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THE WEATHERs In St. Paul and vicinity today: Showers. VOL. XXVI.—XO. 286. CHAIN GANG BLAMED FOR NEGRO OUTRAGES Convict System of the South an Organized School of Crime. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 12.—Dr. W. V Thirkield. corresponding secretary of the Methodist Friedman's Aid and Southern Educational society, today, in delivering the opening address of the Evangelical alliance, charged that the outrages of negroes in the South was due to the chain gang prison system. He said in part: Far be it for me to utter one word in extenuation of the crime of which Borne black men are found guilty. Let us keep in mind, however, that only nbout 20 per cent of the black men who are lynched have even been charged with crime against the sacredness of womanhood. Let the black men bring every influence to bear to make such crimes impossible. Let there be prompt execution of the law against this and all crimes of all men. Lynch law, how ever, is anarchy. It brings in the reign of barbarism. It brutalizes members of the mobs; it undermines the govern ment; it does not stop crime. "In estimating criminality among the black people, we should keep in mind that since Appomattox nearly every Southern state has maintained a school of crime—an organized institution for the training of criminals. "This I charge against the convict lei«st system of the South. This sys tem, with its thousands of victims, has been the cause of much of the out breaking crime among black people through its brutalizing and dehuman izing influence on thousands of ne groes. "Under this system both prison and prisoners are farmed out under the control of private corporations, sold to the highest bidder. To the lessees the body and souls of convicts are assigned. The motive of both state and lessee is not morals, but money; not reforma tion, bat exploration of criminals for gain, it is a crime turned into a source of revenue; the brawn and blood of criminals bartered for gain. "Criminals are generally scattered in branch prisons—quartered in rude stockades without proper sanitation, food or clothing. The average life of these convicts is less than ten years. Old and young are promiscuously chained and herded together. Even Continued on Fourth Page. POLICE RESCUE YOUNG MAN FROM UGLY MOR Officers Baffle Attempt to Lynch Prisoner by Barring Crowd From Grocery Store Until Assistance Arrives. •CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Arthur Warren, a young man living in the suburb of P.erwyn, twelve miles from the city, had a narrow escape from lynching to night and but for the efforts of two po lice officers it is possible that he would have been hung to a telegraph pole. Warren was accused of assaulting an eight-year-old girl. Acts of this kind have occurred several times in Berwyn within the last fortnight, and the crowd that pursued Warren was highly exas perated. He led them a chase of about a mile before he was caught and during the FLY SAVES MAN $648 Humble Insect Foils a Sneak Thief. CHICAGO. Oct. 12.—Listen to the tale of the heroic fly. The tale has a moral which it will cost nothing to heed. The moral is: If you have no money to enjoy private detectives to protect you from grafters and public detectives, get a fly—a nice, domes ticated, well-behaved fly—and carry it about with you. Nicholas Fenn, of Minneapolis, went to sleep yesterday afternoon in the corridor of the Grand Pacific hotel. His coat was unbuttoned, and in the pocket of the coat was a wallet con taining $648 —all the money he had in the world. His sleep was disturbed by the buzzing of a fly, supposed to be the last fly of the season. He reached up sev eral times and made aimless passes at the little pest, but was unable to drive It away. He did not wake up, and the fly kept on buzzing. Fenn's dreams were filled with swarms of winged in sects that clouded his sleeping vision, swept to and fro, and threatened ever and again to smother him. Finally the fly alighted on his nose. It declined to be moved or frightened by the sleeper's slowly moving head. It stuck. Fenn stirred, and then sat upright. He made a sharp pass at his tor mentor, and his hand encountered something solid. He opened his eyes, and at the same instant closed his fingers. They were encircling the wrist of a man, whose hand was in Fenn's coat pocket. "Help! A thief!!' he shouted. The fly flew away. The thief jumped up from the chair next to Fenn's, wrenched his wrist loose and ran down the corridor and out at the door. Hig Intended victim reported his case to the clerk, and told how he had hap pened to be saved. He gave much praise to the timely fly. SHORT STORY WRITER SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM Mrs. Kate M. Cleary's Mind Becomes Unbalanced by Use of Drugs. CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Mrs. Kate M. Cleary, v ->f this city, writer of novels and Bhort slo/ies, was adjudged Insane by a Jury In Judge Carter's court today and ordered placed in an asylum. The use of drugs, to which she became ad dicted through the administering of morphine during a fever In 1894, is said to have unbalanced her mind. THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. MEN ARE CRUSHED UNDER FREIGHT CAR Three Killed and One Seriously Injured in Wreck In Yards at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 12.