Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

William Strutter and Charier- Writer na were hang«*d in Washington, is. C. E« 4 killed a woman because of yeakwsy. The President has decided to appoint Albert S. Kenny paymaster general of the navy, to succeed Edwin Stuart, named. So many affairs as great intpmtanre await action by the next Cnngrrw that it is said the Prestdewl eeriomdy cuwiemplates calling that body together in extra session as early as October. Secretary of War Alger has given in* consent to the tapping «f Lake Michigan for the Chicago drainage channel. The matter will be referred t* Cawgnrss ter ultimate decisicm at its next oewmun. The Postmaster < Jenera 1 has ordered that the rural free delivery nervier «I the country be divided into two grand aubdivisions. the western and eastern. The former is t« consist of the States west <ff the Ohio, and its headquarters will he at St. Louis. The other diviria*. i —gaiiimt.. States east of the CSfain. will have its headquarters in Washington. In its report the court of inquiry which investigated the beef charges cvawirr 'iJeueral Miles few not rrjennir the unfitness of the ratjpns al the Trine that the eomfdaints reached him. General Eagan is aevereiy scored fur tray ing «ach immense quantities of an uaXJird ration. The liackers are extmeraled. it being shown that they f nrnished the -raw gauds that they put «* the general market.