Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — Page 3

RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS

M’KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT.' Republican National Ticket Wins by a Good Majority. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt have been elected President and Vice-President, respectively, by a majority of electoral votes larger than that given in 1896 to McKinley and Hobart. The Republican tendency through* out the nation was strong enough, apparently, to secure the election of a Congress which will be Republican in both houses. The State of New York, in spite of the etrefiuous efforts made to secure an overwhelming Bryan vote in New York City, has given the Republican candidates a large plurality. Illinois, Michigan, Min-

MARCUS A. HANNA. Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

nesota, Indiana and Ohio have given a similar result, and although the Republican plurality in Massachusetts has been strikingly reduced, owing doubtless to the strength of the anti-imperialist sentiment there, it is still decisive. Maryland has had a Republican landslide similar to that of four years ago. In the great West beyond the Missouri the Republicans make gains. They have held California, Oregon and North Dakota, which they carried four years ago They have carried Kansas, South Dakota, Washington, > Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and possibly Nebraska, all of which were for. Bryan in 1896. So far as incomplete returns indicate at this writing Mr. Bryan failed to win the electoral vote of any of the States that were classed as doubtful. Practically all the States that declared for McKinley in 1896 did the same at this election. Mr. Bryan made heavy inroads into the Republican majorities of four years ngo in nearly all the Eastern States, especially those of New England. In Massachusetts the McKinley majority was reduced practically 4.00,000 as compared with four years ago. The city of Boston gives Mr. Bryan a small plurality. The New York Democratic leaders fulfilled their pledge to carry greater New York for Mr. Bryan, but the State vote was overwhelmingly Republican. There was a phenomenally heavy vote throughout the entire country. Out of the forty-five States and three territories Mr. Bryan failed to make substantial gains anywhere except in the East. Even there the cutting of Republican majorities was lnsnfllcient to give him the electoral vote of a single State tlint declared for Mr. McKinley four years ago. In the West most of the States that rolled up big free silver majorities in 1896 were apparently leps enthsuiastic for Mr. Bryan this year. The Southern vote was normal and there were no defections in this section from the Democratic columns. . President McKinley has broken all records and upset all traditions in American politics. He is the first man to defeat twice in succession the same opponent in the presidential race. He is the first President since Grant to secure a second term immediately following his first. Mr. Bryan repeated his performance of 1896. He pleaded his cause before more than a thousand audieuces and spoke to several million voters. Whatever criticisms his opponents have made of his governmental theories and policies, all unite in admiration of his indomitable will, confident spirit and marvelous physique. A campaign that would exhaust the average-man seemed to tire him but slightly. Few men could endure the exertion. physical and mental, whleh was required of Mr. Bryan during the campaign. ______ McKinley carried Ohio by fully 80,000.

WILLIAM McKINLEY, Re-Elected President.

BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS.

McKinley, 292. bryan, 155. COMPLEXION OF CONGRESS.

.SENATE. Republicans 51 Democrats 28 Independents „ 11

M’KINLEY STATES. According to early press reports, the following States have given majorities for McKinley and Roosevelt: Electoral Votes. Electoral Votes. Electoral Votes. CALIFORNIA 9 MICHIGAN 14 RHOltfl ISLAND... 4 CONNECTICUT.... 6 MINNESOTA 9 SOUTH DAKOTA.. 4 DELAWARE 3 NEBRASKA 8 UTAH 3 ILLINOIS. 24 N. HAMPSHIRE... 4 VERMONT 4 INDIANA 15 NEW JERSEY 10 WASHINGTON..., 4 lOWA 13 NEW YORK 36 WEST VIRGINIA.. 6 KANSAS ' 10 NORTH DAKOTA.. 3 WISCONSIN 12 MAINE 6 OHIO 23 WYOMING 3 MARYLAND 8 OREGON 4 MASSACHUSETTS 15 PENNSYLVANIA.. 32 Total 292

The returns indicate that Bryan and Stevenson will get the electoral votes of the following States: Electoral Votes. Electoral Votes. Electoral Votes. ALABAMA 11 KENTUCKY 13 N. CAROLINA 11 ARKANSAS. 8 LOUISIANA 8 S. CAROLINA 9 COLORADO 4 MISSISSIPPI 9 TENNESSEE 12 FLORIDA 4 MISSOURI 17 TEXAS 15 GEORGIA., i 13 MONTANA 3 VIRGINIA 12 IDAHO 3 NEVADA 3 Total 155 Necessary to elect, 224. McKinley’s majority, 137

HOW THE STATES VOTED IN 1896.

