Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 November 1889 — Page 1

Pike County J, L. MODBT, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XX. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion tjo Principles of Right ’ PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THUSSDAY. NOVEMBE if 14, 1889. QFFIOE, over J. B. YOUSG & 00.'S Store, Main Street. NUMBER 26.

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THE WORLD AT LARGE Summary of the Daily Newa WASHINGTON NOTES. Mrs. President Harrison and bet father went to New York on the 4th to •visit Mrs. Scott Lord, who was reported to be very ill. The United States Supreme Court has advanced the cast* of Sheriff Cunningham against Deputy Marshal Noagle, who shot and, killed Judge Terry in California this summer while protecting Justice Field. £1'iik President formally opened the Southern Exposition at Montgomery. Ala., hy touching a telegraph button in the White House. The President has appointed Trinidad Romero to be Uaited States Marshal for New Mexico. Thomas F. Hayaud, ex-Secretary ol State, was married to Miss Mary W. Cl.vmer at Washington on the 7th. Kx-Phksiwkst and Mrs. Cleveland were in Washington on the 7th attending the Hayard-Clymer wedding. They called on President Harrison, i Hue President has appointed William W. ltates, of New York, Comniissjonoi j of Navigation. I Tift: President issued his proelama tion declaring Montana a State on th» 8U>. THE EAST. In connection tsith the proposed removal of tleneral Grant's remains from New York, Quartermaster-General Hob abird states that there can be no obstacle in the way of burying the remains at Arlington and that Mrs. Grant's remains can be hurled alongside. Ex-Mayor Sktij Dow, of Itrooklyn. N. Y., has accepted the presidency of Columbia College and will begin his duties in February, The molders in the ltrooks locomotive works, Dunkirk, N. Y., have returned to work, having given up their ■ strike. ^1 'Fiiie in AlloghenyCIty, Pa., the other morning destroyed Dovey's hraes foundry and a carpet clean! ng-placc. causing MO,000 loss. A negro'was burned to death. John l,. Syi.i.iyan, the pugilist, has been made a co-respondent in a divorce suit brought by a Syracuse (N. Y.) barber against his ijife. The Presbytery of New York voted almost unanimously Uu favor of a revision of I lie Westminster catechism. *i Eii.iit hundred and forty-five Italians were landed at Castle Garden by the steamships Bolivia and Alesia from Mediterranean ports on th^lth. James Jackson, aged ejjffteen. while gunning at. Jamaica Plain. I,. I., was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. Harry Weeks, while gunning at Rockwell Center, L. I., was fatally wounded. Two small children of Jeremiah Shaw, of Haverhill. Mass., were buried in a sand liank and killed the other day. Three pistol cartridges placed on a street ear track at New York exploited the other night. As the car was passing through Hroom£ street it ran over them and one bullet struck a letter carrier. James Starck. in the head: another shot Sarah Daly, seventeen years old, in the ahdomcn. Tut: remains of Captain Schoonmaker, who lost his life during the great Samo- ' an storm March last, were interred in the family plot at Rondout, N. Y., on ' the 7th. The New York Supreme Court has confirmed the judgment of the lower court declaring the sugar trust unlawful. The vote of the town of Gosnold completes the election returns from Massa- • hu-ctt.s and makes the total footings for Governor: Brackett, Republican, 128,SOI; Russell, Democrat. 120.S17; lUaekmer, Prohibitionist, 1S.M.S4; Marks, l.atior, 111; Brackett's plurality. 5,984. Kx-Phesihknt . Cleveland has expressed himself as satisfied with the recent elections, attributing the result to the principle of tariff reform, which had leavened the whole lump. Tilt total vote cast in Pennsylvania for State Treasurer was as follows: Boyer. Republican. SS2.607; Bigler, Democrat, 271.1*14; Johnson. Prohibition, 2b- ^ ,Vi4; Boyer’s plurality, 60.89X One man was killed end two others j injured by a collision between a freight and a gravel train five miles west of Al- ‘ tuona. Pa., recently. William K- Hart. State Treasurer of i Pennsylvania, died suddenly at Uarris- ; burg on the 9th. ,

