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j J. H. E3TILL, President. I
NOT A LIFE YIELDED UP.
JACKSONVILLE MAKES THE BEST
REPORT IN WEEKS.
Nine of the Fifteen New Cases Are
Among: the Whites—Saundera
Wanted More Than His Wife—Hazen
Fails to Re-Enter the City to Make
a Teat Case.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 15.—Presi
dent Neal Mitchell’s official bulletin for the
twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock
to-night is as follows:
Kew cases 15
heaths 0
Total number of cases to date .. .4,583
Total number of deaths to date... K 96
The w hites added to the sick list to-day,
were:
Dr. Williams.
Mrs. Tracy.
Louis HuFFBUNERof South Jacksonville.
Mrs. Somerville of St. Nicholas.
Frank Hendrix, living at the corner of
Orange and Cedar streets.
Edgar R. Bradford of Fairfield.
.Manda Gugal of No. 412 West Monroe
street.
Mannie Harris of No. 515 West Duval
street.
Mac Hirschman, at the LaCourse brick
yard.
Nine whites and six negroes make up the
total.
SAUNDERS IS WANTED MOST.
The Saunders sensation is by no means
dying out, and the case has assumed anew
lihsse. Mrs. Saunders is now put in the
background, and her husband looms up as
the one on whom public interest will center,
as he has been arrested in Atlanta. “We
know nothing about Mrs. Saunders,” said
Steve Wiggins, one of the committee on
nurses, this morning, “and we care very
little about her and the McDonald woman
affair, but we are interested in getting
Saunders back, as matters are accumulating
against him, and we expect to make him
disgorge some of the booty that he has car
ried away.”
SAUNDERS’ BOOTY.
“I have a little list,” continued Mr.
Wiggins, “and this list contains jewely,
numerous silver spoons, knives, forks, nap
kins nud other boarding-house appliancos,
11, aking <;uiteacompleteassortment. Intact
there is enough of this sort of stuff missing
to run a good boarding-house.” Saunders, it
will be remembered, stated that he was go
ing rff to Philadelpnia to start a boarding
house in that city, and no doubt wanted to
e(|uip himseif so as to go into business right
away. Evidently Saudors has a decided
aversion to returning to Jacksonville, for
as soon ns he was arrested in Atlanta, he
sent for Frank Pope, who is now a yellow
fever refugee in the Gate City, and, after
consultation. Mr. Pope sent the following
dispatch to Mr. Wiggins: *
What amount of money will you take to
order Saunders released from 'the charges
brought against him. Telegraph Immediately.
Frank Pope.
MONEY REFUSED.
“What did you answer?” asked the re
porter.
“I sent him the following:
F. W. Pope:
Tills is not a matter of money. Nothing
short of Saunders will be satisfactory.
Steve Wiggins.
“This will bring our man.” said Mr. Wig
gins, as he returned the telegram to his
pocket, and this morning I sent J. H. Nor
n-, a special officer, tickets and money to
return with the prisoner, and we expect to
have him here shorily, when a full investi
gation will be made.”
HAZEN KEEPS OUT OF TOWN.
William Hazen, the returned refugee from
New' York, did not come into town this
morning from Burnside Beach as he ex-
I ectod, and it is a good thing that he didn’t,
for a squad of police were awaiting to ar
rest him on his arrival. There were looks
of disappointment in the faces of the po
licemen when Razen’s face was found miss
ing, and investigation showed that he had
concluded to remain at Burn-ide Beach
until he got a permit from Dr. Porter.
FAILED TO APPEAR.
At noon to-day Mr. Mudge informed the
News correspondent that ho had instructed
Hazen to come up to-morrow morning and
he (.Mudge) would make a tost case of
whether the town council had any right to
pass such an ordinance. It remains to be
teen wiiat the city is going to do.
Mrs. Bryan Taliaferro was buriod this
morning in the Evergreen cemetery. As
Rr 'in as the quarantine is raised her remains
will be removed to Tallahassee.
Mill Cove is reported to have yellow
fever, and the people there are trying to
conceal it.
Baltimore sent SIOO yesterday to Capt.
Somerville for the benefit of the yellow
fever sick of the Scottish association.
DR. PORTER’S PROTEST.
w ashington, Nov. IB. —Surgeon General
Hamilton has received a telegram from Sur
geon Porter, at Jacksonville, saying:
‘ A t’lydo steamer has arrived at Mayport
with a larKe number of refugees, and it is going
to Ik- difficult t> keoD them out of Jacksonville.
| key will be arrested if they come in. It is un
derstood that a large number are coming down
on the next steamer from New York, I request
“■at you take steps to prevent the steamer’s
bringing them, as Mayport is only thirty-five
miles from here, with almost constant cominu
m it ion: besides several cases of fever have
Uevelojied there.
ELLAVILLE HAS HAD FEVER.
A telegram from Surgeon Hutton at
! “nip Perry, says that Surgeon Geddings
inspected Ellaville, Fla., and found three
actual cases of fover, hut is satisfied that
tl ore have been tweivo altogether. I)r.
Geddings returned to the camp ill with
malarial fever.
GREAT REJOICING.
There is'great rejoicing over the fact that
there were no deaths to-day. Such an an
nouncement has not been made since Oct.
18.
the exclusion ordinance.
