Griggs courier., 1891-03-06
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second Session.

IHe Suuury civil appfOPrlatlOH Olil was us
cussed. 80. In the house the post Office appro-
priation bill was passed and the deficiency ap-
preparation bill was considered. Mr. Wilke Ml.)
introduced resolutions asking for the impeach.
ment of Speaker Reed.
THE sundry civil appropriation bill was dis.
cussed in the senate on the 2ith and the nomi
nation of Charles Foster. Of Ohio, as secretary
Of the treasury, was confirmed. 80. In the house
the senate bill to refund the direct tux levied
twenty years ago to support the war for
the union was passed 1t carries an apprOpri-
alton of $15,227,632. rr ~
In the senate on the 25th Senator German, of
Maryland, announced the death of his coll
league, E. X. Wilson, and after adopting reso-
lutions OF respect to his memory the senate ad-
journed. In the house the immigration bill and
the agricultural appropriation bill! were passed
and the general deficiency bill was discussed.
THE sundry civil appropriation and the mill
tary academy appropriation bills were passed
In the senate on the 26th and the Indian and
legislative appropriation bills were reported
A bill was also passed appropriating &2OOO,OOO
for new mint building at Philadelphia. :. ). In
the house the deficiency bill and bill transfer
ring the county Of Logan from the northern to
the southern judicial district of Ohio were
passed.
THE president sent to the senate on the 9th
ult. the nomination of Henry w. Blair of New
Hampshire, as envoy extraordinary and MINIS
ter plenipotentiary to China, and the nomina.
tion was confirmed. The legislative appropria.
tion bill was passed. House bills were passed
to amend the various acts relative to immigra.
tton and the importation Of aliens under con-
tract or agreement to perform labor, and for
the relief Of certain volunteer and regular sol
diers Of the late war and the war with Mexico.
lin the house substitute for the senate
shipping bill was passed after long debate.
DOMESTIC.
FLOODS at Yuma, A. T., had done
$150,O0O damage and threatened to
sweep the town away. Gus Lee was
drowned in bed.
NEAR Winchester, KY, A. G. Barrow
and Thomas Barrow were swindled out
of $4, 800 by the gold brick scheme.
The charge against Banker Cowles,
of Clarks, Neb., of killing his wife on
February 4, was withdrawn by the
county attorney.
FRANK GAvEL, a tax collector near
Honesdale, Pa, disappeared, taking
$4,000 belonging to the county.
In the case brought by Marshall Field
& Co., of Chicago, to test the legality
of the United States revenue law, Judge
Blodgett decided in favor of the gov.
ernment.
A FIRE in Armourdale, Kan, de-
stroyed an elevator, owned by J. p.
Campbell & Co, forty freight cars and
about 100000 bushels of grain, entail
ing loss of about $l5O,O0O.
THE Windsor national bank of Wind
sor, VT, assigned. Depositors would
be paid in full.
May WRIGHT SEwALL, of Indiana,
was elected president of the National
council of women of the United States
at the session in Washington.
HYDRoPHoBIA was raging in Brandy
wine township, Indiana, and many
hogs, cattle and horses had been killed
TO prevent its spreading.
HUNDREDS of acres of bottom lands
were under water at Covington, Ind.
caused by the overflow of the Wabash
river.
THOMAS HALL, the inventor of the
turbine water wheel, was killed by an
Erie train at Railway, N. j.
JOSEPH HoLLAsE, Polish miner at
Iron River. Mich, angered by some
boys who had been throwing snow
balls at him, shot Peter Hoctor, a bar
tender, and Ed Scott, chief of police,
wounding both mortally.
ROBERT GRAYsoN and Charles Nc
Comb discovered a heavy vein of silver
in Grayson's farm on Silver creek, in
Clark county, Ind.
THE business portion of Edna, Mo-,
was swept by fire, causing loss of up-
wards of 100000.
A LARGE meteor burst with loud re-
port near Madison, Me. It was seen in
all parts of the State.
In wreck on the Reading road near
Gordon, Pa, five oil tanks, four freight
cars and four engines were demolished,
causing a loss of s15O,OO0.
b In tornado at Sunbury, N. c., two
children were killed and much property
destroyed. A number of persons near
Sunbury were said to have lost their
lives in the storm
. The New York lizard of aldermen
passed resolution naming the triangu-
lar space at Seventy-third street and
the boulevard SHERMAN place." in
memory Of the late general.
FLAMES at Burlington, VT, destroyed
the cotton mills and lumber yard,
causing a loss of $1sO,OOO.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
on the 21st was $32s,s99. The issue
during the corresponding period of last
year was $SO5, $50.
IT was reported that gold had been
found along the streams Of Brown
county, Ind, since the recent freshets.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado visited the
region near Jeffersonville, Ind. The
greatest damage was done at Utica,
where many dwellings ana business
buildings were demolished
MRS. COFFEE, of Omaha, poor me
chanic's wife, is heir to $75.O0o,0O0 left
by her father at Bradford, Eng. The
woman was the only daughter and wa,
,disowned years ago as q result of al
undesirable marriage.
& JOHN l.. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, wa.
soundly thrashed by train hand in tn,
cars near Athens, Ca, for using insult
ing language.
JOHN d. MILLER, Of Greensburg, wa
appointed by Gov. Hovey to fill tn,
vacancy on the Indiana supreme bencl
/ caused by the death of Judge Berk