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ELECTION RESULTS Officers Balloted km mitt States of tie Union. LOW MAYOR OF NEW YORK The Fusionisfs Win. in the Metropolis After a Sensational and HardFought Campaign. 8eth Low Elected Mayor by About 30,000 Plurality, and Jerome District Attorney by About 15,000 ? The Fusion Tic!cet Carries Manhattan and the Bronx, Brooklyn and Richmond, TVhile Democrats Save Queens?Van Wyck Beaten b.v 20,000 Votes?Results in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Other States. New York City.?The Fusion forces carried the city, as well as electing the Presidents of the Boroughs of Manhattan. Richmond and Brooklyn, the District-Attorney of New York county, four Justices of the Supreme Court ami a Judge of the City Court. Seth Low, Fusion candidate for Mayor, was elected for the next two years bj* an estimated?plurality of 30,000. Edward M. Shepard. the Democratic nominee, carried only Queens Borough. William Travers Jerome, Fusionist, was elected District-Attorney of New York County for the nest four years by about 15,000 votes. Supreme Court Justices elected for terms of fourteen years were Morgan J. O'Brien. James A. Blanchard. John Proctor Clarke and Samuel Greenbaum, all Fusion nominees, Justice O'Erien being on both the Fusion and Deuiccr'atic tickets. Robert A. Van Wyck, now Mayor, ^ J| \JEsifc Y SETH LOW. (Elected Mayor or Ne^ York City on the Fusion Ticket.) was defeated for Justice of the Supreme Court, receiving less votes, by about L0.003, than any other candidate for a Justiceship on either Fusion or Democratic tickets. In the contests for the Presidencies of the Boroughs, each President to serve two years. Jacob A. Cantor, Fusicnist. was elected in Manhattan; Louis F. Haffen. Democrat, was vie-1 torious in the Bronx; Joseph Cassidy. Democrat, was elected in Queers, and George Croirwell, Fusionist, was successful in Richmond. The Fr.sionlsts will control tho Board of Aldermen, and they will also havo control in the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. THE STATE LEGISLATURE. Albany, N. Y.?In addition to the election ct an entire new Assembly, two State Senators were voted for at the election. The Senators elected tc fill vacancies caused by death were William D. Barnes, Rc-publican. in the Thirtieth Senatorial District, and Merton B. Lewis, Republican, in tlio Forty-third Senatorial District. There will be tliirly-five Republicans and fifteen Democrats in the Senate of 1902. which is the same number each party had in the Senate of 1901. rae Asseinoiy or iw- wm smuus un follows: Republicans and Fusicnists, 109: Democrats, forty-one. RESULTS IN NEW YOKK CITIES. Buffalo.?The entire Republican city and county tickets were elected. Erastus C. Knight. State Conti'oller. is elected Mayor by a plurality of 5431, and the remainder of the Republican ticket was carried by pluralities ranging from 1800 to 7800. The next Board of Councilmcn will be composed of nine Republicans and no Democrats. Syracuse.?.Tames K. McGuire, Democrat. three times Mayor of Syracuse, wa3 defeated for re-election by District-Attorney Jay B. Kline, by a plurality of 1-125. The entire Republican city ticket is elected, and the Republicans elect eleven oi! nineteen Aldermen. TTfirtr* ? r*1 V? o r?l o e A T'olnrtfr Tlnm r> erat. was elected Mayor over Dr. Morris J. Davies by 031 plurality. Next Eoard of Aldermen will stand: Republicans. 0; Democrats, G. RepubliCnnnot Prevent Hailstorms. Professor Moore, of the Weather I Eureau at Washington, reports that the experiments in foreign countries to prevent hailstorms by the use of explosives, had not proved to be of scientific value. McKlnley Arch to Cost S1,5CO,COC. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of t' e William MeXinley National Memorial Arch Association in Washington, it was deterxined to attempt to raise $1,500,000 for constructing the proposed arch. Kiuz Edward's New Title. K:us Edward ha? signed the proclamation giving him his new title, as follows: "Edward the Seventh, by the Crace of God of the United Kingdom - - * ?*-?'?