The News Condensed

On the Uth petttions were presented In the senate praying for the recosnitlon ol Llncoln'8 birthday as a natioual holklay. A blll was introduced making it a crimo, punishable by lmrlsonment f rom one year to twenty years to rctard or obstruct tho passage of any train carrylng the United States maiL The tarltt bill was furthor considered .... In the house the resignation of Representativo Cotnpton, of Maryland, was received. Sevcral District of Columbia bilis were passed. In the senate on ihe 15th Senator Allen (Neb. ) called up his resolution to investígate the industrial conditlon of the country, but lt ■went over for the day. A bill to place üunbar Ranson on the retired list of the army as captain was passed and the tariff measure was !urther considerad In the house the naval appropriation bill was passed and the agricultural appropriation bill was discussed. The committee on pensions voted to report a bill increasinK the rates of all peusioners of the Mexican war and Indian war from 58 to $12 a month. ON the 16th tariff discussion occupied the time of tbe senvvte. A resoiution for an investigation of the charae that brlbery had been attempted to defeat the tariff bill was offored - In the house the joint resolution authorizing an investigaron of the industri&l depresston was rMnnrtcil frnm lbo pnmmitmn on labor. A bill was iutroduced for the ereotion of a national memorial homo for ased colored peoplo in Washington. The agricuHural appropriation bill was consiaered. IN the senate a resolution for an investigation of the charge that bribery had been ;U' temptod to fiefeat tne tariff bill was adopted on the 17Ui and a bill provlding tor the admission of Utah as a state was reported. The tariö bill was furtlier discussed....In the house tha agricultural bill was passed. On tho 18th a resolution calling upon the attorney general for Information us to the existence of a sugar trust in violation of the law was adopted in the sonate. The tariff bill was considered Jn the house tlio legislative, execntive and judicial appropriation bill was discussed. At the evening session prívate bilis were considered. Adjournod to the 21 st. DOMESTIC. J. S. Dygkfaf, a Keokuk (Ia.) insurance agent, killed his divorced wife because she refused to be reunited and then fat&lly shot himself. A new gas well struuk near Fostoria, O., shot a steady ñame 150 íeet into the air. AN army of 150 commonwealers, fifty of which were vvomen, captured a train at Washington, Ia., and pulled out uuder the direction of Commander Bill Beamer. The villag-e of Palmyra, Neb., was amost totally destroyed by fire. Rbsolutions opposing Breckinridfre's return to congress and calling' on Senator Black burn to aid to bring about his defeat were adopted by a masa meeting at Lexington, Ky. A train on the Lehigh Valley road was wrecked near Owego, N. Y., by an insecure rail, and Willie Mahar, aged 5, ■was killed and thirteen other passengers iniured. Gov. Flower, of New York, has signed the eompulsory education bill. Neak Eemsen, Ia., Annie Hansen was shot dead by Herman Peters, her uncle, who, after saying it was an accident, killed himself. Two hundred Coxeyites drove a mar ] shal's posse from a train at Montpelier, Wyo. , and started east Troops were ordered to intereept them. Dr. Talmagk will not again assume charge of the Brooklyn tabernacle unless ?'80, 000 in cash is raised for a new building and site. Víctor Behglusd, who deserted his newly-wedded wife in New York, was arrested in Chicago while cashing a $15,000 check which represented all her property. An incendiary fire that started in the baseball park in Boston burned over sixteen acres of territory, destroying the homes of 400 families and leaving nearly 4,000 persons homeless. The loss was placed at 5500,000. E. S. Beach, W. C. Truesdell, J. FBrowne and Franklin Whithall, Harvard college students, were drowned in Boston harbor, their sailboat capsizing. The Ohio Grand Army of the Republic met in annual encampment at Cantón. Spencer Atkins, a farmer, was taken from his house near Birmingharn, Ala., and murdered by white caps. Three desperadoes disguised as tramps tried to wreek and rob a St. Paul train near Minnesota City. They were captured after a hard fight. Two thousand veterans, participated in the parade at Rockford which opened the twenty-eighth annual encampment of the Illinois department G. A R. Ozem Jackson and J. A. Trusty were killed and William Hurst fatally injured by the caving in of a tunnel on the Monon road at Owensburg, Ind. Peterson and Gaudaur were winners of the heats in the 3-mile seuliing race for professionals at Austin, Tex. The barn of VV. H. Senden near Marshall, Minn., was struck by lightning and destroyed, together with thirtythree good horses and forty hogs and pigs. Members of three Logansport (Ind. ) families, twelve persons in all, were poisoned by eating cheese and three would probably die. Katheh O'Grady, the murderer ol pretty Mary Gümartin, was starv'mg b-imself to death in the Cincinnati ja.il. Coot Williams, a negro convict, was taken from Mallory's camp at Pine grove, near Welborn, Fla. , and lynched by a crowd of 100 men. Nim Young (colored) was lynched in O'.