, 1881-12-09

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A premature explosion occurred at
Greenwich, Conn, whereby five men
engaged III blasting were instantly killed.
Robert Maxwell, a prominent farmer
living near Cairo Cia., killed Adam Zieg-
Ter, negro, for assaulting his little daugh-
ter.
A collision on the 25th near Savannah,
Ga, between ii freight and lumber tram,
caused the death of six persons, all train
hands.
An explosion ofsulphur in an elevator
which fell With Its load i'll Meyer Bros
drug store at Kansas City caused the loss
of $1,000 and terribly injured Wm. c.
Pilkard.
Al. iron bar sustaining the doors of the
cupola of the new Bessemer department
of the Pennsylvania Steel Works broke
on the 25,h. Three meE were caught by
the rush o: molten metal and terribly
burned.
Beecher, in his sermon on ThanksgiY
ing Day, alluded to the trial of Guiteau,
and said it looked like fight between an
imbecilc judge at one end of the bench
and a vagrtnt fool at the other, the imbe-
Gle court trying to find the wicked man
insane.
The Mississippi river commission, now
in session at st. Louis, is preparing its
third annual report to the secretary of
war, - be submitted at the opening ses-
sion Of congress with the presidents mes
sage. The report this year will be more
yoIuminous and of more importance than
has marked 1t in the past.
A Times Washington special saws of the
presiden; that he is busily engaged in
| reorganiE nG his cabinet and has tele-
| graphed to New York TO secure the
presence of some of his special advisers.
1t is deemed certain that Frelinghuysen
and Lincoln will be among the secretaries
and that POstmaster-General James will
| retain hiS portfolio until March. Ex-
Governor Routt of Colorado is pressing
| his claims for the latter position. His
strong point Is Gen. Grants friendship.
1t is said president Arthur has never
mentioned his name in consulting about
| the cabinet. Timothy o. Howe is quite
certain TO he attorney general and 1t is
thought ex-senator Chafiee will be given
the interior department and General Beale
the navy portfolio.
Senator Logan says: The first time |
sa@ Guiteau was in Washington, March
last, when the man came to my house
bareheaded. with sandals on and without
stockings. There was snow on the ground,
and he excused his appearance by saying
that he lived close by He introduced
cock vs. Garfield, and he requested as a
personal favor that l would read it. To
i get rid of him | said | would. Next day
he called again, and, after letting me
know what great and important man he
WAS, asked me what | thought of his
speech. | replied that | had not had time
to read it. This put him in a rage and at
the same time opened my eyes to the fact
that | WAS dealing with IA "crank, and to
get rid of him told him l would read the
ispeech that very night. / did not see
him again for several weeks, when he
called and presented me with a written
application he said he intended to put on
flle at the state department for position
as consul general at Paris. He said that
he had shown 1t to Secretary Blaine and
that Blame had promised to give him the
| place if | would sign an application. |
refused 10 sign it on the ground that
knew nothing at all about him. This
threw Guiteau into a rage again He
drew himself into an oTatoTical flourish
and told me he was Charles Guiteau, a
lawyer and politician, an intimate friend
of all the prominent members of the re.
publican party, and for me not to know
him was 10 argue myself unknown. He
got so abusive that finally ordered him
out ofmy rooms and gave orders not to let
him enter again.
Herald's Washington special says OF
Gibson's report on the star route investi-
CATION: The department of justice repudi-
ates the report as the basest forgery. No
, such report was ever called for and no
such report has ever been addressed TO
that department, and the records of the
department do not show that any such
officer It's A. NJ. Gibson, special assistant
attorney for the United States, was ever
| "A H.,
the publication of such a document, a.
though 1t emanated from the department
! of justice, has aroused the deepest indig-
nation i'll official quarters, and the guilty
, party will probably be arrested Tomorrow
for imposing his gratuitous composition
, on the public as an official document. Rhe
alleged report was printed on slips, but
had no headings to indicate its source.
Copies were lett at all newspaper offices
: yesterday, and one copy, it is said, was
left in one of the offices in the department
! of justice building addressed 10 western
/ newspaper. The document IS headed
"Washington. Oct. 81, 1881" AS Mac>
: Veagh j. still attorney general, though
J absent from Washington, the solicitor
: general who is at the head ofthe depart
: ment OF Justice, when his attention was
; called to the imposition which had been
practiced. promptly set to work TO dis
cover who the rascal is. A man named
A. VI. Gibson is engaged in the postotfice
J department in assisting the special agent
of that department in arranging evidence
in the star route cases, but as he has no
authority 10 make report rs special as
sistant attorney, it is not believed he is
the party. The alleged document Is also
: an insult to the president. II recognizes
that there have been two attorney. gener-
/ ais in the cabinet, whereas there has only