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Urm Wko In Tlu BX&TAVTt Of TH1 TRUST A# Article on “the National Ijobbjr at —Wachlagton” That Hboald be Head by Every Amert* • . v «a» -* ■ - . i.. _ *" Ih the November number of Frank Leslie's Popular lion Wily appears an article entitled “The National Lobby at Washington” and written by the editors. This article should be read by every American citizen. Although to many it may seem that the authors of this aritiole have mad ‘Startling re velations, with ail the seriousness of the situation as they have described it, the half has not been told. ></• In the beginning, the authors of "The National Lobby at Washing ton,’’ explains that there exists lT s profound Impression that sometlog Is wrong with the basic principles of our government as it has been adminis tered for p decade.” This impression, the authors attribute to “the robber; of the treasury through blackmail and petty larceny In the postoffloe department; the illegal ab sorption of public lands with the sus pected connivance of officials now re moved and of members of congress still In office; the defalcation of the department of justice and in the office of the commissioners of tbe District of Columbia; the Interest of oongressmen and Senators In glov& and tombstone contracts.” - ... It is pointed oat that as a matter of fact, tbe congress of the United States Is its own lobby; that in nine cases out of ten the lobby st sits in the seoab with his state behind blm or in the bouse of reprereutatives with; his dis trict sod bis senator behind film; that In nine oases oft of ten the senatorial er representative lobbyist acts and speaks for some great corporation which is seeking some vest special privilege which is antagonistic to pub- lie interests and to which It baa no moral right. In the opinion of these authors tbe great curse of national kglalathm is tbe campaign oootribu- jafon. Upon tbe campaign oontribu- lion is placed the responsibility fur tbe growth of Aw system whereby congress is its own lobby. It is point ed oat that In presidential or con gressional elections tbe stoat corpora Upos pick the candid*teased tbe party ^tofwhom they feel they can look for favors; thin they contribute enormous same to carry the election. “Frequently,” say the authors, “a definite bargain is made with tbe • naUonal committee that something Shall be done or another one not done. It Is a cold matter of buune^. 0 »m mercial Acumen, which has built up tost fortunes in a generation or two Uke those of tbe Standard Oil crowd 1 or of Carnegie’s toterle of young men, nan usually pick a winner or make a winner in a national- campaign. It did so in 1088, when it turned its beck on Cleveland and contributed 11 tbe Harrison fund for M. 8. Quay to ^ipaod. Again It did so in 1892, When It. switch'd from Harrison back to Cleveland and gave the millions to William C. Whitney and Don M. Dickinson with which they nr'i* the country. It could not obooee In 1896 and In 1900 because William J. Bryan 'was running for president on a plat form which made the corporations quake, so Com nercial Acumen emp -tied a sum equal to a king s ransom at tbe feet of Marcus A. Hanna at •tbe behest of such men as Cornelius N. Bliss, Senator Aldrich, Senator Alli- soo, and Senator Q lay.” And It is ex- by the authors that “tbe £ Interests which contributed in four campaigns got what they tor." - Asr interesting feature Of ‘"The National Lobby atWashlog ton’’relates tbs part played by a number of senators. Senator Nelson States. Again in 1900, be collected an enormous sum. Thlii money came mostly from the trusts, the great fi nancial institutions and protected manufacturers. With these contri butions came respmsi bill ties for Sen ator Hanna. Not one of the men who gave their money gave it solely to en sure their property against the laws which they feared if Bryan .were elected. They all demanded some thing more. First of all, they wanted a high pro tective tariff and t its they got in the )ingly bill. Rockefeller, Morgan, Hill, iarriman, all wanted to be let alone and permitted to go oa with their trust building. Criscom wanted a ship subsidy. The Idea which capital de tested above all things was that which looked to the broadening of the Sher man anti-trust law. Senator Hanna took emphatic ground that there should be no more anti-trust legisla tion. In this position he bad the hearty support of the old gaurd in the senate, consisting of Aldrich, Spooner of Wisconsin, Quay of ,, Pennsylvania, Allison of luwo, Elkins of West Vir ginia, Foraker of Ohio, and Fairbanks of Indiana. All of these men can be classed as defenders of trusts end when they unite, they can dominate the senate. 