The News Condensed

The exports of domestic merehandise of the United States for the last nine months amounted to $577.047,022, against L503,221,873 ior thé same time in 1893. The imports amounted to 8503,529,738, and for the same time last year $625,325,372. George Petebson started to establish a new walking record from New York to Chicago. He expects to reach Chicago in thirty-five days. The Tabor Amusement company at Denver assigned with liabilities of 5275,000. The new issue of postage stamps was rapidly being disposed of, the government sending out 20,000,000 a day. In the recent storm on thegulf coast. fifteen fishermen lost their lives on Sand island, near Apalachicola, Fla. Williasi Pattison, an escaped madman, entered a ehurch at York, Pa., and stampeded the congreg-ation by firing right and left. By a vote of 65 to 35 the general conference at Greenville, 111., of the Free Methodist ehurch decided against the ordination of women. Mbs. Jennie Habbington and her three children perished by fire in the barn upon their farm in the outskirts of Elizabeth, N. J. Willis Gbiffey (colored), charged with assault on Miss Leha Berry (white), was taken from jail atPrinceton, Ky. , by a mob and hantred. A 8TKANGEE distributed about 8400 in worthless oíd Indiana state bank notes at Anderson, Ind., and disappeared. During the nine months of 1894 the excess in gold exports from the United States over imports was S73, 603,019 and of silver 625,531.589. Jacob Stveininger's fifth wife died j very suddenly near Luray, Ind. She was the third to die of apoplexy. Elders Fbeesian and Mercer, Mormon missionaries who had converted fifty people near Centertown, Ky., mostly women, to their faith, were tarred and feathered by indignant citizens and driven away. Sevekteen buildings in the business district of Liberty Center, O., were destroyed by fire, the loss bein? $100,000. A. E. Smith, a letter carrier, rode from Chicago to New York on his bicycle in 7 days 14 hours and 5 minutes, lowering' his own record. An association whose object is the suppression of gambling in the United States and Canada was formed in Chicago by Dr. W. G. Clarke and others. The total appropriations made at the first and second sessions of the Fiftythird congress amounted to 8492,230,685. Twenty-nine vessels of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet, with an aggregate tonnage of 2,354 tons and 112 men, were lost the past year, against ten essels and flfty-three men last year. Two siSTEBS of St. Joseph were burned to death and another seriously injured in a fire in Houston, Tex., which caused a loss of $438,000. In his animal report Maj. Gen. Miles complimented the work of the federal troops during the recent railroad I strike. The American ship Ivanhoe, coal laden, was reportei lost off the Pacific coast with its crew of eighteen men. The post office at New Albany, Ind., was robbed during the noon hour of 84,000 in stamps and severul hundred dollars in cash. In the Melrose stake for 2-year-olds atNashville, Tenn., Impetuous trotted two heats in 2:15%, equalling the world's race record. Thbee schooners were wrecked in a gale on the Pacific and fears were ex pressed for the safetv of others. The Merced bank at Merced, CaL, clpsed its doors with heavy liabilities. Black diphtheria was raging in the Indiana gas belt, especially in AnderBon, Elwood and Middletown. William Davis and wife, an aged couple, while driving in a bugg-y were run over and instan tly killed by a train at Mount Sterling, 111. Otto Zeiglek rode a mile in 1:50 at Sacramento, Cal., reducing Johnson's world's bicycle record three-fifths of a seeond. Fike swept away the entire central portion of Sulphur, Ky., the loss being 8100,000. Louis Gimm, of Cleveland, O., rode 383 miles 1,490 yards in a day on his bicycle, surpassing all records. Chables Kahleb, of Da venport, Ia., wounded his sweetheart and killed himself because she refused to consent to an immediate marriage. The militia fired on a mob which tried to lynch William Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary C. Boyd (white) at Washington Court House, O., and three persons were killed and ten wounded, three fatally. Kentucky distillers formed a permanent association at Louisville and adopted a resolution to cut down production during the coming season to 15,000,000 gallons. The residence of Herman Barthold, a farmer near Toledo, O., was destroyed by fire and his two daughters, aged 12 and 7, were burned to death. A span of the bridge over the Ohio I river at Jeffersonville, Ind., feil, j rying twenty workmen with it, and three were seriously injured. Eugene Schaweckeh, a wholesale grocer and liquor merchaut of Cincinnati, committed suicide on the grave of his first wife. Daniel EL Burnhaïi, of Chicago, was reelected president of the American Instituto of Architects at the annual meeting ia New York. Au old Navajo Indian at Gallup, N. M., who married a young squaw against the wishes of herparents, shot ftnd killed her and then killed himself. anotíteTS stflte or weavers occurrett atFall River, Mass., making 0,000 persons out of employment. Isr his annual report Gen. Howard says the railroad