Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 November 1889 — Page 2
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THE SIGNAL SERVICE. Gen. Greely Telia of the Needs of the Weather Bureau. General Al W. Gkeelj, Chief Signal Officer of the army, in his annual report calls attention to the necessity of improvement and change in current methods of signal instruction and practice. The records show that less that one officer out of nine of the line of the army has received instruction in signaling during the year. These evils are especially pronounced in view of the introduction of the telephone and other instruments of modern invention which are applicable to signal ng purposes He recommends that the force of enlisted men in the service be reduced from 470 to 200. The cold wave predictions, he says, have improved greatly since their inauguration. The weather crop bulletin has met with great favor. The General urges more liberal appropriations. " Dr. Peters Party Massacred. A Zanzibar cable reports that the Masais or Somalia have massacred Dr. Peters, the German explorer, and the whole of the first division of his party, except one European and one Somali, who were wounded and are now at Ngao. The second division of Dr. Peters' expedition, which started from Vitu last month under Borchert and Bust, his lieutenants, are retreating to the coast. They failed to effect a junction with the first party, and were saved. Another Sensation Promised,. A London cable says: "Mr Molloy, member of , Parliament, in a speech at Sheffield said that the Pamellites had in their possession documentary evidence proving the complicity of government officials in a conspiracy against the Irish, and that the publication of this evidence would cause a sensation even greater than that resulting from the commission revelations. He said it was intended to expose the plot immediately after the opening of Parliament." The Supren.s Court Snowed Under. Edward Otis HinkiiBY, of Baltimore, Secretary of the American Bar Association, and J. Hubbard Ashton, of Washington, have delivered to President Harrison a letter, prepared by a distinguished committee on 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. Doekmen Will Aid the Lightermen. Ths London dock laborers have declined to work until the master lightermen accede to. the terms demanded by their employes. The master lightermen have had a conference with the Lord Mayor and Cardinal Manning, which was also attended by Bums, Tillett and Buxton on behalf of the doekmen and their allies. The questions at issue were exhaustively and somewhat warmly discussed, but no decision was reached. Shortage In Cotton Oil Trust Funds. A Nnw York dispatch says: There is a shortage of over $275,000 in the Cotton Oil Trust accounts. It is found that the President and Treasurer have lost $527,000 of the trust's money speculating in trust certificates, hoping to stem the tide that has been running against them. The speculating officers made good $250,000 or these losses out of their private purses, but the trust will have to stand the balance. Escaped from Prison. John Lynch, a convict at the St. Cloud (Minn.) reformatory, has succeeded in making his escape. He was a trusted fellow, as he had but a short time to serve, and was engaged in carrymg water. One of the guards saw him and fired two shots after him without -bttcoess. Nothing has been seen of the fugitive, although guards have been sent in every direction. Children Burled In the Sand. J&ekiah apd Mary E., aged 3 and 5 year-, children of Jeremiah Shaw, residing in Shaw's Lane, near Haverhill, Muss., were found dead, buried in a sandbank near their home. The children vLo had been in the habit of playing in the sandbank, were missed the previous dy. and search began then and continued until the bodies were discovered in the sand. A Jesuit Claim Settled. At Quebec the sue: of $400,000 has been paid over by the Provincial Government to Father Turgeon, representing the Jesuit Order ia C mnda, in consideration of the order's ;otai and perpetual abandonment of claims to the estates which became the property of the crown when the aruer was suppressed nearly a century ago. Close of th Paris Exposition. Tnz closing of the Paris Exposition was m irked by a brilliant fete. Four hundred thousand people were present, the largest attendance since the opening of the exhibition. There were a few flight accidents due .to the crush. The
we tther wan beautiful and the fete was a grezu success. Heir to $500,000. Edwaiid Hikes, an employ in G. D. Porneirs t in shop in Rochester, Minn., starts for England at once, having been
tnoiiUeu that ne is the only heir to an
.estate valued at over 100,000, which has fallen to him on the death of an uncle. Eefusfd the Decoration. Alexander Harbison, the painter and member of. the American art jury at the Exhibition,, has refused to accept the decoration of an officer de l'Academie conferred on him by the jury of awards at fhe Paris Exhibition.
Cresson's Defalcation $92,000, A Conshohocken (Pa.) dispatch says: "The bank examiners have completed the examination of the books of the Tradesmen's National bank, and place Cresson's defalcation at $92,000."