1 ’ Accompanying this interesting several pictures of senators and above each plcturejis a brief and ntereetlng description xff tbe man. For instance, over Senator Aldrich’s picture that gentleman ir^described - y rich of Rhode Island is credited being the must important man „ tbs senate. It is said that Sena tor Ak Irtoh represents mors great la- tban any other man In coo being the representative of the fellers, the Morgans, tbe James Sim, the E. H. Harrimans, the . K. Vanderbilts, the Schwabs, the ies, the Armours, tbe Swifts Abe Cramps. It is admitted that list of interests that Senator Ald- Ntth his voice and hb in ITtwo long to print in an artl limited scope. It is, however, oat that Senator Aldrich the Standard Oil Company that tbe term “Stand- ytotopany” as here used de All tbs enterprises in which D. Rockefeller has united the „reg&UoQ of capital la the It is shown that in the pro currency legislation Senator represents the Standard Oil tbe J. Plerpont Morgan that as the servant these when congress meets be wll to permit the tern Of tbe currency so It tbe demand which may be every time tbe specula all street expand price*. (rich Is further referred to as of the sugar trust, of of bee 1 ts Coal trust. Next la point of influ- Greater New York Goss Democratic hj Large Majority. URA A aULNi* IN A PLAY. A Man Kttfrd In • Saloon While Im- A GRSAT DIM0NSTRATI0H. Seventy McClellan la Elected Mayor Tboneand Majority and the Reenlt la Con sidered (Significant. by Id illustrating a play from which he had Juki returned William Fraser stabbed and fatally wounded Thomas larrett in H. J. McMullen’s saloon. 150 Franklin stret, Brooklyn last week. He then if Iked to the nearet-t police station and surrendered himself, saying: “1 have killed my best friend,” < Fraser is 40 years old and Barrett After a remarkable campaign in wbicb there was united against him nearly all of tbe newspapers and practically every minister of religion in the city, George B. McClellan, son of the Civil war general, was Tuesday, 3rd instant, elected third mayor of Greater New York over Seth Low, Fusionlst, the present mayor, by the large plurality of 70,000. Edward M. Grout was elected comp troller and Charles V. Foroes presi dent of tbeward of aldermen. These two men were originally on the Fusion „ ticket and were endorsed by Tam- —^, fc _ h l^ , many, whereupon'the Fusion ists took their names from the Low ballots and nominated other candidates. It was thp nomination of Grout and Fornes by Tammahy that caused Hugh Me- aughlln, the veteran leader of the Clngs county Democracy, to bolt and’ declare that he would not support men who were not Democrats. In was 22. The two men attended tbe theater together And after tbe performance went to McMullen’s they were well known were in tbe saloon at the time, and raser and Barrett began Illustrating ;be mod exciting features of tbe per formance which they had Men. “The villiao walked up to a man," said Barrett,' approaching Fraser. ‘Then he raised bis hand like this. He bad a long dagger and he down and subbed the fellow it as “the most potent Infiuei senate and^ihe prime mover in 1 tion favorable to corporations." Senator Quay is described as “l in the fight against restricted migration on behalf of tbe foreign steamship lines.” Senator Elkins is introduced as the gentleman “who promoted the agree ment between tbe sugar trust and Senator Gorman who later became leader of tbe beet sugar lobby. ”- Senator Millard is referred fo as 'the strong friend of tbe beet sugar trust and also a malnsUy of the Union Pacific railroad.” f Senator Dietrich is called “one of the foremost upholders of beet sugar and protector of the usurpation of public lands.” _ ... Congressman Babcock is referred to as “the spokesman for the brewing in terests.” Of Omgressman Wadsworth; it is said: “Sent to congress from agri cultural district, but the chief. repre- senUtive of the oleomargarine indus try." Senator Burrows Is referred to as one of the leaders of-the beet sugar lobby and violently opposed to re ciprocity with Cuba.” It is explained that “most of the senators who are engaged in shielding tbe trust and corporations that have so long dominated congress were above tbe suspicion that tbey-do it for pay; that most of them are millionaires in their own right; that while they are actually tbe servants of th - trusts, they are parts of the trusts.” 1 There are many people to wffom tbe sUtementa of tbe authors of “The National Lobby at Washington," are not-rexdA£ion8 and yet It may not be doubted that there are thousands of others, particularly among the rank and file of the republican party, ^ who--citizens for their oontidence in me. I really imagine that tbe A id riches, the Hannas and the Burrows are states- meo who are greatly concerned for tbe public welfare. To those who have been really ignorant on this subject, the article in Leslie’s Monthly will provide food for serious thought. Can tbe^Americaa people expect honest representation at the lands of their public offlolals when the trust are permitted to choose those officials? Is It out humiliating to tbe Ameri can citizen when be is told that the men who are pre-umed to represent public Interests are, In fact, the repre sentatives of special interests? The Commoner. spite of this defection, however, Mc Clellan, Grout and Fornes carried Kings county. Tbe management of their campaign there was taken over State Senator Patrick H.McCarren, en McLaughlin refused bis aid. NOT IN IT. A surprise was tbe small vote, for Wm. SNpevery, former chief of police, .who ran on an independent ticket, which was\riven practically no sup port. This tMHilt shows a tremend- ■us change ip public sentiment since Mayor Low’s election two years ago, when he won by\31,632. At that time he carried all the ■boroughs but Queens, his~ plurality in Manhattan and the Bronx being 5,663\ln Brooklyn 25,767, and In Richmona\ 763. In Queens, Shepard, Democrat^ had a plurality df 561. v. Wednesday McClellan carried Man hattan and the Bronx by about 000, a gain of 64.000; Brooklyn by about 6,000, a gain of 31,000, and Queens by about 5,000 a gain of more than 4^000. This makes a total net gain for McClellan of about LQ3,000, as compared with Shepard's Vote of two yearsago. Low carried only one borough— Richmond —by about 200 votes. Tbe result was known early and at 8.15 Mayor Low sent a telegram of congratulation to Ool. McClellan. LOW’S CONGRATULATIONS. It was as follows: “I congratulate you on your elec tion. If 1 can be of service to you >ray command me. Seth Low.” The mayor then said: “I think that tbe telegram sums up all that 1 lave to say tonight.” Col. McClellan, who is at present a member of congress, made the follow ng statement:- —— “I am deeply grateful to my fell >w renew the promises which I made be fore the election. — “I have no bitterness of feeling One Bov Kill* Another. A dispatch from Swansea, Lexlng- tonCounty; to the State says on Sun day evening, Nov.. l v .two negro boys got into a diffleu ty near tbe Red Sandy Run, Lexington pounty. Campbell Speaks shot and killed Perry Isaac Speaks left for parts unknown. He is about 17 or 18 years old, black, about 5 feet high,of betfvy build, full eyes; lisps when he talks. It appears that there wasoo occasion Tor tbe killing. The boy Speaks bought a pistol Saturday before, tbe killing and said he was going to get a man with it, which he proceeded to do. The affair occurred tnan Isolated secttoB.lome lojbr 12 milea from a trial justice.'Efforts will be made to ctfptuie him. When last seen Speaks was going towards Co lumbia. He had beep working in tbe summer at Stewart’s rock quarry or the quarry atCayoes, across the river. The father of the victim was there Wednesday to get a coffin and magistrate to bold tbe inquest. for any one. I shall go at once to Washington to prepare for the extraordinary ses slon ancPks soon as the question of Cuban reciprocity Is disposed of I shall turn my attention the