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MINNEAPOLIS NEWS. Sweet Revense Comes to Ed Stevens in the Shape of an Indictment Against Tanner. Plumbers Who do Not Obey the Ordi nance Made Defendants in the Courts. ■Underground "Wires -- Paragraphs Caught on Sight- -Several Social Events of Note. Chautauquans In Council -- Water Board Contracts- -A New Irish League- - Brief s. STEVENS' KEVESGE. Tanner Indirted-A Test for the Ob scene-Publication Law. Three arraignments were made on grand Jury indictments yesterday, making sixteen arraignments thus far. George B. Tanner was arraigned upon an indictment charging him, jointly with his wife, Yenitia R. Tan ner, with keeping a house of prostitution at 407. 409 and 411 Washington avenue south, the names of the witnesses upon whose tes timony the indictment was found being Ed A. Stevens. Julian Clayton. A. J. Green, Charles Shider, Annie Wallace, Mabel Gray Nellie Willis. Birdie Smith, Sergt. Hill" Sergt. Hem, Mayor Pillsbury. Aid. Sly ' Lawrence and Clough. Tanner pleaded not guilty, and gave bond in $500 with W. W. Brown and George A. Green as sureties for his appearance Friday, for which day trial was set. Mrs. Tanner has not vet been arrested. Michael Breslauer. the newsdealer at 206 Hennepin avenue, was arraigned upon an indictment charging him with selling a copy of the Police Gazette to Charles Colton, employed by the Northwestern Detective association. A plea of not guilty was en tered, and a bond in SlOO given for appear ance Dec. 9. Charles Perkins, who stole a coat from Jim Seriden. the turnkey, upon being lib erated from jail pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to nine months in the peniten tiary. Clarence Porter, Charles Hilman. Joseph Sophkowiski, Ole Berg and John O'Leary, in custody, were ordered discharged* THE WATEB ORDINANCE. Violating Plumbers Brought Into Court. For a long time the water board has had trouble with several of the licensed plumb ers of the city aud at various times arrests have been made for violations. Yesterday Inspector Pardee instigated the arrest of twelve of the leading plumbers upon the charge of violating the building ordinance, in that they failed to report to the insnector work that bad been done, as required by the ordinance mentioned. Those who were arrested were: Messrs. E. C. Couvet, Samuel Hunter, J. S. Kearney, J. Osander, J. L. Hague, C. Y. Ball, A. W. Scott, E. Buffton, H. L. Pearson. F. W.Kelly, J. J. McGuire. M. 11. lleffuer and E. T. Sykes. The court set the cases for trial on the 18th, but will probably suspend sentences. The plumbers claim that the ordinance is not impracticable, but very unjust, and one of the number said: The ordinance was passed without consulting the plumbers or their in terests, and the provisions are strict beyond any sense of reason. Every time we com mence a piece of work, according to the or dinance, we must go three times to the water board, twice to the sewer department and once to the inspector, an amount of work that is entirely useless and which con sumes a great deal of time. We shall do our best to bring the matter before the council in such shape that they will amend the ordinance. UNDERGROUND WIRES. Aid. Cooler Thinks the Expensive Conduits Are Unnecessary. Yesterday afternoon, at a special meeting of the council committee on ordinances, the ordinance which has attracted such gen eral attention and extensive and interesting comment, governing and giving the right to place all electrical wires underground, was discussed. Audience was given J. A. Wetmore. who represents the Okonite company, manufact urers of insulated wires and cables for un dergiound use, of New York. He ex plained at length the principles of the Okonite system, and Aid. Cooley, who is a zealous advocate of the proposed under ground system, stated that his investiga tions had convinced him that conduits were not necessary. He had learned that electri cal wires are not disturbed by induction when in cables of good pattern and thor oughly insulated, and for that reason he had invited the representative of the Okon ite company to appear before the com mittee. Mr. Wetmore then exhibited samples of telephone cables. They were covered with an armory of steel wires running at right angles with each other. Each wire in the cable is covered with okonite insulation made of tho best quality of gutta percha and India rubber, and Mr. Wetmore as sured the committee that it is a more per fect insulator than glass, and need not be laid more than live or six inches below the surface of the street. Mr. Cooley will make further investiga * tions in Eastern cities where the cables are in use. and a report will probably be made at the next meeting of the council. CAtGHT IN A TWISKLISG. Real and Reputed Remarks of Certain Minneapolis Men. Dr. Ames — I am one of the Lawrence- Townley heirs on the distaff side. When I get that $800,000,000 1 will help Col. King celebrate. Key. S. F. Chaffee — I heard a pious citizen say to-day: 'God help the poor, this weather.' The remark was well meant, but untimely. I say. man help the poor. Will E. Steele — Honors are easy be tween Minneapolis and railroads. The city has been benefited by railroads, but rail roads have reaped harvests in Minneapolis freights.. Ed A. Stevens— My official scalp is tight on my head aud the head rests easy. But when I put on my war paint, look out. With relentless fingers I'll sweep some heart strings and many a traitor shall howl in agony in response to my touch. Secretary Hale— The exposition cannot afford to pay any faucy official salaries. The people wont have it. First get your 5300.000 and then spend it judiciously. Col. Fairnian— Will