* Wftlnn/I onrl Af 01 miiajil ttiiu iicmuu muu v/*. |tho British Dominions beyond Iho Sea. King, Defender of tlic FaLii, and Enpei-cr of India." Many Venezuelans Drown. A nig'.it attack by Colombians has changed the Venezuelan plan of defense. The Venezuelans were caught crossing a river near Rubio. The rope bridge broke and j^any Venezuelans were drowned. cans elect G Supervisors and Democrats 9. I Rome.?Rome elects two uemocraI tie Supervisors and three Republicans, a Republican srain of one. The Republican plurality for District-Attorney in this city is 4S3. anil for Special County Judge is 371. Ithaca.?The first city election held here in the fall under the new law did [ not cover tne office of Mayor. The Republican ticket was headed ty W. WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME. (His fight for the District Attorneyship was the seusational feature of the election in New York City.) ir. Kent, "for Recorder, who was elected by a handsome plurality. The Republicans elected a majority in the Board of Aldermen. Schenectady. ? The Repr.hlicans swept the city and county. Horace P. Van Yoasr. was elected Mayor by 313. and the Common Council, which has been Democratic for years, is Republican by 12 to C. Oswejjo. ? Benjamin Daker (Bop.) was elecrcd Mayor by five plurality. The entire Bepublican county ticket is elected. Albany.?The city of Albany elected its entire Bepublican city ticket by pluralities ranging from 1100 to 1500. Charles H. Caus, a prom'neut National Guardsman, was elected Mayor by the Bepublicans. Geneva.?In the election here the Democratic nominee for Mayor, D. E. Moore, was elected by fifteen plurality. The Democrats also elected the Supervisor, while tlie President of the Common Council and Treasurer will be Bepublican. In the Common Council there will te eight Bepublicans and four Democrats. Troy.?Daniel E. Conway was reelected Mayor of this city on a progressive Deuocratic-Bepublican ticket over Seymour Van Santvoord. the regular Democrat nominee, by over 1000 plurality. The entire Bepublican city and county tickets were elected. T> lryrrV\ nmfnn ?T*li* C T. Smith T?o_ JJlU^UUUilUUt JL/1 > U. vtuibWi publican, was elected Major ever C. S. Darling. Democrat, after an exciting campaign by 790 plurality. C. I.. Knapp Elected to ConKTeas. Watertown, N. T. ? Charles L. Knapp. of Lowville. Republican. was elected member of Congress to fill the vccr.ncy in this district caused by the death of Colonel A. D. Shaw. 2CEW JERSEY. Newark. N. J.?The Republicans carried this State, electing Franklin Murphy Governor by a plurality of 14.763 over James M. Seymour, his Democratic opponent. The Republicans elect six Senators aud thirty-two Representatives, the Democrats one Senator and fifteen Representatives. The Senate will stand: 10 Republicans and 5 Deiucornts. and the Assembly 44 Renubli cans .md 14 Democrats, the Republicans having, on' joint ballot, c. majority of 41. ' FRANKLIN MURPHY. (Elected Governor of New Jersey.) The greatest surprise of the day was ia Warren County, which elected a Republican to the Assembly, something which never occurred before. The Legislature elected will not vote for a United States Senator. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, Mess.?W. Murray Crane, tlio present Republican Governor, was re-elected by a plurality of abcut 70,000. The Republicans made no campaign. The Democrats, led by Josiah Quiuey. nade a vigorous campaign, so as to reunite the party for the next Congressional election. SOUTH DAKOTA. Sioux Falls, S. D.?The vote was Bengal Lancers Killed. A detachment of thirty-two Bengal Lancers, who were escorting a survey ins party in Iidia. were attacked by Mahsuds. Thirteen oil the laaeer.? j were killed. Some of the Mahsuds were captured. * Fon? Young Men Drcwn Together. . "\Four prominent young men of Michignnme, Mich., were drowned in Lake Micliiganimc. TLey had crosscd th: lake earlier in the day in two boats. A storm came in and the party started home in one boat, which capsized. Prominent People. King George of Greece still rides his bicycle. M:-s. Roosevelt has been asked io banish wine from the White House. Andrew Carnegie has given C1S5, 000 to establish libraries at uunuee, Scotland. Former Senator E. O. Wolcott, of Colorado, h.is resigned his position as a member of the National Republican Committee. Sir John Kamsden is said to be the richest of all English baronets, his income. It is estimated, footing up to S840.000 a j ear. :'* ... ,C , light over the State, only Circuit Judges "being elected. The Republicans elected all eight of the judges. KENTUCKY. Louisville, Ky.?Kentucky's total vote shows a Democratic majority of about 20.000. as compared with 8,000 ?