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VOL. III. WINNSBORO S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1897. NO. 14. ggT?' - . r , . THE FALL ELECTIONS^ r RESULT CF THE VARIOUS ELECTiONS ^ HELD LAST WEEK. Greater New Sork Gat* DMUtcmtjc by ? large M*joilty?Kci>ob:iC4n M><j >rltlcs of Last Year Wiprd Oat or Grratly B9 duced In Several States. The Democratic victory ia the first ^ municipal election held in Greater |Ml New York was a sweeping ore The entire Democratic ticket headed Rob Af|rt A. Van Wyck for Mayor was eiecKed by a large "majority over the Independent and Republican tickets. The following is the vote received b} the three leading candidates for Mayor: Van Wyck, Democrat, J235,1S1; Low, Independent. 148,533; iracv, xtepuolican, 101,823 This gives Van Wyck a plurality of 86.668 cvof L">w and - 133,358 over Tracy. The excitement in the city was very great At night the whole city was alive to the occasion. Bulletin boards, searchlights, newspaper extra?, read ers on the stages of scores of theatres, told the story of the election. The jubilant bad recourse to the discordant hsh horn for expression of their joy, while the saloons closed during the t hours while the voting "Was in progress, did business on a scale that promised to compensate for the period of fViiwf r?A-!eTT er.rl Ki-f11iant.lv CUJ UJIV^U llUU>}Vt MUU illuminated. The entfr-unasm in the vicinity of Tammany Haii was particularly great The attraction of the newspaper bulletin boards for the crowd3 was not a whit less than it was last year, a presidential election. The spaces in front of the bulletins were filled with people,leaving only narrow lanes through "which men, women and children pushed one another ua'dl they got out | at the ends. Then they breathe freer i and adjusted their clothing. With verv few exceptions, every morning and evening paper in the city "had bulletin boards in front cf its main j office, -while some had them at their branches. Some bad two and three big white sheets stretched in front of their buildings, displaying, with their election figures, photos and colored ^ views and the pictures of the candidates. City hall square was a living mass. From the south, side cf Nassau street to the park in front of the city hall there were but two lanes in the enor zcous mass of people, and these lanes were just wide enough for one man to * get through. When the people tried to pass one another there was pushing and shoving, and much grunting and some bad words, but in general the v crowd was a good-natured and good| tempered. NEBRASKA STANDS BY BRYAN. TTiwvtm f-fiKrisv** V?ort^rmoin Omaha the following -was given out at midnight: "We have carried Nebraska for the fusion ticket by a plurality of from twenty to twenty-five thousand. To get her with the magnificent victory i for the state ticket, we have carried a majority of the county tickets. The k f?*A a riptAr HL ^mination on the part of the peopl?-of~ ftwKSTebrsska to demand better money Bjurough the unlimited coinage of gold silver. (.signeaj -\j. n. Jtuimision, "Chairman." E The Republicans concede the State to-the fuaionists. N IOWA STICKS TO HAK2TA. The returns from Iowa indicate that the State has gone Republican by about 25,000 plurality, which is a con siderabie of the majDrity the state gave McKinley last year. The Republicans will have a good working majority in the Legislature. The senate nas 50 members, 38 are Republicans and 12 Populists and Democrats; the house 100 members?Republicans 61; Populists and Democrats 39. The Re puwicans lost lour members in tne senate and 17 in the hoxsse. The Republican plurality last year was 65,522. Two years ago it was 59,000 for Draka for governor. i. CLEAN SWEEP IN KENTUCKY. Theie is little interest in the size of the silver Democratic majority in Kentucky, as it is conceded to be some wherein the neighborhood of 15 COO. The Democrats have won or increased their vote everywhere The efforts ai fusion Between the Republicans and Gold Democrats in local contests failed signally, chiefly because the masses would not support the fusion tickets. The Democrats secured a good majority in the Legislature. Most of the goldbug Democrats voted the Republican ticket with the hope of defeating the regular Democrats. ' NEW YOKE STATE DEMOCRATIC. Returns from all the counties in C New York indicate a plurality of more 9 than 68,000 for Alton B. Parker, De mocratic candidate lor chief j adga of the court of appeals. The State Legislature remains Republican. The sena' tors hold over, and the new house of assembly stands 85 .Republicans to 68 Democrats. In the present senate the Republican majority is 30; in the house 78. The special election in the Third congressional djs'ric,Brooklyn, resulted in a victory for Elmund H. Driggs, Democrat,over Wm. A. Prendergast. MASSACHUSETTS STILL Df THE 2HP.E. The Republicans carried Massachusetts bj a reduced majority over last year's votes. The tremendous msjority which last year elected Governor Wolcott fell cff considerably, while Gsorge Fred Williams, the Democratize leader, also suffered, but not nearly BBjHHRs much. Last year the Republicans, P^^^^after a vigorous campaign on nationr al issues, rolled up a vote of 258,000, but such was the lack of interest this fTAfa foil fr* iAi nnn o WO ?V AW Aj VVVj M plurality of S5,000 over Williams. KANSAS GOES WRONG The Kansas returns ahow that in 49 counties the Republicans have elected all or nearly all of their candidates for county offices. In 14 counties the 1unionists have elected all or nearly all of their can didates. In 25 counties offices are about equally divided between the lasionists and the R^oublicans. In one county a straight Damo cratic ticket was elected. The Repub licans carried tie stats on account ol a division between the Populists and k the Democrats. * OLD YIBGEJY NEVER TIRE " There "was a light vote all over Virginia, and less interest manifested by ?the Republicans than by Democrats. Majority cf Democratic State ticket very large. The Democrats will have a large majority in the Legislature 94 and peruaps 95 members of the house. The Republicans get four and perhaps live members of the house, and the Independents one member. THE PARADISE OF THE GOLDBUGS. Pennsylvania heads the gold-bug ass coJu^e. The returns indicate an ap-1 parent plurality for Beacon, the head of the Republican ticket, of 145,000 as j as^ainst