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JEAD JO HOWARD'S LETTERS IT-ROlvff CHICAGO ABOUT THE ANARCHISTS. They Will Be Published Daily in the Globe Until After the Execution ! Mr. Howard stands at the head of the Newspaper Correspondents of America, end it wes at large expense that this special telegraphic arrangement was made with him. VOL. IX. LINGG MUST DIE. ' Six Gas-Pipe Bombs Found Concealed in a Wooden Concealed in a Wooden Box in His Cell. Box in His Cell. This Discovery Seals His Fate, j and He Is Sure to Go to the Gallows. the Gallows. None of the Prisoners Affected By the Unearthing; of the Terrible Secret. The Exact Use to Which They The Exact Use to Which They Were to Be Put Not Yet Discovered. Public Sentiment Again Turn- ing Strongly Against the Condemned. Gov. Oglesby's Mail Contains Many Requests for Com- mutation. Much Apprehension Manifest- ed in Certain Circles for ed in Certain Circles for the Safety of Chicago. the Safety of Chicago. Joe Howard Discusses the , Situation for the Edifica tion o f Globe Readers. tion o f Globe Readers. Chicago, Nov. ft. — The cells of the; CniCAGo; Xov. <">.— The cells of the seven condemned anarchists in the j county jail were searched to-day, and | six loaded bombs were found hidden away in a wooden box which was con cealed under a pile of newspapers .in a corner. Some time ago Sheriff Mat son decided to search aud clean out the _e"_e of the seven distinguished prisoners. and to-day was set for the examination, j Word was sent by the seeriff to the j friends of the condemned, savins; that j no admittance would be given to the ' jail, and this morning the entire force ] of deputy sheriffs reported at the jail for duty. It was shortly after 9:30 j o'clock when Lingg and Engel were led ; from their cells to the consultation cage ! ami the search began. Engel's cell was first entered and thoroughly examined. | The bed and bedding were looked over. i cracks in the walls and tabic thoroughly ' c. phued, and the clothing hanging] around the cell searched,' but beyond a i few empty cigar boxes, some fruit, books and papers, nothing was found, i Then the deputy; sheriffs entered ..... i.iimsjs Cell, while its former occupant planted him- \ self in a corner of his temporary prison , and watched them. with eager eyes. He was as pale as death and trembled like j an aspen leaf as the searchers moved around in the little stone-walled room. Suddenly two or Ihree men inside jumped out to the corridor, while a third man held at arm's length a small wooden box which he carefully carried to the jail office and laid on Jailer Folz's desk. The box contained six pieces of gas pipe, each about six or seven inches in* length, filled with some heavy sub stance and plugged at both ends. Jailor Folz picked up one. which was closed at one end with a round iron stopper, and one of the officers pro- j nounced it a veritable dynamite bomb. I .lust then Sheriff Matson arrived at the j jail and ordered that the dangerous weapons be replaced in the box and sent to a chemist for analysis, though there was no doubt as to the result of the ex amination. Then the search was con tinued, but beyond a quantity of rub bish nothing was found. Then the cells of Fischer, Parsons, Spies. Schwab and Fielden were searched in the order named, but no contraband articles of any kind were found. Ii was decided, however, that it was best to change the cells, and accordingly four apartments on the lower tier were cleaned out. j Number 11. which is directly in front of | the entrance to the jail and between two rows of Iron ('ratings, in whili space three men are on guard night and day. was prepared for Lingg's reeiption.and there the bomb manufact urer was locked up. lie was given his bed. table, nooks and writing materials. but everything else was kept from him. He immediately sat down and began to write, keeping at work all day until it was too dark to see. The next cell to thai now occupied by Lingg is used as a kind of storeroom by the deputy jail ers, and is also inside of the space be- I tween the two gratings mentioned. Next j west of this are cells ".', S and 7, which ! were cleaned out and given to Engel, Fischer and Far-oiis. in the order named, Schwab and Fielden were allowed to j retain their old ceils Xos. rid and 37 on I tin- second tier, while Spies was taken j from his old cell, No. __, and put in No. ! •'.">. just east of Schwab. All the pris- I oners except Lingg submitted to the j change and search without displaying the least emotion. Lingg seemed much worried when he was told of what was contemplated. and showed so plainly that something was wrong, that the jailers were not so greatly surprised as they might have been over the discovery sub sequently made. Sheriff Matron was j seen on the subject during the after noon. ** Me Was Very Reticent, At first, but, alter consideration, made a clean breast of the whole affair. *T had no reason,'* he said, "to make the search at this particular time. That is. we received no intimatii that any thing was wrong. It was merely a pre cautionary measure decided on some ' time ago by Jailer Fol/ and myself. We \ ■elected Sunday as a unlet day, when ' the examination would make less dis- ! turbance than it it were made on a week j day. For some time there was so much l of this amnesty business going on that j I did care to interfere with the good eijj- i Bens who were 'o'er*, sled to the run- ] demned men. or place s.i.j ohsiaHc in ; their way. Hut we felt as .!.<7i._}i the i time had ci'me to lake extra prevail- ' tions, and so i it ■----*" lo clci.n the cells i out Of course, in view of the develop ments of the arch, the most stringent precautionary measures will now be taken. The prisoners will not be al lowed to exercise as much as formerly, and the number of visitors will be re stricted. \o one will be allowed to visit any of the condemned in the cage, and if any interviews are granted it will be only to near relatives and in the pres ence of a jail official. I won't say that every visitor will Le searched, but there will be no opportunity for any exchange of anything whatever between the pris oners and outsiders. As for Lingg, I don't know that he will be allowed to see any one, but have not yet fully de cided on that point. Henceforth No Baskets of Victuals or fruit will be allowed to be sent from any of the prisoners' friends to them, and no letters or dispatches will be re ceived or sent until they are examined by a jail official." . . • -;: -Will the condemned men be re stricted to prison fare?'' "Well, no. They can have anything they want to eat. From this time on they are my guests, and will be provided with anything they desire to eat at my expense." ;>*.v'. .;' "Where did you send the bombs for examination?