Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

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WASHINGTON.
The Secretary of the Treasury has signed
contract for the delivery in Europe of no
less than S, 5,000, 900 per month Of 4-per-cent
bonds, upon the same terms and condition,
as the popular loan now being offered in the
United States, the contract To continue unit
the 1st of July, the proceedsto be applied tc
refunding 6-per-cent. bonds.
The President has nominated w. p. Sut.
ton, Of Michigan, United States Consul al
Matamoras, Mexico.
The Potter Committee on the 22d began
an investigation of the cipher kilograms.
Gen. Sherman will soon start on two
weeks tour of the South Atlantic States, to
examine the abandoned military posts and
neglected property Of the United States,
with view to ascertaining the measures
necessary to secure the interests of the Unit
ed States.
The House Committee on Appropriations
on the 22d had finished the Post office, Leg
islative, Judicial and Executive Appropria-
tion bills.
The President has signed the bill for the
payment of arrearages Of pensions. The
Commissioner of Pensions estimates that
the provisions of the bill will aggregate $780,
100000.
The Arkansas Legislature has elected j.
ID. Walker United States Senator, as sue
cessor to Senator Dorsey.
The Joint Congressional Committee ap-
pointed 10 consider the advisability Of trans
ferring the Indian Bureau from the Interior
to the War Department are equally divided
ha n
four against the proposed change. Two re-
ports will therefore be presented to Con-
gress, and there is some difficulty in decid-
ing which of the two reports should be enti-
tied to precedence.
There is one point in the Pension Arrears
bill which it is thought will be referred by
the Interior Department for construction
from the Department of Justice. The new
law says the arrearages of pensions shall be
paid at the rate for which the soldier was
originally pensioned. As Congress has
changed the rate several times and the
latest applicants originally received the
largest pensions, the man who gets pen
stoned now gets a heavy sum in
arrearages. The totally disabled man
originally got IS per month, now
he gets S72. The question then in the case
of totally disabled new pensioner is,
whether he be paid arrearages at the rate of
S12 or s. per month. The Commissioner
will ask Congress at once for an appropria-
tion to carry out the Law, and that it be made
Immediately available. The additional evil
dence needed in the cases of those now re-
ceiving pensions will be very slight. The
Commissioner will ask a small increase I'm
clerks and that the pension agencies be re-
districted without increase Of offices.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The Missouri Legislature has chosen Geo.
g. Vest for United States Senator, as sue
cessor to the late Senator Bogy, and General
james Shields to fill the vacancy for the un-
expired term. G.. A. Finkelnburg was the
Republican candidate and Henry Eshbaugh
the National -Greenback candidate.
Gen. John A. Logan has been elected
United States Senator from Illinois, to sue
ceed Senator Oglesby. Gen. Logan received
the unanimous vote Of the Republican men,
bers Of both houses of the Legislature.
John c. Black was the opposing Democratic
candidate, Alexander Campbell the Ma
tienal, and John McAuliffe the Socialist can
didate.
Daniel,W Voorhees, has been reelected
United States Senator from Indiana. God
love S. Orth was the Republican nominee.
BY the explosion of boiler of portable
saw-mill at Chase, Mich, on the 21st, three
men were killed and three others wounded.
The Wisconsin Legislature has elected
Matthew Fl. Carpenter to succeed Howe as
United States Senator.
Near Garner Station, on the Mississippi
and Tennessee Railroad on the 11th inst.
Mrs. George Tucker and three children were
frozen to death. They started from the sta
tion about 2 p. m. for their home and froze
to death when about five miles from their
house.
The proposed dreapportionment of Indiana
IL is calculsted will give the Democrats nine
Congressional districts-six secure, and 9TH
ers having Democratic majorities of 446,
81 ond 29s-and the Republicans four, with
majorities ranging from /, ,2s4 up to 6,249.
Horace l.. Hyde, well known st. Louis
newspaper man, and brother of William
Hyde, of the Republican, was found dead
on n railroad track in the vicinity of Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, on the morning Of the 23d.
He had been run over by passing train.
The Coroner's Jury rendered q verdict of
accidental death.
At Washington, Iowa, on the morning of
the 25th, Mr.. o. p. Hall, a wealthy and re-
spected farmer, killed his daughter Emma,
splitting her head open with an AK while she
lay sleeping, and then blew his own brains
out with arevolyer. No cause for the tragedy
is known, as the most kindly relations were
supposed to exist between father and daugh-
ter as well as between other members
of the family, those remaining being the
mother aud five other daughters. 1t ap-
pears to have been an undoubted case of
temporary insanity.
The Missouri State Insane Asylum No. 9,
at st. Joseph, was destroyed by fire on the
afternoon of the 25th. The fire originated
in the trying-room, over the laundry, and
spread so rapidly that IL could not be check
ed by the meager appliances at hand. All
of the inmates, 260 in number, were res
cued.
Ben Daniels colored, and his two sons, who
were under arrest near Arkadelphia, Ark,
charged with robbery and arson, were taken
from the Sheriff on the night of the cath by
a band of masked men and hanged to a tree.
Anamosa, Iowa, is having a terrible ex-
perience with diphtheria. There are several
hundred cases there and many deaths have
occurred. All the public schools have been
closed, the Sunday-schools discontinued and
religious services suspended. The town is
practically quarantined. At a meeting Of
citizens and physicians held TO disess1smeas-
ures to abate the complaint, It was recon-
mended that the Mayor designate houses
where diphtheria was, and that boys and
girls be kept of the streets.
G. NJ. Nelson, who has held the Office Of
Countv rrrea stlrer af Eayetfe Countv Ind
for two terms, enjoying the confidence and
respect Of all, has been arrested, charged
with embezzling S90, 900 of the county funds.
Charles Etheridge, the st. Paul (Minn.)
defaulter who made OFF with some 1000