THIS WEST. The other night .John I’hler, a jeweler. of Marion, O., was in the rear of hia store when a lack window was broken with rooks and when be ran to discover who threw them a sneak ran into the front door and secured a tray of ; gold watches valued at SXOO. P.ix«>uvn.t.r. ten, miles east of Tiffin. ; O., was recently swept by fire. - Govkkxor Thomas, of Utah. in bis : annual report, expressed a doubt of the honesty of Mormon professions respecting polygamy. The tillable land of I’tah was almost «*htirely in the hands of the Saints, and It would be many years before the Gentiles conld obtain control of affairs. The 'inhabitants of the Territory numbered 230,000. Wakkex. U. Satrk, of Indiana, has been appointed a member of the Cherokee Commission, in place of llartranft, deceased. Near Folsom. N. M., three cowboys were frozen to death druing the recent ■ blizzard. A blinding snowstorm was also reported in the mountains near Albuquerque. _IlAlnwts, the aeronaut, and Morris, a reporter, left Quincy, 111., in a balloon recently and ascendedatMWO feet. They landed near Springfield, 100 miles, in four hours and a quarter__ Thk Indiana Supreme Court has decided the Legislative act unconstitutional which prohibited the piping of natural gas outside of the State line, the same Interfering with Federal law regulating inter-commerce. By a collision of freight trains near Wawaka, thd.. the other morning, two engines and fifteen oars were completely wrecked bat no one was hurt. Dr. Mart Wreks-Barxrtt has brought suit for *50,000 damages against Franc* E. Willard, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, for circulating false statements concerning the management of i the Women’s Christian Temperance Hospital on Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. Joint Bush, the oldeet white settler In the Northwest, died at St. Peter. Minn., the other <*^y. aged ninety-eix. He had lived in Minnesota seventy-two years. Nearly a fourth of the business section of Luther. Mich., was destroyed by lire the other Any, esusinf *«,#» loss.

Tm: most unique way of celebrating the success of James E. Campbell for Governor of Ohio was displayed by Allen O. Myers, the Cincinnati journalist. He rode through the streets mounted on one of John Robinson’s camels. The animal was gayly attired and the turnout was followed by an immense mob. hi any of the prominent Cheroltees have expressed themselves as dissatisfied with the defiant tone of Chief Mayes' letter to the Cherokee Commission. E. E Van Hoses, a prominentchureh member and cashier of the Toledo (O.) National Hank, was arrested recently, charged with embeutling about $00,000 of the hank's funds. 1. M. McKee, teller of the bank, was also arrested as an accomplice. Kijkctiox returns up to the night of the Tth were unsettled in Ohio and Iowa. The Iowa legislature was thought to be Republican on joint ballot. though Boies. Democrat, was elected Governor. Republicans were claiming the election of ihe State ticket in Ohio, excepting Foraker for Governor. The Silver Ilow (Mont.) mandamus case was finished by Judge Wolfe denying the right of the minority of the lioard of canvassers to appeal from the order of the court dirts-ting the canvassers to count the vote of the Tunnel precinct. (iBorok Hancock. Mormon high priest, has been arrested at Payson, Utah, charged with murdering ■ Mrs. Hatch and her son. George Jones, thir-ty-two years of age. The victims were accused of incest when they were slain, but the Gentiles say it was a Church murder. The Minneapolis flour mills show a heavy run, exceeding in one week by 28,000 barrels that of the corresponding week a year ago. Tiik schooner Southwest and nine men have been lost in Rake Erie. The mother and seven children of a family named Parker were drowned recently near Yaqulna, Ore., while crossing in a small boat from Newport to South Itearh. The father only escaped. The Flathcads are willing to leave their reservation in Hitter Root Valley, Montana. The tattered clothing and surgical instrument case of I>r. Cronin were found in the sewer at F.vanston and Buena avenues. Chicago, on the 8th, only one block from the spot where the bloody trunk was found. Tut: first trial of suits begun by George \V. Ewing, of Fort Wayne, Ind.. for propertyWorth hundreds of thoussmis of dollars w as throw n out of court at Wabash. Ind., for insufficient cause. A boy supposed to be Willie W. Dickinson. stolen from Milwaukee, Wis.. eight years ago, has been found in the orphan asylum at Los Angeles, Cal. THE SOUTH. Riley Rhodes a member of one of the most prominent families in Arkansas, was thrown fror. his horse in a race near Kingsland. Ark., and killed., Charleston. S. C., had a great earthquake revival festival. The whole town was in a gala attire by day and by night. A heavy storm struck the harbor of Galveston, Tex., on the 5tb. Considerable damage resulted to shipping. Many streets were flooded. General Maiionk has been held for trial for the shooting of a man named Harrison during disturbances before Mahone's house at Petersburg. Va., on the night of the election. By the explosion of a STY 000 dredge boat at the South Pass of the Mississippi river two firemen were killed recently. The Richmond Dispatch publishes a tabulated statement of the vote of Virginia. giving McKinney a majority of 11 JIM. Petehabuko. Va.. suffered a loss of $858,000 by fire on the 7th. which Commenced at: Davis' dry goods store on I Sycamore street. Two lives were lost. The steamer Annie P. Silver, a large Mississippi river boat, ran on a snag twenty miles from Vicksburg. Miss,, the other night. The loss was $28,000. I-oris Nt'OENT, colored, aged thirty, has been hanged at Baton Rouge, La., for assassination. Tiiehk was a terrible fight between citizens at Brownsburg. Rockbridge County, Va., on the 8th. Three persons were killed or fatally injured and many ] others were seriously wounded. A phys- j ician named Walker hail threatened the I Ilf oof Henry Miller for insulting Mrs. Walker and the tragedy occurred In the court room. Mrs. Walker and Miller were killed amd Walker was fatally hurt.

