VOLUME XVII O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 5, 1896 NUMBER 18 NEWS SANSJHISKEBS Items of Internet Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Local Happenings Portrayed Por General Edification and Amnaement. Dentist 10th and 11th. John Davidson came up from Norfolk Monday evening to vote. L. W. Enders, of Paddock, made this office a pleasant call this morning. A. J Grant, of Milwaukee, is in the city looking after his landed interests. FOR RENT—Corbett house of 7 rooms. Enquire of E. S. Kinch. The ladies’ working society will meet with Mrs. Meals Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 11. __ W. R. Carter, of Havana, III., was in the city Monday and made this office a pleasant call. Will Harvey, who spent the summer in Cedar county, returned home the first of the week. H'^rry Huddleson came up from Ponca Monday evening to cast his vote for McKinley and prosperity. Dr. Blackburn was down from Atkin son yesterday, consoling with the free silveritee in this city. The ladies working society of the Presbyterian church will hold a bazar the first week in December. One of Bryan’s ardent supporters, in talking about the result Tuesday night, said the only Consolation he had was that the pops were dead. WANTED—A girl to do general housework. Will pay 83 per week to competent girl. Enquire of Mbs. E. Williams. Corbett's photo studio and dental / parlors will be open from October 23 to 80, 1896, inclusive. 9-5 A. H. Cobb bit. A hacking cough is not only annoy ing to others, but is dangerous to the person who has it. One Minute Cough Cure will quickly put an end to it. Morris & Co. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is an an ticeptic, soothing and healing applica tion foi burns, scalds, cuts, bruises, etc., and cures piles like magic. It instantly stops pain. Morris & Co. Speed and safety are the watchwords of the age. One Minute Cough Cure acts speedily, safely and never fails. Asthma, bronchitis, coughs and colds are cured by it. Morris & Co. There is no flour, at any money, as good as White Satin, and there is no flour for the price that equals G. A. R. They cost no more than other flour of the same grade, but will give better satisfaction. 11-4 J. P. Mann. Elmer Merriman was up from Laurel Monday. He has disposed of his pop factory there and will return to O’Neill The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Mer riman will be pleased to welcome them back to this city. Dr. Scroggin, the Norfolk dentist, says that not being able to get through with all the work that came in during his visit here last week, he will again visit O'Neill Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 10 and 11, two days onlv, pre pared to do all kinds of dental work. Now is the season when you want a good gun and want it cheap. I have a line of guns that cannot be beaten any where and am going to tell them cheap. Come early and get ilfst choice. I also have hunting coats and sell them cheap. Neil Brennan. Dr. Corbett tflihes to state that he • will be in O'MMtt for one week about the last of each month. Dates always in the papers. And that he makes his work good if it fails. Can stay longer when necessary. For Xmas photos his gallery will oe open from Nov. 18 to Dec. 4, and if you want crayons you can get them any size at any price, and Mot loose the picture and 50 cents also, as has been done lately. His dental office will be open Nov. 18 to 25. The following is taken from the McFali, Mo., Mirror, and as the parties weie former residents of this county it will be of interest to our readers: ‘Last Saturday afternoon occurred one of the saddest accidents that ever happened in this vicinity. About 3:80 p. m. Mr. Oakley Manring came to town for a surgeon, stating that his little boy, Frankie, had been accidentally shot by Ita Coleman Qromer, who, with his mother, was visiting at his home. Dr. H. J. Patton went out, but soon returned, saying the child had been shot through the heart and death had been instantaneous. The little boy was laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Fair view cemetery. From Mr. J. C. Gromer, father of Ira Coleiuau Gromer, we learn the follow ing particulars as he learned them from his wife and son: At noon, Saturday, Mrs. Gromer