Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-05

Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL. @
SENATOR ALLISON made y lengthy speech In
the debate on the Sundry Civil bill In the Sen.
ate on the 28th, claiming that the expenditures
Of the Government for the four years OF Mr..
cleveland's Administration exceeded tho ex.
penditures OF the .Garheld-Arthur Admin
Atration by e9h0CAOOo. Mr.. Hoars resolu.
ton calling on President Cleveland for all the
correspondence between Great Britain and tho
United States relating to the fisheries troubles
was passed. :. In the House the time was prin.
aipally occupied In debating the leave of-ab-
sence question. The Presidents message and
the Wilson bill relating to retaliation was re-
TERED to q subcommittee to collate all the
treaties md statutes bearing on the subject.
MR. REAGAN introduced bill in the Senate
on the 10th to permit the importation of iute
bagging free OF duty. The conference report
on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was con-
sidered. Several bills OF local Importance
were passed -. In the House joint resolu.
ton was passed to provide temporarily (until
September 15) for the expenditures OF the
eminent securities shall be printed In the high
est style of art, on hand roller presses, was
passed.
IN tho Senate on the 3Oth ult. the bill forfeit
ing the land grants to the Northern Pacific
railroad on the part of the line not yet COM
pleted was reported favorably. Several amend
ments to the Notifications bill were adopted
In speaking Of the retaliatory message Sena-
tor George upheld the Presidents position and
Nm Quit oo1 Tv
an attempt to consider tho Oklahoma bill
showed the absence of q quorum. The Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs repArted the Retail
tatlon bill, VIII CHI gives the President author
lty, in his discretion, to suspend in whole or in
part the transportation OF goods imported or
exported from Canada without the payment Of
duty; provides that whenever the President is
satisfied that there is any discrimination what
ever in the use Of Canadian canals which may
be detrimental to the interests of the United
States there shall DO q toll Of twenty cents q
ton levied on Canadian vessels using the Sault
Ste. Marie and St. Claire Flats canals or the
President may in his discretion entirely pro-
hibit Canadian vessels from the use Of these
canals.
IN the Senate on the 31st ult the Fortiflca-
lions bill was passed. A bill was introduced
authorizing the President to take all neces-
sary steps to prevent the spread from one
State or Territory to another of cholera, vel.
low fever, smallpox or plague A bill was re-
ported favorably to give soldiers who served
ninety days or more and were discharged on
account OF disease contracted in the line Of
duty the same bounty they would have re-.
seived If discharged Tor wounds Adjourned to
the 3d....1n the House nearly the entire ses-
zion was spent in considering the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill. At the evening session
swenty-seven private pension bills were
passed
DOMESTIC.
Mrs HARRIET MILLER, a wealthy Column
bus, (O.) woman, aged seventy years, was
accidentally killed on the 2Sth by the ex-
plosion of revolver in the hands of her
son, ". 81. Miller.
SAMUEL STAMBRoAK, q leading merchant
at Kincaid, Kan, while umpiring base
ball game on the Goth was struck on the
neck by swiftly pitched ball and instant
" killed.
JOSEPH BREED, assistant cashier of the
Hartford Comm National Bank, suicided
BY cutting his throat on the Goth. No cause
was known.
NEAR Topeka, Kan, George Pearce a
farmer seventy-three years of age, was at
tackled by a bull on the goth while trying
60 tie up the animal and was gored to
death.
OWING to dependency over the death of
his wife, which occurred year ago, r. 81.
Minor, a prominent physician of Chester,
Pa. committed suicide on the goth.
CHARLES CRoCKER, the recently deceased
California millionaire, left his entire es-
tate, valued at s25, 100000, to his family:
EIGHTEEN valuable horses were burned
to death in the barn of the Spring Valley
Stock Farm near Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 10Th.
A FIRE destroyed eight business houses
and large amount of valuable property at
Lancaster, Wis, on the goth.
The annual report made public ON the
Goth of the Pension Commissioner for the
fiscal year ended June So 1888, shows that
there were added to the pension rolls co.
252 new names, making total of 452, 557
pensioners on the rolls at the close of the
year: The amount Of pensions paid dur
ing the year was SIS, rs, 1851, an increase
oyer the previous year of s.. 30S, $50.
THE forest fires in Northern Michigan
were nearly out on the Goth, and people
were returning to their homes. Records
lost. There were no fatalities, though
many narrow escapes
AT Browns Gulch, M. T., on tho Goth
three years respectively, while playing
with matches in a barn, set fire to the
building and were burned to death.
By the upsetting of boat on the Goth
near Hyannis, Mass, Bertie and Edna
Smith and Fred Barnard were drowned.
They were each about twelve years Of age.
OWING to an epidemic of malarial or
typhoid fever many residents of Caldwell,
o., were on the Goth leaving that town.
There had been one hundred cases of the
malady and twenty-five deaths.
TI:cTuRE of aconite given on the Both
ult. by mistake as sirup in soda water
killed Horace Bishop and Charles Apple
bee, aged fifteen and sixteen years, at
Branford. Conn.
FoRTY-F1vE business firms of Davenport,
Ia, commenced proceedings on the :Oth
ult. before the State Railroad Commission
ers against several railways, alleging
that the freight rates charged by these
roa DIS are unreasonably high and discrim-
mating.
The prospects were on the Both ult that
the crop of oysters from all the waters in
the neighborhood of New York this season
would be of excellent quality and ex
tremely plentiful.
AT meeting Of the National Electrical
Association in New York on the Goth ult
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