The News Condensed

In the United States senate on the 30th a bilí ! was Introduoed to provide for the issue of $50,OUO.OOO in trensury notes to be distributed pro rata among tae state . "lor the relief of the worthy poor. "' The house joint resolution extending the appropriatons for the last year untü August 14 was igrefcd to In the house a bilí was introduced by Mr. Boen (pop.. Minn.) making it unlawful for aliens to own land in the United States. A joint resolution was presented by Mr. Boutelle (Me.) congratulatinff the people of Hawaii on the establishment of a republic and recognizing it is :t free and independent republic. Referred to the foreign cómmittee. ON the 31st uit. the general deficiency appropriation blll was reported to the senate and plaoed on the calendar, as was also the house bill to provide a uniform system of bankruptcy. The sundry civil bill was passed In the house Mr. Boen (Minn. ) introduced a bill to abolish national banks, making it unlawful to charter a bank or provide additional currency for those already chartered, and directing the socretary of the treasury to withdraw all deposits of public money from the banks and return them to the treasury. IN the senate a resolution was passed on the lst provifling that the decisión of the commissioners of immigration in regard to aömission of aliens should be final The contested êlection of Moore against Funston, from the Second district of Kansas, oocupied the time of the house, but no decisión was reached. On the 2d a bill was introduced in the senate by Senator HUI providing that no alien anarchists shall be permitted to land at any port of the United States. The house Hatch antioption bill was reported In the house the army offlcer at Omaha who ordered target practice on Sunday was scored by Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. The contested electioD case of Moore vs. Funston was decided in favot of Moore. IN the senate the last of the appropriation bilis, the deflciency, was passed on the 3d and the bilis for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona to statehood were reported and placed on the calendar. Adjourned to the 6th. ... In the house a resolution was introduced by Mr. Bland (Mo.) to place all sugars on the free list and to raise $100,000,000 revenue by an incometax. A bill was introduced by Mr. Baker (Kan.) to establish reservoirs for the storage of rainwater for the tillable lands west of the 96th meridian, and Mr. Blair (N. H.) offered a resolution for the investigation of lynchinga in this country in the past ten years. Adjourned to the 6th. DOMESTIC. Seventy-five cans of opium were found by custom house officers on the coasting steamer City of Pueblo at Tacoma, Wash. While conducting experiments with a new explosive in a quarry at Hawthorne, 111., C. H. Rudd and two others were injured and threeof hisassistants killed. Maj. Halford, former private secretary of ex-President Harrison, was thrown from a carriage at Omaha and badly hurt. The strike commission decided to begin its inquiries at Chicago August 15, and issued a statement outlining its duties and purposes. The Ocean hotel at Long Braneh was seized by the sheriff. Guests were obliged to vacate their rooms and a hundred servants were left penniless. Cabl Neel, of Chicago, won the tennis championship of the northwest by defeating George Belden at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. Citizens of Foster, O., tied John MoGreggory, an ex-convict, to a post and applied a horsewhip until he was insensible, then ordered himoutof towu. William and Frank Scott (colored) were hanged at Cantón, Miss., for murdering Norman Hopson, a witness against them on a burglary charge. John Bradley and Fannie Kounce and Helen Ritchie weredrowned in the river at Little Rock, Ark., by the capsizing of a boat. The gold purchases at the mint in Denver during July amounted to S738,565.61, against $216,057.19 for Juiy, 1893. Edwabd H. Jones, on trial at Georgetown, O., for the fourth time for the murder of his son, was for the fourth time convicted of murder in the first degree. The public debt statement issvied on the lst showed that the debt increased 81,552,604 during the month of July. The cash balance in the treasury was gil 9,085,352. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to 81,514,720,888. Fike swept throiigh sixty acres of the lumber district in Chicago, causing a loss of about $1,600,000 to fourteen business firms and the sacrifice of three lives. Miss Tii.lie Sabern, a young aeronaut of Richmond, Ind., was killed by falling from a faulty parachute at Anderson. Dn. J. S. Mott, dealer in dry goods at Jndependence, Mo., failed for $100,000; assets about the same. The state bars opened for business at the old stand all over South Carolina. The Baker City (Ore.) national bank suspended, owing depositors 875,000. Anderson Halliday, while drunk, shot and killed Wesley Cobb at Elkhorn, W. Va., and was soon af ter lynched by a mob. In a sermón at St. Paul Archbishop Ireland commended Mgr. Satolli for debarring saloon-keepers from the Catholic church. Champion James Corbett arrived in Kew York from England and announced his anxiety for Peter Jackson to fix a date for their fight. AVill Wakeli', city clerk of Omaha, Neb., climbed on top of a bathing resort pavilion and blew out his brains before the crowd. More than a thousand men were taken back at the old scale xipon the reopening of Chicago & Alton railway shops at Jiloomington, 111. All