Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 14, 1896, Page 2

Che Herald. BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS. - MINNESOTA ‘ In the dental colleges of the United States there were, in 1893, 4,152 stu- fdents learning the principles and prac- jfices of dental surgery. | One of the public schools of Ger- ‘many, the Nau-Ruppin gymnasium, has made it obligatory on all its pupils to learn to ride the bicycle. In the nurse training schools of this country there were in 1893 2,710 per- sons engaged in learning the business of caring for the sick. There is a tribe in Central America among whom speakers in public de bates are required to stand on one leg while speaking ,and to speak only as long as they can so stand. The ashes of gold from the mines of the Transyaal Coal Trust and other companies in South Africa have been analyzed recently end found to contain nine pennyweights of gold to the ton. pT eS A joint stock company has been formed in Sydney to promote the co- operative settlement of silk culture. With raising of silk are combined flower growing, scent-making and bee farming. pa The women workers in the colonies are now turning their attention to many new occupations. A few have taken up farm lands; some are con- sidering market gardening, and others are instituting silk growing and silk worm raising as home industries. The National Congress of Mothers, which is to be held in Washington in February, is attracting much attention by reason of its novelty. Among the subjects to be considered are the moral, mental and physical training of the young, kindergarten stock. Windsor Castle is not the queen’s private propert, It belongs to the nation, and is at present an heirloom to the crown. Osborne House in the Isle of Wight belongs wholly and sole- ly to the queen, and she may sell or dispose of it in any way she thinks proper. 'The cat-o’-nine tails, with which con- victs are flogged, is a long-handled, nine-thonged whip, whose lashes are made of hard cord, about a sixteenth of an inch in diameter, not knotted, put whipped round in the end with fine hard twine. When this is used the victim is stretched out so that he can- not move a limb. The mountains of the moon are im- mensely larger in proportion than those of the earth. The moon is but 1-49th the size of the earth, but its mountain peaks are nearly as high. Twenty-two are higher than Mount Blanc, which is within a few feet of three miles high. The highest is a lit- tle more than four miles and a half. oh ee Most leaves contain some nourishing properties, in particular those of the acacia tree. It would be quite possible to subsist on leaves if the supply were not stinted, and the shipwrecked mar- iner will keep in very fair condition if he chews them as he would his quid of “baccy.” Confectioners use a great number of nuts, but it is surprising to learn that in France these are purchased already cracked, the peasants in a village in the southwestern department of Lot making it an actual business to shell nuts with marvelous rapidity for the market. There is a benevolent society in Rus- sia called “the Lovers of Zion,” whose purpose is to encourage and assist emi- grants from that country to Palestine, and which has already sent more than 30,000 families, who have bought or taken up the idle land in and around Jerusalem, and are cultivating the ol- ive. The municipal of Geneva now claim that they have the largest foun- tain in the world. The fountain has been erected at the ports entrance of that city. It is no less than 300 feet in height, and may be seen from a great distance, detaching itself like a+ great white sail flapping through the effect of the wind. Dr. Fick has shown that winking is more frequent as the retina becomes more fatigued, and it has been found that in reading at a distance the nun® ber of winks per minute is 18 with electrical illumination, 2.8 with gas- light, while with weak illumination, which barely permits reading, the num- ber is 6.8 per minute. When the birch is used in prisons the victim’s head is put between the front legs and his body drawn tightly over a cushion. The warders who inflict the punishment are always selected from those on night duty, who, by the way, are usually sailors, and thus a prisoner who has been flogged never again sees the man who flogs him, un- less he has to endure a second punish- ment. women for | PITH vf THE NEWS. EVENTS OF THE PAs’ PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per- usal by Busy People. Washington Talk. United States Minister Denby has informed the state department that the Chinese yamen has awarded to the Baldwin locomotive works the contract , for building eight locomotives for the imperial railway. People in Print. Dr. Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch the oldest university professor in Ger- many, has just died, aged 95 years. Dr. Drobisch, who was professor of phil- osophy in Leipsic, was born in that city on Aug. 16, 1802. Mrs. Frank Mayo, wife of the well known actor, died at her home in Can- ton, Pa. A short time previous to her husband’s death Mrs. Mayo had an operation performed for a tumor and from this she never recovered. Jean de Monstiers, Marquis de Mer- inville, who married Miss Mary Cald- | Well ,the Washington heiress, is the | head of a distinguished French family, | and his great estate in Limousis has not changed hands, except from father | to son, since the thirteenth century. Miss Julia Jay, daughter of Col. Wil- liam Jay, the well known club man, lawyer and crack whip, is seriously ill at her home, 22 Hast Seventy-second street, New York. Miss Jay is 18 years old and a pretty girl. She was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of the duchess of Marlborough, daughter of | Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, for whom Col. Jay secured a divorce from William K. Vanderbilt. Accidental Happenings. Ira Burnige, aged seventeen, Grace Saylor, aged eighteen, drowned at Wheaton, Kan. Mrs. David Stewart’s sleeve caught on a pot of boiling water, upsetting it. The contents fell upon a two-year-old child, burning it so badly that it died. Mrs. Stewart is insane with grief. The British steamship Isleworth, | Captain Matthews, from Pensacola Oct. 8, has arrived in the Thames and reports that her captain was washed overboard and drowned off Dunnel- | head. and were Six hundred quarts of nitro-glycerine | stored in a magazine on John Hale’s farm, two miles west of Geneva, Ind., exploded with a force that shook the earth for fifty miles around. The dam- age to adjoining property was great. ‘At an early hour flames burst from under the main stairway in the Frank- lin house, Manistee, Mich., and rapidly {ate their way upward, cutting off all communication with the street. Fif- teen guests were compelled to jump | from the second story in their night | clothes. Wilburt Fox, twenty years old, while | showing his nerve handling a revolver, | in the presence of some friends, near his home at Oakdale, Ill, pointed it toward his head and pulled the trigger. He is dead. He was a member of one of the county. Edward Armstrong, living near Ha- gerstown, IIL, accompanied by his wife, who is a * good markswoman, was hunting quail near their home when Mrs. Armstrong, who was using a hammerless gun, accidentally shot her husband, the charge entering the back of his head, killing him instantly. A terrible explosion of gas occurred in a mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes- barre, Pa. Six men are known to be dead and two injured...It is not known how many men were in the mine at the time of the explosion, but twelve are reported missing, and it is believed that all of these have per- ished. Mrs. J. W. Allen of Marysville. Mont., shot and accidentally killed her ten-year-old son and fatally shot her husband. He was whipping the boy and she interferred, when he turned on her. She took a rifle and shot at him, but killed the child by accident. She then shot him in the head. He may die. She is crazed with grief. Donald’s factory building, a 5-story brick structure on Borum place, be- tween State and Schermerhorn streets, in Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at between $100,000 and $125,000. This is covered by insurance. About 200 girls were employed on the three upper floors. The men employed managed to keep their wits, and with difficulty succeed- ed in getting the young women out in safety. Crimes and Criminals. G. F. Stencel shot and killed John A. Murphy at Cataldo, Idaho, for making indecent proposals to his wife. In a quarrel over politics at Ports- mouth, Ohio, Wes Arnold and Charles James were fatally cut by Ike and Ju- lian Cameron. Scott Linton shot and fatally wound- ed William Metzler and Belle Gray and then killed himself at Georgetown, Ohio. “Oklahoma Bill,” the notorious des- perado, has committed suicide. Sick- ness and worry over his trial, which was about to come up, caused him to take his life. Dell Campbell, a young druggist of Blakesburg, Iowa, committed suicide by taking morphine. The cause as- signed is temporary insanity, cexsed by becoming overheated while fignting fire. Mrs. Mary Schiller of Summerville, Tl., juries inflicted by burglars, who ran- sacked her home and robbed her of $100. Bloodhounds have been put on the trail of the robbers. Robbers succeeded in wrecking the Citizens’ State Bank at Goldfield, lowa, owned