The Osceola times., 1888-02-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
ooNoREssroNAL TRocxEDxos.

CONGRESSIONAL IROCEEDIN0s.
In the Senate on the yth q resolution was
adopted instructing the committees on com
mcrce 70 inquire into the ri7ht and expediency
Of Congress assuming control OF the erection
Of bridges over navigable waters within State
ltmits Mr. Plat concluded his speech In crit
icism OF TIE Prssidcnt's tari6 messAee......
In the House Q lsrgelysig petition 10
voriux the passage Of the Breckenridge Wool
bill was preseuted-r a resolution was adopted
calling on the Secretary OF the Treasury for In
formation - to whether the circulation OF
United States notes has been kept at the legal
hnit sad whether there has been any
loss Of said notes since i6S A oumber
Of bills were reported from the various COM
mittces and referred, and bill 70 amend the
Revised Statutes, providing punishment for
defauiting or negligent bank otiicials, 10 - 70
include bank examiners. Also bill TO pro-
vide for the recovery Of internal revenue taxes
and penalties erroneously paid In certain
cases.
m ths Senate on the ssh the bin appropriat-
ing d, 600 for the erection Of public build
ing 81 Kansas City was passed. Mr.. Riddle
berger tried again TO force action on his reso-
luton anent the British treaty. but IVES choked
on BY the Senate going into executive session.
II was decided TO act finally upon the Blair
bill next Wednesday at three oclock......In the
House the bill making bills Of lading conclu-
sive evidence OF receipt Of goods by tho carrier
waa passed.
IN the sensss on the 9th Mr. Edmunds re-
ported bill 70 Incorporate the Maritime Canal
Company OF Nicaragua. A long discussion
was had on tho question Of expenditure on pub
lic buildings and Mr. Riddleberger succeeded
In ietting out the fact that action on the British
extrsditon treaty had been postponed
until next Discomfort. Mr.. Tarsney
In the House reported the bill for
tho adjustment Of accounts Of laborers
arising under the Eight Hour law. The House
passed the bill 70 discontinue coinage of throe.
cent pieces and then considered the bill com.
peliug the Union and Central Pacific railroads
70 maintain their own telegraph systems, which
Wa laid over.
In the House on the 10th, the bill granting
right OF way through the Indian Territory. to
the Choctsw Coal Railroad Company was
passed; also. the resolution directing the Post
master-0enernl to inform the House, after in
quiry, OF the cause Of the complaints
made BY newspaper regard
ing tho western mail service. In
committee Of the whole. the bill
for the relief Of Nathaniel Mckay and the
executors Of Donald Mckay was taken up and
discussed at length without arriving IT vote,
and the House adjourned until the 18th.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A CArUCHIN monk, Very Rev. Father
Francis Haas. Of Detroit, has been raised
to the dignity Of deAnitor, the first men,
ber Of the order In America to be SO hon
ored. He will reside in Rome.
IT 10 stated that consideration of the
British extradition treaty by the Senate
has been postponed until December. This
Il regarded as equivalent to its rejection.
ON the 9Th Rt. Rev. Innocent Wolf, Alb
bott OF Atchison, Kas, was chosen Arch.
Abbott of the Benedictine order of monks,
TO succeed Arch-Abbott Winner, de-
ceased.
been secured to the morganatic marriage
of the Grand Duke Nichoalvitch.
In Paris the prosecution Of M. Wilson
Tor the military decorations frauds has
been set for February IL
OK the 9Th the buckstshop carried on in
the corridor OF the House of Represe n Ia.
tives, for the accommodation of specula-
tive members, was broken up by order of
Speaker Carlisle.
IT 10 report ted that the difficulty which
experienced in breathing is increas ing,
and it q said that the operation Of trache,
otomy will be resortsd to-
ON the 9th Mrs. Charlotte s. Prince,
daughter Of Ex-Governor Collins OF Rhode
Island, granddaughter Of Governor Brad.
ford of the same State, and mother OF b.
Bradford Prince, ex-Chief Justice Of New
Mexico. died At Flushing, l. l., aged
eighty-fve years.
On the evening Of the 9th the anniver-
sAry Of the birth Of Samuel J. Tilden was
celebrated by the Kings County IN. W
Democratic Club by banquet given at
the Acads my of Music.
On the evening OF the 9th the Boston
Home Trade Club gave banquet to Sen.
ator Sherman.
UNIVERSAL surprise has been created
by Lord Dufferin resgning his post as
viceroy Of India His action has no po.
iitical Significance. Lord L Lansdowne has
been appointed his successor, who in turn
is to be succeeded by Colonel Frederick
Stanley.
ON the 9th Speaker Carlisle's order re-
moving all telegraph wires from the corr
ridor Of the House was carried into effect.
Ar Washington on the 9th memorial
services to dedicate a tablet to the memory
Of the late Senator John A. Logan were
held In the Metropolitan Episcopal
Church.
On the 9th the operation OF omy
was hastily performed upon the Crown
Prince by DIR. Bramann and afforded the
royal sufferer Immediate relief.
MISS BLANCHE Z. THoRNE, the "Rachel"
of Gillett's "Held by the Enemy" com.
pany, and Mr.. David c. Johnson, Of Ap.
plebay & johnson, the well. known turf.
men and bookmakers, were quietly mar.
ried at the Southern Hotel, st. Louis, on
the 9th, the event being a surprise in
theatrical circles
In Cleveland, o., a change OF judges in the
Probate Court gives rise 10 hopes for the
release of Mrs. Josephine Ammon, con.
fined for contempt in refusing to reveal
the whereabouts of the prosecuted Josie
Blann.
In the suit of A Howard Henkie against
Mrs. Jeannettee NJ. Thurber for $40, 900
for money advanced to Manager Locke
OF the American Opera Company, at New
York, the jury failed to agree
In Canada, ON the 9th, Israel Lucas, the
defaulting treasurer of Auglaize County,
o., was discharged from custody.
OK the 10th Balfour made a speech in
the House of Commons. Some hot cross.
iring was INDUCED in by Irish members.
ON the 10th Captain zalinski delivered a
lecture in the War Department library at
Washington on his inventio Of the pneu-
matte torpedo gun, its shells and fuses.
IT 10 said that DR.. Mc(ilynn, the excom-
municated Catholic priest has withdrawn
from the Henry George land movement.
His withdrawal, it is claimed. will gre at
ly strengthen the George party.
ON the 10th the English police cap tured
Mr.. Pyne in London. Mr.. Pyne is the
Irish conmoner who fortified himself in
A. Al ~
come and take him.
Hrpn Kpupp the oraat Car,na, fo,od