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J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 28.
J. PIERPONT MORGAN DIES
SUODENLY IN HUE ITALY
Famous Financier Stricken in Egypt, but Rallies, and Returns to
Italian Capital, Where He Is Seized by Fatal Relapse.
Rome, March 31. —J. Plerpont Mor
gan died here at the Grand Hotel,
where he had been staying since he
reached this city. Mr. Morgan’s end
came quietly. He had been in a coma
tose condition for several hours and
sank rapidly after midnight. With
him when he died were his three phys
icians and his daughter and. sra-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Satterlee.
Mr. Morgan'died at 12:05 o’clock.
This is 6:10 o’clock New York time.
The following bulletin regarding the
condition of J. P. Morgan was issued
at noon by the attending physicians:
“Mr. Morgan has been sinking rap
idly since yesterday. Pulse, 140; tem
perature, 104.
“GIUSEPPE BASTIANELLI,
“M. ALLEN STARR,
“G. A. DIXON.”
It was known for many hours that
Mr. Moi was doomed. His strength
ebbed rap.uly, while his fever mounted
and his breath came in quick and
painful Unable to speak, he
was practically in a state of coma for
hours before he died. Shortly before
noon his physicians issued a bulletin
declaring that his death was then only
a matter of minutes.
He was unconscious at that time.
His temperature had risen to 104%
degress and his pulse had mounted to
140. His respiration was 48. Normal
respiration is eighteen. The bulletin
was signed by the three physicians.
Death came much quicker than was
expected, for after the bulletin was
. i
—. ——————.—,—
J. PIERPONT MORGAN
Issued temperature and respiration
mounted and in a few minutes Mr.
Morgan died. Word of his death was
at once sent to Mr. J. P. Morgan, Jr.
John Pierpont Morgan was born on
April 17, T 837, in Hartford. Up to the
age of 12 a lived the ordinary life of
a healthy boy in a small city and was
rugged and Active, but not different in
any notable way from other boys.
Early in his 13th year, however, he de
veloped a weakness of the lungs that
was serious enough to keep him under
the constant care of a physician until
a year or two later, his family moved
to Boston.
There his recovery was speedy and
he was soon entered as a pupil at
the English High School. In every de
partment but mathematics he dis
played no more than a respectable
mediocrity, but in this particular field
his progress was remarkable—so re
markable, in fact, that when he went
to study at the University of Gottin
gen in 1854 the professors there de
clared, almost to a man, that it would
be a waste of genius for him to do
anything but devote himself to mathe
matics for the rest of his life. Previous
to his entrance to the university Mr.
Morgan had travelled with his par
ents extensively in Europe and had
KNOWN AS “THE OLD MAN."
Dead Magnate Had the Master Brain
of American Finance.
John Pierpont Morgan had the mas
ter brain of American finance, by
which he was able to marshal other
financial geniuses, men of hundreds of
millions, in the last quarter century
of American history, and force them
to fight side by side for the develop
ment of the United States, instead of
warring in the uneconomical struggle
of competition.
His enormous wealth was always
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• lived for a few months at Payal in tho
, Azores, and at Vevey, in Switzerland,
i Two years at Gottingen brought him to
i the age of 21, when his father de
■ cided it was time to begin business.
! Junius Morgan, the father, was then
second only to George Peabody in the
■ London banking house of George Pea
, body & Co. In a comparatively short
time he became chief partner and
. when he died, at Monte Carlo, in 1890,
. he was able to leave his son $10,000,-
1 000. It was the elder Morgan who
placed John f’ierpont in a banking
house in New York after the son had
served for a time in the London estab
lishment, and give him the start of his
business career.
Morgan returned to Europe in 1859
and married in Paris Amelia Sturgis,
daughter of Jonathan Sturgis, of New
York, who was even then fatally ill of
consumption. She died only a few
months later.
In 1865 he was married again, this
time to Frances Louise Tracy, daugh
ter of Charles Tracy, a New York
lawyer. She is the mother of Louisa
Pierpont, J. Pierpont, Jr., Anne Tracy
and Juliet Pierpont. Louisa married
Herbert Satterlee, Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy; Juliet, William Pier
son Hamilton, a partner in the Mor
gan firm.
