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THÉ CANADIAN CltESCENT.
TKBEMAM S. KXX.X.ER, Editor ft Pub's
published ever*" thursday at
CANADIAN, - TEXAS,
THE WOULD AT LAKGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Paul Vandervoort, of Nebraska, has
been appointed superintendent of mails at
Omaha, Neb., and Henry A* Thomas, of
Massachusetts has been appointed super-
intendent of mails at Boston, vice J. Peter
Hughes, resigned.
The acting Comptroller of the Currency
has appointed George McNeir, of Minne-
apolis, receiver of the First National Bank
at Anoka, Minn., which failed last April.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new Brit-
ish Minister to the United States, arrived
in Washington on the 23d.
During March past 29,805 immigrants
came to the United States, 3G,931 during
March, 1888.
Treasurer Hyatt has returned to
Washington from New York. He says
that the counters at the sub-treasury are
forging ahead at a rapid rate and are now
handling about $15,000,000 of gold a day.
He expects that the count there will be
concluded by May 4.
The crowd of office-seekers about the
White House continues very large, but
only a favored few are admitted to Presi-
dent Harrison's presence.
The Secretary of State has been in-
formed that Russia will send delegates to
the marine conference which is to meet at
Washington on October 16 next.
Minister Denbt reports to the State
Department that the Emperor of China
assumed the reins of government March 4
Secretary Blaine, who has been in-
disposed, was feeling much better on the
25th, but owing to the inclement weather
he did not deem it prudent to go to the
State Department. For this reason the
presentation of the new British Minister
to the President was deferred.
Charles W. Files, of Connecticut, has
been appointed chief of a division of the
Pension Office, vice General J. B. Cort,
dismissed. George W. Gilt, chief of a
division in the Pension Office, has also
been dismissed.
Ex-Congressman John E. Ellis, of
Louisiana, died at Washington on the 25th
of heart failure. He had served five terms
in Congress and was forty-eight years old.
There was extra session talk recently
in Washington, the idea being that Con-
gress would be called together in the falL
Colonel Dudley says he has been mis-
represented in what he said disparagingly
of President Harrison.
There was an aggregate of 580 pension
certificates issued by the certificate di-
vision of the Pension Office on the 2Gth.
The list includes certificates for original
pei/sions, reissues, increases, etc., and is
trgest that has been made in,one day
sii^fce Commissioner Tanner's installation.
4 i
the east-
Patrick Farrell jumped from Brook-
lyn bridge the other day and was taken
in a dangerous condition to the hospital.
Whether his intention was suicide or a
jump for a wager was not known.
An application by Anthony Comstock
for membership in W. S. Grant Post, G. A.
R., at Brooklyn, N. Y., was rejected,
thirty-seven black balls being east.
A great gale came over the lake, strik-
ing Erie, Pa., on the afternoon of the
£4th.
The nineteenth annual assembly of the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of
the Presbyterian Church began in Phila-
úelphia on the 24th.
The mammoth hotel at Rockaway
Beach, near New York, was sold on thé
24th for $29,000.
The National Reform Association in
Pittsburgh, Pa., adopted a resolution re-
questing President Harrison to mention
Christ in state papers, especially Thanks-
giving proclamations.
Albert M. Frey, who had held the pool
championship for the past three years,
died at New York recently.
The yácht Coronet which has sailed
around the world, has returned to New
York in good condition and with all well
on board. R L. Bush, the owner, and his
family were on the yacht. She left Gibral-
ter thirty-two do^rs previously and en-
countered at least a half dozen storms
without any serious mishap.
Chauncey M. Depew gave a dinner the
other night in New York to Whitelaw
Reid, Minister to France. Many notables
were present.
Andrew D. Bogart, a prominent real
estate dealer of New York City, com-
mitted suicide recently by shooting him-
self through the head.
The New York Senate has passed the
Saxton Electoral Reform bill.
