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A Serious Matter.

COLUMBIA, May 27.-There is Sc
rious question now as to whether the
magistrates in the State have any
power at all to commit a person to
Jail. 1t is raised by L. T. Izlar, ESQ.,,
of Branchville who ARRIVED N the
city yesterday. A negro, Thomas
Brown, was arrested a few days ago
and committed to Jail by Magistrate
Woodward for breach of the peace.
Taking this case as the basis, Mr.. Izlar
comes to the State supreme court and
asks for writ of habeus corpus. Terse-
ly stated the case is this: The recent
constitutional convention created the
Office of magistrate, abolishing the
office of trial justice in this State.
1t left it to the legislature to pass an
act defining the duties and powers of
the magistrates, and fixing their sala-
ries. The legislature passed the act
defining the powers and duties of the
magistrates as required by the new
constitution. The act did not give
the governor the right of removal,
however, and he therefore vetoed all
of the act except that portion fixing
the salaries of the ma yistrates. The
result is that there are no duties and
powers defined for the magistrates,
and Mr.. Izlar's contention is that they
have no right to take action in any
criminal or civil case. If Mr.. Izlar's
position is sustained by the supreme
court the far-reaching results can be
easily seen.-State.
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Totals s2IO 55 118

IOtalS. ..............Elo oo ~
With AL votes in the Electoral Col
lege, the Republicans, according to
these figures, would have 210 votes, or
fourteen less than the 224 necessary
to an election. Should they carry
New Jersey they would still be four
votes short of the necessary number.
A victory in Oregon would give them
the exact vote required. Outside OF
New York they would have to carry
two of the States classed as doubtful to
win the election and prevent contest
in the House of Representatives.
WHAT A sTRADDLE MIGHT CAUSE.
Result would be materially changed
should the conventions in St. Louis
and Chicago dodge or "straddle" the
silver question. Old party lines would
again be drawn, and the Populists,
would be swallowed up by a boiling
fusion party, would have ticket OF
their own. The advantage might still
be with the Republicans, who could
count with reasonable safety upon
nearly 200 votes in the Electoral Col
lege, but there would be more States
in the doubtful column. The Popu-
lists might carry enough States to
make it necessary for the House OF
Representatives to elect the President:
This would be the situation should
the Democrats and Republicans dodge
or "straddle" the silver question: :.
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The Souths Revival.

BALTIMORE, May 28.-Special re-
ports to the Manufacturers Record,
covering the business interests of the
south for the week, show considera-
bly, larger number of important m at
ters than for the preceding week. The
Watts Iron and Steel plant, built sew
eral years ago at a cost of about $2,-
OOO,0 to roll ingots into slabs and
billits. This company has had one
of its furnaces in operation for five or
six month making pig iron, and the
starting up of this large steel plant
promises to have very material ef-
feet upon the question of steel making
IN the south.
Some contracts are being let for the
equipment of the steel plant, to be
built at Birmingham by the Birmlng-
ham Rolling Mill Company.
Cotton mill enterprises include a
$lOO, 900 company at Hickory Grove,
s. O., a $4,000 spindle mill at Clin.
ton; the increase of capital stock of
SIS, 600 at Chester for the purpose of
adding 1000 spindles; and a subscrip-
ton of $4,000 for building mill at
Blacksburg, S. @.
Pennsylvania people have purchas.
ed 90, 900 acres of timber land in Ala
barla for immediate development.
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william e. Stoney Dead.

