FROST ON THE SOUP That is the Way Foraker Himself Sizes Up the Situation in Ohio. A DEMOCRATIC AVALANCHE Has Swept the State, "With Both Branches of the Legislature. NATIONAL HONORS FOE MR. CAMPBELL. Bis Friends 6eo Vo Limit to the Future Pos sibilitiesChairman Neal and AI Carlisle Holding a Continuous Levee Foraker Will Resume His Lnw Practice, but Wilt be Koady to Respond to the Party's Call A message of Congratulation to the Snccessfol Candidate The Demo crats Will Elect the Next Senator Brico and Thomas in the Field Payne Don't Want It Campbell's Majority 10,000. Nearly complete returns from Ohio con firm the tidings of Foraker's defeat, along with the balance of the ticket and the Legis lature. The Governor takes the catastrophe good-naturedly, and his friends assert that he is still a Presidental factor. The enthu siasm of the Democracy knows no bounds, and Campbell is already entered for Vice President or a still higher position, as future eTents may determine. Brice appar ently leads for United States Senator. trBOM A STAFF COEEESFONTJENT.l Columbus, November 6. The great de feated takes things with remarkable equa nimity. His friends' faces are measurable by the full length of yard sticks, but he is blithe and unconcerned. The man who was prevented by a Democratic landslide from being elected "Governor, Senator and King of Ohio," as one of his friends put it, sras early astir this morning. He breakfasted and drove to his office at the State House, where he found a num ber of Republican leaders and The DIS PATCH correspondent sitting in solemn and lugubrious silence. The Governor entered with a cordial greeting, and strove to dispel the gloom by remarking that there was frost on the soup. A CEOBUS OF GEOANS greeted this sally. After a few inquiries the Governor said that he was beaten, and he knew it, and that he was going to con gratulate Jim CampbelL He thereupon sat down at the self-same desk whereon the rebel flag message was indited, and wrote a congratulatory telegram to his victorious rival. He was for sending it immediately st 9:00 o'clock, but was dissuaded by those surrounding him. At 12-30 the returns were so emphatically against him that all hope vanished, as did a messenger boy with the telegram. "I should have liked to have gotten out of politics long ago," said Mr. Foraker, "but I did not want to be driven or kicked out. I only wish I could quit right now and call it a term. I shall return to Cin cinnati and practice law. I am A pooe sus and intend to take some active steps to build up my law practice. I bave abso lutely no political plans, and don't expect to have. "Whenever my party wants me they will always know where to find me. My adversaries will also find me in. The election indicates that the Republican party can ill afford to yield to pressure in favor of sumptuary legislation. An un popular law has been enforced with a relult inimical to vote gathering. That is the sum and substance of the election." Judge Brown, of Columbus, at present Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, came home to Tote for Foraker. "Pretty tough, is it not, to travel 8,000 miles to vote, and. meet such a landslide," said the Judge. "For aker's defeat has not injured him one par ticle. Nothing will keep him down. He is too brilliant and magnetic a man. Even James G. Blaine's palmiest days present no comparison with Foraker's stump oratory. He stands JUST AS GOOD A CHANCE of nomination on the national ticket in '93 as before his defeat. It's ali very well to point to the crushing nature of his defeat, but that don't signify that he will retire from the arena. The country is through with General Mahone, but General Foraker will be doing business at the old stand in the near future." There's a new national Slogan for the Democratic party. It is "the Campbells are coming! Aha! Aha!" Just now Columbus is ringing with it. Jim Neal is holding high carnival at the Neil House, with Al Carlisle, of Pittsburg, in attendance as master of ceremonies. Neal is happy, as he has a right to be. The great victory is the theme of every tongue. Neal says that out of 36 State Senators the Democrats have 19 sure. Out of 114 As semblymen they surely have 61 a Demo cratic majority of ten on joint ballot. BRICE FOR SENATOR. Calvin S. Brice is the most talked of man in Ohio for the Senatorship, and John H. Thomas, of Springfield, comes next Both men have barrels, and both are said to be itching for a chance to smash in the barrel head. As for Campbell, he is already mentioned as a component part of the National ticket reading either Grover Cleveland or David Bennett Hill and James E. Campbell. Jim Neal says that if the next two State elec tions in Ohio, between this and '92, go Dem ocratic, Campbell will be the head of the ticket Columbus Democrats see in their mind's eye, Horatio. Columbus made the Mecca of the Democratic party the In dianapolis of 1892. It's a chaste and beauti ful vision. Wales. . CAKRI THE NEWS TO GEOFER. Mr. Tbnrman Sends Tidings of Joy to the Democratic Lender. Columbus, November 6. Allen "W. Thurman sent the following: Columbus, 0.. November 6. Hon. Grover Cleveland, New Yorkt Governor Foraker has surrendered all the Republican flags in Ohio. TO THE VICTORS J., mJk m m u jO mmMmv Mw MIm'K ill 1 W Pit Governor-Elect McKinney (to Mahone) Give up your gun, General; you've no further use for it in Virginia. Governor-Elect Campbell (to Foraker) Let me relieve you of those troublous rebel flags, Joseph; and you may keep that forged contract "all to your loney." THE HGUBES FOE IT. Campbell Defeats Foraker by a Plurality of Abont 10,000 A Comparative Table Showing Wbero the Republicans Lost. Cincinnati, November 6. Unofficial returns from 81 counties in Ohio give Camp bell a plurality of 8,905. The few remain ing counties, which are Ashland, Geauga, Ottawa and Paulding, gave Powell a plu rality in 1887 of 430. The following is the list: 16S7. 