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%.' ? The mayor of Chadron has tendered
bis resignation.
A receiver will he appointed for the
i State Bank of Gothenburg.
Registration in Omaha and Lincoln
| fell off somewhat this year.
‘;j Dakota county boasts of a citizen
who is an even 100 years old.
Hoofer will ship nearly 300 carloads
•f sugar beets this campaign.
|;V The new Episcopal church at Nio
? L hrara was recently dedicated.
Ipf , The hotel at Plainview, for some
\ - time closed, is about to be reopened,
t Dixon lost its $4,000 school house by
fire and will build another right away.
^ --The Norfolk sugar factory beat its
y* own best record by making up 369 tons
of beets in twenty-four hours.
Chari.es Feas of Friend fell from a
' horse and broke his back. He was to
£•; have been married the next day.
The will of the late General C. H.
Van Wyck was filed for probate last
week. He leaves all of his property,
y. real and personal, to bis wife and
daughter.
Henry Zeloff, a farm hand, fell
*4- from a loaded wagon near Inavale
, ; The wheels passed over him, causing
■ aaiat injuries.
Tn official rote of Gage county on
state and judicial officers is as follows:
Norval, 2,308;, Maxwell, 1, 43; Maho
ney, 892; Phelps, 300; Wolfenbarger,
liv.
The Cotner university will bo closed
in a few days and it will very likely bo
sold to satisfy a debt of $73,000. It is
said the Catholics will purchase it in
T: the event it is sold.
A brass band is being organized
V among the inmates of the state institu
. tion at Beatrice which will have for its
ifr leader a gentleman recently engaged
v as one of the department inspectors.
A i.ivei,v and rather unusual episode
gr“ disturbed the usual quietude of the
fi" Berlin schools recently, when a rattle
snake was discovered under a pupil’s
: desk. The - .reptile teas soon dis
patched.
1 Four members of the Guilford fam
ily of Aurora have died of typhoid
fever, supposed to have been caused by
' impure water, as the well contained
* some dead frogs and other refuse. Two
married brothers, one child and the
aged mother have died
J. J. Johnson, a stranger from Ham
ilton, Mo., was held up at Lincoln and
■ ’ robbed of gif#. The affair occurred at
a point near 220 North Seventh street
, at about 9 o'clock. There were two of
his assailants, and in the struggle John*
§57 son's clothes were nearly torn off,
A jury in the federal court has found
judgment for the government in a case
*'' brought by the United States district
attorney to enforce the forfeiture bonds
si.': of Joel W. Hale. He had eight con
T, tracts to carry the mail on routes in the
vicinity of Edgar. Hale abandoned the
■ contracts, aud the jury gave the plain
tiff #0,400.
y: Thk ferry across the river at Platts
J‘ mouth, which has heretofore been
maintained by the Plattsmouth tner*
chants for the purpose of inducing
S ' Iowa fanners living near the river to
k bring their produce to the Plattsmouth
f, market, was discontinued last week,
some of the merchants failing to pay
their assessments. ,
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vaienwne come was destroyed
by five at Valentine. The building be
longed to Frank Fischer, whose loss is
shout $4,000, having no insurance.
Part of the fixtures and stook of the
saloon were saved. Mrs Alice Kay con
ducted the hotel, and had $3,000 worth
of furniture and fixtures, on which she
carried $1,500 insurance, a very small
part of which was saved.
At Bed Cloud, while Henderson Ze
Inn was hauling corn one of the horses
became detached from the singletree,
and trying to hold the team was pulled
off of the load, falling under the
wagon.: The other horse became
frightened and pulled the wagon some
distance. Mr. Zeluff wasatruck by the
kingbolt and had two riba broken,
from the effects of which he died sev
oral hours later.
Is Omaha last Sunday night Ida des
kill was enticed into a vacant building,
outraged and choked to death. She
was the only t daughter of a widowed
mother. One .Morgan, an ex-peniteu
tiary cAnvlct, has been arrested as the
supposed, guilty party. There seems
little doubt that he committed the deed
and to save him from the hands of a
mob he has been temporarily taken to
the penitentiary.
