The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
POLITICAL.


The Naval Board of Inspection will recon-
mend that the - old monitors lying at League
Island, Richmond, Annapolis and New York
be put in condition for service.-The COM
mission Of Admiral Harmony, as Chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy De-
partment expired on Thursday No officer of
the Department, except Secretary Tracy, can
carry on the business of the bureau until his
successor is appointed.-The Secretary of
State received a report from the United States
Consul at Colon, stating that work along the
Panama Canal has entirely ceased.-The
President issued proclamation on Wednesday,
opening the Oklahoma lands to settlement on
April y, which will throw open for settlement
100000 acres of land.-Clcrical plumbers
and constitutional defects were discovered in
three Of the most important bills passed by the
Indiana Legislature during its recent session.
Col. Tichenor and Mr.. Bachelor, who were
recently appointed and confirmed Assistant
Secretaries Of the Treasury Department, as
sumed their new duties on Monday.-The
Senate adopted a resolution authorizing the
President of that body TO appoint committee
of seven to represent the Senate at the Wash
ington Inaugural Centennial in New York, on
April 30.-The Illinois State Legislature
passed joint resolution indorsing the nominal
tion of Robert t. Lincoln to be Minister to
England last Thursday.-The President ap-
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NJ. Wilson, Of Arkansas, and EX-Gov. George
d. Robinson, Of Massachusetts, a commission TO
treat with the Cherokee and other Indians with
relation TO the opening of the Oklahoma
country.-Yice-P President Morton appointed
Senators Sherman, Dawes, Allison, Cullom,
Hampton, Eustis, Colquit and ingalls, as COM
mite TO attend the New York Centennial cele-
bration.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
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have killed her three husbands and the sister of
her present husband who lived in Allegheny
City, Pa."Arthur Kruschenski, a 14-year-old
boy, of Brighton Park, Chicago, heir to $780,
600, has mysteriously disappeared. His father
thinks he has been abducted and is held for a
ransom.-Jim Turney and Mack Francis, col
ored were hanged at Lebanon Tenn, on
Thursday, for the murder of Len Martin last
August. Turney's neck was broken, but
Francis died by strangulation after horrible
suffering. Mary Short, a white woman,
was found lying dead in her bedroom, in Chi
cago. Friday night, with her throat cut from
ear TO ear Her colOred husband is suspected
of numbering her and has been arrested
According TO the confession of Charles Kock,
Of Allegheny City, the wife Of John Thuenig
hired him to murder her husband, so that she
could get the $1,000 insurance on his life. The
woman was arrested and put in jail on Friday
last, but denied the charge.-An attempt was
made 10 wreck the west bound limited express
on the Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railroad
last Saturday, for the purpose, it is supposed,
Of robbing the Wells, Fargo express Care.
NJ Hughey, jr., express agent at Blocton, Ala,
was attacked by two men, who wanted to secure
a package containing 5000. Shots were ex-
changed, and one of the men was killed.
The Old Dominion steamship WyanOke, from
New York collided with the schooner Ruth
Darling off the Delaware Capes on Saturday.
The schooner was sunk and Capt. Lowell and
Seaman Charles H. Harrison were lost.-A
young stranger forced David AToffatt, Presi-
dent of the First National Bank Denver, to
money to him. The robber not only threatened
Mr. Moffatt with revolver, but declared he
would blow mp the bank with nitro-glycerine
] il his demand was not committed with