The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WARRINGTON.

The grand Jury at Washington has in
dicted George w. Ingalls,, formerly agen
of the Piutes, for presenting false vouch
ers. District attorney Corkhill will post
pone action in the case of Guiteau till Sep
tember.
THE presidents wound continues to dis
charge patches of cotton and woolen. Gu
from his clothing by the bullet, and I
piece Of bone slivered from the rib alst
came out. The patient fears that the bal
may have permanently injured his spine
making him cripple.
The postmaster general warns post
masters that their accounts must be for
warded to the auditor of the treasury i'm
mediately after the close of every quarter
The new chieftain is intent upon making
his department seli-sustaining, when HI
proposes to advocate reduction of Letter
postage to two cents.
The Ute commissioners report to Secre
tary Kirkwood that they have selected 8
reservation near the junction of the Greer
and White rivers ia Utah, on which they
propose to erect temporary agency build
ings, and they ask for a military force OF
lou men to aid in carrying out their plans
GuITEAU is represented as having lost
some Of his foppishness and small por
tien of his vanity, but none of his i'm
dence or his egotism, since he has been in
prison. He insists ON being treated as 8
prisoner of state, and wishes for bette,
treatment than the other prisoners.
In dressing the presidents wound, the
drainage-tube sank to depth of FIVE and
half inches. DR.. Bliss contends that the
assassin's bullet pierced the left side OF
the liver and struck the wall of the ab.
dominal cavity. The patient was not SC
easy last night, having suffered somewhat
from the vigorous manipulations of q
barber.
Mrs. DIR. SUSAN Epson, who is the
Presidents female nurse, is Mrs. Gar.
fields physician ordinarily, that lady in,
clining TO feminine doctors for feminine
patients, and also to the homeopathic
practice of medicine. The doctors do no t
like her, but she is fat and serene and
holds her way, conscious that Mrs. Gar.
field is her powerful friend.
SECRETARY BLAINE received a letter
from the Austrian Minister at Washing
ton, informing him that the Emperor Of
Austria desired to express his lively sym.
pathy with President Garfield, his indig.
nation at the murderous attack on his life
and his sincere interest in the favorable
news of the presidents condition and the
hopeful prospects of his recovery.
pictorial weeklies.
IT was found that the cooling apparatus
kept the presidents temperature uneven
and it was ordered out of the room. Ex
periments have been made with the cleo
trical indicator upon an inmate of the
Soldiers Home, who carries bullet ir
his body, and Drs. Agnew and Bliss were
convinced that the machine will disclose
the location of ball if it be within two
inches of the surface.
The consulting physicians, Drs. Ham
ilton and Agnew, were summoned tc
Washington, and it was decided to open q
new channel for the discharge of the pus
Such channel was made by cutting ar
opening from the exterior of the back to
the trask of the bullet at point neal
where the stoppage of the flow had taker
place. The result was entirely satisfac
tory. The pus began to flow out from the
new opening, the fever receded, and there
was an immediate change for the better.