Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 May 1889 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD. INDIANA

Ex-SENATOR PLATT makes a stiong point against the civil service law by citing the fact that it ha* certainly not provided us with any better officers than we had before it was enacted. If it has not improved the service, then it has unquestionably failed to accomplish the purpose for which it was intended, and its opponents have a right to say that the country would have done just as well without it.

COMPARED with the duiation of life of the ordinary European nation, the United States is young. Nevertheless, the only great European Fowers whose Governments have maintained esi&teccc longer than oars without revolution or reorganization of some sort are Great Britain and Russia. Every other big nation on the eastern side of the Atlantic has changed its Governmental system by agencies more or less cataclysmic since the April day a hundred years ago when the American Republic was ushered into being.

THE lawyer in politics displaced the minister in politic.1?, at the opening of the revolution, jast a century ago. The parsons ruled the country for over 100 years, and made, on the whole, and excellent job of it. The lawyers, beginning with Hamilton and Jefferson, have done quite as well in most respects, and, in some, better. Washington was not a lawyer, but he invariably put the highest offices in the hands of lawyers. It looks now as if the next century would be controlled by experts—that is, by scientists and investigators—call them professors if you prefer. Our economical and social organizations, sanitary matters and affairs pertaining to healfh and wealth are steadily calling to men of this class.

THE possible uiischief of hasty legislation aiming at reform is illustrated by a story that com?s from Conntcticut. An industrious, sober fellow lost his position at Arlington and wandered to town to find work. Without success, after three weeks of searching, he begged at a farm house for a cup of coffee. The farmer's wife not only refused him. but caused his arrest. By the State law he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and $30 fine. He escaped from jail and went to his wife and children, who were subsisting on charity. The State reclaimed him to serve out his sentence, and he must do it. The suppression of tramps is a needful business of legislation, but the enforcement of a good law requires the use of common sense and charity.

MR. CARIER, Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, urges that the time has come to abolish the Washington principles of letting other nations alone and comp elling them to let us alone, and to mix freely in the affairs of the foreign world. But Mr. Carter forgets that our prosperity under this regime ha a really done more to influence the governments and peoples of the earth than if we had sent armies and navies to interfere in every quarrel and to dictate lines of policy for every nation. An opposite policy would have involved us in constant war, depressed our industries, and left us less influential for good than the small States of Europe, if it did not dissolve us altogether. The permanent policy for a Republic is a mind-vonr-own-business policy.

MINISTER ROMERO is correct in his opinion that the annexation of Mexico to the United States would not be to the advantage of either country at present. Mexico is, compared with the territory which came under the Government by the purchases from France, Spain and Russia, quite thickly settled, and it has race characteristics and civilization very different from our own. The United States would find it very difficult to assimilate its big neighbor on the Boutnwest. Even Canada, most of whose inhabitants speak our language and have a social fabric bearing some slight resemblance to ours, would not be a particularly welcome acquisition to us. The diverse, heterogeneous and, in some respects, antagonistic elements composing a portion of our present population offer problems complex and delicate enough to test the ability and patience of our statesmen, without reaching out for any r.ew problems to combat. ___________

WE have reports that many of the boomers who were crowded out of Oklahoma have struck northward to Dakota, with the view of settling on the big Sioux reservation, which, it is understood, will soon be opened, and which includes 11,000,000 acres of land, nearly all of which is desirable. Other parties of disappointed boomers are making their way to Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, while Arkansas and Missouri are also desirous of reaping benefits from their disappontment in Oklahoma. No one needs to suppose that our Western domain was all populated when Oklahoma was overrun by settlers. From Oklahoma itself we learn that the newcomers are busily at work ploughing and seeding the soil, and that there are good hopes for the crops of this year. We repeat the announcement that this is a great country. —N.Y.Sun.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

W arsaw has beautiful parks. Winchester is using electric light. Convicts at the Prison South numbered 658 last week.

Daniel Winalow, a resident of Grant county for 60 years, is dead. Columbus is "wide open" of Sundays, and saloon brawls area result.

