CLEVELAND AND STEVENSON Democrats Elect Their Pres- ident and Vice-President, in the licureson both «f les, as the later re ports will probably show the defeit of a number of Congressmen now said to he elected, and vice versa, I he figures, however, clearly indicate that the next Hous of Representatives will be Democratic by a large working majority, According to the present compilation thers will be 26D mocrats, 127 Republicans an 18 Third Party men in the next House with eleven additions yet to be made te complote the quota “of 35% members. There were in the last House ans Demo- eraty, 88 Republicans and 9 Independents, or | 832 members in all, The result is a relative gain for the Republicans, as compared with the tremendous landslide of two VOArE BZO The strength of the Indepen tents will be pretty nearly the same in the ne . in this, xt House as ’ fh a— - CE ——— 5 sam ———— “THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Fasters and Middle States, Lorn MeLwose, larzest Bt, Bernard dog in the world died a few days ago. at Boston, | Mass, at the Mslross keanels of gastric eolic, He was sired by Ben Lomond out of Leciuse, and won first prize at many bench : shows, He was thirty-five incies high and Sweeping Results of the Battle | weizhed 219 pounds ! ’] - Ture cae of Rev, Dr, C, A, Briges, at the Polls, charged with heresy, came up for. trial po ) — fore the Presbytery of New York. Amendei charges and specifications were made, and the case continusi in order tw give Dr. Briggs time wo reply Simon Pory, passenger agent and dential clerk for James FE, Ward & agents of the New York and Cubs Mai) | Steamship Company, was held for examin. ! ation in the Tombs Polics Court, New York City, on a charge of grand larceny. OM vials of the company claim he has embezzied $40. 000 Chicazo is to have ‘‘the biggest tele. Figures from 1000 Towa farmers show that they raised their corn crop of 1890 scope in the world. at a loss of sixty-seven cents an acre. | THE NEXT CONGRESS. Political Division of the Next Nenate and House. ————— Hair-dye is considered so detrimental to long life that a Paris insurance coms pany refuses to insure the lives of those Jatarrhal laryngitis is the latest diss ense charged up against the bicycle, - — How the Senate, House and State Governments Will Stand, who use it. which has already given us the ‘‘safety ’ stoop” and alleged impaired vitality. The New York Commercial Advertiser | - is convinced that ‘‘poetry pays when it really is poetry, and the Whittier copy- rights bring in as much as $8300 a year.” The Gladstone Government is thinking Stevenson, Grover Cleveland and Adlai the Democratic candidates, have been elect~ ed President and Vice-President of the United States for the term beginning March 4, 1803, The victory is a sweeping one, and on the fourth day after the election it was The New York Fifty-third Congress Democrats of both and House of Representatives. The result shows the next later change figures, will stand: Democrats, 43; Repub. licans, 41; Indenendents, 4, making an ant .- Republican majority of 6 The term of thirty-one Senators, ninetesn Republicans and twelve Dasmocrats, expire Tur Rev, Edward on March 4 next, The present Benate wreached in the Unitarian eomposad of : Mass. large congregation fiftieth anniversary of his first that church in the will Herald the Heaats that RYs of withdrawing all imperial British troops sell governing furnish their from Canada and other ood : . | have control mn colonies and letting them Co., Democratic Governors were chosen in a majority of the States which voted for State tickets. In New Hampshire the fight is thrown foto the Republican Logislature I'his table shows results: 2 : Colorado—Joseph H Maupin, Dem thirty. p Connecticut--Luzon B, Morris, Dem, J f Idaho Wiliam J. McConnell, Rep, Ilinois—John P, Altgeld, Dem. 4 own soldiers, Benate, unless returns the The New York Boara of Health sent Dr. Seibert to Hamburg to investigate the cholera. He reports that America must expect a visitation from the plague pext summer unless