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4 THE BfllLY GLOBE IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER ROW, COR. FOI'RTH AXD MINNESOTA STS. Address all communications and make all remittances payable to THE GLOBE CO., St. Paul, Minn. Complete flies of the Globe always kept on band for reference. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Payable In Advance. Dally and Sunday, per Month .50 Dally and Sunday, Six Months _ $2.75 Daily und Sunday, One Year - $s.lK> Dully Only, per Month - - - - .40 Dally Only, Six Months - - - - f5.25 Daily Only, One Year - - - - #4.00 Sunday Only, One Year - - - - flJ»0 Weekly, One Year ----- fl-OO TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, May 31.— Forecast for Tuesday: Minnesota— Partly cloudy, with 6howers; warmer; southerly winds. Wisconsin— Threatening, with occasional showers; warmer; variable winds, becoming southerly. The Dakotas— Threatening, with showers; warmer; southerly winds. Montana— Threatening, with local showers; northerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Wasbington, May 31. 6:48 p. m. Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian Time.— Observations taken at the same mo ineut of time at all stations. TEMPERATURES. ""place. Tern. Place. Tern. pt. Paul 54 Qu'Appelle 54 Duluth 40 Minnedosa 52 Huron 52 Winnipeg 52 Bismarck 66 Williston 5S Boston 64-68 Havre 46 Cheyenne 64-74 Helena 54 Chicago 50-54 Edmonton 54 Cincinnati 64-68 Battleford 60 Montreal 56-60 Prince Albert 62 New Orleans 81-86 Calgary' 52 New York 66-72 Sw.ft Current 56 Pittsburg 62-64 DAILY MEANS. Barometer, 30.06; thermometer, 48; relative humity, 46; wind, northeast; weather, part cloudy; maximum thermometer, 55; minimum thermometer, 40; daily range, 15; amount of rainfall in last twenty-four hours, 0. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Gauge Danger Height of Reading. Line. Water. Change. St. Paul 14 5.3 .0 La Crosse 10 7.1 .0 Note — Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. THE PERSECUTION CONTINUES. The persecution by the city author ities of people who are depraved enough to ride bicycles goes merrily on. Where you get a fool ordinance and a fool policeman in conjunction, there is scarcely anything that may not hap pen. We had a good illustration Bator day night of the possibilities and prob abilities of an ordinance requiring the carrying of a lighted lantern on the roadway. A police officer, in the rat re discharge of his duty according to the letter of the law, kept the patrol wagon busy and loaded the floor of the cen tral station with wheels, until his su periors hastily sent him word to de sist. All of the persons who suffered the ignominy of arrest, with a single ex ception, had complied with the ordi nance, absurd and improper as it i3, and were carrying lanterns on their wheels. The high wind prevailing made it impossible to keep these alight, but the excuse did not avail them, either with the officer or with tlie central au thorities. These gentlemen, including two visitors from Minneapolis, were obliged to put up the cash for their bail or to leave their wheels at the sta tion until Monday morning. This is the pleasant experience that may meet the rider of the wheel on any day when he ventures out after sunset. The bicycle lantern, from the nature of the case, is not always dependable. It carries but a small amount of oil, Is liable to get out of order and is kept alight with difficulty when a breeze is blowing. The man or woman who has taken a ride out in the country, fully equipped for meeting the fool ordi nance, is alVays liable to find the lan tern fail on the return trip. Then the rider must either walk home trundling his wheel by hand, or he must take the chance or the certainty of being car ried through the streets, like the, most depraved criminal, in the patrol wagon under the curious gaze and subject to the jeers of all the idlers and ruffians ln the street. Even If the officer who chances to be on duty should not be a fool policeman, how is he to know when to enforce the ordinance and when not? He has no legal right to accept an ex cuse, and we are obliged to say that the city authorities do not wish him to. The purpose of this ordinance is to make it unpleasant and dangerous for the wheelmen of this city, and that purpose is being amply realized. The spirit of it is well exhibited by the re mark of a gentleman who, a short time ago, discussing the question of carry ing lanterns, said that if he saw a man riding a wheel at night without a light he would, if possible, run into him and' smash his machine and in jure him if he could. That is the exact idea of the ordinance and the city au thorities and the people who sympa thize with them. They do not want to protect the public, but to have peo ple do what they tell them to do, or he smashed. It is not a question of pubHc protection, but of petty tyranny. The same spirit crops out in the ri diculous action of the park commission ers and the more ridiculous explana tions offered of it. The park policemen are enjoined to forbid any person who may ride the wheel to Como park from dismounting and taking the wheel by hand to a place where it will be safe While he enjoys the beauties of the park. A bicycle must be left standing or lying in the roadway, which, of course, prohibits the riders of wheels from using any portion of the park ex cept the public drives. As individuals, We have assurance that the park com missioners see the absurdity and the injustice of this thing. As a body, they follow the traditional policy of the city. The young woman who has a holiday and wants to spend it quietly and economically by riding out to j Como and taking a lunch or reading a book under the trees cannot do so, : not because it would interfere with . anybody else, but because wheelmen I have no rights ln St. Paul that any body ls bound to respect. There has been absolutely