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THE DEMOCRAT. B. H. ADAMS. Publisher. CAPE GIRARDEAU. - ?.!!' S"URI. Thk strike of the bakers in Madrid became general, on the 29th, and it was difficult to procure bread in the city. Soldiers were put to work as bakers. A dispatch from London, on the 1st, said: "The prince of Wales has sold his yacht Britannic, but the name of the purchaser has not been made known." A mkdal of honor has been pre sented to Maj.-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, U. S. A., retired, for most distinguished gallantry, while in command of the third army corps at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1803. Tile monthly statement of the direc tor of the mint, issued on the 1st, showed that the coinage executed dur ing October aggregated S"S,4UG,500, as follows: GoUI.83,845,000; silver, 82,301, 000; minor coins,;S:.'80.000. Saxon Puigcebvkh, Spanish minister of finance, declared, on the l!0th, that in view of the "satisfactory news from Cuba and the United States and the Philippine islands' there is no imme diate necessity for the issue of a fresh loan. Henbv Geobge, the caudidate of the Jeffersooian democracy for mayor of Greater Xew York, died in the Union Square hotel in tUat city, on the 2'Jtk, at 4:45 a. m. Death was due to cerebral apoplexy, superinduced by overwork in the campaign. Lieut.-Col. Randall, will have at his command 200 reindeer trained to har ness, and two Lapps aud several Eski mos, experienced in driving deer, with which to relieve starvation in the Yu kon valley this winter aud thus pre vent untold misery. The comparative statement of the receipts ami expenditures of the United States, issued on the 1st, showed that the total receipts for the mouth of Oc tober were $!4.391,415, aud the expendi tures $1,701,012, making the excess of expenditures over receipts for the month S'J,3-'0,yu7. The interest of the United States government in the Union Pacific rail road terminated, ou the 1st, when, at the foreclosure sale at Otnalia, .Neb., under the mortgage held by the United States, the road was purchased by the committee of eastern capitalists formed for its reorganization. The action of Bay conference in sus pending Rev. Charles O. Brown for un miuisterial conduct was sustained, on the 29th, by the mutual council of the Congregational church, in session in Chicago.which had been reviewing the case. The council acquitted Dr. Brown of the most serious charge. The municipal election in Greater New York, on the 2d, resulted in the choice of Robert A, Van Wyck for mayor, the vote for the three more prominent candidates being: Van Wyck, 235,181; Low, 14S..M3; Tracy, 101,823. Tue vote for George was a disappointment to his friends. The 1776 stone house at Tappan, X. Y-. was blown down by the wind on the 2d. This is the house where Maj. John Andre was imprisoned, and from which he was taken to his execu tion on October 2, 1780. It was owned by Dr. Stepheus, of Tappan, aud has been visited by people from all over the world. Sib Wilfred Laurier and Sir Louis Davis will leave Ottawa, OnU, on the bth, for Washington, to attend the con ference between experts of Great Brit ain and the United States, regarding seal life in Behring sea. J. X. Mc Couu, the Canadian expert, and Mr. R. N. Vennin, chief clerk of the fisheries (ibpartment, will accompany the min isters. The new congressional library at Washington, which had been in course of construction for six years, was opened to the public ou the 1st. There were no ceremonies of any kind. All the departments, with the excep tion of those devoted to the tine arts and music, are ready for the use of the public, aud the work on the two named is being pushed as rapidly as possible. A rsoFOUN'D sensation has been caused in Athens, by a naval scaudal of formidable proportions. It has just been ascertained that all the cart ridges fitted to the torpedoes during the war between Greece and Turkey were unprovided with percussion caps and fulminate mercury, lience if the torpedoes had of been called into use they would have been perfectly harmless. The Norwegian government has in ttructed the governor of the province of Tromsoe, the most northern prov ince of Norway, to charter a steamer at the expense of the state, provision it for six months and send out a relief expedition for lierr Andree, the aero naut, who ascended in his balloon, the Eagle, July 11 last, from Spitzbergen, 1,400 miles west of the north cape of Norway, in a proposed expedition to the north pole. The firm of Coates, Son fc Co., of London, who recently undertook the formation of a syndicate for the pur chase of the Union Pacific railway line, and who offered to pay in full the government claims on the main line and the