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ECHOES OF THE MTU ~
BESOLTS OF TIE BALLOTING J
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The Republicans Carried New York
Mate by a <Jood Size:'. Plurality e
and Klecte'l JSajtlett Over May- v
nanlbya IJis; Majority? ?Jttsr.achu- "
setts and Ohio Oo Republican.
November elections for ofll jars wire J
held in twelve States. They vr.^r? New York,
New Jersey, Massachus itts, Pennsylvania, t;
Maryland. Virginia, M'ssoari. O'aio. Ken- d
tucky, Iowa. Nebraska and South Dakota.
Now York ele /ted a Secretary of State,
Comptroller, Tre:isurer. Attorney-General,
State Engineer, Judge ot the Court of Appeals,
and an entire Legislature, besides s
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
The Republicans elected their v
entire ticket, from Secretary of State s
down, by the estimated majority of h
30,000. Bartlett (Republican) was elected to
the Court of Appeals' bench over Maynard ti
by the plurality of from 100,000 to 120,000. ?
In all the interior towns and cities the Republicans
secured great gains, especially in
Erie County, the home of Lieutenant Gover- "
nor Sheehan. The Republicans recaptured ^
both branches of the Legislature, and al- ^
though several of the districts were extremely
close it was apparent on the day following C
the election that there would be a Republican d
majority on joint ballot often or twelve. The
Senate may be very close. New York _City
gave 65,000 majority for the head of the t>em- ji
oeratic ticket, but Mr. Maynard's majority j]
did not reach 23.000. The entire Tammany tl
ticket was fleeted bv a big majority. In
Brooklyn. Schieren (Republican"} was elect-id
Mayor "over Boody (Democrat) by a plu- ,
ralitythat will exceed 31.781. The Board of tJ
Aldermen is Republican by eleven to ei ht.
Thb Republicans swept Kings County, is
electing iheir county ticket by a plu- O
rality of about &J00. William J. Gaynor (Be- a;
' publican) w.-.s elected a Justice of the Su- o
preme Court over Thomas E. Pearsall ( Democrat).
The Republican State ticket has a $
p umlity of about 12,500 in Brooklyn and ^
?500 in Kin^s County. In Gravesend, Mc- v:
Kj:i?'s district, the Democratic State ticket tl
rrw ved 8506 votes against 162 for the Be- s,
puVfcan.
N"?. w Jersey elected eight members of the
S"n::te, from Camden, Essex, G'ouccster,
fi<ilom Sr?m- rset. Union and
Warren Counties, and a full Assembly. The t<
Republicans made almost a clean sweep. si
They captured tho State Assembly, which
wa? last year Democratic by ten majority. y
They also carried the Senate, and have a r<
majority on joint ballot of twenty-one. tl
In Hudson County, where there is a nor- jj
t mal Democratic majority of 4590, they a
elected their candidate for Sheriff jj
by more than 3503 majority. In Essex
County they elected their county ticket and
a Senator. In no less than a dozen counties
they wrested the political control from the "
Democrats. The race-track bills legalizes ,
pool selling and permitting tho licensing of v,
race tracks were responsible for the result. 'c
Massachusetts elected a Governor, Lieu- p
tenant-Governor, Secretary of State. Trea- A
surer. Auditor, Attorney-General, eight Ex- p
Conncillors and a Legislature. There
*ra four tickets?Democratic, Republican,
Prohibition and People's. The Republicans 11
carried the State. The plurality for Governor TJ
of Fred. T. Greenha'ge (Republican) over John "
F.. Iiuss?Il (Dgmocratj was thirty-flve thou- ^
31 u 1 The entire Republican State ticket was ^
etc*-1 ?d by practicallv the same vote, and the
L-g slature will have a few more Republican a:
member* than the last Legislature had.
TIjf re was a act Republican gain in Boston a,
ov?*r Governor Russell's vote last year of fc
47:1, and corresponding gains in the other w
?*:t its and manufacturing centres. Cambridge,
j Governor Russell's home, gave a Republican c
gain of 1300.
Pennsylvania elected a State Treasurerand n
a Judfje of the Supreme Court. The vote
was light and resulted in the election of tt
Samuel L. Jackson. Republican, of Arm- c<
strong County, for State Treasurer, and D. o,
Newlin Fell, Republican, of Philadelphia, ai
for Ju3ticc ot the Supreme Court.
Maryland elected a Legislature, Ave Judges j;i
and a Comptroller. The Democratic ticket c
was elected by 20,000 plurality. The only d
State contest was for Comptroller. Mayor y
Latrobe, Democrat, won a notable victory q
for re-slection in Baltimore over two candi- ?
dates. d,
vi^m'nia n finvwaor. a Lieutenant
Governor. Attorney-General and a Legislature
which will choose a United States Senator.
Tnere were two tickets?Democratic
and Populist. Reports indicated a Demo- ti
cratic majority of 40,000. The Populists hi
failed to make gains in the city as they ex- u
pected. The Democrats arc sure of the
United States Senatorship and also c2 their n
State Court of Appeals. O'Ferrall was r<
elected Governor by 30.000 majority.
Kentucky elected a Legislature which will ^
choose a United States Senator. The Demo- jr
crats bad almost no opposition. TheLegis- r,
Jature is overwhelmingly Democratic and J
United Suites Senator Lindsay will be reelected.
Louisville re-elects its Democratic
Mayor. Henry S. Tyler, in spite of the oppox
lion of two other candidates. i ri
Ohio elected Governor, Lieutenant-Gov- h
ernor. Treasurer, Supremo Court Judge, At- r'
toruey- General, Food Commissioner,
Member of the Board of Iub- A
lie Works and a Legislature. There c
were three tickets?Democratic, Republican
and Prohibition. Governor McKinley ^
and th>j entire Republican ticket was re-elected
"oy a plurality which exceeds 00,000, and
may roach 100.000. The Legislature is over- ?
wlieiminarly Republican in both branches. tj
South Dakota elected three Supreme Court t,
and eight Circuit Court Judges. The Republicans
elected their State judicial ticket _
toy seventy-flve per cent, of the 40,000 votes K
polled.
on Accnoin+a .TnaHr?f? ftf A
-the Supreme Court. All early judications
points! to a Republican victory in the election
of a Supreme Judge and two Regents of
the State University. There was a vigorous
contest, and a lull vote was noiied.
