The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-03-12

The republican convention on Satur-
day last was a hummer. 1t was full Of
fight. vinegar ct cetera Lieut. Gov
Baensch WIS the presiding officer and
preserved good Older so that the com
batGnts had q good field IN which to
show their proves. The chairman would
occasionally let q few sentences drop
burdened with as much sarcasm and
cutting irony as II they came from Gen
eral Bragg IN ore Of bis most wicked
moods. L. G. Nash ted the fight against
Sedgwick on the hoor Mr.. SedgWick
managed his own campaign and showed
good generalship, with the exception that
he gave TOO much personal attention to
detail thus limiting the activity az his
forces TO voting. There was a fight from
the start to the close Of the convention.
Every delegate chosen for Sedgwich ex-
cept ore had hIs election stubbOrniy con
test Ell, until Ack Whitney, the ninth and
last, was chosen. Then the anti-Sedgwick
men gave up ana Whitney Yves elected
without opposition. Tie narrowest mar
gin OF majority over all which any Sedg
wick delegate had was VIM. 6. Lueps.
who had % votes cut of b
DR. Currens was the choice for national
delegate OF the Anti SedgWlck faction,
but the first ballot showed that SedgwIck
had majority q the delegates. The
minority mEde him hustle. though, and
was determined that he ehould have
nothing without fighting for it. He &C.
cepted tie challenge but fought little
more than was necessary.
The following delegates were chosen
to he congressional convention to be
held at Fond On Lac: Henry Schmidt
Chris. Muth, ", q, Hagenow, Edwin
Thompson, ". G. LGepe, Peter Kauff-
man, c. L, Smalicy, {, W, Sweeting, A.
q Whitney. They Lre oil solid for
SedgWIcG s. delegate 20 the st. Louis
convention. The delegates to the state
convention are Oacsr i. Alter, e. G..
Nash, Z. !. Hartmann, f. Rodewald,
E 5. Bedell, Albert Mill, X Il Robly,
John H. Noble, f. Courchaine. II. CT.
kress was elected chairman Of the county
committee.
An interesting and novel question
was decided by Judge Anderson in the
county court last week John O'Rourke
OF the town of ScLIeswig died last year
| leaving a will in which he devised and
bequeathed all his property to daughter
/ Mary 0'ROurke. This daughter was the
child Of marriage OF John O'Rourke
! with widow who had Il son and three
daughters born Of IA prlor marriage. The
daughter survived her father only ono
i day, and died leaving neither ascendants
/ or defendants nearer ia degree than first
] cousins on her fathers side aud a brother
/ and sisters o5 Inc half blood on the
mothers side.
The question involved the construction
of the statutes of descent which abolishes
the common law 4 Distinction between
kindred Of the half and Uh0le blood in
equal degree, but al the same time pro-
v:des that when estate comes from an
ancestor bY gift, devise or inheritance.
those WHO are not of the blood of the
ancestor from whom the estate came
shall be excluded
Judge Anderson held that the brother
and sisters of the half blood being nearer
IN degree 70 Mary O'Rourke should in
heTit her estate Ia preference to the
Cousins. although the latter were of the
blood OF the ancestor, and the former
were not. The question arose upon the
petition for distribution of the estate.