THE POLITICAL ARENA
__—_.—
A Movement on‘Foot to Bring Harrin
son Into the Race Once More.
HIS LETTER no OBSTAGLB.
The ZEx-Preslde‘nt’s Indiana Friends Say a.
Compromise Candidate Will Be a,
Necessity ande'l‘hat He Is The
in... to Fit the Situation:
WASHINGTON, March 18. —An interest-
ing story comes from Indiana of a more
now on foot to restore General Harrison’s
name to the list of presidential possibili-
ties. According to the programme, this
is not to be done by open instructions
there or elsewhere for the ex-president,
but by an open canvass of the situation
everywhere, showing how strong he is in
the heads of all the people and how events
seem shaping themselves for the necessity
of' naming such a man at St. Louis.
Those who take this view of matters de-
clare that the hunt for delegates is grow-
ing so hot that a very complicated situa-
tion is certain to arise at the convention.
No candidate will have votes enough to
secure the nomination on the first ballot,
and the longer the contest continues the
less likely will the prize be to go to any
one of those who start in the race. Bit-
terness will have been engendered in the
primaries and elsewhere until every leader
will be at a disadvantage in soliciting
votes from among the followers of his
rivals. A compromise candidate will thus
become inevitable. Now, as these Harri-
son men insist, as the situation begins to
point to such a candidate it is the part of
wisdom to begin to consider where, when
needed, he may be found.
Why should not General Harrison be
considered? they ask. They do not regard
his letter as forbidding it. They accept
his letter in good faith and will be guided
by it. What he asserts in that is that his
name must not be used in the active can-
vass for the nomination; that he will not
antagonize any of the men who are seek-
ing the nomination. His wishes, the Har-
rison men say, will be respected. They
have no intention of using his name to
antagonize the aspirations of other men,
but only to keep, it in evidence for use in
case the active candidates, by antagonizing
one another, succeed in clearing the field
for a new man. If that situation arises,
and they think it will arise, then General
Harrison’s name will be brought forward,
but otherwise not.
The McKinley men raise their eyebrows
at this. The explanation ofiered does not
convince them.‘ ‘The move, they believe,
is sated specificallyiht‘th‘eir candidate. 'It
is‘but'ian'effort. they-sax. to enroll the ex-
'is in the city.
pi'esident afno’ng the'fav’Ori‘fe "sons 9.11%] use
him to help reduce the McKinley vote on
the first ballot. Their favorite, they say,
profited more than any other candidate by
the withdrawal of Harrison, and this be-
ing manifest the desire of his opponents is
to try and deprive him of that gain. But
they do not believe that the scheme will
work. The country, they declare, has
taken Harrison at his word, as he intended
that it should. and has ceased to consider
him as a presidential availability. More—
over. they express themselves as confident
that Mr. McKinley will win at St. Louis
not later than the third ballot.
Nebraska. and ”McKinley.
OMAHA, March 18.——-Senator Thurston
has sent from Washington his ultimatum
to the Manderson men, who bitterly resent
it, and the fight will go on. The senator
proposes that he be sent to the St. Louis
convention as a district delegate; that
John L. Webster and Peter Jansen be two
of the delegates at large. and that resolu-
tions substantially as follows be adopted
in state conventions and in all district con-
ventions: .
Resolved. That the Republicans of Nebraska
favor the nomination of William McKinley for
president. .
Resolved, That they hope all delegates from
Nebraska to the national convention will make
'every honorable effort to secure his nomina-
tion.
Resolved, That they hold in high esteem
Charles F. Manderson, and it is their wish
that the delegates to the national convention
should avail themselves of any favorable op-
portunity that may arise in the national con-
vention to urge his nomination for president.
Resolved, That the delegates to the national
convention should vote for Charles F. Mander-
son on any and all ballots when in their judg-
ment such votes so cast will not in any wise
tend to defer. the nomination of William Mc-
Kinley or lessen his chances for nomination,
but that they should vote for William McKin‘
ley on any and all ballots when in their judg-
ment such votes would promote his interests
or contribute to his nomination. ‘
Quay It) the \Vest.
SAN anxorsco, March 18.—W. H. An-
drews, ex-chairman of the Republican
state central committee of Pennsylvania,
The local newspapers say
AndreWs’ mission is 'to ascertain how the
west would view the nomination of Sena-
tor Quay for the presidency.
May Be a Lynching Bee.