Ex-Skxatou Majjdf.iwon of Ne
braska; general solicitor for the Bur
lington lines west of the M issouri river,
went to Washington last week to at
tend the hearing of the case of the
Commercial club of Omaha against cer
tain railroads centering in Omaha and
Council Bluffs. While in Washington
(senator . Manderson will present his
.argument on appeal to the secretary of
the treasury from the beet sugar grow
ers of the country against the decision
*f the comptroller of the treasury in
the sugar bounty case.
The opposition to the 910.000 bond is
sue for ; water works improvement at
Hastings chat a big vote against the
proposition, defeating it by a large ma
jority. This leaves the council to find
•ther means for paying for the im
provement contracted for and now
under way. Hon. John M. Ragan, who
Was bitterl/ opposed to iba issue, has
made the open assertion that he will
have the council enjoined if they at
tempt to nee the money of other funds
tepay for the work, claiming it was
contracted without authority.
Th* Tecumeeh public library has
twen {a existence one year, during
the year S.OM volumes were taken out
ferpernsel.
Ckkxow* parties entered the barn on
William Hilgenkemp's farm the other
night, hitched his beat team to hit car
riage and drove away. -
. Wilxjam Oeinxop was found dead
In his bed at Lousville from heart die
enae. Mr. Osseakop was an early act
tier ia the county. He made a trip to
California before railroads were built,
j;' ' Mad crossed the plains, going via New
York end the isthmus, and returning,
m | ^arehased a farm adjoining Louisville,
be ha* resided ever since.
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Bazar Beet Growers Complain.
A correspondent writing from Fre
mont complains of the growers’wrongs,
thus: The sugar factory representa
tives throughout the entire state visit- !
ed every hamlet portraying the beau
ties and profit of raising sugar beets.
They were very successful in this par
ticular line, for hundreds at their earn
est solicitation invested every dollar
they had, and not being content with
this even went so far as to encumber
themselves by mortgaging, some even
their household effects, in order to
make a complete success. Why not?
| Five dollars per ton and twenty tons
per acre and no danger of drouth. It’s
simply lilce finding money. Oh, no.
It’s a deplorable fact, considered in its
entirety. We have never witnessed a
more gross misrepresentation. The facts
and results are simply this: We have
hundreds of acres of beets on hand,
and are confronted daily with a reply,
“We will notify you when to ship, as
they do not come up to the require
ments of our contract.” We might bo
content with this particular phase of
the situation if some of the favored few
did not get to ship forty to fifty cars,
while other adjoining fields planted on
the same day and under like conditions
receive no orders at all, only ‘'.Silo or
dispose of them if you can.” Stop and
reflect a moment. When you consider
winter Is staring these poor unfortu
nates in the face and not an available
dollar to meet its exigencies. It is do
uncommon sight to see ■ tears trickle
down the cheeks of the brawny sons of
toil. And well may them weep, for it
is a well known fact that if every man
should receive an order to ship at once
they could not harvest this immense
crop-of beets before frost would inter
fere; lienee the eagerness for the
longed for word, “Ship.”
Eloping; Girl* Return.
A Waverly dispatch says: Miss Ward,
one of the young1 women who eloped
from here last week, has returned and
gives full details of the case. She
states that there were a number in the
plot and some acted as accomplices,
one of whom was bribed with a tine
present He was about to give the
snap away when he was threatened.
The party left Lincoln on the 3 o'clock
train for Omaha, but paid the conduc
tor to let them off at a suburb of
Omaha. They then took a dummy for
Council Bluffs In a few hours they
were joyfully on their way for Kansas
City, at which place the young women
realized their situation and concluded
to proceed no further. Druggist Vin
ing left at once with them for their
home. Before they started back Dr.
McCandless had Miss Miller return the
watch that be had presented her.
When the party reached St Joseph on
the return trip Miss Miller stopped,
meeting a friend there. Vining and
Miss Ward came on to Greenwood,*
from which place she notified her par
ents here yesterday afternoon by letter
and then by telephone that she would
return home at once if received with
out any punishment or rebuke, and
that she and Viuing would bo married
as soon ns a divorce could bo procured
through the Arizona courts. This
afternoon J. M. Miller received a mes
sage from the manager of the St.
