The Worcester Spy, 1898-12-14

THE TREATY. A Brief Outline of Each Article Given. Paris. Dec. 13. - Extraordinary pre precautions - cautions precautions are maintained by both the peace commissions to preserve secrecy as to the contents of the treaty. Each commission has two copies, but even the commission attaches are not per permitted - mitted permitted to peruse the document. The correspondent of the Associated Press, however, has obtained from a source usually reliable the following outline of the treaty: Article one provides for the relinq relinquishment - uishment relinquishment of Cuba. Article two provides for cession of Porto Rico. Article three provides for the cession of the Philippines for $20,000,000 as com compensation. - pensation. compensation. Artjfle four embraces the plans for the cession of the Philippines, including the return of Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Tagalos. Article five deals with the cession of barracks, war materials, arms, stores, buildings and all property appertaining to the Spanish administration in the Philippines. Article six is a renunciation by both nations of their respective claims against each other and the citizens of each other. Article seven grants to Spanish trade and shipping in the Philippines the same treatment as American trade and shipping for a period of 10 years. Article eight provides for the release of all prisoners of war held by Spain and of all prisoners held by her for political offenses committed in the col colonies - onies colonies acquired by the United States. Article nine guarantees the legal rights of Spaniards remaining in Cuba. Article 10 establishes religious free freedom - dom freedom in the Philippines and guarantees to all churches equal rights. Article 11 provides for the composi composition - tion composition of courts and other tribunals in Porto Rico and Cuba. Article 12 provides for the adminis administration - tration administration of justice in Porto Rico and Cuba. Article 13 provides for the continu continuance - ance continuance for five years of Spanish copy copyrights - rights copyrights in the ceded territories giving Spanish books admittance free of duty. Article 14 provides for the establish establishment - ment establishment of consulates by Spain in the ceded territories. Article 15 grants to Spanish com commerce - merce commerce in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines the same treatment as to Americans for 10 years, Spanish ship shipping - ping shipping to be treated as coasting vessels. Article 16 stipulates that the obli obligations - gations obligations of the United States Spanish citizens and property in Cuba shall terminate with the withdrawal of the United States authorities from the is island. - land. island. Article 17 provides that the treaty must be ratified within six months from the date of signing by the respective governments, in order to be binding. A LONG SENTENCE. Gideon Marsh of Keyslone Bank Fame Ge's Twelve Years in Prison. Philadelphia, Dec. 13. - Gideon W. Marsh, former president of the wrecked Keystone National Bank, was today sentenced by Judge Butler, in the United States district court, to imprisonment for 12 years and three months and to pay a fine of SSOO. The Keystone bank failed in March, 1891, and President Marsh and Cashier Lawrence were placed under arrest charged with conspiracy in making false entries in the book, and issuing false reports to the comptroller of the currency. The cashier stood trial and was convicted and imprisoned, but Marsh disappeared and his bail of $20,- 000 was forfeited. After wandering over the world for seven and a half years, the fugitive president returned on Nov. 3 last and surrendered to the authori authorities. - ties. authorities. He pleaded guilty when arraigned for trial. It was thought probable that Marsh might, when brought up for sentence, make a statement implicating others in the wrecking of the bank, but he merely informed the court that his predecessor in the presidency of the band had left a defalcation of over $1,000,000, and that he (Marsh) had never profited a dollar through the bank's losses. He broke down in mak making - ing making this statement, and was unable to proceed further. He trembled percepti perceptibly - bly perceptibly when sentence was pronounced, and the. expression on his face told that he had expected much lighter punishment. PRESIDENT DWIGHT. Yale Corporation Accep's His Res:gna Res:gnation, - tion, Res:gnation, fl lso That of Prof. Brush. New Haven, Dec. 13. - The members of the corporation of Yale University held an important meeting today to consider the resignation of President Dwight, which was presented at the last stated meeting of the corporation. Official information was refused the newspaper men, but from a member of the corporation it was learned that President Dwight had refused to accede to the request made by the corporation to defer his resignation until after the bi-centennial celebration in 1901. and announced his purpose of adhering to his previously announced determination to resign at the end of the present academic year. It was also learned that the corpora corporation - tion corporation finally accepted the president's resignation and adopted eulogistic reso resolutions. - lutions. resolutions. It was learned that the resignation of Prof. George B. Brush as director of the Sheffield scientific school was accepted. Suitable resolutions in refer reference - ence reference to Prof. Brush's resignation were adopted. FUNERAL OF FR. HALLIGAN. alhclic Clereymen From All Over New England Present at Obsequ'ns. Pawtucket. Dec. 23. - The funeral of Rev. W. Halligan, for many years pas pastor - tor pastor of St. Mary's parish, this city, was held today at St. Mary's Church. It was the largest funeral a clergyman in the Providence diocese has ever had. Among those present were Right Rev. Matthew Harkins, bishop of tile Provi Providence - dence Providence diocese, Bishop Tierney of the Hartford diocese, and 115 priests from points in New England from Portland. Me., to Stamford, Conn. The solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated by Bishop Harkins, assisted by Fr. Grogan and 12 of the oldest priests in the diocese. The burial was in the churchyard cemetery, where stood un until - til until a few years ago, the first Catholic Church built in Rhode Island.

