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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

Allen's Foot.Ease. Il powder for the feet.
u cures painful. swoll en-. snarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out Of corns and
bunionA Itsthe greatest comfort discovery
OF the age. Aliens Foot.Ease makes tight
hitting or new shoes feel easy. IL Is q certain
cure for sweating callous and hot, tired. ache
ing feot. Try It to-day. Sold by all drug
csc In y; amps. Trial paox age Free. Address
Allen s. Olmsted. La hoy. N. Y.
aa0-m-W-f- AM
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09
RO W'SCHINA DEPOT.
SPECIAL SALE

VI Rogers Il Hanilton's silver.
plated ware, tile most durable
silver plated ware now made,
the parts most exposed to
wear, having two additional
plates and every piece hand tar.
niShe1.
A new and handsome pat.
tern the AIdine, We now offer
at special low prices, Of wnlch
this is only 4 partial list:
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

Reasonable Merchandise
in all Departments.
These chilly days
suggest changes in
our wearing apparel.
Our Underwear De-
partment is fully
equipped to fill every
want in all weights
and textures in La
dies, Mems and Chill
dreD's Merino Under
wear.
Our line of Winter
Hosiery is no W
ready, never more
complete, n g V e +
cheaper. Our Hos
iery will give you
every satisfaction in
wear and washing.
| We continue the
sale of, those Ladies'
regular-made, fine
gauge, Hermsdorf
fast black Hose at
l5c, Regular price,
25c.
We offer one case
of full size | ii Cali
tornia Blankets at
So 50. These blan-
kets are of full size
and cannot be match
ed outside of this
house for less than
$500. We have but
a limited supply Of
them.
Nothing short of a
visit to our Dress
Goods department
will convince you of
it's completeness. Our
lines at SOC, 75c. 95c,
81. 90, $l.25, $3.50
and $500, were new
er so large and beau
titul.
You should see
our Ladies' and Miss
es' garments. You
will be surprised at
the extremely moder-
ate prices at which
they are marked.
We are showing
more varieties of
styles and cloths
than any former
season.
At $500, $500,
$1,000 and $1,000, we
have an unusually at
tractivn line of lac
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

John Gordy, cyjorcd, yesterday was
foNad r'j.ly Of runn-saUghter c. L!h2!e
I.mm-hs, l!s sweetheart
TX p4,tmA-ter Daniel +. stewart is
couNu,u'J his home with a severe attack
Of lhlalhat.-lA,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

I.an!gh'U large delegation of Grand
Army crab q Maryland, together with Il
company u WGu5lg'oNtans, will leave
Mit'n#rr f4r Ca!.fmn, Ohio, the home Of
Pm,H-Lti&l C,r#v,,le VIM, Mckirlcy,
Tho Ws.'Us wal rg.grn home SUNDAY
h.sht.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

Stop That Cough. Take warning It
may lead to Con, sumption. A 2jC bottle
of shiloh Cure may save your life. sold
by y. Is DanfOrth.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

SAID prominent and well known Re-
publican to the writer of this article and
where several other gentlemen, (all Re
publicans) were congregated. If the two
warning factions of the Republican party
do not come together this time, they will
never In their lives have such an opportu
nifty afforded them Of capturing the State
Of Delaware Every office from the Gov
ernor down would be filed with Republi-
cans and such laws as are now obnoxious
and stencil in the nostrils Of the public,
would be abolished and better CUES passed,
that would allow of Republicans being
afforded every facility for paying their
county taxes and voting afterwards. The
cumbersome Democratic machinery would
then be abolished and the State given such
laws that 1t would jump ahead fifty years.
That Is about how far the State is behind
at the present writing. What can you ex.
pect, when the down State politicians have
been asleep for the last fifty years and for
get the prosperous times they are now liv-
ing inf With decent laws there is no rea-
son why Wilmington should not soon be-
come lively, bustling city, with over one
hundred thousand population. Men, do
not be fools, and cut off your noses to spite
your face
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09
Excursion to Reading, Tuesday, October
18Th large military parade, Sl.0O.


