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WECK PUGET SOUOT). TWO STEAMERS CRASH TO GETHER. •Five Lives Los a S Peo pl Injured on he Premier Whic W as S a a is of -the Victims a in he Fog Seattle, Wash. Oct. 10t—The Canadian Pacific Navigation company's steamer Premier was struck by the steam collier Willamette in a dense fog off Whidby sisland, ten miles south of Port Town -scnd, yesterday afternoon. Four were killed, one drowned and seventeen badly wounded. The steam tug Goliah arrived here this morning with three of the dead, all of the wounded and other passengers, after having spent several hours in an •attempt to save from the wreck the body of an unknown passenger wedged in there. The dead are: Jchanns Moe. Tacoma. Frank C. Winkocp, son of D. Win 'Jkoop, Tacoma. John Rankin, Seattle. Unknown passenger, a man about for ty, still in the wreck. An unknown passenger jumped over board and was drowned. The injured are: Gus Davis, watchman of the Premier, ribs broken seriously injured internally. Thomas Foran, Seattle, left leg broken at knee arm hurt. "VY. H. Phillips, Helena, both legs slightly crushed ribs broken. D. J. Wynkoop, Tacoma, cut above left eye and bruised. Mrs. D. J. "Wynkoop, Tacoma, hip bruised. C. S. Gilbert, traveling man, St. Paul, Minn., bruised and cut not serious. Mrs. Wilcox, Quilcine, Wash., wrist and elbow spramed. E. W. Vest, St. Louis, badly bruised knee and arm. John Lycle, freight clerk of the Premier, nose cut. Jack Levy, of the Premier, badly cut and bruised had a narrow escape from death. Mrs. Ida Sutter, Stugis, S. D., bruised. Mrs. George W. Miller, Tacoma, injured slightly. E. L. Lee, Pontiac, Wash., slightly hurt. A. F. Lindberg, slightly hurt. Alban Leidholdt, waiter, Premier, left arm broken and leg biuised. Fiancis Hughert, Tacoma, slightly hurt. Jacob Nelson, Port Townsend, arm, chest and legs huit not serious. Blazing Prairies Huron, S. D., Special, Oct. 10—A terrible prairie hre started seven miles northwest of this city this afternoon, burning over a stretch of countiy ten miles wide by twenty miles long. The towns of P.ioadland and Hitchcock narrowly escaped destruction. Citizens turned out and fought the hre until daik, aided by a large foico of men from here. The country burned over is thickly settled by piosperous farmers, many of whom have lost everything. The same country was devastated by a prairie fire last tall The hre was caused by men burn ing a hre break about a timber claim. Up to o'clock the fire was still raging, thougn less heicely. The wind blew at a velocity of forty miles an hour, diiving the llaines before it at fearful speed. The heavens are •ablaze with its light to-mght. His Parents Wealthy. Newark, N.J.,Oct. 10 —A man named J. Daly, who was known as Fay at the Keystone lodging house where he has been btaymg for the past week, died at the hospital this mornrng under very suspicious circumstances, and the police .have begun an investigation. When Daly ar rived this city his head as bandaged, and he said he had been shot by a necro farm hand near Martmsburg W. Va. Daly claimed that he as crossing a held where he was shot, and says that after he had been treated at a hospi tal friends of the negro put him on a train which landed him in this city. An abscess formed over the wound, and this caused the man's death. It is Baid that Dalyis the son of wealthy patents, and that he has been traveling under the name of Fay so that his relatives could not lima him. Mill unci Contents Destroyed. Winnebago City, Minn., Special, Oct. 10.— To-day the large flouring will owned by Messrs. Hill As Fossness and situated one miles wesst of town on the Blue Earth river was found to be on hi e. The hre started in the middlings pnrmeis the second story, unu spread so rapidly that it was impossi ble to ike any headway against it till the mill was entirely consumed. The capacity of the n.ill was seventy-hve barrels per day, and was operated hoth by steam and water. The loss is JpS.OOO insured for $5,500 the Millers' Mutuals One thousand bushels of wheat and 200 barrels of flour were con tained. Deat to Four Weston, W. Va., Oct. 10.—Four men were killed a wreck near Pickins yesterday. A car load of lumber broke away from the train hands on the West Virginia & Pitts burg lailioad, and in its course down a steep grade encountered a hand ear contain ing E. E. Curran of Baltimore, who was su perintending the building of a bridge, and three other men who were going to work Three of the men, including Mr. Curran' were killed instantly and the fourth lived until evening. Killed by a a a Tower, Minn., Special, Oct. 10.