SIOUX CITY, 1a., March 18.-——Miss Alice
Douglass of Akron, 1a., in Plymoth
county, was assaulted by an unknown
tramp Monday. She was waylaid while
going on horseback to giveinusic lessons
in the country. She was held prisoner all
day. She was then bound to her horse
and releasedi The horse came back to
Akron last night, dragging the uncon~
scious girl. Parties of citizens are scour~
ing the country for the tramp, and a
lynching willsno doubt follow if he is cap-
tured. ' '
Advertise in the GAZETTE.
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THERE ..IS NO NATIONAL HOLIDAY.‘
Not Even the Labor Da-y'Act Creates One.
Say the Lawyers.
There would seem to he no such-"thing
In this country as :a national holiday.
Lawyers assert that even Labor day,
which was set apart by act of congress
in 1894 in such manner as to lead the
sonfiding layman to suppose it at least
to be a national holiday, is not such
outside of the District of Columbia un{
less by state enactment. ' The creation
and regulation of holidays have been
left entirely to the legislatures of the
individual states. a
The act of congress concerning Labor
day was approved June 28, 1894. It pro-
vides “that the first Monday of Septem-
ber in each yeér, being the day cele-
brated and known as Labor day, is
hereby made a legal holiday, to, all in-
tents and purposes, in the same manner
as Christmas; Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May 30
and July 4 are ng‘w made by law public
holidays. ”
Clearly the proper construction of
this statute can he arrived at only by
reference to the provisions bearing upon
the other holidays nam 3d. The act mak-
ing holidays of Jan. 1, July 4, Christ-
mas and “any day appointed or' recom-
mended by the president of the United
States as a day of public fast or thanks-
giving” was passed in June, 1870, and
was restricted in its effect to the Dis-
trict of Columbia. These days are holi-
days in the various states only as they
are made so by the various state legis-
latures. ‘
The act of Jan. 31, 1879, makes Feb.
22 a legal holiday, and the act of Aug.
81, 1888, does the same for May 30,
and both are restricted in their applica-
tion to the District of Columbia. The
act referring to Labor day says nothing
about the District of Columbia, but it
does say that the first Monday of Sep-
tember shall be a legal holiday, “to all
intents and purposes, in the same man-
ner as Christmas, Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May
30 and July 4 are now made by law
public holidays. ”
The intents and purposes for which
and the manner in which those days are
made holidays. are expressly limited to
the District of Columbia, and so, by
necessary inference, is the act referring
to Labor day. '
The misleading language of the Labor
day act has led to a prevalent statement
that the first Monday of September is a
holiday throughout the United States
by congressional enactment. —N ew York
Tribune. -
Don't Keep Track of Dates.
“It’s a peculiar matter, but neverthe-
leSs true, that not one—half of the color-
ed people who come before me have any
idea as to the time when they were
born or, in fact, the date of any par-
ticular event,” said Magistrate Jermon
to a Philadelphia Call reporter. “I fre-
quently have occasion to ask colored
women how. old they are, and almost
invariably the answer comes, ‘Don’t
know. ’ Frequently I ask them how long
they have been married, to WhiCh I get
the same reply.”
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fiLOANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE.
”CORRESPONDENCE SOL/CITED,
,of plotting with the exi.ed anarchist Cyp-
.the cordial welcome‘ given to the Marquis
' had been voted unanimously, the crowds
THE EVENmeAzEm—i ;_ .
‘ [nut/lam FIGHT
The War In Abyssinian toBe Renewed
With Redoubl‘ed Vigor.
BOMB MADLY ENTHUSIASTIO
An Ovation For.Prime Minister Rudini In
the Chamber of Deputies “'lien
He ,Makos the AnnOuuceincnt.
Credit Una ni mously 'aioted.
ROME, March 18.—The Socialists of this
city turned out in force today to welcome
back to Home the leader of their party,
Giuseppe (ls/Felice, the Sicilian, formerly
a member of the chamber of deputies, who,
early in 1894, was arrested on the charge
rian and Signor Casilli, another deputy,
the overthrow of the monarchy, and just
released under the recent amnesty decree.
De Felice and a number of his followers
wore convicted and sent to prison. While
there several of them were elected to the
chamber of deputies, including De Felice,
Barbato and Bosco. On July 18, 1895,
the chamber annulled their elections on
the ground that they were convicts. The
Socialists, however, asserted that the pris-
oners were sentenced by a military tribu-
nal, and that their offenses were Of a purely
political nature. In consequence it ‘Was
expected today that the three would appear
in the chamber of deputies, when the new
cabinet was to make its first appearance,
and take their seats, at least until an
amendment is reported unseating them.
When the Socialist leaders reached the
railroad station after their release, they
found about solid-of their followers as-
sembled with flagsand music, determined
to show the adherents of Signor Crispi
that their leader was in truth overthrown.
