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Estrayed.

From my ranch on the East Fork oi
creek, one gray gelding, weight about
I 200 pounds; branded NJ on left hip.
One brown geIding, weight aboat 500
pounds; branded - ON left shoulder;
white ON three feet aud in forehead. A
reward Of $500 will he paid for informa-
ton leading to recovery OF same.
VI. b.. DARRow,
June %. Lewistown, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-08-13
Wanted-To Rent.

Five hundred ewes. For particulars en-
qnIre at THIS office. Ang IL.
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Eerpua County q

OFFICIAL PAPER OF FERGUS COUNTY.
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The commissioners at their meeting on
Monday fixed the county tax levy for
1891. as follows:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
South and West.

Ex-CoNGREsSMAN HANsBRoUGH was elect
ed United States Senator at Bismarck, North
Dakota, to succeed Pierce on the seventeenth
ballot. The Democratic vote went to Hans
brough.
THE Supreme Court Of Colorado rendered
a decision in the Speakership contest OF the
House of Representatives. Speaker White
is considered duly elected and Hanna i'm
peached for overstepping his authority.
AT Maguire's Crossing, near South Brook,
land, Nd, the train ran over and kinea
James E. Owens. agei serenty-nlne, and Els
wife Nancy, aged seventy-four.
DURING the snow storm at Nashville, Tenn,
countless fish were seen to fall. They were
about an inch long and resembled carp.
The Kaukauna Paper Mill, of Appleton,
Wis, was destroyed by fire. Loss, Slio,-
COC.
Ex-ADJCTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL
NJ. L. BoNHAM, of South Carolina, made
good to the State s55?S shortage IN his
account. He had been under surveillance,
but Governor Timan provided him with
letter giving him liberty to leave the State.
THE savings bank OF Wichita, Kan, has
failed Liabilities about $4,000; assets,
$4,000.
LUCY, the eighth wife of the late Brigham
Young the Mormon, is dead at Salt Lake
CITY Utah. Only seven of Brigham's wild
ows are now left, including the favorite
Amelia.
GEORGE Fl. SNYDER, one Of the wealthiest
citizens of San Marco, Texas, shot and killed
his wife.
CHRIS ABRAMsoN, aged thirty-fve years,
wanted to marry Mamie Ronnigan at West
port, Mimi, and because she refused he shot
her dead tnen blew out his own brains. The
PARTIES were well connected.
EoTH Houses OF the Wisconsin Legislature
elected William F. Was to succeed John S.
Spconer as United States Senator by strict
party vote. The Republican members voted
for Senator Spooner.
VIXEN the new administration took charge
Of tie Texas General Land Office the ac-
counts of the Receiver of the Office, 0. H.
Hoilingsworth, were found short about
sl2,0G
THE first stake was driven and the first
spcieful of earth was turned on the Lake
Front for the Worlds Fair in Chicago, Ill.
The digging was begun for the laying Of the
foundation OF temporary building to be
used by the CHIEF of construction and his
assistants during the erection OF the Fair
buildings proper.
EopERT DoTsoS and John Banks fell under
tie wheels o. passenger train at Memphis,
Tenn, and were Instantly killed. The men
were stealing ride.
A SPECIAL train, conveying about 400
United States soldiers to Fort Riley from
the Pine Ridge South Dakotal Agency, col
lided with a passenger train at Florence,
Kan. Sergeant Schortbat and Private Mel
were killed and twenty others wounded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
Washington.

THE thirteenth edition of the digest and
menlal of the rules and practice Of the
House of Representatives has just been
isslel.
TIE President has nominated Marcus W.
Acheson TO be United States Circuit Judge
fer the Third Judicial Circuit, and Colonel
Daniel W Flagler to be Chief of Ordnance
of the Army.
THE President has appointed commissioners
to 7est the coinage of the mints for the calen-
Car year 1890.
The Confere nee of Labor Organizations
adjourned at Washington to February %,
1892. after electing Ben Terrell, Of Texas,
President aol adopting the Ocala (Fla.)
Platform.
SECRETARY PROCTOR instructed Adju-
tant-General kelton to select about ten
young officers of the engineer corps of tho
army for duty in connection with the pro-
posed ntercontinental railway.
THE Senate confirmed the nomination of
n. P. Hill, Of Colorado; William A. Russell,
Of Massachusetts, and Lambert Tree, of Illi-
nois, to be Commissioners to consider the es-
tablishment of an international coin or coins.
SPAIN has agreed to the proposal of the
United States Government for the negotia-
ticn of treaty of reciprocity with Cuba.
SENATOR CAMERON, Mr.. Flower and others
testified before the Silver Pool Investigating
Committee.
A CONSCIENCE contribution of $50 in
letter postmarked New York City has been
received at the Treasury Department.
SECOND LIEUTENANT SAMUEL SEAT, JK.,
Twerty-irst Infantry, United States Army,
has been detailed by Secretary Proctor as
Professor of Military Science at the Florida
Agricultural College. Lake City, Fla.
THE President gave reception and dinner
to the Supreme Court Justices. Mrs. Mckee
took the place of Mrs. Harrison, who Is suf-
fering from severe cold. Covers for forty
seven were laid.
ATToRNET-GENERAL MILLER made his re-
ply in the Behring Sea case before the United
States Supreme Court.
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FLOODS SPREAD BUN.
The Rush of W aters Causes Connec-
tfcut Dam to Give Way.