The corner stone of a $49,000 Catholic church will be laid at Tipton, Jnne lb. Alexander Hockaday, of Harrison county, claims to be one hundred and seven years old.

Coil,"son

of Fred McEyer, of Greens-

burg, ran a wire nail in his foot and died of lock jaw. Crawfordsville and many other cities and towns have talien advantage of the increased liquor license.

The May Musical festival at Indianapolis, on the 27th, 28th and 29th, gives every promise of complete success.

Nine horses dropped dead in the southern part of Vigo county one day last week while in harness, and the farmers report some unknown malady prevailing.

Captain John Field, of Jeffersonville, took off his clothes to wade while fishin and the garments were chewed up bv"calvep, including $50 in paper money and $1 in silver.

Clark county grand jury men propose to indict people who treat newly married folks, in that county, to a charivari with pan pounding and bell ringing accompaniments.

Alexander Monroe,living near Middletown, was accidentally killed Thursday, while handling a revolver, the ball entering' hi* neck. He was about fifty years of age, and unmarried.

Thomas W. Swansgan. a farmer of Daviess county, aged sixty years, is being sued by Miss Marian Elizabeth Milholland, of Washington, for breach of promise to marry. She asks $2,000.

David Burnie, of Fort Wavne, found Samuel Brewlev in his wife's chamber Saturday night and opened fire upon him, two shots taking effect, inflicting a fatal wound. Burnie surrendered himself to the police.

Among the street cleaning gang working on the streets of Jeffersonville is a large negro woman, who is said to make the dust, fly as dexterously as her white companions. She is a widow, and has several small children to support.

John Howell, a noted horse-thief, sixty-one years old, was released from the northern prison Thursday, but was immediately arrested for another offense, and will likely spend the remainder of his days in prison.

Walter C. Hammond, convict in the Prison North, is in a dying condition, and the Governor refuses to pardon him because he finds that his record has been bad from his youth up. At the aae of sixteen be assisted in a train robbery.

Mrs. Olive Olds, near Deedsville, while riding with ker sons, was thrown out in a runaway accident and her knee so badly crushed that amputation followed. The lady failed to rally fro 11 the shock and her death occurred the present week.

William Minor, of Burney, placed a dynamite blast in a w6ll which he was digging, but it failed to explode, He then lowered himself into the well, and began re-tamping with a crowbar. The iar exploded the dynamite and he was ^erribly injured.

A goat belonging to Daniel Weaver, of Shipskewana, ate two twenty-dollar bills and two promissory notes calling for an equal amount, belonging to his owner. The animal was killed and dissected, but not enough of the money was recovered for redemption purposes.

Patents were granted to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: John Hironimus, Mt. Vernon, carriage-spring George W. Kelly, Goshen, carpetsweeper Joseph A. Minnis, Evansville, safe-alarm Marshall T. Reeves and M. 0. Reeves, Columbus, spilt pulley Sigourney Wales, Terre Haute, pencilho der.

George Howery, a wealthy farmer living in the northern part of Shelby county, was arrested at home, Thursday, by the sheriff of Rush county, charged with being one of the three men who passed about $300 of counterfeit fives and tens in Rushville, Tuesday Considerable counterfeit money was found in his possession.

Dr. L. B. Staley, of Knox county, was riding, Thursday morning, when his horse stumbled, fell and threw the Doctor off and broke his arm. Dr. Staley is phenomenally unfortunate. Within two years he has broken his right arm twice, his left arm twice, and had each of his legs broken, and at another time broke his collar bone. His injuries generally result from the handling of factious horses.

Hog cholera has made its appearance among the porkers owned by Michael Shannahan, a well known farmer at Lincolnville, Wabash county. Up to this time seventy-five animals have died. The cholera has not yet appeared among the hogs in the neigh borhood,and every effort will be made to prevent it from spreading.

Cyrus Seldomridge, of Muncie, who has been nearly blind for several years, received word Friday from the Pension Office that his pension had been increased from $2 to $72 per month, and that, an arrearage amounting to $7,250 would be paid him on June 4. This generous recognition, coming even at this late day, and after years of patient waiting, is a godsend to Mr. Seldomridge and family, who have struggled for years to make an honorable and respectable living.

