, 1881-06-03

Billy lie Roy and Sam Patter, two noted
desperadoes were lynched at Del Monte.
Colorado, Oh the sd.
Advices from Turks Island to the 10th,
represent that Il strong body of Domini-
can and iaytien revolutionists there are
. well supplied with Remington rifles and
all kinds of ammunition. 1t is supposed
that they intend hostilities against San
Domingo.
Ground was Lroken on the 23d on the
Black Hills and Custer City railroad.
The road will run from Deadwood to
Custer with branch 10 Rapid City, total
distance about 20 miles. 1t is built by
the Homestead Mining Company, princ.
pally TO furnish timbers and fuel for their
mines and mill.
While Sells Bros circus was performing
at milwaukee,, Wis. Oh the 23d in an act
where Butler shoots a pistol from the
head of Baughman, Butler missed his
mark and the bullet struck Baughman in
the head just above the right eyebrow.
The ball penetrated the bone, but the
wound Is not necessarily fatal.
a shooting afIray occurred in Pickens
county, 5. c., between Revenue Officers
Gray and Looper and two Illicit distillers,
named Alexander, father and son. Alex
ander, the son, ran out of his house, both
NCO4o vi IlliII "tIc DS REVENUE
officers, and fred pistol at Looper, who
returned il With shotgun, infiiCting very
serious and perhaps fatal wounds on Al
eXander. The officers destroyed one
eigh:y-sjx gallon still and about 100 gal
Ions of mash and beer.
The New York News says: Conkling's
friends, such as John +. Smythe, say that
he can be reelected without great diff
Guilty, but that it will be impossible to
elect Platt again: They urge the senator
to become candidate again with JuC ge
Folger or some one not closely identified
with the machine. Conkling, however,
has decided not To be candidate under
any circumstances unless Platt can be
elected with him. This being impossible
it may be set down as settled that neither
one will be a candidate.
On Friday night last the Western Un-
ION Telegraph Company received from
New York direct for the Chicago news
papers alone, 100. .436 words of special dis
patches, 99,65S of which were parts of the
revised New Testament. As no previous
notice of this extra work had been given
the telegraph company, and as 1t was IN
addition to their regC lar press and Ordi-
nary business messages, the feat is unpar-
aileled in the annals of telegraphy, and
but for the combined resources of the
three former companies now under one
management, would have been an impos-
sibility. Twenty one direct circuits with
New York were in use and the time con-
sumed less than seven hours.
The New York Telegram prints the
following sensational story under date of
Paris the 23d on the strength of a letter
from st. Petersburg: This morning the
Intrausegeante announces that at O'Clock
on the morning of the 10th inst, Just four
days after the birth of her child. Hessy
Helfmann, who everybody supposed 10
be alive and awaiting the pleasure of
Alexander, was hanged in prison. 1t is
said that she had been tortured daily i'll
the most tieudish manner to wiring con-
fession from her. Night after night she
was awakened and warned that her hour
was near. For several days in succession
she was literally strung up and cut down
only just in time to prevent expiring. On
the morning of the 10th the hanging pro-
cess is said 10 have lasted Il little too long,
and when Hess" was cut down it was
discovered that she was strangled to death.
The lntransigeante adds that Indignation
and excitement Ill st. Petersburg are I'M
mense. Troops are forbidden TO leave
| their barracks on any pretenSe and Il rev
olutIonary movement seems TO be antlcl-
patcd.
y. Times continues the exposure of the
star route service as conducted by late
Assistant Postmaster General Brady:
Route No. SO, 1866, from Georgetown to
nOkomo, Colorado, distgnce IA miles, ser
vice seven times per week from May to
November was awarded to James Step
henson, of Omaha, for Sl040. Stephen
son offered to continue the service during
the winter months, but was not allowed
the opportunity To do so. The number OF
the route was changed, and without no.
tice Stephenson's service was arbitrarily
given to James Il. Colgrove for Sl4,760.
Route from Ozark to Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, eighty miles, six times per
week, was let to John Cross, friend of
Senator Dorsey. without competition, Tor
Sl4 400 per year. The route was snbse-
quenGly let by contract to John \. Miller
of Springfield, Mississippi, for S4SOO, Cross
making a bid of S4l $40. A number of
similar instances ar given by the Times
correspondent.
Investigation of the accounts and con-
duct of q. l.. Pitney, custodian of the
treasury department, ordered by Secretary
Window, is developing ugly facts and in
volVing persons who have held high
places Pitney'S business Is to buy every
thing needed in the treasury, including
furniture, carpets, soap, etc. 1t Is aScer-
tanned that he has for sIN years violated
the law requiring them to purchase 10y
contract from the lowest bidders. lie
has bought from mis- friends and fIVOTItcs
without making contracts, paying them
whatever they charged. No system OF
books or vouchers have been kept, and
everything has been run loosely and
without business rules. OutrageOusly eX-
orbitant prices have been paid, ranging
from 80 To 10 per cent. higher than the
ruling market prices, and the difference
between the market prices and those
paid have been allowed 10 PItney IN WAY
| of goods for his own use. One fPItneys
cabinet makers says that lac has been
working for outside parties nearly all the
time for several years back, getting pay
from the government. lie worked a
mofth in the house of Il high government
official and frequently went from one
house 10 another OF persons IN govern
meut employ, doing whatever they
wanted, and The money paid Tor ms ser
vices was charged round TO different gov
ernment bureaus lie made fifteen fac
SMILES of desks used by Jefferson IN writ
ing the declaration Of independence, each
costing sixty dollars. The materials We're
paid for from government money, but
given out AT present by the treasury gu-
thorities TO friends Treasury furniture
has been loaned To private individual,
and the facts Indicate that there wa- a
regular ring oftreasuTy subordlnates who
benefited by frauds like the above and by
7 rock less mauappmput lItley has huIlt