| Show BY TELEGRAPH P tga aga mum lam A AMERICAN M 11 R I 1 C A N washington 4 the president erects the pension agency at st louis louls to be removed on january let to topeka kansas the annual report of the pension bureau shows that on june 1881 there were pensioners net increase during the year the aggregate annual inual value of ail all pensions the annual disbursements of the office however largely exceed this sum for in instance the total amount amolin t paid for pen pennons lons ions during the year exclusive of certain arrears in the claims allowed prior to january 1879 was the difference being arrears of pensions the commissioner of pensions recommends that congress be asked to appropriate for disbursement by his office the next fiscal year years ending june 1883 in payment of annual and accrued pensions and also that an incidental deficiency appropriation of be requested for the purpose of paying all arrears of pensions to claims and those whose case have or may be favorably adjudicated the current current fiscal year llie lile the ilie commissioner states that pension claims ainis cl will be allowed this year and that with a further increase in the ol clerical force of the bureau as many as may be disposed of next year tear fully two thirds odthe of the pending in g claims carry arrears of pensions amounting to nearly 1500 for each claimant and the commissioner believes that the interest of the country will be promoted by paying off the arrears as rapidly as possible even at a cost coat of bringing up the total pension disbursements bur to this year and next in order to reduce the annual charge upon the treasury more speedily thereafter it is estimated that the a aggregate gre gate annual nanual value of united states stales pensions at the close of the present year will be about and the total pension iwen IDen slon sion roll excluding first payments on arrears will never exceed ww alia foe for for far the prosecution com corn fenced argument during which he said the right to file information in some cincinnati cases eases being clear both under the statutes of the tiie united stags anu anil under the decisions of the courts the question re mains whether crimes charged in th this is information is one coming within the class of which information la Is allowable the only possible limitation to right to file information is found in the fifth amendment of the constitution already quoted the amendment prevents the filin ot of information for capital or otherwise infamous crime the offense charged in this information being clearly not capital it only remains to ascertain whether it is infamous bliss gave numerous citati citations oris ozis of decisions as to what crimes are infamous gus and held there Is no case casa holding conspiracy to defraud or conspiracy generally to be an infamous crime we therefore say eay broadly the conspiracy to defraud has never been held by tho the courts to be infamous crime and that auy passage in the text books which seems to hold are net intended to apply to conspiracies other than those which affect the administration of justice col ingersoll folio followed wed for the defense 1 I first call attention to the question of probable cause and in the examination of this question I 1 not only have the right but must necessarily inquire into what is charged in the information itself s because lecause L the coert court will remember that the charges in the information were made apart a part of the affidavits and the affidavits together with the information are all ad evidence all probable cause in this case I 1 do not temam examine no the information for the pur purpose pose of demurring to it or for the purpose of moving to 10 quash it but islin simply ply for the purpose of showing haw how much it amounts to as evidence what does it prove what is there here charged against my client mr brown broin he took up seriatim the counts of information criticising criticizing critic ising and ridiculing them as he proceeded his objection to the first count was it left eft to the prosecution to say whether he be charged relative to expediting mail service were unnecessary it was the question first to be decided by the Post postoffice office department whether it was necessary to ca carry earry mails one or seven times limes a week or two three or five miles an hour it was vas va snot not for the pleaders plea ders to say it was necessary they must set forth the circumstances and it was for the court to say whether or not it was necessary ary or improper it had been remarked that malls had been carried when the amount received by the united states was a mero mere bag bagatelle gatelle was that the only evidence of extravagance e rh arged did the government carcy mails malls for the purpose of making money or did the people regard the carrying of mails as one of the instruments st of civilization his doctrine was the people of theowest the west had bad as much right to a mail one week as his friend from new york Bliss hns has four distributions per day it was not sufficient clent for pleaders plea ders tobay to say aay the thing was extravagant they must set orth forth facts in order that the court might ludge judge aa as to whether it was extravagant or not ingersoll then proceeded to call the attention of the court