The Russellville Democrat., 1889-07-18
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary or the Daily News.
WAsHINGTON NOTEs.

JOHN Y. STONE, Attorney. General of Iowa, has been appointed a special as- distant attorney of tie National Depart ment of Justice to bring suit on behalf of the United States to quiet the title to the Des Moines river lands.
 SECRETARY WINDoM, of the Treasury Department, has decided to discontinue steam plate presses in the bureau of en. gravng and printing and substitute hand presses.
 THERE will be only weekly meetings of the Presidents Cabinet during the heated term and these will be on Wednesdays.
 PRESIDENT HARRISON has respited to August Frank Capel, convicted of mur- der in the Indian Territory and sentenced to be hanged July IT..
 THE President has appointed Horace A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of Railroads; Thomas C. Mendenhall, of Indiana, to be superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey; {; Henry ". Diederich, of Indiana, to be Consul of the Un.tel States at Leipsic.
 COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS TANNER re- turned to W ashington on the 9th from an extended Western trip
 THE following C lnsuls have been ap- pointed: Emmons Clark, of New York, at Havre; Archibald J. Simpson, of Colo- rado, at Acapulco; Roswell G. Horr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso, and James A. Hartigan of the District of Columbia, at Trieste and all other ports in the Aus trian dominiuns. John J. Chew of the District of Columb q, has been appointed Secretary of Legation at Vienna
 THE annual report Of the Civil Service Commission for the period ended June 30 1888 has been made public, During that period 2S examinations were held in every State and Territory except Colorado and Kansas. The number of applicants ex- amined was 2,G99 of which an average of 6S per cent passed in the common branches and 8 per cent Il the special.
 JUDGE TYNER, Assistant Attorne ey- Gen. eral for the Post-office Department was reported seriously i'll with liver trouble.
 IT is generally believed that Congress will meet before December.
 ADMIRAL GHERARDI, U. $. N. cables the Navy Department that all is quiet in Hayti, Legitime and IIippoiyte both being indisposed to move.
 THE State Department will make no ef- fort to induce the Persian Minister to withdraw his resignation.
 DON FERNANDISO CRUz the new Guate- malan Minister to the United States, was formally presented to Pres.d dent Harrison on the 11tb.
 SECRETARY OF WAR PRocToR has been quite ill at his home in Rutland, Vt, but is now able to b. about again.
 SOME of the Washington butchers who have secured Government contracts have made complaint to the District Attorney, alleging that the agents of Armour & Co, Swift & Co, and two other Chicago dressed beef houses who do a wholesale business there, have combined to injure them by instituting what is practically boycott
 THE Secretary of the Treasury has tele- graphed his approval of the course of the Emigrant Commissioners at New York in detaning the emigrants sent 10 Agent Nell of the Southern Pacific railroad, by Wrighton 6 Son, of London, and ordered the immediate return of every man sent to Agent Nell, under the law prohibiting the importation of contract laborers.
 THE President has granted a respite till August in the cases of Jack Spaniard, Joseph Matin and Elsie Jayne, convicted in the United States court of the Western district of Arkansas of murder in the h. dian Territory,