proposed to drive out to Mr. Manrings, and asked Coleman to accompany her, to which he at first objected; but finally agreed if he might take his target gun, and he and his younger brother and mother drove out. After they had been there for a time and the younger Gromer boy and Mr. Manring’s two little boys had gone out on the south side of Sampson creek to play, Coleman took his gun and went out west on the north side of the creek to hunt squirrels, and saw a nest in a tree. Thinking that a squirrel might be scared out by shooting into it, he got down by a stump to take 'rest.' The stump not being high enough to accom modate the gun at that angle, he turned to get a piece of hark with which to raise it. In doing so the gun was swung to the right, and the little boys having seen him, unfortunately came up just at that time and the gun was accidentally discharged, and little Frank dropped dead. Mr. Gromer says the gun has been very uncertain about standing cocked, and that they have not allowed the boy to go hunting with anybody else, and that it was not the intention, as he understands it that the little boys should be with him that day. The little boy who was shot was five years old, but from his size would have been taken for much older. We have frequently seen the little boys with Mr. Manring and remarked their promising appearance. The family is deeply stricken with grief, while hardly less afflicted are Mr. and Mrs. Gromer over the sad calamity." HOW THE COOHTXT WEHT. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4—The state seems safe for McKinley, though the result may be close. Taking an esti mate of the missing counties madb some days ago by the democratic committee the McKinley majority of the missing vote is 1,283. This would give the state to McKinley by 4, 744 The democrats elected six out of eleven congressmen. The result in the Seventh district between W. C. P. Breckinridge and E. E. Settle is yet in doubt. The republican state committee this afternoon claims the state for Mc Kinley by 2,000 to 3,060 Chairman Roberts estimates the state for McKinley by 6,000 to 8,000, and the legislature republican on joint ballot. Detroit, Nov. 4.—Incomplete returns from eighty-three counties indicate that McKinley has carried the «tate by 40, Q00. Pingree, for governor, has an estimated plurality of 58,000. That Pingree should have run decidedly ahead of his ticket generally throughout the state is regarded as something of a surprise in view of the combined inter ests allied against him. In Detroit Pingree got more votes than be ever received in his candidacy for mayor. In 128 precincts in this county Pingree received 86,923 to 19,154 for Sligh; McKinley, 35,658; Bryan, 24,417. The republican state ticket ran con siderably behind Pingree’s vote and several thousand behind McKinley's vote. The republican members of con gress are elected in each of the twelve districts of the 6tate, except the Third and Eighth, and in the Eighth the issue is still doubtful between Congressman Linton and Ferdinand Brucker, The legislature will be overwhelmingly republican, but by what majority is not yet determined. McKinley’s plural ity appears this afternoon to be 40,000. Chicago, Nov. 4.—In this city Mc Kinley has a plurality of 57,339. The Chicago congressional delegation is solidly republican. The indications are that republicans were elected in all the congressional districts in the state ex cept the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Nine teenth and twentieth. Both parties claim the Nineteenth. The republicans will have a large majority in both houses of the legislature, which will elect a United States senator to succeed Palmer. The entire republican state ticket is elected by a majority of 100,000 to 125, 000. Tanner, for governor, will get about 25,000 less than McKinley. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 4.—McKinley’s plurality in this state promises to ex-1 ceed 800,000. New York city has broken its political record in a presi dential election and has Risen a repub lican plurality for president for the first time since 1838, except in 1848, when the free-soilers and Van Buren cut down the democratic vote to less than 80 per cent. The legislature is republican and will elect a republican successor to Hill. San Francisco, Not. 4.