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bcts. t: v Jr;' Results of the Contests From All Over the Country. NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC. Elections Held In Fourteen States?Pennsylvania Goes Republican ? Roger Wolcott (Republican) Chosen uovernor of Massachusetts?The Kesults Close in a Number of Western States. Albany, N. Y. (Special).?New York State, on the vote for a Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, has gone Democratic, Wallace, Republican, receiving in the Stat^outside of the city a plurality of 74,748 over Parker, Democrat. The Democratic plurality in Greater New York, however, was 133,053 for Parker, giving him a total plurality of 53,310. The vote w^s extremoly light all over the State except where there were spirited contests of a local nature. Wallace's largest pluralities were in Chautauqua, St. Lawrence, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Jefferson, Oneida, Oswego, 8teuben and Washington Counties. There was no election for State Senators save in the Jefferson-Lewis District, where E. B. Brown (Rep.) was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Mullin. The Bepublican disasters also include a number of the cities up the State. Blnghamton has gone Democratic for the first time in a number of years, and Mayor Green Is defeated. The Democratic ticket is elected in Buffalo, and'Erie County gives 8000 majority for Judge Parker. Mayor Maguire is re-elected by the Democrats in Syracuse. The Democratic fusion ticket wa9 successful in Rochester by about 2000. Representative Odell has succeeded in holding the city of Newburg for the Republicans. Republicans Carry Massachusetts. Spbinofield, Mass. (Special).?Governor Roger Wolcott, Rep., was re-elected by an estimated plurality of 88,000 over George. Fred Williams, Democrat. This is a falling off of the Republican plurality of 1896, when the same candidates were in the field, of nearly 70,000 votes. The Republican vote 1 \ BOGEB WOLCOTT. (Be-elected Governor of Massachusetts.) mi otwov Qft nor cflnr from that nolled last ?n?; WW f year and the Democratic vote fell off 20 per cent. The remarkable decrease Is attributable to the Inclement weather which prevailed all over the 8tate on Election Day and tc the general lack of Interest In the contest, whloh was such a foregone conclusion a? to be no contest at all. The election followed the dullest campaign in years. I Results In New Jersey. Trxntos, N. J. (Special).?In the Ne^ Jersey local elections the Demoorats and the Republicans appear to have divided tht honor on a comparatively light vote. Th< Democrats succeeded In electing Ave of the ?ix new State Senators, but the Republicans, however, secured a majority of th? Assemblymen, and the Legislature remain; Republican. The Democrats swept Jersey City and Hudson County by majorities ranging from three to s&ren thousand. All of the Democratic legislative and count; officers were elected, including the eleven members of Assembly. ' The Result In Ohio. Columbus, Ohio (Special).?A careful estimate at 1 o'clook a. m. gives the Legislature to the Republicans by a majority of two on joint ballot. Chairman McConville, of the Democratic Committee, practically concedes the election of RuBhnell, Republican, for Governor, by almo3t 12,000. - - Pennsylvania. i Habbisbubo, Penn. (Special).?The Republican State ticket has a plurality of from 124,391 to 140,531. Dr. Swallow, the Prohibition nominee for State Treasurer, polled 116,153 votes and carried Harrlsburg and ten counties. Kentucky Is Democratic. Louisville, Ky. (Special).?Up to midnight fifty counties out of 119 have been heard from, and they show Democratic gains. 8. J. Shackelford is elected Clerk of the Court of Appeals. James R. Hlndman, the gold Democratic candidate, has received about 20,000 votes. Reports from the various legislative iHntrints throughout the State are to the ffeot that the?bemoerats will have a majority In the next General Assembly. Maryland. Baltimore, Md. (Special).?At midnight partial returns from most of the counties indicate that the Legislature will be close. Although the Republicans win in the city, the Democrats have played havoc In the eounties. Gorman says that he has won In the State. Mr. Malster, the Republican candidate for Mayor of Baltimore, has been elected by at*>ut 5000 plurality, and the entire Republican legislative ticket was successful tu Baltimore City. Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa (Special).?The returns from all over the State 3how heavy Democratic gains, but the Republicans have doubtless elected their State ticket oy at leasi 21/,1/uv Colorado. Dexveb, Col. (Special).?The Bryanite candidate for Supreme Judge is elected over the McKinloy and Silver Republican * candidate by probably 20,000 majority. Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb. (Special).?Thirty-five precincts outside of Lincoln and Omaha indicate the election of the fusion State ticket by not less than 12,000. Providence, R. I. (Special).?Rhode Island held municipal elections in its five cities, and the Republicans carried three of them, ami made gains in Providence, re. dueiug the plurality of Mr. liaker, the Democratic candidate, by 1500. Sioux FALLs.South Dakota (Special).?In dications are that the Republican* have won in South Dakota. Thoy elect six out of eight circuit judges, and possibly tho entire eight. Richmond, Va. (Special).-On a light *ote the Democrats carried Virginia by a plurality of 50,000. The Legislature will undoubtedly choose United States Senator Daniel to succeed himself. It may also reelect United States Senator Martin. General Cllngman Dead. General Thomas L. Cllngman, ex-United 8tates Senator from North Carolina, died in the Morgantown (N. C.) Insane Asylum. Aged, poor and infirm the State gave him a kome there. THANKSGIVING DAY. President McKlnley Designates the Twonty-fiftlt of November to De Observed. Washington, D. C. (Special).?President HcKinley issued his first Thanksgiving Day proclamation as follows: "In remembrance of God's goodness to as during the past year, which has been so ibundant, 'Let us offer unto Him our thanksgiving and pay our vows unto the Most High.' Under His watchful provilence industry has prospered, the conditions of labor have improved, the rewards if the husbandman havo been increased ind the comforts of our homes multiplied. Bis mighty hand has preserved peace and protected the Nation. Respect for law and jrder has been strengthened, love of free institutions