26 Crime and Penalties. ~ At Atlanta, Ga., a drunken row among laborers at the water works resulted in the shooting of three men. J. W. Avirett, editor of the Cumberland, - Md., Times, was sentenced to 90 days in 2 Jail and a fine of $100 for libeling Judge ‘Hoftman, At San Francisco Abe Jones was sen- fenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Morrow for the rob- beries of the Redding stage on the nights of October 18 and 24 last" Patrick Fitzpatrick was hanged in the Jail at Pittsburg, Pa., on Tuesday for the murder of Samuel Early, The hanging was the first in that county for the past eight years and thefirst in the new jail. The crime which lead to the execution of Fitz- patrick was committed on" the night of September 2, 1891. He was in the bar-room of a saloon. Fitzpatrick had been in the sa oon for perhaps an hour before the mur- dered man, Samuel Early, came in. Fifteen . minutes after Early came in he called for a “drink of water. Fitzpatrick walked up and knocked hishat off, whena man came . around from behind the bar and put Fitz patrick out on the street. The testimony . was that Early was also put out and while . going out of the door, Fitzpatrick was awaiting him there with a knife in his ‘hand, A few seconds later Early rushed back into the saloon, exclaiming, ‘Look “there!” and fell over. He died in a few min- ‘utes, The knife had penetrated a vital spot in the groin. Captain A. J.Sloan, aged 81 years, of ~~ Jackson, Ga., was murdered by burglars. . The robbers secured about $1,000. Lynchers are scouring the country for them. C, E Montgomery, president of the Ger- aman bank at Lincoln, Neb., was shot and killed in the dining-reom of the Lincoln hotel by W. H. Irvine of Salt Lake City, a member of the Utah Territorial legislature and a former resident of Lincoln. Irvine surrendered. He claims Montgomery ruined his wife and broke up their home. Capital, Labor and Industrial, The striking carpenters made a final ap- ~ peal to Laughead, Modisette & Co.,of Union- town, Pa., to lay off W. A. Custer, the sus- pended member of tbe trades council. The firm refused and said that Custer could stay as long as they had work for him to do. As a final resource all the union workmen of * all trades were ordered out. A prolonged © strike is anticipated. The tin and sheet iron workers and cor nice makers at Chicago decided to go on strike for an eight-hour day and a minimum . xate of 35 cents an hour. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers in sessfon at Atlanta, Ga., re-elected . Past Master Arthur Grand Chief Engineer - for four years. He desired to retire, having * served 18 years, but the convention insisted ‘upon his taking another term. | The car strike at New Orleans was settled by arbitration. None but union men are ta x be employed, except the few at work before + May 1. The Durham Miners’ Federation has is- sued a manifesto, which says that the at- tempt to effect a settlement with the mas- ters has failed; that the deadlock has conse- quently been accentuated, and that the whole responsibility for the awful struggle that is now inevitable rests upon the mas- ters. ~All the union employes at Laughead’s planing mill, Uniontown, Pa., have quit work because they could not secure tha ~~ discharge of an obnoxious employe. It is . ®aid there will be trouble to fill their places. At the sheriff sale of the property of the defunct Swogger organ factory at Beaver Falls the employes to whom a large amount 4s due for wages, bid on the unfinished work and material by permission of the sheriff. and by permission of other creditors were allowed to start the factory this morning to © complete the unfinished orgaps. Tt will . zequire some weeks to dothis. ® The build, dng, machinery and grounds will be sold ir June. ; Two hundred Louisville painters are on _strike for higher wages. 2 > Washington News. The secretary of war has authorized the aise of military supplies for flood sufferers. The Government has awarded a large contract for 24,000,000 double postal cards, a mew device which has long been considered - by the Postoffice Department. The card’ will be 5% by 3% inches, and will be folded in the middle, presenting four surfaces. The outside surface is for the address and the in- _. side for the message. At the fold the card is perforated, so that the recipient will tear off one-half and then answeron the other. Representative Johnson, of Ohio, tro duced in the House a bill to admit free of duty glass windows imported for the use of churches. : An amendment appropriating $40,000 was proposed to the agricultural appropriation ‘bill to continue experiments in the produc- tion of rainfall by means of explosives. Secretary Rusk and assistant Secretary Wilets, of the Agricultural Department, ap: peared before the Committee bn Agriculture and endorsed an appropriation for artificial ‘rainmaking. Britain for congress.’ Marriot Brosius is the Republican condidate. : Indian Territory Republicans elected national delegates, one of them being Ridge Pascol, a full-blooded Cherokee. They are aninstructed but are for Harrison. At the Republican Congressional Conven- tion of the I'ourteenth district of Ohio, E, G&. Johnson, of Elyria, was nominated for Congress on the seventy-second ballot. The deadlock in the Sixteenth Ohio dis. trict Republican Convention was broken by the nomination of Secretary of StateC. L. Poorman for Congress in the eighty-fifth ballot. > : After a deadlock of 24 hours, the Eighth Ohio Republican district convention nomi- nated Col. L. H. Strong for Congress. L. A. Stockwell was nominated for Con- party of the Fifth Indiana district. At Corry, Pa., J. C. Sibley, of Franklin, was nominated by the Prohibition conven- tion of the Twenty-sixth district for Con- gress on the first ballot. Religious, - By a vote of 75 to 49 the four women del- egates were admitted to the general confer- ence of the Methodist Protestant church, now in session at Westminster, Md. The thirty-fourth General assembly of the United Presbyterian church began its sit- ting in Allegheny, Pa. The summary of work of the board of foreign missions for the year is as follows: Number of stations, 144; missionaries, 37; native missionaries, 40; other native workers, 242; total foreign and native workers, 319: churches, 30; com- municants, 3,571; increase, 461; net increase, 461; baptisms, 421; schools, 110; scholars, 6,763; Sabbath schools, 109. The board of freedmen’s missions has 7 educational institutions,52 workers, 2,558 stu- dents, 5churches, members, 7 Sabbath schools, and 585 RSahbath-school scholars. The value of property is $125,000. The board of church extension showed that of 834 churches in America 380 have been helped by the board: 46 are yet house- less. There has been paid out to assist churches $31,630 and in direct contributions $26,828 Vos Out of the parsonage and loan fund twenty houses for missionaries have been uilt. The board of ministerial relief paid out last year $7,232. In the past thirty-two years it paid out $57,000. In 1869 there were but two peneficiaries and a balance of $1,217. Fires At Meridian, Miss., the First Baptist church was burned. Loss, $25,000, partly insured. At Brighton City, Utah, a number of bus- iness houses were burned. Loss, $100,000. Chehallis, Wash., was destroyed by fire. Sixty-two buildings were burned. Four men are now known to have perish- ed in the fire at Spokane, Wash., on Monday night. The loss is estimated at about $221,- Darflinger’s Glass Works, near Home- stead, Pa., among thelargest in the United States was burned Tuesday night. Loss, $100,000. Turf News. Rarus Deap-—Rarus, long known as king of the trotting turf, died on ‘Mr. Bonners Tarrytown farm Tuesday. He was 25 years old, being foaled in 1867, and died of old age Rarus was bred by the late R. B. Conklin of Greenport, L. I., and was by Conklin’s Ab- dollah, a horse of unknown breeding, and out of Nancy Awful, by Telegraph. Rarus trotted his first race in 1874 at Hornellsville, N. Y., and was a constant performer for several years. At Buffalo in 1878 he lower- ed the trotting record to 2:13}, and remained king of the turf until October, 1879, when 8t. Julien further reduced the mark to 2:- 123. Rarus was purchased by Bonner in 1879 for $36,000, and has not since appeared on the turf, Miscellaneous, Gov. Boies will issue an appeal for $200, 000 for Sioux City flood victims. Indianapolis, Ind.. felt a distinct shock of earthquake Tuesday. No damage was done. The divers at work on the sunken Cotton Belt railroad wrecked train at Crook Bayou, Ark., recovered nine of the bodies on Sun- day night. Gov. Eagleof Arkansas has appealed tc the city of Memphis for aid for flood suffer- ers. Arkansas City is reported to be com- pletely under water. Crops. The fruit crops in the South of England have been greatly damaged, if not destroyed by a terrific storm. Cuban planters complain of drouth. Kansas crop reports say the rains have done great damage. In the Western half of the State, which is usually parched by drouth, the farmers are enthusiastic ove: the best prospects ever known. Hailstorms in the Province of Alessan- dria, Italy, have destroyed the crops in 8( communes. Judicial. The suit of Miss Anna Dickinson agains the Republican National Committee of 1888, to recover $1,250 for lectures delivered in thai campaign, was dismissed by the Supreme Court at New York, on the ground that the contract was illegal under the statute which provides that no person shall contribute any money to pay any person for services in ai¢ of the election of a candidate. Plaintiff says she will begin a new action. Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities, At Arkansas Pass, Texas, by the capsizing of a boat a party of three, consisting of T. C Tinghom and wife and the 9-year-old davghter of Charles Hickney, were drowned Their bodies were swept out to sea by strong ebbing tide. ‘While a force of artillery men were en gaged in trenching practice near Paris, a bank of earth collapsed and killed four sol- iers. Morthaary. Mrs. 8. E. Pullman, mother of the in. ventor-of the Pullman Palace Car, is dead. Formal proclamation was made by Presi- dent Harrison of the establishment of re- _ ciprocal trade relations between the United States and Austria-Hungary, the negotia- tions for which were completed some weeks #g0. The arrangement went into effect John B. Buchtel, founder of Buchtel Col- lege, Akron, O.,and well known throughout Ohio as a philanthropist, died at his home in Akron of paralysis. Financial and Commercial, The Diamond Furniture factbry, at Rock- a ! ford, Ill, is in the hands of the sheriff. Its : Congressional Nominatio <, . At the Republican convention at Media, capitalization was $150,000. The Philadelphia Fire Underwriters’ As. ~~ Pa., Hon John B: Robinson was nominated ' sociation ordered az advance of 20 per cent for Congress without opposition. 5 3 in rates, and that insurers. must insure for "The Prohibitionists of Lancaster county, . 80 per centof value or: be = co-insured to , nominated Joseph Brosius of Little | Make up any deficiency. gress at Martinsville, Ind., by the People's’ < Sanitary, The Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester, Pa., has been closed for the season as a precautionary measure, as another case of typhoid fever has been discovered among the cadets. ; Political. A poll of the National Editorial Associ ation excursion party at Palo Alto, Cal, yesterday, resulted as follows: Cleveland, 117; Harrison, 77; Blaine, 73; Boies, 15; Hill, 7; scattering, 17. Legislative. Gov. Brown of Kentucky has signed the bill compelling railroads to have separate coaches for the negroes. : LATEST NEWS WAIFS. Atthe National Labor Commission in Denver, the following officers were elected: Charles F. Peck, New York, President; Lester Boding, Denver, First Vice President; Samuel W. Matthews, of Maine, Second Vice Present; Frank H. Betton, of Kansas, Secretary and Treasurer. Executive Com- mittee, H. G. Waldin, of Maine; Samuel W. Hotchkiss, Connecticut; Will A. Peel, Jr. Indiana. Albany was named as the place for holding the convention next year. § The fowa Central Railroad, which has been seeking an inlet into Ottumwa, Ia, has been tendered a proposition by the own- ers of Central Addition, granting the rail road the right of way asked and depot grounds, provided the road will build its roadbed high enough to serve an effectual embankment against future floods. The record for locomotive speed has been broken again. The Empire State Express on the N. Y. Central R. R. made 78 miles an hour for four hours one day last week. This is the fastest time ever made on a level track by a locomotive drawing a train. The Presbyterian General Assembly, in session at Hots Springs, Ark., adopted the report of the Committee on Colored Synod. It recommends aid and encouragement in the formation of colored churches, witha view of forming these churches in due time into Presbyteries as convenience may dic: tate; and when two or more such * Presby- teries shall exist, they may unite to form a synod. The report expresses confidence that the time will soon arrive when the colored bre hern can unite to form an inde- pendent church, and assures them that the Assembly renews its pledze of financial and educational support, and its willing- ness to enter into correspondence with said churches. The committee on systematic beneticence reported that for all causes, a total of $348 750 had been contributed dur- ing the year, an increase of $50,748 over that of last year. IMPORTANT POLITICAL CONVEN- TIONS. DaxviLiE, ILL.—The State People's Party Convention met here. Delegates to the na- tional convention at Omaha and electors were chosen. © They were instructed to pre- sent the name of Colonel S. Norton of Chi- cago as the choice of Illinois for the presi- dency. DENVER, Cot.—The State Democratic Con- vention at Denver selected a Hill delegation to the Chicago convention. Resolutions adopted declare for free and unlimited coinage of silver. During all discussions of the day Cleveland was continuously ‘‘roast- ed,” while the mention of Hill’s name set the delegates wild. TreEnTON, N. J.