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20
Month
December
Year
1893
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In tho sonate on the 11 th Senator Hoar offered a resolutioa attackins ttie presulent's Hawaiian policy anti Senator Gray made reply. The bilí to repeal the federal election laws was referred to the electtons committee - In the house bilis were introduced to prevent strikers inierfering with mail uains, to provide for a uniform systeni of bankruptcy, and a bíll maklng ohanges in postal affairs. The ways and means committee chansred the time when the tariff bill wil] tro into effeot from Mareh 1 to 1, I8M. and ulso mude severa! chaages in the mensure. i'MF. session of the sonate on the lith was oc ïupieil in üiscussing the bill to repeal the fedtral olccti'in luns. The nomination of Charles W. Jabney, Jr. , of Teniu'ssue; to be assistant scertury of afjriculture was re ?ived from the president. ...In the house the bill to admit Utnh as a state in the union was discussed at th. IN the sonate the Hawalta) question was ■ iisnnsrj on th 18th Snd a resolution oalling npon the presiUont for rurtlvr ïnformation in the matter w.is referred to the committee on ioreign aiTairH Iti the house the bill for t; r i i i!i to atalehood was i without diivsion witti an amendment prohibitiüft polygainy forever. ilr. Hatch'a ih'w imti-optioii bill W84 introduoed. It reduces the tax lt'vied by the former bill one-half. Senator Voohheks Introduoed a bill in the senate on the Hth for the coinage of silver dollars and the retiremt ut of srnnll nominations of gold and paper. The house biil to repeal the federal election laws vas reponed and placed on the calendar. Adjourned to tbe I8ih In the house the bill to improve the methods of accounting in the post office department was passed. An effort to proceed with the bilis admittmg New Mexico and Arizona as States faih it owlng to the lack of a quorum. Tin: senate was not in session on the löth In the house the bill for the adniisslon of Arizona as a siate was passed by a vote of 185 to 61 and ;he bill to admit New Mexico was -discussed. Ihe urgent deüciency bill was repur ted. DOMESTIC. HENBT S. i'i'i iiuan, the ex-chief wei;her of the Phiiatlelphia mint, was genteneed to seven years and six raonths' hnprisonment in the penitentiary for embezzlement. TwioMv THOUSAITD dollars a month will be reqtnredto f eed the unemployed miners in the upper península oí Michigan. 1ÍKCK1VKKS were appointed fot" the immense agricultura l implement establishment of C. Aultman & Co. at Canton, O. The liabilities were $1,000,000; assets, 12,700,000 Fred Fern, the American vvho was connected with the Garza outbreak in Mexico and who tunied state's evidenee, was found fatally shot, in Rio Grande City, Tex. A nolle pbosequi was entered at Milwaukee in the case of Judge Jenkins, ehartfed with embezzlement and illegal bankinj. VV. H. I'arks and Mrs. Dr. North, a relative, were caught by an express train at a cnossinfr near Newman, Ga., and instantly killed. The American Federatlon of Labor met In thirteenth annual convention in Chicago. TnE ways anr) rneans committee of the house have chang'ed the time when the tariff bill will go into effect from March 1 to June 1, 1894, and have made several changes in the measure. EiGHTEENyouths, forming two gangs of pickpockets, were arrested in Chicago. A. S. Kobertson, cashier of the wholesale stamp department in the Chicago post office, was sandbagged vvithin his owu cage and the govei-nment money UU looted of between $5,000 and $10,000. Foub negroes were lj'nched near Selma, Ala., for sttempting to break into the liouse of Mrs. W. G. Jones. This made six lynchings in that section in ODe week. Laura and Lizzie Beckhord, aged 17 and 10 years, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home near Dalevilie, Ala. Josei'H Suis, a bricklayer at Dover, Tenn., killed his wife and then blew out his own brains. His inability to effect a reconcilition with his wife was the cause. The Akron (O.) Iron eompany