The News Condensed

ÜN the llth tlie senate entered on the eleventh week of the tarlft debate and nlneteen pages of the measure were disposed of - In the house no business was transacted because of the lack of a quorum. A BILL was lntroduced by Senator Squlre, of Washington, In the senate on the 12th for the free oolnage of süver. The wool feature of the tarlff blll was discussed In the house a bilí was passed setting aslde $100,000 from the fund belonglng to the estates of the deceased colored soldlers of the war for the purpose of erectlng In the District of Columbia a national home for aged and inflrm colored people. The Indian appropriatlon bill was further considered, and a bilí was favorably reported to restore to the pension rolls the widows of soldiers who had been dropped because of remarriage, and whose second husbands have died. ON the 13th the wool sectlon of the tarlff bill was discussed in the senate, Senator Sherman (O.) making a vigorous speech agalnst free wool In the house a bill to disapprove of the treaty heretofore made with the Ute Indlans for thelr remöval to the territory of Utah was passed. The Indian appropriation bill was further considered. In the senate, on the 14th. bilis were passed to authorlze the appointment of women as public school trustees in the District of Columbia. and for the development and encouragement of silk culture in the United States. The tarifl bill was further discussed In the house the time was occupied in considerlng the Indian appropriation bill. In the seuate on the 15th an amendment to the tarifl bill to leave the duty on wool the same as in the McKinley bill was defeated by a vote of 29 to 37. The bill providing for the deficiency in the appropriations for the government printing office was passed, and the post offlce appropriation bill ($87.236,599) was reported In the house the Indian appropriation bill was again considered. At the evening session private pension bilis were discussed. DOMESTIC. Officers were elected by the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum in session at Detroit, C. W. Hazzard, of Monong-ahela, Pa., being chosen regent. Thk supreme lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen began its annual session in San Francisco. Strikers destroyed three more railmad bridges in the Alabama mining district. Fivs young women got into a fight at Breeden, W. Va., with knives and pistols and Mrs. Lizzie Maynard was killed and Jennie Morris mortally wounded. The national section of the Cadets of Temperance held their annual convention at Hoboken, N. J., delegates from all parts of the United States being present. Chief Justice Beasley decided that the legislature of New Jersey could not eonfer upon women the right to vote for any public officers. D. L. Harkness, dairy and food commissioner of Wisconsin, died at his home in Berlin of blood-poisoning. The big mining strike has been settled, an agreement as to wages, to last for a year, being unanimously adopted by the conference at Columbus, 0. Bill Dalton's brother, Littleton,.has identified the remains of the bandit at j Ardmore, I. T., as those of the notorious and much killed Bill. A tomb lined with cement was uncovered in a mound at Egan, S. D., and In the compartments were twenty-two male skeletons averaging eight feet in height. A rude altar and many bronze utensils were also exposed. Immighation to the United States has fallen between 60 and 70 per cent, below normal figures, while travel to foreign countrles is much larger than ever before. Three members of a "suicide club" died within a short time of each other at Bellevue hospital in New York. James Pebbt, a Virginia negro who introduced smallpox into Knoxville, Tenn., was killed by unknown persons. CoNGBESSMAÏÏ BbECKINRIDGE ÍS no longer on the honorary roll of the Union League club of Chicago. The Isaac D. Smead f oundry company at Toledo, O., failed for $250,000. Isaac Hanks. of Rutland, Vt., was fined 1,000 for causing the death of his wife by starvation. Eleven persons were injured in a collision between two trains near Stillwater, E. I., and the property damage was heavv. Lack of rain was injuring the erop prospects in nearly all of the western states. Mrs. Henry L. Sweet and her 3-yearoíd son were drowned at Duluth, Minn. Attobney General Moloney rules that women in Illinois may not vote for trustees of the state university. Figures submitted to congress by the director of tïie mint show an increase in the output of gold and silver, and also show that the United States still hold the first place in the list of the prold-producing countries of the world. Miners in Ohio weregreatly dissatisfied with the strike settlement and refused to accept it. In Illinois and Indiana the miners were preparing to return to work. An hour after having read to her mother an ?ccount of a suicide by hanging, Laura Corbett, of Baltimore, killed herself by hanging. An alliance between the Knights of Labor and the American Railway union was formed in Chicago for offensive and defensive warfare. At the closing session of the National Millers' association in Chicago a resolution indorsing reciprocity was adopted. Almost the entire village of Grants, Ore., was swept away by a flood. Labs Chbistensen, of Alma, Neb., f atally shot his wife and blew his own brains out when the woman threatened to leave Mm because