The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-12-26
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TUESDAY, Dec. II. Bills were intro.
duced In the Senate to- provide for the
division Of Dakota into two States;
appropriatings 315Gs 90 for the develop.
ment and encouragement Of silk culture
in the United States. Committees re.
ported favorably bills providing that all
soldiers or sailors who are or may be-
come totally helpless from in.
juries received or diseases contracted
while in the service, shall receive $7a
per month; to aid in the establishment
and temporary support of common
schools. In the House bills were offered
to refund duties paid by the State OF
New York on arms imported in 1868, and
to enforce the eight-hour law on Gov
ernment premises Isl
ss WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1s-In the Senate
6 resolution was introduced congrstu-
:lating the people Of Brazil on the es-
tablishment Of : republic and formal
" recognizing the new Government.
The nomination of David j. Brewer, of
Kansas, for Associate Justice of the 6u-
preme Court, was confirmed. A bill was
introduced to provide for q National
Board0f Education. In the House bills
we're introducsd 70 suppress trusts; to
pension letter carriers after aservice of
twenty-one years; to grant lands
to honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors Of the late war; to estab-
lishs . United States Court of Ap-
peab; to provide for q 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 tobacco
tax; for the election of postmasters BY
the people, and . joint resolution to
amend the constitution so as to permit
the President to veto items in general
appropriation bills. Adjourned to the
2Oth.
THURSDAY, Dec. 19.-In the Senate
the House concurrent resolution for a
holiday recess from Saturday next till
Monday, January 8, was concurred
in. Mr., Hale introduced bill to regu-
late immigration. Resolutions were in
troduced to provide for celebrating in
1892 the four hundredth anniversary of
the discovery Of America by an exposi-
ton of arts, industries, manufactures
and products, and to permit States to
tax National bank notes and United
States notes. The House was not in ses-
sion.
FRIDAY, Dec. 20. Among the bills
introduced in the Senate were the
following: For limited postal tele-
graph service; for the free coinage of
both gold and silver; for the issue of
certificates to serve as money and the
retirement of United States and Nation
In the House bills were intro
duced granting per-diem service
pensions; to establish q uniform
system Of bankruptcy; for the creation
of United States commission of arbi-
tration Of railway strikes; for the pay
ment to every adult colored person who
may desire to emigrate to Africa 500
for passage and rstions for sixty days
and $50 to minors, the payments in all
not to exceed 81, 0oo, 900 per annum.
from WASHINGTON.
The Senate committee on the World 8
Fair decided on the 18th to begin on JAN
uary the hearing Of claims of various
cities who want the big show.
At the Post-Office Department nearly
one hundred thousand bids had been re-
ceived on the 18th for the twenty thou
sand contracts for carrying mail ON star
routes and steamboats, in the Western
States and Territories.
On the 18th James Tanner, extension
Commissioner, was admitted to practice
as member of the bar of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
FIGURES on the 10th showed the
wealth Of the United States to be $751;
459, O0O, 900 exclusive of public property,
an increase of SIS, 862, zoo, 900 in the
past nine years. The property owned
by Americans abroad was valued at S.
O93, OOO, 900.
On the 10th the Sioux chiefs called
upon President Harrison and expressed
themselves as satisfied with the cession
of half their Dakota reservation to the
Government.
AT the request of the Moorish Gov
eminent William r. Lewis, United
States Consul at Tangier, was recalled
on the 10th.
THERE were 342 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 900 the previ-
GUS week. For the corresponding week
in 1888 the number was 81. The total
failures in the United States January /
to date is Is, 253, against 10, 0s2 in 1883.
THE grand jury indicted C. E. Silcott,
late cashier of the Office of Sergeant-at.
Arms of the House Of Representatives,
on the Goth for grand larceny and for
gerry. :.
THE EAST.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, cele.
brated his eighty-second birthday on the
18th at Amesbury, Mass.
TIVE death of Oliver L. Barbour, the
famous compiler of law reports and
authority on the same, occurred at his
home in Saratoga Springs, N. Y, on
the 18th, at the age of seventy-nine
years.
FLAMES on the 18th destroyed the
Adelphi Theater in Brooklyn, N. Y,
which cost $3.50, 900.
The New York Grant monument fund
up to the 18th amounted to s14o, 900.
CAPTAIN LEAv1TT, master Of whaling
ship, brought to Portland, Me-, on the
18th news of the alleged discovery o.
an unknown land manv miles north ~
Alaska =
Word was received in New York or
the 10th that the steamboat City o.
Kingston had been lost at sea with al
hands, forty-two in number. -
D1pHTHER1A was epidemic at Rock
ford, ILL.,, ON the 10th, over two hundred
cases being reported, and many person.
were leaving the city.
On the Goth two silver bars worth
800 0OO each were Loaf from trncl- q,