strike showed the necessity of doubling the army. In a quarrel over forty cents' wortb. of beer in a St. Maurice (Ind.) saloon Jackson Stevens shot and killed Ben Haebis Olnky and Charles Dalton committed suicide at Brooklyn, N. Y., by on the gas in their room. Duking a quarrel at Baltimore over a división of profits from their coal business Robert Herrlieh shot and fataily wounded his father. Channing M. Britton, of New York, was elected president of the Carriage Builders' association at the animal meeting in Philadelphia, William Barnes, a elerk in the treasurer's office for thirty-five years, died in Washington. It was said that he had handled in his lifetirne probably more money than any other man In the world. In trials against time at Hamilton, Ont. , Bicyclist Davidson lowered the record for the half mile standing to 0:58 and the quarter to 0:30. Fire destroyed a portion of the Tredegar iron works at Richmond, Va. Loss, 8150,000. At Philadelphia a new baseball association was formed, which is expected to be a strong rival to the National league. In the hearing of indicted gamblers in Chicago the big proprietors escaped only the lesser lights being found guilty. James West and G. H. Crenshaw, of Philadelphia, were killed by a land! elide while Crossing the Sierra Madres. Kkistian Kortgaard, ex-president of the Minneapolis State bank, was convicted of appropriating 13,000 of its funds. Miss Monroe was awarded 85,000 in her suit against the New York World for prematurely publishing her world's fair ode. Because of numerous train robberies the Pacific Express company will handle no more money in Indian territorj'. A fire which started in Miller Bros.' livery stable at Monticello, Ia., burned fifteen high-priced horses and deBtroyed half a dozen residences. Eobebt J. and John R. Gentry paced a dead heat at Nashville, Tenn., ia 2:04. The post office department has declared the Cooperative Loan & Investment company of Mississippi is j ducting a lottery. Minebs who took the places of strikers at Ashland, Ky., were fired upon f rom ambush and several of them were wounded. William Dolby, the cause of the riot at Washington Court House, O. , was taken to the penitentiary. ïwo more victims of the riot had died. The following congressional nominations were made by the democrats: i Rhode Island, First district, C. H. Page (renominated); Second, Oscar Lapham (renominated). Massachusetts, Second district, E. A. Hall. Tennessee, ! Sixth district, J. A. Washington (renominated). Kentucky, Sixth district, A. S. Berry. While temporarily insane Elliott L. Titus, aged 24, killed Mary S. Duff, aged 23, at Sea Cliff, L. I., and then killed himself. The young people expected to be married soon. Mjjs. George Eddy and Mrs. Painter were killed by a passing train at a grade crossing near Byron, 111. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 19th aggregated L950,045,900, against $927,428,877 the previous week. The increase, comparecí with the corresponding week in 18Ü3, was 3. 1. Mrs. Makt Sawyer and two daughters, aged 10 and 18, were killed at Dorchester, Neb., while driving over the Burlington tracks. George Goldman, a farmer living near English, Ind., killed hls wife with a flatiron and then shot himself. He had been released from an insane asylum. . Daniel Dafton, a well-known lawyer, was mistaken for a burglar at Lilly. Pa., and fatally shot. Judge Smith, for twenty-seven years on the circuit bench at Galesburg, 111., resigned because of ill health. Tuere were 253 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 19th, against 231 the week previous and 341 in the corresponding time in 1893. Theodore Ammshjian, wounded in the riot at Washington Court House, O., died, making the total number of dead five. In Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y., a monument was unveiled to the residents of the town who fought in the revolutionary war. The day was the 113th anniversaiy of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. An omnibus indictment was found in Chicago by the federal grand jury against the ofiicers of the American Kailway union and all strikers charged with violence and obstructing the mails. On a farm near Albion, N. Y., William Lake killed Miss Hunt because she refused to marry him and then killed himself. At Waltham, Mass., Tyler cut the 2mile standing start bicycle record to 4:03. Sons of the American Revolution presented a stand of colors to the Fifteenth regiment, U. S. A., at Fort Sheridan, in recognition of its gallant conduct during the late strike in Chicago. Font men held up a Texas Pacific passenger train near Gordon, Tex. , at noon and robbed the express car of an amoirat estimated at from 81,000 to 820,000. TwENTY-FiVE of the largest wholesale manufacturers of clothing in Chicago organized a defensive association. James O. Docley, the youthful murderer of his aunt and a 10-year-old cousin in Adams county, Ia., on May 11, 1892, wasexecuted at Fort Madison. Charles Ermish and Otto Wongkert were hanged in St. Paul, Minn. , for the murder of Lindholf, a barkeeper, May 2 last. fcRGANiZATiON of the new American Baseball association was completed in Philadelphia. W. S. Kanes was elected president, secretary and treasurer. