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24
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January
Year
1894
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On the lñth ihe senate ty u, vote of 39 to 24 rojocted the uominalion of William B. Hornblower, of New York, to ie an associate justice of the United States supretne eourt lo nll the vacancy caused by the deati) of Samuel Blatchfoi-U.... In the house the oonsideratlon or the tariff blll under the livc-minute rule was b';gun and ihe debate concluded ith a tilt belween Mr. Cockran and Mr. Reed In the senate tl.e federal election bill and the tarín mensure w( re discussed on the ltíth ín the house scvcral amtndments to the tariff Lili were oflered and adoptud and others were introduced but not auied upon. The senate on the 17th after discussion of civil serv ce reform untll the close of the morning hour resumed as "the unflnished business'1 the house bill ;o repul the federal electicn laws, and the debate commued untü the ciose of the loglalative day....In the house Mr. Wilson's amenament to the lariil bill fixing the date on whioh tree wool should jro into effect as August 1 waa defeated, and the substitute maltint? it go in!o effect immediuiely oa the passage of the bill wus adopted. Tte rest of the day Was spent disctissing the amendmer.t of Mr. rows to substitute tlie pr:n; wr.ol schedule fo that proposed by the Wilsoii bül. ÏR the senate on the 18th S naiors Peffer and Allen (popultsts) and Senators Morman ani Daniel (demoerals) condemned ;be bond policy of the administration. The announoement was riiade of ihe resignation of Senator Walthall, o Mississippi. Adjourned lo the -iá ...Almos the catire day in the house was spent in the contiauation of the debaie ou Mr. Burrow's amendment to restore the existing duties on wool, with the result oí its , def eat by a strlol party vote. The senate was nol in session on tho 19th.... In the house the time was oocupicd in discussIng the tariiï bill and the proposed amendmeut to put steel rails on the free list was lost by a vote of 1ÜU to 79. DOMESTSC. In a letter to the ehairman of the finance committee of the senate, pointing- out the reduced state of the treasury, Secretary Carlisle urges immediate action in order that government obligations may bo met. He says the receipts from Juiy 1 to January 12 were fl02,0S0,a84, and the expenditures were S205, 643,428, a deficieucy of $43,558,044. J. M. Guthrie, the owner of extensive sawmillsin Romer City Pa., and of tbousands of acres of timber and coal lands, failed for $200,000. Ten persons vvere killed and more than sixty injured in a. rear-end eollision on the Lackawanna road near Hackensaek, N. J. Rev. Benjamin Baldwin, of Troy, O., confessed to killing William Henshaw, nis rival for a young woman's hand, in Indiana. At Somerviile, Ala-, John E. Johnson murdered his wife and two children and then set the house on fire. Disguised as a tramp "Jap" Hill, a notorious criminal, escaped from the 1ail at Frankfort, Ind. The Fire and Marine bank in Milwaukee which failed in the panio of last July has reopenêd its doors for business. Sbvkn men were killed by the giving way of a bridge under a North Pacific Coast train near San Rafael, Cal. To show the sineerity of his conversión a Wellman (la.) saloonkeeper burned his fixtures in the public park. Mrs. Fred Houston aud her two daug-hters were burned to death at Barboursville, Ky. A RiOT followed an anti-Catholic leeture by Father McNamara in Kansas City, Alo., and several shots were firect. An oil car on the Western Indiana road exploded at Hammond and two men were fatally injured. Betwekn 12.000,000 and 15,000,00 bushels of wheat have been destroyec in the wheat districts of eastern Wash ington by continued rains. Tbains oollided at Chester Cour House, S. C, and twenty-five person were either killed or injured. Seekkrs for destitute persons in Ivew York city found Catherine Patton, a colored woman ag-ed 108, and her two daujjhters, ag-ed 74 and 70 respectively, on the verg-e