The News Condensed

Sbnator Gorman (dem., Md.) in a speech in the senate on the 23d which oooupled three hours In dellverlng, chargod the president with duplicity in connection with the tarifl bül and three of nis associates testiüed to the truth of hls charges .... In the house no quorum was present and no business was transacted. Disccssion of the conference report on the tarlft bill was resumed in the senate on the 24th and Senator Hlll (N. Y.) devoted more than two hours to a defense of the president in reply to Senator Gorman's uttack of the previous day .... In the house a bilí was passed for the reinstatement of olerks dismissed from the rallway mail service between March 15 and May 1, 1889. Mr. Harter (O.) Introduced acompromlse tariff bill. ON the 26th the senate aireed to the conterence report on the legislativo, executive and judicial approprlation bill and further dlscuBsed the conference report on the tarifl blll....In the house bllls were passed placlng the widow oí Gen. John M. Corsé onthe pension list at Í100 per month, and cpermltting fourth-olass postmasters to adminlster oath V) pensloners In remote dlstrlcts. Shnatob Vilas (Wis.) replied at great lenth to Senator Gorman's attaok upon the president when the tarlö blll was called up In the senate on the 26th. A motion to place ooal and lron on the free Hst was defeated. A resolutlon calling on the attorney general f or ooples oí U correspondence wlth rallroad officials in conneotion with the recent Chicago strike was adopted .... In the house the oonf erence report on the fortlflcations bill was agreed to and some twenty interstate and iorelgn commerce bilis were passed. IK the senate on the S7th the tariff blll was ent back to conference without amendment. Adjourned to the 3Oth In the house a message was recelved announcing that the senate lnslsted on its amendments of the tariff bill and had agreed to the request of the house for a further conference. The evening sesslon waa flevoted to private bilis. DOM ESTI.O. George Htjdson, a strikiny miner at Coalburf?, Ala., shot and killed Charles Colé, James Smlth and N. B. Gay, deputy sheriffs, and fatally wounded another. According to government reporta corn In lowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas was perlshinjj owing to the lack oí rain. Abmed bodies of coke strlkers -who have been terrorlzlnff workmen in Pennsylvania are to be suppressed by the state militia. Fbamk Matchicz, Michael Delenneg and Charles Drewiacz were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Plymouth, Pa., by a boat capsirinff. Fibe started írom a locomotiva spark, destroyed the business portion of Chenoa, 111., entailing a loss of 8500,000. Samuel Mills, of Johnstown, N. Y., hot his wife in & fit of jealousy and then himself. They leave six small children. Sevkn of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Kruse, of Humboldt, S. D., died of diphtheria. Aftkr hearing all the arguments advanced by both sides Judges Woods and Urosscup decided in Chicago that the contempt proceedings against E. V. Debs and others of the American Railway union were in the nature of proceedings in equity and that therefore the defendants could not be disoharged on their denial of the charges, but mast stand trial. The villaje of Colona, 111., was most vtiped off the map by a flre, the orijjin oí which was a mystery. WllliA-M Melville, correspondence clerk of the Bank of California at San Francisco, confessed that during the last thirteen years he had stolen 835,000 of the bank's funds. Fibe destroyed the business portion of Great Bend, N. Y., a village of 3,000 inhabitantB. Three Foeks and Watson, prosperous towns in British Columbia, have been couapletely destroyed by forest fires. Capt. Ebskine Cabsoüï died at nillsboro, O., f rom a bullet wound received t the first battle of Buil Run. Bpabks from a locomotive destroyed lumber yards, a schoolhouse and other property at St Joseph, Ma, valued at $100,000. In a quarrel over flve dollars Wllliam Sklnner, of Fountain county, Ind., was beaten to death by his son-in-law, (eorfje Starkes. Mistakiso hls father and sister for thieves, William Collins, of Blrminffham, Ala., killed both of them by shooting. Forest flres along the line of the Northern Paoiflo In Wisconsin were dylng out, there being nothing1 more to burn. Thrkk flremtn were killed, several persons in jured and 205 horses burned to death in a fire at Washington. Johü Cbaio, an ex-police offlcer at Los Angeles, Cal., shot and killed hls father-in-law and hls mother-in-law. and iatally wounded his brother-inlaw, George Hunter. Wilson Soule, a millionaire at Rochester, N. Y., was dragged over stone pavements by runaway horses nntil life was extinct. The recent labor troubles cost the Btate of Ohio 8150,000. Further actlon in the case of Eugene V. Debs and his associates was discontinued in Chicago until September 5 and the defendants were released on bail. Owisg to a grudge masked men at Meeker, Col., stabbed and clubbed to death 350 sheep belonging to Gen. S. Allsebrook. Gbnebal managers predict that within flve years railroads willown all of their equipinent except sleeping cars. What was supposed to have been an incendiary fire destroyed the business portion of Griggsville, 111. Henry Eomanna, of Chicag-o, fired eight shots at Herr Zeitung, inventor of a bullet-proof vest, in a suocessful test in New York. While inspectingf a mine at West Pittston, Pa., Col. Mason, superintendent, and Foreman WiUiam Wilson feil down the shaft and were killed. Six of the men who were implicated In the tarring of Adjt. Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, have been arrested. SViixiam Ttleb (colored), charged with assault, was hang-ed by a mob at Carlisle, Ky. Chatbles Wilson (colored) was executed in the jail-yard at St. Louis for the murder of Moses Hodges on November 8, 1893. kkpobts irom all western states indícate the hottest weather ever known. Great damage to crops would result. Wai.lace Burt, a half-breed Indian who murdered Samuel L. Rightly and his wlfe, an aged couple for whom he worked, was hanged at Dayton, Pa. Statistics of the recent strike show that the railroads in Chicago lost $855,000 in cars burned by the rioters. Mrs. Jacob Trader, an eloping woman of Calhoun county, W. Va., hampered by her 4-year-old daughter. tied the child to a stake and burned her to death. The recent census in Michigan gives the state a population of 2,239,374, a pain of 145,485 since 1890. Revenue officers unearthed an illicit distillery in New Yorkhaving a capacity of 1,000 gallons daily. At Cleveland Alix trotted a mile in 2:08 and Ryland T. in 8:07%. Twelve heats were trotted in an averag-e of 2:10. In the free-for-all pace at Cleveland, O., Robert J. made a new record, an average of five heats being made in 2:07 %. Northern Wiseonsin was being swept by the worst forest fires in the history of the state. The losses already amounted to millions of dollars. The towns of Phillips, Fifield and Mason had been wiped out, and it was feared that severallives had been lost. There were 249 business fallures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th, against 236 the week previous and 386 in the corresponding time in 1893. A DISEA8E which baffled the physicians had killed three persons at Minerva, O., and many others were afflicted. The business portion of Lucksville, O., was destroyed by fire, and William Wilson, owner of a factory, feil down an elevator shaft and was killed. Dün's review of trade says business is rendered uncertain by tariff delay and the blockade of traffic by strikers. Fire of an inoendiary orig-in swept away many business houses in Celina, 0., the loss being 8150,000. The supreme court of New York refused a new trial to John Y. McKane, the convicted boss of Gravesend, now in Sing Sing. The United States revenue cutter McLane seized six Spanish vessels off Anclote, Fia., that were engaged in smuggling. A fire that broke out in J. H. Dorsey's woodworking establishment at Tampa, Fia., causad a loss oí 8100,000. At Briceton, O., David Kline and his wife and ohild were killed, poison having been placed in the well from which they drank. The northern districts of Mississipp were swept by a fierce hailstorm, causing great destmction of crops. Harbison Duncan (eolored), who murdered a policeman in St. Louis Oc tober 6, was hanged for the crime a Clayton, Mo. Wabash freight engines collided near Lafayette, Ind., and Engineer Clark and Brakeman Donohue were killed. Dick Gkeen was hang-ed at Mount Pleasant, S, C, for the murder of Nancy Urayton in April last. Both were negroes. Bkyant Dawson and Joseph Yowell-, voung business men of Mount Vernon, Ind., were drowned while bathing ia the Ohio river. The exchanges at the clearing houses in the United States during he week ended on the 27th aggregated W70,418,888, against 8857,811,487 the jrevious week. The decrease, comared wlth the corresponding week in 893. was 13.0. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. J. G. Cannon was renominated for congress by the republicans of the Twelfth Illinois district. The following congressional nominations were made: Wiseonsin, First district, H. A. Cooper (rep.) renominated. Iowa, Seventh district, J. A. T. Huil (rep.) renominated. Missouri, Sixth district, Eev. A. B. Francisco (pop.). Malne, First district, Thomas B. Reed (rep.) renominated. Congressional nominations took place as follows: North Carolina, Third district, J. D. Shaw (dem.); Eighth, H. Bower (dem.). Indiana, Eighth district, E. V. Brookshire (dem.) renominated. Kansas, First district, H. C. Solomon (dem.); Seventh, Jeremiah Simpson (pop.) renominated. Arkansas, Sixth district, Robert Nell (dem.) nomlnated. Missouri, Sixth district, D. A. De Armond (dem.) renominated. Iixinois republicana in state convention at Springfleld nominated Henry Wulff for treasurer, G. M. IngHs for superintendent of public instruction, and S. A. Bullard, Alexander McLean and Mrs. J. M. Flower for trustees ol the state university. The platform favors protection to American industries, favors liberal pensions to soldiers, the use of gold and silver as money metáis upon a parity of values, and arraigns tho present democratio governor of the state as the most conspicuous case of misfit in official life. In conventiou at Des Moines the Iowa republicans nominated W. M. McFarland for secretary of state, C. G. McCarthy for auditor, J. S. Herriott for treasurer, Milton Eemley for attorney general, C. L. Davidson for road eommissioner, and C. T. liranger and H. E. Deemer for supreme court udg-es. The platform declai-es for a system of protective duties so adj usted that every American resource can be developed by American labor, adheres to the declaration of the national republican party in 1892 upon its inonetary policy, favors the exclusión oi pauper iramigranta and liberal pensions to soldiers. Gen. A. J. Pleasanton, orijrinator of the blue glass theory, died at his home in Pliiladelphia, affed 86 vears. Candidates for cong-ress were nomi nated as follows: Illinois, Eleventh district, William Hirchey (pop.); Fourteenth, David W. MeCulloch (pro.) Iowa, Third district, D. B. Henderson (rep.)