Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 5, 1900, Page 3

* ee ee The Herali-Review. E. C. Kiley. 'T, J, Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Pablishers, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. The darkest hour of human misery comes just before the dawn of deliv- ery. Boxing bouts which have been held in the basement of the South Division High school, Chicago, under the su- pervision of Principal Smith, have found favor in the eyes of the Board of Education authorities. Superin- tendent Andrews not only indorses the exercise, but says that he believes that boxing is the best sport in whick the students can partake. Who are the ten greatest men in the nineteenth century? This is a favorite conundrum just now across the water, but we have seen only one attempt to solve it in print. It is by a Dublin, Ireland, editor, and names Lincoln, statesman; Napoleon, sol- dier; Darwin, scientist; Thackeray, rovelist; Pasteur, medicine; Froebel, educator; Beethoven, musician; and Morse and Stephenson, first masters of electricity and steam. Consular reform is brought per- ceptibly nearer than it ever was before by the action of congressional com- mittees. Both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives a favorable report has been made upon bills deal- ing with the organization of the con- sular service. The bills differ in de- tails, but are one in purpose. They aim to make the foreign service of the United States something like a pro- fession, for which men may fit them- selves with a reasonable assurance of finding employment, and from which, when their fitness has been proved, they may not be dislodged by political caprice or the restless ambition of some one who wants a place. In Europe there are many young men whom fate has destined to be the rich men of the next century. For a long time it was supposed that Lord Belgrave, who inherited the wealth of the Duke of Westminster, would head the list, but since the duke’s death it is reported that his fortune has been greatly overestimated. At present this young man is but 20 years of age, but it will not be many years before be will become one of the richest men in the world, according to accepted belief in England. At the same time he has succeeded to every rank in the British peerage from baron to duke, as well as to three of the finest estates in the united kingdom, and a racing stable that cannot be surpassed. A recent review of the progress of the University of Illinois reveals the fact that there are six different col- leges and four schools united under one head. These are the College of Agriculture, College of Literature and Arts, College of Science, College of Engineering, College of Law, College of Medicine, the School of Library Science, School of Pharmacy, School of Music and the Preparatory School. The following official figures indicate the remarkable growth of the institution ‘MORE LIND. REFORUS ‘FIRMNESS OF GRAIN AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSION GIVES THE SOUTH- ‘WEST LOWER GRAIN RATES. Whe Roads Yield Gracefully—First Fruit of a Full Board in Sympathy With Gov- ernor Lind—Other State Political Points —The National Field—Encouraging Out- look on Every Hand—The Coming Con- ventions—Twin City Gossip—Note and Comment of the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, April 30, 1900. The administrative event of the week has been the final adjustment of the controversy between the state railroad and warehouse commission and: the southwestern roads, as to the rates on grain, being the conclusion of thé com- missioners’ determined effort to bring the rates on flax seed and grain down to a fair basis. : After many weeks of consideration, and after a number of conferences be- tween the railroad officials and the commission, the determined stand taken by the latter induced the companies to yield. They have now accepted the rates demanded by the .commission which involves a reduction from 169 stations.on the following roads: All stations on the Hastings and Da- kota, fram Sumter to Appleton, inclu- sive. All stations on Minneapolis and St. Louis, from Winthrop to Daketa state line, and from Winthrop to Iowa state line. All stations on the Chicagoand North- western, between Kasota and Dakota state line, including branches. All stations on Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha in Minnesota west and south of Mankato. All stations on Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul in Minnesota west of and including Wells. All stations on Great Northern in Minnesota southwest of Raymond (near Willmar). Eleven stations on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern. From the 169 stations affected a few are selected to show the reductions in the various localities, as follows: Table Showing Reduction April, 1900. e25ra5 ae img Bpgpasanesere. 