The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-12-22
CURRENT NEWS.
FROM WASHINGTON.


The name of Benjamin Harris Brewster, Of
Philadelphia, as attorney general in place Of
Mr.. McVeigh, resigned, was announced on Sat-
Mrday last and sent to the senate
Benjamin Harris Brewster Was borne In Sa-
lem county, N. j., October IS, 1916, where
his forefathers bad for long period large
landed interests. After various preliminary
studies he entered Princeton college, and grad
uated in 1884, receiving the degrees of A. B. =,
A. M. and LII D. In the eame year he entered
the law Office Of Eli A. Price of philadelphia
| as student, and was admitted to practice in
1888: About this time he was appointed by
President Polk q commissioner to adjudicate
| the claims of the Cherokee Indians against the
federal government He remained in the sue
cessful practice of law until 1867, when Gov.
Geary appointed him attorney general Of Penn
sylvanis. He has Of late been prominently be-
| fore the pub 10 as counsel for the government
in the star route prosecution, and h4 argument
nation against Brady and others was conceded
| to be the strongest made in that case. In 1857
he married Elizabeth Won Myerbach de Rein
| feldts, Prussian lady, who died in 1868. In
| 1879 he married his present wife, Mary,
daughter Of Robert ]. Walker, BY whom he has
one child,a son.
| Mr.. Morrison as introduced bill appropria-
ting So, 600, 600 for the Improvement Of the
Mississippi river in accordance with the
recommendation of the Mississippi river COM
mission to be applied az follows: 81 900, 900
below Cairo, 500, 900 between Cairo and The
mouth Of the Illinois river, $500, 600 from
and $500, 900 above the rapids.
Colonel E. F. Rockwell, who is the only per-
son that was present both at the assassination
and death Of President Garfield, happens to
have been the officer detailed by Secretary
Stanton as soon as President Lincoln was hot
to be on guard at the house where the president
was lying, and he witnessed the death struggle
the next morning, as he did that of General
Garfield at Elberon.
There is an apparently we'll founded belief
that Secretary Kirkwood will he succeeded by a
Pacific coast man, and perhaps Senator Sar-
geant who has been persistently urged for the
interior department by Gen. Miller and Mr..
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 the United States naval and military
academy for future appointments in the civil
service Of the government
The Rev. T. E. Aldrich, q pastor 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 bis wife wheii
he got home,
In Pecos village, N. NJ, Wednesday night,
Jules sandewall was fatally shot by Hugh Bar
! row, and James Allen was seriously
| wounded by Ed. Cox, in self defence.
The joint senate and house committe arrang-
ing the memorial ceremonies of President Gar
field invited Secretary Blaine to deliver eu-
logy before congress.
Texas special: Otto Englehardt, German
drug yist on route to Galveston, was murdered
near Lockhardt, Caldwell county, by two Mexi-
cans.
Everett B. Sanders of Wisconsin has been ap-
pointed enrolling clerk of the house. and w. NJ.
Leonard, Of Ohio, reading clerk.
Two young adventures at Brooklyn. Iowa,
sold groceries and gave counterfeit money in
change, for which they inger in Jail.
The 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 take effect on the
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