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DOES HE SEEK
NOMINATION 2
Different Opinions ~ to the
Intentions OF Mclean

COLUMBUS. O., July ii.-So few
politicians believe that the announ-
ced candidacy Of John n. Mclean
for the Democratic nomination for
governor IL merely a trick OF the
willy gentleman, who makes millions
In Washington and votes In cincln-
natl. They figure out that John n.
has become somewhat alarmed over
the remarkable development OF the
strength OF Col. James Kilbourne,
and took the means of having his
friends announce him az q candidate
10 hold his people away from Kill
bourne. These politicians take II
that Mclean does not want the
nomination for governor ct all, but
II simply playing 10 make sure Of
debating the nomination. N this be
the purpose Of McLean's candidacy,
Il 10 reasonably certain that his
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THE ROPE CAME
NEAR PARTING

HARRISBURG. Pa. July fi.-An
awful tragedy almost marked the
hanging here this morning o. Henry
Smith. eoiored wife murderer
When the trap was sprung. three
strands 81 the rope broke The re-
naming two stretched and appear
ID b be parting. but luckily II held
tcEefhsr until the negro was cut
down
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HORRORS Of A
TENEMENT FIRE
Twenty.SIxPs Persons Injured In
. New York conhsgrstIon.

NEW YORK. July io.--Twenty-six
persons. sone Of whom may die.
were injured In a Are In q crowded
tenement house this morning, The
flames burned 30 Hereby that the
work 81 rescue was carried on with
great difncuity. The lives Of thous-
snds In adjoining tenements were en-
dsnsered, and only by superhuman
efforts were the hremep able 10 con-
troll the flames, Twenty OF the In
jured were overcome by smoke and
were carried out Of the building In an
unconscious state.
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THE REPORT
IS DENIED
Troops Not 10 ~ Seat Against
the csnsdIsn pollce.

WASHINGTON. y. C.. July IL
The state department ofaclsliy ds.
MES the story 20 the saee, that the
department hss been snfaxns1 shsi
the British government Win ssnd
mounted police 70 roreapins region
In Alaska. and that the adminlssrs-
ton viii meet the situation b, send.
ing troops there.
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WILL DISPENSE
WITH BATTERIES

SPRINGFIELD. o., July ia
company formed herr controls an In
vention which does away with the
use 81 batteries for tslexraphing and
for other purposes. Instead a mag
net 10 substituted.
II 10 claimed that II will save tels-
graph companies In the United States
500, 900 q year.
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Immense chlssse Fuvasess

CHICAGO. III. July 1.-THE fiiln-
oils Stees company has let contract
for two new blast furnaces to be To-
Gated on EeiEhty-sixth street. The
contracts amount 10 ssco. 600.
The new furnaces viii have the
largest capacity for piw Iron prod
ucts Of any In the eountry.
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VICTORY FOR
THE UNION

MARION. Ind. July II. - At
last. after four or ave years Of con-
,inasd EFFORT on the part Of labor
unions. the swsyres Glass factory at
swsyse~. TITS county. has been
unionlsed. TIE plant vas started
with q full force Of sboat two hun
drei hands The plant ~ss the big
res, non-urion sisss factory In tho
country and the fact that Z, has been
unianired 10 considered . bts achieve
rnert by the union
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uLYssEs. Ssb.. July ii.--.Durlns
an electric storm last night Victor
and Ira pohson. a sou of John Amos
ana two unhno~n men were struck
by lightning ana killed. The bodies
were not found until today. when q
searching party which had been
started out to look for them. came
upon the bodies.
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The case Of chas Fryett, one Of
the wsrdner strikers. was continued
by Judge Hsnford yesterday until
August IL. rryst, 10 now In Jail at
wsiia walls. and the Marshall could
not produce him In court On account
Of quarantine for ANAL pox.
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Poisoned ut . Wed ding.

PLYMOUTH. O., July Hast
evening after marriage the guests
sat down TO wedding breakfast.
After leaving the table all became
violently sick. and this morning the
mother OF the bride died In great
agony. Others may die.
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their grain until the bass arrive. In
all probability other sources will
have 20 be resorted to for an ado
auats supply of bass.
Al present there are $4,000 bags on
hand at tire penitentiary and they
have all been sold TO the farmers
In this locality.
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WASHINGTON. u. C.. July III
President Mckinley this morning
sent a message OF coincidence TO the
csar on account OF the death OF his
brother. the Grand Duke George.
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TO INTERCEPT
THE SUPPLIES
eritIsh Wsvships on Guard Of
oslgos Bay.

