From Washington

Washington, July 18.- The United States Indian Agent at thn Sisseton Agency in South Dakota reporta to the Secretary of the Interior that the Indians on that reservation are entirely destUute of food. Washington, July 19.- The House committee on contested elections has decided two more contested cases in favor of tho Republican contestante. They were the Florida case of Goodrich vs. Bullock, decided in favor of Goodrich, and the West Virginia case of McGinnis vs. Alderson, decided in favor of McGinnis. Washington, July 19.- The Senate in executive session Friday confirmed amonff others the follovving nominations: James Russell Soley, of Massachusetts, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy; A. B. Nettleton, of Minnesota, and Oliver L. Spaulding, of Michigan, Assistant Secretarles of the Treasury. Washington, July 21.- Louis Waldecker, for twelve years chief clerk of the bureau of navigation, died yesterday. Washington, July 22.- The death of Mr. Walker, of Missouri, the ninth raember of Congress who has died tuis session, makes the greatest record of mortality in Congress ever known. The first member to die was James M. Burnes, also from Missouri, who was a member-elect of the present Congress, thoueh he died during the last session of the Fiftieth Congvess, of which he was also a member. The other seven members who have died during the present session are: Richard W. Townshend, of Illinois; James Laird, of Nebraska; Edward 3. Gay, of Louisville; Samuel a Cox and David Wilber, of New York. and William G. Kelley ana Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania. Of the nine who have died six were Democrats. In the case of three the members' death were promptly followed by the deu.t.h of a colleague from the same State. Thus, Mr. Randall died shortly after Mr. Kelley, Mr. Wilber after .Mr. Cox, and Mr. Burnes has now been followed by Mr. Walker.