Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

, -f. DOMESTIC. : There are 17,107 newspapers and peri■fldicalß in the -United States, an increase hf 737. - ; , ; ; *“Qld Hatch” is manipulating the Chicago Wheat marketyigain,, and - fluctr nating prices is the result. Four men were instantly killed and several injured by a boiler exploding at Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday. At Seneca, Kas., W. J. Joyce was convicted of Belling Jamacia ginger, thereby violating the prohibitory law. ( Mary Anderson, the actress, has been compelled to cancel all engagements on account of nervous prostration. Hbn. John A. Campbell, ex - J ustice of. the Supreme Court of the United States, died at Baltimore on the 12th.' The prohibition, amendments to the . ■ New Hampshire constitution were defeated by An,overwhelming majority. Gen. J. B. Weaver, ex-Congressman, and Hon) E. H. Gillette, will go into the the newspaper business at- DesMoinea. Three negroes were judicially hanged at Aukadelphia, Ark., Friday for murder. One of them was a preacher. Jay Gould declares the financial situation weak and the railroad . situation worse than at any time for thirty years. The abandoned oil fields around Franklin, Pa., are again being worked and large quantities of oil have been found. The rumor that the iron mills of eastern Pennsylvania will soon shut down is denied by prominent manufacturers.

The colored peopled Springfield, 111., have decided to erqcta monument in that citv, to the memory 'of A braham Lincoln. The Minnesota Legislature, has passed resolutions urging a vigorous foreign policy on the part of the General Government. Ex-Alderman Kerr, of New York, was acquitted of the charge of bribery in connection with the Broadway street railway franchise. The Nebraska House, by a[yote of 77 to 18, passed a bill for the “Australian system” of voting in the larger Cities of the State. Chief cf Police, Philip'Paul, of Renova, Pa., was brutally murdered Thursday night by Charles Cleary, a young man whom he was arresting. The stove firm of Perry & Co., of Albany, N. Y., are in financial straits. The firm was established in 1864 and at one time employed 1,800 men. Edgar Swan, of Lynn, Mass., paying teller of the National Bank of Lynn, is short $68,000 in his accounts. He speculated. He is under arrest. Robert Sigel, clerk in the New York Pension Office, has pleaded guilty to forgery in signing pensioners’ names to checks and pocketing the money. The brig Anges Barton was wrecked about four miles below Virginia Beach,. Thursday night, and six of her crew of ten men, including the Captain were drowned. A religious enthusiast at Bndge water, -v Adair county, lowa, has been and fasting forty days and nights, and closed his term of fasting Tuesday night with a big supper. > C. C. Scott, one of the proprietors of the Gilman House at Portland, Ore., committed suicide by jumping from the third story of his hotel in a fit of temporary insanity. A preacher and thirty-six of nis congregation are under arrest at Braxton, W. Va„ for tearing down eight houses, and driving away the inmates in the ixterest of morality. Arthur Dale committed suicide at Chattanooga, Tenn., by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. He has been gradually becoming insane and preferred death to insanity. An Illinois court has decided that physicians may advertise. This notwithstanding the State Board of Health. Now for a decision notifying them that they ought to advertise. Engineer Cook* charged with criminal negligence, which resulted in the killing of sixty persons at Mud Run, Pa., last October, by a collision, has been acquitted of the charge by a jury. A company with a capital of $1,000,000 has been formed to buy a tract of land, on which they hope to have the capital of South Dakota located, securing votes by scattering stock through the State. James Irwin, Superintendent of the Carnegie gas line, was arrested'at Greensburg, Pa., charged witn murder. He turned on the gas without-notifying the workmen, and a pipe burst, killing one of them. The steamer Walla Walla, of San Francisco, plying to Puget Sound, was seized Sunday by custom officers for smuggling opium amounting to SIO,OOO. The opium . was shipped in barrels supposed to contain sauer kraut. Judge Lyinan D. Follett, of (the ! Probate Court, Kent county, Mich., who . ran away with $50,000 of the people’s money last summer, was arrested at Helena, Mont., but got away and is now on his way to Hew South Wales. . • V j Wm. Buffalo, colored, aged six years, of Norfolk, Va., has been arrested -for the. mUrder of another colored boy, aged 10. He atrucx him over the head with a paling of a fence, a nail penetrating the brain. Near Georgetown, Ky., James Reid lost two head of cattle from a strange disease. They were taken with a swelling in the legs and died in a very short time. When cut open the fleah was found to have turned black. The Supreme Court of Illinois denied, Friday, the motion to correct the judgment in the.case of Fielden and others against t,he people, and at last the “anarchist case” has been disposed. of, so far as, the Supreme Courtis concerned. f\ , 'The Cksarian operation was successfully performed at the University of Pennsylvania Thursday, cm 1 Mary F. Burk e, thirty-two years of age. The operation was made necessary on Account of an abscess, and not from an malformation. v “Bobby” Adams, a notorious burglar, and one of the Minneapolis Postoffice robbers, serving a six years’ term at Joliet, was released Sunday on a pardon issued by Grover Cleveland. He turned States’ evidence, and his accomplices are now under arrest.. «■* Samuel Lute, residing near Circleville, ©„ Thursday celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, and

