Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-11-01
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Reekins Corruption Unsarthed
by Corkhill.
ARCHITECT HILLS IOWA SUCCESSOR.
How the Famous KiIbown-ThOmpson Case
Stsrted-The Cabinet Changes Ru-
NOR Pure Moonshine-Pere
HyaciNhe's Past. Z


about changes in the cabinet are all moon
shine. No changes whatever are conteni.
plated. II so, Secretary Folger says that
he has never heard one word from the
President, land l think" he said, "thst l
would have been informed.
Pension Agents Again. /
The more the investigation is pushed the Z
deeper and blacker the shameful frauds
perpetrated by class of pension agents 4
upon poor victims. L. 8. District Attor.y
ney Corkhill was fairly psralyzed before he
got half way through the mass Of evidence
collected. Mrs. Beiva A. Lockwood,
among the suspended ones, threatens to
fagellate the Secretary of the Interior.
HR,lct KiIbourn's Case.
The case OF Hallet Kilbourn against John
+. Thompson, ex serSesnt-at.arms OF the
House OF Representatives, is nov being
tIied, having been called up yesterday IN
Circuit Court before Judge Walter S. Cox.
Kiibourn claims $4,000 damages against
Thomson for false imprisonment in 1876
1t will be remembered that Kitbourn was
summoned as a witness before The commit.
tee of the House OF Representatives inves.
tigating the real estate pool. He was asked
for information and to produce the books
of the firm, OF which he was
The Senior Partner.
the Junior being Iatta. kilbourn refused
to testify or produce the books, and there.
upon he was arrested by the sergeantat-
arms, under a resolution OF the House. Re-
fusipg second time TO testify he was com
Il 90 ha Strir iafl FA
msined until after the adjournment0f Con.
gress, forty five days, when he Was released
upon a writ of babeas corpus.
He entered suit against the sergeant at
arms for Sl50 900 aud was awarded SlOOOJC
by jury in April, 1852
The verdict was set aside by Judge Mac
Arthur, who regards it as excessive. The
case now
Comes Up for thc Second Time
under an amended bill claiming $4,000
damages. Kilbourn is represented by
Senator Voorhees,, Enoch TotteD, the son
iu.law of the late Timothy o. Howe, by
W. L. Jcfries and Charles \. Eldridge.
The Government, or i'll other words, John
g. Thompson, has, as counsel, the strong.
est law rm this side Of New York, Shel.
leubarser and Wilson, keen, shrewd, long.
headed lawyers, in whose hands the most
helpless case is made strong. Individually,
however, neither member of the firm is
the superior of Richard MerriCk; perhaps
not his equal In all that makes up the
plentltuoe of man learned in the Law"
super yising Architect Hiils sSuccess"r.
Yesterday afternoon Secretary Folgsr ap.
puinted Mr.. Millin f. Bell, of Des MOines
Iowa, TO be Supervising Architect of the
Treasury, vice James q. Hill, resigned. II
is not known at 'he department when Mr.
Bsll will take charge, but il is believed he
will do so in a very few Jays, AS Mr.. Hills
anxious 10 get out as soon rs possible.
The new Supervising Architect is we'll
known IS a practicable architect. He is,
indeed known throughout the West as
thorough mechanic, and will bring into the
office the experience and ability required
to make an excellent officer. His appoint
rsent was made upon the recommendation
of many prominent men OF Iowa and other
States.
Mr. Bell is now experimenting the COZ
sruCtion of the new State House at DIS
Moires Iowa, where he has distinguished
himself as an architect.
The committee investigating the Archi
tect's office, Of which Assistant Secretary
New was charInsn, recommended, in the
report made to the Secretary, thorough
reorganiZstion OF the Architects Office.
Sresking Of the architects office there is
en- plO, el there son OF
Pere Hyaciuihe's wifc
ty q former marriage. The Pere has just
srrived in Washington. He will deliver
lectures in FrerCh and tell the American
teople who will lis'eu to him what true
'Cathoiicity" is The Pere is still Cath
olic, he says. He is down on the Pope and
up on matrimory. Years ago the Pere,
whose name is Charles Loyosou, used to
preach in the great church of NOtrs Dame,
iar,s. His sermons were models OF elo-
ouerce. The tOnsured friar OF that time
hsrred the Parisians and people from all
paYts OF the world, as we'll by the grandeur
II his discourse as by his magnificent ex
ro,i,ions of Christianity. He was then
fiery. jealous for his church and rigldly
mOHasCc.
a Newspaper War.
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith, of the Phia
Geiphia Press, aud Mr.. Frank Hatton, OF
he National Republican, are waging
bitter warfare. Mr.. Smith says that Hatton
slOuld be dismissed and HattOn retOrts by
accusing MIR. Smith of having aided indi
rtctly. if not directly, in flching the gov
-rnnient out OF nerrly million OF dollars.
Mr.. Hatton ssys that he is determined u
Csrry the thing to the bitter end. Hatton
is rot a civil service reformer of the rsthet
icsl kind. but he is regarded by all who
knew him ss man OF character and pur
pose
Postal Receipts.
The total receipts from the postal service
during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888
we're t45, 500 G9!, and the expenditures wer.
Si2 SlG,6tO.