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FIREMAN SAVES A GIRL John Sean Carries Hose Ingledew Down a Ladder. FROM FOURTH FLOOR Intense excitement at a Fire in Washington Street klaay Hit Narrow Escapes A Mam Cllmba from. Fifth Floor by Telesrrapa Wires. Through smoke and flame, John Egan, a fireman, of truck No. IS.

made hla way up a swaying ladder last night and rescued a girl who was clinging to a window sill on the furth floor ol the Mason building. No. 84 Washington street. As Egan made his way up the ladder, the FIRE. AS BEEN FROM THE ROOF girl's frantic screams came to his ears, urging htm on to greater effort.

Smoke was curling around her, at times hiding her completely from his view. Just as the fireman reached the last rung, the flames burst from the window, burning her face and arms so badly that she screamed with pain and for a moment It seemed as If her hold would fail before help could reach her. Thousands watched the rescue with breath-leas Interest. Before Egan reached the girl the ladder caught fire. When the smoke lifted and the watchers below saw the fireman straighten up and catch the girl In his arms, they sent up a loud cheer.

Half a hun-. dred people were waiting at the bottom of the ladder to give assistance when Egan stepped to the pavement with the girl in his arms. The girl Is Miss Rose Ingledew, a student at Robert Gregg's shorthand school. She was badly burned about the neck and arms, add was carried unconscious to Musselwhlte's pharmacy In Clark street, where her injuries were dressed. She was then taken to her home.

No. 4222 Atlantic street. 3fr Have Narrow Escapee. Other narrow escapes and rescues occurred at the fire which destroyed the Mason build- iv. i i i-- Mlfij VUO V.

W0 mesa district. Twenty students, eight of them girls, who attend Gregg's school, had narrow escapes from death. Some of them were forced to rush through burning hallways and make their way from the fourth floor to the street. Jacob Bos, No. 630 West Thirteenth street.

Jumped from the fifth story into a mass of telegraph wires, where he hung, suspended for several minutes before he could gather strength to make his way hand-over-hand to a telegraph pola and climb to the ground. His hands were torn and blistered where he had grasped the hot wires, but otherwise he was uninjured. The fire burned for nearly four hours. Great showers of sparks were carried to the east over the down-town buildings. Th building was eld.

and had stood In Washington street for years. It belongs to the Masor. estate, now In litigation, and was valued at 135,000. The loss on the building will foot up to nearly $26,000, while the loss on furniture, libraries, and documents belonging to tenants will aggregate three times that amount. Utner Dig puuaings in me vicinuy were threatened, and the firemen had a hard time preventing the big Title and Trust bulldlnf from catching fire.

Fire Starts en, Secoad Floor. The fire started at 6:30 o'clock In the offices (I O. E. Doty, an electrical contractor and constructor. C.

B. Jones, president of Jones business college, and E. D. Edmlre, were Standing In the college office on. the third floor, directly across the court from Doty's office, which Is on the second floor.

Both men say they were attracted by a strong odor of something burning, and on going to a window saw Doty trying to extinguish a small blase which was burning the matting by trying to fan It pat with his overcoat. Both men called to htm to smother the blaze by throwing his eoat on It, and then stamp It out. Evidently JDoty was too frightened to obey, for he kept violently waving the coat and only fanned the blaze higher until It caught the woodwork and soon filled the entire room. Jones and Edmlre warned the other occupants of the building, and looked for the best tneans of escape. People poured out of offices and began to crowd on another for a place on tho stairways leading Into the street.

Many women were la the building, and their cries terror added to the excitement. The woodwork was old and burned like tinder. The windows Into the light shafts were all open for ventilation, and the draft fanned the flames rapidly. Within a few minutes several of the main avenues of escape were impassable oa account of dense smoke. Stadeats Make a Rash, to Safety.

When the first cry of fire sounded through the building, the pupils of Gregg's shorthand school on the fourth floor rushed In a body for the door. The ball was filled with smoke and the girl students ran back and leaned out of the front windows shouting for help. When they saw there was no chance of rescue there three of the girl ran to the hall and escaped through the blinding smoke down the stairs of the main entrance. Hemmed la by Flames. Miss Ingleden did not follow, and remained at the window wringing her hands and crying.