Joseph Herald, asking if Miss Miller
could return to the parental roof, to
which he wired “Yes” at once. The
parents of tho girls are greatly relieved
at the outcome and shed tears of joy
’nstead of sadness.
Encouraging Beet Producer*.
The Oxnard beet sugar company at
Grand Island has offered to take those
beets which do not come up to the
standard in purity and saccharine con
tents, in the following circular: "We
have been asked by several committees
representing beet growers if we would.
accept beets below 13 per cent sugar
and 80 per cent purity at a reduced
price, with the object of saving as
much as possible of the crop We are
disposed to do this, after we have
worked up beets coming up to the re
quirement of our contract, for which
We pay 85, in compliance with the law
passed by the late legislature. We are
not able today to say whut we can pay
for such low test beets, but after care
fully investigating the whole subject
we will, within one week, name you a
price which you can afford to pay*for
all beets containing less than 10 per
eent sugar and 70 per cent.purity The
season is advanced and when you har
vest your crop which we think it wise
now to do, be careful in tapping your
beets to cut off all the frozen part, that
they may be well preserved in the si
los."
Since there are always some beets
which will not come up to the require
ments,' and which therefore are fed to
stock, this offer, if the prices to be
named later are reasonable, will no
donbt bo accepted with satisfaction to
the producers, especially since in Hall
county there is an abundance of other
food lor wintering stock.
Ida BaskUt’s Murderer.
Blair dispatch: Morgan, who is ac
cused of a criminal assault upon and
murder of Ida Gaskill, is known here,
and he was jailed here on the charge
of attempting a criminal assault but
was released. His release was because
the jury thought the evidence not
strong enough to convict His intended
victim, as charged, was a girl 7 years
old. He had tried coaxing a number
of girls to go out walking with him
but failed and was watched. When lie
enticed this girl out of town and had
gone about a quarter of a mile her sis
ter and a young man overtook them,
and feeling certain that his designs
were evil, they rescued the girl and
i had Morgan arrested. That was two
years ago. Not long after Morgan was
convicted of burglary of Arndt’s cigar
factory and saloon and sent to the pen
itentiary.
Bomejr Must Pay.
Judge Sbiros today, says a Lincoln
dispatch, rendered his decision in the
case wherein Albert Watkins, as re
ceiver for the Ponca National bank,
sought to have a transfer of stock by
: U. W. £. Dorsey to Frank Dorsey set
j aside. ‘The receiver alleged that Frank
Dorsey was insolvent and the transfer
! just before the failure of the bank was
to protect O. W. E. Dorsey from liabil
[ ity to assessment The court set aside
the transfer, and the judgment recites
that <i W. E. Dorsey must pay the as
sessments, which amount to 100 per
cent
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MUCHLY EEPUBLIC AN,
EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE ONE
WAY POLITICALLY. v
Republican* Take All There Was In Sight
—Even Maryland and Kentucky Wheel
Into Republican Line—Democrat* and
Populist* Hot In It to Any Extent.
Result* of the Elections.
Elections were held on the 5th in
twelve states and one territory in the
United States. The territory is Utah,
and the states ore Nebraska, Kansas,
Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mary
land, Mississippi, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vir
ginia. The election in most of the
states was upon local issues pure and
simple or upon other questions which
do not divide the two great national
parties. Returns received from yari
ous points are as follows:
NEBRASKA.
Omaha, Nov. 7.—Latest and almost
complete returns front the city and
county sustain, with few exceptions,
the estimate of the result of the elec
tion as printed.
Broatch's plurality for mayor over
Brown is 985 and all the city offices will
be filled by men named at the repub
lican convention.
Complete returns have been received
from every voting1 district in the city
on city officers showing1 all republicans
elected. The same is true regarding
the school board. Two of the county
commissioners on the citizens’ ticket
were successful. l*'or sheriff the re
publican candidate was elected.
The returns on the state judicial tick
et so far as received indicate a very
close election, in fact, the result is so
much in doubt that both republicans
and populists are claiming the victory.
