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looked for, was not in any sense antici-
pated by his equal partner, ]. A. Bailey.
Barnum, however, realized that at his
advanced age, he being over eighty years
of age, his demise might occur at almost
any time. 1t was accordingly provided
in their articles of agreement that "ln
case of the death of either, the show
should go on as usual" J. A. Bailey &C.
cordingly announces that the show will
continue with it's policy already I'M
changed. Its capital of s ,5OO,O0O will
remain intact and Bailey will continue to
act as manager. For the past few years
Bailey has been the prime mover of the
organization, consulting Barnum on
important matters, while he
lived. The announcement continues:
I'm this connection it may not be map
propriate to state that to Bailey is due
the credit of suggesting and executing
all the big circus ideas that during q
dozen years past have so augmented the
reputation of Barnum and Bailey, and to
the fact of the association of these two
gentlemen together in business the fame
of Barnum in these latter years is large
ly to be attributed" The announcement
concludes with reference to the success
of the trip of the show abroad.
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HOW THE WOMEN VOTE,
The Number of Female S%uffragIsts in Kan
sas Increases with Every Election.

The Number of Female Suffraglsts in Kan.
sas Increases with Every Election.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, April 7.-Electione
we're held in Kansas to-day in all cities
of the first and second classes. Although
without general political significance, the
results of the election are regarded with
considerable interest, for two reasons
First, because the citizens alliance has
tickets in the field and is fighting all other
parties. The citizens'alIiance is practically
a branch of the farmers alliance. It is or
ganized on the same basis and has the
same objects in view 1t is composed OF
that element in the cities which would
join the farmers alliance but for the fact
that the constitution of the latter organi-
cation will admit none but farmers. This
element has been organized in cities
mostly since the farmers alliance land
slide last fall, and this election is its first
opportunity for showing it's strength.
Much interest is manifested in the result
on this account. The other element of
the election to which interest is attached
is the fact that women, under the laws of
Kansas, are allowed equal suffrage
with the men in the municipal elections.
It has been predicted that. after one or
two experiences at the polls, the novelty
of the thing would disappear and with it
the women's interest in municipal poll
tics. This prediction has not been full
filled. On the contrary, the women's in
each election. The registration of women
at. 1.-The present election exceeded all for
mer reg istrations. In Kansas City, Kas.,
all the candidates provided carriages to
take the women to the polls. About two
thirds of the female vote was cast there.
The women confined their interest in the
election to voting and in only few cases
did any of them resort to
practical activity at the polls.
This activity was confined to
a few citizens and alliance female lead
ers. The number of negresses that voted
in Kansas City, Kan, was notable. They
marched to the polls with as much, if not
more pride, as their white sisters and
exercised their right of suffrage with
satisfaction peculiar to their race. Dis
patches from other of the large cities of
Kansas indicate the vote of women, COM
pared to registration was proportionate
to the male vote. Most of the women
had their tickets prepared at home or at
places of meeting and their presence at
the polls was only long enough to de.
post their ballots. Only a few female
candidates appeared on any of the tickets
offices higher than for membership on
the school board.
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Vestal Virgins.

