Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-16
NOVAk TO STAY In PRISON
Supreme Court Refuses Rehesring to the
Famous Waford Murderer.
TAXES FROM ALL BUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District Court Decision Affecting In
stitutions Operntcd for Proat-
Charity Rail in Spite of MINI
istcrinI Opposition.
'XES FROM ALL BUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

| DES MONIES, Dec. 15,-(SpeCial Tele.
gram. This morning the supreme cour
overruled the petition of Frank A. Novak's
attorney for a rehearing Attorney Milnel
for the defendant filed written argument
for rehearing at the October term of courl
and expressed himself at the time as con-
| fident 'of meeting success.
This means that Novak, made famous by
the fire in the little village of Walford three
years ago and hiS famous flight to the Klon-
dixie regions and recapture there, will have
| to serve out the remainder of his life sem
tence for the killing of Edward Murray,
unless chief executive of Iowa may sooner
or later see fit to look upon him with Glenn
ency.
The court handed down seventeen other
opinions. 1t Is expected that the business
of this special term will be finished by to-
morrow noon. The decisions:
Independent School District of Sioux City
against Harry S. Hubbard and the Amer
lean Surety Co. of New York, Woodbury.
district Reversed
School township of Newton. county of
Jasper, appellant, against School District
OF Newton, Jasper district. Reversed.
State of Iowa against Lawrence Fountain
appellant, Johnson district. Reversed.
y. - Steiner ct al, against Frank A.
Leuz, Floyd district. Reversed
Fitzgerald, appellant against Paisley, ex-
tradition, Dubuque district Reversed
Frank G. keist, administrator estate of
cago Great Western Railway Co., Black
Hawk district. Reversed
j. p. Calman Construction Co. against b.
ton district. Affirmed.
State of Iowa against Best Haney, appel
liant, Pottawattamie district. Affirmed.
Efard. ct al, Madison district. Affirmed.
NJ. NJ, Petersen against Detleff H. Koch,
appellant Jackson district. Affirmed,
o'Hara & Co., Mahaska district district AZ
firmed
I. S, struble, trustee, against Henry AL
lin, appellant, Plymouth district. Af-
l., l.. Taylor, administrator estate of
Phillip Serata, deceased, against Star Coal
Co., appellant. Affirmed
Henry Buggy Co. against ]. S. Cathell,
Clarke district. Affirmed.
S. j. Stokes, appellant, against H. H.
Sprague, administrator, Boone district. Af-
j. J. Farrelly ct al, appellants, against
r. w. Gadsden, Dubuque district. Af-
Henry w. Mitchell against Mary Burwell
ct al; appellants, Boone district At
R. N. Jones against German Insurance
co. of F,reeport, Ill., appellant, Union dis
trict Affirmed.
Judge Prouty handed down an important
decision this morning in the district court
affecting every school or college owned by
private corporations in the state. He held
that such institutions, when owned by in
dividuals and operated for personal pecu-
mary profit, are subject to taxation the same
as any other personal property. He decided
that the Highland Park Normal college of
this city must pay the taxes assessed against
it by the city, from which assessment and
the ruling of the board of equalization the
owners of the college appealed to the court.
Judge Prouty construes the statute to ap-
ply only to institutions conducted by cor
for the benefit of the public, the
profits of which revert to the institution for
its advancement and betterment. Where
there is personal pecuniary profit arising
from any school there must be correspond
ing taxation he holds.
The board of directors of the Associated
after hot al-afternoon discus
sion, voted to give a charity ball in the face
Of the opposition of the Ministerial associa-
tion. The vote was five to four.
Assistant State Geologist Balm today re-
ported that tests of Waukon, Ia, iron ore
show much better quality OF mineral than
earlier analysis indicated. Ore being
shipped on contracts is more than so per cent
metallic iron, suitable for the manufacture
of foundry pig, and is now selling at a good
price. If fuel can be obtained and salts
factory prices agreed upon, Balm says, there
is no reason why a local iron industry of
considerable Importance should not be built |
up in northeastern Iowa
Governor Shaw and Adjutant General BY
ers left for Washington this evening to make
personal efforts to recover over $50, 900 from
The government for the expense of equipping
and caring for Iowa volunteers.