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OHIO 18 DEMOCRATIC Workliiji Majority ol Legislature and Governor of State. HEARST CONTESTS IN NEW YORK "Louisville Fuslonlsts. Will Fight Elec tion of Democratic City Officers nd Members of Legislature. Washington, Nov. 0, Tim election of John M. I'nttlson, I iciiiocrul, an gov ernor o( Ohio by approximately 40,01)0 plurality over Myron T. Merrick, liui present Kepubl icrtii governor ; a Demo cratic working majority in both houses of the Ohio legislature; nu immediate nppeitl ol William It. Hearst, the Mu nicipal Ownership candidate fur (he New Yolk mayoralty, to the Supreme court to contest Met 'lei Inn's elect inn in 1 1 1 ii. t city on the basis of alleged evi dence of wholesale illegal arts at the polls; a plurality of .1,4 h; votes for McClelhin, and immediate contest by the ftisioninls in Louisville in the courts against the election of I emo cralic municipal officers ami members of the legislature, were the develop ments in today's election aftermath. McClcllitn's pluinlity is the mini mum on record for a successful mayor alty candidate in New' York. Mr. Hearst's managets claim evidence of Illegal acts ngiiust I, (Mil) inspectors of election and that HO, OIK) of his adher ents were turned back from the polls because their names already had been voted. Distiict Attorney Jerome has announced that he will make a search ing investigat uui of the allegeil w hole sale frauds and has ordered the returns from the Kighteenth and Sixteenth assembly districts to he carefully guarded. These are the home divisions of the Tammany leader, Murphy, and Timothy Sullivan. In Louisville, the Fusion party man agers claim a mm-i lect ion in I I pre cincts hreauc of disappearance of elec tion paraphernalia ; that Democratic workers confiscated the ballot boxes in I I other precincts and allowed falsifi cation of returns and allege activity of "thugs" ami rceatcrH. All through Ohio the belated returns showed Republican losses and the Re publicans concede that IVttison's plu rality teaches 2"i,000. The Democrats claim that l'attison's plurality approx imates .rr,(i00. which would elect the entire Democratic ticket. Republicans concede the Democrats between two ami five majority in the senate and from 10 to lr in the house, while the Democrats claim Ave in the senate and 27 in the house. The City party (reform) plurality in Philadelphia is 4.1, .'I.t:! for sheriff, and the Kusionist candidate (or state treas urer ( llerry) carried the city by over :!(i.()()0 plurality. The upheaval was the greatest in l'ennsy I vania for many years. In Rhode Island the Republican gubernatorial candidate has a plurality estimated at TV, 000, ami l'rovidence elcctH a Republican mayor for the first time in many years. In Massachusetts Democratic threats are made of a recount of the vote (or lieutenant governor. The Republicans in Massachusetts have 23,11(1 plurality for Guild for governor, though Draper, for lieutenant governor, got less than 2,000 plurality. The Democrats gained three senators and one representative in the legislature. Kvery candidate of the Union I-abor party in San Francisco was elected by a substantial majority. In Salt Lake the anti-Mormon victory is made complete by the election of the entire A met if an party city ticket. The Kentucky legislature, w hich w ill tdect a successor to Senator Blackburn, apparently will include :U Democrats, five Republicans and two doubtful in the senate, and 70 Democrats, 14 Re publicans and seven doubtful in the iiotisu. The Democrats elected a mayor in Louisville by about 2 500. Nebraska was carried by the Repub licans. Returns from other states and cities show notable changes. Favors Single Statehood. Washing'on, Nov. It. President Roosevelt today informed a delegation of residents of Oklahoma that he would lecoininend, in his forthcoming mes wage to congress, single statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The committee told the president they hoped congress would pass a single etatehood measure in accordance with his recommendation. He dincufsed briefly the incorporating in the state hood measure of a stipulation for pro hibition! of the lhjtior tratlic, urging that it be left to the people. Hundreds Are Under Arrest. I'hiladelpphiu, Nov. 1. Never in the history of Philadelphia tdections have ho many arrests been made hh in the contest Tues.lay w hich resulted in the defeat of the Republican organiza tion by the Reform City party. Scores of prisoners were arraigned yesterday before a magistrate, and nearly 600 who were arrested are under hail await ing healings today. The majority are aeused of voting ami attempting to vote illegally. Copyright Treaty With Japan. Tokio, Nov. 0. It is announced that a copyright convention between Japan and the United HtateB lias been satis factorily concluded, and is on the eve of being signed. The matter, has been standing question since 1931. ELECTION RETURNS. McClnllan and Jerome Carry New York Reform In Philadelphia. Washington, Nov. H. Klcclion re turns received by toe Associated Press up to 2 o'clock this morning show that the Democrats have curried the mayor alty campaign in New York City, the slate t Icket in Pennsylvania, the state ticket, in Virginia and the city ticket in loulsville, while the Republicans made a clean sweep in Massachusetts and in Chicago and Cook county, and have carried