went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $500,000. G. W. UeFbance, ÏU years old, was found guilty of robbing a mail carrier of a mail pouch in Omaha and sentenced to life iraprisonment One cent was all the young robber realized. Moonshiners waylaid United States Marshal Winnie Robinson iti Mississippi and after killing him burned his body. D. Gltlohn & Co. and Charles II. Landberg, importers of furs at New York and Philadelphia, failed for f HO. - 000. Tuk plant of the Dealers' Distilling eompany t Hammond, Ind. , was deBtroyed by fire, the loss being f'200,000. A JOKT to try Patrick Eugeno Prenderfrast for the murder of Carter 1!. Harrison in Chicago was secured after six day=' work in Judge Brentano's court. The fire loss for the country for the week ended on the 9th was estimated at $3,012,500. This brings the year's loss up to date to $127,800,000. Pancha, a Mexican 113 years old and totaily blind, was burned to death in his home at San Diego, Cal. FBED Mii.i.er, the pedestrian, and Gaess, his dog, who started to walk from San Francisco to New York (3,200 miles) on June 20, have arrived in New York. The National farmers' congress began its thirteenth unnual session in Savannah, Ga. The Bank of Willow City, N. 1)., was placed in the hands of a receiver. The total value of Iowa erops the past year, exclusive of the producís of orchards, gardens and vineyarda, is placed at $161,097,Q8a NAHCÏ HAKKS, the famous trotter, has vetired from the race track. J. W. Davidso.v. deputy clerk, dropped dead from apoplexy wnile iu the act of swearing a uitnessin acourt at Findlay, ('. In:], burned William II. Frear's dry . house i: Troy, N. '.. the lagest in th. 1,000. ffG to failure of the governmept to pay overdue lease money the Kaw Indiaas in Kansas .miv suiii to be staivm_;. Ini i.i i 'm i i by a dream Mrs. lladic Hewitt, of Mount Snmmit, Iml., refuscil to marry William Norton on the weddiii' (1:lv. Tuk offlcers of the Ottumwa (la.) Loan, Bond & Investment company disappearcd with the funds. ROBBERS broko into a jail at Paris, Ma, and stole a large snmof money from a dranken prisoner. .IiuiN Akmstrong was hansred at A t hens, Ten n. , for the murder of French Sharp in April last. The large svle stable of H. L. Denenick ;it California, Mo., was destroyed tiro, together with eight valuable horsi v ÍÍK.MHXCKD by Ida Hall, his sweetheurt. Edward llandfield shot her f atally at Denver and then killed himself. Tuk New York board of heilth declares consumption to be contagious Hnd asks for a hospital for its exclusive treatment. An' expresa train on the Tennsylvapia ro:iil was wrecked near Nantieoke, Pa., and twelve persons were injured. Skvk.v men were injured, three probably fatally, by the falling of a section of the roof of an icehouseat Hellairo, O. Thb Hank of Eushville, Neb., was closed by the state banking board. THE Sun Vapor Street Light company at Cantón, O., went Into the liamls of a reeëiver, with liabilities of over 1800, E. L. I)i kk, the big cigarette manufacturer at Durham, N. C, failed for 1500,000. Babbeb sfaops in Kansas City, Mo., will hereafter be eiosed on Sunday. Thrkk minera were fatally injured by a ialiing oagi; in Ward's rnine at Moberiy, Mo. ÏHB tl. V. Warren & Co. 's hardware establishment at Troy, N. Y., was burned, the loss being i'200,000. DüBINO the year now clusing nearly 13 per cent. of the entire railway mileageof the United States, represen ting over 13 per cent. of the entire capitalization, bas gone into the hands of receivers. EaBTHQüAKB shocks were feit at Carmi and Albion, 111., and at E vansvil lo and Mount Vernon, Ind. Ño damage was ilone. Gbeat suft'ering was reported araong the farmers in northwestern Nebraska on account of failure of the crops during the last three years. Vicai: (■k.ni.ual McCabb, ol the Providenee (R. I.) diocese, was found dead in bed at the parochial residence. Fob killing father, sister and stepmother Charles J. Lucky was hanged at Brockviile, Ont. He protested his innoceuee. THE Farmers' netional congress at Savannah, (ia., elected 1). F. Clayton, of