1889. o 3 COUNTIES. Adams , 123 Allen 888 Ashland 716 Ashtabula 3,846 Athens 1,763 Auglaize 1,418 Belmont 484 Brown 1.102 Butler "U98 Carroll WO Champaign 922 Clarke 3.301 Clermont 117 Clinton 1,53: Columbiana 1,919 Coshocton 784 Crawford 1.9(3 Cuyahoga 3,081 Darke 778 Defiance 993 Delaware Ill Eric 485 Fairfield 1,553 Fayette 973 Franklin 903 Fulton 743 Gallia 1,32 15 1,500 3,900 1,432 2,000 "i.'soo 3,300 600 725 953 "l'.'JSO 1,148 "3,"3W "'330 817 ""sob 2,400 'i,'347 1,100 "347 1,950 i'66o 875 '"sxi 1,127 'i'894 lieauKa j,ks Greene 2,105 Guernsey 748 Hamilton - 6,692 Hancock. ....... Hardin 1T1 Harrison " 603 9W 7.165 .120 "".' l,'2n5 100 28 695 Henry 1.C8 Highland 154 125 llOCKUlg Holmes.. .. ... Huron ! 1.093 404 1,033 625 1,950 900 Jackson 993 Jefferson 1,532 Knox 9 Lake 1,716 ... .. Lawrence 1,333 Licking 1,187 Logan 1,417 Lorain 1,853 Lucas 9G6 Madison 299 Mahoning 603 Marlon 897 Medina 964 ... . Meigs.... 1,517 Mercer L914 Miami 1,253 500 1.V0O Tbs 1.067 "i'200 2.000 1,000 300 400 "'951 1,600 1.600 000 Monroe 2,132 2,254 Montgomery 274 1,300 .morgan.. . .. aio ...... Morrow 300 ...... Mnskingnm 26 Noble 200 Ottawa 1,240 Paulding 93 Ferry 5 Pickaway 914 1'ikc 1 315 Portage 539 Preble 244 Putnam 1,623 Klchland 1,001 4G5 293 "6 413 1,035 5U6 421 98 1,797 1,492 JtOSS ....1. M -. U Sandusky 6S1 780 Scioto 958 700 Seneca 9C9 1,200 bhelby. 1,124 1,196 Stark 363 LOOO Summit 1.503 400 Trumbull.. 2.655 2,700 ,'w 1,005 1,094 200 200 L066 85 925 214 500 Tuscarawas mv Union 1.093 Van Wert Vinton Warren 1,468 Washington 296 Wayne. Williams Wood 747 60 67 6S8 53 Wyandot 769 825 NO ENTHUSIASM THERE. Northern Ohio Voted for Foraker and Is Now In the Damps Senator Payne Not a Candidate for Ee-Elecllon The Summit Conuty Idea. Cleveland, November 6. The Eepub licans in the city of Cleveland are in retire ment this evening. They are cogitating in the privacy of their homes on the vanities and vexations of all earthly things politi cal things especially, xney were not so terribly taken back to know that Campbell had been elected, but the generous propor tions of his plurality as it grew to-day, hour by hour, fairly staggered them. They have carried their own connty of Cuyahoga sure enough, and every man on their ticket, State, countv. district and citv. except a justice of the peace, has been elected, but they are inconsolable nevertheless. Complete returns from Cleveland and the county give Foraker 20,403 votes and Campbell 18.168. JToraker ran from 800 to 1,500 votes behind his ticket In fact he was "cut" by Republicans in nearly every one of the 100 precincts in this county. The eight Republican candidates forthe General Assembly were elected by ample pluralities, and the result in this county, all things considered, met the expectations of Gov ernor Foraker's friends. In Northern Ohio the Democrats' lost and gained votes in spots. In Summit county, of which the flourishing and populous city of Akron is the capital, the Republican loss was some thing like 1,100. Akron is a manufactur ing city, and the tariff was made more or less of an issue in the campaign there. Late this evening the impression prevails here, and it is based on a careful review of all the returns now at hand, that the Demo crats bave ainajonty ot two in the House ot Representatives ana possibly a majority of two in the Senate. If this should prove to be the case a Democrat will succeed Hon. Henry B. Payne, also a Democrat, in the Senate of the United States. The Senatorial election will occnr in January, 1890. Ohio has been known as a Republican State, when all the Republicans voted, yet it has never been represented at Washington by two Republican Senators. Senator Sher man has always had a Democratic colleague, and now Mr. Payne, who is a very old man, and who save that he will sot be a candidate for re-electfon, will be followed by another Democrat, BELONG THE SPOILS. THE OHIO LEGISLATIVE Democratic by a Majority of 10 Upon Joint Ballot Democrats Claim 13,000 to 15,000 for Campbell and Re publicans Concede 8,000. Coltjmbtjs, November 6. The Demo cratic State Committee is claiming the elec tion of Campbell by a plurality of 12,000 to 15,000 and the rest of the ticket by plurali ties ranging from 4,000 to 8,000. These conclusions are reached from meager returns and mostly by estimates, but are believed to be reliable within the range of pluralities which are given. The Republican Committee has nothing upon which they can reliably dispute the figures, further than that they do not think the plurality of Campbell will reach over 8,000 or 10,000, and that the rest of the State ticket will not be elected bv more than 2,000 or 3,000 plurality. D. K. "Watson, Republican candidate for Attorney General, and TJ. H. Hester, Re publican candidate for ClerK of the Su preme Court, are not satisfied as yet that they are beaten'; as the news from Cleve land and other parts of the State show that they have run ahead, and especially so Hes ter. The Republican committee, though, do not think that the complete figures will be sufficiently fsvorable to save any part of their ticket. Both Commissioners and Chairmen seem to be acreed that the Demo crats will carry the Legislature in both branches. It is not probable the figures as agreed on as to membership will be changed from that which has already been an nounced, though in some of the counties they do not have conclusive information. From the best at hand, gathered from both headquarters, the House will stand 61 Demo crats and 53 Republicans, and the Senate 19 Democrats and 17 Republicans. This would give the Democrats a majority of 10 on joint ballot. CONGEE'SJEXPLAMTIONS. A Combination of Circumstances Led to the Defeat of the Republicans The Great Futnro Before the Young War'Eaglc. rsraexu. txleqram to tub dibpxtcba Columbus, November 6. A. L. Conger, Chairman of the present Republican State Executive Committee, has been pressed all day for his views of the causes which brought the Republican disaster and to night said: In defeat there is nothing so much becomes a man as modest silence. Yet I know of no secrets the Republicans have to keep from the public. So far as the State Executive Com mittee are concerned they have worked hard and faithfully. We knew from the flrst that we were battling airainst great odds. The apathy of an oil year, the effect of Commis sioner Tanner's removal