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. A man called Frick, leader of the anarchists in the Pittsburg region, reports that he has organized a number of redling societies in Westmoreland and Beaver Counties, Pennsylvania. It is proposed to hold a big meeting in memory of the anarchists who were hanged at Chicago. Dr. Isaac E. TatIiOB, President of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, is dead. He was seventyseven years old, and the father of Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, his other children being Colonel Stuart Taylor, Mrs. Hilliard M. Judge, and an unmarried daughter. An unknown man, woman, and child were drowned in the roadway at Diamond flats, near Scranton, Pa., while attempting to drive through a hollow spot thai; had been overflowed by the Lackawanna River. The bodies were not recovered.. The calamity was the result of the overturning of a buggy. The boiler of the Ashing steamer S. S Brown burst off Hereford, N. J.. the other day. Six men were scalded. William De Cortsey, of New London, was killed, and Engineer Charles Bailey will probably die, as will also Assistant Engineer William Ludlow. The Brown was towed in from sea by the Arizona badly wrecked. The passenger boat City of Hudson was burned while lying at Catskill Point, N. Y. A lamp exploded while the watch man, the only person on board, was preparing his breakfast. Loss, $20,000. People at Providence, R. L, have been surprised by the bequests of tne late Henry S. Steere, who left his fine residence and works of art, with $100,000 in
j cash, to his Secretary, Charles H. At-
wood, who was formerly a clerK in a restaurant. Dovey's brass foundry, the building of the Allegheny City Carpet-Cleaning Coro-
pany, and two stables at Allegheny City, Pa., have been destroyed by fire, causing , a loss of $40,000. A colored man per
ished in the flames.
WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Bell & Co., extensive barrel and keg manufacturers of Youngstown, Ohio, have assigned, with assets at $149,909 and liabilities at $84,000, The firm asked its creditors for an extension oE nve years in which to pay its debts. A committee of creditors w is appointed to consider the proposition of appointing a tmstee. Tiik last net in the admission into tho Union as States of North and South Dakota was completed by tlie signing of tho proclamations of sdmission by President Harrison. This i the first instance in our history of two States being admitted at the same time. Eliza Davis ami her mother, of Lansing, Mich., reported to be members of the Bender family, are said to be frauds, and they played a part merely to obtain free transportation to Kansas, where they now nre. Alexander Simpson, for some years a reporter J or the Kansas City Times, has received word from London that he hat) fallen heir to the estate of his aunt in Edinburgh, Scotland. The estate is valued t $200,000. A terrible tragedy has occurred near Vergennes, Kent County, Mich. While laboring under a fit of temporary insanity Haggai Westbrook, a farmer 43 years of age, seized a hammer and dealt hiswi:e threa blows with it, fracturing her skull. He then went to the room where his three girls, aged 3, 8 and 12 t ears were sleeping and attucke d them in the same manner, alter which he proceeded to the bedroom of his 17-jrear-old son with the intention of killing him. He struck the boy a light blow, which glanced olf and awakened him. The latter wrenched the hammer away from his father, who ran down-stairs, followed by tho boy. Westbrook went straight to his own room, where his son arrived just in time to see him cut his throat with a r izor, inflicting a wound that caused instant death. The oh Idren are dead and the mdther cannot recover from her wounds. Judge Withbow of the Circuit Court of St. Louis, Mo., has tendered a decision declaring the new State grain inspection law, which went into effect Nov. 1, to be constitutional, nnd that therefore all warehousemen in the State must take out a license to do business as such. The new State officers of North Dakota have been sworn in at Bismarck. Coy Miller has summoned the members of the Legislature to meet Nov. 19. A Cincinnati dispatch says: Coroner Bendigs has rendered his verdict upon