-- ? t-? JOOn fnr lor nryan ror i rcsi'ii-ui, uuu Beckham (Dern.t for Governor last year. Democrats wrested the City of Louisville from Republican control, eleetinc their Mayor by about 5000 plurality. They also made gains in the Legislature, making it certain that a Democrat will succeed Senator Deboe NEBRASKA. Lincoln. Neb.?Republicans elected the'r State ticket by a plurality of abcut 3000. The vote was very lierht and the plurality, as compared with that in the last election, is proportionately harper. Three State officers were elected. Little interest was shown iu tin campaign. Democrats and Populists united against the Republicans VIRGINIA. Richmond. Va.?Democrats elected their candidate for Governor, A. J. - - 1 ftA Montague, by a pinmity or nooiu ov.000. The Republican candidate. J. Hampton. Hoe?, ran behind the legislative ticket. The Legislature? is overwhelmingly Democratic. Tin negroes took little interest in the campaign. OHIO. Columbus. Ohio.?Governor George A. Nnsli (Rep.) was re-elected by a plurality exceeding that of two years ago. Last returns indicate that the complexion of the Legislature, which is to elect a successor to Senator .T. B. Forager, has not been changed. RHODE ISLAND. Providence, R. I.?Complete returns from the 139 districts in the State give Gregory (Rep.) for Governor, 20.242: Garvin* (Dem.). 19.353. Gregory's plu-ality is 03S9 as against S839 last year. In the Sen; .? the Republicans have elected thirty-one members and the Democrats seven, and in the House the proportion is S'ty-onc Republicans to four Democrats. The Democrats elected their candidates for Mayor in Providencs, Newport and Wconsccket. IOWA. Dps Moines, Iowa.?A. E. Cummins, for Governor, carried Iowa y 00,000 or 93,000, on a tctal vote of 420.000. It shows an increase of nearly lOu per cent, in the Republican plurality in two years. The entire Republican State ticket is elected by pluralities close to that of Cummins. In *he Legislature there are indications cf a gain of several votes by the Republicans. Senators A!llson and Dolliver -.re concoded re-election. MISSISSIPPI. Jackson, Miss.?Lack of interest characterized the special ebction in Mississippi for Secretary of State and Treasurer. Of a tctal registered vote of about 75,000 not more *-an 18.000 votes were cast. Democrats elected as State Treasurer and Secretary of Str.t3 tlic prosent mci-moenis, appointees of Governor Longino. PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia. Pena. ? The Quay, or regular Republicans, won in Pennsylvania against the fusion of the Independent Republicans ana the Democrats, though the usual majority was reduced from more than 100,000 to about G0.C00. Outside of Philadelphia the vote was comparitively light all over tho State. Frank G. Harris. Quay r.epujlican, was elected State Treasurer, and William P. Potter. Quay Republican, was olected Supreme Court Justicc. The Union forces made a strong fight in Philadelphia, but Weaver (Rep.) for District Attorney, has about 23.000 plurality. H. Burd Cassell (Rep.) is elected Congressman lUi" liiL* J. I'UIU jL.vti.vv, to ?11 tbo unoxpired teru of the late Marriott Brosius. CONNECTICUT. New Haven. Conn.?Connecticut chose delegates to the first Constitutional Convention to be held in the State sinco ISIS. Of the 1?)S towns in the State 105 shew that Republicans were elected in 103, Democrats in forty-four, and non-partisan candidates ij sixteen. Denis Mulviliill (Deiu.), a laborer, is elected Mayor of Bridgeport, ever Hugh Stirling (Rep.). MARYLAND. Baltimore, Md.?The latest returns* in Baltimore and including every county in the Slate, partly oiiic-ial and partly estimated, give to the Democrats forty-six Delegates and seven newly elected Senators, which, combined with the ten who hold over in the Senate, assures the friends of Mr. Gorman a total of sixty-three 011 joint ballot. The Republicans, it appears. Lavo elected forty-nine Delegates and six Senators, which, added to their three iiold over Senators, gives them a total of fifty-eight on joint ballot. These figures indicate that the Republicans will be able to organize the House of Delegates. A Labor Man Elected Mayor. San Francisco, Cal.?Eugene B. Schmitz, the Union Labor candidate for Mayor, was elected by a plurality cf about 2500, Asa R. Welis (Rep.) running second, and John S. Tobin third in the race. Mr. Schmitz is the leader of an orchestra in a local theatre, and is also the secretary aud manager of a machine shop. Jainuica Wants Boer Prisoners. At a public meeting of leading of Jamaica held in Kingston, a resoj lution was adopted asking the British Government to send Boer prisoners j to the island. Killed by His Son. Dan H. Morgan, a Chicago bookmaker and sporting man, was shot r-ud killed by his son, Dan H. Morgan. Jr., in the family's country home, at Wilmington, 111. The cause assigned for the shooting was the abuse and brutality cf the head cf the household in striking his wife. Disastrous Firs in Portland, 51c, A fire in the wholesale grocery store of the Milliken-Tomliuson Company ana adjoining structures, at Portland, Me., caused a loss of nearly ?230,000. France Seizes Turkish Island. An official dispatch received at Paris announced the arrival or Admiral Caillard's squadron of French Avar ships at the Island of Mitjiene. and a little later it was stated another had come announcing that Admiral Caillard had occupied the three prin cipal ports of the island, which will be held until Turkey pays the indemnity demanded by France. Negro Burned at the Stake. A negro was burned at the stake near Maxie, Miss., for assaulting the j wife of a prominent farmer. : LI IMG CHANG IS DEAD Great Chinese Statesman Expires in; D^I,:? Atx._ . D.