their tickets in New Jersey, Rhode Island, Nebraska and Maryland. In New York Hearst has a plurality in the Itorough of Brooklyn of almost 1(1,000, with 14 election districts miss ing. The returns indicate McClellari's re-election by several thousand plural ity. Hearst has charged fraud in the voting. Ilird S. Coler was elected Isir oiigh president of Brooklyn on the Mu nicipal Ownership ticket. The New York election shows that municipal ownership will be a considerable factor in the city's politics. In Ohio the result is still doubtful, though the returns lip to a late hour indicated the election of Pattisou, the DemiN'ratic candidate for governor. The suffrage amendment in Maryland was defeated overwhelmingly. Massa chusetts elected a Republican governor by a majority approximating that of Douglas, the present Democratic gov ernor. Follow iug is a summary of the returns : New York Mayor, George It. Mc Clcllau, Democrat, re-elected by small plurality; William Travers Jerome, independent, district attorney, re-elected; Bird S. (!oler, Municipal Owner ship, elected borough president of Brook lyn . Ohio Both Democratic and Repub lican lenders claim election. Pattison, Denes nit, carried Cincinnati, Cleve land, city and county, and the Demo crats made gains in Toledo and Akron. Maryland The ' constitutional amendment, whose purpose was to dis franchise negro voters, was defeated. Republicans elected the state comp troller and city ollicials. Political com plexion of the legislature uncertain. Massachusetts The Republicans elected Curt is ( iui Id, Jr., Republican, governor by 2!i,4.'15 plurality, ami L. S. Draper, Republican, lieutenant gov ernor by ;i,!M2. Chicago Republicans made a clean sweep in Chicago and Cook county. Robert R. McCormick, Republican, elected president of the loard of sani tary trustees. Rhode Island Clean Republican sweep. Pennsylvania Philadelphia over whelmingly carried by the City party (reform ticket). Perry, Democrat, elected state treasurer by upward of 7.r),()00 plurality. Virginia The Democratic plurality is alsuit 20,000, and Swanson is elected governor. Negroes generally remained away from the polls. The next legis lature on joint ballot will have 2.1 Re publicans, instead of 10, as at present. Salt ljike City The American partj (anti-Mormon) defeated the Mormon Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor. New Jersey Republican gains in legislature sullicietit to preclude any Democratic success to United States Senator Dryden. Reformers elect Kv erett Colby, Independent Republican, to state senate in Kssex county. Nebraska Republicans elected state supreme judge. San Francisco Union I-abor candi date for mayor probably elected by 15,000 majority. Indianapolis Republican mayor elected. Soft Coal Operators to Organize. Chicago, Nov. 8. Owners of soft coal mines have decided to hold a na tional convention in Chicago, and it is expected to result in the formation of a national federation of coal mine operat ors. The meeting will he held No vember 22, at the call of the commis sioners and secretaries of the Mine Owners' association, which are scat tered throughout the United States. This follows an announcement by olli cials of the Coal Mineworkers' union that a demand for a wage increase will he made in January. Russia Becoming Pacified. St. Petersburg, Nov. 8. The follow ing ollicial communication is published this morning: As the divers regions of Russia are becoming pacified it is evident that the acute crisis precipi tated by the shock of the new system in collision with expiring tendencies, approaches an end. The tragic and deplorable, events of the past week in many parts of the empire may be re garded as the spontaneous reaction of the conservative elements. Reform for War Department. Washington Nov. 8. President Roosevelt has approved the recommen dations for certain reforms in the rou tine business of the War department which were prepared under the direc tion of Acting Secretary Oliver. These change have been brought about by the action of the president in creating the Keep commission, ilia letter criti cised the methods of work in connection with papers of both Army and Navy departments and General Oliver took the matter up at once. Cossacks Killed In Ambush. Kutais, Caucasus, Nov. 8. Cossacks who were escorting M. Lazarenko, a county ollicial, and M. Pekarski, a justice of the peace, were ambushed in the Ozorgoti district by revolutionaries, who were fighting the troops sent to the district to restore order. Two en tire companies, consisting of 107 and 120 men respectively, were wiped out. LET CONGRESS ACT President Wants It to Investigate Insurance Matters. CONSULTS WITH MR. MORTON Will Propose a Federal Inquiry To Go Beyond the Work of the Leg islative Committee. New York, Nov. 7. That there will he a Federal investigation of life insur ance methods and thnt President Koose v.dt is taking an active interest in the matter and will, in all likelihood, at an early date ask tor the apjMiintrncnt of a congressional committee to take up the work, was learned today from an authority the value of which can not he iUestioned . The impiiry will be conducted inde pendently of the states legislative com mittee, and in spite of any results which may follow the committee's re port. It is declared that the revela tions and Hie many startling disclosures brought out by the state committee have