** "That I don't care to say. 1 will tell you the result of the investigation to morrow." "Is there any significance in the dis tribution of the men in the new cells, Spies, Fielden and Schwab being al lowed to remain on the second tier and the others placed under closer guard?" 'None whatever. The new disposi tion of the men was the result of acci dent. First come lirst served." "Will any extra guard be placed over them?" "Yes. sir. As I said, the time has come to lake every possible precaution. They will he strongly guarded night and day. and a spec man will watch each of the prisoners from this time forward." The Sheriff walked into the jail yard and there met Capt. Schaack, who entered through the criminal court building. The two officials walked into an obscure corner of the yard and had along consultation. What the topic or result of the inter view was could not be ascertained, but soon after the jiolice on guard in tiie upper floor were called to attention and given a long talk before they were drilled. Outside of the great sensation of the day things were quiet around the jail. There was an air of mystery all morning which was not explained be fore _ o'clock. Admission was denied to every one. Reporters were as rigor ously excluded as any of the public. Mrs. Schwab and Mrs. Engel brought over baskets containing dinner for the loved prisoners and left them at the door leading to the court yard. Lingg's girl, the pretty Ida Mueller, came over with a basket for Lingg. and it. too, was left at the door. About this time Sheriff Malson. accompanied by Chief Deputy (.leason. left the jail yard by the small gate" and they were closely pursued by I a small army of reporters. But they j disappeared as mysteriously as a pea under 'lie eon man's nutshell, and were not found until half an hour later, when they said there was Nothing of Consequence except a general cleaning up in the jail. But the air of mystery which pervaded everything could be felt, it was so thick, and the sheriff's denial was not very re assuring. A reporter caught a deputy who let drop an inadvertent remark. It was nothing of importance, but the idea gained credence that Parsons and Lingg bad concealed some poison in their ceils and it hail been discovered. This the sheriff subsequently denied, and for a longtime stuck to the story that noth ing was wrong. At 2 o'clock the re porters were admitted to the jail and found the same air of mystery. None of the deputies knew anything, but they were omnipresent. Fully a dozen were inside the grating in the cell rooms and half a dozen paced restlessly around the office. The baskets brought by the friends of the prisoners were not taken into the jail, and one brought by Mrs. Van Zand! in person for August Spies met with a similar fate and was sent back to the sender. A messenger boy brought a dispatch for Spies which the sheriff opened and read and then sent to the prisoner. lb; wouldn't say what the dispatch contained or who it was from, but said that it contained nothing of a seditious character. Engel was sick all night and was unable to partake' of anything but a cup of coffee to-day. The others were In Excellent Health, however, ami, not receiving any dinner until '_ o'clock, asked eagerly for their midday meal and showed good appe tites when they did receive it. The prisoners took the change of quarters quite as a matter of course, and read, wrote and smoked as though nothing unusual were going on. The news of the finding of the bombs spread like wildfire. A universal reaction of the amnesty sentiment was immediately apparent: Hundreds of citizens who had signed the petition for clemency regretted their action and wished they had never appended their names to the paper. Twenty of the officers of the central station were in the squad room when a reporter entered and told them the news. Instantly there was a storm of indignation. The word "bombs" re called to them the scenes of the Ilaymar ket. and there was but one expression of comment on the subject. One lieuten ant sarcastically remarked: ''Well. they ought to pardon Lingg anyway." The general opinion around the police stations was that, whatever might be the fate of the others, Lingg's doom was sealed, and he would have to go to the j gallows. it is doubtful if the con- j demned men will longer be allowed the j privilege of reading the daily papers. J Jt was suggested to the sheriff that the. advertising columns might easily be utilized as a means of commnication in j cipher between them and outsiders, and in all probability they will be deprived of their principal pleasure. Socialists Laugh. The new of the bomb discovery was ! received with jeers and laughs at the ' socialistic political headquarters. "Ha: ha!" laughed four or five of the hangers-on. "Is this the newest device for murdering the imprisoned boys?" "How many bombs were found?" i asked Mrs. Parsons, who happened to j be. in the room. '•Four,'* answered the reporter. ' 'Why, that's just one for each of the ' boys," sueeringly replied the anarchist's ! SAINT PAUL, MINN., MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1887. wife, who evidently ignores the three who have petitioned for mercy. "And are four bombs all that the detectives and deputy sheriffs could discover? My, my. what a discovery it was! And how do the police or the powers that be ex plain the presence of these bombs in Lingg's cell?*' "Don't know, chorused several news paper men. "I have it," cried Mrs. Parsons. "Now, don't give this away, will yon? The way those bombs came into the possession of Louis Lingg was through his girl, Eda Miller. Of late you will have noticed tiiat «he has been wearing A Very "Large Bustle, much too large for style or comfort. Then again, if you have watched her very closely, she always sits down very carefully and quietly. If she did not, why, she'd be blown to atoms. She, then, must be the one who has furnished these bombs. There, you have an explanation of the mystery. Ha, ha. Thank God I don't wear a bustle at all and therefore I can not be accused of any complicity in this latest sensation. Changing her tone suddenly from sar casm to that of intense earnestness, she expressed herself in emphatically plain English on what she declared the plot of conscienceless men to murier help less human fellow creatures. JOE HOWARD'S LETTER. Graphic Portrayal of Public Feel- ing in the Garden City. Special to the Globe. Chicago, Nov. B.