Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.


at Fayal for a technical violation of the
Portuguese customs laws, and that the own
ers of the vessel were put to great loss on ac-
count of this detention, which from all the
evidence presented to the state department
was unwarranted and entirely uniustifiable
Congressman Randall has requested Mr.
Blaine to instruct the new minister appoint
ed to press the claim for an indemnity. This
DR.. Loring will be instructed to do. The pre-
else nature of the instructions have not been
determined upon yet.
Atty. .lGen. Miller has received a report
from United States Marshal Jones of Kansas
In regard to the conduct of himself and
deputies upon the opening of Oklahoma to
settlement. Mr.. Jones says that when the
functions of the military authorities ceased
he attempted, and he thinks successfully, to
organize force of marshals at different
points, where it was supposed there would be
concentration of people, sufficient to pre-
serve them from lawlessness and bloodshed
which 1t was expected would follow the OPEN
ing of the territory.
The secretary of the treasury has ap-
pointed Captain Gilbert E. Borden of New
Bedford, Mass, to be superintendent of the
house OF refuge at Point Barrow His salary
| will be 500 per month, and authority has
been granted him to employ two assistants
He will leave in few days to join the Bear
| at San Francisco. The department has also
house, fuel and provisions which, it is ex-
pected, will be delivered to the Bear in the
course of two weeks, thus enabling her to
| take the same aboard and reach Ounalaska
by the middle of June. The house will be
built in sections and so arranged that it will
be ready to set up upon arrival at Point Bar
row. Provisions and fue to last 100 men
one year will be taken. The Thetis will be
met at Ounalaska, and subsequent arrange
ments will be made by the commanding Off
GERS for the completion of the enterprise.
Secretary Tracy has designated Pay Di-
| rector L. H. LOCKER as general inspector of
the pay corps. This is an office which was
discontinued by Secretary Whitney. The
duties of the incumbent will consist in the
examination of the books and accounts Of fl
nancial officers of the navy department on
stations and ships on the Atlantic coast.
The secretary of the treasury has awarded
the contracts for buoy service for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1889 as follows: Taun-
ton river, Mass, to j. w. Rose of Dwight;
for Pawtucket river, R. l., to G. w. Hull of
Providence
Major Charles B. Throckmorton of the
Second artillery has been directed to inspect
the encampment of the New Hampshire
National guard at Concord, from juno to
June Z.
Naval architects in Washington are await
| ing with some interest further particulars of
the performance of aremarkable cruiser built
| in England by the Armstrong;. She is named
the Piemonte, and is said to have made 1917
knots under natural draft and over 21 knots
with forced draft. The vessel measures $500
tons, and carries engines of II, 500 horse power,
nearly treble the prOportionate horse power
OF the new gunboat Yorktown. Elements Of
safety and convenience have been sacrificed
for the sake of lightness in the new vessel,
| which accounts lin large measure for the
wonderful speed said to have been attained
| Nevertheless, although the ship was built for
the Italian government, the British naval
| authorities made strenuous but uns successful
efforts to purchase her from the builders.
Thomas H. Sherman, selected as consul at
| Liverpool, is credited to the District of
Columbia, where he has live1 for many
years, although he came originally from
Maine. He was telegraph operator and
became private secretary to Mr.. Blaine when
the latter was speaker in 1869. He retained
the same connection during Mr.. Blaine's
| term in the senate and his former admins
tration of the state department.. After Mr..
Blalne's retirement from public life, Mr.
Sherman continued in the department, where
he was attached to the consular bureau. He
has acted as private secretary to Secretary
Blaine since March of the current year.
Solomon Hirsch of Oregon, who has been
appointed minister to Turkey, is promi-
nent business man of Portland, of Hebrew
descent. He was a leading candidate for the
senate from Oregon at the last election, and
I lacked but one vote of securing an election.
Gen. Banks has had a pleasant talk with
Secretary Tracy about the needs and capa-
| bll't es Of the Boston navy yard He did
not, however, urge any detailed plans upon
the secretary, but pointed out the advan-
| tageous position of the yard and suggested
that If the government built ships it might
well build one of them at Boston. 1t was
desirable in any event. he urged, to have
some men put to work there. The secretary
said that little could be done until the be-
ginning of the new fiscal year, July /, but
that he would bear in mind what Gen.
Banks told him and see what could be done.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker seems to
| be impressed with the need of better foreign
mail service for Boston, but of his intentions
nothing is known beyond the fact that he
will make some changes. Superintendent
Hayward of the foreign mail department of
the Boston p0stofice thinks Boston ought to
| have the privilege of sending q closed mail
to Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
| Portugal and Sweden. There is enough cor
respondence between these countries, he
says to warrant it.
| Applications for pensions are beginning to
come in at the pension office from the wild
| ows and dependent relatives of the officers
and men who lost their lives in the recent
naval disaster at Samoa. The widow of
Captain Schoonmak T. of the Vandalia filed
her claim few days ago, and it has been
| submitted to the proper division for allow
ance. Her pension will amount to $50 per
month A colored woman, whose son was
| employed on one of the lost vessels appeared
at the pension office and filed her claim for
pension. She will be allowed S12 per
| month.
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ly made consul-general TO Honolulu, has for
years been identified with the Sandwich
| Islands. His father was editor and proprie-
tor of the Kennebec journal when Secretary
Blaine made his entrance into public life.
He was minister to Hawaii, and his son has
been consul at San Francisco for the
Hawaiian government about whose affairs
he is well informed He is about 90 years
| old.
The secretary of the treasury has APP
proved the ecision of the collector of Gus
toms at Boston in assessing duty at the rate
of 100 per cent. ad valorem on boxes (con-
tanning matches), imported by Emil Mey yers
| March IL. The secretary also affirmed the
collectors decision in assessing duty at the
rate Of three cents per pound on bichromate
of soda imported March 26 by ]. L. g. d S.
Riker.
The rumoled engagement of ex-Secretary
BaFard to Miss Clymer daughter of Dr.
| Clymer United States navy, Is confirmed
The wedding will occur early in the summer,
and the welded pair will pass few months
in Europe.
The little girls attending the third grade in
the Jefferson public school building in the
southern section of the city, were standing in
| the aisles of the schoolroom one day recently,
when their teacher Mis- Sarah E. Allen, was
fatally shot in the presence by her worth
less husband, who then killed himself Allen
had been supported off the earnings of his
wife as a school teacher until some time ago,
when she left him on account of his dissi-