Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1890, Page 9

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Battimonz, Nov. 3—The democrats have been suddenly thrown into an advanced state of ferment over what seems to be a conflict between the Australian ballot law and the United States Revised Statutes. Atone time it looked as if the radical differences of opinion upon the construction of the law would lead to very serious consequences tomorrow and pre- cipitate an open conflict between the federal and state authorities, Happily all danger has been averted, and the indications now are that the election will progress satisfactorily. The trouble grew out of jest instructions given to the state and federal election officials by Messrs. Wiiliam 8. Bryan, jr., and Peter J. Campbell, counse! to the democratic board of supervisors of elections and George Morris Bond, the chief supervisor of elections, and United States Marshal William F. Airey. These instructions gave to the federal supervisors the right to inspect the ballot of the illiterate voter and to go with him to the polling booth and see the ballot clerk mark the ballot. They were based on section 2017 of the United States Revised Statutes which says that the supervie- ors shall “personally mspect and scrutinize from time to time andat all times on the day of election the manner in which the voting is done.” It was not until a day after these in- structions were issued that the democratic managers became advised of the action which had been taken and to say they were mad would be to put it mildly. Chairman Compton of the democratic state central committee immediately issued instructions to the judges and clerks of el | tion which he bad no right to do, denying that the Revised Statutes gave to the the right to inspect the ballot of the illite: voter and callivg upon them to resist any such attempts, and to have the supervisor arrested | and to throw out all such ballots. The demo- cratic leaders were hastily summoned for a conference at headquarters and some things were said thero that would not look very well in print, Mesars, Bryan and Campb course democrats and the party managers say they were made the victims of a piece of sharp Practice on the part of the United States mar- shal and chief supervisor. This, however, is not correct, as they both acted upon what they believed to bea proper interpretation of the Revised Statutes. In their instructions to the judges, which were without consulting the sev- eral authorities, they interpreted the law the same way. The democratic leaders claimed that should the federal supervisors be allowed perv h is the essential ‘alian system, would be de- stroyed. While the ballot clerks, who are instructed by law to mark the ballot of the illiterate voter, are sworn to secrecy there is no oath for the federal supervisor. CHAIRMAN COMPTON SUSTAINED. Chairman Compton obtained opinions from State Senator John P. Poe, ex-Judge William A. Fisher and Col. Charles Marshall sustaining his view of the case that the right to inspect the ballots Is not vested in the supervisors Attorney Geucral Whyte has given an opinio® to the democratic board of supervisors of elec~ tion and Mr. Bernard Carter has given his opinion to the board of police commissioners taking the same ground. Mr. Bond, the chief of the federal supervi- sors, refused to recede from his position that the ballots could be inspected on the ground that under the Australian ballot law as passed by the legislature the chief source of fraud was in the right given the baliot clerk to mark bal- lots for those unable to mark them themselves and that it was the duty of the federal super- visors to see that every voter had his ticket marked as he desiged. Mr. Bond afterward wrote an agreement, however, that he would not press the point at this election but would leave it to judicial settlement for the next Con- gressional election. 4 GRAVE CONFLICT AVERTED. The general impression among democratic lawyers and laymen is, of course, that Messrs. Bryan and Campbell erred in their instruc- tions. Had they been sustained by the opinion ‘of Attorney General Whyte and Mr. Carter no one can tell what the consequences would have been, If the federal supervisors acting under them had attempted to scrutinize the ballot of 4n illiterate voter the judges of election acting under the instructions of the state central committee would certainly have ordered their arrest. Then the United States deputy mar- shals, at the request of the supervisors, would have arrested all the state election officials. That would have brought the entire election machinery to a standstill, as there would have been nobody left to run it. The state election judges and clerks