—Mrs. Mar garet Kice, widow of Banker John Bice, well known in Northen Minnesota, was kill ed this afternoon in a runaway. She under took to jump from the carriage and was thiown, breaking her neck. Her niece 31iss Kice, Miss Lawrence and Frank Klen ert remained in the carriage until cap Mzed, but escaped serious injury. Mils Bice's father lives in Minneapolis. Shot His Little Brother. Willmar, Minn., Special, Oct. 10.—A vary sad accident occurred here to-day, when the fourteen-j ear-old son of E. E. Bakke acci-~ dentally killed his four-year-old brother. The boys went out together, the older takin* a gun along, and went down to the lake a short distance from the house. After hav ing fired one barrel, the older boy started to take the cartridge out, when the other barrel was discharged, the contents enter ing the child's stomach. The child survived but a few minutes. Femal Burglar In Washington, Washiugton.Oct. 10.—Washington is revelling dn the enjoyment of the latest criminal sensa tion, a colored female burglar, who has burglar ized several house in this city recently. Detec tives say that this is the second regular female ourglar on record in Washington. The first was Sarah hichols, also colored. She used to dress men's clothes, and assist Wash Mereditn Jim Curiis and George Britcne in their housed breaking jobs several years ago. Brothers Fight for Gore. Eau Claire, Wis., Special, Oct. 10.—John and Michael Donahue, aged twenty-six and thirty years respectively, live on a farm the town of Brunswick. They quarrelled to-day over the question of who ought to get up first, and as a result John's r:ght arm is disabled by kmfe stabs and his face is badly cut. John came to the city and made compialut against his brother and a warrant is issued for the latter •on the charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. Uneasy a Hostile. Omaha, Oct. 10.—Dr. V. T. McGiUy cuddy of Rapid City, S. D.,well known as one of the besst posted men in the world when the character of the Sioux Indians is concerned, is in this city, hav ing just come from Pine Ridge Agency. He gave some rather startling informa tion on the subject of the Indian senti ment at present. Slayton's a Slayton, Minn., Special, Oct. 10.—The sec ond day of the county fair drew a large crowd to-day. Lieut. Gov. Ives delivered the annual addiess and spoke to-night in the .court house. William Baldwin was thrown from a horse at the races to-day and his ankle fractured. Z, -f -,h O O E CARAGASs Venezuelan Rioter Pillag the- City. Caracas, Oct. 10.-nJust before Crespo's vic torious army entered the city, people who) had been too cowardly to fight either for or against the government and many of Pu lido's soldiers took advantage of*the disorder to begin rioting and pillaging. Scores of houses were sacked. Those who had the manhood to protest against such outrages were menaced with death. Many were cruelly clubbed and beaten for daring to protect their property. The rioters were no respecters of persons. When the Spanish minister ventured to remonstrate with a gang of plunderers he was grossly insulted. Acting President Villegas Pulido and the members of his cabinet slipped out of the city. It is rumored that they embarked on some snip in the harbor of La Guayra. Dur ing the hours that elapsed between the ig nominious flight of the cabinet and the ad vent of Gen. Crespo's advance guard, the looters simply held possession of the town. There was nothing to restrain them, and they plundered right and left, seizing what ever portable property they could lay hands on. The followers of Crespo as soon as they reached the city devoted their atten tion to restoring order, and soon succeeded in repressing all open demonstrations of-vio lence. Before Crespo reached La Guayra that town was alive with rioters. The news of the defeat of the government forces created something of a panic. That had not got fairly under way before the town began to fill up with refugees and stragglers from the army of the Pulido government that had met its Waterloo, and adherents of the gov ernment who had fled from Caracas so as to be out of the way when Crespo's men got here. Pillage and plunder soon became gen eral. Many houses were looted and there was much wanton destruction of property. How fax things might have gone it is im possible to say, if Admiral Walker, acting with admirable energy and decision, had not landed a force of sailors and marines to hold the mob in check and preserve order. The sailors were welcomed warmly by all who were not themselves seeking plunder. There is no doubt that much property, and perhaps many lives vvere preserved by the landing of the men from the cruisers- Chi cago and Kearsarge. Fellowshi Onto. Banqnet.. ChicaKO.Oct. 10.