St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 30, 1897

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_ ss (COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS.) The Cold Don’t Affect This Thermometer. Sunday’s Circulation Column Shows 1 () | . 8 () & Degrees Of popularity, or to be exact, that many thousands of copies of the greatest Sunday paper in the Southwest. ST.LOUIS PO ~ o T-DISPATCH. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES, CIRCULATION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, '!897, TEN PAGES. 101,805. ‘(COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. VOL. 49, NO. 133. — PRICE} TUESDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—NOVEMBER 30, 1897. In St. Louia, One Cent. é Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. oe The Cold Don’t Affect This I] hermometer. Sunday’s Circulation Column Shows 101,805 Degrees Of Popularity, or to be exact, that many thousands of of the greatest Sunday paper in the Southwest. copies EEO ns _ ———— ee oe ow ow ee FOR LOVE 0 HER GRANDPA - — Little Louisa Keach Tells Why She Ran Away. HER JOURNEY FROM PARKVILLE. TOOK MONEY FROM HER MOTH- ER’S PURSE AND STARTED ON THE TRIP ALONE. —— eee SHE CHANGED CARS TWICE. Was Bound for Ironton When St. Louis Police Stopped Her—The Child Gives Her Reasons for Leaving Home. es When the Wabash train from Kansas City arrived at Union Station Monday evening, an ll-year-old girl, more like a little lady than a child, was one of the first passen- gers to alight. She was surprised to be met inside of the station gates by a big, good-looking man dressed in uniform. He was Station Mas- ter Coakley and he gave the sprightly lit- tle Miss over to the eare of Policeman Fay, who took her to the matron’s de- partment at the Four Courta. The child was Loulsa Keach, who be- cause of intense love for her grandfather, ran away from her home at Parkville, Mo., to go ta Ironton, where her grandfather lives, " Edwin Keach, father of the little girl, is custodian of the buildings belonging to Parkville College. Louisa is a pretty little girl, with men- tal development far beyond the average of her tender vears. She is slight of form and has a sweet, innocent face. Other- wise, there is nothing cniliaisn about her. She t2eccefed from Parkville to St. Louis, a distance of over 300 miles, and made two changes of cars with as much nonchalance as the most blase voyageur. telegram from the father of the run- away was the authority upon which the police took charge of the little girl at Union Station On an early train Tuesday morning, Mrs. Edwin Keach; mother of the child, arrived in search of her. | There was a pathetic scene in Matron Gil- -wert’s room nl tens the two met. “Oh, why did you leave us, Louisa?’ the mother exclaimed. “Because I couldn't stand to live in Park- “ville any longer without seeing my grand- pa,” the little girl replied. “How we have suffered on account of her flight.”’ Mrs. Keach sobbed, addressing Matron Gilbert- To a reporter for the Post-Disr> ich the child runaway related her story in detail. “A year ago,’ she said, “papa and mamma and I moved from Ironton to Park- ville, Mo. My papa went there to take a place in the eollege. “My grandpa lives at Ironton, and he is 60 good to mre that I love him dearly. I have agg. of him every day since we left Ironton. he more I thought of him the more I wanted to see him. I knew my par- ents would not let me make the trip alone, but I knew I could get through safely. “I have waited more than a month. I went to the depot in Parkville and got a bundle of railroad maps. From these I chose a way to Ironton. I decided to take the Wabash to 8t. Louis and from here finish my journey on the Iron Mountain road. “Sunday morning my papa and mamma went to church and left me at home. Mamma had some money in her pocket- book. I thought it would be no harm to take just enough to pay my expenses to Ironton to seé my grandpa, so I took the .money. “When mamma and papa came home from church I felt like I hat been bad, but I still wanted to see grandpa, so I said nothing about taking the money. “Monday morning I went to school early. I wrote a note {o mamma and told her all about my intentions. I sealed the note in an envelope and gave it to my little girl chum in school. I made her promise not to read it and to give it to mamma at noon. After leaving the note I went to the Parkville Sapet just in time to catch a train for Kansas City, nine miles away. I arrived there and made the Wabash easy. At Mo- berly I had to change cars—but that's noth- ‘on “I was frightened when the police got me but Matron Gilbert treated me go kindly that I soon felt better. ‘ ao aan’ mamma to let me go on to Tron. ton and see grandpa, before going back to Parkville, and that is what we are going to oO. The olf man who ts ©0 loved by de. voted grandchild ts Cyrus Russell]. ge Be er of Mrs. Keach. “Louise has always been her grandfath- ers pet,’ said Mrs. Keach, “and when we moved away from our old home. the child ars jo eae con phe would soon get . oom, bu t crea: than diminished. ee Pane “She is a patient little creature Gidn’t say much about her trouble im ehe knew it worried us. She has always been remarkably bright in her studies and of late we have feared that the étran on her mind was too great. Several times we have noticed strange actions. and when we got her note, telling of her flight, her papa at once decided that she was demented. ‘T am going to gratify the child’s wish She shall see her grandpa.”’ Mrs. Keach wired her en was safe, “T guer* ll send a telegram. too.” the little girl. She wrote it A ceates ae ata Cyrus Russell. It said: “I am corfi- husband that n one of the morning trains from Union Station Mrs. Keach journeyed to Ironton, By her side sat little Loutse. at last on her Way to see Grandpa Russell. PITTSBURG NEGRO HANGED. Had Killed a Man, but Died in Hope of Forgiveness. PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 30.—George Doug- lass, the negro who acoldentally killed Al- bert Grayer at Snowden, Pa., a mining ham- let near here, last spring, and attem . . pted to murder another man with whom he had quarreled over a game of craps, was hanged mone County Jalil yard here this morning. G expressed sorrow for his crim and died in the hope of divine forgiveness. . MOORE GETS EIGHT YEARS. Embezzling Ex-Auditor of the State of Nebraska. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov, 30.—Eugene Moore, ex-Auditor of State, was sentenced by Judge Cornish to-day to eight years in nd ; : . ee | "quate ae J ze - « ' + ating Ny THE SLAYER 0 QUR PERSONS, Soper, Murderer of Wife and Children on Trial. HORRIBLE MISSOURI TRAGEDY. SIX YEARS AGO HE KILLED HIS FAMILY AT ARCHIE AND ES- CAPED 10 OREGON. MARRIED A SECOND TIME. Then He Slew His Two-Year-Old Child ‘and Confesses That He Meant to Kill Its Mother. : Special to the Post-Dispatch. HARRISONVILLE, Mo., Nov. 30.—E. B. Soper is on trial here for the murder of his wife and twWo children at Archie, this county, six years ago. The work of securing a jury to try the case is going on. The case has unusual features. Soper not only killed his wife and two chiidren at Archie, but by his own confession killed his child by a sec- ond wife in Oregon, and meant to murder its mother, but failed to carry out his plans. Some time during Tuesday night, April 22, 1891, this man, a butcher by trade, turned his home into a slaughter-house. With an ax he literally pounded the life out of his wife and two innocent children, Maud, aged 5, and Gillis, aged 2 years. Maud slept with her father in the north room of the lit{le cottage, Mrs. Soper and Gillis in the south room, During the night the father and husband arosé and seizing an aX went to his wife’s bedside. No ove save Soper himself knows which one of the sleeping ones met death first. -The mother’s head was beaten to a pulp. One terrible blow, full in the face, crushed lit- tle Gillis’ face out of all semblance to hu- manity and ended his life. Returning to his own room the monster found Maud sleeping, with ‘her face to the illow. He struck her on the back of the head with the pole of the ax. It was deliv- ered with such frightful force that the little head was parted in twain. At 6 o’clock Wednesday morning Soper Was at the Missouri Pacific depot. He bought a ticket for Kansas City. The bodies of Mrs. Soper and the chil- dren were not found until three days after death. Soper left in his home after the murder a letter in which he explained that he was impelled to the deed by the shadow of a previous crime. ‘Eight years before he had been convicted of horse stealing and had served a term in the penitentiary. Since that time ‘his life had been a failure. He claimed that a man in Clay County had be- trayed him and added that he was going over there to ‘kill the devil.”’ Soper’s father was killed some years ago and he was suspected of that murder. From Kansas City Soper went to Oregon, where he was arrested at Portland in June of last year. He had married a woman at Portland who Knew nothing of his past. After his arrest by Prosecuting Attorney Lowe, who had trailed him from Missouri, he confessed that he had killed h‘s 2-year- old child by his second wife. He had sepa- rated from the woman and took the child with him. He said he threw the little one in the Willamette River. He had made up his mind to kill his second wife, but his plans for this murder miscarried. GEN. PRICE’S SWORD. Presented to Mrs. Valliant for the Con- federate Museum. The sword of Gen. Sterling Price, with its beautifully-wrought gold scabbard, has been presented to Mrs. Leroy B. Valliant of St. Louis by the General's son, Col. E. M. Price of Keytesville, Mo. Mrs. Valliant is the regent for Missouri of the Confederate Museum at Richmond, Va., and the historic weapon will be placed in the Richmond de- pository. MORE CHRISTIANS MURDERED. Reported Doings of the Khalifa at Khartoum. SUAKIM, Nov. 30.