The advocate., 1895-11-13

stated whether the Judge viii impose the
penalty.
The government viii soon begin a suit
against some timber and turpentine COM
panies for S5OO,OOO for timber cut from
$500 acres Of government timber land in
Alabama.
Parsons Sun: "We trust that everybody
who has been betrayed by scheming poll
ticians will not feel called upon to write q
book about 1t. The book market is already
overcrowded.
The Chief Of the Bureau Of Navigation
reports that S,912 men and 34S apprentices
were enlisted in the navy last year, and
that $50 men and l7S apprentices deserted
during that time.
The Supreme court Of Illinois decided
an election contest November 2 by holding
that If an Australian ballot Is so marked as
to plainly show the intention Of the voter It
must be counted.
There was $l25,OOO worth Of money spent
on flowers and floral decorations at the
Vanderbilt wedding. There are probably
195.OOO people in New York without dol
lar oranvthing to eat.
Eugene Field, the poet, story writer and
newspaper man, died suddenly in Chicago,
November A. He had been suffering from
severe cold and this together with heart
disease caused his death.
Some one has figured that 1876 American
heireses shave married foreign Dukes and
the like in the past twenty-five years, and
that the 125 ladies were possessed Of prop
erty valued at s161, 100000.
President Cleveland has appointed James
B. Angel, John E. Russell and Lyman e.
Conley to inquire into the feasibility Of q
deep water canal between the Great Lakes
and the Atlantic in accordance with re-
cent act of Congress.
The Legislature Of Indiana passed law
requiring railroads to use blsckboards at
each station and post on them statement
Of whether trains are on time, and II late,
how much. The Supreme court has re-
Gently sustained the law.
A new bridge is to be built across the
Hudson at New York. It will be 1900
foot suspension bridge and will cost s22, ,OOO,-
900. The towers for the cables will be as
high as the Washington monument and 1t
viii sustain weight Of 10000 tons.
Roswell G. Horr says that the more he
studies the financial question the less he
thinks he knows about 1t. The people are
satisfied that he knows nothing about 1t al
though they believe that he may possibly
learn something If he keeps up his studies.
Commissioner Lochren estimates the
amount necessary for pensions In 1897 at
Sl4O, 900. He reports 29,Sl6 pensioners
died during the last fiscal year, and S9,lS5
new pensioners were added to the rolls
during that time. Two hundred and forty
nine persons were convicted Of pension
frauds.
In q lecture on "Our Country" delivered
at St. Louis November 8, Archbishop Ire
land said: "This country is American, and
an Irish-American, a German-American, a
French American Is an intolersble anomaly.
We receive from America the right to vote
as Americans for Americas veal, and Il
we cannot use our privilege as Americans
we should surrender t."
A Kansas City man who was an acces-
sorry to the murder Of woman for her
money, was given nine months In the
county jail in 1894. The first day he was
in jail ne was made trusty and he at once
walked of and has not been seen since.
The officer In charge of that iail would