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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. VOL. VIII. BRYAN ON THE ELECTIONS Nebraskan Gives His Views and Sums Up the Result. REPUBLICANS NO WINNERS “They Have No Room to Brag, According to the Figures Shown By the Vote.” A Lincoln, Neb., special says: TV. J. Biyau Saturday evening gave to the press an extended statement summing up the results of the elections in dif¬ ferent states. In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, where llie Democrats affirmed the Chicago platform, he finds that they have made gains, while in New York aud New Jersey the Re¬ publican vote shows a falling off. Maryland, ho deeiures, is now safely Democratic. Ou the Kentucky elec¬ tion, he Buys: “The result in Kentucky does not give any encouragement to the Repub¬ licans. The latest returns show that the contest between Mr. Goebel and Mr. Taylor is very close. The Demo¬ crats claim the election of Goebel and the entire state ticket by small plurali¬ ties. The legislature is safely Demo¬ cratic in both branches and the elec¬ tion of Blackburn to succeed Lindsay is assured. No one who has watched the contest will doubt that the De¬ mocracy, united on national issues, can be relied upon for a majority of 20,000 to 30,000. Ohio is summed up as follows: “What consolation can republicans draw from the Ohio election? Mr. Hanna secured the nomination of his candidate for governor upon a platform indorsing the republican administra¬ tion. And while the returns indicate that Nash has a plurality of about fifty thousand over McLean, McLean and Jones together have a majority of something like fifty thousand over the republican candidate. “McLean ran upon a platform em¬ phatically indorsing the Chicago plat¬ form and condemning the trusts, mili¬ tarism and imperialism, aud he made a gallant fight against great odds. Ohio is the home of the president. It is the home of Mr. Hanna, chairman of the Republican national committee, Postmasters all over the United States were uged to contribute money to save “Mr. Hanna took the stump himself aud called upon Republicans to sup- port the ticket and indorse the policies of the administration. And yet in sp.ite of all that could be done, Air. Hanna’s own couuty was carried ), y Mr. Jones, and tho Republican party, which had a majority of nearly fiiiy thousand in 1896, is now overwhelmed by a majority approximating fifty thousand. The Jones voto is anti- Republican. Air. Jones himself has made an open fight against Mr. Hanna nnd his methods and fhe Republican party has turned its batteries against Air. Jones and his followers.” Nebraska Means Much. Iowa, South Dakota and Kansas re¬ sults are passed over with brief para¬ graphs as uot of leading importance. In Nebraska he says: i ; The Nebraska campaign was fought on national issues and the fu¬ sion candidate for judge received about 14,000 this year as against 3,000 last year for the fusion candi¬ date for governor aud 13,000 for tho fusion electors in 1896 and tho fusion candidate for judge in 1896. Assist¬ ant Secretary of War Meiklejohn came from AVashington to plead with the voters to uphold the president's pol¬ icies. Senator Thurston aud Senator Hayward were on the stump warning the people not to repudiate the presi¬ dent. “Senator Fairbanks and other prom¬ inent Republicans from outside the state lent their influence, but notwith¬ standing the efforts put forth by the Republicans the fusion forces gained a signal victory. Their candidate, Judge Holcomb, carried five of the congressional districts out of six and lost the remaining district (the fifth) by only a thousand. The fusionists FEVER AT PORT TAMPA. Three Case* Reported and Strict Quaran¬ tine Put On. A telegram was received at office of state board of health in Jacksonville, Saturday, from Dr. L. W. Weedon, agent of board for Hillsboro county, announcing one death from yellow fe¬ ver and two cases of the disease at Port Tampa City. Quarantine was at once established. Dr. Porter states that the lateness of the season precludes any possilde ex¬ tended spread of the disease. No in- formation wab obtained as to bow the the disease was communicated to the locality. Official Organ of Worth County. Orders for Job Printing eiven Prompt Attention. made