, 1881-12-09
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH To DATE

The pope is preparing to leave Rome,
probably for Malta.
The Irish national convention is to be
a stupendOus affair.
Rails of the Northern Pacific will be
laid into Miles City, Montana, next Tues
day.
The affairs in Chill and Peru are such as
will possibly compel the United States to |
protect its interest by force.
American artists have been invited TO |
submit designs for the monument OF AL
exander H., to be erected in an enclosure
of the kremlin at Moscow.
Herman Peter shot and fatally wounded
Phillip Belts at Lancaster, Ohio, on the
oath. Belts had made insinuations re
garding the character ofPeter's daughter.
The Official Gazette says the German
EmperOr's health will not yet warrant his
leaving his room. He is compelled 10
transact only the necessary government
business.
Gen. John M Reid, prominent lawyer
and wealthy citizen, 90 years of age, was
killed at Kansas City on the 24th by fall
ing from caboOse on the Missouri Pacific
railroad.
Special Agent Gibson has made his
final report public, and il contains vast
array of facts unpleasant for Brady. His
administration of postOthce affairs Is
shown to be rotten to the core.
Herald's st. Petersburg Hessy Helf-
mann was safely delivered of Il daughter
last Friday in easement of "Froubets
moi Bastien" fortress. Mother and child
are well. Hessy will probably receiye a
free pardon in consideration of the con-
fessions she has made.
Goujeard, minister of French marine,
has reinstated Poste and Grigne, chief
naval superintendents, and Corvette and
Cebrouge, naval oyerseers, the former
years ago placed on the retired list and
the latter dismissed from the service for
attending the civil burial of a child.
1t is learned from the records of the
county court of Chicago, that Augustus IL.
Parker, a cousin of the assassin, Guiteau,
was sent some years ago To the Elgin IN
sane asylum, where he died. A curious
fact in this connection is that Guiteau
himself appeared as witness of the mans
insanity.
A decision was rendered on the 2lst.
by the L. 5. Supreme Court IN the case OF
the Nevada Bank, of San Francisco, VS.
John Sedwick, which presents the ques-
ton whether the capital of a bank, in.
vested in foreign countries, can be taxed
by the United States. This court decides
that il can.
Washington specials agree that Jones,
arrested for shooting Guiteau, is in ali
probability the wrong man. Specials also
agree in commendiug Scoville's defence
as Unexpectedly strong. One says Scoville
cannot pose before the public Is an unskill-
ful lawyer any longer. He is not only
shrewd quick and sharp, but possessed of
cOnsummate ability.
A genuine cOmmotion was created in
the custom house in New York on the
oath by private advices from Washington
that John X. Lydreker, formerly one of
the deputy collectors, is TO succeed Mr..
French US assistant treasurer. When
Arthur became collector, Lydreker linked
his political fortunes with his and be-
came warm adherent of SeLator Conk-
ling.
Election at Providence for represen-
tatiyes in Congress in place of Aldrich,
chosen Senator, resulted in favor ofHenry
J. Spooner, republican, who had 36l7
votes against ,ll6 for Henry J Sisson,
democrat. Mayor Hayward, republican,
was reelected by l,7Sl majority. The
aldermen are all republicans. Foer dean
Oerats are in the common council. Vote
for license ,75i against ,2S0.
Theodore Hanel, the Philadelphia tax
clerk who defaulted in 1877 to the amount
of $4,000, described the methods of theft
resOrted TO by fifteen receiving clerks
employed in the tax department. He says
he was instructed to falsify his books by
the chief clerk, Jacob Cramp, and that he
was promised by the tax receiver, Thomas
j. Smith, that his family would De cared
for while he was in prison, and that the
sum WAS reserved for him, but was stolen
before it reached him. He SAYS the thefts
will run up into millions.
1t is stated that at an interview with
President Arthur that his approval Satur-
day of the report of the government com
missioners on the recently completed
two hundred miles section ofthe Northern
Pacific railroad running from Dakota into
Montana, carries with it also the accept
anee of preceding section of 30 miles
examining during President Hayes ad-
ministration, but not then formally ac-
Cepted owing to a controversy as to the
right ofthe company to patents of certain
lands already claimed by private parties
along that portion of the road.
On the train from Santa Fe tor Kansas
City, on the 22d q man passed through
the cars warning the passengers that rob-
bers were on the train and advising them
to hide their valuables. A scene of con-
fusion and terror ensued, women scream
ing and hysterical. while everybody fran
tically tried to hide his possessions in
every conceivable place. 1t seemed that
five suspicious looking characters boarded
the train at the station before Spearville,
and the train men discovered them, armed
themselves, warned the passengers and
prepared TO defeat their purpose, which
they were satisfied was robbery ut Spear
vile. a wrecking train stood on the side
track and the hands were summoned to
aid IN capturing the robbers, but the willy