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&tm Him Qtmtw. THE WORLD'S DOINGS. some way to remedy the omission in reference **-***$** natthewR'Oraailtt M. the witness and Gen. Butler, and witness said to the Hot Springs appropriation, in the enrollment The Matthews Senate committee was if the committee did not protect him, he CRIMES ANlt CRIMINALS. of the civil sundry MIL would protect himself. He denounced Butler in session on the 21st, two hours and a half. as a rowdy. The committee went into secret JA8. BOBELBTETER, Proprietor. Hugh Cooper, an employee in the Dubrie, Russian Ambassador to the When the doors were opened, James E. Anderson session, and shortly afterwards adjourned until Chicago poBtoffice, has been arrested for robbing United States, has gone to St. Petersburg, was sworn, but being refused counsel, Tuesday. N1WULM MINKE80T tbe mails. with a view of inducing the Czar to sanction he refused to be examined.-! The committee Idaho,1'dispatch says, 25 TUESDA Y, June 25---T he Potter committee the withdrawal ef the Russian forces from before A Palisade, again went into private session. When the resumed its investigation. Mrs. Jenks CURRENT TOPICS. Constantinople. doors were opened Anderson was informed well armed Indians crossed the railroad track and Mr. Boynton were recalled and briefly examined, by the chair that the committee had decided near Agenta going north. Ex-Gov. Swann. of Maryland, and Mrs. when Marshal Pitkin of New Orleans to require his testimony before the committee. was put on the stand. His testimony John K. Thompson, widow of United States A man named Redehrmen deliberately was largely in reference to the transactions of He then asked Anderson: "Are you now The Chicago Port, which is ownnl and Senator Thompson, of New Jersey, were'married shot and killed a man named Vass, at St. Anderson, his protest, &c., and pointedlv contradicted willing to answer such questions as may be at Princeton on the 21st Mrs. Swann is edited by women, has just donned a new his statement. Witness had" never Louis, to gratify an old grudge. propounded to you?" Anderson replied, "I a sister of Sam Ward, of Washington, and seen the so-calted Sherman letter. Had an areas, and the Detroit News expocts to A Silver City dispatch says the Amotilla am not." ChairmanThen, in refusing to interview with Judge Levi6ee, and was cognizant si6ter-in-law of Speaker Randall, who gave Indians have all left the reservation. The see it arrayed in a new dress at lea^t once answer any question pertaining to the investigation, of the offer to him of $100,000, and advised way the bride. Blue Mountains are full of them. u, him to seem to listen to the overture, to a month. It must be kept in style, you you set the committee at defiance. The Maine Greenback State Convention endeavor to find out who was At Toronto, Ont., the converted Braham Senator WhyteIn the absence of the Senate know. to furnish the money. Albert met at Lewiston, Me., on the 5th inst., priest T. V. Ray, convicted of bigamy, has we have no power to punish for contempt, and G. Haley was next called. He testified to an 887 delegates being present. Speeches were been sentenced to three months imprisonment. therefore I move this committee now adjourn interview with Mrs. Jenks in Washington last A moderate amount of fat is generally made by various delegations amid confusion winter, and converted with her about the i subject to the call of the chairman. The motion and cheers for Cooper. Jas. W. Smith was considered evidence of good health. Sherman letter. Being asked what 6he said was agreed to and the committee accordingly Sangier Chase, defaulter, treasurer of about it, Mr. Hiscock objected as there was nominated for Governor. The New Yoik About one-twentieth pa of the weight adjourned. Anderson, in private, the Falls River, Mass., mills on trial plead no legal evidence that Shermsn wrote the Greenback conference met at Auburn on the sajs he made the proposition that Matthews of a man and the sixteenth of a woman is guilty and was sentenced to twelve years letter. McMahon stated that he believed he 5th inst. Beckinan, Republican, is elected appear before the Senate committee, and did write the letter from evidence already the State prison. considered the normal porportion. Its Governor of Oregon. The Indiana State Republican given. Gen. Butler did not think there was further, that the Senate, not being in session, Tramps are getting to be very troublesome office, aside from its value in giving symmetry Convention met in Indianapolis on the slightesi inference that could be legally he could not be punished as a recusant witness. in Illinois, boarding railroad trains, committing or logically drawn that Sherman wrote he 5th inst. Gen. Ben. Harrison was made to the figure, is to prevent the rapid the so-called Sherman letter. After some