Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-24
A RESUME OF THE DOlNGS OF
CONGRESS YESTERDAY.
The Strikes in St. Louis Not Yet
Ended.
BIG SHIPMENTS OF TIN. IRON AND
STEEL COMING WEST.
A Genuine Case of Cholera
in Michigan.
FRUIT BEING SHIPPED FROM IOWA
TO CALIFORNIA.
Mrs. General Hancock Granted .
Pension.
<,sprc1AL TO THE SENTINEL

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Senste-The
unfinished business being completed the
Judiciary Committees resolutions were
then taken up. and Jackson addressed the
Senate in opposition to them.
Ingalls, resolution of inquiry offered yes
terday was agreed to. asking whether the
Postmaster General had received the SEN
ate resolution, calling for information as
to the number Of f~ourth-class Postmaster
removed under the present Administra-
ton. ?
The Chair laid before the Senate Logan's
bill to promote the efficiency OF the Army.
Henderson spoke in favor of the section
increasing the force to 40, 1000 Of enlisted
meg. He read from the testimony given,
aud the letters written by Generals Scho-
field, Pope and others to show the made
quacy of the present force.
Tho Senate Committee on Finance to-
day decided to report favorably the nomi-
nations of several Internal Revenue Col
~lectors, in respect to whose predecessors
Secretary Manning says no charges reflect
ing upon their official or moral character
are pending.
House-Reagan, from the Committee on
Commerce, reported back the Senate bill
to establish a national live stock highway,
and promote commerce in live stock be-
tween the States.
st. Louis Strike.
ST. LOUIS, March 23.-Railroad traffic
here is almost at q standstill on account of
the strike OF over 200 Switchmen. Their
grievances have not yet been made known.
The situation this morning is one OF
quiet. but there is anxious expectancy. No
freight trains have been moved, and there
has been no attempt made to start them.
Passenger trains are not interfered with.
Railroad superintendents Of the various
lines have arrived here and will hold o
meeting.
ST.. LOUIS. March 23.-The knights say
they will accep: no terms from the COM
pany unless offered to them as members OF
the Knights OF Labor. A member of
the Executive Committee said: 1.-THE
worst is yet TO come. / dread it, but there
is no help for it. II we were to submit
now and return TO work without being
~EcCUb 70 hbi6Asp ~ 70 . oOiOos
not only for US, but also for labor unions,
the trades assemblies and for every labor
organization in the country. We will wait
three or four days in hopes that some way
towards a settlement may be opened, and
then If the situation remains unchanged
every freight train on every road running
out OF St. Louis and Chicago will be
stopped"
A ResuIt of Cheap Freight Rates.
CHICAGO. March pa Chicago firm
that deals extensively 10 California salmon,
fruit and other products have taken sd-
vantage of the cut In rates to send to Cali.
iornis some 80 carloads of tin plate. to be
used by the ~canneries there. Usually this
plate comes In sailing vessels from Liver.
pool around Cape Horn to the Pacific
Coast. A big hardware firm said they had
shipped more iron OF every description to
the West, 10 California and Oregon since
March / than ever before. In fact. their
business had doubled from March / to
March 20. The rates on iron had been cut
about 60 per cent, and while California
and Oregon merchants were taking advant-
age Of this there was also better feeling In
trade, and this latter was one OF the res-
soma for the great increase In the western
trade. Manufacturers OF iron pipe and
machinery used in mines were having O
great trade with California and Oregon,
and, in fact, the iron trade with the Far
West was the best in every department and
branch. due in main, Of course, to the
reductions made In freight rates.
Cholera fn Michigan.
LANSING. Mich. March 23.-Arthur B.
Smith, a prominent lumberman in Pin
coming. Bay county, was taken sick on the
10th instant with vomiting and diarrhua,
followed by cramps and q collapse. DR..
a Henry Baker, of the State Board of
Health, being called TO the patient, ascer-
tanned that he had cholera. On invest:ea.
tion how the disease could have been
/ brought to Pinconning, DR.. Baker found
that the patient, who was fond OF ~rsisins,
y had eaten from q box in the house, which
: csmo from Valencia. Spain, and which
, were not coated with sugar. but were sp.
parently fresh-probsbly OF the crop OF
1885, at which time cholera is known 10
have prevailed extensively in Valencia.
I The box will be examined for cholera
germs.
u Military Measures Before Congress
WASHINGTON. March 49, Representative
Forney. of Alabama, has been directed BY
the House Committee on Militia to report
favorably the Senate bill increasing the an.
nual appropriation for the militia, but the
committee has reduced the amount 70
$40O,OOO per annum. Several members OF
: the committee. while favoripg The report,
q will, when the bill il reached in the House,
n endeavor to have the amount restored &c
5000, DOC. as provided in the Senate bill