Is she plpce. New huckwnrnt, soir.raisi NJ. &c
for snail and iUc for large package TINS Is
good buck wheat. Va sold il All last winter.
ago. bid you ever Try thlsT We sell lots Of
II. New hvr.pOuni pHcNage of breakfast
homluy, l5c. This is II low price for It
hominy. New pearl honiny. &c quart. ~.
durk firm, Cane cod crunI"Iries &c n quar-.
Pure Jelly, mode # ON ripe fruit. DC N rye
lumber. ma is elegant; all tiarDrs. Very.
fancy New orleans 80 'aSsca. lIo II puurt,5Jc u
ga Ion Tns isn the New Urieans and u Is
cheap too nj this price B0neless cod 8h lHc
IL pound. Come an | soc this fish aud soc IT
you don't ruy it and nave codiish once In
your life, Few California apricots llc IL ID.
These are vury ice New SCOth green peas,
&c quart. Don't forget our brown sugar ut
&c II pound, DOu't forget our Oirinc soap,
Sea puun you pay Dc Tor soap hat 10 no
better You come an SEQ our store and SEQ
our cakes. You'll see more ctke4 than you
ever seen before. Good butter always at T.
NJ. Wiers. Fifth nm King street,. o%tt
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

New York Clothing House,
2'h Market street.
Max Ephraiin, Prop,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

LOOKING over the large audience gath
~eSad at the Opera House last Monday
evening, one would not have given II
thought 70 the cry Of hard times. Tho
house was well filled anu gave JOY to the
hearts of the performers and the man in
the box Office, who handled the receipts.
We are pleased to see good times onre
more returning to Wilmington, and with
Mckinley elected President there is no
reason why We should not have good and
prosperous times onoo more and the work.
ing people living like happy and cohtcntld
p,oDlo and not like pGupcrs. The work.
ing people do not ask for aims, they wait
work and chance to earn fair wages thnt
will enable them tolve deeeutly ana dress
their families respectfully.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

GOVERNOR Altgcld proposes to s"r.r
Cook county for Bryan and ~e"aI aal
himself on November 3D. llo has Msr1 ~
halls in rhirago ana with Eugene V, p1n,
and cyc1al anarchists will storm the tl:r
and tao workingmon, by appealing to their
prejud!ce5 and passions lie says; Tine
S ate is now won and Cook county can bu
carried with hUrrNh" BY the grace Vi
CD, we hope not.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

Atl0rney.GCnrril john |, S'"rk'nA'"ho
h IS grown gray in the service OF tho DEM
o yatic party IN New jersey, and who,
q ace 1919 has up this tlnn hncn one VI
the answering champions of Democracy,
comes forward with ringing reputation
of Bryan and the Chicago PLATFORM Ho
is only one of tens Of thousands Of New
Jersey Democrats whocannot stomach the
herc5ies into which his party has drttet;
but 1t Is II sign of the nauscuus qunnty of
the dose when this veteran Of the straight
out Democrats cannot swnilo" it, and
when he calls upon the New Jersey Dem-
ocrati to discriminate between "DcmoC-
racy and Communism
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

Shiloh's Consumption Cure cures where
Others fail, 1t is the loading Cough Cure,
and no home should be without it. Pleas
ant to take and goes right to the gpO,.
Sold by \ b. Danforth.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

The probability Of a victory for Mckin-
ley and sound money should not lead to
over confidence. 1t is, indeed, likely to be
. overwhelming one, but there should be
NJ lessening of campaign work anywhere
in consequence. The essential now is not
o. much to elect Mckinley, rs to make his
election SO emphatic us to be permanently
decisive of the issues involved.
Let every worker for sound money and
the national honor go ahead the same as
h, would if the prospect Of success were
doubtful. Let him remember that not
only is the House needed, but the Senate
also Let him especially bear i'll mind,
too, that not only the electoral majority
should be SO sweeping as 10 destroy COIN.
pletely the sectional dangers that would
spring up in the event Of small majDritIcs.
The sure States should he made surer,
and the doubtful States certain by un
tlagging work up to the I'd of November
The millinery AMI dry golds openings
in our city of late years are an innovation
amongst the storekc"pcrS of Wilmington.
Where once the show windows were dress
ell but once in six months, now they are
d cssed once every week, by young men
who have given the subject u study, Take
A look at several Of the etorrkceprrd WIN
dows on Market street and their HeWtat
designs and freshest Goods arc t"a'ri"I'S
displayed to show off their dcs'r"h.Iiica to
the grca est advantage The liberal nHc
of printers lux through the columns of
the RErUB IICAN has helped to lnGseasn the
trade Of orr wide awake merchants Our
r,,d RS are recommended to purusr the all
yerlloements "arciully ana pHrcliiNr 'le
many Bargains ui1uiv't and Nnv" iI'"wori'
YES money and enlu' .ns" the store Keep
ers in their cttrrt 10 E:r" '"r p""n'c NJ !"
dale goods
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

