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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
HOWGATE COME FORTH!


The Government Hopeful of shortly Laying
Hands On the Fugitive Captain HOwgate
An Intimation As to Why He has Not
Been Captured Before.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 23.-One
of the victories expected to be achieved
by the administration within few days
will be the capture of Captain Howgate,
the fugitive from justice. Captain How
gates defalcation amounted to over $780,
900, as ascertained, besides an indefinite
amount not yet known, and it is strange
that he has not been recaptured. The
district authorities, it is said, were alone
responsible for his escape, and the War
Department claimed the sole right to act
in recovering him. 1t is asserted that a
good percentage of his stealings went to
certain merchants in this city, who helped
him TO make fraudulent vouchers. twas
easy to do this. A merchant with an ac-
count of say 5000 might be induced to
sign a voucher in blank which could be
filed in to represent $4,000 or $4,000,
for that matter.
This Howgate matter would, it is al
legged, show the necessity of an absolute
and sweeping change in everything re-
lating to the prosecution of crime in this
district. HOwgate's companions and in
innate friends were connected with the
business of prosecuting crime. General
Myer, the former Chief of the Signal Of
fee, turned the entire business over to
Howgate, and never thereafter paid the
slightest attention to its accounts. Myer
was an honest man, but unSuspciouS
He was different man from Howgate.
Shortly after he was retired Howgate
resigned, knowing that an oyerhauling of
his accounts would lead to detection.
According to popular gossip, he got his
stolen money in bag, threw few green
backs around to certain officials, and then
quietly walked away with his mistress on
his arm.
Myers experience was different. He
had every reason to anticipate long and
happy old age. His wife had an enorm-
GUS fortune, and few years before the
Generals death had purchased a very
handsome house on | street, which was
so long occupied by the British Legation
John Chamberlain bought The house fol
100000 and tried to make of it high.
toned gambling establishment. The at.
tempt was failure. Mrs. Myer bought
the house from him under forced sale
| General Myer had settled down in this
beautiful home, expecting to devote the
last years of his life TO writing. He dice
October 81, 1880, and Howgate's frauds
were not discovered until about si1
months after.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
IMPORTANT DECISION
In the United States Supreme Court Affect
ing Certain Test Cases Growing Outoft the
Edmunds Polygamy Law.

In the United States Supreme Court Affect
ing Certain Test Cases Growing Outof the
Edmunds Polygamy Law.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March Pin the
Supreme Court yesterday Justice Mat
thews delivered an important decision
respecting five Mormon cases. During
tho recent elections in Utah Territory
the Mormon Church selected five of its
members to bring about tests of the Ed
munds act. Three of them refused to
make statements under oath that they
had not plural wives, while two of them
did so. The officers of the Election
Board, believing the two who qualified
were bigamists, refused to permit them
to vote The five men joined and brought
suits for damages.
In rendering his decision, Justice Mat.
thews observed that the rules and regu-
lations and oaths prescribed by Commits
soners being without authority in law,
were without force, and no effect can be
given to them. The administration Of
flcels were not bound nor authorized to
obey them. The powers claimed by the
Commissioners are not ministerial, ana
can not be made the ground OF action for
damages. If the registration officers de-
prived citizens of their right OF franchise
in violation of law, they are responsible
in suit for damages. He alone is deprived
of his vote who, when he offers to reg
lister, is then in the state and condition OF
bgamist or polygamist, or is then actu-
ally cohabitn9 with more than one wom-
| an.
"Disfranchisement," the decision con-
| tinues, sis not prescribed as penalty
for being guilty of the crime and offense
of bigamy and polygamy, for rs has been
said, that Offense consists in the Tact OF
unlawful marriage, and prosecution
against the Offenders Is barred by the
lapse of years by section 1914 of the re-
vised statutes. Continuing TO live in that
state afterward is not an offense, al
though cohabitation with more than one
woman Is, but as one may be living in a
bigamous or poly9amous state
without cohabitation with more than
one woman, he is bigamist
or polygamist, and yet guilty OF no Grim
inal offense. So, That in respect to those
| disqualifications of voter under the act
of March %, 1882, the objection is not
well taken that represents the inquiry
into the fact by the officers of registra-
tions as an unlawful mode of prosecu-
ton for crime. The power of Congress
to prescribe the qualification of voters in
the Territories has passed beyond the
stage of controversy into final Judgment.
The conclusion cannot be avoided that
the act of Congress here in question is
clearly within the justification OF law"
This decision of Justice Matthe WIS
favors the application for damages OF that
class of residents who made oath that
they did not have plural wives and mega
tives the application for damages of those
who refused to testify that they had
more than one wife.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
RESTLESS BOOMERS.

