Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 April 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

jf" DOMESTIC. |'S The price of tea is to be increased, Two thousand emigrants landed at

Castle Garden Monday. A burglar was killed at Napersville,Ill.," ,, Thursday, by a policeman.

Deputy U. S. marshal Russell Weirman was killed in Knott county, Ky., Friday, by moonshiners.

Henry T. Helmbold. the patent medicine man, is mentally deranged, the result of excessive drinking.

The net earnings of the American Bell Telephone Company for 1888, show an increase over 1887 of $203,608.

Mr. Theodore Stein way, of the firm of Steinway & Sou, piano makers, of New York, died Tuesday at Brunswick.

Margaret Kinlein and her three children lost their lives by the burning of their house at Milwaukee, Monday.

Alfred Fenton, of Winchester, Ohio, is an eater of some capacity. He expe--iences 110 ill effects from eating three iF^Ken boiled eggs. "^Se railroad ticket office of the Cin-

Hamilton & Dayton Road at ng, Ohio, was burglarized Sunday nd $400 in money taken. 4. von dale, Ala., an eight-year-old Jjnd a small dynamite cartridge. |uck it with a hammer, and the sion killed him and disfigured his for life, stmaster General Wanamaker de||red a temperance address at Philaphia Sunday, in which he strongly *ed his hearers to vote for the prohiion amendment. Six hundred carpenters and 200 paint's at Buffalo, l,2li0 carpenters at St. ouis. and 150 carpenters and 180 painters in New York wenfron a strike. Monday. all for higher wages.

Fire Friday nisht destroyed the large building occupied by S. A. Maxwell & Co., wall paper dealers, at Chicago, a loss to the building and contents of over a

Quarter

of a million dollars.

Joseph Sheffski threw a dynamite cartridge in the streets, at Buffalo, to show some curious friends "how they worked." The street was torn up. buildings damaged and Joseph placed in the cooler.

H. Sullivan Moore has been given a life sentence for killing his room-mate, Hon. James Hunt, of the Georgia Legislature. Moore was thrown in a. friendly scuffle, but he became angry and fatally cut Hunt.

George Abrams, a seventeen-year-old employe of the Michigan Buggy Company sit Kalamazoo. Mich., was caught by a belt and carried over a pulley. His head was torn from his body, causing instant death.

The failures for the first quarter of 1889 number 3,294, as against 2,943 ,'or corresponding three months of 1888. The liabilities for the first quarter of 1889 are $42,786,000, as against $38,834,000 for the first quarter of 1888.

Three men accused of cattle stealing were captured by vigilantes in Western Nebraska and turned over to a band of Indians, who subjected the poor victims to the most horrible tortures and finally burned them to death over a slow fire,

Ms. John Fox, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. George Middlecoff and Mr. George Fox, of Paxton, 111., will each receive $267,000 through the death of their sister, Mrs. B. F. Marsh, at Cincinnati, a few days ago. She died intestate, leaving a fortune of $800,000.

George Kennan, the well known traveler, whose articles in the Century on the Siberian exile system have given him world wide fame, is about to deliver a series of lectures on Siberia, beginning at Rochester, N. Y., and extending the tour to the leading cities of the country.

The Lower House of 'the Tennessee Legislature. Friday, passed a Senate bill creating a Confederate Soldier's Home at the Hermitage, near Nashville. The bill was so amended that indigent Mexican veterans and White Union Soldiers of the Civil War will also be provided homes there.

When John Henevan refused to discontinue his attentions to Miss Mary Yanchiz, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., her two brothers tied a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets until he was nearly dead. Henevan has given up his sweetheart, but the two brothers have been placed in jail.

Thomas Keogan, an Irish resident of Juniata Township, near Holidaysburg, Pa., was buried Thursday at the advanced age of one hundred and eight years. He carried a pike in the Irish rebellion of 1798, and came to this country seven-ty-five years ago. His first vote was for Andrew Jackson and his last for Grover Cleveland.

Edward Fletcher, of Kankakee, 111., found favor in the eyes of Mrs. W. M. Rice, of Toronto, and Mr. Rice sued Mr. Fletcher for $20,000 for the loss of his wife's affections. In consequence of the row Mr. Fletcher wai discharged by the railroad company for which he worked, and he now sues Mr. Rice for $21,000 for the loss of his situation.