a net gain of thres district judges and a large gain in couuty officers.” Mr. Bryan continues: “Taken ns a whole, the election re¬ turns from all the states give encour¬ agement to those who hope for the overthrow of the Republican party ill 1900. It is evident that those who believed in the Chicago platform in 1896 still believe in it. It is also evi¬ dent that the hostility to the Chicago platform among those who oppose it is not as pronounced as it was in 1890. “It is apparent that there is a grow¬ ing hostility to the monopolies which have grown up under a Republican ad¬ ministration. It is safe to say that the American people would by a large majority pronounce against the at¬ tempt to raise the standing array to one hundred thousand, aud it is equal¬ ly certain that upon a direct voto up¬ on the issue a large majority of tho peoplo would pronounce against H11 imperialistic policy which would de¬ velop here a colonial system after the patern of European governments. “If the rebuke administered to tho republicans at the polls had been more severe, the prospect of remedial legis¬ lation at the hands of the republicans would be brighter. While it was suf¬ ficient to indicate that the people are not satisfied with the republican poli¬ cies, it may not have been sufficient to stay the course of the republican party toward plutocracy and toward the European iilwa of a government built upon force rather than upon the con¬ sent of the governed, a government relying for its safety upon a large standing army, rather than upon a citizen soldiery. W. J. Bar an.” VICE PRESIDENT IMPROVES. Mr. Hobart’* Condition Is Notv More Fa¬ vorable. A dispatch from Paterson, N. J., says: Vice President Hobart passed a favorable night and the improvement thnt has been observed for several days continued Sunday. He ate solid food with relish and it was promptly assimilated. With his meals he took milk and between meals was given P u B c u° B - bbls 18 “ change from his ‘•ondition ten days ago. At that time bo w'as rapidly sinning and Ins storn- ai ’ b bad rt!,llse< l food of all kinds. Tor Hsveral da Y s be liTed 011 8 ra I> 0 « and the juice of grapelruit, but it soon ftp- ,eal e(1 tbHt his < ,t °* nacb was 80 C0 U ‘ 8 C8ted tbafc Lo could uot even tuke , Mr. Hobart now spends most ol bis ‘‘“e . 111 rech ‘* m B P oaltlon fl,ldbu Without the aid of opiates. The most painful aud alarming feature of of his illness has been his attacks nervousness at the approach of night. These attacks have decreased. GRAND NEPHEW OF DAVIS Ami Great Gramlson of Taylor Killed South African War. A dispatch from Lieutenant C. C. Wood, of the North Lancashire regi¬ ment, reported fatally wounded at Kimberley, and whoso death was subsequently announced in Saturday evening's cable message, was a grand nephew of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern confederacy, and a great grandson of President Zachary Taylor. His father is Captain J. Taylor Wood, who has resided in Halifax since the close of war between the north and south. Young Lieutenant Wood was born in Halifax and educated in tho Cana¬ dian Royal Military college, at Kings¬ ton, Oat. He is the first graduate of that college to die in battle aud the first Canadian to fall in the present war in South Africa. INSURGENT CAPITAL TAKEN. American* Euler Town and Aguinaldo Seek* Other Quarter!. A special from Manila says: Colonel Bell’s regiment und a small force of cavalry entered Tarlac Sunday night without opposition, Where Aguiualdo, witjj bis army, and the so-called government have fled is a mystery. DOUTHIT SUMMONED. Sooth Carolina Dispensary Commissioner To Appear Before State Board. The South Carolina state hoard of control, at its meeting Saturday, in pursuance of the recent decision of Judge Aldrich in the case ol Commis¬ sioner Donthit, adopted a resolution notifying tho commissioner to appear before the board, together with bis witnesses, to show cause why he should not be removed from his office because of violations of the rules of the state board of control as well as of the dispensary law. Further sensational disclosures in the management of the state dispens¬ ary are expected. ASHBURN. (JA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 1S1H). . MAGAZINE BLOWS UP. Man, Wagon and Horses