Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 December 1896 — Page 2

<£lu Tikr (fountt) graurtal M. MeC. STOOPS, Editor sad r«eptf4— PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. The United States cruiser Minneapolis sailed from Smyrna for Syrian waters on the 84th. Ex-Secretary John W. Footer and jrife returned from Honolulu by steamer City of Peking, which arrived at San Francisco on the 84th. ' The shah of Persia has announced that he wiU abolish the post of prime minister and hereafter perform the functions of that office himself. Miss Matilda Blixd, the noted writer, died in Loudon on the 87th. Miss Blind was born in 1847, and was educated chiefly in a London school for girls. “"N. Os the 86th the Queen Victoria con- : N'v^erred the honor of knighthood on I _ Edward John Poynter, who, on Nov[^^jtfnber 4, was elected president of the Royal academy. The Naval Veterans’ association unveiled its monument to the United States navy at Louden park cemetery, Baltimore, Md., on the 86th, with appropriate exercises. A medal of honor has been awarded to Ordnance Sergeant Moses Williams, Fort Stevens, Ore., for distinguished gallantry in action with Apache Indians, August 16, 1881. Ttyt condition of Mr. James II. Roosevelt, first secretary of the United States embassy in London, who had been suffering from nervous prostration for several days, became very serious on the 24th. Failures throughout the country for the week ended on the 27th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 30U, against 297 for the corre*»pt»diug week last year. For Canada the iaiiures were 38, against 47 last year. Tiiv state department is meeting with iU-auecesa in its efforts to induce Spain to pay or promise to pay the Claims of American citizens who have suffered losses and personal outrages as a result of the Cuban rebellion. A FoECE of, men began, on the 23d, replacing the fences around Mr. McKiuley's yard, which were destroyed by the visiting, delegations and carried away for souvenirs. 'Ihe front yard will be plowed up aud repiauled with grass seed. Sir Benjamw W ard Richardson, M. D.. the celebrated -Kugiish physician, aud author of hygieuic works, died in London, on the 21aW from apoplexy, with which he was stricken on the 16th, and from which he never rallied, lie was 68 years of age. Generals Palmer and Bucks kb will be‘presen led with a souveuulrotu the secretary of stats of Kansas showing au abstract of the vote in Dudley township, Haskell county, K&s , the only township in the L uited^Statea which the# carried. The vote, was: Palmer, a; McKinley, 2; Bryan, L Hattie Stafford, a domestic, at Grauville, Mich., whose mother died in poverty 16 years ago, \vlieu the clnldwasbut three years old, has just fallen heir to a fortune of •l.UUO.UUO left, by her father, who recently died in Butte, Mont., after forsakiug his wile aud babe many years ago.

Tub Uvc stock show opened in Madison Square garden, .New York city, on the Sid, with un unusually full card ol ’ exhibit*, 1arm implements and dairy product* were shown, as iu the past, but only incidentally. The most important exhibits were Cattle, sheep, swiue, ducksahd poultry. Farm horses and pouies were also included. * SKCKKtAKY Olsxv has received a cablegram from Miuister Terrell, «ttConstantinople, stating that 26 women. Wives ol naturalized American citizens, with their cnildreu, will leave Uarpoot at once, uuder escort, for America. Twenty-three more women, also wives of upluruiued American titiaeus, will leave iu a lew days. Tux Marquis dc Montmort hud an ^.nisricau named J. 11. Hutchinson becam« involved in a vioicul dispute a Abort time ago, which resulted in a challenge to light a uuei being sent and accepted. The duelists met, ou the Xith at Maiaon's Labile, a short distance from Farts, and exebmuged six harmless shots from pistols at -i paces.