The gingham mill of the White Manu-
facturing Company*at Rockville, Conn.,
has been shut down on account of a strike
of 150 weavers, and its other mills will
also close, throwing 401) employes out of
work.
Joseph Dion, the well known billiard
player, has been declared insane by a
sheriff's jury at New York.
There was a rumor that Judge Veasey,
of Vermont would be appointed to succeed
Mr. Walker on the Inter-State Commerce
Commission.
An accident occurred recently to a
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, causing fatal injuries to the engi-
neer and fireman. The train ran onto a
burning bridge over Roaring creek, near
Wilkesbarre, wrecking forty cars. One
brakeman was dangerously hurt.
A lady, fifty-seven years old, fell from
a fourth-story window in New York and
was killed.
The business men of Portland, Me.,
have passed resolutions against any leg-
islation tending to interrupt the present
commercial relations with Canada.
H. B. Spofford, the historian of Claren-
don, N. H., died recently.
The Harlem Electric Light Company's
old shops, a wooden church, a carriage
factory aud half a dozen tenements in
upper New York City were destroyed by
fire the other« night, causing $150,000
losses, f
THE WEST*
A thief named McCarthy attempted to
rob Collins & Son's bank at Ventura, Cal.,
by drawing a revolver on the cashier. He
grabbed a package containing $4,000, but
was brought to surrender by the sheriff
with a shotgun.
Rev. Jakes McLeod, pastor of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis,
has been a guest of President and Mrs.
Harrison at the White House.
The slaughter house and pork packing
establishment of F. A. Lainly & Co., on
Spring Grove avenue, Cincinnati, was de-
stroyed by fire recently. The loss was
nearly $250,000.
The other morning when eighteen col-
ored non-union men arrived at the Alle-
gheny Bessemer steel works at DuQuesne,
Pa., where a strike for an increase of
wages was in progress, a number of strik-
ers pulled their revolvers and threatened
death to any who eutered. After a parley
the colored men agreed to go away, when
their fares were paid back to Pittsburgh.
The exodus from the vicinity of Quebec
into the States has never been so great as
during the present year. Within the last
few days 600 men have left for the brick
yards of Massachusetts and other New
England States.
The Rideau ship canal in Ontario was
opened on the 22d, the earliest for fifty
years.
Frederick Ebersold, at one time chief
of police, has been appointed by Mayor
Cregier, of Chicago, to be inspector of
police, vice John Bonfield.
A' railroad official at Chicago states
that he does not anticipate any strike on
the Western roads this year.
The lower house of the Illinois Legis-
lature has passed a bill making it a mis-
demeanor for any man not a member of
the G. A. R. to wear a Grand Army
badge.
Three men died of congestive chills in
one night on claims near Oklahoma City.
A mail route -has been established be-
tween Guthrie and Lisbon, in Oklahoma.
In the Pacific Derby at San Francisco
on the 23-1 the Czar made a mile and one-
half in 2:36, the fastest Derby ever run in
America, beating the record of 2:36J¿
made by Ben Ali in 1886 and that of C. H.
Todd at Chicago in 1877.
The workingmen of Minneapolis were
taking steps to start a line of herdics in
opposition to the street car line. Capital-
ists were behind the scheme.
The directors of the Chicago gas trust
have appointed a committee to investigate
the feasibility of supplying Chicago with
natural gas.
By a premature explosion of dynamite
near Homer, Mich., Connor James and
Harris James were killed. The explosion
occurred on the latter's land. The two
left home to blow out stumps and had
twenty-five pounds of dynamite. Their
bodies were found five rods from the ex-
plosion.
Frederick Schultz has sued August
Michel for $2,500 damages at Minneapolis,
Minn., for covering him with a coat of red
and black paint while he slept and after-
ward calling in fifty other boarders to
laugh at the sight He was awakened by
their shouts of laughter.
Dr. Laws, president of the State Uni-
versity at Columbia, Mo., has resigned.
The lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture has defeated an election bill provid-
ing for a system similar to the one in use
.in Australia.
Hon. Elijah M. Haines, ex-Speaker of
the Illinois House and a prominent figure
in State politics, died recently. Ho was
the author of several works on Indian
lore.
A tank of naphtha in the Chicago, Mil-
waukee & St. Paul railroad yards ex-
ploded recently at Chicago, blowing a
man fifty feet, killing two horses and do-
ing other damage.
The Belle Prairie convent near Little
Falls, Minn., took fire recently. The
twenty-four children had a narrow es-
cape, being saved with great difficulty by
the Sisters in charge.
THE SOUTH.
Webb & Co., soap manufacturers of
Baltimore, Md., have assigned. Liabili-
ties, $36,000.
James Burris, who escaped from Doug-
lass, Tex., recently and swore he would
not be taken alive, was shot and killed in
Milan County, Tex., after a sharp fight
The trial of Dick Hawes for the sensa-
tional murders at Birmingham, Ala., has
commenced.
The Morgantown (W. V.) female semi-
nary was destroyed by fire recently. All
the inmates escaped. It will not be re-
built.
John Ways and wife and Jnmes M.
Linérman, a boy of twelve years, were
killed recently while driving across the
track at Newport, five miles south of Wil-
mington, Del.
George M. McNeil, formerly of Iowa,
employed on the Oak levee near Baton
Rouge, La., and two colored women,
Colly Norton and Frankie Romero, were
drowned the other night by the upsetting
of a skiff.
Thomas Madigan, a plumber, was killed
the other day at Dallas, Tex., by an elec-
tric shock while repairing a pump. To
steady himself while standing on the
pump he grasped a wire, thus forming a
ground connection and bringing the cur-
rent into his body.
During a storm at Atlanta, Ga., recently
a wall was blown down, killing two fire-
men and injuring others. The wall be-
longed to the Jackson building destroyed
by fire.
The Sanford (Fia.) yellow fever case
(Mrs. Charles Dement) ended fatally.
By a collision between freight trains,
near Glen Mary, Tenn., the other day two
trainmen were killed and three others in-
jured. The forgetfulness of an engineer
was the cause.
The Supreme Court of Texas has re-
versed the decision of the lower court in
the case of Richmond, a railroad con-
ductor, who sued the Missouri Pacific for
damages for publishing him on the black-
list as a conductor discharged for care-
lessness. The Supreme Court held that
the case was not actionable for libel for
absence of express malice in the publica-
tion.
White laborers have taken the places of
most of the striking negro workmen in
the tobacco factories of Danville, Va.
The colored farmers of South Carolina
have organized a union for the advance-
ment of the race in education and other
respects. It is to be strictly non-political
GENERAL
Vice-President Robinson, of the Santa
Fe system, denies emphatically the charge
made by anonymous writers that 8anta
Fe officials took any part in the scramble
for land at Guthrie.
The Grand Trunk railway has joined in
the Sunday rest movement as regards
freight trains.
M. Henri Rochefort's departure from
Brussels was due to a request from the
Belgian Government that he leave the
country.
Mr. Pendleton, United States Minister,
will take no part in the conference on Sa-
moan affairs. He has presented his let-
ters of recall to Emperor William and will
leave Berlin.
The Emperor of Austria has paid the
late Crown Prince's debts, which amounted
to $2,500,000.
All the crops in a district of Silesia,
Germany, have been destroyed by a
storm and five persons killed by' light-
ning.
The seventieth anniversary of Odd
Fellowship was celebrated on the 26th.
L. U. Reavis, a well known writer, au-
thor of the expression the "Future Great"
with reference to St Louis being the Na-
tional Capital, died recently. He was
born in Illinois in 1831.
The Wabash purchasing committee has
decided to issue enough new bonds to pay
off dissenting bondholders and carry out
the original purpose of the reorganization
plan. The amount to be issued has not
been definitely decided upon, but is esti-
mated at between $5,000,000 and $6,000.000.
