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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16
GAINS.
Municipal Elections IN Ohio and Mich
Observation-Disclosures Home Democratic.

Municipal Elections III Ohio and Mich
Observation-Disclosures Home Democratic.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 7.-The
election in Cincinnati was for mavor
and other city officials and members
of the board of education. The Re-
publican ticket was headed by LeviC.
Goodale for mayor and the Democratic
ticket by Gustave Tafel, the latter be-
ing elected by a plurality of 1920.
while the city gave Mckinley a plu-
rality of almost 20, 900 last November.
and Caldwell, Republican nominee for
mayor three years ago, a plurality
of 6,755.
Althoughlo local issues controlled most
of the municipal elections, yet the gen
eral result throughout Ohio showed
Democratic gains along the lake shore,
the river counties and in the interior
counties. This gives the Democrats
control Of most of the machinery for
the election next November of state
officers and members of the legisla-
ture. Governor Bushnell will stand
for a second term. Senator Mark A.
Hanna is the Republican candidate
for senator and John R. Mclean the
free silver candidate for senator. All
of those three leaders, as well as ex-
Senator Brice, are interested parties
and contributed directly and Indirectly
to the organized efforts of the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16
SENATOR ALLEN TOA. r. "a.
Denies a Request OF the Order-He States
His Position.

Denies a Reques OF the Order-He States
His Position.
WASHINGTON, April Gin reply to a
request from an Omaha A. p. "A. coun.
Gil to vote against the confirmation OF
any known Catholic appointed by
President Mckinley, Senator Allen Of
Nebraska has written a reply, of which
the following is a part:
II cannot comply with your request.
l will not vote to reject any competent
and worthy man because of his relig.
ious faith. Ii l should do so | would
violate my oath of Office and the Ian.
guage Of the constitution OF the United
States and of the state of Nebraska.
This no constituent has a right to
ask me to do. You will observe
by several constitutional provisions
and federal, is completely and
and all citizens regardless Of their re-
ligious beliefs, are, if otherwise quail
fed, eligible to hold Office. l have
taken an oath to support the constitu-
ton Of the United States, as we'll as
GlldC L elle SIttlc OIL NcDfdShu. anu UntlL
oath must be observed. | could not, if
so inclined, vote to reject a competent
and worthy man for a public position
to which he might be appointed by the
President because of his church con
nection or his particular religious be-
lief. nor would | do so under any cir
cnmStances.
The American people ought to on
graduate themselves on the foresight
and wisdom Of Washington and his
cOmpatriotS, who laid the foundations
OF this government SO broadly and SO
deeply that questions like this are
taken out Of the domain Of party poll
ties. They We're possessed of a high
order Of craftsmanship and a rare
conception Of public duty. The liber-
ties Of the people Of this country are
broad and must be maintained. All,
whether members of churches or not,
who retain citizenship, must be per.
mlttcd to enjoy, unmolested and un.
questioned, the rights guaranteed
them by the constitution, and no man
who permits himself to antagonize
these rights can have a clear and &C,
curate conception of public duty"
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AT WHITE HOUSE.
Bri.f Call Made on President MoKinley