New York, Dec. 13. - The great steel gas tank of the Consolidated Gas Com Company - pany Company at Avenue A and 20th street, the largest of Its kind In the world, col collapsed - lapsed collapsed at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon. It went down with a crash and a roar like a great explosion. Masonry of gran granite - ite granite blocks and bricks to the height of 50 feet fell like a child's toy house of blocks, and eig'ht million gallons of water were let loose, which deluged the street, and In a ten-foot tidal wave carried death and destruction through the neighborhood. It is not known how many were killed and Injured. The list Of Injured is very large. The dead so far are: Andrew Wendt, workman. Pious Baum, engineer, adjacent fac factory. - tory. factory. John Gray, 75 years old. Tits injured are: Catherine O'Connell, four year old, leg fractured, contusions; Mary Ann O'Connell, badly lacerated body; Timothy Dunn, general contus contusions - ions contusions and submersion by water; Jacob Wagner, general contusions; William Kane, face lacerated, general contus contusions; - ions; contusions; Charles Quigg, severely injured about, the body and face; Peter Walker, dislocated shoulder. About 15 others, sd far as has been learned, were injured more or less se severely - verely severely or almost drowned. All of the most severely injured were taken to Bellevue hospital. W. J. Logan, of the Logan iron works, of Greenpoint, L. 1., the contractor who building the tank, arrived on the scene a few minutes after the collapse and was placed under arrest. William H. Bradley, chief engineer of the Consolidated Gas Company, and said to be jointly responsible for tho work with Contractor Logan, was also placed under arrest. Both charg charged - ed charged with homicide, and their bail was placed at SIO,OOO each. The plant of the Consolidated Gas Company occupies several blocks in the neighborhood of Avenue A and Twen Twentieth - tieth Twentieth street. ~ On Avenue A, beginning at 20th street, is the five story brick factory of Henry Fuldner. manufacturer of ex extension - tension extension tables. The other half of the block Is occupied by five story tene tenements, - ments, tenements, the property of the gas company, and largely tenanted by its employees. Immediately back of the factory and tenements was the great steel tank, 178 feet in diameter and 160 feet high. Rising out of the ground and to a height of 50 feet, was built a great cir circular - cular circular wall of granite and brick, many feet in thickness. This was Ailed with eight million gallons of water. The tank was supported by eight great steel up uprights - rights uprights two and a half feet high. The water in the pit Atting against the tank made it "gas tight." A gang of mon were at work under a foreman Alling the pit with water to make the "water test." The tank, with a gas capacity of 3.- SOO 000 cubic feet, and costing $300,000, seemed to withstand the test well. The representatives of the company and the foreman in charge were congratulating themselves upon the success of the work. The laborers were beginning to gather up their tools to knock off. There were many people on the street and crowded street cars were passing by. Fifty or more men in Fuldner's factory were finishing up their tasks. Then suddenly, and without a mo moment's - ment's moment's warning, came an awful crash. The men below had scarcely time to Ay from beneath the falling walls ere they were picked up by the mass of rolling water and hustled hundreds of feet away. Into the basement, the first and second floors of the factory and tene tenements - ments tenements rushed the angry flood, and with It went death and destruction. Work Workmen - men Workmen were shot out of the factory win windows - dows windows and carried a block or more as if mere straws on the crest of flood. Wo Women - men Women were washed out of the flats from the first floors and almost drowned. Mary Ann O'Connell and her four fouryear-old - year-old fouryear-old sister, Catherine, were seated at. the front windows on the second floor of 335 Avenue A. A rush of water struck them both, smashing through the door and carrying them half a block. Both were terribly injured, the little one perhaps fatally. Henry Fuld Fuldner - ner Fuldner was carried almost to 21st street. His son was also carried out of his of office - fice office by the water, but was caught in the debris, and but for the arrival of workmen with axes he would have been drowned. Andrew Wendt was near the base of the tank when it collapsed. He carried away by the rushing Waters. His mangled and almost naked body was found against an elevated railroad pillar at 21st and 4th avenue, more than a block away. Hugh Kelly and Thos. Kearney, 15 years old boys, were playing in the rear of their tene tenement. - ment. tenement. No. 333 Avenue A, when the flood came upon them. They swam around for five minutes or more and were al almost - most almost exhausted when a policeman pulled them out. The morhing newspapers, however, suffered principally from this disas disaster. - ter. disaster. Those that use linotypes had a vast amount of trouble, as