The Pope recently summoned Father
Agostino, the famous preacher of Rome,
and reproved him for his recent sermon in
which he invoked the Divine blessing upon
King Humbert and the Italian army.
A dispatch from Auckland, N. Z., says
that the United States steamship Nipsic
was again disabled while being towed in
Apia harbor.
The steamer Australia and schooner
George went ashore in a blinding snow
storm on Michigan island, near Duluth,
Minn., recently. They were scuttled in
order to save them from pounding to
pieces on the rocks. There was no loss of
life.
Visoount Mandeville was charged in
a London police court the other day with
fraudulently obtaining £925. The magis-
trate did not enter the case upon the court
record and the hearing was adjourned.
A drunken tinsmith recently ascended
the steeple'of a church in Hungary by
means of the lightning rod and stood up-
right on the top of the cross, which swayed
under his weight After standing there
fifteen minutes haranguing the horrified
crowd who gathered beneath he calmly
descended as he had gone up and reached
the ground unharmed.
Several houses in the town of Alham-
bra, Spain, were destroyed bv an earth-
quake shock the other day. No lives were
lost
TnE King of Holland proposes to resume
the reins of government
The Spanish Government, it is said, will
sell at auction $50,000,000 worth of state
woodlands in order to cover the financial
deficiency, make public improvements and
establish rural loan banks.
The provisional directors of the Comp-
toir d'Escompte of Paris have signed a
deed creating a new company.
Several priests and many other per-
sons have been arrested for participation
in the riots in the State of Guanajuato,
Mexico, recently.
<TIX1¿ latest;
A son of Henri Rochefort, the noted
Frenchmen, committed suicide by shoot-
ing himself at the Hotel Algiers, Paris,
recently.
The fast mail and an east-bound freight
train on the Lake Shore road, collided at
Rolling Prairie, seven miles east of La-
parte, Ind., the other night. Both engines
were wrecked. A tramp who was stealing
a ride was fatally injured.
Clearing house returns for the week
ended April 27 showed an average in-
crease of 2.2 compared with the corre-
sponding week of last year. In New York
there was a decrease of 0.1.
The old town of Bladensburg. Md., was
recently inundated by a freshet
While the Queen of Wurtemburg was
driving at Nice her horses became fright-
ened and started down the road at a ter-
rific pace. One of the horses fell and was
killed. The Queen was badly shaken up
and much frightened but received no in-
jury.
Secretary Tracy has decided that the
law gives him authority to proceed with
the construction of new coast defense ves-
sels, notwithstanding there may not be
enough of the appropriation left to build
the three other vessels ordered by the
same law.
The First Baptist Church Society of
Providence, R Lt celebrated its 250th
anniversary on the 28th. The present
church building is over 100 years oid.
Colonel D. B. Dyer, formerly of Kan-
sas City, was elected the first mayor of
Guthrie, L T. The differences between
the rival town site companies at Oklahoma
City were reported settled and Captain
Couch elected mayor.
Ex-Governor Bishop, of Ohio, and
others have been sued for $270,000, said to
have been illegally drawn by them as
trustees of the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road.
The steamship Orinoco, from Bermuda,
has brought to New York the captain and
ten of the crew of the ship Richard P.
Buck, which was burned near Bermuda.
The carpet mill of the Lowell Manufact-
uring Company, Lowell, Mass., was de-
stroyed by fire the other morning after it
had been supposed a small blaze had been
put out Loss, $400,000.
Thomas Hinch, a Wisconsin pugilist,
while training at Iron Mountain, Mich.,
for a match was drowned by the capsizing
of his boat.
The Iron Mountain railway, a part of
the Missouri Pacific system, has given no-
tice that all unnecessary Sunday train
service, both passenger and freight will
be discontinued on that road and that
only trains conveying live stock or perish-
able freight will ba permitted to run on
Sunday.
