c. Founded in 1800.] VOL. Keir—No. 1‘5. , .477, Entertaining and I nstmetive Home J carnal; Espébially Devoted to Local .N'ews and Interests. N ORWALK, CONN., FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1892. [$1.00 a Year. PRICE TWO CENTS. The Dailv Gazette 13 issued very week-dag; at 3 P. -M., at one can? run com. The Cheapest Rates fer Advertising. and run LARGEST cmcuurlox. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday's Dazlv.) Is issued overuFridaz/ at Noon. at. Two cnnrs ran corv. on $1.00 ran mm. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers a: Tax caxrs ran wsnx. on 54.00 PEP. man. A. H. erxoron. Proprietor. JOB PRINTING. Mn. Hannv M. Gannxnn. JIL. formerly of New York City. is the superintendent of our rinting Departments. He is an experienced Book, Job and Newspaper Printer. and all work entrusted to him will be satisfactorily done. Special care and attention given to ellracu AND socmrr surmise. For the accommodation of our patrons, the business oflice of the Daily Gazette will be open every evening from. 7 till 9'12. 1n. A Government-built Ship. The newly launched cruiser Raleigh, when completed and equipped, will be the first war vessel of the new Navy to be turned out wholly at the Govern- ment’s own works and without the help of any outside contractor. The navy yard at Norfolk will have the honor of her construction, and she will put to sea from that port. Instead of being towed to Brooklyn to receive her en- gines and machinery, the latter will be brought to Norfolk to be put in the ship; and an excellent cruiser of her class the Raleigh promises to be. The act authorizing the construction of the vessel was approved September 7, 1888, and the appropriation was lim- ited to $1,100,000, but no bids were ob- tainable at this price, and the Secretary of the Navy ordered the two , cruisers provided for in the act to be built at the New York and Norfolk navy yards, respectively. The sister of the Raleigh is the Cincinnati. now building at New York. - There have been expended on the Raleigh thus 'far abbut $628,000 and something over $500,000 in addition to the original appropriation will be re- quired to cover her. final cost, including armament. She will be faster than the Atlanta or Boston, though of about the same tonnage, and will carry a larger number of lighter guns. Of the ser- viceability of such a vessel in time of war there can be no question, and in the Raleigh and Cincinnati the fleet will have two valuable accessions. Some Norwalk Cats Needed. The Eastern papers .record that. the Essex Riverside cemetery, is so in- fested with snakes that people dread more than ever to go there, and that forty-two serpents were slaughtered in one afternoon recently. Now, all the terrified people of Essex need to do is to come down here to Norwalk and get the loan of the famous snake-catch- ing cats of Mrs. Wm. R. Nash, Mrs. B. B. Yale, Gen. Charles Olmstead and the office eat of the DAILY GAZETTE. With these cats let looSe in the Essex cemetery there will soon be an end of the terrifying snake epidemic raging there. - r—-<-O>—- —- . -—--- A Landscape Garden. Landlord McPherson has a well nown aptitude and taste for agricul- ural, horticultural and floricultural Matters. ‘He has just indulged his , efined and commendable tastes in rout of his famous hostlery the Nor- alk Hotel. It is true he has been -reatly circumscribed and pinched for - ant of room. But here is where his enius has triumphed over difficulties. : . has so laid out the little western .alf of his front yard as to combine the . seful and esculent vegetable with the inate and fragrant posey. Curiously, 0, he has been enabled to give full lay to his aesthetic tastes and conceits, n a most happy combination. For in- tance, to ap-peas the appetites of any 'xcessive feeder, he has put in a a due here of those succulent little globes. '9 also has “some pumpkins,” turn- . sand let-tuce ; alittle “corn-ed” salad, ne crooknecked squash, a dande-lion, tuft each of old Rye and Buck-wheat, .v reel of parties he has in mind. He as been so bothered with Beets, he ouldn’t have one in his grounds, but uek in a Be-gone-ia instead. In the oral department he has lots of Sweet v'ilhams, Larks-spur, Coxcombs, Rag- d Sailors, Adonis Carnations, Merry- olds,P0ppies, mixed in with Polly-an- us, several Roses, Wall-flowers, Lil- s, Rhoda-an-thus, Core-op-sis, Love- -s-a-bleeding, Love-in-a-mist, Daisy, eet Violets, Bal-sam, A—port-you- k-a, and although a little 011' color, llow Bells, Snowballs, Black Venus, me Glad-i-owe-less, followed by ' Matrimony vine with a Moon- 'ne plant in close proximity, 'shing with a vigorous Plumbago, ot lumbago) and a smile-ax. Of urse he,got all hls picturesque vane- of seeds at Hanfdrd’s Flural Hall. -- 'r'rn’s oflice cat that has “been and no and got” a snake. .and brought 0 wriggler into our editorial rooms.