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- SAINT PAUL. ST. PAU PERSONALS. Louis Hamlin leaves to-day. for Alaska. C. 11. Lord, of the B. & 0., is in Milwaukee. I R. R. Dunn leaves for Rye Beach this week. . Mr. and Mrs. Dean returned from Duluth yesterday. The Messrs. Howard,* of Igiehart street, are In Dubuque. 'jpQHnripaMPVMßPff'Wl Miss May Kelley, of Duluth, is visiting Jlrs. Brisbin. Miss May Dennis, of Sioux City, is visiting friends here.'_J3ifißrtnHESHpflflHP Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Butler are home from Detroit lake. Miss Addie Kreiger goes on a visit to Mil waukee to-day. Lieut, and Mrs. Glenn leave forFrontenac in a few days. __. H. H. McCord, of St. Cloud, is visiting West St Paul friends. -:._3SK_W3S_&to^B_ Lynne Comstork is. home from Duluth after a pleasant visit. Miss Covin, of Cuba, is at White Bear lake, Visiting Mrs. Hiler Horton. Newport R. L, is . the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Donnelly are established In their Fifth street residence. Mrs. K. P. Cullen and Miss Maude Cullen ere home from Minnetonka. Miss Grace McDonald left for Minnetonka yesterday to spend a few weeks. Miss Mabel Lanpher (roes to Duluth to-day for a visit to Miss Louise Bailey. Bishop E. L. Thomas has returned to Kan sas after a visit to St. Paul friends. " Misses Moore and Mann, of Crocus hill, leave on Wednesday for Fort Niobrara. Richard Brit-ton, of the Harris Theater com pany, leaves this evening for Baltimore. William Ilurd, of Detroit, is the guest this week of Charles Cramer, of Grove street. Mathias Rhoy, of CGB Randolph street, left Saturday for a few weeks' visit In Omaha. Miss Theo Donnelly! of Milwaukee, is vis iting Mrs. J. G. Donnelly, of Robert street. Miss Bertha Goldsmith, who has been visit ing Mrs. Cullen, left for Chicago Saturday. Mrs. E. N. Saunders and family, of St. Peter street, have returned from Longworth. Mrs. John Wright and family, of Ninth street, have gone on a trip to Lake Su perior. Miss Frank Newell, accompanied oy her brother, Charles Newell, leaves for Olympia, Wash., to-day. Miss M. J. Owens, of Red Wing, Minn., Is the guest his week of Miss Myra Stahl, of Merriam Park. Mrs. S. Porter and son, who have been visiting Mrs. R. G. Bausher, on Tenth street, leave for home on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Howard, of Lake City, are visiting Mrs. Howard's sister, Mrs. Stephenson, of Mississippi street. Past Grand Chancellor Rothsay, of the Supreme lodge. Knights of Pythias, is visit ing with Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hutchins. Gsn. Mark D. Flower, president of the St. Paul Union Stockyards company, returned yesterday from a trip through the Southwest. Charles A. Lee, of the Paw tucket (R. I.) Gazette and Chronicle, is at the Ryan. Mr. Lee is president of the National Editorial as sociation, which met at Boston and 'which will meet in this city in 1891. lie paid a pleasant call at the Globe office last evening. The National association contained 270 dele gates last meeting, representing fifty editorial bodies, scattered from Colorado eastward, including every state. Mr. Lee is positive the central location of St. Paul will draw out a larger attendance next year. Quite a distinguished party of Knights of Pythias arrived in St. Paul last night from the recent supreme conclave at Milwaukee. The members went as far as his home with George B. Shaw, of Ean Claire, supreme chancellor, and, after a royal entertainment by him. came on here and registered at the Ryan. The party comprised R. L. C. White, Nashville, S. K. of R. and S. ; John C. Bunra and wife, of Ohio, and Walter B. Richie, Lima, the supreme representatives of Ohio; James B. Bray ton, Newport, Charles A." Lee, Pewtucket, the supreme representatives of Rhode Island. Mr. White goes from here to ' W'iiiuipei-: in the Interest of the order. Lectured by the High Mogul. London, July 21.