CHARLESTON, May 24.-Capt. w. E.
Stoney, ex-comptroller general OF
South Carolina. died from the effects
of a stroke of paralysis at his home in
this city at 9 o'clock tonight. Captain
Stoney was gallant Confederate sol.
dier, serving in the field Throughout
the late war. He was elected comp.
tfoller general In 1882, and served in
that Office for six years. He subse.
quently became auditor of the South
Carolina and Georgia railroad corn
pany. He was in the service of the
road at the time of his death. he was
one of the most highly esteemed citi.
zens of Charleston, and his death will
cause profound regret throughout the
State
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*Utah was not state IN 1917.
There will be three more votes in
the Electoral College this year than
in 1882, Utah having been admitted
as State and being now entitled to
three votes. The vote in the Electo-
raj College of 1892 shows some of the
possibilities of fusion, and it also
shows that with bolt of the free sill
YER men the silver producing
States may be counted upon
to vote this year for the free sill
silver candidate. Fusion with the
Democrats in 1892 gave the Populists
one vote in Oregon, one in North Da'
kota, three in Idaho, ten in Kansas,
three in Nevada and four in Colora-
do. 1t gave Cleveland one vote in
North Dakota.
The Republicans, therefore. lost
twenty-three votes in the Electoral
College through the fusion of Demo
Gratis and Pcpulists. Without fusion
Harrison's vote would have been 168
and Cleveland's 276. But Cleveland
was unusually fortunate. Mckinley
ism, which today seems to be so pepu-
lar among the Republicans, was un.
popular with the people that year.
Harrison carried Ohio by bare. 1000
plurality, and even lost one of the
votes in the Electoral College. The
Republicans lost eight of the nine
votes IN California, and through a
new provision of the law in Michigan
lost five of the fourteen votes in that
State, although their plurality there
was 10000. Altgeld was not then
then known in Illinois. His silver
views had not been brought to light,
and his peculiar ideas concerning the
suppression of strikes had not been
made public. A. E. Stevenson, of H.
linois, was on the ticket with Cleve-
land, who was then as popular in the
State as he now seems to be unpopu-
lar. McKinleyism was at discount,
with Atlgeld still unknown, with gen.
eral disgust at the tariff law, and with
the silver issue in the background,
Illinois was carried for Cleveland,
who, on the same tide was swept
through in Wisconsin, and in the
four doubtful States of New York,
Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut.
A DETERRENT SITUATION NOW.
Results in these states will be differ.
ent this year. A bolt and fusion of
Western Republicans and Southern
Democrats will fasten some of them
securely in the Republican column,
| but the result may be such as to throw
the election in the House of Represen-
tatives. All the silver producing States
would undoubtedly vote for the white
metal candidate. These would give
him nineteen votes. California, not
withstanding the fact that the Repub-
licans adopted sound money plat
form in the State convention a few
weeks ago, would probably vote with
the fusionists. Many of the Southern
States would vote against the Demo
cratic ticket and fall into line for the
cheap money candidate.
In such situation the Republicans
would have good advantage. They
would lose the votes of the silver pro.
aucing States, but with both parties
standing firmly for sound money the
Republican States which voted for
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MURDERED SIX.
Killed His Wife, Her Father and Mother
and Three Other Persons.

Killed His Wife, Her Father and Mother
and Three Other Persons.
SAN JOSE. CAL, May 27.-Colonel
R. P. MEG Glincy and wife, their daugh-
ter, Mrs. James Dunham. James
Wells, a son of Mrs. McGincy, a
hired woman, Minnie Schiesler, and q
hired man, James Briscoe, were killed
at Campbell by James Dunham, SON
in.law of Colonel McGlincy, who
made his escape.
About midnight a neighbor named
Page heard the report of shots in the
direction of the McGlincy home. Al
most Immediately thereafter there
came the sound of galloping hoofs on
the country road. Hurriedly dress:
ing, Page proceeded to the home of
the McGlincys, and was Mortified to
find the body of McGlincy lying in an
Clubhouse in pool of blood. Enter
ing the house he found the bodies
of James Wells, who had been shot.
Mrs. McGlincy, and daughter, who
had been stabbed to death by the assas
sin, and the hired man and girl, who
had been hacked to death with a
hatchet.
The interior of the rooms where the
bodies of the victims lay were bespat-
tered with blood, and there was every
evidence to show that the dead had
made a desperate struggle for their
lives. Page finding that all were be.
yond help, notified the authorities in
this city. One of the officers who
returned to the city from the scene
said.
"The scene at the McGlincy home is
one fearful almost beyond the power
of description. In the reception room
was found the body of Wells. Evi-
IDENTIFY a terrible struggle had taken
place between Wells and the assas-
sin. Wells was shot two or three
times.
I'm the diningroom adjoining, no
bodies were found. but the furniture
was literally smashed into fragments,
showing that a fearful fight had taken
place there. Adjoining the dining
room was the apartment occupied by
Mrs. McGlincy. There she was found
literally slashed to pieces with a
hatchet. Blood was everywhere, and
as in the room of Wells, there was
evidence of a terrible struggle having
taken place between the poor woman
and her fendish son-in law. The
other victims were found in other
apartments.
The last seen of Durham he was
riding rapidly toward San Jose on
horseback. Family troubles are said
to have caused the murders. The only
being in the house escaped alive was
baby, one month old, the child of
Mrs. Dunham and the alleged murder
er. Colonel McGlincy was one of
California's commissioners to the
worlds fair at Chicago.
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But, suppose the silver element DOM
mated the Chicago Convention and
the sound money Democrats bolted
and nominated ticket on the gold
standard platform, what then9 This
requires an entirely new calculation.
In that event the National Democracy
would have been swallowed by the
free silver party, which, in turn, would
swallow the Populists, and the sound
money Democrats would be in the po-
sition of boilers, and, in many States,
might be almost eliminated from the
contest. In such an event the lines
would undoubtedly be drawn between
the Republicans and the free silver
Democracy. In this event it is likely
that the Republicans would carry the
States of Connecticut, Delaware, Hi.
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York,
New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvani, Yer
mont and Wisconsin, and have 236
votes in the Electoral College, but they
must carry all the doubtful States on
the list to win.
THE VOTE IN THE HOUSE.
With the possibility that the election
may be thrown into the House of Rep
resentatives the political complexion
of that body becomes question of
deep interest. The constitution pro-
yides that ''in choosing the President
the votes shall be taken by States, the
representation from each State having
one vote" o
Since they control the votes of 80
States just two.thirds of the whole
number-the Republicans could, if
the question turns on strict party lines,
elect a President, even if the represen-
tatives from all other States failed to
attend or vote.
WOULD BEAT THE SILVER MEN.
But an interesting situation might
arise should the bolt of the silver men
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IF THERE BE A BOLT.
SURPRISING RESULTS IN THE ELEC'
1oRAL COLLEGE WOULD FOLLOW.