5 Sesesors PeSRETEZS2SES se B@e*seRessarees Eo SESE SEESES B2Cesss BE PSE S = SSSR" ELE og Mat fF. e a ae. ee E S ® A : =: ne 2: § , in number of students, during the last ‘thirteen years: 1887-88, 377; 1888-89, 429; 1889-90, 469; 1890-91, 510; 1891-92, 1893-94, 714; 1894-95, 810; 1895-96, ; 1896-97, 1,078; 1897-98, 1,585;_1898- $9, 1,824; 1899-00, 2,250. be SS ~ Phere is a general desire for a de- on by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine the ques- tion whether the new island posses- sions are a part of the United States, or its property. . It was thought 1! at a@ suit brought by a New York firm of importers to recover duties paid on Puerto Rican goods might furnish a basis for the desired interpretation; but this suit has been halted by the refusal of the lower court to grant the injunction which was applied for. A case has now arisen at San Francisco, occasioned by the collection of ton- mage dues on vessels from Hawaii, in the same manner as from foreign countries, which may afford an oppor- tunity for the settlement of the broad constitutional question. The free town library, one of the best educational gifts to the nineteenth century to the world, bids fair in the twentieth century to become still more than it is now a stimulant to intellectual progress. Collections of books for: the scholar and the ricn there have been from the earliest times; but a library belonging to the whole community, rich and _ poor, learned and ignorant, laborer and pro- fessional man, is purely a product of the last half century. Fifty ‘| years ago there were about a score in Mas- sachusetts. Today all but seven of her 350 towns have a free library. In the whole country there are not less than 10,000 such libraries. But a mere: collection of books, without a faithful librarian, however valuable, is like an undeveloped mine, practic- ally of no use. The town librarian is, like the library itself, a product of the closing century, and has become a new intellectual leader in the community. To the dwellers in northern lati- tudes the coming of spring is like a release from prison. Barriers built by snow and ice are leveled, and doors sealed by the frost swing open. To all, doubtless, the season brings a feeling of emancipation; it is perhaps to the bicyclist that it speaks most di- rectly of ‘fresh woods and pastures new.” One who watches the wheel- men taking advantage of the first good weather and dry roads can hardly fail to notice the look of new-found liberty 6o often refiected in their faces, ‘This is the first time in the history of ‘the railroad and warehouse commission that the commissioners have taken up the grain rateson their own motion ‘without being pushed into it by the fil- ing of a complaint. The people will not be slow to recall ‘how much they have lost in all the years that the high freight rates have prevailed under former administrations. The people will not be slow to approve of the firmness of the railroad and ware- house commission in insisting upon this act of justice. They will recognize that the commission has not only done its duty, but that its duty has not been to harass the transportation compan- ies with unreasonable and un- just demands; but to make such de- mands as the conditions required and asthe earnings of the railroads justi- fied. That the commission has asked only what is fair and equitable is proved by the fact that the rates proposed by them have been accepted by the rail- roads and will go into effect at once. To have accomplished the srbtantial reductions above cited within so short a time after getting control of the com- mission, and to have done it without resorting to litigation, conclusively re- futes the claims so often made by former administrations, that they were doing the best that could be done. The inquiry relative to merchandise rates is still pending. But it can be safely predicted in the light of what