by McElhiney Bros., by placing a dynamite bomb on the steps close to the door. The explosion aroused the citizens and the robber fled without se- curing any plunder. William Hall, a German peddler of | of the oldest and best known families | barre Coal company in South Wilkes- | is thought to be dying from in- | notions, of Chicago, was found mur dered od the Wabash railway pase, east of Decatur, Ind. The ithe giver! where it had been by the murderers, evidently to ide t the crime. Rey. H. H. Emmett, the noted Indian preacher, who has been conspicuous with lecture bureaus throughout the country for several years, tried to kill himself with a shotgun at his home in Springboro, Pa., and is in a precarious condition with little hope of recovery. At Capitol Hill in Edmund county, Ky., J. W. Hutchings was stabbed by, Simson Whittle, a young man whom Hutchings was trying to eject from a meeting of gold Democrats. Whittle refused to leave the hall and Hutch- ings seized him. Hutchings will die. Constable Campbell arrived at Shel- byville, Ind., with a warrant for the arrest of. Willis Smith, charged with offering John Reed $2 to vote for Mc- Kinley. He went to Smith’s house and found him locked in an up stairs room, Upon being refused admittance the of- ficer broke down the door. Smith hit the officer on the head with a club, fa- tally injuring him. He is under arrest. From Foreign Shores. Rt. Rev. Mandel Creighton, bishop of Petersborough , has been appointed bishop of London in place of Rt. Rey. Frederick Temple, who was last week appointed archbishop of Canterybury. Prof. Andrew Seth, who holds the chair of philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, once held by Sir Wil- liam Hamilton, is now the guest of President Schurman of Cornell uni- versity. News has been received in Peru from Sucre, Bolivia, that the commis- sioner of foreign affairs of the Senate has presented a motion in that body for the recognition by Bolivia of the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. Owing to the frequency of suicides in Chili, the daily newspapers of Valpa- raiso and Santiago propose to suspend \ the publication of all details respecting | such crimes. It is hoped that this may exercise some influence toward reduc- ing the number of suicides. A prominent Cuban resident of Key West, Fla., said that, without assum- ing the role of a prophet, he could pos- itively announce that the city of Ha- vana would be besieged by Maximo Gomez within the next sixty days. A London journal says that the latest hobby of William Morris was the collection of old manuscripts and missals, and the collection on the shelves at Kelmscott house, made in a | very short time ,is one of the best in | existence. | Dr. F. W. Eastlake, who has lived in | Japan for fourteen years, and has pub- | lished “First Century in the Church in ‘ Japan,” “Japanese Fairy Tales,” and other books, has nearly ready a his- | tory of the late war with Japan, which | will appear under the title of “Heroic | Japan.” | The floods are increasing in France. The River Seine is rising. All the | dikes erected on the banks are sub- | merged, and the River Rhone at Beau- | caire is at the highest point ever yet | known. AIl the gates of that town are | closed, and have been strengthened by. enormous cross-beams. Consul Lee, accompanied by Vice Consul J. A. Springer, bade farewell to Capt. Gen. Weyler. The captain gen- eral was very cordial and expressed a desire that Mr. Lee remain as consul general during the war at least. The captain general offered to go aboard the steamship Valencia on which Con- sul General Lee sails. A cable dispatch from Brussels an- ‘nounces the death of Jan Verhas, the well known Belgian painter. He was 62 years of age, having been born at Jermonde in 1834, where his father was the director of a school of design. He made a specialty of genre pictures and principally studies of children. He painted several pictures for the Bel- | gian government and obtained gold | medals in 1881 and 1889. He was a member of the Legion of Honor. Otherwise, J. F. McClelland, one of the early settlers of Great Falls, S. D., is dead. He was a prominent Republican, had been county treasurer and was well | known throughout Northwest Montana. He leaves a widow and two children. A 14-year-old girl, found intoxicated on the streets, and a 16-year-old boy, whose father complained that he was |a habitual drunkard, were sent to a reformatory by a judge in New York | city. Two women were walking near the St. Joseph River, three miles of Benton Harbor, Mich., with their babies in their arms, when they were attacked ‘by an enormous bald eagle. Getting near each other the women yelled and threw