The Progress., 1888-09-15
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EpltOme OF the w eek.
INTERESTING. NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL. 55
SENATOR ALLISON made a lengthy speech in
the debate on the Sundry Civil bill in the Sem
ate on the 26th, claiming that the expenditures
OF the Government for the four years of Mr.,
.Cleveland's s Administration exceeded the ex-
penditures OF the Gar6eld-Arthur Admin
fstrati0n by s95,OCO,O OO0 Mr.. Hoar's resolu-
tion calling on President Cleveland for all the
correspondence between Great Britain and the
United States relating to the fisheries troubles
was passed In the House the time was prin-
Cipally occupied in debating the leave of-ab-
sence question. The Presidents message and
the Wilson bill relating to retaliation was re-
ferred to a subcommittee to collate all the
treaties and statutes bearing on the subject.
MIR. REAGAN introduced bill in the Senate
on the 29th to permit the Importation OF jute
bagging 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-
tlon was passed to provide temporarily (until
September 15) for the expenditures of the
Government The bill providing that the Gov
ernment securities shall be printed in the high
est style OF art, on hand-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 Fortifcations bill were adopted.
In speaking of the retaliatory message Sena-
tor George upheld the Presidents position and
Senator Cullom criticised it - In the House
an attempt to consider the Oklahoma bill
showed the absence of quorum The Com.
m1ttee on Foreign Affairs reported the Retail
e@1ation bill, which gives the President author
ity, 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
1 ever in the use of Canadian canals which NAV
be detrimental to the interests of the United
States there shall be a toll OF twenty cents
ton leVea on Canadian vessels using the Sault
Ste Marie and ST. Claire Flats canals or the
President may in his discretion entirely pro-
hlDlt Canadian vessels from the use OF these
canals.
IN the Senate on the 31st ult. the Fortit1ca-
tions bill was passed. A bill was introduced
authorizing the. President to take all neces-
sarV steps to prevent the spread from one
Hoate or Ierrltory 10 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-
celved If discharged for wounds. Adjourned to
\ the. .3ds.:.In the House nearly the entire ses-
sion was spent in considering the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill At the evening session
tWenty-seyen private pension bills were
passed.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. HARRIET MILLER, "a wealthy Colum-
bus, %. } woman, aged seventy years. was
accidentally killed en- the 2sth BY the ex
plosion of revolver in the hands of her
son, w. H. Miller.
SAMUEL STAMBRoAK, a leading merchant
at kincaid, Kan, while umpiring base
ball game on the 29th was struck on the
neck by swiftly -pitched ball and instant
ly killed.
JOSEPH BREED, assistant cashier of the
Hartford Conn., National Bank, suicided
by cutting his throat on the 29th No cause
was known. H. 4s--5
NEAR Topeka, Kan, George Pearce,
farmer seventy three years of age, was at
tacked by bull on the 29th while trying
GO tie up the animal and was gored to
death.
Ow1Na to despondency over the death of
his wife, which occurred year ago, R. II.
-Milnor, prominent physician of Chester,
Pa, committed suicide on the 29th.
tOHAhbhS CHoChER, tLe ieCGuGly UoCeaSoQ
California millionaire, left his entire es-
tate, valued at s25, ,250, ,oOO to his family.
EIGHTEEN valuable horses were burned
to death in the barn of the Spring Valley
Stock Farm near Indianapolis, Ind, on
the goth.
5 "A FIRE destroyed eight business houses
and a large amount Of valuable property at
Lancaster, Wis., on the 10th
HE annual report made public on the
29th of the Pension Commissioners for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 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 s7S, ,775, ,Ss1, an increase
over 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
of losses kept increasing the total amount
lost. There were no fatalities, though
many narrow escapes
Peter and Eugene Vanino, aged six and
three years respectively, while playing
with matches in a barn, set fire to the
building and were burned to death.
h, By the upsetting of boat on the Doth
near Hyannis, Mass, BERTHE and Edna
Smith and Fred Barnard were drowned
They were each about twelve years Of age
DIVINE 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.
TINcTURE Of aconite given on the 3Oth
ult. by mistake as a sirup in soda water
killed Horace Bishop. and Charles Apple
bee, aged fifteen and sixteen years, at
Rranford, Conn
- Forty FIVE business firms Of Davenport
Ia, commenced proceedings on the sOth
ult. before the State Railroad Commissions
ers against several railways, alleging
that the freight Gates charged by these
{. roads are unreasonably high and discrim-
mating.
TIE prospects were on the 30th ult that
the crop Of oysters from all the waters in
the neighborhoods of New York this season
would be Of excellent quality and ex
tremely plentiful.
AT a meeting Of the National Electrical
Association in New York on the Both ult.
it was stated that there were 192.500