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26
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January
Year
1887
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i! the Sonate oo tlwlstnMr. Morrill ron... i .-d abill la relmburae the depoalton m' the Washington Ficiedmen'i Banu. A roaolntlon u lMs.,.-d fur the appointment -of a joint com"H f Si-nainn and elght RapreMDtaUve to oonaldcr the axpedlenoy of holding, In 1S94, an International exhibitlon of the Industries umi productions of all counMM A bill was Introdurcd providtag that all claims of rellgloua, ehariiabio aud educatlonal Instltutlons forproperty taken, used or occupled by the army of tho l'nit ¦! States, may be submitted to the Qaartermaeter-General withln one ycar from the passago of the act - In tii" House tho CommltMe on Inviilld Pensions rcported a bill uur from 172 to flini Qke allowat rs and sailors who havo lost both Pottoffloe Appropriatlon bill mi raported uud the ínter Btote Commerce bill was debatejl IN the Senate on the lth Mr. Mitch.lt, from the Ckmmlttee on Pensions, reported luick favorably the House bill for the relief of dependan parents and honorably discharged aoldlen and sailors nowdisablcdanddrpendtMitnu tin ir labor forsupport. Mr. Hampton Lntrodooeda bill to promote the efflolenay of the civil Mirloe by establishing a retired list, and Mr. K.lmunils reported u bill to protcct the rlghts of Aimrican HshiiiK, trading and other véatela, .uid American nshermen In the House Mr. Martin reported a bill umcmiiug the law relatlng to patents, trai-marks and oopyriRhts. The Inter-Stato Commerco bill was fmrther diaonaaed. A PETrnos was presented in the Senate on the 20th from merchants of St. Lonla for tlie repeal of the Internal-revenue lawa. II Ui wen' reported favorably for the completlon of the monument to Mary, tho motli' nrton, and for tho immedlate trazuportatlon "f iutiable goods. The conference report on the Electoral-Count bill was afíreed to without división In the House bilis wero reported favorably for thi' Ipeda] distribution of seeds in tho drought-strieken counties of Texas; for thu admission of Washington Territory as a State ; for the suppression of the opium trame; for tho completion of the monument to Mary, the mothcr of Washington, at Fredericksburg, and to Inoreaae to twenty dullars a nionth the rate of pinsion for total deafness. A bill was introduced appropriating II,000,000 for the relief of the depositors In tho Freedmans Saviugs Bank. The Inter-Stato Commerce bill was further discusscd. and the Senate bill relatinc to patents, trade-marks and copyrights was passed. Mr. Colquiït presented a petition in the Senate on the 21st from the Woman's Christlan Temperance Union of the District of Columbia, charging the commissioners with protecting saloons, gambling-houses and brothels. Mr. Spooner was appointcd on the Committee ou PHvtlegM and Bleetiona, to lili vacancy oaused by tho death of General Logan. NumerouB petitions were presented for an amendment of tho Oleomargaiine law, and for tho repeal of the internal-revenue laws. After a long debato on the liritish cxtraditlon treaty the Senate adjoumed to tho ïMth In the House the Interstate Commerce bill (as passed by the Senate) was passed by a vote of 219 ayes to 41 nays. A resolutlon was proientcd calling upon the President for Information in regard to tho deprivatkm intiictt-d in c-ertam Canadian ports on Ametiean Bahlng ra At the evening session twenty penaton bilis were passed. DOMESTIC. Jon v-i (in. min Ci.uik. of Wiuvcster, Mass., on th! lSth gave il,(W0,OJO to that city to found a university. Tuk Beoond Comptroller of the Treasury on the lSth allowed the légate of Walter Greyson, a Créele Indura, 183,000 for money stolen from him in Iridian Territory by throe whito men. Kix horses were crem&te 1 on the ISth in a burning stable at Plttsbnrgh, Pa. C. B. Bcck and his son, of Michigan, and Charles Davis perished in a blizzard la Dakota on the lSth. It was announeed on the ISth that the new City Ooonoil of Atlanta, Ga., had licensed a large number of wine-room3, and the Prohibitionists were disheartened. In a flght of six rounds on the ISth at Minneapolis, Minn., between John L. Sullivan and Cardiff, the former broke a wrist. Beven persons were arrested on the ISth Ín Knox County, Ky., for the recent raurder of the Poe family, consisting of eigtit peoplo. 