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4 THE DfllLY GLOBE 18 PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT KBWSPAFEB ROW, C Oll. FOURTH AM) MINNESOTA ST». SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Payable in Advance. Dnily ond Sunday, Per Month .BO DnMy and Sunday, Six Month. f2.75 Dally cud Sunday, One Tear - 93.00 Dully Only, Vf r Monlk - 4O Dolly Only, Six Hcnthl - - - - - $2.35 Dally Only, On© Venr «4.00 Sunday Only, One- Year -•--- If'- 50 Weekly, One Venr - - -' fI.OO Address ell communications ar.d make «H fremittancrs payable to THE GLOBE CO.. St. Paul. Mlun. Complete files of tbe Globe always kept n:, hand for reference. WEATHER I'llK TODAY. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.— Forecast for Mon day: Minnesota: Fair; colder; northerly winds. Wi L-onsin Clearing weather In the morning; fair in the afternoon: colder: brisk southerly winds, becoming northwesterly. [owa Fair Monday: decidedly colder; north erly winds. Montana— Threatening weather, with snows; northerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture, "W. ■;••*. ■■■!■ Bureau. Washington, Nov. 14. 6:18 p in Local Time. S p. ni. Tf.tu Meridian Time. Observations taken at the same ino mein of time at all stations. TEMPERATURES. Place. Tern.Place. 1Vi »; aul 12 Swift Current 8 Duluth ::; Qu'Appelle 13 Huron > Minncdosa 18 Bismarck M Winnipeg -* Williston '•■' — ; , Havre 12 Buffalo ;;;-* Helena M Boston So-,- Edmonton S Chicago -»■'[[ Battleford 10 Cincinnati 62-64 bert l« New York 40-44 Calgary 12 Plttsburg «-4J DAILY MEAN'S. Barometer 29.79: mean temperature. 38; rel ative humidity. '■■-: wind at S p. DJ., west; weather, cloudy; maximum temperature, <v; minimum temperature. 34; diiily range 8; amount of precipitation iv last twenty-tour Jiours. .02. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger C.niiKo Change in Stat Line. Reading. 24 Hours St. Paul l< : 4 ; 0-° La Crosse 10 ->> — "•* —Fall. Note- Barometer corrected for temperature -and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. DIXGLEY \S PODBSAP. The Home .Mark, t club, of Boston, has had its dinner and, of course, its i after-dinner speeches. It is seven years now since the dub had just such an other dinner with about the same cir cumstances contributing to the jollity of the occasion. Subsequent dinners they have had: l.ut there was a shadow over the feast, and a gruesome note ran tluough the speeches. We are not so vengeful that we b grudge the club two dinners in seven years at which no reins are put on jollity and when ex uberance is uncorked. It was at the dinner seven years ago that the club felicitated itself and the few others on the : E the McKinley act, and the contemplation oi the extra, divi dends thai were to result naturally in spired the members with what Holmes called that "old particular, warm, champagney, brandy-punchy feeling," regardless of other contributors to that state of feeling. True, the November his had cast a sadness over the situation, but there was the consola tion that anyhow there would be fat pickings for four years anyway and meantime something might happen. The bright particular star of the f. ust of soul and body this year was the speech of the lather of the re vamped and resurrected McKinley act, ■ the Honorable Nelson Dingley Jr., of ..Maine, better known to the mass as Oingley Bill. Dingley opined that there luts of peopl< who knew more 2nan they did a few years ago, a state fment to which we will ask no excep ttion to be noted, for we admit it. LThere are, for instance, a million or two Democrats In the land who know I much mere about the game of polit ical bunco than tbey did even one year ago, and they arc all sadder and wiser men. We mention this merely to illus trate our agreement with Mr. Dingley's profound observation. We might even venture the assertion that if these ocrats had known as much a year ago as they do now. and had known what they will learn within the next few months, Mr. Dingley would not lie making himself gay at a banquet of the Home Market club this year, and that highly respectable body of assist ed capitalists would be still in a cave of gloom. With this, of course, we do ' I not expect Mr. Dingley to agree. But this is not what we started out jto say. Mr. Dingley is to blame for ',the digression, for it was inevitable Vhat, when he suggested the increase »f wisdom which is the unearned but Nearly paid for increment of the last ■\-w years, it naturally started .-..houghts of those who had been learn ing. What we were going to do was i.o call attention to the resemblance be lirweeti the style of the man from Maine and Mr. Podsnap, whose way it was to se of his adversaries with a ma jestic sweep of the hand to the side and rear. Thus Dingley "disposes" of tho: • who dissent from the doctrine I .11ki ! ;his much-talked of and barely! paljiai '.'■ prosperity is wholly due to j the ' ■ ••• measure that will j Igo thundering down the ages as the JDingky bill. The orator left his free trade friends to reconcile their various conflicting diagnoses of the cause among themselves, and. with a wide j •sweep of the arm, he brushed them and i aside and "simply" remarked ihat "the comr of the people concludes that the re] eated coincidence between the protective potiey and pros fperity and between its overthrow and adversity establishes the relation' of cause and effect."' Podsnap himself "couid not have disposed of a contested point more grandly or conclusively. I . loi uinately for our Podsnap his coincidences do not coincide. To go back no farther than the overthrow of that policy by the Walker tariff of 1846 let history pass judgment on his state ment. It was nine years after that act before a period of adversity came, due Wholly to land speculaAu»»* «rowinjj cut of the extraordinary prosperity of the country under and measurably due to that act. From IS6I to 1894 the protective policy prevailed continuous ly. During that time prosperity moved out and adversity moved in and abode with protection from 1573 to 1879; came back again in 1884, revisited her protec tive relative again in 1890, and liked the situation so well that she had the whole adversity family move in in 1894, and the larger portion of them are with us yet. In the