St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 3, 1898

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Outside $t Louis, Twe Cents. Regular ‘Circulation IN CIRCULATION The only newspaper in the with a Sunday circulation excee SUNDAY POST-DIS wets F | PASTOR FAINTS IN THE PULPIT. ——_ —- g> -—_- --—- Caught as He Was Falling Head First to the Floor. DISOBEYED HIS _ PHYSICIAN. REV. W. W. SNIFF INSISTED ON PREACHING, ALTHOUGH HE HAD A HIGH FEVER. THE STRAIN WAS TOO GREAT. As He Fell There Was Great Excite- ment, a Woman in the Congre- gation Swooned and Was Carried Out. - Members of the Compton Heights Chris- tian Church will never forget the first Sab- bath of 1898. Rev. W. W. Sniff, whose illness caused a “suspension of the’services Sunday morning, attempted to preach in the evening against the orders of his physicians. The effort was too much. He collapsed and would have fallen headlong from the platform had not watchful members of the congregation rushed forward and caught him. The young pastor was on hand when his flock assembled. He was gaunt and flushed by fever. His lip quivered as he attempted a smile of greeting. His voice quavered as he gave out the opening hymn. As the melody rose and fell he «1t as one whose mind was far away. * When the last note died away there was a painful pause. The young preacher stepped forward to open his sermon. The flush on hig face had heightened and his eyes glistened. Steady- ing himself against his reading desk, he d: ‘‘My brethren, I have no apology to offer for coming here to-night. I arm here against the orders of my physician. 1 could not persuade myself to remain away on the rst Sabbath of the new year. I wanted to be with vou this morning, but could not. In eeven years I have been absent from. the church on Sunday only rwice, both times on eccount of sickness. If my sermon lacks its usual vigor to-night, remember that 1 have ‘not eaten a full meal in two days. The epirit jeg lings ent the flesh is weak. I eubmit my wi ngnées of spirit as an ex- se for coming here to-night. As I said, have no apology to make.”’ There was painful effort in every word of this pathetic little preface. After a pause the young pastor began his discourse. He opened well. His voice was strong, but | ed modulation. His lack of strength made the expression of his gehts a task, but his strength seemed in @ measure to have returned. He spoke of “the Great Commission,”’ the sending forth of the Aposties to preach and bap- ige the nations. He used a chart to illus- | te the similarity of the accounts of the R@rrrs of the commission as given by Mat- thew, Mark and Luke. In expiaining the chart he used a short pointer. is exordium, was finished and his argu- ment was approaching its climax. Slowly the pointer sank from the chart to te¢e floor. . Veing it-as a cane, Dr. Sniff ad- vanced to his reading desk. He straight- ened himself to his full six feet and looked far away, over the heads of his hearers. ‘“That,’’ he said, is the Great Commis- sion. Sacrifice everything for the Lord and go forth and preach—preach—preach re- pentance."’ The last word was spdken in a whisper. The head that had been poised so resolutely spank forward, the ge parted in a half smile. The pointer fell to the floor. . Several men in the front row rushed for- ward. Women cried out in agony. Dr, Sniff was pitching headlong from the plat- ‘form. Kind hands broke the fall and bore him to a chair on the platform. From the chair he slipped to the floor un- conscious. The flush had disappeared and his face was white and cold as marble. Mrs. Clarence J. Ward, the organist, rub- bed his hands and smoothed his forehead. Men and women stood around the platform apparently helpless as the stricken man. Thile an effort was being made to re- store Dr. Sniff to consciousness there was commotion in the body of the church. Mrs. Harry H. Hodgdon; who sat with: her hus- band in the second pew, fainted. When he revived she became hysterical. She was taken to her home at 4064 Juniata treet. ' The congregation was dismissed, but few left the church. They stood about, sad- faced, some of them tearful. Dr.: Sniff lay on the platform half an hour. During most of that time he was conscious, but unable to move. An hour after he collapsed he was assisted to his home at 2809 St. Vincent avenue, half a block from the church. He was still weak Monday morning, but his constitution is trong. He has a wife and three children. e has been pastor of the Compton Heights Christian Church since September, 1895. , is the second of the (Chris- tian ministers to faint during services re- centiy. A month ago Dr. Fannon of the First Christian Church-collapsed under al- Most the same circumstances. SKELETON IN A BOX Shipped to Columbus, Ga., but Not Yet Called For. Special to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBUS, Ga., Jan. 3.