Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-04-13
General News summary.



on the Goth uit, are five In number The
first charges the ex.secressry 81 VIA. win
receiving money scoFrupny while In Office
The second chargss bribery a. defined b,
statute. The third charges the payment Of
monsy to him for continuing eorrapt persons
In Office. The fourth charges him with re-
ceiving gifts while in ofIice 20 influence him
corruptiy. The nth charges him with tax
ing money corruptiy for the use OF himself
and others. 80 Bs @f
MR G. l. Belle, Of jackson, Mis-, was be.
fore Ciyner's investigating committee, on the
s1st nit, and testified that be had once been
asked Wy secretary Be;knap 10 pay 1900 for
q postradership, but bad refused TO do go.
He aiso stated that he had been hired by
Col Bxbcock, while ON the Pension Office
pay-rolls as clerk, TO purioip documents
and otherwise cripple Col Dyer IN the prose
cution Of the Babcock case st. Louis.
GIN RrcG, Washington attorney, was ex.
amined by the sub-Judiciary Committee on
the Let, and testified that he had received
compensation Tor four pesttrsderships which
he had procured for other persoDs, but de-
MED that sec'y Beiknap knew Of SUCH com
pensation, and declared that he had never
given or loaned texcept TO some uiflng
amount which had aiways been repaid
money 10 Mr.. Belknap, and had never given
him any presents, except, perhaps, some wine
and cigars, and sfhalI Wedding present 70
his wife.
SENATOR CHEsrfAscf's substitute for Mr..
Mortns resolution calling for 40 inyestiga-
ton Of The late election In Mississippi, which
was adopted by The Enited States Senate, 90
the 3ist nlt, direcB the appointment Of b
committee OF five Senators, whose duty II
will be TO inquire into the intimidation and
frauds alleged 10 have been used 70 effect the
result Of such election.
Tmg debt statement published on the LIST
shows reduction Of the public debt during
March Of $4,240,sGe. Cash In the Treasury
coin, s7y,75s,7 94; currency, 1896, 62S; spec.
ial deposits for tlc redemption Of certificates
Of deposit, 90, 23D, 900. Debt less cash In the
Treasury, 81, ITO, 1889. ~.
A WAsnIseroN telegram Of the ID states
that the Secretary Of the Treasury. as the re-
suit Of q Cabinet decision, had cent 10 all
persons having the charge VI Government
buildings, q circular calling attention 10 the
fact that the appropriation made for fuel
light and water, and miscellaneous Items for
public buildings, for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1875, was nearly exhausted, and
ordering that gas and water 10 said build.
ings be shut Of, and that the laborcrs paid
from such appropriation be discharged, In
accordance With the proyIsiona OF the law
prohibiting the expenditures by Department
IT. t,, or
the appropriation already granted BY Con
gress, ,Fs go. s.,f,
Tue Senate, In executive session on the
9TH, rejected the nomination Of Richard III
Dana, Jr,, as Minister 10 England, the vote
being seventeen yeas TO thirty-six nays.
THEE HUNDRED mgousAsp dollars IN sill.
yer dimes and quarters were received at the
Treasury Department Ia Washington, from
San Francisco, on the 9TH, aud 100000 In
quarters were expected IN a day or two. f,t
TuEHE were nearly 100000 portal cards
Issued by the Postoiiice Department during
the month Of March. B mf @EU
Ex-sBcnErAIss IsKIKsAH has secured M
his counsel In theimpeaehment trial, Messrs.
Montgomery Blair, Jcre. y. Black, Ben. r..
Butler and Matt. III. Carpenter.
An order was issued, by Instruction Of tho
President, on the 5th, directing the re sestab.
lishment ID the army headquarters AT Wash
ington, aud also providing that In future al
orders Issued by the War Department per-
tanning 10 military sfdrs shnll be pronul-
gated through dhe General Of the Army.
TMH xAsT. isH
THE large Lyndekrook reservoir, near
Worcester, Mass, containing nearly 300, O00, :
600 gallons of water, gave way on the even.
Ing Of the 30th, In eonsoQuence OF the tre-
mcndous pressure caused by the unusually
high water La the valley. The escaping waters
rushed down The raylno with terrible roar,
in a solid MAS twenty fsut high, sweeping
everything before them. No lives are re.
ported lost, tbs people having receisod time
ly warning OF the impending calamity; but
the damage TO pfoperty Is immense, reaching
many millions OF dollars In amount, Build.
ings, fences, rolds, etc. were carried away by
the food.
Foua boilers belonging to the Fletcher
mill, al Providence, X l., exploded on the
3ist nlt., killing two men and woupding more
or less seriously q namber Of others 4,
ELIzABETu T. GsEEsFgElp, the eolorod
singer, famous throughout the country sew
erai years ago under the name OF the Black
Swan" died at Philadelphia on the ist, aged
ixty.cight years, $3.50 xDl...
TnE bill legalixing the marriage Of Mr.,
James Parton and the niece ri his former
wife, now deceased, has passed beth houses
OF the Massachusetts Legislature, 33e.
TnE election Ia Connecticut on the ID re-
suited Ia the success 0f the Democratic
ticket. The total vote Of the statas with only
the town Of Salem TO hear from, which last
year was ~ Republican TO ~ Democratic, Is
9s,4s5. against loo, 1888 last year. Iegersoll
tDen..) for Governor has 5i.81l; Rohlnson
(Rep), 1880; Atwater Currency Re-
form, 1885, Smith (Pfo), I,s7L ipgersoil's
majority, 1857; plurality, 7,5l5. The Sem
ate stands Is Democrats ana 3 Republicans,
and the House 100 Democrats 10 IS Repabll.
cane, and Independents. ta 8fa 5
RETURNS from the Rhode Island State elsc-
ton, received on the morning OF the 9Th,
give ,Lippitt Qanp.) for Governor, 4 2i2; How.
ard tPro.), 4, 2s7, Beach Dem b 72---Lippitt
lacking about 400 Of an election by the poo.