Mower County transcript., 1889-01-30
Epitome of the Week,
NEWS COMPILATION
CONGRESSIONAL,
Second SeSslCn.

fornta to the United States. Bills were passed
authorizing the five civilized nations OF
Indians to lease mines for mining purposes,
and increasing the maximum amount OF inter
national money orders FROM $50 to 500, A
1olIt resolution was also introduced prohibit.
Ing the sale at the inaugural bail OF wine, beer
ale or other Intoxicating liquors.
THE Tariff bill was passed in the Senate on
the ed by q vote OF 80 to sO-a strict party
vote. The date for the bill to go into effeot was
fixed at July 1. 1899. %. In the House the time
was occupied in considering the River and
darbor bill bill was reported that dis
penses with the present requirement of dec
laration of intention to become q citizen and
makes residence OF five years necessary be-
fore an alien can apply for naturalization.
THE Senate on the Esd passed the.concurrent
resolution for the counting OF the electoral
vote on February l3. Bills were reported to
provide for taking the eleventh and subse-
Quent censuses, and to protect the interests OF
the United States in the Samoan Islands. The
bill to declare unlawful trusts and combina-
tiOnS In restraint OF trade and production was
considered -. In the House the time was oc-
cupied in considering the Sundry Civil Appro-
prlatlon bill. favorable report was received
from the Committee on Agriculture on the bill
to promote the interests of agriculture by irri-
cation.
IN the Senate on the gath resolutions ex-
pressing sorrow over the death of Representa-
3ournment was taken in respect to his memory.
LIN the House similar action was taken.
BILLS were passed in the Senate on the 25th
increasing the maximum OF International
money orders from $25 to 800; establishing two
additional land districts in Nebraska; thirty
pension bills, and the Military Academy, Dis
trCt Of Columbia and Pension Appropriation
bills. Adjourned to the s8th . In the House
the time was occupied in discussing the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill. At the evening ses.
sion twenty-nine private pension bills were
passed
DOMESTIC.
ROBERT NJ. ADAMS, the assistant book.
keeper of Detroit clothing merchant,
upon being told on the 21st that his serv-
vices were no longer required emptied the
cash drawer of 81. .03S and went to Canada.
SAMUEL HATToN, of Riley, Kan, shot
and killed Mrs w. H Beale and her
little daughter on the 22d because the
woman rejected his attentions
IHE st. Louis crematOry was DESTROYED
by fire on the 22d. 1t was opened up for
cremation of dead human bodies last May.
SEBATHA1 CHAsANow1Cz, a genuine Rus
sian Nihilist, arrived at Castle Garden,
New York, on the 22d. he was opposed to
the Cars government, and feared Danish
ment to Siberia
w. d. RUoTsAMEN, aged sixty five years,
a retired banker, shot and killed himself
in his home at Hoboken, N. j., on the I'D,
while insane; and at Newton, Mass, Rev.
Thomas Marcy, aged seventy-two years,
committed suicide in the same manner.
AT Philadelphia on the 22d Patrick
Bradley, charged with enticing young
girls from their homes On the pretense of
engaging them as domestics, was SEN
fenced to tWenty-nine years. imprison-
ment at hard labor.
SAMUEL SPYKER, Willie Crider and
John Fazier, aged eight, five and six
years, respectively, were arrested on the
ed for Systematically robbing the shoe
store of Hoover Bros, at Lima, o. They
turned over a large quantity of stolen
goods.
The cotton crop of this year, it was said
on the ed, would be the largest ever
known, approximating seven and one half
million bales.
JOINT resolution proposing an amend
nent to the Pennsylvania constitution pro-
hibiting the manufacture or sale of intox.
icating liquors was passed by the Legis-
iature on the 22d by vote of 1872 to S.
WILLIAM PEARcE, after serving fifty
years in the penitentiary at Auburn, N.
Y, for the murder of his father was re-
leased on the ED. He was hopelessly In
sane.
A FIRE on the 22d at Unionville. Mo-.
Destroyed eight Of the finest stores in the
city.
By vote Of Is to 9 the Louisville (Ky)
School Board on the ed decided to dis
continue the teaching of German in the
public schools in that city after the close
Of the present year.
The Southern Millers' Association was
organized on the 23d at Nashville for the
purpose of regulating sales and manner of
payments.
DR.. CHARLES BLISS, we'll known New
York physician, fell down the steps of his
residence on the 23d and was killed.
LAFAYETTE FREDERICK, st. Louis trav-
cling man, murdered his wife and then
killed himself on the 23d at Quincy, I'LL
Jealousy was the cause.
THE President on the 23d approved bills
pensioning at the rate of thirty dollars a
month the widows of DR.. Pavy and Ser
geants Cross and Gardiner, who died
while serving under General Greedy in the
Arctic regions.
WOLVES were on the 23d said to be kill
ing many cattle in Montana.
By all explos ion on the 23d at Nanticoke,
Pa, P. S. Sharsus, an engineer, was blown
to pieces; Chet Owen, another engineer,
was instantly killed, and John Williams
was fatally burned.
The Nashville (Tenn.) Iron, Steel &
Charcoal Compar y made an assignment on
the 23d. It's assets figured at $45O, ,OOO and
its liabilities were placed at $17O, 600.
MRS. Lou WHITE, of Bryant's Creek
Ind, married woman, was dragged from
her bed early on the morning of the 23d by
White Caps and brutally whipped. Some
idle gossip about her character before
marriage was given as the cause
Miss SARAH BRADBECK, of Golden, N. Y,
hanged herself on the 23d because she re-
ceived note of warning not to marry a
young man to whom she was engaged.
A FIRE on the 23d at Mckinney, Tex,
destroyed an entire block of business
houses and shops.
IT was announced on the 23d that the
Pullman Palace Car Company had gained
control Of all the palace car lines in the
country except the Wagner.
CHARLES L COLBY resigned the presi-
dency of the Wisconsin Central railway on
the 23d and was succeeded by his brother,
Joseph L. Colby.
AT Battle Creek, Mich. on tho 23d the
J. J. Burns Company, railway contract
ors, assigned to 3. S. Hubert The liza
b1lities were estimated at $500, ,O00