a result of the failure of the gas pressure. Some of the papers were supplied with gas gasoline - oline gasoline burners, but for a time it ap appeared - peared appeared as though a return to the meth method - od method of setting type by hand would be Inevitable. Finally, however, by shift shifting - ing shifting the burners and elevating them enough heat was generated to heat the metal, and the work of composi composition - tion composition proceeded. THE SIXTH MASS. Col. Weaver Ordered to Muster It Out scon Af'.er January 2d as Possible. Boston, Dec. 13. - C01. Weaver received Instructions from the war department lu Washington to muster the Sixth Massachusetts regiment out of. the service, as soon after January 2 as possible. On that date the physical ex examination - amination examination of each company will begin. In their own armory. After the ex examination - amination examination of each company, it will be mustered out by Col. Weaver.

Buffalo, Dec. 13. - Eight men were killed and four injured at Winspeare Bridge, near Corfu, on the New York Central railroad this morning. They were all Poles, with the excep exception - tion exception of John Warner, their foreman, who is among the killed. The men, while engaged in shoveling snow, stepped from one track to another to avoid an approaching train. They were struck by a fast express and were literally ground to pieces. Warner and his gang were working on track No. 3. A freight train was la laboring - boring laboring its way up the steep Incline. Its motion was so slow that the men con continued - tinued continued their work until the train was almost upon them. Then they jumped out of the way. Some jumped to the right, others to the left. Those who jumped to the north escaped. Those who jumped to the south, for the most part, were struck by the express train coming down track No. 2 with fearful velocity. There is a straight piece of track in this vicinity, and the engineer had a clear view down the stretch. No snow was falling. As soon as he realized the situation he brought the train up with a jerk that threw the passengers out of their seats. It was too late, however, to avoid the calamity. The passengers quickly went back to see the result of the accident. Some of the bodies had been thrown 60 feet. Others were thrown against the freight train and their bodies horribly cut up and dismem dismembered. - bered. dismembered. The body of one man was hurled onto the moving freight train and carried nearly two miles. The more fortunate companions of the dead and injured gathered up the bodies of the put them together and placed them tn the baggage car of the train that killed them, and they were taken to Buffalo. Following is the list of killed and injured, so far as their names have been obtained: Killed - John Warner of Buffalo, fore foreman - man foreman of the shoveling gang; Henry Gunnison of Buffalo; six unidentified men, supposed to be Poles. Injured - L. J. Ryan, left arm frac fractured - tured fractured at the elbow and contusions about the body; Jos. Price, compound fracture of the right arm and many contusions and bruises; John Kflinof Kflinofski, - ski, Kflinofski, scalp wound arid bruises about the body. John Newack, slightly bruised. The injured will all recover. Engin Engineer - eer Engineer Smith of the express, in an inter interview, - view, interview, said: "I could see nothing ahead of me, but I thought the place looked bad and blew- my whistle. I had let up on the whistle when I heard my fire fireman - man fireman give a yell. I applied the air brakes at once. A moment later I saw a man shoot up into the air on my side of the cab. I did not see the man until after he had been struck." The injured men say that they did not hear the whistle of the express. DISGRACEFUL FIGHT. A Bloody Affray During a Funeral Proces Procession - sion Procession in Havana. Havana, Dec. 13. - About 9 o'clock this morning - , when a funeral proces procession, - sion, procession, which was escorting the hearse attending the body of Jesus Solelonge, who was killed Sunday night, reached the corner of Infanta and San Jose streets, a violent affray took place be between - tween between members of the funeral p*arty and some employees of the military hospital. The following were wounded: Dr. Betancourt, Cuban deputy for Santiago de Cuba; Rafael Portuendo, Cuban deputy; the Cuban general, Vi Vidal - dal Vidal ; the Cuban colonel, Armando Rives. Francisco Lucas Blanco, Spaniard; Ra Ramon - mon Ramon Garcia, a Spaniard, and three wo women - men women and two children. Garcia, who was stabbed, may die, and Portuendo, was badly hurt. One version of the affray is that the military hospital employees and a number of Spanish privates, who were standing in the hospital portico, refused to remove their hats when requested to do so by persons in the procession. Thereupon the Cubans, it is alleged, tried to knock off the hats, and a fight ensued. The private fired upon the procession, the windows of the hearse being broken and bullets striking the coffin. Knives and pistols were freely used. The procession, which consisted of 180 carriages, continued to the Cu Cuban - ban Cuban camp, near