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M'KINLEY WINS" ? RepnblicaQ National Ticket Gets an Electoral Majority. SOME STATES ARE CLOSE. Bepublicans Retain Control of the House of Representatives. New York and the Other Middle and Eastern states Went Heavily For McKlnley and Hob art?'The Solid .South Broken By Maryland, Kentucky and Weit Vlrelnia?The Middle West Goes For the Kepnbllcan Candidates?A Close Yote in several stale*---xne Miversiaies ana Mo?t of the Southern States Gave Majorities For the Democratic Ticket? Palmer and liuckner Polleil Fevr Votes. ESTIMATED ELECTORAL VOTE. " MKINLET. California 0 New York 36 Connecticut 6 North Dakota 0 Delaware 3 Ohio 23 Illinois 24 Oregon . 4 Indian;: 15 Pennsylvania 32 Iowa IS Rhode,Island 4 Ma n? 6 Snu'.*l l/aicotj?. . 4 | Mtryland S Vermont .. 4 j 15 West V.ririma 6 I Michigan 14 Wisuon:iu 12 Minnesota 9 ? N?w H linpshire.. . 4 Total 2d4 Kew Jersey 10 Alaba-na 11 North Carolina.... 11 Arkansas 8 S .uth Carolina.... 9 Colorado 4 'feanessee 12 Florida 4 T**xos 15 Georgia 13 Virginia 12 Lousaua 8 Washington 4 Kansas ..10 Wyoming 8 Mississippi 9 Utah 3 Missouri..... 17 Idaho 3 Moutana 3 ? Nebraska.... 8 Total 170 Nevada. 3 CLAIMED BY BOl'H SIDES. Kentucky 13 Necessary to a choice, 224. ESTIMATED PLURALITIES BY STATES. McKinley. Bryan. Alabama 29.000 Arkansas 50,000 California 500 .... Colorado 110,000 Connecticut 53,400 Delaware 1,500 .... Florida .. 8, >00 Georpia ... 25.000 I-aho 10,000 Illinois 150,000 .... Indiana 18,000 Iowa. 75,000 .... Kansas 12,000 Kentucky .... Louisiana 80,000 Maine 46,000 Maryland 30,000 .... Massachusetts 168,000 .... Michigan 40.000 .... Minnesota 40,000 .... MississiDpi .' 50,000 Missouri > .... 20,000 ! Montana .... 15,00) Nebraska 6.0 0 ' rtevaaa o,uuj Hew Hampshire 30.000 . .. New Jersey 72,700 . .. . New York 265,000 North Carolina 18,000 North Dakota 5,000 .... Ohio 60,003 Oregon 3;000 .... Pennsylvania.. ..259,000 .... Bhode Island 23,700 .... South Carolina 50,000 Bouth Dakota. 3,000 ? Tenne-ssee 10.000 Texas 1( 0.000 Utah 15, ,00 Vermont 30.000 .... Virginia ]... 15,'00 Washington 6.0C0 West Virginia 8,00U .... Wisconsin 100,000 .... Wyoming 1,000 New York. Nxw York, November 4.?The elections how that McKinley and Hobart are to be Ibenext Pre*iient and Vice-President by a Biafority of .he Electoral College votes. The voting ha* been very decisive in almost all of the 5:aten. The returns received in this city fro-n the various .States up to 2 a. ml, are given below: Palmer polled a very small vote for President. The Fifty-fifth Congress will be Republimn by a smaller plurality than that in the Fifty-fourth Congress. The free sliver Blement will possibly be strengthened from the West. McKinley's plurality in New York City will re&cn 21.000, whi.'e in the State it may exwed 260,l>~0. Secretary O.iborce, of the Republican National Committee, claimed that returns from the counties of the State indicated 260,LOO plurality for tee Republican Presidental candidate. The latest returns showed the following results in New York City: For President, 1850 election districts out of 1392, give McKinley 150,615; Bryan, 13'',015; Palmer. 5523. In 1248 districts a P.opublican gain of 56,733 ever the vote of 1895 was shown. It abo indloates that McKiniey's majority in New York City is about 20,u00. For Governor, 1300 election districts out of 1392 give Black 120 776; Porter, 115,923; Griffin, 69.0; Balkam, 6953. The plurality of 20,000 which wa? rolled ?p for McKinley is a change of 100,000 votes aa compared with 1892, when Grover Cleveland carried the city by a plurality of 76,300 BTer Benjamin Harrisoo. In Brooklyn McKinley also was victorious. Almost completo returns show his plurality to Kings County to be 38.000. The Republi r# i \ * ' FRANK 3. BLACK. {"Elected Governor of New York.) eons there will elect all Ave Congressmen, a gain of two, nnd they ;laim eighteen out of twenty-one Assamblymen. Careful estimates received from every county in ibis ?3tate make McKlnleys plurality not far from 250,0<;0, or about 100, 00 more than Morton's in 1894. McKinley carried every county in the State but 8ehohari?. Mr. Black runs from 25,000 to 80,000 behind McIIinley, having had rotes ' \ 1 ^ 4= l '-4 II PRESIDENT-EL.I cast for McKinlev withdrawn from him by the gold Democrats, who voted for GrifHn, to deraon*trute their strength. Mr. Clack thus lost 12,01)0 votes in New York. 5.00 id Kings County, 4000 iu Erie County, and 1000 votes in Rensselaer County. Returns on the proposed Foreslty amendment to the Constitution are raeasre. but those that have come iu, indicate its defeat by a heavy majority. The result on Congressmen was as follows: Repbulicans 29; Democrats, 5. The most notable feature of the election of Congressmen was Iho success of James J. Beiilen, Independent Republican, who was the candidate of the McKiuby L vigue. indorsed by the Democrats, in the Twenty-seventh District. The Republican majority ia the Assembly was largely increased. Th? Assembly of 1897 will apparently have as its members 110 Republicans and 31 Democrats. There are now 36 Republican Senators, and 14 Democratic Senators. The Republican majority on joint ballot will be 110. Th*s insures tbe election of a Republican as David B. Hill's VICE-PRESIDENT successor in the United States Senate on March 4, 1897. Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Penn.. Nov. 5.?Indications from figures received indicate plurality tu the 8tate for McKiuley of nearly 277,000. The twenty-one Congressional Districts heard from show the election of twenty Republicans and one Democrat. With the two Congressmen-at-larsro this gives the Republicans twenty-two Congressmen certain,with chances even for them la most of the remaining eight districts. New Jersey. Tbestok, N. J., November 5.?From estimates received from all parts of New Jersey the Indications ore that the Republican electors have about 83,000 plurality in the State. Eight Congressmen, sixty A?.semblymen and eight State Senators were contested for by the people of New Jersey. The Democrats elected ono State Senator and thirteen Assemblymen ; Republicans, eight Congressmen, seven 8tate Senators and forty-seven Assemblymen. The Congressmen elected were: First District, Henry ('. Lourienslager (Rep.); Second District, John J. Gardner (Rep.); Third District, Benjamin Howell (Rep.); Fourth District, Mahlon Pitney (Rep.); Fifth District, James F. Stewart (Rep.); 8ixth District, R. Wayne Parker (Rep.); Seventh District, Thomas MoEwan (Rep.); Eighth District, Charles N. Fowler (Rep.). A United States Senator to succeed James Smith, Jr., Democrat, whose term will expire March 8, 1899, will be elected this fall. He will be a Republican. Connecticut. Hartford, Conn., November 5.?AI'.'Klnley has swept the State by about 54,000 plurality iu a total vote of 170,000. Lorln A. Cooke, of Winsted (Rep.), Is eleete I Governor by a plurality of perhaps 35,000. The four Republican Congressmen are all re-elected by majorities ranging from 600 : to 15,0C0. The Legislature will stand 229 Republicans to toirty-seven Democrat-, a majority of 192 on joint ballot, insuring the oleetiou of United States Senator Orvillc H. Tlatt to succeed himself. Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio, November 5.?The returns ttom Ohio show that McKinl v has carried the State by 71.000 plurality Tho entire State ticket. headed by Charles R. Keaney for Secretary of State, is elected by pluralities not less thiia that figure. Of the twenty-one Congress districts, me xvpuoucans have curried eighteen and the Democrats two, leaving one district still in doubt. Later returns irom coumry uisiricis arc expected to increase McKinley's plurnlitv. The vote is the heaviest in the history of tne State. Cleveland and Cuyahoga County have gon? Republican by 6000 and re-elected both Republican Congressmen. Clnulnnati went Republican by 1U,000. Illinois. Chicioo, 111., November 5.?The head ot the Republican National ticket, according to close estimates, has carried the Stat? Kw ?? ... - fr.w ,^a - v; :.v: ?\ t>4C sct Mckinley. least 165,0(10 plurality. The Congress delegation wiH be almost solidly Republican,and the new Unite.l States Senator who succeeds John M. Palmer will be a Republican also. The latest figures show surprising gains for McKinley throughout Illinois. Tanner, Republican candidaJo for Governor, defeats Altgeld by about 125.000 plurality. Chicago and Cook County will give McKinley a plurality of more than 60,000. MaRgachusetts. Boston. Mass.. November 5.?McKinley's majority over Bryan in Massachusetts is phenomenally large, probably 150,000. and the Republican State ticket is elected by nearly if not quite 130,000. Boston, heavily Democratic always, has given McKinley a majority of 20.C00, and Wolcott (for Governor) one of 22,000. The Palmer and Buckner vote in the entire State is between 15,000 and 20,000. Michigan. Detboit, Mich., November 5.?Chairma n ELECT HOBART. Ferry, of the Republican State Central Committee, claims Michifjan by upward of 40,000 for McKinley and the election of all twelve K-jpu'olican Congressmen. The Democratic Committee headquarters are closied, and members concede defeat. Pin^ree carries Detroit by 9000 for Governor. Detroit went for McKinley by 5000. The city of Port Huron show9 a Republican gain of 550; Chip pewa County, a Republican gala of 649; Manistee, e. Republican gain of 12G0, and the city of Ludington, 216. The Wayne Repub Vlllll hxze.v s. 1'inorek, ok detroit. (E'ected Governor of Michigan.) 1 can Committee claims the county by 10,000. This is a cain of ov?r 11,000. H. S. Plngreo, the Mayor of Di-troit, is elected Governor by an enormous plurality. Kentucky. Lorisv lle, Kv., November 5.?McKinley has enrneii Kentucky by perhaps 12,000 on the basis of returns received together with concessions by Bryan men. The voto of the State will approximate the following: McKinley, 185,000; Bryan, 183.000; Palmer, 10," 000. In Congressmen the Republicans have mads great gains, having carried the Third, Fourth. Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Districts. W. C. P. Brecken ridge was defeated. Mississippi. Jackson, Miae., November 5.?A light vote Is reported all over the State. Bryan earrled Mississippi by from 20,000 to 30,000 plurality. The fr?e-stlver Democrats elected ail onvun rionfirracnrr.fta \ EMM'S MM All tho WnrlH Staved Un to Get nn miw ? j? - r -- the Returns. EXCITING SCENES IN NEW YORK. A Night of Tremendous Celebration and Display?The Return* Indicate That the Gold Forces Will Control Both Branches of Congress After the 4th of March, 1897?Election Day Incident*. New York City rSpecial).?All New York City turned oat Election niprbt. Such a crowd as has never before been known In the oity thronged every place where the returns could be seen. Oltv Hall Park was a mass of faces from Park row to Broadway, and the overflow from It filled Newspaper row from Ann street to the bridge. Upper Broadway was solid with humanity and Twenty-third to Thirty-third street. All other places?f>nd there were many of them 1" ai?*no mora IU IUO UllJ ?nucio 1DIUIUO nuv filled up as if by magic and stayed filled until certainty was doubly certain, and there was no room for doubt of the triumph of JIcKlnlfl.v. It was a nighf o' tremendous celebration and display. Flash lights strenmed across the sky. Bonfires lipnted up the streets. Rockets and Roman candles darted through the darkness in lines of fire, anil brilliant decorations of colored lights gave hundreds of buildings a festal appearance. To the ear, even more than to the eve. the celebration appealed. Thousand* upon thousands of horns and rattles were pressed into service. Brass bands were hired by the fiolitical clubs to discourse trlumohant music rom balconies and stands, and, most impressive of all, tens of thousanls of voices bonded together in cheers that thrilled through the air like one tremendous deep note of muMc. The air was instinct with " * ?J ofo foH at hnma oxcuemour, uuu iuo uuu wuu c^su i?u?u.v and forewent the elation that comes from the enthusiasm of an enormous mass of men all intent on one idea, missed an experience that comes perhaps but once in a lifetime. No man can guess when the city will as;ain be stirred and roused as it was on this night. Compared to it other National elections have been insignifloant. THE NEWS IN EUROPE. Newipnper Office* Display Bulletin* on the American Election*. London, England (By Cable).?A large number of Americans ana others gathered at Effingham House, Arundel street, Strand, to obtain the earliest possible information regarding the resu't of the eloctlon. The bulletins seLt from New York giving the results as soon as they were known there were eagerly scanned and commented upon according to the political faith of their readers. Never before has suoh keen interest been aisplaved in this city over the result of an American election. The Dally Ghronlole and the many provincial papers displayed In their office windows the bulletins which are received at Effingham House by cable and immediately forwarded to them by telegraph. Elaborate preparations were made at the various telegraph offices in the city, the West End. and Piccadilly to announce thp result of tre election. Great interest was taken in the eleotion in London, and the Stnrs and Stripes and pictures of McKinley and Hobart abound in American resort*. There has been a good deal of betting on the result of the eleotion. In Berlin, Paris and throughoit Europe, in fa'-t, the result of the election was awaited with breathless Interest. HOW M'KINLEY VOTED. Stocd Uncovered a* He Exorcised Hll Sacred Right. Canton, Ohio (Special).?Major McKinley, as soon as he had fairly settled his breakfast, started down North .Murket struct to deposit his ballot. Major McKinley entered the polling place at 8.S5, and greeted the Inspectors with a oordlal "Good morning, gentlemen; I'm glad to see all of yon." The formalities of the porformnnco wero soon over, ana as ins oanor.no. zsi;, went mio me box tb? candidate took off his hat and stood uncovered until his sacred right as an American citizen was apsured, Then he walked homeward and remained in tho house tboreroaiaderof!hedny.oxo?pt forone trip to the station of the Valley Railroad to welcome Mark Han on. Herecolvod the returns nod the congratulations of his friend? over a special wire at his homo. MR. BRYAN'S BALLOT' Crowd at tlio Polling Place Cheero bs Q? Votes. Lincoln, Nebraska (Special).?William Jennings Bryan cast his vote a little before Doon. He had arrived from Omaha almost an hour earlier, but Was oompelled to BtOp at tha City Hall to procure a certlflonto of oitizenshtp on Account of his failuro to register beforehand. When Mr. Bryan was about to vote, one of the election challengers shouted out: "As a mark of repp?ot from your fellow oltizens we all take off our hatsl" Th* suggestion met with unanimous response from the crowd of perhaps 200 men who stood outside the roped Inolosure. The canting of the ballot was received with applaufe ana nfter Bbakih? hands with the election official nearest him Mr. Bryan wedged bis way oat throaah the orowd anil wa<? driven to his home, accompanied by a largo epaort or the Bryan Home Guardi, conHinting largely of farmers. Mr. Bryan nod a party of friends received the election returns over a speoial wlro at tho Democrat lconddlrtate'fl home. Mr. Bryan became convlnoed of his defeat before 11 o'clock, and noon after retired, .Qoenea of Ulnorder, Baltimore, Md. (Special).?Tho votlnp was characterized with disorder In many places. There were riots In Delaware between the Addlaks Republicans and tho free silver Democrats. There wero murders ni the polls In Tennessoe and In Kentucky. Ic We?t Virginia threats of vloleuce frightened many men away from the polls. Cant nia Vote and Died. Mxddlbtoww, N. Y. (Speoiiil).?Chariot Horton. a wealthy mid aged resident of thl.