The Camp at Arkansas City Becoming I'm
easy Over the knowledge That Small Par
ties of Settlers are skipping Ina Move
Probable Within Few Days.
ARKANSAS CITY, KAN, March "a
General Hatch, in command of the United
States troops here, went to Caldwell yes
terday, where the stock men, who held
leases in the Cherokee strip, are in ses-
sion, and it is understood that resolu-
lions will be passed demanding that Con-
gress shall not throw open Oklahoma to
settlement.
The news that the advance guard of the
ooloney OF Oklahoma settlers had passed
the Sac and Fox Agency, was confirmed
here last night, but the strength of the
main body could not be ascertained.
Majo Benteen does not think it can be
very large, and he feels certain that the
Deweese column will get between it and
the Cimarron River before Oklahoma is
reached.
1t became known yesterday that besides
the eleven companies of the Ninth Cavalry
now in the field against the Oklahoma
forces, there are two companies of in
fantIy stationed near Wells Store which
have been quietly held there by orders
| from General Hatch, and in case gen.
eral move is made they will be used in
connection with the cavalry to eject all
| persons in the Oklahoma country.
While General Hatch has power to act
irrespective of higher authority, he is at
present waiting the return to Fort
Leavenworth OF General Augur, in order
that he may be more fully acquainted
with the wishes and intentions of the
War Department relative to the Presi-
dents proclamation.
The men who have been in camp here
for so many weeks are becoming restless
and uneasy, and the knowledge that
others are going into the land from which
they are debarred, is making them very
much disconnected.
Captain Couch says the fact that his
men have determined to make move
within week will compel the Govern
ment to show its hand, and circulars have
been sent abroad to colonies outside
telling all persons wishing TO 90 to Okla
homa to meet here by Saturday next.
Yesterdays train from Wichita brought
about dozen additional boomers from
Fort Scott and the Western portion of the
State. While three or four persons leave
the camp daily, more than as many ar
rive, and since the day President Cleve
lands procl nation came the camp hq'
increased in size very materially.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28

Fashions for the canine world
change with the seasons. A fashion,
able New York girl, who is immensely
fond of dogs, says that the latest fash
ion for the poodle, who, by the way,
usually has the long locks over hisneck
tied up with piece of satin ribbon, is
to have plain gold bracelet with his
name engraved on it to wear on one of
his fore paws. Fashion also DEGREES
that the spaniel shall have bracelet of
some bright metal with medallion;
that woody dogs shall wear bracelet
upon each ankle, and are to be sheared
to the shoulders, leaving lion-like name
and head; and that bulldogs are, this
season, to change their celuloid collars
to those made Of handsomely engraved
nickel.-N Y. Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
Arrested for Murder.

CANTON, o., March 24.-Mrs. Barn
hardine Wintges and Joseph Fisher of
Osnaourg were arrested and brought to
Jail here yesterday morning, charged
with administering poison to Henry
Wintges, whose dead body was found on
a farm near Osnaburg. Fisher, who
boards with Wintges' family, had about
completed preparations to elope with
Mrs. Wintges and desert the latter's chill
dren. The post-mortem on the dead man
showed strong symptoms of strichnine
poisoning in the stomach, which is under.
going an analysis. Mrs. Wintges and
Fisher both protes their innocence,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
A WRIT OF ERROR.

