The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-06
$4,000 SHORT /!
Is The Sub. Treasury at New
Orleans and Still Get.
ting Shorter.
A DefauIttng Clerk skips Away
to Mexico win the Officers
In Hot Pursuit.
The GreenbaCk LabOrers want
$50 Per Capita in BILLS
and Other Things.
The Foreign News budget 81
Fun of Meaty Matier.-A
Batch of Items.
The Assistant Treasurer nj New
Orleans short over 200.

Washington, June 5.-The secretary
of the treasury to-day received a tel
egram from j. A. Sample, of the
United States treasury office who Is at
present engaged in investigating the
affairs of the assistant treasurer's Of
flee at New Orleans, reporting that
the shortage, so far discovered in the
accounts. in mutilated currency and
United States notes deposited for re-
demption amounts to S25,3i3.5l. IT.
was also reported that the redemption
clerk, j. II. Rufdcmort, who is sus-
pectcd of the defalcatiOn, has disap-
pearcd and all efforts to arrest him
proved unsuccessful. In speaking of
the defalcation to-day the United
States treasurer said he proposed TO
make full and complete examination
of the affairs OF the sub treasury and
to tn u end has sent two clerks of his
office, A. II. Ouiaile and III. Is. Snyder,
TO New Orleans to assist Messrs. Sam
pie and Henry Croggen, who are now
there. The treasurer says II is pos
sible that the total shortage may be
increased to $4,000 and intimates
that Mr.. Ruidemort is not the only
person concerned in the transaction.
lie says the government will suffer no
loss from the defalcation as IL is amply
protected by the bond of the assistant
treasurer.
The Secretary of the Interior has
United States and transferred to the
interior department are TO BIO charg-
ed rs part OF the public domain held
in trust for the people and az on the
same basis as the lands acquired by
cession. The question arose from n
discussion of the act OF July 8, 1884,
providing for the transfer 10 the in
terror department of certain lands
formerly used as military reserva-
tions. The Fort Sullivan military
reservation in Maine was among the
transferred trusts and as the United
States had never held any public
| lands in Name that the land-Oiiice au'
thorities wished to know the terms
of the title by which the land was
held.
Sergeant James Campbell of the
Third artillery battery X, now station
cd at the Washington barracks, at
tempted suicide this morning
in the barracks hospital by shooting
himself in the left breast. The bal
penetrated just above the heart an(
it's thought he cannot live.
Rear Admiral Davis, commandin!
the Asiatic squadron, under date o
Shanghai, May informs the nav!
department that peace between Chin
and France is assured and that tn
difficulties between China and Japal
have been satisfactorily settled by
treaty concluded at Quinton between
the vlceroy Iii Hung ShGng an
; Count Ito. It's understood that tn
, Korean question which was the moi
l serious subject of controversy WI
settled by both governments agrc'
ing to withdraw their troops frol
that country. The superainty I
. China over kocran was said to hay
9 been recognized by Japan and Il
4 disputed question of superiority ov'
!. the Loo ChOo island was given
r Japan.
y The commissioners OF the distrl
II to-day appointed WIN. b. Powell
II Aurora, ILL.,, superintendent of pub
schools of the District of Columb
Mr. Powell is the younger brother
Major Powell, of the geological 81
X yey.
D. Sidney l.. Wilson, pension agent
III the District of Columbia, says Il
d, the stat ment that the names of u
il hundred pensioners ofthe district h
lie been dropped from the rolls becal
they were not legally entitled to pr
sioners, is an entire misapprehensior
a Il hg
4. mentioned lSl were pension "
w have died since 1882 and whose nan
We have been taken from the rolls of
,r- official report. lie says its plat
to stated when death occurred in Ell
raj case and when the last payment '
* made and in many instances the &
ernment owes the estate of these p
sions for the time clapsing betw'
: the last payment and the date
as death.