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fiont of the ear, but the seat bottoms, which at night serve as led bottoms, the mattresses and pillows and every movable thing In the car had been jammed from side to side and from end to end of the car in a manner that would seem io almost preclude the possibility of any person in the car escaping. It is believed, however, that all in this car escaped, and. as there were a fuli score of handbags and satchels in the car, there may have been that number of passengers. Some of the people in the vicinity and the hotel keeper at Gan Ison say that, they helped dress some of these people, but the supposition is that the majority of those who escaped with their lives and not their baggage were taken care of by the passengers in the sleepers that remained on the track, and when taken to New' York city were provided with clothes by the railroad people. In the stateroom of this car were a bride and groom, who escaped with the others. Just to the rear of the Glen Alpine was the car Hermes, which left its trucks on the track and landed flat on its bottom in the river, but only in at*out three feet of water. There was found in the car Git n Alpine, in wallets and poeketbooks, S9OO in money, in sums ranging from sls to S3OO, and eight gold watches, one of them being a lady’s chalet chain Some of the watches bear monograms, by which they can bo identified. There were also found a variety of diamonds, sleeve buttons, studs and a pearl pin, all kinds of wearing apparel, satchels, umbrellas and shoes. Roadmaster Otis, who is considered one ot the most expert track builders in this country, told a reporter that the sinking of the roadbed was due primarily to some unaccountable action of the water on the embankment. The sand and gravel had been washed out. leaving a crust under the track, which collapsed under the w'elght of the train. Mr. Otis could not understand why the retaining wall of solid masonry g-'ve way ag n dig. ‘ Trains are now' moving with but little delay on one track, and we shall have two tracks in operation by to-morrow. We shall not refill the sunken section until we are absolutely certain of the cause of its collapse and determine the best method of rebuilding it.” THE ENGINE LOCATED. The engine was located by a diver this afternoon, but no bodies were discovered. The engine was about thirty feet from shore In about sixty feet of v.ater, and firmly imbedded in the mud. The cab w’as completely wrecked, and the tender had become separated from the engine. Later in the afternoon the wrecking company made another search for the bodies of the engineer and fireman and Superintendent Van Ettine's clerk, Mr. McKay. When the diver came up, after twenty-five minutes, he said: "I could find no trace of any of the missing men, and I don't believe they are near the engine. I should say that if they did not jump, and it looks as if they did not have time, the rush of water "through the cab was so fierce that it fairly swept them out of it and drowned them Quickly. I would not be surprised if they were half a mile or a mile beyond the engine,” At 6 o’clock to-night, but for a few burning embers and twisted rails, it would be difficult to detect any signs of the wreck. Division Superintendent McCoy decided that none of the cars would ever be fit for use again, and that, with the exception of the cushions, there was nothing worth saving. The torch was applied to the day coach and the combination smoking and baggage car. The work of raising the sleeping coach Hermes proceeded slowly, and it vas not until 1 o T clock that it was floated upon a transport. While being raised the trucks gave way and fell with a crash into the river. The car was towed down the river and deposited on the bank, where it was destroyed by fire. The last coach of the illfated train, the Niobe, was got out of the water at 5 o’clock and also burned. The express ear is three hundred yards below’. No attempt will be made to raise it Until to-morrow morning. Ail day a large force of men has been at work building the tracks. The north-bound track was raovea over five feet east, a firm bed composed of eand, gravel and broken stones having been prepared for it. The track has also been planned for south-bound trains. Superintendent McCoy thinks the two tracks will be in operation by to-morrow night. Thousands of persons, most of them women, visited the scene of the wreck to-day. Btanding for hours in the drenching rain. The crowd became so large that it was necessary to rope in all of the space from Which the tracks had gone into the river.

