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13
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December
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1893
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Tuk flrst regular session of the Fifty-third congress convened al noem on the 4th. In the señale a large number of Dill.s and resolutions were lntroauoed and referred lo appropriate committees. After the reading of the president's message tho de-uhs of Charles O'Neill and w il ■ in m Li'.lv. late representa tl vea from Pennsylvauia, were announced aml the Benate, a8 a mark of respect, adjourned TIn1 .speaker called the houaa to order at nooii and II. S. Hundy, of Oi'.io, inl Mr. Uriffln, or Michigan, new members, took the oath af office. The dtaths of Messrs. O'Neill and Lilly were announced. After the reading of the message froin the president the houso adjourned. IS (ne tenate on the 5ih Mr. Hoar offered a resoluiion requestinc tbe president to communii'ate to the senate insiructions given to any representative of the United States in regard to Hawaüan affairs. Mr. Dolph severely critlcised the administraron for its action In regard to Hawaii. The Domtnatton of V. D. Hornhlowcr, to bo assosiate ustice of the aupieme cüurt, v;ls received from the president .... In the house a t.ill w.vs introduced providing fir the transfer of the pension bureau irom the Interior to the war department. The bankrupicy bill was discusseJ. On tlitj (iih Senator Voorhees introduced a bill in the senate wbicn ü -clares a pensiona vtsled rlght, raftulates suspensions of pensions and granta appeals to the supreme court of the nisirict of Columbia. A bill was also introducid to amend the iniernal reenue laws. Senator Boar's reaolutlon oalllngon the president for information regardinstuffairsin Hawaii was adopted In the house Mr. Grosvenor oflered a resolution containing 1,900 names of Oiiio pensionera who were c'.ropped from the rolls between Mareta 4 and October 1, 1893, and ;i' Ihe secretary of the interior to furnisfa ihe house a detailed statement as to the :s for these suspenslona Mr. Hitt introduced a resolution relative to Hawaii and declaring the sense of the house in the matter. lx the senate bilis were passed on the 7th to amend the railroad land prant forfeiture acts and granting a pension of 8103 per month to Francés lorse, widow of Gen. John M. Corse. Adjourned to the lllh In the houso the general debate on the baukruptcy bill was closed. A bill was passed to increase the force of capitol employés. A bül was introduced to repeal the provisions of the last army bill prohibiting the reeulistment of privates who have served ten years or more who are over 35 years of age. Theiík was no session of the senate on the 8th....In the house the Torrey bankruptcy bill was defeated by a vote of UI to 111 on a motion that the enacting clause be stricken out. Adjourned to the llth DOMESTIC. Another big gas well was struck in West Séneca, near Buffalo, N. Y., the flow of which was estimated at 1,000,000 feet per day. RlCORD Kosseau, president of the Banque Francaise in New York, fled with at least $20,000 belonging to his depositors. The New York locomotive machine worksat Rome, N. Y., were burned, the loss being $500,000. A riRE in the store of the Powers Dry Goods company at St Paul, Minn., caused a loss of $100,000. A receiveb was appointed ior the Minnekahta state bank at Hot Springs, a. d. The British ship Jason went ashore off Highland light, near Boston, in a hurricatie, and the crew of twenty-six, with Capt. MeMillan, were drowned. The Chicago trust and savings bank was placed in the hands of a receiver. The British steamer Asphodel was wrecked at Eehoboth, Del. It was valued at $150,000 and had a cargo of sugar valued at $200,000. The Lehigh Valley railroad strike Wiis deulared off, bolh sides making concessious. Habpxb Whitmikh, a farmer aged40, murdered his mother-in-law and sisterin-law and then disappeared in the hills at Butler, Pa. Robbery was {he motive. The steamer VValdo A. Avery, grain laden f rom Chicago to Buffalo, was destroyed at Mackinaw straits. Loss, $80,000. Martin