—The Democratic State Convention met here. Every mention of Cleveland’s name was greeted with tremend- ous applause. Some one called out Hill's name, and there was vigorous hissing. The platform instructs the delegates to vote for Cleveland at Chicago; indorses the National Democratic platforms of 1884 and 1888; fav- ors continuing the battle for tariff reform, and denounces the McKinley bill and the Sherman silver law. The convention went wild over the plank instructing for Cleve land. Yankrow, S. D.—The Democratic State Convention met here. © The cheers which greeted the names of the probable presiden- tial candidates showed that Dakota Demo- crats will be true to whoever is nominated at Chicago. Delegates to the Chicago Con Yention were chosen. They go uninstruct- ed. VANcouvER, WasE.—The Democratic Btate Convention elected delegates to. the National Convention. All are Cleveland men, but were uninstructed. The State convention of the People’s par- ty of Wisconsin was he'd at Milwaukee. The platform adopted is substantially that of the St. Louis convention. A full State ticket was nominated, presidential electors chosen and 48 delegates elected to the national con- vention. C. M. Butt was nominated for gov- €rnor. PocaTELLO, IDAHO.—The Democratic State Convention met here and elected delegates to the National Convention. The resolutions favor the free and unlimited coinage of sil ver and recommend that the plank be in- serted in the National platform. The dele gates are not Poa. . Corumsus, O.—The Ohio Prohibition State Convention nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, Geo. L. Case; Judge of Supreme Court, Thomas D, Crow, John D. Moore; Clerk Supreme Court, Z. C. Payne, Board of Public Works, Joseph J. Ware. NasHVILLE, TENN,—The Democratic State convention elected the following delegates- at-large: Ex-Gov. James D. Porter, J. C. Bradford, Jules M. Taylor and D. D. An- derson. A resolution was adopted instruct: ing delegates to vote for Cleveland's renom- ination. LovuisviLie, Ky.—At the Democratic State ‘Convention here A.-C. Owens and J, A. Mc- Kenzie were elected National delegates upon the first ballot, and General Castleman, an- other Cleveland man, came within three of the fourth prize. He securred it on the sec- ond ballot. This makes three of the four delegates from the State-at-large for Cleve- land. Henry Watterson is the other dele- gate. Rurvanor, Vr.—The Prohibition State Convention nominated a State ticket. Mem- bers of Congress—First district, Rodney ‘Whitmore; Second district, W. P. Hollon, Inpranarorss, INp.—The Prohibition State Convention assembled here and nominated a complete State ticket. The following Con- gressional nominations were made: Fourth istrict, A. L. Crim; Seventh, C. E. Boston; Eleventh, Sumner Haynes. INDIANA Prohibitionists held a conven- tion, nomina‘ed Rev. Aaron Worth for Gov- ernor, and named a full list of electors and delegates to the National Coavention. SourH Dakora Democratic delegates go to Chicago uninstructed. CAvLIrorNIA Prohibitionists convened and nominated a State ticket. THE delegates from the Idaho and South Dakota Democratic state conventions were not instructed, Ely LAST DELEGATES ELECTED. SomERrsET, PA., May 28—The conferees of the Twentieth congressional district elected John H. Jordan, Beas of Bedford. Pa., and H. W. Storey of Johnstown, delegates to the Minneapolis convention. Theodore F. Wigton was namen as elector. This is tlie last district not only in the State, but in the United states, to elect its delegates. ~The delegates are uninstructed. FEARFUL BLAST OF DEATH i 500 DEAD AND DYING / Without Warning a Funnel Shaped Cyclone Sweeps Down a Town and Leaves Nothing but a Debris of Dead Bodies and Ruined Buildings. i WELLINGTON, KAN., May 28,—This city last night had a visitation from the funnel shaped cloud which ploughed its devastat- ing track through the business part of the town with immense destruction of property and some loss of life, just how much it is ‘impossible to tell at this writing. A heavy storm of wind preceded the cyclone about half an hour. A few minutes after9 o'clock the cyclone struck the cily, coming from the southwest. There were no premonitory signs. Everybody was indoors and the cloud passed with its destructive rush and awful ToAar unseen. FIVE HUNDRED VICTIMS. Five hundred persons, at least, have been killed and injured. Washington avenue, the principal busi. ness street, in lined on both sides for blocks with ruins. To add to the horror fire broke out among the debris of Col. Robinson's blocks, and a woman, Mrs. Susan Asher, is supposed to have perished in the flames. A solid block of brick buildings containing a half-dozen stores and the Monitor Press