robberies, destroying farm products, President, and Gen. Luz Noble secretary. A escape of animal heat, and also to supply further discussion the witness was excused, and committing various depredations. ticket was nominated as follows: Secretary and the committee adjourned till Wednesday the waste of tissue from sickness, unusual __^ At Harrisburg, John Isaac and Peter of State, Issac W. Moore for Auditor of State, IMPEACHMEN T. exertion and tempoiary deprivation Hown were attacked in their own house by Gen. A. O. Miller Treasurer of State, Maj. CONfciKESSIOtfAL. of food. two trampsthe former fatally beaten, and Geo. F. Herritt for Attorney General, Judge. Summary of the Trial of Judge Sherman Pag S of the Tnt Judicial Ulatrict. Before D. P. Baldwin for Superintendent for Public the house robbed of $4,000 in bonds. 8E:\AT E, June 19 A concurrent resolution the Minnesota State Senate, Sitting Instruction John T. Morrill. A cold blooded murder was committed extendine the session till 1 a. in as a Court ot Impeachment. Consul General Badeau in London has Thursday morning was parsed. A Urge in Mt. Vernon, Posey county, Ind., June 34th, THURSDAY, June 20.In the impeachment furnished our Government some very interesting amount of business was completed and a by an unknown negro, Annie McCool being case of Judge Page, the Senate convened MISCELLANEOUS committee4 large amount failed. Conference statistics concerning wages to listen to the closing arguments of counsel. the victim. She was shot in the head by a between the two Houses were active, and Gov. Williams, of Indiana, has been Hon. C. A. Gilman commenced on the closing and the cost of living in England. many difierenccs were reconciled. The House revolver. argument for the prosecution. He occupied applied to for troops to suppress riots among bill was passed making it unlawful, for any fails however, to bear out the assertion The President of France, McMahon upon the entire morning and afternoon session. attorney or person, to receive a greater compensation the miners in Fountain county. He was very severe in his comments on of the Philadelphia Press that wages the recommendation of the ministers, has than $10 for his service in a pension On the 24th of June N Van Styke the action of Judge Page, characterizing him determined to pardon 800 Communists on occasion case. The bill to establi-h tbe temtory of in England are "from ninty to a hundred as "The Minnesota Jeffries." was on trial at Madison, Wis., charged with Lincoln wa* postponed to next December. At of the national festival the 30th mst., and twenty per cent, less than in this whisky frauds. Nothing damaging was developed 12-35 a message was received fiom the House, FRIDA Y, lune 21.The high court of in honor of the exhibition. announcing concurrence in the report of the country." The Counsul General does go impeachment convened, nearly all the Senators against him. The case was not concluded. It is claimed by the Cincinnati relatives conference committee on the sundry mil being present, and spectators were numerous. so far as to indicate that they are from appropriation bill. Mr. Clough of the prosecution commenced of the late Mrs. Patrick Kenney, that her Last Wednesday, the 19th inst., the forty-five to fifty per cant. less. his speech. He should demonstrate in body has been found in pickle, by a Cincinnati HOUS E, June 19.Mr Ewingr moved as short away as possible that the respondent schooner .han,sailed for the Arctic regions to to suspend the lulea and pass the bill to retire dectective in the medical college at Ann Arbor, in this case had been guilty of crimes, and search for* relics of Sir John Franklin. The national bank notes and substitute tieasurv Michigan. misdemeanors, and corrupt conduct in office. Were it not for the bumble bees there searching parties expect to be absent two notes for them. Rejected, yeas 109, nays 140. Mr. Clough, without bringing MB remarks to Mrs. McNamee who was st by her would be little or no red clover. They The result was gi eeted with applause on the years. a close asked for an adjournment, and the rt a husband at Tamarosa, HI., (who afterwards Republican side. Tbe bill passed oroviding fertilize the blossoms, conveying the Senate adjourned. About a hundred newspaper men were that on ,md after Oct 1. 