Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is said that charges of a very serious nature, affecting the personal character of ex-Secretary Lamar, have been filed with the judiciary committee. They involve his relations with Mary McBride, now under indictment for ar-< in, and who came here some years ago irom Lamai’s congressional district, and was secured a government position by him. Senator Sawyer, Chairman of the Senate Postoffice Committee, says he will bring the subject of the postal telegraph before the committee very,'early after the holiday recess, and he expresses the opinion that the committee will set about the study of the question involved at once. He does not know whether it will be necessary to open the doors and hear arguments from parties who favor or oppose governmental interferences with the telegraph. There is already, he says a vast amount of literature on the subject, and personally he has heard enough, as he doubts not Senator Saulsbury has, to enable them to reach conclusions for themselves. Both were members of the Postcffice Committee of the Forty-eighth Congress when the subject was studied exhaustively. Five members of tl e present committee were of the Forty-ninth Congress, which reported a postal telegraph hill, but did not repeat tho extensive investigation made by its predecessors.

8. Q Giegg, repesenting a St. Louis house arrived Monday from No Man’s Land. He confirms the reports of the bloody deeds of the Kelley family and gives further particulars. He says he can remember stopping at the Kelly house to get meals. It was a one-story hut, with a barn d short distance away. There were four bodies buried beneath the stable—one of which was that of a woman. A cow Doy named “Texy,” who said he was the second investigating party, stated that the bodies found led to so much talk that the whole premises for rods around the house was searched. Lying alongside of vhe barn, buried at a depth of not over three feet, wus unearthed the remains of a man which appeared to be better dressed than any of the others, and which, it was believed, was the body of the missing J. T. Taylor. About two feet away was a second body, not at all recognizable. At the

corner of the barn were buried the bodies of a third man and a woman. The bodies were taken from their resting places and given burial. Nc’uing has been heard of the Kelleys since they removed. There is a feeling, however, that with their ill-gotten gains they have Removed to Mexico. In speaking of the personal appearance of the family, Mr. Gregg says there watf nothing particularly disagreeable about them. The son and daughter were oyer twenty years of age. The d< ticiency in the Treasury Department appropriation the past two years is $5,580 978. The Senate has adopted a resolution calling for the Slate Department correspondence relating to the German occupation of the Samoan Island and Apia. A statement has been prepared at the Pension Office which shows that the tfverage length of military service of soldiers in the last war, who have during the last three months been granted invalid pensions, is two years, four months and thirteen days. The average length of service of soldiers whose widows have been granted pensions during the same period is two ydars and eighteen days. The service of sailors in the navy for the same period averages one year, ten months and three days The average service of Mexican war claimants under the actof June 29, 1887, is shown to be one year and twelve days. In widows, Mexican war claims, the service is shown to.be one year and twenty-four days.