the packing houses in South Omaha, Neb., were forced to close by the strike of the cattle and hog butchers. The treasury department monthly statement shows a decrease of 86,486,993 in the money circulation throughout the country during July. The total circulation of the country was placed at $1,657,574,239, a per capita of $24.19, against $1, 611, 099.017 a year ag-o. After three mouths of idleness the miners at Streater and Braceville, 111., decided to return to work. Lamouee, a town in North Dakota, was practieally wiped out by fire, the loss being 8150,000. Senators in Washington suspected of having dabbled in sugar stock were exonerated by the investigating committee's report. Two firemen were killed and five injured in a fire which destroyed the Mili at Philadelphia. Adihtional claims for damages gregating $55,000 against the city of Chicago on account of labor riots were filed. Without any rioting work was resumed in the repair department at Pullman. American Railway union men were not employed. Britce Mii.ler and the two sons of John Underwood were killed and two men injured by the explosión of a thrasher entine at Dahlgren, 111. C. A. Kellar, an organizer of the American Railway union, was arrested for conspiracy on complaint of Danville (111.) merehants. A FIBE that started in the lumber yard of Hun ton, Myles & Weelis, in j Detroit, eaused a loss of S100.000, and Eugene McCarthy, a fireman, was killed. At Waltham, Mass., lienry C. Tyler rode a mile, standing start, on a bicycle, in 1:57 3-5, makjng a new world's record. Fire detroyed the lumber yards of the John Spry company in Chicago, the loss 8100,000, and also a building oecupied by manufacturers, who lost 8l25i000. Theee were 219 business failures in the United States in the se ven days j ended on the 3d, against 249 the week j previous and 436 in the corresponding time in 1893. Farmer City, 111., was swept by flames. many business houses being i burned. Fire started in a gas plant at Marión, I Ia., destroyed a business block, entailing a loss of 8120,000. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 3d aggregated $704,800,968, against 8770,418,388 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893. was 21.13. At 8pencei-port, N. Y., flrebrokeout in the residence of Cornelius Place and three of his sleeping1 bo3's were burned to death. Wabd Ebekly, of Dayton, O., died suddenly from drinking" lemonade. He was 17 years old and weighed 500 pounds. Part of a freight train on the Pennsylvania road was burned near Bucyrus, O., and four tramps who were stealing a ride were burned to death. Govehxmext officials were af ter New York counterfeiters who had issued $1,000,000 in bogU3 notes. Orange Page, the murderer of a negro woman more than 100 j'ears old, was hanged for the crime at Raleigh, N. C. Iviiv. J. M. Cleary, of Minneapolis, was elected president of the Catholic Total Abstinence union at the annual meeting in St. Paul. Presidemt Cleveland set aside the court-martialsentenceof Lieut. Maney for the shooting of Capt. lied berg and restored him to cornmand at Fort Sheridan, 111. Xear Berwind, Col., a stage coach was swept into a stream by a flood and the driver and four messengers were drowned. .Eugene McEnroe, accused of assaulting Miss Ella Lunney, was killed by the woman in the courtroom at Norton, Kan. At the convention in Chicago of the American Railway union officials it was decided that they could not declare the strike off, and that such aetion must be taken by the local uniona themselves on each line of road aiïected by the strike. Thirty-five building-s, comprising the business portion of Lake View, Mich., were destroyed by fire. Loss, 8130,000. Henry Dahme shot and killed his sleeping wife in Chicago and inflicted wounds upon himself which resul ted in death. The Pullman Palace Car company announced that no labor agitators would be given employment in the shops. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway shops were being removed froin Brazil, Ind. , because no protection waa g'iven non-union emplo3'es. PERSONAL AND POL1TICAL. In eonvention at Grand Rapids the Michigan republieans nominated the followmg ticket: For governor, John T. Rich; lieutenant governor, Alfred Münes; secretary of state, Rev. Washington Garuner; treasurer. James M. Wilkinson; auditor general, Fred A. Maynard; land commissioner, William A. French; superintendent of public instruction, II. M. Pattengill; member of board of education, Perry F. Powers. The platform approves the administration of Gov. Rich, declares in favor of a protective tariff and reeiI procity, favors arbitration in labor j troubles, declares against pauper immigration and favors the use of gold and silver as money metáis. The whalebaek Pathfinder ran down the schooner Glad Tidings in the Detroit river and her crew .of four were drowned. Dr. William Ghimstead, who acted as medical purveyor to Gen. Grant's army during the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, died in Washington, aged 78 years. Candidates for congress wTere chosen as follows: Iowa, Second district, George M. Curtis (rep.). Ohio, Sixteenth district, T. A. Ball (pro.). Indiana, Seventh district, B. M. Blount (pro.). Georgia, Third district, G. W. White (pop.); Fifth, L. F. Livingston (dein.); Eleventh, W. G. Johnson (pop.). North Carolina, Seventh district, J. S. Henderson (dem.). Mississippi, Fourth district, II. D. Money (dem). Kentucky, Third district, W. G. Hunter (rep.). West Virginia, First district, B. B. Dovener (rep.); Third, J. D. Alderson (dem.). 