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«* THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS -~- CFHCIAL PAPER <^^^fe> CJTY OF SI. Pig, - 1 Entered at Postoffica at St. Pill Mini., ai Sesaad-Clajj Matt jr. TELEPHONE CALLS. western— Business. 1065 Main. EdltDriil. 78 Mali. Twl» Business. 1065, Editorial. 73. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. _j_ By Carrier | Imo I 6 moa I 12 rrm rtliycnly 40 $2.25 £4.00 CiTy and Sunday SO 2.75 5.00 Sunday .15 .75 1.00 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTION?. By Mali | 1 mo It mas I I 2 mot Dfliyenly I .25 $1.50 } 53.00 Dilly andSunda/ I .35 2.00 4.00 Sunday [ .75 I 1.00 ERANCH OFFICES. New York. 10 Soruca Street, Chas. H. Eddy In Charts. ChlcaEo. No. C 7 Washington St.. Ths F. S. Weib Cjnonr ii Cnr:i TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1903. POISON IN THE COLD BOTTLE. From out of Gotham there comes a story which tctlls of an attempt on the life of John C. Fisher, connected in a managerial capacity with a very well known theatrical production. An unknown enemy, inspired by a desire to put Mr. Fisher out of business, sent him a bottle of cham-» pagne into which enough poison had been introduced to kill a hundred men and some women. Let us hope that the police will find the perpetrator of this dastardly attempt and that he or she will be pun ished. Else theatrical managers will presently be com pelled to resort to a milk diet and take their nourishment in the dairy, before the poisoner has had time to get at it. The poisoner evidently was aware of the fact that theatrical managers never drink anything but champagne. She. or he, knew that it would be quite useless to put cyanide of potassium in a can of condensed milk. To sprinkle strychnine on dried beef and send to to the man ager of a show that is making money but needs advertis ing would be futile. This wretch attacks Manager Fisher through his weakness and his dearest habit. She, or he, argued that no manager of a Broadway attraction could resist a bot tle, even if it were unaccompanied by the bird that was made to be served with it. Happily the bottle was not trapped and Mr. Fisher spurned it. Then, his managerial suspicions bein;^ aroused he sent it to the property man and had it analyzed, and the stor}- is given to the world with a frankness that puts other managers, who use their stars' diamonds to get into print, quite out of the running. A grateful public will hasten to felicitate Mr. Fisher for having displaced the prima donna and the leading lady—as well as on his escape. Incidentally, it might be suggested to Mr. Fisher that the story would have a larger news value if he had dipped into the cup and tried the contents on the managerial system before making the attempt 011 his life public. And it he had invited some member of the theatrical trust to join him in the bottle the public would not have protested. Kin« Edward has received Joe Chamberlain in his humble little home at Windsor. Ed is really getting care less about the kind of company he keeps, which is one of the disadvantages that result from giving our rulers life jobs. If he had to look out fur his political fences he would cut Jue out. IS A GAMBLING MAN. The Prince of Wales, who will be England's next king if he outlives his father, recently lost $35,000 in one flight's gambling and made a bluff to get his money back. He discovered that he had been swindled by some clever card sharks in the social set in which he circulates. His effort to get his money back consisted in threatening so cial ruin to the men and women who plucked him. They gave him the baby stare right hard and told him to go ahead and do his worst. The money was not refunded. Wales is something of a "piker," and also lacks the gameness of young Vanderbilt, who lost over $60,000 the night he became of age, and is not in the same class with young Hostetter, who took his own medicine'when he discovere-d that he had been fleeced out of something like a million in the course of four or five years by some "friends." But Wales is out of luck at this particular time. Papa Edward VII. was just ready to notify parliament that $100,000 a year was not enough for the Prince of Wales to live on, and that about as much more would fix him comfortably. Now that the whole country knows why $100,000 is not enough there may be some hesitancy on the part of parliament in making the appropriation. In the end the allowance will be granted, for if it is not the king will simply refuse to invite members who voted against it to his party, and his friends will do likewise, and that will be the end socially of the representatives who have old-fashioned notions about gambling and riot ous living. t It is not forgotten that Edward VII., when Prince of Wales, was a hot sport himself, and that he figured in the baccarat scandal. So it would seem that son George inherited his inclination to dally with the pasteboards, and is a gambling man by inheritance as well as by in clination. A Chicago lawyer took the Kceley cure and drew eighteen columns of space in th£ newspapers. If the euro sticks he will probably be the