The Progress., 1888-10-20
Epitome of the Week.

Epitonle of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on the 9th Senator Allison
opened the debate on the Senate Tariff bill
An attempt was made to limit the discussion
10 ten days, but the Iowa Senator refused to
consent. On comparing the two bills Mr..
Allison said that the Senate bill was clear
and distinct measure ofprotection to American
Industries, while tho House bill was q long step
IN the direction Of free trade Mr.. Vance IN.
C0 spoke in opposition to the bill -. In the
House bill approprating s5O0, 600 to establish
camps for yellow fever refugees was favorably
reported. A bill was passed to constitute
Lincoln, Mob. port Of delivery.
TIE Senate passed bill on the 9th directing
chat the certificates and lists of votes for
President and Vice-President of the United
States shall be forwarded to the President of
the Senate forthwith after the second Monday
m January on which the electors shall give
their votes. A resolution was adopted to
ascertain the number Of aliens, foreign COM
1anles and corporations owning and working
mines in the Territories. The Tariff bill was
discussed. =. In the House the bill appropri-
ating $50, 900 to enforce the Chinese Exclusion
act was passed. The Senate bill relating to
the meeting of Presidential electors was also
passed.
In the Senate on the 10th Senator Hale pre-
sented the majority report of the Senate
Special Committee on investigation of the
Civil Service. The joint resolut on relative to
the yellow fever medical conference was
passed, was also the bill to pay the sum Of
sa 745 to the widow of the late Chief-Justice
Waite. The rest of the session was consumed
= speech in opposition to tho Senate Tariff
btii by Senator Bate. =. In the House the con-
ssfencs report on the Deficiency bill was
agree~ S.
The House bill appropriating $50, 900 to carry
out the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion
Act vas passed IN the Senate on the 11th. SEN
stor Mitchell tOreJ spoke at length on the bill
70 reduce letter postage to one cent per ounce.
When he concluded Senator Cullom Oily took
she floor and spoke on the tariff question go
The House was not in session.
J THE tariff discussion was the chief feature of
the proceedings in the Senate on the 12th A
message was received from the President
Tetoing the bill granting restoration OF pension
20 Sarah A. Woodbridge. Conference reports
on the Fourth of July claims bin and the bill
to retire General Pleasanton were agreed to-
Adjourned to the 18th. In the House almost
She entire day was devoted to the discussion Of
tne Nicaragua Canal bill. The conference re-
ports on the Fourth Of July claims bill and the
to. Adjourned to the 18th.
DOMESTIC.
SHoENEMAN & Co.'s packing house and
butterine manufactory in Chicago was
burned on the 9Th. Loss, 100000
The earthquake in South Carolina was
followed in Colleton County by fourteen
months of drouth. At the expiration of
that time rainy season set in and for the
fifty seven days ended on the Sth there
were only two when it did not rain.
WILLIAM LAHEY escaped from Auburn
(N ~ prison on the 6th by digging hole
through four feet of solid masonry COM
posing the roof Of his cell and then saving
through the root proper.
A FIRE in a New York livery stable on
the 9th burned boy and twenty seven
horses to death.
The j. L. Clark Carriage Company of
Oshkosh. Wis, failed on the 9th for $780,
900. F-z
DURING the twenty -four hours ended on
the 9TH there We're 90 new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and 4.deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date, 3,319;
hotal deaths. 299.
AGREAr freshet prevailed on the 9th near
Fairfield, Me-, and the mills had lost guam
tities of lumber and railroads were washed
out .-..s
ELEVEN horses and twenty five tons of
hay were burned on the 9th in barn be-
longing to Edward Root near Waterloo, Ia.
DIR. WILLIAM PEPPER, of Philadelphia,
who attended General Sheridan during
his last sickness, was asked to present his
bill, but he refused on the 9th to charge
for his services.
GOLD was discovered on the 9th in the
principal street of Helena M. T.
A FURIOUS snOW-storm was raging on
Che 9th in portions Of New Hampsh hire and
Vermont
THE business portion of Lakeside village,
Wis, was burned on the 9th
AN incendiary fire on the 9th at Moscow,
!. T., destroyed property valued at $4,000.
Gamblers who had been ordered to leave
the town were believed to have started the
ire.
WILLIAM B. SMITH, cashier of the Erie
freight house at Mansfield, o., fled on the
9th with s., 600 of the. ,company's money.
!. R. NORTH, Of Independence, Kan, in
a quarrel on the 9th shot and killed Rev.
g. w. Puckett Methodist minister.
MICHAEL GoRMAN, who killed Charles
Johnson in Brooklyn, N. Y, on July 4,
1855, and was sentenced to Sing Sing for
life, was released on the 9th on pardon
granted by Governor Hill. German had
been in prison thirty-two years.
By the derailing of freight train at
Valparaiso, Ind, on the 10th ClaussMyers
was fatally hurt.
MRS. KATHERINE KIRcH was fatally gored
by a bull on the 10th at Petersburg, Va
JAMES B. CAUNcE, book-keeper of the
Dolphin Silk Company in Paterson, N. T.,
was on the 10th discovered to be short
$4,000 in his accounts.
PAUL NORTH, eight years old, was killed
ahe 10TH
THE Presbyterian Church at Mount Au-
Burn, Cincinnati, burned on the 10th, caus-
ing loss of SIS. 600.
A TRAIN returning from an excursion at
Hazelton, Pa, was wrecked near Penn Ha-
ven on the evening of the 10TH The ex-
act number of the victims was not known,
but it is reported that from twenty five to
slightly persons had been killed
OwING to wind and rain, the caterpillar
.p,l halt q: IT,