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MR.. ALDRnoTts CLAIMS.
Mckinley People Ike Exceptions tt
Them-What Mrs!A3rosvninE Says.

Mckinley People IKE Exceptions to
Them-What MsslarosvninE Says.
Some Of the pro-NcKiaey people take
exceptions to the table Of delegates pre-
pared by Mr.. Aldrfch OF Illinois. It is
said that the claim of two delegates in
Virginia for Reed is rot correct, that but
two have been elected in that state, anG
that both those ase{McKinley men. Thes.
two are J. s. Browning and D. F. Bailey.
Mr.. Browning, wto Erlxed in Washing
,'.Mr: Bailey and-ufelf are Tor Mckinley
frat, last and an tfe hme The sentiment
in the ninth district Overwhelmingly for
Mckinley. When our convention met re-
publfcans rode fifty miles On horseback and
swan rivers to get there. SO as to head of
any attempt to give the delegates to any
one but Mckinley"
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FOR ARIZONA'S STATEHOOD.
The House Committee on TerritOri1
Reports FavOrably.

The House Committee on Territories
Reports FavOrably.
At special meeting Of the House COM
mittee en- territories today the Arizona
statehood bill was ordered reported favor
ably to the House The vote stood five for
and two against. Those in the affirmative
were: Republicans. Scranton, Perkins, Le-
fever: democrats, Turner and Cooper of
Texas. Those against were: Republicans,
Hadley and Low. Mr.. Avery was paired
with Mr.. Knox and Mr.. Harris was paired
with Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Owens of Ken
lucky, democrat, was present, but did not
vote. The special meeting of the commit
tee. he said, had been called for the pur-
pose of hearing read the report on the New
Mexico statehood bill. 1t was not proper
that the Arizona measure should be taken
UP without warning. and while members
who opposed 1t were absent. His request
that tEe matter go over until the next
regular meeting was refused. however, and
he absented himself from the room while
the vote was being taken.
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Of the compensated of their individual
clerks from 81 200 70 81 $50.
Mr.. Hnrtman,s Pr0nosfttop.

ME-. HaRtm0A.9 proposition.
Mr. Richardson CTenn.} asked If the con-
ferees proposed to yield this increase to the
Senate. Mr.. Bingham replied that he could
not say, where Upon Mr. Hartman (dont. }
caused scattering OF applause by stating
that he proposed to eher q resolution to IN
struct the conserees to yield to the Senate
on that point with an amendment for an
nuai clerks for members. Mr.. Cannon
chairman Of the appropriations committee
said that such resolution would not be
germane. II members desired pay for their
clerks during the vacations. he said it must
or by AppropfiatfhgSt the money from the
contingent fund OF the House
He thought the Expenditures of the House
n,s1zt web be Ancreased .eiong the line sug-
reduced Mr.. Hartuean, however insisted
upon his motion to sinsfruct the conferees
to add an amendment approprfating 1852,
WO for annual clerks Fer nembers. The
adopted. and further conference agreed
TO. Messrs. Brigham H&.)y Dockery (MoD
and Mccall renn.) were appointed con-
The FSttincasssns Bill.
The House then went into committee Of
the whole and took up the consideration of
the fortifcations appropriation bill. Mr..
Hainer (Neb), In charge of the bill ex-
planned its provisions. The estimates
amounted to $S045, LOB. of which 5.s42 ss7
was carried by the bill. 1t also authorized
the Secretary of War to make contracts in
vclving further. sum of s., ,542, ,276, making
total authorized expenditure in the bill
of s11, ,3S4,613. ,
In the course OF his remarks Mr.. Hainer
oweit on the necessity. with our present
and prospective foreign complications. for
an adequate system Of coast defenses.
Dill, called attention to the helpless and de-
lenseless condition of our seacoast cities.
Today we were fifth-rate naval power.
we were building u navy. and, in his opin-
should go hand-ln-hand with the strength
ening OF the navy. We are today abso-
lutely a. the mercy Of any power whose
navy was superior to ours.
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TURKEY GIVES ASSURANCE.
Rev. Mr.. Knapp VIII BE Delivered tc
q United States Consul.

