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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
Zoo Eager for Jurisdiction.

The case of William Grice, one of the
Standard Oil agents indicted in McLennon
county, Texas, for violating the antitrust
laws of that state, reported in our dis
patches yesterday, contains a lesson for
Judges of the United States Circuit and
District Courts. The public has been
complaining for long time of the anx-
ety displayed by the judges of these courts
to enlarge their jurisdiction. They con-
tinually NEEDLE in matter which are be-
yond their jurisdiction.
william Grice was indicted for violating
a state law. His case was in a state
court The United States Circuit Court
reached out and took hold of it-took it out
of the state court. The Supreme Court
of the United States says that the United
States Circuit Court had no authority to
do anything of the sort, that it had no
jurisdiction in the field in which it acted.
1t therefore ordered the case turned back
into the state court
1t Is time that the Supreme Court was
taking notice of the tendency of the Cir
cult and District courts to exceed their ju-
risdiction On account of this tendency
the federal courts have lost much of the
popularity they once possessed Their
encroachments on the jurisdiction of the
state courts have become so great that
protests against their acts are heard in
all parts of the country. The labor ele-
ment particularly regards them as a
source of danger to it's interests. They are
doing more than any other agency to CEN
tralize the government. II is time they
were checked.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
A Tamngo Fairy Story.

Are you fond of fairy stories? asks the
Boston Journal. Here is beautiful one
about Tamago, the tenor. No, it is not
about his washing his socks in his room
at tavern 1t is a new story, published
in Italy just before his engagements be-
gin in foreign cities. In his palace he
has museum, richly stocked with crowns,
cups gobets, cigar cases, etc, which have
been given to him as testimonials of adj
miration. There is a strange history at
tached to one of the cigarette cases. Ten
years ago in Chill, Tamago was worship
ped by a beautiful woman, who gave him
a cigarette case made of gold and incrust-
ed with precious stones. The initials of
Tamago in emeralds were on one side;
the initials of the giver in rubies were On
the other, Was Tamago in love with her?
Who knows? He has the reputation of
being an extremely virtuous person." Aft
er his engagement he left Chill. and he was
told that his adorer was a married woman
and the mother of twelve children. Two
years ago her husband died. She went TO
Rome in February, 1897, where she saw
Tamago. She spoke to him a few words.
then drawing from her bodice a dagger,
she daggered him. The point was blunt
ed by the cigarette box which she had CIV
en- him. 1t is true that the tale has been
told for years concerning others, but the
thwarting body was always a temperance
medal or a Bible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
That EpistIe to a Roman.

Rev. Sam Jones. in his letter giving his
reasons for his announcement of his can
diIacy for Governor, says that he is not
sorry Col. Gambler wrote that letter to
Mr.. Meyerhardt the Roman, in which he
scored the politicians who euchered Gen.
Evans out of the Governorship in 1894. but
he says he is sorry that Col Gambler
wrote the second letter-the one in which
he attempted to explain the first.
1t would have been better for Col
Gambler probably if he had not written
the second letter. It left the impression
in the minds of some of his friends that
he thought he had made mistake in writ
ing the first letter. AS a matter of fact
he had no such thought. He found out
that Gov. Atkinson's friends were plan
ming to defeat him, and so he put his
own friends on guard, and he did it in
such a way as to arouse the whole state.
After his letter to Mr.. Meyerhardt was
made public still hunt campaign was no
longer possible. His opponents were fore
ed to come out into the open and let the
people know what they were doing.
There is no such division in the Geor-
GA Democracy as the Evans party ard
the Atkinson party, and if there ever was
it disappeared before Gov. Atkinson was
elected. But the Governor ever since he
took office, has been fighting every man
that he thought was against him, and
has seen an Evans man" in every Dem
ocrat who refused to believe Bill" Atkin-
son was a great man and hurrah for him.
1t was apparently this condition of af-
fairs which Col. Gambler wanted to I'M
cover. He did not want to bring up old
issues, but he wanted the people to under
stand that others were doing so. Gov At
kinson has run his administration on the
idea that there is an Evans man in every
bush, and he has treated as good. if not
better Democrats than he is as Republi-
cans or Populists, not because they oppos-
ed his nomination but because they have
not enrolled themselves among his admir-
ers
Col Gambler did not propose to conduct
his campaign in silence while his oppo-
nents were working in the dark to defeat
him, and so he uttered a battle cry. as it
were, which brought his foes out into the
open. He knows who they are now and
he can fight his battle to much better
advantage.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
The WAY soain Views