on the soldiers, the usual unrest and discontent following a dis tribution of patronage by a new administration all contributed, but the principal cause of our defeat was the array of the saloon interest against us. backed by large contributions from brewing and whisky interests inside and out side of the State, giving the opposition a cam paign fund which was wielded with telling ef fect against our cause; and, of course, the pro hibition vote pulled them through. Governor Foraker wasbattling for the right: he is the representative of coon government, honesty, and made a gallant fight. He broke down in the campaign from over-work, and I believe his sickness cost our ticket 12,000 votes. He is one of the most effective speakers on the stump, brave, honest and aggressive. He is the young war eagle of the Republican party and American politics. He will De to the Bepublican party in the f utnre what James G. Blaine has been in the past, a brilliant, able and dashing leader. He was battling for the right, and while he has gone down, his defeat will only make him more friends, ana he has a great future before him. FORAKER'S CONGRATULATIONS. The Text of the Message He Sent to Gov. ernor-Elect Campbell. Columbus, November 6. The following is Governor Foraker's graceful concession of defeat: Bon. James E. Campbell, Hamilton, O.: To the full extent that a defeated candidate can do so with propriety, allow me to offer my congratulations and assure you it will give me Dleasure to extend you every courtesv I can show you in connection with your inaugura tion and the commencement of your adminis tration. J. B. FOBAKER. Campbell sent the following reply this evening: Hamilton, O.. November 6. To Hon. J B. . Foraker, Governor of Ohio: Permit mo to thank you most heartily for the cordial telegram just received. I accept with high aporeclation jonr tender of courtesies upon the occasion referred to. James E. Campbell. AN INDIANA GAS DECISION. The Natural Article Can bo Piped Out of the Stnto at Pleasure. Indianapolis, November 6. For the first time in the history of natural gas its commercial standing has been fixed by a court of appellate jurisdiction. To-day the Supreme Court handed down a decision in which all the Judges concur, in which it is held that natural gas may oecome a com mercial commodity, and that the State Legislature cannot enact any law regulating commerce between the States, for the reason that the Federal constitution forbids the States from legislating on that subject. Therefore, the legislative act of last winter prohibiting the piping of gas out of the State is unconstitutional. The law was passed to prevent the Chi cago Gas Trust from piping gas to Chicago, and under this decision work will begin at once to connect the gas fields with the city by the lake. The home gas companies hoped thatthe court could give the law some standing by holding that foreigners might not condemn the right of way over which to pipe gas. This was a strong hope, but it comes to nothing- HAD IT IN FOR HII. Virginia Was Laying fof Mahone, to Show What it Thought of Him. AN OPPORTUNITY CAME AT EAST. Every White Man in the Slate Toted Who Could Crawl to the Foils. AN ETE ALWAIS TO ADVERTISING Ono of General Mahone's Assistants Consideration. la Gaining Well posted Republicans in Virginia say that Mahone was defeated simply because he is Mahone, and it was the first time the State had the opportunity to show him just what it thinks of him. A genileman well acquainted with the General tells of the ways in which the latter has managed to keep himself well advertised. lErrCIAL TXLKQBAH TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Richmond, Va., November C No cry of fraud on the part of Mahone can prevent a general perception of the fact that the victory yesterday was the result ofb ground swell ot the people against Mahoneism and Mahone personally. Every white man in the State that could walk or ride went to the polls. There was a sentiment that this was the first oppoitunity Virginia has liad to hit him directly. Mahone's ways are so well known, that had any other but him self been a candidate for the Governorship, he would have placed the defeat to some miscarriage or disobedience of his orders. He has done this over and over again, in former campaigns, and always with such success as to fool somebody else, "until at last there came to be a suspicion that this man was after all not the smart man and leader that reputation had accorded him. The man who whispered this a few years was poo-poohed at, but as Mahone's political career is reviewed it is apparent that these prognosticators were right. MAHONE SIZED UP. One of the brainiest Republicans fa th e State said to-day: "Mahone has bee1! living on the work of other men's brains fill his life, and the fact is pretty well demonstrated to-day. He has simply humbugged the country, such humbugging having been made more possible by the support that humbugged Republican administrations and their claquing press have given him. Mahone has always had an eye to the value of advertising, and has never lost an oppor tunity of keeping himself before the public. He has bestowed all kinds of high-sounding titles upon himself, beginning with his act of signing himself on hotel registers as 'Ma hone, Virginia.' He has advertised himself as the 'Little Napoleon,' and then again as the "Little Giant.' ''No campaign has ever left Mahone any poorer in pocket, whatever it has done to his reputation. He has always made some body else do the paying. He has made the A,, M. & O. R. R., when ho was its Presi dent, pay 570,000 toward the support of the Richmond ffTiig, and when he was shoved out of the eoad because his incompetent management had forced it into the hands of a receiver, he had the newspaper with which he abused the owners ot the road, and from that time on he had an organ. The Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette, and Mr. Frank Hatton, and even the respectable New York Tri! une took him up. He made the Virginia o ce holders, while he had the,. Statu un.lWhia control, pay forthe support of the TF7t'sr by organizing a joint