Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-02-19
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second SeARiOn.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL
Second Session.
THE Senate adopted resolution On the 9th
calling upon the President for correspondence
relative to the importation Of products Of the
United States Of Brazil A bill to authorize
the construction Of q bridge across the St.
Louis river between Wisconsin and Minnesota
was reported :. In the House q bill was intro
duced to prohibit aliens from obtaining title to
public lands. The sundry civil bill was passed.
A Joint resolution was favorably reported pro
hibiting the manufacture, Importation, ex.
portaton, transportation and sale OF all alco-
holic liquors as beverage IN the United States.
IN the Senate bill to divide the judicial dis
tricts OF the United States into ten circuits was
reported on the 10th, and the naval appropria.
ton bill 1881, .00O) was considered In the
House the bill appropriating $500 900 for the ex.
tension of the public building ut Dallas, Tex,
was passed over the Presidents veto Other
bills were passed increasing to 800 month the
pension OF the widow OF General Custer; for the
transfer OF army officers on the retired list from
the limited to the unlimited list when they at
tain the age Of O. years, and to make Nashville,
Tenn. port OF delivery.
ON the 18th bills were passed In the Senate
to construct bridge across the ST. Louis river
between Wisconsin auu MluueSOtu, CoulluulLS
the laws Of Nebraska in force In the Territory
Of Oklahoma till July /. 1891, and the naval up
preparation bill. go. In the House bills were
passed to establish a record and pension office
in the War Department, and providing for the
selection of site for military post at San
Diego Cal.
In the Senate on the 12th bills were passed
establishing pier Lights at Ahnapee, Wis; for
the relief of settlers upon cert ain lands in Iowa:
granting pension Of 500 month to General
NJ P Banks; establishing port Of delivery Ut
Des Moines, To-, and the District OF Columbia
appropriation bill -. In the House the time
was occupied in discussing the legislative up.
preparation bill
DOMESTIC.
BY an explosion of gas in tic new
shaft at Simpson & Watkins mine at
Wyoming, Pa, two men were instantly
killed and two fatally injured.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, half of
which was in bills and half in Govern
ment bonds, was found in Pullman
car in Chicago by Henry Prentice, an
employee of the company.
WILLIAM H. ARMOUR, chairman of
the Pan-Republic congress, has issued a
call for a meeting of the general COM
mittee of two hundred to take place at
Washington April TO-
A PASSENGER train was thrown from
the track near Randalia, Ia, by a
broken rail, fire Immediately broke out
and the entire train was consumed.
No one was injured.
HELENA, Ala, was swept by a cy-
clone, several buildings being wrecked
and three persons badly injured.
THREE miners intombed by the rush
of water in the Susquehanna coal col
liery at Grand Tunnel, Pa, were res
cued after going five days without
food.
OVER 1900 miners in the Connells-
vile (Pa.) coke regions struck for an
advance of - per cent, in wages. The
fight promised to be long and bitter
one.
CHARLES MowRY, imprisoned for fof-
gerry at COLUMBUS, Ind, was fatally
shot while attempting to escape.
EXPLORER STANLEY denied at Akron,
o., the story that he intended to pre-
sent to the Salvation Army all the val
liable presents, diamonds, ETC.. which
he had received from mOnarchs and
others.
AT Leopolis, Wis, Charles Knock
killed his wife and committed suicide.
They were an aged couple and had fire.
quently quarreled.
TIE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
1855. 100 bush lis; corn, 1851, 951 oats,
3,21s, O92 bushels.
A JOINT resolution asking Congress to
enact a law providing for Government
loans on farm lands was passed by the
California Legislature.
THE twenty seventh anniversary of
the tunnel escape from Libby prison
during the war by 100 Union officers
was celebrated in Chicago by seven of
the survivors Of that event.
EX-Crry REGISTER Ben P. ALLEN, of
Memphis, Tenn, pleaded guilty to rob-
bing the city and was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
JOHN FRAwLEY was indicted at
Lafayette, Ind, for advocating the
lynching of a negro murderer named
George Bennett.
FISHER CoULTER's saloon in the no
license town of fredericksburg, O., was
blown up by dynamite.
THE frozen body of Joseph Freeman,
editor of the Daily Progress of indie
pendence, Mo-, was found in corn
field near his home.
Two MASKED men entered the house
of James Lindrem, near Manchester,
Ia, chloroformed his wife and stole a
large amount of school funds kept in
the house.
In the recent blizzard in Omaha five
persons persisted and many others were
missing.
THE old mansion at Appomattox,
Va, in which Lee surrendered to
Grant, has been purchased by a Nj.
agara Falls IN. W company and will
be made a museum for war relics.
WALTER and Teddie Friederickson
aged and 10 years, while coasting at
Salt Lake City collided with street
car and were fatally hurt
Two BOYS aged 10 and ~ years, who
had frozen to death in the late blizzard
were found near Utica MINI.
+: REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore, Rev. Minot j.
Savage and others have stoned an