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In deadly earnest. thief Arthur Determined to Win the Strike at Any Cost. Representatives from the Brotherhoods on Various Northwest Lines (Ordered to Report at Chicago at Once for Consul tation. Buchanan's Blast and Arthur s Statement— StriKe Developments. Chicago, March Chief Arthur 'eaid to-night that if an order as strong lis that of the engineers, one that had been applauded throughout the world for its conservatism and fairness, could -iiot win so just a quarrel as the one between the engineers and the Burling ton company, lie would resign his place as chief. Further than that, he would {recommend that the order disband. The remarks quoted were made in discussing the situation with a newspaper man. It Js proper to state that Mr, Arthur did iiot display the slightest expectation that his resignation and the disband jnenl of the brotherhood could be called Si possibility. lie was simply voicing liis determination to win, aud the belief M the engineers in the justice of their tause. '■}. A MOST IMPORTANT MOVE Was made to-day by Chief Arthur in the •Strike. The following telegram was kenttoeach chairman of the general grievance committee of the Brotherhood *bf Engineers and Firemen on the follow ing lines of railroads, viz: Chicago & tAlton; Chicago & Northwestern; Chi cago, Hock Island & Pacific; Wabash [railroad; Wabash & Westernr Missouri [Pacific; Union Pacific; Atchison, Tope ka & Santa Fe, and Wisconsin Central: ■ Bear Sir and Brother: You are hereby {authorized and ordered to come to the city of 'fchicußO Ht once und report at the headquar ters. There are many important matters to Qfeonsidcr in connection with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy strike and your inune f'diate presence is imperative. Be prepared rto convene your committee from here at a Fhiomeul's notice. Fraternally, P. M. Aktiiur, G. C. E. . ! F. P. Sargent, G. M. £J "What does this mean?" was asked of [Grand Master Sargent. L "It means that we are here to stay. I fpannot tell you what move is contem plated until after the chairmen ar rive," :-''^7'---v ; -- : - ! "lias it reference to the alleged sell ting of Burlington tickets over connect ing lines?" "No -so you can draw your own con- elusions." 77 7 ; - It was determined by the leaders (to-day to hold a mass meeting at Bat tery i) Monday night. It will be ad dressed by chief Arthur and other prom inent leaders. "We want everybody to pome," said Chief Arthur, "so that the public may judge for themselves Our position. We will have no long speeches, but our leaders will present yfacts tersely." . - CHIEF ARTHUR. Jlc Makes a Statement of the Brotherhood's Position. Chicago. March Chief Engineer P. M. Arthur to-night gave to the press the following concerning the position Of the Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen as to their present attitude toward the Chicago, Burlington & 'Quincy railroad: "It will not do to assume that the em ployes of the railway company are re sponsible to the public for the present condition of affairs of the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy railway. They, the employes, have a legal and moral right to place a value on their labor, and if the company cannot or will not pay it, the employes are perfectly justified in Refusing to work. No one with the least conception of justice will deny this proposition. There is no pretense that the strikers have used any means 'except . moral suasion to prevent those who desire to work for the Burlington from following their inclination. The striking employes arc extremely anxious that in this controversy they niav be sustained by the influence of public opinion. They have carefully refrained from doing anything that would justify public, censure, and are determined that while vhev will resort to every honor able method to compel the railway company to pay them a just remunera tion for their services, that they will do •nothing that may bring reproach upon Ithem or the organization they repre sent. The men are striking not .to -compel the railway company to pay them for services they do not perform, nor is it to . compel the com pany . to accept blind men to run the * engines. Neither do the 4iieu demand that the company shall furnish free passes for their, wives,their cousins and their aunts. Tho main issue is the question of wages. Shall the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad pay the same wages for the same work that is paid by the Chicago & Alton, the Chi cago & Northwestern; the Milwaukee <ft St. Paul, and 90 per cent in mileage of all the railways in the United States. This is the main question, and in fact almost the only question at issue be tween the; patties to the controversy. For instance, the Burlington people pay for pulling a train from Chicago to Streator and return— distance of 120 miles—for engineers of the third grade, $2.55; second grade, $8.10; first grade, (8.65. The Chicago '& Alton and other roads pay for the same service all engin eers alike, $4.20, or 30 per cent more than the Burlington. A fireman on the Chicago & Alton and other roads gets about the same pay as engineer of the third grade on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. is