The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-05
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
EFTY-FiRST CONGRESS.
Enennh G~sssnn

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Second Session.
TUEsDAy. Jan. q. In the Senate
the credentials of Mr.. Stanford and
Mr.. Irby as Scnators-elcct from Cali
form and South Carolina for the term
March 4, 1891. were pre-
serted and filed. The Congressional
bill was discussed. In
the House a bill was passed for rail-
way bridge over the Missouri between
Council Bluffs and Omaha. The Mill
tary Academy appropriation bill was
discussed.
WEDNESDAY. Jan. 20. = The House
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
$. Mccarthy. Representative from the
Eighth district Of New York, was pre-
sentcd.
THURSDAY, Jan. 90. - The Senate
passed the Congressional apportion-
mcnt bill exactly as it came from the
House by vote of yeas 81, nays "a.
This gives the House $50 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-
envy appropriation bill.
FRIDAY, Jan. 3O.-After the reading
of the journal in the Senate Senator
Morrill, announced the sudden death
of Secretary Windcm, and in re-
spe,t to his memory the Senate
adjourned for the day. In the House,
after few affecting words of tribute
to the worth of the deceased Secretary
of the Treasury by Mr.. Dunnell, OF
the House, on motion OF
Mr.. Mckinley. as marx 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 cath aggregated
81. .0G7. 77S.555. against Sl.24O. 0S8, 1852 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 l7.11s for Hill. Republicans
were for blaine by 80. 200 to 81 ,0l3 TO,
Harrison and O,746 for Rusls.
THE largest county in the United
States according to a 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 SOth Mt. numbered $50, against 3St
the preceding week and 29l the CORE
spending week last year.
THE EAST.
An explosion in the II. 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 a,
Newton, Mass, aged 81 years.
CARL STEVENS, aged Is, of Buffalo
n. T., was the man who committed
suicide by jumping over the falls q,
Niagara.
THE Rhode Island Legislature de
clared Oscar Lapham (Dem.) elected X
Congress from the First district. There
was no election in the Second distric
and new election would be ordered.
ADvIcEs of the 2Sth say that Isl mer
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 il
New York was estimated at $1,000, 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 S3.5Qo,O0
The failure of the Winona Paper Com
pany of Holyoke, Mass, for sBOo,0
was reported
THE death Of William A. Window
Secretary of the Treasury of the Unites
States, occurred shortly after 10 o'clocl
on the evening of the 10Th in the ban
quet hall at Delmonico's in New Yorl
just as he had concluded his speech a
the Board of Trade dinner. Heart dis
case was the cause. MIR. Window wa
"a years of age. He was member 0
Congress twenty years, ten in the Hous'
and ten in the Senate, and was Presi
dent Garfield's Secretary of the Treas
ury as well as President Harrison's.
In the DuqnesDe PA. steel works
large ladle of molten steel was acci
dentally upset and the contents pouret
out upon four men, burning them t,
death.
In their weekly review of trade New
York commercial agency says buslnes
continues unprecedented in volume an,
satisfactory in character. Measured b,
clearinghouse returns, trade exceede,
that of a year ago by 21 per cent. il
amount. and that meant q volume O
business larger than in any other yea
ut this season. The tone in commercial
circles throughout the country wa
hopeful. and the money markets wer
comparatively easy at nearly all points
In the Mahoning and Shenandoah
valleys owners of twenty-one furnace
and rolling-mills, representing a capita
of over S6,00o,00O and employing 1000
men. formed combination.
In New Jersey 80 building and loa,
associations formed a State league.
WEST AND SOUTH.
AT Springfield, O., fourteen Mason
contributed pieces of their skin from
their arms to cover a sore on q brother
Mason's leg.
The Kansas Legislature on the estl
in joint session elected w. A. PETER t
succeed United States Senator ingalls,
The vote was: PETER Farmers ALI
ance), 101; Ingalls,, 5S; scattering, s.
1T was decided at the session of tn
National Farmers Alliance in Oman;
to nominate candidates for Presiden
Al IL