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NEWS SUMMARY.
So deep is the snow in western Scot¬
land that out-of-door labor has been
largely suspended.
A. S. Paddock was elected senator
from Nebraska, receiving 94 votes to
32 for McShane, Democrat.
The annual examination at West
Point resulted in the dismissal of thir¬
ty-three cadets who were found defi¬
cient
Detroit capitalists intend to organ¬
ize a company to trade in groceries in
the Lake Superior region and recapture
lost ground.
Twenty citizens of killed Flagstaff, the brothers Arizo¬
na, captured and
Hawes for murdering a saloon-keeper
named Berry. by of
The Illinois House, appropriating a vote 119
to 14, passed a hill Chicago $50,
000 for a monument at to
Senator Logan.
A charter was obtained at Madison
for a railway from Lake Geneva to
Portage. 110 miles, by way of Elkhorn
and Whitewater.
Arthur J. McQuade. one of the
boodle aldermen of New Sing York, prison was
Monday taken to Sing to
serve seven years.
The widow of ex-Governor John
Wood, the founder of Thursday Quincy, eveniug, Illinois,
died in that city on
at the of 81.
Andrew D. White historical has given library to Cor¬
nell university his of
thirty thousand volumes, which oOBt
more than $100,000.
The Irish societies of Boston have
decided to parade on St. Patrick’s Day
this year. The parade has been aban¬
doned for two years.
In a tenement-house at by odorless Troy three
persons were overcome gas
while conversing. Their corpses were
found in their chairs.
James P. Holmes, the terror a moonshiner of northern who
has Arkansas, long been lias been placed in the peni¬
tentiary of that state.
William Emerson, an aged inmate
of the almhouse excitement in McDonough county, the
Ill., died of from pension. over al¬
lowance his
The signal service at St. Paul reports
a temperature o’clock Tuesday of 86 degrees morning below —the zero
at 5
lowest point of the winter.
Kentucky, A freight carried train reaching burning Paducah, of
a car
cotton, in which were found the char¬
red corpses of four tramps.
The wife of Senator Voorhees died
Friday peritonitis. evening in Tiie Washington, funeral of
acute was
held in Terre Haute Sunday.
The police of Berlin have forbidden
the cialistic sale of society a pamphlet in Chicago issued in by denun¬ a so¬
ciation of the anarchists’ trial.
Dr. McCosh states that he has no in¬
tention of resiguing the presidency of
Princeton college, but will endeavor to
make it a full-fledged university.
Professor E. L. Youmans, the fa¬
mous writer and lecturer on scientific
subjects, New York, died Tuesday sixty-sixth morning, in
in his year,
J. J. Upchurch, the founder of the
order of United Workmen, now having
a membership of two hundred thou- i
sand, died Tuesday at Steeleville, Mo. j
The British gunboat Finn was
wrecked on the Northumberland
coast. Nineteen members of the crew
were rescued by the life-saving service,
Mrs. Logan Monday paid off the
mortgage and on the children Washington voluntarily real
donee, the
gave her all their interest in the prem
ises.
The Dominion Parliament has been !
dissolvod and new elections ordered,
The nominations will take place on the
16th the 22U. of February and the polling on i I
'
A jury at Portage. Wis., acquitted
Brakeman Wells of responsibility for
the death of nineteen persons Stio, in the
»»nt at East on th. St.
The International Union of Brick
layers and Washington, Masons, now disclaims holding all »ses- af
sion at
filiation with socialists, anarchists, or
communists.
The French government is said to be
purchasing large quantities of timber
m Alsace-Lorraine, with various the intention points
of building barracks at
along the frontier.
There are indications of a war of
freight rates between Kansas City and
Ei Paso. The Atchison road is pre
pared Texas and to Pacific. meet any cut made by the
la v^tm^orllenrv ^ atatnrn fn^irmatm- @ I^ R 9 8 e 1
Dawe 3 25 for Jo hn
for G. D. Robinson.
Jonas Gilman Claik, or Worcester,
Mass., f rne?iti has given $1,000,000 ih ffishdme to that city
a n e fo?
read 25 “% ( med e legislature for an an
C I l
John B. Iloxie, H for ti,o the « past aa t twonfir twenty
seven years a leader m the live-stock
Ms'residence^^rnylorvfile'Texas^for the benefit of his health.
It is rumored m tot. Louis ..... that Jay
Gould is backing the Dakota projected Kan
sas, Nebraska and riu road,
designed Dakota with to connect New Orleans. the coal-fields of
The safe of a savings bank at Bel
mont. Tuesday Massachusetts, n.ght, blown Was, during
open and rob
^w?i. 500,000 a m Blua, negotiable l JMP 1 . securities. and $1,
There is little doubt that control of
the Dubuque and Sioux City road has
been secured by the Illinois Central,
and that notice of the termination of
the lease will be given on April 1.
chant Meyer in Kauffman, StTLouis, a about commissionmer
the United to is demand to request $50,000
States
from the Spanish government for his
illegal arrest and detention in Cuba.
