Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — SO FAR THE LAW STANDS [ARTICLE]

SO FAR THE LAW STANDS

BUT IT WILL CO TO THE U. S. SUPREME COURT. Fires in Missouri Destroy a Quarter of a Million—Congress Refuses to Increase Fair Salary Appropriations —Minor News from Abroad. GOVERNOR FOSTER CONFIRMED. The Shipping Subsidy Measure ShelvedPassage of the Direct Tax I'ilL. When, in considering the sundry civil bill on the 24th. the Senate reached the World’s Fair paragraphs, Senator Farwell moved to so amend the bill as it came from the Senate Committee on Appropriations as to increase the whole amount appropriated for salaries and expenses from $40,000 to $120,000. The motion was lost, however, and the appropriation remains at $40,000. The Senate confirmed ex-Governor Foster as Secretary of the Treasury. The direct tax bill was passed by the House, after conr siderable discussion. The bill has already passed the Senate, and now needs the President’s signature to become law. The shipping subsidy bill got another backset, and It is now exceedingly doubtful if its advocates will be able to get it before the House again this session.

MR. FILED IS BEAI EN. He Must Pay Dut’-es Imposed by McKinley’s Tariff Law. At Chicago Judge Blodgett decided against Marshall Field in his suit to recover certain moneys paid on imported woolens and embroideries under the McKinley tariff act. Mr. McGinley’s bill materially increased the duties on those goods, and Marshall Field protested against the increase on the ground that the law was unconstitutional. The importer held that the well-known fact that the bill as it was signed by the President was not the same as the bill passed by Congress, because In engrossing it and preparing it for the President’s signature the clause on tobacco rebates had been left out, rendering the act null and void. Judge Blodgett did not hand down a written decision, but disposed of the matter in a few words. He said the case was one for the consideration of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Wreck of the Elizabeth. At Sau Francisco, only two bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the'ship Elizabeth. (Qne of these is the body of the vessel’s Chinese cook, and the other is suppose! to be either that of one of the crew or of Captwin Henry, of the Life-Saving Serv I ca. t Disastrous Blazes. Fire at Edina. Mo., destroyed property valued at 8150,000. insured for half that Fourteen business firms—all the town had-r-wera burned. At Arinourdale. a Kansas City suburb. a cooper-shop burned, inflicting loss of SIOO,OOO. Geyser stops Spouting. The Geyser Oil (X mpany, formerly one of the most aggressive opponentsof the Standard Oil Company in OUip. is now under the complete control of the latter. The price paid for seven-sixteenths of the stock was £1,600,000. Murder in Indian Territory. At Atoka. I. T., Gebrge A. Pate shot and Instantly killed Elijah Anderson. Anderson had threatened to shoot fate during a quarrel. The latter went heme for his Winchester and.got the drop fiist. Crazy Man Sentenced. At New York, James Dougherty, the Insane lover of Mary Anderson, who killed Dr. Lloyd, physician at Flatbush Hospital for the Insane, was sentenced to Sing Sing for life for that crime.

Who Is Governor? Governor Hill, of New York, refused to honor a Connecticut requisition for a criminal on thejground that he <loc< not recognize Morgan G. Bulkley as Governor of Connecticut. He Is Innocent. The charge against Banker Cowles, of Clarks. Neb., of killing his wife on Feb. 4, was withdrawn by the county attorney. I* is now believed that burglars committed the deed. General Booth’s Work Begun. The ‘♦Harbor.” the second of the “Darkest England” food and shelter depots, was opened, under the auspices of Gen. Booth, in the heart of the Drury Lane slums, London. Russia to the Front. It is reported that citizens of Russia have raised £503,000 and that the government will expend a like amount for an exhibit at the Columbiancxhibit in 1893. Mysterious Polsoni"g. Frank A. his wife and three children, at Revere, Mass., have been mysteriously poisoned. One of the children died. Louis Betts Secure. Louis Betts was arrested at St. Louis for stealing diamonds and jewelry worth sever il thousand dollars from a Minneapolis, Minn., firm. May Is President. „ May Wright Bewail, of Indiana, was elected President of the National C juhcil of Women of the United States. St. Louis’ Promptness. A movement is on foot at St. Louis to erectan equestiian statue of General Sherman on the north steps of the .City Hall. Seized by the Sheriff. • At Erie. Pa., the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Company’s works were seized by the Sheriff. The liabilities are about $G3,003, Reduced Railroad Fares. The Kansas House passed tire Elder railroad bill, reducing passenger rates from 3 to 2J4 cents a mile. Taxed His Honesty. Frank Gavel, a tax collector near Honesdale. Pa . disappeared, taking $22,000 belonging to the county. These Three Were Rotten. Checks presented to the Commonwealth Loan and Trust Company of Boston were not cashed. The Vice President said the concern *had voted to liquidate, though it claims to be able to meet its obligations In full” The Windsor National Bank of Windsor. Vt.. and P. Doddridge & Co., bankers, of Corpus Christi. Texas, assigned. The depositors will be paid in folk Senator Wilson Bead. . Senator WHsun. of Maryland, died at Washington. The condition of Senator Hearst is not materially changed.