stock company and forc ing them to take stock in it, and many a poor fool to-day has a bit of paper repre senting that he owns $5 worth oi stock in the defunct concern. Then he went into the so-called Florida ship canal, and at tempted the play of rewarding his political workers by letting them in on the ground floor. But stuff was floating around for a while, some of it being hypothecated for drinks. Where is the Florida ship canal to-day? They paid 55 for stock with the idea that something would be made out of the investment." THE PUTUEE OP THE GENEBAL. "What do you think of his future now?" asked The Dispatch correspondent. "His future? Why should anybody bother about bis future? He is a very or dinary man, and so iar as Virginia is con cerned, she can manage him, no matter what power takes him up. My own opinion is that the administration bewails the mo ment it took a man up when the voice of a State had declared him unclean." The speaker, though an old-time Republi can, voiced the general sentiment here re gardless of party. Wherever any trouble in the State occurred it was forced by Ma hone men, who were foolish enongh to at tempt to carry ont bis scheme of attempted bulldozing. It is significant that wherever a gun was fired, it was from the hands of a Republican, Mahone himself being among the shooters. The shooting of Hon. Mr. Noblin, in Halifax, was a wanton ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION to which a gang of whisky-filled negroes were impelled by a tew miscreant whites who took care to get ont of the way in the time of danger. Mr. Noblin will probably be totally blind, if he does not lose his lite. An attempt at intimidation in Fowhattan conies to light to-day. Johu Wallace, a worthy colored man, bad expressed a deter mination to vote the Democratic ticket. On the day before election he received an anony mous letter, warning him that if he voted against Mahone he would be shot and his house burned. The authorship of the letter was traced directly to Sam Goodson, a negro Mahone leader. When he went to put it in the mail the mail had closed, and the post master opened it to let the letter in. He re membered its appearance from this circum stance, and .testified that Goodson had mailed it. When Goodson heard the officers were on his track he fled from the county and has not been apprehended. YIRGINIA'SJUI)GE LYNCH Is Said to De Fixing a Ropo for Hnllfnx County Republicans Who Shot nt Democrats How the Fight Occurred. ISFZCUL TELBQBAM TO TUB DIBPArCH. Richmond, November 6. Full particu lars are received here of an attempted as sassination in Halifax county to-day. At Omega precinct yesterday morning Mr. A. M.Terrygotintoadifficulty with aiiegro, who seemed to be trying to obstruct the window at the polls. This brought on a general row and several negroes told Terry that if he was at Omega at sundown he would be killed. Terry then came to South Boston to vote, and returned to Oemga, accompanied by Hon. R. R. Noblin, Messrs. E. N. Hardy, W. B. Williamson, H. C. Poindexter, Henry Howard, Julian Chappell. Arriving at Omega they say that the polls and ballot boxes had been taken possession of by the Republicans who refused to leave the room, and were preventing the count ing of the vote. A fight ensued, and it was, from all accounts, a lively scrimmage. Terry and his friends came out all right, and started back to South Boston. About four miles from there, in a dark body ot woods, they were fired on. They stood tneir ground and returned the fire, their assailants running away. assailants running away. I Noblin was shot in the right eye. He came to Richmond this morning for treatment. Mr. Chappell was peppered with shot on the hip and head. Last night a body of armed men on horse back went to search for the would-be assassins. They succeeded in catch ing all the parties. There is an under current of great excitement; but ordinarily everything is quiet. It is reported here that Mr. Noblin will lose one eye, if not both. There is further trouble feared, and it is expected that all the pris oners will -be lynched. THE WEATHER BUREAU. Suggestions Contained in the Annual Report of General Greelv Tho Percentage ot Successful Forecasts The System of Military Signalling. Washington, November 6. The re port of General Greely, Chief Signal Offi cer of the Army, to Secretary Proctor, of the operations of the signal offices lor the year ended June 30, 1889, has been made public General Greely says: In the performance of the strictly military duties which by law devolve upon him. the Chief Signal officer of the army has found him self seriously embarrassed by an utter lack of facilities for using or caring for the field tele graph trains or other signal equipments under his charge; for the practical training and drill ing of the officers and enlisted men of the signal corps, and lastly, but to a minor extent as compared with the foregoing conditions by the need of liberal appropriations. It goes without saying that under such conditions the officers and men of this service are gradually but surely retrograding as regards their military dnties. The deterioration of military signaling has steadily increased, and at the end of the fiscal year the condition of signal in struction in the army is at the lowest ebb it has ever known. He recommends, therefore, either that in struction in the art of military signalling be abandoned or ample material and moral support given the chief so that he may raise it to a high standard of efficiency. Speaking of weather forecasts, General Greely calls attention to the fact that under present conditions- the forecast officer can devote barely half a minute to all the predictions for any particular State or district. The de mand for weather forecasts is con tinually increasing, and they are ap preciating in value in the estimate of the public. The percentages of successful fore casts, made by Prof. Charles F. Marvin are for weather, 84.4; temperature, 75.8, with a general average of 81. During the year 1,066 storm signals of all kinds were" or dered of which 680 were wholly, and 74 partly justified as to velocity and 980 justified