has already been done that it will be pushed to a final decision as rapidly as possible. The coal rate case, affecting the same territory, is now before the supreme court. An early and favorable decision is confidently expected. Apropos of Minneapolis they do say that Mayor Gray is driving the spikes of successful administration in every direction, andthe Republicans them- selves recognize that they have no man who can come, within a mile of beating him. This and other auspicious circum- stances cause the reform forces of Hen- nepin to set their stakes at the election of every man on the city and county tickets this fall. And if that is the case in Hennepin, it is even more so, if possi- ble, in Ramsey. Ramsey, Hennepin, the state, and a clean sweep in the leg- islature, is the way it looks now. With Minnesota landed this fall, and Bryan inaugurated next March, what veteran campaigner will- not be willing to “step down and out?”’ State Auditor Dunn has issued a cir- calar to county auditors more than usually emphatic in defining their du- ties. Special stress is laid on the sub- ject of assessment of corporations so as to cover taxation of franchises, in which Governor Lind’s suggestions and the recommendations of the board of equal- ization are followed. The auditor refers to the ‘‘plain duty” of the officers addressed, and now the query arises, will he, a la McKinley, follow the circular with a hint to pay no attention to ‘it. But Plain Duty Dunn and Plain Duty .McHanna are quite different ‘‘critters.”’ The Lincoln Leaguers report a great boon to their movement of organiza- tion of the Lincoln Republicans. No serious dissent from the movement is heard in any part of the country, unless it be in the extreme silver sections. A fair expression of current senti- .|ment is the following from Dr. Ohage, the veteran St. Paul Republican, who said: ‘For 25 years Ihave been a be- liever in the Declaration of Indepen- dence. Iam for Bryan or any other ze | BP oy Sd a27 gq 4 na i S25 5 FET oD 20 Pepe eee SS SERRE ER SRARRAaTe iA” amar i pegoban pega diss Gy ordi esa ake RRSOSRRNHHRSeRSe se O Rs RO eee > ee? Keogh Ss tie te Aha 00/832 we BRR ro Pes 9 Peep epee Bo | BRESSRESSEEEE EO Se RRRK § a8 a Be gz 5 ne So nm Pita oe a Mine ¢ rie ob E . elt & The reduction ranges all the way i from 5 to 25 per cent or more, and wil | average fully 10 per cent for the whels region affected. Anyone can figure out the net local benefit to farmers and localities. If a point, say Senator Miller’s town of Luverne, ships 1,000,- 000 bushels of wheat in the season, the saving, which willrange from $12 to $15 acar load, will not be less than $12,000 for the season. Governor Lind judges that the saving for the 20 counties of the Second congressional district will be tat least $250,000, and be perhaps as much or more than all the state and county taxes paid by those counties. This is the second reduction which the railroad commission has been in- strumental in bringing about since Gov- ernor Lind’s inauguration. Below isa table showing the rates in force Jan. 1, 1899, and the rates as now fixed by this latest reduction. For the sake of brevity only a few stations are selected. Tablo Showing Reduction From Rate in Force Jan. 1, 1899, good man who stands for that revered document, unless my party shall stand for it,’’ which the same it wont. Hanna is iow very busy in the key- note business. ‘‘We know our _busi- ness.’’ “Keep mumand put up.’’ Some- how they do not seem to gibe any bet- ter nationally than they will, in due time, in Minnesota. Speaking of key notes, steam whistles and the like, it will soon be time for Van Sant’s craft to loom up coming “around the bend.” And speaking of the commodore, a prominent Republican politician now located in the east, formerly near the head of the Republican machine, re- cently visiting in the state, declares that his party with Vah Sant at the head will be buried deeper than it was with Eustis. This remark being by the writer repeated to one of the present goppite ‘‘war hosses’’ of the northern part of the state, the latter took a big bite of ‘‘plug,’’ and said: ‘I ain’t say- ing a word.” «What beats me,’ said another old- a $e @anue BSPRe Pere srsln PSezeRERsesesas BRSzeeessezes s Epa Bes Weer es se Dm: Se. et Bee. sf é Fei ie ibe UR: z g ? y ( 4 4 “ 4 i « { Ai ops ous eames Sn fe. eiJn Scans gegrsespesgye 28 | RRR Re BRERERR