Incendiarism iH becoming rife throughout the Kate, scarcely a day passing but that losses are reported from the destruction of barns aud more valuable property, and as a rule the mischief is directly traceable to tramps. In many counties they fire the premises in retaliation lor fancied ill-treat-ment, and the temper in many communities is rapidly rising to fever heat in conseauence. ard the argument is frequently made that a few "hanging bees" will be necessary to lid the earth of the nnwbolsoine presence of these vagrants.

Of the Indiana wheat probabilities, according to State Agricultural Secretary Heron's information, the acreage of 2,710,000 acres will yield an average of about fourteen and one half bushels per acre, or a total of 39,2 5,000 bushels. Lant year there waa an acreage of 2,774,000 and a total yield of 28,879,000. Thia

estimate places the average yield in 1889 far ahead of that of 1888. Comparing the condition of growing wheat in various winter-wheat producing States, Indiana will probably rank above Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri, and below Michigan, Illinois and Kansas.

Sunday, for the first time in twentyfive years, every saloon, drug store and cigar stand in Ft. Wayne was closed, front and back. The liquor-dealers' Association, at a meeting held Sunday afternoon .decided to observe the Mayor's order, and SuBday have their committee patrolling the streets for the purpose of filing affidavits against all persons found following their usual vocation. They propose bringing action against the street-car company, milk men, butchers, newsdealers, newspapers, livery men, etc. Mayor Harding publicly stated that all such cases brought before him would be dismissed without trial, thus openly committing himself to a war ou the saloons and gamblers alone. The Occidental, one of the oldest gambling houses in the State closed up its business on Friday night, the firm dissolved and the saloon is offered for sale. The Mayor included in his manifesto to all public places withio two miles of the city limits, thus practically closing the Tivoli garden and the Centlivres brewery, the two most popular Sunday resorts in the vicinity.

Postmaster Tom Ochiltree, of Rushville, attorney for two Shelby county farmers charged with counterfeiting, made application Monday to be admitted to practice in the Federal court. Ochiltree was foreman of the Federal Grand Jury in 1887 that refused to indict the tally-sheet forgers in the United States Courts, and spoke disparagingly of Judge Woods. He said to the deputy that if his clients were Democrats they could not get justice before the Judge,as he considered him unfair. The remarks in some way reached the ear of Judge Woods, and when Ochiltree asked to be allowed to appear in the case, the Judge reminded him of his remarks to the deputy marshal. The officer was present to'testify that the disparaging statement was made, but Ochiltree did not deny it. Judge Woods then informed Mr. Ochiltree that if he wanted to practice in the court, he must pass examination in the regular way. He refused to do this, and consequently was not admitted. How the President Receives Visitor®. Washington Letter to Philadelphia News.

The President stands at or near the end of a large, flat desk, which is by a window overlooking the Potomac. A huge iquet of fresh and fragrant flowers is on the desk. As we enter, the President is leaning "against this heavy table, with head slightly bowed and fingers of both hands toying somewhat nervously with the fob of his watchchain. He is dressed very plainly. His coat is a black Prince Albert, but on account of the shortness and fullness of the figure looks almost like a cutaway, so completely is the waistceat exposed to view. Our view is a silhouette, and the plumpness of the President's stomach, the extra shortness of his legs and neck, the bulging of his brow are ail brought into strong light. Presently he turns half round and toy^ #with an eraser which lies on hife de8kj\w&d> we notice that his legs are just a trifle curved from the feet to the thighs, being widest apart at the knees. He has been listening impatiently to what his caller had to say—probably a story now retold for the twentieth time—and now lie makes reply. He is apparently in earnest, for he gesticulates first with one hand and then with the other, and finally with beth hands, as if he were making a public address. But there is no temper or feeling about it, for as soon as he has said his say he grasps the caller's hand, and, with a shake that is quick and strong, almost military in i(S sweep of the arm, bids the man good-day.

When Leo XIII. Dies.

