Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 31 May 1895 — Page 3

GRESHAM IS DEAD.

SECRETARY OF STATE EXPIRES AT WASHINGTON. Ula Condition Was Known to Be Serious, bat the End Vu Unexpected Acute Pneumonia the Cause of His Death Bis Career. Washington. May 28. Secretary Gresham died at 1:15 o'clock this mornting at his rooms at the Arlington hotel. All hope of his recovery was practically abandoned when his spell occurred shortly before 6 o'clock last evening. The most powerful heart stimulants known to medical science, nitro glycerine and digitalis, were injected periodlcally. and an infusion of normal saline solution was made through an opened -vein in the arm. He recovered slightly, but owing to severe rigors shortly before 11 o'clock he began to fail rapidly, -and his vitality began to ebb. The three physicians saw that the end was" near, nd at 12 o'clock withdrew to the anteroom, leaving in the sick chamber only the members of his family, Mrs. Graham, her daughter, Mrs. Andrews, and son-in-law, Mr. Andrews, and the nurses. Up to that time he had been conscious and talked at intervals. His words were full of bravery. He fully iappreciated his condition .and spoke -words of hope and cheer to his stricken wife and daughter. Sometimes his W. Q. GRESHAM. mind wandered slightly and went back to the days of long ago. recalling incidents of life and happiness in the -springtime of his life. He spoke, too, of his absent son and his private secretary, Mr. Landis, whom he loved as a son, and who. 11 k3 his son, was speeding to his bedside, all too late. But just before the physicians retired lie ceasKl speaking, though he appeared to be conscious. Mrs. Gresham sat at the bedside smoothing his fevered brow and occasionally reading to him from the Bible passages which he loved. As the end approached his pulse became "hardly perceptible. Gradually his eyes became glazed and closed. Mrs. Gresham. with noble and heroic fortitude, continued to read the words of the .gospel to her departing husband. Her daughter and son-in-law stood with bowed heads at the side of the couch. At 1:15 o'clock his breathing ceased; a peaceful shadow passed over his pale countenance; his pulse nickered, and the sorrowing family were in the presence of death. One of the nurses conveyed the news that the end had come to the physicians in the next room, and they in turn brought it to the watchers in the reception room. Those present in the reception room were Secretary and Mrs. Lamont, Secretary Herbert. Assistant Secretary of State Uhl and Assistant Secretary of State McAdee. First Assistant Postmaster General Jones, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin, Attorney General OIney, Colonel Corbin of the army, and Private Secretary Thurber. In the hotel lobby outside were half a hundred of the secretary's friends. No arrangements will be made for thefuneral until the arrival of Otto Gresham, who is on the way from Chicago. Mr. Gresham's illness began May 1, when he was attacked with acute pleurisy. The effusion filled the pleural cavity, but the condition yielded to treatment, until last Saturday, when he suffered a relapse, accompanied by acute pneumonia. His condition after that time was extremely critical. His heart action became enfeebled, requiring the constant administration of the most powerful heart stimulants. One or the other of his physicians. Drs. Johnson and Prentiss, or both, were constantly with him. His pulse reached 160, and was so feeble that it could barely be Counted. But for the stimulants, he would have died. Nltro-glycerfne and strychnine were given continuously, hypodermically. together with digitalis and whisky. He was able to take no nourishment save in a liquid formprincipally milk punches.and the whole effort of the physicians was directed toward sustaining and strengthening him. The right pleuralic cavity was filled with the effused fluid, and the lungs compressed so as to make breathing impossible. About a:30 o'clock Monday evening he sank rapidly, and death was momentarily expected. Restoratives were applied and hypodermic Injections of nitro-glycerine (the most powerful of all heart stimulants and strychnine were made. His blood vessels were in a state of collapse, and his condition was so extremely critical that the physicians decided that transfusion was immediately necessary to stimulate the heart. Dr. Van Raesaler. an expert young surgeon and son-in-law of Dr. Johnson was hastily sent for. He opened a vein in the left arm and infused a pint and a half of normal saline solution. The operation was successful, and about 9 o'clock the stricken patient had revived somewhat. The secretary lay in one of a suite of rooms on the ground floor of the Arlington Hotel. Secretary Lamont, First Assistant Postmaster General Jones, Assistant Secretary of State Uhl, Chief Justice Fuller, Colonel Corbin and Captain Fuller, of the army, remained In parlor A. connecting Secretary Gresham's suite, receiving such persons as were admitted and answering inquiries. JUDGE GRESHAM'S CAREER. Life Work of the Late Secretary of State. Walter Quintin Gresham was born March 17, 5832, near Lanesville, Harri-

