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Candidate Is to Be.
'C11TJ.T ISQS CAMPAIGN NOW ON.
ttic Democratic Pield , Washing
ton Political Observers Think
Bryan Is a Certainty.
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HIR ciiy will be
the center of the
great political
campaign which
will rage from
California t o
Maine until the
ballots of next
No\vn.l er deter
mine the people's
< hoice for Presi
dent. From now
> ji until ih" suc
cessor of Mr.
Roosevelt is cho
sen there \\ill not
be an instant's in-
in the
bailie.
vary Tal't stands sharply in the
' . 'it jjud his friends are redoub-
i * " .r efforts in his behalf. The
L.if he is the candidate of the ad-
sjii.M-.raiion K sure to have the effect
of L. ; I ; g Washington on the jump to
winch every move. Senators Foraker
nn l Mii ) x and Secretary C'ortelyou. also
Vx-aritl in Washington , will help to
i t tf tiie jiolitical pot furiously boiling
ill il ! . eajfitaL New York will get the
lu . ; ' of its eix-itoiiient fro.n the fact
thi < < NiHutrhes * ( x ins destined to S e
a t".i < IMof no s.nall moment in the line
up -f he cent M-ta ! ls in C hha'-ro. Vice
Prtt-y ! * nt Fairbanks and Speaker C.m-
2102J. pre'-idins : officer < respectively of
: r.te and House , must inevitably
i i ; i > > e iiodies emlsroilotl in the
rosrowing out of their candidacy ,
i'1 . .oir home States of Indiau.i and
" jjn : . arc likely to feel the het.
j ; , lH-een the e men. Taft. Knox ,
Kx Ff-raker. Fairbanks and Can-
il.onvolion at Chicago is .re-
o
! ! an open chance. All jm po\\-
h barked , all will pui ! their c.iin-
Zpns * , vith that energy for which the
K-an politician is famous For
will he expended limitless elo-
qu i'i < e. and in their interest the quiet
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS -
PAIGNS SINCE 1856.
Good Things to Cut Out.
/ and Save for Reference.
There hnc : boon thirteen campaigns by
.he Republican and Democratic parties.
! { < ' ! > 11 Illicit ii Cn.ii < li flute * .
] S. 5j ( Fremont and Uayton.
1SGO Lincoln and Ilamlin.
l Sil Lincoln and Johnson.
1SOS Grant and Colfax.
1872 Grant and Wilson.
1870 Hajcs and Wheeler.
1880 Garfield and Arthur.
ISS-i Blaine and Logan.
1SSS Harrison and Morton.
1S1J" Harrison and Reid.
1S1H5 McKinley and Uobart.
11)00 ) McKinley and Roosevelt.
11)04 Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Dfiiiocratie Cumlitlntci.
IS.'O Buchanan and Breckinridga.
1RCO Douglas and Johnson. *
l.Sfil McCIellan and Pondleton.
3XUS ScjniMitr and Blair.
1S72 Grooloy and Brown.
1S ( * TiMcii and llendricks.
JSH ) Hancock and English.
188'Cleveland ' and Ilendricks.
1888 Cleveland and Thurman.
1V02 Cleveland and Stevenson.
1SIH5 Bryan and Sewall.
lltO ! ) Br\an and Stevenson.
1tM ! ( Parker and Davis.
* l y the northern Democrats and Breck-
nridge and Lane by the southern Dein-
> crats.
EU'j'iorul Votes.
The number of electoral votes received
> y the lw < > jarties in these contests and
l.e pluralities are shown here :
rHire-Lan" ticket of the southern Demo-
Mais : the Dou -Johnson ticket of the
101 them' Democrats received 12.
magnetic Nehraskan's undoubted
strength i his party.
Six months of contention must take
pla < * before the two pirties place their
standard bearers in the field , the Re
publicans at Chicago , the Democrats
at Denver. Meantime the nation's
business will be swayed and moved by
every new boom , by every straw , by
every indication. Capital , sensitive
al.o\e .ill tilings of which man has
knowledge , will rejoice or tremble as
this man r that seems to gain the
ascendancy , and gig.mtic projects will
hang fire pending the nominations.