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The democrats made the followinpr congressional nominations: New York, Seventh district, Cornelius Flynn; Ninth, A. J. Campbell. New Jersey, Fourth district, Jacob Geissenhainer. Connecticut, Seventh district, Norman Sperry. Massactiusetts, inirteenta district, Hobert Hovvard. Alabama, Fourth district, C. A. Kobbins, renotninated. Mes. Jktta Swakts died in Chicago at the age of 105 years. Edward Cuaïe, one of the pioneer of the f ar northwest and the original settler at The Dallos. Ore., is dead. Rev. E. Hazakjd Snowden, the oldest Presbyterian minister in the state, died at his home in Forty Port, Pa., aged 95 years. He was the oldest living gradúate of Princeton theological seminary. ♦ Judge Macon I?. Allen, the first colored man admitted to the bar in the United States, died in Washington. Mabgabet Murphy, ag-ed 108, died in New York city. üen. William F. Revnolds, a veteran of the Mexican war and a celebrated engineer, died suddenly at his home in Detroit, Mich. , aged 73. Evekett P. Wheeler has accepted the nomination for governor of New York at the hands of the "democratie party reform organization." Thk folloiving" eongressional nominations were made: Missouri, Eleventh district, Charles F. Joy (rep.); Twelfth, F. M. Sterrett (rep. ). Tennessee, Tenth district, R J. Rawüiijs (pop.). Ex-Maïok Grant accepted the Tammany nomination for mayor of New York, Nathan Strans ha ving withdrawn his name. FOREIGN. The French press was weging the government to declare war on Madagascar and immediately bluckade ita ports. Emperob WrLIilAM nnveilecl a monuj ment to his grandfather at Wiesbaden and opened the new Boyal theater. Port Arthur, one of the most strategie outposts of China, on the Gulf of Pie-chi-li, is reported to have beeh captured by the Japs, It was estimtited that European countries would have to import 118,000,000 bushels of wheat, to the shortage in the erop. Irregulabities in the Bank of Brazil at Buenos Ayres, involving' 820,000,000, were discovered. An Indian paper announced the death of the ameer of Afghanistan. Advices from San Domingo say that a cyclone leveled 700 houses there and damaged the coffee erop in Hayti. Up to the end of September the total emigration from Great Britain this year was 121,173, a decrease of 57,559 as compared with the corresponding period of 1898. Of this number 82,031 shipped for the United States and 15,418 for Canada. During a flre originating in a naphtha spring in Grosny, Transcaueasia, seventeen workmen were burned to death. Advices from Caracas, Venezuela, announce the death of Feliciano Alvezez, acting president of the country. A bill was introduced in the Japanese parliament empowering the government to borrow 100,000,000 yen for prosecution of the war. Russian officials admitted there was no hope of the recovery of the czar. Members of the imperial family wera hurrying to Livadia. LATER. Stephen Williams, a negro who attempted to assault Mrs. Nardesty, an aged white woman, was taken from the jail at Marlboro, Md., by masked men and hanged. James Anthony Froitde, LL. D., the English historian and theological writer, died in London, aged 78 years. Every passenger conductor on the Grand Trunk system was shifted to another división as a result of recent "spotting." The working home for the blind at Iberia, O., was destroyed by fire and one inmate was fatally burned. The strik ing of a match by a careless bystander caused an explosión at a pas well near Greenfleld, Ind., and five drillers were dangerously burned. Silas Jones and his vvife and child perished in ñames that destroyed their home near Knoxville, Ia. The government officials at Washington will endeavor to keep out seventy anarchists reported to be on their way to the United States. Mrs. Charles Wimeer and her 11year-old son, Louis, were killed by a Big Four train at Indianapolis. Fifth Auditob IIoLCOMB in his annual report announces a, deficit in the foreign mission fund for the year of 890.000. The Intercolonial rail way blacksmith shop and roundhouse at Rivera du Loup, Can., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. J. Adam Bede, United States marshal for Minnesota, hasresignedrather than forego narticipation in the political campaign. Vesselmen at Philadelphia feared that the schooner John D. Williams, eight men, and the steamer Falcon, seven men, were lost. The Fond du Lac (Wis.) factory of the American Biscuit company was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 8100,000. Joseph Dorsett Bedle, ex-governor of New Jersey, died in a New York hospital from a surgical operation, aged 63 years. Postmasteb Genebal Bissell issued an order that hereafter an address label may be pasted on the address side of an envelop as well as the message side of a postal card. Fierce gales raged along thè British coast, wrecking numerous vessels and causing the loss of many lives. Andrew Smith, a member of the firm of Smith Brothers, manufacturers of cong-h drops, died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., aged 58 years. He was widely known as a philanthropist.