their anything fair in •'■ this. Have not the men a right to re fuse to work on such terms? The rate of wages quoted is not an isolated case, ' but is taken from the first page of the schedule of wages in the pamphlet recently sent out by tho Chicago, JBurlingloii & Quincy people as an evi dence of their fair treatment of then employes. The principle of grading 'the men according to years of service as engineers adopted by the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy, and for which they argue with such vehemence,- is illogical and unjust, and, if it were possible to ; get it there, would be so pronounced by a court of equity. Under that system a i man serves from three to five years as a 1 fireman, when lie is I SUPPOSED TO BE AX APPRENTICE learning the rudiments of engineering He then takes his place as a hostler, ■"and runs the engine from the rouneJ -house, in which capacity he may serve ■ for a year or more before he gets a switching engine for another year oi ■ two, when lie may get on the road. B.v j this lime lie has served an apprentice 1 ship of from live to nine years, and stil is expected by the company to serve three years longer before he gets ful • pay. 'There is no other trade in ex fetence thai is asked, or would. submit to the injustice of being a candidate foi the superannuated list before becoming a full-fledged master of his trade, 'Inert Is practically no difference In the service rendered or the results to the railway between an engineer of the first grade and one of the third. Each has bis oil I waste, fuel and everything he uses oi iJtis engine measured out to him, and In is compelled to run his engine wit! I that. There is no trade or calling ii i which the years of service will determine '« man's ability. An engineer of one "year's ' service is v often bettci qualified to run an engine thai one with • twenty years' experience. If you undertake to gauge the ability bj the years of service iv auy calling, yoi — — — — —^—^— I - will be pretty apt to run into a big hole in the ground. There is one and only one just rule to determiue the question, and that is equal pay for equal service. In the present controversy; the en gineers and firemen : can afford to lose the fight, but there is no possible way in which they can recede from their de mands on the question of wages except at the sacrifice of their entire organiza tion. It would not be expected and would not be just to expect that the other roads leading into Chicago would continue to pay higher wages than the "Q." If the engineers should accede to the present wages offered by that road, it would have another fight on its hands within twenty-four hours, and they would have to submit or abandon their organization. There is no other way out of the difficulty but by a concession on the part of the company on the ques tion of wages, or a fight- to the bitter end. Ido not speak by authority, but I speak with knowledge," "7 ;;a.S* ON NEUTRAL GROUND. That Is Where the Burlington's Competitors are Standing. 7 .7.7 Chicago, March I.— One of the chief topics talked of in railroad circles to day was the alleged threat of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen to extend the strike to lines connecting with the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy railroad if the line sold Burlington tickets. The threat was re ceived with surprise by the officials of the other roads, and all were quite will ing to talk on the matter to representa tives of the press, _ , A high official of the Chicago & North western railroad said in reply to ques tions put to him by an Associated Press, reporter: "The instructions issued by the general superintendent of the road to all officers under him was to maintain a strictly neutral ground. He had an intimation that the ticket department was honoring Burlington tickets. He at once ordered this to stop. The ticket department answered that the only ones which bad been honored were those tickets which had been SOLD TO INNOCENT PARTIES by the Burlington before the strike be gan. Orders were also issued by the general superintendent not to switch Burlington cars or take Burlington freight." 77. -"Are engineers and fireman on the Northwestern railroad satisfied?" - -■■:■: "They are, to the best of our knowl edge. No grievances have reached our ears. The Northwestern is minding its own business in this matter." . '. -\ General Ticket Agent Thrall ex plained the ticket question in this way. Said he: "The only way our road could be connected with the matter is this: II a passenger bound for Council Bluffs bought a ticket In New York, say by the New York Central, and his coupon for 'the Bluffs' was over the Burlington, when he arrived here be might find that the latter road was unable to carry him West, Ho might come to us, and on presenting the coupon to us, we would exchange it for a ticket over our line, charging him, however, full local fare. This is not helping the Burling ton, for wo would send the coupon back to the New York Central ; which issued it. All railroad men understand this. Supposing we were to refuse to do this, what advantage would accrue? For example, ten passengers arrive from tlie East with through tickets to Council Bluffs. The Burlington road can't carry them and we refuse. • The Burlington could simply take up the coupons, send a private individual to our ticket office with the amount of fare for ten tickets, and our agent would sell the tickets, not knowing at all who was buying them. We have made no ar rangements to help out the Burlington." The officials of the Chicago & Alton and other roads connecting ■ with the Burlington maintained that their position was exactly that of the North western. All sal:l that they had re ceived no communications from the brotherhood em the subject, their men were seemingly satisued and they had no fears of a strike, as they were all keeping on neutral ground. BUCHANAN'S BLAST. Arthur Denounced by a Prominent Labor Agitator. Special to the Globe. Chicago, March 2.