Daily Republican., 1881-10-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE NATIONS FRENCH AAD
GERAAN GUESTS.
Democrats De,erm1 q % on Sei1lng
tha Secretary Of the senals.
s Drowned Neaman Pound.

tha Secretary Of the SENATE.
DrOwned keaman Found.
Another caucus of the Democratic
members OF the Senate was held yester
day afternoon, which lasted severa1
hours The question of the admission
of the three new Senators was tempo.
rariIy disposed of by the appointment
of committee, consisting Of Messrs
Garlrnd, Jonas and Mcpherson, TO ey-
anime their credentials, and also tC
consider the protest Of the Democratic
members of the New York Legislature
against the admission of Messrs. Lap
ham and Miller. The committee will
report to the caucus this morning. The
caucus also nominated l.. Q. Washing.
tou for Secretary Of the Senate, but did
not decide the question Of an election
to-day.
The French and German guests of the
United States are expected to arrive il
W Ashington, en- route for Yorktown, on
Thursday, the 18th inst. They will be
escorte TO quarters at the Arlington
Hotel ,and will be formally received il
the rotunda Of the Capitol the next day
In the evening PcnEsy lvania avenue
will be illur mated by electric lights
aud there will be a display Of fireworks
On Saturday there will be- an excursion
to Mount Vernon, and in the evening q
reception at Secretary BIaine's. On
Sunday the guests will leave for York
town.
The three Iron Mountain train rob-
bers, now in the penit ntlary at Little
Rock, told reporter yesterday that
their names are Samuel and Thomas
Williams and James Delaney. The
Williamses, aged respectively II AMI
~ year,, are printers, and all three are
from Florida. They were ragged, bare.
footed and out Of money, and they
plundered the train to get funds to gel
married on"
The bodies Of Carleton, first mate ,ant
James Washburn, seaman, Of til
schooner Theulas j. Lancaster, were
found on the beach at Cape Hatteras on
Sunday, and buried there. The body o
the captains missing child was alst
found and buried. The captains wife
who was rescued, is very sick at tn,
station, and the second mate is laid W
there with a broken leg. A surgeon
has been sent from Newbern, North
Carolina, to attend to them.
Mr.. Geggan, through whom Sitting
Balls surrender to Major Bro;herton
at Fort Buford, was effected, is in Win
| 10 a
| "the American authorities nave brCk
EN- faith with Sitting Bull in not wait
ing for thirty families yet III Canadian
territory to join their Chief before his re
moval to the Standing Rock Agency.
The Secretary Of the Treasury an
nounce, thai on aud after the 18th inst
the Treasury Department will redeem
i've millions Of the bonds embraced il
the lU5Jh call, with interest to date o
pay ment The weekly hO,.d purchase
| iu New York viii. be continued ~ here
tofore.
The Supreme Court of the Cnite'
States met yesterday i'll Washington
present, Chief Justice Waite and A.
sociate Justices Miller, Bradley, Hal
Ian, Woous and Matthews. After som
unimportant motions and a few admis
siops to the bar, the Court adjourned t
make the usual call upon the Presi
dent. The docket will bs taken up to
d,y.
By an explosion yesterday afternoon
in Thomas tiraly's shoduy mill, near
Clifton, Dtlaware county. Jne engineer
Robert Mcclure, was Instantly killed
and several employees were injured, on'
of them seriously.
Two children Of Francis Ruchstatte1
perished by the burning of his saloon
and dwelling in Sacramento on sunday
night. Several tiremen were badly
burned in trying to save them. Euch
sta.ter saved his wife and two otLel
children.
The schooner J. W. Vanneman, o
Philadelphia, ice laden, Was sunk b,
striking Goose Rock, while being towe.
down the river froln Bath, Maine, OF
Sunday afternoon.
II is now stated that nearly 800 noul
nations of postmaslers will be sent t.
the L. S. Senate tor confirmation
Most of them are appointments mad
by President Garfield.
Twenty-six Mormon missionaries viii
leave Salt Lake City on the 18th inst.
for Europe, to make converts, chiefly
in England and the Scandinavian coun
| tries.
The next Injecting Of the Board Of Par
dons in Harrisburg has been postponed
in consequence of the Yorktown cele
bration, from the 18th to the 10Th III
slant. a
Judge Folger, Of New York, is men
toned at the Treasury Department as
the most probable successor to Secre-
tary Windom.
Secretaries Blaine, Lincoln and Hunt
and Postmaster General James returned
to Washington yesterday.