The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-19
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

HplUUllIO VI UHO VOCA.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
F1FTY.F1R0T c0N0Rg08.
MONDAY, Dec. .. - In the Senate q
petition was presented in favor Of
National Sunday rest law and bills were
introduced for the admission of tho
State Of Wyoming into the Union: to
provide temporary government for the
Territory Of Oklahoma; to secure to
the people the privilege Of rest and
religious worship on the first day
Of the week; to pay to soldiers who
were confined in Confederate prisons
during the late war the sum Of . per
day for every such days imprisonment.
In the House Speaker Reed appointed
hve Of the standing committees, Me-
Kinley being chairman Of that on ways
and means and Cannon on apprapria-
tions.
TUESDAY, Dec. 1O.--A memorial was
presented in the Senate by senator
Spooner to prohibit boards Of trade
and other mercantile bodies and in
dividuals from fixing the values Of
the products Of American farms by sales
for future deliveries. A Federal elec-
tion bill was introduced by Senator
Chandler to provide against unfair cleo
tions in Congressional districts. Several
nominations were confirmed, among
them being that of Green Il. Raum for
Pension Commissioners. The House was
not in session.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1.-THE Senate
and House met In joint session and held
centennial exercises commemorative Of
the Inauguration Of George Washington
as the first President Of the United
States. President Harrison, the MEM
bers OF the Cabinet, the Supreme Court
Judges and Diplomatic Corps were in at
tendance. Chief Justice Fuller deliv-
cred the grafton.
THURSDAY, Dec. 12.-In the Senate
bills were introduced for q National
election law, providing for Government
aid for colored persons desiring to move
from Southern States, and for the free
coinage Of gold and silver. A rcsolu-
tion was presented to inquire into the
expediency and praeticability of setting
apart territory for the occupation Of
colored citizens of the United States.
Adjourned to the 10th. In the House
Mr.. Butterworth presented a resolution
for the appointment Of committee to
investigate the Ohio ballot-box forgery
cases. The report Of the committee
which investigated the Silcott defalca-
tion and forgeries censures Sergeant-at-
Arms Leedom for neglect Of duty. A
bill was introduced for the repeal of the
tobacco tax. Adjourned to the 10th.
NA0M WAoAlNeor0N.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 7th aggregated 81,
1886, 81, ,So4, against So92, oil, 1868 the pre-.
vious week. As compared with the cor.
responding week Of 1888 the increase
amounted to 50.
SILcoTT, the absconding clerk Of the
House Of Representatives. was on the 7th
said to be guilty also of wholesale for.
geries
ON the 10th Representative Cothran,
Of the Third South Carolina district, re.
signed his seat in Congress to accept q
position as counsel of 1 railway.
ON the 10th Mrs. Scott Lord, the sis.
ter Of Mrs. Harrison, died 1t Washing.
ton.
THE EAST.
JAMES W. WHITNEY & Co., dry-gocds
merchants OF New York, failed on the
eth for $500, 600.
OFFICERS were elected in New York
on the 9th by the Players National
League (brotherhood) Of baseball clubs,
Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott being
chosen president.
IN McKesspn 4 Robbins drug house
in New York fre on the 9th caused q
loss Of S400, 900.
In Butler, Pa, two workmen were
loading nitro-glycerine into wagon on
the 10th when the stun exploded and
into fragments.
THE death Of Oliver johnson, the last
of the twelve agitators who met in Bos.
ton January 6, 1882, and formed the first
anti-slavery society, occurred in New
York on the 10th, aged eighty-one years
A FOUNDRYMAN while on his way te
work near Buffalo, N. ", on the 10th
found package containing $4,000 on
the railroad track. He delivered it t.
the railroad officials, who identified II
rs package missing from the pay-car.
A PANIC was caused by false alarm
of fire at the Parke Opera House In
JohnstOwn, Pa, on the evening Of thu
10th, and fourteen persons were killed
in the rush for the exit and seventy-fivl
were injured, some fatally.
REPORTS of the l1th from Philadelphis
say that the great barb-wire trust hai
collapsed.
On the 1lth Francais Boneau, /,
Frenchman, one hundred and five years
of age, father Of eighteen children ani
survivor of two wives, died in New He'd
ford, Mass.
ON the nth . violent wind-storn
passed over Westmoreland County, Pa.
unrooing and blowing down houses and
tearing trees up by the roots.
JAMES A. GRAY, the oldest piano man
ufacturer in the United States, wa
found dead in bed ct Albany, N. Y, OF
the nth.
AT York, Pa, freight trains collidet
on the 1lth, killing two men and de
stroying 100000 worth of property.
THE death Of Aunt Mary Tyler, IS sh,
was familiarly called, occurred ut Somer
vile, Mass. on the 11th, at the age o
eighty-three years. She was the sub
ject of the rhyme, MARY had littl,
lamb"
AN international chess tournament
conducted by correspondence between
Canada and the United States, sixt,
players on side, was won on the 12tl
by the Americans.
In session 1T Boston on the 18th tn,
American Federation of Labor rejected
q motion TO institute political party.
WEST AND SOUTH.