Brief Call Made on President Mckinley
-Th EXECUTIVE Mansion Inspected.
WASHINGTON, April w. j. Bryan,
the late Democratic candidate for
President, called at the White house
this morning with Representative
McMillin of Tennessee and At
torney General smythe Of Nebraska,
They We're Immediately shown into
Mr.. McKinley's private office. The
President, who was talking with a
group of gentlemen, advanced, and the
President and his former rival shook
hands cordially Mr.. Bryan remarked
upon the Presidents apparent good
health, and the latter spoke of the
fact that he had seen by the newspa-
pers that Mr.. Bryan was here to argue
a case before the supreme court. He
also said he had received a copy Of Mr..
Bryan's book a few days ago, but as
yet had not had time to read it.
''There is no law which compels you
to read it., remarked Mr.. Bryan smil-
ingly.
After a further exchange of cour-
tesies and pleasantries Mr.. Bryan re-
tired. He expressed a desire to be
shown through the White house, and
Doorkeeper Dubois conducted hun
through the various parlors and the
conservatory. In the main corridor,
just as he was emerging, he met Mrs.
Mckinley, who was going out for a
drive, and saluted her cordially. Mrs.
Mckinley acknowledged the salute with
asmile. but it is doubtful whether she
recognized him.
, The supreme court room and corri-
doris without were crowded to-day
with spectators, attracted by the APP
pearance Of Mr.. Bryan rs counsel in
the Nebraska maximum freight rates
case.
Bryan, in beginning his argument,
said h a it was unfortunate that there
was nc established rule by which the
court wa to determine what were
reasonable rates. 1t must be pre-
sumed. however, that the legislature in
fixing what it held to be reasonable
rates acted in good faith. "a rail
road s." he said, ''to a certain extent
a monopoly, and the people cannot de-
pend upon the laws Of competition to
protect them from the exacticns Of a
monopoly
When he came to discuss the rights
u corporations bryan became some
what oratorical. He said: IF a few
corporations can secure a monopoly
and not be governed by the same rules
as others the people are the victims OF
those monopolies. The rights Of citi.
zens to reasonable rates is as sacred as
those of railroads to reasonable
profits. The court cannot assume that
individuals would raise up in their
midst d fictitious individual, a corpor-
ate parsonage and endow it with rights
higher than those of the creators"
In concluding he declared that the
people who gave value to a road by
using it were as much entitled to con-
~sideration as those who contributed to
build it, else there was no equality for
citizens before the courts.
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NO HosTlLITIES AS FEARED


.AAeA NE E#44AAE ~
Much Relieved.
LONDON, April To-day was the
seventy-sixth anniversary OF the de-
claration of independence of Greece
from Turkey, and all Europe has had
misgivings as to how the day would be
passed in the little kingdom, which
has been virtually defying the powers.
Many predictions were made that
there would be open hostilities on h
border, and hat war would be lnaug-
urated. Up to a late hour, however,
all was reported quiet on the frontier
of Greece, and in consequence there
was a general feeling Of relief IN all
centers. 1t is now believed that war
will be averted.
In Athens the greatest enthusiasm
was manifested during the fetes or
ganized to celebrate the anniversary
of the declaration of the Independence
of Greece. The king and the members
of the royal family, accompanied by
the ministers and all high court and
other officials Of Athens, attended the
religious ceremonies at the Cathedral,
where a te deum was sung. The king
received a great ovation during his
passage to and from the Cathedral,
and he and the ministers We're show
cred with leaflets inscribed: ,'Hurrah
for War"
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is CRUMBLING AWAY.
FRESH FLOOD
ING RICH LANDS.
Many Fine Plantations in the south Under
watcr-Teas OF Thousands OF People
lIomclcss-Temporary Relief Tor st.
Louis-Louisiana People Desperate.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April e.-At ?
o'clock yesterday morning the great
Williamson levee, two miles below
Greenville, Miss, gave way, and the
crevasse was soon $50 feet wide and
eighteen feet deep. Many fine plan
tations are under water and the worst
is feared in Greenville. A second Gre
vase occurred in the afternoon lust
below the first, and the people are in
despair.
Ats o'clock yesterday morning a
crevasse opened in the Flower lake
levee, near Tunica, Miss, and was
o hundreds OF feet wide, with a
great torrent rushing through. MANY
cattle persisted, but no lives were lost.
In less than an hour the lake at Bush
by had risen eight feet and this morn
ing the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
railroad was disabled. The richest
portion OF Tunica county, Miss. is now
under water, and Coahoma county is
certain to be submerged in large part.
The break is the most disastrous of
any yet experienced.
Throughout the flooded region of
Mississippi thousands of people are
huddled on the l%evees, almost desti-
tute, and Governor McLaurin and the
relief boards are running short Of sup
plies. In Rosedale alone 1000 refu-
gees are being cared for and other
places are hardly less burdened. The
levee about the business portion of
Greenville still protects 1000 people.
A break occurred yesterday two
miles south Of Helena, Ark, and a
great area is under water. The suf-
fering along the st. Francis river in
Arkansas is terrible, the whole neigh
boring country being under from six
to fifteen feet of water.
At Memphis and below Vicksburg
the river is rising again and the worst
is feared.
Fresh damage is reported from
Southeast Missouri. above here, but
little more is feared there now as the
river is falling at Cairo.
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MORE PLACES FILLED.

