The Globe-republican., 1895-03-15
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience Of
Hurried Readers.

Arguments are being made before the
United State. supreme court in a case to
test the consttutionality If the income tax
feature of the Wilson tariff law. 1t may re-
suit in stopping tine collection OF that tax.
The case brought by John Bru,. formerly
steward of the Topeka in sane asylum. against
the state board of charities to recover tn"
position, was decided by the supreme court
in an oral opinion and judgment was rem
dered for the defendant.
The president left Washington early on
March 5. on his favorite Lighthouse tender,
the Violet. for ten davs shooting On the in
land wators of North Carolina. There were
scores of politicians who went to the Whit.
house that morning and left disappointed.
A new draw bridge over Cuyahoea river.
in Cleveland. O.. is to be operated by cleo
tricity and compressed air.
American wooden cloth is being sold in
the English markets and right in the center
of the English cloth manufacturing districts.
Tn. Westinghouse Air Brake company has
won its suit. sustaining its patents. over the
Boyden Power Brak company OF Baltimore.
A secret organization at Cnionville, No.,
ia ordering all blacks to leave the pace.
style and are not signed.
County clerks of Oklahoma enter gen
eral denial to the reports that they are sell
ing department seeds sent to them from
Washington for free distribution.
Astronomers were we'll prepared for the
total eclipse IF the moon on the night OF
March 10. Successful observation. End
photographs were taken at Chicago, Pueblo
and Halifax: while the clouds defeated the
gazers at Washington and many other places.
The newly appointea state board of irri-
CATION met at Topeka. March IL. to organize
and inaugurate their work. 1t is expected
that work will b, done IN time for practical
planting experiments the coming crop sea-
son.
Colonel Fred D. Grant will ask that his
sen. q. S. Grant, be placed at West Point
military academy. where General Grant and
Colonel Grant, his father and grandfather.
we're educated. It is said that this was the
expressed wish of General Grant.
The postoffice department is making 400
appointments of mail weighers on trains TO
serve a month in Illinois, Iowa. Missouri,
consin. Minnesota. North Dakota and Mon
tana. They are chosen from certified civil
service lists.
SpcC ais report tnat cIeCtiOUS
members of boards of education were held
in numerous cities in all parts of Ohio. and
that the women were cut in force as voters.
In nearly every case wher, there was CONNIE
tition between q woman and a man this
woman won.
Frederick E. S'ckels. aged IS years. in
ve~tpr of the Corlis- engine. died in his Office
in Kansas City. March g. Among his many
inventions was the S ckels automatic steam
cutoff which revolutionized the steam en-
gines of thu world. He helped build the
Union Pacific railroad.
Orizaba ia in the state of eruption and
Ccrdova. OriZab,. kalapa and dozens of
smaller Mexican towns in the stat Of Vera
Cruz are in danger. The great number of
old cratars. through a strip of Mexico from
Gulf to Pacific. are now mo t'y smoking.
general earthquake is feared.
Tho treasury officials have made a ruling
that dividends received by a resident Of the
United st ,teS from corporations. foreign or
otherwise. doing busIne s wholly without
the United States and having its pr pal
Office and property out of the United States,
must be returned as income.
A cruel joker rod, wildly into Chandler.
o. T.. and shouted that the president had
declared the Kickapoo reservation open to
settlement and that hundreds of people were
crowding into the new lands for claims.
Scores of people mounted horses, raced to
the Kickapoo country and staked off claims
and then found it to be all joke.
Worth. the Paris dressmaker. is dead. He
was All Englishman. At bout the age OF IA
he became dry good, c'erk in London.
where he commenced to 9 On fashions. At
81 years of age he went to Paris. as clerk in
the same line. While SO engaged he received
medals for displays Mt the London and Paris
In 1870. at the age of As, he
formed the esta bi>hment which has since
been the ruler of fashions.
It transpires. on tn authority of Secretary
Morton, that the president dictated to the con-
ference committee on the agricultural appro-
priation bill that the $4,000 which had
been voted by both houses to supply seeds
to farmers in the drouth affected portions
of four western states and Oklahoma terri
tory. should be stricken from the bill or he
would veto the whole bill. 1t was dropped
and the action kept quiet. members and
senator's not knowing about it.
Senator O'Bryan. of Wichita, will resign
crat and. al special election, will be sue
ceeded by a republican. Sena or Baker. of
has vacated his seat by being
now a senator from Kansas in the United
States senate. He is a republican and will
probably be succeeded BY man OF ths
same party. Senator DenniSon's seat is va
Gated by his appointment "a one OF the ap-
pellate court judges. From present infor- |
nation IT is not Easy to predict what party |
will elect his successor.