Omaha daily bee., 1891-04-11
JUDGE CROUNSE APPOINTED
He Succeeds Bachelor as Assistant Score
tary Of the Treasury.
ANOTHER NEBRAsKAN ALSO HON0REp
Eng ovcrnor Robert W. Furnas Sc.
lected as COMMUNIST O ncr-at-
Large to the Columbian
Exposition.
WASHINGTON BUREAU The BEE,
OlS FOURTEENTH STREEE
WASHINGTON, u. c., April 10. J

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 10.
The president has at last filed the vacancy
in the treasury caused by the resignation OF
General Batcfellor to accept the mission to
Portugal and, as was excepted, Judge
Lorenzo Crounse of Nebraska has received
the appointment. Judge Crounses fitness
and qualifications for the position were first
brought to the attention of the presl dent by
the senator's some five or six weeks ago, and
after he had made a careful investigate into
Judge Crounse' qualifications the president
decided to appoint him and gave Senator
Manderson hint of this Chara cter last week.
1t expected that Judge Crounse will take
the oath of Office and enter upon his new
duties Immediately.
Nebraska scored another point today when
the president appointed Ex-Governor Robert
W. Furnas to be commiSsioncr-at at-large to the
worlds fair and Columbian exposition Elk
Governor F'urnas was talked of for cabinet
position and the geographical Ques tion was
the only thing that prevented his appoint
ment at the time the cabinet was formed
The appon tment of Gov ernor Furnas to this
place is proof that the agricultural interests
of the west will be well looked afterln the
exposition of 1898.
DR.. Warner Of Lincoln, recently apponte
superintendent of charities for this district
| arrived to assume the duties of his new Office
| today.
NEBRASKA MAsoNs AT THE PIKE CEREMONIES
Deputy Inspector William s. Clebume of
| Nebraska, thirty third degree, Ancient and
| Accepted Scottish Rite, assis ted In the mid
| night services of the kadosh held last even
| ing over the remains OF General Albert Pike.
| Other members of Occidental consiStOry No.
| of Omaha present were William E Amin.
| tllrtV-SpcOul lplyrpp M
| CT ampion $. Chase, thirty.second degree. of
| Omaha and Milton ]. Hull, thirty econd de-
| gree, of Edgar, Neb
| OCEAN MAIL SERVICE A SUCCESS.
Another new departure by the present ad-
| miuistration has proved a success. The As
sociated press dispatches this morning an
| nounced the arrival of the German steamer
| Havel at New York with her mails
all assorted ready for delivery.
| In reference to the same subject
| Pos tmaster General w anama ker re ceved the
following telegram from Postmaster Van
| Cott at New York Sea post mail per
Have arrived at $3.50 a. M City mail deliv-
| cred at s 40. Connection made of dstribu-
ton of mails with 10 a. m. trains, n gain of at
| least six hours Sea post appears to be a
| success.'
There were eighty-fiv sacks of mail on
| board the Havel, con tanning $500 letters.
The mail was made up exactly as it would
| have been on a postal car-sorted, back
i
| the different states ana large cities. The mail
arrived in time for the morning through
mail for Chicago and the west Under the
old system 1t could not have Ueen dispatched
until 9 o clock in the evening. Letters for
the city delivery in New York were able to
go out at AS in the morning, The postal
| clerks on board the Have are p. b. Holt2.
| man for this country and Herr Gollnitz for
Germany. The latter had never been at sea
before and the rough weather of Friday was
too much for him, but by working extra
hours the two clerks caught up with the
work The postmaster general is greatly
pleased at this news and believes the success
of ocean p0stofices is secured. He has
| stronger hopes than ever that this first en-
couragement will lead to the quick extension
of this service to all the important foreign
| countries.
George Madison Drake of Tennessee was
today appointed by the postmaster general
chiet clerk of the foreign mails bureau of the
postofice department. To this Office special
interest attaches now owing TO the activity
due to the postal subsidy bill. Mr. Drake
was private in the confede crate army during
| most of the war, and III 1864 was confidential
secretary to General Bragg. He was recon
structed in 1869 and in 1870 he edited the
Journal, the republican state organ at Mont
gomerv, Ala In 1873 he pu 0lished the Chat
tanoOga Daily Commercial. In 1876 he
| was the republican candidate for
trict and from iS1S to 1854 was
a valued clerk in various bureaus in the
postof1ice department. In 1854 he edited the
Knoxville Wing and Chronicle; in 1885 he
was postoffce Inspector until removed by
the dem ocratic administration, He was lately
money order clerk in the Chattanooga post
Office
TO CONDUCT RECRUITS.
FIRST Lieutenant Charles Il. Bones teel o.
the Twenty-irst in fantry has been ordered
to report in person to the superintendent O.
the recruiting service in New York to con
duct recruits TO the department of tn,