Paul Grottkau, the socialistic leader,
after serving with high credit a term
of thirty days in the house of correc
tion at Milwaukee, was arrested and
jailed on a federal warrant for perjury.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross association, is about to pro
ceed cessities to Texas, of the sufferers to investigate from drought, the ne
who are said to number fifty thousand,
The publishers of General Logan’s
book report that up to the date of his
d*»th they had paid him an average of
If i d ??^ ae ’
decided that in its application to
■wholesale dealers the Dow liquor-tax
Mw is constitutional. The matter wfil
he appealed by Bixty dealers interested,
^Uruguay _Cholera and is the ravaging Argentine the Bepubllc; towns in
j hundreds of deaths occurring daily,
Loaded vessels off Buenos Ayres are
not allowed to communicate with the
__ Employes ... of three foundries v at
ontreaf, iron
to the number of eleven
indyed, ot nearly Labor, all have of struck them against being
a reduction of 10 per cent, in
wages.
The new city council at Atlanta
licensed a large number ot wine-rooms.
The organ of the prohibitionists de¬
clares the law a failure, and states that
whisky and beer are sold about as free¬
ly as ever.
Four Pinkerton men were arraigned
in the Jersey City Police Court Friday
for snooting Thomas Hogan, snowballs the 16
year-old them, and boy who remanded threw for further at
were
examination.
Emperor William, in ] B the
president of the Prussian P ex
pressed his chagrin at the defeat of
the army bill, and voiced the hope that
the measure would be passed in the
near future.
A steamship which left Charleston
for New York carried over one hun¬
dred tons of pig-iron from Alabama,
This unprecedented shipment ia re¬
garded as the commencement of a
great trade.
George Hazard, a colored man who
broke into a Catholic convent at
Greenfield, Michigan, through and window, compelled has a
been nun to semenced leap to twenty a in the
penitentiary. years
has The been Phoenix ordered and by Maricopa the secretary railway of
the interior to stop grading through tli
the Gila river reservation until e
consent of the Indians in council has
been obtained.
R, A. Alger, the retiring governor of
Michigan, traced out five hundred
needy families in Detroit, during the
recent cold snap, and sent each of them
a barrel of flour and a ton of coal or a
cord of wood.
Elihu B. Washburne brands as a
fabrication the statement cabled from
Paris that while American minister at
that city he used his facilities to for¬
ward letters through the German lines
for 20 francs each.
The national banks of Chicago have
petitioned congress to be placed on an
equality with New York as a reserve
center, when 25 per cent of their cir¬
culation and deposit liabilities must be
kept in their vaults. 4
with The holding Erie Dispatch fourteen line hundred Is charged idle
cars in New England, for use by roads
in that section. It is believed that th e
western lines will soon be compelled to
com bine such abuses.
Judge Ayres, of Indianapolis, de¬
cided that a lieutenant governor can
the only be elected is every chosen. four lie years, therefore when
enjoined governor Colonel Robertson from
siding at the joint convention. pre¬
of The the whole, Michigan adopted House, bill in committee providing
a
a punishment of five years in the state girls
prison for persons who decoy
from the larger cities to stockades in
the lumber and mining camps.
S. Angier Cbace, who nine years ago
embezzled nearly $500,000 from a Fall
River mill of which lie was treasurer,
has been pardoned from the Massachu¬
setts penitentiary of impaired by Governor health. Ames,
on account
The rector of a Roman Catholic
church at Orange, N. J., has excom¬
municated Jennie Callahan, who had
been married to a Protestant by a
New York perforlfa magistrate after the priest
refused to the ceremony,
Abner Letcher, of Point Pleasant,
W. Va., his a threat lad of to 15 years, the has murder carried
out avenge
of his father by Jason Borden, The
corpse of the latter was found in the
woods where the boy was hunting,
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature of Texas requiring railroads
to give of thirty employes days’ notice reduction of the dis- of
charge their and also or labor
wages give month notice requiring of strike,
ers to a s a
The winter carnival opened Monday
at St. Paul. The citv was illuminated,
and several thousand persons appeared
In the streets in variegated costumes.
***?• A , bill . has , been introduced ... .... in the
legislature , of Texas requiring rail
roads discharge to give of thirty employes days’ notice reduction of the of
or
^eir wages, and also requiring labor¬
to give a “onth s notice of a
st U. •.
The issue of , standard . . , silver „ dollars . „
from , the mints during the week end
responding week a “Th« in 1886, $195,499. ihe
shipments of fractional silver coin
from Jan. 3 to Jan. 15 amounted to
$113,378.