Kansas division if the govern ment would secure a postponement of both sales to December 15. next, on the 30th sent a cable message to President McKinley suggesting that the United States government should secure the postponement of the sale until that date. it. NOVEMBER 1897. t Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur, Fri. O 14, It- 10 17 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 S 21 28 22 29 23 30 24 25 26 27 1 T f TTTTTT1 CURRENT TOPICS. TEE HEWS IS BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A vigorous fight is being made to pre vent the Palisades of the Hudson from being used by unscrupulous quarry men. ALLtbe meetings of cottou operatives, throughout the north of Eugland, on the 2Sh, instructed their delegates to inform the operators that their men would not consent to the proposed re duction in their wages. As 80 per cent, of the employers have combined with the object of enforcing a reduc tion, the situation is most critical. About 250,000 operatives are affected. Fked Rico Mora and Eicardo de Eequeseus, found guilty at New Or leaus of making false notes of the bank of Costa Rica and the currency of the Republic of Colombia, were, on the 29th, sentenced to two years' impris onment at Sing Sing, N. Y.. and to pay a fine of S2.000. Failures throughout the United States during the week ended the 20th, as reported by li. G. Dua & Co., were 210, against 270 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the fail ures were 25 against 40 last year. The White Star liner Britannic, from New Y'ork, arrived off the harbor of Queenstown at 11 p. m. of the 2'Jth. A tender went out, but was unable to get alongside owing to the high seas pre vailing. The Britannic proceeded for Liverpool, after a half hour's delay, without lauding the Irish passengers and mail. The New York World opened a fund, on the 29th. for the erection of a memo rial to Henry George. Jos. Pulitzer subscribed 81,000: Mayor Strong of New York,eity S50; Mayor P. J. Glea son of Long Island City, S50, and Charles S. Steckler, leader of the Man hattan democracy, 825. Miss Rkbecca Wiswei.l, who, it is thought, was the oldest army nnrse in the country, died at her home in Ply mouth, Mass.. on the 2'Jth. of heart disease. Miss Wiswell was born in Provincetown in 1808. As imperial order issued from Con stantinople,on the 29th, authorized the Ottoman consuls in Greece to resume their duties. Walter R. Houohtox, a mail c'erk. aged 25, was arrested at Cheyenne, Wyo., on the 20th, and confessed to stealing the registered package con taining 814.000 which had been sent. September 23, by the Bank of the Re public Chicago, to the State national bank at Butte. Mont. Under a decision of the Kansas su preme court inmates of the two sol diers' homes located in that state are practically disfranchised. The state constitution disables inmates of any asylum maintained at public expense from acquiring a residence for voting purposes. A meeting of the delegates of the Amalgamated Association of Cotton Operatives, the strongest body in the cotton trade, was held, on the 30th, at Manchester, and confirmed the deci sion taken by the cotton operatives thronghout the north of England to inform the employers that the pro posed reduction in wages would not be accepted. It was reported in Key West, Fla., on the 1st, that the Cuban filibuster rendezvous in the Bahamas had been seized by the British government and a quantity of arms captured and a few men arretsed. Gex James Lo.ngstkeet, of Georgia, was appointed commissioner of rail roads, by the president, on the 20th, to succeed Gen. Wade Hampton, resigned. The representative of the Hooley Jameson syndicate, which has been negotiating a loan of 16.00J,000 (880, (00.000) to the Chinese government on the proposed security of Chinese cus toms, telegraphed, on the ,30th. from Pekin that the government had finally acceeded to the terms demanded by the syndicate. Charles Blue Jacket, the head chief of the Shawnee Indian tribe, died, on the 30th, in the village of Blue Jacket, L T., after a long and eventful life. He was over M) years old, and the last chief of his tribe. He was the foremost diplomat of his nation in treating with the whites, and was uni versally esteemed. John Watka, the Creek Indian who shot Jonas Deer, another member of his own tribe, was legally executed at Chelsea, L T-. on the 31st, for the crime. The men were rivals for the hand of the same girl and fought at a dance, at which she was present, to decide who should gain her. Watka killed Deer and afterwards married the Indian maiden. Boys celebrating Halloween fa Fort Branch, Ind., started a fire which de stroyed Odd Fellows' hall, the Fort Branch Times office, six business houses and several