— The individuals who, on Wednesday night, were prophe sying that within twenty-four hours the Burlington strike would come to an end, and who last night conjured up visions of white-winged angels of peace flitting through the fog and mist be tween the big building and the Grand Pacific, are realizing this evening that it is not always safe to depend on im agination for facts. The truth is that the fifth day of the strike closes with the existing conditions, as well as the outlook, precisely in tlie shape that has been outlined from day to day in these dispatches. The opportunity of the angels, if they ever had one.has passed. The struggle, if the leaders on both sides say what they mean, has resolved itself Into an issue of strength, or of strategy. NO SURRENDER is the motto of 'the railroad, and the policy of the brotherhood is precisely the same. Between the two there Is no middle ground. The deal between Chief Arthur and the representatives of the Reading knights, and which was the direct result of overtures made by the former, had a tendency toward mak ing the local strikers unusually buoy ant this morning. They looked upon it as being practically the beginning of the end of the fight, and as placing the Burlington at their mercy and they waited all day for the news that the be hest had been obeyed by the brother hood men now in the Reading road's employ. But the news didn't come, and a revulsion of feeling was Only pre vented by word from the Grand Pacific that the ' persons charged with the pro mulgation of order the had not yet reached their destinations,'and that noth ing definite was expected by Chief Ar thur till the morning. It did not occur to them, and the suggestion when broached, was indignantly- repelled, that perhaps Master Workman Gleason, of Philadel phia, and Secretary Cahill, of Reading, who represented the- knights in the deal, might not be able j to carry out their part of the programme. But it did so occur to Grand Secretary Debs.of the Firemen's Brotherhood, and that is why he found himself in the office of his old time enemy, Joseph Buchanan, this afternoon. Buchanan is editor of the Labor Enquirer and the head and chief of the anti-Powderly element in the knights. ' The Reading men are a portion of that particular element, hence it was natural that Buchanan, although he lias kept in the background during the week, should have been sought out and his advice asked by many of the Reading men who had been brought out here. To -> one and all. however, he had said, that knowing all the circumstances they ought to act upon their own judgment. But Mr. Debs was of the opinion that if Buchanan would come out squarely in favor of the deal there would be an ex odus back to Pennsylvania, and in say ing as much.he asked the editor to meet Chief Arthur in conference to-night or to-morrow. - Between these two men the most bitter spirit has existed for many years, and Buchanan therefore replied that while he did hot seek Chief Arthur's company he would, in case he met him, treat him like a gentleman should be treated. As to the question at issue, he had nothing to say." But when his visitor was gone, he sat down and wrote an editorial, 'which will appear in the Enquirer to-morrow, side by side with a column article, entitled, "A BIT OF HISTORY." 7 lii the latter tiie action of the brother hood in the Missouri Pacific and Read ins strikes is reviewed at length, and it goes on to say: "In the strikes referred to Mr. Arthur went so far as to publicly and privately deride and denounce the Knights of ■' Labor ami other labor or ganizations, and to point with gusto to the superiority of the brotherhood's members, 'through which superiority,' he said, 'we are enabled to avoid strikes and the other ungentlemanly and un- American, lawless acts of labor organiz ations.' Dare Arthur deny this? Dare he deny that he made just such stale-, ments from the public platform in Den ver, and that he lacked ( the courage to meet the writer in open discussion on the relative merits of 7 the ;T Knights of '■--.■- ■■- .-'-.■ ■-.'- - .- THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SATURDAY MORNING, : MARCH §3, TWELVE IMAGES. Labor and the Brotherhood of Locomo ;ive Engineers? His cowardice then vas, on a small scale, as despicable as it is now, when he cringes before the )rganization he has' wronged and In sulted, and, were it - necessary, ;he Enquirer could fill a page on the record of this bloated boaster, whose mlef capital has been special cars and >ther soft snaps at the hands of the railroad companies. But 7l want Mr. Arthur and his brothers to know that amidst all the sophistry, hypocrisy, treachery and forgetf uluess of the two ;here is one man who has not forgotten lie blasted hopes, the desolate homes md the wretched wives and children of ihe black-listed shopmen whose most relentless enemy he and his organiza tion has been. The ears of the "supe rior" gentlemen of the brotherhood may remain deaf to the cries that come up from the despoiled of the Rio Grande and the Southwest, but there is one who will always hear them, i HOLD IN SUPREME LOATHING the workingmen, though they object to the low title, who could have saved them but refused." The editorial reads as follows: "A creat change has come over the face of the labor movement, through the Q. strike. Since the matter on this page was put in type, the wily Mr. Arthur has at last been forced by fear of defeat in the present strike to come down from his high perch and meet the representatives of common workingmen on a level. It is to be hoped that this conversion has come in time to save the men from defeat on the Beading, as well as the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy, and that the chief has received a lesson which will be re membered by him in the future, when his organization is once more out of trouble and sailing along as 'the most intelligent, law abid ing, gentlemanly, and successful organization in the country.' But the Enquirer hasn't much faith in death bed conversions, and Arthur has never inspired anybody with confidence suffi cient to warrant the hope that he well remembers his pledges when he gets out of his present tight fix." Thousands of copies of the Enquirer are being sent to-night into the Heading district, and in the opinion of Beading men who are here it will exercise a powerful influence in the direction of thwarting the Glcason-Cahill-Arthur deal. Still another contribution to the strike literature is out to-night in the form of a lengthy letter to the public from EDITOR DETWII.EU, of the Knights of Labor. In it he re views the wage issue, and declares that there is no possible way in which the men can recede from their demands on the question of wages, except at the sacrifice of the entire organization. In an interview to-night, after prefacing that he spoke the views of Messrs. Ar thur and Sargent, he said: "Up to the time of my interview with President Perkins I thought that the way was open for an amicable settlement. I am now thoroughly convinced that it is go ing to be a hot ' fight and a long one. The boys, too, are beginning to feel the same way. It will be a fight to the bit ter end, and the brotherhood or the road must go down. The men will make no more overtures. We outsiders arc through with offering ourselves as mediators, and any propositions must now come from the road. It would be suicide for the men to compromise on the question of wages. If they did they would immediately have another strike on their hands; for 90 per cent of the roads in the country are paying just what is asked of the Burlington, and they would do so no longer if Arthur consented to make an exception of the Q." .:-;"-:: At the office of the company it was said in behalf of President Perkins and General Manager Stone that the deal was v CHEATING NO UNEASINESS. Interviews had been had with several Reading men since last night's develop ments and the company was satisfied that they would be loyal to their new employers. General Passenger Agent Morton in an interview said: "It should be known that the first overtures came to us from the Reading men themselves, through a committee ot their own appointing. We were advised, that the men seeking employment were first class engineers, as good a body of men and as competent as could be found any where, and that they would take pleas ure in filling the places of the striking engineers. That is how we commenced to draw from the Reading region. All the reports from the subofficials re ceived during the day were of an en couraging nature." Nearly 150 engi neers were examined and passed during the day and left Chicago on a special train at 1 p. m. for various points on the road, according to the officials. This makes a total of 450 engineers out of a total of about 750 strikers. Another 100 are enrolled, and about fifty are still in the city and will be examined to-mor row. GUESSING IN ST. PAUL. Railroad Men Do Not Understand Yesterday's Reported Strike Movements. • The railroad, strike again caused much talk yesterday, and after the dis patches published yesterday morning in regard to calling out all the mem bers of the brotherhood on the lines that parallel the Burlington, a great many questions were asked of railroad men. A good deal of curiosity was also shown as to how the Burlington & Northern was getting along, Mr. Ken yon, the general passenger agent of that road, had eiven public notice that the Burlington & Northern was all right, and that the business between St. Paul and Chicago would all be handled without trouble, just as usual. A great many could not see how that could be, unless the strike was over, and no one could comprehend how that could