Dispatches from Madrid say that the
Spanish government is convinced that the
Maine disaster, instead of estranging. will
tend to improve the relations between the
United States and Spain.
Il may be that the Spanish government
view of the matter is the right one. Ii
will be the right one, provided an investi-
Maine was purely accidental, and if the
American people become satisfied that the
expressions of sympathy of Spanish people
for the loss of the Maine and for the brave
men who were killed in the Maine disaster
are genuine. Just at present, however, it
of more satisfactory relations between the
two countries. The Spanish expressions of
sympathy are received in this country as
if they were sincere, but it rs certain
that there would DE an outbreak of feel
ing against Spain so bitter that il would
: be difficult to prevent, war between the
two countries if it should appear that
the Maine.
Whatever may be the sentiments of the
Spanish government in respect to the
United States it is certain that the people
of Spain and the Spaniards of Cuba hate
the Americans so intensely that they
would be glad of an opportunity to do
them almost any kind of an injury All
The reports which come from Havana are
TO the effect that hostility to Americans
on the part of the Spaniards of that city
is very great. The Spaniards would not
hesitate to insult Americans on the streets
if they dared to do so. Even the children,
if reports are TO be credited, boot and jeer
at Americans on the streets.
Only recently the Spanish minister at
Washington. Mr.. De LONE, was compelled
to resign because he permitted his real
sentiments respecting President Mckinley
to reach the public in one of his letters
Only day or two ago Lieutenant Com
mander Jose G. Sobral, lately connected
with the Spanish legation in Washington,
is reported TO have made remarks about
our navy, and especially about the dis
cipline on board the Maine, which were
so out-of-place that the state department
thought & advisable to take notice of
them. 1t is true that Commander Sobral
says his remarks were misunderstood, but
the reporter who reported his remarks
states that Commander Sobral was not
misunderstood and that his utterances
were reported correctly.
All these things show that though polite
to us the Spaniards hate us and would
rejoice al any misfortune which might
befall us. Such being the condition of at
fairs, it is not yet by any means certain
that the Maine disaster will be followed
by a better feeling between the United
States and Spain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
A House Set on Fire by a PouItice.

Fire insurance companies have all sorts
of experiences and their officers can tell
many curious stories, says the Hartford
Courant. One of the queerest fires fell
within the business of the Connecticut
Fire Insurance Company of this city yes
Gently.
\ house was set on fire by bathtub
and the tub was set on fire by a poultice.
A man in a Western city was suffering
from a bad cold, and his wife, at the doc
tors orders, prepared a poultice for his
chest When she started to put IL on il
proved TO be too hot. Accordingly she
took it to the bathroom and set it into
the bathrNb to cool. This happened TO be
a fine tub lined with celluloid, which
served as a sort of enamel The heat of
the pouluce started the celluoid a-going.
and the burning tub set things going gen
erally' The department was called out.
and the house was well wet down. for
which the company had to pay. This. so
far as is known. is the first instance on
record where bath tub set a house on
fire or where poultice kindled bath
tub
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
Personal.

Locke Richardson who is about to
give Shakespearean readings in England,
France and Germany will be the guest
OF Ambassador White While he is in Ber-
lin.
-Apropos of the intention of Prof
schweninger, the physician of Prince Bis
marck, to lecture in Vienna. a Viennese
wit suggests that the Prince may take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to recover.
j. r. Ishee and Mrs. NJ, j. Hastings OF
Eastabuchie, La, have just been married
at the residence Of the brides son, b. F.
Hastings. The groom is 50 years of age
while the bride has passed her three score
and ten. The ceremony was solemnized
in the presence of a number of friends and
relatives, many of whom were great
grandchildren of the contracting parties.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

Our dispatches of yesterday noted that
there were a number of war vessels near.
ing completion in British shipyards which
might be purchased. From several quar-
tiers lately have come the suggestion that
the United States should at the very earli-
est possible moment supply the place made
vacant by the loss of the Maine, by pur-
chase If possible, and by construction if
necessary. There are two objections to
be urged against the purchase of a for
eign built ship at this time. One is that
we probably should not get a first-class
and perfectly satisfactory craft, and the
other is that such action would throw the
country !nto such a state of excitement
and apprehension of war near at hand
that the markets, and probably commerce
also, would be seriously affected.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
BRIGHT BITS.