Chairman Ilainer of the republican
state central committee, while admit
ting that upon the surface of the situa
tion the contest is a close one, refuses
to admit for a moment thatJudgu Nor
vul has not been re-elected by a safe
plurality.
Returns practically complete from
the Fourth judicial district show that
the citizens elect two judges, Keysor
and Duffic, while the republicans elect
Baker, Dickinson, Powell Scott and
Slabaugh. It is possible that the miss
ing precinct in the Eighth ward of
Omaha may elect Ferguson instead of
Duffie, but Fawcett of the republican
ticket is out of the race by 500 votes
Omaha, Nov. Nov. 8.—Official returns
from Nebraska are being made up very
slowly, but as far as received they in
dicate the re-election of Chief Justice
Norval by a plurality of somewhere in
the neighborhood of 6,00ft
From returns nt hand the World
Ilerald feels safe in giving the follow
ing as the list of district judgs elected:
First District—Stull und I.atton, reps.
Second District—Ramsey, dem
Third District—Hall and Holmes,
present incumbents, and Cornish, all
reps.
Fourth District—Keysor and Scott,
present incumbonts, and Baker; Dick
inson, Fawcett, Powell and Slabaugh,
all reps.
Fifth District—Bates, present incum
bent, pop, and Sedgwick, rep
Sixth District—Marshall, rep, and
Sullivan, dem, present incumbent.
Seventh District—Hastings, present
incumbent, dem.
Eighth District—Evans, repb
Ninth District—Robinson, present in
cumbent, pop.
Tenth District—Beall, present incum
bent, pop.
eleventh District—Kendall, rep., and
Thompson, dem., present incumbent
Twelfth District—Greene, pop.
Thirteenth District—Grimes, rep.
Fourteenth District—Norris, rep.
Fifteenth District — Kiukaid, rep,
present incumbent and Westover, pop.
This makes a net gain to the repub
licans of four judges, losing three and
gaining seven.
. MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Nov. 7.—Corrected returns
now at hand show that Governor Green
halge is re-elected by 63,444 plurality,
which is 1,033 votes above his plurality
last year. Municipal suffrage for wo
men was defeated by a majority esti
mated at over 75,000.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Pnn.ADEM-gtA, Nov. 5.—Returns re
ceived up to midnight indicate that
Benjamin J. Hayward, republican, has
been elected state treasurer by about
150,000 plurality, a republican gain
over 1863, which was also an off year,
of about 15,000. This state also elects
seven judges of the now superior court.
Of these the six republicans nominated
are elected. The seventh man on the
ticket is in doubt
KANSAS.
Kansas City, Nov. 7.—Kansas re
turns today show that the republicans
made practically a clean sweep of the
state, carrying a majority of the coun
ties entire, and electing many of the
officers of the others. C. K. Holliday,
independent candidate for chief justice,
admits David Martin, lus republican
opponent, will have 40,006 majority.
IOWA.
Des Moines, November 6.—The re
publican state committee now claim
70,000 for Drake as the least figure.
Indications are that Drake will run
slightly behind the rest of the state
ticket.
The entire state has cast a light vote
but the republicans show a uet gain
over last year in spite of this. The
populists also show heavy gains. I.ast
year they polled 34,000 in the state: it
will be about doubled this year.
The legislature will bo 'overwhelm
ingly republican, the best estimate be
ing sixty-seven republican members of
the house to thirty-three democrats,
and thirty-five republican senators to
fifteen democrats.
Washington, Nov. 7.—Asa result of
the latest electiou returns the repub
licans gain five United States senators,
two from Utah and one from Kentucky,
Ohio and Maryland, and the democrats
lose three senators, one each from
Kentucky, Maryland and Ohio. None
of these changes become effective,"how
ever, until March 4, 1897, except in the
ease of the two Utah senators who will
take their seats as soon as chosen.
Thereafter the numerical strength in
the senate will be as follows: Repub
licans, forty-four; democrats, thirty
nine; popnlists, six; vacant (Delaware),
one; total, eighty-eight. If the Dela
ware vacancy is filled by a republican
It will give a republican majority.