the Mount Auburn inclined plane accident, in which sis persons lost their lives. He says the immediate cause was the failure of the pilot, Charles Goble, to properly work the throttle and thereby stop the car. He finds that even if the piece of iron found in the steamchest interfered with the working of the throttle, still Goble could have prevented the accident by the proper use of the brake and reverse lever, lie further finds that the draw-cabb; and safety-rope were not properly fastened to the car, and that the employes in charge of the machinery were guilty of criminal carelessness in not stopping the train and examining the machinery at 10 a. m., when the machinery refused to work properly. At the annual meeting of the American Percheron Horse-Breeders' Association, held at Chicago, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Hon. T. W. Palmer, Detroit ; Vice President, I. L. Eltwood, DeKalb, 111. ; Secretary, S. D. Thompson, Wayne, 111. : Treasurer, P. Whitman, and the following Board or Directors : M. W. Dunham, Capt. T. SlatUry, Jameg Garfield, B. B. Kellogg, Loon Johasou, Henry Avery, . W. CottreH, F. B. Redneld, n,nd H. C. Wheaton. At Dului.n, Minn., there have just been exposed the details of a gigantic teal estate fraud perpetrated by swindlers of Minneapolis and Indiana. The victims are very numerous and are mostly persons living in Minneapolis and in the southern part of Minnesota, Iowa, and Indiana, a division nine miles from the city, where land is worth $1G an acre, was platted and given a similar name to that of a valuable division inside the city. Over $337,000 worth of transfers, many of them, of course, fictitious, were recorded before the fraud was discovered. A bust of the late Hon. O. P. Morton has been unveiled in Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis, Ind. The bust is of white marble and is a little over three feet high. It was designed by Symouds and executed in Rome. Chief Justice
t Byram K. Elliott presided at the cere
monies. The Rev. Dr. Day acted as chaplain. Gov. Hovey gave a short ireview of Mr. Morton's career, paying a high tribute to his abilities as a statesman and his courage when anonymous persons were threatening him with death.
SOUTHERN INCIDENTS.
Polk Laffoox, ex-member of Congress from the Second Kentucky District,
was sandbagged and garroted in a street f fi. Patton and James Wonder storekeep-
County one bearing certificates from the Secretary of State and the others those of the County Clerk. The contest promises to be long nnd bitter. Acting Secretary Tichenor has appointed Thomas F. Ryan, of Indiana, to be chief of a division in the Third Auditor's office, Treasury Department. J. J. De Gnu mm on d and John iJcGin-
nis have been appointed gaugers, and S.
THE STATE ELECTIONS.
of Sheffield, Ala,, and robbed of his money. He was dangerously but tiot fatally hurt. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange has issued a statement based on official ireturns of the different exchanges, making the average weight of 2,018,714 bales of this year's cotton crop, embracing port receipts from Sept. lto Oct. 31 and overland to Nov. 1, inclusive, 505.22 pounds per bale. The details by sections are: Texas, 534.24 pounds; Louisiana, 499.80; Alabama, 500; Georgia, 41)8.71; South Carolina, 499; Virginia, 41)4.45; North Carolina, 500, and Tennessee, etc,, 501.17. Compared with the September weights the average of the cotton belts for the two months together is 100.32 pounds per bale lighter. Advices from Hildalgo County, Tex., say that near the Jesus Maria Ranch bandits surprised and abducted the son of Cahak Tnan naro7ia anri nrA hnlfliTter Viim
fnr ransom. Banaers have eone in n ar- f
suit. The body of an unknown man was
also found near the county line. AJ
Sheriff's posse has gone to try and identify the remains. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Secretary Fbootor has amended the regulations governing promotions of meritorious non-commissioned officers of the army, so as to compel commanding officers to be more careful as to the character of the persons recommended. The report of the Government Bureau of Engraving and printing shows that during the year there were printed United States notes, gold and silver certificates, bonds and bank notes with a face value Of $615,789,860. Third Auditor W. R. Hart, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, says that the number of pensioners on the rolls' July 1, 1889, was 49O,O'J0, nnd that there will probably be added 35,000 more by June 30, 1890. This addition-will make the estimated number of pensioners at that date 525,01)0, thus giving for examination 2,100,000 vouchers, nnl requiring for their payment at lent $lOO,OrO,0(K. The following is a recapitulation of the debt Ptntement issued Nov. 1: INTEIiEST-BEAttrNG DEBT, Bonds at 4 V. per cant 12GtC00,30 Bonds at 4 per cent W7,'2$8t850 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent.. 113.460 Kaw peiibion fund at 3 por cent. . . . 14,lUU,O'J0 Pacific KaUroal bonds at 3 per cent. 64,623,512