McKINLEY STATES WHITE. Shaded Terrltorles Have No Vote. BRYAN STATES BLACK.

McKinley. Bryan. States. Elect. Elect. votes. votes. Alabama H Arkansas ? California 8 Colorado 4 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Florida 4 Georgia 13 Idaho 8 Illinois 24 Indiana 15 lowa 13 .. Kansas 10 Kentucky 12 1 Louisiana 8 Maine 6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 15 Michigan j 14 Minnesota 9 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska g

Important Flection Features. Btyan has 50,000 majority In Missouri. Towa gives a Republican plurality of 60,000. Entire Republican ticket win* in North Dakota. Republicans carry Illinois for their State ticket. New Jersey’s Republican plurality is about 50,000. McKinley carried Maryland by * majority of 11,000. McKinley’s plurality in New York State i* 120,000. *

HOUSE. Republicans 197 Democrats 15 3 Independents 8

BRYAN STATES.

McKinley. Bryan. States. Elect. Elect. votes. votes. Nevada .... 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 10 New York 36 North Carolina * 11 North Dakota 8 Ohio 23 Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 32 .. Rhode Island 4 South Carolina 9 South Dakota 4 Tennessee f Xi Texas .. is Utah 8 Vermont 4 Virginia 13 Washington • 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 12 Wyoming g Total ... 271 17«

The Republican majority in Indiana is about 30,000. Bryau slept while the returns came in, but not till be had been assured of defeat Illinois is Republican by between 60,000 and 100,000 on the national ticket. Two men were killed and three wounded during a fight between police and deputy sheriffs at a Denver polling place. Both Republicans and Democrats are surprised by the election returns, indicating McKinley's re-election by the largest majority in history.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Vice-President Elect.

WILL CONTROL THE HOUSE. Republicans Elect a Safe Working Majority in Congress. The Republican landslide has included the House of Representatives, and that body will be in control of the party which has held it since the Fifty-fourth Coar gress. Returns received up to 1 o’clock Wednesday morning show that the Republicans will have 197, the Democrat* 152, fusion B—thereby B—thereby making a clear Republican majority of 37. These figures, however, are not conclusive, THE HOUSE. States— Uep. Dem. Ind. Alabama 9 .. Arkansas 6 .. California ..... 6 1

JAMES K. JONES. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Colorado .. 2 Connecticut 4 Delaware 1 Florida 2 Georgia 11 ■ • Idaho •• 1 Illinois 18 6 Indiana 9 4 lowa 11 .. • • Kansas 7 • • 1 Kentucky 3 8 Louisiana 6 Maine 4 .. Maryland 3 3 Massachusetts 11 2 .. Michigan 12 Minnesota 7 Mississippi •• •• -l Missouri i lo Montana 1 Nebraska 2 1 3 Nevada .—y •• •• 1 New Hampshire 2 New Jersey 8 2 New York 16 18 •. North Carolina 9 North Dakota 1 Ohio 11 4 Oregon 2 Pennsylvania 21 9 .. Rhode Island 2 South Carolina .. ' 7 South Dakota 2 Tennessee 2 8 Texas 13 Utah j.L... 1 1 Vermont 2 Virginia 10 Washington 2 West Virginia 3 1 Wisconsin 10 Wyoming 1 Total 197 132 8

Presidential Candidates Vote.

President McKinley went to the polls in Canton soon after breakfast, and at 9:17 deposited his ballot. While there was some flutter about the polling place as he approached, so far as the President himself was concerned he exercised the right of franchise in the usual democratic fashion. Mr. Bryan cast his vot* in Lincoln at 11:10 o’clock. The place at which he exercised this public duty was half a dozen blocks from his place of residence. The ceremony was witnessed by half a hundred of residents, who were congregated ii» the polling place.

Mr. Bryan Seeks Rest.

Mr. Bryan received the news of th< general result at his home in Lincoln. At 8 o'clock, when newspaper men sough) to secure a statement from him, they were told that he had just gone to sleep. ■When he retired to his own room he glanced over the returns with apparent Interest, and then, expressing a desire to make up some of the rest he had lost in, the past few weeks, lay down and was asleep in less than five minutes, thus manifesting probably less concern than hundreds sf thousands of others.

POPULATION OF INDIANA.