RS ERE SES F FRR OE sa" ¥ aR oe B Browawoneene oR = BRR RRR Fe] BEEREERRERAAHZO - eB RF RK ae BEESEEREREREE ES 2 SERRE FORE Sa S E gi 7 tt ht et ED DD tt w wowts EE Stee ges 5 time Republican to the writer, ‘‘is the way the Lind administration keeps on piling up the good things with which to gotothe people. This success of the grain and warehouse commission, in reducing the rates in the Southwest, will add thousands to the vote Lind re- ceived in 1898.” “And,” he added, “I don’t say that Iam sorry.” It is of course the season of the year when the dairy and food department is most interested in the new‘‘bossy cow,” and the fish commissioner harvesting fish eggs. It is very sad that the state insurance department and the public examiner’s department will go on closing those in- stitutions that are unfit to deal with the public. The latest imsurance scheme that Commissioner O’Shaughnessey was obliged to lay hands on had assets of 21¢ cents. pe Seg Let’s see. Philippine island reports are that the slaughter of Tagalos fight- ing for liberty, by McKinley’s soldiers, has recently ‘amounted to 1,000 per week. That would be 52,000 a year. The Filipiposnumber 8,000,000. There- | fore at thes very stiff rate it will require over 150 years to kill them all off, and meanwhile some more will 8 ee a G0. . JOBSITE They Exploit Official Reports of the State Labor Bureau. Glimpses of G. O. P. “‘Prosper- ity’—Figures They Do Net Give. Gov. Lind on the Porto Rico String Pullers---Other Po- ‘litical Matter. The Republican jobsmiths of this State, whose sole occupation for years past has been to keep one another in office, maintain as a part of their equipment of a roorbach hatchery, in which falsehoods are incubated for wholesale dissemination throughout the State. The object of these false- hoods is, of course, to win recruits from the ranks of the unknowing and gullible ones to help said jobsmiths in office. The roorbach hatchery is con- ducted under the guise of a correspond- ence bureau, by individuals who find it desirable to conceal their identities. Those departments of the State gov- ernment which have been wrested from the clutches of these jobsmiths have been made the pivotal points around which to spin their yarns. Having come to shame in the matter of attacks on the bank examining department, the grain department and others, the labor bureau has been made next in or- der. In regard to that department the claim has been invented and set in cir- culation that “Labor Commissioner Mc- Hale,” in their own language, “is en» gaged in the preparation of his annual report for publication as a campaign document.” Following this statement is the streotyped song about wages being at present so high in consequence of the McKinley administration that it would be absurd to seek for improve- ment through a change of parties in power. Now, the fact is that this entire claim is a web of falsehoods from be- ginning to end, and the wonder is that anyone can be found base enough to invent and put into circulation charges that have not even the remotest con- nection with facts. The statement in itself is not worthy of consideration; but, as a sample of the stuff with which the Republican leaders in this State bolster up their cause, it serves a purpose. It shows the utter lack of principle, the total disregard for truth and the moral depravity which charac- terize the manipulators of the so-called Republican party. It shows them to be political guerillas, with whom it is almost a disgrace to engage in a cam- paign. The statements anent the labor de- partment, chosen as illustrative in this case, are easily proven to be malicious falsehoods. In the first place there are no annual reports prepared or pub- lished by the labor bureau of this State. Such reports as are published, are com- piled at the end of every second year and submitted to the Governor pre- vious to the convening of the legisla- ture. Commissioner McHale’s term of office having commenced only a year ago last January, and his report not being due until the end of his term, in January next, by which time elections, both local and general, will all have been held, it is easy to see how absurd is the claim that said report is to figure in the elections to be held two months previous to its publication. It should be borne in mind that the labor bureau is not now in charge of the Republican machine, which