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2
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March
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1887
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n iTiiiiunv Acuucmy Appropriauon mu was passed In the Senate on the Md. Hills were reportad to regúlate the pay of onvers of the ariny and navy who refuse or negloct to próvido for the support of their families, and to próvido for the retiroment of United Stutos lf-gal tender and National bank notes of small denominatiou and th iasue of coin certifícate. Mr. Sherman rosigned the Presidencf of the Sonate, as his term expire in March. The bill to oréate a Department of Agricultura was iliscussed....In tho Houso the lül appropnating 15,000,000 lor the National defense was reported favorably and the Sonate amondtnents to the Sundry Civil Appropriation blU wero considerad. Kulogies were delivered expretsive of rcgret at tho death of Senator Austln F. l'ike, of New Hampshlre. A BILL was reported in the Si-nate on the 23d to encourago the holding of a National industrial exhlbltion by the colored race in 1ÍSH A bilí was passed creatlng a Department of Agriculture and Labor, and to transfer the weatlier service of the Signal-Servioe Hun-uu to a new department. ITie pension blll of Thomas S. Hopkins was passcd over the President s veto. A large number of petitions wero presinteii from Gnd Army posts asking for the pussage of the Dependent-Pension bill over the Presl deiit's veto - In the IIouso a sulistitute was pussed for the Senate bill authorizint; rettliation upon the Canadians for shutting out American nshing-ressels. One tection makes liable to forfeiture any foreign snip found tuking flsh wlthin three marine miles of our ooatta or harbors. The Post-offlce Appropriation bill was further considered. In tho Senate on the 24th a IIouso bill was passed to extend the laws of the United States over oertala unorfanized territory south of the State, of Kansas. A resolution wa offered to provide for the election of United Suites Senator by the people. The House snbstitute for the Fishcry Ketaliatioa bill was disagreed to. The Pleuro-Pneumonia and the Land-tirant bilis were discussed. In cauens Senator Ingalls (Kan.) was nominated for President of the Senate, vice Senator Sherman, resigned In the House the Depeudent Pension bill fuiled to pass over the President's veto by a vote of 175 to 125. Four mossages vetoing pension bilis were received from tho President. The Naval bill was further considored. I the Senate on the 25th Senator Ingalls (Kan.) was choseu President pro tempore in place of Senator Sherman, resigned. A substituto was adopted for the Pleuro-Pneumonia bill appropriating 11,000,000 to ald the State authoritles in preventing the spread of pleuropneumonia among eattle. The Fisheries Retaliation bill was discussed, and tho Diplomatic and Consular bill, which appropriates il, 430,442, was reported - In the House the Senate bill providing for agricuttural experiment stations wiis passed. The conference report on the Invalld-Penalon Appropriation bill was apreid to, and the General Dertciency Appropriation bill (O.573,504) was reponed. C. H. Page (Dem.), recently elocted from the SecoudCoiigresslonal district of Khode Island, took the outh of office. DOMESTIC. Tuk Director of the Mint at Washington on the 2Jd reporte;! the production of gold in the United States for lSSti at L3,000,001) and the yield of silver at $49,8115.930. The amount of gold bullion imported into the United States was 17,947,51S uid the exportsf27,stü,637. A CTCLONl passed near Oroville, Cal., on the 2-'d, and for a distance of six miles carried every thing before it, destroying fences and cabins. it was the flrst cyclone ever reported wost of the Kocky Mountains. Ei)waki Giese, a wealthy grocer and dry-goods morchant of Miiwaukeo, Wis., fcanged himsolf on the 2JJ. The National convontion of the Law and Order League, in session on the 2:M at Albany, N. Y., electod Charles C. Boimey, o Chicago, president Rkv. ('ihui.es