1878 legal tender killed himself) is still alive, but her recovery pollen from one to another, and thus tend SATURDAY, lune 22.Mr. Clough resumed notes ill be received in payment of -custom in Madison, Wis., on Monday night, June is not expected. Jealousy on the part of the his argument. At its conclusion, Mr. duties, yi a& 153, nays 53 A'motion ,ib made to keep down the price of clover seed. 24th, to attend the meeting of the editorial husband led to tbe commision of murder and to suspend the rules and pass a oint re&olu Davis counsel for Judge Page asked an adjournment association of the Badger State which was to The moral of this is that when a man finds suicide. tion proposing a coa6titutional amendment till Tuesday morning, which was convene on the 25th. forever prohibiting payment of anj claim granted. It is not expected that the case will an industrious colony of bumble bees inside At Nashville, Tenn., Pla son and Soder for property taken used, injured or debtroyed be decided before the 29th inst. Under a statute of Wisconsin the his trousers leg he should not swear charged with ontraging the person of Mre. byiJ. S. troops during the war of the rebellion TUESDAY, June 25.According to adjournment Supreme judges of the State has appointed Grave, were taken from the jail by a body of unless the owner was loyal to the government and tear around, but simply be led to reflect the Senate met, every Senetor being Col. W. T. Vilas ana Hon. H. Carpenter, as and gave neither aid or encouragement masked men and hung. They protested their more deeply upon the wondrous in his place and the lobby and aisles of to the enemy. Agreed to, yeas 144 nays 61. commissioner to superintend the printing,and innocence, and doubts of their guilt are entertained. the chpmber were crowded with spectators. adaptation of means to ends afforded by Mr. Atkins then made the conference report to prepare an index of the revised statutes. Ex-Gov. C. K. Davis commenced his argument on the sundry civil appropriation bill. He provident nature. in behalf of the respondent. He occupied the the careless enrollment of the sundry explained the report which, however, he had Thomas Wallace has been arrested at entire day, and without concluding the Senate not signed, because, he said, of the approprl civil appropriation bill, the last night of Evansville, Ind., charged with the burglary adjourned. ationforthe Halifax award,which he thought the congressional session, an omission occurred The total cost of the Canadian Pacific of a jewelry house in San Francisco. He confessed unjust, The bill he said as oi lgmally report which defeats the Arkansas Hot Springs his guilt. One of his associates with ed appropriated $16,548,000. As it passed the Railway is estimated at $100,000,000. The THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. House, $17,500,186, and as it passed the Senate, commission to apprise and sell the valuable most of the jewelry, $15,000, has been arrested vast sum of $15,000,000 has already been $22,075,100 exclusive of the appropriation for Investigating the election of 1876 reservation which includes the Springs. Another at Columbus, Ohio. the Halifax award. As it came from the con expended in surveys and contracts, and Under the Potter ResolutionJames E. congress must rectify the mistake. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of June fcrence committee the bill had been cut down Anderson and Secretary (Sherman on all that is now to show for it, says the A man named Henry McManus died to $19, 250,100, also exclusive of the the Stand. 25th states that collector Woodstock had received Halifax award. The announcement Railway Age, is seme seventy miles of suddenly on the 19th inst., and at first there intelligence of the destruction of nine 6 FRIDA Y, June 21.The Potter investigating of the lesult was hailed with applause were rumors of foul play. The Corner investigated track from Thunder Bay on Lake Superior, illicit distillers in Putnam county, valued at committee held a session. Thomas A. The post route bill containing Brazilian and a verdict was returned that dedeceased Jenks, of New Orleans, was put upon the $12,000, and the arrest of 15 persons charged westward into the wilderness, and a steamship subsidy, the restoration of the stand. Republicans in the parish had told committed suicide by taking franking privilege, the regulation of postage with violating the revenue law. few miles of track from Winnipeg, in witness they were afraid to register their on mail matter, and the regulation of railwa\ Strychnine. names on account of intimidation. McMahon Manitona, eastward. The cost of the service failed between the two Houses. All CASUALTIES. interrupted the witness. He asked if he had Gen. Sheridan thinks there is no cause public and other bills to the President were Union and Central Pacific roads with Two men and two women were been called in Senator Sherman's interest. approved. It is roughly estimated that the for the Indians scare in Wisconsin. He discredits Reed replied he had. A long and acrimonious equipment was about $250,000,000. drowned in Lake Ontario at Pleasant Point on aggregate of appropriations made by Con the statement that the Chippewas contioveisy between McMahon gress ior the fiscal year ending with June, Monday, June 24. have formed a compact with the Sioux, but and Reed ensued. Reed complained 1879, will be about $170,000,000. The