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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS-.
In the Senate.

GID DAY.-An unusually large number OF
petitions was presented and referred, com
prlSlng some for and some against the Sun
day rest law. some for the free coinage of
silver, and several against the employment
on Government works of any but United
States citizens. Messrs. Evarts and Fierce
spoke on the Blair bill Mr. Voorhees, adj
vocated his resolution concerning agricul-
tural depression. The Mckinley AominiS-
trative Customs bill was reported
GID DAY.-The amendments adopted i'll
the Committee Of the Whole the Blair
bill were reported to the Senate and accepted
and the decisive question was put on the
engrossment and third reading Of the bill.
1t was found that on a call of the yeas and
nays thirty-six Senators had voted against
third reading, and only thlrty-twO in favor
Of 1T. Mr.. Blair after satisfying himself that
there was an actual ma ority against the bill
changed his vote, for the purpose of moving
reconsideration at some future date; and
the final official announcement made the vote
against the bill thirty seven to thirty-one.
9th DAY.--Mr Sherman's Antitrust bill
was discussed by Messrs Sherman, Allison,
HiscOck, Vest and others.
65TH DAY.-,rhe Senate bill to promote
the efficiency of the General Land Office in
creasng the salary of the Commissioner to
$4,000 and of the Assistant Commissioner to
$4,000 ;. gave rise in the Senate to
long discussion, at the end of which
it was laid aside without action. e..
The bill apprOpriating $500, 900 for a public
building at San Diego, Cal was debated at
length and passed =. Mr.. Blair introduced a
new educational bill. about fifty of the
bills on the calendar were passed-most of
them private pension bills.
9th DAY.-Several petitions against the
ratification of tho extraditiOn treaty with
Russia were presented i'll the Senate from
Massachusetts and Missouri. The Sherman
Trust bill was debated by several Senator's,
but action was taken Majority and
minority reports concerning the election Of
the Montana Senators were presented from
the Committee on Elections.
9th DAY.-A good deal of progress was
made with the Sherman Antitrust bill
Various amendments, proposed by Messrs
Reagan and Ingalls,, were accepted and
incorporated in the BILL until it was about
four times its original length Mr.. FarwelI
introduced q bill to pension Mrs. Crook,
widow of General Crook Referred Mr.
Morrill, introduced bill to establish all edu-
cational fund, by setting apart the net pro-
ceeds of sales of public lands and a portion of
the receipts from Immigrant railroads. Re
ferred.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04
Foreign.

THE miners strike in Great Britain caused
an alarming scarcity OF coal
EMPEROR WILLIAM has offered Prince Bis
marck Duke,iom and made him a field
marshal He has also made Count HerbeTt
Bismarck Minister of Foreign affairs.
THE mine owners of England having
agreed TO raise the wages NJ the strlkinc
miners ten per cent, the men resumed WORK
THE School,. Act, abolishing the right or
the Roman Catholics to have separate schools
and obliging all classes of the community 70
oatronize the national secular schools has
passed the Manitoba Legislature.
ADvICES have been received from Quill
name, East Africa to the effect that Portu
guese customs official and his escort Of 800
natives have been massacret near Lake
Nyassa.
SEVERAL foreign Hebrews have been ar
rested at Leipsic, Germany, on the charge Of
treason.
THE British steamer Virent, from Sulina.
Roumania, for London, has been abandoned
at sea- with her shaft broken. The mate and
fourteen other men belonging TO the steamer
were lost.
FORGED notes to the amount of 500, 900
pesetas were discovered in a package Of
funds brought to bank at Madrid, Spain.
FIVE HUNDRED Russian students have been
arrested for rioting at St Petersburg. They
demanded the restoration of liberal regula-
tiOns
MUCH damage has been done by floods in
Italy.
THE Labor Conference at Berlin adopted a
resolution favoring the prohibition of the
employment of children under twelve years
of age in factories and mines.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04
w aShin 2cOn.

