The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
The News Of the Week.
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FlFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
Second Session.
TUESDAY. Jan. 27. In the Senate
the credentials of Mr.. Stanford and
Mr.. Irby as Senators-elect from Cali
fornia and South Carolina for the term
beginning March 4, 1891, were pre-
sented and filed. The Congressional
apportionment bill was discussed. In
the House bill was passed for a rail-
way bridge over the Missouri between
Council Bluffs and Omaha. The Mill
tary Academy appropriation bill was
discussed.
WEDNESDAY,. Jan. 20. - The House
apportionment bill was considered in
the Senate, and House bills were
passed for public buildings at Rock
Island, ILL.,, and Rockford, Ill. In the
House the journal was approved with
out question. The resignation of John
s. Mccarthy, Representative from the
Eighth district Of New York, was pre-
sented.
THURSDAY, Jan. 80. - The Senate
passed the Congressional apportion-
ment bill exactly as it came from the
House by a vote of yeas 81, nays "a.
This gives the House 356 members
The bill creating the office of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-Generalw was also
passed. In the House the time was &C.
cupied in discussing the Military Acad-
emy appropriation bill.
FRIDAY, JAN 3O.-After the reading
of the journal in the Senate Senator
Morrill, announced the sudden death
of Secretary Window, and in re-
spcct to his memory the Senate
adjourned for the day. In the House,
after a few affecting words of tribute
to the worth of the deceased Secretary
of the Treasury by Mr.. Dunnell, of
Minnesota, the House, on motion of
Mr.. Mckinley, as a mark of respect to
his memory, adjourned.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing-houses in the United States during
the week ended on the gath aggreg ated
$1.067, 7,77S.555, against $l,240, 0S6, ,632 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 81.
A CANVASS conducted by two farmers
papers shows that Cleveland was the
choice of Democratic farmers by vote
of II, ,7S7 to 17.11s for Hill. Republicans
were for Blaine by 80. 2O9 to 81, ,013 for
Harrison and 2O,746 for Rusk.
THE largest county in the United
States according to Census Office
bulletin is Yavapai County in Arizona,
and the smallest is Alexander County
in Virginia
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 3Oth ult. numbered 800, against $50
the preceding week and 291 the corre-
spending week last year.
THE EAST.
AN explosion in the H. c. Fricke
Coke Company's mine ten miles from
Mount Pleasant, Pa, caused the death
of 10 men.
THE death Of DR.. Sullivan Whitney,
the first man to manufacture homeo.
pathic medicine in America, occurred at
Newton, Mass, aged So years.
CARL STEVENS, aged IS, of Buffalo,
n. Y, was the man who committed
suicide by jumping over the falls at
Niagara.
THE Rhode Island Legislature de-
clared Oscar Lapham Dem. elected to
Congress from the First district There
was no election in the Second district
and new election would be ordered.
ADv1CEs of the 2sth say that Isl men
lost their lives by the recent explosion
in the Mammoth mine ten miles from
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
THE loss to the telegraph and tele-
phone companies by the late storm in
New York was estimated at S., 900, 900.
AT Catasuqua, Pa, the Crane iron
works, next to the largest pig-iron pro-
ducing establishment in Eastern Penn
sylvania, were sold to an English syndi-
cate for S3, 100000.
The failure of the Winona Paper Com
pany Of Holyoke, Mass, for $500, 900
was reported
THE death of William A. Window,
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, occurred shortly after 10 o'clock
on the evening of the Goth in the BAN
quet hall at Delmonico's in New York
just as he had concluded his speech at
the Board of Trade dinner. Heart dis
ease was the cause. Mr.. Window was
"a years of age. He was a member of
Congress twenty years, ten in the House
and ten in the Senate, and was Presi-
dent Garfelds Secretary of the Treas
ury as we'll as President Harrison's.
In the Duquespe (Pa.) steel works
large ladle of molten steel was acci-
dentally upset and the contents poured
out upon four men, burning them to
death.
In their weekly review of trade New
York commercial agency says business
continues unprecedented in volume and
satisfactory in character. Measured by
clearinghouse returns, trade exceeded
that of a year ago by 215 per cent. in
amount, and that meant a volume of
business larger than in any other year
at this season. The tone in commercial
circles throughout the country was
hopeful, and the money markets were
comparatively easy at nearly all points.
In the Mahoning and Shenandoah
valleys owners of twenty-one furnaces
and rollingmills, representing capital
of over $4,000, 900 and employing %, 900
men, formed combination.
In New Jersey 800 building and loan
associations formed State league.
WEST AND SOUTH.
AT Springfield, O., fourteen Masons
contributed pieces of their skin from
their arms to cover a sore on brother
Mason's leg.
THE Kansas Legislature on the 2sth
in joint session elected w. A. PETER to
succeed United States Senator Ingalls,
The vote was: PETER Farmers ALI
ance), 101; Ingalls,, So; scattering, 6.
IT was decided at the session of the
National Farmers Alliance in Omaha
to nominate candidates for President
and Vice-Pesident of the United States
in 1892.
THE death of Mrs. Eunice Beers oc-
CURED at Omaha, Neb., aged 1O1 years.
In the early history of the Territory of