Marianao, where mili military - tary military honors were rendered. There were more than 50 wreaths of flowers from the friends of Captain Solelonge, and the procession and ceremonial were vir virtually - tually virtually a demonstration against the ho hotel - tel hotel Inglaterra outrage. TO LEAVE THE CABINET. Secretary Bliss to Hand His Resignation to President in a Short Time- Washington, Dec. 13. - 1 tis very prob probable - able probable that Secretary Bliss will tender his resignation within a short time to the president. He has had the step under consideration for some time, deeming it necessary that he should be free to de devote - vote devote more time to his large business in interests. - terests. interests. The resignation, it can be stated, will not be due in the least to any differences with the president or his other advisers, but to Mr. Bliss' re reluctance - luctance reluctance for purely private personal reasons to continue longer in office as secretary of the interior. At the time he entered the cabinet it was'said seml-officially that he did not intend to serve out the term of four years, but would retire at some fitting opportunity. It is presumed the official announcement will not be made until the president has chosen Mr. Bliss' suc successor. - cessor. successor. WEATHER REPORT. Washington, Dec. 13. - For Wednesday: New England and eastern New York, fair, continued low temperature; fresh, west westerly - erly westerly winds, diminisluu® j

Mr. Sulzer asked: "General, what would you propose as a means of stop stopping - ping stopping the friction between the comman commanding - ding commanding general and the adjutant general of the army?" Gen. Schwan said he could not an answer, - swer, answer, and there was a chorus of vig vigorous - orous vigorous protests from members of the committee. Chairman Hull ruled that the question was improper and Mr. Sulzer's colleagues, Messrs. Cox and Hay, urged him not to pursue the question. Mr. Sulzer said Lieut. Scho Schofield - field Schofield had gone Into the subject quite freely, but he did not wish to insist upon the question. Mr. Cox questioned Gen. Schwan as to what use would be made of our sol soldiers - diers soldiers in Cuba. The general said it would be to maintain peace and order there. Mr. Cox insisted it was to maintain this order over the Cubans, as the Spaniards had withdrawn. Gen. Schwan declined to accept this interpretation, I saying the army in Cuba was to main maintain - tain maintain order against all alike. Maj. Johnson explained the cavalry I features of the proposed reorganization. l He emphasized the need of organizing ' the cavalry in times of peaee, as it was I impossible to properly equip and train ' cavalry at a time of emergency. Mr. Cox sharply questioned Maj. Johnson as to the relative merits of volunteers and regulars. Chairman Hull insisted that this question was not pert pertinent - inent pertinent to the hearing. Mr. Cox pursued the discussion, however, and argued that the volunteers were the best fight fighters, - ers, fighters, as shown by the experience of the civil war and the recent Spanish war. Maj. Johnson said he had no criticisms for the volunteers, although he main maintained - tained maintained that military training was an important element in the fighting abil ability - ity ability of the soldier. Maj. W. A. Simpson followed on the artillery branch of the proposed reor reorganization: - ganization: reorganization: He urged the battery as the limit of artillery organization tn prefer preference - ence preference to the regiment. Maj. Simpson, who served under Gen. Merritt at Ma Manila, - nila, Manila, was asked by Mr. Hay as to what co-operation might be expected from the Filipinos. The major said opinions differed as to this among the United States officers in the Philippines. Most of the Filipinos seemed to be ready to co-operate with the American forces, but some of them, puffed up by author authority, - ity, authority, might not be so ready to aid the Americans. About 30,000 United States troops would be most effective, he said, not only for service, but mainly for the moral effect. The hearing will be continued tomor tomorrow. - row. tomorrow. COL. BRYAN'S STATEMENT. He Thinks He Can Serve His Country Better as Civilian Than as Soldier. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 13. - C01. W. J. Bryan, upon leaving his command, the Third Nebraska regiment, today, stated that he left the army because he be believed - lieved believed that he could be more useful to his country as a civilian than as a sol soldier. - dier. soldier. Col. Bryan, in discussing public questions, said: "Our people defended Cuba against foreign arms; now they must defend themselves and their country against the colonial idea of European nations. Our nation must give up any inten intention - tion intention of entering upon a colonial policy (such as is now pursued bv European countries) or it must abandon the doc doctrine - trine doctrine that government derive their just powers from the content of the gov governed. - erned. governed. This nation cannot endure half republic and half colony - halt free and half vassal.