Skcbktaby or tub Isibhiub Fbascu nade a requisition ou ?lKi\ secretary of the treasury, oo the 2iUi, for §11,320,UQU for the nest quarterly pay xneut of pcusionsat the follow lug agencies: Washington, *2,150,000; bau Frau* ctaco, ITTu.uoo; Detroit, Mich , fl.buo,00U; Columbus, U., $3,850,000; Hostou, Mass., $1,000,000; Augusta, Me.;’ $750,00U. Tub Thanksgiving diuuer of the American society iu London was given, ou Ups night of the 26th, in the great liali of the Hotel Cecil. The decorations were American and Hi ilish flags and the coats of arms of Ute diifcreul states of the L'uion. Ambassador Hayard w as absent, having been summoned to W mdsor castle by the queen. Among thq, toasts .was one to Fresident Cleveland, who was handsomely euiogixcd. — Skckktahy (AU.i.-i.t was recently asked by a friend it he hsd seen the reports printed that if he desired he Could retain his position as secretary of the treasury iu the neat administration. He replied that he had, hut the reports were too silly and absurd to require 1 rum him a thought, much leas ah answer. He claimed to be as good a democrat as he ever was, and said he could not hold bflice under the htejtipst? admin i» tratioa.

CURRENT TOPICS HEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A Berlin dispatch says that Russia is mobilising the Caucasus army, with the intention of invading Asia Minor on the pretext that brigandage makes the occupation of the country a necessity. On the 81st the associated banka of Kew York city held f29.3<»5,575 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. ‘ i Thk London Chronicle says that Mr. McKinley has written a letter to Sir Henry Irving, thanking him for his congratulations upon the election, and expressing the hope that Sir Henry will visit him in the White Hoi$ae. Willy Haas, who cut the throat of Airs. Emma Brador, his employer’s wife, at Covedale, July a, was convicted in Cincinnati, on the 21st, of first degree murder, and will be the first victim of the electrical chair in Ohio. A biot occurred at Cleveland, 0„ on the night of the 82d, between a score of Hungarians and as many Irishmen, in which many men were stabbed, several of them fatally. The fight raged furiously for half an hour before the rioters were dispersed by the police. The report that Gen. Weyler is to be superseded by Gen. Pando as cap-tain-general of Cuba is pronounced upon semi-official authority to be without foundation. The Southern Pacific railroad’ steamer San Benito, from Tacoma for San Francisco with a coal cargo of 5,000 tons and a crew of S3 men, was driven ashore, on the 22d, two miles north of Point Arena in a heavy gale. Five of the crew were drowned, ten [ others were picked up by the steamer Point Arena and the captain and 27 men were left clinging to the rigging with slight hope of their being saved. When the curtain was rung down at I the Coates opera house in KansasCity, ! Mo., on the night of the 21st, thesiage I lost the oldest actor on the American j and English boards, for C. W. Cooldock then quitted the stage forever ana ended his theatrical career. He is nearly 82 years old, 59 of which he tias been an actor. The weekly statement of the Sew York city associated baubs for the week ended on the 21st showed the following changes: Reserve, incrfi so, $5,801,050; loans, increase, $0,553,: >00; specie, increase, $*.206,500; legal tenders, increase.f #9,078,000; deposits, increase, $21,028,800; circulation, decrease, $102,200.' Kino IUjjrkbt returned to Rome, on the 23d, aud received a popular ovation, to which he replied withu speech. I His majesty received King Alexander of Servia on the 23th. Tue terms of settlement of the Manitoba school question, as agreed upon by the Dominion and Mauitoba governments, are far from giving satislaction to the Catholics of Quebec, After clinging to the rigging of ! the wrecked steamer San Benito 27 ! hours 23 men were rescued by the steamer Wrott, on the 23d, and trans* I ferred to the steamer Point Arena, I which took them to. Mendocino, <^al. Their rescue was a most hazardous undertaking.

A TUiEUiUM irOBI ilJBUrtu, UU IUC 23d, said: “The government has instructed CapL-Gen. Weyler that i t is expedient, for reasons of international and domestic politics, that he should not return Co Havana until he has achieved something decisive against Maeeo.” On the same date a telegram from Havana announced the doughty general’s return to that city’ and his intention to postpone adtion against the insurgents. Dr. J. D. Morrison, of Ogdensburg, >». Y., has decided to accept the bishopric of Duluth, Minn., to which he was elected last month. Sir Frederick Nater Rrooms, K. C. M. G., died iu London on the 26th. Up to the 23d Mr. McKinley had received as presents, since his election, three eagles, four coons, two roosters, one jack rabbit and a lamb. Nu ei.ection was held in Charlton county, Ga., on the 3d, and it is said that the people did not know that one was iu progress in the country. The dead bodies of Herman Meyers and Nora A. Richardson were found lying on the grouud in frout of a vacant house on Downey street in Indianapolis, lud., on the 24th. Each was lyiug iu a pool of blood, and a revolver was lyiug close to the corpse of Meyers. Two gaping wounda in the girl's back and one in hsr breast told the story of a murder, while a hole in Meyers' left temple indicated that he had killed himself alter takiug the girl'a life. »