dwellings, includ ing the chief business buildings of the town. Total loss. 830.000. The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIIL, with Marshal Blanco, the new governor-general of Cuba, onboard.arrived at Havana on the morning of the 31st. Gen Blanco landed at 10 a. m. and assumed command. He exchanged farewells with Gen. Weyler at 1 p. m., and the latter sailed away on the Montserrat for Spain. The private bank of R. G. Baxter at Burlington. OnU, was broken into, on the 1st, aud the vault and safe wrecked by dynamite. About 82,000 was taken. " Seven" hundred reinforcements ar rived in Havana, on the 1st, from Spain. A Madrid dispatch says that the pay of the army in Cuba is 300,000,000 pese tas, or about 800,000,000, in arrears. Shareholders in the defunct Union national bank of Denver, Col., re ceived notice, on the 1st, from Comp troller Eckels, to the effect that, in or der to pay the debts of the bank, it is necessary to enforce the individual liability of the stockholders as pre scribed by the revised statutes. He therefore demands of the stockholders of the bank 8500.000, payable before November 22, at the rate of 8100 for each share. The Chickasaw legislature, in. ses sion at Tishomiugo. L T., on the 1st, ratified the agreement entered into between the Dawes commission and the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians for the allotment of their lands and dissolution of their tribal government. The Indian solons stood 18 for and 10 against ratification of the treaty, the full-blood element op posing the measure. Special Agent Zevelt. of the in terior department, whose sensational discovery of 390,000 worth of fraudu lent Creek Indian warrants was re cently announced, reached Washing ton, on the 1st, and made a verbal re port of his investigation to Acting Sec retary of the Interior Ryan. A statement, issued on the 1st, by the bureau of statistics showed that the number of immigrants arrived in the United States during the first three months of the present fiscal year was 49,200, which is a decrease of nearly 11,500. as compared with the same period last year. The monthly statement of the comp troller of the curreucy shows the total circulation of national bank notes, ou October 30, to have been 8230.047,635. One man was fatally injured and five persons were severely bruised by a col lision on the Panhandle road at Hart dale, Ind., on the 1st. A positive and final refusal was given by the Soo road, on the 2d, tc the request that it become a party to the agreement to withdraw commis sions on north Pacific coast business. Before the Soo will agree to this prop osition the other roads will have to concede it the difference it has been demanding for two years on east-and-west bound business. Its competitors are equally determined that it shall never be allowed these differences. During the progress of a fire at Bor not's dyeing and scouring establish ment in Philadelphia, on the 2d. a large can of benzine exploded. Thir teen firemen were so seriously burned that they had to be taken to a hospi tal. It was feared that some of them might lose their eyesight. Cashier Silfverbeuo. of the Copen hagen branch of the Mutual Life in surance Co. of New Y'ork, who was ar rested on September 28, charged with embezzling 44,000 crowns, and with falsifying his accounts, was, on the 3d, sentenced to two years' penal serv itude. Cvclist J. A. Briegel left Chicago, on the 2d, bound for Klondike, via El Paso, Tex., Los Angeles and Frisco, Cal., and Seattle. Wash. A large crowd congregated to watch the man start on his long journey. His wheel, with outfit, weighed 60 pounds. Returns of the general election in Newfoundland, received from all but two legislative districts, show that the opposition party, headed by Sir James Winter, carried 21 seats, the govern ments andidates holding only 13. LATE NEWS ITEMS. It was officially announced, on the 3d, that the terras of purchase of the Universal and Commercial Fuel Gas Co. of Chicago, from the Emerson-McMillan syndicate by the People's Gas Light and Coke Co. (Chicago Gas Co.). had been settled.! and that the actual transfer of the property will be made on the 15th. The purchase price is $.500,000. The bank of Shipshewana, Ind., was entered by burglars, on the night of the 2d, and the safe was blown open with dynamite. Two men were en gaged in the robbery. All the valu able papers were taken, together with S5.000 in cash. The burglars then es caped on a handcar. JosF.ru Chamberlain, British secre tary of state for the colonies, was in stalled, on the 3d, as lord rector of the Glasgow university. There was an im mense crowd of people present, and Mr. Chamberlain met with an enthus iastic reception. Five powers of the Latin union, on the