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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.