immigration is climax for American hustle. Indiana—Clauds Matthews, Dem. Roped i / ‘ Kansas—L. D, Lewelling, Peo,-Dem., The National orgamization just formed : in Chicago under the title of the ‘‘Coun- | try Road Improvement League” has a | gigautic programme, covering the half million miles of country roads need to be improved. of miles an hour by the Empire Express on the New York Central, for the mile, caps the Ten miles at the rate ninety-five Everstt Hale, D. D,, seriin, on the in about ures in eight seconds in Republicans Sor Bon been Was WitrLiax P, Keo, who was to have hanged at Allentown, V al noon found dead in his cell la the morning Heavy played havoe te tric wires ALL poli nection in Heading Russell, Mamsachusetis—Willlam E Michigan—J. 7. Rich, Rep Minnesota—Knute Nelson, Rep. Missouri—William J. Stone, Dem, Montana--Rickards, Rep. Nebraska Lorenzo Crouse, Rep, 3 Rew Hampshire-No choice by people, vouring great segments of pie, without North cae ingeore 1 ( Ay fF Joined table. Thos | the aid of either knife or fork, a fact 2» So North Dakota—Andrew H, Burke, Rep. March are indicated by a oh wm {r y SME | + ) " { Ji CN, Se k South Caroliva—~Benjamin KR, Tillman, | whose terms will expire and fave pirancs People who have wondered why no | that ought to settle the vexed question 0 . been re-clected by an asterisk in tw Dein Ntates [Lwisiatures have alron ta Chose woman has ever composed a grand opera Dem mn In a Bowery museum, relates the New The next Sennte will consist York Tribune, is a ‘Congress Lady depicted Hepublicans.,... Democrats, of ’ snow in central Penusylvania with electric motors and sieo- » and fire alarm oon were burned out by the Pie Eaters,” and they are on which | the “‘oil painting” outside as eagerly de- bi So Rds i “expire 4): thos are representa! hy the represen ¥1 by “ crossing teiephon Alnies PorLicesax New Yorg City, ymin 1 su ie by shooting himsel He was 5 vi insomnia Proves was inaugurated University, We Waose termes 1a i LES 1 ol M South Dakota—A, L. Van Osdel, Peoples which will elect Senators of the same polit Tennesise—Peotsr Turney, Dem ‘ y who retis Texas James 8, Hogg, Dem bl ’ dexa [4 : ouble dagger Washington H. L. Snively West Virginia—Willlam A etiquette, how a lady should eat pie, Pres at Ithaca, N. Y eal party as hey ars in dicatel by a or a great symphony will wonder no ot more. The London Lancet about it. It is because ‘‘woman ficient in the physiological conditions of It will surprise many people, the Bos. wher Lozislaty Democr to sucesasin . » name of the sittinz Senator South and West, printed dn SMALL CAPITALS, a8 Farmers Tax Esquqimau beady born the other noe Ssaator to saccesd a Bapublican in w Worlg's Fair Grounds, Chi ay tells all ns 15s de. | ton Cultivator is convinced, to know that on the AVErage as many people freeze to oonsin (3 ge W. Peck, Dem J oming--John E. Osborne, Dem ..P death in Massuchusetts as are ideoplastic power.” The number of schoolhouses in United States is 216,330. The esti. mated value of all public school erty is $323,565,532. The nues of the public schools are: prop- total reve. From oy endowments, $9 825127; local, permanent from taxes, State, $25,177,007; $58,328 385—$113,505,412; from other sources, $8,794,431, Total $135,125,010. revenue, A curious industry has arisen as the result of the establishment of the Paris. London telephone. Skilled talkers smployed by the news agencies to do all are the telephoning for these enterprises be. cause of their rapidity and distinctoess As telephoning the Freach only is of utterance. sive, these experts talk at 190 words per minute. employed because of the absence of the that frequently is expen- rate of sound render telephone Eaglish hissing talk gible. in unintelli« An electric railroad to run 100 miles an hour between Chicago and St, Louis is projected. ‘‘This sounds big,” com. ments the New York Tribune, **but the range of electrical possibilities has by no means been The operation of such a road would doubtless point to methods of transportation. reached, successful important changes