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SBW YORK.
Nett York, Not. 7.—The total unoffi
cial rote for secretary of state is: Kin?,
democrat, 505,590; Palmer, republican,
572,525. This makes Palmer’s plurality
66,535. The rote in 1893 was: Palmer,
545,098; Myer, 520,614; Palmer’s plural
ity, 24,484.
OHIO.
Columbus, Not. 7.—Chairman Ander
son concedes the state to the republi
cans by 90,000. Chairman Kurts says
Bushnel’s plurality will not be less
than 100,000. The vote for Coxey, pop
ulist, will be about 15,000 less than last
year. At present the senate will stand:
Republicans, thirty; democrats, six;
fusion populist, one. In the house the
republicans have eighty-seven and the
democrats twenty-five.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore. Nov. 7.—Returns from
every county in the state, partly esti
mated, give Lloyd Lowndes, republi
can, a majority over E. Hurst derao
| crat, for governor of 19,715. Not only
I have the republicans elected their en
tire state and city ticket, but they have
carried the legislature, which, accord
ing to figures at hand now, will stand,
in the house, sixty-eight republicans to
twenty-four democrats, and in the sen
ate fifteen democrats to eleven repub
licans.
[ SriHXOFiKi.D. 111., Nov. 7.—It is the
belief of Governor Altgeld that tlie
greater republican landslide of yester
day was brought about chiefly through
the treachery of the national adminis
tration and the goldbug wing of the
democracy in Wall street. Democratic
conventions in many states, he says,
were packed by postmasters and meni
als of the administration who forced
the administration or Cleveland'^ policy
on the money question. The state has
gone largely republican.
NEW JERSEY.
New a hk, Nov. 7.—The election ol
Griggs was known to be a certainty at.
10 o'clock last night, but at that hour
12,000 and 14,000 were all that the lead
ers of the republican party claimed.
1 Later they advanced their claims under
the influence of the press returns to
22,000. The results iu the counties as
filed show that Griggs received 20,960
plurality over McGill. The republi
cans from one end of the state to the
other were celebrating today and boast
ing that this time next year will find
New Jersey safely in the republican
ranks.
KENTUCKY.
Washington, Nov. 7.—The hopelest
condition presented by the Kentucky
democracy is regarded as a rebuke to
the free silver democrats, and the pres
ident and Secretary Carlisle have con
fidently expected the defeat of Hardin
and Blackburn, or their election by ma
jorities so meager as to amount practi
cally to defeat.
UTAH.
Syi.t Lake, Nov. 7.—The republicans
have elected the state ticket and car
ried the legislature by a safe majority.
Republicans elect twenty-nine repre
sentatives, democrats seven, with nine
still in doubt. Three judges of the su
preme court are elected.
REPUBLICANS MAKE GAINS IN COI.OBADO.
Denver, Nov. 7.—Party lines were
not closely drawn in the Colorado coun
ty elections, but the republicans claim
to have made gains outside of Denver.
In this (Arapahoe) county the election
was very close, and the result being
still in doubt as to some of the offices.
Two candidates on the taxpayers’ tick
et (General Frank Hall for trensurei
and Willard I* Ames for assessor) ap
pear on the returns so far received as
having been certainly elected. The re
publicans probably hold all the other
officers. The result is regarded as a
defeat of tho tramway company and
the Denver Union Water company,
which fought Ames bitterly on account
of bis efforts as an alderman to secure
a reduction of water rates.
iNGERSOLL ON POLITICS.
Criticise* Cleveland and Predicts Repub
lican Success in 1800.
Pittiiu 110, Pa.. Nov. 8.—Discussing
the result of the elections, Colonel
Robert G. Ingcrsoll said:
“Cleveland’s administration is a
failure, a succession of blunders. The
Democrats are dissatisfied with Cleve
land. He is obstinate, unsocial, ego
tistic, aslcs no advice and tal es none.
He Is utterly indifferent as to the ad
vice of others. He imagines that lie
is the whole Democratic party, with
something, left over. No party can
carry that load."
