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24
Month
September
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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In the Scnato conference report on the land prriiiu forfeiture bil). Which will restore ncarly lO,OX,0Ü0 aerea to the public domain, was agreetl to on the líth. Bills wero passed to repen) tlie ttmber-euKure act, to rant the right of waythrough the public lumls f or lrrigut ion purposes, and the House bill to prevent the sendlng of lottery advertUements, accounts of drawings and similor matter through the mails In tbc Housr liills were introduced for the eroction of a TTnii cl States mint at Omaha, Neb., and for tho erectton of a statuo in the city of Washington to the memory of John Ericsson at a cost of i.V).u!W. The Enloe resolution disilaiming sympathy with Congressman Kennody'e itttaeh on the Senate and Senator Quay was referrod to the judiciary coramil ter. Eiqhty ' rivate pension bilis were passcd in the Senate on the lTth andan amendment to the bankruptcy i i 1 1 which .provides for voluntary bankruptoy only was disoussed, butnoaotion was 1 aken .... In tlio House the LangstonVenable oontested election case írom Virginia was lUgoussed. but no decisión was reached. A joint resolution was introduced providing for the eleotlon of members to the next Congress from the müïic dtstricts in Ohio in which the ropresentatlves of the Flfty-flrst Congress wcro elected. A mix was íntroJuccd in the Renate on tho 18th to retire eiroulation of the National banks, to Issue legal-tender notes ín liou thorcof and to reduoe the i at crest hearing debt. Bills were passed to revive tho grade of Licutenant General in the anny of the United States; allowing flS a month to women who for six months rendored service in any regimental, cump or general hospital, and who are unable to earn thelr Bupport. Resolutlons rclative to the death of the late Representatlve Latrd, of Nebraskn. were presented .... In the House lack of a quorum prevented business. liu.i.s wero i :inl ii' the Senate on tho löth to discontinue the ooinage of the $3 and tl gold pieces and the 3-cont nickel piece. and for the protection oi troea and other growth on the public domain from destiuctiou by flits. A joint resolution was ir.troduced for the imtnediate Inorease ol vet uionej bj :he purchase and 10 ounces of silver wlthin the nexi thirty days.. in the Hnu.se the absence of aquormn preveuted business. At the evening session seventy-two private pension bilis were passed. 0OMESTIC. Mus. Wii.i.iA.M Füazkii, tirlng of the almso of her drunken husband, whilo be lay in a drunken stupor burned his eyes out with limo íit Pittsburgh, Pa. It is reportad thut t!ie schooner Ben Brink lias boon wrecked on tho rocks off Eagle Harbor, LaUo Suporior, and that the crew of (ivo men perished. The edict of the Methodist conference at Muskc-gon, Micli., that ministers must not mix in politics, has caused Rev. W. Qardner, Uepublioan candidato for Secretary of State, to withdraw from the ministry. The population of tho Stato of Colorado according; to the eount of the Census Bureau is 410,975. 1'his is a not incroase during the decade of 216,048. A mts at llanford, CaL, destroyod twelve business houses and damaged several others, causing a loss of $150,000. Thh upper house of tho Oklahoma TjOffislaturo h:is pasaed a bill locating the permanent Territorial capítol at Oklahoma City. THE throe men, Reed, Cain and Buctt, ander arrest at Troy, N. Y., for wrecking a train on thn Central road noar Castleton, have mads written confessions of their crimes. ApJlSSENOBK train on the Louisville, New Orleana & Texas road was wrecked by miscreants at Vicksburfr, Miss., and the engineer and flreman were killed. In a wreek on the 8t Louis, Iron Mountain it Southern road at Golden, Ark., fourleen passengors wore injured, two fatal ly'. Mu. akd Mbs. John W. Gke, of Normal, 111., wem fouod doad ;:i their house, having been asphyxiated by gas that escaped from a gusolino stove. The Utah cotnmission in its report to the Secretary of the Interior says that the practioe of pol.Viramy is rathcr on the incroase tban '.in' decrease, and that the doctrine is taught in all the ]Mormon churches. Wii.i.iam Umi-, of St. JoSOph. .Mo., a suffererfrom rheumatism, took a spongo bath in alcohol and then stood near an open stovo to dry off. The alcchol took lire and Hitt was fatal lv burned. Thk 260th anniversaiy of the establishment of üoston, Mass., was celebratcd on the lTth. The streets of Soutli Norwalk, Conn., were flooded by heavy rains and business was partially suspended. Gakdxki:, Chase & Co., bankers and brokers, of Boston, have failed for SJ, 000.000. A Sta tv; Farmers' Alliance bas boen organized at Lansing, Mith. .with A. E. Cole, of Fowlerville, as president. The Census Buroau gives the population of Conneeticut as 745, Stil, an increase of Iü8,181. At Portsniouth, X. II., Fred Hein, a cooper, onraged ovor tne conduct of his wife, who baddeserted him, fatally shot Charles W. Taylor, a stone-dealer; next shot his three daughtors, killing two of them, and then conmiitted suicide. At a meeting in Chicago of tho World's Columbian Exposition National Commission tho salaries of three officials wero fixod as follows: Ereaident, S12,000; Secretary, L10,000; Diroctor General, $l.),000. Tin: strike on thn Nejv Vork Central railway has been deolared off. At a meeting in Chicago of the trustees of tho Baptist University of Chicago a letter was read from John D. Rockefeller, of Cleveland, O., which announced tho gift of $1,000.000 to tho university. Prof. W. E. Ilarpor was elocted president of the univorsity. Tin: thicves who stole S12,000 belonging to Bookmaker Carian from the safe in tho Hotel Vendóme in New York havo been arrested. A stag f. was stoppcd by two men noar San Andreas, Cal., and they securod aboutS50 from the elght passengers and carried off the Wells, Fargo & Co. safe. Bx tho of the dam of Bonesteel pond resorvojr, six milos northeast of Poestenkill, N. Y., tho water was releascd and i swept through tho valley, dostroying sr.w-mills, buildings and bridges.

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