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H CORRESPONDENT. VOLUME X. niNLEY-ROOSEVELT Republicans Carry the Day and Win a Decisive Victory. I’KINLEY’S MAJORITY MORE THAN IN 1896 • Democrats Concede Loss of All the States== Ideal Election Day Weather _ Prevailed 1 hrou^hout . it Union. • ’Tis McKinley and Roosevelt. The Republicans ca:ried the day ines^y by an ovuwhelming n A i p | • ma- jority—a majority far greater thau that 4 secured in long 18.1b. Ideal election day weather prevailed a 7- * W 4 \ w/ J* it X 17 > fy ■ . i v 1 V- I i ,v> % r- iii PRIES- WM- MSK 8 WILEY »lfover tbc United States, except at friu't Sie. Marie, on the northern isk??, where a light snow was falling, und the battle of ballots began early. iu* voting . everywhere pheuome- , was lally heavy, especially * * so in the j , , . The Republican majority in the f fotoral college will be greater than was in 1S96. Practically complete returns from a ‘l the states give McKinley ‘2 k i sectoral votes aud Brvau 163. Pour years ago McKinley had 271 and Bryau 176. ihe two states about which there **eW 8 to be doubt are Kentucky aud Nebraska. Hie Republicans made very strong ’■iaims to Nebraska,but the Democrats fr, el confident is is safely Democratic, 'hough the plurality will be small. T tab, which was put iu the Bryan '‘osniun on the first reports, is now ^needed fiepnblicans. to have been carried by the ihe returns from Idaho are meager, ibey point to the electoral vote go- to Brvau. Changes in these, how- ■‘ e L cannot affect the general result •\ftiiy ^ay. After a brilliant cam- la'Sn, the Democratic party has ■<one down before its more powerful antagonist. ihe returns show that the sileut vote WM to MeKinUv. While Brj... >oade .muo.lunoghu: ITe'e’S "PT *bere «s£SH«a C? • I” »>* ... a ta °. as the prophets all expected it to be. 1 1 ^ i he expectations of the Democratic — pvt ifliiuui* ui tue le *iers a i «s of I,r V,. New York ______. not realized, were an? r< ' <> 1 ^ ie m ' *! the McKinley plurality of of ttiHp ‘ bIi<k es managers” extreme wktlaNaw claims VarV e H *n managers, while New k 4 8 ’ " ' and Richmond have gone KNOXVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, , , or Bryan t, , good . wte . Qaeon „ , , oy a s (Brooklyn) has gone Republican, and | the Republican pdnrailities above be Bronx are large enough to give a total plurality in the state of between 100 ,- 000 and 150,000. New Jersey is Republican by at least ©CV- ^, ‘T’Wf 0- |R<D©§1EVE1T | Delaware is Republican , bv , about , . 1,000, but the indications a:e that the Democrats have captured the iegisla- tnre, which means two members of the United States senate. Baltimore went Republican, and with the city went the state of Mary- \/est ......... A Republican, ... ». lrgiaia is advices are as yet insufficient to show whether the Democrats have saved the legislature, but the last reports from Charlestown point to a Democratic general assembly, which will dec. Senator Elkins’ successor. Ohio repeats its Republican plural¬ ity of 60,000, and Indiana shows Re¬ publican gains over 1696. Illinois is Republican by probably 90,000. Chicago and Cook county went Republican, which was one;of the surprises. and California, Washington Kansas were determined to be in the fashion and lined up in the McKinley column, The Republicans will have the house of representatives with a strong work- iug majority. This will probably be about thirty and it may run even higher is XEW TOUR. McKinley’s plurality in the state of New York, including Greater New York, is 136,969. The indications are that President McKinley lias carried the state bv a majority over Bryan of about 150,960, compared w ith a Be- pnblicau majority iu the last presideu- tial election of 268,460. The total vote iu the citv of New York to .pproxim.lely tiO.COO larger thelncrerise is ahont .lp^*«.^ 1= .the ci. ? Br.raa _ rality _________ for himself of about 25,000. Up the state Ml “ McKinley Tr — i—«i— barely held the vote which he bad in 1-S96, the ---- -----— added vote vote going jroine to to BrTan. Bryan. The following states majorities were iosi des- the Democrats by the , ignated: New York, 136,969; Illinois, 90,900; Indiana, 30,000; New Jersey, 50,000; Ohio, WT-’ 75,000; : ’ 7 ~ in Delaware, 3,000 and * — West \irgima, 10 , 000 rw) . EIGHTEEN ARE MISSING. New York Police Fail to Find l Supposed Victims of the Tar¬ rant Drug House Fire. A New York dispatch of Friday says: The police department has been ! investigating the list of persons re¬ ported missing in connection with the Tarrant lire for the purpose of getting at a correct list of persons supposed to Lave lost their lives in the fire. The persons reported were investigat- i ed through the station Dearest the aci- j dress given for them, and in maDy cases they were reported as safe. In some cases the police could not find & j day missing shows eighteen and not accounted persons reported for. as Of these, six are not known at the addresses given by the persons who reported them missing. On the