would have been taken to the ited States marshal’s office and the federal officials to the police station. The in- evitable consequence of such a state of affairs would have been riots and bloodshed all over the city. A PREACHER CANDIDATE. A new departure in political campaigning has been put into operation in Baltimore by Rey. Dr. Royal H. Pullman, the republican opponent of Congressman Rusk in the third district, Dr. Pullman is a Universalist preacher and a brother of Geérge Pullman, the inventor of the Pullman palace car. He is one of the ablest alpit orators in Baltimore and in his campaign @ has developed into an excellent public speaker. He is humorous, eloquent and strong. He says his purpose is to elevate and purify politics and that he will denounce those who degrade it, no matter how many votes he loses by it. He is making one of the most interesting canvasses ever made in Balti more, and if there were any possibility of election he would make # unique figure in Con- gresa, His striking and often taking expres- sions have attracted very general attention. Here are some of ‘them: “I believe that politics is but religion in har- ness, and when I go into politics Iam but put- ting harness on my religion.” “The people are beginning to wake up to the danger of leaving politics in the hands of un- principled men.” “A political defeat with honor unsullied is really a victory gained.” “To lose an election is a loss indeed, but to an election atthe expense of honor and wpect is # loss infinitely greater, a loss which turns victory into defeat utterly debas- “Far better the ascendancy of an eel party than that we ourselves capitulate to the pan, of Darkness’ and his brood of grinning evils.” “I cry out as an American citizen to both Parties, beware of forging such chains as bind you hand and foot to customs a thousandfold more iniquitous and destructive than the doc- trines of any party platform.” THR MARYLAND TARIFY REFORM CLUB is an organization of recent growth, composed mostly of young men and largely of those who have been most active in the independent movements, Its members expect it to play an important part in Maryland politics and claim that its influcuce is already becoming effective. The most striking thing about it is the palpable in which it has ignored Mr. Cowen and of the most avowed tariff reformers in Maryland. ‘This is due to certain antago- nisms between Mr. Cowen andsome of its mem- bers who have always foliowed his political lead. There bave been some indications of late that Mr. Cor Congressmen will certainly be democratic, He says this estimate is based upon the returns from various county committees, but acknow!- edges that to accomplish such » result the full democratic vote of the state will be required. Chairman Hahn, on the other hand, ina Sere aa eck eae last night, en- ters into a detailed estimate of the pluralities which bis will = in the various counties He claims the election of the ticket, pleraniey by inaeae J. Ryan secretary, by a plura! eays that the repub! Hg Mento get eleven or nine Congressmen and the prospects are en- couraging for getting eleven, either case being a large gain over the number conceded by the democratic gerrymander. MKINLEY'S DEFEAT PRACTICALLY CONCEDED. An analysis of his estimate, however, shows that he practically concedes the defeat of Mc- Kinley. He places the republican plurality of Medinea county at -1,100, and says the total democratic plurality in Holmes, Stark and Wayne will be 3, These four counties compose the sixteenth congressional district, and according to the foregoing republican fig- ures the net democratic plurality there on the state ticket will be 1,900. Mr. Hahn says, how- ever, that the vote on the state ticket is no in- dication of the probable congressional and while he does not claim McKi tion he says the major's chances are g GEN. GROSVENOR's OPINION. Gen. Grosvenor, who returned a few days ago from a tour of the McKinley district, says that the result of the election is a matter of grave doubt. He talks very reasonably of the outlook and says that McKinley’s chance: veay slim. This opinion from the genera! for publication aad therefore all the more val- uable as an indicator. Charges of the use of boodle, both in the McKinley-Warwick district and elsewhere throughout the stato, are still current. They are made by both parties. THE OUTLOOK IN VIRGINIA. A Synopsis of the Situation in Each Congressional District. Special Dispatch to Tug Eventxo Stan. Ricnmoxp, Nov. 3,—Saturday night closed up the campaign so far as general work is con- cerned, the marshaling of the forces into line being all that is left, which, however, is a mat- ter of the utmost importance. It looks very much now as if the democrats