CLEVELAND'S CABINET. His Official Family Announced Betore the Inauguration. Biographical Sketches of the Pres- idential Advisers, In deflance of numerous precedents in the case Mr, Cleveland removed the ban of secrecy which usually makes the composi- tion of the Presidential a mystery until the inauguration, and as fast as he had chosen his advisers and their acceptances of the positions were received official an- nouncement of the fact was made from the “Little White House” at Lakewood, N, J. The list of appointments as thus given out, supplemented by a biographical sketch of each eabinet minister, is as follows: Secretary of State—Walter Q. Gresham, of linois. Secretary of the Treasury-—-John G, Car. lisle, of Kentucky, Postmaster-General-- Wilson 8. Bissell, of New York. Secretary of War—Daniel S New York. Secretary of the Navy-—Hilary A. tert, of Alabama, Attorney-General Richar 1 Massachusetts, Secretary of the Interior—Hoke Smith, of Georg. Secretary of Agricultur Morton, of Nebraska, Secretary of State, cabinet Lamont, of Her. Olney, of —J. Sterling WALTER Q. GRESHAM. Judge Walter Q ccupy a seat in the Cleve retary of State, was born , In & queer old farmhouse near Lanes ville, Harrison y, Ind. His father, William Gresham, was Sbueriff of a back woods county, and when Walter was tw years old the father was shot while attempt ing to arrest an outlaw the name of Spies. Judge Gresham was then next to the youngest of five small children. His mother was poor and owned a small farm, She managed by hard work to keep the family together, and, as a boy, Walter followed t plow and studied by night When sixteen years of 2 tained a clerkship in County Hoe, and with money O18 exper school and at Bloomington Univ « Returning to Corydon he studied of Judge W. A. | two years am, who will Cabinet as nm March 17 iintin Gre County, defrayed mitted bar he was a ;. and j can Party when it was partner wasa delegate to the o which nominated John C. Fremont in and young Greshan stumped the State f the Pathfinder. In 1569 Gresham «ld on the Republican ticket the Legisia tare. When the war broke out his constitu - ents wished him to retura to the Legisiatu but Gresham wouldn't have it, and enlisted as a private in the Thirty eighth Regimen Almost immediately he was made its Lieu tenant Colonel, At Leggett's Hill before Atlanta, be was shot in the knee, and he has never since that time recovered effects the wound After the surrender of Vicksburg tirant and Sherman recommended that he be made a Brigadier General, and shortly after he received his commission In 1865 he was brevetted a Major-General After being mustered out he started to practios law at New Albany, Ind, Two positions were offered him under General Grant as President and he refuse! both, He ran for Congress twice and was defeated by M wel OC, Karr In 186) he was appointed United Utates District Judge for Indiana and accepted He was Post master-Ueneral under President Arthur At Ne) 4 President Arthur's term he was made Secretary of the Treas ury, but only held the position for a short time, Sutsequently he became United States Judge for the Seventh Judicial Court In 156% he made some remarcable decisons in the celebrated Wabash cases He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1554 and again in 1888 He seceded from his party in the last compaign and announced his intention of voting for Grover Cleveland, was elect to of the ( Secretary of the Treasury, JORUN 6. CARLISLE John Griffin Carlisie, who resigned his teat in the Benate in order to acoept the po sition of Necretary of the Treasury, is a na tive of Campbell (now Kenton) County, Kentucky, where he was born on Septem be 5 1885. He received his schooling from the common schools of the county and subs. quently became a swohool teacher st Coving ton. He began the study of law, and fn 1858, at the age of twenty-three, he was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Covington and met with almost immediate sucoms When the war opened he was a member of the Kentucky Lecislature, After the war he served in the State Senate and as Lien tenant-Governor, represent the Covington District in Con gress and was reelected biennially thereat ter up to 1590, when, on May 17, he was chaven to complete the term of James B, Beck, decensed, in the United Mates Senate. Asa member of Congress he ranked higa as an authority on fiscal and economic subjects, He servod as Spraker of the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Firtieth