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Show Mail Matter. Postmaster General Hatton today states that publishers of matter admitted to the mails as second class may print upon the side of a postal card intended for communication, bills, receipts and orders for subscriptions to their publication or publications, and may also print the address of such publisher upon the address side of the card and enclose the same in second class matter. He also decided an ancient rule, that matter of a lower grade may be enclosed in that of higher as proper. It authorizes printed matter to be enclosed in merchandise, and authorizes printing on a tag attached to sample or on the sample itself. Two Families Drowned. Clayton, N. Y. (New York), Nov. (November) 21. - Frank Copperand, keeper of the Hub House, his wife and two small children, and Charles Wilson, keeper of the Cliff House, wife and two children, were drowned in Eel Bay, on Saturday morning, going to Gananoque in a small boat. The Delegateship. New York, Nov. (November) 22. - The Herald's Washington special says: On behalf of Allan G. Campbell, claiming the seat as delegate from Utah in the next Congress upon a certificate of Gov. (Governor) Murray, in whose place Mr. George M. Adams, the holding-over Clerk of the last House of Representatives, has placed the name of George Q. Cannon, the representative of the "Mormon" Church upon the roll, the formal attention of Clerk Adams has been called to the recent decision Of Chief Justice Hunter in the Third District Court of Utah that Cannon is not a citizen of the United States and that the certificate held by him as a certificate of naturalization was obtained by fraud and has been fraudulently used and is void on its face. In view of this decision and of the further facts set forth in the printed brief accompanying the communication that on the eighth of January last, after a full hearing of counsel on both sides, the Governor of the Territory rendered a decision in favor of Campbell and issued to him a certificate as delegate elect and that on an appeal taken by Cannon to the U. S. District Court of Utah, the decision of Gov. (Governor) Murray was sustained, Clerk Adams is asked: "First, whether he proposes to continue the name of George Q. Cannon on the roll of the House as a delegate from Utah. Second, if not, whether he will recognize the certificate of the Governor by placing on the roll the name of A. G. Campbell." Adams has made no written reply, but orally has stated that he cared nothing for the question of citizenship and would have put Cannon's name on the roll even had he known him to be an unnaturalized Englishman. He learned from the Sergeant-at-Arm's office that Cannon is regularly drawing pay every month as delegate from Utah though he holds no certificate of election. Campbell and his Attorney, Judge L. B. McBride of Salt Lake, are now on their way to Washington and it is stated propose to bring to a test in the courts of the District the power of the holding-over Clerk to place on the roll of the next House a person lacking the first qualification, viz. citizenship. Killed Outright. Piqua, Ohio, Nov. (November) 22. - At 5 o'clock this morning, Henry Brokered and Joe Blasé were killed outright. A. Beheart was seriously injured by a locomotive running down a hand car on which they were riding on the Dayton and Michigan Railroad. They were section men and had been to Kirkwood, clearing the debris of the cars wrecked there last night. |