freoeived the congratulations el over twelve hundred friends and relatives. President Harrison and Governor Foraker sent congratulatory telegrams. ' , General Sherman’s 1 son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, who has become! a member of the Society of Jesus, is to be ordained a priest in Philadelphia. Arrangements have been made under which it is expected the ceremony of ordination will take place in July in the cathedral. *

John Krzywosynski, of New York, sues for divorqp because his wife eloped with John Jrnnjinjynski. She assigns as a reason for eloping, that her new lover had an easier name to pronounce, as it was made up in sections, and could be taken apart and put together again without getting the pieces crooked. Monday, ex-President Grover Cleveland Was fifty-two years old. He celebrated the event by rising early and starting on his Havana trip in company with ex-Becretary Vilas and ex-Fost-master General Dickinson. The party took the train for Washington. Mrs. Cleveland remains at the Victoria Hotel. ■

The North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, the Union Steel Company and the Joliet Steel Company have *. been consolidated with a joint capital of $20,000, - 000. company has a capacity to manufacture about one-third of the total output of steel rails in this country, and will be able ‘practically to control the. market. Harry Holmes, who has been held to answer a criminal assault, was found dead in his cell at Sacramento, Cal., Sunday. He had starved himself to death, having . refused food for two weeks. On Thursday and Friday, physicians pumped nourishment into Holmes’ stomach, but it failed to. give any strength, and he wasted away to a'skeleton. The litttle town of Big Sandy, Montana, is full of excitement over the development of gold mines in the Sweet Grass Hills, fifty-five miles northwest of there. People have just arrived from the hills reporting that miners in Eclipse gulch are making from SSO to SBO a dajr. The most of the. gold is taken out in placer diggings. But blue ore has been struck by several patties in the hills and the country is full of from Helena and other mining districts. Capt. W. F. Dawson, editor of the News and Conner, Charleston, S. C., was murdered in cold blood by Dr. T. B. Dow, on the 12th. Dawson was most highly respected; while Dow had the reputation of a rake, and the indignation of the .people is very great. Tbe murder occurred in Dow’s office. It is believed Dawson was at the office tb remonstrate with Dow for his mistreatment of a gdyerness in/the. family, of Dawson. He was shot while sitting in a chair. Dow is under arrest.

FOREIGN. Brasil and Bolivia' are about to engage in war. According to native advices received at Zanzibar Stanley is rapidly moving toward the east coast of Africa. The ClHeen has approved the appointment of Sir Julian Pauncefote as British Minister to the United States. Forty-two lives were lost by the sinking of the Spanish military vessel Remus off the Phillipine Islands. Disastrous floods are prevalent throughout Galicia. Several towns and many villages are submerged. An explosion of fire damp took place in a colliery near Nimes, irithe department of Gard, France, Friday, by which fifteen persons were killled and six wounded; The London Times attacks Messrs, Crewler and Clark, radical members of Parliament, for joining with the radical clubs in the welcome to Henry George, on Saturday. The financial crisis in France is becoming alarming. Forty million francs are needed to save the Comptoir d’Escompte, and Paris bankers and capitalists are making efforts to raise it. , A soldier named Vertjoie has been sentenced to death in Oran, Algeria, for throwing a quid of tobacco into the face of Colonel Thierry, while Vertjoie was being tried by coart-martial for attempt ing to desert. ■ A party of wealthy residents of Berlin, numbering twenty, will start from the German Capital on March 20 for a tour of the world. They will go directly from Berlin to New York, thence overland to California, A cable dispatch from Aquaimina, west coast of Africa, states that Captain Holmes, of the whaling bark. Sea Fox, an officer and servant were killed and five of the crew horned by the explosipn of a whailing bomb gun. A terrible explosion occurred in the Brynnaliy colliery at Wexham Thursday, resulting in a great loss of life Eleven dead bodies have been taken from the pit and three miners have been jreacued. Later advices say* twenty persons were killed. —■ •

