ELECTORS CAST VOTES. Every State in the Union Records Its Formal Verdict. People Chose Eiectors on November 6~Electors January 14--Congress Canvasses Vote Feb: ruary 13+ President Inaugurated March 4. The Electors chosen by the the people November 8 met in their re- spective States Monday and cast their ballots for President and Vice-Presi- dent of the United States The Federal law prov.des that they shall perform this duty on the second Monday in January at such places in the States as the Legislatures shall designate. The places designated are usually the State cap tals. The votes as by the show the following results Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticw Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Hlinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryl: Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montan: Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakola Ohio Electors, cast a a Rhode Isls South Caro South Dakot Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wiscons!n Wyoming Totals ain nis “nas According to the law the votes by the Elector i canvassed both houses of Congress, si ly in the hall sentatives at Washington on ond Wednesday in February, this year will fall on Fabri President of the Sen and will declare the v will then In 1886 McKinley toral votes and Bryan . sitting joint House of Repre- } SO - which be finished CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Some of the Work Being Done By the Na- tional Legislature. The House po Columbia business regular order River and Harbor bate closed, and der five-mim ment. Many amendn ed, without! exceq failed. Sena stponed the and tho Wile but r Prit authorizing forest in the southern tains, in the South Carolina Tennessee, Senator coervation lachian Moun rth Carolina Appa states of Geor Zia. Alama ana Hoar gay amendment he will tive, executive anc tion bill increasing Chief Justice of the preme Court to $10 associate justices Representative ake Chairman Mercer, of the mittee, figures to support provide a new postoffice Westminster. The Senate Reapportion- ment Bill and adopted several amend- ments to the Army Reorganization Bill. The House sion bills, The Army Reorganization Bill was debated in the Senate and the commit tee amendments adopted. 5.60600 each. furnished House com- the bill to f building for to ad tt} passed the passed 170 special pen- number of amendments fubsidy Bill. to the Ship tion Bill By a vote of 34 to 15 the Senate laid to the Army Bill providing for a con- in the army. Congress will attempt no insular legisiation until the pending case be- fore the Supreme Court shall have been decided. The House had under consideration the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation ill. Obie Bank Robbed. Shiloh, 0. (Special) ~David Ozler's private bank was burglarized. The robbers are sald to have secured $6000 in currency, a number of Government bonds and a Jot of valuable jewelry belonging to the banker's wife. They stole a horse and buggy and escaped. Suicide of 8 New Jersey Postmaster, Trenton, N. J. (Special).—Samuel M. Robbins, a general storekeeper and the postmaster of Hamilton Square, a bere, committed suicide by shooting himeelf. His body was found in the room nbove the store, where he slept. He had bebn drinking heavily, and this, combined with poor business, is believed to have made him despondent. James Defoe Dead. London (By Cable). James Defoo, the last male descendant of Daniel De- foe, author of “Robinson Crusoe,” ig He was 82 years old. - NEWS IN BRIEF, i The trial of Walter C. McAllister, | Willlam A. Death and Andrew Camp- { bell, accused, with George J. Kerr, of the murder of Migs Jennie Bosschieter, | was begun in Paterson, N. J. Baroness von Ketteler, the widow of {the murdered German ambassador to { China, has decided to go to Germany. | William Neufeld, who murdered LIrs. i Annie Kronman in New York, was electrocuted in Sing Sing. The Ashaway Savings Bank, Ashaway, R. 1. closed its doors pe! ing action by its depositors, Hon. A. M. Dockery was inaugurated as governor of Missourl. He deprecat- ed class legislation, {the new governor of lllinois. Despite strenuous efforts, relatives and friends of John Armstrong Chan- ler, former husband of Amelie Rives, have not been able to find any clue to his whereabouts since he disappeared from Bloomingdale Asylum, The members of the congressional committee investigating hazing at West Point were shown the locality at