Reduced to Atoms, While People a Mile Off Were Knocked Down. A magazine used by tbo Bradford nitro-glycerin factory to store the ex¬ plosive, looatod two and a half mile* east of Gibsonburg, Ohio, explodod Mouday afternoon, The shook was board in towns within a radius of forty miles and the effects of the oxplositin in the immediate neighborhood were territie. The magazine was. located in the woods a quarter of a mile from any dwelling, and this alone prevented greater loss of life, Benjamin Card, driver of a stock wagon, had brought a load of 720 quarts of nitro-glycerin from the fac¬ tory at Bradford and was unloading it wdieu the explosion occurred. Just how it happened will never be learned. Card and the two horses driven by him received tlio full force of the explosion. He was blown almost to atoms, only a few shreds of bis body being found and pieces of horse flesh were hurled several miles. It is supposed thnt Card bad a com¬ panion, but this is not positively known. The explosion made a hole seven feet deep in the solid rock and trees in the vicinity were torn to splinters. People within a mile of the place were knocked down, pictures torn from tbo walls, dishes thrown out of cupboards, windows shattered and houses moved from their foundations. All tlie windows in Oibsonburg were broken. There were about 1,500 <iuai ts of glycerin on the wagon aud in the magazine. Card lived in Brad¬ ford, O., and left a family. The shock was distinctly felt at Tiflin, forty miles away. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. IJ»t of Now Industries KstablUhed tho Past Week. The new industries reported during tlie past week include, among the more important, 200-ton blast in Tennessee; a carriage factory in North Carolina; coal mines aud coke ovens in West Virginia; a construction company in Arkansas; a $200,000 cotton mill in Mississippi; cotton seed oil mills in Alabama, Missis- sippi and Texas; a creamery cold storage plant in Arkansas; an electric light plant in Mississippi; flouriug mills in Tennessee, Texas and Virginia; foundries and machine shops in Alabama, Tennessee aud Vir- gitiia; a gas retort manufacturing com- pany in Alabama; a harness factory in Tenuessee'.a handle factory in Alabama; an ice factory in Florida; an ice and cold storage plant in Arkansas; lnni- her mills in Alabama, Arkansas, Mis- sissippi, Tennessee and Virginia; lig- nite mines in Texas; phosphate plants m Alabama and Florida; a planing mdl in ienuef-see; a shingle mill in Alabama; « stave factory in Georgia.- tradesman (Chattanooga, Teun.) HARKED FROM MAILS. Four Pension Organisations Arc Depriv¬ ed of the Right* of tlie Mali*. Officials of southern first-class jiost- offices have received a statement from the postoilico department in regard to tho organization of associations for the purpose of agitating tho question of pensions for the ex-slaves aud their decendauts. Tho department investigated tlie “ex-Slave Petitioners’ Assembly,” of Alodison,/Ark.; the “ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Associa- tion” aud “Vuttghan’s National ex- Slave Pension Club Association,” of Nashville. 1 he report made on these investigations is that the three organi- zations named were operating through tho mails systematic schemes to de- fraud. The department prohibits tlie delivery of all mail addressed to these concerns. BRITISH RE-ENFORCEMENTS Arrive At. Cape Town On Troop Ship* Armenian nmt Nubia. A dispatch from Cape Town to the war office in London announces the arrival thero Monday of tlie troop ship Armenian,with three batteries of artil¬ lery and ammunition column, and the troop ship Nubia, with Scots Guards and half a battalion of the Northamp¬ tonshire regiment. This brings tlie total number of re-enforcements to 12,- 802, of which about 6,000 are already on the wav to Durban. LEGISLATORS WERE SCARED. Opponent* of Prohibition Kill IteKort to Time-Killing Tactic*. In the Georgia house of representa¬ tives, Thursday, confusion reigned throughout the entire session over an ostensible effort to secure the recon¬ sideration of the bill which was de¬ feated Wednesday to move the county seat of Wilcox county from Abbeville to Rochelle, but the moving cause in the disturbance was the general pro¬ hibition bill which lnrked in the im¬ mediate