Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-14
Epitome Of the Week,

Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
THR Senate was not In session on tho 9Th. =.
In tho House Mr.. Boutelle (Me.) introduced Z
bill intended to repair the damage inflicted
Apon tho State prohibition laws by the recent
aeotston OF the Supreme Court In the origtna
package case. The bill Is In tho shape Of Z
section which 1t is proposed to add to tho inter
State commerce act and reads rs follows: '"That
nothing contained In this act shall DO construed
10 authorize the sale or traff1o In Intoxicating
liquors in any State contrary to the laws there
IT."
A BILL was introduced in tho Senate on the
9TH to establish In every county Of the United
States under the supervision OF the Depart
ment OF Agriculture public farm The army
bill and the military academy bill were 70.
ported, and the bill authorizing tho issue OF
Treasury notes ON deposit OF silver bullion was
discussed. A bill authorizing the Secretary of
War to deliver to the State Of Colorado the
days carried by the Colorado regiments during
the war OF the rebellion was passed. :. In the
House the time was occupied in discussing the
Mckinley tariff bill
THE President sent to the Senate on the Sth
the following nominations for the new Terri.
tory of Oklahoma: George w. Steele of In.
diana, for Governor; Robert Martin, Of Okla
homa, for Secretary, and Edward B. Green, OF
Illinois, for Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court.
Tho House bill for the classification Of worsted
goods as wOolens was passed. The pension up
preparation bill [s97, 09O 78D was discussed In
the House resolution was introduced to lake
eight hours legal days work. A bill was in
PRODUCED imposing duty OF ten cents u pound
NJ IL INN cd orif
was further debated
The pension and military academy bills were
passed in the Senate on the 9th and the army
appropriation bill was considered '. In the
House bills were passed increasing the pension
OF Brigadier. General Ayers to SIS per month
and giving Mrs. Della s. Parnell q pension OF
40 month bill was introduced declaring
that any person who shall desecrats the Ma.
tional flag. either by printing on said flag or
attaching the same to any advertisement for
public display, shall be guilty OF misde-
neanor. The tarin bill was further discussed
DOMESTIC.
c NJ. BURT and his bride, of Fairfield,
Neb., were suffocated by gas on the 9th
in hotel at Grand Island, Neh They
were on their wedding tour.
BROKER JAMES BURT, of New York,
on the 9th secured verdict of $12, 500
against the Boston Advertiser for libel.
The works Of the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company at Elizabeth, N. j., were
burned on the 9th, causing loss of
$S,0O0,000 and throwing $500 persons
out of work.
THE town Of Latham, ILL.,, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 9Th.
AT the LIE Grande Hotel in Chicago
on the 9th Alonzo Edwards and his
wife, of Lake Villa, ILL.,, were asphyx-
lated by gas.
A. +. SEEBERGER was chosen treas
urer and W. X. Alderman auditor Of
the worlds fair directors at meeting
in Chicago on the 9Th.
REPORTS received on the 9Th from
the ''fruit belt" of Michigan were to the
effect that the coming peach crop was
practically total wreck.
LAURA GRIN, aged - years, living at
Alliance, O., was seized with hydro
phobia on the 9th from being bitten by
dog seven years ago.
THE British steamer Wingates, Cap
tain Thompson, with a crew of thirty
men, which sailed from Philadelphia
H.
given up as lost on the 9th.
AT Foxboro, Mass, man named
Cromack shot and killed his 13-year-old
daughter on the 9th and then killed
himself.
GOVERNOR Bo1Es, of Iowa, issued a
proclamation on the 9th appointing May
30 as a holiday, and urging citizens to
join in decorating the soldiers graves.
FROM IL, 900 to $4,000 coal miners, en-
ployes of the Northern Illinois opera
tors, struck on the 9th for higher wages.
MRS. MARY PENN, of Huntsdale, Pa,
fatally shot her 6-year-old daughter on
the 9th because she did not comply read
lily with request to do mething.
THE bill to abolish capital punish
ment was defeated in the New York
State Senate on the 9Th.
THE reported lynching of C. M. Miles,
the attorney who killed DR.. Pritchard
at Coldwater, Kan, was on the 9th found
to be untrue.
AT Ashford, Neb., Charles Clark shot
Miss May Mcintyre on the 9Th because
she would not marry him and blew his
own brains out. Both were wealthy.
FLAMES on the 7th at Middlesborough,
Ky, burned the livery stable OF C. E
Clay, and twenty-six fine horses were
Cremated.
A YACHT containing twenty people
capsized in the Ohio river at Wheeling,
w. Va, on the It'll and only ten of them
were rescued.
At Richmond, Va, the truck contain
ing the statue of General Lee was hauled
through the streets by ladies and chill
dren on the 7th.
The worlds record for twelve hours
of heel-and-toe walking was broken by
John Meagher at Detroit on the 9Th,
when he made sixty-seven miles, with
fifteen seconds to spare. The best time
previously was 10 hours and AZ seconds.
THE Metropolitan Council of the Irish
National League of New York on the
7th denounced President Fitzgerald, of
the league, and other leaders as traitors.
A. E. LANcAsTER, q young real-estate
agent of Philadelphia, disappeared on
the 7th. He was charged with embezz-
ling about $40, 600. - !
GOVERNOR FIFEB, of Illinois, on the
9TH pardoned Samuel Elkins, who had