Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
BIrL. waa introduced In the Senate on the
18th to provide for the purchase OF silver for
use as lawful money and the naval appropriA
ton bill was passed John G. Carlisle took the
oath OF office rs Senator from Kentucky -. In
the House the greater part OF the cay was
given to the consideration OF District Of Colum
6a bills.
TIE time was occupied principally In the
Senate ON the 97th In u discussion on Senator
Wilson's bill subjectipg imported liquors to the
provisions OF tho laws Of the several States. >.
In the House tho conference report upon the
customs administrative bill was adopted, and
the rivor and harbor bill was discussed ut
length. A joint resolution was introduced ap-
MOpriating $780, 900 to complete the Grant
monument at Now York
TIM bill subjecting imported liquors to the
laws OF the several States was further oonsid.
eyed in tho Senate on the 3Sth and the confer.
epoe report on the army appropriation bill was
Presented. bill was reported favorably for
the appointment by the President OF q commits.
sion Of five persons for an honest, impartial and
thorough Investigation OF the liquor traffic.
In tho HOUSE the river and harbor bill was
passed aHQ q conference was ordered on the
naval appropriation bill.
MosT Of tho time in the Senate on tho seth
ut. was spent in consideration Of the bill SUBJ
iecting imported liquors to the provisions Of
tho laws OF the several States, and after dis
cflssion participated In by nearly all the Soma
tprs present the measu"e passed bv q vote of 81
p10 Adjourned to June a. In the House
tAe entire day was occupied in the oonsidera-
ton OF bills making appropriations for public
Buildings, and thirty five were passed at q total
cost OF 3. 4s5. O0o Adjourned to June2.
DOMESTIC.
BEN MEYERS, catcher of the Colorado
baseball team, was killed on the goth
q Montgomery, Ala, by pitched ball,
which struck him in the mouth.
THE fifty-eighth annual meeting of
the American Baptist Mission Society
was held at Emmanuel Baptist Church
in Chicago on the goth. The receipts
Of the year were $449,444 and the ex-
pendftures $500, 1863.
The eight commissioners-at-large for
the worlds fair were appointed on the
Goth by President Harrison as follows:
August E. Bullock, Massachusetts,; alter.
nate, Henry Ingalls,, Maine. Thomas
". Palmer, Michigan; alternate, James
Oliver, Indiana r. c. Kerens, Mis-
souri,; alternate, r. w. Furness, Ne
hraska. Edward H. Amidon, New York;
alternate, Gorton w. Allen, New York
Peter A. B. Widener, Pennsylvania;
alternate, John w. Chalfapt, Pennsyl-
vania. Samuel w. 1nman, Georgia;
alternate. William Lindsay, Kentucky
Henry Exall, Texas; alternate, Henry
L. King, Texas. Mark L. Mcdonald,
CALIFORNIA;; alternate, Thomas Burke,
State d Washington.
HEAVY rains had on the Goth caused
great loss in the vicinity of Vance, Tex
The Nueces river had carried of whole
settlements and several lives had been
lost.
IT was discovered ON the Goth that
taborer named John Williamson had
murdered his employer, jeff Moore, and
son, at Sedalia, Mo.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the Universal Peace Union began its
business session in Washington on the
26th.
THE Weber Brothers piano factory in
New York was mostly destroyed by fire
on the 26th. Loss. $125, 900.
JOHN F. STALKING was taken from his
home near Selma, N. c., on the goth,
and lynched for killing his mother-in-
law and an s-year-oid boy.
MICHAEL SHEEHAN, emuiating Steve
Brodie, jumped headfrst from bridge
In Amsterdam. N. Y, Oh the goth, the
distance to the river being thirty feet,
md was killed.
L. D. HoPsoN and Frank Moore, of the
geological surveying party, were
drowned on the Goth at Eagle Rock,
IDAHO
HARRISON SAILOR and wife, an inof-
fensive negro couple living near River
side, Ark, were murdered by unknown
persons ON the 10th.
1T was stated on the goth that the car
penters' strike for an eight-hour day had
been successful in LII cities and had
benefited 40.l97 workmen in that trade.
At present there were twenty-four
strikes pending.
In the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, at Saratoga, N. Y, on the Goth re-
port recommending that women be
allowed to serve as deaconesses was
adopted. Detroit was selected as the
next place of meeting.
AdE pIAACApdA OuSAAcSS pOEL4OH VI
Cam bridge, Wis, town of 900 inhabit-
ants, was totally destroyed by fire on
the goth.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
ut Saratoga, N. Y, adjourned on the
9th to meet at Detroit next year.
JOHN P. KUNzE, the little German
who was on trial in Chicago as one Of
the conspirators in the Cronin case, was
married on the 27th to Julia Hoyer, the
young woman who visited him so fire.
quently during his imprisonment
AT the annual meeting in Boston on
the 9th of the American Peace Society
E. s. Tobey. of Boston, was reelected
president.
OWING to a rise In the neighboring
streams over thousand acres of wheat
within three miles of Goshen. Cal,
were overflowed on the 9th and would
be total loss.
A. N. K1MBALL, an old and highly re-
spected resident of Jackson, Miss, was
murdered on the eth while ON his way
home by footpads.
Tia Congregational Sunday-school
and Publication Society held its annual