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AT THE CAPITOL.
Dursnt Appeals to United States
Supreme Court,
LONG LIST OF APPOINTMENTS
Sent to the Senate by the President—Jap¬
anese Minister May be Recalled—Re¬
ceipts and Expenditures for Month oi
June.—Other Items of Interest.
An Embezzler Pardoned.
The president has pardoned Charles
R. Fleischman, sentenced iu Illinois
to five years’ imprisonment in the Mil
ivaukee house of correction, December
8th last for embezzling the funds of the
National bank of Illinois,
Comparative Statement.
I he monthly comparative statement
of the government receipts and ex
penditures shows that during the
month of June the receipts from
eleven sources amounted to $36,o84,-
708, and the expenditures 8-22,934,694,
leaving a surplus for the month of
$13,650,014. The surplus during
June, 1896, was$2,340,400. Thestate
ment shows that the deficit for tho
fiscal year closed Wednesday, last
week, was $18,623,108, a reduction of
$31,821,9S5, since March 11 of the
present year.
The receipts from customs during
last June aggregated $hl,o60,l.)- as
SH>851,803 for June,
The receipts from internal . revenue
agrees ^- U nUg th6 lllSt m ° nth Wer f
$12,367,085, - a loss , as compared i with
June, 1896, of £>500,000,
Congressman Knowles Hot.
In the house one day last week Mr.
Knowles (pop., S. D.) rose to a ques
tion of personal privilege, aud sent to
the clerk’s desk and had read an Asso
ciated Press dispatch dated Lewiston,
Me., in which Prof. L. C. Bateman
charged, ou the alleged authority of
Mr. Knowles, that the “middle-of-the
road populists had accepted $1,500
from the proceeds of Mr. BryaaLj
book, with the understanding
nothing should be done to prevent
fusion ii 1900.” Mr. Knowles de
nounced Mr. BaVeiian’s statement as a
falsehood. Mr.
jected to the airing of private grievan
cea in the house. He said the gentle
man might “hire a hall” if he desired
to make a personal explanation. Mr.
Knowles, however, insisted that he had
a right to denounce a statement that
was “false as hell,” and the speakei
allowed him to proceed. Mr. Knowles
read letters in vindication of himself.
Threatened With a Deficiency.
For more than a month all pension
certificates issued by the government
have been held up in the pension bu
reeu. The suspension ended last week
when an immense batch of certificates
was mailed to the various agencies.
This terminates the operations of an
order which taking effect on May 31
last was designed to avoid increasing
the existing deficiency in the pension
applications by crediting the payments
which would follow the issuances of
these certificates to the new fiscal year
instead of to the fiscal year ended
Wednesday of last week. The pension
bureau was threatened with a deficien¬
cy of about $300,000 in its appropria¬
tions, and the discovery of the threat¬
ened deficit by Commissioner Evans
led to the suspension. The prompt
action saved the office in this respect,
and it is stated prevented a deficiency
being recorded against the past fiscal
year.
A Novel Scheme.
Representative Shafroth, of Colora¬
do, introduced in the house the other
day a novel measure, entitled “A bill
to encourage tho economical adminis¬
tration of the government.” It pro¬
vides that “in order that each officer
and employe of the United States shall
have a direct interest in the economi¬
cal administration of the government,
the secretary of the treasury is direct¬
ed for each month the expenditures
of the government are greater than
the receipts to deduct and retain in the
treasury from each salary in excess of
$200 per month 20 per cent, thereof,
,and from each salary under said
amount 10 per cent, thereof,” It
further provides that in no case shall
the amount so deducted be repaid un¬
less at the end of the fiscal >*ar the
receipts for the year have exceeded the
expenditures. The president and jus¬
tices of the supreme court are the only
officials exempted from the operations
of the act.
Likely to be Recalled.
Toru Hoshi, the Japanese minister,
is likely to be recalled at an early date.
While officials at Washington of the
Japanese legation claim to be in ignor¬
ance of anv such probability, well
informed opinion in state department
circles inclines to the belief that Sir.
Hoshi will ask for his papers within a
short time.
