Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Senate has passed without opposition from any quarter, Senator Culloua’s bill placing John M. Palmer of Ifltnois on the pension roll at tile rate of SIOO per month. Former Attorney General Augustus H. Garland was stricken with’apoplexy while addressing the United States Suprem£ Court at Washington, and died within ten minutes. “Guilty under both charges; sentence, dismissal from the service; no recommendation for mercy or executive clemency.” This is the verdict of the military court before which Brig. Gen. Charles F. Eagan, commissary general of the United States army, was tried.