The Inland Regenue Department ‘of 'Canada has issued a bulletin relative to the adulteration of lard, the American product coming in for general condemnation. ' Nearly every sample examined was found to be adulterated. It ia recommended that the duty be increased in order to practically * exclude the article Rom Canada.

GAPEN ARRESTED.

Clung: d with Embesdement freon the In. ° . Philip M. Gapen. Treasurer of the Insane Asylum Beam, was arrested at Indianapolis,* Friday morning, charging liim with embezelement. He gave bond for $5,000 with Fhuuklin Landers and John J. Cooper aa«ecurities. The money alleged to have been embezzled is the $3,000 to recover which Gapen recently brought suit against the Meridian Bank. Gapen loaned John E. Sullivan $4,700, pait of which was paid, but a check Bigned by Bullivan*ior the ballapce came back protested, and Gapen in his smt claimed the bank had converted the balance to its own use? It is re ported ion competent authority that a partial investigation of States Treasurer Lempke’s manner of loaning funds to John E. Sullivan was also made by the Grand Jnrjr, and that it will farther go into the matter at' its next sitting. Letncke loaned Sullivan money, but received it all back. : Section 5,636, of the Revised Statutes prohibits the State Treasurer from Iqeamg the State funds or receiving interest thereon. A disgruntled Georgian says that with a mustard plaster and two green flies he can reproduce the Climate of Florida.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Evansville claims 53,000. Koleen is “fominst” saloons. Normal Schools are looming np. Laporte has eleven cigar factories. Marion is talking of a Board of Trade. Natural gas socials are a late wrinkle. The hydrophobia scare has reached Moore’s Hill. Waterloo is troubled with Sunday liquor selling. Jackson county farmers are sowing oats and plowing for corn. Mrs. Jacob Shimp, of South Bend, aged seventy-three, is dead. . = Mrs. Hanna, aged 98, the oldest Yeah dent in Northern Indiana, is dead. Mrs. Falkner. of Ft. Wayne, ill with consumption, claims to have been cured by faith.

Fort Wayne is enjoying a great boom, and its citizens are humming the hymn of progress. Strong indications of oil have been discovered at a depth oi 1,700 feet near Ft. Wayne. . Five Valparaiso liquor dealers have each been fined $l3O this week for violating the law. Dr, H. S. Wolfe, of Jeffersonville.physician of th 6 Prison South has tendered his resignation.

The venerable father of Judge Allen Zollars, of Fort Wayne, died Wednesday at Macon, 111. New Albany starts off with a lively building boom, and the prospects fop a lively season are excellent. Loganspert has been assured by Senator Turpie that it can secure a new government building, if proper steps be taken.

The glass factory of Stewart, Eitep.A Co., at Marion was destroyed by fire Thursday. Lobs $55,000, with $37,000 insurance. Capitalists are organizing at Evansville to establish the larged brick and terra cdfta yards in the West, and it is proposed to invest $200,000 in tne plant alone. . •a J 1 Edward Huenfield, of Hollan 1, Was instantly killed on Saturday, while trying to stop a runaway team attached to a threshing machine. He was aged eighteen. The annual encampment of the Union Grand Army Association of Madison, Delaware, Grant, Blackford, Randolph and Jay counties, will be held at Marion, beginning July 30. Crawford County Democrats don’t lixe Senator Johnson of Wayne. The Democrat says the next Senator elected from that county will have to take an oath to whip Johnson. John Price, of Corydon, recovered SSO damages from the Achwns Express Company for the, lojßß of ,f\dog, which he swore was chiefly valuable in frightening away “White CAps>' "| The Muncie Natural Gas and Improvement Company has Closed a deal with New York capitalists, byXwhich $350,000 was deposited in the Delaware County National Bank fora block of stock. , \

John McGuyer, of Washington, on Friday last, four successive times tried to throw himself under an approaching engine, but was prevented by. friends, He hails from Pittsburg and is without a home. Cary Adams, the young printer, of Rushville, shot by Thomas Scanlan. night watchman, under the impression that he was a burglar, died Saturday, and the charge of murddr hangs over Scanlan. \ Mr. Louisa Nachand, living near N Jeffersonville, is strangely affected, her extremities being badly swollen, while she suffers untold agony. The trouble is attributed to wearing underclothing dyed in aniline or othfir colors, the poison of which was absorbed by the skin.

