The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-14
Epitolne of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

EpIUOllle vi Tile week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on the nth consideration OF
the fishery treaty was resumed in open session
....I In the House Mr.. Dougherty (Fla.) offered
substitute for the Mills BILL which provides
that all articles or products not manufactured
or produced in the United States shall enter
the United States free of import duty The
Tariff bill was further discussed. A bill was
introduced to provide for an Assistant Secretary
of the Navy.
BILL to amend the Interstate Commerce
law was considered in the United States Sen
ate on the 18th. A resolution was offered in
structing the Committee on Privileges and
Elections to investigate the recent State cleo
ton IN Louisiana. The Department of Agri-
culture Appropriation bill was reported. In
the House the time was occupied in debate on
the Tariff bill
IN the Senate bill was introduced on the
18th for the creation OF a tribunal for Interna-
tonal arbitration to promote peace among ma
tions, and the District OF Columbia Appropria-
ton bill was passed. Mr. Hale made speech
on the fishery treaty, which he declares to be a
failure The bill for adjusting the accounts of
laborers and mechanics arising under the
eight-hour law was brought up, but no action
was taken In the House the Tariff bill was
further considered
IN the Senate on the 18th bills were passed.
granting leave OF absence to all persons now
In the employ OF the Government and who
were present at the battle of Gettysburg to
attend the reunion there on July next; ap-
propriating S275, 900 for the reconstruction of
the Government dam at the Rock Island
arsenal and the Agricultural Department and
Post-office Appropriation bills. Adjourned to
providing for an assistant Secretary of War;.
and to retire General Alfred PIeasanton The
Tariff bill was further considered.
HE Senate was not in session on the 18th
In the House q motion to consider the Army
Appropriation bill was defeated, and as no
quorum was present no business was trans
acted.
DOMESTIC.
ACCORDING to a census finished on the
18th Baltimore has 416, S05 inhabitants, of
which "a, 500 are colored
AFIRE in a tenement house in New York
On the 18th resulted in the death of one
man and the burning or wounding of a
dozen persons.
Mrs SARAH JANE WHEELING, of Phila-
delphia, confessed on the 18th that she had
poisoned her two children and that she
furnished her husband with the poison
with which, she declared, he took his own
life on account Of dependency caused by
poverty.
The National organization of the Colored
Young Mems Christian Association was
completed at Louisville, KY, on the 10Th,
Charles L. Morris, Of that city, being
chosen president.
FIVE HUNDRED cowboys of the Chicka-
saw nation were in a state of rebellion on
the 18th over the payment of cattle tax,
and the Government troops at Fort Reno
were preparing to take the field.
PETER ALT, a hotel proprietor at Balti-
more, Md, was shot to death by his fifteen
year-old son on the 18th. The killing was
the outcome of a family quarrel
ANDREW HOWARD, cash boy aged four
teen years, confessed on the 18th to start ng
the great fire in Buffalo, N. Y, February i,
by which $1,000, 600 worth of property was
destroyed. He said he did it because he
was angry with a floor walker.
FRANK DONOVAN, aged ten years, was
shot and killed on the 18th at Oswego, N.
r., by Lewis Clark, aged thirteen years,
while playing with gun.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Millers' National Association was opened
at Buffalo, N Y, on the 18th
Two YOUNG men, John Tin5e and Henry
Prayer, the first clerk and the second
only known by card in his pocket, COM
mltted suicide at Cincinnati on the 18th by
shooting themselves
HEAVY seizure of opium was made by
the United States customs authorities at
St Louis on the 18th
The negroes in the Chickasaw nation
were on the 18th said to be planning gen
eral exodus to Oklahoma to engage in farm
ing
Vt 11o1 aof%1 ,o'A
can Seed Association was begun in Chicago
on the 18th.
FIRE on the 18th at Indianapolis de-
stroyeG the establishments of the In
dianapolis Veneer Company, d. E. Stone
& Co., fancy cabinetware, and M J. Os-
good & Co., lumber. Total loss, 500, 900.
SEVEN men were buried at Menominee,
Wis, on the 18th by the caving of clay
bank in brickyard and two were killed,
two fatally injured and the others seriously
hurt. sass
NINETEEN persons were poisoned on the
18th at Kasota, Mimi, from eating cheese,
but all would probably recover.
s THIRTEEN hogs were struck by lightning
and killed on the 18th at Whitewater Wis
The Auditorium hall in Chicago in which
the Republican National convention takes
place will hold about nine thousand people.
borhood of one hundred thousand applica-
tons for tickets
The thermometer registered 102 in the
shade at Nebraska City, Neb., on the 18th,
and there were several cases of sur, stroke
A MONUMENT to General Thomas j.
c'Stonewall') jackson was unvailed in
Charlottesville, Va, on the 18TH
The date of the g. A. r. National en-
oampment at Columbus O., has been fixed
for September 12
JOHN McCULLUcH, of st. Louis, broom
maker, shot his wife on the 18th and then
walked a block and sent a bullet through
his own head
The floods in Minnesota had on the 18th
done damage to the extent of S5OO,0OO The
St. Louis river for thirty miles was arag-
ing torrent and presented wonderful
scene as it plunged through the Dalles.
A LARGE portion of the village of Green
up, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
The recently published statistics of the
Chicago Union Stock Yards Company and
Of the Chicago Board Of Trade show that