no provision at Como for wheels ln these weeks when peo ple have been riding, because the pa vilion was not in full operation, and a wheel could not be checked even if you were willing to pay for it. The most that is promised ls a checking station at some future time, where wheels may be left and the riders walk a mile or so to reach the spot they have chosen for recreation. As an explanation of this wretched bit of persecution, there is held up to us a vivid picture of un tamed and riderless bicycles cavorting through the sacred groves of Como park, kicking up their pedals wildly into the air, knocking over everybody who dares to get into the path, tramp ling down the shrubbery and gnawing all the bark off the trees. The invasion of the park by droves of wild bicycles is a terrible thing to contemplate, and is the reason for this absurd, unneces sary and improper restriction. The whole system of dealing with the regulation of the wheel in St. Paul is dictated, as we have said, and as the events prove conclusively, by that spir it of primeval savagery that lingers still in human nature and suggests pol icies and regulations, not for the good of the public, but solely for the pleas ure that they afford in inflicting pain and inconvenience upon others. The city authorities are exhibiting.as grown men, the same instinct that made them, as boys, shy a stone at a bird or a squirrel in the mere hope of knocking it over and witnessing its agonies. It is the same spirit that has animated in quisitions, and lies at the bottom of all impractical prohibition laws; the no tion that you must not do something, harmless in itself, because you want to do it, and that your acts must be conformed to what some other fellow thinks you ought to do, under the heaviest penalties that the advance of civilization will permit. St. Paul is, in spite of the splendid paths that have been created about it, not by public assistance, but from the voluntary contributions of enthusiastic wheelmen, becoming a spot to be avoid ed by visitors, because of its preposter ous regulations, with the policeman's billy and the lockup behind them. Riders from Minneapolis, where they have no such rules, and from which we hear no accounts of any more accidents or greater danger to the public than in St. Paul, find themselves in a new country as soon as they pass the boundary where persecution rules, and every week some of them are sent to the police station for failing to observe the regulations of which they were ig norant and ought to be ignorant, be cause they could not expect them to exist in any enlightened community. There is one remedy and only one for the wheelmen of this city, and we hope to see them resort to it. While resist ance to an officer, under the circum stances of recent arrests in St. Paul, would be morally, if not legally, justi fiable, it is a better plan for the riders of the wheel to combine through their associations to insist upofi' at least a decent regard for their rights. They cannot act too quickly, or declare too positively their intention to put an end to the persecutions of which they are now the object. .<>. WITH APOLOGY TO THE OOIO.\EL. Hennepin county's ratio in 1896 was but .75 per cent, a reduction of over 100 per cent from the figures of the year before. — Pioneer Press. Before our own gallant Kiefer had attained to the venerable dignity of an ex, . and while he was presenting a brave front to the assaults of the icono clastic Wilson upon the tender starch factories, the blooming potato fields and the extensive lumber mills in his district at Taylor's Falls, he made a monumental speech, as our readers may recall, in which he upbraided the destructive Wilson for reducing the protective duty on starch 150 per cent. Perhaps it was potatoes that suffer ed that terrific onslaught and starch that got slashed but 100 per cent, but it is immaterial which was which for the purposes of this apology. As the mathematics that allowed a reduction of 150 per cent were not taught in our school days, we were inclined to think that the colonel had invented some new principle in percentages; and ac cepted this solution as solving, in a way, the enigma of the colonel's elec tion from a district in which mercan tile and financial interests largely pre ponderated. But when, soon after, Senator Hans brough, the favorite son of the North Dakota Railway company, saw our colonel and went him so much better by declaring that free wool had reduc ed the sheep in his state 300 per cent, it became clear that our hypothesis would not work. The colonel, evidently, either had not originated these novel percentages, or, if he had. he had care lessly omitted to protect his invention by letters patent or by copyright, and Hansbrough, seeing their immense utility as ammunition for the cam paign, had appropriated the colonel's scale and improved on it, inflated it, as it were Probably "Hans," as he is affectionately styled by McKinley and Hanna, reasoned that, as the star of empire was more westward in Dakota than in Minnesota, the former must surpass her in percentage; or it may have just occurred to him that 300 per cent was more resonant, more mouth-filling, and, therefore, better adapted to the treeless prairies of his state than the colonel's 150. Anyway, the colonel subsided and left the honor of being the greatest reducer to the Dakotan senator. Then came on the campaign of *96, with all the talk about the reductive effects of the silver dollar upon the gold dollar's purchasing power when the bars should be taken down and silver bars given free run of the mints. Evidently here was a fresh field for the new arithmetic, and a Chicago paper promptly utilized it. It car tooned a merchant marking the gold dollar quantities of commodities down to the silver dollar level, halving them, as illustrating its assertion that the ef fect of Mr. Bryan's little scheme would THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1897. be to reduce the buying power of the gold dollar 100 per cent. And now here comes our venerable and scholastic contemporary with the assertion that Hennepin's ratio of something or other has been reduced over 100 per cent in one year, with something of a ratio left. This clearly calls both for an apology to the colonel and for the formation of a new hypothesis to take the place of the one with a punctured tire. After much pondering on this interesting problem we have arrived at the conclu sion that it ls all due to mental for mation, malformation, we might say. similar to color blindness and stutter ing; defects from birth. This har monizes with other eccentricities of all these several persons, such as their insistence that all that is needed to make everybody healthy, wealthy and wise is to clap a smart tax on every body, which, rather Inconsistently to us, but harmoniously to themselves, they insist is not a tax, and if it is one the foreigner pays it anyway. Now we submit in all candor that men whose mental works turn out such notions as those are perfectly capable of honestly asserting and believing that you can reduce anything 100 per cent and have some of it left, or even that a reduction of 300 per cent may be made without entire obliteration. We submit the case to psychologists as worth their investi gation, and it will not be without in terest to alienists. Meanwhile, will the colonel please accept our apology. -o»_- THE FAMOUS CASE OF BOOTH. While all over the nation soldiers who wore the blue and those who word the gray were paying their tributes of respect to those of their comrades who had received their final discharge, the Ethical society of Milwaukee made the leading feature of its ceremonies an ad dress from a man who bore a part in the great struggle out of which arose the war that has given the nation Me morial day. There is a fitness in thus associating cause and effect, the agi tator who fought the civil fight for the liberty of the negro, with the memory of those who gave up their lives to se cure and perpetuate it. To those who lived in this Northwest forty-odd years ago and felt the tense passions that swept men on to convictions that, a few years later, made them quick to shoulder the musket, the name of Sher man M. Booth is familiar. It is worth while to refer to the event in which he became the leading figure, an event •that brought the state and federal courts into direct conflict. Joshua Glover was claimed as a fugi tive slave and was arrested in Milwau kee in the summer of 1854. Booth, who had left the East because his ex treme anti-slavery views found there little sympathy and general opposition, formed a party to liberate Glover and succeeded in taking him from the cus tody of the marshal. For this he was arrested and brought before Judge Smith, of the state supreme court, and, after a trial lasting three days, the court ordered his discharge on the ground that the fugitive slave law was unconstitutional, congress having no authority to legislate on the return of a runaway slave, or to determine the liberties of men, and because it denied trial by jury. The decision produced a profound impression over the North, and well it might, for it set congress at defiance. An appeal was taken to the full bench and, while it was pend ing, Booth was indicted by the federal grand jury and brought before the laU Justice Miller and held to bail. Booth sued out a writ of habeas cor pus from the state supreme court, which, on the hearing, remanded him to the custody of the marshal on the ground of comity to the federal court and also because it would not assume that that court would hold the law constitutional. If the former decision produced elation among the abolition ists, this one caused general arger, and was roundly denounced as a back down to the slave power. The feeling rose to such a pitch ai.d the expressions were so strong that the marshal feared another rescue party and accepted bail; and Booth, sick, worn out with excitement and confinement, was released to go home and go very near death's door with typhoid fever. In January, 1855, he was brought to trial before Miller, and, tin- I der the evidence, was convicted. Miller refusing to follow the territorial court in its view of the constitutionality of the law. A fine of $1,000 and the costs, amounting to over $450, with imprison ment until paid, was the sentence of the court. Booth immediately applied to the state supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus, and one was issued, directed both to the mars ual and sher iff, and served upon them. Booth was to be taken the follow- ; ing Monday to Madison for the hearing, and his friends decided to , give him a start on the journey that would be an intimation to the court of the state of public sentiment, with the expectation that it would stiffen the court's backbone. Milwaukee was a village then, but over 2,000 persons gathered. Booth and his counsel wi re put into the best sleigh in town, drawn by four gray horses, and the proces sion, with a band of music at its head, formed behind them and escorted them to the depot. The crowd increased in numbers until it numbered over 3,0t*0 by the time the cars were reacted and included men from every rank and class. The trial resulted in an order for the immediate discharge of Booth on the same grounds on whteb Judge I Smith based his decision. This case put Wisconsin in the same attitude South Carolina had assumed ever thirty years before, that of nuil'-'ying an acl of congress, but public sentiment had become so strong in the North by this time "that the United States did not deem it prudent to assert its dignity. *sa- Have you ever noticed how much dearer to you a member of the family or a friend seems when he is helpless? Why is this? Is it not that he then is spared from your usual fault-finding and hourly criticisms, and that you let your mind dwell upon his good final- i itles, thus developing your own better na ture?