The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-07
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
washington Gossip.

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Washington, the guests Of Senator and Mrs. Lo-
gan
A bill was introduced by Mr.. McCoid
authorizing h fonstruction of bridges across
the Wisconsin, Chippewa and st Croix rivers.
Henry c. Ely, a prominent merchant of New
Haven, Conn, who has been insane for. seven
years, murdered Jacob ]. Harden, who was
visiting him
Ex-senator Spencer proposes to bring suit
for $4,000 damages against Attorney General
Brewster for defamation of character and in
jury to his business.
Frank Brady, tried in ST. Louis for killing
George Mccarthy, was found guilty of murder
in the second degree and punishment fixed ut
fifty years in the penitentiary.
TIL department of state has received a tele-
gram from Eugene Schuyler, United States
minister to Greece, saying that the prohibition
of the importation of pork from this country
into Greece has been abolished
The movement to secure the appointment of
Postmaster General Gresham to the circuit
judgeship in the Seventh judicial district il a
serious ons, and is undoubtedly made with
his consent
A memorial was presented by Mr.. Washburn
recently from citizens of Minnesota relating
to the establishment of common schools in
Alaska; also from 443 citizens of Minnesota for
an amendment to the federal constitution pro-
hibiting the disfranchisnlent of women.
The name of Representative McCoid of Iowa
has through his state officers, bar, supreme
bench and colleagues in congress, irrespective
of party, been formally presented to the presi-
dent for appointment as judge of the Eighth
district vice McCrary, resigned
John Bartle, twenty-five years old, a patient
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supposed temporarily insane, attempted to kill
Sister Liberia by shooting at her, then shot and
killed himself. The ball from Bartlett's pistol
passed through the sisters ear, but did no other
Injury.
Fostofices established: Minnesota Movold,
Polk county. Montana Victor, Missoula county.
Postmasters Commissioned: John Watts,
Ames, Iowa; George i. Eberhardt, Cedar Falls,
Iowa; Elias Skinner, Munson, Iowa; solomon
II. Keller, Medford, Wis. Michael GenaiDs,
Dover, Wis.
Commissioner Loring has laid before the
president the report of the commission appoint
cd to examine the swine industry of the United
States. 1t is emphatic in the statement that
there is no condition surrounding the industry
which tends to propagate disease or render
pork unhealthful.
The house claims committee submitted a ia
vorable report in the case of Col. Thomas Wor-
~thiEgton, for supplies furnished at Camp Dem
nison, Ohio, during the rebellion. The claim
ant, however. after endeavorins TO secure rec
ignition for his service for over twenty years,
dies in Washington in abjeet poverty.
Secretary Folger will reply to n resolution
adopted by the house, asking whether there
would be any delay in the payment of the tobacco
dealers claims for rebate under the law of last
session, that it would take the present force at
the disposal of tho department two or three
years to pay the So, 0W,UO claimed as rebate.
He will ask for more clerks.
The supervising architects Office is being
gradually cleaned out and purified by Mr.. Bell
the young man from Iowa who was appointed to
succeed Hill last year. lie has already won not
only the confidence of the president and secre-
tary of the treasury, to whom heis Immediate
ly responsible, but has won the respect of con-
gress and the contractors who seek government
work.
The death of ex-Minister Partridge at Por-
tugal is very much regretted here, and the la
mentablc circumstances surrounding it give
great sorrow to his friends. He was a Mary
lander by birth, and a diplomat by profession.
cratic in the state, and he, like his ancestors,
was a strict churchman, and led a blameless,
honorable life.
The secretary of state received q cable Mon
day, the 18th, from Minister Foster at Madrid
announcing the death by suicide at Alicante,
Spain, of ]. Il. Partridge, residing there on ac-
count of his health. jesse Il. Partridge, was,
on April 5, 1881, nominated by tho president to
succeed the late Stephen A. Hnrlbut as minis
ter to Peru. He had u long and honorable ca
reer in the foreign service of his country.
The English press generally condemn the
brutality of the Bismarck letter on the I.asker
resolution. Berlin correspondents give some
piquant extracts from the attacks in the semi
official press on Minister Sargent's American
career, while the Times, ignorant of the famous
personality of the Hon. Thoman Porterhonse
Ochiltree, makes the unconsciously amusing
comment that as tue name of the proposer Of
the r,N,lution is Scotch, he is presumably q
q sensible man.
William B. Cash, who fatally shot Marshal
Richards and James Cowart in Cherow, s. c..
was followed by the sheriff 8 posse to the house
of his father Col. E. B. Cash. When the pnr-
suers approached the house Col. Cash defied
them, and said that his son should not be ar
rested ut present az public opinion was too
strong against him. The sheriff posse then re-
tired for consultation. The officers of the law
counsel moderation, but many Of the young
people are in favor of capturing young Cash,
at all hazards, dead or alive, and over the dead
body of the elder Cash, If necessary, a Gordon
has been placed e'ound the house to intercept
the fugitive should Cash attempt to escape.
Richards and Cowart are still alive, but no
hopes are entertained of their recovery.