The Progress., 1889-02-16
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

lllUOlllt VI Ullt week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
coNeREssloNAL.
Second Session.
AS amendment to the Consular and Diplo-
matio Appropriation bill giving to our Min IS
ters abroad the title Of .sAmbassador'' instead
OF Envoy Extraordinary and Ministers Plen-
ipotentiary' was adopted in the Senate on the
s0th. Senator Sherman spoke at length on
tne Samoa d'f1culty, maintaining that our
rights must be asserted In the House Pc
tition Of thirteen thousand citizens of Utah
against the admission OF that Territory as o
state was presented. The Sundry Civil Appro-
priation bill was passed. A bill to provide for
the better protection OF tie fur, seal and sal.
mon fisheries Of Alaska was reported.
THE Senate resumed consideration OF the
DIPLOMATIC and Consular Appropriation bill
on the 10th ult., the time being occupied in dis.
cussing the amendments affecting the Samoan
islands. The British extradition treaty was
also considered. In the House the time was
passed IN discussing the Oklahoma bill.
THE House amendments to the bill to in
crease the pensions OF those who have lost
both hands were concurred in on the 31st ult
IN the Senate After the passage of a few pri
Vate oils consideration of the Diplomatic and
Consular Appropriation bill was resumed, the
pendlng question being on the amendment re-
ferrng to Samoa and the bill was finally
passed.. In the House many petitions were
presented in favor of the Sunday rest bill. The
Oklahoma bill was further discussed.
TIE House amendments to the Senate bill
Tor the admission of South Dakota as State
were non-cOncurred in in the Senate on tn
lst. A resolution was adopted instructing the
committee on Foreign Relations to inquire
INTO affairs in the Somoan islands, and to re-
port what measures were necessary to protect
the interests of American citizens therein.
The British extradition treaty was rejected
Adjourned to the 4th In the House the con-
terence report on the bill to create the Depart
ment OF Agriculture was agreed to. The bill
making Oklahoma a Territory was passed
yeas, 1d8; nays, 102. At the evening session
twenty-hve private pension bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
CONTRACTOR CLINE, of the keystone
Bridge Company, who built the bridge at
Spottsville, KY, which fell recently, kill
ing number Of workmen, was on the Goth
indicted for murder
JOSEPH BLACK, American Consul at
Buda- Pesth, was recalled on the 29th for
writing a letter crlticising the Austro-
Hungarian Government.
AMMAN ELLIS (colored) was hanged on
the s9th at Raleigh, N. c., for the murder
OF his father last September.
JOSEPH A. MOORE, Of Indianapolis, Ind,
the $780, COO EN- bezzler from the Connecti.
cut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Quietly left for parts unknown on the 29th
AT Mount Holly Springs, Pa, on the
29th an incendiary fire destroyed Early's
Hotel and several dwellings.
Lou, S A. KNACKsTEDT, teller in the Null
lanphy Savings Bank at st. Louis was
on the Goth found to be short in his &C.
counts to the extent of $500. ..
COLONEL W. l.. TRENHOLM, Comptroller
OF the Currency, rendered his resignation
to tho President on the Goth to take effect
at his pleasure. ".. E=
JOHN M. CLAYTON. late Republican can
dldate for Congress in the Second district
OF Arkansas, was assassinated at Plum.
nerVllle on the 18th. Mr.. Clayton was con-
testing a seat from the Second district in
the Fifty-frst Congress now held by c. R.
Breckinridge. r.
CHARLES THOMAS and another negro
were murdered on the Goth at Birmingham.
Ala. ~ -
GREAT excitement prevailed at Lexing-
ton, Va, on the 29th over the discovery
near there of an immense mountain of the
richest iron ore
ALL the street-car lines in New York
were tied up by str kers on the Goth, and
attempts to run cars resulted in serious
riots, in which many persons were
wounded Several of the strikers were
arrested
MAN named Lake was arrested at Bos-
ton on the Goth, charged with arson. Tt
was said that he had been operating in
many cities through the country.
JOHN E. SULLIVAN, county clerk OF
I,,1 4ho loFo
the celebrated tally sheet forgery cases,
assigned on the 29th with assets of $780,
900 and liabilities of $l1S,OOO Included
therein was $4,000 of the county clerks
funds, and S21, 500 borrowed from the
county treasurer. srzs,.g..y .s-... !.
C1NCiNNAT1's new Chamber Of Commerce
building was dedicated on the 30th ult.
with appropria te ceremonies
IN Alama County, Tenn, on the Both ult
a crowd horsewhipped two Mormon elders
named Miller and Winters. They were
then tarred and feathered and ordered to
leave the country on pain Of death.
--- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES on the Goth
ult. presented nis vast medical library to
the Boston Medical Literary Association.
r" JACOB tALK, q wealthy farmer living
near Bluffton, Ind, su cided on the Both
ult. by shooting. For some time past he
had not lived happily with his wife, and
she had applied for divorce.
ALLIE CRowELL a fourteen-year-old girl
Irving in Bethleham township. Ind, con-
fesaed on tae 30th nit. TO the burning of
several dwellings, claiming she was paid
one hundred dollars for doing it. She was
thought to be insane.
IT was reported on the Both ult. that
gold and silver had been found in paying
quantities il the northern part of Iowa
County, Wis. 1t was procured by surface
d gging and was said to assay from 50 IS
to s10tper ton
ADvlcEs OF the Both ult from the Indian
Territory were that the United States SOL
diers who were recently stationed at
Oklahoma City had returned toEF 3rt Sill,
and that some fifteen families Of boom
ers' had crossed the Canadian river and
entered Oklahoma and that others were
following.
UP to the 3Oth ult. the Federal grand
jury at Indianapolis, Ind, had returned
one hundred and xty-one indictments for
violation of the electlon law, ard several