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MARYLAND SENATOR WILL RE SUC¬
CEEDED BY A REPUBLICAN.
THE OFFICIAL COUNT IS MADE.
'The Contest For Supremacy By Both Par¬ j
ties Was an Extremely
Close One.
A special of Thursday from Balti-
inore, Md., says: Senator Gorman is
beaten. The hero of the force bill,
the great leader of the Maryland dem-
ocratic party for more than twenty
years, the man who sent Grover Cleve-
land to the white house and one of
the most conspicuous men now in pub¬
lic life, has been overthrown. His
successor in the United States senate
will he a republican.
Realizing that the contest for su-
premacy was extremely close, the re-
publican leaders in Maryland determ-
ined that every effort in their power
should be made to control the next
legislature. Tried and trusted lieu-
tenants, men who know a thing or two
about political manipulation, were dis-
immediately after the election the
patched to all the counties where
vote was reported to be close, and
they did their work autlioratively well. that
It can be stated
for awhile there was hope for Senator
Gorman and his friends, that hope has
flown.
The republicans are in control,
They will organize both houses of the
legislature and any democratic con-
test that is brought before them will be
treated with contempt.
Senator Gorman’s successor will be
elected at the coming session of the
legislature, on January 1st.
Republicans Show Increase.
By the official count of the Mary¬
land election returns five members of
the assembly and one senator were
taken from the democratic list of
probabilities and added to that of the
republicans; three of the members
and the senator are from Talbot
county and one member each from
Prince George’s and Carroll.
This gives the republicans forty-nine
members in the house, md leaves the
democrats but forty-two. eight¬
It also gives the republicans
een senators to eight for the demo¬
crats and a majority on joint ballot of
seventeen.
The result in Talbot county arose
from the fact that eighteen votes in
Tilghman precinct were found to have
been counted twice for the democratic
ticket. This being corrected, gave the
republican legislative candidate ma-
jorities ranging from sixteen to nine¬
teen votes.
Among those prominently mention¬
ed as the probable successor to Seno-
tor Gorman are Alexander Shaw, form¬
er Congressman John Y. L. Findlay,
Postmaster General Gary and Con¬
gressman Sidney E. Mudd.
GREAT FOYYER HAS VAN WICK.
Mayor of Greater New York Will Control
Fifty-Five Thousand Persons.
A New York dispatch says: More
than 50,000 persons will directly or
indirectly draw pay from the city in
the first administration of the mayor of
Greater New York.
The salary of 33,000 of these whose
names will be actually on the city’s
pay roll will nggegate $33,000,000.
Part of this amount represents the sal¬
aries and patronage aud other officers
elected on Tuesday, but this is com¬
paratively small, most of the total rep¬
resenting the patronage of Greater
New York's first Mayor Robert A.
Van Wyck. who
A conservative estimate of those
will draw pay indirectly from the city,
through city contracts and the like, is
12 , 000 .
Mayor Strong, at the time the
greater city charter was passed, re¬
ferred to this force as equal to, if not
exceeding, the actual number of all
officeholders.
Second only to the president of the
United States in the value of his pat¬
ronage, the mayor of the greater city
wields a significant power. With his
colleagues-elect of the same political
party as himself, Mr. Van Wyck can
lead an army of officeholders and those
indirectly employed by the city, as
great as the army of the Potomao.
FEYER SCARE IS OVER.
Inspection and Restriction at Atlanta, Ga.,
Done Away With.
The finale of the yellow fever scare
in Atlanta, Ga., if such it may be
termed, came Thursday.
Mayor Collier and Dr. Alexander,
presideht of the board of health, both
came to the conclusion that there was
no further necessity for keeping in¬
specting physicians on the railroads
entering the city, or of keeping up the
issuance of health certificates.
Dr. C. M. Corput, who served so
faithfully iu the capacity of health of¬
ficer in the way of issuing certificates,
su ggested to l)r. Alexander that there
was no further need of keeping up that
office.
SUFFRAGE GRANTED CUBANS.
Spanish Cabinet Decides to Give Them
the Right to Vote.
