The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-03-05
The News Condensed

The News Condensed
important InteI1i gence; From All Parts
CONGRESSIONAL.
The ProceedinEs OF tho First Session.
Senator Morrill, offered a resolution IN
the senate on the 25th to take up the tarin
bill. but it was defeated by . vote OF 81 to
e. The Cuban question was taken up, anE!
Senators Morgan. Lodge. Stewart ana eau
spoke in favor Of recognizing Cuban bel
ligerency. .. In the house the Indian ap-
preparation bill was passed and resolutions
were reported from the foreign Affairs
committee ccnsuring Ambassador Bayard
for portions Of speeches he delivered IN
England.
In the senate on the 18th Senator Allen
(Seb.) offered a substitute for the pending
Cuban resolution 1t authorizes and re-
quests the president to issue a proclama-
ton recognizing the independence of the
republic OF Cuba. Senator Carter (Mont.)
in speaking on the tariff bill charged the
republicans in the senate and house with
DESERVING the republican national platform
on both the tariff and money questions, and
with taking their orders from the white
house, where q democratic president Is IN
command. He said he believed that the
protection Of American industries was nee
essary to American prosperity. but tho
free coinage Of silver was equally essentia:
ard the two would hereafter go hand In
hand. In the house a bill was introduced
for the erection Of q national mint ut Chi
cago. The Van HOrn-Tarsney contested
election case from the Kansas City (Mo.)
district occupied most OF the session.
Senator Vest spoke in the senate on the
9th in favor of recognizing Cuban inde'
pendence. The army appropriation bill.
carrying 5000. was passed. In the
house resolutions were presented declaring
1t to.bc~ the sense Of congress that a state
Of war exists in Cuba; that the insurgents
be given the right of belligerents, and that It
is the sense of congress that the government
Of the United States use Its influence to stop
the war, II necessary, by Intervention, and
pledging the support of congress. After
debate the vote on the resolutions was
(dem.), from the Fifth Missouri district
was unseeted. and his opponent. Robert
T. Van Horn (rcp.). was seated.
BY a vote OF 81 to the senate on the
2Sth ult- adopted concurrent resolution
favorable to- Cuban belligerency and indie
was the speech Of Senator Sherman. chair
man of the committee on foreign rela-
rions. who arraigned Spain and her gov
eminent in the most scathing language.
1.-THE entire day In the house was spent
in the consideration Of the legislative ap-
was made. The speaker presented the pres
dents veto OF the bill to lease certain
lands in Arizona for educational purposes.
The senate was not in session on the 18th
ult. LIN the house the bill authorizing
the governor and local officers Of Arizona
to lease the educational lands of the ter
ritory for school purposes. which was
vetoed by the president, was passed over
the veto by a vote of 1873 to IS. Most of the
day was consumed in the consideration II
ho loSyi slot tive. rioti1 h
DOMESTIC.
Agents of the Liberian government
are at work in Guthrie, o. r., securing
colored immigrants to that country.
An ice gorge in the Platte river at
Schuyler, Neb., was doing immense
damage.
A. w. Patterson, a retired business
man, shot his wife in the brain at Mad
ison, Wis.,, and then lodged a bullet in
his own skull. The cause of the deed
was mystery.
The north half of the draw span Of
the government bridge across the Mis-
sissifpi at davenport, Ia, collapsed,
and all traffic between lock Island anu
Davenport by rail or wagon was entire
~ suspended.
The Sm,thton Lumber company of
Smithton, Ark, failed for 100000.
Foster Crawford and Tho Kid" who
attempted to rob the City national bank
at Wichita, Tex, and killed Cashier
Dorsey, were taken from Jail by q mob
and hanged.
The Brice block was burned at Port
Huron, Mich, with loss of 100000.
James Hagwell shot and killed .Johu
Butler and Harry Bibb, respectable
men, at a dance near Henderson, Tenn.
Gold, which was said to assay rs high
as $500 a ton, was discovered within
the city limits of Salt Lake City.
The Virginia Iron and hallway COM
pany at Lexington, W., went into a
receivers hands with liabilities OF
1881, 200.
During the absence of Mrs. Hotchkiss
from her home in Brooklyn, N. u, her
children, aged eight and three years.
were burned to death.
At the annual meeting in New York
Of the trustees of the Grant Monument
association it was shown that the funds
on hand would complete the structure.
b FL. Owen. chief deputy organizer
of the Order of Railway photographers.
committed suicide at a hotel in Roa-
noke, Va, while Respondent through i'll
health.
Jacob Dietzel shot his daughter, Mrs.
Henry dinner, and himself at his daugh-
ter's residence in Chicago. 4 quarrel
was the cause.
z The loss of the large three-masted
schooner Josie X. Bent. Capt. A. F.
lent, with a crew of eight men and
cargo of 1850 tons of coal. was feared
at Philadelphia.
The bank examiner of South Dakota
cnnounced,that the First national bank
OF Mitchell WIS solvent and would re-
open March /.
Attorney-(icneral Harmon submitted
to Postmaster-General Wilson decis-
ion to the effect that the numerous bond
and Investment schemes conducted
throughout the. country are lotteries
and not entitled to the privileges OF the
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