most talked about man in America. THE PASSING OF THE GUINEA PIG. The arrest of J. Whitaker Wright, charged with hav ing wrecked the London and Globe and other companies, marks the closing of that period in the history of British trade distinguished by the entrance of the guinea pig into the realm of stock jobbing. Barney Barnato was one of the first men to recog nize the value of a distinguished name and a title in sell ing shares which were rich only in promise to the British public. There were small operators who had long before seen the advantage that lay behind the average English man's love for a lord, but he was one of the first to realize largely from exploiting that national characteristic. Twenty years ago the great names of the British peerage were not identified with trade or commorce and when Barnato put a prospectus on the market that bristled with the names of houses notable in the peerage he was deluged with money sent by people who wanted to let noble lords earn dividends for them. Barnato's arrangement was simple enough. He pick ed out impecunious lords and made them directors in his companies. The needs of the corporations in which these sprigs of nobility held shares were such that it was neces sary to hold a meeting of the directors every day. The by-laws provided that the directors should be compel sated in the sum of one guinea for attending a meeting. Hence the term that was applied to them—guinea pigs. They served their purpose with Barnato and he protected most of his companies. His successors in the exploita tion of the guinea pig were a bit sharper and not even aa scrupulous as the South African operator. Wright made gulls of the 10/rds he used. He took in such men as the Earl of Dufferin\and A va—against whose integrity there had never been a word whispered. He was a man of weaith. With Lord Dufferin were asso fteted Lord Pclham-Clinton, whose blood is very nearly as blue as that of the Howards, Lord Loch apd Gen. Cal thorpe. Even that portion of the British public that had paid dearly for trusting in guinea pigs had no doubt of the solvency and integrity of these men and Wright is said to have floated a very large proportion of the $65, --000,000 in shares that he threw on the market. Lord Dufferin was ruined and the blow killed him. The rush to explain on the part of his associates was sup pressed and there was an understanding among the know ing ones that a personage very high indeed in British society had lent the countenance of his august name to Mr. Wright. The influence of this individual is said to have been exerted to prevent the parliamentary inquiry that was threatened. The love of the Englishman for a lord does not quite go to the extent of making it agreeable to be robbed by a man with a pedigree so the usefulness of the guinea pig has been destroyed. He, the pig, will not have lived in vain, though, if the arrest of Wright on American soit shall serve to direct the attention of the people of this country to the unscrupulous methods of the get-rich quick man. The full horror of the flood at Memphis cannot be appreciated unless it is understood that the water is not fit to make high balls. ROWDY COLLEGE STUDENTS. Acts of vandalism and rowdyism are growing un pleasantly frequent on the part of students of the larger colleges and universities. The last illustration is the con duct of a body of Princeton students, who on Saturday night mutilated the bronze figure of a lion which has stood guard at the entrance of historic Nassau hall since 1879 —the year President Woodruff graduated. The same night an act of vandalism was committed in the gymnasium at Princeton, the damage being esti mated at $200. Only a few weeks ago scandalous revelations of the habits of students at the Wisconsin State university at Madison shocked those who are solicitous of the way the young men of the land are being trained. Each football season brings intensified instances ol debauchery after a famous victory on the gridiron. These facts should give our college presidents and regents deep concern. It has come to be the fashion to gluze over the most disreputable proceedings of students with explanation that they are "boyish pranks." But de bauchery, the destruction of property, the assaulting of other members of the school are not boyish pranks—they are acts of lawlessness, some of them felonies. Our higher schools are giving much thought to so ciological problems relating to the poor, the dependent, the vicious, and it would not be a bad idea if some thought were given to the latter conduct and character of the students under the immediate direction of the college professors. John Redmond sees some hope for Ireland in the land bill, but John was always a little more hopeful than his confreres. THE STRENUOUS MR. TRAVIS. Thomas Travis, chief of police of Helena, Mont., has taken up the ax laid down by Carrie Nation when she turned her attention to the lecture platform and; gave nvcr promoting temperance by reducing the visible sup ply of rum. Travis seeks to find an outlet for -the vir tuous indignation that swells his chest by smashing the gambling clubs. Sunday afternoon he invaded the pre cincts of the Montana club and put a stop to one of the fastest games of pinochle that ever held the attention of the haut ton of Montana. This invasion of the home of the club man seems to have been inspired by a more strenuous demonstration made by the chief Saturday night when, ax in hand and with a squad of blue coats at his back, he broke down the doors of a gambling house and arrested the common gamblers and assembled suckers at the edge of the ax, so to speak. Mr.