affairs of tbe city. 1 invite the cooperation of every citizen, whether be supported me or not and regardless of his political views in the Advancement of thecity’s good. “This victory should encourage and unite all Demi crate for ttie presiden tial contest in 1904.” Tire TAMMANY LBADBR. Charles F. Murphy, the leader of Tam many ^all,"8aid: figures speak for themselves and the people have spoken. Of course we are pleas ed at the result. It bears out the figures we gave. If tbe election had been a week further off the chances are that Devery would have polled a larger vote than Low.” Robert Fulton Cutting, a^, the Citi zens Union headquarters, gave out statement in which he expressed astonishment over the result and his belief that “the partisan administra U Well Matched. Mrs. Nation has challenged Dowle to Joint debate. She offers to hire the hall and give him 8600 If* he wilj go on tbe platform with her and let her get a whack at'him. Mrs. Nation save Dowle is “an old fraud” and that she can prove it. The Restorer been accepted tbe challenge. He has however, that Mia. Nation and that Christian Science is a bum bug. What a happy time the pro phets, healers and reformers are going to have among themselves. cannot maintain tbe standard set by Mr. Low.” Meanwhile, he says, the Citizens Union will occupy itself in preparing for the next election... He is persuad ed that its services will be required at that time. -NOT A FUNERAL NOTK. With Commissioner Greene at police headquarters watching the returns was District Attorney Jerome. When the election of McClellan was assured Mr. Jerome was asked If he had any-' 1 thing to say. ^“Not a funeral note he replied. itAii nm * Tragedy. IN AM OWSN BOAT A Boy. Drifted Over Fits Hundred Miles on the Ocean, 1 never saw any land night, and the ship after tliat BUT WAS RESCUED AT LAST. He Waa Neatly Starved to Death When Picked Ifp-rOff the • Cnaat of Georgia Steamer. by a mer That’s what he did all right,” said - “but you didn’t show tbe Fraser, but you exact way it was done. Now here,” be Continued as the men in the saloon gathered around^the pair. ‘‘Suppos ing you are the- man that was killed and I am tba villain. First I pick up this here butcher knife from the free uuch counter. That’s to nu.ke it seem more real. Now, then, you are in my power. .I have you where we are alone. Die!” ^ . . As he said this Fraser brought the knife down toward Barrett’s left side and at tbe same moment the young man, at make the illu.tratioo more dramatic, sprang forward as if to re sist the attack. In doing so. he lunged against the knife and it penetrated his left side just below tbe heart. With a scream of agony he fell to tbe tloor. Those in tbe salqpo fled to tbe street, panicstrlcken. Fraser followed them and disappeared. While tbe police arrived Barrett was uncon scious. He was taken to the Eastern District hospital, where he died. A Deplorable Accident. While engaged in moving a -freight car on the side-track at tbe Middle- burg mill Mr. James Kneece, a highly respected citizens of Batesburg met with a very serious if hot fatal acc - In, going down a rather steep the car gained Buffi -to become unmanfipeable. e was attempting to get out of the Way Mr. Kneece’s foot slipped and he felLbeiog caught and horribly mangled benegth the woeels of the car. Thfi-rightjeg between tbe ankle and knee and the left foot were mash ed terribly. Drs. Hardin, Timmermgn and Mitchell were summoned Imme diately and did all that .human skill could do to relieve the sufferer’s paid. It is thought that both legk,wilT have to be amputated.. Democratic Judge Killed^ In a pistol duel in the voting of the 39th precinct of the Eleveni Ward at Thirteenth and Gleen streets Louisville^ Ky., Tom Kiley f the Demo cratic judge, was Tuesday shot through the head and probably fatally wounded by Jacob Kriger, the Re publican sheriff- Wm. Steveoi^ the Republican judge, was ^phsu street to enter the polls, when opened fire on him. Jacob Kriger, the Republican sheriff who was Inside the voting place, says he believed that Stevens’ life was about to be taken and he opened tire on Klley. Kriger was subsequently released on 8500 bail; > - ’ Off the coast of Georgia the stea- El Dorado, bound