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April
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1888
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A bilí ni lotrodooed lo tne sánate on 'he ;:iiun-KHin r Montana u t Btate. A bul was reported deotarmg tt to be the seiue oí the Senute that the new Sutes should b admitted Into tlie Union only on the basis o' ; tv iili tbs existing States. Petltion nere prestnted Iromti ronsofHusn al producía be I wnii maulaetured árdeles; ratlon be ref-ii 0 il all paupwt and crimináis, and for the potectiun of wool and cotton goods. The House l"ll to provlde Ol liiited States bonds Ly tlie Bjcretarj of the Treasury was íurttur con -hlereil . . ..In thO House introducod for a Dormanent board of arbitration bet -."i, the Cuted Statos and Qreat Brttaln and Franco; to eqalize the galant Pretidentlal postoíllces; for the organlxatlon of the Territory of Alaska; to me id il.o Naturalizaron law 80 as to require nuld-be cltiiens to make oath that they are not polygamists. Anarchist or Communists, and to amend the luter-State Oommeroe la so as to prevent a railroad from brmglng Into a State articles which tho road within the lame BpaXe aro not permitted to transpon. l theSenatea blllwas introducedon the2Tth mndary Une between Northern Miniít' r l 'anadian prov.nces. A bilí was roported favorably training HOU per annum to each State for eacu soldier or sailor who is an tnraate of a soldlers' home mauitaineil by i lie bul to give preference to dlsabled Confedérate soldtsn as between men wbo liad beon dísloyal in appointments lo elvU offlo wa disouued In the House billa wer nported to próvido for ascertaining the (easiMllty of construoting a pulf nnd íalics waterway; to adjust the claims of States for expenses Incurrid in defenae of tho I" : fcir the election of Senators by the lo-al voters of 1 to amend the tlng toe salaries of the Judges oT i oourti. The MilAcadoiny A , bUL ifM 1 Tm ontne SSthand imtnediately proiecílcil to the hall of the House ot Ueprend the funeral of Uhipf-Jut!cc WaJte. The basinesa of the House wai ¦¦ arned in the hirr ! u:i i spaoe in tront of tho Clerk'a desit. The bATial serviee of tlie ,'urrh wasread by Hishop Paret. Al the conclusión of the services tho easket was borne írom tlit obambér mui the ceremonies closed. The funeral train etarted tor Toledo, O., at two o'eloolt Hn.i ed in the Se.nate on the 29th providing add.tional retrulations for homestead and i entriea ot public lantís; appro i tor a public building at hiou . lo extend the southern and -ries of Kansas; in aíd of the Centennial a id Memorial Association of ValForge and to s"curr tlie Wihington headquar' in and prounds occupied by the iiental army of 1TTT-S; appropriating HO,000 for toe completion of the monument to Mary, the motlior of Washington, at FnV.r BIHa were Introduoed for a public building at Lasalng, Jlkh., (Í100,iiMih cour for i and to protection of the laws oí i he States and Terrtto ; ana; authorlziiyj v.-j tlie President to make a proclamation i)rohibiting the importations of produeta of fu1 ¦ in certain cases In loase bilí as reported to prohibit allens írom acquiring tule to or owninK land wittim the i -lie Indian Aiipropriatíon bilí ¦ ired. net in sMslon on the SOth ult .. In ti ie bilí tnantlng a 1 i t'r annum to Mary L. Logan, and the Senate Inll increastng to K,00ü a year the pension of Appollna Blair were passed. At "ii twenty-four pension bilis DOMESTIC. The number ot boga packed in the West durinjr thi 'wí:' ; WaB oa th Ü8th estimnted :it 5,!)Qlt,)00. a tiecrease froin ] ear of about D:ii.oot head. Committi: "I tin' l'.rotlie.rhood englneers and Breinen cm tlie L' h yisited all the roads in Chicago and obtalned from the eDgineers, Breinen, Bwitchmen and yard; they would not move Burlington c ira. The objuct of this is to uiake the Burlington boyoott completo. It constitutes a conspiraiv un3er tlio rulings of Judies Oresham, Dundy an 1 Love. The session of tbe International Council of Women in Washington