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FROM 4 REED STANDPOINT.
A Friend of the Speaker Differs With
General Grosrenor,


General Grosrenor.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 19.-The
weekly bulletin furnished by Representa-
tive J. Frank Aldrich of illinois giving the
results of the Republican Presldent tial
canvass from the standpoint of a friend of
Mr.. Reed, issued tonight, is as follows:
"The developments of the past week in
the Republican Presidential contest have
resulted i'll no material change in the rela-
tive standing of the leading candidates,
Notwithstanding the prediction last week
that McKinley's strength will grow rap
idly by the conventions in Kentucky, Ne
braska and New jersey Of the twenty
votes confidently counted upon by him in
Kentucky Governor Brady has captured
sixteen, and the failure to instruct for Nc
Kinley the fourteen delegates elected from
New Jersey was a significant cisappoint-
ment.
my last statement gave Mr.. Reed Ill
delegates, Mckinley 1859, to all other can
didates 1856 and 4S doubtful. In that table
credited Mr.. Reed with two uninstructed
delegates which, upon later informat ton,
l deem it fair to place in the doubtful
column. With this single exception my
figures of last week cannot be seriously
disputed.
''The figures herewith presented have
been carefully compiled from reports re-
ceived from day to day and verified by re-
plies received from kilograms sent to vari-
Gus States yesterday. / have placed six
teen additional delegates in the doubtful
column. twelve of which are from New
Jersey. Of the 604 delegates elected to
date Mckinley has just about 351 Il per cent.
If he continues at this rate to the end he
will have 325 votes out of total of 918
when the convention assent bles; exactly
the number that the friends of Mr.. Reed
and the other candidates have conceded to
him from the active commencement of
the campaign. The table by States fol-
lows. reserve the right to change the
estimate for Tennessee upon further infor-
nation from that State
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at will be seen that Kentucky, New
Mexico and Utah have fallen below my
estimate-five in Kentucky, one in New
Mexico and one in Utah, while Georgia,
Indiana, Kansas, Illinois, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wisconsin
have all gained. This comparison of the
original estimates, which aggregate 433.
with the actual results from elections in
eighteen States, shows very clearly that
the estimate was too low.
'There have been elected delegates in
States that | did not claim in that esti-
mate - Minnesota 1S, New York A and
Pennsylvania 2. And it will thus be seen
that if the same ratio of gain is maintained
to the end of the States forming my origi-
nal prediction there will not only be the
433 delegates claimed, but there will be q
clear majority of the convention in these
States alone ana those in which 1 claimed
nothing in my original estimate.
Following is the present condition OF
the Mckinley vote, including as usual the
full vote of Ohio and Indiana:
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BORK BEFORE CONGRESS.
The General Pension Btu to Come Up 1
the House.