Ovid tells us that the first temple Of
Vesta at Rome was constructed of wattled
walls and rooted with thatch like the prim-
tive huts of the inhabitants. 1t was little
other than IL circular covered fireplace,
and was tended by the unmarried girls of
the infant community. 1t served as thea
public hearth of Rome, and on it glowedyS
un%extinguished throughout the year, thesi
sacred fire which was supposed to have
been brought from Troy, and the continuy
ance of which was thought to be linked
with the fortunes of the city.
The name Vesta is believed to be derived.
from the same root as the Sanskrit was,
which means ''to dwell, to inhabit," and
shows that she was the goddess of home,
and home lac the hearth rs its focus. A
town, a state, is but q large family, and
what the domestic hearth was to the
house, that, the temple Of the perpetual
fire, became to the city. Every town had
it's Vesta or common hearth, and the colo
MES derived their fire from the mother
hearth.
Should a vestal maiden allow the sacred.
fire to become extinguished she was beaten
by the grand pontif till her blood flowed,
and the new fire was solemnly rekindledJ
by rubbing together of dry wood, or By
focusing of suns rays. 1t might not bE
borrowed. The circular form and domed'
roof of the Temple of Vesta were survivals
of the prehistoric huts of the aborigines,
which were invariably round.-Cornhill,
MAGAZINE.
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ton came ih-had to come down near here
to take some dispositions and just thought
he would run over to the Springs, you
know. He was never here before and like
everybody else is infatuated with the
this place. There is very little drinking
or smoking INDUCED in. There is a sort
of superstlti0n-an unwritten law against
it. 1t is not the style. Everybody Is real
good. Everything is informal also. Here
are gamblers, bOOkmakers, and sports of
every nature from all over the world
United States officials and prominent men
from everywhere. 1t is the most c0smO-
pOlitan place l ever saw. One man Is as
good as another as long as he behaves
himself. and what is true of the men is
likewise true of the ladies. A large ma
families.
Captain Mccormack and his daughter
are here. They are at the Arlington,
which to Hot Springs i. like the Merchants
to st. Paul-pOpular with the Old-timers.
Senator Voorhees, is at the Arlington. Sen
atOr WOlcOtt is at the Eastman and q score
or more of congressman are IN the city.
Mrs. Tom Lowry and daughter are also
here. Mrs. John A. Logan arrived today.
BY the way, the government has erected a
magnificent sanitarium here for disabled
soldiers and members OF the navy. IL was
through John A. Logan that this magnii-
cent structure was erected. Captain Move
of the Seventh cavalry, we'll known in Bis
marck, who was wounded in the Wounded
Knee fight with the Indians, is here, being
treated.
Judge Ames of Minneapolis and his
family and Darilias Morrison and his
family are at the Eastman. II. b. Lang
don was here but has gone away. Wilder
of Grand Forks is also here. %StODDinQ at
the Hotel Hay.
l an satisfied from what L can gather
from talking with the prominent persons
here-many of them people Of unlimited
means who have Travelled all over the
world-that Hot Springs is fast becoming
the most popular winter, or rather spring
resort in the United States. The season
proper opens the last Of December and
continues till May. ] am told it is not un-
comfortable in the summer, but it is not
advertised as q summer resort, except for
those who need the waters. NJ. II. :.
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They Never Make . Mistake.

AhCy -\SVci -
~Pardon me, but l think you have made
q mistake in counting this money!" said q
mild hammered gentleman to the paying
teller of one of the big banks down town.
The mild hammered gentleman had just 70
ceived a bulky pile of currency in exchange
for a check, and had taken the %precaution
to count the money on the spot. With u
look of disdain and in very frigid tones
the teller replied: "We never make mis-
takes here, sir. You will find that to be
correct"
"But 1 am certain" said the gentleman
earnestly. ~ have counted these bills
twice, and you have given me tool
"You are mistaken, sir" interrupted the
clerk haughtily. II never make a mistake
in counting money"
"But | tell you that in this instance you
have" insisted the gentleman very polite
ly. "You have given me 0 much"
"Sir, that is impossible. Please don't
take up any more of my time. There are
others waiting to be attended o."
The mild hammered man looked sharply
at the teller, and then, with IL gesture Of
Impotence, said: ooh, very well. l eau
stand it if you can" He placed the roll of
bills in his pocket and left the bank. An
observer of the incident followed him out
and ventured to inquire, care you sure
that the teller gave you too much money!"
Eyes, sir" promptly replied the gentle
man. Gle overpaid me $500, II he will
find it out very soon, but he will never adj
nit it. That man would lose half a years
salary rather than admit that he had made
a mistake. With some paying tellers that
feeling amounts to IL mania. Next to their
lives they prize their regulations for &C.
curacy."-New York Times.
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Gen. Ruger Transferred.

