FRED KURTZ, ~~ EDITOR THE LIABILITY OF WIVES, \ DECISION ON THE RURJECT BY THE PENN. SYLVANIA SUPREME COURT gon’s property act at the last session of 1 lating to women Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, decide? that this act did not abrogate the old common law rule that a married woman was ahsolately exempt from arrest or im prisonment in any civil snit, while a Northampton county Judge, in the lan. der suit of Kuklene against Voecht, held the contrary, and sustained a writ issned for the arrest of Mrs. Vocht, in satisfaction of the Judgment recovered against her This case was taken tothe Supreme Court, whirh now reverses the Judgment and quotes with approval the opposite deecis, NEWS QF THE WEEK. Rhode [sland’s Stato olection will be hald Wednesday declared of for the Bupreme Court. John of Abyssinia has sent a formal or a treaty of peace with Italy, is estimated that 75,000 parsons havo been rendered homeless by the floods in Germany. Chicago 1s somewhat agitated over. the {in such condition that a general tie-up may 800N occur, against tho faculty. Twenty lives were lost and over forty jmen w » injured by the explosion at the coal mine at Rich Hill, Mo ison, and navigation is expected to open to Albany during the present week, | | WITHOUT AN INCOME, Chief Justice Waite's Estate, Wasnixaron, April 1. Statements have been made that the Inte Chief Justice left an estate of $250.000, but it is a painful and surprising fact that the immediate family of the dead jurist is left without any cur rent funds and without income, All of the assets consist of the house here in which the family resides, and apn insurance policy within a few years, cost $24,000, and the last payment on it was made last autumn, Judge Waite had some property in the West, but it was all disposed of in order to literally true that, while the estate is val. ued atl £29.000, the fumily is left without present means of suvport, and withoutany the administration papers defend ft. York, proposes to have Mme. Diss Debar give a public test of her alleged medium. iship. Germany contifdues doubtful of the possi. the Supreme Court, says: “All that is said or intended in the act of June, 1887, is that 7 married woman may be sued without joining Ler hus band, and that any judgment recovered against her shall be collected from her separate property. It was never inten- ded to subject her to arrest and imprison ment in civil cases for wrongs committed daring coverture or to destroy the imma. fore enjoyed.” The Supreme Court also holds that un- der that act the husband is no longer li. able for wrongs committed by the wife alone. — The river and harbor bill appropriates 19% million dollars, Chairman Mi'ls was too ill the last few davs to report his tariff bill in congress, The Snsqnehanna is in good rafting or. der. The T. 8. Sapreme court has decided that railroads con carry liquor into Iowa, the stale law to the contrary notwiths standing. THEY DID IT. What? Cured among others the following. They write: 589 Central Ave, Cincinnati 0.) 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Hew and there is great distrust of both France ind Russia The Davis and Rankin block, at Lake and Peoria streets, Chicago, together with sev. eral frame dwellings, was destroyed by fire. Loss £300 000 A friend Sherman says that un- lzss Ohio sends s solid Bherman delegation to Chicago, Sherman will withdraw from ithe Presidential contest, Josephine Satterly, the reputed belle of Jefferson, Long Island, has eloped th Frank D. McCoy, a hostler in the em- ploy of Dr. M. 1. Chambers. Throe little children were burned to death : & play house, made of leaves, near Macon, , and the mother, a Mrs. Richardson, it qared will lose her reason. \ / a ia fe {| Georgia negroes have been holding a con- vention in Macon and their ‘resolves’ cover protiy much everything from ballot stuffing to penitentiary etiquette. “Johnny" Curtin, a notorious thief, who die” Alderman Jaehne in Paris, has been arrested in Manchester, England The Military Order of the Loyal Legion has decided to establish a war library and museum in Philadelphia. Liberal contribu. tions have been made for the purpose. It is asserted that M. Khitrove, the Rus. sian Minister to Roumania, organized the recent riots that took place at Bucharest and that he is responsible for the troubles Theo. Calloway, the negro who murdered Lowndes County, Ala was taken from jal at Hayneville by a mob of 30 men and Banged Governor Jackson, of Maryland, has pai- doned the election officers fwo years’ imprisonment last Ju Hon frauds om the ground thatt suffered enough. The Hev. Mr. Caster, of Anniston, bama, was on his way to church whe became involved in a quarrel Eoglaud, and in the fight that preacher's nose was bitteg cle Maurice Barrymore has pr Supreme Court an o f pny Dave: port to show cause why she should not be enjoined from playing “La Tosca,” which he asserts is an adaptation of "“Nadjezda Judge Barrett, of the dismissed the couipiaint in Townsend “os to have | £ = the Hauker Merchants’ Telegraph