The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-16
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commissioner Of railroads; Fred A. Trittle, Of
Nevada, to be governor of Arizona.
THE secretary of the treasury has sent 10 the
House Of Representatives a report from tho
controller in response TO Representative
BuolInor's resolution in regard to tho
national banks From July / TO Docom-
Der 81, 1881, sixty-seven new national banks
we're organized-fve of them in Dakota.
The charters of 800 aational banks will expire
between this timo and the expiration of tho
Forty-seventh Congress- March 8, 1854, and of
these the charters of 2s2 will expire on the
same day, February 25, 1888
THE House committee on postofiices agreed
to report favorably the bill establishing postal
savings banks.
The House committee on ways and means
agreed to report bill providing for the ap-
pointment Of q commission of nine on tariff re-
vision.
In September, 1871, five whalers were In tie
Arctic ocean, just beginning the work of the
season. About sixty milrs further north lay
thiry-two American whaling vessels shut iu
by the ice and abandoned. The crews num-
bercd 200 persons, and they had not sufficient
food or clothing with which to pass the winter
in the ice. The thirty-two masters called upon
the outside vessels, in the name of humanity;
to abandon their whaling and take them to
come civilized port, feeling assured, they said,
that our government would make ample COM
pensation for all losses. The whalers carried
the shipwrecked sailors to Honolulu, receiving
| s35 passage money for each person from the
government. The House committee on claims
now recommends that 1000 be paid to the
owners of each of the five vessels.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has, in a special message
| 10 Congress- transmitted communication from
Secretary Kirkwood inclosing letters from
| Acting Governor Gosper, of Arizona, in relation
| 10 the lawlessness existing in that Territory.
| The President calls attention to the recon-
| mendation in his annual message at the open
| ing of Congress, that the posse comitatus act
| be amended or modified so as to permit the use
| of the military to assist the civil authorities in
| the Territories to maintain order, and suggests
| again that such legislation seems to be re-
| quired.
| COLONEL SEAToN, superintendent of the CEN
| .us, thinks that it will require from eight to
twelve months to complete the work of his
bureau. The printed reports will embrace
about 20, 900 pages.
An afray in tho editorial room Of the Wash
ington National Republican between Clarence
Barton, managing editor, and A. NJ. Soteldo,
clerk of Senate committee and formerly
connected with the paper, resulted in the seri-
Gus wounding of both men, several shots hav-
ing been fired. There had been feud between
the two men, dating back to Soteldo's connec-
tion with the paper, and the Republican had OF
late contained several attacks on Soteldo. The
last named and his brother Charles entered the
editorial room of the journal and presented a
paper, which they requested Barton to read. In
{, few minutes shots were heard, and when the
other employees rushed into the room they
found Charles Soteldo struggling with Barton,
who had been shot twice, while the elder So
teldo lay dying on the floor with bullet hole
in his neck.
THE House committee on the judiciary agreed
10 the general features of Representative Shal
,enbarger's bill to prohibit polygamists from
holding offices of trust in the United States
and referred it to a subcommittee with in
structions to prepare substitute.
The President has pardohed Evan Rice, VIII
was serving out five years term Of simprson
ment in the New Castle (Del.) jail. Rice wa
formerly cashier in the Wilmington and Brandy
wine bank of Wilmington, and a. defalcatiol
of $50, 900 was discovered against him. Hi
sureties made up 10000 of the defalcatcn.
THE House subcommittee on Territories has
agreed unanimously upon bill to provide fo
the admission as State of all that part of Da
kota Territory south of the forty-siLth parallel
CONGRESSMAN ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS gave
dinner the other night to the Georgia con
gressional delegation, tho occasion being hi
seventieth birthday. Later in the evening h
held an informal reception and was visited b.
many members OF Congress AMI other friends
A. NJ SoTELDo, who died from the effects q
= the pistol wound received during the struggl
with Managing Editor Barton in the oflica O
the Republican, WAS native of Venezucls
. thirty-three years old, and well known TO Ne,
u York journalism. The coroner's autopsy Shove
= tllat the bullets by which Mr.. Sotello had bee
u killed and which had wounded Mr.. Barto
:, came from the came pistol. This fact seem
to establish beyond doubt that A. G. Sotell
t shot his brother while firing at Mr.. Barton.