The Census Bureau Announces It to Be 2,516,462 by Counties. The official return* as announced by the census bureau give the State of Indiana a total population "of 2,516,462, against 2,192,404 in 1890. These figures shots' an'increase in the population of the State since 1890 of .’524,058, or 14.7 per cent. The population in 1880 was 1,978,601, showing an increase of 214,103, or 10.8 per cent. The population by counties is as follows—

Adams 22.232 Allen 77,2.0; Bartholomew .24.594 Benton It, 123; Blackford .. i Boone ..26.521 Brown 9.727, Carroll 19,953; Cass • .3 1,540 Clark 31,835 Clay 34,283 Clinton .......28,202 C ra wford ..... 13,476; Daviess 29,914. Dearborn .... .2*2,104 Decatur 10,518 De Kalb 25,711 Delaware 40,024 Dubois 20,35"| Elkhart 45.052 Fayette .13,405 Floyd ...:50,115, Fountain ... . .21,440 Franklin 16.388, Fulton 17,433 Gibson :’0,090i Grant 54,00:5 Greene 28.5550 Hamilton 20.014 Hancock 10.180 Harrison ..... . 21,702; Hendricks ... .21,202, Henry 25.088 Howard ......28,575; Hnfatington . .. 28.001 Jackson 20,0:5:5 Jasper 14,202 Jay 20.81 s Jefferson 22,01:5 Jennings 15.7. u Johnson 20,2255 Kncx .... .32.740 Koscitisko ....251,100 La Grange ... .15,284 Lake . .37.892 EirForte 558.::50

The population of cities having a population of more than 5,000, but less than 25,000, is as follows:

Alexandria ... 7.221; Anderson 20,178, Bedford 6,113; Bloomington .. (5,400) Brazil 7,786; Columbus 8,1301 Connorsville .. 6,836; Crawfordsville. 0,640; Elkhart .15,181 Elwood 12,050 Frankfort .... 7,100) Goshen 7,810 Greensburg ... 5.304 i Hammond .... 12,370; Hartford 5,912 Huntington ... 0,944[ Jeffersonville .10,774) Kokomo 10,6191 Lafayette 18,116|

The population of certain incorporated places having between 2,000 and 5,000 inhabitants iu.1900, as announced by the census bureau, is as follows:

Albany .. ... .2,1161] Angola ........ .2,141(1 Attica 3.005 M Auburn 3,396!: Aurora 3,645|] Bluffton 4,4791! Boonville . 2,849;! Brookvllle 2,037 i! Butler ....2,0631 Cannelton 2,188 j; ClarksvHle .....2,3701 Clinton 2,918; Columbia 2,975 Covington 2,213! Crown Point .. .2,330; Decatur 4,142 Delphi 2,1351 Dunkirk 3,187, East Chicago .. .3,4411 Falrmount 3,205| Franklin ...... ,4,005 j Garret 3,910 Gas City .......3,622| Greeneastle ... i3,061i Greenfield 4.498; Iluntlngburg ...2,527! Kendulville . ...3,3541 Lawreneeburg . .4,326

DIES FROM EATING COPFEE.

Woman of Marion Falls Victim of Innocent Habit. Mrs. Anthony Daggett died at Marion from eating roasted coffee. She commenced two years ago to eat a few grains every time she went to the kitchen cabinet, in which the coffee was kept. The habit grew on her until she was eating a cupful of the beans every day. She stated before she died that she knew the coffee was killing her, but her appetite was so ravenous that she could not resist it. She died in great agony.

CAUGHT MAKING QUEER MONEY.

Father, Son and a Woman Bagged at Lafayette. Robert McKee, an old soldier, his son, Howard McKee, and Eliza Jane Herron were arrested at Lafayette, charged with counterfeiting. When arrested, Robert McKee was in the act of pouring metal into molds. The police captured the entire plant and quite a sum of bogus money, of the denominations of quarters and nickels.

Death of Dr. William A. Clapp.

Dr. William A. Clapp, who for more than half a century had been engaged in the practice of medicine in New Albany, is dead. He was 78 years old and a bachelor. He was born in the house in which he died, and, with the exception of two years during the Civil War, when he served ns surgeon in the Thirty-eighth Indiana regiment, he lived there all his life.

State Items of Interest.

