The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-19
MADE MINISTER
TO MEXICO.
Powell Clayton VIII Succeed Matt W.
Ransom.
OUR CONSUL GENERAL At LONDON.
he is william Mckinley Osborne, Cousin
Of the President and Lives in Boston.
Chief Lieutenants TO the Agricul-
tura1 Secretary and Post
master General

washington, March 19.-The presi-
dent yesterday sent to the senate the
following nominations: Powell Clay
ton of Arkansas, to be envoy eXtraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary Of
the United States TO Mexico; William
NJ. 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 Gan assistant in the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey). to be a member Of the Mississippi
river commission.
Powell Clayton has long been promi-
nent in the Republican party. He is a
native of Pennsylvania, SO years old.
AS a young man he went out west as a
civil engineer, and Joined the army from
Kansas. He rose rapidly, and came
out of the army a brigadier general. At
the wars end he settled in Arkansas
as a planter. and was a 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 g. 1912,
and was educated at the University of
Michigan and at it's 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 1850. During the recent campaign
General Osborne was very active on
the stump and in the party eonven-
tions.
Perry Heath was lately general man
ager OF the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette, but is a native of Indiana, and Is
just 40 years old. When he left schoo
at the age Of 13 he started in at the
I
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 a wide
knowledge of commercial matters
John K. Gowdy is a native of In
diana. in which state he has lived all
his life, having been born in Newton
county 81 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 a county office and the worl
/ of country newspaper He served a,
/ sheriff and auditor of his county, anC
| has been chairman of the state Repub
| lican committee of Indiana since 1890.