An Absurd Story Ridiculed. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—President Chauncey M. Depew, of the New York Central Railroad, said this evening, concerning a statement printed in an afternoon paper to the "effect that the company has for some time been watening the place where the wreck occurred, well knowing its dangerous condition: “That is so absurd that I Hardly care to make any reply. We run the New York Central to make money. As its officials, we ride over it almost daily In the same trains with the passengers. Now, does it seem likely that we are knowingly risking our own lives? The only way we can make money out of the road is to make it safer than any other and we spare no expense to do this. I have wired the state railroad commissioners asking them to come at once, ■while the matter is fresh, and make a thorough investigation. One of the commissioners was at the scene of the wreck Sunday, but I want to get all of them Stories current to-night that some parts of the wreck caught fire after the accident ■wore declared to be untrue, as are also the rumors tha-t two bodies had been found near Peekskill. None of the injured is known to be in a serious condition to-night, and all are doing well. Five People Injured. BURLINGTON, Vt„ Oct. 25.—A head-on collision occurred between two electric cars of the Burlington road, on Pearl-street hill to-day, resulting in the injuring of live people. The names of the injured: Martin He.'ron, motorman, severe injuries to back; Janes Farrow, motorman, leg fractured; Japi° Cayea, conductor, severe scalp wounds: Elmer Connor, conductor, contusion; Joseph Phglie, passenger, leg fractured. The collision was caused by a heavy fog. Even Hercules Is Dead. Edgar Saltus, in Harper’s Weekly. Why is life short? Asa matter of fact, It is youth that is brief, and it is in youth that we really live. But why, a subscriber asks, do we not live longer? Barring distemper, disease, drink, overeating and the act of God, the main reason resides. I believe, in what the Italians call II timer della paura, the fear of fright—worry. Give a lady a pension, put her in the country and she will live, someone, somewhere, ungallantiy stated, forever. A scientist noted recently that thought vivifies. In print, no doubt, it may. There the lives of great men till remind us that we constantly fail to make our own sublime. But in the effort to emulate them—or to appear to, and success is as fatiguing as failure—even the man •whom thought vivifies must decay. Longevity resembles happiness; both are accidents, not of birth or of circumstances, but of temperament. And both are best achieved by health and indifference. Given health and an appreciation of the maxims of Ye Men Fou—a Chinese philosopher wickedly invented b> De Goncourt, and whose name means something like 1 Don’t Care (a hang)—there is no reason why we should not all make the hypothetical lady •with a pension blush. It is worry that kills. The brain is the seat of life. Worry gnaws It It eats into it until it has eaten it all. Then we die, and it is best that we should. Os the many one alone survives. Said 1 Longfellow': •’Emigravit Is the Inscription on the tombstone where he lies; Dead, he is not. but departed, for the artist never dies.” The prt occupation of death is, however, as trivial as worry. Whatever we do we cannot change the course of events. On pagan tombs these words used to be found: “Courage, dear friend, no one is immortal; Even Hercules ts dead.” The consolation may seem vague. In reality it is very substantial. Tlie Writing of IMays. New' York Commercial Advertiser. That few good plays are written is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that every play, to be successful, must be nic< ly adjusted to the various demands of a mixed audience. The novelist, and. to a greater degree, the poet and the jxiinter, need only to consider a relatively simple audience, one where there are not so many degrees of intelligence and culture. It is. therefore, easier to meet the demand, and good paintings and poems have never been so rare as good plays. On the other hand, when a good play is written, when the playwright has succeeded in meeting the serious Ideals of n complicated demand, the result is something catholic and vital. A great play is a greater thing than a great painting or even a great poem, and great precisely because of the complicated difficulties, which are thrown in the way of its production. The fact that, however excellent it may be from a cultured point of view, it must also be popular, makes all super-subtle, whimsical, purely “literary” qualities impossible. The crowd thus acts as a check to the merely lit* rary artist, insists that a broad basis of ordinary humanity be given to the play, and makes catholicity a condition of success. That is the encouraging thing about the crowd and the encouraging thing about our drama. |

OUTRAGE BY WHITE CAPS 1 OLD MAN DRAGGED FROM HIS BED AT NIGHT AND WHIPPED. Father Sent to Jail Because He Tried to Shoot His Daughter for Sluglug lit the House. * Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 25.—There is much excitement in the south part of this county over the whitecapping last night of John Wright, over seventy years old and one of the pioneers of that section. About 1 o'clock he was startled by a heavy crash at the front door. The door was burst open and a crow’d of masked men entered and demanded that Wright go with them. He Was allowed to put on his trousers and was then dragged some distance from the house. Two men held him while others whipped him severely with switches. He was then told to go home and given to understand that unless he did something to support his family he must leave the county. The case is another for the grand jury, now in session, to investigate. AFTER THE AVHITECAPS. Monroe County Grand Jnry Instructed to Investigate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 25.—The recent White Cap outrages committed in Monroe county are to be thoroughly investigated under the instruction of Judge Martin to the grand jury, which convened this morning. After the usual formal charge, Judge Martin, referring to the number of such outrages having been reported in the county, said: "On several occasions since the last term of this court some of the citizens of your county have so far forgotten themselves as to resort to mob violence. It is claimed in defense of those who have done, so that in no case have they punished any one in this unlawful manner unless the person or persons so punished were justly deserving the full measure of the punishment so inflicted; and it is further urged that these people are forced to take the law into their own hands because this court does not promptly punish petty crimes in our midst. "Gentlemen, I ask you to so thoroughly do your duty in sifting out crime in Monroe county that there will no longer be the slightest excuse for this mob spirit, and I ask you gentlemen to probe to the bottom these lawless acts of mob violence. By your action impress on those who have so acted in violation of law the fact that they themselves are criminals; that by their acts they have cast a stain on themselves, oil their county and on the State of Indiana; a stain th it must be wiped out by a prompt and vigorous punishment of the guilty parties. This sort of conduct must and shall cease. It is not only criminal, but it is ruinous alike to the moral standing and business and financial interests of your county. I charge you to do your duty like men.” James A. Zaring, the new prosecuting attorney, is in full sympathy with the judge in seeing that the men guilty of this mob violence be brought to justice and has been Investigating the situation for several days. He has caused the clerk to issue about 100 subpoenas, covering different sections of the county, and within the next two weeks there is likely to be developments of an interesting nature. It is reported that four different White Cap outrages are to receive special attention, and most of the time of the grand jury will be devoted to this special work.