‘ this epidemic that has seized Nor- k cats continues to rage, no one will 1 safe, and sober men and women, as What’s in the air '1" Now it is the GA- ’ . as whiskey soaks, will see snakes are, _ _ ' . . ‘ _ TERSE TALES OF THE TIMES. —Last week ofPassion Play. The free wool bill passed the House yesterday. The Alpha Wheel Club will have their first run to-night. —Broken Stone for walks, drives and macadam at P. W. Bates’. 323—e.o.d. Superintendent Hoyt of the Town Farm is not so well to-day. - George Allen started on his bicycle for New York this morning. The free wool bill passed the house yesterday by a vote of 194 to 60. The Bank of England discount rate was fixed yesterday at 25 per cent. Robert L. Brotherton is' seriously ill at his residence on Harbor avenue. The Norwalk Library will be open for the distribution of booksto-morrow. Vermont’s maple sugar crop is a fail- ure. The farmers will lose $1,000,000. Monsieur de Bufi'alo (Cleveland) is a ls)ack number. Take him away !—N. Y un. Miss Zoda Coast of Pittsburgh, Pa., is visiting Mrs. Joseph Naglc of Chapel street. . Rev. Mr. Watkins of Grace church is sufl'ering from an attack of neuralgia of the bowels. The Phoenix Packing Boston and Kansas City, cute in Bridgeport, Company of Mo. is to 10'- ——Mrs.' J. Conell has removed her hair-dressing parlors from Mott avenue to No.'9 Isaacs street. The commencement exercises of the New York Homeopathic Medical Col- lege took place yesterday. The spring meeting of the Green- wich Driving Association will be held on Decoration day, May, 30. The members of the A. O. H. ,will at- tend first mass at St. Mary’s church in a body next Sunday morning. Selectmen Raymond and Daskam are quite sore and bruised from “driving over the town roads” (?) yesterday. Miss Fannie Lewis, of. Bridgeport, and Mrs. Samuel Grumman, spent yes- terday with friends on Lewis street. The cottage residence of Mrs. H. C. Allen on Cross street, is receiving a fresh dressing out in a coating of new paint. “ . . The summary of the Weekly Record for the current week shows for Nor- walk 12 real estate sales and $18,120 real estate mortgages. The ex-Confederates in the Senate opposed the appropriation for the en- tertainment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Washington. The N. Y. Chamber of Commerce has elected Whitelaw Reid to be an honor- ary member, and decided to give him a public dinner. . Brown (Rep.).has a majority of 229 in the vote for Governor of Rhode Island; his plurality over Wardwell (Dem.) is 2.079,. All young men interested in out-door sports, base ball, etc, are requested to attend the meeting at Y. M. C. A. rooms this evening at 8 p. m. It may be that the Cleveland boom has suffered no serious damage by the result in Rhode Island, but it has cert tolnly sent a red lantern gleam through 1 . . Michael Curry, 9. rich contractor of Port Griffith, Pa., while crazed by drink climbedinto a hollow tree, where he lulled himself by exploding dyna- mite cartridges. . The minstrel troupe of the N. M. I. has been disbanded owing to the fact that editor Hartstrom could not be in- duced to don a Mother. Hubbard and act as interlocutor. Pension Commissioner Raum filed papers before the House investigating committee, showing that Representa- tive Cooper’s private secretary had sold information to pensmn attorneys. The Passion Play, which has been visited by large crowds since coming to Norwalk, will open on Tuesday next in King’s building on the east end of the Woihington street bridge, South Nor- wa . A New York citv physician mistook smallpox for measles and allowed the disease to spread through a tenement in that city. One