Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-03-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
CIVILIZED INDIANS In COUNCIL
HARLAN TO BE SEATED.
Ties Placed on q railroad Track to
IDjure . NeighbOr-A shortage
of IS, 800.

Delegates from the FIVE civiliz ID
tribes In convention at Eufaula, In the
Indian Territory, have pledged them.
selves that no Nation o party to the /
compact shall, without the consent of
all the other parties, cede or in any
manner ALLEVIATE to the United States
any part OF their present territory
Provisions have been made by the
eoavention tor the punishment of crime,
restoration of stolen property, change
OF citizenship from one nation TO an
other, and suppression of the sale OF
ard ent spirits.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections of the Ohio House, which has
been Investigating the alleged election
frauds at Cincinnati, will submit O rel
port 10 day recommending that Harlan,
the Republican, be seated in place OF
IButterfield, Democrat. The report de-
clares that all the Republican mem bers
are entitled to their seats, which in
cludes nine members who were given
seats at the beginning of the session,
and one on prima facie showing made
by the committee.
Ties were placed on the Michigan
Central Railway near Galesburg, on
Sunday night, but were discovered In
time TO prevent disaster. On Monday
night Henry Seymour was arrested and
confessed the crime, say ing he had al
grudge against neighbor, and placed
the ties near his bouse to direct sus
picion against him. Tuesday morning
Seymour was arraigned in Court, plead.
ed guilty, and was sentenced 10 twenty
years in the penitentiary.
Constable Liebenthal, of Eatontown,
N. j., who arrested "Mingo Jack" and
lodged him in jail, was himself arrested
lon Tuesday morning on the charge OF
manslaughter, and taken to the Free
hold jail It is alleged that he was
aware that an effort would be made 10
lynch his prisoner, and took no steps to
prevent 1t.
The Governor of California has ap-
pointed George Hearst U. S. Senator, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
ISenator Miller. He was the Democra.
tic candidate for U. 8. Senator when
Leland Stanford was elected by the
Legislature.
The Government papers to test the
validity of the Bell Telephone patents
/, / at Colum bus, OHIO. IL is understood
that the first question considered in
, Iconnection with the case will be that Of
.Ijurisdietion.
Ex-President Arthur on Tuesday re-
| signed the chairmanship of the Board
{of Trustees of the Grant Fund Associa.
I ton. Five hundred dollars from the
, Emperor of Japan was received on
Tuesday. The total fund is now $780,
Ills.
= The Treasury Department has pre-
pared q statement showing that OF $40,
I000, 600 three per cent. bonds embraced
In the 135th call S. 40 $3.50 are held by
national banks 70 secure circulation and
i -Ipublic moneys.
The safe In Lockard's store, at Ca
7 naan. Indiana, WAS blown open OF
n Monday night and robbed Of $40, ,060 il
Registered Government bonds and $12t
7 in cash. The Post-office in the sam,
|. town was also robbed.
Charles Barrett, aged 55 years, pre-
4 Iprietor of the Kenlessville Hotel, a.
!, Easton, Pa, committed suicide on Mon
D day morning. He had been melancholit
for some time.
GA. Burgess, one of the stock fir Il
> Iof Scott, Haines 81 Butt, in Chicago
z died on Sunday night from the effecti
of a dose of poison taken last Thurs
J. lday.
ri Secretary Manning was ON Tuesday
= seiz I'd with an attack Of vertigo in tn,
Treasury Department and was taken t,
4 his home. During the afternoon hi
: Icondition was reported much improved
9l A fire in Cham bersburg, New Jersey
last evening, destroyed Vests cracke
If bakery aud the Philadelphia Plusl
a Company building. Loss, $40, goo; in
t, surance, $50, 900.
al A shortage" of So, 500 was on Tues
le day discovered in the accounts o
Is franklin Freeman, City Treasurer o
Dover, New Hampshire, who died thre
IT weeks ago.
g. The bark James Stafford, which ar
/, rived at New York on Monday even
II ing, from Havre, lost five men over
board during the voyage.
IT The Southern California Citrus Fai
in Chicago opened last evening, with
y fine display and large attendance.
D Il S-ON-