Congresses, He was a recognized leader in the Senate, where fn debate he was ready and sometimes age gressive, When speaking ha was deliberate and undemoustrative, He was a oarelul student and a bard worker, Postmaoster-Genoral, Wilson Shannon Bissell, who succeeds Mr, J anamnitr ut Postmastandianeral, ina But: y was born fn New London, N, %. Doar 01, 1847, and when he was six | pattaereistpy with | organized | built up a large practice, from the | | tan Traction Company | of the Massachusetts ba: ate] from Brown Univerdty Benjamin F, Thomas, in Boston, in | to accept a place on the | Justios of the United States, Mr, In 1870 he was elected to | years old his parents removed to Buffalo, He stuched in the schools of that eity, und then entere! Yale At the age of twenty-two he had graduated and was studying law with va—Zl \ WILSON BB. BISSELL, A. P, Lansing, who subsequently formed a Mr. Cleveland and Oscar folsom. In 1872 Mr, Bissell formed a part nership with Lyman K. Bass, and a year later the firm became Bass, Cleveland & Bissell, The firm dissolved on the removal of Mr. Bass to Colorado and the election of Mr, Cleveland as Governor, Mr, Bissell re- the firm with new partners and Heo Is regarded as an able railroad lawyer. Hes has been Presi dent of two or three small railroads in the western part of New York State and Penn sylvania. Hoe is also a director in a number of corporations. He is a man of strong con- vietions, but is uniformly good natured. He is President of the Buffalo Club, and Mr Cleveland is very fond of him. When Mr, Cleveland was married Mr, Bissell best man. acted as Secretary of War, Daniel Scott Lamont, who is to be Presi. dent-elect Cleveland's Secretary of War, is now forty-one vears old. He was born at Cortlandville, Cortland County, N. Y. For thirty-five years, up to a short time ago, his father was a storekesper in a Cortland County town called MceUrawville, Mr, La mont's first work was performed as his father's clerk, and at the same time he at tended school, He entered Union College in IST2, and even fore his graduation was something of a politician, When he was nineteen he was Deputy Clerk in the bly, and at twenty, which was in be DANIEL SOX was a delegate to the Democrat vention at Rochester. When Lamont twenty-one was nominated by the | wats for C lork of Cortland Cou but lost. In l1S5T4 he ran for Assembly and lost by a few voles He then Deputy Clerk of the A at den's request. Sabsequently he pointed Chief Clerk { the Stats Depart ment When Governor Tilden organised the party in the State he called upon young Lamont, among others, for assistanos Ir 75, during the Htate campaign, he was Seoretary of the State Committee actively engage! in every campaign up the time he went to Wash gton as | Cleveland’s Private Secretary Cleveland was Governor, Mr. L cepted the post of Military Staff, and the position title of Colone When land retired to private life M: conted an offer from William ™ State Co he aunty only Mr. TH was al mbily 1% Whitney | and Oliver H. Payne and became associated with them in the projects of the Metropol Mr. Lamont is of w when talking He married Mim 1574, and they a quiet disposition. He is and of m yo demeanor Julia Kenney of Cortiand in have three children, Attorney-General Vichard Olney was Mass, September 15, 1835 Oxford, nen ber born In and is a He was gradu in the class of Harvard Law { Judge 1850. He advanced rapidly in his profession and was for many years counsel for Fastern Rallroad Company, ard after the comsolf ation was retained as counsel for the Bos. n & Maine, a position which he now holds, He is also conosel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Chicago, Burlington & Juinoy rairoads. In Boston Mr, Olney is nown as an old line Democrat, although he vas never actively engaged in polities. He has on several ocoasions refused to acoept public preference to confine himsel! to his law practice. He bas at least twios refused bench of the Su sreme Court of his Btate, Governor Russell faving been desirous to appoint him when the last vacancy occurred, Mr oe term in the lower branch chusetts Legislature in 1874, copied the Democratic nomination for At torney-Ueneral of the State, although it was only an honorary nomination. When the vacancy occurred in the office of Chief Olney's name was presented to President Cleveland, but the appointment went to Melville M Faller MM. He studied law at the and entered the law offices