The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-03-29

promotion to fill the vacancy.
The civil service commissioners are now
| engaged in the preparation of rules for the
| guidance Of the commission in conducting COM
| petitive examinations. These viii be ready to
be submitted to the President for approval on
| Thursday or Friday. Until they shall have
been thus approved the commissioners decline
to indicate their purport. One of the commits
stones said to-day that in drafting the rules
| they had no precedent for the government of
the commission, which indicates departure
from the rules which governed the old COM
| mission.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the DIST inst, Fred c. Keighley, superin-
/ teBdent of the Youngstown Coke Works, which
! are situated tyoand half miles north OF Union
! town, Pa shot John Kane, q former employee
Of the company, feur times. he died in about
! half an hour. Kane WIS tie leader of the Mol
! lie Maguires, and was one Of the gang of six
arrested last spring for the murder of Maurice
/ Hcalv. at Dunbar, but was released fer want of
/ sufficient evidence, after one of the Others was
/ acquitted. Since then he has been working
] for the aboye-named company. keighley is an
Enelisllnan, 5DJTt tsTT--4aty- six years Of sge,
and IS a young man OF fine character and abil
/ itv. Kane was the leader OF q strike at The
above-naIued works. lie made an assault on
Keislll8y IN the store Of the company, and
would have undoubtedly killed him had not
( Eeighiey been too quick for him. heighley
came to town Immediately and gave himself up.
1 There are ru1nors OF Indian raids in Arizona.
/ S. Z. Jones, c. II. ThoFndyke II. c. Dibble
and Lincoln Nash are reported to have been
killed. 4 dispatch from Tombstone says the
naIauders are supposed 70 have come from the
/ San Carlos agency; bat dispatches received by
the Indian Bureau at Washington from San Car
/ los SAYS the Indians there are perfectly quiet.
The raiders are probably the remnant Of Juh's
I band, who are returning from Mexico Hen
have been killed and women outraged on the
( Mexican side Of the boundary line. Two COM
! panies Of cavalry and one company Of infantry
! have gone IN pursuit of the Cree Indians who
recently made raid into Montana from British
Columbia.
/ A committee Of the Arkansas Senate nearly
! two years ago began an investigation into the
accounts of ex-State Treasurer Churchill, then
! Governor, who had served as treasurer for six
years The committee spent a year on the
accounts and reported a deficit of $4,000.
/ When the Legislature met in January last the
House refused 10 accept the report, saying
4 the law required an investigation by joint
committee On Saturday final report was
made, which charges deficit according to the
face of the books of s233,600.87. The Legisla-
ture will order suit TO be brought for the
recovery of the money.
dispatch from Muskogee, /. T., says: Con
the border of the territory of the Seminole
| Nation Brady Bretney, Eli Perryman, Billy
| Grimmitt and an Indian were engaged i'll q
| game of cards, which finally ended in a free
/ fight, in which the Indian killed Bretney and
Perryman. Grimmitt. who took no active
| part in the fight, was accidentally killed dur
ing the shooting by one of the three The
| next morning two brothers named Nose and
/ Gabriel Marshall. friends of the dead men, fol-
| lowed the Indian who had fed, and, coming
up with him, riddled his body with bullets.
A special from Uniontown, Pa, says that n
| J.. Dukes who killed Capt. Mutt, arrived there
from his stepfathers Sunday night, and on
| Monday morning a committee of citizens
waited on him and presented him with the
resolutions adopted at an indignation meeting
lately held. They also gave him notice that he
would have tweniy-faur hours within which TO
| transact his business and leave the town. If he
! attempts TO remain, it IS thought that there
VIII be trouble.
In consequence of an accident to the hydrau-
| lie apparatus in the Cleveland Rolling Mill
| C0mpany's BeSsemer steel works at Cleveland
Ohio, On the 21st inst, the huge converter, con-
| tanning several tons of melted metal. was over
| turned, spilling its contents into pit of hot
metal. On striking the damp sand itexploded
with violence and scattered widely, fatally
burning Patrick Foley. Another workman
| was so disfgured that he has not yet been iden-
| titled. Several others were badly scslded.
The house of Duncan Dole5, mile north of
| Byers Station, Ohio, was burned on the 10th
| inst. Mr. Doles, who was ninety-eight years
| old, lived alone. His dead body was found IN
! der bed, with rope around the neck. 1t is
thought he was strangled by robbers, who set
| the house on fire. 3 considerable quantity of
gold and silver coin and some melted money
We're found In the ashes. Mr. Doles had large
| amount Of money about the house, and leaves a
large estate.
A dispatch from Halifax says: kilograms
from Rentgille state that there is the greatest
| freshet known for years in the CORVALLIS
! River. The Windsor and Annapolis Railway
/ track is submerged and badly washed out east
Of kentyille Station. A dispateh from Oxford
| Cumberland comfy, says that the greatest
freshets known for years prevail in the rivers
| IN that vicinity. Soine families had to be re-
| moved from their houses in canoes ana on RATS.
In Lake Valley, Col, at daybreak on the 22d
inst Major Fountains command surprised aud
captured Jack Watts and William Gilard, two
notorious - rustlers.'' When the soldiers had
arrived at the camp and while they were un-
saddling their horses. the prisoners made 8
break for liberty. They had gained lead of
200 yards when Fountain ordered his men to
fire, and both the rusiiers fell dead, riddled
with bullets.
/ L snow storm prevailed IN Southwestern
/ Virginia on Monday and in North Carolina. At
points along the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad
the snow was reported TO be ten inches deep,
and trains from the South arrived at Raleigh
three hours late having been delayed by the
snow. At Greensboro the snow was two feet
deep, and at Henderson three feet. The roofs
OF number o. houses have been broken in at
kittrell
En- extensive strike among the cowboys in
the Panhandle Of Texas is progressing, and
trouble is spprehended. They demand an ad-
yanne from $50, their present wages, to $50 per
month, which the stock men refuse to pay
The cew-b boys threaten violence to new men II
they are brought into the ranches. The cattle
owners viii cal upon the State forces to pro-
tect them if their own means fail.
The Fontaine cotton warehouse at Columbus,
Ga, was destroyed by fire on the 22d inst 1t
was owned by Abe Illges and kept by Hatcher
q BTannon. Thirty-four hundred bales of cot
ton and other valuable property were con
suEaed. The Columbus bagging factory had on
storage slI 600 worth OF bagging. The less is
estimated al 100000; insurance ON the build
ing and contents, Sl45,00G.
The Williams sewing machine factory, in the
suburbs of Montreal, the largest establish
Eaent Of the kind ia Canada was burned on
Saturday night. The loss is estimated at be-
tween $20e, O90 and 100000. 1t was built by
q company of which the late Sir Hugh Allen
was president. Two hundred and fifty me-
ehanies are thrown out Of work.
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