The Spanish cabinet has approved
measures for the giving to the inhab¬
itants of the islands of Cuba and Porto
Rico the same constitutional rights as
are enjoyed by Spaniards, for the be¬
stowal of the rights of suffrage upon
all who have attained the age of twenty-
five years, and for the same census
basis in municipal, provincial . . aud par¬
liamentary elections.
FIGURES ARE UNCHANGED.
York City and Stat© Show Blft Ufa*
Joritleg For Democrats.
A special from New Ycrk says: Be-
turns from the state and city elections
received Wednesday do not change
the result announced by the Associa-
ted Press early Tuesday night.
Returns from all the counties in the
sSooSaho^‘S candidate for chief judge erf of dZo^S the court
of appeals. His plurality in Greater
New York is 133,058.
Yan Wyok, 'Tammany candidate for
mayor of New York, has 81,548 plural-
ity over Seth Low and 118,401 over
General Tracy.
Henry George polled 20,422 votes,
arul tbo combined votes cast for Glea-
son, War dwell, * kaniel and Cruik-
shank, the candidates of the prohibi-
tion, socialist-labor and united democ-
racy parties, totaled less than 50,000.
The state legislature remains re¬
publican. The senators hold over,
and the new house of assembly stands
85 republicans to 68 democrats.
In the present senate the republican
majority is 30; in the house, 78.
“ BIMETALLISM LIVES.”
Saj* Mr. uimnncey si. Dopcw.Who sop-
ported Candidate Tracy.
Chauucey M. Depew, who supported
Tracy, says that the election resulted
just as he feared it would,
“Those who aro inclined to view the
selection in New York city as being of
national significance,” said he, “are
away off in their reckoning. New
York is a cosmopolitan city. The
inhabitants of London are nearly all
English; the people of Berlin are
Germans solidly; the people of Paris,
except for a small fraction, are French.
New York has only about 20 per cent
of Americans—that is, American-born
inhabitants. The rest are from Europe
and all parts of the world, and they
reiain tbe habits, language and char¬
acteristics of their native countries.
“The election issue iu New York
has no national significance, but, with
an alarming falling off of the republi¬
can vote in the state, with heavy losses
in New Jersey, Ohio and other states,
the republican party is confronted with
the incontrovertible truth that Bryau-
ism and bimetallism are not dead. It
warns them that they must take steps
at once, and emphatically, to settle
this currency question beyond any
hope of reopening it. ”
UNCERTAIN IN OHIO.
Both Republicans and Democrats Claim
Majority In Legislature.
A Cincinnati special of Wednesday
says: The democrats and republicans
of Ohio are both claiming the legisla¬
ture. The democrats claim a margin
of four and the republicans say they
have a majority on joint ballot of three.
So the senatorship is in dispute and
only the official count will settle it.
Summed up the situation is this:
Both sides claim the legislature and
both sides are already crying fraud.
Each state committee has sent out
messages to all of the respective county
chairmen warning them to be on guard
for fraud. Hanna claims the legisla¬
ture and has issued a statement to that
effect. McLean claims the legislature
but declines to make a public state¬
ment.
Neither side will surrender till the
official count is made aud this will be
done by a republican secretary of state.
ELECTIONS PLEASED M’KINLEY.
However, the President is Anxious About
Senator Hanna.
“I am well pleased with the result
of the election, as it indicates that
fealty to the republican party and to
the principles it represents are as
strong as ever.”
So spoke President McKinley in the
private car Mayflower, at Canton, to a
reporter Wednesday morning. In the
car was placed a long distance tele¬
phone and a telegraph operator, and
here the president, accompanied by
Senator Burrows and Private Secre¬
tary Porter, sat and received the news
of the. great battle of votes that was
being waged over the land.
The president made no effort to dis¬
guise the fact that his views were cen¬
tered in Ohio, and in Senator Henna.
In fact, Mr. McKinley was in constant
communication with Senator Hanna.
Eckels Accepts Hank Presidency.
James II. Eckels, the comptroller of
the currency, will accept the presiden¬
cy of the Commercial National bank of
Chicago, to which he was elected a few
days ago.
CONVENTION OF STOCK GROYVERS.