Asdersox, murdered an unidentifled woman in the cellar of his employer's store at Omaha, and then killed himself. Mi;s. Georoe H. Wtt.t.tamb, ;v Portland (Ore.) religious enthusiast, finished a forty-day fast and resumed enting. Schloss & Co., New Y'ork clothing manufacturers, failed for $500.000. The firm was ruined by its confidential manager, who embezzled $75,000. Eigiit thousand persons in the Michigan península were said to bo in need of assistance. The Georgia house passed the bill providing for the issue of currency notes by state banks. Hirschberg & Co., of Boston, wholesale boot, and shoe dealers, failed for $160,000. Qukex Empress, the monster English locomotive exhibited at the world's fair, made a mile in fifty-two seconds near New York. A urn where counterfeit nickels, dimes, quarters and halves were being made was discovered in Cincinnati and the counterfeiters were arrested. Gen. William Lilly, congressman at large f rom Pennsylvania, died at his home at Mauch Chuuk of congestión of the lungs, Firb in the navy yard at Norfolk, Va., did damage of nearly $300,000. It originated in cotton waste. The stables and barns of the Consolidated Street Traction Eailway com pany in Dallas, Tex., together with thirty cara and sixty rutiles were burned. It was reported that Minister Willis had offerefl the deposed Hawaiian queen the support of the United States government in securirig her restoration according to instructions, but that she declined to accept the assistance unless this govcrnment would agree to sustain her in power. A syndicate of New York and English capitalista have bought Squaw island in Niágara river for $1, 000,001). The buyers will erect vast docks to cost 51,500,000. The Southern female university at Birminprham, Ala., was destroyed by iire and Minnie Dean was fatally burned and sevcral other girls were Beriously injured. A t i towu has been named for United States Senator LHibois by ; admiring free-Mlver rcsiiients. A n epidemie Ot the ffrip was prevailing at Jefferson City, Mo., and amongthose disabled were Gov. Stune, Secretary of State Leseur. Auditor Siebert and Treasurer Stephens. Thikvi:s entered tlie South Bend (Ind.) national ban!; at the noon hour and snatching il5,'J0U escaped. H. L. (Jarrett, of Toledo, O., was sandbagged and robbed of 1545 and his watcta. Thk lirazilian war ship America, which recently sailed from New York, was disabled by a traitorousmember of her crew. ATTOBKXT (Jkxeii.w. Oi.nky's report was transmitted to eongress. He urges abolishment of the fee system. A BHONZK utatue of Gen. Jame Shields, of Illinois, was unyeiled iu the capítol at Washington and tribute to his memory was paid in senate and house. Tubkkb hall at AUegheny, Pa., was burned, and Janitress lienninghoff and one of her children were suffocated. Faumkk JOHH Kkk.sk y. living near Owasa, la., was shot and killed by robbers whjle drawinff water from a well. Aï Albany, N. Y., three men were falally injured by the explosión of a calcium light cylindcr. At the annual raeetincr m Cincinnati of the Journeyman Barbera' National uniou it was decided to favor Sunday closiug of shops everywhere. 'J'hk ncent strike on the Lehlgh Val" ley raílroadcost theeompany ?f,(K)O,OOO. Oxk HUNDRF.D c;ises of grip were re porled at the Michigan City (Ind. ) penitentiary. 8KVBH in.NDiiKD families applied to the township authoritiea at Spring'field, Ü., for aid. Thk ncw cruiser Marblehead developed a ■-peed of 18.94 knots iu a trip on i he sound. HUNGABIAN8 and ('Uiers had a bloody üf,'lit ;it Ilollihter, O., ;n.'l two men were fatally injured and a dozen others liurt. Bob Greenwood, a negro, was beaten to death by a raob in Crost county, Ark., because his family olïended the wife of a white neighbor nained Wilson. ( kkai. Springs, a noted nealth rosort in Williamson county, 111., containing a popuiation of 1,500, was almost entirely destroyed by h're. Tuk State bank of Veedersburg, Ind., went into voluntary liqnidation. Ben Tennis ivas hanged at llurrisburg-, Pa., for killing1 A(fnes Cooper Bright, a girl 9 years old, on September V.i last. The estimated value of all the exhibits at the world's fair is