The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03
CONDENSED NEWS.
Washington Gossin

Through her counsel, Mn. Betty Mason
has filed an answer in the equity court 10
the suit Of BENJAMIN F. Bigelow, lor coun.
gel fees in defending her husband, esrR.
Mason. She states that Bigel0w yolun.
teered to assume the case, and was not OF
her choice; that she never egreed 10 pay
him for his services. bnt had OF her own
volitieD paid him $50, for which abe holds
receipts; that he oonnectsd himself with her
husbands defense only for his own elOrifi.
cation and for the benefit of biz regulation.
and finally denies tho jurisdiction 81 The
court, and holds that his claim IL not rood
In equity, but must be prosecuted a. in any
other civil action.
The president has appointed Isaac Brandt
of Iowa, William r. Dean Of Minnesota
and John Kelly of Oregon, . commission to
examine twsnty five miles of the Northern
Pacific railroad on the Nissoula diyiaioni
Montana: also Albert OrdWay Of Washine.
ton, q. p. keese Of New York, aud Aaron
H. Cragtn of New Hampshire, aoommitsion
to examine another section of the same
road on the Rocky Mountain division in
Montsna.
The president has made the following ap
pointnents: h. +. johnson of Minnesota,
register OF the land Office At Fergus Falls,
Minn., John T. Carlin of Ohio, receiver OF
public money at Bozeman, Mont; Patrick
Buckley, agent of the Indians st Tulip
Agency, WASH; Charles Willoughby. agent
of THE indians at Meah Bay Agency. Wash.
Prof. eillman of Yale college, has arrived
in Washington to see the president and
protest against the removal of Prot. Collier,
late chemist OF the agricultural department.
DR.. Loring holds that the agricultutists of
the country were deceived In bis statements
regarding sorghum cane, and hence secured
q new chemist.
BY direction of the secretary of the inter-
ior the remainder of the lands of the Otoe
and Missouri Indian reservations in Kansas
and Nebraska, comprising about SO, 900
acres. will be offered at public auction at
the. United States land office In Beatrice,
Neb, OH the 30th of May.
The postoffice department received q conf
munication urging the appointment OF ex-
President r. b. Hayes rs postmaster at Ere.
mont, Ohio. 1t pays -. 500 year. Po,t-
master Knobs, who was appointed by
Hayes, has just defaulted.
Secretary Chandler has issued instruc
tions to Rear Admiral Baldwin, command
Ing the United States naval forces on the
European station, to proceed with his per-
sonal staff to Moscow, to attend the coro-
nation OF the czar.
Ten Of the jurors in the second trial OF
Kelly were for conviction as charged in the
indictment. He will be placed on trial the
third time. In the Jury do not then agee,
he will be tried again.
Mr.. Blaine's friends are trying to make
out that Mr.. Frelinghuysen has got his foot
In it by telling Lord Granville the United
States had right to renounce the Bnlwer.
Clayton treaty altogether.
The president appi:nted Edward NJ. Evans
postmaster at Vinton, Benton county, Iowa,
vice Wilkin, dismissed on charge of embez-
element of postal funds. The office is worth
$1,000 year.
Mr.. Blaine expects to leave Washington
for his home at Augusta, Me-, about jane i.
There he will continue work upon his book
from the notes be is now busily engaged in
taking.
The money order system will be extended
principally in western and northwestern
states.
The money order system will be extended
to 334 additional postoffices on July next,
principally in the western and northwestern
states.