The Osceola times., 1888-05-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from yarious Sources.
uoNcnEssIoNaL pnOcEEprNcs.

0t1on< tndorSing the Interstate Commerco
law, favor.ng the Reagan scheme TO restrict
immigration. and favoring Goyersment owner
ship Of telegraph lines. number OF miseel'
laucous bills were introduced Senators Sher-
man and VOORHEES, discussed in lengthy
speeches the tarin question and the Presi'
Gents message. In the House Nr.
Mills announced that the Speaker
would not yet announce the commit.
tess, and requested that the Introduction OF
bills be permitted, and large number OF mis-
oolrAneous character was introduced, among
them one by Mr. Springer Of Illinois, for the
organization OF the Territory of Oklahoma
There were 902 public bills introduced, many
eftnem very important
x In the Senate on the 5th. Mr. Dawes report
ID bills providing for the compulsory education
Of indian children, and relating TO marriage be-
tween white men and Indian women. Among
the bills introduced. were one by Mr.. Hoar.
providing for q worlds exposition at Washing.
ton In is9s; by Mr.. Dawes to establish postal
telegraph; by Mr.. Platt, for the formation and
admission into the Union Of the State OF North
Dakota. Mr. Mitchell called up the joint reso-
luton for the appointment OF a commission 10
select site for naval station on the Pacihc
coast which, after discussion, was referred.
The Blair Educational bill was then
taken up, and after speech by Senator Rea-
gan opposing II, the Senate adjourned until the
9TH. :. In the House. Mr.. Taylor, OF Ohio, in
troduced bill to restore the rate OF duty on
imported wools. Mr.. Stone, Of Missouri, Of
fered q resolution directing the oommitte on
Judiciary 10 investigate the facts touching tho
imprisonment OF the judges OF the County
Court Of ST. Clair County Mo. The Speaker
announced the standing committees and an adj
tournDient was taken % The 9th
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
President CARSor, 50 says a Lonstan-
Il. ha. wal hat
10 long as he is at the head of affa irs
France shall adopt no warlike policy.
As Chaplain of the Thirteenth regiment
Of Brooklyn, Rev. DIR. Talmage has been
chosen to succeed Henry Ward Beecher.
OK the 4th Governor Larrabee OF Iowa
prepared and signed the death warrant of
Henry Schmidt, OF Fayette County, fixing
the day Of execution on January l3 and
transmitted the document to the shei. ~ Of
the county. The hanging will take place
ct West Union.
On the Ath Speaker Carlisle expected
to be able 10 announce the House commit
tees, but owing to the necessity Of seeing
certain members who be proposed TO re-
assign TO other committees. he was com.
peeled to abandon his intention. 1t was
thought that the list would be finished
and announced in the House on the 9TH.
The general investigator Of tho knights
Of Labor, Mrs. Leonora NJ. Barry, has
issued a circular letter to the female mem
bers Of the order wherever found. II
deals with the subject of the condition of
workingwomen and girls, and strongly
advocates the expenditure Of money Tor
education instead of strikes.
The late cashier OF the Fidelity Bank of
Cincinnati, Ammi Baldwin, is dead.
PRINCES Massino, Dildenago and Mala-
tesla, who, although belonging to the
army, attended the Pope's reception. aud
will be eensured by the Italian Govern
ment.
On the night of the 9th the first OF the
annual series of the Presidents state din
ners was given at the White House TO the
members Of the Cabinet. The public par.
lors were handsomely decorated.
OK the 9th Sherburne g. Hopkins, the
newspaper reporter who some weeks ago
sent sham Internal machine TO Chief
Justice Waite at Washington, for the pur.
pose Of creating a sensation and selling
the news, pleaded guilty in the police
court to the charge of attempting to OBJ
tain money by false pretenses, and was
fined 500.
OK the 9th the preparatory steps TO
what promises to be long and interest.
ing contest over the will of Mrs. Cornell ia
NJ. Stewart, widow Of A. 4. Stewart. Of
New York, was taken before the surro.
gate IN the presence of "a notable array Of
lawyers, who have been engaged to take
part in the controversy.
1T has been decided by ex-Empress
Eugene that the ceremony Of tho removal
M ho Zo - NJ.
Prince Imperial from Chiselhurst to Farm.
borough shall take place on the 9th. BY
private request of the ex.Empress none
OF the members Of the royal family will
be present, but the Queen will send
wreaths to be placed on the coffins.
On the 9th, In the primaries held at
New Orleans the official count shows that
sixty-fve Nichols delegates were elect.
cd and thirty-nine McEnery delegates.
On the 9Th Daniel Manning's will was
admitted to probate at Albany. N. Y, bv
Surrogate Woods. II was made july :.
1886, when Mr.. Manning was In Albany
attending the bi-centennal celebration OF
that city, and bequeaths 'hll his property
to his family.
On the evening of the 5ih, Harry Hall,
life-conyict at the Nebraska State Pen.
itentiary, escaped from that Institution
and IS supposed to have taken the Mis-.
souri Prcifc trainsouth. He is described
as a man five feet four and one.half inches
sall, light hair, about thirty years old and
weighs 100 ponds.
AT Nogales, Ariz., information Of tho
killing OF Bernal, the famous Mexican
. bandit, has been received. Bernal and a
portion Of his followers had a desperate
fight on the 9th near the town Of Cosala,
binaoa, with Mexican troops, during
which Bernal was killed and his mother
and three or -four followers captured.
oS the night of the 9th Mrs. Letitia
Bove, said to have been President Buch.
anan's first and only love. died at Sugar.
Loaf Valley, Mimi, at the age of ninety.
nine.
SULLIVAN has refused the proposition of
rmith's hackers to give a series OF ex.
nioition contests with Smith throughout
the world, ending in California. Smiths
managers are averse to real fight.
1T is said that Emperor William Of Ger
many is in serious condition of health.
UNDER the Irish Crimes act the sentence
OF Sir Wilfred Blunt has been affirmed,
and he has been committed TO prison.
On the 7th "Aunt Eunice" Cottrell, a
noted Pequot sqaaw Of Connecticut, died,
aged one hundred and fifteen years.
IRE announcement is made of the death
OF Bonamy Price, NJ. A., professor OF Po-
titical Economy in Oxford (Eng.) Uni
versity. He was eighty years old.
SECRETARY LAMAR has Sndered to the
President his resignation as Secretary of
the Interior and 1t has been accepted by
the President.
On the sth two Cinnamon, Dan Lee
and Phil Wing. were formally baptized
and admitted to the church on probation