Miss Mabel Vail, one of the pupils in the schools of Laporte, while standing on the rostrum reciting, was seized with a fainting spell and fell to floor. She was holding a sharpened pencil in her hand, and as she fell the point entered her neck, inflicting an ugly wound in the larynx.

' The Indiana Improvement Company of Fort Wayne, has been incorporated, capital $1,006,T00, the purpose Deing to buy and sell. real estate, bnild new towns, erect mills and grain elevators and excavate gravel beds and quarries, mainly along th 9 line of the new Mahoning Railway. The expert appointed to investigate the accounts oi ex-Treasurer Graves, of Harrison county, reports a deficit of $14,969.34. This is contested in a most emphatic manner by Mr. Graves, who will appeal to the courts to sustain his claim of having been an honest and economical officer.

The late Jesse W. Griffith, of Huntington, kept a drug store over thirty years, and he rarely left the place, except to go to his meals. He died in his store, refusing to b'e moved, and about his person was $4,000 cash, while other amounts were found concealed in jars and other receptacles. His estate aggregates $50,000, nearly all in cash. The assistant Secretary of the Senate, J. D. Carter, Friday, filed with the Secretary of State tbe journal of proceedings of the recent Senate, He was allowed SSOO extra compensation for this work, which required but three days’ time. The Secretary of the Senate was allowed SSOO for making an index whieh required but two days’ time. It is estimated that the total earnings of the laborers and mechanics of Jeffersonville is about SIO,OOO per week, of which $5,000 goes into the loan associations, $2,000 into the lodges and SI,OOO is expended in Louisville, leaving but $2,000 for circulation in Jeffersonville. On this account several business men are seeking locations, elsewhere. The Supreme Court, Friday, declared the act of the late Legislature cutting off thefees of the Supreme Court Reporter to be unconstitutional. The decision is based on the portions of the act requiring the Judges of the Supreme Court to perform functions other than judicial, and has no significance as applied th the other cases before the court ■ Mr. Griffiths will continue, under these eifleumstances, to draw a very substantial salary. ’ ~

It is belifeved by many that an investigation by experts, such as Governor Hovey urged, would disclose that the Insane Hospital deficiency is fully $50,000, and possibly much more, but at present there is no means of accertam-; ing definitely wbat is the condition or

the financial affairs of the institution, as the accounts are in the possession of old Board of Trustees. A prominent citizen, a Democrat of much influence, suggested that the books ia the State Auditor’s office might show something of the deficiency that is supposed to exist \ ,

Farming in Indiana is to be developed into a high-toned science under the operation of ass act by the late Legislature, which provides that farmer’s institutes must be held in each county annua’ Ijr sometimes between the Ist of November and the Ist of April. Instruction is to be given in agriculture, horticulture and agricultural chemistry by lecturers to be appointed ,by the Committee on Experimental Agriculture and Horticulture of Purdue University. An appropriation of $5,000 annually is made for expenses. - During a session of the Evansville city council, on the 12th, a demand was made by the Police and Fire Commissioners, which was refused, and the Mayor read a message reappointing the board—holding that the repeal of the old law left the city upon its own resources. This message was concurred in by a strict party vote. The rival interests will push the respective claims. The Indianapolis officials, also, refuse to surrender their positions, and there are a duplicate set of officers. The trouble wilf undoubtedly be adjudicated by the courts.

Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Robert 8. Arbogast, Selma, straw stacker; Harvey H. Diggs, Farmland, post-hole boring machine; Samuel W. Keasiing, Bicknell, gate; C. Martin Keller, Columbus, mast arm; Robert 8. Knode, Fort Wayne, atomiser; Williaga Mask, Terre Haute, opera or marine glass; also opera glass holder; William Moore, Kokomo, apparatus for separating liquids from natural gas; Geo. W. Parker, Terre Haute, axle lubricator for cars; Aaron G. Rose, Greencastle, bicycle; Solomon P. Stoddard, Brookyille, car truck; Edward Zanker, fire kindler.