cherished, and ail sections of our beloved country brought into closer bonds of fraternal regard and generous co-operation. "For these great benefits it !s our duty to praise the Lord in a spirit of humility and gratitude, and to offer up to Him our most earnest supplications. That we may acknowledge our obligations as a people to Him who has so graciously granted us the i blessings of free government and material | prosperity, I, William McKlnley, President of the United States, ao neretty uesiguaio and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November, for national thanksgiving and prayer, which all of the people are invited to observe with appropriate religious services in their respective places of worship. On this day of rejoicing and domestic reunion let our prayers asoend to the Giver of every good and perfect gift for the continuance of His love and favor to us, that our hearts may be filled with charity and good will, and that we may be ever worthy of His beneficent concern. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto ?et my nand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington this twenty-ninth day of October, in the vear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. "William McKinley.". By the President, . John Shermas, Secretary of State. GEORGIA'S GIANT FULL-BACK KILLED Prominent Member of the Georgia University Team a Victim of the Sport. Richard V. Gammon, Georgia's giant full back, was killed at Atlanta, Ga., la tne great game between the University of Virginia and the University of Georgia. Many thousand people saw the game, and it was not known to the vast crowd that the big player had been fatally hurt. A substitute was put in and the game went on. Gammon was carried outside the lines and several surgeons summoned. It was soon apparent that he had been fatally wounded. He had been thrown in tackling and struck full upon his head, causing concussion of the brain. While he lay dying within three feet of the gridiron the same went on to the, finish. Gammon was a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families in the State. His father is a wealthy citizen of Rome, Ga., and the family has always been prominent in college athletes. Young Gammon was a leader of the college football team last year, although but eighteen years old. He was one of the most popular men in college and his tragio death has thrown a shadow over the three hundred students of the university. His death stirred prejudice against the game among members of the State Legislature, which is now in session. 8ome legislators expressed themselves as bitterly opposed to the game, and it is probable that a Dill may be passed makingitamisdemeanoi to engage in a game of football in the State. The faculty of the university has decided tc 1.11.11 11 i_ Tho foil m prouiun LUC ^auic ill mo 1UIU1U, ha3 disbanded. NINE MEN DEAD IN A MINE. Suffocated by Smoke In a Slope at Scranton, Penn. Nine men, part of the night sbift otwenty-eight who were at work in Von' storch slope of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company in the Northern part of Scranton, Penn., were suffocated by a Are in the main gangway. Thqse who lost their lives were: Thomas Hill, foreman; Thoma3 McDonnell, company hand; John Yanjiowski, laborer; John Moran, track layer, John J. Farrell, pump runner; John Walsh, Thomas Flannery of Keiser avenue, and two Poles, names unknown. The Are started at 1 o'clock a. m.. In the shanty on the slope where the vein branches off, and soon had set the timbers and the walls of coal ablaze. A column of smoke swept on down the slope 1500 feet to the big Clark vein. Pump runner Edward Simpsin smelled it, and calling the fire boss. McCarthy, started out to investigate. While ouside assistance wa9 being summoned, they hastened to alarm the men off in the far workings. Nineteen of these were reached and hurried out through the shaft about 1000 feet away, but the men in the distant part of the diamond vein could not be reached because it was impossible to go through the overpowering smoke to them. An extensive cave occurred in the slope just as a party of rescuers were readly to enter and hring out the dead bodies. This completely blocked the way. A CREEK INDIAN EXECUTED. John 8. Watka Pays the Penalty For Killing Jonas Deer. John S. Watka, the Creek Indian who shot Jonas Deer, a member ci his tribe,was executed for the crime at Chelsea, Indian Territory. The men were rivals for the hand of the same girl, and fought at a dance at which she was present to decide who should gain her. Watka killed Deer and married the Indian maiden. Several day9 ago Watka made arrangements for bis wife's future, and then set out alone for the public execution grounds. In due time he arrived and found the executioner waiting. He assumed liis position on bended knees, with arms tied behind and a bandage over the eyas. He was shot through the heart. Late last summer Watka went to Kansas City with a baseball nine of his fellowIndians and played in a game at one of the parks. He had ample opportunity to 3cape, but returned to the Territory oi bis own accord, that his sentence might be carried out. Branding Seal* by Electricity. The members of the Stanford University party who have been engaged in branding seals by electricity on PrlbylofT Islands claim that the experiment was successful. DarMae fKo r\t fhu anal r>unciio and building a fence enclosing the salt lagoon to prevent the redriving of bachelor seals, a number of bird skins, skeletons, insects, and marine invertebrates were collected. Increasing: Silver Circulation. Five Powers of the Latin Union, on the initiative of Switzerland, have signed a convention to increase the number of small silver coins by a franc per head of their population, using the existing flve-frunc pieces to supply the necessary silver. Trouble Over Meat ami Liquor Licenses. Backed by Mayor Harrison, Corporation Counsel Thornton will begin ft light on the* department stores of Chicago. Proceedings will be instituted in some justice's court to compel the department stores to observe the provisions of the Wulkernct. Cycling Notes. Zimmerman intends to go to Paris soon, where he will give exhibition rides. Almost even' day there is some announcement in regard to the chainless wheel. Walter Sanger has announced his intention of retiring permanently from the cycle i track. American manufacturers aro busy with gear cases which will meet all the objections referred *0 and possess all the virtues which