Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-24
WASHINGTON.
A Clerk In the Sixth District Auditors
0Nlce Sends n Fatal Bullet
Through His Brain.
Secretary LnmNr Notifies Tennesseana
That the Wnr - over and Passions
Eh0uid bio Buried.
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IVA . ht1Itt AhA0Ns
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.--The formal
resignation OF s. s. Cox, minister to
Turkey, has been received ut the depart
nent Of state.
rHK BARTHoLpI STATUE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.--Mai Gen.
Scboneld, who has charge Of the ceremo-
MES attending the Inauguration OF the
Bartholdl statue next Thursday, called at
the White Houee to-day and had an inter-
view with the president in regard to his
\ participation in the ceremonies. The
3 president and most of the cabinet VIII
attend, but the details of the trip TO New
YORK have not been completed II Is ex-
pacted that Mrs. Cleveland and the wives
Of several cabinet officers will accompany
the party.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS
WASHINGTON, oct. 2s.--The president
has made the following appointments
Daniel N. Lockwood Of New York, at
torney OF the United States for the North
ern district OF New York; Lucius Lamar
ci Georgia, marshal OF the United states
for the Southern district OF Georgia.
A CLERK coMMITs SUICIDE.
wAsuINGToN, Oct 23,--The sixth
auditors ofilce was the scene Of sensa-
fional episode to-day. Robert w. Aston
4 clerk in that branch Of the government
service, cody announcing to the chief OF
the division that he twas going TO put an
end 10 this thing,r walked 10 his desk,
took ss-callber revolver from his pocket,
and In the presence of his fellow clerks
Hent a ball crashing through his brain.
The pistol was placed 80 near his head
that his hair was singed and his skull
shattered The unfortunate man lived
but forty-nve minutes after the fatal shot
was fred. Nervous depression Is said to
have led 10 the act. He was the son Of
Col. Bob Aston Of Atlanta.
THE WAR rs OVER.
WAsHfNGroN, oct. 2s.--Several weeks
ago one Of the leading Democrats Of
East Tennessee, Mai. j. II. Wagner was
appointed United States pension agent al
Knoxville TO succeed Robert Taylor,
Democratic nominee for governor. The
new appointee was major OF the Thir-
teenth Tennessee cavalry Of the Union
army. and was a gallant soldier. I'm
mediately after his appointment the Dem
ocrets OF East Tennessee came here and
urged Secretary Lamar to recommend
TO the president the reconsideration OF
the case and the revocation Of appoint
ment, on the ground that as q member o.
the Legislature in 1865 Wagner voted e
disfranchise ex-Contederates, and 9lsc
'| "a
n orthe apprehension OF ex-governor, nov
Senator Isham G.. Harris. To-day Score
tary Lamar made the following respons'
a TO The persons who were demanding re
consideration Of the case; "The secre
"A tary OF the interior decline
81 10 recommend the revocation G
81 Mai Wagner's commission
pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn. II
saws Mai. WAGNER was appointed upo
. the Recommendation OF the leading an
II best citizens Of Tennessee, OF all partle
who represented him as man fully qua
~ lied In integrity, intellect and characte
N for the duties Of the position, and as
s. man endeared to the people by his CO..
slstent support during the pa
n twenty years. OF their hig
III fact brought out against him sin,
# his commission Issued, that he had give
an unjust and unwlse vote for disfra
s chiaemant when he was young man n
2 more than twenty-one years OF age, II
IN mediately after the war, when the pa
VA aious 81 both sldee were aroused TO 6
ia highest pitch, should not now be used
oetracise him from public tru
"a among people 70 whose rlgt
H and Interests he has ever since be
81 true and loyal. We have all be
contepding that the issues OF I
war and the passions growing out OF
should not be kept alive, and l do n
know OF any instance In which the pl
cept can be better enforced by examl
& than this. Both sides in Tennest
III showed the courage to fight, and
X confident they have also that higher qua
~, the magnanimity to forgive,
CLEVELAND GETTING FAT.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S The exp
from the New York school OF massh
who helped Secretary Manning SO nut
{# had an interview with the president
ferday. President Cleveland INTENDS
Nh to take course OF treatment 70 see
X cannot reduce his flesh. He has gRir
+ So much In the last ak months that
ga mas had TO have the buttons on co
| moved three inches.