INDIANA OBITUARY. George W. Ponton, Son of tlie Late Judge Poston. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—George W. Poston, aged seventy-one. a prominent citizen of -this county, died at 2 o’clock this morning of strangulated hernia at his home, five miles from town. llf was in his usual health on retiring. Mr. Poston was a son of the late Judge Poston, a pioneer doctor, minister and jurist, who came to this county from Kentucky in 1821. He was one of a large family of sons and daughters of whom but one, Mrs. Gideon Wellman, of New Salem, survives. He was married fifty years ago to Nancy McNeil, who, with five children, are living. The children are Sanford M. Poston, the well-known horseman of this city; Quincy A. Poston, of New Salem; Mrs. "Willard Amos and Mrs. J. M. Amos, of this city, and Mrs. Orpha Horton, of New Salem. Elder Wesley Hartley. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Elder Wesley Hartley, one of the pioneer ministers of southern Indiana, is dead at his home, near Scottsburg. He had been a minister of the Christian Church for fifty years. He was seventy-two years of age. A widow and numerous children and grandchildren are left. He was one of the best known men in the State. Other Deaths In the State. SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Oct. 25 Elder Wesley Hartley was buried to-day at the Zoah Cemetery. His death was caused from cancer of the throat. He was over eighty years of age and has been a minister of the Christian Church for more than half a century. He was well known throughout the southeastern part of the State. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 25.—John Druley died Saturday evening at his home, in College Corner, O. Until recently he was a resident of the southern part of Wayne county, and was one of the oldest pioneers. MORRISTOWN. Ind., Oct. 25.—Horace Patterson, aged fifty-nine, died to-day. He always lived on the place where he was born. Death was caused by a cancerous growth that closed the pyloric orifice. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Mrs. J. K. P. Thompson, aged forty-four, died to-day from the effects of a cancer. She leaves a husband and several children. AN UNAPPRECIATIVE FATHER. Fired a Shotgun at Ills Daughter for Singing' in the House. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RL’SHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Joe Lltteral is in jail in default of a SSOO bond on a charge of shooting with intent to murder his daughter Blanche yesterday. Lltteral was partly under the influence of liquor when he returned home Sunday. He went to bed and was annoyed by his daughter singing while performing her household duties. He told her to shut up and threatened to blow out her brains if she didn’t. The girl continued singing and the father grew so angry he sprang out of bed, grabbed a shotgun and fired at the girl. The load barely missed her head and tore out a panel in tne kitchen door. The girl ran screaming to a neighbor’s house and Sam Webb rushed to Littoral’ 3, where he found the father reloading his gun. He was disarmed and later placed under arrest. This morning he waived a preliminary examination and was held to the grand jury. Litteral has been in Jail several times before for trying to kill some of his family while on a spree. THE MINERS’ ULTIMATUM. Block Coal Men Expected to Strike Next Saturday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 25.—A strike in the block coal field appears inevitable at present. Secretary Navin, of the local miners’ organization, has informed the operators that unless they agree to check off the dues of the miners belonging to the order every mine in the district will be closed down by Saturday. The operators will hold a conference here Tuesday, but according to the statements of the leading operators, the miners’ demantis will not be granted. A prominent operator said to-day that it would require extra help if the operators consented and that they were unwilling to keep books for the miners' organization. Fight at a Wedding. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. Oct. 25.-The enmity existing between the blowers and gatherers and the cutters and flatteners of the window-glass woikers has reached such a pitch in this city that a collision between the two fractions would surprise no one. A riot was narrowly averted on the South Side Saturday afternoon. Fully a hundred glass workers of all four trades, with their families, were Invited to attend the wedding festivities and banquet given in honor of Homer Andre and his bride. While all were merry au uncle of the bride, named.

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Bellette, and a blower from Redkey mounted a chair and began discussing the issue between the two fractions. He finally wound up by abusing the cutters and flatteners in a most shameful manner. As he stepped down from the chair a member of one of the other two trades struck him a blow that landed him under the table. Friends of each took a hand in the affair and pandemonium reigned. Several were severely beaten and to-day a number of affidavits were filed in Police Court and arrests will follow. Mysterious Disappearance. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RIDGEVILLE. Ind., Oct. 25.—William P. Miller, once a lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth lowa Infantry, and chaplain of Post No. 350, G. A. R., at this place, has been absent from his home since Oct. 11. On the Bth he sent a trunk by express to his daughter, who resides at Council Bluffs, la., and on the morning of the 11th he got his pension check on the Des Moines agency out of this postotfice and started early In the day to Winchester, where he left his horse and buggy, telling -the liveryman that he would be back in a day or two, and, going to the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank, had his pension check (for ssl) cashed, since when nothing can be learned of his whereabouts. vMr. Miller is about sixty-five years old, quite gray and feeble, about live feet eight inches tall, very spare build and was dressed in anew G. A. R. uniform when he left. He was a salesman for D. Huffman, a marble dealer at Winchester, and his samples and designs were found in his buggy by the officers this morning. Anderson's Window-Glass Fight. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 25.—Thfe windowglass fight in this city took another turn today, when the cutters’ and flatteners’ officers, who are here, took an active part in the fight which is on among the workers in the starting of the Union window-glass works. Matt Storey, of Hartford City, and William Click, of Sweetzer, who accepted places in the plant as cutters, have disappeared, and it is understood that from some source or other they received $l5O each, signed the cutters’ new association membership and got out of the city. President Burns is bringing in new men to take their places. This move has brought out some ill feeling. The flatteners went to w T ork to-day and the cutters will begin to-morrow. It is claimed that the start is the best the company lias ever had. Lutheran League. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 25.—The meeting of the Olive Branch Synod of the Lutheran Church closed last night and this afternoon the annual convention of the Luther League of Indiana and Kentucky, which includes the same territory as the synod, began its sessions. The officers of the league are: President, Rev. John A. M. Ziegler. Louisville; recording secretary, Rev. William J. Finck, Anderson; corresponding secretary, Miss Jeannette Hartman, Indianapolis; treasurer, B. C. Bowman, Muncie. The programme for this afternoon and evening included two addresses. The first was delivered by Rev. H. K. Fenner, D. D., of Louisville, on “Some Social and Religious Phases in Germany,” ahd the second was delivered by S. A. Ort, D. D., Ll| D., president of Wittenberg College, Springfield, 0., on “What the Lutheran Church Believes and Preaches.” Burglars at Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 25.—The Perkins hardware store at Yorktown, the Suman general store at Daleville and the blacksmith shop at Chesterfield were looted by burglars last night. They took all of the money and little valuables in sight. In the blacksmith shop they found bicycles belonging to Walter W. Rittenhouse and Clarence Chambers, of Muncie, and, stealing them, rode to this city. They left the machines standing by the side of the road near the Panhandle freight yards. Bloodhounds were put on their trial, but when they took to bicycles the dogs were thrown off entirely and gave up the hunt.