The Rush of W aters Causes Connec-
ticut Dam to Give Way.
Wreck and ruin struck the Housatonio
Valley at Birmingham, Conn.,, for the second
time in a few days. This time the worst
fears have been realized from damage by
the foods and portion Of that gigantic
wall Of masonry known as the dam
Of the Housatonic Water Company, weak,
ened by the storm Of last week, crumbled
before the swift current, letting great guam
titles down into the valley. Houses and
barns are aaoat mills are damaged, the wa
ter power Is gone for length Of time that
cannot be estimated and the deSolation ap-
pears complete.
The freshet grew heavy under the immenss
fall Of water and 80 feet Of the big dam
gave away. A guard had been posted at the
dam, and when the first piece of granite cop
ing went OFF the top he rushed to Wilkinson's
paper mill and sounded the lire alarm In
tense excitement prevailed.
The spile-driver Of the Housatonic road,
which was repairing the bridge damaged by
the storm of last week, foated down stream
and out into the Sound. 1t was lost. Two
hundred feet more Of the trestle work were
swept off, and the railroad company will not
be able to run trains across the river for over
q month. This is one Of the most serious
features of the food.
Eighteen mills, upon which the three towns
in the valley really depend for support, are
closed, and cannot resume for fully a month.
The dam was finished in October, 1870, and
was considered one Of the strongest in the
country. The length was 637 feet, with an
abutment Of l67 feet making 800 feet Of
solid masonry. The abutnent WASHED away
was about twenty. five feet in height. The
damage by the breaking of the dam will
amount to fully $500, 900.
The waters Of Still River, Danbury, Conn.,.
which overflowed its banks did considerable
damage. AL the manufacturing establish
ments along its banks suffered. A number
Of small bridges We're swept away, and also
q number OF small buildings.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED,
E,,.arn and Middle States,

GEORGE KENDALL died from hydrophobia
at the Chambers Street Hospital, In New
York City, after suffering terrible agony.
The population of the State Of Massa.
chusetts for 1890 is 2,23S, ,943, an increase or
ASS, SIS, or 1851 per cent. since lSSU, the
population at that time being l, 7e5, 0So.
The loss by the freshet in the Housatonic
Valley of Connecticut is estimated at $l,-
100000.
FoUe storms in two weeks did $1,000, 600
damage at Birmingham, Conn.
A DOUBLE funeral took place at Neither
wood. N. j., when Elizabeth Hewson, age
ninety-three years, was buried beside her
son, General Michael Butt Hewson, age
seventy. Mother and son died within TWO
hours of each other.
THE annual dinner Of the New 9ork
Police Department took place in Delmonicos-
Speeches were made by ex.President CleVe-
land aud Chauncey NJ. Depew.
THE PostofFice, Schatt's restaurant and
the johnson building at Holmesville, BUCKS
County, Penn, were burned. 1t was only
by the most strenuous efforts that the village
was saved from total destruction.
LOUIS HITCHCOCK, a guard in the New
York State Prison at Sing Sing. Tor over
thirty years. was killed while on his way 10
work by an express train.
THOMAS CLARK, of New York City, who
had kept the pledge of temperance four years,
was tempted by his aunt, Mrs. Rlordan, 70
drink wine and then went on spree whlcn
ended in cutting her throat and killing her.
In the New York Assembly two resolu-
tions were introduced-one denouncing the
Federal Elections bill and the other deciar-
ing that in the event OF that bill becoming
I ALL yOo
law New York State would take no par' III
the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
THE first international convention of press
clubs Of the United States met at Plttsourg,
Penn. The meeting was held in the Select
Council Chamber, and prominent Journalists IEa
from oil over the country were present. Inc
Mayor delivered an address OF welcome.
AFTER several meetings at MeaoElie,
Penn the creditors of the DelamaterS have
concluded to accept the proposition made oy
the bankrupt bankers to pay htty per cent
to their creditors in two years time.
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In the House.