and Voice printing offices lies a tumbled heap of brick and mortar. Just across the street a laborer named Fanning was taken out of the ruins dead, and there are supposed to be other bodies in the ruins. : HUNDREDS OF HOUSES DESTROYED. Hundreds of dwellings are totally de- stroyed or more or less damaged. The city isin darkness, as broken mains made it nec- essary to shut down the gas-works and save destruction from fire. ] Seven bodies have been taken out of the Phillips’ house ruins, and alarge force of men are at work removing the debris. Two members of the Salvation Army are expect- ed to die from injuries received. At Squire Smith's residence seven persons are more or less injured. {The streets are littered with tin roofing, cloth awnings, and broken tim- bers. Everybody is on the streets carrying lanterns and it is utterly impossible to get at the exact facts. HORRIBLE DESTRUCTION. The destruction is simply awful and every minute adds to the horror of the situation. The Standard and Mail offices are wrecked. The Opera house and dozens of the best business buildings are useless. Fine school buildings and churches are ruined and the loss will foot up into many thousands of dollars. Noreport has been received from other points. : Wellington is the county seat of Sumner county, and has a population of over 10,000 inhabitants. It is in the center of a thickly- gettled agricultural district. It isthe most prominent in Southern Kansas. BEYOND OUR BORDERS, Fifiteen students in the cantgn of St. Gall, near Berne, were boating on Lake Zurick when their boat was capsized and seven of them were drowned, The loss of the Brazilian warship Solimoes is officially confirmed. The vessel was too close to the shore and struck some sub- merged rocks. Herr Schenck, managere of the St. Gall branch of the Federal bank, has been arrest- ed at Berne, Switzerland, for embezzling the funds of the institution. The amount that he has taken is at least 3,500,000 francs and probably 3,500,000. The embezzlement was accomplished by keeping false records. "By the disaster to the Brazilian monitor Solimoes 123 lives were lost. All the crew but four were under hatches when she struck a rock, and these four were all who escaped, as the ship sank almost immediate- ly. Queen Victoria was 73 vears old Tuesday, and the event was elaborately celebrated in her Balmoral palace. Herreign is the long- est in English history. She succeeded Wil- liam IV. on June 20, 1837. She has just re- turned from her sojourn at Heyres, on the Riviera, apparently much improved in health. Emperor William narrowly escaped being killed in a runaway between Schlobbitten Proeketywitz. The Emperor was driving ‘with Count Dohna. One of the horses be- came frightened and the others unmanage- able and they all started down the highway at a terrific pace. One of the horses fell while the carriage was being whirled along the edge of a low enbankment and the shock threw the Emperor from the driver's seat into the ditch. The Emperor, covered with dirt, refused all assistance, brushed himself off, and climed up the bank to help prepare to start again. A dispatch from Lagos says that the Jebus made a sacrifice of 200 people, includ- ing many maidens, in order to propitiate the Gods prior to battling with the British. Cholera is still raging violently at Serina- gur, one of the capitals of Cashmere. Five hundred cases are reported daily. Four soldiers were fatally injured at Chal- ons, They sat down on a chest of gunpow- der und began to smoke cigarettes. Almost immediately an explosion occurred. Severe thunder and hail storms prevailed over the south of England. Considerable damage was done by hail to greenhouses, and a boy was struck by lightning and kill- ed near London. The postal treaty between Mexico and Germany has been signed. Iron and stone workers’ associations in Yorkshire, England, rendered idle by the Durham miners’ strike, have appealed to the Queen for assistance. A lioness in a menagerie at Paris, Tuesday night, fatally mangled her tamer in ' the presence of a panic-stricken audience. In the house of commons the resolution relative to the disestablishment and disen- dowment of the Church of Scotland was again rejected by a vote of 265 to 209. A Dernier Resort, 8he —“If you should propose to a weaitl:v girl and should be rejected, what would you do?’ He—“Well, I suppose I should have to earn my own living.”—Detroit Free-Press. 2 &' | * FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. TuespAY.