— Second battal ion of the Grenadier Guards, some of the members of which recently showed Bignslof Insubordination, will start for Bermuda to-morrow. The battalion was inspected to-day by the Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British army. The duke also ad dressed the troops and expressed the hope that they would behave better abroad than they had behaved in Lon don. • kBB fITW || ■ _ ■IIIMIII i .l^ Mil II HI •^""^""*™ B ™™* M '^^'"" !l '^ M ""'' . ||^«H__B__B«BH_E_B__S__E___SB__________aHlMaßraHiMW THE HORSE HAS GONE And Now Comes the '. Official Inquiry Concerning the Barn Door. . Conflicting Testimony Touch ing" the Catastrophe at Lake Pepin. The Boat's Officers Say They Were Not Advised to Beware, While Outsiders Affirm They Cautioned Them of the Storm. The Investigation of the disaster on Lake Pepin, in which the steamer Sea Wing was foundered,, was resumed yesterday. Inspector John. D. Sloan had returned from an official trip to Duluth and other points and took part in the investigation. He stated that there was no reason why the investigation should not be held with open doors. He placed the evidence thus far taken before press representa tives and allowed reporters for all the papers present during the hearing. ? He also stated in the presence i of several steamboat men that excursions on Lake Pepin should not .be made under any circumstances, owing to- the dangers arising from sudden squalls. The testi mony of all steamboat men thus far ex amined is unqualifiedly to: the .effect that Lake Pepin is considered a danger ous lake for steamers, and par ticularly for those loaded down with excursion parties. Tney all agree that it would have been next to impos sible for any steamer on the Mississippi to have weathered the storm of July 13. The testimony thus far is to the effect that the Sea Wing was sound, her ma chinery in good order and the boat ser. worthy. Capt. C. Jellison had the hot t chartered prior to July 3, but she was f.t that time turned over to Capt. Wetheren and Mell Sparks, the late owners. She was inspected on July 8 and found in good condition. The crew of the steamer were all saved. They are D. M. Wetheren, captain and pilot; E. M. Niles, clerk: M. L. Sparks, mate; Will Sparks,- en gineer; H.M. Hope, fireman. Will Niles, Harry Niles, W. Willey, W, Sparks and Charles Neal, deck hands. These all testified that no drinking had been done on the boat that day, and all agree to the main points as testified to by Capt. Wetheren, as to no doors of the cabin being locked and hearing "no one advise against starting from Lake City before the storm was over. Among other things Capt. David 11. Wetheren, who was examined last week, stated he has had three issues of a license as pilot, and two as master.' . He and Mell Sparks owned the Sea Wing. They were allowed 350 passengers with two barges. The boat carried 175 wood floats, 175 cork and tube life preservers, 6 axes, 7 life boats, and 28 oars. They left Diamond Bluff on the morning of July 13 with the barge Jim Grant in tow. 'They stopped at Trentbn, Bed Wing and Frontenac. He did not know how many passengers were on board. The boat left at 8 o'clock and had gone four or five miles up the lake when at 9 o'clock it capsized. The wind was blow ing up the lake nearly from the Minne sota shore. He held the boat for Maiden Rock Point .to get : under the bend, When nearly up to the point he saw the squall coming, and turned the boat to meet it. When turning to meet the storm the boat listed some, but rode up , again after she got square into the THE- SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: TUESDAY MOKMNG, JULY 22, 1890. wind. f, The boat ran toward the Minne sota shore for several . minutes l until* a sudden • squall, r coming f. straight •:" down ; the lake,- caught, and capsized her in stantly. :■■ He did " not » know anything more until he -found himself in the water, Inside the V pilot- house. ° Ho put - his feet against '.'ii- the :■;._.» wheel i and forced himself .