Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the Supreme Court of the United 1 Stoles the case of the State of Tennessee i against the Pullman Car Company was decided | favorably for the latter. The question involved ! the right of the State to tax the property of the ; company, whose cars pass through the Stat 3. 1 The dcc.sion sustained that of the lower j courts, which had been in favor of the Pullman | Company. The Senate Committee on Public | Lands has voted to report adversely tho nomination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah. At a meeting of the Central Labor Union in New York the tin and slate roofers submitted a resolution that workingmen should take stops to prevent the coming East of the Chinamen who have been boycotted in the West The meeting unanimously adopted the resolution and appointed a committee to take the matter into consideration. Citizens of the northern counties of Idaho which it is proposed to annex to Washington Territory are flooding Washington with telegrams and letters asking a suspension of action by Congress. In the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, eighty armed and masked men drove twice that number of Chinese farm laborers to tho ferry landing, whence they made their way to Portland before daybreak. The Coroner’s jury at Springfield, Mo., in the case of George Graham, returned a verdict that he murdered his wife, Sarah Graham, and that Mrs. Emma Malloy, the temperance evangelist, and Cora Lee wore accessories to the crime. Three workmen in the powder factory near Xenia, Ohio, lost their lives by an explosion which tore the building to splinters. The Canadian Pacific Railway depot at Winnipeg was destroyed by fire. Tho loss approximates $175,000. President Cleveland sent to the Senate, on March 1, a special message declining to furnish unofficial documents relating to suspensions from office, and claiming the right to destroy them. When tho message had been read Mr. Edmunds said it reminded him of the communication of King Charles I. to the Parliament. Ho also said th it the President, unintentionally, no doubt, had entirely misstated tho question involved between himself and the Senate, It was ordered printed. Tho Senate, in executive hofs'ou, rejected the nominations of Messrs. Pillsbnryand Chase to bo Collectors of Internal Revenue at Boston, Mass., and Portland,' Me., respectively. The nomination of John H. Shaffer to be Postmaster at Kankakee was confirmed. The nomination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah, was reported adversely. In the House of Representatives a member from South Carolina introduced a bill for the distribution of the surplus moneys in the Treasury, during the next four years, among the respective Slates in proportion to th dr representation in the Senate and House. Mr. Brnxnm asked unanimous c mst n of the House to liaye prints 1 in the lice >rd a memorial signed by J. P. Brigham and oth< re, asking for the impeachment of Daniel Manning, Secretary of tho Treasury, for high crime i and misdemeanors in tho execution of the silver law. Mr. Beach objected.

The chaperon system is getting a foothold in the large American cities. In Paris this plan is used to the exclusion of all others; but in America it was almost unknown down to a quite recent date. A lady writer contends that the chaperon is becoming a necessity in the larger cities on account of the exclusion of so many young (nen from society through inability tq meet the necessary expenditure of a society man. The larger the city the greater becomes the necessary expense. This state of affairs puts the society ladies in an uncomfortable majority over the society men, aud recruits the ranks of “wall-flowers” to an alarming extent. So the chaperon becomes a beneficent institution, and young ladies will enjoy a greater independence of movement than ever before.