Daily Republican., 1881-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.
WHAT Is BROUGHT by THE
WIRES.
An Onices Abolished - Indian
TrOubles-Incidents, Acct.
dents and Crimes.

Secretary Window yesterday issued
an order aboish'ng the office of Clsto-
dian of the Treasury, held for the last
five years by o. l.. Pitney. The duties
of the Office will hereafter be performed
under the immediate direction of the
Chief Clerk ot the Treasury, as provided
by the Revised Statutes. The Secie.
tary, after full consideration of the
sufficient authority for the office of
Custodian was doubtful.
| General Grant and Mrs. Grant ar
rived in New York yesterday morning,
and stopped at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mrs. Grant and her son, Colonel Fred
Grant, subsequently went to Long
Branch, where they will spend the
summer. General Grant will go to the
Branch to remain over Sunday 1t is
stated that the Subscription fund of
$3.50, 600 will be presented to the General
in short time.
George ID. Ramsey, Of the prominent
grain commission house of RumSey
Brothers & Co., of Chicago, died yes
terday in that city, aged go years. He
was native Of Troy, New York, and
settled in Chicago in 1886. He soon
engaged with his brother Julian, in the
grain trade. and, in time, the business
Of the firm grew 40 large that they have
been known to ship $500, 900 bushels of
grain in a single month.
The trouble between the white SET
| tiers and the Indians in the Choctaw
Nation, growing out Of the attempt of
the whites to evaie payment of the tax
imposed under the Permit Law" is
reported to be increasing. 1t is an
nounced that the militia of San Bois
county will meet at the Court House
next Wednesday, 10 take steps for the
expulsion of the whites who refuse to
pay the tax.
Seven Of gang Of thirty-three con-
victs, in transit from the st. Vincent de
Paul Penitentiary to the Kingston Pen
itentiary, in Ontario, escaped yeSter-
day, by slipping their hand cuffs and
Jumping from the railroad train while
it was going at full speed on % down
grade, near Prescott. One Of the tugi-
tives was captured; the others, at last
accounts, We're still at large
Two workmen fell from the new
Capitol at Albany yesterday, One Of
them was badly injured; the other,
named Baxter from Syracuse, was
killed. John Harris and Joseph Welch
painters. were injured, it is believed
fatally, by the falling Of a scatfod while
at work, in the Central Depot, at Bnttalo
yesterday
John 2. Howard of Burlington, Yer
mont, who last Monday gave $50, 600 to
the University OF Vermont, has signitied
his intention Of erecting il the Univer-
Sity Park bronze statue Of Lafayette,
who laid the corner stone, of the old
University building when he visited
Burlington in lS2j.
The L. S. steamer Rodgers sailed
from San Francisco on Thursday after
noon, in search of the Arctic steamer
Jeannette and the missing whaIers,
| She was escorted 10 the Heads by sew
eral tugs and yachts; all the vessels on
the water front Saluted her as she pass
ed, along, and thousands of people wit
messed her Departure
The body Of Henry Valentine, well
known farmer, who lived near ShOhola,
ir Pike county, Pa, was found in the
Delaware ami Hudson Canal, near Mon
tiCcllu, New York, at er four days
search. 1t is supposed he fell into the
water during the great thunderstorm
of last week.
The anniversary of the battle Of
Bunker Hill was celebrated yesterday
in Charleston, Massachusetts by civic
and military parade, the unveiling of a
statue If Colonel Prescott which stands
on the grounds near the monument; an
Grafton by Hon. Robert c. Winthorr,
and balloon ascension.
Yesterday noon, at the close of the
2Oth da, of his fast, John GriScom
weighed l76 poundSa loss oflA pounds
in "a hours, and 21&4 pounds in the 20
days. During the a hours he drank 81
ounces of water and had a movement
from the bowels. His pulse was "a,
respiration -, and temperature 9S.
William f. Goodyear, formerly con-
nected with the Government survey be-
tween California and Mexico, died, yes
ter,lay, in East Haven, Conn, aged %
wears, He rode on horseback from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific in 1857. During
the war he was scout under General
Terry.
Two tanks, one near State Lane, and
the other at Iatierty Hollow, in the
Bradford OF region were struck by light
ming, on Thursday night. They were
still burning yesterday afternoon Dut IL
was thought the flames would bo pre-
vented from spreading.
Frederick Hoxsey, aged, n years, was
drowned, on Thursday, at Providence,
Rhode island, while learning to swim
George Holbert, Of New BrunsWlck,
aged l9 wears, was drowned, i'll the Rarl-
tan River, on Wednesday, by the upset
ting of IA boat
John Killroy, Thomas XII roy, ThoS.
bennington, Edward Canval, Edward
Aaney and Thomas Quinn, whose ages
range from & to years, were arralghed,
in jersey City, yesterday, for robhing a
factory, aud were committed for trial.
TIE number Of msrchantile failures
in the United States and Canada, re-
porttd last week, was 50, u decrease OF
20 from the week before, and the small
est number reported for any single
week this year,
The late Eli Bates, of Chicago, who
was buried on Thursday, beIneathed
SAC, 900 for the erection ofa monument 10
TO President Lincoln, and S25,OO0 to the
Industrial School III that city.
man and a hny were killed and /
three persons were injured, one fatally
by collision between construction
train and a freight train at Troy, Kali
sas, yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Genrre Ward Nichols, grand