The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-19
And Joseph III. Brigham. Master of the
National Grange, Made Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture.
MR.. GOWDY WITHOUT AN HEIR
WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE
ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR.
Coming Home to Call Meeting of the
Republican Committee and Re
sign as Chairman.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Several i'm
portant appointments were made by the
President to-day. two of them being OF spe-
cial interest to Indanians. There was no
slip 'twixt cup and lip in the case of Mr.
Gowdy. as some people expected, ana he
will, therefore, in his capacity as consul
general look after the interests of Ameri-
cans who attend the Paris worlds fair.
Perry S. Heath. of Muncie, got his Post
office Department plum, as predicted by
your correspondent. The nominations sent
to the Senate to-day Were:
POWELL CLAYTON. of Arkansas, to be
tentiary of the United States to Mexico.
WILLIAM NJ OSBORNE, of Hassachu-
setts. to be consul general of the United
JOHN X. GOWDY, of Indiana to be con-
sui general of the United States at Paris.
JOSEPH III. BRIGHAM. of Ohio. to be
assistant secretary of agriculture
PERRY s. HEATH, of Indiana. to be
first assistant postmaster general.
Captain Charles Shaler, Ordnance Depart
ment, to be major; Henry l.. Marindin, an
assistant in coast and geodetic survey, to
be member of the Mississippi River Com
mission; Sylvester Peterson, of Minnesota,
TO be register of the land office at Crooks
ten, Miss.
John K Gowdy. who will spend four
y
Qndiana) farm near the little town of Ar
lngton. in 1S4S, a2d lived on a farm all his
life until shortly before he was elected
sheriff of Rush county. in 1850. When six
years old his parents moved to Jasper coun-
ty, where Mr.. Gowdy lived until he went to
the war, eniisting in the Fifth Indiana cav
airy, Company l.. lie returned from the
war q captain and went TO school one year
in Rush county. after which he taught
school six months in Newton county. he
returned to Rush county In 1867 to marry
Miss Eva Gordon, daughter of a neighbor-
ing weli-to-do farmer and thus acquired a
little farm OF his own. He continued TO
farm until in 1879, when he ran for sheriff.
He was reelected. and afterwards W.
twice elected county auditor. He was chaiS
man of the Rush county central committee
from 1879 to 1889. In 1891 he was made State
chairman to fill out the term of l.. Il. Mich
ener. He was reelected State chairman in
1892, 1894 and 1886. Mr.. Gowdy has one child,
Miss Fannie Gowdy, aged about twenty.
Perry S. Heath, who will be Postmaster
General Garys first lieutenant, is well
known to Indianians. He was born in In
diana forty years ago, and his first work
was as a printers devil in Muncie news
paper office. Afterward he acted as re-
porter and editor. Then he went to Dakota,
and next turned up in Washington, where
he was correspondent of the Indianapolis
Journal and other newspapers for a number
of years He visited Russia and wrote a
George Kennan's charges. After service
of fifteen years at the capital he purchased
an interest in the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, and when he retired from the man.
agement of that newspaper he returned to
his home in Muncie. He took an active
part in the last presidential campaign and
was in charge of one OF the Republican
bureaus at Chicago.
Gen. Powell Clayton, the new minister to
Mexico. is a native of Pennsylvania, sixty
| three years old, with the appearance of be-
| ing forty-fve, and in spite of his CORY ca
reer in the war and his heroic activity in
| politics he has as much energy as a dynamo
| yet. AS a young man he went out West
as civil engineer and joined the army
| from Kansas. He rose rapidly and came
| out of the army brigadier general. AT
| the wars end he settled in Arkansas as a
| planter and was prominent figure in the
| reconstruction period. He was Governor of
Arkansas in 1868 and United States senator
| in 1871 The general has not held office
since 1877, when he retired TO private life
but he has been ever active a politician.
| He is healthy, wealthy and wise, and has a
fine fine home and family in in which which he takes
terest in national politics, and mas been q
prominent figure in Republican national
conventions.
William Mckinley Osborne is a cousin of
| the President. and is a prominent man in
| Boston. He succeeds his townsman, Patrick
| A. Collins. consul general to London
| and Mr.. Osborne will find no trouble I'm
| filing that post with satisfaction to him.
self, to London and TO the admnistrat ton
| He is native Ohioan, born in Trumbull
county, and was a schoolmate of Major
Mckinley at the Poland Academy. He
| joined the Union army, and even the same
| regiment with William Mckinley jr, and
| saw good service. After the war he studied
| law and settled down at Youngstown, where
he built up a nice little practice. He took
| TO politics naturally and was elected mayor
of the town. Ten years ago Mr. Osborne
/ left Ohio and went to reside in Boston, of
| which city his wife, Frances Clara Has
| tings. daughter. Mr.. Osborne is
| widely known General Osborne. He
| repudiates the title, doesn't know how ne
| got it, and for long time ii was the bane
| of his life. Il was "A private" he would
| declare, ''and / am proud of il. | never
| was general of anything" But the title
'sary evil.