—Three men were killed and three others were injured, one seriously, in a collision between Missouri Pacific and 'Frisco freight trains in the switch yards at St. Louis avenue and Santa Fe street in this city tonight. The dead— A. L. HOHNSON, Missouri Pacific switchman. JOHN MURPHY, Missouri Pacific switchman. GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, flagman. The injured— Will Austin, colored, compound fracture of leg which will be amputated. R. G. Brandt, Missouri Pacific engineer, ribs bioken. J. E. Ward, severely injured and bruised. The 'Frisco train was standing on the crossing when the Missouri Pa cific train ran into it, turning over a freight car. This car fell on a crowd of men on the other side of the 'Frisco train, who were waiting for the 'Frisco train to pass. The engineer of the Missouri Pa cific train says that he got a signal to proceed across the crossing, but it is believed that he momentarily lost control of his engine. R. G. H. Brandt, who was injured, was the engineer of another Missouri Pacific freight which was waiting for the 'Frisco train to clear the crossing. He had left his engine and joined the other railroad men near the 'Frisco train when the car was piled upon them. Several men had narrow escapes. LAWYERS OF CONVICTED WIFE MURDERER SLOW Case Is Appealed but Three Hours Be fore Time Limit Expires. HAMILTON, Ohio, Oct. 12.—The case of Alfred Knapp, sentenced to be electrocuted Dec. 12 for the murder of his wife, Hannah £Soddard Knapp, was this afternoon appealed to the circuit court on error. The transcript was filed three hours before the expiration of the forty days allowed by law for filing a petition in error. run the excitement of the crowd had increased. When Warren was captured he was handled very roughly and a proposition to lynch him met with ap proval. Two police officers, however, managed to get him away fcom the crowd and drag him into a grocery store, where they barred the door until assistance arrived from the police sta tion. Warren, who was a badly used up man and required s.urgieal attendance, was finally placed in a cell, although the crowd followed him all the way to the station trying to get at him. TAMS BIXBY WILL EXPLAIN TO HITCHCOCK Minnesotan Will Defend Himself and Other Dawes Commission-Members. Special to The Globe. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 12.— Tarns Bixby, of Minnesota, chairman of the Dawes Indian commission, and against whom charges have been filed in the interior department, is expected to arrive in Washington tomorrow in response to a message from Secretary Hitchcock. Bixby a,nd other members of the commission have already for warded to the secretary communica tions in which they deny all charges, which were that they have made per sonal gains as a result of their posi tion on the commission and that they now hold stock in companies engaged in dealing in Indian lands. Mr. Bixby in his statement to the secretary will represent the defense of all the mem bers of the commission. THE NEWS INDEXED. PAGE I. Russo-Japanese Squabble. Chain Gang System Denounced. Three Killed in Railroad Wreck. Tillman Case. Ends His Life With Poison. PAGE 11. History of Early Day Journalism. Associated Charities Annual Session. Building Records Show increase. Col. Fredericks' Funeral. PAGE Hi. Minneapolis Matters. News of the Northwes*.- PAGE IV. Editorial Comment. British Politics. PAGE V. Football. Bowling. President of Gas Company Answers Chinnock. PAGE VII. Of Interest to Women. Short Story. PAGE VIII. News of the Railroads. Globe Popular Wants. PAGE IX. Market Record. PAGE X. Horseshoers in National Convention. Rosabel Street Paving. Troops Leave for Fort Riiey. Soldier Killed by Train. Again Seek Pardon for Hamilton. River Still Rises. Old Man Disappears. The Only Democratic Newspaper of General Circulation In the Northwest. TUESDAY MOENING, OOTOBEE 13, 1903. —TEN PAGES. , . 1 UNIONACMNSTUNION Chicago Pressmen Engage In Serious Factional Fight. CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Armed with re volvers and sworn as deputy marshals, thirty union pressmen employed in the printing plant of R. R. Donnelly & Sons company are guarding the building against attack from striking members of Franklin Union of Pressfeeders. The armed deputies are regular employes of the company, all of them members of local No. 3 of the Printing Press men's union. Beside them work non union men and girls who have replaced the members of Frajiklin union now on strike. It is union against union, and though no serious trouble has occurred the pre caution has been taken because of threats that have been made by Frank lin union members. When the lockout against Franklin union was declared by the Chicago typ.othetae two weeks ago the pressmen were prepared to or ganize a rival union of pressfeeders, but their plan was never executed. They refrained from taking any sym pathetic action, however, and now they stand as officers of the law, barring the way to members of Franklin union. REDS ARE CONVICTED Steps Being Taken to Curb An- archists of Porto Rico. SAN JUAN, P. R., Oct. 12.