Daniel Williams, New Castle, crushed by a falling tree. The hum of the corn shredder is the sound heard daily. Bartholomew County had thirty-two deaths in October. Rev. Moses C. Bridges, 73, Plainfield, died of heart failure. Hog cholera is prevalent in several places in Carroll County. Mary Gulley died at Logansport from an overdose of morphine. A professional spectacle snatcher has been operating in Kokomo. * Nellie Thompson. 16, daughter of a wealthy farmer, near Cadiz, is missing. James Haney. 45, killed himself iD Denver because he could not find work. Dolphe Gift. 11, Marion, is missing. Believed to have started for Cincinnati. G. W. Long, Huntington, former railroad engineer, has struck it rich in Alaska. Muncie City Council has ordered railroads to place flagmen or gates at crossings. John ’Williams, 82, fdr sixty yours* a resident of Delaware Count?, in iiiuncie. Tice Golden, a farmer living near Columbus, raised twelve tons of tomatoes to the acre. At the funeral of 11. 11. Boudindt, Terre Haute, a dirge composed at his request two years ago was played.

I/swrence .... 25,'29 ;Madison 70,470 Marion ....... 197,227 .Marshall ..... 25.11 ft Martin 14,711 Miami 28,5544 , .Monroe 20„HT:i ■Montgomery .. 29,5488 .Morgan ...... 20,457 Newton 10,448 Noble 23,5354 Ohio ... .. .. • • 4,724 Orange ....... 16,854 Oweu 15,149 I’arke 23,000 Perry 18,778 Pike 20,486 i Porter ....... 19,175 Posev 22,333 Pulaski 14.0554 Putnam ...... 21,478 Randolph 281633 Itiplev 19.881 ; Kush 20,148 St, Joseph . 58,881 Scott 8,307 Shelby 26.491 Spencer 22.407 Starke 105431 Steuben 15,219 ;Sullivan 26.005 Switzerland .. 11.840 Tfppecanoe ... 558,659 I Tipton 19,116 I nion . 6,748 Vamlerlmrg .. 71.769 Vermilion .... 15,252 Vigo . : 62,035 ; Wabash 28,2515 . Warren 11,5471 Warrick 22,329 Washington .. 19.409 Wayne 548,970 Wells 23.449 White ........ 19,138 ;Whitley ...17.828

La Porte ~ 7,113 iLogansport ... .10.204 | Marlon 17,337 ! Michigan 14,850 (Mishawaka .... 5,560 i Mt. Vermon ... 5,132 Mancie ........20,942 New Albany ...20,028 Peru 8,463 I Princeton ..... 6.041 Richmond 18,220 ; Shelbyville .... 7,109 Seymour 6,445 ) Valparaiso .... 6,280 [Vincennes 10,249 | Wabash 8,018 1 Washington ... 8,551

Lebanon 4,465 JLlgo liter 2,231 i Linton .3,071 ! Martinsville .., .4,038 iMonticello 2,107 IMontpeller 3,405 INappanee 2,208 iNewcastle 3,406 Noblesville .....4,702 )N. Manchester.. *2,398 j North Vernon ...2,823 Plymouth 3,656 Portland 4,798 jßedkey 2,206 ißensselaer 2,255 !' Rochester 3,34 t > Rockport 2,882 ißockville ..2,04-5 ißushville 4,541 i| Spencer- 2.026 ijSullivan ..3,115 • Tell City 2,680 :|Tipton 3,7(54 ! Union City 2,716 ;Warsaw 3,987 : West Lafayette .2,302 I Whiting 3,083 j Winchester .... .3,705

RECORD OF THE WEEK

-’• - .- - * ai r * ; - 5 ‘ * Th( INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY*’ TOLD. - . •• ; r. ' • • Killed by Hie Father-ia-taw-Firet Ballet Through Her Own Heart—De•erted Wife Arreeted for Attempted |j Murder—House la Blown Up. At Cantridge John Kessinger was killed by his father-in-law, Harris H. Rose. Keesinger was abusing bis wife and her mother, Mrs. Rose, at whose house they were, when Mr. Rose interfered. Kessinger, with a knife in his hand, started for Rose, who secured a shotgun and fired one charge into Kessinger’s body Mr. Rose is a t|oiet, law-abiding citizen. Keasinger was a desperate man and bad threatened to kill the whole family, had knocked both his wife and mother-in-law down, and broken his wife’s thumb. He had driven his wife away from home, and she had fled to her parents’ for protection. Kessingef followed her and lost his life. Tries to Kill Her Hnsband. f Edna Stewart, 17 years of age, attempted to shoot her hnsband, E. C. Stewart, at the Campbell House in Marion. Stewart ih-esrted his 'wife recently in Muneie after a year of married life. He went to Marion and secured a position in the Canton glass factory. Mrs. Stewart located her husband at a boarding bouse. She called him from the house and requested him to live with her, and on his refusal tried to-shoot him. Stew- - art caught his wife and held her until a policeman arrived and she was 'placed ia • jail. Accused Girl Knds Life. Bertha Wills of Linden, 17 years old, committed suicide by shooting herself w-ith a rifle. She was employed as a domestic and was accused by her employer of stealing loaf sugar and taking it to bed with her to eat. The girl went to her home, locked herself in her bedroom, pulled off her shoes and stockings, rested a loaded rifle on the bed and palled the trigger with her toes. She was shot through the heart and instantly died. Attempts to Kill Hla Family. a, Michael Pulley, a prominent w*ho lives six miles northwest of Marivu, has been arrested. The residence of Pulley’s wife in Elwood was wrecked by dynamite and the wife suspected her hns* * band of attempting to kill her. She not!- s fied the Elwood police. When placed in jail Pulley acknowledged having attempted to kill his wife, stepdaughter and son-in-law.