Rev. Mr.. Knapp VIII Be Delivered to
a United States Consul.
CONsTANTINOPLE. April 1.-THE thor
ough ventilation which the action Of the
sultan toward the Protestant and Catholic
missionaries In Asia Minor has received
through the Associated Press has had
9 decidedly beneficial effect. The United
States charge d'affaires, Mr.. John W. Rid
the Turkish government that the Rev.
George Knapp, the American missionary
recently expelled from Bitlis, win be de-
nvered to the United States consul at
Alexandfetta-
It II understood that tbs sultan has act
Cd upon the advice Of the Russian am
bassador
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Prof. Hewcomb's Trip Abroad.

Prof. Simon Newcomb Of the Nautical AL
nianac offloe left here yesterday for. New
York. where he embarked today for Lon
don. He goes abroad as the representative
Of the State Department at the interna-
tific publications, which will meet in Lon
don this summer. While abroad he will
consult with the leading astronomers in
regard to the adoption Of uniform star
constants, In the interests Of nautical
science
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THE HOUSE.

In the House today Mr.. Bingham Pa.j
presented the conference report on the leg
islative. executive and judicial appropria-
tfon bill
Mr.. Bingham explained, with reference to
the paragraphs to abolish the fee system in
the case Of marshals attorneys and United
States commissioners, that the whole uues-
ton had been referred to joint committee
of the Judiciary committees of the two
houses, who were to consult with the At
tcrney General and report to the conference
committee. The Senate, he said, had added
$Is20,O to the bill, of which $59.OOO had been
disposed of by the House agreeing to
39.0OO the Senate yielding the balance.
About $1S9, 600 still remained in dispute: of
that amount $67, 600 was for the increase of
the salary list of the Senate employees. He
had witnessed; ne said, many disputes be-
tween the House and Senate with regard to
the salaries to be paid employees of the
Senate, and he never had seen but one re-
sult-the surrender of the House. The
Senate had always maintained that its con-
troll Of its own organization should be alb
solute and unembarrassed.
What the Record Showed,
Tsc record showed that the average cost
Of employees . each member Of the House
was $989, while thar Of each member of the
Senate was A,4S3. Justice ts the House, he
said, required that these facts should be
made notorious. So far as the House was
concerned. economy and care was exercised.
AS to whether extravaganza existed at the
other end Of the Capitol it would not be in
good taste for him to say. He felt, he said
in conclusion. that il the House scoIferees
continued the struggle against the increase
of the Senate force in the end they would be
defeated.
Mr.. Dockery QAo.) followed in the same
line. He thought 1t but fair that the House
should understand that the Senate had In
clerks to Senators not chairmen Of COM
mittees and had also insisted on the increase
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Ordered to This City.

First Lieut. Chester Harding, corps Of
engineers, has been relieved from further
duty under Major Thomas II. Handbury at
St Louis, Mo. and ordered to this city for
duty in the office Of the chief Of engineers.
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Cardinal satolli Returninx.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. April 1A.-After a weeks
stay here, Cardinal Satoln. the apostolic
delegate, and his secretary left for WASH
ington. The cardinal was much pleased
with the plan of his entertainment while
here.
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Nominated Justice Of the Peace.
The President today nominated John H.
O'Donnell Of the District Of Columbia to
be justice Of the peace In the District Of
Columbia.
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Government Is Reeeapts.

WUSekmAent.A AECc1Ht8.
National bank notes received today for
redemption, $S72A6S. Government receipts
From internal revente. $248.666; customs,
$2OO, 40; miscelfaneous, $17,1t8.
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THE ANTE-RAILROAD DAYS,

This was in the anti railroad
days OF Cecil. when very no,
competition existed between the
Union line, which carried passengers
rom Philadelphia to Baltimore by
way of Frenchtown and New Castle,
and the Peoples line. which took
them through The Delaware and
Chesapeake Canal from Chesapeake
City to Delaware City in fast barges
drawn by horses. As the Union
line was the faster, the trade of the
Peoples line began to fall off, and
Lusby's hotel business grew bad.
l remember very well doggerel
verse that George Turner, a witty
Irishman from Sassafras Neck, got
off on Lusby, and which the boys
used to repeat with sport at ex
Sheriff Bob's expense.
Why, Bob, says 1, don't look so dry,
Are times now so alarming?
The Chesapeake, tho once so sleek,
Isn't quite so charming;
So you prepare better fare,
For you must leave this place, sir,
For Bennett he, like louise or flea,
Will bite your back or sting, sir.
Bob" Lusby, as he was popu.
larly called, did leave the Bennett
House. and some years atterward
died, his widow being subsequently
appointed light house keeper at
Turkey Point, where she remained
MANY years.
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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A Few DAYS, Use