presence of these facts Mr. Dingley did well in contenting him self with "simply remarking." FISH, CUT BAIT OR GO ASHORE. Every sign of the times indicates that there will be no attempt, even, beyond the perfunctory recommenda tion of the president and the sugges tions of Secretary Gage, of a plan to put through congress any reform of the currency. Speaker. Reed foretold the policy of drifting when he an nounced that "what this country wants is a tariff and a rest." Nominated to restore his discarded policy, by one of those oblique movements that occa sionally occur in presidential and other campaigns, the tariff issue became sec ondary, and the currency issue the : dominant one. Because this movement occurred, Mr. McKlnley is now presi dent. Becoming president, he reversed the. position of the two issues and forced the tariff to the front. True, he did, at the last moment, when congress, wearied with contention about rates, was on the point of adjourning, send in a message asking permission to ap i point a currency commission, but he delayed it because he was assured that its consideration would defeat the tariff bill. Interviews with Republican con gressmen and senators indicate that there will be no effort to redeem the promises so profusely made to the Democrats who could not accept the financial policy of their national con vention, and by virtue of whose votes the Republican party was put in posi tion where it could, at the least, at tempt their redemption. The tone of their press is similar. Nowhere is there any prominent paper strenuously insisting that something must be es sayed, even should it fail in the sen ate. The Minneapolis Journal asks suspension of judgment until after the next session of congress, when, if noth ing Is done, "there will be some justi fication in condemning them." The Pioneer Press asks for delay and halt ingly says that, "if the house continues ■ to be Republican, the Fifty-sixth con gress can reasonably well be depended upon to take at least the initial steps in the way of currency and financial reform." The Minneapolis Tribune fears that "there is no hope for secur ing a majority (of the senate) for gen uine reform. If such a congress had been elected, a congress Republican in both branches," something would be done. To these doubting Thomases, these who are letting "I dare not" wait upon "I will," who are raising a bugaboo as justification for avoiding duty, the fall elections should have a lesson. The one feature that stands out in i greater prominence among them, from Massachusetts to lowa, is that the Democrats who last year gave to Re publicanism its vi?tory have concluded in large number that they were the victims of a confidence game, taken ! in and done for by smooth talk and | empty promises as thoroughly as was ever an unsophisticated granger by the slick confidence men of a city. They have gone back, partly for re venge, partly from despair, feeling that nothing can be worse than what is. Next year, when the congressional elec tions come on, this return movement will be more prominent, should this do nothing policy prevail. It is the ap prehension of this that makes one of the papers quoted put that doubting "if" before its statement of what a i Republican congress will do "if" one is i elected. So astute an observer as Chauneey Depew is quoted as predicting, from the result of the elections, the predom inance of the currency issue in next year's congressional contest. Mr. Bry an is of the same opinion. With no reform even attempted in the house with its Republican majority, with Dingleyism then getting in its full ef fect on every hand, how can any Re- ! publican look for a continuance of the [ control of the house by his party? j What reason is there for assuming ; in advance that no measure can pass the next or even this senate, if the I administration backs the bill with even half the vigor Cleveland's pressed the silver purchase repeal bill? But, even j conceding failure in the senate, nothing is more certain than that supineness in the house will send thousands .of Democrats back to their party and I make the next house un-Republican, at least, whatever else it may be. With this condition confronting the con gress soon to assemble, facing the re sponsible house, if not the senate, It is clear that the Republican party in congress must either fish, cut bait or go ashore. THE METRIC SYSTEM. Among the bills that failed of pass age in the last congress was one estab lishing the metric system in this coun try, supplementing the commendatory act of 1866 with one making it com pulsory in all the departments, except as to land surveys, and declaring it the legal system after Jan. 1, 1901; fail ing, although recommended for pass age by a unanimous vote of the com mittee on coinage, weights and meas ures. During its pendency the Globe commended the measure, and it can j find, in a pamphlet prepared by Prof. Husted, of the New York Normal col lege, no reasons sufficiently forceful to cause a change of opinion. There are, of course, many arguments against the change, the strongest of which is based upon that conservatism which prefers the accustomed to even the more con venient and useful new, strengthened, in this case, by the habits of genera tions. Our system, if such a word can be THE SAINT PAUC GLOBH: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1897. applied to It, like Topsy, just grew. It is unscientific and purely arbitrary. Its various parts are unrelated and, in some, as in measures of quantity, there are various measures having the same name but containing different quanti ties. The metric system Is scientific, and all the different parts are related to and convertible into each other readily. Its base is the meter, a little longer than our yard, 39.37 inches, which increases and decreases deci mally as docs our coinage system. The cubic decimeter, one-tenth of a mefer, becomes the 'liter, the standard of measurement for capacity, and is nearly the same as our quart, being 1,0567 quarts. The unit of weight, the gram, is the weight of a cubic centi meter of distilled water; the unit of surface measurement is the area of 100 square meters, and the unit of | solids is the cubic meter. The system thus presents itself as a harmonious