LONDON. Eng. July II - Two
British wsrships have arrived at Del
goa bay for the purpose OF lntsrcspt-
Ing Boer supplies in the event Of hoe
tlllties.
The evening times., 1899-04-10
DETERMINED TO DIE.
Man Forces His Head Under n stag
nrnt Pool.

Norristown. Pa, April 10.-A premedi-
tated case of suicide occurred about
miles from this town about noon yesterday
when Clinton X. Grimley. machinist liv
ing In Bridgeport, deliberately killed him.
self by forcing his head under water.
Grimley left his home between 10 and
IL o'clock, telling his wife that he was go
ing for a walk. Shortly after IL O'Clock
John O'Brien. Edward DOugherty. and
John McCauley, of Conshohocken. were
walking along the railroad and when about
a mile this side of Conshohocken station
their attention was attracted by the
strange antics Of man who was standing
waist deep in pool of stagnant water be-
tween the railroad and the Schuyskill Riy-
er.
The man in the water was bending his
head under the water and appeared to be
drowning. One of the three men shouted
10 him, but beyond a look as he raised
his head from the water no recognition of
the trio was taken. After the yell of warn
ing the man in the water stopped again
when O'Brien divested himself of his cloth
ing and rushed into the pool. but his ef-
forts TO rescue the drowning man were fu-
tile. The other men then entered the pool
and 1t took the combined efforts of the
three men TO place the drowning man in
safety. He was not quite dead when placed
on terra firma, but expired shortly after.
The dead man was identified BY his
twelve-year-old son. Isaac When the son
recognized his dead father he was only
kept from injuring himself by the COM
bined efforts of two men.
Grimiey was thirty-fve years old and is
survived by wife and four children No
cause for the suicide can be assigned.
The evening times., 1899-04-10
MOTHERS LIFE FOR HER CHILD.
Saved Her HnbY From n Cnr That
Decnpitnted Her.

New York April 1O.-Mrs. Mary Ever
back save her life for her child's at Pat
ersOn last night. and the sacrifice left
three children motherless. The youngest,
five years old. slipped from his mothers
hand and was crossing a street when a
trolley car. descending hill, bore swift
ly down on him.
Seeing his imminent danger. his mother
ran to him. caught him, threw him from
the track. But she slipped, fell. and the
car fender crushed her. The car wheels
decapitated her.
Mrs. Everback's home was at No. 1873
Edmund Street. She was only thirty-fiye
years old. Life must have been sweet to
her. for she was happily married and her
friends loved her. She and her three chill
dren were about 10 cross Hamburg Ave-
lue at Matlcck Street when she saw a
Totoway trolley car whizzing down the
steep hill toward them. She halted on
the corner and bade her children 20 wait
But while she was talking to the oldest
child the youngest escaped her grasp and
ran across the avenue.
The mother who had recognized the
danger and waited for it to pass. did not
hesitate moment in the face of it. She
was instantly killed. The wheels passed
over her neck But for mere shred her
head would have been severed.
Several women saw her fate: they wept;
two tainted. Men threatened the motor
man, John +. Burns. He and the conduc-
.or, George W. Eisenberger, were arrest
ed ard held without bail
The evening times., 1899-04-10
The Age of ROmancc,

