Epitome Of The Week

1 A bilí was passeil in the Senate on the 13th transferring army offlcers on the limited retirod Hst who have reached the age of &1 to tho unlimited list, and providing further that the number of ofttcers on the limited list shall bo 350. Senator Sherman spoke asainst the free coinage of silver In the House a bilí was introduced to vest the legislativo power of Alaska in a Governor and a legislativo asBembly and that the Territory shall have a delégate to Congress. Tho report on tho House apportionment bill was presented and the army appropriation bill was discussed. Senator Vest surprised the United States Senate on the 14th by offering, as a substituto íor the flnancial bill, a free-coinage bill pure and simple, and the Senate promptly passed it by a vote of 39 to 27. The bill provides that the unit of value in the United States shall be the dollar, to be coined of 413:4 grains of Standard silver or 85 8-10 grains of standard gold In the House the army appropriation bill was passed and the District of Columbia appropria tion bill was discussed. IN the Senate a bill was passed on the 15th to credit O. M. Laraway, late postmaster at Mlnneapolis, with $1 1,1 15, the value of postage stamps stolen from his office in July, 1886. A bill was introduced to estabüsh brauch mints BtXOmaha, Neb., and Boise City, Idaho. The elections bill was agaln taken up and discussed In the House a message from the Senate was received announcing the passage of the flnancial bill with a free-coinage substitute. Tbe immigrant bill was reported. A committee was named to investígate the silverpool question. A bii-l was introduced in the Senate on the 16th providing lor a temporary government for Alaska. A bill to equaltze Standard time in the United States was introduced and the fortifleations MU (Í3,800.43ó) was reported. The elections bill was then discussed, the session lasting all night....In the House bilis were passed granting a pension of íñO a month to General Franz Siel, S1U0 a month to General N. P. Banks, Ï100 a month to General Isaac Qutnby, of Rochester, N. Y. ; and one increasIng to $100 a month the pension of Joseph J. Bartlett, of New York. In all seventy pension bilis were passed. DOMESTIC. Major Woodhuff, State Treasurer of Arkansas, was reported 897,000 short in his accounts. Joseph Aikens, of Mount Union, O., died at the age of 99 years. He was born in Uelford, France, and served under Napoleon the Great for eight years. He came to America in 1840. The visible supply oí grain in store in the United States on the 12th was: Wheat, 25.519,200 bushels; corn, 2,814,916 bushels. Chabi.es Watton, a young farmer living near Columbus, Ind., shot and slightly wounded Jliss Susie Walters because she refused his suit and then killed himself. It was reported in Lawrence, Kan., that in the western part of the Stat?. the farmers' erop had failed for fivt years and that now they were actually dying from destitution, starving for want of food and freezing for want of clothing and fuel. In a gale on Chesapeake bay two schooners went down, others were wrecked and several lives were lost. At Dallas, Tex., 8100.000 worth of property was destroyed by fire. Thkee men were killed and one was fatally injured by tlie explosión of a locomative at Ashland. Pa. E. H. Ammidon, dealer in dry goods at New York, lailed for ü'J7,70ü; assets, $96,246. Three raen were fatally scalded by the bursting of a steam pipe in the Edison Electric Light Company at Philadelphia. Foub farmers, Milt Gilmore, Grant Fleming, Rube Habcock and Charles Keam. attempted to cross a track ahead of a train near Clyde, O., and all were killed. It was reported from Pine Ridgfe, S. D., on the 13th that General Miles had received the absolute submission of all the chiefs wlio had been the disturbing leaders among the Hrules. The reds were pocketed in a ravine within two miles of the ageney with the troops on all sides of thein. Kicking Hear, Short Buil and Two Strike said that the war was over and they were willing to do just what General Miles ordered. Near Peru, Ind., William Shalzer's wagon, loaded with wheat, upset in a ditch, and Mrs. Shalzer was fatally injured and the baby in her arms was killed. Thretc men, Harry Lewis, Dennis Simmons and Joseph Hughes, were killed at Deadwood, S. D., by an explosión of dynamite. Tiierk are, according to the State Commissioner of Railroads, 7,018.73 miles of railroad in Michigan. The gross earnings for the year 18110 aggregated $9(5,323,071.62; net income, $31,809,279.54. Georgk Estes and Fannie Hogan were married at a country church in Marión County. Ala. .Just as the ceremony was concluded a shot was fired through a window and the bride feil dead. A discarded lover was charged with the crime. E. M. Van Tasseli.'s grain elevator in New York was gutted by flre, causing a loss of $200,000. At Denver Haiiey McCoy insulted Chief-of-Police Hawley, whenthe latter drew a revolver and fatally shot McCoy, who returned the tire, killing Hawley. The Michigan State Treasurer's report shows a balance on hand at the close of the fiscal year of .Y1,151,259. W. G. Harper, agent of the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, was placed under bonds for the alleged embezzlement of $60,000. The Seamen's Union in session at Detroit decided to withdraw from the Knights of Labor and forin an independent society. It was reported that American manufacturers of spools, bobbins and shuttles, in conjunction with Iiritish capitalists, were forming a syndicate with $5,000,000 capital to control the business. J N a prize-fig-ht at Nw Orleans Bob Fitzeimmons, of Australia, defeated Jack Dempsey, the champion middleweight of