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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
3sallefonte, Pa., Nov. 17, 1393,
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebprror
Pensions as “Property.”
The case of Judge Long, of the
Michigan Supreme Court, recently at-
tracted the attention of the public to
an abuse practiced under the pension
system. The Judge had been a soldier
in the Union army and had become a
pensioner under the almost unlimited
latitude provided by the pension laws.
His circumstances were not such as re-
quired this aid from the goverment.
He had ample means of living, in ad
dition to a liberal salary attached to
the highest judicial position in the
State. But a vicious pension system,
which includes among the recipients of
the government's bounty many who do
not need it, was taken advantage of by
him, asit is by thousands of others,
who should be ashamed to thus abuse
a system which should be operated on-
ly for the benefit of veterans who need
such relief.
When commissioner LocHREN took
hold of the bureau he suspended Judge
Long's disability pension, among a
number of others for which there was
good reason for such action. It the
Judge was really entitled to this boun.
ty, he had the opportunity of sustain.
ing his claim by proof; but he does
not resort to this course, preferring to
bring an action in the courts on the.
ground that a pension is “property,”
and that having been once in posses
sion of it he could not be divested of
his proprietary right to it. Here is
seen a high judicial officer claiming an
unneeded government bounty simply
because an indiscriminate law has put
him on the same footing with needy
«veterans, and he holde on to 1t as
“‘property.” There could not be a more
striking example of the defective char-
acter of our pension laws.
The Senior Senator's:Singularity.
In the recent contest in the Senate
the course pursued by Senator Cawm-
ERON was remarkably peculiar, and
caused much comment and not a little
eensure. It was directly and manifest-
ly opposite to the sentiment of a great
majority of his constituents, not only
his own party, but the Democrats ot
Pennslvania as well, being arrayed, as
was indicated by their general expres
sion, against the purchase of silver by
the government. Senator Quay occu-
pied an unequivocal position in favor
of repeal. Our senior Senator was
alene :among the Sevators from the
Eastern, Middle and most of the West-
ern States, in support of the Republi-
can monetary measure that has been
‘having such an injurious effect upon
the industrial and general business in-
terests. He chose to stand with the
Populiste, the extreme silver represen-
tatives from the mining States, and the
other silver.extremists from the South
and West. He seemed to be zealous
in his position, making the only
‘speech of his life in its support, and
maintaining this attitude to the last.
Attempts bave been made to explain
the singularity of his course. Some
say that he has merely followed out
the loose ideas in regard to currency
which he inherited from his father,
whose inclinations on the money
question were always of the wild-cat
order, Others assert that he has been
under the influence of Senator BUTLER,
of South Carolina, who opposed the re-
repeal of the purchasing clause in deffer-
ence to the sentiments of a majority
of his constituents, and who, al-
though a Democrat, is Senator Can:
ERON’s closest associate and is said to
exert a decided control over his Sena-
torial views.
But the theory is now advanced that
our senior Senator took his position on
the silver question with a view to fu-
ture polical contingencies. It is used
as a plausible explanation of his course
that he sees the collapse of the Repub-
lican party ia the near future, and is
preparing to take a prominent place
among the Populists, who he thinks
will be the successors of the Republi:
can party, after that organization shall
have become effete in consequence of
the assured success of Democratic
measures, He is already being spoken
of as a possible candidate of the Pop
ulists tor ‘the Presidency, a ecircum-
stance which gives color to this theory
as to the cause of his peculiar course
in regard to the SuErMAN law.
i
——The fact that ex-Secretary of
Agriculture, Uncle Jerry Rusk, is dan-
gerously ill and not expected to live at
——Other States are testing the con-
stitutionality of their apportionment
statutes. Why should not that ques
tion be raised here in Pennsylvania ?
In no State in the Union is the appor-
tionment of Senatorial and Represen-
tative districts as flagrantly unfair and
unconstitutional as here, and if chair !
man WricHT and the party leaders want
to do the State a service, they will take
steps looking to the enforcement of the
constitutional mandates that require
just apportionments to be made imme-
diately following each decennial cen-
sus.
——1It is a question which is the
biggest gobbler at the Thanksgiving
dinner, the male turkey or the son of
the family.
Official Result in the State. Republi-
can Plurality 135,146,
On Wednesday the official vote from
all the counties in the State for State
Treasurer and Judge of the Supreme
Court were tabulated in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The total vote for State Treasurer is |
778,760, which is 12,546 less than that
cast for the same office two years ago.