- * nu?.n i cMii mier a diici iunr,s> ANTI-FOREIGN OUTBREAK FEARED Jdd Custom* of Earl Li'* Countrymen Exemplified In His Last Hours ?Burial Clothes Put on Before Death?Attendod by an American Doctor?History of the Career of China's Grand Old Man. Pekin. China.?Li Hung Chang, the famous Chinese statesman. Is dead. During the evening preceding bis death Earl Li was displaying unexpected vitality. The physicians, howover. thought he would probably die ia the morning hours. The burial clothes had already been put on. The courtyard of the Yamen I <vas filled with life-size paper horses j and chairs, with coolie bearers, which his friends sent in accordance with Chinese custom, to be buried when he died in crder to carry his soul to heaven. The Chinese officials were somewhat i rr rlli* V? \ C rlooth I UilCU^ tuuixiuiilfl IUU Uio uv.aiu aiight have ou the populace, and, to guard against a possible anti-foreign Jeuionstratien, the Chinese generals disposed their troops about the city in . S7////j/:w LI HUNG CHANG. [Famous Chinese statesman and diplomat who died in Pekin.) such a way as to command the situation. Trouble, however, is extremely improbable. Dr. Robert Coltman, an American, who is one of the physicians attending Earl Li, says that when he was calle J to act with Dr. Velde, of the German Legation, he found the patient very weak from a severe hemorrhage, duo to ulceration of the stomach. Reckoned by European standards as the greatest statesman China has ever produced Li Hung Chang had always held an enviable position among his countrymen. Earl Li was essentially a Chinaman with all his wisdom. There was no doubt of his shrewdness, but he shined as a statesman more in contrast than in merit, according to the views of many who had come in personal contact with him. Nevertheless. Li Hung Chang will go down in the annals of history as one of the greatest of Chinese, and many rank him with Bismarck and Gladstone. Earl Li was born in the province of Anu-Huel on February 16, 1823. I r -* c\nr\ ?r>At*Ai?n/?? nf fho nrnt'. in I30U, WUI1L* vjruvcmui Ui luv. ince of Thiang-Sin. he aided '"Chinese" Gordon in crushing the Taiping rebellion. The other Tliiang province came under his sway, and in 1865 he was made Viceroy of the United Countries. In 1S06 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, in 1867 Viceroy of Hong-Kuans and in 1868 a Grand Chancellor. After the Tien-Tsin massacre. in 1S70, he was punished on the charge of not having aided the commanding general, but two years later the Emperor restored to him his titles and the office of Grand Chancellor. After the first few Chinese defeats in the war with Japan he was severely blamed by the Pekin Government for the unprepared condition of the army and navy, and was called to the capital. He went, but at the head of a small army of sturdy retainers, so no personal violence was done him. but lie was stripped of his decorations and honors. Later he was restored to favor, and on the dismissal from Japan of the first Chinese peace euvoys, whose credentials were frtally defective, all eyes turned to the famous Viceroy, who was known and respected by the Japanese officers of state as the man who should head the next peace commission from the Flowery I Tx in<?r!nm. it beins: rightly assumed Ak.Mgv. , ? that the papers accrediting him as an envoy would confer full powers for nesotiatine. It was in 1S97 that Earl Li paid his famous visit to t'his country, accompanied by the immense retinue of his household. His reception was in keepinp with his high rank. and. as will be remembered, he saw much to interest him. and his peculiar habit of asking abrupt and pointed questions had full play. Before cominc here Earl Li visited Enplaud cn.l Germany, and in each his reception was equally cordial. When the Boxer uprising came. Li Huns Chans was Viceroy of Canton, and his attitude is said to have done much in preventing the spread of the revolt. When the time for peace arrived Earl Li hastened to