in our A speed of 100 miles an hour, however, will require an almost perfectly straight track, and on the great majority of the railroads of the East it would be entirely out of the One about the proposed new road is that it question. most excellent thing will have no grade crossings.” One good result which the Illustrated American thinks is likely to follow Eng. land's seizure of the Gilbert Islands is the stoppage of the ‘‘countract labor” business. he supply of labor for the coffee plantations in Mexico is small, dear and unreliable. The planters, there- fore, turned to the natives of the South Sea Islands to obtain the workmen need ed, bert Islanders was landed. Two years ago a cargo of 300 Gil. The natives were under contract to work on the coffee plantations for three years at from 87 to £10 a month. of that period they were to be returned to their contracts At the expiration homes. Notwithstanding the the How many will ever reach home laborets were virtually slaves, again remains to be seen. President D. W. Fisher, of College, Ind. gives the New York lade Hanover pendent information which throws some light on the possible origin of American ees, uates of Hanover College, W. T. for the past two years has been in charge of the Mission School for the Eikimos, at Port Clarence, Alaska, on the Amer. fcan side of Bering Btmit. A under date of August 31st, 1892, to my. soll, says of last winter: during the winter, and lve blocked in the Strait. This has always been doubted by whalers, Eskimos bave told them that they sometimes crossed the strait on foe, but they have never believed them. Last February snd March our Edkimos bad a tobacco famine, Two parties (five men) went with dog sleds to East Cape, on the Siberian const, and traded some beaver, otter and marten skins for Rus. sian tobacco, and returned safely, It is only during an occasional winter that they can do this, Bat every summer they make several trips in their big wolves skin boats—forty feet long. These observations may throw some light upon the origin of the Prehistoric Races of America.” Mr, Lopp is 1a every way a reliable man, and it would seem to be a pity not to give to the public the im. portant fact which he has narrated shove. He says: One of the recent grad. Lopp, letter “No thaws the | killed by lightning. For the ten years to the end of 1888, the number that perished from either cause was the same—thirty-two, or an average of ouly a little more than three persons a year. A writer in Science says that there is no element of speech so variously pro- nounced in dialect and by individuals as the letter R. All are derived from a frictional emission of varieties, he explains, breath or of voice between two surfaces 1 in the breath channel. It may be made in the throat, in the guttural passage between the back of the tongue and the soft palate, between the arched top of the tongue and the roof of the mouth— common in the United States, the nor. mal R, produced between the point of the tongue and the upper gum, and by transferring the sound from the tongue to the lips, so that R has the sound of Ww. tling organic vibration instead of & mere Another series results from a mat. friction of the breath or voice. In an article urging the construction of better roads in the United States the Much of the trouble with American roads is ascribed New York Sun remarks: to the absurd narrowness of the the tire ™ 1 } 1 J wagon wheels, A relic of The average days high-priced iron. narrow rim is very hard on the road when heavy loads are carried. But accepting 3 this peculiarity of the tires, a fundamen. tal rule in road construction should be to keep the substances which form the bed firmly in place. This need is shown by the shearing strain on a road floored with gravel. In cities blocks of stone or asphalt can be laid, but not in coun. try districts, on account of the cost, and the the country is best ordinary substitute for angular bits of stone, so driven together, on the macadam prin. ciple, that they will not be moved by the pressure of wheels, The Board of w an official Trade of Eagiand hay just issued a list of the number of publication giving accidents to the 545,000 000 passengers carried by rail. that 1801, rom causes beyond the roads durisg The control in country lost { lives of the travelers numbered five, the lowest figure in any year on record. The that engines or cars meeting with ob- classified list of accidents shows stractions or derailments from defects in the permanent way are slowly diminish. 