< city, went to the polls and votod for McKIn ley this afternoon. Ho fell dead on his re lurnlnff home. Ilornelean Carriage* In France. More than 1200 horseless cnrrlngos hav< been constructed In France durin? the pasi three years. It 1b said that at the present rato there will be fully 10,000 la use try 1000. October Coinage Report, A statement prepared by the dlreotors o the mlat shows the coinage executed at tbi United States mints during the month of Oe tober as follows: Gold, $5,727,000) sliver $2,844,009: mluor ooln, ?66.900: totul, $8, 688,409. Of the Bllver coinage, 2,350,000 wen olU-ur rlnllnra A Petroleum King Dead. The petroleum Industry of Russia ba9 jus lost Its pioneer by the death in Sweden o Robert Nobel. It was to a chance visit ti Baku, la 1873, that ho owed his great dis covery of tho rich deposits of petroleum ii the Caucasus. Minor Mention. During 1895 thore were 1061 postofflce burglarized in the United Status. The Cherokee Indians of Klngflsher. Okln homa, have organized a professional footbal team. Crater Lake, Oregon, is believed to be th deepest fresh water lake iu America, it depth being 2000 teet. Gray wolves are reported as beioj? ver plentiiul and very aestruotive in Jaspe County, Missouri. Parties are being organ lzed to hunt tbem. During Septombor there wurg 20,22 patients in the Spanish hospital in Ouba, an 1082 deaths. Of these 744 died of yellow feve and twonty-two from wounds. amKSOki' .THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington 'Itema. Private Secretary Thurber said that the President had begun the ?reparation of his annual message, and, as has always been the custom, would be obliged to deny himself to the public until it was completed. The month of November la usually devoted to this task. Advices received in Washington are tha the Moorish pirates attacked another French vessel near Morocco, but were pursued and defeated by a Spanish steamer. The President appointed Isaac M. Elliott, of New York, Consul at La Ouayra. Venezuela, and Horace L. Washington, of Texas, Consul at Alexnndretta, Syria. The President has recognized Carlo Magenta, Consul of Italy, at New Orleans, and Emile P/inaill nt SaHt7Prlfl.Tld. uou uic.i noituuiauuj vsv v? >? " - ? ? j at Denver. Colonel Charles Ileywood, commanding the United States Marine Corps, in his annual report to Secretary Herbert, urges that the commanding officer of 2600 men is entitled to the rank of brigadier-general. He eays that although Congress, at its last session, increased the corps 500 men, a further increase is imperative, and the number of officers is altogether Inadequate. United States Consul Hurst at Prague reports to the State Department that the Austrian Government is about to treble the duty on glucose, to effectually bar out the better and cheaper article from Amerioa. Within five months the United States shippe 1 2,640,000 pounds of this commodity info Austria, paying a duty of $2.00 for every 220 pounds. Domeitlc. One thousand gunners hunted deer on Long Island on the first day of the open season. Henry H. Adams, former Treasurer of Kings County, New York, was arrested on an indictment charging misappropriation and was admitted to bail. The Siegel-Cooper Company, New York City, telegraphed to William Jennings Bryan, the dofeated candidate for President, offering the position of manager of their law department at a yearly salary of $25,000 to him. A bold attempt was made to "hold up" the "Katy" train near Alvaredo. Texas; no booty was secured. O. F Hall, confidential man for the Stockmans Commission Company, of Chicago, has disappeared; the cash assets of the company are also missing. The half burnoil body of John Mudgett, a wealthy rancher of Usui. Cal.. was found in the ru ns of his home bv W. H. Davis, a neighbor. Mudgett lived alone on an immense tract of land. He was a reputed lioarnerof wealth, and it was rumored that he had money stored about the house. His bo ly bore unmistakable evidence of death' by violenc? before the flames reached him. Both lower limbs were missing. The Bay State Gas Company passed under the control of members of the Standard Oil Company. The parade of the gold forces in New York City on the Saturday before election was one of the largest affairs of the kind ever neld. It was estimated that about a hunlred thousand men marched. The parade was in motion seven hours and thlrty-flve minutes. A blizzard prevailed throughout the western and central part of Wisconsin. Snow began to fait early in the morning. Heavy falls are reported from Watertown, Grand Ranlriu Mmiston. Beaver. Dam. Chilton. Juneau, Horicon', and a number of other places. A desperate fight took place on a train near Beattvville, Ky.. between John Hargis and Jerry Caldwell, In which the former was Instantly killed and the latter fatally wcunied. Hargis was a cousin of JuJge Harris, the prominent