—The dinner of tne Fellowship club to be given here on the night of Oct. 20 promises to be one of the most elaborate and important of the dedicatory week. The club is daily receipt of letters oi acceptance from the distinguished gentlemen who haw been invited to participate in this elaborate affair. The president will be the guest of honor, and is cer tain to be here unless he should he detained at Washing on by the serious illness of Mrs. Har rison. Secretary E. H. Halford will also have a seat at the table, and so will VicePresident Mortou. Among the foreign diplomats who have accepted are the ministers Irom Switzerland, Venezuela, Belgium. Nicaragua aud other coun tries. All the members ol the cabinet are ex pected to attend, the letters of acceptance hav lug already bee received from Postmaster Gen eral Wanamaker, SecietaiyNoble aud Attorney General Miller. Chauncey M. Depewsays he will be delighted to renew acquaintances among the Fellowship men. W. C. P. Breckenndge oi Ken tucky has also sent an acceptance. Cardinal Gibbous and Archbishop Irelaud of St. Paul will be present. Among otheis who have s.gm ed the mteutionot being present are Ala]. Gen. Schoneld, George W, Chnds. Anthony J. Drexel, Robert T. Lincoln, faeuator Sherman and Henry Watterson. Mining? Dt a of Import inee. Deadwood, S. D., Oct. 10.—One of the larg est mining deals in the history of the Black Hills is pending and will be closed on the 11th inst., when final payment of the pur chase puce is to be made. Tne deal in volves the transfer of a controlling interest in the capital stock of tour corporations, the Mikado, Carthage, Calumet and -toss Hannibal companies. Eich of the corpo rations is capitalized for $1,250,000. Ihe mineral ground owned covers an aggregate of 110 acres. The Deadwood and Delaware Smelting company of this city is the pur chasei for a cash consideration, vauously stated at from $.250,000 to $500,000. Still Unchanged. Washington, Oct. 10.—There was no change worthy of note to-day in Mrs. Harrison's condition, and her physician said, after making his last call for the day, that she was lesting easily. There has been a slight relaxation in the nervous aftection since Mrs. Harrison's return from Loon Lake, and her suiteiings from that cause are less severe. Her nights are moder ately comfortable. The treatment by mas sage with oil, which is applied about 9 o'clock in the evening, is of matenal as sistance in pioducing rest. After 3 Per Cent. Pittsburg, Oct. 10.—A conference of the state chairmen of the People's, Prohibition and So ciahst-Labor parties will be held here early this week to arrange a fusion electoral ticket, so that the three parties will secure the 6 per cent of the vote necessary for the printing of their full tickets on the ballot next year. The nine ty-six electors for tne parties named are printed alphabeii ally on the ballot this year and it is proposed to vote for the first thirty-two names, irrespective of their politics. It is claimed that the combined vote will exceed 50,000, which will be more than the required 3 per cent of the total vote. Testing a Ballot Law, Pittsbnrg, Oct. 10—The constitutionality of the Baker ballot law is to be tested in court. Ex-Deputy Attorney General Sanderson, of the law firm of Lyon, McKee & Sanderson of this city, is preparing the papers and, if finished, the matter will be brought before the supreme court, now session here, to-morrow. This act1 on was decided at a conference of local Re publicans yesterday. An effort will be made to have Chairman Brennan, of the Democratic county committee, ]oin in the proceedings, but it was stated to-mgnt that he would refuse, as he regarded it as purely a Republican measure. Th Pugs New York, Oct. 10.—Dave Holland, on be half of Peter Maher, has accepted the offer of $5,000 made by the Coney Island culb for a contract between Maher and Joe Goddard. He is also wiping to bet Goddard $2,000 on the outside. Should the match be made and declared at the Coney Island Athletic club that club will offer a $10,000 purse for a contest between the winner and Peter Jackson. A Little Chess. New York, Oct. 10.—Emanuel Tasker, the chess expert, opened his engagement at the Manhattan Chess club this afternoon. His opponent was Mr. Aettinger. Tasker won the game, a Sicilian defense, after thirty eight moves. The conclusion of the visit or's game was exceptionally brilliant. To morrow Tasker will play against Hanham. Fearfu a Vires. Mandan, S. D., Special, Oct. 10.—Advices from Williston received to-night say that prairie fires south of the Missouri river ex tend thirty by one hundred miles. A great amount of range is burned and several ranches. The hre north of the river is sixty by one hundred and twenty-five miles. Con siderable hay has been last. Live stock is being removed to other ranges. or a Consideration Washington, Special, Oct. 10.