In the Prussiau landtag1, on the 34th, the bill providing fur the conversion of the Prussian four per cent, consols into 3)* per cents, was takeu up and referred to the budget committee. Several members spoke ou the subject and were uuanimous.in expressing approval of the scheme. JL)r. Miquel, minister of finance, said that another conversion wap not likely to be made within the next 14 years. Highwaymen held up a crowded (licet car iu the heart of the retail section of Chicago, on the 34th. robbed two passeugers of money and watches and made their escape, notwithstund* iug the pursuit of two policemen and other passeugers on the car. So advices. official or private, had reached''Washington, up to the 34th, which shed any light upou the reported return of Gen. Weyler to Uavana. A dispatch from Manila, via Tokio, Japan, said the Spanish troops under Maj. Artega had defeated a body of Philippine insurgents, whose losses iu killed and wounded were upward of 400 men. Tub steamers Alicante and llnenus Ayres* sailed from Barcelona, on the ,6th, for Havana, haviugon board 2,KX> troops and a quantity of ammunition and arms " Coventry Kkarsey Dwighton Pal lid, the English poet, died at Liming tun, on the Sfith. after a brief illness. He waa ham in 1424.

“Bunch" McBkr, the w«ll*kMW» tout her u railroad man who haa William Jennings Bryan under contract to deliver a aerie* of lecture*, claims that he has already received an offer of $35,000 bonus for his trade with Mr. Bryan. Thb total number of dock laborers on strike in Hamburg, on the 20th, was 8,000, and these had been joined by the lighter men. Ships arriving from England and Sweden were bringing men to replace the strikers. A dispatch received from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, via Tokio, Japan, on the 26th, said the rebels had won a victory over the Spanish forces, and that an attack upon Manila was feared. Mrs. Sarah Tillotson, who was buried Thauksgiviug day from the } old ladies’ home at Terre Haute, Ind., | was perhaps the last survivor of those early settlers who took refuge in Fort j Harrison, in September, 1812, when Tecumseh’s braves were on the warpath. j “Uncus Hill” Caorr, the pioneer j centenarian of eastern Kentucky, who lived at Rockhouse, died recently at the extreme age of 103 years. “Uncle Bill*’ claimed to be 107 years old. He was an odd character. He built his own coffin 13 years aga Waltkr M. Caster, of San Francisco, with his wife and little boy, whose troubles abroad have been fully told in the dispatches from London.arrtved at New York, on the steamer Havel, on the 26th. Two British subjects, from British ! Columbia, having been arreated in j Cuba, the Spanish government will be called upon at ouce for an explanation by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. i Mrs. E. W. Vanderbilt entertained 366 news aud messerger boys at a tur- | key dinuer, Thauksgiviug day, in Ma- j sonic temple, Newport, R. I. j A dispatch from Breslau on the 20th said that 30 persons were killed in a colliery explosion at^ Zengrosee, .Russian Poland. At 3:30 o’clock on the morning of, the 27th, fire broke out in the Jackson county jail at Kansas City, Ma, ami for awhile it appeared as if the structure would be destroyed and- many of the prisoners, 168 in number, cremated. Prompt work by the fire department prevented au awful holocaust, aud the damage to the prison wascoutiued to about 56,000. Chief Clerk C. H. Schlott, of the. j quartermaster's department at Jefferson Barracks, Ma, who disappeared a few days before, leaving letters intimating his' intention to commit sui- I cide, returned, on the 57th, looking very sheepish, and admitted that he had made a fool of himself. Viscount Gough, first secretary of j the British embassy at Washington, has beeu appointed secretary of the i British embassy at Berlin. Mr. Wm. de Bunsen, British charge d'affaires aud consul-geueral at Bangkok, Sian), has beeu appointed to succeed Lord Gough. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, the wellknown scholar and astronomer, died at Cambridge, Mass., on the night of the 26th. as the result of a fall. The Keutueky state canvassing board began the count of the presi- ; dential vote on the S7th. Gen. Hekraux was re-elected president of San Domingo at the late general election. Egypt has been officially declared free from choler*. Hon. Wm S. Forman, of Illinois, took I the oath of ofliee and assumed his i duties as commissioner of internal ; revenue on the 27th.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Mna Elizabeth Donaldson, of Cln'.* j licolhe, O.. widow of Theodore Donaldson, the veteran who aided iu the cap* : ture of Jeffersou Davis, has received notice that she has been allowed Sri a : mouth pension and S144 back pension. i She is greatly disappointed, [thinking \ the services of her late husband de* ; serving of better recognition from his country. It is reported on apparently good authority from the northwestern part | of the state of Wisconsin that an ef- j fort will be made during the coming j session of the legislature to take Wia- , cousin's statue of Marquette out of the | capital at Washington.*, The statue j was accepted by congress after a bard ; light agaiust it by A. P. A. organizations all over the country. Tuu weekly statement of the asso- I dated banks of New York city for the ; week ended ou the 28lh, showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, | 82.106,050; loans, increase, $8,S56,::00; ; specie, iucrcase,'$437,600; legal lend- j ers. iucrease, 85,253,20b; deposits, in* crease, 814,330.000; circulation, decrease, 8113,000. Tuc official count of Iowa’s presidential vote shows: McKinley, republican. 289,293; Bryan, democrat, 223,741; Palmer, national democrat, 4,319; Levering, prohibition, 3,193; Bentley, national, 353; Mattchett, social labor, 453; McKinley’s majority, 37,136; McKiulev's plurality, 65,582. Cot. 11 cum an Stump, C. S. commissioner of immigration, who had. been .{ abroad studying the immigration question, arrived at New York, on the ; 28th, on the steamship St Paul, lie refused to talk regarding his trip and its results.

