Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 13, 1897, Page 2

The Herald--Review. by E, Kiley. + E 3RAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. d If Boss Croker is out of politics, what would be accomplish if he were in politics? Upon the heels of the announcement of J. Pierpont Morgan’s monster rail- Way combination comes the announce- ment that Carnegie has just organized the greatest wire combination in the world, RS Te ee An arrest in lynching regions is a legal procedure making it more con- venient to execute illegally a person charged with crime. The officers’cap- ture the alleged offender! the mob overpower the officers and seize the person in custody, and then kill him in some hideous fashion. All this in a land consecrated to liberty protected by law! Looking back on the hard times, it is pleasing to recall that during the four years from 1893 to 1896 the rich men of the United States gave, to found and endow publie institutions, colleges, libraries, museums and hos- pitals, no less than one hundred and twenty-one million dollars. The New York Times is responsible for the fig- ures, which lend a good deal of force to that old proverb about the cloud and its silver lining. In our family of states, as in a house- hold, there are now and then exhibi- tions of selfishness and indifference— even occasional outbursts of anger. But let real trouble come, the case of the yellow fever vi the south, and discord ceases. Sym- pathy and aid are quickly offered. What finer evidence that we are one people than this ready response when need arises! In our body politic, as in the human body, if one member suf- fer, all the members suffer with it. An eminent English scientist has ex- pressed the hope and the belief that be- fore many years the great cataract of Niagara will be turned aside from its course and every particle of its majes- tic force utilized in furnishing electric power to the mills and railroads of the surrounding region. The harnessing of the giant to the service of man has already begun, and there will be two opinions as to the wisdom of carrying the process of subjugation so far. Ma- terial advantage is not the only thing to be considered; grand and beautiful scenery has a value that cannot be expressed in dollars and cents. No amount of increased industrial wealth could make good the loss of Niagara Falls. It is the work of a Divine hand. The brutal greed of capital should not be permitted to obliterate it altogether, That the world is full of dissatisfiea and unhappy people we all know, but very few of us give any thought to one of the principal causes of the despon- dency and sadness of the -ace. It is only when we have almost finished our. lives that we learn that great expecta- _tions and high hopes are only extremes from which we must recover, and that every undue anticipation is an nnnat- ural condition, and must bring its re- action in corresponding depression. It is very much better to preserve a fair equilibrium under all circumstances. “A perfectly splendid time” is almost invariably followed by a series of events that almost rob life of its brightn It is not that anything so terrible has really occurred, but the good time has raised the hopes so high and filled the heart with such bright anticipation of future good times that day pleasures appear tame and insipid. If love were the offspring of merit, then patriotism would find no difficulty in showing why a country is worth lov- ing. But the Turk loves a land that hhas no freedom; the Spaniard, like the Irishman, loves a country that has no prosperity; the Chinaman loves a land that has no inspiration; the Eskimo loves a land that has for others no natural beauty. Men of each of these nationalities love their home land ap- parently for no other reason than be- cause it is their own. So long as being born in a country makes its patriots, there will be no better reason to give. If patriots would make their country— if the people would all help to make their country better worth loving—the word patriotism would not sometimes mean so little. It is poorly worth the name if it implies no more than the habit of association that attaches the savage to his hunting ground or brings back the exiled eat to its wonted gar- ret. True patriotism is something more than blind instinet. Nor is patriotism a mere sentiment. [t is a principle of duty; and it becomes more beneficient as it grows more enlightemed. That avill be when patriots cease to ery, “Our country, right or wrong!” and insist that its public life and its polities shall have nothing in them of