Louisville lawyer, and ex-Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Tbe Ohio collateral inheritance tax law, on its way to the Supreme Court, was sustained at Columbus in the Circuit Court. It. S. Ullngsworth was shot and killed at David's Lake, North Dakota, by Thomas 8. Cordner, City Treasurer, and a leading politician and business man. Cordner says the shootin? was in self-defence. An attempt nf convict9to breakout of Erie ' County (New York) Penitentiary was foiled by.the storekeener locking the gate and runntnc uw/iv with the kev amid a shower of bullets. August Schroder, who calls himself tne "Divine Healer." ministered to several afflieto 1 persons at Eayonne, N. J. ^ The greater part of the business portion of the town of Manilla, Ind., was wiped out by the most disastrous fire in its history. The town has no Firo Department, and Rushvile was called on for aid. A sad fatality happened at Shirley, Mass., when two Lancaster girls, Graoe Maynard and Louise Scrlbner. were struck by a westbound express, which dashed out from behind a freight train they were waiting to pass. Miss Scribner was killed and Miss Maynard severely injured internally. The horse whs killed and the carriage shattered. "Oklahoma Bill," alias William Payne, alias Pratt, has committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo., by shooting. He is said to have been a member of the Dalton gang of cultlaws. and was out on bonds ou a charge of highway robbery, committed in Oklahoma. Sickness and worry over his trial, which was to come up, caused him to take his life. Andrew Smith Musgrove died at his residence at Marsballsea, Penn.. recently. Musgrove's head weighed over sixty pounds, while the rest of his body only weighed fifty-eight and one-half. He was twentyeight years old. Herman Levlson. a pioneer jeweler ana millionaire, of San Francisco. Cal., is dead, leaving an estate worth $3,000,000. A mad horse got loose in Vineland, N. J., ' injured two men, but was at last caught and shot. Julius Mannow was banged at the County k Jail in Chicago for the murder of Carey B. Birch. [ Frank T. Lee's Gold Legion, while paradj in? through Fair Haven, Conn., wpa at[ tacked and one man was shot through the arm and another knocked senseless with a brick. A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton coal train ran Into a switching train! n which f were three loaded oil tank cars at li inhattan, Ohio. The oil tanks cauzht I ? and a violent explosion followed. Engineer A. L. i Jacobs, of Lima, was killed. Timothy Bea; can, an iron moulder ot Springfield, beating t his way on the train, was fatally injured. I Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen,"of Marysville, Montana, quarreled about the riprht of the father to punish their twelve-year-old son. The wife and mother ordered Alien to den sist, but when he paid no attention to her she ? fired at her hus-band. She missed him, but shot and killed the boy. She then fired two more shots at her husband. One ball fractured his skull. The other broke his arm. The Grand Jury in the United States Circuit Court. Boston, Mass., indicted Thomas Bram. first mate of the barkentlne Herbert } Fuller, for the murder ot Captain Thomas t Nash, his wife Laura, and Second Mate I Bamberg on board the Herbert Fuller last July. j Stephen S. Gregory, a Fellow in Civil Engineering at Cornell University. Ithaca, N. ( Y., who entered this fall from the University of Texas, was foun I dead a few days ago. ' It was said nt the house that Mr. Grecory committed suicide by taking potassium . cyanide. The residence of a farmer named Robin? eon, living ne:ir Woodville, Mich., was destroyed by fire,and Mrs. Robinson and aohild were burned to death. Robinson was badly 'mrned. f Forelcu Note*. o McKinley'i eloc1 ion sent American .securities up w.th a rush on all tne foreign est' Q ejitnges and Rave j. e >eral business a Kreal impetus throughout Europe. Elward John Poyntor, R. A., was elected President of the Rival Academy. 3 Iu tho French Chamber of Deputies M. Denvs interpellate the Government on mc Armenian question; great excitement ensued. II The town of Huelva, Spain, In the Pro' vince of that name, has b<j>m swept by a tidal e wave from the Atlantic Ocean. No details 3 are given, but the report says it is known that the loss of life has been" terrible. The steamer Cartagena was overwhelmed by the * ! k'reat wave, and most of the persons on board of her wore drowned. Several floods are reported in Sicily. Th* ^ country around Palermo la Inundated. Three j persons have been drowned. l Consul-General Lee sailed from Havana for the United 8tates STRENGTH OF THE NEW NAVY. Thirty Armored Vessel* In Active Service and Three Under Construction. Chief Constructor Hlchborn's annual ro port shows a total of 110 vessels in the navy, of which thirty are armored, including eisrh battleships, two cruisers, one ram and - - - - (i. -11 . six double-turretea monitors, ?? ui which are in active service, prepared for offensive or defeusive operations, and thirteen single-turret monitors which might be utilized in the harbors in which they now lie. Three other armored battleships are now under construction. There are