SECRETARY PROCTOR authorized an adolf
tional expenditure of $50 600 for the protec-
ton of the levees on the Mississippi River in
the third and fourth districts making the
total allotment for this purpose $4,000.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has been designated to
represent the War Department in the matter
of the selection of landing place for imni-
grants at New York
The House Committee on Agriculture or
dered a favorable report on the Conger bill
defining and taxing compound lard.
VICE-PREsIDENT MORTON, having re-
turned after two weeks absence occupied
the chair in the Senate at the opening of the
session.
THE President sent to the Senate the fol.
lowing nominations: James F. Ellis. of Wis
consin, Consul at Brockville. Canada; Fran
els Macnutt, of District of Columbia, Secre-
tary of the United States Legation al
Constantinople; Commodore Andrew E. K
Benham, to be Rear Admiral
THE President. accompanied by ex-Sena.
tor Sewen left " ashington on a duckine
expedition to the p reserves of the Maryland
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

FIRE broke out in a meat store at Mil
ford, Mass, which destroyed property valued
at 1920, 900.
The United States steamer Newark has
been launched at Philadelphia
JOIN F. PLCMIER & Co. OF New York
city, one OF the largest commission houses In
the wooden trade, nave assigned Liabilities
over 81. 900. O0J: assets about the same
HALF foot of snow more than in any
storm of the winter, fell IN New GOrk city.
The storm was from the southwest, travel
ing at the remarkable rate Of eightythree
miles an hour. Railroad travel was delayed
the streets wore almost impossible, and
several steamships were overdue.
THE Legislative Committee in the MaSsa-
chusetts Legislature reported bill giving
women the right 10 vote in municipal cleo
tons.
4 HUNGARIAN woman told the police of
Harrison, y. j.. that house that had been
burned two years ago. and in which two lives
we're lost, had been deliberately set on fire.
Six arrests were made.
LUCIUS FUTILE Trunk Line Commission
CT has resigned to become general manager
of the New YORK. New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.
THE house OF Benjamin Downey. Stony
Hill, Penn., was burned, and when the ruins
were examined the charred body of DOwney
was found.
JOSEPH j. STICK, a well-HnOwn oil man.
was instantly killed at Reno. Penn. while as
sisting to draw the tools from one of the
wells.
TIE fishing schooner H. A. Duncan, of
Gloucester Mass lost six of her crew in
tories during recent snowstOrm.
THE jury in the Flack conspiracy case in
New York city found verdict OF guilty
against the Shree defendants Sheriff Flack
his son, ''WiII' Fiack, and Joseph Meeks. The
jury in giving the verdict, made a strong
recommendation for extreme executive elem
ency.
SAMUEL r. GREEN was shot and instantly
killed by Ira E. Briggs. near Norwich, Conn.
Green threatened to cut Briggss throat, and
it is believed that he was taken suddenly in
sane The COroner's verdict was ''excusable
homicide "
Two trains collided near Portage, y. V,
killing three men. and fatally injuring an
other. The engines and twelve cars were de-
molished.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04
South and West.