Haywood's plurality of 174,- { 264 in 1895. The indications are that j McCauley, the Republican candidate j for auditor general received about j 170,000 plurality. STE"W JERSEY STILL REPUBLICAN. Tbe vote in New Jersey was light The Democrats made grains in almost every county, but the Republicans retain control of ihe State house o' as semblv by a narrow margin. Last year there were but four Democrats in tbe lower bouse. This year there will be 2C The Republicans have 31 members. A TRAIN WRECKED. & Terrible Accident on & Railroad In Virginia. An f xpress train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad from Cincinnati to Washington, was wrecked near CharlottsvilJe, Va., Thursday altcrncon* and four persons killed and seventeen were wounded. The cause of the accident has not been definitely ascertained, but it is believed to have been due to spreading rails. The engine left the track on a sharp curve ana was hurled against a reeky hill. All of the cars except the diniog car and the Richmond sleeper were derailed. Two cars were plunged end foremost down the steep embankment and one of them went into the Rivanna river, which at this place skirts the tracks. The day passenger coach ana the exDress car were badly wrecked. As the "? * * -.1 - _ *7^ J locomotive piungea irora me raus anu overturned, Engineer Dake was burled from theeiband crashed under the engine, besides being terribly scalded by escaping steam. H8 was rescued by his fireman and the conductor. Soon after the wreck as possible, the uiiiBjared passengers and trainmen began the work of rescue and aiding the injured. Word was sent to Charlotteviiie and the wrecking train with physicians was immediately dispatch ed to the scene of the wreck. The bocjy of Henry Burnett, the colored porter, was the last recovered. He was terribly mangled, having been in the baggage car. A foot supposed to have been his was first recovered, and later a portion of the head. The body was literally dismembered. Pheler Mareno had both legs cut off and died at the hospital at Charlottesville. Among the uninjured passengers on the train were senator Orville H. Piatt, of Connecticut, Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans and R?psentative Walter E. Evacs of Louisville. The local railway officials, after investigating the cause o? the accident, declared that it was not due to spreading rails, though they are unahl * tn ftven mve a theorv. Thev state that the tracks at the spot are true and examination revealed" that they are tied securely. It is now developed that the accident was caused by the breakiag of an axle of the first truck of the locomotive. The train was making up time, and the engine left the rails on a sharp curve, and, rushing into a rocky hill side with terrific force, was tsompleiely --cUcxaantled. Two cars dining car and the Richmond sleeper remained on the track. TO REDUCE THE COTTON ACREAGE. If This Union spreads It Will Wit Id A!xncac D?p<jlic Pow r. A special dispatch to the Atlanta Evening Journal from Jackson, Ga , say 3: The farmers of this sec ion have been preparing to organr'z? a union, or aUi. ' - _? ?j? aDCe, ior iue purpura ux xcuuwiig luc acreage of cotton. It is more aggressive than the Cotton Planters' Protective association, and has some strong and very binding provisions in it. / The following are some of the provisions of the plan: L Erery land owner or farm laborer is eligible. 2 No member will be allowed to plant more than one acre to every tnree m cultivation. 3. The whole union will ha composed of the cotton-growing states. Each state will have a union, and each county and each district a union. 4. It will bean oath-bound organization, but not necessarily a secret society. The penalties for violating any of the rules are very severe and will cause the average to be reduced in fon.t. TP.ir instanre. each district will have a surveyor who will measure all the crops after planting is done, and a man who has planted more than allowed by the society will forfeit two bales to the acre for every excessive acre he has planted, to go into the treasury of the association. No member wili employ a laborer, except for wages, who is not a member, and no 8 mamW will wnrka man'alftrid whose owner is not a member. They will not patronize a merchant or a railroad that deals with men who are not members. They mean to reduce the cotton crop or die in the attempt. The president of the county union will bs authorized to employ the county sur veyor 10 investigate every suspicious case. After he has compared the digest stcck returns witb the average o? the returns of the union's surveyor, UiJC (jClXlVJXJL O OUl nwuiu XVALAVXW SMI his compensation for any mistake he had made. The increased acreage in grain crops would prevent trillions of dollars from leaving the cotton states. The system would improve the lands 100 per cent in ten years. The improvement in cattle and stock would be immense. The increase of homemade manure would save more than the farmers clear on their crops now. There are hundreds of other advantages too numerous to mention. There should be a convention called at once and the plan of organiz ition discussed. AUO VUUctU UlTi IU JjUCKt Mrs. Cslia Wallsca, who resides at Chicago, acd is a childless widow, has taken a fancy to Eveogreiia'i Cosiony Cisneros, the Cuban refugee, and offered to adopt the Cubaa maid and make her an iieir to a fortune estimated by friends of Mrs. Wallace at $590,000. Evangelina looks with favor upon tile proposition and took it under advise ment?