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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20
Summing up the Results.

| Boston Herald.
The victory of the Democratic
party at the recent elections was
so stupendous and unprecedented
and the facts came out so gradually
that there are many who do not
realize even yet the extent of the
overturn. The facts are now all
available, and they make chapter
covering the most sudden and re-
markable political reversal in the
entire history of the country. The
newly elected Congress will con-
tain 243 Democrats and only SO
Republicans. There are several
contests, which will probably in
crease the Democratic majority to
100 or more. Of the A States in
the Union 10 were carried by the
Republicans and 81 by the Demo
Gratis. The Republican States con-
tain a population of less than
100000, the Democratic States
more than 5S,000,000. Five States
had held their elections prior
to Nov. 4 and before the Nc Kinley
law went into effect. They were
Maine, Vermont, Idaho, Wyoming
and Oregon. The Republicans car
ried every one, electing all the
Congressman. Then the Mckinley
tariff went into effect, and of 80
States that voted on Nov. 4th. the
Republicans carried only five. In
not single State of the 80 did the
Republicans make any gains. In
some States, where the Republi-
cans have heretofore had every
thing their own way, the overturn
was amazing. For instance, in
Kansas, which has always sent a
solid Republican delegation of sew
en- Congressman, not single Re-
publican was elected, and the Leg
islature will elect a Democratic AL
lance successor to Senator ingalls,.
Minnesota also has heretofore been
solidly Republican; now there will
be only one Republican Congress
man. Nebraska, which sent solid
Republican delegation to the 51st.
Congress, will send no Republicans
to the SD. The Republicans have
elected a majority of the Congress
men i'm 12 States; the Democrats
in 80. The claim that the Demo-
cratic strength in Congress comes
chiefly from the States that seeded
will have to follow the other eXplo-
ded claim that "a majority of Dem
ocrats live south of Mason and
Dixon's line." The States that Sc
ceded send only 81 Democrats to
Congress, while other States send
1852. The terrible significance OF
these figures to the Republican
party is obvious. The agricultural
West, like manufacturing East, has
turned against it. Only the mad
ness of those who are doomed to
destruction can prevent the Repub-
licans from needing the mandate
and reversing their course.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20
Partisan Apportionment.

The Republican members of the
Census Committee are said to have
agreed to a reapportion scheme.
AS was anticipated, the Republican
gains in the House of Representa-
tives will be largely in excess OF
the Democratic gains. 1t is evil
dent from the manner in which the
census was taken in the south and
in New York that it was within
the contemplation of the Republi-
can leaders that the census should
increase the Republican ratios.
No one believes that the popula-
tion of the old New England and
Middle states increased nearly 20
per cent, while that Of the south
ern Atlantic division, including
West Virginia, North Carolina and
Georgia, increased only a little
more than 16 per cent. Those who
are familiar with the wonderful
growth of the Southern states
within the last decade cannot give
credence to such statistics, especi-
ally in view of the fact that decade
from 1870 to 1880 the PERCENTAGE
of increase of the first group of
states was 1886 and that of the
Southern group was 29.79. 1t was
in the second decade, from 1880 to
1890, that the industrial movement
in the South and its attendant i'm.
migration received their impetus
from the Atlantic Cotton Exposi-
tiOn.
If we take an individual state as
an, example the injustice Of the
Census Bureau to the south is still
more apparent. The wonderful
'gr9wth pf Alabama il u well-known
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20
The Force Bill.

The Federal election bill, now
pending, other wise known as the
Force bill, accords with the genius
of the Republican party. The Re-
publican party, built up of the dis
migrated fragments of the FEEDER
al and Wing parties subscribes to
all the dogmas of both including
governmental paternalism.
The PRONUNCIATION of these doc.
trines as urged against the institu-
tion of negro slavery was the pri-
mary cause of the attempted disso-
luton Of the Union, and directly
brought about the gigantic civil
war of 'G1 to '65.
Strange and anomalous as it
might appear to stranger to the
facts, the party, whose doctrine of
the right of the Federal, 10 inter
meddle with the domestic institu-
tions of the State Governments,
and endangered the Union of the
States, assumed the position Of saw
iors. This same doctrine predon-
mated in the reconstruction acts
and all the villainous practices un-
der them, which, after the close of
the war, almost completed the
financial ruin of the South. 4
Paterhalism, Is the parent of the
doctrine of Protection, which has
been so adrgitly, used to transfer
the money ,of the people to the
pockets Of favored few. PaternaI-
jsm hns ben and y now the foun-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