The General Pension Bill to Come Up In
the House.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 19.-To-
morrow is suspension day" in the House
that is to say day on which it is in or
der to take up bills for immediate passage
under suspension of the rules. That order
will be followed by the general pension bill
reported on Friday last. By the terms of the
bill discontinuances or reductions of pen-
slons, except for fraud or error or recovery
from disabilities, are made unlawful.
Chairman Picker estimates that the restor-
alton OF pensions and additional expendi-
lures authorized by the bill will amount to
$4,000, 600 or So. .00O,O0 year.
Cannon will afterward call up the gen.
eral deficiency bill. Wednesday and Thurs
day have been set aside for discussion of
the bankruptcy bill, upon which vote is
TO be taken by the House on Friday.
In the Senate an effort will probably be
made to antagonize PETERS pending bond
purchase investigation by calling up the
Indian appropriation bill. The naval ap-
preparation bill has been ready for cunsid-
Grafton Tor ten days and Hale is very anx-
ious to dispose of it. German is credited
with an intention to attack the provision
Tor four new battle-ships. He proposes to
reduce this number to two and to substi-
tute for the battle-ships stricken out small
sized gunboats for use in rivers and shall
low water.
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1.-THE New York Tribune of this morning
gives Mckinley 318 practically uncon-
tested and instructed votes. In my report
exclude doubtful votes and have failed
to claim a number known to be for Nc
Kinley. I point to the vindication of my
original estimate with some degree oi
present estimate of safe votes for McKin-
ley on the first ballot is below the actual
facts.
''The most significant feature of the last
weeks election is the number of second
choice instructions for Mckinley. In this
category may be classed New Hampshire
Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New York
and it is safe to say that there are now
of well-defned second-choice delegates
thoroughly committed to Mckinley as
such, not less than 125.
During the remainder OF April there
will be elections in Connecticut, Mary.
land, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indian Ter
ritory, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois. Yer
mont and Arizona--in all, eighty-foul
votes. Out of this number it is very low
and conservative estimate to claim for Nc.
Kinley fifty delegates.
"Then will follow in the month of MAY
conventions in the following States: Cali
fornia, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, West
Virginia, Montana, Missouri, Delaware
Colorado, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming
and North Carolina, with 152 delegates. II
will be seen that the Mckinley situation
has not only constantly improved, but is
rapidly approaching triumphant conclu-
sion."
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In Presidential campaign circumstances
frequently arise which no individual can
controR Men have been nominated for
PRESIDENT and fors Governor whose names
We're never rtformaly presented to the con-
yention The last noticeable instance is
Governor Bushnell of Ohio, where Major
McKfn1ev's candidate was defeated. This
was largely the result of McKiniey's rec
ord as Governor. In my opinion history
VIII repeat itself in the St. Louis Conven-
tion., Before that convention meets the
members OF the A. P. A., together with
the mem bers OF all other patriotic societies
in the United States, will onnose the nom
ination of Major Mckinley as one solid
mass, representing over 1000, coo patriotic
voters"
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COUNTING UNH4ToaED CHICKS.
Mckinley Nay Be Opposed by Part of
the Indiana DeLegation

the Indiana DeLegatfon
INDIANAPOLIS. IND, April 19.-In all
the tables sent out from Washington each
week by General Grosvenor the thirty dele
gates in Indiana have been placed in the
Mckinley column. and they have been
conceded to Mckinley on all hands,
though only twentv-six of them have been
elected. 1t is believed, however, that four
teen or fifteen of these votes will never go
to Mckinley, whether the name of Har-
rison is brought before the convention or
not. These men on the delegation who
threaten to bolt Mckinley are warm per-
sonal admirers of Harrison, and their re-
sentiment as been aroused by the charac-
ter of the Mckinley campaign in Indiana,
led by Chairman Gowdy of the State Com
mittee. Gowdy has declared that the
State convention shall instruct for Nc
kinley, even If it requires bitter fight,
and the Harrison people accuse him of in
spring certain paragraphs that are ap-
pearing IN the country newspapers, to the
effect that Indiana would have been for
Mckinley Overwhelmingly even had Har-
| r1son been candidate.
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way through, though Reed and Allison