When too late she made an attempt to pas through the hallways, but the flames had advanced so far by this time that this means of escape was cut off and she was driven back to her former position by the window. When she got back to the window the second time she found John J. Kelly, another student, there. It seemed hours to them before truck No. 13 drew up In front of the building and threw the first ladder against the wall.

When Egae had carried the girl to a place of safety Kelly swung out from the window and climbed down the burning ladder. Others who had narrow escapes were Charlotte Skoien. No. 166 North Humboldt avenue; MlsaOttel'a Flebert, No. 722 West Fourteenth place, and Miss Sadie Berkley.

No. S021 Vernon avenue. They were starting out for lunch when the Are broke out. They were told the building was burning, but thought there was plenty of time, and before going down stairs went to the cloakroom nd mnt thai ci TV ivtttlnfl It nn i by the blaze, and they had to face both smoke and fire on their way to the street. Saved by a Telephone Call.

A. D. Brown, manager of the Western OF THE INTER OCEAN BUILDING. Bowlers' Journal, attributes his escape to the fact that his wife called him up on the telephone Juft about the time the fire started. John G.

Hemmtr, who is also connected with the publication, locked the back door of Brown's office, without knowing that Brown was still lniide. Just as Hem rue turned to leave he heard the telephone bell ring, and went back to answer it, crd fcund Brown talking to his wife. Brown did not know ho had been locked la. and when told what a narrow escape he had of being a prisoner In a burning building his gratitude toward his wife acd the telephone knew no bounds. Mis.

I.aleden Praises Her Re.eaer. Miss Ingleden was able to talk about her narrow escape last night. "It waaall so sudden," she said. "I cannot give any account of it. When I first learned of tho fire the interior rotunda of the building was all in a blaze, and all escape by the staircase was cut off.

I ran back and forth a while, looking for some other route down stairs, but It was ail in vain, and by that time the heat and the approaching flames crowded me and Mr. Kelly to the front win dow. As there was a crowd outside, I hoped some way would be found to save us, and to make sure that our situation was known I stood up in the window and screamed. I did sot scream In vain. The firemen worked nobly, and as to that man who carried me down, he certainly Is a hero.

I was pretty far gone when I reached the sidewalk, but I used what strength I had to ask him his name. and he wouldn't tell me. I had a narrow escape from a dreadful death. A moment later and my clothing would have caught, and I would have fallen to the ground and perished." Jacob Bos, who worked In the wood carving- establishment of Shea Grimmer on the fifth floor, said he and three others were, there when the alarm was given. "I stopped1 to put the books in the vault and slam the door," said he.

"By the time I hsd done this the rotunda was on fire and all egress by ths stairs was cut off. I rushed to the window and found there six telegraph wires, which were already hot to the touch. I pulled on them to be sure they would hold my weight, and then, taking hold of them, I swung out or the window and clambered to the nearest pole and from there reached the ground. My hands were scarred and burned, and tools worth $40 and my coat were left behind. I regard myself as the most fortunate man alive.

The other men who were with me-es caped, but I do not know how." Maggie Pelters of No. 181 Erie street, a waitress In the Washington restaurant, rushed into the place and carried out the cash register, containing 127.75, against th pretest of the firemen. -Miss Pelters wa soaked with water and nearly overcome with smoke when she emerged from the basement amid the cheers of the crowd. Staadatpes Fall to Work. Marshal Campion, who had charge of the fire fighting In the rear of the building, made a discovery mere which he claims will ne cessltate a complete change in the manner of constructing standplpes in the big down town office buildings.

The marshal attempted to use the stand pipes in the Title and Trust building on tne tenth floor, and after making- connec tions found that they were useless on account of a lack of pressure. ThU fact will be reported to Chief Swenle, and an investigation made so that the trouble can be remedied. FIRE IN APARTMENT. HOUSE. St.