Í14,OOO,OOO, and the customs duties paid to the United States government amount to Í4S8, 159. Farmer Baker and his wife were poisoned by drinking whisky from an old barrel which was bought at Cooper, Tex. The Kansas State Farmers' Alliance decided to ioin the people's party. The second trial of Daniel Coughlin for the murder of Dr. Ci'onin began in Chicago. A ctTlZEX of X au voo, 111., in a fit ol rage bit both hs wife's ears off. JoSBPH Deitch, an aged Hebrew, died at Indianapolis, and Í94.000 in gold was fonnd concealed in his bedroom. Tut-: Kauffman iron mines near Alburtis, I'a., have shut down ior the ürst time in fourteen years. Tuk exehanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 8th aggregated 81,118,437,687, against f790,870,812 the previous week. Thedecrease, eoinpared with the corresponding week in 1S92, was aa.7. At l'ittsburgh, Pa., Jacob Holtzmann while drunk killed his 10-monthsold boy, shot at his wife and committed suïcide. ThbkE were 380 business failures in the 1,'nited States in the seven days emled on the 8th, against 278 the week previous and 271 in the corresponding time in 1892. IIauvky Patb and Frank Stires were hanged in the county jail at Danville, 111., for the inurder of lienry Helmick August 36, A ba.nkioi!, sheriff and tax collector at Portland, Ore., were charffed with stealing public money to the extent of $100, 000. Tkadk of all kinds was reported dull throughout the country. The United States pust office authorities have deterraiued to suppress the bond and investment corapanies which are operating all over the country. Y. I. Rend, chairman of the relieJ committee, says that over 100,000 resident worknien in Chicago are out of employment. QbobQE Uishop, Wal ter Huel, Williani Kdwards and August Caerway, residents of N w Orleans, were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the Mississippi river at College Point. The Louisiana state lottery is preparing to move from New Orleans - probably to Honduras. J. W. Edwards, who lived near Fulton, Ky., fatally shot his wife, tried to kill his sister-in-law and then ended his oivn life with a bullet. The final report of Treasurer Seeberger shows that the total disbursements of the Columbian Exposition company were $31,679,045.94, while the total receipts were $33,594,147.87. Thus a balance oí $1,915,101.93 was left to the credit of the company. Thk Famous shoe house at St. Louis was damaged by llames and water to the amount of $150,000. Harbv Starks, Harry Dunbar and Charles Uallagher, of the schooner Hustle's crew, got astray on Grand Banks, near Gloucester, Mass , and were drowned. The belting1 establishment and tannery of James Davis at Pawtucket, E. I., were burned, the loss being 1135.000. Leaving her two little ones to go dovvn-town at Kansas City, Mo., Mis. Nichols returned to find them fatally burned. Gov. CROUN8B, of Nebraska, will investígate reports of starving farmers in the western section of the state. The wants of the suffering Gogebio (Michigan) minera havo been tetnporarily relieved, but the men and faciilies will need help all winter. 1t has been settled that the CorbettMitchell fiftht will take place at tlia Btate fair grounds in Jacksouville, Fla. Beu Minteb and Bob Wilkens (negroes) were lynched at Berlín Ala., for robbing a store and killingr Reuben Smith, a clerk who slept therein. Three business firms at Syracuse. N. Y., were burned out, the total loss beinff t2()0,000. i he manuiactunng jeweiers oi flainville, North Attleboro, Attleboro Falls and Attleboro, Mass., ninety-six in number, have suffered losses aggregating S50U.OO0 by reason of failures in tho pasto year. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. GkoBSK W. (iiiAM)i.Ky, an autliority on English literature, died at Vergenness, Vt., of general debility. lie :is born in 1812. Axtoink EoBBRT, t,he oldest native born residen t of Frenehtown, Mich., and the father of twenty-seven children, is dead. Catt. Hassett has completed his sixty-seeond year of c-ontinuous government service. Daniel Webster made li i m u paye. MBS. LtDIA Rbzau, the oldest lady in New Oricans, died at her home, aged nearly 102ycars. She wituessed ashington's funeral. Tuk president has notninated Joseph IÍ. Doe, of Wisconsin, to be assistant secretary of war. Benbt GoKBElh who invented the incandescent eleotric lamp, died of pneumonia in New York, aged T." year. Tuk 'National Deinocracy" is the name of a new democratie society in New York whose object is to affiliate with any organization opposed to ïammauy. EoBBBT Ahams, Jr., ex-minister to Brazil, was nominated by the republicans of the Second district of Pennsvlvania to fill the vacancy ín coqpress caused by the death of Charles O'NeiL FOREIGN. Pboï. John Tyndall, LL. D., the eminent -scientist and author, died at Haslemere, Surrey, England, aged 73 years. Advicks f rom Hawaii were to the effect that no change in the situation had taken place. The provisional government was still in power and Minister Willis was awaiting instructiona frorn Washington. Juan Guadalupe was shot by law in the City of Mexico for to cleath his 3-year-old boy who refused to drink a cup of coffee. The influenza was increasing in many places in Germany, and at some points was largely of a fatal character. Thomas Axwokthy died in exile at Harailton, Ont. He was treasurer of Cleveland and in 1886 decamped with $500,000. A totai, general loss of L88,281,919 was caused by the sixteen weeks' strike of English coal miners. A coroxf.h"s jury in London found that the death of Prof. Tyndall, the scientist, was caused by an overdose of chloral given by his wife in mistake. lx opening the agricultural congres at London the earl of Winchelsea drew a darle picture of the situation in England. The Norwegian bark Don Juan waa wrecked off Leravig, Donmark, and all the crew, consisting of fourteen men, including the captain, were lost with the exception of three men. Gkokge lic.NN, an American artist, was sentenced to iifteen jears' imptisonment at Brussels for the murder of. Anna Ilolïman. LATER. It was reported that the ex-queen ot Hawaii had applied to the provisional governinent for proteetion, claiming that she feared violence from foreign residente, and the government at once grauted her request. The Maison Hanseatique, a famous Antwerp granary, was destroyed by an incendiary fire, the loss being $1,000,000. - A million dollars for eharity iu Chicago this winter is the deraand made by the people who are most intimately acijuiinted with the and destitution of the city's unemployed. (iii:i.i:s Ckaxnkls killed his wife, who was suing him fordivorce ai. CJreencastle, liid.. and then shot himself. Five men rode into Piano, Tex. , and blowinjj open the safe of the First national bank secured i'20,000. SUPERINTENDENT OF POOR CLL'G SaVS he never saw such suffering as exists amcwg the unemployed of Milwaukee. SOUVEMB coins are to be melted down and recoincd. The amount is estimated at $1,100,000. Of T,9S7 car loads of exhibits received at the world's fair only 3,546 have thus far been shipped away. Twkn'ty-two passengers were hurt by the wreek of a Southern Pacific train at Landsburg, X. il. The Lehigh railway officials have adopte:! the plan of reducing wages as a rebuke to those employés who went on strike. A bomb was thrown by August Vaillant, an anarchift, in the French chamber of deputies, and eighty members were injured. Gkn. Alqeb has induced owners in the Michigan península to open their mines and employ the starving men. Thousasds of letters containin money have been stolen at South Bend, Ind., and government officers were investiga tin g. Nathan A. Farwell, ex-United States senator, died from apoplexy at Rockland, Me. He was 82 years oíd. The Mutual Fire Insurance company at Knox, Ind., collapsed and theoflicers were said to have taken the funds and fled. Two heports were made by the civil service commission, one favorably reviewing the work and the other criticising it. Faü.m iri(luc.'ts show a decline accordiug to ajjrieultural department reports for the month of December. COMMAXDKH IN CllIKF ADAJIS, of the G. A. E., has issued an official circular asking all comrades to report any person known to be in receipt of a pension to which he is not eutitled.

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