Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-08
The News Of the Week
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAJ
CONGRESSIONAL,

A@As ~ Ieta1atlOn OF DISCRIMINATION against
American vessels In Canadian canals. The
Senate bill to reimburse depositors Of the
FTeedmen's bank was ooncurred In.
In the Senate on the S0th ult. bill was in
troduced to appropriate "a, 600 for q public
building ut Galesborg, Ill. Tho sundry Civil
Appropriation bill was further considered. A
oil! was also introduced to amend the Contract
Labor law. In the House the Senate bill was
passed tor the erection of public building at
Sioux City To-, at cost Of $4,000. A bill was
introduced calling for Information from Amer.
loan consuls relative to emigration to the
United States. A conference was ordered on
the Senate amendments to the Navy Appro-
priation bill. The Deficiency Appropriation
bill was considered
Mr.. HORNS resolution appointing . COM
mittee to report upon commercial relations be-
tween the United States and Canada was
passed In the Senate on the 31st ult and the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was further
considered. In the House Mr. Mcmillan
crenn.) was elected Speaker pro tenn during
bill was passed for the revocation of the with.
drawal of lands made for the benefit Of certain
railroads in Iowa and Minnesota. The Army
bill was discussed,
THE bill to create an executive department
to be known as the department of agriculture
was reported in the Senate ON the lst A large
number OF House bills were passed, among
at jackson, Mich. The Sundry-Civil Appro-
prlation bill was passed.. In the House tho
senate amendments to the Army Appropria-
ton Dill were nOn.concurred in after q long do.
bate.
SEVERAL bills were reported In the Senate
on the I'd, after which the fisheries treaty was
again discussed in open session . In the
House the Senate amendments to the Army
Appropriation bill were non-concurred in and
conference was ordered. The Deficiency Ap-
preparation bill was further considered.
DOMESTIC.
The Western Union Telegraph and the
Commercial Cable companies advanced
cable rates to twenty five cents per word
on the 3Oth ult.
REPORTS of the 3Oth ult. from Western
Kansas say that hot winds had greatly
damaged the corn crop.
FIFTY female employees at shoe factory
at Carlisle, Pa, returned to work ON the
3Oth ult., an Objectionable foreman having
been discharged
/ In Chicago on the 30th ult the dead
bodies of Henry Heesch and wife were
found In their residence Heesch had
killed his wife with knife and then hung
himself.
. WILLIAM HOLLANDS eight year old
daughter and Mrs. Lizzie Mclaughlin were
killed by oil-can explosions in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 30th ult.
Two BROTHERS, Fred and Alden Rohrig.
were drowned while bathing in the river
at Abilene, Kan, on the 3Oth ult.
/ PIX DEDER1cK, of Albany, n Y, was
robbed on the 3oth ult Of $1,000 in bonds
which he was carrying in his buggy.
HE thermometer registered 108 degrees
in the shade at Nebraska City, Neb.. on
the 3Oth ult., and there were two cases of
sunstroke, one fatal. At Sioux City. L.,
no in the shade was recorded, and there
were five cases Of prostration by heat
MASKED men entered the house of Con-
rad Doup, farmer in Knox County, O., on
the 3Oth ult and after beating him insen-
sible rlf1ed a trunk in which he kept his
money and stole $4,000
JACK FLAHERrY and Jack Muldoon en-
gagged in wrestling match on the Goth
ult. at Cincinnati, and after the contest
Flaherty fell dead.
BAuERE1sES, Cooling and Koegel, three
tof the men charged with the Chicago,
burlington & Quincy dynamite conspiracy,
had hearing in Aurora, ILL.,, on the 3Oth
'ult., and were held to the grand jury.
: J. w. CRANK, sheriff of Andrew County,
No., accidentally shot himself fatally on
the 30th ult. while cleaning q revolver at
his home in Savannah.
DYNAMITE bomb was found on the 3Oth
ult. in the basement Of the new CONNER
|cial Bank building at st. Joseph, No.
CHARLES CUMMINGS and Henry Boyd,
employees Of the Hotel Brighton at Atlantic
City, N. j., got beyond their depth while
'batning on the Goth ult. and were drowned.
FIVE horses we're cremated in fire in
Chicago on the 30th ult which DESTROYED
several buildings.
The Congressional committee which has
been investigating trusts made its first re-
port on the 90th ult. It finds that the form
|of combination adopted by most Of the
trusts has been devised for the purpose Of
relieving the trust from the charge Of the
conspiracy laws of the various States or Of
being combination to regulate or control
the production of any commodity.
FIRE on the 31st ult. at Mansfield, O.,
burned out the building Of P. Bessman &
Co., wholesale grocers. Loss, e120, 600; in
surance, $4,000
: TIE Local Option High License law was
on the 31st ult, declared constitutional by
the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
FREMONT EMMoNs, who brutally muir.
dered Bertha Schultz at Pawnee City, Neb.,
because she would not marry him, was
lynched by mob on the 31st ult.
GENERAL j. B. SHALER, general superin-
tendent OF the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio railroad resigned on the 31st ult
LIGHTNING struck four horses on the 31st
iult: belonging to E. M. Cooper, of Ander-
son, Ind, killing all Of them. The horses
were standing under walnut tree. There
was not mark of violence to be seen on
any of them except that every hoof was
stripped entirely of each one.
= Two CHILDREN of Adolph Holden, of
Kansas City, were killed by the heat on
the 31st ult
Two MAIDEN ladies. Maria and Veretta
Reeves, living near Davisville, w. Va,
discovered burglars in their house early on
the morning of the 31st ult One of the
sisters shot one of the thieves dead and her
sister mortally wounded the other.
IT was reported on the 3lst ult. that the
Indians on the San Carlos reservation in
Arizona had been stealing cattle and that
they opened fire and killed three Indian
scouts sent to arrest them
THIRTY horses belonging to the Mutual
Benefit Ice Company: and valued at &, 0OO,
were burned to death on the 31st ult in
the company's stable at New York.
The famous trotting stallion Bell Boy