The scnooner Adventure, which sailed from Seattle, Wash. T., last "March, on a trailing expedition to Alaska, has arrived at Port Etches, Alaska, in charge of her sailors minus a captain. The sailors report that J. C. Reed, one of the owners, who acted as captain, was knocked overboard by a boom last September and drowned, as none of the sailors knew anything about navigation, they have been drifting aimlessly around since that time until a few days ago when they ran ashore near Port Etches.

Four Americans from El Paso shot and killed two Mexican policemen, Thursday night, in Paso de Norte. The Americans were raising considerable disturbance by shooting off their pistols and overturning apple-stands, when the police attempted to arrest them. One of the Americans opened fire on the police, and killed one of them instantly. A second shot brought down the second policeman, fatally wounded. The American crowd then ran for the river, closely pursued by Mexican soldiers Three of them jumped into the Rio Grande and swam acroBS, while the fou rth crossed on the bridge and wa* fired at three times by the Mexican guard. Fully 20!* Mexicans came over to El Paso to demand the arrest of the guilty parties.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, charges that certain Senators secured their seats by the same money methods »it alleges Payne employed, and vb tc to this is due the rejection of Mr. Halsfr-ad's nomination as Minister to Germany.

The antipathy ot these Senators arose from the critiwsm by Mr. Halstean in his paper when the Payne investigation was on,and hisstrictures on certain of the Senators were extremely severe. The New York Times is of the same opinion as the Commercial Gazette, and believes its statements are "substantially correct." In other words it believes several Senators owe their election to money influences and would no*, dare invite an investigation of the methods employed.

FOREIGN.

The Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation to dine with Mrs. J. W. Mackay.

The French Ministry have decided to arrest and prosecute Boulanger for plotting against the State.

John Bright cannot be buried in Westminister Abbey because he was never baptised in the established church.

A private letter from Henry M. Stanley has been received in London dated September 4. He was in good health and spirits and left Emin well.

The session of the House of Commons, Friday night, was devoted to eulogies on the late John Bright. Mr. Gladstone made a touching and appropriate address.

A steamship from Rio Janeiro, reports that yellow fever is raging at Santos— thirty deaths occuiTim* daily. Yellow fever and small pox were also raging with great fury a* H\o Janeiro with an equal number of deaths daily.

Thirteen tenants have been evicted from their holdings at Clongerey. After the tenants had been driven from the houses, twelve of the buildings were set on fire by the agent and emergency men. The best house was not destroyed, being spared for use as quarters for the police.

It is said that the Russian detectives have learned of a gigantic conspiracy of Nihilists, spreading through all parts of Russia. The plots include a new and formidable series of attempts upon the life of the Czar. Numerous arrests are said to have been made in Moscow, Kief, Odessa and southern Russia in consequence of the unearthing of the conspiracy.

During the heavy fog Saturday morning, on the English Channel, an Ostend packet was run down by the Belgain mail steamer Princess Henrietta. The former was crushed, and to add to the horror of the situation her boilers burst, shattering her to pieces and sinking her. The Captain, First Mate, Chief Engineer and twelve of her crew were drowned and the Anglo Continental mails were lost. Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who was among the passengers, was rescued.

THE BOOMERS OVERJOYED.

The Opening of Oklahoma Causes Much Enthusiasm in the Wfsr.

The long-looked-for proclamation for the opening of Oklahoma was received at Wichita, Kansas.with demonstrations of great joy. Flags were hung from buildings, cannons were fired and bonfires built. The same enthusiasm welcomed the news all over the south of Kansas. Extensive preparations are being made for entering the country, and some of the towns of Southern Kansas will almost be depopulated. The boomers who have been camped along the line are making ready to move. The cattlemen are hurrying on to Oklahoma to get their cattle, as they fear violence to stock and property from ther deadly enemies, the boomers. The soldiers have left Oklahoma City. The boomers made bold to come out of their concealment in woods to hear the news. The crowd kept on swelling in size and it was estimated that there were 300 persons that rejoinced over the news. Colonel Summers received from Colonel Wade, at Fort Reno, the new orders from Washington and posted them up in the Oklahoma Depot. They were that every person must immediately leave the country, and that the names of those found would be taken and kept to defeat future filing. Soldiers had left Fort Reno the night before and are advancing to Oklahoma City, scouring the country as they advance. As soon as the order was" posted, many commenced leaving, but by the time the train reached Guthrie the news of the issuing of the proclamation was received, and they alighted to join the boomers here in their celebration and to be near to their ciaims.