“Roosevelt and Strong and Park
hurst gave New York city back to
Tammany. The people wanted a lit
tle liberty, and were not willing to go
back to the days of Cotton Mather.
Ohio settled Brice; that is good. Mary
land murdered Gorman: that is good.
Kentucky went Republican. I know
of no expression that will suit that;
it is too good. All this shows what is
to happen in 181)0.
“1 think the issuesof the next presi
dential contest will be just the syne as
they are this year. Both parties will
be for good money, and consequently
the tariff w ill take the lead. Of course,
the Democratic parly will make sever
al blunders before the next election.
Aftef all, protection is the issue. We
want, more revenue, and the people
do, not want moro tax on beer
or stamps on checks and contracts.
They .do not want internal laxatiou.
They Jwant to raise the money for
the most part at the custom house. It
mny be that the Democrats will advo
cate State banks. If they do. that
will be enough to kill their party. We
want no more State bank money in
this country. We want our paper to
be as good as gold—equal always to
the best money in the world Harri
son. is .not in the presidential race.
Allison is somewhat dangerous, but I
imagine it will be between Heed and
McKinley. Whoever is nominated will
be elected."_
Fraker liwuranee Cuse Settled.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 8.— The
celebrated Fraker insurance case was
finally compromised in tho Federal
court yesterday afternoon and etrcct
uaUy disposed of. By the term of the
compromise the companies will secure
the return of $33,557.55, or something
over eighty per cent of the amount in
volved. ■ _■_,
Grtgi*’ Big Plurality,
Jersey City, N. J., Nov.' a—The
magnitude of the Republican sweep in
New Jersey did not become apparent
until to-day, when the official returns
showed that Griggs received £6,9uU
plurality over McGill.
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AS TO THE ELECTION
A reorganization op the
SENATE.
Tha Upper Branch of Confrere will b<
Republican—The Two Senator* Fron
Utah Will Take Their Seat! as Soon ai
Chosen, and Give Control of the Senata
to Republicans—Bradley’s Plurality It
Kentucky.
Election Aftermath.
Washington, .Nov. 8.—As a result ol
the elections Tuesday, the Republicans
will gain five United States Senators—
two from Utah and one each from
Kentucky, Ohio and Maryland, and the
Democrats will loso three senators—
one each from Kentucky, Maryland
and Ohio. None of these changes will
become effective, however, until
March 4, 1807, except in the case of
the two Utah Senators, who will take
their seats as soon as chosen. There
after, the numerical strength in the
Senate will be as follows: Republicans,
41; Democrats, 80; Populists 6; vacant
(Delaware), 1. Total, 88. If the
Delaware vacancy is filled by a Repub
lican it will give a Republican ma
jarity in the upper branch of Congress.
The direct effect of these Repub
lican victories upon the senate will be
to make it absolutely certain that the
Republicans will not enter into any
combination with the Populists, di
rectly or indirectly, to secure the or
ganization of the senate at the ap
proaching session. They have simply
to wait a few months and then take
control with sufficient votes of their
own party members. In the mean
time, with a Democratic executive in
the White house nothing could be ac
complished in the way of legislation,
even if the Republicans secure the
organization of the senate, and they
are not looking now for empty honors,
j It is interesting to note that before
[ March 4, 1897, the successors to other
Democratic Senators may be chosen.
A Republican may come from New
York in place of ilavid U. Iliil; from
Illinois in place of John M. Palmer,
and from Wisconsin in place of Will
iam 1'. Vilas. If Indiana and Missouri
should go Republican next year Mr.
Voorliees and Mr. Vest would step
aside, and their places would be filled
by Senators representing the Republi
can party.
BOOM FOR BRADLEY.
Tile Republican Governor-Elect of Ken
tacky For Vice-President#
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 3.—Republi
can claims and Democratic concessions
show that not only has Kentucky
elected the full Republican State
ticket but that the complexion of the
Legislature assures a Republican suc
cessor to United States Senator Black
burn.
State Auditor Norman, the Demo
cratic campaign chairman, in a state
ment to the Commercial said that
Blackburn’s defeat is assured.