Hi view of the complications likely to
Bnse under the exclusion ordinance, Mayor
Gi row to-day issued the following:
here seems to exist nine apprehension con
-1 ling the purpose for which the council
passed the recent ordinance to protect the
1 >hh of the city by preventing the premature
lil r 'yof refugees from yellow fever infection
"" I others. Now ,in order to quiet such mis
apprehension, I hereby call the attention of the
"c ue to the language of the act of the legis
lature creating the city of Jackson*
,l "- which confers upon the council
i" w, ' r to pass all ordiuaneea necessary
'Tine health, convenience and safety of the
viti/ens, in passing tile above ordinance the
council was not influenced by any desire to put
“'done to unnecessary inconvenience, nut
h ‘ Iv io promote the best interests of all, and,
m trie same spirit, I shall make every effort to
eiiiorce its provisions. D. T. Gerow,
Acting Mayor.
AN ALLEGED IMPOSTOR.
A special to the 'litnes-L'nion from Live
Gak says:
A man claiming to represent the relief com
mittee of this place and asking for aid for this
I ' ice is a fraud. Nothing is needed here. We
nave no fever here now and business Is being
resumed. W. T. Whitfield.
President City Council.
Ihe alleged Impostor’s name is R. W.
Bussell, and he published his appeal in a
sporting paper of Chicago.
DECATUR’S EPIDEMIC.
Dr. Cochran Confident That the Fever
was Imported There.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 16. —Dr.
Jerome Cochran, state health officer, has
returned from Decatur. In reference to
the yellow fever epidemic lately prevailing
there he furnishes the following:
I have been requested to state whether, in
my opinion, tho yellow fever in Decatur was
due to local conditions there, and I have rio
hesitation in diving that 1 believe that Decatur
was simply unfortunate. Yellow fever was im
fiorted there at a time favorable to its spread,
u a word Ido not believe that Decatur is any
more liable to yellow fever than other towns in
the same latitude. Jerome Cochran, M. D.
Fernandina’a New Cases.
Fernandina, Fla., Nov. 16. —To-night’s
fever bulletin is as follows:
New cases 8
Deaths 0
John Acosta, white, and seven negroes,
make up to-day’s total.
One New Case at Sanderson.
Sanderson, Fla., Nov. 16.—The fever
report for the past twenty-four hours
shows one new ease, that of Clara Leverette,
whose mother is quite ill.
One Case at Gainesville.
Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 16.—Surgeon
Martin reports one new case to-day, that of
a negro. _
STEALING OF THE SILVER.
The Express Company Makes the Loss
Good to the Government.
Washington, Nov. 16. —The responsi
bility for the $1,400 in standard silver
dollars recently shipped from the mint at
New Orleans to the United States treasurer
at Washington, delivered in the form of
bird shot, has been practically established
by the payment of the amount in question
to the treasurer by the agent of the express
company.
THE THIEF UNDISCOVERED.
Wiiile thus tacitly admitting the responsi
bility for the loss, the express company
has, so far as known, been unable to dis
cover how, and by whom, the boxes con
taining the silver were tampered with. The
matter is still under investigation, and may
yet be unraveled.
PROFESS INDIGNATION.
The officers of the express company are
somewhat indignant over what they re
gard as the premature publication of the
discovery of the theft, on the theory that if
the persons concerned in the matter had not
been informed of the discovery of their
operations, they might easily have been de
tected attempting to repeat the act of ex
changing shot for the silver contents of
the bags in which money is transmitted.
EXPERT MONEY COUNTERS.
The Positions Not Hedged by Civil
Service Examinations.
Washington, Nov. 16. —The President
has approved the recommendation made by
the civil service commissioners revoking
that part of the civil service rules which
provide for the appointment of
expert money counters in the treas
urer’s office upon non-competitive exami
nation. The recommendation of the
commission is based on the
ground that there are no experts to be
tested. The duties of tbe office, the com
mission says, can only be learned in actual
performance of the work itself, and they
therefore recommend that persons be se
lected for these positions from the eligible
lists of the commission and trained after
ward in the particular work required.
A SLAVER BOARDED.
After the Removal of Two Out of 400
the Vessel Proceeds.
Zanzibar, Nov. 16.—British officers
boarded the Belgian steamer Brabo off the
coast to-day and found that she was carry
ing 400 slaves who were destined for the
Crfngo. The British took away two slaves,
who swore that they had been forcibly kid
naped, and allowed the vessel to proceed.
The mode of obtaining slaves appears to be
to make advances to tbe owners to enable
them to purchase others. The incident has
caused a scandal, it having been found that
arrangements for the traffic were made
through a former Belgian consul.
FIRE ON A COTTON STEAMER.
Charleston’s Fire Fighters at Work on
the Vessel.
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 16.—The
British steamer Sandringham, loading with
cotton at Vanderhorst’s wharf, for Reval,
was found to be on fire in her forward hold
at 9 o’clock to-night. She is nearly loaded,
and the extent of the damage is not yet
ascertainable. She has 1,400 bales of cotton
abroad. Vessel and cargo are insured
abroad. The tire is hard to reach. Two
tugs and four engines are playing on it.
The loss is expected to be heavy.
SHOT BY HIS OWN TRAP.
A Hunter Lies in the Woods All Night
Terribly Wounded.
Wausau, Wis., Nov. 16.—Ernest Engem,
a hunter from Milwaukee, last nijffit ar
ranged a set-gun for deer. Getting lost in
the woods he ran into his own trap and re
ceived the whole charge in his thigh. He
was found this morning unconscious by a
party of searchers. After being shot he
dragged himself to his gun and fired signals
for help through the night. His recovery
is doubtful.
