San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-17

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library.
Speaker Carlisle has added Representa-
tive Burns, Of Missouri, as a member OF
the committee to investigate the labor
troubles in the West.
The House Committee on Commerce
to-day authorized Representative Rea-
gan to ask that the rules be suspended
and a day be fixed for consideration of
the Eads ship railway bill.
By the close vote OF 6 to the Educa.
tiOnal Committee of the House o-day
declared favorable report on the Sem
ate bill to provide for study of the ma
ture of alcoholic drinks and narcotics
and of their effects on the human system
in connection with several divisions of
the subject of Psychology and hygiene
by the pupils Of the public schools in the
District Of Columbia and in the military
and naval academies and Indian and COL
ored schools of the territories. A ques-
tien Of constitutionality was raised by
several members Of the committee, and
was met by Mr.. O'Donnell, of Michigan,
who will report the measure to the
house.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Muldrow has requested the Attorney
General, If in his judgment he shall
deem it for the interest of the United
States, to institute suits against the firm
of Ordway, Weidler & Co.; also, against
Julius Ordway, G. W. Weidler and Muir
tin Weidler, Individually, all of Port
land, Oregon, to recover the value, at $l2
per thousand feet, of 100000 feet of
timber alleged to have been unlawfully
taken by them from public lands in the
United States, and also criminal proceed
ings against said parties individually for
the trespass above described.
Chairman Curtain called together this
afternoon his select committee charged
with investigation of the labor troubles.
There was general interchange ofviews
as to the proper method of conducting
the inquiry, but as Messrs Blain and
Stewart, two of the members, were alb
sent, no conclusion was reached. From
the tone of discussion, it would seem
probable that the committee will 90
West in ten days or fortnight, and that
the intervening period will be spent in
pertecting plan of operations, and, per-
haps. in the taking of such pertinent
testimony as offers in this case.
ST. CLOUD, April l6.-Solemn requiem
mass WAS held in the Cathedral this
morning over the remains of Is of the
victims Of the cyclone, Father Stemper
officiating. Similar services took place
in the Church of the immaculate Con-
ceptiOn over the remains OF four. About
1000 persons were present from all over
the country. The dead were buried in
two large graves, nine adults in one and
eight children in the other.
Wilbur Dahlman, farmer near Buck
man, % miles from here, and a workman
named Clark, on Senator Dahlman's
farm, were both killed. Fifty-four
wounded have been attended to at the
hospital. Thirty are there at present
and five at the convent. Every house
in the vicinity has one or more
wounded. Nearly 100 in the two towns
are injured.
Fourteen dead were buried in the Gem
etery at Sank Rapids to-day. Ten doc
tors have been in attendance, and a
large number of persons from st. Paul
and Minneapolis are looking after the
wounded. Nothing has been done to re-
move the wreck in either St. Cloud or
Sank Rapids. The loss of property in
st. Cloud is estimated at $4,000 and in
Sank Rapids at $4,000.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 16.-The City Coun-
Gil to-day passed resolution appropri-
ating 5000 for the benefit Of the cy.
clone sufferers.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, April l6.-Great ex-
element was occasloned at Angelica,
N. Y, to-day by the announcement that
the First National bank had closed its
doors. 1t Is stated that j. 4. Robinson,
tar &c IAfa MI 20 h. -
$4,000. When last heard from he was in
Banada. He has been cashier for %
years, and the utmost confidence in his
integrity prevailed.
COLUMBUS, April l6. Consideration OF
the Payne bribery Investigation CON-
mission was resumed in the House this
morning, on a motion to postpone to
next Thursday for the purpose of print
ing the evidence. The motion was de-
feated, as was also that to substitute the
minority for the majority reports. The
majority report was adopted by a party
vote, together with the resolution Or
dering the same forwarded to the United
States Senate for consideration Of that
body.
CHICAGO, April 16.-The switchmen on
the Baltimore and Ohio, in this city,
went out this afternoon, owing to re-
fusal of the local officials to accede to
their demands for the discharge of nom
union men. 1t Is rumored that the Lake
Shore switchmen will 60 out tomorrow.
Thus far the road has no difficulty in
moving trains.
The main switching yards Of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad are at South
Chicago, two miles southeast of the city,
where the chief difficulty exists. About
40 switchmsn are employed there, OF
whom 35 stopped work. Only three or
four men are employed at the Union de-
pot here, including the yard master, and
these men are still on duty. Officials of
the company declare they will not be
seriously incOnvenienced in any way.
Everything is quiet at the yards.
The switchmen at the stock yards in
South Chicago, employed by the Chica-
60, Burlington and Quincy, numbering
between 80 and 60, have also gone out.
They declared that general strike is
threatened on account of the n0n-union
men.
EST. LOUIS, April 16.-Bench warrants
we're issued this afternoon by the GRIM
inal court for the arrest of Martin Irons,
Chairman of the Executive Committee
of District Assembly SO, George M.
jackson, formerly prominent Green
back politician, and s. M. Nichols, tele-
graph operator, on a charge of felony
for interfering with the telegraph wires
In connection with the tapping, alleged
to have been done about two weeks age
for the purpose of intercepting dis.
patches passing between Jay Gould and
Vice-President Hoxis.
New YORK, April l6.-Eighteen boy
cotters were arraigned in the police cOurt