The Progress., 1888-10-06
Epitomll!et me- Of the Week.
CONGRESSIONAL. IN


A BILL was passed in the Senate on the oath
allowing any person who has abandoned or re-
linquished homestead entry before the ex-
piration OF the requisite six months to make
another entry not exceeding a quarter section
OF land. Bills were introduced to prohibit the
immigration OF Chinese laborers, and Offering
reward Of $10O, 900 to any one who shall dis.
cover the cause, remedy and treatment Of vel
low fever. The Deficiency Appropriation bill
was passed. In the House bills were intro
duced to establish camp for yellow fever ref
ugees; to prevent aliens from being employed
s on public works, and to increase the pensions
OF those who have lost q limb.
ON the 25th al! the pension bills on the calen-
dar in the Senate, t14 in number, were passed,
including one giving the widow OF General
Sheridan $500 year. A resolution was Of
Tered calling on the President for any informa-
ton the Government might have received
since the 1th inst. concerning the treaty with
China recently negotiated. In the House a
bill was passed allowing seamen in the United
States navy to deposit their savings with the
paymaster on whose books their accounts are
borne.
In the Senate on thei26th the question OF es-
tablishing inquests under National authority
and the tariff question were discussed. Re-
tal1atlon measures were also considered. -. In
the House the bill forfeiting4 certain Northern
Pacific land grants was passed
BITTER debate took place in the Senate on
the 9th over Senator Chandler's resolution
providing for an inquiry into the last Louisiana
election involving the choice OF United States
senators. Adjourned to the list OF October.
In the House the report of the referees on the
Sundry Civil appropriation bill was agreed to,
The bill providing for General Superintendent
J, OF the aslway Mail Service at $4,000. an AS
'sistant Superintendent at s. 600, chief clerk
at 1000, and as many other clerks as may be
necessary at 81, 800 was discussed.
THERE was no session of the Senate on the
aoth In the House resolution calling on the
Secretary OF the Treasury to state whether his
department had information of any violation
OF the navigation laws was adopted. At the
evening session thirty -one private pension bills
! were passed. /
DOMESTIC.
GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas, on the 25th
ordered the entire Ranger force of the
State and a number of militia companies
TO Rio Grande City to put down a mob of
.Mexicans that had taken possession of the
4 town. sxa ,gs.t&. @ta4NA s5f4ssa. b
! The monument to the Confederate dead
buried at Staunton, Va, was unvailed on
the 25th in the presence of five Thousand
persons.
NEAR Denver, Col, three Mexicans were
murdered on the 25th by tramps.
CoUNTERrEEr silver dollars land half
Neb., and vicinity on the 25th ,. J.
JOHN N. LEMON, aged sixty five years, of
Allegheny City, Pa, got into the hands of
two bunko men on the 25th and they
robbed him of $4,000
THE Finance Committee of the United
States Senate received the Tariff bill from
The subcommittee on the 25th. It provides
for cutting down the revenue to the extent
of about 100000 Several DAYS would
be occupied in it's consideration
FROST, the first of the season. was re-
ported on the 25th at Rome, Ga, at points
near Montgomery, Ala, and at Birming-
ham, Ala, and on the mountains near
Chattanooga, Tenn.
IHE pennsylvania Board Of Pardons at
Harrisburg on the 25th granted pardon
to Milton Weston, of Chicago, serving
five years. term in the Western Peniten-
.tiary for contributory murder
- A PASSENGER rate war was being waged
son the 25th by east bound roads out of St.
Louis.
UP to the 25th the total number of tons
of anthracite coal mined in this country
this year was 26, 7O0,3 1892, against "a 662, ia
4stons for the same period of 1887.
3. On the 25th one hundred and fifty Nor
3mons arrived at New York and Immediate
,ly left for Utah.
4 AN lncendiary fire on the Goth at Waba-
sha, Mimi, destroyed business property
valued at $120, 600.
A FIRE on the Goth destroyed business
buildings valued at 100000 at Canton.
D. T.
BY the upsetting of boat on the 26th in
the river near Glasgow, Mo-, James Hollo-
way, G. B. Brown and Mr. Denham were
drowned. - ss2,
A VIOLENT wind and rain-storm was
raging on the 2Gth along the whole New
England coast. Telegraph wires were
down in all directions and damage to
property would be large. Il
= The National convention Of American
Mechanics in session on the Goth at New
Brunswick, N. j., elected w. O. Staples,
of Connecticut, National Commander,
a Mrs. MARY GARRETT, of Medina, o., was
ION the 26th found guilty OF the murder of
her two imbecile step daughters.
NATHANIEL LIBBEY. aged ninety-three
years, and a pensioner of the war Of 1872
died at Warren, N. H., on the Goth.
The Western district of Lamoure Coun-
ty and the southern end western parts of
Stuttsman County, in Dakota, were swept
by prairie fire on the 26th, resulting in
crushing losses to farmers Thousands of
acres Of wheat and hay were burned over
and farm houses and outbuildings were de-
stroyed.
EPHRAru swELLs, of New York, manu-,
s facturer and original introducer of
Rough on Rats suspended on the Goth
owing to losses through injudicious ex-
penses.
J. w. BROWN, convicted of bigamy at
Detroit, Mich, seven of his alleged thirty
three wives having testified against him,
was on the 26th sentenced to seven years
and six months imprisonment f.
TwENTY-oNE little girls ranging IN age
from nine to fourteen years, who recently
arrived in New York with Mormon elders
from Europe, were on the 26th ordered
sby Collector Magone to be sent back to
Europe.
BILL WHITLEY, a notorious Texas des-
perado and train robher, was on the 10th
shot dead in Floresville, Tex, by United
States Marshal Rankin.
The lumber yard, planning mill and store
of Oliver Loukey, at Verdi New, were
bur ned on the Goth at a loss of 800, 600.
A SLIGHT shock Of earthquake was felt
in Albany. N. Y, on the 26th. No damage
was done.