I lit: disastrous snow storm of .New Mexico extended into Texas. Several herders perished w ith their stock. Korn convicts were shot recently while attempting to escape from the; penitentiary at Huntsville, Tex. Onel was killed and two fatally wounded. * Ax unknown maniac ran amuck at Itnyou Boeuf Station. La., the other day. He stahlied five or six persons, some fatally, and was shot as he pushed out In a Isiat. He fell into the water and disappeared, his body not being recovered. A. Goobwrx, Jr., a Democratic judge of election for the Second ward of Petersburg. Va., has been arfrsted oh a warrant sworn out by J. M. Birdsong, a Republican judge of election for the same precinct, charging him with stuffing the ballot box. Jay tioriji has begun suit in the Federal Court at Little Rock. Ark., to foreclose a deed of trust for $4'i5,000 given by the Little Rock. Mississippi River Jt Texas Railway Company to heveral of its old officers and by them assigned to Gould. L Tine sentence of Simon Walker, of Chesterfield County, V*., the negro boy Who committed a criminal assault upon Mart Ann Quinn, aged eleven years, and who was twice sentenced to be hanged and respited has been commuted by the Governor to twenty years' imprisonment. Two prominent Republican politicians of Lexington, Ky.—Colonel Cassius Ctoodloe, collector of internal revenue, j and Colonel Armstead M. Swope—had a desperate encounter on the 8th. Swope was stabbed to death and Goodloe was thought to be fatally shot. Johx Brewer. a colored man, has tieen fined $1,000 for using Incendiary language over the death of Police Lieutenant Crichton, who was killed at the recent fire in Petersburg, Va. UKXESAL. Thk Prince of Wales received a great ovation on his recent visit to Alexandria, Egypt. | Thk Italian Government is said to be j pledged not to hinder the efforts of Bulgaria to establish her independence. j The Cxar has written a letter to Natalie in which he assures herof hissym- j pa thy and says he continues to recognise her as the Queen of Servia. It la ! believed the letter will expedite the settlement of Natalie's proposition.

1st the municipal elections in Italy j the Liberals and Radicals defeated the Clericals at all points. Evangelist Moody recently rec^ved a draft of $3,500 from a man converted at one of his meetings. The money was for the Government, which had been defrauded of that amount by smuggling. Maggie It. B., the dam of Iroquois and other celebrated race horses, died recently after a two days’ illness. She was considered by many to be the most celebrated brood mare in America. Ex-Kino Milan, of Servia, is reported to bo about to reside permanently in Paris. Thk Hungarian Diet is expected to pass a bill to exempt leading trades and manufactures from taxation and import duties and to reduce railroad freight rates. It is reported that 30,000 dervishes have invaded the district of Suacdeh, Egypt, and they have found an abundance of food. Rev. Dn. Tai.mage, of Brooklyn N. V., arrived in London on the 6th. Prince Loris Napoleon has obtained a place as Major in the Russian army. The shipwrights of Hamburg to the number of 1,500 have struck work. t'orR hundred thousand people visited the Paris Exposition on the 6th. The Servian Government is negotiating for a loan of $7,500,000 with financiers of Berlin and Vienna. M a c hick Dupont, who belongs to one of the rich families of powdermakers in Delaware, has been married to “Tottie” Fitzgerald, the beautiful barmaid of the Queen's Hotel, Queenstown. Ireland. A sensation has been caused in London by the announcement that Parnell has liecome possessed of Pigott’s secret private diary. Pigott was a notorious forger and perjurer who fled to Spain and committed suicide- Serious exposures are threatened against Government officials. The sum of $400,000 was paid over by the Provincial Government of Quebec to Father Turgein, representing the Jesuit order in Canada, in consideration of the order's total and perpetual abandonment of claims to the estates which became the property of the Crown when the order was suppressed nearly a century ago. Alexander Harrison, the Americanart ist, who is a member of the American art jury at the Paris Exposition, and on whom the jury of awards conferred a minor decoration, has declined the proffered honor. He claims unfairness in awarding the decorations and says that English exhibitors obtained the highest honors. A number of natives of the Solomon islands decoyed a* Englishman named Nelson and three native boys to one of their villages and murdered them and devoured their bodies. IT is reported at Zanzibar that tho Massais or Somalis have massacred Dr. Peters, the German explorer, and his whole party, except one European and one Somali, who were wounded and are now at Ngao. Prof. Dalton offers to swim the English channel lying on his back, from Dover to Calais. ' M. Eiffel phonograpbed the report of the last signal gun at the closing of the Paris Exposition and will forward it to Edison. Princess Marie, wife of Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, recently ruling I’rincc of Bulgaria, died recently a* Gratz in childbirth. Prior to her marriage Princess Marie was the well known opera singer M’lle. Lolsinger. The American shlR Chesebrough was wrecked oiT the northern coast of Japan, losing nineteen of her crew. A through freight train from the West, on the Grand Trunk railroad, ran off an open switch near Hamilton, Ont., recently. Engineer John Cain, of Point Edward, was instantly killed. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended November 7, including Canada, numbered 967. Tho corresponding week last year the number was 236. Admiral Frantz, French Minister of Marine, resigned suddenly on tho 8th. The British war ship Amphion struck a reef off the coast of British Columbia recently. She came near sinking with the Governor-General of Canada or board.

