Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The sentence of the court-martial in the case of Judge Advocate General Swaim as finally approved by the President is ns follows: “To be suspended from rank and duty for twelve years, and to forfeit onehalf his monthly pay every month for the same period. ” Currency to the amount of SIIO,OOO was nearly destroyed in the recent railway accident in the District of Columbia,.but experts in the Treasury Department have identified the charred remains, and the express company will suffer only trifling loss. ....Francis E. Warren, nominated by President Arthur to be Governor of Wyoming, is a merchant and banker in that Territory. Flames swept away the National Theater, at Washington, causing a loss of over $200,000. The House Committee on Military Affairs reports that Gen. B. F. Butler’s accounts as one of the managers of the soldiers’ homes show a shortage of $240,000. As he lately mortgaged his Washington houses for $90,000, there are rumors that he is financially embarrassed.... Seventeen steel guns, rifled and breech-loading, are being constructed at the Washington Navy Yard. Experiments made with some of them lead to the belief that the best English or German ordnance will be surpassed.