Smyrna times., 1892-02-03
News Items.

The National Board of Trade dis |
cussed the Terrey Bankruptcy Act,
adopted proposed amendments to the
Interstate Commerce act and ventilat- |
ed the Washburn anti-OptiOn bill.
The House of Representatives spent
the entire Friday discussing the new
rules, and many Democrats pronounced |
against them. The discussion took a
wide range, and included speeches on
the tariff, silver and other questions.
H. H. Winaus, wealthy farmer
at Franklin, Pa, convicted Of burglary
and arson, was sentenced Saturday to
five years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary. AS Winans is eighty-four
years of age, his sentence is virtually
for life.
A caucus on the silver question is to
be held by the Democrats. The OppO-
nents of free coinage are the ones who
took the iniative in demanding the
caucus. There was no difficulty in
! getting the requisite number of sigma
! lures Chairman Holman said he
would issue the call at once. The
caucus will be held next Friday night
Henry G. Dowd, better known as
Jack the Slasher," was acquitted at
New York of the charge of cutting
Henry Miller's throat on the ground
of insanity. He will be taken to the
State Refuge for the Insane at Auburn.
Levi Benson, and his cousin, Emma
Benson, of Huntingdon, eloded Hav-
ing no money, they walked to Middle
town, distance of ITO miles They
obtained funds by working in a hotel,
and afterward went to New Jersey and
were married.
The United States Government has
notified Sheriff Hill, of Davidson
county, Tenn. and his bondsmen, that
a suit for s25 900 damages will be
brought against them by the Govern
{ ment on account of the escape from
, the county jail Of Thomas Boalen
. charged with mail robbery last Noven.
Der. He is still at large. The Gov
! ernment expended $4,000 in endeav-
= oring to arrest him.
= A bill to revise and consolidate The
: laws regulating the sale ofintoxicating
} liquors. was introduced into the New
I,
u visions is one that ANY person who
u whether having a license or not, shal
{ sell or offer, or expose for sale, any
. strong or >pirituous liquors, wine, al'
II or beer, on Sunday, before one O'CLOCK
. in the afternoon, shall be guilty of {
miSdemeanOr.
n A couple of masculine and one fem
/ / mi f..li h.,E .,1
d clysm between the Van TrOtts and tht
r. Hopkinses Of Philadelphia, which Oh
e Friday eliminated in a warrant bein
y sworn ont before Magistrate Ruuig b.
= Albert :. Van Trott, for the arrest {
/; Frank Hopkins, on the charge {
n; throwing hot water on the Van TrO'
j cat.
a The question whether or not th
-, VI, Kinley tariff law has acted favor
\ ably to American industries, will Pre-
badly be solved before the PresideL
tial campaign next summer shall
fairly open. Both the Republican an
Democratic parties are collecting dat
upon the subject, aud the latter. takiu
iE advantage OF their great majority
the House, have instituted no le,
St. than -four committees, whose busne:
on it will be to educe all the lacts nece
Sc, sary to show the effects Of the ne
a. law.
The Farmers Alliance party h
of split, aud all but Congressman Sim
lat son, Watson and Ois, will hereaft
cir act with the Democrats, in the bell
nj. that measures of relief for the farme
ere eau best be secured through that part
lu, A despatch from Washington sa
'e1 that the Springer Committee of Wa
.ng and Means decided Friday to alta
OF the Mckinley tariff by introduci
al various separate bills, and upon Il
ny policy all the Democratic members
eal the Ways aud Means Committee agre
ar- to act az unit. Had Mr.. Mills be
thr elected another policy would ha
ic lch been adopted. The Mckinley tai
ne would have been attacked in its
Is tirety and as a whole by bill repe
:. ing it and substituting itselfi in the pl,
III of 1t.