on the 28th was devoted to the g-enerul suhject of industries. Mrs. Low said that womnn's inrluencein the Knights of Labor was being feit wherever women of character had joined tha order. Mrs. Ijeouora M. Barry, oranlzer of the Knlghts Ot LaLor, saul they were building around the working-girte a wall to deténd and protect them tïoni the humiliationB ora Ihev liad been sutjjected to, and iv. D . hu little piris from the i iy, the workshop uud the mine and iting them. The passeiijíer coinmittee of the trunk lines at N v Vor-; on the L'Sth gn.nted rates of one faro íur the. round trip to excorgionists to the Itepubllcan, Democratie and Prohihit on National conventions. ivius and Mabel Stoddard, salt ld d lr dloucester, Mass., rere on i fren np as lost, and forty-tive men were supposod to hu ve perished. Jamrs A. JIivf.r, a lawer, CDnfessed on the 28;ll at Austin, Tex., to the commisbiou of nineteen forjieriea The lowest term in prison he cuuld be uwarded was thirtyoitriit ye A bpaxx lroin n pipe dropped into a keg of powder tu a Btooe (piarry at KiLtenhou.se Gap, Pi., on 2S,h, and the explosión which followed killed throe mi n unJ three othere were Iniored. A li; , Imj hel.l at Juckson, Misa, May 24, lor the pnrpose of orffaaizlng the bon Association, with a view to Bei-uring íor Míbsihs ppi a shiire of the iiinniirration now movlng Smithward. 'J 'momas P. Mii.lek A t'a, private bankers at Mobile, Ala., failedon the ÜMth for !1 ."(),- 000, :! al OUt .f."l,()00. Saiuii Bbowb wis shot and killed by J. W. 11 ill :it bis residence in Trcnton, Mo., on th 281 a. Itill was hnndlmg a ghotgnn and didn't know it wi:s loaded. 'Jm: Georgia and Alábanla an cnoruious raiuf.ill liad on tb B8tk remilted in fjreat ilaniaL'c to properly. Several persons had nel John Wood, a Texas negro, was lynched on tlie l"víi ai I i ex, for abducting Amelia Wilson, a white girL A fiiík on tho 29ti at Aurora, III., deBlroyed tilo Cü caífo, Luiliutrt-on i. Qulncy paint Bbop, pay-car and uve other cars, uaus! 175,000. A iinji ot striketB attaoked a freight train on the II r injrton ruad in (.'hic:go on the U:i i, throwlng i I ei n cars from the track Injnring ome of tho employea Two OÍ the rio rrested. AU the t-wiuiliiiien, enginflen anl firemen in the local y;r,!s of the Chicago, Hüwankee i S'_ Paul road h rnok, mtl.er than handle Bnrlinjrton : rs. Mks. John (íarljck s!opped off the el flip -.1 in B ('ineinnati on the -' ti, andber head .-,s caught between the c.r and the Hoor and her di ¦; u-t mtly. In a saloon quarr! on the '_'!th in San Bemardino, ('al., the bar-tender, Oliver lirlt&Uü and two other men were shot üeaL August Krakow shot and inct mtly killed hip a ibo on tha '_'!th nul then killed himself, thus ending lonf years of famlly trotibles. Twelve children are left orphaaa Daws.v Kankin's flve-sto-y 1 riek bntld'ng In Chicago wu burned on tuo Ööth. Loo, 200,0001 An explosión of natur.il gas oceurrod In mine Ka 6 of the Kelt.h ! Ferry Coul Company, ncar Ulch HU, Mo., on the 2!th, killing íorty-llve minera, most ol them negroes. The Ootram Shuttle ('ompany's four-story mili in Ayer City, .Mass., was burned ou tho 39th. I.osr, f200,000 The new Chineae treaty, made public on tho 2!th, pfohlblts for Iwenty yeara the coming of Chinese laborers to thll country. U also affreeg t i:iy to the Chines government the snm of $27W,679 for loss of proptfty In the West by Chinamen in riota The president and cashler of the National Bank of Kalelgh, N. C, were arrested in Toronto, Ont., on the 'J!lh on the charge oí forriTy. On til -ir penOQ U found $14,71-1 belongtng to tho bank. Masti:uW'oi:kman I'owderi.y on the 20th issued a long manifestó to the Knights of Labor, in which he urgently requested that education be made the iumre motto of the order, and that strikes be entirely done away with. He says that the Knighta of Labor strikes have never been successful, and that the time to cali a halt has arrlved. At the International Counell of Women in Washington on the 29{b Mis. Klizibeth lady Btantotl in