Twenty Outbuildings Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, Ind., Oct. 25.—Fire at midnight burned about twenty stables and outbuildings, with losses as follows: William Rodman, $300; Mr3. McClannahan SIOO, fully insured; J. B. Berkey S4OO, with SIOO insurance; R. J. Wilson S4OO, with S2OO insurance; Mrs. Collins, SSOO on buildings; Benna, $100; Col. S. D. Sayles’s thrasher and barn, $800; J. B. Godfrey, S2OO. Several buggies, wagons and other vehicles were burned. All the horses were saved. The fire started in Mrs. McClannahan’s barn. The total loss is about SB,OOO, with insurance of about Fifty Dollars Re-ward. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Last Friday morning a business-looking man registered at the Bundy Hotel in this city as E. B. Smith, of Dayton, O. After dinner, for which he did not pay, he hired a horse and buggy from Charles Bundy’s stable, saying he wished to drive into the country about ten miles. He has not been seen since, and Mr. Bundy has offered a reward of SSO for his arrest. The animal is a black mare and the vehicle a low-end spring buggy. The man was proba'oly fifty years of age. M. E. Revival Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 25.—The opening session of the revival conference of the Richmond district of the M. E. Church began this evening at Grace Church, pevotional services were conducted by Rev. D. H. Guild, of Knightstown, and Dr. William D. Parr, of Kokomo, preached a revival sermon and conducted an after service. The programme continues through Tuesday and Wednesday. Dr. Parr and Rev. George N. Eldridge, of Anderson, are the only ministers outside the district who will take part. Mrs. Harding Indicted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—Mrs. Lizzie Harding, the murderess of Miss Mary Rosenbaum, who has at no time since her arrest, shown the least emotion, smiled complacently to-day when informed that the grand jury had indicted her for murder in the first degree. She will be tried at the November term of the Circuit Court. An hour after her victim, Miss Mary Rosenbaum, died the latter’s mother died of a broken heart, and the shock caused by her daughter’s murder. Accounting for Andree P goons. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Oct. 25.—The alleged finding of Andree pigeons* at various places over the country has resulted in the return of a number of homing pigeons that belonged to societies here and other gas belt cities. These pigeons were either in training or in races and a number of them failed to return. They all bear the private mark of the owners and only they can decipher them. Supposed Andree pigeons found at Logansport and Noblesville upon investigation were found to belong here and at Anderson. Seine Hltl in a Church. Special to the Indianapo'is Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., Oct. 25. Sunday morning the janitor of the Presbyterian Church at Kingston built a fire in the furnace, and soon after the room was filled with smoke, and he hustled about to learn the cause, when he discovered a seine about forty feet long hid away in the furnace, which was removed, and the smoke disappeared. From appearance it had been its hiding place all summer. No one has appeared and claimed ownership. Fishing has been good in Clifty and Flatrock. Lost Both Legs Under the Cara, Special to the Indianapolis Journal GREEN CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Carl Hoffmann, the fifteen-year-old son of Hermann Hoffmann, a wholesale tobacconist of this city, had both legs crushed off by a freight train on the Big Four Railroad this evening. Hoffmann and companions were about the train, when it backed over the unfortunate lad. Physicians amputated both legs to-night, and regard the injuries fatal. Eugene Day, Alleged Safe Ilobher. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Eugene Day, a young man of this city, was bound over to the Circuit Court this afternoon under bonds of SBOO, charged with burglarizing C. A. Kelley’s safe last week in which s23(i is alleged to have been taken. Day was arrested in Indianapolis and went to jail in default of bail. He claims there were accomplices In the robbery. Eloped on a Tandem. Sj*clai to the Indlanat>oHs Journal. DANVILLE. 111., Oct, 25.—C. W. Woolsey, a printer, and Miss Lena Waltz, bookkeeper for Koch & Buy, eloped, on a tandem

bicycle to-day and were married at Covington. Ind. After making a tour in western Indiana for a week, stopping at Rockville, Orawfordsvllle and other points they will return to Danville. One More Candidate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Oct. 25.—A. L. Sharp, of this city, has joined the ranks of candidates for the congressional nomination from the Eighth district to succeed Charles L. Henry. Mr. Sharpe is a prominent lawyer. Hanged Himeelf with a Log Chain. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 25.—News was received here to-day of the suicide of William Gray, a farm hand empoyed by Horace Hampton, near Dover, in the northern part of this county. He hanged himself on Saturday with a log chain. Mortgaged the Property, Then Failed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 23.—Schiuer & Foulkes, dealers in men’s furnishings, made an assignment after giving chattel mortgages for $9,000, divided between Schluer’s father and Foulkes’s brother. Railroad IcehouMes Burn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., Oct. 25.—Two large icehouses of the Clever Deaf Railway Company here burned this afternoon. Loss, $2,000; insurance, $1,400. . Indiana Notes. Rev. Dr. W. E. Storey, of Chicago, has accepted a call to the First Baptist Church of Valparaiso. He was a missionary to Japan for four years. J. L. Dobson, of Summitville, has brought action for a receiver for the City Gas Company of Summitville. He is one of the owners, and states it is insolvent. The American Wire-nail Company announces that it will increase the capacity of its plants in Anderson by adding twenty-five more nail machines at once. They now have a capacity of about 2.6C0 kegs of nails a day and employ seven hundred men. TALK WITH MR. PLATT : —. . NEW YORK POLITICAL SITUATION DISCUSSED BY THE SENATOR. His Reasons for Relieving General Trucy Will Be the First Mayor of the Greater City.

