Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Another call for 3 per cents has been made by the Secretary of the Treasury. .. The Secretary of the Navy has appointed a court of inquiry to investigate the charges against Capt. Selfridge, of the Omaha, in regard to the accident on the coast of Japan, in which several persons were killed by the explosion of a shell fired from the Omaha. ' Ex-Senator Van WviKlias written the Secretary of the Interior urging him not to sell the abandoned military* reservations until the Fiftieth Congress has had an opportunity to bring them u-ithin the provisions of the homestead act. The reservations embrace about 700.(TOO acres, and i it is understood that certain cattle com- ! pan es and other corporations are scheminu j to get j ossession of them. Under the act ; of July 5. 18*4, the Secretary of the In- . tenor is authorized to appraise-and sell these lands. -~AMerNwr-tlre“intermffrevenue districts abolished by an order issued by the President are: The Second Illinois, which is consolidated “with” the First District;'jhe Fourth Illinois, divided between the Fi.th and Eighth; the Eleventh Indiana, added To the Sixth; the Sixth Ohio, consolidated with the First: the Fourth Missouri, consolidated with the First; the Third Wisconsin, added to the First; and the Sixth Wisconsin. consolidated with the Second. Commissioner Miller thinks the Government will save more than SIOO,OOO annually by these changes and the tax-payers will not be inconvenienced.