bill passed Ed. Wright, colored was fatally crushed that the majority of the says it may be so. In response to Gov. both Houses appropriating $65,000 for the Mrs. Nancy E.'Clem, notorious through committee ruled out testimony offcied by the at Cairo, 111., on the 19th, between a steamboat construction of the Fort Snellmg bridge, and Smith's call for military, aid Gen. Sheridan a murder trial and acquittal in Indianapolis minority. McMahon pronounced the charge granting the right of way. and the landing. has sent two of his staff officers to Burnett false and challenged proof. Jenks was permitted is again under arrest. Alter her escape It is reported that the famous Catskill county to ascertain the facts in regard to the to proceed, when McMahon again objected, SENAT E, June 20.The time of ad from the gallows she turned her and another angry discussion followed. Mountain house on the Hudson river has reported Indian uprising in that section of the journment was extended to 7 A. M. Thursday Jenks finally testified, retold the old story of attention very successfully to swindling. There was an all night session of both Houses country, and -will forward troops at once if a been destroyed by fire. intimidation. He testified laigely as to tne to close if possible, the confined business necessity is found to exist. Her mode was to make the rich people At Newport a boy of 12 fell into the course and conduct of James E. Anderson. Tn answer to an enquiry Senator Ingalls said water. William Smith plunged in to rescue Witness testified as to what he knew about believe that she was engaged in some On the 19th inst., Gov. Smith of Wisconsin the pension bill would require the expendi the so-called Sherman letter. He never saw ture of about $30,000,000 from the treasury him and both were drowned. received letters and telegrams from secret but exceedingly profitable business a letter written by Sherman to any At 6:53 the clerk of the House appeared with The dwelling of John Rouheau, in Burnett county stating that great alarm was and offer, purely as a favor, to invest one about the election of 1876. The witness the sundry civil bill, which was immediately Beaucharris, Ontario, was burned on June felt by a repoited uprising of Chippewa was subjected to a severe cross examination, signed by the president pro tem., and then some of their money in the mythical enterprise. and without concluding the committee adlourned. Indians in that county. Gov. Smith telegraphed 34th, with four of his children. sent to the President of the United States for She thus obtained from six his signature, the President being in his room to Gen. Sheridan for troops and that A Halifax dispatch says on Sunday evenine at the capitol, having remained there during dupes an aggregate of about $20,000. officer sent Col. Froyseth to the scene of SATURDAY, June 22.The Potter committee June 23 four young men were drowned the night. The Senate then held a briet executive resumed its sessions to-day. Capt. the trouble. He found the alarm needless and in Chester Bay by the capsizing of a boat. session, and when the doors were Thomas Jenks was further cross-examined having no solid basis. Some little disturbance opened, the committee to the President re Bishop Clark tells a story of a city C. Arnold's flouring mill at Fort when Mrs. Jenks, his wife, was put upon the ported that he had no further communication between one or two drunken Indians and stand and submitted to a long cross-examination clergymen who was once invited to preach Dodge, la., was burned on the 19th inst to make, and at 7 A. M. Senator Ferry, President white men was all the basis there was for the touching the now famous so-called cause, spontaneous combustion. Loss $25,- in a small country church, and the choir pro tem formally declared the session of "Sherman letter," in regard to guaranties reported "hostilities. the Forty-fifth Congress adjourned sine die. 000. thought they would get up a very elaborate demanded by J. E. Anderson. She said Anderson wanted to be taken care of. The witness A fire occurred at Montgomery, Ala., HOUS E, June 20.The House extended performence tor his benefit. They exonorated secretary Sherman from any complicity, the time of adjournment to 7 o'clock A. M, to Tune the 34th in the cotton compress of Harter ^foreign. were more ambitious then successful, and direct or indirect, in the so-called Anderson-Weber give time for the enrollment of the sundry & {O'Connell caused by treading on a guaranty. She testified to a civil bill. At 6:52 a message was received Berlin dispatches of the 18th inst., report when they had finished, before giving his letterhavingbeen wiitten (inefrentially at least match. Loss $47,000. from the President that he had no further that physicians in attendance on the text, the preacher looked up to the gallery by herself) in