twenty-Ave new ste?l cruis-rs also in commission, in addition to the three special class vessels of the new navy?the Bancroft. Dolphin and Vesuvius. These are unarmored, as are the sixteen iron and wooden cruisers and six wooden sailing vessels still carried on the Hats. Three torpedo boats are in use and fifteen under contract. The i other vessels building are six gunboats, one submarine boat and fifteen torpedo boats. Twelve tugs are also included in the naval force and fifteen old ships unfit for sea, which, howover, are utilized for various purposes, such as training vessels, naval reserve rendezvous and receiving ships. In compliance with the law for the increase of the navy, Engin^er-in-Chief Melville and the Chief Constructor unite in a statement that $5,925,502, the balance in the Treasury, is required for existing contracts. The onljr new vessels which ;Congress is asked to authorize are two composite sailing vessels of 1100 tons, costing t500,000, aspractiffl nniisers for the Naval Academy, to take the place ol the Bancroft; but these' do not conflict with the recommendation for three additional battleships which Secretary Herbert is confidently expected to make in his annual report. During the fiscal year nine vessels, the Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Maine, Texas, Terror, Monadnock, Katahdin and Ericsson, were added to the effective force of the navy, and during the curren/ year the Brooklyn, Iowa, Nashville, Wil minprton. Helena, Puritan, six gunboats, sev eral torpedo boats and one tug are to b< added. Constructor Hichborn declares that th< naval stations and docks at Port Bovai, 8, C., and Port Orchard, Wash., cannot be property utilized without the erection of shops, for which be urges authority. The advisability of sheathing the bottom? of cruising vessels is reiterated, as well a.? former recommendations for building additional dry docks to keep the ships in a hisrb state of efficiency. Durinpr the past year the bureau proposed plans for converting several classes of ships which are entered in the naval reserve list into effective auxiliary cruiser?. These include tbe Owego and Hudson classes on the A mo 171 a?l onrl 17.1 TWflHn inaco auu iuw w? classes of ocean going vessel?. It is no* proposed to prepare the outfit and keep them ready for immediate u9e. TALKS OF FORTIFICATIONS. General Craiehlll Make* a Report on Important Cliaugeft at Military Points. Under the head of fortifications in his annual report, General Cralghili, Chief of En' gineers, United States WarDepartment, says that detailed projects have been approved for the artillery defence of various points, among them the eastern entrance to Long Island Sound (partial) and New York. There have been negotiations for the purchase of sites at Charleston, Baltimore, NarraigaDsett Bay and Porlland, Ma The General urgently recommends an appropriation of 1100,000 for the preservation and repair of fortifications, and sftys the work of preparing emplacements for gUDS has been pushed with much vigor where the monev was available, particularly at New York, Delaware River and Charleston. Under the head of rivers and harbors it is said that experience has shown that the system providing funds for carrying on con v tinuouaiy ana compienuff coritiiu u<? resulted in materially reducing costs and granting benefits to commerce. The General restricts his estimates for the year to the amounts necessary to meet obligations under contracts. They aggregate 922,778,053. LABRADOR FACES STARVATION. Appalling Distress In Consrqaence of Fall ure ot the Codflnhery. Only prompt charity will save the people of Labrador from starving. The coast for about five hundred miles is inhabited by three thousand settlers living in small flsh" ing villages. The conditions of existence, never very favorable, are rendered appalling this year by the failure of the codflsnery. Dr. Grenfell, Superintendent of the DeepSeaMission, reports^ "At Square Island we found an anxious crowd. Not a family had enough to prevent starvation this winter, and no meaDs of getting food. We arranged to supply twenty-flve barrels of flour, ten sack* of biscuit, a puncheon of molasses and a chest of tea, in return for which the p ople will saw wood, whion we hope to sell next summer. An enormous boon is conferred upon these settlements even by such small assistance as this. Quilts . j Vnet ana coumerpaiiet) nro m<?iuiiu?, houses have an utteriy inadequate supply of bed clothing." RIVERS OF FRANCE OVERFLOW. Fa#t Damage to Property Ileported In Tar ions Departments. An alarming rl9e of the rivers is reported from all the departments in France. The damage to property is enormous. The Seine is at the flood stage. Artillery wagons were sent from Nlmes to Comps and Vallerangue to assist in the work of relief. The River Rhone burst its banks at Laueon, which is now isolated. The only communication through considerable districts is by b'oat. Troops have left Avignon to assist In repairing the broken banks of the Rbone Bis Wheat Crop In nnnjary. German farmers have not benefited by the 'ise In the price of wheat and other cereals as have the agriculturists of Hungary, where toe harvest has been abundant