The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-19
MINISTER TO MEXICO.
S@ell Clayton Will Succeed
.. Matt W. Ransom.
OUR CONSUL GENERALAT LONDON.
He Is william Mckinley Osborne, Cou-
sin of the President, and Lives In Bos-
ton-Chief Lieutenants to the Agricul-
tural Secretary and Postmaster General.

| Washington, March 19.-The presi-
dent yesterday sent to the senate the
| following nominations: Powell Clay
ton of Arkansas. to be envoy extraor-
ainary and minister plenipotenttary Of
the United States to Mexico; William
M. Osborne of Massachusetts, to be
consul general of the United States at
London; John X. Gowdy of Indiana. to
be consul general of the United States
at Paris; Joseph II. Brigham Of Ohio,
to be assistant secretary of agricul-
ture; Perry s. Heath of Indiana, to be
first assistant postmaster general;
Sylvester Peterson of Minnesota, to be
register of the land Office at Crookston,
Mimi; Captain Charles Shaler of the
ordnance department, to be major;
Henry l.. Marindin (an assistant in the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey), to be member Of the Mississippi
river commission.
Powell Clayton has long been proml-
nent in the Republican party. He is
native of Pennsylvania, So years old.
As young man he went out west as
civil engineer, and joined the army from
Kansas. He rose rapidly, and came
out of the army brgadier general. At
the wars end he settled in Arkansas
as a planter, and was prominent fig
ure 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 active in politics.
William Mckinley Osborne, of Bos-
ton, secretary of the Republican ma
tional committee, Is a cousin of Presi-
dent Mckinley. His mother and the
presidents mother were sisters. He
was born in Girard, O., April 26, 1912,
and was educated at the University of
Michigan and at its law school. He
practiced law at Youngstown, o., of
which city he was mayor in 1S74-75.
He served in the Twenty third regi-
ment of Ohio Volunteers in the war
but was subsequently discharged on
account of injuries received in the SER
vice. He came to Boston in the fall
of 1880. During the recent campaign
General Osborne was very active on
the stump and In the party conven-
tons.
Perry Heath was lately general man
ager of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette, but is native of Indiana, and is
just 90 years old. When he left school
at the age of IS he started in at the
printers case. He was editor for three
years of one of the most successful
evening papers in Indiana, after which
he went to South Daktoa. Then he re-
turned east and was a correspondent
at Washington. He was a personal
friend of General Harrison. During
the past ten years he has been inter-
ested in banking, and has wide
knowledge Of commercial matters.
John X. Gowdy is a native of In
diana, in which state he has lived all
his life. having been born in Newton
county 54 years ago. He served with
credit as a private soldier during the
war for the Union, after the close of |
which he entered the business and po-
litical life of Rushville, Rush county, |
and managed to carry on a successful! |
farming business in addition to the |
duties of county office and the work !
of country newspaper. He served as |
sheriff and auditor of his county, and
has been chairman of the state Repub- |
lican committee of Indiana since 1890.