TIGERS TRIMMED. Basket Ball Game Was Rough Rather Than Interesting. About 200 persons saw the Tigers de defeated - feated defeated by No. 4 team, in the Y. M. C. A. basket ball series, by a score of 16 to 8. The game was far from being up to the high standard of contests, lacking both speed and good goal-throwing. Both sides missed many easy tries for the bas basket, - ket, basket, and after losing the ball on missed tries, made no attempt to regain it , A disagreeable feature of the game was the rough playing of Bradley and Ferrl Ferrltor. - tor. Ferrltor. Both these men indulged In plav that was disgraceful, and in the second half, when Bradley was seen to punch Ferritor in the face, he was ordered from the floor by Mr. Wilder. The example made of Bradley did not seem to have the effect upon Ferritor that it should as his playing during the entire game was far from what It should 'have been and it would be for the welfare of his 'team and the game If he stops his foolish at attempts - tempts attempts to be funny. Between the halves, the evening class under the leadership of Mr. Wilder, gave an exhibition of class work upon the buck and the parallel bars. The score: NO. 4 TEAM. TIGERS Thompson, 1. f. r. Robinson (Hassard) Bradley, r. f. 1. b., Duckworth M. Havener, c. Mann Tracey, I. b. r. f., Burgovne L. Havener, r. b. 1. Ferritor Score. No. 4 team IS, Tigers 8: goal from the field, Thompson 5, M. Havener 2 Fer Ferritor, - ritor, Ferritor, Bradley. Burgoyne 2; goals from free tries, Mann 2. Referee, E. D. Wilder timer, John B. Doble. Time, 20-minute halves. IT AFFORDS EXCITEMENT. I St. Paul's Pool Tournament is Furnishing Close Games. The St. Paul's pool tournament is giv giving - ing giving the members of the society plenty of excitement. The handicapping has been well done and the games are very close. The games played up to date have result resulted - ed resulted as follows: James McCann defeated, Thomas McCann, by a score of 6'l to 47: P. F. Ryan defeated John J. Rooney, by a score of 60 to 66; John Powers defeated John Riuler, by a score of 60 to 58; John Kiley defeated James Foley, by a score of 60 to 56. and William Oakes defeated John Norton, by a score of 60 to 58. J. Fred Powers has entered the tourna tournament - ment tournament and is a scratch man, having for ian opponent Joseph Sherry - l 7 balls.

