San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-05
GENERAL.

Thomas j. Brady, ex-Second Assistant
Postmaster General, testified In his own be-
half in the star-route trial at Washington
He emphatically denied the statements OF
the witnesses Walsh and Rerdell, and claimed
that the business of the Second Assistant
Postmaster Generals office was conducted
by him solely in the interest OF the Govern
ment and the people He protested that he
was innocent of any wrong-doing, and that
Walsh, Rerdell, MacVeagh and James were
perjurers
"A correspondent who visited the scene
of the terrible Diamond mine disaster, near
Braidwood, Ill, telegraphed as follows on
the 18th inst "Since the sad mishap at
the Diamond mine, on the 10th OF Feb
ruary, resulting in the death OF seventy
five men, the weather has been favorable
and the prairie has dried as rapidly rs could
be expected Unfortunately, no ditch or
provision has been made to carry of the
water pumped from the mine, hence the
want of success Only six inches have been
made since Sunday night. One conjecture
is that there is underground water. This is
founded upon the GOODNESS and on the smell
of the water taken from the shaft Another
idea is, and 1t appears to be the most rea-
sonable, that rs the water taken from the
shaft is allowed to spread itself over the
prairie it finds its way back into the mine"
A Nashville Tenn) dispatch says that
Treasurer Folks attorneys have made q
proposition to settle his deficit to the State
"A Washington dispatch says that 3addi-
tional charges against Supervising Architect
Hill have been filed at the Treasury Depart
ment and are now in the hands of Secretary
Folger This matter is said to be assuming
serious shape, and the charges recently filed
are not in the nature of q repetition of old
stories
1t is announced that, for lack of suffi-
cient appropriations, Gen. Hazen has been
compelled to order the discontinuance of
signal reports at q large number of stations
In the Northwest.
A Chicago jury awarded the complainant
81, $40 damages in suit for libel against the
Chicago Herald. About dozen other suits
are pending against the same journal, in each
of which damages amounting to from $4,000
w YU,UNO are CltIulCu
Miss Jeffreys-Lewis, one of the cleverest
actresses ON the American stage, spears at
Mcyicker's Theater, Chicago this week, in
"La Belle Russo" play written for her by
Mr. David Belasco. AS Beatrice, a character
of her own creation, Miss Jeffreys-Lewis has
made an artistic success, presenting piece
of character work that is full of intensity
and feeling, performance Of great strength
and purpose.
-Four Americans have been arrested ut
Panama on suspicion of having been con-
nected with the robbery of $4,000 in gold
from the vault of the Panama Railroad Com
pany.
The star-route trial has been going on
for seventeen weeks, and has cost the
Government already nearly quarter of a
million dollars
Charles Derby, the leper confined in the
Salem (Mass.) almshouse, died
The War Department at Washington oc-
casionally receives petitions for the dis
charge of Sergt Mason, but nothing has yet
been done about it, and the President, so far
as can be learned, has taken no steps toward
the exercise of Executive clemency to re-
lieve him from the eight years imprison,
ment.