man died and five others have been stricken with the dread disease. John F. Cake, for many years lessee of Con ress Hall at Cape May and Wil- lard’s otel, Washington, died sudden- ly Wednesday evenmg‘m Philadelphia. He was born near Cape May Sixty-seven years ago. . . It is claimed that Philander. A. Streeter, of Company 0, 2d Vermont Infant; , was the first soldier sent to Libby rison ; and his picture adorns that edifice, now removed to Chicago. Mr. Streeter still hves, and 18 a paper-. maker in Holyoke, Mass. . —Read Wadhams’ ad. about Shad. “Vic.” Roth is giving away cigars to- day in honor of his birthday. Mrs. Mary J. Coggswell, aged 83, died at her- home in Cranberry Plains this mor ning. The “King’s Sons” will meet at the Congregational Parsonage, tmmorrow evening, at 8 o’clock. Mrs. LeGrand C. Betts was able to leave her room yesterday for_ the first time since her recent severe llllness. ——The Vamose Hat is a dandy for this Spring, $1.25, at Mitchell’s, Wall street. 15-2t The World and other party “ organs" are kept very busy trying to poultlce the dreadful Rhode Island sore spot. Lamp-lighter Spicer, failed to con- nect when the Gypsys passed through town yesterday and so lost another great opportunity to swa p horses. The late MB. Gnonon HOLMES left a will, which he executed some 8 years ago, in which he has made liberal pro- vision for his wife and children. ——Mr. Wm. Webb, of Stamford, grad- uate of the Merrill Business College, Stamford, Conn., has accepted to fill a position as book-keeper with :Chas. M. Slater, grocer. Five thousand four hundred and twenty-four immigrants arrived yester- day at Ellis Island. a larger number than on any other day during the past year. Marketman Wadhams is-so tender- hearted that he wighed a calf in a box this morning to prevent its being brulised by the iron platform of the sea e. _ —The Norwalk Boston Store has pur- chased, through the well-known house of W. and J. Sloan. several thousand yards of Carpet, which they are going to run off at special prices. 321-tf Charles Ball, formerly assistant post- master of Fairfield, is missing, and warrants have been issued for his arrest. He recently stole a handsome engage- rlrgielfit ring belonging to Miss Bessie a er. —The “Spring Opening” at the Nor- walk Boston store will be continued durin this week. All the selections playe by the Wheeler and Wilson band last Wednesday will be repro- duced every afternoon by the phono- graph. - _ 329-3t ——Miss 'Myrtie Byington, of Norwalk, Conn., graduate of the Merrill Busines, College, Stamford, Conn., has been placed inn. fine position as Stenogra- pher and Typewritist, with Stuart,\Var- ren 8: Co., No. 29 Howard street, New York City. Albert Wellnitz, the Cranberry Plains milkman, bought a cow at South Nor- walk yesterday and his man attempted to lead her to her new home last night. When opposite the new Club house Bossy fell down and laid there for a long time, suffering from sudden ill- ness. She righted up after a while and was taken to Dann’s stable. -—Crol‘ut A: Knapp’s Best Hats for 32.50, at Mitchell’s Hat store, Wall street. 15-215 A Norwalker visited the Washington Navy Yard a few days since and saw the new thirty-feet long, twelve inch, sixty ton guns, now being finished there. He says the Bank of Norwalk photographs show more babies com- pared with these monsters which re- quire five hundred pounds of powder to acharge and send a ball twelve miles. Representative Funston of Kansas, a Republican member of Congress, made a disgraceful exhibition of himself on the floor of the House yesterday. His remarks were so coarse and vulgar that they were ordered, by vote of the House, to be stricken from the Record. The shame and pity is that this mis- creant is the successor of the noble and erudite statesman Haskell. ‘ Henry Gibbs, aged 67,, died yester- day of pneumonia and his funeral will take place from the 2d M. E. church to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. This Good old colored man has been a resi- dent of Norwalk for many years and won the confidence and respect of all who knew him.