did not hesitate to prostitute the office and misrepresent State funds for the prepa- ration and publication of gold standard treatises, -the clusion of all other functloi® pertaining to the department. As for this braggadocio about pros- perity wages, which is forever brought forward to do duty as McKinley cam- paign material, it is found to be as void of truth as everything else emanating from the roorbach hatchery in ,ques- tion. An actual investigation of the pay rolls of the factories of the State gives the lie to all this buncomb abouz high wages. For the purpose of jllus- tration, the writer has canvassed ihe pay rolls of sixteen of the larger man- ufacturing establishments of one of the Twin Cities. These sixteen establish- ments employ 2,192 people, or an av- erage of 137 for each. About one-third of all these employes, or, in exact numbers, 706, are paid less than $5.00 per rege, and considerabiy less than one-fourth of the whole number earn in excess of $10 Her week. The total earnings of the entire number of em- ployes in these sixteen manufacturing establishments amount to $15,808 per week, which divided by 2,192, the whole number of employes, gives an average of $7.21 per week, or $1.20 per day. Considering the fact that the labor here represented comes under the head of skilled labor, and that a certain percentage thereof is subject to more or less idleness during the year, it is very evident that, so far as wages are concerned, labor has noth- ing to thank the McKinley administra- tion for, inasmuch as the laborers could not, at the present cost of living, very well keep body and soul together and remain at work if they were paid less than at present. It is, therefore, the very height of absurdity for anyone to point to the prevailing rate of wages as a recommendation for the present political administration.. Indeed, it is an insult to the intelligence of the people, for it implies either that they are all fools, who cannot tell the differ- ence between facts and bombastic phrases, or that they are serfs who should be grateful to the existing ad- ministration for the privilege .of re- ceiving enough compensation for their toil to prevent them from suffering ac- ‘ual starvation while laboring. REASON OF IT. Confirmation of Governor Lind’s In- terpretation of the Porto ' Rican Tariff. While the whole country .has been endeavoring to dig up the real reason for the Porto Rican tariff, and for Mc- -) Kinley’s change from “plain duty free >. trade to 85 per cent tariff, no one has yet equally the ‘clear interpretation made by Governor Lind. In an inter- view in the Minneapolis Journal of April 14, the Governor said: “Why does Congress enact a tariff against Porto Rico and take Hawaii into the American economic as well as politica: system? It is well-known that Hawaii is a much more formidable contributor to the American sugar market than Porto Rico. The Porto Rico tafiff cannot be defend- ed as a revenue measure, be- cause its own authors confess that it will not yield half enough rev- enue. I believe that the sugar trust dictates the Porto Rico tariff while favoring free trade with Hawaii. This is my reason: The sugar trust owns practically all the sugar lands of Ha- waii; the sugar lands of Porto Rico are mostly held by small ‘proprietors, eighty acres being a large farm. These farms are for the most part heavily mortgaged. To save them from fore- closure the military government has twice extended the date of foreclosure. The time is now up. If free trade were established, the sugar planters would have such easy access to the American market that they would gen- erally be able to realize enough to meet the mortgages. But even the Small tariff required by the law will so restrict freedom of trade that the sugar exports will be controlled largely by the trust, which has bought and will buy at its own prices. Consequently, the small planters will not be able to raise enough money to redeem their farms, which will be lost by mortgage foreclosure and will eventually pass into the hands of the sugar trust. By that time, the tariff will be a thing of the past and the sugar trust will not have to pay duties on the products of its own lands. AT PRESENT THE TRUST WANTS A TARIFF, SO THAT IT MAY GET CONTROL OF THE SUGAR LANDS; AS SOON AS IT DOES THAT IT WANTS FREE TRADE, AND THAT IS THE REA- SON WHY THE TARIFF WAS IM- POSED AT