All Associations In the United States Re¬
quested To Send Representatives.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says:
The national stook growers’ conven¬
tion, which has been under considera¬
tion for some time, was called Saturday
for January 25th, 26th and 27th, 1898,
bj' a joint session of committees from
the Denver chamber of commerce and
the Colorado Cattle Growers’ Associa¬
tion.
All stockgrowers’ associations in the
United States are to be asked to send
delegates," and breeders of fine stock,
government and state officials will also
be invited to attend.
COMPETITOR PRISONERS.
Tho Spanish Government Has Decided
Capture of Boat Was Right.
A special from Madrid says: It is un¬
derstood that the Spanish government
is determined in the case of the Amer¬
ican schooner Competitor, captured in
Cuban waters in April, 1896, to main¬
tain that the Spanish officers acted cor¬
rectly in making the capture of the
Competitor, and that the protocol of
1877 solely referred to American citi¬
zens residing in Cuba.
GEORGIA SENATE TURNS DOWN
MR. TURNER’S MEASURE.
THE VOTE RECORDED WAS 23 TO IS
A Brief Summary of Each Day’s Pro¬
ceedings In the House unci
tho Senate.
Tho m, le , G lslatnro . , , had . . a busy . day , Fn- „ .
l ^ a T ai1 ^ many important measures
came before it.
The senate lulled the Turner pro-
hibition bill by a vote of 23 to 18.
Senator Turner, seeing that the bill
was drifting against him, moved a
postponement for further considera¬
tion of the bill. The motion was lost.
The vote to sustain tho report of the
committee, which was favorable to the
bill, was 23 to 18 against the report,
The bill was then put upon its passage
and lost. The following was the vote:
Ayes—Atkinson, Brinson, Brooke,
Culver, Everett, Llewellen, Flynt,
Gray, Kemp, Kflpatrick, McFarland,
Starr, T. 1). Stewart, Thompsou, Tur¬
ner, J. Y. Walker, Witoher, Wooten
- 18.
Nays—Allen, Battle, Blalock, Car¬
ter, Comas, Cook, Dunwody, Goldin,
Golightly, Mann, Ham, Hopkins, Shropshire, Hudson,
Redwine, Sliefiield,
Stevens, J. A. Stewart, Strother, Yan
Buren, B. E. Walker, Westmoreland,
Wilcox—23.
That the public interest had in no
way abated concerning the fate of Sen¬
ator Turner’s bill, which was made a
clean-cut prohibition measure by the
adoption of Senator Kilpatrick’s
amendment,Thursday, was fully evinc¬
ed by the large assemblage that crowd¬
ed the senate gallery Friday morning
long before the hour of convening.
No measure that has been intro¬
duced iu the Georgia legislature in
recent years hns attracted the wide¬
spread interest that has been mani¬
fested in tho Turner bill.
The house passed several important
bills, among them one requiring judg¬
ments to bo recorded in the county
where subject real estate is situated
before they become liens against inno¬
cent third parties.
Another bill to make landlords’
liens superior to laborers’ liens was
passed after some discussion.
The call of the roll for new matter
brought out a number of bills, sev¬
eral of which are important. Mr.
Berry, of Whitfield, proposes to re¬
duce the salary of the railroad com¬
missioners from 82,500 to $2,000; Mr.
Rutherford, of AValton, wants to cut
the salaries of supreme court stenog¬
raphers to $1,000 and reduce their
number from six to three; Mr. Bates,
of Murray, seeks to prohibit judges
from asking questions of wisnesses
in trials of fact; Mr. Thomas, of
Clarke, has a bill authorizing county
school commissioners to buy school
books and furnish them to pupils at
cost; and Mr. Blalock, of Fayette, pro¬
poses to reduce the fees of fertilizer
inspectors from $125 to $66.66 per
month, and Mr. Duncan, of Houston,
introduced a bill to make penal the
running of excursion trains on Sunday.
Mr. Stone, of Walton, introduced a
bill for a straight lease of the peni¬
tentiary convicts, and Mr. Armstrong,
of Wilkes, put in one for the inspec¬
tion of misdemeanor convicts by grand
juries.
Tuesday’s Proceedings.
