The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-01-10

Doings at the Capitol and Wash
ington Items in General.

| The senate confirmed the following APP
l geon-G General u. y. A.; John CunnIng CHAM.
Postmaster. Salem. III.
President Harrison. with the assistance OF
tile postmaster-general IL making an inves-
| tigation into the recent killing OF j. r.
Matthews. postmaster at Carrollson, Miss.
Among the applicants for tho place when
Mr.. Matthews was appointed was Miss
Doss, who In her application for the Office
stntes that her brother was al one time post
master ut Carrollton and died "for his re-
publicanIsm." Senator George received u
letter from tho Baptist minister ut Carroll
ton, The writer Gays that the killing was
the unfortunate result Of personal difficult
~ and that politics did not enter into the
case in the slightest degree.
The Senate committee on commerce made
favorable reports on the three marine meas
,lrcs sent to Congress; also on the IIouse
bill TO facilitate the collection OF CONNER
cial statistics In localities where river and
harbor works ara IN progress, the Senate
bill TO appropriate $4,000 to rebuild The
United States steamer Thomas Ewing. OF
Baltimore, with an iron huh. and tho
House bill to cancel contracts for stone
for improving the mouth Of the Columbia
River.
Minister Robert Lincoln was ut the capi-
tol, and was warmly greeted.
Gen. Berdan has written a letter to tho
Chairman Of the National Silver Executive
Committee, In which he says: "rhe scheme
10 to make dollar of gold and silver me-
chemically combined. by first making u sill
yer coin worth % cents with hole In the
center, and then pressing plu. OF gold IN
that hole that Is worth - cents. The number
OF grains OF silver employed TO be fixed by
Congress-. Such dollar would not only do
away with the serious objections raised by
all 10 the weight and sIze of the present sill
YER dollar, but the smalness OF tho gold
dollar also. In my opinion this metallic dol
lar would soon run out OF circulation all
notes OF a less denomination than 81.
The public debt was reduced Si1,005, 500
during the month OF December.
Referring to the Consular frauds in Cam
ada u correspondent says: Treasury experts
are now OF the opinion that these frauds in
the importation Of dutlable merchandise
from Canada have cost the revenue much
greater sum than the amount hitherto esti-
mated. The actual loss to the revenues Of
the United States has been millions OF dol
lars. Their detection and suppression Is so
important that 1t Is confidently believed that
one Of the immedia @ results will be no.
ticeabie decline In Canadian exports TO the
United States.
The total amount OF 4-l-2 per cent bonds
redeemed to date is g., S35, 400.
A new silver dollar will probably be
created by the Pan-American Monetary
Conference, which meets in Washingto;i.
1t will be dollar circulated not merely in
the United States, but throughout all the
republics Of the New World. What il will
be like remains to be determined. but there
is little doubt OH this point. In all proba-
bility it will resemble some that tho United
States silver dollar, with portrait OF Col
limbus to take the place OF the Goddess OF
Liberty on one side. the diverse varying.
There is u Farmers A lliance in working
order in Washington. The local member
ship Is not large, for the number OF farmers
In the District Is necessarily small. and
there would be no organization in Washing
ton were II not for the fact that numerous
National Alliance officers are located there.
This tent In the great agricultural camp is
known rs Capital Alliance No. 80 and is
under the jurisdiction which controls the
State OF Maryland. Farmers, farm laborers.
country mechanics, country physicians,
and country preachers alone are eligible,
and these must all be men az good moral
character. Infdels. merchants, lawyers.
and all persons connected with or employed
by corporations are shut out.
The Census Office figures on individual
Indebtedness contain some startling features.
The aggregate mortgage Indebtedness OF the
whole country Is In the ncighborhood OF
$3.50, 900, 900. In Iowa the average mortgage
Indebtedness per head IL Sl37. iowa is
looked upon rs almost purely an agricul-
tural State, and with this showing it Is not
surprising that its farmers think something
Is wrong IN the existing order Of things.
In Alabama the average is Sl6I per capita.
There 1t is not the farmers who have been
mortgaging SO much, for the indebtedness
Is the largest at the industrial centers.
Attempted Murder Near plymouth, Mich.
Miss Thursta Cummings OF Canton.
aged about IS and living alone OIL her farm,
was aroused on recent night by man
knocking at her door and requesting lodg-
ing. She refused to admit him and he broke
down the door. assaulted her. and cut her
throat, but not fatally. lie then plllndered
the house. after which, finding her
still alive he stabbed her three times
in the side with bread-knfc. She
lay In her blood until next afternoon. when
with great effort she went to the door
and called a neighbor, Ben Bolton, who
summoned other neighbors aud physician.
The doctor thinks there Is doubt of her re- 5.
coyery. The villain IL n young man, stout
OF build. and is still at liberty.
Committed suicide.
Information has Just been received OF IN