The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-30
NEWS OF NATIONAL INTEREST.
Report of the Proceedings OF the Universal
Postal Congress-ApPointme ents-Cit.
fzens of Nebraska Murdered.

WAsHINeToN, April 30 Admiral Jouett
telegraphs to the Navy Department from As.
pinwall that he will go to PAna ma to-day, and
that he hopes to settle the difficulty ia that
city peacesby.
General Sheridan expects TO leave Wash
ington in a few days On an inspection tour
of the military posts of the West.
The Department of Ststeis to day informed
By the nited States Consul al Colon, under
dste of April 10. that the mails from the
United States and eleshere for Bogota.
CsrtbsgeDs, BsrTanquilla and the interior of
Columbia, for the last two moaths or more,
were destroyed by FIRE at Colon on the 31st of
March. They we're stored in the National
Pos.cffice, waiting az opportunity TO forward
them.
A report of the proceedings OF the nj
versal Postal Congress, which closed at Lis
bon on March 81 last, has been received at
the PottOtice Department. The mCst i'm
portant changes mads by the Congress were
a. follows: The use use of reply post cards
was rendered general TO the extent that those
countries which do rot themselves issue such
cares are bound 10 return the reply cards
winch they receive from other countries.
Packets OF commercial papers and priRtsd
natter will only be forwarded by letter o lst
on the condition that they are not heavier
than two kilogrammes and do not exceed
forty five centimeters 10 length. The service
of me delivery of letters by express was in.
trodUced into the international relations By
a I ew article, which provides that articles OF
cor es pondeDce of every kind shall, at the
request Of the sen6ers, be delivered at the
domiciles Of the addresses by special messen-
ger Immediately upon their arrival, in the
countries of the Union which consent TO
undertake this service in their reciprocal
relations. at charge OF thirty centimes,
which must De paid in full snd in advance
by the sender II addition to the ordinary
postage.
The President msda the following sp-
pointments to-day: "Chsrlss S. Scott. Of
Alabama, Minister resident and Consul Gen
eral OF the United States TO Venez1els;
Warren Green, OF Kentucky, Consul Cen
ersl at Kanagawa. Japan John ID Bacon. of
South Cs'olins, Chsrge.d AfAiIes TO Para.
quay and Uruguay.
To be United States Consnle: Berthold
Greene baum. OF California, at Apis; Albert
Looming, of New York, at Bremen; Joseph
B. Hughes, of Ohio, at Birmingham, Eng-
land; John 81. Putnam, Of Ohio, at Homo.
lulu; Victor A. Sartori, of PennsYlvania, at
Leghorn; Robert E. Wlthers OF Virginia, at
Hong Kong.
SeDetor Neo Wyck mss CalleO the atten-
tion OF the President, the Secretary of the
Interior and the Attorney General to the
fact that several citizens OF Nebraska have
recently been murdered in consequences OF
their attempts to establish homes under the
public land laws, within the inclosure
known as the Broghton rancho, in Nebraska.
The senator urges the administration TO
take arbitrary measures under authority of
the anti fencing law to remove the fences,
and open the public lands to settlement He
thinks the slew and uncertain processes OF