"CHIEF," the big man-killing ele-
phant given to the Cincinnati Zoo
logical Gardens by Mr.. Barnum,
was subject to attacks of elephant
madness, and on last Tuesday week
it was decided that he must be
killed. In the evening of that day
he was shot in the forehead eleven
times with bullets from a gun of
large calibre. bat all to no avail.
The balls fiattened themselves on
his skull and did not penetrate.
On Wednesday he was again shot
twelve times. The last and only
shot aimed behind his ear, was
fred by Al Bandle, one of the
crack shots of Ohio, and ended the
big brute.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20
The Best Democratic Paper.

The Cleueland Plain Dealer is
one of the most ably edited and
soundly Democratic Journals pub
lished in the United States. Those
of our friends who desire a city
weekly that is great newspaper
as well as an answering advocate
of Democratic doctrines cannot do
better than subscribe for the Plain
Dealer. See prospectus next week.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

REPUBLICAN Senator Plumb, of
Kansas, will not support the Force
Bill, and instead will introduce a
bill for free silver, thus acting
squarely against his party. Evil
IDENTIFY the Senator has heard from
the Farmers Alliance in his State,
and knows upon which side his
bread is buttered.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

WE acknowledge the receipt of
the Philadelphia Record Almanac
Cor 1S9f.:-ft is filed with valuable
information for all. Among its
valuable features is a history of
tariff legislation from the forma-
ton of the Government to this
time. 1t also contains the McKin-
ley tariff bill entire; the population
by states, the population OF all
cities of the U. S. having more
than $4,000 inhabitants and much
more matter of an interesting char
acter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

THE Lorillard brick works COM
pany of n. Y. has failed. The lia-
bilities are reported at $2,OOO,OOO
with assets to about the same value.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

GEN. ALFRED H. TERRY died at
his home in New Haven, Conn, on
Tuesday last, of heart disease. His
age was 63 years.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

THERE is II general strike of en-
ployes of the Hydraulic Pressed
Brick works of Findlay, o. The
discharge Of n hand is the cause.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

THE press mill of the Ohio Pow
der Company, near Youngstown,
blew up the 10th. inst, instantly
killing James Curl and William
Lewis. Parts of the men were
blown a half mile from the scene
of the explosion. The building
was completely demolished, entail
ing loss of $4,000. James Dick
son and Richard Webb were also
seriously injured. The report of
the explosion was heard distance
of four miles away.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-20

Entered dtthe Post-oGce at Logan
as Second-class matter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
The Boom Substdes.

PIERRE, S. D., Jan. 1.-The agitation
of the South Pierre boom has subsidized
somewhat, but the boomers are still at
work. 1t is developed that at last
nights meeting they resolved TO at
tempt to buy the land they had tried to
take by force, which is held by half
breeds. The boomers are s~ecretive and
will not divulge their full intentions,
acting cautiously, since the recent fail
ure. Orders went to Fort Sully today,
1t Is heard, for the commandant TO send
several companies to Fort Pierre TO pre-
serve order and occupy the mile square.
The half-breeds and some others who
drove the boomers away got on a glori-
Gus drunk yesterday and drove through
the town Of Fort Pierre, discharging
firearms, but injuring nobody. Some
OF the boomers were hung in effigy,
which were then riddied with bullets.
Fort Pierreites have formed a secret So
ciety with a death oath TO help each
other in keeping the land they have
settled or the reservation. One man
refused to join and was driven away,
narrowly escaping injury.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
.Nsenonuoed a SHOW Manaper.

