The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

tors 70 receive silver certificates Mr.. voorhee
remarked that bank officers were hostile to what
they termed Scent money. Mr.. sherman depre-
Gated any attempt by Congress to regulate the
value of the two coins; the Government itself had
deprecated silver which would stand as eighteen
/ TO one in proportion 70 gold. Mr. Allison thought
the rauo should Dc niteen aud hall 10 one as IN
Messrs- Vest and Morgan was rejected. The
bill was reported 70 the Senate and passed by 81
| TO Is.
The House, Thursday. went into Committe on
the bill TO reduce Internal Revenue taxation. Mr..
| White gave notice OF an amendment to repeal the
Internal Revenue system so far as il affected to-
bscco. Mr. Morrison charged that the Chairman
| of the Committee of Ways aud Means was striving
dens Of the people. Messrs. Page, Aiken, and Rea-
gan announced that they would vote against the
bin. and the Committee rose. A communication
| from Navy officers was read. asking that the age
OF retirement be not changed
In the Senate Friday. Mr.. Frye called up the
| rule allowing the President pro tenn, when tenn
porariiy absent. 70 designate in writing Senator
70 assume the duties Of the Chair, which was de
bsted and referred. The House bill 10 ratify the
agreement with the Shoshones and Bannocks for
/ the right of way for the Utah and Northwestern
Road was passed as also the Senate bill creating
the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company. Con-
demned cannon were granted to organizations at
Nincennes, Ind; Marshalltown. Ia. Ironton, o /;
Danville, ILL.,, aud Council Bluffs. A bill was
passed TO pay for the use OF the Orphan Asylum
| property at Natchez during the late war. The
House resolutions commemorative of the late
| Thomas Allen of Missouri, called out several
| tributes of respect.
The House, Friday. went into Committee of the
/ Whole on the bill 10 reduce internal taxation.
Mr.. Kasson expressed the hope that the Gov
eminent would not become permanently de-
pendent upOn whisky shops for It's revenue. Mr.
| wilson gave notice of an amendment to forbid
National Banks from receiving interest exceeding
| 6 per cent per annum for loans Mr.. Dunnell
| thought it too early TO begin to repeal Internal
| Revenue laws. Mr. Hewitt alludedt 10 the strikes
| in progress and remarked that Congress should
speedily abolish levies on the products of in
4 II
fered the workiDgman the abolition of the tax on
/ matches. Mr.. Sparks attacked the entire In
| ternal Revenue system, as did also Mr. Springer
| The Committee then rose, when eulOgies were
The House spent Saturday on the Internal
Revenue bill, number OF amendments were
defeated. An amendment striking out Of the bill
| the reduction in the whisky and beer license
taxes was agreed to.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
Heavy and destructive rains are reported from
Iowa.
Good news of the wheat crop comes from
Kansas.
Several cases of heat ProstratiOn have occurred
In New York and Brooklyn.
James Kirkland, formerly Of Covington, Ky
died at Memphis, Tenn, OF sunstroke.
General Stoneman hes been nominated by the
Democrats of California for Governor.
By the explosion of saw-mill boiler at VIII
Mansfield, o., Wednesday. four men were killed.
LJeStS 10 lGFHltlS III DuNlcT OOuuN1. ODlO. from
army worms and storms are estimated at 81, 600.
90.
There are thirty eight smallpox patients in the
Chicago pest house, the lowest number for eigh-
teen months.
Six thousand Masons paraded in Philadelphia
Saturdayin honor of the founding of Masonry in
Pennsylvania.
There were one hundred and thirty-four deaths
in Cincinnati the past week. Twenty-Five were
from smallpox.
Id lf- o*l ofT IL
visited by a wind storm Sunday evening and
considerable damage inflicted
Large herds of cattle are arriving at Dodge
City, Kan. and il is estimated that within space
of sixty miles there are s., coo head.
The failures reported for the week throughout
the country numbered nine-fve, of which the
Western States led with twentynipe.
James Fitzgerald who played bunko game on
Charles Francis Adams, has been sentenced to five
years in the Massachusetts, Penitentiary.
B. Frank BigelOw. Receiving Teller of the Ma
ton Bank of the Republic. Washington, D. C., has
fled, leaving shortage of S, 600 in his accounts.
Five important firms IN Moscow have organized
TO promote the cultivation of cOttsn in Central
Asia, and will engage American superintendent.
Twenty houses were demolished and FIVE per-
sons killed and twenty-five injured. in the south
day.
coach containing pleasure party of young
people from San Francisco, went over a bank near
Felton, Cal, killing four and w0unding several
others.
Thomas J. Foster. representing Allen County in
the Indiana Senate. and publisher of the Journal,
killed himself with a revolver Friday, at Fort
Wayne.
The French Senate rejected the bill to permit
the importation OF American pork on the ground
that sufficient guarantees against trichiniasiS were
not offered.
The Iowa Free Trade League has established
branches in twelve Counties while the Iron and
steel Associations are supplying the people with
protectionist tracts.
A Nihilistic lodging was discovered by the
Russian police on YasSila Island, and forty-nine
persons were arrested aud a large quantity of
dynamite was seized.
An old soldier in Kansas suggests that the trap
OF Guiteaus gallows be connected with the tele-
graph wires In such manner as to ring the fire
alarm In the chief cities.
The fine MANILA rope TO be used in the hanging
OF the assassin of the President has been put up
in position The ceremonyis 10 take place between
noon and p. m. next Friday.
Kentucky farmers are harvesting a glorious
wheat crop. The prese Mt price offered is only
ninety cents per bushel, with a prospect of its
goine>fs low as seventy-fve cents.
Charles Antobees, the most noted of the 'front.'
iersman of Colorado, died at the age of eighty
years, at his home near Fort Raymond. He
piloted John c. Fremont backan forth over the
range.
The fifth great well in the Warren County oil
field was struck Wednesday, the yield being 1,600
barrels. One large well is on fire, causing loss
fifty ieet
The Kentucky Board of Agriculture estimates
the wheat crop Of that State as high as 900 600
bushels. Corn is in better condition than for
years ana the acreage is 10 to is per cent greater
than last year.
1t is proposed to ask Congress for an appropria-
ton for having the remains of the Jeanette crew
found by Engineer Melville. transported to this
country for proper interment in places selected by
their families.
George N. Woods was publicly executed at
Durango Col, for the murder of NJ. G. Buchanan,
Friday. Four negroes, one a woman, were
hanged at Kingston, s. c., two for murder and
the Others for arson.
Frank Stratton, OF North Lebanon, o. stole a
horse near Muncie, Ind, Thursday, and was cap
tured when few miles away. He was securely
bound and placed on a Bee Line train, but man
aged to throw himself from platform and break
his neck.
Minister Morton gave dinner IN Paris Friday
TO Ministers Hunt Taft and Dayton, at which
were present the Amb assadors of Russia, Germany
Austria, and Spain, and the Ministers from Por-
tugal, Sweden, China, Japan, Greece, Mexico,
Persia, ana the Netherlands.
Major Anderson, of the Iowa Railway Commits
sion, who was nominated for Congress Thursday
at Council Bluffs gave bond OF 81 900 to secure
the POstoffice at Randolph for G. McKintrick in
consideration of the support OF the latter in An
derson's Congressional aspirations.
A correspondent at Alexandria telegraphs that
If France and England interfere actively in Egypt
Arab Pasha intends TO blow up the Suez Canal
cut the railway to Cairo and oppose the landing
of European troops. France has sent five more
iron-clads to Alexandria, and will forward 800
marines.
Nearly 10000 men participated in the parade of