HAD SLAIN 32 MEN.
A Bad |Man from Texas Meets Hla
Match at Last.
St. Louis, Nov. 16.—A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Gainesville, Tex., says:
Capt. John Miller was killed on his farm near
Jonestown, I. TANARUS., last Monday, by James Allies,
a tenant. Miller charged Abies with purchasing
goods and having them charged to him. and
finally assaulted Abies with a knife, whereupon
the latter shot his assailant dead. Miller was
regarded as a dangerous man. being credited
with having killed no less than thirty-two men.
Brakemen Compromise.
, Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 16.—The brake
men’s strike on the Louisville, New Albany
and Chicago road was compromised to-day,
tho company agreeing to pay through
brakemen 2 cents per mile and local brake
men 2.10 cents. The demaud of the strikers
for a third brakeman on each train has
been dropped.
B. & O’a President.
Washington, Nov. 16.—President Cleve
land denies the published story that he is a
candidate for tho presidency of the Balti •
more and Ohio Railroad Company. There
is reason to lieliove that Senator Gorman is
a candidate for that place, and that he will
be elected.
Bond Offerings and Acceptances.
Washington, Nov. 16.—The bond offer
ings to-day aggregated $102,700, of which
$ 12,700 4&S were accepted at 10TX, ex
interest.
SAVANNAH, GA„ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 188S.
CRUEL CRIMES IX ERIN.
lady montmorris faints on
THE WITNESS STAND.
The Story of the Murder of Her Hus
band More Than She Could Bear
Up Under Before the Parnell Com
mission-Men Dancing Around His
Blood.
London, Nov. IB. —The proceedings of
tbe Parnell commission to-day were made
interesting by the appe >ranco on the witness
stand of Lady MontmorriJ, whose husband,
Lord Montmorris, was murdered at Cloa
bar, county Galway, in 1880. Lady Mot t
morris testified that a friendly feeling had e s
isted between her husband and his tenants
on the Ebor Hall estates at Clonbar un
til the laud league began to hold meetings
there. In July, 1880, her husband obtained
a writ of ejectment against a tenant. In
the following September, while the witness
was in Scotland, her husband was shot. She
went to Ireland to attend the funeral.
She heard that men refused to assist in put
ting the coffin in the hearse. The witne-s
left Ebor Hail in October. While on ber
way to the steamer people laughel ac and
hooted her, and a stone was thrown at her
8-year-old son. Her husband received
threatening notices only after league meet
ings had been held.
FAINTS ON THE STAND.
Sir Charles Russell, counsel for the Par
nellitos, was proceeding to cross examine
Lady Montmorris upon the exact dates of
the league meetings alluded to when the
witness fainted, and would have fit Hen to
the floor had not a court officer caught her.
Sir Charles there upon intimated that he
would not proceed any further in the cross
examination.
Constable Drummond, of Clonbar, was
then called. He testified that during the
inquiry into the murder of Lord Montmor
ris he couid net get any assistance from the
people. After the formation of the land
league he had noticed a decided change in
tbe manner of the people toward landlords.
On cross-examination he said he attributed
the hostility of tbe people toward Lord
Montmorris partly to his lordship’s conduct
in his capacity as a magistrate, and part ly
to his attitude on the land question. Mr.
Davitt then cross-examined the witness and
elicited a statement that Lord Montmorris
had led the people to believe that he held
secret communications with tho Dublin
castle authorities.
DANCING AROUND THE BLOOD.
Sergt. O’Connor testified that he saw a
number of men with hands joined dancing
around some marks of blood on the sp.it
where Lord Montmorris was murdered.
Sir Henry James, of the Times' counsel,
then announced that it was now proposed to
give evidence in relation to outrages com
mitted in county Kerry.
Sir Charles Russell protested. He said it
would be very difficult to follow the ca e if
the prosecutors moved from one county to
another without touching evidence connect
ing the outrages with the persons accused.
THE JUSTICE OF THE SAME OPINION.
Presiding Justice llannen agreed with
Mr. Russell that the commission could fol
low the evidence by the method in which it
was proposed to give it only with enormous
difficulty. But when assured by the counsel
that there was no other means to shorten
the case than the course proposed, the court
was bound to assent. *
Mr. Russell thereupon said warmly: “All
I can do, then, is to protest against the
course, which certainly will not conduce to
facilitate the inquiry.”
CALLED TO HIS DOOR AND SHOT.
Patrick Sullivan, a farmer of county
Kerry, was then examined. He said that
in June, 1884, a man came to his door,
called him out and shot him with a re
volver. After he had recovered from his
wound he was called upon to attend a meet
ing of the league, where he was asked to let
a particular tenant off with a reduction of
rent. He gave his assent. IV hen cross
examined, the witness said that he did not
connect the shooting with any member of
the league. At tho meeting he was not
threatened in any way.
AN IMPUTATION.
Sullivan was then re-examined by Attor
ney General Webster, who asked: “Since
you came here to-day, have you spoken to
either of the Messrs. Harrington ?”
Timothy Harrington, rising from his
place in the counsel’s seat, said: “I never
remember having seen the witness before.”
Edward Harringtrn, who was seated on
the benoh behind counsel, also arose and ex
claimed: “This an unfair imputation. I
have never seen the man before to-day. It
is hard to have our names thus dragged in.”
Justice Hannen, addressing Timothy Har
rington, said: “This proceeding is quite
irregular. You ought to know that you
cannot take part in the case both as counsel
and.as witness.”