which they meed feel ashamed. The injury done to the United States battle ship Indiana when she was docked in Halifax was the usual Eng- lish form of conduct and a poor re- turn fer a notable act of international courtesy. The Halifax dry dock is owned by British subjects and subsi- dized by the British government, and if any objection to permitting one of our vessels to be docked there had been made by the government of Great Bri- tain, the dock w@tld not have been at our service. She was undoubtedly dis- abled as the result of a British con- } cotton in‘Instry. epiracy. Build American drydocks. FITH OF THE NEWS EVENTS UF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM A Gencral Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week From | All Parts of the Globe, Boiled and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Perusal Down By Busy People. The Nation’s Capital. The receipts for customs during Oc- tober amounted to $9,713,474, as com- oared with $11,105,493 for Octcber, L896. The government is bu! houses at the Anadarko agency. These | houses are for the Kiowa and Com- anche Indians, who have promised to | live in houses instead of in tepees. | Brig. Gen. James F. Wade at St. Paul. sommanding the department of Dakota, recommends the abandonment of Fort Custer, Mont., as a military post. He also suggests the abandonment of Fort Assinniboine, Mont., the most north- 2rn post in the United States, the neces- | sity for which hasenow passed away. Iding 100 new Personal Mention. W. W. Smith, a physician of Peabody, is the old Odd Fellow in Kansas. He has belonged to the order for fifty- five years. Morris McKinley of Minneapolis, one of the oldest logging operators of the | upper Mississippi river and wealthy, died at Iron River, near Duluth, of | appendicitis. He was sixty-three years of age. Mme. Calve has arrived in Paris and | has gone actively to work on the re- hearsals from Massenet’s new opera, “Sappho,” at the Opera Comique, where she is to create the title role before long. . United States Snator Harris is going into the raising of fine sheep, and gets 150 head from Minnesota this week. | A scientific sheep man will be put in! eharge by him. He is also adding to his Shorthorn herd. He will leave for! Washington Nov. 3. John H. Ward of New Haven, Conn., | a lawyer who a year ago created a sen- sation by his infatuation for Mme. Calve, died suddenly of heart di e. Ward fell in love with Mme. Calve when she was in New Haven, and after writing her letters telling of his devo- tion, tried to force his way into her apartments. He was then arrested, but leased at her request. | | Criminal. Luetgert says he has not changed | his lawyers. | Grace Willard of Los Angeles, Cal., | drank two ounces of carbolic acid with | suicidal intent at Warrensburg, Mo. She had had trouble with her lover. | Her life was saved. | Miss Nannie Loker, a St. Louis so- | ciety girl, was walking alone past a | church in an unfrequented thorough- fare soon after dark, when a footpad | snatched at her pocketbook. She land- ed a chest and two head blows and he ran. Le Cecil and Joe Copeland, two well known young farmers of Platte county. Mo., became involved in a quarrel at Stillingsville. Cecil struck Copeland over the head with a heavy club, ren- dering him unconscious. Physicians say that Copeland is in a precarious condition, with chances against his re- covery. Casualties, John Turney, a prominent farmer, was killed at Salt Fork, O. T., by a run- away team. John Martin young farmer living near Mound City, Mo., was kicked ove, the heart by a horse and almost instant- ly killed. The Congregational academy of Per- | ry, O. T., was destroyed by fire. The building ¢ nd the insurance is only $3, fire, it is thought, Was incendiary. Four'men of Perth Amboy, N. J., who | were in a wagon, were struck by ay train and killed. Their names were Joseph Totyi, George Azare, Joseph Bartfoi and Andrew Klein. The American ship Commodore, Capt. | Davidson, from Honolulu, August 20, for New York, was wrecked on Maiden island, on the Pacific coast, about lati- tude 3.58 south and longitude 1.55 west. There were no lives lost and eight! members of the crew have been landed at Launceston. Foreign Notes, General von Bulow, brother of Baron von Bulow, the German secretary of state for foreign affairs, died in Berlin yesterday, as a result of injuries which he sustained by being thrown from his | horse while out riding. Great excitemeit has been caused in } Caracas by the discovery of a plot to start a revolution in Venezuela in order | to prevent the meeting of congress. Jive