THE LATEST. Colonel Wm. Cassius Goodlok, of Lexington. Ky., died shortly before noon, on the 10th, from the effects of the wounds received m his encounter with Colonel Swop*'. C. Hudson Smith, pastor of the HIjrrim Church of Dorchester, Mass., whose mysterious disappearance last sprint;, subsequeut discovery in San Francisco and return to his pastorate in the fall formed a fruitful theme of gossip an,d wonderment, has again disappeared. without giving any intimation of his intended departure or leaving any clew by which to trace him. Five of the crew of the steamer Augusta Victoria were locked up in the Hoboken (N.. V.) jail, on the 9th, for mutiny. They refused to do duty on deck in a rain-storm after passing Sandy Hook unless they were paid double. I.evin P. Hall and his sister, society people of Somerset County. Md., who were convicted on October 9 of incendiarism, were both sentenced, on the 9th, to ten years jin the penitentiary. Miss Hall was sentenced while she was lying in her bed sick, the judge going to the jail for the purpose. The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the appointment of Bishop Carroll, the first Bishop given to America, was oelebrated with imposing grandeur at Baltimore on the 10th. At San Fancisco, on the 9th, Sunol, Senator Stanford's filly.broke the three-year-old record on the Bay District track, trotting a mile in 3:10)*. Henry W. Chamberlin, of Sew York CitJk president of the Chamberlin Manufacturing Works and a prominent business man and Mason, died suddenly on the 9th. The Yale-Cornell foot-ball game, on the 9th, resulted in favor of Yale, 70 to 0. Harris, of Cornell, was badly injured, and one Yale man was carried off the field also seriously hurt Advices from Shoa concerning the burning of Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia, say that during the absence of Kaias, King Menelek’s General, the dervishes set fire to and burned the city and massacred the garrison. Dpon the return of General Kaxas, an engagement took place between his forces and the dervishes, which resulted in the defeat of the latter. The police of Boston have been asked to look up Mr. Andrew P. Anderson, aged ninety-two, who, according to his wife’s story, left his home about five weeks ago with between 98,000 and 98,000 in his possession, with which to WJfcw* **•

STATE INTELLIGENCE A xotel combat, witnessed by several person% took place on the farm of a man named Hougham, west of Shelby ville, the other day, between a large chicken hawk and an old sow with a - tfoop of little pigs at her heels, one of which the hgyrk swooped down uponand ■was about to carry off when the mother came to the rescue. Instead of flying away the hawk turned on the sow, striving to sink its talons into her eyes and striking her heavy blows over th« head with its powerful wings until the brute was bewildered. The hawk was rapidly getting the best of the fight when fne of the spectators, a Mr. Mo* Cain, Slipped up and captured it. Johsi Ritt, an Indiana pioneer, seventy years old, feel down stairs while walking in his sleep, at Seymour, and received fatal injuries. JAMts Galuox gorged his stomach with persimmons, the other day at Seymour, and died in convulsions. Mrs. Louise MAtunovrK.of Ft.Wayne, was seised with heart disease while talking, and fell out of her chair dead. A sox of Harmon Smith, residing near Hagerstown, Wayne County, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle. Franks Genge was released from the Prison South, where he had been confined a year for robbing a tramp of S3, and started at once for his home, at Corine, England. His father is a wealthy manufacturer of that city, and the son was originally shipped to America for stealing 8300. Joskpii Swearer, a prominent architect and contractor, of Peru, committed suicide a tew days ago. The barn and contents of LeeAuck, near Vincennes, valued at 830,000,^pre destroyed by fire Hie other night. A drug store at Eminence, ^ as hlojp up with dynamite. ^ Maxy years ago Hiram Armstrong, of Cass County.who was a member of the One Hundred Twenty-eighth Indiana regiment, applied for a pension. The progress made in the prosecution of his claim was unusually poor, and the old veteran had about abandoned all hope. The other morning Mr. Armstrong was found dead in his bed. On the same evening his pension voucher for a handsome sum arrived. Philander/Jester, a silversmith, heretofore of good reputation, was sentenced for one year for counterfeiting. Tom McReynolds, of Pike County, was given two years for counterfeiting, and Daniel TOd Hrownlow Davis thirty days in top Pike County jail, in' the Federal coiffis at Indianapolis. Andrew J. Glores and Mrs. Rosa Leonard are in jail at Laporte, charged with bigamy. Lin ley Allen, of Muncie, has a house which is wrapped in mystery, ghostly knockings heard all nightandno explanation to he found. John Riuxehart, of Shelbyville, had to kill a horse that went mad from a dog bite. The President has appointed Alexander1 Cable as postmaster at Hartford City, vice C. W. Timmons, removed. the ltlackford County clroult court ■las. R. Williams was awarded 8075 damages against the Pan-handle railway for the burning of farm property, set on Are by passing locomotives. There are eight cement mills in Clark County, and they give employment to about 1,800 men, and about 3,500,000 barrels of cement are manufactured each year. The city council at Crawfordsville has close all the public wells in that city on account of the impurity of the water. Mrs. Thomas Homan, aged fifty, hanged herself in a fit of insanity at Milford, James Burns was acquitted of manslaughter in the circuit coiift of Porter County.

