Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-01
WASHINGTON.

In the House the joint resolution ex-
tending from March to April ID. 1896.
the time within which income-taX returns
may ,be made was agreed 10.
The naval appropriation bill, including
the provision for the transfer of the Co
lumbus caravels to the Columbian Mu-
scum, has passed the House.
The House Committee on Pensions has
agreed to report favorably the Herman
bill. which gives to all survivors of the
Indian wars prior to 1872 and from 1912
10 1896 pension of IS month for thirty
days service or longer.
Frederick Douglass, the noted freed
man, orator and diplomat died n few min
utes before o'clock Wednesday night at
his residence in Anacostia. suburb of
Washington. D. c.. of heart failure His
death was entirely unexpected. as he had
been enjoying the best of health. During
the afternoon he attended the convention
of the Women's Council and chatted with
Susan Il. Anthony and others with whom
he has been on intimate terms for many
years. When he returned home he sat
down and chatted with his wife about the
women at the convention. Suddenly he
gasped and fell back unconscious. With
in twenty minutes after the attack the
faint motion of the heart ceased entirely
and the great cx-slave statesman was
dead
i. Bogdanoif first secretary of the Rus
sian Legation at Washington, ID. c.
killed himself Wednesday morning by
shooting. He had been sick for two or
three weeks. and his suicide is supposed
TO be attributable to the suffering he
had endured. Mr.. Bogdanoff left behind
him two letters explanatory of his act
One was addressed simply, ITO be open
ed" and the other For relatives" The
latter was not opened. Mr.. Bokine, the
second secretary of the Russian Lega-
ton, opened the former. 1t contained
long gilded card on which was written in
Russian: For a long time, dead soul, this
body is all too heavy Il burden to be car
ried. For this reason | destroy myself"
The notes were written just before the
suicide went out riding. He was rather
reserved in his manner, and as he had
been in Washington only a few months
comparatively little was known about
him. He served I'm the Russian diplo-
matte service H. Servia for eight years,
then in Bulgaria for two years, and then
in Brazil.
Some pretty plain AngloSaNon Ian
guage was used by a committee of the
House of Representatives Friday in dis
posing of an application made by a citi-
zen of Michigan for an appropriation of
$4,000 to reimburse him for eight acres
of land near Portage Lake Harbor OF
Refuge. There were letters filed from
prominent attorneys and others of the vi
cinity protesting against such claim be-
ing allowed, and Gen. Casey, chief of
engineers, put another spoke in the claim
ants wheel by declaring the alleged farm
to be nothing more than a pile of sand
at its best. The Claims Committee de-
clared: I'VE have no hesitation i'm saying
this claim is the most unbushing attempt
to defraud the Government that has ever
come under our notice. This statement is
made with a knowledge gained by years
of experience with this class of claims"
Letters on the subject stated the land
i'm question was absolutely worthless, be
sides being fully half mile from the
canal. 1T is simply an attempt to bleed
the Government out of so much money!"
wrote correspondent of Congressman
Moon, "and furthermore nearly all the
land that could have been made available
has hoatpi out into Lake Michigan. At