- He leaves a wife and family in Hampton, Va.. where he had pufi'chased a little place. Peace to his as es. We saw a thirsty dog last evening jumping for all he’ was worth, up from the ground .to the top of the iron water- ing trou h in front of the M. E. church and onto ing one lap of the wasting water at each jump. How much more humane 1t would be to attach to our horse watering-tanks a small drinking ~ reseryoir near the ground as is done in most other places, that thirsty dogs mi ht also get a cooling draught. but, as is a well authenticated fact, pre- vent an dog from spontaneously going mad. \ hat member of the new bor- ough board will immortalize himself by thus helping out the thirsty dogs ? His Accounts Short. David P. Tuttle, a traveling sales- man for Coburn & Co., the coffee and spice manufaoturers of New Haven, is missing and his accounts are said to be considerably over 33,000 short. Exlt th'e Rod, Enter Electricity. The trustees of the City Home of Newark, N. . tion‘ approvmg the use of theelectric battery as a method of punishment, declaring that it is neither cruel nor in- huénan and is more merciful than the ro . * a > I" _ Not. on y would this be kind to the dogs, , - Marshall and Ferriss. J ., have adopted a .resolu-- Blotter. .ZL. 't; PlllLLEL loll. lite “Organization Completed in * Middletown Yesterday. The Standard Oil Company thought - to be in it. ;_}=A despatch from Middletown, Conn., tothe New York papers this morning announces the completion of an organ- izgrtlon of the New York’and Boston Inland Railroad Company, which 13 believed to be part and? parcel of the long struggled for, but regularly de- ' feated enterprise of building a Rapid Transit railroad line between New York and Boston. -The despatch says that Franklin Mead, of ..Boston, has been in-Middletownseveral' days past preparing papers to ‘begfiled’ With the Secretary of State, applying for a charter forvtherNew York and Boston Inland Railroad Company. The fol. lowing Board of Directors, composed of Middletown people, have been elected: Mayor D. L. Briggs, Dr. Leonard Bailey, F. H. Alford, editor of the Middletown Herald ; S. H. War- ner and E. R. White. The new organization is in the inter- est of the New York and Boston Rapid- Transit Company,which Mr. Mead rep- resents and which has a capital stock of $10,000,000. The first meeting of the Board of Directors was held this even- ing, when steps were taken to file the papers in order to secure- the charter. Albert Whitney, a brother of ex- Secretary Whitney,is one of the parties whom Mr. Mead represents as being interested in the new road, which gives a strong squint toward the enormously rich Standard Oil Co., and threatens the Consolidated with the fiercest con. test it has over yet had to defeat it. ___-_.__- - ,.____ __._ Bargains for this Week. —2000 yards more of Glenham Mills new weave, extra heavy Carpets, equal to three-ply. will be offered today at Scormnn & Hov'r’s, Norwalk and South Norwalk. Also another line of new patterns of Hartford Moquette, at reduced prices. 5000 yards of yard- wide Brown sheeting at 5 cts per yard. A Big Flour Concern. In a long article showing how the Russian famine fund committee did its work the Minneapolis Journal says : “Minneapolis can congratulate herself that she can furnish bread to the whole World and has fiour mills like the Washburn-Crosby company that can produce and ship over 20,000 barrels in a couple of days.” This flour is adver- tised in the Gazette. - —— coo—w- Easter Church—Printing. Our jobbing department is replete with all the attractions necessary for the proper, execution of such printing as is necessary for this joyous Easter- tide, and work in this special line will be done in the highest style of the print- er’s art. To this fact we invite the at- tention of all committees to whom such work is intrusted, assuring them abund- ant success. A Victory for Phelan. The decision on the demurrer entered by counsel for Secretary of State Walsh in the quo warranto suit brought against him by J. J. Phelan, was ren- der‘ed by Judge John M. Hall in the Superior Court at New Haven yester- day. The demurrer was overruled, the Court holding that it has jurisdiction. , The case will now go to trial on the facts. —— ~7-—-—<o->-—--—~~~» Three Barns Burned. Three barns in New Fairfield were burned by incendiaries early yester- day mornlng. Two were on a farm owned by Isaac S. Knapp, one