Sehonl, the Uiney served of the Massa- and once ao Secretary of the Navy, ama My? born at Laurens University of Virginia, Hels a lawyer by profession, having been admitte | to the bar just before the war, He has served sixteen years in Congress, During much of his Con- gressional oureer he has been a member of the Committees on Naval Affairs, having been made Chairman of that Committee about the beginning of Mr. Cloveland's former term. During this time he has worked zealously for the interast of the Navy, which has earned for him the title of the Congressional Secretary of the Navy, At the time the Civil War broke out Mr, Herbert entered the Confederate service as a captain and was soon promoted to the Colonency of the Eighth Alabama Volunteers. Ho was disabled at the battle of the Wildernass, in 1864. At the close of the war he resumed his law practice, and in 15873 removed ww Montgomery, which has sincs been his home, In 1876 he was elected to Congress and re- elected In 1878, 1880, 1881 ISS, 18846. 1888 and 1800. He is a widower, with three chil dren--a married daughter A younger { daughter who is popular in Washington so- | cioty circles, and a son at school, His left | arm is shorter than his right, the resuit of injuries received in the battle of the Wilder | nese, In Washington Mr. Herbert lives at | the Metropolitan Hotel, Secretary ol Interior, and was boy | father was H. H namesl H ae wm Hoke | yn fan LL nfederate General, Secretary of Agriculture, became | He was | | !. STERLING M ! J. Sterling M rion was rn Jefferson County. N. Y Apr While yet a boy his parents re Michigan, where he attended the Albion and subsequently at the versity at Ann Arbor. He wont later wo Union Collage, New York, where he gradu ated in 1854 At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Caroline Jay French, and | started almost immediately with his bride for the West, He located first at Bellevue, | but shortly afterward removed to Nebraska City, where he became the editor of the Ne braska City News, which position he beld fora number of years, A year after Mr Morton's arrival in Nebraska he was sleoted to the Territorial Legisiature. In 1857 be | was chosen again and took an active part in the proceedings of one of the most exciting and memorable legislative sessions in the history of the Territory. In 1558 he beoauw Secretary of the Territory, and a few months later, through the resignation of Governor Richardson, Mr. Mort become Acting Territorial Governor. Mr. Morton took no part in public life alter that for sixtenn years [a IS%2 he again ran for Governor against J. W. Dawes and E FP. Ingersoll. He ran afterwar | in 19% and again in 180 for the same office appointed to represent Nebraska at the Paris Exposition, and was one of the Com | missioners at the Centennial Exomition at Philadelphia fu 1500. For many years be | was a prominent member and President of | the Nebraska State Hoard of Agriculture | and Hortleulture, and to him the honor of | being the originator of been credited, Mr. Moron farmer all his life, be has lived on the same farm outsde of Nebraska City. He took up land there, he explaing, as a squatter, and after holdin; it for two years securad a title from the Gov ernment. For twenty years he has bem connected with the Nebraska State Boar) of Agriculture, His farm is known » Arbor Loe and Arbor Day, which come on April Is his birthday, Hufarm i» | half mile square, OAPTURED BY BANDITS. Desperados’ Successful Mald in » Western Town, A few nights since just after Missour!, Kans and Texas passenger train No, pulled out of Adair station, Indian Terri har Dosn a He was | ‘Arbor Day™ has | | sohoolboy named Goerts and his cousin, Sia. For twenty five year: | | other morning, | to the heart with a pocket knife and dragged UE ; : “DITO 7 oT THE NEWS EPITOMLZ LD, Eastern ana Middle States, . Tne raflronds in the Middle and’ New | England Btates were badly crippled by the | snowstorm, Ruyus Haron, the well-known Wall street | man, died n fow days ago. He had been iM for sotne time at his home fn Westohester, N. ¥. Rufus Hatch was born in 1882 ip | Wells, York County, Me. GOVERNOR W ERTS vetoed the throes racing bills passed by the New Jersey Legislature, WALTER Q. GRESHAM, Cleveland's Becrs- tary of State, arrived in New York from the | West, He met ex-Secretary of State Foster nnd thon visited the Cleveland cottage ut | Lakewood, ’ Tue New the Vertés veto Assmbly bills over Jersey racing at Trenton aso