8. Anoiek Chace, who nine year ago embezzled nearly f500,000 from a Fall River mili, of which he was treasurer, was pardoned from the Massachuaetts penitentiary on the 19th by OovernOT Ames, on account of impaired health. A vein of silver has been discivercd at Glen Ridge, Essex County, N. J. A carload of the oro on the lUth assayed twenty dollars worth of silver. Oil was struck on the 19th near Loyal Hanna, Pa., at a depth of one thousand feet. Tha strike had causod much excitement through Westmoreland County, as it had oponed up a new field. A fire on the 19th at Alliance, O., destroyed six business houses, valued at H10,000. An equal loss oceurred at New Orleans through the burning of the roundhouse of tho City Railroad Compnny. Vert cold weather wa3 reported in tho East on the 19th. In the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., the mercury ranged from 26 to 35 degrees below zero. The safe of a savings bank at Belmont, Mass., was blown open early on the morning of the 19th and robbed of a small sum of money and $1,500,000 in negotiable securitles. At the annual meeting in New York on the 19th of tho Society for the Prevention of Vice Mr. Anthony Comstock reported that during the year 1SSÖ the eociety confiscated over forty-five tons of illegal and immoral printed matter. Maky Donahue, a nativa of Ireland who had reached tho ripe oíd ago of 106 years, died in Chicago on the 19th of chronio bronchitis. Twentt citizens of Flagstaft, A. T., captured and killed the brothers Hawes on the 19th íor murdering a saloon-keeper named Berry. Wiixiam E. Mead, aged twenty-seven years, was assassinated on the 20th at White Plains, N. Y., by two men, who, upon being pursued, fired at the omcers. The offleers returned tho flre, killing the men. ! At Cleveland, O., on the 20th Mrs. James Cabalek killed three of her children, mortally wounded two others and then committed suicido by hanging. She had I ill-tempered at the breakfast table, refusing to speak to her husband, but was not believed to have boen insane. The National Board of Trade at its session in Washington on the 20th adopted a report recommending tho enactment of a National bankrupt law and indorsed tho Government postal tolograph proposition. Before receiving their pay on the 30th each of the Baltimore & Oluo employés at Newark, O., wero compelled to sign a pledge to abstain from the uso of intoxican ts. i John Edwards, the leading Welsh bard of America, expired at Romo, N, Y., on tho ÜUUi, aged eighty-ouo yeara. ; Evas Fabes, a nogro who was pardoned írom tbe Missíssippi penitentiary becauso oí inhuman treatment by the lossee, sued Captain John P. Withers íor damagcs, and was awarded 11,000 on the 20th. Pkaibie fires on the 20th near Tahlequah, I. T, destroyed a large amount of íanning property. Mo live were lost. Tin Ohla Minera' Amalgámate Assoelo. tum, which met on tho ÜUtli at Uoluinlms, ndopted resolutimiH n'fusing to affiliate with the KniKhts of Labor. A i.ad la Jeraoy city (H. J.), whiio watching tho coal-strikors and tho Plnkerton men, was shot dead on tho 20th by ono of tho lattcr for throwing snowballs at the ofticers. It was estimated on the 20th by the Bec retary of tho Troasury that the cost of col1' rting thecustorns revenues for tho next iN.