W. Ward, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Knglewood, N. J., while evidently insane, tried to kill his wife, youngest child and himself on the i-'d, but the wounds inflicted were not fatal. Tur last reception of the season was given on the evening of the 'id by the President and Mrs. Cleveland to thé general public and was very largely attended. Thkke murderers in the jtOl at Clarksville, Ga., believed to be the most desperate criminal in the State, made their escape on the 23d after locking the jailer in a cell. Patrick Carroli, one of the Boston strikurs, was on the 2Jd sentenced to one year in prison for stouing a car. TnE State of Indiana was on the 22d pronounced to be bankrupt. The general fund was exhausted and all payments had been susDended. mus. ALLiE BEX9 was burned to death on the 22d at SL Louis by her clothes catchiDg fire from a gasoline stove. An explosión oí natural gas on tho 23d in tho Black Diamond steol-works at Pittsburgh, Pa., fatally burned ono inan and seriously injurod flve others. A radiator in a chair-car on the Wabash road exploded at Sidney, 111., on the night of the 23d, completely wreeking the car. Several passeugers wero scriously injurod by broken glass. D. BLODOETand wife, of San Jacinto, Cal., celebrated their diamond wedding on tho 23d. Mr. Blodget ís niuety-nine years oíd and hls wife ninety-seven years of age. Wasiiin-oton's Birthday was generally observed as a holiday throughout the country on the 22d. The wife of General Joseph E. Johnston died at Washinglou on the LM. Annie Cosnebs, aged fiftoen years, residing near Sheridan Station, Pa., was slightly bitten by a dog last fall, and was on the 23d attacked with hydropoobia. Three boys were killed on ths 23d at Eagle, CoL, by the caving-in of a coalmine. Edward H. Bioos, a St. Paul druggist, failed on the 23d for Í10O.O0O. Foirteen hindred hands in a Paterson (N. J.) üax mili struck on the 23d rather than do their own work and that of boys and girls already on strike. Both branches of the Indiana Legislature have passed a bilí appropriating $200,000 for a ötato soldiers' and saüors' monument or memorial hall. Fourtbkn Sioux children completed their course of study on the 23d at the manual labor instituto near Wabash, Ind., tand would be sent back to Indian Territory to take charge of schools or farms. RjspRBsixTATivEs of the fisheries intereto of the Atlantic coat from Maine to Virginia met at Glouoeter, Mass., n the 23d and organiïed uuder the name of the National Fishery Unioa. Reaolutions were adopted indorsing the retaliatory measures before Congress and asking tho immediate enactment of a high protective duty on imported flsh. At Augusta, Ky., on the 23d Judge Brad ford ordered Henry Dodeon, eonricted of abusing his family, to be sold to the highest bidder at public auction for tho poriod of seventy-üve days, the procceds of the sale to eo to the misused fmüy. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons on the 23d granted a rehearing in the case of Milton Wcston, the Chicago capitalist, serving a nve years' sentence for niaoslaughter. James Mobrisow, an elecUon Judge at Scrauton, Pa., who was under arrest for ompUoily in au elsution fraud, died In bis cell on tho 33d. JrooB Conbad docided on the 33d at De Moinca that tho manufacturo of intoxicating llquors, to bo sold in other States, is a Violation of the Iowa Prohibitory law. Advices of the 23d say that threo daughters of a man namod Baldwin, living near South Butler, N. Y., had died f rom cating rw ham, and othcr mombcr9 of the family wero ilL The flrst bushei of coal from the mino just devoloped at Jacksonville, 111., sold on tho ü'4.1 for sixty dollars. Fortt-six saloon-keepers met at Marquette, Mich., on the 23d and resolved to fight tho Prohibition amendment. A geaeral conveutiou of suloon-kcopers would bo ealled soon. ÜEiLAii Mat Moore, aged seventeon years, shot and killed Henry Allen, aged fifty years, at Memphis, Tenn., on the 24th, sending Uve bullets into his body. Miss Moore claimed that Allon betrayed hor. President Clïtklasd on the 24th approved tho bilis