clods of earth and clubs at him until he finally flew away. Monmouth Township, Warren County, Illinois, has completed 3,000 feet of brick pavement as the first hard country road ever put down in the United States. The brick is single course, laid on six inches of sand, supported on each side by two and a half feet of crushed stone. The coat was less than | $5,000 per mile. Six hundred Italians arrived at Ellis island on the Clive, the first of the ; steamships of the new rival to the | Mediterranean lines. When the im- | migrants were counted it was learned that at least three “groups” were not on the ship’s manifest. The owners of a vessel are liable to fine of $10 for each passenger whose name does not appear on the manifest. Robert O’Connor, aged 18, son of a wealthy man of Louisville, Ky., es- ecaped from the sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., where he is being treated for insanity, and bought a ticket for Detroit. He was arrested by Jackson officers and returned to Battle Creek. The young man’s insanity is said to have been caused by smoking er He is very wild and vio- lent. H. A. Wheeler, chief engineer in charge of the government survey for the location of the Rock River feeder to the Hennepin Canal, to-day an- nounced that the course as formerly decided upon will be charged in that it will start from Dixon instead of Sterling. This will bring its course through New Bedord, and strike the main canal about four miles west of Wyanet. SS — —— SALISBURY SPEAKS ‘ENGLAND'S PREMIER DELIVERS HIS ANNUAL LORD MAYOR'S ANNUAL, He Alludes to the Recent President Election in Americn and Ex- presses the Belief That the Ven- ezuelan Controversy Is at an End —The Venezuela Controversy at an End—The Eastern Question. London, Nov. 11.—At the annual lord mayor's banquet Ambassador Bayard was given an ovation when he arose to respond to the toast “The Ambassa- dors.” In alluding to the recent elec- tion in America he said: ‘The people I represent have made a declaration in no narrow sense and in no local or limited sense, which stands as a ver- dict and declaration for national hon- or, speaking to the human heart and mind in favor of that honesty which is essential for the civilization of the world.” After Mr. Bayard had concluded the lord mayor proposed “The 1] ‘inisters,” upon which Lord Salisbury arose amid loud cheers, which quickly subsided into breathless silence and close at- tention to the annual guild hall speech of the prime minister, which is by com- mon acceptance looked to embody the official announcement of the govern- ment’s policy to the nation. Lord Sal- isbury said: “Il thank Mr. Bayard for his pres- ence here to-night and for his joining in the historic meeting. By the few words he has uttered he has raised his own plane of observation so high above the mere level of party that, though contrary to our practice to make ob- servations on the internal policies of other states, I may be permitted with- out impertinence to congratulate him upon the splendid pronouneement which the great people he represents has made in behalf of the principles which lie at the basis of all human society. It is rather like pathos to turn from that matter to the not very important controversy which his coun- try and ours have had during the re- cent months. I only do so for the pur- pose of expressing my belief that the Venezuelan controversy is at an end.” (Cheers.) The Eastern Question. “We have had an anxious year in the foreign office, but we have floated into a period of comparative calm. Un- fortunately one matter has not passed by. That is the troubles in Turkey.” Continuing, Lord Salisbury said that he believed that the people of Great Britain were pow virtually unanimous against isolated action than which a worse course could not be adopted to benefit the Armenians. If it was mere- ly wishing to pursue a course to punish or worry the Turkish government, Great Britain had abundant means of doing so; but if they had a higher wish, to rescue the Christian and Moslem people from atrocious misgoy- ernment, they must seek to draw into co-operation as many nations of the world as possible. if it was desired to use force in Turkey, the fleet would not suffice. Military occupation alone would not be effective and the latter would be a large undertaking. He would not pretend to say what Great Britain might do if she exhausted all her forces, but if they wished a mili- tary occupation requiring a very large army, Great Britain must begin by es- tablishing a conscription. It was nonsense to say that Great Britain was humiliated if she could not persuade the other five powers to adopt her particular purposes. Lord Salisbury demurred, he said, from