—Advices received here from Kassala say that reports are current there that the Khalifa recently murdered several Christians at Khartoum. DISCOVERED BY A MISSOURIAN Five Hundred New Constella- tiens of Double Stars. A NEW VARIETY OF PLANET. DR. T. J. J. SEE’S SUCCESSFUL RE- SEARCHES AT FLAG- STAFF, ARIZ. FEATHER IN MISSOURI'S CAP. The Greatest Contribution to Southern Astronomy Since Herschel’s Sur- vey Made by a Mont- gomery County Man. Hurrah for old Missouri! Dr. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, who reports what is regarded as the most impor- tant additions to Southern astronomy s.nce the survey of Sir John Herschel, sixty years ago, is a Missourian. He was born in Montgomery County thirty-two years ago, and his family is one of the wealthiest and most prominent in that county. He graduated at the M‘ssopri State University, won honor in Berlin, served as a professor in the Chicago Uni- versity and a year ago went to the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., io take charge of the double star observations, scientific world has been waiting anxiously for the announcement of the result of those observat.ons. An informal report was made Monday by Dr. See in Boston. A full and scientific re- port will be made in pamphlet form by the Missouri Scientist. Dr, See says that since August, 1896, he has discovered about 500 new double stars and has measured about 700 objects not no- ticed by previous observers. Many of the stellar systems discovered are large and brilliant, and possess the highest in- terest. He says that within the last year the Lowell observers have examnined no less than 60,000 stars. They have gone over 12,- ooo systems, Some of the new stars are very close together and are barely separated in the great lens. Others are unequal in brightness, and require the best atmos- phere for effecting a good separation. The discovery of these 6 ne double stars is accounted the most important con- tribution to Southern astronomy since the survey of Sir John Herschel, sixty years ago. One of these stars has been found to revolve only once in five years and another in about sixteen years. Both have become of the highest interest to observers. The lan of Dr. See is to prepare a great catu- ogue of every double star within seventy- five degrees of the South Pole and with this object he will continue his observa- tions for several years. One interesting conclusion Dr. See has reached involves a modification of the fa- mous ‘‘Nebular Hypothesis,’”’ which, for more than a century, has been accepted as the most reasonable theory of the origin of either stellar or planetary systems. The new double star discoveries are interpreted by Dr. See to suggest that the more usual method of the formation of a system or- iginally is that the central mass divides en masse. The satellite then begins life, not as an annular ring about the original body, but in nearly its original form. The rings of Saturn he regards simply as an excep- tion to the rule. One of the phenomenons suggesting this is the general inequality of the components of a double star system, Besides their orbits are, as a rule, twelve times more elliptical than the orbits of a planetary system. To a mathematician this suggests factors that have no place in the planetary system. One of these factors is the action of stellar tides which exert retarding tendency io and flatten the orbits, which originally may have been nearly circular. A phenomenon of great general interest is the twinkling of the stars so familiar on clear, cold nights. This, Dr. See says, 1s due to small waves or currents in the air about the size of an egg or sometimes even larger than a man’s hand. These little waves fill the air under certain conditions, as ona cold night, and imposing before the eyes, dart. the light from side to side, and in this way convert the light.of the star into colors or extinguish it entirely, The appearance is similar to light reflected from Wavy, Trun- ning water. Mr. Douglas discovered how to see these waves with a telescope, and Dr. See brings proof that they cause the twink- ling. Telegraphic reports state that the re- ported discoveries were all made through the twenty-four-inch telescope built by Al- vah Clark & Sons for the observatory es- tablished and ma‘ntained at Flagstaff, Ari- zona, by Percival Lowell. Conditions for telescopic research at Flag- staff are admitted to be superior to any CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. JOHN SHERMAN ON THE LIST, To Be Forced Out of the Me- Kinley Cabinet. DAY WANTS THE POSITION. OFFERED NOW THE ATTORNEY- GENERALSHIP, BUT THIS IS TO BE TEMPORARY. CAJOLERY IS TO BE USED. The Same Tactics Will Be Repeated Which Induced Sherman to Leave the Senate and Make Way for Mark Hanna. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. G., Nov. %.—Secre- tary Sherman is to be forced out of the Cabinet if possible. In previous dispatches to the Post-Dispatch this prediction was made. It is about to be verified. The President has tendered Wm. R, Day, now First Assistant Secretary of State, the position of Attorney-General, to succeed Joseph McKenna, pending the rearrange- ment of his cabinet. Judge Day will accept. The vacancy on the bench which will oc- cur Thursday, when Justice. Field’s resig- nation takes effect, will remain open until it has been determined which of the two cabi- net portfolios shall be given permanently to Judge Day. This will mean a delay of probably four weeks in the appointment of Justice Field’s Succcssor, Judge Day prefers to be Secretary of State, but will not refuse the Attorney- Generalship. He has no intention of go- ing on the United States Supreme Bench. Up to this time Secretary Sherman has given no intimation of a purpose to retire. He is contented with his position, and has on all occasions said that he had no inten- tion of resigning. And yet his resignation would make pos- sible that reconstruction of the Cabinet which would be most satisfactory to all concerned, and the practicability of such a course will, it is said on high authority, be urged upon him by many of his friends, Should such pacific measures fail there is little room to doubt that more drastic meas- ures will be employed. In thig event the res- ignation of Mr. Sherman would be an- nounced as a voluntary’ act, but all those who are familiar with ‘the Secretary’s in- clinations would realize that he had been forced into private life. There is no one conversant with practical politics who does not know that Mr. Sher- man was te, ey into becoming Secretary of State against his will in order that Mr. Hanna might: be appointed as his successor. It is intended to duplicate these tactics, and it is firmly believed that in. the end the Secretary will accept his fate with the docility which characterized his retirement from the Senate. Should Mr. Sherman, however, not prove amenable to “‘reason”’ and give evidence of a determination to publish broadcast the concealed history of the methods employed against him, the plan will be abandoned. Then Judge Day will accept the Attorney Generalship. Pythians in Rebellion. TAMPA, Fla.. Nov. 30.—A sensation was created in Florida Pythian circles last night when Red Cross Lodge, Knighis of Pythias. of this city, defied the authority of the Grand Chancellor and refused to obey his orders or relinquish their charter, . THE WEATHER FORECAST. PARTLY CLOUDY—WARMER. For St. Loufs and vicinity—Partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday night and Wednesday. For Missouri—Warmer and cloudy night and Wednesday. For Illinois—Warmer and cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday, with probably snow flurries in the extreme north portion, The cold wave covers the entire country east of the Mississippi River, while {n the West there has been a general and decided rise in temperature, due to the development of a low area in the Central Rocky Mountain Region. Another high area on the Canadian border In- dicates, however, that the coming rise in temperature in this vicinity will not be greatly prolonged. There were light snows and rains from the Lake Region and Upper Ohlo Valley eastward, and general enows are in progress in North Dakota and Montana, Tuesday PARSONS IN -_ ' CUPID, BEFORE AN D AFTER TAKING, Last week young Cupid, blithe and gay, Sailed gladly forth with bow and arrow, The unsuspecting to waylay, And with no grief his mind to harrow. Oh, Cupid then was in the swim, And all the world was bright to him! Yesterday there were fifty divorce cases on the dockets of the Circuit Courts, This is as bad a solar plexus blow as Cupid ever received in Chicago. This week—oh, play some music sad, And let the lights be soft and low!~ Poor Cupid's brain with grief is mad, And wheresoever he may go, He only sees the mournful wreck Of those who've got it in the neck. A PICKLE. NEGLIGENT PREACHERS WILL HAVE TO GO BEFORE THE GRAND-JURY. FORGOT TO REPORT MARRIAGES Each Offense Is Liable to Cause the Worthy Culprits a Fine of From $5 to $100, required by law. censes that license is returned. regularly married. do not marry. used.’”’ will be thorough.’’ Henry Owens Sophia Stolle cece... Ernest Genrich ....... Anna Dohler Victor Raymond ecccecees loulse Cheron ..... ‘ George Rodus Mary Czitzitezkus . Jacob Frentzel Mrs. Dora Goldstein Margaret Hill eeeeeeseeeeee Charles Mayer @rereererereee oencecceé chee 8. Broadway eeeeeeeer 1006 Morrison Saced dee Oe There will be a delegation of clergymen before the next Grand-jury, Dec. 6. There will also be a deelgation of married people and perhaps a few people who started to marry and didn’t. The December Grand-jury is going after all preachers who have solemnized mar- riages and failed to return the license as which meets Recorder Lewis has submitted to Assistant Circuit Attorney Hodgdon a list of all li- have been outstanding than ninety days, the legal limit, After the license is issued, has no means of knowing whether the mar- riage ceremony was solemnized until the In some cases the min- ister neglects to return the license, even though the couple to whom it is issued are In other instances, men and women take out marriage licenses and In such cases the law says the license should be rerurned to the Li- cense Bureau, where it will be marked “un. more the Recorder Sometimes men deceive women and carry the deception so far as to get a license and then abscond at the last moment. “We will look into all tnese cases,” said Attorney Hodgdon, “and the investigation Following is the ist submitted by Record-| s»wis to the Grand-jury: er Lewis ot Ke pet 8926 Washington 8936 Washington Lindell Hotel .1411 8S. &th .214 N. Levee ~eeeeee-Lindell Hotel eocess-- 16014 Franklin eet 4614 Franklin .. Tth i. 7th 5. 9th . Sth. Robert McManus coeeee- 2015 N. Broadway Mrs. Mary E. Chandler......csccccce:s 1621 8. Sth Joseph Cafferatta ........- Ccoodudes Memphis, Tenn Belle McKenzie Bloomington, Il! Phillip Gorman ... 711 Morgan Becky Block 1025 N. & bh Amos Turpin 2123 St. Charl s Maud Folghum ..... e0eecccas “Béebaceee 23 S. 14th Thomas a re Green County, Il Clara C. Gill Green County, Lil Appollo Rymowicz 1420 N. Third Gaaimira Biliniska.........++++---I411 N. Sixth George Werner. ....ceceeese00++-1906 8, Seventh PEOSy DOR wcecccccccebetecdears 1906 8S. Seventh Biephom Bathe. :«cecesccesstses eesoss o++-1225 Carr Margaret Bazedla..... Bartholomew Sobotta......... +... Normandy, Mo Stanistawa Plewinski............ ».- Normandy, Mo John Somtoba....... ecsceeseeees-ABhley Bullding Caroline Shchoonae.... Ashley Building Thomas W. Meyers. ... Matilda Vodtki......cccesess William J. Kilcoine Lena Barrett Abraham Zoidner......... +++++-420 N. Fourteenth ea a eee 920 N. Fifteenth Section 6847 of the Revised Statutes says: “Every officer or person who shall fall to return a license within nfihety days after the issuance of the same, or who shall make & false return thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- tion thereof shall be fined tn any sum not less than $5 nor more than $100.”’ The action of the December Grand-jury will establish a precedent. Heretofore such investigations have not been so thorough as is now proposed. BARTLEY’S NOVEL DEFENSE. Legally Dead, Being a Convict, and Cannot Be Sued. OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 30.—A novel petition has been filed in the District Court Joseph Bartley, ex-State Treasurer, now under twenty years sentence for looting the Treasury of $500,000. The petition was an answer to the State’s suit in which Bartley ts made co-defendant with his bondsmen by the State in which it seeks to recover the amount stolen. The petition declares that Bartley cannot be sued since he is legally dead, having been sentenced to the pen. His attorneys declare that under the State law no convict can be sued. If this contentfon is held the suit against the bondsmen cannot be maintained, since the principal must be sued with or before sureties are sued in Nebraska. eeeeeces+ 112 Mullanphy 1549 N. Second by LADY MILLAIS ILL. Widow of the Painter Has Cuncer of the Throat. LONDON, Nov. %.—Lady Millals, widow of the late president of the Royal Academy, is seriously ill. She ts suffering from cancer of the threat, the same disease which caused the death of her husband. Way NOT TAKE REGULAR Serints They say we ought to have a school Where our policemen may be trained In times of danger to keep cool, Fee with their blood ‘ : Ps eteined. our streets are And fit themselves to EDUCATION The suggestion of a night school for the education of St. Louis policemen RING THIS woucd 00 AWAY WiIlIt- A LEGAL BATTLE GOING ON. Review of the Points Involved in the Case in Which the Claim Is Se» Up That the Law Is Unconstitutional. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov. #.