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tW > By F. M. KIMMELL. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co. Subscription , $1 a Year in Advance State and Legislature. The Omaha Bee and the Lincoln Journal both claim the election of the Republican state ticket and a majority of the legislature on joint ballot ; but this claim is denied by the Omaha World-Herald , which makes a similar claim. A private telegram received by THE TRIBUNE , nt noon , is to the effect that it will take the official vote to de termine both or either , the contest be * ingso close , that the successful candi dates will not likely have a thousand votes plurality. THE NEXT HOUSE AND SENATE. Increased Republican Majorities Gains a Surprise to All. Chicago , Nov. 7. With several districts still to be heard from the Republican strength of the lower house of the nex congress is placed at 200 , as against 149 Democrats and 8 Independents. This would be a majority of 44 , as comparec with 15 two years ago. The great changes have been in the east. The Republicans have gainec heavily in New York and Pennsylvania and there have also been changes in some of the Mississippi Valley states , in Ohio and on the Pacific coast. Michigan Wisconsin , Iowa and Minnesota stil have a solid Republican delegation. To this list is now to be added California which has elected seven Republicai members. Changes in the senate are such as to make that body even more Reoublicai than it now is. The Republicans have carried Delaware , thus making sure o two senators from that state. They have also captured the legisla ture in Utah , and this insures a Repub lican member of the senator to fill the vacancy which now exists. All the re turns indicate that the Republicans have also carried the legislature in South Da kota , insuring the'defeat of Senator Pet- tigrew. In North Carolina , Marion Butler , Populist , will be replaced by a Democrat Making allowance for these changes the senate will stand 55 Republicans , 26 Democrats and 9 Independents. Senator Allen Re-Elected. The result in the Twenty-Ninth sen atorial district , composed of Chase , Dundy , Frontier , Furnas , Gosper , Hayes , Hitchcock and Red Willow counties , while not unexpected , is none the less decisive and glorious , proving again the merits of the Republican nominee , Hon. E. N. Allen of Arapahoe , Furnas county , who is again returned to the state senate by a most complimentary vote. Follow ing we give the pluralities of the nom inees in the several counties reliable , but not official : Allen Lincoln Chase 35 Dundy 4 Frontier 135 Furnas 95 Gosper 72 Hayes 37 Hitchcock 3S Red Willow 270 Totals 572 114 Mien's plurality 4. This re-election of Mr. Allen to the state senate is a high compliment to him , and is conclusive proof of the wisdom of the Republicans in unanimously re-nom inating him for that office. We believe that he will give a good account of him self in the next session of the Nebraska legislature , which is predestined to be one of the most important and stormy L sessions in the history of this common ly wealth , a session which will require men of high honor and responsible back-bone to transact its business with integrity and credit. [ 5 RED WILLOW county did herself proud with almost 300 plurality for W. S. Mor- lan. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has not only i received a larger electoral vote , but his popular majority is also largely in creased. WE CAN'T tell a lie : It was Colonel | Shallenberger's bull pup that got outside ) the congressional cabbage in the "Big Fifth. " Murder will out. THE redemption of Nebraska is al most complete. Another such a "vic tory" for W. J. Bryan and Nebraska will be in the Republican column all over. HENRY CRABTRKK , the Republican candidate for commissioner in the Second end district , was defeated by his Fusion opponent , Maurice Reddy , by 15 votes. 'DEFEATED , " remarked Boss Crocker of the ice trust and Tammany , as he emerged , undaunted and undismayed from the snowslide , "but not discour aged. " Nothing frigid will ever dismay Richard ; it will take a rising thermom eter to meet his case. REPUBl.iCANSwill have good working pluralities in both houses of the next congress. The total number of Republi cans elected in 202 ; Democrats , 147 ; doubtful , S. The preseut congress contains 185 Republicans to 172 in the allied opposition. The great gains were made in the lower branch of con gress. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A GLANCE at the abstract of the votes cast in Red Willow county reveals an as tounding amount of ignorance concern ing the ballots , and numerous failures of the voters to express themselves fully at the polls. Many incomplete ballots and many ballots rendered void by the voters marking the names of all candidates for the same office. There has been so much tinkering with the form of the ballot in late years that the voters are making wretched work in preparing their ballots , A simple , blanket ballot should be adopted , in which each party shall have a separate column. The purpose should be to make voting simple and easy , not complex and difficult. Best Grades Dennison Street IT'S ALL OUR WAY. McKINLEY PLURALITY. Estimates based on Associated Press election returns received Up to noon today show that McKinley will have a greater popular plurality than he received in 1896. While McKLinlev's pluralities in New York and some of the New Eng land stales are yreaily reducer ! this has been counteracted by the reduced pluralities for Bryan in the Western states carried by him and the increased pluralities received l > y .McKinley in some of the states in the West carried by the Republican candidate. The folio wing table shows Mr. Bryan's loss on popular vote in the West an aggregate of 465,000 : loiva 40,000 Nebraska 20.000 Colorado 100,000 Utah 50,000 Missouri 2Ooco California 20,000 Ohio 25,000 Indiana 10,000 Idaho 15,000 Kansas 40,000 Michigan 20,000 Minnesota 30.000 North Dakota / 10,000 South Dakota 5,000 Wyoming 5,000 Oregon 10,000 * Washington . . . . 