The reasons for the minister’s recall
are two-fold, not the least potent of
which is said to be the feeling of the
Mikado’s government and the minis¬
ter personally toward this govern¬
ment’s policy in Hawaii. The minis¬
ter himself feels insulted because the
state department did not apprise him
of the negotiations which led to tho
signing of the treaty for the annexa¬
tion of Hawaii, and while the Japan¬
ese home government is incensed oa
account of this and what it termed u
lack of consideration of its rights in
Hawaii in the framing of the treaty
itself, the condition of Japanese poli¬
tics affords a second reason for the
minister’s recall.
ct Appo n m
The president last week sent the lol
lowing nominations to the senate .
Treasury—-George C. Bidwell, to bo
collector of customs for the district of
New York.
Wilbur F. Wakeman, appraiser of
merchandise in the district of New
y ork
J lls tiee—Emery P. Close, attorney
of tho United States for the northern
district of x ew i’ or k.
state—John F. Gowey, of Washing
consul at Kanagawa, to be consul
general at Yokohama, Japan.
George N. West, of the District of
Columbia, now consul at Picton, to be
consul at Sydney, N. S. W.
To Be Consuls—Oscian Bedell, of
New York, at Fort Erie, Out.
John C. Higgins, of Delaware, at
Dundee, Scotland.
Interior—C. Sanford Russell, of
Missouri, to be receiver of publicmon
eys a j i rou t OU) Mo.
Loe Patrick, of Oklahoma, to bo
a g en t for the Indians of tho Sac and
“Reucy, Oklahoma.
Postmasters—Jerome E. Poche,
Washington, Ga.; Sebastian Anderson,
Jasper. Ind.; Abel Laudrich, Napa
leonville, La.
State—John Russell Young, ^ of Penn
sylvania, to be librarian of congress.
Bernard R. Green, of the District of
Columbia, to be superintendent of
library building and grounds.
Francis B. Loomis, of Ohio, to bo
envoy extraordinary oml minister
plenipotentiary to Venezuela,
To Be Consuls—Henry Rordewick,
of Minnesota, at Christiana, Norway,
-John C. Caldwell, of Kansas, at >.an
Costa Rica.
C. Hanna, of Iowa, ai Inni
’• West Indies.
Louis. LftBge, Jr •V. .&* .QU.uqis,
Bremen, Germany, Indiana,
Joseph J. Stevens, of at
Plymouth, England, Merriam, Sev
War—Col. Henry C.
enth infantry, to be brigadier-general,
Justice John R. Thomas, of Illi
nois, to be judge of tho United states
courts in tho Indian Territory,
Treasury—Thomas J. Yandell, of
Kentucky, to be collector of internal
revenue for tho Second district of Ken
tucky. Kentucky, be
John W. Yeakes, of to
collector of internal revenue for tho
Eighth district of Kentucky.
William Woodville Rockhill, of the
District of Columbia, to be Envoy Ex¬
traordinary and Minister Plenipoten¬
tiary and Consul General to Greece,
Uoumauia and Servia.
ArthurS. Hardy, of New Hamsphire,
Minister Resident aud Consul General
to Persia.
Abraham E. Smith, of Illinois, Con¬
sul at Victoria, B. C.
Asa W. 'Penny, United States Dis¬
trict Judge for the Eastern District of
New York.
Richard W. Austin, Marshal of the
Eastern District of Tennessee.
George W. Allen, Collector of Cus¬
toms for the District of Key West, Fla.
Mr. Rockhill, the new miuister to
Greece, was until recently Assistant
Secretary of State. His appointment
is not a party one in auy sense, but is
based entirely upon his experience as a
diplomat aud his excellent work while
in the Department of State. He en¬
tered the diplomatic service as far
back as 1884, being appointed from
Maryland to be Second Secretary of
Legation at Peking. In 1886 and 1887
he acted as charge d’affaires at Seoul,
the Korean capital. long
In 1788 he resigned with devoted a
leave of absence, which he to
an exploration of Thibet, then an all
most unknown country. Oneresultof
this journey was a most interesti"g
contribution to the scientific literature
of travel.