At Purcell there was the came wild enthusiasm, enly by greater numbers. Claims are being rapidly taken up and there is hardly a good selection of land that has not one or more claimants. Fights are daily occurring. Tuesday nignt a Swede from Cold Harbor, Kan., while contesting a claim twenty-four, miles west of Oklahoma Station, was fatally shot by his opponent. The poor fellow's eve was blown out and his face filled with buckshot. He was brought to Arkansas City to a surgeon but died after being taken Irom the cars. His freinds fearing the effect of having their names made public, gave out that it was an accident. Men have already sold their rights to claims for $400 and $500. A boomer arriving from Oklahoma says the country is full of people, that the number is constantly increasing and that he believes it is impossible to keep them out.

Female Drunkards.

Chicago Journal.

Dr. Tanner, who has developed from fasting to temperance, said in a recent lecture that in certain districts of Chicago it has been found that there are three drinking women for every one drinking man. There can be no doubt that there has been within a few years an enormous increase in the quantity of alcohol, opium and morphine consumed by women. In this, as in some other respects, we seem to follow the example set by England. It is a little curious that some people find it so easy to imitate all that is worthless in England while they bestow no thought upon the examples of which England herself is proud.

The fact is made known that Chauncey M. Depew was tendered the English Mission. Mr. Depew, when the matter was broached to him, said that his business relations would not permit him to accept it, but asked that the tender be made him in writing, that he might treasure it as an honor unsought. The President then, in a formal letter, offered the appointment and Depew in like manner formally declined.

The public debt was reduced $13,60S, 665 daring March,

GREAT DISASTER AT SAMOA.

All the Ametloan and German MoB-of-War Wneked ia a Fntions Hurricane..

LONDON, March 30.—Advices have been received from Samoa to the effect that, in a terrific hurricane there, three American and four German men-of-war were wrecked and that many persons were drowned.

AUCKLAND, March 26.—Dispatches from Samoa state that the American men-of-war Trenton, Vandalia and Niptic. and the German men-of-war Oiga, Adler and Eber, were driven on a reef during a violent storm and totally wrecked. Of the American crews, four officers and forty-six men were drowned, and of the German crews, nine officers and eighty-seven men lost their lives.

Later advices received regarding the hurricane which devastated Samoa and wrecked a number of German and American war ships, says the storm swept the islands on the 16th rnst. All the war ships attempted to put to sea but only the English steamer, Calliope, succeeded in getting out. Merchant vessels suffered severely. The bark Peter Godeffrey, one other bark and seven coasters were wrecked and four persons were drowned. The Calliope sailed for Sydney. The Peter Godeffrey was a German bark. She had arrived at Samoa from Sydney,

WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Navy Department has received a dispatch from Admiral Kimberly confirming the report of the disaster at Apia. The Trenton and Vandalia are a total loss. The Nipsic is on the beach and may be saved. Two of the German vessels are a total loss.

WASHINGTON, March 30.—The following cable message was received at the Navy Department this morning:

AUCKLAND, March, 30, 1889.

Secretary of Navy, Washington: Hurricane at Apia March 15. Every vessel in harbor on shore except the English man-of-war Calliope, which got to sea. Trenton and Vandalia total lossses. Nipsic beached, rudder gone, may be towed up. Chances against it. Will send her to Auckland if possible. Vandalia lost four officers and thirty-nine men. All saved from the Trenton. All stores possible saved. German ships Adler and Eber total losses. Olga beached, may be saved. German losses ninety-six. Important to send 3G0 men home at once. Shall I charter a steamer? Can charter in Auckland. Lieutenant Wilson will remain in Auckland to obey your orders. Fuller accounts by maii.

KIMBERLY.

Captain Cornelius M. Schoenaker, commanding the Vandalia, who lost his life at Apia, had a total sea service of fifteen years, with an additional thirteen years on shore duty, and about six years unemployed. He was appointed from New York in 1854. He became a Midshipman in 1859, and was made a Lieutenant at the outbreak of the rebellion and in 1865 became a Lieutenant Commander. Eight years later he got his full rank as Commander, becoming Captain in October, 1886. He was a member of the Ulster County famiiy of .w'choonakerB.