initiative of Switzerland, have signed a convention to increase the number of small silver coins by a franc per head of their population, using the existing five-francs to supply the neces sary silver. During the three days ended on the 3d, 136 persons died in the city of Ha vana. Over 50 per cent, of the people gathered into the Matanzas district, as a precautionary measure against the insurgents, are without meat. Aeronaut Stewart Youno was drowned in Lake Michigan at the foot of Monroe street, Chicago, on the Sd. while attempting to descend from his balloon in a parachute. Thousands of people witnessed the accident. The British ambassador to the Uni ted States, Sir Julian Pauncefote, has been instructed to ascertain the views of the government of the United States in regard to a reciprocity treaty with the West Indies. Owing to the fact that the Carlists are known to be importing arms into Spain, the premier, Senor Sagas ta, and the minister of war. Gen. Correa, are considering the adoption of repressive measures. ' The Paris Temps, in its comments on the Greater New Y'ork municipal election, says: "The resultof the elec tion is deplorable for New York and the cause of democracy." Mb. James II. Eckels, the comp troller of the currency, will accept the presidency of the Commercial national bank of Chicago to which he was elected on the 2d. " MISSOURI STATE NEWS. MiMonrl sugar Beet. Prof. H. J. Waters and Dr. Paul Schweitzer, of the Missouri experi ment station, have given out the first figures, resulting from their experi ments with the Missouri sugar-beets. They have analyzed about half of the beets sent as samples from every coun ty in the state to ascertain if it will be profitable to cultivate them for sugar. The following is a list of the counties the samples of which have thus far been analyzed, and the per cent, of sugar contained in the juice: Counties. Per cent. Cocntiks! Per cent. Dallas..... 16.:it Ozark ia.l Sullivan l. IU Barry II.3C Madison lft. 10 H ickory 1 l.w Montgomery 13.13 Barton t.26 Scotland ltt.;i Texas 12.: Lewis 17.SS St. Charles lift! Caldwell s.iio Cass ". .... 1M.SJ Bates ll.hn Washington 10.71 Iron 1 1. UU Pettis K.1C Carroll ll.u- Lvnn lit Schuyler I6.u Vernon U1 Clay httTiCedar 11.US Crawford i:t 00 Jackson liOH New Madrid ..-l;Kandolph l.'.ttt Clark lixoCallaway H.1 Taney HlHUentry liHI Johnston I ...iLivinpston. v.ia Nodaway ll.3;Cliristian ".17 Holt lft 4 Franklin K.6J Ray 10.071 Laf avette 11.51 Maries liMft Stoddard 14. .tC Douglas ia Platte lft 3? Lawrence li I'.'! An irew lifiC Chariton 17.00Japer ItiWI Audrain 7.1'HWavne. uoe Perry 14.0.1 Ho well 14. J Marion 1 1.47 Monroe. 12 34 Buchanan 13.0:1 Macon 14. 1 1 Cooper. US-Scott M.M Phelps, 13.40! Warren Ml Mercer 13.nl' JenVrsun 8.rl DeKalb 13. Hoone KTi UasconaJe 10.0.1 Dent. 14.31 St. Louis. 14.112 Shannon l:i. McDonald 14.U3 Adair 13.54 WriKht ls.3J!t;reene 12.2S Mississippi. Hyaline lilt Laclede Ii27 Governor's Thankj;iviiig Proclamation. Gov. Stephens has issued his Thanks giving proclamation as follows: We are in the midst of the season when we hear the "fair music that all creatures make to their irreat Lord." But while plenty may briuif satisfaction and contentment to the animal world, man. as the high priest of nature, and alone capable of rendering intelliit and devout thanksgiving and worship unto Al mighty God. can not enjoy to the full extent his countless blessings save with a irrateful heart. "Thou crownest the yearwith Thy good ness and Thy paths drop fatness. The hills are Birded with joy. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn: they shout for joy: they alsj sin;;." Our Kreat commonwealth, tilled with a larger population than belonged to our whole country when our fathers won national independence, can look back over the seventy-six years of suitenood and see the simple industries of the pioneers Krown to the many diversitied indus tries which have made us the eiirhth state in wealth, as we are the lifth in numbers end political power in our (Treat Union. We review a year of plenty, as mine and forest ami pas ture and orchard and field have resKiuled to labor. We have been irraciouslv preserved from famine and pestilence, from tire. M iod and tornado, from lawlessness and civil strife. Toe spirit of philantbropby amoni; our citizens has been active in providing for the needs of the suffering and the unfortunate, and in building churches and equipping institutions of learn ing, where our sons and daughters may be titled for lives of greater useiulness. Christian workers have brought many to acknowledge their obligations to lead better lives, und count less homes have been made happier for their efforts during the year. For every temporal and spiritual blessing en joyed it