hundred arrests have been made | by order of the government. The Prince of Wales has sold his yacht Britannic, but the name of the} purchaser has not been made known. An insurance society to be called In- dustria is being formed by employers throughout Germany to insure against Joss arising from strikes. The society will have a capital of 5,000,000 marks. A paragraph appeared in the London papers this week calling attcntion to the neglect of Thackeray’s grave in Kensal Green cemetery. It is overrun with ivy, which obliterates the inscrip- tion. Miss Norah Meiggs, daughter of John G. Meiggs, a wellknown American, who has long been a resident of Lon- don, was married at St. Paul's church, Knight's bridge, to Herbert Allfrey, who belongs to a well-krown English family. The Pall Mall Gazette, esmmenting upon the threatered strike of the cot- ton operatives throughout the nerth of England, says the lockout will affect 200,000 persovs and adds that the strike will last for months, entail a less of £70,000,000 and mean the ruin of the; | McB ! port, Conn. , forty-seven feet long. General. “Pittsburg Phil” is credited with win- ning $250,000 on the turf this season, but it might be cut in two and then placed at a high mark. The Horston hotel, at Neodesha, Kas., which was burned several weeks ago, is to be rebuilt. Wheri finished it will be one of the finest hotels in that part of the state. A disgraceful row occurred at the Kankakee (Ill) state asylum among the attendants and medical staff. ‘Ten people are in the hospital as a result of the injuries received. It is announced that St. Louis will soon have a magazine printed in twelve different languages, and it will be the only publication of the kind in the world. Martin Flaherty defeated Danny de in fifteen rounds at Bridge- The fight was for a purse of $1,500. The men were clever and fought hard. Mrs. Mary A. Walker of Chillicothe, Mo., aged seventy-six years, home was in Kneeland, Wis., stricken with heart disease and died in .a few minutes, just as she was about to enter a theater. Dion Geraldine has resigned as su- perintendent of the department of buildings and grounds of the trans- Mississippi exposition. his is the end of a fight that has been going on for some time among the management ef the exposition. ‘The South Pennsylvania Oil company has closed a deal for the purchase of the property of the Devonian, Emery & Matson Oil companies in the Brad- ford (Pa.) field. The deal includes 20,- 000 acres of land and 450 producing wells. The consideration was $1,400,- 000 in cash. By the will of Mary J. Bradford of South Boston, which has been filed in the probate court for Suffolk county, a trust fund is created of $4,000, the in- come to be.used for the care and sup- port of a parrot owned by the test- ator. ‘The bird is not to be put in any public place or store on exhibition. Charges against forty of Chief Kip- ley’s recent Star league appointees to the Chicago police department were made before the civil service commis- sion, and are being investigated. The accusations are being made by a new paper reporter,’ and include murder, sault, arson, burglary, larceny and r ceiving stolen property. Dion Geralding, formerly a superin- tendent in the construction department of the world’s fair, was married at Chicago to Miss Ellen L. Cochran of Chicago. They will reside at Omaha. y. Geralding was recently connected with the trans-M sippi exposition at Omaha, but resigned his position last week. The property of the New Albany (ind.) Woolen Mills company, valued at nearly $300,000, the plant of which has been closed down for three years, was ordered sold by Judge Herty. Judgment in a suit to foreclose the first mortgage have been rendered. The company employed 700 operatives and it is expected operations will be resumed within sixty days. NEW WRINKLES IN SHIPS, A Big Royal Yard-Stcel Yards ana Masts—Vessels Without Royals. A man not familiar with ships, who saw the royal yard lying on a South street wharf the other day, might have mistaken it for a mainyard, it looked so big. It was a new spar for an American wooden ship of 1,800 tons. lying alongside the wharf, and v The mainy: of the ship measured about eighty-nine fect in length. The royal yard was of spruce, the main of Oregon pine. On a ship built nowadays the lower yard would be of steel. Ships’ mas were formerly made with the several parts each a solid stick. When big timber became scarce and more costly, the lower ma were built up of a number of pieces of wood and banded with iron hoops. When ships began to be built of iron, the low- er masts were made of iron, and also the lower yards; and when the build- ing of steel ships was begun, the lower masts and the lower yards were made of steel. . There are ships now th: carry steel yards up to and including the top-gallant sails. ‘There are built nowadays ships that carry no royals. The other yards are made longer, that the shi spreads the same amount of canvas, which is, however, carried lower. With less | weight aloft there is less leverage on the masts, and the ship stands up bet- ter. Fewer yards are required and rigging. The low rig is in line h the common modern endeavor to- ward greater economy of operation.