Here and there a black Or red flag fluttered
in the air, notwithstanding the orders of
the police, and loud cries of “Long live
Rudini,” “Down with Crispi,” were
heard. _
A Socialist Outbreak.
The cheering for Socialism, De Felice
and Rudini became a roar as the Socialist
leaders left the station and entered a car-
riage in waiting for them. The Socialists
made a rush [or the carriage, dragged the
horses from the bars and pulled the ve-
hicle in triumph through the principal
streets to the chamber of deputies.
Contrary to general expectation there
was no very great demonstration when the
Socialist deputies, including De Felice,
Busco and Barbsto. entered the house.
They Were applauded by their own party
and were loudly cheered by the Socialists
who had accompanied them to the house
from the depot.
The entry of the new ministers into the
chamber of deputies was greeted Fith loud
applause from their supporters. .
The premier, Marquis di Rudini, made
a statement in regard to the disastrous
battle of Adowah. He said that after the
defeat the cabinet had adopted resolutions
leaving General Baldisscra free to take
proper measures to meet the situation, in—
cluding abandoning Adigrat and Kassala
if the general. judged such measures-to be
expedient. On March 8.. the premier con
tinued,‘ General Baldissera was instructed
to treat for peace on the best terms obtain-~
able, and the premier assured the house
the present cabinet would continue the
peace negotiations with prudence and dig—
nity. '
This statement was received with ap-
plause from those in favor of a peace policy
and with cries of disgust and derision from
the deputies favoring a vigorous colonial
pulley, and a strong effort to retrieve the
disaster suffered at Adowah.
The premier waited, smiling at the dis-
turbance, until the uproar had subsided,
and then he remarked significantly:
The “far to Continue.
.‘._‘:~Bnt the got ernment is now convinced
that in lieu of a treaty of peace hurriedly
made it would be far preferable to first es-
tablish a state of things agreeing with
Italy’s interests, and in the meanwhile
hostilities must continue.”
No sooner had the premier made the an-
nouncement that the African campaign .
would be pushed than there was loud
and continued cheering from the so called
military party and loud cries of dissent
from the peace party.
Once more the premier waited until he
was able to make himself heard, and then
he said that Italy would never pursue a
policy of expansion. She did not wish to
conquer the Tigre district and did not de-
sire to include an Italian protectorate of
Abyssinia among the conditions of peace.
But the dignity and honor of the country
must be upheld. ' ,
The premier then asked the chamber for
a credit of 140, 000,000 lire for the expenses
of the army in Africa and to send addi-
tional troops there should such astep turn
out to be necessary. ‘
In conclusion, . the premier made a
strongly sympathetic appeal to the cham-
ber for concordand concludeggvith the re-
mark: ‘
“Let us follow the same prudent course
in Our foreign policy as that which has
heretofore secured us friends and alli—
anode.”
_ The Credit Voted Unanimously.
The marquis seemed actually astonished
at the excitement which his words had
caused. He received a perfect ovation
from all parts of the house, the deputies
rising and cheering wildly for Italy, the
Italian army and the premier.
Later the credit of 140, 000,000 lire asked
for by the Marquis di Rudini was voted
unanimously, and this called forth another
prolonged scene of enthusiasm.
All the new cabinet ministers shared in
di Rudini, and when the public outside
the chamber of deputies heard the news
that the war was to be pushed and that
the credit asked for by the government
joined in the cheering for the premier and
for Italy and her soldiers until the whole
neighborhood was greatly excited and
most highly enthusiastic.
Miss Drake \Vill Christen the Iowa.
DES MOINES, March 18.-—Governor
Drake, has received from . Secretary Her-
bert of the navy an invitation to be pres-
ent at the launching of the battleship
Iowa. Miss Mary Lord Drake, daughter
of the governor, is at the same time invited
to Christen the ship. Governor Drake will
accept theinvitation for March 28 and be
accompanied by his staff and many prom-
inent men of Iowa. Action has also been
taken by the legislature looking to the
presentation of a silver service to the ship’s
equipment.
Convicted of Abduction.
SUMTEBVILLE, Fla.,~March 18.—James
Hopson, Dabney B. Palmer and Bill Hen
derson were convicted yesterday of the ab-
duction of Miss Grace Darrell, after a trial
lasting nearly a week.
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, rennet recrnsis.
She Asks England the 'Meaning of the
Expedition to Dcngola.
PARIS, March 18.-—ld. Berthelot, min-
ister of foreign afi'airs, had an interview
with the Marquis of Dufferin, British em.
bassador, this forenoon and asked the rea-
sons for Great Britain’s sending anexpe-
dition to Dongola. He pointedly called
Lord Dufferin’s attention to the gravity oi
the consequences of such a step.
