Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL,
ALMOST tho entire session of tho Senate on
the 18th was devoted to speeches OF Senators
ColQuitt and Dolph on the Presidents message.
A resolution was adopted for a special COM
mittee to investigate the condition OF the civil
service III all branches OF the Governmental.
In the House the bill providing that the first
session OF the Fifty-hrst Congress shall begin
on March 4, 1889, was reported adversely. 9th
er bills were reported to discontinue the coin
age Of one dollar and three dollar gold pieces,
and the omnibus bill for the ntlm!ss on into the
Union Of Dakota, Montana, Washington and
New Mexico.
IN the Senate on the 14th petitions were re.
ceived for an increase Of duty on WOOL for pro-
lection of the wool and WOODEN industries,
against the formation Of trusts and combina-
tions, and that the tax on tobacco and spirits
Do retained until the war debt Is paid. Mr..
Brown (Ga.) spoke in advocacy Of his resolu-
ton, declaring it the imperative duty OF Con-
gress to repeal the acknowledgements laws.
In the House Speaker Carlisle resumed his
post OF duty. The Committee on Elections in
the Post-Worthington contested case unani-
mously reported in favor Of General Post, the
sitting member. A bill was passed fixing the
oharge OF passports at one dollar
IN the Senate on the 18th a bill was intro
duced providing uniform law covering the
arrest and extradition Of criminals who escape
to another State or Territory. a bill was re-
ported for the formation and admission Of the
States OF Washington and North Dakota. Mr..
Teller spoke on the Presidents message,
which, he said, was an attack, not on defect
I've tariff, not to remedy Inconsistencies, but to
destroy the protective system. Eulogies on
the life and character of the late Mr.. Moffatt
OF Michigan, were delivered. >. In the House
the time was occupied in considering the Sem
ate amendments to the Urgent Deficiency bill.
BILLS were introduced on the 10th in the Sen.
ate for the admission Of Utah as a State; au-
thOrizing the President 70 appoint and retire
John C.. Fremont as Major-General and to
provide a method for the settlement by arbi-
tration OF the controversies between Inter-
State railroads and their employees. The bill
to prevent fraudulent differentiation by i'm
portecs was passed. Adjourned to the 10th %.
In the House the bill to annex a portion Of
Idaho to Washington and Montana, the Indian
Appropriation bill, and the bill reducing the
rate OF postage on seeds, bulbs, plants and
scions to one cent for each two ounces were re-
ported An adverse report was made on the
Joint resolution to discontinue the green two
cent postage stamp and return to the terra
Gotta colored stamps. At the evening session
tht-ty-fve pension bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
MORMON elders who had been making con-
verts in small districts of Botecourt Coun-
ty, Va, were notified on the 18th to leave
or be lynched
THERE was no change in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy strike on the 18th
Several of the railroads were hauling Bur-
hngton cars in the regular course of busi-
ness and anticipated no trouble with the
engineers.
MEDAD " MILLER, who two years ago
swindled banks of Huron, D. T., out of
So, 900 and fed, was arrested on the 18th
at Detroit, Mich, where he lived under the
name of NJ. M Vinton.
AT Cottonwood, Ind. T., William Yarbor-
ough shot a man named Massey on the 18th.
but the bullet killed Yarborough's wife
Marlborough then murdered Massey and sur
rendered
A SNOW SLIDE on the 18th ON King Solo
mon mountain. in Colorado, carried Mail
Carrier john O'Neill one hundred and fifty
feet down the mountain side, and he was
dead before help could reach him.
WILLIAM A PARKER, who seven years ago
murdered General Bryan Grimes, was
captured on the 18th at Washington, N c.,
and hanged by mob
The Wisconsin Press Association met in
annual session at Milwaukee on the 18th.
A CASE of leprosy was discovered in St
Louis on the 18th, the patient being Choo
Fay, Chinese laundryman. Fay has been
in this country several years
REV J. N. BUNCH, of Nevada, NO., was
fatally shot by robbers ON the 18th and
robbed OF 81, 40 and a valuable watch.
Ed EvERMAN and Frank and Moses White
sell were killed on the 18th by the explo-
sion of a large steam boiler in Durrer's saw
mill at Burlington, Ind. The mill was
completely wrecked
THE village of Townsend, suburb of Bal
timore, Md, was partly destroyed by fire
on the 18th
AN incendiary fire on the 18th at Mari
eta, O., burned the Office of the Marietta
Register, besides bookstore and several
buildings, the loss being over $50, OO0
The large dairy barn belonging to B. B.
1ngraham, near Flora, Ill, was consumed
by fire on the 18th, and thirty-five fine
mich COWS persisted in the flames
The great snow blockade at Eastern
points was gradually giving way on the
14th, and in New York City traffic was par
TALLY resumed It was feared that eight
cen pilot boats. with their crews, were lost
The financial loss in that city alone will be
81. 600, OOO In Philadelphia it was still
stOrming, but the weather was milder and
trade was being resumed The total loss
to shipping at that port was estimated at
$4,000 Near Newark, N. j., three per-
sons froze to death. In the States of New
York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania the total losses by the blizzard was
placed at $40, O0O. 600
MISSISSIPPI river navigation opened on
the 18th at Quincy. Ill, the first boats of
the season arriving from st. Louis
A TRAIN was thrown from the track on
the 18th at Newkirk, Pa. by a broken frog,
and one man was killed and sixteen other
persons were injured, two fatally
H. C. LEAv1rT. one of the men implicated
in the murder of Rev. Mr.. Haddock at Sioux
City, Ia, is under sentence to hang April
80 for the murder OF a cowboy over a game
OF cards at Dodge City, Kan, to which
place he went :fter leaving Sioux City.
In Chicago on the 18th Judge Gresham
decided in the Burlington Wabash case
that it was the duty OF railroad as a COM