- Travis is an image-breaker as well as an ax wielder. He has no more regard for the traditions of his cityand state than a tenderfoot would have. What would have happened to the chief of police or other functionary who, twenty-five years ago, entered ax in hand into a room where gentlemen were congregated for the purpose of wooing fortune? That he would have been shot up is certain, but would the outraged feelings of the popu lace have been soothed by the mere killing of the mis creant? We trow not. Perhaps he typifies the new genius of Montana, which had a beautiful exemplification the other day when the members of the legislature rested from their labor of contemplating the promise of the next session when there will be something doing in the senatorial line, and flatly declined to license gambling houses. If Travis is a type of the new Montanian the patent medicine man might as well go out and write the name of his cure on the sides of the eternal hills for there will be nothing picturesque left in the scenery of the mountain state. Richard Mansfield says he wants to be a pirate in the summer. In view of Dickie's natural disposition to kill a stage hand occasionally without regard to the season the announcement is rather superfluous. Unless Roosevelt's luck has improved since he went into Mississippi for bear he should forbear hunting large game in the West. In six weeks the oyster will be unlawful and the straw hat rampant, so nicely has nature ordered the seasons. The only information we lack now about Anna Held is what her cook thinks about breakfast dope. The Buffalo sleuths have been put off again. The city should advertise for some detectives who can detect. People who live in flats have their troubles the year round, those living on flats when the river overflows. Weinholzer would never have suspected his own in nocence if the jury had not vouched for it. The robins which started in to nest again have given up the job and gone for their overcoats. The czar may give his subjects religious freedom, but he will keep the bombs locked up. Shamrock 111. is to be launched St. Patrick's day That ought to help some. J' Soon the spring poet will begin to go it. Big Guns Too Cumbersome. From the Sioux City Tribune. Lieut. H. Williams, who is in charge of the naval -c cruitmg station in the federal building, fought on the bat tleship lowa during the Spanish-American war and de clares the one thing that was demonstrated by the war was that the most effective work can be done by small guns. The naval ofheer says that in the famous fio-ht off Santiago the execution was clone by the small cannon the great, much-advertised guns being entitled to vcrv little credit for the victory. "The trouble was that the large guns didn't hit," said the lieutenant. "The turrets carrying those guns weigh ioo tons; the guns themselves weigh 30 tons more. That is so great a mass to move in aiming that it is difficult to bring it accurately to the I proper place. Then the large guns can be fired only once in two minutes. The six-pounders were discharged ten or twelve times a minute and tire five-pounders as often again." THE ST. PAUI, GLOBE, TUESDAY MARCH 17, 19Os. i ( at st. Paw j THfeATRES "The Little"Duchess" at the Met. Miss Anna Held was last night the center of styc|x a collection of female beauty, effective color grouping and vivacious comedy as has not before been seen on ,the. stage of the Metro politan op*ra house. And the few hundred peiple whd were .turned away at the box office because there was not room for them in the house were de nied the novel pleasure of hearing Miss Held make'a curtain speech which, in itself was worth the price of ad mission. The house was crowded to the door* and the audience was a first night gathering, fully alive to the good things that were offered to the delec tation of the eye and ear, and discrim inatingly appreciative.. At the close of the second act of the piece, "The Little Duchess," the company was grouped in a bewildering maze of col or, and the curtain fell at the climax of a burst of vivacious melody that tickled the auditories of the people and started the house,into a demonstration that would not be silenced until Miss Held, g6rgeous in a ravishing gown, came down to the footlights and said: "I thank you ver'"mooch. Your kind ness makes me glad. When last I was here I spik ver' little Engleesh. You see I have learned some. I thank you again and again,'" and she kissed her hands eloquently. ' Miss Held's manager has provided such a.vehicle for exploiting: her beau ty and talent as has not been furnished an actress en tour before, in this coun try. She is set