Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-27
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
CONGRESSIONAL.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION,
CONGRESSlC
Second Session.
SPEECHES were made in the Senate on the
18th by Senator Palmer (Mich.) and others
over the unvailing Of the statue of Lewis Cass.
the pioneer Governor OF Michigan in the old
Hall Of Representatives, The Texas outrages
resolution was further considered The House
bill to provide for taking the eleventh and
subsequent censuses was passed. .... In the
House flibustering over the Sullivan and Fell
ton contested election case from California
occupied the time.
On the 10th a resolution was In. reduced in
the Senate to ascertain whether in any State the
election OF me mbers OF the Fifty first Congress
was impaired by violence, intimidation, fraud
or other crime. The Suudry Civil Appropria-
ton bill was considered and several additions
were made.... In the House Mr.. Butterworth
introduced resolution authoriZ ng the Presi-
dent to inv to Canadian officials and legislators
to visit the United States about May /. The
Post-of1ce Appropriation bill was discussed.
THE conference report on the admission of
North and South Dakota, Montana and Wash
1ngton as States was agreed to in the Senate
on the Goth. The Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was further considered. AL the CORE
spondence concerning the dismissal Of Lord
Sackvile West as Minister Of Great Britain to
the United States was received from the PreSi-
dent, also notice that he had signed the Nc
aragua Canal bill 80. In the House the bill pro-
ding for the admission Of the four States OF
North and South Dakota, Montana and Wash
ington was passed. The conference report on
the Direct Tax bill was also passed, and the
measure now goes to the President.
THE Army Appropriation bill 1924 $40, 65s) was
agreed 10 IN the Senate on the 21st. The great
er portion OF the time was occupied IN discuss
no. "a Snn a T1xyil
the House the Post-oh1ce Appropriation bill
was passed. A petit on against the Sunday
rest bull was presented. The conference re-
port on the Legislative, Executive and Judi
clal Appropriation bill was agreed to. mes
sage was received from the President vetong
the bill for the rel Of OF the settlers on the Des
MOineS river lands.
THE Senate on the 2ad passed the Agricult-
ural and Army Appropriation bills also the
Sundry CIVIL bill, with amendment which
declares Tuesday, April 80, 1889 (the anniver-
sary OF the inauguration Of the first Pres ident
OF the United States George Washington, a
National holiday. A bill was introduced appro-
prlatlng $3.50, OO0 for the purchase Of four pneu-
matte dynam te guns, to be located at the har-
Dor or San Francisco. -. In the House the Sen
ate bill to pension the widow Of General Sheri-
dan, with an amendment fixing the pension
at $500 per annum, and plac ng General Rose.
Grams on the ret red list of the army with the
AoAh " 1-OSueId were p1SSeO
DOMESTIC.
HATTIE B. STEVENSON, clerk in the post
ONCE at Wellsvllle, o., was arrested on the
18th for robbing the mails of $500, and con-
fessed her guilt.
JOHN SHANNON, a Frenchman living at
Bradenville, Pa, was so badly frightened
by threats made by White Caps that he
made his will and shot himself dead on the
18th
CLEVELAND vessel-owners met on the 10Th
and decided not to fit out their vessels for
navigation before the irst of May, claiming
that the saving in insurance compensated
for the loss of time
b. W. VAN DYKE, proprietor of the Minnie
douglass Opera Company, now travelling
through Iowa, fell heir on the 10Th to s14O.-
600 by the death of his uncle
JAMES ROBBINS, of Franklin, Ind. was
sentenced on the 10Th to two years in the
penitentiary for stealing two chickens val
ued at thirty cents.
HENRY BAKER, aged seventy-six years,
and Joe Snyder, aged eighty years, walked
a four-mile race at Ithaca, N. Y, on the 18th.
Snyder won, making the distance in 4316
minutes
EXCITEMENT prevailed on the 10th at Cler-
mont Mills, Md, over the discovery that last
September Miss Hannah Colder, aged thirty
five years, and Miss Catherine Beall pretty
girl, were married by a Catholic priest, who
m1stook the Colder woman from her male
attire and masculine appearance,i be a
man.
NEAR Hodgensville, KY, Joseph Houston,
farmer, was killed and robbed on the 10th
of $780,
FIRE on the 10Th among business houses
In oh -
AT Rush Medical College in Chicago on
the 18th one hundred and thirty-seven
graduates received diplomas
The Greenwich Hotel, which had for
eighty years been one of the landmarks of
the village OF Greenwich, Mass, was burned
to the ground on the 18th
FURTHER advices Of the 10Th say that
twelve persons were killed by the recent
cyclone in Banks County, Ca, and dozens of
houses were destroyed
IT was announced on the 10Th that lust
eighteen men were affected by the act re-
Gently passed by Congress and approved by
the President increasing the pensions Of
those who have lost both hands to 500 per
month.
The extensive locomotive and car works
OF the Cincinnati, indianapolis, St. Louis e.
Chicago Big Four, railroad at Cincinnati
were destroyed by fire on the 10Th Loss,
s3J0,OOO.
Hon. JESSE CALHOUN, prominent planter
OF Pike County, Ark committed suicide on
the 10Th. The cause was shame over tho
arrest OF his son in Texas for murder
THREE business blocks were burned at
Youngstown, O., on the 10TH destroying the
stock Of several merchants and manufact-
urers
A CONFERENCE of the American Tariff Re-
form League commenced in Chicago on the
18th letter was read from President
Cleveland heartily indorsing the object of
the meeting
ALBERT JOHNSON and David Fleming.
aged nine and ten years respectively,
jumped from rapidly moving train on the
18th at Maiden, Mass, and both were in
stanty killed
The forty eighth death from diphtherettc
Group within a few days occurred on the
10Th at Wabash Ind Every case had proved
fatal, and the physicians were unable to ar
rest the progress of the disease.
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