On the London Stock Exchange during
the week ended April 27 English railway
securities showed a relapse, while Amer-
icans improved. Prices were weak in Parle
and dull in Berlin. At Havana sugar wns
quoted higher and advancing.
'SCOPED THE SMOKER.
Disastrous Accident Near Hamil-
ton, Ont.
a Baggage Car Telescopes the Smoker and
the Wreck Takes Fire—Many Burned to
Death—Serious Accident at a Pleas-
ure Resort Near Kansas City.
Hamilton, Ont, April 29. —An accident
—one of the greatest in the history of Can-
ada—occurred one mile from here at seven
had started from Windsor and was bound
for Suspension Bridge and the East went
down an embankment immediately after
o'clock last night The express train, which
leaving the track. The baggage car tele-
scoped the smoker and immediately took
fire. Those who were free tried to save
others in the burning smoking car, but
without success. The wrecking of the
water tank cut off the supply of
wqler to a great extent and what
water could be got had to
be applied by means of pails.
There w efe 115 passengers and ten
train hands on board, and of these about
thirty passengers were in the smoking
car. As far as has been learned thirteen
passengers got out of the smoker. Two
were killed instantly, one of them being
L. S. Gurney, who was on his way from
Chicago to New York, and the other an
Italian, whose name is not known. The
remains of fifteen bodies have been taken
out of the wreck, which, with the two
killed and thirteen rescued, ail more or
less wounded, make up the thirty who
are supposed to be all that were in the
smoking car. None of the train hands
were seriously injured. The worst hurt
was Edwin Chapman, the fireman, of
London, who had his right arm
burned and scalp wounded. None of the
fifteen who were taken out of the wreck
after the fire have been identified. It is
doubtful if they can be for some days, at
least, as their remains are charred beyond
recognition, many being horribly mangled
before the fire broke out Their remains
were taken out from the burning wrreck in
small fragments. The train was making
sixty miles an hour at the time of the ac-
cident The whole fifteen were huddled
together in the forward end of the smok-
ing car. The baggage car jumped right
over the top of the engine aud carried it
down on the track about one hundred
yards ahead of it The railway and city
authorities have done all in their power to
h^lp the wounded. Twelve of them were
removed to the city hospital and the oth-
ers had their wounds dressed at the station
and went on their way by special train.
It is not likely that any of the wounded
will die, their injuries not being very seri-
ous. Hamilton Clark, of Chicago, had his
right leg broken and his head bruised. He
may also have received internal injuries,
in which case he is not likely to recover.
Others who were wounded and taken to the
city hospital are: Anthony Maar, an Ital-
ian on his way from Wisconsin to Italy,
not seriously; Edwin Chapman, fireman,
of London, not seriously; Enoch Keuzer,
engineer, of London, Eng., ribs broken,
not serious unless internally injured; C.
C. Azbell, of Edwardsport, Ind., cut and
bruised, not serious; William Lepsey,
Chicago, badly sprained ankle; A. L.
Doney, Danville, III., head cut, not se-
rious; J. A. Palmer. Ilion, N. Y., head cut,
not serious; George White, going to
Union Hill, N. Y., ear cut off and head
cut; Andrew J. Carpenter, Yankton, Dak.,
cut and bruised, not serious; S. E. Young,
Chicago, knee and back hurt not serious;
Joseph Morris, on his way to Clark's
Island, Me., cut about head, not serious.
a sunday immersion.
Kansas City, Mo., April 20.—At four
o'clock yesterday afternoon, while 15,000
people were viewing the aquatic feats of
Alphonse King on the artificial lake in
Chelsea park, the west end bridge, cross-
ing over to the pavilion, gave way and
precipitated fully seventy-five people into
the water below. For an hour, in the
greatest confusion, and while willing
hands were busy with the work of rescue,
it was believed that at least twenty
persons had been drowned in the
three and a half feet of water
under the wrecked bridge. The
wildest rumors spread like lightning over
the city and hundreds of people who had
friends at the pleasure resort flocked to
the park only to find that there were very
few casualties and no fatalities so far as
could be learned. The crowd was ungov-
ernable and persisted in forcing its
way on to the bridge in spite of
the warnings of the park police.
