Mower County transcript., 1890-02-05

OF Smith versus jackson from tho Fourth West
Virginia district was taken up. The Demo.
orats generally refused to vote and made the
point Of no quorum. The Speaker, however,
counted the members refusing to vote and de-
olared quorum present. This ruling caused q
long debate.
THE bill instructing the superintendent OF
census to gather information regarding mort.
cages on homes and farms was passed In the
Senate on the 3Oth ult. Mr. Vance IN. CD
spoke on the negro emigration bill in answer to
Mr.. Ingalls,. -. In the House the time was oo-
cupied in wrangling over the ruling Of Speaker
Reed that members present but not voting
shall be counted in order to make up Quorum.
The Republicans sustained the ruling and the
Democrats denounced it.
DOMESTIC.
JOHN B. LALLANDE, New Orleans
cotton merchant, failed ON the 9th for
$500, 900.
A STRONG flowing we'll of petroleum
was struck near Johnstown, N. Y. on
the 9th.
REPORTS of the 27th from the Wy
oming ranges, with the exception of the
western districts, were that cattle gen.
orally were in unusually good condition.
AN 6-year-old colored boy was sent to
the State prison at Nashville, Tenn, on
the 27th to serve one year for larceny.
AT Newport, Ark, on the 27th John
Schneider shot and mortally w..=aded
Miss Emma Fry, who had refused his
hand. and fatally wounded James Mes
singer, her afhanced husband
y. PRESTON, wealthy cattle owner,
was frozen to death on the 27th near
Stevensville, Mont, while hunting for
lost cattle.
TIE Congregational church at Dam
vers Center, Mass, was burned on the
e6eh. The church was historic one,
being the successor of the ancient
church in which the witchcraft trouble
began.
In a quarrel on the 2sth at San An
tonic, Tex, Tony Wilson, aged II
years. stabbed Robert Miles, aged Is
years, with a knife, killing him in
stantly.
A sNow-sL1DE on the 27th crushed a
house at Logansville, Cal, two of the
inmates being killed.
THE strawberry crop, which promised
to be large in South Carolina, was in.
jured by frost on the 28th, and the sup
ply would be limited.
The explosion of still in the Stan
dard oil works at Hunters Point, n. Y,
on the 28th caused a fire which de-
stroyed property worth 5000,
By an explosion of nitro-glycerine on
the 28th near Alton, Pa, William H.
McHenry and Alexander Conner, two
well-known men, were blown to atoms.
AT the session in St. Paul on the 2Sth
of the National Association of Builders
it was decided to treat the eight-hour
day as local issue, and to get around it
by hiring and compromising labor by
the hour
AT Marion, Ind, the Panhandle
freight and passenger depot, in which
was located the Adams Express, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 28th.
AT the Treasury Department in Wash
ington on the 28th it was stated that the
Government lease of Castle Carbon,
New York, would terminate March 81,
and that suitable quarters for emigrants
would be secured on Governors Island,
which would be entirely under Govern
mept control.
NEAR Cascade, CAL. tho tracks of the
Central Pacific road were on the 28th
covered by snow to the depth of fifty
feet
A PREMATURE blast on the 2sth near
Sunbury, Pa, killed five men and badly
injured dozen more.
WHILE experimenting with oxygen in
school at Lexington, ILL.,, on the 28th
Prof. j. Jess had both eyes blown out
and four scholars were probably fatally
injured.
OVER one thousand employees Of the
Birmingham rolling-mill at Birming-
ham, Ala, went on a strike on the 28th,
an effort to force the mill into the
Amalgamated Association causing the
trouble.
In session at st. Paul on the Goth the
National Builders Association elected
John F. Tucker, of New York, as presi-
dent. A motion that eight hours shall
constitute days work was rejected.
MRS. BoaGs, living near Waverly, O.,
was attacked by vicious hog on the
Goth while crossing field and fatally
injured.
. r. WILLIAM WoODHOUSE, q farmer living
near London, O., and his wife were shot
and badly wounded on the 29th by
Kenny Graham, another farmer. An
old grudge was the cause. ~.%
THREE persons were killed on the Goth
in railway wreck at Owego, MY.
Tx Pan-American delegates were on
the 18th officially invited to visit Mon
ksal.