Iowa elected a Governor. Lieutenant-Gov- ^
ercor, Judge of the Supreme Court. Railroad Y<
Commissioner. Superintendent of Public In- aJ
struction and a Legislature which will elect a
United States Senator. There were threetickets j?
in the Held ? Democratic. Republican aa*i Fro- Bl
hibition. The Republicans claimed the else- 01
tion of Jackson for Governor and the remainder
of their ticket by 30.000 plurality.
Thev based this claim on early returns which ^
were p?etty well scattered over the State.
State Chairman Fuller says the Democratic .
State Committee concedes tho election of .
Jackson by 25,000 to 30.000. The Legislature
is certainly Republican by about twenty ou H
joint ballot and many districts have gone Re- .
publican for the first time in ten or twolva J1
years. b'
Cook County. Illinois (Chicago), voted ,
only for Judges of the Circuit and Superior ^
Courts and County Commissioner?. Judge 11
Gary, before whom the Anarchists wero ai
tried, is elected by 5000 majority. The Demo- .
crats won in tho other contests. A
In Michigan Griffin (Democrat) is elected ?
to Uongress in me rjrsi xsiainui; wot cvjuo
(Republican). , ?
HANGED BY A MOB. I
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A Quadruple Lynching in Tennessee
on Mere Suspicion. ^
o
Four colored people were lynched by un- 0
known persons at a late hour in the night on d
the Boonevillo turnpike, oue mile Irom the
town of Lynchburg, the couuty seat of Moore v
County, Tennessee. r
Thr?? were men and the oth?*r wns a wo- s
, man. They were Ned Waggoner; his son
Will Wajj^onsr; bis son-in-law. Samuel Mot- a
low.'in.l Motlow's wi.e. Mary ilotlow. The v
lynching was on the fara of Jack Daniels, j 5
an i was so quietly 'lone that r.o cne in the | v
neighborhood was aware of th-i ta -t until the | i
driver o.' the stage coach, who w.ts the first 1
passer-by on the road next 'lay. discorerwi
the four "bodies dangling from ti.esanr? tree, a
The victims were charged with burning 3
(several houses and bains ia Moore County.
There is no ciue to the perpetrators of tha
lynching, i
The senior surviving ofii-.'ar o: the Con- J
fftderacv is James LongEireet, lor whom a
New York Arm is publishing a book.. Beau- '
regard was the last of the full general*?. Long- I
street heading tVe list of Lkiut<!aaut-G?!norals.
Ho is a very old rurm now. s;ray and '
deaf. He lives quietly and simply at his
home in Gai2==^lle, G&.
Two twelve-year-old boys killed au ea^le 1
measuring seven feet from tip to tip, which !
attacked them near Oakland, 111. 1
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Sixtv-threk men who have returned to
iew York from the phosphate mines on the
sland of Navassa tell a story of cruelty and
irivation.
A. Blaisdell. Jr.. ?.V Co., cotton and wool
lealers, of Chicopee, Mass.. have failed.
At Philadelphia, in the presence of 20,000
pectators. Princeton won the football game
irith the University of Pennsylvania team by
i score of 4 to 0. At New York Harvard deeated
Cornell 84 to 0.
Colonel Daniel Lamoxt. Secretary of
Var, and Mrs. Laaiont visited Gettysburg
PeDn.) battlefield. The Secretary was met
>y the members of the United States Gety-sburg
Battlefl?ld Commission. The entire
ay was spent in the inspection.
South and West.
Chris Shorlixg, atTol?do, Ohio, shot and
illed Miss Gertie Sharp, his sixteen-year-old
weetheart. He then shot himself.
The Minnesota Executive Pine Land Inestigating
Committee charges that the
tate has been robbed of millions of feet of
imber.
The Chesapeake. Ohio and Southwestern
'ao^ Unc Kaon oftM tn fho T.nuicvillM nnrl
Nashville by C. P. Huntington.
An attempt was made to hold upthenorthound
Louisville express, near Coal Creek,
'enn. One of the would-be-robbers was
illed and another captured.
The second trial of cx-Detective Daniel
oughlin for alleged complicity in the murer
of Dr. Cronin was begun in Chicago.
A& the result of.a deliberately planned atimpt
at" train wricking, train No. 3, on the
lliuois Central, was wrecked near Ullin,
11., and the fireman, Charles Harman. and
vo tramps, both colored men. were killed.
The Columbus caravels are to bo allowed
) winter in Chicago, and Congress is to sete
the question of their iiual disposition.
South-eocnd Iran Mountain train No. 51
as held u,< by seven m:isked bandits at
iliphant. Ark. The conductor was kilied
nd the robbers escaped with asmall amount
f booty.
A faxct inlaid upright piano, valued at
1500. which had been packed ready for retoval,
was taken out of the exhibitors' pailion
at the World's Fair grounds under
le noses of the guards, by thieves who pr?;nted
a forged permit for it.
Washington.
SecretaryHekbert has appointed aboard
) inquire into alleged defects in the new war
lips.
The President has approved the act proidlng
for the construction of a steam
svenue cutter for the Now England coast ?
19 JOini nfSUlUUOil JUl lilC xopuiliuw;, rnaiv
lg and removal of derelicts, and an act
mendatory of the timber culture repeal
iw.
The President has nominated Samuel E.
ichols. of New York, to be Pension A?ent
c Buffalo. N. Y.: John C. Byxbee, of Conecticut,
to be Collector of Internal Revenue
>r the District of Counecticut. Consuls?
[. L. Davis, of Arkansas, at Merida, Mexico;
. H. Jacobi, oi Wisconsin, at Keichenberg,
ohemia; Leon Jostremski, of Louisiana, at
allao. Peru; F. \V. Roberts, of Maine, at
arcelona, Spain.
The annual report of Third Assistant Postlaster-General
Craige shows that the total
jvenues of the department from all sources
uring the last fiscal year was $75,896,933,
ad the expenditures $31,074,101, which
!aves a deficiency lor the year of $5,177,171.
The President has signed the Chinese bill
mending the Gearv law.
Vice-Pbesident Stevenson loft immediiateiy
after the adjournment of the Senate
>r his home in Bloomington. 111., where he
ill remain until Congress meets again.