t2OR BALE OR RENT-Fino residences at
r 9Th and Franklin streets. Any one Loot
Ing for hns homes should see j.. IT, ID, SesH
q Son. l7l0 Broome street or 1910 W. 10th.
fl.tf
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

NJ OTICE--H HoegeisneIeer NJ. D.. El8 Mar.
~ ket street, made the eye his special
ttudy In the universities Of Vienna. AustrIs
and New York City. In the Philadelphia Poly
elm . and Tins Eye II sspltal. Ho examines
eyes tree md guarantees satisfaction. Gold
masses tp.UO; steel glnsses. 80 cents lS
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

INOR SALE-About 100 quarts OF purs Jcr-
Il sey milk delivered daily at F.. W. & d.
station. vii. 7. b. Rogera Bear. Del.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09
FOR SALE

I,OR SALE OR EXCL ANGE-A farm COO.
Il taining IS acres In Brandywine II unlred
about miles from Wilmington. nuar Con-
cord pike. with good outbuil dinGs and In fair
state OF cultivation. Any one wanting q
good home can purchase at O sacrifice. There
are two dwelling houses on the property. one
nearly now Inquire Of John I. McLaugh.
lin, Front aud Shipley streets, CITY.
sl2-m " = I'm
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09
6 .gs-s !ssgs. Ess.Ezz.

q NJ ,aasss6fEI e q. Izss.Ass
d FOR Fall; for Winter
q We're ready with clothes
4 when you're ready,
D Visitors are equally wei
4 come with buyers. You
l wonder why-tho visitor Of
4 to-day means a buyer TONER
n row,
Store opcn evenings.
Now York Clothing House,
3,j Market street.
MAJ Epnsmm, Prop
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

Judging by its predecessors 1t
will be a lively one.
Qualities and Right Prices ex-
plain our success. Good Suits
and Overcoats at s.; better ones
$3.50, $40, SI2, SIS, SlS. Chill
dren's Suits and Overcoats at
81. 50, So, $3.50, $3.50, s., S5,etc.,
Hats, underwear at lowest prices.
Merchant Tailoring one Of the
special features at 500 Market
street. Ladies', Misses and Chill
dren's Coats; ready-nade dresses
and waists. Dry Goods, Novelty
Dress Goods, Carpets, Oilcloths.
Furniture, at the 700 French street
store.
GIVEN AWAY to every
buyer or payer Of % cents at
either store r ticket free Of
charge in which you have a
chance to get either a first class
bicycle. a parlor suit, or suit
made to order. II you are lucky
you can get all three.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09
Constitutional Convention


DAVID
Committee for New Castle County.
Wilmington, Del. October 7, 1866. oS-It
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

UNOR RENr-6 70 oms and nuth with front
II porch. $40 DUPONT. Apply D. McKenny
ard aud Monroe streets s1e-tf
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

U,UR RENT House 1917 Van Buren, street
L Apply A. l.. White. city. s!i-tf
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

ujn iAJ;iI Call you coy home and allow
WI VIII Otll you TO pay for 10 same .,
rent. HAWKINS. u: Market street
iyl6.tf
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09
NOTICE.
ELECTION NOTICE.

