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14
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January
Year
1891
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Mr. McCOKWBLL (Kop.), of Idaho, took the oath of office as Senator in the Seríate on the 6th. The elections bill was displaced and the financial bill taken up in lts stead and disCUSSed. The apportionment bill was reported back from the census committce without amendment In the House bilis were iutroducedproviding for cnrrying fnurth class mail matter at same rales chtirged third-class mail matter, and subjecting Treasury notes, National bank currency and United States notes to State and local taxation. The bill for a public building at Danville, 111., was passed. The session of the Sonate on the Hth was occupied in diseussiníí tho linamnal bill In the House a bill grantin' a pension of $100 per month, to Franz Sii, late Major-General of volunteers, was fuvorably reporte1 and the shipping bill was di-.-ussed. The free coinaije meaure was again considered in the Sonate ou the 7th. Senators Shoup and McConnell, of Idaho, drow ïots for the tenns of service, the former securing the long term .... In the House a bill was passed increasing from tifty to seventy-iive the number of army ofheers who may be detailed to military colleges. The shipping bill was further diacussed. In the Sonate bilis wcre passed on the 8th for public buildings at D;ivenport, Iu.., and Akron, O., and the ftnance mt-asure was further considered....In the House the time waa con sumed in disL-ussin the shipping bill. The bill authorizing thecsrtilïcatesof service to tclegraph operators with the Union army in the late war was passed. In the Senate on the iíth a bil! was passed for the relief of Major Wïi&m, army puyma.ster, rediting him with $-.'S :J45 Government funds of which he vas roblad in Arizona in 1889, and House bill to provui ' fop an additional Associate Justice of the bui r.-me Court of Arizona. The flnance measure wus asain diseussed and the bill creating the cillcj of Fourtli Assistant Postmaster General was reported favorably. In the Hnurie the time was occupied in committee oT the whol1 oq the private calendar. At the evenini; session sixty private pension bilis were passed. DOMESTIC. A iii.ock of fourteen houses at Owingsville, Ky., was burned. Siockktary Windom has fixed thesalary of Miss Phoebe Couzins as secretary of the board of lady managen of the Columbian expositioa at 8-3,000 per annum. Mus. JoyiN' Stinson, of vinsound mind, wife of a farmer living near Danville, Ind., saturated her elothing with coal oil. applied a match and was fatally burncd. .1. A. Patterson & Co., wholesale millinors at Montrüál, assig-ned with liabilities oí S-.JÓO.OOO. A i'AssKMiKi: train on the Pan-handle road struek two hand cars near Coshocton, O., on which ere twenty-two men, kill'n;;' twöu T.w others eseaped by jumping. Decker, Howkll & Co., the New Tor! irm of brokers which failed for $12.000.000, uis rosuined business. NoBTH Dakota farmers will resist the payment of Wi. 000, 000 uow owing to the harvester coinpanies on the ground that. tht' recentiy-formed American Harvester Company 5 a trust. A1.1. the business buildings in the little town of Holivar, Tex., were destroyed by fire. The old log school-house near Zanesville. O., in whieh President Garfield taught in 1851, has been purchased for exhibition at the v rld"s fair. A i.AUGK erop of ice, eight to ten inches in thickness. has been gathered at Staunton. Va. Thk Wabash Railway Company was ordered to pay Oscar J. Friedman, of Chicago, &W.000 for injuries he received in a wreek on the Wabash road. In a riot at a religious meeting near English, Ind., five men were mortally hurt and several others were seriously injured. Thb attention of United States officials was called at Denver to a 85 bilí of the issue of the First National Bank of Colorado Springs raised to $20. A combine was formed by nineteen of the leading manufaeturers of glass tableware in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The number of men employed by the nineteen faetories is over 8,000 and the aggregate weekly pay-roll is SÍO0.OO0. A CYCIOSTK in Texas wrecked several houses near Sherman and killed four persons. Household goods were scattered about for miles and the loss was great. Near Yoakum houses were also blown down. One man losthis life and three others were fatally injured by an Illinois Central train at a Crossing in Chicago. Thb Standing Rock, Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Tongue River Indian reservations have been temporarily placed under military control and General Miles has been g-i ven full iuithority to act. Thomas J. Ring, local manager at St. Louis of the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company, was arrested for the embezzlement of $5,000. The Laredo Land Improvement Company at Laredo, Kan., failed with assetsof 8395,000 and liabilities of $355,000. Three stores at Cairo, 111., were burned, causing a loss of about 5105,000. Thikty-two members of a sleighing party from Scranton, Pa., were hurt, eleven of them seriously, by the overturning of their sleigh on a hill at Rendham. F. Y. BtBNBS, a farmer 24 years of age living near Mesdoo, JIo., cut his young wife's throat and then killed himself. Insanity was the cause. Smith, Wade & Co., lumber-dealers at Quebec, failed for S162,000. Aï Modesto, Cal., Jacob Claypool, 16 years old, and twenty-two horses were burned to death by a fire in a livery stable. Charles M. Roe, a young man living near Bay City, 111., shot and fatally wounded his sweetheart and then shot himself dead. He had been forbidden to cali by the lady's parents and took thifi terrible revenge. Thb business portion of McComb, O., was destroyed by fire. Robert De Rose, aged 27 years, shot and killed his wife, ag-ed :;-; years, at San Francisco while in a iealous ragre. L. H. Corse, the Alliance exchange agent at Lawrence, Kan., was said to be short S4.000. Frank Hixon was killed and John Ross fatally wounded at Monroeville, Ala., in a fight over a dog. The international monetary conference convened in Washington on the 7th and a cordial address of welcome to the delegates was made by Seeretary Blaine. A BECEIVEB was appointed for the Farmers & Merchante' Bank of Clarksville, Tenn. It was reported that II. Webster Crowl. ex-city councilinan, prominent real-estáte operator and a leader in soci;'i cireles al lïaltimore, had vietimized liis frienda and the Baltimore banks oul of raore taan 8800,000. 'i'ni: Indiana St:;te Board of Agriculture asla for an appropriation of $300,000 Ei r ets clisplay in the world's fair at ( bica&o, 111. A TiiAix on the Riehmond & Danville railroad ran otï the track oji passing over a trestle aear Caiïney City, S. C, the engineer, flreman and two brakemen. and scrcmslv injuring three others. ÍT was stiitcd that the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta in Logan County, W. Va., which had ben quiet for some months, had been renewed, and that in a tíght on Hart oreek s: m"n were killed. Fka.nic M. (Jom.ky, a leading member of the Steuben' County bar and a leading citizen of (.'ohocton, X. Y., disappeared. lieaving debts of 8100,000. Thk villagi; of Sprinirfield ('enter, N. Y.. was ïiearly destroyed by llames. By the explosión of acartridge which had been placed in an oven to dry Mr. J. E. I'owell, of Amherst. Mass., had both legs blown off and .Mrs. Xelson Powell was fataily injured. Tuk dates of the National I'rohibition carnp-mecting at Dccatur, 111., have been fixed lor July 1 1 to 20. Tros falling of a scantlinff at the new ediflee oí St. .lohn's Lutheran Church at üancaater, l'a.. caused the death of four men. Tin: Denver Iron & Steel Company, with a capital of 5, 000. 000, was incorporated at Denver, Col. Mus. Pktkrs and her daughter were robbed and bunted to death in Cordele, Ga. John Mobris and Frank Chatham, two well-known ranchmen of Carbondale, Col., met in Leadville and renewed an old quarrel, and both were fataily shot. Hili.y Davis, a Pueblo (Col.) negTO, shot and killed his foster-mother and foster-brother in a quarrel about some property. Samvki. ;(('i.knxan, employed at George West's paper mili at Ballston Spa, N. Y., was drawn between two hot cylinders and crushed and roasted to death. Rkports irom fif ty Kansas towns show that the severest storm of many years was ragingin the Sunllower State. At Kusk. ïi'X.. two weil-deflned shoeks of eartRqikke were feit. Several chlmneys werB leveled with the earth and sloepen in various portions of town were awakened, THKgreat shoemakers' strike at Rochester, X. Y., has be;;n declared off. JOSEPH and Willie Harren. 10 and 12 years of age, of (.'assville. Wis., were drowned in the Mississippi while playinr on the ice. Threk boys aged 15. 17 and 19 years were caught at Spriugfield. .Mass., and confessed to having committed a series of twenty-three burglaries in that city. The funeral of the late Emina Abbott took place at Central Music Hall in Chicago on the 9th and was largely attended. At Mount Vernon. Mo.. two newspaper offices, a bank and fifteen dwellings were dstroyed by tire. Jacob Mubpht, a colored wife murderer, was hanged at Caldwell, Tex. The copper shipped from the mines in the Lake Superior región during the season of navigation in 1S90 amounted to 77,086,414 pounds. Two nkgiïo boys aged 11 and 13 years at Terre Haxite, Ind.. confessed that they burned their father's house last March for the purpose of securing 840 which was in the building. The great harvesting-raaehine trust, known as the American Harvester Company, with its enormous capital of 835,000.000, has been dissolved. A NiTRO-oi.vCEP.ixE magazine exploded twenty-five miles south of Toledo, O., the concussion being so great that the people of Toledo niistook it for an earthquake shock. The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin whieh shows the total Indian population of the United States to be 344,704. This makes the total population of the country, including Alaska, estimated at 37,000, almost 03,000,000. J. W. Hakman' was stopped by waymen near Lima, U., ana robbed oi $500. In the United States the business f ailures during1 the seven days ended on the 9th numbered 403. ag-ainst 34S the precedin,r week and 878 the corresponding week last year. Ai. most the entire business portion oí Armour, S. D., was destroyed by fire. NkaK C'lintonville. Wis.. Herman Puntleeff. a wood-chopper who had cut his foot. was devoured by wolves while his companion wan seeking assistance. La grippe caused the death of five persons in the vicinity of Woodville, Miss., eaeh victim being1 over 70 years of ag-e. SECRET-BKRVICE officials at Detroit captured the members of a Canadian family named Stinson who had been eníraffedinmanufacturinií bogna dollars. 