Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — WASHINGTON COSSLP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON COSSLP

W. R. Smith, superintendent of the Botanic gardens in Washington, has held the place for forty-three years. The Secretary of the Navy has appointed Herbert Howard, of Port Huron, Mich., a cadet at the naval academy. Senator Gear, of lowa, with his health in part restored after a desperate fight for life, will return home in a few days. Prof. J. T. Itothrock is authority for the statement that 15,000,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania were sold for non-pay-ment of taxes last year. Gen. Stanton, paymaster general of the army, has received from Fort Washakie, Wyo., a magnificent war bonnet made by the Shoshone Indians. Private Secretary Thurber says the statement that the President is writing a book on economic science, or on any other subject, is absolutely untrue. The reclassification of employes of the customs service has been completed and the rules for carrying into effect all the changes made will be promulgated at once. The six new gunboats for which plans have recently been approved by the Secretary of the Navy will be known by numbers until they are named by the Secretary. Secretary of State Gresham continues to improve steadily. He takes food in sufficient quantities, secures considerable sleep, and the pleuritic attack, while still the source of some constant pain, is running its course naturally and satisfactorily. ‘ Secretary Carlisle has directed the Federal authorities at Tampa, Fla., to communicate to the State quarantine authorities his opinion thgt the United States laws do not warrant the detention of the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabella on a reported violation of the Federal quarantine laws. The action of the Pension Bureau in construing the legal meaning of “dependence” under the act of June 27, 1890, jbias been reversed by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds, who says that ibv “adequate means of support” the law means a comfortable maintenance during the remainder of life. Mrs. William Bussey, at Jefferson, Ind., left her medicine chest open and her 4-year-old daughter took some poison and died.