1881 there were twenty-four ing. In such cases, in 1500 there were five, and in 1591 six. accidents, The greatest number of to come under the head of collisions within amounting twenty-five, fixed siguals at stations or sidings. With regard to derailments, two of the accidents were due to the points of the switches not being altered after the pas- sage of previous trains, one was due to the fallure of a castiron girder, one was due to carelessness on the part of the engineer of a relief train, and one was due to unknown cusses, Inade. quate breaking power was responsible for twelve accidents, and fogs and storms for the same number also, In eight instances fault is found with de. fective system of train despatching, want of telegraph communication, or lack of a block system. Purely me. chanical causes, apart from human error, scarcely appear at all; snd ft would thus seom, says the Eogincer of Loadon, in commenting on these returns to be within human power to work rail. ways without any sccident whatever, While few railway officials will probably subscribe to this conclusion, the figures produced by the Board of Trade cer. tainly show that abroad, as well as in the United States, too many accidents can be traced to negligence, want of care or mistakes on the part of officers oF GROVER CLEVELAND, estimated from the latest returns that the Democrats would have a majority of 180 votes in the Electoral College. Of the Stats ADLALI BE. STEVENSON, that were put down as doubtful before the contest, Cleveland and Bteavenson carry Now York, by 45,000; New Jersey, by 12.0X Connecticut, by over 5000, est Virginia by 6000; Indiana, by S000 The greatest surprises were Turnishie! by Illinois and Ohio, both of which choose Dem ocratio electors, the former by 10,000 plu- rality, the latter by a small majority, The Democrats had a cioss shave in Delaware only carrying the Btate by 534 votes, A later returns came in the Republicans con. oaded California to the Democrats by a small plurality, and at the same tite ther was no doubt that Wisconsin was Demo cratic However, the very latest returns both California and Ohio doubtful was evident that it would take the officia count to decide in which colume they shoul bo pisced, though the chances Democrats The result of the voting for electors, ain dicated by returns on the fourth day after election, is summarized ln the follow table: made and 4 is favored the ng > Alabama Arkansas. . California Colorado. ....... Connecticut ...... Delaware. ..... Florida. ....cov Georgia. .coovvvinnes Idaho. conesus... HHDOo. cou vevves Indians... oo... (OW. oenss Kansas, ... Kotrtuek¥ «oo vovess Lovisians , ....v.. Massachusetts. ..... MInDosots . ...cocossesssnsss Michight .voneeinencsvesusnnss Miswlssdppl. oo vonvinnne Missouri New Hampshire. - New Jersey North Caroling. oeeev.. North Dakota... Ohio, couee Oregon. ...conn Pennsylvania... Rhode Island, ..oviiive South Carolina... South Dakota... Tennessee... ..... Texan...coius.. YOrmmont..oeo0eeescis vo VIrRIndn... coe soesss Washington . ......co00ues West Virginia, .......... Wisconson , ' "8 MAJOrILY. suvinniinnns The Presidential Elactors were elects | Ly the several States at large, exospt in Mich. gan, whers one Elector was electal by the eastern half ol the State and ons by thy western half, and ons by each Congres trie Ar Fords, G Kanes, “or Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Orgeon, hole Islan | and Vermont have eleote | their Stat: ofl this r the Unite 7 eaten Homate it ) fri iil! HP i i NEWSY GLEANINGS, BEnpataa. Mo Tren Tren is much suffering amo | poor MALLY