Daily Republican., 1881-09-16
NEWS ALL AROUND.
PRELIMUNARtES OF SERGEANT
MAsON'S COURT MARTIAL.
Senator Van Wyck on the Indian
QnestiOn-The Clerk Of the
Senator Ask cd From
California,

General Hancock yesterday received
from washington copy OF the char
ges and specifications against Sergean'
Mason, who attempted to kill Guiteau
1t has been decided that the court-mar
tlal III Mason's case shall sit in Wash
ington The charges are: "First, con
duct prejudicial to good order and mill
tary discipline, the specifications being
that mason, while on duty as a guard,
discharged hls musket without good
cause; and second, attempting to shoot
a prisoner, without orders from a supe.
rlor officer, and at time when the
prisoner was not attempting to escape.
Senator Van Wyck, Of Nebraska
delivered an address at the State Fai1
III Chicago on Wednesday, in which he
denounced the present system OF Indian
! management, and said the Indian
Bureau should be transferred to the
War Department; opposed the views
OF the Civil Service refor.ners, and
argued that busineys qualifications
should be preferred to competitive ex-
animation; urged a 'liberal moditica-
ton of the tariff, and advocated the
further improvement of the Western
rivers.
After receiving letter from the
Mayor of New Orleans on Wednesday,
Governor McEnery issued prucama-
ton revoking his proclamation of Tues
day, order having been restored. He
thanked the militia for their prompt
ness in reporting for duty, their steady
discipline and soldierly conduct.
The dory Little Western, manned by
George p. Thomas and Frederick Nor
man returned to Gloucester, Massa-
chusetts, yesterday, having made the
round tri p across the Atlantic from that
port TO London and back. The craft
measures a.. teet on keel, p feet in
depth and q feet 8 inches in width.
During funeral at Leadville, Tennes-
see, yesterday morning, the horses at
tached to the hearse ran away, and the
coffin was thrown out. The corpse,
that of ID woman, rolled out in the road
and was run over, trampled upon and
mutiated by the teams that followed.
Governor Colquitt, Of Georgia, and
his staff will attend the Yorktown cele-
bration, but there will be probably be
no military representation from Geor-
g!a, the Legislature Of that State hav.
ing failed, thus far, to make any appro-
priation for the purpose.
General W. T. Tucker an ex-Confed-
crate brlgadler, was called to the front
door Of his residence in Okaloua, Mis- |
sissippi, and Shot dead, niWednesday
night. Houston Parrish, colored
vn,tI of t, tt,
picion of being The murderer.
Edward Wassell, an extensive dealer
in scrap iron, at Pittsburg, was arrest.
ed yesterday, charged with embeZ.
zling $1,000 from Fox ~ Drummond, Of
New York. Other suits will follow,
the total amount being $4,000.
The Executive Committee of the
Michigan Fire Relief Fund in New
York, yesterday, authorized its Treas1r-
er to remit $4,000 to the Mayor of De-
triot for the relief Of the sufferers.
The Pennsylvania and Baltimore
and Ohio Itailroad Companies on We'd
ueslay reduced the fares from Chicago |
to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
inston To s., on the rebate plan.
Inc NullIdJetl DOuy Ol all unknown
man, supposed to have been run over
by train, was found on the Pennsyl-
vaua Railroad near Middletown yester-
day morning.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture of
Kentucky reports that all the crops in
that State were greatly benefited by the
recent rains.
Mrs. Susan May Bonaparte, widow
of the late Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte,
died yesterday morning, at her resi-
dence in Baltimore. She was 80 years
of age.
The members of the Cabinet, accom-
panied by eX-Secretary Evarts, were
visiting Crawford Notch, in the White
yesterday.