— New London Times. We have, but that reason never occurred to üb. If, However, that is the reason in any case, would It not be better to »top that fault-flnding and cease those hourly criti cisms so that j;elatlv* or friend would not have to become helpless in order to become dearer. It ls tougfc on him, and such occasions for cultivation ofrpne'a better nature come too seldom to permit of its sufficient development for the practical]; concerns of life. AT Tift THEATERS. It was an engaging performance of a play new ln these refeioni '' that the Giffen-Neill stock company gjaive at (the Metropolitan last night. "The Amnions" is its interesting title. Its c.ass Is, mirab^e dijij^i, correctly de.fgnated on the programme, which defines it as a "farcical romance." It is therefore unique. The combination of farce and romance as they are blended in this creation is a daring venture to be * essayed only by such a genius in the art of piaywriting as Arthur W. Plnero, admitted ly the most skillful and ingenious inventor of comic situations, the most succe.sful creator of eccentric characters now writing for the English stage. To repeat, it was an engaging performance. It had its faults. All first night perform ances have. They were chiefly noticeable throughout the first act. The prompter's voice was heard two or three times— and some of the dramatis personae manifested a sus picion cf unfamillarlty with their lines, but, like artists, they never "stuck." They went right on, leaving the closest observers in doubt whether they had really missed a word or heard a word too many. But as the act progressed confidence was restored and the earmarks of a first night performance gradually became Invisible. In addition to the excellence of the play and the achievements of the players, the oc casion was especially gratifying in view of the large and most appreciatjve audience in attendance. The admiring attention and fre quent laughter and applause that rewarded the players furnished the most convincing testi mony as to the quality of their work. The atmosphere that surrounds the artist envel oped the stage. No crudities were intruded nor suggested. They would not have been tolerated. "The Amazons" tread upon delicate ground. But Mr. Pinero's Amazons are womanly, and .so they step lightly. There are three of them— Lady Noeline (Mary Hampton), Lady Wilhelmina (Kate Blancke) and Lady Thomas. In (Anna Blancke). Their mother, who so deeply regrets that her girls are not boys, drops the feminine termination and addresses them as Lord Noel, Lord Wilhelm and Lord Thomas. She also dresses them in masculine accoutrements, that approach a composite photograph of Rosalind's attire in the Forest of Arden and that of the modern bicyclist. Miss Hampton, being "uncommon tall," dons the Rosalind garb, while Miss Anna Blancke, being uncommon short, wears a pair of snug fitting affairs that accentuate her "cuteness," if such a thing is possible. Miss Kate Blancke preserve* a happy medium equally attractive in its expression cf the woman vainly striving to look like horrid man. The characters of the : sisterly trio are quite as vividly contrasted as their heights and cos tumes. They were artistically portrayed. Miss Hampton engaged the admiring attention of all. She was ever a picture to the eye; she acted with a keenwelish of the spirit of the role, and invested it with a modesty and re finement that might easily be missing, or, on the other hand, be so over-accentuated as to make us feel uncomfortable. Anna Blancke was capital in the role of Lady Thomasin, and Kate Blancke easily ful filled all the demands of the character of Lady Wilhelmina. But the real masculine contingent must not be forgotten. There are, of course, three of these lords of creation; one of them a fine specimen of English nobility, a real man as well as a real viscount, and two eccentric in dividuals, an English earl, who has nothing but ancestors, and a French count, who affects "wise saws and modern instances" In the English language, and mixes them up ln ludi crous fashion. Robert Drouet plays the ath letic and manly Englishman with commenda ble freedom from theatrecism and a. repose of manner altogether gratifying. That pleasing artist, John B. Maher, gives a most amusing impersonation of the excitable French count. The author has achieved his greatest success I ln drawing the character of the Earl of Twen aways, and in the impersonation of this role William Sampson achieves artistic distinction. His assumption of the individuality of this specimen of degenerated ncbility is complete. The personality of the aotor is totally masked. His form is hidden. Charles Kent, as the minister, with a live sense of humor; William F. Owen, as the game-keeper; James Wilson, as the poacher, and Mrs. Eleanor Carey, in the lole of the Marchioness of Castlejordan, with a penchant for masculine daughters, were cast to play comparatively unimportant characters. It would be superfluous to commend their work. * * * The Giffen & Neill company will present "The Amazons" for the entire week, including a special matinee Wednesday afternoon and the regular matinee Saturday, with the excep tion of Thursday and Friday evenings, when Primrose and West's minstrels will hold the boards for those two nights only. * * * Don't overlook seeing the most character istic and interesting feature in Primrose & West's minstrels Thursday and Friday even ings, at the Metropolitan opera house, the great cake walk. * * * The coming week at the Grand will afford j one ot the stellar events of the season in 1 the initial appearance this season of Robt. l Downing, the eminent tragedian, in his most successful historical play, "The Gladiator." Mr. Downing's past visits here have estab lished for him a sterling reputation as an artist of unquestioned ability. "The Gladiator*' is a play from the jea of A. Saumet and was first produced in this country by the great Italian tragedtan, Tomasso Salvini. It is a drama of strong Interest and affords Mr. Downing the best opportunity of his stage career. The assisting company will be ln every way adequate and the scenic appoint ments superb. The engagement will include performances only Sunday, Monday and Tues day matinee and nights. The sale of seats will open Thursday. m FILIBUSTERS CAPTURED. Biscay ami Dauntless Gathered in by Cmtsers. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. May 31.—Dis patches from Miami, on the lower east coast, report the seizure of the steamer Biscay charged with filibustering, by a deputy collector of customs. The Dauntless, which left Savannah two weeks ago, ostensibly on a towing trip, and which has sincq, reported to have landed two cargoes^lp Cuba, la also reported to havei,bee» captured by the cruiser Marblehead, which put out from Key West The capture occurred off Palm beaoh ancfc ths' steamer will be taken to Key Wlpt $,nd placed in cus tody. The Biscasps said to have trans ferred a cargo of 'arms and ammunition to the Dauntless,, a cargo having been sent down the Florida east coast rail way to Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. Nothing was found <$ty the Biscay. j m i i PHIL DALY ILL Proprietor of tlie Farnonn Pennsyl vania Club lit Long? Island. LONG BRANCH, N. J., May 31.— Phil Daly Sr., proprietor of the Penn sylvania club, was taken dangerously ill late last night at his private resi dence, Brookside Villa. The family physician was hurriedly summoned and Mr. Daly put to bed, it being found that he was suffering with acute car diac failure and edema of the lungs. The patient for several hours was in a very precarious condition, and his life was despaired of. Physicians from New York were summoned and a con sultation will be held tomorrow. YflflKEE VS. BRITON CADLJB CHESS MATCH BETWEEN THE HOISES OV REPRESENTA TIVES AND COMMONS. FIRST BLOOD FOR ENGLAND. THE CRACK OF THE AMEfRIC AJi THiAM DEFEATBO lit SIXTEEN MOVES. GREAT INTEIREST IN THE GAME. Tclegramg Exchanged Between the Speakers of the Two Houses Be fore the Play Began. WASHINGTON. May 31.— Flags wav ed from the dome of the capitol today In honor of the soldier dead. Troops marched and countermarched through the streets, but it did not interest the chess experts of the house of represent atives. They were seated in the room of the committee on commerce and did royal battle with the team of the Brit ish house of commons. The match de veloped much more interest than was anticipated. Many notable people were present, the Austrian minister, himself a chess expert, being the umpire. Sir Julian Pauncefote and other members of the Britsh embassy, Speaker Reed and many members of the house at tended. Senator Berry, pf Arkansas, who enjoys a good game of chess, watched the proceedings from begin ning to end. Attaches of five different legations sat at the tables and repre sented the players of Gre*t Britain. Ambassador Bayard designated five members of the British chess club to aot in London in a like capacity for the house of representatives' team Greetings were exchanged between the speaker of the house oi commons and the speaker of the house of representa tives, and between the United States ambassador and the British ambas ador. At 1:30 the drawing for the play took place and resulted as 'follows: black Piankett (Br ' } ' whlte; Pear son (Am.), 2. Shafroth (Am.), white; Parnell (Br.), black. v " black StTaU&S (Br * ) * white: Bodine (Am.), /r, 4, , p J ow . nan (Am.), white; Atheley-Jones (Br.), black. 5. Wilson (Br.), white; Hardy (Am.). black. "■ The white had first move. "They beat us on the draw," said Represen tative Shafroth, when the announce ment was made. The first move was made by the American players on the second and fourth boards. Mr. Shannon, the cap tain of the American team, watrned his players to take plenty of time, as they had fifteen moves to the hour The following gentlemen representing the players of the British team sat at the American tables making the moves telegraphed from Ixmdon: Board 1, Lord Westmeath, attache British embassy; board 2, M. Knagenhelm, attache Netherlands legation; board 3, Mr. Dubose, attache Spanish legation; board 4, Mr. Vogel, attache Swiss legation; board 5, Mr. Boul kowski. attache Russian legation. • The opening of the various games were as follows: Board 1, bishop's gambit; board 2 French defense; board 3, Ruy Lopeif; board 4* Ruy Lopez; board 5, Guicco Piano. The Englishmen were the first to win. At the sixteenth move Mr. Pear son, who is regarded as the best player on the congressional team, resigned. His opponent, Mr. Plunkett, is counted the best player on the English team. Mr. Pearson was unfortunate in the early part of the game, and the vigor ous play of Mr. Plunkett soon caused his downfall. Mr. Shiaifroth played a careful game studied hard and seemed to be thor oughly wrapped up in has moves. Both Mr. Bodine and Mr. Plowman played easily and without extrta excitement. Mr. Handy played the fastest game of all. Each player was allowed an hour for fifteen moves. Mr. Hardy made his first fifteen moves in as miany minutes and played the remainder of the game as rapidly. The Western Union oompany transmitted the moves as fast as made from a table in the roam. Mr. Pearson's resignation and request for a friendly game with Mr. Plunkett was sent and an answer re ceived in less than a minute. Before the play began there was some delay awaiting the message of the speaker of the British house of com mons, who was to send a message to Mr. Reed. The message was as fol lows: To the Speaker of the House of Representa tives: I am glad to hear that the friendly contest is about to begin between the two houses, and trust it Is the most serious con flict in what they will ever meet. (Signed) _W. C. Gully, Speaker of the House of Commons. Speaker Reed responded as follows: To the Speaker of the House of Commons: Thank you for your message. Please convey to the players my regret that I cannot send them best wishes just now, but hope to do so always hereafter. (Signed) — T. B. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Both messages were applauded. The first moves were then sent. During the early part of the game messages were exchanged between the American ambassador to England and the British ambassador to the United States. Mr. Hay cabled: "His Excellency, Sir Julian Pauncejote: "Cordial greeting and sincere wishes for a well-fought game and a righteous victory for the beet side. — John Hay." To which Sir Julian responded: "His Excellency, Hon. John Hay: My sincere thanks for your kind greeting. I cordially reciprocate the sentiments expressed in your friendly message. —Pauncefote." AT THE OTHER EM). Etngl<»h Experts Played Cool and Steady Games. IrONDON, May 31. — Much surprise is expressed at the arrangements made by Henniker Heaton, M. P., for the cable chess match between members of the British house of commons and the Unit ed States house of representatives, which began today. The cable compan ies were asked to transmit the moves free of charge and the Associated Press was also a©proached on the subject. Upon the Associated Press declining, the exclusive right, after repeated de lays, was sold to the London Times, and an attempt will be made to exclude all other newspapers. The various de lays have nearly wrecked the whole pro ject. Some of the English players a fortnight ago, declared that if things were not immediately settled, they would decline to play at all. Not much interest was displayed among the gen eial members of the house, who were seen this afternoon. Col. John Kay, the United States ambassador, visited committee room No. 12 of the house of commons, where the British team play ed, for five minutes today. Room No. 12, in which the British team plays, is one of the smaller rooms for committees, on the corridor facing the Thames, It has the usual appearance of the rooms in the parlia ment houses, with gothic plan, oak ceilings, green walls and mahogany furniture. The five players were at tables arranged in front of the win dows and the telegraph wire was op erated from an adjoining corner. In front of the tables were three rows of chairs, to be used by spectators from the house of commons, who kept going and coming today without any par ticular display of enthusiasm. Ambassador Hay arrived punctually and was cordially received. He heart ily congratulated Mr. Plunkett on winning the first blood for Great Brit ain. The scene during the playing to day was impressive, rather from a sense of what lay behind than what was actually visible. There was no attempt at display on the part of the players. It was a quiet, silent busi ness-like struggle, with the sombre self-restraint characteristic of a chess match under ordinary circumstances Whenever the division bell of the house rang there was a stampede and the players were left alone and undis turbed. At no time was the crowd overwhelming, but everybody acted sans gene, and pipes, cigars, and oc casionally long tumblers, though noth ing stronger than soda and milk, were brought to the players. Opposite each of the champions sat a gloomy, silent man, like the crou pier of a continental gambling table. He was the automaton, whose duty it was to make the moves cabled from the United States. The rapidity wit! which these were sent was the subjeot of general remark, and Mr. Plunkett said that his game went along as rap idly and easily as if he had his oppo nent in front of hism 1 instead of on the other side of the Atlantic. The specta tors decorously whispered their opin ions as to the varying phases of the games and were in no sense a disturb ing element. ITS NEW DIRECTORS. Chamber of Commerce Chooses a Sew Board. The following gentlemen were elected directors of the chamber of commerce at the annual election of that body yesterday: F. W. Anderson, C. C. Andrews, M. Auer bach, E. H. Bailey, J. H. Beck, R. B. C. Bement, S. O. Brooks, H. D. Brown, Pierce Butier, Kenneth Clark, Thomas Cochran, J. T. Conley, Oliver Crosby, L. S. Cushing, V. G. Curtis, E. Dahlgren, W. B. Dean, R. R. Dorr. H. T. Drake, John Espy. H. S. Fair child, D. B. Finch, M. D. Flower, W. J. Footner, Cass Gilbert. C. W. Gordon C. M. Griggs, H. H. Hart, Wilbur H. Howard, E. A. Jaggard. R. C. Jefferson. W. P. Jewett R. A. Kirk, N. P. Langford, W. H. Light ner, A. H. Lindeke, J. D. Ludden, J. W. Lusk, C. F. Mahler, James E. Markham D. R. McGlnDls, S. L. Moore, M. D. Munn' C. P. Noyes, C. M. Power, T. A. Prendergast A. G. Rice, E. G. Rogers, L. W. Rundlett, C. L. Schuneman, E. J. Schurmeier, W. A. Scott, Edward B. Smith, B. Sommers, John A. Stees, A. S. Tallmadge, O. L. Taylor V. M. Watklns, J. H. Weed and H. D. West. By a vote of 25 to 11 the chamber adopted the following report: The transportation committee reports in fa vor of the adoptioh of a complete electric line following up Third street to the boule- I yard annex; thence bearing to the left, keep ing as closely a3 possible thereto, and fol lowing the boulevard on the west side of Summit avenue, connecting with the present Selby avenue line. The question of safety to the patrons of the city railway was, Chairman Kirk said, of paramount importance, while the question of property rights was a secondary one. The railway company must accept the onus of the question of property rights that might grow out of the Summit avenue lino, and the company appeared ready to assume the responsibility. It had been claimed in some quarters that the company is not acting in good faith; that it is skirmishing for delay. In answer to that he would present to the chamber a letter from President Lowry, of the city railway company, as follows: R. A. Kirk, Esq., Chairman, etc.