., renominated. Indiana, First district, James A. Boyce (pop.). Ohio Beventh district, E. S. Thompson (pro.). Maryland, First district, J. W Mills (dem.). North Carolina, Eighth district, W. II. Brown (dem.). Penn sylvania, Nineteenth district, J. A Stahl (rep.). " Bev. Fbancis A. Hoffmaw, agrod 88 yeare, the oldest Evangelical preaoher In the United States, died at Reading, Pa. The Wisconsin republicana in convention at Milwaukee nominated the ticket: Governor, W. H. Upham; lieutenant governor, Emil Baensch; secretary of state, Henry Casson; treasurer, S. A. Peterson; attorney general, V. A. Mylrea; superintendent of public instruction, John Q. Eraery; railroad eominissioner, Duncan McKenzie; insurance commissiorer, Dr. W. A. Frecke. The platform favors protection to American industries, the use of'silver as a curreney to the extent only that it can be circulated on a parit.y of gold. en tire separation of church and state, free common schools, and recognizes the rig-ht of laborers to organlze, using all honorable measures for the purpose of their condition and placing them on an equal footing wlth capital to the end that both fully understand that they are frlends and are equal to each other and to the prosperity of tha peopie. In convention at Grand Forks, N. D., the deraocrats nominated Judge Templeton for judge of the supreme court and Budd Reeves for congress. Tha platform declares for bimetallism, demands that all money be issued by tha government, demamds tarift for reve nue only and the speedy passage of reform tarift laws. Thomas R. Hobtok, of Fultonville, N. Y., editor of the Republican, died at the ag-e of 72. He served congress from the Eighteenth district of New York irom 1855 to 185T. The prohibitionists of the Seventh Kentucky (Breckinrldge's) district nominated Judge James B. Flnnell for congress. The republican state convention of Massaehusetts will be held at Boston October 6. FOREIGN. Marsan & Bbosseau, Montreal hay snippers, íailed íor 8200,000. Cholera was rapicüy spreading in Galicia, especially in the western district of Cracow and in the eastern districts near the Russian frontier. Seventeen seamen were drowned by the wrecking of the British bark La Lacheur off Cape St James, on ProTost island. Mexican bandits held up the stage near Perota, Vera Cruz, and stole 84,000, besides robbing the passengere of valuables. War was declared between China and Japan, and the king of Corea was imprisoned by the Japanese. Disastrous floods and hurricanes destroyed many lives and much property along the Tag-us, in Spain. The final splice of the American Telegraph company's new cabla was made at Heart's Content, N. F. Bobadella, who headed a conspiracy to kill the president of San Domingo, was shot. His followers were set a liberty. By a collision of steamers on the Eiver Niemen at Grodno fourteen persons lost their lives and eleven others were mjured. LATER. The United States senate was not in session on the 28th. Th house passed a nurnbei' of measures of a private character and debated a bilí to giyo federal courts additional powers in with violations of the copyright law. A native force attacked the French in Senegal and was repulsed with a loss of 500 killed and 128 wounded. Fire wiped out the business part of Belle Plaine, Ia., destroying about sixty buildings and eontents, with a loss 'of $500,000. Mrs. Mahaia Hates, of Andrew, Ia., celebrated her lOOth birthday. The three chüdren of James W. Ganion accidentally locked themselves in the closet of a caboose at Hartford, Conn., and were not found until dead. At Cleveland, O., Online paced a mile in 2:06 ?4, cutting two seconds from the record for 4-year-olds. Bousbk's oil tank and novel ty worka at Fort Wayne, Ind., wei-e destroyed by flre, the loss being 8100,000. One man was killed. Of ',000 troops on board the Chinese transport Kow Shing, sunk by a Japan ese cruiser, only forty were saved. Two thousand houses were destroyed by fire in Cottel, a Bulffarian town, and it was believed that many persons perished. James Mullioan, of "Mulligan Letter" fame, died at Maynard, Mass., aged 53 years. Miss Makt Londonderry, who pur)oses encircling the globe on a bicycle n eighteen months, started from New York. In a twenty-fourhour bicycle race at Herne Hill, England, Shorland corered 460 miles 900 yards, beating the world's record. Seventeen buildings in the business district of Brooklyn, Ia., were burned, causing a loss of 3125,000. Loss of property approximating $3,)00,00Ü and heavy loss of life, the extent not yet known, though at least fifteen persons met death at Phillips, is the record of the forest fires which swept nor1hern Wisconsin for two days. The cr-overnor of Hong Kong placea the deaths from plague in the Cantón district alone at 130,000. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week encled on the 28th were: Boston, .663; Baltimore, .022; New York, .603; Clevelanii, .571; Brooklyn, .500; Philadelphia, .527; Pittsburgh, .525; Cincinnati, .500; St. Louis, .422; Chicago, .410 Louisville, .325; Washington, .291.