A tex-ykab-old boy who wa« thrown from a street car by the conductor, and fell on the track, receiving injuries which crippled him for life, got a 8B.500 verdict against the Citizens’ Street Railroad Company, at Indianapolis. Tubes new charcoal pits, near Roanoke, belonging to Clifford Bros., were blown up by unknown parties with dynamite, entailing a loss of $500. At Mount Vernon thieves entered the residence of E. B. Schenck. a prominent merchant, and stole a watch valued at $125 and about $15 in money. Twnsrrr-Two years ago Jno. McQuern lived with his wife and six children near Lebanon, but in August 1M7, suddenly disappeared, and no tidings of him were ever received. Mrs. McQuern, supposing herself a widow, remarried, but her second husband lived but two years. Recently McQuern, as suddenly and unceremoniously as marked his disappearace. returned to his home, but not however, to claim his wife. Instead he demanded possession of the farm, and they are now living in the same house without resuming marital relations, and with no prospect of compromising their differences. The courts will have to name the rightful owner. A DBro-syoBE owned by Burgess A Johnson, at Eminence, Morgan County, the other night eras blown to atoms by what is supposed to have been a charge of dynamite and entirely consumed by lire. It was with difficulty that several adjacent buildings were saved. This same Johnson was formerly in the drug business at Coatsville, and was blown np several times while there. Jambs Babb, of Huntington, has entered suit against Dr. Edward T. Young for $5,000. He was charged with burning Young’s barn. Habbv Richex. with a heavy saw-log and four horses, attempted to cross the C., C., C. and St. L railroad at a grade east of Lebanon. When upon the track and the passenger train No. 7 in sight, his wagon broke, letting the load down on the track. In his excitement he lighted his hat, and, with it burning, succeeded in stopping the train within a few feet of the crossing. . Tax Supreme Court of Indiana has declared the $550 license law valid. The revenues of Indianapolis will be increased about $100,000. The Indiana miners’ strike is entering on its seventh month and there are no signs of a settlement B A. Ccsick, a coal operator and prominent citizen of Clay City, feU one hundred and twenty feet down a shaft which he was sinking, crushing himself into a shapeless masa He was fifty years old, and leaves a wife and children. Four years ago he came near being elected State Senator from Clay and Owen Counties. Jambs McCarthy, of Columbus City owner of a brickyard there, while steal tag a ride home on a freight train, fel from the top and wasrun over, both leg and one arm being cut off. He bled V .1 1 ;J’ ■ : ■='

EMWRACTSJWEEP. TS Elections Prove to Have Been a Waterloo, — Is Vhlch the forces of the Democracy rlamphc<^t>Hld, lawn end New York Won, end Substantial Goins Mode Elsewhere. ■ Ol Democrats Beginning to Realize the Extent of Their Victory. ■LtTMBtTS, O., Nov. 7.—The Demojr i ot Ohio realised last night that th had won a bigger victory Tuesday th . they at first thought they had. Ot ;rnor Foraker’s concession of Mr. C» pbell's election yesterday afternoon w;! followed immediately by a claim by Ci rman Neal of the election of the et re Democratic ticket by safe mafo ies. In the collection of the first re ms only the vote on the head of the ti<. et was considered, and as it was