as to direction. On the Pacific coast territory, in charge of Lieu tenant J. F. Maxfield, the per cent of suc cessful forecasts increased from 73.8 in 1887 to 83 in 1888. JJEAELY BEADI TO ADJ0UBN. Mrs. T. A. Hendricks Addresses the Women's Home missionary Society. Indianapolis, November 6. To-day's session of the Women's Home Missionary Society was a busy one, and especially in the committees. Mrs. Rust, of Cincinnati, on behalf of the bureau for children's work, reported an increase of over 200 bands and circles during the past year. Mrs. T. A. Hendricks was presented to the society and made a brief address in commendation of the society and its aims. The Committee on Resolutions reported favorablr the resolution to limit future con vections to six days. A permanent com mittee to establish the Lucy W. Hayes memorial was elected and August 28 fixed upon as Lucy W. Hayes' memorial day. The night session was almost entirely taken up with a discussion on some pro posed changes in the by-laws. The subject was finally laid over until to-morrow. The amounts appropriated by the Committee on Finance and Mission Fields are -as follows; Southern work, 541,827; for Indian work, ?18,662; for Mormon work, 59,945; for city work, 519,640; for Alaskan work, 59,130; for immigrant work, 513,840; for conference work, 55,200; for deaconess' work, 520,300. The total amount appropriated, including some allowances for incidental expenses, is 5180,000. The final adjournment will take place to-morrow. A HEW OCEAN CABLE Tbe Western Union is Getting a. More Dl- rest Lino to England. Manhattan Beach, CoNev Island, November 6. The steamer Faraday arrived off Coney Island'last evening and is prepar ing to lay the first shore end of the new Western Union cable between that place and Canso, N. S- She will lay the shore end to-morrow morning and will then steam back to the end of the cable which has been buoyed about 40 miles south of Fire Island, and make the splice there, which will complete the first of the two cables to be laid. She will then return to Coney Island and lay the second shore end, from which she will pay out the second cable, probably completing it in about ten days. These cables will give the Western Union Telegraph Company direct cable connection between New York City and Great Britain, and will make its service absolutely free from interruptions incident to the winter storms on the land lines in Noya Scotia. AMERICAN FISHERMEN Have Practically Driven Tbelr Canadian Competitors Out of the Field. Ottawa, Ont., November 6. The fail ure of the Labrador fishery and destitution of the fishermen are attributed principally to inroads of American and French fisher men, who used trap nets and other engines for the wholesale destruction of fish. It has been stated that during the past sea son vessels from Gloucester swept the shores, getting lull cargoes and absolutely treating the three-mile limit with contempt. Inquiry was made at the Fisheries Depart ment here, where it was stated that the Gov ernment were inquiring into the matter, it having been brought to their notice by the Quebec .Board of Trade. JMo inlormation could be given until the report of the inves tigation hud been made to the department. TOOK TfifilK 0WM WAI ABOUT IT. Young Phil Armour Elopes With a Pretty Daughter of Johu T. Lester. SPECIAL TELEQEi-H TO THX DISPATCH. CniCAGO, November 6. Miss Mae Les ter, the pretty blonde 19-year-old daughter of John T. Lester, the $10,000,000 Board of Trade operator, has eloped with yonng Phil Armour. They left the city to-day, and their wbereabonts are at present unknown. The marriage of the young couple was to have taken place in this city, and great preparations had been made for the event. The lovers mysterious ly disappeared to-day, and it is "supposed they went to Milwaukee. John T. Lester, the father of the bride, is ill in bed. He admitted to-night that his daughter had left the city, but professed ignorance as to her whereabouts, K0 DANGER IN NEBRASKA. The Prairie State Rolls Up n Round Repub lican Majority. Omaha, November 6. Returns from this State are still very incomplete, but there is no doubt whatever that the Republicans have elected Laws to Congress in the Sec ond district by from 2,000 to 3.000 majority, and that the Republican candidate tor Su preme Judge and the Regents of the Uni versity have from 20,000 to 25,000. Tlnnrrlna rmintv nn plentpri thft pntirn Democratic ticket with the exception of one commissioner. KTJNZE IS IN IT NOW. The Coils Tighten Around Another of the Cronin Suspects. A Y0OKG LAD'S STRAIGHT ST0BI The First Direct Evidence That Had Been Given Against Him. O'BDILlTAJi'S HOPES GEO WING DIMMER The Frosecatioa Mates Another Strong Point Against the Ice Man. The testimony in the Cronin trial yester day was in many respects sensational, and tended to strengthen the State's case against two of the prisoners,-Kunze and O'Sullivan. The defense made every effort to break down this evidence upon cross examination, but without success. rEPECTAL TELEOUAM TO THS DISPATCH.) Chicago, November 6. The testimony introduced in the Cronin t:ial to-day all had a direct bearing on the great murder con spiracy and was for the most part sensational. Regiuning with R. T. Stanton, editor of the Lakeview Record, who printed Iceman O'Sullivan's business cards, and concluding with little Willie James, a stenographer's clerk, it was one of the best days of the en tire session. Editor Stauton showed that the particular card of O'Sullivan's which wasused to en tice Dr. Cronin from his home to the Carl son cottage had been delivered to the ice man but two days before the murder, May 2. O'Sullivan had had a card for the firm of P. O'Sullivan & Co., printed early in March, and it was one of these he gave to Dr. Cronin the day he made the contract for protessional services in the doctor's office. The card that the stranger who drove Dinan's old white horse handed the doctor was one of the packages that was de livered to O'Sullivan on the afternoon of May 2. A STEONQ POINT. The S tate's object in introducing this evi dence was to prove that the new card, though it was in the