Evans Fabes, a negro who was par
doned fr0ru the Mississippi peniten
Withers for damages, and was award
ed $1,000 by a jury comprising eleven
white men
The officials of the Atchison road
bave let oontra ets for 4 800 freight cars
for lhe Chicago division, to be deliver
ed durlnK vhe latter half of this year.
Locomotives to the number of 148
as al3 ° eighty pas -
A deadlock hasarisen in the Nebras
legislature on the senatorship.
Witll lifteen uames on the ballots. C.
Hi Van Wvck received 44 votes and J.
sterling Morton 32. The latter has
been absent from the state for a month
and is not a candidate,
Representatives of several packing
bouses in Kansas City have made ar
raugeinonts hv to of ship Memphis their goods and New to
Europe Orleans. 'Warehouses wav for this trade
are to be constructed in the latter city
by a steamship company,
Lieutenant his Sdnvatka through was compelled the Yel
to abandon trip
lowstone park high bv altitude the effect and upon frosty his
lungs atmosphere. of the At Grand Canvon he
wa » attacked by hemorrhage. He is
resting at Mammoth hot springs.
Ths house committee on invalid pen-
8 ions. by a strict party vote, decided to
make an adverse report on the bills to
pension Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Blair,
The ground of opposition is i he fact
that the husbands of these ladies did
not die from injuries received in the
service,
On the passage of the interstate
commerce bill, the readjustment public may c&nfi- ffcisi
dently along expect the a Vanderbilt roads of be
ness
tween New Fork and Chicago—proba
bly \ [’ he Shore a11 and N lckel-Blate
on t e " est
The strike of the New v York coal- ,
handlers is causing considerable anx
jety, as, should it not soon be settled,
a coal famine may ensue. The strikers
are well organized and have strong
allies in the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers and the United Order
of Brakemen.
The receivers of the New Jersey
Central road, after fully investigating
the strike of the coal-shipping com
panics of for ihe 25 cents per hour, find that
labor same grade on the rail
ways brings but 12 cents and that they
can not recommend iHat the coal
panies yield.
The heirs of Samuel J.
while objecting to a legislative bill
creating the Tilden trust
their intention to deed to the city
New York books the and Gramercynark Greystone mansion
and the public papers at
and endow a library with
000.000 or more.
The main points for the sale of
miles of track by the East Tennessee
road to the Richmond and West
company have been the agreed upon.
parties controlling for ttieir preferred former stock are $4.- to
receive
400.000 in cash and four thousand
shares of Richmond stock.
Mrs. Cabalek, of Cleveland, Thurs¬
day kilted three of her children and
fatally stabbed and two banged others herself with a to pair
of shears, a
rafter in the cellar. She bad refused
to talk to her husband at the break¬
fast table, from a lit of ill-temper, but
no cause for the tragedy is apparent.
The inauguration of Governor Ross, of
of Texas, was and made military the occasion display at a
grand civic
Austin. The inauguration of General
Beaver as fifteen governor of Pennsylvania
attracted thousand persons to
Harrisburg. Pattison, law the retiring Phila¬
governor, will practice in
delphia.
In a barber shop at Washington,
Cuthbert B. Jones, of Louisiana, toward at¬
tempted Congressman by insulting J. Floyd language King
to pro¬
voke a fight, but the latter silently bore
the aggravating treatment. The trou¬
ble had its origin in a bloody feud
which commenced before the birth of
Mr. Jones.
The Republican caucus at Albany
balloted twelve times Wednesday even¬
ing for a candidate for senator. The
name of Levi P. Morton being then
withdrawn, Frank Hiscock bad 47,
votes and Warner Miller 46. The
fourteenth ballot gave Hiscock a ma¬
jority. unanimous. and his nomination was made
A bill has been introduced in the
give Michigan effect house to the of provision representatives of the to
state constitution declaring that lands
held by corporations and unused for
ten years shall revert to the state. If
the bill passes it will deprive land
grant railroads of a considerable
amount of lands.
lowed Governor his Ross, inaugural of Texas, has by fol¬
up address a
message to the Legislature in which
he recommends a number of reforms,
dealing railroad in question a vigorous and manner recommending with the
that pooling among railroads be de¬
clared unlawful, ana that any officer
of a railroad engaging therein may be
convicted of felony.
The periodical robbery of the post
office a t Corinth, Miss., caused the
window postmaster where to place the a burglar beaver-trap usually in a
entered. Saturday morning the son of
a tightly prominent clasped citizen steel was bands found that so
could with
he not easily be released. While
the postmaster went for assistance the
robber nearly killed himself with a
pocket-knife.