London Figaro. It has long been the unwritten law of the pontifical court that when a Pope dies the cost of erecting a suitable monument over his remains shall be defrayed in equal portions by those of the Cardinals he created during his pontificate who may survive him, and Leo XIII. decided long ago that he shall be buried in that famous sacred edifice outside the walls of Rome known as the Church of St. John Lateran. He has even approved the design' for his sepulchral monument which the official Vatican architect drew up at his order so that the Cardinals will not have any trouble in settling the details. Meanwhile, his Holiness is himself spending money lavishly'on the church in question, especially in connection with the erection of a superb monument over the tomb which now contains the ashes of Pope Innocent III., that masterful pontiff who, besides placing France under an interdict when Philip Augustus dared to divorce his wife in spite of the Pope's caution, excommunicated our own Kin* Jottn.

A Manager's 111 Liiclr,

New York Weekly. Theatrical Manager (despondently)— "I am undone!"

Wife—"Mercy! Has the theater burned down?" "Worse! That new play on which I spent so much money contains such a fine moral lesson that the preachers are advising the people to go see it. Now jt won't draw enough to pay the ushers."

A Difference of Qualification/ Chicago Tribune. Sunday school Teacher—Children, what lesson do we learn from this verse: "Verily, I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven?"

Thoughtful Boy—We learn that it's going to be a good deal harder to get into heaven than it is to get into the United States Senate.

THE STATECAPITAL.

The State Board of Education adjourned, Thuisday, after several days' work. The text book law was not brought up at this meeting, as nothing connected with it can be done further until the 28th inst, when bids from publishers will be opened. Fourteen applicants for State license were examined, and nice attained the requisite grade to receive it. They are W. S. Almond, Alpheus K. Baldwin, Mary L. Best, Emma R. Chandler, Conrad W. Conway, Thomas L. Harris, Francis L. Harris. Eva Malone and John R. Sherrick. Of forty-one applicants for eight-year licenses, twenty were successful. There names are Margaret A. Arnold, Fred. M. Dowev, Charles A. Dugan, Alrred W. Duncan, Tilla G. Ewing, John Havev, William B. Jackways, Titus E. Kinsev, Mattie E. Lowe. Wateou Nicholson, Ryland Rati iff, Charles W. Sehleppy, Clara Weir, Horace G. Woody, Josephine Fielding, Theodore Huntington, Harvey Lucys, Florence Mark ley, ThomaB M. Merica and Bertha E. Sweeney.

Professor John Collett, appointed State Geologist by Governor Hovey, Thursday afternoon instituted quo war ran to proceedings in the Marion Circuit Court against S. S. Gorby, elected to the same position by the Legislature. The case will be gotten into the Supreme Court and settled as soon as possible.

Assessor Thomas Quill and Deputy Assessor Tyler, of this township, were indicted by t!-e Grand Jury, Thursday, for obtaining money under false pretenses. It is charged that they kept several "dummies" on the pay roll, the salaries of whom they divided among themselves.

The State Treasurer is preparing to advertise for bids for the school fund loan authorized by the Fifty-sixth General Assembly. There is no question of the constitutionality of this act. The loan is so big that it throws the troublesome one which the German Savings Bank, of New York, has been dallying with into the shade. The advertisement will call for bids for a loan, all to be taken at once, of $3,91)5,000. Bids will be opened July 1.

Auditor of State Carr left the city early Sunday morning for New York, where he arrived the next morning. He had been intrusted with the care of the bonds by State Treasurer Lemcke, and these were purchased during the day by the German savings bank according to its bid and credit given Capt. Lemcke. The notice that the business had been satisfactorily settled was received late in the afternoon by telegram to the state treasurei. However, a letter of credit is required before the money can be drawn, and the anxious seekers of the pap will have to await Auditor Carr's return before any moneys will be paid out. The amount which the state will receive is $700,000, which the bonds call for, with $11,340 premium and accrued interest on the above moneys since April 1. When asked as to the disposal of the money Treasurer Lemcke said it would soon be gone, as theie are two or three hundred claims to be satisfied. Among the most urgent of the claiments are the state house contractor, the contractors of the Washington street pavement, the state university trustees, the trustees of the soldiers' and sailors' orphans' homes at Fort Wayne and Knightstown and the reform school trustees at Plainfield.