of starvation. The Third national bank of Detroit Mich., J. Jj. Hudson, president, wa foreed-ihtp üquidation ThoïüsAnds of coal miners in the vi cinity of Meroer, Pa., struck because o a 12 per cent reduction in their wages Oscar Simcoe, a Terre Haute (Ind. gunsmith, was reunited to his son, who was abducted the war. Gov. Markham, of California, designated January 27 as a public holiday in honor of the of the midvy-inter exüosition. The Indians on the Pine Ridge agency in Nebraska were said to be dying in larg-e numbers from the grip. In an accident on the Narro w Gaue road at Cazadero, Cal., seven men were killed. The Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis., has resumed business. Edwakd McFall, 17 years old, had both eyes shot out hy his 9-year-old brother in an accident while huntingat Kewman, 111. Efports were made tohave the death sentence of Wilson Howard, of Aiissouri, commuted. He has committed Ihirty murders. The mili at Charleston, 111., was destroyed by fire. It had recently been rebuilt and the loss was $100,000. The Bank of Zumbrota, Minn., with a capital stock of $45, 000, has suspended. Ordebs were received to close the two coal mines at Almy, .Wyo. This removes the solé industry in a town of 2,700 people. Tip.ino of office Postmaster Fenner of Stone's Corners, Ind., put the stamps, etc., in a pouch and took it to Eichmond. Cigarettf, dealers at Emporia, Kan., must pay a license of $500 and are prohibited under penalty from to minors. Thomas Delmo and vvife and Joseph Eogers were the river at New Riker, W. Va., in a small boat, when they were earried over the falls and all were drowned. DABMERS and dairymen irom hlf the states in the union met in Chicago and prffanized the National Dairy union, the object o fiaht against bog-us dairy producís. C. VV. Horr, of Wellington, (i . was elected president Hbsky Hejst w;,s hang-ed at Gettysbursr, Pa., for the murder of Emanue! Monn nearlv :i yfar :,-m. A 6EVEKB earthquaíce shock -as feit at Hastings, Xub. A hace war was íeared at Black Rock, Ark., as threats had been made to burn all factories where negroes are employed. Keas Fairview, N. J., a work train went throng-h a trestle and one man was killed and nearly thirty injured. Mariüjí Dunbar, a dealer in fast stock, was thrown froin a sulky in a runaway at Crawfordsville, ind., and killed. Am inventory of the Stanford estáte m San Francisco places its valué at tl?,689,S19. Gov. Waitb has called a convention of wool ffrowers to meet in Denver on February ö to consider the Wilson taritP bilí. The eourthouse at Hartland, Kan.,. ivas desti-oyed by fire and nearly all the Kearney oounty records were lost. Negro workmen in a Uirpentine distillery near Valdesta, Ga., were attacked by an armed party and nine were wounded. I. a fiht between post office robbers and pólice at Danville, Pa., Offieer Van Gilger was killed and two of the outlaws were woundod. Johst BtrcHNKB, a negro, who had been recently released from the state peaiientiary, was lynched by a mob at Vulley Park, Mo., for tT.vo manen. A laege meteorhungf over Chesapeake bay, brilliantly illuminatingr the steamers in Baltimore harbor and down the bay. FrvK masked men held up a train near St Joseph, Mo., and escaped alter the express car. Alkx. Ross, cashier of the First National bank of Lead City, S. D., was fonnd to be a defaulter to the amount of S24.S93.4Ö. While en route to Washington Minister Thurston, of liawaii, was interviewed at Omaha, and said that there was no possibility of the queen being restored; that matter was settled for good. Fifty negro families in Monroecoun ty, Ark , have arrang-ed with the Amer ican Colonization society of VVashing ton, D. C. , for transporta tion to Liberia. During the year 1893 there were 1,373 fires in Philadelphia, the losses incurred $1,030,289. The national bank note circulation throuo'hout the country, which reachec $200,500,000 the money string-ency, has declined to $204,500,000. The crusier Olyrapia, built in San Francisco, made 2Í.69 knots an hour and earned