Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1892 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At tli* Nation’* Capital—What Is Balog D°a* hy th* Sonata and Hons*—ol4 Matters Disposed Or and New Ones Co*. stdered. The Senate and House. C)n the 27th the House passed the 55,00(f,000 World’s Fair appropriation bill by a °f 147 to 105. Mr. Holman moved that the House non-concur in the Senate amendment increasing the appropriation tor the Government’s exhibit trom $310,500 to *500,000 and demanded tho previous question. question nts ordered and the motion to non-concur whs carried tay a viva voce vote. The same action was taken in all the Senate amendments for the government exhibit br viva voce vote. This means that there will be another conference anu, unless the Senate conferrees recede, another- fljrfttr In tho House. It is understood the Senate will recede. The vote by which 55.000.000 was appropriated to the World’s Fair was. upon motion of Mr. Holman, up for reconsideration on tbe 28th, and filibustering, led by Mr- Bailey, of Texas, vas the order. Nothing erse was done, except to pass a joint resolution to adiourn upon the 30th; t“!i “19*19“. it is freely stated, is but a part of the programme of the opponents of the appropriation to defeat It, and was made by Mr. Holman. The time of the House, the 29tb, wa* again taken up by the World’s Fair bill, tbe filibusters suceessfn iy opposing a vote. An incident of the day was a tilt between Gen. Whee e-. i.f Alabama, and Mr. Watson, of Georgia, who had bean carrying on a personal altercation for several . davs. Whesler read from Mr Watson's campaign book a virulent attack upon the present House of Representatives, and Watson got up and declared that every word be had said in his book was true. Among other tilings, he charged that members hud been drunk upon the floor during transaction of business. Mr. Boatner offered a ra-olution ordering an investigation. Nothing of interest occurred in the Senate. On the Ist, act’on was taken by tbe House to supply funds to several departments which were at a standstill, and then filibustering was resumed upon the World’s Fair bill. Mr. Holman endeavored to have the whole matter laid over until December, but failed. Both tho friends and opponents of the bill are leaving tbe city rapidly, and it is an open question whether the matter will not be left with no quorum. At present the whole busiress of the present Congress Is blocked by two men. No business of importance was transacted in the Senate.

KENTUCKY’S BLOODY TRAGEDY Two Officers Shot and One Torn to Pieces by Dors. Lexington, Ky., special: Y'esterday afternoon Kavanaugh Tipton, the jailer of Montgomery County; Thomas Howard, a Constable, George Rayburn, a special Deputy Sheriff, and two other men went to the mountains to capture John Sherrell, a horse-thief who stole a horse from Madison County last week. Tipton heard he was at the house of George Pipps, on Cedar Trace Creek. He arrived there this morning and upon the appearance of the posse two fierce dogs set up such,a loud barking that Tipton concluded he would go in and make the arrest at once instead of waiting until daylight, as he first intended. He went to the door, closely followed by tho other members of the posse. He rapped and Pipps said “Come in.” “Who is that?” he asked. “It is Kavanaugh Tipton and I am on on electioneering spree,” was. the reply. “All right,” said Pipps, “I will get up and light the lamp.” He struck a match and Tipton sat down on a chair and asked him who that was in bed with him. Sherrell, who had been sleeping with Pipps, leveled pistol on the footboard and before Pipps could reply to Tipton’s question, shot the latter in the ceuter of the forehead. He fell to the floor and died within' two hours. While thS was yet burning Howard enthfeef the room only to receive a bullet In the temple from the horse thief’s pistol, ahd he fell dead in his tracks. Rayburn was right behind him, and just Before the match burned out Sherrell shot him through the right arm and shouldest: • ~ • In the darkness he made his escape through a back door, but Reyburn went out after him, only to be caught by dogs and almost torn to pieces. The animals wounded him so severely that he is not expected to live.

PLENTY AND CHEAP. Bun Reports an Abundance of Money and Collections Good. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade follows: The weather has been extremely favorable for the growing crops, excepting in limited districts where damage hus been done by violent storms, and the crop outlook is on the whole decidedly improved. Money has been abundant and cheap and collections generally good for the. season, and there are no signs of thieatened disturbance. Finished products of iron and steel are stronger and $3 lo $5 per ton higher, but greater demoralization is expected in pig-iron unless more of the consuming works start speedily. Bar and sheet iron are very active and manufacturers of plate and structural iron have more orders than they can well handle, but no Improvement is seen in rails. In woolens there is a better demand and more activity Is seen in purchases of wool, while the cotton mills continue to do well. Boot and shoe shops are running, full of business, and shipments exceed last year’s every week.

On the .Diamond. Following Is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. Pc.l W. L. SC. Cleveland.. .10 5 .667!Ctncinnatl.. 7 7 . 500 Philadelphia 9 6 .COOiWashlngtou. 7 8 .467 Brooklyn... 9 6 .SOOjPittsbnrg.... 6 8 .429 Boston 9 6 .COOChicagO 6 9 .400 Baltimore.. 9 6 .eoolLouisviHc... 6 10 .888 New York... 8 6 .57115 t. Louis 3 12 .200 WISCONSIN-MICHIGAN LEAGUE. W. L. %>c.l W. L. $o Menominee. . .23 14 .621 Green Bay... .16 21 .432 Oshkosh 24 16 .600 Marinette 16 22 .421 Ish’lng-Neg. ..15 16 .484 Marquette... .17 24 .415 ILLINOIS-lOWA LEAGUE W. L. iac.' W. L. @c. R. 1.-Mctrne..lß 16 ,529]Rockford 19 18 .514 Joliet 18 17 .6141 Jacksonville. .16 20 .444 Won ler-YVorkers. The New York morgue received 9,654 bodies last year. Of these 107 were never were identified. In India the native barbers will shave you when asleep without awakening you, the touch is so very light. If cork is sunk 200 feet deep in the ocean, it will not rise again on account of the great pressure of th.e water. The mines of th? world produce twen--Iy-five tons of gold every week, but the precious metal remains as rare as ever. Thebe is a man in Montezuma, Ga., who has had his arm dislocated at the shoulder thirty-eight times and his leg dislocated at the hip eight times. Labrador, a country which we always associate with Arctic snowdrifts, icebergs, etc., has 930 species of flowering pi ante, 59 ferns, and over 250 species of mosses and lichens. Statistics carefully compiled show that within three years 5,000 people have lost their lives in Western Pennsylvania because of weak dams constructed in a slovenly manner. In one of the Comstock mines in the West a new water-wheel is to be placed which is to run r,l?0 revolutions a minute, and have a speed at its periphery of 10,805 feet per minute.