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8
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November
Year
1893
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IN the senate the three months' campaign for unconuitional silver repeal practically ended on the 3Oth uit. A few minutes alter 7 o'dock in the evening the Voorhees bill was passed by a vote of 43 to 32. The bill now goes to the house In the house Mr. Oates (dem., Ala.) called up his bill to amend the naturalization laws and said the object of the proposed law was to restrict the looseness existing in the naturalization of uliens. '1 he bankruptcy bill was f urther discussed. IN the senate on the Ist Senator Palmer (I1L) reported from the pensions commitlee a bill stipulating that after July 1, 1893, no pension shall be paid to a non-resident unless he be a citizen of this country, except he has been actually disabled while serving the United States. .. In the house the passage of the silver purchase repeal bill by the sennte was reported and it was placed in ita regular order on the oftleudar. licv. Edward Bagl6T pastor of ('hristian church in Washington, was selected chaplain to suooeed Rev. S. W. Haddaway, deceaseu. Senatok Hir,L offered resolutions in the senate on the Ist to anunj the rules and prevent endlrss filibusterlng, uuvi providing for an amendmcnt lo the rules to authorize the presidini? ofllcer lo count a quorum present but not voting In the house the senate repeal bill was passed by a vote of 193 to 94, and was soon after signed by the president. An analysis of the vote shows tliat 124 democrats, 68 republicans and 1 populist (Cannon, Cal.) voted tor concurrence, and 70 democrats, 15 republicana and 9 popullsts against the motion. IN the senate a bill was introduced on the 2d by Senator Stewart (Nev. ) for the free coinage of silver. The house bill to amend the act of May 5, 1892, prohibitinK the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, was passed In the house a resolution providing that congress adjourn at 3 p. m. on the 3d was passed, as was also a resolution allowing the ways and means committee to sit during adjournment. A favorable report was made on the bill to admit Utah as a state in the unión. A bill was introduced by Mr. Cooper (Ind.) authorizing states to tax national bank notes and srreenbacks, and all other notes clrculating as money. Afteh routine business the senate on the 3d adjourned sine die In the house a final adJournmer.t was also taken. DOMESTIC. Michael Kozak, a Slav banker and steamship agent at Cornellsville, Pa., left town, takinp vvith him abont $15,000 of his depositors' money. By the carelessness of Mrs. John Foley near Anoka, Minn., her twolittle children ere burned to death. The treasury statement for the month of October shows receiptsof $20,000,000. The expenditures amounted to $21,000,000. Arrksted for stealinu, Miss Edith Ilustings, a prominent younjf lady of Sandusky, O., ended her life by swallowinij a quantity of laudanum. Mus. I-'kkhijïand IIeim, wife of the founder of the Heim brewery at East St. Louis, I1L, fell dead vvhile laughing. She was 06 years oíd. The body of the murdered mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, lay in state in the city hall and nearly 100,000 persons passed the casket. Potter Palmer has given $200,000 for the construction of a woman's memorial on the lake front in Chicago. HiOHWAVMEN attacked a mail coach near Brunswick, La., and killed the mail carrier and a passenger but failed to secure any booty. Twknty men were killed and eaten by wolves near Shensi, Wash. Tuk Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance union met in fourth annual convention in Chicago. The treasury official statement of the comparative receipts and expenditures of the United States shows that for the first four months of the current fiscal year the expenditures exceeded the receipts by Ï24, 000,000. Coal, trains collided near Norfolk, Va., and Engineer Andrews and Edward Illand, a laborer, were killed and five other men were iniured. Telegrams directing the immediate suspension of