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pant s from death seems miraculous. The owners 

 <>f these residences wen- prosecuting the Mloof 

 Keepers, against whom injunctions had been 

 grunted. The county supervisors offered a re- 

 ward of $2,000 for the apprehension of the pcr- 

 |N'tralors, and tin- citi/cns miscd by subscription 

 ne-irly $5,000 more. Subscript ions were also 

 taken to assist in rebuilding the wrecked hou-<--, 

 ami the mayor and council were culled upon to 

 close immediately all saloons. They were all 

 dosed within four days. Citizens of other parts 

 of the State assisted in raising the fund for re- 

 building and refurnishing the homes. 



Judicial Decisions. A case to test the con- 

 stitutionality of the medical-practice act and the 

 pharmacy law was brought before the Supreme 

 Court by the Eclectic Medical College of Des 

 Moines to compel the State Board of Medical 

 Examiners to grant certificates to its graduates 

 allowing them to practice. The judgment of the 

 lower court dismissing the petition was affirmed, 

 the decision thus sustaining the State law. 



A decision in regard to taxation of church 

 property not used for church purposes was ren- 

 dered in the case of a lot bought by a congrega- 

 tion with the expectation of building a church 

 upon it. Afterward the congregation decided 

 not to use it, and built in another place. To as- 

 sist in the erection of the church the property in 

 question was mortgaged for $5,000. The peti- 

 tion says that the church intends to sell the 

 property and use the proceeds to liquidate the 

 debt of the church. The property was assessed 

 by the assessor for taxation, and the board of 

 supervisors refused to remit the taxes. The 

 church refused to pay; as a consequence it was 

 sold for taxes, and the church wanted the coun- 

 ty treasurer restrained from issuing a tax deed. 

 The defendant demurred to the petition, and 

 the demurrer was sustained, the court deciding 

 that the intention to use the proceeds arising 

 from the sale for church purposes in no manner 

 bears upon the present uses of the property, 

 which is held for the purpose of sale, and hence 

 can not claim exemption under the statute. The 

 church will appeal to the Supreme Court. 



An action was brought by the taxpayers of 

 Lyon County to enjoin the payment of $120,000 

 of county bonds, issued at a time when the con- 

 stitutional limit of taxation was $71,876.85. The 

 action was begun in 1887. The defendants in 

 this case were bondholders who joined in the 

 issues in the district court. The court holds 

 that the bonds are all void because issued at a 

 time when the indebtedness of the county was 

 far in excess of the constitutional limit. The 

 remedy of the bondholders to recover what they 

 are entitled to, the court says, is to bring action 

 against the county. 



The question of the right of the Governor to 

 remit costs came up before the Supreme Court 

 on appeal. Bonds were given for the appear- 

 ance of a man indicted for keeping a liquor 

 nuisance. Me went away and the bond was de- 

 clared forfeited. Gov. Boies remitted the judg- 

 ment. The county attorney then made a show- 

 ing of the costs in the case and the amounts 

 due him as commissions and attorney's fees in 

 the case, and demanded that the bondsman 

 should be held for the amount due Harrison 

 County and the county attorney as costs. This 



was sustained by the district court. The ques- 

 tion raised in the appeal is as to the authority 

 of the Governor to remit oOfta and all* 

 fees. The Supreme Court holds "that other-, 

 and not the public, own the c.,-ts; thai tt. 

 ernor, in his ads of remission, rcpp-int- the 

 public and can only remit that which, under the 

 law, goes to the public." 



Political. Four tickets were put into nomi- 

 nation for the election of State officers Nov. 7. 



The Republican convention met at I>e- Moines 

 Aug. 10. The platform asserted that 

 The campaign claims of the Democratic party in the 

 election <>t' Is'.':.' have proved f:d.-e, :m<l the claims 

 made by the Republican party pr< ..v<l true. Not an 

 attention made by the Democratic party an to the 

 McKinlcy law or reciprocity, not u claim of the 

 vaunted good results of the Democratic .-u' <<*, has 

 come true; but in the withholding of the pensions of 

 Union soldiers, in business paralysis, in mills and 

 manufactories closed, in suspended banks, in bank- 

 rupted firms, in the distress of fanners, in the grow- 

 ing multitude of tramps, in falling wages of thousands 

 of working people discharged from employment, in 

 the monetary stringency, in the prevailing hard times 

 and public distress, arc the fulfillment of what Repub- 

 licans predicted with historic warrant, a* to the known 

 capacity of the Democratic party to distress and afflict 

 the American people. 



When President Cleveland said, in his recent mes- 

 sage to Congress, that our unfortunate tina&cial plight, 

 with the evil conditions he depicted, are principally 

 chargeable to congressional legislation touching the 

 purchase and coinage of silver by the (General (iovern- 

 ment, he omitted the largest producing cause. This 

 is the sinister eifect of the threatened Democratic at- 

 tempt to overthrow protection and a protective tariff, 

 I'M embodied in that wise measure known as the Mc- 

 Kinley law, and so close American manufactures and 

 overwhelm the industries that give profitable employ- 

 ment to American capital and American labor. 



.It declared in favor of maintaining both gold 

 and silver as tender for the paying of debts, and 

 that Congress should provide for equal values in 

 gold, silver, and paper dollars ; it declared oppo- 

 sition to State-bank money, and denounced a 

 " cheap and depreciated money of low purchas- 

 ing power as an especial hardship upon the poor 

 and all who receive wages." It commended the 

 administration of President Harrison, and con- 

 demned the pension policy of the present Admin- 

 istration. On the issue of prohibition the plat- 

 form declared that 



Prohibition is no test of Republicanism. The Gen- 

 eral Assembly lias Driven to the State a prohibitory 

 law as strong as any that has ever been enacted b\ 

 any country. Like any other criminal statute, its n'- 

 tention, modification, or repeal must be determined by 

 the General Assembly, elected by and in sympathy 

 with the people, and to them is relegated the subject 

 to take such action as they may deem just and best in 

 the matter >f maintaininir the present law in those 

 portions of the State where it is now or can be made 

 efficient, and give to the localities such method.- of 

 controllinir and rc.irulatin^ the liquor traffic as will 

 serve the cause of temperance and morality. 



The ticket nominated was: For Governor, 

 Frank 1). Jackson ; for Lieutenant-Ciovernor. 

 Warren S. Dungan : for Railroad Commissioner. 

 .John W. Luke; for Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction. Henry Sabin : for Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court, (tifford S. Robinson. 



The Democratic convention was held at !>.- 

 Moines Aug. 23. The platform declared in favor 

 of tariff reform, and urged Congress to give " the 



