Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
DIES MONIES LETTER.

Verslty law department is going to try
Aaron Burr for the murder of AleXan-
der Hamilton. 1T may look as if the
matter had been postponed longer than
necessary" said Dean C. C. Cole, Of the
has not been determined effort to
prosecute Burr. The class is about even
ly divided on the matter of his guilt,
and the trial promises to go down in his
tory as one of the very famous ones"
e. B. Evans will preside as judge in the
case. Fred Mathis, of Fontanelle, Rob-
ert Fairall, of Des Moines, and Hal
Mantz. Of Audubon, will represent the
state, and Burr will be defended by j..
N. Smith, of Des Moines; Norman Huick,
of Des Moines, and p c. Brubaker, Of
Orillia.
Mulct Law Questioned.
The constitutionality of the Iowa
mulct law has been called into question
in suit in the federal court in Council
Bluffs 1t is the first time that the law
has been attacked along this line. 1t
Is set up by the compliments that the
law is unconstitutional because it does
not grant equality before the law, per-
hitting the saloon keeper to be de-
spoiled of property without recourse.
The law provides that private persons
may institute prosecutions of saloon
keepers without putting up security for
costs or attorney fees. but if they win
their cases the costs and attorney fees
a 10
defendant. while if the saloon keeper
wins the costs and attorney fees cannot
be recovered at ALL
Case Reopened.
Gov Cummins got the case of the
Shiloh soldiers from Iowa reopened by
his visit to Washington last week. Sec
rotary Root, of the war department,
promptly Cancelled the order of the Shi-
lob national commission excluding from
participation in the honors of the first
days fight at Shiloh of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Iowa regiments and re-
convened the commission to reconsider
the case of those regiments, whose plea
was made by Gov. Cummins Their vet
Grams swear they fought at Shiloh the
first day, and when the national COM
mission decided not to allow that rec
ord to be made on the monuments at the
battle field Gov. Cummins was appealed
to to take up the case with the govern
ment, which he has done.
To Enforce Liquor Laws.
The law which was framed at the
convention of the State Marshals' clubs
here few days ago will be introduced
in the legislature very early. The pro-
moters of the movement believe that it
will pass. 1t will provide for the ap-
pointment by the governor of five mar
shals, who shall have charge of the en-
forcement of the liquor laws of all kinds
in Iowa They will receive salaries of
81, 800 each and $4,000 expenses yearly
They will appoint ten deputies each, to
be paid $1,000 year. The headquar-
tiers of the five marshals will be Des
Moines, Waterloo, Cherokee, Atlantic
and Washington. The expenses of the
constabulary are to be paid out of the
mulct tax, 5000 of which will be set
aside for that purpose. The estimated
expense will be 100000 year. There
are 1900 saloons, whose 5000 a year
would yield 100000. The portion of the
fund not needed by the constabulary
will be covered back to the state. The
promoters of this scheme of enforcing
the liquor laws put it on the same basis
as the bank inspection and other special
boards for the governing of special
lines of business.
Damages for Pain.
The supreme court the past week de-
cided that persons may recover damages
for pain suffered by them. The decision
was rendered in the case of Edith
Cowan against the Western Union Tel
egraph company. 1t came up from Lou
lisa county. The company failed to de-
liver telegram promptly, and on that
account the plaintiff suffered great
agony of mind during the delay. Here
tofore it has been supposed that per-
son so treated could recover actual dam
ages inflicted by delay in delivery of a
telegram, but could not recover damages
for the pain and mental distress caused
by the delay.
The Last Slave Ship.
Maj. S. H. NJ. Byers has written an ar
ticle which will appear soon in one of
the magazines respecting the last slave
ship. While in Alabama last summer
Maj. Byers ran across the only surviv-
ors Of the negroes who were brought
across in the last slave ship This yes
sci was burned in Alabama bay In 1859
the negroes having first been taken of
1t. A half dozen Of the survivors live
now on the Alabama river, in the cane
brakes. While south Maj. Byers got
their stories, and has preserved them in
literature. Not one person in thou-
sand in Alabama even knew that these
people were living there.
College Rebuilding.
One of the extraordinary things in an
educational way In Iowa has been the
rebuilding Of the Parsons college al
| Fairfield. That institution burned down
| in August, 1902. Seven of the finest col.
lege buildings in the west are now BULL
| or being built to replace 1t. 1t has been
| In fact, a Phoenix. Adversely appears
to have been blessing in disguise in
this case. The new college has been
built on a beautiful architectural design
and among western colleges Parsons will
now have the palm of symmetry and
! beauty. The loss in the fire amounted
to about $4,000 and the insurance was
only $4,000. Rev. Frederick w. Hinit1
was the president of the institution. and
to his energies and those of the people
of Fairfield. itself, may be attributed