and related whole, whose parts are in terconvertible. The arguments presented by Mr. Husted against the change may be readily condensed into two, the un familiarity with the metric system, and the difficulty of familiarizing the pub lic with It before it can come into gen eral use. To this it may be answered that, while those of us who are of his generation are unlearned in the French system, the generation that will succeed us is being made acquainted with it in every school in the country. In all the arithmetics the metric sys tem is given, with practice examples for solution. Even with this advan tage it may be conceded that old hab its will be stubborn and that it will take many years to supplant the old with the new. It took France over forty years to get used to it, a new generation instructed in it having to take the place of the intermediate one that clung to the old while being brought in daily contact with the new. But the people of this country went through a similar experience when Jef ferson, perceiving the advantages of the metric system then being introduc ed in France, made it the basis of our coinage system. For many years af ter the dollars and dimes were coined and in use values were expressed in pounds, shillings and pence, and men who would not admit that they are old can recall the days when prices were stated in shillings and bits, in sixpences and picayunes. The bit and picayune still linger in some sections of the country, but no one would pro pose now that we return to the mone tary denominations with which our grandslres were familiar. The time never was and never will be that the better has not and will not meet the op position of the merely good, but the spirit of the times demands the better, and the metric system answers the de mand. STATE PRISON SCANDAL Warden Wolfer may or may not be a cru»l or incompetent man, but his deputy Lenioi unless all testimony is false, comes near enough to being a murderer to warrant mak ing him an inmate instead ot" a guard in the prison. We havo not the slightest doubt that I tin- c-harges against Lemou and others of th° I prison force are true. In any institution so ' well shielded from the public view ac is a ' state prison it requires the greatest vigilance to prevent those in authority, who are natu rally brutal, from giving away to their in stincts and "taking it out" on the prisoners. The warden is culpable in not keeping a closer watch on his force. The man Lemon has been whitewashed once before in an investi gation. This time the investigators should in vestigate. The talk of politics in connection with the G1 o b c's charges is ridiculous, but even if it were true the prison has been "in politics" too long for that to affect the need cv* investigation. The Globe is probably impelled by a desire to sell more newspapers, but it is pretty sure to have its facts well in hand, and if its exposure leads to a break ing up of the gang which has for years abused the state's charges at Stillwater, it ought to sell more papers, and we hope it will.— Whcelock's Weekly. * * * We would respectfully remind that investi gating committee appointed by Gov. Clough to look into the charge against the Stillwater management that the people of the state want no modified report, but one chuck full of fact 3, regardless of who is hit.— Fairfax Cres cent. * • » Oh, yes, this dragging the state prison man agement into the mire of polities is too bad! It is awfully awful! Just as though the state institutions of this state hadn't always been the victims of political rottenness and jobbery! We most heartily wish the St. Paul Globe success in its efforts to purify the atmosphere at the state prison.— .Madison In dependent Press. * * * Gov. Clough has acted the part of wisdom in declaring that the investigation at Still water shall be conducted without expense to the state. The gravity of the charges against the penitentiary management warrants the most complete investigation, and the evidence should be taken just as it is without fear or favor. If the charges can be sustained, the offenders should be made to feel the full penalty of the law; if they cannot be sus tained the management should be exonerated. —Albert Lea Evening Tribune. * * * Deputy Warden Lemon has brought upon himself a great deal of adverse criticism by employing an attorney to defend him before the investigation committee now in session to inquire into the charges preferred against him by the St. Paul Globe. This, in itself, looks like an evidence of guilt.— Morton En terprise. — — -<O- BURNS IS RELUCTANT. Alleged Perjurer Doe* Not Want to Return Here. A dispatch to the Globe from Win nipeg says: "Proceedings in the Burns extradi tion case were resumed Saturday aft ernoon. Witnesses for the defense did not arrive from St. Paul, and counsel for the accused offered that if his client were admitted to bail h*e would return to St. Paul and surrender himself to authorities there within a week, or he would Return in custody of Chief Mc- Rae, of this city, and surrender him self. These propositions were refused by the prosecution, who insisted on the usual order for extradition. The judge then made an order for Burns' extradi tion, and remanded him to jail to await usual routine being carried out. Burns' counsel will apply before the full court, which sits on Nov. 29, for an order for Burns' release on the objections to the proceedings which he will then raise."' PATROLLED THE BRIDGE. Idle Threat Causes tlie Police Some Trouble. Officer William Smith patrolled the high bridge for over an hour last even ing in order to intercept a man giving the name of Andrew Holman, who de clared to several acquaintances his intention of ending his life by jumping from the bridge. He parted from his friends in a saloon, where he informed them that his troubles were greater than he could bear, and some of his friends at once hurried to the central station. Capt. Rouleau dispatched Of ficer Smith to the bridge, but Holman failed to appear, and it was concluded he had thought better of his expressed purpose to kill himself. Struck One. "Oh, Jack, I am so terrified when there Is lightning." •'Get under the bed and it will never touch you." '"But we have folding beds." "Very thing. Chance for you to shut up." —Truth. DIED AT fIIS DOOR JOHN F. NOURISH, OP THE BOARD OF PRISON MANAGERS, EX PIRES SUDDENLY |*__3I AT HIS HOME IN HASTINGS. HEART FAILURE WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS TRAGIC TJ EXCISE. MANY YEARS IN OFFICIAL LIFE. Long; Career at Public Service Came to an Abrupt Termin ation. Special to the Globe. HASTINGS, Minn., Nov. 14.