Charles B. Farwell was elected
senator from Illinois Tuesday by a
Morrison. plurality of 33 Cushman votes over K. William Davis R.
was
chosen senator from Minnesota, Eu¬
gene Hale from Maine, George Gray
from Delaware, Joseph R. Hawley
from Connecticut, George F. B. Stoekbridge
from Michigan, Ilearst from
California, M. F. S. M. Quay Cockrell from from Pennsyl¬ Mis¬
souri. vania, and
victed Captain anarchists Black, counsel of Chicago, for Tuesday the con¬
escorted Miss Nina Van Zaudt to the
office of the county clerk, where the
lady took V. T. out a license stated to marry that
August she to Spies. dissuaded She by the
was not be
rage of her wealthy relatives in Pitts¬
burg, who have disinherited her. But
Sheriff Matson, public, fully appreciating his
iftty deny to her the admission has the concluded jail for the to
to
future.
The block-coalminers of the Brazil,
Indiana, rejected district the in mass the convention
have offer of operators
of 65 cents as the minimum, with 5
cents addition for every three inches
thereunder, as a scale of prices for
next year, will demanding before the 80 state cents. The
matter go conven¬
tion Haute, of miners and operators at Terre
thence before the miners’ na¬
tional federation at Columbus, Ohio.
Feb. 8. It is feared that Indiana block
miners will withdraw from the federa¬
tion if they do not gain their demands.
It is reported that Rev. Dr. Mc
Glynn has been permanently removed
from St. Rome. Stephen’s Neither parish Archbishop by an order Cor¬
from
rigan, Dr. McGlynn, nor Father Don
.ne ally will confirm this, although a pos¬
itive report to that effect has been
published. question Archbishop the Corrigan subject, read and
a written on
returned a verbal message that he
“begged to he excused.” Catholics
who knew Dr. McGlynn and are his
friends said that believed that
Dr. McGlynn lias been permanently
removed, and that even if he should
recant his land theories he would be
placed in a smaller parish. The com¬
mittee of thirty-five of St. Stephen's
parishioners lias received a communi¬
cation known from the of Archbishop, but noth¬
ing is iis contents.
Maria P. Storey, of Chicago, who in
1868 was divorced from Wilbur F.
Storey on the ground of desertion, has
since received from his secured estate by alimony lien
oL$2,000 per annum, last a
upon real estate. She year brought
an action to recover dower in the per¬
sonal after her property divorce. and real The estate widow acquired of Mr.
Storey, not disputing that Maria P.
Storey is entitled to dower in all real
estate date of owned divorce, by entered her husband demurrer, at the
a
together with a motion to Judge discontinue
the payment of alimony. Tuley
decided that the heirs to the estate are
not bound for the payment of alimony,
and he therefore ordered Receiver
Hurlbut to cease making such pay¬
ments. His honor remarked that the
claims of the divorced wife must be
sought by W. F. through Storey the to trust her deed alimony. made
secure
To Care Damp Cellar Walla.
The following, it is said, will accom
Pl’sk an admirable result: Boil two
ounces of grease with two quarts of tar
for nearly «nd havinJ twenty minutes in an iron
vessel * an< J na T*? 8 retdv y nounded Pp unaea S sriasa 1 * 88
S?^ d, ?°“£ ds j
* el1 dr * ed d in RQ ,ron anJ
through a flour seive. . Add some of the
hwe to the tar and glass, to form a thin
paste only time, sufficient to cover a square
foot at a about an eighth of an inch
thick.
—
u u stated that William Thaw, ot
Ln phuburw /colddav Li worth $25 000 000 It
wU1 a 001(1 whenThaw wUen Xfta 8013 treteleft, leIU
COX O KBXSt U MAX.
Senate.
.Tax. 17.—Forty pension biPs in (principally Senate to
;i -use Mils) were p.i-scd -ion tiie appropriation
‘ V -1 ,y and then the i*en taken
oil (appropriating S .o,IKK),000) immaterial was
up and passed, with only a few
amendments. The army appropriation bill
was thou taken up and passed, with a few
unimportant amendments. bill
Mr. Edmunds called attention to a
Introduced by him and referred to the post
offlee committee providing for a govern¬
ment postal telegraph. He wished the
committee to report it either favorably, and or
unfavorably so tiiat he might try get
,ne judgment of the senate upon it.