As compared with last year’s Presiden-
tial vote, the Republican loss is 73,753,
and the Democratic loss 145,162, while
‘the totdl reduction reaches 225,250 votes.
The vote for Judge of the Supreme
Court is over 8,000 less than that polled
for State Treasurer, and the plurality of
Judge Fell. Republican, is 182,581, or
1,565 less than that obtained by Colonel
Jackson, Ina number of counties the
vote of 1891 was materially exceeded,
especially where strong contests were
made over county or judicial tickets.
In Allegheny county the Republican
vote was increased 9,325 aad the Demo-
cratic vote 1,515. In Philadelphiath e
Republicans increased their vote 1,725
and the Democrats sustained a reduction
of 20,019.
In nearly all their strongholds the
Democrats suffered great losses. In
Berks their vote was reduced 3,870 and
that of the Republicans only 1,370.
The loss of the Democrat as compared
with their Presidental vote in the county
last year was nearly 6,500. In Lancas-
ter, Osburn, Democrats, received only
4.551 votes, a decrease based, on the
vote of 1891 of 4,521. The party also
sustained great reductions in Northamp-
ton, Lehigh and York. In West-
‘moreland their vote was decreased 847
while that of the Republicans was in-
creased 1,791. Centre and Greene were
the only Democratic counties in the
State that returned their usual majori-
ties for the Democratic State ticket.
State Treasurer.
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COUNTIES. 8, & 2
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Adams... 3309 3145 66
Allegheny.. 43 742] 19 105 682
Armstrong. 4499) 2 370 87
Beaver.... 4 401 2 659 187
Bedford.. 41011 3 304 a6
Berks.. 5 919 9 013 328
Blair... 7 395] 4 269 245
Bradford. 6 59+ 2 829 508
Bueks..... 7 953 7467 236
Butler.. 4 676 3 124 354
Cambri 6 370] 4 876 237
Cameron. 80 542 30
Carbon. 3107 3200 125
Center 3 239 3 856 339
Chester. 6 701 3 750 744
Clarion.... 2 000] 2 606 100
Clearfield 5133] 5 506 622
Clinton... 2 410] 2 576 160
Columbia 1 451 2 439 265
Crawford..... 6 275 4 513 470
Camberland 4 616] 4813 304
Dauphin. 9 802, 5 730 499
Delaware. 6 496] 2 84 686
Elk.... 922 1 313 38
Erie... 6 409 3 835 428
Fayette 6 288] 6 05% 498
Forest .. 832 534 101
Franklin.. 5 446 4 095 145
Fulton..... 70 945 50
Greene 1796] 3 664 126
Huntingdon... 3 353 1 762 215
Indiana...... 4 508) 1820 166
Jefferson. 4 055 2 410 525
Juniata....... 1835 1491 a2
Lackawanna.. 11 238) 10 879; 1 015
Lancaster ... 13 071 4 551 651
Lawrence... 3 069 824 276
Lebanon,. 8:899/. 1 423 301
Lehigh... 5 327) 5 830 173
Luzerne... 21 1231 11 1i4 982
Lycoming 4157] 4695 1 Jot
McKean 3 157 2184 347
Mercer 5 606] 3 503 433
Mittin 2029] 11752 10
Monroe. . 809, 2 398 54
Montgomery. 12 238/ 11 405 440
Montour......... 815) 1 181 hid
Northampton 3 7611 5 024 28
Northumberla 6 078] 5 547 528
2 687 2 048 176
.| 103 700 51 454] 1 151
| 289 693 3
2122 1 496 153
10 725 10 902 136
1981 1071 19
3 698 1233 151
583. 815 85
3 467 2 327 410
4 217 1433 280
1 623 772 93
3 500 2 201 452
- 3 091 1 536 308
Washington. 6 679) 5 251 391
Warne....... % 2 380{ 2 399 294
Westmorland . 10 739 7 753 298
Wyoming 1978 1695 125
Nork.......35.... 6 566) T 215 327
Totals ..ccers rian ul 442 248] 307 102° 21 358
The totals on the Judgeship are:
Fell, Rep., 439,613; Thompson, Dem.,
806,032 ; Ames, Pro., 21,783.
Windsor, the People's party candidate
for State Treasurer, received 6,279 votes,
and Stevenson for Judge 7,248,
The scattering vote for Treasurer was
73, and for Judge 67.
