The Washington critic., 1889-05-10
EARLY MORNING NEWS.

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terror Department has rendered several
opinions of importance bearing on the
question of the Zine Of duty" In the
case of Daniel V. Houser, who alleged
that he received fracture of the leg
by being pushed ON the ice by n com
rade, the Pension Office rejected the
claim as not in the line of duty. Mr..
Bussey holds that IIouser was i'm the
line OF duty and directs that pension
be issued. Daniel Snyder is granted
pension for asthma. The case was re
iected by the Pension Office on the
testimony of several witnesses that he
had asthma prior to enlistment. The
medical certificate of discharge stated
that Snyder had asthma to such de-
gree as to incapacitate him for duty,
and Mr.. Bussey says this evidence out.
weighs the other and directs that a pen
sion issue to Snyder.
Edwin Booth, the actor, recently APP
pealed from an assessment of duty
made by the Collector at New York on
some paintings imported for the Play
ers Club, 2 society, which is claimed,
was established for literary purposes
and the encouragement of the fine arts
Mr.. Booth claimed that the paintings
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the Treasury Department has decided
that the assessment was correct.
Frank G. Lovcland, who was yester-
day appointed pension agent at New
York to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of General Franz Sigel, is
native of Ohio and 40 years old. lie
entered the Sixth Ohio Regiment as q
private, and when mustered out, in
| 1865, he had become colonel. Since
the war he has been engaged in the dry
| goods trade in New York.
Secretary Noble is engaged upon an
examination of the evidence and re-
ports sent him by special inspectors of
the Interior Department in Oklahoma
as to the frauds alleged to have been
| perpetrated there by Government Off
cials. He will announced his conch-
sions within few days, and If found
| guilty number of officials will be re-
moved at once.
| Commissioner Tanner has written
Special Pension Examiner Shank, at
Lima, o., refusing to accept his rcsig.
| nation, which was offered because he
was not in sympathy with the Admins
tration. He says the record of Mr..
Shank is very good and his services
cannot be dispensed with.
The Secretary of the Navy has
granted an extension of five months
time for the completion of the cruiser
San Francisco, now being built by the
Union Iron Works at San Francisco.
This action was taken on account of the
unavoidable delay in the receipts of the
drawings for the vessel
| Acc lTotthoru vaotorIou onNn;,tn1
First Comptroller of the Treasury is
the speaker of the Illinois House. He
lives at Pittsfield, and Cor q long time
the Peoria district. Senator Cullom
Endorsed him for the position.
| Mr.. Robert T. Lincoln and wife, &C.
companied by Miss Lincoln, Miss Jesse
Lincoln, Master Abraham Lincoln, Geo.
nj. Pullman, Mr.. Robert G.. McCor-
mick, assistant secretary of legation,
and Mrs. Mccormick, left Chicago last
night for England.
The South Carolina Diocesan Conven-
ton of the Protestant Episcopal Church
at Aiken yesterday adopted an amend
ment TO the constitution, which, it is
believed, will temporarily settle the dis
pute as to the negro in the church.
The villages of Danville, Vt, Shrub
Oak, N. y, Elba, Mimi, and Anthony,
Mich, have been visited by disastrous
fires. Fierce forest fires are still burn
ing In Michigan, causing great loss and
much suffering.
Patent Commissioner Mitchell has
left for Connecticut, TO remain until
Tuesday next, and Pension Commits.
sioner Tanner has left for Columbia,
Tenn, where he delivers an address to.
night
| One hundred and fifty fourth class
postmasters were appointed yesterday,
OF this number ia were to fill vacan-
cies caused by resignation, thirty.onc
were removals and three by death
The commander of the British cruiser
Rapid has hoisted the British flag over
the Suwarrow Islands, which lie in the
Southern Pacific Ocean, northwest of
the Cook Islands.
Five hundred pounds have been SUBJ
scribed at Belfast for the defense Of
Father McFadden and the support of
the tenants evicted from the Olphert
estate.
State Treasurer Stephen G. Sharp has
been nominated by the Democrats of
Kentucky to succeed the fugitive Tate,
whose term he was appointed to serve
out.
David and William Walker, father
and son, and John Matthews, members
Of the Bald Knobbers' gang, will be
hanged next Friday at Ozark, Mo.
John Fitzgerald, president of the
Irish National League, says he believes
DR.. Cronin, the Chicago physician, Is
hiding to attract notoriety.