Jan. 18.—Tiie Senate passed the House
bill declaring forfeited tiie lands granted and
to tne New Orleans, Baton Rouge of
Vicksburg Railroad company by tiie act
March 3,1871, as to that part of the grant
situate on the east side of tiie Mississippi the
river, and also as to that part on west
of the Mississippi which is opposite to and
coterminous with the part of the New
Orleans Pacific railroad which was com¬
pleted on Jan. 5,1881. It relinquishes and
confirms to the New Orleans Pacific Rail
ro id company, as the assignee of the New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, the
lands not so declared forfeited, such lands
to be located in accordance with the map
filed by Hie New Orleans Paciiie company
in tin department of tiie interior Oct. 18
l«si. and November, 18t-2, indicating the
definite location of the route, provided ami that still
all the lands occupied by settlers shall be
remaining in their possession
exempt from such
Secretary E inning, in reply to a Senate
resolution of inquiry, stated that at tiie be¬
ginning of this year the several Pacific
railroad companies owed the government the
84'.',302,181 for interest alone, and at
maturity of the thirty year bonds the total
indebtedness will he $157,372,615. select committee
Mr. Uawley, centennial from celebration the of the adop¬
on the reported joint
tion of ihe constitution, a
resolution providing for the appointment and
of a joint committee of five senators
eight representatives to consider the ex¬
pediency of holding, in 1892, an and interna¬
tional exhibition of the industries pro
's*seW»tf!li6f all countries. Passe 1.
Senator Edmunds gave notice that he
should early to-day move that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of executive
business for the purpose of taking up
posed topics that of wide he had public reference interest. to the It Nicara¬ is sup¬
gua Canal resolution.
A Dili was reimburse reported from the finance com¬
mittee to the depositors of the
Freedmen’s Bureau.
Jan. 19.—In the Senate, Mr. Mitchell,
from tiie committee on pensions, bill the reported relief
bacic favorably tiie House for
of dependent parents and honorably dis¬
charged soldiers and sailors now disabled
and dependent on their labor for support.
He gave notice that to-morrow morning he
would ask the Senate to take it up and
consider it.
Mr. Frye, from Ihe committee on foreign
relations, repor.ed an amendment to be
offered to one of the appropriation bills ap¬
propriating $50,000 to take part in the in¬
ternational exposition ill South Australia
June 30, 1887.
Mr. Hampton (by tiie request) efficiency introduced of the civil a
bill to promote
service of the government by establishing a
retired list. Referred.
Messrs. Plumb, Teller, and Walthall were
appointed a conference committee on the
bill for tiie forfeiture of the Backbone rail¬
road The grant presiding (passed officer yesterday.) presented the
re
spouse of tiie Secretary of the Treasury to
the resolution relative to the indebtedness
of the subsidized Pacific railroads. Re¬
ferred without reading to the judiciary
committee.
Messrs. Allison, conferrees Plumb, and Gorman were
appointed bill. on tiie army appro¬
priation On motion of Mr. Hampton, and after
speeches in its favor by Messrs. Hoar and
Conger, the Senate the bill appropriating completion of $301),- the
000 to expedite
Charleston available immediately) jetties (the appropriation passed. to be
was
Mr. Edmuuds presented the report from
the committee on foreign relations on the
subject ot the fisheries. Ordered printed.
After an executive session the Senate ad¬
journed.
Jan. 20.—In the Senate, Mr. Mahone re¬
ported a bill for the completion of a monu¬
ment to Washington's Air. Blairgave mother. notice Referred that
to tiie calendar.
on Tuesday next lie would ask the Senate
to consider and act constitutional upon the joint amendment resolu¬
tion authorizing proposing a suffrage. Mr. Hoar
woman
called up the conference report on the
electoral count Wilson, bill, winch, agreed after remarks with¬
Edmunds and was to
out division. The Senate then went into
executive session, and completed the con¬
sideration of the proposed extension of the
treaty witli Hawaii lor a term of seven
years. hours The debate lasted almost three
and the treaty from was the finally committee adopted,
witli an amendment on
foreign relations granting to the United
States the exclusive use of Pearl River
Harbor, Hawaii, for a coaling station.
The Nicaraguan treaty has been temporari¬
ly laid aside.
• The presiding officer presented a m \ssage
from the President vetoing a bill granting
a pension to Williams Dickens. The
ground of the veto is that a pension had been
already, in December, - 1886, given the bene¬
ficiary through the pension office.
Jan. 21.—In the Senate, Mr. Colquitt pre¬
sented a petition from the Womairs Chris¬
tian Columbia, Temperance charging union commissioners of the District with of
the
protecting brothels. President saloons, Cleveland gambling-houses, transmitted and
a letter offering to the nation the sword of
Captain General Reed, the Armstrong commander of battle the
of privateer Fayal. at tiie
House.
Jan. 15.—In the House, Mr. Crisp pre¬
sented the conference report on tiie inter¬
state commerce bill, stating that he did not
do so for the purposo of asking for action
upon it at this time, but in order that it
might form. be This printed in ordered, the Record and and Mr. in Crisp bill
was
gave notice that he would call up the report
at The an early House day. then into committee of
went
the whole (Mr. MeMilliu in tiie chair) on
the river and harbor bill.