background and menaced tlie opposition with the threat of coming into notice, ouoe the other question was disposed of. DEWEY WEDDED. Admiral, as Usual, Surprises His - Friends—Ceremony Simple and Unostentatious. A Washington special says: Admi¬ ral George Dewey aud Mrs, Mildred M. Huzon were married quietly at the reotory of St. Paul’s Cntholio ohurch, in V street, X, W, p shortly before 10 o’clock Thursday morning, The cer¬ emony was performed by the Uev. James P. Mackiti, pastor of the church, The ceremony was of the simplest character, according to the rites of the Catholic church, and the only wit¬ nesses besides the officiating clergy¬ men, were Mrs. Washington MoLeau aud Mrs. Ludlow, wife of General Ludlow, mother aud sister respective¬ ly of the bride, and Lieutenant Cald¬ well, Admiral Dewey's secretary. The arrangements for the wedding were made with all the secrecy which has attended the whole affair. After procuring the license for the wedding Wednesday, Lieutenant Caldwell call¬ ed on Rev. Mackiu, of 8t. Paul’s, of which church Mrs. Huzeu is a commu¬ nicant, and urrauged for tho wedding Thursday morning. As Admiral Dew¬ ey is not a Catholic, a special dispen¬ sation was required for the perform¬ ance of tho ceremony and this was procured from Bishop Curtis, vicar general of the diocese of Baltimore. The ceremony consumed less than five minutes. Congratulations and felicitation followed and the wedding party drove directly from tho rectory to the residence of the mother, Mrs. McLean, where a wedding breakfast was served. After arriving at the McLean resi¬ dence Admiral Dewey was driven to his own house. There he chnngud his costume for a traveling suit,returning to the McLean residence on foot. The wedding breakfast lasted an hour. There were present only tlie bride and groom, Mrs. McLean, Mrs. Ludlow, Lieutenant Caldwell and Fred Burgli- er. Tho table was elaborately deebra- t* 1 ' with bride’s roses, About 12:20 the admiral and Mrs. Dewey left the McLean residence for ‘be Pennsylvania depot. Mrs. Dewey bad changed the gown in which she was married for a black traveling suit, than n dozen peoplo had congro- 6»ted the depot and there was no demonstration as they passed linn iod- *7 through tho station to the train, Secretary Root hoarded the train be- fore it pulled out aud offered his con- gratulntions in person, The admiral and Mrs. Dewey left 12:46 p. ru. for New York, FIGHTING HARDWICK Hll.L. euuro"" Ai* Actively Opposing PriMicliisn Moanuie. A diip a toh from Atlanta, Ga., says: The negroes are not sitting idly by a ud awaiting tho passageuf the liard- wick hill, but are up in arms against ft|)(1 are appealiu^ to their white friends to join with them in the figli'. Booker Washington, who is consid- ered the ablest negro in the country, was in Atlanta Thursday doing what he could to aid the negroes of Georgia in their opposition to the bill, which will disfranchise many members of the race. During the past few days several meetings have been held, and (ho re¬ sult of these meetings is tlie prepara¬ tion of a memorial which will be pre¬ sented to the Georgia legislature when the bill, whioh has already been favorably reported, is placed ou its P aSBa 8 8 ' MANY WARRANTS ISSUED. Mayor of Corlovtoo, Koutucky, With Klrcttnn liitorforonoe. Warrants were sworn out Thursday f or Mayor I J. L. Rhinook, of Coving- ton, and soveral of hia chief officers, charging them with interfering with the republican insjieetorsat Tuesday’s election. Over a hundred more war¬ rants will he sworn out with the some charge against n number of policemen. CHARTER TAKEN OUT. N.w Railroad I. Projaoted By J«r« IlaxUr und Others. Jere Baxter and others ut Nashville, Teun., Thursday, took out a charter for a railroad to ho known as tho Nashville, Florence and Northern railroad. Tho capital stock is placed ut $100,000. It is proposed to run the road from Nashville t > Louisville and Florence. ROOT CAN’T ATTEND. Secretary Will Not Attend Dedication of Illinois Monuments. Official notice was receivod in Chat¬ tanooga Friday from Secretary of War Root that he cannot accept the Illi¬ nois commissioners’ invitation to visit Chickamauga Park November 23 at the time of the dedication of Illinois monuments on account of legal en¬ gagements in New York. He