Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-14

~ nays 80 In the House bill was introduced
to regulate the classification, compensation
tablish postal telegraph was reported favor
ably, and the measure to enable the people
to select their postmaster was reported ad-
versely
THERE was no session OF the Senate on the
9th. In the House the "omnibus" war-cla1m
bill was passed-yeas, 105; nays, 100. At the
evening session tnirty-four pension bills were
passed. including the one increasing the pen.
sion OF the widow Of General Robert Anderson,
the hero OF Fort Sumter to 800 month.
DOMESTIC.
A GENERAL strike of the brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen on the
Western and Northwestern railroads was
feared on the 9th The proposition made
in behalf of the Brotherhood strikers to
submit their troubles to arbitration had
been declined by President Perkins Of tho
Burlington road he said his company was
getting all the men it needed to run its
trains and had nothing to arbitrate
HE Democratic majority of the Ways
and Means Committee of the National
House submitted to the full committee the
Internal Revenue bill on the 9th The total
reduction in revenue made by the bill is
about $25. 600, 600, made up of 500, OOO.-
600 on tobacco and SIS, 600, 600 of various
special taxes removed 1t Was decided that
the bill should be added to the Mills Tariff
bill, max ng one bill of both.
DISPATCHES OF the 9th say that cyclone
which passed over the southwestern part of
Opelousas parish, La, destroyed six dwell
ines, and in every case the inmates were
injured and the household effects ruined.
A FIRE on the 9Th destroyed six business
build ngs at Lgbnier Ind
THROUGH the fault Of dispatcher two
heavy fre ghts on the Iowa Central collided
on the eta ner Hampton, Ia, piling nine
teen cars and the engines in a heap Of
ruins Brakemen Williams and Ferguson
were fatally hurt
The W.nslow Packing Company of Port
land, Ne, failed on the 9th for 500, 900.
ABOUT one thousand men employed in
the various shops of the Fort Wayne road
at Pittsburgh, Pa, were discharged on the
9th Lack OF work WAS ven as the cause
The eight hunlre miners at Mount Car
mel, Pa, who had been on strike since jan
nary for an advance in wages, returned
to work at the old rates on the 9th
ADoLPH DURsEY, Polish laborer at MIL
waukee, Wis, drank five glasses OF whisky
on w"ger on the 9th, dropping dead with
the last glass
the Bradford (P..) National Bank at noon
on the 9th. He fatally shot Cashier Tom
hnson cnd A. l. Bleich, and then, seeing
that his capture was inevitable, shot him.
self dead.
A STRIKE of engineers ON the Burlington
l. Northern road was inaugurated at Minne-
apolis on the 7tb, and fears were expressed
that other roads would be involved In
Chicago the strikers appeared to be conf
dent, while the Burlington & Quincy system
seemed to be doing a fair share of bus;n ness
A FREIGHT train was ditched at Middle
ton, Mo-, on the 9Th, and much live stock
was killed
AT Yuton, Ky, Miss sallie Oheir was
found dead on the 9TH with sixty-three
bullet holes in her body. No caus for the
murder was known.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York, on the 9TH
vetoed the proposed appropriation Of
$3.50, 600 for soldiers monument in that
city.
FIRE broke out on the 9TH in the Evcn-
ing O'tiom newspaper Office at Springfield,
Mass, and the occupants of the editorial
and mposing-rooms on the fifth floor
were hemmed in by the flames and but
few escaped A dozen or more jumped
from the wi dows, six being killed and the
The Nat onal House Comm tee on Com
merce on the 7th authorized favorable re-
port on tie Postal Telegraph bill It ap-
propriates $S, 600, 900 for the purpose of
the act and places the general supervision
OF the system under Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General.
THREE squntters in Indian Territory were
killed by cowboys on the 9TH and their
house burned
THE Iowa Supreme Court decided on the
9TH that liquor unlawfu!ly brought into the
State is subject to seizure at all times and
places, even When found in the possession
of a person holding permit to sell.
NINE valuable horses, stnugglei over the
Canadian border without payment of duties,
were seized at De Witt, Ia, on the 9TH.
IT was announced on the 7th that mo-
tor has been invented in Buffalo, n Y,
which would do away with mules on the
Erie canal 1t is a truck, with heavy wheels
and an engine, which will travel along the
canal banks without the use of rails
SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt at
Pasadena Cal, on the morning OF the 7Lh.
Brick build ngs were shaken, but no dam
age was done A shock was also felt at Los
Angeles
At Holly Springs, Miss the Rush Univer-
dty, for colored students OF both sexes
was destroyed by fire on the 9TH, together
with its fine library
A BAND OF young counterfeiters was dis
severed on the 9TH in Harrison township.
ind, who had been making good coun-
terfeit nickel and disposing of it success
fully, i4.4,
In response to resolution Of ing 4iry