—In the Senate, a number of personal bills of sectional interest were pass- ed. The calendar was laid aside at 2p. m., and the bill for the punishment of viola- tions of treaty rights of aliens was taken up and aL he matter went over with- out action. Mr. Pettigrew, from the com- mittee on the Quadro-Centennial, re rted a joint resolution directing the President to roclaim a general holiday commemorating The four-hundredth anniversary of the dis- covery of America, on October 12. 1892. Placed on the calendar. Adjourned. In the House Mr. Stewart of Texas, from | the Committee on Rivers and Harbors re- rted back the river and harbor appropria- ion bill with the Senate amendments there- to, with the recommendation that the Sen- ate amendments be non-concurred in. He asked unanimous consent that his course be followed and that a conference be ordered. Messrs. Holman and Bynum, of Indiana, objected, and the bill was referred to the committee of the whole. The House then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Des- ter, of Georgia, in the chair. The Paragraphs relative to the Coast and _ Geodetic Survey were then taken up. Mr. Dingley, of Maine, offered a substitute for the provision with reference to the Alaska boundary survey, the substitute being to provide fora - joint survey under the recent treaty between. Great Britain and the United States to set- tle the boundary line cispute. The amend- ment was agreed to, after the appropriation as proposed by Mr. Dingley was reduced from $35,000 to $10,000. Mr. Holman offer- ed an amendment providing that the posi- tion of all persons employed in field work or in the office whose services can be dispensed with shall'be vacated. Agreed to. ithout ! disposing of the billthe committee rose and the House adjourned. = WEDNFSDAY—In the Senate the resolution offered by Senator Morgan on the 31st of March directing the Committee on Finance to make an examination and report in rela- tion to currency and coinage and as to the effect of the act of July, 1890, on the prices of silver bullion, was taken up and discuss- ed, The matter went over without action and the bill to provide for the punishment of violations of treaty rights of aliens was then taken up. Without disposing of the measure the Donate adjourned. : The House today was the scene of several unexpected and wild occurrences, occasion, ed by an amendmentto the World's Fair SpbropEiation in the Sundry Civil bill, offered by Mr. Houk, Democrat, of Ohio appropriating $100,000 for collecting, prepar- ing and publishing facts and statistics of the industrial and intellectual development of the colored race from 1863 to 1893 to con- stitute a part of the exhibit at the exposi- tion. After a heated discussion Mr. Holman raised the point that the amendment was not in order, and it was ruled out. The salary of the Director General was reduced from $15,000 to £8,000, and that of the Secre- tary from 5,000 to $3,000. An amendment was adopted prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sunday. Pending a decision on the propo- sition to close the World's Fair on Sun ay the House adjourned. THURSDAY,—In the Senate Mr. Peffer, of Kansas, introduced a bill to increase the currency and provide for its ¢irculation, to reduce the rates of interestand to provide for a bureau of loans in the Treasury De- artment. The Stewart silver billwas un- er debate for the balance of the session and after an executive session adjourned. In the House the dreary consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was again resumed in the Committee of the Whole and amend- ments were adopted prohibiting the open- ing on Sunday of the Government exhibit at the World's Exposition. There was quite an interesting time before this conclusion was reached. Mr. Atkinson of Pennsyl- vania, offered a proposition that no intoxi- cating liquors shall at any time be sold in any Government building, which was agreed to 94 to 75. Nothing else of importance was done and the House adjourned. Fripay—In the Senate among the bills passed was the following: To re-classify and prescribe the salaries of railway postal clerks. (The rates fixed are: First-class, not exceeding $800; second-class, not exceed- ing $1,000; third-class, not exceeding $1,200; fourth-class, not exceeding $1,300; fifth- class, not exceeding $15,00; sixih-class, not exceeding $1,600; and seventh-class, not ex- ceeding $1,500.) The silver bill was then taken up, and Mr. Stewart asked and ob- tained unanimous consent that the bill be taken up as the unfinished business on Tuesday next at 2 o'clock. That being definitely arranged, there was a brief exec- utive session, and then the Senate adjourn- ed until Tuesday next. In the House on motion of Mr. Cockran, of New York, a joint resolution was passed to correct a clerical error in the McKinley tariff act, whereby a duty of from 15 to 50 centsa pound is imposed on sweetened chocolate, and fixed the duty at.2 cents a pound. The committee of the whole then reported thé Sundry Civil appropriation bill to the House. The first amendment voted on was that striking out the appropriation of $620,000 for a new mint building at Phila- delphia. The amendment was rejected, and the appro riation for the mint remains in the bill. The remaining amendments were adopted in bulk, and the bill (which has consumed almost three weeks of the time of the House) was finally passed. The House then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Buchanan, of Virginia, in the chair, on the postoffice appropriation bill and soon after adjourned. i - $32,000,000 LOSS. The Damage frcm Floods in the West and South, New York, May 28.