In person Mr. Morgan was tall and
strongly built with a body well suited
to carry a head massive'in all its fea
tures and of unusual size. His face
was formidable, the nose large and
aggressive, the jaw firm as iron and
the eyes, looking from under heavy
brows, fierce and full of determina
tion. A ragged moustache gave an ad
ditional touch of fierceness to his ap
pearance.
Although he was never athletic and
indeed, by his physician’s advice had
taken no form of exercise for more
than twenty years—because, as he was
told, his great mentality was demand
ing all his energies—he was singularly
rapid in his movements. At 73 he
moved as quickly as a man of 40. He
would have been a striking figure of
energy in any company.
His habits were simple, though he
was fond of good wines and constantly
smoked great black cigars. Abstemi
ous in everything else, he carried
smoking to a point that would have
killed a weaker man, but he never
seemed to derive any harm from it.
John Pierpont Morgan was not, in
the commonly accepted sense of the
term, a “self-made” man. He began
his business career not as an appren
tice or an ill-paid office boy, but as a
bank clerk who had the definite prom
ise of millions to back him. Never
theless, as that career showed, it was
his genius as much as the great wealth
behind him that carried him to his
high place in the world of finance.
overshadowed by his ability, by his
power and by his achievements. He
was never the Croesus in the popular
imagination or in the eye of Wall
street. To the former he was the
Money Power and to the latter the
“Old Man,” a name spoken with all
reverence.
He was the mysterious, almost di
vine, spirit which meant the success
of any enterprise upon which it de
scended. His disfavor was a blight,
the simple presence of which caused
men to shun the marked object like
the plague.
RUINS OF SACRED HEART CONVENT, OMAHA
U.S. RUSHES AID TO
FLOODDISTRICT
President Puts Garrison and
Gen. Wood in Charge
USE ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES
Army .Instructed to Lay
Railroad Tracks and Build Pontoon
Bridges if Necessary to Get
Relief Supplies to Sufferers.
Washington.—President Wilson has
thrown open the resources of the Fed
eral Government to the homeless thou
sands fighting against water, flame and
famine in Ohiu and Indiana.
More than $350,000 already has been
expended, and the President is deter
mined that no red tape shall stand in
the way of instant relief everywhere.
Secretary Garrison of the War De
partment, on orders from the Presi
dent, went to survey the situation in
Ohio and direct the Government’s re
lief expeditions, and the President an
nounced that if communication with
the flood districts continued imperfect
.and the presence of the Chief Execu
' tive were required to issue emergency
orders, he would go to the zone of the
disaster himself. - :
Mail routes across the continent are
badly affected, and the task of dis
entangling the mail service to points
in Ohio and Indiana untouched by
floods will be tremendous. Assistants
are being ordered to the flood region
from near cities, and stamps and sup
plies are being rushed to places which
have lost their stock in the floods.
Not only were the War and Post
Office departments straining ’bvery ef
fort to be of service, but the Navy De
partment issued orders to its recruit
ing stations in the' Central West to
send its marines, physicians and offi
cers trained in rescue work to co
operate wth the Army Medical staffs.
Power boats and yawls were dis
patched from naval stations on the
Great Lakes.
Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury
Department sent Surgeon-General Ru
pert Blue of the United States Public
Health Service to the flood areas, and
placed at the disposal of the Govern
ors of Ohio and Indiana all United
States life-saving stations in those
States. Secretary McAdoo also waived j
customs regulations, so that relief sup
plies could enter free from Canada.
Secretary Redfield of the Depart
ment of Commerce ordered all avail
able boats in the lighthouse service
near the Ohio River to take part in
the relief work.
But, -while every . Government 1 de
partment' did its utmost, the bulk of
the day’s orders came from the War
Department and the Red Cross, which
organization distributed its agents and
nurses throughout the afflicted terri
tory.
With Secretary Garrison went Major
General Wood, Chief of Staff of the
United States Army; Quartermaster'
General Aleshire, and a staff of offi
cers, physicians and surgeons.
More Signal Corps fnen were picked
up at Columbus barracks, making up
a complete field party equipped with
wireless,, telegraph and field appa
ratus, flags and lights, so that com
munication may be opened through
the isolated districts.
The Government health experts are
preparing to fight typhoid fever, small
pox, measles and other contagious dis
eases. Pneumonia is feared in the
districts where the weather has turned
cold.