— New York Sun. é Town Girl Aired Her Knowledge in the Country. ® A girl from town is staying with her country cousins who live on a farm. On the night of her arrival she finds, to her mortification, t she is igno- rant of all sorts of things connected with farm life, which, to her country cousins, are matters of everyday knowledge She fancies they seem amused at her ignorance. | At breakfast the following morning, she sees on the table a dish of fine hon- ey, whereupon she thinks she has found an opportunity of retrieving her humiliating experience of the night be- fore, and of showing her country cous- ins that she knows something of life, after all. So, looking at the dish ot honey, she says, carelessly: “Ah! I see you keep a bee.”—Pear- A Great Benefit. First Daughter of the Revolution— She says she’d like to know, for her part, what practical good our society does, Second Daughter—Why, the mean thing! Just as if we hadn’t made it almost fashionable to be patriotic.— Judge. A Tribute. “She has a wonderfully forgiving nature,” said one young woman. “I offended her, unintentionally, and when I spoke to her about it, she said she was perfectly willing to overlook i the past.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne, “that’s a specialty of hers.” “What? “ “Overlooking the past. She says that she is only twenty-eight years of age.” Washington Star. | SWEPT BY TAMMANY VAN WYCK (ELECTED MAYOR OF GREATER NEW YORK. The First Mayor cf the Gigantic Mu- micipalitv Gets a Plurality of S1,- 000—Low ‘Leads ‘Tracy by a Small Margin—The Vote for Young George Is Insignificant—The Leg- islative Branch of the City Gov- ernment js Tammany-Democrat. New York, Nov. 4.—Tammany’s vic- tory in the first municipal election in Greater New York is a sweeping one. The only question remaining to'be set- tled is the one of plurality by which the entire ticket headed by Robert A. Van Wyck has carried the gigantic municipality. On the city ticket with Judge Van Wyck Bird 8. Color is elected con- treller and Randolph Guggenheimer president of the municipal council. Charles F. Fairchild, who was secre- tary of the treasury during Cleveland’s first administration, and’ whom the citizen's union put up for controller, did not hold the pace with Mr. Low. Ashbel Fitch, originally a Republican, and afterward a Democratic member of congress from a Tammany district of this city, was the Republican nomi- nee for controller. He is defeated by about the same vote as the head of the ticket. Color, the successful candidate fs new to the public. Charles W. Day- ton, late postmaster, was nominated for controller on the George ticket, and polled probably half as many votes again as were given Mr. George. The legislative branch of the city government is Tammany-Democrat. It is a double headed body, one branch being the municipal council, consist- ing of the president and twenty-eight members, and the other the board of aldermen, eomprising sixty members. The precise number of Democrats chosen cannot be stated at the present writing. There appears to be a strong probability that the Democrats have won a majority of the county and borough offices along with the munici- pal places. ; At night the whole city was alive to the occasion. Bulletin boards, search- lights, newspaper extras, readers on the stages of scores of theaters, told the story of the election. The jubilant ha@ recourse to discordant fish horns for the expressiun of their joy, while the saloons, closed during the hours while the voting was in progress, did business on a scale to compensate for the period of enforced thirst, were noisy and brilliantly flluminated. The enthusiasm in the vicinity of Tammany Hall was particularly great. gies IN NEW YORK STATE. Den ocrats Elect the Judge—The As- sembly in Doubt. New York. Nov. 4.