COURT ADJOURNS IN A HUFF.
Mr. Harrington—l did not appear as a
witness.
Justice Hannen—You cannot interfere at
all.
Mr. Harrington—The attorney general
mentioned my name and I must request tho
protection of the court.
Justice Hannen—Let tjhe court adjourn.
We must preserve decorum.
The judges left the bench hurridly amid
a scene of groat excitement. The counsel
for both sides remained in their places, and
Mr. Harrington consulted with the counsel
for the defense.
The judges were absent ten minutes,
when they returned to their places on the
bench. Mr. Harrington immediately said
that ho had not meant aiiy disrespect to the
court.
Justice Hannen responded: “All persons
alike must obey tho directions of the court.
I am glad to receive your statement.”
The taking of evidence was then re
sumed.
CUT OFF ONE OF HIS KARS.
Giles Reay, anothor Kerry farmer, testi
fied that disguised men came to his house,
blindfolded his wife, and cut off one of his
ears. On cross exami nation the witness de
nied (hat he had called on tbe treasurer of the
local league the next day and asked him to
get a check cashed made by Bennett Stew
art to the order of Arthur Blcnnerhassett.
Tiie witness had attended a meeting at
Tralee, at which Timothy Harrington made
a speech and discussed, among other sub
jects. non payment of rent.
When cross examined by Mr. Harring
ton, the witness said the meeting was called
to consider the case of tho eviction of a
man named O’Shea, the gavernment valua
tion of whoso holding was £l. At the
time of the eviction, however, O'Shea was
being charged £lO. O’Shea had not paid a
farthing of rent since Harrington’s speech.
The court then adjourned.
BALFOUR ANSWERS GLADSTONE.
Mr. Balfour, cidef secretary for Ireland,
made a speech to-night at Leeds. In criti
cising Mr. Gladstone’s speech at Birming
ham he said that the allegations set forth
by the ex-premier were characterized by
unblushing impudence. It was monstrous
that tho very mac who had appointed the
bulk of the resident magistracy in
Ireland, although he well knew that
such Invectives had led to murder or suicide,
should, in order to obtain a cheer from a
Birmingham mob, hold them up to tho
odium of their fellow men. Never once iu
the course of his long speech had Mr. Uln -
stone deviated into accuracy. A more
scandalous performance had novor been
given by a gr, at statesman.
EDWARD HARRINGTON SUMMONED.
Dublin, Nov. 16. —Edward| Harrington,
member of parliament for We t Kerry, lias
been summoned for inciting to boycotting.
He will be tried on Nov. 2(i.
MINISTERS OFTHU COLONIES.
Victoria’s Premier a Believer in Ap
pointments from London.
Melbourne, Nov. 10.- —The assembly to
day debated the abstract right of the col
onies to taka partin the nomination of their
respective governors. Tho premier, w ith
out discussing the Queensland question,
pointed out that tho constitution
gave to the queen alone the
power of appointment, her majesty
acting on the advice of ministers
responsible to the imperial parliament. He
called particular attention to the probabil
ity of a deadlock if the selection of a gov
ernor rested with both the colonial and
imperial parliaments. He refused to indorse
such a schema, and said he was confident
that the less tbe colonies insisted upon
sharing in the power to appointor nomi
nate, tne better it would be for the colonies.
The premier’s remarks were received with
cheers. Other members spoke in a similar
strain.
QUEENSLAND’S GOVERNORSHIP.
London, Nov. 16.— Sir Arthur Hunter
Palmer, acting governor of Queensland,
has telegraphed to Lord Kuutsford, colonial
secretary, notifying him of opposition iu
the colony to the appointment of Henry
Arthur Blake as governor. He says that
Mr. Blafce is not known to have adminis
tered a responsible government with discre
tion and success, and that Queensland is
entitled to have a governor of proved
ability and discretion. Mr. Blake’s ex
perience in colonial governorship is confined
to a year’s governorship of Newfoundland,
while his previous experience would only
disqualify him for the duties ho would be
called on to perform.
THE OBJECTION TO BLAKF..
The objection to Mr. Blake in Queens
land, Gov. Palmer says, was spontaneous,
immediate and general, and was more
strongly accentuated because the nomina
tion followed a crisis in which rigid adher
ence to tho exercise of the privilege had to
give way to a responsible government.
The governor cannot be appointed from an
imperial standpoint alone, continues Gov.
Palmer. The colony pays his salary and
expects him to be a governor of Whom the
people approve and who will work heartily
and loyally for the colony’s interest.
RESENTED BY RUSSIA.
A Paris Paper Reminded that There
Is a Limit to Insinuation.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 16.—The Journal
dc St. Petersburg, referring to the asser
tions made by the Paris Matin in relation
to the Franco-Itussian alliance, says:
There are limits to the right of insinuation.
Russia certainly desires to see France regain
her legitimate position among the nations,
which is necessary to preserve thd equilibrium
of Europe, but she is convinced that pome is
for the interest of both France and Russia.
Such insinuations, therefore, can only injure
the cause they claim to defend.
THE TROOPS ON THE FRONTIER.
It is officially declared that the assertions
made by the Kreuz Zeitung and Post of
Berlin that the redistribution of troops in
Western Russia implied an advance, and
that Russian garrisons on the frontier have
been strenghtened by two, and in some
cases three divisions are without founda
tion. According to the latest army list the
headquarters of all the divisions mentioned
in the recent ukase are stations in localities
corresponding to Rayons of their respective
army corps.