—The contents of a long’ wooden box, which arrived on Thursday's trein from Atlanta and which ls now at the Southern Railway freight of- fice, has been the subject of considerable mystery and speculation. The box, a rough one, four feet long and two feet deep, was firected to M. V. Chambers, who is not tnown here and who has not appeared to ‘aim the box. It has been discovered that he box contains the sections of a dis- oo oy omy skeleton. Bye mytly ~ it that Was opene ts of fesh were ‘werved clinging to the frame and emitted aentesable or. The Southern freight fic are reticent about the matter. 7 MRS. NACK NOT ARRAIGNED. © Date for Her Trial Has Been Fixed Yet. 3.—-Mre. Augusta Nack, Thorn for the murder tppe, the bath ruber, L. L., in June last, "FIGHT TRUSTS,’ SAYS PINGREE ae ~~) - Michigan’s Governor Talks of the Next Campaign. RALLYING CRY FOR THE PEOPLE INCESSANT WAR MUST BE MADE ON THE GIGANTIC TRADE COMBINES. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. The Governor Is Surprised to Find St. Louis in the Clutches of Puh- lic Corporations—What Detroit Has Done. v Gov. H. 8S. Pingree of Michigan, who is fast becoming known as the “Great Com- moner of the Northwest,’ looking for all the world like a well-to-do sawmill owner from the swamps of Southwest M/’ssouri, is at the Southern Hotel. He arrived in town Sunday night from Chicago on pri- vate business, and will Jeave for his home Monday evening. The Governor is not a showy man—in fact, he’s as plain as an old shoe. He wore a bus.ness suit of gray cioth and a big black slouch hat. He arose at 7 o'clock, had his shoes shined, ate breakfast and left the hotel for a two-hours’ stroll on the down-town streets. The hotel people began to think they had lost their distinguished guest, so quietly had hé came ‘back about 10 o’clock, gathered up the morning papers and sat in a secluded place in a corner of the spacious lobby Ike any other ordinary guest. When a_ Post-Dispatch rupted him he said: “This is springlike weather, compared to what I left at Detroit and Chicago, and I have enjoyed my walk about town im- mensely. I am here on private business, and don’t know a bit of news further than it looks to me like they were going to beat Mark Hanna ih Ohio. I hope so, Sut I do not know enough about the situation to discuss if, “Do you think it would be a good thing for the Republican party if anna is beaten?’ he whe asked. “I think this: There ought to be a change in the personnel of the United States Sen- ate. That body seems to have gone over, body and soul, to the trus‘s and corporations and Hanna is the beau ideal of the trusts. We are going to change our Senators in Michigan at the first opportunity and send men who take a different view from the one that the trusts own the country and the people are under obl_gations to them for be- ing permitted to live.” “Will you be a candidate for the Senate to succeed Julius Caesar Burrows?” *T don’t know about that. Michigan has plenty of good men who represent the peo- ple and not the trusts, and they will come to the front in due time.”’ ‘What do you think is the main political issue before the country, the ome that will be in the next presidential compaign?”’ “There can be no more vital issue than that of the trusts and corporations against the peop e.”” “Will the silver question be relegated to the rear?’’ “Not at all. But I was going to say that if the truts and syndicates are to run the country as tney are now we will have to change our system of education. There will be no use in educating our children to do business when there is no business. They will have to be taught to suck their thumbs or some other useless thing, instead of learning the industrial trades or even the commercial ines. because the trusts propose to combine every trade so that one man can do what it usually requires a half dozen or more to do. Individual enterprise is to be smothered, and manufactures are to be put under one colossal management and the products to be sold at figures fixe by the combine. Competition ts to be killed and all of its avenues closed to the thrift and laudable aenbit’'ons of individual merit. “That is the way things are drifting now, and being shoved ahead with al] the pre- cipitation that the powerful forces of leg- isiatfve and administrative power. If the people can’t be aroused to the magnitude of such an issue and the consequences it involves, then they are content with serf- dom rather than freedom. My views on this subject are pretty well known, and for one I welcome the issue, and feel no misgivings as to the result.”’ “What is there in the feports belng sent out from Washington that you are shaping things for the next presidential nomina- tion as the candidate of the free ailver Republicans and an anti-trust platform?’ The platform is all right, but I have not heard of any such reports. It is mere gossip and nothing more. The election is too far off. I can’t wait that long for some- thing else.” “What else do you have in view?’ “Oh, noth ng, only the talk about me as a presidential candidate is absurd.’ “Will you be a candidate for renomina- tion for Governor?’ “I don't know. I have not made up my mind yet, though the election takes place this fall.’’. Gov. Pingree stepped from the mayoralty to the governorship, and it was as Mayor that he first attracted general notice. He will be known as “Potato Pingree’’ as long as he lives, because it was he who inaugu- rated the plan of having the poor people of Detroit plant all the vacant city lots in he potatoes, and the plan was a good one there, He also made a fight for 3-cent street car fares and won. Then he distinguished him- self in his fight against the corporationa on the a of municipal ownership of franchises and won this. His most signal victory on this score was reporter inter- tract from the corporations and dt clty establish an electric plant of its own. Gov. Pingree was surprised when told that St. Louis does not own its lant and still more surprised when in- ormed of a proposition pending for a ten or fifteen year contract. “Why,” said he, ‘such a long term con- tract is preposterous, Even when Detroit was in the clutches of the electric light corporations she never let a contract for over three years.. Detroit is the best lighted city In the country now and owns her plant. It cost, I think, about $600,000 and we cover nearly as much redo | as St. Louls. The saving to the city is about $80,000 a year on lighting alone, and I don’t know how much on lice, for since we have more and better lights there is no necessity of #0 many policemen. “IT understand, then,”’ he continued, ‘‘that the corporations own all the public conveni- ences of St, Louis, except the water-works. That is thing. d Ben Butler used you have a bad law, put it to say, t once,’ So, if the corpo- a elty as th lease, the vif awake ce to. the neces- *> 2 eatiy e 9 wer. Mee : : ATS cate Oe Re. . aa fie att ere ab al =, +S x S wet he broken all the rules of “‘big men,’’ but | — Franz Gosseling Severely Wounded by Strangers. HIS SHOP. ATTACKED IN STRUCK A POWERFUL BLOW FROM BEHIND AND LEFT UNCONSCIOUS. ROBBERS FRIGHTENED AWAY. Negro Ran to the Rescue and the As- sailants Escaped—The Victim an Octogenarian and Is Well Known. 4 Two men attempted to rob old Franz yoessling, a furrier at 610 South Broadway, Monday morning just before 1b o’clock. They almost murdered him by pounding him over the head with the antlers of an elk, mounted upon a heavy heart-shaped piece of wood. Goessling is 83 years old. He lives alone in his little shop, sleeping and cooking his meals in a rear room. He is reputed to be a miser and, besides having money in bank, is said to keep largs sums concealed in his two rooms. | Goessling was sitting tatlor-fashion on a 'large table, sewing, when the two men en- tered his shop from the front door. They said they wanted to have a deer’s head | stuffed, but the old furrier declined to take | the job. Then they struck him with the elk- antiers and dragg:d him from the table into |a eorner. The old man screamed with a remarkably loud voice for ome of his years, and the two men darted out the front door. Mrs. J. Blank, who has a laundry next door, saw the men run by her place and at Poplar Street turn towards the river. She rushed in to see what had