—Rain, which pre- vailed generally all over the state, had the effect of keeping a great many of the country voters home. The result is apparent in the reduced majorities given in concededly Republican dis- |tricts to William J. Wallace, the Re- publican nominee for chief judge for the court of appeals, as compared with the pluralities by which the same dis- tricts were carried last year. Conced- ing to Judge Parker (Dem.) a majority of 100,000 in Greater New York, it is ‘prebable that he has wan in the state. he indications are that the Demo- jerats have a small majority in the state assembly. Jn the last assembly 'the republicans tad a majority of 78. Conceding all that is claimed by the ‘Democrats, the next house will have 10 Democratic majority. State senators were not elected this year. Other es- \timates give a Republican majority ig the assembly of 3. NEW YORK. oes Van Wyck's Plurality Over Low Is $1,548; New York, Nov. 5.—Returns from the state and city election received do not change the result already announced. Reiufns from all the counties in the state indicate a plurality of more than 58,000 for Alton B. Parker, Dem., for chief judge of the court of appeals, Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate for mayor of New York, has 81,548 plurality over Seth Low, and 118,401 over Gen. Tracy. The legislature re- mains Republican, South Dakota Retur Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 4.— Indica- tions are that the Republicans have won in South Dakota. Smith, Rep., is elected judge in the First district by a close vote. In the second, Jones, Rep., is probably elected by 400 majority, overcoming an adverse majority in 1896 of 1,050. Smith, Rep., in the Fourth district, is elected. -The elec- tion of Campbell, Rep., in the Fifth district, is claimed by 1,200 majority. Gaffey, Rep., is certainly elected in the Sixth. The result in the Third dis- trict is in doubt. The Populists have lated carried one district, the ighth, and Wilson, Rep., is leading ip the Seventh. oe Interest at the Capital. Washington, Nov. 3.—Great interest was displayed by the citizens of the capital in the result of the elections throughout the country. Early in the evening large crowds congregated in front of the newspaper bulletin boards and at various private places where the returns were displayed. In official circles the interest was intense, and many inquiries were made as to the ree particularly in Ohio and Mary- paar Both Sides Claim Colorado. Denver, Nov. 4.—Returns from the state are very meager. There is no chance to compare the vote with that of last year as this was fusion between Silver Republicans and Democrats against Populists, while now here the Republican (administration) and Sil- ver Republicans are joined against a combination of the Democrats and Populists. Both sides claim victory, but neither claim over 5,000 majority. Lamar, Mo., Nov. 6. — The business part of the village of Liberal, fourteen miles west of here, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000. ss IOWA. Republicans Win by an Estimated Plurality of About 30,000. Des Moines, Nov. 5.—The returns by counties are nearly all in. Chairman MeMillan, of the Republican state com- mittee, has complete returns from nine- ty-four counties. By this means he has figured a plurality for Shaw, Republic- an, of about 31,782. He thinks that these figures will vary bit little, as the corrected returns of the five estimated counties come in. The plurality may be set down as above 31.000 and be- low 32,000. Chairman Walsh, of the Democratic state committee, has given out no figures. He thinks that errors in the returns may reduce the plurali- ty of Shaw to 20,000. The legislature is safely Republican. —o- 1OWA’S VOTE. Complete Unofficial Returns Makes Shaw’s Plurality 30,088. Des Moines, Nov: 6. — The complete unofficial returns are as follows: [or governor, Shaw, Rep., 224,555; White, Dem., 193,587; Populist, middle-of-the- road, 5,950; Gold Democrat, 5,434; Pyo- hibition, 10,692; total, 440,198; Shaw’s plurality, 30,988. Shaw’s total vote is the largest ever cast for a Republican candidate for governor, being 16,000 higber than the highest before. It is also higher than the vote cast for any Republican candidate for. president in this state except the vote’for McKin- ley last year. The Democrats have only once polled a bigger vote, when Boies was a candidate in 1891. weg MARYLAND IS REPUBLICAN. Official Count in Most of the Coun- ties. Has Been Completed. Baltimore, Noy. 6.