Silver Combination Would Carry Many
states-southern Democrats and West
ern Republicans Would Get Together
A Good Chance for Silver Winning.
It will be straddle or bolt at st.
Louis.
It will be straddle or a bolt at
Chicago.
More likely than not it will be bolt
at 81. Louis of the free silver Republi-
cans, says the New York Herald, be-
cause the gold standard men already
count $50 of the 919 delegates.
Whether it be bolt al Chicago of the
sound money Democrats or of the free
silver Democrats, or whether the par
ty compromises on meaningless plat.
form, the Indications are overwhelm-
ing that the free silver element of both
parties will be shouting for a third
ticket, pledged to the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver in the coming
campaign.
What would be the result of the
third ticket on the vote in the Electo.
raj Collsgea The situation is full of
surprising possibilities. The Third
Party movement is already being
planned. The Populists and other al
lied organizations are waiting with
open arms for Teller. of Colorado, to
lead the bolt from the st. Louis con-
vention. They are preparing to burn
tar barrels should Bland, of Missouri,
and his followers either win or bolt at
Chicago. Should silver dominate the
Democratic party they are willing to
indorse the Democratic ticket and let
the gold standard men do the boiling
and the nominating of third ticket.
HOW THE STATES VOTED.
To get at the likelihood of party
lines f ying to pieces first glance at the
electoral vote of 1892, when Cleveland
led the Democrats, Harrison the Re-
publlcans and Weaver the Populists.
This is the way the States voted that
wear
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Fifty Children Kille Il.