Mr. Hepburn, while favoring the system
of waterway improvements, opposed the
“swappiug-otf ” theory upon which the bill
was formed, and criticised severely some
of the features of the measure, especially
that which provided for the improvement
of plans the of Mississippi the commission. in accordance with the
Mr. Blanchard commended the work of
strongly the Mississippi the river continued commission, and
of tiie river urged in accordance with improvement its plans.
Pending further debate the committee rose.
Mr. Hatch moved tiiat the House go into
the committee of the whole oil the pleuro¬
pneumonia bill. Lost Yeas 105, nays 130.
The House then adjourned.
Jan. 17.—In the House to-day after the
call of States Mr. Crisp, as a matter of
privilege, the inter-state called up the conference bill. Mr. report An¬
on commerce
derson raised the question of consideration
against the conference report. The House
refused—yeas 113, nays conference 137—to consider the
inter-state commerce report;
and Mr. Matsou, on behalf of tpe commit¬
tee on invalid pensions, then moved to sus¬
lief pend of the dependent rules and parents pass the of bill honorably for the dis¬ re¬
charged soldiers and sailors who are now
disabled and dependent upon their own la¬
bor for support. Mr. Matsou stated that
the first section ot the bill merely changed
the and evidence would required the by the pension office,
not cost gov vernment more
than *50,000 annually, would be The total number by
of persons who beuefited the
second section was estimated at 33,105, and
the annual cost to the government would
not The reach bill *6,009,000. passed—yeas 179,
was then nays
76.
it provides claims of that' dependent In considering the the pen¬ fact
sion parents,
and cause left of death, and tiie fact that the
soldier no widow or minor clnidren
having been shown ns required by law, it
shall be necessary without only other to show tiiat such ot
parents are than their present uuuiuB means labor
suppoh own ur
the contributions of others provided not legally
bound for tlielr support; that no
pension allowed under this act shall com¬
mence prior to its passage. behalf of the committee
Mr. pensions, Eldredge, moved on that tiie rules be sus¬
on ami Sen¬
pended tiie House concur in the
ate amendment to tne Moxicau pension
bill.
The motion to suspend the rules and con
cur in the Senate amendment was agreed
to—yeas 243, nays 5.
The bill now only requires the Presiden¬
tial approval tu become a taw.
Jan- 18.—In the House, Mr. Lovering,
from the committee on invalid pensions,
reported a bill increasing from $72 to $190
tiie pension of soldiers and sailors who
have lost both arms. Committee of tiie
whole. committee
Mr. Daniel, on behalf of the
on labor, called up the resolution consider¬ setting
aside the 29th of January for ihe
ation of the Biair educitionai bill.
Mr. Springer moved to lay the resolution
on the table. Lost—yeas 76, nays 165,
The morning hour expired before final
action was taken on the resolution.
The inter-state commerce bill was de¬
bated
Mr. Blount, irom the committee on post
offices and post-roans, reported Referred. tiie post
office appropriation bill.
The speaker announced the Steele appointment
of Messrs. the Bragg, Viele, appropriation and bill. as cou
ferrees on army adjourned.
The House then
Jan. 19.—Wtien the House resumed con¬
sideration of the inter-state commerce bill
to-day, Mr. Crisp gave notice that ha would
ask tor a vote upon the conference report
to-morrow.
Mr. Dunham lorig-aiid-shorc-haul expressed his inability to un¬ of
derstand the section
the bill, and his disbelief that anybody else
understood it. If the railroads were forced
by this bill to raise in their which through he lived rates would the
section of country
sustain the greatest injury, for it would be
more difficult for tiie farmers of tiiat sec¬
tion to place their grain products in Euro¬
pean markets in competition with the grain
products of Australasia. had been He, however, guilty
thought the railroads o'
unjust discrimination, and, while the pres¬
ent bill was inconsistent in places, he
should vote for it.
Mr. Gunther said that year after year the
railroad magnates through agents and lob¬
byists had defeated all inter-state com¬
merce about legislation, arrive. but the The day of judgment ot tins
was to passage
bill lic had would achieved be the for greatest triumph the pub¬
Mr. Weaver many had years. spoken in
After oppo¬
sition to the bill the matter went over till
to-morrow.
Jan. 20—In the morning hour in the
House to-day Mr. Martin, on behalf of the
committee on patents, called up the Senate
bill amending the law relating to The patents,
trade marks and copyrights. bill,
which was the passed, of provides letters tiiat hereafter, for de¬
during shall term be patent a
sign, it unlawful for any person
other than the owner of letters patent,
without liceuse of owner, to apply the de¬
sign secured by such letters patent or any
imitation tnereof to any article of manu¬
facture for for sale the purpose article of sale, of manufacture or to sell or
expose which such any design imitation shall,
to or
without the license of the owner, have
been been applied, applied. knowing that the same has
so
The House committee on territories re¬
ported admission back favorably statehood the Senate Washington bill for
the to ot
territory and admitting a portion Montana of Idaho, witli like an
amendment on
terms. Another amendment requires the
constitution of the new states to include
prohibition Mr.Miller, against of Texas, polygamy. introduced bill to
a
amend the laws relating to national bank¬
ing commendations associations, which Controller embodies Trenliolm the re¬
of on
the subject o'clock as submitted before recess.