In 1893 Mr. Rockhill, who had then
returned to the United States, was ap¬
pointed chief clerk of the Department
of State, a post he relinquished in the
following year to become Third As¬
sistant Secretary of State. At the per¬
sonal request of President Cleveland,
Mr. Rockhill in 1896 relinquished this
place, which from custom had come
to be regarded as nou-political and
safe from the vicissitudes of changes in
the administration, to accept the place
of AsBsistant Secretary of State vacated
by the appointment of Mr. Uhl as
Ambassador to Germany. He contin¬
ued to hold the place under the pres¬
ent administration until the appoint¬
ment of Judge Day, and remained in
the department until some time after
the accession of the latter to close up
the Cuban correspondence of the last
admintration.
CURRANT’S APPEAL.
Papers Received by the Clerk of the United
States Supreme Court.
A telegram from Washington says :
The papers in the appeal of W. H. T.
Durrant, under sentence of death in
San Francisco for tho murder of
Blanche Burnout, were received by the
clerk of the United States supreme
court last Thursday. The appeal is
from the decision if the circuit court of
the United States in the Ninth district
in refusing to grant Durrunt’s applica¬
tion for a writ of habeas corpus. In
his petition Durrant alleges that the
irregularity and illegality of the pro¬
ceedings against him iu the California
state courts in that trial “was conduct¬
ed upon information not iu accordance
with the equal protection of the laws
and not by due process of law,” and
that testimony was introduced and cou
viction secured without any process of
law and without trial by au impartial
jury, and without process of law. As
the supreme court will not sit again
until October 12, the application can¬
not be argued before that time.
SUFFERING AND DESTITUTION.
Senator Mason Told ot the Condition of
40,ooo of His Constituents.
W. D. Ryan, secretary of the United
Mine Workers of Illinois, has written
au open letter to United States Sena
^or Ylason, in which he says:
“The stund taken by you in behalf
0 { the patriots in Cuba deserves the
commendation of all liberty-loviug
people, but let me call your attentiou
to the condition of 40,000 of your
constituents—the coal miners of Illi
D ois. The competition inaugurated
the coal operators has brought
about a condition of suffering aud
destitution which was never equalled.
h avo been iorceil to accept reduc
tion after reduction until the price
now paid is so low that miners cannot
earn an average of 75 cents a day, aud
the mines work only half time, 't aking
au aTera g 0 of $1 a day and three days’
work a week, a miuer earns $12 a
month. With a family of five—a fair
average—the wife has less than three
cent for n meal, to say nothing of
clothes, rent, etc. I doubt if any
more lives have been lost iu Cuba
since the insurrection commenced
than in the mines of Illinois during
the same time; and I am certain that
there are no more women and children
hungry in Cuba at present than among
ot -thi <r”;
Do something to put the idle miners
of Illinois and I to will work guarantee at a jfiir that rate of
wages every
miner in Illinois will contribute at
least one days’ wages every month for
the benefit of the down-trodden peo¬
ple of Cuba.”
EX- QUEEN LIL’S SUBJECTS
Have Not Forwarded a Petition In Her
Behalf.
Capt. Charles A. Palmer, private
secretary to ex Queen Liiioukalani,
states that there is positively no truth
iu the rumor that a monster petition
was being forwarded to Washington
from Hawaii by the ex-queen’s sub¬
jects in her favor.
“The people of Hawaii,” he said,
“have as yet learned nothing about
the treaty having been signed. We
were not expecting such An act on the
part of the administration, so a peti¬
tion of tho kind mentioned was not
deemed necessary. Communication
is bad between the islands. It is not
as it is in this country, and even after
the news reached there it would take
several days to circulate it among the
people. ”
WILL RETAIN THESSALY.
So the Turkish Cabinet I Announces to
the Ambassadors.
A dispatch to the London limes
from Constantinople dated Wednesday
says: Tewfik Pasha will announce to
the ambassadors of the powers tomor
row (Thursday) that the cabinet main
tains the indefensible right of Turkey
to retain Thessaly by fright of con¬
quest.
EDHEM PASHt RESIGNS.
-/
Can t Guarantee Dlscipffns Under the
Proposed Peace Copditi MM.
Edhem Pasha, commander-in-chief
of the Turkish forces iui Thessaly, has
tendered his resignation! of command
to the sultan on the groulnd that under
the proposed peace conditions he will
be unable to guarantee 'the discipline
of the army.
Hawaiians Not A farmed.
The steamship Empress, of China,
bas arrived at Van Couiver, B. C., and
culty brings with advices Hawaii in reference to thte effect to the that diffi¬ the
government at Honolulu is not the
least warship intimidated Naniwao by t|ie ijn their presence of
the waters.
