The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-02-14
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Capital Topics--Crimes and Casualties,
Personal and Political.
CAPITAL TOPICS.

the Sth inst, submitted to the joint committee
on the library, and. through it, to Congress- his
annual report. The counting of the library
was completed in January. showing 513,44l
volumes and about 10000 pamphlets The
increase in the number of volumes during the
year 1883 was 33, 355. The number of copy
right entries during the year was 25,274-an
increase of !, s56 as compared with 1852 Copy
right publications were received during the
year to the number of 43,43S, of which IA ,554
were volumes of books Ii ,452 periodicals, H.
101 musical compositions, T,24l engraylngS and
other works of graphic art.
The House Committee on Post-Ofiees, on the
9th inst. agreed to fayorably report Mr.. Skim
ner's bill to employ letter carriers in every city
of $4,000 people and over, and, when required,
at places of not less than 1000 inhabitants pro-
ducing gross postal revenue of $4,000; also
bill for the issue of special ten cent stamp,
which, when attached to letter, Will secure
its immediate delivery at any free delivery
office between z a. IN. and II midnight. Rep
resentative Moneys bill was favorably report
ed on, which provides for the deposit In the
Treasury of the receipts of the money order
Office and for payment of its expenses by ap-
preparation.
Lieutenant Commander Goodrich has been
ordered to London to bring to the United
States the Thetis, one of the vessels to be pur-
chased for the Greedy relief expedition. The
cost of the Thetis was $4,000.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Three brothers, named Frank, Jack and
William Flynn, were proceeding home in a
hack through the main street of Hot Springs,
Ark, on the 9th inst, when a party of seven
men, armed with double barreled shot guns
and Winchester rifles, stepped out of saloon
and opened fire. Jack was killed, William
fatally and Frank slightly wounded Frank
Hall, the driver Of the hack, was fatally shot,
Robert Hargreave, by-stander, was shot
| through the breast and will probably die. j.
H. Craig, prominent lumberman, received a
charge of bucl1shot through the back and his
condition is considered precarious The diff
Guilty originated some weeks ago in the effort
of Frank Flynn to prevent one Doran from
opening gambling house. 1t eliminated at
| the time in Doran making cowardly attempt
to assassinate Frank, failing in which he fed
the city. He returned few nights ago, but
Flynn was unaware of his presence in the city
until the fatal volley was opened on him. The
seven men who did the shooting were arrested.
! They are S. a. Doran, the two Pruitt brothers,
a man named Howell and three others.
Fire broke out on the night of the eth inst.
| in the factory of Grossman & Klueka in Allen
| town, Pa, totally destroying it and number
of small buildings attached. As the men who
were standing ON the ladders and in the build
!
and south walls suddenly fell outward and
some fifteen fremen were covered with the
debris. Streams of water were Immediately
directed upon the ruins covering the men,
which prevented some of the men from being
! burned to death Five men were killed, and
eleven seriously, but none fatally injured.
| Grossnan & Klueka estimate their loss al
| $4,000.
| In Kansas City, on the 18th inst, State Attor-
ney Wallace dismissed the case against Frank
James and Charles Ford on the charge of par
ticipation in the Blue Cut train robbery in
| 1851. Owing to the refusal of Governor Crit
tenden to pardon Dick Liddell the State was
| deprived of his testimony. The case at Gallatin
| for the bank robbery against James will also
! be dismissed. James was then taken before
| Judge Krekel, of the United States court
where hearing was had on the charge of rob-
bing the United States Paymaster at Mussel
Shoal, Ala.
| DR.. E. Z. Gardner, charged with having
| taken excessive and illegal compensation from
| George n. Dennis, of Binghamton, for assisting
| the latter to procure pension of $l,100, had q
hearing at Montrose, Pa, on the 9th inst, be-
| fore the commissioner. The testimony de-
| veioped the fact that $500 had been retained
| by Gardner for his services. United State;
Attorney Stone held that prima facie case
| had been made out, and Gardner was held in
the sum of $500 70 appear before the grand
jury at Pittsburg.
KID Wade, the leader Of the Niobrara out
laws and horse thieves, has been hanged by
| vigilants. The yigilants have their headquar-
tiers at place called the Pen" and have ar
rested large number of men in various parts
of Northern Nebraska, and have taken them te
| the Pen" where they have been tried and
disposed of. 1t is positively known that they
have lynched eleven men.
A construction train on the Chesapeake ans
Ohio Railroad, between Morehead and Farmers
Stations, KY. on the eth inst, ran into another
train with twenty colored section hands or
board. Five were killed and fifteen wounded
Charles Harlon, the conductor, was seriously
injured.
Henry S. Church, chamberlain of Troy, n
Y. is missing. He is charged with being
defaulter to the amount of $4,000. His bont
was not renewed when he was last appointed
and the city will lose the whole amount.
Mrs. Mix, Of Steamboat Rock, Iowa, on tn.
9Th inst standing over the open grave of he
husband remarked that they might as well b
buried in one grave, drew pistol and shot her
self fatally.
Thomas Kinsella editor of the Brooklyn On
- Eagle died on the 18th inst, after an Hines
Of three months.
a movement for the erection of statue O
Wendell Phillips by popular subscription ha
been started in Boston.
Mrs. General Trevino, daughter of the lat
General Ord, died at Fortress Monroe, Va O.
J the 10th inst, at the residence of her mother.
Mr.. Hunt, the United States Minister at 81
Petersburg, isquite i'll. and his condition cause
some anxiety. Mrs. Hunt has received a tele
gram of sympathy from President Arthur.
General Philip H. Sheridan was elected presi
dent of the National Rife Association at il
annual meeting in New York on the 5th ins
: He succeeds General Grant, whose term of offic
had expired
The Rev. DR.. B. w. Stone, chaplain Of tn
celebrated Harris light cavalry-a New Yorl
regiment-during the war, and pastor of 81
Barnabas Episcopal Church in Reading, Pa
died in that city ON the 18th inst, aged seyent
years.
r John J. Kaercher, chief of General Custer
/ scouts during the war. at which time he wa
i known as Jack Kade died in Pottsviile. Pa
! on the 9th inst. He was of an adyenturou
/ turn, and had an eyentful career. He we
} forty-two years of age.
,, Among the new officers of the Department
of Colorado we are glad to note the name I
, Conlrade J.. III. Smith, Assistant Adjutant-G Ger
eral. Comrade Smith was a gallant soldier i
/, the Army of the Cumberland, and his staff du
ties will recall the days when his faithful ser1
ice in the army won for him the approval {
] his chief