will have eight Congressmen, though some claim a clean sweep, Ordinarilpthere are three districts safely republican and two doubtful, but dissen- sions among the leaders of the party render the result exceedingly doubtful, if not surely favorable to the democrats, IN THE FIRST DISTRICT. This district in 1888 elected Browne, present republican candidate, by 414 majority when there wore no disturbing-elemonts within party lines, The democratic candidate is W. A. Jones, who has made an aggressive and bril- liant canvass. Browne hasalso an independent republican opponent in the person of J. M. Stubbs, who has also made an active canvass, and indications all point to the election of Jones, of entire state for THE NORFOLK DISTRICT. The field in this district is similar to that in the first, if anything the opposition to Bowden within his own party is more bitter and better organized. He was elected to the present Con- gress by a majority of 6,095, which will be hard to overcome. The large colored vote usually holds good, but this year it is disaffected and led off by the Nortons, prominent colored politi- cians, in favor of Judge C. W. Murdaugh, who was nominated by a bolting convention. Dr. John W. Lawson is the democratic nominee, and there is a chance—possibly a slim chance— of his election. IN THE RICHMOND DISTRICT Mr. Wise bas practically no opposition and it is too late to presentian organized front. Mitch- ell, the colored m@®, announced Saturday that he would issue an address Monday night (to- night), and as he has kept his object a secret no one can tell the substance of the address, THE FOURTH DISTRICT. This district is attracting widespread atten- tion, Langston has the field to himself asa republican, but no convention was held and he is opposed by Mahone and ex-Congressman Gaines, the latter having recently taken the stump against him. In the last election Vena- bie got 13,299 votes, Langston 12,657 and Ar- nold, Mahone republican, 8.027. If Mahone can carry the Arnold ‘vote, and he and his friends say they can do better, Langston will be defeated. The latter has done a great deal of work and worked up the prejudices of the colored people to a high pitch, but his organ- ization is defective, while the other side is splendidly organized, with certainly some dis- affection among the colored people against Langston, It looks as if James F. Epes hasa good chance of success, IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT it appears pretty certain that P. G. Lester, th democr: nominee, will be re-elected. He had @ majority of 1,363 in 1888 and his opposi- tion ix not at all well organized. He has two opponents, Dr. § C. Adams, an alliance man Pepe repudiated by that order, and a Dr. J. Ring, who is not well known and is not making much of a qanvass, It has been thought that ex-Congressman John R. Brown will yet, at the last moment, offer himself as a candidate. THE LYNCHBURG DISTRICT. Paul C. Edmunds, who was elected from the sixth district to the present Congress by 3,730, has really no serious opposition in the candi- dacy of W. J. Shelburne, a | eerie and Judge Van Ness, an independent republican. IN MR. O’FERRAL’S DISTRICT, which is the seventh, nothing but apathy can defeat him. One or two republicans ha assayed to run against him, but found no en- couragement and there is practically no con- test,though some one may appear by tomorrow in Consequence of the lack of enthusiasm among the democrats, the result of no opposi- tion. O'Ferrall was elected by 2,820 to the present Congress. IN THR EIGHTH DISTRICT. conjectures uncertain, but the general opinion is that Gen. W. H. F. Lee will pull through and defeat Frank Hume, the independent democratic candidate. Carter, the negro can- didate, will not amount to a great deal in the race, ‘A conservative expression of opinion by @ prominent democrat gives Loudoun, F <7 4 Fauquier and Prince William counties to by 2,700 majority, and to Hume, Stafford, Louisa, Alexandria city and county and King George by about 2,000 mae Culpeper and Orange doubtful. Gen. ye won in 1888 by ol IN THE NINTH DISTRICT the result is uncertain, though it is believed that John A. Buchanan, democrat, will be re- elected. George T. Mills, the republican candi- date, is a wealthy Pennsylvania railroad con- tractor who removed to Virginia since the last election, and it is saidis making an effective f- nancial canvass, Mr. Buchanan has made a bril- liant oratorical and educational campaign, and from the fact that he is a native of the district and is the son of a well-known farmer may pull through against his opponent, who bas the Norfolk and western railroad influence behind him, Buchanan's majority in last elec- tion was 473, THE TENTH DISTRICT. H. St George Tucker will be re-elected in | Templar of Virgin! the tenth district by s large majority, his op- ponent being R. W. Taylor, an independent, who depends upon the alliance and republi- cans, both of whom have practically discounte- nanced his candidacy. ‘ NORTH CAROLINA PROSPECTS. A Sweeping Democratic Victory Is Said to Be Assured. ohn K. | Special Dispatch to Tax Evaxixo stan. Wixstox, N. C., Nov, 3.