State News in Brief. Dr. David F. Rogers of near Monon, died in the Klondike. Frank Wilson,’ Alum cave, was killed in battle in the Philippines. Clark Cole, Andrews, Wabash brakeman, was killed at Roanoke. The average corn yield in Monroe Conn* ty will be forty bushels to the Sere. Nellie Thompson, f 6, Hartford City, has disappeared. Foul play feared. Charles Barnes, Rising Sun, was killed by falling through au elevator shaft.--l|§g George Paul, 86, a prominent farmer and stock raiser, died near Waverly. The DeHorify & Co. buggy and implement establishment, Elwood, was badly damaged by fire. George Clements, Indianapolis, secured the contract to reconstruct St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Richmond. , Amy Troop, 16, and Ada Eadwards, 18, Marion, have disappeared. Thought to have joined a theatrical company. 1 Bottle of carbolic acid, marked “good for rheumatism,” was left on the doorstep of Mrs. Katharine White, Logan*-’ port. Prof. George W. Michael is projecting a school of languages which he will establish on the old college campus at Logansport. In Terre Haute Dorlie Brown, a 15-year-old girl, died from injury caused byii being hit on the neck with a return ball' during street fair week. Charles Delph, Daleville, had trouble , at Middletown over politics with Jame*r' Kelly, Middletown. Delph shot at Kei- i ly, but struck William Moneyhun, who may die. William Mitchell, colored, Shelbyville, charged with attempting to kill William Orebnugh. white. Orebaugh was struck on the head with a stone tied in a handkerchief. *«!■ A natural gas explosion occurred at tlufl home of Elmer E. Murphy, 2008 W<jfl Michigan street. HaughvMle. The b(«pi was wrecked and Mrs. Murphy badly j burned. A William Wittridge, lowa, and Miss Anna Vandcraugb. CgPI 1 umbus, Ohio, were seriously injured py a natural gas explosion in the .Marion normal college. Mrs. Natilda Doniine. Laporte, wants a divorce so that her husband may remarry his first wife. Flic says he again loves 3 wife No. 1, and she does not ■ to stand in the way of his happiness, The mangle steam chest at Campbells' laundry at Logansport blew up, throw-J ! ing pieces of broken iron and steel among j j the twenty employed. Miss May War- j , ner was scalded and injured by flyingde* ‘ bris. Bartley Wilhelm, Eaton, of the Glas* Flat toners’ Association, shot Hector De- j Greve, an L. A. 300 flattener, at Hartford ; City. Wilhelm is the father of Loots j Wilhelm, the Eaton blower, shot last J week. Two years ago a public highway was i constructed through a tamarack grove | near Rochester. The other day it began to sink, and now about sixty feet of the 4 roadbed has disappeared, its place beinf | taken by water. The water is filled with f a kind of, fish never before seen iq that part of the country. Nora Beit, the Lebanon girl whp di*-’$ appeared, was found with her aunt.HickiSry nuts are scarce this seakon.’l .Many trees have come down sos Attorneys *re trying to locate William | Lowe, one .of the fonr heirs to a SSO,- , 000 estate near Dillsboro. Luke Gregory, 77. a Howard pioneer, is dead. He lived on a farm -■ uear ltussiaville for fifty-t wo years. * Guy I/caebman shot and seriously in- * jured licon Perkins, at I>nnvillp. 1$ i.+ -j said ‘Perkins had assaulted Leaehman. They met again, the quarrel was renew* j «d and the shooting took placa,