—An official count of the ballots cast on Tuesday made in most of the counties leaves no further room for doubt that the Republicans have control of both branches of the legislature, and that a Republican will succeed Arthur P. Gorman in the United States senate. Five members of the assembly and one senator were taken from the Democratic list of probabilities and added to that of the Republicans. This gives the Republic- ans 49 members in the house and’ the Democrats 42. It also gives the Re- publicans 18 senators to 8 for the Dem- ocrats. Republicans Elect Six Out of the Eight Judges. Huron, S. D., Noy. 5.—Returns from eight circuit court circuits show that vhe Republicans have won the follow- ing: First, E. G. Smith of Yankton; Second, J. W. Jones of Sioux Fall Fourth, Frank R. Smith of Mitchel Fifth, A. W. Campbell of Aberdeen: Sixth, L. E. Gaffey of Pierre; Eighth, W. G. Rice of Deadwood. In the Third circuit the fusionists have doubtless elected Julian Bennett of Watertown and Levi McGee of Rapid City in the Seventh. Republicans Carry the State and the Legislature. Boston, Nov. 5. — The entire vcte of the state, with the exception of the town of Gosnold, has been completed, and the returns give Wolcott 165,370; Williams, 79,414; Everett, 14,134. The senate-of 1898 will stand 33 Republic- an and 7 Democrats. ‘The house re- mains unchanged, 182 Republicans, 51 Democrats, 6 Independents and 1 Pro- hibitionist. The vote for the remainder of the state ticket runs very close to that of the candidates for governor. Me oe Colorado. Denver, Nov. 5.—The result of the election in this state is still in doubt so far as justice of the supreme court is concerned, and it will take the of- ficial canvass to decide who has won. Returns and estimates so far received show May, Rep., 82 votes in tke lead. Counties yet to be heard from are di- vided and some doubtful. ‘The ¢ men of the Populist and Democratic ies claim the full returns will give candidate from 1,000 to 1,500 ma- Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Noy, 5. from the election in Kansas are still very incomplete. ‘The indications are that the Republicans have elected eight of the thirteen district judges voted for. Incomplete and unofficial returns from 90 of the 105 counties indicate Republican victories in almost half of the county elections. ASS Congratulating Hanna, Manchester, N. H., Nov. 6.—Former Gov. P. C. Cheney sent a congratula- tory telegram to Senator Hanna upon receipt of the news that the Republic- ans had probably carried the Ohio leg- islature.. The following reply was re- ceived by Mr. Cheney: “Accept thanks for your kind telegram. We have cer- tain majority of five with possible eleven on joint ballot.” The returns 5. — The legislative aryland, as indicated by returns received to date, appears to be as follows: Forty-three Democrats and forty-three Republicans in the low- er house, with five doubtful. The sen- ate stands 16 Republicans to 9 Demo- crats, with 1 in doubt. P4 —o— Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., Noy. 5.—There is lit- tle interest in the size of Shackelford's majority as it is conceded to be some- where in the neighborhood of 15,000. The Democrats have won or increased their vote everywhere. They have also secured-a good majority in the leg- islature, agin Nebraska. Lincoln, Nov. 5. — Returns indicate that the fusion state ticket has been elected by a plurality fully as large as that given Bryan last year, if not larger. The fusion majority will prob- ably be about 12,000. ogee . Virginia. Richmond, Va., Nov. 5. — The latest returns in Virginia give the Demo- crats all the senators elected and 94 and perhaps 95 members of the house. The Republicans get 4, perhaps 5, members of the house, and the Inde~ pendents 1 member. ‘The Democrats made heavy gains and in the valley. sare New Jersey. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 5. — The New Jersey assembly will have a Republic- an majority of 21 on joint ballot, in the southwest. ‘VERY CLOSE SHAVE: OFFICIAL CANVASS IN OHIO BEING: CLOSELY WATCHED. The Claim the~ Legislature, as Do Likewise the~ Republicans Still Democrats—Republicaa Plarality on State Ticket Exceed! 28,000—The Election in Several: will May Counties Be Contested—- Chairman of the Democratic Committee Charges Frand io Some of the Counties. Columbus, Noy. 5.