Cook ION the day after her arrival
Please, mum, I'm bit fiery at times. and
when / am fiery, I'm apt to be a bit rough
spoken; but you needn't let that put you
about-with a little present you can al
ways bring me round again.-Tit- Bits
"A Suggestion Brooks-We have a new
game. Maybe you'd like to come in.
Russell-What's the idea?
Brooks-Well, half a dozen of us put in
$40 each, and the man who guesses where
the next South American revolution will
break out takes the pot-Life.
II don't object to being called pea.
nut politician" said Senator Sorghum
The peanut is at times a most palatable
and desirable product" Yes" said the
candid retainer, with a sigh, sometimes.
But it takes a great deal of roasting to
make it so.''-Wa shington Star
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

Y The stories which come by cable of
Frances activity in Africa are probably
based upon truth. The French govern
rnent would be very grateful for some di-
verting affair or event in a distant quar-
ter to take the public mind away from
the lola trial in Paris. The African eX-
petition might serve the purpose. With a
conflict, between French and British in
terests lin Africa, 1t might be possible TO
turn pubic attention from Paris long
enough to smooth over the Dryfus-Ester-
hazy-Zola matter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

A Madrid journal advances the far
fetched idea that in the event of trouble
between the United States and Spain, the
latter could depend upon the support of
the Central and South American countries.
1t warns Latin America against the United
States in connection with the canal, saying
the greedy Yankees" would grab it just
as England did the Suez canal. Notwith-
standing Spanish is the language or the
greater part of Central and South America,
Spain would probably find herself disap-
pointed if she looked for any sort of aid
from those sources. There is probably not
government on this hemisphere but
would like 70 see the United states win to
a contest with Spain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

In Louisville, Ky, the other day the
judge of the police court sentenced two
newspaper thieves to the workhouse for
one year in default of fine of $50 each.
They merited their punishment The per-
son who steals a newspaper not only takes
something of money value.
but deprives the subscriber of
prompt information which may
be of Importance to him, or of news which
is of interest and without which no per-
son can be abreast of the times. The
newspaper thief deserves prompt and Sc
we're punishment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1885,

Lieut. soprai who has preciDitated an
issue OF veracitys between himself and the
Spanish legation at Washington in con-
nection with his criticism Of the Ameri-
can navy, by asserting that he is still the
naval attache of Spain at Washington
while the legation asserts. that he is no
longer in The service, is not altogether
unknown in this part of the country He
is the young man who visited Charleston
last summer, and is alleged 10 have at
tempted an inspection of the fortifications
there by Questionable methods. There
was also rumor that he had visited Sa-
vannah on the same business but moth
ing was ever seen Of him in this city or
at Tybee. The Washington papers are of
the opinion that the Lieutenant really
succeeded inssecuring a mass of informa-
ton about American forts. prior to the
time when there was reason TO think the
relations between the countries might be
come strained
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
iSDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Ship Notice, J. f. Minis
& Co.; Ship Notice, Strachan Co; Lee
ture by Rev. Dr. Edward y. Calisch, Feb.
"a at Savannah Lyceum; y Neat Cottage
for Sale, c. II. Dorset; Notice of Disso-
luton Of Georgia Furniture Manufactur-
ing Company; That Tired Feeling, Beck
rnann's Cafe; Pendennis Club, George c.
Schwarz; Ship Notice. w. w. Wilson,
Agent, Consignee.
Business Notices-Kennedy's Crackers,
Henry Solomon & Son; Old Fashioned
Whisky. Henry Solomon & Son.
Ladies Spring Waists-B. II. Levy &
Bro
Don't Throw Away Your Good Money
Metropolitan Clothing Company.
Auction sale-"old Hoss' Sale. Central
of Georgia Railway.
These Days You Need Gas Heater
Mutual Gas Light Company.
4Cottolene-N. X. Fairbanks Company.
Medical-Browns Iron Bitters; Hoods
Pills; Paine's Celery Compound; Warmers
Safe Cure; Carlsbad Sprudel Salt; Cuti-
oura Remedies; Scotts Emulsion; Mum
yon's Cold Cure; S. S. s.; Lydia Pink
hams Vegetable Pills; Stuarts Dyspepsia
Tablets.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

Congressma Cummings wishes Congress
to vote an appropriation of 100000 for a
memorial to the Maine and her men, to
be erected in New York. Why in New
York? What has New York to do espec-
tally with the Maine or with the navy?
why would ii not be as we'll to erect the
memorial at Galveston, or Seattle, or Bath
as at New York? If there is to be such
a memorial erected there are only two
proper places for III one aboard of new
Maine. and the other at the national cap
tLal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
A wavering Protectionist.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer Rep).

