The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-05-15
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PROVISIONS of the bill relating to the increase
Of the rate OF speed on star routes. An
evening session was held at which the bill to
provide municipal code for the District was
The House Committee on Naval Affairs has
strucling the Secretary Of the Navy to secure
coaiing stations on both coasts OF Central |
1t is charged that Mr.. Frye is using the
sugar duty as q means of preventing Mr.. Glib
son from voting In favor OF taking the duty of |
Mr.. Stevenson, Of Powell's chronological Blu.
reau, made an interesting statement on Wed. |
nesday before the Ponca Committee regarding |
those Indians who are not nOmads.
Mr.. Manning gave the Springer Committee |
his grounds for charging the Illinois member
A special dispatch explains the course which
1t Is believed the Democrats will take In re-
gard to the vetoed bill, and states that the
veto message Is regarded as the weakest docu-
ment shat ever emansted from the White
House.
The Senate on Thursday passed a bill max
ing the same provision for the public printing
as was contained In the vetoed BID, the Re-
publicans vsinIy attempting TO add an appro
priation for Marshals. Mr.. Bayard offered a
bill containing with some notifications, the
provisions of the vetoed bill in regard TO the
manner of appointing Marshals' deputies, but
making no appropriation The District APP
Precipitation bill was passed.
The House agreed to the conference report
on the Indian appropriation bill, and spent
the REMAINDER of the session in considering
the postoffice appropriation bill. The clause
relating to the reduction of increased pay on
star routes was stricken out, but the friends of
the Appropriation Committee afterward
rallied and inserted a still more stringent pro-
vision. Df.
day acted on the greater portion of the Tucker
tariff bill, the sugar clause being stricken out
and the wood pulp and paper items being left
to be considered on Monday.
The President has nominated q man who Is
an old associate to Madison Wells for Super
visor Of the port of New Orleans, and the nom
IL he rod for N lat
In the Senate on Friday the Conference re-
port on the Indian appropriation bill was
Revolutionary" and that it "nullified" a law
because 1t made no appropriation for the
Indian Commissioners. " 30 -i ttAt''
Mr.. Pryor maue speech on the Sp0fOrd-
Kellogg contest, and Mr.. COnkling seized an
opportunity to make an attack on Secretary
sherman In q debate upon the bill to repeal
certain neutrality-suspicious..
The House passed the poetofhce appropria-
ton bill exactly as it came from the Com
amendment providing for the reletting of
those star route contracts on which the re-
muneraticn had been excessively increased.
For q minority report on the political assess
ment question the Republican members OF the
Wallace E1mmls,ee present can Psign doou,
propose the passage OF law forbidding the
carrying OF weapons to political meetings.
VIM. Bishop, aged eighteen, while fishing
near Columbus, Ind, late on saturday even
ing. took a ut, fell into the river, and was
drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS. .-
The New Hampshire Republicans In the
same resolution congrat ulated General Grant
on his safe return home and declared in favor
Of Blaine for President. 80 ..,. fIe- go
There is talk at Washington OF negotiations
pending for the rith"ra val Of Grant and sub.
stitutlng ex-St.re ,aI. Hamii;ur. Fish In the
Presidential race. .rt 'sas
The increase of specie In the National Bank 9
from October l, l876-the return next preceding
specie payments-to February "a, 1880, the last
full report was s62, 10000. 81 ~. = ~ riH --t
Mr. George b. Roberts was last week elected
President Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
paDy, in place of Colonel T1omas A. Scott,
whose resignation takes effect June /.
detachment Of the Sixth Cavalry has at
tackled Victoria's band of Indians near Rock
kinled twenty families of Indians who were
living on his ranch. fl f a-Hi.ilI
The visible supply of grain In the United
States and Canada. on the dates named, was:
May /. 3S,067 600 bushels; April "A, 1891 ,0O0
bushels; April IL, 40 95l 100 bushels April TO-
A, 276, 900 bushels; April 3, As OIL 900 bushels.
At Albany, N. Y. 1t was said to be probable
the New York delegates to the Republican
National Convention at Chicago would refuse
to vote for the nomination OF GENERAL Grant
Frank Robinson colored, committed burg.
captured THURSDAY, tried, convicted and sen.
| fenced Friday to two years In the penf en-.
tiary and taken to the North Prison Satur-
| day. go .ts. ~ ~ f,ff..,..
The Ohio Democratic Convention was held
at Columbus, on Thursday, and q delegation
was elected and instructed to vote as a unit
| was not mentioned throughout the entire pro-
ceedlngs.
The Anti Third Term National Republican
Convention was held at st. Louis It was re.
solved that in the event of General Grants
/ nomination at Chicago, a general meeting
| should be held In New York to determine upon
| proper course of action.
4
4 turning home from market at Millhousen
| Ind, Friday evening, was thrown from his
NE ay ss ssad
4 spine, and lived but q few hours. r
The Court Martial In the case of the assassin
| of the Russian Colonel Commeroff sentenced
1 Russian legation wrote to tue President of the
| Court Martial demanding the execution of the
| condemned within twentyfour hours.
On Saturday, while Wilson Num-, farmer
shingles home from town, a bunch fell OF the
| wagon, Tightening the mule team, which ran
| away. Mr. Num- was thrown from the wagon,
breaking his neck and killing MIN Instantly.
| The trial Of Walter Benton, a notorious and
desperate character. for bis murderous attack
| on Sheriff Spurgeon, at Columbus, Ind, to-
gether with Frank Strang, who was sent fenced
| TO three years Tuesday, terminated saturday
| In his receiving three years sentence and
| fined 50. .i.t-
| The circular saw mill of VIM. P. Taggart
near Nashville, Ind, was destroyed by fire on
| Friday morning. The fire caught from sparks
| flying to the saw dust. No Insurance Mr..
| saw mill burned once before, his dwelling also
burned, and his leg broken.
| In storm Tuesday last, of the mouth of
Columbia River. Oregon. more fishermen than
at first supposed were drowned. The bodies of
| twenty-f1 have been recovered. A few men
| were picked up after clinging twelve hours to
| them have been seen drifting seward. The
storm was the most severe in many years.
Reports from Corydon, Ind, on Saturday,
say that six OF the rsgu,a a against whom
Henry Long previous to his death, came to
| Corydon, Friday evening, and voluntarily
the fl we already In Jail, gave $40 bail each for
their appearance to-day, when the grand jury
i sits.
| At Altoona, Pa Saturday, James Carter.
employed in the railroad wheel foundry, met
with an accident which terminated fatally
| three hours afterward. While rolling a car
ground, some Sax feet, with mis- left Leg across
| the track, the wheel fell on the limb, the
| sharp hange nearly severing Ii below the
! knee.
| tana and Eksterionoslav, in 1914, has been
| found In large numbers In the larvsl state,
| and the peasants tear the loss of the spring
| conseauence of the discovery of locust eggs.
Unless they are exterminated before develop
| ment a famine throughout Caucasus will be
inevitable.
The Wayne County (Ohio) mining troubles
| are assuming alarming proportions. On Sat-
| urday about 500 white miners Threatened riot
| and bloOdshed unless the colored miners were
| dischaI ged. The Governor was called upon
| for troops, and several com panies were ordered
| to hold themselves In readiness 10 proceed to
| the scene OF disturbance. Up to Sunday morn
| ing, however, there had been no outbreak.
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