Principal , $ Interest
852,635,172 6,4i27,fcOJ
Total S 830,002,97:1 DEBT ON WHICH 1KTKHKMT HAS CEASED SINCK MATU1UTY. Principal 1,635.875 lutereiit 152,415
Total $ 2,91 DEHT No JNTHUKST. Old demand and logal-tendor notes. .$ 346,737, Certificates of deposit 12,510.000 Gold certificates 120J37 229 Silver certificates 277,319,941 Fractional currency (leas $8,375,931, e fa ti mated as lost or destroyed). ... 6,915,690 Principal $ 7GM&U21 Principal $1,618,941 309 Interest S,5K),:07
Total $1,623,621,576 Lcbr casli items available for reduction of the debt 9 419,235,136 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000
$ 519,235,136 Total debt less avoidable cash items $1,100,2H5,439 Not cash in tho Treasury 45,335,762 Debt less cash in Treasury Nov. 1, 1889 1 1,060,950,677 Debt less cash in Treasury, Oct. 1, 1889 $1,070,055,530 Decrease of debt during the month $ 9,104,8T3 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1889. 15,9&,U44 CASH IK TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for Moid certificates actually outstanding $ 120,937,229 Silver held for 6ilver certificates actuaUy outstanding $ 277,319.944 TJ. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually o itstauding 12,510,000 Cash held for mat ured debt and interest unpaid 8,466,082 Fractional currency l,S8l Total available for reduction of tho debt $ 419,235,136 hkslkvi: rusv. Held for redemption of tr. S. notes, acts June 14, 1875, aiKl July 12, 182.$ 100,000,003 Unavailable for reduction of tho debt : Fractional silver coin 22,737,899 Minor coin 154,730
Total $ 22,6;12,630 Certificatesheld as cash 37,604,196 Ket cash balance on hand 45,335,762 Total cash" in the Treasury, as shown by Treasurer's general account $63,007,725 The President has issued the following Thanksgiving Day proclamation: A highly favored people, mindful of their dependence on The bounty of Divine Providence, should seek fitting occasion to testify gralitude and ascribe praise to Him who is the author of their many blessings- It behooves us, then, to look back with thankful hearts over the past year and bless God for His infinite mercy in vouchsafing to our land enduring peace, to our people freedom from pestilence and famine, to our husbandmen abundant harvests, and to them that labor a recompense of their toil. Now. therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do earnestly recommend that Thursday, the 28th day of this present month of November, be set apart as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and that the people of our country, ceasing from the cares and labors of their working day, shall assemble in their respective places of worship and give thanks to God, who has prospered us on our way and made our paths the paths of peace; beseeching Him to bless the day to our present and future good, making it truly one of thanksgiving for each reunited home circle as for the nation at large. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand aud caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fourteenth. Be.nj. Harbison. - By the President Jauks G. Blaink. Secretary of Stat. . POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The President has appointed Warren G. Sayre of Wabash, Ind., a member of the Cherokee Commission. The State CnnvaBBing Board of Montana threw out the Tunuel Preci&ct returns from Silver Bow County, completed its work, and adjourned sine die. This gives the Republicans a majority in the Legislature. , The contest in the courts is still pending, and if the Democrats win the County Canvassing Board will be compelled to count the rejected returns. The County Clerk will then issue certificate to the member shown to be elected by tbis count, and the result will be two sets of members elected Irom Silver Bow
ers in the Fifth Illinois internal revenue district. acroSs"th-e"ocean. Telfgrams received at tho City of Mexico state that the revolution in Guatemala has ended in favor of the Government and that all of the revolutionists captured were shot. The New York World publishes a cable special from Queenstown, Ireland, announcing tho marriage of "Tollie" Fitzgerald, a barmaid at the Queen's Hotel, to Maurice Dupont, the well-known millionaire of Wilmington, Del. A London cable says: The new railway bridge across the Frith of Forth, is to be put to the test of carrying fifty locomotives hitched together and traveling back and forth at various rates ol;
speed.