purchasesof silverbullion were sent to all mints and assay offices. Ill, her husband out of work and eight children crying for bread, Mrs. Kate Wagner, of Chicago, ended life's misery by drowning. Gen. W. B. Andekson, of Mount Vernon, 111., has been nominated by the president as pension agent for Illinois with headquarters at Chicago. Mixnesota has been robbed of millions of dollars by prominent citizens, according to the committee investigatingipine land frauds. Abe Kiumo.M), said to be the worst man who ever lived in Charlotte eounty, Va., was hanged by a mob. The public debt statement issued on the lst showed that the debt increased $5,141,058 duringthe month of October. The cash balance in the treasury was $102,294,291. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasur3r, amounts to $1,594,556,352. Indiana's election bribery law, adopted by the legislature in 1889, has been declared valid by the state supreme court. An electric car on a Portland (Ore. ) road went through an open draw into the river and seven persons were drowned. FiFTy thousand persons in Chicago followed the body of the murdered mayor, Carter 11. Harrison, to üraceland cemetery. FlBB destroyed the Irondale rolling milis at Anderson, Ind., the loss being $100,000. Unknowx robbers killed Matthew Akerson and his wife, living near Weeping Water, Neb., and also wounded a sou. James C. Savery, proprietor of the Savery house, the largest hotel in Iowa, made an assignment in New York, with liabilities of about $1,000,000 and asseta the same. A savv.mii.l and lumber yards near Dixon, O., were burned, the loss being $200,000. At thcir meeting in Chicago the anarohists adopted a manifestó declartng the government to be a failure. At a railway crossing near Newport, Me., Mrs. J. II. Youngandherdaughter were struek by a train and killed and Mr. Yoiin_r is fatally iniured i! IBDIKO'S planing mili and lumber yard at ZanesviHe, O., Were burned, the loss );];,:■ $100,000. FSKD 'J'. Pos-ion, cashier and eonfidential clerk for commission firm of McCoy i Inderwood at the stock yards La Chicago, disappeared with i:;.".000 belonging to his employers. i Fedoratlop of Labor will holü its thirteenth annaal couvention ii' ' ir..;;" '".I .-. iel '■ i. J. K. 1'aï.v'e, who had informed on a nuraber of illieit distillers in Winston county, Ala., was riddled with bullets by nnknown men. Mrs. Robert Vancb, of Simcoe, Ont, who was injured in the wreek at Battle Creek, Mich., died at the Nichols hospital, twenty-eight victims froni the colusión. The coinage executed at the several mints of the United States for the month of October aggregated 7,782, 140 pier.es of the value of $10,003,900. In his Thanksgiving proclamation Got. Pennoyer, of Orejón, asks for prayer that eongress and the president raay be favorably disposed toward silver. At Willow river, near Hinckley, Mina., fire did $250,000 damage. the Barnes swee))injf av;iy the Vox & WÍSdom Lumber eompany's milis and 260,0Ü0 feet of luinber. Obobsk O'Xkii.l, a Chicago polieeman, ivas arrested for trarglary and a jimmy wasfoundin his possession ulien taken in custody. By the explosión of a boiler at New York half a dozen men were killed and nearly a score injured. i iik ü-inile foot race at Albany, N. Y., for a purse of S5Ü0 and the championship of the worltl betvveen Smith, of Albany, and McClennand, of ] i 1 1,burgh, Pa., resulted in a victory for Smith. who won in 0:34 3-5, finishing 200 yards ahead. The post office in the (jovernment building dispatched 7,087,407 pieces of mail matter during the world's fair. Col. Gii.bert S. .Jexmngs, U. S. A., retired, was suffocated by gas at his home in Detroit, Mich. 8. Hi.aisdei.l, Ju.. & Co., large wholesale dealers at Boston and many other places in cotton and wool stocks, failed for $275,000. By a Pennsylvania market train running into a freight caboose at I'hiladelpbia James Hainüton was killed and several persons were injured. Greeslandeh trotted two miles in 4:3+ at Terre Haute, Ind., beating the stallion record. J. Hamtton Hoge, United States con sul to Amoy, China, was notified of his removal by the president when aboutto sail from San Francisco. 