King had just completed his bicycle test
and was preparing for the pole balancing
feat when with a crash the center span oí
bridge gave way. For an awful moment
a single truss supported the center planks
of the structure, then with a swinging
motion it, too, gave way and precipitated
a mass of screaming men, women and
children a distance of fifteen feet into the
water below. The scenes that followed
are almost indescribable. Rescuers, how-
ever, were soon at work and victim after
victim was pulled out Some of
the strong men in the water, mad-
dened by fear, plunged over the beads of
children and women to get to the land.
The result was that quite a number oí
people sustained injuries, which are, in no
case verv serious.
The injured, as far as could be learned
late in the evening, are as follows: Sam-
uel Lester, musician, living at Murray-
ville, right arm broken in two places; he
boards at the corner of Ninth and Grand
avenue, and is being cared for by Dr.
Colter, who says he will be about
again in a few weeks. Mrs. McDar-
ny, living in Kansas City, Kan.,
severe bruises about the head and arms;
William Allen, resuscitated, slightly in-
jured about the head; Mrs. S. D. Mitchell,
bruised about the arms; Annie Winler,
Kansas City, Kan., slight bruises; Mary
Dee, living on James street Kansas City,
Kan., slight bruises; a boy, name un-
known, ribs crushed; Julia Alden, Kansas
City, Kan., slight bruises; Edna Wood.
Kansas City, Kan., slight bruises; H.
Shade, Kansas City, Kan., slight bruises;
J. C. Parrish, Kansas City, Kan., slight
bruises; Robert Nach, Kansas City, Kan.,
slight bruises; Mrs. Victoria Beaucaire
severely injured in the side.
GLADSTONE'S REPLY.
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The English Statesman's Reply to Mi
American Home Rule Memorial*
Buffalo, N. Y., April 24.—The noted
"Exile" McBride recently sent Mr. Glad*
stone a list of names signed to a hom*
rule memorial, including those of Presi-
dent Harrison, Cardinal Gibbons, Speaker-
Carlisle, Vice-President Morton, Arch-
bishop Ryan, Secretary Blaine and a large
majority of the members of both branches
of Congress. He has just received an au-
tograph letter from Mr. Gladstone ready-
ing as follows:
House of Commons, London, April 13.—My-
de&r sir: I have the honor to acknowledge^
your letter of March 22, and the remarkable?
list appended to it of those distinguished citi-
zens of the United States who have testified
through the memorial you mention to their in-?
terest in the condition of Ireland and their de-
sire for a just and reasonable acknowledgment
of her national claims and aspirations.
I rejoice not only to think but to know that
throughout the wide confines of the race tc
which we ali belong there is an overwhelming
preponderance of sentiment in favor of that:
acknowledgment At home this ¿udgment has-,
been constitutionally recorded by Ireland he^
self, by Scotland and by Wales, the representa-
tives of all three being in favor of home rule by
a majority of three or four to one. And found-
ing ourselves on the evidence of the elections
in England which have taken place since the
general election of 1886, we firmly believe that
England herself, were the opportunity now af-
forded her by dissolution, would record a ver-
dict decisively in accord with those of the othet
portions of the United Kingdom and of the
Anglo-Saxon race at large.
Encouraged by these indications at home and
abroad, and by the wise advice of their repre-
sentatives in Parliament, the Irish people show
an indisposition to crime and outrage not less
remarkable than their determination to carry
forward their cause to its successful consum-
mation, now retarded by the votes who do not
represent the real sentiment of the country.