PHEW ! IT'S SETTING HOT.
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% vorfc , which appears little on the sur
face. but which means so much in the
result , will keep forces of trained
y from now on until the nomi-
is made.
For the first time in twenty years
theU"pnblican convention will see a
real battle. The gathering that nomi-
7inJ d Benjamin Harrison in 1SSS was
an open fight much similar to the one
that promises for this year. In 3S02 the
Touomination of Harrison was a fore
gone conclusion : in ISfl'i ' the movement
.iipiinst ; free si her had fixed on McKin-
! ey in advance of the convention as the
awn to lead the fight : and in 1000 not
ii shadow of opposition developed
a ain < t his renomination. Similarly
'Slooscvelt outranked in popularity every
< nam ° suggested for the Republican nom
ination. But this year the quadrennial
upheaval will be made still mor chaotic
by the sharpness of the Republican bat-
Democrat it : Fifjlit Different.
The Democratic fight is a little dif
ferent. There is no mixed field with
the hopes even. It is everybody
.against Bryan. In opposition to the
yebraskan will be welded all the forces
-that contend that his two defeats for
Hie- place eliminate him , but though
JTudge Gray , Gov. Johnson of Minneso
ta Chanler of New York , and Iloke
tSmith have been tentatively mentioned ,
there is no evidence of any boom pow
erful enough to prevail Against he
And when the men are in the field ,
far from helping the situation , a new
and even worse upheaval Avill take
"place. Frenzied stump speakers will
tramp up and down the country , paint
ing in horrible phrase the terrific ex
periences that confront the nation in
the doleful event of the success of tbe
opposition party. Platforms will fee
torn to pieces in this delirium of ex
hortation : men's lives , aims and char-
aeUrs riddled ; ( he constitution of the
country will b , ' both invoked and con
demned ; the giants of business will n
the one hand be extolled , on the other
savagely condemned. And every speech ,
every mass meeting , each attack , vrill
further send new tremors up and down
the spinal cord of business.
The Campaign will last four months ,
and in that time both parties will call
on the bi'-rgest guns they have ; the star
speakers will be drafted to present tha
opposing arguments. As a forensic
struggle the light is bound to be mere
than ordinarily interesting. Each side
has orators of the first rank , veterans
who understand the art of stirring au
diences.
Ituke ShopH.
One direct result of the recent agita
tion in Chicago concerning the filthy
conditions of the city's bakeries is tha
passage oE a regulating ordinance pro
viding for the instant revocation of the
baker's license if he fails to conform tc
the rules of cleanliness prescribed.
Court Refuses to Exclude the Public
While Defendant's Wife Is
on the Stand.
EYELYI'T A KATCH FOE JEEOME.
Drops Child-Like POSG and lances
w"el ! District Attorney Merciless
in His Examination.
Just as a year ago , Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw has been the siar witness in the
second trial of her husband for the
murder of Stanford V.'hite. District
Attorney Jerome , of whom it had been
hinted that he would spare the woman
no men-y this time , asked that the pub
lic be excluded , and Littleton , for the
ilfJen--- . raised no objection , but Judge
I > , wJhsg held that the prisoner had a
rigfit to a public trial.
During the ! i"st vuvk Littleton de
voted himself to demonstrate Thaw's
ins-mhy. by right of inheritance and
l > .i his actions from infancy to the cli
max of murder. His pupose in putting
E\-elyn Thaw on the stand was to dem
onstrate how the vtory of her abuse
by While , which she says she told
Thaw in Paris , acted on his erratic
brain with such force as to make him
irresponsibly insane
Under his questioning she maintain
ed her pose of the inirenuotH school
girl who in her innocence had been
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made the toy of a monster. Bui under
.Tenure's sewie cross-examination she
dropped the mask of girlish innocence
which she had worn when sailing on
the smooth waters of direct examina
tion. She revealed herself as a shrewd
woman of the world , at times more
th.in a match for her questioner.