be. They soon found, however, that the Burlington & Northern was all right, and that its trains were running regularly. Many of the railroadmen were conversed with as to the proba bility of the engineers on the Chicago & St. Paul roads being called off, and all but one of them expressed the be lief that they would not be. They all made about the same argument to show that this move was improbable. The roads running up here can have no power over the Burlington & Quincy to induce that road to come to terms, and calling off the engineers would not harm the Burlington & Quincy, and would not accomplish anything, whatever, ex cept to incommode the public in a A EKY BEBIOUS MANNER, ': ' -7 besides the strikers could not afford to inconvenience all of the people doing business in the territory through which these roads run. One of the railroad men who has had a very large experi ence in the business of railroading in the Northwest declared that in his opin ion they would go out. He thought that the railroad men were sensible enough to modify their proposition, but that if after they- had made all the modifica tions that they feel they can make, and nothing more could be done, then as a last resort they would call out all the en gineers up here and tie up the whole Northwest. One of the gentlemen that maintains the opposite view said that "it was too late now to call them all out. The time to have done that was in the beginning. If they had then tied up all the roads they misfit have forced the Burlington to surrender. The latter is getting along all right and in a week more will have its road running along just as usual. 1 They May Not Obey. Reaping, Pa., March 2.— The order to brotherhood engineers- and firemen who took the places of Knights of Labor on the Heading railroad to quit work has not yet been officially received by the men here. The order has divisions or lodges in Reading, Pottsville, Harris burg and Philadelphia to which Read ing railroad engineers and firemen be long. An engineer who occupies one of the highest offices in the division sta tioned in this city, said this afternoon that the orders of Messrs. Arthur and Sargent had not vet been received, and that he did not think the men who took ithe places of knights would very gen erally obey it. •'_. Pneumonia cured i for 25 cents by Dr. Sfilh Arnold's Cough Killer. Try. it •next time. -V'TvU'.;^'.-^, •_■'.- :" -. : :-7;hA^ THE STATE OF TRADE, Weekly Review of the General Com mercial Situation. A FAIRLY GOOD SHOWING. Actual Business Is Satisfactory, but Prospects Are a Little Con fused. -.17? New York, March 2.— R. G. Dun> Co.'s weekly review of trade will say.: "Actual business is satisfactory for the season. Prospects are confused and un certain, in some directions promising; but in other branches of large impor tance decidedly clouded. The passage by the house of the bill authorizing i bond purchases, was designed to remove; the monetary uncertainty, an influence; which affects all trade and industry. Whether the senate will pass the-bilbinj its present form is not yet certain. j Lower prices immediately followed, however, and the average decline in the stock market for. the week lias been about $1 per share. '. The Western rail-; road wars and strikes continue to dis turb business. Because of cuts by Cana dian lines, the Eastern trunk roads announce a reduction of 10 per cent on east and west bound rates March 5, and efforts to settle the Western war were defeated Thursday by St. Paul. Only, a partial revival of traffic on the Burlington road has been attained, while the earnings of the railroads continue to show that a large quantity of freight for the season is in motion. " The rates are dropping and expenses on many Hues increasing. The Pennsylvania advances wages ;on Western lines 10 per cent. An import ant cause of the uncertainty in many branches of trade is the movement to change the tariff. Whether the pro posed changes are deemed desirable or, not, those who think them probable are for that reason moved to defer business operations. The bill submitted on Thursday affect so many industries and branches of trade that individ ual opinions, favorable or unfavorable to it must considerably influence trans actions while it remains pending. It comes at a time when for other reasons there is hesitation in most of the branches chiefly concerned and in creases that hesitation. It is character istic of many trades at present that pur chases and operations are for one reason or another limited to present necessi ties. In the boot and shoe trade, \*nch is otherwise exceptionally satisfactory, there are some such indications as to women's and children's goods. In the cottons the recent signs of halting may be attributed to unusually large deal ings in the past. In the sugar and nu merous other trades the operations of trusts or combinations cause uncer tainty. The local business, since strikes began to collapse, has been marked by only hand-to-mouth dealing, in doubt to the future output. The prices of wool are steady, with Ohio xx at 82 and buyers have been operating with some freedom. - But . any advance has been resisted, and the effects of the pro posal to change duties are not yet seen. A large failure in the