The nomination of James Ii. Roosevelt as
;>cretary of Embassy at Loadon was conrmed
in executive session.
Up tothe close of the session of the Senate
le President sent to that body 1111 messages
jntaining nominations,aggregating upward
r 1303 names. Of these 246 wete the usual
rmy and navy promotions.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, conrmed
the sta-isment that the United States
ircuit Judgeship for the Fourth Judicial
istrict, embracing the States of Maryland,
irginia, West Virginia, North and South
arolina, made vacant by the death of Judge
ond, had been tendered him by the Presl;nt,
and that he had declined the honor.
Foreign.
The Cunard Line steamer Campania broke
io eastward record from New York to Browead,
Ireland, by one hour and twenty mintes.
The British Parliament opened and busiess
began by the moving of the second
:ading of the Parish Councils bill.
Colonel Djcbitch, ex-Minister of War,
ropped dead at Belgrade, Servia, upon hearig
tnat the King had promoted him to the
ink of general. Apoplexy wasfche cause of
eatb.
M. VELrmuoviTCH, formerly Servian Miniter
of Justice, has been murdered at his
fsidence in Belgrade. His body was found
eheaded and horribly mutilated in his t?edDom.
A despatch from Johnnesburg, South
.frieu, says that King Lobengula has been
aptured by the Chartered Company s forces.
Pbixce VVindischquaetz has chosen an
.ustrian Cabinet.
British warships at Bio, Brazil, sent men
n shore to get sand for holystoning. Peixto's
troops, thinking Mello's men were upon
hem, blew up a powder magazine, killing
rcn und trniin/?in<? Hva of the Britons.
:iLLED BY AN EXPLOSION,
Feed Mill Boiler Blows Up With
Terrible Results.
Five men wero killed and fifteen persons
ere injured by the explosion of a boiler in
ist Fourteenth stract, near Avenue B, New
ark City, a few afternoons ago. The boiler,
1 upright, was in the basement of the feed
ill at the stables of the Dry Dock, East
roadway and Battery Railroad Company,
a the north side of Fourteenth street.
The feed mill was demolished and a large
sction of the boiler was hurled across the
reet, smashing in the wall of a tenement on
10 south side.
Two of the men who were killed were
lown out of the feed mill clear across the
reet. One of them died in the hallway of
le tenement. 531 East Fourteenth street,
he other breathed his last on the sidewalk
l front of 536. The rest of the killed were
uried in the ruins of the feed mill.
Most of the injured wero employes of the
sed mill or stables, who wpre struck by fly?
ig bricks or timbers. Several persons living
:ross the street also were injured.
Following is a list of the dead James
rmstrong, engineer, twenty-eight years
Id: leaves a wife and one t'hiM.
ohn Gillespie, hostler, sixty-flve years
Id; leaves a wife and son.
Ul/Uiao XJ. uaoovu, ^laiu OUV/?>JIV.4,
ears old, single. Samuel SIcMullen, grain
boveler, thirty-seven years old, single. Patick
Quinn, carpenter, twenty-twoyea?3 old,
incle.
>rha engineer in charge of tho boiler, James
irmstrohg. was buried beneath a great mass
f bricks and stones, broken beams andtwistd
machinery, aad, therefore, the causo may
;ever be ascertained.
The explosion shook buildings for blocks
round. Almost simultaneously the front
rail of tho foed mill fell outward, and the
oof caved in, followed by tho collapse of tho
ide walls.
A largo section of tho boiler rose in tho air
nd went sailing across the street. It struck
rith great force the front of tho tenement,
34 East Fourteenth street, crushing in the]
r:ill at the second story and smashing the'
roats and windows of Peters's proeery and:
tuhPs saloon, on the around floor.
l'ho bodies of many horses were taken out
,nd eight injured ones were shot. Fifteen in
.11 were killed.
A fin ax survey of the ship canal across the
?lorida peninsula will shortly be made. Th*!
anal will be about 300 feet wide and about
50 miles in length. It will shorten the disanco
from New Orleans to Liverpool 100!)
lies, and vessels will save tha dangerous
royago around the Florida Keys and Bahanas,
with the high insurance rates now
x.vctcd.
A pasty of twenty-Ova experienced California
gold miners ore about to pay from ,
5400 to $500 each to gat to Africa, where
they expect to make lots of money.
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STEA1EB EDRWED AT SEA
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LOST NEAR HAVANA.
The Ship Was on Her Way From Mataazas
to Havana?There was an
Explosion, and Four Hundred
Barrels of Rum Fed the FlamesMany
Lives Reported Lost.
The steamship City of Alexandria, belonging
to the New York and Cuba Mail
Steamship Company, and running between
Matanzas and Havana, Cuba, and New York,
1?- 1 L.. ?T* ?tno
uus ueeu uurucu uu kvjiiuui. xi nao
at first that sixty persons were drowned, but
later news reduced the estimates of the loss
of life. The steamer was commanded by
Captain Hoffman.
A cablegram from Havana, says : A small
boat, in which were the second officer and
eleven other persons from the steamship City
of Alexandria, entered the harbor here and
reported the los3 of the steamer. They say
that an explosion occurred during the afternoon
on board the vessel, and shortly afterward
she was burning fiercely. The cause
of the explosion is unknown.
The Are gained such headway that Captain
Hoffman saw it would be Impossible to
save the vessel, and orders were given to
abandon the ship. The steamer had 400
hogsheads of rum aboard, and this, when
it caught Are, caused Immense masses of
flames to ascend from the hatchways, the
hatches having been blown off.
There was great excitement aboard, but
the officers soon succeeded in restoring order.
As soon as the fire alarm was sounded
<he crew went to their flra stations and the
stewards began to carry provisions to the
boats.
There was comparatively little sea running,
and but little difficulty was experienced
in lowering away the boats, when
the bell forward tolled the signal "Abandon
the ship." The steamer was only twentylive
miles from Havana when the explosion
occurred, and tho officers in command of
the several boats?the Captain, first officer,
purser and chief engineer?had little fear o?
not react-ing that port or some other place
along the coast.
In the first moment of terror several men
are said to have jumped into the sea. Those
who arrived in the small boat said that sixty
had been drowned, many of them through the
upsetting of a boat. Later reports, however,
show that none of the small boats upsst, ana
thst many of those at first reported as lost
reached Bacuranao in safety.