The difficulty of obtaining telegraphic news from the Samoan Islands is very great. The dispatches received last night and this morning by the Associated Press were first taken from Apia to Auckland, New Zealand, about 2,0(0 miles, by steamer. The news was then transmitted by cable from New Zealand to Australia, thence to Banjowanja, thence to Singapore, thence to Penang, thence to Madras, thence to Bombay, thence to Aden, thence to Suez, thence to Alexandria, thence to Malta, thence to Gibraltar, thence to Lisbon, thence to London and thence to New York.

The hunicane burst upon the harbor suddenly. The German man-of-war Eber was the first vessel to drag her anchor. She became unmanageable, and was driven helplessly on the reef which runs around the harbor. She struck broadside on, at 6 o'clock in the morning. The shock caused her to lurch and to stagger back, and she sank in a moment in deep water. Most of her men were under hatches, and scarcely a soul of them escaped. The German war ship Adler was the next to succumb. She was lifted bodily by a gigantic wave and cast on, her beam ends on the reef. A terrible struggle for life ensued among the officers and sailors aboard. Many plunged into the raging surf and struck out, some reaching the shore in safety others clung to the rigging until the masts fell. Of those in the rigging, only two gained the shore. The captain of the Adler and several other officers were saved.

Meantime the United States steamer Nipsic had been dragging her anchors and drifting toward the shore. The captain, however, managed to keep control and ran her on a sand bank. Boats were immediately lowered and the whole company were saved, with the exception oi six men. These were drowned by the capsizing of a boat.

The United Stated steamer Vandalia was carried before the gale right upon the reef. She struck with a terrible shock, hurling the captain against a Gatlin gun, and he fell stunned. Before he could recover a great wave swept the deck, and cashed him and others away into the sea. The vessel sank fifty yards from the Nipsic, and several of the officers and men went down with her. Others perished while making desperate efforts to swim to the shore. Some of the ship's company tried to save themselves by clinging' to the rigging, but heavy and swift-running waves dashed over them, and one by one they were swept away.

By this time night had set in. Many natives and Europeans had gathered on the shore, all anxious to render assisttance to the unfortunate crews, but, owing to the darkness, they were wholly unable to be of service.

Soon after the Vandalia had sunk the American war ship Trenton broke from her anchorage and was driven upon the wreck of the Vandalia. whence she drifted to the shore- The bottom of the Trenton was completely stove and her hold was half full of water. As morning broke, the German man-of-war Olga which had hitherto withstood the gale, although much battered by the heavy seas that constantly broke upon her, became unmanageble' and was driven upon the beach, where she lay in a toleiably favorable position. The following is a record of the officers and men lost:

Eber—The captain and all other officers except one, and seventy-six men. Vandalia—The captain, tour officers and forty men.

Nipsic—Seven men. Adler—Altogether, fifteen persons. Mataafa sent a number of his men .to

the assistance of the wrecked ships, and they rendered splendid aid in trying to float the Olga.

The Nipsic was a wooden vessel and was built in 1873. After two cruises she was rebuilt at the navy yard at. Washington, in 1879, She was bark rigged, 185 feet long and 35 feet beam. Her displacement was 1,375 t$ns, and indicated speed ten knots. Her battery consisted of one_ eight-inch muzzle-loading rifle, four nine inch smooth-bores, one sixty pound breech-loading rifle converted parrot, which was located on the forecastle in the secondary battery one three-inch rifled howitzer, one twelve pounder, and one short Gatling gun. In addition to these there were sixty Hotchkiss rifles of the latest improved pattern in her armory, besides the usual number of pistols and side arms allowed by regulation for vessels of the Nipsic class.

The Trenton and Vandalia were larger than the Nipsic. The Trexton was a shipped-rigged wooden cruiser of ten guns and of 3,900 tons' displacement. The Vandalia was also a bark-rigged wooden cruiser of 2,100 tons, with a battery of eight guns, mostly smooth-bores.

AVERY BOLD BANK ROBBERY.

A Bank President Compelled to Issue His Check For 831,000, Get It Cached and Turn the Money Over t» the Thief.

The boldest and most succesfui bank robbery every reported in the West was perpetrated upon the First National bank of Denver, Col., at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The robbers succeeded in getting away with $21,000.