THE ONLY EXCEPTIONS.
The only exceptions to this rule are as
follows: Thirty-third infantry division,
having headquarters at. Kieff, will join the
Ninth army corps at Orel; the Nineteenth
infantry division, with headquarters at
Stavropel. will join the Twelfth army
corps at Kieff; the Eighth infantry division,
witii headquarters at Warsaw, and the
Thirteenth cavalry division, with head
quarters at Lublin, will join the Fifteenth
army corps at Kasin. Tbe changes in
volve the recall of two infantry and one
cavalry divisions from tho west to the east,
and a reduction of the infantry division of
the Caucasian army.
GALES OFF ENGLAND.
Great Damage to Property and Ship
ping on tbe West Coast.
London, Nov. 16.— Violent gales have
caused numerous wrecks on the west coast
of Great Britain. Among the vessels which
have met with disaster is the Norwegian
i ark Hypatia, Capt 'I hornnssen, which left
Parrsboro, N. H.. Oct. 25, for Liverpool.
She was wrecked at Church bay, near Holy
Head, on the Welch coast. No lives were
lost.
At Glasgow the wind blew with the force
of a hurricane and did much damage The
dome of the exhibition building was de
molished and the ladies’ industrial depart
ment in the building was wrecked.
The gale was ais • severe in tho northern
part of Ireland, where much damage was
done to property. At Belfast the wind
blew with frightful force, and several ves
sels were wrecked at the entrance to Bel
fast lough.
LONDON’S TIMES APOLOGIZES.
Hon. Bir John Pope Hennessy Given a
Formal Verdict.
London, Nov. 16.—Hon. Hir John Pope
Hennessy, while governor of Mauritius, be
gan proceedings in action against the Lon
don Times for libel. Since then the Times
has apologized for its offensive language.
The case came up in court to-day, and t e
judge disposed of it by giving a formal ver
dict for tne plaintiff.
British Traders Ruined.
London, Nov. 16. Indian papers assert
that 1,000 British Indian traders have been
ruined in the German East African settle
ments. The government will be asked
whether a claim will be made fur compensa
tion from Qermany.
New War Ships for England.
London, Nov. 17, 4 a. m.—lt is stated
that tho cabinet has upproved the proposed
expenditures for new war vessels. The
scheme is to build eight first-class men-of
war. n score of swift cruisers, and many
torpedo vessels.
Backville’s Successor.
London, Nov. 16.—Parliament will be
questioned on Monday with reference to
the appointment of a successor to Lord
Backville as British minister at Washing
ton On Thursday the fisheries dispute will
be brought up.
An Earthquake Shock.
Guayaquil, Nov. 16.—A very heavy
shock of earthquake was experienced bare
at 2:35 o’clock this afternoon. People fled
from their houses, thoroughly panic
stricken.
CAPTURE OF THE HOUSE.
NO TELLING Y’ET WHICH PARTY
WILL HAVE CONTROL.
Clerk Clark Points Out That Death
May Tuko a Hand in Determining
the Body’s Political ComDlexion—A
Belief That It Will Not be Over Five
Either Way.
Washington, Nov. 16.— Gen. John R.
Clark, Jr., clerk of the Hour, believes that
160 ileu: crntic representatives have been
elected, and that mx districts are in doubt.
This calculation is based upon t .e assump
tion that Wilson, dem,, is elected in West
Virginia. As doubtful, Gen. Clark’s esti
mates are: The First district of California,
Tenth of Kentucky, Second of North Cun -
lina, and First, Third and Fourth of West
Virginia.
OFFICIAL COUNTS NECESSARY.
These districts ho sets down as doubtful,
because they are claimed by both parties
on small majorities; so small that the offi
cial count must bo awaited to determine tin*
result. Iu the case of Bacon, dent., -f New
York, who U reported detested by eijhtv
majority, Gen. Clark expects that a contest
will ensue. Of sine tiling he is confident,
and that is that the majority in the next
Hou o will not bo over li re either ay.
FUNCTIONS OF TUB CLERK.
Relative to the functions of tho cleric ii
the organization of the new House and tho
power ho is suppose 1 to be nbl > t exercise
in seating or unseating numbers, lieu.
Clark ka\s thnt Ins duties are fixed by
statute and are purely ministerial. If a
member-elect {'resents a proper certificate
of election his name will he placed on the
ioil, and not otherwise. There cannot be
duplicate certificites, because tdieie areal,
present no dual state governments, ns there
bave been in titnos pa t in tho south.
BUT ONE CERTIFICATE RECEIVED.
Gen. Clark said that from official records
before him, it appeared that tho republi
cans had elected a majority of one in the
next House, and this was b ouuse up to the
present time but one certificate had baen
presented to him, namely, that of Mr. Her
man of Oregon. The certificates are usually
a loug time coming in, as they ore not is
sued till some time after the official returns
are made public. In the caso of Missouri,
tills does not take place until January, and
in many other states the date is equally re
mote from election day.
INTERESTING POSSIBILITIES.
Roturns of claims of both parties to very
narrow majorities of 3 to 5 or ti suggests in
teresting possibilities when it is remem
bered that no less than six persons who
were olected to the Forty-ninth oongivss
died either before they had been sworn in,
or after they had taken their seats, and
that thore is n strong probability that thero
will be some deaths among 525 men of ma
ture years during the long period—thirteen
months—intervening between election day
and the assembling of the next congress.
