Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — WASHINGTON GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The President hns accepted an invitation to visit the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta Oct. 21. Postmaster General Wilson delivered the annual nddress to the students of Central College nt Fayette, Mo. Secretary Herbert delivered the oration at the commencement of the Alabama Agricultural anil Mechanical College at Auburn. J. Walter Blandford, who was private secretary to Mr. Olney while he was Attorney Geueral, will hold a like position with him as Secretary of State. The trial of Capt. Henry W. Howgate on two indictments charging forgery and falsification of accounts while disbursing officer of the signal service in 1879 was begun Monday. The President has denied an application for a commutation of sentence of death imposed on Joseph A. Beam for the murder in Washington of his stepdaughter, Miss Anna Leahy. Beam was sentenced to be hanged July 20. Minister Ewing informs the Department of State that a new department—the ministry of industry and labor—has been created in Berlin, and Nyssens, a member of parliament for Louran, has been appointed to direct the office.

The Post Office Department has issued a fraud order against Wilson Foster and Foster's Art College of St. Louis, Mo., excluding the company’s matter from the mails. Its scheme was to sell tickets for crayon portraits, which, it is said, were never delivered. E. P. Baldwin, auditor of the Treasury Department, hns issued a circular requiring the action of appraisers, gaugers, weighers and measurers to be in duplicate and requiring entries, invoices and certificates to he forwarded to the auditor for the Treasury Department. The results of the special investigation made by the Department of Agriculture in 720 cotton growing counties show that in eighty-eight there will be, little or no change in acreage as compared with last year. The general average for the country is 81, against 88.5 last year and 85.0 in 1893. Wheat percentages: Acreage, 90,1 per cent; condition, winter per cent, aguinst 82.9 May 1, condition reported was 83.2. Spring wheat shows average whole country, 97.8 per cent; average percentage of all wheat is 97.1. The percentage of spring wheat for entire countrr is 99.5. No official information has been received at the Indian bureau concerning the charges made against the chief of the Creek nation and the treasurer of that tribe as to unlawfully paying out funds of the tribe. The supposition of the officials at Washington is that the whole trouble la nothing but a political sauahW*. , 1 s*