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Day
30
Month
May
Year
1894
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ON the 22d seven paragraphs of the metal sehedule of the tariff bill were disposed of in thu senate after eignt hours of debate - In the house in committee of the whole the section of the legislative appropriation bill providing for the civil service commission was stricken out by a strictly party vote of 109 to 71. The committee on the election of president and vice president voted to make a favorable report on the bill providing for the election of the president bv a direct vote. In the senate on the 23d Senator Oorman defended the tariff bill in a speech. A motion to lay the measure on the table was defeated by a strict party vote of 28 to 38 - The house continued its onslaught on the civil service commission by striking out of the legislative appropriation bill the paragraph transferring department clerks to the classifled service. A bill was favorably reporten providing a fine of jiñOO and imprisonment as a penalty directed at any ex-soldier who postdatés his voucher for pension before the 4th oí the month. Senator Kyle urged the passage of his resolution in the senate on the 24th declaring that it was not the purpose of the United States to use forcé to restore L.üiuokií'iani as queen of theHawaiian lalands, but it went over for the day. ïhe tariff bill was further considered In the house the amendment to the legislative appropriation bill to strike out the provisión for contingent expenses of the clvilservice commission Was voted down and the measure was passed. The bill to incorpórate the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias was also passed, and a resolution was adopted setting aside Saturday, Juno 22, for eulogies on the late Kepresentative Houk. of Ohio. Titb Hawaiian resolution was considered again for half an hour in the senate on the 25th but no a tion was taken. The tariff bill was further discussed In the house the time was occupied in the disoussion of an omnibus resolution from the ( ommittee on war claims, grouping together thirty-seven claims for cotton, etc, aggregating $1.040.000. DQMESTfC. The Michigan supreme court ordered a recanvass of the returns on the constitutional amendment increasing1 the attorney general's salary' The American Baptist Eduoational society met at Saratoga, N. Y. The report of the executive board showed phenomenal growth. Illinois mine owners will try to settle the coal strike by offering' to advance the wage scale in the southern and central districts. A negro who assaulted the 14-yearold daughter of Washington Smith, living near Arlington, Ga., and killed Mr. Smith, was taken from jail by a mob and hanged and his body riddled with bullejs. Thjs floods in Pennsylvania were receding. The loss at Williamsport and in Lyeoming county was placed at 81,000,000. Losses in other portions of the state were also heavy. At Dorseyville, La., Adolph Block and Jules Lake engaged in a gun fight with a negro and all three were killed. The Pan-American Bimetallic association, eomposed of represen tatives from the United States, South and Central America and Old Mexico, met in Washington. In his opening address lr. Fiske said a revolution would come if relief were not granted in the line of free coinage. Snow to the depth of 5 inches feil at Bristol, Tenn. John Ckow. for whose murder vn Van Nimmangs is servirjg a life sentence in the prison at Jackson, Mich., ís alive and well at Muncie, Ind., and has just learned of his supposed death in 1885. Hearing of the case of Prendergast, the imirderer of Mayor Harrison in Chicago, has been set for June 11. John Schindler, of San Francisco, supposed to be dead thirty-five years, returned to St. Joseph, Mo., and claimed a fortune left by his father. Peter Cruser fatally shot Annie Branz in Philadelphia and then killed himself. No cauEe was known for „he ffeed. John Roeschlein and Frank Grany found a package containing 81,500 worth of diamonds in Chicago and hunted up the owner, thoug-h both were out of work and had eaten nothing for two days. Warbants were issued at Colorado Springs, Col., for the arrest of W. D. Richmond, who is charged with having six wives in various places. A BUCCE8SION of light earthquake shocks, accompanied by a rumbling noise, were feit at Anna and Cairo, 111., and at Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, Mo. Gov. Northen, of Georgia, waselected president of the American Baptist Educational society in session at Saratoga, N. Y. Appropriation of public moneys to sectarian schools was opposed by speakers. Five members of the bar of Beatrice, Neb., were committed to jail for contempt for being absent when Judge Bush's docket was called. Fifty-nine indictments were returned by the special grand jury against persons charged with violations of the election law in Chicago. The flood in western Pennsylvania still continued, and boats, bridges, houses and other property had been destroyed and ten lives were reported lost. The property loss at Williamsport alone was placed at $1,500,000. The J. C. Lane Paper Manufaeturing company at Elkhart, Ind., went into the hands of a receiver with heavy liabilities. Maky Anderson is now engaged in writing her personal memoirs. She will give for the first time the reasons which induced her to retire from the stage. All thecarpenters and mili hands in Cincinnati were ordered to strike because the bosses refused to pay 553.50 for eight hours or 83 for nine