son county, Ind. The Greshams are of English ancestry. His Sather, William Gresham, was sheriff of a backwoods county, and was killed in the discharge of his duties. In his boyhood young Gresham did the usual work of a farmer's son and studied his books at night. His education was gained by the hardest kind of work and self-de-nlaL Ho went to the district school, and when he was 16 years old he had an opportunity to attend the Corydon Seminary. He got a clerkship in the county auditor's office, and this helped him to pay his board and school expenses. After two years at the academy he spent one year at the Bloomington university. On his return to Corydon he secured a place in the county clerk's office. There he studied law under the direction of Judge Wi.'.iam A. Porter. He was admitted to the bar when 21 years old and began practice at once. Previous to the birth f the republican party Mr. Gresham was a whig in politics. His law partner was a delegate to the convention which nominated John C. Fremont for the presidency in 1856 against Buchanan. Young Gresham did good service for "the Pathfinder" on the stump. In 1858 he married Miss Matilda McGraln and has a son son and daughter. Otto Gresham, the son, is practicing law. He was nominated for the legislature In 1860 as a republican and was elected, though his district had a normal democratic majority of 500. As chairman of the committee on military affairs he introduced and passed a militia bill which placed Indiana almost on a war footing. He aided in procuring the assent of the Indiana legislature to the proposal to the legislature of Virginia for a conference of representatives of the border states at Washington. Mr. Gresham was captain of a local military company called the Spencer Rifles, and when the war broke out, although his constituents wanted to reelect him to the legislature, he refused on the ground that he could be of more service to his state and his country in the ranks. He enlisted as a private in the Thirty-Eighth . Regiment, and almost immediately was made Its lieutenant colonel. His first service was at Shiloh. He was before Corinth, and at Vicksburg he met General Grant. After the surrender Grant and Sherman united in recommending Gresham for a brigadier's commission, and he received it. He was shot in the knee while in command of the division in Sherman's army at Leggett's Hill, before Atlanta. He never fully recovered the use of the limb thus injured. At one time Mr. Gresham was placed in command of the post and district at Natchez. His government of that city was so wise and judicious that it is still spoken of there. March 15, 1865, he was breveted major general of volunteers for gallantry before Atlanta. He immediately resumed law practice at New with Judge Butler. In 1866 he was nominated for congress by his party, but was defeated. In 1867 he became financial agent for his state of New York, and in 1869 President Grant, who had ever had for him a warm personal regard, offered him the collectorship of the port of New Orleans, which he declined. President Grant then urged upon him the district attorneyship of Indiana, but, as Gen. Gresham had been endeavoring to secure this office for a friend, he felt that he was obliged to refuse to consider it for himself. When, however, in December, 1869. the president invited him to become United States district judge for Indiana, Gen. Gresham accepted, and for nearly thirteen years presided on the bench with that strict impartiality and devotion to justice for which he was noted. In April, 1882, on the death of Postmaster General Howe. President Arthur invited Judge Gresham to leave the bench and accept a seat In his cabinet as pastmaster general. For a little more than two years Judge Gresham held this important office. In July, 1884. on the death of Secretary Foiger. Judge Gresham was transferred to the treasury portfolio, but this office he resigned in a few months to accept the office of United States judge for the Seventh judicial district, made vacant by the retirement of Judge Drummond, of Chicago. Judge Gresham was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in both 1884 and 1888. In 1888 he received 111 votes on the first ballot; his vote rose to 123 on the third ballot, and then dwindled to 59 on the eight and last. The People's party in convention at Omaha. July, 1892. practically offered Judge Gresham its presidential nomination, which he positively refused. His final departure from the party at whose birth he had assisted came in the last campaign. He announced his intention of voting for Mr. Cleveland in al etter dated October 22, 1892. and addressed to Major Bluford Wilson, who was solicitor of the treasury under Grant. Aftef Mr. Cleveland's election Judge Gresham was offered the premiership of the cabinet and accepted. He'was appointed secretary ofstate March 4. 