TSDTANAroLIs, Jan. 1T. Ii. Davis,
olauager OF the Stowaway Company,
Vas the object of denunciation at the
baptist ministers meeting today. Re
Gently Davis addressed a circular 70
some of the colored Baptist ministers Of
the city, saying that he had employed a
couple of ex-burglars in his company,
ARD that they would crack q
safe during the play. He states
On che circular that his en-
~plOy4nent OF the two men has done
fnote ia the way Of criminal reforma-
tSan than has been done through the
church in years, and that he would be
pleased to nave the ministers
from their Tulpits that the theater
has o,4fstripped the church in this mat
neF When the circular vas read at
the EaeetiRg a storm of Indignation fol-
1Gass3 and resolutions were adopted de-
21GnciBg Davis and his show and ask
ing the people of the city TO withhold
their patronage.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
AN Emhezzlinc Editor.

TACOMA, Wash, Jan. Charles f.
HTI was arrested at Orting today by
sheriff w. s Jennings, of Albany, Mo.
He was convicted of enlightenment and
sentenced To two years in the Missouri
ye~uiteatiary but was released from GUS
ao&y on bail pending an appeal. He
then skipped his bondsmen. Hill says
his father-in-law was his bondsman and
that che latter knew where he was, as
he had been writing home TO his wife
since his arrival here two years
ago. Before coming here he edited a
paper as Albany, Mo, and was also en-
gagged in the insurance business. He
claims that q special sgcnt while visit
ing hiua at one time told him it would
not be necessary for him to forward the
cash on every policy immediately. and
that il he could make a turn within a
short time TO do 50. Jennings kept
hack s7a, expecting to make $40 out of
fE, and a few days later the auditor OF
the assurance company came along, and
aS Jennings was $40 short, which he
could not pay, had him arrested.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
A FIENDISH CRIME
a Desperate kbducts a Small
Girl and MaItreats Her
Horribly.
Ster a Desperate Fight With the
Villain She Is Restored to
Her Parents.
eSSx Captor Tried to Brain Her
WITH an AK, But Was Over
powered Before He Accom-
piished His Purpose.
A New Jersey Crime.

@~ooREsTowy, y. D., Jan. lone Of
Che most fendlsh crimes on record was
committed last night in the heart of
she Jersey pines. At dusk Bertha, the
52-year-old daughter of Charles Il.
ASines Of Pembcrton, was missing from
aer home. She is a bright child and a
E2vorite in the neighborhood. 1t was
suspected that William Sloan, a des-
perate characted living in the outskirts
Of tho town, was concerned, and the
father and a friend named Bush went TO
ssLoan's house. His wife said he had
gone down 70 the shore. They followed
ms trail in the sands, and after walking
twelve miles came TO what is known as
Batter Place, where there is . deserted
AOtel. There wasalightinside from fire
that Sloan had built, and beside IL lay
D form OF the girl on a blanket insen-
Sible. Not far from where she was
dying they saw Sloan. knowing the
desperate character of the nan they had
~ deal with, IIaines remained on guard
28lle Bush started on a run for Wood
Goausie, three miles away. There he
found Constable Adams. 1t was nearly
q o'clock in the morning when they
reached the place where Haines was
still waiting. Inside the condition Of
affairs vas unchanged. Sloan had an
AZ by his side and was bending over
she PROSTATE body Of the girl when con-
stable Adams burst open the
door and made q rush for
him. lie seized the AK and aimed
a blow that would have beheaded
1hc constable il he had not quickly
lodged it. Just at that moment Iiaincs
struck Sloan on the head with a club,
telling him TO the floor. As he rose he
made an effort TO kill the girl by a blow
with the AK but her father struck his
arm with a club and diverted the blow.
FINALLY be was struck on the head with
q club and was tied and taken TO Jail.
His wife was also locked up as an ac-
somplice.
Bertha, the injured girl, was found to
have been horribly maltreated. 1t is
doubtful if she will recover. Her par
ssnts are highly respectable people.
Sloan evidently intended To kill the girl
10 prevent her from testifying against
aim, as be is a man who stops at moth
Ing The community is terribly eX-
t:lteo over the affair.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
IL Is a Success.

