The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-19

country. TO act as a chemist on a Louisiana
sugar plantation. The case came to the Su-
preme Court from the Circuit Court OF APP
peals for the Ninth circuit. Justice Field.
IN acting for the court. denied the motion
for a rehearing involving jurisdiction in the
territory formerly known as Greer county.
Texas.
An opinion delivered by Justice Peckham
In the case Of +. NJ. Bacon and others VS..
the State of Texas has the effect of restoring
to the public domain 100000 acres Of land in
that State which Bacon and his associates
claimed to have purchased. The case was
decided by the State courts against the
claimants Of the land, and the appeal 10
missed.
In the case of James Murray. alias
Greasy JIM" in error TO the Supreme Court
of the State OF Louisiana, the court. in an
opinion by Justice Shiras. affirmed the de-
cision OF the Supreme Court of louisiana
Murray is a negro who was found guilty OF
murder and sentenced to death by the State
courts, but made application for a transfer
Court on the ground that persons of his own
race were excluded from the jury by which
he was tried. The application was denied
that Murray had not been deprived of any
rights guaranteed him by the Constitution
Of the United States
An opinion was delivered by Justice Brown
In the case of S. j.. Holborn VS.. the United
States affirming the decision of the Court or
Claims. The case involved the right of Hol-
born, as district attorney for the district OF
California, to appropriate to his own use the
fees collected under the Chinese exclusion
laws. Holborn claimed that ne was entitled
TO these fees, in addition to his salary, but
the court held that he must account to the
government for such collections.
In the case of the boundary dispute be-
tween the States OF Iowa and Missouri, the
court extended the time for the commission
10 make it's report until July i.
The case OF the Illinois Central railroad
VS. the People Of the State of Illinois. in
volving the right to compel the railroad
company to run all Of its trains into Cairo.
a county seat, under a State law. was de-
cided in favor of the railroad company. The
case involves an old dispute in which the
State authorities contended that the railroad
company should run even its through mail
cars TO Cairo, notwithstanding 1t was three
and a half miles from the main through
this requirement was unconstitutional and
reversed the decision of the Supreme Court
of Illinois. The opinion by Justice Gray.
Judge Brown delivered the courts opinion
in the case of Mrs. Eugene Kalinsk VS..
the Supreme Lodge Of the K. of p. de-
Gliding that Mrs. Kaiinski was entitled TO re-
cover the amount of her husbands insur-
ance In that order. Notwithstanding he had
failed TO pay his regular dues TO the order
when he had paid his assessments on ac-
count OF his insurance. The case originated
in the Louisiana courts.
The appeal Of George p. Webster and Will
liam A Brady VS.. Augustin DAILY was dis
missed forewant of jurisdiction. In this case
Webster and Brady had been enjoined from
using the railroad scene" in their play,
After Dark" on the ground that 1t was
an imitation of a scene in Days play,
'Under the Gaslight." The, effect of the
oplricn is to perpetuate the Injunction.
Opinion by the Chief Justice.
The decision of the Circuit Court for the
Western district of Arkansas in the case Of
Boz Talton, under sentence OF death for
murder in the Cherokee Nation, was az
frmed. Talt)n complained that his trial had
proceeded upon an indictment found by a
grand jury IN the Cherokee Nation composed
OF only five persons. The error was not al
lowed.
The motion to advance a large number Of
cases from the private land court filed by
the Solicitor-genera was denied. The case Of
j. Z. Cornell VS.. Hattie Green, involving GER
tain lands In Chicago, was dismissed Tor
want OF jurisdiction.