| The thoughtful person viii find it in
teresting and instructive to glance at the
pages OF the little old geography which
children studied in the ffties, and which,
as the poet says, "ain't no good any
more" In that geography Central Africa
was an unexplored region, and SO was
| the Desert of Sahara. The States of the
| region beyond the Mississippi were but
| family outlined, and their population, i'm
portant cities. products, and history were
as yet unknown. Even in Asia there was
some unexplored territory about which one
! could imagine, but need not study. There
and letting the terrified inhabitants of
| Caracas down into an abyss. and there was
another of scene in France, in which
| Frenchmen with side whiskers and curly
hair. and debonair manners, were seen
| drinking wine in cafes. No child
| who studied that geography had any
| idea what French peasant was.
| Racial types were clearly defined to
the student in those days. and no
individual of any race was supposed
TO have ambitions outside of that sphere
in which it had pleased kind Providence
to place him. The only changes sane
toned by the English and American ideas
of that time were those which should
eventually overthrow the hereditary foe
of either nation. and convert all the
heather. 1t was felt to be right and prop
er that all heathen and cannibals should
gradually be brought to wear clothes, sup
cI,n nd OH ffy,,
Der three collection.
Life is more complicated now. The
Arabian Nights region out of which lit
tie children used to weave fancies is be-
ing claimed in slices by European nations
The West has ceased to be inhabited ex-
clusively by Indians. herds of buffalo, and
goldseekers and has populations and prod
ucts which the well-educated child should
remember. The happy unclothed heather
is putting on hat and coat-even the pot
hat of civilization-and becoming the mo-
torman of an electric car. And so far
from all the nations of the earth being won
to the love of Watts hymns, it is to be
feared that the descendants of that child
who studied the little old geography do
not even learn those hymns by heart
Times have changed. and romance is be-
coming memory of the past.
That is what the croakers say. and they
have been saying it ever since man built
fires and cooked his beef instead of eating
it raw. But as a matter OF fact. it is
entirely possible that the twentieth CEN
tury may yet be regarded as the most stu
pendously eventful century in the. known
The evening times., 1899-04-10
Hard ON the RrOilcr.
fEra,,, I-.s MIA

A capital story concerning prominent member
OF the Stock Exchange is going the rounds. He
a who enjoyed his wine. and always
took great care of it when he happened to pick
up choice vintage. While living in fash
ionabe quarter of the West End he CHANGED to
buy large cl>k of very line old port, which he
had placed at the extreme end of his cellar and
TO make perfectly sure that it should not be
touched he had a wall built the cellar.
and so closed it in.
II was about a year two later that BE- one
evening accepted an invitation to dine with his
next door reighbor. when the later brought out
some very fine old port Several glasses having
been drunk, the man of stocks and shares rcccg
nized its excellent quality. and asked his host
where he could get some port like it.
We'll. old fellow. returned the other. q
will let you into secret. but don't say any
thing about it. I was having some alterations
made in my cellar lately. when We discovered
that some old fool who lived in this house before
me had built a wall round Il large cask of port
and forgot all about it. This is some of it,
but l afraid there isn't much left
The effect upon the worthy stockholders feel
incs may be imagined.
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1t would be interesting. and it might be
profitable, if the Court of Enquiry should
ask General Breckinridge for his honest
opinion as TO the reason the Office of In
spector General was ''emasculated. as he
called it, at the outbreak of the Spanish
war. Why should anybody want to prevent
his subordnates from making their reports
to General Breckinridge? What was to be
gained by having the reports sent to the
Adjutant General, who was SO busy that he
had no time to look at them, when it was
the chief business of the Inspector General
to read them? Wouldn't the Government
have known earlier about the bad beef if
the Office had not been emasculated?
The evening times., 1899-04-10
The Man Behind the Guns.
From the indianapolis News)

tfrom Inc Indianapolis NeWs-D
Unqiestionably. the decisive work tina. om
Navy did in war due TO the splendid efficiency
of the man behind the gun. and that efficiency
was because of the allowance for ammunition and
the target practice enforced in time of peace.
Spain regarded target practice as simply throwing
money into the sea. The result of the different
policies was worked out at Santiago. Undoubt-
edly, Cerveras fleet oyermatched But Ger
vera had at least four splendid ships with splendid
guns and had the advantage of using snokeless
powder. SO, it seems. it must be conceded that.
though he might in the end have been crushed.
he was. yet if the Spanish gunners had been
equal to the American gunners should have
had TO pay for victory; for. ii the conditions
had been reversed, and American gunners been
aboard the Spanish ships and Spanish guIniers
aboard ships, it is questionable if the Spanish
feet would not have got off.
The evening times., 1899-04-10
DEWEY HAS NO POLITICS.
He WOuld Not Ne . Candidate To-
President.