QUAY’S CLAIM.
Senator Quay, chairman of the republi
can national committee, said to an Asso
ciated l’ress repo ter this afternoon
that tho republicans would certainly liai e
control of the next House by a majority of
five, and that the:r umj irity might be nine.
There were several doubtful districts, the
result in which, bo said, would determine
whether their majority would be higher or
lower than tho figure given. Senator Quay
declined, for the present, to give any par
ticulars upon which his figures are based, or
to state what districts were still regarded as
doubtful.
VIRTUALLY CONCEDED.
Special to the Morning News.
The democratic leaders here now prac
tically concede the fact that the next House
will be republican by a very small ma
jority. They think it was seem ed like the
success of the republican national ticket by
Quay’s peculiar methods, but they admit
that on the face of the returns the repub
licans will be able to organize the House.
They do not bolieve, however, that tho
republican maj <rny will bo so large as to
enable the republicans to do much mischief.
The democrats think they will be strong
enough to stop any absolutely bad legisla
tion, and, for tbe rest, think it perhaps just
as well that tho republicans should have
full responsibility with the accompanying
power. The republican members of the
next House, who have been in town sinco
the election, all seem to agree that Mr. Mc-
Kinley is most likely to be tho next
speaker of the House. Mr. Reed is
a New England man, afid besides is
needed on the floor. Mr. McKinley is the
foremost westerner, and is not neoded on
the floor. Ho will not bo retrained from
taking tho place by any foolish sip er.-tltion
about its affecting his presidential
chances. He realizes that 1892 is four
years off.
MARYLAND’S FIFTH DISTRICT.
Baltimore, Nov. 16.—Official returns
from every precinct in the Fifth congres
sional district, with the execution of those
from tbe Fifth and Ninth ilis riots of
Charles county, have been filed with tho
secretary of state at Annapolis. They give
Compton a plurality. The missing returns
are expected to add 153 to Mudd’s, ren.,
vote, which will reduce Compton’s plural
ity to 28. The republicans claim that errors
in Calvert will wipe out this plurality en
tirely. At any rate, the alleged intimida
tion of colored voters in Anne Arundel
county will be made the basis of a contest
iu the next House.
Indiana’s congressmen.
Indianapolis, Nov. 16. —The footing! of
tho official returns of the congressional
vote of Indiana wero completed at a late
liour to-night. The delegation stands ten
democrats and three republicans, a demo
cratic gain of four congressmen in the First,
Eighth, Eleventh and Twelfth districts.
The following are the official pluralities:
First district, Barrett, dem., over Posey,
rep., plurality 20; Hecond district, O'Neil,
dem,, over Braxton, rep., 11,884; Third dis
trict, Brown, dem., over Bay leu, rep., 3,074;
Fourth district, Holman, ilein., over Wil
son, rep., 738; Fifth di*trict, Cooper, dem.,
over Duncan, rep., 791; Sixth district,
Brown, rep , over Morris, dem., 6,372;
•Seventhdistrict. Bynum, dem., over Chand
ler, rep., 1,727; Kiglith district, Brookshire,
dem., over Johnson, rep., 69; Ninth district.
Cheadle, rep., over McCabe, dem.. 4,450;
Tenth district, Owen, rep., over Zimmer
man, dem., 1,156; Eleventh district,Martin,
dern., over Hteele, rep.. 476; Twelfth dis
trict, McClellan, dem., over YVinte, rep.,
11,111; Thirteenth district, Shively, dem.,
over Haynes, rep., 355.
Tbo total congressional rite of Indiana
is .632,997, divide 1 as follows: Republican
261,756, democratic 259,985, prohibition
9,252, labor 2,004; republican congressional
plurality 1,771. Tlio prohibitionists had no
candidates in tbe Fourth district, and the
Labor party had none in tbe Seventh and
Thirteenth, so that the above figures do not
give the full voting strength of these par
ties, as will be shown by tho electoral vote.
DEFEAT CONCEDED.
San Francisco, Nov. 16.—L. T. Thomp
son, dem., In his paper tho Sonoma Demo
crat. editorially concede* bis defeat for re
election in the First congressional district,
in tins state. Ills successor, Deiiaven, is a
republican.
PEACE IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
Guy and Byrd Both Withdraw from
the Race for Governor.
Kansas City, Nov. 16. —A special to the
Times from Muskogee, I. TANARUS., reports an
amicable adjustment of the iliflcultios be
tween Uov. Guy, of the Chickasaw nation,
and tho Byrd faction. At the suggestion of
Gov. Guy a conference was held at Tishi
mino to-day, w hich resulted in the with
drawal of both Guv and Bi rd and an agree
ment to suloiituto for the office of govern ir
Chief Wolf, one of the second chiefs. The
partisans on both sides have laid down their
arms ami all are engaged in the celobrat ou
of tiie happy conclusion of what might have
been u serious outbreak.
SUFFRAGE IN RHODE ISLAND.
The Bowen Amendment to the Consti
tution Adopted.
Providence, tt. 1., Nov.;ltl. —To-day the
governor, secretary of state and attorney
general officially counted the votes cast last
April on ivhat is known as the Bowen
amendment to the constitution. This
amendment is numbered 7, and enfran
chises every male citizen of the United
States of tho age of 2t years, who
has had liis residence and home in
this siate for two years and
in the town or city in which ho may offer
to vole six months next preceding tiie time
of voting; it abolishes the property quuliti
cati in for voting for general officers. Tho
vote was* Approve, 20,068 ; reject, 12,193, a
majority over t lie three-fifths of the total
vote necessary for its adoption.