bet advorary of woinan's suftrag? suid that if tlie rigbts of wouien were not to be ohtained by just and fair menns they would join hands with the Anarchist, and the s enen of the French Revolutlon wou'.d be re-enacted. The power of organi.ntion, legal condition of women, property rights and othor subject were discussed. An epidemie of bylrophobia among cattle of all kinds prevailed on the 30th uit in Jackson County, W. Va., and the farmers had lost thousands of dolla."s' worth of line stock. The bite of a mad dog oaused the troublo. Miss Ik 1 1., a yonng lody, co nmttted snloide in New York on the .H)th uit because slie could not get newspapers to publish her poetry. Neak Macou, Mo., on the 30th uit. some chlldrt i Bel tn to a ham, and three young sons of Dr. T. P, Riohirdson perished. Hakkv l'uvnt and ('liarles Wilkcrson blew out tho gas in theirrooin in a lleading (Pa. hotel and were found dead on the :ioth uit lN a quarrel on the SOih Blfc at ChilHcothe, Mo. , J. L Gille-p:e and hs wife fonghtwi:h klrivee and hoth were fatally wotmded. lÏEPORTsof the iiüth uit. from the winter wheat suctious of Illlno end Missouri Hhowed tho winter wiu-at to be damaped froin twenty to tblity per cent Tuk survivois of the Anny of the Potomac and of the Anny of Nortbern V rtrinia will hold a r. union at üeLtysburg July 1, '2 and 3. I iKK o the tOth ut at Co'dwatcr, Misa, destroyed ten i ulinest buildings. Ai of the American team of wheelmen sailod from New York on the 30th alt 'o make a tour of Eorope. fan bridget li ü on the HOth uit been waslied away and inuei ImmI fíooded by iresheisiii Wane County, Mich. The SprinKtie d (.M ss ) Printing Coinpany failed on the 80th n t. for .fl)l,774. Dayiu .Ii I.vona, N. Y., having pent twenty "ii i y a d $30,000 In experimenta, cluimed on the .'tOth uit to have discovered a mouiu of perpetual motion. The ensiucers, fire.tn.en, awitchmen and brakomeu in Chicago on Miiwiiukee A 8t. Paul toad were all erdereJ out on the IJOth uit, causin? a (ren eral tie-up. "Several frelght trains on the Burlington road were pelted with stones at : he Stock Yards and one man was bailly injurod. ('ars were also set on tira Chief Arthur, of tho Brotherhood of Enfineers, left Chicügo for Cleveland, but before leaving disclaimed any knowle Ige of the action of the St. Paul men, and said that as tüe men ac ed na Individuals t'ney wou!d notreceive a dollar of assi.stuncB from the Brotherliood, and not a dollar of Brotherhood mone; would be applled to üRRist the pwitehmen now on strike Plain tak was the order of the day at the session of the International Council of Women in Washmjr oa on the 30th uit During the discussion of the subject of "Social Purity " the doors were closed, but the report teil of the e.irnest protestó entered by noted women igainst the vices which society toler ates even if it do not approve. The constitutional rights of women were disenssed in the aven ng, Nkaü Toiiest, U , on the Utlth uit. the six children of Farmer Jaoob Krans found and ate some i 1 i rate, from tho effects of which one had d:ed and the others uould not recover. 1"he President on t'.e 30;h uit sent a messajre to the (-v I-Service Coinmisaioners recommend ng tba'j tlie limita of the classifiefl service bo extended He also dgned th Urgent Deflo éncy bill. In a quarrel on the iJOIh uit. near Efflngbam, I1J., Henry Lañe, a farmer, killed nis wife and iheu oommitted -u.cida WoniiiiEN, in remodellnsr an ola house at Piqua, O., found on the ÜOth uit the bones of four children, and Ihe diseovery revived a tradition that they were the heirs to a considerable fortune, and d.sappeared many years :go. DuHiso the Hwa days ende.d on the JOth uit theie were 1 Ti business tallare in the United Staten, ag iins. '' the previous seven d.iys. The total number of failures in the Unite t St ites s nee January 1 is 3,0Ö3, afiains! ::. Ijs ,,i I ssT. The liabilities aggregate $34,000,000, agalnet Utl.OOü,000 last y, ar. Theodobe Cai.loway. a nero murderer, was taken from j in u B ym ville. Ala., on the tiOth uit. nnd hanged, ih inob dopart inir after riddling h.s i.ody with bullets. In a qn;irrel on the 3(Hh uit over a nickel ai Atlanta, ('a, HnJl Stark shot dead his broth.:r, Fiaen;z St ík. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Captain J.uoii Heaton .iied . .t Sulem, O., on the 27ih, affed algbty ye: rs. He was well known to all prum nene anti-slavery men, hivar,r bees assojiat d in the work with Horaoe Ote jley, üliver Johnsou, Weudell Phillips, Lloyd Oarriaon and othera. Captain ('hahi.es W. ('. .oi:vovi died at his resitlence in Blount Coiuiiy, Tenn., on the Ü7th, aged nlnety-five years. He distiuguitihed hiniself in the war of 1N1Ü, serving in tho same company with Davy Croiket Mus. Aones Kissam, who celebrated her one hundredth birthday on the 4:h inst, died at her home in Broo.dyn, N. Y , on the 27th, of pneumonia. Félix O. C. Dahi.ky. the ceïebrated designer and illustrator, dled euddenly at his home in Clayuiont, DeL, on ihe 27th, aged sixty-six years. The Itcpublicans of the Eisrhth Ohlo d'strict on the Ü7th nominited General Itobert V. Kennedy for Congres. Captain Chaki.ks .Y Jíuaikett, the noted chuf of the Government secret service under the ulminis rat mis of ProFjnts Grant, Hayes and Arthur, (Heil at hls resilencu in New York City on the 27th, in the tifty-slxth year of his age, Kx-klEl'n:NANX-ÜOVEKNOU WlLLIAM DORsheimeb, tl.e publislier of the .New York Slai died on the 27th at Sjvunnah, Ga., asjed tifty-isix yeara. The (rrand Jury reportad In New York on the 2Nth that the eleotions In the Elghth Assembly district Ust 111 were controlled by professional crimináis, and th:it voters were system itloUly terrorlzed. The Conneoilcut Prohibitiouists will ineet Ín conventlou at Hnrtford August 1 to nomínate a State ticket The Prohibitlon State convention atPortland. Ore., on the 2!th nomiuuted Frof. Q. M. Mi:icr lor COBgTMIBBaA The Conneeticut Republicana wlll ni eet in New Haven May 14 to elect d elegate f.o the Nat on al convention. Genebal Chabi.es A. Stetsos, tor nnarly forty yenrs proprietor of the Aator Houiie, in New York, dicd on the 29th, aged sevonty-aeven years. The bilí conferring municipal suft'rage on women was defeated in the New ïork Legislatura on the Hch. The remalns of the late Chief-Justlo Waite re iched Toledo, Q, on the 2!)th, accompanied by the official escorts from Washington, and after funeral Bervioes in Trinity Churoh were taken to Forest Cemeterv for interment Governok Jackson, of Maryland, on the 30th uit pardoned seven Democratie election ofticers who wero sentenced June 27, 1887, to two yenrs imprisonment for election frauda The Virginia Rppublic n convention to elect National dolegutcH will Lu held at Peteraburg Mny 1 7. Hon. W. K. Smith, late AsBlstant Secretary of the Treasury, died on the MOth uit at his home In Plattsburg, N. Y. , aged thirtyeiprht yeirs. On strict pur y vote the Republioans of the New York Assembly on the ÜOth uit passed the High-Liconse bilL FOREIGN. The house ot Thomas IS .11, postmuster at Orillia, Caa, , was ilestroyeil by lire on tho 27th, and his three youngchlldrenpetlshed in the fl met Dispatches of the 27th say that near Mutanz is, Qttba, the crops on three extenBive esiutes had been de.stroyed by fire. The house of Mrs Peter Bertlne, at Hathurafc, N. B., wts burncd on the 27tb, during her absence, and her two glrls, aged thlrtcen and eleven years, were turnoil to death. The banks of the Elle, in Genuany. were flooded for a distanco of njany miles on tha 27th, and hunclreds of villages were submerged. An enoruious amount of üamage had been done, and many Uves had been lost. President ('arnot, of Franoe, on the 27th signed the decreo placng General Boulanger on the retired Hst of the army. The ('anadian Northwest mounted pólice reported on the 1H h that they had captured slxty descriéis from the Uuited Stiltes army. Aduces of the 28th froin China say that the cris s in lionm had p:tssed, but that the distress oí the peoole fioni the ilnods was appalling, two