#r When it was explained to her that the written consent of her father would be necessary before the adoption could be made legally, she said she thought he would ba willing to take the step. A definite answer will be given 10 Jurs. wanaca witam a reasonable length of time from Washington, whither the Cuban girl returned today. Airs. Wallace, came to Chicago from Saratoga, N. Y., several jears ;8gO. X N A CLOSS SHAVE. HANNA SAVED, IF AT ALL, BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH According to tli* Encftie'al Count StventyOn>: Vote? Wan AU tlie Df mocrsis Nsedfd to Aisure Victory, and the Official Coaat May Supp'y These. Chairman McOonvilie, of the O lio Democratic State Committee, conctdes the defeat of his State ticket,but states that thev have reduced the Republican plurality of 51,000 of last year by over one-half. He does not concede the Legislature to the Republicans Mr. McConvilJe said the Republicans 1 claimed the legislature bj 5 to 7 He struck the representatives from Wood and Noble counties from their list,also the senator from the Marion Logan onH ca-ri tn^sa three changes I should make the legislature stand 73 1 Democrats to 72 Republicans, and he , would neve? give either of these three 1 doubtful members up till the official ; count was completed. He also contests the election of two of tne 12 members from Cuyahoga county, which would make the legislature stand 75 1 Democrats and 70 Republicans. Chairman JlcConviile says he believes the Democratic representatives were ele2- : ted in three other counties, which he 1 aces sol warn 10 aaas, psuuiLig mvestigation of allee-ed frauds. He charges frauds in Noble and Wood I counties and in the Marion-Logan dis trict. At the Republican Siate headq ivrfc- : ers the list of the districts are ^ivan in which it is claimed that the Republicans have 17 and the Democrats 19. The oaly district disputed by the Democrats is that which includes Marion 1 and Lngaa counties and which would make the senate stand 16 Republicans and 20 Democrats. Tha Republicans concede that the Democrats will have two m?j )rity ia the senate and claims that the two representatives from Summit county are the oaly ones in doubt tonight" and that the returns show the house to stand 58 Republicans, 49 Damocrats and 2 doubtful and thit in their claims of 75 to 70 with a maj jrity of five on joint ballot. As tae canvass of the vote in the S3 counties proceeded today the R9publican plurality on the State tickst increased, and on the legislative tickats tbe margins tecime narrower. While the Republican plurality on the S:ate ticket exceeds 28,000, the T-nfp in thft Ipcislatira ticket is almost as close as it 'csulci be. For this reason there is still unusual anxiety at the respective Stat? headquarters of bath parties. The Republicans still claim that the legislature stands 75 RspuDlicans to 70 Democrats on joint ballot for senator ana that their candidates ! for representatives in three of the I close counties have been elected by the j following plurality: Delaware counI 4-mm OQ. \KT-r\r\A s?rv?1 V? f"TT 9Q /?A?T 71 - I Ifjr, ft uvu uauuuj, wv?M . fcy, 85. A total of 142 in the plurality | i of these three counties. A cbange of j 72 votes properly distributed in taese J i three counties, would therefore have j turcecLtlie result in the legislature by [ Tjj'i i rusr tfeeso tarce1 tbe Democrats. Then' the legislature would have stood 72 Republicans and 73 Democrats on j >int ballot for senator. When it is remembered that a total vote of Ohio last year was over 1,000,000 and is almost 1,000,000 this year, is is readily seea that 71 is such a small percentage thai; it cannot be I expressed in figures or fractions or language and this is wnat makes the Democratic State committee continue to ciaim the legislature and the R9 publican State committee to be so closely on guard ia watching the counting ia tfte close counties. The official count of Delaware county is in, fcu' with protests and notice of contest from the Democrats, and the same is true of Noble county. In Wood county the Democrats protested against counting the vote of a precinct where the place of voiing was outside of the precinct, but within the ward. Had this precinct been thrown out, it would have elected the Demo/lOTl/ticldfo hv a,plurality of five instead of the Republican candidate by 28. The vote of the precinct was counted and the Democratic protest filed. Other technicalities are expected in the progress of the vote ia that county tomorrow. In Noble county there was a loag contest ovir 27 scratched tickets that were finally thrown out because they were not properly marked. These were a Republican loss. Every point is bejing coniested in the official coiznt of the close counti s. Republican Chairman Nash says that the Republicans have a sife maj Drity of nve on j >int ballot in the legislature. Keaumits that the pluralities are small in some^ counties, but claims th3y are safe. He has no j doubt of the result in any of th6 coun! ties which be claims except possibly! Wood county, and ia the event of the loss of >that representative, he says the legislature would still stand 74 Re-J publicans to 71 Democrats, and have a j majority of three on pint ballot for senator. Chairman Ndsh said the re- j ftoo r? icfrrirtt. s'riosrpd ! that the Republicans had a plurality of 432, so that there is no lccger any of the State senators in doubt, and tbe senate will stand 19 Democrats to 17 RepublicansAt Republican State headquartes, Summit county is not considered so doubtful as heretofore, and its two representatives are being conceded to the Democrats. This would make me house 58 Republicans and 51 Democrats. Democratic Chairman McOonville /Inor Tint or?nni<- thftt fhft "RamihlinATlS I have carried the 13sh district for their candidate for Slate senator, and he still claims the representatives from Noble, Delaware, Wood, Muskingum and other counties claimed by the Republicans. He also expects th3 official count to give the Democrats two of the 12 members of the legislature from Cuyaho.ea county, la all tnese counties and ia otliftis, he says, there will be contests for the seats ia the event of certificates of election being given to the Republicans. Democratic Chairman MoConville charges fraud in the close CDunties and in some Republican counties. He says nearly all the close counties have ?one Republican heretofore and the RepabJicins still have the machinery in inese counties. He says the returns have held bselr and it looks SU3 picious Other cD^nties have completei their counting, while the doubtful counties are still at it. He says the resulc was kaova definitely in Cincinnati Wednesday morning and he cannot get definite results even Thursday night from Gievslaud,' where be expects the vote to to very close on tvro or three members of the legislature. Chairman McOonviile will remain on duty untill the official count of aU the counties is accomplished. LITEST FR03I OHIO. The Ohio Legislature stands 74 Re publicans, 70 Democrats and one /?n n-PRoiol T?ofni*r?c rO UUUVt>IUl VU LX'Vi VMiViUL J.VUM*UO JL \S ceived up :o Friday night. With a dozen or more of the 88 counties very close there have b*en no material i changes except in Wood county, i which will be claimed by both