ssrg DAY.-The District Of Columbia Ap.
preparation bill was passed, and the Naval
Appropriation bill taken up.
B9rH DAY.-The Journal having been read
in its usual form, Mr. Breckenridge, of
Arkansas, objected to its approval until the
remaining portion (relative to the reference
Of bills, etc., was read. :. The House then
went into Committee on tho Whole (Ar.
Burrows Of Michigan, in the chair on tne
Naval Appropriation bill. General DEBATE
on the bill was participated in BY Messrs;
Herbert, McAdoo, Adams, CT Illinois, anu
Lodge, Of Massachusetts.
4OTH DAY.-The session was almost entirely
devoted to the reading Of the previous days
journal in its extended form and parlla-.
mentary wrang;e over the approval thereof
The House then went into Committee OF
the Whole Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the
chair on the Naval Appropriation Dr.
Pending O disposition of the blu, the CON-
mittee rose and the House adjourned.
4lsT DAY.-The usual skirmish took place
as to the reading and approval Of the Jour
nal, but it was finally approved.-yeas l4l,
nays 10Y. The Naval Appropriation Dill
was passed.
42D DAY.-The approval Of the journal
occupied half an hour. The House tnen
went into Committee Of the Whole on the
Military Academy Appropriation bill,
ADD DAY.-The Journal Of yesterdays pro-
The Senate resolution for the printing Of
$1,000 extra copies Of the report Of the lrri-
cation Commission on the irrigation Of the
arid lands was agreed to-. The Speaker
laid before the House the resignation OF John
Il. Mccarthy as Representative from the
Seventh District of New York. Laid on the
table. The House considered the Military
Academy Appropriation bill, but no action
was taken.
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been faithful to President Balmaceda, have
ioined the revolt. Gillian Government
newspapers continue to be filled with reports
OF defeats suffered by the insurgents.
VOLCANIC disturbances In the sea between
Genoa and Spezzia, Italy; eliminated In
submarine volcanic eruption.
AN avalanche at F1oresta, Italy, destroyed
eleven houses and killed ninteen persons.
A SERIOUS rot occurred in Weymouth,
England, between artillerymen and civil
ians.
THE Scotch strikers are everywhere yield
ing.
TIE rebels have bombarded Coronel,
Chill. and several persons were killed and
wounded. The Government troops are try
ing to surround the insurgents In the Co
auimbo district.
THREE neighboring houses were crushed
at Rome, Italy, and seven people were buried
in the ruins. Among these was whole
family, three children and parents. The
carbineers were able to e1tricate one OF the
children, but the other two with their
parents and three other people were killed.
THE cashier aud clerk of the. Peoples Bank
at Csabn Hungary, committed suicide on the
discovery of extensive embezzlelnents COM
rr1itted by them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
DAMS SWEPT AWAY.
A Historic Building in New Jersey
Destroyed by Floods.

A Historic Building in New Jersey
Destroyed by Floods.
One of the historical spots in New Jersey
has been destroyed by freshet that has 10
undated the lower portion Of Morristown and
rendered homeless scores Of poor people. Two
miles above the city Is Speedwell Lake, a body
of water over four miles in circumference
On the bank Of this lake is the iron foundry
formerly owned by Stephen Vail, the builder
of the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic
In this building the first telegraph instru-
ment invented by s. F. B. Morse was stationed
when the initial message over telegraph
wire was sent to Boston in 1885, The build
ing is all antieuated wooden structure, and
during the past five years many New York
capitalists have endeavored to purchase it
for its historical associations
About o'clock in the afternoon the resi-
dents in the vicinity of the building were
notified by loud noise that the ice on the
lake was breaking up and that the dam was
in danger. Tons of water swept over the
dam and every minute crept nearer the Vail
building.
Soon a break was noticed in the dam, and
almost before the spectators could reach
place of safety the dam gave way with q
Shunderous noise, and carried with it large
portion Of the old building. Speedwell La Ike
empties into Lake Pocahontas, and the
broken ice and debries crashed through this
body of water, and five minutes later had
broken the dam of the latter and completely
inundated the low lying districts of Morris
town.
Many horses and cattle were drowned
and over two score of houses half submerged
and the occupants had to be taken out III
boats.
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THE LABOR WORLD,