Thursday morning, immediately after the opening of the bank, a well-dressed man, walked into the bank and asked Assistant Cashier Ross Lewin where he could see Mr. Moffatt, president of the bank. Mr. Lewin informed himthathe could see Mr. Moffatt, at the president's office in the Cheesman block. Nothing more was seen or heard of the stranger until Friday about 10 o'clock, when he entered the office and asked to see Mr. Moffatt on important business. He stated that he had discovered a conspiracy whereby the First national bank was to be robbed of a large amount of money. Mr. Moffatt told the man that he was very busy at that moment, but he would be pleased to meet him at his private office in the bank at 1 o'clock. With this the man left the building.

In a few minutes after the hour ap pointed he called at the bank ami was shown into the president's office. While remaining standing, he inquired if the cashier was in and was told that he was at-lunch. He then asked for a blank check for the purpose of showing how the robbery was to be perpetrated. The check was handed him. He laid it upon the desk in front of Mr. Moffatt and said: '1 will have to do this myself,' and, pulling a large revolver from his coat, placed it at Mr. Moffatt's head, and in a decidedly earnest, but unexcited manner, said: 'I want $21,000 and am going to have it. I have considered this matter—the chance I am running and the consequences if I fail and am arrested. I arn penniless and a desperate man, and have been driven, during the past week, to that point where I have considered suicide as the only means of escape from the poverty and misery in which I exist. You have millions. I am determined to have what 1 have asked for. If you make a noise, call a man o-r ring a bell I will blow your brains out and then blow up the building and myself with this bottle of glycerine (which he at that moment pulled out of his pocket). Now, take your choice.

Moffatt started to argue with the man, but was stopped with the information that it was useless, and he had but two minutes in which to fill out the check before him for $21,0 )0, if he desired to live. Moffatt, seeing no other alternative, filled out the check and was then ordered to take it to the paying teller and get it cashed. Mr. Moffatt left his office and, with the man behind him with the revolver partially concealed under his overcoat and with the muzzle almost against Moffatt's back, marched behind the counter and up to Paying Teller Keeley with the request that the check be immediately cashed. They then remarchedinto Moffatt's office without attracting the attention of the fiffeen or tweniy clerks who were within two feet of where they passed. After they had remained in the private office three or four minutes, the robber informed Mr. Moffatt that they were wasting time and that be had better step to the door and motion his teller to come to him, which be did. Moffatt instructed him to bring the money into his office and, as the teller turned to go away, the robber told him he wanted twenty one-theusand-dollar bills and $1,000 in gold. Tiie money was brought in and handed to the gentleman, and, waiting until the teller had reached his desk, he backed out to the front door, making Mr. Moffatt remain standing in his door until he had reached the curbstone. He then raised his hat and walked around the corner and has not yet been heard of.

The bottle supposed to contain deadly nitroglycerine,with which the daring robber frightened President Moflatt, of the Denver bank, making him had over $21,000, has been found, and proves to have contained only castor oil.

robber has not been captured.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bedford Catholics will erect a church. The Jeffersonville car works employ 1,600 men.

A pressed brick eoneern is anew Seymour enterprise. The fruit buds of Huntington were injured by a freeze.

Sheriff Squires captured John Steele, a horse thief, at Wabash, Friday. Wm. Wallace has succeeded Aquilla Jones, sr., as postmaster at Indianapolis.

South Wayne has seceded from Fort Wayne proper, having ?oted for a seperate town corporation.

Francis Murphy's temperance meetings at Indianapolis, last week, resulted in securing I,2u0 signatures to pledges.

John Darsey. the Chicago & Atlantic railroad engineer whose alleged carelessness reeulted in a fatal accident at Kouts, Ind., wiil be tried for manslaughter.

Governor Hovej' has pardoned Marion A. Hardy, of Evansville, who has been serving a seventeen year sentence for highway robbery. It is shown that he was innocent.

Benjamin Ensley, of Fiat Rock, is in possession of a powder horn carried during the Revolutionary War, and which was carved by Solomon Purdy at Bedford, Mass., in March, 1782.

Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Columbus, was stricken with nervous prostration, Monday, due to fright from a visit by a burly tramp, and she was found in an unconscious condition, with recovery doubtful.

William Shumate, aged seventy, and DoraEglin. aged nineteen, the latter blind, eloped from the Bartholomew County Asylum, Wednesday night, but were re-captured Thursday,at the Western Hotel, Columbus.

The case testing the responsibility of natural gas companies for accidents, was tried Thursday, at Anderson, and judgment was given plaintiff for $500. Plaintiff's house caught fire from excessive pressure on gas mains. An appeal will be taken.

