, 1881-10-21
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELE6RArH TO DATE

The Garfield fund s439,S9S; Michigan
fund S94 ,25S.
Over SS,000,O0O in bonds were offered
the treasury on the 10th, and $1,000, 900
accepted.
Oct. 10th the ground was covered with
snow at Madrid, St. Lawrence county.
! New York.
/ Guiteau has written q letter to the pres.
! ident appealing for aid and sympathy.
which Counsel ScOville will presen. to-
! day.
/ DR.. John Buchanan of PhilaueIphia
has been sentenced to one years impris-
onment and a fine of $1,000 for selling bo.
! gus diplomas.
Unless copious rains fall III Westchester
and Putnam counties between now and
the lst of November, New York cIty will
! find inseit entirely destitute o. Croton
water.
Cole, Stephens and Delaney, the Iron
! Mountain train robbers pleaded guilty. in
| Hempsted circuit, and were sentenced 10
the penitentiary for the term of 20 wears
each
The executive committee to provide for
the erection of a Garfield memorial hos
pltal met on the 10th. Gen. Sherman,
! Secretary Blaine and DIR. Busey were ap-
! pointed committee TO draft a national
and international appeal for funds. A
ways and means committee were also ap.
pointed. Great interest is manifested and
there seemed 10 be a sanguine belief tha;
/ that undertaking will he successful.
4 controversy took place over the tele-
graz h wires between IS. McBriC Q, opera
tor at Glorietta, and Jack Hardy, operator
! at Lehy station in Colorado. The latter
went to Glorietta and called on Mcbride
about midnight for the purpose of revenge.
| This morning Hardy was found on the
! floor of the telegraph Office fatally shot
! in the head. Mcbride was missing. The
shooting is suppoSen to have been lustifi-
able.
! A Tribune's Washington special says:
| Gorham's candidacy for the secretaryship
of the senate is an embarrassment to re-
publicans. Some of the senators who
are nearest to the president are still ad.
vocatiEg his election. Friends of the
attorney-general say that one of the rea-
sons why that gentleman insisted upon
acceptance OF his resignation at once vas
| the knowledge that Gorhsm's influence
with Arthur would probably neutralize to
some extent the efforts made to push on
The star route trials to conviction.
On the 9th of October hunting party
! from Fremont county, Iowa, pitched camp
near the headwa.ers of Plum creek, Neb.,
and soon afterwards row occurred be.
! tween two of them, Jas. Lucas and a boy
named Powell, aged only fifteen wears.
Lucas hit Powelrs team and Powell
slapped hIm in the face. Lucas picked up
d neck yoke and threw it at Powell, and
| missed him. Powell seized it and
pounded Lucas, who had advanced on
| him. The result was that Lucas was fa-
tally injured, and died on the train to day
as he was beng carried home. Powell,
although acting in self-defense, fled.
Geo. ScovIlle, Guiteau's counsel and
brother-in-law, recently returned from
New York. He said he did not make any
arrangement in that city for counsel to
assist him in conducting Guiteau's de.
! fense. 1t is his intention, he said, to ask
Richard L. Merrick, a prominent lawyer
of this city, to act as associate counsel,
and If the latter declines he will ask the
court to assign Merrick or some other
competent attorney to assist him. Sco-
| vile thinks Guiteau will be arraigned
! Tuesday morning and says ifhe (Scoville)
! conducts the case alone he viii! put Gui-
/ teau on the stand in his own defense as
his first witness.
| Pacific coast postal changes, Officers es-
! tablished: Cheweleh, Stevens county,
| Washington, Maroon I. Lockhart postm-
master; Ontario, Whitman county, w. 7;
| Elijah Duff Postmaster. Discontinued:
| Bells Bridge, Sqasta county Cal; Frank
town. Washoe county, New, Glenbrook,
county, Ariz. Postmasters appointed:
Lyman C. Tibbits, Columbia, Tuolumne
county, Cal; Nathan Scheelin, Elmira,
Solano county, Cal; j, ID. Barbee, Nicolas,
| SuUter county, Cal. BsrdizZa Sumner,
Kern county, Cal; t. 4. Nolmer, Lion,
| Esmeralda county, New; Otto Lubker,
Sweet Home, Linn county, Or; Mark
Ezekiels, Marahalls, Pima county, ArIz.;
John NJ. kellner, Nugget, Gila county,
| Ariz.
| A news gatherer called upon Mr.. Conk-
! ling at Washington. after his visit to the
| president, with the Intention of inter-
| viewing him upon the subject. Before
| the reporter could open his month MIR.
| Conkling took hun by the hand and said:
Il suppose you want to ask me how
| came to be in Washington. came TO see
the president. lie and | have long been
| friends. | have not seen him since he
became president until to-day. We had
conversation upon various subjects. do
not know when | shall see him again. i
| had thought [ could call on him with us
much safety as any other of his friends
but it seems that the gentlemen of the
press are exercised over it. L assure you
that you have'no resson 10 be and wish
you very good evening"
The extra session of the senate called
by President Arthur met ut noon on the
10th. The senate galleries were crowded
and throngs pressed for admission
long before the senate was calied to order
bv Senator Harris, of Tennessee. The
general expectation Was that something
unusually interesting and exciting would
occur. Instead, however. of witnessing
partisan fight the crowd listened TO
dreary argument on the legal status Of
election of Il president pro TEN before
admitting the three new senators elect.
| Precedents were cited both for and
against such action, but the democrats
were determined on carrying out the
| agreement reached in their caucus last
Saturday, and voted down several PROPOSE
| tions offered to day by republicans in up
position to the election OF Bayard as pres
| ident pro TEN. Senator David Davis
action in voting with the republicans TO
admit the new senators first was no doubt
a disappointment to the democrats, and
| his declining afterwards to vote for Ed
! munds' amendment to substitute Anthony
for Bayard was equally disappointing to
! the republicans. rbe action of this sena
| tor in the near future in view of a posi-
BILE emergency is the subject of consider