The number of persons drowned is now
believed to be thirty-four or thirty-five.
Among them were Herr Leibinger, a cabin
passenger, whose home is in Germany, and
Beveral Cuban stevedores.
When the news of the disaster reached
here a number ot tuss were sent to the burning
steamer to render whatever assistance
they could. Two of these tugs returned
bringing nineteen survivors from the vessel.
The City of Alexandria was built in 1879 at
Chester, Penn., by John Roach & Sons. She
was constructed for the Alexandria Steamship
Company, which was at that time engaged
in the West Indian trade. The
vessel and her sister ship, the City of
Washington, were suosequently purchased
by the Ward Liue. The Alexandria
had a gross tonnage of * 2911
tons. The hull was built pf iron. The deok
houses were of the samo material,as was also
the sp&r dock, which, however,was sheathed
with wood. The vessel had accommodations
for 150 first-class p3S3engera. She was reputed
to be the fastest vessel in the West Indian
service.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Blosdix is still performing on the tightrope
in London.
Ex-Quf.f.n Isabella, of Spain, celebrated
recently her sixty-seventh birthday.
The income of Henry Laboucbere from
London Truth is estimated at $50,000 a year.
Pbesident Cabnot, of France, has finally
decided to become a candidate for re-election.
1
s2nat0r l_i allin'ger, oi ^(cw xluiiipsuuc,
has the baldest and smoothest head m the
Senate.
Mrs. Grant, widow of the General, has
determined to make her future homo in
Washington.
The Empress of Russia's physician when
in attendance upon his imperial patient receives
a fee of ?350a day.
TnE Rev. L. M. Wise, D. D.. of Cincinnati,
has just celebrated the fiftieth unniveraary
ol bis ordination as a rabbi.
Cramp, the great shipbuilder, says that
he does not go abroad oftener because an
ocean voyage prostrates him with seasickness.
While he was in India the Austrian Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, shot 2300 head of
game?including five eleohants and twenty
tigers.
Colonel R. S. Lanier, rather of the late
Sidney Lanier, the poet, died a few days
since at Macon, Ga. He was a lawyer and
eminent in his profession.
President Woodruff, of the Mormon
Church, though eighty-two years old, managed
to get about the Chicago Fair as well
as most of the younger visitors.
Charlotte M. Joxoe. the English novelist,
is seventy years old. Out of the profits she
has derived irom her thirty novels she has
given 10.000 to charitable societies.
The Sultan of Turkey is a monomaniac on
the subject of carriages. He hns been steadily
engaged in making a collection of such
vehicles for the past twenty years and now
has nearly 500 of all makes and kinds.
Pbixczhs Maud, at Wales, who is more
like her father than any other of the Prince
of Wales's children, inherits the paternal love
of humor. She Is an inveterate punster as
well, and she and her father make a merry
pair when they are in joking mood.
LATER NEWS.
At Now York the Yale Col lego eleven defeated
the Now York Athletic Club at football
by forty-two points to nothing : Crescent
won from Wesleyan, and Princeton beat
Orange.
The staamers Albany and Philadelphia
collided in Lake Huron. Both weat down
and twenty-four lives were lost.
The annual report of Superintendent Stump
of the Bureau of Immigration shows that
during the hist fiscal year 410,793 immigrants
arrived in this count -y. a decrease of 141,034
over the previous year.
At Ilahfaz, Nova Scotia. Richard Savage
killed his throe-year-old sou and fatally
wounded his wife end himself. Cause,
jsiloasy.
The steamer Frjzer was burned to-day '
noar Goose Island, on Lak* Nipissint;. about J
twenty-flvo mile* wast of North Bay. Canada.
Eighteen lives wero lost.
Fiohtixo vrai r.'sumel at M^lilla by the
Riffians, who advanced close to the town
and wera oniy drivf-u ba-k after a lleree
struggle.
A tram? w'.io assaults J a young woman
near Lambert vilie, N. J., was pursued, and
jumped into the river and was drowned.
Fra.vcis H. Weeks pleaded guilty to embezzlement
in NVtv York City and was seat'juccd
to ten years' imprisonment.
Ts;< Russian exiles wiio had escancl from
a penal colony in Siberia wire picked up ia
the Sea of Okhotsk by an Ainori nn whaling
barb iind taken to San Francisco, Cal.
Tri: C??>vmsieDt's expenses since November
1 bavo exceeded in receipts by nearly
*2.090.000.
The Matancie attacked a British force in
South Africa, and wire repulsed, sixty ol
their men b'sing killed , LoLv.ngula is -=airl
to be between two British columns.
Mello again bombarded Rio. in an effort
to make decisivj progress before the
new Brazilian war ships arrived from New
York.
BOMBS IK iK OPERAHODSE
MANY PEOPLE MUEDEEED BY
ANAECHISTS IN SPAIN.
Two Bombs Thrown f rom tne uailcryin
the Second Act of "William
Tell"?Fifteen People Killed Outright
and Many Fatally InjuredRemains
Terribly Mangled.
A dastardly outrage was committed in
Barcelona, Spain, that for flendishness and
crazy desire to murder has seldom been
equaled. The Lyceum Opera House, one of
the places of amusement much frequented
by the elite of Barcelona's society, was the
scene of the outrage.
The opera season of this house had opened,
' 'William Tell" being billed for production.
There was a large audience present. EverynlAf??
Trrlfhnnf n hiffth until fVlA
second act, when, as the audience was listening
intently to the singers on the stage, two
bombs, presumably loaded with dynamite,
were thrown from the gallery.
As the bombs struck the floor below one of
them exploded with a terrific report. Almost
every person in the house sprang to his feet
in terror and dismay.
The wildest kind of confusion prevailed,
and many meD, their faces pale with fright,
abandoned the ladies they had escorted, and
made desperate rushes for the exits, knocking
down and trampling upon those in their
way. without regard to age or ses.
When the dust and smoke caused by the
explosion cleared away the forms of many
persons were seen writhing upon the floor in
the vicinity of the place where the bomb had
fallen. The seats thereabouts had been
hlnurn rind flr?nrin<r in snnts was
torn up anil the beams partly shattered.
Fifteen parsons were instantly killed, and
oi^ht have sinca died, making a total of
twsnty-threa who lost their lives by the explosion.