— When the man in the Bible story invited his friends to a feast, they forthwith began to make ex cuses, and now that the courts of Illi nois have invited the Chicago news papers to see seven confessed anarchists hanged, forthwith begin .they to make excuses and fill their columns with so be its and peradventures that possibly it would be better policy to play the Jeff Davis game on them and leave them severaly alone. Most ingeniously do they coat the pill of clemency with suggestions of the ignominy which will attend the condemned if they are sent to prison rather than the gallows. Their idea is that, although the makers and throwers of bombs, the killers of men and maimers of others, deserve punish ment, there are several kinds of punish ment, and hanging is not the best. Crystallized into phrase, they say all over town: "From the morning after the Hay market riot, through the trial, as through subsequent long delays in reaching a decision in the reviewing tribunals, Intelligent Public Sentiment regarding the anarchists condemned for the murder of Degan has preserved marvelous consistency. The opinion firmly held during the period of public excitement, as during intervals when the condemned had passed almost en tirely from public notice, approved the punishment of men who had incited to murder in it* most horrible form. Even now that, eighteen months after the bomb was exploded, the culprits stand within a few days of eternity, the opin ion changes, where change is discern ible, as to the kind of punishment to be inflicted, not as to the justice of indict ing punishment, in no intelligent and respectable quarter, is the conduct of the men justified or excused. No re puted citizen thinks of exalting the condemned as heroes or of challenging the patient finding of the courts upon the law and the evidence, but the con viction is forced upon some minds, whereas the seven are condemned equally to the utmost penalty-there were, in fact, wide differences between the Culpability of the Actors. "There was malice prepense in a bombmaker like Lingg, but the mere haranguer like Fielden or an irrespon sible scribbler like Schwab had no mur der in his heart. The law puts them all on a plane and condemns them all to the gallows, but common sense discrimi nates between the chief and the merely incidental criminals and would not visit upon the one as full and fearful a pen alty as upon the other. Minds not In quiring curiously into the relations of everyone of the seven with the crime in the Hayniarket and having no opinion upon degrees of guilt feel as the hour of execution draws nigh that after all the exaction of the extreme penalty is a question of policy and that while the courts were right it is proper to present so important a case to an officer clothed with plenary powers of reprieve, Commutation or Pardon. and untrammeled in his consideration of the case by those rules of evidence which are necessarily applied by judges, it was for the protection of society that justice condemned the convicts to die ignominously. In a larger and more humane view, would it not be desirable that the governor of Illinois, with like motive, would deem that they isrnomin iously live? Early in the week the whole question will be submitted form ally to the governor. All that briefly and temperately is to be said upon the subject ought to and no doubt will re ceive patient and intelligent attention. The decision honestly reached should be loyally accepted." In other words, they advise the weak ening governor that if he will only comm ute the punishment the papers will joyfully indorse and cordially sustain his action. It would be impossible to exaggerate or overestimate the popular interest in the matter. I dined this evening with the family of a leading factor in affairs. In the company wore the host, his wile and daughters, a prominent capitalist and his daughters and an artist of world renown. The host was emphatic in his belief that it were Worse Than Folly Worse Than Folly to commute the sentences or in any way anielioriate the eon .liti'. Of the con demned. His wife and daughter.'* made no pretense of concealing their fear and apprehension of- rouble On the day of the execution, which they hoped would never come. The capitalist pursued a line of argument in lieu with Dim Boucicault's nonsense printed in Sat urday's Sun. He wished the affair was ended because everybody was going out of town, and things in general are dull. and the artist, who chanced to be on hand the night of the slaughter, and saw the mangled officers " when they were brought in and subsequently heard Fielden gloat over the few and wish there had been more killed and maimed. said he saw no way out of it but the highway built by the jury and the courts. lam not quite ready to place Capt. Black. Heis •~'fjAn Enthusiast for Certain, - but whether he is working for Black or the condemned is a question. Had he j been quiet Parsons would never have come back. . However, he is working hard now and will keep it up. He said to-day : - "I shall leave on the Alton road with a delegation to wait on the governor at Springfield Tuesday night. We have arranged to take with us the wives and children of the prisoners, but 1 am not yet in a position to say how many of them will accompany us. As to who will compose the delegation besides the labor members of the legislature and those of the defense committee and the amnesty association, it is impossible to say. We shall issue a general invita tion to all who desire to join the dele gation in a plea for executive clemency to accompany us. Aside from this, word has been Sent Broadcast throughout the length and breadth of the land, notifying all delegations who desire to co-operate with us to reach Springfield not later than next Wednes day morning. 