. General Wood has instructed'' the
officers at the posts in the vicinity of
the Ohio floods to lay temporary
tracks, if necessary, to build pontoon
bridges, and to take other steps to
distribute the 50,000 tents and $1,000,-
000 rations.
JOHNSTOWN SENDS HELP.
City Flooded in 1889 Quick to Aid
Victims of 1913.
Johnstown, Pa. —A box-car loaded
with provisions and other supplies for
the flood sufferers of Ohio left here in
charge of three Johnstown men. The
response of this city to the appeals
for aid in Ohio has been especially
prompt and generous because of the
aid extended to this city in the great
flood of 1889. Many residents who
passed through that catastrophe are
now assisting in relief.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
FROSTBURG, MD., FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913.
TWO ALLENS DIE;
SHOWNO FEAR
Floyd and Claude Go to Chair
Protesting Innocence
RESPITE PLAI THAT FAILED
Governor Mann Hurries Back to State
—Declares His Conviction of Guilt
of the Allens, Who Denied That
They Were in a Conspiracy.
Richmond, Va. —Half whispering, “I
am ready to go,” Floyd Allen stepped
into the electric chair at 1:20 o’clock
P. M. and was dead in six minutes.
Nine minutes later his youngest son,
Claude Swanson Allen, was pro
nounced dead from the electric cur
rent.
#
Both men gave their lives to the
Commonwealth of Virginia for the
part they took in the Hillsville Court
House tragedy of March 14, last year,
when the Judge, the Commonwealth’s
Attorney, the Sheriff and a juror were
killed in the court room, and a spec
tator died a few days later from a bul
let received during the fusillade be
tween the Allen outlaws and the court
officials.
: The executions fOfiowco' a morning
of many developments after a night
spent by the sympathizers of the
doomed men in pleading with Lieu
tenant Governor J. Taylor Ellyson to
commute the sentences on the ground
That Governor Mann was out of the
State and that he had the authority
to do so if he believed the men not
amenable to the death penalty.
The conference resulted in an order
going to Superintendent Wood of the
State prison to hold the executions
scheduled for seven o’clock until noon
in order to give Attorney General
Samuel F. Williams an opportunity to
put in writing his opinion relative to
the Lieutenant Governor's rights in
the premises.
Governor Maun, in Philadelphia en
route to Trenton, N. J., at 2:55 o’clock
A. M., heard of the plans and he can
celled his Trenton engagement and
hastily returned to the city.
He wired from Washington that he
would be on Virginia soil at eight
o’clock, thus terminating any author
ity that the Lieutenant Governor could
assume.
Thereupon the prison authorities
were notified of the Governor’s de
cision, and the jurymen, who were
summoned for seven o’clock and ex
cused, were again reassembled, and
at 1:20 o’clock Floyd Allen, the aged
mountaineer walked to the death
chair -and took his seat.
The death current was turned on at
1:22 o’clock and at 1:26 Floyd was
pronounced dead. Claude followed his
father to the chair, entering at 1:30.
The current was applied at 1:31 and he
was pronounced dead at 1:36.
The father and son did not break
down, although the elder man was
the more nervous of the two.
The bodies were taken in charge by
Undertaker Bliley and prepared for
shipment to the Allen home in the
Blue Ridge Mountains in Carroll
county.
15,000 View the Dead Aliens.
Between four and ten o’clock fully
15,000 people viewed the bodies of
Floyd and Claude Allen as they lay
on slabs in the morgue at Bliley’s
undertaking establishment. As soon
as the bodies arrived a good sized
crowd gathered, which grew so rapid
ly that police were sent to preserve
order.
Yielding to the request of the multi
tude the doors were thrown open and
an average of 400 persons viewed the
bodies every five minutes.
ACTOR DEAD !N DAYTON.
Jeffrey French Dies on Way to Train
in Flooded City.
Springfield, Ohio. Jeffrey French,
of the “Officer 666” company, of New
York City, dropped dead in the street
in Dayton while running to catch a
train for this city.
Mr. French and the rest of the com
pany had been marooned in the Beckel
House for three days.
Rather than leave the body in Day
ton, where there are many dead, the
company brought it here for burial. ]
FEARS SCARCITY
OF FOOD IN OHIO
\ •
Famine Expected by Gov. Gox
in Columbus and Other Cities
10,000 DESTITUTE IN DAYTON
..