Several persons were removed from
the building with nearly every shred of clothinz
torn from their bodies.
The scene in the Opera Hou30 beggared
description. Shrinks and curses were heard
on all sides. A few of the men sought to
protcct the women, but they wero swept
away like chaff before the fear-crazed mob
that filled the aisles. Men and women,
sec.ng that is was useless to attempt
to force their way through
the lighting and howling mob, climbed
overtho backs of saats and sought to reach
the door in this manner. A great number of
persons were more or less seriously hurt in
fho l?*nn/1 if iq rnn*wlprpd \rrtnHerful
that many of them were not killed outright.
Notwithstanding the frightful confusion,
the lower part of the building was emptied
in a few minutes of all but the police and
the dead and injured. The stalls were complete!}*
wrecked.
The explosion in the Liceo Theatre, following
close upon the disaster at Santander,
the Melilla defeats, the attempt upon the life
of General Martinez Campos, and other
dynamite outrages, has caused a feeling of
great excitement throughout Spain.
THE LABOR WOELD.
Brooklyn* has 344 union framers.
Japan employs 221,056 cotton spindles.
Chicaco reports 75,000 skilled men idle.
Omaha, Neb., has a colored barbers'union,
New Yoek has over 300 labor organizations.
Laundry hands will form a National
union.
Brooklyn has a Workingmen's Free
School.
Haktfobd, uonn., nas uuiou u?>
penters.
Sacramento Vallbt, California, has Indian
hop pickers.
Knit gocls manufacture employs 23.000
New Yorkers
Joliet (111.) steel workers have had their
wages cut 33>? per cent.
The Fall l'.iver Spinners' Union he*
donated $800 to idle members.
Scotland has a bank operated by railroad
employes. It has $1,750,000 on deposit.
Brotherhood trainmen pay out $51,000
per month in death and disability claims.
A Pittsbdbo firm has paid all the wages
temporarily withheld during the stringency
America'.* delegates may attend the convention
of railroad workers in Paris next
yorC.
-A woman walking delegate ordered a
stride in a shoo iactory at jmacuesDoro
Mass. Lo3t.
Complaint now comes from New Orleans,
Lb., that unemployed 'aboringmen from the
far West are swarming into that city.
Lowell (Mass.) clergymen will aid the unemployed
by soiling coal at wholesale rates
and through other effective agencies.
Servants in China receive from sixty cent3
to a dollar a month wages and board. Carpenters,
masons, bricklayers, etc., are glad to
get 94 a month and feed themselves.
When iie great shirt, collar and caff industries
of Troy, N. Y., are running full
time they employ from 15,000 to 16.000 persons,
and the pay roll reaches $4,800,000 per
year.
Gikls in a Louisville (Ky.) laundry struck
rather than handle the linen of the Louisville
and Nashville special cars, upon which
road a strike was on- The railroaders lost
their strike.
Thk Waiters' Benevolent Association of
Boston was donated $500 at their thirtieth
anniversary by their employers. The association
has disbursed $50,000 in sick and
death benefits.
At New Castle, Penn., the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railroad, the Etna and Rosena
Furnaces and other establishments are dispensing
with Italian laborers. No less than
800 Italians have left New Castle within the
past month lor Italy.
A SMASH-UP IN CHICAGO.
Five Killed and Kleven Injured on
the Rock Island Road.
By a rear-?nd collision on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific at Seventy-first
street, Chicago. 111., five persons were killed
and eleven injured.
Passenger train No. 11. known as the Limited
Vestibuled Express. crasued into the '
rear end of a Blue Island accommodation,
badly wrecking two coaches and the engine.
The engine of the express train plowed its
way into the rear coacii of the accommodation,
being forced between the two sides like
a wedge. The ear was picked up and carried
forward, so great was the momentum,
and was dmsn with terrible foroo into the
end of the second co*ch from the rear. Th^
explosion of a lamp ignited the woolwork in
the debris and the lire soon spread at a
lively rate.
Many Miles In a Oanos.
Warburton Pike, tho English explorer, has
just arrived at Nanaimo, British Columbia,
from the interior of Alaska, having made a
journey of over 4000 miles in a small canoe.
He left Victoria, British Columbia, a year
ago last July, for Fort Wrangol, and thence
proceeded to Stikeen Itiver in a canoe
through the Cassair country and followed
the Dease River as far a3 the junction with
the Laird tributary of tho Mackenzie River.
There he spent the winter hunting big game.
Late in the winter Piko started out witii a
do;; sled for Francis Lake, which he crossed,
and thence made the porratfa to tho Pelly
Lakes, getting into a country never before
explored by white man.
Spring had set in by the time the Telly
Lakes were reached, and crossing there Pike
followed tho Peily River to its source. On
his return he followed tho Pelly River to
Lewis River, which be followed to the
Yukon. He then began n continuous journey
of 2300 miles, which lasted for two
months. He left the Yukon River near the
coast ami inado a portage to Kuskoquin
River and thence mado his way around the
coast to Fort Alexander, the trip having
lasted thirteen months.
During the vrhole time he met with no accident.
He used the same eanoeall through.
It weighs only one hundred pounds and is
seventeen feet long. Mr. Pike formed a vary
poor opinion of the interior of Alaska. He
says it "Is absolutely worthless, except for
hunting. Game of all kinds is abundant.
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Tfbiqhtfpl calamity.
AN EXPLOSION THAT SCATTEEED
DEATH AND FIRE,
A Dynamite-Laden Ship Blows Up at
the AVharf in Santander, Spain?
Scores and Scores of People Perish?About
165 Bodies Recovered
?Many Houses Wrecked.
a terriDie explosion occurred a lew Dignts
ago at Santander, Spam. The ship Cabo
Machicaco, with a cargo of dynamite, was
lying at a quay. In some way she caught
Are. A large crowd soon gathered, and the
police, who were unaware of the dangerous
character of the ship's cargo, made no attempt
to drive them away. Suddenly there
was a terrific explosion that shook the city
to its foundations. An official despatch says
that the bodies of 165 persons have been recovered.
The search was still in progress.
Many persona were then missing. About 190
persons were under treatment for Injuries
received. The damage to property amounted
to several million dollars.
