The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-21
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Bureau and Department Officers Preparing
Their Annual Reports ts-Appointments.

WASHINGTON, October 19.-AH the bureau
and department officers are engaged in the
preparation of their annual reports, and the
President has sent word around that he
wants everything completed and in his hands
before the lst of November when lie will
commence work upon his message. This is
accompanied by an order prohibiting the
communication of the contents of any of the
reports to the press until they shall first be
read and approved by the President. This
is something new. Heretofore all the heads
of bureaus have given ont abstracts of their
reports a month or six weeks before they
were submitted to Congress. and the Presi-
dent has never wanted TO see the documents
either in manuscript or print, unless there
happened to be something out of usual inn
portance or significance in them requiring
attention in his message.
PRESIDENTIAL PosTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
The President to-day appointed the fol-
lowing Presidential Postmasters: Charles w.
RObp, Portland, oregon, vice George A.
Steele, commission expired; James VI. King,
Knoxville, Tenn, vice Q. y. Temple, COM
mission expired; John L. Street, Park City,
vice A. d. EmmOry, commission expired;
Albert Watkins Lincoln, Neb., vice j. Nc
Bride, commission expired; B. +. Cheatam,
Nashville, Tenn, vice J. 7. Jones, commits
sion expired: j. i. Minuck, Nalisa, Iowa,
vice j. NJ. Nation, commission expired:
j. ID. Pratt, Ipswich. Dakota, office became
Presidential; Warren Perley, Beadley Mass,
Office became Presidential; Geoege Beck,
Livermore, Gala, office became Presidential;
]. A. Trawley Stromsburgh, Neb., office
became Presidential; Il. X. Henderson. MUr-
freesboro, Tenn, vice J. ID. Wilson, resigned;
W. l.. Norton, Tullahoma, Tenn, vice j. w.
Davidson, resigned; William SchermerhOrn,
Hudson, Mich, vice +. j. Southworth,
resigned; w, c. Schultz, Reynoldsville,
Pennsylvania vice II. G.. Reynolds, resigned;
Abraham Rose, Ninton Ia. vice J. j.. Pyne,
resigned; Farley Sheldon, AInes, Ia. vice
John Watts, resigned; john 3in.ey, Holly
Springs, Miss, vice Mary Malone. suspend
ed w. f. Scott, Modesto, Col, vice. i. w.
Perry, resigned.
In the case of the pOstOffice at NintOn, Ia,
Mr.. Pyne, whose resignation is noted, was
appointed TO the Office only Il short time
ago upon petitions that appeared to be very
conclusive as 10 his good character. Since
then, however, it has come to the knowledge
of the Postmaster General that Pyne had
been gnilty of violations of pension laws,
and to-day Abraham Rose, an old soldier
and pensioner was appointed to the office.
INDIAN REFUGEES.
The agent at the Fort Belknap Indian
Reservation, in Montana, has informed the
Interior Department that a number of Cree
Indians, refugees from the British Provinces,
have crossed the line into the Reservation,
having in their possession silver-ware, arti-
cles OF ladies' apparel, supposed to have
been captured during the Big Bear raid.
The agent requested that the intruders he
escorted across the line and forbidden to re-
cross into the United States. The Interior
Department is at loss to know how these
IL.
THE SUPREME COURT.
The United States Supreme Court rendered
no decisions to-day. Several motions to adj
vance cases for hearings were disposed of,
the most important being in the Virginia
coupon cases, six in number. All were ad-
vanced; a few were fixed for hearing on the
second Monday in November.
The experiments made by the Commits
sioner OF Agriculture in the application of
deffusion and carboniton of cane at Ottawa,
kas., has been concluded. Professor III. W.
Wiley, who had charge OF these experiments,
has made his preliminary report to the Com
missioner, from which the following facts
are taken: The yield of sugar from the cane
was more than 90 per cent, or l2-l00 of per
cent. being left in the waste waters and ex-
hausted chips. The yield of crude sugar
THAT is, rs it comes from the vaccuum) was
rs high as $50 pounds per ton or at twelve
is fully double that of the ordinary methods.
The process Of carbonitation-that is, adding
a large excess of lime to the juice and then
precipitating IL with carbolic acid was COM
pletely successful. The product obtained
was lighter in color and more palatable than
that OF the usual method of defecation and
the saving in scums by this method is esti
mated to be at least 10 per cent.
\ CONFERENCE To BE JIELD WITH INDIAN CHIEFS.
Indian Commissioner Atkins, who bas
been inspecting the south western agencies,
Will hold Il conference next week at Musko-
gee, j. r., with Chief Buslyhead and other
chiefs OF the Five Nations, regarding the un-
lawful cutting Of timber in the Territory by
white men, and the removal of intruders
from the Territory Chief Bushyhead left
last night for the Territory, highly gratified
with the result OF his interviews with Secre-
tary Lamar and the President.
PRESENTS FOR sIBERIANs.
The Navy Department is informed, through
the United States Legation at St Petersburg,
that Lieutenant ScheutZe, who is carrying
presents to the Siberian natives in the yicin-
ity of the Iona. arrived at lrkutsk September
To- The roads We're i'm bad condition and he
intended waiting there fer winter roads.