There will be held on TUESDAY, Novem.
Der Sd. 1896. At the various polling places In
New Castle county and city OF Wilmington,
In the State OF Delaware, an election for
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

CTRAY PIG came to the premises OF the
. subscriber. 8Ist and Woodland avenue
owner can have same by proving property
and paying expenses g. l. schopfer Iailey.
VILE. oo'Sr
oST-Fox terrier, register No. sloa. Re.
IL wa I'd II returned to No. Git West Third
street. 0o-ir
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-09

NJ OTlCE-$5000 reward for tho arrest Of
IN Thomas Gibbons. alias cleveland Jim"
ana John Smith. alias Chester jack prls.
oners who escaped from New Castle taii on
Saturday evening. Sept 81. 1896. PAUL
GlLI.lS. Sheriff. s!e'tt
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
WANT A NEW SYSTEM
Plan to Introduce the Proportional
Method of Voting in the
Olympic Club.

There Is movement on foot in the
Olympic Club to introduce the proper
tional system of voting instead of the
cumbersome method now in vogue. There
has been great falling off in the men,
bership within the last two years, and a
number of the members claim to have
found one of the causes for this detection
in the antiQuated system under which the
directors are now elected.
Under the present method 81 per cent
of the voting mem bers can elect the whole
board, leaving 49 per cent unrepresented.
This has happened on many occasions.
The members of the unrepresented mi
nority finding opposition useless, quietly
drop out one by one, and recommend
their friends to do the same.
"Under a proportional and preferential
system not 81 but SO per cent of those
voting could be represented" said one of
the leading advocates of the system. ITO
illustrate: Suppose HOO ballots to be cast
for eleven directors. Suppose there are
twenty candidates. These are arranged
on the ballot in alphabetical order. The
voter expresses his choice by writing the
figure opposite his first choice, 2 oppo-
site his second, and SO on up to eleven.
When the voting is over the ballots are
thoroughly mixed in the ballot box. then
drawn out one by one and distributed on
files in the order OF first choice. When
all the ballots are filed the tally clerks re-
nort the whole number of good votes cast.
This divided by the number OF candidates
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

to be elected. in this case HOO by IL, gives
100 as the quota. Any candidate having
this numb or more is declared elected
and his quota of ballots is removed from
the file to be sealed up. His surplus bal
lots, If any. are then distributed in the
order of second choice. Then those hav-
ing so few votes as to have no show of
election are distributed, till by successive
distribution and elimination the whole
number of candidates is reduced to the
mum Der to be elected.
in this way each voters choice is
respected, and even if his first choice be
not elected his second, third or some other
will be. In this way any hundred voters
in the above illustration can elect direc-
tor in stead of requiring 551, as they would
now.
This process is simpler and quicker
than the present system besides being
absolutely just and mathematically accur-
ate. This is no mere theory, being practi-
cally demonstrated in the annual elections
of the Mechanics Institute, the University
Club, the Customs Civil Service Associa-
tion and other societies in this City. The
Mechanics Institute has steadily in
creased its membership and prosperity
since adopting this system.
"The board of directors of the Olympic
Club are mainly good men, but they do
not and cannot properly represent the
club"
An amendment to the constitution of
the club providing for this system has
been prepared and petition is being cir
culated among the members asking that
it be made part of the organic law of the
association. Already a number of the
members are interested in the plan and
they hope to succeed in introducing it at
the next campaign.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
A Strange Turn Of Affairs in
an Old Lawsuit Reads
Like Romance.
WILD LAND BECOMES VALUABLE
The California Woman's Rights Are
Probably Saved by an Old Com.
mon Law Statute.

