Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Congressman Taisney has discovered Bhutan Illinois veteran is drawing a penion for having corns. The Secretary of State has received notice of the intention of the Russian government to raise the rank of its mission to jn embassy. The President is reported to have told a member qf Congress that under no circumstances would there bo an issuance of bonds unless specially authorized by Congress. y~ Capt. Wm. M. Meredith voluntarily ■tendered his resignation, Monday, as chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, to take effect July 1. On that date he will go to Indianapolis to see his aged father and then proceed to Chicago, his futuro home. Capt. Meredith’s successor will be Claude Johnson, of Lexington, Ky., a friend of Secretary Carlisle, who is now serving as custodian of the bureau. Comptroller Eeklcs has been advised of the failure of the First National Bank of Brady, Tex. Tne bank was a small one, its capital stock being only 950,000. Secretary Gresham iias received no information from Minister Blount that warrants the conclusion that he is prepared to indorse all that has been done in Hawaii, and that he is now strongly inclined to recommend at least the establishment of a United States protectorate over the Hawaiian islands.