—Special advices ta Bradstreet’s from regions affected more seri- ously by floods point to an aggregate loss in five states of $32,000,000, which included damage to railway property, destruction of or damage to levees, to farm buildings, machinery, live stock and crops, as well as loss on other property. Louisiana and Kan- sas have lost less in this respect than has been reported, and Illinois and Missouri probably more. Losses in Iowa and Kansas have been greatly exaggerated. Three Men Killed by Lightning, RicamMonDp, VA. May 27.—A special from Buffolk says that three men, N. B. Taylor, 8. L. Moore and W. F. Phillips, lumbe~ cutters, while sitting on a bench under a sited during a thunder storm on Saturday | in Nansemond county, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. Two others who were in the house were knocked sense: less, but recovered. Killed by Being Hit by a Baseball. Charles Schuman, a German 21 years of age, was killed at Columbus, O., by being hit by a baseball thrown by a fellow work- man in a bakery here. The ball was thrown with great force, and passed between Schu- man’s hands and hit him on thehead, right between the eyes The League Record. The following table shows the standing of the various base ball clubs: : Post- Per Lost. poned. Cent. 9 719 66 581 .b76 .563 = Cleve.and Louisville ‘Pittsburgh ....... New York. .. 5 Washington.... Philadelphia t. Louis Baltimore........ 8 STA 08 GR Or 00 Oa Assemble Omaha. Summary of Proceedings. MONDAY’S SESSION. i that petitions to abolish the six months’ pro bationary term be denied. A minority re- to six months. The Committee on Tem=- poral Economy recommended that the Con e they be regularly commissioned officers be select-d to recommend suitable can dates for appointment in the army; that ther nearest Sunday to July 4 be known in the church as Army and Navy Day, and that of those bodies. : 3 Dr. Potts,of Michigan offered a resolution empowering the bishops to submit to the annual Conference a proposition to admit. women as lay delegates. Mr. Potts ed that the Conference act on the matter. Notwithstanding the opposition’ of the- official paper, he believed the women could: win, Dr. Re kiay secured first blood b: raising the point of order that this matter is now before'the Judiciary Committee, and should be referred to that committee. The Chair so held amid applause, The matter was then deferred for the present. =: The report of the board of missions to freed-men showed that 371 missionaries had churches and missions had been aided, and 80 parochial and 14 boarding schools main- tained with a total of 9,220 pupils. The re- ceipts amounted to over $172,000, with ex- penditures almost equal. } TUESDAY'S SESSION. Committee upon Judiciary r-ached a very important conclusion upon the meaning the word ‘‘laymen’’ in the discipline. It. provides for lay representation.. The com- not and never had included women, but has: meant and does mean men only Politics played a part at the Methodist Conference today. A report from the com— mittee on Temperance was presented. It was a vigorous statement of the well-known attitude of the Methodist church toward the: liquor traffic. ¢ business, ‘full of diabolism,’”’ and should: never be legalized without sin. The report compromise; the liquor business must sur-- render. In conclusion, the report said that no party had a right to the support of Chris— tian men so long as that party favored the- license system. : Judge { the report. It stated that the church did nog- propose to take ahand in politics, and that. His substitute embraced a vigorous and: comprehensive statement favoring temper- ance in accordance with the address of th bishops. : : Sa Judge Lawrence's substitute was defeated: by a vote of 200to 24, The report of the committee was then adopted amid applause. The rules were then suspended and the- Conference a resolution introduced by Mr. Little, of Illinois, stating the adop— resolution was passed by a large majority. Vigorous efforts were made by those who wished to see the time limit removed, but they were completely outstripped by the shrewdness of the opposition. 