The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-06-19
.PITH OF THE NEWS.
Capital Topics Crimes and Casualties.
Personal and Political.

certain transactions was made public on the
10th inst. The court, after reviewing the
evidence say that while it is not prepared to
| say that any specific act developed by the evil
dence is actually fraudulent yet the evidence
does show a series of transactions discreditable
| to any officer of the army, and which especially
! demands the severest condemnation when en-
gagged in by an officer holding the high position
and peculiar relations to the administration
of justice in the army held by BrigadierGen-
eral Swain" The Secretary of War laid the
report before the President on the same day,
and it was decided to order court-martial for
| the trial of General Swain. The detail for the
court will be made in q few days. Colonel
| Morrow will be tried by the same court
| The House Public Lands Committee on the
| 18th inst. agreed to report favorably Represent
alive Henley's bill requiring the General Gov
| eminent to pay to the State of California, Tor
school purposes, five per cent. of the net pro-
ceeds of all public lands sold within her bound
aries since the States admission. The total
amount of the proposed payment is estimated
at 81 100000.
| The House Committee on Public Lands on
| the 18th inst. agreed to report favorably Rep
resentatiye Payson's bill to restore to the
| public domain all lands held in indemnity
limits for railroads and wagon road companies,
and to make them subject to disposition under
the homestead laws of the United States. Mr.
store to the public domain about 100,000,000
acres.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On Saturday morning last collision oc-
Cured short distance east of Ashland Station,
n. j., on the Camden and Atlantic Railroad,
between the z O. clock accommodation train from
Atlantic City and special excursion train from
Camden for Lakeside Park. Both locomotives
were entirely demolished with the tenders, and
seven persons were killed and seventeen badly
injured. The accommodation train was COM
posed of q locomotive and seven cars, while the
Lakeside Park train consisted of locomotive
and two cars The latter were filed with
women and children, and formed an excursion
given under the auspices of the Sunday school
connected with the Second Presbyterian Church
of Camden,
Isaac A. Stanley, paying teller of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce, at Cleveland, Ohio,
was arrested on the evening of the 18th inst,
for embezzlng 100000 from the bank. Stanley
confessed that year ago he was troubled
about a debt of $500 on his house, and thought
| he could take that sum from the reserve fund
without harm to any one, invest it in grain,
realize profit, pay off the mortgage on his
| place, and return the money. The investment
was unfortunate, and, to cover his loss, he took
more uutil he had taken 100000 Stanley
| has assigned his property and his speculative
| deals to the bank. The bank will not be
affected.
| Points along the Allegheny Valley were
| visited On the 18th inst by one Of the heaviest
transforms known for many years. causing the
most destructive floods since 1865. At Brooklyn,
| Pa, water-spout burst and in less than two
| hours the creek rose ten feet. The dams at
North Fork Mills, Bryant & Wainwright, and
at the Litch Mills gave way, carrying with
them lumber valued at $4,000. Two bridges
were washed away, many buildings demolished
and number of families driven from their
| homes. In Pittsbnrg the rise in the Allegheny
| River was very rapid, and number Of coal
barges We're swept from their moorings.
AT Montrose, Pa, on Saturday evening
Joseph Drinker, aged about forty years, I'M
married, and member of one of the oldest fami-
lies in this county, shot VIM. 81. Cooper, the
| banker, one of the Oldest and most respected
citizens of that place. Drinlzer fired three
! shots in rapid succession. Just as he pulled
the trigger the third time C. III. Crandall sprang
upon him and knocked him down. Mr.. Cooper
staggered and fell. He was quickly carried
! into Sparks drug store. in front of which the
shooting took place, and after hasty exami-
nation by a physician was taken to his resi-
dence.
An extraordinary thunder storm visited
Harrisburg Pa, on the 18th inst. Frank
| Develey and his wife, newly married couple,
were instantly killed. A large barn was con-
sumed. The fifth ward school house was con-
siderably damaged. The soldiers monument
was shattered, and the standpipe at the water
| works was injured, and number of private
dwellings were struck. The loss is consider
able.
A fire broke out on the night of the 10th inst.
in the kitchen Of the restaurant of the Union
depot at st. Paul, Mimi, which entirely de-
stroyed the depot and damaged several Of the
surrounding buildings. The loss is estimated
at over $4,000.
PERSONAL.
The annual banquet of the Pennsylvania
Farmers Club was held at the residence of Col
onel James Duffy, of Marietta, ON the afternoon
OF the 10th. Among the members and guests
present were Senators Edmunds, Pendleton,
| Bayard, J. Donald Cameron, and Angus Cam
eron; Hon. Samuel j. Randall, General Simon
| Cameron, Charles A. Dana, George w. Childs,
and the judges of the supreme court Of Penn
sylyania.
Hon. Holster Clymer died at Reading. Pa,
ON the morning of the 18th inst, aged fifty
seven years. He was Frustrated by stroke
Of apoplexy on the previous evening and never
| rallied. In 1872 Mr. Clymcr was elected to
Congress and served with distinction in that
body four terms, retiring from public life in
$780, since which time he devoted himself to
the practice of law.
The Episcopal Convention Of the Diocese of
Central Pennsylvania on the 18th inst elected
Rev. DR.. Nelson Somerville Rulison, of Cleye-
land, Ohio, assistant to Bishop Howe, whose
advancing age and the constantly increasing
work of the diocese rendered the appointment
of an assistant necessary. Bishop Howe has
been fifty years in the ministry,
At Concord, n. H.Son the 18th inst, Miss
Elizabeth Hoar, daughter of Hon. E. r. Hoar,
was married to Samuel Bowles, of the SPRING
field Republican. There was large attendance
Of relatives and friends, who had come to ex-
press their regards to bride and groom. Present
among the number were Hon. William III.
Eyarts and Hon George f. Hoar.
Samuel b. Gregory, commander in the
United States navy during the war, died on the
9TH inst. at his home in Essex county, Mass,
aged seyenty-one years. He commanded in
1863 the United States steamer Western World,
and so successfully intercepted the blockade
runners off the Virginia coast that Jefferson
Davis offered reward for his capture.
Mr.. VIM. II. Vanderbilt has returned from
his London trip. He says he believes the
country is all right, and, whatever the poll
ticians may plan or do, the people will settle
everything next November, and, on the whole.
viii settle tfor the best.
Calhoun Benham, prominent lawyer OF
San Francisco, died on the 18th inst In the
famous duel between Judge David Terry and
Senator Broderiek, Benham acted as Terry's
second.
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