The vessel was discharging 2000 tons of
iron and many barrels of petroleum and flour
and several wine casks. The Captain had
declared only twenty cases of dynamite,
otherwise he would not have been allowed to
dock.
The flre started at 3 o'clock a. m. in the
coal bunkers. The customs officers and
police hastened to remove the twenty cases
of dynamite, which were soon landed at a
safe distance from the vessel. A tug was
then chartered to tow the Cabo Machicaco
seaward.
Meantime desperate efforts had been made
to quench the flumes. The Captain and crew
of the steamer Alfonso XII boarded the burning
vessel to help fight the flames. They
worked for an hour and a half without success.
At the end o? that time the flre reached
the petroleum.
Then came a series of awful explosions as
iVin flniMAfl manf t V??irr>o1 fA Kn rfil) A f no
IUU UftUiCS UCUl ilVUi vailCi IW uanui VL
troleum until they reached the contraband
dynamite. The tug had just been moored
alongside the vessel and many townspeople
had gone aboard either to satisfy their curiosity
or to help extinguish the fire. Then
came the explosion of the dynamite.
All on board the Cabo Machicaco, and
many along the deck were blown to atoms
The tug vanished. The quay, with its enormous
crowd of spectators, rose in the air.
The people were scattered in every direction,
into the sea and up on the land.
Firebrands fell in showers over sea and
land for a radius of a mile and a half. The
Cabo Machicaco's anchor was hurled 800
yards, and fell on the balcony of a house,
which it completely wrecked; It thee sank
deep in the pavement below.
The shock was felt in every part of the
city. Houses rocked to their foundations,
and more than 100 were set on Are by falling
firebrands. The destruction In the harbor
was equally appalling.
The launch of the steamer Alfonso XII,
wilier was lying alongside, ana wnicn containts
.A of the crew not aboard the Cabo
Micbicaco, vanished with the others. The
survivors ashore fled shrieking, leaving the
promenade adjoining the quay strewn with
doad and dying and mangied remnants o?
human bodies. Wherever the terrified fugitives
turnod they met only frightful destruction.
Horror was added to horror In the wrecked
and burning buildings, trona which came
piteous cries for help. Many of the fugitives
were thrown down and trampled upon. Numbers
are said to have lost their reason. The
psople were too panic stricken to think of
anything but saving their own or relatives'
lives, and ignored their burning property.
When night fell the sky luridly reflected
the fires burning fiercely in various parts of
the city. Mondez Nunez street, running parallel
with the quay, was ablaze from end to
end. In the blinding light and heat the
bands of rescuers worked to extricate the
dead and wounded.
On every side were scenes of indescribable
confusion and overwhelming grief. The flre
burned unchecked throughout the night.
Block after block sank in ruins. Every street
near the water front was filled with the noise
of crashing buildings.
The people were terror stricken. Thousands
abandoned their homes and fled to the
fields or outlying villages. Others remained
L g ? *.i 11.. f Kq haano n f
CO searcu muui(.-?uj naiuuu iuc UI.OJU
ruins and half-burned bodies for their lost
friends or relatives. Children whose parents
were dead wandered weeping through
the streets, calling for help.
Sant; nder Is a fine port in Spain, on the
Bay of Biscay. It contains 30,000 inhabitants,
and has unusually fine public buildings
for a plaoe of its size. It is a busy and
thriving town, and has derived much of its
Importance from its trade with the West Indies
and South America.
DROWNED IN THE BAY.
A Crowded Small Boat Capsized Off
South Beach, N. Y.
A strong northeast wind was whipping the
waters of the lower bay into heavy seas and
a driving rain storm was beating down when
twenty-one workmen, employed on Hoffman
and Swinborne Islands, in New York Bay,
finished their afternoon s work and set out
to sail the distance between the Islands and
South Beach.
i Their boat was a ship's yawl, capable of
holding with safety perhaps half the number
that crowded into her. For half the distance
to Staten Island the bo.it scudded before
the wind. Then the pintle of the rudder
slipped from the gudgeon and the craft,
steered by unskilful hands, became unman
ageable in the high wind. Her sail was
lowered and the men tried to row to shore,
using an oar as a rudder. But the boat
drifted about uutil she turned broadside to
sea and wind. In a second she filled, and,
rolling over, spilled the twenty-one men in
the water. Nine of them were drowned before
the boats which put out Irom shore
could rtach the spot. The other twelve were
taken ashore safely.
The workmen were some of those who
have been employed since July 11 on
Swinburne and Hoffman Islands repairing
the hospitals and putting in new steam
pipes and new disinfecting apparatus. They
have been in the habit ot returning to Statea
Island and going from there to their homes.
The list of the drowned is:
John Crosby, 5 Beach street, New York,
Charles Draid. Brooklyn; Thomas Hoeyj
New York: Edward Kenny, New York;
James Malloy, Mew York; Benjamin MeGuire,
New York ; Albert Norman, Tompkinsville;
Charles Smith, Washington street,
Brooklyn: Leonard Wanser, Amityvilie,
Long Island.
rriTT 1 TTTrn n TTTTlTrt
TniUNJisijiYiim,
President Cleveland's Proclamation
Appointing the Day.
The President Issued his proclamation,
naming Thursday, November 00, as a day ol
thanksgiving. The proclamation reads as
fi'lows:
"While the American people should every
d*y remember with praise and thanksgiving
the Divine goodness and murcy which have
followed them since their beginning as a
Nation, it is fitting that one day in each year
should be especially devote.l to the contemplation
of the blessing we have received
?rom the hand of God and to the grateful
acknowledgment of His loving kindness.
"Therefore, I, urovcr uieveiana, rresuieui
of the United States, do hereby designate
and set apart Thursday, the :>0th day o( the
present month of November, ;is a day of
thanksgiving and praise, to be kept and
Observed by all the people of our land.
On that day let us lor^ego our ordinary
work and employments and assemble
in our usual places of worship,
where we may recall all that Crod has down
for us. and where from grateful hearts our
united tribute of praise and soug may reach
the throne of grace. Let the reunion of
kindred and the social meeting ei frienda
lend cheer and enjoyment to the day, and
let generous gifts of charity for the reliuf o!
tho poor and needy prove the sincerity of
o-ir thanksgiving."