—The fact that Roger Q. Mills is going on the stump for Cleveland in the Northwestern states is said to mean a deal between these men which will give Mills a foreign mission in case Cleveland is elected. Mills Is no long er in the Texas senatorial race, and he knows it but he would not refuse a first-class mission abroad if he could get It. A Tow in Danger Reynolds, N. D. Oct. 10.^-Bank and How's store was burned at Cummings to night. The fire is still raging and the town is threatened. The reports are meager. Killed by Thei Cook. Christiana Oct. 10.—Particulars of the mur-* der of Capt. Buckley and his wife on the bark William Hales, New York for Cape town, have been ascertained from Capt Larsen, now at Christiana. Capt. Larsen obtained his information from the mate of the Hales, who boarded his ship just north of the equator. The Chinese cook, the mate said, killed Capt. Buckley and Mrs. Buckley while they were alone with him in the cabin Sept. 4. The cook mutilated their bodies. Before the murders were discovered he jumped overboard and was drowned. The Chinaman's motive could not be even guessed as his relations to the captain had been apparently pleasant. Ill fii S $& INf. E LARGE CITIES. "& ^^a'^V"- St. PauLMinni, Speciali Oct. 10 But a little over a weeli remains be fore the national guard of this state will board special trains and be whisked off to Chicago, ther© to take part in the ded ication ceremonies at the world's fair grounds, and the officers- are working in dustriously, arranging the many details incident upon an undertaking of this sort. Gov. Merriam and Gen. Bend, as well as the different regimental com manders, are putting forth every effort to make the trip a pleasant one as well as to send out from Minnesota a thorough representation of her gentlemen soldiers. Gen. Bend Has been to Chi cago where he conferred1 with the army men who have in charge the militarj portion of the ceremonies, and1 he report that the guardsmen will1 be well cart for during their short visit. The- arrang ments as far as* made for the trip are fillows, subject to slight changes: The First regiment will probably lea here Wednesday morning at 7 o'clo* though there is- a slight possibility t' the start may not be made uaastil eveni Gen. Bend had' not heard TBJ» to a 1 hour yesterday what the plton was, thought that the original plan would followed. This provides that Comp nies A, B, and I will arrive here fr» Minneapolis at 6:30 a. m. when th will be joined by Companies C, D, and of St. Paul and Companies R*sd Wing and of Stillwater. The last named companies will reach here Tuesday night and will be quarter over night at the armory. Col. Bee will be accompanied by his staff a horses for the members will be taken the train, a special hoise car being pi vided. The train will reach Chicago about 10 p», no. The pcograaaome- for theSecond regimei is as follows-: Companies of Far. bault, of Austin ap ol Tuverm will leave their rCJective stations- so as to arrive in St. Paul at 7:45 a. m. They will have ample time to transfer, as the Second regiment train will pull out at 8.-JL5. At Winona they be joined: by Companies A of New TUhn, of Winona, E of Wabasha, of Man kato, I of St. Peter and of Waseca. At La Crosse Company of Fairmont will join the regiment. The Third regiment train will start from St. Paul at 7-30 a. m. Compa nies and Of West Duluth will ar rive here at 6J45, and Companies of Anoka, of Fergus Falls and I of Ada shortly after. Two companies, of Zumbrota and E of Spring Valley, will arrive heie the day before and will be quartered either in the armory or in Market hall. Accompanying the regi ment will be the two batteries of artil lery commanded by Major Libbey, num bering about a hundred men. Yesterday afternoon Deputy Sheriff Frank Picha arrested a young man named Max Buechele on the charge of illicit paternity pieferred by an eighteen-year-old girl named Sarah Ann Barley of Young America, Carver county. The crime is alleged to have been committed at that place. Buechele is a farm hand and came from Young America The members of the state grain and ware house commission will start out to-day to look over the Duluth, M^saba & Northern railroad, which thoy have been advised has been completed. The road is about sixty miles long, and was built for the purpose of conveying Iron ore from the different points in the Mesaba range to Duluth. John Turner got out of one scrape in the municipal court Saturday only to get into the toils again yesterday, when he was ar rested by Officer Davis on the charge of stealing $20 from a man in Minneapols. He was one of the fellows pulled In the raid on the Tremont hotel. The regular monthly meeting of the Min nesota Historical society will occur this evening at the state capitol. Duluth. Duluth, Minn.,Oct. 10.