of his abuse. The union stock yards, located at Bennings, D. C, a short distance from Washington, were burned. Damage, $125,000. Two Brothers named Raymond from Albany, N. Y., weremurdered by cattle thleves near Arbecka. O. T. E. V. Minbb, of Indianapolis, broke the world"s 10-mile bicycle record, makinefthe distanee at Louisville in 26 minutes and 54 seconds. Ftfty Coxeyites seized a fast freight train at Pairfield, 111. The National Association of Millers of the United States in annual convention in Chicago elected A. C. Lorning, of Minnesota, as president. The rniners in Indiana and northern Illinois have rejected the comprcmise scale effected at Columbus, O. A hail. and wind storm devastated Sibley and Nicollet counties in Minnesota. Stbikers at Staunton, 111., stopped freig-ht trains and broke the seals of all the cars to see if coal was being carried. Miners in the southern part of Lawrence county, Pa., were reduced to the verge of starvation by the strike. At Crawfordsville, Ind., a little girl svvallowed a screw and died. Ilastening to her assistance, a man feil from a pump tower and was fatally in ju red. Americajs flag day was celebrated on the 14th by the Sons of the American Revolution of several states. The day commemorated the 117th anniversary of the adoption of the stars and stripes as the national ensign. Vernon Bros., New York paper dealers, lost btock valued at 8200,000 by fire. Is the state senate investigation it was shown that Xew York pólice gave protection to green goods swindlers, and that millions of dollars were received by thern for "protecting" saloonkeepers, thieves and other disreputables. J. H. Dat, suspected of incendiarism, was hanged by a mob at Monroe, La. United States marshals arrested twenty-two Coxeyites for seizing a train at Fairfield, 111. The United States troops stationed at Hartshorne and Alderson, I. T., began the removal of intruders from the Cboctaw nation. Teu carloads of Ohio militia were sent to Sherrodsville, where striking miners burned the depot and some cars. Dr. Geoege M. Wagxer and Civil Eng-ineer S. R. Lewis, attaches of the government engineering corps, were drowned vvhile bathing in the Mississippi near Festus, Mo. Johasn Kauffmann, of Cramp Hill N. J., murdered his wife and three children and then killed himself. Poverty was the cause. A. C. Traatmax, the largest wholesale grocer in northern Indiana, failed at Fort Wayne for 8100,000. James B. Cabpenter was hanged at Middletown, Pa., for the murder of his father on December 11, 1893. Georgts Brock, aged 45, murderedhis wife and little boy and then killed himself near Borden, Ind. The man had become desperate from poverty. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the löth aggregated $852,83,097, against 8904,353,826 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 19.5. Woman suffragists at kingman, Kan., arrayed Editor Brown, who opposed them, in a gown and paraded hirti through the streets before a brass band. There were 233 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the loth, against 216 the week previous and 313 in the corresponding tiine in 1893. A detailed report of damage by the recent flood in the northvvest places the total loss at over 82,00.0,000. the loss to the Union Pacific railway alone in Oregon being 1,500,000. The Dodge roller mili, valued at $100,000, was burned at Wiiliamsville, N. Y., and Henry Dodge, one of the owners, perished in the flames. An incendiary at Monroe, La. , taken from jail for execution b3' a mob, was permitted to hang himself. Van Wagoner won the LoekportOlcott 12-mile handicap bicycle road race at Lockport, N. Y., in 32:13, making a new record. William Henshaw, a dissipated character at Grand Rapids, Mich., fatally shot his father-in-law and killed himself. At a wedding feast at Suffernville, 111., John Macori shot and killed two men, the result of an old feud. The supremecourtof Illinois decided that it had no jurisdiction in the senatorial apportionment cases. Erasti'S Wiman was found guilty of forgery in New York and remanded for sentenee. Clemency was recoramended by the jury. In two days the bodies of eleven persons were found floating in the Mississippi river between St. Louis and Cairo, 111. The backbone of the great miners strike was considered broken, many strikers having aocepted the comproinise scale. PERSONAL AND POL1TICAL. Mus. Lois Trittox, who was the last slave sold at auction in New Haven, Conn. (in 1825) is dead at the age of 95. The Kansas prohibitionists met in state convention at Eraporia and nominated E. O. Pickering for governor. Congressioxal nominations were reported as follows: Illinois, Ninth district, R. R. Hitt (rep.) renominated. Indiana, First district, J. H. Hemingway (rep.); Fifth, George W. Cooper (dem.) renominated. Ohio, Eighth district, L. M. Strong (rep.). Kentueky, Ninth district, L. G. Pugh (rep.). The Rhode Island legislature unanimously elected ex-Gov. George P. Wetmore to the United States senate to serve six years from March 4 next. John T. Andrews died at Dundee, N. Y., aged 93 years. He represented the Steuben district in congress from 1833 to 1837 and was believed to have been the oldest ex-member of congress in the state. Rev. E. G. Robinson, formerly presi dent of Brown university, now professor of philosophy in the University of Chicago, died in Boston. The