Beaedtet Flats Damaged by Smoke aad Water. Fire In the St. Benedict apartment build lng. Nos. 345-355 Chicago avenue.

Tester day afternoon dlu 32,000 damage to the build' leg acd 1600 to the contents of three fiats. An overheated flue In the rear room In the basement started the blaze. It spread throuxh the air shafts and up the stairs to the flats on the second and third floors, and the entire building was soon filled with smoke. A few tenants began to take out their furniture, but the firemen soon had the blaze under con trol. Do you know how many thousand people com and go from Chicago's suburbs daily! The Inter Ocean Almanac tor 1900 tells you.

Price 25 cents. THE X)AIXiX JCNTETl OGEAX, ATUItDAY MOBNING, 27, 1900. OLIVER PIKE NOT DEAD Mystery of Body Found in a Trunk Materially Deepens. PUZZLE FOR POLICE Chicago Officers Unable to Solve a Singular Tragedy. Maa, Whose Sapposed Remalna Were Seat from Here, Greatly Astonishes Hla Family.

Oliver Pike, whose supposed body was found in a trunk sold at aucUon In Chicago four years ago, is alive and well. Pike was thought to have been murdered, and the body found In the trunk was turned over to relatives in Delta, Ohio, and buried In the family lot. Yesterday Pike appeared at his mother's home In Delta and was recognised by all the members of the family. Two years ago. ac cording to telegrams from Delta, Mrs.

Pike received a letter from Redlands. tell lng her that the son she thought buried fn the Delta cemetery was living in that city and living under the name of Harry Price. A correspondence ensued, but nothing definite resulted, and every one but the mother disbelieved the writer of the letters until Oliver returned home yesterday and was Identified. He knows nothing of the body found in the trunk, and has little to say about his disap pearance. Deepest the Mystery.

The "trunk mystery" was one of the moat ghastly cases ever handled by the Chlcaeo police, and it will now be reopened, and a searcn maae to laentiry tne body. The body, supposed to be that of Oliver Pike, was found in a trunk bought at an auction sale on Monday. March 24. 1896. by Philio Greis and Charles Haas of Austin.

It was learned that the box had been shipped from Salt Lake City and had been consigned to C. M. Morgan. No. 166 South Jefferson street, Chicago.

it was sent to Wakem McLaughlin's ware house July 28. 1893. It was labeled "household goods," and was held for freight charges of $18.30. Efforts to find C. M.

Morgan were unavailing, and after three years Wakem McLaughlin decided to sell the box at auction with a lot of other goods which were held for freight charges. Greis and Haas, purchased the box for a small sum and took it to Austin. They had purchased other boxes, and a few days after the auction started to open tnem, not hav ing knowledge of their contents. As soon as the cover was pulled off the box a strong odor was noticed. Inside the box an iron- bound trunk covered with green canvas was found.

Finding? the Body. The I Id of the trunk was forced open and a cine box disclosed. The top of the box had been carelessly soldered on. and with a few strokes of the hatchet it was removed. With in thla box an almost unrecognizable human body was found, so badly dec posed that it was some time befors it could be recognized as a human body.

The corpse had been forced Into the box and the head bent double and the arms folded tightly against the sides. A small rope kept tbe body In this position. The features were unrecognizable, ana all that remained to serve as a means ct recogni tion was the rair, which was of a dark brown color and cut short. Some kind of ashes. probably chlcrlde of lime, had been placed In the box.

and this rad eaten-eo mucn. of tne flesh that It had been reduced to a slimy pulp The police set at work at onoo to Identify the body, and a half dozen clews were found. Herry Devere, a saloon-keeper at No. 424 Dearborn street, and others thought the oody to be that of J. P.

Chazal. a native of Lyons. France, who disappeared from his lodgings in 8alt Lake City during February of J89X Tbe following day Mrs. Theodore Mosher. living at No.

1218 East Ravenswood park, Chlccgo, who Is a cousin of Oliver Pike, told the pjllce that Pike had disappeared from Seattle three- years before, and she thought the body might be his. Other per sons thought the body that of an Eugllsh-man who disappeared from Salt Lake City In 1S93. Mrs. Pike Glvea the Body. The police made Investigations, and, although Chazal was never accounted for, they expressed the belief that it was not his body.