—Gov. Hunt returned here this afternoon from Ponce, where he attended a banquet in celebration of the extension of American railways in the island. He was everywhere received with demon strations of confidence and esteem. During the governor's absence the anti-American socialists and anarch ists had a clash with the police on the plaza of this city. Forty arrests were made and many of the prisoners were today convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, including the anarchist Conde, who was recently convicted of insulting the American flag. The clash was due to the socialists who attacked the police. The latter ordered the mob to disperse and on meeting with a refusal they used their clubs freely. Americans here are par ticularly incensed at the carrying of black and red flags and a craped American flag by a mob yesterday as an incitement to disorder. Conde de livered a very offensive harangue, in which he approved of the mob resort ing to bloodshed if necessary. The Americans demand the punish ment of all the dangerous socialists and are overwhelming Gov. Hunt with assurances of support in a vigorous campaign to uphold law and order. They urge that an immediate death blow be given to anarchy here. The city today is quiet. More of the men arrested for attacking the police will be tried tomorrow. APPOINTED TO YALE HONOR DIVISION St. Paul and Duluth Students Are Among the Fortunate Ones. Special to The Globe. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 12.—The Yale faculty announced today appoint ments for the class of 1905 to the honor division. These appointments were made because of excellent work during the past year. The honor men will form a separate and advanced di vision in their class. This honor is equivalent to election to the honorary Phi Beta Kappa society at other uni versities. Minnesota students who have been placed on the honor division are: Ed ward Seymour Stringer, Daniel Ray mond Noyes and Charles Remold Noyes, St. Paul; Walter Bannister Congdon, Duluth. These students are very popular in all classes at the uni versity. ROUGH HOUSE IMMINENT. He Has Broken the Pledge Again. ENDS HIS Llf E WITH DRAUGHT OF POISON Young Man Closes an Eventful Career That Held Promise of Happiness* Ignoring the love of a beautiful girl who assured him of her devotion. James Hughes, a young man of the world, ended a life of adventure yesterday afternoon by drinking carbolic add, Hughes, who during the past three months had been employed as orderly at the city hospital, and, previous to that time, had been employed at the stock yards in South St. Paul, entered Reeves' drug store, Seven corners, yes terday afternoon at 6 o'clock and asked for a small bottle of, carbolic acid. In reply to a question frdm the clerk, Hans O. Dahl, Hughes declared that he wanted the poison for external ap plication. A one-ounce bottle of the acid was then given to Hughes, who turned from the clerk, pulled the cork, and placed the bottle to Mb lips. Seeing the action pahl reached over the counter and dashed the bottle from the man's hand. The bottle crashed to the floor, spilling a quantity of the Continued on tfbird Page. LOOKS LIKE MURDER Paris Police HoW Man While Investigating Shooting Affair. 11 PARIS, Oct 12.—The mysterious shooting of the Roumanian singer, Eliza Papsco, at the Hotel Regina here, where many Americans stop, in the center of a fashionable quarter of Paris, resembles in lte essential feat ures the case of Mrs. EUen Gore, the American woman who was killed in the apartments of JeanN&e fliydzewskl, the Russian singer, In November last. Frederick Grietgllng, editor of an art paper, reported -to the hotel clerk Sat urday that a youtjg .woman had killed herself in his robh^arid investigation showed that the l*j*iftead woman was Eliza Papsco. jr * When the hday was examined by a physician today, a bullet wound was found in her temple. The latter caused the woman's .death. Tfie physicians declared it was im possible for the woman to have In flicted the wound at the b^ae of the skull. Grietgling is held on the charge of murder. ~ According to Gina. Papsoo, sister of the dead woman, Grietgling proposed marriage to Eliza, claiming he was rich and saying h* was opposed to her going to Bucharest to fill am engage ment at the Royal theater there. It is said that while at Aix-Les- Bains recently, Grietgling became ac quainted with Eugenia Fougere, the demimondaine, who^wae murdered in, her villa there, Serf, 18, under mys terious circumstances, ■ BETTER THAN EVER. The St. Paul Globe, during the twenty-six years of its publication, has always been a first-class paper in every particular, but tt has nev er, in our opinion, reached such a high grade of excellence as at the present time. It is now conducted by journalists who are adepts in their profession. Its columns are filled with Interesting news from all parts of the world, and its editorial page is remarkably brilliant. The Messenger deems it proper to pay this slight tribute to ita Democratic