AUBUEE, \. y, Jan. 1.-The state
commission yesterday tested the electric
executing machinery in the prison. Re
Esorters were not allowed to witness the
tests, but DR.. Mcdonald announced that
calf and q horse we're put to death
with a suddenness that was highly graf
dying to the commission. 4 current of
about 1000 volts was used. The horse
WIS killed first. The wires were at
itzched 20 his head and one 10 his hind
feet, just below the gambrel Joint. The
animal was instantly killed. the time of
contact being less than half a minute.
The horse made no struggle and there
3aS no evidence that he suffered. IN
che experiment on the calf the timc cl
contact was less than ten seconds. As
as the calf fell over and the cur
was shut of DR.. Fell performed the
OF ~tracheotomy, opening the
-efndpipe and applied Z patent ~resusci-
eating apparatus, maintaining the arti-
1cial respiration for half an hour, but
tire calf vas beyond the help of science.
In this case there was no suspended n
Au2ation. The alternating current had
done it's deadly work Sc eifectually that
death was instantaneous.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
An Editor Wants DAMAGES.

TENARKANA, Ark, Jan. wv. d.
Melton, editor of the Flag, a weekly
newspaper at DeKalb, Bowie county,
twenty miles west of here, came to Tex
arkana to celebrate Christmas. His
idea seemed to give the town a thicker
coat OF red than anybody else, and the
result was that he spent Tuesday, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday nights in
the city Jail and was taxed fines and
costs a~ggregating $50. Through the
columns ef his paper Melton had lately
severely criticised and denounced the
T~eXarkana police, and he now claims
they acted towards him out of
for these criticisms. This the police in
dignartly deny. Melton was released
and left for home last night. lie ex-
pressed himself as having suffered
shameful outrages and has employed
lawyers 10 institute suit against the
city for S25,O 900 damages.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Abducted Fifteen Years Ago.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Jan. Mrs.
Anna Bradbury has just received a let
ter from her daughter, who was abb
Quoted fifteen years ago and has been
missing ever since. The girl was 3
years old when taken from home. 1t
appears that a ~neighboring man and
wife who were without children took
such a fancy to the little one that they
carried her off. They told the child
that her mother was dead, but she has
recently had doubts, and began writing
TO every n Of her name of whom she
could hear, hoping 10 locate her parents.
The long-lost girl is now living at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, and is to visit her
mother at once.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Maggie Hourgan Was Murdered.

SARATOGA, Jan. 1.-The mystery sur
rounding the death of Maggie Hourgan,
whose body was found in a pool near
Greenwich October 5, seems likely to be
cleared up. DIR. Scott has just made a
statement that on the night of Maggie's
death ne was called by a man, said TO be
Howard Bailey, to attend the girl pro-
~fessionally. lie found her in a field in
custody of three men. She was insen-
sible, and thGNmen said she had falleL
and struck her head. lie remained
until she seemed to be dead. lie told
the men they were in a bad scrape, and
refused to advise them what TO do.
They evidently carried the girl TO the
pool in order 10 make it appear a case of
suicide. When the body was found DIR.
Scott was called in to make an autopsy,
and testified that death resulted from
drowning. 4 subsequent autopsy by
others showed that death was caused by
q blow on the head.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
The MARYLAND LepisIature.

BALTIMORE. Jan. 2.-rhe new legis-
AZURE assemblies this afternoon and the
city is crowded with rural politicians.
Senator John z. Poe, from the Second
legislative district of this city, will be
made president of the senate. Next to
German he is considered the shrewdest
democratic politician in the state. AS
it looks now Governor jackson WI be
elected to the United States senate to
succeed Senator Wilson and State Sena-
Tor Poe will then by virtue Of his Office
step from the presidential chair of the
senate into the g~ubernatorial chair to fill
cut Jackson's unexpired term.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Await Final Interment.

CHICAGO, Jan 1.-The mutilated re-
mains of DR.. Cronin still repose in the
black coffin in the dismal vault Of
Calvary cemetery, awaiting the day
when they will be given final inter
ment- No date has yet been decided on
for this event, but it will probably take
place early in the spring. There will
be a demonstration on the occasion that
will probably exceed III magnitude the
great ~outpouring on the day OF the fun
eral, and delegations of prominent
Irishmen from the leading cities Of the
country will participate in the proceed.
.ngs.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
EXPLODED A DYNAMITE BOMB.
Unknown Parties Attempt to Wreck a
Newspaper ONCE.