Both houses of the legislature spent
a dull morning Tuesday and both ad¬
journed before noon. In the house
the child labor bill, prohibiting chil¬
dren under 13 years of age from work¬
ing in factories and similar institu¬
tions, was the special order of the
morning. By request discussion of
the matter was postponed for one week.
The Boynton local dispensary bill,
which provides for the abolition of bar¬
rooms, was temporarily tabled at tbe
request of ex-Governor Boynton, who
introduced it, pending the argument
of the prohibitory saloon Bush Bill.
A resolution was adopted, after the
speaker had called three times for a
quorum, declaring it the sense of the
house of representatives of Georgia
that United States senators should be
elected by the people.
A resolution was introduced by
Mr. Oliver, of Burke, providing that
the third day of June—the anniversary
of Jefferson Davis’ birth—be a legal
holiday, was temporarily tabled peud-
iug action on a similar bill previously
introduced.
A bill was introduced by Mr Hen¬
derson, of Forsyth, providing for the
election of judges and solicitors-geu-
era,' of the superior court. It was re¬
ferred.
Mr. Nevin, of Floyd, introduced a
bill entitled, “A bill to protect labor¬
ers, mechanics, artisaus and others
from blacklisting.” The bill is in¬
tended to protect wage-earners from
boycott and collecting concerns.
A resolution offered by Mr. West,
of Lowndes, asking Dr. Warren F.
Candler, president of Emory college,
to address the general assembly on
November 9th, was unanimously
adopted.
In the senate the Brinson bill was
tabled temporarily. the people of
Thanks were extended
Nashville, the railway companies and
the pullman Car company for courte¬
sies extended senators who visited the
Nashville Centennial.
After the transaction of less impor¬
tant business, both houses adjourned.
Wednesday’s Proceedings.
Representative Blalock, of Fayette
county, chairman of the special corn-
rnittee appointed under the authority
of a resolution passed by the house of
representatives last February to in-
vestigatc the state offices, submitted
his report to the house Wednesday
morning. It was a lenglby and inter-
esting document
Representative Niles introduced
hill which reads: From and after the
first day of September, 1888, the name
of the Georgia lunatic asylum shall
be changed to the Georgia State Sani-
tarimn. ’
Mr. Barnwell, of Hancock, intro-
duced a bill in the house providing
for the appropriation of $1,200 for the
Girls’ Normal school at Milledgeville.
The money is to be used in the pur-
chase of fire protection apparatus, two
typewriting machines, fixtures for bath
rooms, blackboards, maps and charts.
Several other bills of minor impor-
tance were introduced.
In the senate, Wednesday, Senator
Turner’s anti-barroom bill was the
special order of business. Senator
Kilpatrick offered an amendment strik¬
ing out all the dispensary features and
making it a prohibition bill straight
out. The amendment was adopted by
a vote of 20 to 15. A communication
addressed to the president from the
Methodist Episcopal LaGrange dis¬
trict convention was read in open sen-
ate. The convention indorsed the
bill and prayed that it might become
a law. Senator Turner spoke over an
hour advocating the passage of the
bill. He quoted statistics showing
that the cause of the majority of crimj
was directly attributable to strong
drink. The bill went over until
Thursday.
On motion of Senator Battle the
senate went into executive session to
confirm the appointments sent in by
the governor.
Thursday.
Thursday was an important one in
both houses of the legislature. The
senate spent the morning discussing
the Turner prohibition bill, Senator
Battle opposing aud Senator Gray ad¬
vocating that measure. It did not
reach a vote, but the indications are
that the senate is nearly equally divi¬
ded, with the chances in favor of that
hill or some modification of it.
Tho bill prohibits the manufacture,
sale and keeping for sale of intoxicat¬
ing liquors, fermented or distilled, in
the state, excepting in prohibition
counties by local option, and goes in¬
to effect iu such counties when local
prohibition expires. The bill excepts
tbe manufacture of domestic wine,
without admixture of alcohol, from
grapes or other fruits grown by the
manufacturer, and also excepts the
sale of such wine for non-beverage
purposes in quart or larger packages.
Places for the sale or manufacture
of liquors in violation of the act are
declared nuisances, and violations of
the law- are made misdemeanors under
code section 1039.