Pekin. despite his seventy-eijrht years, and had been busy since in his efforts to "save rhe face" of the Emperor and Empress Dowager in the negotiations with the Powers. Thrust Her Bnbe iu the Fire. While temporarily insane Mrs. George Lee, of Memac, Wis., opened the stove door and thrust her baby into the fire in the presence of her husbanj and nurse. The baby was but three weeks old. and was practically consumed before it could be rescued. More CanarilanB For South Africa. It is understood that the British War Office will accept Canada's offer of a strong cavalry couiingcat fjr sciTi. in South Africa. Million). For a. Naval Station. Rear Admiral Heur.v C. Taylor, the coming chief of the Navigation Bureau, iu a report submitted tc the Navy Department at Washington. upc:t the establishing of an immense uaval statiou iu the Philippines. estima.es that the project will cost the Government $30,000,000, and perhaps $-10.000,0U0. /_n unusual Orange Crop. n-, J? .. famnns nrnuire cron this jLUeiw- >a ? ? ?_ year in Florida. California, Porto llico and Arizona. Apples are not plentiful aud will bo dear, but clieap crauges will to some cxteat rnuke gccJ 1089. A DAY FOR THANKSGIVING ! President Roosevelt's Proclamation ! Fixing Thursday, November 28. Refers Pathetically to Mr. McKinley, But Says the People Have Abundant Cause For Gratitude. Washington, D. C.?President Roosevelt has issued bis proclamation fixing Thursday, November 28, as a day of National Thanksgiving. It Is as follows: "The season is nigh when, according to the time-hallowed custom of our people, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise aud thanksgiving to God. "This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the death of a great and good President. We* mourn President McKinley because we so loved and honored him; and the manner of his death should awaken in the breasts of our people a keen anxiety for the country, and at the samp time a resolute nurnose not to be driven by any calamity from the path of strong, orderly, popular liberty which as a Nation we have thus far trod. "Yet in spite of this great disaster it is nevertheless true that no people on earth have such abundant cause for thanksgiving as we have. The past year in particular has been one of peace and plenty. We have prospered in things material and have been able lo work for out own uplifting in things intellectual and spiritual. Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds. We can best prove our thankfulness to the Almighty by the way in which on this earth and at this time each of us does his duty to his fel!ow-men. "Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the 28th of this present November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their wonted occupations, and at their several homes and places of worship reverently thank the Giver ot all good for the countless blessings of our National life. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington this second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, "By the President. "JOHN HAY, Secretary of State." END OF THE PAN-AMERICAN. The Financial tos? Will Be in the Neighborhood of 83,000,000. Buffalo, N. Y. ? The Pan-American Exposition ended when President John G. Milburn pressed an electric button and the lights in the electric tower grew dim for the last time. A corps Af KhiyIao oforrllir* In Ortnnfl. UL UUqICO OiaL.UlJg 111 LUt IUM OWUUU" ed "taps," and one of the glories of the exposition, the electrical Illumination, passed away, and the exposition was ended. * The exposition has rot been a financial success, but the benefits derived from it -will be of great value to the commercial interests of the country. The primary object cf the exposition was to advance the friendly relations and commercial intercourse between the United Stales and the other countries of the two Americas. In this respect it has been a decided success. The financial loss will be in the neighbornood of 93.000.000. The total number of admissions for the six months was close to 8.000,000. The death of the President was a severe blow to the Tan-American. The attendance had been increasing steadily up to the date of the assassination of President McKinley. The gates were closed for two days, and when they reopened there was a drop of twelve per cent, in the attendance and no improvement followed. The Government exhibit -will he at once shipped to Charleston. KILLS TWO FOR REVENCE. A Convict Murders Woman He Loved and Her Huaband. Amsterdam. N. Y.?Frederick Bankert. having gained admittance to the apartments of "William Green, killed Green by shooting him in the neck with a revolver and splitting his head open with a hatchet. Bankert also shot Mrs. Green and cut her head open with the hatchet, inflicting fatal wounds, and then 3hot himself through rhe heart, dying instantly. Mrs. Green died rvifiin a few hours. B l.kert gained entrance to Green's apartments cr. the second floor of the house by climbing up a rope ladder on the or.tside of the building and entering a window. He was a sweetheart of Mrs. Green before her marriage, but his love was unrequited. For this reason he fhot her on November 23. 