People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — NOMINATIONS. [ARTICLE]

NOMINATIONS.

The President Announces a List of Important Appointments. WASHINTON, April 26.—The president announced a long list of appointments, including ministers to Brazil, Colombia and Portugal. Of greatest interest to Illinoisians, however, is the appointment of William E. Shutt, Senator Palmer's law partner, to be United States district attorney for the southern district of Illinois. Among others are the following: L F. McKinney, of New Hampshire, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Colombia; Thomas L. Thompson, of California, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil: George W. Caruth, of Arkansas, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to Portugal; John M. Wiley, of New York, to be consul of the United States to Bordeaux.