LONDON, March 17.——All the Egyptian
‘ troops in Cairo will go to the frontier. Be-
yond the details of the preparations and
the means of transit that will be employ.
ed, there is no news of moment concerning
the expedition. There is an almost com-
plete absence of enthusiasm on the subjcci
in the London press. The Times, whicl.
of all the papers most strongly favors the
venture, advocates allowing Egypt even-
tually to reconquer the Sudan. Elsewhere
the feeling is expressed that the brie)
statement made in the house of common:
by Mr. Curzon does not supply sufficient
data to enable a definite judgment to be
made.
The Standard justifies the advance be
cause the military advisers of the govern-
ment recommend it.
The Daily News says that if real danger
exists the}: country will support the gov‘
ernment if the dispatch of the expedition
is an act of prudence and not of reckless
adventure.
The Chronicle takes the most gloomy
view of the matter. It says that the coun
try is committed to unknown perils and is
drifting it is not known whither.
The Manchester Guardian says that it is
widely believed that the price of the sup
port given by Austria and Germany tc
England’s remaining in Egypt is Great
Britain’s armed assistance to Italy; hence
the Nile expedition. The statement made
in the house of commons yesterday by Mr.
Curzon, undersecretary to the foreign
office, The Guardian says, was merely a
pretext.
JOINBD THE SALVATIONISTS.
Dr. Clark, Father of the Christian En-
deavorers, Becomes a. Miember.
BOSTON, March 18.—The Rev.
Dr.
Francis E. Clark, known all over the .
world as the father of the Christian En-
deavor, and the president of the National
Society of Christian Endeavor, has joined
the Salvation Army.
“The report is correct, ” he said yester-
day, “but it means only this—that I have
become an auin- .
iary member, like
several thousand
other persons in
this country v E; .,
like myself, 53.31;-
pathize with the
object of. the Sal- 5 _,.
vation Army, ap- -"'--‘
preciate the work
for God which the
members are do-
ing, and are glad
to help them with
symp..1hy and by means of regular pledgeo
contributions. While I do not wish to be
understood as taking sides in the matter
at all, my sympathy, so far as I have any
to express, Would be with the position
which Major Brewer has taken, as ex-
pressed by him in his ’addresses in New
York and later here in Boston.”
THEY MADE BOGUS COINS.
Secret Service Officers Gather In a. Sliciz
Pair of ‘Counterf’eiters.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 18.—The Uniteo
States authorities here have arrested W.
L. Pease and his wife, charging them with
counterfeiting. Pease was caught at the
Burlington, freight ofiice, where he went
to claim a.box shipped from Omaha tc
“William Herbig.” This box was seized
and opened. It was found to contain a
quantity of tools and paraphernalia for
molding metal, and .half abushel of spuri-
ous dollar and half dollar coins. The
counterfeits are very clever imitations.
Pease’s wife was captured at a boarding
house, and there, too, the officers found a
quantity of counterfeit money. Two of
their accomplices, one known as W. L.
Herb, and another whose name is un~
known, succeeded in making their escape
through a rear door of the house.
Mrs. Pease confessed, saying that the
men had made the coins in Omaha, and
that a considerable amount of stufi had
been passed there. She says her home is
in Chicago, and that the gang have all
passed much of the spurious coin there.
Pease is 32 years-of age, dresses well and
is of fine appearance. He claims to be a
nephew of John 0. Clay of Plattsburg
and Tom Gordon of Liberty, both well
known Missouri bankers.
THE CONVENTION 0]? LONDON.
President Kruger Notified by England
That It \Vould Not Be Modified.
LONDON, March 18.-—The secretary Oi '
state for the colonies, Mr. Joseph Cham-
berlain, was questioned today in the house
of commons regarding the dispatch from
Pretoria dated March 13, which stated that
Mr. Chamberlain had suggested to Presi-
dent Krugcr the possibility of abrogating
the convention of London if the Transvaal
redresses the grievances of the uitlanders,
grants the franchise to British subjects in
the Transvaal and suggesting a treaty of
aimty by which Great Britainwould guar-
antee the independence of the Transvaal.
Mr. Chamberlain said that President
Kruger had been distinctly told that Great
Britain would not entertain a proposal to
modify the convention. '
Still Stuck In the Ice.
ERIE, March 18.—The car ferryboat
Shenango No. 1 is still in the ice fioe in
which she was bound. Mate Isaacs and the
three seamen came ashore at Northeast
and succeeded in reaching the boat with a
sledge of provisions Se turday. They have
since returned. She lies about 1‘4. miles
out in the lake. Her captain says that he
has coal enough to last ten days longer,
but not enough to make port.