—The business for the last quarter in tne Duluth land office brought in cash receipts of $18,014, or $2,000 in excess of the corresponding quarter last year. The ore shipments of the Vermillion range passe I thel,000.000-ton mark Friday. The Chandler mine alone is expected to shin 650,000 tons of ore this season. Stillwater. Stillwater, Minn., Special, Oct. 10.— Lake bt. Croix took a sudden rise Saturday night by reason ot the opening of th-* dams on the upper liver incidental to gathering in all of the logs lying between Nevers' dam and the boom, and a use of t.velve inches was rflrorded up to 10 a. m. yesterday. Many Stillwater logsars are preparing to send laige crows to the woods, and thw week will wit ness the hiring of many crews. A meeting of ladies interested in world's fair work will be held at the Sawyer house to-mor row afternoon. Caprivi Triumphant Berlin, Oct. 10.—The difference between Count von Caprivi and Count von Eulen burg has been finally settled, the emperor having requested Count von Eulenburg and Herr Micmel to comply with the desires of the chancellor. Both immediately obeyed, and have given orders to their respective press organs to cease attacking the chan cellor. In conversation with noblemen of the court the emperor said: "I will give up the education bill, but I will never with draw the military bill. To recede would be suicidal." Caprivi, therefore, is perfectly safe. He risks very little. The emperor even said to him on Tuesday at Potsdam: "This time I shall go on to the bitter end. If necessary we will dissolve the reichstag, and if the new majority should also be hos tile we will continue dissolving until the bill is passed." The emperor has there fore identified himself with the bill, and he will dismiss every minister who opposes it, directly or indirectly. Fighting in Tonquin. Paris, Oct. 10.—Letters received here from Tonojam contain the information that sev eral battles recently took place between the "black flags" and the French forces on the frontier, while the French soldiers were re connoitering for a missing detachment. The fighting was fierce and determined on both sides, and in one of the engagements the French sustained a loss of six killed and thirteen wounded. The commander of the French forces asks for reinforcements in order to suppress the frontier raids, which he declares are instigated by mandarins. The French press speak in an alarmed tone of the serious condition of affairs existing on the frontier, and urge the government to demand an explanation from China. Ihe Appeal. Trenton, N. J.. Oct. 10.—The Philadelphia & Heading and the Port Reading railroads have filed notices of appeal in the court of chancery from the injunction Issued against thecoal com bine by Chancellor McGill. The Central rail road, which was a party to the original suit, does not appear, leaving the other two railroads to continue the fight. „i on a Stree Car. O Dubuque, Iowa, Special. Oct. 10.—James M. Ryan, a pioneer pork packer ot Ualena, 111., known throughout the country and adminis trator of the estate of his millionaire brother, William Ryan, a Dubuque pork packer, died, on a street car here to-night of heart failure. TBI N ai a I ship to able a» organizt plunder ti country. %i re at a to Grafton, N. D., Oct. 10.—A $40,000 fife vis ited Grafton last night. The Farmers* store, owned by Sandager & Co., was totally destroyed. Loss on stock, 828,000: insured for $13,000. The building was owned by S. Cairncross and it is insured for $1,500. Bjorneby & Newgard's hard ware store was destroyed, with most of the stock insured for $2,600. Bjorneby's jew elry stock was mostly saved and is in the safe. The harness store was partly de stroyed but the stock was saved. The fire wsw set by tramps. SJSB^V* a A a iltf Slayton, Minn., Special, Oct. 10.—James Taylor, a prominent pioneerof this place died torday, aged seventy-six. Bu it is at Chicago a a ocratic a is gins to cut the ha and is wielding it 88. I is fooling any great extent. Grad learning who these pretei. are, a how little confidenu reposed in the salaried liar who political purposes. Th following affidavits show t. business methods of Wolcott PETER HKSON's AFFIDAVIT. Peter Larson ol the town of New Lon don, county of Kandiyohi, State of Minne sota, being duly sworn deposes and saya: In the spring of 1888 John Porter, repre senting the Scandinavian Elevator company, came to New London for the purpose of building an elevator at this point and securing subscriptions of stock in the Scandinavin Elevator company. I