He Would Not he = Candidate for
| President.
| Admiral Dewey has given to a Manila
correspondent q very full interview re-
! garding the suggestion that the Admiral
| be made a candidate for the Presidency
next year. The correspondent says:
AFTER talking of the previous days ex-
perience Of the war and OF minor matters,
l asked Dewey il he objected to spsak upon
the subject that was interesting the mi
lions Of people to whom his name was a
household word-upon the SUBJECT of his
possible candidacy for the Presidency in
1900.
- No; have no objection of talking of
that subject, but. you see they want to
know whether am Democrat or Re-
publican
'' And which. then, are your / asked.
Dewey locked at me a moment and smiled
Well. you see, l am a sal or. A sailO.
has no politics. The Admins trat is his
party. and. Republican or Democratic, it
makes no difference. Then. again. 1 come
from Vermont, and you know what that
means. To be anything but a Republican
in Vermont is to be a man without party.
My flag lieutenant comes from Georgia.
He tells me that to be anything but a
Democrat in the South is to be a nobody.
II / lived South l would probably be a
Democrat
Have you ever voted?' asked.
Yes. years ago; but my vote was
usually influenced By personal preferences
or local conditions. l am not a pO itician,
have never held political Office and am to-
tally ignorant of party intricacies and
affiliations.
81 understand Senator Proctor says
u,ilI f,r 81
dency. | continued.
is that so? How do you know the
admiral questioned me.
Il then read him an article referring to
an interview to that effect. Had Senator
Proctor reason to think you would accept
such a nomination. asked.
The Senator is an old, stanch friend OF
mine. have known him all my life. He
has written me on this subject. Others
have asked permission to use my name.
Don't you think 1t would be presumptious
to accept nomination before it was Of
fered? Perhaps it would be equally prev
ious to reject it
|But / hadn't received an unequivocai
answer yet. so / again referred to the
question OF Presidential candidacy An
entire half hour the admiral talked on this
subject. will not quote his words. 1t Is
too momentous a question to dispose of in
No man, however strong in his purpose,
can throw the thought Of such possibility
over his shoulder slightly. Nor did Ad-
miral Dewey. He discussed it graveiy and
seriously. He dwelt upon the great re-
sponsibilities Of the office. the necessity OF
life's training TO equip the most able Of
men to occupy such an exalted and ar
duous Office.
And. finally. he said that neither by
vocation. disposition. education, nor train
ing was he capaciated to fill such posi-
tion. He said he was too well along in life
TO consider such a possibility His health
would not admit All his life's work was
in different lines OF effort. and while the
kindness and enthusiasm OF his friends
were grateful to him, and the generous
tributes of the American people were dear
TO him. he could not and would no, be a
candidate for the Presidency of the United
States under any conditions
The evening times., 1899-04-10
GENERAL MAoEE's BODY.
Taken by Special Train to HIS Hon,
In Wrightsville.

Taken by Special Train to HIS Home
In Wrightsville.
Chambersburg. Pa, April 10.-The body
Of Gen. Frank J. Magee. who died at the
Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans School,
at Scotland, of which he was superinten-
dent, Saturday evening. was taken by spe-
cial train yesterday afternoon to his late
home in Wrightsville. Pa. Services were
held in the chapel Of the school at II
O'Clock. conducted by Rev. J. A. Crawford,
d. D.. pastor emeritus OF the Falling
Spring Presbyterian Church, this place.
The casket was covered with an American
flag. and the pallbearers were six OF the
boys Of the school. AS the casket was
conveyed to the hearse the girls Of the
school lined ups o6 each side Of the walk.
while the battalion of boys acted as es-
cort to the train.
Besides members of the family the re-
mains were accompanied to Harrisburg by
ex-MayOr Patterson. Of Harrisburg, secre-
tary to the soldiers orphans commission;
Major Richardson, Quartermaster OF the
Third Brigade. N. G. p: John Null, quar-
termaster sergeant. Eight Regiment, N. G.
p: Major Bambrfck. William H. Stewart,
and John H. Pomeroy, military instructor.
superintendent Of electricity. and editor OF
the school,, paper. respectively, OF the
school.
The funeral will take place in Wrights-
Vile on Thursday at I o'clock.
The evening times., 1899-04-10
WILL NOT VISIT HALIFAX.
Admiral Fisher Goes From Bermuda
Direct to England.