Fort Putnam where the pugilistic en counters of the cadets took place. Rev Vinzie, who came to San Francisco on a British ship, sald that was forced work as a common ¢ the fact that he had paid Oreste he to or, despit S8age wis citizens have completed fund of $5.000.000 for the World and a committee goes to Washing this week to push the bill a fa iceal f Fair fon Negotiations are der yay king te Carnegie steel inte controlled reported ia 1 i OOKin the purchase by a syn mt Morgan Mollineux want all includ ng Recorder ‘ est by J erp The attorneys the evidence what was Goff, inser the Case, out by ecord. wiithampton, Pa a Cumberland Val- train, dled in the hos hamber strich ted in Reed, o was struck . I S ries passenger 4] at hop enry C otter. of New EUELe a mii Depa: West V of to dis 3 forge 10K gent FET slatur ques State owed for rgina ed uss the he ground t of the debt t the introduced ntion it Fil ha Al tutional conv with A cabls from Admiral Cervera denying tl Il, but declaring good health a « apparently st meets . gram was received in Norf other on the lor was arrest he murder of Sam Boyd, who up alive officers arrested thr for Government swindling Ea fraudulently wrn we onfessed Was ne Fishburn Axa colored, ¢ Petersbht ; had Prince George county A wit h rar ed zel trust is reported under of Berea Col home in Berea, Ky arbitration to has been of the Interna Union and tl Association to the twa or prevent agreed 1 : ¥ ¥ wi i“ i wii that Morgan » other railroad powers are companies with acquiring and operat lepartments of the XPress ar ‘illiams, of the Seaboard inounced the ag Superintendent wd Mr. St 1 general pO nim McBee 1 John mar a grand jur } saloonkeeper, for + Riegel, to whom been administered mmittee ‘aint hazing forced to tel Gn men who had bazed Ey i as an aged inh wv indict pi ¥ int ed = Commissioner Riddle Noy Va held Julius . a Richmond postal clerk, on f robbing the mails I. Trenholm, who was treasury during folk the Cieveland’s first administration, died at biz home, In New York. Charles H. Boylan, a deputy regent of the Royal Arcanum, was arrested in New Haven, Ct, on the charge of forgery. . 11 # comptroller of At the National Capital, The United States Supreme Court rendered a decision in the Neely ex- tradition case, The court held that Neely was subject to extradition and must be surrendered to the Cuban au- | thorities, The Congressional Postal Commis- sion, which has been investigating | postal matters for two years, submitted i its report. {| Secretary Gage made a statement to ithe Senate committer with reference to the Oleomargarine Bill The remains of the late | interred in Arlington Cemetery, | The State Department has been offi- {cially advised that the Hay-Pauncefote { Treaty is now under consideration at | London, with a view to returning a | final answer to this government, The State Department has no cone firmation of a news dispatch from Pekin that the Chinese commissioners have received orders from the court to sign the joint note of the powers. ommendation of the naval board transfer the Bouth Atiantie naval sta. tion from Port Royal to Charleston, the Comptroller of the Currency, died at his home, Agricultural interests in Cuba are uniting in an effort to have the United (Htates government make a modifica. tion ofthe duties on sugar and to- bacco. A number of Washiagton business men and financiers invested heavily in the Flowers’ Arizona and Montana mining scheme, David G. Adee, the author, and brother of the Assistant Secretary of Hate, died In Washington. | LIVES LOST IN RUSH. Women Throw Children From a Theater Gailery in Chicago. LITTLE ONES TRAMPLED TO DEATH. A Mass of Struggling People in a Panic Caused Less Injured. Chicago (Special). crushed to death and as many ser.ously injured in a panic which fol- lowed a man's ery of "Fire!" in West Twelfth Street Turner Hall, About eight hundred people were in the place, gathered to witness the per- Horn.” The play was in Yiddish, and The trict densely populated by Jews play was nearly over when the after it rang entire audience a frantic mob which fighting ind hh the in i five seconds the hall nverted into 'Y mer of within through the Was 4 was bey ullding A ay f the ha'l apen 150 women en at the {; exiled bh is only ¢ seated and the wom balcony from that AWAY seeing the Was and 1d ren, le ones over below a maddened thron under ’ x f th Lid ia were Od that who and with Follow t0¢ women at feet known children trampled $d were the dead