1800, and cut her with a razor, but she recovered from her wounds. For this crime Bankert was sent to State prison, and was released from there about six mouths ago. Mrs. Green was formerly Miss Cora B. Harrison. She ' was an accomp.ished amateur actress and a handsome and attractive woman. While Bankert was confined in State prison for the crime Miss Harrison was married to William Green. _ Bankert was thirty years old. Mrs. ween twentysix aud Mr. Green twenty-two. California's Prune Crop. The prune crop of California this year is GO,000,000 pounds. Interior Department Estimate*. The estimates for the expenditures of the Interior Department, at Washington. in the fiscal year beginning next .July aggregates $170,000,000, of which $142,101,200 is asked for pensions and the administrative work of the Pension Bureau. Upton Will >*ot Challenge >"ext Year. "It may be taken for granted." says the London Times, "that Sir Thomas Liptoa will not issue a challenge for the America's Cup for next season." liur^lars Torture a Family. Balser Race, hjs wife and two sons, living near Massillon, Ohio, were tortured by burglars until they gave up ?1000 iu certificates of deposit and $40 in money. The burglars set fire to the liair of tbeir victims and threatened to roast them alive. The burglars escaped in vehicles stolen from Mr. Kace. Kleven Deaths From Lockjaw. The Coroner at St. Louis, Mo., has begun a searching investigation into tne aeatns ot eieveu uuuurcu aiuui lockjaw caused by diphtheria antiI toxin. 1 | ACCUSED OFMIANYIiDRDEBS" The -Remarkable Case of Miss Toppan, a Professional Nurse. ALLEGEDSHE POISONED PATIENTS Held in Maftiachaxettg on Sn^plcion ok Wiping; Out the Davit Family of Font Person* ? Investigation of Deaths Where the Accused "Woman Was a Nurse?A Specific Mnrder Charge Made Boston. Mass.?Barring the case of Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson, now servin.2 a life sentence in the Concord Reformatory for poisc.Ding thtvo r et sons at Cambridge, nothing of the kind in recent years has attracted such widespread attent'on as the cas* of Mis3 Jane Toppan. a trained nurse, now confined in Barnstable .iail npon the charge of murdering Mrs. Mary D. GIbbs. of Cataumet. by the use of drugs. Wherever Miss Toppan went In her nrofessional capacity a trail of [ death follower!, and up to the present | timo no less than ten sudden deaths. In addition to that of Mrs. GIbbs. arc beinc investigated by the authorities. Miss Torpan is stout, good-natured appearing, about forty, and she bears every indirntion of beins: a nurse that would handle a patient with th? greatest care. Over her hangs the suspicion of having caused the death of a family of four adults at Cataumet during last summer. Since her arrest unon the charge of poisoning Mrs. GIbbs, in every part of Eastern Massachusetts cases are being brought to light of "where Miss Toppan's nursing was followed by death -within a few l days of the time she took charge. In | some of the cases It is charged that money and articles of value were missing from the houses where the woman had cared for sick people, and she is suspected of killing the inmates of the Davis house at Cataumet for the purI pose of ridding herself of financial obligations she is said to have been | under to Alden P. Davis, the head of the household. Miss Toppan was a familiar figure [ to residents of Cataumet. having passed several summers there. To| ward the last of .Tune Mrs. Davis, wife of Alden P. Davis, became ill and the | nurse was "ailed to take charge of her. On June 27. upon Miss Toppan's advice. the patient was taken to Cambridge. where she filed in July, heart disease being ascribed as the cause. Next, Mrs. Harry Gordon, of Chicago, a daughter of Mrs. Davis, was taken I sick, her illness being due, it was supI posed, to grief over the loss of her mother. She died within a few days, but the nhysiciaa, Dr. Latter, died a short time after, and no certificate giving the cause of Mrs. Gordon's death was ever filed. Then Mr. Davis was tab^n sick and, two days after, he passed