It is a Puzzler,
Wasnengron. Nov. 15.—Secretaries
Gresham and Carlisle had a conference
this afternoon on the Russian exiles or
his home in Veroqua, Wis,, is a bit ot !
sad news for the many who learned to |
admire the honest farmer who was the
“but” of most of the jokes in Harn
80N's cabinet, J
{ San Francisco,
convicts, who were recently landed in
It is understood from |
the evidence submitted by the commis- !
sioner of immigration at San Francisco
that some of the escaped prisoners are
not extraditable and are, therefore, en- |
titled to land, What is to be done with
the others is still a puzzling question.
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re. SR TR oo Sy Wh
The Hawaiian Muddle.
Willis Presents His Credentials to President Dole
—A Still Unanswerable Problem.—The Pro-
visional Government Insists on Its Right io
Govern, and Will Insist That any Attempt
to Overthrow Them Would be an Act of War.
‘WasHINGTON, Nov. 14.—The state
department received a communication
from Honolulu sent from San Francisco
which arrived by the steamer China.
It 1s written in the navy department
cipher. Nothing was given out as to
the substance of the dispatch.
F. P. Hastings, secretary of the Ha-
waiian legation, was shown the dis-
patch from San Francisco containing
the news of Minister Willis’ arrival in
Honolulu and his appointment to pre-
sent his credentials to President Dole.
This nows was obviously a great relief
to the minds of the members of the lega-
tion. They declined toialk about the
matter as usual, but the satisfaction ex.
pressed at the presentation by Minister
‘Willis of his credentials to President
Dole suggested that they might have
feared that the minister would be found
to have been accredited to the queen.
The plan of the Hawaiian representa.
tives is to stand rigidly on the rights
they have acquired by the recognition
of their government. Minister Thurs-
ton touched the marrow of their hopes
when he said yesterday that any attempt
to overturn the present government by
a foreign power would be an act of war.
An act of war requires the consent
of congress. Congress will undoubtedly
take up the subject of Hawaii in some
way immediately upon assembling in
December. The fight, it is said, will
be made on the administration policy
on this line, that it has declared war
without the consent of congress, and
therein done an unlawful act.
‘What effect it would have on this pro-
posed policy if the present government
should peacefully yield to the persua-
sions of the American minister are also
discussed, The question involved is
whether so peaceful a proceeding could
be regarded as an actof war, Itis
argued that it would bean act of ag-
gregation on a sovereign power none
the less, because the power peacefully
yielded to the threat of so over whelm-
ingly superior a force.
It still remains an unanswerable prob-
lem to those of diplomatic experience
how the American minister accredited
to the Hawaiian government can, im-
mediately upon presenting his creden-
tials, set about to destroy that govern-
ment. This gives rise to many surmises,
such as that the real policy to be
pursued by the state department has not
hitherto been announced at all, but that
Secretary Gresham’s report to the
president was simply designed to give
an opportunity to read the public senti-
ment on the subject. It is not atall
probable that this is true, but it shows
that the policy of the Gresham report is
considered so entirely extraordinary that
incredulity and speculation cluster about
it.
There is a shrewd surmise in Wash-
ington that the restoration of Queen
Laliuokalani to the throne may not be
followed by the entire withdrawal of
the influence of the United States, but
that with the work of the last adminis-
tration once undone a protectrate may
be established over monarchy.
One clear and certain result of the
present incident would seem to be that
annexation will never be proffered to
the United States by the Hawaiians
again. If thereis ever to be annexa-
tion the movement will originate in
this country.
The Cuban Revolution.
Small Bands of Patriots Are Annoying the
Authorities.
New York, Nov. 14.—1It is believed
that the present revolutionary out
break in Cuba isof a more serious
character than the Spanish Govern-
ment is willing to admit. Jose Marti,
who is one of the leaders of the Cuban
revolutionary party in this city, and
who edits the Cuban paper, “Patria.”
received the following dispatches to.
day :
“Key West, Fla., Nov. 14.—Per-
secution goes on agaivst the Esquerra
party and others. Condition critical.”
“Ocala, Fla, Nov. 14.—Large
meeting of sympathizers here last
night. Great enthusiasm,
¢ A copy of the Havana paper, “El
Pais,” of November 7, received to-day,
says that the revolt began on Novem-
ber 5. Iteays that 20 men rose in
Lajas, entered the store of a dealer in
fire arms and demanded the surrender
of this place. Herefused and was shot,
The place was looted.
