Daily Republican., 1883-07-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
More Indian TrOuDles-Legaa Rail
road ChartePs-B Buffalo Ssenger.
fest,

| fest.
A telegram from Tucson, Arizona,
says that the Mexican Consul there ha
received a letter from the frontier datet
the l4th inst, stating that sat OF
near the place where General Crook
left the hostiles in the district of Monte
yuma, they attacked Mexican set
tlement, and killed five persons. A de-
tachment of Mexican infantry pursued
the savages, but found then in toe
strong a force, and were repulsed with
the loss of seven soldiers
The Saengerfest in Buffalo closed yes.
terday with grand parade of the 90.
cieties in the morning, and an outdoor
festival in the evening. ABOUT 800 per.
sons attended the festival. During the
Saengerfest the receipts from the sale OF
seats were S27 $50, and the expenses for
singers, and hotel and railroad expendi.
lures amounted to $22, l45. 1t is hoped
that not more than % per cent. of the
guarantee fund will be- called for to
meet deficiency.
Three more Intellectual ballots for U.
S. Senator were had yesterday in the
New Hampshire Legislature. The last
stood: Il. Durkee, Frederick Smyth,
W. s. Ladd b. F. Prescott and G. H.
Burns. each ; d. Barnard, u. H.
Gallinger, 3; G. II. Bell, 4 II. f..
Burnham, q; A. f. Stevens, II j. w.
Patterson, "a Gilman Marston. 20 : M.
W. Tappan. 32 w. f. Chandler, "a ;
Harry Bingham, 40. Necessary to a
choice, l53.
Francis Adams, Corporation Counsel
in Chicago yesterday presented to the
Committee Of the City Council an opin
ion on the question whether charters
originally granted twenty. five years to
city railway companies by the State
Legislature to run twenty-five years re-
mained valid, or were superseded by a
subsequent act extending the franchises
to niiety-Dine years. He holds that
the extension is valid.
A telegram from Selma, Alabama,
says the cotton caterpillar has appeared
throughout that section, and an exami.
nation of the crop near that city shows
the top leaves to be badly riddled. The
crop is three weeks late, and the ap.
pearance of these pests make the pros
pect gloomy.
Daniel S. Francis, formerly proprie-
tor Of the Spirit of Berks newspaper,
committed suicide yesterday in Read
ing by shooting himself. III health
and pecuniary trouble are supposed
to have caused the act. He was 55 years
Of age.
In the Criminal Court at Washington
yesterday the motion to quash the in
dictment in the case of ex-senator
Kellogg was postponed until Monday,
Mr.. Shellbarger not being yet able to
appear.
Swayne, who was arrested in Nash
vile for the stealing Of the ledger
needed in the Polk trial, has confessed
that he took it at the instiga ion of
Polk, and received Sl75 for the deed.
General James A. Ekin, of he Quar-
termaster's Department, stationed at
Louisville, will be retired about the
end of August. 1t is thought he will
be succeeded by General Rufus Saxton.
John G. McCallum, of San Francisco,
was yesterday appointed agent of the
Indians of the Mission Agency in Cali
fornia to succeed Samuel Lawson, re-
signed.
N. w. Wilkinson, a farmer of Lincoln
County, Missouri, was shot dead by an
unknown assassin while asleep in his
house last Tuesday night.
1t is estimated in Washington that
about $500, 900, 600 of our national debt
or less than 20 per cent.-is held in
Europe.