2 minotliy report was adopted by a vote of 298 to 26: against, and the five-year time limit wills remain as itis. The conference then ad-- journed. WEDNESDAY'S SESSION. s Conference adopted the report of the Com« mittee on Equal Representation by the fol lowing vote: Ministers—Aye, 197; no 108.. Laymen—Aye, 143, no, 11. It gives equal representation to the laymen, provided two-- thirds of the annual conference so decide. The Committee on Judiciary decided that. it required but two-thirds of the whole: the report of the Committee on ual Representation, so that the laymen will be equally represented at the next Quadrenniak « Conference. Committee on Episcopacy, which among; other recommendations approved of the: administrations of the Bishops, except as to the action of Bishop Foster in the Ken: tucky Conference, where he refised to recognize certain ministers. The limiting of Bishops to districts is declared inadvis-- able and they remain itinerant as now. THURSDAY (AND FINAL) SESSION. The last session of the Methodist Episco-- pal Quadrenmal Conference was presided over by Bishop Fitzgerald. When ths com-- mittee on Revisals made its report, excep- tions were taken to the; report as offered by * thechairman, the claim being made that paragraphs relating to the use of-tobacco had een ommitted without the knowledge of the committee, The ommissions were added. and the report adopted. © The Committee on: State of the Church in relation to organic:- union of all Methodist churches, . recom- mended thatthe bishops, report a commiss- ion of three bishosp,three laymen and three: ministers to confer with like commissions from other churches which the bishops are asked to request. Adopted. Con- ference disposed offthe woman ques- tion just betore final adjournment. Dr. Hamilton offered an amendment to the re- Proposition be submitted to the annual Con- male’ be inserted after the words lay dele- - gates wherever they Appeat in the discipline, and that unless three-fourths of the annual conferences and two-thirds of the General Conferences uphold it, then the law must be= held to mean male and female. The amend- ment was adopted. This sends the matter tothe annual Conference, and the men must defeat the women two to one in order: to keep them out if the next General Con- ference does not vote two to one against the admittance of women. The women went: wild with delight. The Conference con-- clnded its business and. adjourned sine die. NEW POSTAL CARDS, They Will Be Handy and Will Come- Into Use About July 1, A, new postal card for use in foreign cor. respondence will be introduced in the post. . | offices throughout the country on July next. Itisreally a double postal card, andy the principal object of its introduction is to= enable correspondents to prepay snswers by post. This could not be done with letters and stamps, as those of the latter issued by this Government cannot be used in sending mail from other countries to this. The new card will do away with that trou-- ble. Attached to the end on which the original message iz written is ‘a duplicate, folded over. The one receiving the card promptly tears off the duplicate, and returnss it with the answer. The new cards will ba foreign countries in the Postal Union. Confederate Monument Unveiled. HELENA, ARK., May 26.—The unveiling of” the confederate monument here to-day drew a large crowd of people. ‘Confederate flags. appeared occasionally, but not conspicuous- ly. Overoneof the main stredts were stretched the Union and Confederate flags, and connecting them was a canvas, om which was written : “United We Stand. Divided We Fall.” lows. of New York, delivered the oration. t in General Conference af port recommended that the time be reduced: rence demand an adequate number of chaplains to be appointed in the army; that. not mere contract men; that three bishops services on that day pertain to the welfare - mittee is of the opinion that the word does It denounced the traffic asa. . declared that the church would accept no~ wrence offered a substitute for: every man had aright to voteas he pleased. = tion of the committee’s report did not com~ = mit the Church to any political party. . The- number voting, not of each order, to adopts The Conference adopted the report of them - port of the Committee on Judiciary that the erences, requiring that the words “Must be sold for 4 cents each, and can be sent to alk Colonel John R. Fel . . The Committee on Revisals recommended been sent out during the year, that 300% Bishop Hurst occupied the chair. The: : so Sa A ew
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