The men being thus armed went to
forage. They obtained 30 horses and
were reinforced by more revolutionists,
Then they went to San Isidora. Tele-
graphic communications were cut.
When last heard of they were at
Argudin, the plantation of the Mar-
quis of Argudin, who married Miss
Delvalle, of this city, last winter.
Following this uprising another
tock place in Bancheald. In this 25
men were concerned. In another
place 20 men rose to arms, A fight
with the Government troops followed,
in which five of the revolutionists were
captured. The others dispersed.
Honduras’ Apology.
Satisfies -Unele Sam and That War Cloud Pass-
es By.
Wasningron, Nov. 12.—Secretary
Gresham gave out the following to- |
night :
When authentic information was re-
ceived at the department of the firing
upon the American mail steamer Costa
Rica at Amapala on the 6th inst. |
because of the refusal of the captain to
deliver up Borilla, a passenger, General
Young, the United States Minister to
Honduras. under instructions sent by
Secretary Gresham by direction of the
President, protested against the actand
demanded an apology. The Govern-
ment of Honduras promptly disavowed
the conduct of its officers and expressed
sincere regret for the occurrence,
The apology on the part of the Hon-
duras Government is entirely satisfac-
tory in the United States and it is be.
lieved that this will end the incident.
Have the Vanderbilts Really Secured
Control of the Reading.
Evidence Goes in That Way. —The Stock of the
Road Becomes Firmer Because of Various
Rumors Which Seem to Have a Foundation in
Factas Well as in Money, etc.—dn Inlet to
Philadelphia,
PrirapeELraia, November 14.—De-
nials published this morning had no
effect upon the flood of rumors with ref-
erence to the Vanderbilts having se-
cured control of the Reading railroad
company. The rumors were generally
believed, notwithstanding the denials
made even by Mr. Vanderbilt. Early
in the day the stock was strengthened
on the announcement that General
Magee, a personal friend of Mr. Van
derbilt and the gentleman who held the
Vanderbilt's proxies when Mr. Gowen
was last elected president of Reading
was in the city and was in consultation
with the Reading officials, but what
was doce they retused to state, It was,
however, said that he was here to have
transferred a large block of Reading to
the Vanderbilts.
It was also given out late in the day
that there was some kind of a deal on
| foot between the Vanderbilts and the
Lehigh Valley railrcad company, but
| what the nature of it was could not be
" ascertained. >
President Wilbur, “of the Lehigh
{ Valley, was seen and in reply to the
question if the Vanderbilts were going
to leage the road he said: “I do not
know. I have not heard anything
about it.”
“Do you think they will 2” he was
asked. Hesaid: “Really I do not
know what they will do” he replied.
“They have not done it yet, nor do I
know if they will.
It was, however, conceded that the
Vanderbilts are anxious to enter Phila-
delphia, and a deal with the Lehigh
Valley would give them this privilege,
as the company has a contract with
the Reading, which the Vanderbilts
cannot make, owing to the Reading be-
ing in the hands of the court.
Farmers Will Go Hob-Nobbing.
Harrissura, Pa., November 14.—
These delegates to the farmers’ nation-
al congress, which convenes at Savan-
nah, Ga., December 12, were appointed
by Governor Pattison to-day : J. B.
Kirkbride, R. W. Jackson, Philadel-
phia; W. B. Haryey, West Grove ; I.
P. Jackson, Kelton ; W. Kenderdine,
Lumberville ; Dr. G. W. Heston, New-
ton ; Randall Bisburg, Minsi ; Richard
Knecht, Stockertown ; W. G. Moore,
Womeledorf ; W. B. K. Johnson, Al
lentown, J. G. McSparran, Furniss;
H. M. Engle, Marietta ; A. C. Sisson,
La Plume ; H. W. Northup, Glenburn ;
W. Penn Kirkendall, Dallas; W. H.
Stout, Pine Grove ; O. D. Shock, S. F,
Barber, Harrisburg ; F. McKeehan,
Fergueon ; A. Cadding, Towanda;
C. D. Derrah, Canton; P. D. Rexford,
Mancfield ; Peter Reeder, Hughesville;
E. M. Tewksberry, Catawissa ; F,
Cummings, Sunbury ; W. C. Patterson,
McConnelsburg ; D. C. McWilliams,
Walnut; R. H. Thomas, Mechanics
burg ; J. A. Stable, York; John J.