and where there has been an advance of nearly two florins per hundred weight in (he price of wheat. This state of things has been a perfect godsend to the Hungarian farmers dhd has also given an Impetus to trade all around. Hotm'* Freak Drowns Three. Mrs. John Snyder and tbree cmiaren, 01 Steubenville, Ohio, were in a carriage upon the upper Terry boat. The horse became unmanageable and biickei into the river with the occupants Mrs. 8nyder was rescued, but the three children were drowned. Treasury Deficit. The Treasury figures show that tbe deficit for October is $7,750,' 00 and for the fiscal year to date $38,000,000. The receipts for O -tober were $26,250,000 and the expenditures ?34,lOO,000. A Disastrous Kick. Even kicking requires skill, ns William Jolli-y, a sawmill bund at Nevada. Go. * * li*arne<l when be undertook to kick a slab awav from the saw aud bad his foot cut off at the instep. l-'Htiit Fire in O:itxrio. J. W. Jones's residence, at Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, was ournea ro tu? uruuu'iJones's children perl-hed inthe flamesRoot ?er Condemned. At ft r - nu ting of the W. C. T. U., a resolution \v.i? jnu-:sed condemning the use of root beer. j Tlie I.Hlior World. English railroads employ 400,030. The world has 5,000,000 unionists, i New York City has Chineso cigarmakers. Unionism is displacing Socialism in Germany. ' New York State has thirty machinists' 1 anions. Cleveland, Ohio, has a union of walking delegates. The Krupp plant at Essen, Germany, covers ' 2500 acres. t Bellefonte, Penn., is to have a co-operative > glass plant. , The South Australian Labor party regained \ all the seats In Parliament previously held by them and captured two others. / / / <* J TEMPERANCE! ] After many days?days that slowly dragged I met mine eneay again, and marveled at 80 puerile look'd he, ao easily overcome. . J1 The mandate once so potent lingered. His In exultant consciousness of strength I :'jg mocked him. We closed in bitter strife. * "38 And in his iron grasp, it came to me, mine enemy would victor be for all my Ilf& WHY HT TOOK WATKB. To become a drunkard It is not necessary 'J to a?e drunkenness. Onlv allow children to > drink, only let them see It used and com- '\i-? mended at home, and when they go abroad J-liw Into society, conforming to its insidious ' v customs, apply the Instruction they have to* ? '? celved under the parental roof, and between' v the sanction of home and the mistaken kind' y> 'A ness of friends, an appetite may be originated "Jss which all the remonstrances of friend* and. -j respect (or character may not be able to . ^ counteract or subdue. The appetite started ^ / under the parental roof has been secretly .! gaining strength, aDd now comes out from its concealment too powerful to be destroyed TgJ by those who called it Into being. Ifthe-i> young are to be saved, there must be a era- ' ) sade against the drinking' usages. What an % argument for such a crusade Is the following a incidents taken from an exchange: . "A young gentleman who had never been out in the world a great deal, and had never attended a banquet, was invited with his father to attend a very fashionable one Iff a'?. & certain city. Many kinds of wines and liquors were served, as is customary at suctt places. Seated at the table by the side ol - ? bis fRther, the waiter approaon the young i man with liquors and wines and asked him what he would have. 8omewhat embarrassed,1 \ and not knowing what to say, he thought awhile, looked around, and at last said to j~\ the waiter, Til take what father iloea.' >1 "The waiter passed on to the father. He ^ had heard the answer of his boy. Up to thU time he had been a moderate drinker. His .t?9 boy's answer to the waiter wokehfm tip to ' the fearful responsibility upon him as he wa^ : I about to make a choice, and brought him J face to face with a question, upon the deet^Mgfl ion of which depended largely the future . J moral welfare of his son. 1 "What should he doV What should He take? Aroused fully to his responsible port- ;1 tlon, more so than he had ever been before, '] he said, with emphasis: 'I'll take water.' | The battle was fought, the victory won, and ,3 the destiny of his boy as a man of temperate 1 habits fixed so far as he bad the power to do It by his exam pie. The father became & total'. @21 abstainer, and his son was saved to sober ' | AN ISTEBKSTIKO QUXSTIOK. .-|1J At the district court in Melbourne, Austra- \;Ji 11a, where a hearine was being given on cer- . I tain license oases, the attorney, defending a ':iSa i publican charged with a ylolatlon of the !