the idea that they were able to bend the counsels and forces of gigantic empires to whatever course Great Britain thought desirable. Will Relinquish No Land, “I may say,” Lord Salisbury added, “in connection with the Eastern prob- lem, that we see no cause to abandon the policy hitherto pursued or to re- linquish a single acre of the land we Row occupy.” Having warmly eulogized the work of Sir Herbert Kitchrer, the sirdar of the Egyptian forces, Lord Cromer, the British agent at Cairo,-in connection with the Soudan expedition, Lord Salis- bury said that he could not say more than that the concert of Europe seemed to be more real than ever before. He was very much pleased with the elo- quent speech of M. Hanotaux, the French minister of foreign affairs, out- lining the requirements which the powers would insist upon from the sultan. He believed, hé said, that France would do nothing to baffle Eu- ropean action. Lord Salisbury’s remarks contained only a guarded reference to the dis- closures made by Prince Bismarck through his newspaper organ of a secret treaty between Germany and Russia which existed prior to 1890. The premie~ alluded to Prince Bis- marck as the greatest statesman which the latter part of the century had pro- duced. Lord Salisbury demurred absolutely to the presumption of the existence of a permanent and necessary antagon- ism between Russia and Great Britain. On this presumption, Lord Salisbury said: ‘That is a superstition of ‘anti- quated diplomacy. I have good grounds to believe that Russia enter- tains the same views and pursues the same object as ourselves concerning the terrible events in the East.” Newspaper Man Arrested. Chicago, Nov. 11.—Edwin T. Benn»tt, formerly manager of the Bay City (Mich.) Tribune, was arrested in this city to-day on a charge of embezzle- ment. The warrant for the arrest was sworn out by John F. Eddy and Ed- ward T. Carrington, both stockholders in the paper. Tlie warrant says $5,000 was taken, but the total amount, it is claimed, will amount to $15,000. Fine Library Burned. Little tock, Ark., Nov. 11.—The coun- try home at Clover Bend, Lawrence county, of Miss French, the autkoress and magazine ccrtributor, widely known as “Octave Thanet,” burned to- day. A large and valuable library was destroyed. “The Duchess’ Is Tl, New York, Nov. 11.—A special to the World from London says: Mrs. Hung- erford (‘fhe Duchess”) is dangerously ill with typhoid fever at her home in : Ireland. ‘ ' WEYLER IN ‘CHARGE. ‘The Captain General of Cuba Takes the Field. Havana, Nov. 11.—Capt. Gen. Weyler has taken the field in person against the insurgents under Antonio Maceo in the Province of Pinar del Rio, and reliable news received from the front indicate that the Spanish columns are approaching the enemy.. Gen. Weyler left Havana on board the cruiser Le- gazpy half an hour after midnight, his destination being the port of Mariel, Province of Pinar del Rio. From Mariel, it is understood the captain general will go southward by the high- way to the town of Artemisa, and along the line of the trocha. Strong re- inforcements are being embarked to support the captain general in the op- erations now in progress against the insurgents. The marquis de Ahumada remains in charge of the captain gea- eral’s office here, with Col. Taymon Dominguez as his chief of staff. Washington, Noy. 11.—The state de- partment officials say that the story published to the effect that Ramon Williams, ex- United States consul gen- eral to Cuba, was sent to Spain as a secret agent of the government to en- deavor to secure the consent of the Spanish government to a project to sell the island of Cuba to the insur- gents, the United States to guarantee the bonds to be issued in payment therefor, is a pure invention. Mr. Williams has no connection with the state department, either open or secret. There also is said to be a lack of foun- dation for the story that the Spanish minister has promised the president that if the Spanish trocps were unable to subdue the insurrection within sixty days the island would be abandoned. Nothing has been heard of the reported outrage on the family of an American sugar planter named Craycroft. PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY. Pardon for Two Men Who Were Led Into a Violation of Law. Washington, Noy. 11.