Judge Gresham Grants a Writ OF Error In
the Case of Mackin and Gallagher, Con-
vlcted for the Chicago Election Frauds
The Prisoners Released ON $50, 200
Bond Each.
CHICAGO, Ill, March 25.-In his re-
port on the Mackin-G Gallagher case Judge
Gresham said that while it was not to be
inferred from his action that the rulings
of the District Court would be reversed
and new trial ordered, yet the record
presented questions of sufficient difficulty
and importance to entitle the defendants
to writ of error. The defendants ought
not to be denied an opportunity TO take the
deliberate judgment of the Court upon
the rulings of the District Court, and in
such case the proceedings under the
sentence ought to be stayed. Any differ
ent construction of the statute would de-
feat the manifest intentions of Congress
under Section of the act of 1879.
His Honor. said that he would write
Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court,
and ask him to sit with him when the
writ of error was heard He also sug-
gested to counsel on both sides, in view
of the Importance of the question, that
they should also ask Judge Harlan to
leave his seat at Washington before the
Supreme Court adjournment in May, in
order that the matter may be disposed OF
as expeditiously as possible. Pending
advices from Judge Harlan, he would sci
the argument On the writ OF error for the
first Monday in May.
Mackin and Gallagher then furnished
bail in $4,000 each and left the court
room
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
GROWING SERIOUS.

The Rebellion Among the Half-Breeds In
the Northwest Territory, Manipulated BY
Rel, Assuming Serious Proportions.
WINNIPEG, MAN, March 25.-It is
learned from reliable source that Louis
Reil with | 800 men has taken possession
of Duck Lake, midway between Clark's
Crossing and Carlton, and established his
headquarters there. He has seized sew
eral trading posts in that vicinity, but as
yet has not made any move toward Fort
Carlton or Prince Albert. Carlton Is well
fortified, and able to resist any attack. 1t
is thought Reil will not attempt any adj
vance beyond possibly preventing Colonel
Irwin from crossing the Saskatchewan
River on his way to Carlton, where he is
expected to arrive to-day.
Rel having destroyed the branch tele-
graph line between Clark's Crossing and
Prince Albert, news must come by mes
senger either to Humboldt or Battle
Ford. Reil's followers are chiefly French
half-breeds, who served under him during
the Red River rebellion. Very few In
dams are believed to have Joined them.
The feeling here is that it is very serious
affair, and further news is anxiously
looked for. Lieutenant-Go Dewd-
ney of The Northwestern Territories is
here locked in his private room receiving
dispatches and keeping up communica-
ton with the Government at Ottawa.
The Ninetieth Battalion have received
orders to be in readiness, and expect to
start from here by special train to-day.
The rebels are likely to be joined by the
Indians. In that event large force will
be in the field. There is intense excite
ment here The difficulty arises from the
nom settlement of land claims.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28

Within the last nine years ten men
have been murdered in Macon County,
and no man has been hanged-in fact,
every one of the slayers is at large-not
even one of them in the Penitentiary.
Some of these parties escaped. Others
pleaded successfully the insane dodge,
while others were cleared by sympa-
thetc juries. Plata (M0.) Home
Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
GENERAL Arson stager's Condition.

CHICAGO, ILL, March 24,-Reports
from General Arson Stager's residence
late last night are that ne is resting
quietly with his general condition I'M
changed. The physicians, however, agree
that the end is very near and may come
at any moment.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28
IN THE SOUDAN.
Sanguinary Fight Between the Arabs and
British Near Suaklm.

Sanguinary Fight Between the Arabs and
British Near Suaklm.
SUAKIM, March pa supply train
conveying water and supplies to aH adj
vance zereba near Tamai, was surprised
yesterday by several thousand Arabs,
The Berkshire regiment and a detach-
ment of marines, which were guarding
the train, hastily formed a square and
met the Arab charge CALAMITY, though
greatly hampered by the confusion
into which the troops had
been thrown, and despite the fact
that the animals were stampeded and the
camp followers demoralized and utterly
helpless, they were kept inside the square
and each successive assault of the Arabs
was met with a murderous fire. At the
moment of writing this dispatch the bat
tie is still raging, aud further details arc
anxiously awaited.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28

SUAKnI, March 2S.-The Arabs were
finally repulsed leaving 900 dead upon
the field. The British loss is 10 killed
and wounded.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-31
a HALuELUJAH WEDDING.
Captains Hooper n Leslie, of the
Salvation Army, Married at
the Barracks.