thrown from trampled ¥ iree of the were were not ng chance Or a the ng fr the balcony hers i spa crowd hung ist the SWing ng han ling through OoyYer hn y dropped of in pressure pressu was piaces maddened fier the bDegin- it was all aver who d thing he Femen of the ina ster yond ured iit ney IR away the dead and inj MILLIONS FOR A WORLD'S FAIR The Local Fund Completed and a Commitlee Will Now Push Bill Before Congress. Mo Vaaderbilt-Freach Noptials R. 1 i Th Special pT JONRE, WAR has bags biti Alleged Plot Agalan:t Car. : (Bs The poli i arresied Prince V Nakadchidee Russian, the charge of tting take the life of the Czar approaching visit here. Prince Nakad- chidze. who is a Nihilist, was condemn - ed to death in Russia as an accomplice in the conspiracy of 1885 against the life of Alexander III, grandfather of the present Czar. He was also con- victed possession of explosive machines, Nice Cable} Lot 3p ctor to on pio on the latter's Ea iacer Killed. Richmond, Va. (Special).—By the deo- rallment of a train on the James River division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near Alberene, Engineer Wil- Ham H. McCartney was killed and Fireman Charles H. Clay was badly in- jured. The accident was caused by the breaking of the flange of one of the wheels of the locomotive as it was rounding a curve. Several cars were wrecked, Another Fire in Rochester. Rochester, N. Y. (Special). The ni i trate building of the Eastman Kodak Works was destroyed by fire. Two firemen were killed by the fumes of | burning chemicals and one other was | go geriously injured that he will prob {ably die. The fire started by the con { tact of escaping nitric acid with the | wooden floor. The loss is placed at | $3000. Explosion Kills Ten Persons. | London (By Cable) ~—Ten persons were killed and many were injured as | the result of an explosion In a hat fac- {tory at Denton, near Manchester, Woman Attempts Suicide. New York (Special). ~<A woman who had registered as Mrs, Sam T. Jack was found unconscious from gas in the South Hotel. She was taken to Belle- vue Hospital, where the physicians sald she had a chance of recovery. Great mystery surrounds the woman's identity. Shortly after her arrival at the hotel a man who knows the widow of 8am T. Jack very well called at the hospital to identify the dying woman. He declared positively that she was not Mrs, Sam T, Jack. CRIME IN FARMHOUSE Son Beaten to Death and His Aged Mother Brutally Assaulted. Portland, Me. (8peclal).—Thomas C Maoshier, a farmer, was murdered and his mother, Mrs. Rufus Moshier, aged thelr home In Gorham, by two men, who forced an entrance into the Moshier residence with the evident in- tention of robbery. After completing thelr ghastly work, the men ransacked {the house, taking what valuables they {could find. One of the men was i negro. About noon William negro, was arrested at Bearboro. his possession were found a bloodstaln- { ed razor, marked with Moshier's name $40 In money, consisting chiefly of bills were also stained with a watch. The man ad- mits having been at the Moshler farm- in Portland. TRACE NEWS OF THE WEEK. factory Conditions in all Lines, New York (Special).—R. G. weekly review of trade “Only in the textiles Is special hesi- tation shown, Staple products firm, iron and eel pe are yitaout t ouble, ools and ool are steady, and all with fair man #0 that manufacturers busy, les, however, the improvement seemed to be Dun RAYS: & held and GE ut Cis i shoes are In text which the in eotton I Some quar- promised with # still delayed, and ' f I Year i goods stocks a ng i 1 not oppressiy Thre i i rs though still anywhere country distribution of merc on good si unusually ely $ th Li Aeavy mghou a ale and collec prompt. temporarily, ak CADIOS tinn ions “Cott are : advanced to react when | to respond. ! ¥ 18 of on AVerpool failed Wheat was a corner in the a time bi reaction f agitated by May option, A and for strength Despite over exports bushels, in iarkable is the compar! corn, of which shipments §.543,148 voear, while Harp owed Of ir the } py the anti cent show flour HER 1 G04 amounts ' 40K 783 DUsheis, the eid States oi in Canada agains Sxtroot els fing appeared t D nereasing Yé move- its milion iat FOREIGN AFFAIRS ved in Paris that al of the offic of the wrecked off Marseilles, Was NOY er Ors the crew Russi al Democrat bitter attack sky-Wehner, se nthe German C bho married Oli who al A. Del Ve nn many eon 111 nn Years nj in Aa ce ria nual capacit Ove exXan ional