lumber and salt interests following the remarkable shrinkage in demand for iron ore, indi cates that the prospect in that region is not wholly unclouded. J Elsewhere t,he, iron trade is hesitating, with somewhat lower prices at •• Pittsburg, while the Youngstown iron works resolve to close unless better rail rates enable them to meet Southern competition. In the East the supply increases while orders halt. No unfavorable indications appear in reports of trade or of collections in any part of the country. Money, is every where comparatively easy, though at Boston and other important. points it is felt that a revival of business activity, would soon be followed by some, pressure. Southern trade is clearly improving, and there are signs of renewed real estate activity at some Western points. The treasury had returned by banks, 81,400,000-of its deposits during the week and in all took in $4,900,000 more cash than' it paid out for the month of February-. The debt reduction was §7,750,000, al most entirely through an increase in* cash on hand, though $5,000,000 was paid for surrendered bank notes and the bank circulation diminished $3, -125,300. The volume of trade repre sented by payments through clearing houses is about 2% per cent larger than last year outside of New York. But with noticeable losses at Boston, Phila delphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Kansas City. The business failures during the last week number 244, as compared with 220 for.the corresponding week of last year. .'■:'. '7 / • ' m. V ■ THE DULUTH BUDGET. :.: Echoes From the Storm—The Do ings of a Day. Special to the Globe. '"■ ' ■ '■;>•*/£ Duluth, March 2.— To-day witnessed the tail end of what Duluth people call the severest storm ever experienced at the head of the lake, and although no damage was done, all trains were de layed, and had ■ the weather • not been comparatively warm, never going below 5 above, there would have been much suffering. It was peculiarly a Superior storm, as at Tower, ninety miles further north, there was no inconvenience. A party of traveling men drove in from Oneota,six miles out, to-day, having been snowbound there all night. . They, were supplied with breakfast from a neighboring farm house. The hotel in Superior, across the bay, was crowded all day yesterday and to-day with peo ple bound for Duluth who could not get across the bay. To-night all trains are leaving on time and no further trouble is anticipated. '..-.7 - • Plans are being I made for. a row of brick flats on Fourth avenue west, be tween the postoffice and First street. They - will be made with stores and rooms en suite and cost $40,000. Two freight trains that had been fifty hours coming from St. Paul arrived in Duluth this afternoon. ." • The Messoba Democratic club held an enthusiastic meeting to-night, with E. Tinkliam in jj the chair. Officers for six months were elected as follows: Presi dent, C. C. Baldwin; vice ! president in each ward: Walter Carroll, First ward; R. N. Marble, Second ward; T.J.Davis, Third ward;- Dr. : McAuliffe. Fourth ward; Dr. Davis, Fifth ward; J. A. Bede, Sixth ward; T. T. Hudson, secret tary ; J. J. Costello, treasurer. Twenty] new names were added. d j Persons with money to invest will do well to tarn their attention to Duluth and Supe rior. M. B. Harrison, 602 Duluth National bank building, Dululn, has a large list 'of! property in both places for sale. I -— — 'ti+t ... ! Get Control of Both. '; j Messrs. Kohl & Middleton last night consummated the deal by which tliey become owners of both the Minneapolis and St. Paul museums operated by Sackett & Wiggins. 9 They obtained the lease of the Minneapolis museum with out difficulty at the time of the receive er sale, and last ■ night got control of the St. Paul museum by paying $2,300, the amount -advanced by Wiggins and Smith for rent. The Minneapolis museum will probably be opened Mon day and the St, Paul museum just one week later. - : . • ♦ ■• <".;** A Poor Marksman. Sax Fkaxcisco, March 2.— An at tempt was made this afternoon to mur der James McShafter, ex-judge of the superior court and a prominent man in" the state. His assailant was Carl L. Lange, brother-in-law of Judge Shaffer's son. A divorce suit has-been pending for some time between the younger Shatter and his wife. Judge Shatter had just left the court room in Cherry • Hill this afternoon when i Lange met him at the «door and fired two shots at him, neither taking effect. A Detroit Blaze. 7 :'-. Detroit, March 2.— Barnes Bros.' big paper warehouse caught fire t this even ing in the rear 'of the third floor near the elevator shaft, it is supposed from the ' steam-' pipes. The flames spread rapidly: both up and down, and the fire-; men could do nothing to check it. In j half an hour. the roof fell and crashed through every : floor to the ' ground. : Barnes Bros.' loss on stock is $100,000, with $80,000 insurance. The building belonged to D. Whitney, Jr. A Sudden Death. -I'T^tf . New York, March Garret Roach, son of the late John Roach, the ship builder, died at his - home on West Sev enty-fifth street early this morning. He was forty years old, and, for some years prior to his father's death, was associ ated with him in the ship-building busi ness. His death, which was from pneu monia, was comparatively sudden. *> .. — — -.'