NJ. J. CHEATHAM (white) was hanged at
Grenada Miss, for the murder of John
Hlman (coloredj. Cheatham is the first
white man to suffer the death penalty for
| the killing Of colored man in Mississippi.
Dr. NJ A RUST, one of the oldest and
most prominent German physicians in Rich
nond Va fell from ladder at his residence
and was instantly killed.
E. B. MCCURDY. train conductor was
shot and seriously wounded by colored ma n
named Jake Daniels, and in turn the cOnduc-
tor shot, I'd killed the cOlOred man. 1t hap
oened Wide the train was near Bay Minette,
Ala.
c. A SEARLEs and w. c.. Paine were ar
rested in Missoula Mont. for roboing the
Northern Pacific Express office at Brainerd,
Mimi, of SIS, 900 about a year ago.
THE steamboat-owners in Baltimore Nd,
appointed committee to confer with mem
bers of Congress to ask for an immediate re-
peal OF the Objectionable features OF the
United States inspection and census laws.
A WAREHOUSE, bath establishment and
eight cottages at Jacksonville Fla have been
destroyed by fire, causing a loss Of about
E125, 900.
DAN GRUELLE farmer at Kelat, KY, was
taken from his home and hanged. Several
years ago be dealt in cattle and gave bad
checks, and fled to the mountains.
A DISPATCH from Evansville, Va, says that
more than 200 mOonShinerS have established
q fortified camp in Franklin County, and
openly defy the authority of the United
States They have over 100 illicit stills in
operation and are producing thousands Of
barrels of whiskey on which no duty is paid.
THE District Attorney at Jackson Miss,
made an affidavit against ex-State Treasurer
W. L. Heming way, charging him with en-
bezzlement of State funds. Hemingway was
arrested.
A FAST steamer has been fitted out i'll San
Palo NV
a company of local and Eastern capitalists,
who believe there are big profits i'll illicit
sealing when every pelt can be sold for
s12. so.
EDMUND NICHOLAS (colored) was hanged
at Franklin, La, for the murder of girl,
and Prince Saunders colored) suffered the
same fate at Plaquemine, La, for the same
reason.
TOMMY WINEMAN, twelve years old, shot
and killed BERTHE Polhamus, eleven years old,
at Joliet, ILL.,, during quarrel over marbles
THE body of A. W. Longley, of Dayton,
KY, a well-known merchant, was found in
che Ohio River twenty miles below Gin
cinnati.
UNITED STATES MARSHALL NEwL1N. with
two deputies, boarded the brigantine ErneS-
tine at Delaware Breakwater, and brought
ashore five mutineers in irons who. by
refusing duty, had caused the vessel to put in
there.
THE busin ass portion of Hamilton, ILL.,, has
been destroyed by fire.
THE Cocopah Indians went OF the warpath
in Southern California. They were reported
to be numbering the Mexican settlers and
fighting among themselves.
MUCH damage has been done in the Ohio
Valley by the river OVERLOOKING. The situa-
ton along the Mississippi was very threaten
ing.
WILLIAM KINNEY, Peter McGinnis and
Tom Burke. of Cincinnati went out on the
Ohio River TO look at the high water. Their
skif capsized and all were drowned.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04
HOUSES BURIED IN SNOW.
Fifty Feet Deep Along the Line of
Railroad in Colorado.

Workmen have succeeded in opening the
Denver & Rio Grande southern route, over
Cumbres Mountain, in Colorado, after many
weeks of labor. The snow, for miles along
the track, is from ten to thirty feet deep, and
at points fifty feet. Section houses stations
and other buildings have been buried for
weeks.
Citizens of Durango and other towns in the
southwest part of the State have been getting
down to short rations.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04

Ducking Club, with headquarters at Bengies
Md.
THE JourneTmeu Bakers and ConfectioD-
srs' international Union of America memor-
ialiZed Congress not u ratlfy the RUSSIAN Ex-
tradition Treaty or any other extradiuon
treaty with Russia
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
ConcernInR Kanans Sugar.