milliou persons teing otterly deatltota Fur.THRU reporta on the 2S h from the flooded districls in Germany alon? the Vístula suy tliat Witliin n are i of ten miles equare seventy-seven vlllages were eubmergcd. The damasre was estimated at $00,000,0001 Ten thousand persons were hoineless. The Russlan tiovernment on the 28th prohibited opcruiioua by the American Bible Society in the Biütic provinces. Heavt snow-stornis preraüed in the norlh of England and In the ml Ibnd counties on the L'Sth. There had aiso been a heavy fall of snow in Dublin, and the weather was colder than it had been In many years Furtheb adviees of thi 29 Ji sv that 75,000 persons had been rendered homeless by the floods In O rmany. The daraage to property was ealiinated at 400,000,000 marks. A fiehce storm wlth high tldes and a tidal wave hí d un the 2'Mh c:.uged great damnge in the uorth and souih lslanda of New Zeaiand. Adyices of tlie 29 h say that flres nt ('sabu and Kikind i, Hungary, had deslroyed nineteen homes in the fonuer city and two huudied in tae Ui ter. 'J'he Miuistry of Fiance resigned on tho 30th uit. because of the passage of a bilí to revise the constitution. LATER NEWSi The sesión of the Internation 1 ('ouncil of Women va the :ilst uit in Washington was devote.! to a review of the lives of pioneers oí the woman's movement After the open session the delegates met und udopted a coustitution and elecied ofllcers for the peruuinent organization of a National Council ot Wouien, ïliss Francés E. Willard, of Illinois, beinjf choseu president Tile convention closed on the lat, the Bession duiing the day being devoted to addresses on women in the aarly church and scienoeánd reliL'ions truth. Kllrwobth I.etzkk, a Kins.is City teamster, snot his wife and killed biniself on the Int in h (uarrel ovt r money. Chixkse ailvices ot tlie lilst nlt say the Britisii sUiiiuier Swallow ws wrecked ott Namoa Ish.ud, and Üiirty-ene persons lost their lives. The r .iiroid s'.rike in C; iengo had spread on the lst from the Burlington until it included the Milwaukee 4 bt Paul und the Pilt8linr(fh A Fort Wayne rouds. The freight traftiu ot the üt Paul was aluiosl completely tied up. An uncundituuul surrender and an iinniediute return to work were the on!y terina held out to the itriking employés. London advico8 of the lst say the bark British Princesa had been wrecked ulï Caminha, Portugal, and twenty-three per8O11F were drowned. Kev. Ci.atto.n Mumva, of Keading, Pa., and Rev. John Connard, of Dcnv.r, Pil, while walking on the tracks of the railroad on the lst were slruck by an entine and both were killed. John McCklms barn at Wheelins, W Va., containing machinerv and twenty-tiv cows, w.-.s burned on the :! Is: uit. The exchanges at twenty-slx leadlng clearing-housesin the United Staten during the week enled on the il stuit aggreatod 7;tfs,i15, ir4, against $!I08,050,7U2, the previous weeK. As compared with the corresponding week of 18H7 the decrease amounted to L'5 8 per cent The elegant residence of Wllllam Walter Phelpa, at Englewood, N. J., was destroyed by flre on the lBt, causing a loss of over $100,000. Durixq a torm on the Slat uit at Warreu. Ark., the colored Uaptist church was demolmhed, and great daniage was done in the surrounding country. Two Indians were lynched on the i?lst nlt by citizens of Ashley, M. T., lor the murder of three prospt'ciors. In the United State Senate on the 31st nlt bilis were pussed appro]riating $50,000 for the establishment and maintenance of an Indiun imlug rial school in Michlgnn; nipropriatin $200,000 for a public building at Bay Ciiy, Mich.; for a celebration at the National Capital in the spring of 188!) In bonor nt the centennial of the ('onsciuition of the United Staten. A blll was Introduced for the issue ot apecie oertiticiitesredeemablehalf ingoldcoin and half in sil ver buil ion. In the House the bill to establish a land court was discussed without icton, and the ldver und llurbor bill w.is ceferred.

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