-. through f; the i glass,* and -' then.' o swam " '*. to ," the" surface "2-_ and i climbed onto the wreck with the assist- i ance ot Warn Sparks. The boat drifted, ; bottom ,up, for : a time, and then he thought : the ; : pilot house struck the bot tom, which < caused the -boat to turn on its side. By the turning of the boat all those on the hull were, washed off.' -Ho' swam to shore, intending to r get a skiff, but when he got i to^ shore* was so ex hausted that her- had to be helped out of the ' water. v He ' remained* at a house to which he .was taken until daylight, when he went to the side of the lake apposite the wreck.. The Cleric's Story. E. M. Niles, the testified that on starting out in the morning 11 passen gers were taken on at "Diamond Bluff,* 22 at Trenton and 114 at Red Wins,mak ing 147 in all. There were about twenty more on board when .we ' started .back and 1 when the storm struck, "I was; standing inside the cabin when the ; storm struck us. The boat tipped so quickly that I slid to the other side of the cabin. I crawled on my hands and knees out of the door and then crawled to the uppsr side. The boat was then about on her side. : 1 saw the boat was ; coming -"over on me. I jumped backward into the lake; and came to the surface as the guard and railing of the high side .was going un der water. I theu climbed upon- the hull. 1 helped a lady from Red Wing and a boy. onto . the hull. There were about fifty on the hull. I jumped off the hull arid swam to the barge. . What the Fireman Did. ;H. M. Hope, fireman, jumped on the barge. Just as. the" boat turned over some one called out: "For God's sake,? cut the ropes!" He jumped back and got an ax and cut two of .them. About twenty people got on the barge after the - boat tipped over. There ■ were l thirty-five or forty ou the . barge/ after that. '■ - :, William H. Sparks, of Trenton, Wis., was assistant engineer on the Sea Wing. He considered Capt. Wetheren a com-; petent master and pilot of river; steam-; ers. He said: ."I left the engine run-, ning. The boat tipped over too soon to give me time to stop it. I I went on the lower side of the boat and got into the water, caught on to the guards and went around with the boat. When, I came up I left the boat and got on to the barge, on which 1 went. to shore." "If theie ; had been another barge lashed to the other side of the steamer would it have capsized?" he was asked. "In my judgment it would have either capsized or tbe cabin would have been blown off." He further stated in : an swer to questions that there was noth ing that could have been done to avert the accident. A Pilot's Yarn. In the examination of T. C. Eaton, a pilot on the Ethel Howard, he . said he thought the weather very unfavorable that evening. Was watching the weath er from 5 o'clock p. m. "We securely tied our boat, the Ethel Howard, at 6 p.. m., anel watched the approaching storm. I was aboard the Sea Wing an hour be fore leaving Lake City. There was Warning of an approaching storm when she left. 1 was to have left with 1 the Ethel Howard at. 7, but on' account of the bad-looking weather we would not co. In my judgment it was not safe; for the Sea Wing, to leave 'at the time she. did. Lake Pepin is con sidered a dangerous lake to navigate. I think no steamer on the Mississippi would have I stood the storm; I consid ered the Sea Wing a good, staunch, seaworthy boat/. I - was surprised to hear hear ; her blow her whistle when she did to start." m__^_t________t_____m A Passenger's View. George Cook, of • Red Wing, who was a passenger on the Sea Wing, heard one of the deck hands tell "Capt. Wethereu that an old man on the boat remarked that the boat should not start out from Lake City until after., the storm. ' Cook said that .he ! and a friend were sit ting 'f at the "•. bow * watching -: the whitecaps . ... on , the i lake. - ' They started ,/. back ;. 