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INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1883—TWELVE PAGES.
M’KENZIIi’S INDICATIONS. „
SATURDAY.—PartIy cloudy weather,
with local rains or suow, stationary or
higher temperature.
OLD FRIENDS MEETING.
A man from Kokomo, who had been West two
years ago and saw a few Indians there, was in
the city yesterday morning, and passing near
the clothing house of J. A. McKenzie, discover
ed an Indian cigar sign, approached it and said:
“Good morning, Lo.” (He wanted to be friend
ly.) “I say, good morning; don’t you hear? Do
you belong to (hie) Sitting Bull’s tribe! Are you
waiting to see a (hie) friend? Have you stood
on that (hie) 6toue all night?”
Still the Indian was silent. .
“Will you step in and (hie) take a smile? Well,
if you ain't the doggonedeet Indian I ever saw’d,
to refuse a drink; I never beam tell of such a
thing afore. Will you shake hands with me!
Your hand is as cold as a door knob. Mr. Lo,
that ’ere bow and arrow won't keep you warmer
than a paper collar. I’ve tried the collar, but
never tried a bow and arrow. See here, old
Indian, if you want to make friends in this
clearin’ you must be a little more (hie) social,
and not staud there on that stone on your dig
nity in this way. Say, Lo, will you loan me ten
cents until (hie) I see you later? I have a mind
to massacre that Indian for his impudence to
me.”
STOCKMEN ALARMED.
All Order Placing Honest Men am! Rogues on
the Same Plane.
Caldwell, Kas., Jan. 5. —There is consid
erable excitement here among cattle men
herding on the Cherokee outlet, growing out
of a Washington dispatch to the effect that
orders have been issued from the Interior
Department for the removal of all stockmen
from the outlet. This state of affairs seems
to have been brought about by an attempt
on the part of the Standard Oil Cattle Com
pany to fence in a large range, which is and
has been occupied by small stockholders, who
ha ve paid taxes to the Cherokee Nation for the
privilege of herding their cattle on the
outlet. It seems these small stock
herders, together with parties in Kansas who
have been in the habit of letting their stock
graze on the Cherokee lands without paying
anything to the Indians or the State of Kan
sas, have made certain statements to Secre
tary Tellfer which have induced him to issue
a sweeping order against all stockmen, as
well as the Standard Oil Company, without
regard to any injustice that may be done
those who hv;e paid taxes to the Cherokees
in good faith, and bought the privilege of
fencing and erecting buildings for the ac*
commodation of their herders.
A POSSIBLE REVOLUTION.
Rumor that Kalukaua’s Coronation Will Re
Made the Occasion of an Outbreak.
San Francisco, Jan. s.—The United States
ship Alaska is ordered to Honolulu, to he
there at the time of Kalakaua’s coronation.
The Lackawanna is now at Honolulu, and
will remain there. It is expected the Wa
chusetts will be ordered there. The princi
pal naval powers will send war-ships to
Honolulu. The avowed object is to pay the
proper courtesies, but it is understood
that the real object is to protect, for
eign interests in case of trouble, which
may arise from the opposition to the extrav
agant arrangements for the coronation. A
rumor is circulated of a possible revolution.
H. W. Severance, Hawaiian consul at this
city, places no faith in such rumors, which,
he says, are the talk of a lot of disappointed
officeseekers. J. D. Spreckles, who has ex
tensive interests in the islands, says he fears
no trouble.
Failures fur the Week.
New' York, Jan. s.—The business failures
for the past seven days, reported to R. G.
Dun & Cos., number 224, distributed as fol
lows: Eastern States had 24, the Western
72, the Middle 38. the Southern, 42, the Pacific
States 15, New Y r ork city 17, and Canada 16.
Compared with last week, this shows an in
crease of 31, but the number is doubtles
swollen by numerous small assignments
made at the close of the year, though the
parties had virtually failed long before. The
prominent New York assignments are W.
H. Dudley & Cos., canned goods; J. I. Brower
& Sons, hardware, and Brower it Leeds,
hardware. In the country, Francis Carvill
A Son, of Halifax, N. S., and Carvill, McKeen
& Cos., of St. John, N. 8., stopped in conse
quence of the failure of the partmt concern
in England. The other failures in the coun
try are not prominent, although a consider
able number of fair-sized houses have suc
cumbed.
Marriage of a Sister of Charity.