Whalebone sold at New Bedford, Mas*,
tho other day at $2 per pound, the lowest
price for some years. The price was $6 a
pound a year ago. This great drop in price
is caused by the unprecedented catch, of the
whaling steamers that passed last winter ir
the Arotio regions.
THn RITRA SRmilR RNIB
THE CLOSING SCENES IN THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Adjournment Came Very Quietly In
the Senate?The House Ended Its
Session Amid Lively Filibustering
?A Resume of the Work Done by
Both Bodies.
The extraordinary session of the Fiftythird
Congress, after continuing a few days
less than three months, adjourned without
day in the afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The end was calmly and quietly reached in
the Senate, with 110 spectators present.
The doors had been closed upon the
Senatort", who were in exedutive session
for an hour or two before
Vice-President Stevenson's gavel fell, and
they passed from this state of secrecy
into final adjournment with only a moment's
intermission, a moment too brief to
be availed of by the public, who had been
driven from the galleries. The usual resolution
of thanks to the Vice-President and to
the President of the Senate pro tem (Mr.
Harris), for the able, dignified, courteous
and impartial manner in which they had
each discharged the duties of the Chair,
were offered by Mr. H03r and agreed to. Mr.
Harris expressed his "profound gratitude"
for the honor done him. Then the VicePresident
rose and said: "Senators: My appreciation
of the resolution, personal to myself.
kindly adopted by the Senate, cannot
be measured by words. To your courtesy and
forbearance I am indebted for whatever
measure of success has attended my
administration of this great office.
The record of the first session of the Fiftythird
Congress is made up. Henceforth it
belongs to the domain of history. Earnestly
wishing to each of you a safe and pleasant
journey to your home and constituents, I
now, ih pursuance of the concurrent resolution
of the two Houses: declare the Senate
adjourned without day.
There was a slim attendance on the floor
of the House, but the members who were
nroaont ahoxiroH rf"A?Lt fnf.prpRf in thfl nrncpflH*
ings and were seeking every opportunity to
get recognition and forward the passage of
sundry bills of local importance. Mr. Richardson
introduced a joint resolution providing
for the employment of Senate and
House clerks and employes during the
interval batween the sessions. The entire
day was spent in filibustering against the
measure. onen the adjournment took
place the House was in the process of voting
by tellers in order to discover whether a
quorum was present or not. But before the
vo^e was announced the hour of three came
around, the gavel fell, and thp Speaker announced
that tue House stood adjourned
sine die.
Now that the extraordinary session has
ended, it Is interesting to recall what it has
accomplished. The session began on Monday,
August 7. The President's proclamation
calling attention to the distrust and apprehension
concerning the financial condition
of the country, and stating that he had called
Congress together to tne ena tnat tne people
might be relieved from the Impending
danger and distress through legislation was
read on August 7 and on August 8 the President's
message, urging the prompt repeal of
the purchasing clause of the Sherman Silver
act. was receivedand read.
The House spent the first three days ot the
session in organizing and discussing the
contested election case of Belknap against
Bichardson. On Friday, August 11, Mr.
Wilson, of West Virginia, presented his bill
repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman
law. Dabate on the subject was limited
lo, fourteen days. On Monday, August 25,
the bill was passed by a vote of 230 to 108.
The same day the bill was sent to the Senate
and referred to the Finance Committee.
The next day. Augusi 29, Senator Yoorhees,.
from the Finance Committee, reported
to the Senate a substitute for the House bill.
The next day the substitute was taken upand
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, opened th<
discussion with a speech in favor of it.
Wednesday, November 1, All Saints' day,
the Senate substitute for the House biLJ
passed both Houses of Congress and became
law by the President's signature.
Of the 1135 other bills and thirty-six joint
resolutions introduced in the Senate only
vvqooa/) Then* {n/>lndA hi Da
ttUUUL a UU/iCU l/OWOUt xuvj
making appropriations for a hail of records
and the Senate folding room; to aid the midwinter
exposition in California and relative
to homestead entries In Oklahoma, and a
joint resolution granting to the State of Illinois
the brick battleship built in connection
with the World's Fair for the use of its naval
militia. This last became law by the action
of the House.
In the House 4291 bills and eighty joint
resolutions were introduced. Committees
reported on about 150 of th6m and about
fifty were passed. . Among the more important
measures which were acted upon by
the House were the following: <
Fortherelief ol purchasers of timber and
stone lands; for the protection of persons
furnishing labor and material for public
works; amending the timber culture laws;
fixing the time for holding United States
courts in Idaho and Wyoming (became a law;)
for the better control and to promote the
safety of National banks; relative to the
disqualification of registers and receivers
of public land offices; disqualifying Justices,
Judges and United 8tates Commisfrom
aifHnc as such in cases in
which they are interested ; providing revenue
cutters for the great lakes. San Francisco
harbor and the New England coast; increasing
the number of army officers to be
detailed to colleges ; requiring railroads operating
on territory over which rieht of way
has been granted to establish stations at
town sites established by th?s Interior Department;
extending the time for completing
the eleventh census (became law); amending
the law relative to the fees of United
States district attorneys, marshals, commissioners
and clerks of courts ; the public
printing bill; repealing the section
of the statutes requiring proof
of loyalty in pension cases ; addinp the Secretary
of Agriculture to the list of eligibles
for the Presidency in case of the death of the
President; regarding the disposition of articles
imported for exhibition at the World's
Fair: allowing the settlement of the property
of the Mormon Church held by a receiver:
for reporting, marking and removing
derelicts and other menaces to navigation in
the North Atlantic Ocean (became a law) and
fixing the qualifications to vote and hold office
in the Cherokee Outlet.
TO RESUME COINAGE.
Orders Sent to the Mints by Score
tary Carlisle.
Important action hag been taken by the
Treasury Department in regard to silver.
Orders were sant to the superintendents of
the United States Mints at San Francisco
and New Orleans to resume the coinage, suspended
some time ago, of standard silver
dollars. This action is taken under authority
of Section 3 of the Sherman law of 1390.
It is for the purpose of utilizing the seigniorage
that the coinage of standard silver
dollars is resumed.
The expectation is that about 1,600.000
standard silver dollars can be coined at once,
which will give the United States Treasury a
seigniorage of about $500,000. In other
words, the seigniorasre bears the proportion
of one-third to the amount of silver coined.
