Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

In the star-route trial at Washington, Ilerdell interrupted the proceedings to plead guilty, place himself at the mercy of the court, and offer to divulge any facts in connection with the defendants Secretary Lincoln, in answering the request of Gen. Hazen for an investigation of the Signal Service Bureau by the Senate, suggests that the Articles of War provide tribunals for dealing with officers of the army. Gen. Hazen says the floods in the Mississippi are certain to be very disastrous between Cairo and Memphis, and citizens of the river towns have been duly warned