The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-05-01
PITH OF THE NEWS,
Capital Topics Crimes and Casualties.
Personal and Political.

ignation to the Secretary of the Treasury, to
take effect May 3D. and asked that he be
granted leave of absence till that date. The
resignation was accepted, and Mr. Daskam,
chief of the public moneys division, designated
to act as chief clerk until an appointment is
made Mr.. Theodore L. SwayZe, of New Jer
sey, at present assistant superintendent of the
Treasury building, has been selected as Mr..
Webster's successor. Secretary Folger on the
same day appointed Mr.. G. S. Trevitt, of New
York, to be chief of the appointment division
of the Treasury Department vice MIR. James b.
Butler resigned. Mr. Trevitt is at present
assistant chief of the division, and has been
acting as chief for several weeks past. Mr.. ID.
S. Kellett, fourth-class clerk in the appoint
ment division, has been promoted to be assist
ant chief vice Mr.. Treyitt promoted.
The Senate Committee on Railroads on the
oath ult. agreed to report the bill to establish
a commission to regulate interstate commerce
1t creates commission of five members with
authority to supervise all matters pertaining
to the regulation of commerce among the sew
eral States and Territories, and the methods of
operation of all transportation companies en-
gagged in interstate commerce. to require annual
reports from such railroad companies and to
investigate charges of discrimination and ex-
tortiOn.
Representative Morrill, was instructed by the
House Committee on Invalid Pensions on the
18th ult. to report favorably his bill providing
for an increase of pensions to soldiers and sail
ors who, while in service, lost one hand and
one foot, or who were totally and permanently
disabled in both. The increase is from $36 to
$4S per month.
General Adam Badeau, who recently resign
ed the office of Consul General at Havana, has
written letter to the New York Tribune in
which he charges the State Department with
persIstently screening corruption and at the
same time negotiating an improper treaty with
SPAIN"
Mr. J. G. Burrows of Michigan, who was
recently nominated and confirmed as solicitor
of the Treasury, but who had not qualified, has
written to the President, formally declinin G
the Office.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
About five o'clock on the afternoon of the
28th ult a cyclone passed over the southern
part of Montgomery and Greene counties, Ohio
devastating everything in its course. Its path
was fully one-eighth of mile wide, the storm
moving over the country like an immense
cloud of smoke, while everywhere in its course
the air was filed with trees and the ruins of
houses. Forests were moved down like weeds
fences destroyed for miles, and it is estimated
that in Montgomery county alone at least
twenty residences are in ruins, to say nothing
OF the loss on other buildings, live stock and
AlcNaHucToV1lie,
miles from Dayton. several persons were injured
| and one lady is reported to have been killed
Near Woodburn several residences were de-
stroyed and ten farm hands are reported miss
ing. child was also caught in the cyclone
carried two hundred and fifty yards, and
dropped to the earth slightly injured At
Bellbrooke, Greene county, at least fifteen
farm houses were more or less damaged, but
the occupants generally escaped by taking
refuge in cellars. jamestown, a thriving vii
lage of 600 inhabitants, it is reported, was
entirely destroyed, only few buildings being
LETT standing. Six persons are known to have
been killed, while twenty were more or less
injured. The Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home, Xenia, was badly damaged, and the
barn, laundry and other buildings were de-
stroyed. The hospital and other structures
were unroofed. Miss Harvey, matron. and
night Waterman Richardson were injured, but
none of the children were hurt Nearly one
third of the town of jamestown is in ruins, the
damage being estimated at $4,000. The force
OF the wind there was terrific. Furniture bed
ding, &c, was carried into tree tops. Many
people were lifted from the ground, and some
were carried a considerable distance.
At Phillipsburg, n J., on Saturday morning
Mrs. Amelia Barnet, the wife of David Barnet
locked the doors of her house, threw her son,
Willie, aged two years and six months on the
bed and cut his troat with razor She then
seized her fve-month- olds child and served il
IN the same horrible way. She then gave an
alarm, and as the neighbors rushed in drew the
razor across her own throat and threw herself
on the bed beside her children Willie, the
elder boy, died IN ten minutes Although
MORALLY woHnded, Mrs Barnet became so vio-
lest that six men were required to hold her
and her rawlings and struggles continued
throughout the day The Barnet family came
from Pittsburgh, Pa, several months ago, but
since then the father has been unable to obtain
employment. The physicians attribute the
cause of the crime to melancholia
At an early hour on the morning of the 9th
ult. between forty and fifty men went to the
residence of the jailer at Mt Sterling Kv and
demanded admittance, the leader stating that
he was the sheriff Of Breathitt county with a
prisoner. The jailer was on the point of adj
uniting them, when he discovered the party to
be mob intent on hanging prisoner named
William Osborn, sentenced for five years for
killing Henry Thomas. The leader of the mob
told the jailer that unless he surrendered the
keys the mob would batter down the doors
This was done, but the jailer and his two sons
who were in the second story, well armed, de-
| fed the mob to ascend the stairs After
searching the lower part of the house for the
keys Of the jail the mob left the premises.
terrible fire ragged at Panama from II
o'clock on the night of the 9th ult. until q
O'Clock on the following morning. There was
no water available with which to extinguish
the flames, and the market and two blocks of
houses were totally destroyed The loss is es-
timated at 100000. How the fire started is
not known. During its progress large mob of
men, portion of them armed with reviewers
| and machetes did considerable plundering and
| many OF them became intoxicated. The SOL
diery, who were called out, quarreled among
| themselves, when the owners of the burning
property fred upon the plunderers, killing sew
| eEal Of them.
Jack Cole, one of the sailors of the lost Arc
tic exploring steamer Jeanette, died at the
| insane asylum at Washington, d. c., on the
2Sth ult., OF cardiac dropsy. He was one of the
brayest and most skillful of the Jeannette's
crew, and was well known personally to Mr.
Bennett, in whose yacht the Dreadnaught he
was seaman on the occasion of the latter's
| Transatlantic race. He became insane as a re-
! suit Of the hardships and excitement of the
retreat to the Siberian coast after the Jean
| nette was lost. He was brought to the United
! States by Lieutenant DanenhoWer, and was
/ committed to the asylum III 1882
The largest FIRE since the great confiapration
/ IN May, 1864, occurred at Glens Falls N. Y, on
! the 2Sth ult., destroying both opera houses the
| Presbyterian church, and GiIdersleeve's Union
! Hall, and other buildings. The fire was first
/ discovered in the south end of the reconstruct
! ed Union Hail building, on Glen street abont
6 o'clock in the morning, and was not gotten
under control for several hours The loss is
nearly 100000. The fire is thought to have
been the work of an incendiary