Mu. Cuabi.es Y. Corns, the famous cartoonist of Washington, died, on the 2S*h, at his apartments in the Warfield fiats in that city, from a complication of disorders, the culmination of an attack of locomotor ataxia. The physicians of Halloway jail hare prououuced the health of Or. Jamieson, the leader of the Transvaal raid,' who is undergoing a sentence of IS months’ imprisonment, to be in a precarious slate. Ox tbe-sth the Illinois Central started a new fast train between Chicago aud St. Louis. The run will be made each way in eight hours. It will be known as tbe schedule “Daylight Special.” Ox the 28th the associated banks of Xew York city held $31,411,035 in excess of the requirement* of the 35-per* j cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The facoHy of the state normal tchool has decided to change the date of the opening of the winter term from December 89 to January & This is done for the benefit of those who may desire to attend the annual convention of the State Teachers’ association, which meets in Indianapolis December 89. The Marion Fruit Jar and Bottle Co. ! has increased its capital stock from 880,000 to $100,000, the increased capital to go toward increasing capacity of works at Fairmont and Marion. Six hundred men are now employed, and ; this force will be doubled at least. Last year the senior class at Earl* i ham college introduced the custom of wearing caps and gowns, and this year’s class has decided to do, the same. Johx Hayworth, postmaster and Adams Express agent at Clifford, was arrested charged with embezzing $150. While two school girls were walking i along the streets of Greentown they j were accosted familiarly by a traveling 1 man. The girls, though alone, had their grit with them. They turned on j the man like tiger cats and began j gouging his eves, scratching his face and tearing his clothing. The surprised stranger took to his heels and quit the town on the first train. The Westfield Gaa Co. brought into service a new well, with a pressure of S00 pounds. The well is two miles southwest from Westfield, and is per- j fectly dry. It is the second new well in that immediate vicinity, which was hitherto undeveloped. An abundant supply of natural gas is thus assured I to Westfield and vicinity. j When Gov.-elect Mount was. at Coates college the other day, attending a meeting of the board of trustees, the J board decided to make an effort next j spring to raise 8100,000, half of which j is to be used on buildings and half for an endowment. A committee, of which Gov.-elect Mount is a member, was appointed to make plans for the work of raising the money. rl he Ohio plate glass factory, at Arcadia,' is not in operation, owing to a strike among the employes. The management desired the men to return to work at the old seale of prices, but they refused and demanded an advance first, of ten per cent, then of seven per cent. Bex Johnson, colored, was jailed at Brazil on a eharge of wholesale theft, which covers a period of two years. The charge was preferred by A. «fc I* McIntosh, general merchants. A wagon load of valuable goods were found. Burglars entered the clothing stch-e of M. E. Phillips &, Co., Elwood, and succeeded in carrying away a large amount of the stoek and made their escape. The loss may reach 8400. Coli.ix Carter, was sentenced at Nashville to one year in th© peniten- j tiarv for stealing and butchering a sheep

