| Show to all the officers of or iny any other department as may be required to secure prompt and ive iva assistance in the conduct of the investigation captain A K X long of the commissary sary subsistence of this post committed suicide today to day he went home at his hia usual hour this afternoon and entering his eifes r room had a brief conversation with harti her land and immediately afterwards passed into an adjoining room and shot himself near the heart causing death almost immediately revenue agent wagner of south bouth carolina j telegraphs that deputy marshat marshal pitman was removing a prisoner for violating the revenue ili ill laws s ir rom om greenville south carolina 1 I t to walhalla by order of judge 13 bryan is a i for the purpose of or giving givin 9 bail for his appearance aind and while waiting to make the change chango of ca ears cars rs ac a seneca three men appeared and assaulted the deputy throwing him down and holding ai him m there and calling to the prisoner to make his escape which he did the deputy was severely handled thre threatened atene d with death abused and cursed in the presence of a number of bystanders stai stal iders wha had gathered but who rendered him no assistance asse stance to prevent the rescue an and all iii escape of his prisoner sir edward accompanied by lord dufferin Goyer governor nor general of canada called on the president today to day OSWEGO ni Y 22 22 the ontario floering flouring flou ring mill billj owned by by MJ M J cummings was wag burned tonight to night loss insurance ANNAPOLIS S 22 the trial of judge geo yellott associate judge of the fourth judicial district indicted for drunkenness while on the bench took place here today to day the prosecution failed to ti sustain ustain the indictment and the defon defendant dant daut was acquitted CHICAGO 22 three buildings on kinzie street were burned tonight and H nry mueller a 13 year old boy was suffocates suffocated the loss by the tho fire is small ast pago PATO 22 the T report of the grand jury of ramsey bamsey county made today rinds linds that systematic and enormous frauds were committed lin registration of voters for the Nd november vember election in 1877 by falsifying the poll books in the of the city clerk in which a large number of fictitious were skillfully fully and carefully checked as they thoy would have been checked had they actually voted at the election in 1876 of which these books purported to be a true record of sueh such fictitious names werd were found city clerk M J oconnor assistant clerk VV J oconnor the aldermen and J judges of election are severely censured everal beveral ia indictments were found washington 23 the senate committee on foreign relations held a long aes abs bession session sion slon this morning to hear the statements bearing on the chinese question from 8 S willis williams who lived forty years in china first aa as a missionary and subsequently as secretary of the united states State 3 legation senator sargent was present by invitation of ane committee and had leave to cross examine the distinguished witness doctor williams protests against any abrogation or change of our treaty with the chinese but admitted that the con control contri trl tri of the american trade in china is fast going exclusively into the bands of the chinese and he believed they would absorb the whole foreign trade in 25 years he said however that ft frelan relan reign importations are increasing he testified that the chinese in china work for about 10 cents per day and are Indi induced iced to come to california to make money he said they all shipped through brokers who have a mortgage on their labor but come voluntarily he thought china was being elevated slowly by outside influences he did not profess to have any particular acquaintance with the chinese in california Hes he sald said aidone aldone one objection to chinese immigration was that they did not bring any families and another was their langu language agre he now halis hails from connecticut and is a professor of chinese literature in yale vale college he thought that the presence of loj IOU OW chinese lu connecticut would not hot be disadvantageous if there wab waa room for their labor but in reply to a question of sargent he admitted that the people ot connecticut would be likely to object abject if the avenues of labor were filled with chinese he did not speak very highly of chinese truthfulness on the average but excused them being heathen he was much i more nore at home homo in tho the discussion of the chinese in china than on immigrants and he made many admissions tending against the encouragement of mongolian immigration after professor williams had retired senator sargent objected to the committee hearing persons selected by the chinese lobby unless it heard both sides and obtained power to send for persons and papers in which case he had a list of some 25 persons in california whom lie he wished subpoenaed the chairman replied that the suggestion was proper that mr williams was the only one who could be called and that he intended to procure reference to the committee of the book of testimony taken by the congressional chinese cammi slon sion sargent said he had no objection to arguments before the committee but wished to be heard in reply to anyone sent by tho the six companies the committee assured him that he should have this privilege he intends to have referred ret erred to this committee also the monster petition pra praying y ing for federal action to restrict chinese immigration which was received from san francisco a few years ago delegate jacobs and judge gilfrey Gil vrey of washington territory made an argument before the tho senate sanate railroad committee in advocacy of the proposition that the northern pacific railroad company be required to build its brunch road from walla walla to seattle beattie mr wigginton today to day received news of the death of hia hla daughter in california this sad intelligence interfering with hla hia work of preparation ration wll wil delay action upon his seat now occupied by pacheco chymer in the appropriation committee today to day moved to have the minister to bolivia restored and consuls also aiso sent back to that nation he urges as a reason that 0 one ne pennsylvania co company was shipping heavily to ports in that country one cargo alone of late having reached consular protection was needed NEW ORLE oble ORLEANS ANs 23 A fire at greenville miss destroyed the stores of C E white punch and john mcnamara loss Fin taya laya drug at store ore wetherbee hardware and Summer bummer fielda were damaged 23 gon gen thomas ewing addressed the legislature last night on the silver and currency question senator voorhees and were detained in washington CHICAGO 23 the postmaster eter general recently received numerous complaints that merchandise packages are taken from the mails malls investigation shows they were folen tolen before deposited in thede the department part ment the postmaster general Is now in correspondence with eikill an official of the london post office who has haa prepared a system of checks which he thinks thinker will prevent these losses postmaster general will recommend congress to authorize the experiment the tribunes Tri bunda bunea washington special says persons who have canvassed the house state that a close count shows less than 90 votes for the texas pacific bill the time washington special says of blaines speech yesterday a literal mad bull plunging about in the traditional china shop could not have created greater havoc than did blaine in the senate chamber plain matter of fact men call blaine a Dam phool for needlessly calling down upon hia ila head the enmity of the entire state of massachusetts there was nothing id iri the occasion to warrant blaines nervous bullying and the scene was as unexpected as sensa bensa dional what was proposed to be an occasion of the greatest formality was turned into a scene of the wildest excitement between two new england states in w which blaine hoar and dawes were merethe we rethe the chief actors in accordance with the ballot taken by the board of trade in 1874 and the ruling ot of the supreme court of illinois on monday W N sturges was today to day formally expelled from tho the privileges of membership he has been one of the heaviest operators on changes for many years yeara |
