Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-12

| After the declination of the nomination for
Governor BY Gen. Wickham, Major Yost for
Lieut.. Governor, and Judge Wilboughby for
Attorney General. as set forth in our special dis
| patches Yesterday. the convention decided not
| to make any nomination at present. as they
deemed it inexpedient. but concluded with
great unanimity to hold fast to the principles OF
the republican party. ignoring any and all pro-
positions for a readjustment of the debt, either
national or state. The state central committee
was instructed to issue an address setting forth
| the actions and principles of the convention.
Spotted Tails Death.
HOW HE WAS KILLED BY CROW DOG AFTER A
| COUNCIL.
| The official account of the murder of Spotted
Tail was received at Chicago, Tuesday night. 10y
General Cook, agent of the Spotted Tail In.
| dams, from Acting Agent Lebar 1t runs as fol.
| lows: About noon on the 9Th instant Spotted
Tail reported at the agents office to receive in.
structlons regarding his contemplated visit t.
| washington. he having been selected as one OF
the representatives of the Sioux nation at the
coming conference at the national capital He
was urged to start at once as a letter from the
Indian office directed him to report to Agent
Andrews at YanktOn Agency no later than the
9Th instant, as the delegation from the Pine Rifle
Agency was expected to reach Rosebud Agency
on the evening of the 5th. Spotted Tail CON
| Guided to wait until next morning and go with
/
| arrangement having been determined upon Spot
| ted Tail desired to have talk with his people
| that afternoon and receive an expression of theil
views upon subjects to come before the confer
| ence.
Bidding Lebar "good BY" and saying he would
call at the Office in the evening TO receive an,
| further instructions there might be, Spotted
| Tail left Tor the Indian village to confer with
! his people. An interview was held with the In
dams They had big talk and a feast and The
l hra
morse and started homeward. The Indians were
scattering in all directions with the noted chic
| somewhat in advance of the others, he being
| lrst out of the lodge. After leaving the council
| lodge. Crow Dog was seen approaching Spotted
Iall. He had his wife with him. He got out o
the wagon and was STOPPING down when Spotted
Tail rode up to him. He suddenly rose up ant
shot Spotted Tail through the left breast Tht
| chief fell from his horse. but rose to his fee
and made three or four steps toward Crow Dog
endeavoring to draw his pistol. He then reelet
| and fell backward, dead. Crow Dog Jumped
| into his wagon and drove off at full
speed toward his camp. some nine miles distant
| The acting agent at once issued orders for thu
arrest of Crow Dog, under a paragraph in tn,
| treaty of 1868, which renders him amenable t,
the white mans laws. In compliance with thes,
| OrderS, the Indian police accomplished tn,
arrest of Crow Dog, and he was sent to For
Niobrara to await trial for murder
The Common Sense of 1t.
! From the New York Journal of Commerce.
When two fallen women from Switzerland
came to our shores we sent them back by thu
| first returning steamer, not caring to increase
| our stock of immigrants of that character We
| annually return paupers and insane persons un.
| loaded upon US by cunning foreigners anxious to
relleve themselves OF such a burden Have We
any less the right to send back a confessed muir
dcrer, who has blown up train of cars in the
hnn n Iirrr
| criminal deed? Not because the terms of a
treaty or proper respect for international COM
lty requires it, but because red-handed villains
are common enough here already, without add.
ing any imported stock, might we very well as
sumo to depOrt the assassins who come here
boasting of their achievements As long as a
refugee was only accused of crime the law as
suming his innocence should interfere for his
protection. No desire to stand we'll with other
nations should relax one iOta of the vigilance
with which his rights should be guarded. But
When one comes with the confession of his
crime upon his lips and seeks not SO much a
haven of rest where he may cleanse his soul OF
guilt as safe asylum in which he may prepare
Tor renewed atrocities, we would for the sake OF
our own people deny him the refuge he desires.
We would rather that America should be the
bailiff of Russia than the home of felons.
A SIMPLE DIsINFEcTANT-A cheap and SIM
pie disinfectant which promises to be useful is a
brought into notice by the late DR.. Goo1den OF
st. Thomas Hospital, London. It is inodOrous
effective. and it's cost infinitesimal. 1t may be
prepared as follows: Take half a drachm OF
nitrate of lead and dissolve in pint or more OF
boiling water. Now dissolve two drachms OF
| common salt in pail or bucket of water, pour
the two solutions together, and allow the sedi-
ment to subside. The clear supernatant fluid
will be saturated solution of chloride of lead
A cloth dipped in solution of chloride of lead
and hung up in room will sweeten a fetid
atmosphere lnstantaneOuSly. or the solution
thrown down a sink, water closet or drain, OF
over heap otrefuse. will produce like result
RECIPROCITY. i 1t is understood that the
Treasury department at Washington are dis
posed to return the duty of 81 ,375 imposed on
the shaft brought from Bremen TO this city for
the German steamship Strassburg. The depart
ment have ascertained that an American vessel
In German waters, If compelled to send to
america for part OF her equipment. to replace
That lost or broken, would be treated the same
as the German steamship company wish their
vessel treated In American waters: that is adj
init the goods free OF duty.-hdlto Sun of TO-
day.
THE CATTLE COMMISSION at Saratoga devoted
yesterdays session to discussing and preparing
quarantine regulations for cattle imported from
Europe; also to preparing regulations for the
disinfectiOn of cars to be used in export cattle
traffic, and to devising means for definitely as
certaining the extent of the infected districts in
the United States. The unwarranted discrimi-
nation on the part Of the Canadian government
against American cattle was also considered,
and DR.. Thayer's report upon the contagious
cattle disease prevailing in Nova Scotia was
read. The commission was permanently Or
gained, with Prof. James Laws, of Cornell Uni
versity, chairman; ]. H. Sanders, Of the Live
Stock Journal, Chicago secretary The COM
mission decided to make searching investiga-
ton at the great western centres of the cattle
trade to ascertain without doubt that those
points are free from infection.
Two CHILDREN POIsoNED.-At Norfolk. within
few days past, two daughters of Capt G. H.
Lnderman, master OF the Winter-Quarter Shoal
lightship, aged respectively thirteen and eight
years have been stricken with commissions and
died in few minutes afterward. Both deaths
occurred In such short space of time that the
family physician failed to arrive until life was