The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-24

ages, Deaths, and Funerals 50 cents each
 Local Notices: l5 cents per line:
 General Giletta of the Italian army
 claims the credit of having invented an
 apparatus which indicates the position
 of artillery using smokeless powder.
 The Marquis of Londonderry is one
 of the largest retail coal dealers in
 London. Lord Rosebery is reported to
 be interested in profitable dairy bus
 mess and Lord Harrington is the pro-
 prietor of a fruit shop, These three
 are the most notable members of the
 English nobility who have dared to in
 wade the realms of vulgar trade.
 A few days ago steamship from { Porto Rico arrived at New Orleans
 with cargo of sugar. It attracted
 great attention, for not in years has
 New Orleans seen a sugar vessel from
 abroad at its quays, The sugar plant
 CTS from up the river in some eases
 went to the water front to verify the
 report that the craft had arrived.
 They declared that they could not af-
 ford to compete with the producers of the Porto Rico sugar.
 x The quarterly statement issued by 1.-the State banking board of Nebraska shows the largest amount of deposits in State banks ever known in the his I tory of Nebraska, being s3O,564000, an increase of $2.5O per capita in three months, while the State was threat ened with drouth. During the panic of 1893 the deposits were reduced to < $1l,0O0,000, The large wheat crop in the State Is said to be responsible for the recent increase.
 The Census bureau has issued a bull 1etin giving the population by sex, na- tfvity and color for group 6, consisting of the States of Missouri, Montana Nebraska, Nevada. and New Hamp- shire. According to this statement the males predominate in all the States Ss of the group, except New Hampshire. xzIn the latter State there are 2o6,2o9 fe- nna7ess- against 2o5.5SS males, the per- centage being 50,1 for females. In Mis- soilri 51.4 per cent. >of the population lis composed of males; in Nebraska, b2a per cent; Nevada, 60.5 per cent, and in Montana, 61.6 per cent.
 tell you, said Delegate Long of Walker in the Alabama constitutional bers of sons of Confederate soldiers who will be disfranchised under this plan. They cannot stay away from the farm next year long enough to read and write Many crops are made in my county without horse or man, by white women and oxen, and I tell you that many of those widow women have sons and they help them make these crops and they cannot take them out of the field long enough for them to get an education within the short period of twelve months. So far as the accumu- 1ation of property is concerned, $500 worth of property there is not one in ten who will ever own it'
 MT. Charles Noble Gregory, dean of the law school of the University of Iowa, has been featuring against severe punishments on the ground that they produce crime rather than check it. He N is opposed to capital punishment, and would substitute for it imprisonment Tor life, and he makes strong showing In favor of his theory. Nowhere, he says, will it be found that severe pun- shinent checks crime. On the contrary tt is most common in countries where torture and cruel modes of administer ing death prevail Tn China, for in- stance, the mandarins have exercised their brains for centuries to invent strange and cruel tortures, but this has 4ldQ IlO 6HeCl WHdLeVoF III CneCK1nE crime, and the more they try their in- genuity and the more kinds of death penalties they invent the more crime there is It was the same as to our an- cestors Only century and a half | ago the death penalty was called into | use for 100 crimes, and apparently the | more severe the judges in awarding it | and the more cruel the punishment the \ greater the number of crimes. There i have been over 4o GOO nnur1ers in this ! country in the last five years An im- l proyement is under way, for the mur- | ders and homicides were only 5,637 for | 1900, against 10652 in 1896. For these | murders there were only 597 legal hang ] tngs; whereas, in older days nearly the | entire 40,000 murderers would have been | hanged. Yet we are advancing more | rapidly with fewer hangings than we did when the gibbet was ever ready for | the criminal. MT. Gregory takes the view that hangings or any display that calls attention to a crime has a sug- f i,,a, nd tn i,,or