Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

l The Postmoster General Refuses to Sa, ! Anything on she Subject of ORemsIv,
 Fartisanship-CoIon Grant Take
 the Oath of GMce-Connecticut Post
 masters Appointed.
 WASHINGTON, March 25.-The postmaste
 general has thus far refused to say anythins
 for publication on the subject of offensive craftsmanship as cause for the removal of post
 masters, but the Star tonight says: con 1 Saturday MT. Wannamaker made the positive l announcement to an unnamed member of 1 congress who had very offensive partisan of
 a postmaster he was working to have remov-
 ed that the charge of offensive partisanship would not be regarded as sufficient cause for removals. Some other good reason would nave to be given and it did not matter whether that charge was attached"
 Col. Fred D. Grant called at the Depart ment of State to-day and took the oath of once as United States minister to Austria. It is probable that he will not leave for his post before the latter part of April.
 The case of ex-Representative Peter Paul Mahoney of Brooklyn has taken 8 decided change for the worse and it is feared he can- not survive much longer.
 James Il. Windrim, the newly appointed supervising architect of the treasury, has in. formed Secretary Windom of his acceptance ot the appointment and of his purpose to as- sume his duties on Wednesday.
 The Massachusetts delegation called on the fres1dent to-day to present petition signed by Charles Francis Adams and numerous Massachusetts business men asking for the appointment of Edward W. Kinsley, at pres ent State railroad commissioner, to succeed MT. Walker on the interstate commerce con- mission. Charles Moves, ex-speaker of the Massachusetts house of delegates, is also candidate for this position. The friends of General James H. Wilson say he has assur- ances that he will receive the appointment and that his nomination will be sent to the Senate tomorrow.
 The postmaster general has appointed the following postmasters in Connecticut: Isaac Warren at Eastford c. A. Stokes at Killing ly; P. s. Phillips at Mossup; O. s. Bill at Taftville; G. R. Rouse at Voluntown; E. G. Bugbee at Wauregan; W. T. Williams at Yantic; H. W. Sargent at Sargentville.
 CLAIMED TO BE A YALE TUTOR. A Chicago Swindler is Familiar With
 she Names of Officers and Stories of
 Yale and Makes Use of Them.
 CHICAGO, March 25.-Gustave Wieland, alias Theodore Hyderfeld, was held to the criminal court to-day for carrying on an ex- tensiye scheme of swindling. He claimed to be Yale tutor and also teacher in the Boston Institute of Technology, and support ed these statements with letters and reminis- cences of college life and college dignitaries Among his known victims are Solomon Stur- ges. the broker; T. W. Harvey, the lumber I dealer; J.H. Walker, the dry goods merchant; J. H. McAvoy, the brewer, and B. Carpenter, the ship chandler. These gentlemen chipped l in from $50 to $50 each for Wisland.
 ''I borrowed the money" testified Wieland l ''I went to school at one time at the Boston | Institute of Technology and afterward taught | private pupils at New Haven. No. never Il was tutor in Yale. I came west a couple I of years ago for my health and have been out I % Denver. I knew MT. Walker was 8 l Yale man and I went to him first l md borrowed some money of him. I ! heard that MT. McAvoy was Yale man and l Ifterward went to him. MT. Harvey went to l he Boston school and so did Mr. Sturges."
 t'How did you know that these gentlemen lad been to Yale or the Boston schoola" "A riend of mine had told me of quite number # Yale men,"
 One of Wieland's dupes, Mir. Carpenter, aid: "That man must have obtained the col ege records and made them study, he is so l amiliar with names of officers and stories."
 Wieland went to jail.