Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1898 — WASHINCTON COSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINCTON COSSIP

J. W. Shragiie of Cincinnati has addressed a memorial to Congress asking the enactment of a law to provide the death penalty for the crimes of train wrecking and robbing. » » » The thirty days of mourning that have interrupted the social gayety of Washington will compel the administration to hustle in order to fulfill all of the formal engagements that have been made before the beginning of Lent. • • « The discipline at the naval academy was never so severe as at present. Capt. Cooper, the superintendent, is making a new and higher standard/ both in conduct and scholarship, and has adopted some severe measures to test class honor among the cadets. » • » When President Lincoln appointed Mr. Hassurek of Cincinnati as minister to Ecuador he told him it was the highest office in the gift of the nation, Quito, the capital, being nearly 12,000 feet above the level of the sea. Archibald J. Samson of Arizona now enjoys that honor. • » • Representative Broussard of Louisiana has followed the example of Representatives Belknap of Illinois and Beach of Ohio in getting married, and it is hoped that the epidemic will spread in alphabetical order through the entire House of Representatives. Robert Adams of Phi.adelphia, Joseph W. Bailey of Texas and William Edward Barrett of Massachusetts are three young and handsome Representatives whose names at the top of the list in the congressional directory do not have the asterisk that indicates the matrimonial state, but there is still time for them to reform. When the “Os” are reached Mr. Cousins of lowa will be the first to fall.