GEN. BROOKE. - He Has Been Made it ary Governor of Cuba. Washington, Dec. 13. - Maj. Gen. Brooke arrived in Washington from Fortress .Monroe today and was closeted for more than an hour in consultation with Sec Secretary - retary Secretary Alger. He then with Adjutant General Corbin proceeded to the White House, and when he returned to the war department it was formally an announced - nounced announced that the president had desig designated - nated designated him to be military governor of the island of Cuba, a new post which carries with it all the control over the military and civil branches of the is islands. - lands. islands. formerly exercised by the cap captain - tain captain general under the Spanish regime. Each of the six provinces of Cuba will have its own military governor just as Gen. Wood is now military gov governor - ernor governor of the province of Santiago, but all of these will receive instructions di directly - rectly directly from Maj. Gen. Brooke, who is in supreme authority in the island. Thus in Havana, Gen. Ludlow will be gov- I ernor of the .city, but answerable to Gen. Lee, the governor of the province of Havana,who in turn will be answer answerable - able answerable to Maj. Gen. Brooke, the governor of the island. i Gen. Brooke says that he will proceed to Havana and take charge just as soon as he can organize his staff and forces. Gen. Brooke wlil be under the necessity of providing an elaborate system of ad administrative - ministrative administrative machinery in order to hold the disorderly elements in check and obtain a proper application of the laws. Gen. Ludlow, the governor of Havana, is already giving bis attention to the organization of a semi-military force to take the place of the Orden Publico and Garde Civile, the Spanish police forces which maintained order in town and -country. . The navy department has taken steps towards possessing itself of the navy yard at Havana, and orders have just been issued assigning Com Commodore - modore Commodore B. J. Cromwell to duty as com- I mandant of the new naval station. I

Dodge's election by a plurality of 3163, his vote being 7499, and that of ('apt. Churchill, the democratic nominee. 4334. The republican aidermen elected are Aidermen Back. Brannon. Kendall, Vaughan, Huot and Wall, while of the democratic candidates, the successful candidates were Dr. Barrett and Messrs. O'Connell and Carberry. Will William - iam William G. Lichtenfels, who had been thought to be a winner, failed of elec* tion, receiving but 3343 votes, and A. A. Rheutan, the republican independent candidate, was also defeated, getting only 3199 votes. The city went for license by a majority of 1779. The contest among the councilmen was not very exciting, O'Leary and Gallagher being elected in ward 4. as expected, and other elections going as predicted. The fight between Mellen and Carberry was a fierce one for third place on the democratic portion of the board, but the voters had plain plainly - ly plainly had enough of promises and wanted actual work, for Mr. Carberry beat out his invincible opponent by 169 votes. The election of Phillip J. O'Connell has been all along predicted In The Spy. but his vote was a pleasant surprise to the candidate and his many friends. The election of Mrs. Lincoln and Dr. Bray to the school board was a source of much satisfaction to their many friends. The voting was begun early and came in with an unusual degree of regularity. The count w'as also handled with ex expedition, - pedition, expedition, and the first official returns were in the hands of City Clerk Towne at 4.30. coming from precinct 4, ward 4. The hustle to get out the vote was ag aggressive - gressive aggressive on both sides, and all available hacks and carriages were' kept busy throughout the day. The only mayoralty pluralities of re recent - cent recent years in any measure approaching that accorded Mayor Dodge yesterday are that of ISSI, when Mr. Stoddard won by a plurality of 3079, and that of 1593, when Mr. Marsh defeated Mr. Es Est&brook - t&brook Est&brook by a plurality of 2996.

By the largest majority accorded a mayor of Worcester during the past twenty years, Rufus B. Dodge, Jr., was again returned to the highest office within the gift of the people at yester yesterday's - day's yesterday's election. The total vote of the city was not a particularly large one, but never in re recent - cent recent years hair any election been marked by such a tremendous and sweeping republican victory as marked that of yesterday. Disgusted with po political - litical political chicanery and aldermanic bomb bombast. - ast. bombast. the voters of the city rose as one man and overturned the tables of the money changers and drove them from the municipal temple. Mellen - the only, the mighty, the ma majestic - jestic majestic James Heavyweight Mellen, the man who stops at nothing, the man who can run an election as easily as a bear could run a baby carriage; the man who knows more about "politics" and "public sentiment" than any man in frail health ought to - was defeated. It was a genuine out and out defeat, clear cut and straight from the should shoulder. - er. shoulder. humiliating in its directness and crushing in Its vindictiveness. It was the same spirit which lies behind all American institutions, the spirit which formed the cornerstone of this nation, which yesterday rose up from the bal ballot - lot ballot box and rudely pushed back the hand that would grasp at every office in sight so long as it has the term "po "political" - litical" "political" attached to it. The voters were imbued with this spirit, and when the contest between good sound common sense and political bombast resolved it itself - self itself into the light between Mr. Carber Carberry - ry Carberry and James Heavyweight Mellen in ward 4, they rallied around their flag in great shape and punctured Mellen's political tire with 169 sharp-pointed votes.