Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-12
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Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
4 H1LL was passed in the United States Sen.
ate on the Sd fixing the salaries OF United States
district judges at 1900 Bills were introduced
to repeal the long and short-haul clause and
the pooling section Of the Interstate commerce
act; to inquire into the advisability of increas.
Ing the duty on imported hops from eight cents
to twenty cents per pound. In the House
bills were introduced appropriating SIS 900
for monument to the division Of
regulars on the Gettysburg battlefield; to regu.
late the appointing OF fourth-olass postmasters
by competitive written and personal examina.
tton. and giving the Postmaster-General the
appointing power. Mr.. O'Donneu presented 3
petition Of the Seventh-Day Adventists pro-
testing against the enactment OF any law In re-
gard to Sabbath observance.
THE time Of tho Senate on the 9TH was mostly
occupied in executive session discussing the
accounts published in the papers Of matters
which were under consideration in former OK
ecut1ve sessions. A bill was passed appropri.
ating $4,000 for q monument to commemorate
the battle OF Trenton, NJ jim the House .
Dill was introduced to increase the duties on
barley, barley malt, BEANS peas, hops pota-
toes, hay, hides, eggs and apples and to take
the duty OF binding twine The consideration
OF the Arkansas contested election case Of
Featherstone vs.. Cate occupied nearly the en-
tire day.
THE bill appropriating $4,000 for q public
building at Lafayette, Ind, was passed in the
Senate on the 5th Senator Stockbridge pre-.
sented two remonstrances against any bill in
regard to the observance OF the Sabbath or the
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OF the constitution that would sanction lesisla-
ton upon the subject of religion. 80 In the
House the contested election case of Feather.
stone vs.. Cate from the First Arkansas district
occupied the entire session. resulting in the
seating Of the contestee (Featherstone) by
vote of-yeas, 146; nays, 135. Both gentlemen
most interested are Democrats
BILLS were introduced in the Senate on the
9th for monument to John Ericsson: for the
punishment Of officers and others selecting
Jurors with reference to political affiliations.
Bills were passed giving pension OF SIS q
month to the daughter Of Major General w, J.
Worth. and increasing to 500 q month the pen
sion OF the widow Of Major. General G. X. War
ren... In the House petition was presented
asking that two women be appointed on the
worlds fair committee of 1892 Bills were
passed for public buildings at Lansing, Mich.
Galesburg, Ill., and Ashland, Wis.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be $1,6o1, 71s, s42; cash in the Treas
ury, S32, 756, 5s4; debt less cash in Treas
ury, 81, 034, 547, 500. Decrease during Feb.
ruary, Sc, 159, 1856. Decrease since June
80, 1889, 2,o99, o91.
In quarrel on the LIST at Mallie, COL,
A. M. Wassen killed a railroad man, and
soon after mob lynched Wassen.
HICKS & GEPHAT's Bank at Valley
Falls, Kan, was robbed of S., 600 bv
man named Robert Robinson on the 1st
who held up the cashier. In few
hours afterward the robber was shot
dead while resisting arrest and the
money recovered.
AT Covington, KY, on the LIST 1853 of
the 165 saloon.keepers in the city were
Indicted for selling liquor on Sunday
contrary to an old statute of the State.
JOHN GR1sCOM, a man of prominence
In railroad and scientific circles, COM
mitted suicide in New York on the list
by inhaling gas while in bed.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN left Boston
at midnight on the I'D for trip around
the world, which he expects to complete
in sixty days.
The first block of tin produced from
an American tin mine reached Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the Sd. The block
weighed twenty-five pounds, and was
taken from tin deposit near Hermosa,
s. D.
A BARN on the Hill farm near Sioux
Ia Oh
eleven valuable horses persisted in the
flames.
STATE TREASURER holland, of Mis-
souri,, was on the Sd suspended by Gov
ernor Francis it being rumored that No
land was short in his accounts
J REPORTS OF the Sd from San Carlos
were to the effect that Apache Indians
were committing numerous depredations
In that vicinity and in Mexico and that
IN Apache war was imminent.
SNOW to the depth of from twelve to
eighteen inches fell throughout New
England on the Sd.
AN oil we'll which would yield $50
barrels day was discovered on the Sd
at Glasgow, KY, at q depth of 1875 feet.
Four negro children were burned to
death on the Sd near Greenville, Miss,
while their parents were absent.
The Mississippi Supreme Court on tho
Sd affirmed the sentence of the lower
court in the case of Jake Kilrain, which
Is two months imprisonment and 5000
fine.
The Exchange Hotel at Middleton, N.
Y, was burned on the Sd, and Miss Lily
Peck was fatally injured while jumping
from window.
On the Fort Wayne road near Mas
sillon. O., freight trains collided on the
Sd, and an engineer, fireman and brake
man lost their lives Eighteen loaded
freight cars were burned.
AN unknown colored woman and her
con were burned to death on the Sd in a
cabin near Bonneville Mo.
DISAPPOINTMENT in love impelled IT,
year-old Nellie Fletcher, of Westside,
Ind, to commit suicide on the Sd.
AN Unknown miaor 1io1 IN %ho Oh ~