Governor Says Property Loss in State
Will Aggregate $300,000,000 — Militia
in Dayton Killed Ten More Men
Who Were Caught Robbing.
Columbus, Ohio. —With the (Water
fast receding here and the clanger
stage passed, the food problem now
bids fair to become the most serious
problem which the relief workers will
be called upon to solve.
Mayor Hunt, of Cincinnati has been'
sending food to Dayton and other
places, but as the flood descended
upon his city from the uuper reaches
of the Ohio River, he put an embargo
on - further exports of provisions.
Though fifty-five carloads of pro
visions consigned to the State, were
in Columbus and supply trains were
' headed for Ohio from Chicago, Wash
ington, New York and other places,
the Governor was by no means reas
sured that the relief In sight would
be sufficient.
Governor Qox again asserted that
the property damage caused by the
floods in Ohio will aggregate $300,000,-
000, and this amount, he thinks, will
be increased before the Ohio River
goes down.
Conditions here as a result of the
Scioto River floods have been exag
gerated as in other Ohio cities.
The dead list here will run from 75
to 100 in all probability. The water
has receded sufficiently to allow nearly
all inhabitants of the inundated sec
tions whose homes were not complete
ly destroyed, to return to them. The
district affected embraces a large ter
ritory of the west and. southwest of
the State House, where mostly work
: ing people live. There are numerous
factories there. Hundreds of homes
■ were swept from their foundations
and some were carried down the
1 river.
1 The flood will require the rebuilding
' ■ of thousands of other houses. The
finer residence and business sections
escaped damage.
Most of the stories told by refugees
of scores being drowned before their
eyes are unconfirmed. U is possible
that when all, the debris is cleared
; away, bodies will be found pinioned be
neath.
Had it not been for the insistence of
people who remained in their houses
i in the face of repeated warnings, the
fatality list would have been compara
tively small.
Thousands of the homeless have
been cared for in public balls. One
thousand have been fed daily in the
1 Masonic Temple.
Dayton.—There have been at least
seventeen men shot and killed by the
guardsmen, sixteen of them negroes.
Whether that number covers all that
have been caught looting and sum
marily executed cannot be ascertained
yet, because the records of this phase
of the flood’s aftermath are in the
hands of the military authorities.
The curfew order is enforced rigid
ly, and relief workers, newspaper men
and telegraphers alike are required to
show military night passes every
three blocks throughout the city, if
l abroad after 6 o’clock.
I Hundreds of sightseers, at Dayton
I for a holiday, were impressed, in some
instances at the points of bayonets,
! into the work of removing the car
casses of animals. Others arriving in
| automobiles had their cars command
eered, the more stubborn motorists
surrendering only at rifle point.
Forty thousand persons at Dayton
must be fed, housed and clothed for
another week. Twenty thousand per
sons who lost their all must be cared
for indefinitely. Two thousand
wrecked houses must be pulled down
and 15,000 dwellings and places of
business must be rehabilitated.
At Dayton and Columbus the only
serious danger remaining is that of
I pestilence from the carcasses of ani
| mals, which are being disposed of with
j desperate haste. The death list at
| these two cities shows no increase. A
| minimum estimate would be 225 and
a maximum 600. At Hamilton the
maximum loss of life is 80.
HADLEY AFTER THE PRESIDENCY
Ex-Governor Making Active Cam
paign for 1916 Nomination.
W ashington.—Ex-Governor Hadley,
of Missouri is believed to be an active
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion in 1916, and , apparently has a
well organized propaganda at work for
him.
He has been making excursions into
other States recently, delivering ad
dresses containing advice as to the re
habilitation of the Republican party.
CORNISH, N. H., SUMMER CAPITAL
Winston Churchill Orders Place Pre
pared for the Wilsons.
Corni3h, N. H. —President Wilson
has chosen the home of Winston
Churchill, the novelist, to be his sum
mer capital, according to a telegram
received here from Mr. Churchill, who
is in Santa Barbara, Cal. Tlie mes
sage was directed to E. F. Roberts,
manager of the Churchill property,
and contained instructions for getting
the place in readiness for the Presi-
I dent.