—California has joined the east in the landslide. Its majority for McKinley will exceed 5,000. Many counties have not vet reported, but the populist ones, on which the fate of the election hinged, have all been heard from and swell the republican majority to a point where nothing can possibly disturb it. The legislature is safely republican. Good Things for Cold Weather. A good jacket, light colored, with brown velvet collar and cuffs only 18.70. A heavy navy blue twill jacket at 85* Fine boucas jackets at 86,87.80, f9.76, 811.75 and 813. An extra heave frieze ulster at 810. We expect to have a good one next week for $7. Next week we will put on sale j , One case cotton blankets at 60 cents per pair. Good all-wool blankets at 88.50 per pair. S An extra good suit all-wool casslmere at $8.75. Good suits at 85.85.50 and §6, \ A The best underwear you ever Mfo lor wear at 00 cents per garment. Fine cotton-filled ladies’ underweight 75 cents per suit, or 88 cents etfeb. ' Husking gloves at 75 cetois and $1 per pair. , ,, Extra good cotton flannel 10 cints per yard. These are not a few leaders or cut prices thrown out for a bait, but are fair representative prices of our entire stock. We are cutting the profits to the core on groceries, and are bound to sell, cost or no cost. It will pay you to see us before you buy. 17-8 J. P. riANN. The republicans of Holt County will have a ratification meeting in O’Neill next Saturday night. Come in and join the procession. TTTTTTr A QUESTION And an HONEST ANSWER. A fashionably dressed woman asked an O’Neill merchant this question: “What is style in a garment?” “Style in a garment,” he said, “is what all women want, what some women instantly recognize when they see it, and what no woman or man oan describe. Style that is not absolutely correct is as bad as no style. Almost right is no better than altogether wrong. A stylish garment is usually well made, of up-to-date materials and it always fits. But good fff, ex cellent making and quality of material do not in themselves make a stylish garment. The only way to dscribe style is to show it.” And that is what I am doing this fall—showing the largest line of ladies’, misses’ and children’s jackets of up-to-date materials and styles. We hope to have the pleasure of showing to every lady who intends purchasing a gar ment this fall THE CORRECT STYLES and lowest prices. There is one question I wish to submit, and that fact is: That they are well made, and upon the making depends the whole ques tion of style, of fit and of servioe. Respectfully yours, P. J. McManus. tin an n REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT IS ELECTED. RETURNS PROM STATES. Tk* iMt Solidly tor MeKInley and Bo* brrt—Rnml Southern stake* Swing ' Into the Republican Column— Bryan Carrie* Mebraeka. Kan* ■a* and Colorado by Blf Pluralities. I XriLLUK M'KINLWY. JR. Electoral Vote. Statxs. McKinley. Bryan. Uabama. irkansas.. California.. Colorado. lonnectlcut... Delaware. Florida. leorgla-. daho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Cangas. Centucky. Joulalana. tfalne. Maryland. tfaisacbusetta. Michigan. dlnnegota ‘jlgglssippi. lltggourl.... Montana M'ebraaka. Hevada. 'lew Ha'pgh'e.. Mew Jersey_ Hew York. •N Carolina_ Hortb Dakota.. Ihio. •Oregon. Pennsylvania.. Rhode Island... South Carolina. 'South Dakota. Tennessee. Texas. Utah. Vermont.. Virginia. •Washington... •West Virginia (Vtsconsln •Wyoming Total. 11 8 9 4 6 5 4 13 3 24 15 13 10 13 8 6 8 16 14 9 9 17 8 8 3 4 10 36 11 8 23 4 32 4 9 4 12 16 3 4 12 4 6 12 3 11 8 24 4 13 8 13 18 6 8 16 14 9 10 ‘"a 4 10 86 • IT 8 8 8 3 23 82 4 12 16 12 447 286 147 *Doubtful. Electoral votes necessary to a choice—224. Cmo a no, Nov. S.