to what he termed in consistencies apparent upon the face of the information asserting that it charged mcdonough with conspiring to defraud himself that it charged brady and mcdonough with conspiring and then charged mcdonough with paying his client Brown for influencing brady to cons cong conspire pire was it possible ble bie that one conspirator would apply to an outsider to use his influence to get the conspirator to conspire did not the knowledge of human nature show it to be impossible does not the knowledge kno wedge of the transactions of men prove rove it to be absolutely absurd W if it should turn out to be true that mcdonough paid fild brown to influence brady to re that allegation Ig tIon would be evidence to any court on earth that brady had not conspired the time had passed when the pleader could usurp the place of the court and oust a jury and the time would never come when in a case like thistle this the pleader could oust the grand jury ingersoll concludes his argument tomorrow to morrow A 8 Sol bol solomons onions chairman of or the committee on ways and means of the national garfield memorial hoppl hospital tal received the following from dir mra garfield mer MEI merton MENTOR tur tor Tun ohio oct 31 1881 mr arr A S solomons dear pir your letter of october giving n account of the ac tion of the memorial hospital commit commil mil ee has las been bein dul dui duly v ranted raw ran t ed I 1 aoi eol all aku lne ene tuo as a grand tribute to the memory of general arfield and one which would be to him most gratifying the high character of those engaged in it Is the best assurance of its accomplishment in the most worthy manner it will be my pleasure to contribute to this object very truly yours lucretia B R LD LITIE LITI I 1 LE E ROCK 4 the most extraordinary tra murder case ever tried in this state is now in in progress at arkadelphia Ark adelphia the defendants are miss sarah stokes and mr mry eliza beth shelton who are charged with the murder of miss bl elinda melinda stevens the tragedy occurred near mineral springs in howard cou county nty oe ds day y last april the stokes and stevens are prominent people living on adjoining farms sarah stokes stok es is a young and exceedingly handsome girl of 17 has a violent temper and is quick to resent real or fancied insult she cherishes implacable hatred towards her enemies some time ago aclo a sister of miss stevens makei make ery very derogatory remarks con corning miss stokes this coming I 1 to the ears of the latter she swore vengeance in a terrible manner it is said that the girls were rivals miss stokes mounted a horse and accompanied by her sister mrs sheldon set out to find miss stevens when they heard she was doing I 1 some a hopping shopping in a neighboring town the two women reached the 1 place after a hort and rapid ride but miss stevens had been warnel warned warned that the they y were searching for her and was advised to keeport keep oud out of their way and had acted noted on the tion After visiting all the estores th stores inthe village and without finding miss bliss stevens revens Ht the women started to return home presently as the twain came by the dwelling of the stevens where near the tho roadside the mother of miss bliss stevens was standing in the yard miss bliss stokes addressed a few passionate words to her the conversation brought out miss matilda stevens a fourteen year old sister the girls girla soon boon became involved in a bitter dispute miss stokes denied the statement made by the elder miss bliss stev stevens ens who warmly defended lien ijen li her lier er absent sister at last bliss miss stokes stung miss stevens to the quick and she started impulsively fox for forward aishe As she ahe approached to open the gate miss stokes sprang from her horse harse and plunged a long keen been bladed knife which she had concealed in her d dress into the advancing girl miss bliss stevens sank to the ground the blood gushed from the wound in torrents tor renta she died in a few minutes the inquest disclose dis clos ed a rock arock iving lying clasped in one of her hands miss stokes and mrs shelton were vere promptly arrested and have been let out on bail ball pending the trial the verdict of the jury is awaited with keen interest the tragedy 14 said to have ruined the stokes and stevens fa families millea the members of which are overwhelmed with grief the heralds washington special says the recent letter by secretary blaine on the panama canal and the discussion incident to it suggests a retrospect which reveals some interesting facts the question of the international canal and the restoration of the monroe doctrine was first acted on by a resolution passed by the house of representatives senta tives march 5 1881 A resolution appointing a select committee for the consideration of the subject was brought forward by floyd eloyd king of Louisiana and was passed the of december 1879 king as chairman of the COMM committee ltee etee then prepared a report and resolution reaffirming the monroe doctrine which goes further than the letter of blaine in asserting that whatever the nationality of the corp orators of the canal or of the source of their capital that the interest of the united states and their rights to the possession and control of said canal or other