OF Pineola Balsam and the danger is
past. 1t is the right thing for coughs.
Better than any home mixtures. Better
than any other medicine whatever for
that cough-that tearing, sleep-kllling,
anxiety breeding, dangerous cough.
Ely's Pineola Balsam cures sore throat
and is quick and sure in all bronchial
affections. 1t will relieve the cough at
once. 1t makes breathing much easier
and the spasms less severe in cases of
asthma Price rs cents.
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lows. DIN not sure
that either has been the case with
me, but have endeavored as |
grow old not to loose the capacity
Tor enjoying little things, which
make up the lives of the most of us.
One Of my chief pleasures is to re-
Call the past locally. retrospection
being the resource Of most of us old
boys. AS | came to Elkton in 1910
and have lived here ever since, |
ought to know something about the
previous history of its people, and
should be able to recall some
events and portray some recollec-
tons that may interest your readers
If | fail in doing SO, possibly the
FAULT may lie in the manner OF
telling my story, rather than in the
deficiency Of my memory.
WHEN The "WHIG" STARTED
AS | recolIect so we'll when P. c.
Ricketts, began the publication OF
the WING in the Old Log Cabin Gin
the Hollow" shall take that build
ing, SO memorable in the campaign
OF 1910, as the starting point OF my
"reminiscences, and indulge the va
grant bent OF my inclination by ram.
bling around town at will. | helped
build the old Tippecanoe Head
quarters, and, what is more, voted
for General William Henry Harrison
for President in 40. Some half
dozen of the old Wings of that day
survive here, but not more. Enoch
Cloud was appointed post master at
ENkton by General Harrison, and
kept the post office for short time
in the Old Log Cabin. But the
good old man only lived month
after his Inauguration, and John
Tyler, who succeeded him, turned
out Cloud and appointed Col. Adam
Whann, who took the office up town
to the bulldog formerly occupied by
F. J. Kerr, and on the porch of
which building in IS43 the fatal
encounter took place between P. G..
Ricketts,, editor OF the WHO, and
Amor T. Forward, editor of the
Democrat. An old grain fan stood
tor years on the porch, in which
bullet was buried during the affray,
and which remained there many
years after, silent witness of the
exciting events of those days
THE OLD WASHINGTON HOUSE.
The old Washington House, which
stood where the Howard House now
stand was the Wing headquarters
in those times. Roland Ellis, father
of the late Francis A. Ellis, kept i.
when first recollect it, then J. Ford
Cazer, George II. Joyce, Josiah
Ford, Samuel H. Miller, Smiley
King and Mr.. Gebhart were in turn
its landlords, until DR.. n. H. Mitch
ell and Jacob c. Howard built tn e
present Howard House, when it was
opened by Jacob Johnson in 1854.
Previous to the opening of the P,
w. & B. railroad in 1896, the build.
ing Immediately opposite the Court
House and now occupied by A. E.
Sewers. had been kept as a hotel,
Robert c. Lusoy, who had been
sheriff of the county, removing from
that house to Chesapeake City,
where he rented hotel from Abram
Bennett, father OF the late George
w. Bennett.
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w. E.. BURNS &. BROS
HEMRE Dc GRHCe, ND.
ELKTON LONG AGO.
What an Old Residenter RecolIects
of Those Days.