— Dear Sir: In reply to your inquiry as to the course to be pursued by our company relative to the contemplated changes on the Selby avenue line, I would say that in case a satisfactory ordinance is passed allowing us to go up Third street to Summit avenue, thence along Summit to Selby, or from Third street through the park to Nelson avenue, thence on Nelson avenue to Farrington avenue, thence on Farrington to Selby avenue, we will make the improvement the present year. Up to the present time we have not 'seen a safe device to use on the Selby grade. We have recently examined the Providence plan, and do not deem it adequate for the present service required on this line, and certainly not for the future. Respectfully yours, —Thomas Lowry, President. Minneapolis, May 29, 1897. Messrs. Shandrew, Drisooll and Pru den. who came as a committee from the Commercial club, were announced. Mr. Shandrew said that the commit, tee favored the proposed line if a through Une was m»ide to connect with the interurban line. President Peet said that he had al w*as gome ■on record against encroach ment on the avenue, and he desired to state that he was now in favor of the new line. The managers of the city railway had told hhn that there was the minimum of danger by the way * of Summit avenue. Mr. Langford objected that the rail way company would not be able tr> surmount the grade of 9 per cent or. Third street. He was of that opinion, because he had noticed that the com pany had had difficulty in ascending the grade on Fifth street. Gen. Bishop explained that with the more powerful motors the company had had no difficulty with the Fifth street grade. In Chattanooga electric cars over came a grade of 11 per cent with great leads of people. Mr. Dean said that for his part he was not so guileless with respect to the actions of the city council. He thought it would be better for the chamber to say just what it meant. A. H. Lindeke moved an amendment to the report, to the effect that a space of not less than forty feet be left clear on Summit avenue, and a space of not less than twenty-eight near the park way, which was adopted. E. J. Hodgson was elected an hon orary member, being entitled to the distinction by reason of his long serv ice. HE ELUDED THE COPS. Frank Schaffer Escape* Arrest Amid a Fusllade. Frank Schaffer, wanted by the local authorities for the burglary of a West side confectionery store a week ago Sun day, thwarted the plans of two weeks for his capture, near Mendota late yes terday afternoon and single-handed, escaped half a dozen heavily armed detectives and policemen detailed to effect his capture. A fusilade of re volver shots were fired at Schaffer as he gave the detectives the slip, but their marksmanship was as poor as their judgment, in all rushing into the house, where it was known Schaffer was in hiding, instead of leaving a guard on the outside, and the much wanted man made good his escape, while the disgusted police made their way in dejection to the central station. They succeeded, however, in arresting Schaffer's companion, a woman named i Minnie Berrlck, and captured a tent and supplies, with which the couple have been camping near Mendota for the past month. The sending of a platoon of police and detectives after Schaffer was due to his known desperate character, as he has openly threatened to kill any one who attempted to arrest him. When the burglary of the confection ery store was recognized as Schaffer's work, plans were at once put in opera tion for his capture. Detectives were out night and day to locate the sus l>ected man, and when it was finally found that he was in camp with the Berrick woman near Mendota, all man ner of strategy was observed In the l plans tor his arrest. The authorities realised that they must get the man "dead to rights" or there might be a vacancy in the police department, and so yesterday afternoon. Detectives Gruber, Murnane, McKinley, of West St Paul: Olberg, of the Margaret sta tion; Officer McEllistrom and several other patrolmen, were sent out to bring in the badly wanted man. Each of ficer was armed to the teeth and went prepared to get Schaffer dead or alive When they reached SPftdota it was learned Schaffer had broken camp and was at a house in the neighbor hood. Approaching the house a squad of officers, with drawn revolvers, made a rush for the entrance, each anxious - 311 « sduqja^ uojidßo s,.ie,yßqos sq o; tie bird told Schaffer of the policemen's coming, or it may be he heard the rush of the charge upon the front door, but however that may be, he quietly slipped out of a back window, as the squad of "fly bobs" and patrolmen entered the front door, and, with no one outside to interfere with his es cape, made a run for the woods. Wher the officers saw their man getting away every one opened flre on the flying figure with a brace of revolvers, but the shots were wide of the mark, and two hours subsequent search failed to discover any trace of him. The Berricic woman was then arrested and taken to the central station with the camping outfit, though no charge is lodged against her. PEDDLERS' LICENSE CUT. Assembly Committee on Street* Favors a Redaction. The committee on streets of the as sembly decided yesterday to recom mend the passage of the ordinance in troduced by Assemblyman Arosin re ducing the license for peddlers. There was quite a delegation of peddlers present to push the proposed ordinance along, it was stated that last year sixty peddlers took out licenses, but that nearly the same number of "per mits ' were Issued to others by the mayor without the payment of any money to the city treasury. This year it was said, the mayor had issued ten permits up to date. Another unfor tunate state of affairs regarding the mayor's "permits" was that after they were issued the persons holding them in several instances, sold or disposed of them for less than