befallen her aged neigh- bor and found him on the floor, moaning as if in great vain. She asked him in German what ‘had hap- pened, but he was too weak from the loss of biood which trickled from a hole in his skull behind his left ear to reply. The struggle down stairs had been heard by Bently Brooks, a colored night-wateh- man, who occupies with his family the upper..floor of the old furrier’s shop. Brooks and his wife ran down stairs, and when he saw that a»murderous assault had been made on the old man he fired two shots in thé back yard, to attract the at- tention of the police. Patrolman ‘Moran responded, and had Goessling removed in an ambulance to the City Dispensary. He looked like he was about to expire when placed on the operat- ing table, but he revived sufficiently to tell the story of the entrance of the men to his shop and of their assault upon him. Dr. Newcomb pronounced Geessling’s wound a6 a compound fracture of the skull and ordered him to the City Hospital. When brought into the hospital Goessling pleaded so hard tod be allowed to go back to hie little shop, Dr. Sutter released him and he walked awry. He said the robbers had taken nothing. but he was afraid they would return and he wanted to be on hand his property and valuables. Mrs. Blank says she noticed two men In Goessling’s hack yard ten minutes before the assault was made. She also 6ayé an attempt was made to break into Goessling’s sleeping-room two weeks ago. GETTING SERVICE ON MR, DUKE Tobacco King Charged With Violating the Insurance Laws. ; to protect The Sheriff was requested by Gen. James M, Lewis Monday morning to get a move on himself and serve some papers on J. B. Duke, the millionaire tobacco manufacturer. who was about to leave the city on the noon train. Shortly before noon a suit was filed in the .of the State of Missouri for Edward State Insurance Commissioner, | city for }to skat | was provided there was no place in St. Louis against J. B. Duke. The pleadings in the | suit allege that Mr. Duke is one of a num- + ber of men associated in an insurance com- fany known as the Traders’ Fire Lloyds of New York, and that under that namé@ they insured the. R. B. Gray China Co. of this $5,000. The insurance company has not complied with the laws of the State of Missouri; Mr. Orear says, and he asks that a judgment be issued for $250 and a $25 at- torney'’s fee, Gen, Lew.s says it is the intention of the Insurance Commissioner to stop all outside companies from doing business in the State without complyf{ng with the law. “These people pay no license to do bus!- ness here, as the law directs. They are not regularly incorporated and if a quest'on of payment should arise the parties here would bave to go to New York and sue twenty-six different persons. Th'is company and others will be watched and caught every time any of the members come here.” The suit was orought by Attorney-General Crow, with James M. Lewis and Chas. M. Napton as associate counsel. ICE TROLLEY PARTIES NOW Bicycles Tow Long Lines of Skaters on Post-Dispatch Lake. A tandem bicycle and one or two single wheels tugged long strings of ekaters over the ice on Post-Dispatch lake Sunday. There were 5,000 skaters on the lake during | ‘the dav. when he wrested the public lighting con- | a e ‘ewept off and to-night the biggest 'day ice party of the year is expected to make Forest Park ring with merriment. lighting | | The ice waa in perfect condition. To-day the cuttings of Sunday are being week- wen in St. Louis is beginning to_take ng. Until the Post-Dispatch “Lake could be found. Now where good skatin orthern cities have such few Eastern and 'a splendid skating course. THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR AND WARMER. for St. Louls and vicinity—Fair Monday night and Tuesday; warmer Monday nigbt. For Missouri and Illinots--Fair Monday night and Tuesday; warmer Monday night. The temperatures have risen generally and Gecidedly except tn Ontario. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. B. Mcococvesssss-88 12 .