the ordinary rider will require. Mexico is aroused by the probable invasion of the American riders this season. Cycling Interests are very much alive In the republic right now, and new tracks aro being constructed. ; j TAMMANY TICKET WINS, Judge .Robert A, Van Wyck Elected Greater New York's first Mayor. SETH LOW AHEAD OF TRACY. The Democratic Candidate Won by a Plurality of About 86,000, and in Man? hattan and the Bronx Almost Outvoted Low and Tracy Combined?Tarnmanr'i Entire City Ticket Tlctorioaa. / New Yobk Citt (Special).?Judge Van Wvck has carried Greater New York tor Mayor by an estimated plurality over Low of 86,931 and a plurality over Tracy of about 129,000. He has swept every borough In the Greater Now York. The entire D emooratio city tioket has gono through with a rush. The Democratlo county tickets in JUDGE BOBEBT A. VA2T WTCIt. (Chosen flrst Mayor of Greater New York.) New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond Counties are elected. The relative strength of the various Mayoralty candidates, as Estimated at midnight was: Van Wyck 233,752 Low 146,821 I 100 998 George 20,386 Gleason and scattering 881 Judge Van Wyok's plurality in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx is about 66,360. Low's vote Is 75,579 la these two boroughs, and Tracy's about 51,000. Van Wyok's large vote has swept with him into office his associates on the municipal tloket and every candidate on the county ticket, both In New York and Kings Counties. Tammany and its allies will control also both branches of the Municipal Assembly. The two greatest surprises of the day perhaps, from the local point of view, were the large falling off in the vote from the total registration, and the Inability of Henry George to hold together any peroeptible part of the vote his father probably would have obtained. The total vote shows that nearly 80,000 registered voters failed to go to the polls. Most of these, politicians figured out, were Republicans, who, undecided whether to vote for General Traoy or Seth Low, decided finally to vote for neither. The best estimate of the total vote of each oandldate shows that had the solid vote of Low and Tracy been combined on Mr. Low he would have beaten Judge Van Wyok by 14,000. In the round up at the polls Tammany was able to make its magnificent organization felt. The results show that It succeeded In capturing at least eighty per cent, of the vote claimed for Henry George. Another interesting fact is developed by suoh a hasty study as can be given to the returns. Judge Van Wyok got practically the vote that was oast in New York County last year for William J. Bryan. The vote that was cast for MoKlnley appears to have been, split up among Mr. Low, General Tracy and Mr. George. This shows that the free silver Democrats who voted for Bryan last year voted for Van Wyok after the death of George. The Municipal Assembly will be overwhelming Democratic. The Democrats will have practically a unanimous vote in both the Board of Aldermen and the Council. Bird S. Coler and Randolph Guggenheimer, the Democratio candidates for Comptroller and President of the Council, are eieotea, me iormer oy iu?,uuu over rucu, Rep., and the latter By about 115,000 over Appleton, Rep. Tammany men owned the town and vast crowds surrounded the bulletin boards. Broadway and Third avenue, from Fourteenth street to Forty-second street, especially swarmed with a noisy crowd, most of whom were oheerlng ior Van Wyck and Tammany Hall and tooting horns. The triumph of Tammany was formally announced to the Indians in the Fourteenth street Wigwam at exactly 9.15 o'olook. The announcement was made by Richard Croker In person, from the rostrum of the hall, and it was received with a tiger yell that drowned the music of the Sixty-ninth Regiment Band and made the building echo and re-eoho for full five minutes. The indications are that, with the exception possibly of six of the twenty-one Assemblymen In Brooklyn and nine of the thirty-five in New York, all the Tammany candidates are elected. In Queens, four of the Aasemblvmen are Democrats. The Citizens' Union eleoted two Assemblymen In New York County. The present representation In the Assembly from the counties in the Greater New York is: New York County, 23 Demoorats and 12 Republicans; Kings County, 7 Democrats and 14 Republicans; Queens County, 2 Democrats and 4 Republicans; Richmond County, 1 Republican. Charles H. Van Brunt and Francis M. Scott are elected to the Supreme Court bench lu the First Department and Willard Bartlett in the Second Department. Union Pacific Railroad Sold. The property of the Union Pacific Rail, way Company oovered by the first mortgage and the Government subsidy mort | gage was offered at auction at Omaba, Neb., recently. It was offered in one parcel, and was sold to the Reorganization Committee for ?39,883,231.87. The committee also bought the bonds in the UnioD Pacific sinking fund for $13,645,250.89. Weather Bureau Report. Last year the weather service co9t $883,772, but* for this year Chief Moore asks $1,044,000. Many objections were made to the lack of stations, and the Chief says if the heavier appropriation is made he will endeavor to furnish weather predictions with more promptness and accuracy. National W. C. T. U. at Buffalo. In her annual address before the National Woman's Christian Temporanoe Union at Buffalo, N. Y., Miss Frances E. Willard referred to the defeat of the inter I national arbitration treaty as the greatest 9orrow of the year to the organization. Bank Robbers Escaped. The lour men confined in tho Lawrcnco County (South Dakota), Jail for robbing the Belle Fourche Bank overpowered the jailer and his wife, assaulted the woman and escaoed into tho hills, takine with them William Mooro, a colored murderer. The robbers tire members of the desparate Curry baud of outlaws and were captured only a week ago in Montana after a sever? battle. Election IUot in Kentucky. Four men were killed and two wounded in an Election Day riot in Frankfort, Ky., resulting from an attempt by Republicans to thwart a colonization scheme. > i I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. TVasliington Item*. - - -? T _ _ J - _ The Coates syndicate, 01 jjuuuou, nawu President McKinley to postpone the sale I of the Union Pacific Bail way to DecernI ber 15. Official circles In Washington express the belief that there is nothing in 8pain's reply to General Woodford's note to raise aD issue with this country. It was feared in Washington that the Navy