The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-29

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The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs Re-
ownership.
WASHINGTON, May 28.-Chief Justice Waite
has rendered a decision in the Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs case, sustaining the
action of Judge Bond, of the United States
Circuit Court in appointing a receiver
for the entire property, with the excep-
ton of two acres of ground located
Immediately between the hotel proper and
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad depot The
estimated value of these two acres is SC, 100. :
000 III is stated that Judge Jackson, of
the United States District Court of
West Virginia who claimed jurisdiction over
the whole property will appoint a receiver
for the excepted two acres if the unsecured
creditors still press their claims in his court
A meeting OF all parties interested will be
held in day or two when, probably, some
compromise will be agreed upon.
Investigating the Supervising Architect.
WASHINGTON, May as-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald in a
long and interesting dispatch to that
paper explaining the necessity for
the pending investigation of affairs
in the Office of the supervising
Architect of the Treasury Department says:
This investigation, which the Secretary of
the Treasury has ordered into the manage
Of tba off of bo. yiSin A rohi-
tect of the Treasury Department recalls the
fact that the office itself. as it is
carried on under the present
management, is one of doubtful
legality, and that in all probability the next
Congress, with large Democratic majority
in the House, will give this so-ealled depart
paent of the government such an investiga-
ton as may resultin saving the large sums
now annually frittered away upon the con-
structon of public buildings
Adjusting the Northern Pacific Land Grant.
WASHINGTON May 28.-Seeretary Teller in
structed the Commissioner General of the
Land Office to direct officers Of local land
offices along the line OF the Northern Pacific
railroad to accept selections of land within the
indemnity limits of the grant to that com.
pany, and to note the same upon the books,
when such selections are free from conflict,
without requiring the company to furnish
lists of lands lost in their place This order
is to facilitate the adjustment of the grant
and to carry out the recent decision of the
Secretary requiring prompt action on the
part of the company in order that lands not
needed for the purposes of the grant may be
restored for settlement at an early day.
The President and the Colored Convention.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-Frederick Douglass
furnishes an emphatic denial of the published
statement that he received suggestion from
President Arthur as to the time and place
of holding the proposed colored convention.
Mr.. Douglass says neither he nor any one
connected with the convention has had any
conversation with the President or the sub,
iect