Hon. George f. Kellogg, State Sugar
Inspector, has filed his annual report
concerning the sorghum-sugar industry
in Kansas. The report shows that the
grand total Of sugar manufactured last
year was l,203,275 pounds, as against
sos, 2T4 pounds manufactured the pre-
vious year. In addition to tho foregoing
Inspector Kellogg states that fully 209,-
900 pounds more sugar will be obtained
from the seconds" which will take
month or six weeks to get out. The
bounty Of two cents per pound offered by
the State will be realized upon the L.
oO3, 275 pounds by the manufacturers, or
the sum Of 500, $3.50. The sugar COM
panies who will share in the above
bounty arc four in number, namely:
The Parkinson Sugar Company Of Fort
Scott, 81, 199.0O; the Medicine Lodge
Sugar Company, SS,OO4.f0; the Kansas
State Sugar Company OF Attica, S., 3d.
go; the Southern Kansas Sugar Com
pany of Conway Springs, s5,34l.42. The
sugar manufactured last year is Of ex-
celent quality, and the prices at which
it has been sold range from 81 to z
cents per pound, the average being
about cents per pound. According to
the provisions of the act of the Legislat-
ure, relating to the sugar bounty, the
amount appropriated for this purpose
can not exceed $4,000 during one year,
so that there IS an uncxpcnded balance
from the bounty fund of SI4, lS4.5O.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
THE WEST.

The Chicago Conservatory of Music
and Dramatic Art gave an impromptu
entertainment recently in honor OF
Adelina Patti.
Four mel two Russian and two
Greeks) lost their lives on the northern
side of the Golden Gate, San Francis
co, while out fishing in boat recently.
WILLIAM WEAVER, a young farmer,
was instantly killed recently near
Wabash, Ind, while cutting timber,
the rebound of q branch crushing in
his skull.
JUDGE KNICKERBoCKER, probate
Judge of Cook County Chicago, died of
apoplexy recently. His death was un-
expected.
THE ! Gamer State of California has
arrived safely at San Francisco. 1t
was reported lost few weeks ago.
PUEBLO Indians near Cochite, N. NJ.
put ON war paint recently and ordered
Engineer Virgins, Of the Rio Grande
Irrigation Company to suspend work
on his canal.
THE strike on the Mackey system, ac-
cording to an Evansville, Ind, dis
patch, is settled.
THE Mississippi river at Davenport,
Iowa, was reported on the 9th to be
eight inches lower than at any previous
time recorded.
THE Compulsory School law has been
put to the test at Shelbyville, ILL.,, and
Mrs. Jane AFFORD, who kept her boy
at home because she W so poor that
he had to assist III making living, is
in Jail. Five dollars and costs was the
penalty attached and the poor woman,
unable to pay, was put in prison.
THE explosion of lamp caused the
destruction of a furniture factory at
Manistee, Mich. William Chambers
persisted. Loss, $4,000.
JUDGE WALLACE, in the Superior
Court at San Francisco, has decided the
case of the American Sugar Refinery
Company adversely to the trust.
w. I. BAKER has been elected presi-
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade.
For the first time in many years the
honor was conferred without contest.
J. G. Stoner defeated Yep Brosseau
in close fight for the vice-presidency.
The Lee-Deming Wholesale Grocery
Company of st. Louis, has failed with
liabilities estimated at $242,020 and
assets $25O,OOO. The failure is due to
slow collections and an attempt to
carry on big business on small cap
ital.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
SHOT DEAD.

