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THE NEWS CONDENSED. DOMESTIC ITEMS. East. Heavy rains, followed by floods and washouts, are reported in the Eastern States and Southern Canada, Numerous railroad accidents, attended with some loss of life, are among the natural results, A freight train ran into a washout at Swanton, Vt., scalding the fireman to death and wrecking nine cars. A passenger train on the Ogdensburgh road was ditched at Mooers Forks, N.Y., killing the engineer and fircman. The six days' walking match in New York was won by Hazael, the Englishman, who made 600 miles. Five other contestants made 500 miles and upward. Rowell, the hithertoinvincible pedestrian, fell sick, and gave up on the fourth day of the contest. Three railway employes were killed at Earlville, N. Y., by a collision of trains on the Syracuse and Chenango road. Ex-Gov. Milton S. Latham, of California, died in New York last week. Charles A. Sweet & Co., of Boston, bankers, have suspended payment. The lia= bilities are between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. West. Repeated attempts have recently been made to wreck trains on the Chicago and Alton oad at Joliet, Ill. The Iowa Legislature has passed a resolution to submit to the people a constitutional amendment on the question of liquor prohibition. By a vote of 63 to 49, the Wisconsin Assembly refused to order to engrossment a prohibitive resolution. Crop reports for the West and Northwest are unanimous'y good. At Portland, Ore., Annie Murray, a notorions woman, killed Henry C. Prang, and then inflicted fatal wounds upon herself. Forty Indian prisoners at Fort Lowe11, who were implicated in the Cibicu outbreak, are to be escorted to San Carlos reservation and set at liberty. Their capture and detention cost $15,000, and no effort to punish them has been made. Imposing demonstrations against further Chinese immigration took place in all the large towns in California and Nevada, business having been suspended. The San Francisco gathering was estimated at 30,000. Resolutions were adopted urging upon Congress the absolute necessity of speedy legislation, to make effective the treaty with China to restrict the advent of her citizens on the Pacific coast. The Grand Jury at Chicago has indicted a large number of gamblers, and several wealthy citizens who rent their property to gamblers. Alice Wright, an actress, jumped from A third-story window of a Cleveland hotel, while delirions from typhoid fever, and was dashed to death. At Marquette, Mich., the lower packing house of the Lake Superior Powder Company's mills exploded the otherday. Fourmen were blown to atoms, and the building annihilated, South. Dr. Williford, of Memphis, mistook for a burglar n colored nurse in his employ, and fatally injured Ler by firing through a window. Five persons were overwhelmed by the rush of waters, caused by the breaking of the Mississippi levee near Concordia, Le. The three Indian scouts-Dead-Shot, Dandy Jim and Skippy-who gave the signal for the onslanght on Gen. Carr's command, were executed at Fort Grant, Arizona. Robert Jones, a white man, and William Miller, colored, were hanged at Aberdeen, Miss., for the murder of three brothers, named Walker, in November last. Many people in the lowlands of the Lower Mississippi valley were compelled to seek refuge in trees from the flood. The steamer James D. Parker was wrecked on the rocks near Louisville, and then set on fire by the overturning of a stove. The passengers were rescued, but a cargo valued at $100,000 was lost.
