People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The continued reports of the assembling of a large United States fleet In Turkish waters are discredited by those in a posltiop to know at the Navy Department. It Is pointed out that the fleet already there is ample to give any moral effect to such urgent demands on Turkey as this government might determine. The president has appointed Francis F. Leupp, the editor of Good Government, published at Washington, to be Indian commissioner, vice William E. Russell, declined. The United States supreme court has advanced the case of Coffin, indicted for complicity In wrecking the Indianapolis national bank, and set the hearing for the first Monday In March. The supreme court has rendered a decision, handed down by Justice Harlan, In the claim of the state of New York against the government for interest on money expended by the state for the equipment of troops during the war, awarding the full amount of $130,000 claimed by the state.