—The Case to test the conatitutionality of the Yeater State University echolarship en- dowment law of 189 came up in the Supreme Court to-day for argument. The respond- ents filed a motion to quash the writ and upon that issue the merits and demerits of the case were argued. . N, Judson and ex-Governor Stone of St. Louls appeared for the curators of the university, and the relators, W. W. Garth and L. R. Wilfley, were represented by W. M, Wililams of Boonville, F. M. Este, H. V. Watts and 8S. B. Jones of St. Louis and A. V. Hinton of Columbia, When the case wae called, Atiorney Wil- Hams stated to the court that it was the understanding of the couneel that each eide was to have three hours in which to make their arguments, but the court held that two hours to each side would be eufficient time and each side was limited to that time, The case was argued by Silas B. Jonea,who insisted that the endowment of the schol- afship was not for a public purpose; Mr. Watts, who insisted that the title of the act was defective, and Mr. Estes and Mr. Hin- ton of Columbia followed with arguments on the same side. Mr, F. N. Judson, who followed on behalf of the loard of Curae tore, defended the law and made a histort- cal argument showing the relation of the university to the State; that the endowment of scholarships was a proper function of unl- Versities; defending the collateral Inherit- ence tax as a legitimate means to that end, Ex-Gov. Stone followed this on the same Side and spoke in etrong terms on the amendment to the Yeater act in 1897. He also ,briefly noticed several ether peinta, Mr. iliiams closed the arguments ‘n be- mhalf of the relators in a strong speech, The court had. made special preparation to hear this case. The judges eat in con- sultation for two days previous to hearing the arguments. This being the case the court may be able to render a decision in a few days, but it will Il'kely require some time, as the scope is very broad. -@--- Constitutionality of the Tax Law Called in Question. The collateral succession tax case now in the State Supreme Court its being watched by laymen as well as lawyers. No case of . amendatory act relating to the taxation of as great interest has been in the court ia years. L. R. Wilfley ts executor for the estate of Susan E. Spear. She died in St. Lou's in June, 1896, before the passage of the collateral inheritance. The proceedings have been in accordance with this act. But the executor did not base his appeal from the action of the Probate Court in levying the tax on this ground, He denied the courte right *o act on the sole ground of the al- leged unconstitutionality of the act itself. The levy proceeded and the executor was ordered to pay the tax in one year. The executor procured the issuance of a writ of certioror!. That certified the case to the Supreme Court of Missouri. The iaw gives the collateral succession tax to the State university. The curators of the university are asking the Supreme Court to quash this writ. Their counsel are Judson & Taussig. In thetr brief these counsel say that there is no “indefiniteness, vagueness, ome and uncertainty in the proviston for COl- lecting the tax.” nor does the law ttse® violate Article Il., sect’ons ® and 3 of the constitutian of Missourt and amendments V.and XIV.of the federal constitution. The title of the act is not a violation of section 128 of article LIV. of the constitution.of Mise sourt, as alleged, they say. The taxes ime posed are for public, not for private pure poses, The legielation ts not for a class, Inheritance taxation is sustained by em nent American authority. It has recently been sustained in Illinols, Montana and Ohflo, If the original act was defective amende- ments in 1897 cured [t. Many authorities are cited to show thag the act does not violate the Missourt Cotte stitution. The omission of the word “efie dowment” from the act is not material. There are not two distinct titles. It is not necessary for the title to tell the meang by which the endowment ia to be accome plished. All may avail themselves of unle versity free echolarshipsa, and the univere sity is a State, not a private tnatitution, American jurisprudence establishes thag higher education is a proper object for which to levy taxation, The act as amended provides that all property conveyed by will, or any other way, to other than lineal descendants, if Ime tended that the conveyance shall take effect after the death of the or'ginal owner, shall be subject, unless conveyed to charit education or religion, to taxation for for each hundred of clear market ¥ fixed by the Probate Court. The co tion of this tax is a first lien on the erty. It must be paid within ome yea? from the assessment. In the original act a provision was mad@ that % should be assessed where the prope erty conveyed was $10, or. leas tn gee | when over $10,000 it was to pa » hundred on all value in excess © 000. —_- Seo Aground and Badly Injured at Dela- ware Breakwater. of her bow lies on the stone «4 is stove, She is hard feet of water In her hoid. ‘of mally. t that she can be t Tbe bow of the oemoabiel ie now feet over the stone pile at the new b in several places. water and ix wage th Fg +