1893. During his short term as postmastergeneral Mr. Gresham accomplished much. Letter postage to Canada was reduced and the postal convention with Mexico was signed. Another Important service he rendered to the country was the re-establishment of the fast mails. As secretary of state In the present administration Mr. Gresfcam had to deal with, perhaps, more vexatious, intricate, and delicate diplomatic affairs than had fallen to the lot of most secretaries of state. While he was deep in the Hawaiian negotiations, he was obliged suddenly to give immediate attention to the Behrtng Sea fisheries. Here he practically carried his point against the trained diplomats of England. By a clause in the Wilson tariff act congress had swept away all of the carefully construed reciprocity treaties negotiated by the preceding administration. This caused dissatisfaction among the nations with which the United States had such treaties, and the storm fell upon Secretary Gresham's head. His efforts to placate these countries were crowned with brilliant success. Then in the constructive side of diplomacy Mr. Gresham had much to his credit. He did all that a foreign officer could do properly to prevent the late ChineseJapanese war, lost no opportunity at any stage to bring it to an end, and ultimately, when peace was restored. It was through tin; good offices of the American ministers in China and Japan, acting under Secretary Gresham's instructions. And while he was doing this he was also using his good offices to prevent a war between Mexico and

Guatemala, both full of fighting spirit and difficult of restraint, and in this he succeeded completely, although he was obliged to use very strong representations to do so. While the amount of money Involved was insignificant in the case of the claims of the United States citizens against Venezuela, Secretary Gresham managed through a joint commission to secure a judicial enunciation of a doctrine that is of the greatest importance to the civilized world, namely, that the government of a country is responsible for the abuse or ill-treatment of foreigners by insurgents. But the genius of the secretary was shown in its brightest lights in three incidents that occurred during his administration and the fact that In two of the three he had to contend with great powers Indicates that he made no distinction when the time came to claim rights for his own country The first of these cases amounted to a declaration to Europe that the United States would not permit private claims to be collected from American republics where our citizens had pecuniary interests. This was the case at San Donmingo when the French war ships which had come there to enforce the collection of a private claim were withdrawn with a very strong hint from Secretary Gresham, conveyed through Ambassador Eustis, that the United States would not regard such a course as a friendly manifestation. Again in Blueflelds, when the British marines occupied the bluffs, they were promptly withdrawn -when Secretary Gresham called upon Great Britain for an explanation of their landing and securing a disclaimer of any wrong purposes. And again, when the Spanish government undertook to stop an American steamer by a cannon shot. Mr. Gresham called for and secured a very prompt apology. Almost his last official action before he fell mortally ill was to initiate the correspondence with France intended to secure justice for ex-Consul Waller, whom he believed to have been lll-trented by the summary French court-martial in Madagascar, and in whose interest he notified Ambassador Eustis to interfere. It is insisted upon by the secretary's friends that he was brought to his last illness by the great exertions he was obliged to put forth to discharge his official duties to his own satisfaction. Judge Gresham was a man of action more than study, and yet he found time for wide reading. He possessed s. thorough and minute knowledge of the history of the government and the country, of the various measures of the various administrations, of the great debates, and the men who shaped and influenced Jegislatlon in their day, many of whom are now forgotten. He understood the relation of this country to foreign nations thoroughly, and as secretary of state sought to apply the principles of justice to international controversies as he would from the bench to individuals.

