The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
IMPORTANT EVENTS
ceIIated and Compiled From all Quarters.
AT WASHINGTON,
Redaefien OF . Number OF Signal Service

Reaaetisn OF - Number OF signal Service
Stations.
Congress having reduced the appropria-
tions for the next fiscal year, the immediate
discontinuance of the following named
stations is made necessary and ordered:
Eagle Pass, Texas; Eagle Rock, Idaho;
Keogh Fort, Montana; Missoula Fort, Mon
tana; Phoebe, Nevada; Punta Rossa, Fla. !;
Rochester, N. Y; San Antonio, Texas;
Satafe, N. NJ; Springfield, Mo-; Tucson,
Arizona; Visalia, CAL; Washalrie Fort,
Wyoming; Winnemucca, Nevada. San
dusky, Ohio, is re-established as a station
of the first class. The following named
stations of the third class will hereafter be
maintained as stations of the first class:
Custer Fort, Montana; Rio Grande City,
Texas.
The Star-route Trial Ends with . Verdict
Of Not Guilty.
A verdict of not guilty was rendered by
the jury in the Star-route cases on the 18th,
and the noted trial ended. There was uni
xersal astonishment at the verdict, as the
belief prevailed that the jury would disa-
gree. Relatives and friends of the defend
ants received the verdict with demonstra-
tions of joy, and the large crowd which had
assembled outside the courtroom applaud
ed the jurors as they passed out. Counsel
for the Government will move that Rerdell's
plea of guilty be set aside, and he be re-
leased. Ex-senator Kellogg and General
Brady will be called upon to plead to the
indictments in their cases, but they will not
be brought to trial until autumn. The cost
to the Government of the Star-route trials
just finished will be in the neighborhood Of
half million dollars. Besides special at
torneys, whose fees alone amount to nearly
s150, 900, there were employed special agents
and detectives, together with a large cleri-
cal force, while the cost of securing the at
tendance of witnesses was great.
Notes.
The Secretary of War has directed the
troops detailed, to escort to their homes the
insurgent Greek Indians, now held as pris-
oners at Fort Gibson.
IN THE section Of the country comprising
Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and
Dakota the cost of the Star Mail Service
during the year ending June, 1882, was
S505, ,082, the mileage being 6,S03,07S. The
cost of the service for the year ending
June, 1888, was $685., ,066, and the mileage
1906, ,T07, showing that there has been a re-
duction in the cost of the service the past
year Sof about $4,000, while the mileage
has increased nearly million.
THE President has appointed L. D. CALI
gan, of Pennsylvania, United States Con-
sui at Novorossisk, Russia.
IT is rumored at Washington that Attor-
ney General Brewster is soon to resign his
position in the Cabinet.
SECRETARY TELLER on the 14th paid
Chief Bushy Head, of Cherokee Indians,
the 100000 appropriated by Congress for
the lands ceded the United States by the
Cherokee Nation. The money will be dis
tributed only among the Cherokees and
their descendants, in accordance with the
decision Of the Cherokee Council.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has given
notice that exchanges of continued three
and one-half per cent. bonds into three per
cents will not be made during July next,
the books of those two loans being then
closed for preparation for the August 1st
dividend. Continued bonds received for
exchange during July will be exchanged
upon reopening the books August 1st, in
terest at 3K per cent. remaining to that
data