We are on a protective basis, but protec-
ton to manufactures cannot be defended
is indeed, farce-uness there is the same
protection to laborers. The great object
of protection. more important than reve-
nue., is to build up mills and create new
enterprises for the purpose of giving en-
ployment to our workingmen and paying
them respectable wages. When the coun-
try is filled with cheap laborers from
abroad who work without Intelligence and
for a mere pittance, the most important
feature of protection Is nullifed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

AT its recent session the Mississippi Leg
islature passed an act providing for the
Submission to the people of a constitu-
tional amendment making the judiciary
elective by popular vote. The amendment
really proposes three changes in the con-
stitution. The constitution itself provides
that each proposed change shall be voted
upon as a separate amendment. In the
act referred 10 the three changes are
embodied in one amendment hence the
amendment cannot legally be submitted
TO the people. The matter therefore, will
have to go over for two years. until the
next meeting of the General Assembly
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

The possibility that the President will
place Judson Lyons in the office of regis
Ger of wills for the District OF Columbia
viii probably be followed by protest upon
the part of the people of the District. They
have a great notion of home rule in Wash
ington, whenever it is desired that col
ared man from the outside shall be APP
pointed to an office of the District Could
not the President find place for Lyons in
Ohio, or in Massachusetts?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

In 1897 the Legislature of Indiana passed
a law placing the employees of corpora
tons on an equal footing with non-em-
ployes in cases of injury resulting to them
from defective machinery or the negli-
gence Of a co-employe in whose employ
ment they had no voice and over whom
they had no control Some of the rail-
roads contested the constitutionality of the
law, which is known in the state as the
fellow servant law" The other day a
case covering the question of constitu-
tionality was decided by the supreme
court, the court holding in the afirmativ
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

1t was not precisely a wedding in high
Rife nevertheless it was an altitudinous
wedding when two Chicago young people
were married the other day on the top of
The Auditorium tower, nearly 800 feet
above the heads of persons on the side
walk
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
Joseph Ski, or "ojibwa joe a,

Joseph Ski, or "Ojibwa joe" as he
was called Is dead. Before the war John
c. Breckenridge owned some land near
Superior, Wis. and employed Joe 70 clear
1t. He became so impressed with the
young Indian that he made him his body
servant. When the war broke out Toe
raised a company of guerrillas, and fought
at their head through the war as sharp-
shooters. Joe claimed to have killed liz
Union soldiers, which he recorded by
notches on the stock of his gun.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
At 1t Again!
From the Philadelphia Ledger Qnd

President Mckinley has been a it again.
He has pardoned a Delaware man con-
victed of passing counterfeit money, be-
cause the Attorney General thought the
mans sentence was too severe. This raises
the question whether the President and the
Attorney General knew more about the
case than the Judge who tried it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

A Chicago dispatch announces that there
viii shortly be published in that city a
remarkable book, probably the most cost
~ on record. 1t Is TO be called the Book
Of Wealth" and is to contain all that is
worth knowing about wealth from the be-
ginning of the world down TO Joseph Lett
er's wheat deal. There will be only 800
copies Of the book printed, in two editions
Fhe first, or cygne noir, edition will con-
sist Of $50 copies and win be sold at $500
) copy. The second edition. of $50 copies.
Eill cost $1,000 each. It is proposed by the
publishers that the volumes shall be the
finest things Of the kind in the world 4
San Francisco man is the author Of the
work.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

"A vegetable society function was given
ip New York the other night There were
present large number of cabbage heads.
Other attendants decorated their heads
with turnips, parsnips, radishes and vari-
Gus sorts of greens" according to taste.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

It is to the credit of the people Of New
York that they have made no hostile dem
onstration against the Spanish warship,
Vizcaya, Notwithstanding they were urged
on to do it by indirect suggestions from
the sensational newspaper press Of that
city. The incident would seem to indicate
how much, or rather how little, influence
the new Journalism newspapers have
upon the masses Of the people. Readers
take no stock in anything they say. The
people Like 10 look at the pictures and
note the verbal contortions. of the sensa-
ton builders but they are not Influenced
by what is printed by such papers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

al Havana are fraught with the gravest
responsibilities. Upon the finding of that
court depend the most serious conse-
quences. The. officers of the court, there
fore, should not be harfassed with the vol
untary and wholly undesirable attentions,
opportunities and suggestions of the ''yel-
low jouFnal.s self constituted. hysterical
saviors of' the honor of the
nation. Liberty of the press
does not include foolhardy license to
inhame the public mind and rush the
country intoia terrible war, in order thar
the publishers Of the sensational newspa>
pers may have an enlarged market for
their publications - .
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
Refuge for Dishonesty,
From Louisville courier-Journal Ode

An Indiana man resists a suit for pay
ment for a typewriter on the ground that
the typewriter company belongs to trust
and can not go to court The same de-
Tense would apply against prosecution if
he had stolen the typewriter; and he
would doubtless be proud of the fact if he
had
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

ut must be mighty. bad affair which
has absolutely no mitigating feature. Not
a word has been heard about Hawaii since
the Maine blew up
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
CURRENT COMMENT.
An Ohio Estimate of Lee.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer DEM.

The loss of Consul General Lee at Ha-
vana would be serious. one, but it is
pity we cannot have some such man at
the White House, in Washington, at this
critical juncture.