citizens oi Lognnsport were startleu by a young woman who smoked cigar* ettes on th# streets and kissed pedestriads. She proved to be Frank Skinner, who was paying an election bet. The ten-year-old son of Henry Rathert, a machinist in the Pennsylvania shops. Ft. Wayne, was ran over by an electric car on Calhoun street and instantly killed. The body was cut in two. lie was running across the street ; to avoid a carriage, and ran on the j track in front of the car. Spider Huddersox, a convict in the Jeffersonville penitentiary, spoke the other day after having “played” deaf ; and dumb for five years. J. W. Freeman, one of the most prominent business men of Bluffton, j committed suicide the other morning by firing a revolver bullet into his heart in bed. A few minutes previous to firing the fatal shot Mr. Freeman arose from his bed, procured a revolver ; from a bureau drawer and returned to bed. His wife was aroused by the ex- j plosion and found that he had fired a 23-calibre bullet directly into his heart, j dying within a few minutes. Mr. ' Freeman has been engaged in the drug j and stonequarry business in Bluffton for 35 years. During the last two or i three years he has been a’ student of 1 spiritualism and his mind became slightly unbalanced.

A. C. Gkkkx, a well known producer of registered Essex and Suffolk hops, | residing four miles southwest of Win- j Chester, has recently lost over $2,500 : worth of swine, am mg the number being: some of the finest individuals of his herds. The disease seems to be something: new. The members of the herd afflicted are observed to refuse food and become bloated. No ! medicine will five relief, and they soon i begin to swell and in a little time are dead. There is also a good deal of hog ' cholera, especially in the southwest i part of the county, where Mr. George H. Bright, of Modoc, lost 113. The business portion of Center Point : was destroyed by an incendiary fire a \ few nights ago. Pkrrt Bitlkt, a prominet young farmer of Porter county, while running a corn-husking machine, had his right arm canght in the machinery, drawing it in. The machine had to be taken apart to release him. Asa Kixdiey, a young genius of New Holland, has devised a bottle which can be filled but once, and for which the glaas manufacturers of the country have offered a considerable aum. The bottle has a double neck, j therein liea the principle of the inven- j tion. The Milan post office was robbed by local talent. Fifty dollars was j taken. The Seymour bloodhounds are ! being used. The brickyards at Richmond, among j the largest in that part of the state, j have resumed operations with a fnll ! force, after a six-months' shut down. Some time ago the Sheibyville conn- I dl passed an ordinance requiring a license of $1,000 for selling cigarettes and prohibiting their use by minors. Lately a number of dealers have been selling them and affidavits have been made, it is said, against 118 cigarette smokers. Mayor Enos fined a boy gS.M for violation of the ardinano*