> MB. cesseseeree » B BG. BB. cecreeoess- -33 ao oe... ot “ } Te cccccsevccestl 11 a. m. Soovvcevceshe a ror te ee. eS . i ; re Rie SER ESS . ; wed, ‘ Ae a ws eS alla: oe aN We TR Sete »Dusienss . ? wer : ~ a reese i “a % Sh Pins hit et B pgs d 4 Bn tt) ea cade Rta AO eS o > \ \N DR. LOUIS CRUSIUS., ee a who were associated with Dr. Crusius. The honorary pall-bearers will be members of German. workingmen’s societies, for which Dr. Crusius labored. Dr. Crusius died at Rebekah Sunday from shock following an operation. He had been ill since April and it was thought he had cirrhosis of the liver. Wednesday he was taken to Rebekah Hos- pital. Friday Dr. A. CC. Bernays per- med an operation. To has surprise he ‘ rm the derangement of the organs was caused by a tumor underiying the liver. It was removed and found to weigh eight and ' to be the | one-half pounds. This is said only case of its kind on record in America, Dr. Crusius never ralfed from the shock. He had been a member of the Marion Sims faculty five years. He was born in Lauk City, Wis., % years ago. His father, Louls Crusius, was the founder of the Pioneer Press, the first newspaper pub- lished in Wisconsin. He was marrted six years ago to Miss Virginia Topp, who was for many schools and kindergartens of St. Louis. The funeral will take place at 2:30 Tuesday af. ternoon. | Filed a Deed of Trust. The first financial disaster of the in the Recorder's office was that of W. F. Ratcliffe, who. filed a chattel deed of trust to Harold P. Wyman to secure Moses G. and others, srgeitors, © amounting to $1507. The m and ts on ck en inth ae ear y F or Hospital | ‘The Woman Who Committed Suicide at | to have been a Mra. Marsh of St. Louis. inote was asking that she be buried in the old Peoria = connected with the public HE DREADED AN OPERATION, —$<_—<—<-—____ Louis Koch Preferred Death to the Surgeon’s Knife. SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD. HIS PHYSICIAN HAD TOLD HIM AN OPERATION WAS NECESSA- RY TO SAVE HIS °*LIFE. COULD NOT ENDURE THE PAIN. His Wife Heard a Shot and Ran Into the House to Find the Old Mian Dead on the Floor. er s? ae Fear of the surgeon's knife made Louis Koch commit suicide. He shot himself at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning at his home, 3027 Texas avenue. For many years Koch suffered from a complication of diseases, chief of which was dropsy. Dr. Howard of Natural Bridge road and Grand avenue was his physician. |The doctor decided last week that his pa- ‘tient would have to submit to an operation if he would prolong life. Mr. Koch was persuaded to give his con- sent to being operated upon, but he gave it reluctantly, and frequently expressed fear of the attendant pain. Each time the fam- | ily referred to the ordeal in store for him, the old gentleman became melancholy and ‘'refueed to discuss his chances for relief. Sunday the doctor called to administer certain medicines in order that the pa- tient’s system might get in better condition for the operation. Mr. Koch took the reme- dies, but when the doctor left his depres- ecame greater. “Tr oe decided to place Mr. Koch on the operating table Tuesday morning. He slept little Sunday night, and Monday morning his nervousness and fear had in- creased to’a pitiable degree. A ; o’clock: Monday mornin Mrs. Koch stepped into the back yard, leaving her husband alone in their room. She was startled by the sound of a pistol shot. Going directly into the house and entering her room she found Mr. Koch on the floor with a revolver in his..hand._..He had shot himself in the right side of the head, dying almost instantly. Mrs. Koch screamed and many of the neighbors were attracted to the house. A physician was sent for, but he could only assure the terror-stricken wifow that her husband had died instantly and in no pain, No report was made of the suicide to the police station. An hour afterward Police- man O’Garry on the next beat heard of it casually and telephoned the news to his captain. Mr. Koch was 52 years old. For many years he was connected with the Standard Box Factory. Besides a widow he leaves five children, two of wit6m are daughters now married. One of the daughters, Mrs. Hoyle, lives in Illinois. The other daughter is the wife of Max Lepstein, who is em- ployed by the Quick Meal Stove Company. DIED FROM EATING: POPCORN. Auditor of the Frisco Railroad Loses His Little Son. Little Alfred Thole, Jr., 3 years old, died Saturday night at his father’s home, 2617 Park avenue, from eating too much pop- corn. The tiny fellow was very merry New Year’s Eve and enjoyed himself with a bag of popcorn, of which he had taken possession. He was put to bed early and awakened at 7 o’clock next morning com- plaining of severe pains in his stomach, A