from Galves- saloon, wherir [ ton to New York, last week picked up About 18 men j by accident an open Cuban fishing boat, a tfyifig boy and a story of Monte Cristo improbability. Tbe story, as told by the New -York World, is bourneQout by indisputable evidence, the boy is now in a hospital in New. York and the boat is on board the El Dorado.' Here is the story as told by the World: The sole occupant of tbe boat, Jose Vega, a twelve-year-old waif of ana, had drifted in the “canoa,” the Cubans term this type of veflF sel, from Cuba to the whters of the United States. The distance of the 'A S*U Lamm. Abandoned by hertrusband ten days ago and apparently crazed by anxiety, Mrs. Susie Abrams, of New York, has jumped from a window of her rooms in aiT Eist -Fourth street tenement. She die i instantly. H> r ten-yea’-old daughter was with her when she threw ogen tbe window. When the chttd realized what her mother war about to du she grasped her skirts and exerted her utmost strength, but tbe fraptic woman beat her off and leaped out. Neighbors found tbe child on tbe sidewalk, crying over the dead body. A Gold Hide. , ^ The Columbia State says a Missouri man shipped his buggy over, tbe Mis souri, Kansas and Texas railway to a point six miles distant and then he and iUa wife decided tor' tide tu tfie tlon which Mr. McClellan- proposes buggy. The freight train was 13 hours making tbe trip, tbe doors were locked, there w;is no heat, the weather was cold and tbe two shippers almost froze to death. They are now suing the railruid company for 84,000 dam ages. They will get the mopey-rdf Missouri juries are in the business of bolding up railroads. Twelve Mew Killed. Fifty men, working on a bridge over Brarer and Trinity river railroad, t Worth,'Texaa, went down today with a falling-span. Into the river, 50 below. Twelve Were killed and y others fatally Injured. A oar derailed on the bridge and tbe k rushed through tbe bridge, oar- of it dQW«si ^ Latef;— however, a statement which he made before Low was no minated in wbicb he said that the mayor, if renominated, would be e has sa<d, beg^u by a majority of from * 26,000 {• * to 40 v 000 was shown to bim.X. * “That was my calm Judgment of the ooodltioas,”3ie said, “bat when I got into the fight my Inatlnctive judg ment was lost. It simply resolved Itself Into a question of whether you could not pot out a soaked principle to be supported by an unlovable man.’'- - / ' . • i> PMlol Cuter Killed. A special dispatch from Birming ham. Ala., to tbe Atlanta Journal says Dutch Oosper, a white man, shot ,” land killed Walter Curry, colored, at [Pell City. They and the negro’s two ~Bto Hkmtl While in an election discussion Tuesday at Danville, Ky., Wm. Mid dleton, aged 20, struck Fountain H. Hasty with tbe bolt of a gun/crush ing his skull. Hasty wilQdto. brothers were coming borne from a cotton gin at Eason ville and a dispute arose over a trifling matter. Tbe ne gro palled a pistol on Coe per. Tbe latter jerked it from bis hand shot t thirsty, and killed him. He was then com^j-dj-juk. ’ peiled to flee for his life from the en raged brothers. drift had been 520 miles, the time six days^for the), Gulf stream,.sweeps things along at tbe rate of eighty miles a day—and the boy during this interval had been without .food or drink, Capt. C. D. Prescott, El Do rado, calls it the most remarkable drift Within his knowledge. - GARMENTS BIS ONLY FOOD. When the boy started involuntarily from Havana on bis trip through tbe Florida Straits he wore a pair of to users and a red shirt. Capt. Pres cott found him with only a ragged remnant of the trousers. In his per- isblng'hunger the castaway bad eaten his garments. He bad also tried, to quench an agonizing tuirst with salt water, which had made him delirious, and caused bis lips to swell and crack and big eyes and skin to become in flamed. The brown skin of the Cuban boy peeled qff in patches, his Jflack ha'r had beeu bleached a yellow brown and big body Tbad wasted to a skele- toO, : •_ \ . After the rescue the bit of human flotsam revived, under tbe skilful treatmentr of Capt. Prescott, with wonderful rapidity. He was.picked in August 10. After he was taken tbSti Vincent’s hospital, Joke, who speaks only Spanish, was