-nl yoar WOOld bo èti.M" Jacksox Nouui and bii two sons and William McAtee rere killed by a boiler oxplosion on the 'Jüth in a saw-raill noar Washington, Ind. Levi, better known as "Dotf1 W'ilson, who flgurod in tho celebratod Moen (Mae, was imprlsonod in Rhode Island on tho 2Oth on a charge of seduction, oommltted in Iv4. WUaoo'l wifo had bogun sult for divorce. Near Agnes, Tex., on the 20th John Dickey, a farmer, without any warning murdered bia wife and three-year-old ohlld and then shot himself dcad. Dickey had shown symptoms of insanity for soinotime. Ui t.i the 21st onehundred and flfty livea had been lost in tho construction of tho new Crotón aqueduct near New Vork City. Tiieke wero 276 business failuros in the United State9 and 25 in Canada during tho seven days endcd on the 21st, against a total of 323 in tho previous seven days. Preston Vai.kntink was hanged on tho 2lst at Augusta, Ga., for the murder of a man nanied Vales, and Abe Chamberí was executed at Newport, Ark., for tho murder of Jonas Williams. Both wero colored men. Chari.es Moreheap, night watchman for the Scioto Valley railroad, was mordered on tho 21st at Circleville, O., by unknown persons. The annual cxamlnation at West Polnt N. Y., resultod on the 21st in tho dismissal of thirty-three cadets who weve found deüeient. Masked men on the 21st broko open the jall at Warren, Ark,, and releasod two men chargcd with assassinating tho Harris brothers. A comau betweon a New York Cenral train and a switch engine at Poughkeepale on the 21st resulted in fatal lujures to the engineer and fireman of tho latter. Ixdicatioxs on the 21st pointed to immense quantities of oil and natural gas in tho Roanoke City (Va.) section. Sn indignant women on the 21st completely demolished a saloon and gambling den kept by Henry Zimmerman, at North Grove, Ind. A ï'KisoNER oscaped from the Tombs police court in New York on the 21st and ran down tho street. A policeman who pursued and flred at him killed a young man named Canale, standing in front of his father's drug store. The house of Calvin Bass, in Kershaw County, S. C, was destroyed by an incendiary firo on the 21st, and Mrs. Bass and her two small children perished in the llames, mm Tna Goodyear india rubber glove works at Naugatuck, Conn., were on the 21st compelled to shut down for want of coal, throwing over one thousand persons out of work. Mr. and Mits. Lithsrly and daughter, of Eliot, Me., wero iatally poisonod on the Sist by eating canned corn boef. Advices of the 2l9t say that during tho past few days twelvo married men in Crawford County, Ind., charged with failing to provide for their families, had boen dragged from their beds at night by masked regulators, tied naked to trees and fearfully beaten. There was great indignation amone the law-abidine peonle. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Chari.es B. Farwell (Rep.) was on tho 18th elected United States Senator from Illinois by a plurality of 33 votes over William R. Momson (Dem.). C. K. Davis (Rep.) was chosen Senator from Minnesota, Eugene Hale (Rep.) from Maine, George Gray (Dem. ) from Delaware, Josoph R. liawley (Rep.) from Connecticut, F. B. Stockbridge (Rep.) from Michigan, George Hearst (Dem.) from California, M. S. Quay (Rep. ) from Pennsylvania, and F. M. Cockrell (Dem.) from Missouri. GqvEitNoit James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania; Governor Green, of New Jersey, Governor Ross, of Texas, and Governor Biggs, of Delaware, were inducted lnto offlee on the 18th. J. J. Upchurch, founder of the organization known as the Ancient Order of United Workmen, died on the 18th at Steelville, Mo., aged sixty-seven years. Lieutexaxt-General Sheridax on tho ISth issued an order announcing to the army the death of General Hazen, describing nis distinguished services, and requesting the ofücers of his corps to wear tho usual badge of mourning for sixty days. The National Board of Trado in seventeenth annual convention on the 19th at Washington, D. C, re-elected Frederick Fraley, of Philadelphia, president for the coming year. In the New York Legislativo Republican caucug on the evening of the 19th twelve ballots were taken for United States Senator. The name of Levi P. Morton boing thon witudrawn, Frank Hiscock had 47 votos and Warner Miller 46. The eighteenth ballot gave Hiscock 50, Miller 43, and Hiscock' s nomination was made unanimous. Two BAI.LOT8 were taken in tho Indiana Legislatura on the 19th for United States Senator, resulting as follows: Senate- Harrison (Rep.), 18; Turpie (Dem.), 32. Houso- Harrison. BS; Turpie, 43; Allen, 