— John F. Norrish, the pioneer merchant of this city and for about ten years identified with public affairs in Minnesota as a member of the board of managers of the Minnesota state prison, died very suddenly this morning at the hall door of his residence, 301 Second street. The news fell upon the community with a terrible shock, for the tall, spare figure of the veteran business man has been a familial- figure on the streets of Hastings for a generation, up to within a few minutes of his death, which oc curred just as he had returned from the postoffice, where he had taken some letters and secured some mail to carry home. While his intimates have suspected recently that Mr. Norrish's vitality was failing, yet it was believed that he might look forward yet to several years of service as useful to his community as had been the decades of his resi dence before. The veteran's tragic end was almost unheralded. At the meet ing of the prison managers as recently as Tuesday last, Mr. Norrish was visi bly exhausted by the trip from his home and the incident labors of the meeting, his interest in the affairs of the board with which he had so long been connected having been most ac tive. At that time some of his asso ciates expressed the fear that his offi cial connection with the institution would be terminated in the near future. His term was to expire in 1898, and it was thought he would decline a reap pcintment if tendered. But even the prophets little dreamed of so early and so tragic a fulfillment. Heart failure was the cause of death. The arrangements for the funeral are not as yet announced. John F. Norrish was born in Devon shire, Kngland^ Jiriy 6, 1829, so he had nearly reached the' alloted span of three-score years and ten. He had re sided in Hastings ' during almost the entire term o£ his business life, and had always tak*en a great pride in the town of his adoption. A Democrat in politics, he was esteemed by his towns men without regard to partisan affilia tions, and worked hand in hand with them in all movements for the benefit of the city. He was indefatigable in his efforts last winter, and during the year of skirmishing previous to the legislative fight, to keep before all concerned the superior advantages, as he believed them at least, of the Hastings insane hospital site. Nor was he slow to aver his entire confidence in the justice of his contention that Hastings had been legally selected. While always-active in politics, he had been content with modest official places. He served as a member of the house of representatives in" tfte legisla ture, in 1876, among those who were his contemporaries being John L. Gibbs, the present lieutenant governor; Capt. William Crooks, Fred Richter, C. t>. Gilfillan, C. H. Pettit, the Minneapolis miller, Col. John H. Stevens, the found er of Minneapolis; Capt. C. B. Tirrell, Daniel Bassett. A. M. Reid and Frank L. Morse, of Minneapolis, and Dar S. Hall and S. G. Comstock, since in con gress. During the first term of President Cleveland the deceased was United States surveyor general for the district of Minnesota. He was for many years, and up to 1892. a member of the board of direc tors of the state agricultural society, and while not as prominent officially in the organization during the last few years, he has been a regular partici pant in the general meetings of the so ciety. He took a grea,t deal of inter est in the work of the fairs, as well as in the scientific discussion which was made possible by the experimental station in which the agricultural so ciety had been so active a co-worker in earlier years. When the legislature of 1889 passed an act reorganizing the state prison, and providing for its management by a board of five directors, Mr. Norrish, although of opposite political faith from the party in power, was appoint ed on the board, aftti he has ever since been identified with the prison. At the time of the international prison con gress in Paris -in 1895 he was sent as Minnesota's representative. Mr. Norrish is survived by his wife and one daughter, Miss Gertrude A. Norrish, who is prostrated by the sud den, death of her father. A brother, Samuel Norrish, also a resident of Hastings for a quarter of a century, survives also. As soon as the news of the death of Manager Norrish reached Stillwater, President O'Brien, of the board of managers, and Warden Wolfer started for St. Paul, arriving in time to take an afternoon train for Hastings. They conferred with the relatives of their deceased associate, and it is probable that the board will attend the funeral services as such. No date has been fixed for the services yet. '•I have known John F. Norrish for years," said Senator O'Brien last night. ! He was a perfect gentleman, and thor- j oughly honorable in all his dealings. He was sensitive in a high degree to his duty as a man and a citizen, and, determined as he was to do no one any wrong, he expected equal consid eration for others." The sudden death of Mr. Norrish caused profound sadness in Stillwater, where Mr. Norrfsh was almost as well known as in his own home, and on the occasion of his Official and other visits had made many, warm friends. MACCABEES CONSOLIDATE. Three Tents to I siie*- Under the I Name ait "Victor. The Maccabees of-St. Paul have in- j dorsed the idea that in union there is | strength, and tonigk} three tents will j consolidate under t&e name of Victor j Tent, No. 8. There will then 1 be only two tents in St. Paul, and each one full of life and ytep* and possessed of j a large membership: : The three tents to be united toliighjj are Capital City No. 40, Unity No & and Minneopa No. 39. The tent will have a membership of 150, and will be the third largest in the state. Deputy Supreme Com mander Kelly, of Minneapolis, will officiate tonight, and will be accompa nied by a number of Sir Knights from i the city up the river. It is understood that, in the selection of officers, Dr. Hubbell will be chosen commander, A. J. Fetsch, record keeper; Judge Schoonmaker and George J. Hotchkiss, past commanders. After the reorgan ization, arrangements will be made for the visit of D. C. Alarkey, the supreme commander, who is expected in St. Paul about Dec. 1. CT'BANS CAN GO HOME. Blanco'i Proclamation Applies Only to Those Who Have Funds. HAVANA, Nov. 14.