?! I "I Cownwr JTM CampbtlL ttfjught that Foraker’s defeat was due tc - he scratching of his name, the eleotjji’v, of any other Democrat was hardly lc t red for by even the Democrats themst. es. Chairman Neal’s private infor- » ion shows that the rest of the Demis ! .tic State ticket has followed the hi?id of the ticket, and he says he is sx|? > that the whole has been elected by pU .'allties ranging from 5,000 to 8,000. H places Campbell's plurality at 10,000. I ifou may say,” said he, “that this cc mittee has positive knowledge that ni teen Democrats have been electee^ to the State Senate and seventh- Republicans, while sixty Democr. i have been elected to the House an fifty-four Republicans, so that we ha?; i a majority in the General Assembly f eight on joint ballot, giving us the Pi? ed States Senator.” C ? vernor Foraker declined to say any

iy thi , concerning his defeat He was see:*! by the United Press reporter imme^itely after he had sent a telegram of t‘I agratulation to Mr. Campbell, and see ad very happy in his defeat altho fh declining to talk about it C .irman Conger of the Republican ext itive committee said he was astonish at the result and had nothing to say .1 explanation. It was a surprise to 1 > m. Th> Entire Democratic State Ticket In Iowa Elected. I s Moin'es, la., Nov. 7.—Complete ret ; ns from nincty-flve counties and the emaining four estimated the same as ;wo years ago, show that Boies (B a.) has 5,OT.’tplurality. The official ret -ns will undoubtedly increase this mi brity to about 7,000 The entire Sfc. !8 ticket Governor, Justice of the Su -erne Court Superintendent of Public instruction and Railway Commissic st, is elected. Republicans claim th . Legislature by eight majority on joi t ballot but Democrats do not conoe ■>« more than three. A cpubtican Gain In the Maryland legislature. VLTiMOKK, Md., Nov. 6.—The total vc fin Baltimore for mayor was: Davidao (Dem.), 40,033; Shaw (Fusion), 87,8t Eichelberger (Pro.), 633; Democr ic plurality, ’3,045. Cleveland’s p| rality in 1888 was 5,015. Baughman (I m.), for Comptroler, gets 8,000 in the S-. te. The Democrats elect 13 first b: noh men and 7 second branch men, a: the Fusion ists 10 first branch and 4 sc jnd branch men. This is a gain of oi first branch man by the Democrats. T a State Legislature, as indicated by 11 i latest returns, will stand: Senate, I mocrats, IS; Republicans, 8. House, j I mocrats, 56; Republicans, 35, a ReI p >lican gain of 5 Senators and 13 dele

Gains In Uw Legislature. Ioston, Nov. 8.—With the' city of • .inoy and 13 towns missing, the total to in Massachusetts is as follows: -ackett (Rep.), 133,091; Russell(Dem.), 7,533; Blackmer (Pro.), 13,336. The turns for Lieutenant-Governor are inmplete, but Mr. Haile's plurality will obably be larger than that of Mr. -ackett. The make up of the Legisture according to this morning’s reirns is: Senate, 30 Republicans, 10 • emocrats, against 33 Republicans and Democrats this year. House, 157 Reublicans, 70 Democrats; 13 to be heard -am, against 180 Republicans and 00 democrats this year. Mavy Republican Low In Jfamarhnaett*. Boston, Nov. 7.—Returns from every own in the State, except Gosnold, rhich has but twenty voters, give Irackett (Rep.), 196,793; Russell (Dem.), 30,813; Blackmer (Pro), 13,854. Brakes plurality, 5,979. In 1887, Afles Rep.) had 17,606 plurality. In 1888 he tad 98,000 plurality. Democratic Galas la Krery Section. Richmond, Va., Nor. 6.—Large Demitic gains in every section are shorn the returns received from two-thirds the State. The gains now exceed 30,over the vote of 1888, with losses leas _ In the Legislature the Demo_its will have two-thirds majority on joint ballot. .In Henrico County Davis (Dem.) is elected to the House. Carried in | Cheyenne, Wjo., Nov. 5.—Owing to a heavy fall of snow and bad roads the Wyoming vote yesterday on the adoption of the Constitution waa light The vote will aggregate 16,000, with less than 1,000 against the Constitution. Kansas Cmr, Mo., Nov. In j Jay’s county elections in Kansas oats mad*