.':: ST. PAUL NEWS. * ROTUNDA RIPPLES. t . : : ■ ,Bits of Gossip Heard in the Lob r bies of the Hotels. 5 "Although San Francisco did , not get the Democratic convention," said j Spe cial Agent George R. Tingle, "we gave the other aspirants a good scare and practically dictated when the 'next president of the United States -should be nominated. Matters were getting .pretty quiet when I left Washington a few days ago, and I .am glad that I am out in the West again, . even if my mission to the capital was not as successful as I had hoped for. 1 shall probably remain in St. Paul for several days before return ting to Frisco to look after the seal iudus ries of the United States in Alaska." Hon. Abe Boyntoii, of Lenox, Dale, was bustling about the Ryan rotunda yesterday afternoon, just as rotund as ever and enthusiastically sounding the praises of the territory with whose.in terests he is so closely identified. "We are waiting patiently, although somewhat anxiously, for , news from Washington concerning the settlement of the vexed question of admission," lie remarked, "but I do not think that jus tice will be much -longer delayed so far as Dakota is concerned. As soon as our status is definitely fixed there Is noth ing that can further impede the wheels of progress in God's country." --.-.*■'.-.•. . * * . '.. . . ■ "Bet wine for the* party that it is a girl," said one of a group of -tourists iv the Merchants rotunda last evening, "and to prove it let's go to the Bodega." This remark attracted the attention of the Globe's representative, and he accompanied the party to the point of attraction, v - They had not long to wait ere a sym metrically proportioned blonde in a well-fitting black toilette appeared, long black silk gloves covering the arms, while at the wrists gleamed two rows of brilliants and in the center of a black velvet band around the throat gleamed a diamond cluster pin. A carefully and tastefully arranged blonde wig completed the make-up of the prima donna, and the deception was complete when the first bars of '"Let Me Dream Again" floated out into the crowded hall. "Tell me that is a man, chuckled the man who had bet the wine, it is all nonsense." But his triumph was short lived, for upon the beginning of the second verse of the popular air - the singer in decidedly masculine, accents exclaimed, "Let her go, Gallagher," ac companying it with a decidedly . male expectoration; and the laugh was on the wine wagerer, ' It was the unanimous'opinlon, how ever, that Herbert Crowley, the female impersonator, was one calculated to de ceive even an expert, and it is pretty ■ hard to make a casual observer and listener believe that he is not in the , presence ot an attractive young woman. OF AND FOR THE ARMY. * Sergt. Edward Mclntyre, Company E, -Fifth infantry, Fort Keogli, Mont., has been granted a furlough for two months. Inspector General Edwin C. Mason left yesterday afternou en route to Dv- Tuth, to inspect the money accounts of the disbursing officers of the govern ment stationed at that point. '" To-morrow, the 4th instant, First Lieut. David N. McDonald, of the , Fourth cavalry, will cease to . be an of ficer of .the army— his resignation hav ing been tendered to and accepted. by .the president, 7 , •. !' -.■ . Capt. Frank D. Garretty, Seventeenth Infantry, recruiting officer at St. Paul, has been directed by the general super intendent to prepare the four mounted and five general recruits - now at his rendezvous and forward them as soon as practical to Fort Leavenworth. Kan., for assignment. A general court martial is appointed to meet at Fort Suelling on Monday, the sth inst. The following officers com prise the detail for the court: Capts. Charles Bentzoni, Gaines » Lawson and Edward J. Stivers, Twenty-fifth in fantry; First I-ieuts. Charles L, Hodges and Redmond Tully, Twenty-fifth in fantry ; John T. French, Fourth artillery : Harvey D. Reed, Twenty-fifth infantry; Second Lieuts. Alfred S. Frost and William F. McMartin. Twenty-fifth in fantry, and Lucien G. Berry. Fourth artillery. Second Lieut.GeorgeP. Ahem, Twenty-fifth infantry, : has been ap pointed judge advocate of. the- court. Ever since the retirement/by opera tion of law, of Gen. Sherman, in Febru ary, 1884, the friends of the army— more especially those of Lieut. Gen. Sheridan— have earnestly advocated the abrogation of that clause in . the act of congress establishing the grade of gen eral in the army which, in effect, de clares that the rank and title shall cease with the present incumbent. The cher ished aim of the host of friends of "Lit tle Phil" to have the mantle of the il lustrious Tecumseh fall to him will soon be realized, if the bill which Sen ator Thomas - W. Palmer, of j Michigan, introduced into congress recently meets with the support which a t-areful can vass of both houses would seem to war rant. The bill provides that the general shall have the title of "general of the army of the United States," and no change is contemplated. in the pay (*13,-. 