Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-12
WASHINGTON.
NEARING in the Telephone Cases
Resumed Yesterday.
SEVERAL APPOINTMENTS MADE
Game West Vagina Post Masters
Why an Office Was
Discontinued.
GENERAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES

w,su1ygroy, November 1.-The hear
I'm the telephone cases was resumed BE-
,,,s The Secretary of the Interior to-day
-, CIT, or the citizens Of Memphis,
,..5 = lOug list Of the sfidsVit' and su'
,,o,i,;-s ,ba. be intended to put in eVl'
S.,cs As tending TO show that Bell was net
-. o,;,ipal inventor Of the telephone,
-, ,be papers was q communication
-, Sc,ipg Attorney General Goooe, ex'
D-s.sipg the opinion that Relss vas tue "a
100, 1000 OF the telephone aud that Bell
na,s0, had been irregularly issued, Jasuty-
iog ia his opinion the beginning OF a suit
he The United States to set It aside,
rpnbsr Of telephone models-orlgl-
rsls and reprodGclions-Were rext pro
S.r,5 and Ihsir mode Of operation de-
-.,;,sd ne An expert A number OF stl-
J.v;ts made BY iGy-ntors and experts were
- - l.py,b Including one by Eddison,
.,Ss-sin bs sra.ss that his carbon telephone
:, rov used altogether bY the Bell Com
80. tbs, he had not heard OF Bells ex-
-in.p,s when he (Elison) invented his
isI.,bone bat had read IN account OF
Reiss Investigations.
APPOINTMENTS.
The President appointed Gen. Joseph J.
R.,r,.;t OF Ns# York city, to BE- Second
D. l, Commissioner Cf Pensions, in
80 u Lewis c Bartlett resigned on sc
IN, Of IN hesl,h; and Wn. Il. Morgan,
=. Nashville, Tennessee, member OF the
B,sri Of Isdian Commissioners, N place
., Orange Judd, resigned.
General Bartlett entered the | nion army
4, Bin,hamp.oD. y \ ss a private sol
5,sr ia Ao-il 1861, and came out at the
cIo,e Of the sar a. Brsvet Major General
r, served 10 the Arm7 Of the Potomac
i.on the 6rs; battle OF Ball Run to Apo
,yroy participating with distinction IN
Dssrly srsr7 con, est aEd recsiviDg e7ersl
sounds When he returned from the
a,mv in 1855. he vac appointed Minister
% Stockholm bv Prssiisut Johnson, bot
ma recalled b. President Grant He has
slEsys Oesa q Democrat
Fourth CLASS roSrVNsTERS.
The P5s,n astsr General has appointed
,ba .,.Iogiaz fuu,,h ela's postmas,ers:
Vest Ylrginip--Ar CrdarsOurg. Troy NJ.
Miller; Wsicn GlAd4 c. z TAILOR; Nor
gaa Valley, Harvey No-gaa
.wur pussoFrIcE WAS DISCONTINUED.
First Assistant Postmaster General
S,sv. usoe has discontinued Postotice 10
T,,b not because the Postmaster did not
yiy. t,;ue sari.faction TO toe community
h ssrvtd 4 byt D, CauS3 HAT community Was
composed entirely cf hmseif four wives
and ssvens.en dAGghl,rs Nobody tlse
-u,rspizad Ire Office. srd Colonel Steven
son though, zoe Department could not
afford to msinisia 3 PasIoties foe tbs ex'
elusive ben. 4 Of nn- family. B~sides .
man. pnd,r toe Etmunds ac', With four
wives, is Incapable Of HoltlDg public office
rg-rLINRLY rIrrSD
Td4 President 10 dag appointed DE-. Lee,
ofpaI,deIpajs. Sycrara-y of the L'gaion
a, Cous,auliuogle Dc. Lee II friend o'
Minister Cox and Is understood to have
been appointed on his personal sohcita'
Goa lie is familiar With rhs mode Ian,
gusges and is said to be peculiarly ntted
tor toe place
Nc COyyuLE's RUPORT.
Sixth Auditor. u Couville. has snbmit
tel 70 ;he Postmaster General bis annual
report ou the financial operations Of the
PostcEce Department duriCg he last hscaI
jesr.