The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-07-28
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

IOeiluasteIs Will 40 well 10 paeto Gen James
order, requiring prompt quarterly reports, in
their hats.
Secretary Lincoln says Sitting Bull and his
band will be disposed Of az we're the other sur
rendered hostiles.
The national bureau Of agriculture places the
average of the wheat crop at S3 per cent. of u
full yield. The area Of corn planted has in
creased 2 per cent but the crop promises to
be only 90 per cent of that of last year.
A correspondent at Washington, after con-
siderable figuring, predicts that the democratic
candidate for speaker Of the next house will
not receive over l3l votes, ana that il the re-
pubicans save their four vacant districts thew
VIII open the house with = majority of thirty
members.
Secretary Window is taking vacation of q
few days on the summit of the Allegheny
company with three distinguished Democratic
senator', Bayard, Davis aud Camden, started
into the woods for the famous black water
trout streams.
The signal service authorities in Washington
are perfectins system of signals by which it
is proposed to acguaint the farmers with pre-
dicted changes 10 the weather. Colored rock
cts are t, be sent mp at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing from stations in the farming regions and
the probabil ties for tho coming day are to he
indicated by the color OF the rockets and their
arrangements.
The steamer Talapoosa is being fitted up at
the navy yard and has beon ordered to be ready
Tor eea by August 18th. swinging bunk is
being put III for the accommodation Of Presi-
dent Garfield, and convenieuces are being sup
piled for Mrs. Gartield's comfort It is intend
ed If the president keeps on improving as rap
idly as be has been, to take him down the river
about August 18th, provided also the weather
Is favorable. If the water is smooth he will be
taken to Fortress Monroe and back, and possi-
bly,, if he stands the motion without injury,
they will so on to some seaehore resort
No Information has yet been received at the
interior department regarding the damage to
Indian lands from the overflow caused by the
proposed construction Of the reservoirs on tho
uppor Mississippi Secretary Kirkwood and
agent sent cut to investigate the amount of
probable damage should not have made his
report. They iufer, however, that the agent
is experiencing some delay III inspecting the
Indian ladds and arriving at q proper estimate
of their value, and the amount Of damage.
on the subject, and Instructions lave been sent
the agent to hurry his report
dispatch from West Grecnvillc, s. c., to
&. X. Raum, internal revenue commissioner.
at Washington, says: Conformation was re-
ceived by Deputy Collector Broyton of an illicit
distillery in operation near Central, in Pickens
county; Broyt'n, with four men, started to de-
stroy the still and arrest John Mellow and two
others engaged with him. They approached the
honse Of Mellow to arrest him, when they were
fired upon and Broyton killed, being shot
through the lungs: desultory firing took
party. Mellow and negro, heavily armed, are
now at the Central Air Line road defying arrest
and threatening TO kill any revenue officer
that approaches them. The state authorities
are taking no steps in the matter: What shall
District Attorney Corkhill has addressed the
following letter to Gen. J. s. Crocker, warden
OF the Jail: THE grand jury having adjourned
until the 18th of September, and it being i'm
possible to ascertain the final result of the at
tack by Chas Gitteau, the assassin of the pres
ldent, 1t will be necessary to retain him in Gus
tody for future action by the authorities. de-
sire you to place him on one side of the Jail
where there are no prisoners, where means of
escape are impossible; that you will allow him
to see no ether person whatever, and that he
be not permitted to hold conve :sation with any
of the guards; that he be vigorously excluded
from recievins.a nyconlmunication except those
delivered by me or received by my direction.
desire this direction to be vigorously executed.
Mr.: Henry Garrett, the geoerapher of the
census bureau, is preparing series of very
interesting complications, in which he i'll show
by counties the kind OF fuel used, whether
wood, coal, corn stock or hay. Mr. Garrett is
of the opinion, although his work is not COM
pleted, that four: ffths Of the fuel of the coun-
try will prove to be wood. The increase in the
consumption of coal i'll tbs country has been
something prodigious during the past forty
years, and indeed for that matter throughout
the world. In 1912 the United States produc-
ed only 10000 600 tons of coal, while last
year there was produced over 10000, 600.
According to rough estimate, $4,000 Of the
population of Minnesota use wood, 90, 600
coal and IS, 600 hay. When the statistics are
complete they will have bearing upon the
question O: the consumption of forests.