—The election in this state tomorrow will be an important one, although no executive state officers are to be voted for. The election is for a chief justice may hereafter be found and one associate justice of the supreme court, in accord with the regular democracy again or | ¢ight out of twelve superior court judges, that at least he will disappear from the horizon | twelve prosecuting attorne; asa poy of the independents. _— far this may be true is not yet apparent, but some of bie quedions disciples believe there is a certain degree of truth in it and ) known as solicitors; all the officers of all the ninety-eight counties, nine Congressmen, and all the mem- this, with certain | bers of both branches of the legislature, which animosities growing out of Mr. Cowen’s man-| Will be called upon to clect a successor to ement of the last independent reason why they bav. hted him. ——— MchINLEY’S CHANCES SLIM. Upinion of Gov. Grosyenor, Who Has Just Canvassed the District. Special Dispatch to Tux EvEnrxe Stan. Conumsus, Oso, Nov. 8.—The chairmen of paign, is | Senator Vance. ‘The judicial ticket will be voted on by all the voters of the state, and the democratic candi- dates will undoubtedly be elected by from 15,000 to 25,000 majority. The republicans will elect two (Settle and White), and possibly three, of the district solicitors. IN CHEATHAM's DISTRICT. both democratic and republican state commit-| The democrats will unquestionably carry tees have given statements of their claims as to | eight of nine BROWER WILL BE BADLY BEATEN. ‘This district (the fifth) is now represented by John M. Brower, the only republican ever elected to Congress from this district His majority two years ago was only 675, in a polled vote of 31,205, and was solely due to democratic apathy and dissension and the Inkewarm sup- port given Morehead, the democratic nominee, The district is normally democratic by a safe majority, and Williams, the democratic-alliance candidate will beat Brower by not less than 1,500 majority. |The Union ican of this city, leadin; publican paper of the state, is opposed to Brower. and a colored independent republican candidate, named Moore, from Greensboro, is also in the field against him, and has been m: ig an active canvass of the die- trict. Williams’ plurality may run up to 3,000 or more, REPRESENTATIVE EWART'S ¢uANcrs, There is hardly a doubt of tho defeat of Congressman Ewart, republican, in the- ninth district. This is really the strongest demo- cratic district in the state, there being fewer negro voters, and the election of Crawford to- morrow bya robust majority is gener- ally conceded. This is the istrict which was represented for about fourteen years in succession by Gen. R. B. Vance, brother to the Senator, and assistant commissioner of tents under the Cleveland adminis ion, wart isthe only republican the district has sent to Congress sinco the days of “reconstruc- tion.” He defeated Johnston two years ago under conditions which do not exist today, with Crawford as his opponent, and although he at first was supposed to have made some capital by the speech he made against the force bill, he lost it again as soon as it was shown thathe dodged the vote when the roll was called in the House to pass the bill, SAFE DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS, Bkinner of the first will be succeeded by Brance, alliance democrat; Grady, another alliance man, will be elected in the third; Bunn, democrat (lawyer),will be returned from the fourth; Alexander, ex-president of the state alliance, will have a walk-over in the sixth; Henderson and Cowles, democrats (law- yer ill be returned in the seventh andeighth districts. It will thus be scen that five of tho eight democrats who will be elected to the next Con- gress will be new men, and four of them are alliance men, but also'life-long democrats, and they will undoubtedly go into the democratic caucus, Thus the democrats will gain two congressmen from North Carolina. The Lodge bill has nearly killed the republican party in this state and the two republican solicitors whose probable election is alluded to above have declared their opposition to the measure, GONE BY DEFAULT. Three Ohio Districts Which Repub- licans Have Neglected. Special Dispatch to Tue EVENING STAR, Cincixxatt, Nov. 3.