2to get : life-preservers. They grabbed them and put them on. They then went to the side of the boat. The -/crowd--, rushed on him and forced him to his knees. A number of them jumped into the -barge; i/A 1 puff of wind turned the boat about one-third on its side ;; when the ; wind . lulled it ii settled 1 back. Another gust of wind blew the boat over on its side. The ropes attach ing: the barge were then cut. The boat then turned bottom side up. - ; f Thought Him Incompetent. .-. , Capt. C. : Jellison, of Wabasha, said he considered the Sea, Wing m first-class condition— hull sound and machinery in good '• I working : ' order. 5 . As tto * Capt. Wetheren, he ;-- said : . "1 shouldn't con- ; sider that he had experience, and not having had experience; I would not con sider him as competent as others. Lake Pepin is ..considered a > dangerous sheet of water : for. steamboats. • Boats :■ often have to.lay r up above or below the lake for storms. The ■■'. steamer ;Louellal; lay' up from the : evening. 1 of 5 July 12 to day light of v July 14 because of ; that storm. I think there are a number of men run ning on ; the river who , are licensed masters and pilots that are not com-, petent." faISBSSBKi W. K. Simons, of Red Wing, .who was a passenger, testified ".; that there, were signs; of -a storm before leaving Lake City. He was in : ; the cabin :. when L he saw the storm coming and went .to the ~ barge, fHe stated that ; there were two ' squalls. The first partly lifted the lifted the boat and the *• second , tipped : her over. f This was .before the barge was cut loose. ;.;-; Fred P.Young, pilot of the Wanderer, says he 2 was -at Lake City and talked with Capt. Wetheren before starting.jHe said .; he .- thought there would :*■ be ? no storm. . He told him if he had wind the only : trouble "would i be in turning around Lake City point. He advised against going out at the time, but said that he toldCapt. Wetheren that it would be well to follow the channel close to the Minnesota shore and to keep the vessel" before the wind, and if it got too strong to turn in to shore. -He said ; that Capt. Wetheren did not follow his advice. He thought that with a baree on each side of the steamer it would not have cap sized. In his judgment, it was not safe to start at.- the . time the Sea Wing left Lake City. Board of Equalization Organizes; The board of equalization of Ramsey county met and . organized yesterday. y The personnel of the board is as ; fol lows: Robert A. Smith, mayor; Ed ward R. Harroun, county assessor; M. F. Kaiuf county auditor ; l Charles F. ' McCarron, assistant county assessor; Aid. John F. Gehan, Joseph Minea, Walter .. Sanborn' and D. M. Sullivan County Commissioners George Mitsch, Paul A. Laval lee ! and A. .P. : Wright. The oath of office was : administered' to those present by county auditor.. Mayor Smith was elected chairman of the board. 2- The "assessment: of Ramsey eountv for 1890 was ■ presented* to the board" by the . assessor. On motion of Mr. Gehan, the . board adjourned until July 22 at 10 a. m. Parisians Fight a Duel. Pauis, July 21.— A duel with swords was fought yesterday by M. Menier and George Hugo, son; of Victor Hugo, in which M. Hugo was slightly wounded. The trouble arose from a private quar rel. -". '".'■■■ 'imS_WS__M When Baby was sick - -.5 ■■■.: . • -..C;-., .'■__ * We gave her Castoria.' When she was a Child ' , 7 '■' .'- She cried for Castoria. When she became Miss ""..'