Chicago, Jan. 5. —The Inter Ocean’s Balti
more special says: “Last Sunday, at the Cath
olic Cathedral, Miss Lizzie McDonald, a sis
ter of Charity, teaching in Mobile. Chicago,
Milwaukee, and elsewhere, was married to
Patrick Moore, of Washington. By permis
sion, being ill, she left the convent five
years ago. After recovering, she nursed her
father through a protracted illness. Going
to Washington she met Moore, fell in love at
first sight, and did not return to the sister
hood.” _
Insurance Suit Compromised.
Richmond, Jan. 5.—A compromise has
been reached between the Richmond & Dan
ville Railroad Company and the insurance
company, growing out of the fire at West
Point, in November, 1880, when wharves and
property to the value of over $500,000 was de
stroyed. All the insurance held by ship
pers is brought into contribution with the
railroad company’s insurance.
Not the Husband of ilie Lily.
Boston, Jan. 5.—J. H. Langtry, of the firm
of Hills & Langtry, went to Europe in the
interest of his concern in November last, and
returned to New York in the same steamer
with Miss Langtry. This circumstance gave
rise to the story that the husband of the
Jersey Lily had arrived.
Officers of the Mutual Trust.
New Y’ork, Jan. 5.—-Henry 1). Moore, ex-
Treasurer of Pennsylvania, has been chosen
president of the Mutual Trust Comany, and
Congressman Charles B. Harwell, of Illinois,
and ex-Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell,
vice-presidents.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Presidential Succession Bill Con
sidered by the Senate.
The Enormous Losses Entailed Upon the
People by the Prevalence of Plero-
Pueumonia Among Live Stock.
Outline of the Bill for the Preserva
tion of Yellowstone Park.
General Grant Confident of the Passage of
the Fitz John Porter Rill—Social and
Other Gossip of the Capital.
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
Consideration of the Bill In the Senate—
. Amendments Suggested.
Special to the Indianapolis JournaL
Washington, Jan. s.—As a legislative day,
to-day has been decidedly devoid of interest.
The Senate devoted most of the afternoon to
discussion of the presidential succession bill,
but apparently without making much pro
gress. Mr. Garland, in advocating the bill,
said the practical objection to the present
hybrid system, created by the law of 1792,
had been strikingly illustrated at the time of
President Garfield’s death, and after the 4th
of March next, unless Congress should legis
late upon the subject in the meantime, the
life of the President would be the only one
standing between us and anarchy. On the
other hand, one advantage of the system pro
posed by this bill was that it
devolved the duties of the presidency,
in such cases, upon the Secretary
of State. No inferior man was ever nomi
nated for that office. Under the existing
law the President of the Senate would be
come, in a certain contingency, the acting
President. This provision rendered the char
acter of the administration very uncertain.
For instance, when the Senate met after the
death of President Garfield, the Senator from
Delaware, Mr. Bayard, was chosen President
of the Senate, and if he had becon'c Presi
dent of the United States the Chief E* outive
Office would have been filled by a member of
the party defeated at the polls. But as if by
magic Mr. Bayard was deposed, and the
Senator from Illinois, Mr. Davis, was put in
his place—a distinguished Senator
belonging to no party, but walking
in an atmosphere of his own, above all par
ties—cerulean, ethereal or what-not. [Laugh
ter.] If he had been called to the presidency
by the death of President Arthur, what ver
dict of the people would hav® approver? him
or his “party?” Mr. Garland, in the course
of his remarks, expressed an opinion that the
President’s term of office ought to be six
years.
Mr. Morgan moved to amend, so as to pro
vide for the officer succeeding to the acting
presidency shall hold the office until the
President's disability is removed, or until the
vacancy is otherwise lawfully filled, instead
of until the end of the regular term, as pro
vided in the bill.
Mr. Edmunds moved that the bill be re
committed to the Committee on Judiciary,
with instructions to report, as soon as may
be, a bill to further provide for and regulate
the duties of President of the United States
by the President of the Senate pro tempore
and the Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, respectively, in case of vacancy in both
the offices of President and Vice-president of
the United States, and for the administration
of the duties of the office of President of the
United States in cases in which there shall
be, at the time beiug, neither a President of
the Senate pro tempore nor a Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Mr. Edmunds said this motion presented
clearly the alternatives of either perfecting
the system devised by the fathers or depart
ing entirely from that system, as proposed in
the pending bill.