spent two days with said Sorter aiding him in soliciting stock. I had known Porter and considered him a reputable and honest man. H. L. Louckes was the presidant oi the company. The plan of the company, as outlined by Porter, was: A chain bf some twenty or thirty elevators was to be built or bought, extending through the Minnesota and Dakota wheat regions. An immense transfer elevator was to be built at Duluth. C. C. Wolcott was then in Europe, as Porter represented, to interest capitalist, and wheat secured by the syn dicate of elevators was t6 be snipped fj, CQCt to Europe and sold there. This would effect a great sav ing the producers. Wolcott was the main lnatSagex of the. whole cpasernj. The subscriptions to stock were made with Ihe distinct understanding between subscribers and Porter, as the agent of Wolcott and others, that the subscribers were to own the New London elevator and elect the manager. Neither promise was kept. The stock was in shares of $10 each. This de ponent subscribed for five shares and sub sequently bought five shares, making ten shares held by him. One share entitled to a vote and ten shares made the holder eligible for election- as director. About 140 shares were subscribed in New London and Vicinity^ An eievator was built at New London, cpahng about $1,200. It had been claimed that the elevator wotild pay considerable above the market price for wheat, but this was only done, as a matter of fact, when forced to by one or the other of two eleva tor companies at New London putting up the price. For two years the company had no money to buy wheat a&d it went to other elevators on this accoun*- The credit of the company was poor. Prior to the fall ot 1890 tfi» name of the company had been changed to the Alliance Elevator company. Shareholders be coming suspicious and impatient, this de ponent was given a number of proxies and delegated to attend the annual meeting of the company at the city of Minneapolis in August, 1890, At that time six elevators had been secured by the company, the one built at New London being about the first. At that meeting deponent, for the first time, learned that the elevators had one and all been mortgaged for the sum of $5. 000. At this meeting deponent was elected a director ot the company. President Loucks, at this meeting, stated that the company then owed $1,100 for wheat con signed to them. This money, he insisted, must be raised at once. He claimed that there had been a loss ot $500 on wheat bought at the New London elevator. This statement I did not believe then, nor do I believe it now. Soon after deponent re turned home Loucks wrote to him to come to Minneapolis, and he complied. Loucks then stated that $2,200 must be raised at once in order to carry on the business. Depon ent told him that no money could be raised at New London, as the people had lost all confidence in the company. Depo nent told him there^ was a chance to rent the New London elevator, and it had best be taken. The elevator was then rented to Marcus Johnson at $300 per annum for a single year. Deponent again met with the directors in February, 1891. The liabilities ot the com pany could not be ascertained by him. They were so great, however, that an as signment was deemed best. The wheat bought by the company was all handled by Woodworth & Co., of Minneapolis. Loucks claimed that the firm was to receive half a cent per bushel as commission, underagree rnent, but Woodsworth & Co. claimed one cent per bushel commission, and foreclosed the mortgage on the elevators in the spring of 1891, or thereabouts for money loaned the company. The elevator company nev er made a statemenit in writine to the board of directors, to my knowledge, nor were the books ever produced for examina tion. President Loucks made verbal state ments only. This deponent is fully satisfied from his knowledge of the company and its meth ods, that it was a fraud from first to last, and he believes that the object of the or ganization of the Scandinavian Elevator company, afterwards the Alliance Elevator company, was for the purpose of ?s°honest- has Stat Frn. ad served t* loyally as a congressional cL he ad so thorou his fitness for high was selected by theRe^ of for a seat in Congress, mained for six years, rei congressional duties of his o, tio after a active, hone and useful career. I is never .. a discredit at he acts individual independence within the lines of he a to which he belongs. Th chief danger of the republic is in tjje blhjd fetich worships of a No an sacrifices his inde pendence by becoming an in tegral a of a great political or gani^zatioiL Independent action by the individual members of a a or a church is promotive of just a righteous