The Supreme Court Saturday decided the case of Alvin P. Hovey, Governor vs. The State ex rel John W. Riley. The case is the one in which Riley, elected a trustee of the Blind Institute by the Legislature, brought suit in the Marion Circuit Court to compel the Governor to issue to him a commission. Judge Howland of the Circuit Court decided in favor of the plaintiff and the Governor appealed to the Supreme Court. That tribunal, as will be seen, affirmed the decision of the lower court. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Elliott, and is concurred in by Judge Mitchell and Olds but not by Judges Coffey and Berkshire.

The opinion declares that all of the governing officers of all of the Benevolent Institutions of the State may be appointed by the Legislature. It is said that, by practical expontion. growing out of the long continued practice, the Constitution has been so construed as to vest in the Legislature the power to appoint this class of officers.

Many authorities are cited to show the eftect of practical exposition, and it is said: "Practical exposition establishes a principle. Particular instances fall within general rules, and practical exposition establishes general rules for the government of particular instances. The science of jurisprudence is not made up of particular instances, nor can it be so constructed, for, if it be a science at all, it must be composed of principles. To us it is clear that what we have here to do is to find what principle has been established and under that principle bring the particular instance. The effect of the long continued practice is to establish the principle that the Legislature has power to appoint the governing officers of all the benevolent institutions, or, at its option, authorize their appointment. It is narrowing the effect of this practical exposition much beyond what reason and authority gratify to hold that it applies to some of the institutions and not to the others. We can not believe that the general assembly may rightfully appoint the Tiustees of the Hospital for the Insane and yet have no authority to appoint those of the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb."

It is also said in the opinion: "The office is a peculiar one and one which it is evident "the Constitution did not intend should be filled by the electors of the State at a general election. It is, as it seems to us, an office whicn may properly be regarded as within the control of the General Assmbly, the control belonging to that body as an incident of the right to establish and maintain benevolent institutions. Officers of the class under immediate mention are not such as every elector may justly claim a right to hold solely oil the ground that he is a voter and all voters are entitled to hold office, but they are* offices which the Legislature may restrict to competent persons by prescribing what shall be the qualifications of those who enter them. It is within the authority of the Legislature to require that the officers of this class shall be selected

from different political parties, or that they shall be persons of peculiar skill and experience. It may, indeed, provide for the appointment of women to this class of offices, as has been done in some instances. If we are wrong in affirming that in this class of offices the Legislature may prescribe particular qualifications, then the practice of all the departments has been in many instances a persistent violation of the Constitution."

Judges Coffey and Berkshire stated that they did not concur in this opinion, but wrote no dissenting one. The points wherein they differed from the majority concurring are not known therefore. The dispute between Professor Collett and Professor Gorby in re. lation to the office of Chief of the Department of Geology is in no wise affected by this decision, as it is entirely distinct asto the prinriple involved.

The Daughters'of Rebesab, I. O. O. F., met in annual convention here, Tuesday, with an attendance of between 300 and 400. No special legislation was undertaken. The new officers selected are: Miss Alice McQuiddy, President Mrs. Nannie Henderson, Vice President Mrs. Secretary Mrs.

Treasurer. Delegates lo the

National convention: Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Coat-es, Mrs. Crews, Mrs. Hanna.

A STORY OF CRUELTY.

Shocking Revelations of the Brutality of Attendants in an Insane Asylum.

The most terrible revelation yet made in Judge Prendergaet's investigation of the management of Chicago's Public Insane Asylum was that reached MonJay in the testimony of George Hill, a locomotive engineer, now running an engine for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. Mr. Hill is a shrewd-looking man, with black hair and mustache, and a straight forward manner that carried conviction with it. He said he was admitted to the institution at Dunning in January, 1888, and was discharged as cured the following May. He was not violently insane when he went to the asylum, and on his arrival was asked by an attendant named Lock if he was insane. He said he was not. "Well." replied Lock, "We will make you a Bight ineaner than YOU are now."