During tne two weeks following the discov ery of the body proof that it was the remains of Oliver Pike was furnished tbe police, and the body was finally turned over to Mrs. Pike for burial. It developed that Pike had been employed as an attendant in an Insane asylum at Port Steilacoom. Washington. Pike's relatives be came convinced that he had been murdered at Seattle, because he was possessed of information of "the alleged mismanagement of the institution in which he had" been employed.

It was learned that Pike had had trouble with the officials of tbe asylum a few weeks before be disappeared. After leaving the asylum Pike wejit to Aberdeen. Washington, and later to Seattle. Pike's relatives received a letter from Aberdeen two years after his disappearance. In which It was stated that he had had) difficulties at the Port Steilacoom asylum before coming to Aberdeen.

It was also stated that he owned two good lots in Aberdeen, and bis friends there were unable to account for his disappearance. The last trace that relatives could find of Pike was July t. 1892. when he had visited the brother of O. M.

Jones in Seattle. Shndle'a Mysterloaa Death. During the Investigation of Pike's disappearance relatives learned that John A. Shadle, who had been employed In the Port Steilacoom asylum had died under peculiar circumstances at the asylum. The body had been shipped to Wauseon, Ohio, and relatives there had a poat-mortem examination held which disclosed the fact that poison in large Quantities was in the stomach.

The asylum authorities had stated that Shadle had died of apoplexy. Other mysterious deaths at the asylum led Pike's relatives to believe that the authorities there might have some motive in getting him out of the way. The dates of Pike's disappearance and the shipping of the mysterious box from Salt Lake City tal lied, and the relatives became positive that the box contained the remains of Oliver Pike. The body was so badly decomposed that the police depended entirely upon the circumstances and the statements of Pike's rela tives In Identifying it- The body was turned over to Pike's mother and buried as that of her son. This brought the mystery to an end, so far as tbe local police were concerned, they be lieving that the body was that of Pike.

Rela Uvea of Pike made an attempt to learn par Uculars of his disappearance and supposed murder, but tho result amounted to nothing, and the matter was soon forgotten, all per sons concerned firmly believing that Pike's body lay In the family lot In the cemetery at Delta. Ohio. The identity of the body will probably remain an unsolved mystery, as the Chicago police have practically no clew to work upon. HARVEY TRUE TALKS TO BOYS. Inmates at Joha Worthy School Enjoy -a SfoVel Katertalameat.

Harvey True gave one of his unique char itable entertainments last night to the boys of the John Worthy school. He was assisted by Professor W. E. Watt's brass band of twenty-two pieces, mere were i dots in the audience. Harvey True told them a story about a green farmer's boy who was set to plowing a field.

Tbe farmer directed the boy to plow toward a certain white cow which he pointed out. The lad did so, but ss the cow moved around a great deal he plowed In all directions all over the field. The moral Inculcated was that In tbe affairs of life a person should plow with good Judg ment. Professor Watt, In addition to fur niching some enlivening music, cave the boys a stereopticon lecture on Benjamin Franklin. ENGLEWOOD NOTES.

Retail Clerks Snooeasfnl fat Aeeom-pltshlMST Saaday The 6unday-losinK movement of the Englewood Retail Clerks' association bas resulted successfully. Only one establishment, that of Phillies Haitted and Sixty-Ninth streets, has refused to close. Several other of the general goods stores have decided to close at 4 o'clock on Wednesdays also, to give employes a half holiday. a A Juvenile temperance society will be organized this afternoon in Temperance hall. No.

330 West Sixty-Third street, under the auspieces of Life Boat lodge. No. 930. I. O.

G. T. In the evening Life Boat lodge will celebrate Its second anniversary by an entertainment. The Auburn Park Prohibition club will meet this afternoon In the mission room at 8eveaty-8econd street and Vlncennes road. The Rev.

Jasper S. Hughes, recent probihltion candidate for Governor of Indiana, and the Rev. Isaac W. Hixgs, pastor of Trinity Congregational church, will make addresses. William K.