Department's ruling that the Marine Band should not play outside engagement? would drive out Its best members. It is understood that the fur seal conference has resulted in nn agreement to stop pelagic sealing, and that the Russian and Japanese delegates are awaiting final in< structions from their respective Governments. to which they have recommended the acceptance of the'plan. It Is hoped to 9ecure the co-operation of Great Britain. The report of Secretary of the Treasury Gage suggests important changes in the currency and natural bank law3. Governor Pingree has been notified by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt that Michigan must at onoe accept the Yantlo or she will be ordered to Boston. The Internal Revenue report for the last fiscal year showed receipts of $146,000,000, \ decrease of $200,000. Domestic. Charles Bluejacket, a noted ohlef of the 3hawnee Indians, died, a few days ago, at Blue Jacket, Indian Territory. Ex-Congressman Smedley Darlington, President of the Chester County Guarantee Trust and 8afe Deposit Company, of West Chester, Penn., and J. Mitchell Baker, a ilrector. have been indicted, charged, re?pectively, with perjury and embezzlement. ' TJU/?k)n a Kava Knan UUUUUUCX 1'ibUU a OA^Oi bJ nuv uu T v MOVU axamining Brooklyn's financial accounts have reported that there Is a balance to the. debit of the suspense account of $4,456,128.59. Walter R. Houghton, the postal clerk who was arrested at Cheyenne, Wyoming, for theft of a $15,000 money order package, returned to the office $14,700, which he had soncealed In the barn and chicken coop at his home. The Georgia Cotton Oil Mill at Atlanta was completely destroyed by fire. Everything, with the exception of a few smaller buildings, was burned to the ground. The loss Is estimated at $117,000, $49,000 on stock and the remainder on the building, ibout $78,000 lnsuranoe was carried. City Marshal Sterns, of Versailles, Ky., ihot and Instantly killed Jaoob Miller, a prominent farmer and trader at Midway, Ky. Miller resisted arrest. Jacob Amos, married, aged forty-four years, and Henry Bergenkreuger, single, committed suicide at St. Paul, Minn., in a lensational manner. They had been visit Ing numerous saloons and were under the Influence of liquor. They went out on the Smith bridge to a point where It Is 300 feet above the Mississippi and jumped over the railing. The second man leaped before the first struck the water. There were a namoer of eyewitnesses to the double sulolde. Amos was Trfiasurer of the Clgarmakers' Union. Balph A. Mavfleld, of Ohloago, died at the home of his parents, ex-Senator and Mrs. A. Mayfleld, in Lincoln, 111., after taking morphine with suicidal intent. He left a letter to his mother, assigning as the principal reason for taking hl^ life the death of a young woman to whom he was engaged to be married. The winter acreago in wheat in Oklahoma is nearly double that of last year. A.t this time it is certain that the Territory has produced 25,000,000 bushels this year, and if the yield per acre next year equals that of this year the crop will reach 60,000,* 000. The business seotion of Warren, Mass., was partly wiped out by a $75,000 Are. The fire started in a paint shop, and got good headway before it was discovered. Aid was oalled from surrounding towns. The Town Hall was damaged and several blooks ruined. Five of the largest flour mills at St. Louis, Mo., have suspended operations. As a resuit several hundred men have been rendered idle. The conoerns are the Standard, Plant, Merameo. Regina, and Jefferson milling companies. Flour manufacturers deolare the dosing of the mills is due to the high price of wheat. The bureau drawer of Mrs. Alios Norton, a guest at the Hotel Bartholdi, New York City, was robbed of $20,000 worth of diamonds. The Silver Heels successfully landed her oargo in Eastern Cuba despite the aotlvity displayed by the Spanish naval authorities to capture the little filibuster. There was an Improvement in the yellow fever situation In tne South. The "Holy Ghosters," of Old Lyme, Conn., accused of injuring an aged woman, were held for trial. A coroner's jury, In Camden, N. J., declined to accuse Eli Shaw of the murder of his grandmother, Mrs. Zane, despite the prosecution's efforts. Word has been received from Elbert, Col., of the death by freezing during the recent blizzard of Mrs. Laura Hunter. She had left her home to visit a neighbor, and was overcome 300 yards from her home. Near Monument, Col., John Roach was found frozen in the snow. He was one of a thrashing crew. Judge Tenney, of the Criminal Branch of the United States Circuit Court, New York City, sentenced the counterfeiters of Costa Bloa notes to two years' imprisonment and fines of $2000 eaoh. A large batoh of other counterfeiters and postal offenders were also sentenced. The building of the Union Trust Company in Pittsburg was destroyed by fire. The Missouri Presbyterian Synod has adopted a resolution condemning the policy of Princeton University with reference to the use of liquor. Mrs. and Mrs. O. H. P. Robinson, of Bellport, Long Island, celebrated the sixtyfourth anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Robinson Is the inventor of ball bearings. Dr. Helen Densmore, of California, who for four years ha3 been working to gain liberty for Mrs. Florence Maybriok, says that it is bat a matter of weeks nntil the woman is free. James E. Simpson, who died a few days ago at Fall River, Mass., was widely known on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States among ship builders, ship owners and shipping merchants, being the originator of timber graving dock*. Mr. Simpson was born July 13, 1813, and was therefore in his eighty-fifth year. The Trustees of Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island, held a long session, at which many old sailors testified to tacts snowing the gross mismanagement of the institution. The forgeries of Professor Frledberg. the Toledo (Ohio) suicide, will run up to $50,000; he had scores of victims. Citizens of Tacoma and Olympla, Wash., have protested to President McKinley against the establishment of a military reservation at St. Michael's, Alaska. Foreign. The British forces in India captured the Arhanga Pass with slight opposition. The Ameer of Afghanistan has presented the apology of the tribesmen to the Government and asked for terms of pardon. The Government has Instructed the Governor of the Province of Tromsoe, the most northerly province of Norway, to charter a steamer at the