physician was summoned and everything possible done for the child, but he died at 9 o'clock New Year's night. The father is Alfred Thole, well-known ‘n railroad circles as the auditor of the St. Louls and San Francisco Railway. PECULIARLY SAD DEATH, Mrs, Puetz Contracted a Cold Attend- ing Her Mother’s Funeral. Mrs, Elizabeth J. Puetz, aged &% years, died Sunday at her home, 1626 Park avenue, under peculiarly distressing circumstances. Mrs. Puetz’s aged mother, Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, 82 yeare old, died one week ago last Friday and was solemnly interred in the Oakdale Cemetery in Carondelet. Grief and prolonged exposure to the weather caused Mrs. Puetz to fall sick and despite all the physicians could do she paased away. She will be grave of her mother in Oakdale. Mrs. Puetz leaves a number of relatives, among them a brother who ts an enginéer at the City Hoerpitah and another who te spoeneet of the waterworks at Atchison, Can. WRS. MARSH OF ST. LOUIS. Peoria. Special to the Post-Dispatch. PEORIA, UL, Jan. 3—The woman who committed suicide Saturday at the Union Depot Hotel by taking pruesic acid proves A found on a table in her room Cemetery. She said $0 would be found tied around her neck for burial! purposes, ROLLED DOWN THE STAIRS Thomas Brady’s Foot Slipped on the Top Step. Thomas Brady, a Missouri! Pacific Rail- way employe, who lives at 3140 Chouteau avenue, went to the second floor on his return home Sunday night, lost his foot- ing —. yay. Ao: and posee downstairs his tace cut. Dr. * neitate dts feau *venne save buried beside the new | ; , /publican members having formed a fusion with the Democratic members for the de- ‘feat of Senator Hanna The Senate stands |18 Democrats and 18 Republicans, the latter |} oef Senator HANNA'S MEN KNOCKED OL The Boss Defeated in the Organization of Eacl of the Ohio Legislature. Mason Beats Boxwell for Speaker by a Vote of 56 to 53. Gov. Bushnell Declares He Will No Longer Wear the Hanna Yoke. RUMORS OF COMPROMISE. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHAS. L. KURTZ. Leader of the Anti-Hanna Force COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 3.—Hanna has met defeat in the first round of his fight the senatorship.- Both the Senate and House have been organized by the oppes! The exciting contest was in the House. It was between Mason, anti-Hanna and Boxwell, the Hanna candidate. The first ballot resulted: Mason, 5%; Boxwel Mason declared elected amid great excitement. The result was greeted with great applause by the anti-Hanns men, who re Mason's election as presaging certain defeat of the boss for the senatorship. The anti-Hanna memworganized the Senate and Scnator Burke bitter opponent, will be President pro tem. (Rep.), Hanna's Rumors are thick that Hanna will withdraw and that Judge Day may bea promise candidate. Another rumor gains credence that the Republicane may with the gold Democrats on Calvin 8. Brice for Senator. It is conceded that Speaker Mason w'll dispose of all the patronage of the in the interest of McKisson and Bushnell and against Hanna, and with the Stat ecutive Administration also against Hanna his defeat changes are made within the next week. is conceded unless rad “It is stated that the Hanna men will to-morrow enter on another program which includes visiting delegatons from some counties to hold Jndignation meet!) at the capitol to express protests en the action of certain Republican merbet~ voting against their regular party caucus nominees and in proposing to poverse action of the last Republican State Convention that nominated Hanna for Senat BUSHNELL TELLS WHYHE ~—s TIRES OF THE HANNA Y@: Special to the Post-Dispatch. Ce COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 3.—Gov. Bushnell in an interview with newspaper co spondents to-day said: “There are some things in this situation which are positively ludicrous, . 