The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-02-28
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL,
FiFTlETh CONGRESS.
Second Session

BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
F'FTlETH CONGRESS-.
49, Second Session.
TUESDAY, Feb. ia resolution was in
moduce In the Senate to ascertain whether
in any State the election of members
of the Fifty first Congress was Inn
paired by violence, intimidation, fraud or
other crime. The Sundry Civil Appropria-
ton bill was considered and several addi-
tons were made. In the House Mr.: Butter
worth introduced resolution authorizing
the President to invite Canadian officials
and legislators to visit the United States
about May l. The Post-ofice Appropriation
bill was discussed
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 2O.-In the Senate the
conference report on the admission of
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Washington rs States was agreed to. The
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was further
considered. All the correspondence con-
corning the dismissal of Lord Sackville
West as Minister of Great Britain to the
United States was received from the Prest-
dent, also notice that he had signed the Mic
aragua Canal bill In the House the bill
providing for the admission of the four
States of North and South Dakota, Montana
and Washington was passed The confer
ence report on the Direct Tax bill was also
passed, and the measure now goes to the
President.
THURSDAY. Feb 21.-In the Senate the
Army Appropriation bill 1874 ,65S) was
agreed to. The greater portion of the time
was occupied In discussing the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill. In the House the
Post-ottice Appropriation bill was passed.
A petition against the Sunday-rest bill was
presented The conference report on the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro-
priation bill was agreed tn. A message was
received from the President vetoing the bill
for the relief OF settlers on the Des Moines
river lands.
FRIDAY, Feb. 22.-The Agricultural and
Army Appropriation bills were passed in
the Senate, also the Sundry Civil bill,
with an amendment which declares Tues
day, April 80, 1889 (the anniversary of
the Inauguration of the first President of
the United States, George Washington, a
National holiday. A bill was introduced
appropriating s250, 600 for the purchase of
four pneumatic dynamite guns, to be To-
Gated at the harbor of San Francisco In
the House the Senate bills to pension the
widow of General Sheridan, with an amend
ment fixing the pension at $500 per an
mum, and placing General Rosecrans on
the retired list of the army with the rank
Of Brigadier General, were passed.
SATURDAY, Feb. Consideration Of the
resolution regarding election outrages in
the South occupied the time of the Senate
In the House the Senate bill opening to set
Element the unassigned lands In the Indian
Territory coded by the Creeks to the United
States was passed The Deficiency bill was
discussed. Eulogist1c addresses on the late
James N. Burnes, of Missouri, were deliv-
cred and appropriate resolutions were
adopted.
FROM WASHINGTON.
JUST eighteen men were affected by the
act recently passed by Congress and ap-
proved by the President increasing the pen
sions of those who have lost both hands to
300 per month.
On the Goth the centennial celebration of
Georgetown University was held.
The report OF the Commissioner of Labor
on the 10th relating to marriages and
divorces in the United States for the twenty
years from 1867 to 1886, inclusive, showed
that the number of divorces granted, as re-
ported from ninety six per cent. of the
counties in the United States, was 1928, 72l.
OF this number 216 1888 were granted to
wives and Ill ,9S3 to husbands.
The death Of DR.. D. w. Bliss who attended
President Garfield during his illness, oc-
CURED on the 21st at his residence in Wash
ington at the age of sixty-two years.
ON the 22d Washington's birthday was
generally observed throughout the country.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 22d ap-
proved the bill to admit as States of the
Union Washington, Montana, North Dakota
and South Dakota
At twenty six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 23d aggregated $751;
$50, 3o5, against s1,o97, 13o, 727 the previous
week As compared with the correspond
ing week of 1888 the increase amounted to
1919
THERE were 3O2 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 23d, against 81 the previous seven
days. The total failures in the United
States from January l to date was 2, 4S4
against 2, 112 in 1885,
THE EAST.
AT Philadelphia on the 10th Rudolph
Blakenburg 4 Co.'s large importing house
was Quilted by fire, adjoining buildings and
their occupants suffering heavy losses The
total loss was figured at $5OO,OOO
On the Goth Mrs. Max Schwartz and he1
baby were burned to death in a fire at Phil
| adelphia. Mr.. Schwartz escaped by Jump
! ing from window.
| The death of John B. Bass occurred on the
Goth at Quincy, Mass, at the age of sixty one
years, from the effect Of rifle bullet wound
in the leg received in the battle of Pea
Ridge, Ark, during the civil war.
| AT Boston on the 21st news was received
OF serious engagement in Hayti on Feb.
| i,,1x
hundred of Hippolyte's soldiers were killed
and his army completely routed
THE Boston Board of Police announced
on the 2lst that it would grant only 79(
liquor licenses for the year beginning May
next, as against 1900 granted last year
Hotel licenses were placed at 81 800, an(
bar-rooms at 81 900.
A SUMMARY Of the results of the recen,
Hartford Conn., hotel horror gave the fol
lowing figures on the 21st: In building a
time of explosion, ~; killed, %; injured
10; escaped, 10.
ONE HUNDRED Catholic pilgrims, in charg,
OF Father Vissani, sailed from New York OF
the 2lst on the steamer Wieland for O tou1
to the Holy Land.
AT Allegheny, N. Y, ten buildings wer,
destroyed by fire on the ed
PRoH1B1T1oN1sTs of Rhode Island met II
STATE convention at Providence on the 20
and nominated ticket, with H. H. Rich
ardson, of Darlington, for Governor.
FLAMES On the oath at New London, Conn,
destroyed several business houses and
livery stable. Total loss, $lOO, 0OO Fourteen
valuable horses in the stalls were cremated
A TRAIN was derailed on the 23d nea
Boyd's Mill, Me-, and W. D. Mudgett and j
c. English, mail clerks, and Harry Goodwin
the fireman, were killed. The mail, bag
gage and parlor cars were burned with al
the mail, express and baggage matter
The failure of William Bassett, of Boston
a builder, for $3.50, goo, occurred on the Esd
On the 24th four steamers arrived in Ne,
York with S32 immigrants on board
On the Northern Central road an express
train was thrown from the track on the O.
near Ralston, Pa, by a broken rail an
thirty passengers were injured, but non
fatally
WEST AND SOUTH,
JOSEPH HOUSTON, a farmer near Hodgenl
vile, KY, was killed and robbed on the lot
OF $1,000.
The entire business portion and a larg