expense of the State, to provision it for six months and to 9end out a relief expedition for Herr " ?I 1?4m Andrea, tne aerouuut wuu U9CCUUOU IU Ui3 i balloon, the Eagle, on July 11 last from Spitsbergen, 400 miles northwest of the North Cape of Norway, in a proposed expedition to the North Pole. Marshal Blanco, the new Governor-General of Cuba, arrived in Havana and relieved Lieutenant-General Weyler of command. According to the Madrid correspondent of the London Standard, the Bank of Spain has agreed to advance the Cuban Treasury nearly $16,000,000, and the Treasury of the Philippines nearly SG,000,000 on the guarantee of the Spanish Treasury. A Spanish Cabinet Committee decided to satisfy the United States in the Competitor case. According to the report of spies, the Dervish commander at Metemmeh, between Berber and Khartoum, has announced in the mosque that he lost 100 men during the bombardment by British gunboats on October 29. . . -r . ... . g V . " mmm eeport. Secretary Wilson Submits the Annual Review of His Work. SOME STRIKING SUGGESTIONS. He Kecommenda Placing: Agents of the Department at American EmbassiesSay* 8382,000,000 Sent Abroad Fox Sugar, Hides and Some Other Commodities Might Hare Been Kept at Home. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Secretary Wilson presented his report to the President, reviewing the operations of the Department of Agriculture for the past year. The most Important recommendation made by him la one that agents for the department should be stationed at each of oui Important Atnerloan embassies for the collection of information of Interest to oui American farmers. Referring to this subject, he says: "We are endeavoring to get Information from foroign countries with which we compete in the markets of the world regarding crops and price. We are also taking steps to ascertain what crops are grown on different thermal lines, so that seeds and plants may Intelligently be brought to this country to assist in the diversification of our crops and add to their variety. "There Is necessity for American agents in every foreign oountry to which we send reports who have had education in the sciences relating to agriculture. The agricultural oolleges endowed by Congress are educating along these lines." Thft Snnrfttarv rnr?nmm?nds an Increase In the appropriations in aid of the Bureau of Animal Industry, of the Weather Bureau, and the publication offices. He thinks the department should be enabled to place the results of important operations at agricultural colleges before the entire oountry, so that the farmers of each State may get the result of the good work done in other States. He refers to the efforts of the department to extend the foreign markets for our dairy and live stook products, which, he thinks, can be done by making the foreigners familfhr with them. Instead of send. lng abroad for seeds, he says the policy In the future will be "to encourage tne introduction of such seeds as will enable out people to diversify their crops and keep money at home that is now sent abroad to buy what the United States should produce." Mr. Wilson says the department will continue its pioneer work in the encouragement of the sugar beet, and expresses the opinion that the country will within a few years raise all the 9ugar it requires. He expresses the opinion that nearly all of the (882,000,000 sent abroad last year for sugar, hides, fruits, wines, animals, rice, flax, hemp, cheese, wheat, barley, beans, eggs and silk, might have been kept at home. He also thinks the United States should grow its own chicory, castor beans, lavender, licorice, mustard, opium, etc. With reference to horses, the Secretary says: "The Amerioan farmer can grow horses as cheaply as he can grow cattle. We have a heavy and profitable export trade in cattle, and may have an export trade equally heavy and profitable in horses. The department is gathering facts regarding our horse industry at home and the reaulrements of Durohasers abroad, so that our farmers can learn what foreigb buyers demand." The most important work In which the animal industry bureau has been engaged is, he says, that looking to the destruction of the cattle tick, for which, it is believed, an agent has been found in a petroleum Eroduot known as parafflno oil, In whlob lfected cattle are dipped. The extension of the meat Inspection work to abattoirs engaged in inter-State business is recommended, as is the continuance of tbo inspection of export animals In order to maintain the market which has been secured for them In other countries. The Secretary criticises the present system of crop reporting. He says it is extremely oumbersome, and that instead of conducing to the completeness and accuraoy It would appear from the report of the statistician to In some measure defeat its own object by its unwieldiness and by the faot that the lnaenmte multiplication 01 crop reporters weakens the sense of Individual responsibility. He strongly favors the making of some slight pecuniary acknowledgment of the service of a careful, selected corps of correspondents located mainly In the principal agricultural States, and that reliance be placed upon the State statistical agents for Information regarding the Statee of minor agricultural importance. He recommends the employment of a principal statistical agent in each State. , LONGSTREET IS PLACED. Made Commissioner of Railroads? Moflat a New Jersey Revenue Collector. The President made the following ap pointments: James Longstreet, of Georgia, Commissioner of Railroads, vice Wade Hampton, resigned. Henry 8. Pritohett, of Missouri, Superintendent of the Coast and Geodlo Survey. Mifflin W. Qibbs (colored), of Arkansas, Consul of the United States at Tamatave, Madagascar. James E. Stlllman. Collector of Customs for the District of Pensacola, Fla. Isaac N. Moffat, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of New Jersey. General Longstreet, appointed Commissioner of Railroads, is the famous Confederate General, who ha9 been prominent in the South 9ince the war as one of the leading Republicans. General Longstreet was recently married to a young lady of Georgia. Judge Gibbs, who has been selected as Consul at Tamatave, is one of the prominent Republican colored men of the South. A Work of Art. An evidence of genuine enterprise and liberality is shown by the publishers ol The Youths' Companion, Boston, Mass., Id giving all new subscribers to their publication an art calendar for 1893?a gem of beautiful color-work rar id