CHICAGO, May 27.-Oficials of the
Chicago and Alton received tele-
gram tonight from Rush Hill, Mo-, a
small place in Audrin County, IL
miles from Mexico, Mo. The wind
struck Rush Hill about o'clock. The
school house, filled with children, was
crushed before the pupils could es.
cape. The fifty children in the school
house are reported killed.
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Cleveland four years ago might rea-
sonably be expected to vote for the
Republican nominee.
THE RESULT OF A BOLT.
This table may be regarded as fair
ly accurate forecast of how the states
will vote if both parties favor sound
money and the Western and Southern
silver men name ticket of their own !:
Reps. Dems. Fus Dful
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a crew of 8 men, was blown against
the middle pier of the Eads bridge
and broken in two. The steamer Lib
bic Conger of the Diamond 10 Line,
| with Captain Zaman, his wife and the
crew of six men, was sunk.
Apart from the number of lives lost
here and on the East side of the river,
the number drowned in the Mississip-
pi will aggregate hundreds.
A HEART RENDING DEATH LIST.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 2s.-The aw-
full sweep of last nights tornado is
marked to-day by a devastated dis.
trict in the Southwestern portion of
the city, half mile wide and four
miles long, with wrecked buildings,
tottering walls, debris, choked streets
and rescuing parties to tell the story
of havoc and death. -.
St. Louis is dazed by the extent OF
the calamity and it will be days be-
fore the total loss of life and the
amount of property destroyed will be
known.
The estimates OF the number killed
vary from 200 to 500, with the bellef
general that the latter figure is the
nearer correct.
Coroner Waite says the death list in
st. Louis proper would easily reach
200. and in East st. Louis 1t would be.
perhaps as large.
At police headquarters the dead in
St. Louis are estimated at 300 and in
East st. Louis at 200. Extra editions
of the local papers place the total loss
of life at 500 or more.
The storm left its path Uttered with
dead and dying, and patrol wagons,
ambulances and undertakers' cars
were busy all day long carrying the
identified dead to their homes and the
homes of relatives and friends, or
leaving the unidentified with the city
morgue authorities.
The property loss is terrific, esti-
mates ranging from $1,000, 900 to
$50, 900, 900.
The storm which wrought the havoc
was most peculiar one and scarcely
two people in all the city agree as to
Just how the damage was done. The
wind seemed to take the form of a
tornado rather than that Of cyclone,
the wrecked buildings showing none of
the twisted irons and girders which
usually mark the trail Of rotary
wind storm. The general trend was
from Southwest to Northeast, through
the centre of the business district
district of the city to about nile
Mouth of tho oitu
The first heavy damage was in the
vicinity of Lower Grove and LaFay-
ette Parks, where handsome residences
were wrecked and many persons in
iured. The tornado swept from the
Northeast as far as the river. when,
with sudden turn to the North, it
cleared the Mississippi and tore its
way into the heart Of East st. Louis.
One of the remarkable features was
the destruction of a wing of the city
hospital, carrying 200 patients and
nurses down in the wreck, and kill.
ing but one person.
It will be several days before def
mite information can be obtained as to
the loss of life and injury. In addi-
ton to the killed and Injured in St.
Louis and East st. Louis, the cyclone
moved down many people in other
places. Dispatches received by the AS
sociated Press give accounts of serious
loss of life and maimings in quite
number of places. Appended is ia
BILE showing the latest careful estimate
of killed and injured, based on the
dispatches:
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result in no election by the Electoral
College. The bolt might be extended
to the House of Representatives and
party lines might be broken there,
as we'll as in the general election.
This is the way the vote would stand
the vote by States being determined
by the financial views of a majority
of each delegation.
Gold Silver
n. IL.
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hl1Icu' 1uJuTCu. (.
st. Louis. .2OO 5Ou
East St. Louis. ........250 300
Near Centralia, Ill.,. AZ 35
Breckinridge, Ill.,. 3 -
Near Mt. Vernon, ILL.,. 5 20
Near Vendalia, Ill.,. IL IS
Near Mexico, Mo...... Is "a
Totals. .527 IA
The number of killed may not be
far from 500 and the injured about
700. The steamer Pittsburg of the Dia
mond Joe Line, City of Vicksburg
and the City of Province of the Co.
lumbian Excursion Company, the city
of Monroe of the Anchor Line and all
sorts of small crafts were pitched and
tossed about until a final blast rent
them from their moorings. They were
swept across the river and struck the
Illinois bank, within few blocks of
each other. The loss of life on these
boats is thought to be slight, as every
body was cautioned not to jump and
they would be brought safely to land.
The city of Vicksburg is almost q total
wreck. The city of Province was
blown upon the Illinois side. Her
rudder is gone and her cabin and
smoke stacks were blown away before
she parted from her wharf.
The St. Louis and st. Paul Packet
Company's steamer st. Paul had
started for Keokuk when the tornado
struck the city. She has not been
heard of. She had full cabin.
The Belle of Calhoun, the Madill
and the Lubecie Conger, which were
moored near Cheteau avenue, were
almost totally broken up. Their cab
ins and smoke stacks were blown
away. The Ellen G.. Smith, the har-
Dor boat, was blown down the river
and was wrecked near Arsenal Stand.
1t is thought a number of lives were
lost on this boat.
The steamer Harvester of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Transportation Com
pany was also torn from its dock and
carried down the river.
The loss to river property can only
be estimated. A river man said 81, 500, :
900 would not repair and replace the
boats alone that figured the storm.
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*Delegation evenly divided and no vote
being cast.
WALL STREET THREATENS PANIC
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IF THE GOLD MEN BOLTED.

Necessary to a choice-224.
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A few wees ago the GRAPHIC remark
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ball creamery would break the record in
the first days business. The plant
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the state. Barring a little hitch in one
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cry down ,Gne-to a point where the
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the water-and the plant has 50 far been
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the ice and water are two of the most
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it tough. Next season the creamery will
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expense-and before many days a good
we'll of water Of its own, it is TO DO hoped.
Tho creamery is a winner anyway, bu,
the management wants to have it win
She very last dollar for its patrons.
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