1'OIR iiundred eitizens of Columbus, Ind., sueceeded in surrounding forty f oxes in an open field and killed twentyeight of them. The others escaped. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Governor Veck and other newlyelected officers of the State of Wisconsin were formally installed in office at Madisön on the 6th. Thk Legislaturas of Xorth and South Dakota. Minnesota, Obio, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Delaware convened on the (lUi. Tuk New York i. (■;■:■ iatm-c convened at on the 6th, and (lovernor llill in hi annonneed that he would n'b1 again be a eandidate for the Gubernatorial chair. At the joint convention of the houses of the New llampshire Legislature Hiram A. Tuttle (Rep.) was elected Governor over Amsden (Dem.) by a vote of 1S5 to 150. At Boston Associate Justice E. Charles Devens, of tha Massaehusetts Bflpreme Court, died at the agé Zt Tl years. - ■ - ■ , i. igan. Washington, Illinois and Massachusetts convened on thé Tth. Henhv H. -Makkham was inaugiirated as Govornor of California on the 8th. Tuk iiftv-M". rnth session of the Indiana Leffislature opened on the 8th and both branches were organized by the Democrats. In his inaugural address Governor Kussell, of Massacbusetts, advocated an amendment to the constitution of the State annullin? so miich of it as requires the payment of a tax as a qualification for voting 11 in m A. Tutti. k. was inaugTirated as Governor of New Hampshire on the 8th. In his message he quotes the Commissioner of Iminifrration as saying: "Krom the best statistics at cornmand there have been left in the State by snmraer tourists the past year more than $.",000,000. A larg-e portion of this has been left with the farmers." Rev. John McCi.intock. D. D., oi Carmiehaels, Pa., died at the age of 83 years. He had been pastor of the Presbyterian church there over fifty years. FOREIGN. Rursia has forbidden the enrollment of Hebrews as barristers and the expulsión of those already enrolled. An unknown English vessel foundered on the Nicilian coast and twentyfour persons were drowned. The Government statement of failures in Canada for the year 1890 shows a total of ll.UOÜ. with liabilities amounbing- to 189,000.000. Thk monk known as Father Pasquale died in the Casertini monastery at Naples, ared 110 years. The Canada eotton mili combine has been eompleted. The trust controls all the milis in the Dominion and an output of $3,250,000. It was reported that Mr. Gladstone had written a letter to an eminent social reformerin whieh he deelared thatpraotically his end had come so far as public life and politics were concerned. A COMI'ANY has been organized in Jamaica for the purpose of cultivating fcmits and vegetables on a very large scale for the United States market. "Jok" DosoftHinc, of Newbrg-h, N. Y., amateur champion of the United States and Canada, won the half-mile international skatiny race at Amesterdam in 1 minute 95 scconds. He also won the two-mile race ia 0 minutes 10 4-5 seeonds. It was reported that the floods at Carlsbad. Germany, caused a loss of 126 lives and 300,000,000 florins' worth of property. The Eoyal Hotel in Moscow was destroyed fire and nine persons were fatally burned. Among'tln' victims was a Russian ïeneral. Five Russiau smugg'leTS broke through the k-e while orossing a lake on the Persian frontier and were drowned. A huntixi: tribe in New ( uinea attacked a village and killed forty of the inhabitants and looted many dwelling's. I Advicks from Courtanz, Germany, say that while a large crowd was skating1 on the frozen Hoden sea the ice gave way and forty people were drowned. A fire in a pianoforte warehouse in Paris oa-osed a loss of l.OOO.OOO francs. LATER NEWS. The Yiee-President laid bef jre the United St:iLes Senate on the lOth resolutions of the O. A. R. recornmending certain legislation in reg'ard to civil emplovment for honorably diseharged Boldiera and tendering thanks for the liberal pension laws. Bills were passed to amend the railroad land-forfeiture bill and appropriating S100.000 for a public in Hockford, 111. The pension appropriation bill was reported and the report on tlie bill to carry out the act to divide the Sioux reservation was agreed to. Debate on the financial bill was continued. In the House the army appropriation bill was debated ai length without aetion, and the legislativo appropriation bill was reportad. Eulogies on the late Representativo Walker, of Missouri, were delivered. It was reported that a syndicate had been formed for the purpose of consolidating the western part of Cansas into one vast cattle raBfre. The steamers Bear and ïiriiiania collided in the Firth of Porth, Scotland, and the Bear went to the botton, twelve of the crew being drowned. A agreement forming the Western Traffic Association has been adopted by the repreSentatives of the Western railroad systems con trolling the traffic between Chicago and the Mississippi River valley in the east, the I'acific ocean on tlie wesi and the boundary lines of the Nation on the north and south. The combine represents more than 66,000 miles of railway, with a eapitalization of over .üo.OUU.OUO.UOO.

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