■ She clung to Castoria. When she had Children v. f ff . . ■ .. ; . . . ; , She gave them Castoria. FACTS AND FANCIES. X- aphtha Hot Air Launches, ;'_■ :On White Bear } Lake, the only motive power that runs on water without ' rais ; ing steam. Take '_' a \ ride Z around i the lake for 25 cents and examine the en gine or send s : a" five-cent ' stamp ' for Price List and Catalogue _ to : H. C. Don nelly, White Bear Lake. " *' : The Standard Shoe Co., 423 Wabasha street, next '■ door '■ ; to Sev enth, are' having a midsummer dis count-cash sale, to reduce • stock ; and make room for fall* goods; Many goods less than •* cost. f A • nice i* 80-paee v tablet given with every pair of school shoes. f Cheap Excursions to Port Ar thur. Ont. I .The St. Paul & Dulnth are .selline ex cursion 1 tickets from St. Paul and Min neapolis to Port Arthur, 200 miles down the north shore of Lake Superior, at $16 for the round trip, including meals and -.berths on steamer.- f . ■;'-:■ I. The St. P. & D. '-Limited" train leav ing St. -Paul at 2:15 p. m., _ Minne apolis at 1:45 -p. m., makes close .connections ■ at 2 Duluth - ; Sundays ; and Wednesdays with the*: elegant steamers 'United - ; Empire *.". and Campana, of the Beatty Line, leaving Duluth at 7:30 p. m. People who a cannot ■ take the time for ■an extended trip will find r the -. above-a highly enjoyable substitute, as it offers an" opportunity of - combining with a pleasure trip to Duluth a trip on two of the most complete lake boats, with a daylight 'run along the most interesting portion of the north shore of Like Su perior. : i -.For further particulars call ■on C. E. •Stone, City Ticket Agent, 162 East Third \ St., St. Paul. _________ ..... HO, YE «ID_DY BUTTER. FLIES. f Butterflies' Ball anil Grasshop ?f-'■'•"■-". ; pers' Feast. : f ' J. D. Ramaley & Son, of Lake Shore Pavilion, ; White Bear lake, are making elaborate ' preparations ■ for a Butterfly Ball and Grasshopper Feast, which will occur Thursday, July 24, Bp. m. ;';Z ■' -The whole affair is bunder the direct management and supervision of Mrs. G. N. Walker,* who -presented the pretty fairy scene July 11. X Tickets at VV. J. Dyer's Music Store, 126 and 128 East Third; also Nathan Ford's Music Store, 92 and 94 East Third ; Ramaley Pavilion. ;■ Concert and hop this evening (Tues day). Take the 7:20 special (change of time). * Round trip, including admission to : pavilion, 50 . cents. Seibert's full band. - ~ : : - - -"■' -• MARRIAGES, BIRIHS, DEATHS. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. A. R. Danielson. . .. .........'. Mary Swenson W. H. McCall ... .. ......... Mary E. Campion Joseph Rapp v: . ..:.;... :. ;.*. . Annie Wild Edgar E . Warner ...:.. v. . . Mary L. Kno wland • . BIRTHS REPORTED. Parents. '■-'■■ • Sex. Mr. and Mrs." Peter Schwenkler. .*....'. ....Boy Mr. and Mrs. Charles Titlilkaw .........Boy Mr. and Mrs. William O. Tillman .... ....Girl Mr. and Mrs. Andrew. 0150n.... .. .......Gin DEATHS REPORTED. ; Name. Age. Iverson, Mrs. Fannie . 23 years Kasowskv, Sertha. .V...7V& months •Omdahl; Evelina ........... ...Vi hour Stevens, ................ ...2 months ■ . ■■ . : ■.■ DIED. •..-■-. ..'-;. IVERSON— St. Paul, Monday, July 21. at : 9a. m.. Mrs. Fannie. Corline Iverson, be y loved wife of = E. C. Iverson, aged twenty I three years and ten days. Remains i taken V from residence, 288 ; East Winifred : street, ''■ Wednesday at 7- a. m. ; Funeral services at ■: St. Michat'l's church, Stillwater, Minn., at P. 9:30 a. m. Wednesday, July 23. , y;_ HUDSON— At his" residence, in Amelia : county,' Va., July 18, in the seventy-seventh '■■■■ year of his age, Richard Nathaniel Hudson, %\ father of Mrs. John D. Sawyer, of this city. KEN.FIELD— St. Paul, Minn, Lester Mack, : : ; . infant son of E. L. and K. Kenfield, aged i- ten months. Funeral from family residence i to-day, July 22, at 2p. m. a Friends are in vited' to attend. AIHUSEIIENTS. IQQn 659 Performances.