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Senator Platt has made the following statement; “In response to many inquiries as to how the municipal campaign is likely to end, I want to say that in my belief General Tracy has won the election. There are three Democratic candidates in the fieldfour, counting Gleason—among whom the Democratic vote will be divided. It is not a majority vote anyhow. The Democrats have never had a majority in the territory now consolidated since the enactment of the present election law. They used to have majorities, any kind of majority that suited their taste and convenience. They had absolute control of the electoral machinery at every poll. The appointment of ail the ballot clerks, poll clerks and inspectors was lodged unreservedly in the hands of the Tammany Board of Police Commissioners. Theoretically, the law required minority representation at the polls, but in practice that was ignored. The alleged Republican representation was In practice provided by the Tammany election district captain. “This gave unlimited opportuity for fraud, and fraud was practiced in an unlimited way. But when Governor Morton and a Republican Legislature were elected in 1893 the law was changed and a bipartisan control of the polling places was established. The two leading parties are now equally represented at every polling place, as bv law they should be in the police ‘ commission, and would have been had Mayor Strong done his duty as the law requires in the selection of police commissioners. The ballot clerks, poll clerks and inspectors are now appointed on the nomination of the official heads of the two principal parties, and since that has been the case the Democrats have never had a majority in the city of New York. They won in 1895, but they did not win against the Republican party. “Whatever their present vote may be, it is going to be divided betwen Van Wyck, George, Low and Gleason. Van Wyck will probably get the most of it, George will get a huge portion of it and Low will get a substantial remainder. Low is the candidate of four Democratic organizations, the Ship Democracy, the Garoo Democracy, the Purr,oy Democracy and the Steckler Democracy. More and more as the canvass has proceeded he has become identified before the public with the Democratic party. He is the embodiment of the holier-than-thou idea of the Cleveland party. “He is a revival of Cleveiandism. He has the support of all that noisy and insolent crowd that grovels at the feet of Cleveland. He has been brought forward as the expression of their notions and their hopes. And that which makes his success impossible is the fact, now so clearly presented in the minds of the community, that through Low this Cleveland clique are endeavoring to recover their lost prestige for use in 1900. “The Republican vote, on the other hand, is consolidated upon l a single candidate. Every district in New York has been thoroughly canvassed by the Republican organization, and its leaders know' the situation as accurately as it can be known by anybody until the votes are actually cast and counted. They approach the crisis of the campaign with absolute confidence. There is not an assembly district in the whole city where the loss of Republican votes to Low will amount to 15 per cent, of the nominal Republican strength. Even this small percentage of loss can occur in no more than twelve out of fifty-nine assembly districts into which the new municipality is divided. In all the other assembly districts the Republican loss to Low will be utterly trivial. “In other words, Low will receive a much larger Democratic than Republican support, and it is not the least interesting feature of this extraordinary campaign that the candidacy of Low, instead of smashing the Republican party, as it was intended to do, will really be an additional and distinct force for Republican success. George and Low', having identified themselves in other respects, will be identified in this—that each will help to use up and split up the Democratic vote and leave the consolidated Republican vote triumphantly potential. “Os course, T do not forget those Low lists. They are decidedly the most amusing thing in the way of a political ‘fake’ that has been exhibited hereabouts during my experience. They are not worth a detailed examination. The simple fact that they place Low’s chief strength as a candidate in the districts below Fourteenth street makes them so obviously absurd that it would be a waste of time to discuss them. In districts where they give him nearly 50,000 votes he will not have 4.000. “Nor do I forget that there are some Tammany and Wall-street gamblers who seem to be trying desperately to give new proof of the adage that ‘a fool and his money are soon parted.’ Campaign betting has alw’ays been Tammany Hall’s chief argument. It is supposed to be very effective w’ith a class of voters who don’t know how they will vote until they are persuaded how others will vote. There may be such a class in this community, but it is not large. To bet that Low’s vote will exceed Tracy’s is Just like throwing money into the fire. To bet that Tracy’s will exceed Van Wyck’s is like picking It up in the streets. “And so I say to Republicans, keep steadily at work. You have already won. and are winning in greater measure every day. Your constant and united efforts will bring this great city, with its tremendous influence upon the affairs of the country, to the support of the Republican party and the noble principles for which it stands. You have nominated the best ticket that w'as ever offered to the people of this community. You bring to them the services of a man as the first mayor of Greater New York whose character, ahtlity and experience place him high above any of those who think themselves his rivals in the race. You have stood for your principles, as principles should alwavs be stood for, without compromise or denial. “You are entitled to win. You deserve to win. Tour victory will do more to secure stability to business and solidity to credit and to give impetus and permanence to our new prosperity than can be accomplished by any public event. It will say to the country that this great center of commerce and capital, from which is drawn the vitality of all enterprise, is true to the sound policies for which it spoke one year ago. It will assure to the people of New York a pure, independent and efficient administration of their local affairs. It will start tho new city upon its new career w’ith the respect and confidence of all men. And all you have to do to make your victory complete is to keep right at It day by day until the votes are counted.” y

REVENGE OF DERVISHES EVERY MALE MEMBER OF THE J A ALIY TRIBE PUT TO DEATH, And All tho Pretty Women Sent to Harem* After Re*erviiiK' 150 Virgin* for the Khalifa, CAIRO, Oct. 25.—A column of troops commanded by General Hunter, It is announced in a dispatch from Berber, on the Nile, has started to drive Osman Digna, the great Dervish general from the Atbara river. But, the dispatch adds, it is feared Osman Digna will not wait for the AngloEgyptian troops to attack him. Details just obtained of the revenge of the Dervishes on the Jaalin tribe, caused by the refusal of the latter to join the forces of the Kahiifa against the British show it to have been terrible in the extreme. The left bank of the river, between Berber and Metmneh, was practically depopulated. The Dervishes butchered every male member of the offending tribe a,nd took the pretty women to their harems, after sending 150 selected virgins to tho Khalifa. The Dervishes, in addition, threw many women and children into the river. EVENTS IA THE ORIENT. A Variety of DiiutHterM and Epidemics of Disease. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 25. —The steamship Olympia arrived from China and Japan today with one thousand tons of freight. She brought forty passengers, eight of whom went ashore at Victoria. The Olympia’s freight includes five hundred bales of raw silk, valued at $125,0(W approximately. The Olympia brings Yokohama advices up to Oct. 8, as follows: A telegram was received in Yokohoma reporting the destruction by lire of the synagogue at Nagasaki on the day of atonement. Serious earthquake shocks are reported to have been felt at Yonezewa, Senda and Niyagata. The shock was felt but slightly in Yokohama. The steamer Maura, which left Hiogs. on the 28th inst. for Shinaga, is missing, nothing having been heard of her since she left Kobe. The disease which has attacked the cattle in Osake and vicinity is increasing in violence. 9 A fire at Takee-Mura, Kijima-Gun, destroyed thirty houses. There were 1,536 banks having an aggregate capital of 203,041,514 yen in Japan at the end of September, an increase of twen-ty-four banks and 4,474,000 yen capital over August. There have been 60,637 sufferers by dysentery throughout Japan since Sept. 25. Os those 6,044 were in Tokio and 1,518 proved fatal. The rice crop in Liyata prefecture, which is usually 26,0ut),W0 koku, nus been reduced one-haif by floods and insect pests and a quarter of million koku must be supplied lrom other districts tor consumption before next harvest. A cholera epidemic has broken out in Singapore, about tour new cases every day. The epidemic shows no signs of spreading. A contract has been arranged between the First Bank (Japanese! and the Corean Finance Bureau to the effect that the Japanpiece now in circulation in CoreiPmas been accepted in payment of customs duties upon a stamp being printed on its face. The King of Corea has at last accepted the title of ‘’Emperor,” after the officials had presented him with it nine times, and the coronation ceremony of the Emperor-King was to take place on Oct. 12, when the Empress and heir apparent will have their titles officially proclaimed. A Seoul dispatch says: ''All the Cabinet ministers have tendered their resignations.” News from I.ombok says that Mr. Vanderhout, the Dutch controller of the village of Sisela, has been murdered by insurgents. Another controller was wounded. The residents calk'd troops out and summoned the insurgents to surrender. On their refusal the village was stormed and burned. Twen-ty-five insurgents fell. The Dutch loss was one killed and three wounded. The cause of the uprising is not known. An imperial ordinance has been issued to the effect that the circulation of silver yen will be stopped on April 1, 1898. Sixteen thousand rifles from Hong-Kong and Shanghai have been received by the Philippine rebels on the west coast of LuGeneral Count Noseu has been definitely decided upon as successor of Baron Nogi as Governor of Formosa. The crops in Glshu, Corea, have been badly damaged by the overflowing of the Yalu river on Sept. 11. The people have been driven from their homes and are said to be in a terrible state of distress. Over twelve thousand people at Gifu who were rendered homeless by the recent floods are now being supported by charity.