Mr. Blair offered an amendment providing
that the cabinet officers named—(in suc
cession)—instead of acting as President in
the cases contemplated in bill, shall so act
only until Congress can come together and
provide by law for filling the presidency.
Mr. Jones, of Florida, offered an amend
ment providing that no cabinet officer shall
succeed to the acting presidency who would
not be eligible for election as President.
Without acting upon these amendmeiru,
the Senate went into executive session, and
soon afterward adjourned.
DISCOMFITED MR. COX.
An Illustration of the Dangers of Furnish*
Ing Advance Copies of Speeches.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 5. —The House strug
gled all day with the District of Columbia
appropriation bill. Owing to the anomalous
status of the District, her people having no
voice in the control of the governr tent or
representation in Congress, little interest
seems to be aw’akened in either branch of
Congress over what are termed District mat
ters. Occasionally a day is assigned by the
House for District business, which is gen
erally. regarded by the members as a good
time to attend to their private matters, and
it it rarely that a quorum can be obtained on
such days.
There were rather more than usual in at
tendance to-day, as it was understood that
the District bill would soon be disposed of
and the shipping bill would be taken up.
The latter, however, went over till to-mor
row, when a lively debate may be expected.
Sunset Cox, who takes ground violently
opposed to some features of the bill
which was prepared by the joint
Shipping Committee, will make a character
istic speech to-morrow. A joke is told in
connection with this speech, which it is said
Mr. Cox does not appreciate nearly so much
as he weald were it told on someone else,
Expecting that the bill would be called up
some days since, Mr. Cox carefully prepared
a speech and furnished proof-slips to several
New York papers in advance, to be used, of
course, after the speech had been delivered.
Unfortunately, however, one of those thus
favored chanced to be an afternoon paper,
and, with the characteristic recklessness of
afternoon papers, in its desire to get ahead of
its morning rivals, the propriety of waiting
tiff Mr. Cox had spoken his piece
was quite lost sight of. The speech
appeared two days ago in cold type, with the
startling explanation that Mr. Cox would, in
a few days, deliver it in the House. Mean
while, Mr. Cox had revised his remarks and
secured another set of proofs, which he
kindly offered to a New York correspondent
to-vhy, in view of the certainty that he
would speak to-morrow. His chagrin was
genuine when his attention was for the first
ti'ae called to the fact that his speech was
published two days ago. It is safe to assume,
no matter what Mr. Cox.may say to-morrow,
L.’*i the gentlemen in the reporter’s gallery
will associate it with his remarks already in
p*.at, and devote their attention to some
gentleman who has been less previous.
The Ways and Means Committee have not
perfected their tariff bill, but expect to re
port it early next week.
THE GAY SEASON.
A Brilliant Opening—The Cameron-Rodgers
Wedding.
6peclal to the InJtfciiapons JournaL
Washington, Jan. 5. —This week will be a
brilliant inaugural of the gay season. There
have been several entertainments each after
noon, and in the evenings besides; dinners
and luncheons by the score. Mrs. Loring,
wife of the Commissioner, has issued cards
for an “at home” on Saturday evening,
which will divide the honors with the mu
sicale to be given the same evening by the
wjfe of the Portugese minister, Madame
Nagerasc.
The marriage of Miss Virginia Cameron to
Lieutenant Rodgers will take place early in
January, not February, as hats been an
nounced, the exact date being Jan. 12. The
invitations which have been issued to wit
ness the ceremony are less general than those
to the reception following. It will be an ele
gant home wedding, the ceremony taking
place at the Senator’s house. There will be
no bridesmaids, but the bride will be at
tended by her two younger sisters. The
young couple will return here after the wed
ding journey, when a round of festivities
will be given in their honor.
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Extension of Iti Limits—Bill for Reserving It
for the People.
Washington -lan. 5. —On the Ist of Sep
tember last Acting fJtrcreuu y of tne Inferior
Joslyn agreed to lease to Carroll T. Hobart
and Henry F. Douglass, of Dakota Terri
tory, 4,440 acres within the Yellowstone
National Park, for hotel purposes. Hobart
& Douglass associated with them Rufus Hatch,
and a lease was drawn,ready for signature. On
Dec. 7 the Senate, at the instance of Mr.