ALL AND FOR TWO YEARS ONLY.” Read the following confirmation of the Governor, being the Minneapolis Times correspondent’s statement of ac- tion by the committee on insular af- fairs, Washington, April 22: “Some facts have recently come to the knowledge of the members of the insular commictee convincing them that it is absolutely necessary that safeguards should be thrown around the granting of franchises in Porto Rico without delay, to prevent prac- tically all lands and all industries in the island being absorbed by a few great corporations, or possibly one cor- poration. “IT IS UNDERSTOOD BY THE COMMITTEE THAT PLANS ARE AL- READY ON FOOT IN THIS COUN- TRY FOR THE FORMATION OF A COMPANY TO BUY UP THE MORT- GAGES ON. PUERTO RICAN PROP- ERTY, WITH THE OBJECT OF GET- TING CONTROL OF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE OF THE SUGAR, TO- BACCO AND COFFEE LANDS IN THE ISLAND. Promoters of this en- terprise believe that in view of the depression in business that has pre- vailed since the American occupation, and especially since the hurricane of last year, most of the mortgaged lands will have to be sold.” Since this House committee action the Senate bill on the same matter has been amended so as to make the se- curing of all such franchises subject to the President himself, and thus the gobbling process will be just where it is wanted, in the hands of the Presi- dent, whom the corporations interested will see to it is elected, if in their power. THE PHILADELPHIA “FEAST.” Bill of Fare for the Renublican Me- Hanna Convention, June i: 19, 1900. COCKTAIL (Whisky Trust. 000,090.) OYST Blue Points on Deep Shell. (Oyster Trust. $5,000,000.) SOUPS. (Consomme of Packing Combine, $100, ; (Celery Tru: ),000. Farm and Dairy Product’ Co., $15,000,060.) Beer or Ale in Glass or Stein, (American Malting Co., $50,000,000.) ENTREES. Dressed Reef Combine, $10,000,000, 000. 100,000.) United Fruit Co., $20,000, American Sugar Refining American Spirits Mfg. Co., $1 VEGETABLES. (Preserving Combine, $10,000,000.) (Farm and Dairy Product Co., $15,000,000.) Potatoes, Turnips, Sweet Corn, Peas. (No Combine.) PUNCH. Onsrena (American Spirits Mfg. Co.. Whisky Trust, $125,000,000. ROASTS. Prime Ribs of Beef. ~ (Dressed Beef and Packing Combine, $100,- 000,000.) DESSERTS. (American Flour Mfg. Co., $150,000,000.) Bavarian Cream, with Macaroons. (Bakers’ Association, $10.000,000.) (American Pastry Co., $3,000,000.) Strawberry Ice Cream. (American Ice Company, $60,000,000.) (Qlilk Trust, $ 1,000.) FRUIT (United Fruit Co.,.$20,000,000.) American Cheese. (Farm and Dairy Product Co., $15,000,090., Water Crackers. (National Biscuit Co., $55,000,000.) COFFEE. (Arbuckle cones ‘Synateate, $60,000,000. rbuel ‘offee ndicate, ),000,000.. CIGARS, i (Continental Tobacco Co., $75,000,000.) ‘We are more than pleased that our friend, John Swift, is in the editorial harness permanently, he having pur- chased controlling interest in that great labor paper of Minneapolis, the Union. John will make things hum, and his large connection with or- ganized labor should make the Union in greater demand than ever. Events in South Dakota confirm our idea that Brother Wheelock, with his Goppite bureau, would not be able to get up much anti-Pettigrew “steam.” There has not been enough as yet, ap- parently, to make the thing give a “toot.” a Everybody is praising the St. Paul Globe for its red-hot campaign for the Democratic city ticket, regarding it an earnest of what it will do for the State and National organization in No- vember. 4 The Cass Lake Times very kindly in- vites the Anoka Union to “get off the fence.” Others say “get off the earth,” 900 LIVES ARE LOST APPALLING DISASTER IN A MINE IN Lig). UTAH, Over One Hundred and Thirty Bodies | Have Been Recovered and [t Is _| Thought That Over Two Hundred t Lives Have Been Lost—Explosion in Mine No. 4 of the Pleasant Val- ‘i, ley Coal Company Causes the Ter- rible Catastrophe — Hundreds of Willings Hands Engaged in the Work of Rescue. Scofield, Utah, May 3.