4. Total- Turpie, 75; Harrison, 73; Allen, 4. Henrt L. Dawes (Rep.) was on tho 19th re-elected United States Senator by tho Massachusetts Legislatura Hexry Miller (Dem.) was on the 19th elected in the Twentieth Illinois Senatorial district, to succood the late Mr. Patrick. The proposed marriago of August Spies, ono of the convicted Chicago Anarchists, to Miss Nina Van Zandt, a young Chicago lady of wealth, was on tho 19th nippcd in the bud by Sheriff Matson, who tliought it wise in the interests of society to prohibit anysuch proceedings for the present. TnE tirst National Encampment of the Union Veterans' Union was held at Washington, D. C, on the 19th. Over one hundred delegates, representing eightoen States, wero present. Fi htiihr advices of tho lüth reportcd the election of Neis P. Haugen (Rep.) in the Eighth Wisconsin Coagressional district, to succeed the late William T. Prlce, by several hundred majority. Eliiiu B. W AMH-.ruNE, of Chicago, on the l'Jth branded as a fabrication the statement cabled from Paris that while American Minister at that city he dted his facilities to f orward letters through the Gorman lines for twenty francs eacb. Geoiioe C. Howard, the originator of the drama "Uncle Tom's Cabin," died in Cambridge, Mass., on tho 19th, aged sixty-eight years. The joint Senatorial ballot in the New York Legislature on the 20th resultod in ninoty-one votes for Frank Hiscock (Rep.) and sixty-two for Smith M. Weed (Dom.). Mr. Hiscock was declared elected Unitod States Senator. The election of Nelson P. Haugen (Rep.) in the Eighth Wisconsin district to buc ceed the late W. T. Price in Congres w s assurod on tho 20th by a plurality of flv hnndred 1 1 Tnrc Union Veterans' Union in sossion at Washington on the 20th elected M. A DUlon, of Washington, to bo Commander-inChlef for tho ousuing yar. l'iui.Kiis Svwvkh was uimnimously renominated tor United Btotei Senator from WiaoonslD bv the oauctu of Kepubliean members of tho Legislature on the 2tli. Tho Democratie oaaoai nominatod Asseuibly man John Wiu.ms. Tn i: parenU of Misa Nina Van Zandt, tho young Chicago Lady whoproposed to marry August Spies, tho condemned Anarehjst, eeded in persuadlng her to renounce August Spies on the 'JOth, and tho mothor of tha lady said the marrlage wuuld probably nevor take plaoe. Mrs. MutiiAKKT Davjs, npri'il 10Í yoars, died on the BOth at Coal Valley, 111. R. A. Aloek, the retlrlng Oovemor of Michiu'an, traoed out fivo hundred needy familii-s in Detroit during thu recent cold snap and sent to cach of thom a barrel of flour and a ton of coal or a cord of wood. HOK. S. A. PaddoOX (Rep. i, was on the 21st olpcte.l tTnlted States Senator by the Nebraská Legislaturo to succoeü Senator Van w'yrk. Is tho Indiana Letrislftture on the 21st two ballota vrore taken for United States Senator without any change in the voto, Turpio (Dein. ) receiving 75, Harrison (Rep.) 71, and Allen (Labor) 4 votes. Tu i: Inter-State Commerco bilí, whioh had en the 21st passed both houses of Congress, provides against discrimination or favontism in tho traniportatioo of pas rs or freiglit; forblds a charge for a short hall in exeess of that made for tho full length of the route; raakes unlawful the pooling of fr3ight or división of eaniings; proscribes the publication of ratest and imposes a maximum fine of ï,000 for the violation of any of these provisions. There are to be flve commissioners, ai pointel by tho President, at salaries of $7.500 eaeli. Tiie wife of SenatorVoorhees, of Indiana, dieil at Washington on the evening of tho Ust afterao iüness of four days. Tho remains wo'jld bo taken to Terre Haute for iutöriiient. Simpsox Hahius died in Putnara County, Ind., on tho 21st, aged ono hundred and niue years. He cast hin lir-it vote for Jefferson, for President, ik is il and had VOted at every Presideutial cle'tioii Blnoe. He was a veteran of the war of 1M'.!. Joan 0ABTB4I 1'ivkeüton', widow of tho late Alian Mnkerton, tho f amous detective, diod at the house of her son-in-law, William J. Chalmcrs, in Chicago, on the Slat. Bhe was born in Edinburg, Bootland, and