— The Gazette will publish tomorrow an edict of the gov ernor g-erieral with respect to the sup ply of food to reconcentradoes and those discharged as cured from the hospitals. This will state that it is im possible to annul at once the edict of concentration, as most of those affected by it are homeless and destitute of all means of livelihood, so that their con dition would be made worse by an im mediate annulment. It is. therefore, necessary, the edict will declare, to proceed with great care. Those having property will be at liberty to return to the country districts after obtain ing permits from the local authorities. Property owners will be at liberty to provide themselves with the means of defense, and to use the revolver and the machete to protect themselyes, pro vided they have previously obtained li cense. Such reconcentrados as are absolute ly destitute will remain in the towns under the protection of local bureaus of charity, assisted by a state fund. A Junta of assistance will be formed at once, with branches in the principal towns, under the direction of promi nent people, and "full protection will be extended to insurgents who sur render." MADRID, Nov. 14.— Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, the United States minister, had a conference today with Senor Moret, the minister for the colonies, and discussed with him the prohibition of the export of tobacco from Cuba. According to a dispatch from the partisans of Lieut. Gen. Weyler have abandoned the idea of a demonstration in his favor on the ar rival of the Montserrat. LONDON, Nov. 15.— The Madrid cor respondent of the Daily Mail says: Senor Moret, minister for the colonies, has promised Gen. Woodford to study the tobacco prohibition carefully, and tcday he cabled Marshal Blanco for in formation on the subject. In view of the improving relations between Spain and the United States, Senor Moret is inclined to grant Gen. Woodford's re quest. BISHOP OF 3IAJORI DEAD. Principal Cause In the Downfall of Azearragu. MADRID, Nov. 14.— The bishop of the diocese of Majori, Balearic Isles, who last September excommunicated Senor J. Navarro Reverter, minister of finance in the cabinet of Gen. Marcelo de Azcarraga, for an alleged conversion of church property to government uses, is dead. The act of excommunication above mentioned, with the friction it entailed between the ecclesiastical and political authorities, was believed at one time to be a prominent factor in hasten ing the fall of the Azcarraga ministry, which resigned on Sept. 29 last. The bishop of Majori issued the decree of excommunication in defiance of the or der of the archbishop to the contrary; and it was read in all the churches of the diocese on Sept. 19. Several in fluential prelates, however, approved the course of the bishop, and their at titude in the matter, being absolutely opposed to that of all the members of the cabinet, who appealed to the pope a.gainst the decree through the papal nuncio at Madrid, raised a complicated issue. The cabinet relied upon the dic tum of the nuncio that the bishop had no jurisdiction over the minister, and upon his further assurance that the pope would undoubtedly censure the bishop. The fact that the latter was a notorious sympathizer with the Carllst movement greatly aggravated the sit uation. „ Eventually the "Vatican informed the Spanish government that the church would not withdraw the excommunica tion unless it should be proved that the property alleged to have been con fiscated did not belong to the church. HASHER MASHED In a Rough Experience With an An aconda — Pony Saves His Life. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Nov. 14.— A huge anaconda, on exhibition at a mu seum here, today severely injured Sam uel Masher, the museum watchman, and crushed to death a valuable trick pony. The pony was tied to a feed box, alongside the anaconda's cago. Masher saw the reptile had worked one of the boards of it's cage loose, and had stretched its t?il out a short dis tance. He pushed the board to, be lieving the anaconda would pull within its cage again. Instead, it wriggled out and wrapped itself several times about Mashei*. The latter screamed for help, and the pony, frightened by the big reptile, began jumping about. This probably saved Masher's life, fir the reptile unwound itself from him and completely encircled the pony. Masher fell to the floor unconscious, while the big snake continued to crush the pony until life was extinct. When a number of the employes reached the scene, the snake had begun to unwind itself, and appeared to be getting ready for more fight. The men kept aloof until a lasso had been obtained and the anaconda finally made secure. Several of Masher's ribs were broken, and he was removed to a hospital. » LAST OF YELLOW FEVEII. Savannah Raises the Quarantine— New Cane* in \i>w Orleans. SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 14.—Savan nah will tomorrow remove its quaran tine restrictions on the fever-stricken sections. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 14.— The fever situation continues to improve. Nine new cases were reported today and three deaths. The deaths were: Josephine Manguni, Me lame Delac, Horace Thompson. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.— Dr. S. R. Oliphant. president of the Louisiana state board of health; Samuel H. Dur- | gin, of Boston, and A. H. Doty, of New York, are in the city. They are mem bers of the committee appointed at the recent meeting of the American- Public Health association in Philadel phia to urge the president to recom mend to congress the appointment of a commission of expert bacteriologists to visit Havana and make a thorough study of the cause, treatment and means for the prevention of yellow fe ver. The committee will wait on the president tomorrow. ■ m» THORX AS A CONVICT. Attorneys Make a Trip to Look Up His Record. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.— The Identification of Martin Thorn as a former convict by a beeper from Moyamensing prison, Philadel phia, Saturday, it was stated at the court house in Long Island City today, caused Dis trict Attorney Youngs to take a sudden jour ney to Philadelphia. It was also announced that-Detective Methven has left to join Mr. Youngs and work out the new feature of the case. None of the officials would say, in tho absence of Mr. Youngs, what the developments ' were that induced the district attorney to giv,? the matter his personal attenion. It was be lieved that Thorn's record as a convict, as revealed by the Mojamensing keeper, con sisted merely of a short term for the thpft of a diamond pin from a customer in his barber shop. He was known as Thorninsky. Fifth Deer Shooting Fatality. IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Xov. 14— Fred Cawling, 20 years old. manager of Wright Bros.' extensive cedar business, was shot dead today, four miles from Charming. lie was mistaken for a deer by an old hunter named Walmsley and shot in the back, the ball passing through his heart. This makes tae fifth fatality since the deer season opened, « week ago. CUBfl|i SGftßi OVER ABATEMENT OF APPREHENSION IS EVIDENT IN WALL STREET TRANSACTIONS. PARTIAL RECOVERY NOTED, BIT BUYING OP STOCKS IS CHAR ACTERIZED AS LARGELY EXPERIMENTAL. HENRY CLEWS' WEEKLY REVIEW. It Is Soiiiewlifit Pessimistic in Its Optimism— The Situation Abrrttad. Special to the Globe. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.— 1n his week ly review of the financial situation Henry Clews says: During the past week the stock exchange market has continued unsettled; but never theless has exhibited an improved tone and a partial recovery in prices. The despondent and semi-panicky feeling has disappeared, and the downward pressure appears to have ex hausted its force. This improvement has come in an entirely natural way. The re duced range of prices has been regarded as low, compared with the condition of the coun try, the large earnings of the railroads and the prospects of future traffic. There has been a general feeling that, at some later stage, there must be a reaction which, with an easy money market, m-ay carry values ap proximately near to tha level of those of September, and this has brought buying or ders into the market which have produced a rise of fully two points on most of the active stocks. The purchases have not been on a large scale, but the fact that such an advance has resulted from such moderate buying is evidence of the intrinsic strength of the mar ket. The staying quality of the market however remains to be tested. It may be that buying is based upon an expectation of a moderate advance rather than in view of any considera able immediate advance. We are disposed to regard It as experimental rather than as a laying in of stocks in anticipation of a straightforward and continuous rise; never theless we do not regard it as impossible that it may develop into the latter. We are, how ever, coming near to the assembling of con gress, and prudent operators are likely to avoid accumulating large lines of storks until the administration and congress have shown their disposition upon certain important and sensitive questions. At present there is no positive apprehension of any disturbing ac tion being taken; and yet as it is possible that jingoistic and silverite orators may try to raise a breeze In the senate, or even In the j house, there is a disposition to defer largo operations until the temper of congress has fairly expressed itself. Consideration.-* of this kind are likely to check the reviving "bull" feeling from developing into reckless buying. This, however, does not mean a reaction from the improvement that haa been realized; It niicins that while the recovery is likely to prove permanent yet the speculative spirit may be expected to be held in a prudent re straint for the next few weeks. Within the last few days there has been a distinct abatement of the acuteness of the market feeling on the Cuban situation, and this has had much to do with the week's re covery. In part this has been due to the pa cific tone of Spain's complete reply to the rep- | resentatlons made by our government through -Minister Woodford, and equally to the autheii- i | tic assurances that the administration is much I I gratified at the temper and statements of that ! document, and finds in it no reason for chang- J ing its attitude towards Spain. This more as sured feeling has also been encouraged by the , constant discovery that the disquieting rumors ! that have found such free circulation ii.n for the most part, turned out to be Inventions or exaggerations, Intended for effect in Inflam ing public opinion or encouraging pessimistic speculation. This sort of scare has bei n much overdone, and Wall street has had enough experience in needless depressions for the benefit of the '"hear" Wde to receive such rumors with a wide margin of discount in the future. The people ought to be willing to leave this entire matter to the administration for settlement and have faith that the best will be done for the interests uf all concerned. The only course, therefore, is for the people to pay as little attention as possible to Boat ing rumors about what the administration and the government of Spain are gnin^ to do or not going to do. President McKinley can be trusted to do the right thing at the right time, and if the matter bo simply left to him and his cabinet associates all will be well. It will be a great deal better to have It take that course than to be left for settlement to the press, politicians or Wall street. These three important repre sentative forces can only conjecture and agi tate, while the administration is vested with full power to make a settlement of the af fair. The situation calls for faith, hope and charity ou the part of the American people. London quotations for American securities and the Paris quotations for Spanish gov ernment 4s ore now tho best guideß to en able our people to form aii opinion s»<s to the relations existing between the Americas and Spanish governments. During the receut flurry on Wall street on vague reports, Span ish 4 per cent