Direct to ENGLAND.
Halifax, n. s.. April 10.-Halifax will
probably never again see Admiral Sir John
Fisher. and the chances are that it will be
years before his flagship. the Renown.
again visits American waters. The dock
yard superintendent has received cable
from Admiral Fisher at Bermuda stating
that he would leave soon for England on
the Renown. thus canceling the arrange
ments that had been made for his reception
on May % at this port.
Admiral Fisher will hoist his flag as
commander Of the Mediterranean squadron
in June. 1t may be that Vice Admiral Sir
Frederick George Durham Beford. who has
been announced As Admiral Fishers sue
cessor on this station, may recross the
Atlantic on the RenOwn, retaining that
battleship to carry his flag in these wa
ters. but this is not likely. although only
half of the Renown's three years commits
sion has run out.
Navy officials here believe there Is a
strong probability that the Renown may
be sent to the China squadron to replace
the Victorious. Vice Admiral Seymour.
commanding there. finds the Victorious too
long to enter the dry dock at Hongkong.
The evening times., 1899-04-10
The Queen of Chinntown,

Chinatown is in mourning. Annie Harrison,
the original ''tough'' girl of the Bowery. whom
actresses copied so far possible in delneati ting
character sketches. is no more Chuck Connors,
the Chinatown guide. has made the following
commentary upon Miss Harrison's decease: "An-
ME was de 'rig'ral tough gal. dc one dat dey
made nothin' hut dough wild de stage Dey
was all limitations Qf Annie. hut none of dem
could dance like Annie. And sing! No bird in
de trees ever sang Ike Annie. Den she was de
ioliest ever. She chased more blue devils away
dan good liqiof. No one could be in de blink
when Annie was about. She was a chunk o
sunshine from start to finish; yes, an she was
good. Not good like de preacher folks say. bu.
good. When she had de dough one in hard
luck ever went to her an said: Annie, me stom-
ach links me t'roat is cut widout gettin de
price of face feed Give away. Why. Annie
gived away fully 800 fortunes. She would have
been in Fif' Avepoo now. instead of in de grave
il she had hung on TO all de dough. an been
mean. But she couldn't help bein' kind. But
you oughter a-seen Cher wake! Not a goil in
Chinatown but wasn't dere. an de oryin' would
. foated ship"
The evening times., 1899-04-10
Popular Election of Senators.

tfrom the Pittsburg Dispatch,
In regard TO the old argument that a Senate
should not be subject to popular control. there
may be honest difference OF opinion. But there
can be no republican government without the
fundamental principle that majorite> rule. The
foundation for belief in Senate not elected by
popular vote is that it should he body of men
Of superior inteigcnces and attachments, stead
fastly devoted TO the public interest representa-
tive. in fact. of the permanent majority. as dis
tinsuished from temporary maiorities secured by
some moinentary impulse The United States Senate
has not recently been bod, Of that kind. 1t
is merely millionaircs' club, moved by selfish
motives. open, to the suspicion that a majority
OF its members lave secured their seats by pur-
chase, and not as result of Intelligent selection.
The evening times., 1899-04-10
Study Out of school.

There is periodical outcry from one or
another section OF the country about some
new evil which has been discovered in the
public school system. One OF the teachers
in the Maryland State Normal School has
been compiling statistics upon the injuri-
Gus effects Of carrying heavy books to and
from school, and finds that nearly thirty
five per cent OF one class had one shoulder
higher than the other. the result OF this
practice Of taking home books for evening
study. 1t was found that one child of ff
teen carried load of books weighing
fourteen and one-half pounds to and from
school, distance Of mile and half.
Undoubtedly. there is trouble somewhere,
but the remedy is not very obvious. 1t
might be said that no teacher has a right
to give lessons which make it necessary
for Nhe pupil to study at home. but under
our present system OF grading in large
classes il is impossible to suit the length
of the lesson to the needs or ability OF all
the pupils. Moreover. some children have
a constitutional antipathy to putting all
their minds on study in school. preferring
to carry two or three books home for
study in the evening.
The vagaries of growing yout.: are many.
and it is within the bounds of possibility
that some of these overburdenei young
sters are inclined to make parade Of the
number of books they take home every
night. considering il an evidence that they
are hard students, when perhaps not more
than one out of the three or four volumes
gets more than a passing glance out OF
school hours. -,.
Generally speaking. the habit OF study
out of school hours for growing children,
r a very bad one. They need the time af-
ter O'Clock for recreation and for the
learning of those things which are not
taught in school. 1t would be far better
for the girl of fourteen TO spend the time
between : and ? o'clock in the evening in
helping her mother than in the study OF
algebra. There are things quite as i'm
portant as book knowledge which must in
most cases be learned during the growing
years, or not at all.