away. Mrs. Gibbs. the second daughter, and last of the household. then succumbed. The four deaths within' so short a period naturally caused comment at the time and finally, at the Instance of Captain Paul Glbbs, father-in-law of Mrs. Gibbs, the bodies of Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Gibbs were exhumed upon August 31 and autopsies held. Professor Wood, of Harvard, examined the viscera taken from the remains of Mrs. Gibbs. and it was due to what he discovered that a warrant was issued charging Miss Toppan with murder. The arrest was made at Amherst. N. H., State officers having shadowed the prisoner from the time she left Cataumet early in the sumAfJocj Tnnnon TT n \ VPH PTfTfldi '"? tion rights and went willingly to Earnstable, -where she was arraigned. A plea of not guilty was entered, and at the request of the Government the ease was ad.iourned. The original suspicion that the deaths in the Davis family -were not natural occurred to Dr. Ira E. Cushing, of Brorkline. who knew the family and who was not disposed to accept as a j mere coincidence the quick succession of deaths. District-Attorney Holmes, of Barnstable County, who ordered the arrest of Miss Toppan, said: "There are many things in a matter of this kind about which a DistrictAttcrney cannot talk, but I will say that the newspapers have been close to the track in what they have told about the happenings at the Davis house before the death of Mr. Davis, I ? ^ C..r. his wife and tneir aausmera, .?xia. i Harry Cordon and Mrs. Gibbs." When District-Attorney Holmes was asked if there is any truth in a story that Professor Wood found evidence of morphine when he examined the remains of Mrs. Gibbs and Mr. Davis he would only saj: "Professor Wood alone knows that. All I can say is that there have been eleven suspicious deaths in houses where Miss Toppan was employed as a nurse, and they are all being investigated." POTATO CROP IS ABUNDANT. In One County In Maine It Will Bring $4,000,000. Houghton. Me.?The potato outlook in the county of Aroostock is not quite so rosy as it was a few weeks ago. The rot is affecting the stock stored in the farmers' cellars in the northern section. Some of the county's most extensive farmers have had remarkable crops this year, ahead of the average. The average is well up to 100 barrels an acre, as compared with the usual yield i of from sixty to seventy barrels. Small potatoes bring sixty cents a barrel at the starch factories. Unless the rot increases the potato crop of the county will bring clos? to $4,000,000. IVu* Pow.der Monkey at Trafalgar. Jclm O'Brien, 10S years old, died at Middlesworth Station, 111. He was born in Ireland, went to sea at the age of nine and served in Nelson's fleet as powder monkey at the battle of Trafalgar. The Public Debt Decreased. The monthly statement of the pub lie debt shows that at the close of business on October 31 the debt, less aoh iu the Treasury amouuted to $1,'.22,032,937, a decrease from the previous month of $J,503,40S. Sporting; BrevitieaHarold H., 2.04, is the fastest Canadian pacer. Hamilton (Ont.) horsemen are al ready planning for tlie big winter races on the ice. Council Chimes has won the 2.10 class pacing race at Lexington, Ky., in straight heats. The new organization of minor baseball leagues has abandoned the plan of a blacklist for contract jumpers. Oh the track at Vailsburg, N. J., Albert Champion has lowered the record for motor bicycles t*r one mile to lm. 12 2-os. ' 'V \ * 01^ ' /Jim fc ~ Pelllnr Brides With Flower*. The custom of showering bridal con- V pies with rice Is as old as the monumental hills. It Is sometimes attended with disagreeable results, but Is . still persisted In at most matrimonial functions. An improvement upon this custom -which seems likely and ought . to become popular, -was observed at a pretty -wedding celebrated ar Xike Geneva, Wis., just before the close of the outing season. The piazzas and I imrnfl nf thp hridp's hnme were beau* tlfully decorated with hydrangeas,"^ which the extensive gardens furnished In unusual profusion. The altar arranged at one end of the parlor waa beautifully decorated and bowered j with the same blooms, mingled with . ; ferns and evergreens. Bunches of the blossoms stood in large jars and vases In the spacious hall and banked the great fireplace. When the newly -wedded pair started away In the late afternoon the guests lined the way from I the house to the entrance gate of the, ! grounds, every one provided with hygrandeas, and through this lane of j pelting flowers the bridal carriage was driven. 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