The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

HANNIBAL HAMLIN has accented tn
mission to Spain, to which position h
was appointed by President Garfield o,
the morning of the assassination.
r, IHE president of national bank il
south Carolina reports to Treasurer Gil
Milan that the people Of that region refus,
to take silver certificates as curren
money.
"A SENSATIONAL rumOr was started ir
Washington Saturday stating that Guitear
had taken poison and was dead. The only
foundation for it was in his being dosec
with quinine for malaria.
IT is charged that Guiteau's autobiop.
r,aphy was drawn from his lips dy Distric,
Attorney Cvrkhill by the promise that Il
should be published for his benefit, and
that it was sold by the stenographer to an
eastern journal.
IHE Treasury Department has decided
mat mutllated silver coins are only worth
the price of the bullion they contain, and
mat they shall be paid for at the mints at
the rate prevailing for silver on the day
they are presented.
TUE grand jury concluded the exami-
nation Of the Guiteau case at II A. M.
Oct. 4, having examined several additional
witnesses, and examined Surgeons Gen
eral Barnes and DR.. Lamb. A true bill
was voted unanimously. The Jury did not
return it at once to the court but took up
another case.
COMMISSIONER RAUM, of the internal
revenue department, has rendered de-
clsion relative to the taxation of banks
and bankers October 4th. He maintains
that every person, firm, or company hav-
ing place of business where stock bonds,
bullion, bills of exchange or promissory
hottest are received for discount or for
sale, is regarded in the law as banker,
and that the capital and deposits of such
banker are subject to taxation.
ABOUT one o'clock, the grand Jury took
a recess. and the foreman, Churchman,
proceeded to the Office of district attorney
and placed in Corkhills hands the indict-
ment against Charles j. Gui1eau for the
murder of James A. Garfield, president
of the United States. by wounding him
with bullet fired from pistol in the
hands of Chas. J. Guiteau, at the Balti-
more and Pennsylvania depot, on or about
the I'd day of July, A. D. 1881.
IT is stated on pretty good authority
that DR.. Boynton, at the request of Mrs.
Garfield, has consented to Withhold from
the public the statement of the autopsy
which he had prepared. Mrs. Garfield
says she is Convinced that the Presidents
wound was mortal and does not desire to
have the controversy about the treatment
continued. No good could come of such
1 course.
GU1TEAU's counsel thinks that it will
AXE him three months TO prepare for
rial. He will rely entirely on the plea
Of insanity, and expects by procuring evil
ience of the assassin's peculiar conduct in
years past to prove that he is and has been
Irresponsible, weak, and demented. In
the case to the Jury he will make
IN effort to fasten the responsibility for
dreadful crime on the stalwarts,
md hopes In this manner to arouse some
for his client.
In the criminal court at Washington,
m the 9th inst, Brady, French, Turner,
md Brown, charged with star route frauds,
made their appearance. Their counsel
entered motions to quash the informations
lied last Friday. The district attorney
lsked that the accused first enter bail for
heir appearance. AS they stepped for
vard to the desk Judge Cox informed
hem that he would soon fix the amount
If bail, and discharged each on his per-
onal recognizance. Prominent men in
he audience exhibited much sympathy
With the accused.