list is the name of Beniamin Moorehoase a cIerU for Tarrant Co . The authorit ies persist in declaring their belief that he is alive and pur- po9eiy keeping his thereabouts se- cret “We have detectives oat after Moore- house and expeot to laud him soon,” said Assistant District Attorney Walsh, who is assisting the fire marshal’s iu- vestigation. Moorehouse’s family and neignbors, at Mont Clark, N. J., are convinced that be perished in the disaster. The fire department’s investigation of the explosion closed Friday, after the tes¬ timony of Louis Patterson and George C. Thompson, employes of Tarrant <fc Co., had been taken. Dr. Lederie, health department an¬ alyst, who examined the seven drums | found in the ruins, said that they had coutaiued analyuejwhich is a little less explosive than kerosene. eOULD’A WILE PAT. l*oor Count C»*le!l»nnV l*fljt* WUI 1*C Liqulditleil fly Dnuttllofts. A New York special says: On the authority an an “iutimate friend of the late Jay Gould,” The Evening World of Friday’s issue announced that the debts of Count Boni do Cas- tellane will be paid iu fall by tho Gould’s at once. i • The scandal attending the claims, amounting to 81,000.000, against the spendthrilt husband of Countess Anna Jg tQ be stoppef j... rp be E veu j U g World a«lds: “A lump gnm probab | v wi! | be coutributed by (} e 0 rge, Helen, Howard, Edwin aad Frank Gould to wipe out these debts, as they consider the honor of the (j oa i,j family is involved.” Incidentally The Evening World t\ie ar- tide says, “It was elicited that ‘ Goa , d m jHions have nearly doubled siuce j ay Gonld’s death, and Anna’s share ig nearly 818,000,000, and her income near iy 81,000,000. Tbo total va j lle 0 f the Gould estate is now over 8125,009,000.” LEHMAN TROOPS ASSIGNED. ! c H „„ t von Wai<l«rra« xuikr* oniciai An- nonneement oftrhrf’r uuti>ii>«iion. official telegrams from Count Von Waldersee show that alt the German troops have arrived in China and been distributed. Tho first aud marine*, the first infantry brigade and a small force of cavalry aud artillery are s t B tioned at Pekin. The second infantry brigade, with a corresponding f orce G f artillery, engineers aud sav- airy is at Pao Ting Fan. One battalion is at Shan Hai Kwan. qqj e third infantry brigade, with a ?0 mpaDv of sharp-shooters, two squad- roua of cavalry and several batteries is at Tien Tsiu* One battery aud sev- era j howitzers are at Taku, and a force 0 f troops is distributed along the rail- way f rom p e kiu to Yang Tsun, super- intending the work of construction. __1__________ ntt:sl „ ,. ( : 0 POS.ll.S ACCKPTCl.. .^TTaia. ^ ..jhe The foreign foreign ministers ministers continued continued (o d ay the dissuasion of the peace pr 0 p O „itiou to be presented to the Chinese. The French proposals were aece ptcd. Additional specifications wi |j be discussed Monday. On ac- of tbe necessity for thorough aC cord between the different cabinets, the flna) Tote w jH no t be preiented for eeveral weeks.” MINERS KILLED IN EXPLOSION Terrible Catastrophe Occurs In a West Virginia Coal Pit. . MUTILATED BODIES TAKEN OUT More Than a Score of Workere Are Hissing—Ugly Rumors As To Cause of Accident. One of the greatest calamities in the history of Barbour Saturday' countv, West Vir- ginia, occurred morning 8 at 1 , , clock * « at , the ,, of the _ Southern o mines Coal and Transportation Company, at Berrysburg, six miles from Philippi. As a result a score of miners are dead and many badly iujured. The explosion was so great that mules wero killed at the mouth of the mine and cars blown forty feet from the track. One man was blown in two at the loius aud h:s body thrown against a pile of lumber at the mouth of the mine. The night shift went on duty at 7 o’clock. Everything went on smoothly until about midnight, when the explo- sion occurred. The dead were rnuti* lated beyond recognition, and the scene was calculated to make the strongest heart faint. The explosion was probably the re¬ sult of an accidental discharge of dy¬ namite caused, perhaps, by the con- cuss ion of u blast. The property * loss is light The force of the explosion was sd great that two men were found feet from the mouth of the mine. An houi after the explosion buadreds had visited the mine. The call for relief brought every physician in Phillipi to the scene. The sight was a most horri- ble one. Strewn along the main channel and about the opening were the arms, legs, bands and other portions of the bodies of the dead Fathers and mothers were frantically hunting for sons, and as fast as a body was recovered they would glance at it, and recognizing it would give bysteri- cal screams. The hotel has been turned , into . . , hospital ... aud , those still .... a _\. alive when brought out . were taken . , there. rp There , • great . deal , , of , is a com- ment about about the cause of the ex- plosion. . . The rp . author ., ... ties refused t i * to discuss the matter further than to say it was caused by an excessive charge . ii- i rn msist • - P ?Ti that it was * caused \ , by s° fire ^ damp lUer8 The mine was recently inspected and pronounced to be in good coudition, John \V. Greeu, who was iu the mine at the time of the explosion and escaped injury, gives the follow- iug account of it: “I went into , themineat . 