populists of Kansas in state convention at Topeka renominated L. D. for irovernor. Lorenzo Uanfobd was nominated for congress by the republicans of the Sixteenth district of Ohio. Co.NGRESSiONAL, nominations were made as follows: Wisconsin, First district, Rev. A. S. Kay (pro.); Second, John J. Sutton (pro.); Third, J. C. Martin (pro.); Tenth, Rev. John Holt (pro.). Indiana, Second district, J. L. Bretz (dem.); Fifth, E. T. Baker (dem.). Ohio, Seventh district, G. W. Wilson (rep.) renominated; Eighteenth, R. W. Taylor (rep.) renominated. Illinois, Seventeenth district. J. A. Connolly (rep.). Missouri, Second district, U. S. Hall (dera. ) renominated. New [lampshire, First district, J. H. Whittier (pop.); Second, E. M. Blodgett (pop.). The Wisconsin prohibitionists in convention at Milwaukee nominated a full state ticket with J. G. Cleghorn, of Clinton, for g-overnor. The platform favors prohibition, reform in naturalization laws, money issued direct to the people, just pensions and the withholding of state aid from sectarian Bchools. The populista of South Dakota in convention at Mitchell nominated Isaac Howe, of Spink, for governor. Rkpublicasts and populistscombined in Tennessee on canclidates for the supreme bench. The populists made the following congressional nominations: Illinois, Fifteenth district, J. M. Grier. Kentucky, Ninth district, John G. Blair Maine, Fourth district, C. D. Chapman. Mrs. Irene McKee died at Geneva, Ind., aged 104 years. She was born in New York ín 1790. The populists in state convention at Jamestown, N. D., nominated a full ticket with the name of Edward Wallace for governor at the head. Walter Muir was nominated for congressman at large. FOREIGN. Canada has apologized for d runken soldiers tearing down the stars and stripes at St. Thomas and will punish them. The steamship Faraday left Woolwich with 1,000 miles of the„deepsea cable which is to connect the buoyed nd of the new commercial cable between Ireland and Nova Scotia. A fÍre at Yamagata, Japan, destroyed 1,200 houses, and thirteen people lost their lives during the conflagration. SeouIj, the capital of Corea, was captured by the rebels and the king was a refugee. PROPEBTr valued at more than 81,000,000 was destroyed by fire in Panama. The cholera was said to be spreading in Russia, China and Turkey. By the capsizing of a boat off the coast of Ireland fifty harvesters, on their way to Scotland, were drowned. John Duke Coi.ebidge, lord chief justice of England, died in London, aged 63 years. Patbick Dbohan, Rory McDonald and James Sullivan were killed and three men injured by an accidental explosión of dynamite near Coteau de Lac, Quebec. Ax immense body of auriferous ore, a mile wide and 2 long, was reported to have been discovered between Rat Portuge and Port Arthur in Manitoba. The American yacht Vigilant crossed the ocean in safety, reaching Tory island, off the coast of Ireland, in fast time. Abdui, Aziz has been officially proclaimed sultan of Morocco. European powers may not recognize him. Expiosions in the Franziska mines at Korwin, Russia, caused the death oí 180 miners. LATER. The woolen and silk schedules of the tariíE bilí vvere disposed of in the United States senate on the 16th, the republicans being suecessful in securing modifications in the former. In the house the Indian appropriation bill was passed after striking out the clause providing for the removal of the warehouse from New York to Chicago. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad broke the record in running (5!)1 miles in fifteen hours and sixteen minutes. The republicans of the t-eventh district of California renominated V. W. Howers for congress. In the First Iowa district the populists nominated J. O. Beebe. At Rolla, Mo., Hugh Hunch shot to death Miss Ida Gallahorn, to whora he was engaged to be married, and then committed suicide. Parental opposition to their marriage caused the crime. Corhell beat Pennsylvania in the annnal boat race on the Delaware. The Ithacans led all the way and won by five lengths. Indiana miners in convention at Terre Haute rejected the Columbus cmpromise and deposed President Dunkerly for agreeing to it. Wn.lJAM Walteb Phelps, the disthiguished statesman and diplomat, died at his home near Englewood, N. J., aged 54 yeara. The Central Stock and Transit company's abattoir in Jersey City was destroyed by fire with 5,000 sheep and lambs. The loss was Sl.000,000. Ten THOUSAND miners in Kansas will strike in an endeavor to forcé a settlemeut of the troubfe in Missouri and i ndian territory. Gen. John Ellis, of Columbia, Mo., who had seen service in three wars, died in Denver of oíd age. Thomas Bayxe, who retired from public liie at the end of the Fifty-first cungress, after serving eight consecutive terms from the Twenty-third Pennsylvania district, took his own Ufe at his home in Washington in a fit of despoudency. Wii.i.iam Hakt, the noted landscape painter, died at his home in Mount Vernon, N. Y., aged 72 years. Cathekine Greeb, who was 87 years old when she left Ireland to seek a new home, died in Chicago, aged 107. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 16th were: Iialtiinore, .787; Boston, .607; Philadelphia, .659; Cleveland, .600; Brooklyn, .5U5; Pittsburgh, .591; New Y'ork, .545; öt. Louis, .448; Cineinnati, .841; Chicago, .326; Louisville. .oio; AVashington. .Bil.