some gentleman please kick me behind? A good hard one. Thanks'. Now let me go back to New York. CSupt. Nelson Williams— This morning we are regularly caring for 185 fa milies, to whom we are sending groceries, fuel and some clothing. Most of the destitution comes from the Sixth ward, and last month, although of such universally mild weather, brought us iv 399 applicants for aid. This month will run over 500. Now. here's one case this morning in South Minneapolis where I visited a house where an aged couple lived, unattended and childless. The husband lay upon one bed perfectly insane; the wife upon another bed dangerously ill. Both were very old and without a penny in the world. Another case was of a man SI years of age, and wife nearly the same age, who came from Ohio about a year ago and had lost everything. With no friends, no money, they came to me this morning to help them back to Onio. This, fortunately, 1 was able to do; that is as far as Chicago, where they will be helped on to their desti nation. The clothing that we distribute is all second-hand — that is the city buys none of it but receives it all through voluntary contributions. It is surprising what a good class of articles are sent us; some have cer tainly never been worn at all. Lew Harrison — The deer hunting is perfectly splendid through the state. My ringers tingle to pull a trigger on a big buck." Gen. Washburn — We have the line of the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie <& Atlantic road completed vow from the point at which we started. Turtle Lake to Maine Creek, a distance of seventy miles. Including the Omaha track, which we are using at pres ent from Minneapolis to Turtle Lake, we have covered about ISO miles of the pro jected line to the Sault, a good season's work. We have been uncertain heretofore as to what point to select for crossing the Wisconsin river, but we reached a decision this week while we were up there on the ground, and shall push the work ahead the first thing in the spring. We shall cross the Wisconsin at Khinelander. and have already let the contracts for clearing the right of way, hauling the timber for the bridge and putting in the piling, cutting the wood and ties on the right of way. and in every way getting ready to push the line from Turtle Lake to Rhinelauder as fast as possible. This latter point possesses the jnost extra ordinary facilities for manufacturing lum ber that I know of anywhere In the country. A competent authority assurred me that there were at least 400.000,000 feet of piue above there to be sent down the river when ever a market way should be opened. We hope to be able to commence work west of Turtle Lake next year and complete our line into Minneapolis. E. H. Shadrick — The Globe did me a grave injustice in intimating that Igo to Washington to "assist" in pieparing the presidential message. I always lead in whatever I do. Postmaster Laraway— l look before and after and sigh for what is not. Mayor Pillsbury — I forgive all my party enemies, but your candidate I cannot be, except in a certain contingency. CHIC CHACTACUUANS. A Feast of Reason at a General Delegate Meeting. A general meeting of all the Chautauqua circles iv the city was held last evening in the parlors of the Centenary church, the circle of the same name being in chargt. The attendance was very large and the ex ercises of unusual merit. The program opened with a vocal selection by a quartet from the Hennepin Avenue circle, which was followed by a ten-minute talk by Prof. William Cheney. Miss Millie Wagner gave an exhibition of her skill as a violinist, and Bernie Searles gave a reading. Mrs. Chap man sang in excellent voice a pleasant solo, and Vernon Bell entertained the assembly for a half hour with various electrical ex periments, including the bells. Geissler tubes and similar phenomena. Mrs. L. L. Sutherland executed a brilliant piano solo, which was followed by a humorous essay on Hannibal by Judge Fish. Prof. Charles Carlisle gave a reading, and the formal pro gram closed with vocal music by the quartet from the Heunepin Avenue circle. The evening was then given over to mis cellaneous conversational enjoyment, and with so many congenial literary miuds, there was never a loss for a popular topic. Music was rendered by several of the young ladies and gentlemen, and Prof. Bell, with a Leyclen jar, was a center of attraction, though he "shocked'- the ladies occasion ally. About 10 o'clock light refreshments were served, aud their consumption was the signal for a general departure. The eveu ing was a pronounced success, and the next reunion will be anticipated with pleasure. THREE DECISIONS. District Court Judges Settle a Couple of Laud Suits. In the suit of A. J. Thomas vs. H. K. Joslyn Judge Youpg yesterday filed a de cision for the defendant. In 1881 the plaintiff brought an action to enforce a con tract, by the terms of which the defendant was to sell certain lands in Bradford & Lewis' addition for 82.500. The action was dismissed, a new trial overruled, and the decision of the lower court sustained an appeal to the supreme court. The defend ant objection, which is sustained by Judge Young, is that the former judgment of the same upon the same contract is a bar to any similar action. Since the first actiou was commenced the land has trebled in value. In the libel suit of Anton Hoffner against J. Gutzwiller, editor of the Delano Eagle, Judge Lochren yesterday granted the de fendant's motion to strike out that portion of the complaint in which it is said thattfie defendant referred to the plaintiff as an "ex-jail bird," and thereby conveyed the impression that he, the plaintiff, bad been