20,000 Nevada 5,000 Montana 20,000 Total 465,000 McKINLEY HAS 295 VOTES. . FOR MCKINLEY. California 9 Connecticut 3 Delaware 3 [ daho 3 [ llinois i. 24 [ ndiana 15 [ owa 13 Kansas 10 Maine 6 Maryland S Massachusetts 15 Michigan 14 Minnesota 9 Nebraska 8 New Jersey 10 Alabama ' . i r Arkansas 8 Colorado : 4 Florida 4 jeorgia 13 Kentucky 13 vOtiisiann 8 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 New Hampshire 4 New York 36 North Dakota 3 Ohio 23 Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 Utah 3 Vermont 4 Washington 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 12 Wyoming 3 Total 295 FOR BRYAN. Montana 3 Nevada . - 3 North Carolina n South Carolina 9 Tennessee 12 Texas 15 Virginia 12 Total 152 ONLY A CROOKEC CENT. "When tlic Voting ; Woman Thonprht It " \Va 3olU , She Cot Nervonn. The car had juat rounded "dead man's curve" at Fourteenth street , when n daintily clad young woman swished something out of her. hand which as It struck the street was fol lowed by a sharp metallic sound. "What was that you threw away , my dear ? " asked her companion , another girl about the same age. "Money , " laconically responded the thrower. "Money ! " continued her companion in a horrified tone of voice. "Why , it sounded like gold. " "My gracious ! " shrieked the thrower. "Have I thrown away one of those goldpieces ? " By this time several of the passen gers had arisen from their seats and were looking in an indignant way at the conductor for not stopping the car. lie , however , was one of those high collared , stoical young men who boss things on the Broadway cars , and the excitement created by the money thrower did not cnuse him to turn a hair. All this time the car was bowl ing as merrily along as Broadway cars ever do bowl , and it was getting far ther and farther away from the mon ey. One or two of the passengers were about to jump off the car , but then they thought better of it and turned their gaze anxiously on the young wo man , who was hunting frantically through her purse. Just as it seemed the strain would be too much for the excited passengers to bear longer the fair thrower looked up smilingly at her companion and murmured sweetly : "It's all right , my dear. It wasn't a goldpiece after all. " "What was it , then ? " asked the second end young woman. "Only a crooked penny , " replied the thrower. "I always throw awa v crook ed pennies for luck. " Then both girls softly giggled , while the other passengers , looking both fool ish and disgusted , resumed their seats. New York Tribune. ORIGIN OFTHETERM "MOB" TJncd In Itn First Jlcnnlnp : In Time of Clmucer. As indicating the populace , prover bially fickle and easy to be moved ( mo bile , from Latin mobillis ) , the expres sion "the mobile people" is as old as the time of Chaucer , but in its later sense , that of the disorderly crowd , and in its contracted form , "mob , " it is not older than the postrestoration pe riod. In Roger North's Examen , 1740 , reference is made to the Green Ribbon club , 1GSO-2 , and the writer adds : "I may note that' the rabble first changed their title and -were called the mob in the assemblies of this club- first mobile vulgus , then contracted in one syllable. " It was used hesitating ly at first by Dryden ( "Don Sebastian , " 1G90) , Durfy ( "Commonwealth of Wo men , " 1088) ) and Shadwell ( "Squire of Alsatia , " 1GS8) ) , and Richardson points out that Dryden uses both "mobile" and "mob" in the sense of rabble , the former in the stage directions as the common word , the latter as if it had not long been introduced. In 1711 The Spectator instances "mob" as an example of the popular tendency to curtail many of our words in familiar writings and conversation. The verb "to mob , " derived of course as above , does not occur until the pe riod of Horace Walpole , many years later , and Shakespeare's expression , "the mobled queen" ( "Hamlet" ) , refers not to the "mob" ( mobile ) , but to the headdress in disorder. Boston Tran script. AVonltl Conic Anyliovr. The Rev. Father Stauntou of the well known Church of St. Alban , Holboru. is a humorist in his way and often tells with inimitable effect a droll story in the course of his sermon which sends through the congregation a gentle rip ple of merriment. On Sunday he sat irized the ambition of certain people to use words of which they did not know the meaning. Many of them were fond of sticking the letters "D. V. " in all sorts 'of places instead of using the plain , homely English phrase "God willing. " He knew one gentle man , rather shaky in his Latin , who in a letter to a friend wrote "I will be with you 'D. V. ' on Monday , but any way on Tuesday. " London Telegraph. AVhj- She AVns Haydn had a peculiar way of deter mining the time in which a piece of music should be sung. On one occa sion a female singer in high esteem at court had been appointed to sing one of Haydn's compositions. At the re- icarsal she and the conductor differed is to the time of the music. The mater - : er was to be settled by referring it to Haydn himself. When called on to decide , he asked the conductor if the singer was handsome. "Very , " was the reply , "and a spe- lal favorite with the prince. " "Then she is right , " replied Haydn. To stop bleeding at the nose , cut some blotting paper about an inch square , roll it about the size of a lead pencil and put it up the nostril that is bleeding. The hollow in it will allow the sufferer breathe. The blood will fill the space between the tube and the nose and will very soon coagulate and cease to flow. A Contractor. Knicker You say your son is a con tractor. What is his special Hue ? Becker Dobts. A man who inadvertently stops upon a banana peel has doubts about the sustaining power of the fruit. St. Louis Star. English archers in battle used the longbow. French archers the cro- bow. The longbow was certainly the better. ' ! . - > \ . v. f * ABSTRACT OF THE Official Vote of Red Willow County , Nebraska ELECTION HELD NOVEMBER 6,1900. ETT ' E C T I F T IT E I , U I always bring disappointment as well as satisfaction ! and , whllemany are jubilantftvergtthe results of the re cent election , there < none more satisfied than those who have participated in the Fall Bar = gains at Honest John's. Men's , Boys' and Children's Clothing , La = dies' Capes and Furs , and a t , < % , < * , i complete stock of Winter Underwear - wear , all at prices that make every garment a bargain , are some of the inducements to the buyer who plans to make a dollar go a long way. Our treatment will be < % , SATISFACTORY. Give Us an Opportunity to Blake You a Regu lar Customer. ft 9jf HONEST . 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