The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-07
G. M. ALLEN HONORED
MADE ACTING FIRST ASSISTANT
POSTMASTER GENERAL.
May Fill Place Vacated by Perry s.
Heath Until Congress Meets
BuffaIO's Population.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-George M. AL
len, of Terre Haute, chief clerk of the first
assistant postmaster general, returned to
| Washington last night from a five weeks
| trip in Europe. While gone he visited
| Holland, England, Germany and France.
| To-day Mr.. Allen became acting first as
| sistant postmaster general. relieving Mr..
| Beavers, who has been acting since the
| retirement of Perry Heath. 1t is not un-
| likely that Mr.. Allen may continue to act
in this capacity until Congress meets next
winter. Since the declination of the post
by Curtis Guild, of Boston, there has been
| no apparent disposition on the part of the
administration TO fill the position accepta-
bly,.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Col.
Frank O. Lowden, of Chicago, was asked
by Controller of the Currency Dawes to-
day whether he would consider an offer
of the position of first assistant postmaster
general, the place recently vacated by
Perry s. Heath when he became secretary
of the Republican national committee. Col.
Lowden, however, told Mr.. Dawes that,
while he felt much complimented at the
knowledge that is name had been consid-
cred, yet his business affairs would not per-
nit of his accepting il"
A petition for mandamus to compel the
| secretary of war to muster out and dis
| charge Lewis Z. Brown, by name of
/ Louis E. Brown as a first lieutenant
from the volunteer service, notwithstand-
ing a court-martial sentence, was pre-
scented to the District Supreme Court to-
day. Brown was first lieutenant of the
Ninth Volunteer Infantry, which was mus
| tered out at Camp Meade. Pa, May %, 1899,
in entirety. with the exception of Brown.
The petitioner was tried by court-martial
on charges of conduct un~becoming an Of
ficer and q gentleman, and acquitted Nov.
IL. On Dec. 6 following he alleges the
court-martial illegally added to the record
a statement that the court revoked its
findings and sentenced him TO be dismissed.
He claims the courts finding was final and
conclusive and irrevocable.
XXX
The count of population of Buffalo, N.
Y, just completed at the census Office is
1852, 219. The population in 1890 was 255, 664.
The increase is 37.7 per cent.
XXX
A dispatch has been received at the Japa-
nese legation here from the Japanese for
eign office announcing that the govern
ment of Japan had prohibited for the pres
ent all emigration of japanese laborers to
the United States and Canada.
General Wood has Informed the War De-
ndTI0eHI ina 1flNdlt OutIndn GduleV.
Troop II. Fifth Cavalry, died at San Juan
de Pace on the Sd inst. of osteo-sarcoma.
XXX
To-day's statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general funds exclusive of
the $50. 600. 900 gold reserve in the division of
redemption shows: Available cash balance,
SAG. 215, 67S; gold, s72.00s.OO2.
The delegation of Cuban school teachers
now received a course of instruction in
English branches at Harvard University.
Cambridge. Mass. will visit this city on
the 18th inst. for the purpose of paving
their personal respects TO the President of
the United States and TO inspect public in
stitutions and attractions OF the National
Capitol. The school teachers, numbering
about /, 400. will arrive here in the morning
and leave in the evening for New York
where they Will board army transports in
waiting to take them back TO their homes
in Cuba.