The experts appointed to examine the books of John E. Sullivan, defaulting clerk of Marion eounty, have about com, eluded their labor and estimate’Sullivan’s theft at about $55,000, This does hot in. elude $14,000 borrowed from' the county Treasurer. Those whb know Sullivan belieVe he carried away with him froths7s,oCo to SBO,OOO. His stealings from the insane asylum, it is said, may amount to $50,000 but' this is mere surmise. The old board admitted an indebtedness ol $17,000, which were amply provided for in the allowances made. Every new turning of a leaf shows a phase of Sullivan's deep dyed villainy. The good people of Moore’s Hill and Milan have been flagrantly imposed upon, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Last week, a blind preacher, giving his name as Harry Wilson, of New Albany, accompanied by a yougster called “Johnny.” preached for the Methodists at Moore’s Hill, and a collection aggregating several dollars was taken up for his benefit, Mr. Wilson saying that he was raising money with which to complete his education. He also preached at Milan, and accepted the hospitalities of Mr. Grant Toole f«r himself and companion, who guided him from place to place. That night 'Mr. Toole was shocked by a quarrel between the two; in which the minister used profai.’r language; the quarrel originated over the division of money, and theNrow further disclosed that “Johnny” wa£ a female who was accompanying Wilson in his travels. The couple were thereupon turned out doors, and they made haste in getting out of that locality.

In a petition presented to the Supreme Court Tuesday John L. Griffiths asks that the act removing the fees of the Reporter of the Supreme Court and changing the duties of his office shall be declared 'Unconstitutional. He offers numerous reasons for his belief in its unconstitutionality. One is that it attempts to impose duties on the Supreme Court which are not judicial or required of them by the Constitution and that without the performance of them by the Court the act gives the reporter no right whatever to report decisions. The duties referred to are the preparation of syllabi of decihions and the revision of the proof sheets, both of which have heretofore been performed by the Reporter. Another reason is that the act attempts to amend prior acts, without specifying what they are* Another that it fails to provide for the election or appointment of a Reporter of the Supreme Court. Its title embraces more than one subject, and the unconstitutional portions are so interwoven with thebodv of thelaw'that it mu«t be, as an entiretv, unconstitutional. It is also unsigned by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate.

The discovery has been made by State Secretary Griffin, that the requirements of the constitution have not been fully complied with in the endeavgr of the majority in the Legislature ’to maka laws of the bills vetoed by the Governor. Mr. Griffin’s discovery was made two weeks ago, but he said nothing about it, not even mentioning it to those most concerned, until after the General Assembly brought its existence to an end, Then, he told his secret. He had noticed thqt the bill creating the Supreme Court Commission, after it had been passed over the veto of the Governor, was sent to his office without the President of the Senate and Speake| of the House signing it in ance with the requirement of section 25, article 4 of the constitution, which reads as follows: “A majority of all the members elected to each House shall be. necessary to pass every bill, and -all bills so. passed shall be sizned by the presiding officers of this respective Houses.” He said nothing, but was sure that the omission was important. The othdr nine hills passed over the Governor's veto came to him without being signed by the legislative presiding officers, in accordance the section of the constitution referred to. Another defect that he thinks will make the acts void, ib the failare ol the legis lative officers to comply with section 5,582 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, reading as follows: “The Governor shall cause all acts and joint resolutions passed by the General Assembly to he deposited in the office of the Secretary of State and inform the House in which the same originated.” Mr. Griffin says none of the vetoed hills were seen by the Governor after they were passed the second time, but all were brought directly to his office- by Rep. McGovney and Se nator Griffith. Knowing that the . law was not being complied with he indorsed upon the