able to tell h% story, w^iicb he- interrupted with constant appeals for food. Tbe doc tors would , allow only a little beef Juice, broth and ice-cream. When his nurse gave him the Ice-cream his dark eyes lighted up^bls face broke into smiles and be said: “Mautecado ferie!” (cold ice-cream.) Thereafter be kept calling in Spanish for “More cold ice-cream.” CASTAWAY TELLS HIS STORY. Jose is a bright boy—a child of the Havana streets' This is bis story as told it, while lying on bis cot in hospital, tea World reporter: ‘My name is Jose Vega. My father I do not remember. His name Vas Andres Vega. He was a fisherman and the canoa’ belonged to him. My father sold the boat to a Chlnam ■ to the war. y father was a Spanish volun teer. He was killed In a fight with the Cubans at Rincon, near Havana. My mother, Luizsa Fernandez, lived until after the end of the war. 1 wept to school for three months be fore my mother died, but since her death I have not bad to go to school. “I have a married sister, about twenty years old, but she lives' in Mexico. 1 have no home. I don’t have to work. I sleep out of doors, sometimes In a boat, sometimes in a box and sometimes under a shack. “Friends give me a bowl of soup, or some rice and chicken or a piece Of liread, sometimes, and again I go hungry. There is always plsnty fruit and I can always find bananas, if noihlug else, “v* “Sebastian Is another boy with whom I plfly in tbe streets and about the water. Sebastian Is a good swim mer and I can swim a little. “out AND OUT FROM THE LAND^ “I and Sebastian borrowed my fath er’s boat from~tr>e'Uhinaman. The Chinaman let u&.take it on the day that I kept going out and out from the land. “We took the ‘canoa* and went swimming off the Reina, JBattery of Havana. A breeze came up hard and turned the boat over. Sebastian swam ashore, leaving me by tbe boat. I tried to manage the boat, but could not. After a while 1 turned |t right side over and got in. “The boat kept going more out, more out, and 1 could do nothing. Once 1 jumped out and started to swim toward tbe shore, but it was too far away. Then I swam back to tbe 'canoa.’ “I had lost the oar. Tbe other fellow had left me and I could not manage it alone. “1 went to sleep that night and I wasn’t hungry at first. Next day tbe sun wa* jtHirnlng. I got hungry, but there was nothing to eat, and I was but there wajs nothing to trousers, that first save me was the'flrst I saw.” After drifting through the Straits of Flordaj by-the Florida Keys and by the Great Bahamas, swept north ward by tbe friendly Gulf Stream, Ei Dorado steamed in tbe lad’s way. Tbis part of the story was to’d by Captain Preston, of tbe Morgan liner.* “It was about 4 p. m., on August 10, and we were in latitude 30.51 and longitude 79.32,” be said. ~ “It was as hot a day as ever I remember, tbe s -a lay in a dead calm and tbe sun sborct - ed the deck with such force that «e had to keep under tbe awnings. ] heard tbe lookout call out, ‘Small boat off tbe starboat bow!’ About a mile off i here lay a little open dug-out, apparently empty. . “We’ll run up close to her and see wbat sbe has aboard,” I said. The quartermster laughed, remarking that it would be a waste of time. 1 or dered the course changed, and he put tbe wheel over. Within half a mile of the dug-out I saw raised above the gunwale a head and knew that some body was aboard. “As the steamer rounded to and ran past the boy raised hlm$elf aod weakly waved bis bands, I ordered Second Officer Van Beek, wlth*two sailors, awav In a boat. Wben they reached the dug-out the boy had dis appeared. They found him up to his neck in the salt water. He was cling ing to tbe gunwale and screaming with main pain as the salt ate into bis blistered sVin and swollen flesh. RESCUE OF THE BOY. “Sticking up in tbe boat was a small crotcbed stick with some fish Hues, without books, wound around it. That was all the boy had for a signal of distress. The boy was com pletely naked with the exception of a torn piece of a pair of pantaloons. His body was so blistered that I should have thought be would have drowned himself bn account of the! pain. “When Mr. Van Beek brought the boy aboard |ie fell to tbe deck in a faint. 