guilty of a crime, and had served a sentence in jail. The judge says that the term "jail bird" does not necessarily mean that a per son has committed a crime or served a sentence in jail. In the action brought by Daniel Schu mann and Andreas Ueiand against Peter M. Mark to enforce a contract for the con veyance of real estate near Lake Calhoun, valued at 36.000, Judge Lochren yesterday filed a decision for the plaintiffs. SOCIAL SQUIBS. Splinters of December Gayety of a Wintry Night. Armory hall was the scene last night of a very large and merry party, the occasion being the fifth annual ball of the North western lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. The commit tees in charge were as follows: Arrangements. Fred B. Morse, Fred L. Harvey, J. E. Taylor. Frank X. Holl, George M. Clark; invitations, C. K. Brown, C. H. Delamater, J. V. Piper, C. D. Stev ens, Howard Trumbull, M. C. Shannon; reception. William E. Richmond, Thomas F. Men. Ed E. Depew, John Merrick, El mer L. Van Dressar, Charles Hughes; floor managers, George Clark, H. P. Stone, Will iam Beeth, Daniel Sullivan, James Boden, Ed Barry, Duncan McKay. The danciug continued until a late hour, relieved at 11 o'clock by a substantial banquet spread by May. Dr. and Mrs. P. S. Calkins, 1029 First avenue south, were pleasantly reminded on Thursday evening of the twenty-fifth anni versary of their marriage by a number of friends. A silver ice pitcher was presented them and all passed a pleasant evening. Among those present were J. F. Calhoun and wife, A. R. Shattuck and wife. N. C. Chapman and wife and daughter, Miss Lot tie Shattuck and Miss Evelyn Burt. The Sons of Veterans rifles gave a large party, the second of their series, at Curtiss hall last evening. A large audience watched the merry dancers, Savier's orchestra fur nishing the music. Several Minneapolis people will go to Duluth on Thursday to attend a large re ception given by the Kitchi Garni club. Danz will take his orchestra there. Prof. Emil Zoch gave a pleasant musicale at Dyer Bros', parlors last evening, render ing selections from Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Beethoven. The Misses Gallagher were last night hostesses to a large party of their friends. Dancing was indulged in and a tempting collation spread. The Nicollet club has decided to admit non-residents to membership at half rates, to accommodate a number of gentlemen in St. Paul. Misses Marie and Susie Rouen gave a large progressive euchre party last even ing at their home, 1101 Sixth avenue north. Bricklayers' Union No. 2 held high car nival last night at Harmonia hall. The attendance was large and the enjoyment great. Danz' orchestra will produce a number of new musical arrangements at the reception by Mrs. F. W. Forman next Tuesday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith gave a large dancing party last evening, at the New York house. Prof. Fischer gave a private hop last evening, at which about thirty couples were present. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Loring entertained a large card party last night A NEW LEAGUE. The Parnellites to Organize an East- Side Branch. A meeting of National league committees was held at J. T. Tobin's office last evening to appoint speakers to address the mass meeting in Turner hall, East division, next Thursday evening, to orgauize a branch of the Irish National league. P. H. Mc- Partlin will call the meeting to order, and James R. Conigan, state president of the league, will be the chairman. The follow ing gentlemen will speak in the order of their names, each speaker being limited to ten minutes, with the exception of three: Rev. James O'Reilly, Matt Walsh, Roger Vail, C. A. Gallagher, J. H. Steele, Capt. M. Hoy. Lieut. McKernan, J. T. Byrnes and D. B. Johnson. The advance agent of Sullivan's Mirror of Ireland and Comedy THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 5, 1885. —TEN PAGES. company made a proposition to give a per formance during next week at Pence opera house for the benefit of the Irish National league and the matter will be brought up for action before the league meeting held on Sunday evening. A resolution indors ing the Northwestern Standard was also adopted and the meeting promised its pro prietors every encouragement in making it a representative organ of the Irish people of Minneapolis and the Northwest. A HEAVY CONTRACT. A St. Louis Company to Furnish Next Year'a Pipes. The water board met at 2 o'clock yester day in adjourned session and awarded the contract for furnishing the city with water pipes for next year. The manufacturers state that it is one of the heaviest contracts they have bid on for a long time. Shiekle, Harrison & Howard of St. Louis were given the contract for furnishing the pipe, and Lockwood, Upton & Co. of Minne apolis the contract for furnishing the special castings. The first is at 8:37.95 per ton, and the latter 3 M cents per pound. The matter of laying the flexible pipe on the river bed, to connect the two sides of the river was brought up again, aud referred to the committee ou extensions to make sound ings aud report the excavations necessary to found the specifications upon whicn to ad vertise for proposals. Tho checks submitted by unsuccessful bidders were ordered returned, aud a special committee composed of Commissioners Foote, Andrews and Farnham was ap apoiuted to draft contracts for supplying pipes and special castings. MINNEAPOLIS SPORTS. This evening a series of boxing tourna ments will be inaugurated under the auspices of Prof. Donaldson at the hall No. 221 South Washington avenue. Prof. Don aldson, Patsy Mellen, Jerry Murphy and several local boxers will put the gloves on. Jerry Murphy and Christie Murphy will give a Grceco-llouian wrestling match. Jerry Murphy having offered $50 to any light-weight to stand before him four rounds, Frank Stark has written the fol lowing reply: Minneaoolis, Minn., Dec. 3.