Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-04-11
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LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC STATE.
OrcyOn's Railway

Orcgon's Railway
WASHINGTON April 3.--Nesm 18th moda
q strong argument this morning before
the House Committee on Railways and
Canals upon the bill introduced by him
to aid in the construction of the Port.
land, Dalles and Salt Lake railroad
The Committee agreed to o favorable
report. The bill provides that the
Government shall guarantee interest
on the bonds of the Company to the
amount of SIC, 900 per mile in Oregon.
for which the Company is to transport
all United States mails, army supplies.
ETC.. free of charge forever.
Rather Pointed and Very Suggestive.
New YORK, April 4.-District Attor-
ney Terrys (of Brooklyn letter request
ing his second assistant Hugh to re-
sign, is published. 1t is as follows:
On assuming the duties of this Office
designated you as my second assistant.
upon the urgent request of ATTORNEY
General Williams, your brother-in-law'
l am now compelled, from circum-
stances which you doubtless under
stand, to ask of you your resignation.
For many weeks you have been disloyal
to me and the interests of this Office.
and have been in close conference and
intimate relations with John D. San
born and his friends. l have reason to
believe that for weeks you have been
conveying to Sanborn and his friends
secrets of this Office and its prosecu-
tons, and have been industriously at
III No rnko IS
while at the same time you have pro-
fessed friendship for me, and have been
in confidential relations with me in the
prosecution of the Sanborn case. am
also we'll aware that you have been all
this while plotting for my removal and
aiding the Sanborn influence by all the
means in your power to secure my re-
moval, and have made your boasts that
you would, through the newspapers,
break me down in this city and Brook
lyn, and through your relationship with
Attorney General Williams secure my
removal in thirty days.
An Important Event.
New York, April 6.-This morning
the steamer city Of Guatemala, of the
Pacific Mail Steamship line, arrived
from Aspinwall with 400 tons of tea,
direct from China. This is the first
shipment that has been made by tho
Panama route.
Northern Pacific railroad.
A settlement has been completed be-
tween the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company and the estate of Jay Cooke
n Co., whereby their advances to tho
road are discharged by acceptance of
the Company's first mortage bonds and
other securities.
Result Of Various Municipal Elections.
CHICAGO, April AT the municipal
elections held in Illinois, Michigan and
Iowa, yesterday, the Temperance ques-
ton entered into the contest in most
places, and, except in Ohio, the Tenn.
perance tickets met with little success.
Cincinnati elected Democratic city
ticket with a ma ority of tho Council by
over four thousand majority. Both par
ties had license-platforms. In Iowa
the ant-monopoly and anti Temperance
tickets were generally successful. In
Ohio the Anti-Temperanco people car
ried Washington Court House, where
the women's crusade began, Dayton,
Sidney, Pomeroy, Bucyrus, Shelby,
Cleveland and Chilicotho, while Tenn
perance tickets were elected in Lima,
Mansfield, Dennison, Kenton, Marion
and Batavia.
The Massachusetts, Senatorial Contest.
BosroN, April 7.-On the twelfth bal
IAf fnr Snnotnr 70
cast The vote stood Dawes 81; Hoar,
IS; Curtis, -; Adams 16; scattered, S.
The Connecticut Election.
Hartford, April 6, p. M.--Ingersoll
Dem. J is reelected Governor by an in
creased majority. Both houses of the
Legislature are Democratic.
Midnight. from ISL towns
and estimates from the remaining Is
give Ingersoll a majority Of l 900. The
Senate stands-5 Republicans to 1G
Democrats. The House will have about
AZ democratic majority.
HARTFORD, April - A. M.-Returns
to the Courant from all towns in tho
State, except seven, give the following
result; Ingersoll, As 1856; Harrison, 49,
292; Smith, 1854.
HARTroRT, April 7.-IngersolPs ma
jority in the State will not be less than
$500. The Senate stands II Democrats
and Republicans; House 143 Demo-
Gratis, 9G Republicans and two Indepen-
ents.
Tho Americnnixed g HeatLen.'
DETROIT, April 3.-Wong Ching Foo
was naturalized here to-day. He claims
to be the first Chinainan to renounce al
legiance to the Empire.
The Samnnn Bay Treaty Abrogated.