America, in thirteen rounds. Rf.püksentatives. ot thirty tannmg establishments, with$12,000,000 and covering' the whole country, wero forming1 a combination at Pittsburgh, Pa. Some porson distributed poison in the pasture of B. F. Siebert at Beaver City, Neb., and twenty-two head of fineblooded cattle were found dead. DlBECTOBS of the Bell Telephone Company at Boston voted to issue $2,500,000 ncw stock. This woulcl lncrt'iise the capital stock to 15,000,000. Nink passengerd on the dong Island Rapid Tnmsit railcoad wcrc injured in a collision near Dentón station, Long Island. Mks. Melvin A. Whitk, of Wheaton, Wis., had 011 the 1-tth been asleep for three weeks, and ;ill eflorts to awake her had proved frultless. Dii'.iM; the progregs of an Italian wedding at the residence of Miehael Siissano in Erie, Pa., the baby son of the ho.st feil into a caldron of soap and was cookcd to doath. Tuk locomotive machine works at Kichmond, Va., were damaged to the extont of $125,000 by üre. Joii.n RoDÉREB, a farmer, was haltel by three footpads near his home at Jeffersonville, Ind., who robbed him and then fatally beat him. A hun'awav car at the Bannock granito quarry at Spl i t Koek. N. Y., instantly killed Engineer Xorton. (ieorge Talbot and Eobert :md Uavid Hobertson, and fatally injured for other men. Mr.s. E.mii.v ÏOIJNO, of Johnstown, Pa., 50 yeara old, eloped with John (iannon. aged :u years. Mii.i. ■■■.IX11-: L. Bonham, ex-Adjutant General of South Carolina, confessed that he had embezzled ö,000 belonging to the State. Gkxkh.u, Milis telegraphed the Washington authorities on the 15th that he eonsidered the war at an end, and that "a more complete submission to the military power has never been made by any Indians." A ï'KHMANKNT exposition company with a capital of 8100,000 was organized at Chattanooga. Tenn. It was said that John C. Hall, a San Francisco lawyer and trustee of two estates, had confessed to the embezzlement of SI 50, 000. Counterfkit five-dollar silver certifieates were in circulation at Fort Wayne, Ind. The bill is of the ment series of 18SH, check letter B, signed V. S. Rosecrans, Registrar, and Isaac W. Hyatt, Treasurer. The paper is poor, thin and of a yetlowish tint. The vignette of General (irant is a very poor imitation of the original. The 11-months' old baby of Oscar M. Spurrier, living near Baltimore, Md., was relieved of thirty-six different articles which he had swallowed surreptitiously, including' several buttons, eight tacks, four needies and eig-hteen pins. lt was believed he would recover. A FIKK in the Dickson block at Peoria, 111, caused a loss of about $200,000; insurance, .5150,000. In a store at Peru, Ind., an eloping couple were married by a minister whom they had brought with them f rom North Grove. Six'üktahy Windom has decided that all foreign cattle imported. whether for consumption or for transit, must undergo a veterinarv inspection. Aix the saloon-keepers in Missouri Valley, la., were indicted by the grand jury. An appeal for aid has been sent out by the citizens of Lincoln County, Neb., claiming that 500 families are suffering for the necessities of life. The post-oiliee at Key West, Fla.,was robbed of &,:00. Ick had gorged in the Susquehanna river near Wilkesbarre, Pa., and the surrounding country was flooded. The telegraph operators on the line of the Xickel-Plate have been given au increase of $5 per month in wages. A 8EVERE shock of earthquake waa feit in Pepperell, N. H., and adjoining towns. Nleigh bells were rung in stables and crockery was rattled. Mrs. Sarah Cable, a well-known woman of Elkhart. Ind., dropped dead of heart disease while walking on the Street. She was 50 years of age. The Florida Subtropical Exposition opened its fourth annual session at Jacksonville. The Stoneboro Savings Bank and the Sandy Lake Savings Bank, both of Pennsylvania and both managed by the same parties, have failed. A. C. Petkie & Co., wholesalers in lumber at Dallas, Tex., failed for $190,000. A fire at Milford, Neb., destroyed Dunnegari's livery stable and fourteen horses were burned to death. Mks. Maggik BtrSHES was kicked to death at Kansas City by her drunken husband. The planing-mill of Blodgett & Osgood at St. Paul was burned. Loss, $"200,000. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the löth numbered 411, against 403 the week and 888 the corresponding week last year. Joh.n' JOHNSON, a colored boy aged 15 years, was hanged at Opelika. Ark., for the murderof Jenkins Moore. At Lehigh, Ind. T., Mrs. Mattie Hetcher, a poverty strieken widow, choked her two little boys, aged 4 and 6 years, to death and then. with them in her arms, jumped into a spring and was drowned. A fire in the earpet mili of John and James Dobson at Philadelphia caused a loss of S500,000. Repohts of the state of trade at different points in the country show general improvement in the volume of business, easier mqney markets and a more cheering outlook. A heavii.y filled mail pouch from Kansas City was stolen from the depot platform at ííichols Junetion. Mo. The pouch contained over 3,000 letters and forty-six registered puckages. Pbebedent Harbison has approved the act for a public building at Sioux City, Ia. AtTOBNEY-Genebax Mii.i.f.ií has rendered an opinión that bounties shonld not be paid onder the oew 1;u-iff act on sngars produced prior to the lst day of July next. At Greensburg, Pa., three painters, Jonathan Ryan, Joseph Kyan and Josejh Clark, fel] from ;i scaffold and sustained fatal injuries. n PABTY of thirty youngSwedish people has left Omaha for Shanghai, Clima, vvhero Êhey ill become missionaries of the Swedish Evangelical ehurch. Another party of fifteen will leave next month.