Company set Barah Berahardt snd her hu Damala, both say that they reconciled 10 each other and t i resume marital relations when M. Damala returns from kis professional tour in America It is said th referred t v fe wewspape 8 about Hotel in Nan M. Vio ‘abinot FATE OF THE HEATHEN. Clergymwen Disagrees a« to What will Be- come of bovine Alter easth fata of t Cory sy Ww ie the Methioiist, I) rian, Presvyterian, Hebrew, ad Roman iCathiolic Churches. ‘The guest.on asited iw as “What is the Tate of the heathen af ter deatht Methodist, Episcopal, Unita- trian, Cathoile, and Jaw expross the opinion {as promulgated by tuo lato Pope Pius 1X, i that those whe are luvincibly ignorant of the truths revealed by Christ or of the teaching of the true Church, and who {faithfully observe the Divine uatural law, aided by the light of reason and the grace of God, may be saved. Dr. Thompson, Scoteh Presbyterian, ex- | out conversicn, heathen or Christin, are darned, Pr. Brackett, Presbyterian, thinks that the heathen will be judged by their own consciences, but aoubts their salvation uniess coaverted. Dr. Ford, Baptist, expresses the opinion that there is no salvation out of Christ, and God nas done enough to leave the heathen without excuse. A Thonsands of Hatters | dle, Daxnury, Conn, March 34 «Theres ia dan gor of a labor panic here on account ef the stagnation of the hat Industry, due to the cutting of manufacturers’ prices and the opening of small shops throughout the neighboring country, Two Shoussad five hundred hatters are no w out of work sod the list will probably be swelled to several thousand by vext weer. ©. H Tenney & Co., Meeker Hron, the Tweedy Manufao turing Company wid other old shops have shut down. Eleven hundred operators will close on April 25, indefinitely discharging all employes. At Bethel the mnjority of the Hegderedl ny Nor Yentons Husband, Harrison, sn saplice ol the HN ard. | Woon Company, eu os wite's thirost Adninrg AE LC eur, yestotuds, und sie i available until ninety days The intimate friends of Judge Waite are considering, in view of thes fa is, whether it will be of any fuse to present the mat. ter to the consideration of Congress, or to the United States b cure a id which willl support the widow , and endeavor Lo sc ¢ Waite had no other on han his ’ salary as Chief Justi sition is such that itt Ka { Heo could nave retired about two and a half years ago upon full pay, and the Govern. ment would then have been compelled to appropriate the salary of his successor. This would have cost the Government gn 2) to date, and the Judge's action, This, it is » mitted, might bathe basis of a claim © COUrSe, HAV 1 At least AFTER SEVEN YEARS. An Ilinols Convict Keeps His Promise to Murder the Sheriff, op, lll, Apri 2 bout 6 o'clock yesterds norning Sam Wal drop was called out iis house by Thomas vis, who registered at the Bt James t and claimed to be from St ais soon as Waldrop opened the door Davis asked him if he was HBamuel Waldrop, and being answered in the arm ative, drow a revolver az shot Waldrop three times. The last shot, which struck ! in the back, proved ard ight had been thorough has not yet been caught Beven years ago, it is sald, Davis ¢ mitted a robbery hero and Waldrop, ix constable at the time, arrested was convicted and sent to the Je tentiary for seven ye was sentenced that has kept his word and inoffensive ma citizen. A posse is murderer Depraved Little Girls, : re Weoks ¢ and argo FADS, idowaiks The exd secured, ar Fioods in South Carolina, Cranimston, March 3L-—The raing of the week have set all the rivers overflow. ig and the lowlands are entirely under water There are no fears of a dangerous fresnot, but great damage has already been done. Bridges have already been washed away, railroads broken and seeds washed out of the ground. All farm work has been suspended for ten days, The most serious 088 10 farmers will be that of fortilizers washed out of the fielas. The floods are reaching the rice flelds along the const, and great damage Will be done there Tho loss, through the State will amount tw several hundred thousand dollars, Cashier Hopkins Sentenced, Cixcrxxars, O., March #1. —Bonjamin BE. Hopkins, late Assistant Cashier of the Fidelity National Bank, who has baw in fail for two months awaiting sentence ander conviction for violation of the na tional banking law, was brought into the United Btates Court upon motion of Dis trict Attoraeay Burnel, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years and two months. He appeared broken down from ilineas, but did not manifest desp emotion fpon receiving his sentence, ————— Testing Balfour's Words, Dunrix, April 2.-—-The Parnellites have decided to hold six meetings on next Bun. day in procisimed districts in order to test Mr. Balfour's assertion that in those dis- tricts the National League is a thing of the past. William OBrien will speak at Loughrea, Michael Davitt and John O'Con. nor at Enais, J. Rodmond at Kilrush, T. M. Healy ay Kanturk, and W. Redmond at Ramsgrange. No Assets for Depositors, Newnuno, N. Y., April 1.