CLEVELAND’3 HEAVY MAIL.
It has Inorcasnd Greatly Since tho
Election.
Washington, Nov. 16. —The President’s
mail has been steadily u creasing ever silica
the eloction. Besides tho abusive letters,
none of which tiie President sees, a great
many kind letters, expressing personal re
gret that President Cleveland is not to l>o in
tho white house for four years more, are
coming iu. Every one of tiieso letters ex
press, in some form, the belief that tariff
reform was not defeated but only postponed
by tho election.
IOWA REFORMING.
A Democratic State officer Elected for
tho First Time in Thirty-One Years.
Des Moines, la., Nov. 16.—The official
returns received by tbe secretary of state
to-day settle the closest election contest in
the bistort of lowa. Out of a total vote of
over 400,000, Fetor A. Day, dem., has
a!> ut 590 majority over John Malifn, ren.,
candidate for railroad commissioner. Tiie
other republican candidates, Bmith and
Campbell, have largo majorities. It is
I liirty-one years since a democrat has beea
olected to any state office in lowa.
Kentucky’s Largest Vote.
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 16.—Roturns
from ail but three small counties in this
state gi vo Cleveland 181,394, Harrison 153,-
732; Cleveland’s plurality, 27,062. Tho re
maining counties will make the democratic
plurality about 28,000. The total vote is
tho largest over cast in Kentucky.
Harrisonburg's Republicans.
Harrisonburg, Va., Nov. 16.—The re
publicans of this county met here to-night
and celebrated the election of Harrison and
Morton. About 1,509 were in lino iviih
torches,' banners and transparencies. There
was also a display of fireworks.
Sentenced for Election Crimes.
New' Y’grk, Nov. 16.—Five men con
victed of illegal voting or registration were
to-day sentenced to terms of imprisonment
ranging from one year and nine months to
three years and nine months.
Quay’s Hoadquarters Closed.
New York, Nov. 16.—The republican
national committee clßsed its headquarters
at No. 91 Fifth avenue to-day.
MAJ. LOGAN’S RETURN.
His Captors More Interested In Spoils
than Anything Else.
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 16.— Maj. T. N. Lo
gan of tiie Fifth Infantry, commanding at
Fort Hancock, forty miles east of El Paso,
who, together with three United States sol
diers, was arrestod while on a hunt across
the Rio Grande, iu Mexico, last Sunday,
arrived here last evening. The party was
arrested Sunday afternoon and detained till
Tuesday morning. Maj. Logan says Ins
captors'were five in number, and did their
work in tiie regular “hold up" style, draw
ing Winchesters on the Americans and dis
arming them.
IN bad repute at home.
The capturing force belonged to the gen
darmes guard of the states, and they seemed
to be in bail reputo am >ng Mexican citizens
and customs officials, who expressed grot
indignation at tho arrest. Tho president of
the town of Guadaloupe, where the major
mid his s .Idlers were taken, prevented their
captors from locking them up as they first
proposed to do.
bent on spoils.
Maj. Logan says that the gendarmes
seemed entirely bent on spoils, and even
went so far as to discuss how much each of
them would get from the sale of the major’s
outfit. Maj. Logan says that in crossing
the river to hunt he was merely doing what
both Americans and Mexicans do dally, and
that noitlior custom nor as far us ho knows,
tho law, justifies tho capture, which ho
regards as an outrage.
GIRLS CAUGHT BY A TRAIN.
Two of Them Buffer Horrible Deaths
But the Third Escapes.
Circleville, 0., Nov. 16.—Throe young
girls, Mamie Tann, Allio Redman and
Emma Nickens, while passing over the
canal bridge yesterday, were caught by a
1 rain of curs on the Cincinnati and Miami
Vul ley road.
Miss Tann suffered the loss of a log, and
died last, evening.
Allio Kedmon was horribly mangled and
died instantly. Her leg wan cut off and her
bodv was cut in twain.
The Nickens girl jumped off, alighting on
a stringer of the bridge, where she lay until
the train had pa-sol over her.
KILLED WHILE HUNTING.
An Alabama Boy Accidentally Shoots
His companion.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 16.—1n Brownville,
Ala., this afternoon, Walter Worscham ac
cidentally shot and instantly killed his
cousin, Ed Andrews. Worscham is only 12
years old, and Andrews 15. The boys were
out hunting and Worscharn’s gun was ac
cidentally discharged, the entire load tak
ing effect in Andrews' neck.
Durham’s Broken Bank.
New York, Nov. 16.—An attachment
against the property of the bank of Dur
ham has been granted In favor of Arthur
C. Elliott In a suit for $5,984.
t DAILY, $lO A YEAR. $
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(WEEKLY,SI,IIS A Y EAR. 1
STRENGTH OF THE SAW.
FACTS FROM TriE CHIEF NAVAL
CONSTRUCTOR'S REPORT.
Eighty-Two Vessels of All Klnd3 In
tho Service—A Smaller Number of
Students in Attendance at tha
Academy at Annapolis—Bound to
Break Up Hazing.
