Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-19
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL

tOr taxing Inc census IN Alaska anu TO pfeVent
the Introduction Of contagious diseases from
one State to another. The bill for inspection
OF meats for expectation. prohibiting importa.
ton Of adulterated articles Of food drink,
was discussed. In the House a resolution vas
adopted to investigate the workings Of the Ma
tional and State immigration laws bill was
passed increasing to 500 a month the pension
granted to General Horace Boughton.
On the 18th the credentials Of Senator ALI
son Qa.) for his new term, commencing March
4, 1891, were presented in the Senate. A peti-
ton was presented from Florida asking q duty
Of 81 a box on foreign oranges. The House bill
making Columbus, O., port Of delivery was
passed. bill was introduced for the election
OF Senators by the people. :. In the House pub
nc-building bills involving total expenditure
OF 81 ,845 900 were passed. The bill for the ad-
mission OF Wyoming was discussed.
THE concurrent resolution for the investiga.
ton OF immigration matters and the purchase
OF American industries by foreign capital was
passed in the Senate on the 18th. A resolution
declaring the right OF the Senate to elect q
president pro tenn, who shall act in that capaoi-
ty at any time the presiding officer may be
absent, was passed. The Blair bill was then
taken up and q resolution adopted fixing tho
date for final vote at o'clock p. m. March
3d.. In the House bill was passed appropri-
at1ng s. 100 for removal Of sand bars at the
entrance to the harbor of Milwaukee. The
afternoon was spent considering bill to pro-
vide government for the territory of Okla
homa
SEVERAL bills for public buildings were
passed in the Senate on the 18th. A bill was
introduced appropriating $4,000 for an ord
nance factory on the grounds of the arsenal at
Indianapolis. The Blair educational bill was
further discussed. In the Hddse the bill max.
Ing Oklahoma Territory was passed by vote
OF 100 to %. The bill establishes seven ooun-
SNc - ~l.o-
City, Norman Lisbon or King Fisher, Beaver
and Saltwater.
; DOMESTIC.
GRAY & BAFFY's furniture factory and
other buildings at Detroit were de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th; loss, $3.50, 900.
The five renegade Apaches who MUIR
dered George Herbert in Arizona re-
Gently were overtaken by troops on the
9Th near Globe, A. T., and in the fight
which ensued two of the Indians were
killed and the others captured
Miss CLARA BARTON, president OF the
American National Association of the
Red Cross, issued an appeal on the sth
for aid for $, 600 persons in want in the
Dakotas.
CHARLES WILLIAMS and his 12-year-
old son, living in the suburbs of Galena,
Kan, were found murdered in their bed
on the 9th.
FREIGHT trains collided on the 10th
near Harvard, Neb., and Conductor Nor
ton and Brakeman Miller were killed.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident
Association of America was held at
Utica, n. Y, on the 10th.
OVER 1900 female shirt-makers in
New York struck ON the 10th. They de-
mand uniform rate of pay in all shops
and that the hours of work be reduced
from fourteen to ten hours per day.
SARAH HIGGINS, of Upton, Ca. beat
her two children to death on the 10th.
SPECIAL train on the Reading rail-
road on the 10th ran from Jersey City
to Philadelphia, a distance of ninety
miles, in eighty-fve minutes.
A FIRE on the 10th in the warehouse
of the B. C. Clark Crockery Company, at
Kansas City caused loss of S102, 900.
FRANK M1NGUs stabbed and instantly
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Nehe-
miah Lounsbery, near La Grange, Ind,
on the 10th because she refused to al
low him to enter her house.
THE clothing house of Stern & Meyer
at Cincinnati was burned on the 10th,
causing loss of $500,
The National Department of Agri-
culture reported on the 10th $40, 600, 900
bushels of corn and 156, 900, 900 bushels
of wheat in the hands of farmers.
Gvr
Orleans on the 10th and was given re-
ception. He said he had collected $780,
600 Australia in for the Irish cause.
THREE distributors employed in the
Chicago 2 "e died on the 10th
from ''la gr4. ntracted while sort
ing mail matt Russia.
MANY farms 'souri, Kentucky
and Southern Hi ere under water
on the 18th, owing yh water in the
Mississippi river.
JAMES j. SLocUs professional
baseball player who his wife in
New York on the nigh. 'ecem Der 81,
was convicted on the /: murder in
che first degree.
The Presbytery Of Jersey City, N. J.
decided on the 18th in favor of the pro-
posed revision of the confession of faith.
AT Lima, O., 6-year-old Lizzie Rabb
was burned to death on the 18th by her
clothes igniting from stove.
The Illinois State Board of Agricult.
Ire decided on the 18th not to hold a
State fair in 1892 so as not to conflict
with the worlds fair.
NEAR Weaverville, CAL, John and
James Lowder (brothers) were killed on
the 18th by snow-slide.
The Missouri antitrust law was de-
clared unconstitutional on the 18th by
Judge Dillon, of the circuit court of St.
Louis.
AT Greensburg, Pa, on the 18th a pas
senger train backed into a freight,
wrecking the rear coach and fatally
fnjuring three persons.
Rev. DAVID McGREw, pastor of the
colored Baptist church at Armstrong,
Kan, Mrs. Andrew Beyman and Will
Jackson, all colored, were run over by a
Union Pacific train on the 18th and
killed.
NJ. RUFF1N, of College Corner, O., was
sentenced at Cincinnati on the 18th to
two years in State prison for using the
mails to write scurrilous letters about a