LONDON EMBASSY
TO W. H. PAGE
President Appoints Magazine
Editor Successor to Reid
HAS ONLY MODERATE MEANS
President Gave Him to Understand He |
Need Not Regard Lavish Enter
tainments of Past—Fine De
clines German Post.
Washington.—Walter H: Page, edi
tor of the World’s Work, has been ap
pointed American Ambassador to the
Court of St. James, and has accepted
the appointment, It is expected that
he will go to London soon after the
British Foreign Office has signified its
approval.
The appointment of Mr. Page is an
other evidence that President Wilson
has not yet abandoned bis announced i
policy of choosing men for his impor
tant diplomatic posts without regard
to their wealth.
Mr. Page is in his fifty-eighth year.
He has been successively newspaper
reporter, publisher, special writer,
editor of The Forum, literary adviser
of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., editor of
the Atlantic Monthly, member of the
firm since 1899 of Doubleday, Page &
Co., and editor of the World’s Work.
He was a member of President Roose
velt’s country life commission, and is
now a member of the general educa
tion board. He was born in Cary, N.
C., August 15, 1855.
One of his sons, Arthur W. Page, is
managing editor of the magazine; his
other sons, Ralph and Frank, are cot
. tdn planters in the South. Mr. Page’s
only daughter, Miss Katherine Page, is
a student at Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Page was formerly Miss Alice
Wilson,,, daughter of Dr. William Wil- ;
son, daughter of Dr. William Wilson ;
of Michigan. Mr. Page is a trustee
of the Teachers’ College and a mem
ber of the National Arts, University,
Aldine and other clubs. Several insti
tutions have, given him the degree of
LL.D.
Professor Henry Burchard Fine,
former dean of Princeton University,
to whom President Wilsbn offered the
ambassadorship to Germany, has de
clined the post. The President, it is
understood n is now inclined to tender
the American ambassadorship to Ru
dolph Spreckels, the San Francisco
banker. Mr. Spreckels is a member
of the. family well-known as sugar
manufacturers. He was one of Presi
dent Wilson’s warmest supporters dur
ing the campaign, and is known as a
progressive.
SIGNS FULL CREW BILL.
Will Cost Transportation Lines Ap
proximately $2,000,000 a Year.
Albany, N. Y. —Governor Sulzer
signed the Jackson full crew bill,
asked for by various railroad organi
zations.
In giving bis approval to this meas
ure which was vetoed in succession by
Governors Hughes and Dix, Governor
Sulzer ignored six pleas made by the
Presidents of six leading railroads in
this State, who at the hearing Satur
day asserted that the proposed in
crease in train crews was entirely un
called for and that the added expense
to the railroads, about $2,000,01)0 a
year, would have to be borne by the
travelling public and by shippers.
g MORGAN FORTUNE PUT 3
,g EVEN AT $200,000,000 §
I Various estimates were made
of the size of the fortune of the C*
late J. P. Morgan. The esti- §
mates differed widely. None, §
however, credited the dead R
banker with having an estate 8
under $75,000,000. Most of the R
figures heard were much higher, u
R running from $100,000,000 to R
S $200,000,000. a
R A prominent director in one §
O banking institution placed Mr. S
R Morgan’s fortune at about SIOO,- §
p. 000,000. He said that he esti- S
R mated that Mr. Morgan’s firm §
i v had probably amassed a fortune §
5? of $100,000,000 in the last twenty 0
g years, of which Mr. Morgan’s in- g
n dividual share was probably $75,-
8 000,000. g
R “It is recalled that when Mr. §
I" ’ Morgan’s father died, in 1890,” 8
he said, “a fortune of $17,000,000 §
was left, to be divided among 8
the three heirs. It must be re- R
membered, however, that the en- 3
terprises of Mr. Morgan’s firm R
8 were not uniformly profitable in 8
Q their outcome. There were losses 3
! mingled with great gains, but R
hisilargest gain, no doubt, was R
made in the financing of the 8
United States Steel Corpora- R
P tion ’ R
ELDER OROZCO SLAIN.
Huerta Will Send Peace Envoy’s Son
to Avenge His Murder.
Mexico City.—The report from Cuer
navaca of the shooting of Pascuai
Orozco, Sr., by followers of the rebel
Emiiiano Zapata, is confirmed. Col
onel Orozco was in Zapata’s territory
as a peace envoy from Huerta.