Buck OF Georgia to Japan and James
Boyle to Liverpool-Other Selections.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The Presi-
dent to-day sent to the Senate the fol-
lowing nominations:
Alfred e. Buck Of Georgia, to be en-
voy extraordinary and minister plen-
~ipotentiary to Japan.
James Boyle of Ohio to be consul at
Liverpool, England.
p. S. Day of Connecticut to be con-
sui at Bradford, England.
Fenton R. McCreery of Michigan to
be secretary of the legation at the City
Of Mexico.
George w. James of Kansas to be
agent for the Indians Of the Potto-
watomie and Great Nemaha agency in
Kansas
Captain Henry L.. Howison to be a
commodore and Commander Charles
D. Sigsbee to be a captain in the navy.
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A New Dawes Commission.

WASHINGTON, April There will
probably be a general shake-up of the
Dawes commission and a complete re-
organization on Republican lines. The
resignation of Member Cabannis of
Georgia, has been called for by the
President, and it is said that another
resignation was demanded from the
White house yesterday.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16
Rhode Island eavers str;ka.

pAscoAG, RI. April Z The weavers
In the Stone worsted mill struck for an
OF pay. They were offered a
half a cent a yard but refused it. Al
Prendergast's mill, where anothe,
strike is in progress, the strikers are
being paid off and are leaving the vii.
lage, being ordered from the com.
pany's tenements.
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No Wine for the Communion.

SEDALIA, Mo-, April q. - At the
Broadway Presbyterian church yester-
day, after the communion bread had
been passed, it wa found through the
negligence of some one a bottle Of lime
water had been substituted for wine.
No wine was o%btainable, and the Rev.
1. T. Cain, the pastor, postponed COM
munion until next Sunday.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16
Canton Goes Democratic.

CANTON, Ohio, April 7.-As usual,
when Mckinley is not On the ticket,
Canton went Democratic. Mayor Rice,
for reelection, carried it by between
400 and 500 majority. The remainder
of the ticket is divided, the Democrats
winning a majority of the Offices.
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Killed by a CHANGING Bullet.

CALIFORNIA, Mo-, April 6. = While
John Adam was firing a 32-caliber
rifle at a target, Rudolph Messerli
came over a slight hill and was struck
in the right side by a glancing ball.
He died before a doctor reached him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16
Sweetheart Dead, H. Killed Himself.

Sweetheart Dead, H. Killed HIMSELF.
SAVANNAH, Mo, April 6.-When the
mother of Louis Elmer Jenkins, a
young man about twenty-five years
old, returned from church yesterday
morning, she found the body Of her
son lying on the bed, a powder-burned
wound in his breast and a pistol at his
side. He is supposed to have killed
himself on account of the death Ct his
sweetheart two months ago.
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manufacturers Combine.

