Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-08

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Monday, to be absent some weeks
IL would be most convenient for m.
to turn over the office to you at :
O'Clock p. M. that day, Monday, Il
It ls your pleasure TO accept the same
at that time"
BLAINE Is OUT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Secretary
James q. Blaine has finally spoken.
Under date Of Saturday he has
/ written Chairman Clarkson, Of the
Republican national committee,
formally announcing he is
not n candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomination.
The full text OF his letter is:
81 ami not a candidate for the
presidency, and my name will not
go before the Republican national
convention for nomination. make
this announcement in due season
To those who have rendered me
their support 1 owe sincere thanks,
aud am most grateful for their conf
leDce. They will, / am sure, make
an earnest effort In the approaching
contest, which is rendered especially
important by reason Of the industria
and financial policies Of the govern
meut being at stake. The popular
decision on these issues IL Of great
] moment, and will be Of far-reaching
consequence"
LONDON, Feb, s.-The Globe to-
day In commenting on Blaine's let
ter in which he declares he will net
be candidate for the presidential
nomination, attributes his with
drawal to the knowledge that he
would not be successful, and his
course in the Gillian affair has des
troyed his whole foreign policy as
far as the American continent
Ia concerned.
SERIOUS CHA RGEs.
New York, Feb. S.-One Of the
scrub women at the Hotel Royal
made startling statement to
World reporter last night. She said
at 2 o'clock In the morning, when
she left the hotel to go across the
street to sleep, Engineer Harding
was drunk. She saw him staGger,
size said, aud others told her Hrd-
ing was seen under the Influence Of |
liquor earlier In the night. Night
Clerk Underwood denied the story |
when 1t was repeated to him. He
said Harding was a steady man,
and was sober Saturday night. The
chief Of the house said yesterday one
of his cooks may have left grease.
pot on the stove and that It boiled
over, burning the fat. In tlrat event
ii could have set fire to the floor AMI
wall, or blazed up to the ceiling.
The fire may have started in this
way. Engineer Harding is positive
his furnace and boilers were in good
order, and that no burning Goals es-
capped. The boiler blew up an hour
and a half after the fire broke out.
1t was common gossip in the servants
dormitory. at No. 695 Sixth avenue,
that Night Clerk Underwood was
asleep at the time of the fire. The
scrub waman said that he generally
was asleep at that hour in the morn.
log. No one could be found to
verify this report.
ELECTRocUTED.
SING SING, Feb. S.-Chas. Nc
Ilvaine, the murderer of Grocery
man Luca, was electrocuted at HIP
this morning. The first contact was
seconds In duration. The
chair used was never before EN-.
ployed. On each side at the arms
was a jar into which the hands were
immersed In solution of salt.
Arms were strapped at the elbow
aud wrists. The contact was made
through the hands and head, and
second one through the head and
The calf Of right leg. The doctors
with one exception believe life and
were destroyed at the
lame Instant, As compared with
he Kemmler execution that Of Me-
Ilvaine was much less distressing.
SING SING, Feb. s.-Autopsy dis
,losed to DIR. Mcdonald there was l
40 evidence Of imbecility or insan- |
~ rs claim ID might be the case
when McIlvaine was on trial. a
Doctors all agree McIlvaIne suffered I
absolutely no pain. t
ALL INDICTED.
BANGOR, Maine. Feb. SIT Is
tated the grand jury has indicted !
very rumseller in the city. o
HE CAUGHT HIM.
WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. 7.-Sam- :, =
el $. Burton, OF No. 8 Vandevere = =
venue, this city, has deserted his : !.
Iome because Of the faithlessness Of : :
lis wlfei but before he left he ad- "
a severe thrashing 10 her - "
,ver, whom he caught In his house - -
esterday morning. Burton has :, y
ispected his wife for some time. :,
10 went 20 work AS usual at the ;, !.
ullman company car shops, but -
iddenly returned, reaching his :, -
ONE between s and o'clock, and !,
lrprlsed the two. A fight resulted T" ""
nd when the tight grew too hot for -
ne lover he turned and ran, but =
AS pursued by Burton, who chased - !.
lm for several blocks, but could -