Talk of nil Successor. Washington. May 28. There is already considerable discussion as to the probable successor of Secretary Gresham. This discussion has been going on for some days, as even in case of recovery it was known the secretary wou'd not be able to take up active work again at the head of the state department. The men most prominently mentioned for the position are: First Assistant Secretary Edwin P. Uhl of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Postmaster-General Wilson; Senator Gray of Delaware; Mr. Whitney; Ambassadors Bayard and Eustis. Don M. Dickinson of Michigan is not thought likely to be the successor. BASEBALL REPORT. No Contests Yesterday in the National League Other Gaines. No games were played in the National League yesterday, those arranged to take place at Pittsburg and New York being prevented by wet grounds. The schedule for to-day is as follows: Chicago at Brooklyn. Cleveland at New York. St. Louis at Boston. Cincinnati at Phialdelphia, Louisville at Baltimore, Pittsburg at Washington. Michigan State League Games. At Kalamazoo. Mich. Kalamazoo. 21; Battle Creek, 12. At Port Huron. Mich. Port Huron, 6; Adrian, 10. At Owosso, Mich. Lansing, 17; Owosso, 8. In the Western League. At Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis, 21; Minneapolis, 11. At Toledo. O. Toledo. 12; St. Paul, 13. At Detroit, Mich. Detroit, 12; Kansas City, 13. At Grand Rapids. Mich. Grand RapIds, 9; Milwaukee, 0. (Forfeited.) Liquor License for Clubs. Lansing, Mich., May 28. The house yesterday passed a bill requiring all social clubs to pay a $500 liquor tax, but exempts Arbeiter societies having seventy-five members or other societies dispensing liquors to provide a mortuary fund. The house also passed the Chaw newspaper libel bill by a vote of 73 to 9. Its ps celalrphalsaoo hi ,- of 78 to !. Its special provisions are that juries shall make separate return of findings of damages to feelings and of actual damage. The senate struck out all after the enacting clause of the Wnite antl-treating liquor bill, and took the same action on the Wildey bill, providing for payment of taxes semi-annually, and the bill prohibiting extra charges by express companies upon transportation of poultry and live stock. The house, by a vote of 43 to 43, refused to pass the senate capital punishment bill, but the vote was reconsidered and the bill tabled. It will come up again today, but it is not believed that it can pass, as it is eight votes short. Durrant's Case Ready. San Francisco, Cal., May 2S. The case of Theodore Durrant, charged with the murders of Blanche Lamont and Winnie Williams, in Emanuel church, has been assigned to Judgo Murphy, before whom Durrant will be arraigned next week. The work of the detective department is completed and the case for the people is ready tot proceed without delay. Durrant's attorneys say they will not only prove their client's innocence of the murders, but will show the real murderer.

