Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-21
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS, COMPILATION
CONGRESSIONAL.


Inter State commerce law so as to permit rail-
roads to give reduced rates to commercial
travellers -. In the House the time was occu-
pied in discussing the tariff hill.
THE greater part of the day in the Senate on
the 18th was devoted to the consideration OF the
bill authorizing the issue of Treasury notes on
deposits OF silver bullion. Mr.. Plumb (Kan) }
introduced bill to declare the unit OF value
in the United States and to provide for free
coinage for the standard silver dollar. >. In
the House the tarin bill was further discussed,
the debate being limited to one minute each.
THE Senate on the 18th non concurred in the
House substitute for the Senate dependent
pension bill, and conference was asked The
silver bill was taken up and Mr. Jones New
concluded his speech In favor OF free coinage
LIN the House the bill authorizing a COM
pany to begin work Of constructing the tunnel
under the Detroit river for the use OF railroads
was favorably reported. The tariff measure
was further discussed.
ON the 14th bill was reported favorably In
tho Senate to subject imported liquors to the
provisions OF the laws OF the several States. A
bill was introduced to establish University of
the United States ut Washington. The NOM
inatiOn OF George w. Steele OF Indiana, to be
Governor OF Oklahoma, was confirmed. :. In
the House the tariff bill was discussed, sixteen
OF the 156 pages having thus far been consid-
cred.
In the Senate on the 18th the bill for the sale
OF timber on the Menomonee Indian reservation
was passed and the silver bill was further dis
cussed. In the House the tarin bill was
again considered, and resolution to take 3
vote on the measure on the 2lst was adopted.
A bill was introduced to amend the contract
labor law so that violations shall be punishable
by a fine Of not less than 800 and by imprison-
ment for not less than six months. At the even
ing session ls9 pension bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
THE town of Greenville, Pa, was
flooded to the depth of two feet on the
10th by cloud-burst.
THE Oxford Club stables at Cam
bridge, Mass, were totally destroy ed by
fire on the 10th, and thirty blooded
horses persisted in the flames.
TRAIN on the Kansas City & COL
orado road was wrecked on the 12th
near Clayton, Mo. and Richard Jones,
engineer, Richard Shellcraft, conductor,
and Arnold Garfield, fireman, were
killed.
GOVERNOR STONE, of Mississippi, on
the 18th requested Major Weston to
furnish rations for twenty days to 2, 900
persons in the vicinity of Yokena and
New Town Landing.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States on the 18th was,
respectively, 22,791,915 and 11,4l5, 1928
bushels.
FIVE farmers were killed on the 18th
in fight with number of Chickasaw
cowboys on the South Canadian river,
near Oklahoma City, Ind. T.
AN engineer. two fremen and two
brakemen were killed on the 18th in a
collision between freight trains near
Chattanooga, Tenn.
A HURRICANE on the 18th destroyed
many houses at Jefferson City, Mo-, un-
rooted the State-House and penitentiary
hospital, and in the imm ediate vicinity
many barns were leveled.
1T was said on the 18th that at least
thirty persons persisted in the recent
burning of the Chenango County poor
house at Preston, N. Y.
J. w. BROWN, wealthy farmer of
Green township, Ind, was murdered
April %, 1879. His wife. on her death
bed on the 18th, confessed that she and
her two sons committed the murder in
order to obtain the land and money
Brown was known to have.
A DWELLING at Campbell Ford, Ont,
was burned on the 12th, and 13-year-
old boy named William Wynn and his
grandmother, Mrs. Catharine Soules,
aged 80 years, were burned to death.
E. L. CR1swELL was lynched by mob
on the 18th at Santa Maria, CAL, for
the murder of Constable Southland.
A TORNADO on the 18th wrecked
several houses and the Sanford tool
works at Terre Haute, Ind. The towns
of NATION and Marshall, ILL.,, were
damaged severely by the same storm.
Rev. JAMES KERR and his wife were
drowned in Boykin creek, Sumter Coun-
ty, Ala. on the 18th while attempting
to ford the stream.
FLAMES on the 18th burned out a
number of business places at Hot
Springs, Ark.
EVERY State in the Union was rep
resented on the 18th at the National
convention of the Knights of Honor
which met in Detroit for ten days ses-
sion.
On the morning of the 18th Swayzee
Qnd.) people found the ground covered
Will Su1u0ES duu SuuuSu WHICH QdO
been left there by the storm of the pre-
vious night. There is no creek or other
body of water within four miles of the
place.
A FIRE on the 18th at Ashley, Pa, de-
stroyed five business buildings aud a
half dozen houses.
The water in the Brazos river at Rich
mond and Columbia, Tex, was on the
18th higher than ever known before, and
railway tracks were five feet under
water.
THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the
National Temperance Society and Pub
LEGATION House was held in New York on
the 18th, and T. L. Cuyler., d. d., was
chosen president.
The Lottery Company on the 18th
offered the Louisiana State Government
$1,ooo,00o year for renewal of its
charter.
GENERAL BEN BUTLER on the 18th
wrote to Attorney Moses Solomon, of
counsel for the Chicago Anarchists,
stating that he was of the opinion that
Fielder, Schwab and Neebe, who are
now in the penitentiary, can be released
on writs of habeas corpus, because the