been the incentive which has led the president and his advisers to take Up the question. The president during the last two or three weeks has frequently been in con ference with men prominent in the ins uranc world. It is known that Paul Morton, head of the Kipiitable Life As surance society, was in Washington yesterday It was whispered in Wall street today that Mr. Morton's visit to Washington was in the line of giving the president some inside information eoncerning the proposed investigation, and that he might even have Id-en sum moned there. Mr. Morton would not say w het her this was a fact, neither would he consent to be interviewed.. DREDGE COAST HARBORS. General MacKenzie Recommends the Building of a Boat. Washington, Nov. 7. In his annual report Gi-ncral MacKenzie, chief of en gineers, made one exception to the rule prohibiting recommendations for new work. He recommended an appropria tion of foO.OOO to build a dredge for use on the bars at the entrance to Tilla mook, Yaipiina and Coos bays, and at the entrance to the Siuslaw and Co quille rivers. General MacKenzie had this to say atxiut the dredge, for which the last congress refused to make an appropriation : "Navigation in these harbors is often greatly delayed by the forming of shoals, the material deposited in most instances being of such nature that it cannot be handled w ith a dipper dredge. It is estimated that a combination suc tion and dipper dredge could be ad vantageously used, and so constructed that it could lie taken from harbor to harbor as necessities demand. "The cost of such a plant with two dump scows would be approximately tr0,000, and it is thought that the necessity for its use will fully justify the expenditure. RIOTS AT ODESSA. Czar's Ukase Made Excuse for Ex termination of Jews. Odessa, Nov. 7. The anti Semitic riots are in full swing in this city and surrounding districts. The agitators of the movement have distribuetd a cir cular assuring the villagers that the authorities have received the czar's ukase and state that it commands the extermination of all Jews. As a result of this action, the wholesale pillage continues. The local authorities refuse to interfere, either standing idly by, refusing to check riots, or participating in the same. News continues to reach the city of terrible massacrep, which have occurred at various points along the railway, es pecially here and at Kieff. The casual ties in those murderous disturbances are heavy. Confer on Packers' Case. Chicago. Nov. 7. Attorney General Moody has sent for United States Dis trict Attorney C. B. Morrison and Assistant Attorney General Oliver E. Pagin to go to Washington in regard to the beef trust prosecution. The jdea of the packers declaring that Commis sioner Garfield, of the bureau of Cor porations, had promised the packets immunity from prosecution has taken such an aspect that the attorney gene ral ia said to wish a joint interview with the commissioner and Messrs. Morrison and Pagin. Whole Caucasus in Revolt. London, Nov. 7. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "War, hopeless war, prevails in the Caucasus. The Trans-Caucasian tail road, the sole line, is effectively crippled and reinforcements have been compelled to march. Seventeen bridges have been wrecked, ami the rails have been torn up in 40 places. Telegraph lines have been destroyed, and Georgia and the Daghestan are isolated. Kvery male is in arms." Poles Also Want Autonomy. Rt. Petersburg, Nov. 7. On the hwels of the announcement of the suc cessful Finnish national movement comes news of a strong revival of the struggle for autonomy in Poland. Dis patches from KaliBi-h, in Poland, and Thorn, in Wist Prussia, say that flags with the Polish coat of arms have been hoisted in beveral churches end city buildings. OPPOSE8 RIVER WORK. Secretary of War Will Not Make Ex ception in Favor of Columbia. Washington, Nov. 7. In his an nual report made public today, General MacKenzie, chief of engineers, asks that the following appropriations be made in the next sundry civil bill : Mouth of Columbia river, $300,000; Celilo canal, $250,000; Willamette and Columbia below Portland, $.125,000; Columbia between Vancouver and the mouth of the Willamette, $30,000; Ta coma harbor, $200,000. Kach and all of these appropriations were authorized in the river and harbor bill passed at the last session ; these respective sums have been expended or are covered by contracts now in force, so that not one dollar asked for by General MacKenzie will go to pay for new work. In other words, General MacKenzie is asking only for enough money to pay for work now under way or already completed. He asks for no new appropriations for he has lecn instructed by the secretary of war to cut down his estimates and confine himself solely to work hereto fore authorised. Personally, General MacKenzie be lieves congress should make large ap propriations for the mouth of the Co lumbia river, and he thinks it wrong to allow work on that project to stop at its present incompleted stage, and yet under instructions from his superior he cannot ollicial ly recommend such aj propriation. MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. Chief of Engineers Makes Estimates in His Report. Washington, Nov. 7. Sixteen mil lion dollars will be necessary to com plete the engineering works of the fort ifications of the sea coast of the United States tinder the present plans of the Kndicott board, according to the report of Brigadier General MacKenzie, chief of engineers. There already has been appropriated for this purpose $328, !