The Advocate and news., 1897-12-15

A protest against the appointment OF
Attorney General McKenna as Justice
OF the Supreme court, signed by promi-
nent Judges and lawyers, has been sent
in from the Pacific coast.
A Henry George memorial meeting
at Chicago was attended by fully 1000
people. Mrs, George and Henry George,
Jr.., were present. Ex-Governor Altgeld
was one of the speakers.
An inheritance tax law passed by the
last Iowa Legislature is being attacked
in the Federal court on the ground that
1t is not In harmony with the constitu-
tion of the United States.
A Nebraska Legislative investigating
committee reports that ex-Superintehd-
ent Mallalien, of the Industrial School
for Boys, at Kearney, is short in his
accounts $15,432. He is Republican.
The six Populist members OF the Sen
ate will oppose the annexation of Ha-
waii because of the cost Of increased
naval equipment which would be neces-
sary to make use of it as strategic
point
The government will issue a special
postage stamp for sale and use at Omaha
It will be designed to commemorate the
Omaha Trans-Mississippi Exposition.
Similar stamps were sold during the
Columbian Exposition.
The Nebraska Board of TranSporta-
tion Is having trouble with the railroads
over rates on stock. The roads were
given until December Is to discontinue
the hundred pound rate and substitute
for it the carload rate.
A blanket vein of gold running from
$40 10 81 500 per ton has been discovered
on Copper mountain, in the outskirts
Of the Cripple Creek region. 1t lies
near the surface and is mined, Ii is said
with plow and wheelbarrOw.
Judge Day, McKinleys Assistant Sec
retary OF State, will retire soon. He
says that ne cannot continue in public
Office as 1t takes all ne makes to live
at Washington, and he can make and
save money in his law practice at Can
ton.
Ex-Governor st. John has just made
a speech in Denver in which he says that
he will vote for Mr.. Bryan in 1900 be-
cause he believes that "it is as important
to provide home for decent and sober
men as it is to pull the drunkard out of
the gutter"
Secretary Alger has made public his
reprimand of Captain Lowering for in
human treatment Of Private Hammond.
In it he says: 1T is disappointing that
an Olfense so grave and an example
so far reaching should have been Wis
tied with so light penalty"
The Maxwell Land Grant case from
New Mexico has finally been decided by
the United States Supreme court. The
case was begun thirty-two years ago
and this decision is in line with the
decision of the New Mexico Supreme
court, which was in favor. of the land
company.
New York papers are printing a story
to the effect that the New York Journal
is preparing to fit out an expedition to
aid the Cubans. The success and prom
inence won by the release Of Miss Cis-
neros seems to have developed on un-
quenchable appetite for similar exploits
on the part Of that paper.
The National Prison Congress, which
has just adjourned at Austin, Texas
made many recommendations which are
believed to be of value in curtailing
crime. More severe punishment, abol-
ishment Of juries, speedy trials and de-
privation of right to appeal are the prin-
cipal recommendations An indefinite
reformatory sentence is recommended.
Other recommendations are of more or
less practical character.
In his message to the Legislature,
Governor O'Ferrall, of Virginia, suggests
that a heavy pecuniary penalty be i'm
posed on each county and city in which
lynching occurs, that the expense Of
militia service for the protection Of
prisoners be added to this penalty and
that officers who give up prisoners with
out exhausting all means to hold them