The National tribune., 1889-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
POLITICAL.

NEWS OF i hi Wv EEh.
POLITICAL.
Among the appointments made on Thursday
by the President were Frank w. Palmer, OF
Chicago, to be Public Printer, and Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, and Hugh s. Thomp-
son, of South Carolina, to be members of the
Civil Service Commisson.-Judge Woods, OF
the United States District Court Indiana, re-
ceived a number of threatening letters signed
" Regulators" aud white Caps for his in
structions concerning election ases.--The
Kentucky Democratic Convention on Friday
nominated for State Treasurer Stephen G.
Sharp, who was appointed to succeed the fugi-
tive Tate. Resolutions were adopted lndorsIng
the National platforms of 1884 and 1888, special
reference being made to the stand taken on the
tariff.-Two reports on trusts were presented
to the New York Senate: The majority opposes
special legislation and the minority also main
tains that if Judge Barrett's decision In the
Sugar Trust case be maintained the common law
will sufficiently protect the people. The two
reports disagree as regards the cause, effect and
future prospects af trusts.-Minister Lincoln
and party started from Chicago for England on
Thursday evening. The new Minister to Eng
land was given farewell reception on Wednes-
day evening.-Gov Gordon, of Georgia, was
rendered a reception at Elizabeth n. j., on
Friday by the Drake Zouaves and veterans OF
the Union Army He was also dined by Gov.
Green.-The Diocesan Convention of South
Carolina of the Episcopal Church agreed to adj
nit Rev. Mr. Pollard, colored as delegate, but
decided to refuse like privilege to any other
colored clergyman. The colored churches will
be recognized into separate mission. -
Forty survivors of the Tippecan0e Veterans
Association, who voted for Gen. William Henry
| Harrison in 1910, paid their respects to the
President.-The Treasury Department re-
| jected the appeal of Edwin Booth from the de-
| cision of the Collector of Customs of New York
assessing duty on paintings imported for the
| Players Club.-Hon. Hugh S. Thompson, of
] South Carolina, recently appointed Civil Serv-
ice Commissioner, took the oath OF office and
entered upon the discharge of his official duties
on Friday.-First Assistant Postmaster Gen-
eral Clarkson appointed 159 fourth class Post
masters on Thursday; 124 to fill vacancies
caused by resignation, 81 to fill vacancies made
| by removals for cause, and three by DEATH
| Secretary of State Blaine received a dispatch
| from Mr. Merrill, United States Minister at
Honolulu, stating that on April a number of
! the survivors of the wreck of the naval heet at
| Samoa reached Honolulu, where their presence
created profound sympathy among the Govern
| ment aud people.-The President made the
following appointments: Asa Matthews, Hi
nois, First Comptroller of the Treasury; Frank
G. Loveland, Pension Agent at New York city;
| Samuel c. Wright Superintendent OF the Mint
| at Carson City, Nev.--The attempt in Indian
apolis to form a Democratic organization OF ex-
] soldiers antagonistic to the Grand Army OF the
| Republic was fiat failure.-The reports OF
the Government agents in Oklahoma and con-
siderable other evidence bearing upon the
charges which have been brought against Gov
| ernment officials there are now under consid-
| Grafton by the President and Secretary Noble,
| and some action will likely be taken within a
very few days,-Irving G. Caldwell, of Ohio
/ and Richard W. de Lambert of Kansas, have
| Arc Of = ha
| Land Office.-Charges have been preferred
against Fletcher Johnson, Chief of the Division
of Accounts in the General Land Office, alleg-
ing harsh and unjust treatment of the clerks
in the division. These charges have been laid
before the Secretary of the Interior.-Post-
master-General Wanamaker said, apropos Of
penny postage, that he believed in improving
and extending the postal service before reduc
ing rates.
no CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Five persons persisted in the burning of the
dwelling. house of Watson Bovine, Westehester
n. Y, last week. They were Mr.. Bowne'S
mother, his two children and two domestics
The business part of GAINESVILLE, VT, was
completely wiped out by fire in an hour on
Thursday.-An incendiary tried to burn
what remains of the town of Moreland, outside
Chicago where 20 families were left homeless:
by fire Wednesday night If the perpetratol
is discovered, he will be in danger of lynching
Almost every business house in Shrub Oak
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on Friday.-De
structive forest fires prevailed in Michigan an6
northern Wisconsin, and many villages anC
homesteads were devastated. Unreliable re
ports of loss of life have been reeeived.-GOv
Francis, of Missouri, declined to interfere Will
the decision of the court in the Bald KnobberS
cases, and the condemned men, David anC
VIM. Walter, father and son, and John Mat
thews were hanged on Friday at Ozark. Thu
rope broke, and Matthews fell to the ground
The Walkers were drawn up again and slowly
strangled, after which Matthews, gurgling an(
groanng from his previous experience wa
taken back on the scaffold and hanged.-Th
Board of Emigration Commissioners ordered
| that Antonio Gonzales, who arrived in New
York from Gibraltar on the India, be returned
as he was sent to this country for his service
to Spain as public executioner.--The State o
New York purchased three dynamos for tn
electrical execution of condemned murdereTs
one each for Sing Sing. Auburn and Clinton
The President has committed to 10 years
Imprisonment the sentence of death imposed il
case of Grace Smallwood, colored, convicted il
the District of Columbia of the murder of he
3 infant child. He has also granted a pardon il
the case of John Alaska, an Indian, convictei
, of resisting an officer and sentenced to ST,
, years Imprisonment in Washington Territory
: Joseph Phelps Williams and Gustav Il
J Gabrielson, of Now York, have-been mysteri
, ously missing since Wednesday of Centennia
week, and are supposed to have fallen fror
crowded ferryboats and drowned core
ner's jury are investigating tile disaster at tin
Kaska William shaft Pottsviiae Pa, in whic
. 10 miners were killed recently. Som
merville, David Hamm and Robert Davis, COW
7 boys, were arrested for killing four Zuna In
dams, whose cattle they had stolen, at Win
f gate, N. NJ, on Sunday.-John C. Adams,
. Boston stock broker, committed suicide
shooting in the parlor of the Revere HOUSE
Boston, last Saturday.-Mai. j. w. Whan
Paymaster, United States Army, with an escol
C of IL soldiers, was attacked by bandits nea
S Cedar Springs, Arizona Territory, and robbie
. of $29, 900. Eight of the soldiers were wounded
? five dangerously.
t No other preparation so meets the wants of
T dehilitated system as Ayers Sarsanarilln