- 1000 jIOOU^ XXZ- 665,407 Persons. lOOU X Boston, 4 months. 1 201,478 persons: New York, 7, months, 239,376 persons; Phila delphia, 4 months, 134,803 persons. FIRST v APPEARANCE IN ST. PAUL MANAGER L. N. SCOTT Is pleased to call special attention to the ex cellence, refinement '■ and novelty of the en-, tertainment to be presented at the NEWMARKET THEATER Commencing Tuesday, July 22d. PROF. GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW And his famous, only and unequaled EQUINE PARADOX 24 EDUCATED HORSES DO EVERYTHING BUT TAITK.- f '-■ DIRECTED BY SPOKEN LANGUAGE. . NOVEL MECHANICAL EFFECTS. ; Siißl; BEAUTIFUL SPECIAL SCENERY. HANDSOME TRAPPINGS. Evenings at ß:3o. Matinees 2:30. "WEDNESDAY MATINEE. SATURDAY MATINEE. At the Wednesday Matinee each ; lady will ; be : presented with a handsome souvenir pa lette of NELLIE. Reception by all the horses on the stage after the performance, to which ladies and children are specially invited. SPECIAL PRICES: Gallery '.".'.. -.':". ................... 15 Cents 600 Reserved 5eat5. .......... 25 Cents ' 300 Reserved Seats. ......50 Cents Reserved Seats for sale at box office for all the performances on and ' after 9 a. m. Monday. '--.., .•'■.. V * HARRIS'-:- THEATER! Standing Room as Usual Last Night Matinee To-Day at 2:30. To-Night at 8 P. M. Wilbur Opera Company "BEGGAR STUDENT!" 25c To All Parts of the Honse.' 25c ST. P-A-XJXj t MTTSEIU |WI . . Kohl & Middleton. IVI Keeping Everlastingly at It *$!£? OPEN SUMMER, 2 CURIOSITIES AND Q BIG STAGE SHOWS 4 CYCLONE AND TORNADO INTSXJR.A.ITOE3 Policies Issued at Lowest Rates and in Best Companies, WEED & LAWRENCE, 167 East Third Street. ST. CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, '-'ISO Pleasant v., St. Paul, Will _ reopen" September 10, 1 890. Compe tent and experienced teachers in every de partment. Native teachers of French and German. Daily lessons in ' Physical Culture. For particulars send for circular :or apply to the principal. : Miss M. S. Dusinberre. . Office hours from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., ex cept on Mondays and Saturdays. CARLETON COLLEGE ! - NOKTHFIELD, MINNESOTA. For both sexes. I Preparatory and Collegiate courses; - Classical," Literary • and Scientific ; Vocal and Instrumental Music; Drawing aud Painting; " SteuograDhy and Typewriting. Fall term opens Wednerday, Sept. 10, 1890. Expenses very low. Address 4BWH| JAS. W. STRONG, President - TIE BOOM'S ON! COME PREPARED TO EXCLAIM AND RAPTURE The Enthusiasm is Greater I Thousands of Dollars' Worth of Goods Just Arrived from Our Factory I Going at v Prices That Will Paralyze All Competition I ESS GEMS OF FABRICS AND STYLES You Can Pick at Random and Draw, a Bargain Every Time.; Read the Price Story : Imported Worsteds that sold at $30 cut to $20.00 Imported Gassimeres that sold at $25 cut to $15.00 Silk-Mixed Gassimeres that sold at $20 cut to $12.50 Cheviots and Serges that sold at $18 cut to $10.00 Gassimeres & Cheviots that sold at $15 cut to $3.50 See Them in Our Window. Not a pattern but what will please you ! A Clean Stock of Everything New and Fresh ! Cream of the Season's Styles I Same Surprises in Every Department I OUR ELEGANT LINE OF PANTS At Our Unmatchable Prices is creating the furore of the season. See the New Arrivals I 500 pairs All-Wool Chev-< lots and Cassimeres, Worth $4, Cut to $2, THAT'S WHAT TALES No hurrahing or sensational fake sales, offering cheap-/ made goods at seemingly low prices. Don't expect to find' any job lots or ancient styles, such as most houses here abouts load up with. We've no room for them here. But the Latest and Freshest Conceits of Fashion at Prices 25 Pep Cent Lower than any Cut Prices in the Twin Cities. Come to the Birthplace of Bargains and Values. BROWNING, KING I CO., LEADING CLOTHIERS, st. .P-Afcm.. . -■- .mining