1 have written the gov ernor as to our part of the programme, and requesting him to name a time and place where it will be convenient for him to receive us. Until we get his reply I cannot say what the arrange ments there will be." "How many do you expect will go to Springfield?',':.:. -' "A great many, but I cannot tell, nor can anyone, just what number. There are indications of a strong turnout from Cook county, and it has been intimated that considerable delegations will come from the principal cities all over the country." From all that could be learned I infer there will be a gathering at Springfield on Wednesday next that will tax the hotel capacity of the capital to its full est extent. The governor, it would ap pear, will receive delegations trot*- so many points that, unless he can by some means Receive Them in Bulk, he will not be able to dispose of the business in one day. The plan seems to be in the direction of brief oral state- ments from the heads of their several delegations. Capt. Black will present the case, giving the governor a brief history of the trial and the two unsuc cessful appeals. C. G. Dixson will talk as the head of the legislative delega tion, Dr. Schmidt or George Schilling for the defense committee, L. S. Oliver for the amnesty association and several others representing labor organizations. The wives and children will be pre sented to the governor, anil some of the former may have a word to utter on be- j half of their husbands. No estimate has been placed upon the combined del egations that will be at Springfield on [ "Wednesday, but if undercurrent ru- ' mors can be relied upon, a movement has been started to secure the greatest j possible turnout. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, ' Pittsburg, | Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, De troit. Cleveland, Kansas City, Omaha and threescore of smaller cities arc to be represented. The railroads and the i hotels are to Reap a Harvest, and the governor is to be astonished, and. if possible, favorably impressed. i Capt. Black is in high hopes of a com- j mutation of all the sentences and speaks of the revolution which has set in favor able to the condemned as more to his taste than the once- proposed social rev olution, and Capt. Black is right. He j knows that what 1 have wired about this revolution is correct. The papers may report according to their fancy. The fact is patent, and a maudlin senti- j ment is growing like the traditional snowball. Why. Is it because Fielden prophesied that Chicago would be in ashes if he and his colleagues are ! hanged? Has personal fear and corpo- j rate apprehension aught to do in the premises? It is also a fact that many Chicago men have gone to New York j and others are to follow. Men who have capital and others who represent j capital have found it desirable to be j conspicuous by their abence, and under pretense of business in the East seek the solacing bird and The Seductive Bottle far away from the theater of their fears and apprehensions. Many strangers are here, however, and the vigilant police know that some have legitimate business, others have not. We see them on the street, meet them in the theaters, notice them in the lobbies, catch them j in the' city hall, observe them in the I j jail. Among the results, good or evil. I which will follow the final act of the amnesty association, in congregating here a delegation from all parts of the i country to press the question of J clemency upon the governor, will be that, to a certainty, of an immense sur plus of cranks. St. Louis and Pittsburg and New York and Boston and scores' I of other cities will each furnish its quota. These people, sympathizers with anarchy, as well as the condemned anarchists, will come to Chicago pro fessedly as delegates representing various labor and other organizations. They will congregate upon the streets of Chicago and find their way into tlie various headquarters and saloons fre quented by Reds and Radical Socialists, and will no doubt serve as an igniting material to the already excited masses here. They will go to Springfield, some of them at least, and will bring back im pressions, favorable or unfavorable, pertaining to the final issue of the case, t All this, which with the information on baud is but a moderate statement of what may reasonably be expected, sug- • gests the idea that the police will have their hands full. Many of these visit ors, perhaps a majority, will be well meaning citizens, but on the other ' hand many of them will need to be carefully watched if the peace and safety of person and . property in Chicago is properly guarded. While it Is unwise to create needless alarm at this - time, it is equally unwise to ignore the • fact that there will be a larire influx of visitors during the week, many of' them * from a dangerous class, who come on an I errand that in itself suggests danger. Most of those people will be likely to" remain . .=" I Until After Nov. 11. : *'"; especially if any or all the anarchists are executed. It has all along been felt that there was no danger from the *__. Continued on "Fifth Page. ■': IT ENDED IN TRAGEDY. A Real Romance Back of the * Richardson-Hanson Kill- ing* Affair. Richardson's Career—He Was an Englishman of Good Birth and Breeding-. His Wife a Woman of Refine- ment, Who Left Her All for His Sake. Heartbroken and Weeping*;, She Returns to St. Paul After His Funeral. Back of the Richardson-Hanson tragedy at Eau Claire last Thursday night lies the romantic career of two young people which has had a deplor- able tragic termination. Edward Rich- ardson, who was slain in the Galloway house in that fatal encounter with Fred Hanson, was a young Englishman of good birth and superior education. He was a graduate of Cambridge universiy and lias a mother and three brothers now living in England. One brother is a successful barrister; the second one is a physician, and the third one vicar of St. John's parish, Cambridge. When young Richardson left Cambridge he entered the British navy as a midshipman and saw a good deal of the world. After a couple of years' service he left the navy and came to America. Being of a roving disposition he drifted from place to place, until he finally brought up at Bloomington, HI. It was there he met and married the woman •from whom he was afterwards divorced, and who is now the wife of Fred Han- son, the second victim of the tragedy. .i^fter Richardson separated from his wife he went to roving again, and here conies in the second romance. Helen Mason was the only daughter of a wealthy Toronto wholesale shoe mer- chant. She had just finished her educa tion in the convent at Niagara Falls and returned home to be the PRIDE. 