the St. Charles hotel at New communication to make, and the House wa* The venerable Archdeacon ow of Emperor William publish a formal declaration Orleans when the visiting statesmen were adjourned without day and said: My friends, if the angels Kingston, Jamaica, has been detected in that his progress has been satisfactory almost present, but John Sherman was not present. in Heaven should hear you sirig, they swindling clergymen and merchants to the The letter wassigne "John Sherman," and beyond expection, but the patient besides Attorney General 'Wilson's Opinion on the addressed to Weber and Anderson. She herself would come down and wring your necks." amount of $60,000. He has fled. transitory pain suffers much from helplessness, Text Book Law. delivered the letter to Weber. By the A very damaging rain storm visited It was not a courteous thing to do, but being unable to use his arms. Complete testimony of the witness the letter could not STATE OF MINNESOTA, southwestern Kansas last week. The wheat recovery can only be affected in a long have been in Sherman's hand writing. the provocation was probably very great. ATTOBNKY GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following is perhaps, the fields were inundated, farm animals drowned, ST. PAUL, June 14. 1878. time, after, possibly, many obstacles and most salient f* part in her testimony Frederick A. Fogg, County Superintendent of and several persons were also drowned. much pain. WitnessWell I wish to state in the presence The late Earl Russell's name is to be Schools, Ramsey County, Minnesota Tuesday, June 25th four large boilers Roport received from Vienna of a mediated of this august committee and to the Sill: I am in receipt of your favor of the added to the long list of illustrious Englishmen country at large, that I distinctly and entirelv exploded in the puddle mills of the Chesepeake attempt on the life of the crown prince Frederick 8th inst., submitting the following questions exonerate Mr. Secretary Sherman from any who, dying, have placed themselves William, caused some sensation in Berlin. nail factery at Harrisburg, Pa. The complicity direct or indirect in the so-called respecting the act to provide uniform and cheap One hundred and thirty Socialists have building was demolished, foreman instantly on record against the costly shams Anderson-Weber guaranty. If there is criminality text books: been arrsested at the Tivoli beer garden near killed and a number of workmen Were the document or political dishonor of the modern funeral, which plunders "First, With respect to the ordering of the that city attached to it, I alone know the alpha and evcrely scalded, some fatally. State books by clerks of common and independent the Hying without showing respect to the omega of it. No one else knows aught in regard Contradictory reports are given by Berlin distiicts, does the law leave it to the A vault in the tax collectors office in to it, and I do not think I shall tell you dead. "I wish my funeral," he wrote, "to option of said clerks, or does it enjoin it upon correspondents in regard to the proceedings Brooklyn, Ne^v York, was lately blown to anything more. It i6 sufficient that I exonerate them as a duty? be as simple and as inexpensive as possible, of the conquest. No results have ben Mr. Secretary Sherman, and also Mr. Anderson, pieces by an explosion of gas. Two clerks "Second. If said clerks fail to order books without any hired mourners, I reached. and although I may deem him (Anderson) entered the vault, and lighting a match caused by March 15th, it is their duty to order as soon one of the most magnificent and sublime The Sultan of Turkey has in a great meas wish my body to be interred in the family thereafter as possible? the explosion. The two clerks were fatally scoundrels, at least in the matter of the guaranty ure recovered from his alarm in regard to "Third. Is it the duty of said clerks, in vault at Chenies." And interred in injured, and several in the office were severe-, he has been sincere, and I award him all making requisitions for books, to order a quantity conspirators. Safuet Pasha, with the object due merit. He has always deemed it genuine, ly wounded. the family vault at Chenies he was, sufficient to supply the pupils of their districts of developing the resources of the empire, is and this may be a small ray of light admitted for the fall school year?'' though the Queen offered a State funeral into the darkness that surrounds him. No drawing up documents for publication encouraging PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,. That portion of section 4 of the act approved one knows about that document but myself and the tomb in Westminister Abby that joint stock companies to solicit February 23d, 1877, hereinafter quoted, it seems Crowley P. Dyke, of Michigan, has and I do not think I