parties j till the courts p2ss on the action of the supervisors Tnere have been no unusual proceedings oefore the re turning boards of any of the counties i erc?pt that of Wood, although both parties have had their ^representatives [ and attorneys in ' the county seats, where ver the vote was class. Chair- 1 man McConville of the Damccratic State committee has not changed his | claims of a Democratic ms j jrity on joint ballot and will not do so till the j official returns of all counties are in J at d sho v .the final results to differ 1 fr/im thrvc? ha has at hand. I ' Republic in Chairman Nash insists 1 that the legislature stands 75 Rspubli < cins to 70 Democrats and that the J cop j Drity on joint ballot for Senator \ will not be less than five. He says he 1 is satisfied ^ith the situation in Wood : county. What he feared was that tho official csunt might wipe out the small 1 Rspublican plurality in that county, i Since the fac8 of the official tall* sheat < show a plurality of 31 for the Ripub J lican representative. Judge Nah is j ready and willing to hare a ay courts pass on tha cise. j la Wood county Friday Norris, the j Republican candidate for represanta- ; live, filed a protest against the board counting the vote o? Freedom town ship because the ballot should be tal- < lied in blocks of five. This preceinct ; gave Noms 151 and Mears, the Demo- i cratic candidate for lepreseatative, i 283. If fcb.3 vote of the township had : been thrown out it would have increased the plurality of Norris by 112, : but it was counted. The Republicans < insist that Norris will b9 declared elect ( ed in Wood county and that the legis- ; Jature stands 75 to 70. Counsel for both the Democratic and 1 tbe Reoublican committees at Bowl ing Green have agreed to submit the J Wood county case at once to the circuit court and the lawyers on both ! sides went to Toledo for that purpose. The court will be asked to deciae | whether the election board can go be- ; hind the returcs. Of course it will be , left for proceedings in contest in the ; house tc decide whether the vole of : Center township shall be counted. i Information has bsen received at < Republican headquarters of protests to : tne Soldiers' Home vote at Dijton on tiis ground taat tue voting precincts were not in the proper place. If tbat vote should be thrown out the Democrats would gain two representatives from Montgomery cDunty and one . senator, enough (on the claims of the Republic ms) to make the legislature stand 78 Democrats to 72 Republicans on j )int ballot. (jaairmaa Nash says there are about 40 precincts in the State where these , tHo ioeatia J. af i polls can be raised, and if it is made . an issu* o! contest it will work both ways wi';h no one knowing the final result. Suicida or Accident. The Charleston correspondent of the Columbia Roister says the body of the drowned man who was found floating ia the surf off Sullivan's Island is that of H, Johnson o? Naw York. Whether or not this is his true name cannot be stated, bat it is the name under which ho was traveling and the one he wrote when he registered at the Charleston hotel from N:w York. Tuesday morning after the arrival of the Iroquois from Jacksonville, the steamer on which the deceased made the trio from New York to Charleston, ilr. Robert E. Morton, the purser to the ship, went to the undftrLalrin? establishment of Bolder Bro3., and viewed the body. At the first glanca Mr. Morton recognized it as that of EL Johnson of New York. Mr. Morton had not the slightest difficulty in recognisioa: him. Mr. Morton then made an affidavit that he was H. Johnson, who purchased a ticket in New York at Pier 29. That he was aboard the ship during its trip to this city, leaving it Friday afternoon. The case is indeed a remarkable one? one that is shrouded in deepest mystery which may never be cleared. 1 1 ?- ? tw-? a* kio /5/iA+u iei ?Af XjLUW O UliUiUU JlIIkS uoaxu ia uv/b known nor will it ever be known, lor no one saw him. If it was suicide the ciuse of his rash act will probably be buried with hiai. His effects at the Gharlestoa hotel in room 221, were examined this morning hy Manager GK-een, Daputy Coroner Vaughan and Mr. J. W. Hirsch. Tney consisted of a small hand srin and a walking cane, all of which were new. The grip contained nothing but a soiled handkerchief and a bottle of neuralgia medicine. In one of the overcoat pockets was found a pair of kid gloves and a bunch of quill toothpicks. The Green Eyed 31 oaaJor. At 7 o'clock Thursday night a terrible and bloody tragedy occurred in a cottage house at the corner of Germania and Gaston avenue, Dallas, Tex is, where Mrs. Emma Smith kept a small boarding house. There boarded with her two men, James Bos well and James Barton. Bos well walked into Mrs. Smith's room and shot her in the rv*or? J.UQ tuau bMiMvu >/IA shooting him twice in the body, and then blew his own braiDS out, falling dead. In a statement, the eight yearold daughter of Mrs. Smith, said: "Uncle Jim Bosweli came into the room and said to me, 'Mamma loves Jim Birtoa more thau she does me.' He then shot mamma, and also shot Mr. Birton, and then, ran iato the yard and saot himself." Mrs. Smith utri "Rarton will dia tonight. Thev were seat to the city hospital. The triple kilting caused a great sensation in the neighborhood. Committed Suicide. A special from Greenwood to the State says Mrs. Elizabeth Hughey, widow of William Hughey, committed suicide Thursday morning by severing her j iglar vieu with a knife. Mrs. Hughey owned considerable real estate at Abbsville and elsewhere. She was 82 years old, and lived with her nephew, W. R Buchanan, at wii D38 house she committed the rash act. No cause can be assigned except temporary aberration of mind, caused by ill health, from which she frequently suffered of late years. At tnese times she often threatened to kill herself. She had no children. HOW THEY TAKE IT. { f THE GOLD PRESS ON THE RESULTS OF THE LATE ELECTION. Most of Them Take a Blue View and Says }; Biivsr la StiU the Issue and Something Must be Done to Check Its Spsed. 