The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-03-27
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Capital Topics Crimes and Casualties.
Personal and Political.

PcTS0lldl anu POLITICAL.
The Indian appropriation bill as agreed upon
by the House Appropriations Committee on the
18th inst appropropriates S. 347 653 a decrease
of $4,000 from the appropriation of last year
and of S3 l19 156 from the estimates. The APP
preparation for the support of schools is
$7S5, 600, an increase from last year of S135,-
000 The amount appropriated under treaty
stipulations for school buildings and the sup
port of teachers is also increased by $4,000.
An appropriation of $4,000 is made for the In
dams in Alaska. The new legislation proposed
by the committee prohibits the War Depart
ment from introducing liquor into the Indian
reservations under any circumstances, and APP
propriates S., 600 for the detection and prosecu-
ton of persons attempting to do this. a census
OF the Indians is also provided for.
The Secretary of the Navy, in communi-
! cation to the Appropriations Committee OF the
Senate, recommends an increase in the number
OF appropriations contained in the naval ap
preparation bill as it passed the House. The
Secretary also recommends that the limit OF 20
per cent. for repairs of wooden vessels De re-
stored in place of the 30 per cent limit pro-
! vided in the bill The secretary recommends
| the appropriation of 100000 towards the
| construction of two cruisers, one dispatch YES
| sell four gunboats, steel ram, and three tor
| pedo boats provided for in the bill already
passed by the Senate. The Secretary opposes
| the proposed reduction of the United States
marine corps to seventy five officers on the act
| i've list.
The House Committee on Accounts on the
1 22d inst. reported fayorably the resolution to
pay the House employees who ceased to work
prior to February 1, 1884. an extra months
| pay with the proviso that this shall not include
employees appointed on or after February a.
1883. This excludes Benjamin p. Gaines, ex-
! Speaker Keifer's nephew, appointed March 3,
1883, in place of c. w Tyson, whose resgna-
ton was demanded by Mr.. Keifer. The COM
mittee say Gaines performed service and
the report is unfavorable to Keifer. although it
| says he may have been under the impression
| that Tyson had agreed to resign.
| The President sent to the Senate on the 21st
| inst. communication from the Secretary of
War transmitting an estimate made by Colonel
| Rockwell, engineer-in-chief of public buildings
| and grounds in Washington, of $50, 600 for the
| preparation of site and the erection of ped
estal for the statue of the late President Gar
field, which is to be erected by the Society of
| the Army of the Cumberland. The committee
| has entered into arrangement with j. @. A.
Ward, the sculptor. to execute statue of the
| late President at a cost of $4,000. Congress is
asked to appropriate like sum for the site and
pedestal.
Messrs Williams & Crosby, of Boston, placed
!
| the House Committee on Education an electric
system of taking aye and no votes in the House.
| By the electric voting machine aye and no
/ vote, which ordinarily takes forty minutes in
! the House, can be taken in one minute. The
1 vote is recorded, counted, and the name printed
on slip so that the vote can be read immedi-
| ately.
/ Mr. James Gilillan, ex-Treasurer of the
| United States. is mentioned as the probable
lrrn fnl, A-csc
of the Treasury.
| CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Following the presentment of the grand jury
| on the afternoon of the 2lst inst. in New York
| City Eve indictments were handed to Judge
! Barrett, in the Court Of Oyer and Terminer,
against as many city officials. Warrants were
Immediately issued by the magistrate and the
prisoners were arrested and brought before
| him. They were Sheriff Alex v. Davidson;
Warden James Bowe, Of Ludlow-street Jail !:
Deputy Warden Philip Herman; Deputy
Sheriff and Order of Arrest Clerk David Nc
Gonigal, and Jacob Wertheimer, a clerk in the
sheriff Office. Sheriff Davidson is charged in
| the three indictments found against him Of
extortion, grand larceny in the second degree,
and malfeasances of Office during the months
of October, November and December last.
man who has swindled the veteran soldiers
Of the country out of $4,000 was released from
the Lancaster jail on the 10th inst. and imme-
diately re-arrested and brought before u. 8.
Commissioner Phillips In Philadelphia, who
committed him in default of bail. He was
arrested last fall for pretending to be pension
examiner and attempting to fleece pensioner,
| but the evidence not being complete against
him, he was committed to Jail on q charge of
carrying concealed weapons and kept there
while his victims were gathering evidence
against him. The particular ofense for which
, 1 ha tied cd
soldier out Of s. under the pretense of getting
him an increased pension.
A gang of fifteen boys was arrested in South
Boston on the night OF the 10Th inst, and three
| of the leaders were held for examination.
Many small larcenies were charged to them,
their raids being planned In an old cellar
which they called their den. Coleman O'Don-
NELL the leading spirit of the gang. is sixteen
| years old, and had recently been released from
q reformatory institution. The ages of the
Others range from twelve to fifteen years
They had peculiar language known only to
members of the gang, and for an hour mystified
/ the officers at the station with their converse
| ton.
The New York and Chicago limited express,
J which left Chicago at p N. on the 18th inst,
met with an accident on the following morn
ing about o'clock near Salem Station, on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway,
! about sixty -seven miles west of Pittsburgh
While rounding a sharp curve, at high rate OF
speed, the boiler Of the engine exploded with
terrible violence. and hurled the engine down
, q 15-foot entertainment, and blew the engineer
{ and fireman 400 feet, killing them instantly
} Ten passengers were more or less injured.
Adolph Stein, aged seventeen years, hanged
himself to a door in his parents home, al
8 Hoboken, N. j., on the evening of the 23d
] inst. He donned calico dress and an apron
of his mothers before adjusting the piece OF
clothes-line to his neck and fastening the othe,
end to nail in the door. His relatives know
of no motive for the act, except that the youth
{ who had been on the Scholarship ST. Mary's
2 and was visiting his home, had become de-
spondent because he had to return to the ship
On the night of the 22d inst Charles Houl
8 den, farmer, living near Petersburg, ILL.,
quarreled with his wife, knocked her dowr
9 with an axe cut her throat from ear to ear an6
inflicted numerous stab wounds in her breast
0 He also severely cut in the hand his son, aged
twelve years, who attempted to interfere. III.
f then went to straw stack in the neighborhood
J. where he cut his own throat, but did not inhic
:, fatal injuries He was arrested on the follow
t ing day.
w. M. Dane, twenty years old, of Benton
vile, Ind. became enamored of thirteen year
i old girl named Ada Swift Her parents object
II ed TO his attentions. On the night of the 19tl
b inst. Dane purchased two ounces of laudanum