—The president has pardoned W. H. Clune, Isaac Ross and Philip Stanwood of California, sentenced Dee. 6, 1894, to pay a fine of $1 and be confined in the Los Angeles county jail eighteen months for con- spiracy, the offense being committed in the railway riots at the time general throughout the country. The president wrote the following indorsement on the application: “These convicts have suffered more than nine months’ imprisonment un- der their sentences. I am bound to as- sume that they were guilty of an of- fense most dangerous in its character, and in the commission of which they aided and encouraged an unlawful de- fiance of authority, which threatened the most distressing consequences. I am convinced. however, that these men are not criminals, but. laboring men swept into violation of law by at first ving to counsels of disorder. Others | vides themselves are suffer- ing hwn..iliation and deprivation on ac- count of their wrong-doing, and I am led to believe that the purposes of punishment, so far as the effect on the prisoners is concerned, have been fully accomplished. I am also convinced that the imprisonment already suffered by these prisoners will be ample warn- ing to the thousands equally guilty, though unpunished, and to those who may hereafter be tempted, that the laws enacted to secure peace and order must be obeyed.” SWINDLERS ROUNDED UP. Several Members of Another Gang Are in the Toils. New ork, Noy. 11.—The attempted suicide of May Wintage, a miss of sev- enteen years, nm a furnished room in Brooklyn, followed by the arrest of her lover, Edward Valentine, has brought to light the operations of the shrewdest gang of swindlers who ever worked in this city. The girl made an attempt upon her life after a warrant had been issued charging her with having passed a worthless check upon a Brooklyn dry goods merchant. After she had partially recovered she told the antborities that the check had been given her by Valentine. Valen- tine, in the hope of saving himself, has made a confession to District At- torney Backus, in which he tells in de- tail the operations of the gang. The most prominent members were “Big Ed” Rice, Charles H. Abbott, C. H. McLoughlin, H. K. White, Isaac Hei- denheimer, Rolindale Smith, Walter B. Peters, Willis Connors and William Thomas. ‘The latter is locked up in this city, Connors in Flint, Mich., and Peters in Chicago. It is claimed that merchants. manufacturers and farm- ers have lost $500,000 by the opera- tions of this gang. They are said to have been the promoters of three fic- titious companies, one called the Stand- ard Coal and Oil company, and also of a banking concern which they used as a decoy. CARLISLE-BLACKBURN, The Fued Worries Mrs. Carlisle, but She Helps It On. Washington, Noy. 11.—Mrs. Carlisle, it is learned to-day, is very much wor- ried over the reports regarding the present trouble between her son, Logan Carlisle, and Senator Blackburn. Mr. Carlisle's friends feel certain that there will be a contlict, for the two men fre- quent the same hotel and restaurants and are intensely bitter toward each other. Mrs. Carlisle. while anxious, it is said, will not advise one step back- ward in the matter. Logan Carlisle inherits the best part of his bravery from her and she is his adviser in all things and has been kept fully posted on each move before her son made it. If Blackburn loses the senate. which he seems certain to do, he will lay it to the Carlisles, and his bitterness will be intensified. Warren 8B. Mason, a commercial traveler, died in Chicago to-day from the effects of his folding bed closing up on him. His back was broken. End of a Libel Suit. Boston, Noy. 11.—In the United States court of appeals to-day the famous libel suit of Helen M. Gougar vs. Elijah A. Morse was dismissed for want of prosecution. In this case, which began more than four years ago, two verdicts have been rendered after protracted trials. At the first trial the plaintiff excepted to Judge Putnam’s rulings, but has now failed to prose- cute her exceptions in the appellate court. The result is that the verdict below is sustained and judgment in the case follows for Mr. Morse. MR. LIND SPEAKS, STATEMENT BY THE FUSION NOMI- NEE FOR GOVERNOR. His Defeat by Gov. Clough Is Con- ceded by From Fifteen Handre to Two Thousand Votes—The Vote in South Dakota Is Said to Be a Tie and the Official Count ‘Will Be Necessary to Decide the Contest. St. Paul, Noy. 8—Hon. Jobn Lind to- day made public the following state- ment: “From advices received at head- quarters it would appear that Mr. Me- Kinley has probably carried the state by over 50,000 plurality, and that Clough’s vote exceeds the vote returned for me by 1,500 to 2,000. I am satis- fied that serious irregularities have oc- curred in some of the Northern coun- ties, and also in the city of St. Paul, but I have not the means, nor can t afford to take the time from my busi- ness to carry on a contest. I have no regrets either over the result, or over the management of our campaign. We had neither organization nor money. Our work has been volunteer work from