Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is stated that Commissioner of Patents Montgomery will be appointed Judge of tho District Court of the District of Columbia. Col. Lamont says that the fears recently expressed by Dr. Sowers as to the President’s health are not shared by Mr. Cleveland’s family and intimate friends. The contract to erect the new r aqueduct bridge across the Potomac at Washington has been awarded to tho Mount Vernon (Ohio) Bridgo Company a’ $80,905. Oscar S. Strauss, a prominent importer of New York, has been appointed Minister to Turkey. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, is likely to be appointed a member of the Pacific Railway Commiss on. The Treasury Department reports (534 distilleries in operation throughout the country, Kentucky leading with 15(5. J. R. Doolittle, Jr., of Chicago, has applied to President Cleveland for tho vacaut Judgeship of the District Court at Washington. Instructions have been issued to department commanders to exercise strict economy in (he matter of orders involving travel of army officers. The President has appointed James F. Benedict to be Collector of I denial Revenue for the District of Colorado. The new extradition treaty between Great Brita n and tho United states has been submitted by President Cleveland to the Senate. It calls for extradition for such crimes as manslaughter, burglary, embezzlement or larceny of tho value of SSO or upward, and malicious injury to property, but make i a decided exemption in favor of merely political offenders.