The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-05
WASHINGTON.

Trial of the MOdOcs-Members of til,
COmnissiOn-~Escape of a U. y. DE
acknowledgements of the Trial
WASHINGTON, July A, via SAN FRAN
CIsCo.-The following despatch from For
klamath, dated June 80. has been receiv
ed: .....
son Saturday afternoon Lieutenan
Colonel Elliott, lst cavalry Major II. P
Curtis, judge advocate, and DIR. L. S. Bed
den, official reporter of the military com
mission, arrived here from Yreka, and the
prospects for the speedy convening of thu
military commission have assumed tangi
BILE shape. General Davis, in pursuance
authority, had already selected, though no
announced the members of the commission
The commission will be composed of Lieu
tenant Colonel Elliott, 1st cavalry
Captain johnson Mendenhall, battery
G, 4th artillery; Captain II. G.
Hasbrouck, light battery, 4th a.
tillery; Captain Robert Pollock,
company d, 2lst infantry, and second
Lieutenant George Kinsbury, commanding
company E, 18th infantry. The commits.
sion will assemble tomorrow morning for
the purpose of organization. Major Cur.
tis, judge advocate, has began work pre-.
liminary to the preparation of his cases, but
can not possibly prepare them for trial
for several days; while the white witnesses
scattered about the frontier, as a rule, can
not be summoned until the multifarious
technicalities incidental to the arrangement
of the cases are disposed of. a
General Davis intends to leave on his
''intimidating expedition" on the Fourth OF
July. ....... -.
Corporal Glenahan, of troop f. First
cavalry. confined in the same guard-house
with Captain Jack, for desertion in the face
Of the enemy, and who is under sentence of
seven years imprisonment in Fort Alca-
traz, escaped last night by boring holes in
the floor and digging his way out.
In consequence Of the illness of the in
terpreter, the Modoe trial has been post
poned until the fifth of July.
. s . Items.
WASHINGTON, July 3D.. D. Smith,
supervising inspector general of steam ves-
sells, has gone to Pittsburg, Pa, where he
will inaugurate the tests in boiler explo-
sions. He will then visit all the local
boards along the lakes, and make any
changes that may be deemed necessary.
Next week the work for preparing
engravings for the new national bank cur
rency to take the place of the old will be
at the bureau of engraving and printing,
where the faces and numbers of the notes
will also be executed. The backs will be
printed by the American, Continental, and
National Bank Note companies.
Where department officials send out
letters of inquiry to private citizens, they
will nclose postage stamps for the
replies.
A tornado on the afternoon of the 4th
demolished shed four hundred feet long
in course of construction over the pier o
the Hamburg steamship company. Hobo.
ken. Fifty men at work in the building
received warning barely in time to escape
with their lives. Clinton Hall, in West
Hoboken, was also destroyed by the gale
and three workmen were buried in the
ruins. One was fatally injured. E..
1t is stated that duel is about to take
place between M. Paul de Cassagnac and
M. Ranc, of Paris.
: Comptroller Green, of New York, has
been arrested on suit of j. W. Nc
Gowan, by deputy sheriff, and was re.
leased only upon paying about 100000,
the amount sued for and costs. ..