-ala, Fla., for assaulting Lizzie Weems, a 16-year-old white jfirl. The bill providing for free school books in Ohio passed the senate and is now a law. Through the efforts of the citizens' arbitration comrnittee all differences between the Great Northern railway and its einploj'es were adjusted at Minneapolis. The commonvveal leaders, J. S. Coxey, Cari Browne and Christopher Columbus Jones, were denied a new trial in Washing-ton, but aentence was deferred for t.wo da.vs. A cyclone passed one-fourth of a mile west of Knnicle, O., doing greal damape to property and killing Daniel Barrett and his wifë and their hvo grand-daughters, Myrta and Martha Caso, and George Oxinger. Charles Cole and his wife were fataily injured. JoHn Appt.tnt, a farmer in Wood county, O., windled out of 84,000 by two contidenco men who engaged Mm in cards. Norwegians in Chicago celebrated the eiyhtieth anniversary of Norway's independence. Uailstones 3 inches in diameter feil at Uecatur, 111., and much damaje was done to windows and vegetation. Plans have been formulated whereby the Pacific railroads may liquídate their clebt to the government in fifty years. , Over 13,000 sheep perished in a snovv and windstorm on the Sierra Nevada ranges. i'i ve men and a woman were drowned by the wrecking of the schooner M. J. Cummings at Milwaukee. The anniversary of the establishment of the first post office in America was celebrated at Breeze cottage, Garden City, L. I. DuHlXG a terriflc crale on Lake Miehig'an the beíich from Glencoe to South Chicago was strewn with wreckage. Eight vessels came to grief and at least ten liveswere sacrificed. The financia] loss was estimated at 8100.000. The scène off the lake front was unpar-' alled in Chicag'o's history. During1 the storm the old cottonwood tree in Chicago, the Fort Dearborn massacre of 1812 was blown down. Thkre were 220 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the iSth. affainst Sim the week previous ar.ri 247 in the corresponding time in 1898. Mbs. M atilda A. Peterson, of CMcago has petitioned congress to appropriate 85,000,000 to purchase lands on which to settle unemployed thousands. The exchanes at the leading clearing1 houses in the United States dnring the week ended onthelSth aggregated 8887.677.578, againsl i )5,545 the previous week. The deerense, eompared with the eorresponding week in 1S93 was 27.6. An agentr for the Missouri Pacific bought the Kansas City & Beatrice railroad at auetion for 8100,000. CixcraxATi authorities iorced food down the throat of Father O'Grady, the mxirderer of Mollie Gilinartin, "'ho was starving himself. DrMNfl a storm in New Jersey fourteen houses rere struck by lig-htning in Bridgeton, three in Cedarville, four at Newport. two at Dutch Neck. seven at Vineland and several in Millville. One man was killed, one fatally injured and four seriously hurt by the explosión of a boiler at West Bay City, Mich. WnxiAM McKeii.i. was hanged at Mobile, Ala., for the murder of his wife, whom he found to be unfaithful to him. Bookkeeper J. J. Keas, of the Harlem river bank in New York, was charged with stealing 810,000 of the bank's funds. Frank Goodale, a well-known jockey, was thrown from Judge Payne at Louisville and trainpled to death by the horses following him. Arx the employés of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy railroad have been requested by the company to submit to vaccination. Jones woods, a popular New York resort, was destroyed by fire, with mauy surrounaing dwellings, the loss bein' over 8500,000. The Bellaire (O.) Nail company closed its entire works because of a shortage of coal and coke and 1.200 persons were idle. Poison, supposed to have been placed in the well by an enemy, kiiled two children of Mart Adler, of Monroe, Ind., and Adler and his wife would probably die. Texnessee bankers in convention at Memphis passed resolutions opposing the repeal of the state bank tax law. A storm of wind and rain swept over portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin and several million dollars' worth of property was destroyed, all the railroads running through that section were blocked and four persons lost their lives. Charles Samsmüller, aged 50, killed his mother, aged 90, in New York and then took his own life. Poverty was the cause. Anai.son Hyatt, a well-known citizen of Waverly, N. Y., while drunk stabbed his wife fatally and then killed himself. The National bank of Pendleton, Ore., closed its doors. Iowa prohibitionists have organized for a three years' fight for a temperance amendment to the state constitution. Gaudaur broke his own 3-mile world's fair record of 19:03 at the professional regatta at Austin, Tex., beating Peterson in 19:02J. In Chicago Election Commissionera Keenan, Hutchings and Schomer were fined $1,000 each for contempt by Judge Chetlain for refusing to turn over ballots to the grand jury. Dr. Samuel A. Mutchmore, of Philadelphia, was ehosen moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly in session at Saratoga, N. Y. H. H. McDowell, of Pontiac, was elected department commander of the Illinois G. A. E., and Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace, of Chicago, was elected president of the Woman's Relief Corps. Bankers, brokers and investors report no impruvement in the general business situation and are correspondïngly depressed. A fire which started in the United States appraise,r's office in Boston caused a loss to the government of $150,000 and other losses amounted to 530,000. Wheat touched 53 cents, the lowest price ever known in Chicago. The conference of coal miners and operators carne to aii end at Cleveland, nothing having been accomplished toward settling the strike. Oivisfi to the coal famine the Grane Trunk railroad refuses to accept lake and rail shipments of grain from Chicago. The National Editorial association will meet in teuth annual convention at Asbury Park, N. J., July 2 to 26. Violent storms of wind and snow swept over Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana, doing vast damage to erops and buildings and causing some deaths. Ari'LicATiox was made in Philadelphia for a receiver for the order of Tonti. The liabilities were said to reach into the millions. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The democrats of Missouri in state convention at Kansas City nominated Francia M. Black for supreme judge, VV. T. Currington for superintendent of public instruction and .7. II. Finks for railroad commissioner. The platform declares in favor of the f ree and un liinited coinage of silver. In the Congregational churoh at East Northfield, Mass., E mina R. Moody, daughter of the evangelist, was married to Arthur P. Fitt, of Chicago. Joseph Young (colored) died at Tnscola, 111., aged 115 years. He served in the late war and was married a seoond time at the age of 102. The populist state eonvention of Georgia nominated J. K. Hines, of Atlanta, for governor. T. W. Phillips was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania district. Nathaniel P. Crane, aged 84, and Mrs. Chloe Gibson, aged 73, were married at lielvidere, 111. The ofiiciating minister is 82 years of age. Kt:v. Dr. Edwabd Bright, the editor of the Examiner, a prominent Baptist newspaper, died at his home in New York, aged 86 years. The democrats renominated H. C. Snodgrass for congress in the Third district of Tennessee. The prohibitionists in state convention at Oakland, Cal., nominated a f uil state ticket, hea-ded by Henry French, of Santa Clara, for governor. The populists in the Second district of Indiana nominated E. A. Riggins, of Davies county, for congress. The Nebraska populists will hold their state convention at Grand Island on August 15. FOREIGN. President Peixoto, of Brazil, has broken off diplomatic relations with Portugal because of the latter granting asylumto insurgent refugees. Severe earthquakes oecurred in the vicinity of Mioko and New Pomerania, N. S. W. , and almost all of the houses of the missionaries and traders were destroyed. William H. Edwakds, of Ohio, United States consul general, died at Berlin from brain fever. The Brazilian government forces were defeated by insurgents near Iguazu and 140 men were killed. An artist natned Kellarzand his three unmarried sisters, all over 50 years of age, took their own lives with poisoa in Vienna. Fear that they might outlive one another was the cause. George Griffiths, of London, completed a trip around the world in 64 days 11 hours and 20 minutes. Nelha Bly's record was 74 days. One hunbked Germán Baptists from Kherson and Volhynia, in Russia, embarked from Liban for America. Relig-ious persecution forced them to emigrate. The British royal commissoners to the world's fair, in their official report, pay a glowing tribute to the great enterprise. Testimoxy given in a Canadian divorce snit connects prominent people of the dominion with several mysterious crimes. LATER. A bh.i. was introduced in the United States senate on the 19th to authorize several American citizens to accept decorations and testimoniáis from the Hawaiian government. Sevei'al bilis of minor importance were passed. The house was not in session. The latest estímate of the loss of life off the harbor of Chicago during the recent storm was twenty-eight. Heavy rains caused disastrous floods throughout Pennsylvania. At Williamsport the boom which eontained 81,000,000 worth of lumber gave way. SEVENmcn were killed and a number injnred in a collision between Chesapeake & Ohio trains in Standing Rock tunnel near P'rinceton, Ky. The republican state convention of North Dakota will meet in Grand Forks July 11. While attempting to rescue the crew of the waterlogged schooner William Shoupe four sailors were drowned near Port Huron, Mich. Ex-Generai. Master Workman T. V. Powderlv, A. W. Wright and P. H. Quinn were expelled from the Knights of Labor on a charge of plotting the order's destruction. The Julius Seniel company's drygoodsstoreand L. Dannenbaum's wholesale millinery establishment in Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, the loss being 8525.000. The Conemaugh river at Johnstown, Pa., overflowed its banks and the streets were covered with water to the depth of 2 feet. At Cambridge, Mass., James Wilson, 40 years old. murdered his wife by cuttiug- her throat and then fatally wounded himself. Edmund H. Yates, editor and proprietor of the London World and the author of many novéis, died suddenly, aged 82 years. Great damage was done by frosts to growing crops over an extensive range of territory. The effect of the cold u-ave was feit from the northern line of üakota to the gulf, and it also went well toward the Atlantic, especially in the southern states. A cloudbürst southwest of Dunkirk, !N. Y., caused one of the most disastrous floods known there in many years. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 19th were: Cleveland, ilO; Baltimore, .(59(5.; Philadelphia, .G80; Pittsburgh, .007: Boston, .505; New York. .478; Brooklyn, .478; Cincinnati, .474: St. Louis, .409; Louisville, .318; Chicago, .300; Washington, 120.