Governor IT was announced from Lakewood. that Mr. Cleveland had selected huarber, of Detroit, Mich., th N. J, Henry T. law partner of Don M. Dickinson, for the post of Private Secretary STATE Treasurer Monrnisow, syivania, in his anousl renor the flacal year ending November #) , shows net debt of the commonw to be $2,000, 500.28, of Peon- the South and West, ABBISTANT Casuienr Lew the Gate City National Atinnta, Gin is a detaulter, mured with $25 000 in cash, It is k v hn SREY) ES 00 vine, of stolen I'he flgures pr sbably roach oKisLRrY made and unqualified gn t Herman H, Koh Of er-Ocean; Myron T, Herrick, of and, and Judge Day, of Canton, The perty is turned over without preforent wiitors the equal benefit of his an th City Bank, Atlanta, LAND Ww rdes ts hangel tain Henry General Heary nian Washington LAR President appr a peasion to th (reneral wis itieday { NSIDERABLE meeting of th at Washington, [It e Daughters was is Mra. Stes the Vice-President eh lent-General in place Harrison, deceased 'ne resignat tes Minister t Minister the hands pao] in Foreign, xplosion at the 1 Alfteon deaths, bes re or less wars drowned Ladolf mins at Carist m persons ak the Tae Princess Kainlani, of Hawa from Liverpool for tals country on A xew Cabloet was formed in Port Senhor Ribedro as Price Minister Minister of Foreign AM air Tar Bering Sea tion held a formal mesting in Paris Journed until March 331, igal, with and Arbitra and ade Commiss.on of wi Evnvex Sicilian brigan is wera to prerand worvitude for life ABOUT 250.000 spindles were starte! at Oldham, Eagiasnd, the crtton te oping a reduction of 24 wag pianar: a pet Tux Franch steamer D maal was su A collision near Saigon, France, » sons ware drowned ven Pres. ty of M. JuLss Fenay has been elected dent of the French Senate Ly a major 145 votes ; Tax Eoglish Liberals recaptural Cir. sncester, their caondiiate having advocated Home Rule for Ireland; the Ly elect Gateshead showed an increased wa jority for the Gladstonians nm at A SOHOOLBOY TRAGEDY, A German Lad Murders His Consin and Then Wills Himsel! In Honiglelde, near Stahm, Germany, a vinski, quarrelied on their way to school the Goarta stabbel Blavinski the body into the bushes behind the sohool- houses, He studied and recited as usual till noon, when one of the school children dis ocoversd Slavioski's body, Goertz then ran home, got a rope and harris! away to a for. ost near the village, The policeman who was sent to arrest him two hours later found the boy's dead body hanging from a tree SHOT WHEN EXTRADITED, Desperado Lopes kxroated Across the Mexican Border, Jas A special received from Lisbes, near the Mexican border, states that Eiuardo Lopes, a desperado woitad in Mexico for thy mar. der of a prominent oMoial at Fronteras, was turned over to the Mexionn authorities uoder extradition that date | had | and was twice w | placad in charge of the Ge | of West Point Academ | eral Johnston assumed chisel command JACKSON I8 CONFIRMED. The Senate Consents to His Eleva tion to the Supreme Bench, My po Rn, a JULGE The United States JACKSON, Henate eonfirmed the f Judge Howl E, Jacks to Justice of sourt in the ¢ Lamar, decossad, nomina ination mn be a the Bupr disposition on yappose the con. Asn the ) be vanished sion. te aiing which had ably, and said: womination tor opened the oppo- Uk a0n him, Lets to has lent, nA removed from ™h ne sma — CONGRESSMEN YO TTT IVES O% RESCUERS In a Smash-Up Where Four Persons Were Killed oper, oO per, in Dearin aod Lhe viewsd the about an he specia BEAUREGARD DEAD, ™ Gentral New Expires Orleans Confederate Suddenly The at General P. G deniy at 1 New Orleans, a ad been i weeks and waa de ten unexpected cha: Pierre Gustave 7 was born near N #£ French descent. He was eo Point, graduating in and entered t artillery He was disti pishod in the Mex joan war at Vera raz and Cerro Gordo In 1553 be was { ne fens of 1s Sa perinten eal days before, bu ’ 4 ina, and in 185 appointed He regione from Army Fabvrusry CO RMmIsslon Aas Confederate ymmand of the Cone Vor dm oont Fort 196 He alo come manded st Bu Run the same year, de feating (General McDowell's forces, In 198) be commanded a corps in the Army of the Mississippl, and oo the death o! Gen He served with Geoeral Joseph BE. Johnston in North Carolina until the surrender ia 1945 —— the United Hiabes 2 186i, tO scoept A Brigadier General n Army He in foaerate (Ors a Sumtar, in the was Lt KAIULANI’S APPEAL. She Asks the American People to Do Her and Her People No