01* HER FAMILY and the belle of the city, .when Ned Richardson crossed her pathway. With his robust frame, handsome face and graceful carriage, Richardson was the perfection of manly beauty. In addi tion, he was cultured and gentlemanly in deportment, and in every way a man to win the love of a woman. It was the old, old story. Gaze met gaze and heart saw heart. Swill darted, as from the suitthe strong attraction, and the charm .was done. Helen Mason loved Ned Richardson from the hour she first met Elm. lie was poor and in his extremity nad taken a position as a stew- ard in a- Toronto hotel. But that made no difference to the love- stricken maiden. She would rather share his lowliest lot, walk by his side an outcast, work for him, beg with him, and live upon the light of one kind smile from him, than wear a crown. There was a scene when Helen's family learned Of her infatuation with the English hotel steward. One brother is a prominent Toronto banker, another is an officer in the Dominion military service, and was wounded in the North- western war, and another is at the head of . a large wholesale establishment. With their wealth and social standing the idea was preposterous that their sister should wed a workingnian; so Helen was bundled up and sent back to the convent for repentance and safe keeping. But love laughs at locksmiths, and it was not long until Helen had run away from the convent and landed in Detroit. Here she secured a situation as governess in the family of Senator Caskey, from whence she managed to communicate with Richardson. The se quel was that a little less than three years ago they were married and came to .Minneapolis to live. Having heard the story of Richard- son's romantic career, a Globe reporter visited Mrs. Richardson last evening at her home on West Third street, in this city, to gather further particulars. The lady " :--_:' HAD .lisr iiirniiM-i) . from Eau Claire, whither she had gone to bury her husband. She was apparently overwhelmed with grief, but recovered her composure sufficiently to talk for awhile. Mrs. Richardson looks to be somewhere be- tween twenty-live and thirty years of ace. her auburn hair, blue eyes and cast of features denoting Celtic origin, and is evidently a lady of culture and refine- ment. Alter substantially confirming the statement related above concerning the details of her own life and that of her late hu-band, Mrs. Richardson said: "This has been a terrible ordeai for me, but the most horrible part of it is the statement made by an Eau Claire paper that my husband was a tramp and that ■I was not a woman to be believed. When I married Ned Richardson 1 knew the whole history of his life, for he was an honorable man and withheld nothing from me. I knew of his former marriage and divorce. 1 married him because 1 loved bim, and God knows 1 idolized him. He loved me, and was as tender in his affection as if 1 had been a child. He was kind to me, always, and pro- vided well for me. From the day 1 married .him down to this hour not "one single regret have I had that I gave up friends and a luxurious home for him. Be had to work lor his living, but I was satisfied to share his lot. All last winter wewerc at Jamestown, Dak. Mr. Rich- ardson had charge of the Gladstone ho- telat that place for eight months. We went from there in the spring to Gen- eva Beach, where Mr. Richardson took a position in the Alexandria hotel. At thtf close of the lake season we came to St. Paul and Mr. Richardson took charge of- the restaurant in connection with the Bodega. When Mr. O'Neill left the Ryan, Mr. Richardson turned over the M_K.ga restaurant to him. He had just .*" completed a purchase of a half interest in the restaurant at the corner of Fourth and Sibley, and was to have taken possession on Wednesday last. Tuesday morning he received a telegram from Eau Claire, signed "Mrs. Fred Hanson,"' saying Eda was very ill and to come immedi ately. Eda, as you know, was Mr. Richardson's child by Mrs. Hanson, and is - :*;__.' A LOVELY LITTLE SIB*-, eleven years old. He was devoted to his daughter and the news of her illness was a great Siiock to him. Supposing from the tone of the telegram that the child was dying, he hastened to catch the first train lo Eau Claire. 1 went with him to the depot and saw him buy a return ticket. He told me that he would telegraph me as ; soon as he got there. Wednesday 1 received a tele gram" from him saying that Eda was not ill, and he would lie home in the t morning. He never came. At 4 o'clock next morning I was aroused with the announcement that my hus- band had met with an accident and de sired:', me -to come to him. Through kindness*- of heart and in consideration of my delicate condition, my friends did not think best to break the news to me ■i in all its horrid reality." Mrs. Richard- son will lie a mother in about three months. "Judge of my feelings then, when, as I took the morning train for Eau Claire. I bought the Globe, and the first thing my eye fell upon was the account of his death. I want the Globe, in kindness to the dead, and r.s an act of justice to me.'' said the sobbing woman, "to refute the false theory that he com- mitted suicide. He was struck by two balls; one in front, which struck a rib and glanced, and the other, the fatal bullet, entered the back of his head. Suicides do not shoot themselves in the back of the head. Moreover, both balls that struck Mr. Richardson fitted Han- son's pistol and did not fit the one that he • had. There is another thing that is a mystery to me. When Mr. Richardson left home he had a considerable sum of money with him. I know it because I saw him take it from that drawer and put it in his pocket. 1 said to him: 'Ned, if your child dies don't let Fred Hanson bury it. Bring her here and bury her.' And then I ad- vised him to take the money out of the drawer, which he did; and, in addition, I gave him 15 that I had. Yet when 1 got to Eau Claire there was SO MONEY TO BE FOUND on his person, and all his papers were j gone. 1 have no charges to make against j anything, but Ido want my dead hus- I band's name vindicated. He was as honorable a man as ever walked God's earth, and as devoted a husband as ever blessed a woman's life." Mrs. Richardson's statement was in- terrupted by frequent outbursts of ' grief. At one time, when the reporter ! thoughtlessly took up from a table the photograph of a wondrously handsome . man and asked il it was a picture of her ' dead husband, the lady lost all control i of her emotions, and the scene that fol- lowed was one of utmost distress. . •**» A. GREAT IRON REGION. ! Wonderful Developments on the Raraboo Iron Range. Nobis Freedom, Wis., Nov. 4.