way through, though Reed and. Allison
have many friends there.
1T is generally recognized on the Pa
cltc Coast, as it is here. that this to be a
Republican year, and but little is thought
OF or said in connection with she Demo
cratic Convention. Cleveland will be in
dorsed by the State Democratic ConVen-
ton as against any other Democrat, un-
less, before it is held, he Indicates in a
public way that he does not desire an
Endorsement. Senator White may be
strong in the southern part of the
State, where he resides, but he cuts no
figure in California Democratic politics in
other parts OF the State, as is evidenced by
the fact that every Democratic holder oi
leading Federal positions in San Francisco
secured his appointment in the face OF
Whites opposition.
"The Democratic situation will be lust
as Mr.. Cleveland makes it. Personally he
can have what he asks for, but he will
have to ask for it, though the gift will 90
20 him on silver salver."
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GroSvenor's Predictions Said to
Have Been More Than
Fulfilled.
ELECTIONS YET TO BE HELD
Unless the Unforeseen Occurs There
May Be Nomination on
the First Ballot.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 19.-The
following is the statement given out by
General Grosvenor pursuant to the custom
which has prevailed to announce the pro-
ceedings of the Mckinley campaign in the
press of each Monday. General Grosvenor
said:
"Before giving you the situation as it
stands to-day. want to call attention to
my first bulletin, which was issued before
any delegates had been elected. At that
time I predicted that the vote for McKin-
ley on the first ballot would be stated as
below. place now within the first column
my prediction at that early date and in
the second column l place the results in
all of the same States ip which the full
complement of delegates has been chosen
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pital, who died two weeks ago from the
effects of precautionary injection of the
serum.
Professor EuIenburg thinks that DR..
Langerhaus was himself to blame in max.
ing mistake in giving the injection so
that an embolisn was induced. The arti-
Gle of Professor Eulenburg has helped
greatly to allay the serum scare.
The United States Consuls in Germany
have published in their respective con-
sular districts the regulations governing
the export of American meats from the
United States, with a view of dispelling
the German prejudice against the Ameri-
can product.
The -Strasburg Post in commenting on
these regulations says: "The provisions
of the American law are clear and suf-
ficient. nevertheless official examinations
OF American meats made here prove that
the meats imported are bad and that the
law therefore cannot be stringently en-
forced"
The Berlin Neuste Nachrichten pro-
fesses to know upon good authority that
practices exist in the American meat
packing business that would so disgust
foreign consumers did they know of them
as to forever deter them from touching
American-packed meats.
In view of these and other expressions
inspired by commercial jealousy, Ameri-
can meat does not grow in favor in Ger
many.
The Berlin employers have agreed to
give their employees a general holiday on
May 1, for the purpose, as they allege, of
enabling them to attend the opening of
the Trades Exhibition, which takes place
that day. The Socialist press is jubilant
over this concession on the part of the en-
ployers and ascribes it to the recent Social
ist manifesto threatening boycott against
all employers who do not join in the cele-
bration on May day.
The North German Gazette, comment
ing upon the communication sent by Mr..
Cham mberlain to President Kruger, giving
the reasons for an increase of the British
military forces in Cape Colony. says: 1--WE
are glad that Mr.. Chamberlain has done
this, as it shows the intention of the Brit
ish to avoid irritation of the Boers.''
Fritz Friedman. the absconding Berlin
lawyer, who is still in custody in Bor-
deaux, has written to friends here saying
that the death OF Baron Won Schraeder,
who, he declares, pursued him with I'M
placable hatred and incited his pecula-
ton, has altered his intention of publish
ing the court revelations contained III the
so-called Kotze letters in his possession.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says it is
reported there that the Sultan of Turkey
has accepted an autograph invitation from
the Car to visit Moscow and St. Peters
burg. The date of the Sultan's visit has
not been fixed, the dispatch says, but it is
possible that it may occur at the time Of
the Cars coronation.
Mrs. Runyon, widow of Hon. Theodore
Runyon, late United States Embassador
to Germany. and her daughter. Miss Julia
Runyon, will sail for New York at the end
OF this month. Either j. B. jackson, first
secretary, or II. G. Squires, second secre-
tary of the United States embassy, will
see them safely on board the steamer.
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FATALLY sHOr HIS WIFE.
ResuH of a SepdratiOn-Arreste ATte
HOMndinU an Officer.

HO""utHD UH VU0CeT'
TROY. N. Y, April 19.-John Kaiser,
German residing at Sand Lake, who sepa-
rated from his wife two months ago, went
to her house early this morning and de-
manded that he be permitted to remain.
She refused, whereupon he drew a revolver
and fred two shots at her. One bullet
entered Just under the left shoulder and
entered the woman's spine, causing com
plete paralysis of the lower limbs. She
cannot live.
After the shooting Kaiser went to the
farmhouse where he had been living and
went to sleep. A Sheriff's posse of several
hundred villagers was organized and ar
rested their man after hot fight, during
which Deputy Sheriff Horton received
bullet wound in the hand.
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Army, celebrated the anniversary of his
birth on April 10 by holding a series of
councils from early in the morning until
late at night. He has concluded arrange
ments for reconstructing the official staffs
OF the army in the United States. India,
south Africa and elsewhere. The War
Cry says that the Generals zeal does not
aoate, and that he is able to work fifteen
noars NOT Sac day. The paper adds that he is
not AFRAID OF split in the army in the
United States, because salvation is inter-
national
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.Aetivitu on the Cfude.