down in the midst of a company of young women quite as dis tinguished for their beauty as by the really beautiful gowns they wear. There, are more than a score of them, they are stately, and vivacious by turns and • their . costumes - are "simply dreams," as more than-one girl in the audience declared. As the "Saidee Girls" they make far and away the most fetching collection that has been seen on : the Metropolitan stage for many a year' Their gowns are con fections, not dresses, and the grouping of color as. they walk up the stage In the chorus- to the "Saidee" song is a thing delightful to see. And if the women in "The Little Duchess" are lovely the men are clever. The plot is by" no means exacting. But nobody cares for that, as it affords the more opportunity for the display of the peculiar talents of the people. There is Joseph W. Herbert, who is really funny In the role of a bathing master —though why a bathing master more than a dancing master is. not ap parent. He has the manner and the capacity fpr provoking the risibles. His singfng of a melange of melodies built on popular airs evoked a dem onstration. George Marion-did the part of a continental gambler with a marvelous capacity for being almost anything else, and sang "When Sister Nell Heard Paderewski Play" fetch ingly. Frank Ru.shworth, who has a voice, did a couple of songs much more than acceptably, and )£nox,.Wilson, a. jealous Russian husband-, incidentally demonstrated his capacity, for playing the saxophone in a manner that earned him repeated encores. '^ ■• * Of feminine loveliness, < and talent, there is jio end, and if her beauty and vivacity makes Miss 1 "Billy" Norton conspicuous above t^esqiJMSPShyit is her ; cause Is happily. £$sj;—£^yL clever withal. , Miss Held, of cours#**tisi#j*> eewtw of the stage, and is entitled tojt. .ghje possesses in large mQasurVtnat which ' makes the French i^&V66e*£f>piEeeift)&e'd'> of the outlander. And, her cos.tuai\es — they were just Anna. Held""and quite*, indescribable. She v sings with ail her old grace and more effectively by rea son of being more certain of the langu age. v, _; ' ;.V' ..- ■' r.S''' '■■"■> But the rnjassi«g-'6f colors in the tab- " leaux make more than anything else for the great success of the production. In the first act the .chorus- is cos tumed for the bathing beach, in the second the members attain the limit of their possibilities in the toilette of the "Saidee Girls," and in the third and last act they become the famous fencing girls. Each act has its own climax in a beautiful stage,picture, v • One of the really funny, things of the production is a burlesque on the French duel in the last act. . An af fair is arranged and there enters ; on to the dueling ground a procession, led by little Franz Ebert as a drum major, leading a band, followed by the duelists, two photographers, repre sentatives of the press and the fencing girls. Speeches are made, the fighters pose for the photographers, champagne is drank—particularly to the press. It is all very funny. "The Little Duchess" will run all the week. ."' \ •'.■'.' Opera in ~ Minneapolis. An audienc£ that. occupied . every seat in the-.house^ except the boxes— and each and every one of these boxes was conspicuously < empty—heard the Castle Square Opera company last night sing 'Verdi's opera, "II Trova tore." In s^ite of the empty boxes the theater presented a gala appearance, the appearance of which was height ened, as the opera progressed, by the successive waves of enthusiasm that swept over the audience. For by its presentation pf the Verdi opera last night the Castle Square Opera com pany most r satisfactorily demonstrat ed that opera lovers of the two cities are to hear some good music during the next three weeks. . ■ One may question the appropriate ness of "II Trovatore" as an opening: opera, but the fact remains that this work of Verdi's has an undeniable hold on the affections of most music lovers. Perhaps this is because its dominant note is what Sidney Lanier calls "the sorrow tone that forever winds like a dark thread through the silver brocade of music." In "II Tro vatore" Verdi has picked out this thread until—its • relief sombers every other color. Four voices interlace in this tangle of woe— the orchestra is but a sobbing refrain and the chorus only remembered twiceand last night those voices proved adequate ones. Often they passed the point of ade quacy and soared, and when they did TODAY'S WEATHER. Minnesota nnd Wisconsin—Rain Tues day and Wednesday; fresh southeast winds. Upper Michigan—Rain or snow Tuesday and Wednesday; fresh north to northc-ast winds. lowa— Tuesday .and Wednesday; colder Tuesday in south portion. North Dakota—Rain Tuesday. Wednes day fair. i , . Montana—pair Tuesday and Wednes day; warmer Tuesday in north central portion. -'\,'.\ South Dakota— Rain Tuesday and Wed nesday. : «»'a, St. Paul— Yesterday's temperatures, taken at the; I,nited States weather bu reau, St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. Highest tempera ture, 37; lo.West temperature, S3; average temperature; 35; daily range, 3; barom eter, 30.05Mhumidity, 90; > precipitation, .30; 7 p. m.