— The town of Baraboo, Wis., is on the Chi cago & Northwestern railway, distant ; 175 miles from Chicago and 245 miles j from St. Paul. It is on the Baraboo river, which at this point flows in an I easterly direction and joins the Wiscon- j sin river at Portage City. Driving west from Baraboo and following the river j for seven miles brings one to North ; Freedom, a town on the main line of the I Chicago «& Northwestern railway. This ! town lies at the foot of the Baraboo Bessemer steel and iron range, which begins a mile south of the town and I stretches off %in a southwesterly direc tion. It is in the valley at the foot of tiie north slope of this range that the I marvelous deposits of soft hematite j ore are now being developed. The Bessemer Range Land & Mm ing company controls all the choice iron lands in this district. This company is developing certain of its properties undi r its own management, and others it leases in tracts suitable for develop- ment. Ten mines are now under devel opment on this range, six being I operated by stockholders of the J inining company and two by citizens ' of Baraboo. and two by St. Paul and ; Minneapolis parties. Of these mines the "Douglas" is a little further devel- oped than the others.. One of the other i mines, the ••Elienborough," is operated | by St. Paul parties, the company con- sisting of E. 11. Ozmun, J. 11. Knox, R. ! T. Knox and J. C. Bullitt. Jr. This range derives its name from the j quality of the ore discovered, which is so rich in metallic iron and so extremely j low in phosphorus as to be pronounced a distinct ore in itself, and of great I value in the manufacture of steel. The i ore bearing rocks are uniform, easily found ami cheaply worked. The great ore markets of Chicago and Joliet are less than 200 miles distant. The range lying right along the great Chicago & Northwestern railway enables shippers to place the product of these mines at those points at the same prices as the ores from the Gogebic range can be placed on the docks at Ashland. In this respect this range has an in- calculable advantage over the Go- gebic and Vermillion ranges. Capt. Pease, the veteran of the Gogebic and superintendent of the great Colby mine, is now superintendent of the Douglas mine. The captain says that the discoveries at the Douglas far exceed anything that ever have been made on the Gogebic range. It would seem that while immense fortunes have been made during the pant four years in the Gogebic and Vermillion districts, even greater developments are promised on this new range with the knowledge acquired in past workings. This place, North Freedom, is the coming mining city. Located, as it is, at the month of the valley leading to these mines, only two or three miles away, it is the place where a second and larger Hurley is to spring up. The Chicago ■_ Northwestern is to build a spur road from Freedom up this valley to the various mines. As one of the officers of the mining company re- marked tome. "If these old mossbacks at Freedom only knew what is in store for them they could not sleep at nights." The next thirty days will see a growth and development at this town that will astonish these natives. Here is the place for a large town, and no other place offers such opportunities for iti- vestment. -. ,-: _•_ AVITH A GAiIdNG GUN. WITH A GAIIiIXG GUN. How Belligerents* Are Pacified in Ohio. . ' Zamsvii.i.k. ()., Nov. The wild- est excitement has prevailed here all day over a threatened railroad war. For months several roads have been fighting for terminal facilities here. A few days since the Baltimore & Ohio and Zanesville. Newcoinerstown<& Columbus companies purchased property for right of way. To-day the Zanesville. Mt. Vernon & Marion company began lay- ing track over the disputed territory. It was not long before 200 Baltimore '& Ohio section men were on the scene, ready, it is asserted, to tear up the track as fast as it was laid. As it was impos sible to get an injunction the governor was appealed to, and he ordered out one company of militia, and later a Gatling gun battery was sent to the scene. This had a pacifying effect and the Baltimore & Ohio men dispersed, prom- ising not to interfere with the track- laying to-night. . Flooded With Bogus Money. Reading, Pa., Nov. 6.— midnight j last night detectives lodged In jail here j William Frit. Edward louse and Adam j Miller, three well known police char- i acters, charged with passing counterfeit j money — notes and coin. The officerc i I have obtained a full confession, giving a description of the place where the coun terfeit money was made and Implicating : a dozen persons. According to the confession Eastern Pennsylvania has bicn flooded with bogus money. Further arrests are expected to follow. No Cholera Aboard. New York, Nov. o.— The steamship Bergundia. from Gibraltar, arrived to- day. A thorough inspection disproved the rumors that she had cholera aboard. Everything was in good shape, but the vessel will be detained at lower quaraivj tine for a lew days. ■-* ■-.-.. THE PIVOTAL STATE. Both Republicans and Demo- crats Confident of Win- ning- in New York. The Labor Vote the Element Which Neither Can Cor- rectly Calculate. Henry George Conceded Fifty Thousand Votes in New York City. The . Prohibition Vote and Other Elements Difficult of Estimation. New York, Nov. o.