ELM1RA N. Y, has female shoemaker.
ScoTLAND's railway strike cost 81, 25O, ,OOo.
HARTFORD Conn unions will build hall.
ArcH1soS, Kansas, car drivers get SLIPS a
day.
BERLIN, Germany, has 5000 idle WORK.
men.
The coal miners strike In Alabama Is
over.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, has colored painters
union.
A SOUTHERN Pscifc track walker uses q
bicycle.
SAN FRANCISCO (Cal) box savers work
nine bours.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, has a Worlmen's
Dramatic Club.
CALIFORNIA CT carpenters recently held a
State convention.
NINETY IyoCs .ND are out Of work in the
east end Of Lo.4don alone.
The railway strike in Scotland has spread
to the Southwestern road
THE Granite Cutters National Union has
q membership Of more than 20, 600.
SAN Francisco (Cal.) shoe dealers who
sell Chinese-made goods will be boycotted.
SWITZERLAND machinists secured the pas
sage OF law making eleven hours the legal
DAY.
TIE farm laborers of England are forming
a union resembling In some points the Irish
League.
P1rrsBuRe PENN tile layers recently
struck for 81 day and a Saturday half
holiday.
MAsoNs at Atlanta, Co., get twenty-one
cents an hour; at St Louis, Mo-. forty-nine
cents is paid.
THE Philadelphia Postofflce females have
formed q protective association for mutual
Advancement.
CABIN boys on board yachts and mess
room boys on United States men-of-war get
from $40 to S12 month and found.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, skylightmakers now
work eight hours at from S. to 81 so per day.
the latter price being for outside workers.
The finished output OF iron and steel In the
Pittsburg district last year has never been
surpassed in the history of the trade in this
country.
The Women's Union Of Paris Is asking for
yearly subscriptions OF twenty cents to help
establish home for women out Of work In
that city
ROBERT T. PAINE has offered two prizes
d SlOU GuCu lOI DeSC CSSlSS Wy 41dA NoAo
University students on the social and labor
questions.
The British Government now has ten lines
If railway started in Ireland, and several
thousand persons are employed at from IS to
1925 Fer week.
In the building trades the six cities In
which the highest wages are paid are New
York, Brooklyn, Chicago st. Louis, Calves
Ton and San Francisco.
THE working classes Of California have
now over S104, ,0OO, 600 to their credit in the
banks of that State. The total indebtedness
Of the State is g, 462, 600.
A NORWEGIAN woman, Mrs. c. Loudt has
given two houses and $4,000 crowns to es!
:ablish home for aged women servants no
onger able to work for their own support.
ST. LOUIS pays the highest wages for ma
Ionry, New York for carpentry, San Fran.
:isco for painting, Chicago for plumbing,
Santa Fe for roofing and Galveston for COM
non labor. -
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LATER NEWS.

GEORGE q. ESGEMAN and four other
managers of the Clifton (N. Jl race-track
were fined and sentenced to State prison for
one year for allowing poolselling on their
track.
THE report of the House Committee on
Canvass of the Votes in Connecticut was
presented, declaring that there was no elec-
ton of State officers except in the case or
Staub, Controller; resolution to tnat effect
was adopted.
FREDERICK STEIN, brother-in-law Of the
present Mikado Of Japan, died few days
ago in the Charity Hospital on Blackwelrs
Island, New York City, of complication OF
diseases. He was forty-seven years OF age
German by birth, and had most roman
tic and checkered career.
OS the day after the accident one hundrad
and six dead bodies were removed from the
mammoth shaft of the Frick s. Co. Coke
Company at Mount Pleasant, Penn, as the
result of the fire damp explosion. 1t was
then estimated that q total of Isl miners had
persisted.
CHARLES. MILLER, aged fifteen, who 2ur-
dered two boys named Fisoaush and Emer-
son in freight car within the borders o..
Wyoming, while they were en- route from
their home in St. Joseph to Denver. has
been sentenced to be hanged on March %.
A PICTURE of one of the farmers member!
in the illinois Legislature was recognizel b.
prisoners in an Ohio penitentiary as that @:
u paroled convict who never returned.
By the caving Of the roof of q mine caan!'
Der at Ameret, Mo-, two men were kil!e a.
five buried under debris.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM D. DIETz, assistant ST.
geon, United States Army, and bis wife ":.''
found dead at Alcatraz Island, San Fran
cisco Cal. Captain Dietz first shot his wi 4
and then himself with double EarTe..2
shotgun.
A DARING safe robbery was eoQEtsel i al
Saltilo, Tenn. The safe of Craver & VIII
hanson, merchants, was cracked by dyna-
mite, and several thousand dollars stolen.
The explosion awoke a number of cit:zen:,
but the burglars escaped in skiff dowa th'
Tennessee River.
JOSEPH II. CHoATE concluded his argu.
n,ent before the Supreme Court in behalf
the British Government the petitioners l.:
the Behring Sea case.
A YOUNG English woman suffering from
consumption, who was treated by the Koch
method in Berlin for two weeks, has since
then lied at Cannes France, of blood po-
soning.
The French squandron cruising in til
rotnrs of New Zealand has been ordere t
Chill
SENIOR FELIPE PoEy, the Cuban phi!oso-
pher and naturalist, is dead. he was born
in Hayana in 1902
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Foreign.