—No doubt is folt by any one that all the republican candidates for state officers will be elected by at least 10,000 majority. In some places Ryan, candidate for secretary of state, is being recklessly traded for the con- gressional candidates, and for that reason he may run behind the rest of the ticet, The election of ex-Gov, Foster im the eighth district, which is democratic by 1,300, is almost certain. There are several hundred new voters in the district attracted by new glass factories and potteries in most of which Foster is interested, He is personally very popular. FIGUBING ON M'KINLEY. There is no question that ‘McKinley has trimmed the democratic vote of his district down to a small point. Itis now asserted that he will carry his county, Stark, by from 600 to 800, although it has naturally been democratic by about 500, He will get most of the votes of the Dueber Ham Watch Company employes, numbering 1,! They are ‘all new voters, the establishment having located in Canton within the year, The result hinges on Holmes county, which has given 2,100 democratic majority. McKinley's managers think he will go to Holmes with a majority of some 1,500, He made five speeches in the county last week and hopes to keep the majority there down to about 1,200, which will elect him, Disaffection existe among the democrats of the county. DEMOCRATIC EURFRISES. It is now apparent that democrats will be elected in at least three districts which might have been carried by the republicans bad | aes effort been made. The former have ry plenty of money and have done better campaigning. THE SAN FRANCISCO’S CREW. Officers and Men to Join the Vessel by Special Train. An interesting innovation is about to be be- gun by the navy. A week from today a special train, carrying about 150 officers and men needed to complete the crew of the new cruiser San Francisco, will leave New York and Satur- day night, all going well, they will take their posts on board, the vessel going into commis- sion on the next day. This is the first time that the navy has been able to transport its men in this way and the experiment will be watched with interest. The army is authorized to go over all land grant roads free, the item of expense being credited to the debts of the ut the controllers of the Treasury have led that the word ‘‘troops,” which occurs in the law, bars the use of this privilege from the navy. The Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany absolutely refused to take these men to the Isthmus and thence to California, saying that but ten could be taken at once. There- upon the chief of the bureau of navigation ne- gotiated with the railroads and secured very favorable rates, ALEXANDRIA, Reported for Tux Evextxo Stan. Tue Rarway Ixquest.—The inquest upon the body of William A. Donaid, killed by being run over by the cars of tho Washington Southern railway, on Fayette strect, was resumed at B, Wheatley’s establishment yesterday afternoon before Coroner Purvis, and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased ‘came to hi by being run over by the railway train aa was imputed to the railroad employes, Donald’s funeral took place from Mrs. Lee's, on upper Duke street, yesterday afternoon, Cuuncn Sexvices.—All Souls’ services took place at St. Mary’s Church this morning. Yes- day numbers of Cutholics visited their ceme- tery and laid tributes of flowers upon the graves of their friends.—Rev. Lindsay Pat- ten preached at Christ Church yesterday morn- ing and Elder Francis peace’ at the Primi- tive Baptist Church, the other pulpits being occupied by the pastors. The Sunday school OE Ohrlss Chinrek was WAsiaaiga yesterday aft- ernoon by Teacher Redner of Pennsylvania. Norrs,—Theodore Ballinger has been ap- proved judge of election in the second ward vice Geo. Bossant, resigued.——The mayor of Alexandria, Hon, E. E. Downham, has been chosen grand captain general of the Knights in by the Grand Commandery of the state, just adjourn ———- THEY LAUGH WITH BLAINE, Philadelphians Pleased With the Secre- tary’s Saturday Speech. The Academy of Music in Philadelphia, in which Secretary Blaine spoke to the republi- cans of the Quaker city Saturday afternoon, was thronged and hundreds were unable to 6b- tain admission. Mr. Blaine’s audience was in hearty sympathy with him and applauded vo- ciferously every point made and laughed heartily at his witty scoring of the democracy, In regard to his efforts to secure reciprocity in trade with other nations he said: “During the consideration of that tariff law a discussion grew up on the questionof attach- ing to the bill or inc« ting with it a princi- = of reci; trade, [Cheers] As I have said before elsewhere for the little part I took in that for the first four or five weeks I was the most popular