Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

EplCOm6 OF the week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second Session.
In the Senate on the llth a bill was passed
appropriatlng &s5A0 to enable the Presiden,
TO protect the interests Of the United States
and to provide for the security OF the persons
and property of citizens of the United States
O the 1sthmus OF Panama. In the House the
6malls. Elliott contested election case from
South Carolina was discussed, but no action
was taken.
THE Naval Appropriation bill was passed ID
The Senate ON the 18th. A resolution was pre-
eented from the Kansas Legislature request tins
congress to adopt such measures as will secure
70 every citizen OF the Southern States perfec,
protection In the exercise OF all political rights
LIN the House bill was Introduced to in
clude Canada In the act autho rizine the Presi
dent to arrange conference OF American ma
tons. The General Deficiency bill 1914, 1868 sS1)
was reported. and the debate on the Smalls
Elliott election case was continued.
A BILL was introduced In the Senate on the
18th providing that all citizens of the United
States having the quail fcations requisite 70,
electors shall be entitled and allowed to vote
at any election for Representa- in the Con.
tinction OF sex. Mr.. Evarts spoke in support
OF his resolution instructing the Committee on
Elections to revise the laws governing Con.
gresslonal elections. The nomination OF
Norman j. Oolman, OF Missouri, to be Score
tary OF Agriculture. was confirmed. 80. In the
House the Judiciary Committee reported
favorably bill to amend the natural; IA ton
laws. The South Carolina contest case was
settled by Civ ng the seat to Elliott, the sitting
member, by q vote of 14S to l26
BILL to amend the laws regarding the i'm
portation OF alcoholic liquors in the States was
reported IN the Senate on the 14th. The nom!-
nation OF Carroll D. Wright to be Commissioner
OF Labor was confirmed. .. In tho House a ia
rorable report was made ON the Senate bill APP
propriating S25O, 900 to protect Amer can in
terests in the Isthmus of Panama. The bill TO
Oily de y portion OF the Sioux reservation in
Dakota into separate reservations and to Sc
cure REIMBURSEMENT Of the Ind an titles to the
rema nder was passed. The bill for the ad-
mission ofSouth Dakota as State was amend
ed SO as to provide for admission by proclama-
ton OF the President, and that the proposed
States Of North Dakota, Montana and Wash
1ngton shall be admitted in the same way.
AFAvoRABLE report was made in the Senate
Hshment OF q National Board of Health. The
bill placing General Rosecrans on the retired
list was passed; also forty-one private pension
bills bill was introduced to provide for a
National system OF farmers institu, es .. In
the House Mr. Mills, from the Committee on
ways and Means, reported back the Mills
Tariff bill, with the Senate amendment, which
he declared was unconst tutional The Senate
bill appropriating s250, 900 for the protection OF
American interests in Panama was passed.
The night session was devoted to pension bills.
DOMESTIC.
LUXE PALMER, wealthy resident of Bur
ington, Ia, was swindled out of 5000 on
the 18th by bunco steerers on the old time
lottery scheme" ;
Two MORE counterfeiters were arrested
on the 18th in Butler County, Pa, making
sixteen members of the gang in custody.
Two-TEAR-o1.D child of F. NJ. Sanborn,
of Hemlock Grove, O., got piece of apple
peel fast in its throat on the 18th and choked
to death.
GEORGE DmocK, an engineer at Carbon
dale, Pa, was shot and mortally wounded
by his little son on the 18th while the
family were rehearsing theatricals.
The people of Nevada voted on the 18th
on constitutional amendment giving the
Legislature power to establish lotteries in
the State, and those favoring the lottery
scheme carried the day by large majority.
MRS. Brown, on trial at Mason City, Ia
charged with poisoning several members of
her family, was on the 18th decided not
guilty.
s. NJ HANCOCK, of New Church, Va, on the
18th paid $500 to one P J. Butler for $1l, no
in counterfeit money, and Butler palmed of
bag of salt on him in place of the green
goods"
MRS RICHARD WILLIS committed suicide at
st. Louis on the 18th by shooting herself
through the head. The cause of the act
was her disappointment at not being able to
succeed as a writer Of poetry.
The chemical laboratory OF the Ohio State
University at Columbus was destroyed by
fire on the 18th.
ORDERS were issued on the 18th on the
Pennsylvania road that no freight trains ex-
cept those carrying perishable goods should
run on Sunday. The men would stop work
at ten o'clock Saturday night and would not
return to their labor until seven o'clock
Sunday evening.
FIVE men implicated in the recent muir
der of Bill Sizemore and Carr Smith in
Clay County, KY, were arrested on the 18th.
JOHNNIE Powers, eleven years old, was
taken to the county asylum at Orange Farm,
near Mddletown, N. Y, on the 18th, raving
maniac from the effects of cigarette smok-
ing
The eigthieth anniversary of Abraham
Incoln's birthday was celebrated in vari-
GUS cities throughout the country on the
18th.
GANG of white-masked thieves visited
the residence of Rev. James Smith, near
Arlington, o., on the 18th and robbed him Of
four hundred dollars in currency.
TIE Mutchner-Higgin Company's ele-
vator at indianapolis, Ind, with thirty
Thousand bushels Of grain, was destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
The third annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Builders met at Phila-
delphia on the 18th.
SEVENTY SIX pictures, the private collec-
ton of James H. Stebbins, brought the sum
of $1j9, 495 at auction in New York on the
18th.
The National Association of Builders In
session on the 18th at Philadelphia passed 8
resolution that the members recommend to
the various State Legislatures the passage
Of law making it a felony for any person
or association to prevent or hinder any
American youth from learning some trade
or handicraft
Dr. J.WCox, prominent druggist of Pine
Bluff, Ark, was found murdered near his
home on the 18TH
The National Prohibition Conference in
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