(3,434. Permanent projects at 31 different points havo been adopted and most of them are well under way. Among these points are San Diego, Cal., San Francisco, Columbia river and Puget sound. The defense of the Great lakes and the St. Lawrence River is under con sideration: The estimate for the com pletion of the fortifications do not con template anything more than the pro jects outlined by the Endicott board. Modern appliances and additional pro jects which may be adopted by the Taft board, appointed last summer, and the fortifications of the insular pos sessions may increase the estimate when additional work is approved by congress. It is estimated that $4,263,364 will he required to put into execution by the engineering department the schemes of the artillery and signal corps for fire control of the seacoaet de fenses. CONTEST ON SMOOT'S SEAT. Disposition Will Be Made Before the Term Ends. Washington, Nov. 7. Senator Bur rows, of Michigan, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, who has arrived in Washington for the coming session of congress, said tonight that ho expected to have the case of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, dis posed of before the term ends. Senator Smoot's seat is being contest ed on the ground that he is a member of the Mormon hierarchy. A great mass of testimony was taken at the last session of congress, and it was gener ally understood that each side had completed its case. Senator Burrows said that if it is de cided to present further testimony the committee is willing to hear it. He stated that the committee will consider the case immediately after the reor ganization of the senate committees in cident to the meeting of a new con gress, and the tilling of a vacancy caused by the retirement of Senator McComas, of Maryland. Bombs Thrown at Troops. Tiflis, Nov. 7. Demonstrations to day were participated in by 20,000 per sons. While a procession was passing along Uolowineki Prospect, firing be gan. Bombs were thrown at the troops, who answered with rifle shots. The dead numbered ten and there were many wounded. In another place a crowd of school pupils with revolu tionary flags collided with a loyal dem onstration. The troops tired in the air with a view of dispersing the crowds and a general encounter ensued, in which (our were killed and 17 wounded. Socialists Hoist Red Flag. Vienna, Nov. 7. The Socialist suf frage demonstration on the Rings! rasse today was attended by 50,000 persons. A strong force of gendarmes was sta tioned along the streets, but did not in terfere with the demonstrates, and the Socialists were even permitted to hoist red flags over the reichsrath building. There were no disorders whatever, and similar demonstrations are reported from Lumburg, Grata, Klengenfurdt, Bruenn and elsewhere. Oft' for the Philippines. ' Monterey, Cal., Nov. 7. The Fif teenth infantry and companies I and L of the Fourth cavalry left today for San Francisco, where they will embark to morrow on the transport Sherman for two years' service in the Philippines. North FbLE fiSyT5 pi clared the scheme Is well founded. Certainly, he ad mitted the correctness of the Judgment of the Trench explorer In deciding to make a trial trip, as It were, In the Yukon district the coming winter, where the Hinge is set very like the setting In the neigh borhood of the I'ole, arid the experimenters will be within reach of civili zation. The real start, as reported. Is to be made In June, next year, bo that Commander I'eary need not fear keen competition as he nears his goal, for he will have had almost a year's start. An International society for polar research ami experiment was recently formed at Iiawson. It Is the object of this organization, said to number 200 members, to assist In the develop ment of the theory of Ir. Varlcle. It Is the contention of the new North I'ole seekers that the expeditions of all former polar explorers or Pole seek ers have been conducted on anything but lines that would be approved by the northern travelers of experience. Yukoners found many weak points In the methods of travel, equipment and composition of nearly every polar expedition of the past. THE NEW ZEALAND WAY. Life Insurance us It Is Conducted In the Antipodean Island. In faraway New Zealand the gov ernment conducts a life Insurance de partment which not only offers its policies at a low premium, but has the security of the State behind It as its guarantee to Investors. By open com petition with Individual concerns It prevents any ordinary combination from keeping up excessive rates, and there are uo high salaried officials to absorb the annual receipts. It Is an Ideal theory. In America an Insurance of $5,OW, which may cost a person who has arrived at middle age $200 annually, In New Zealand may be obtained for one-third that expense. In America legislative Inquiry has al ready thrown so much light upon the complex and devious management of the Insurance business that a distrust of the whole system has become gen eral. In New Zealand the entire re sponsibility Is borne by the colonial government. There can never be any failure until the country becomes bankrupt The first Illustration Is that of the government life Insurance