Foster to Be Extradited. PARIS, Oct. 25.— The United States embassy will make an application to the French government for the extradition of William R. Foster, who absconded from New York on Sept. 26, 1888, with, it is claimed, $193,000 belonging to the gratulty fund of the New York Produce Exchange, and who was arested at Neuilly, near this city, on Saturday last by the French police at the instance of the Scotland Yard detectives. The latter have been tracking Foster for a long time past in efforts to obtain the reward of $5,0C0 offered by the New York Produce F/veahge for bis arrest. The English detectives foupd that Foster had been living in London witu a music hall singer, who passed as his niece, and when she started last week from London to Paris the detectives foljpwed her and located the fugitive. Henry Vignatin, secretary of the United States embassy here, has telegraphed to Henry White, secretary of the United States embassy in London, to forward to this city the papers in the case which are now in the possession of the United States representatives in England. German* Insulted ly the Cxar. BERLIN, Oct. 25. — I The refusaU of the Czar and Czarina to receive the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden at Darmstadt after the latter had intimated to their Russian Majesties a desire to visit them, is vigorously criticised by the German press. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, as announced by the Carlsruhe Official Gazette, received a reply from the Czar saying that his Majesty had already made arrangements covering every day until his departure from Darmstadt, and, therefore, his Majesty would be unable to receive them. The government issued orders to-day forbidding the telegraphing of any comments on this subject, and its gravity may be gauged when it is added that many of the German newspapers regard the occurrence as an insult to the nation, as the Grand Duchess of Baden is a daughter of Emperor William I. Langtry’* Death Accidental. CHESTER, England, Oct. 25.— The coroner’s jury, which has been inquiring into the death on Friday one week ago of Edward Langtry, rendered a verdict to-day of accidental death. The deceased died in an asylum for the insane after having been found wandering in a helpless condition some ten days previously on the railroad at Crewe. It was then understood that Mr. Langtry had injured himself in falling down the ganyway of a steamer on board of which he had traveled from Dublin to Holyhead. was taken before a magistrate on Oct. 5 and. It being generally believed that Mr. Langtry was Insane, he was committed to the asylum where he died, in order that his condition might be inquired intd. No Femnle ••Master*” Wanted. LONDON, Oct. 25.— The Board of Trade has refused to grant a yacht masters' certificate to Lady Ernestine Brudenell-Bruce, a yachtswoman who had prepared herself to undergo all the examinations requisite for a master’s certificate. She asked to be examined by the Board of Trade, pointing out that she merely wanted authorization to command her own yacht, and did not desire to serve on board of the ships, but the Board of Trade replied that it would not permit a woman to be examined for a master’s certificate, as the term “musters” clearly implies that only men are eligible. Serious Flghtiug Expected. SIMLA, Oct. 25. —Official dispatches from Khangabnr, received to-day. say that the advance upon the Sampaghega pass, on both sides of which, the insurgent tribes-

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men are collecting in great force and where the next serious righting is expected to occur, will be resumed to-morrow. The position taken up by the enemy is of the strongest description and can c- 1 ' be assailed in front and over brok 'round. The tribesmen are expected t ice a most determined resistance to th vance of the British troops. It is also pected that the Pei-shawur column will have warm work to do, as four thousand Afrldis have collected at Barkai and Mai-Mai, near Bara. Diiwuttroua Oil Spring-* Fire. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 25.—A dispatch from Baku, on the peninsula of Apsheron, on the west coast of the Caspian sea, one of the centers of the great oil-producing regions in European Russia, says that the petroleum spring fire which broke out at Romany, a suburb of Baku, on the night of Oct. 17, and which quickly spread to other springs in the vicinity until the whole valley was a sea of flame, has just been quenched. Many springs and bore holes have been destroyed, and the total loss Is estimated at 1,000,000 roubles. It is reported that another lire has broken out in the naphtha wells at Bibigabat. Sturdier! Shirt Leurl* to a Duel. PARIS, Oct. 25.—A so-called duel with swords was fought between the well-known French amateur fencer, M. Thomeguex, and an Italian amateur, Signor Casella. The dispute which occasioned this meeting arose from an argument regarding the starched shin, which the Count of Turin, nephew of the King of Italy, wore during his recent duel with Prince Henry of Orleans. Signor Casella’s left cheek was scratched in the first round of the ‘‘lighting.” First Time Since the Reformation. LONDON, Oct. 25.—For the first time since the reformation, the reopening of the law courts was initiated to-day by a special service in Westminster Abbey, which was attended by the bench and bar, all wearing their robes. The lord chancellor, Lord Halsbury, afterwards held a reception of the judges and barristers. The Catholic judge and barristers attended ‘‘red mass,” at the Sardinia Chapel. The cause lists show a marked increase of cases of all descriptions. Cable Yotes. The splendid town hall of Hamburg, which cost 16.000,000 marks, will be formally dedicated to-day. Captain C. E. Stacey was married in St. George’s Church, Hanover square, London, yesterday to Miss Alice Maud, daughter of the late Lord Alfred Henry Paget. A French tile maker named Guillout, his wife and four children have committed suicide by the use of charcoal fumes at Choisy Le Roy. Poverty was the cause of their self destruction. Cardinal Rampolia authorizes the denial of papal intervention in the case of Prof. Schroeder, of the Catholic University at Washington, and states that the matter is entirely in the hands of the bishops. The negotiations of the Chinese government with the Hooley syndicate for a loan of £16,000,000 ($80,000,000) have fallen through and the government (s now negotiating with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

