Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Chicago Daily News, commenting editorially upon the verdict in the SchwartzWatt case, recently tried at Morris, 111., says; i , Within torty-eight horns after the Sioux City disagreement a jury in Grundy County, Illinois, rendered a verdjqt which commands the respect and confidence of every unprejudiced observer of tho developments of the trial. Tho case was much more complex and obscure than that submitted to tho Woodbury County jury. The evidence was purely circumstantial, and involved the examination of over a hundred witnesses, occupying two weeks and a half in testestifying, ana the defense was conducted by five able lawyers. A week was consumed ip selecting tho jury out of upward of two hundred individuals suimponed; but tho character of the community from which they were selected may be fairly inferred from the fact that the State used less than one-half of its peremptory challenges, while the defense failed to exhaust those to which it was entitled. There was no prejudice or bias for or against the accused of which it was necessary for either side to be wary. When the twelve good men and true were sworn both prosecution and defense were satisfied that an honest verdict on the’evidence would be rendered. With unwearied patience these twelve men sat and attentively listened for fifteen days to the testimony of loti witnesses, weighing carefully, impartially, and intelligently the evidence of each, and at the close they had arriv ed at a positive conviction of the'Complicity of Schwartz, and Watt; in the murder of Kellogg Nichols. The mauy casual readers of disconnected scraps of the evidence are not competent judges of the tax made upon these men Nothing short of an earni st desire to faithfully discharge a worn duty, operating upon minds alive to the sacreduess of the law and froe lrom sickly sentimentality upon the one hand and sympathy with the criminal classes on the other, could command such concentration and fidelity. Their verdict is more thaa the avenging of Nichols’ murder. It is a reflex of the moral sentiment which dominates the community in which they live. Electricity as a motive power has been successfully tested on the Washington avenue road in St. Louis, and will be adopted at an early date... A dispatch lrom Pierre, Dakota, says: “There is the greatest excitement on the Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservations. The evicuons of settlers at Big Bend have begun. Indians, covered with war paint and armed with Winchesters, are on the road, mounted and 'following the troops. The news that the soldiers would drive the settlers from the laud is known to every Indian tepee, and the chant of the squaws and braves is heard all night long. Sheriff Harris says there are over three hundred actual farmers still residing on these lands. Many have plowed over fifty acres and put in seed, all of which will be destroyed. The number of settlers that came under Cleveland's ousting proclamation was 800. The settlers have resolved to make no resistance to the soldiers, but to return ns soon as the soldiers are gone.” In the case of the Chickasaw Nation against the United States, in which the Indians claimed over $600,000, with interest, by reason of alleged improper disbursement of their funds held in trust by the Government, the Court of Claims has decided that the Indians should have., credit on their accounts for $240,108.. The details of the internal revenue collections for the first nine months of the fiscal .year are of considerable interest. As compared with the corresponding nine months in the previous fiscal year, the decrease in collections from grain spirits was no less than $3,696,622; the decrease from fruit spirits was $179,903, and the decrease from special taxes on retail liquor-dealers was $3,927,736. On the other hand, the increased collections from beer and ale at $1 a barrel were $1,520,502. The tobacco taxes showed a substantial increase. The gain on cigars and cheroots was $5i)1,464, on cigarettes $115,043, on manufactured tobacco $571,850, and the net gain on all classes of tobacco taxes was $1,306,275. In spite of this substantial gain and the fact that since Nov. 1 oleomargarine has paid $481,216, tee decreased revenue from whisky was so much greater than the increased revenue from beer that the total internal revenue receipts were less than in the same nine months of the year before by $575,780. Prince Bismarck expresses regret that the arrest of Schnaebels, the French Commissary, was ordered without consulting the Chancellor... .The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution declaring the. protective system of other countries injurious, to British trade, and asking that England revise her fiscal relations. The Manchester Chamber affirms its unabated confidence in free trade as the best commercial policy.