bonds remained steady at about 60 on the Paris bourse, when they might easily have fallpn 2fi per cent from that price if there had been any foundation whatever for the rumors circulated here. Lon don's important buying of American secur ities recently Is also evidence that they have not shared in the alarm that a conflict was Imminent betwem America and Spain. The great financiers of London are in closer re lation with the European governments and diplomats than are those of this country, and therefore are not governed so much by the rumors floating in the cities. The reports that Spain wants to pick a quarrel with this country are absurd. As a matter of fart. Spain's vital interest is to ke.e'p out of a war with America. Jn relation to war, Lord Salisbury's remarks at the mayor's banquet ! in London were very significant. He showed that England's interests are not for war conquests, but market conquests, and that In equally applicable as applied to Germany and France, as well as other civilized and go ahead nations-. These result* can be achiev ! Ed through peace alone, anrl not by nations taking each other by the throat ;■ procesi utterly destructive of business interests. The ! great nations of the world have reached a I point where wise and adroit diplomacy Ib the best means of preserving peace. Our I public men in this country have yet to realize j this far-t. What is needed more than any thing else Is specific education to qualify Btu dents for up-to-dat" statesmanship. We have felt the hurtful effects of rough methods long enough. The last clause of tiie Vene zuelan message, which produced disaster to business interests almost as great as war would have done, was an evidence of this. In some other respects conditions affecting the securities market have improved. The yellow fever has almost died out at all points, which will have the effect of reviving busi ness in localities at Which it has been sus pended for some weeks and of transferring I to the railroads large quantities of freight which have been held in quarantine. The roads connecting with the granger states still show large increases of earnings, not withstanding that the farmers are holding back their grain In the hope of higher prices. Advices from the West indicate the prospect , of an extraordinary trade next season with | | the agricultural states, as the farmers will j then be in receipt of the whole proceeds of their crops. The fall in the price of anthra- i eitf coal has bpen construed as an unfavor able factor on Wall street and was the cause of some Belling. It does not mean, however, that there has been any failure ln the de mand for coal, but rather that the producers have taken a too sanguine view of the pros pective consumption, and run Into an >x- ' cessrve outnut. Nor is it considered how j much benefit this reduction in the cost of j power brings to the industries and the riiil- ; roads. The country can never be hurt by | reasonably cheap coal. London has b?en, • during the week, a free buyer of our stocks. and also a seller; but Its purchases are esti mated to have exceeded its sales by about 21, - C"0O shares. . The following is a synopsis in brief of tho ' situation: The forces working for an 1m- ; provement In the financial situation are sub- i stantial. Those in the opposite direction are ; mainly sentimental. The basis of the recent advance in railroad securities is still in ex istence, of which the railroad earnings i are the evidence. I venture the prediction that the coming spring business of this coun try will be the largest on record. A better understanding between this government and ! that of Spain, which is very perceptible, will t make war rumors of materially less Impor tance hereafter. The decision of the supreme court in the Alabama railroad <ase was not only Important as a decision, but. also in ' showing a more favorable attitude to rail roads; the recent decision of the appellate court in this state, which weakened the Lex ow attack under the trust law. on the an thracite coal properties; the London change j of front in becoming more favorablp to Amer- i ican securities, and the continuation of the i large exports, especially of wheat — all these factors combined furnish a strong backing to the side of confidence, and take the sharp edge off the bears" weapons, which liavo lately been irresponsible rumors. The mar ket has already suffered a very heavy de cline, and will s^on have a fair advance as a natural reaction at least. British Grain. LONDOX, Nov. 14.— The increase .f farm ers' deliveries and the unseasonable weather check the market. Whrnt last week was slow California wheat. November am! De cember, sold at 37a Sd per quarter; red win ter wheat. November. 375; white river Plata by steamer. February, March, was quoted at 34s per quarter. Maize was firmer; Novem ber old maize had buyers at 13a ?d and Jan uary new maize at 15a >;d. Flour followed wheat. Barley was steady, but nothing offer ed. Oats improved, and a large business la being done. For mixed flipped oaU. January February, Us l'^.d was paid. LONDON FINANCIAL. American Railway Securities Firm. er and .More In Demand. LONDON*. Nov. 14.— Rates in the money market have been maintained owin? to the short supply anl th vance in the value of money has prac tically stopped gold exports from tho Bank of England. \u reduction in rates is expected. The tone of stock exchange is cheerful, except in one or two cases, and there has a general rise. Funds are remarkably nrm, and bank Btock has risen owing to good discount business. Municipal ana colonial loans are in good demand. Home railway securities are rising on the prospects of a settlement of th* engineering trouble; American railway securities fluctuated during the past week, but closed with an all-around in crease on the strength of the improve ment la the relations between the Limed States and Spain and on the traffic relations. Norfolk & Western preferred shares and Lake Shore rose 3 points each; L. & N.. 2; Missouri Kansas & Texas seconds, 2; Ch Milwaukee & St. Paul preferred Northern Pacific preferred, l-v w'a bash Income, l^. and Southern pre ferred shares 1%. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe adjustment shares and Erie preferred rose v,, points each, while Illinois Central shares and Reading preferred rose 1 point each. Lesser ad vances were made in other shares Grand Trunk shares were well Bought and rose from p. to 2 points. Foreign se< unties were steady, except Brazil ians, which fell off l per cent. \.nglo- American shares increased l point, and "i! the strength of better news from th.i rransvaal, there V \as a decided im provement in Somh African mining se curities. <i»i«-t in Cotton Market*. MANCHESTER. England. Nov. 1 1 -The past fortnight haa been quiet, partly to the labor question, which is no longer seriously threatening, partly owing weakness o! cotton, which deter* buyers partly because of the pom- Indian and nese demand. The latter practically nothing. India, however, now gives lndi< itiona of better things. During , ys of the week Calcutta and Bo con siderable orders. The relapsi should tl|l| !» DUBini ■ opinion is becoming more general that pri< spinning margin is fair, bul ami yarns have been somewhat In. • - on prompt delh lj ut for I) ■mber, January and VI are >„ lower. The German spinners report large Bali a fr.r the pai and advicea from Rouen Bhow a revival of activity then . BRITAIN \\ \< 1 1 1 V< ; c\\ \i>\. How ih<« Keajrotlatlons a< Washing ton Arc Coi ented I poll. LONDON. Nov. 16. -The Daily Chronicle, in a special article this morning on thi meaning of the Canadian negotiations ■<< V\'a I reviews the p;isi commercial relatl i Canada, Great Britain and the Unit* <1 • and says: "Important communications have '1 during the past few days between Downing streel and Ottawa, and I reception which the • 'imuili. s are meting at the bands of the VYashingti ficlals and tin Amerli an press ma possible that we are on the by py change of attitude towai d ol n< '■ of the three countrii The writer of the Daily Chroni concludes by inquiring: "Is Canadian procity with the Unil plai d of exclusi ■ I i ,t --ain? it would disappoint manj in this coun try, but the question mi n <ha broad liuht of Anglo-American rela "No one will deny that Canada, the I ulioi States and the mother country have each far mure to gain from closer intercourse than from the present policy of commercial and a] excluaiveness." \ \Y \I,KI\<. PIMM. It Han N<> Gills, bul Pour l.i-us. and Know How to liif Them. Frank Davey, the photographer. Is the possessor of a very strange flan, v.hich, after having exhibited to >i number of friends while still alive, he put into alcohol to keep, says th< ciiie Commercial Advertiser. The li.sh is known to some people here, but i* quite rare. Its home is in the deep water, and if the story told by the Chinaman who procured It, namely, that the catch was made in compara tively shallow water just outside of the harbor, is to be depended on, the o< eurrence is Indeed unusual. It is alxiut three inches in length, and when alive was of a liii^hi yellow hue, with spots of black here and there. It- mouth is quit'- large, and the part of the body nearest is correspondingly large. It then tapers off to a small tall. But the peculiar pan is that there are no gills or what are popularly known as such. Where tke»e should be the skin is just as it is all over the body. A1 a distance of ul>out half aii Inch and protruding from the belly, near the central part, are what might be called arms or legs. They are jointed, and have some ten very fine claws. These, together with another pair further anterior, the lish. when alive, used to walk about with on the bottom of the jar in which it was con tained. It would show fight instantly when api roached, and gave every sij?n of i>e Ing endowed with the spirit of th one, bristling up fis fins, snapping its sharp teeth, elevating a sharp, knife like appendage on the top of its nose, ami sending two currents of from holes or false j^ills just Lack of the large, arm-like appendages men tioned above. When the lish was killed and p In alcohol the bright yellow disappear ed entirely and left in its place a whitish color. \\ I \K\OW\ ROOM. S«-al«-(l I |> for learN in \«>\v ;.r!».'* Court House. A room, the existence of which v.^ Ln iwn to few, it any, present officeholders, was discovered last week in the county • oart house, says the New York Sun. U the southeast corner, under the offlcr of ih>j surrogate's clerks, it «;' J tightl) fastened, and, it la said, ha.- not been opened for twelve to liftcen years. No one in the building ha<i any control over the room or c but on Inquiry it was found tha had been taken year?, uz.n tor the del records of the comptroller's office. The in quiry waa pursued un.il a key to the room was found hied away in the office of thu comptroller and the room was aliened. The dead air Inside nearly knocked over the curious men who looked in. and the do .r was quickly shut "p again. The hasty glance taken of the interior showed that It tamed a lot of hooks and bundles of vouchera and such papers. It wan the unwholesome oJor that hunt; about the surrogal where nine clerks aro employed in a room, that led {■> the si arc !i whi b in the discovery of the wealed apa I It ib thought that some of the have sprung v le.ik in the room. It is understood that th: im la the only part of the building rel the comptroller after an effort on hi several ypars ago to iecure quarter in tha i-ounty court bouse. Tin difflcul plained to the writer by Justice Van Brunt some time ago, arose through Compl Andrew 11. Green Insisting thai he had the right to take possession oi iiua: | county court house undei authority commissioner of public works, in charge axe the municipal build comptroller was partly install) I before th«> justices of the supreme court Rot into ac tion. He wanted the lower Boor on the west side of the building, chiefly the part now used as docket clerks' ••We told him," said the justice, "that the state had subscribed something like j for tho building, and that the Btate would have something to say a* to how the build ins was used. Mr. Green was told that he would bo bTOUgI ■ ua for coi if he did not vacate, and he vai-ated. ' The room now appears to .show that tha judges were contemned just a IRtle, \«liiptt'd In Kv«-r> Respect. Warwick— l think Alaska would make an elegant summer resort. Wick wire— Ah, you have ! n reading about the climate! Warwick— No; the prices.— Truth.