Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Levi P. Maisli, a former Pennsylvania Congressman, died in Washington of apoplexy, aged G 2 years. President McKinley has sent to the Senate the nomination of C. C. Kohlsaat to succeed Judge Grosscup as judge of the United States District Court of Illinois. The United States Attorney General has sustained the opinion of the judge advocate general of the War Department in the case of the Cortez brothers of Manila, and has notified Gen. Otis to turn over to the representatives of the Cortez family all of their property now held by the military authorities in the archipelago.