—McKinley and Ho bart are elected, but the majority is likely to be a muoh narrower one than baa been looked for as the result of the sarlier dispatches. The following electoral votes are conceded to MoKln ley: Connecticut 0, Illinois 24, Iowa 13, i Maine 6, Maryland 8, Massachusetts 15, Michigan 24, Minnesota 9, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 10, New Fork 36, Ohio 23, Pennsylvania 32, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 4, Wisconsin 12. Total 220. The following votes are conceded to Bryan: Alabama 11, Arkansas 8, Col orado 4, Florida 4, Georgia 13, Idaho 3, Louisiana 8, Mississippi 9, Missouri 17, Montana 3, Nevada 3, South Carolina J, Tennessee 12, Texas 14, Utah 3, Vir ginia 12—total 134. Nothing but the most meger and scattering returns have been received from California—9 electoral votes, Kan sas 10, Wyoming 3 and Washington 4, so that neither party can as yet claim these states. Nebraska with its 8 votes has been conceded to Bryan. North Carolina with its eleven votes is claimed by both sides, but has probably gone for Bryan and so with South Dakota and its four votes. The situation, therefore, may be re duced to this: Certain for McKinley, 220; almost certa\n for MoKinley, 18; indications for MoKinley, 25. Certain for Bryan, 134; probably for Bryan, 24; doubtful, 26. Total, 447. The fight has not been given up by the Democrats. As late as 12 o’clock to-day Senator Jones said: “The indi cations are that we have carried In diana. If we have Mr. Bryan is elected. We have carried Tennessee, Kentucky and my best advices from Minnesota are that Towne is elected and the state is in doubt. I have just received a telegram from Mr. Bryan in which he says that he will carry his state by 10,000.” From returns thus far received the next Senate probably will stand as follows: Republicans; 42; Democrats, 32; Independent and Populist 11, doubtful 5. Total 90. On the currency question the Senate undoubtedly will have an anti-silver majority. The doubtful states are Del aware. Kansas. Kentucky, North Caro llna and South Dakota. The Kepub* Ucans would need 45 votes with the Vice President to control the Senate. The Republican senators who bolted the St. Louis ticket and platform are classed as independents. They are Teller, Dubois, Mantle and Cannon. Another Utah senator to be elected to succeed Brown will undoubtedly be in dependent. The Meat Boose. Washington, Nov. 5.—Chairman Bab cock, Republican Congressional com mittee, claims 100 majority against sil ver in the next House. FOR M’KINLEY. The States That Have Been Carried by the Republican Nominees. NEW YORK. Over 300,oeo for McKinley—Republican for VIrat Time In History. AbBANT, N. Y., Nov. 0.—With less than one-fourth of the election districts above the Harlem river to hear from and with the vote of New York city and Kings county complete, the plurality of McKinley over Bryan promises to exceed 800,000 In the state. One county In the state, Schoharie which la the home of Chairman Danforth of the state Democratic committee, has given Bryan a plurality of 500. New York city has broken Its political record of Presidential elections bv giving McKinley 16,689 plurality over Bryan. This is a Republican plurality for President for the first time In the city's history. From 1899 to 1896, with one exception. Democratic GARRETT A. HOBART. Presidential candidates have never polled less than ST per cent of the total vote of the city. In 1845 the defection of Van Buren and the Free Sollers cut down the Demo cratic vote to less than 36 per cent, but left a small plurality. Even In the Qreeley cam paign of 1872 the Democratic candidate polled nearly SO per cent The state assembly, out of ISO members, has 11 Republicans; the Democrats elected thirty-nine, so that on joint ballot of the legislature to elect a successor to Senator Hill the majority will be Republican. PENNSYLVANIA. McKinley’s Majority at Least *66,000— Congressional Status Unchanged. Philadelphia, Nov. 8.— Estimates from every county In the state give McKinley an apparent plurality of 266,950. There la every rtason to believe that the official re turns will show a plurality for McKinley of nearly 280,000. The legislature Is almost entirely Republican, the Democratic repre sentatl ixa not Exceeding 10 per cent In a membership in the lower house of 204. Philadelphia complete gives McKinley 178,884, Bryan 68,383. Republican plurality, 115,650. Alexander Crow, Jr., Is electeA sheriff by 18,821. In the Third Congressional district ex Oongressman William McAleer, gold Demo crat, is elected to succeed Frederick Waiter man, Republican. The four other Congress ional districts In this city were carried by the Republicans. Including the two Congressmen-at-large, Pennsylvania elected thirty Congressmen. According to the latest returns, the delega tion will be divided politically as follows: Republicans 28, Democrats 2—the same as In the last Congress. INDIANA. McKinley Almost Certain to Carry the State by 30,000. iHDiAHAPOUg, Ind., Nov. 5.