The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-26

Another Protest Against Detective Furlong.
WASHINGTON. July 25.-Representative
Frank, of Missouri, after an interview with
Secretary Window last Monday, ex-
pressed the conviction that Thomas Fur
long, of st. Louis, would be ap.
pointed chief of the Secret Service OF
the Treasury Department This statement
having been published, District Assembly
No. e6. Knights of Labor. of this city, to-
night passed resolutions depouncing Mr.:
Furlong as the chief detective for Jay Gould
souri, Pacific railroad, and the
instrument of that "monopolist
and oppressor of labor and laboring men
during that troublous time" The resolu-
tiOns earnestly protest against the appoint
ment of this tool of mOnopOlist power,
this defamer of workmen," co any position
under the United States government.
Decision Against wanamalxer Alarmed.
WASHINGTON. July 25.-Mr. John Wanna
maker recently appealed to the Treasury
Experimentation decision of the collector
of customs at Philadelphia, assessing duty
at the rate of 50 per cent. ad valorem on
so-called wicker baskets, claiming that they
were dutiable at the rate of 80 per cent.
The question of the classification OF these
articles was submitted to the conference of
appraisers, recently in session in New York,
and they were of opinion that they were
properly classified by the collector as fancy
boxes The Treasury Department to-day
sustained this opinion and affirmed the
collectors decision
Mrs. Heron Not Under Sentence Of Death.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-In response to his
telegram of Tuesday respecting the case of
Mrs. Heron. reported to be under sentence
of death in Corea for preaching the doc
trines of Christianity, Hon. w. +. Wharton,
acting Secretary of State. this morning re-
ceived the following cablegram from Min
lister Dinsmore:
SEOUL, Corea, July "a.
To W. F. Wharton, ashington-Report con-
corning Mrs. Heron wholly without foundation.
DINSMORE.
COunterfeiter briggs Did Not Have the Plates.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-Chief Bell, of the
Secret Service, says he did not expect to
get the counterfe1ters plates on which the
money was printed when he made the ar
rest of Nelson briggs at Dayton, D. I'VE
know ne says, that the plates are not
within eight hundred miles of the place. We
were acting under instructions from AS
sistant Secretary Bachelor to prevent any
| of the new issue getting in circulation and
| that is what we did by capturing all the
| money"
General Notes.
| Special to the Indianapolis Journal
| WASHINGTON, July 25.-These Indiana
| postmasters were appointed to-day: Ma
nilla, Rush county, Fred Hehl, vice Jasper
VanCleve, resigned; Sexton, Rush county.
| John A. Jones, vice w. II. Rhodes, resigned.
| Secretary Window has returned to Wash
| ington from New York, and was at the
| Treasury Department to-day. Secretary
/ Tracy also returned from New York this
morning, and was at his desk in the Navy
| Department.
| Warner white, of Indiana, has been
| appointed chief of a division in the Pen
sion Office. at salary of 5000 year.
Mr.. w. III. Trammell, of Huntington
| county, who was presidential elector, Is
| in the city, and had long conversation
| with Treasurer Huston to-day.
| Among the arrivals from Indiana are H.
s. Smith, of Richmond, and +. e. Hartman,
| of Fit. Wayne.
Bond offerings and acceptances at the
| Treasury to-day aggregated $500 $50, as fol-
! lows: $3.50 registered tours at S1.28: 81 100
coupon and S49S, 800 coupon fOur-and-a-halfs
at S1.067s.
Doctors Uriah H. Farr and Daniel p
| Kennedy were to-day appointed members
| of the pension board for MartinSville, Ind
ID. s. Mclntire, of Illinois, formerly spe.
| cial examiner in the Pension Office, and
George w. Carr, jr., of Kansas. formerly a
| principal examiner in the same office, have
been reinstated under modified Civil-service
| rule 10.