Dr. Alien Furnas* the well known horticulturist of Hendricks county, who has taken the lead for years in advancing fruits in this State, has sold his celebrated nursery and orchards in Hendricks county, and will remove to California.

The much talked of fight between Ike Weir, the "Belfast Spider," and Frank Murphy lor the light weight championship, took place at Kouts, sixty-eight rounds were fought with no decisive result, although both men were badly punished, when a postponement for Beveral days was ordered.

A constitutional defect has been discovered in the saloon high license bill passed by the re jent Legislature. Its unconstitutionality lies in the fact of its naming the section of the statute to be amended without setting forth the section in full. This is a clear violation of section 117 of the constitution

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stone, more particularly from tha quarries in the Southern part of the State, and the Monon railway is hauling fifty car loads daily, principally to Chicago and the Northwest, some of it going as far as Omaha. The company expects to load one hundred cars daily when the season fully opens.

As a result of the hydrophobia panic in the neighborhood of French Lick, twenty-five dogs were shot in one day. Citizens are still going armed for fear of meeting a mad animal, and horses, cows and hojis are frequently giving evidence of having contracted the rabies. One ram which was aflected finally succeeded in butting out his own brains.

South Kokomotwo years ago bad a scattering population of 150 people. The next enumeration will show over 1,500, with over ten-fold advance in value of lots. There are now nine manufacturing establishments in South Kokomo, employing 1,000 men, where two years ago there were none, and in other ways the growth has been marvelous.

William Robert Burnie, aged thirtyfive, and Maggie May Islett, a school girl, of Fort Wayne, were married, Thursday, by the paster of the First Baptist Church, a false affidavit having been made relative to the age of the girl, who is only fourteen, by which to obtain a license. Th parents promptly repudiated the alliance, and are moving to set it aside. The groom has been twice married, and he has a divorced wife living in Fort Wayne.

A Monroe county patriot, anxious to serve bis county, has written to Governor Hovey, saying: "As My^ friends air askeing me to takee the Place and serve as Notsry Republic and I have promised if you will give me the apointment and as I worked hard for your election now will you be a frien to your friend and give me the apointment." Twenty-one names are Bigned to this remarkable letter, all in the same handwriting and evidently forgeries, indorsing the applicant.—Indianapolis

News.

Alonzo C. Stewart, of Dunkirk, and other jovial companions, believing that Gharles Culver, a night watchman, was cowardly, feigned a row in a saloon and called in the officer. Stewart was chosen to do the scaring, and when Culver was requested to arrest him as the guilty party, Stewart jerked loose and grabbed a chair, and while simulating great anger acted as if he intended to strike. He was met with a whack oyer the head with a mace, which felled him, and Friday he died from the effects of the blow. Culver stands charged with murder.

Almost a sensation was caused by the announcement, Saturday, that the law ''passed by the recent Legislature" authorizing a loan of $1,400,000 is probably unconstitutional by reason of the explicit wording of that section of the constitution authorizing the contracting of loans. It provides that loans can only be contracted ''to meet deficits, pay interest on State debt, repel invasion, suppress insurrection and provide for the public defense." The act authorizing the loan stated, it is claimed, can hardly come under any of these requirements, and the opinions of attorneys who have examined the law is unfavorable to it. Itis understood the cap .talists who stood ready to provide the money are unwilling to do so under the circumstances. However, the State officers express the opinion that the law will stand, and Treasurer Lemcke has gone to New York with the object of closing up the loan.

Judge Woods, of the United States Court, spent Thursday hearing arguments upon motions to quash indictments against persocB for alleged viola­

tion of the election laws. During the day he passed upon twenty, and found sixteen of them invalid. The four that were not quashed were only sustained in part. The majority of the counts were found to be irregular, but enough remain to wairant a hearing of the cases. Similar motions are pending in regard to other cases, and it is not improbable that many ot them may be found bad. The indictments quashed were against the following persons. Morton O. Fusselman, Isaac ISr. ILuiack, John Butler, Herbert H. White, John Bird, Samuel B. Ensminger, Lafayette Moore, Amos Price, William Beakelv, lra Thompson, Oiiie Huffman. William Pay ton, William W. Macy, Albert B. Marsh, James M. Fletcher and Omer Meyers. Indictments against the following were quashed only a.3 to certain counts. Lewis A. Lucas, Jesse N. Taibott, Robert Brock, Charles McKenzie and Geo. Barlev.

