River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-30
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WASHINGTON.

President GARFIELD and his family
have gone to Long Branch.
The treasury will disburse as interest
payments, on or before July /, about $780,
100000.
FoRTY-rwo million dollars worth of .
per cent. bonds have been so far received
by the treasury for continuance at 81 per
cent.
SECRETARY KIRKwooD will not only call
to account the Central Pacific Spectator
Auditor French, but will compass his re-
moval General Jere Rusk, of Wiscon-
sin. who hasn't been able to pick out any
thing to suit him. stands in the doorway.
THE presidents personal movements
are somewhat uncertain, but he will prob
ably devote his attention during the heat
ed term to Mrs Garfeld's health, and so
preserve his own from the annoyance OF
importuning delegations.
MARK HOPKINS will entertain President
Garfield at the Williams college COM
mencement; Secretary Blaine will be the
guest of President Chadburne, and rooms
for nearly all the members of the cabinet
have been secured at a hotel.
CHAs. II. HOWARD, brother of Gener-
al 0. 0. Howard, has been appointed to
All 1uuIdH lDSDStiOiSUlDs w llIldEA IL
Turner, clerk in the postofhce depart
ment having charge Of star-route contracts,
has been removed.
UProN, the assistant secretary of the
treasury, has been ordered to London, to
take charge of the work of extending
bonds held abroad Whether this will be
the last of his public career is disputed
| question.
PRIVATE dispatches announce the sui
den death, in Washington, of George "
| in the navy. He was a son of Gorge w.
Jones, of Cincinnati. The family were
| expecting him home. until the dispatch
came announcing his death.
CHARLES A. ANCHIsI, a well-known en-
bezzler, formerly Of the secret service OF
the treasury department, has been recap
tured in San Francisco. In addition to a
| package Of important papers he had
| counterfeit national bank notes of five
denominations and bad $50 greenback
GEokGE TAYLOR, the Washington law.
| yer involved in the cotton claim fraud
wants it known that Clarence A. Seward
of New York, was the attorney of record
associated with two lawyers who are dead
Mr.. Taylor represents over 81 100000 o.
the claims now before the Franco-Amerl
can commission, and has taken an appeal
to the supreme court.
IT is understood that Custodian Pitney
of the treasury department, in whose
office several Irregularities have been dis
covered, will be retired at the end of Thu
month He will be succeeded by Gen. +
w. Whitaker. of Washington, who wa
during the war, chief-of-staff to Gen. Gus
ter, and who at one time took promi
nent part in Kansas politics.
W.N. DUDLEY, United States Marsha
of Indiana, has been appointed commits
sioner of pensions. in place of j. A
Bentley, resigned Judge Noah {. Nc
Farland, of Topeka, Kansas, was ap
pointed commissioner of the general lant
office in place of Gen. Williamson, re
signed. 1t is believed Mr.. Dudley vii
not long remain al the head of the pen
sion bureau, but that he will in time b
made commissioner of patents
UNDER instructions from the secretar,
of the interior, Colonel Edwards, agent o
the Winnebago and Omaha tribes, ha
partly negotiated the sale of a reservation
OF twenty thousand acres by those tribe
to make home for the Poncas, who mum
Der 100 souls While Uncle Sam peddle
out land at 1926 per acre, the Omaha
think $40 would be a modest figure for
conveyance.
THE Hon. J. A. Bently, who has beel
commissioner of pensions for the pas
FIVE years, has resigned that Office at til
request of the president. No other rea
son is assigned than that such change i
desirable. There were no charges agains
him, and his administration of affairs ha
been such as to give him high reputa
ton as an executive and judicial officer
II is learned from private sources that h
will make his home in Chicago and prac
tice law.
.. A.hAMXEG Of M2shjiagStoia RaWeaae G aa9qrreg
an immense fortune in few years b
corrupt methods, and is believed to hol
nearly $6,000,000 of the claims made be
fore the Franco-American commission
which board he was largely Instruments
in creating. A decision just made by tn
United States court of claims brands Tay
lor as guilty of subornation of perjury, an
as having manufactured a claim upo
which he was paid nearly 100000.