The Federal War Department is pre
paring to place General Pascuai Oroz
co, Jr., in command of a column of
5,000 men and send him against Za
pata’s adherents.
HENRY F. COOK, Manager
WHOLE NUMBER 2,165
BIG LEVEE IS
JSLOI 081
Dynamite Used at Shawnee
town, Ind.
| DONE TO SAVE LIVES,
!
Destruction Of the Levee Necessary
To Reduce Pressure and Sava
Lives Of Persons At Cairo
and Other Points.
Evansville, Ind. —The south levee at
Shawneetown was blown out with
dynamite. The water is within four
inches of the north levee. The prop
erty loss is placed at SIOO,OOO. No
lives were lost. The destruction of
the levee was necessary to reduce the
pressure of' the water and save lives
: at Cairo and other river points.
Cairo, 111. —The Big Four levee,
which protected the “drainage dis
trict,” and which was abandoned
early in the day, went out at 5.45
| P. M. about five miles north of this
city. Cairo proper is not affected, as
the levee separating the city from the
“drainage district” is intact.
Abandon Levee.
The executive committee at Cairo
considered further preventive meas
ures at the Big Four weak spot use
less and abandoned that district to
its fate. It was well wrecked last
year, so far as dwellings were con
cerned, and dozens of these since have
remained unoccupied.
Several big commercial houses will
unquestionably suffer great loss. The
Greenfield levee, on the Missouri side,
j a. small affair, was reported here to
have gone out. The Cairo situation
will not be relieved in any way by
this break.
Big Four officials have been notified
with other railroads to care for their
own equipment along the levee, the
breaking of which means the com
plete tie up of roads in this territory.
Would Flood 14 Counties.
Prospects are favorable to success
fully take care of approaching floods
at Cairo now coming out of the Ohio
River, which will greatly, exceed the
high waters of 1912, provided levees
to the south hold. Citizens and sol
diers are working to accomplish this
end’.
The - levee in front of Reelfort Lake
slough, below Hickman, Ky., is being
reinforced with rock. It was flooded
last year and the levee is reported’
now to be weakening. A }>peak there,
it is said, would mean the flooding of
about 14 counties. It would give great
impetus to the already swift current
of the Ohio River and probably would
mean great destruction along the
lower Mississippi levees.
TO CONFIDE IN NEWSPAPER MEN
Wilson Will Have Heart-To-Heart
Talks Two Hours a Week.
Washington.—Convinced that pub
lic business would be expedited by the
practice, President Wilson has decid-
I ed to set aside two hours each week
for “heart to heart” talks with the
newspaper correspondents. One hour
will be devoted to the writers each
Tuesday morning and another hour
kill be given over to the same purpose
Thursday afternoons. The President
will discuss administration policies
and sketch his official programs, much
of the matter discussed necessarily
being in confidence and solely for the
guidance of the writers.
BODY THROWN FROM HEARSE.
Horse Ran Away At Child’s Funeral,
Injuring Undertaker.
York, Pa. —At the funeral of the 3-
year-old child of Ambrose Eisenhour,
the horse attached to the hearse ran
j away and the box containing the cas
ket was thrown into the road. The
casket burst open and the child’s body
fell out. Charles Ellicker, of Ross
ville, the undertaker, and his young
son, Robert, were severely injured.
Mr. Ellicker was driving the hearse
and in an effoit to avoid striking the
minister’s buggy ran his team into a
fence. The horse was so badly in
jured that it had to be killed.
DEMOCRATS SWEEP CHICAGO.
Proposed $2,880,000 Bond Issue Carried
By Small Majority.
Chicago.—Democrats swept the city
in Tuesday’s municipal election, re
turning 22 Aldermen and the Superior
Court judge, City Clerk and City
Treasurer. The proposed bond issue
of $2,880,000, urged by the Heart-Har
rison faction of the Democratic party,
carried by a small margin.
SWITCHMAN ELECTED MAYOR.
Ottumwa, With 40,000 People, Chooses
Railroad Laborer.
Des Moines, lowa. —Municipal elec
tions in lowa towns developed a num
ber of surprises. Ottumwa’ with 40,-
000 inhabitants, elected Patrick Len
ney, a switchman of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul road, as Mayor.