7 accused of inconsistency because I won't support Hanna. Now here are Sam Ba Dr. Tenny and several other patriotic Cincinnatians who fought Cox last fall up ° under Cox’s orders fighting for a bigger boss than the one whom they helped tc feat in Cincinnati and whose mandates they are now carrying out. Why are the ing it? “Because the Administration,through Mark Hanna, has promised that Cox shall tribute the Federal patronage ‘n Cincinnati. votes of certain Cincinnati! fusionists. In return Cox Is to deliver to Hann: “After the last campaign I simply decided that I should refuse to stand up e counted among the adherents of a man who would have sacrificed me last fall t himself. That was his only intention tn the fight last let it do so. ° . Hanna professed to be able to run things single-handed and elect h fall. “He began it alone; let him finish it alone. If the Administration can ea “Hanna never even consulted me when he made his deal with Cox at Ci Neither did Cox. After Cox had declared sent Hanna to the Senate by appointment. election to succeed himeelf. ‘n an interview that Hanna ous f. appointed he wrote me calling my attention to the interview. that I had given my promise to appoint Hanna, Two weeks bef Cox had nothing to do with it. He undertook, aided by Cox, to secure I was not consulted fn that fight, nor was I consulted any patter of campaign pol'cy, though I was then making the race as the head of ¢ ticket. “Why should I take any part now tn Senator Hanna’s fight? Why ehould L anything more than Senator Hanna's colleague, Senator Foraker, So did L He is not doing anything now. Neither am 1 He advocated the election of Hanna. enemy. volved. “But while I am called a Benedict Arnold attacks Foraker? I wish someone would. Foraker.”’ ; on the stum We were then fighting a comm We have no interest { and a Judas, dM you notice that no c But no one will, They are afraid HANNA LOSES THE FIRST ROUND IN THE DEFEAT OF BOXWELI COLUMBYS, O., Jan. 3.~The Ohio Legis- lature convened at 10 a. m. to-day. Owing to | the Senatorial contést, unusual interest was taken in the organization of both houses. The caucuses las: Saturday night were not on the usual lines between the Republicans and Democrats, owing to some of the Re- including Senator Voight, who was elected on a fusion ticket from Cincianat! and who did not attend either caucus, At the Senate Republican vaucus Baturday nigh: Senator Burke, Republican, of Cleveland, was not only absent, but he was at the same time nominated by the Democratic caucus for President pro tem of the Senate. The Re- publican caucus nominated Senator J. Park Alexander for President pro iem, The ab- sence of Senator Burke to-day, therefore, meant not only his election, but the election of Democrats for the offices in the Senate. Senator Burke is opposed to the re-elec'ion M. A. H . With party lines drawn in the Senate, Lieut.-Gov. A. W. Jones, Republican, would have had the tile vote to cast. and he has been considered as opposed to Hanna. he House stands 62 Republicans and 47 Democrats, the former including four fu- sionists from Cincinnati. At the Republican House caucus Satur- day night there were only & eg ee and pledged to Alexander Boxwell for Speaker. Of the ten absentees Griffith of Clinton was the only one offering an excuse; he was sick. The other nine Republican mem.- _ were absent because they are o to /Hanna and regarded Boxwell as the These nine Repub/'can mem- Cleve- Hanna candidate. members met with the Democrat on and indorsed Harry C. Mason of and, Speaker. ith these nine Republicans and the 47 Democratic members, Mas © would have % votes. or one ire than ele-t. but: me of diana an anti-Hanna Kepubliican, for esary te} in the organization of the Legislature. ¢€ ing to the petronage in these offices as preferences in chairmanships and the ec | position of all the committees, it was |. erally believed that the fate of Sent asonne as we'll as of all his supporters nded on the organization the Le ature. His opponents cialmed that would be defeated even if the Boswell oe was elected, and his friends admitted t the chances were against him if Boxy was defeated. Owing to the te ay being at sta there was an unusually large attenda) | about the State-house at an early hour It required an hour to examine the dentials and swear in the 108 member the House, but she thirty-eix Senators qualified. All were pregent In the Senate Char t Senator \Burke of Cleve publican who is tor Voight, t ocrata, who elected all officers. O. D. Cunseli, t, elected Chief Clerk over A. C. publican, the latter having ex election by Rurke’a presence, aith Burke wouid not support Hanna. As & tor ee abse Senator Burke for that latter arrives to take h eratic organization of the Senate mee h com in a very quiet way while tachment of pol to lcemen Was back the crowd that Glied the il of t its ent é me eae % Sule Say ery