of which was rented by John A. Stevens, and the other by Edward Jennings. The other barn was owned by Abel F. Beardsley. The fires were started with- in a few moments of one another and were all burning simultaneously. The total loss will reach about $5,000. --—————-——————<-o » The Census Bureau. The census bureau yesterday made publica bulletin of the six New ng- land States by color, sex and general nativity in 1890. The bulletin shows that the population ‘of the New Eng- land States, as a whole, in 1890, was 4,- 700, 705, which, compared with the pop- ulation of these states in 1880, or 4, 010,- 529, shows an increase during the de- cade of 690,216, or 17.21 per cent. The males in New Engla nd have increased 255,032, or 18.13 per cent. since 1880,the‘ whole number of males in 1890 being 2,313,755, as against 1,958,723 in 1880. There has been an increase of females in the New England States since 1880 'of 335,184, or 16.34 per cent. , the whole number of females in 1890 being 2,386,- 990, while 111 1880 they numbered 2, 051,- 806' __'____14-._ Pilgrim Council Entertainment. The entertainment given by Pilgrim Council, 0. U- A. M., at their rooms on Water street, last evening, drewalarge audience. The two farce-s, “ The Quack Doctor,” and “Barber Shop,” were presented .“1 ,a first-class manner by Messrs. Beecher, Holmes, Stafford, _ Mr. Wm. Pow- ell in-his-tnck banjo playing was ex- cellent. Mr. George IngersoIl delight- ed the audience .with his banjo, songs and dancing, and D. Marshall, in his representation of “Hard Times,” convulsed the audience. ;0ne of the pleasantost features of the evening oc- curred when Beecher had finished his dancingand was going ofi the stage, and was recalled by Councillor H. F. Dans who, in a neat speech, presented him, on behalf of the Council, with an. elegant gold watch. ' A.-,~—Isn’t that aChopin piece which that young lady is ply. ing ? CriticT-It is if some ode else wr play it.-'—Fhegende don’t knowryonr honor. man, I’ll; sure I did’ntc want to come. Asleep. BY ERNEST WHITNEY. When first we heard in early spring The tender plaintive bluebird Slug, She fell asleep while listening. A slumber dreamless, calm and deep, O’er all her senses seem to creep. Day after day she holds her sleep. We laid her. for her restful hours, Within the fairest of her be wers Where brightest grew her chosen flowers. The'green grass o’er her threw his cloak. Above her bed the crocus woke. A hundred buds in blossom broke. The little birds she loved so well Sing softer for a peaceful spell That round her pillow seems to dwell. Soft summer breezes murmer nigh, The crickets chirp there drowsfly. All Nature Sings her lullaby. - Her slumber is too sweet to break, She cannot know life’s wrong and ache, And rot—0 would that she could wake. -— ~ —»—————-—< o>~——--———— THE WEATHER. The weather to-day promises to be partly cloudy and cloudy, with no de- cided thermal changes, and rain, poe- stbly followed by clearing. Tomorrow it promises to be generally colder and from partly cloudy to fair, preceded by rain on Long Island. ~- -- .. ~~~—»-<§1>— l I SOJIH NORVl ALK. The («LIZ ETI'E is on sale at the news office of Fred Coleman, JJLFlg/un, lV.L.Ather- ton, and H. E. Bodwell. Advertisements and Orders for all kinds of J on PRINT- 1N6 received I”. our branch oiflce on Ralf- road Square. “Nick” Ccl‘fy of New Haven is in town. The O. U. A. M.’s will meet this eve- ning. ‘ . . Rev. Louis French preached in Trin- ity church last evening. The U. G. T. R. A. will hold one of their popular oyster supper entertain- ments on Tuesday evening, April 26. City Surveyor and Mrs. F. S. More- hpuse are the parents of a pretty little g1rl.