Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The President has Issued au executive order forbidding the importation of intoxicating liquors into the Territory of Alaska except npon permit of a customs officer at the port of destination, who shall first be satisfied that the liquors are needed for sacramental, medical, or scientific purposes. The importation of breech-loading rifles is also prohibited, except where intended for the personal use of white settlers and temporary visitors not traders.... The President has appointed William H. McLyman Collector of Customs for the District of Miami, Ohio; J. W. Doane of Chicago, William K. Carlisle of Wichita, Kas., and Isaac J. Cox of Ellenville, N, Y., commissioners to examine and report npon thirty-four miles of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

President Cleveland has appointed Martin J. Russell, of Illinois, and J. P. Thome, of Maryland, to be members of the Board of Visitors of the Military Academy at West Point, in place of Gen. Palmer and Mr. Gwinn, of Maryland, declined. Mr. Russell is editor of the Chicago Herald. The signal service at Washington has taken a new departure. It has begun the issue of a series of weekly reports of the climatic conditions which have existed during the previous seven days in the agricultural districts of the United States. They are intended to indicate the deficiency or excess of temperature and rainfall during the growing season for the benefit of those who wish to make estimates of conditions which favor the crops or otherwise.