Sharp County record., 1888-01-26

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davs a Joint resolution to amend the Con-
stitution of the United States so as to pro-
vide for the election Of Senators by VoteS
of the people of the States
MANITOBA farmers are indignant at the
refusual Of Canadian customs officers TO
give certificates to grain shippers from
Pembina to Montreal via the Northern
Pacific. The officers are acting IN the IN
terest of the Canadian Pacific.
THE president of the Board OF Foor
Directors of Lancaster, Pa, on the ID,
asked the tramps confined in the county
workhouse, 140 in all, who were willing to
go to Reading to take the strikers places
to sign paper, but only twenty-five COM
piled.
THE most disastrous conhagration in the
history of Salida, Colo, occurred on tne
I'd. Twenty -one houses were destroyed
in the business portion of the town, IN
cluding Cornbuany's new hotel ana the
Chicago Opera-house The loss is estl-
mated at 100000.
THE President on the 4th, transmitted
TO both houses of Congress the draft OF
bill TO authorize the Secretary of the In
terror to fix the amount of compensation
to be paid for railroads through Indian
reservations in cases where such rights
are provided for by treaty or act OF Con-
gress.
THE December fire losses aggregated
$40, ,3OS, 900, against ST., 100000 for the same
time last wear. The total fire waste tor
the wear 1887 amounted to the extraor-
dinary figure of $129, $4,000, which has
not been exceeded since the great Boston
fire. This is about $13, 0OO,O greater than
the losses of 1886
IT is reported that the Italian Govern
ment is endeavoring through its minister
to this country, to make arrangements
with American manufacturers of steel Tor
furnishing armor plates for Italian war
vessels, the in tention being to secure a
source of steel supply outside of Europe
in the event of war.
THE commission appointed by Governor
SAWYER of New Hampshire to investi-
gate the mental condition of Richard
Woodham and Hannah Woodham, his
wife, who have been confined in the
Asylum for the Insane at Concord thlr'
teen years this month, have decided that
they should be released.
Mrs. LEoNoRA NJ. BARRY, the general
Investigator of the Knights of Labor, has
issued circular letter to the female
members of the order wherever found. 1t
deals with the subject of the condition of
workingwomen and girls, and strongly
advocates the expenditure of money for
education instead of strikes.
PRoTEAU, the first white resident of Da-
kota, has been found frozen to death near
Fort Bennett. He was ninety three years
old, and since small child had lived
with the Indians. He was trapper and
scout well known along the Missouri slope,
many of the early settlers of Dakota and
Montana owning their lives to his kind
ness.
THE New York municipal council OF the
Irish National League intend soon to pre-
sent to Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher set of
resolutions expressing the sympathy and
regret of the society at the death of her
husband and its respect for his memory.
These resolutions are drawn up on heavy
parchment, fastened in the form of ban
ner upon stick of carved wood.
A MASS. MEETING under the auspices Of
the Reading strikers was held at Phlla.
delphia on the night of the 4th, and reso-
lutions were passed denouncing the Read.
ing management for employing Pinker-
toms detectives; charging it with imped-
ing the traffic of the te by refusing to
meet its employees amicably, and calling
on all merchants and business men to boy
colt the road.
MRS. "BUcK" GRANT, nee Miss Fannie
Chaffee, has filed petition in the County
= Court at Denver, Col, asking for a settle-
ment of the vast estate left her by her
father, Hon. Jerome B. Chaffee, formerly
United States Senator from Colorado. In
his will Mr.. Chafree left his daughter
Fannie 100000 worth of securities, EN-.
bracing Government bonds, mining and
railroad shares.
THE January docket of the Interstate
Commerce Commission hearings makes
the following assignments: January II,
the Dalton (Ga) lumber case; u, the
Pittsburgh coal cases; u, the case of the
Allegheny River Coal Producers Asso-
citation against the Allegheny Valley
Railroad Company; 16, the Rice Standard
Oil Cases; Is, the Schofeld Standard Oil
cases; 10, the Baltimore petroleum cases;
"a, the carload lot cases; 30, the New
Orleans discrimination cases; 81, the
Oregon wool case.
DR.. TALMAGE announces a course OF
sermons to the women of America, with
practical hints for men, the follow sub
jects among others: "The Women Who
Have to Fight the Baltic of Life Alone" "
Marriage for Worldly Success Without
Reference to Moral Character" us En-
gagement as Binding as Marriage?'
"Women Who Are Already Uncongenial
" Married." "Infuences Abroad for the
Des truction of Women," "Wifely Ambi-
ton Right and Wrong" "What Kind OF
Men Women Should Avoid" simplicity
as Opposed to Affectaton," "Reforma'
tion in Dress" "Plain Women, "The Fe.
male Skeptic" and christian House.
vifery."