former r« attacked Kaal- h garri- them off railroad line men and other citizens oming disgusted on account crush the Diaineus Columbia are bw ith tl government 48s effect of its ¢ vols 3 to vey rebel #4 in a sinking condi- ew was rescued by a Ger- steamer, on man A force of French troops defeated a Fu, killing a thousand of them. A movement has been started in Span for the suppression of bullfight- ing. samuel Lewis, the notorious money- lender of London, is dead iN THE FIELD OF LABOR The Building Trades Council repre- gents 250.000 men. Marble is said to exist in twenty-four of our States, ¥ Coral, both white and red, is found on the Florida coast, Seven dollars a month, with room and board, seems to be the highest ever paid to a walter girl in German hotels and restaurants, Chicago Typographical Union, No. 16, has sent out circulars to all labor or- ganizations, asking t3eir members to purchase only union-n®de books. The referendum vote which Is being taken by the carpenters shows that the proposal to abolish the half-holiday during the winter will be defeated by a two-thirds vote. Conductors in the employ of the Chi- cago Transportation Company, which conducts a bus line in opposition to the carettes that run from the North to the South Side, have been displaced by boys. Columbus, Ga, a eity of less than 26.000 population, only about one-quar- ter the size of Richmond, has forty. seven different local trade unions, a contral federation of labor, and a building trades council, In 1890 the mineral product of the United States amounted to $619,000,000, and in 1899 to $976,000,000, Owing to a French law compelling the French mercantile marine to man only with Frenchmen, the f Sof men cannot be introduced to displace and defeat the French shipping unions, Ag a result, they are uni y consful In thelr strikes. THE KEYSTONE STATE. From All Sources. ; FALLING RAILS KILL FIVE MEN. eailants of an Aged Couple--Other News. Five men were drowned by the split- ting of a barge which was being loaded with steel ralls on the Monongahela River at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, Braddock. The four missing bodies pinned to the bed of the raver under 375 tons of steel rails, with "which the barge was being loaded, The ne which was used for send. South, While twenty board putting the riverward side idenly cracked ope HO sd an explosion. The | of thi was 500 tons { thought that the 3 tons been placed aboard {to one gide, tearing the | weak seam, are ning rails the with a capaciiy and it is which had ghifted on the of *n IR boat i 15 i suddenly aft = vo ur JIONE 2 iamplon, died hospita ¢raburg from ved | Valley rg. He rain, but ng and in striy the guided coroners of Franklin coun- he died, and Cumberland ident occurred the nquest In girl with him ith her collarbone rived FOR Ree] 10 the i pull tieam away he horse on the ils The where nty. wi f nferred £1 or 1 127e Lali al { and held A had ‘hambersbursg body of Antone Morove Fairview ition Railroa« : Qs id Ohie r Crum Creek guilty. Judg:« seniend and soli- ‘AYY rate ¥ DIY oO Wi and n reage. Valle« Histor wil Many the coal “Buried of ead at the cal Wilkes-Barre by mining expert ormation of Sen r'e exp neg” was r rong al ied Hw of arg: ained Millage, a 10-year-old ¥ ry 1 3 £ ' # ¥ AIRED Defor ae oronel ow ¥ 1 DUrg. « h of May wa dileged that ased the girl w ily setting fire HAmMes wire wax fatally rer 4 ne TR sSus. ng Dieber G-vear-ald Ong Delshelimer yne county, accid instantly killed his wife was cleaning a gun, which he did not { know was loaded Mrs. Deisheimer | was standing close and as her hus- | band touched the trigger the charge { exploded Whik Gedrge Deishein by wn Dr. W. G. W.aver and W, Finney. of Wilkes-Barre, were driving between Sugar Notch and Ashley the buggy went over a steep embankment and was broken. Neither of the men was bawdy hurt The first prisone: to n.cupy a ¢ell in the new townsiip lockup at Ardmore is James Glendinning, who was arrest. ad for drunkenness and d'szorderly con- duct at the Pennsylvenia Rallroad sta- tion. The Shamokin Coal Company, oper ating the Natalie Colliery, not.fied its the colliery be operated ten hou.s in- stead of nine, {hat the petition was granted. The new hours will go into effect at once. Railroad tracks one mile east of Ashe (and, Mrs. Maltilda Ferguson, 70 years of age, was run down by a Lehigh Val ley train and terribly injured. was instantly killed by a fall of coal in the Beaver Brook mines, Hazleton, Henry