Piling Vp the Democratic 3It)orItj H Virginia. Alexandria, Va., Not. 6.—All dispatches received this morning reported sontlsued Increased Democratic gains. A. dispatch from Saltvilie, Va., in tha jouthwestern part of the State, where the Republicans were expected to make large gains, says that theNiflth Congressional district gives McKinney mom I than 3,000 majority, a gain of more than 1,500. A number of telegrams of congratulation have been received by Chair- | man Gordon and Senator Barbour, amoiiff I them the following: Nxw York, Nov. S. Itos. Jons Barbour:—I congratulate you ind tile people of your State on your genertms victory. New York Is Democratic and Ohio In doubt, both as to Governor and Leg* islature. Calvin 8. Bntcs. Abbett's Plurality In New Jersey. Newark, N. J., Nov. 7.—Returns from all the counties in New Jersey show that the Assembler will stand: Democrats, 87; Republicans, 22; Senate: Republicans, 11; Democrats, 10. Grubb (Rep.) polled 0,236, Abbott (Dem.) 20,203. Abbett's plurality, 11,000. Fifty Per Cent Reduction la the Prohibition Vote. Newark, N. J., Nov. 7.—The returns from the State show that the total vote for the Prohibition ticket was not over 10,000, a reduction of about fifty por cent, from that of last year. The State Ticket Majorities Ut New York. New York, Nov. 8.—The majorities of the Democratio ^candidates on the State ticket are estimated from present returns as follows: Rice, Secretary of State, 23,057; Womple, Ccmptroler, 12,721; Tabor, Attorney-general, 12,646; Danforth, Treasurer, 15,630; O'Brien, Judge of Court of Appeals, 20,000, Looks Like Pttspatrirk, New York, Nov. 6.—Returns fronw 1,004 election districts out of 1,019 in the j city give for Judge of General Ses- A sions Fitgcrald (County Dem. and V Rep.), 07,803; Gilderslevo (Tamany) * 07,071; Rogers 391. The Result In Cook County, Illinois. Chicago, Nov. 6.—The result of yesterday’s election in this county (Cook) is: The Democrats elect ten county commissioners, and the Republicans five. Stephens (Rep.) is elected recorder over Crawford (Dem.) by 1,040 majority. A Republican Yiotory at Peoria. Peoria, 111., Nov. 6.—The Republicans scored the most sweeping victory in the history of Peoria municipal politics yesterday, electing C. C. Clarke mayor by a majority of 1,665. Detwiler, the Republican candidate for treasurer, was also elected. The result is mainly due to a revolt against ring rule and ward bossism. Fire out of nine seats in the City Council were won by the Republicans.

Democratic Gain* la Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 0.—Douglas County, including the city of ,Omaha, went Democratic by 3,000. Returns from the State at large show a large Democratic gain, which means death to the Prohibition amendment which is to be submitted to the voters next year. Bonflres at Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 7.—The city was illuminated with bonflres last night, and fireworks were plentiful, in honor of the Democratic gains and victories Tuesday. The shouting is chiefly for Campbell, as there was great interest taken here in the Ohio election. Arrested for Ballot-Box Staffing* Petersburg, Va., Nov. 7.—E. A^Codwin, Jr., a Democratic judge of election for the Second ward precinct, was arrested yesterday morning on a warrant sworn out by J. M. Birdsong, a Republican judge of election for the same precinct, charging him with stuffing the ballot box. Goodwin was brought before the mayor, but at the request of F. R. Lass ter, counsel for Goodwin, a continuance was had. ■ —•» ■»- Mahone Prove* HI* Innocence. Petersburg, Va., Nov. 7.—In hts hearing before the mayor yesterday General Mahone stated that his shotgun was not loaded last Tuesday night. He tried to load it when the crowd appeared, but the cartridges were too big for the barrel. R. C. Campbell testified that he was by General Mahone’s s'deafrom the moment he faced the crowd until he reached the Mayor's office, and that the General did not fire a shot The mayor fined E. T. Berry, who Is charged with the shooting $10 and put him under $350 bond to keep the peace. ■•No Redaction of Duties. New York, Nov. 0.-r-A Herald special from Seattle, Wash.,says that Senator

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rrye, woo is at oeatttle with the Senatorial committee on Pacific railway indebtedness, said ^yesterday in an in^terview on the tariff that there is to be Ino reduction of du- ' ties, but an increase on every thing but sugar.

Prow and Prow—A Close Rare. New York, Nor. 7.—The steamers Teutonic and City of New York, from Liverpool, arrived yesterday. The two steamers passed Sandy Hook light at precisely the same time, having raced side by side for some distance. They left Liverpool together, but the Teutonic was delayed twenty-five minutes longer at Queenstown than the City of New York, and she therefore won the race by twenty-five minutes. The time of the trip_was six days, six hours and fifty minutes; Crtrent Need of Relief. Washington, Nov. 7.—M. Edward Otis Hinkiey, of Baltimore, secretary of the American Bar Association, and Mr. J. Hubley Ashton, of Washington, delivered to President Harrison yesterday a letter prepared by a distinguished oommittee in behalf of the association, setting forth the great accumulation of the business of the United States Supreme Court, and making a strong statement of the urgent necessity for the enactment of some measure of relief. Heavy Duu|M for a Sehoolmarm. Providence, R. I., Nov. 7.—In the Supreme Court yesterday Miss Carrie B. Barnes, a school teacher, was awarded $30,000 damages in her suit against Hie New York A New England railroad for injuries sustained by her in 1886. Miss Barnes was in a passenger train which, owing to sotae defect in the air-brake apparatus, was derailed near this city.

