The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-09-25
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEws COMPILATION.


INTERESTING NEwa COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
BrLL was introduced In the Senate On the
18th to retire the circulation OF the National
Banks to issue legal.tender notes In lieu there
Of and to reduce the interest. bearing debt. Bills
were passed to revive the grade Of Lieutenant.
General in the army Of the United Statosi nj.
lowing s1o month to women who for sig
months rendered servue IN any fegimcntaL
samp OF eehcral hospital aud wh6 ore unable TO
enfn their support. Resolutions relative To the
death Of tho late. Representative Laird, Of
Nebraska, wete presented. In the House lack
OF quorum prevented business
BILLS were passed In tho Senate on the 10th
to discontinue the coinage Of the % and tt gold
pieces and the s'pent nickel piece, and Tor the
protection of trees and other growth on the
public domain from destruction by afe. joint
resolution was introduced fof the immediate
increase OF snvef money by the Purchase and
coinage OF 10000 900 6uhces OF silver within the
next thirty days. =. In the House the absence
of quorum prevented business. At the even
ing session seventy.two private pension bills
were rassed.
In the Senate bill Was passed on the goth
extending tho privileges OF the free delivery Of
malls to towns having n population Of 5000 or
Ave private pension bills. &c, In the House no
business was done owing to the absence Of O
quorum.
THE time was occupied Id the penate On the
ED In discussing the bill to define and regulate
the jurisdiction OF the courts 6f the United
States -, In the House no business was trans
bcted. A resolution was introduced to fine any
member $500 who absents himself on the Sec
ond roll.call for the purpose OF breaking a
quorum. A bill was reported to pay S2li,71i
to the Choctaw and Chickasnw Nation OF In.
dians for title In fee simple to O. 0 ,633 aeros OF
land in the Indian Territory,
DOMESTIC.
TiiH Chamber of Commerce of Yank-
ton, 5. d.. enters protest against the
reported failure Of crops in the State,
and declares them false and hurtful to
the people.
THE census gives Arizona q popula-
tion Of 69,001, an increase OF 10, 25i In
ten years,
Df agreement Gustave Koch, an art
ist, and Emilio Rossi, an actress, killed
themselves in New York because tho
mother OF tho actress had opposed her
marriage with Koch.
AT Toledo the Society Of the Army of
the Cumberland elected officers, Gen
eral w. s. Rosecrans being chosen pres
ident
THE 18th was the 10th day that the
Whitehall (Pa.) faster, Mrs, Adam
Wuchtcr, had gone without food OF any
kind.
A cYohoSs hear Manning, Ia, killed
two persons and injured several others,
and Ecar Emmetsburg and at Vinton
great damage was done TO property.
FRED PAUL shot Mrs. Louis Buelow
at Long Prairie, Mimi, and cut off her
ears and then went home and shot him
self. lie was insane.
CAL Woop, convicted Of murder has
been sentenced TO death by electricity
In Dannemora prison, New York, dur
in, tho week commencing November :
next
AS incendiary fire at South Haven
Mich, resulted in tho destruction o
elevcn business buildings.
AN express train OIL the Reading road
was thrown down an embankmcnt at
Shoemakersville, Pa, and fifty persons
were reported killed and thirty-fve in
jurod.
CHARLES DGtMM, proprietor of q
wino-house at Springfield, o., in q fit o.
jealousy shot his wife and then ended
his own life.
TmE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended or
tho 10th numbered 100, against l13 the
preceding week and 2o3 the correspond
ing wcck last year.
HENRY BURRIs, wealthy farmer neal
Smi thfield, o., was swindled out O
SIS, 00o by two sharpers.
IN a fit OF melancholy ]. j. Medley
committed suicide at Ouray, Col, by
taking morphine. Abo 1T year ago thu
man killed his wife.
NEAIIy forty persons in Minneapoli,
have been indicted for participating il
census frauds in that city.
TIE population OF Cincinnati is an
nounced as 296, 800, an increase of Al, 1T0
AT the meeting OF the Worlds Colum
bian Exposition Commissioners Colone
George H. Davis, of Chicago, was elected
director.gencral OF the exposition.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has signed tn
river and harbor and anti-lottcry bills.
Mrs. JENNIE ROWLAND, Of Chicago
has been bequeathod S6S, 900 by love
whom she had not seen since he enlist
ed during the war.
BELLE H,MLIN and Justina, driver
by their owner, G. l.. Hamlin, broke tn
double-team trotting record at Phila
delphia. The mile was made in 2:15lI
best previous record, 2:l5A.
SIX persons were drowned near Ey
ansville, Ark, by cloud-burst.
CHOLERA has become epidemic in tn
village Of Bergholz, o.
The principal portion Of Whitehall
Mich, and about thirty dwellings hav
been destroyed by an incendiary fire.
In Chicago two notorious charac ters
Michael Haggerty and James G. Cor
merton, fought with pistols in a saloo
and on the steeet, and both were prot
ably fatally wounded.
THE percentages OF the baseball club
In the Players League for tho wee
ended on the goth were: Boston, 1885,
Brooklyn, .5ss; New York, $40; CHI
cago, .6ss; Philadelphia, $40; Pitt.
burgh, .452; Cleveland, .405; Buffalo
.264. The clubs in tho National Leagu
stood: Brooklyn, 1858; Chicago, .60'
Boston, .60l; Philadelphia, 500; Cir
cinnati, .5s5; New York, All; Clevs
land, .405; Pittsburgh. .264.
ABNER KYLE, q wealthy farmer livin
near Columbus, Ind, was attacked by
vicious sow,and fatally injured.
AT the leading clearing houses in tn
United States the exchanges during tn
| menE andad on tha onth o,c.a,xo N