The insurgents are masters of the situation
In Chill.
THE motion to repeal the prohibition Of
the importation of American pork into Ger
many was lost in tie Reichstag by q vote Of
133 to 103
CARDINAL JASos SIMoR, Archbishop Of
Gran and Primate of Hungary, is dead. He
was born at Stu hlweissenburg on August:
23 sl3. He was the son of a poor co5bler.
but1he rose to be Frimate Of Hungary anil
one of the wealthiest of all the prelates Of
that Kingdom.
ANEW Ministry has been formed in Era;
zil The Ministry of Public instruction ana
the Ministry of Posts have been abolished.
The new Ministry is in full accord with the
President
FORTY miners have been killed and thirty
seriously injured by an explosion in one OF
tne pits Of the Hlbernia mine, ar Geisen"f-
chen, Germany.
A SUDDEN thaw has caused flooding OF
many towns in Belgium, with much suffer-
ing.
THE latest intelligence from Chill says
that part of,the troops who. have hitherto
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TEE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Proportion Of Private Bills to Public
Much Smaller Than Usual.

percentage Of bills introduced In Con.
gress that reached the last stage Of legisla-
tion-the approval or disapproval Of the
Executfve-is very small. Up to recent date,
including this session AMI last, 13, $50 bills
and 275 joint resolutions have heen intro
duced in the House. OF this number II, 200
were put in last session. OF these S5l5 have
been considered by committees and reported
to the House. Three thousand two hundred
and forty-thr were reported last session
and 272 this session. s.'
Of the 12,20O bills introduced Last sesdo1
only 1O95 became laws. OF this number S6A>
were bills of public interest the others pri-s
vate pension bills, claims ETC. During this
session the total number Of bills which have
passed and received the signature Of the
President is si1ty-five. OF these thirty ty-three
were public bills and thirty-two private.
This is very unusual proportion, as ordin-
arily the number Of private bills passed y
four or FIVE times greater than the public
bills. The indications now are that the
record Of the Fifty-frst Congress when final.
" made up will show that the number OF
bills introduced has been greater than In any
other Congress, and the number passed Will
be smaller than in several other Congresses.
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FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

10th DAY.-By the aid Of rulings Of the
vice-President, the deadlock Of the last few
days was broken, and the Aldrich closure
resolution was made unfinished business; q
recess was then taken.
41sT DAY.-The Senate resumed the ses-
sion which was interrupted by the recess Of
o'clock the previous evening. The closure
rule was discussed all day, numerous Sena-
tors participating.
ADD DAY.-There was no prayer, no jour-
nal and no morning hour. but there was q
call CT the roll, which showed that there
were forty-five Senators In attendance-eI-
actly a quorum. Mr.. Stewart addressed
the Senate against the closure resolution.
43D DAY.-The Aldrich closure resolution
was displaced by vote Of thirty-fve to
thirty-four, and the Apportionment bill was
taken up. The Army Appropriation bill
was reported. :. Mr.. Blair moved to proceed
to the consideration Of the House bill pro-
viding for the adjustment Of the accounts OF
laborers, workmen and mechanics arising
under the eight-hour law.
44TH DAT.-The Journal of Thursday lcov-
ering the proceedings Of Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Monday was approved. &.
The credentials of Mr.. Stanford and of Mr..
Irby, as Senators-elect from California and
South Carolina, for the term beginning
March 4. 1891, were placed on file. The
Apportionment bill was taken up. The
Senate will meet hereafter daily at II A. NJ.
AUTH DAY.-The House Apportionment
bill was taken up. After a long debate,
participated in by Senators Washburn,
Davis, German, Carlisle and Others, tae bill
was laid aside. A conference report on the
bill for public building at Rockford, Ill,
was agreed to, and the House bill, increasing
to $4,000 the limit Of cost for a
public building at Portsmouth, Ohio,
was placed on the calendar. :,
The House bill to confirm agreements will
the Sac and Fox nation Of Indians and the
Iowa tribe of Indians, Of Oklahoma Terri.
tory, was passed. -. The conference report
on the bill for public building at Pueblo
COL, was agreed to. The appropriation /:
reduced from s4Oc, 900 to s25O,0OO.