The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-01-16

NOL. AAAl.-NO. 10.
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FIFTY.FlRsT CONGRESS.
MONDAY, Jan. 6.-In the Senate bills
were introduced authorizing the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury to loan money
to farmers at two per cent. and to pro-
mote ocean-mail service between the
United States and foreign ports. Bills
were passed increasing the pay Of cen
sus supervisors from $500 to 81, ,OOO ind
to increase to S72 per month the pension
Of certain soldiers and sailors who are
totally helpless. In the House bills
were introduced to prevent the contrac-
tion Of the currency; for . grad
usted income tax; to tax trusts;
to ascertain the amount Of the
mortgage Indebtedness Of tho farm
ers Of the United States; for the ad-
mission Of Arizona. Idaho. New Mex
leo and Wyoming into the Union as
States; for the free coinage Of gold and
silver; for the creation Of m Office
Of congressional correspondence and de-
partmental business; for the erection Of
post-ofiice buildings in all towns whore
the receipts amount to q, 600 per annum;
to continue the coinage Of three cent
pieces; for the assembling Of Congress
on the 4th day Of March instead Of the
nrst Monday in December.
TUESDAY, Jan. 7.-Senator Morgan
addressed the Senate in favor of
the bill providing for the emigra-
tion of colored people from the South.
A bill was introduced to provide for
worlds exposition 1t the National Capt.
tai in 1892 In the House the rules were
discussed at length. and bill was intro
duced providing for penson Of s72 per
month to disabled soldiers requiring the
aid Of IN attendant, and another bill
giving dependent soldiers pension not
to exceed SIS nor less than six dollars
per month, according to disability.
WEDNESDAY,, Jan. Sin the Senate
the time was occupied by Mr.. Voorhees,
upon the resolution offered by him
in relation to the alleged interference
by Mr.. Chambers, the United States
District Attorney at Indianapolis, to
prevent the arrest Of w. w. Dudley on
charge Of violating the election laws
of Indiana, and by Mr.. Edmunds in re
ply. In the House bill was introduced
providing that the terms Of members of
Congress shall begin January l. Ad-
iourned until the 10th.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ar the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated
81. 219, 229, T34, against S947, ,s8s, 249 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1889 the increase
amounted to go.
FROM all parts of the United States
reports of the 5th showed that the
grip" had made its appearance and
that Its victims were many.
In various American industries in the
past eighteen months English capitalists
have invested sos, OOO, 900.
ON the 4th the total amount Of money
in circulation in this country was said
to be 81, 430, $40, go.
In this country the visible supply OF
wheat and corn on the 9Th was respect
lively Ss. 756, 004 and Q, 9,2S9, $50 bushels.
DAVID J. BREWER was sworn in as As
sociate Justice Of the United States Su-
preme Court 1T noon on the 9th.
THE copper output of American mines
during December aggregated 1858 tons.
On the evening Of the 7th the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison gave their first
state dinner to the Vice-President, mem
bers Of the Cabinet, leading Senators
and their ladies at the White House.
THERE were 460,5l unadjudicated
and pending claims on file in the Pen.
sion Office on the 6th.
THE East.
The schooner Joseph Southern, oi
Thomastown, Me-, with crew of eight
men WAS reported lost on the 5th.
AT Williamsburg, N. Y, Louis NJ
Franken killed his wife and child or
the 4th and then took his own life.
On the 5th Rev. Ebenezer Dodge. D
D., LII. D., president Of Madison Uni
| versity, died at Hamilton, N. T.. Of peri
tonitis, aged sixty years.
STEPHEN LIE PLANT, Frenchmal
eighty years old, while drunk on the 4tl
at Center Haverhill, n. H.. fatally bea
| two of his sons children.
On the Fall Brock road train wen
through bridge on the 9th near Wells
boro, Pa, and three men were killet
and eighteen others we're injured, som,
| fatally.
THE mail train on the Pennsylvani,
road killed five men during its trip Il
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9Th.
The largest vessel ever built in Maine
the Rappahannock, was launched on tn
9th at Bath.
FIRE destroyed the city building a
Lewiston, Me-, on the 7th. Loss, $500. .O00
On the 7th the Glamorgan Iron Com
pany Of Philadelphis Jailed for $3.50, ,O0o
LAST year ~, $50 men were convictet
in New York State Of various crime
and 5,5Sz women.
THE Legislature of New York con
venea at Albany on the eth.
No FREIGHT trains, except thos
transporting perishable freight. viii
hereafter be run ON the Pittsburgh 4
Lake Erie railroad on Sunday.
On the 9TH Mrs. Hannah b. South
worth, who shot and killed Stephen L
Pettus last November, died in her eel
in the Tombs prison in New York.
AT Pawtucket, r. l., Mrs. Elizabetl
Eaton Larned celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday on the 7th.
THE death Of Elbridge G. Lapham
who in 1881 was elected United State
Senator to succeed Roscoe Conkling, oe
CURED in Canandaigua, N. ", on tn
Sth, aged seventy-six years.
/ WEoT AND oOuTA.
4 ON the 4th May 4 Vaughn, wholesal
grocers of New Orleans, failed for $155,
900.