Then another attendart named Julian, ordered me to sweep out the room. I replied that I was not sent there for that purpose.

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You "ain't, eh?' he said 'we will see about that.' Then he knocked me down and kicked me in the body and mouth, and kicked two teeth out. I tried to cover my face, by getting my head under a bench. My arm was over it and through a space in the back of the bench. Julian turned the bench over to get another kick at my face. In doing this, my arm was broken."

Hill rolled up his right coat sleeve, and showed, about three inches below the elbow, a huge lump, where the ends of the broken bones, iily jointed, stuck out. "They knocked me down again," contined Hill, "and broke one of my ribs. My arm caused me ^reat pain, and I had no proper treatment. One day Julian said: 'Let me see that arm,' and he tore my coat off. Then he, rubbed the arm with liniment. That was the only attendance I had. I tried to see the doctor, but Julian told me that if I dared to speak he would kill me right there. I told Supervisor Jones that I was badly treated, and he said he would send me to another ward. Then Lock and another attendant, from ward D. W. 1, held me down while Julian kicked me in the head and breast. I got up bleeding, and said I would have justice some day. "'You ,' said Julian, 'we will give you all the justice you want,' and he struck me in the face and knocked me down again. "That was all that was done to me. My arm aud rib healed up in a kind of a way, and I got along all right. One day a poor iellow named Levi was brought in. He did not know enough to go to the dining room, and I was showing him the way when Lock asked me what I was doing. Julian came up and Lock s^id: 'The won't eat.' 'I'll show him how to eat,' said Julian, and he grasped Levi by the hair, and, throwing his head back, jammed a big piece of bread into his mouth. Levi tried to run away and hide in one &i the rooms. There he was caught by Julian and LOCK. They struck him in the face, knocked him down and jumped on his stomach. Levi's face turned black. 'Get up,' they said, but he could not move, and they picked him up and threw him on the bed. The poor fellow died that night."

The court room was as still as death during the awlul recital. The witness was told to bring in his wife to corroborate his story, and Dr. Harold Mover was instructed by Judge Prendergast to examine Hall's arm and rib.

Further evidence was taken, to the effect that the attendants were brutal in their treatment of patients. One inmate was cruelly beaten for going to bed with his socks on, and it was a common thing for the attendants to come into the ward with clubs and drive the patients to bed, using their sticks with freedom. It was shown in evidence that the food was insufficient in quantity, and that the clothing and bedding furnished were entirely inadequate for the comfort of the patients in cold weather.

County physician Todd testified that Robert Burns, who was beaten to death by attendants in the asylum, did not die of consumption, as was stated by Superintendent Kirnan in the certificate of death.

The defendants iHthe petition for the dismissal of the matron of the Home for Incurables and certain officers of the institution, for crm-lty and mismanagement, filed their answers Monday. All the charges are denied categorically,and counter affidavits, in answer to those taken by the complainants, are made by the matron, by attendants and by some of the inmates. These, alsc, deny the truth ot th«} charges. ...

K&- His father was a plum&er, And when he named him Will lie little rtck'd toe title

Would brine the boy to ill But when they cut his leg oft, And he lay BO cold mid still, They said it was the only way (To reduce the plumber's Bill. —Time.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Mrs. Harrison's mail contains, every day, appeals from office seekers to use her influence with her husband in favor of the writers. Some of the correspondents request Mrs. Harrison to remind the President that their applications remain unanswered: they have heard nothing about them and fear the President has inadvertently neglected to act upon them. They beg Mrs. Harrison to look around the office for the letters and petitions, and put them where General Harrison will be sure to see them. Some of the letters are from women. One of them recently wrote that she was a widow with three "girl children." Her husband was killed in the war, fighting on the Southern side, and there was an unconscious pathos in the details of a poor widow's struggle to maintain and bring up in the "fear of the Lord" those three girl children. She wanted a "post office paying only $300 a year," and yet "it would be a god send to me." One man wrote recently eight big letter pages to Mrs. Harrison, because he ftared that three epistles of the same length addressed to "your respected husband had failed to meet his eye." The letter breathed the most devoted piety, truest Republicanism, and the most pronounced prohibition sentiments, and ended up with a request for an office of some kind that would make lile a little easier for a man with only one ieg.

