The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-02
From Wsghingecn

WARRANTS were issued for the arrest OF
Frank II. Fall, Frederick @. Shaw, Thomas
r. Foote and Arthur Payne, charged with hav-
ing endeavored improperly TO influence jury
men in the recent star route trial. Juryman
Doniphan has sworn that Shaw, who was one
of the original panel and was rejected by the
prosecution, approached him and urged him
vote for the acquittal of ex-senator Dor
sey, promising 5000 or 5000 for his vote.
The surgeon-genoral of the army has sub
mtted his annual report to the secretary of
war. The report shows that during the last
fiscal year there was disbursed on account of
medical and hospital department, $3.50 ,4i9;
on account of artificial limbs, $102,051 on
account Of appliances for disabled soldiers,
$3.50; on account of medical and surgical
history, $i,2SS; on account of museum and
library, $S,715; expended in providing
trusses, $5O57. Among the white troops
the total number of cases of all kinds taken
on the sick list was 34,SS0 being 1,G79 per
one thousand Of mean strength, and among
the colored troops, 1909, or 1910 per one
thousand of mean strength. There were PIG
deaths among the white troops, twenty five
among the colored and nine among the In
dian troops.
LIEUTENANT RAY. of the signal service,
has discovered a river in Alaska apparently
as large as the Missouri.
TIE report of the assessor of tho District
of Columbia showo that the assessed value
of taxable real estate i'll the District on June
30, 1882, was little more than 1872 800, ,000
To this may be added the value of the prop
erty of the United States, which was more
than S5,000,000 on June 80.
HE interior department has decidedin ef-
feet that seven years absence may be taken
as proof presumptive of soldiers death,
and such proof shall warrant the issue of Il
pension to his family, if other requirements
have been complied with. Heretofore pos
tive proof of the soldiers death was re-
Quired, which in many cases it was impos-
sible to produce.
Tue operations of the 5,491 authorized
money order offices of the United States
during the last fiscal year reached the sum
of $1l3,4OO 11S.21 in orders issued, and of
$113, ,3SS, sol. 80 in orders paid and repaid, a
gain in each case OF about eight per cent.
The fees received from the public amounted
to an T.i5 Increase 81 Of ne2ElX 8ips
money orders issued, of the value of $G,536,
5144S and 1I7SS3 such orders paid, amount
ing to s., ,453, 1929; while the total amount
of fees paid by the public was $145, ,G4425, so
that the domestic and international money
orders issued during the year aggregated
| sis, 1886, ,G32.G9, and the orders paid with the
repayments of over $115,000,000.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed George
E. Waring Jr., of Newport, R. l., member
of the National board of health, vice Charles
| T. Folsom, of Massachusetts, resigned.
| SEVEN of the vacancies which viii occur in
the United States Senate on the 4th of Marcl
next have been filled. Three of the Senator
elected are Republican, three Democratic
and one Readjuster. Fourteen more seat
remain to be filled, Of which seven are nov
held by Republicans and seven by Demo
Gratis.
THE promotions in the army consequen
nnnn the retirement of Major General Irvil
Mcdowell have been announced by the Pres
ident as follows: Brigadier-G General JOIN
Pope to be major- general and Colone
Ronald S. Mackenzie, Fourth cavalry, to b.
brigadier-general. General Pope is at pres
ent in command of the Department of Mis-
souri,, with headquarters at Fort Leaven
worth. General Mackenzie is in command
of the district of New Mexico, with head
quarters at Santa Fe.
THE commission appointed to investigat
the tariff question has completed its labors
Altogether the commission Travelled ZOO
miles, held public sessions for about sevent!
days, and heard the statements of between
500 and GOO persons. The printed recor(
will fill about 1000 pages. A dispatch say,
sit is the opinion of persons who have hat
unusually good opportunities for Judging o.
the sentiment of the commission that nc
radical changes in the existing tariff will bt
recommended"