The National tribune., 1884-04-03
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Capital TopicS--Crimes and Casualties.
Personal and Political.

for the construction OF naval vessels. lie ad- |
vises that appropriations be made at the pres |
ent session toward designing and commencing |
the construction of at least the three additional
steel cruisers and the four gunboats recon-
mended by the Secretary of the Navy, the cost /.
ofwhich, including their armament, will not ex-
coed 81, 2S3, 000 Healso recommends immediate |
appropriations Tor finishing the four double
turret monitors the Puritan, Amphitrite Ter
ror and Monadnock, and for procuring their
armament and that of the Miantonomah. The
total amount appropriated up to this time for
the four vessels is 3d. $40, Al. sum not ex
ceeding So, S3S, 1882 viii, the President says,
complete and equip them for service. OF the
sum required only $2,000,0O0, he thinks, need
be appropriated for the next fiscal year.
Representative McCoid, of Iowa, has prepared
joint resolution, to be introduced as soon as
possible providing for the appointment by the
President, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, of commission to consist of seventy
six persons, two from each State of different
parties for the purpose of considering and pro-
posing to the several States the propriety OF
calling a convention by at least two-thlTds OF
the States TO propose amendments to the Con-
stitution The members of the commission
to be called together by proclamation of the
President after their appointment. They are
TO sit not exceeding thirty days, at such time
and place as he may designate, and are to re-
ceive the same pay and emoluments pro ratio
as members of Congress. The convention
should it be called by the States is to meet July
4, 1887.
AT meeting of the House Committee on
labor on the Goth ult., Representative James
was unanimously instructed to favorably re-
port bill providing that it shall be unlawful
for any person in the employ of the United
| States or of any State TO contract with any one
| TO hire out the labor of prisoners confined in
/ any prison or Jail for violation of any laws of
the United States. Violation of the act is made
a misdemeanor, punishable by fine OF from
$500 to $1,000, or imprisonment from one to
| three years. The contract system, the report
says, is wholly averse to reform.
Members of the New Mexico Legislature have
sent TO Congress memorial charging that
| 4,000,0 900 acres of land in New Mexico and Colo
RADIO have been unlawfully converted 10 private
use, and charging corruption in the matter
against the General Land Office. Among those
mentioned in the memorial as having unlaw
| fully taken up lands are Martin Andrews, a
relative of ex-President Hayes, ex-Senators
| Chaffee and Chicott, of Colorado, and ex-Dele-
gate Elkins, of New Mexico.
The Secretary of the Navy has received
dispatch stating that the arctic steamer Alert
| sailed from GraveSend on the 29th ult for New
| York, commanded by Lieutenant Commander
! Goodrich. She is expected TO arrive between
| the both and 25th of April. She was put in
| such thorough condition before sailing that
| after receiving her supplies at New York she
| will be prepared to sail on the Greedy search
expedition. unless she is damaged by her TIP
| across
| The President sent to the Senate on the 26th
| ult. the nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, of
! California, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Germany. to be envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
| Russia, vice VIM. III. Hunt, deceased. The
nomination was promptly confirmed. Mr..
Sargent has since declined the appointment,
however, and rendered his resignation as min
lister to Germany on the ground of i'll health.
It is estimated that the reduction of the pub
lie debt for the month of March viii be about
SI4, $4,000.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The cyclone of the 18th ult in the vicinity
of London, KY, was the most violent ever
| known In that section. At Pittsburg, KY,
John Mailman, Mrs. Br0ughton and two little
children were killed, and Col. C. w. Stringer,
Mrs. Stringer, Robert Rulings, Miss Sallie Golf
and James Warren were fatally injured. Over
100 families are left homeless. The storm in
Anderson county, S. c., on the same day. fa-
tally injured three children of Mr. Watson.
near Piedmont A destructive cyclone visited
Newton and Lenoir, n. c., also on the 25th.
at Newton thirty houses were blown down.
Mary Hunsucker was killed, and fourteen
other persons were injured At Lenoir six
persons are reported to have been killed. In
Mecklenburg five six residences were de-
stroyed. There was also cyclone at Gaines
vile, Ga, accompanied by hail. Many houses
were leyeled, and three lives are reported TO
have been lost The village of Scipio Ohio,
was wiped out by the tornado. Only two
houses were left standing, aud they were
badly damaged. Rev. Joseph Winston was
killed.
o. w. Sample, Dan Dowd. William DeIane,
Dan Kelley and James Howard were hanged
at Tombstone, Arizona, on the 25th ult., for
the Bisbee murders. The five bandits march
ed up the steps of the scaffold without finch
ing and all declared their innocence. Heath
who was lynched on February %, was, they
stated, also innocent. Over 1000 persons Wis
tied the execution. A large balcony had been
erected outside of and overlooking the Jail yard
: the builder intending to charge dollar and a.
half admission. The mob became indignant
and tore the balcony down. In the row that
! followed seven persons were injured. The
balcony would have seated 500 persons.
!. The nitro-glycerine house of the Repauno
Chemical Works, at Thompsons Point NJ J .
! exploded at 1870 o'clock on the morning of the
29th ult. The six occupants of the building
; were seen to rush for the door, and were
) jammed in the passage when the explosion
occurred. They were instantly killed, theiI
bones DeiDg broken ana rWlSteu and thell
heads crushed in frightful manner Moth
ing remains of the building, which was a two
story frame structure An excavation sufi
5 Glen to bury good-sized house was made il
: the ground where the building stood an6
|, houses for half mile around were badly shat
J tered.
A daring attempt TO rob J. G. James bank a
> Wichita Falls, Texas was made on the after
noon of the 26th ult. by Charles e. Bagley
> Wiley Hayes. Frank Parmenter, and JohI
Kinkaid, a Texas ranger, the last named act
ing with the robbers for the purpose of trap
ping them. The proprietor of the bank hae
been notified of the intended robbery, an.
preparations had been made for the reception
OF the desperadoes. After a lively skirmish, il
n which Bagley was killed, Parmenter captured
t and Hayes escaped, the bank officers rename,
b masters of the field.
4 The United States grand jury at Boston
d Mass, on the 25th ult., reported that indict
: ments alleging conspiracy against the Govern
9 ment to obtain pensions by fraud had beel
u found against Azel Ames Jr., and Charles Z
a Niles, Anes and William j. Mansfield, Anne
: and John Wall; also, seperate indictment
y against Ames, Mansfield, Wall, Frederick L
n Abbott, and A. L. Brown, for violating the pen
:, sion laws. Dexter A. Hall was indicted 70
!; holding a pension certificate as collatera
]; security.
: On the 21st ult. a man named Herold opene,
= saloon in Canton, Kan, in defiance Of TIL
law. On Monday he got into row with ON