Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-11
w.suINGroN NOTES.

o+h. roturn Of the Postmaster General
from the Cabinet meeting on the I'd 1t was
.anneunced that he had removed Postal
Agent. Dimmio. at New York for leaving
his work to attend to political duties at
Port Jarvis.
SEcnErARY BLAINE has received a tele-
gram from Consul Allen at Kingston,
Jamaica announcing the sale by the
Colonial Government Of that island to an
American syndicate of the entire Jamaica
railway.system
THE will of the late Justice Stanley Mat
thews, made on the day of his last mar
riage leaves all his property to his wife
and children.
The following department appointments
have been made: James A. Vose, OF
Maine, clerk in the POST Office Depart
1ment; c. E. Clarkson, Iowa, private secre-
tary to Assistant Postmaster General
-aClarkson; Hamilton Reeves, New York,
assistant chief clerk of the Pension Office.
THE State Department at Washington is
officially notified by Chill of her accept
ance of an invitation to attend the confer
.ence of American States at Washington In
October.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN called upon the
President and Secretary Blaine on the 4th
and formally accepted the English mis-
sion. He will sail for England about May
a5.
WANAMAKER has bought ex-Secretary
Whitney's late residence in Washington.
OYER fifty employees of the Government
printing Office at Washington have been
laid off because of the adjournment of
Congress.
JAMES w. RoMEYN, Consul at Valpar-
also, in reporting to the Department of
State upon the trade and commerce of
Chill, comments on the fact that while the
imports into Chilli in 1887 amounted to
-S4S, ,630, 900 but 81, 20O, 900 came from the
United States, and that while $4,000 ves-
sells entered and cleared at Chilian ports
the American flag waved over only 221 of
them.
The cruiser Atlanta, now at Aspinwall,
has been ordered by telegraph to New
York. 1t is the intention to send the
Yorktown to New York April 90, so that
the latest efforts at naval construction
may be seen at the centennial celebration.
The President has appointed Joel B.
Erhardt to be collector of customs and
Cornelius Van Cott to be postmaster at
New York.
SENATOR PLUME and Representative
Peters called oil the President on the 5th
in behalf of two Kansas men named Mil
-ier and Woods, convicted of having COM
emitted murder in the Indian Territory and
sentenced to be hanged.
MAJOR ARMES, who pulled Governor
Beavers nose recently at Washington, it
is thought will be court-martialed.
THE President has issued a proclama-
tion for National holiday on April 80,
the centenary of Washington's Inaugural
vion.
SECRETARY WINDOW has ordered the dis
1missal of Captain Herbert Beecher. son of
Tethe late Henry Ward Beecher. In 1885
Cleveland appointed him collector of GUS
toms at Port Townsend, w. T.. but the
Senate failed to confirm him. Secretary
Manning then appointed him special agent
at the same place. 1t was learned that he
was implicated in the Gardner opium
smuggling case.
A MEETING of the Washington bar was
held ON the 9th to pass resolutions COM
Hmemorative OF the death of Associate
Justice Stanley Matthews.
President HARRISON has appointed
Hugh B. Lindsay, United States attorney
~for the Eastern district of Tennessee.