contemporary in return for the pleasure derived from the daily pe rusal of Its literary effusions. We take much delight in recommending The Globe to otfr readers at the head of the lakeland throughout the entire Northwst. — Northwest Messenger. LARSON STEPS DOWN Captain of Battery A Finally Resigns. Capt. Larson, of Battery A, Minne sota National guard, resigmed yester day, and his successor will be named at the next meeting of the battery if some one can be agreed upon. Capt. Larson is said to have resigned under flre. For several weeks the members of the battery, or a large number of them at least, have been endeavoring to have the commanding officers ask Capt. Larson for his resig nation, and during the past two weeks it bas been known that the matter was being considered by the officers in charge. Capt. Larson was not so popular with the members of the battery as he might have been, and many of them threat ened to stop attending the drills of the battery unless someone else was named for captain. Some time ago a petition was secret ly circulated among the members of the battery, asking for the removal of Capt. Larson, and the petition was lib erally Bigned. Nothing was done about the matter at the time, however, but the request was taken up by the com manding officers with the result that Capt. Larson resigned yesterday. ADDRESS THE JURY State and Defense Begin Argu- ments in Tillman Case. LEXINGTON, S. C, Oct. 12.—Argu ments to the jury in the trial of J. H. Tillman were begun with the convening of court today, three attorneys for the state and two for the defense address ing the Jury during the seven hours court was in session. Pour attorneys, two on a side, are to be heard tomor row. Mrs. J. H. Tillman and the mother of the defendant were present, as they have been almost constantly during the beginning of the trial, and were attentive listeners. Solicitor Thurmond opened for the state, and, referring to the editorials In The State, Mr. Thurmond said they were before the Jury to enow the feel ing between Gonzalee and Tillman. In this connection he referred to the liberty of the press. The solicitor devoted himself largely to a review and summing up of the evidence adduced by the prosecution concerning threats, next taking up and comparing the testimony of witnesses on the two sides relative to the shoot ing, with a view to showing that Gon zales was unarmed and sought to avoid a difficulty when he met the de fendant on the day of the shooting. The solicitor was followed by Mr. Rembert.of counsel for the defense, who said, among other things, that the de fense did not concede that N. G. Gon zales was unarmed at the time he was shot. Stress was laid by counsel upon the charges made by Gonzales against the defendant to show, as he stated, the influence they had on the defend ant's mind when he met Gonzales. Attorney William Elliott, Jr., con tended that Gonzales was within his right In criticising a man In public life and asserted that Tillman had re course to the libel law for redress. He said also that a number of the utter ances contained In the editorials which have been read were extracts from other newspapers, and added that Gon zales had not mentioned the home life of the defendant. Mr. Elliott said the dying declaration taken down in short hand had not been introduced because the stenographer taking It was Gon zales' private stenographer. Col. George Johnstone contended that the liberty of the press did not give the right of denunciation. He dwelt upon the testimony of witnesses for the defense as to threats. He In sisted that the two statements testified to as the dying declarations of Gon zales were at variance, and that the variance was due to the morhpine ad ministered to him after he was shot. He asked why the dying declaration, which was taken down in shorthand, had not been offered in evidence, dwell ing upon its absence from the records. Mr. Johnstone had the sheriff stand before the Jury with Gonzales' over coat on, and, pointing to the bullet hole, claimed It supported the defend ant's version of the shooting. PRICE TWO CENTS. WHY RUSSIA WILL HOLD MANCHURIA Pretext Is That Roving Bands of Chinese, Driven by Famine, Have Entered Manchuria, Therefore the Czar's Troops Must Remain— lNo Confirmation of the Report That Japan Has Issued an Ultimatum. LONDON, Oct. 12.—A dispatch from Moscow to the Times, states that a large force of Russian troops under orders for the far East are now on their way thither by rail from Khar koff. The Russian correspondents of the same paper send quotations from newspaper articles pointing to Russia's intention to remain in occupation of Manchuria and add that it is reported from Vladivostock that as a result of famine in China, roving bands of Chinese have crossed into Manchuria, where their presence constitutes a danger to the Manchuriah railway and that this necessitates keeping Russian troops In Southern Manchuria for an indefinite period. The peculiar official explanation of the postponement of the czar's visit to Rome, "owing to circumstances over which he has no control," is inter preted in some quarters to mean that the threatening outlook in far Eastern affairs calls for the emperor's presence in Russia. There is no confirmation of the alarmist rumors. At the Japanese le gation last night no news had been re ceived of the reported untimatum. Russian Troops Moving. YOKOHAMA. Oct. 12.