hours. TnE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in session in St. Paul adopted resolutions condemning the bill of SenRtor Walsh to prevent interference wilh mail traïns. In trying to arrest three outlaws at Yukon, O., T. , two deputy sheriffs were fatally shot and one of the bandits was wounded. Eepbesextative Davis (Kan.) has made a careful estímate of the different bands of Coxeyites on the way to Washington and claims that tbere are 5,000 men tramping or riding on boats and borrowed trains toward the capital. Fire destroyed the most important portion of East End, New Orleans' most popular summer resort, the loss S1UU.000. Fouk bandits robbed a Longview (Tex.) bank of 82,000 and in a fight with citizens killed one and wounded four. George Bennett, one of the robbers, was also killed. A thousajíd striking1 rniners marched to the Mission Field coal mines near Danville, 111., and compelled the 200 men at work to come out and take an oath not to return. Business men of the northwest rnet at Minneapolis and formed an association vvhose object is to build up a home market. for home-manufactured go'ods. Thk business portion of the town of Lu ten, Ia., was destroyed by fire. The entire tobáceo erop of northern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York was destroyed by the recent flood. At the session of the state constitutional convention in Albany, N. Y., petitions with 32.000 signatures in favor of woman suffrage were presented. A cyclone at McKinney, Tex., destroyed houses, trees and fences and killed one man. Citizens of Youngstown, O., petitioned congress to giye public corporations, such as cities, the right to issue mor.ey now possessed by national banks. 1!. F. Hughes, R. F. Weed and Charles O'Briea, leaders of commonwealers who stole a Union Pacific train at Montpelier, Idaho, were sentenced at Cheyenne, Wyo.. -.to five months' imprisonment, and twelve others were senteneed to four months' in jail. John Dewi'.igiit. a well-to-do fai-mer, died at Kalamazoo, Mieh., aged 72 years. Nothing but water passed his lips for forty-six days before death. He was determined to starve himself to death and succeeded. The bank of Tempe at Phoenix, A. T., closed its doors. Tuooi'S were ordered to La Salie and Centralia, 111", to suppress striking miners, who defied the loeal authorities. Thibtt well-known citizens of Tecumseh, O. T., were indicted for systematic horse stealing. Five strikers were shot to death and a dozen wounded in a fight with deputy sheriff s at Stickie Hollow, Pa., and three deputies were injured. The J. K. Gill company, wholesale dealers in books and stationery at Portland, Ore., failed for 8130,000. Michael Bash and wife, an aged couple, started f rom Clinton, Ia., in a roadeart drawn by a mulé for an overland trip to New York city. The Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa., closed down in all departments, throwing over 2,500 men out of work. Mistaking his 17-year-old niece for a burglar, Ephraim Bills, of Fairbury. 111., shot her, probably fatally. Gov. Fi.owek vetoed the bill to prevent display of foreign flags on New York public buildings. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended onthe25th aggreg"ated 3854,566,902, against S8S7.677.573 the previous week. The decrease, comparecí with the eorresponding week in 1893, was 18 2. Theee were 237 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 25th, against 220 the week previous and 259 in the corresponding time in 1893. Strikers at Kangley, 111., drove out the miuers near that place and wrecked the mine by tilling it up with debris. Suit for $100, 000 damages, caused by fire in the Manufactures building January 8, has been commenced in Chicago by the republic of France against the Columbian Exposition company. An organization to be known as the American Congress of Liberal Religious societies was eftected in Chicago with Rev. H. W. Thomas as president. The grand court of the United Commercial Travelers of America began its annual session at Cleveland, O. It was said the discovery had been made that congressmen had been drawing salaries for employés who do not exist and pocketing the proceeds. Adolph Brenner, a Chicago anarchist, attempted to kill a family in New York and then shot himself. Investigation shows that farmers of the northwest have abandoned wheat as their only erop. The decrease this year will be 25 per cent. Charles W. Buttz was found guilty by the investigating committee in Washington of attempting to bribe senators. Bradstreet's trade review says that the unfavorable conditions prevailing1 in commercial and industrial circles throughout the country, together with the prospect for no material improvement during the summer, mark the present season as probably the dullest relatively for twenty years. Strikers visited a coal mine near Ottawa, UI., burned the tools and destroyed the mine by removing the props. Striking miners blew up a gold mine at Cripple Creek, Col., killing eleven men who were at work in the mine. The giant Cunard steamer Lucania made the trip from Liverpool to New York in five days twelve hours and fifty-seven minutes, beáting all records. Austin Krown (coiored) was hanered at San Antonio, Tex., for the murder of Anderson Barris, an ex-police officer. Joseph Guiles, alias John D. May, was hanged at Kansas City, Tex., for the killing of Fireman Frank Martin while attempting to rob a train. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Col. W. C. Oates was nominated for governor by the democratie convention at Montgomery, Ala. Resolutions denouncing President Cleveland and calling for his impeachment were adopted by the populist state convention at Sacramento, CaL The democratie congressional convention of the Fif teenth Missouri district nominated C. II. Moi-gan. Benson Wood, of Effingham, was nominated for congress by the republican convention of the Nineteenth Illinois district. In convention at Little Rock, Ark., the prohibitionists nominated a full state ticket, headed by Dr. M. L. Curl for governor. S. S. Kirkpatrick, of Fredonia, ivas nominated for congress in the Third Kansas district. The republicana of Pennsylvania in convention at Harrisbnrg nominated Gen. D. H. Hastings, of Center eounty, for governor, and-Galnsha A. Growand G. E. Huff for congressmen at large. The platform declares adherence to protection; attributes the national disturbance of trade and labor to the policy of the democracy; demands legislation against pauper or criminal iminigration, and a fnrther change in the natnralization system such as will denv the rights of American citizenship to anarchists and all others hostile to the governmeiit. 1H convention at Indiannpolis the Indiana populists nominated a full state ticket headed by C. A. lobinsón, of Fountaintown, for secretary of state. The platform recommends the free coina.ge of silver: advises an increase of the curreney to $50 per üapita; denounces national banks and interest bearing government bonds; recommends the election of United State3 senators and postmasters by a direct vote of the people, and favors an income tax and local option. Charles I!. I.amhs. of Delphi, was nominated for eongress by the republicans of the Tenth Indiana district. The Michigan democrats will hold their state convention at Grand Eapids on June 28. Dr. Smith, charged with heresy, arg'ued his case for five hours before the Presbyterian general assembly at Saratoga, N. Y. Arthur H. Tatlob was renominated for eongress by the democrats in tho First district of Indiana. Db. Thomas WnXnrsoif, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died at the age of 95 years. He was a veteran of the war of 1812. W. W. IIeeiíick, aged 62, a wellknown capitalist of Minneapolis, died on a train en route home from California, where he spent the winter. The republicans of the Sixth Kansas district nominated Abram H. Ellis for eongress. FOREIGN. The French cabinet has resig-ned. Miss Imhoff, a teacher in the AngloJapanese school at Yonewaia, Japan, who preached against idol worship, ■was stoned by a mob that afterward tore her eyes out. Cobeass, enraged at government rule, assailed the government quarters at Sing Latao, wrecked the buildings and killed the governor and forty clerks. A gigantic anarchist plot to explode bombs in various European cities waa diseovered in Paris. All England was en fete in honor of the 75th birthday of Queen Victoria. At a meeting in Friedriehroda of the Germán Banking assoeiation a resolution in favor of a gold standard was unanimously adopted. Dbunken anadian soldiers tore down the American flag in front of the United States consul's office in St. Thomas, Ont. The Eookery cotton milis at Huddersfield, England, were burned, tha loss 200,000. F. Stojibe & Co., steamship 'owners and brokers of London and Liverpool, failed for 8560,000. LATER. In the United States senate on the 20th Senator Hill (N. Y.) again attacked the tariff bill and was bitter in denouncing the income tax. A bill was introduced providing that all persons who receive pensions less than $12 per month shall have their pensions increased to that amount, and special provisión is made that no widow's pension shall be less than $12. In the house the bill to remit the 10 per cent. tax on clearing-house certificates and other notes issued by private and state banking association s was discussed. Two negboes were lynehed near, Clinton, Miss., for burglary. Five of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Norden were killed by the explosión of one of her boilers in the Bay of Biscay. The fire losses in the United States during the week ended on the 26th were estimated at $2,492,000. A Bai.timobe & Ohio passenger train was wrecked by a laudslide near Pine Grove, Md, and the engineer and fireman were killed. Nine million dollars was offered by an English syndieate for the Elgin (111.) national watch company. Thbee companies of militia were ordered to Minonk, 111., where traffic on the Illinois Central had been stopped by armed miners. Mrs. Rii-ey Yates gave birth to her twenty-tifth child at Springfield, O. Sbe is 46 and her husband 61. The czar of Eussia issued a ukase depriving ministers and governors of the power of appointing or dismissing subordínate s. The coinage of gold at the Philadelphia mint during the present fiscal year will reach $80,000,000, the largest in its history. Valentine Blatz, president of the Blatz Brewing company of Milwaukee, died suddenly in St. Paul, where he had gone on business. He was worth $15,000.000. The Presbyterian general assembly in session at Saratoga refused to entertain the appeal of Dr. Henry P, Smith from suspension for heretical teachings, The New Jersey legislature adjourned sine die. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 26th were: Cleveland, .720; Philadelphia, .680.; Baltimore, .667; Pittsburgh, .667; Boston, .607; New York, .500; Brooklyn, .402; Cincinnati, .45S; St. Louis, .429; Louisville, .391; Chicago, .308; Washington, 111.

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