She lold how. when he had learned
of her relations with White. Thaw
SMI ! ; "Poor little girl , you have done
no wrong. " And yet , she was forced
to admit , that wit 1.in two weeks he
made her his companion and started on
a tour of Europe which lasted for
months , during all of which time they
traveled a- ? man and wife.
Jerome aKo forced her to admit
While's kindness to her. his sending
her to school , his paying her surgeon's
bi'l , and his furnishing both her and
her mother with money. She also ad
mitted that White gave her and her
mother money with which to go to Eu
rope , and that once there she went di
rect to Harry Thaw's quarters.
Evelyn toid her story much as she
did a year ago. leaving out some of
the most indecent details and adding
a few more incident > . Mrs. Thaw had
a remarkably clear recollection as to
what she had testified to a year airo.
Jerome confronted her with hundreds
of the statements wade then , in the
hope of confusing her or leading her
into contradictions , but she adhered to
her storv in every detail.
MILLION DOLLAE FIRE.
City Hall and Police Buildings of
Portland , Me. , Destroyed.
Fire which caused damage of $ ! , -
000,000 destroyed the Portland , Me. ,
< ity hall and police buildings and en
dangered the lives of more than 700
persons. The city iiall was occupied by
city and county office \\-hde the police
building sheltered tlie Supreme , judi
cial and niunh ; p ; > i courts , in addition
to fhe police dtMariineiit. Delegates at
tending tin Wlorn Maine Knights of
Pythias jubilee were in the auditorium
of thy city hall when the flames were
discovered , but only a few persons were
hurt.
The estimated financial loss does not
include papers in the oilicc of the reg
istrar of deeds , where e\ cry thing was
destroyed. Other city departments lost
everything , with the exception of the
city clerk's and treasurer's offices. One
of the most valuable libraries in the
State , the Greenleaf Law Collection ,
was destroyed , with a loss estimated
at 10.000.
The fire originated in the city elec
trician's office and was caused by
crossed wires , which made it impossi
ble to ring a call for the fire depart
ment in .Miy of the boxes.
The city hall survived the great fire
of IHdu. although it was damaged at
that time. The building had a front
age of ! . " > ( > feet and was 2. jO feet lot < i
Its eentral dome ro.-e 150 feet above the
roof. The building was constructed of
colored Nova Scotia Albert stone , and
contained eighty rooms.
TERRORS OP "PRAT" INITIATION.
Sorority Ceremonies Shatter ITerves
of Itfovitiate and Arouse Mothers.
The none racking , e\en though fancied ,
terrors of an initiation into a Greek let
ter society of gitl student- private and
LEADING FIGURES IN THE THAW TBIAL.
preparatory schools in New York City
caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers
at the home of ? > Irs. Elizabeth Moore.
Their fis-st purpose is to break up the
local organization of the Sigma Gamma
Society , and their second is to start a
campaign throughout the country against
secret societies among school girls.
It was the story of Julia Mills , not yet
17 , as told by her to her mother , that
caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps.
Julia Mills was "initiated" the other
night.
Miss Mills , according to her story , was
summosu'd Jo appear at the Moore home.
When she was ushered in she \vas led into
a dimh lighted room between two col
umns of black robed , black masked fig-
uios , up to the hiirh priestess.
"This will be a test of jour fortitude ,
of your fitness to be a si.stor. You are
oidered to thrust your hand into a small
caldron of molten lead , which joti see be
fore you. Ready ! Obey orders' "
Miss Mills dashed her hand into the
lidiiid and sank to her knees in fright.
After she recovered her composure in part
she was surprised to note that the caldron
was filled with mercury.
Suddenly the lights went out. Miss
Mills felt the floor give way beneath her
and she felt herself go down , down , and
then land on the pillows.
The candidate was ordered to grasp the
hand , for which she could only feel. Shud
dering , she imoluntarily drew back her
arm when she felt the clammy fingers.
She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove
filled with sand.
Agaisi she was led forth , this time to
drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull ,
which liquid "would serve to make her
of one blood with her other prospective
sisters. ' '
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I'M Martin Luther preached his fare
well t-erraon at Wittenberg.
.IG.'JO Civil government organized in
Connecticut with the adoption OL
what is said to be the first written
constitution kno\vn to history.
