Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-19

The hanging of Swift was well done. May it be long before we have another such affair in this State. The legislature should put it out of it's power to be as cruel to any other criminal as this legislature has been to Swift. An opinion of the Indiana Supreme court decides that municipal corporation has the power to compel rnmsellers within two miles of the corporate limits to pay license fee. The court holds that the purpose of the fee is to restrict a business baneful to society. The majority report on the Housatonic railroad matter is about what everybody who watched the hearing expected it would be. It states the case with great fairness and gives solid reasons for the conclusions ar- rived at. Now let the legislature dispose of the matter speedily, and attend to other things also.
 A new kind of ram has appeared. It is a boat furnished in the forward part with a heavy cylinder like that of a steam engine, about 15 feet long, with a piston rod 12 inch- es in diameter. This piston rod, which will extend through the bow of the boat, will be the ram. It will be driven by a force of steam equal to $50 tons, sufficient to pierce the side of the heaviest ironclad with one blow. It is in fact steam torpedo boat. According to the investigations of two authorities in the agricultural department and the health officer for Gloucester, Eng land, the notion that ekim milk is a poor sort of food is great mistake. For children whole milk is better, but for adult people it is preferable to buy skim milk and devote the difference between it's price and that of whole milk to other foods, either in the form of cream or butter. The actual nutritive value of skim milk differs very little from that of whole milk, and it sells for half the price.
 Corporal Tanner does not think that he is crank. One story was that he had awarded $14, ,O00 of arrears to one pensioner without sufficient examination. Commissioner Tan ner says that the claimant had lost his sight in the military service and Is now totally blind. His case was investigated while Gen. Black was commissioner, the amount due fixed and the certificate made out. There was nothing irregular in the case, or unusual, except the amount Of the award. But the certificate had been held in the office waiting apparently, as Commissioner Tanner says, for someone to say ''I object" He saw no reason for holding it longer and directed it to be issued to the pensioner. Another charge was that he had allowed the claims of five or six hundred pensioners for an increase of their pensions from twenty-four dollars to thirty dollars month by a wholesale order without inquiry into the facts of each case. The explanation is that these were all cases arising under an act of congress and the facts in all were alike.
 The reporters of the Philadelphia Record have been hunting about to find prohibi- | tionists among the Hebrews of the city, and l they report that they cannot find one. Rabbi Jastrow tells them that prohibition | cannot be made to really prohibit, and that, if it could be, it would, in his judgment give rise to greater evils than those it aims | to do away with. Rabbi Iliowizi tells then
 that its adoption would oppress every Jew
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