stranger's possession, could not bave been in general circulation when Dr. Ctonin came in possession of it. Ex-Police Captain Villiers, who in the earlier stages of the trial testified to the find ing and identification of Dr. Cronin's body, was recalled, and after being shown a map of Lakeview. he traced on it what he be lieved to be the route traveled by the wagon containing the trunk and the murderers. He said he believed the wagon went west on Belmont avenue to Rlston road, southeast on that thoroughfare to Fnllerton and thence east to Clark street, as has been so fre quently described by other witnesses. He described the trunk at length, claim ing that when he first saw it much of the blood-soaked cotton was still wet. Of the small tuft of hair that was found clinging to the one end o the trunk, he said he had ex hibited it to a number of persons who promptly identified it as Dr. Cronin's. The hair was about 3 inches in length, was held together at one end by coagulated blood and bad been described by a number of physicians as human hair. A lock of Hint. Judge Wing made an ineffectual attempt to show that the hairhad been passed around so much that the original tuft was undoubt edly lost, but Paptain Villiers wavcoufident; that the hair tad never passed out ot his sight until he finally delivered it to his suc cessor, Captain Wing. Officer Phillips, of the Lakeview patrol wagon, was a clear-headed, intelligent wit ness. He described accurately how he had been called to the trnnk on Evanston ave nue, above Sulzer road, on the morning of May 5, how he had moved the little bunch of clotted hair that was clinging to one of the ends, and made an examination of the bloody cotton. A day or two after the body was found, Officer Phillips was sent to the house of P. O'Sullivan to place him under arrest. He found the iceman standing near his barn in his shirt sleeves, and after notifying him that he was wanted at the station permitted him to go into his house for his coat and vest. When O'Sullivan returned he directed the officer's attention to the famous Carlson cottage. Phillips saw a reporter and a man who he thought was a detective ascending the back stairs. eathee stbono language. "I wonder," exclaimed O'Sullivan, with an oath, "what in them fellows are going up there for? They are fools." Phillips, who had paid little attention to the iceman's apparent excitement, started for the station without a word. He did not realize the significance of O'Sulli van's qnestion until he read of the discov eries that were made in the cottage. Dan Donohne made an ineffectual attempt to break down Phillips' testimony in a sharp cross-examination, but he was unsuccessful at every point. Ex-Captain Wing, of the Lakeview police, told the jury of the find ing of the key to the trunk under the blood stained dresser in the parlor of the Carlson cottage by Officer Larch. This was one of themost important bits of testimony offered during the trial, as it is a direct connection between the trunk, Dr. Cronin's body and the cottsge of which Martin Burke was the tenant. He said the key was partly covered with paint of a yel lowish tinge, and that when he tried it, it exactl v fitted the lock of the trnnk. He de scribed the condition of the interior of the cottage, corroborating the Carlsons in every particular, and finally described how a goo j deal ot the blood-soaked flooring and wains cotting had been removed for the purpose of exhibiting it to medical experts. A YOUNG WITNESS. Willie James, a 16-year-old lad, formerly worked in his father's office on the sixth floor of the Opera House block. One aiter noon late in February or early in March, while he was standing at the window of an office adjoining his lather's, he happened to look across the street into the top flat of the building at 117 Clark street, where J. R. Sinionds had the furniture and trunk. His attention was attracted by a man in the buildinir across the street engaged in wash ing his feet. The stranger saw James after a few minutes, and hastily pulled down a curtain "Who was that man?" Judge Longenecker asked. "That's him there leaning on the pil low," replied the lad, pointing at the re cumbent Kunze. The little German face grew paler, his eyes flashed a vindictive light, and despite his weakness he struggled out of his chair, and dragged himself to Dan Donohue's side. It was the first time anybody bad swoin to his connection with the murderers or their different places of rendezvous. an important stoet. James continued his story without notic ing Kunze. He said he had frequently seen men in the flat, and had noticed par ticularly that two of them were in the habit oi going to bed every afternoon about 3 o'clock. Dan Donohue's face fairly gleamed when he arose and faced the youthful accuser of his client. Hit cross examination was bright and keen, and though he was advised at every point by Wing and Forrest he was unable to break down a single statement made in the direct examination. This worried Douobue a good deal, and more than once he was on tne point oi giving up in uespair, wnen ne would be urged on anew by his associates'. AFTER MANY;S XJ A Prominent Citizen of AIIssou ?$ teen r- Called to Account for a Strang ot Incendiarism He May ? v IhUfnR.Mlitfhn ItTflttpr. . ,,. i . V Chicago, JNovemoer o. anis eryrvx wuiio BUJfJpiu uvu ai urns v nut. uwM Detective John T. Norris, of SpringfijL O.. the man who followed Jake Kilral.r through the South while on his way to fight Sullivan, said: I have just returned from a trip to JopUo, Mo., where I wa compelled to throw a shadow on a highly respected family. The husband. John S. Wanton, a wealthy farmer, with an interesting family and a fortune of about $100, 000, has been called to account for implication In the burning of the large mill of A. D. Packard, near Iowa City, in 1863. The story of this man's life is a stranire one. His earlv career was very checkered, and many were his escapades from justice. But what is straneest of all, he palled . through unscathed, and has now been living in luxury and enjoying the peace of per fect comfort. The old adage "Murder will out" has at