am compelled to tell you \t to me, contains a definite answer to your first every great Englishman covets. construction of railways, ports, canal works gentlemen, any more. Several letters were been confirmed Marshal of Arizona, and third questions. of Irrigation and manufacturinJg establishments. read during her examination, among them a Assistant Justice Miller of the United "Section 4. It shall be the duty of each district *r letter from Anderson to her husband, guaranteeing A difference in opinion on an important clerk of the several school districts of the States Supreme Courtis lying dangerously ill a thousand dollars for the production A telegram from Scutari" says the recent State of Minnesota to make out an estimate of of the so-called Sherman letter. point has caused a rupture among in Washington. conflict between the Turks and Montenegrins the number of school books required for one the European Masons, and it may be The young Queen of Spain is reported year's supply of his school district, designating was a simple riot' among the Turkish and MONDAY, June 24.The Potter comS the number of books of each kind wanted, and to be in a critical condition. She has hemorrhage necessary tor the American branch of the Montenegrin inhabitants of Straina. ittee resumed its investigation, Mrs. Jenks forward the same on or before the 15th day of on the witness stand. A long examination of the lungs. The English and Austrian plenipotentiaries fraternity to take some action on the March of each year. It shall be a ensued, in which lively scenes ensued. Some The Nationals, of the first district have had a conference with Count Sceouvaloff misdemeanor for the clerk to refuse or neglect question at issue. The French Masons questions the witness answered, some to perform the duties above designated, punishable to which much significance is attached. It is of Indiana, have nominated Thomas F. she refused to answer. In referring to the who, last year, proclaimed publicly their by a fine not to exceed twenty-five believed the Bulgarian question was discussed. so-called Sherman letter, she said, "I dictated Debruler for congress, ^v dollars or imprisonment not to exceed thirty disavowal of all belief in a supreme Being, the contents of the letter." In reply to the The Greenback convention of "the days." question who wrote at her dictation she said: have been successively repudiate It appears that within the last few days The proviso to section six of the supplementary second Congressional district of Iowa has "I refuse so tell yon." The result of the examination there has been iminent danger of a conflict act, approved March 8th, 1878, answers in by the Irish, English and Scotch Masons, was, that Sherman never saw the nominated Jacob GregorJ the affirmative your second inquiry. Very respectfully between the Russians and Turks, Baker letter that it was gotten up to quiet Sherman and read out the fraternity. A a belief William Cullen Bryant died at his residence yours, GK P. WILSON, and Weber. In the afternoon Gen. H. V. Pasha or Fond Pasha having given the Rus in the city of New York on the 13th *s W H$m0im Attorney General. in God has always been an essential Boynton special Washington correspondent of siaus a few hours notice to remove an observatory inst. His age Was 84 years. the Cincinnati Gazette was called to the wit part of Masonry, and in view of the fact overlooking the Turkish line. The ness stand, and was examined as to his interviews A a special meeting of the Plymouth that by the action of the British Graid Porte, on being informed of the affair, ordered A Germantown gentleman has a dbg with thePresident touching the appointment church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth R. of Anderson to office as to whether the the military authorities to maintain the Lodges, silence on the subject will be construed that will not permit him to enter the TUton was excommunicated |p" I^ President gave as a reason for such appointment, peace and the danger is averted. The movement as a support of the French branch, house if his wife is out of temper. The that Anderson had important secrets The Senate in executive session online of Russians to resist the apprehended that it would be damaging to make known, it is not improbable that some public animal foresees a "time* betweon his 12th inst., confirmed the appointment of John attack gave rise to the unfounded report that and he must be controlled. The witness notice of the matter will be taken by the master and mistress, and out of consideratson C. Fremont Governor of Arizona. Russian headquarters were about to remove denied that the President ever gave such reasons. Some angry words passed between Masonic fraternity of the United States. The Cabinet are endeavoring to find for the latter prevents his entrance. from8an Stefano. S"j^Tj'XJO,'1'f"