St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-17
News Of the Week.
Washington Matters.

Rather than refund $50 uniustly ia
ken from New Hampshire man fOI
duties on pair of steers, Congress
spent about $1,000 and finally voted to
repay the sum demanded.
The Army of the Cumberland
through Postmaster General Howe, has
appealed to postmasters throughout
the United States for contributions to-
ward the Garfield monument.
w. w. Ball is would-be delegate
to congress from Alaska, but there isn't
much prospect that he will he admitted
An effort is being made to effect the
termination of the treaty with the
kingdom of Hawaii. In spite of the
resolutions passed in New York indoors
ing the movement, there has been de
velOped no element in Congress that il
known so far which favors such action
on the part of this government except
from Louisiana. Here, the question OF
sugar protection being vital to the
leading industry of the state, the con
gressmen from this part of the country
are unanimous in its favor.
The Huntington oil portrait of Mrs
Hayes, full length, which was sent tC
Paris to be engraved by the Women,
Temperance Union, has been again re-
ceived at the White House. Accom-
panying the picture there came "A mas
sive and magnificent oak frame for it
This frame is the work of the Cincin-
matt school of design, and is beautifully
carved.
An effort is being made to classify
the salaries of railway postal clerks
whose pay, it is believed, is not AIDE
quate to their labor and the risk run
Eight hundred subjects, mostly of q
trivial character, have been referred
to the military committee.
1t is now considered possible fol
Congress to adjourn by the middle OF
July.
The subcommittee of the House
committee on territories has agreed
unanimously upon a bill to provide fol
the admission as state of all that part
of Dakota territory south of the forty.
sixth parallel.
The Democratic party is not a unit
on the financial and tariff questions
The tariff commission bill is opposed
ny HpillN vi lllN On lllt HGOllnt
that it is unconstitutional, inasmucl
as it proposes to take from the hand,
of Congressman the work for which
they are by the Constitution held re
spOnsible.
A bill to reduce tax on distilled
spirits has just been introduced i'll Con
gress, which, if it passes, will reduce
the revenue some S27 900, 900 over til,
figures of last year. OF course this bill
has the support of the United Distill
ers' Association.
Tragedy at Washington.
A. NJ. SOteldO, clerk of the railroad
committee of the Senate, and an ole
newspaper correspondent, was fatally
shot i'll the editorial room of the Wash
ingtOn Republican, on Thursday night
1t seems that some weeks ago the Re
publican had published an article which
greatly annoyed SOteldo and hi,
friends, connecting him with a fight al
a disreputable house and otherwise re
flecting Oh his character. On Thurs
day night SOteldO entered the Repub
lican office with "A manuscript article oi
which he demanded the publication
| Clarence Barton, the managing editor
referred him to the editor-in-c chief
when SOteldo tried to clutch Barton by
the throat. Barton resisted, revolvers
were drawn on both sides, and in the
scutfle SOteldo was fatally shot anC
Barton received slight wounds. 1t wa.
not at first certain from whose pistO
the fatal shot came whether from
BartOn's, or whether, as is alleged by
some witnesses to the affair, it cam,
from a pistol in the hands of SOteldo'.
brother, which was aimed at Barton
but struck SOteldO instead. Indica
tons however seem to point to A. C.
SOteldO as the one who fired the fata
| shot, and he has been arraigned on the
charge of assault and battery with in.
tent to kill his brother. At an autop.
sy on SOteldo's remains the weight oi
tn t outlet was found to be e. grains
The bullet that wounded Mr.. Barton