500 per annum) as now fixed by law. ■ CAPITOL CHAT. "I was born and brought up in the prohibition state of Maine," said a gen tleman who called at the capitol yester day, "and I say there's more drinking and crime in that state than in any other of like size. They have had thirty years of prohibition, and to-day there is more rum-selling gome on there than there was in ante -prohibition days," *h'J& ... "The state gets a handsome income from the railroads of this state," said Secretary E. S. Warner, of the railway commission, yesterday. \ "Last year, the Manitoba paid $176,963 into the state i treasury in the way of a tax on the gross earnings of that road, and the Milwau kee paid over $151,000. The Northern ! Pacific stands next in the list in the amount paid." '■'■' "1 haven't bad time to examine the Mills] tariff bill in detail," said Attorney General Clapp yesterday. "I think, however, iv the main it's about right. I would rather have seen sugar placed on the free list, but we've got to make some sort of a start, aud perhaps that ; will come later." . :■•}-;. '■'- G; ■■.■.?•=■:-■■'* *'—r 77:;; i "I think that free list in the new ■tariff bill might well be longer," said Sunt. W. W. Pendergast yesterday. ' "The sugar planters ought to" be subsi dized, and their product placed on the free list. The duties on iron, too, might well have been lower. Yes, sir, lam in favor of absolute free trade with all the world." - 77- •"v : 7i^:-7'; * * "I haven't read over the new tariff bill yet." said Auditor. Braden yester day. "I don't think salt should be placed on the free list, however. I be lieve in protection." "R. H. L. Jewett will he the new chief clerk of the land office," said a promi nent state house .. official yesterday. "Why shouldn't he be the man? He is a civil engineer, and at { one \ time was chief engineer of a railroad in Dakota. He can construct maps of portions of the country and do all Kinds of survey ing. He knows the routine of the office, and every precedent in the way of civil 'service reform, qualifications and even the custom of the G. A. B. f point to his selection.". ■ _________^ m ' Selling Without License. '777 ; j Miss . Boxy Johnson^. No. 503 Grove street, and H. Kallmonger, agent for the Val Blatz Brewing company, of Mil waukee, for selling liquor without li cense, were brought before Judge Cory on complaint of Inspector Nugent yes terday. M. A. Larson was arraigned on two separate charges by the in spector. All three were held to the grand jury in $250 bail each. - ST. PAUL REAL ESTATE. Sixteen permits were left for record yes terday, with a total consideration of $25,580, as follows: 7 77. 7- C T Tuetett to P Kessler, It 43, blk 16. Smiths 5ubd....... 82,250 J F Eisenmenger to L B Houghton, Its 19, 20, 21 and 22, J V Eisenmenger's Garden Lots.. 2,400 W Dawson to P Peterson. It C, Smith's subd blk 12, Stiuson's div 1,000 J P Gribben to J L Ilullsiek. Its 17 and 18, blk 4, Forest Lawn add 1,100 J A Sweusoo toW S Dedon, It 11, blkS, _ Bronson'sadd 150 H McDonnell to D E Dwyer, It 4, blk 4, Pottgieser's subd 450 T W Wallace to H C Babcock.lt 1, blk 2. May wood add ... 775 X Campbell to M Friederieh, It 2, blk "13, Sault Ste. Marie......... -. 250 M Friederieh to M llatumond, It 2, blk 13, Sault Ste. Marie 175 C B W right to A Anderson, It 20, blk 7, • A E Ramsey's add . : 650 W A Maxwell to E G Maxwell, It 43, blk 6, Smith's subd..... 1"' Five unpublished deeds 15,it»w Total, 16 pieces....... $25,580 BUILDING PERMITS. The following permits to build were issued yesterday: Minnesota Church Foundation, 3-story brick block of three dwellings, Sum mit avenue, near Rice '. $13,000 Louis Johnson, U'2-story frame dwell ing, Greenbrier, near Case 1,000 Plymouth clothing House, alterations to 2-story brick building. Seventh, near Jackson 14,000 H F Yates, 1 1,2-story frame dwelling, Frank, near Fauquier....... 1,000 X Kieldson, foundation and bay win dow, Orleans, near Morton . 500 Martin Kelseth, addition to dwelling, Woodbridge, near At water 500 Three minor permits 300 Total, 9 permits $30,300 [See ad. of Real Estate Title Ins. Co.l m Midnight Minneapolis Fire. A fire at 711 Seventh avenue south, Minneapolis, shortly after midnight called out the - department. A number of boarders who lodge in the house were compelled to make a hasty retreat, but the damage was small, probably not exceeding $200. Two Children Cremated. Fort Moxroe, Va., March 2.— A fire in Hampton this morning destroyed the house of Thomas Jones, colored. Two children perished in the flames. WATONWAN VALLEY STOCK FARM, importers of Clydesdale.English Shire and Cleveland Bay Stallions; 40 Stallions for sale; very low figures. Garden City, Blue Earth Co., Minn. St Paul office. 201 Eagle street. MONEY TO LOAN ON ST. PAUL INSIDE VACANT PROPERTY Purchase Money Mortgages Bought. Graves and Vinton Company Globe Building. ST. PAUL FOUNDRY COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Architectural Iron Work. Founders, Machinists, Blacksmiths and Pattern Makers. Send for cuts of col umns. Works on St. P., M. &M. R. R., near Como avenue. Office 103 E. Fourth street, St. Paul. C. M. POWER, Secre tary and Treasurer. W. F. FIFIELD & CO., Wholesale and Retail LUMBER! Office: Room 1, Schoch's Building, col '• ncr East Seventh and Broadway, St. Paul. Yard on Fauquier, between Arcade an| Mendota. Large New Stock, ; FOR SPRING! 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