—Sentine1. ’ And so are several other people. The good'luck of officer Ireland in gunning is partially explained. He wears an electric belt. “A five dollar one, my lad” says he. Thos. Hefi‘eran and aDarien “un- known” propose playing a game of pool at Sather’s irrigatory this after- noon, for a pair of oxen. Connecticut pensions : Original—— Elijah S. Johnson, Thomas \Vilson, William C. Burdick, Robert Fields. Original widow’s Maria Wullschleger. The two stores in the new Fancher building, on the Washington street bridge, have been leased, one for the drug and the other for the furniture business. Henry Linxweiler, brother of “Joe,” is on the sick list. Henry has had ex- perience in everything but marriage and sickness, and his chances of recov- ery are doubtful. We were in error as to the number of b. We caught by “Judge” Knapp, as mentioned in this column yesterday. Tor twenty-seven read twenty-'eight.._ A good hunter ought to always have credit for what he kills. ~-~< 9»-——-»—--- _._,- T0 lMPliclllE ITS FERRY SERVICE. Plans of the Long Island Railroad. The purchase of the Thirty-fourth-st. and James Slip ferries by the Long Island Railroad Company was officially announced yesterday. The company took possession of the property, for- merly owned by the Metropolitan Fer- ry Company, on April 1. The proper- ty includes fifteen city lots at Thirty- fourth st. and the East River, the entire bulkhead from Thirty-third st. to the centre of the block between Thirty- fourth and Thirty-fifth sts., the entire block bounded by Lewis Seventh and Eighth sts. and the East River, includ- ing the slips there, and the property at' James Slip. In Long Island City the purchase includes over fifty city lots. The property is bounded by Borden ave., West ave., West st., and the East River, including five slips, adjoining the property now owned by the rail- road. The ferry franchise is included- in the purchase and nine ferryboats in excellent condition. ‘ The company will at once have the boats refitted, making them equal to any ferryboats on either the North. or East rivers. The slips will also be 1m- proved, and no effort will be spared, to make the entire service thoroughly elli- cient, with frequent boats and close connections with the trains. . The alter- ations will be pushed as rapidly as pos- sible. so that most of the boats will _ be in first-class condition at the opening of the summer season on Long Island on June 25. ' Frank M. Kelly, who has been con- nected with harbor transportation .for the last twenty-five years, was appomt- ed yesterday superintendent of the floating equipment of the Long Island Railroad Company, and will have under his charge all the fefryboats. tugs, floats, barges and steamboats used in connection with the business of the company and all piers and shps. The ferries now in operatIon are those at Thirty-fourth-st. and James Slip.“ The'land at Seventh-st. wrll probably be used for extra freight-houses. There has been such a large increase ,in transportation on the railroads of the company in the last few years that twenty new locomotives will be in use this summer. Ten of these have al- ready arrived, and the rest will soon be delivered. One hundred new coaches will also be put on - so as to meet all-.re- quirements for the summer sci-Vice, This service is said to be in close all:- ~ance with our Wilson Point ferry. Police judge(to prisoncr)—And what are you doing here, an? Prisoner—I Ask the police- -'-—Detroit«Free Press. ‘ portion to the possible vote. RHOQ§l§llND. PROVIDENCE, April S.—Completc re- turns from all parts of the state shown total vote on state ticket of 54,746, an in- crease of about 10,000 over the largest ever polled before. The two parties rakodcvery city and town almost bare of voters and got out an unexpectedly and unprecedently full vote, both in actual numbers and in pro- The finished returns show a great Republican victory. On the state ticket Brown, Republican candidate for gov— ‘ » .. ernor, polled 27,- 466 ; VVardwell, Democrat, $319; Gilbert, Prohibi- tionist, 1,590; Bur-, ton, People’s -can-' didate, 196, and]... ' there were 759 ’5 scattering votes. These figures show 5 — a plurality of 2,047 for Brown, and a majority of 186. Bull and Utter, Republican candidates for lieutenant gov- ernor and secretary of state, are also elect- ed by small majorities. but there is no election for attorney general and treasurer. The cities of Providence, Newport and ’Woonsocket went Democratic on the state ticket. The legislative returns show a good Republican majority in both branches already, with between fifteen and twenty vacancies yet to be filled.