WASHINGTON, April 8.-The war de-
partment to-day sent an order to General
Ruger, commanding department of Da-
kota, assigning him to the command Of
the division of the Pacific, with head
quarters at San Francisco. General Ruger
is to assume command of the division
by the twentieth inst, on which date
General Gibbon, the present commander,
~retires. Nothing has yet been done by
the war department in the matter OF the
selection of a successor to. General Buyer,
as commander of the department of Da-
kota, and it is uncertain whether q new
brigadier general who will reach that
rank through the retirement of General
Gibbon will be assigned to the depart
ment of Dakota or whether that COM
mand will be filled by q transfer of sone
officer now in command of another and
less desirable department.
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Fire In Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 8.-The large
warehouse of the Minneapolis Grain and
Feed company, on Central avenue,
burned this afternoon. The blaze was
started by a gas explosion in the engine
room. The flames spread SO rapidly that
the fire department was unable to cope
with them. The building is owned and
occupied by J. G. Woodwork and A. B.
Godfrey. The loss is $25,OOo; insurance,
Joseph Tudor, an Englishman, aged
about 60 years, a ledger in the Liverpool
house, Minneapolis, wal suffocated, and
Otis E. Moore, a laborer, came near los
ing his life in the same way by the fire
in that building last night. Tudor's
body was recovered and taken to the
morgue. It is said the fire resulted from
his overturning the lamp in his room.
The damage to the lodging house was
about $500.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-11
III MANNING CASE.
Tie United States Supreme Court Afirns
the Decision of the wisconsin Supreme
L Gonnf

-.O Se~SOS
the Decision of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The supreme
court of the United States to-day, in an
opinion by Justice Harlan, affirmed the
judgment of the supreme court of Wis
consin in the case of Patrick Manning
against George Wenks, warden of the
state prison. Manning was convicted in
the court for the district of Ashland,
Wisconsin, of manslaughter. He con-
tended that his conviction was without
due process of law, basing it or the
ground that under the state law the gov
ernor had no authority to appoint the
judge who tried him, and that he was
tried and convicted by an unlawful
court. The United States supreme
court says the highest state tribunal held
that the Ashland court had always ex-
listed and was a court de jure, regardless
of whether or not the governor had the
right of appointment of a judge. The
court is bound by that judgment, and
there being court de jure and judge de
facto, it holds that there is no ground on
which to order Manning's discharge.
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The Result is so Close That Only
the Official Count Will
Determine.
Each Party Alleges Fraud and Cor
ruptiOn on the Part of the
Opposition.
Some People Think the Alleged Mis-
takes Are in the Interest of
Gamblers.
The Result In Doubt.

CHICAGO, April Sat midnight both
republicans and democrats were claim
ing to be victors in the exciting election
for the m%ayoralty. Each side, however,
had practically minimized it's claims to a
plurality of 200 or 300. The official
count to begin tomorrow was being
awaited with Impotence, the narrowness
of the margin for either party and the
charges and counter charges of fraud
making the suspense almost distracting.
Democrats come forward with the asser-
ton that in scores of instances votes
for Elmer Washburn, the citizens candi-
date, we're deliberately counted for
Hampstead Washburn, the republican
nominee, such substitution being facili-
tated by the similarity of names. On the
other hand, republicans protest that in
one precinct alone at the stock yards
over 100 votes we're deposited for names
that were refused registration and that
some of the names are those of persons
who have been dead for weeks or months
In this particular precinct 1t is charged
that the affairs we're so manipulated that
every Judge and clerk, without excep.
ton, we're democrats and the plurality
for Cregier was something abnormal
Not a few people tonight were inclined
to believe many alleged mistakes and
changes in the estimates we're in the in
terest of the gambling fraternity, and
we're designed to give certain big book
makers a chance to hedge out on their
hata
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The Coke strike situation.

