Show BY FUR UNION TELEGRAPH LINE LINB A X IE luc I 1 C A a washington washingto dec 20 the govern 1 ment will soon institute proceedings in boston to test the validity of tile the patent granted the Bell Telephone company solicitor general jenks has prepared the draft of a bill against the company and copies of it have been sent to judge thurman in ohio to judge lowry in new york and to other special attale attorneys Y 11 employed by the government I 1 in chis h 1 case ase for their consideration era tion action will be deferred until these gentlemen have expressed their views in regard to the proposed bill the eveni evening ag sur istar tonight to night says that the Pr president eident has about decided to offer the turkish mission vacated by the resignation ignatiou es of hou S S cox to general egbert L viele viel le of new york member of the house of representatives A decision was also rendered in the county bond case of L C whitford against the county of dark clark in error to the united states circuit court for the eastern district of missouri this was a suit upon the interest coupons of a series of of bonds issued in june 1871 by the county of clark Misso missouri urit as a subscription lo 10 to the capital stock of the missouri mississippi 1 Ral railroad company the court below held that upon the facts as presented the holders of the coupons w who h 0 were not holders of the bonds from which they had been detached were not entitled to recover this coincides in the view taken by the circuit judge upon the facts as found but holds that there was an error in the ruling of the court below and for that reason revers esthe batters lat judgment and sends the case back for a new trial fraudulent ENTRIES commissioner sparks of the general land office has received a letter from froin a law firm at west plains missouri enclosing a newspaper ing that judge blair OL of wyoming instructed ted a jury in a recent case that a person who has made a 4 homestead entry and commuted it to cash and afterwards af ter made another homestead entry is not guilty of perjury in swearing in the second case that he be had not dot previously had the benefit of the homestead laws and that in div this instruction judge jud ge blair decided de cide that a person who makes and commutes a homestead entry does not thereby exhaust his right under the homestead law in response to this letter commissioner sparks says that it if such a di decision has been made it will have no effect whatever unless it may be to induce ignorant persons to te make fraudulent entries by section 2285 of the revised statutes says the commissioner a only can be made by one person and by section 2298 the commutation of 0 that entry to cash does not enable him to make another homestead entry any decision to the contrary would be in direct violation and contempt of the statute and if judge blair has made the decision attributed to him it will not be recognized or respected by this office 1 0 INTERNAL REVENUE during the first five months of the present fiscal year the collections of internal revenue amounted to being beings less than the collections during the corresponding period of the last fiscal year there was a decrease of ir in the collection on spirits an increase of on tobacco au an increase of on fermented liquors and ael nerease of 1 on miscellaneous of taxation the collections from oleomargarine margarine up to nov 30 were 9 the total collections during darling november were greater than those for november 1885 there was a an it increase of on spirits of oh dh tobacco and of on fermented liquors senator spooner today to day clay by request of senator Miller who Is absent introduced a hill bill to extirpate contagious dlearo pneumonia among cattle and to 0 facilitate the exportation of cattle and products of live stock section I 1 authorizes the president to appoint a commission of three persona to be known as the united states cattle commission he may in his judgment suspend the functions and the pay of these commissioners and ana restore them again at any time the salaries of the Commissi commissioners oneri are fixed at per annum i section 2 makes it the duty of the commissioners to cause an investigation to be had bad as to the existence of contagious pneumonia foot and mouth disease and and for this purpose they are aut authorized prized to enter either in person or by agents any premises in which they have reason to believe such disease exists upon disco discovering the existence of the disease the commissioners are authorized to rive give public notice of the fact a specifying the locati location Oll and ud also to notify ay I 1 in writing tile the agents of any transportation por tation company doing business in or through the infected locality t the commissioners are M required u ired to lo establish and maintain such quarantine of the animals premises or localities as they may deem necessary to prevent the spread of the disease also to cause the appraisal and destruction of the infected or 01 expose exposed 1 animals the owners of tile the animals destroyed are to be paid three fourths of the values of the ani mals as determined upon the basis of health before infection in the case of diseased and the lull full appraised value in t he case of animals exposed to but not infected