It is the intention of the Treasury Department
as the other mints become clear of gold
coinage, to have them also coin silver and
thus increase the coinage from 43,500.000 to
$4,000,000 per month.
This seigniorage is so much clear gain to
the United States Treasury, and if it could all
be pla-;ed to the credit of the Government at
onceitwouia increase ine oaiamje u> ?ji,000,000.
The amount of silver subject to
coiuajre is 140,000,000 ounces.
The silver bullion to be thus converted into
standard silver dollars is the silver purchased
under the Sherman act of 1890, and
upon which the coin notes are issued.
The coinage of the silver, however, will
not contract the currency, but will increase
money in circulation to* the extent of the
seigniorage, and without further legislation
is the only means of increasing the per capita
circulatiau to keep pace with the increase in
population.
The merchants of Norfolk, v.v, say that
this seiison has been tho slowest for the peanut
market that they have had for years.
Thousands of bushels of stock aro stored,
with no demand, and it is only a few weeks
before the uew crop will bo ready for tha
market.
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WORDS OF WISDOM. 1
flight is might, but might ia noff
right.
The right kind of a prayer never (
stops.
When faith goes to market italwayi*
1-1 1 1 L "
tatt.es a uttsneb.
A chronic grumbler can be set downi
as a person who loafs too much.
A child's first question is the firsli
round in the ladder of knowledge. ;
No man can live right for a day whoi
does not realize that he is to live forever.
! 1 We
are never saved by knowing our
strength or lost by knowing our weak*;
ness. | . . i
Too many people have an idea thai J
religion oan be measured by the length!. . I
oi tne iace.
The man who works the hardest fo*
the least pay is the one who has thf ?
biggest fortune. / i
We need more of the kind of reform/
that does not go a thousand milesfrom
home to begin work.
It will not do any good to pray for
ten talents if you are not improving
your one talent. *
There is a touch of flavor in the
garden truck that is only known to
the man who swings the hoe.
Before some men are willing to cart'
their bread upon the water they wantl
to be sure that it is going to be mentioned
in the newspapers.?Barn's
Horn.
Seeing by Electricity. t
We can writs by electricity, can"
send pictures and designs by the same
agcncy, and talk to our iriends at a
distance by means of the electric wire.|
When the British Association, visited!
Newcastle, England, says the Chronicle
of that city, Professor Perry told his
auditors that seeing by electricity was
a possibility of the future, and he had'
shnrtlv before drawn a picture of if.
scientific achievements which, would p
enable friends divided by. large continents
and oceans, not only to ialk With]
each other, but to look upon their fea^ *
tures. Even before that Professoxi
Bell was known to have been at work
in his laboratory endeavoring to solve,
the problem, and though ten years
have elapsed since the possibility of
applying the well-known principles of v
light in the same way as the principles
of sound have been applied as in the
telephone was first suggested, the pro-<
fessor is e' '11 as hopeful of success aa
ever. There is no theoretical reason
why light may not be conducted in thel
same way as sound, but Professor Bell'
tells us that it will bo very much moral
difficult to construct an apparatus fori
the purpose, owing to the immensely!
greater rapidity with which the vibra-l
tions of light take place when com-j
pared with the vibrations of sound.} ?;
The difficulty, however, is merely onei
of finding a diaphragm sufficiently sen-<
sitive to receivo these vibrations and! 7,
produce the corresponding electrical
yiDr&nonfl) uuu it ?a cuuuuxo^iu^ wi
have it on the authority of each a man)
as Professor Bell that at least a dozen!
men, eminent in scienoe in various
parts of the world, are at present en-.
gaged in endeavoring to find the solution
of this problem. Professor Bert
himself, who has never ceased to grap-'
pie with the difficulty, candidly admits >7that
up to the present his labors have
been in vain, but he is full of hopefulness
as to the successful issue of hie ,
own research, as well as that of the
other scientists who have taken the
matter up.
Batting in Pennsylvania.
The most romantic and entertaining
feature of the pine business came with
rafting. On the larger streams the
mills were built. BaUroads had not
penetrated the region when white pine
was king of Western Pennsylvania,and
the lumber was all sent to market by;
the creek and river. A raft was compactly
built of boards containing from
20,000 to 50,000 feet, owing much to
the size of the stream to be navigated.
Then when the spring floods came
everybody, even to the village preacher f
and doctor, went "down N the creek."
The rafts were fitted with great oars at
either end, the use of which enabled
the hands to keep the craft in toe cnannel.
As these smaller pieces reached
the river they were grouped in fleets
and coupled together until a fleet, as
it reached Pittsburg, covered half an
acre of territory and floated nearly
half a million of lumber. As they went
on down the Ohio to Oincinnati or
Louisville they were again coupled up \
nntil the area of some of the large ones
fell little short of two acres, with ?
value of close to $250,000.
In April and May the main stream
of the Allegheny presented an exhilarating
sight. From early daybreak
until nightfall the stream ran full oi
rafts following closely behind one another.
At night every eddy along the
valley was tied full of acres of clean
white pine. And the cabins on ths
rafts in which the crews were quartered
were miniature although exceedingly
ephemeral cities. When the great
Pifcfcshnrc the wharves
UI1YU ? 0
and landings on both sides were filled
with lumber in every available place
where a raft could be tied. The congestion
reached us far up the river aa
Plum Creek, ten miles or more from
"the point"?a bridge in the city.?
Philadelphia Times.
A Biver Threatens a Totto.
The erratic Missouri River if
threatening, and will most likely soon
accomplish, the complete destruction
of the town of East Atchison, Mo., on
the opposite bank from Atchison, Kan. ?
The stream has been eating a new
channel for 6evercl months, and dur* . ^
ing the past summer nas waaueu ?w#j
over 300 acres of land. It is now within
an eight of a mile of East Atchison,
and the destruction of the little town,
with mauy thousands of dollars* worth
of valuable property, is regarded aa
inevitable, and the people are moving
away as rapidly as possible.
Wigs and Tories,
"Whigo" were originally teamstert J
i:i Scotland, who used the term "whiggam"
to encourage their horses. Opponents
of the Government in the
restoration period were derided aa
favTring the Scotch covenanters, and
hence were called "whiggams," afterward
"whigs." "Tories1* were origin*
all/v bands of Irish outlaws. The Ool
tic word "toree" means robber.?9t.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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