Viscount Dungan, of the! Duke oil
Edinburgh's regiment, paid(Miss Phyllis Broughton, an actress at the Prince of Wales Theater, $7,500 because of his failure to marry her agreeably to promise, and openly confessed in. court that his refusal to make her his wife was not any reflection upon the character of Misei Broughton, A London cablegram says: Mr. Mao.. Einnon, the head of the relief committee., has received a dispatch from Henry M.. Stanley. The explorer says: I reached the Albert Nyanza from Banalyn Jan. 18, for 'the third time in 140 days, and found that Etuin and Jejihson had both been prisoners since August 18, 1888, the day after 31 made the discovery that Bartlettot's caravan had boen wrecked. The troops in the equatorial province had revolted and shaken oft allegiance, tioon fter the Mahdists invaded the province in full force. After the first battle in May the stations yielded, and a panic struck the natives, who joined the invaders and assisted in the work of destruction. The invaders subsequently suffered reverses, and dispatched a steamer to Khartoum for re-enforcemcnts. From Feb. 14 to May 8 I waited for the fugitives and then left the Albert Nvonza homeward-bound. I
f 'traversed the Semiiki valley, tho Aamba, th3
Usoiifjora, tho Toro, the Uhaiyana, the Unyampaka, the Anhori, the Karagwe, tho Uhaiya, tho Uzinza, the bouth Victoria, and the Nyaiiza. Mr. MacKinnon snys that the committee has given orders that supplies for 'Stanley be hurried on to Mpwapwa and beyond there if possible. The plucky explorer is expected to reach the coast in January or February. The felt manufacturers of Frankfort, Germany, have entered into a combination to control the output and equalize prices on the lines of the American trust. The London lightermen have resolved to go on strike, the master lightermen having refused to grant their demands. In the German Reichstag Herr Cluny, National Liberal, supported the permanent anti-socialist law, but urged that modifications of the bill were necessary. Herr Kechensperger, Centrist, and Herr Liebknecht, Socialist, both opposed tha bill.
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FRESH AND NEWSY.
A scnooLMAsvER named Stener, at Rakau, Hungary, saturated his wife's clothing with oil while she slept and set the fluid afire. He stood by and watched her while she burned to death. Secretary Tracy has decided not to grant a new trial to the cruiser Baltimore. He will accept her as soon as the con tractors are ready. The horse-power developed was 22 short of the contract, and a penalty of $2,200 will be enforced. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 25,713,500 and 7,792.649 bushels. Since last report wheat has increased 1,205,988 bushels, while corn decreased 1,594,021 bushels.
GOVERNMENT APPOINTEES. Late Changes in t he Several Department Officials. Tim following appointments have been announced: To bo Surveyors of Cn stoma John Mataood, of Illinois, for the port of Galena, I1L ; William H. Alexander, of Nebraska, for the port of Omaha, Neb. ; Henry C. McArttiur, of Nebraska, for the port of Lineolu, Neb. To be Collector of Customs William li. Sheppard, of Florida, for the District of Apalachicola, t ia. Solomon Wonzlaef, of Dakota, to be Register of the Land Office at Yankton. 1. T. ; A. C. McClelland, of Oregon, to be Receiver of Public Money at LaGraudo, Oregon ; R, E. Carienterf of Dakota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Watertowu, D. T. MARKET REPCitTS.
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SUMMARIZED REPORTS FROM THE POLLING PLACES OF TEN STATES.
Iowa nn! Ohio Democratic, Gov. T'orakor He! ii?r Hacllv Beaten New York Democratic by 20,000 Mahono Snowed Under Results by States. Electiors "wero held Tuesday in ten States for various fctate oflieerg, members of the Legislature, and county officers, also to fill a few Congressional vacancies. The returns, as furnished the daily press, with the probably successful candidates, are summarized below, NKW YORK. The Democratic State Ticket Elected by 21,000 Majority, Reero arv of State, Frank Rice. Comptroller, Edward Wemple. Attorney General, Charles F. Tabor. State Treasurer, Elliott Danforth. State Engineer, John Bogart. Judge of Court of Appeals. Dennis O'Rrien. New York dispatch : Returns show that the Democratic State ticket is elected by about 21,000 majority. The next Legislature will be composed t.s follows : Senate, li Republicans and 13 DoiuocKfcts ; Assembly, 69 Republicans and 59 Democrats, NEW JERSEY. Leon Abltett Elected Governor by lOt000 Plurality. Governor, Leon Abbett. Newark, N, J,, dispatch : .Leon Abbett (Dem.). for Governor, has carried the State by a plurality of alout 10.000. The Democrats h&ve elected thirty-eight of the sixty Assemblymen. PENNSYLVANIA. A Light Vote Cast Both Parties Claim to Have Made Gains. State Treasurer, Henry K. Bover. Philadelphia dispatch : The only State officer voted foe mm s State Treasurer. The candidates wereHeary K. Boyer (Rep.). Edward A. Digler (Dem.), and James R. Johnson (lvc.'t. Hart Rep.)t for Stale Treasurer in 1887, had a plurality of 45,245, and returns show a net Republican gain over the 18H7 vote of about 25,000. Boyer's plurality will surely exceed 00,000. MARYLAND. The Democratic Comptroller Elected Rioting; lie ported. State Comptroller, L. Victor Baugbman. Baltimore dispatch: Complete returns show that Baugbman (Dem.) is re-elected State Comptroller by about 11.000 majority. The Legislature vill stand: House, 59 Democrats, 32 Republicans. In the Senate the Republicans "will have 8 members, a gain of 4. VIRGINIA. Large Democratic Gains Gen. Mahpne Badly Defeated. Governor, Philip W, IfeKinney. Lieutenant Governor. Hoge Tyler. Attorney General, Taylor Scott. Richmond, Va., dispatch: "Reports from all over the fctate show that Mahone is snowed under. Almost every return shows large Demo cratic ginn, and the Democrats are variously estimating the majority in the State at from 20,000 to 25t00C. Official and semi-official returns show a Democratic gain over the Presidential vote of 1S88 of about 10,000." OHIO. Democrats Victorious by About 4,000 Votes Forakcr Scratched. Governor, James E. Campbell. Lieutenant Governor, William V. Marquis. Supreme Judge, Martin D. Follett. State asurer, William E. Boden. Attorney General, Jesse M. Lewis. School Commissioner, Charles C. Miller, Supreme Court Clerk. I. J. C. Shtunaltar, Board of Public Ajffairs. Frank Reynolds. Columbc s (Ohio) dispatch : The result of the election in this State is heavy Democratic gains throughout the State, and especially in Hamilton Countv, Campbell has been elected Governor over'jForaker by atout 8,000 plurality. The The balance of the Democratic ticket is elected by about 4,000 plurality. In the Senate the Democrats have 19 members and the Republicans 17, In the House there are 50 Democrats and 54 Republicans, insuring the election of a Democratic Senator.
IOWA
Democr ats Kleot the Entire State Ticket The Legislature Republican. Governor, Horace Boies. Lieutenant Governor, Samuel L. Bestow. Judge of Supreme Court (to fill vacancy and for full term), William P. Brannon. Railroad Commissioner, David Morgan. Superintendent of Public Schools, Thomas M. Irish. Des Moines dispatch : Complete returns from ninety-five counties and the remaining foui couirties estimated the same as two years age show thfl.t Boies (Dem.) for Governor has 5,996 plurality. The official returns will undotrbtecllj' increase tbis majority to about 7,000. The entire Democratic State ticket Lieutenant Governor, Justice of the Supreme Court, Superintendent oi Public Instruction and Railway Commissioner is elected; Returns from every legislative district- show that the icxt Legislature will stand: Senato Republicans, 28; Democrats, 22. Houne Itepublkr'is, 52; Democrats, 47; doubtful, 1, NEBRASKA. The Re p ublican Ticket E ected by a Majori ly of from 20.000 to 25,000. Judce of Supreme Court, T. L. Norv&l. R( gents of State University, Charles H. Morlill, J. L. H. Knicht. Member of Congress, Second District, Gilbert L. Laws. Omaha dispatch : Returns are still very incunpleto, but there is no doubt whatever the.t the ltopui.LK-aup have elected Laws to Congress in ilw Keocnd District by from 2,000 to 3.H0L' umjority, ai:d that the Rt publics u candidate for Supremo udge and the Regents of the University have from 20,000 to 25,000 plurality. Dou-l-'S Canity has elected the entire Democrat:. ticket, with the exemption of one Commissioner. MASSACHUSETTS. lira- kott Undoubtedly ElectedSuccess of the Australian System. Governor. John Q. A. Brackett. Lieutenant Governor, William E. Haile. Secretary of State, Henry B. Reirce. 'JmiKurt-r, George A. Mar den. Auditor, Charles R. Ijuid. Attorney General, Andrew J. Waterman. Iff ton dispatch : Returns have been received fi m every town in the State except. Gosncld, v hich bus about twenty voters. They give Hnwkett Kep.i, 12S,792 ; Russell (I.'em.), 120,613; Blackuiei' il'mi, 13.S54 ; Brackett's plurality, 5.070. In 1S7 Ames (Rep.) had 130,000 ; Lovemg (D in.). 118,304 ; Karl (Pro I, 10.04. Tuesday's experience has seemed to prove beyoud doi:bt the success of the Australian system of voting, and testimony from all sections of the State is almost unanimous in its praiue. A'oting proceeded vith dispatch, and voters enjoyed a freedom Irom tho importunities of ballot-djUttibutors tliat they have never known, bt fore. Very few cases are reported where instructions as to the method of voting wore necebsttry. MISSISSIPPI. No Opposition to the Democrats and No Interest In the Klectlon. Governor, J. M. Stone. Lieutenant Governor, M. M. Evans. Secretary of Stte, George M. Govau. Auditor. W. W. Stone. Attorney General, T. M. Miller. State Treasurer, J. J. Kvans. Superintendent of Public Education, J, R, r res ton. No opposition. Jackson, Miss., dispatch: So little inteiest was felt in the election, there being no opposition to th Democratic ticket, that the Kxecutive Committee did not provide for returnit as heretofore'.