promises, however, to visit and iuspect the park in the near future. Commissioner of Pensions Evans has accepted an invitation to attend the dedication and probably Adjutant General Corbin will also be present. THE CANDIDATES SATISFIED Goebel and Taylor Still Confidently Claim the Victory In Kentucky. RESIT! IS YET IN DOUBT The Count of Ballots Proceeds With Agrnvating Dilatori- ousuess. A Louisville special says: The tan¬ gle growing out of last week’s eleotiou grows worse with each day. This was the third day of the official count, but llie work of (ho county boards of can¬ vassers disclosed little information to clear tho situation. Chairman Long, of tlie Republican campaign commit- toe, today repeated his claim of a plu¬ rality of 3,111 for Taylor, based on official returns from III) and unofficial returns from the remaining nine. Tho Democratic papers mid papers here have ceased to give figures, hut, spe¬ cials from Frankfort quote Candidate Goebel and other, party leaders as saying they are confident of tlie suc¬ cess of the Kenton oounty man. The complexion of the returns to lie presented to the state board of elec¬ tion commissioners when it meets in Frankfort next month still depends upon the determination of the contests which uro being raised in several parts of the state, notably tho strongly Re¬ publican counties of tlie eleven til dis¬ trict, whore tlie Democrats claim tis¬ sue ballots were nsod. Much HutV VpffltnB Kn|{mi(l»rei1. These contests have aroused much feeling in tlie localities affected. One of them involves tlie vote of Knox county, which gave Taylor 1,398 plurality. Monday Barbourvillo, tho county seat, was visited by hundreds of people interested in tlie result, their avowed purpose being to see that justice is done. Counsel for Candidate Taylor began action in tho Knox couuty circuit court to compel tlie county election officers to certify tho vote to tlie ntutn board of election commissioners. Tim contention .. is over forty-two ... ha , ,, lets . from the first preemet, hut the petition filed by Taylor s counsel asserts that he elec ion officers purpose is to brow out the entire county. Judge Brown granted a temporary injunction against such action. Johnson and Lewis counties are afieeted by the Democratic charges of irregularities, and there, too, legal complications are 1 y, 'I 1 1 " 0, At , Hopkinsville . a contest over a pro- rn.net 7 blob K av e Ifl y ,,r .“ P ll ‘ rn,lt y ° is delay,ng the , official returns of the vote of Christian county, which gave aylor a plurality of 750. Hlow progress * was made in tho count of . Louisville T and i Jefferson , county . Monday, the commissioners being at work on tho third ward when they adjourned until Tuesday. Both sides are fighting every inch of the ground. A number of precincts are in con¬ troversy on tlie ground of alleged irregularities. In one such case, the seventh precinct of tho first ward, tlie anti-Goebel peoplo Toney Monday secured an compel order from Judge to tlie precinct officers to sign the tully sheets. The Goebel people, however, claim the ballot box had been opened before it reached the county election officials. The vote so far as canVassod shows little change from tho unofficial figures. which The federal grand jury, was adjourned over the election, reconven¬ ed this morning and was charged by Judge Evans regarding election vio¬ lations, particularly colored with reference He to intimidation of voters. recited the charges which had reached the ears of the court, described in de¬ tail tho offenses upon which indict¬ ments should be found and ooutluiied: “Conspiracies maybe hard impossible to prove, but it is by no means to prove them, both by direct and cir¬ cumstantial evidence, nnd if you find the evidence and indict those who en¬ gage in these conspiracies yon would get at a class of men most likely of higher, or at least of more pretentious grade, than their tools. This elass is far more dangerous to tho community RECEIVER TAKES CHARGE. Cuiillul Stock of Ksclinnf. Hank nt Alii- «n». <ln . Canaldarably Cut Down. The stockholders of the Athens,Ga., Exchange hank met Monday morning, The experts have not finished their amination and no definite report could bo made. A committee from the directors re- ported that the capital stock