Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-07-23
NEWS BY MAIL.

BALTIMORE, July II. The Inter-
national Workingmen's Protective Asso-
citation is holding u convention in secret
session here. One hundred and forty
five delegates are present, chiefly from
the Western States and New York.
Philip j. Monteith, of Chicago. is Presi-
dent OF the convention; j. d. Cunning
ham. of New York. Secretary, and Geo.
Hill, of Portland, Or, Treasurer.
Papers have been drawn up for separ-
alton between Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton. The
family residence in Livingston street
will be given to Mrs. Tilton, and the
children placed in her custody. The
separation will be by mutual consent,
and thus the scandal Of divorce will be
avoided.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Buford Will
son, Solicitor of the Treasury, who has
been investigating the Harrington safe
burglary case, has about completed his
report, and as soon as it can be drafted
will submit it to Secretary Bristow.
The report does not relate exclusively to
the safe burglary, but contains long
review of the character of the secret SER
vice force and its method of doing bust
ness. He concludes, from the review,
that the secret service force fails to give
a sufficient return for the large amount
Of money it expends, and he therefore
recommends that the Secret Service
Bureau be entirely abolished. The office
in New York is closed and the force dis
charged; the books, records, ETC., will be
brought to Washington for examination.
The question of the system to take its
place is still matter of consideration
between the Secretary and the Solicitor,
but the basis of the new arrangement
will be probably to give Marshals and
District Attorneys authority to work up
cases in their own districts. The evil
dence taken by Mr.. Wilson while in
New York did not in any way implicate
Colonel Whitney or any of the force at
tached to the Secret Service in the
safe buarglary; and the Solicitor. in view
of the fact that this matter is being ex-
amined by the Grand Jury of this Dis
trict, prefers not to express an opinion
on the case until after the Grand Jury
has acted upon it. Mr.. Wilson to-day
received additional information bearing
upon this branch of the case, and left
again tonight for New York to investi-
gate further. In this connection it is
stated that Coonwood, ex-Chief of the
Secret Service Division, has requested
the attendance of certain parties before
the Grand Jury, by whom he proposes
to show up all the parties engaged in
planning and engineering the safe bur-
glary.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Savannah
Advertiser and Republican printed the
following, in connection with the ap-
pointment OF a Minister to Russia
''The prophets at Washington predicted
! but few days ago that the President
would appoint gallant ex-Confederate
General to the vacant Russian mission.
Later information points unerringly to
General Gordon, of Georgia, as the COM
ing man, although the names of General
Longstreet, of Louisiana, and Colonel
Mosby, of Virginia, are also prominent
names in the discussion as to who will
succeed Jewell"
HARR1sBURa, Pa, July 17.-Mrs. Bar
bara D. Hart, aged 101 years and six
months, died here yesterday. She was
the mother of ten childred, forty-two
grand children, seventy-seven great
grand children and one great great grand
child. She has been blind for twenty
years.
New YORK, July 17.-Tracy Robinson,
who for over six years has been fiscal
agent OF the Panama Railroad at Aspin-
wall, has been arrested in this city and
charged with appropriating nearly $780,
900 of the company funds. Robinson
claims that the discrepancy in the ac-
counts is the fault OF the book-keeper,
who did not keep the books straight.
The Changers of San Jose have pur-
chased the stock OF Pfister & Co. and in
tend to carry on the grocery business,
connected with which they will have O
bank for receiving deposits and loanine
money. Whether the experiment will be
success or failure depends upon the
business capacity and honesty OF its
directors S. F. Chronicle.
The march of the army worm at and
around Brighton has been checked. No
longer does the wriggling and squirting
mass pursue its destructive way. Daily
the hosts of turkeys, with recuperated
appetites, renewed their onslaughts upon
the worms, and these, aided by the
trenches dug for their destruction, have
proven too much for the hateful little
reptiles. 1t is now believed that the
damage to the beet crop at Brighton by
the worms has not been great, although
it has cost some money and trouble to
place check upon the ravages OF these
fellows. Had the worms made their ap
pearance a month earlier they would
probably have ruined the beet crop, but
as it is the roots had too far matured tc
be seriously injured. What, with the
land owned by the Sugar Company and
that planted by John Rooney at Brigh
ton, there are 700 acres in beets, all Of
which will mature handsomely. The
company has about 400 acres of beets a
Davisville, and these have escaped injury
by the worms. Letters from Woodland
Yolo county, state that the army worn
has made its appearance in that vicinity
and the clover tops are being devoured
as fast as thew appear. Sac. Bee, 18th