The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-04-03
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News.
WASHINGTON.

WAoutNGtONs
Corporal James Tanuer on he 27th took
the ou' h Of onice adminlst red by Mrs 4.
s, Samp on. q notary publ employed In
the fens on Bureau, and Q ter d poa his
duti 8 Ms Commissioner of ZEN Ions. He
has appointed George B. Squires, Of Brook
lyn, N. ", as his confident secre ary.
The merchandise exports from the United
States for the twelve months ended Fsbru-
ary 2S last amounted TO sos, ,39t t3i4, against
sos, T28,249 for the twelve months ended
February 2S 1888. st
The Secretary Of State has received re-
port from the United States Consul at Colon
stating that work along the Panama canal
has entirely ceased and that the West India
negroes were returning 10 their homes. Up
10 March 10 fully 5000 OF the latter had left.
Secretary Window has appointed Mr.. NJ
Z. Bull superintendent OF public buildings
at Chicago, vice Mr. Bailey. resigned. Mr..
Bailey was formerly supervising architect
Of the treasury. I....H
Senator Sherman expects TO leave Wash
ington for Europe about May /, remaining
three or four months. He will be accom-
panied by Mrs. Sherman. Their first stop
will be In Paris to visit the exposition.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has ap-
pointed A. w, Fisher, Of North Carolina,
chief clerk Of the Q sion Office, In place OF
W. #. Brock, re lined
1t is said at the Interior Department that
the Presidents proclamation, issued on the
27th u T.. will throw open TO homestead
entry on April % about 1900, 900 acres.
Presidential nominations sent TO the SEN
ate on the Goth ult Robert Adams, Jr.. of
Pennsylvania, TO be Minister TO Brazil /;
Lansing b. Miner OF Ca ifornia, 10 he
Minister 10 the Central American States /;
W. l.. Scruggs, " Georgia. 10 be Minister
to Vtnezuela; William o, Bradley, Of Ken
lucky TO be Minister Resident and Consul
General TO Corea; George Chandler, OF
Kansas, 10 be First Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior; George l.. Sh.up, OF Idaho, TO
be G. vernon of Idaho.
General W. b. Franklin. Commissioner
General OF the Unit'd States TO the Paris
Exp sition. has ap lied FIR a detail OF a
guard Of marines 10 guard the American
exhibit at the Exposition. Two marine
officers and thirty men are 10 he detailed
for this service, TO b. rca ly To embark from
New York about the the 18th Of April
The President has appointed J. Otis Hum.
phreys, OF Illinois, Alfred NJ. Wilson. Of
Ar nnsas, and ex-Go ernor George d. Rob
inson, OF massachusetts,, a commission tc
treat with the Cherokee and her Indians
with relation TO the opening Of the Oklsho
ma country.
In The executive session OF the Senate or
IN, 3O,h ult the motion to recons der the
vote by which the nomination Of Mursi
Halstead as Minister 10 Germany was re
ject, a fow days ago, was lost by 4 vote oi
est 10
The bonds purchased by the Government
10 date under the circular Of last Apri
am 'unt TO sl37.2S2 100 and cost tl4S ITO 500
There has beed a decrease OF tl2,500. 600
In the public debt Siuce Ma'ch l.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided
that John Dorsey, the Chicago and Atlantic
engineer who ran his locomotive into . pas
senger train at Koutz, Ind, last October ant
killed one Of the passengers, besides injur
ing othersf must be tried on the charge O
mnns'aughter.
Postmaster General Wanamaker, has
with the appointment Of Mr.. Burt TO the
ffth division. changed al Of the nine super
inio dents Of the railway mail service which
were ap ointed under the last administra
tlon. Inc superlntenuonts NJ Cnlc 90 anc
San Francisco were not changed during the
last admins ration.
Major Marcus A. Reno, late United
States army, who served with General
Custer in the Yellowsi one Sioux massacre,
died at Washington on the 3lst ult.
The Treasury committee appointed "a
count tho stamps In the vaults OF the Inter
ma Revenue Bureau, oOmpleted their worh
on the 3Oth ult Two hundred millior
stamps OF the value OF t45,o00,ooo wer,
counted. Every cent was accounted fol
and the stamps were found In good condi.
tion.
The President on the Goth ult sent to the
Senate the nomination Of Edwin u. Territt
OF Texas, 10 be Minis er to Belgium, ant
John T. Abbott OF New Hampshire, 10 b
Minister 10 Colombia