles D. Walcott. of New York, luis been appointed to succeed Maj. Poweli as director of the Dnited States geological survey. At the session in Philadelphia of the general federation of wonien's clubs Mrs. Charles llenrotin, of Chicago, was elected president. New Yokk men have commenced action to secure possession of lands in Lyon county, la., valued at 83S9,200. Inquikv into the a ff airs of the Northern Pacitic railroad at New York shows that a transaction for over ' 8,000,000 was not recorded on the books. Ten business blocks at Red Jacket, Mich., were destroved bv lire. Charles V iiittle, iged 25, son of Maj. Whittle, the evangelist, was killed by a train at Wheaton, 111. He was riding a bicycle betweeu the rails ana failed to see the train approaching'. James Ebert Moore, one of the best knovvn financiers of the northwest, shot himself dead at his residence in St. Paul because of financial reverses. J ruGE Worthixgtox, in the principal circuit courtat I'eoria, 1Í1.', granted twenty-seven decrees of divorce in one day, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Hokatio Nelson Clark, 03. years old. who discovered the spring of water in Andersonville prison during1 the war, was run over and killed by a train at Amsterdam, N. Y. Edward Lane was renominated for congress by the democrats of the Eighteen Illinois district. Mus. Sarah Ann Phcenix died at Delavan, Wis., agej 95 years. She was the widow of the man who founded the town in 1836. Gen. Matthew M. Trumbcll died at his residence in Chicago, aged 68. He did brilliant service in the civil war and had vvritten exhaustively on the tariff and labor questions. Rolla Hakt was nominated for eongress by the Democrats of the Ninth Kentucky district to suceeed Congressman Thomas Paynter. The republicans of the Twenty-seeond Illinois district renominated George W. Smith, of Murphysboro, for eongress. Finís E. DowninO was selected as a candidate for congress by the democrats in the Sixteenth district of Illinois. CONGRESSM A3T ROBERT P. BKATTAN died at his home in Prineess Anne, Md., af ter a long illness. The republicans, of the Fif th district of Indiana nominated Jesse Overstreet, of Franklin, for cong'ress. Minnesota republicans wül hold fcheir state convention at St. Paul on July 11, and the republicans of Missouri will meet at Excelsior Sprints on August 14. Thomas Bttrke, who was lOO .years old iast Christnias, died at his home in Merritt, Mich. FOREIGN. A new cabinet was formed in Holland with Herr Roell as president oL Uie council and minister of foreigü affairs. A telegram froin Buenos Ayres says that during the last ten days business failures have occurred there iuvolvhig liabilities aggregating nearly $20,000,000. A CANABiAS patrol vessel seized the American flshing boats Visitor and Leroy Brooks while cruising in dominion waters. A telegram from Hakodate, Japan, reported the loss of thesealingschooner Matthew Turner with all on board, twenty-three in number. It was said that gold had been found in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, equalling in extent the gold fields of South África. An earthquake destroyed the cities of Egido and Merida and several villages in Venezuela and 10,000 lives were said to have been lost. A vast nihilist conspiracy was said to have been discovered in St. Petersburg and 100 arrests had been made. The Kingston mili, a large cotton spinning company at Huil, Eng., failed for Í 400, 000. Ex-President Caceres was reelected president of Peru. Elbctions in Hawaii for delegates to the constitutional convention were orderiy. ffhe complexion of the convention will be strong-ly conservativa. LATER. Five hours were required in the United States senate on the 12th to dispose of the items relating to tannic and tartarie acids and alcoholic perfumery in the tariff bül. The military academy appropriation bill ($410,203) was reported and a bill was passed placing Maj. Gen. George S. Green on the retired list of the regular arn as a first lieutenaut. In the house a resolution providing for a committee to investígate the causes of the industrial depression was offered by Mr. MoGann, of Illinois. Peter Wapsey, an Indian residing near the village of Hartford, Mich., died at the age of 110 years. Talmage's Brooklyn tabernacle and the Hotel Regent were destroyed by fire and many other buildings were damaged. The total loss was put at $1,000,000. Gkorge Rose, the murderer of Assistant Postmaster Kuhl at Cottonwood Falls, Kan. , was taked fiom jail by a mob and hanged. Nine Coxeyites who captured the ferry boat at Zillah, Wash. , were drovvned in the Yakima river. In the midst of a sermón on the uncertainty of life in Etnauuel Methodist cñurch in Phüadelphia Rev. J. W. Langley was stricken with paralysis. A tank of benzine exploded during a fire in Bradford, Pa., and at least thirty persons were burned by the. flaming oil Ordebed by the authorities to abandon its camp in Washington, Coxey's army moved to Bladensburg, Md., 3 miles away. Tivestï thousaxd persons witnessed the launching of the torpedo boal Ericsson at Dubuque, la. At Half Moon Bay, Cal., Joseph Cantano in a fit of jealousy gave strychnine to his wife and himself and both died. Fokty canary birds added to the interest of a sermón on '"Spring," delivered by Pastor Dobbins, of the Lincoln Park Baptist chureh of Cincinnati In a battle with Brazüiian insurgents at Caryha the government forcea were de 'eated with a loss of six otlicers and sevent--four m_n The dam at Lima., Mont, broke and houses, barns, fences, haystacks and all kinds of stock were earried away. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the nat ion al league for the week ended on the 12th were: Cleveland, .7(35; Baltimore, .684; Pittsburgh, .607; Philadelphia, .B3; Boston, .Gil; .Now York, .550; St. Louis, .471; Cincinnati, .467; Brooklyn, .3SÍ; Louisville, .313; Chicago, .'2ü7; Washington, .150.