McGrath. charged by C. C. O'Nell of the Baldwin hotel, who Is landlord cf the place, with Intimidation at the muzzle of a revolver, when he tried to collect rent alleged to be due was fined $25 and costs by Justice Hennessy for carrying cotrcealed weapons. a The Normal Psrk Masonic Social club will give a reception this evening in the Macoaic hall, Wentworth avenue and Sixty-Ninth street.

EnglewooJ circle. No. 23. Ladles of the O. A.

will entertain at progressive euchre this evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. James, No.

826 West Sixty-First street. Principal John Byrne of the Auburn Park branch schools Is reported very low with anaemia at his home. No. 6520 Stewart ave- TELLS OF THE PHILIPPINES. Captala Harry L.

Wells Addresses aa Aadleaee la Stelaway Halt. One of the most entertaining and instructive lectures on the Philippines and the Philippine war ever heard In Chicago was delivered last night at Stelaway hall by Captain Harry L. "Wells of the Second Oregon, United States volunteers. Captain Wells' -lecture attracted a large audience, some of the prominent citizens seen in the boxes being George M. Moulton.

John A. Spoor, James H. Gilbert, Colonel George V. Lauman, 8amuel Eberly Gross. E.

K. El well, and Judge Frank Baker. In addition to doing his share of fighting and acting as war correspondent of the New York Post, the lecturer amused himself by taking photographs of everything that happened, and did this even while he was on the firing line, and when the battle was raging. Therefore, he was able last night not only to bring Filipino life vividly before his audience, but to transport those present to the battle-field, and let them behold Its exciting scenes without being exposed to Its Some of these battle scenes were so realistic last night that his auditors felt like running to cover. Captain Wells spent a year In the Philippines, and In addition to his other duties made a splendid record as a brave and efficient officer.

He Is now making an equally enviable reputation as a lecturer. SAN MARCO FIRE A LESSON. Csaalultser Saye Fire Escapes Are Heeded ea Other. Balldlaa-s. The firs in the fiat building at Nos.

900 to 914 Forty-Seventh street bas brought the attention of the city building department to the lack of fire escapes on structures in the According to Bunding Commission er Me Andrews, the buiklic which burned, the San Marco house, was the only one in the vicinity which Is provided with tbe proper fire escapes, and he will begin action to compel other owners of large apartment houses to equip buildings with the proper escapes. "The building is owned by tne raranage estate," said the commissioner, "which has resisted our efforts to compel the placing of fire escapes on buildings. Those on the Sn Marco fiats had been on some time, but there are fines against the estate In the courts for failure to provide other flats with the escapes. I believe tbe fire should be a warning to tbe owners. There would nave been a fearful loss of life If the buildings hud not had the three escapes." The department ha started suit against W.

G. Press to compel the placing of escapes on a large apartment building at Sixty-Second street and Lexington avenue. BOYS ACCUSED OF STEALING. Stevea aad Tbomas Wojelk Arrested Seat te Javealle Caart. Steven and Thomas Wojdk.

two small boys. are being held at the Dee ring street police station on charges of being sneak thieves. From Gunther's bakery, Twenty-Ninth street and Archer avenue, the boys, it la charged, took $10 a few days ago. They are also accused of walking into the store of Jacob Cobn la tbe same locality and escaping with 16. The boys will be sent to the Juvenile court.

Their parents live at No. 2710 Hickory street. OBITUARY. The Rev. Samuel L.

Short, formerly of El-glu. 111., died at Wesslngtoa Springs, S. yesterday. i Sister Guadenta of the Sisters ofProvidence died at Terre Haute, Ind. She was Catherine McNamara of Indianapolis, and had been a member of tbe community tor twenty-six years.

She has taught in most of the cities of tbe country. The Rev- J. W. Stivens. aged 72.

died at Alto Pass yesterday. He had been a Baptist minister nearly half a century, and was a pioneer of Southern Illinois. Joseph H. Schwengen, published of the Beet Sugar Gazette, and well known on the board of trade, died yesterday at his home, No. 62? Garfield avenue.