— ln reply to Jerry Murphy's otter to give any light-weight ?50 to stand before him for four rounds, 1, tho uudersigueu, will undertake to 6tand be fore him for four rounds, and if he does not kuoCK me out in four rounds he is to forfeit $50 to me. As I weigh only 118 pounds in condition, I do not want to stand before a middle or heavy-weight for four rounds, as I would have no show; but if he is a light weight 1 am at his service. If he means what he says I will be at his service any day or night, barring Saturday, that he sees fit. Hoping this will put all of his talk about ligut-weights standing before him at an end, 1 remain. Yours truly, Frank Stark, Champion Light-Weight of lowa. Mr. Murphy states that if Stark will ap pear to-night he will receive the §50 offered if he stays the prescribed four rounds. Prof. Donaldson offers to match Jerry Murphy against Frauk Stark at any time that will suit both parties. The People Like Them. Among the large and brilliant throng at the Grand last night were the faces of many who, on Tuesday evening, listened to "Victor, the Blue Stocking." as exquis itly rendered by the Ideals, showing what a hold it took upon the public. It was no wonder, then, that the house was last night packed to repletion, every seat taken aud great crowds thronging the foyer. The quaint and captivating opera was given in the Ideals' unapproachable style aud re ceived, of course, with the greatest enthu siasm. The engagement of the Ideals will end to-day with "Victor" at the matinee and "Fra Diavolo" at night. The Trades and Labor Assembly* At the regular meeting of the Trades and Labor assembly last evening the action of the committee appointed to call a public meeting to protest against the establish ment of a second penitentiary near a stone quarry was indorsed after a lengthy dis cussion, the action being to postpone the meeting for the time being, for the purpose of organizing a general movement through out the state for the purpose of inducing the legislature to repeal the law. The ac tion of the same committee in regard to the stone for the stone-arch bridge was also in dorsed. The Stone- Arch Bridge. Assistant Cox of the city engineer's office is busily engaged in preparing specifications for an advertisement inviting proposals for furnishing materials for the superstructure of the stone-arch bridge complete. There will be three specific clauses, one for stone delivered in the rough aud dressed in Min neapolis, one for stone dressed in the quarry and for the lumber to be used in the coffer dams, etc. In case the work is awarded to a contractor the city will build the coffer dams and will also do the pumping. Work of a. Pickpocket. Complaint was made at the police head quarters that a man named Aluggo had his pockets relieved of S3B at the dime museum yesterday afternoon. Two well-known young men were accused by Aluggo, and they were promptly arrested by Detective Quinlan, but upon searching them the de tective was convinced of their innocence and they were allowed to go. Rentson Bros.' Failure. Max Bentson aud David Bentson, doing a clothing and gents' furnishing business at 227 Washington avenue south, yesterday made an assignment to C. Wright Davison for the benefit of creditors. The assets con sist of a stock of clothing at Minneapolis and a similar stock at Warsaw, Ind., the total value of which is estimated at 317,000. MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES. Yesterday's bank clearings were 8525, -655.85. "Victor, the Bluestocking," at the mati nee to-day. The employes of the water department will receive their month's salary to-day. The Woman's Suffrage association will meet to-day at the Church of the New Jeru salem. At railroad headquarters in Minneapolis no difficulty growing out of the snow storm has been reported. A plat was yesterday filed with the register of deeds of Staugh's subdivision in Maben, White & Le Bron's addition. The Lawrence-Townley heirs in Minne apolis have formed an organization and will prepare to make a descent on that SBOO, -000,000 piled up in the Bank of England. William Laughton was arraigned in the municipal court on a charge of assaulting Thomas W. Emery. He pleaded not guilty, and the case was continued until Tuesday. A routine meeting of the Minneapolis Mill company was held yesterday morning, but no further protest against the stone arch bridge was made. The office of the company has been removed to the new building at the head of the canal. A. \V. Landis of Rio Janerio, South America, and Julia McCabe of Wisconsin, Martin Jeverne and Julia Osman, D. „ Peterson and Annie Fyhre, E. W. Ferrel and Lucy Park, Olaf Hanan and Thera Haven yesterday obtained marriage licenses. Until yesterday the madames of bagnios had paid no lines in the municipal court since the session of the last previous grand jury and regular session of the district court, when they were lined 8250 each. Yesterday Ella Palmer, Cora Jackson, May Wood and Mattie St. Claire paid lines of §52.50 each. William Sullivan is a belligerent scaven ger. In a fistic encounter with George Morney in a house down on the flats Sulli van had the best of it He was arrested and pleaded guilty to assault, but asked that the case might be heard. The court granted the request, and at the end sent the defend ant to jail for twenty days. MINNEAPOLIS PERSONALS. Maj. E. J. Eakin, U. S. A., is at the Clark house. E. Townsend Mix, the