Ex-Pr6aecutIng Attorney Sheota Kills
John layton ut Liberty, MO.-Thc Cause
OF tho Tragedy q Mystery.
LIBERTY, Mo-, Jan. R-James L.
Sheetz, representing attorney of Clay
County. shot and killed John Luyton,
q stranger, ut seven o'clock last even
ing. The cause of the murder is q
mystery.
The proprietor and the few citizens
in the drug store of 7. I. Allen on the
south side Of the square at seven
| o'clock heard several shots In rapid
succession in o room ever the store.
All fastened to the front door and saw
James L. Sheetz, representing attor-
ney of Clay County, rush down the
stairway and west on Kansas street,
saying nothing to any one.
In very short time Sheetz returned
in company with Sheriff Oscar Thoma-
son and they went to Sheetz' office in
the rear of the building. No one fol-
lowed, but the Sheriff soon appeared at
the head of the stairway and sent for
Deputy Sheriff W. H. Wymore, and
City Marshal Alexander Courtney, who
arrived shortly. None of the citizens
who had congregated at tho door were
allowed to come up.
In about thirty minutes SheetZ was
brought down and taken to the sherif's.
Office and placed under guard.
Tho cause of the tragedy is o mystery
as Shcetz could not be induced to give,
any reason for the shooting. The real
facts will only develop at the inquest.
Luyton is stranger, having arrived
here q short time ago with his wife
from Illinois, en- route to California, it
is said. He was about thirty years OF
age with light colored mustache and
hair. lie weighed about 165 pounds
and his occupation is thought to have
boon a brick mason. His wife has not
been notified up to this time, as it is.
not known in what part of the town
she is.
James l.. Sheetz is young man, ufl-
married, about thirty years of age.
He is u native of Clay County, having
been born ut Missouri City. His
mother and q brother-Dr. William
Sheetz, a prominent physican-reside
ut Orrick, Mo. AnotherSrother, Frank
Sheetz, one of the best known lawyers
of Northwest Missouri. lives ut Chilli
cothe. james Sheetz has always been
considered law-abiding citizen, and
not by any means dangerous charac-
ter. His term of Office expired at the
last election and he was defeated for
reelection.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
THE SOUTH.

FIVE hundred hemp producers and
workingmen of Lexington, KY, have
sent petition to the Ways and Means
Commi tee against any change in the
present tariff on hemp.
A MULE caused the derailment of
a passenger engine and three coaches
twenty miles from Pine Bluff, Ark,
the other night. Several passengers
were bruised but none seriouslyinjured.
AN Interstate cattlemen's conven-
ton has 1.been called to meet at Fort
Worth, Tex, March IL.
THE aldermen Of Frankfort, KY,
have enacted an ordinance prohibiting
the sale of cigarettes. The law is
being strictly enforced.
BY q collision in a thick fog west of
Savannah, Ga, two engines were
wrecked and six persons slightly in
jured.
WILMoRE HALL, colored, has been
hanged at Louisville, Ca, for the muir
der. of J. L.. Evans, white man. He
confessed.
AN unfinished trestle on the Brier-
field, BIocton & Birmingham (Ala.
railroad fell the other morning, carry
ing down twenty-five carpenters.
David ]. Webb and Carl Mark were
killed and twenty others were injured!
TRAVEL has been interrupted and
railroads much damaged by heavy rains
in Arkansas.
A FREIGHT train on the San Antonio
Il Arkansas Pass road went through
bridge at Hallettsville, Tex, recently.
Several train men lost their lives.
Four loggers were burned to death
at Beebe's camp, near Paducah, KY,
the other night by their cabin taking
fire. 1t is supposed they were all in
toxicated.
JOSEPH and Campbell Noel recently
waylaid, shot and killed J. W. Sang
ford, near Harrisburg, KY, for running
their sister.
THE municipal election at jackson.
Miss, at which troubles were expected.
passed off quietly.
JOEL K. BRowE, Of Dayton, Tenn,
left his wife the other day and joined
another woman. Whitecaps took the
couple cut and whipped them until
they Eere nearly dea !. Brown then
effected a reconciliation with his wife.
News has been received at Raleigh,
n. c.. that Carson L. Powell, q Bap,
fist missionary to Algiers, killed his
daughter in ct Of insanity as she sat
upon his lap.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
WASHINGTON NOTES.