1 took him to my own room and gave hlmeome water and, after a while, aa much food as I thought be ought to have. If you could have seen blm eat you would not have thought there was anything the ter with him, but be hasjteen mhi or legs delirious ever since he name on HOW THEY VOl’Kl). A Summary of tka Results of Lost , '- Week’s Station. MARYLAND 0018 DlMOCRiTIC Kantaeky la Alao la the Democratic Colamn, bat Oblo and Other titatee Stick to the Ra- pablican Party. . % board. The boat, which Captain Prescott will keep- as a souvenir, is very old. It is 14 feet long^ 3 feet 4 inches wide at the--brood’.’ek part and is scooped out of a an immense Cuban tree. On each side of the stern is tbe- name “Relamaco (skylight.) On the bow is the t$gjiairy number in the Havana office of fisheries records, “F. 2,340.” “F” refers to the folio of the records. “H »w do you like New York?” lit tle Jose was asked. ~ ; “I like it very, very much,” he re plied. “I should like to stay here and go to school, and when l grow up I should like to be a sailor.*’ The sister In charge of the Ward wound up a large music box. Jose forgot tbe pain in bis legs. ,! He laughed, shut his eyes and, maybe, dreamed that he was in heaven.7-New York World: — Fell in tbe Water. AtrNew York a sixteen-year-old messenger boy for tbe banking firm Of Bolognesi & Co., carelessly tossed a bag containing 86,000 in gold from tbe deck of tbe Ellis Island ferry boat to Policeman Meyer, who wag on tbe pier to escort the lad to bis employers’ office. .The messenger’s aim was bad and the 86,000 disappeared in the wa ter, leaving only a trail of bubbles. Twelve fishermen were soon at work trying to recover it. expecting a large reward. George Pinkerton, an ex press agent, brought up the treasure. He received 820 for his trouble, the others received the banl thanks. ^ * . Fooled With a Gun. A dispatch ttem Beaufort to the Augusta Chronicle says Austin Le- aged 16, and Robert Seabro 4c, 19,' both colored, attended- a dance near Eddlogs’ Point, On their way borne they stopped at tbe Shop of Kit Cbopliq, wbicb is located on the Mary Jenkins plantation, St. Helena Island. A shotgun was standing be hind the counter. Legare pulled It over the counter by tbe end of the barrel, which caused it to i load of buckshot blew off tbe right side of the face of Seabrook, who was standing near by, and in stantly killed him. Tbe following is a summary of tbe election held in several stales on Tuea- diy of Hut week: IN NEW YORK CITY. George B. McClellan, Democrat, elected mayor ,by a majority of proba bly 7C,000, which means the resurrec tion of Tammany"(fid It* restoraUoo to power In the GCfiOter eity. McClellan stands for Democracy, a complete administration of tbe city’s affairs, Tammanyism and the elimina tion of Devery and the grafters. Low stood for Republicanism', antl- Tammanytsaond the “reformation” of New Yoik,- “Devery, who declares be has been counted down and' out forever from politics and will retire, stood for ‘Deveryism,” while the fusloniste paid bis campaign expenses because every vote for Devery was a vote for Low. IN MARYLAND, Returns in Maryland show the elec tion of Edwin Warfield, Democrat, and the control of the legislature. Warfield has carried Baltimore by 6,000. Returns are very slow, as the ticket was long and tedious to count. ! Stevenson A. Williams, Republican candidate for governor, was confident until Wednesday, when’ be gave up hope. Williams stood for Republican ism and an endorsment of Roooevelt negro policy,, social and poll equality. WarflehTstands for Democ racy and white supremacy in Mary land. Tbe election of Warfield and his ticket means tbatl Roosevelt has beeu repudiated by Maryland. The legislature, wbicb. Is Demo- ckftlc, wll} elect a successor to United States Senator McComas. who ia a Republican. \ IN OHIO. lx Republican by 100,000, though tbe Republicans claiin 125,000. Colonel Myron l*. Herrick Is elected governor, tbe legislature la Republi can and tbe Station of Mark tf*wi>*. certain.,, 7 - Tom L.'Johnson Is badly defeated. The plurality on Joint ballot of lob in legislature is^three times os great a victory as ever won in Ohio. # The principal feature in tbe contest In Ohio was the fight to eleot Hanna and tbis has been accomplished