1'ATRtCK EUGEXE I'KKNDERGAST was arraigned before Judge Horton in Chicago and pleaded "not guilty" to the charge of willfully murdering Carter II. Harrison. At the fourth annual convention in Chicago of the non-partisan V. C. T. ü. Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney, of Cleveland, is elected president. iUork tnan iu,uuu,uuu persons were fed on the exposition grounds by the Wellington Catering company during the fair. Fakmer Tkauger's cupidity got the better of his judgment near Pleasant Unity, Pa., and he exehanged $5,000 for paper scraps. The boiler of an engine on the Iron Mountain road exploded at St. Louis and George Schroeder, the engineer, was killed, Thomas Scott, the fireman, was fatally injured and a brakeman, Ed Keeper, was blovvn into the river and drowned. Tuk flr.t snow of the season feil at st. Paul, Minn., with the thermometer at f reezing point. None of the sellers who offered the si.UOU ounces of silver to the treasury, all of which was declined, responded to the counter tender of the treasury. tío the October purchases of silver wound up all silver purchases under nnder the Sherinan law. The big woolen milis of the Soutliwork Mills company at Philadelphia shut down, throwing 1,100 persons out of work, SrXTBKH joint resolutions and sevrnteen bilis became laws at the extraordinary session of congress. The whaling bark Alaska that arrived In San Francisco says that never in the history of the world has the present catch been equaled. The total number eaptured by the fleet was 389. Thkre were S58 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 3d, against 340 the week previous and 238 in the corresponding time in 1892. Masked men robbed the passengers on a train at Oliphant, Ark., and killed J. 1'. McNally, the conductor. The president lssued hisannualproelamation naming Thursdu ,v. November 30, as a day of thanksgiving. Tiikkk ïnnsked men forced entrance into the home of Joseph Miscenta near Leadville, Col., and secured 81,000 in sash and jewelry, representing the earuings of years. D.'.mui, Colghi.in was placed on trial a second time in Chicago for the mur3er of Dr. P. H. Cronin on May 4, 1S89. The house of Henry Weir at Kennedy, Ala., was burned and three chiliri'n perishéd in the flames. Si: kn HiNDRioD Dciroit newsbo3's, ffhof xpenses were paid by Gen. Alger, viewed the fast-fading beauties 3Í the world's fair. Excluiiing the value of their goods, American exhibitors claim to have expended from f'20,000,000 to Ï'J5,000,000 at the world's fair. ÜBSERS to resume the coinage of standard silver dollars were sent to the inints at San Francisco and Xew Orkutn.s. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 3d aggregated 11,050,712,005, against 1928,141,581 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, waa 84.8. A.N ühio Southern train jumped the track near Springfield, O., and killed üve Italiana and wouDded many other persona An unknown schooner was wreeked in the recent gales on Lake Michigan and her crew of seven men were undoubtedly lost. All trammen on the niffht passenger tr;iins of the Delaware, Lacka wanna & Western railroad have been armed with WiuL-hester rifles and revolvers to prevent train robbery. PERSONAL AND POL1TICAL. TCi.m; JIerod, a colored resident of Atchison, Kan., celebrated his 103d birthday. He was bom a. slave in Richmond. Flokkxce Siika, the oldest man in Indianapolis, Ind., died at the "? ei 104 years. ü;dwin F. Uhl, of Michigan, was nominated by the president to be assistant secretary of state, vice Josiah Quiney, resigned. Vkry Kev. Edward Sobin, founder of the university of Notre Dame, lnd. , is dead. Me was bom uear Paris in 1814. Hkzekiah Ll Hosmer, ex-chief justice of Montana, died in San FYancisco at the asfe of 78. He was born at Henderson, N. Y. Dr. Ei.i J. IIknki.k, wbo represented the Maryland Fifth district in the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth congresses, died in Ilaltimore. Capt. Daniel Marcy, one of the oldest shipmastcrs oí Portsmouth, X. II., and at one time a member of congress, died at the age of 