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Anew schedule for appointments has just been arranged, which will undoubtedly be more satisfactory to the office seeking masses, as it gives one more day in the week to them. Appointments for the departments will be agreed upon or made as follows: Mondays, Interior Depaitment Tuesdays, Pofctoffice Wednesdays, Treasury. There are to be few appointments made for the other five departments, and they have not been put on the schedule, and for the filling of emergencies tins schedule will not, of course, be deviated from. In some of the depariments complaints are heard that the failure to make changes in the principal positions ie having the eflect of dogging business, as the officers who daily expect, to be relieved take no interest in the business, and in many instances refuse to take action.

Applications for pensions are beginning to come at the Pension Office from the widows and dependent relatives of officers and men who lost their lives in the recent naval disaster at Samoa. The widow of Captain Schoonmaker, of the Vandalia, filed her claim a few days ago, and it has been submitted to the proper division for allowance. Her pension will amount to $30 per month. Thursday, a colored woman, whose son was employed on one of the lost vessels, appeared at the Pension Office and filed her claim for a pension. She will be allowed $12 per month.

Henry W. Rogers, a middle aged man,came here on the 4th of March for a consulate. He was locked up Saturday in the station house as a vagrant. He had nearly $20 in coppers and five-cent pieces in his clothes, the result of his solicitations on the street. He was taken before Judge Miller in the police court, one day last week, and gave his personal bonds to get out of town. But ne was sure of getting his position in a few days more, and so he stayed.

The President, Thursday, made7 the following nominations: Solomon Hirscb, of Oregon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey. Clark E. Carr, of Illinois, Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark. H. M. Sevarance, of California, Consul General at Honolulu. Thomas H- Sherman, of District of Columbia, to be Consul at Liverpool.

It is rumored that Attorney General Miller will be appointed to the supreme court bench to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Matthews—thatSecretary of the Navy will succeed Miller in the Department of Justice and that First Assistant Postmaster Genera! Clarkson will be made secretary of thenavy.

The attorney-general has received a report from T. B. Needier, U. S. marshal of Indian Territory, in regard to the conduct of himself and deputies at the opening of Oklahoma Territory on the 22d of April. Mr. Needles denies that'he has entered any lands or town lots in Oklahoma, but says that he understands^ that some of his deputies have.

The land office has made a ruling to the eflect that if a homesteader has made improvements on his claim, and has lived on the land himself the pre-$ scribed length of time, lie has aright to a patent from the government, even if his family did not live with him during the necessarry five years of occupation.

Among the nominations made by the President were James M. Towneend (colored), of Richmond, Ind., to be Recorder of the General Land Office and Col. Roberts. Robertson, of Ft. Wayne, to be a member of the Boaid of Registration and Elections in Territory of tah.

Charles D. Treston, once a delegate in Congress from Oregon, was arreBted in Washington in the act of using the franks of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, and Delegate lib, of Arizona, on his own private mail. ..

Gen. Felix Agnus, proprietor of the Baltimore American, is talked ol in connection with the Russian mission.

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The American delegates to the Samoan conference are said to have carried every point at issue.

There will be no more changes in the: office of the Attorney General for some months.

The President will not talk politics on Sunday.

Settling Oklahoma. Difficulty. Chicngo Tiibune. "This is mv claim."

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"Well, you'll have a sweet time getting mc off it. Do you know who I am?" "No." "I'm Bloody Pete, the North Platte Terror, with a record of seventeen men. You'll make the eighteenth if you don't skip out in just ten seconds." "Perhaps,you don't know who I am/ "Naw!" "I'm a member of the Indiana Legisla—" "Put 'er there, pard! You and I can. take this claim together and hold it agin the world."