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# CONDENSED DOMESTIC NEWS.
Senator Chilton's bill to prevent the marriage of idiotic, insane, or epileptic persons, failed to pass the Minnesota Senate yesterday.
By a unanimous vote the Presbytery of Chicago has pledged itself to raise $100,000 during the next five years, to be used in the erection of new churches in Chicago and its suburbs.
The funeral of former Attorney General of Illinois George Hunt, who died at his home in Riverside, Ill., took place at Springfield yesterday from the First Presbyterian Church.
Dennis J. Sweeny, chief of Chicago's fire department, is critically ill. The veteran fire fighter is troubled with a complication of diseases, the principal of which is heart affliction.
In the Police Court at Louisville, yesterday, the conspiracy charges against W. Greet Campbell, E. G. Bennett and Wilbur Beatty, Denver capitalists, were dismissed on the motion of the prosecution.
Fifty agricultural students of the University of Tennessee are at Biltmore, N. C., contesting for $200 in prizes offered by Geo. W. Vanderbilt for the best records in judging the blooded horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry on his farm.
Major General Sir Stanley Clarke and Lady Clarke have arrived at San Francisco from the Orient, on a tour of the world. Sir Stanley Clarke was equerry to the Prince of Wales, and expects to hold the same position under King Edward.
The British Columbian Legislature has passed a resolution asking the Dominion government to subsidize shipbuilding. The government has decided to appeal to the Privy Council against a judgment of the full court of British Columbia, which was to the effect that naturalized Japanese could vote.
Fifty Chinese passengers on the steamer Belgian King, which has arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from Hong-Kong, have been refused landing by Collector of the Port Bowers, pending an investigation by the commissioners in charge of immigration. They are alleged to be students and merchants, but their credentials are questioned.
John R. Ashe, president of the York cotton mills, at Yorkville, Ga., committed suicide yesterday by throwing himself into a well. It is believed the deed was committed under temporary aberration caused by failure to finance a debt of his mill, amounting to $30,000. Superintendent Grimes, of the mill, had, however, already perfected arrangements to get the desired money.
The inquest over the victims of the Doremus laundry boiler explosion at Chicago, of March 11, was begun before Coroner Traeger yesterday. Considerable testimony was given tending to show that the boiler was known to be in an unsafe condition and had been reported to the proprietor of the laundry. Mrs. George Pihl, widow of Engineer Pihl, who was killed in the explosion, testified that her husband had frequently told her the boiler was leaky and unsafe.
Frederic Harrison, president of the London Positivist committee, who is in New York, says: "What has most impressed me during my stay in America has been the wonderful philanthropy which causes your citizens to give out of their wealth an abundance to create and maintain libraries and institutions of learning. We in England, with our different social system, are less fortunate. Nobody thinks there of giving much-needed endowments to our colleges."
Former Judge A. S. Seddon, who was appointed referee to hear testimony in the $250,000 damage suit brought by ex-Governor William J. Stone, receiver of the Mullanphy Savings Bank, St. Louis, against the directors of the bank for alleged carelessness in the management of the bank, has filed his report in Judge Douglas's court, at St. Louis, recommending that judgment be rendered against the bank officials. General negligence is charged, in that they allowed heavy overdrafts to be made.
Professor S. W. Stratton, of the physics department of the University of Chicago, announces that, in view of the fact that he has been appointed director of the new Standardizing Bureau at Washington, he will resign his professorship. His resignation will take effect either in April or July. He will go to Europe, where he will study systems of weights and measures in France, Germany, England and Austria. The new bureau of which he is to be the head will cost $250,000. According to the present plans of Professor Stratton, he will have three kinds of work—commercial measures, manufacturing measures and educational measures.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has made Theodore Kundtz, of Cleveland, a knight of the Order of Franz Josef, one of the highest nonhereditary honors within the power of a European monarch to bestow. The decoration is believed to be the second conferred on a citizen of the United States, Dr. Gerster, of New York, having received a similar decoration in 1893 for his work in assisting destitute Hungarian immigrants. Mr. Kundtz's gift was conferred through the Austrian consul at Pittsburg and is bestowed, it is believed, because of Mr. Kundtz's extensive charity to the Hungarian people and institutions, both in Cleveland and in Austria.
