Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-02-11
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
SOteld0's Wound
The Fatal Shot Fired by
His Brother.
BARTON ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FOR
THE EDITOR.
The SENATE READING CLERK.
The Republicans to Sustain
Their Nominee.
BARTON ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT
The SENATE READING CLERK.
The Republicans to Sustain
Their Nominee.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Seriously MISUNDERSTANDING Wound
Pronounced Fatal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l0.-The tragic shoot
ing atfray at the National Republican office
last night is the one topic of talk here to-
day. 1t was one of the most sensational &C.
eurrences that has ever happened in this city,
where passion has SO often taken revenge
into it's own hands. 1t is said that yesterday
after the publication of the article rejecting
on Soteldo, he visited several saloons in COM
pany with a younger brother, like himself q
large and powerful man and passionate in
temper, and both became it is said intoxi-
Gated. During the day they announced to
several acquaintance that they were going
to get even with the Republican, and about 8
o'clock last night they went to the office of
that newspaper, the result of their visit being
the terrible tragedy enacted. Barton's in
juries have been found to be slight, though
his escape was miraculous. Soteldo has for
several years stood among the leading cor
respondents here. He had large acquaint-
ance among public men and was clerk to
the Senate Committee on Railroads, of which
Mr.. Kellogg is chairman. Ee was credited
also with faculty of iudicious speculation
He was man of strikingly handsome ap-
pearance and agreeable manners. DIR. Bliss
completed the examination of Soteldo's wound
just before noon, and stated that he could
not possibly live. The bullet perforated the
vertebrae and caused fatal lesion of the spi-
nal cord DR.. Bliss says that death may en-
sue in ten hours, or the sufferer, on account
of his strong constitution, may live some
days. Soteldo was conscious this morning. A
law officer was at the hospital to take his
ante-mortem statement, but Soteldo said that
he had none to make that he forgave the
man who shot him, and was ready to leave
the world. He asked two of his friends, who
were present, to take his keys, to look after
his papers and care for his family until they
could return to the home of his wife's father
Mr.. Barton, the managing editor of the
Republican,, is resting comfortably, his
wounds having proved not to- be serious.
The shot intended to be fatal that was aimed
at him was diverted by his suspender buckle
and pencil shield The officers of the law
are collecting evidence to ascertain who fired
the shot that is likely to prove fatal. 1t ap-
pears that one barrel of Barton's pistol was
found to be empty. One of SoteIdo's
friends, who was with him this morning,
thinks that the fatal shot came from the
pistol of Charles Soteldo, as the shot was
fired from behind, and Soteldo, in such an
encounter, would never have turned his back
to his antagonist Soteldo's own pistol was
found in his clothing undischarged, and it is
not believed that he drew it.
Mrs. Soteldo, wife of the man shot, is q
daughter of the Hon. W. H Clements, q
we'll known railroad president, and sister
of FL. Clement, one OF the. proprietors of
Congress hall at Saratoga Her father is
now in Florida for his health,
Diseases i'm CattIe-A New Method for In
ocuIatings the Anfma1s-The RepubIi-
can Senators to Sustain Their Nominee
for Reading Clerk.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. - Representative
Smith, of Illinois, lately received a PROPOSE
ton from Paris, France, in reference to the
introduction of Pasteur's method of inoculat-
ing animals for the prevention of such dis
eases as pleuro-pneumonia and hog cholera.
The secretary of the national board of health
replies to inquiries made regarding this mat
ter that the process is public property and
no person has any right to claim it as person
| al. These papers together with responses from
the Agricultural department Mr.. Smith had
referred to the Committee on Agriculture of
the House for further information.
A bill was presented to the committee to
audit expenses attending the illness and bur
| ial of President Garfield by R. S. Jennings,
| inventor of the cooling apparatus SO much
| talked about during the illness of the late
| President. The bill is for $5, ZOO for the use
| of the apparatus and was itemized, the bill OF
| incidental expenses amounting to few hun
| dreds additional
The subcommittee of the Ways and Means
| committee to consider the refunding question
is composed of Messrs. Kelley, ,McKinstry,
Hubbell, Randall and Carlisle.
A caucus of Republican Senators was held
Immediately after the executive session to-
day. A few on that side had looked with ia
vor on the Democratic proposition to elect
Neil S. Brown, late reading clerk of the
House, to like position in the Senate, but
the caucus decided to give the solid party
vote in favor of Mr.. johnson, of Minnesota,
if the other side bring the resolution up
again. The caucus was in session but about
twenty minutes
A naval board, with Rear Admiral Rodgers
as president, met at the Navy department. to-
day to consider the proposition of construct
ing railroad bridge across the Thames river
near the navy yard at New London, Conn.
All the members of the Cabinet except AZ
| torney General Brewster were present at the
meeting to-day. Only routine matters was
discussed. The Attorney General will return
from Philadelphia tomorrow.
The House Committee Banking and
Currency took up the bill introduced in the
House by Representative Marsh Rep., Ill. },
| authorizing the taxation by the States of the
legal tender notes of the United States. The
| bill provides 'that the Treasury notes of the
United States, known as the legal tender
notes. shall be liable to State taxation on an
| equality with gold and silver coin during the
| time they continue to be redeemable in coin
| by the Treasury, and no longer.'' Mr.. Marsh
presented an exhaustive argument in support
of the measure. He thought that all proper
| ty should be liable to State taxation
| Commissioner of Pensions Dudley was be-
fore the subcommittee of the House Com.
mittee on Pensions this morning and present
| ed mass of facts and figures for the use OF
the committee in framing general pension
law for the soldiers of the Mexican and Indi
an wars. He will have further hearing be