On motion of Senator Turner the
bill w-as made the special order for
Friday.
In the house, Thursday, the bill to
perfect in each county a record of Con-
ferate soldiers was passed by a good
majority.
The bill to make the birthday of
Jefferson Davis a legal holiday came
up on an adverse report, but after
some spirited speeches the report was
almost unanimously disagreed to. The
bill is expected to pass on third
reading.
The effect of the Blalock committee’s
report was seen iu a bill by Mr. Coiie-
land to ablish the office of state geolo¬
gist and another by Mr. Swift to re¬
peal the university funding act.
Executive Appointments.
Wednesday Governor Atkinson sent
the following nominations to the sen¬
ate, which were confirmed in executive
session: Spencer R. Atkinson, to be
railroad commissioner for the term of
six years from October 15, 1897;
James E. Brown, to be state librarian
for the term of four years from Sep¬
tember 27, 1897.
The governor also named the follow¬
ing judges and solicitors of county
courts: Watt J. Pearsall, solicitor,
Colquitt county; Albert M. Deal, so
licitor, Bulloch county; F. F. Julian,
solicitor, Gwinnett county; J. W.
Harris, judge, Bartow county; Wal¬
ter E. Steed, judge, Taylor county;
Ctreen F. Johnson, solicitor, Jasper;
E. J. Wynn, solicitor, Muscogee; Ru¬
fus W. Roberts, judge, Baldwin; John
A. Wilkes, judge, Colquitt; Walter A.
Wray, judge, Liberty; E.K. Overstreet,
judge, Screven; S. W. Sturgis, solici¬
tor, Pierce.
These appointments were immedi¬
ately confirmed by the senate.
Governor Atkinson has tendered the
seat on the supreme bench, which will
be vacated by Justice Spencer R. At¬
kinson, to Judge Samps Harris, of
Cow-eta county, and it will no doubt
be accepted.
Coloftel Hal T. Lewis, of Greens-
(>oro, withdrew his name from consid¬
eration for the place of railroad com¬
missioner Monday, as he did not wish
to embarrass the governor.
HEAVY FROST IN MEMPHIS.
In Consequence Quarantine of Other Sec¬
tions Is Raised.
A Memphis, Teun., special says:
Yellow Jack was hit a hard blow Wed¬
nesday morniug when the thermome¬
ter dropped to 40 degrees. Heavy
frost formed - and there was ice iu the
gutters. receipt of this
Immediately telegraphed on abroad news,
which was at an
early hour, the stale of Arkansas raised
quarantine, and Mississippi and Ala¬
bama followed suit.
Miniature Shears.
A clever workman in a cutlery fac¬
tory in Sheffield has made a dozen
pairs of shears, each so minute that
they altogether weigh less than half
a grain. Each pair is perfect and
would cut if sufficiently delicate ma¬
terial could be found. Lying on a
piece of white paper they seem up
larger than pin heads.
YELLOW JACK RETREATING.
F.ncoti rafting News From Now Orleans,
Mobile ami Montgomery.
Tbere n „ w a . hig , improvement , . in , the
fever situation in New Orleans,
lhe uluuberof uu "' eaaes Saturday
wer e comparatively small and the re-
®? rd 1 of fatoht ? e8 considerably lighter,
jIn, “- v recoveries from the disease were
reported at the office of the board of
Lealth duri,1 8 tb « (la Y an<1 the people
are convinced that the backbone of
the fever bo8 been , broken > nlul m a
ver .r short time the plague will be ex-
Terminated altogether,
According to the board of health
''‘Crc was also a big decrease in the
1>l linker of fever cases for Sunday,
aml the sitnatioa was still further im-
proved. Very few places are now
quarantined against New Orleans, and
there has been a general revival in
msiness.
Recapitulation: Cases of yellow fever
Sunday, 13; deaths, 8; total cases of
yellow fever to date, 1,742; total
deaths from yellow fever to date, 236;
total cases absolutely recovered, 940;
total eases under treatment, 566.
A special from Mobile says: The
number of new cases of yellow fever
continues to fall off from last week’s
big average. The report for Sunday
is the most favorable since the first
week of the appearance of the fever—
four new cases, no deaths and eighteen
recoveries.
