Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — NATIONAL CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 28th considered the bill, without action, for the transfer of tha' river and marine from the Treasury to tha Naval Department. The beginning of the! session was fixed at 11 a. m. The tariff bill wasdiscussed by Vest and Turpie. The House considered the sundry clvili appropriations bill. The Senate on the 80th discussed the tariff bill. The Senate on the 31st considered the tariff bill. The House discussed the original pack-, age bill and considered several ether matters without action. A Port Wayne drunkard made'three at. tempts at suicide on the 29th, hanging him-' self by hlB suspenders and shirts. He al-f most succeeded twice and finally was looked up in jail, with no clothes on. Another suicide, that of a prominent, farmer’s wife, occurred oh the 28th, in' what is known as the “Dark Corner," Bar-! tholomew couuty. Seven suicides and one! murder are recorded as having taken place? in these “corners." ■’