build ing at Wellington, while the second 6hows the postofflce in the same city. Governmental life insurance is by no means the only New Zealand Institu tion from which America might take pattern profitably. One of the fairest and most logical remedial measures ever tried in the colony and one which has proved Its usefulness from the very moment of its adoption is the workman's "compensation for acci dent" act. The principle upon which the measure was instituted was based on the assumption that It Is neither by the wish nor by the conduct of either employer or employe that accidents happeu, but that In spite of that fact a steady percentage of accidents occurs. They are thus Incidental to production, and the business which yields the prof It should bear this part of the expense of producing. Therefore a sum must GOVLUNMIiXT l.NsrilA.NCE B11L1U JiG. be paid to every Injured worker and. If the accident proves fatal, to his family. The only exception to this rule is when It can be established to the satisfaction of the court of arbi tration, which adjudicates these cases, that the employe was injured willfully. By the act there is a maximum of $2, (KiO payable, but the form of the com pensation is usually that of half pay for a definite time and the payment of u lump sum If the Injury Is permanent. Of course a corresponding effort had to bo made to minimize the loss to the employer. To meet the necessity the government life Insurance department was empowered to include accident In surance, thus compelling any combina tion of existing insurance companies of a similar kind to keep the tariffs down to reasonublo premium value. The advantage to artisans and laborers from a governmental benefit of this nature can hardly be computed. It practically relieves them from the bur den of accident Insurance and compels a provision for their possible disability which they are almost certain to neg Imbued with the Idea thnt the conquest of the North Pole can only ho accomplished by explorers who have become acclimated to the rigors of the Arctic winter ami who have had long practice with the management of dog nieces, a party of harrly ones In Iawson City, the metropolis of the Yukon district, have given an appreciative ear to the project of Ir. Antony Vaiicle, a Frenchman at present a resident of Iiawson, who Is said to he an Inventor and an ardent student of polar research. Ills plans as described to a meeting of citizens of Dawson recently, do not lack novelty, and It Is re ported that General Oreely, who has been in the Arctics himself on a memorable expedition, has de lect If left to their own Initiative. It has worked admirably In New Zea land, and there Is no reason why It should be less effective elsewhere. Still another measure of relief until recently pronounced Utopian has been tried by the New Zealand life Insur ance department and found practicable the old age pension act. Older coun tries, from which millions flow like water for trade wars or to exploit some sentiment of nationality, have declined to provide nourishment for POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. those who are no longer profitable for money producing purposes, but New Zealand decided to try the experiment, and It has entailed no hardship on any class, but has given relief to many. The scheme of compulsory old age In surance has been tried in Germany with far less success. Specious as that theory appears, it has been found in practice to be only another system of making the poor keep the poor. Although one may not be able to accept the theories by which the re forms In New Zealand have been brought about he must grant that the people of this faraway country have shown such remarkable progress In self government that all intelligent Americans cannot fall to learn much from the up to date methods which prevail there. Antitoxin Against Fatigue. Should the development of the study of toxins and antitoxins render possi ble the production of an antibody capable of neutralizing the results of muscular fatigue, the consequences could hardly be predicted, says the Medical Kecord. Yet a German In vestigator seriously claims to have taken more than one step in this di rection already and publishes results that are at least surprising. Welchardt (Munchener Medlzlnlsche Woehenschrlft, Nov. 21, 11HM) says he has obtained a stable antitoxin, which, when taken by the mouth lu moderate doses, permits the output of an In creased amount of muscular energy without fatigue, and when taken con tinuously causes a sense of geuertl blen etre and augments the capacity for work. He commends his preparation to clinicians as a promising analeptic for convalescents, neurasthenics, etc. This fatigue antitoxin is obtained from horses by Injecting them with fatigue toxin produced In the muscles of ani mals that have been subjected to ex. trome muscular exhaustion. A Kale IVaxer. "I see that n member of the New port colony makes this naive excuse when threatened with an interview! "My lawyer will not allow me to talk; for publication any more.' " "Well, I'll bet It wasn't a woman that said that." Cleveland Plain Deal er. The Current and the Corn. "They are sending electricity through burled wires In order to stimulate the growth of vegetables." "I wonder If the current la strong enough to shock the coruT" Cleveland Plain Dealer. How worthless we all are; yet hove well we get along!