wim aitu me lue disease it is provided however that not more than shall be paid for any animal destroyed which has a re chided pedigree nor moto moru than 60 for an animal without a recorded pedigree provided further fort ber that in no case shall compensation be allowed for an animal destroyed which may have contracted or have been exposed to disease in foreign countries or on the seas nor shall compensation be allowed 10 wed any oue one who knowingly or will fully conceals the existence of any such disease or the tact fact of exposure thereto section 3 authorizes the commissioners to make rules and regu regulations latious for carrying the provisions of the bill into effect the rules to have the effect of law when approved by the dent 1 sections 46 45 and Tj i prescribe the penalties tor for the obstruction of the commissioners ners iq in the perform performance acce of their duties for concealing disease and for transporting or ekr delivering for transportation diseased por gis or tation from f one state to another diseased eased animals knowing them to be such sections section 6 makes it the duty of the commissioners whenever any owner of animals refu sesto accept the amount authorized to be paid under the aan pl r no ll 11 emen t tp to declare ant and maintain a r rigid quarantine of the aej animals ma Is and the premises where the cattle may be lound other sections make it the duty of tb the e district to prosecute the violations of the provisions of the bill authorize the employment ot of a secretary sec e to the commission Commiss ibn and of skilled skilled veterinaries and direct that when the functions of the commissioners are an suspended aspen cled their office and records shall be turned over to the commissioner of agriculture the bill appropriates fa ariates 1 to carry its provisions ns into effect A similar bill was introduced trod in the house to today day by delegate carey from wyoming by direction of the house committee it is understood der stood that the bill was prepared by representatives of tho consolidated cattle growers association RICHMOND va dec 20 some monts months ago richard Si lippick the keeper ke liuo per of a barroom patronized patronised patroni sed promiscuously asly by whites and blacks ald so d out his business and left the city for the west leaving leavin his bis wife behind last evening mrs shinnick who hp has been beefs ill III with with co consumption campli bated with ather diseases her end fast approaching max made an ante mortem statement of toe the cle details cletais tail of a murder perpetrated by her libs beng over a year ago shinnick jived over the barroom ana an his wife was frequently called upon to assist him she says that one night last fall between the hours qt ot 11 aud and 12 she happened to euter enter the bar by the back ack door when she saw her husband who was in front of the bar counter strike down a white man with a pair of brass knuckles that lie be turned and seeing her ordered her to go 0 up stairs which she did sue could not rest however and creeping down again she peeped into the oar bar when she was horrified by seeing her husband drag the mans body behind the bounta rob it of a roll oil of money raise the trap at the end of the bar and push the body into an old well under upa r the floor upon abia information the policeto police today to day went to york work to find the remains by pulling pull ft up we the noor floor i ano and digging for the hidden i den well but have ahyet as yet madl made no discovery whole hole place however will be tho thoroughly overhauled last fall fwu 0 o state cers cera J M carroll city treasurer of staunton and W 11 cra crawford aford clerk of bland county count 3 left lef t their adi homes b es tor to r Rich richmond since which ti time them has ever been heard beard from and U d the belief is strongly prevalent 41 unk thai oneff one of these was Shin ShIm nicks vIc victim tiffi the cifes murdered man in some kome respects agrees with the appearance of both but bl ift morte so 1 in ira regard to crawford crowford the ties have h ave been telegraphed I 1 boar rest if he can be e found philadelphia dec 20 grand master wor workman man powderly bowd erly has addressed a letter to a committe commatee com mUtee e of th the united labor pai ty in this 0 city in reply to an invitation to address a edn con that party this vv ening he thanks them for the honor ten tendered dereLd him but says there are a great many good reasons why he should decline and adds t when the laboring people of new york nominated Senry George ge bormay or they acted independently of party aud without regard to the roan man they had placed at the head of the ticket my alame was used by partisans in new york bork to stem the tide it was urged that I 1 wrote a letter against hinry henry george and that abit I 1 opposed the movement generally 1 I knew of no better way of giving the lie to all of those false statements and at the same time doing my part oart toward the establishment of sentiments that would eventually secure for labor some of the benefits for which he worked than to go in person and relate the charges I 1 dl did it and there my duty ended in baing to new york on that occasion I 1 made a departure from the rule that I 1 have observed for soi some pe tinie time