—The an nouncement by M. Lessar, the Russian minister to China, that the Manchurian convention between Russia and China has lapsed, is received here with rid icule. Dispatches from Chee Foo report NEW YORK IS FORCED TO DO WITHOUT MILK Floods Interrupt Railroad Traffic and Supply Is Cut Off. NEW YORK. Oct. 12.—Owing to the Interruption of railroad traffic by the floods, this city is suffering from its first serious milk famine since the big: bliz zard of 1888. Conservative estimates are that but one-tenth the normal sup ply is being distributed and several days must elapse before conditions are again normal. The dairymen are dis criminating in favor of families where there are babies so that many of them are using condensed milk as a substi tute. F. L WHITNEY TO BE HONORED. W ' il t-.,:' . ' . :: • , . ' -:;.,; '&'■■■ '"*'■'"■' ' ' ' ' 1 ■ H ■;f ■.' -■:•.•• ■ ,:■■■;■. ■:.■■:/ . v-' wk ': ■ ■■ ■■' ■'-,'■'■ i ■■'■■ ''■'. ■''■'. '-" ' ■ -■■■ ■ ' " -" :" ■ ::: :; \ ..,\-- f%" A , ' ■.::-■■■■ y v-,:■■'': .. ' ; . -' ■' 'v ■ . ,- •■■'■ ''':•-/'•'-- Will Today Be Elected President of International Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents. F. J. Whitney, general passenger agent for the Great Northern, will to morrow be elected president of the International Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents. The association is now holding its annual meting in New Orleans, and Mr. Whitney, who is vice president, is in STRETCHED ON HOSPITAL COT ROBBER CONFESSES Captured Mail Thief Admits His Quilt to United States Commissioner. DENVER, Col., Oct. 12.—Albert E. Bell, alias Crosby, alias Murray, etc., the alleged mail pouch robber and forger, had a hearing this afternoon before United States Commissioner Hinsdale. Bell Is still confined to hia bed and the commissioner visited him at St. Anthony hospital where the hearing was held. Bell confessed to robberies at Germantown, Pa., Spring field, 111., and his bond was placed at $10,000. He Is unable to give the amount of bond required and will be kept under guard until he Is well enough to be taken to Philadelphia for trial, which will be at least a week. READ THE GLOBE The Only LIVE Mbm papof in St. Paul. that a Russian warship and a transport with 000 troops left Port Arthur Oct 4 for Korea. Sixty Japanese civilians left Port Arthur Oct. 10 for Nagasaki. The Russian forces at New Chwang are reported to have been increased. Gen. Kodama, the Japanese home minister, has been appointed chief as sistant to the military staff. The premier will assume Gen. Kodama's portfolio. Early Alarmist Reports. BERLIN, Oct. 12.—A dispatch from Shanghai to the Frankfurter Zeltung states that news has reached there from Chee Foo to the effect that the Japanese have occupied Masmapho, Korea, and that an official declaration of war Is expected. PARIS, Oct. 13.—The Figaro this morning publishes an interview with M. Kurino, the Japanese minister here on the subject of the dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung from Shanghai. M. Kurino said the source of the dis patch was suspicious, as Shanghai was notoriously the originating point of bogus news. He personally had not re ceived any confirmation of the report. He continued: "Moreover, my government's last communications were wholly pacific. For the present, at least, our diplomatic relations with Russia are cordial and no tension exists between the two gov ernments, whatever certain foreign newspapers may say. lam inclined to think that the dispatch was a specu lative maneuver." GOVERNMENT MONEY WASTED IN ALASKA Senator Dietrich Declare* Agricultural Station at Sitka a Failure. SAN - FRANCISCO. Cal., Oct. 12.— C. H. Dietrich, United States senator from Nebraska and member of the sen ate committee on public lands, has ar rived here? after a four months' visit to Alaskn. His object in visiting the ter ritory was to familiarize himself with the conditions there. He does not at tach much importance to the glowing reports of Alaska's great agricultural possibilities that have come here for years past. attendance. Ever since Its organiza tion, Mr. Whitney has been a member of the passenger officials' association. A year ago he was elected vice presi dent and is now slated to become the chief executive of the association. There will be no opposition to Mr. Whitney's election. FORMER GOVERNOR GOES TO SOLDIERS' HOME Samuel J. Albright, Once Executive of Dakota, Has New Abiding Place. Special to The Globe. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Oct. 12.—Sam uel J. Albright, governor of Dakota Territory under President Pierce and an editor of various newspapers for sixty years, has just been taken to the National Military home at Dayton. He was born in 1823 and at the outbreak of the Mexican war was editor of the New Orleans Picayune and had much to do with molding public sentiment in favor of the war. His last service as editor was with the Delaware (Ohio) Herald.