to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliena as laborera, and to prohibit the hiring out of United States prisonors. Th river bank at Leota, Miss., suddenly commonced cavlng in on the 24th, oarrying away several houses and goods. Tnn mutilated remains of a man were found in a trunk at Pittsburgh on the &ith, tho arms and legs hayin? beca amputated and the top of the skull sawed off. The trunk had benn sent from Cinclnnati. A fire at Nebraska City on the 34th destroyed property valued at $100,000 or more. TnB heaviest snow-storm of the soason prevailed at Calais, Me., on the 24th. The bill changing the name of 8t. John County to Logan County passed tho Kansas Legislatura on the 24th and rocoived the Governor's signatura. At a Prophotic conference in New York on the 34th Rev. M. Baxter, of Bngland, an Oxford man and a minister of the Church of England, prophecied that Christ would return tAthe earth in 1897, and that He would at first rule asmall kingdom in Asia Minor for three years. The year 1900 was to end the present dispensation, and thon the millenium. At Covington, Ky., all the street care were stopped on the 34th on account of u strike for shorter hours at the same wages. James Stevens (colored) was hanged on the 25th at Princess Anne, Md., for a criminal assault on a white woman cighty years of age. Tnn six-story candy factory of Darby & Co., in Baltimore, Md., was burned on tho 25th, rausing a loss of (150,000. A meeting held in Chicago on the 25th by the general managers of tho Western railways resulted in the passage of a reolution that business be revised to conform to the requirements ol the Inter-State Commeroo law. A t V narill"Vil KniPTllnn nl n f tnrir. year-old glrl namod Weaver while going it a wagon from Kingston to Uockwood, Tenn., on the 25th were flred on by a man named Epps, and both wero killed. Ne causo was known for the crime. Sevbx hundrkd men omployed in thi American wire-works at Cleveland, O., struck on the 25th for an ad vanee in wages. Thi penitentiary at Stoux Falls, D. T., was partly destroyed by flre on the 25th. The convicta were all saved. Mr. axd Mm. Bíebek Drum, aged about fifty years each, were burned to death in their dwelling in the town of Big Flats, N. Y., on the 25th. Therb wero 186 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 25th, against 230 the previous seven days. President Cleveland on the 25th signed the bilí appropriating 1143,000 as indemnity for loases suffcred by Chinese subject at Bock Springs, W. T., during the riots. Central Dakota a fearful blizzanl was raging on the 25th, and greatdestructionof property was feared. R. Ckoft, a Toronto (Ont) builder, failod on the 25th for $120,000. TnE railroads in Vermant and the Adirondack región of New York were blockaded by snow for miles on the 25th. A womax at Rochester, N. Y., wrote to the postmaster at Chicago on the 25th to select a husband for her and send nis address. The trunk mystery at Pittsburgh, Pa., was cleared on the 25th by a young physician, John Osborn, 'appearing and swearing that he had had the remains shipped írom Cincinnati to articúlate the skelcton. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Prohibitionists of Rhode Island met at Providence on the 22J and nominated Thomas H. Peabody, of Westerly, for Go ernor, and a full State ticket Colonel Gabe W hartón, a prominent Republican poütician of Kentucky, wa9 found dcad in bed ui a Louisvillc hotel on the 28d. The Industrial conference at Cincinnati opened on the 22d with delegatos from thirty-two States - ainong them being ten ladies. A Bill was lntroduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 23d to substituto electricity for hanging in executing crimináis. A Jewess of Milwaukee and her flve children on the ÍJd renounced their laith and entered the Methodist Church. The death of Mrs. General Hunter in Washington was uunouncod on the 33d. She was the second daughter of John Kinzie, the pioneer Indian trader, and was bom on the site of Chicago in 1807. The Supremo Court oí Indiana on the 23d refused, for want of jurisdictiou, to grant