Philadelphia Times.
otis ten cents tonight" said Captain
| Condit ct the door of the Salvation Army
barracks, en- Germantown road, below
Berks street last evening. i'There's
going to be a wedding, q real hslleluiah
Wedding. staff Captain Hooper, division
officer, is going to be married to Captain
Leslie, of Bristol, England. She was OK.
pected here on the 9Th of the month, but
her ship only arrived from London on
Monday. He hasn't seen her in two
years, but thanks to General Booth, she's
come over to him and they're to be mar
ried tonight.
Salvation Hill was crowded with people
of all ages. There were not a few real
sealskin cloaks among the crowd and
three policemen warmed themselves at the
stove. A few minutes after eight o'clock
the still, chill air was alive with the dis.
cordant sounds of a key-buglc, several
t]ambourines and some mems and wom-
ems voices, decidedly unframed. Then
a procession of Salvation soldiers marched
in, shouting as they entered; GOOD
Bless All Here" and took possession of
the raised platform at the end of the hill.
In a few moments this plStform was oc-
cupied by seven men in scarlet jerseys,
and an equal number of women in poke
bonnets, decorated with red ribbons, the
proprietor of the key-bugle, the k~ey-bugle
itself, the tamboutines, about Il dozen old
ladies also in poke bonnets and a big bass
| drum.
On silence being obtained, Captain
Faith Jetffy, ''the Plymouth Jailbird,"
led tho services with a hymn, between
each verge of which she requested her
audience to behave themselves. Among
Foster and Captain "Dutch, Abery, a
young m who sang a hymn In Penn.
s~ylvania Dutch and apologized for her
accent az che had "only been In Reading
three weeks, but so many speak Dutch
there l had to learn it," In the middle
of the prayer from Captain Thompson
the door of the hall was thrown open and
Captain Hooper and his finance entered
and marched up the aisle. Captain
Hooper did all the blushing, the sea all
and many a fight in England having
taken all the blush out of Captain Leslie.
They were followed in a few moments by
the minister, the Rev. DIR. Morris, of the
Jefferson street Methodist church.
The wedding ceremony was begun by
Bugler Whetmore, who announced thar
that he had some questions to ask the
happy pair before they could be Joined II
wedlock. Was the captain, he asked
undertaking this solemn step with thu
intention of u~pholding and furthering thu
interests of the Salvation army2 To THU
the groom replied, with tears in his eyes
that he was. The lady said she was also
Then DR., Morris went through the usua
marriage service of the Methodist church
heHitatlng every time he addressed them
whether to call them captain, Mr.. ant
Miss, and concluding by saying, "Mrs
Hooper, l congratulate you" The eve,
ning's entertainment was not considered
complete until the bride and bridegroom
had made speeches. These consisted il
a shower of blessings on the spectators
and an announcement from Captain Con
dit that q free lunch would be distributes
to-day at n o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-31

gold. A bird somewhere in the distance,
as the faded old horse breaks into q
stumbling trot, throws out upon the
frosty air a succession of Joyous notes
that are caught up and answered by an
other still further on. She pushes back
her bonnet aud draws a long, restful
breath. All, there is the big
stone school house and the snug
little cottages on either side of the street
and there is the low og,house 30 full lsst
summer of merry laughter, and music and
llght-why, what a crowd about the jail
doorl Oh, yes, they are there to wei.
come the boys; why, of course, and how
kind Only she longed to be the frat to
meet him.
The old horse slackens his pace and
c reeps on; she leans out eagerly, letting
the lines fall, and clasping her hands,
while the color comes and goes In her
pale checks, She does not see them!
But then her eyes are dimmed no doubt
by the wind and rain and cold. Stand
aside there gentlemen She has come
to meet them; do you not understand
She Is lifted gently down and her fall
terlng steps are supported ass'she moves
blindly forwsre. The plying crowdparta,
two or three men rise hurrledly from the
things that lie white and stark and rigid
upon the ground.
Well2 Well, the meeting is over.-M
M. Davis, in the Current.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-31
The Mechanical Boy.