Thomas, Carrolltown ; G. W. Ouster.
Osterburg ; S. S. Blyholder, Leech burg;
W: Ramaley, Cochran’s Mills ; J. L.
Moore, W. H. McCullough, Tarentum:
W. G. Berry, Houtonviile ; G. Hop-
wood, Uniontown ; R. 8. Sterling,
Beaver; Ira MeJankin, Butler; W.
B. Powell, Shadeland ; A. L. Wales,
Corry ; V. A. Brooks, Sinnamahon-
ing ; Porter Phipps, Einnerdell ; Matt
Savage, Clearfield ; Henry Cyphert,
Kingsdale.
Delegates at large, Leonard Rhone.
Centre Hall ; M. W. Oliver, Conneau-
ville, Alternates at large, Jason Sexton,
Spring House ; Professor S. B. Herges,
York.
TTT ERA —r
The Governor’s Proclamation.
HARRISBURG, November 14.—Gove:-;
nor Pattison to-day issued the following
proclamation :
In grateful acknowledgment to God,
the beneficient and the all wise, the trib
ute of praise and thanksgiving of the
people are justly due for the never ceas-
ing stream and constantly varied boun-
ty of His magnificent providence ; now,
therefore, I, Robert E. Pattison, gover-
nor of the commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, in conformity with the recommen-
dation of the president of the United
States, this day appoint Thursday, the
30th day of November in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three, as a day of thanksgiving
and prayer. On that day let sll secular
business be suspended and let the peo-
ple assemble in their usual places of
worship and with great reverence and
diligent consideration manifest their
generous gratitude by prayer ard songs
of praise for God’s benefits towards us
as a people and as individuals for our
security against pestilence, for the seed
time and the harvest, for the health
which has prevailed within our borders,
for the abundant resources of our fruit-
ful land, which through His benedic-
tion will again fill our homes with plen-
ty and contentment, and let the day be
i marked by deeds of charity and kind
| remembrance of the poor. Given under
i my hand and the great seal of the state
{at the city of Harrisburg, this 6th day
| of November, in the year of our Lord
| one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
i three, and of the commonwealth the one
i hundred and eighteenth.
RoBERT E. PATTISON.
By the governor.
! WiLtiam F. Harrity, Secre-
| tary of the Common wealth.
Want the President Impeached.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 15.- The Ez-
aminer, Democratic, and the Chronicle, |
Republican, in leading editorials on the
| Hawaiian situation this morning called
! tor the president’s impeachment. The
former says : “For scorning to consult
congress and sending his berald to Ho- |
between the |
‘nolulu to declare war
United States and the recognized gov-
ernment of the islands he should be
impeached.” The Chronicle urges it
because it states that when he informed
congress that he had no further commu-
nication to make he secretly prepared
to make war upon and overthrow a
friendly state.
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Great Floods in Japan,
Three Hundred People
Houses Destroyed.
Drowned and 2,000
SAN Francisco, November 13. —The
steamer China brings news of two se-
vere calamities in Japan. One was a
flood at Oito, in which 300 people were
drowned and 2,000 houses destroyed,
and the other was the foundering of
forty-four fishing boats off the western
coast during a typhoon and the loss of
all occupants, numbering 142 men.
At Toyoe the water rose twenty feet
and submerged all the housesin the
town. At Milomua the water attained
a height of thirty feet, sweeping away
many houses. It was still worse in the
neighboring prefect of Ekayema, where,
at Kawabe, the water rose eighteen feet
and brokedown a great enbankment,
carrying away about two hundred
houses. About one hundred persons
are unaccounted for. The police station
was demolished and the chief killed.
Going northward the storm beat with
violence on the island of Sado, where it
broke to pieces six vessels in the port of
Yebisu and nine others at Suisu, where-
by four seamen lost their lives. Before
going so far northward it touched at
Toyama-Ken and carried away forty-
eight houses and broke down the roads
at Shing-Minato, but happily without
any loss of life.
At the city of Toyama eight houses
were carried away and over one thou-
sand are under water. The Yoshino
rose twenty-five feet in Tokushima Ken
many houses were demolished and the
embankment burst in many places. In
Kawahee and the neighborhood four
hundred houses were carried away and
the fate of over two hundred persons is
as yet uncertain, while a similar number
of houses have been swept away at Ku-
boya. At Tanoura, in Buzen, a large
number of junks and fishing boats were
smashed to pieces.