Milwaukee archi tect, is at the West. Gus Sherwood, formerly a well-known engineer on the Milwaukee road, arrived yesterday f from Helena, Mont., where he now resides, and is visiting friends in the city. A. Rodgers of the Chicago board of trade is at the Clark house. G. M. Wing, stenographer of the Seventh judicial district, is at the St James. Richard W. Scales of New York is the guest of his brother, E. A. Scales, at the Clark house. John J. Balcom, James Russell and John J. Randall, leading business men of Winona, are at the West. Minneapolis Real Estate. TBSTERDAY S TBANSFEBS. Deeds were yesterday filed with the register of deeds us follows : Lts 11, 12 and 27, blk 1; lt 27, blk 3, Kiverside Short Line add; George Clauser to J F James $1,800 Lt 5, bllf 28, Calhoun Park add; William Cleveland to Causdeil 2,000 N J-4 of se % of sec 23, town 111), rango 22; Mathas Blooinor to Matilda A King 3,500 Lt 9, blk 1, Bell Bros' add; E J Woolf to W D .Rusher 1,200 Part of lt 18, blk 2, Oak Lake add; H L Moodey to G A. Pillsbury 6,000 Lt 19, blk 9, Morrison & Lovejoy's add; J Q Oswald to F C (5 ris wold 2,000 Lt 5, blk 47, North Minneapolis; Emma J Merritt to W ft Leonard 2,500 Part of lt 6. blk 7, Orth, Beach & Dugas' add; Kate A Boeeland to St. Paul & Northern Paciflc Kailroad company.. 222 Lt «, blk 5, Wolverton's add; J A Wol verton to D tt Young 1,300 Lts 6 aud 7, blk 20, Oliver Park add; E 1> N Whitney to P B Fuller 1,300 Lt 17, blk 2, Sunnysido add; A M Shep herd to Nathaniel Shepherd 3,000 One hundred and twenty acres of nw J^ of sec 28, town 119, range 24; G I Bug bee to Sarah Bugbee 2,500 One hundred aud twenty acres of nw % of sec 28, town 129, range 24; Chas L Bugbee to Chas L Bugbee 2,500 Lts 20 and 23. blk 2, lt 3, blk 1, B Phil lips' add ; Bradley Phillips to M G Phillips 1,800 Lts 4 and 5, blk 12, Baker's 2d add; P G Lamereaux to Laura E Winslow 9,000 Lts (S and 7, blk 20, Mount Park add; Benjamin Beveridge, Jr, to J C Bick. 1,100 Lts 9 and 10, blk 3, Baker's sth add; H E Peterson to Z Demules 1,300 Eleven miscellaneous deeds, the consid erations of which are less than $1,000 5,671 Total number of deeds, 28 $50,793 m FIVE MINUTES WITH A MAD DOG. A Physician's Experience ma Dark Cellar. St. James Gazette. Last week I received orders to go to the Britannia public house, in Soho, and poison a large retriever belonging to the landlord. My master had seeu the dog during his rounds, and found it in a danger ously-rabid state. I filled a small bottle with hydrocyanic acid, and, taking a syringe, went off at once to see about it. Arriving at the house, 1 stated my business, and was handed over to the pot boy to be conducted to the dog, which I could hear howling every few seconds. There being no yard to the house, they had chained the dog' down in the cellar to a staple in the wall. E's a wery bad case, sir," said my guide, "an, I'll be glad when it's all over; for, although he was a great pet with us all, an' that fond of the kids you never see, it's awful to see 'im not know any of us, but when we goes near 'im to have 'im come a-llying at us. Think 'ell suffer much? There 'c goes! 'ear 'im. All day long 'c owls like that." I assured him it would soon be over with out much pain, and descending some steps we passed through a room in the basement that was dimly lit by a small and grimy window. Cases of wines and spirits were ranged against the walls, and we cou'd hear the tramp of the thickly shod customers in the bar or taproom lust above our heads. Opening a door, we passed into another room; this was lighted only by a small win dow in the room we had just left, as it shone through the new open door. "He's iv there," said the pot boy, pointing to another door in the wall opposite. Thinking there was a window in the room. I pushed the door open, and im mediately heard the rattle of a chain and THE HOAKSE HALF HOWL, half growl of the poor beast, whose eyes I could see against the far wall gleaming through the dark. Window there was none. "Why on earth didn't you bring alight?" I asked, augrdy; "you don't suppose i can poison him in the dark?" "Thought I 'ad a match," said the boy, fumbling in his pockets; "there's a gas jet inside the door." I had no matches, so I sent him up stairs to get some, and, awaiting his return, sat down on an empty keg near the door. The dog seemed uneasy, and, faucying the light through the doorway annoyed and distressed him, I pushed it to with my hand. The boy was some time gone (I found afterward he had been to ask his mistress if she would like to have a last look at the old dog), and I sat there think ing over the job. The air of the cellar was close, and the smell of the wet sawdust on the floor was most unpleasant. Clank went the dog's chain against the wall or the floor, as he moved uneasily about, wondering, I dare say, what was my errand there. Then the movement ceased for a time, or, partly absorbed iv my thoughts, I failed to notice it. The next minute I started, feeling something rub against my leg. Looking down I saw two glaring eyes just at my knee. The dog was loose, the staple having worked its way out of the damp and yielding mortar. For a second or two I nearly lost con sciousness. My heart seemed to stand still; but by an effort I kept from going off into a faint. I shall never forget the next few minutes as long as I live. I was alone in the dark, with this rabid beast rubbing about my legs — first one and then the other as if he were trying to find out who I was. Then he rested his nose on my knees and looked straight up into my face. I sat like a statue, knowing that at the slightest movement he would probably seize me, and knowing (who better?) that such a