-.. .temperature, 35; 7 p. m., wind, northwest; weather, ■ cloudy. Yesterday's Temperatures— . „- . *SpmHighi *BpmHigh Alpena ...::..32 38 Kansas City ..70 72 Battleford .i..M 24 Marquette '. ....34 48 Bismarck . .m.30 36 Milwaukee ....40 46 Buffalo ...is.o-.50 56 Minnedosa ....20 23 Boston .. .Vi. .36 4(nMontgomery ..68 74 Calgary .:. if. .20 24 Montreal . .•.. 40 «42 Cheyenne ....-46 50 Nashville .....62 72 Chicago 50 ; 56New Orleans... '- 74 Cincinnati .".'..60 fiO New York . 40 '42 Cleveland ..'.. .50 56 Norfolk . 46 52 Davenport "....60 60 North Plattc ..40 48 Dcs Moines ..:5G 60 Omaha- ........48 >54 Detroit >: ..... 42 '-46 Philadelphia .. 42 44 Duluth 34 31 Pittsburg .-. ...58:60* Edmonton .:.. 36 38iQu'AppeIle ....16 26 Galveston ....68 76' Frisco :..... 46 i 48. Grand Haven .48 56 St. Louis 66 68 Green Bay 38 52 Salt:. Lake 44 52 Helena ... 32 36!?. Ste.-:!Ka*,^.34 J V.G Huron ...:.. ;-36 3?i;Va3hmstor . 44 \46 Jacksonville ..64 7-i. Winnipeg .... .18 :■;■ 2S •. •Washington time (7 p. m., St. Paul). this they carried the audience each time with them. . In commenting on the work of the four it is difficult to state a preference. Miss Ivell as Azuc ena did some remarkably good work, but she scored her greatest success through her dramatic interpretation of the role of the gypsy rather than by her vocal expression of it, although her rather throaty contralto has a re markable humanness that sends it straight to the heart. Her clean cut and forceful enunciation which be trayed her thorough appreciation of the dramatic possibilities of her role was a noticeably good quality of her acting last night. Miss Ivell is a Min neapolis girl, and at the end of the second act in which her duet with the tenor scored one*pf the pronounced successes of the evening, she received four immense baskets of flowers. Mr. Sheehan, who sang the role of Maurice, has a beautiful lyric tenor, robust in quality and remarkably ap pealing. The two solos in the fourth act and the tower scene in the last act and the final scene in the prison, of course, gave him plenty of oppor tunity to display a naturally beautiful and finely cultivated vocal organ. Miss Norwood, who sang the role of Leonora, did not at first display her voice to its advantage, for she was very evidently suffering from a cold. Because of this slight indisposition hei appearance in the first part of the opera was a little bit stiff, her singing somewhat disappointing. But in the opening aria of the tower scene Miss Norwood amply demonstrated not only that she possesses a voice of unusual depth and sweetness, but that she has the dramatic gift as well. Her pianis simo tones, in which this aria abounds, were delightfully sweet, pure and far reaching. Of the four principals Mr. Goff. who sang last night the role of Count dl Luna, evidently possesses the best vo cal art. The "Tempest of the Heart" song was sung with fine simplicity and a refinement of sentiment as well as of enunciation that gave to it the promi nence that It deserves in the opera. The tenor and contralto duet in the second act and the trio in the first act. sung by Mr. Norwood, Mr. Sheehan and Mr. Boyle, were both sung with splendid effect. The chorus of the Castle Square Op era company has no great volume. Tire best bit they sang was the soldiers' chorus In the fourth act. The anvil chorus was more anvil than chorus, but the stage picture of this scene was one of the prettiest in the opera. x The opera was sung in English, and doubtless it was for the purpose of making a further appeal to popular taste that the tableau which closes the opera was added. It showed the exe cutionor the moment before the exe cution—of Maurice. As a piece of rather tawdry realism it might appeal to an ordinary gallery, but a grand op era gallery is not an ordinary gallery, and the tableau made no appeal last night. .... A considerably augmented orchestra was directed last night by Mr. Eman uel. "II Trovatore" gives the orches tra little opportunity, for the opera was written principally for the human voice. But Mr. Emanuel deserves credit, as does his orchestra, for the fact that it furnished one of the har monious part of a harmonious whole. i ; "Faust" will be sung tonight in Min neapolis, with the following cast: £ HU Mr. D'Aubigne Valentine Mr. Carrier -Mephistopheles Mr. Boyle Wagner Mr. Coombs Marguerite Misses Rennyson, Romano ;Siebel Misses DuFre. Albright Martha • Miss liamey «e*.Tjrus of Students, Soldiers, People, De -*». " .•.. '■ '■ ' mons. Etc. "'Note—Miss Rennyson will sing "Mar wggaerite" on Tuesday and Friday evenings j and.at the Saturday matinee. Miss Ro iaiiano will sing the role on Wednesday .^evening. -*- In spite of the disagreeable weather last evening, James A. Herne's "Hearts of Oak" attracted a second large au dience, to the Grand opera house. This offering at .. popular prices is one of exceptional merit, and the splendid patronage accorded it on its first two performances indicates a thorough ap preciation of this fact on the part of local playgoers. The first matinee per formance of the engagement will oc cur tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. The Grand's offering following the engagement of "Hearts of Oak" will be Maurice J. Fielding's meloirama, "A Ragged Hero." The Bon Ton Burlesquers are giving the bill at the Star this week to satis fled audiences that have filled the house at every performance so far. The programme is replete with good things in music and vaudaville. ISLANDS RUINED BY HURRICANE Between 500 and 600 People Perish in the South Pacific. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 16.— The steamer Marioposa arrived from Australia today bringing additional news of the typhoon and the tidal wave in the Tuamotu islands in the South Pacific ocean in the middle of Jan uary. The French government has inves tigated the disaster, and found that be tween 500 and 600 islanders perished during the storm. After the wind had subsided and the waters had receded bodies of drowned natives v/ere found tied to trees about the place. Hi Kurea island was the least able to withstand the force of the storm, as its highest elevation is only twelve feet above the seat. The residents flocked to the heights and sought safety by binding themselves to the rocks and trees. There they, remained for the three or four days during which the storm swept over the ar chipelago. The islands of Hao, Mako kau and Hikura were washed free of soil, the entire surface above the wa ter line having been swept out to sea by the waves. On them man cannot subsist. The French government of the is lands did all in its power to alleviate the suffering. Charles Revel, colonial inspector now at Tahiti, made a tour of inspection of the Tuamota group in the Italian man of war Calabria, which rendered all possible assistance* to the sufferers. In his report M. Revel says: "In approaching Katui we saw the Belo, the French man of war. We came close enough so that I could be put on board." . : Commander Richard, of the Zelo, at first collected indigents of Hikorua and had taken them to Rarioa. He had visited Anaa, Reltoru, Makokau, Mo- i tutaunga, Tepoto, Tuanake and Katii. Hikura had been devasted. It had 400 deaths. It was a complete disas ter. Commander Richard made a tour of the island. He describes the de vastation as complete in the island of Rarario. Three-fourths of the cocoanut trees were destroyed, houses cast down, the walls of the Catholic church and prison swept away and twelve of the inhabitants killed. At Amanur three persons were killed by the cy clone. The property losses. are $500,000. m — ■— Boys Accused of Shoplifting. Abe Aronson, aged twelve years, and Carl Medford, a lad thirteen years old, were arrested yesterday afternoon by Policeman Winkle, charged with .shoplifting. The -. boys are accused of stealing a dollar • watch and- a number of- trinkets from the toy counter of a department store. :-Aronson Bays, he lives at 213 Fourteenth street and Med ford gave his address at 626 Jackson street. ■ " ■" /..-..•? -;.;v| CHILD MAKES HER WILL AND DIES Seven-year Old Genevieve Brown Bestows of Her Trinkets. "I don't want you to cry when I'm dead—neither must you, mamma," said little Genevieve Brown at the home of her father, John Brown, 280 Ramsey street, as she lay gasping her last Sun day night. "I want to make my will/ continued the precocious seven-year-old, "and I want my dolly Marie buried with me. You must place such-and-such a dol ly," denoting another of her treasures, "under my coffin when I'm lying in parlor, and you will have the school children come in and look at me, won't you,, mamma?" Then with scrupulous care and im partiality she gave to each and every member of the family some of her lit tle belongings. If she was at all par tial It was toward her father, whose special friend and constant companion she was. Incredible quantities of beautiful flowers in every conceivable form were sent in as soon as the death became known—the strangest part of \ll is that most of the tributes came from those of the little one's friends whose identity the parents were ignorant. For four months Genevieve had suf fered with a complication of Bright's disease and dropsy, and during her confinement of about three months In St. Luke's hospital, she was the sun shine of the place, and many a poon sufferer cherishes grateful memories of her. She will be burled this afternoon from the Cathedral at 3 o'clock, with services at the home at 2:30, on the day for which she had made such preparations, St. Patrick's day. EX-CONVICT COULDN'T LIVE STRAIGHT LIFE A. E. Dunham, Forger, Tells Court of His Up-Hiil Struggle. A. E. Dunham, who pleaded guilty last Friday to the charge of forgery in the second degree, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Bunn to three years at hard labor in the penitentiary at Stillwater. Twice before has Dunham served time at Stillwater for forgery. When sentenced yesterday the prisoner com plained that an ex-convict stood no show to get along- in the world. He had come out of the penitentiary he said with a determination to do good, but as fast as he secured a po sition his employers learned that he was an ex-convict and discharged him. Finally, being unable to secure em ployment, he became