Í300.000 in premiums for its builder. Compulsory education, after a fair trial, is reported a failure in Chicago by a cominittee of the board of education. The National Farmers' Alliance in session in Chicairo denounced J. Morton, the secretary of agriculture, and caüed upon him to resign. Whiu: drinking water from a brook a boy at Muncie, Ind. , swallowed an nsect, which devoured his heart, eausinr death. Three men who robbed a train at Centralia, 111., pleaded puilty and were senteuced to twenty years' iraprisonment. At Princeton, W. Va., Sheriff Hall attempted to arrest the Muilen brothera and the sheriff and both desperadoes were killed. The Colawash Indians, of too, nave asken government perinission to burn one of their mecicine men at the stake. It was said that the two recent traiD robberies in Missouri netted the bandits Í 100. 000. Milton Bond and Charles Colt, brothers-in-law, foug-ht a duel at Sullivan, 111.. as the result of lonff-standing family troubles, and both were fatally shot. At the annual meeting1 in New York of the American Proteetive Tarifl league Cornelius N. Bliss was eleeted president. Friends of Irvey Hai-p, of Malvern, Ark., for a joke placed powder in a cig-arette and grave it to Mm, and in the explosión that followed both of Harp's eyes were put out. The exchang-es at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 19th aggregated $924,925,525, against il. 00(5,181,, 451 the previous week. The deerease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893 was aii.S. Thkbesa Jones, 17. and Martha Hartford, l(i, both mili g-irls, were drowned while skating on the river at Mittineairue, Mass. The Yankton Sioux Indians in South Dakota have agreed to sell their lands to the ffovernment, and they may be thrown open to settlement. The city council has annexed all suburbs, including five towns, thus adding- 21), 000 to Louisville's population. 1t cost the government S138.586 to pay the bounty on sug-ar d uring the fiscal year of 1893. Thomas Hennett (colored) was senteuced at Mascoutah, I11., to six years in prison for stealing two cigars. The re were 407 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 19th, against 4S4 the week provious and 290 in the corresponding time in 1893. Half the business portion of Lewiston, 111., was destroyed by fire. A jíegro named Williams, suspected of robbing a corn crib, was lynched by a mob in West Feliciana parish, La. Master Wobkman Sovereign, of the inights of Labor, will ask an injuction to restrain the contemplated issue of bonds by Seeretary Car.isle. Tue business portion of Catawba Island in Lake Erie, 12 miles f rom Sandnsky, O., was destroyed by fire. Mbs. Louisa Lancaster and her 3-ear-old child were burned to death in lilwaukee. The Indiana Associated Press was ori-aiiized at Indianapolis as a branca of ! he Associated Press. Mus. Anna Austin waselected mayor ! f Pleasanton, Kan., by a majority of 8 n a vote of 338. (i. F. IioTHWELL, a member of congress f rom the Tenth Missouri district frora 1S79 to 1881, died in Kansas City. Col. Jon.v L. Bbanch, at whose comraand the firstfrun of the civil war was fired at Fort Sumter, died at Union Springs, Ala. Chaikmax Cittchkon, of the Minnesota democratie state central committee, luis resig-ned, to the president's delay in making: appointments. ' üiXEcuTioss cooK place as lollows: Emest Lacore at Joliet, 111., fortín murder of Nellie Kyron; John Hardy at Welch. V. Va., for killinjf a railway employé; Wils Boward at Lebanon, Mo., for the murder of Thomas MeMichael, anrt Albert F. Bomberg-er at Cando, N. D., for the murder of six members of the lireider famüy. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Hesbt M. Rice, one of the first United States senators of Minnesota, died at Sn Antonio, Tex., ag-ed 7S years. Ex-Conorkssman Founjíy died at his home in Jacksonville, Ala. W. I. Bt-cuAMAS, of Iowa, was nominated by the president as minister to the Argentina KeDubüc. John il. Gsar was formally declared elected United States senator for Iowa in joint convention of both houses of the legislatare. In convention at Harrisburfr, Pa., the peoples party nominated Víctor A. Lapier, of Danville, for cougressman at large. Jüdgk C. P. Thompsox. aged 07 years, committed suicide at Gloucester, Mass. Xn 1H74 he was chosen congre.ssman frotn the Gloucester district. William Gaston, who was g-overnor of Massachusetts in 174, died in Boston, aged 73 years. . Mrs. Nancy Adamson, thefirst white woman in Porter county, Ind. , died in Valparaíso, aged 98 years. FOREIGN. Hunbreds of destitute peopls were walking the streets of Winnipeff and the distress was great. Sixieen persons were killed and nine injured in a railroad wreek in the province of Matanzas, Cuba. M. Caubkt, once a prominent business man in Paris, and his wife and daughter, took their own lives because of poverty. A jíumber of huts oceupied by miners near Escalón. Mexico, were fired by incendiaries and eleven men, women and children were burned to death and ten others were burned so badly that they would die. Six of the crew of the Dutch steamer Amsterdam were drowned while seeking to rescue fourteen men on a sinking schooner. Advices from Rio Janeiro say that the insurgent warships bombardea the batteries at Nichtheroy and killed fifty of the government forces. Ninehundred miles of territory were devastated and 200 people killed by aa earthquake in China. At Burton-on-Trent, England, Councilor Wileman's coffin lid was removed previous to in terment and he was found to be alive. Two 6-YEAR-oLD boys, bouud toeether by a ligament as were the Siamese twins, were being exhibí ted at ïiong Cov, China. Two hundred Sofas were killed and seventy-seven made prisoners in a battle with British troops at Baerwenia. A constitution patterned after that of the United States is in readiness for promulg-ation by the Hawaiian goverament LATER. Thebe was do session of the United States senate on the 2d. In the house the tariff bill was discussed, and messages vvere received from the president vetoing the New York and New Jersey bridge bill and transmitting the latest correspondenee from BawaiL Gbeat Britain is now talking of the peaceful disarinament of all Europe iustead of a war. Wio.iam Gilpin, ag-ed SO, first territorial governor of Colorad, was found dead in bed at Denver. He was appointed governor by President Lincoln, March 23, 1S61. 1t was rumored that the young kin# of Servia had been murdered. A HUBEICANE swept over Oak Cliiï and south and east of Dallas, Tex., destroying- property to theextentof $100,000 and kill:ng a boy. More than 8,01)0 artieles lost at the world's fair are still in the service building at Jackson park. The mayor of Cineinnati was anthorized to expend f1.O0,O0L) from the contingent fund for the benefit of the unemployed. The funda of the World's Columbian exposition were dwindling1 at the rate of nearly 8400,000 a inonth! The International Etnigration society was ineorporated at Birmingham, Ala., the object being to send negroes from the southern states to África. Mrs. J. Plumjier, near Pawnska, O. T., drowned her two children and then killed herself. During heavy gales in the bay at Bilboa, Spain, many fishing boats were lost and twenty-five fishermen were drowned. L. Lipschutz, a Waco (Tex.) inerchant, was murdered by robbers and hia vvife fataliy injured. William Rodeckek and his wife and Henry Russell were killed and three others were hurt in a grade crossing1 accident at Findlay, O. Wii.i.iam Hknry Stegner within three days married one St. Louis widow, promised to wed tivo others and swiudled all three. The terminal and operating rooms of the Louisville (Ky. ) Telephone company were destroyed by fire, the loss SiüO.OOO. M. (i. (amble (colored), who criminally assaulted the little dang-hter of üedtorcl iranee, oi Central Jellico Mines, Ky., was lynched. Ekv. T. De Witt Talmaöb, of Brooklyn, announcerl to his congreg'ation that he would resign on the twenty-flfth anniversary of his pastorate, ■vhich occursin the spring.

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