beginning to end. It has not proven productive of results, so far as success at the polls is concerned, but the phenomenal vote cast for me demonstrates that the people of our state are determined to destroy the Hill-Merriam-Doran machine. “The abuse and slander heaped upon me I have borne with patience, and I have the satisfaction of having carried my own ward, city and county by ma- jorities that were never before given to a candidate in our section. I haven’t words to express my gratitude to the officers of the committees who conduct- ed our campaign for their zealous and efficient work. I trust that they will take defeat as philosophically as I do, and not tire in their zeal and devotion to the cause of good government until corruption and misiule are swept from the politics of the state. My gratitude to the people of the state who, unin- fluenced by appeals to religious and na- tionality prejudices, have stood by us in this contest, I can only convey by expressing the hope that the same spirit of unity of purpose and unselfish devotion to principle will continue to actuate their political action in the future as it has in this campaign.” The latest returns make McKinley’s majority in Minnesota 50,200 and Clough’s 3,406. Official returns will change these totals but slightly. In the Close States. Yankton, S. D., Nov. 8.—South Da- kota’s vote on presidential electors is tied and and official count will be re- quired to determine the result. The Republican managers have closed their office with the above declaration. Any claim of the Populists that this state is for Bryan, they say, is not justified by the returns. Corrections and changes in three precincts not yet heard from may give the electors to either Bryan or McKinley. The Republican con- gressmen and governor ran ahead of the electors by several hundred votes so far as heard from, and they may have safe majorities. Chicago, Noy. 8. — Reports received here to-day state that both Republic- ans and Democrats are claiming Ken- tucky and Wyoming. It will require the official count in both states to de- cide the contest. In Wyoming the Re- « publicans undoubtedly secure one elector. Bryan has carried North Car- olina by 17,000 and Tennessee by 15,- 000, though Republicans claim the preocTaty defrauded them of the state. THIEVES FOR CUSTOMERS. The Charge Brought Against Pawn- broker Shapiro. St. Paul, Nov. 8—The arrest to-day of E. Shapiro, a pawnbroker on Jack- son street, by Inspectors Lawrence and Hoy, of the Minneapolis police depart- ment, was the final step by the Minne- apolis police in rounding up what they claim is a gang of thieves who have terrorized Minneapolis’ small mer- chants for weeks past. Shapiro, the pawnbroker, who lay in cell 2 at the Minneapolis central station, coolly de- nied point blank knowing the number of his own place of business in St. Paul, the police say is the main pivot upon which the thieves worked; thieves like George Miller and George Warren, brought from Dubuque by Hoy and Lawrence, and who are said to have stolen hundreds of dollars’ worth of jewelry and _ silverware; thieves like Brown, Smith and the “Fourth Avenue Kid,” the three latter colored, who robbed Cohen’s pawnshop at 228 Washington south of $400 worth of goods, and H. A. Strehlow’s Fourth avenue tailor shop of $600 worth of goods, and a half-dozen other places, this by their own confessions to the au- thorities. Penny Press Trouble. Minneapolis, Nov. 8.—The Minneapo- lis Penny Press has again fallen into the hands of a receiver, twice within a year. Senator S. B. Howard is the re- ceiver. The receiver was appointed on the application of the Dells Paper and Pulp company for failure to meet a paper bill of $200. It is understood that Howard is to become owner. The co-operators, it is claimed, are mad all through and will make trouble. Towne Admits His Defeat, Duluth, Nov. 8—The election of Mor- ris and Clough is now conceded here, and more than $2,000 in bets have been paid to-day. Towne admits his defeat and disclaims any intention to contest, ~ though still claiming fraud in the vot- ing. It is said here he will go to Sew York to accept a position on the nal when his term expires. There’ be a grand Morris ratification hete hee night, and red paint is at a premium. MR BeE Nia WB SSS, Henderson Granted a Divorce. Chicago, Nov. 8.—David Henderson, the theatrical manager, was to-day granted a divorce from Grace Roth Henderson, the well known actress. George A; pallanting, the son of a © iy lew Jersey bi was named as co-respondent. oree Ric Nala LEN 7) eae hiss Vote. lumbus, Noy. 8.—Corrected in Ohio to-day place Mekinley's pie made in the total vote ‘bat at ein ee e vote, but over 900,000. ee te *