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5
Month
September
Year
1894
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Titf, scifite held a short session on the 27th and adjourned without trans&cting any important business In the house a resolution tered to print the f.iriiibill. and Mr. Wilson said the senate bill, which is now a law, would increasa the basis oí taxation ? SS. 000.000 over the McKinley law. The death of Congressman Shaw. of Wisconsin, was announced, and a committee was appointed to attend the funeral. Onlt a score of senators were present on the last day of the second session of the Fiftythird coi:gress on the 2Sth. The committee appointed to cali upon the president aunounced he had no further communication to make to confiress. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Vice President Stevenson and the senate adjourned sine die In the house the reslgnation of Kepresentative Oates, recently elected governor of Alabama. to take effect December 3, w :is presented. The committee appointed to wait upon the president reported that the president had no further communication to make to congress, and the speaker declared the second session of the Fifty-third congress adiourned. DOMESTIC. Charlie Bennett, the maimed baseball player, is 6,000 richer as a result of a benefit game played in Boston. The expense to the state of Illinois eansed by the ealling out of the militia during the late strike is placed by the adjutant general at $350,000. The national encampment of Knights of Pythias commenced in Washington. At Springfield, Mass., Harry Tyler lowered tlie bicycle record for an unpaced mile to 2:07 2-5, a out of 2 3-5 seconds. Afïkü a pastorate of forty years Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, has retired from i the pastorate of the Park cliurcli at Elmira, N. Y. CoEJAREK, a Seminóle Indian, was j exeeuted at Wewo, ö. T., bybeingshot to death. lüs crime was mnrder. sa Mahy DE8HA, a sister of Breckinridg'e"s first wife, in aa open letter calis on the men p. nd women of Kentucky to defeat the congressman. Mes. Chakles Null wrecked the windows and fixtures of a saloon at Delaware, O., whose proprietor had sold her h: nor. Forêst fires invaded the settlement in Michig-an known as Finland and corcpletely wiped it out of existence. Neablt every house m Vesper, Wis., was destroyed by fire, together with 8,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss was put at $150,000. Recent rains have so benefited corn that it is iioiv believed it will be an average erop. Vegetation generally has l)i'"u greatly ir iv Melboubns, the rainmaker, mitted suicide at a hotel in Denver. The League oí American "Wheelmen has di enter politics in the interesf roads and to prevent the ment of discriminatöry laws. Tka iips entered two Lake Shore traias at the depot at Erie, Pa., and I robbeö the passengers. Fivewerecap: tirst direct steamship line beüTica and the west coast of África has been cliartered in New Jersey. The Eaton & Stevens Manufacturingeompany, boots and shoes, failed in Boston for 260.000. FlFTEEX THOüSAXD Kniffhts of Pythias joined in the parade at the encampment in Washington. Ik a runaway near Fairland, Ind., Jirs. Lizzie Xewton, ag'ed 65, was killed and James Gray, aged 73, rvas fatally mjured. At an oíd settle.r's reunión at i lerville, 111., Ed Oliver fatally wounded j Anna Carlock and then killed himself. Meecio Levine, aged 53; Joseph Levine, ag-ed 18, and Elias Levine, ag-ed 16, perished in a tenement house fire in New York city. Numa Dudoussat, a New Orleans alderman, was caught in the act of eeiving a bribe and was arrested. A stage coach rolled down a liill r.ear Meeker. Col., and its five pants were badly injured. The St. Denis hotel, two livery sta bles and thi-ee residences were burned at Columbus, Ind., causing a loss of nearly 8100,000. Goy. Waite, of Colorado, and three j Denver pólice officials were arrested, charged with opening a letter addressed to an ex-police matron. Thk date for the forthcoming con ventipn of the National Woman's Christian Temperance unión, tobe held in Cleveland, O., has been set for Fridaj. November 16. John .Iones, an Elwood (Ind.) tinplate worker, has fallen heirtoiH,000,000 by the death of an unele in Wales. FtfRBST fires continued to rage in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and in the former state several towns were endangered. The steamer Northwest ran on Bar point, Lake Erie, while going at fnll speed and a pan ie was ereated among her 150 passengers. She was in no danger. It is claimed the state of Tennessee has been defrauded out of 84,000,000 in tases by derelict officials, and suits will be entered. The International Migration society of Birmingham, Ala., has arranged for the transportation of 5,000 negroes to Liberia prior to November 1. Fike wiped out the business portion of Elliston, a railroad and logging camp near Helena, Mont. Madison Cheadle, a farmer in Morgan county, O., charged with theft, was taken from his house by white caps, beaten almost to insensibility and then hanged to the limb of a tree. A tramp cut him down in time to save his life. The house of C. J. Freeberg, a farmer near Fairmont, Minn., was burned, and his wife and child perished in the flames. Census office statistics indícate that nearly one-half the families in the United States own their own homes. Kiciiakd McAvoy and George Thomas were killed at Hartford, Kan., in a quarrel over some chickens. JiÏAiiv HoPKiNS, once, a society leader in Lawrence, Kan., was in jailatGuthrie, O. T. , on a charge of stealing horses.

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