desperate and commenced drinking. While under the influence of liquor, he said, he had forged the checks which caused his last arrest. Dunham was at one time a respected railroad man, and recently has been employed as a bartender. ARMY NEWS. Lieut. Col. Cornelius Gardner, now at Aleatraz Island, < 'al., has been or dered to Fort Snelling. James Reagles, contract surgeon now at Fort Snelling, has been ordered to Fort Meade for duty, in place of Maj. Frank R. Keefer, who is on leave of absence. By direction of Secretary Root the war department yesterday embarked on the extensive work of compiling and publishing a complete roster of the officers and enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies. This Is the secretary's own project, and he suc ceeded in impressing congress with the idea that it would be only just and fair to the South to place on the of ficial lists the names of the Confeder ate soldiers In order that their de scendants may trace their family his tories with accuracy. The North, through separate publications, has cov ered pretty well the ground for its own soldiers. But the Southern rec ords and archives, never very com plete, were scattered and destroyed, owing to the outcome of the war, and many frauds are practiced on the benevolent, and many families lack Important links In their histories be cause of the loss of these records. Sec retary Root, in calling this matter to the attention of congress, said that the department was constantly in re ceipt of appeals from state officials, historical societies and patriotic me morial associations for transcripts of the military records of state troops, to answer which would cost more than a million dollars, so that the most econ omical way would be to publish a complete roster. The publication will be enormous In size, including thirty volumes as large as the Rebellion rec ords. The Northern names will be published with the Southern, because it is desired to have all of these data In one compilation, instead of being scat tered through various state books. Moreover, it is felt to be a graceful thing to bracket the names of the men who wore the blue and the gray. In order to carry out this purpose, Secre tary Root yesterday sent a letter to the governors of all states which fur nished troops for the Confederate ar mies, inviting co-operation in the work. WATER GETS THROUGH AN ARKANSAS LEVEE Flood Situation More Critical at Lower, Mississippi Points. MEMPHIS. Term., March 16. — The full force of the flood in the Missis sippi river is being felt in the South and breaking levees along the course of the river are causing much uneasi ness. Tonight a report was received that the St. Francis levee, at Trice's Landing, two miles north of Holly Bush, Ark., had broken and that the water is flowing over the embankment in a stream, almost six inches deep and three-quarters of a mile wide. Every effort is being made to sack the levee and stop the flow, but as the river is | rising rapidly it is feared all efforts will be in vain, and heavy damage may result from the onrushlng water. Reports from Natchez also tell of a gap two miles wide being cut in the flftcen-foot embankment of the Texas Pacific road at Bougere, thirty miles below Vidalia, Miss. This gap was fol lowed by a break in the lower Bougere, which lapped the railroad embankment on the south. The situation is critical tonight at Pecan Point, Fogleman's Landing and St. Thomas, Ark., and a break may oc cur at any time. PADUCAH, Ky., March 17. -Floods are causing many animals to venture into higher points in and about Pa ducah. Portions of the city are fairly ali^p with rabbits, and men and boys hunt them on outlying streets. A plague of snakes is reported in the suburbs, moccasins being especially numerous. Muskrats are almost as numerous in the back witer as English sparrows ordinarily are. Many mink are also seen. A three-foot otter, worn out by the struggle against the curwfit, tifia been captured. WILL HONOR ERIN'S PATRON SAINT TODAY Programme Arranged Is in Contrast to Fist St. Patrick Celebration in St. Paul Fifty-two Years Ago—How the Day Was Observed Then. No parade of the patriotic Irish so cieties will mark the observant•■ of St. Patrick's day in St. Paul today, but there will be exercises both of a religious and social character in each of the Catholic parishes of the city in memory and honor of Ireland's pa tron saint. In each of the Catholic churches mass will be celebrated In the morning; followed by a sermon touching on the life and work of the noted saint. In the evening there will be enter tainments sufficient in number to give all who desire to attend opportunity to enjoy themselves. The pupils of St. Mary's school will present "The Shannon Boys" in St. Mary's hall. Ninth anil Locust streets. At St. John's hall the St. John's I hra - matic club will put on "Shamrock and Rose," and in addition to the play a select programme of musical selections both vocal and instrumental will be given. Patrick Henry will be the orator of the evening at Columbia hall, in St. Vincent's parish, and an excellent pro gramme "f songs, dialogues, Bketchea and musical numbers has been pre pared by Rev. Lawrence f'osgrove, tha talent Iteiiv^ furnished by pupils of th>? parish school and others. The young people of St. James 1 church have prepared a programme Including something new and novel in (!:■• dramatic line, and also an enter taining musical programme. The Cathedral parish entertaii will be held at Mozart hall, and the programme includes recitations and music. The participants in tin- pro ime are mainly from Cretin school. Edward ,1. Cannon will be the orator of the evening at the entertainment to bo given by St. Michael's parish at !l;- Wesi Side opera house. Al Flour noy will have charge of the programme for til-; balance of the entertainment. There will be a matinee for the <-hil dr.