Show by telegraph telegram P h congressional HOUSE U S ae after the adoption of a bill placing the of official reporters i iu a the speakers hands bands the house houfe went into a committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill rejected several amendments offered to it and having finished the bill reported it to the house which passed parsed it and adjourned jour ned AMERICAN wm orton president of tiie the western union telegraph company and hubbard the advocate of the postal telegraph were before the postal committee of the senate today to day that committee having the postal telegraph bill under consideration de tion vice president wilsons Wil sons health is so much improved that he lias 1119 abandoned his ills contemplated tr trip I 1 i p to florida for the present but w will ill lil go to massachusetts the national womans comans suffrage sui Sul convention met here today to day susan B anthony presiding letters from general butler and gerritt smith expressing sympathy were read and speeches were made and resolutions adopted at a late hour tonight to night the opinion on prevails among a large number of congressmen that senator conkling may accept the chief lie he has left washington for new york petitions for inere increasing asin postal carriers curriers Curri ers salaries to a thousand dol lar were reported upon favorably today by the postal committee of the US U SS Senate enate a resolution was adopted instructing the postal committee to inquire into the expediency of continuing the mail service on routes where the actual receipts are aro not a quarter of the expenses NEW YORK 15 commodore vanderbilt Vanderbil fc notified the union trust company today to day that he was prepared to take up the notes given by the lake shore company in oct 73 these notes amount to and were the subject of general remark during the panic jas IV freeman the jersey city matricide alleges al 1 ages that the shooting 9 of his mother was accidental his sister who was present says lie he took deliberate aim at his liis mother as she turned to leave the room and she fell dead anthe thresh hold the empire stores front street brooklyn filled with various kin kinds d s of merchandize merchandise dize were werd partially destroyed by fire this afternoon loss all the proprietors of places of amusement tonight to night were notified by the police that hereafter no sacred concerts will be allowed on sunday nights the ori anler ker ler creates considerable comment among the tile germans lagrave for some time in prison here awaiting trial on civil and criminal charges of swindling h has as disappeared the U S marshal i overlooking the criminal charge accepted ball bail in on the civil suit and lagrave has not been seen since the gorn born commercial mercial notes of the atlantic and pacific R B R thomas scott president failed to pay the dividend of 11 per cent guaranteed on the stock of the pacific BR RR of missouri due today to day philadelphia 15 13 A meeting of the creditors of jay cooke was held today to day at least a thousand persons were present blid prid the best feeling prevailed statements were made by the receiver and by several members of the firm and the register read various documents and reports after which a resolution to place itie itle the settlement of the estate in the hands bands of a trustee and a committee of the creditors under the section of the bankrupt act was vas adopted without objection E aa M lewis the present receiver of the estate was elected tru trustee the business of electing a committee was postponed till tomorrow to morrow the attempt to restore the track of the southern railroad co to allow the trains of the side roads to run was resisted by the strikers who have det determined to stop all repairs till they receive their pay mich midi 15 J 11 matthews late printing clerk of the U 8 1 house of ite representatives besenta and rather father in law of bellu schuyler colfax died lied here this morning indianapolis 15 the coroners jury in the case of col stillwell shot fest vest yesterday erday at anderson by cor win rendered a verdict of justifiable lioni homicide icide felde AUSTIN tex tox 15 the chairman of the committee appointed by the house of representatives of the fourteenth legislature went to governor davis today to day and presen pre sen ed the resolutions of the house requesting the governor to order the secretary of state to deliver to the committee the returns of the late election the secretary having refused to deliver them theirl to the tile committee the governor informed the committee that lie he did not consider they had a right to the returns butia but if the chairman would go to the secretary of states office and take them he would not be resisted lie he accordingly went and the secretary showed him where the returns were and he lie took them away the secretary filing a written protest against the act it is now supposed that the inauguration of the new state officers will take place this evening if the canvassing of the vote does not take too long it is tho thought tight that gov davis w will III ill yield all without trouble omalia 15 all the printers here are on strike on account of a reduction of wages from forty five cc cents ants a thousand to forty cents the tho uil uli second train for boston