— The politicians of this state are entering upon the last pull of the present canvass with more trouble and uncertainty in their minds than in any contest in years. There are so many unknown quentities'that re sults cannot be figured upon with any definite certainty. The general course of the campaign has been singularly like those of 1885 and 18>;o. The Republicans entered upon the campaigns of those years with confident cries of success. They had carried the state before the conventions were over, but when elec tion day drew near it, became evident to close observers that the votes were slip- ping out of their hands. The same thing lias been true of the canvass this year, and the closing days of the campaign see growing Democratic confidence, which alarms the Republican leaders. This condition of things is by no means a certain indication that the Democrats will win the contest. The chances are decidedly in favor of the Republicans. The unknown j qualities, which are the prohibition. liquor and the labor votes, are so dis tributed as to give the Republicans the most advantage. The Republican party will lose votes in the state from both directions of the liquor issue. That is to say, THE I'P.OHII'ITION* VOTE, j which will be as large as in previous j years, will be almost entirely drawn from the Republican party. A large German and Irish vote, which is con trolled by the brewers and liquor deal ers, will be thrown with the Democratic party. The Crosby high-license bill. which was made a party measure by the Republicans at Albany last winter, was extremely obnoxious to the brewers and liquor dealers in New York, Albany, j Buffalo and other cities. The weight of I heir displeasure will be felt on election ; day. But against these two influences ■ the labor R vote i* a large offset. The i lowest estimate made of the probable labor vote in this city is 50,000. In that I number are included both the followers : of Henry George and the socialists, who were driven out of his party by the ! platform adopted at his state conven- I tion, but have nominated a ticket of i their own. Three-fourths of these voters were former Democrats, and they ! may be more than sufficient to give the I Republicans the majority that they so much covet. In both of these old par ' ties there are serious disturbing conten ! thins. The Democratic party has been ! enervated by the domination of mug j wump influences at Washington. The I rank and file of the parts hi the state ■ arc not satisfied with President Cleve- land. They have rallied around Gov. Hill, and seek only an opportunity to throw over oi.kvi'i.am) for 1111.T,. At the same time there has grown up an element controlled by the federal office-holders which has become as ag gressive in the attempted management of party affairs as during Republican administration. The state officials in • the several counties create opposing factions, and where one has been dom inant the friends of the other have I sulkily retired from activity. This con- I dition of things is unhealthy for the i party and promises to lose large num l hers of votes for the state ticket. The j Republican troubles grow out of the ; : senatorial contest in which Frank i Hiscock was the winner. Ex-senator | Warner Miller, who came within one j vote of succeeding himself, had a large following of the old wheel-horses of the party iv the farming communities, the ! dairying interests and the solid business men*. They have never been satisfied I with his defeat, and it has been with the utmost difficulty on account of their lukewarmness that any number of them could be induced to take any part in the canvass for the Republican ticket. The nomination of for.. F1.F,1» OItAXT, was an experiment. The Republicans needed an advertisement. They got it by the nomination of" the son of a i hero as the head of their ticket. The I intensely bitter feeling against the old soldiers has been fostered in Col. I Grant's nomination. The Grand Army boys have given him si hearty and unan j imous support. As a young man he has received the generous support of the younger men of the party, who are riot bound up in the old factional fights. His wife has been no small factor in bringing him popularity. She is a swrewil. tactful woman of great per- sonal charms and mental accomplish- ments, who has accompanied him over j the state, and has left a beneficial im pression everywhere. After all, the entire contest is to be decided, and solely decided, by the size of \ .'"* TlfK i Ainu: VOTE. ■ :.; in considering this element immedi- ate recognition must be given to the honesty and sincerity of Henry George, Dr. MeGlynn and their lieutenants. There will be no selling out of their party to any one. Their aim and pur- pose is to poll for the Labor party every possible vote. .They are not politicians, they are agitators. "They have not even the capacity of holding their own, but they have, had the ability to stir up the working masses of people in this city that they Hock together on election day with much the same blind impulse as sheep seek shelter. One might as well attempt lo find a needle in a hay-stack as to ask for information at either of the old party headquarters here. They are either unwilling to talk, or what is more probable, they are unable to speak intelligently. Chairman Knapp said to me this morning at Republican head- quarters: ■:."/;- :a: :.-i>". two orixioxs. "Unless all the signs by which we may judge of politics are useless, we shall carry the state. The only thing that can disturb us is the enormous use of money and the corruption of voters, but at the present time we have the best of the canvass, aud in the few days that remain Ido not believe that it is possible for the Democrats to turn the tide and secure the state.','. ■--.- ; Stepping across the way to | the Hoff- ; man house 1 found Chairman Murphy, of the Democratic committee.- He sain: "The real Democratic fight for the elec tion has only just t begun. During the last month we have merely , been laying the foundation for real work,' and on NEWSBOYS, ATTENTION! Twenty-Five Good, Warm Suits of Winter Clothes, TEN HEAVY OVERCOATS, .'1 '/'.'. FIVE SEAL FUR CAPS, >- From The Great Manhattan One-Price Clothing Co. . ."j - Of St. Paul, '_;■,",-••£;. Will he Given to Newsboys Who Sell GLOBES Every Day Until Christmas. NO. 311. election day we shall rout the Repub Means, horse, foot and dragoons. We are going to carry this state, and we have not told the Republicans how we are going lo do it. They will be bettey posted after election." --,' .V ■:•'-.-•.• NOW OB NEVER. It is worth while to note, as a feature of the campaign, the last ditch feeling that pervades the Republican party. "Unless we win this election in New York."is the common expression among.. Republicans, ••we cannot hope to sue-' ceed next year in the presidential elec tion, and that cuds the party." Such a statement of judgment may be heard any hour of the day about Republican headquarters. The Republican voters" believe it. and this belief will be a' strong factor in getting out a full vote.