84 years. FOREIGN. Bib John Abbott died at Montreal, 71 years. ile was at one time premier of Canada, succeeding Sir John Macdonald. ËMFSBÓB Khancis JoNEPH aecepted the resignation of the entire Austrian cabinet, headed by Count von Taafe. Tin: steamer República rammed the transport Bio de Janeiro, which was conveying1 1.100 troops to Santos, and 500 of them went down with the transport and were drowned. The armed steamer Urano -while leaving Rio was hit by a shell and badly damaged and forty of her crew were killed. The chief mosque and several houses were burned at Damascus, Eypt, the loss being $5,000,000. The sugar erop of Cuba for the season of 1894 is estimated at 1,000,000 tons. Advices from Yokohama report great floods in Okayama prefecture. Two hundred houses were swept away and over 100 persons were thought to have perished. The steamship City of Alexandria, belonging to the New York & Cuba Mail Steamship company, from Havana and Matanzas for New York, was burned off Cojimar, entailing a loss of thirty-four lives. Djuritch, ex-minister of war, dropped dead at Belgrade upon hearing that the king had proraoted him to the rank of general. The Uritish parliament convened in London. A fkrby boat conveying 200 Chinese excursionists to a festival near Hongkong, China, capsized, and twenty persons were drowned. The insurgent warship Republic ran into and sunk the transport Rio de Janeiro, on her way from Rio Grande do Sul to Rio de Janeiro with troops for I'eixoto, and 1,300 of the troops were drowned. ElNS Lobenoul was reported captured in África by Kritish troops. Nearly 3,000 Matabeles were killed in recent battles. In an address to the women of Montreal Lady Aberdeen advocated forraation of a national council of women for the dominion. Sociai.ists stormeil a hall iu Yieina in which liberáis were holding a meeting and in the ensuing riot fifty-three persons were injured. LATER. At Santander, Spain, the ship Volo, loaded with dynamite, caught flre and exploded and 300 persons were killed, 4.')U were injured, and property valued at $'2,500,000 was destroyeci Mrs. W. Ij. Reardon, of Hannatownship, IncL, believed to be the oldest wotnan in Indiana, died at the age of 103 years. Expeüimexts are about to be rnade on the Erie canal looking to the operation of boats by eleetrieity. Extiía precautions were being taken to prevent cranks from getting into the white house at Washington, caused by a threatening Idaho man. Ai.most the whole town of Latham, Kan., was destroyed by an incendiary fire. As express train on the Illinois Central road was ditched by robbers 20 miles north of Cairo, 111., and the Ureman and two unknown men, supposed to be tramps, were killed. The wreckNine race horses were cremated and a stable hand burned in a fire at the Clifton Jockey club track in l'aterson, N. J. Accordixg to the report of Assistant PoQtmaster General Maxwell 2,621 fourth class offices were established during the year, A BAITjBOAT in whieh were twenty two workmen was swamped near New York and ten of tlie occupants were drowned. Thber of the Beven men who robbed a train and killed the conductor at Olyphant, Jiu. , were capturad af ter a liard fight. Edwabd Waogoneb, his son, daughter and son-in-luw (all colored) were hangol to a tree by a raob near Lynchburg, Tenn., for burn-burning. (iüKKM.ANDKU trottod 2 milos atTerre Haute, Imi., in 4::W, beating the world's record. He had previously lowered the stall ion record, Jamks E. Stonk, the murderer of the Wratten family, six in number, near Washington, Ind., pleaded guilt3T and was sentenced to be hanged February 1U, 18'.M. QkoBSS (i. iYMi:-s, a member of congress from 1884 to 1SSS, put a bullet through his head at his residence in Denver. IUness had made him insane. Fükight traías on the Central l'acifij road collided near lleno, ïs'ev., itnd six men were killed. Locis A. Whight, an lS-year-old hul of Newton, Mass., now in jail as an iuceudiary, has confessed to having set the big lires in Üoston last spring which caused a losa of property ol $3,000,000 and eight deaths.

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