The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-06
General Notes.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 5.-Representatlve
Posey and Cicero Buchanan, of Evansville;
A. ID. Vanosdol, of Madison. and w. 1. Nc
Connell, of Oakland City, are at the Ebbitt.
Mr.. POsey will remain a week or ten days
looking out for his office-seekers.
w. d. Haynes, of Indianapolis, is at the
st. James.
j. r. Mckee, the Presidents son-in-law,
left for Indianapolis this afternoon, and ex-
poets to be absent from Washington for sew
eral months.
The Attorney-general has appointed Her
bert Hess, of Indiana, law clerk of the De-
partment of Justice, vice N T. n. Robinson,
resigned, and o. p. NJ. Hubbard, of the
same State, stenographer and confidential
secretary. vice Miss Lydia W. Ball, re-
signed.
Geo. Roberts, of Mount Vernon, who was
Chairman HustOn's private secretary dur
ing the last campaign, left Washington
this afternoon, over the Baltimore & Ohio,
for Connersville. where he will have Treas
unknown to history that a bondsman for a
United States Treasurer was ever called
upon to make good a deficit. The accounts
of the Off &c are easily kept straight.
OcucId Ndbudu u tdlkcQ 10 UnS TEST
dent this afternoon and assured him that
he, tGoff1 would yet be Governor of West
Virginia.; that the court would decide in
his favor.
Ex-Secretary Endicott saw the President
to-day. and when he emerged from the
White House declared that he himself had
never, during the past four years, felt so
well, the freedom from official duties being
a release from great burden. Mr.. EndicOtt
SAID that President Harrison was over
working hImealf wae not lnoEinU wall and
that he should Immediately take some rec
reation and get away from the office-seek-
ers.
VIM. II. Lamb, of Missouri. has been ap-
pointed an assistant superintendent of rail-
way mail service. vice w. C. Hickman. re-
signed. Mr.. j.. s. Smith, of Wisconsin,
has also been appointed an assistant sup
erintendent of railway mail service, vice
L. j. Morse, resigned. Mr.. Hickman and
Mr.. Morse were appointed assistant SUPER
i~ntendents March 2, 1889.
Samuel w. Pursley has been appointed
storekeeper and gauger at Becknerville,
KY, and Burt w. Jenkins storekeeper at
Frankfort, Ky.
The bond offerings to-day were ST. OILS. 900,
as follows: Registered fours, S15.000 at $3.50;
S2,0O0,0O 0 at S129. The offers were rejected.
c. II. Faulkner. of Indiana, chief of the
record division in the Pension Office, has
resigned by request.
L.. .. G. Lamar. jr.. chief of the stationery
division OF the Interior Department, has
resigned to engage in private business. Mr..
Lamars resignation was unsolicited. He
was regarded as an efficient officer. Mr..
VIM. X: Lapham. of New York, has been ap-
pointed acting chief of the same division.
The American commissioners to the Sa-
moan conference have engaged passage for
Europe on the Umbria. which will sail
from New York on the 18th. Meanwhile
they are frequently at the Department of
State. consulting with the officials and
studying the protocols of the last confer
ence.
James w. Romeyn. consul at Valparaiso,
in reporting to the Department of State
upon trade and of Chill, COM
ments upon the fact that while the imports
into Chill in 1887 amounted to $4S, $50. 600,
but S, 200,0 900 came from the United States,