has been reduced from $75,000 to $45,000. The discrepancy in the accounts amounts to between $14,000 and $15,- 000. Tbo stockholders decided to place tbo bank into tho hands of a receiver aud Mr. A. S. Pariser will lie tho per- rnauont reeoiver. NO. If) and their punishment much more de* sit-Rble in every way than tho others. However, both classes should be in¬ dicted. “The highest duty is imposed upon you to vindicate the law and you will the more efficiently and commendable discharge tlint. duty if you shall probe matters to the bottom, and without fear or favor indict every man, ho v- ever prominent or however obscure, who has engaged in any conspiracy to perpetrate tho wrongs denounced by Wie statute. "The court also suggests to you that it is by no means impossible for officials of high or low dogroe to en¬ gage in such schemes. And where that is the case the demand for pun¬ ishment is tiie more imperative, be¬ cause An example should lie set in tho caso of those who are charged with the enforcement of the law who make thomselvcB the instrument of its vio¬ lation.” TO SILENCE ENEMIES. W. J. Bryun (lives Out Fact.-; In Regard To His riuclily Dis¬ cussed Income. The New York World publishes the following from its Lincoln, Neb., cor¬ respondent: “In the campaign just olosod the Republicans have charged many times that Mr. ltrynu mudu campaign speeches for money, and it wus de¬ clared that through his political work lie was making a fortune. It was also said that lie was not aide to earn a liv¬ ing ns a lawyer. In reply to tlie first charge Mr. Bryan authorizes Tlie World to say that lie does not charge a cont for any campaign speech and that on these trips pays his own hotel hills and railroad fares unless ho is traveling on a special train. In reply to the second charge, that he could uot earn his living as a lawyer. Air. Bryan also authorizes Tho World to mnko the following statement: „ M „ / the pnM!t loe 0 f law in hi ulltive town, Jacksonville, Jn , 4 1883 B , lort | y after bis gl . at ,nation. He was then twenty-three yu ar» old, and for the next six mo,.tlis, th remairulfir of the year 1883, his fm)H u t tho bar amounted to $711, but for the „ ex t year, 1884, they ( amount- )J( , t() |770 In lfl8B h were <1()85 _o 7> lfj86 1,566.53. “For the next nine months his feos W(jre m „ 8 or ftt the r . t „ of nbout $1,800 per ' year, and on the last day of ' H ttmi l)M , 8H7f ho moved ‘ to Lin- J Nel ' A there October 1 1887, being then twenty seven years old , , aud , without ... friends , in . “Ho did not even know more than half a dozen persons in the town, nnd in tlie remaining three mouths ol Uiat year ho earned in Lincoln in his prac¬ tice lit tho bur $72.55. Ho was then just beginning to form an acquaintance, and in 1888 he earned $834.41. In 1889 In’s feos rose to $1,998.28, and were increasing in the following year when lie was nominated for congress and entered the campaign. After his election to congress lie abandoned the law for public life. “Since the 1896 campaign he has hud several offers of 825,000 a your from corporations to act as their attor¬ ney. One was a New York corpora¬ tion. But he preferred to ilediue all those offerH and devote himself to his present objects. “Air. Bryan says he earn money now in three ways, from his books, through lectures and by writing arti¬ cles for magazines and the press.’’ M’KINLEY TO SPEAK. Mhmoii* Will OU««rv« lOOth Annlvaraary of WaMhlngton’0 President McKinley has ptomised to mako an address at Mt. Vernon on December 14th, when the Masouio observance of the one hundredth an¬ niversary of Washington's death will bo held. The address will be delivered ut tlie tomb of Washington. SHIP WORKERS DI SC H A K U E D. |,«.k of Funds •'*«»*« Cat Down at League Island Navy Yard. A goneral reduction of tho force of the department of construction and repair at the League Island navy yard at Philadelphia has been made. Of the 380 employes 102 have been dis- charged, and it is believed that more will follow. Tbo discharged men in- elude shipwrights, ship fitters, paint- ers, shipsmiths, joiners, plumbers, boat builders aud laborers. Naval Constructor Linnard says the reason for the cut down is a lack of funds to keep ail the men employed, although there is plenty of work for the full force.