The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-01-17
The News Of the Week.

The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FiFTIETH coNeREss.
Second Session.
MONDAY, Jan. IA resolution was
adopted In the Eenate declaring that
the United States Government will
look with disapproval on the attempt OF
any foreign power to control the proposed
canal across tho lsthmus OF Panama. In
the House the contest over the proposed
change Of rules abolishing the call Of
States on suspension Mondays wis re-
sumed. and the entire session was spent
IN filibustcring.
TUESDAY, Jan. SIN the Senate bills
were introduced TO make regulations as
to the time, place and manner OF hol +
ing elections for Representatives in Con-
gress. and to establish harbors Of refuge
at or near Point Barrow and Point Hope,
Alaska, aud at East Cape, Siberia. The
Tariff bill was further considered. In the
House the Eundry Civil bill (s22. Sl3 G95)
was reported. The rest Of the day was
devoted to measures from the Printing
the friends Of the Oklahoma bill.
WEDNEsDAr, Jan. 9-The Senate voted
to non-concur In the House amendments to
the Nicaragua Canal bill. The Tariff bill
was further discussed. In the House the
time was passed in filibustering over the
Oklahoma bill.
THURSDAY, Jan. 10-Discussion OF the
Tar II bill occupied the time of tho Senate,
nearly twelve rages being disposed Of.
In the House tho day was again passed in
flibustering over the Oklahoma bill.
FRIDAY. Jan. II. Tho Tariff bill was
further discu. .sed in the Senate. In the
House flitu tcring prevented the transac
tion OF any business.
FROM WASHINGTON.
AT the annual session of the National
Wash ngton John Mcdowell, OF Washing
ton, Pa, was elected president, and reso.
lutions demanding protection for their in
dustry were adopted.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 837 business failures in tho
United States. against 2S6 the previous
seven days.
OS the 1lth cx-Congressman o. r. Sin.
gleton, Of Mississippi. died at his resi-.
dencc In Washington, aged seventy six
years. He was member Of the HOus e
Q continuously from the Forty fourth TO the
Forty ninth Congress.
THE EAST.
On March IL the Norwich (Conn.) Ma
tional Bank, incorporate In 1896 and
having y capital OF &2oO, 900. will 60 into
voluntary liquidation.
FIVE ships, valued from elOO 600 to $780,
0OO each. and having on board fifty-four
persons, which have been missing since
the wind-storm Of November Is last in
New York bay, were ON the Sth given
u" as lost.
IL Jefferson and St Lawrence counties,
N. Y, storm of sleet on the 9Th ruined
thousands of valuable fruit, shade and
fJrcst trees.
NEARLY ono thousand men, women and
children, employees Of E. j. Higgins Il Co. g
carpet works in New York, went out on o
strike on tho Sth because of reduction In
wages.
A CYCLONE at Reading, Pa, on the 9th
wrecked number Of bu ldings, among
them the Reading TX mill, In which one
hundred ind seventy-hve girls were ut
work, and OF this number 1t was reported
that not more than one hundred escaped.
Many bodies had been taken from its
ruins, but it was feared that the remains
OF from sixty to eighty persons were still
in the debris. The paint shops Of the
Reading railway were also wrecked and
four men were killed In tho country
farm buildings were destroyed and de-
struction sprcad in every direction.
c. L. WILEY's building during hurri-
cane on the 9th at Pittsburgh, Pa, was
blown down. partly wrecking dozen sur
rounding buildings, and scores Of persons
were caught in the debris and instantly
killed or badly wounded. + ght bodies
had been taken out, and it was stated
tn at at least dozen OF lcrs remained.
The financial loss was very heavy.
A HURRICANE which passed over Sun.
bury. Pa. on the 9th blew over two stacks
at the rail-mill, killing three men and in.
juring n NO others. In Williamsport and
aged, aud in tho lattcr city William Frye,
aged eighty years. was killed.
THE gang concerned in the Pennsylvania
brass robberies at Altoona, Pa,
was on the 9th said to number at least
seventy FIVE boys. Thirty six locomotives
on the middle division of the road hal
been entirely stripped by tho thieves, aud
the loss was estimated ut 100000
A STORM swept over TIE city OF Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 9th, doing damage to the ex-
tent Of $3O0, COO and fatally injuring two
men.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th Luther
Tallman, a Fsirport IN. Y; scotsman,
was robbed On tho street in Detroit by two
men OF a. 200 in cash and 81, 600 in drafts.
On the 10th an amendment to the cOnsti-
tuition OF New Hampshire prohibiting tho
sale and manufacture Of Intoxicating liq-
uors except tider'' was adopted by the
convention ut Concord.
IN the Edison laboratory at Orange, N.
J., the voice Of Gladstona was heard ON the
10th, and it was as clear and distinct as Ii
he had been present. 1t addressed Mr.
Edison from one of the talk ng-machincs
which he had invented. Mr.. Gladstone
talked into the phonograph at the house of
Colonel Gourand, Mr. Edison's representa-
tive in London. December IL, and the cyl
inders were shipped to tn country.
The Government training school for In
dians ut Carlisle, Pa. and number of
other buildings were unr0ofed by the re-
cent cyclone. the loss exceeding &lOO, 600
The suspension bridge at Niagara Falls
nearest the fails was blown down
by gale early on tho morning or the 10th.
1t was composed of iron and steel, and the
loss was estimated at $500, 600.
FARMERS Of Warren and Sussex coun-
ties, N. j., were plowing on tho 10th, some
thing unparalleled for tho middle Of JaDu-
airy. The weather was 10 mild that buds
wero beginning to swell on tho trees.
AN explosion Of two gas reservoirs Mt
Brooklyn, N y, on the 10th shattered
dwellings in the vicinity and caused tho
greatest terror among the people. Loss,
600. O0l
ON the 10th the Palace Hotel and three
business blocks at Bradford, Pa, were
burned.
SHOCKS Of earthquake were felt on the
1lth at Dannemora, Saranac Lake and 9TH
or portions of Northern New York
THE kennctec river was on the nth
open for navigation from Augusta, Me-, to
the sea, the ice hav ng gone out The con.
dition of tho river at this season was uu-
THE Citizens Law aud Order League OF