Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Captain John S. Garland, retired, is dead in Washington, lie was appointed from Michigan iu 1847 and was wounded during the war and retired in November, 1801. President McKinley has made the following appointments: Laui-its S. Swenson of Minnesota, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark; Edward Beclloe of Pennsylvania, consul at Canton, China. The Postoflice Department has adopted a policy of general extension of the money order system. First Assistant Postmaster General Heath believes that any postoflice wanting money order facilities should be given them. The total number of money order oflices now in operation is about 22,000, and the number- probably will be increased to 30,000 before the next fiscal year. The Washington police have recovered wliat they believe to he the pistol with which Guiteau shot President Garfield, and have put it in the cabinet at headquarters for safe keeping. The pistol was taken from police headquarters July 2, 1881, the day President Garfield was shot, by Col. George B. Corkhill, then district attorney. Subsequently it’disappeared mysteriously and trace of it was obtained only rocently.