acts when they were received. “Delivered to me by 8. T. McGovney, a member of tbs House of Representatives.” Democrats rididule the idea that the acts are rendered invalid by the failure of the legislative presiding officer to sign them after being passed over the veto of the Governor. It is asserted that never have the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House signed bills when passed over the executive’s objections, as can be found by an examination of the enrolled bills of previous sessions op jfile in the Secretary of State’s office. If there is any authenticity of the enactment ft can be easily established by the record of proceedings The Democrats say they do not regard Mr. Griffin’s discovery as important, and they do not believe it will be carried into court The G. A. R. Department of Indiana and W. R. O. assembled at Indianapolis on the 12th and 13th in Annual Encampment. There was a lArge attendance of/both bodies. The report of the Assistant Adjutant General G, ,A. R, showed that there are now 489 posts in the State, with a combined membership of 26,772, The number increases at a rate that seems surprising at first thought, considering the fact that the I number of persons eligible for member-1 ship is constantly decreasing, During 1888, 2,551 new members werq; mustered in and taken with additions from other Btates ana, by reinstatement, the muster roll was lengthened by 4,660 nameß. Three hundred veterans went to their eternal rest during the year. During the year $6,089.40 was expended for relief of members and their families, of which the number was* 742, The benefits of the society were also extended to 365 veterans not members. In the relief fund at present $5,291.69 remain. The amount of post funds and property in the Department is $39,687.52. The receipts of the Department during the year from all sources was $7,342.18, The reports of all the officers were submitted.

Chas. M. Travis, of Grawfordsville, was elected Department Commander, the other candidates being I. B/McDonald, Bhelby Sexfon, A. Zollinger, B. F. Williams, A. R. Tucker and Mark L DeMotte.. T. D. Harris, of Shelbyville, was elected Senior Vice Comman&br; B. F. Campbell, of Anderson, Junior ‘Vice Commander; Dr. A. Hi Green, ofMiahawakee. Medical Director; . Rev. Charles W. Lee, Indianapolis,Department Chaplain; andJ. H. Harris, ! Noblesville; *C. J. Murphy, Evansville; J. M. Payer, Indianapolis Alexander Hess, Wabash, and F. A. Gilmore, Council of Administration. Governor Hovey Was named as delegate-at-large to the National Convention. Reso ntions in memoriam of the late Comrade Phil Sheridan were ado ; , , * The Woman’s Relief Corps elected the following officers: Department President, Mrs. Myerhoff, of Evansville; Senior Vice President, Mrs. Melisw Caylor, of Noblesville; Junior Vice President, Mrs. Mary D. Travis, Crawfordsville; Treasurer, Mrs, Mattie E. Grill; Chaplain, Mrs. Martha Craig, Princeton.

APPOINTMENTS.

The President hgs gent the following nominations to the Senate: Arthur C. Millette. of Watertown, Dak., to be Governor of Dakota. Luther B. Richardson, of GrandfForks, Dak., to be Secretary of Dakota. Cornelius H. Hanford, of Washington Territory, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington. . George W. Irvin, of Montana, to be Marshal of the United States for the Territory of Montana. Smiley N. Chambers, of Indiana, to be United States Attorney for the District of Indiana. George 8. Batchellor, of New York, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to succeed Mr. Thompson. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana, as Minister to Italy. John A. Enander, of Illinois, as Minister to Denmark. Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of State. Walker Blaine, of Maine, to be "Examiner of Claims for the Department of Btate. Cyrus Bussey, of New York, t© be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. James S. Clarkson, of lowa to be first Assistant Postmaster General, viee A E. Stevenson resigned. * ~ Lewis Wolfley, of Tuscon, Ari., to be Governor of Arizona.

Rathbone Gardner, of Rhode Island, to be United States Attorney for the Distrct of Rhode Island. Wm. L. Dunlap, of Franklin, Indiana, to be United States Marshal for the District of Indiana. ; William Wallace, Postmaster at Indianapolis. John A. Kas son, of Iowa; Walter Phelps, ofjj New Jersey, arid George H. Bates, of Delaware, to he Commissioners to represent the United States at the conference to be held in Berlin concerning affairs in the Samoan Islands. ; Jlaremi*h)SaJlivan,of M ontena, to be; Collector of Customs for the District of Montana and Idaho. Elbert D. Wised, of Montana, to be United States Attorney for the Territory of Montana.