—The English language cannot describe the appalling disaster which occurred here at 10:25 yesterday forenoon by an explosion in Mine No. 4, of the Pleasant Valley Ccal company and by which certainly 200 men and upward have lost their lives. At this. hour 187 bodies have been recovered and the work of rescue is still proceeding and will continue until all the bodies are brought to the surface. There are Willing Hands at Work and as fast as bodies are reached they are brought down to the board- ing houses and other company build- ings, where they are dressed and pre- pared for the coroner’s inquest. These buildings are numerous, and in each are from ten to thirty-five bodies. When a corpse is brought out’ it is usually carried from the mouth of each tunnel at the respective entrances to the place of deposit. Hére there is a corps of men, from four to ten in number, with sponges, hot and cold water in tubs and other receptacles. The clothing is first removed, the soot, Smoke and Powder Burns washed from their faces, the bodies prepared and laid cut in long robes where they are identified by a with name and address attached to await identification by relatives or friends. The removal of bodies began at 12 o'clock and every diligence is used to get the charred and mangled rémains from out the mine. Many hundreds of men heve freely volun- teered their services and as fast as one set or force is tired or worn out Others Take Their Places. While the stench of smoke and 20w der is sickening, resembling much that of a dissecting room, there sre brave-hearted and brawny men of muscle who have been continuously at work since the moment of the exple- sion. As soon as the accident was known the officials of the coal company. at Salt Lake City and also the rail- road company, were notified of the disaster. and though the number of dead was reported lower than it really is. it- would appear that everything by them that lies in their power has been done. INDIANA. ELECTIONS Most of the Cities Choose New Ofii- cials. Indianapolis, May 3.—Elections were held yesterday for local officials in the cities of Indiana except in a few of those of the larger class. In some lo- ealities a determined struggle was made between Democrats and Repub- lieans. while in most of them local avesticns other than politics ruled. Richmond, Seymour, Logansport, Crawfordsville and Terre Haute went Republican, as did Elkhart, Muncie and other cities of the same class, but with decreased majorities. Democratic gains are shown in Lafayette, Greens- purg, Michigan City, Bloomington, Plymouth, Lebanon, Shelbyville, El- wood. Bloomfield, Anderson and Ve- dersburg. Columbus about the same as last year. Brazil is in complete control of the Democrats for the first time in years. A SHOOTING SCRAPE. Editer aud His Assailant Wounded but Not Fatally. Jacksonville, Fla., May 3.—A shoot- ing occurred on the streets of this city yesterday between Albert M. William- son, editor of the Florida Journal, a weekly paper printed here, and C. Ww. Stansell, a city councilman, William- son was riding along Hogan street oD a bicycle when he met Stansell, who, bystanders say knocked him off his wheel with his ‘cane and fired three shots. Williamson fired twice. WIl- jamson was struck in the femoral ar- tery of the leg and Stensell received a pall in the\neck. Neither is consid- ered fatally wounded. The trouble is said to have been caused by charges made against Stansell in the Florida Journal. An Pech Seat isi ass CLEVELAND MAY RUN. It Is Declared That Powerful East- ern Democrats Are Considering His Name. New York, May 3. — Grover Cleve- land may be urged to accept the fourth-time nomination of the Demo- cratic party for the presidency of the United States, according to a state- ment made-by a prominent leader of a Brooklyn Democratic organization. He declared that the matter was be- ing seriously considered by the pow- erful leaders of the Eastern Democ- racy. Two Brothers Killed. Webb. Miss., May 3. — Robert and William Chambers, two prominent young men of this community, were shot and killed by T. B. Abbey, a citi- zen of Webb. The Chambers boys went to Abbey’s plantation and insti- tuted a search for some negroes. Later they met Abbey and in an altercation the latter shot and killed them both. Abbey has the reputation of being a quiet and peaceful citizen. Miles of Crops Submerged. Dallas, Tex., May 3. — The Trinity river is still rising. The crops in the valley for 200 miles are submerged. Reports to county officials state that much live stock has been drowned in small pastures, along the river. ” serious Charge Against a Woman. hole a eierten poate charged Frost was” y with poisoning her husband. The cor- oner is now awaiting the analysis of est coolly, Bit am | ashe