Hess while unloading coal trom a car at Chambersbyg fell car and was carried to the bin below and completely buried by the coal With great difficulty he was rescued. Death suddtnly terminated a social meeting of the Black Horse Ath etic Club at Norristown, Jathes HII was stricken down while playing cards. Apoplexy caused his death, William Hoffman, a coustable of Elizabethiown, was arrested, charged with being implicated in ths robuery of turkeys from Albert Felker, of that place. Hoffman gave bail An old tool-house at Austin enved was at work and he was fatally crushed. LI HUNG SIGNS NOTE. AAPA Disease of the Kidneys. Pekin (By Cable) ~The joint note of GHEeTA, It i» understood that malady ‘rom which 14 Hung Chang is suffer- ng is Bright's disease. Prince Ching has protested to the sourt against the appointment, said to contemplated, of Viceroy Chang *hih Tung as a plenipotentiary in the ace of 114 Hung. Chang He thinks he latter's advice absolutely essential vithough might be ad 7isdble to appoint a third plenipoten fary for China, and reiterates his de- dre for the appointment of Bheng who would be ar to the for- signers. SECRETARY HAY BLOCKED. the : } 1% 4 i he believes It ceptable He Withdraws Plan to Transfer Chinese Negotiations, Washington (Special) Opposition )¥ the European powers will prevent onsideration of the questions of in lemnity and revision of commen Hal with China by ap inter tational commission sitting elsewhere han at Pekin, as suggested by Becr¢ ary Hay. In urging that :ussed In the manner Conger informed nent that thoy settled by Ministers in Pekin only with the gre PEL inclination proposition of Mr. Hay withdraw ft. and th Pekin will x irected to try io reach an agreement It 8 explained that Mr. Hay's proposi- was i to facilitate the con Fned to 'T Se # whale as a NS the treaties i} questions be dis ugeested Mind er : State Dep 4 difficulty hie powers to ace 16 dow ¢ f the negotiations separating those still 1 sration from letermined. 1¢ of the powers ook th favor upon this sepa hesitated to decide regarding the with was made Quadt, the Ger tion, at the State celipt of a cable Porter, giving Government to have op slrong:y authorities preliminary diplomat) 1ited ion 13GTE U's States 5 proposit abroad with the fieet it nt from reached th : impos ie GE . GRANT IS PACIFYING fie Says Pampanz= 3 Now Ready for Chi Goverament. Cable) nila (By sCoutls at the has south of retired at he eh. who wer onsiderable re iven from of Filipinos wer were a Troop A f the n ied, made were dr atives Laie American losses d a private of Cavalry, wounded inion of General Grant fairly pac with locality south of Bulo he Province of Pam- his ai fod he neg th £ ve { Pampanga will be which provincial tied tha nat province overnment wili oe BRITIAN CHASTENS ITSELF. decadence of Its Power a Favorite Them: in Lesdon Now. Great Britain's popular thems and self-flagel- congenial a i mulation « and in- Cable) ecoming a f-debasement y be to the chas forced tin of ance dream is & lally occurrence for some leading Andon newspaper to parade the short- omings the country. instituting omparisons with the United States ind little complimentary to Great 3ritain. “Lost opportunities,” says the Morning Post, “form the keynote. The ritain which could dictate its will to he h is to-day a myth.” ia almost a of* ends of the cart Congress of Mothers. Washington (Special) The Na- ional Congress of Mothers has accept- +1 the invitation of Columbus, Ohio. a« he place for holding its next conven- Hon The congress had invitations rom eight cities, the one from Colum yus being extended by the mayor, president of the Board of Trade and resident of the Federation of Women's The meeting will be held some time in May, the date to announced next week. Céitorial Wriser Killed, (Special). ~Charles E An Boston, Mass, He attempted to The gatema’,, Edward Nickard, res. Mr. Hanna fo a London Newspaper. London (By Cable) ~The Dally Mal; publishes a two-column article signed by Mark Hanna discussing the aspects sf the merchant shipping question in the United States, and giving his rea. wong for supporting the bill now before Se United States Senate. Weimar (By Cable). ~The obsequies sf the Grand Duke Charles Alexander i Baxe-Welar, who died January 5, were imposing. The ceremonies were ittended by represcntatives of Em. seror William, the foreign courts and Sutheraus military and other deputa- ne, a A RA MAS
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