aavauce ot aoythlog of the kiod previously produced. Also a magnificent Illustrated Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's double number of the magazine?each a prize-which will be preserved by thousands ol art lovers. By sending a coupon cut from the advertisiog columns of the local papei of this week or last week, and followiug its Instructions, these artistic and valuable productions can be secured. Election Bets Declared Off. An enormous sum of money had been wagered on the election in Greater Now York, and the greater part of it was placed on the explicit or implied understanding that all four of the original candidates J should be in the race on Election Day. The death of Henry George so changed the conditions of the contest that a meeting of the bookmakers who held most ol the public's money was called, and, after n | careful review of the situation, all bets were declared off. As is generally the case in such matters, private bets, unless j otherwise stipulated, follow tho public i ruling. Promitieirt People. James Lane Allen, the novelist, will soon j j visit England. George 51. Pullman's estate is expected to reach ?25,000,000, and his will makes many public bequests. President McKinley has sot the fashion In Washington of equestrian exercise and pleasure, but he will Dot ride a horse with a "banged" or "docked" tail. 51x3. John Jacob Astoris an accomplished tovi/lormlat- Sim lpftrned thn n.rt in nrilur to preserve with her own hands the trophies of her skill as a huntress. The Queen recently sent the boy King of Spain the Victorian order, and was very pleased with the autograph letter in which His Little Majesty acknowledged the honor. ? DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SABBATH DISCOURSE BY THE NOTEO DIVINE. Oaties of Men Toward Their Suffering Brethren of the Present Generation? Clothing ot the Sonl Should Keep Pa<? With That of the Physical Wants of Man Text: "David, after ho had served his . own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep," Acts xilt., 26. "That Is a text which has for a long time been running through my mind. 8ermons 1 have a time to be born, as well as a time to 1 die; a cradle as well as a grave. David. uuwU'jy nuu obuuo-oiuiKOi:, auu iuuu czar, and dramatist and blank verse writer, and prophet, did his best for the people of his time, and then went and lay down on the southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound slumber which nothing but an archangellc blast can startle. There are about four generations to a century, now; but In oldentime life was longer, and there was, perhaps, only one generation to a century. Taking these facts into the calculation, I make a rough guess and say that there have been at least 180 generations of the human family. With reference to them we have no responsibility. We cannot teach them, we cannot correct their mistakes, we j cannot soothe their sorrows, we cannot heal ' their wounds. "I admit that I am in sympathy with the ohild whose father had suddenly died, and j who, in her little evening prayer, wanted ' to continue to pray for her father, al though ] he had gone into heaven and no* more ' noeded her prayers, and looking up into her mother's face, said: 'Oh, mother, I 1 cannot leave him all out. Let me say, 1 "Thank God that I had a good father once, 1 so I can keep him in my prayers." ' But the 180 generations have passed off. Passed 1 up. Passed down. Gone forever. Then 1 there are generations to come after our 1 earthly existence has ceased; we shall not ] see them; we shall not hear any of their voices; we will take no part In their convo- j cations, their elections, their revolutions, a a fViaii* frinmnha W a ' buctl uannaiiLvyuoo, uuun v*. iuiu p u-j. *? v will In nowise afleot the 180 generations gone or the 180 generations to come. Bat 1 our business Is, like David, to serve our 1 own generation; the people now living, ' those whose lungs now breathe and whose i hearts now beat. Aod, mark you, it is not 1 a silent procession, but moving. It is a ' 'forced march,' at twenty-four miles a day, 1 each hour being a mile. Going with that 1 celerity, it has got to be a quick service on j our part or no service at all. "Well, now, let us look around earnestly, prayerfully, in a common-sense way, ' and see what we can do for ourgeneralion. 1 First of all, let us see to it tfrat, as far as 1 we can, they have enough to eat. The ' human body is so constituted that three 1 times a day a body needs food as much as 1 a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive J needs fuel. To meet this want God has 1 girdled the earth with apple orchards, < otange groves, wheat fields, and oceans full 1 of fish, and prairies full of cattle. And * notwithstanding this. I will undertake to < say that the vast majority of the human { family are suffering either for lack of food ' or the right kind of food. Our civlliza- j tion is all askew, and God only can set it ' right. Many of the greatest estates of to- 1 duy have been built out of the blood and 1 bones of unrequited toil. >1 "Don't sit down at your table with five or ] air nniirmflfl nf Abundant SQDDlv and think 1 nothing of that family in the next street * who would take any one of these Ave courses between sonp and almond nuts and feel they were in heaven. The lack of the right kind of food is the cause of much of the drunkenness. After drinking what many of our grocers call coffee, sweetened with what many call sugar, and eating what many of our butchers call meat, and chewing what many of our bakers call bread, many of the laboring classes feel so miserable they are tempted to pnt into their nasty pipes what the tobacconist calls tobacco, or go into the drinking saloons for what the rumsellers call beer. Good coffee would do much In driving out rum. "How can we serve our generation with enough to eat?" By sitting down io embroidered slippers and lounging back in an arm chair, our mouth puckered up around a Havana of >the best brand, and through clouds of luxuriant smoke reading about political economy and the philosophy of strikes? Not No! By finding out who in this city bas been living on gristle, and nanriin? them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out some family who, through sickness or 1 conjunction of misfortune, have not enough to eat, and do for them what Christ did for the hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, multiplying the loaves and the fishes. Let us quit the surfeiting of ourselves until we cannot