NO MORE INSANITY,

A SURE CURE HAS BEEN DIS COVERED. Br Producing a High Fever on the Patient, Reoorery Follows Rapidly The Cure Given to the Public Some Notable Cures. N eminent physi clan of Vienna, Prof. Wagner von Jauregg, has made a discovery which gives promise of certain cure in many cases of inswaity. Medical science has always been in the dark when it un dertook the treatment of mental dis eases. Any remedy, the favorable working of which can be foreseen and understood is a novelty, and of inesti mable value. Prof. Wagner's discov ery, in short, amounts to this, that fe ver is the remedy provided by nature for many and the most common forms of insanity. He and a colleague have satisfied themselves that insanity maybe cured by fever produced artificially. The professor made public his theory and investigations at a meeting recent ly of the Society of Physicians of VI enna. The principal object of his ad dress, he said, was to make them acquainted with certain experiments he had made in his clinic at Graz. He had been studying for six or seven years with the object of making fever useful in these cases. The discovery o Koch's tuberculine appeared to supply him with the means he has lacked for producing artificially the results of bac terial illness, or fever, without causing the patient to undergo the danger of the illness itself. In the winter of 1890-91, in the Psychiatric Clinic, at Graz, he made experiments with tuberculine on the insane. In several cases he hod ob tained favorable results, and in two cases rapid and complete recovery took place. It was to be remembered, how ever, that the clinic at Graz received only cases of mental affection, in which the prognosis was favorable, and re covery might not have been due to his treatment, but have merely coincided with it. Later experiments have shown him that the improvement of the insane through treatment by tuberculine was in most cases very gradual. Months passed before the results could be as certained. On this account he had given the experiments up, in the hope of renewing them at some future time under more favorable conditions. Dr. Boeck, meanwhile, had resumed the professor's experiments in this direction at Graz. He had chosen for treatment cases in which the mental disease was not complicated, but was of more than a year's standing, and in which there was little prospect of recovery. By repeated injections of tuberculine Dr. Boeck produced successive attacks of fever, the temprature not exceeding 39 centigrade. Beginning with one milligram the dose had to be continually increased to produce a fever reaction. Three cases treated in this way were completely cured, while others showed so great an improvement that there could be no doubt of their ultimate recovery. In the cases of the ffcree cured, an improvement in the mental condition showed itself after the first fever reaction. So wonderful was the change that the sister of a patient, who visited her the day after the first injection, came to the doctors and asked what they had done to her sister to make her sensible all at once. The first injection, however, was always temporary in its effects. After each new injection there was a further improvement, but relapses often occurred. In two of these cases the insanity was of three years' and in the third of two years' duration. The patients treated increased in weight, and on recovery had a ruddy complexion. The harmlessness of the injections was demonstrated, It was not proved that tuberculine was the best substance for injection. The working of erysipelas, typhus and other fevers on the insane had been better established than that of tuberculine. Dr. Boeck had begun further experiments on the insane with sterilized cultures of the pyocyaneus bacillus. In another part of his address Prof. Wagner gave a history of many cases bearing out his theory, and of observations of other physicians on the subject. As early as 1886, he said, he had declared at the Psychiatric Union that not infrequently through an acute fever, occurring in the course of a mental affection, the patient was so favorably influenced that a complete cure followed. In other cases there resulted not a complete cure, but a great improvement, which often was lasting. Such cures and improvements were observed after typhus abdominalis and exanthematicus, intermittent and recurrent fever, after acute exanthemus, after erysipelas, after diphtheritis, after articular rheumatism, after phlegmonous inflammations, etc. He had then collected 200 of these cases from medical literature in order to Investigate the subject as thoroughly as possible. From these it appeared that sometimes an acute fever influenced the progress of a mentally diseased person favorably, at other times not. It was evident that the age of the J affected person was of importance. The younger the patient the greater was the possibility that his mental condition would be improved by a fever. The duration of the mental affection was of still greater importance. The insane who had fever in the first six months after the development of the mental

malady were cured almost without ception, even in cases where most unfavorable prognoses had been glven But even in cases of insanity of greater duration the chances were not entirely against recovery. In rare cases after insanity of two to five years duration" the patient was cured or showed per-; manent improvement. The fact that insanity might be cured through febrile illness appeared at firsb sight inexplicable to him. But It lost some of its marvellous character when he found that he was dealing with noisolated cases. Not insanity alone was favorably affected by febrile illness. The same thing happened in other diseases, although the cases showing this were few and scattered. Fever was especially, liable to aid in the cure of chronic diseases of the nervous system. It appeared that in many cases epilepsy wasi cured by an intercurrent Intermittent fever. Observations on that matter were of remote antiquity, for Hippocrates said: "Quartana epilepside vindex." He himself knew a case where epilepsy of years' standing ceased after an attack of malaria. Prof. Schindelka had informed him that tetanus of the horse had in several cases disappeared after an intercurrent influenza. He would also recall to his hearer3 that the late Prof. Thaulliner had related, in an address, that a case of progressive atrophy of the optic nerve of years' duration had been cured by an attack of small-pox. An experience of his own with a case of disease of the nervous system was also in point. There came to the Graz nerve clinic in 1892 a nineteen-year-old boy with symptoms of progressive dystrophia musculorum (loss of power in, the muscles). After seventeen days spent in the clinic he contracted abdominal typhus which, after a course of nearly four weeks, passed into the afebrile stage. During the convalescence he and his colleagues observed to their astonishment that the disturbances of the motor power and the atrophy of the muscles from which the patient was suffering when he came, were gradually disappearing. Two months after the cure of his typhus the. patient left the hospital, entirely free from symptoms of dystrophy of the muscles.