becomes us to render devout thanks giving unto God. Therefore. I, Lon V. Stephens, governor of Missouri, do hereby appoint 'l hurs day, November Sft, ls7, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed with appropriate re ligious services alike about our hearthstones and In our various places of worship. Let the day be marked by acts of charity to our fellow men, no less than by grateful and humble wor ship of Almighty God, our Heavenly Father. What more fitting time for liberal gifts to out benevolent and educational institutions, which have contributed so much to ihe relief of the suffering and to the betterment of our people! in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state ot Missouri to be affixed. Done at thes City of Jef ferson this 1st day of November, in the year of our Lord 1197. and of the statehood of Missouri he seventy-seventh. Seal j,on V. Stephens. Governor. By A. a. LesCeuh, Secretary of State. Patterson Released on Bond. Bennett Patterson, who is charged with attempting to kill his mother. Mrs. Martha Patterson, 60 years of age, by shooting her twice in the chest and back with a shotgun at their home near Florissant, in St. Louis county, has been released from the county jail at Clayton on a 83,500 bond, signed by his brother, John L. Patterson; his mother's sister. Mrs. Margaret Ilyatt, and his uncle, Stanton flumes. Secretary of State' Office. Secretary of state Lesueur has made the following statement of fees re ceived by him during October, and paid into the state treasury: Notaries fees t Si nt Miscellaneous 3 .7 Domestic corporations............ 0,&f-j ut Foreign corporations tK Kudowuieut tax 2,li & Luuu uepariment lic Uauroau contracts..... i '7il 4C Total (10,207 aj AllMuarl Methodlat Conference. The Methodist Episcopal bishops, iu session at Baltimore, Aid., arranged for visitations for the coming confer ences. The St. Louis conference was fixed for March 9, lS'JU. at Springfield; that of Missouri, at Hannibal, March 10, and that of Central Missouri at Topeka, Kas., March -X Tue various conferences will be in charge of Kiahop U. W. Warren. State Treasury statement. Statement of the transactions of the state treasury for October, as filed by btate Treasurer F. L. Pitts with Gov. Stephens: Total receipts (382.23S II Total disbursements a..u.r, vi Earnings Missouri penitentiary. ltt,iH2 12 Lunatic asylum rso. i y.lftj id Lunatic asyium No. 2.... i,6j4 a Lunatic asylum No. 3 2,sC st scuool for ueaf and aumb.... l.a.10 uu Let OB With m Light Sentence.' The jury in the Iiez liasco case at Maryviile brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, aud the) punishment fixed by the jury at ten years in the penitentiary. This ver dict is made possible by the law enacted by the legislature las. winter. Followed Her Has band. At Clinton Mrs. Aunie Andrews was thrown from a buggy and died in a few hours' from her injuries. Just 12 days before her husband died very suddenly. Vigilance Committee Organised. Farmers living north of St, Josepu have organized a vigilance committee ana threaten openly that they will hang the next highwayman caught, Alt Their Children Were Present. Mr. and Mrs. C. IL Wellt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Sweei Springs, Saline county. All of their children were or esc.nl. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Bacritary Wilton's Annul Report to the President The Work and Projeota ol the Agricultural Department Sum mar Ised Necmalt for American Agents Abroad. Washisoton, Oct. 29. Secretary Wil son has presented his report to the president reviewing the operations of the department of agriculture for the past year. The most important recom mendation made by him is one that agents for the department snould be stationed at each of the important American embassies for the collection of information of interest to American farmers. Referring to this sub ject, h says: 'We are endeavoring to get informa tion from foreign countries with which we compete in the markets of the world regarding crops and prices. We are also taking steps to ascertain! what crops are grown on different thermal lines, so that seeds and plants may in telligently be brought to this country assist in tbe diversification of our crops and add to their variety. "There is necessity for -American agents in every foreign country tc which we send representatives wha have had education in the sciences re lating to agriculture. The agricultural colleges endowed by congress are edu cating along these lines." The secretary recommends an in crease in the appropriatiations in aid of tbe bureau of animal industry, of the weather bureau and publication offices. lie thinks the department should be enabled to place the results of important operations