-u in the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. St. Patrick's parish will give a ion- - cert at which some of the i>.-st voices in the city will be heard. Rev. M. Gal-. lather will deliver an address on "St Patrick, His Memory and Deeds." Speeches and Merrymaking. Forty-two years ago today St Pat rick's day was celebrated for the first time in St. Petal It was a beautiful March day. nearly the entire male pop ulation won? Irish for that day. After marching up and down Bench and St. Anthony Btreet, headed i>y the Fort Snelling military hand, the procession was brought to a halt in front of the Centra] house, which stood in the rear of the old Jtfannheimer building, <m Bench street, where the star Spangled Banner was thrown to the breea a flagstaff erected for the occasion. Speeches were mad" by Gov. Alexander Ramsey, Dr. C. W. Borup, R. R. N<■! son, W. G. Le Due, and several dis tinguished Irishmen. In the evening a banquet at the Hotel Rogers, k>-pt by that <>ld settler, John Rogers, where after the crowd had ate and drank t!> their heart's content, tie- house be ing small for the throng; they adjourned to the sidewalk, where a platform was Improvised for the speakers by the use of a large dry Roods box. The first spee< h of th made by Charles Kilgore Smith, retary of th.- territory, who comi ed by saying: "Irishmen, I did not have the honor of being: born in the Green Isle, but but few equals, few speeches ever forty years, I claim upon an occasion like this the right to be heard." Then he spoke entertainingly of Ireland and the Irish. He was followed by Charles T. Hen nings, editor of the Chronicle and Reg ister, a tak-nted Irish-American, who opened his address by saying: "Tonight, countrymen, I forget that I was born in Baltimore, Mil., and only remember the Green Isle as the home of my nativity." As an after-dinner speaker he had but few equals, few speeches even made on similar occasions received the applause his did. The next speaker was a genuina Irishman, who started out by saying: "Fellow Countrymen—l am glad to be in St. Paul. I am glad to be with you tonight. Everywhere I have been in this country the Irish are looked upon with suspicion, but in St. Paul— thank God —they are the top of the pot." William Henry Forbos, an old In dian trader, born in Canada, told the story that he was the only man in Mendota for many years who wore the shamrock on the 17th of March, in commemoration of the anniversary of the anniversary of the death of Ire land's patron saint, St. Patrick. After the meeting adjourned, the younger element of the crowd started out with the band to serenade every body and everything—the band play ing and the boys singing songs. To wards morning they added, "We won't go home till morning—until broad day light." Since Archbishop John Ireland has been in charge of affairs the character of the celebration of St. Patrick's day has been changed. Noisy street pa rades, drunken frolics, and dances on the sly have become a thing of the past. FIRST UNION FORMED OF NON-UNION MEN Independent American. Mechanics In- corporated in Indiana. ANDERSON, Ind., March 16.—The Independent American Mechanics, a union of non-union men, filed articles of incorporation today with the secre tary of state. It is the first organi zation of the kind, and, so far aa known, the only one incorporated in the country. It is understood that the association is the outgrowth of dissen sion in building trade affairs. The as sociation is made up of non-union men and contractors. Paresis Tubes in Disgrace. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Marcli 16. —The house passed the senate bill pro hibiting the sale or giving away of cig arettes, cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers to persons under eighteen years of age under a penalty of $100 fine for each offense. On the Alaskan Commission. OTTAWA. Can.. March 16.—The Do minion government lias submitted to the liritish go%'ernment the names of Justice Armour, of the supreme court of Can ada, and Sir Louis Jette, formerly of the superior court of Quebec, as commission ers on the Alaskan boundary Inquiry. Peru, T*c|, Hath Minerals. LIMA, Peru, March 16.—A government commission of mining ernfineors has dis covered, slxtv-flvo miles northeast of the Piura railway, a mountain of iron sesquioxlde, irirtcn ta 50 p<*r ec-nt pur«. The: surrounding country Is full of th« ; same metaL