'i'iiEprohi bition state convention at Fargo, N. D., indorsed the republican candidates for judge of the supreme court. governor and superintendent of public instruction. lx convention at Des Moines the Iowa democrats nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, Horatio F. Dale; state treasurer, L. W. White; auditor, John Whitfield; attorney general, J. D. F. Smith; railroad commissioner, W. L. Parker; tices oí snprcme court, .John Cleg'gett and E. W. Mitchell; clerk oí suprema ] court. L. R. North. The platform manda the election of United otates senators by direct vote; favors liberal pensions; holds to the use oí both gold and silver as the standard monsy of the country, and favors a tarifE for revenue only. The following congressional nominations were made: Georgia, Eighth district. Thomas G. Lawson (dem. ) renominated; Tenth, J. C. C. Black(dem.) renominated. North Uakota, First district, G. G. Ellis (pro.). Judge Joseph Hoi.t. who w.is judge advocate general of the army, and at one time acted as secretary of war, died at Washington, aged 87 years. Congressional nominations were reported as follows: Illinois. Eighteeth district. Rev. Thomas W. Hynes (pro.). Iowa, Tenth district, J. C. Baker (pop.). Indiana, Fourth district. James E. Watson (rep.). Tennessee, Fifth district, J. D. Richardson (dem.). Kentucky, Eighth district, Oswald Thomas (pop.). Texas, Eighth district, C. K. Bell (dem.). Idaho, James Gunn (pop.). Üklahoma, Joseph Wisby (dem.). Republicans of Wyoming in state convention ot Casper nominated W. A. Richards for governor and Frank Mondell for congress. Populists of Idaho in session at Boise nominated K. J. W. ISallentine for governor. Capt. Thomas C. Fuli.erton, republican candidato for congress in tha Eleventh district, died in a hotel at Fairbnry, 111., of heart disease. He was 55 years oíd and a veteran of tha late war. In convention at Atlanta the Georgia ! democrats nominated W. Y. Atkinson for governor. Resolutions wereadopt; ed for 'the free and unlimited coinaga I of silver. Nominations for congress were mada i as follows: Uhio, Ninth district. Rev. ! George Candee (pop. ) Illinois, Eighteenth district, Rev. T. W: Hynes (pro.). I Nebraska, Sixth district, Matthew Dougherty (rep.) George Innes, of Mont Clair, X. J., the noted landscape pninter, died while traveling for his health in ScotI land, aged 09 years. FORE'.GN. A CASK cantaining 850,000 in gold, shipped from New York, disappeared while in transit between Havre and i Paris. lx a battle with the Japanese fieet the Chinese war ship Chen-Yuen was I sunk, two cruisers were captured or destroyed and nearly 1,000 men were killed or drowned. The Japanese government has formally declared war against China. Pakisian detectives found the 859.Í 000 in gold stolen in transit from Xew York hidden in a eoal heap at Havre station. Dispatches from Tien-Tsin say the Japanese were repulsad in the battle at Yashan with a loss of over 2,000 men. Santo Caserío, the assassin of Pres kient Carnot, was sentenced to death, by the guillotine at Lyons. Japanese troops attacked the Chinese intrencbed at Shan Y'ehn and irovj thein out after heavy fighting. LATER. In the United States senate on the 4th bilis were passed to amend the quarantine regulations so far as they apply to vessels plying betwen United States ports and foreign ports on or near the frontier and to subject to state taxation national bank notes and United States treasury notes. Gen. Cacebes, elected president of Peru in May, has assumed the duties of his office. Austin V. ISlaxr, the war governor of Michigan, died at Jackson from urssmia, aged 76 years. Mr. Blair was governor from 1860 to 1864, and a member of congress from 1806 to 1872. Henry E. Smith & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes at Worcester, Mass., assigned, with liabilities of $200,000. A sailboat in whicli were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Campbell, of Burlington, Ia., capsized in the Mississippi and they sank clasped in each other's arms. Dei.egates from twenty-four American Railway unions met in Chicago and declared the strike off on all roads but the Santa Fe and Eastern Illinois. Wheelman Harby C. Tvler made a mile with flying start in 1:53 4-5 on the Waltham (Mass.) track, lo wering the record a second. Joseph Hunt, of New York, killed his wife because she refused to permit him to pawnhis clothes to buy liquor and then shot himself. Thieves broke into the post office at Scranton, Pa., and stole 88,300 worth of stamps. Mrs. George Pooi.e, who as Mme. Osborne had won operatic laurels, died penniless in New York, her wealthy ; husband ha ving deserted her. Makk Richardson, of the town of New Diggings, Wis., killed hisbrother ! George as the result of a ten years' quarrel over their father's estáte. Capt. Adolph Fbeitsh sailed from New York in the Nina, a 40-foot boat, in which he proposed to cross the Atlantic. Actuated by jealousy, Mrs. F. J. Froman, at Buffalo, N. Y., threw sul phuric acid in the face of Miss Louise Leber, burning out her eyes. The national pawn shop at Roubaix, France, was destroyed by fire, the loss being 2,000,000 francs. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended oi the 4th were: Boston, .647; Baltitnore, .634; New York, .624; Cleveland, .578; Pittsburgh, .535; Philadelphia, .53-1; Brooklyn, .51S; Cincinnati, .471; Chicago, .447; St. Louis, .411; Louisville, .845; Washington, .291.