an injunctáon restraining Robert S. Robinson (Rep.) from ecercising the functions of Lieutenant-Governor. The Industrial conference at Cincinnati on the 23d decided to cali their organization the Union Labor party. The platform adopted deman&s a graduated land and income tax; noownershipoi lands by aliens: the issue of money without the iatarveution of bank; Government control of railroads; frea coinage of silver; arbitration of labor troubles; abolition of contract convict labor and the contract system on piblie works; shortening of work hours; equal py for the sexes; the electiou of United Statas Senator by the people, and the exclusión of the Chinese. Thb women of Parsons, Kan., held a jubilee meeting on the 23U to celébrate the passage of the Womeu Suffrage bill by the Stae Legrélature. The Michigan Republican State conven tion met at Detroit on the 23d and noniinated the following ticket: For Supreme Coort Justices, short term, James B. Campbell; long term, Charles D. Long; Eegcnts of the Stata University, K. W. Butterfield and Charles Hibbard. Tue New York Legislature en tho 23d held memorial services in honor of John A. Loean. LlElTEXAXT-GOVBRNOR RoDERTSOif Wag iorcibly expelled from the Indiana Senate on the 34th by order of Oreen 8mith, preident pro tem. Soveral members engagod in a quarrel and blows were struck. Mk. Moxtoomkry, of Michigan, Commissioner of Patonts, called at tbe White House on the 24th and tendered his resignation to tho President, giving as a rcason that he desired k return to the practice oí bis prufessioo. RslmKSBNTATITI HOSKI.VSOK, Of Bcilton, Franklln County, died en tho 24th at the Reveré House, in Springfleld, 111., aged Beventy-one years. Benjamin Fbaskíim Tatlob, lecturer and literateur, dled at Cleveland, O., ou tho 24th, agod sixty-flve years. Thb Union Lubor party selected a National Executive Committee on the 'Mth at Cincinnati, Thomas 11. Oruelle, of Indiana, being choson chairinan. The Executivo Committee of the Ureenbaokers resolved to continue their organi.ation, but would advise co-operation with the new purty. Tim Michigan Prohibitionists met in State convention at Lansing on the24thand nominated the following ticket: Suprema Court Justices, Lemucl Chute, of Ionia, and Noah W. Cheevor, of Washtenaw; University Regen ts, David Preston, of Detroit, and Amhorst B. Cheney, of Kent Commodorb WilliamT. Truxton, United States navy, retired, dled suddenly on tho 25th at Norfolk, Va. Dr. Edkdsd Roqers, a wealthy bachelor of Chicago, who died recently, lef t a large fortuno to bc givcn to any six women whose husbauds are drunkards. ÜOS. Jisss W. Feix, of Bloomington, I1L, expired on tho 35th, aged seventyoight years. Ue was the first man, it was said, to propose and work f or the nomlnation of Abraham Lincoln lor the Prcsidency. Thii West Virginia Legislatura adjourned ntu die on the 29th without electing a United States Senator. The thirty-flf Ui and final ballot stood: Camden (Dem.), 2S; Maxwell (Rep.), 33; Morrow (Dem.), 10; remainder scattenng. Mrs. Losan made known to the Chicago Monument Committee on tho 25th her deslre Uiat the remains of the Senator be placed in the center of the circular plat in Jackson Park, comprising forty acres, and that her body be ultimately luid to rest there. LiBUTBNANT-GovïByoK Robbbtsos again attoinptod to enter the Indiana Benate chamber on the 35th for the purpose of taking bis seat as President, but was rcfused dmissiou by order of the Democratie majority. nQovBENOB Leb, of Virginia, on tho 25th issued a proclamation calling an extra eession of the Ix-if islaturo March 16. Thb Texas Senate on the 25Ui passod a prohibitory amendment to ths constitution which will be submitted to the people ths first Thursday of August next. FOREIGN. 