bite in his advanced state of disease was almost certain death, AND A HOBBIBLE DEATH TOO. Nerving myself, I sat perfectly still, cal culating as well as I could my chances of escape. Presently the dog put first one paw, then the other, on my knee, and, standing on his hiud legs, gently rubbed his head against my breast, then over my arms, aud then commenced to ex plore my face. I shut my eyes, and felt his nose pass several times across my face, covering it with saliva. Yet I dared not move. I expected every instant he would seize me; the very beating of my heart might disturb and annoy him; and I felt that, come what might, I must fling him off and make a dash for the floor. Suddeuly he ceased rubbing against me and appeared to be listening. He could hear the steps of the pot boy descending the ladder, I also could hear them, and knew not whether to call to him or keep silent. The dog dropped down to my knees again, still listening; and as the light of a candle streamed through the crevices of the badly fitting door he crept into the far corner of the cellar, evidently dreading being put upon the chain again. Then I made a dash at the door, swung it open, and, banging it to behind me, sank, more dead than alive, on a case near the wall. See ing my state, the man brought me quickly a nip of brandy, and 1 pulled myself to gether. All this time the dog was growl ing furiously on the other side of the door, and tearing at it in his mad endeavor to get at us. Steadying myself as well as I could, I placed the light on a pile of cases and, filling my syringe with acid, opened the door about two inches. As I expected the infuriated beast rushed at the opening and as he did so I discharged the contents of the syringe into his open mouth. In a few seconds all was over. When I went up stairs I found my trousers, vest, coat, hands, and face covered with the saliva from his mouth, I felt sick and faint, and looked— so the people said— white as a ghost; in fact, I could hardly stand. Woman's Face. "What furniture can give such a finish to a room as a tender woman's face." asks George Elliott. Not any, we are happy to answer, provided the glow of health tem pers the tender expression. The pale, anxious, bloodless face of the consumptive, or the evident sufferings of the dyspeptic, induce feelings of sorrow and grief on our part and compel us to tell them of Dr. Pierces "Golden Medical Discovery," the sovereign remedy for consumption and other diseases of the respiratory system, as well as dyspepsia and other digestive troubles. { Sold" everywhere. FEMALE BLACKMAILER. How Several Prominent Business Men of Minneapolis Fell Viotima to Her Wiles. The Injured-Husband Kacket and Suc cessful Threats to Make Other Hearts Ache. A Cincinnati Siren Who Finds Minnesota Agrees With Her financially. A True Story Without Names, Which Carries an Unwritten Moral With It. In this day of scandals, strange divorce suits and other social cyclones, it would be altogether unusual and unexpected if the female blackmailer uid not come to the sur face. That her presence has not been more extensively heralded is due to the dis cretion of her victims who, have not cried when the pressure upon their purses was brought to bear, and have been content to allow themselves to be bled iv silence. About two weeks ago a prominent manu facturing firm of Minneapolis discovered that the bank account of one of the partners had been overdrawn. Explanations fol lowed, and the partner showed conclusively that he had been induced to give up $500 "hush money" to mollify a female charmer who threatened to blast his social reputa tion unless her demands were complied with. It was the old story — a short ac quaintance, which had followed upon the heels of a preliminary flirtation. A few notes of a tender nature had passed be tween them, presents of flowers and jewelry had been lavished; then a few clan destine meetings, and finally, to cut the story short, the denouement. The injured husband (?) unexpectedly ap pears. In fact, doesn't take the trouble to knock, but kicks the door down. "Aha, madam, I have fouud you out. And you, villain, you shall suffer for this! I'll teach you to steal from me my wife's affections." Then comes the usual scene. THE EBBING WIFE prostrates herself at the feet of the man she has (to all appearances) promised at the altar to obey, love, etc. He is ob durate, and must have blood. He draws a revolver, which he flourishes with reckless abandon, and swears that the life of the vile seducer shall pay the penalty. "But it was mv fault, " sobs the wife. This changes the complexion of affairs, and the second act of the drama, which has been previously rehearsed, comes on. "Then, madam, you shall be the one to suffer. To-morrow 1 will commence proceedings for divorce. The world shall know of your perfidy. The papers of this city shall ring with the story of your downfall. You, sir, I will brand as the invader of my home, and will make you a stench in the nostrils of all decent people. It will be useless for you to deny what I shall say, for I have witnesses to the revelations of this night, etc., etc." This is probably the way the affair oc curred, for all agree that there was nothing new or original in the modus operandi of the little scheme played by the blackmailer and her pal. The poor dupe thought it useless to kick, and arranged the matter by giving his check for $500, which, when cashed, overdrew his private bank account, and thus brought to the notice of his part ners the little escapade. THE WOMAN who figured in this romance, which did not [ have very much romance in it. either, is a rather prepos sessing bru nette, tall and stylish. Her