Tho report of the board of health of
Montgomery Sunday was the most en¬
couraging since the beginning of the
epidemic. There were no deaths aud
no new cases.
Pass Christian Modifies Quarantine.
At a meeting of the board of health
of Pass Christian Sunday it was de¬
cided to admit persons holding certifi¬
cates from health officers from Atlanta,
Ga., and all non-infected points. The
action was taken so as to allow a number
of anxious persons to get in, there hav¬
ing been no yellow- fever in town during
the present epidemic. The tow-u is
still maintaining a strict quarantine
against all infected points and will not
relax vigilance until there is absolutely
no further danger.
Pass Christian is justly proud of her
record, being the only town on the
coast to escape the fever.
SEALING TREATY SIGNED.
United States. Russia and Japan Come to
an Agreement.
A Washington special says: A con¬
ference between the United States,
Russia and Japan, looking to the joint
protection of the seals, was signed at
the state department Saturday.
It will require the ratification of the
senate to become effective.
The text of the treaty w-ill not be
given out by the state department un¬
til filial ratifications are exchanged. It
is said, how-ever, by those concerned,
that the general purposes of the treaty
have been already outlined in the press
and it is likely that all of further in¬
terest that remains in the document is
the exact nature of the additional re¬
strictions that are to be imposed upon
pelagic sealing.
Later in the afternoon the delegates
again assambled at the state depart¬
ment and formally signed the proto¬
cols or records of the various phases
of the negotiations leading up to the
final agreement.
It is expected that the meeting of
British and American experts will
take place next week, according to the
original programme, unless there
should be some intervention from the
British foreign offices, which is not
anticipated. Meanwhile the British
expert, Professor Thompson, who is
now in Washington, will be acquainted
with what has already been accom¬
plished by the government of the
United States, Russia and Japan, and
with the terms of the treaty.
OFFICIALS UNDER ARREST.
Government Employes In Philadelphia
Charged With Conspiracy.
A sensation was occasioned in polit¬
ical and official circles at Philadelphia,
Saturday, by the placing in custody of
several city and United States govern¬
ment employes of prominence,charged
with conspiracy and the issuance of
fraudulent naturalization papers.
The men arrested are Eugene Lind¬
sey, clerk in the city protlionotary’s
office; John Merrick, assistant clerk
for the United States circuit court,
and Richard Merrick, father of the
latter,who isalsoaclerk for the United
States circuit court. It is stated that
other arrests will be made. It is said
that naturalization papers were fur¬
nished signers for $17 apiepe, and that
quite a number have been issued.
AGAINST DEMOCRATS.
Wood County. Olilo, Will Be Place In He-
publican Column.
A special from Columbus, O., says:
The only important development in
the status of the next general assembly
Saturday was the decision iu the Wood
county case, which once more removes
that county from the doubtful list to
the republican column.
Chairman Nash does not believe the
case will be appealed by the demo¬
crats, since tho law in the case is plain.
There was some talk of an injunc¬
tion against the supervisors, but it w as
not confirmed, Should no further
change he made, the republicans will
have five majority on joint ballot.
ROBBERS BREAK JAIL.
Overpowered the Jailer and Assaulted
His Wife.
A special from Deadwood, S. D.,
says: Sunday night tho four Belle
Fourcke robbers overpowered the Law-
rence county jailer and his wife, as¬
saulted the woman and escaped into
the hills, taking with them William
Moore, a negro murderer.
The robbers are members of the des¬
perate Curry gang of outlaws and
were captured only a week or two ago
in Montana, after a severe battle.
COURTS WILL DECIDE.
The Democrats of Ohio Won’t Give Up
the Fight.
The Ohio legislature stands seventy-
fiur republicans, seventy democrats
and one doubtful on the official returns
received up to Friday night. With a
dozen or more of the eighty-eight
counties very close there have been no
material changes except in Wood
county, which will be claimed by both
parties till the courts pass on the ac¬
tion of the supervisors.