They believe that Japtun will not dare
adopt so extreme measure as to go to
war with so small a (country, being
ashamed to do so.
LARGE DEAL CLOSED.
An English Syndicate Ready to Buy the
Coal Lands.
Maj. E. E. McCrosby, the ageut for
an English syndicate iu Knoxville,
Tenu., has received a cable dispatch
from Loudon, England, worded as
follows:
“Deal has been closed all right.
Taylor will be with you soon. ”
The deal referred to is that whereby
au English syndicate has secured op
tious ou nearly all the coal miues now
iu operation iu tho Jellieo districts of
Tennessee and Kentucky, and of many
of the mines along the Cincinnati
Southern railroad in Morgan county’,
Tennessee, and Whitely county, Ken
tucky Tlie the
“Taylor” referred to is
financial ageut of the English syndi
eate, who has already sailed for this
country’. The lands involved iu the
deal comprise 100,000 acres, which
include seventy miues now iu opera¬
tion. Maj. Crosby stated that the
money for the first payment, $5,000,
000, is on deposit iu tho Bank of Eng¬
land .
This announces officially tho accept¬
ance of the options aud tho consum¬
mation of tho largest purchase of coal
lauds iu tho history’ of tho south.
COULD NOT AGREE.
Twenty-five Thousand Iron, Steel and
Tlnworkers Out.
Every mill iu the United States
whoso wage scales are under the juris¬
diction of tho Amalgamated Associa¬
tion of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers
closed down last Wednesday. These
mills altogether employ 25,000 mem¬
bers of the Amalgamated association,
besides those who are not members.
The general shut-down takes place ou
account of the failure of tho Amalga¬
mated association scale committee and
the manufacturers to agree ou a pud¬
dling rate at the conference held at
Youngstown. The committee holdout
for $4.50 n ton for puddllug aud tho
manufacturers refused to budge from
$4.
Au adjournment siue die was finally
tftkeu, each side to let the other know
when it had experienced a change of
heart.
HARVARD AND YALE.
Hundreds of Young Men Receive Diplomas
From the Famous Colleges.
The commencement exercises at
Harvard were held last Wednesday. In
the presentation of degrees there were
383 bachelors of art, 26 bachelors of
science, 111 masters of art, 25 doctors
of philosophy, 1 doctor of scieuce, 2
bachelors of agricultural science, 20
doctors of veterinary medicine, 32 doc¬
tors of dentistry, 72 doctors of medi¬
cine, 103 bachelors of law aud four
bachelors of divinity.
vale’s commencement.
Nearly 700 young men received dip¬
lomas from Yale last week. Tho ap¬
proximate number of tho various de¬
partments follow: Academic, 200;
scientific, 240; law, 80; divinity, 30;
medicine, 80. Besides these, there
were many special degrees given for
work iu music, art, graduate and other
departments. This is the largest class
that ever grtyluated from the univer¬
sity.
RUSSIA’S POPULATION.
For the First Time a Census is Being
Taken In the Czar’s Uomnins.
For the first time in history a gen¬
eral census has beeu takou of the pop¬
ulation of tho Russian empire, which
is shown to number, 139,211,113, of
which total are 64,616,280 are mules
and 54,594,866 females. United States
Cousul General Karel at St, Peters¬
burg, who sent the figures to the state
department, says they show that in
forty five years the population of
Russia has doubled, and during the
j a(j ^ twelve years it lins increased 20
c( . nt Tu tllko this census, the
jt nss j an government employed iuj
ft of 150i0 00 persons, aud its com
^ .,i et j on j n three mouths is regarded as
t ach i eV emeiit.
TRAVEL SUSPENLED.
Four Big Bridges Burned by Turnpike
Raiders.
A telegram from Louisville, Ky.,
says: Turnpike raiders applied tho
torch to four big bridges ou the most and
used turnpikes in Madison county,
in consequence all travel over these
pikes has been stopped. The damage
is estimated at $10,000.
The fiscal court was in session last
week at Richmond and freed nineteen
of the twenty-six turnpikes iu the coun¬
ty, but because the remaining seven
were not freed it is supposed the raid¬
ers burned the bridges.
