ft> a ? >? .?t?d Pre.-* '
\V.\>HIN<;T(?N. January t.' ?William
I'llillt!??-'. ?? M.i-khi luisetts. Third As
-'Mailt So. : etui-, "f Slate, wa.- nomi
nated l?y I'rest it! mi 1 \VI130!1 '.?-?lay as
A ssle' a nt Setrftar> of .-tat<- sii'i/ecd
John i: ? ishuriit. who recently retiuned.
Iii.?.-U'iirldss?* Ijont. a .Si. I-uui* law
>ei*. v ' ; nominated h- Third Assistant
??!ti t.l.ii > ? f State
Aii. PhilIIpk, who is a Republican,
h.t ?> hern in-* <11 ji'.'-iiiat. ? ser .i.'e for
tin io"i >eai"'. and cilice the hemn
:<-f 1I10 Milropean lia. d<*-voted
hi.>" il'-eit r.n alrnoht .-xclusi vrly tr.
K.uroi?:itn affairs. His id of pro
motlons In the service ha.- heen re-,
garded us exceptional, antl 1?1?> e.* * a
tion i" ;t po.-t *vi:find in rank only t?
th>' -e I'et.'ii;. and counselor of the ?ie
paitniei ; I- understood t" iia^'- necn
decided upon, despite stronu- preunurn
to indue the president to .nakc a
polit lea', appointment
1 les id e - holdiuu several ?1 ploniatlc
post- aiiroad. Mr Phillips was t*?r .1
time chief of the department's bureau
of Kit r i:? .^le-ti iiff. lr? Me is ihirtv
riphi \ fa.? old. and 1- a former -ee
ret a; > >>f tli? corporu' ion "f llar\ard
i;ni\ 1 rsil \
PROHIBITION ACT IS
ATThCKED in court
11 '..miiiued from l'lrst I'^ce.i
nTlTi?-who wer< arrested on North Sixth
Street on liecembet' '.'tl on the < harxe
of having a lar&e iiuantlty of liquors
of various sorts in their possession.
In Poli<e <V.url they were held f"t
praiul jurj a.-tioti. and were ?tihse
<|iiontly indii'led for having more ar
dent -pirits than allowed by the pro
itthition act.
When ih<? case w?s .nllod for trial.
