The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-02
WASHINGTON
HAPPENINGS.
CREAM OF THE NEWS AS CULLED
FROM THE DAILY PRESS.
Which VIII BE OF Moro or Less Inter-
est to the General Reader


The long expected transfer OF troops has
been ordered ut last by the war department
and the orders 20 out ut once. The Fiji
teenth infantry. now Mt Fort Sheridan, Ills,
is ordered to relieve tho Twenty-fourth in
fantry now at Fort Bayard and other points
In New Mexico and Arizona. The Twenty
fourth infantry in turn will relieve the Six
teenth infantry, which is ut Fort Douglass,
Utah.
Fourteenth infantry. which il scattered
among Forts sherman. Idaho, Spokane and
Boise barracks, Idaho. The Fifth comes to
Chicago, taking tho plncc OF the Fifteenth
infantry Mt Fort Sheridan.
The Third artillery. with headquarters Mt
Francis barracks, Florida, ana scattered
along the South Atlantic const. at Barrancos,
Fla. Fort Monroe" Va, and Washington bnr-
racks, has been ordered to eNchnny. places
with the Fifth artillery. which is located IN
San Fraucis"o harbor, with headquarters at
Preside. and partly along the northwest
coast and II small portion at Fort 'MonToc.Va.
Tho branch headquarters of the National
Democratic committee in this city have been
'iosed and such business pertnininS to the
national committees IA Is transacted from
this point. will br carried ON under the super
vision of Senator Faulkner. chairman OF tue
Congressional committee. This branch was
opened FOR tho conduct of the literary part
Of the campaign. but the work il now done
in Chicago it was drcmca useless to longer
continue the Office here. Representative
Richardson is now in Chicago doing this
work, and Mr. Clark Howell. who has gone
to his home in Atlanta, will no. return TO
Washington
dealers OF Detroit Mich, have applied to tho
District court for Hu In JUNCTION to restrain
| the Secretary Of Agriculturea and his assistants
and any other person connected with the Iree
distribution of see dS by the government, from
executing the law OF Congress directing FREQ
! seed distribution. The bill claims that the
business OF Ferry& Co.. will be damaged S2o..
600 by execution of the act OF Congress ana
from the firm. Judge Cox fixed October 9Th,
for hearing providing the complaint was
served on the defendants on or before Sep
tembcr "a.
The treasury department is informed that
Edward Murphy. master Of the steamer Lnu-
rada, has been araiSEcd ut Port Antonio.
jamaica, and placed on trial ior UaiinSa 4
false report TO the collector OF customs IN re-
gard to landing on the island of ErvaSSh and
dischnrSinG cargo and reporting that he had
| no passengers on board during tn" voyage.
The indictment charged that % passengers
wore landed at Navassa. These wcr" the men
,h,. n,un,Inss
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Senator Faulkner. chairman O; tne Con-
.rrss;onal cnmpnyu committrr states that
his headquarters here would not be closed.
"Wr shall keep open until November 3rd,
ho said land ANY statement to the contrary
is made out whole cloth" Tho Senator also
repeated the statement that the litcraryA
- ]. L = I: SG ;sS its1I: col. G0u
ti.nu ;, vs. ~; ~ .'o' :. ., vV'I' N =
we have abandoned the rn,nnoi,-n in tbn
East, will tind himself very mucA Mistaken
,br r,s,oro,i"., ~ ' i,i' i',s I'.eu h"ti'' OF
lines to take effect ON October mo cow
rc'nG lines did nor meet tE"sr reductions in
iI,nr"i ,', n.y.. Al IN" r''"$ are now re-
s;aahoard restores rates ,.,, ,h, ,,n,, ir, ~
Southern aud Prnu-l !vania will immediately