1 They take it ill?the various minorities in New York, except the G-eorgeites. Reproaches and anathemas fly briskly between the Lowites and the < Plattites and tbe organs o' bolting r Democrats and boiling1 Republicans, i Lt is as lively a post election scrim- t mage as we ever saw. - I fcatan and his aeent Piatt did it, f says the Evening Post. The renegade ^ Lw did it, says the Sua, and thanks \ 3-od that Seth at least was not elected, i rhe Tribune and the Sua f.2change t tnay blows ce&r the solar plexus. The t World prints columns of its old edi- ^ torials to show how wise it was and how wicked Plait Low intimates ^ that he has only begun his con- ? secration to the cause of downing * I At. iL - 1 1' J x 1 T 7 Doio. ins regular pariies animus uo- 1 joming a "unifying force," and the Piattites breathe vengeance against e the holier-than thous of the Ci*iz?ns ^ Union. Altogether, it is a dazzling s 3ho^up cf shining rtz jrs, and if the ''sound money" brethren shall compose their differences in time to work in harmony for the congressional elections next year they will have achieved a victory greater than Tammany's. The Herald took a latter day "holt" for Low. in his usual fashion, but it accepts ibe result with philosophy, * also after habit, arid ciTs for fair play for Vhh Wycic. The Herald is * very much impressed by the Demo- [ sratic sweep all over the country. * Li&e The State it thirks the results in ? Ohio and Maryland Republican disas- T ters, even if Hanna has won acd Gor- 1 man has lost. It gross on to *ay. The tremendou3 upheaval 13 almost stun- J nlng in its magnitude. Tne only thing it :an be compared with id the great landslide i of 1893. The year before that Cleveland t 3wept the country. The year following New ] Fork, New Jersey, and, in fact, most of the } doubtful states that Cleveland carried,swung s back into the Republican column. The effect ( of the landjide on national politics is likely j to b3 very great. Above the 7> eck the face f of 17m. J. Bryan appears. One can readily / see opening up almost immediately the Democratic campaign for the election of a gov- : ernor in New York State next jear. Unless the pendulum swings back, it will not re- 1 quire a very lively imagination to figure out ( a, close contest for the control of the next < bouse of representatives. When the senate already in doubt and really anti-Republican 1 on many questions, there is trouble ahead i for President McKinley. The administration ] ha3 the floor. \ * A * i JT 3? ( J ust so. Ana next year ine conui- > tions will not be as favorable for Ra- < publican success as they have been in < this campaign. The Democrats will * carryt the house and William Jennings 1 Bryan will loom up bigger than ever. J The Erening Post is constrained to suspend its requiem over the remains 0/ free silver and to remark: No one can doubt that these elections 1 haye j^'en afresh jmgetos to Brjanism. 1 gicy.iaalf to that tha aKrHrrm, rnn . J gressioaal and presidential, will be fought on ; that issue. What can be done to check the j onset of "16 to 1?" The only thing possible | iatn loWonmo irroTncuWa at AT* in t.hft WAV i of currency reform and the establishment of ? the gold standard?some step which shall j remove that issue from politics or great-- t ly diminish its force. One such step would be the refunding of the national debt in a gold bond at a lower rate of interest, as ; Secretary Gage desires; but with the present ! composition of the senate it is hardly possi- | ble to effect that. Another would be such amendment of the national banking act as 1 would make both possible and save tne issue 1 of bank notes against the general assets of the < banks, instead of requiring bond security, i The foremost authority in this country is 1 undoubtedly Prof. Dunbar of Harvard, who j in the last number of the Quarterly Journal ? of Economics, gives his adhesion to this step in banking reform. His article is the weightiest we have seen on the subject, be cause it embodies all the information that has been collected in the past three or four years, together with much that nobody else has thought of. One thing is certain, if this 1 currency question is allowed to drift three years longer, the Republican party will 1 go out of power. Not even business prosperity, if it should be here in 1900, would nt?AtrAnf vftonlf j So the goldite wake has been over a corpse that will have to be killed again ' ?this time "irrevocably." The trouble is to do it. As The Evening Pest admits, the outlook is not premising. Neither of the schemes it suggests has a chance of passing the senate. The first would be rejected for the obvious reason that the S9nate for free silver and against more bonds, especially erold ones. The second would be rej icted because it contemplates extend - ? - it i mg tne power or ine nauoaax dauks and of making the new currency a strictly national currency, wnich would cause the advocates or State banks of issue to oppose it A bill for the unconditional repeal of the State bank tax might to be put through the senate, but the Republican majority would hardly allow it to pass the house. Wft >>aTO nVeATOAd that When ever "Watterson's money devil is sick it, calls for "currency re form," but that its "currency reform1' always turns out to be something to bolster up the gold standard. If the money devil is really repentant it must wholly relax its grasp upon the paper currency of the country and then take its chances of forgiveness. Bat it can't hold on to the gold standard and currency monopoly together. The World said on the morning of the election: The result in Nebraska, Ohio, Kentucky, Massaehusetts aad Pennsylvania, where Bryan and his platform "?7ere endorsed and he was proclaimed as the leader in 1900, will be accepted as an indication of his strength in the party and with the people. Well, Nebraska lass November gave 13,UUU majority lor tree silver, ana now gives about 20,000 for it Ohio gave 47,000 plurality for McKinley and now a change ot 72 votes would secure Sanaa's defeat. Kentucky gave 28L Republican plurality, aad no w gives 20,000 Democratic plurality. Massachusetts gave 173,000 against silver and now gives not more than half that much. Pennsylvania give 295,000 Republican majority and now gives less than a thira as much. The World is answered out of its own JJLLUULU* Says the Philadelphia Record, gold: New York and New Jersey fighting their way back among the sisterhood of Democratic States; Ohio staggering and uncertain vhich flag to follow; Massachusetts faltering in its Republican allegiance; Democratic gains in all the J/cKinley strongholds?these are not the sequences that were to follow fast upon the heels of renewed protection and return ng prosperity. The people of the United States appear to be sadly dubious in the ace of triumphant Dingleyism. Aud triumphant Hanuaism, and 1 rustism, and monometallism. Don't orget the last, please. The fight was tfaged on silver, notthe tariff.?Cclam)ia State. 