on the new bedford and taunton R B R left the rails mils between myricks ville and taunton this morning the engine and asur faur cars went down an ail embankment breaking them badly and injuring fifteen dersons fer ier persons sons four seriously NEW YORK ino seventy of the persons arrested on tuesday during the attack of the tiie police on the crowd in tompkins square have llave been held for trial one of the communists is agod fifteen others of those arrested say they are neither delther communists nor in sympathy with them and had no intention of violating the law when attacked by the police A washington despatch says that senator conkling has been informed that the president will nominate him for chief justice and it adds that lie he will accept the hamilton hmilton building in court street brooklyn was burned this morning the loss is estimated at 9 CHICAGO 10 the inter oceans washington special says the teatta testimony taken by the tile house hous a judiciary ar committee in new orleans aring during recess regarding judge durell is is very damaging to that official among the important points of the testimony are the following in regard to the midnight order a as s it is termed issued by durell by which the mechanics mechanic institute t the I 1 ic place of meeting of the ae legislature g isla isia was seized it came out that the order was issued on du relps relis own motion and without a knowledge of either of the attorneys acting in the matter in other words durell made a motion for this order before himself as judge and in the latter capacity he issued it it also appeared th that at durell made two orders in regard to one of his familiar friends for the pur purpose liose of throwing the chief business of or bankrupt cases into his hands bands the first order directed that in all bankruptcy cases this special friend named norton should be assigned except where the creditors appointed some other person and lest this appointment of other persons should after a time take the business out of nor tons hands it was further provided that lie should act as assignee in all the latter class of cases when wilen trouble arose about the excessive fees durell made another order orde to the effect that no complaint about fees or papers looking to procure a remedy for excessive fees should be filed unless the sum of 50 was first deposited this of course greatly lessened the formal complaints about the rates fixed by IN norton Torton there is much evidence te tending to connect durell with nortons Nor tons excesses and on this the case casse for impeachment peach ment will mainly rest the prospect for cassons Kas sons bill for restoring the jurisdiction of indian dia dla affairs to the war department is considered good the bill pro vides that the secretary of var war shall have the same powers and j jurisdiction u ris after the first of july next as are now possessed by the secretary of the interior in relation to all the acts of the tile commissioner of indian afna afra affairs irs ins and I 1 hat bat off omm meers officers of thearty the army shall tale talf tal tai t f i tiit tiri he places of the superintendent superintend enty enly ignuts sub agents ac wherever tilo tile secretary shall shail see fit that the aid ald ald army officers shall be charged with all the duties of indian agents without extra compensation the bureau to be under the direction of a briga dier general contracts for transportation por tation aro arc to be made mado in the same manner as in the army and special licenses to traders may be withheld or regulated by the secretary in accordance with the laws relating to the same BOSTON 16 A I 1 fire re broke out at one this afternoon in the lace store of B S houghton co 72 and 74 fremont st and for a time a great conflagration was feared as the hydrants hydrants were frozen and the firemen were unable to get water at two pm the fire was subdued the loss is not ascertained washington dec 16 the senate committee on public buildings and grou grounds ads have decided that it will be inexpedient to consider any propositions for erecting gov government that the work should be confined to those now in progress which are strictly indispensable the senate postal committee today to day heard a continuation of the arguments of wm orton and G 0 hubbard respectively opposing and advocating the postal telegraph bill the attorney general has hns received a dispatch from the U S marshal at austin texas stating tho the fact of Goyer governor nor cokes inauguration yesterday and saying that armed men were guarding the executive offices other otiler armed men were holding possession of the legislative isla tive halls balls and that a conflict seemed inevitable and a message from the attorney general might avert trouble the attorney general replied that he could only appeal to the parties to peaceably adjust the difficulties if possible that he had no power to interpose force nor dor had bad the marshal any I 1 a luty duty to perform in the premises except to use his moral influence in ithe the national comans womans suffrage convention today to day a committee was appointed to act in conjunction with the local association of the district of columbia in making congress give the right of fuff sunn suffrage to the women of the district distrI CL