There have been no unusual pro¬
ceedings before the returning boards
of any of the counties except that of
Wood, although both parties have had
their representatives and attorneys in
county seats wherever the vote was
Chairman MeConville, of the demo-
tie committee, has not changed his
claims of a democratic* majority on
j oint ballot aiul win not do so until
the official returns of all counties are
iu, and show the final results to differ
from those he has at hand.
Chairman MeConville and others
from the democratic state headquar¬
ters went to Cincinnati Friday night
to confer with John R. McLean aud
other party leaders regarding the con¬
tests that are to be made in the close
counties.
TENSION ROLLS INCREASE.
Over Fifty Thousand Names Added to the
Hulls During; Past Year.
The first annual report of Commis¬
sioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans, to
tho secretary of the interior was made
public at Washington Friday.
“There were added to the rolls dur¬
ing the year 50,101 new pensioners,
and there were restored to the rolls
3,971 pensioners who had been pre¬
viously dropped; total of 54,072.
“Losses were 31,690 by deaths;
1,074 by remarriage of widows aud
mothers, 1,145 by legal limitation
(minors); 2,683 for failure to claim
pensions for three years, and 3,560 for
other causes; aggregate of 41,122.
“The whole number of pensioners
on the rolls June 30, 1897, was 97G,-
014. The net gain over the previous
year was 5,336.
“It w-ill thus be seen that the pen¬
sion rolls has not yet begun to show
any diminution, though it has been
anticipated by my predecessors in
office that such would be the fact.
Seven widows of revolutionary soldiers
are still on the rolls.
“The amount disbursed for pensions
by the pension agents during the year
was $139,799,242.12, and the amount
disbursed by treasury settlement was
$150,475.23; a total of $139,949,717.
This exceeds the amount disbursed
during the fiscal year 1896 by the sum
of $1,584,480.”
CHILDREN MURDERED.
liloody Deed in Canada--Tramp Suspected
of Committing: the Crime.
Advices from Montreal, Can., state
that Michael Nulty, a farmer, and
Mrs. Nulty, went to St. Julienne,
Thursday, leaving their four children
in the house. Three of the children
were girls, aged eighteen, sixteen and
fourteen years, respectively. The
fourth was a boy, aged ten years. Morrin
A friend of the family named
called at the Nulty house in the after¬
noon and found the front door broken
in aiul two of the children—the boy
and the youngest girl—lying on the
floor of the hall, their heads hacked to
pieces. On the road to the barn he
found the body of the second eldest
girl, and in the barn he found the
body of the eldest girl, terribly lace¬
rated.
Morrin alarmed the neighbors and
the father and mother were sent for.
A tramp, who was seen in the neigh¬
borhood of the house, is suspected of
the crime and detectives are now look¬
ing for him. A bloody ax was found
near the house.
CABINET TALKS OF ELECTION.
Discussion of Spanish Affairs Gave Way to
Debate on Re nits in Ohio.
A Washington special says: All
members of the cabinet except Secre¬
tary Alger were present at Friday’s
session, which did not last long.
Routine business was presented by
the different cabinet officials, but much
of the time was given to a discussion
of the recent elections. Satisfaction
was expressed on all sides, especially
at the result iu Ohio and Maryland.
The Spanish situation was not con¬
sidered, although there were some
dispatches relating to the subject in
the cabinet room.
A GOOD SHOWING.
Total Attendance at Tennessee Centennial
Was 1,683,305.
At a meeting of the executive com¬
mittee of the Tennessee Centennial
exposition held at Nashville Thursday
afternoon Auditor Frank Goodman
filed his report, showing that the total
indebtedness of the exposition is now
only $36,000,
The property of the exposition com¬
pany is valued at far more than this
sum, and there are uncollected assets
amounting to $39,000.
The total attendance officially re¬
ported was 1,682,305.
WOLCOTT LANDS SAFELY.
He and Commissioner Pain© Arrive at New
York—Both Reticent.
Senator Edward O. Wolcott, of Col¬
orado, and General Charles J. Paine,
two of the monetary commissioners
appointed by President McKinley to
confer with European governments
concerning the feasibility of establish¬
ing international bimetallism, arrived
at New York Friday nigbt on the
steamship Campania. excused
Both gentlemen asked to be
from saying anything of their mission
abroad.