Washington, Nov. 16. —ln the annual
report of Chief Naval Constructor YVilson,
tho present strength of the navy and condi
tion of the vessels is stated as follows: Five
double turretod monitors, awaiting comple
tion; two belted cruisers, preparing ways;
thirteen single turroted monitors, in ordi
nary; twenty-three unarmored steel and
iron vesseD, four of which are in commis
sion, eleven building, two repairing, flvo
on station and one in ordinary; twenty
eight wooden steam vessels, nearly all on
station or undergoing repairs, and eleven
iron and wood steam tugboats.
ANNAPOLIS NAVAL ACADEMY.'
In liis annual report to the Secretary of
the Navy, Commander W. T. Hampson
superintendent of the United Sta'es Navel
Academy, say.i that at the cl' se of tha
academic year iu June, 1888, there were 191
cadets at the academy, as against 232 at tha
opening In October, 1887, a perce tnge f
loss of 17. In September 68 candidates
were examined and 47 passed, or ti 4 pep
cent, passed the entering examination,
while 58 per cent, passed the previous year.
Tiie total number of cadets now in this
academy is 237.
failures to pars examinations.
At the semi-annual examination in Feb
ruary, 1888, twenty-eight cadets fell be!or
the standard, and at the annual examina
tion in Juno following, nineteen failed to
roach it. Where thero was a fair prospect
that a cadet could make up tho deficiency,
he was given an opportunity four months
later, and most of them passed the require!
examination. The superintendent says that
during tiie year one cadet was dismissed
for bad conduct. Thirteen of the third
class were tried for hazing fourth class men
on board the practice ship. Nino of them
wero recommended for dismissal by tha
court, but wero pardoned by the President.
breaking up the practice.
Every effort will bo made to wipe out th
last trace of this objectionable practice,
and with this object in view all class or
ganizations in either the third or fourth
classes, have been forbidden. These or
ganizations have been used to perpetuate
hazing and compel obedience to the dictated
of the da s on the part of its members, thus
depriving individuals of conscientious aud
independent action. The general conduct!
of the cadets has boon excellent, and tha
standard of scholarship has beou main
tained.
LESSION OF THE KNIGHTS.
Appeals and Grievances Occupying
the Morning Session.
Indianapolis, Nov. 16. — 1n the Knight*
of Labor assembly to-day a large portion
of tho morning session was taken up with
tho deiiato over tho report of tbe committee
on appeals aud grievances in a case
from Chicago. George Schilling, master
workman of district assembly No. 24, had
gi anted a transfer card to a member of a
suspended local assembly, and a member of
that assembly protested. Tho committee
reported in favor of sustaining the protest,
and after debate the report was adopted.
The only other business settled was tiie
adoption of a resolution ordering that Mrs.
Barry’s report be printed in French and
German.
AN EIGHT-HOUR LAW.
The committee on the state of the order
desired action on an eight-hour law, and
recommended the appointment of a special
committee to look after the matter and
tak* proper action. It was so ordered by
the general assembly.
Some member, whose name was carefully
suppressed, introduced a proposition time
newspaper men be made ineligible to mem
bership in the Knights of Labor. The sub
ject was discussed at id rne length and with
some warmth. When a vote was ordered
only half a dozen out of 139 delegates would
vote for tho proposition, and it was de
feated.
REPORTS FOR THE PRESS.
By a resolution introduced and adopted
it was decided to give to tho press only tbe
result of the propositions introduced, al
though that has Loeu all that has thus far
been given out.
A lively discussion ensued over the in
troduction of a proposition to form Chinese
independent organizations. As the presen#
law stands, Chinese stand on the same foot
ing as ail others, a sufficient vote being the
onl y requirement for the admission of mem
bers.
To-night tho committee on appeals and
grievances is considering the cases of
Thomas B. Barry of Michigan aud J. M.
Bloomer of Toledo, O.
A TREASURER GOES TO JAIL.
After Twelve Years in Office, He was
Found to be $20,000 Short.
Dks Moines, la., Nov. 16. —J. P. Hill,
the defaulting treasurer of Harrison county,
was to-day sentenced to two and a half
years in the peuitentiary. Hill had been
treasurer of tho county for twelve years,
and when he went out of office, las#
Jnnuary, was found to be short in bis ac
counts about $29,900. The shortage hua
boon made good by his bondsmen.
AN EDITOR OOWHIDBD.
Two Mon From Another Paper tha
Ones who Did the Work.
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 16.—D. C. Bird
sail, editor of tho liartfort Telegram, wa*
cowhided to-night by Alien Wiley aud L,
P. Smith, of the Sunday Olobe. The Tele
gram had accused tho Globe of blackmail
ing operations. After his assailants had
walked off, Mr. Birdsatl fired a shot in their
direction. Wiley and Smith are at ths
police station arranged to appear if wanted.
Mexico’* Cabinet.
City of Mexico, Nov. 16.—1 tit stated
that Honor Romero, the Mexican minister
to tt o United States, has been called t >tak
charge of the ministry of foreign affaire,
Honor Mariscal going to England as plenl
potentiurv. It is also stated that Gen.
Hostcnes Rocha will be appointed secrotary
of wur.
ROMERO DENIES A RUMOR,
Washington, Nov. 16. Senor Romero,
tho Mexican minister to the United States,
said to-night that there was no foundation
for tho statement sent out from the City of
Mexieq, that he (the minister) was to be
come too head of the Mexican ministry for
foreign affairs.
Supposed to Have Foundered.
Bombay, Nov. 16.—The coasting steamer
VaiUrua, which left Cutch, India, for
Bombay with 900 natives on board, is i
week overdue. It is supposed that sh
foundered In a recent cyclone, and that all
hands were lost