history, as far as Minneapolis is concerned, i s somewhat inter esting. She was brought to the city from Cin cinnati about three years ago, by a leading young business man, who is con sidered quite prominent be cause of the honored name^ he has inher- ited rather than on account of any notice able business ability or social graces. At the end of a year the woman hinted that she was about to become a mother, and de sired a settlement. The prominent young business man possessed a wife and several children, as well as a summer residence at Minnetonka, and couldn't very well have this thing come before the public, so he compromised by paying 84.000, the sole consideration on the part of the party of the second part being that she would maintain a discreet and very deep silence. It is, perhaps, needless to say that there was no truth in the woman's assertions as to her maternity, but the scheme worked so successfully that within a few months another PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN was entangled in the meshes. This gentle man also holds his head rather high. He lives on the interest of money left him, which he has increased by a few real-estate speculations and a fortunate marriage. He was very sly about this little affaire d" amour — so devilish sly that he kept it en tirely away from his intimate associates who would have probably protected him. When the "pinch" came, however, he did not give up with the desired alacrity. He had a young and pietty wife, who is not in clined to stand much nonsense, so he after wards thought better of the matter and sent a friend to Cincinnati, where a settlement was made for 83.000. The woman is now seen almost daily on the streets, and seems to think that the cli mate of Minneapolis agrees with her better than that of Cincinnati. She probably has another innocent in tow by this time, and if he recognizes the cut accompanying this article he may perhaps be brought to real ize what he is in for. .^ HE TOOK. WHISKY, After Taking Water at the Mouth of a Cowboy's Pistol. Biff Horn (W. T.) Sentinel. A nobby and snubbish milord of British extraction traveled from Big Horn with us and Abe Idelman on the stage coach early this week. Milord was exclusively ex clusive. He wouldn't be social and spoke to no one except the two "John Henry" servants he had with him, and was alto gether as unpleasant as his snobbishness could make him, At a diuner station there were a lot of jolly cowboys on a lark, and one of them, "treating" everybody, asked the Englishman to drink, Of course milord haughtily refused. The cowboy displayed a dangerous-looking six shooter and" very impressively insisted on his drinking. "But I caw n't, you know; I dont drink, you know," was milord's reply. Mr. Cowboy brought the muzzle in danger ous proximity to the knot in which milord's brains were supposed to lie hidden some where, and then he said he'd drink — he'd take soda water, you know. "Soda water nuthin," said Mr. Cowboy. "You'll take straight whisky." "But, aw, this American whisky, I cawn't swallow it, you know." "Well," said the cowboy, "I'll make a hole in the side of your head so that we can pour it in," and he began to draw on milord, and milord said, "Aw, that'll do, 111 drink it." Then the cowboy invited milord's ser vants to drink, which horrified him. "They don't drink, you know," he said. "Well, we'll see whether they do or not," said Mr. Cowboy. "The chances are you don't give 'em a 'hopportunity.' Come up here, you fellows, and guzzle some," and the two John Henrys, with a little show of reluc tance, but really glad to get a drink, came up and the cowboy passed a tumblerful of torchlight-procession whisky for milord, and the servants poured for themselves. Then the cowboy made the John Henrys clink glasses with milord and all drank and there was great fun. Milord tried after that to be very jolly and the stimulant as sisted him decidedly. But in the coach he fell back into his exclusiveness and re tained it throughout, and has probably got it yet. TT lijj GOODS, any quantity of them, are now in U A l l /] QT7 Stock at the 810 BOSTON, Minneapolis, cor |J_\/_l\j_li V ncr Washington and Second avenues south, J Consisting of fine Smoking Jackets and Dress- Gowns, Silk Mufflers and Handkerchiefs, fancy dress Kid and driv inar Gloves. Fur Gloves and Mitts of all kinds, Fur Wristers, the fin est of London-dyed Seal Caps, fancy Night Shirts, Jersey and Car digan Jackets, Velvet and Silk Neckwear, novelties in Jewelry, fine silk Umbrellas. In fact we have hundreds of articles that will make a nice Holiday present for your best man. Call early and get the pick. GREAT Auction Sale of Furniture ! The Entire Stock of Furniture remaining in the Old Stores of CHARLES P. STEVENS, l 9, 11 and 13 South Fifth Street, i Near West Hotel, "Will be offered at Auction by PATTON & LAMOREATJX, Auc tioneers, beginning on MONDAY NEXT, Dec. 7, at 9 o'clock. Sales will continue every other day till the whole stock is disposed of. SCENES IN A SHOE STOKE. How Women Bur Shoes ana Where the Old Ones Go to. Brooklyn Union. "Your left foot, please," said the affable clerk in a Court street shoe store to a Union patter, who had gone yesterday in to buy a pair of fourteens, "I'd rather you'd try my right foot, for I j want the shoes to be easy," said the know- j ing reporter, I "That's just the reason I want to try your left foot," spoke up the salesman. "Your left foot is the larger of the two." "I'm not deformed," remarked the re porter, slightly indignant. "No, that's all right. Under ordinary circumstances the left is the larger, though many don't know it. The right hand is the larger, and so we think