The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-06
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Congressional Proceedings for the Week
miscellaneous News Items.

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miscellaneous News Items.
Monday, May 2S-In the senate the
river and harbor bill was reported. Mr..
Jones of Arkansas, replied to senator
Stewards charge against Attorney General
Garland. At 80 p. m. the senate went
/ into executive session until 3 p. m, when
the doors were opened ana resolution
agreed to TO consider the fisheries treaty
in open session. In the house bills were
introduced and reports from committees
made. The legislative appropriation bill
was then taken up and considered until 0
p. M. when the house adjourned, the
army appropriation bill having been re-
ported.
Tuesday, May 29-In the senate the veto
of the public building bill for Youngs-
town, o., was read and protest made by
Senator Sherman against the presidents
action. Mr.. Vest defended the president.
Three vetoes of private pension bills were
| also read. A bill was reported torevive the
grade of general of the L. S. army for
the benefit of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan. Mr..
Berry objected to its immediate considera-
ton, but subsequently withdrew his OBJ
lection. and the bill was passed. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Sherman the fisheries treaty
was considered in open executive session,
the first in the history of the government.
the subject was postponed until June II.
In the house the legislative appropriation
bill was considered until 5:S0p. m, when
an adjournment was taken until Thurs
day.
Wednesday, May 3O.-Neither house
was in session because of Decoration Day
services.
Thursday, May 31.-Tn the senate
number OF bills were reported. The con-
ference report on the department of labor
bill was agreed to. The bill to quiet the
title of settlers on the Des Moines river
lands was considered and finally passed.
In the house the conference report on the
department of labor bill was agreed
to. The legislative appropria-
ton bill was considered and re-
committed for revision. The tariff bill
was then taken up and considered under
the five-minute rule Before the first sec
ton was disposed of the committee rose.
The legi latiye appropriation bill, as
amended by the committee, was reported.
Mr.. Mckinley tried to get up the bill to
revive the rank of general for Lieut.-Gen.
Sheridan but failed
Friday, June lin the senate the In
dian appropriation bill was passed after a
long debate. In the house. the bill to re-
vive the rank of general for the benefit of
Lieut-Gen. Sheridan was passed and a
long discussion on the tariff bill followed.
Saturday, June 1.-THE house only in
session. In the consideration of the tariff
bill, Mr.. Taulbee, a free trader, protested
against putting lumber on the free list
the agricultural appropriation bill passed.
Miscellaneous News items.
half block at Selma, CAL, burned 100000
worth.
Fire in the city of Panama Sunday caused a
| loss of 100000
The jury at New York IN the Kerr bribery
case Is still out
ing his rescrlpt.
| Fire Quilted the medical department, univer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
| d. G. Fowle is the North Carolina democratic
nominee for governor.
Gen. Sherman will attend the Cincinnati CEN
| tennial Sept. 10 and IL next.
The Seventeenth Illinois district renOminated
E. IL. Lane (dem.) for congress.
| Harrodsburg, KY, had big blowout cele-
/ bratlng the Southern road opening.
/ The emperor of Brazil continues to grow
stronger under injections of caffeine.
! w. II. Moore, banker of SOcorro, n. NJ, has
/ fed to SOcorrO, Mex, with the deposits.
| Dr. A. /. Chaplin, of Beloit (Wis.) college is
| seriously Ill, suffering from paralysis.
! Jay Gould and party are at Pueblo, Col. The
/ reports of Gould's illness are fabrication.
! At Williamsport, Pa, Sunday, Robert Reidy
and Boyd Guinter were drowned in the river.
At Brooklyn. Sunday the st. Louis club de-
/ feated the Brooklyn to before 1855 people,
| John Bright is regaining strength very
/ slowly. His cOnvalescence will be prolonged.
/ Mr. Pyne, NJ. p, imprisoned for offences UNI
/ der the crimes act in Ireland, was released Fri
4 day.
At Sharon, Pa, Mrs James Clark was shot
and killed by her drunken brother-in-law, Sam
/ Clark.
Cashier Wilson of the P, c. & St. L. freight
S5,po6' columbus mas 'O''OnoSu with
Ed Hussong was ambushed and assassinated
near Nelson, Neb, Wednesday. No cause is
i known.
Fire started by hot box on a car at Dayton
/ O., Sunday, caused $4,000 loss in the lumber
district.
The Chrystal salt works at Warsaw, N Y,
were burned Saturday night. Loss $4,000;
insured.
Halter, the concessionaire, has purchased
/ 100000 Mexican acres for colonization from
Europe.
A Southern Central train struck ahand car
near BardOna, n. y, Friday killing two
| Italians.
The Nebraska & Western is a new road with
100000 capital, to cross the state from Sioux
/ City west.
In quarrel at Reading, Pa, J. " Scott,
| Friday, cut his wife's throat and his own. Both
will recover.
The steamer Evansville exploded her boilers
! near Winona, Mimi, Friday, scalding six men,
none fatally.
Drunken A. J. Winfurst of Holdridge, Neb.,
shot and killed Willkurfes; sobered by the act
he suicided
Army officers say there is not the slightest
danger of an Indian outbreak in either Dakota
or Wyoming
Mich Lightman, warehouseman for Siege &
Reiling, Louisville, was arrested for "equaliz-
| ing" whisky.
Gen. Henry w. Berge, of the army of the
Shenandoah, died at the Gedney house, New
York, Friday.
Four of the st. Charles MOI river pirates
who killed member of the sheritf's posse have
been captured.
Chicago's Mrs. Carrie Hamilton suiciden by
pouring kerosene OF! ON herself and setting fire
to her clothes.
Allen Sturgis, discovered under lady's bed
at Thompson, Ga, Friday night, was lynched
I Grfs ,rlu r,us.