His remains will be taken to Madison, on the 9 a. m. Northwestern train today, and the funeral will take place at 1 p. m. tomorrow from tbe Madison depot.

Charles Sattington. passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railway In Chicago, died at Sanford, yesterday. Cotton H. Allen, former mayor of Columbus, Ohio, died at St, Louis yesterday, after an illness of several months. Two weeks ago William B.

Haydena of New York. Charles H. Haydens of Cincinnati, and Albert W. Haydens of Chicago were hastily sum moiled to bis bedside, but he rallied, and was seemingly Improving until yesterday. The body will be taken to Columbus for Interment General Van der Heyden, the victor of Atcheen.

Sumatra, died at The Hague yesterday at the age of 73. Harrld Doabts. They were In the dark parlor, and he had Just been accepted. "Oh," he exclaimed, "this heaven The young girl shuddered. What did he nrean? Wea there to be nothing more? For she had been taught to believe that In heaven there is no marrying or giving In marriage.

Philadelphia Press. AN INNOVATION. BnfloUbrsry Cars and New Wide Vestibule Equipment to Be Ron oa l.llnols Ceatral's New Orleans Through Trala. Beginning Suniay. Jan.

ii. the Central will newly equip its "Chicago and New Orleans Limited." evening train, aad its "Chicago and New Orleans Special," morning train, with handsome, tew. wide vestibule equipment throughout. Included will be an innovation on Southern trains, namely, a buffet- library-smoking car. of which one will run on the "Special" between Chicago ana Mem phis, and one will run on the "Limited" be tween Memphis and New Orleans.

Tickets and rezervatlons for the South at city ticket or. N. 99 Adams street. "Pcone Central 2705. COCKRAII FOR BRYAN Favors Hs Nomination on Antl-V Imperialistic Platform.

THINKS HE CAN WIN Silver, However, Should Not Be an Issue in the Woald Oppose Candidate Kamed Party Caamaloa of White Metal for Monetary Standard. Special Dig patch to The Inter Ocean. -NEW YORK. Jaa. 26.

W. Beurke Cockran today said, so far as he knew, there was no truth In the report that J. Sterling Morton and other old-line Democrats are making plans, to control the conventions which will name the delegates from Nebraska to the national Democratic convention. The object of this more, according to the story, was to send to the national Democratic convention a delegation unalterably opposed to the nomination of Mr. Bryan, and thus.

If possible, to mske his nomination In the convention impossible. The story had it that Mr. Morton was being assisted In organizing the state against Bryan by Mr. Cockran and other Eastern Democrats. "There Is no truth In the statement so far as I am concerned," said Mr.

Cockran. "In isy i believed that fidelity to Democratic principles Imposed, opposition to the Democratic party. Therefore I supported the Re publican candidate. My opposition, how ever, was confined to the platform. To the candidate there was no objection, and there could have been none.

Before his nomination I had served four years with Mr. Bryan in congress, and the high opinion which I formed then of his personal qualities, I am glad to say, is now held by the whole American people." "Do you believe Mr. Bryan can be per suaded to eliminate the silver question from tbe next campaign?" he waa asked. "I am very much mistaken In him If he would be capable of suppressing, or disguising his views on any question for any rewand, even the Presidency of the United States. The issue in -the next election will be Imperialism or silver; It cannot to do i n.

ro matter what platform the conven tion may adost. If Its candidate were elected -the currency of this country could not bo reaucea to a sliver basis for at least four years. The silver question therefore will not play a decisive part in the campaign. Sees Daasrer la Imperialism. "The maintenance ol an imperialist! nortev or its abandonment is the one question which can ds aeciaed, and decided forever, by the popular verdict next November.

There Is little doubt that It wlU be relecteiV If .11 who condemn It are allowed to unite In cp- iwms ii. i ne onjy nance or its success lies In the danger that antl-lmDerialiata mav divided by the injection of a financial rllirm. alon into tbe campaign. For my part, how ever, i relieve lni issue will be presented vunout any attracting question to comnli- catelt. "It la Inconceivable that under our Dolitical System the people should be denied the right pau uu-ecuy upon a Question involvlnc tbe very structure and essence of our rovemmnf Although a desire for Mr.