Unknown Parties Attempt to Wreck q
Newspaper ONCE.
WAvERLY, Ia, Jan. 2.-Late last night
unknown parties exploded a large dyna-
mite bomb in the stairway leading TO
the Independent printing Office and the
Western Union telegraph Office. The
bomb exploded with terrific force, de-
molishing the stairway and front of the
building. The bomb was an inch and a
quarter gas pipe, about a foot long,
sealed at either end with several ounces
of lead, and charged with dynamite. 1t
is thought TO have been placed there by
some one who had a grudge against the
printers of the Independent force, who
have been getting out a holiday issue, in
which several ''roasts' have been
printed. They were in the building at
the time of the explosion.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Watched the old Year Out.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Watch night was
more generally celebrated in Chicago
chan for many years previous. The
most noise was made by the Salvation
army, the members of which were
massed in three corps at the West Side
barracks and three or the South Side,
each battalion making racket enough to
scare the new ONE out of it's years
growth. Most OF the Methodist churches
were open from 10 o'clock until 9 in the
morning. There was an
throng at Mr.. Moody's Chicago avenue
iabernable and the services were of an
especially affecting nature
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Four Thousand Destitute.

GRAND Forks, n. D., Dec. State
Commissioner of Agriculture II. r.
llclgeson was in the city today. having
just returned from a trip through the
western counties, where he has been in.
vestigating, by order of the governor,
the condition of the farmers and what
help they need. He estimates that
there are about 1000 people in Ramsey,
Nelson and Bottinclu counties who
will have 10 be helped more or less.
Some will need supplies of food and
clothing during the winter, some need
food for stock and nearly all will need
seed in the spring. Mr.. Helgeson will
endeavor to secure a loan from millers
and elevator men of seed whea' To he
secured by liens ana TO be guaranteed
by the state. This city will be made a
distributing point and supplies for.
warded from here to where needed by
the committee.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Robbed His EMPLOYER.

CHICAGO, Jan. Lewis Hitchler,
aged Is, an errand boy in the Office Of
the Orange Judd Farmer, a weekly ag.
ricultural newspaper, was caught by a
p~ostofice inspector this morning in the
act of stealing remittances in letters
addressed TO the paper. He confessed
that he had been robbing the paper for
two months. He secured a large sum
just how large is unknown.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
A Deceptiye Circular.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA circular
Offering So, 600 reward for the appre-
hension Of Silcott, the defaulting
cashier Of the sergeant-at-arms' office
OF the house of representatives, has
been sent 70 the various police head
quarters throughout the country. At
tached TO the circular is a portrait Of
the delaulter. A good description OF
Silcott is given, and the name of Mar
shall Ransdell appears as the person who
will pay the $1,000. So far as the cir
cular is concerned, the police of this
city say there is nothing in it to inform
the officers of the law that there is any
charge whatever against Silcctt. and a
writ OF habeas corpus in any part of the
United States would upset the arrest
before the proper officers could bring a
formal charge againat him. This circu-
laris the only notification of the case
that the police department here has yet
received.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Married a Girl with a Fortune.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The marriage
Of Miss Emma Gertrude Flower, daugh-
ter Of Congressman Roswell r. Flower,
Of New York, aud Mr.. j. Byron Taylor,
Of Watertown, y. Y, was solemnized
today at the residence of the brides
father with considerable poInp and
ceremony. Miss Flower made her debut
last season in New York, and is a hand
some girl of 10, with a fortune in her
own right.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Score a victory.

LA LBERrAD, Jan. 1.-The govern.
ment has gained q great victory against
the forces of General Rivas and occu.
pied six Of their principal s~tandpoints.
Many were killed on both sides. The
revolution will probably soon DO quelled.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
Arrested for Forgery.

ATLANTIC, Ia, Jan. George Bailey
was arrested at Newton and brought to
this city yesterday 70 nswer to the
charge of forgery, committed here De-
ccmber %. He was TO have been mar
cied today.