Warren sheaf., 1891-03-12
The News Of the Week.

The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FlFTy.FIRsr CONGRESS-
Second Session.
n WEDNESDAY. March A. The Fifty
first congress came to an end ut is
o'cloek thooh1: All the regular appro.
Briati6n bills and, other iinnortant
measures before b5th hohses yssre
paassa Aha wefs higned 81 presi..
dent Harrison. In the senate res
olutions were unanimously adopted
thanking Vice President Mortoon, for the
itnpArtial manner ID which he had pre-
sided oveF that body, and in the lionse
Speaker Reed was the recipient Of sind.
Tar thanks from the Republicans. the
neihocrats refusing to vote.
FROM WASHINGTON:
!, II the house III the Fifty-frst con-
Eress 14,0ss balls were Introduced and
ID the senate 5,129. In the Fiftieth
congress 12,65 bills were introduced in
the house and 1000 in the senate. The
bills that became laws during the con-
gress just ended mum bered 2, 1856, against
1924 enacted in the pfevioua congress.
I'll the Fiftieth congress President
Cleveland vetoed 16l bills and Joint res
olutions, while in the Fifty-first Presi-
dent Harrison vetoed eleven. The total
appropriations for the last congress
VIII probably reach 81, ,O00, 600, OOo Dur
ing the session thfte senators and
twelve Representatives died.
"A CENSUS bureau bulletin shows that
the increase during the last ten years of.
the white race has been 24 per cent,
while that Of the colored race, has been.
Is, per cent s :sss. s.
TffE president signed the copyright
bill with pen made from the quill Of
an American eagle.
THE legislation enacted by the last
congress will result in the opening up
of over 5000, 900 acres of the public land
to settlement.
The enlistment Of 1900 Indians for
The army has been authorized by Secre-
tary Proctor.
TilE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 9th numbered 265. against 900 the
preceding week and 26O the correspond
ing week last year
TAE treasury department. has reaf.
frmed it's decision that Koch's lymph
is dutiable at the rate of 25 per cent.
ad valorem.
country was estimated at 43, 431, 1876,
against 44,336,O72 in 1890, and conse-
quently the wool clip would be 5,OOo.-
900 pounds less than last year, when it
was 276, 600, 900 pounds.
THE census bureau shows the verified
populated of the United States in 1890
to be go, 1922, $50.
THE EAST.
HENRY w. SAGE g. Co., lumber deal
ers at Albany, N. Y, were defrauded
out of ss75,ooo by Joseph B. Abbott, a
trusted employe.
The Rhode Island Nationalist society
met at Providence and nominated full
state ticket with Franklin E. Burton,
of Providence, for governor.
AT it's convention in New York the
National baseball league adopted a
new form of contract which virtually
does away with the reserve clause and
gives the players more rights.
The firm of Henry L. Wills & Co.,
fruit merchants in New York city,
failed for 100000.
The two sons of Gen. Sherman re-
ceived in New York letters of admins.
tration on their fathers estate The
general left no will, and his personal
estate does not exceed $4,000.
In the Nottingham colliery at Ply
mouth, Pa, an explosion fatally injured
three men.
AT bridgeport, Conn, hawrence
Murphy, aged 2s years, died Of heart
failure, caused by excessive cigarette
smoking.
FLAMES destroyed the fruit preserv-
ing establishment of the j. O. Schim.
mel Preserving Co. at Philadelphia,
causing a loss of S1SO,O0O.
meetings to be held throughout the
country by union prisoners Of the wal
to raise money for memorial hall al
Washington was held.
FIRE destroyed the passenger boat
City of Richmond and cargo at New
York. The loss on the boat was $125,.
900; fully insured.
Orr Cape Cod the schooner Elsie
Smith. of Portland, Me-, was wrecked
and eighteen lives were lost.
RoBBERs entered the savings bank a
Freeport, Pa, and carried off $50, 900 il
money and securities.
On April Is next a reunion of the
founders of the republican party will b,
held at fremont temple in Boston.
Two LITTLE children of George White
were burned to death in their home a
New Limerick, Me-, during the absence
of their parents.
An explosion of gas in a coal mine a,
Shanokin, Pa, killed John Llewellyn
his son Frank and his son-in-law w. j
| Smith.
The strike of 5000 coal miners in tn,
Monongahela (Pa.) valley ten week:
ago ended in u victory for the men
! their request for an increase of pa,
being granted.
In Philadelphia Hannah Williams
aged 20, and her. son David, aged 80
were found dead in their house. They
were misers. worth $4,000, and hat
starved themselves to death.
AT Rochester, n V, Lena Cunning
ham threw vitriol into the face Of he
sleeping sister and the latter was terri
bly, burned. jealousy prompted tn
deed.
WEST AND SOUTH
| The governor of Nebraska signed tn
Australian ballot bill, and it is now
law.
( AT Washington, Cal, the levees O
the Sacramento river broke, and tn
southern portion of the town and 200
| acres Of grain land were flooded.
AT the Hebrew Union college at Gin
] cinnati Isadore IL. Frauenthal an