“The Republicans, with the help of
the Populists, will assuredly control
the legislature,” he said, “and Black
burn is sure to be defeated. Kentucky
is now a Republican state. The peo
ple wanted a change and they took it,
the Republicans being aided by both
Populists and A. P. A.’s. No one
could have carried Kentucky at this
election, not even Carlisle.”
Colonel Bradley will be the choice
of his state for the vice presidency,
and his friends claim that he will
have tlie support of the Southern Re
publicans. It is a significant fact the
friends of Governor Morton, as well
as th? political champions of Governor
McKinley, have all been in constant
correspondence with the friends of
Colonel Bradley, and have urged him
to push his claims for second place on
the ticket. Colonel Bradley has there
fore refused to discuss the matter, but
it is announced by Mr. Walter For
rester, _ secretary of Colonei Bradley’s
campaign committee, and managing
editor of the Commercial, the Repub
lican organ of the state, that Colonel
Bradley’s claims for national recog
nition will be urged in the next na
tional convention.
HARRISON PLEASED
Ant He Will Say Nothing About Next
Years’ Pol!tlei*
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 8,—Geneial
Harrison, when asked for an expres
sion regarding Tuesday’s election said:
“Oh, I have nothing to say, except
that I heartily rejoiced at thie victory
of Tuesday. I am giad as any one
can be that the principles of the
Kepublican party should meet so
strong and wide itn indorsement
from the people. The States of New
Jersey, Maryland and Kentucky are
new stars in our crown, but they are
none the less welcome. I am glad
that the Republicans of these states,
who have so long fought the battle in
vain, have now reaped a reward for
their devotion to Republican prin
ciples.”
“And what effect will the election
have in 1896?”
“Oh, I do not care to talk about
1896. Every one knows as well as I
do what the result of yesterday pre
sages.” _
Bradley’s Plurality lS.doo.
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 8.—Latest re
turns from Tuesday's election show
that the plurality for It rad ley, Repub
lican, will be fully 15.000, while the
Republicans will bare 54 members of
the House and 10 of the Senate, to 43
Democrats and 1 Populist in the House
and 23 Democrats in the Senate—a
Republican majority of 4 on joint bal-’
lot, thus insuring the election of a
Republican to the seat occupied by
Senator Blackburn.
tbe Naval Officer Who Opened Corea to
the World Passes Away.
Washington, Nov. 8. — Rear Ad
miral Robert W. . Shufeldt, retired,
died at his home in this city this morn
ing after a long illness following an
attack of the grip, and an accident
while driving about a year ago.
Admiral Shufeldt was appointed a
midshipman from New York in May,
ls39, became rear admiral in May,
18S3, and retired in 1884. He had a
notable record, having opened Corea
to the world by treaty, surveyed the
Teliauntepcc canal route and played
an important part in the civil war.
FORTY-FIVE PERISHED.
Twenty-Five Bodies Taken From the De
troit Rains.
Detroit, Mich., Nor. 8.—A gaping
rent nearly forty feet wide from top
to botton of a fire story business block,
1 twenty-five bodies recovered, a score
of persons injured and fully twenty
i persons missing, with a certainty that
i many more dead bodies are beneath
the ruins, such are the results of the
explosion of the boilers in the building*
at the corner of Lamed and Shelby
streets, occupied by the Detroit Even
ing Journal and several other tenants.
When the explosion occurred the
building collapsed and the floors fell
to the basement, carrying with them
at least fifty persons who had not the
slightest warning of their danger. The
cloud of dust that arose was quickly
succeeded by smoke from the fires
which started in the ruins.
Carelessness is undoubtedly the
cause of the disaster, but where the
responsibility rests is as yet prob
lematical. Thomas Thomason, the
engineer was painfully injured. lie
said he could assign no reason for the
explosion. City lioiler Inspector Mc
Gregor says he inspected the boilers
last August and had found them up to
the requirements. Some of the em
ployes in the building assert that the
boilers were old and known to be
unsafe.
After the fire had been chocked, the
work of rescue was begun. Annie L.