WILD-CAT EATS ANOTHER. Fight In nn Expre** Car Between Two Bloodthir*ty Prisoner*. CHICAGO, Oct. 25— Messenger W. D. Gamble, of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, receipted for two wild-cats at Kansas City Friday night. When he reached Chicago yesterday he billed two wild-cats on east, but there was only one cat to go. The other had been vanquished in a fierce fight in an express car on the Santa Fe fast train, and had been devoured by his victorious and ferocious mate. Only a few tufts of hair and a handful of well-cleaned hones were left of tho beast that braved a battle to the death with its savage partner of the California mountains. Messenger Gamble declares that he went through an experience that was worse than an attack by train robbers. For two hours he sat alone in his car and waited for and then watched the encounter between the two cats. In his hands he held two revolvers, every chamber loaded. He could not tell at what moment the maddened beasts would break tbo frail bars of the narrow crate In which they fought and thtr> forget their own enmity and transfer their fury to him. When the growls, snarls and yelps had ceased, and he mustered up enough courage to make an investigation his mind was relieved. In place of the smaller beast that had been consigned to him he found the hair and bones. Standing contentedly over them was the larger cat. its rage and appetite satisfied as it looked at all that was left of its traveling chum. The victorious a.nimal with the cannibalistic instincts was the object of much curiosity in the express room at the Dearborn station. It was an immense specimen or its kind and weighed fifty pounds. It showed evidences of the conflict, one eye having been scratched by the long claws of its adversary, while deep wounds on its neck and body were plentiful. The other wild cat. Messenger Gamble says, was smaller and weighed forty pounds. The cats had been shipped from Fall Brook, Cal., to Rezin Furbay, Martin’s Ferry, 0., and had apparently lived in peace during the journey over the mountains eastward until they were transferred at Kansas City. Then Messenger Gamble took charge of them, having been first assured by the messenger on the other route of their mild disposition and harmlessness* But soon after tho train on the Santa Fe had left Kansas City growls and hisses from the cage made Gamble wary and nervous. He decided to feed the animals, and. according to orders, threw into the crate a lot of cooked beef. The beef aggravated the impending trouble, and in a few minutes the messenger was hearing the sounds of a struggle of ferocious intensity. The slender bars on the cage bent outward under the pressure of the fighting animals and threatened at every moment to snap and release their bloodthirsty prisoners. Gamble was ready to act In case the animals were freetTand, forgetting their quarrel, would unite In an attack on him. Shrieks and howls which seemed to grow louder as the battle progressed made the frightened messenger grasp his weapons more closely with the expectation of having to use them at the next instant. But aft< r awhile the noise grew fainter, and soon all that could be heard was the sound oX low snarls and the gnashings of

bones. When the messenger took his lantern and peered between the bars he had but one cat to bill from Chicago east. The surviving beast was billed as “two wild cats” and was started on its way to Ohio on train No. 12 on the Erie Railroad in charge of Messenger H. B. Parks. * \ Reduced Interest Rates. New York Financier. It is quite likely that the banks of New York city will make an effort this fall to reduce the interest on country balances from 2 to 1(4 Per cent Indications point to a remarkably heavy influx of interior funds at no distant day. The call money market broke last week to 2 per cent, and less, and as the banks cannot profitably put out the balariees at that rate, they are seeking relief in .he only direction that appears practicable It is doubtful if any formal agreement will be entered Into—in fact, such a combination would be declared beyond the province of legal enactment — but custom may establish something like a uniform rate. The banks have often discussed the matter, and at different times have made efforts to reduce interest rates, but the business of the institutions is so different in character that the attempts have been unsuccessful. Individual judgment must settle the problem. Other cities have found this to be true after numerous trials. An Important Art. Philadelphia Record. Indiana's state superintendent of schools has suggested that instruction in writing should likewise include the writing of letters, his observation having taught him that many boys and girls go through the schools without acquiring this useful and r'ecess.fy art. This suggestion is of national pertinence. It is true that grammar schools as a rule compel the children to write compositions; but these arc invariably upon such abstract themes that they are valueless in teaching the children either to think or to express their thoughts. Let-ter-writing would teach them the art of w'ritten expression along natural lines, and thus provide exorcise at the same time for their fingers and their faculties. A Practical Student. Washington Star. “I must get a book and read about tho single tax,” said Miss Cayenne thoughtfully. “I don’t see why.” replied Willie Wishlngton. “After you understand it it’s hard to explain, and you can’t get anybody to remain and listen to you.” “1 am going to> read up on It, anyhow, and the next time, you call on me I’ll see if I can’t tell you all about it.”

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