with apparent ease. Hie Democrats prac tically admitted tbe defeat of John son, but to tbe very last declared that their candidate for the senate, John H. Clarke, would be elected. Tbe ttgbt between Hanna and Clarke was one of tbe-bittereetever waged in the state. v IN RHODE ISLAND., The returns show the re-ejection of Governor Garvin, Democrat, In Rhode Island .Jthough admitted by bis. friends to be at a greatly reduced plurality. Tbe Republicans made steady gains la this state. Ia Providence Mayor Miller, Demo- | crat, was elected. IN NEBRASKA. _ ' hure, aged ' 4' i Fell oa Darby. G. T. Darby, of Phoenix City, Qa. r w!as working at the bottom of a 40-foot well at bis borne the ’windlass broke and tbe bucket wbicb war near the top fell dovro like a meteor. He saw it coming and threw up bis arm and broke He force. Darby was dazed fora while, but soon recovered con-- bclousoess and oiimbod fib Iba aartaoe by means <4 a rope which was lot down to him. X “I kept getting worse and" worse, and by and by I didn’t, remember much. I don’t remember wbat day I went swimming off the Reina Battery., but it was as much as six-days ago. “When I got sp thirsty that I couldn’t wait any longer I drank salt water. When tbe sun burned me so bad I would drop over the ‘nance’ and hang down in the water on the ebiidy side of the boat as much as 1 could. ' SAVED BY FIRST SHIP HE SAW. “I got so bangry that first I ate my •bin and Umh I ate a part of my Told to Leave. Excitement prevails among the col ored citizens of Morgan Park, Illinois, as > tbe r :sult of tbe pasting of placards throughout tbe town giving notice to .all colored persons that they will be allowed furty-eigbt hours to leave tbe place. Several families have already left, taking with them whatever goods they could conveniently carry, and it is expected that, others will follow tbeir example. Tbe order to leave is tbe outcome of tbe murder of Chief of Police Alrey Saturday night by Mack Wiley, who, with several other of his colored friends, was out on a hallo we’en frolic. ^ ' Fatal Election Row. V ■' .j,:-- —X In a fatal election row Tuesday morning at Fojrvlew, Teon., two men killed and one fatally and one seriously Injured. Tbe trouble arose by Republicans about tbe polling place I'bjecttRC to 0. P. Roller serving Republican judge. He bad beeu leoted by the Democratic election 00m- mtssioaers. John Ooborne and Ezek- lal Nichols, the dead men, were Dem ocratic judges. J. H. Catron fatally Injured^ shot Osborne and Nickels and they shot him In tbe neck. Fair- view la a remote mountain settle ment. The home of~ Bryan has been cap tured by the eoemy and the Republi cans have carried tbe state by 10,000 plurality. Republicans claim tel have elected the entire state Republican tiqket without a single exception. The claims of the Republicans are oorne cut by tbe polls printed by tbe leading newspapers of the state. ' IN NCW JSBSKY. ' '—, Very light vote was cost in New Jersey,** the contest was almost purely of local Interest only. It 1* positive that tbe Republicans control > ib houses of tbe legislature, proba ble with slight gains over two years ago. ' ... - j IN PENNSYLVANIA. Pennsylvania sticks to Quay, piling up a plurality of more than 100,000 and these figures may be increoaid full- returns are received, to 1,000. Philadelphia elected all Re po bl lean city officera. Tbe entire state shows gains for Republicans. IN IOWA. / Tbe Republicans carried everything sight, re-electing Governor Cum- mings by a majority of 60,000 dr more. The boose will bave-82 Republicans and 18 Democrats and tbe senate will have 40 Republicans and 10 Demo crats '— IN COLORADO. Republican victory is complete In Colorado, though the vote was very light. Tbe vote has been light throughout tbe state and returns are. very incomplete. The Daily News (Democrat) concedes tbe election of Campbell. The Republican state committee claims Campbell’s election by 5,000 to 7,000 plurality over Wtt- ison. IN MASSACHU0BTTS. Massachusetts is Republican by good figures, though the ton went Democratic by 1 obe. John L. Bates, Rej irnor, defeating William A. Goa* . Democrat. * X? IN KENTUCKY. Governor J. 0. W. Beckham elected In Kentucky, after emtest with Colonel Be