Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Editors in postoffices are receiving the attention of the Postmaster General nowadays, Those who published matter connected with the scandal about the President are to be removed. Postmaster General Vilas has said that he will remove officials who aided in circulating the scandal, not on the score of partisanship, but on the score of “indecency.” So says a Washington dispatch.... President Cleveland has appointed Edward Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of lowa in the place of C., L. Williams, who was originally selected for the office. . » The appointment of J. L. Meade to be Postmaster of Hazlehurst, Miss., has been revoked by the President Meade is the man who presided at a meeting held in Copiah County. Mississippi, immediately following the killing of Matthews, at which meeting the murder was approved in formal resolutions, and notice served upon the members of Matthews’ family that they must leave the county. It is understood this is in conformity with the determination of the administration ndt to alfilw itself to become involved in any bf the political quarrels which have occurred

in the Soutt.. ,-.Owen A. Wells has been appointed /Collector Of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Wisconsin, and John R. Malony for the First District of Michigan. The President also appointed the following'Postmastete: J. E. Eichholtz; Sunbury, Pa.; Jacob Odell, at Youngstown. N. Y.; George W. Evans, Jlceau Grdv«sN. J.: Henry S. Benner, Gettysburg, Pa.; Maurice Litsch. Mahanoy City, Pa.; Marlin A. Rutter, Meyersdale, Pa,: Samuel A. Aahg, Raleigh, N, C.; Mrs. Olivia A Hastings,'Port Gibson, Miss.; Samuel W. Hobbs, Storm Lake, Iowa; Willlard Stearns, Adrian, Mich. ; G. W., Cooper, Columbus, Ind.; J. E. PennelL Lebanon,’ Ind.; J. F. Regan, Terre Haute. Iftd ;W. Groesbeck. Independence, Mo.; G. B. Falconer, Minneapolis, Kan.; C. H. Sproule, Elko. Nev.; John A. R. Varner, Lexington. pa-j William Henry Ritcnour, Harrisonburg. Va,Daniel V. O'Leary, Albany, N. Y.; Josephus P.Dejarnette, Chetopa. Kan.; Adelbert B. Crampton, Delphi, Ind.; Curtis Reed, Menasha, Wis.; Robert E. Austin, 'lama City, Iowa: Georges. Witteis, Ida, Grove, Iowa; Chas. G. Kress. Lewiston, I. T.; Andrew Barders, at Sparta. Ill.; Enoch A McLead. at Palmyra, Mo.; Sanford L. Sturtevant, at Fullerton. Neb.: Clement Philbrick, at Halstead, Neb.; L. D. Mitchell, Jamestown, Ind.; C. Kehrer, Leavenworth, Ind.; Franklin Colt, North Liberty, Ind.; Frank Scheper, Oldenburg, Ind.; Elizabeth E. Buckles, Primrose, Iowa; N. Meldrum, Chesterville, Ill.: Dentils Deneen, Hammond, Wis.; J. Mierswa, Marlon. Wis.; John Wetherhalt, Latona, 111.;, J. H. Coppock, Goldsmith. Ind.; F. Webber, Morris, Ind.; G. F. Faber, Chaska, Minn.; J. P. Wall, Cadott, Wis. The following appointments are also announced: ,To be Registers of Land Offices. Robert C. McFarland at Crefird'Alene, Idaho, and Mark W. Sheafe at Watertown, D. T. To be Receiver of Public Money, Downer T. Bramble at Watertown, D. T. President Cleveland has appointed Charles Denby, of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China; Wendell A. Anderson, of Wjsconsin, was appointed Consul Genend at Montreal; James W. Whelpley has been appointed Assistant Treasurer of the United States. 1 -1