last risen before him like a phan tom. During the war Swanton was a member of Quantrell's band of raiders, who followed the Union and Confederate armies through Mis souri. In this same campaign were two inti mate friends, one of whom was James Bailey. The two were accustomed to separate from the main hand and skirmish and plunder for them selves, and on one particular night in the year 1882 came upon the farm owned by wealthy Jo siah Holbrook. Tho horses they had been riding were almost exhausted, and finding In Hol brook's barn three others in condition they ap propriated the fresh animals, left their old ones in the barn and set fire to It. On making their escape they were seen by a son of old man Hol brook, who was just returning home on a fur lough. Taking in the situation at once, Hol brook soon organized a poaso of men and started in pursuit. The party caught up with the thieves and a skirmish ensued, in which one of Swanton's party was killed and Bailey captured, while Swanton alone escaped. Being tired of the life be had been living be pushed eastward and finally went to Ohio and decided to settle down. Bailey in the mean time had been placed in jail, but managed to escepe, and hearing of Swanton's whereabouts, joined him. The union resulted in no eood to either, for they determined to return to Iowa and wreak vengeance for the death of their companion. This they did bv burning the Packard mill at Iowa City, because one of the Pacxard family was a member of the Holbrook party. The Packard mill was insured for S5.000 in one of the largest New York fire insurance companies, and after its burning the full amount of insur ance was paid. With the great excitement at tending the closing of the war the case was soon foreotten, and in the course of a few years Swanton thought he could return in safety to his old home, which he did, and since that time has beeruiiospered in his every undertaking. 1 called on" him at bis .beautiful borne, and he appeared very willing to discuss the subject, and at first tried to make himself feel secure by saying the case was outlawed. The sight of an indictment before the grand jury at Iowa City made him change color, however, and be come very much excited, tie asked on what terms the cafe could be settled. I told him by Saying the 15,000 insurance. Whether he will o this or not, I can't say, but nnless he takes some action he will most likely have to pay the penalty for a crime committed many years ago. As to Bailey, he is living in the West, and will be arrested as soon as I can get back from Ohio. Swanton cannot get away on account of nis large interests, so I am sure of both my men. CLAIMS OP THE T0BJE8. The Closing Speech of Their Attorney In the Parnell Case. London, November 6. Sir Henry James continued his speech for the Times before the Parnell Commission to-day. He quoted from speeches made by Mr. Michael Davitt in 1880 to show that the object of the Land League, under a cloak of con stitutionality to affect a combination be tween the forces of the moderates and extremists belonging to the American Clan-na-Gael and the Irish constitutionals in the work of keep ing Ireland unsettled. Mr. Parnell had not then assumed the disgnise of mod eration, but associated with Fenians. Hir reception at Cork in March, 1880, npon his return from America had a Fenian character. At the dinner given to welcome Mr. Parnell, Mr. Biggar made the memorable Hartmann speech in which assassination was encouraged and ap plauded. The commission, Sir Henry declared, had evidence regarding the importation of arms into Ireland from men who were openly sup porting Mr. Parnell and who were members of associations which were in active sym pathy with the objects of the League. Surely if it was proved that crime was rile in many districts in Ireland where there was no dis tiess, but where the Leagne had roused the people against the authorities, the charges made by the Times against the League as the source of crime must be held to be proved. ' HAEKIS0N DISOWNS MAHONE. The President Joins In Kicking; tho Man, Now That He's Down. rEPECIAI. TJXEOBAM TO THE DI8PATCIL I Washington, November 6. The full extent of yesterday's landslide is only now beginning to dawn upon the administration. Explanations and apologies are in order. Such as are offered are feeble in the extreme. "I was in no sense responsible for General Mahone's candidacy in Virginia," said the President this morn ing, ''and I fail to see how his defeat can be regarded as in anyway a rebuke to my administration. It seems to my to have been brought about in ways that are familiar to the elections in Southern States, and which I have more than once alluded to in mv public messages and speeches. "Whatever aid and assistance it may be claimed was given to General Mahone by the administration was no more than I should feel bound to give to any candidate regularly nominated as the representative of the Bepublican party. He was not my personal candidate, and the effort to make him appear so is un justifiable." A GBEAT STRIKE THREATENED. The TiOndon Lightermen Intend to Quit Work on Friday. London, November 6. The dock labor ers, through their leaders, decided and an nounced to-day that they would on Friday decline to perform further work until the master lightermen accede to the terms demanded by their employes. Although this action was not unexpected, in view of the fact that the lightermen struck in sym pathy with the dockmen on the oc casion of the latter's great strike, it was not believed by many that any con siderable number of the dockmen would al low their trratitnde to lead them to the length of deserting their posts while they were reyeiviuK hue lugiciucu pa niiiuu uie lightermen helped them to get. The Master Lighterman had a conference with the Lord Mayor and Cardinal Man ning this morning which was also attended by Burns, Tillott and Buxton, on behalf of the dock men and their allies. The questions at issue were exhaustively and somewhat warmly discussed, but no decision was reached, and the meeting adjourned. The Prloce of Wales Mot Honored. Caibo, November G. It is learned that at a recent conlerence of the foreign consuls here Mr. Schuyler, the American represen tative, proposed that the diplomatic body; in full uniform, meet the Prince of Wales on his arrival here. The majority of the con suls, it is Bald, negatived the proposal; hence their abstention from the reception. Tho Legislative majority Not So Large. Baltimore, November 6. The latest re turns from throughout the State indicate that 'the Democrats will bave a majority in the State Senate and House of Delegates. 