—Yesterday was @ day of anxiety with the Ohio politi- cians. It opened with the Republicans and Democrats both claiming the elec- tion of their state tickets and a ma- jority of the members of the legisla- ture. Before noon the Democrats con- ceded the election of the Republican state ticket by larger pluralities than were given in the earliest of these dis- patches as the claims of the Republic- ans, The Democratic state committee announces no definite claims: on the legislature and the Republican state committee has raised its claims to a majority of five on joint ballot as fol- Senate, 17 Republicans, 19 Dem- ocrats; house, 58 Republicans and 51 Democrats; total, 75 Republicans and! 70 Democrats. On the returns complete at Republic- an state headquarters the Democr: still have a majority of two in t senate and the Republicans seven in the house. On these claims the f ists from Cincinaati are all counted as: Democratic. The Republicans can or- ganize the house witkout fusion. There is only one of the four senators elected on the fusion ticket in Cincinnati who is a Republican, and he now becomes @ factor. If Senator Voight of Cincin- nati, who is a Republican elected on the fusion ticket, shculd vote with the Republicans on the organization of the senate or on anything else, that body will be a tie, with Lieut. Gov. Jones, Republican, having the deciding vote. If the Democrats had secured a ma- jority of the legislature or the fusion- ists held the balance cf power it said that these fusionists would have voted with the Democrats. The Re- publicans now expect two or more of the fusionist Republicans to vote with them, for senator, in which event they claim a majority of seven on joint ballot, with 77 Republicans and 68 Democrats. Since the change of the claims at Democratic state headquarters on the complexion of the legislature two im- portant rumors have been vigorously circulated. One is that John R. Mc- Lean will be pressed by the Ohio De- mocracy for the Democratic nomina- tion for president in 1900 and that Sen- ator Hanna will have opposition in his own party for election to the senate. There another alleged movement which is causing much more comment, and that is the rumor that Gov. Bush- nell will be brought out for senator against Marcus A. Hanna. Goy. Bush- nell and all others involved in the movement deny any knowledge of it or that they would have anything to do with it. Chairman McConville, of the Demo- ic state committee, concedes the defeat of his state ticket, but states that they have reduced the Republican plurality of 51,000 by over one-half. Columbus, Nov. 6.—Many talk about a s in Ohio. Some believe that a cr impending. The tz about a combine in the legislature against Sen- ator Hanna has subsided pending the interest in the official counting of the votes in close counties. As the offi canvass of the vote in the eighty. counties proceeded the Republican plurality on the state ticket increased, and on the legislative tickets it ap- peared to be getting toward a very close shave. While the Republican the state ticket exceeds 2! on the legislative ticket almost as close as it could be. For this reason there is still unusual anxiety at the re- spective state headquarters of both parties. The Republicans still claim that the legislature stands seventy-five Republicans to seventy Democrats on joint ballot for senator, and that their candidates for representatives on three of the close counties have been elected. Chairman Nash said the re- turns from the Thirteenth district showed that the Republicans had a plurality of 482, so that there is no longer any of the state senators in doubt, and the senate will stand nine- teen Democrats and seventeen Repub- licans. At Republican state headquarters Summit county is not considered so doubtful as heretofore, and its two representatives are being conceded to the Democrats. This would make the house fifty-eight Republicans and fifty-one Democrats. Chairman Mce- Conyille does not admit that the Re- publicans have carried the Eighteenth district for their candidate for state senator, and he still claims the repre- sentatives from Mobile, Delaware and Wood, Muskingum and other counties claimed by the Republicans. He also expects the official count to give the Democrats two of the twelve members of the legislature from Cuyahoga county. In all these counties and in others he says there will be contests for the seats in the event of the cer- tificates of election being given to the Republicans. He charges fraud in the close counties and in some Republican counties. He says nearly all the close counties have gone Republican here- tofore, and the Republicans still have the machinery in those counties. He says the returns have been held ck and it looks suspicious. plurality on 000, the vote Hobart Visits Hanna. Cleveland, Noy. 6. — Vice President ard Mrs. Hobart will remain the guests of Senajor Hanna until Sunday or Monday. Senator and Mrs. Hanna ‘ave a dinner party in honor of their ests last evening. About twenty leading society people were at the table. é x 4 v ’ 4 £ 3