Up to the present the report of the
greatestloss of life so far as actually
known comes from Futakata-Gun in
Hyogo-Ken, where a mountain side
gave way, burying two villages and
Rilling fifty persons. At Misumi in
Kumamitoken nine-tenths of the houses
were damaged, and all the gedouns
of the rice exporters were
blown down. At both entrances to the
port one hundred and twenty vessels
were shattered to splinters, but the
number of men drowned has not been
ascertained. ’
AN ———
Revolution in Mexico.
Mobs Capture a Custom House—They Gain Re-
cruits and Are Marching on Another— Great
Excitement at Palmas and Juarezo.
Er. Paso, Trx., Nov. 13. — Last
midnight the city of Juarezo, Mexico,
was in great excitement, and the mili-
tary and civil authorities were arming
the citizens with all weapons obtainable.
The cause of the excitement is due to
information received by the military
commander of the frontier customs
guards that the city, and particularly
the custom houses, will be attacked by
the revolutionists.
They issued a proclamation against
the present Government several days
ago, and captured the Custom House at
Palmas, 90 miles west of here, Thurs-
day. Now about 400 of them are march-
ing this way. and are receiving addition-
al members constantly. Besides the
citizens, a force of Federal troops is on
guard to-night.
Nothing in Life For Him.
After His Wife Left, So He Blew His Brains
Out.
AvrrooNa, Nov. 12.—The real facts
of the suicide of Joseph Walsh, an old
citizen of Coalport which was briefly
bulletined last night, involve a pathetic
story. Walsh was 65 years old, and
well-to do. He and his wite had lived
together many years, and had their first
serious quarrel a few days ago. After
the trouble she left their home. Walsh
brooded over it constantly.
Finally he wrote a letter, detailing
the circumstances of the trouble,
which he left where it would certainly
be found, and then blew his brains
out. He stated that the trouble with
his wife was the sole cause of his de-
sire to die, as there was little left in life
for him at his age with his home brok-
en up.
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Robbed a Train.
Over $7.000 Secured 57 Thre Masked Men. The
Robbery Occurred Near Bardwell, Ky.
BarpweLL, Ky., Nov. 12.—Three
closely-masked robbers held up a north-
bound train, No. 22, on the main line
of the Illinois Central early yesterday
morning at Mayfield Creek trestle, two
and one-half miles north of Mayfield
Junction. :
The express car of the American Ex-
press company was robbed of two
money packages, one containing $33,
addressed to J. S. Titus, Chicago, and
the other a bag of money containing
$7,000 in transfer from New Orleans to
Chicago. The express messenger
saved the remainder of the contents of
the safe.
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Preparing the Message.
WasHINGTON, Nov. 13.-—Although
congress will meet three weeks from
to-day, President Cleveland has not
| yet begun the actual preparations of
| bis annual message, but he will com-
| mence active work on it at once. He
| spent today at Woodley examining
I reports and other material, the sub-
| stance of which will be incorporated in
| the message or guide him in writing it.
Mr. Cleveland will be at the white
| house to attend the cabinet meeting to-
morrow, but be will decline to see any
callers except those whom he wishes to
consult. Until the message is com-
pleted his doors will be open only to
cabinet officers. and a few others whose
views on public matters are desired.
Fastest Time Yet Made.
Boston, Nov. 14.—The United
States cruiser Columbia in an unofficial
trip over the measured course between
Cape Aun »ud Cape Porpoise, a dis-
tance of a fraction less than forty-four
knots, averaged the hitherto unprece: |
dented speed ot 22.87 knots an hour,
|
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Pennsylvania’s Vote.
Returns From All the Counties Except Four Are
Now In.
HARRISBURG, November 14.—The
official vote has been received at the
State Department from all the counties
in Pennsylvania except Allegheny,
Armstrong, Potter aud Schuylkill,
Without these the vote for Jackson,
Republican, for State Treasurer, is
382,150, and for Osburn, Democrat,
273,239, giving the former a plurality
of 108,911. The reported pluralities
for Jackson in the counties whose offi-
cial vote has not been filed at the State
Department aggregate 29,742. The
total vote received by bim, iuciuding
that reported in the missing counties,
is 442,011, and that of Ostara 303,358,
making his plurality 138,653.