republican with the democratic party in this country. (Laughter.] They thought I was trying to ide the republican party on the doctrine of protection, and I was lomocratie party. {Covtiued ieaghtor) Welt Ere Gay ae sort of thing while I was Sienna aot ares Just as soon as the democrats found NOT RUTH DAVENPORT. The Unidentified Insane Woman Not Believed to Be the Actress. City « few days ago, saying she would follow by later train. Nothing having been heard from ber in the meantime her friends had become fearful that ill had befallen her, and the Chi- cago police had requested a general alarm to be i disper ‘The onl; ispstch from Chi Ba “The on Ruth Davenport, actress, Enows here ise young Woman about twenty-one years of age, who played here two weeks in a subordinate capac- ity in “An Irish Arab,” opening at the Grand Opera House August 2. Sho was from La- fayette, Ind., where she is well connected, and ag Married there. She was known here as “Dot” Davenport, but that was not her right name. Her parents have sent out an alarm from here and ail the police know that she is missing, She played here only once, but a letter was received from her three weeks ago, dated Lafayette, Ind., requesting that the an- swer be directed to her assumed name, general y, at Lafayette. Theatrical people say they do not know what company she is with.” Dr, Godding does not think that this woman was an actress, and as her description does not tally with that of the missing actress it is pretty certain that she is not Ruth Davenport, pects aloo Wants Freedom From an Insane Wife. Thomas H. Smith has, by J. G. Bigelow, filed a bill for divorce against Ella Smith. They woro married December 24, 1875, her maiden name being Hall, and he had known her but six months before, and, althongh he noticed that sometimes she would be in great distress of mind and at’ others overjoyed, he did not suspect that she was affected with insanity, bu after marriage, her insanity became worse, en: in September, 1884, she was committed to the insane hospital. ee Wanted to See the President. Saturday a German woman, apparently fifty years old, giving her name as Annie M. West- rick of New Homburg, Mo., called at the White House, but she was not in time to see the President. Sho arrived here last Friday night, she said, from St, Louis and was anxious to see the President to get him to prevent her husband from selling their property. The offi- cers at the White House thought she wasa crank and took her to police headquarters, but Sanitary Officer Frank sent her to the first pre- cinct station and placed her in charge of the matron until she can be examined by the police surgeons, Yesterday the woman was furnished transportation to her ho: issouri, ee Harr Rares to Pariaperpata via Rovan Brus Lixz.—The B. and O. R.R. Co. will sell excursion tickets from Washington to Philadel- phia at rate of one fare for the round trip for all trains Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2 and 3, good for fifteen days from date of sale. Similar tickets will also be sold to other points in the state of Pennsylvania, a —_—__ AN “OLD MAID’S” ROMANCE. An Extraordinary Story Told in a Doce ument Filed in St. Louis. Avery extraordinary case has been made known in St. Louis by the filing of an applica- tion for a change of name by “Miss” Theresa Blennerhassett, a member of the well-known family of that name. The petitioner is the daughter of Richard 8, Blennerhassett, son of John Louis Blennerhassett, youngest son of the Blennerhassett of the Burr conspiracy fame, She states in her petition that on Octo- ber 10, 1871, she was married to John Calvin Adams at Odin, IIL, and lived with him until November, 1871, but that at the instance of her family she kept her marriage a secret, Her husband was killed on the latter date, and still at the solicitation of her family she con- tinued to be known as Miss Theresa Blenner- hassett, The petitioner says she has acquired property since her busband’s death, the titie to which is being investigated in her maiden name of Theresa Blennerbassett. Wherefore she prays the court to establish her legal name as Theresa Blennerhassett Adams. ‘The story back of the petition is rather ro- mantic. Theresa Blennerhassett, in spite of the bitter opposition of her relatives, clandes- tinely married Adams, who was a traveller for @ St. Louis business’ house. Together they went on a flying trip to the east, She returned to her home on sccount of the sudden illness of her mother, and arranged with her husband to follow her in three weeks. He started to do 80, but was killed on his way in a railroad acci- dent. The world was in ignorance of her clan- destine marriage, and was left so even after the birth of the child. This