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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. IN the Rock River Methodist conference at Elgin, III., it was decided to admit women as delegates in the general conference by a vote of 142 to 27. AT Rockford, Ill., Leonard Preston, bank clerk, and George Ashbrook. of Janesville, Wis., were drowned by the capsizing of their boat. AN immense mass meeting was held in Chicago, presided over by Mayor Swift, to protest against Spanish tyranny in Cuba. Speeches were made and resolutions were adopted asking the United States government to recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. FRANK J. DAVEREAUX, aged 27, and W. Porter Hunt, aged 22, two newspaper correspondents living at Oneida, N. Y., were drowned in Oneida lake by the upsetting of a boat. B. D. BLAKESLEE and N. A. .Winquest left New York for San Francisco on bicycles and will endeavor to break the present record of 48 days and 18 hours. THE schooner John Raber went ashore 18 miles east of Whiting, Ind., and Capt. Johnson and an unknown sailor were drowned. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt increased $1,834,687 during the month of Sep tember. The cash balance in the treasury was $185,405,363. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $941,089,636. THE Blaine (Wash.) state bank went into the hands of a receiver. THE St. Louis Loan and Investment company and the Aetna Loan and Savings company consolidated atSt. Louis with a capital of $9,000,000. FROST was general and very destructive in Virginia and North Carolina, a fifth of the tobacco crop being ruined. THE famous still run by Tom Blair, who was lynched New Year's morning at Mount Sterling, Ky., was taken in the mountains by revenue officers after a search of five years. THE monthly statement of the director of the mint shows coinage during the month of September as follows: Gold, $7,543,572; silver, $473,566; minor coins, $61,414; total coinage, $8,078,653. SOUTH CAROLINA is the only state in the union which has no divorce law, and the constitutional convention at Columbia added a section to the law which prevents recognition of divorces granted in otherstates. SINCE June 30, 1892, the net expenditures of the government have exceeded the receipts by $120,151,467. PETER CRAWFORD, 22 yearsold. a mail messenger, has been asleep in New York for the last seven months. and every device employed to awaken the man had proven futile. ALBERT WADE, assistant cashier of the First national bank at Mount Vernon, Ind., was said to be $20,000 short in his accounts. He had disappeared. CHARLES F. KLINE, a life prisoner in the penitentiary at Columbus, O., was paroled, being the first life man to be SO favored. HENRY CARPENTER. an engineer. and three negroes were killed near Dupont, Ga., by a sawmill boiler explosion. THE Texas legislature convened at Austin for the purpose of passing a law that will effectually prohibit the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight at Dallas announced for October 31. THE Valley Mutual Life Insurance company of Richmond, Va., failed for $100.000. JOHN LITTLEFIELD, of Ukiah, Cal., accused of shooting J. V. Vinton, was hanged by a mob of cattlemen. BRICK yards, a row of houses and an electric light factory were burned in Philadelphia, the total loss being $250,000. STULTZ, LISBERGER & Co., large tobacco manufacturers at Danville, Va., failed for $100,000. THE banks at Monett and Purdy in Barry county, Mo., were placed in the hands of receivers. 03 00 AFTER a two-year struggle to ref trieve the loss caused by the financial depression the produce cold storage exchange in Chicago went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $500,000. a REV. WILLIAM E. HINSHAW was cona victed at Danville, Ind., of the murder o of his wife on January 10 last and to the jury fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. THE Texas legislature, by a vote of 27 to 1 in the senate and 110 to 5 in the t house, passed a bill making it a felony to engage in a prize fight in the state, N and attached to it a clause providing for the law going into effect at once. r THE thirty-sixth national triennial e convention of the Protestant Episcopal fi church of the United States met at a Minneapolis. e JAMES P. TILLOTSON, & prominent t member of the Chicago board of trade, it drowned himself in the lake because of heavy losses in speculation. U THE president issued an order placa ing Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles at the y head of the army of the United States
