The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-11-08
NO.;s43
NEWS FROM THE '',..5
e NATIONAL CAPITAL.
III. I'D. Floyd Sparfssnbsssss,s Neyy
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ANoTpER DEATH From SMALLpox.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-Another
denth and another case have result.
: ed from tho smallpox epidemic
! which begap;in the Law Division
of the'-Interior Department.. and
the Marine Hospital Service is III.
Investigating q; report that still
another death traceable to the
same source has occurred. yVile
lam Owens, a young man employ.
ed in tho Consus Office as &C. mes
senger, died this morning from the.
dlseaso at tho pest house. :. Inves-
ugation by the Marine Hospital
Service into the suspicious illness
OF VanBuron Norwood, laborer
in tho Interior Department, living
ut Hyattsvillo, Md, shows that his
case is one of smallpox. Lettie
Mundol, colored woman, whose
cousin died last week from the dis
ease, contracted through contact
with an lntoricr Department em-
ployce, is reported to have died at
Glymont, Nd, twenty-one miles
from Washington on the Potomac
and the Marine Hospital Service
IS investigating. So far there
have boon throo deaths and eleven
cases traceable to the Law Divis-
ION OF the Interior Department.,
not counting that reported at
Glymont.
The contract for dredging and
improving the Harlom River, New
York, will be awarded to Ritten-
house r. Moore Of Mobile, Ala,
by tho War Department. When
proposals for doing the work were
opened the bid of Mr.. Moore was
found to DO considerably lower
than those of his competitors, the
ncxt lowest boing that Of New
York firm. Tho Engineer Office
at Now York after examining the
bids forwarded at1iom to Colonel
Casey, Chiof Of Engineers, with
tho rccommendation that tho bid
of the Now Y ork firm be accepted.
lie suggested that the bid of Mr..
Moore was informal because of
two Irregularities: Colonel Casey
examined the bids and endorses
the recommendation of the Now
York engineer and sent the pa
= pors to tho Secretary of War in
> this shape. Senator Pugh of Ala
bama heard Of the objection to the
bid Of Mr.. Moore and saw Colonel
Casey about tho mattor. Soon af-
ter tho Senator's visit Colonel Cas-
oy roconsldcrod his action, struck
out his approval Of tho tecommen-
dation, of, the New s:Hork officer,
and. returned, theo;. matter to tho
Secretary with the :raeommenda-
tion that. M. Mo9Ea be- awarded
the contract This is probably tho
first timo'that a firm so fur South
has succeeded in securing such q
large contr ia Now York.
:: In Viewiof the great number of
postonice, busglarios and highway
mail rob,beries, , the, Postmaster
-Gonoral to-day. issued offers Of re-
ward as follows: :'''. -
/ "Ono Thousand dollars. for the
conviction Of any Sporson,. in any
United Statos Court, on the charge
Eof robb,ng tho mails: while being
conveyed in a mail car attached to
any railway train, -. y"
'"Five hundred dollars for tho
conviction Of any porsoii, in any
United States COURT ON theschargo
Of robbihg the mails being convey
ed over and post route other than
a railway. -: >...e
"Two hundron and fifty dollars
for the conviction in any United
States Court on the charge of at
tempting to rob tho mails being
conveyed ovor any post.route.
I "Ono hundred and fifty dollars
for the arrest and conviction of
any person, in and United States
Court, on tho charge of breaking
into" q postoliico and stealing
therofrom or of robbing postof-
[ fec, Or Of larceny from a postof-
fco, of an amount not exceeding