The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-25
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FlFTY-FlRST CONGRESS,
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BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FIFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
Second Session.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. lin the Senate
the time was taken up in discussing
the elections bill. In the House the
apportionment bill, fixing the member.
ship of the House at 356, was discussed
and finally passed by a vote of 1s7 to 50.
THURSDAY, Dec. 10. - Bills were
passed Senate for public buildings al
Danville, ILL.,, Bloomington, ILL.,, and
South Bend. Ind. Senator Cullom
introduced a bill to provide for the
payment of all who worked in the com.
missary department of the Government
during the late war and also to place
them on the pension roll. The
elections bill was further dis
cussed. In the House the Senate bill
amending the Interstate commerce act
by providing that dispositions may be
taken by notaries public was passed,
and bill to place American marine en-.
gagged in the foreign trade on an equal
ity with that of other nations was con-
sidered.
FRIDAY, Dec. 9.-In the Senate q
bill was introduced to allow the ex-
change of the interest bearing debt
for legal tender notes. Mr.. Stanford
advocated his bill to provide the Gov
eminent with means sufficient to sup.
ply the National want of sound circu-
lating medium. A resolution was in
troduced setting forth the desirab ility
of reciprocity with Great Britain and
Mexico. The elections bill was
further discussed. In the House
bill was introduced by Mr.. Morse pro.
viding that no exhibition or exposition
for which appropriation is made by
Congress shall be opened on Sunday. A
resolution was offered expressing sor-
row at the persecution of Jews in
Russia and directing the American Min.
lister at St. Petersburg to present the
matter to the Gear.
SATURDAY, Dec. 2O.-A bill was in
troduced in the Senate to prohibit the
sale of firearms and ammunition to
Indians on reservations. A dozen pri-
vate pension bills were passed, and the
elections bill was again discussed. In
the House the Senate amendments to
the urgent deficiency bill were noncon-
Cured in. A number of conference re.
ports on public buildings were agreed to.
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEW silver certificates of the series OF
1890 have made their appearance. The
$40 certificates have the medallion OF
General Sheridan in the center, while
the 81 note has the medallion of Secre.
tary Stanton on the left hand side of the
face.
TOTAL collections of internal revenue
for the first five months of the current
fiscal year were 49,, 9o1, 40, an increase
of S4.725, $50 over the corresponding
period of the last fiscal year.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10Th, numbered 4o4 against 374 the
preceding week aud 342 the correspond
ing week last year
The exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
$1,000, 773,97S, against S1.1S6, 74O,391 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the increase
amounted to Is
THE EAST.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, nearly two feet
of snow fell on the 18th, and much dam
age was wrought along the Atlantic
coast.
AT Parsons, Pa, a big cave-in of a
surface coal mine occurred, and eleven
houses partially fell down the mine.
On the nth John Greenleaf Whittier,
the poet, celebrated his SD birthday at
his home. Oak Knoll, in Danvers, Mass.
OWEN Bros, agents at Providence, R..
L., of the Atlantic mills, failed for about
$1.OOO,OOO.
NEAR McGee's Mills, Pa, twelve
horses were burned to death.
AT Athol, Mass. fire caused Q prop
erty loss of $4,000 and five firemen
were badly injured, two of them IA
tally.
On the Goth the 217th anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrims was cele-
brated in New York by the New En-
gland Society.
AFTER repeated trials Dr. Landes,
of the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia, claims that he has dis
covered cure for lock-jaw.
THE Italian faster, Signor Succi, who
began fast of forty-fve days in New
York on November at $40, ended his
fast at 500 p. m. on the goth. Succi
weighed 14714 pounds when he began
his fast and 10434 when it was ended.
A FIRE destroyed the sale stables of
Cnderland and Dennison in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and forty horses persisted in the
flames.