LONDON, ENG, April 19.-The Clyde
trade shows wonderful exp ansion. The
orders for 10000 tons of new shipping
were placed there in April. Steel vessels
are especially in demand. The greatest
of the japanese shipping com mpanies, the
Nippon Yuzen Kaisha, intends to start
line of steamers to Europe. 1t has ordered
six vessels that are to be built at Belfast
and on the Clyde. The contracts call for
their completion by the end of the year.
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WOULD SUIT WELLER.

scheme to Employ Cuban Insurgents on
the Panama Canal.
PANAMA, COLOMBIA, April 19. = The
Star and Herald prints the statement that
Senor Emilio Clare will leave Colon on the
list inst. on his way to Havana, to which
place ne will proceed by the most direct
route. de is commissioned by the new
Panama Canal Company to employ 5000
iaborers on the canal work, and bears a
letter from the Spanish Consul here to
Captain General Wevler. 1t is said 10 be
Senior Clare's intention to endeavor to
take men from the ranks of the insurgents
in the hope of weakening their forces.
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Lost a Tru.ted ser,ant.

LONDON, ENG, April 19.-The Queen
has lost trusted servant. Hugh Brown,
who was a relative of the famous John
Brown. Hugh Brown was her Majesty's s
favorite page. She provided him with a
residence at Frogmore and cottage at
Balmoral. His family will be given an
ample pension.
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Russia and Great Brftntn.

LONDONeENG.. April 19.-The United
Press Is prepared to state on official au
thority that the relations between Russia
and Great Britain concerning Korea are
satisfactory. Lord Salisbury has received
assurances that Russia does not aim to in
terfere in that country,
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BURGOMAsTER OF VIENNA.
Df. L"e3e1' Elected Third Time by the
Municipal Council

DF' L"e3e1 Elected Third Time by the
Municipal Council.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, April 19.-The Mu-
niclpal Council has again elected DR..
Lueger, the anti-Semite leader. to the
ofhce OF Burgomaster of Vienna. This is
the third time that DR.. Lueger has been
elected to this office. Upon the first occa-
sion he declined to accept the office be-
cause he did not think his majority was
large enough. The second time he was
elected by larger majority OF the' mem
oers OF the Council and the Emperor
promptly dissolved the Council and an
nulled Dr.. Lueger's election, whereupon
Gil elected him by still larger majority,
nlnety-six votes being cast for him. 1t is
expected that the Government will again
dlssolye the Council and take the appoint
menu OF BnrgOmaster into its own hands.
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Over Cockerilps Remains.

CAIRO, EGYPT. April ia brief cere-
mony was conducted by the clergy
OF the American mission, prior to sending
the remains of the late Colonel John A.
Cockerill to New York, and was attended
by the American colony. The Khedive
was officially represented.
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JoHNsOS,s FARMING.

Declares the A. Z. Il. VIII Certainly
Defeat Mckinley.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 19.-C. P.
Johnson, State president of Illinois and a
member of the executive committee of the
National Advisory Board of the American
Protective Association, is in Nashville.
Regarding the dispatches stating that
Congressman Linton said he was not a
candidate for President he said:
s'Mr. Linton is a candidate for renom-
ination to Congress from his district, and
by his own action or consent is not in anv
sense candidate for the Presidency, but
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Was Soldier, La,over and Mintstey.