The following nominations were made Monday: ” W. Budd Deacon, of New Jereey, to he Marshal of the United States for the District of Npw Jersey. John S. Burton, of Mississippi, to be Marshal of the United States for the Northern District of Mississppi. : t Edwin Ji. Kuraheedt, of to be Marshal of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Brad D. SUughter, erf 'Nebraska, to be< Marshal ol the United Staes for the District of * Wm. H. Whiteman, of New Meiifco, to be Associate Justice of the Supreirie Court of the'Territory of New Mexico* S. A. Whitfield, of Cincinnati, Second Assistant Postmaster General. Abrabam D. Hazen. of Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster General ■ j J. W. Mason, of West Virginia, Cpm-. missioner of Internal Revenue. Wm. Thompson, of Maine, Minister to Sweden and Norway. Samuel R. Thayer. of|Miunespta, Minister to the Netherlands. C. E, Mitchell, of Connecticttt, Commissioner of Patents. ' * ■-G" - : ' N. O. Murphy, of Arizona, Secretary of A rizoaa. ' i t" ‘ In Philaddlphia last year 72,006,000 yards of err pet were made by the 7**259 looms and the 17,500 persona employed in the industry. The value was $45,060,0001 . ?

WASHINGTON NOTES.

At noonjhursday the President formally received the membersof the Diplomatic Corps. The members of the corps assembled at the Department of State, where they were prssented to Secretary Blaine by Assistant-Secretary Adee. Proceeding to tbe White House the diplomates, who were attired /in their resplendent court dresses, were introduced to the President by the Secretary of State. All of the legation were represented. The President has signed an order extending the time from March 15. 1889, to May 1, 1889. within which the railway mall service will be brought under the operation of the civil service law and rules. This extension is made upon the representation of Civil Service Commissioner Lyman that the organization • of the service could not be accomplished earlier then May 1.

The cabinet Friday, had under discussion the opening of Oklatioma or at least a portion of the territory included within its limits. The President is authorised by the terms of the recent legislation to open to settlement about eight million*acres of land, and the opinion prevails that he will shortly issue his proclamation adding that acreage to the* [ public domain. Postmaster General Wanamaker was asked Sunday for an expression of his view on the prohibition question. He said: “There is only one side to the prohibition question, and that is the right jide—constitutional amendment. lam in favor oi it first, last and all the ‘timd. f ’

It is said that Mr. Blaine tendered the English Mission to Whitelaw Reid without consulting President Harrison, and that the latter was annoyed by it and said he had selected another man for the place. For this reason the nomination has not yet been sent in. The American Missionaries in China and many citizens of tbe Uqited States now resident in China, have memorialized President Harrison for the reappointment of Col. Charles Denby, “the present faithful and efficient Minister to China,” ! General Butler presented a hill of $3 to the Inaugural Committee at Washington for injuries done to the grass plot m front ofhiff residence there by a tele-/ graph station being located there. The bill was paid: ° Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, has resigned; preferring private life. The Legislature ia in session and will elect his successor. Senator Quay is much sought after by office seekers. His door-bell was twice pulled off last week, •' if It is said that Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, will shortly resign, as he prefers private life. <■ There will be no extta session of Congress.

ALL QUIET AT SAMOA

The German* Withdraw Their Obnoxious Proclamations—There Was no Conflict, The following news has been received via Auckland from Samoa: A steamer has arrived here from the Samoan Islands with advices from Apia to the sth of -March. Everything was tranqnil when the steamer left. There had been no charige 1 gpf positions of Mataafa and Tamaseeee. The former had 6,000 men in his intrenched camp and the latter only 700. ‘ The German anthorities had withdrawn their proclamation of martial law and abandoned the right of searching vessels for contrabands of war. The foreign men of-war remained in the harbor of Apia. There had been no conflict or disturbance on sea or land since the last advices- All were awaiting instructions from Berlin and Washington.

DECIDED AGAINST GOFF.

The West Virginia | Supreme Coart Rales That Wilson Shall Hold Over. The West Virginia Supreme Court met, Tuesday, and decided in the GoffWilson gubernatorial mandamus case that Governor Wilson is entitled to hold over until such time as the contest between Fleming and Goff shall have been settled, or, in other Goff is not entitled to the seat on the ground that the returns were not declared by the Legislature.; The fight will now be between Wilson and Carr on a quo wartanto proceedings. ts t A bill before the New York legislature proposes to compel railroad companies to equip freight cars with standard automatic seTf-couplerfi and automatic brakes. Railroaders claim that 90 per cent, of the casualties are the result of their absence. .Down at Panama coffins are hired, and graves too. The latter cost sl2 for eighteen months, and in case of nonpayment the body is thrown out of the grave. Coffins can be hired for $7. > Brooklyn makes 15,000 gross of clay pipes per year, or of tlae total prpductiou. > The clay is gotten at Woodbridge, N. J., and costs the factory jjiper.ton; ' -■ -

THE MARKETS.

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