Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-06-20


111l saPpointed TO office
s.ia are, without exception, Ma
men, but the Mahonites explain
Is by saying that ninety-nine one
hundreths of the working members of
The Republican party in Virginia are
what Ia known as Malone men, and
that it is next 10 impossible for their
opponents to get properly endorsed for
office.
Secretary Tracy has ordered the COM
mandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard
to build magnificent whale boat,
which is to be presented 10 King
Mataafa, of the Samoan Islands, rs
token of the appreciation felt by the
American republic for his timely aid to
our ship wrecked sailors on his coast.
The boat will be finished in about six
weeks, and will be sent TO Samoa in
charge of three OF the Naval officers,
survivors of the recent disaster, who
will also carry an autograph letter of
thanks and gratitude from the Presi.
dent to the King.
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman
has received telegram from his col
leagues, who are making an investiga-
ton at Troy. New York, stating that
owing TO glazing irregularities they had
| no oil M hnll
there. A new examination will be held
on the 10Th inst. The commission will
start west this week to make a number
of Investigations. The present COM
mission seems to be determined to have
the law strictly enforced, something
| never done before. 1t is not possible
to make such humbug of law pop
ular, but it is something to know that
it is being, as far as the Commissioners
can control ii. honestly administered.
Secretary Window is not satisfied
with the opinion given by Solicitor
Hepburn OF the Treasury department
that the Catholic University of Ameri-
ca, TO be established in this city cannot
engage corps of foreign instructors
without violating the law prohibiting
the importation of alien labor under
contract, and has referred the question
To the Attorney General.
Colonel John e. Kelton has been APP
pointed Acknowledgement of the Army
to succeed Gen. X. C. Drum recently
placed on the retired list.
The President has committed the SEN
tence of dismissal from the service,
which court martial recently found
against George A. Armes u. s. A. re-
| tired, to confinement within such limits
as the secretary of war may prescribe,
and to deprivation of he right TO wear
the uniforms and insignia of his rank in
the army for five years Capt. Armes
was charged with conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman. The prin-
cipal specifications being intruding up
on the ranks of the inaugural parade,
and attempting to pull the nose of GOV.
Beaver, in hotel lobby. Ames is
| generally regarded as little more than
half cracked, but his war record was
an unusually brilliant one, and it has
pulled him through several scrapes as
bad us this one.
The federal ofiice-holder spoken of
last week as having offered a toast to
the assassin of President Lincoln, has
been removed and good republican
appointed in his place.
Among the small number of appoint
men:s made by the President last week
was one colored man-Chas. Hendley,
OF Alexandra, who is made receiver of
public moneys at Huntsville, Ala. He
is principal of the public schools and
editor of the Gazette, at Huntsville.
Gov. Foraker's private secretary
spent several days in Washington last
week and his presence started all sorts
of political specuations. One story
that obtained greater credence than
any other said that Foraker had
made up his mind that he would be
candidate for governor of Ohio for the
third time. and that he had sent his
secretary here to acquaint the President
with his designs. and also to urge upon
him the necessity of appointing certain
positions. How much truth, if any.
there is in the story have been unable
to discover
Secretary Blaine accompanied the
British minister in call on the Presi-
dent, Saturday, for the purpose of con
veying to him the sympathy of the
Queen of England for the American
people in the great flood disaster The
President replied in few fitting words
Public Printer Palmer expects TO have
TO Through number of his employs
owing TO the exhausted condition of the
appropriation for this, The last quarter
of the fiscal year.