1 but not so large as in the last Legislature. ALL AMERICA HERE, Pittsburg's Hearty Welcome a r to the International Congress, AN UNUSUAL ATTENDANCE, Nearly All Foreign Delegates Assem ble in the Iron City. A BEIILIAHI EVENING BECEPH03 Prominent Tlsltors From Other Places An Overflow nt tho Monongahela House Lnxnriance of Flowers, Mnslo and Beauty The Tlsltors Express Their Pleasure and Surprise at the Grandeur and Possibilities of the United States Elegant Souvenirs Presented to theTonr ists by the Local Committee Address of Welcome by Congressman Dalzell The Big Dfiplay at Me hanlcal Hall To Night Natural Gas on Exhibition. The Pan-America delegates arrived in Pittsburg yesterday afternoon and wero given a rousing reception at the Moncnga hela House in the evening. Congressman Dalzell made an address of welcome. The majority of the delegates are present in tha city and will visit the various mills to-day. They expressed themselves as pleased -with; America and charmed with Pittsburg's hos pitality. The Pan-American delegates were given a brilliant reception at the Monongahela House last evening. The parlor floor was luxutiant with tropical and hotbousa plants and gorgeous flowers. Every turn of the halls, every nook and window corner was a new revelation of botanical loveli ness. There were great fan palms, ferns of long leaf and intricate lace work, and spreading bouqueta of crimson roses and multicolored chrysanthemums. All was brilliantly lighted by electricity. The guests began to arrive abont 9 o'clock and continued in a steady stream until shortly after 10. There were about 00 ladies and gentlemen present. All came by special invitation. The carriages stopped at the ladies' entrance, whence the gaests ascended to the south lobby. There they re ceived the tri-colored badges of the evening, left their coats and wraps, and proceeded to the reception room, the new north dining room on the First avenue side. This room was splendidly ornamented. The walls were almost covered with silks and satins, flags and flowers. The windows were each devoted to one of the represented nations. Over each window, on a banner ot? white satin, was revealed in large golden, script the name of the country to whiclT that window was devoted. Out from the top of the window depended a silken flag of that nation, and the satin hangings of the win dow showed the appropriate national colors. The draping of each window differed in manner, as well as in color, from all the others, and was a work of great taste. Be ginning at the right hand, upon entering, the nations and their colors were as follows rnnning around the room: COLOES OF THE COUNTRIES. Uruguay, blue and white; Bolivia, green, red and yellow; Peru, red and white; Ecua dor, white and blue; Brazil, green, yellow, red and blue; Venezuela, yellow and blue Colombia, red, yellow and blue; Costa Eica, red, white and blue; Nicaragua, red, white and blue; Hondnras, white and bine; San Salvador, red, white and blue; Guatemala, yellow, white and blue; Mexico, red, white and green; United States, red, white and bine; Argentine Bepublic, white and blue; Chili, red and white. In the center of the room was an immense floral strnctnre representing a blast furnace. It was a work of art, beautiful and at the same time accurate. Within the building the molten metal was seen flowing lrom the furnace. The appearance of the metal was produced by electric light, placed under neath the floor, showing through red isin glass. The outside was decorated with roses. By 10 o'clock the reception room was crowded. At the east end George W. rhilla nf IliB Pbilndolnbin. Lfdner' r.hlefl Justice Poison, of the Supreme Court; An drew Carnegie, John W. Cbalfant and a few other gentlemen held a private sort of reception which drew much attention. DISTINGUISHED AEEIVALS. On the Limited Express, which arrived at 930 o'clock, there came George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel, from Philadelphia; and from Washington, Walker Blaine, of tha State Department; Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West "Virginia; Senor Eomero, tha Mexican Minister; Senor J. G. de Amaral Valente, the Brazilian Minister; Senor Emilio C. Yaras, the Chilian Minister, and Senor Fernando Cruz, the Guatemalan Min ister. The foreign delegation took part in the reception until about 11 o'clock, when they began to retire one by one. They were tired, and must be up this morning to take the train at 9 o'clock for the Monongahela Val ley. The United States members of the tourist party remained longer in the crowded rSoms, and evidently heartily enjoyed tha evening. At 10 o'clock the serving of luncheon began in the ordinary adjoining the reception room. The luncheon was an elegant one, prepared in the best of style, but served with numerous inconveni ences. The partakers were compelled to stand, and the room was constantly over crowded. The waiters were capable, and left no one who could get a place long to wait. While the home people seemed to enjoy the push and hustle of the lunch room very few of the Spanish Americans ventured into its crowded precincts. When they con templated it they shrugged their shoulders and retired to the lower corridor to smoke" cigarettes. BLAINE KEPI ALOOF. Mr. Walker Blaine was assigned to room 13 and remained there during the evening. He received a few of his friends. At 11 o'clock the guests began to depart and by midnight the reception was practically oyer. Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburg's mem ber of the International Congress, was one of tha notable men of the evening. He moved abont everywhere, and shook hah'd: ! 4 '4 1 4wLki&i;