Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-12-15

Since the date of the last report there
have been made in French spoliation
cases decisions in favor of the claim
ants aggregating sss9, 054. and the total
amount allowed up to this date, in
TIC cases, is So, a41 ,c23. The total num-
Der of petitions which have been
filed is $3.50, claiming an aggregate
of about SAC, O0o, 600; and the cases yet
undisposed of are in number 4. 900. and
claims something like ST., 100000. The
total number of cases now pending in
the court of claims, under all iurisdic-
tious, is 81 300, an increase in the past
year of ISIS. The total number of
cases disposed of during the past year
was 1914.
There have been disposed of 337 cases
of Indian depreciation claims, in pa of
which judgments were in favor of
claimants and 93 in favor of the gov
ment The aggregate amount of the
judgments above referred to is $751;
IT'S. 81. the amounts claimed in the cases
in which such judgments were rem
dered being about double that amount.
In the cases wherein judgments were
rendered in favor of the government
the demands aggregate s4e9. 300. 25.
To summarize: The aggregate of the
claims disposed of is g, 37s, 7s7. Sc; the
amount of judgments recovered on such
claims being s4S., 81, or little more
than SO per cent of the demand.
There were 1910 United States pris-
oners serving sentences in the various
state prisons June 80, 1892.
The report recommends increased
Fr4 s1s E..
Progress is reported in the Texas
boundary case involving titles to 1,517,-
600 acres of land. A rap is given the
Bell Telephone Co., when the report
Declares
From the past history of the case it
seems that no effort to delay the pro-
gress of the case will be omitted by de-
fendant."
The case against the Pacific railroads
to compel them to maintain Telegram phi
lines for governmental and commercial
purposes has been pushed with vigor,
but delays have been obtained by the
railroads On this subject Attorney
General Miller says:
''The district attorneys in all of these
cases have been directed to oppose all
efforts on the part of the defendants to
obtain further time; and to hurry these
cases to an issue. in order that
testimony may be taken and decision
reached upon the merits of the contro-
versy. The case appealed to the SUI
preme court against the Union Pacific
Railway Co. will in the meantime
probably have been advanced and de-
cided, and if the decision is sustained,
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in the other cases.
He regards as important that section
/ of the act of August Is, 1888 {25
statutes. 434), be amended by inserting
the proviso. in italics. after the word
'inhabitant" in the following sentence,
namely:
''And no civil suit shall be brought
before either of said courts against any
person by any original process or pro-
ceeding in any other district than that
whereof he is an inhabitant;" Proctded,
that any foreign corporation may be sued
in any district 1ehere it may be found.
process to be serCed as in like cases in tho
state schere said suit or action is brought
Such an amendment, he says, would
restore the law to what it was for
1887, and would impose on these corpo-
rations liability to be sued CORE
spending to the right they enjoy to sue
as plaintiffs, and to remove suits in
which they are defendants.
MRS. FLORENCE MAVERICK
In a Critica! Condition-Her Ante-Mortem
Statement Made at Working Prison De.
claring Her Innocence.
LONDON, Dec. Sit has been learned
that Mrs. Maybrick's condition was SO
critical on Tuesday last that the gov
ernor of the prison telegraphed to
Baroness de Rogue, Mrs. Maybriclx's
mother, at Rouen. and she arrived in
England Wednesday and proceeded
Immediately to the prison at Working.
1t was thought that Mrs. Maybrick
was dying, and the sacrament was
administered to her. She made
the last confession of a dying prison
er, which in case of death is
legally attested and given the prisoners
next of kin. Mrs Mabrick swears that
she was innocent of moral intent in
deed or act against the life of James
Maybrick. The Baroness Rogue was
only allowed to see her daughter for
short time. Mrs. Maybrick had sew
eral hemorrhages of the lungs, which
left her SO weak that if they occur
again she will surely die. She has
been suffering from these hemorrhages
for six weeks. She has petitioned Mr..
Herbert Asquith, the home secretary,
to release her before her disease be-
comes incurable.