Wrong Toe Princess Kalulani, the lawalian throne, sends fron Lowmdon the following address to the Amer wer ex-heir ts an ey INDON, Februar “To the Amerioan Peo “At the request of Mr, Thurston, Hawnilan Cabinet Minister, | was sont away to England to be edu ated privatelv and fitted Tor the position which, by the Const tution of Hawai, I was to inhorit. For all these years | have patiently ani in exile striven to At myself for my retars, this vesr to my native country, “I now am told that Mr, Thurston is in Washington asking you to take away my flag and my throne. No ons tells me even this officlaliy. Have I dons anytaing weong that this wrong should be dons to me aod my ? 1am coming to Wassington to on my throne, my Navon and my Ret Will not the great American peo dde hear me? Karvp aw ® than pass is traversed on wheels, a midwinter oir cumstance seid ™ be previously uaknows, Et ——————— | passed, There | and | Comstock, YELM y TT. FIF'LY-3ECOND CONGRESS, Inthe Senate, Siar DAY. ~1mm, iately after the ro tine morning business the cousideration of the Sundry Civil Aopropriation bill was re- mmed-the pending question being Mr. Mill's ipl soe to the Bherman three per wit, bond issue amendment, Ths discussion inally closed, and the vote was taken, It wis ngresd to--yeas, thirty; nays sixteen, en DAY. ~The Benate spent the day on he sundry Civil bill, Beveral smmend- nents making appropriations for public uildings were nassed 580 DAY. William Lindsay, new Benator } | from the Btate of Kentucky in place of Mr erie office Tho Allon as Seustor the oath © William V ariisie, took fentials of laced on sunary | from the Btate of Nebraska from March 4th ' p next in place of Mr, Paddock were ie | lerat.on of Lhe risntion bill was then procests i we § Be consi vil Appro | with ~-Washing Sundry pased ton's farewsil ArH Day iress was rend Tne iin less than an hour two if the general appropriation bills—the Dip and ( br and the Military Academy Were read and I omats Jus Was Bo the Edin Yanch Judicial of taken us 276 n year (74 Liab ( ne the {aurthe: bi In the House, BONANZA MACKAY SHOT, His Crank Assailant Then Fatally Wounds Himselt John Mackay, and finahcier, the | Was st on at San Franciso Cs Hippl, and narrowly al nring himself nfl ang urred x Nn KAY M's nearest Sutter street, and a where the old man was standis pulled out his revolver and [he bullet struck Mackay in After firing, the w turned the pistol on 6 Duliet his Own body wound was serious, but as Jong as walk be followed Mackay, try him again, but he wasso weak h ' pull the trigger. He then threw uy annie exclaiming “My God, I am Mackay put bis band behind his back and some one raised his coat Ax he drew Lis band out It was covered with blood. and he told a friend where the ball had take effect, Mackay was placed in a buzgy snd taken to the Palace Hotel, where he received medical attention Mackay's assailant was taken to the City Receiving Hoenita The murderous crank, Rippi, was R Cinclanatl, Ohio, and leaves a wife and family there, AL one time he was worth over $100,000, and made about 850.000 on He came to Ban Francisco and began gambling in stocks. His money soon began to go. Having been orassd on the subject of stooks, he had an IMAgIOAry grievance aainst the Bonanzy King and tried to kill him, Jon W, Mackay was born in Dablin. Les land, and osme to New York in his ea youth, He was one time a shivering new voy on Park Row, lo 1845 he reache | ti State of California, where be amassed his colossal fortune. He wm ty of the four men who made . panea firme-Mackay, Flood O'Brien & Pair snd become one of the financial pow ers of the Pacific Const, Me owned four Afths of that firm's property, and is known as the Bonanea King. The foundation his wealth came from the discovery of the Rreatl wealth of the Comstook lode, whic ¥ welded $111,000, 000, At one time Bis income from bis mines wa put down at S000 a month. His whole life has been a romance such as was possible persaps In no other country on the globe. A few before the dis. covery of god in narnia he was a saloon keeper in vil Ly. He ted to the Golden West. Two other A in Rn James C. Flood ani John O'Brien, wen: with him. He booame a common miner in Sierra County. He amassed some snd went to Virginia City, Nev. Later be Jost all be had in the Ophir mine, He went back to the plok and shovel After varying fortunes he made » Rp ee. yeret into hlanlie born the : i i 1471
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