EIGHT SAVED BY A DOG. A Big Newfoundland Swam Out to a, Sinking Ship. Some years ago a vessel was driven on the beach of Lydd, in Kent, England. The sea was rolling furiously. Eight poor fellows were crying for help; but a boat could not be got off, through the-' storm, to their assistance, and they were in constant peril, for any moment the ship was in danger of sinking. At length a gentleman came along the; beach accompanied by his Newfoundi land dog. He directed the animal's at-, tention to the vessel and put a short stick in his mouth. The intelligent and courageous dog at once understood his meaning, sprang into the sea and fought bis way through the angry waves toward the vessel. He could not,1 however, get close enough to deliver that with which he was charged; but the crew understood what was meant, and they made fast a rope to another piece of wood and threw it toward him. The noble animal at once dropped his own piece of wood and immediately seized that which had been thrown to him, and then, with a degree of strength, and determination scarcely credible for he was again and again lost under the waves he dragged it through the surge and delivered it to his master. A line of communication was thus formed with the vessel and every man on board was rescued. An Unusual Proceeding. At a colored church in New Providence, Ga., there was an unusual proceeding on a recent Sabbath. Somebody, it was asserted, had picked the pocket of the preacher's wife, and the congregation had to submit to a close search. The lady's purse was undiscovered. LITERARY LIGHTS. Swinburne is 58 years old. Is five feet high, and has a ghastly face and a head of unkempt hair. Aubrey Beardsley, it is said, has written a play in which the characters are to assume, as far as possible, the forms and features of his drawings. Walter Besant won't write a line under the settled rate of 10 guineas ($52.50) per thousand words, and none of the publishers has struck against It. According to the Bookman the best sentence in Ibsen's new play Is this: "Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad." ; The pleasant discovery has just been made at Galashiels, Scotland, of over a hundred letters written by Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Craig, the banker. Th letters were discovered in a box filled with archives of the old Leith bank. A reproduction in a lasting material of the brain of the late Prof. Von Helmholtz has been made by Dr. Berliner of Berlin. The physicians who examined the brain considered it one of the most remarkable they had ever seen or heard of. George du Maurier and Alma Tadema were students together at Antwerp, and in those days resembled each other so closely that they were hardly distin guishable apart until Du Maurier lost the sight of an eye and began to wear blue spectacles. Mr3. Marie Robinson-Wright, the Mexican traveler and writer, received the highest price ever paid for a news paper article $20,000 in gold, paid to her by the Mexican government for an illustrated article on Mexico in the New York World. The personal appearance of Jean Richepln, who Is described as the most versatile genius in all France since the death of Victor Hugo, must Impress the stranger who meets him for the first time. He is pictured as a tall, burly man, handsome In a brutal style, with a low brow, a thick neck, dilated nostrils and a general air of athletic calm

DEBS LOSES HIS CASE.