ROBERT G. BLAINE, brother OF the
Secretary of State, and who for the
past eight years has been curator in
the Agricultural Department, has re-
ceived the appointment as deputy first
auditor of the Treasury Department.
The Pan-American congress resumed
its sessions in Washington on the I'd,
but as none of the committees were
ready to report the body soon adj
journed.
THE public debt decreased during
the month of December So, Us, O95.S9
1t now stands, less cash in the treas
ury, 81 ,O52, 952, 911.3S.
w. A. WALKER, United States At
torney for Wisconsin, has resigned.
CAPTAIN Couch, of Oklahoma City,
is in Washington.
SECRETARY WINDOW has ordered
the transfer of 100000 in gold coin
from San Francisco 10 New York, there
being too much gold at the former
place. "a.
REV. T. NJ. JOINER, a British sub
ject, has laid formal complaint before
the British Minister complaining of
rough usage by mob while preaching
to tie negroes at Holly Springs, n. c.
CoNGREssMAN RANDALL, was report
ed convalescing at Washington on the
9th.
JUDGE BREWER was sworn in as AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
at Washington on the 9th.
In the Supreme Court at Washington
on the 9Th the Neagle case, arising out
of the killing Of Judge Terry in Cali
fornia last summer, was set down for
argument on March l, as was also the
case of the San Tulare Railroad Com
pany, of California, involving the right
of States to impose special taxation
upon railroads.
THE United States Supreme Court
has decided that Mormon officials of
Utah who claimed to have been elected
to the places we're not entitled to the
positions under the organic act of the
Territory.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL.

THERE was less than q quorum present
when tine Senate met after the holiday re.
cess. on the 9Th. Many resolutions and
several bills were presented, and bill
passed to Increase to $72 per month the pen
sion OF certain soldiers and sailors who are
totally helpless from injuries received OF
disease contracted during the war. After an
executive session the Senate adjouened.. In
the House q resolution was adopted author
iEing the Speaker to administer the oath of
ONCE to Mr. Randall at his residence, and
also authorizing Messrs. WILDER, OF New
York, and Whitthorn,. of Tennessee, to take
the oath of Office before the proper officers.
Then followed the Introduction of food OF
bills. and Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas. reported
back the bill for townsite entries In OKLA
homa and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the eth Senator voorhees,
offered a resolution In regard to reports that
the United States Attorney at Indianapolis
had interfered In his Oificial capacity to
prevent the arrest Of w. w. Dudley on the
charge OF violating the election laws and
calling upon the Attorney General to report
what instructions had been issued to the dis
trict attorney on the subject. The resolu'
tion went over. After an executive
session the Senate adjourned. After
the transaction of routine business In
the House the Speaker announced
that in accordance with authority vested In
him by resolution he had administered the
oath of Office to Hon. s. J. Randall. motion
that the House resolve itself into Committee
of the Whole for consideration OF the Dis
trict of Columbia bill was opposed by
the Democrats on the ground that no
rules had yet been adopted. long debate
followed, but the motion finally prevailed by
a party vote and the House went into com
mittee but soon adjourned.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
THE EAST

THE works of the Edison Electric
Light Company, New York, burned re-
Gently, causing much inconvenience to
parties using incandescent lights.
The gas regulator building at Econ
Omy, Pa, was wrecked and George
Kirschbaum, aged forty, was instantly
killed and John Becker badly hurt by
an explosion recently.
ONE span of new iron bridge at
HOlyoka, Mass, was blown down the
other day and one man was killed and
two others injured. Thirty wOrkmen
managed to escape to other spans in
time.
MRS. BRENNAN, of Holyoke, Mass,
under indictment for poisoning MEM
hers Of her family in order to obtain in
surance on their lives, is dying in the
jail at Springfield Mass, of Bright's
disease.
The International Fair Association
of Buffaio. N. Y, is reported in flnan-
Gial difficulties. The association is
possessed of valuable property.
GovERE0R BEAVER, of Pennsylva-
mia, has issued warrants for the execu-
ten Of four murdersrS February 20.
THE lumber schooner Joseph South
eEn has been toWed into Boston. She
was found abandoned at sea Her
crew Of eight men was supposed TO have
perished. She was from Brunswick,
Ga.
NEW YoRK last year spent e17. 900. 900
on her public schools. - ~
A LOCAL freight train on the South
Cheshire railroad collided near East
morsland, n. H., recently with wild
freight running north. Engineer ".
Slate and Fireman Gibson, Of Believe
Fails, were killed and others injured.