ing! | | ] ! | | all re | Tus Massact ine pots Mountal IMERE are 2007 on hospitals prariet ever patients PENNSYLVANIA and VV begun rEanize a naval militia Prussiax firemen have formed a National organization with the Kaiser as t Tar rbsdolendron the State ower nt have Presiden has of Washingt i been Chosen a by popula | vote Fue Ezvotian cotton cron is expected t exceed 450 000,000 pounds, which will break wd HUssia s exteasive withdrawal « deposits from European centres | 10 portend war | Canal Company has resulted in a Maup 8, the pride of Robert heart, will be again brought ou | track to attempt to smash all trotting cords Tur Goverament report indicates the cor. tainty of a short potato crop throughout the potato-growing regions of East and North * th the Panama decision tors is not Tur judicial inquiry into that a prosecution of the Dire | Justified | County, Colorado, next spring | gt away, A MONUMENT to the Parsons, Eagel and Lingg dicated in Waldheim Come Cag | $1 TRE Supreme Court of Michigan fed that less than twelve jurors cuit Courts and six in Justices Courts are un constitutions Anarchists Spies just been de pear Chi* nas has de in Car THE late fatal train wreck on the Seot border taught the E gl sh the superiority of the American car and also that railroad men Are OVerworie! Tue ladies of President Harrison's Cabinet have, after considerati decided to wear thirty days’ mouralag in respect to the mem ory of the wife of the President. A Duren colony of 2000 fa milies is to set. tie on 15,000) acres of ground in Ban The land is spots of the 1 said to be one of the garden Nlate Ix consequencs of the fall in the prices of silver, the Saxon CGoverament has decided not to compiete its work on the Rathschosn« | berger Stollen, which, if completed, would be the longest tunnel ia the world Tux fact the American wheat is driving the Russian wheat out of the market is mak- ng teelfl felt with disastrous throughout Russia went into bankruptey daring a re CONSNG Uo ont week, ———— ROTIO ICE. The Whaling Bark Melen Mace Lost With Thirty-five of Her Crew The steam whaler Beluga, from the Arctio brings the news of the destruction of ths | whaling bark Helen Mac, Captain Thaxter, and the low of thirty-five of her crew, Only five men were saved. The Helen Mac was crushed in the ice. The ios came in a rush and without warning. The vess! and her boats were crushed to splinters, the officers and men having no time to lower a boat and The fifth mate, Ward: a boat steerer, the cook and two sailors were the only mon saved, They clung to the main. mast as it went over the joe, The rest of the crew, inclu hog Captain Thaxter, were either crushed to death or drowned. For forty-sight hours the five men clung to the mast, being flaally taken 0 by the steam whaler Ooca, The Helen Mao had takon five whales bee fore her destruction. She was ownel by y right, Bowen & Co., of San Francisco, &i, COLLAPSE OF A MILL. Nearly Forty Persons Killed in a Flimsly Bullt Stractare, A mill collapsed in Oprau, Moravia, a few ! i : g : i HE {| (3a wee L fais | Eight large grain firms | ALABAMA Johan T, Morgan {| James | Pagh ARKANKAR Leland Stanfor BAwd. 0 Henry MA DO Alfred H. ( John B. G un rd ITDARO | “Nh ” houp Fredk. T. Dubois 1LIANOIS Bhelby M. Cul Joun M. Pala INDIAXA David M. Turple 4 Dani W_N yn wr wrhees, | William MARY! Arthur PF. Gorman “haries H. Gibson M1 Ia west Hoar MASS KETTH Henry L jaorge F MICHIGAN F. B. Sook bridget Jamo MeMillan MINNESOTA Cashman K. Davie! WwW. D Washburn MiIRsIasIPrM James Z. George* EBdw'd CC, Walthall MISAOU RE Frank M.( ieorge G. Vest Three Repub an Ohio bh Ruaode [dand ani man, of Maryland and Daniel, of Virginia, Although thre Stewart, who has alwa san. He will probably except On sPOCial Ine Foroe bill ROUTER Geo I ras NERRA Padd Manderson , MONTANA SANDERS? JW et > “KA pois 4 NEVADA WEST Pun Willia wkrelitD E E D Joseph M. Cares banatog hsra Prostor, of Vermont, and Aldr Dem yorat he vol res like | A hava Nevaia will | Senator it will uadoubted!y ve bom Chas. J John E | Faun K Ws n i olent retar » IW REPAESESTATIV The Herald gives the follows fatement of the polition wesennt and the next Ho ives ner sequalt in some changes, but be regarded as substant Last House Name of State Alabama. ,.. 