-" Leveret. Saltonstall, the mugwump, collector at Boston, whose retention o*C -95 per cent of the old Republican office* holders has raised such a storm of indig nant protest from Massachusetts Demo crats, is in New York to-day, having just returned from a visit to Washing ton, where he went on Sunday in com*' pany with Secretary Endicott. Mr. Sal tonstair is a lantern-jawed, smooth faced man, with clean-shaven, BEEFY RED CHEEKS. In general appearance and conversa tion he would be mistaken for an En glishman. As I left him to-day after, a brief conversation I was accosted by. a friend, who inquired: "Who is the* noble lord.* and proceeded to tell inQj that he mistook the collector for thoi Duke of "Marlborough or some other/] English nobleman. The collector de-; Died in set terms the correctness of the supposition that he went to Washington to explain to President Cleveland the method by which he has distributed of* fices. When I asked him if lie had met the president he said: "Certainly. I called upon him, but not a word "was said about offices. There was nothing to be said. The civil service law fixes that. The officials in the Boston custom house are, with very few possible ex ceptions, competent men and good fel lows. In, my talk with the president no mention was made of the struggle be tween Nicoll and Fellows in this city/ or of any similar contest in Massachu setts. 1 can say for the president that; he is firm as a rock for civil service re-. form. lie is firm, also, as a rock for the integrity of the Democratic party. He believes in not diverting his at tention from great and overshadowing. issues by the contemplation of side issues and complications. He is not disposed to read men out of the party. for disagreeing with the party, or with" himself on minor matters. He has set his heart on the accomplishment^!', a* great task,- and he will accomplish "it."'' THE SITIWTIOA* IX MASSACHUSETTS. When asked about the Massachusetts - election, which will take place on Tues day, Mr. Saltonstall said: "The situa-J Hon may be summed up in the state ment that the Republicans are afraid ' and the Democrats "are not confident. The natural thing .would be for Massa chusetts to go largely Republican. Bus the Republicans are squawking so loudly that the Democrats think (hero is some show lor them. It may be only a ruse of the enemy io get out their voters and otherwise deceive the Demo crats. There are so many uncertainties that 1 would not attempt to predict the result.'* *•- -.'•-'" ;-~ • '.-'• : . '.*:'. _".._* _,;.'.'."• ••What i- tlie uncertain quantity?" , ' "Tlie general disturbance of' party lines more than anything else. You could not reasonably expect two great parties to go along forever, in both of which there are large protective and free trade factions, without a ' reform- ing of party lines sometime or some- where. That process is going on in Massachusetts and all over the country at the present time." Ylfi.VS AND BJ.ACK. They Have a Peculiar Interest in Each Other Now. ' Special to the Globe. Wasiuxgtox, Nov. 6.— There is a well-defined rumor to-day that friends of (Jen. Black object seriously to the advancement of Vilas to the secretary- ship of the interior department. They allege thai the plan is made by the friends of Vila-, to boom him for the vice presidency. One of them says: "Vilas as secretary of the interior would gain all the credit which attaches to Black as commissioner of pensions. The soldier votes of Black would go to Vilas. There has been a protest made to Cleve- land that Vilas should not go to the interior department." The gentleman occupied a promi nent military position during the war, is a friend of Black, and conse quently opposed to Vilas. On the con- trary, friends of Vilas deny the allega tion, and assure Mack and his friends that Vilas in the interior department- would not menace the aspiration, of Black. They say they never dreamed of such a thing. Nevertheless Black and his friends fear Vilas there. Cleve- land is annoyed by the unexpected complication. Under the circumstances, if Vilas remains in the postoffice depart- ment, the friends of Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, believe a Southern man should succeed Lamar, aud are urging Gordon for the place. It is positively asserted by a Michigan man that Dickinson has been offered a position in the cabinet. * Day Talks Politics. Special to the Globe. . *Wa>iiixi.ti»\ Nov. 6.— 11. Day, of Dakota, i- registered at^he .National hotel. He greeted the Globe man smilingly, saying: "You thought M. ll.' Day: had been caught napping, didn't you? Well. I'm here ami assure you that I have not been happing at all. Everything is lovely and I shall start west to-morrow, meet my wife in Chi cago and go home again. 1 understand that Gov*. Church is coming this ' way; We are the best of friends and may meet in Chicago. Ido not know whether Judge Francis will be removed or not. The president alone can tell." Mr. Day has been to New York and pre- diets the election of Col. Fellows, whom he Calls the pluckiest fighter in the state, who looks likes Stephen A. Doug- las and is another little giant on the stump. Delias doubts as to the state election, but believes the Democratic state ticket will In* elected. Military on the Move. Nkw lii a, 1.a., Nov. 6.— A mili tary company from Opelousas passed down to-day. An artillery detachment of the Iberiu guards left on a local train in response to Capt Cade's call for more men. Ten more of the Iberia guards will leave to-night to join their com- mand at I'attersonville. All is quiet here. All the mills in the Fausse Point section, as well as in the interior, are at work. A large number of negroes went down on a train to-day. gouig to take the places of the strikers. "; ■ - ~ ■"**•**'*""""""■ — : '-'--■''■ Married a Criminal. Married a Criminal. Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. lames Billingsly, convicted of attempting . to ' assassinate the husband of a woman with whom he had been intimate and sentenced to five years in the peniten tiary, was married in the county jail yesterday to ; pretty Tillie Northup; against the protest of Tier family. Sne was just of age aud defied her parents. - She is madly in love with Billingslv. ■"•■..'-. • **» ... • '-•>■ The Father of .Silk. ' Patkksox. N. J., Nov. (*».— A cable gram from Macclesfield, England, to-day announces the death of John Kyle. He was the father of the silk industry in this country, and was ron a visit to his birthplace.