THE PAN-AMERICANS. have utlful JA| »r the 'erred 'S; tiaine * rhc Tourists Hid Adle*. and Not Wlthou* Hegrets. to tho Beautiful Traia that Has Borne Them Through the Modern Won-derland-The Final Sights En Bouts-Rw-ceptlon at Philadelphia. PuiLADKtriUA, Nov. 10.—The International Congress excursionists have fent their last day on tho beautiful In which has b^p their home for last six weeks. Jfcey have pref< iteir sections on their train, the cuisine If their dining car and the comforts of tho smoking room, to the accomodations of the best hotels visited by them in their extensive tour. It has been “home” to them in ever/ sense of the vvord. They have traveled over seven thousand miles in it without a single mishap of any kind. They left it last night in this city with many regrets. , Yesterday afternoon while en route, here a letter was drawn up and signed by all the delegates and party. It was addressed to the president of the Pennsylvania railroad and expressed the party's high appreciation of the manner In which the tour bad been conducted, and especially complimented Mr. S. W. Draper, of the Pennsylvania company, to whose personal efforts the perfect success of the trip is in a lafjfe part due. » J The party left Pittsburgh at seven o'clock yesterday morning. At Jeannette a short stop was made to allow the delegates to inspect the natural gas wells and immense glass establishments of the place. En route from here to Altoona the foreigners- asked many questions about the Johnstown flood, so when the train arrived there five minutes were given them to step out and view the destruction wrought by tho waters. • Aj_Altoona lunch was served in the room, after which the immense Homotive works of the Pennsylvania Knpany were visited by tho party. (Tho next stop was at the car shops of the same corporation^ The tourists found the works here almost as extensive as those of tho far-famed Pullman. This was tho last stop made of any length on the trip. At Harrisburg a large crowd of people were gathered in the station to see famous train pass through. Philadelphia was reached m. Despite the bad weathei ber of people gathered at, street station into thoui waiting, and the party was veyed to the Continental Hotel. In the parlors were gathered the reception committee and Mayor Fitler. The delegates filed in and listened to an address of welcome from the mayor, which was responded to by Dr. Horatio Guzman. After a;, few introductions the travelers retired to their rooms. JEFFERSON BARRACKS. The Recent Investigation of the Condition mnd AItHIrs at JefTerson Barracks, Mo., Bearing Fruit- A Square Tally for Newspaper Agitation. Washington, Nov 10.—Secretary Proctor bus taken active measures to remedy the evils that existed at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. The barrack buildings there are to be thoroughly renovated, and the guard-house, about which so much.complaint has been made, will be rebuilt. Only two hundred recruits now remain at tho barracks, the others having been sent to other posts. All of the prisoners from other posts who were confined there, most of them old offender% have been sent elsewhere. Inspector-General Lawton, who investigated the condition of affairs at the barracks, stated in his personal report to tho Secretary of War that these prisoners had a bad influence on the recruits confined in the guard-house and tended to demoralize them. The Quartermaster General will shortly make an investigation to see what improvements are needed, and he hopes to make the post one of the best in the country. FRIENDS OF LAW.

Meeting In Chicago “* Friends or tne une Dr. Cronin and of Americas Law—The Assassination and the Assassins Roundly Denounced. Chicago, Nov. 10.—The friends of Dr. Cronin held a crowded meeting this afternoon to make further arrangement# for the Manchester celobration at Battery D, November 33. The principal speaker was Dr. Peter McCahey, of Philadelphia. He made an earnest, ringing speech in which he praised the loyal Irish-Americans who were striving to aid in the prosecution of the foul assassins of Dr. Cronin, as true supporters of the laws of their adopted country arJ loyal sons of Ireland, and evoked hearty cheer when he referred to^' friends of the Triangle as a gar “high-binders.” John Devoy remarked with bitt phasis that the money stolen fn Irish movement to pay the that killed Cronin was money, filched from the “On every hand,” he said, “we i who don’t want to kill their oij trymen, but don’t mind seeir killed and thrown into the sewer The Enemies of Dr. Cronli Chicago, Nov. il.—The Clan-: enemies of Dr. Cronin held a meet McCoy’s Hotel yesterday The subscription books which had 1 circulated during the week were tu in and the sum of 8905 handed to treasurer of the defense fund. An ultant cheer was given as the sum announced, and a Tipperary Irishman shouted gleefully: “That’ll show ’em what we think of the bloody traitor to Old Ireland.” The Portuguese Expedition. Lisbon, Nov. 10.—Despatches received from Lieutenant Cordan, leader of the Portuguese expedition in the Zambesi countries, assert that the chiefs of the Mashonaland tribes in the valley of the Pauname and the regions drained by the UmfuU and Sanbatta rivers and generally in all the territories up to latitude 20 deg. acknowledge allegiance to Portugal. On the way southward from Zumbo the expedition traversed districts in which were found the ruins of old Potuguese forts and migps. The progress of the expedition is being watohed with interest at this capital. Another Victim of a Dangerous OeenpaBrooklyn. Nov. 10.—Matthew Sullitn, a lineman employed by a telephone impany, while walking on the bracks ' the Union Elevated railroad, yes ter- ' " r a train and preoipl