The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-08
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
A $4,000 Open Safe Rob
berry.
Spencer Before Springer's
Committee.
Why thu Ex-senator Loft the
Country
Investigating Congressional
Proceedings.
MISCELLANEOUS. ETC., ETC.
MISCELLANEOUS. ETC., ETC.

Dies MONIES, Iowa, March GA
call for q Republican State Conven-
ton to be held at Des Moines, on
April 3Oth, was issued to-day. The
call says the districts have the OPP
ton TO elect delegates by district
conventions or by district sub-di-
vision Of the State convention, and
recommends the latter plan to the
end that the State convention may
be more largely attended and 50 get q
fuller party convention for confer
ence and counsel. The State conven-
ton will be composed of 9l7 dele
gates.
NEW ORLEANS, March 6.-The
Republican State Convention met to-
dav and organized aad adoped a reso-
luton at the evening session to report
a committee on permanent organiza-
ton as follows: w B. Kellogg,
president; P. B. S. Pinchbeck, vice
president; VIM. Vigers, Secretary.
Kellogg not being present Pinchbeck
took the chair. A resolution was
adopted naming W.: P. Kellogg, z.
B. S. Pinchback, A. S. BADGER and
A. J. Dumont, delegates for the
State at large to the Republican
| State Convention. The Convention
then took q recess till noon tO-mor-
| row. In the meantime the delegates
from the various districts will select
their delegates to the National Con-
ventiOn. Tits believed that Louisi-
n will send a solid Arthur delega.
ton to Chicago.
WASHINGTON, March Gan inn
portant but secret meeting of the
Union League vas held in the Ebbitt
House. 1t is understood the subject
considered was Bourbonism aud the
alleged misrule at the South and
measures were cOnc0cted to aid in
s%uppressing lawlessness in that part
of the country. The committee will
submit q report to the National
Council which meets in annual SEES
sion in this city tomorrow.
CHICAGO, March Cit is learned
that a private meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Western Ex-
port Association to control all the dis
ulleries in the west, was held here to-
day, at which it "a understood q de-
cision vas reached to reduce the pro-
duction of whisky ten per cent. be-
low the present basis, after May 1st.
The committee, which had returned
from Cincinnati, reported that the
distillers there had suffeIed to the ex-
tent of So, 600 and it was decided to
levy a tax of five cents per bushel on
the capacity Of the members for the
purpose of making these losses good.
WASHINGTON, March Con the
last Wednesday in June James said
that with Att 'rneys Cook and Wood |
ward he called OIL Garfield at the |
White House and found Senator
Dorsey and Colonel Ingersoll In con-
%versatlon with him. Cook explained
what bad been agreed upon by Glib
son and himself. The President sux-
gested that they were too slow; that
they should be more earnest in their
work. and that they should have the |
accused parties indicted and tried. |
Cook promised that no time should
oe lost.
Toward the close of August at a
meeting held at the house Of the At
torney Gederal, at which Woodward, |
Cook and Gibson were present, the
question of employing counsel
was discussed. Tie encouragement
said he had concluded to retail
Brewster and that he would retain
any other person whom James would
suggest. James asked that the Hon.
George Bliss. ex-attorney for the
southern district of New York, be
retained, which was done.
In conclusion witness said; II de-
sire to say to the committee that I
avail myself of the opportuni-
ty afforded by their summons to pre-
sent to them and to the public this
of the essential facts of nv
connection with the star route pro-
ceedings. I deem it essential to the
truth of history and only justice to
the late President Garfield His con-
duct in the whole of the affair was
honorable and courageous in
! high degree and was. in
'pired by lofty sense of the duties
If his office If he had taken a lower
of his obligations as chief maels-
and as an honest man, 1t is my
'elief he would not have fallen q
victim to the assassin's bullet"
Governor Stewart, a member of
ne committee said: "Your belief.
James, is that the assassination
II Garfield was in consequence OF the
star Route matters ?"
IL won't say that" replied the ,
glntess, y! mean, judging from the ,
iamor Of the people and the
lippings found in the assassin,s .
that Guiteau's head was ,
urned by these things.D ,
Ex:Attorney General MacVeagh {
estlf1ed at length concerning the :
tar Route frauds, corroboratine the !
estlmony of James in its main fea- ,
lres. :
CHICAGO, March Elm response G
an Associated Press reporter ask q
1g 1t 1t was true that Manager AIli- q
IN desired to secure Fanny Daven. q
ort to play, Fedora" in Australia. @
nd whether In that event she would l
.pear In San Francisco, Fanny Dav. {
nport replied, II can only saw that Z
offer, in fact, several offers have '
made me to appear in California q
coming spring, but I have been q
ol'ged to decline on account of east a
n engagements. As for Australia. 8
Is a long way of, and it requires too r
UGH deliberation to give an answer q
] the spur Of the moment" p
NEW YORK, March 6.-.Arthur d
udley Vinton, Ia Y partner of Perry v
elmont, Vas arraigned in the police
to-day on q charge of perjury
'eferred by Erastus s.. Ransom. =
rmer law partner of President AZ. :.
Iur. The arrest grew out of q long Il
.ndinp litigation between the par "
over q check for 500 given by q
to the complainant in pay. 1s
ent for a loan, and which was e "
sed when presented for payment. "
Martin Degnan, superintendent of p!
e State Arm"ries, and Joseph J. ST
crow, an employee Of Thomas Dob p'
n, of Newburg, N. Y. are arrested o,
a charge of defrauding the State
. OF large sums. of money. Both
ro1ouonA nm hail