The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-04


recalling any of the attaches of the COM
mission. or of making any change IN It's
personnel. 1t was stated further that the
Secretary was especially DESTROYS of avoid
ing any action that might possibly embar-
rass those charged with the management of
the case of the United States in the pres
ent advanced state OF progress. especially
as be knows Mr. Foster 40 well. and has
confidence In his Judgment Aud ability.
The Russian Treaty Discussed.
WAsHINGToS. April 3.-The Senate was
In secret session this afternoon for moro
than hour ard at the end of that time only
q few postmssters were given out as having
been confirmed. This was. however. tho
most unimportant part of the session. The
Behring sea correspondence and the cases OF
the two governments were unlimited TO
the Senate. but not read. The Russian
treaty was then taken mp and demanded
the attention OF the Senators for some time.
The recent criticisms of this treaty in the
newspapers Of the country q given the
instrument something of a political tinge
ana the Senate is no nearer q solution on
the question whether or not 10 release the
injunction of secrecy than it was a week or
ten days ago. The discussion hinges npon
just what amount shall be made public.
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"BIue Monday" for Place Hunters.
WASHINGTON. April a-This was "blue
1Ono6I ~ AAOaoCs ~ iooob AZ
the official portion of the mansion. for this
is the day of the week when the President
retires into the solitude OF his Office. bars
the doors against i~mportunate place hunt
ers and devOtes himself to matters requir-
ing bis uninterrupted attention" Official
callers were few and far between They
came up stairs in an uncertain way. as IL
they feared they wonld not be received.
and. when their suspicious wero confirmed,
wandered into Private Secretary Thurber's
room and drifted out again. pausing In the
course OF their exit long enough TO gossip
awhile with the newspaper men.
Colonel and Mrs. Corbin's Bereavement.
WASHINGTON. ~AprIla.-Col. Henry C. Cor
bin and his wifeleft Washington t~o-nightfor
Wilmington, o.. with the remains of their
youngest daughter. Rebecca. who died at
her fathers residence here last night. after
o lingering illness. F6fteen years ago.
while serving on the frontier of Texas. the
family of Colonel Corbin was suddenly at
tackled by q fever of q malignant type,
which. while apparently submitting TO
treatment left traces of its terrible work
which were ineradicable. One after the
other four OF the five children have passed
away. The Colonel and his wife bear with
them the love and sympathy of o host of
Washington friends.
BORING for Natural Gas In Virginia.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April Sit will be of
direct interest TO many readers of the
Journal in the natural gas belt of Indiana
to learn that the citizens of Alexandria.
Va, eight miles below the national CO pital,
are boring for natural gas, and ina they
are confident success will crown their eff
forts. should natural gas be found at that
point in Virginia II is believed by scent
a. h..4 chat y Ha0rv <hx N
IL an evaporation of oil or comes from coal
deposits Will be exploded. There is
neither oil nor coal in that section Of the
Old Dominion.
New Money Order Offices.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Domestic money
order Offices were established, under the
direction of the Postoffic e Department. to-
day. "a follows, for Indiana: Algiers, Pike
county; Gas City. Grant county; Sparks
Vile, Jackson county l~re-establishedl;
Wallace, Fountain county. Postal note
offices were established to-day, for Indiana,
% follows: Byron, Parke county; Graham,
Jefferson ounty.
Applications Filed by Hoosiers.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. April a-The Indiana sp-
plications for Office filed at the Treasury
Departments to-day were as follows: Allen
j. Sheerin. of Lafayette. immigration In
spector; Edwin Arthur. of Portland. chief
of stationery division Treasury Depart
ment; A. f.. Closhman. of Madison. special
agent; Lee ID. L.ewmaD, of Jacksonville,
chief clerk In the Supervising Architects
office.
General Notes.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April a.-Bishop Castle, of
Elkhart. preached at Otterbein United
Brethren Church. in Baltimore, last night,
to a large congregation. Rev. DIR. d. W..
Fisher, president Of Hanover College. In
diana. preached at the A~ssembly's Presby-
terian Church In Washington.
Charles L. Adsmson. Of Muncie. 10 in the
city for n few day on business before the
Patent Office.
Lieut.. John +. Parker IS acting as an
assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of
Navigation in the absence OF Lieutenant
MullIgan.
G.. C. Matthews. of Memphis, formerly of
Indianapolis. Is at the Ebbitt House.
j. l.. Cropsey and M. A. Mcdonald, of
Indianapolis. are at tho Arlington.
The action of anti-Semitics In Vienna
in protesting against the appointment of
Max Judd to be United States consnl-gen-
eral there is regarded at the State Depart
ment rs not entirely consistent, in view of
the fact that Mr.. Julius Goldschmidt. the
present cOnsuI- genera ut Vienna. whom
Mr. Judd was nominated to succeed. is also
o Jew.
Congressman Hooker, of Mississippi.
who was injured by . cable car. Is better
tonight.
Secretary Hoke Smith does not expect
that the Cherokee Strip will be open to
settlement before the lst of July next.
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