0 o BORN IN THIS STATE. 1 1 Che Mayer cf Greater New Yo:k Bom in D Peadl?to?. ^ a The Olumbia State says the people y )f this Stata buve been watching ibe p nunicipai cootest in New- York with p nora than ordinary :ntersst owing lo ? he fact that the man who has now s: >een elected mayor was born in this o *tate. When it was known that Mr. e 7,an Wyck had been elected the peo- o )le of Columbia talked of his past s: listory and an interesting story as to ti lie if'au wxiu was a carriage uimvc* ia l, he Van Wyck family at that time s V2s recalled. ^ During the day reliable information ffas obtained abDut Mr. Van Wyck's 11 South Carolina his'ory from a lady s' vho formerly lived near the family, c ?ere is what she said: r< "Robert Van Wyck, the newly si sleeted mayor of Greater New York, fi vas born in Old Pendleton, S. C., and p pent the early part of his life there, o le has one brot/^r, Augustus, who is r iving in New York. Sam, another v )rother, was killed early during the var in the northern part of Alabama, n le was a Confederate soldier. His :hildren live in Anderson, S. C. The p fimaining brother, William, died in h N"ew York. His sisler is the wife of fi general Hoke of North Carolina. The ? ather of his family was from New a Fork. The mother was a daughter of \ >*" r* - "?r i li J J j nr. cam maverics, who uveu anu c iied in Pendleton. Mr. Maverick was tl he owner of more real estat9 than e my other one man in the State. His q >ossessions lay in South Carolina, ti tfew York and Texas. tl '"Oae of Mr. Wavsrick's soas, Au- s: Justus, went early to Texas and was a sngaged in the war between the Texas $ epublic and Mexico, and was at one n ime made prisoner by the Mexicans. His home was at San Antonio, where n lis decendants still live. He was as C ;ociated with Crockett and barely es- C ;aped the massacre at the Almo. At lis death he owned more iand in Texts than there is in the State of South Jarolina and his cittle ware so num- s irous that it was impracticable to c )rana them. The 'no brand' was the g nark of his ownership, so that to this o iay unbranded cattle in Texas are ? sailed Maverick's . a ' 'At one time the Van Wyck Family r wrought to Pendleton Walter Gibson, i is a carriage driver, Gibson married a \ Miss Lewis and gave up driving. <j Chen he wandered away to one of the i 3andwich islands, and eventually be- f ;ame 'practicallv the owner and king )f the island. Hs was prime minister, md, though under the monarchy, he Kras practically dictator of the govern- \ nent. s I Civil Servica Examination. The United States civil service com- I nissioa has ordered that anexamina- a don be held by its local board in Co- i ;-.nr.W?:-r?n P'acombar -tp next, commencing at 9 o'clock a. m., s for the grades of clerk and carrier in t the pest office service. Only citizens s af the Unitd States can be examinedc 1 rhe age limitations for this examina- 1 tion are as follows: Carriers, 21 and 3 4 i\ ? An*.#, . a! ahItn ttao'ws "NT/% t'J ? GJ.LS, gui&D, xi jr u.10, iw a^u c salion will bs accepted for this exanri- i nation unless filed with the under- i signed, on the proper blank, before f the hour of closin? business on Nov. s 13 next. Applications should be filed f promptly in order that time < may re- c /a* if v>c/?accQrv Thft i UJCttU J.WI Aft AMV I commission takes this opportunity of t stating that the examinations are open c to all reputable cit:'z?ns of the United t 3tatss who may desire to enter the t service, without regard to race or to y their political or religious affiliations. ] ?.11 such citi'z jns are invited to apply. < Ihey shall be examined, graded* and i certified with entire impartiality, and i wholly without regard to any consid' eranon sava ineir euisieuuy, as suuwu by the grades t hay obtain in th9 ex amination. For application blanks, i full instructions and information rela- J tive to the duties and salaries of the s different positions, apply to Hunter < A. Gibbes. secretary board of examin- 3 ers, po3toffica service, Columbia. 1 - . - .. : 1 iTag.c v jssn ai apartanoarg. A special dispatch from Spartanburg ( to the Columbia Register says: '"Mr. ( N. P. Sorrenson, one of the proprietors of the Piedmont steam bottling \ works of ibis city, died Wednesday ? afternoon from iuj :ries received in an \ accident at 12 o clo:k Wednesday. . The death was a most tragic one. 3Ir. ] Sorrenson had a number of important } letters to mail on the Columbia train, c which goes down about noon every ] dav. His nlace of basinfs-; is very i near the East Main street crossing;, ] and as the train always stops there, he , decided to just step out and hand them ( to the mail clerk as the train on the ] S. A. &C., read passed. la going out to mail th9 letters, in his eagerness, he went too near the track and the car steps on the mail car struck ] himonihe right thrg'a, crushicgK I and throwing him on tue track. jB\>r- 2 tunateJy he had preseEca of mind to J throw his body to one side, and the 1 _t 1- 1 J U ~ ^"U^v - Car wueeis oniy pass^u. over me auuc * of his left foot. The train was atop- ' ped instantly. Mr. Sorrenson was ' carried to his home and a number of i the best physicians ia the city treated ] him. Dr. Nott, jr., amputated the right limb. Mr. Sorresson gradually ] weakened and about 6 o'clcc s: died. ] He leaves a wife and one child. Ee i was a fine business man, had aceumu- i lated property, and was well insured." \ A Merchant Aasasaloaved. A special dispatch to the Columbia j State from Wellfora, S C., says Mr. < A. B. Ballenger, a merchant and citizsn of that vicinity, was robbed ; and probably murdered in his store Wednesday night about 7 o'clock. Someone came to tne aoor 01 n^i louse . and wished to go in the store. Mr. < Ballenger went wilh him and was not seen any more until Ma son, becoming 1 uneasy about his father's delayed re- 1 turn, went to the store. The door j was locked, but was broken down by ] some of his neighbors and Mr. Ballen- < ger was found stretched unconscious* ] before the open door of the safe, with i a wound in nis head, from which the ! brains were oozing. Nd one saw the i man except Mr. Ballenger, though miva vtoo-n/1 kim i^oll lifii* hnqsonrl Ilia YT lie JUVOUU JU.i.14-1 X/UJ.A UVA ^ V*? vw?? to go to the store. The ro&ber made < his exit through a back door, after having taken the precaution to lock the front door. There is considerable excitement in the community as Mr. Ballengeris a citizen universally popular. . - - : _ A B;G FALLING OFF a the S Ct-.lpts of tlte State Dkpecsaiy for ^ Octobsr. The Columbia Roister says the j riginal pack sg 2 com petition through ut tne siate 5<5 steacsiy easing a very *rge hole in th* sal? of the dispensaries, lonth by month tbe effect' becomes ior9 marked, until new the volume of isnensary sales bss been reduced by < t least a third, as compared with last ear's record, -when there was no com- . eiition acd when the dispensary peo- 1 ' - 1 > -1 T? - -? J 1J ?