It is a further satisfaction to me to include icr
this acknowledgment local, but authoritative,,
manifestations from America only less remark-
able than what has proceeded from the centers
and has had the illustrious sanction of the
President himself. This very day I have re-
ceived a communication in the same spirit with
your own from the Legislature of Nebraska,
one further indication of the sentiment and de-
sire which prevails throughout the vast domain
of the United States. Fiually, I rejoice to be
put in possession of such declarations at a mo*
ment when your great country is about to cele-
brate on the 3')th inst. the centennial anniver-
sary of the inauguration of Washington as the
first President of the American Common-
wealth.
I have been requested from Chicago and else-
where to intimate an assurance of my partici-
pation in your national joy. It is a real aid a
grateful participation, for the statesmen of tho
American revolution bave taken their place
once for all among the greatest political in-
structors of the world. George Washington
was their acknowledged and illustrious head
and to him and them I have long felt that I
owed no trivial part of my own public educa-
tion. Long, without limit of length, may that
union flourish under the blessing and favor ot
God with the foundation of wnich their names
are inseparably associated. 1 have the honor
to remain, my aear sir, your most obedient and
faithful W. E. Gladstone.
MAJOR ARMES.
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Strong and Favorable Testimony Intro-
duced on His Behalf.
Washington, April 24.—There is little
doubt that the testimony given in secret
session before the Armes court martial has
been favorable to Major Armes. This
testimony has proceeded from a wholly
unexpected quarter, and will be likely to
give the army officers some embarrass-
ment, if, as asserted, there is a very de-
termined effort on the part of s)tne of
them who are West Point men to deprive
Armes of his commission. The tes-imonjr
will be very apt to call the attention of
the court martial to first; principl- s, and
to cause it to cons dsr what the legal au-
thority of the demonstration on March 4
is. The testimony given by Sergeant-at-
Arms Canaday, of the United States Sen-
ate, is believed to bo that Major Armas
held his position in tho procession, and
was assigned to the place, which he en-
deavored to occupy, and from which he
was removed, by Virtue of a letter ad-
dressed to him by the committee on ar-
rangements on the 0£ the United
States Senate, and that no other officer
in that procession held his place by virtue
of any other, any higher or any bet-
ter title than that by which Major Armes
held his. It is a fact that Major Armes
received a letter of authority from the-
sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, issued in
accordance with instructions given hiia
by the committee placed by Congress in
charge of the inauguration ceremonies.
Sergeant-at-Arms Canaday stated beforo
he testified that he, Armes, had been given
a letter just as every one else bad. If thia
should be sustained the prospect that
Armes will be acquitted on this branch of
the inquiry is good. For the court-
martial, as august a body as it may be
when it arraigns those over whom it has.
jurisdiction, will hardly venture to place
the Congress of the United States on
trial at its bar. Nor will the court martial
deny the right of Congress to control tho
inauguration ceremonies. If the Congres-
sional committee gave to Major Armea
authority not only to appear in the pro-
cession, but gave him a particular duty, ho
had as much right in the parade as the
Grand Marshal had. and has as mncb
right to ask for a court martial of those
who excluded him from it as they have
had to attempt to court martial him for
taking part in it. The impression pre-
vailing at the beginning of the inquiry that
Armes would lose bis commission as an
officer of the army on ths retired list is-
notas strong as it was even a week ago.
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Reported Killing*
Guthrie, L T., April 24 —A young man
named c'ompis, who had failed to secure
a lot in Guthrie, filed on a homestead
claim about two miles northwest of the
town late Monday afternoon. He was
accompanied by a friend whose name is-
un known. The two had scarcely driven
stakes when a man armed with a Win-
chester rifle issued from the bushes and
ordered them off. Com pis showed fight,
when the man shot him through
the breast The wounded man was
dragged into the timber by his friend
and there died in half an hour. When the
ne*rs reached Guthrie & posse of thirty
men organized and overtook tho murderer
about twelve miles norths He refused ta
surrender and was killed a£ a volley.
Reference to the entry books show that
hi* same was probably C. IV Land Sam
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1889, newspaper, May 9, 1889; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183608/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.