Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

By the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court relative to the Hyde Park annexation, the city of Chicago finds itself in a municipal and fiscal complication that promises to be extremely awkward. r lhe court decides the act of the legislature to be unconstitutional under which the attempt was made to annex Hyde Park to Chicago, and remands the case taken up on • appeal back to the lower court. Under this ruling Hyde Park is relegated back to its former status as a village, and all the proceedings taken by the muncipality of Chicago on the supposition that the annexation was valid are rendered unlawful and inoperative. Complications and embarrassments almost without end will arise in consequence of this decision. All that has been done as regards the redistricting of the city and the addition of new wards goes for nothing, and the registration for the spring election is completely nullified, as the voters have registered in wards and precincts that have no legal existence.

At Springfield, Mo., Dr. George M. Cox, United States Pension Examiner, met a woman named Effie Ellis at the railway station, entered a carriage with her, then beat her with a bottle containing sulphuric acid, which burned out her eyes and otherwise disfigured her handsome face. The woman was the mistress of the doctor’s son, and, it is alleged, caused him to lead a shameful life, driving his parents to distraction. The doctor gave bonds in 16,000 on a charge of mayhem. For a time lynching was talked of, but when it became known that Miss

Ellis would recover the project was abandoned. The Ohio Legislature has embarked in the business of investigating pools and trusts, unanimously passing a resolution reciting that— It is apparent that through the combinations commonly termed “truia" or “pools" salutary competition may be destroyed, prices of cornmod 1 tier unduly enhanced, wages of employes unjustly depressed, and power organized that may be so used ae to endanger the best interests of both government and people. It provides for a joint committee, consisting of two members of the Senate and three members of the House, to make a thorough examination of the subject mentioned and report to the General Assembly at its adjourned session the facts ascertained and the legislation deemed necessary in the premises to protect the interests of the people of the State.