BUFFALO, n. Y, April 6.-The con-
solidation of three of the largest man
of harness IN the country,
those at Columbus, Ohio, Syracuse and
Buffalo, N. Y, has been effected by
the organization of the United Harness
company, with o. P. Letchworth of
this city as president. The offices and
factories of the company will be To-
Gated here.
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" ~ AAO AiASN So oCCO.
"a. j. MCLAUR1N, Governor
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April Am
gathering information by wire and
otherwise, and will promptly report
to you as soon as reliable data can be
obtained. Entire Mississippi valley in
Arkansas overlooked. Great d~estruc-
ton of property, communication to
many points cut off. rendering the in
formation required difficult to obtain.
Extent of suffering for food and
shelter can only be vaguely approx
mated, but it is safe to say $50, 900
added by the government to our local
will OF be too much to meet
the eNigcncies.
''DANIEL w. JONES, Governor"
BATON ROUGE, La, April Up to
date we have been able to hold our
~levees in the state with the exception
of a break in lower Bayou la Fourche.
There is as yet no flooded district, ex-
cept a small territory affected by this
~crevasse. The situation is, however,
extremely critical, and the co-opera-
ton of your department, through as
sistant engineers. in strengthening
and maintaining the levees is most
earnestly solicited. Accept my thanks
for your interest in our people and nv
high appreciation of the same.
"MURPHY j. FOSTER, Governor"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-24
HANNA,s FURNACE co14ArsEs.
Thirty Worxmen Buried, But ALI
Escape Death.

Thirty Workmen Buried, But All
Escape Death.
NEW CASTLE, Pa, May 23.-This
morning the big Rosena furnace in this
city, owned by Senator Mark Hanna
and ex-senator Cameron, let go, and
the next instant a heavy volume Of
coke, iron ore and coal came crashing
through the roof of the casting house.
men under the debris. Manager Refs
was taken out with the skin hanging
in shreds from his hands and arms,
and his legs were terribly burned and
bruised. The others injured are:
Samuel Moody burned and bruised all over
the body Mike Petro head cut In half dozen
places and bruises and burned about the
hands and arms. William Hanna, head cut,
arms almost severed by falling sheet iron.
Joseph Love, head mass Of cuts, laying the
skull bare in three places. Frank Sheard,
head badly cut. legs bruised, back burned
and arms terribly burned. His injuries are
very bad and may result In death.
Half a dozen other men were also
more or less injured, but the above
are the worst cases.
The second accident Of the day oc-
CURED about twenty minutes after the
one at Rosena furnace. 1t was cave
in at the big seventy-foot cut Of the
New Castle Traction company, that Is
engaged in making track to the new
Cascade park. Michael Kurdy was
buried under at least seventy-five feet
of sand, gravel, clay and rocks and was
dead when taken out. Peter Herinsky
was terribly crushed about the shoul-
ders and hips, while his chest was
crushed. He will likely hive.
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The Policy Is to Cut Oft De-
bate as nuch as
Possible.
House Will Block the rlorgan
Cuban Recognition
Resolution.
Party Leaders Prefer to Give
Mckinley the RESPONSE
bility of Acting.

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-On Tues
day next, ten weeks and q day after
the beginning of the session, the SEN
ate will take up the tariff bill for the
passage of which the session was espe-
cially called. The bill was to have
been called up on Monday, but the
death Of Senator Earle, of South Caro-
lima, will render necessary an adjourn
ment for q day. Senator Aldrich will
call up the bill move its consideration
and make a speech in its support. The
Democratic amendment striking out
the internal revenue features OF the
bill will be introduced by Senator Vest.
After this the course OF procedure is
somewhat indefinite. The Democrats
are not clear as to whether they will
permit the immediate taking up of the
schedules or will demand an opportu-
nifty to make set speeches bearing upon
the general policy Of the BILL The
prevailing opinion among the Demo-
cratic leaders is against the policy Of
general speeches at the beginning Of
the discussion, but they will not at
tempt to restrain individual senators
who may wish to be heard. There are
some Democratic senators who are dis
posed to discuss the general features
of the bill and who incline to the opin-
ion that the best time for such speeches
will be while the debate on the bill is
young. Senator Vest does not expect
to make speech in moving to
strike out the internal revenue fea.
lures, but the motion may lead to I'm
mediate debate, and in case exception
Is taken to it the Missouri senator will
be heard from. The silver RepubH-
cans and Populists will seek opportu-
nifty during the tendency Of the bill
to present some remarks of a political
nature, and some of them may be heard
during the week.
The general sentiment among
straight Republicans is adverse to the
encouragement of any general discus
sion of the bill or to long speeches on
the schedules, but no party policy has
yet been decided upon. A caucus has
been called for this purpose to be held
Monday afternoon. There will undOubt-
edly be strong opposition to some of
the schedules on the part of Republican
senators, and amendments will be firm
ly pressed. Some of these amendments
will be offered to the chemical schedule,
the first Of the list, and they will prob
ably be reached during the present
week. Other features of the bill which
Republican senators will attack are
those affecting the sugar and wool du-
ties and taking hides from the free list.
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Mother Died With Her CHILD.
Two Suffocated and Three Seriously Injured
in New York Boarding House Fire.