1GGG Louis XIV. o France declared
war on England.
1700 Lesnoiue d'lbervslle took possession
o the Mississippi in the name of
France.
1712 Robert Walpole expelled from the
I louse of Commons and committed to
the Tower.
1751 First colonial assembly of Georgia
snot.
17GG Pitt advocated in Parliament the
repeal of the stamp act.
1777 Vermont declared itselE a free and
independent State.
177S France recognized independence o
the United States.
17S1 Americans defeated the British at
battle of Cowpens.
37SL American Congress ratified the
treaty with Great Britain.
11SO Charles IV. proclaimed King of
Spain.
1797 Weekly mail service established
between the United States and Can
ada.
1S03 Mjehigan territory formed from a
part of Indiana.
1809 English defeated the French at
battle of Corunna.
1S10 Masked" balls prohibited in New
York and Philadelphia.
1S13 Americans repulsed the British at
Frenchtown. on Lake Erie John
Armstrong of New York became Sec
retary of War.
ISM Thanksgiving in Great Britain for
succe sos over Bonaparte. . .Bayonne
invested by the British.
1S1G The French standards taken at
Waterloo deposited in the Chapei
Royal. Whitehall.
1S2G Phurtpore taken by the British
under Lord Combermere.
1S10 Steamboat Lexington burned on
Long I bland sound , with loss of 1-il
lives.
1S-17 Gov. Bent of Now Mexico killed
in an uprising OL Mexicans.
1812 New constitution published by
Louis Napoleon of France.
1S5-1 William Walker , the filibuster ,
proclaimed the republic of Sonora
in lower California.
1SG1 Lola Moutex. adventurers who
caus.od abdication of Louis Charles
of Bavaria , died in poverty in Xew
York.
1S71 United States Supreme Court de
clared the legal tender act of 1SG2
constitutional King William of
Prussia proclaimed German Emperor.
1875 President Grant approved the act
for resuming specie payments.
187o Steamer City of Columbus wrecked
off Gay Head , \\ith loss of 07 lives
New State capitol at Des
Moincs. dedicated.
lSS-3 British force defeated the troops
of the Mahdi at battle of Abu Klea.
1S91 Parnell presided over meeting of
Irish National League in Dublin.
1S9G Capture of Coomassics and end of
the Ashanti war.
1900 Several thousand lives lost in
earthquake at Andijan. Russian Tur
key.
190o Japanese entered Port Arthur. . . .
Fifty-nine lives lost in avalanche at
Bergen. Norway.
I'rusilau SnlTrjxKe Uprising.
The desire for manhood suffrage in
Prussia and the refusal of the German
chancellor , Von Bnelow. to meet the de
mand with consideration , culminated last
Sunday in a tremendous demonstration
at 1'erlin. where more than 70.000 So
cialists and their friends attempted to
parade the principal streets and to hold
public meetings. Prior to this a pro
cession before the Parliament building
had been dispersed by the police with
great violence after the Landtag had
voted down the suffrage proposition with
out division. Von Buelow had told the
Laudtag that parades and riots would not
influence the so\ eminent a bit. Sternest
measures were taken to presene order on
Sunday , large bodies of police and sol
diers being stationed about the city. - Inmost
most cases the parades were broken up.
the police chargisig with swords and the
people resisting with clubs and stones ,
so that many on both sides were injured.
Thousands of women joined in the demon
strations , marching and singing with the
men. Resolutions for the suffrage and
the secret ballot were passed by all the'
meetings. The movement extends through
out Prussia.
! Xiiiiicr < < Theater Indictments.
The grand jury at Kansas City. Mo. ,
has returned 1G9 indictments against per
sons engaged in theatrical work , charged
with violating the old Sunday closing
law. many of those indicted being non
resident actors , v. ho will ha\e to return
for trial or forfeit bonds. Each manager
was indicted as many times as he had
actors and employes working at his the
ater the preceding Sunday , on the theory
that the employer violates the law as
much by forcing his employes to work as
does the employe by consenting to work.
RAILROAD OVER OCEAN
NOW RUNNING TRAINS
Henry Al. Flagicr Has Line to
Key West Already Partly
Completed.