7:.))o dock and went to room No. 1. 1 had been at work an hour or so when I smelled black damp. I noticed my lamp flicker. I went to the mine boss and told him about it. He laughed aud said it was right. I went bnc» to work and about midnight heard a terrific noise, which knocked me down and put out my lamp. I was stunned for a mo- ment aud then realized what had hap- pened. I was close to the entrance crawled over the bodies of two men.” As the work of removing the <ead went on tilings looked worse. l our men were brought cut within »u hour the searchers reported that a dozen were still in the mine. Most of those brought ouv were mntilaUd beyond ; description. 1 he miues of Berrysburg have only been operated a short time. mat, struck. La,, week the .Uble. toStoL Most of the miners had been at work but a few weeks, and as they , were almost unknown to each other, consequently it was hard to receguize a man when be was found. Most of the men came from North Carolina and District of Columbia. ^^[hrr^'on^rrnt.d j been brought out, eight of whom were recognized. NUMBER 5 SLEW HIS SON-IN-LAW Farmer Wilcoxon Empties Con¬ tents of Double-Barreled Shot- gun Into Flowers’ Body. Thursday morning about 10 o’clock Wiley F. Wilcoxon, a farmer living seven miles west of Eatonton.Ga., shot C. C. Flowers, bis son-in-law, killing him instantly. Wilcoxon used a shot gun, firing both loads, but only one ! | took effect, in the left side of Flowers. Flowers has been living on Wilcox- ' ou’s place for several years, managiug , the affairs of the farm and bearing the brunt of the burden. The killing was the result of a se¬ rious misunderstanding the two men bad a year ago or more ago, which, at the time, so Wilcoxon says, necessi¬ tated his giving up home and family aud seekiug peace elsewhere. After j being absent some time he returned | 8everaI months ago, where he resided, apparently contented, uutil the tern- ble , rflge(]y w hich Suspired Thurs- day morning. It appears that Wilcoxon borrowed Flower’s gun to go bunting. After questioning particularly as to the manipulation of the gun, it being a breech-loader, and about the character of the cartridges with which it was loaded, he turned und walked away, thirty^""distant, Wheu m- be auddenly, aud without provocation, t urBe a and emptied the gun’s content* into the B ide 0 f Flowers, who was still 8 tandiug in the kitchen door, The deceased leaves a wife to mourn his nn timely end. Wilcoxon was » confederate soldier, terviug through *he en tire war in the Third Georgia regiment. After the tragedy he was arrested. KAISER’.* ADVICE TAKEN. usrman* Give n« Quarter 1 “'m/I™ Slaughtered if <-rl minutely. Considerable impatience at the mea- gerness Of the news from Chiua is finding expression in Berlin. The in* f ereuce i„ that German censorship over such information is very strict. _ Le .. te , f . . China ,,, . . began ” rom P ri ™ M ‘“ , to find ! 4 their u way into the Social Dem¬ ocratic papers showing that tho Ger¬ man troops give no quarter. Tlia Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a letter from a soldier iu Pekiu, who said he witnessed the following scenes: “Sixty-eight eaptiven, semo of them not yet adults, were tied together by their pig tails, compelled to dig their own graves and shot en masse'’’ rp Ihe , Halberstadter-volke-Zeitung „ ... .. rr prints . . a communication ... from -___ »> rekin, . • ; , - , * n ,?J U 6 ' n * r B °V No J prisoners are taken. L All All are ’ £ preferably, M bered to save amm unit u 0 u Sunday afternoon . had , to . , bayonet . seventy-four • we „ „ pns- Guers. They J bad killed one of our J Au eQtire battalion nr . d them gnd captnre f a seventy-four .. “' Jt Crael , It in de- a e - " as ‘ w scribable.” KILLER BROTHLIMN-LAW. Jump. Ilammnnil Fire* I.oad of 8 lu»t Into Timm., vv.ii, is.»r t.uer.o„ Thursday afternoon Jim Hammond shot aud killed Ihomas J. Wall, a £ uw mjies below Elberton, Ga. The shooting occurred near Wall’s borne. Full details have not been learned, but from the best information it ooeius that Wall was beating a negro tenaut. Mrs. Wall, his wife, tried to stop him, aa j failed. She sent for her brother, Jim Hammond, wbo came, aud re- moustrated with Wall. This seems to have augered Wall, and he made a rush at him. Ham , nou d ran aud was followed part of tl , e way by Wall. Hamm >nd went to a neighbor’s, where he secured a shot- gun He t h eu returned and met Wall, w ho shot at him, but missed him. Hammond then shot Wall, the eutire !~f 'T""* * l “ ^ M,to *“ uu ' Ln belong to goo,I fam.lir., mond has not been arrested. Wall was cons t a ble of his district, Public Oeht Statement. The statement of the public debt shows at the close of business OotoV?r 31, 1900, the debt less cash in ihe month of $1,573,851.