had just passcd her sixty-fifth year. FOREIGN. TnE chief clcrk of the Paris post-offleeon the ISth stolü $40,000 in postal mone--ordcrs and f led. Thk oecupants of niae houses on tho Winn estates in County Kerry, Ireland, uvr on tho 18th evicted by a forcé of policemen and bailiffs, and the buildings woro leveled with crowbara. Ekploth of three iron foundries at Mi ntivul, to the number of eleven huudred, striirk on tho 18tb against a reduetion of ten pi'r cent. in their wages. Imuim. a pftnio In i Lomlon theater on the evcniiif; ui the ISth, oaused by a ory of flro, twelve miman aud üve youths woro orashed t deatb. As Ua -Jam ou the ISth at Cornwall, ('in., 1 tho rivcr to overflow, Uooding tho town and iioini dama6 to the oxtont of L00,000. A larfje nunibor of horses an I cattle worc drowned. Tme bai-lc Catarina, fmm r;inlilT for Asplawall, foundered on the lüth in the Brit Ish chanuel, and twelve persons wora drowned. LoKDOM BdrioMof v tliat the steamer Krentford, from Newport for Malta, hal been wreoked, and th.it all on board but one were lost. Tur. new Wi'stiimister Hotel at ïfew Westminstor, B. C was swept away by flre on the itli, three persons peiishing in the flames. A imí:t of the flrst magnitude appi in the Australian beavens on the 21t, Loud Cin MKHFiEi.n died m London on the 21 st at tbc age of sixty-iivo years LATER NEWS. TriR exc-hange at twenty-stx londing clcaring-houses in thoUnitod States during the week ended on tho 22J aggregatod $1,009,005, lS$,;against $082,210,600 the previous week. A comparad with tbs corrosponding week of 1SS6, the decrease amounts to 1?.O per cent. RBPORT9 on the 23dfrom Lincoln and San Miguel counties, in New Mexico, gay that great suffering existed among cattle, caused by the prolonged drought. The British steamer Cranbrook, on route from Newport, Eng., to Philadelphia, was on the 23d given up as lost with her crew of thirty men. The strike of the twenty-five hundred employés in Lorillard's tobáceo factory at Jersey City, H. J., carne to an eud on the SM. A PASSExoER-TiiAix on the Texas & Pacific road was boarded by a band of robbers near Uordon, Tex., early on tho morning of the 23J, and the expres and mail cars wero rifled of their contonts, valued at $15,000. A coTTox warchouse and oversixthousand bales of cotton woro destroyed by flro on tho 23d at Memphis, Tenn. Loss, tyr.-),ooo. 'üoe L. Gon.Dixo & Co's corral near Denver, Col., was dainaged by flre on the 23d, and twenty-two head of blooded cattle, eleven mules and throe thoroughbred horses wero burned to death. AxoTHEit ballot was taken on the 22d for United States Senator by the Indiana Legislature without a choice. A passender train oq the Louisville & NashvÜle road was wrecked on the 98d near Hawthorne, 111., by the explosión of the boiler of the locomotivo. The engineer and fireman were killed and the expruss and bagage cars were demolished. Tur, Secretar; of the Treasuryon the 83 1 called (18,887,003 in threo per cent. bonds, leavingexa th K),O00,0üO outstanding. The two murderere who killed the Harirotherawere taken from the jail on the ild at Warreu, Ark., by musked men and haiiged. The ice in the Maumce river above Toledo, O., broke up on tho 23 i, carrying nway soveral briilses, and the water bad flooded a largo tract of country, doing great damage. Fred JtNuFcitiNi, aged ten years, and Wilhe Smitb, aged ten years, wore flying kitos in ('iiiciiinati on toe &td wiicn they quarroled and Jungerer drove a knife into Smith's abdomen, inflicting a fatal wonnd. By a collision on the 22d between a lintisli steamer and a Chinese transport, Bear Shanghai, ono hundred Chinese soldlers and several ofücers wero drowned. Tin: United Siatea Senate was ooi ba session on the 32d In tho House the District of C'olumbia Appropriation bill was reported, the bill lncreasing the rata of an allowod for total deafness to twenty dollars a month was furtherdisOUsaed, a petition for a National divorca law was p] and in committee of the whole the Iiivor and Harboi bill was consideieil.

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