Bryan's renomlna-tlon appears to be unanimous In his party. mo Kunmmi is sr in stronger tnat the people cf this country should have an opportunity wis. aquareiy upon, tnis policy which threatens to effect a divorce between our flag and our constitution by unfurling the one over countries where tho other cannot exist, and which has already deprived us of that un questioned primacy among civilised nations waicn we acnioveo aurtna- the first rlorirwi. century of our existence." Aa ta the Chlca; Platform. "Yon are aware that Mr.

Bryan himself la. sists upon the readoptlon of the Chicago plat- lunn is lis "I have no doubt Mr. Brvan will advooat that course, and I am equally confident that ho would decline to be a candidate, or to re main in tne convention. If the Chicago platform were repudiated directly in words, or In- oirecuy oy silence. But I cannot and do not believe be would refuse to accept the Judgment of the convention as to whether this Is the proper time and occasion for submitting ue aocinnes emooaieo in tnat platform to the judgment of the people.

"If Mr. Bryan were elected upon a nlat- forrn declaring that the financial atatus quo should be preserved for the next four years I have no doubt that he would loyally abide by It. He would, of course, be free to seek re-election in 1904 aa an advocate of free silver, and if he were renominated on such a platform I would oppose him again as earnestly as I did in 1896. In the meantime, he would have an entire right to surround him self with officials who shared his views, and who could, therefore, be trusted to aid his renomination. "I do not believe that Mr.

Bryan's position on trusts is very different from mine. Oppo sition to trusts, in my judgment, really means opposition to privileges. Thla discussion of trusts, while not always sensible, has al ready borne valuable fruit. It has shown that the tariff. If not exactly the mother of trusts, is to a large extent their nurse.

This discussion of trusts shows that notwithstand ing the disturbing questions of foreign policy that have arisen during the last four years, the country has grown uneasy over the do mestic policy of tbe present administration. Denaaaeea the Administration. "The men who have directed Republican councils in the past have either disappeared from the public service or they have been exciuoea irom prominence in the Republican administration. Tne politics which, however unsound, under their leadership were always dignified by a brilliant support have sunk now into scnemes of absurd paternalism, at once senseless and extravagant The leading measure of this administration Is the subsidy bill, the passage of which has been ursed by the President. What sen sible man caa contemplate the initiation of ich a policy without apprehension as to its re sults? ii this system of bounties ba once es tablished I know of but one way In which we n-ay hope to escape irem it, and that Is by in-sisting that everybody be pensioned eaeh individual thus forced to contribute to his fellows In the shape of taxation the equivalent of which he draws from them in the form of subsidy.

"No party ever entered a Presidential canvass with an easier road to success than that now open to the Democracy. Tbe only cloud on Its prospects is the danger that it will tie Itself to a question, dead as a practical Issue, but still sufficient to hamper its movements, distract Its councils, and paralyze its efficiency." MOVE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE Resolntlea la Introdaeed to Amend Ohio's State Constitution. SpacUl Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. COLUMBUS. Ohio.

Jan. 26. Mr. Haner of Madison offered a Joint resolution in the House today to submit to the voters of Ohio at the November election this year an amendment to the constitution which will extend the elective' franchise to women after Jan. 1, 1901.

Such a resolution was defeated in the Senate two years ago by a lt vote. A three-fifths aCrmative vote Is required to carry. rhe Ross bill, which provides for the equal compensation of men and women in the same lines of employment, unless otherwise mutually agreed upon In the contract, passed by a narrow margin, receiving only two more than the necessary number of votes yeas, 68; nays. zs. Mr.