WASHINGTONRTOTES. The Senate, in secret seesion Thursday, discussed the nomination of Murat Halstead to be minister to Germany. The nomination was hotly debated. the criticism of Mr. Hal tead coming principally from the Republican side of the chamber. The principal cause oi grievance against Mr. Halstead was his criticism of the course of certain Republican Senators during the investigation of the election of Senator Payne. The criticisms of Mr. Halstead were quoted from a file of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette in the Senate chamber by Republican Senators. Sherman defended Mr. Halstead, wnile Senators Ingalls and TelWr led the attack upon him. A vote on the nomination resulted in its rejection, the Democrats voting solidly against it, and the votes of Senators Ingalls, Pumb, Cullorn, Farwell and Teller being recorded in the negative also. When it was evident that the nomination would be rejected, Senator Sherman changed his vote from affirmative to negative that he might be in a position to enter a motion for reconsideration. That motion was entered, and was pending when the Senate adjourned.

The intimacy that has suddenly sprung up between President Harrison and Samuel J. Randall appears to occasion uneasiness amona: the Pennsylvania Republicans, as well as among the Democratic leaders. Mr. Randall comes and goes at the White House just as if he was a member of the Republican party, and it is understood that the President has consulted him about several appointments. It is said that Mr. Randall at present has been intrusted with helping to select the Democratic member of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia.

It is understood that three commissioners to negotiate with the Cherokee Indians for the sale of their lands in Indian Territory, will be ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts Judge Wilson, of Arkansas, and ex-Congres.i:man Warner, of Missouri. This appointment is one of the most lucrative in the gift of the President, as the commissioners are each to receive a fee of So,000 and their expenses, and their duties will not occupy them more than two or three months.

It is stated that the President sakl a few days ago that he did not intend to make a change in the office of Commissioner of Railroads, now held by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. General Sherman, it is said, has made a special rcqau&t that General Johnston be retained. The Commissioner is now eighty two years of age, but in spite oi his advanced years he is able to attend to the business of the office.

The American ships Alcrl, Richmond and Adams have been ordered to at once proceed to Samoa. The Alert is at Honolulu, the Richmond on the east coast of South America and the Adams at the Mare's Island navy yard, San Francisco. They will reach Somoa in from thirty to forty days, before German war ships canarrive.

By a vote of twenty-five to nineteen the Senate refused to reeonsider the rejection of Murat Halstead to be minister to Germany. Two Democrats, Senators Blackburn and Call, voted for Mr. Halstead. The Republicans wlm voted against him were, according to General Boynton, Senator Ingalls, Plumb, Evarts, Teller, Dawes and Quay.

A count shows that there are 200,000,000 stamps in the vaults of the Internal Revenue Bureau, their total vaiue being $45,000,000. The count, which was made necessary by the transfer of the office from Commissioner Miller to Commissioner Mason, has been completed.

President Harrison received his firtt month'ssalary Wednesday. It amounted to $3,888.88, and was delivered to him in in the form of a Treasury note. It was for the month of March, minus the first three days. Mr. Cleveland received the President's salary for...that portion of the month.

The reason the President withdrew his nomination of John W. Berryman, nominated for postmaster at Versailles, Va., was, it i3 said, because of the discovery of the fact that he has a son named Jefferson Davis Berryman.

The President and Navy Department have received several cablegrams of svmpathy from various sovereigns and officials on account of the Samoan catastrophe. The cablegrams include a very gracious message from the Queen.

President Harrison has been asked to issue a proclamation calling upon ail clergymen in the country to hold special services on the morning of April 30, in honor of the Washington Centennial Celebration.

A friend of Mr. Robert T. Lincoln, at Chicago, is of the opinion that that gentleman will decline the appointment to the Court of St. James because his wife is a confirmed invalid.

Secretary of the Interior Noble has issued an order to heads of bureaus, directing that no resignations are to be called for except by instruction of the Secretary.

The nomination of Hon. James N uston, of Indiana, as Treasurer of the United States, was confirmed within two hours after the announcement was reported. an unusual and high compliment.

Col. John C. New's nomination as Consul General to London, to which there was some opposition, has been confirmed.

The nomination of Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany was rejected by the Senate, Saturday, by a vote of 26 to 19.

Hon. W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky has declined the Corean misfiou, The Senate adjourned on the 2d.