There is prospect that Mrs. Mary Jes-
sen of st. Helena, Napa County, may re-
cover nearly 100000 of property now in
litigation in the courts of Kansas
City. Mo.
Attorney Charles Clarke of Inde-
pendence, Mo-, who represents the pres
ent owners of the property, was in San
Francisco few days ago looking up evil
dence, and from him the story of the
struggle was obtained.
There are many interesting points in
the case" said the Missouri attorney a
few days age, 'sand the litigation through
out IS unique. In 1858 Albert Hahn of st.
Joseph. Mo-, owned 100 acres In Jackson
County. He died at sea, the widow did
not survive him long, and the children,
of whom Mrs. Jessen was one, were left
helpless minors. By strange proceed
ing of the law the Public Administrator
of Buchanan County, where the children
lived, advertised tue Jackson County
property for sale to pay the dead man s
debts, and it was sold.
..Time went on. and after three decades
Kansas City took on phenomenal growth.
During the boom the suburbs grew almost
to the property that the dead man had
owned. greatly enhancing its value, so
that what had originally been poor,
pebbly farm became valuable as place
for homes. 1t was then that some shrewd
lawyer, examining the abstract, fell upon
the point that the present litigation de-
pends upon.
"Mrs. Jessen was laboring under two
legal disabilities at the time her property
was sold, so she was not properly deprived
Of her interest in the land. She was an
infant in law and a married woman, and
under the Missouri laws property could
not be taken from persons laboring und er
such legal disabilities. Mrs. JesseE's dis
ability of infancy of course expired, but
she still labored under the impediment of
marriage, so the statute of limitations did
not run.
"Under the same old common law
rule the husband had the marital right of
possession to his wife's property, but as
he did not assert it she now seeks to re-
cover"
The case has been pending in the Mis-
souri, courts for some months, but it will
soon come to trial. and there is fair pros
pect that Mrs. Jessen will win.
Since the death of the original owner of
the property the land that was almost a
barren waste has greatly enhanced in
value, and is day worth $500, 900 to $780,
600. Ii the case goes in her favor the
humble farmers wife of Napa County will
be richer than she ever believed IN her
fondest dreams.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
at Cypress Lawn Cemetery on Friday, the Rev.
DR.. Fuendling officiating.
PLOT THAT FAILED.
The Three Burglars In Their Attempt
to Break From the Prison Con-
templated Murder.

Josephine Kelly, wife of Patrick Kelly
one of the trio of burglars who planned to
escape from the City Prison during the
police parade yesterday, appeared before
Judge Conldn yesterday morning to
answer the charge of passing opium to her
husband. She pleaded not guilty and her
case was continued.
Captain Robinson had another talk with
Kelly yesterday and learned more details
of the plot. A revolver was to have been
smuggled into the prison Wednesday
night and Doorkeeper Shaw's life would
have been sacrificed If necessary to enable
them to escape.
Only one of the three burglars was al
lowed out OF the cell at time, SO that the
plan of friends calling within a few min
utes of each other to ask for an interview W
with each of the prisoners would not have
worked. 1t is believed that the real plan
was that when the friend called to see
Kelly and Shaw opened the door of the
cell he would have been shot down and
the three burglars, Kelly, Corbett and
Colvin, would have made break for the
door and opened it with the false key.
Captain Robinson has also learned that
one of the "trusties" was al accom- plice in
the scheme and this probably accounts for
3the accuracy in the making of the false
key, as the 'trusty" might have got a
chance unobserved to make an impression
of the door key with piece of soap.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
FRANCHISE ARGUMENTS
Why the Supervisors Should Not
Sell the Mutual Telephone
Privilege.
Judge Murphy Inclined to Think he
Has No Right to Interfere In
the Matter.

Judge Murphy heard arguments yester-
day as to the writ of prohibition prayed
for by George G. Gould to restrain the
Board of Supervisors from selling the Peo-
ple's Mutual Telephone franchise.
General Friedrich and Assistant City
and County Attorney Brobeck, who repre-
sented the Supervisors, claim that the
board is acting not only legislatively but
ministeriaily in the matter and that IN
consequence the Superior courts have no
power to interfere. Attorney George
LevInsky, in behalf of the petitioner,
grants that the board is acting legisla-
lively, except where the condition that
only telephone companies possessing 1000
subscribers could be grantees of the
franchise Is imposed. He claims that the
making of this condition resolves the
board into judicial body and so subject
to writ of prohibition.
Judge Murphy, in the course of the
argument, remarked that the acts of the
Supervisors up to the time bids were
opened and considered are distinctively
legislative and as such without his iuris-
diction and that no matter what cOndi-
tions are imposed in granting the fran
chIse he would have no power to restrain
them.
II think" said his Honor, "that this
action has been brought prematurely."
Argument will be continued to-day.