miss anthony read a pe to congress which was endorsed by the convention asking to be relieved from the sentence of the court for voting for grant and wilson at the late presidential election and a resolution was unanimously adopted calling for the impeachment peach ment of judge hunt who sentenced anthony vice president wilson being in the hallwas called on for a speech but declined on the ground of his ab physicians y sic bie lans ians orders but said he long since came to the conclusion that his wife and mother and sisters were as much entitled to vote as he was and be he had not changed his mind gov davis of texas telegraphed the president today to day that he is entitled under the constitution to hold bold office till the of april and that he is making preparations to protect the state off omm meers officers and asking m military assistance there is no probability ability that the government will interfere or change the policy indicated in the recent telegrams of the president to davis and of general williams to the US marshal at austin AUSTIN texas 16 10 there is great excitement liere liero here this evening over the arrest of the mayor by some of governor daviss colored guards A hundred citizens rallied to the call for assistance by the sheriff who came to the rescue of the mayor and for a time trouble seemed imminent but governor davis informed the sheriff that the arrest was a mistake and he had the mayor released subsequently all the troops on both sides were disbanded causing great rejoicing rei dicing I 1 I 1 OTTUMWA la ia 16 A fire here early this morning destroyed half a block of business buildings and three dwellings loss PITTSBURG 16 by the breaking of a wheel on the car of a coal train on the castle and shannon R rj B today to day while crossing a high trestle the train was broken in two and all the cars were precipitated a hundred feet to the bottom of the gorge the bra brakeman keman heman and a boy on the car with him were crushed to death OTTAWA 16 the old barracks on the parliament coupled by the pacific nir coas asan an office was totally destroyed by file fice this evening all the plans and aud nield field notes connected with the pacific surveys were burned the loss will exceed one million dollars MILWAUKEE 17 an the oth of december bob turner of potosi grant co wis was arrested for the murder of his brother albert the inquest which has just been concluded reveals a bloodthirsty depravity rivaling that of the bonder bender family the murdered mail man was killed with an axe the head being nearly severed from his ills body as lie he was wag coming out of a mineral hole in which he lie was at work he lie fell back speechless and never moved more the murderer then called to another brother named newton who who was in an adjoining haft hart to come and newton commenced to climb but when lie he reached the surface lie he perceived the tile body of the murdered albert and was waa about to run when bob seized him and showing him the bloody axe threatened to 14 kill iii lii him instantly unless he swore to assist in putting the body away and to preserve silence this newton assented to but on the first opportunity lie escaped to potosi where lie he gave the alarm and the murderer lied fled to lancaster ho he was pursued arrested and lodged in prison where ty liere lie he soon attempted the life of his keeper the second murder which has just come to light is that of olney Ne neeley eleya a youth yontl of the town of ellenborg ellenboro Ellen boro atthe 9 of this murder bob turner was cutting hoop poles for mr bell on tuesday dec the boy neeley started out from Bells nelis to visit his mother who resides in new california his road joad lay through the timber where turner was at work that was the last seen been of young neeley until the ath of january januari the thet people residing in the neighborhood having heard of turners murde murderous ous propensity and knowing that young neeley had to pass near where he was at work turned out on friday last to hunt hurit for ills his remains eight men started fro from bells belts and searched the ground on each side of the road when they arrived upon the premises where turner had been chopping they found the body which lay as it had fallen six weeks before tho the indications showed that turner had commenced to cut down a sapling having struck two blows on the left side and one on the right the second blow evidently was the one that killed the boy the position in which the body lay and the course the blow from the axe had taken both indicated it the boys head was nearly cut from the body only hanging by a smail small piece of skin on the back 0 of f the neck the axe having gone clear through the neck when found young neeley had a paper parcel linder under his arm just as he was carrying it the body was taken care orand of and a abury jury paneled em to hold an inquest and the verdict was that olief olney neeley aged 14 years came to ils his I 1 death by a blow from an axe in the hands of robert turner several other mysterious murders having taken place laco lace in localities in which turner fiad flad had been seen marshal bennett visited the prisoner and asked him to confess if ho he had any hand in them he finally confessed that he remembered killing two men one a stranger whom he |