Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-22
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

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WASHINGTON. -
Ex-Chief Justice Casey, of the Court Of
Claims, died at Washington on the 10th
aged Ga.
A Republican Senatorial Caucus, held or
the 11th, resolved to resist to the utmost the
repeal of the Federal Supervisors Of Elec.
tion law, which the Democrats have agreed
to append to an appropriations bi,s.-- There
. Was lack of unanimity as@egards the pro-
posed repeal of the Test oath law, and also
in reference to the Butler-C -Corbin contest.
On the recommendation Of the Committee
on Indian AAairs,the Senate has appointed
select committee to sit during the recess to
investigate the treatment and escape from
Fort Robinson and subsequent slaughter 81
the Northern Cheyenne Indians. -,
President Hayes expects to go next sum-
mer to Connecticut, California and Texas.
At a caucus of the Republican members
OF the Senate, held on the 18th, 1t was
agreed that the Post-ofice Appropriation
bill shall be taken up as soon as the pending
measure in regarduto Chinese immigration
is disposed of, and that preference shall be
given to other regular appropriation bills,
including the River and Harbor bill, over
oh osuSi uusiuc>s tueTeaIteT.
The President has nominated Horatio G.
Burchard, Representative in the present
Congress from the Fifth District of Illinois,
Director Of the Mint, vice Linderman, de-
ceased. Mr.. A. Loudon Snowden, the first
nominee, declined the position.
The President has approved the bill to al
low women to practice before the Supreme
Court.
The. Democratic Senatorial Caucus re.
solved to recede from the action previously
taken by the Joint Congressional Caucus,
piedging their support to- the repeal of the
Federal Supervisors Of Election law The
abolition of the Jurors test oath viii be ap-
pended to the Legislative Appropriation
bill, rs heretofore agreed upon. - Res -,..r
Secretary Sherman, in a communication
to the House,ststes the estimates for expend-
itures for the next fiscal year at S2S4, ,562,-
41s. The estimated receipts are: From
customs. Sl3S, ,Oo0, 900; from internal rev,
enue, .Slos. .0oo, 600; from miscellaneous
sources, $is, 800 900; total S257 500 900; leav-
ing deficiency Of S27, ,0e1, ,4Ip. sa .-i
WEST AND SOUTHWEST. f-i.ri
William Butier and wife, Of Hallsvills,
Ross County, o., went visiting on Sunday,
the 9th, leaving their two children, aged
and 3, locked In the house. During their alb
sence the house burned down and the chill
dren perished In the flames. > 'n'sa-sfg 7L'
Senator Christiancy, Of Michigan, on the
10th formally rendered his resignation to the
Governor. -. .r-...-....,r..
BY the caving in OF an embankment on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad extension at
Kansas City, on the 11th, large number of
laborers and four teams were buried in the
cut Six Of the unfortunate men were dead
when extricated, their names being James
Hogan, Thomas Casey, Dan Lucitt, Richard
Ryan, Ed. Hines and Peter Bagiey. Six
Others were badly injured, one Of them,
James o'Brien, probably fatally. s
A correspondent Of the Louisville Cou-
rier- -Josrndl, sent % Memphis to investi-
gate reports Of yellow fever there, ,telegraphs
an emphatic denial of-its existence. = ~
At Brownsville, Tenn, on the 18th, Frank
Bond, ayoung lawyer, was shot and fatally
wounded by his cousin, James S. Bond, Jr.,
who then attempted to commit suicide, by
shooting himself through the head. The
iatter's wound is not serious. The shoot
ing was the result of disagreement regard
ing the sale of some property in which both
had an interest.
A. negro burglar named VIM. Patterson,
who attempted to rob the jewelry store of
M. B. Wright in Kansas City, on the night
of the 18th, was killed in a hand hand
fight with the clerk, a lad IL years old, nam
ed Augustine Marty, who was armed with a
dirk-knife. The Coroner's Jury exonerated
young Marty. t1 .s - ...r~tf-.sl'-
Hon. Zach. Chandler has been nominated
unanimously as successor to ex-senator
-Christiancy.
The steamer A. C. Donnally was burned
on the night of the 14th a few miles below
Cairo. on the Mississippi River. The burn
ing boat was run aground upon Island
No. 1, and all the passengers got off. AZ
though several were crippled by jumping
from the boat. The boat burned to the
waters edge, and not even the books and
papers were saved. The pilot, VIM. Under
wood, remained at his post until the boat
struck the shore, when the pilot-house was
in flames, and he descended through the
wheei-house, jumped into the water, and
swan ashore. r,r
Seven Of the Cheyenne prisoners confined
at Fort Leavenwerth have been identified as
being engaged in the raid through Kansas
last fall, and they have been turned over to
the civil authorities of Ford County, where
they will be put on trial for murder.
James Beck, baggage-master on the Iron
Mountain Railroad between st. Louis and
Columbus KY, has been convicted of rob-
bing the mails and sentenced to three wears
In the Penitentiary.
The main building of the Soldiers, Or
phans' Home at Xenia, o., was DESTROYED
by fire on the morning OF, the 10th. Six
hundred children had just finished brea kfast
in the building and returned to the cot
tages when the fire broke out. Several
members OF the Legislature, officially
visiting the institution, saved their lives by
Jumping from the seeond-story windows.
The entire contents of the building, ,includ-
ing the personal effects of officers. and teach
ers, were destroyed. The loss to the State
is about $7Sooos upon which there Is mo in
surance. = .i'ft - ~ '.it',jI
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Three masked men robbed the Little Rock
mail stage, on the night of the 14th, three
miles west Of Pine Bluff, Ark. The driver
and the single passenger on board were re-
Iieved OF their money and valuables and the
mail bags gutted. No clew to the robbers.
REV. Peter Waits, colored Baptist
preacher Of Madisonville, o., was shot and
killed on the night of the 18th by Andrew
Emery, q eolored boy Of IL, employed as
coaehman by Mr.. Jewett, Of Red Bank.
Waits was dodging around Jewett's house
in a suspfefous manner and vnun, E,,,o-,r