choke down another crumb of cake, < and begin the supply of others' necessities. "It is an awful thing to be hungry," said che preacher. "It is an easy thing for us to be In good humor with all the world when we have no lack. But let hunger take full possession of us, and we would all turn into barbarians and cannibals and (lends. Suppose that some of the energy we aro expending in useless and unavailing talk about the bread question should be expended in merciful alleviations. I have read that the battlefield on which more troops mft than on any other in the world's history was the battlefield of Lelpslc?160,000 men under Napoleon; 250,000 men under Schwarzeberg. No! Noi The greatest and most terrific battle is now being fought all the world over. It is the struggle tor food. The ground tone of .the a finest passage in one of the great musical * mnompnloftfla th A or+lot Sftvq WM sucrizest- ? uaahoipivv/uw) ?wv j ? , 0u ed to aim by the cry of the hungry populace of Vienna, as the King rode through and they Phouted: 'Bread! Give as bread I' And all through the great harmoules of musical academy and cathedral I hear the the pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of uncounted multitudes, who, with streaming eyes and wan cheeks and broken hearts, in behalf of themselves and their families, are pleading for bread. "Let us take another look around to see how we may serve our generation. Let us * see, as far as possible, that they have enough to wear." The preacher dilated upon the curse of drunkenness and Idleness, causing the maelstrom that has swallowed down the( livelihood of those who are in rage. But things will change, and by generosity on the part of the crowded wardrobes, and industry and sobriety on the party of the empty wardrobes, there will be enough for all to wear. "God has done His part toward the dressing of the human race. He grows a surplus of wool on the sheep's back, and flocks 1 bunlen of warmth, intended for transference to human comfort when the shuttles j of the factories reacbiDg all the way from j Chattahoochee to the Merrimac, shall have c spun and woven It. In white letters of E snowy fleece God lias been writing for a c thousand years His wish that there might y be warmth for all nations. While others j are discussing the effect of high or low tariff, t or no tariff at all on wool, you and I had better see if in our wardrobe we have noth- c ing that we can spare for the shivering, or v pick out some poor lad of the street and fl take him down to a clothing store and fit 7 him out for the winter. * "Again, let us look around and see how j> we may serve our generation. What short- ^ sighted mortals we would be if we were f anxious to clothe and feed only the most r insignificant par.t of a man, namely, his body, while we put forth no effort to . clothe and feed and save his soul. "We put a halo about the people of the past, but I think if the times demanded them it would be found we have now living in this year, 1397, llfty Martin Luthers, ^ fifty George Washington?, arty L.aay nuntingdons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our ^ Civil War more splendid warriors in North and South were developed in four years ^ than the whole world developed iu the pre- i vious twenty years. I challenge the four thousand years before the flood and the eighteen centuries after the Wood to show t me the equal of charity, on a large scale. , of George Peabody. This generation of men and women is more worth saving than any one of the one hundred and eighty geiierations that have passed off. "How to get saved? Be willing to accept ' Christ, ami tuon accept nun lusmuiuuc ously and forever. Get on the rock first, c and "then you will be able to help others 8 upon tho same rock. v "I confess to you that my one wish is to serve this generation, not to antagonize It, not to damage it, not to rule it, but to serve it. I would like to do something toward hojping unstrap its load, to stop its tears, to balsam Its wounds, and to induce It to ti put foot on the upward road that has at its a terminus acclamation rapturous, and gutes o - .*-.a . .vi .7 ; ' - > ' ? . .' " ' fi', ' 1 r ' pearly, and garlands amaranthine, and fountains rainbowed, and dominions en- .. throned and coroneted, for I cannot forget f-hot lullnhv (n t.lin nlnsfnir ^rorrts ftt mi text: 'David, after he bad served bis own (feneration by the will of God, fell on sleep.' ^ What a lovely sleep It waal Unfllial Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Adonijah did not worry it. Persecuting 8aul did not harrow it. Exile did not fill it with nightmare. Since a red-headed boy, amid hie. father's flocks at night, he had not had 9uob a good sleep. At seventy years of age /. he lay down to it. He had had many a "< troubled sleep, as in bis caverns of Adullam, or in the palace at thetfanehUenepiles were attempting; his capture. But this was a peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious sleep. 'After he had :l, Berved his generation by the will of God,.he (ell on sleep.' "Oh. what a good thing is sleep after a i bard day's world It takes all tne acning oat of the head, and alt the weariness oat of the limbs, and all the smarting oat of the syes. From It we rise in the morning, aal. It is a new world. And If we, like David" ... serve our generation, we will at life's close. bave most desirable aad refreshing sleep, [n it will vanish our last fatigue of body, our lost worrlment of mind, ourlastsapfow <.?' of soul. To the Christian's body that was j hot with raging fevers, so that the attendants mast by sheer force keep on the blank- . . * -" sts, it will be the coolsleep. To those who fire thin-blooded and shivering with ague* - > It will be the warm sleep: To those who, because of physical disorders, were terrified with night visions, it will be to the dreamless sleep. To nurses and doctors aad ;<3 mothers who were wakened almost hour of the night by thbse to whom they mini rtered, or over whom they wat^lied; ft ?111 J<-i 1 1 IK. FjiltiuA Win ue tun uuuubuiucu oicuy. xv . who could not get to bed tUl fate lit njgbt>-. V, dud must rise early In the morning'and b?- V (ore getting rested, It will be the long sleep. ' & ' I '??