—Four hundred out of the S,ll5 precincts In Indiana outside of Marlon county (Indianapolis) show a net Republican gain of 4.179, a little over ten to a precinct. This ratio of Republican gain has been kept steadily up and If It continues will give the state to McKinley by over 30.000. With such a heavy Republican vote over the statf the Republicans have probably all the congressional candidates, though there Is doubt about Sulzer In the Fourth district Tracewell In the Third and Landis in the Ninth. There is little doubt that Johnson Is re-elected In the Sixth. the Republicans will have a majority In the legislature which the Republican man agers place at 42 on Joint ballot Marlon county will probably give a Republican ma jority of 7,000, which Is a big Increase over the last vote. _ MICHIGAN MoKlnley’s Majority at Least 40,000— Ptngree Iaadlif the Ticket. Detroit, Nov. 6.— Returns from the eighty* three counties of Michigan indicate that Mo Klnley's plurality in Michigan will he 40, 000. The same returns give Plngree, for Governor, an estimated plurality of 64,000. That Pingree should have run decidedly ahead of his ticket generally throughout the state is regarded as something of a surprise in view of the combined interests allied against him. In Detroit he got more votes than he had received in his candidacy for Mayor. In 188 precincts of this county Pla gree received 37,923 to 19,164 for Sllgh, Mc Kinley. 33.658; Bryan, 24,417. The Repub lican state ticket ran considerable behind Plngree's vote, and several thousand behind the McKinley vote. Republican members of Congress were elected In each of the twelve districts of the state except the Third and Eighth, and In the Eighth the issue Is still doubtful between Congressman Unton and Ferdinand Bucker. KENTUCKY. McKinley Has n Plurality on Conceded Estimates of Delayed Counties. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 6.—At 8 o'clock this jpornlog Kentucky seemed sate for McKln ley. Counties not Heard from tnen were: Leslie, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Maguffln, Pike, Bntler, Oreenup, Harrison, Jackson, Owen.and part of Henry. These Include strong Republican as well as strong sliver counties, but the heavy Republican gains everywhere teem to make the state safe for McKinley, though the result may be close. Taking the estimate of the missing counties made several days ago by Chairman Sum* men of the Democratic committee, the Mc Kinley majority of the missing vote le 1,238. This would give the state to McKinley by 4,744. This Is the Democratic estimates of the missing counties. The Democrats elected aix out of eleven congressmen. ILLINOIS. The Republicans Swept Illinois by Over One Handled Thousand. Cbicaoo, Nov. B.—Returns from the state Indicate that McKinley has won by 126,000 and Tanner by 25,000 less, and the Repub licans will have a large majority In both houses of the legislature which will elect a United States senator this winter to succeed JohnM. Palmer. The Indications point to the return of Re publican congressmen In all districts In the state except the Sixteenth, Eighteenth. Twentieth and Nineteenth. The last named district Is still doubtful, both parties claim ing It The Chicago congressional delega tion will be solidly Republican. In this city out of a total of 843,708 vote* William McKinley received 201,434 and W. J. Bryan 142,274, giving McKinley a plural* ity of 67,389 votes. MINNESOTA. Forty Thousand for McKinley and the Entire State Tteket. 3 St. Paul, Nov. 5 —Five hundred and fifteen — of the 2,100 precincts In Minnesota had been heard from at noon to-day, giving McKinley 70,184 to 43,824 for Bryan. There seems no reason to change last night’s figures of 40, ooo majority for McKinley ana the entire Republican state ticket will also be elected, Governor Clough by a reduced vote, but by not less than 10,000. -Of the congressional __ districts five are placed In the Republican column, while the Sixth and Seventh are considered doubtful. Both parties claim the Sixth and the Seventh. Congressman Eddy has been running everywhere so far ahead of hts ticket that It aeems as If he may be elected even In that Populist stronghold. GREAT GAINS IN OHIO. McKinley Carried Bb Ova State by a Decided Majority. Columbus. Ohio, Not. 6.