at agricultural colleges before the entire country, "so that the farmers of each state may gel the result of the good work dene in other states." lie refers to the efforts of the depart meat to extend the foreign markets foi Americau dairy and live-stock products, which he thinks can be done by mak ing tbe foreigners familiar with them, lie says the policy in the future will be to "encourage the introduction oi such seeds as wit. enable our people tc diversify their crops and keep money ut home that is now sent abroad to buy what the United States should pro duce." Mr. Wilson says the department will continue its pioneer work in tbe en couragement of the sugar beet, and ex presses the opinion tiiat the country will, within a few years, raise all the sugar it requires. He expresses the opiuion that nearly all of tbe $38 3,000, uuJ sent abroad last year for sugar, hides, frnits, wines, animals, rice, flax, hemp, cheese, wheat, barley, beans, eggs and silk might have been kept at home, lie also thinks the United States should grow its own chicory, castor beans, lavcuder, licorice, mus tard, opium, etc. With reference tc horses, the secretary says: "The American farmer can grow horses as cheaply as he can grow cat tle. We have a heavy and profitable export trade in cattle, and may have an export trade equally heavy in horses. The department is gathering facts re garding our horse industries and the requirements of purchasers abroad, so that our farmers can learn what for eign buyers demand. The most important work in which the animal industry bureau has been engaged is, he says, that looking to tbe destruction of the cattle tick, for which it is believed that an agent has been found in a petroleum product known as paraffine oil, in which infected cattle are dipped. The ex tension of the meat inspection work to abattoirs engaged iu interstate busi ness is recommended, as is the con tinuance of the inspection of export animals, in order to maintain the mar ket which has been secured for them in other countries. The secretary criticises the present system of crop reporting. lie says it is extremely cumbersome, and that in stead of conducing to completeness and accuracy, it would appear, from the re port of the statistician, to iu some measure defeat its own object by its own unwieldiness, and by the fact that the indefinite multiplication of crop re porters weakens the sense of individual responsibility. "I strongly favor the making of some pecuniary acknowledgment of the serv ice of a carefully-selected corps of cor respondents, selected mainly in the. principal agricultural states, and that reliance be placed upon the state sta tistical agents for information regard ing the states of minor agricultural importance." He recommends the employment of a principal statistical agent in each slate. CAPT. LOVERING'S CASE. The Court of Inquiry Said to Have Rec ommended a Court -Mar tlaL New York. Nov. 2. A dispatch tc the Herald from Washington says: If Gen. Miles approves the findings of the court of inquiry. CapL Lovering, Fourth infantry, who kicked and pricked with his sword, and caused to be dragged over the parade ground. Private Hammond, at Ft. Sheridan. . I1L, will be tried by court-martial. The record and find ings of the court have reached the wac department, and it is said the recom mendation is for court-martial. Gen. Miles has not telegraphed the findings to. Secretary Alger, who is in Detroit, because, as acting secretary ol war, he is empowered to take action in the case, especially in connection with matter affecting army discipline. AM Thorn Apples and Died. Nkw York. Nov. 2. Carl Roi-har four-years-old, is dead,from what is be- iievea to nave oeen me effects of eat ing the fruit-of the iimson or thorn apple. William Poth, six-years-old, ate some of the stuff, .and is also in i precarious condition. Died of HU Injuries. ttERLur. Nor. 9. Gen. von Bulow, brother of ltaron von Bnlow. th a. re vary of stale for foreign affairs, died hete yesterday as the result of injuries which he sustained by being turowu irom ms sonte winie out riding. A" DAY OF ANXIETY. Counter Claims by Republicans and Democrats. The Majority In the Legislature The). Choice of a Cnlted States Senator to See ceed Haiina Republican Chances Improve as the Day Advance. Columbus, O.. Nov. 4. Yesterday was a day of anxiety with the Ohio politicians. It opened with the repub licans and democrats both claiming; the election of their state tickets and s majority of the members of the legis lature. Before noon the democrats conceded the election of the republi can state ticket by larger pluralities than were given Tuesday night in the earliest of these dispatches as die claims of the republicans. Last night the democratic state