GE is supposed to confer
dignity upon a man,
and to secure him con-
\ sideration from his fell
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horses, and ran stages to Port De-
post, Wilmington and Frenchtown.
In partnership with Jesse Sharp, of
Wilmington, in 1884 and I935 he
ran a pony mail express between
Philadelphia and Baltimore, receiv.
ing from the government $4,000
year for the service. Mahan was an
oper-hearted and free-handed man.
and spent his money as fast as he
made II. ust above the Presby.
terian Church. in a house that stood
out upon the line of the street, John
Anderson lived. He and his son.
in-Iaw, John Baldwin, who was a
tailor by trade, opened an Irish
groggery. and to attract the Irish
laborers, many of whom were EN-.
p'oved on the P.,W. & B. Railroad.
put up sign that hung over the
sidewalk, on which was inscribed in
flaming letters. "DANIEL O'CoN.
NELL, The L1BERAToR OF IRELAND"
The bait took, and the Baldwin grog
gerry became the scene of many
midnight and bloody orgie.
FEW HOUSES HERE THEN.
Only two houses were on the north
side OF Main street then, east of the
Presbyterian Church, one a frame
house in which Thomas A. BiddIe
lived who was the miller at Ryland's
(now Vinsinger's), and which stood
where MIR J. T. Brown now lives,
and the other further out, occupied
by the town barber and town fiddler
old Jake Anderson, a colored man.
who lived on the site of Mr.. Frank
Whitney's residence. On south side
OF Main street the house now occu.
pied by the Misses Strickland was
the last house, the cornhelds extend.
Ing unbroken to the mill lane. John
Wells. father of ex-Postmaster los.
Wells. lived in the Back Rock prom.
erty, now owned by Eugene Gonce,
havlng removed there from the house
opposite Singerly's mill, now occu.
pied bv George R. Howard, which
Mr.. Wells had kept as hotel. Next
door TO MIR. Wells, Philip Harding
who was cashier OF the Bank OF
Maryland, occupied the bank house.
MIR. Harding married Amelia Giles,
an aunt of Viii lam T. Giles, the bank
house having been built by General
oewell al the same time he built
Holly Hall, and while president OF
the Bank OF Maryland. When the
bank tailed the mob in Baltimore
attacked the house OF Reverdy
Johnson, who was connected with
the bank, in that city, and contem-
plated coming to Elkton 10 mob
General Sewell's house at Holly
Hail, only being prevented by their
inability to charter a steamboat 10
come mere.
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Don't, if you are young man, call on
young lady without asking her parents. 1t
is not solid way of making a family ac-
quaintance.
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Don't make yourself too agreeable to the
husband of your hostess, for by so doing
you will not be booked for next season.
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FIRST MILLINERY STORE,

1t may interest some OF the female
readers of the WIG to know that
Miss Sallie Sullivan opened the first
millinery store in Elkton in 1885 in
the store room now occupied by J.
o. Mccullough. James Brown, who
married Jane lamar, sister of the
late Reuben D. lamar, three years
afterward Gin 1889 began the manu-.
tacture of hats in the same location.
Immediately opposite the Court
House George H. Joyce and John
Conkey merchandised in 1887, and
Conkey, Withdrawing from the firm,
vas followed by Charles Manly, the
father of Mrs Alexander Evans.
The upper hotel, known in recent
years as the old Exchange Hotel,
in those days was Democratic head
quarters. Daniel Richardson, father
of Joshua Richardson, first kept it,
and was followed by George Pea
cock in the thirties, then William
kinkaid, then George Mccullough,
who were followed by Samuel De.
haven and Jacob Johnson. Billy
Falls" kept bar for Mr.. Dehaven in
this house for many wears, and after
wards married his daughter.
FIRST ICE CREAM IN ELKTON.
Mrs. Gen. Sewe!i first brought TO
Ekton the receipt for making ice
cream. 1t caused quite sensation
among the society ladies OF EIkton.
There being no saloon in the town
al which this then great delicacy
could be had, Mrs. Thomas Howard,
mother OF Jacob Howard, the pres.
ent Elkton ice man, served this re.
treshment to the ladies OF the town
on the east end OF the hotel porch.
Ellis Jones, who afterwards opened
an ice cream and confectionery store
where Devalinger's store now is,
also began its sale. He only made
one nd-lemon-the lemon being
cut in slio es, which you piled up by
the side OF your plate as you ate
your cream from around them.
Elkton, IN those days of the ancients,
was well supplied with the "ardent.
John Cain kept a corner grocery
where Patrick McGready nov is,
and Robert Johns kept similar
establishment on the lot where the
house of the editor OF the WIG now
stands. In the rear Of it stood an
old log house occupied by Joseph
Mahan, who did thriving business
in the stage line and livery. At one
time he had as high as ninety
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Female commercial drummers are multi-
plying
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ford, Preston 8. Chamberlin,g Alva M
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