P1rrsBuEe, April THE reports from
the different sections of the coke country
show a slight gain for the operators
on this the second day of resumption
after the paralysis that followed the
Norwood fatality. The citizens of the
region are preparing to hold meetings
and demand some sort of settlement as
the business of the region is ruined.
Tables have been prepared showing
that the miners have lost in wages dur
ing the eight weeks strike $1,20O,OO0,
while the operators, loss by the de-
Walton of businessto other regions and
continued idleness and neglect is meal
cuable. It is q fact also that before the
strike some eight thousand cars of coke
per week were shipped from the Con-
~nellsville district, while during the
trouble they have averaged between
two hundred and three hundred
cars per week. Still the operators
seem determined to resume at their
terms, while the miners say they will not
90 back unless starved out. then they
will break their agreement at the first
opportunity. The operators say the
strike was virtully broken at a number
of plants to-day. There was unusual
activity at Norwood, Jimtown, Sterling,
Adelaide, Leisenring No. 8, while at jack
son plant neal Dawson fifty men are
working and some little work is being
done at the Nellie and Clarissa plants,
while officials say their different COM
pannies are receiving applications for
work daily. In contradiction to this, the
labor leaders say the entire region is
practically idle, and that their position
is stronger than ever. There is q
general impression however, that
q settlement of some sort
will soon be made. Leaders..say they are
willing to effect a fair compromise,
though the operators are still fighting
shy Of a conference. This evening Mas
ter Workman Peter Wise and Secretary
Parker issued a call for a special conven-
ton of the entire coke region, including
the organized and non-union miners, to
be had in Byrne's hall here on Friday,
April 10th. The object Of the convention,
as explained in the call, is for the pur-
pose of considering the present situation,
and to devise ways and means of bring
ing the strike to a successful termina-
ton. The unorganized men will have a
voice and vote in the meeting. The con-
vention is exceedingly significant at this
stage Of the strike. Parker says there
will be fully seventy delegates present,
who will come prepared to voice the sem
timents of all the strikers in the region.
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HF WILL RETIRE.
Carter Harrison is Very Sore Over Hi
Defeat for the M~ayoralty.

Carter Harrison is Very Sore Over His
Defeat for the Mayoralty.
CHICAGO, April 8.-Ex-Mayox Carter
Fl. Harrison announces his permanent
retirement from political life. He says
he proposes to leave Chicago for good
and either travel or go on a farm. Con-
corning the tactics of the Cregier wing
of democracy, Harrison said to-day in an
interview: 1t was in line with its action
for the last two months-fraudulent, in
timidating, corrupting and dlsgraceful.
It was a revelation to me, for I had
never before attended polls in a hood
lum district. Wilder and more dis
graceful eorgies, a more besotted saw
agery and open appeals to.buyerssof votes
could not exist in the most ignorant
of southern plantation districts.
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~Cincinnati's Election.

CINCINNATI, April '6.-The entire re-
publican ticket has been elected here as
follows: Mayor, John B. Mosby; city
auditor, Dan W. Brown; counsel, Theo-
dore Horstman; city treasurer, Henry
Zergler; justice of the peace, Edward
Tyrell; police court Judge, Ellis B.
Gregg; Judge of superior court, Rufus
D. Smith. The tickets we're elected by
maiorities ranging from 100 to 5000;
Mosby having the smallest majority on
the ticket-little over 100. Out of the
thirty members of the board of legisla-
ton the republicans have elected twenty
one, leaving nine for the democrats.
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A Very Absentminded Old Man.

We have some curious customers ooca-
sionally. There is one absentminded old
gentleman who usually dimes at noon at Q
hotel near by. When he is in a hurry he
takes luncheon here. The first time he
came here he forgot to pay up. Fortunate
ly, there were some gentlemen here who
identified him. The next time he came I
saw him eat a meal that cost exactly fifteen
cents, but he wanted to pay the cashier 81.
Probably he was dreaming that he had
eaten his table d'hote dinner. The old gem
tleman was greatly surprised when l told
him exactly what he had eaten, and he
thought that l was very smart to remem-
Der it all. 1 afterward learned that he al
ways carries his napkin home when he
dimes at his hotel. His wife has it washed
and returned the next day by mail.-lnter-
view in New York Tribune. sE
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MiscOnstrued.