SERIOUS TROUBLE rkmtestd la Chill fcy R^rolatlouU t»— A l)*fi|»roi*> iafloa~Caiupir«c7 Acalast 'k« Uo>enim«nt. Saji Diboo, Cot, Not. 3u.—The officers of the British »loop-of-war Wild Swan, which arrived here late on Friday eveuing from South American ports, admitted to-day that serious i trouble was threatened in Chili by the revolutionists at the time of the departure of the cruiser. Duels and j personal encounters between Balma- j sedists and followers of Errazuriz * were of f requeut occurrence while the ; Wild Swan was at lquique, where it j lay at aucUor on election day, Septera- j ber 18 last. The officers learned from reliable sources that the Balmacedists, i through a pretended coalition with j the opposition political party—in j reality a fusiou of liberals and conser- i ratives—were giving their consent to ' the election of Errazuriz with the in- i teutiou of gaiuing time for a conspiracy that was forming to overthrow j the government. | As a result of the fusion the enemies j jf Errazuriz secured a promise of sev- ! sral places in the cabinet. The offi- i cials so favored were to cause dis- ! sension among the supporters of Er- ' razuriz and by overturning the cabi- j net, take advantage of the crisis and ! start a revolution. The reports that 1 the British officers heard both at Iquique aud Coquimbo were that Errazuriz was elected by the smallest majority in the history of Cnilean presidential campaigns, and soon after the election revolutionary talk was very noticeable at Coquimbo and lquique, great dissatisfaction being expressed over the cabiuet selected by President Errazuriz, who was himself uuablo to remain on good terms with the members. To add to the trouble, the finance minister reported that a deficit of SS,XXi.000 would be shown at the end of ISU6, the principal expense being in buildiug up the navy. The president also had trouble with the miuister of the interior regarding the appointment of governors for certain districts, and the minister, who is said to be friendly to the opposition, made most of his chance to sow seeds of discord. On financial questions the greatest trouble arose, as the cabinet assumed dictatorial methods, aud the certain downfall of tne ministry was expected when congress met on November 24. The Wild Swan was at Guayaquil on that date and did uot learn what took place in Chili. It was said that President Errazuriz had invited Barrios Luco, a Lading liberal politician, to form a new cabinet in case the first one went to pieces, aud this he is supposed to have done. The Balmacedists are certain to stir up iroubie, and there is every indication that it will be serious.

TYPHUS ANTI-TOXINE A Now unit Valuable DWciiverjr in the Science of Tlieritpeutlcs of Iufectluua Ulaemei. Washington. Nov. 30.—United States Cousui George T. Sawter, at Glauchan, sends to the department of state the following1 account of a report soon to be published iu a German medical journal, by Prof. K. Pfeipper aud Or. W. lvolie, two well-known bacteriologists of Uerlin, giving tae effect of a number of experiments they have made with a “typhus anti-toxine:” “If their hopes are eutftirined,” says the cousul, “the science of therapeutics in infectious diseases will have received auotlier most valuable accessiou imthis new discovery. The two experimeuters believe that exemption from typhus germs, like immunity from cholera germs aud other contagious diseases of like character, may be traced back to the existence in the blood of anti-typhoid substances, and from this standpoiut the very successful results of the investigations have been gained. That this theory is most important and practical is realised when the vitality of the typhus bacillus, as discovered by Koch, Eberih and Klebs, is given consideration. The typhoid bacillus is known to exist largely in well and spring water, and the fact that they are frequently the cause of infection is widely recognised by authorities on bacteriology. Consequently this latest very important discovery is to be greeted with joy, as it may prove iu the future the means of preserving numberless lives from untimely demise, particularly as mau is susceptible to attacks from these bacilii during the best years of his development— 20 to 25 years. The inoculations of ‘typhus anti-toxine* eau be easily and quickly executed, aud will prove of great value aud benefit especially in times of epidemic, when the need of a prompt and efficacious lifesaving remedy is most urgent. The entire fruits of the experiments will soon be published for the benefit of the medical world.”

THE STATE OF WISCONSIN Will Probably Reclaim au Unappreciated Gift. Madison, Wia, Not. 29.—It is reported on apparently good authority from the northwestern part of the state that au effort will be made during the coming session of the legislature to take W isconsin's statue of Marquette out of the capitol at Washington. The statue was accepted by congress after a hard fight against it by A. 1*. A. organizations all over the country. AN OFFICIAL DENIAL Of the Alleged Outbreak or a Revolution tu Uruguay. London, Not. 29.—The Uruguayan minister here has received au official dispatch from his government denying the statement coutaiued in a dispatch published in the Times that a revolution had broken out in the northern. and eastern departments of the republic. The movement which the Times correspondent magnifies into a revolution, the official dispatch say's, was an insignificant affair.