NEW YORK, May 23.-Two persons
were killed and three seriously injured
in fire which started shortly after
o'clock this morning in the four-story
and basement brown stone building at
149 West Twenty -third street. Several
persons narrowly escaped death. The
dead are:
MRS. CATHERINE MOSSWAY, thirty three
years; died at hospital from suffocation and
burns.
BEATRICE MosswAY, four years old,
daughter Of the former; suffocated In her
ROOM
Bowles, boarding house keeper at 28 Hollis
street, Boston, dangerously hurt by Jumping
from a window on the third floor; Miss Mac
Donald, slightly burned on face; F. S. Phaphs,
slightly burned on face.
The building was occupied for both
business and dwelling purposes. In the
basement is an all-night eating house.
The Weser Piano company occupy the
first floor and the upper part of the
building is furnished room establish
ment conducted by Mrs. Curtis.
Before the firemen reached the scene
the building was filled with flames.
The hallways from the first floor to
the roof were in flames, and escape by
the front was cut off, Panic seized the
inmates Of the house. While tenant
named Lamont was crawling along the
narrow sill to reach the adjoining
house, the body Of woman struck
large sign which hung on the outside
Of the building, and to which he chung
for support. The sign was torn from
it's fastenings and fell with g. crash
to the street. The woman was Mrs.
Bowles, who had prectpitated herself
from the third floor to the street below,
when she found that egress from the
house by way Of the stairs was check
ed by the flames. She was picked up
and taken to a hospital. Lamont did
not fall to the street.
On the top floor the widest sort of
panic had seized the tenants, among
whom were Mrs. Mossway and her
ing Miss Macdonald and Mr.. Phaphs,
had escaped to the roof.
Mrs. MosSway, who lost her life, was
sleeping with her little daughter, when.
she was aroused by the smoke. She
ran into the hall and gave the alarm,
and then went back after her daughter.
When she started to return the smoke
and flames drove her again to her
room. She attempted to open the win
dow, but 1t did not yield readily, and
she broke the glass with her hands.
The window would not open. and even
IL 1t had, there would have been little
chance for her, as It is protected on
the outside by iron bars. When the
fireuen searched the house they found
the little girl dead In bed, the mother
lying on the floor blistered by heat
and almost dead from suffocatdon She
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Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, the noted leader
of the Spanish Liberal party, is to the front
again as the cause Of the assault made by the
Duke of Tetuan upon Senator Comas on the
floor of the senate. Tetuan charged that 1t
was Sagastas speech to the Liberals that
brought about the vote in the American SEN
ate. Sagasta is an old patriot Of Spain, and
has been in revolution or two He was born
at Torrecilla de Cameros in 1927. He studied
for an engineer, and practiced his profession
at Valladolid and Zamora. He was elected to
the constituent cortes from the latter place in
tdon of 1856, and was obliged to take refuge
in France. He later returned to Spain and ac-
cepted professorship in the school of en-
gdneers at Madrid, and became the editor OF
La Iberia, the organ of the Progressist party.
He was engaged in the insurrection Of June,
1885, and was again obliged to fly to France,
where he remained until after the dethrone-
ment of Queen Isabella. He was appointed