Vest, instructed the Secretary of the Interior
to furnish the Senate with copies of the
agreement and proposed lease. The matter
was referred to the Committee on Territo
ries to investigate. The committee
inclines to the conclusion that the Interior
Department has transcended its authority in
making the agreement, and has agreed to re
port a bill clearly defining the duty of the de
partment, and also extending the area of the
park on the east to a line north and south
through Cedar mountain, and southward to
forty-fourth paraliel of north latitude, an ad
dition of about 3,334 square miles to the park,
the whole area of which would be 6,654 square
miles. The bill provides that all territory
within the limits of the park shall be with
drawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale,
and set apart as a public park or pleasure
ground for the people of the United States.
The present trespassers will be removed ami
further trespass prevented, and troops will
be used if necessary. Fish will only he
taken by hook and line, and the killing of
game will be prohibited. The Secretary of
the Interior may grant leases, for terms not
exceeding ten years, of small parcels of
ground, but no more ground shall be leased
than is necessary for hotels or storehouses
for the accommodation of visitors, and the
necessary outhouses, and for gardening or
grazing land in connection with the hotels,
but no exclusive privilege or monopoly of
any kind will be granted which shall.in any
manner interfere with the free and unre
stricted access of the public to all portions of
the park.
The extensions of the limits of the park
was‘recommended by the committee on the
suggestion of General Sheridan, who, as com
mander of the military department embrac
ing the park, made a careful study of the
territory, and was convinced the park should
include the proposed extension, on account
of geographical and other physical condi
tions.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
The Losses Caused by It—Vigorous Action
Recommended.
Washington, Jan. s.—The cattle commis
sion, in discussing the question of the admis
sion of American store cattle to Great Britain,
says: “It is vain to hope that England will
remove the restrictions so long as we fail to
show that the last vestige of infection has
been wiped out from our land, and nothing
short of the absolute and undeniable extinc
tion of this disease in the United States will
reopen the British market to our live cattle,
and save us those millions we are now every
year prodigally, we mightalmostsay insanely,
throwing away.”
The report estimates the yearly losses from
the lung plague in the United States at from
$2,000,000 to $3,000,000, and the prospective
loss at $50,000,000. The capital represented
by the present yearly losses at 5 per cent.,
would be from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000, and
that represented by the prospective losses at
the same rate, $1,000,000,000.
The governing principle in all these recom
mendations is that the Federal government
shall forbid the movement of stock cattle
out of any infected State, Territory or dis
trict, except after quarantine such as is now
imposed on cattle imported from infected
foreign countries. The report recommends
that the Secretary of the Treasury be em
powered to order the iustaut destruction of
all cattle or other animals, which, in quaran
tine, give evidence of dangerous contagious
disease.
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
General Grant Confident of the Success of
the Porter Bill.
Special to the Indianapolis JournaL
Washington, Jan. s.—General Grant has
expressed himself as delighted with the test
vote in the Fitz John Porter case, which was
taken on Wednesday in the Senate, and con
fident now that the bill will pass that body.
The ex-President is the recipient of much
attention during his visit. To-day, at Ip. m.
he received the visit of the Chinese minister,
who called upon him at General Beale’s,
where he is a guest, and later in the after
noon the General returned the calls of those
foreign ministers who have already called
upon him.
The Rival Tax-Reduction Bills.
Special to the Indianapolis JournaL
Washington, Jan. s.—The coup d’etat of
the Senate, in getting in ahead with a
tariff’ measure, has been made the occasion
for a good deal of good-natured bantering, to
which the members of the committee reply
that the Senate bill is crude and by no means
so symmetrical as theirs will be. A bluff
senator said to this to-day: “What we want
is relief, rather than symmetry;' a hungry
man won’t look for symmetry in the loaf of
bread that is given him.” The general im
pression, however, is that the Senate bill will
find the most favor of a measure of reduction.
Notes and Personalities.
Special to the Indianapolis JournaL
Washington, Jan. s.—Dr. Susan A. Edson,
who gained considerable prominence as the
nurse of President Garfield during his long
suffering, celebrated her sixtieth birthday
yesterday. The occasion was made one of
much pleasure to her by her friends, who
called in large numbers and extended their
congratulations. Dr. Edson has practiced
medicine here for over twenty years, having
in her professional care, during that time,
the wives and children of many of the promi
nent men of the day.
The President is said to be still somewhat
depressed by the melancholy event at the
opening of the White House for the New
Y’ear.
An immense number of individual claims,
previously audited and passed by officers of
the Treasury Department, were transmitted
to Congress to-day by Secretary Folger.
