Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-16
Epit0me of the Week.
NEWS COMp1L ATIoN-
CONGRESSIONAL,
Second Session.

AN 11<Go AMI NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second Session.
HE senate las>ed u resoluL on on the I'll
declaring that the United States Government
WIN loo< with d'sapproval on the attempt o.
any foreign rover 10 control the proposed
canal across the isthmus Of Panama. :. In tn
House The contest over the proposed change
OF rules abol shfng the call Of States on sus
pension Mondays was resumed, and the entire
session was spent in tilbustering.
BILLS were introduced in the Senate on the
dsh to make regulations as to the time, place
and manner of holding elect ons for Represent
atlVes In Congress, and to establ sh harbors
or refuge ut or neur Point Barrow and Point
dope Alaska, and at East Cape, S IBERIA.
The Tariff bill was :urther considered. -. In
the House the Sundry Civil b II la2s Sl2 096)
was reported. Tho rest OF the day was devoted
10 measures from the Printing Committee and
to further f.ibustering by tho trends or. the
Oklahoma bill
1T wns voted in the Senate on the 9th to non.
concur IN the House amendments to the Mica.
raugua Canal bill. The Tar.R bill was further
discussed. In the House the time was passed
IN hllbustering over the Oklahoma bill.
IN the Senate d scusson OF tho Tar " b II oc.
oupled the time on the 10th, nearly twelve
pages being disposed Off,. In tie House the
day was again assed in alibustering over the
Oklahoma bill
DISCUSSION of the Tariff bill occupied the
time OF the Senate on the 1lth . In the Hou q
dibustering prevented the transaction OF any
business.
DOMESTIC.
IHR will OF the late Captain William s..
Adams, OF Kingston, Mass, gives SIPS 900
TO the Boston Marine Society and o,oO)
to the Boston Pilot Society.
MISS LUCY A NoTEs, who sued the Chi
cago City Ra lway Company for $50, 900 for
injuries received. recovered $4,000 in
Judge Gresham's court on the Sth.
lHE great strike among New York carpet
workers for restoration of wages in
Sth
FIVE hundred employees in 81. ". Davis
carriage factory at Cincinnati submitted a
new scale Of wages on the Sth and were
discharged. The firm offered to treat with
them individually, but not as a ,dy.
a STORM OF sleet on the 9Th in jefferson
ana st Lawrence counties, N. Y, ruined
thousands of valuable fruit shade and
forest trees.
ATTORNEY JOHN LU TAYLOR, of Chicago.
who was convicted OF receiving illegal
ices for obtaining pensions, was sentenced
on the sth by Judge Blodgett to one year
In the renitent:ary.
The large stock barn owned by George
a. Rix, near Lawton, Mich was destroyed
Oy ire on the 9Th, and twelve head of fine
Dlooded cattle were among the property
burned
THE Norwich (Conn.) National Bank.
incorporated in 1876 and having capital
OF sSso,uou, Will go into voluntary Nquida-
ton March Is
CHARLES 81. T. TAYLOR, a colored law
yer, defended CT ent in the Grimm II
court OF Fulton County, Ga, on the Sth. It
was the first time in the history of the
court that colored lawyer had pleaded
case
FIVE ships, ranging in value from $780,
600 to 100000 each, and having on board
htty-tour persons, which have been mi s.
ing since the wind-storm of November 25
last in New York bay, were on the Sth
given up as lost
w. W. HOLLIS. Louisville boy who had
saved 2lO to attend commercial college,
pa it to a stranger on tie 9Th on a bogus
check for ST. $50.
AN earthquake shock of sufficient vio-
lence to M Ike crockery rattle was felt at
Shelbyville, ILL.,, on the Sth Shocks were
also felt at Aattoon and Pana
VOLK's bust of the late Judge David
at the capitol in Springfield on the 9th in
the presence of Governor Oglesby and
many distinguished citizens.
iHE tailor shop Of Thomas Hall, at New
Richmond, O., Was almost entire demol-
lshed by dynamiter on the 9th No cause
Tor the deed was known.
DUK1Ni hurricane on the 9th at Pitts
burgh, Pa, c. l.. Willey's tuil ing was
blown down, partly wrecking a dozen
surrounding build ngs, and scores of per-
sons were caught in the debris and in
stantly killed or badly wounded Eight
bodies had been taken out, and it was
stated that at least dozen others re-
NAMED The financial loss was very heavy.
HARRY D. ScHALL, of Chicago, assistant
cashier of the Chicago e. Northwestern
Railway Company, was on the 9th said to
have fed W tn over 81, 900 belonging to
the company.
In quarrel on the 9Th between Mr..
Sch fer and Mary Jane Valentine, with
whom be had been living at Toledo, o..
Schafer shot the woman dead and then
killed himself.
A CYCLONE swept through Reading. Pa,
on the Oh, Wrecking a number of build
1ngs, among them the Reading silk mill in
winch one hundred and seventy-tive girls
were at work, and of his number it " as
reported that not more than one hundred
escaped. Manv bod ,es had been taken
from its ruins, but it was fearei that the
remains of from sixty to eighty persons
were still in the debris. The paint shops
OF the Read ng railw y were also wrecked
and four men were killed In the country
farm buildings were destroyed and de-
struction spread in every direct on.
A CYCLONE which passed over Sunbury,
Pa, on the 9th blew over two stack, at
the "a l-nill, killing three men and injur-
Ing nine others. In W Transport and
Harrisburg many buildings were dam
aged, and in the latter city William Fry,
aged eighty years was killed.
JOHN PALMER, aged sixty four years, one
OF the carly settlers in Wabash County,
Ind. dropped dead on tho 9th in Lafon,
tame
Ar Lima, o., on the 9Th a storm damaged
the courthouse and many private resi-
dences, and hundreds of derricks and
pumping-hous es were blown down in the
oil field.
THE sum OF SIS, 600 was Melted from the
recent Hebrew charity fair and ball in
Chicago, and on the 9th the managers an
portioned the amount among the various
charitable institutions in the c ty.
A CYCLONE swept over the CITY of Brook.