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Day
2
Month
July
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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IN tlip Senute th conference report on the naval approprlotton bill was afreed to on the 24th, and tlie post-otïioe diplomatic anti pensions appropriatlon bilis vera passed. a bilí was intruiluced to incorpóralo at Washington thu Wom;in'H National Industrial Univcrsily uiui School of Arts In the House the report of the colnage committoe was pr.'st'nted. It Mmply recommended that the House non-concur in each and all of the Senate amendments to tile silver bill and request a conference on tiie same. The blll to a.lmit Wyoming to Statrhood was reported in the Senate on the 'Jbth. and a bill was passed amhorizing tbc erection oí a hotel for colored poople upon the Government reservation at Kortrrss Monroe In the House a motion to ooncnr In the Senate substitute to the House bill (providing for frec coinage) waa defcated by a vote of 152 to 135; and the House then, by a risins; vote of 146 to 85, non concurrcd In all tho remaining amendments. Nkaki.y ih.' cutiré st-ssion of the Senatson the 88th was devotcd to discussiac the bill to ailmii Wyomiug into the Union and an amend ment to Iriclufle Iilaho, Arizona and New Mexico., .In the House, after passing a bill pranting fiftren days' leave to derks in the tirst and second chiss post-ofBoes, the debate on tho National clection bill was commcnnM. The bill to admit Wyoming as a Stato was passed in the Senate on the Ï7th by a party vote of 29 to 18 and now goes to the President. The bill for the admls.sion of Idabo was considered. . . . In tbc House the time was mostly oecupfed in dlgcuasidg the Federal elections bilis. At the cvening session 103 private pension bilis were passed. DOMESTIC. The total collections of internal revonue for the first elovon iuonths of the fiscal yoar onding Juno SO, 1890, wcre 8130,022,004, being 810,594,034 greater than for the corrosponding period of tho last fiscal ycar. 1'ahkku [) ABUIS, lid Carr and liardie Bollard, all colorod, and Frank Brenish (white) wero hanged at Memphis, Tenn., on the 24th, the negroes for raurdering their wives and the white man for killing a street-car driver namcd Pinkston. NlNB persons in Chicago were prostratod by the heat on the 24th, threo fatally. Tuk New Yu-k Court of Appeals decided on the 24th that tho warden of Auburn prison should execute the sentence of doath by electricity passed j upon the mimlerer Kommler. Two-thikOs of the business portion of the town of 151 ue HUI, Nob., was destroyed by ftre on the 24th. The sixth International Sundayschool convention convoned at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the '24th, witli 1,200 delegates in attendance from all parts of North America, representing 112,897 Sunday-schools, with l,17S,301 teachers and 9,149,997 scholars. Tiir National Kditorial Association opened its three days' convention at Boston on the 24th. The New York Court of Appeals on the 24th renderod a decisión affirming tho judgment of tho lower courts dissolving the suar trust. The threc childiien of John Kujawa, living at Modford, Minn., wirodrowned in Stevight river on the 24th. TnEconduetors, Bwltohmen and brakomen of tho Illinois Central railroad, north of the Ohio river, struck on the 24th against the oontinuance in office of Superintendent Russall and all business was at a stand-still. Tuk Supaeme Court of Indiana docided on the '.'4th that primarles aro included in the incaning of the law which provides that saloons shall be olosed on election days. Timbeu 8 rea were deing immense damago on the 24th in Iïoulder ('ounty, Col. IIknt.y Watson (i'olored) was taken from jail at Urandanbuxff, Ky., on tho 24th by a mol) and liangcd for criaiinally RSSaulting a little white girl. At Purvis. Miss., on the 'J4t!i John L. Sullivan ploaded guilty to an indiitment charging him with prize-fighting and was tinrd $500. The Louisiana House on tho 25th passed by a voto of 06 to 39 a bill submitting to popular vote a constitutional amendment extending the charter of the Louisiana State Lottory Company for twenty-five years in return for $1,000,000. lx Northern Iowa a heavy rain-storm on the 24th did great damage, sixteen railway bridges n(ar MoGregor boing washed away, and in tho vicinity of Dubuquo twenty-flve bridges were swept away and in sorae localities farmers fled to tho bilis in fear of boing drowned. The Supremo Lodge American Order United Workmen in session at Boston on tho 24th olected Willlam W. Wilson, of Detroit, Mich., supremo master workman. J. W. Ady, United States District Attorney for Kansas, declared on the 25th that the State prohibitory law was absolutely nuil and void, made so by the recent Supremo Court decisión. A suddex rise in Koot river on the 25th betwoen La Crosse, Wis., and Houston, Minn., dld great damage to the Milwaukoe railway, and farms were overflowed and bundreds of head of Btock wero drownod. By a boiler explosión on tho 25th on the farm of W. Craig, near Colchester, Ont., Goorge Craig and Thomas and Frank Quick wero killed. A oitEAT portion of the Sangre de Cristo range in Colorado and New Mexico was in flamea on the 25th, and near Boulder over 2,000 acres of timber had been destroyed. Miss Annie Tuknki:, a beautiful yourg lady of Groverton, Tex., committed suicide by shooting on the 2Sth. Her father took the pistol from tho hand of his dying daughter and with it killed a Prof. Davis, who was in the room. The motives for the doublé tragedy wero not known. In Chicago on the 2Jith thirty-ono persons wero prostrated by the heat and four died. By the explosión of a boiler in Frank Gardnor's stave mili at North Star, Mich., on the 351b three men wero Instantly killed and four more fatally injured.

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