com mittee announced no definite claims on the legislature and the republican state committee raised its claim to sv majority of five on joint ballot, as fol lows: Senate, 17 republicans, 19 dem ocrats; honse, 58 republicans, 51 demo crats. Total, 75 republicans, 70 demo crats. Wood county had been conceded to the democrats until last night, when the complete returns caused tbe re-. publicans to claim it. On the returns, complete, at repub lican state headquarters, the demo crats will have a majority of two in the senate and the republicans of seven in the house. In these claims the f usionists from Cincinnati are ail counted as democrats. The republicans can organize the bouse without fusion. There is only one of the four senators, elected on the fusion ticket in Cincinnati, who is a republican, and he now becomes a fac tor. If Senator Voight. of Ciucinnati, who is a republican elected on the fu sion ticket, should vote with the re publicans on the organization of the senate, or on anything else, that body will be a tie with Lieut. Gov. Jones (rep.) having the deciding vote. If the democrats had secured a ma jority of the legislature, or the fusion ists held tilt balauce of power, it is said that tiie fusionists would have voted with the democrats. The republicans now expect two or more of the fusion republicans to vote with them for senator, in which event they claim a majority of seven on joint ballot, with 77 republicans aud t dem ocrats. None of the fusion votes for senator were counted on by the republican managers in the event they would be needed by the democrats to elect their nominee, but now many speculations, are made about the fusion votes. When it was thought yesterday that control of the legislature might de pend npon one vote, there was appre hension of trouble in some counties. Emissaries were sent out from state headquarters to close counties to watch, the counting. Tbe Ohio law provides that "Not less than one nor more than five days from the day of election dep uty state supervise rs in each county shall begin the official canvass of the vote and continue fromtiay to day un til completed." f In the event of protracted contests in tbe close counties, the suspense might tave continued until the legislature met next January. Since the change of claims at the democratic state head quarters last night on the complexion of the legislature, two important ru mors have been vigorously circulated. One is that John R. McLean will be pressed by the Ohio democracy for the democratic nomination for president in 1900 and that Senator Hanna will have opposition in his own Darty for election to the senate. It is claimed by those advocating McLean for the presidential nomiuation that he deserves credit fcrV the reduction of the republican plurality to less than half of what it was last year and of the republican majority in the legis lature from 80 on joint ballot to five. And the democrats claim that the ma jority on joint ballot would be five the other way if they had an equal chance on contests. There are 3(5 members of tbe state senate, and only one or two of those districts that are so close or doubtful as to admit of contests on which republican senators could be unseated. On tbe other hand there are 109 mem bers of the house, in which the repub licans claim a majority of seven, while the democrats hat-.- a majority of two ia the senate. There are several coun ties so close on the vote for representa tives that several seats could be changed in that body. Iu the settle ment of contested seats the republi cans would have such an advantage in the honse over the democrats ia the senate that it is not likely that the latter will be aggressors iu the mat ter. And this may allow the close margin of the republicans on joint bal lot for senator to go uncontested in any of the close counties or before the committees on elections in the general assembly. There is another alleged movement which is causing much more comment, and that is the rumor that Gov. Bash nel will be brought out for senator against Marcus A. Hanna. Gov. Bush nell and all others involved in this movement deny any knowledge of it or that (hey would have any thing' to do with it. Secretary Sherman SatUSed. WASHMe-rosr. Nov. . Secretary Sherman arrived in Washington early yesterday morning, and was at hia desk busy with affairs of state, looking as fresh as if he had not voted Tues day at Mansfield, O., and made the long trip back to Washington night. The secretary had uot received any private advices, but said that he was satisfied, from the condition of af fairs as known to bim last night, that the republicans had carried the state ticket and the legislature as well, in suriag a republican senator aa wcr ccssor to Mr. Uannav