The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-06-26
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FlFTy.F,RsT CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, June ~ The Senate
passed the House silver bill by = vote
OF - to rs with an amendment which
declares the standard silver dollar and
the standard gold dollar equally legal
tender for all debts. public and private.
The bill for admitting Wyoming Terri.
tory as . State was reported. In the
House the sundry civil appropriation
bill and the bill for the relief of the
Michigan Military Academy were both
passed. 49,
WEDNESDAY,, June 18.-In the Senate
the tariff bill was reported and the
report ON the antitrust bill
was agreed to. The Legislative, execu.
tive and judicial appropriation bill was
In the House the Indian
appropriation bill was passed. and the
silver bill, as amended by the Senate,
was presented and referred.
THURSDAY, June 19.-Bills were in
troduced in the Senate to establish
and maintain National park in Colo
RADIO and appropriating s1s, 4s4 to com
plete and dedicate the monument tc
the surrender of Bur
goyne at Saratoga. Eulogies on the de-
ceased New York Representatives.
Messrs. Nutting and WILDER, were pro
An amendment was offered
to the tariff bill authorizing the Presi
dent to declare the ports of the United
States open to the imports Of any Amer
lean nation which shall extend like
privilege to the United States. In the
House the time was occupied in {
wrangle over the disposition by the
Speaker of the silver coinage bill, thu
journal reading that the bill had beer
referred to the committee on coinage.
resolution to correct the journal and
bring back the bill from the committee
was, after considerable sharp debate
agreed to-12O to III. A motion to re
consider was then finally adopted-12l
to 114-but an adjournment was had
pending motion to approve the journal
as amended.
FRIDAY, Juno 20. - In the Senate
the post-office appropriation bill (S7:,
461, 699) and the consular and diplo
matte appropriation biR were reported
and the legislative appropriation bill
was passed. In the House motion K
approve the journal of Wednesday!
proceeding as amended on Thursda,
was agreed to by a vote of 1872 to 100.
motion was then made that the House
proceed to the consideration of the bills
on the Speakers table, and especially
the silver bill. A point of order was
made that the bill was not on thu
Speakers table, but in the hands of the
committee on coinage, weights ani
measures. After some discussion thu
matter went over for the day.
From WASHINGTON
In the United States the visible sup
ply of wheat and corn on the 10th was
respectively, 21,57s, al and l6,264, g.
bushels.
SECRETARY BLAINE on the 18th re
ceived copy of decree of the Mexican
Government of May %, 1890, providing
for compulsory education in Mexico
In the United States there were 49,
business failures during the seven day
ended on the Goth, against 212 the pre-
vious seven days.
THE FAST.
On the 18th the 115th anniversary O
the battle of Bunker Hill was celeorat
ed at Boston by general suspension o
business for the day.
THE Republicans of the Eleventh dis
trict of Pennsylvania, renominated J
A. Scranton for Congress on the 18th.
THE Prohibition of Pennsylvani
will hold their State convention at Har
risburg August 90.
In the last twenty years 11O,352, II
tons of coal have been mined in Penn
sylvania.
CONGRESSMAN were nominated as fol
lows on the 18th: Pennsylvania, Tent
district D. F. Magee (Dem.); Twenty
sixth, w. L. Scott (Dem.). Vermont
Second district, w. w. Grout (Rep.) re
nominated.
On the Reading railroad brakeme
were notified ON the 18th that the
must leave the Order of Railway Brake
men or quit the services of the con
pany.
A cIoUD-BURsr flooded the town {
Osceola, Pa, ON the 18th, and tw
women were drowned and many bull,
ings removed from their founda tons.
Mrs. THOMAS BUTLER of Wilkesbarr,
Pa, concluded on the 18th that sh
would no longer be scolded by her hu
band and she committed suicide by ca
ing paris geen.
In New York on the 18th Jay Goul
was fined 500 for failing to answer
| summons to serve as Juror.
GEORGE H. BARTLETT, of Massach,
setts,ewas elected National councillor 8
the twenty-second annual convention
Chicago on the 18th of the Junior Ordt
| of United Americans.
The 122d commencement exercises
Brown University were held at Prov
| de nee, r. l., on the 18th.
The Presidents wife and party a
rived at their cottage at Cape May, !
j., on the 10Th.
WHILE quarreling with his wife c
the 18th DR.. w. ]. Hammer, a denti
of Greensburg, Pa, was shot by her an
| mortally wounded.
The Republicans of Vermont in Stat
! convention at Montpelier on the 1871
nominated Carroll S. Paige for Go
| ernor.
In Boston on the 10th Annie Feltc
Reynolds, the first woman dentist
graduate in Massachusetts, received h,
degree of d. d. S. from the dental CO
lege.
FRANK E. BELTzHoovER (Dem.) W;
nominated for Congress in the Min
! teenth Pennsylvania district.
The death of John c. Curran occurre
at the home of his son in Scranton, Pa
on the Goth, aged 104 years.
WEST AND SOUTH -
| DEMOCRATS of Ohio will meet
State convention at Springfield A
| gust rs.
AARON NJ. JONES, of Denver, Col
aged 80 years, one of the best know
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