SUPREME COURT REFUSES WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. Decision of the Circuit Conrt In the Celebrated Contempt Case Is Upheld br Unanimous Vote Labor Leader Must Oo to Prison. Washington, May 28. The Ignited States supreme court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpus. No more Important question, with the single exception of the income tax, has come before the supreme court during the last year than the attempt of Eugene V. Debs and the other officers of EUGENE V. DEBS. the American Railway union to secure a reversal of the sentences to jail by Judge Woods for Interfering with Interstate commerce and the running of the mails in the great railway strike of last summer. Nearly one-third of the railway property in the United States being in the hands of receivers, appointed by the federal courts, the precedent to be established has wide application. Technically the application for writ of habeas corpus and certiorari arises from the case in equity of the Union Trust company against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road, since the receivership Under which the circuit court exercised jurisdiction over the Santa Fe and its allied roads was created in that case. On July 2, 1894, when the great railway strike was threatening, the receivers applied to Judge Woods of the circuit court for the northern district of Illinois for an injunction against the. American Railway union to prevent it from inciting employes to, strike. Judge Woods signed the order presented, which was a sweeping one, enjoining the officers of the union from interfering with the mails or with interstate commerce, or from destroying property: from compelling or inducing the employes of the road to strike by violence or intimidation, or from aiding or abetting them to do any of these things. The American Railway union decreed a strike on the Illinois Central railroad, one of those included In the Injunction, and the events of that strike are matters of general knowledge. The officers of the union were brought before Judge Woods for contempt of court last December. K. V. Dobs, the president, was sentenced to six months in jail, and seven others. George W. Howard, Sylvester Keliher, L. W. Rogers, James Hogan, William E. Burns, Roy M. Goodwin and Martin J. Elliott, were sentenced to three months. It appears that the injunction had been personally served on the first four officers, but Judge Woods held that Its publication in the newspapers was sufficient service in itself for all the defendants. An application was made to the supreme court for the release of the eight officers of the union by a writ of habeas corpus, and pending the decision of the supreme court they have been given their freedom under bail. The decision of the court was read by Justice Brewer and was unanimous, there being no dissenting opinion. All contentions of the government were sustained. The conclusions of the court, as announced in Justice Brewer's opinion, were that the government of the United States was having jurisdiction over every foot of soil and over every individual within the boundaries of the United States, and that while it was one of limited powers it had sovereignty within those limitations. It had power to invoke civil courts, to remove obstructions' to interstate commerce, and the civil courts had the right to enjoin those who made obstructions to such commerce. The injunction was no bar to criminal processes for acts done In violation of the injunction. The circuit court having final jurisdiction. Its act was not reviewable by the supreme court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and therefore the writ was denied. It Is not improbable, in view of the decision of the Supreme court, that Eugene V. Debs and the other officers of the American Railway Union now under indictments for violation of the antitrust anu the mail obstruction acts wtll not be called upon to stand trial. Under the decision Debs will serve his sentence of six months in jail, and it is thoughte that the government will consider this a sufficiently severe punishment without prosecuting the criminal cases against him or his associates. Terre Haute, Ind., May 28. President Eugene V. Deh'of the A. R. U., whose appeal case xtfas acted upon yesterday by the Supreme court of the United States, was seen at his home and said that while the adverse decision was unexpected by him, he was prepared for it. He said: "I shall abide by the decision with perfect composure, confidently believing that it will hasten the day of the public ownership, not only of the rSailroads, but of all other public utilities. I view it as the death-knell of the wage system. In the long run this decision will prove a blessing to the country." Talk of Political Action. Galesburg, III., May 28. The convention of railway trainmen yesterday discussed the question of independent political action and the sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of supposing at the polls candidates Indorsing measures favorable to railway employes regardless of political affiliation, "Gall Hamilton" Sinking. ington, May 2S. Gail Hamilton .ss Dodge) is worse. She has fallen back to the condition of day before yesterday unconsciousness. She has a blood clot on the brain.

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