He was a very swell young man, and che
was an old woman. It happened in acabe
car. He arose to get out, and as he got OPP
posite her she dropped her purse. He gall
lantly stopped to pick it up, but she mis-
heard voice: 'No yez don't. Gimme that
pocketbook or yez don't git away" and shel
grabbed his coattails madly. The poor
man blushed, and after handing the pure
almost fell off the car in his emhax1am-
ment.-Cincinnati Times4Star.
The greater part Of g0ld comes from the
mines of California and Mexico, and from
those of Brazil, Venezuela and the Argen-
tine Republic. Next to these are rated
Canada, Australia and India. The Trans
vaal in southern Africa acquires constantly
increasing inheritance; in 1885. the export
of gold was q \ pounds sterling; in 1851,
1858 8 pounds;in 1883, 2s5. $40 pounds, and
, in 1889 it was 100000.
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still Claimed for Washburne.

CHICAGO, April THE City Press as
ISOLATION, which has been gathering the
returns for the Chicago papers. announced
that the city hall people made q mistake
of 1855 votes in the footing, when
the result from 400 precincts was
given out and the error was continued
through to the time when the returns
from sos precincts had been totalled.
According to the city press association
Hampstead Washburne still has a plur-
atty Of 1851.
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The Chicago News Association Claims
That the City Hall People
Made q Mistake
In Footing Up the Returns, and
That Washburne Has Over
1900 Majority.
P. T. Barnum, the Old Snowman,
Crosses the Dark River to
the Spirit Land.

CHICAGO, April Sat 2 a. m. Comp
troller Onahan stated that all the pre-
cincts had been heard from and that the
complete returns gave Cregier 1856;
Hampstead Washburn, 46,133-a plurali-
ty for Cregier of 433. The gain for Gre
gier was in the st%ock-yards district, where
the Irish merican voters appear to have
chung solidly to their first favorite, Gre
pier.
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Small Vote in Michigan.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, April 6.-The
vote in the state to-day on justice of the
supreme court and two regents of the
university was the smallest ever known.
The returns as yet are meagre, but the
indications are that Judge Champlain,
democrat, will be returned to the su-
preme bench by 1900 to 5000 majority.
The latter figure was about the demo-
cratic plurality last fall.
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Several Ohio Cities.

F1NDnAy, Ohio, April 6.-The returns
from the varions cities of northwest
ern Ohio, on the municipal election TO-
day, indicate that the democrats have
carried the cities of Findlay, Napoleon,
Defiance, Wapakoneta, Lima and. Upper
Sandusky, while the republicans have
been successful in Toledo, Fostoria,
Bowling Green, North Baltimore and
Rlnff0n. 49,
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Republicans Elected i'm Helena.

HELENA, Mont, April Cat the mu-
nicipal election to-day the republicans
elected the entire city ticket and five of
the eight aldermen, making the council 9
tie. The proposition to issue bonds and
take up 100000 Of the floating city debt
was carried.
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r. T. Barnum Dead.

New York, April 7.-Phineas T.
Barnum, the great Snowman, died
at his home in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
at $50 o'clock tonight. The announce
ment was given out this evening by the
management of the Madison Square gar
den. where the show now is. II was stated
in q typewriter announcement that the
death Of Barnum, while not entirely I'M
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The Mullen Tunnel Accident.

HELENA, Mont, April6.-The reported
accident in the Mullen tunnel on the
Northern Pacific road west of Helena,
proves to have been of a trifing charac-
ter. A projecting beam on a passing
freight car knocked down several of the
tunnel supports. Repairs were made
during the night and trains passed
through this morning.
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Keokuk's Mayor.

KEoKuK, Iowa, April 6.-The NUM-
cipal election held to-day resulted in the
reelection of John E. Craig, democrat, as
mayor. The other democratic nominees
were also victorious.
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A Mysterious Crime.

g LEsBuRe, Ills, April "A Mysteri-
GUS crime has taken place near Abingdon.
The dead body of VIM. Kellum, a farmer,
was found last night in a mudhole on his
farm, and at the inquest to-day the jury
decided that he was killed by some per-
son unknown for robbery.
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uemoorat. Take Columbus.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 6.-The demo-
Gratis elected their city ticket by MAORI
ties ranging from five to 1900, with one
exoeption-a member of the board of
public works. The republican majority
in the city last fall wa about 500.