Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Coy and Eeruhamer, the convicted Indiana tally-sheet forgers, must serve out their sentences in the penitentiary. Their application for a writ of habeas corpus has been denied by the United States Supremo Court The decision of the United States Supreme Court in tho case of disputed jurisdiction between West Virginia and Kentucky, growing out of the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta, affirms tho principle laid down in the case of Ker, the Chicago defaulter, that tho question of how the prisoner came to be inside the State is not one to be considered. In both cases kidnaping was resorted to in obtaining jurisdiction. Once more tho Senate Judiciary Committee, at the supposed instigation of Mr. Edmunds, has postponed action on the nomination of Melville W. Fuller as Chief Justice. The matter has not even been referred to a subcommittee. The Supreme Court has denied the application for a rehearing in the Bell telephone case. The American Woman’s Baptist Home Mission Society has just held its eleventh annual meeting at Washington. About 290 delegates were present The reports of the Secretary and the Treasurer were read, showing the society to be doing important work, particularly in the South. Satisfactory progress has been made during tho last year.