HIS PARTY’S FUTURE. The Theme of o Coovore&tloo hy Preel«fe«* Cleveland—Tho Blender Made by th« Lender* In SheXnat Cnmpelsn. He to Co** fident Will bemepndbued by the Peopleno the Pint Opportunity—Bnnsee Ahead. Washjxgtos, Nov. 30.—An evening paper here prints an account of a conversation between President Cleveland; and a prominent democratic politician, in which the former expressed atlength his" views upon the future of. the democratic party. The president, believes, according to the story, thatwhile a blunder was made by the leaders who controlled the convention at. Chicago last July, he is hopeful that many of the men responsible for that action will be convinced of their folly in the near future. Ue expects to see the organization brought back into the true democratic path, and he is Confident that the party, by repudiating at the first opportunity the doctrines proclaimed atChicago, can quickly recover much of. the ground lost in the last campaign^ It is to those democrats who followed Bryan solely on the ground of ‘‘regularity” and to their brethren who organized the movement leading to the ludianapolis convention that Mr. Cleveland looks for the reorganisation and the rehabilitation of the democratic party, lie is confident that they will not follow the free silver extremists into the populist camp, but will gladly come back into the democratic fold when the "parting of the ways” is reached, as it will be very shortly, in his opinion. -The number of these democrats is much greater, Mr. Cleveland believes, than most persons suspect. It is his estimate that iu many of the southern states particularly, probably a third of the votes giveu Mr. Bryan were cast by democrats who were influenced in registering their ballots exclusively by the idea of "regularity.” Mr. Cleveland is said to expect that the radical element of the party, composed, as it is. of men who enthusiastically indorse all the dangerous doetriues proclaimed at Chicago, will shortly be swallowed up in the populist organization. It is the president's idea that the sooner they go the better it will be for the democratic party. lie wants the*.-, reorganization to be effected along the lines laid down iu the Indianapolis platform, which he regards as the embodiment of essential democratic principles. The president insists that it is only to the democratic party, purified and rejuvenated, as he hopes it will be by this sloughing off process and by accessions from the republican aud juidependent voters, that the people can look with any degree of hope or confidence of relief from their burdeps. He thinks the greatest dangers which now menace the coautv are the greed of organized wealth apd the rapacity of corporations. Uesees in the return of the, republican- party to power nc prospect of an abatement of 'these evils. 4 t *

JOHN W. FOSTER SAYS Annexation of the Hawaiian Iolauds 'a Duty. * Chicago, Nov. 3(X—John \V. Foster* ex-secretary of state, ami Mrs. Foster^ arrived in Chicago yesterday on the way to their home in Washington from Honolulu. They spent a little more than two weeks on the islands, and Mr. Foster’s observations confirmed the belief which he promulgated as premier of President Harrison’s cabinet, that annexation by the United States is the duty of this government. ■ , ‘•The present Hawaiian administration is waiting for the inauguration ol President McKinley to make another effort to have the islands anuexed,” said Mr. Foster. “The constitution under which tne people of the islands are living at present has annexation as one of the main things to be striven for. “The islands were never in ^ more prosperous condition than at present. They are prospering in a business way, because the last sugar crop was an exceptionally good one, and the admin* istration of President Dole is the best that the people ever hadK . “it is recognised that the ultimate fate of the islands, if they are not an uexed by the United States, will be annexation by some other of the great powers. It will he impossible j for the islanders to govern themselvessuccessfully for any great length of time by the reason of the clash bej tween the different elements, republicans and royalists, and natives and foreigners. One thing is settled, and that is that the queen will never rule i again or the monarchy be restored. | So it remains for the United States to act without delay or some other nation will assume power in the 11a . waiian islands.” SPAIN'S EXTREMITY. fhe Loudon Times Declares that Spa Us Cannot Wi* la Cabo. Loxdos, Novv30.—The Times prints : , a leader treating of the situation in It says that owing to the incapacity of her generals there is no prospect whatever of Spain winning in the struggle in the island. Moreover, Spain s resources are strained to the 1 utmost, and it will be difficult for her purse to bear much longer the demands upon it. In conclusion the Times says: “We cannot exclude the probability of intervention by the j United States.” , „ j

AN UNKNOWN SUICIDE ,» | r*k*t Ludaaan and Notes Its Effects Is Writing. Chicago, Not. 3a—After destroying : all the marks on hie clothing which ! could in any way lead to his identifiI cation, a well-dressed man about thirty p"_ years of age committed suicide at tho Kimble bouse, 262 Clark street, Saturr day night, by taking laudanum. He described the effects ”f the drug in writing until his hand could uo longer hold the pencil. The body was not found until Sunday afternoon, death haring resulted some time preriooa.