00. Arkansas ....... California ...... oloradto hes oanecticut ,.. Delaware, .... Florida. .... «uo: ad LTT [dab SeRanE Ene llinois Indiana, flows, siases Kansas, .... Kentucky... ... Logan. ove Maine Maryland. ...... Maswachysetts Michigan ..ooneel Minnesota ..... Misstasippt. ooo. | Missouri Montana... coos Nebrassa, ....00 Nevada. .......of New Hampshire New Jormy..... New York, ... North Carolina. | Nortn Dakota ..| Ohto, .. bean sar enan : — Bow! wwaagmearan | | « 8 rem EaEny : fF - Oregon. Pennsyivania, Rhode Island... Mouth Carolion South Dakota. Teuneser. ,.... TEXAS, , cvvesnnnsl Vermont. coe Virginia, .oouiee Washington... West Virginia, Wisronme os. Wyoming seman Totals. * aes | y - fo = i lral TiSsl me i A WOMAN #40 ally - rw 0 In a few instances late vision Reoressnta- returas may ths We tabiie naa ETE Aw WYOMING Warren ar taba 1 ext Ff may lied from sore throat od the world 1 the Stockton (Cal STAMB y Wel stallion. record to 2 track Whar. blown yunded the sale robbed The yusand dob Toe expres train was held up at p, Oklahoma, The expres: car was pen with dyns messenger w nite, the and overpowered ani amount we ars Ure l Was severa the New Or.ea la, ba vernor ook ooatro Every militi pany in i ready Strikers i jell the strike in the GG Washington, NErTLETON, Assistant Secretary of has resigned : of the United States Monetary Conference nave hb their fins from the Blats wnsyitation f State and Treas Creasury. 1 AE representalives International Belgium, s issued to them to the at Bru a sry Departments Ansurasor, a D the who is making a staiy of the American system of Saance, had a con # with Awsista Secretary Nettleton ['reasury Department, and afterward od the n and the Treasury CHARLES reactor of Bau England, ¢ ashieroo Department has arrange ste shipment of 500033 lar pieces to the United t Palin selphia for colnage into halli~dollar coins for the World's t is expected tnat the first jot of the svenir coins will be compieted Delore Loe we of the present year iver ha ates M venir i usual semi- Houwe All spt Becretary Cabinet week Tus resutoed SKY at the White NN ers Wes present eX kins and Secretary Husk ne Foreign. Ax jafernal machine pl archisis in the Carmaux ir buliding ia Paris, exploded, killing lice officials Tar universal aused renewed rioting glum Sin Juriax PavxceEvore, the {inister, and family returael to ton from Liverpoo Taz French troops have capturad Cana ud Musoo, in Dabomey, and are marching + Abomey Ine late fatal explosion in Pars sused by the Anarchists and not Ly Carmaum strikers A CALAMITOUS accident o on the coast of Palestine from the Austrian Lloyd beng landed as usual io a sur the boat, which had tweaty five on board, capsizxd and twelve wer Ir is reported that a war is imn tween the Argentine Republic and Peru one wide and Chile on the odher TRE rumors of a coalition between th Argentine Republic and Pera to ata Chile were denied in London and Avres Tuene is an alarming increase i nunber of cholera cases in the Daspartn of Pas-de-Calais, Franos A Brurisn steamer with a CArg of arose and ammunition for the Daboman army has been seized by a French war vese has Bal movemant Brussels, sullfrage in British Washing wa the aurred at Jaffa, b : steamsh : i i Hae FOUR HEADS CUT OFF. Indians Kill and Terribly Muatilate Miners in Alaska The steamer Chlkat has arrived at Taoo- ma, Washington, from Alsska. She left Fort Wrangie October 22, ani while there it was learned that four white men had heen found in the camp at Fort Barry, poll Island, with thew beads ns Ly their clothing stripped from their bodies, The crimes are supposed $0 have been com- mitted by Kake how ay 8% Aan outoome of SOLDIERS RIOT, South American Troopers Attack and Hob Civilians, A party of insubordinate soldiers of the Becond Artillery, about fifty in member, ape
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