event was also kept a secret, and Theresa Blennerhassett in due time announced that she had adopted a little girl. Her child has grown up in ignorance of her true relation to her ‘foster mother,” and is now a beautiful girl of eighteen. The present proceeding, which lays bare the secret, is brought as much to protect the girl and to insure her unclouded title as because of the mother’s desire to have her legal status defined. ‘Theresa Blennerhassett 1s now about fifty years old, and had always been looked upon as an old maid, oe — ‘Looking Backward” in Practice. Acolony of about twenty-five families of farmers from the north have secured 3,000 acres of farm land in Cullman county, Ala., on which to locate @ co-operative farm. It is to be organized as @ joint stock company with a capital of $200,000, limited to 200 shares, and no person can purchase or hold more or less than one share of the capitel stock. The farm work is tobe performed by the sharebolders themselves and their families, and the profits are to be distributed as dividends, They ex- pect to introduce manufacturing as soon as practicable, as they have a forest of valuable timber ard an inexhaustiblo supply of coal, Cullman county is the only territory in any of the southern states without colored people, ———— ee ______ Cary Again Makes a Record. The first athletic meeting held in the new Madison Square Garden in New York was that of Saturday night, when the Manhattan Ath- letic Club and the Salford Harriers of Man- chester, Eng., gave a joint exhibition, One of the things that the a looked forward to was the attempt of Luther H. Cary of Prince- ton to beat records. He ran from scratch in the first trial heat of the seventy yards in seven and jo seconds, thus beating the world’s recor: ——-—+0-— Sale of Ohio Iron Works. The leading iron manufacturing concerns in the Mahoning valley in Ohio have been sold to an English syndicate. A Philadelphia broker took the matter and secured options on the Ohio and steel company operations of the War- ren rolling mill, Girard rolling mill, Youngs- town rolling mill, Lowetville furnace, Youngs- town Steel Company, Andrews Company and the Mahoning Valley Iron Company. ‘The amount is $4,000,000 and word has been re- ceived that English capitalists had accepted all the propositions, see —____ Riot at a Funeral. The faneral of Mra, Hogg, whose mysterious murder has so excited the people of the Lon- don suburb Hampstead, took place yesterday, and, as was expected, the occasion was taken advantage of by the populace for a demonstra- tion against the dead woman's husband, who is suspected of having, in collusion with his mis- tress, caused her death. Had not an extra ice been ordered on duty violence have been done to Hogg. The carriage in which he rode was attacked by the angry mob, but the police charged upon the rioters and dispersed them. Mrs, Neilie Crichton-Piercey, the paramour of Hogg, the London porter, whose wife’s dead body was found at South Hampstead, London, ten days ago, has confessed that she was guilty of the murder. She invited Mrs, Hogg to her house that day. A quarrel soon arose, complaining of her busband's i, % The recent remarkable serial suc- cesses of this magazine,—the famous bhahd: py Kennan’s Siberian Arti- cles, the Life of Lincoln,—will be continued in the coming volume (the forty-first) by “‘The Gold Hunters of California,” a series of separate illus- trated pay on the gold fever of "49, telling of the discovery of gold, the movement to California (by survivors of various expeditions), life in the mines, the Vigilance Committees (by the chairman of both committees), and many other incidents of that me citing period, including a General Frémont. i cca! Another notable feature will be the publication of extracts from advance sheetsof the Talleyrand Memoirssoon to be issued in book-form in Paris, the manuscript of which has been secretly preserved for more than half a century,—to be printed first in an American magazine. Other interesting serials include “An American in Tibet,” papers describing a remarkable journey, 700 which begins the new volume, John Bidwell’s account of “The First Emigrant Tr: Early Victories of the American Navy, novelette “The Printing of Ts Century,” two complete si everywhere Nov. rst. jin subscriptions with Subscribe through aaiontes postmasters, or send Cee PTT TTS THE CENTURY CO- ——— - 'S77710 01 TOCELEEVASTTL TOT OE OU OCOTTOE ODOT PAPTOE TA The Century Magazine in 1891. The November Number, contains opening chapters of several i vy.” and “Colonel Carter of Cartersville,” a delightful mengped by F. Hopkinson Smith. Also “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln” by Col. 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