the regular price. Assemblyman Reardon said the mayor or no other city official had the right to issue permits. Assemblyman Thompson defended the action of the mayor, and explained that in some cases it was the correct thing for tha mayor to do. The new ordinance re duces the license for push carts from $50 to $30, and peddlers with horse and wagon from $75 to $40 per annum. Un der the ordinance there can be no transfer of the license except by the city council. The assembly will hold an informal meeting Wednesday evening, at which sundry matters will be considered. Tha new bicycle ordinance, propositions re garding the lease of the levee to tha Milwaukee road, and the Bigelow or dinance providing for a device on th« Selby avenue hill, which have all passed the board of aldermen, will ba discussed. WILL GO TO TORONTO. State Will Be Represented at tlie Charities Conference. Oonde Hamlin, of this city, and Dr, Pol well, of Minneapolis, together with Secretiary Hart, will represent the Mm nesota state board of charities and cor rectlons at the international conven tion, which will be held in Toronto, July 7-14. It is expected that a num ber of other persons interested in mat ters which will be considered and dis cussed at the meeting will go from this state. Mr. Hart received word yesterday from the officials of the Cen tral Passenger association that in their territory a rate of one fare for the round trip would be made. This ter ritory includes Eastern Illinois. India. tisb, Ohio, Michigan and Canada, and it ls expected that the roads in tha Western Passenger association will make the same rate for persons from this section of the country. Funeral olf Dr. Vandcrslals. The funeral of Dr. Vandersluis took placa from the late residence of the deceased, 161 Kent street, yesterday afternoon. The serv ices were private, and attended only by the family and intimate friends. Rev. Dray, rector of St. Clement's church, read tha Episcopal burial service, after which he de livered a touching tribute to the deceased, referring to his worth in life and his de parture from this world as a true Christian. Drake Estate's Appeal. The matter of the objection of the repre sentatives of the Drake estate to the amount of the tax levied against the property waa heard before Judge Otis yesterday afternoon on appeal from the action of the board of abatement refusing to abate the tax. Judga Otis took the case under advisement. BARONESS GETS BACK. Aliened Victim of Yon Arnold Re turns to Montreal. MONTREAL,, May 31.— At 7 o'clock tonight a tall and rather handsome wo man stepped from the Quebec train. She was the woman who has come into such prominence as Baroness yon Turkheim, lately Mrs. J. M. Delmar, of San Francisco. A representative of the Associated Press called at the Windsor hotel shortly after 10 o'clock and was granted an interview. The wo man had registered as Mrs. J. M. Del mar, San Francisco. At the beginning of the interview Mrs. Delmar stated that she was now convinced that the supposed Baron yon Turkheim was a fraud and none other than C. J. yon Arnold, of Stillwell's detective agency. She then related in detail the story of her discovery, in the supposed baron's trunk, of a letter addressed to C. J. yon Arnold, care of Stillwell's detective agency, Liverpool; her taxing the baron with the deception and his subsequent desertion of her. She continued: "When I taxed him with being not what he represented himself, but simply a de tective In the employ of Mr. Delmar, he laughed at me and said it was lucky for me that the original plan was not carried out. I then learned that they originally intended that our wedding trip should be made to Cheefoo, China, where I was to be placed in an asylum or something of the kind. Then they probably thought I would object to go ing there, so the proposal was to get me to France and have me placed in an asylum there. Dr. Delmar has lived many years in France and probably knows how that could be arranged." Mrs. Delmar said that she and Mrs. Richardson had remained In London two weeks. She was asked who sent her the money to return. "It was sent," she replied, "by a lawyer whom I in tend to employ when I get back, who Is going to take an action for conspir acy or something of that kind, H. W. Putton." She hoped, she said, that she would not be called in the Fair will case; she did not see why they should want her now. "Do you object to saying wihat you know about it?" rfi "Certainly not. I know who forged the will; I know all about that. I saw all Mr. Stillwell's reports on the mat ter. The papers were shown to me in Mr. Delmar's office and Mr. Delmar told me that they were forgeries." Speaking of her future movements Mrs. Delmar said she might < remain in Montreal for two or three days, but by what route she would return home, she did not know. She had received a telegram advising her to remain here for a few days. Her uncle was to have been here, but she supposed he must have gone to Quebec instead of Mon treal. SCHRADER STONED. The "Divine Healer" Mobbed ln a Suburb of St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. May 31.— "Divine Healer" Schrader was stoned out of Clayton, a suburb of St. Louis, this morning by a crowd of men and boys. Schrader was preparing to take a bi cycle ride at his hotel, when he was greeted on the corner by a large and noisy crowd. He attempted to address the assemblage and finally exclaimed: "Those of you who are opposing me are rejecting God." As soon as he had made this remark, the crowd closed in on him In a threatening manner. Has tening to his room, he gathered whflit few belongings he had, which made a small bundle, and mounting his wheel turned south from the court house steps amid showers of stones. He was struck on the back of the neck by one of the miss'les, but it apparently in flicted no injury. It did, however, ac celerate his speed as he rode on toward the country.