Rankin of Clark Introduced a bill to exempt from taxation charitable homes for Representative McGlinchey of Tuscarawas has a bill to compel railroad companies to put on each freight train a full crew of six men, consisting of engineer, fireman, con ductor. Carman, and two brakemen, -Senator Dodge introduced a resolution au fait i WiV' Weariness PAINE'S GIVES STRENGTH. Mrs Mary K. Kubnght, ra. writes: 111CC Ccllb clU nervous prostration.

stand when I commenced taking Paine's Celery Compound. After taking half a bottle I was able to walk and after using three bottles I felt better than I ever did. I could do more work, and working was a LJicdS) ui uidicdu ui ct uuiucu eta au nicviijc offering women find it i i nave since usea pound for neuralgia always found instant i Paines Celery Compound keeps the blood pure, tne body nourisnea7 tne thorlxlng the Governor to appoint a highway commission of three persons, two ol wnora shall be engineers, to report a bill for road making and repairing to the next General Assembly. The Central Labor council 01 Cincinnati bas asked certain legislators to oppose the Collier bill for a school-book commission, and to favor Griffin's bill to make it compulsory for school boards to furnish school books free. ROOD FOR LARRABEE'S PLACE.

Xomtnated by Governor Shaw; hat May Jtot Be Condrmed. Special Dispatch to Ths Inter Ocean. DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 26. Governor Leslie M.

Shaw today sent to the Senate the names of Colonel H. H. Rood of Mount Vernon to take the place made vacant by the resignation of ex-Governor Larrabee from the chairmanship of the board of control. There is every Indication that there will be a bitter fight made on the attempt to confirm Rood's appointment, and the probabilities are that the Senate will reject the nomination. Thirty-four votes are needed to confirm, and the fifteen Democrats, it is said, will voce with a halt dosen of tbe most prominent Re publicans against the confirmation.

The opposition Is based on the claim that Colonel Rood has not been prominent enough In pub-lio affairs to warrant his appointment to so high a position. Bills to repeal ihe 1 per cent tax on Insurance companies were introduced In both House and Senate today. Committee reports were made adversely on the proposal to decrease the legal rate of Interest from 6 to 5 per cent. A bill for the appropriation of 000 to finish the Cherokee Insane asylum was introduced. In the ccrtest or George Batty of Shelby county against Webb Byers, Incumbent, the committee found that Byers, who Is a Re- 1 ublican, had been elected by 11 vctes.

1Vaat BrecltlaridtTe for Senator. Special Dispatch to Tbe Inter Ocean. PINE BLUFFE. Ark4 Jn. 26.

An effort 1 being made to have Clifton Rhodes Breckin ridge, ex-Ambassador to Russia, make the race for state Senator from this district. If he should do so, it is believed he would have Celery Compound IUC UUllUi: SCL11A i LldAA m. 1 was barely able to t-t rL- icune eiery uiu- and sick headache and nerves strong. no opposition. The movement Is meeting TROUBLE IN FUSION RANKS.

Promise of Supreme Coart Clerkship ta a Democrat Is Resented. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. LINCOLN. Jan. 26.

Since the first of the year, when the fusionists gained con trol of the Supreme court, a hot fight has been on for the clerkship of the court. Tha place la one of the best paying of any la the state, the fees netting annually on an-average about 12.000. The two candidates striving for It have been Lee Herdman, an. Omana Democrat, and J. H- Kdmlston.

ex-state oil Inspector, chairman of the stata Populist committee, and member of ths national committee from Nebraska. Edmiston managed the late election, which resulted In the election of ex-Governor Hoi-comb to the Supremo bench, and hs claimed the clerkship as a reward. Judge Sulli- Is a Democrat, and haa been outspoken for Herdman. It was announced openly by fusion officials at the state ho ue today that Judge Holcomb had been won over by tho Democrats and had agreed to tbe naming of Herdman. The Influences of Mr.

Bryan, through close -political friends who were able to bring the necessary pressure oa Judge Holcomb. It Is said, was what terminated tne siriio in neraman tavor, It Is understood that formal announcement of the appointment will be made at the next sitting of the court, on Feb. Edmlston's lopuilst friends are wrought np over ths an air. A TONIC Hereford's ficid Fhssphsis Haifa tea spoonful in half a flan of water, refreshes and invigorates tha entire system. A wholesome tonic.

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