No Spanish Privateers.
MADRID, March 18.——The Heraldo asks
the government to disavow the suggestion
recently made in the British house of com—
mons by Mr. Balfour, the government
leader, that in the event of war between
Spain and the United States the former
would not fit out privateers to prey upon
American commerce.
The Cuban War.
HAVANA, March 18. —It is announced
that the insurgents have killed 14 farm
laborers at Palmire, province of Matanzas,
and it is added that the local guerilla force
which went to the assistance of the men in
danger were‘ fired upon with the result
that five of their number were killed.
Higbie's Good Roads Bill.
ALBANY, March 18.——Senator Higbie’s
good roads bill as progressed exempts 29
counties and will probably be killed when
it comes up for final passage.
Grief Prostrates Ellen Terry.
CHICAGO, March 18.—Miss EllenTerry
is prostrated by the death of her favorite
sister, Mrs. Florence Morris; She denied
herself to callers and kept her room all
yesterday. Her role in “King Arthur”
was taken by Miss Maud Milton. It was
rumored last evening that Miss Terry
would return to England without com-
,pleting her projected tour. The manager
of the company denied-the report.
Coughea Up’a Tooth.
CALLICOON,N. Y., March 18.—Miss Flora
Payne, who has been ill for a year and a _
half, and was believed to be dying from
consumption, during asevere paroxysm of
coughing- yesterday coughed up a tooth
and is now improving. It is supposed
that Miss Payne swallowed the tooth 18
months ago, when she had several teeth
extracted by a dentist.
Shot Husband and “’ife.
DETIOIT, March 18.—Fred Seifferlein
and wife were shot today by Emil De Faw
at Leesville, in a quarrel over amortgage.
Seifi‘erlein was shot through. the legs and.
abdomen but will» probably recover. His
wife’s wounds are in’the abdomen and are
thought to be fatal. Both are in the hos
pital and, De Few is in jail.
PRANKS OF SCOTTISH FAIRIES.
A Firm Benet In the “Fair FolkWStill
Lingers. .
There still lingers awidespread belief _
in the north of Scotland that the “fair
folk, ” or “gweed neebors, ” as the fairies ‘
are called, still live in the hills, and.‘
during the first days of convalescence at
mother must be zealously guarded lest I
one of the “wee people” come and rob
the child of its nourishment. Some-
times they succeed in carrying off the
mother. I-Iere is one of the Superstitions
legends:
A north country fisher had a. fine
child. One evening a beggar woman
entered the but and went up to the
cradle to gaze into the eyes of the babe.
From that time good-health left it, and
a strange look came into its face, and.
the mother was troubled. An old man
begging for food passed that'way. When
he caught sight of the child. he cried:
“That’s use a buirn. It’s an image,
and the gwced folk has stoun his
speerit. ’ ’
Thereupon he set to work to recall
the fisher ’s bairn. A peat fire waslheaped
high on the hearth and a black hen held ‘
over it at such a distance that it was
singed and not killed. After some strug-
gling the hen escaped up the lam. A
few moments elapsed, and then the par~
cuts were gladdened by the sight of a
happy expression once more on the
child’s face. It throve fromthat day
forward—Scottish Review. ‘ '
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NOT—CE
Special Torn lieeting.
The inhabi‘ants of the Town of Norwalk are
hereby notified and warned that a specie
town 1r eeting will be held in the Town Housei
in said Norwalk. in Monday the 23d day of
March, 1896, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. for
the following purposes. to wit— 7
To rtpeal so much of the vote of said town
passed at its annual business meeting held on
the 20th dav of January, 185:6. authorizmg and.
directing the Se‘ectmeu to cause to be im-
proved a certain highway according to the
prov-sions of Chapter CCCXV of the Pubic
Acts of this State of the year 1895, entitled
"An Act to Provide for the Improvement of .
Public Roads,” as reads as follow 5, viz:—
“ihat certain highway known as the Connecti-
"cut Turnpike. beginning at the city line
"of the City of South Norwalk about 140
“feet West of . Taylor Avenue and extend-
"ing Easterly as far as on be done with
"the sum of money appropriated therefor,”
and in the place and stead thereof to designate
and direct some other highway or section of
highway to be improved according to the
provisions of Said vote and public Act. .
Dated at Norwalk, this 17th day of March
1896. ' ' ' '
Isaac SELLECK. _ Selectmen ‘
Ernasm Tnomns, Town of
FRANK H. MERRILL, Nor-walk.
Norwalk Chronicler