Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — MAY OPEN ON SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

MAY OPEN ON SUNDAY.

If Legal Points Do Not Prevent tho Gates Will Not Be Closed. The Eiboeck rose ution to refer Ihe Sunday opening question to the local directory for disposition occupied the attention of the Judic ary Committee of the National Commission at a recent session. Tho session was behind closed doors. The committee was making an exhaustive inquiry into the question before it, especially tho legal phase or it. “If the committee finds that it has the authority to refer the Sunday question to the directory,” said a member of the commitieo. “it will undoubtedly do it. A 6 far us the individual members Of both the National Commission and of the local directory are concerned, the majority of each body seems to be in favor of opening the gates of the Fair on Sunday. This being the ease, if there is any possible way of opening the gates—that is, of doing so legally—it will be done. ” I>r. Tulmage's Backer Fails. John Wood, a Brooklyn furniture dealer, who is the chief lieutenant of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage and supposed to be the financial pillar of the Tabernacle, made a general assignment. His liabilities are heavy, and the assets will, it is said, barely reach $50,000. Depressed business and tight money was the cause.

How the World Wai-n. Insurance rates at Sioux City have been advanced. The Standard Oil Company is putting in a SIOO,OOO plant at Sioux City, lowa. H. A. Weston, an old-time newspaper correspondent stationed at Washington, is dea 1. The Cincinnati police captured J. B. Adutt, the Austrian forger, who escaped from custody at Chicago. The National Museum exhibit from Washington was damaged somewhat on the return trip from the Madrid exposition. Theodore Booseyelt will continue to serve as a member of the civil service commission, having withdrawn hit. resignation. Bishop B. J. Smith, aged 80, of the Mennonite Church died at New Fads, Ind. He had been a prominent Bishop in the church since 184 ). T. M. Eaiir and T. 11. Holland, coffee merchants who failed, were arrested at New York chaged with selling coffee on which they had borrowed money. George D. Ca' en, one o; the wealthiest and best-known citizens of St. Louis, died in Philadeh hia, where he went for treatment a complication of ailments. A Mbs. Worthington, wife of an artist on a Ssn Francisco newspaper, eloped with Henry Bradley. They quarreled, and Mrs. Worthington shot and mortally wounded Bradley. Fifty skilled workmen in the thirty-three-inch bean: mil: of the Carnegie Steel Works at Homestead, Pa., threw aside their tools and quit work. They refused to accept the reduction stipu* lated in the new scale.