The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-14
THE NEWS SUMMARIZED.
From Washington.

Tho public debt statement shows IN al.
legged reduction Of 81, ,662, 100 in July.
The total amount paid Mr.. Roach by the
navy department from 1869 to date was
$40, ,333, ,G26.
Washington, ia losing his health, the climate
not agreeing with him.
Charles L. Skinner OF Baltimore was dis.
barred from practice as an attorney before
the interior department., for extorting ille-
gal fees.
Postmasters commissioned: e. p.
Dorivla, Caledonia, Minn.; ]. F..
Quinlan, LIE Sucur Ce.,tcr, Mimi; J. N.
Hooper, Mabel, MINI.
Secretary Whitney makes public thecriti-
cislns Oi the naval advisory board on tho
report OF the Dolphin board OF examiners,
together with tho reply Of the latter.
Joseph NJ. Morrow was appointed col
lect0r or internal revenue for the Sixth dis
trict Of Wisconsin, aud NJ. ID. McHenry was
appointed receiver Of public moneys at Des
| Moincs, Iowa.
Proi. Riley, the government entomologist,
IL lending every energy to tho taak OF dis
covering whether there ia likely to be gen.
eral visitation Of the Rocky Mountain locust
in the Northwest next year.
The wife Of Senor Don Mathis Romero,
the Mexican minister Mt Washington, was
| Miss Lucrctia Allen OF Philadelphia, Rom.
eros brother Cayetano also married an
American girl, Miss Haincs Of Washington
Senator Malone has issued n circular to
nil the p0stmasters in Virginia who have
been bounced, asking questions as to the
| circumstances Of their removal. He pro-
poses to use tho information when the senate
| meets.
Tho president received a telegram from
Gen. Joseph +. Johnston, saying that he
was in Portland, Or, when he received
word OF his selection as one OF the pallbear-
ers, and that ho had started Immediately
for Now York.
| 1t Is understood that the president within
few days will fill the vacant lioutenan-
cies existing in the line OF the army from
civil lille. There will be ten vacancies after
the nOn-commissiOned officers who arc
now being examined shall have been assign
cd to regiments.
A soldier Mt Bombay was rcpor:. Il for
misconduct. In revenge he shot and killed
two scrgeants belonging to a native -egi-
mcnt. He then bnrricaded himself within
his quarters and shot his wife dead. After
keeping up for u time an effective fire against
those who attempted to nssail his retreat
llc lay down beside his wiic's corpse and
with his last bullet ended his own life.
The president has made the following ap-
pointmcnts: Collectors of Customs-lsaac
B. Poucllcr, for the district Of OAwego, N.
u; Joseph Magoiiin, district OF Paso del
Nortc, Tex; Charles +. Bailey, district Of
Corpus Christi Tex. United States consul
ut Newcastle, Joseph Smith, of tho district
OF Columbia; Alexander N. Wallace, sur
vcyor ofcustomsfo for the port Of Atlanta, Ga.
The civil service commission have sent to
Gen. Black, commissioner Of pensions, the
entire list Of persons who have passed sue
ccssful examination for appointment ns
pension examiners. The list contains three
hundred names, and there are eighty va.
cailcics to he filled. The commissioner has
rcinstatctl four Of the pension examiners
who were lcsislatc,l out Of office, and will
fill the other seventy six vacancies from the
names certified by the civil service commits
| sion
Tho president has decided to retain the
following United States consuls on
account OF their excellent records: j.
II. Stewart, Mt Antwerp Belgium; II.
J. Sprague (who has been ut his post since
1siS), at Gibraltar; Il. G. Hilton, ut God
ericl Canada; Oscar Malmras, ut Licth,
England; William Thompson, ut South.
ampton, England; p.J. Stevens formerly
clerk oil the house appropriations commit
tec), ut Victoria, i. G.; Phillip Carroll, at
Palermo, Italy; Il. o. Williams consul
gcneral), Mt Havana, and c. c. Ford (conl-
mercial AGENT, ut SaguaLn Grandc. Jnapcr
Smith, formerly commercial agent ut Not
tingllam, has been transferred to New cas-
tlc-on-Tync, and Secretary Bayard has up.
pointed q. s. Williams at Nottingham. Mr..
| Williams is u resident OF western Now York