A marvel indeed is the diligent bee
That doth the fleet moments employ;
Yet still q phenomenon greater than he
Is the lively Mechanical Boy,
With jackknife and hammer from morning
till night
He fashions each rude little toy.
And no other pleasure gives equal delight
To the lively Mechanical Boy,
When school hours are over he comes rush
ing in,
His countenauce lightened with JOY.
And soon will the kitchen resound with the
vim
OF the lively Mechanical Boy,
With bow and with arrow, with pop'gun
and kite,
Ills parents he'll often annoy;
Yet every indulgence is claimed as Alright
BY the lively Mechanical Boy
But urge him to labor, though ever so light
That instant heA stupid and coy;
But when for the cupboard he koes for a
bite
He's a lively Mechanical Boy.
Tho sham battle RACES with n~eighboripg
boys,
The skirmishers quickly deploy;
That naught in creation can equal the noise
OF the lively Mechanical Boy.
Though oft you remind him that ten penny
nails
VIII double-thick pockets destroy.
The birch is the tinal resort that avails
To convince the Mechanical Boy.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-31
EDUCATION IN RED AND BLACK.
Negroes and Indians Tell of the
Beauties of Christianity.
New York journal.

New York Journal.
Black men and red Grow Indians and
colored brethren, Omahas and North Car
o~'inians, Sioux and Virginians, sat around
the pulpit of the big Brooklyn tabernacle
yesterday. They were living witnesses of
the efforts of the Sunday school mission
education, and they formed a pleasing
foreground to the numbers of paie-faces
that stretched back tie the doors.
A new policeman tried to break up the
meeting because ''rouge ct noir" is a for
hidden game, but nothing else marred its
success.
A qusrtetEe of colored Hampton col.
lege students sang some weird plantation
dittles. Cold.dsy-w when .he.gets.left, a
Sioux chief, seemed particularly pleased
with them, and explained that they Wv
idly recalled the wal whoops he was wont
to utter before his conversion.
Mr.. w. ii. Daggs, a negro graduate of
Hampton college, told feelingly of his
struggle for an education, how for
months and months he had denied him.
self hoe cake and watermelon 30 that he
could save his money to buy Ollendor's
German reader.
Noah-La. Flegche-which is Omaha In
dian for Short ~Talk-spoke for an hour
and a half. He Is q sturdy son of the
forest, erect as a primeval sycamore.
81 am married." said Short Talk
through an interpreter-signs of disap.
pointment among the ladies-"and l am
a carpenter. l am glad / embraced
Christianity, for it teaches that one wife
is enough for any man. / built a house
for my wife and children before | left my
reservation, and when l return I'm going
to put a roof on It,"
George Bushotter, a Sioux Indian,
made an address In which he announced
his intention of becoming a minister of
the gospel, and White Ghost, chief of the
Crow Creek Indians, declared that moth
ing could induce him to leave his father
as he calls Major Glassman, the Crow
Creek government sgent-thst his fol-
lowers are tired of raising the deuce, and
were now raising wheat, and that mis-
children were learning their A. B. @.
"My brethren" said White Ghost. In
the beautiful similes of his native tongue,
"a juicy beefsteak lays way over jerked
buffalo meat and red flannel underclothes
discount blankets. l think your brother
knows when he Ia we'll off. Ugh!"
General S. @. Armstrong complained
of the small salaries that were paid to
Indian agents, and asserted that good
and honest men found difficulty In living
on them. After the pow-wow the audi
ence departed.