—On the compart* ton of the rote with that of the last Presl lentlal election, Ohio made nnprecedented gains for McKinley. In 189a Harrison car led Ohio by an average plurality for the itepubllcan electors of 1,073. In that year une of the Cleveland and Stevenson electors #as elected. In 1898 McKinley nad a plural* fty of over 80,000 for Governor. The Repub licans carried Ohio In 1894 by 187,000 and last year Bushnell, Republican, was elected Governor by over 93,000. MARYLAND. Che State Carried by at latest 80,000 by the BepubUeaaa. Baltimohb, Md., Nov. b.—The indications are that McKinley leads Bryan by 80,000, 10,000 of which has been contributed by Baltimore. Five Republican congressmen have surely been elected, the only doubtful district being the First, In which Joshua W. Miles, Democrat, may be re-elected. In the city an almost unanimous Republican Coun cil has been elected. 100,000 In Wisconsin. Chicago, Nov. 8.-0. W. Peck of Milwaukee Wls., wired the Associated’ press as follows this morning: “McKinley has carried Wis consin by a comfortable majority. Schofield tor governor will no doubt pull through very close to McKinley. Both of them ana every ether Republican I have heard from will have a majority enough to be considered | tafe, say 100,000 or along there somewhere. They have seemed to draw largely from the •o-calld silent vote.whlch Is not particularly illent at this hour. In other respects we are lulte well, thank you. When you are going to have any more elections you should send as an Invitation._ 184,000 In Massachusetts. Boa to if, Nov. 6.—McKinley's majority In Massachusetts Is 134.000. The Republican candidates for President and governor car ried every city and town for the first time In the history of the state. The Congressional delegation Is unchanged—twelve Republlc tns and one Democrat, the latter the only mein New England. The gold vote was about three per cent There was little dif ference between Bryan and Williams. The rote on the biennial amendments Is Teri close. The legislature Is more strongly Be? publican than ever. 88,000 for McKinley In New Jersey. Tbbbtok, N. J., Nov. 8.—Revised returns rive McKinley a plurality of 68,000 In New fersey. The Republicans have elected seven Congressmen sure and the result In the Sev enth district, between Young, Lam and Mc Bwan. Republicans, is In doubt The state legislature will probably stand: Assembly Republicans, 44 or 48; Democrats, 16 or 16; lenate—Republicans, 18; Democrats, 8. Three and perhaps four of the twenty-one counties have gone Democratic. The Pal mer and Buckner vote Is lighter than was ex pected. _ California 0,000 Republican, Sam Francisco, Nov. 8.—California baa lolned the East In the McKinley landslide, uid lta majority for the Republican stand* u-d hearer will reach 8,000 at least Oreat nterest Is centered on the congressional ticket Outside of this city only one Demo :ratlc representative seems to have been :hosen. The legislature has gone with the general result and may safely he classed as Republican, tfcus insuring the return of a Republican to the United States Senate. New Hampshire Twenty Thousand, Concord, N. H., Nov. 8. — New Hamp ihlre returns came In very slowly, but each precinct reported showed a gain for Me* Klnley, and McKinley's plurality totalled 20,000. The Palmer and Buckner ballot was rery light, and out of a total poll of 90,000 Is not expected to exceed 6,000. Ramsdell, for governor ran behind the McKinley elec tors, but he will have the largest plurality sver given a Republican governor In New Hampshire. The legislature will be over whelmingly Republican. Delaware. Wilmington, DeL, Nov. 5.—Returns from Delaware are still Incomplete in detail, hut •nough Is known to accurately state the re mit McKinley carries the state by 1,800 to 2,000 majority. He may lose one elector, lames O. Shaw, Sr., whose name was printed without the affix of “Sr." on the regular Republican ticket but It Is conceded that the courts will correct this Irregularity if the Issue is raised T (Continued on page 8.)