| Show IMPORTANT EVENTS R view of important events of rome home and abroad the tariff bill occupied the attention of tho the senate during the week a and ad and considerable progress was made dade senator hill led the opposition to making coal suitable dui table but senator irby was the only democrat supporting him though two republican hansbrough and washburn and the three populists lists voted with them the senate committee investigating charges connecting senators with the sugar trust finished the taking of testimony the cases of the witnesses who ref refused used to testify have been sent to the grand jury of the district of columbia the new quor quorum counting t rule was put into operation in ill the house to prevent obstruction on the anti op tion bill the senate defeated senator fer fers is motion to establish a graduated I 1 income income tax and mr baldrichs Ald richs to limit its operation to june 1 1898 the american railway union in session at chicago decided to work with the populist party A now new party was waa born in a congressional 9 ressi district in the west known as the industrial party and a nomination for congress was made erastus wiman of new york was sentenced to prison for rive years and six months for f forging checks mrs lizzie halliday was convicted at monticello N Y of the murder of three persons and was sentenced to be electrocuted she will be the first woman todie in the chair bunker hill day was celebrated on monday in new england disorders have continued in the coal regions though many miners have resumed work according to the columbus agreement the yale athletes who will meet those from oxford stilled sailed for england edgland ramapo won the suburban handicap breaking the record great damages were done in nebraska and iowa by woud slid and hall hail the A california republicans nominated ate d morris M eslee for governor william walter phelps died adit aalt gen Ts tarsney borley of colorado brother of congressman tarsney and ex congressman tarsney was kidnapped from his hotel in colorado springs and tarred and feathered by men sup posed to be deputies who served during the cripple creek strike the heart of ferrere cairo who before d dying y ing by nil an assassins sas sins bullet said his doom was hastened by liis his masonic faith was buried with masonic rites near oakland cal FOREIGN the hungarian house of magnates finally passed the civil marriage bill which the clericals had bad opposed the austrian em is credited with overcoming over coming the opposition sir william vernon harcourt english lish chancellor of the exchequer is to be elevated to the peerage leaving the liberal leadership in ili the commons mr mir gladstone will retire after the next election the black plague in china continues to carry away victims by bull hundreds A largely attended radical conference was held at leeds aud and the veto power of the house of lords was denounced noun ced the degree LL D was conferred on capt cap I 1 mahan of the chicago by cambridge university the american yacht vigilant arria arrived at glasgow after a trip of only fourteen days the civil dissensions in morocco are being quieted the spanish senate voted confidence in premier sagasta 1 I 11 A |
