Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-25
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.

100000 for the development and encouragement
.. Sill. culture in the United States Commit
ices reported :avorably bills providing that all
folders or sailors who are or may become
totally helpless from injuries received or dis
Eases contracted while in the service shall re-
eeive STE per month ; to aid in the establishment
tnd temporary support OF common schools -.
In the House bills were offered to refund duties
faid by the State OF New York ON arms imported
b 1853, and to enforce the eight-hour law on
Government premises.
A RESOLUTION was introduced in the United
States Senate on the 18th c0ngratulating the
people of Brazil on the establishment of . re-
public and formally recognizing the new Gov
irnment. The nomination of David j. Brewer,
II Kansas, for Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, was confirmed. A bill was introduced to
provide for National Board Of Education .
In the House bills were introduced to suppress
trusts; to pension letter carriers after
Service Of twenty-one years; to grant
lands to honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors of the late war; to estab-
fish United States Court Of Appeals; to pro-
vide for uniform system OF bankruptcy; to
perpetuate the National banking system; for
the organization and admission Of the State OF
Columbia; to provide for the repeal Of the to-
bacco tax; for the election of postmaSterS by
the people, and a joint resolution to amend the
constitution so as to permit the President to
veto items in general appropriation bills. Ad-
aourned to the Goth.
THE House concurrent resolution for holi
day recess from the 21st till Monday, January g.
was concurred in by the Senate on the 18th. MI.
Hale introduced bill to regulate immigration.
Resolutions were introduced to provide for Gel
ebrating in 1892 the four hundredth anniversary
OF the discovery of America by an exposition of
arts, industries. manufactures and products
and to permit States to tax National bank notes
and United States notes -. The House was not
In session.
DOMESTIC.
SECRETARY BLAINE on the 10th sent
cablegram to Henry NJ. Stanley tender
ing the Presidents congratulations
upon the success which had attended
his tour of discovery through Africa.
In flt of jealousy on the 10th at Gar
land, Tex, W. D. Cummings shot Mrs.
Mary Adams, young widow, and then
took his own life.
AFTER being out seventy hours the
jury in the Cronin murder case in Chi
cago came into court at 2:3O p. m. on the
10th with the following verdict: Martin
Burke, Patrick O'Sullivan and Daniel
Coughlin, each imprisonment for life;
John Kunze, Imprisonment for three
years; John F. Beggs, not guilty.
TIE Bank of Gallatin, in t3allatin,
Tenn, closed it's doors on the 10Th.
Ar Washington on the 10Th the SUI
preme Court decided that the law tax
ing telegraph receipts was unconstitu-
tional.
CATTLE were dying by the wholesale
in Cleona township, Scott County, Ia,
on the 10Th from the result of smutty
corn.
A PAY-cAR on the Ohio, Indiana &
Western road was thrown into a ditch
on the 10Th near Covington, Ind, and
General Superintendent Wilson and
Trainmaster Cummins were instantly
killed. Both were residents of India
napolis.
AT Uniontown, Ala, James Walters,
nineteen years old, fell into pot of hot
molasses on the 10th and was burned to
death.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana on the
10th decided against the use of standard
time in legal matters.
JOHN GALLAGHER died at Butte,
Mont, on the 10th from the effects of
injuries received at the hands of G. II.
Ward in the most brutal fist fight on
record, los rounds being fought.
ENGAGED at her lovers teasing Louisa
,Epperson shot and killed julius Haefer
on the 10th near Jefferson City, Mo.
WHILE insane on the 10th Joseph
:Kracks, of New York, threw his wife
,and three children from third-story
window and all were probably fatally
injured.
TWELVE contestants started in six
days. go-as-you-please walking match at
Detroit on the 10Th.
DANDELIoNs in full bloom were picked
at Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 18th, aud
lawns and pastures were as green as
they were in midsummer. A second
crop of good apples had been picked at
Mount Pulaski and Lincoln, in Logan
County.
THE National. conference of Charities
and Corrections will be held at Balti-
more on the 14th of May under a call
issued by the executive committee.
AT the Post-Ofice Department in
Washington about one hundred thou
sand bids had been received on the 18th
for the twenty thousand contracts for
carrying mail on star routes and steam
boats in the Western States and Terri
tories.
The Adelphi Theater in Brooklyn, N.
Y, which cost $25o,ooo, was destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
By the upsetting of lamp on the
nth Mrs. Charles Kefer, of Louisville,
KY, and her two-year-old boy were
fatally burned.
EMILE GUNrHER, dissipated and
shiftless youth, quarreled with his
father, George Gunther, aged seventy.
years, on the 18th at st. Louis and
: killed the old man with Ratchet.
By an explosion of dynamite on the
+ nth in the Cleayeland mineat Ishpem-
ing, Mich, two brothers named Berg
lund we're instantly killed: Es. q
JACOB C. ZABRIsKIE, of st. Louis, who
had been a helpless paralytic since 1882,
suddenly recovered the use Of his limbs
on the nth. No cause was known for
the change in bis condition.