_ ( le nau aoscume swsj ?nu couiu ua -hatever prices they caose. Commis * ionerVance's report to the state board * f control at their last meeting show- | d a falling off in sales for September 1 f $37,335 90, as compared with the \ ame mor.th cf the previous y#?ar. At ae board V meeting'next week Com- ] ilssiouer ViLC3 will report thatth<? * lump for Oetoher, 1S97, as comparea \ riih October, 1896, is $43,166.15. In s^ ^ <">f all this, however, Com- 1 lissicii-r Vance is making a business \ uccess of the institution, as the re- ' srds will show, and he now stands ( ?i>f *n/>r.nrr frt n ( CttUJT UO liio JUldb bV tuu tate treasurer for the public school and that has bean paid for this purose since the dispensary has been in peratioru He has $20,000 on hand, eady to be turned into this fund, and rill so report to the board, -which fully arifies his prediction publicly mide a lonth ago. He further stated to a Rssis'ar reorter yesterday that in December e would have $25,000 f Nr the same and, arid the first of January he :oald "ccms again with an eaaal mount, o. p.'s or no o.p's.'f As to Mr. rance's sacc?ss with the business, it is no him to state that the records show b.at j ost previous to the time heassumd ciuirge of thei institution the board reuired eighteen m oaths within which to < ire in $ LOO, 000 of profits, while during i b.a time he has been at the helm, < ince last May, the profits have 1 mounted to $112,000, inclusive of tbe 20,000 he will turn in next week. In 1 is report next week Commissioner 4 Tn.r.m* w:lI submit the fallowing S12T- 1 lificant statement: - ] "ashreceived Oik, 1895..$135,065 88 J /ash received Oct., 1897., 91,899 15 i i Diffir6cc3**??>??t>**???$ 43,166 15 ' I attribute this large difference ? cm e what to the competition of the < riginal package shops, and blind ti- ] ;ers, but principally to the low prica if cotton, and the general depressed inaE clal condition^ the country. It ffords me pleasure to inferm you that : notwithstanding this large difference : n cash received, that we have met >romptly every obligation of the state lispensarv when presented, and that I' ; low have $20,000 ready to pay to the ree school fund. Horrible Triple Murder. Mrs. Mary Green, a widow, living vith two unmarried daughters and a . on ab?ut 18 ysars of age on a farm on t ? . a - m j-rass jltck, eigne ranes irum xnpiey, iV. Y.. sold a horse Tuesday for $58. Sirly in the night the family were i l wakened by a rap at .the door, the jersoc:<d^iring ad minion announcing^ 1 i'mxclr as\Tn>iri ^org^n:"'an adopted. ion. As Mrs. Green opened the door " he young man struck her with a club < ind beat her brains out He then rilled the eldest daughter with one >low, and, as he thought, killed the roungest one in the same way. M he son witnessed the murders he ushed through the rear door and hid n a corn cirb, where he was soon ound and beaten to death dv the aslassin. While Morgan was searchis g !or the bsy, Mrs. Green's youngest laughter revived and escaped into he woods, where she was followed by he murderer, whom she managed to i-iude. Morgan ransacked the house, ook what money he could find and led. The youag girl, the only surrivor told the siory to a neighbor. !?orgaa was found Dy officials, in stead of citizens, within a few miles )f the place of his crime. He confessed his crime. E tiled In a Political Bow. Four men were killed in a political ow at Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday. SAMA-MAI liAtviviM koAn Mlt. jcvcrax jL/cniu\;iaua uavjux^ vw u iide the tow a for the purpose, it is ;harged by the Republicans of cor alling negroes in a bull pea to -preheat their voting Tuesday were stopped on their route back to town by a oarty headed by Frank Egbert and >thers. In the battle that followed )ne of Egbert's men, Howard Gicre, was killed, and. Wiltiam Smith, driver 4-liss no*fTT V)Q^ VllC lofl" <jx buc x/gui>juabi^ pan. wj , * - 'j*-* xuw ihot off by Ejber^ A negro was killid. by a stray bullet at the same time md was found near GLore on the roadside this morning. The battle was enewed do??n tosrn when Deputy Sheriff Teakins attempted ' to arrest Egbert. Teakins was killed and E^5ert also fell, dying instantly from a Juliet from Teakins' pistol as he fell, )r from that of one of the bystanders, >ne oi wnom was JH^oeri's orosaer-miaw. J* o Epidemic of Fever. The Columbia State says Prof. Barnes, of Clemson College, states ;hat, in company with President Hart: jg, made a careful inspection of the hospital cf the institution. It was :ound that there were only two cases sf fever in the hospital. One of these eras an ordinary case of malarial fever, rhe other was a casa of typhoid fever, in investigation sho^s that the latter ? rtrtCO A? "Fa. ^/abicuii ui *v ver two days after reaching the col lege. Prof. Barne3 sajs there is absolutely no occasion for any apprehension about the reappearance of fever it the college. He says that no institution now has bettersaaitary arrangements than Clemson. This will be reassuring news to the parents of the aoys at the college, in view of the recent resort of the reappearance of typhoid at the college. The Chief Cause. Chairman Clement Manly, of the North Carolina Democratic executive committee, telegraphs the New York World concerning the iate eleciion: "The chief cau e whicn bro ignt about the Democratic triumph of Tuesday is a fuller understanding which the people have of the Chicago platform >f all that it means for the preservation of individual rights and for a return to national prosperity, andfcr ttis reason that a freer and unpurchased sspression of the people's