Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-23
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION

EplCOme OF the week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second Session.
On the 18th IL concurrent resolution was in
aroduced IN the Sen te providing for the count
ing OF the votes for President on February Is
next The Tariff bill was further discussed.
bill was introduced 10 divide the 81. ux ,eSer-
WALTON in Dakota. The nom nation OF Thomas
G. Anderson, OF Iowa, to be Associate Justice
OF the Supreme Court OF the Territory OF Utah
wac rece we'd. -. In the House bills were intro
auced to punish the buying and selling Of
votes; for the establ shn1ent Of Il National mil
irary and naval museum in Washington 10
refund the lnterest-bear nR debt OF the United
States; for the free coinage OF silver, and to
alter the regulations regarding the election OF
congressman.
MEMORIAL was presented to tho Senate
on the 18TH from the Leg stature Of Idaho pro.
testing against the proposed admission OF
Utah. a"d asking that a Legislative comm IS lon
DC cr' a,ed Tor the government OF the Terri
tory. The Tariff bill was again discussed.
The appointment OF Walter C. Newberry
as postmaster at Chicago was co hrmed
....1n the House the omn BUS Territorial bill
which rnposes tho admission OF North and
South Dakota, Wash ngton. Montana and
An amendment to the Tariff bill to make
salt fre' was defeated in the Senate on the
18TH A copy OF the proceedings of the North
Dakota Statehood convention in favor Of the
divis on OF the Territory and the admission Of
North Dakota was presented 80. In the House q
bill was passed making Columbus, O., u port OF
delivery. The claims OF Territories to State
hood were discussed.
THE Tariff bill scussion occupied the time
OF the Senate on the 18th. The bill authoriz-
ing the construction of bridge across the
Mississippi at La Crosse, Wis. was reported
favorahly. In the House the Territorial bills
we're further cons de- ed.
THE sugar bounty amendment to tho Tariff
Dill was passed in the Senate on the 18th by q
vote OF ~ to q. The amendment provides for
bounty OF one cent a pound on sugar pro-
duced from oeets, sorghum and cane grown n
the United States. ...Ip the House the Omni
bus Territorial bill was passed as su, stitute
for the Senate measure by Il party vote Of
yeas, 1873: nays, 10. The bill admits North and
South Oak TIA Washington and Mo tana Tor
ritories. Thirty private pension bills were
passed at the evening session.
DOMESTIC.
TRE National DAIRY Fair Association of
America was organized on the 18th at
Springfield, I'LL The purpose Of the incor-
porators is to give exhibitions of dairy
products.
GILA BENIrA, cowboy in Montana, while
dressed as an Apache Indian on the 18th
attacked part OF Mexic IN herders, kill
ing five and wounding one
AT Marietta, w., William Weitzel, aged
sixteen years, shot George Farnsworth on
the 18th, Hing him in stantly.
GEORGE MEADOWS. the negro who re-
Gently ass .ulte | Mrs. Kellam near Pratt
Mines, Ala, Was hanged by mob on the
18th.
RS EMMA THOMPSON brought suit in
Cincinnati on the 10Th f,r divorce chark
ing that her hu band, John I. Thompson,
had yves living in SIX different ties.
j. J. CLARK AN Mrs. NJ J. Wright, clair
voyants, were arrested in New Haven,
Conn, on the 18th under an old blue law
which provides for the punishment of
fortune tellers.
WILLIAM VENTED shot and killed
Frank Farnsworth on the 18th at Marietta,
o.. while the two were playing White
Cans.
A FIRE on the 18th burned a cigar-box
la" cry IN New York, and three girls lost
their lives in the flames
WILLIAM Hodges, young boy living
near Atlanta, Ga, committed suicide on
the 18th because he was told to sleep in
the kitchen.
MRS. ARTHUR RoDDEY was burned to
death and her child seriously injured in a
Gre in snail dwelling at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 10Th.
HARRISON DAwLEY, of Rochester, H.,
who Was bitten by rabin dog december
8, led on the 10th of hydrophobia.
MRS. COURTNEY, living near Hale's
Springs, Tenn, went to church On the 10TH
first locking up her two childr in the
house. Upon her return she found both
her little ones dead, their clothes having
ignited from the fireplace.
In Pittsburgh on the 18th 7. v Powder
ly dent unced Barry as an Anarchist, and
said it was for that re ,son he was ex-
PEELED 1r m the Knights Of L dor
Mrs. JOHN GREER, wife of a lumber
man at Sunshine, Pa, killed her babe and
then comm tied 81 eide on the 10Th. using
revolver: No cause was known for tho
deed.
IT was reported on the 10th that the
grand jury at Indianapolis, Ind, had
found indictments against thirty-tive per-
sons for o!ation of the election law.
NICHOLAS SEIDEL died on the 10th in
Alsace township, Pa, agei eighty years.
When twenty-five years old deceased be-
came Violently insane, and for per cd Of
ffty-fve years he was chained fast in his
room, his fir. ends refusing to send him to
an asylum.
AN old man, rudely clad and with un-
kept hair and beard who gave his name
as A. Squires, went into the Philadelphia
mint On the 10th and proved his claim to
$4,000 in gold that was depo 5ited there in
1858.
A NAN about sixty years of age was
captured while running wild near James
town, Ky, on the 10th. He lived on roots.
nuts and berries and could not tell his
name.
AS unknown man, assisted by little
girl, tricked the teller of the Villepnare
Bank at Hull, Que, on the 10Th and got
away with $1,000
IT was announced on the 10Th that the
arrival of Oh nese laundryman at Al
bapy, Ga, from San Francisco had pre-
cipltated genuine war Of races, with the
negro women on the one side and the ter
Tifed c. inaman on tho other.
HUrroN PARK, at West Or lnge. N j., was
sold on the 10Th for s121, OU. The property
was originally purchased from the lndi-
ans March IL, 1877, for two guns, three