LETTER FROM CHICAGO,
WORK OF THE WORLD'S FAIR KXKC UTJVK COMMITTEE.
A Well - Grounded Belief that It Has AIrealy Assured the location of the Kr.pogition In the Lake Cily, and that Nr York Is Out of the Itaco. fSPRCIAXj CHICAGO rOBBRSPONDKXCR.1 Eiteh week gives, through actual results accomplished, practical encouragement xo the movement of securing for Chicago the World 'a Exposition of 1802. More than any previous tinm. the last few days have brought expressions from Congressmen, East and West, indorsing the clatms of the Lake City. Several NevYork publications have ti tacitly admit the effect upon the country of Chicago's public, spirit, in contrasting the enthusiasm exhibited: In ber movement vith tho apathv of Golham'R wealthy men in the same quest. For instance, tho CoMnopoUtan Magazine, of New York City gives evidence of the importance attached! theie to the prrgress made bv the Western metropolis toward the threat end desired bv publishing a brilliant p-rticle from tho pea of "Senator Farwell. The Illinois Senator, in his plea, for Chicago, enforces his own cogent arguments by undeniable statistics, proving the centraltty of that city by quotations from tho pens of New York's leading writers praising the commercial center of the West in terms of highest euiogium. This sketch is beautifully illustraied from photographs taken by the scenic art: st. A significant expression is thit of Hon. Amos J. Cummings, who, it is said, will lead the New York movement in Congress, and who is entire siastic in commendations of Chicago's mag nittcence and adaptation to vant undertakings. At the last meeting of the Esecutive Committee assurances ftom 102 Congressmen were received favoring Chicago as tho site for the Columbian Exposition, and from thirty-one-others who pledged themselves; for Chicago aa sec end choice. With these assurances the commi.tee decided to (o ahead and execute plans. Incorroboratior of the above the New York; Morning Journal tas this to say on the subject: "T.ae Morning Journal has replies from 140 members of Congress to whom it put the question, 'Which city shall have the World's water Of tVt.loa J) ltan JA.I....J S u .
w uouuwjinou ior imcago, reprHsenring.' eleven States ; 33 for New York, representing nine States ; 8 for Bt. Louis, representing Missouri and Arkansas ; 13 for Washington, representing eight States; and 45, representing; thirty-two States who are non-committal. In the list of those who declare for New York, twenty-three of the total of thirtv-three represent tho State of New York, two-thirds of the. en tire number ; only eleven of the replies favoring Chicago represent Illinois, or a little more than one-fourth. So far as this canvass shows anything it shows a more wide-spread interest for Chicago than any other city." A large number of civil and mechanical engincern of Chicago, who are desirous of obtaining, the co-operation of the engineering profession in their efforts vo locate the fair in Chicago,, have orgaed a committee and issued au address to their profession throughout the country advancing the many reascus why the exposition should be located in C hicago. It is pro posed that during the expofdiiion a great engineering convention, embracing all branches of en ineering, be In Id, to which will lw invited the entire membership of every engineering organization in tho world, and Chicago, being located in tho very heart of our country, will give to the visii in members a rare opportunity of seeing our Great KepubJic and appreciating its magnitude and growth. Excursio' s will be arranged from and to the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards fo- the benefit of all. A secret meetirg of two important committiefi was held at the World's Fair headquarters and important action taker, which mv have more weight it h Congress in deciding for Chicago than anything else so far accomplished. Tho two commutes which met in joint session wre the Committee on Permanent Organtzatkn and the Committee on Congressional Action. New York derrmined a tow davs ago not to ' efftc a permanent organization until aftr Congress met and decided the location. Nu other course was open as long as the stock was nottaen and in the absence of anv immediate lmelihoxl of its being subscribed for. Cliicago virtually lias the stock now subscribed, aud