Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — DECIDED AGAINST GOFF. [ARTICLE]

DECIDED AGAINST GOFF.

The West Virginia | Supreme Coart Rales That Wilson Shall Hold Over. The West Virginia Supreme Court met, Tuesday, and decided in the GoffWilson gubernatorial mandamus case that Governor Wilson is entitled to hold over until such time as the contest between Fleming and Goff shall have been settled, or, in other Goff is not entitled to the seat on the ground that the returns were not declared by the Legislature.; The fight will now be between Wilson and Carr on a quo wartanto proceedings. ts t A bill before the New York legislature proposes to compel railroad companies to equip freight cars with standard automatic seTf-couplerfi and automatic brakes. Railroaders claim that 90 per cent, of the casualties are the result of their absence. .Down at Panama coffins are hired, and graves too. The latter cost sl2 for eighteen months, and in case of nonpayment the body is thrown out of the grave. Coffins can be hired for $7. > Brooklyn makes 15,000 gross of clay pipes per year, or of tlae total prpductiou. > The clay is gotten at Woodbridge, N. J., and costs the factory jjiper.ton; ' -■ -