River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
TEIEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.


Hon. JOHN w. FOSTER. minister to Rus
sia, is in Washington. He has tender ed
his resignation.
HANNIBAL HAMLIS has accepted the
mission to Spain. to which position he
was appointed by President Garfield on
the morning of the assassination.
THE president of national bank in
South Carolina reports to Treasurer Gil
fillan that the people of that region refuse
to take silver certificates as current
money.
A SENSATIONAL rumor was started in
Washington Saturday stating that Guiteau
had taken poison and was dead. The only
foundation for it was in his being dosed
with quinine for malaria.
IT is charged that Guiteau's autobi og-
raphy was drawn from his lips dy District
Attorney Curkhill by the promise that il
should be published for his benefit, and
that ii was sold by the photographer to an
eastern journal.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that mutilated silver coins are only worth
the price of the bullion they contain, and
that they shall be paid for at the minis al
the rate prevailing for silver on the day
they are presented.
THE grand jury concluded the exami
nation of the Guiteau case at ii a. NJ
Oct. 1, having examined several additional
witnesses, and examined Surgeons Gen.
eral Barnes and DIR. Lamb. A true bill
was voted unanimously. The jury did moi
return it at once to the court, but took up
another case.
THE government printing office is at
work on the binding of a number of valu'
able works. The record of the last session
of the Forty-sixth congress and the spe-
cial session of the senate is nearly com.
pleted. Volume Z of American Ethnolo
gy and volume of Wheeler's Arch aolog
zeal work is going through and will soor
be finished.
COMMISSIONER RAUM, of the internal
revenue department, has rendered de
cision relative to the taxation of banks
and bankers October 4th. He maintains
| that every person, firm, or company hay
| ing place Of business where stock bonds
bullion, bills of exchange or promissory
hottest are received for discount or fol
sale, is regarded in the law as a banker
and that the capital and deposits of such
a banker are subject to taxation.
ABOUT one o'clock, the grand jury took
a recess. and the foreman, ChurchmaD
proceeded to the Office of district attorney
and placed in Corkhill's hands the indict-
ment against Charles j. Guiteau for the
murder of James A. Garfield, president
of the United States. by wounding him
with a bullet fired from a pistol in the
hands of Chas J. Guiteau, at the Balti-
more and Pennsylvania depot, on or about
the I'd day of July, A. d. 1881.
IT is stated on pretty good authority
that DR.. Boynton, at the request of Mrs
| Garfield, has consented to Withhold from
the public the statement of the autopsy
which he had prepared. Mrs. Garfield
saws she is Convinced that the President
wound was mortal, and does not desire to
have the controversy about the treatment
continued. No good could come of such
a course.
GUIrEAU's counsel thinks that it will
take him three months to prepare fol
trial. He will rely entirely on the plea
| of insanity, and expects by procuring evl
dence of the assassin's peculiar conduct IL
years past to prove that he is and has beer
irresponsible, weak, and demented. In
presenting the case to the jury he will make
an effort to fasten the responsibility fol
Guiteau's dreadful crime on the stalwarts
and hopes In this manner to arouse some
sympathy for his client.
In the criminal court at Washington
on the 9th inst, Brady, French, Turner
and Brown, charged with star route frauds
made their appearance. Their counse
entered motions to quash the Information;
fled last Friday. The district attorney
asked that the accused first enter bail fol
their appearance. As they stepped for
ward to the desk Judge Cox informed
them that he would soon fix the amount
of bail, and discharged each on his per
sonal recognizance. Prominent men il
the audience exhibited much sympathy
with the accused.