- In the senate the Republiains have thus far elected twenty of thirty-six members, and in the house forty-one of seventy-two members. This gives them sixty-one on joint ballot, a ma- jority of six beside the vacancies yet to be filled by second elections. Aldrich's lie-election Assured. Most of these failures to elect arc in Prov- idence and Newport. In the former city only three of thirteen members of the legis- lature were chosen, and in Newport only one of six. The other failures were scat— tered among the small towns. The control of the legislature. by the Republicans gives them the choice of their candidates for at- torney general and general treasurer, and secures beyonda doubt the re-election of Nelson W. Aldrich to the United States senate. Mayor Carroll was defeated for represen- tative in Pawtucket, and Mayor Honey failed of an election for a similar position in Newport, but has another chance on the second election on Tuesday, there being no election of any candidate for the position. . The Republicans are feeling very jubilant, as they have secured everything to be de- sired or the assurance of everything—the legislature, all their state officers and a United States senator—while the Democrats are crestfallen, having nothing to hope for from the second elections except local influ- ence and . indorsement, as the postponed trials cannot affect the result in any impor- tant respect. ‘ ALDRICH“ Louisiana Badly Split. NEW ORLEANS, April 8,—When the ma- jority of the committee of seven, three Fosterites and .Colonel Young, who had been suggested by the Foster committeef and accepted by the McEnery committee to canvass the election, had thrown out enough votes to elect Foster, it was gen. erally believed that the McEnery party' would withdraw from the contest, but after an earnest and prolonged conference with the McEnery committee, Judge McEnery . was finally prevailed upon to continue the contest. There are now two Democratic and two Republican candidates in the field for governor, with chances favoring the suc cess of Leonard, Republican. Kansas Apparently for Cleveland. TOPEKA, April 8.—Half of the 106 coun. ties in Kansasehave held their Democratic conventions to send delegates to the state convention at Salina. Every county so far heard from is for Cleveland, and many have instructed their delegates to v'ote for him. Minnesota Politics. MINNEAEOLIS, April 8,—Ex-Governor A. R. McGill is now an out and out candidate for the governorship, having announced the fact in a letter to the Topeka Union. McGill is identified with the Republican faction opposed ,to Merriam and Nelson. Yellow Fever Ravagesn BUENOS AYRES, April 8.——Lctters from Sao Paulo’say that the yellow fever is: spreading to the interior and that thevmor- . tality is something frightful. ‘ ' BRIEF BIE‘STION. Sir Julian Pauncefote called upon Presi- 'dent Harrison and Secretary,Blaine. The chief question pending in the Behring'ses negotiations is the limitation of the number 'of seals to be taken by the lessees of the Pribylov islands. .‘ ‘ . Peter Vroom, a farmer near New Bruns- wick, N. J ., committed suicide by hanging. ' The temperance advocates of Burlington, N. J ., scored a decisive victory, closing- nine teen of the saloons on a writ of certiorari, after having their petitions treated lightly by their councilmen. The city. will lose an annual revenue of $6,000. ‘ Two little children of a. colored man named Miller, at St. Louis, were left alone. During their parents’ absence the house. caught fire and the children were burned tc death. - The Camden .(N. J.) board of health are - investigating cases of butchers who sell disc eased beef, q ' ‘ - Spain has unofficially notified this gov- ernment that it disapproves of- .the efiort to establish an American consulate in the Car- oline islands. . - ' b? A two-year-old child of Patrick-McGinty ' was drowned in the creek at Mahanoy City, Pa. ‘ ‘ ' General Pierce, aged seventy years, was married 'at Freetown, Mass, to Miss Ida Estelle Gardiner, a young .school teacher, aged twenty-seven years. Among the names mentioned for the - French mission are those of Representative Hitt, of Illinois, and Joseph Medill, ofChi- , 9880- 6 . The strike of ‘ the rivérmen. at St. Louis is practically at amend. Work is bein"g‘ ro sumed allaIOng the levee. ' ~ . at St. Petersburg of 3120,0001ng A1331 sources for the Russian ' 3 Minister Smith uCknovvledges the map, ‘
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