Captain John Mullan, State Land Agent
for Nevada, is preparing to have the 2,000,000
acres of land granted to the State by act of
Congress, June 16, 1881, for educational pur
poses, ceded to the Nevada authorities as
soon as possible. The matter is now under
consideration by the General Land Office, and
when the property can be selected free of
claimants. N®vada will he given posses
sion.
R. S. Taylor, of Fort Wayne, and P. A.
Orth, of Lafayette, arc guests at the Ebbitt
House.
Commissioner Loring has returned from his
trip to Indianapolis, and expresses himself
as greatly pleased with the city and people.
The surgeon at Evansville, Ind., writes
the Surgeon-general of the Marine Hospital
service that the local authorities refuse to
receive mariners sick with smallpox, and
recommends the erection of a suitable pest
house in place of the one destroyed.
Between now and Feb. 1 the appointments
of 800 clerks in the Pension Office will ex
pire. They were appointed on probation,
and witli the undertanding that upon the
record made would depend their continuance
in office. It is understood that about one
hundred of them will be superseded by new
appointees.
General Grant wil dine with Senator Mil
ler, of California, on Monday, with the Secre
tary of State on Tuesday and the President
on Wednesday. The Chinese minister visited
him to-day.
General Comstock, before the Mississippi
river commission, to-day, estimated that the
entire navigation of the river could not be
improved for less than $66,000,000. The es
timate had no regard to levees.
The ways and means committee is to-day
at work on the free list of the tariff com
mission’s report. The committee has struck
out quinine, and fixed a duty on prepara
tions thereof at 10 per cent, ad valorem.
The President to-day nominated Gustavus
Gowerd, of Illinois, to be secretary of the le
gation of the United States to Japan.
Judge Snell will render a decision in the
Dickson case early next week. The defense
feel confident that Dickson will be held for
the grand jury, but considerable interest is
manifested in how such a decision will be
reached after the acknowledgments of the
court respecting Dickson’s good character
and Bow'en’s crookedness.
The House Committee on War Claims has
agreed to report favorably the claim of Cap
tain Nicholas J. Bigley, for $210,000, alleged
value of the sieamer Hurcules and tow of
coal, destroyed on the Mississippi at Mem
phis in 1863, and. of Mary J. Veazie, for
$3,000, for property taken by the United
States at Natchez during the war.
Iran and Steel Industries of St. Louis.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5. —The Age of Steel,
in its review of the iron and steel trade of
St. Louis and other industries incident
thereto, says there are more than 21,000
hands employed in them; that they do busi
ness on $23,287,000 of invested capital, and
that their product of 1882 amounted to $50,-
207,000. The amount of pig-iron actually
melted in St. Louis establishments during
the last year was 163,825 tons.
A New Wrinkle in Contested Elections.
Belvidkkk, N. J., Jan. s.—Congressman
Harris, of the Fourth district, has served
notice of contest unon Congressman-elect
Jlowey. One ground of the contest is that
large sums of money were used for Howey
that had been assessed upon and collected
from United States officials contrary to law.
Steamship News.
New York, Jan. s.—Arrived: Adriatic,
from Liverpool.
Queenstown, Jan. s.—Arrived: Bothnia,
from New York.
Southampton, Jan. s.—Arrived: General
Werder, from Baltimore,
TRICE FIVE CENTS.
A PLUNDERED TREASURY.
Startling; Discovery by a Committee
of the Tennessee Legislature.
M. T. J*olk, .State Treasurer, a Defaulter to
the Amount of Four Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
The Money .Supposed to Have Been
Lost in Graiu Speculation.
The Delinquent Officer a Nephew of Preui*
dent Polk and a Graduate of West
Point—Other Crimes.
POLK'S DEFICIT.
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The Discovery Made by a Committee of the
Tennessee Legislature.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. s.—The legislative
committee appointed to investigate the
office of the State Treasurer, reported this
morning that the Treasurer had been out of
the city two days and his clerk was not pre
pared to make a statement of the accounts.
The commission reports a deficit in the treas
ury of $400,000, and, after consultation
with the bondsmen of the Treasurer, recom
mends a suspension of the* business of his
office for the present.