/<. oense law challenged the right of one of tW . vf magistrates to sit on the bench, on the I ground that said magistrate was a "teetotal- ; I er," and that no teetotal magistrate could sit I in the adjud -Jutlon of breaches of the li? I censing laws. That there mlifht be no poe< 1 sibilitv of lmpugniog him for sitting in th* ;> court when licensing oases were being heard, Mr. Lormer, the magistrate referred to, retired. But he declared he did not for one I moment waive his right to adjudicate If he I so wished. Id the course of a letter to th<>?M Melbourne Age Mr. Lormer writes: , :.M "When I expressed my intention of at# fl tending the court, it was to be understood that it was not a defiant attitude assumed by M me, Lut astrong assertion of principle, nof Jfl only on my own behalf, but of many other B abstaining justices, fortified as I am by the B experience and weighty judgments of the B Lord Chief Justice of Eagland, when !he fl states that 'the smallest pecuniary Internet . B disqualifies,'thus showing that it Is a per* B son s pecuniary interests, not his peaonaJ B opinions, that disqualify." thx btee of dxa.th, i A gentleman who visited Java has sent a 9 very singular tree to his sister who resides in Savannah. It is called the tree of death, fl He says that the natives described to him that there was ? singular tree called the Kail' Mujah. Its breath would kill birds, an<J even nurimu ueiun?. vuu u?j nuuu r.?. chasing a Dird of paradise, he noticed that it \> dropped suddenly to the ground, under a1' 7 tree. He examined the tree, and began himself to feel strangely, as the odors from lta . leaves began to be inhaled by bim. Hlsheadf H swam, and ringing sounds came to his ears,i $ as though he were being chloroformed. Bel.: hastened away from It, but procured a sped-- \ men and sent it to America, which, It IssaldJ/ <5 Is the first one transplanted in our solif What a striking Illustration this is of'thef ;vf tree of death which has been pt&z&4~4n-4neL& fair America by tbe distiller! It has leaveej' for the blighting of the Nations. -I see thw young, the mlddle-agpd, the old, chasing the; birds of pleasure and then falling down b?J $ neath the dark shadow of thls^ baleful tree.!' to die there, never to rise agafn. Would that)1 J we might lay the ax at the root of this tree! J'.\J THE 6TBUOOLX WITH BCTC. V ' '+<& The object of a newly organised National j association of wholesale'liquor dealers is "to guard tbelr Interests as affected by Federal I legislation" and otherwise protect their traf-J flc. There are 4000 wholesale liquor dealers Vfl In the country and it is expected that the most of them will join the association. Here Is a new force for the temperance element to ' -fl struggle against. The State Agricultnral Society of Wiacon sin is mourning its recent aotlon in giving a I jockey club a Ave years' lease of the. State fair grounds at fairs and races, at 12400 a fl year, with no restrictions n gainst selling/ liquor. There is a new State law granting1 $4000 a year to the society provided it did, not authorize the sale of liquor at the fairs,' m and on condition that no liquor had been sold the previous year. In order to gelk^H needed money the society may resort to tha old practice of selling a llqnor license eadffi year until the jockey club lease expires: The I alliance of an agricultural society with the' >' liquor business is a shame, whatever the con ditlons.?American Agriculturist. - 8 AN KBANCISCO'S LI Q COB 8 UP PL T. fl The 8an Francisco Examiner has recently I done for that city what the New York Journal ' did for the metropolis, shown up the liqnor , B business with some of its results. It estimate* that the 3200 licensed saloons?taking no. ' aocount of numberless unlicensed places?1 B would cover sixty-six solid blocks and make B in a straight line a street sixteen miles long. It would require a cask 455 feet high and H 22"X feet in diameter to hold the yearly fl consumption of beer. Or. to make a mora striking comparison, the battleship Oregon1 B could easily float In tills cask, and it would S require Ave such ships, divested of maohln- B ery and armament, to carry the beer as a H cargo. B A DI8APPIABING CUSTOM. H A gentleman prominent In several New fl fork City olubs say that many of them are BB breaking away from the custom of treating M o alcoholic drinks. In the famous Harvard IB Club, composed of graduates of Harvard IB College, there is a standing agreement that ^fl no member shall treat another member. ALCOHOLAN IBBrrAST. Alcohol has the power of degenerating ^B nerve-fibers. It is especially an Irritant to jfl the pneumogastric nerve, and has an eepe* ^B clal destructive affinity for that nerre. The ^B children or parents who suffer from alcohol ^B ism are, in a tremendous percentage of'H cases, the victims of consumption. In fact. Bp the children of parents whp are even mod* I erately bard drinkers always prove the ^fl easiest victims of consumption. Further* ^fl more, the records show that hard drlnken BH themselves nre particularly susceptible to ^B nnnenmnHnn. and that alcoholism In a V6T9 great percentage of cases If ads tooonsump tion. These facts are due to reflex actios over '.he pneumogastric nerves. EH HAVOC CAUSED BY INTEMPERANCE. |B Our citizenship demandscharaoter; internpernnce destroys character; oar citizenship demands inteRri^tjnd honesty and earnestnesti and loyalty; IB of them all, salt) T j. Conaty, D.?*> Worcester. A peoplo la government. urflt for ^/nmenl H demands n not |t, manhood that titehi*66* petli' :rtfiy be possessed andp98^MB T&^ievil has a Rood start In every home ^^5 whey there is a moderate drinker. *1fordc-rthat the future men and women %y bo free from the ourse of drink. It necessary tnat men and women of to-day i them the example. ?iHH n