CLEVELAND. ONO, April 19.-Rev.
Cyrus s. Bates, rector of st. PauPs Episco-
pal Church, on Euclid avenue, died this
afternoon from pneumonia, contracted ten
days ago. Rev. Mr.. Bates was ore of the
most widely known Episcopal clergymen
in Ohio. He won renown as a soldier,
practiced law for five years at the close of
the war and entered the ministry in 1873
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Black Crook Compamu stranaed. a..

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 19.-After the
performance at Havlin's Theater last
night the Black Crook company disbanded,
out funds with which to leave the CITY.
The troubles of the company and of John
II. Springer, the proprietor, came to a
head last Tuesday when the Great West
ern Printing Company attached all the
properties.
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As SEEN BY 4 CALIFORNIAN.
Political Situation In the Golden Stat
Described.

-
Described.
NEW YORK, N. Y. April ia Tri-
bune special from Washington says: R.
M. Hitchcomb, a well-known commission
merchant of San Francisco, who is here to
advance the interests of the proposed Ha-
waiian cable enterprise, describes the
present political situation in California as
follows:
California. as far as the great mass of
its people are concerned, is for free silver,
though the managing people of both po-
litical parties are solidly against it and
everything that looks that way. There is
consi derable doubt, however, that they
can stem the tide, and the present outlook
is that both parties at their coming con-
ventions will readopt the free-siiver ex-
pressions they passed at the lsst conven-
tions simply because the active political
managers will not be able to prevent it..
The preponderance of the sentiment of
the Republicans is for Mckinley all the
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Killed His tnthsr-in. 1n,p.

DENIsoN. TEX, April ID. D. Wood,
aged %, shot and instantly killed his
father-in-law, D. S. B. Davis, aged 46, last
night at 7:15 o'clock. Wood is in jail
Family trouble was the cause of the
shooting.
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cruelfies To,uard Grandohsrdr.a

OTTAWA, ONTARIO. April 19.-Mrs.
Bell, accused of revolving cruelties toward
her grandchildren, Percy and Oneita
Short, was found guilty to-day and sem
fenced to life imprisonment.
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The Whttford Released.

COLON, COLOMBIA, April 19.-The Amer
lean schooner George w. Whitford OF New
York, which was seized by the Colon bian
gunboat Cordova off Manzanillo on April
2 on the charge of having contravened the
custom laws, was released to-day under
bonds. She will proceed to Carthagena.
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Leon Daudet,s CHALLENGE:

PARIS, FRANCE, April 19.-Leon Dau-
det, the son OF Alfonso Daudet. the novel
ist and playwright, has challenged an
artist named Steinley to fight duel in
consequence of circular recently pub
lished in the Echo de Paris.
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VAS Il WILD RTDER.
Mrs. Della Baker of Buffalo Bilps Com
pHay Dies.

pdnU Dies.
NEW YORK, N. Y, April 19-Mrs.
Della Baker, wife of Johnnie Baker, the
adopted son of Colonel William f. Cody,
died suddenly Friday at the New York
residence of julie Keene. treasurer of the
"Wild West show. Before marriage Mrs.
B aker AMI her sister, Miss Farron, rode in
the arena of Buffalo Bill's" exhibition in
all the principal cities of the world. She
was very popular with all members of the
"Wild West" who sent words of sympa-
thy and flowers from Philadelphia to her
mother and husband. Johnnie Bakers
marvellous skill with the rifle and pistol is
well known.
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Os,na Diona Retreattno.

CAIRO, EGYPT, April l9.-Friendly Arabs
report that Osman Digna is retreating
from Adarama, and that the friendly .chief
Omar has reoccupied Agapa.
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TO FIGHT the MataUeres.

JOHANNESBURG. SOUTH AFRICA, April
19.-The Australian residents of this city
have offered the Government of Cape Col
ony 1000 men to assist in quelling the re-
volt among the natives in Matabeleland.
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Senior Canat.ias Reisons

HAVANA, CUBA, April 19.-The Herald
announces the resignation from the Cortes
of Senor Canalejas, Liberal Deputy for one
of the districts of Cuba.
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General Booths Zeal.

LONDON, ENG, April 19.-General
Booth, the commander of the Salvation