the right foot should be. I don't know why it isn't, ex cept that when standing one rests more on the left foot, thus enlarging the muscles. That's the way we satisfy the vanity of lady customers and give them a good fit at the same time. We try on the left foot and they think they are getting a smaller | shoe, when in reality they are not. There have to be other tricks than that played on the ladies in order to satisfy them about their shoes. Numbers have to be altered to suit them, and we have to explain, when a lady says she wears nothing larger than a size 3, that size 3 in some qualities is called sin others. Thick heels we call high in steps, and a flat foot we try to put in a pointed toe. I like a man for a customer better than a woman. He will generally tell you what he wants and then be satis fied with the first pair you put on him, go ing off with the new pair on his feet and letting you keep the old ones. A woman wont do that. She wants to see every style you have in the place, complain of the pain it causes her, till she has tried on a dozen pairs, and then having selected a size too small will order them sent home, so that she can break them in on the quiet." "What do you do with the old shoes?" "We used to sell them for scraps, or \ burn them up. Now we sell them to men who make a business of calling at shoe stores, and among the Italians of the city, and collect old shoes at from 10 to 35 cents each. They take them to New York, where they are done up and sold on Bax ter and contiguous streets for from half a dollar up. They serve a large class of people, who would hardly patronize any other kind of trade, and nobody is the wiser. Shoes last from a month to a year according to quality and the disposition of the wearer, and 1 formed my opinion that the left foot is most used because the sole of the left shoe is most worn as a rule," A Barber in Trouble. Philadelphia Press. The barber who was hired to trim the beards and curl the hair of the dummies in a chestnut street waxworks show has struck for better pay. As his demands have been complied with the work remains half done. "I asked for fifty cents a head," the con tractor explained, "which I don't think ex cessive. Each head took an hour to do. I was furnished with the photographs of the celebrities whose figures stood before me, and was told to go ahead and clip accord ing to pattern. Well, I never was great on physiognomy and. of course, 1 mixed the heads up. How could I tell whether the head 1 started ou was John Kelly's or Sitting Bull's? I thought from the look of it that it was Sitting Bull's but it turned out to be Kelly's, and of course I ruined it. It had to be changed into Sarah Bernhardt. My next attempt was equally unfortunate. I broke my scissors in the thick heavy wool of Cetewayo the Zulu king, I wanted to charge the waxworks people for the scissors. That was our first disagreement. ' 'For some reason or other, " he continued, "most of the heads, women and all, had beards. I think they must have ail been made in one mould and then melted into shape with a blowpipe. After 1 had clipped off Queen Victoria's moustache, I sheared the whiskers from a figure which I under stood represented Marie Antoinette. But it was James Russell Lowell, large as life, and it was at that point in the engagement that the second row with my employers be gan. It came too. I made several other mistakes that were perhaps not so excus able as those I have specified. I admit that I got so confused as to the identities of Cleveland and Bismarck that when I had arranged their headgear the modeller couldn't tell them apart. I now devote myself entirely to the living public." The Mirror is no flatterer. Would you make it tell a sweeter tale ? Magnolia Balm is the charm er that almost cheats the looking-glass. MANTELS, GAS FIXTURES, GRATES. Largest, Finest and Most Complete Stock in the Northwest. FRANKLIN BENE Successor to BENNEB BEOS., 16 Fourth Street South, - Minneapolis. NTS. AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE COMIQUE! 219, 221, 223 First Avenue South. W. W. Brown Manager James Wheeler, Business and Stage Manager WEEK OF NOV. 30, 1885. The Leons' Vaudeville Company POPULAR PRICES: 25, 35, 50 and 75 cents. A reserved seat in the parquette^i'or 50 cents. iißora., Pianos AND Organs, "WILL REMOVE TO 426 Nicollet Avenue, Next Monday, and invite every body to call and see their stock of PIANOS I CHINA FIRING AND GILDING. MYRA E. KINSEY, Teacher of the art of China Painting. Classes in lustro, oil and water colors. STUDIO, BOOM 21, EASTMAN BLOCK, 412 Nicollet avenue. Firings Tuesdays and Fridays. —■—■—■ ________ 1 WEST HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. fhls magnificent FIRE PROOF HOTEL mm •pen to the traveling public in July last. It has every con renience known to modern hoteU — 120 chambers with bath. four Eloiators, Electric Lights, Etc Table and attendance unsurpassed, and rates as low as any first-class hotel In the United States. $3 per day and upwards ao eording to location of rooms. JOHN T. WEST, Proprietor. Chas. W. Shkphird, Manager. . . !■■ LALLY BROS, Wholesale and Retail LIQUOR DEALERS, 113 South Washington Avenue. Finest Imported and Domestlo Cigars and Imported Liquors of All Kinds. The Best Grades of Goods a Specialty. ! PAINLESS (DENTISTS I At DR. J. W. Hard, Manager and prop'r., 37 Washington ave nue south. RESTAURANT 205 NICOLLET POWELL * MCLENNAN, Proprietors. Five-course dinner, 350; 12 to 2p. m. Opeo from 6 till midnight. ■ MWM _ ■ OWTjT, A Quick, ParmaMOS Wk B r" B BCure for Lost X*niood, Debility, Nor ■■ Hi ■■■tousfpss. Weakness. No quackery. In ■ Wall IVJ disputable Proofs. Book gent seated. 3