can. cill tho stockholaers together at any moment to hold an election for directors. The conference lasted over tv o hours, and it was finally decided unanimously to instruct the Coinmittoe on Permanent Organization to per fct i.H plan--. The Finance Committee is now ready to call forihelat reports from the sub-finance committees and appoint a mesting of stockholders viihin a week. Twentv-:lve 'dime tors will be elected by the stock I -older. This board will at; once proceed to effect a permanent organization, elect oflncers, and conduct the business of the company. The ox.ly considerable nubseription still outstanding is that of the railroads, K. St. John, Chairman of the Railroad Committee, savs that they aro safe to take the million aud a half assfLttxt them. Chicago's bid for the World's Fair will come to Congress from a responsible business organization, ono of the most gigantic ever fcrmed, and will be a business proposition thaD mustweigh more with the country than the crude, half-formed, pcorly executed laus of a dozen other jealous cities, which have lacked the enterprise to bring them to fruition. At a meeting of the Finance Committee, a few days ao, an interesting report, was read regarding the temperature, climate and death rate of Chicago as compared with other cities. Lieutenant A. W. Greedy, chief signal-service officer, and Louis Manabse, the optician, prepared the former and Dr. DeWolr the latter,, They show the mean temperature for Kew York, Washington, St. Louis and Chicago during the summer months for tho past four years. According to these figures the mean temperature for 1880, '87, '88 and '9 for the six summer months was ; New York, 60 degrees ; Washington, C8 degrees ; St. Louis. 70 degrees ; and Chicago, 62 degrees. The meau temperature during the months beginning with May and ending witht October are : New York 1886, 65 degrees ; 1887, 66 degrees 1888, 65 degrees. Washington 1886, 67 degrees ; 1387, 60 degrees ; 1888, (7 degrees. St. Louis 1886 73 degrees; 1887, 7a degrees;. lt8, 68 degrees. Chicago -1880, 64 degrees ; 1337, 63 degrees; 1888, 1 degrees. For the year 1889 omitting October, the suar temperature was as follows : New York, 70 degrees ; Washington, 69 degrees: St. Louis, 70 decrees; Chicago, 65 degrees. The mortuary statistics prepared by Dr. De Wolf show that for the past three years the anuual deith rate of New York, Chicago, aud Bt. .
Louis was as follows :
188G. 1887.
1888 26.33
New York. ,...27.93 ...27.20
Chicago. 19.43 29.21 19,00
St. Louis. 20.9
In connection with this latter report, Dr. DeWolr says: There has never been a ease of vellow fever within our limits which originated here. During the season when this disease hasbeen prevalent in the South, Chicago has always invited, by public proclamation, all citizens of the South to come here as a oity of refuge, and provision has been made for thosenot able to care for themselves. In 1879, during, the epidemic at Memphis, sixteen of these refugees died in Chicago of yellow fever and were buried here. Our citizens were in no way disturbed, but received and cared for these strangers with all care and tenderness. If yellow fever should appear in the South during the exposition vear Wtn New York and St. Louis would be obliged to quarantine against all Southern visitors, while Chicagowould, -with perfect safety, open -wide her gates. The number of deaths from sunstroke last year (1888) in each city was as follows : Chicago, 19;. St. Louis, d7 ; New York, 96," E. D. Guusok.
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X Call for One Koir, "There, darling, the last one, saidhe, as he started down the steps He had nearly reached the gate when she called him back. Tve just been counting up, she said, "and that last kiss we took was the thirteenth, and that is an awful un lucky number, you know,w When he finally got away the score was thirty-seven. Terre Haute Express. A remarkable cave has just been discovered on the top of the Taygetus range in Greece, It is from ten to thirty feet high a ad from, thirty to sixtyfeet Vide, and contains thousands of stalactites in wonderful groups. The Sultan of Turkey has a small electric railway, constructed entiraly by native workmen. The important scientific meetings in Paris for the live months endii g with
October numbered at lcat seventy