will was had on last Tuesday and that Republican promises are false and end only ia the promise. Bryan is the embodiment of tbe leading feature of Democratic faith and their constant unyielding chimoion. If he lives and is in health he will be nominated by j the Democratic party for President in I 1900." J MR. BRYAN PLEASED. I NHAT HE SEES IN THE RESULT OF THE LATE ELECTIONS* * iTrae Silver Alive, and We Are Nearer to It Than a Tsar Ago?Tha Fight Will he Continued?"What Othora S?y. On last Wednesday Mr. Bryan gave >ut the following: Co the Associated Press: The returns are so incomplete that t is impossible to discuss yesterday'* kciicn in detail. The Republicans iverywhere endorsed the Republican administration and inview of losses suaained by them in almost every State, it irould seem that Bspublican politics ire not being endorsed at the noils. Che sentiment in favor of the Chicago platform shows a healthy growth hrpughout the country, perhaps our opponents will now admit that silver s not dead. The attempt to secure v nternational bimetallism has proved i failure, and it is now more apparent ;han ever that the people of the Unitid States must legislate for themselves \v? 4(>)A finor>/*iol rt ncafi aw jll bag uucuxuiai ^uoouuu* Free and unlimited coinage at 16 to L is nearer now than it was a year ago. High tariff upon a gold basis ias disappointed those Republicans who looked to it for relief. Taken as i "whole the returns are vary encooriging. I think I voice the sentizzients )f Democrats, Populists and 8ilver Bapublicans when I say the fight will be on turned with even more earnestness mtil Hie gold monopoly is broken and ;hft monev trust is overthrown. The fusion forces increase their percentage n Nebraska and probably their actual majority. W. J. Bryan. WHAT GEO. FEED. WILLIAMS SAYS. George Fred. Williams, democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, who was defeated in Tuesday's section, oas given out a siaiemen* ou ;he election, in which lie says, in part: 'My views upon yesterday's election in Massachusetts are that radicalism under the democratic name has been strengthened somewhat in its position and emboldened in its coarse, and will continue in the field, a growing quantity to be reckoned with in the near future. The lines are obviously hardening as between republican MrnwwaHsm anH HAmnmhVmH> cies of change and upheaval, and between the two" no room will evidently be found for building up a leading op* position to republicanism. -"What is here said of Massachusetts implies with even greater force to the rest of the country. The results in Massachusetts ought to be decisive of the insignificance of what is called the gold democratic vote. "The farce has ended in Kentucky, and it ought to be clew to the little . 4 , :; handful m "MVioaajtliiiaAf+a that fliAM il no future possibility either for the maintenance of an organization at the , bands of the democratic paaty for these gentlemen. "To cut down Governor Wolcott's plurality.nearly one?half in Massachusetts is very satisfaistory tome, though , I am sorry thafrour voters did not copie mo^g^o;gy ; unicago platform iias never oeen ten- * ed at the polls with an organization behfnd if TiiigtokihtfiorttttAiwinmittfla .v was not in accord with the platform, while next year we shall perfect an organization, I trust, superior to any Which the democracy has had for many years. We shall then, for the first time, test the real strength of oar cause. , "With respect to the city of Boston, I do not care to say anything at pres ^ __ xi iT at--3_n ~~i 1 bhi, as x nave not me iim rotuiiu ui the votes for local candidates. v ''The indications from all oyer the country are that the next congress will be democratic and that there will be no change in the issues between now and 1900: For this I am very grateful, and the battle will be kept up in Massachusetts more -vigorously than ever." v ;;p CHAIRMAN JONSS GRATIFIED. Chairman. Jones of the Democratic national committee, says: "I regard the results of the election. as particularly favorable to the Demo* cratic party and very gratifying to Democrats everywhere. It is all they could ask and more than many of us expected." Maryland. Still In The Wallow* An official count of the ballots cast in the late election in Maryland leaves no further room for dnabt that the ? T 1 1 lutfli icy u. ujllv; ana uayq uuuuui wi www* branches of the legislature and that a republican will succeed Arthur P. Gorman in the United States senate. Five members of the assembly and one senator were taken from the democratic list of probabilities and added to that of the repubicans. Three of the members and the senator are from. Talbot county and one member each is from Prince George's and Carroll, This gives the republicans 49 members in the house and leaves the democrats but 42. It also gives the republicans 18 senators to 8 for the demo* crats and a majority on j aint ballot of 17. The result in Talbot countjr_aroae from the fact that 18 votes in 'llignman precinct were found to have been counted twice for the democratic ticket. Tais being corrected, gave the republican legislative candidates maj jrities ranging from 16 to 19 votes. In Prince G-eorge's a similar correc* fcion elected Under wood, republican, by Jour votes, while in Carroll the recount showed that Stansbury, republican, defeated'Cro use, democrat, by 23 votes. The doubtful votes in Montgomery and Washington counties also went into the republican column by small majorities. The democratic state headquarters were closed up today and al! tbft members of th i state com mittee have gone to their respective homes Work ot an Insane Mao. Edward Hamilton, of Worcester, Mass., for 25,years an employe of the s Worcester county Institution for Sftv ings, Tuesday morning shot and killed his wife and one child and fatally wounded another child, finishing; by shooting himself with probably fatal results. Hamilton had been in ill health for a few months and had suffered r i v tt _ l j rrom neuralgia, ae naa pracuauijr iived on opiates for several weeks and _ * is supposed to have suddenly become insane. Easily Pleased. President McKinley says: "I am well pleased with the result of the election, as it indicates that fealty to the Republican party and to the principles it represents are as strong as ever." If the above is true we iiave a [President that is vary easily pleased. . .