At 2 tiie House resumed the con¬
sideration of the conference report on tiie
inter-state commerce bill. After a short
unanimous discussion, on motion it of Mr. ordered Crisp, by
session should consent; was for that dis¬ a
be held to-night
cussion of tiie report; that at the end of
that session the previous question should
be considered or ordered, and that the vote
on the adoption of tiie report should be
taken to-morrow morning after the lading
of the journal.
of Jan. journal, 21.—In the the House, after stated the that reading
the speaker the
regular order was tiie vote upon tiie adop¬
tion of the conference report on tiie inter¬
state commerce bill. Mr. Crisp objected
to requests for separate votes on the fourth
section and the one relating to the com¬
mission. He also raised a point of order
against commit the the report, motion which of Mr. Dunham to re¬ by
was sustained
the sulting speaker. in the The vote was then taken, re¬
report—yeas, 219; adoption of the conference
nays, 41.
The long and short haul clause and that
prohibiting which objection pooling (sections 4 and made 5), to in
both houses during was so the frequently debate the
on
measure, are as follows:
Sect,on 4. That it shall beunlawful for
any common carrier subject to tiie pro¬
vision of this act to charge or receive any
greater compensation in the aggregate for
kind the transportation of of passengers or of like
property, under substantially simi¬
lar circumstances and conditions, for a
shorter than tor a longer distance over the
same line in the same direction, the shorter
but being this included shall within the longer distance;
not be construed as author¬
izing this any common carrier within the terms
of act to charge and receive as great
compensation for a shorter as for a longer
distance; application provided, however, tiiat upon
to the commission appointed
under tiie provisions of this act, such com¬
mon carrier may, in special cases, after in¬
vestigation charge by the commission, be author¬
ized to less tor longer than for
shorter distances for the of
passengeis or property, and commis¬
sion may from tune to time prescribe the
extent to winch sucli designated common
carrier may be released from the operation
of this section ot tins act.
Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to tiie provis¬
ions of this act to enter into any contract,
agreement carrier or combination with any pooling other
common or carriers for the
of freights of different and competing rail¬
roads, or to divide between them the ag¬
gregate portions or net earnings thereof. of such rai roads,
or any And in any case
of agreement for the pooling of freights as
aforesaid, each day of iis continuance shall
be deemed a separate offense.
Section 6 requires that, after ninety days
from the passage of the act, every common
earner printed suoject and keep to its provisions shall h ive
for public inspection
schedules showing rates, fares, and charges,
and, m addition to requ ring the railroads
their to give several publicity lines, at it gives all of tiie depo.son
commission, where it is proper authority and to neces¬ the
sary, to require other them places to give publicity to
their rates to Deyoud the lines
ot their several railroads.
It also provides that ihe rates, fares, and
charges snail not be raised except after ten
days' reduced of public without notice, but that they may be
the notice, however, previous shall public simultaneous notice;
be
with the reduction itself.
Section 7 makes it unlawful for any com¬
mon carrier to enter into auy combination
or agreement to prevent the carriage of
freights of from shipment being the continuous from the
place to place of destina¬
tion.
William N. Clack, a leading grocery
man of Rochester, has suddenly be¬
come violently insane. He declares
that he is the original Rip Van Winkle,
addresses his wife as Gretchen, and
imagines that he has been asleep 100
years.
This will interest ordinary people
bat won’t affect editors in the least.
If an editor was to, by any chance, get
hold of a postal money order, he would
think it was an advertisement for some
kind of a new porous plaster and
wouldn’t know what to do with it— A*
anmitc Argus.
j SHORT WORK WITH LOGS.
Huge Circular Saws That Do Not
Need Sharpening.
The largest circular saw that has
been sent out of this city recently, says
the New York Sun, was exactly six
feet in diameter. It was ordered by a
match company and went to Michigan.
Fifty-two is revolving teeth projected from its rim.
