Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — CHANGES IN CABINET. [ARTICLE]

CHANGES IN CABINET.

JUSTICE FIELD’S RETIREMENT MAY NECESSITATE THEM. The President Will Await Results in Ohio and New York Before Making Appointments—Fatal Collision in a Kentucky Horse Race. May Be a Shaking Up. As to President McKinley’s intention* regarding the appointment of a new Attorney General in case Mr. McKenna is promoted to the supreme bench, the general opinion in Washington is that Judge Day, the first assistant Secretary of State, will either be made Attorney General and a new assistant secretary selected or that Sherman will retire, Day be appointed to succeed him and other changes and promotions made to fit the circumstances. So far as can be learned by Washington correspondents, however, the President has no intention of asking Mr. Sherman to resign, and the Secretary has said that he had never given the idea a moment’s thought, and that he would remain to the end. The result in-both Ohio and New York will have a direct influence on the President’s action in reconstructing his cabinet. Dun’s Weekly Report. R. G. Dun & Oo.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Foreign trade in September, the heavy increase in iron production and consumption and the largest payments through clearings ever known in October are indications which outweigh hesitation in some markets. The increase in employment of labor has continued with further accounts daily of works opening, increasing force of hands or raising of wages, and at every point where actual production can be tested it appears greater than ever before. Sales of wool for two weeks have been 24,331,600 pounds at the three chief markets. Wheat has been fairly steady, but moving more largely than last year from the farms and from the country. Failures for the week have been 223 in the United States, against 328 last year.”

Boy Accused of Murder. Thirteen-year-old Johnnie Matthews was arrested at Guthrie, O. T., charged with murdering the 5-year-old son of Capt. L. L. Bridges, a well-known attorney, formerly of Sedalia, Mo. The boys quarreled and a few hours later the murdered boy was found dead lying in front of his father’s house, with a bullet wound in his head. The bullet came from across the street, apparently from the Matthews house, where a recently fired rifle was found. Collide at a Horse Race. At Green Grove, Ky., Sam Smith of Kettle Creek and a son of Will Henry Ross of New Albany, Ky., while racing their horses collided, killing both animals instantly. Smith’s right leg was broken three or four times above the knee and once below. He is injured internally and terribly bruised. His eyes are badly injured and his right arm crushed. Ross is in about the same condition.