and which I 1 do not intend to break again viz not to speak at I 1 political Soli political Inee meetings tings again while I 1 am ohp first officer of the knights of labor while it highs be entirely stoper proper for me to speak dt at stich a me meeting ting t yet it c reates creates the impression that the order of the knights of labor is being drawn into a contest and it is my duty to do all that lies in my power to keep the order over I 1 have been chosen to reside preside out of the tide of partisan Por ittes at new york I 1 spoke as an individual voicing the sentiments of united labor and not as general master workman of the K of kofl L while I 1 am general master workman I 1 will never occupy a plate place either as speaker or 7 officer on a political platform FORT SMITH dec 20 Ano Another bloody indian territory murder has just come cometo to ligh tanil tand tap twp more andion desperadoes desper addes hive been bean sent tu to the fi hap ap py hunting Oro grounds duds F arr r many years there has bab existed existe ct a deadly feud between the formans and starrs cherokee natives about six months ago sam starr had bad his bis horse shot from vu der him b im riding along through the lonel lonely woods in ane suspecting ben forman ot the deeche deed he determined ter mined to avenge it but ws was waylaid and shot by some enemies near ne bodag ers bend his wounds being con dered fatal helas he was taken to a house and white all the guards were at dinner sam starr wounded AS he be was seized a winchester rifle disarmed his bis guard and escaped to Youn younger gerr bend bead bhele he be lay concealed 1 until bis wife the notorious belle starr assisted him to escape by the arkansas AT kansas river auck and haveling ua by night to fort baaith sam starr was charged with robbing the united states mails and while here he surrendered hemsell authorities but wh when u able to travel sarr blarr returned to the nation saturday he started lor fort smith out but topped stopped at a daucci dance near Fu foremans remans rancho ranche ben Foi forman nian wa there starr demanded pay for the horse he killed cIl led when forms forman u drew his pistol ano and starr star through the I 1 deheart he heart starr hod hd buttas out his pistol and bifid fired as he fell the bullet bulled penetrating Forman Formans and both men died instantly this bluds ds one of the oldest and bloodiest feuds of many that have existed in the cherokee nation the feud has lasted 50 years and resulted in the death of many men on both sides ST louis dec 29 letters Lett from leasa nama seminole Seu indle Nat ionIn aiau territory give an account of the deate there on the oth last of mrs susanna warren perhaps the oldest person in ILI the united states if not the world she was born the old town of st augustine florida in 1750 15 deais eats before the i americans couce conceived ivel the idea of national independence she was born a slave and was the property proper tv of spanish masters until 1818 when with other Spanish slaves that fled from the town ot ol pensacola when it was ken by general jackson she sh 1 lived buthe 3 indian country from then au datil I 1 t the h e oe second cond treaty of peace with the inces when she was regarded as their common property and was r removed r d with them to the ilie indian terry terr terri i at ith tory bah she leaves one daughter living who resided re gides in austin texas aud and is 1 in 11 her year she leaves many grandchildren some oi of them nearly 70 1676 years of age ST LOUM louis dec SO the death from hydrophobia of the he of lo 10 louis als grudd ex chairman of the republic republican an city central commiel Comm iee an and I 1 a aromi prominent quarry mat mail and coat contractor wafe reported to the coroner today to day barbara elizabeth Vi grund rufid 16 years old some time ago was playing with wit I 1 a young puppy only two months old when irbit her the wound was not serious ser serio lousi ps and as the dog so far as known had never been out or of the house ho use since its birth and had bad never behn with other dogs i nothing was it about eight nays days ago howeye however the young lady began egan to show lymp symptoms orns bethi bt the dread disease arid two were called balled in their efer efforts As to lio relieve her sufferings hereof of no avail and she rapidly grew worse until yesterday when she died in the greatest agony RALEIGH N C dec ao 20 au friday marnina walter bingham a deaf mute son of formerly a prom i anent a buggy here and took miss turlington als also 0 a deat deal mute meltron in the state institution tor for the deaf and dumb and blind aln 1 apparently to ride lie he was en gaad to be married to miss turlin turling on and license here ehg the e couple did not return they took the road boad to durham they were seen riding together on friday afternoon within eliat t miles of durham that evening bingham alone took the train it at durham ad nd on the train inquired inquire the time or the arrival at atlanta anc new orleans foul play was suspected and telegrams were sent out sitter after und land officers from this city are in search of tb the e lady A telegram received today to day says that Bingham was la in Car mansville new york sunday that he was waa crazy and had ad disappeared i NEW YORK aim dec dc |