Show 4 NARROW ESCAPE A Timely Subsidence of the Wind Saves the Passengers of the Scotia Bismarcks Utterances and the Tone of the German Press Ominous The Angry Waters After Fifteen YearsA Horrible Batch of Murders and Outrages Carter Harrison Again From Washington WASHINGTON March 26James M Trotter Trot-ter tho newly appointed Register of Deeds is critically ill I BrigadierGeneral Wilcox commanding the Department of tho Missouri will be placed on the retired list April 16th The probabilities aro that Colonel Westley Mer ritt Superintendent of tho Military Academy will succeed General Wilcox Commissioner Sparks has written a letter to the Attorney of the Southern Pacific Railroad Rail-road in reply to a request that a patent be issued for lands on list No4 selected by the company as contemplated by the Secretarys letter of September 30 1886 The Commissioner refused to direct a certification cer-tification of the lands for the reason that measures looking to forfeiture of the grant were pending in Congress The Commissioner Com-missioner says the bill referred to was favorably fav-orably reported by a very large majority of the House Committee on Public Lands bnt was not reached for consideration by Congress Con-gress There has therefore been no opportunity oppor-tunity for the positive expression of the legislative will For this reason he declined to take steps looking to the insurance of a patent and thereby defeat the full and free exercise by the Fiftieth Congress of its will The Commissioner of Pensions in his weekly report to the Secretary of the Interior In-terior states that 287137 applications are now before him for adjudication The claims are now being filed at the rate of 6000 a week and the final adjudications number about 25000 The appropriation of 147748 to indemnify indem-nify Chinese subjects for losses sustained at Hook Springs Wyoming has been placed to the credit of the disbursement officer of the Department of State for payment to the Chinese Minister at Washington as the representative of the Chinese Government Senator Teller member of the elections subcommittee to investigate the alleged outrages in Texas says that he does not think the committee will be called together during the recess of Congress A draft for 4993 on the First National Bank by the National Bank of New York drawn to the order of D F Manning by the National Bank of St Joseph Missouri was recently received at the Treasury enclosed en-closed in on anonymous note as follows Secretary of Treasury This money is to be placed in the Treasury to the credit of an unknown debtor Pay the money where it belongs and keep your record clear It has been ascertained that an unknown man secured a draft in St Joseph and the St Joseph Bank will honor it The note is misspelled and written in an irregular hand |