Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-17


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GovERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY. - Internal
revenue, s246,2 ,2S7; customs, 1881,
To-DAYs BOND OFFERINGS aggregated
s27l,O0O, as follows: Registered As, $4,000
at 1913; $4,000 at 129; $1,000 at 1291.
Registered AS, $4,000 $4,000, $4,000,
s30,OOO, $4,000, $4,000, 800. 900 and $4,000,
at los. Coupon 41as, $4,000 at 1OS.
LAWS PASSED AT THE LAST SESSION. The
State department has prepared pamphlet vol
ume of the laws passed by the last session of
Congress. 1t contains about 500 pages and may
be obtained at the department for the sum OF
So cents.
CHICAGo's NEW PosTMAsTER.-James A. Sex
ton, appointed postmaster at Chicago by the
President yesterday, is a well-known business
man of that city, in which he has lived for
twenty years or more. During the war he
served i'll the union army He has been COM
mander of the Illinois department of the g. A.
il. HIS business is that of an iron founder, and
he Is man of considerable means. He has
Always been an active republican.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER announced in the
Supreme Court yesterday that the court would
10 h.,
and adjourn from that day until the 18th of
May, and then adjourn for the term.
To BE SENT BACK TO IRELASD.-Secretarv
Window has directed that Mrs. Kate Flvnn and
her three infant children and Mrs. Margaret
Cassidy shall be returned from PHILADELPHIA TO
Ireland. Mrs. Flynn came to this country to
meet her husband in New York, but found the
latter had deserted her. Margaret Cassidv's
case Is similar. She arrived i'll this country in
1888 and was supported by her son until De-
cemDer III OF that year, when he deserted her.
She Is seventy years of age and destitute.
REMoyED.-Pension Commissioner Tanner
to-day removed Assistant Medical Referee
Philip II. Barton. Mr.. Barton was appointed
by Commissioner Black.
MAJOR JNo. c. q. HAppERsErr surgeon. has
been relieved from duty at Willets Point.'N. Y,
and ordered to duty as post surgeon at Atlanta
barracks, Ga.
SENTENCE COMMITTED j. W. Flanagan, of
Kentucky, convicted of violation of the in
ternal-reveDue laws and sentenced at the Feb
ruary term, 1899. to SIX months confinement in
jail at Louisville, Ky. the President has, in
consideration of the bad health of the prisoner,
cOmmuted the sentence to the term of three
months.
POSTAL SERVICE IN OKLAHOMA. Assistant
PoStmaster-General Clarkson says that within
three months there will be hundred fourth
class post-oices established within the territory
of Oklahoma. and that he proposes, as far as he
is able, 10 follow up the progress of immigra-
non with speedy and prompt delivery of the
mail. In his opinion, i'll less than six months,
there will be a hundred thousand people To-
Gated i'll Oklahoma. He pronounces it, after
thorough trayelfrom one end to the other the
garden spot of the west, and predicts that in
less than two years it will be admitted into the
Union as a state.
A PATENT has been issued to King l.. Karo.
Of this city, for follower for trunks or packing
boxes, and James N. Pollard for split pulley.
design has been issued to Charles A. Davis
for racket.
Mr.. S. NORRIS Pool will be appointed assis-
tant chief OF the gazette division in the patent
Office. Mr.. Pool is now first assistant exam
iner and has been in the division for number
OF years.
Mr.. Huston was at the Treasury to-day and
had talk with Treasurer Hyatt in regard to
his assumption of the duties of the Office. 1t is
probable that he will not qualify for nearly
three weeks, or until the count of the funds in
the New York sub-treasury is completed. Mr..
I4x~nf 20 I.1
both places amounts to fully $1,000, 600, 900,
probability larger responsibility than was
ever before imposed on single individual
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT To BE CLOSED
To-MoRRow.-Secretary Noble to-day issued an
order directing that the Interior department
be closed tomorrow as a mark of respect to
the memory of the late John p. Usher, who
was Secretary of the Interior from 1868 to 1866.
The funeral will occur at Lawrence Kansas.
the late home Of Mr.. Usher. The Interior de-
partment building has been draped in black.
PERSONALS. G. Edgar of St. Louis, Thos
Hastings, J. s. Newberry and Morgan Cowan of
New York, A. b. Gillett of Hartford, Geo. H.
Guernsey of Montpelier VT, and T. d. Stnson
of Philadelphia. are at the Arlington.-Wm.
II. Brewer of New Haven, Conn, Prof Cook
state geologist of New Jersey. Robt. d. Rich
ardson OF Winnipeg, l.. S. Metcalf of st. Louis,
Jas Fl. Haslin, A. II. Doran, E. H. Coffin, E.
Losee and L. L. Pierce of New York, are at
Willards.--L. r. Cummings of Philadelphia,
and $. c. Robertson of the army, are at
Welcker's.--Y. E. Hyatt of New York, L. c.
Chandler of Cambridge, Amos Clark, H. w.
Adams and II. w. Adams. jr., of Eliza
beth, n. j., and A. w. Wright, of
New Haven, Conn, are at wormiey's-
w. Allen of Buffalo, and W. E. Carhart and
VIM. II. Douglas of New York, are at the
Arno.-Pope Barrow of Athens Ca, J.
| Phillips. jr of Fitchburp Mass w Fl
Beadleston of New York, II. Cattell of Philadel-
phia, and Gilbert r. Fox. jr., of Norristown,
Pa, are at the Normandie Robert Avery,
JAS. W. Wortz, VIM. III. Lyon and Jas. r. Beirne
OF New York, Ed. Y. Cook of Philadelphia and
Z. A. Spencer OF Boston, are at the Riggs
Hoke Smith of Atlanta, and z. c. Lawrence OF
! Boston, are at the st. James.-E. p. Stratton
! i. Q: Taxon, Z. Woodruff, D. b. Young and G..
! Z. Biendon Of New York, David Davis and
Henry A. Morrill, of Cincinnati, Chas H.
Litchman Of Massachusetts, 6. w. Warren OF
Detroit and A. W. Arnold o. Philadelphia, are
at the Ebbitt.