The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-18
From Washington.

Competent railway postal clerks will not
10 disturbed says p Postmaster General Villas.
The appointment of Robert s. Kelly as
United States marshal for Montana is q vic.
tory Tor the new delegate, Toole.
President Cleveland met his old school
teacher, Mr.. J. W. Hubbard, among the
Iowa excursionists at Washington.
Gen. Logan has returned to Washington
and lost no time before calling at the White
House to pay his respects to Mr.. Cleveland
The new pension office in Washington, al
though not halftinished, has cost more than
The original estimate for the completed
work.
The presidentappointed Alfred Parkinson
collector OF internal revenue, Second district
II Wisconsin, and William A. Walker agent
At the Green Bay Indian agency.
The president recently appointed the foi-
owing collectors Of internal revenue: John
1. McGonigle, Ninth district of Pennsylva-
ala; Attilla Cox, Fifth district of Kentucky:
GEORGE N. Davis, Fourth district oil Michi-
gan.
Assistant Postmaster General Hay seys
hat he would, notwithstanding the sug-
scstlons OF congressman, appoint q post
master opposed in politics to the admins
tratlon, majority Of the patrons of the
,Httte favored such application.
The authorities of the postofflce depart
nent are exercising themselves to effect the
capture OF Hibbs, the defaultins postmaster
81 Lewiston, Idaho, and it is believed that
re may have remained in this country, al
though he was reported to have fed into
British Columbia.
Secretary Manning's programme of econ
,my is to save $3.50, 900 by reorxanizins
The office over which he presides; abolish
i've auditors and adding controller, saw
ns $500, 900, and reorganizing the inter
lal revenue office at q saving of $3.50, 900,
making reduction OF 81 900, 900 in the
treasury department..
Delmar, ex-chief of the bureau OF statistics
Washington, said in an interview in Lon
Ion that President Cleveland left the prac-
tical treatment OF the Silver question to
Secretary Manning, who was using all op-
oortunities to discourage the monetization
'i silver. Manning in his annual report will
probably recommend the repeal of the Bland
lct.
The president made the following among
'thcr appointments: Robert S. Kelly.
United States marshal for Montana: o. G.,
aa's, receiver of public n,crets la Crosse;
T. \: Wiser and George r. Warner, receiver
md reg1stei, respectively, at Tracy, Mimi.
iessrs. Wiser and Warner are both from
Nankato, and were Endorsed by the Kelly
Ooran combination.
The president has made the following b.
'ointments: 10 be United States Marshals
Edward NJ. Boyken, district of South Car
Dina; Thomas jefferson Carr, Territory of
Wyoming Romulo Martinez, Territory of
New Mexico. United States Attorneys
John Eatlett Gibson, eastern division of
Virginia; Gustavus Van Hoorfeke, southern
district OF Illinois; Anthony G. Campbell,
Territory of Wyoming. Receivers at Land
)hices-John f. Budd at Stockton, CAL:
Joseph Hill at Beatrice, Neb., vice William
H. Summers, resigned; W. R. Edgar at Iron.
;on, Mo-; Hugh c. Wallace at Salt Lake CITY.
Utah: William Marlborough, collector of in.
;ernal revenue, Fourth district Of North
,trolina; Robert Taylor, pension agent at
Knoxville, Tenn, vice N. r. Gibson, sus-
pended.