artificial communication will be as sorted and maintained whenever in their opinion it shall become necessary kings action in this matter akel sketched ched the mercantile character and signification of the canal and the interest of england in n controlling it as a key to the commerce ot of the western world which if held by her would give her power to lay jay the commerce of the world under tribute that at that irne time line had pone pona conceived eleod ine the ioba loua of selz 1 lag ig the point ns as a supplementary move to the suez canal cannot be doubted blaines statement of the case omits another feature discussed at that time as a necessary factor in the political rt lations between this country and the states of colombia that is the possibility of a railroad through the isthmus connecting north and south america treasurer egan of the land league at paris telegraphs here w a follows will wendell phillips come to irel irei freland ireland a pd to 1 advocate ciao no rent during the suspension of constitutional liberties the tho league will pay all expenses phillips in reply says gil ireland today to day leads the van in the struggle for right justice and freedom let net ireland only persevere in her sublime patience keeping ever within the limits of peaceful agitation and her victory is certain with an un broken front let her assault despotism Is min in its central point rent hon est rent is the surplus left after the tenant has lived in comfort ma aerial intellectual personal and social comfort ireland owes none today to day certainly not to the class whose whom government is a prison and bayonet how cheerfully would I 1 do my part how gladly would I 1 share in the honors of such a struggle but the state of my health obliges me to give up public speaking I 1 can only bid you god speed and pray for your speedy and complete q success the herald says it seems that there is no reason to doubt that president arthur is here simply to arrange private matters requiring his per personal attention and having no relation whit whatever ever even to politics since his accession to the presidency arthur has maintained absolute neutrality with regard to the political quarrels in this city and state and none of his friends doubt his intention to carry out the policy of neutrality hereafter A furious and first snow storm aged all day in st lawrence county the snow Is a foot deep in the northern part snow squalls along the hudson the catskills are covered eight fight inches of snow enow is re ported in northeastern ontario Oft tario tarlo severe snow squalls at norwich conn and other othen points in new england SAN 4 A yuma dispatch sr bays says ys in the injunction suit sult of the southern pacino pacific company of arizona against the texas texar pacific I 1 the latter has filed in the office of the clerk ot of the district court herd here a notice of motion to dissolve the injunction the answer denies hat the or ever was owner or entitled to possession of real property property erty claimed by plain plaintiff tin tiT asserts th that proe t plaintiffs plaintiff or central pacific co is Is in wrongful possession of lands traversed by the road denies that it ever was the intention of defendant fenda hit fit to institute inore than one suit euit that defendant Is insolent that defendant ever abandoned or ceased working the road that the southern pacific co will within one year have a continuous line f transcontinental railway railways extending from san ban francisco to galveston or that tle t je lands in arizona over which passes the southern cacille are public lands as asserts erts that the routes of the southern pacific and texas pacific are identical that by the doctrine of accession the road became the property of defendant and aa as a counteraction counter action the answer sets out the object of the incorporation of the texas pacific co its privileges under the franchise granted by congress and all the faeta facts at length going to show that said compa company hag haa performed all the necessary acts required by the terms of their charters thos beckerson kerson of the atchison topeka and santa fe and atlantic pacific railroad companies says that ne neither ithen ither of his companies is applicant for franchise for the ocean shore road to run from santa cruz to san francisco it seems beems to be understood however that while these companies are act trot applicants i for franchise there i 1 i an arrangement by which they may in the future secure the benefit of it i the fourth regular artillery left by special train for the east chag chas crocker president of southern pacific railroad has given the academy of sciences in southern pacific 16 pr pitr cent bonds the interest to be devoted to original scientific investigation on the pacific slope COLUMBUS 4 the attention of gov foster being called to sensa donal special from washington to the new york sun as to a purported talk on blaine for next president said the writer had drawn upon hl imagination wholly for facts he had bad no such conversation with any one has no knowledge of blaines blames purposes beyond having heard him say burmes y so 0 far as the presidential dis ease was wag concerned he had bad been discharged cured 4 the people are excited over a robbery and outrage four miles |