<? "Away with all your gloomy talk about departing from t!ii* world! If we nave served our generation It will not be put- ''\4 tlDj? out Into the breakers: It will'mot be the fight with the King of Terrors; It will ' 'i be going to sleep. A friend, writing me . : trom Illinois, says that Rev. Dr. Wlngate, 3*j President of Wake Forest College, North Carolina, after a most useful life, found his last day on earth his happiest day, and that In his last momenta be seemed to be'; -1. > personally talking with Christ, as friend with friend, saying: 'Ob, how dbsllghtfol d It Is! I knew you would be With ma when -. fi the time came, and I knew It wonldbe^v'tW; 3weet, but I did not know it woult be as sweet as it is.' The fact, was, he < had served his generation in the gospef btia* ' Istry, and by the will of God he fell asleep. '\"l When In Afrlea, MaJwan, the servants looked Into the tent of David Livingstone, and fouud him on bis knees, he stepped back, not wishing to disturb him In prayer, and some time after went- in and found blm in the same posture, and stepped back again; bat after awhile,' went Jto' aad . 3 touched him, and, Io! the great traveler bad finished his last journey, and he Ma' . ; < lied In the grandest and mightiest.postott ; i man ever takes?on bin knees. He had served his generation by unrolling the scroll of & continent, and by the wtU'o?-.; r Ood fell on sleep. In the musoum of Greenwich, England, there Is a Jj?gmenfc }f a book that was found on the arctfo regions, amid the relics of Sir John Franxiln, who had perished amid the snotr' and ce, and the leaf of that piece of a book ivas turned down at the words: "Whoa :hou passest through the waters I will b* . with thee.' Having served his generation n the cause of science and discovery,- by :he will of God he fell on sleep. "Why will you keep us all so qervous :alklng about that which is only a dorml:ory and a pillowed slumber, canopied J>y in gels' wings? Sleep. Transporting ileepl Ana wnat a gioncra* awaKeningr-* r'ou and I have sometlmes been thoroughly jewildered after a long and fatiguingourney^ we have stopped at a "friend** . loose for the ni^ht, and after hours of somplete unconsciousness we hare opened >ur eyes, the high-risen sun full in our aces, and before we conld fully eolleet our; acuities, have said: 'Where am I; whose louse is this, and whose are- fteee gatlens?' And, then, it has flashed upon us n glad reality. ''"'"if v yJff&i "And I should not wonder if, after we tave served onr generation, and, by the ^ a rill of God, have fallen on sleep, the deep ;y3 leep, the restful sleep, we should awaken ' n blissfal bewilderment, and for a little" vhlle say: 'Where am I? What palace is M his? why, this looks like heaven! It ier ~T^ t is. .Why, there is a building grander than * ill the castles of earth heaved Into anions- v :i ain of splendor?that must be the palaoa >&J >f Jesus. And look there; at those waHa Ined with foliage more beantiful than any- V hlng I ever saw before, and see those who ' , ,re walking down those aisles of verdure. ?rom what I have heard of them those two '; j calking arm in arm must be Hosas and' ' , nnlino K<m nf Wnunf flfnflf ftflH hA %i lalting sun over Gllieon. And those, ttra .. > ralklag arm la arm must be John and v -i 'aul, the one so gentle and; the other so / < nighty. :-t;; ^'.1 " 'Bat I mast not look'any longer at hose gardens of beauty, bat examine this . roildingin which I have just' awakened. look' out of the window this way and hat, and up and down, and I And it is * nanslou of immense size in whieh I,am ? topping. All its windows of agate and ts colonnades of porphyry and alabaster. Vhy, I wonder if this ts not the "Honse.of - A nany Mansions" of whioh I used to read? t is; it Is. There must be many of my [indred and friends in this very mansion. lark! Whose are those voices? Whose are .; hose bounding feet? I open the door aid ee, and lo! they are coming through ail % he corridors and up and down all. the italrs, oar long-absent kiadred. Why, . here Is father, there Is mother, there lire he children. All well again. All ybuaig Lgain. All of us together again. And as,w? >, imbrace each other with the cry, "Newer: >; nore to part; never more to part," the irches, the alcoves, the hallways, echo and e-eoho the words, "Never more to part: lever more to part!" Then oar glorified riendssay: "Come oat with as and see leaven." And, some of them. bounding ihead of us and some of them skipping beide us, we start down the ivory stairway. Lnd we meet, coming up, one of the Kings >f ancient Israel, somewhat small of tature, but having a countenance radiant rlth a thousand victories. And as ail are aAking obeisance to this great one of ; leaven, I cry out, "Who is he?" and the mswer comes: "This is the greaitest of all he Kings; it is David, who, after he had V erved his generation by the will of God, M ell on sleep."' ' mk A OLUUUI nt^wrTLf, i "rench Jack the Rlpp?r Now Accused of Nineteen Murder*. There Is no longer any doubt that Vacher, :he French Jack the Hipper, has the blpodest record In the modern history of violent rimes. He is now accused of nineteen aurders, and two assaults on women. He onfesses eleven murders, and admits there pert) more, but he declines to give details, lis confessions have bean fully substaniated In most cases. The latest charge is that of the murder >f a girl of nineteen, Therese Ply. She ras walking along a road near Blnarvllle, j ,t 5 o'olock in the evening of April 6 last, rhen a man caught her by the throat and hrew her down. The next day she was onna dead, her body bearing thirteen :Dife thrusts, while two fingers were out H rom her hands. An investigation led to H| 10 results beyond the fact that a tramp, H vho is supposed to be Yacher, had been H cen on the road by peasants before and H .ftor the crime. The wayfarer was de- H cribed by the countrymen as having H poken in a fantastic manner, lilee the H nurderer now under examination, who H las repeatedly declared that ho was raised H ip by divine providence as a scourge to H lumunity. H The third person accused Instead of H "aeher has now been cleared of the terri? H >le suspicion. He is a peasant named Ban- H ier. He was kept under arrest for three reeks on the charge or muraering one ui he shepherd lads, whose throat was cut rom ear to ear. Electrocuted by a Telephone Wire. A rope with a loop in the free ead loft ( angling over the street from a telephone riro iu Easton, Md., caught a button on a arriage which was belug driven up the treet and, wrenching the top from the ehicle, threw out a woman who was riding lit. She was severely injured and died in he house to which she was taken. Horse Market Improving. JjH The horse market is improving by expor- mm ations to Europe at the rate of 2000 horses BM month. England and France take most -