Iowa, as president. John Y. Mcivaxk. the Gravesend (N. Y.) ehief of pólice, was sentenced to thirty uays in jail and a fine by Judjfe Barnard for offenses aprainst the elective franchise at the last state election. After a separation of fifty years William C Huruer and Mrs. Childs, a sister, met at Lima, O. ANttELO Zappa was hanged at Pittsburprh, Pa., for murderiny Frank Helmstetter in July, 189'2, in a row g-rowiníf out of a quarrel between the wives of the two men. The Arcade and several blocks at Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, the loss estimated at Í750.000. Bv direction of the president becretary Carlisle called for twenty-four resignations in the treasury service. Tin: Indiana supreme court holds that residence proper ty can recover damasres caused by the presence oí a saloon. U. Patbick & Co., bankers at Pittsburffb, Pa., closed their doors with liabilities of Í5Ü0.000 and asets of $700,000. Ralph Crossmirk, who murdered his inother at Farmers Valley on November 19, 1893, was hanged at Smithport, Pa. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 15th aggregated $1,915,882,5S8, agalnst (1,118,437,587, the previous week. Thedecrease, compared with the corresponding week in was 22. 7. The fourth span of the great bridge over the Ohio from Louisville, Ky. , to Jeiïersonville, Ind., feil and thirtythree worktnen were killed and many Others were injured. THEBE were 339 business failures in the United States (including seren bauks) in the seven days ended on the 15th, ajrainst 386 the week previous and 279 in the corresponding time in Thk Crane Iron company of Philadelphia failed for 8700,000. In the Indiana gas belt over 20,000 men were out of employment and their families dependent on charity for support KXBGUTIONS took place as follows: Arthur Courtney and Henry Taylor (eolored) at Princess Aune, Md., for the murder of Capt. Cooper, and Dlck Robinson at Sedalia, Mo , for the murder of ii Germán domestic named Johanna Schollman. EFFOBT8 will be made by the pólice to keep out the horde of tramps now flockinsf to ffliicago. A wreck on the New York & Pennsylvania road about ti miles north of Dunkirk. N. Y., resulted in the lo.s of eight lives and the injury to others. HABBI8BUB&, HL, wasstruck by a tornado wuich unroofed houses, uprooted trees and did other dam age. Thk available stocks of wheat in the United States and Canada, according to Bradstreet's, are 107,820,000 bushels. Fabmeb Jacob Fox, living near Lima. O., sigued a thirty-diiy note for $5,000 uelieving it was a contract for a An old lady uamed Mrs. Jettie Eitel was sent to the deaconess home at livansville, Ind., and cried herself to , death. TBKA8DREB ABM8TK0NS, of Tipton county, Ind., was found guilty of embezzling $80,000 and sentenced to a year's imprisonmenU i. u uym belween cattleiuou und "flrifters" near San Angelo, Tex., fonr men were killed. A 8TONE wrecked an express train at Bamford Station, I'a,, and sixteen i sons were injured. That female teachers are driving males out of the profession is shown by the report of the school superintendent of Iowa. Trade throughout the country was said to be very dull, distress among idle operatives was conspicuous, and contributions in aid of the sufferintf unemployeíl were a feature of the holi:ison. Effobts were being made to save tho neck of Wilson Howard, held at Jefferson, Mo. , for over thirty murders. Oh ber official trial trip the United States cruiser Olympta made a record of 31.67 knots an huur. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Jeremiau H. MuBPHY. ex-member of congress from Iow, died in Washington from dropsy, ag-ed 5S years. He served in the Forty-eighth and Fortyninth coogresses and won a national reputation for hia advocacy of the Ilennepin canal project. J. V. BüBBOBS, atred 104, died at Denis. ui. Tez. lie had heen raarricd nine times and was the father of thirty-two children, twentj'-four of whotn are living. ExCongrksnmax JoHX Cesbxa (lied at Bradford. I'a., in hia 73d year. He was a mem ber of the Forty-flrst and Forty-third eonfrresses. Ckables Robebt ThoBNK, the veteran actor and manager, died in Sun Francisco, aged T'J years. Tuk otücial canvas of the vote at the November eleetion ia New York gives the republicans both branches of the legislature, and the eoustitutional conventiou will be composed of IlepubIicaii6, 110; democrats, 05. Maynard (dem.) for court of appeals was beateu by 101,064. Chairman Carter of the republican national committee issued a cali for a meeting of the executive committee at the Arlington hotel, Washington, January 11. .Mus. Porter, widow of Admiral Porter, died at her home in Washington, aged 74 years. Mrs. Matilda Harper (colored) died at Peor ia, '111, at the age of 105 years. Dr. David Thater, who aided John Brown in his plans to frce the slaves, died at Hoston. He was S0 years old. Joun L. Poktee, designer and bnilder of the famous rebel ram Merrimac, died in Portsmouth, Va., in his 81st year. FOREIGN. ElQUT persons were killed in the ta.T riots at Partenico, Sicily, and the heads of the sheriff and lus wife were paraded on poles. CJkn. Vixcknte Vilada, of the Mexican federal artny, was captured by tho insurgents and hung. The search of the Paris pólice for anarchists will probably result in the expulsión of many foreigners from France. Tuk provisional government in II awaii was fortifying and preparing to resist restoration of the queen. Mexican soldiers were defeated by revolutionists near Calnia Juárez and 100 regulara and twenty-Hve rebela were killed. A PA89KNGKB train collided with a freight train near Soshowico. Poland, and eleven persons were killed. Cholera has broken out in the city of Namur, capital of the Belgian provinca of the same name. Fourteen persons were killed and fifty injured in a railway collision near Zoznoslca, Russia. LATER. There was no session of tho [Jnited States seríate on the iuih. In the house the urgent deflciency bil! was taken up and during the discussion Mr. Cannon (111.) severely criticise.d the pension poïicy of the admini&tration. A bilí wa.-i introduced to protect the forest reserve. Thb grip was epidemie in Connecticut. Reporta Bhowed that there were more than 1,500 cases in the state. Sai.i.ie McAixistkk. whose weight was T.jO pourds, died at her home in Snringfield, Ky. She had been exhibited in mnseuiiK Pete Nolast, apugilist, had both ears chewed half off in a fight at Cinoinuati with Jim Waters, a circus man. Mrs. Sahaii FAi:r.!:v Va NostbAnd, died at her home in East Millston, N. J., aged 105 years, :! moaths and 10 days. The National Carbon comp'any'a works in Cleveland, O., were burned, the loss being f175,000. TiiRKE persous and 300 hosrs and 100 cattle were killed in a wreek on the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern road near Louisville, Ky. IJ y a wreek on the Öeaboard Air Line road near Athens, La,, twelve passengers and several trammen were hurt. Flames in several towns in Japan destroyéd 340 houses, and in a tornado at Nayasaki '-'.235 houses were wrecked and 4:; persons were killed. II km! y (i. (iiVENS (colored) was lynehed uear Xebo, Ky. llowasaccused of poisoning stock. Geoboe 1!. Habcock, inventor of the shrapnel shell and the chromatie printingpi-ess. died at Plainfield, N. J., aged ■ars. 1t was estimated that the eost of the Lehigh valley railway strike to the several brotherhoous vvould reach f105,000. Tuk Terminal Eleyator cotnpany'a buildings at Buffalo, N. V., were burned at a late hour. Loss, $1,000,000. The American Federation of Labor in session in Chicago reelected Samuel (ompers presidenta by a majority of ninety-two votes. A i'i.KAsiRE yacht with fifteen people aboard oapsised in the harbor at Sidney, X. 8. W. , during a squall and i of the party were drowned. Mi:, and Mits. Jamks Williams, living on a f arm near Port Credit, Ont., were murdered by a farm band. South Buffalo. X. V., was flooded by the overflow of a creek and 3,500 ms were homelesa as a result. Thirty miles of streel i and all adjacent land onder water.

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