8m Chari.es Tcppbr, tho CanaJian Finance Miuistar, made a doclaration on the 'Jd in favor of total prohibition ia the Dominion. Rkturns from the Cauadian Parliamentary elections on the 22d indicated the choios of a majority of Conservativos, thus sustaining the administration of Sir JohnMacdonald. Suocks of earthquake experienced on tho 23d In Italy, France aud Switzerland caused the loss of throe hundred lives at Cervo, be8ides many at other points, and did untold damage to property. Advicbs of the 34th from Victoria, B. C , state that an unknown bark was wrocked oü the west coast of Vancouver Island and twelve of the crow of twenty were drowncd. K.stimatbs on the 34th of the loss of life in Italy by the recent earthquake shocks gave the number at two thousand. The destraction of property was widespread and appalling. Entire villages were dislodged from their foundations and hurled down the mountaiu -sidos. Fresh shocks had been experiencod at Cannes and Mentone. Sir Ai.exani.kr Campdei.l was on tho 34th appointed Lieutenaut-Governor of Ontario. Thk lava from Mauna Loa, on tho island of Hawaii, recently traveled twenty miles down the mountain in two days. Subsequeutly a vein of lire bursts forth and followed the line of the fiow to the seaside. Hknby M. Stanley telegraphed from Zanzíbar on the 25th that the expedit;on for the relief of Kmin Bey had startod acrossthe country for the interior. Another slifjht earthquake shock wns feit on the 25th in Nice, Italy, but no damage was done. Fiftuen thousand peoplo had left that city and others were going. IATER NEWS. At twenty-six leading clearing-houses in tho United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 26th uit aggregated 1778,755,367, against 1950,232,467 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of ISSö, the decrease amounts to 4. 1 per cent. Thb ballot for United States Senator in the New Jersey Legislature on the 26th uit. resulted: Sewell (Rep.), 33; Abbett(Dem.), 32; scattering, IL It was announced on the 26th uit. that the strike oí silk operativos at Paterson, N. J., in volved more than flve thousand men. Thb six days' go-as-you-please walking match in Philadelphia, which commenced with forty starters, ended on the 26th uit. with only eight men on the track. Vint wa the winner, making 530 miles. A FiBK on the27th uit. in a lumber-shed at Hannibal, Mo., destroyed property valued at (200,000. An unprecedented wind and snow-storm prevailed throughout the Northwest on tho 26th uit. Trains in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota were biockaded, and many were abandoned. A 9LIOHT shock oí earthquake was feit on the morning of the 26th uit. at Charleston and Summerville, 8. C. Fivb business buildings at Memphis, Ma, wers destroyed by fire on the 26th uit. Six lads walking on the railroad track near Easton, Pa., were killed by a passenger train on the 26th uit. A TKHRiBLB cyclone struck Eatontown, Ga., on the 26th uit. The academy was blown from it foundations and wrecked, and many residences were badly damaged. One man was killed and several other persons were injured. Focr fishermen were drowned in Laks Erie, off Buffalo, on the 2öth uit. by the breaking up of the ice. A passenger train on the Atlantic & Pacitic road went through a Dridge on the 27th uit. in the vicinity of Needies, Cal., and four persons were killed and flvo others were seriou9ly injured. Thb United Labor party of Chicago on the 26th uit. nominated a molder named Robert Nelson for mayor. In the United States Benate on the 26th uit the bill appropriating $20.000 to complete the monument to Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va., was passed, as was also the bill to reimbarso the deposltors of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company'and the Agricultural and Diplomatic measures.VThe credentials of Mr. Reagan, of Texas, Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, and Mr. Bate, of Tennessee, as Senators, were received and placed on file. Messagos were presented from the President vetoing two pension bilis. Senator Ingalls took the oath of office as presiding offlcer. In the House the Senate amondment to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was non-ooncurred ín. The conference report on the bill for the location and erection of a branch Soldiere' Homa west of the Rocky Mountains wasujiocJ m.

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