The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-12-22
NEWS
FROM WASHINGTON.

Inc name OF benJ 4n,ln Harris Brewster, OF
Pailadelphia, as attorney general in place OF
zzNr: McVeigh, resigned, was announced on Sat-
|.l.rday last and sent to the senate.
*Renjamin Harris Brewster was horne in Sa-
lem county, N. j., Oc'ober IS, 1916, where
bis f0refathers lad for = long period large
landed interests. After various preliminary
studles he entered Princeton college, and grad
nsfed in 1884, receiving the degrees Of A. B.,
| a. n. and LII D. In the came year no entered
the law office of Eli A. Price OF Philadelphia
| IS a student, and was admitted to practice in
1888. Aoout this time he was appointed by
President Polk commissioner to adjudicate
TIE CLAIMS of the Cherokee Indians against the
| federal government He remained in the sue
cessful practice of law until 1867, when Gov.
! Gsary appointed him attorney general of Penn
! sylvania. He has OF late been prominently be-
fore the pub ic as counsel for the government
| n the star route prosecution, and his argument
| II oppo:ition to the motion to quash the infor-
| nation against Brady and others was conceded
to be the strongest made in that case. In 1857
tsld!s, Prussian lady, who died in 1868. II
! .s7a he married his present wife, Mary,
ya+g +ghnsiss* Robert J. Walker, by whom he haf
one child,a son.
! Second Lieut. Herbert g. Squires, of Wis
consin. late stationed at Fortress Monroe, has
captured the daughter Of the late Mr.: Fargo
the express man, who is the heiress Ct six o,
summer asO:d Point Comfort. They became
| engaged, but the mother refused her consent
| 80 the lovers were secretly married and con-
| .cealed the fact until few days ago The
| young lady's friends have wisely accepted the
| situation
Mr.. Morrison as introduced bill appropria-
| ting S3. 600, 600 for tie Improvement Of the
| Mississippi river in accordance with the
! recommendation of the Mississippi river COM
TO lo io1 frI1n
| below Cairo, $7nn, 900 between Cairo and he
| mout', of the Illinois river, $500, 900 from
| the month Of the Illinois to Des Moines rapids
and $4o0, 600 above the rapids.
Colonel +. F. Bockwell who is the only per-
| son that was present both At the assassina ton
and death of President Garfield, happens to
have been the officer detailed by Secretary
Stanton as soon as President Lincoln was hot
to be OIL snard at the house where the president
| was lying, aud he witnessed the death struggle
the next morning, as he did that of General
Garfield ut Elberon.
Thore is an apparently well founded belief
that Secretary Krkwood will he succeeded by q
Pacific coast MN. and perhaps Senator Sar-
geant who has been peGsistently urged for the
Jones, the only republican senators from the
coast
Congressman Russell Errett will introduce q
bill! to vest each senator, representative and
delegate in congress with the power to appoint
| cadets to tie United States naval and military
academy for future appointments in the civil
service of the government
The Rev. T. E. Aldric}, rastor at Middle
| town, Conn, has been arrested for beating his
| wife. He has been successful temperance
worker, but, it is charged, usually got drunk
after every sermon, and whipped his wife when
he got home.
The statement is now made, with some show
Of authorjty, that Postmaster General James
will resign by the 1st proximo, to assume the
charge as president OF the Lincoln National
| bank, Newark City.
It is understood in Washington that Walker
Blaine will resign his secretaryship and return
to his father's old district in Maine, and 80 in
20 active training for the congressional race.
In Pecos village, N. NJ, Wednesday night,
jules Sandewall was fatally shot by Hugh Bar
wounded by Ed. Cox in self defence
Tie joint senate and house committe arrang-
ing the memorial ceremonies of President Gar
field invited Secretary Blaine to deliver a en-
logy before congress.
Ttxss special: Otto Elglehardt, = German
drug INST en- route to Galveston, was murdered
| near Lockhardt, Caldwell county, by two Mexi-
cans
Everett B. Sanders Of Wisconsin has been ap-
rointed enrolling clerk of the house. and ". II.
l." naId, of Ohio, reading clerk.
Two young adventures at Brooklyn, Iowa,
sold groceries and gave counterfeit money in
change, for which they lnger in Jail.
Ti:e president nominated J. d. Bancroft
Davis Of New York for assistant secretary OF
state
The president has accepted Assistant Secie-
tary Upton's resignation, to taHe effect on tie