Griggs courier., 1888-09-07
Epit0me of the Week,
NEWS COMPILATION.

Eplt0me OF the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
-, MIR. REAGAN introduced bill in the Senate
= in the s9th to permit the importation OF jute
bagg:ng free OF duty. The conference report
ON the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was con.
sldered. 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
Government. The bill providing that the Gov.
eminent securities shall be printed in the high
est style OF art, on haud-roller presses, was
passed
IN the Senate on the Goth 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 Fortifications bill were adopted.
In speaking OF the retaiatory message Sena-
tor George upheld the Presidents position an 1
Senator CuliOm criticised it,. In the House
An attempt to consider the Oklahoma bill
showed the absence OF quorum. The Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs reported the Retail
latlon OIL, VIII CHI gives the President author
lty, IN MS discretion, to suspend in whole or in
part the transportation OF goods imported or
exported from NADIA 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
De detrimental to the interests of the United
states there shall be toll OF twenty cents a
ton LEVIED on Canadian vessels using the Sault
6te Marie and St Claire Flats canals. or the
PRESIDENT may in his discretion entirely pro-
hHt Canadian vessels from the use of these
canals
IN the Senate on the 31sI ult. the Fortiica-
tions bill was passed. a bill was introduced
aUfhOrjyjno no
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-
ceived II discharged for wounds. Adjourned to
the ID In the House nearly the entire ses-
sion was spent IN considering the Sundry CIV |
Appropriation bill. AT the evening session
twenty-seven private pension bills were
passed.
THERE was no session of the Senate on the
lst.. In the House the time was occupied in
discussing the Sundry CIVIL Appropriation bill
DOMESTIC.
THE forest fires in Northern Michigan
were nearly out on the goth, and peope
were returning to their homes. Records
OF losses kept increasing the total amount
lost There were no fatalities though
many narrow escapes.
IINCTuRE Of aconite given on the Both
MT. by mistake as a sirup in soda water
killed Horace Bishop and Charles Apple
bee, aged fifteen and sixteen wears at
Branford, Conn.
FoRTY-FIvE business firms of Davenport.
Ia, commenced proceedings on the Goth
ult before the State Railroad Commission
efs against several railways, alleging
that the freight rates charged by these
roads are unreasonably high and discrim.
mating.
IHE 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 Both ult
1t was stated that there were 1872 800
arc lights and 100000 incandescent lights
in use in the United States. Thirtv-f four
electric railways were in operation and
forty-nine more roads were being con
structed
A STATUE to Robert Burns was unvailea
at Albany, N. Y. on the Both ult. in the
presence of noted Scotchmen from all
parts OF the country Rev. Robert Collyer
was the orator of the OCCASION
JOHN KIRBY, third baseman in the Lima
tO.) base ball club, broke one of the cords
III his left leg in sliding to /; base on the
Both ult and would be crippled for life
The new million and a half steel railroad
bridge OF the Chicago, Burlington a. Quincy
railroad at Nebraska City, Neb, was for
mally opened on the both ult
The United States Government sold and
gave away 2S.4S3, S33 acres of land during
the year ended June 30 last.
THE total cost of the foreign mail service
OF the United States last year was $3.50 tAj7
The number of pieces of mail sent to for
elgn countries aggregated 50, 226, 934.
A. j. T1IHOCKMoRToN. a nephew of Gov
ernor Throckmorton, of Texas, committed
suic dc on the Both ult at Denver, Col
Dependency was the cause, due to power
ty and sickness.
ISAAC WILL on the Both ult shot and
KILLED his twenty year old wife at New
Florence, Mo-, while in a drunken rage
MYSTERIOUS infectious disease which
mad some characteristics of typhoid fever
and some of malaria, had caused twenty
five deaths at Caldwell, o., on the 3Oth ult
1HIRTY-FouK new cases of yellow fever
were reported at jacksonville, Fla. on the
3Oth ult., and the panic was said to be
spreading and passing beyond control.
ID o'io ~ Aioufc explosion Oh u uynl1ulle
cartridge on the Both ult. ut South Bethle-
hem, N Y, three men were killed.
In u quarrel on the 30th ult at Warren.
Ind, George Mckee shot and killed his
brother John.
THE last span in the great bridge across
the Au'sson river at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
was completed on the 3Oth ult.
AN old bridge over Dry Fork, near Tay-
lorsville, Ala, went down on the 3lst ult,
while party OF young folks were on their
way to picnic over it, and four were
killed and several wounded
JOHN FlLLHART, aged ninety three years,
hanged himself i'll his sons barn at Depau-
vile, N. Y, on the 31st ult. No cause was
known.
1r was announced on the 3lst ult. that
banana trust " had been formed at New
Orleans with capital of Sl9, ,O00. 900.
OWING to ill-treatment by her husband
Mrs. Thompson drowned herself and her
one weeks old babe on the 3lst ult. at New
Lisbon, o.
CHARLES !. De BAUM. the absconding as