evolution. Nelson's constituency in the fifth Minnesota district in 188 8 was demanding a revision of the tariff, a sooner an disobey the voice of his people, he temporarily crossed the line of demarcatio a cast one vote, conscientiously, with the Democratic a Tnis &J$i°S was courageous, manly virile, a under surrounding conditions, entirely just a proper. N horse, save the strong active and spirited one, ever takes the bit in his teeth/ Independent action a fore shadow righteous revolution as well as criminal rebellion. Histor shows at it is in he Norwegian blood to shrink a when conviction points the way. Believing at his action was demanded by his constit uents, a further believing—even though mistakenly—that his constit uents! re in the right, Mr. Nelson would a been untrue to himself and all the traditions of his race if he ad acted otherwise an he did. was further in the right in allowing the cruel a unjust criti cisms of his a associates to driva him into political exile. Hi action ad been inimical to his a standing. As yet the protective a a of he Eepublican a had been fixed, as it afterward was by the passage of the McKinley bill. Mr. Nelson, then a private citizen, hasten ed to give his adhesion to the Repub lican a under its new standard and in 189 0 proclaimed from the his hearty endorsement of he protective principles as practically applied by the McKinley law. Mr. Nelson deserves cordial support a the active influence of every Re publican, a he will receive at sup a influence a be chosen for years to execute the laws of he a particularly deserves he countenance of he native born Re publicans a of he old soldiers of he state is he best a ablest representative of he Scandina via races of the northwest— a people whose votes as a the Republican a at it is, a whose cordial cooperation as never been asked in vai in building he foundations of our state firm a stable to sustain the splendid civiliza tio at is coming. the soldier it is only necessary to say at he was one of them, serving in he a for four long and. weary years—until he rebellion was con quered a peace restored. All of their hardships a sufferings were alike his own, a their victory a final triumph were also his. There is a secret, golden re ad at ft du ant ]em achie 189 0 cal cycK —and t*. the Stat tory monwealth w. tioris a kept the Republican Th victory ac^ rac of the nati galvanized the Den. Minnesota iqt tem openlyfavoringai peoples party as in is engaged in egging on elements in hopes to de Republican party—th which has in he a great public institutions Bu Minnesota is still traditions of republicanist is no longer any doubt ha vote shall be counted next the grand old Nort Sta stt found steadfastly loyal to re principles. He Condition Unckang Washington, Special.—Last nig comparatively restful one for Sirs rison, and the dawn of another day her very much as she was yesterda\ day no unfavorable symptoms manL themselves and she was quite comfor' sleeping a good portion of the time, took the usual amount of nourishment part of Mrs. Harrison's treatment the few days, which is thought to have a BOO ing and restful effect, is massage with a not infrequent and generally suceessfu method of bringing back strength to an enfeebled constitution. It is especially use ful where the nervous symptoms are as manifest as in Mrs. Harrison's case. There is no perceptible change in her condition to-night. ad a. Jag On. *?*-**r-^ -^1 New York, Special—A rumor was circu lated last night in the upper part of the city that John L. Sullivan had attempted to com mit suicide. He is playing an engagement at the Columbus theater. Investigation re vealed the fact that Sullivan had not at tempted to commit suicide, but that he went through hts part last night in such a state of intoxication that the fact was per ceptible to the audience. His boxing with Jack Ash ton was said to have been so lu dicrous that the audience hissed. Chicagro-St. Lonls Electri Line. Edinburg, 111., Special.—Grounds were broken here yesterday for the Chicago & St. Louis electric railroad. Tents were pitched and 100 teams will go to work at once. The company has purchased the Edinburgh Coal Mining company's mining plant, and will at once begin the erection of power house, ma chine shops, etc. Dr. Adams says that the road will be completed in time for the world's fair. *t* *T a on Racin Beef. Bacine. Special.—A large white three and aft schooner struck Racine reef to-day. The weather is hazy and her name cannot be made out. The tug Hall of Chicago and the life saving crew have gone to her res cue. The wind is Mowing fresh from the northwest anda heavy gale is running. If the boat is not soon released she will be a total wreck. ~SA""i5i 'Tag'