It now at the rate of 672
-evolutions a minute, and is capable of
making with each a ten-inch revolution. to twelve-inch cut
It can saw pff
finitesimal a forty-foot plank, therefore in an in¬
portion of a minute, though
as a matter of fact the frame on which
logs are fed to a saw is adjusted to
move at about the speed at which a
man can walk. At the rate, there is
nothing but the a journey whirr and a shriek to
This announce is not solid of a log’s length.
a saw or it would have
more than one hundred teeth. R’s one
of the new patterns, in which the teeth
are separate from the plate and can be
inserted and removed at pleasure. The
teeth in the sort of saw of which this
is specimen t little
monster a are curved
bits of steel pointed like chisels at the
cutting end. of They the fit into round sock¬
ets cut out edges of the saw
plates, project and slightly their beyond little chisel blades
the circle of the
plate. Solid continue
saws to be made in
great numbers, but the inventors of the
movable teeth, different patterns of
which are made deriving by all saw manufac¬
turers, are fortunes, because
new teeth can be replaced for a few
cents and in a few minutes, and the
body of the saw remains the size it was
made, whereas solid saws have to be
newly filed and set and sharpened ev¬
ery time they dull, a process that con¬
sumes time and requires the services
of a sawyer whose skill commands
good the size,of wages. the Every A cutting 72-inch reduces is
saw. saw
a 66-inch big one, even is in in Michigan, where There the
saw common use.
these 5£-foot saws are run at a speed
of five to seven hundred revolutions in
Norway pine logs, revolution and they cut as
deep with each described. as the mon¬
ster above The little chis¬
el-bit teeth will chew out pine during
a whole of dull working day, and an entire
set ones can be replaced next
day in five minutes for 3 cents a tooth.
Some of the sawdust from one of these
great the establishment saws was sent of from Michigan to
a great sawmaker
in this city. It was esteemed as a
curiosity. It was not dust at all, but
a mass of little pellets of wood, three
lumbermen eighths of an inch in thickness. The
provided prefer to waste lumber in
this way, they get speed out
of their tools. These huge saws are
used singly in sawing a rough log into
planks. duced desired Afterward widths the planks are re¬
which to smaller implements by edger saws,
arc revolv¬
ing together from another. at the proper distances
one
A saw-maker must know whether or
not his customer wants to run his pur¬
chase the at is a high rate Saw-makers, of speed before
saw made. in de¬
veloping hammer it a disk of leave st**el into a saw,
so as to either a hard
or soft center. A saw that has a soft
center will wabble in the middle if a
person takes hold of it by the edge and
shakes it. If it has a hard center one
part will not shake more than anoth¬
er. A saw with a hard center, if driv¬
en straight. at a high Its rate edge of speed, will not cut
will wabble. But
if it has a soft center, and is sent
around at a rate of 700 to 800 revolu¬
tions a minute, the centrifugal force
straining at the center stiffens the saw
and keeps the it edge steady. To the
average mind would seem that there
has been the same straining after or¬
namental effect in the vertical saws,
so odd are the shapes of the teeth. But
here, again, the study has been solely
to Some produce of the strength vertical and cutting power.
saws have dull
teeth alternating with the sharp ones.
The dull ones do not reach out quite so
far as the cutters. Their purpose is to
clear the sawdust before the cutters.
Told by the Engineer.
“Gad! hut you have a cold climate
up Central here! Pacific Why down south on 'the
road, it is as warm as
roast potatoes, and then to come up
here. Whew! It is as good as ether
for dental operations.”
The speaker was Wall Smith, one of
the oldest engineers on the Central
Pacific, and noted as the champion
on a bee-line from St.
Louis to San Francisco, a sort of Mul
hatton on wheels, but at the same time
regarded throttled as good an engineer as ever
a locomotive.
“Come in and get warmed up,” said
The Day reporter he had accosted, and
a few seconds later the cozy surround¬
background, ings of the Merchants’ served as a
as he proceeded:
“You want to know about that acci¬
dent in 1874? Well, I was then running
on a fast-express train between Sait
Lake City and the coast. About 12
o’clock one moonlight night in autumn
just before leaving Kelton, I noticed a
white horse running loose alongside my
engine. My eyes became transfixed,
and no matter how I tried, I could not
take them off that horse. I put on
more buFthe steqm and went at a fortv-milo
rate, horse went alongside at
an and easy gait. flying I shoved her up to fifty,
went and Bovine, through but whitey Motlier, Ter¬ his
race held
own. I yelled to the fireman to shovo
in the coal, and in five minutes moro
Why, we were running sixty miles an hour.
ground, we but appeared to fly over tho
that horse kept alongside,
and I was so excited I fell in a dead
faint in the bottom of the cab just as
we were going into Elko, Moors. Our orders
were to run to but the fireman
pulled up, and the conductor cam
rushing to the front with his hair on
end. I had recovered by this time, and
was ready to answer all questions. I
told the conductor about the horse, but
he wouldn’t have it.
“Before the train started out again
weioundout whatit was. I’m ashamed
every time I think of it. A passenger
on the train had the picture of a horse
on canvas beside a window, and tho
shadow light ef alongside a lamp behind it threw Saul the
Day. theengine.”— Si.
A Madison (Ind.) dog, having bad
his tali mashed by a truck, bit the
member off clean.