The announcement from the State Capitol,
this morning, of the deficit in the State
Teasury produced a genuine sensation
throughout the city. Following is the report
of the legislative committee:
“The joint select committee to settle with
the Comptroller and Treasurer report that
they have visited the office of the Treasurer,
and, upon inquiry, find the Treasurer away
from the capital, and that he has been away
lor two days, and they are not advised when
he will return. His clerk states that he can
not go into a settlement of the Treasurer’s
accounts till his return. They also have in
formation from the bondsmen, or some of
them, that the condition of the treasury is
such that they feel justified to recommend
that the workings of the treasury be stopped
until ad examination can be had.”
The Senate adop* " ' joint
resolution:
"Whereas, The Ben:i.
that M. T. Polk, prose;:. -.u, u
for about S4OO, OoO; a
“Whereas, The bom ►
not sufficient in amuu.. • a-.- • <
therefore, be it
“Resolved, by thoSenato and House of Repre
sentatives, That the Attorney-general of the
State l*o amt is hereby instructed to attach,
instanter, all available assets belonging to said
M. T. Folk, provided that sufficient ground*
exist, to the end that the same may be held for
the satisfaction of said rietioir.'*
THE BONDSMEN—A SKETCH OK FOLK.
The .State Treasurer’s official boud was for
$100,006. His bondsmen are: William M.
and A. R. Duncan, of Newell, Duncan & Cos.,
brokers; Max Sax, cashier of the Nashville
Savings Bank; William Morrow, former’Srate
Treasurer; Will Polk and J. E. R. Carpenter,
all of Nashville; J. K. Polk, F. T. Allison
and R. P. (’ole, of West Tennessee, and A, S.
Horsley, of Columbia.
At the last extra session of the Legislature
a bill was introduced to increase the bond of
the State Treasurer, but it was stolen troin
the desk of the clerk of the Senate the night
before it was to come up for final passage,
which was the day before the time ‘fixed for
final adjournment of the Legislature.
The amount of the deficit in the treasury
cannot be accurately ascertained until a thor
ough investigation is had. One of the bonds
men, who has been examining the accounts,
says they show, thus far, a deficit of $380,000.
The same bondsman says the Treasurer’s
books ami his account at one of the banks
show a discrepancy of $30,000. Just before
Christinas the Treasurer drew out of the
bank of Pulaski $5,000. The State funds
were distributed in various banks at Nash
ville, Knoxville and Memphis. The missing
fnnds are supposed to have been lost in spec
ulation in bonds and stocks, or loaned to
personal friends engaged in speculation in
bonds and stocks.
Treasurer Polk left Nashville on Wednes
day, and was last heard of Jat Milan,
Tenn., from which point he wrote
back that he wo'uld return on Sunday. His
family here do not know of his whereabouts.
Treasurer Polk is fifty-one years old, a grad
uate of West Point, and served four years on
the frontier. He was a captain ol' artillery
in the Confederate army, in Cheatham’s di
vision, and lost a leg at the battle of Shiloh.
He afterward served on the staff of General
Leonidas Polk, to whom he was related. Af
ter the war he resided on a farm near Boli
var, Tenn., until elected Treasurer, six years
ago. lie was a nephew of the late President
Polk, lie has a large family, and occupied a
high social position in this city and State.
Colonel Polk left the city on Wednesday
afternoon via a Northwestern train, with a
trunk checked for Milan, Tenn. A letter
dated Milan, Jan. 4. was received from him
by his clerk, Mr. Fleming, last night.
Governor Hawkins, in reply to an inquiry
if steps w’ould be taken for his ap
prehension, said no application had been
made for his apprehension, and
therefore his action will depend upon the
character of the application when it rs made.
The books in the Treasurer’s office are in
good condition, and the only question is as
to the amount of the deficit, which can be as
certained in to-morrow’s investigation in a
comparatively short time.
A BRUTAL DEED.
A Young Woman Seized and Ravished by
a Couple of Tramps.
Cleveland, Jan. s.—An Akron special to
the Leader reports that Victoria Smith,
twenty-four years old, when walking home
last evening, about 7 o’clock, was stopped
near her house by two ruffians, one of whom
said, “You are Polly Hitchcock.” She re
plied, “1 am not,” whereat the fellow’ said,
“You lie.” The scoundrels, brandish
ing a broadax and a butcher-knife,
seized her, threw a heavy cloth over her
head, twisted the corners so she w r as securely
muffled, and threatened to kill her if she
made a noise or resisted. They then dragged
her past her father s house to an open field
beyond, and both ravished her, after which
they cut off her hair close to her head and
left her senseless. When she recovered she
walked home, and again fell in au uucon-