CONCRETE ARCHES ARE USED.
Hovel Engineering Feat Is Described
as the Most Remarkable in
'
the World.
The most remarkable railroad in tin
ivorld. which Henry M. Flagler is build
ing on concrete arches through the shal
low waters of the ocean along the gar-
laud of palm groves that cover the keys
south of Florida , is now in operation
for a distance of eighty-one miles to
Knight's Key. and regular trains are
running over it. Through sleeping ears
will be provided from New York and
I hieago. and they ultimately will be
carried across on a ferry from Key
\Vt--t to Havana , making the distance
in six hours. The railway is more than
hair done. and. as the present terminus
at Knight's Key has all the facilities
for handling the traffic. Mr. Flagler
decided to place the < ompleted portion
in operation and have it earning the
expejs.se of maintenance , at least , wnilu
the remainder of the track is finished to
Key West. Practically SO per rent of
all the construction work is done and
everything will be ready for through
train * ; to Havana by the opening of the
tourist season next winter.
Knight's Kev. the present terminus
of the Flagler system , is 109 miles
south of Miami , forty-seven miles north
of Key West and llu miles north of
Havana. The road between Miami and
Knight- * Key is built' twenty-eight .miles
ui.on the main land tC Florida and
eighM-one miles across and between
forty-two keys. For nearly one-half of
tin- distance the railway track passes
nver the water on concrete arches ,
arhose foundations rest upon the bottom
31" the sea.
At the town of Homestead , twenty-
p"g C miles south of Miami , the track
leaves the continent of North America
nntl starts upon It-i way over the ocean.
Seventeen miles sont'i of that point it
reaches Key Largo , the largest of the
keys , which is fifteen miles long , and
frem there jumps from key to key by
means of massive masonry and em
bankments of cement and coral rock.
In crossing the deeper channels several
drawbridges have been provided to per
mit of the passage of vtsseK The in-
t'-rvening water between the forty-two
! : e > < varies in width from a few hun
dred feet to two miles or more , and
in depth from a few inches to thirty
feet. Th embankments are rip-rapped
with rock to prevent washing , and aiv
rlt'fentled by piles and every other de
vice that the engineers could invent
to protect the roadway from the at
tacks of the water , which is sometimes
stirred up into great violence by the
force of the wind. The track is thirty-
r.ne feet above high water , so that the
passengers in the railway trains may
sit in the windows of Pullman cars in
serenity and ha\e an opportunity of
Mvinsr how the Atlantic Ocean looks
in a gale.
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A severe earthquake razed houses on
the island of IIa\ti.
Canada was om'cSally assured that Jap
anese immigration would be restricted.
Japan and Canada came to a final
agreement on the immigration question.
Mounted police had serious work to
quell socialist riots in the streets o Ber
lin.
The peace terms submitted by the Shah
of Persia were accepted , and peace again
reign : * in Teheran.
M. Blersot , the noted aeronaut , fell
from hib machine , in Paris , and barely
escaped with his life.
The Uussian War Department ordered
the formation of a war automobile corps ,
based on the German idea.
Henry Farnaui , French aeronaut , won
a $10.00(1 ( prize for piloting an aeroplane
su < f-essfully four-tifths of a mile.
Boilin was brought face to face with
the problem of feeding 12,000 starving
school children during the winter.
European students of affairs declared
the only hope for Portugal's salvation
was the establishing of a republic.
A sensation was caused in the German
court scandal by the revelation that a
sifter of the Kaiser supplied the informa
tion upon which the accused Harden
based his editorial attacks.
Prince Bernard of Saxeweimar. who
renounced his rank to wed the widowed
L'ountess Lucchesini. died iu Berlin.
Russia was reported to be considering
the construction of five squadrons of bat-
ti < > Miips at an estimated cost of $2,000-
OUU.OUC.
Japanese autu > riies professed great
concern o\er reports from the United
States indicating the adoption of a strict
exclusion measure.
The pretender was proclaimed Sultan
OL Morocco under condition that he would
expel the French troops and reject th
Algerciias convention.