O’DonoUue was the first found and
was taken to a hospital. Then two
more persons were rescued. Then
near tlio top was seen the arm and leg
of a man. These moved, showing
that he was not dead. When, how
ever, he was rescued he was uncon
The fire broke out again and when
it was checked five bodies were found
under the rear walk. All were dead
and horribly disfigured. Another body
was found at 12:30. It was that of a
young man in blouse and overalls
and it lay under all the debris on the
sidewalk, the head toward the building
and the feet near the curbstone. A
great block of stone had fallen on his
head, crushing it flat. The top of the
head had burst open and the brains
were scattered all about. The seventh
body, apparently that of a machinist,
was taken from the front of the build
ing, soon after 1 o’clock, and then the
workman were driven back, while a
rope was thrown over an overhanging
wall and was pulled down by a gang
of men stationed on a building across
the street.
One of the worst incidents was a
struggle between Coronor iiutler and
an undertaker in the employ of Giest
Bros., against Undertaker Frank
Gibbs. The latter clung to the
stretcher, while the body was being
carried out through the crowd. As
the spectators were becoming exuited,
the police, in the interests of order,
rushed Gibbs outside the fire lines and
would not permit him to return.
SEAL HERDS DECIMATED.
Less Than One-Tenth of the Number
Twenty-Five Tears Ago Now Left.
■Washington, Nov. 8.—Captain C. L.
Ilooper of the revenuo cutter Rush,
who commanded the Behring sea fleet
last season, is more than ever con
vinced of the ultimate destruction of
the seal herd if pelagic sealing in
Behring Sea is continued. The most
important of his recommendations to
the Treasury department therefore
will, in all probability, be that all
sealing in Behring Sea be prohibited
for a time, at least, except that carried
on at the islands by the company hav
ing a contract with the government.
In ;8oi), when Captain Ilooper first
visited Behring sea, he savs he be
lieves there were 0,000,001) or 7,000.000
seals, but now the number is probably
less than 500,000. The regulations pro
mulgated under the Paris tribunal of
arbitration do not, in his estimation,
meet the requirements of the case for
the preservation of seal life. One of
these prohibits sealing within sixty
miles of the Sea islands. The
greater number of the female seals go
out to the sea to a distance far ex
ceeding sixty miles, where they
are killed by the sealers. At least
two-thirds of the 3G,000killed this year
by the pelagic sealers were females,
and the records substantiate the state
ment. .The regulations issued under
the arbitration tribunal prohibiting
the shooting of seals in Bering sea
and permitting the sDearing of them
outside the prohibited zone was bene
ficial in that nearly every seal that
was speared was caught, whereas by
shooting them they sink aud are often
lost _
Mr. Cleveland Smiles Quietly.
Washington, Nov. 8. — President
Cleveland is charging none of the re
sults of the election to his administra
tion. On the contrary, he is taking a
quiet smile over certain features of
the returns. Senator Gorman declares
that President Cleveland’s personal
followers contributed to the success of
Lowndes. The administration Demo
crats appear to be willing to assume
the responsibility as another achieve
ment for reform. There seems to bo
no doubt that they expected and de
sired the defeat of Gorman's ticket.
The president and every member of
his cabinet took a deep interest in the
cause of Campbell in Ohio and ex
pressed regret at his defeat. The
helpless condition presented by tho
Kentucky Democracy is regarded as a
rebuke to the free silver Democrats
and the president and Secretary Car
lisle have confidently expected the de
feat of liardin and Blackburn, or their
elections by majoritiesso meager as to
amount practically to defeat.
Kitted by a Fall.
Guthrie, Okla.,Nov. 8.—Pearl Craig,
a young woman living near Ingram',
was thrown from a horse yesterday
and fatally hurt. J
Maryland Legislators Strongly Republican
Baltimore, Md., Nov. b.—Not only
have the Republicans elected their
entire state and city ticket, but have
carried the legislature, which, accord
ing to figures at hand now. wiil stand
in the lower house (is Republicans to
84 Democrats, and in the senate 15
Democrats to 11 Republicans.
Engineer Herwlg Invalided.
Washington, Nov. b.— Chief Engin
eer Herwig, of the Marion, has broken
down, and has been invalided homo
from that vessel at Acapulco, Mexico.