Kent the Prohibition caudidate for
State Treasurer, iu the counties outside
of Allegheny, Armstrong, Potter and
Schuylkill polled 20,300 votes, or
1,871 more than that party ecact for its
candidaie for the same office in 1891.
The vote for the People’s party for
State Treasurer is 6,104 outside of the
counties indicated. The scattering
votes officially reported number 27.
The vote for Judge of the Supreme
Court is lighter than for State Treasur-
er. Inthe sixty-three counties whose
official vote has been received here
Fell, Republican, has 380,190 and
Thompson, Democrat, 272,431 ; Ames,
Prohibitionist, 20,660 and S:evenson,
People’s party, 61,766.
It the official vote from the missing
counties should not vary from th: t re-
ported Fell wili lead Thompson 137,
820. The total vote for State Treasur-
er in 1891 was 790,306, whic his about
17,000 more than this year’s record.
The Republican vote has increased
trom 412,992 to 442,011 and the Demo-
cratic vole has decreased from 358,617
to 303,358. As compared with the vote
cast for President last year the Repub-
lican vote Las been reduced 74,00 and *
the Demoeratic vote 148,906.
The Hawaiian Minister Not Informed
of the Administration’s Policy.
He Learned Nothing New— He Thinks, However,
That the Administration Will Not Use Force
to Bring About the Restoration of Queen Lili-
oukalani. Nothing to Be Learned at the De-
partment of State by Newspaper Reporters—
No Check in the Administration's Policy. :
WasuiNeroN, Nov, 15.—The offorts
made yesterday by Minister Thurston
to obtain something definite concerning
the exact policy to be pursued towards
Hawaii, in his two interviews with
Secretary Gresham, failed of accom-
plishment, according to confidential
friends of the minister.
Mr. Thurston afterwards said he
learned nothing new of interest from
Mr. Gresham, but he carried away the
impression from what the secretary
said, that the United States did not in-
tend to use force in any circumstances
in the restoration of Queen Lilino-
kalani.
There was ncthing to be learned at
the department of the state to-day con-
cerning Hawaii. The many news.
paper theories advanced as to the basis
of action of Minister Willis were sub-
mitted to the departmental officers
without eliciting any expression of
opinion,
There is talk to-day to the effect that
a hitch has occurred in carrying out
the program, if that involved the
restoration of Queen Lilinokalani. It
18 difficult to perceive what solid
ground these rumors can stand upon in
view of the fact that Secretary Gres-
ham himself has confirmed the press
publication to the effect that up to the
very moment that the steamer China
sailed from Houolulu, bringing the last
news that it is possible for any one in
.the Urited States to have received,
Minster Wilhs had not formally pre-
sented his credentials and had not
made any movement that had met
with a check. ;
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Well Fitted For a Groom.
A Young Lady With $25,000 Worth of Fine
Dresses.
New Pork, Nov. 14.-—Madame
Donovan, a fashionable dressmaker,
and Miss McEnroe, said to be her as-
sistant, landed at this port from the
French liner La Touraine on Saturday.
They brought five trunks, which are
still held by the Custom officers on
suspicion of smuggling. The trunks
are full of Worth and Felix costumes
worth, according to the inspectors’ in-
ventory, something like $25,000. Miss
McEnroe claims that the costumes
constitutes the troussean for her ap-
proaching marriage. She does not
however, name the fortunate bride-
groom, and it locks like a big swug-
gling scheme.
Coionel McClure Still Weak.
PHILADELPHIA, November 13.—(Col-
onel MeClure’s condition to-day show-
ed no material change. He is still very
weak and his recovery from so danger-
ous an illness must necessarily be
slow. ;
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Will be Brought Home and Sold.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 14.—Gov-
ernor Pattison will call the World’s
Fair commission together about the
first of December to wind up affairs.
The furniture in the state building at
Chicago is being packed for shipment to
this city for sale.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The Hungarians who were em-
ployed on the building of the new rail-
road are leaving here in large numbers.
The work is done and they are scatter-
ing off to other parts.
——Charles Johnson, the prisoner
who broke jail with John Freeman on
Saturday night, October 21st, was re
captured at Kane oun Saturday and
sheriff Isbler went after him. They got
a far as Lock Haven Saturday evening
and drove up from there on Sunday
morning.