Thousands Homeless.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Brail, the principal port of
Koumania, says that 20,006 inhabi¬
tants, of Galatx, in Moldavi, on the
left bank of the Danube, are homeless
as a result of the recent floods.
FAMILY EXTERMINATED.
Suspicion That They Were Poisoned, and
Arrests Will lie Made.
The vicinity of Belmot, Browncoun
tv, Indiana, is greatly excited over the
extermination of the iumily of John
Stephens. The mother and five chil
dren were taken suddenly ill with what
was thought to be flux Monday after
noon. That uighi the infant died.
Tuesday morning tho little 4-year-old
boy died, this morning the mother
died and an hour later the t‘>-year-old
boy died. Two little girls are all that
left of tIia family, and they aro
dangerously ill. Cine is dying and tho
other will uot recover, l’hysiciana
thought it, was flux, but now the gou
oral suspicion is they were poisoned.
Investigation by the coroner will fol
low, «ud probably arrests will bo
made,
UNABLE TO CONTINUE.
Third Building and Loan Association
in Kentucky I alls.
Tho Globe Building and Loan asso¬
ciation of Louisville, Ky., went to
the wall last Thursday afternoon, find¬
ing itself unable to carry on business
under the state law us construed by
the appellate court. Tho assets nutl
liabilities are estimated at $400,000
each- L. O. Cox is president. Tho
managers of tho other building and
loan associations have issued cards
calculated to restore confidence, claim¬
ing that the ruling of tho court did
uot affect them. This makes the third
corporation of this character that has
gone under during the past two day’s.
REPUBLICAN HARSHAL
Compelled to ke-Appolnt the Old Set of
Deputies.
John K. Thompson, tho newly ap¬
pointed republican United States mar¬
shal, was compelled by of a mandate United is¬
sued by Judge Jackson, tho
States court, to re-appoint the old sot
of deputy United States marshals at
Parkersburg, W. Ya., who are demo¬
crats.
MurslmJ Thompson intended to ap¬
point new men, whereupon au injunc¬
tion was obtained under the civil ser¬
vice law, with tho result already
stated.
Export Shipments of Iron.
Tho report of export shipments of
iron from tho Birmingham district the
past six months show au average of
15,000* to 20,1)0(1 "tons shipped of 120,- pet
month, or in the neighborhood
000 tons nil told. It being months fair to pre¬ will
sume that the second six
make at least as good a showing ou ac¬
count, of the willingness of cotton VCH
eels to take iron us extra cur^o» it is
fairly estimated that iron shipments
for export out of tho Birmingham dis¬
trict for 1897 will be 240,000 to 250,
000 tons.
Indians Drink Hair Oil.
Five Indians, including Chief Wee
Bug, are dead at Malone’s Point on
Mille Lacs Lake, Minn., and several
others are expected to die, as the re¬
sult of drinking pain killer, hair oil
and other preparations containing al¬
cohol.
J i 4
riorj War Possible.
A pessimistic view of tho negotia¬
tions for peace between Turkey aud
Greece are taken at Athens and even
the resumption of hostilities iu the
near future is regarded as possible, ft
is stated that iu such au event King
George will commuud the Greek
troops.
Bank Wricker Gets Eight Years.
At New Orleans, La,, Louis Gallot,
the convicted Union hank wrecker,
was sentenced tho other day by Judge
Parlunge to eight years m the peni¬
tentiary at hard labor. The case will
bo appealed.
Miners Strike.
At Altoona, Pa., Taylor &■ McCoy’s
Gallitziu coal miners, who struck »
month ago against a reduction of 5
cents a ton ou coal going into coke,
and who returned to work ou Tuesday
at the reduction, have again gone ou
a strike.
WHY NOT ATTEND?
One of the greatest drawbacks our
'church has to contend with is the non
attendance of the members at Its ser
vices. We are told to “forsake not
the assembling of ourselves together,”
and throughout, the Bible we are urg¬
ed to meet and mingle together. Yet,
in the faee of all this some of our
members never attend the church scr
viecs, and especially is It so of prayer
meeting services, There must be
something lacking when a church
member loses his love for the services
of the church Why Is it we do uot
attend? Echo answers, Why?
We Invite all tire good people who
desire to change locality to come and
see our lovely place.
