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4 THE DAILY GLOBE OFFICIAL PAPKB OF THE CITY. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY at THE GLOBE BUILDING, COR. FOURTH AND CEDAR STREETS BY LEAVIS BAKER. ST.PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES . .Dailt (Not Including Sunday.). 1 yr in advanced 00 I 3 in. in advances 200 6m. in advance 4 00 I ti weeks in adv. 1 00 One montn 70c. DAJXT AND SUNDAY. '•'_ ■ 1 yrln advauceslo 00 1 3 mos. in adv. .$2 &o •J m .in advance 500 I 5 weeks in adv. 100 One month Soc SUNDAY ALONE. Iyr in advance . $2 00 I 3 mos. in ad v .. . . .50c Vm. in advance 1 00 | 1 mo. in adv .... . -20c T-u-WBiKLT-d'ailv - Monday, Wednesday and Friday.) I yr in advance. £4 00 | limos. in i adv. .9* ou _ months, in advance —$1 00. WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLOBE. One Tear, $1 1 Six Mo. 05c | Three Mo. 35c Rejected communications cannot be pre- Eerved. Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE. St. Paul, Minn. : Eastern Advertising Office, Room 21, Tribune Building, New York. Complete files of the Globe always kept en hand for reference. Patrons and friends laic cordially invited to visit and avail them telves Of the facilities of our Eastern Oflice while in New York ____ TO-DAY'S WEATHER; Washington. Jan. 7.— Forecast till 8 p. m., Thursday: For Wisconsin: Local snows; southeasterly winds, becoming variable: colder in northwest, stationary temperature in southeast. For Iowa: Light snow; east erly winds; stationary temperature. For South Dakota: Snow; colder; northerly winds. For Minnesota: Snow; colder in northwest, .stationary temperature in south east portion; variable winds. For North Da kota: Light snows; colder; northerly winds. GBNEBAL OBSERVATIONS. ■ zr ~~F\ a & oit \a~ ***** o~ Tlace of g S | g Place of °<- gS Ots'vatiou go gc obs'valion §*, j» ~ ? £ 2 r* tr •* :*o "■ : 2 : l_l i . _____ _1 St. Paul.... 30.66 22 Helena.... 30.32 30 Duluth... 30.(!'_' '-'4 Ft. Totten ... LaCrosse.. 30.70 24 Ft. Sully .. 30.42 34 Huron 30.48 22 Minnedosa Moorhead. 30.. 1 2-1 1 Calgary ... 30.46 20 St. Vincent 3o.4B] 20 Edmonton . ..-. — Bismarck.. 30.46 22 o,'Appelle. 30.50 4 Ft.Buford. 30.48 8 Med'e Hat. 30.54 14 Ft. Custer. 30.38 28 1 Winnipeg. 30.48 26 LOCAL FORECAST. For St. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity: air weather, followed by light snow: colder. P. F. Lyons, Observer. m THE STORY OF A DAY. Indians kill a Northwest Territory boy. The house is to elect Champlin speaker to-day. A St. Paul girl elopes to Superior and is de serted. The entries for the Suburban handicap are announced. a Nebraska's legislature is having a wild time organizing. Banker Keau, of Chicago, is denounced as a common thief. The retiring and incoming governors of North Dakota make addresses. The last wheat crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas was 90.000.000 bushels. A Kansas man tries to buy his way to the United States senate with 55,000. The South Dakota Democratic-Alliance combine is as solid as the rock-ribbed hills. The '-if entitled" members arc admitted to the New Hampshire legislature, and Tuttle is declared elected governor. -» JACKSON'S DAY. Jackson's day, as the Sth of January is called, lias not been of recent years so generally observed by the admirers of old Jackson as in the earlier tunes. Those familiar with Gen. Jackson, or who voted for him, have been growing fewer in number. The party questions have changed materially since Jack son's time : hut his most striking atti tude as a civilian was as the aggressive opponent of a great financial monopoly. He has had no successor as demonstra tive in the assertion of what he regard as the rights of the people when in jeopardy from chartered privileges or monopolistic encroachments. To a rarely equaled extent the com mon people looked to him as their unswerving champion, and the facetious legend that some of the survivors of his era require his name still at Ithe head of their tickets is an evidence that he had a strong man's grip upon his political support ers. It is a good time to remember him, in view of the suggestion afforded of his devotion to the great principles of equality of privilege, in the recent popular expression. ' Perhaps, too, spe cial pertinency in the celebration of ■ the Sth of January may be found in the war cloud that hovers about the seals in Behring's sea. It is the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, the blackest eye an invader had ever received on the continent. If any are in a belligerent mood toward Great Britain, they can find comfort in recalling the splendid victory on the lower Mississippi sev enty-six years ago to-day. It is true that it was fought too late to affect the duration of the war, and might not have transpired had there been telegraphic '^'connection between the war depart ment arid the; armies in the field. But it was not a useless battle. It aided materially to forget the disasters on the Canadian border and in the East. The capture of Washington and burning of the capitol were mortifying experi ences, and would have rankled in the memory of the people, aiding to dis perse conciliatory feeling, had not the brilliant wind-up at New Orleans have come as a palliative. It was a terrible punishment to the redcoats at almost no expense to the victors. There have been vastly greater conflicts in the later fratracidal contests, but patriotism and national pride had their fullest scope in the punishment and dismay of the for eign invader. It has helped to keep the peace between the two countries ever since, and the pacific era" it inaugu rated will hardly be broken up by Mr. . Elaine and his seals. «*--» — NATURAL ALLIES, The legislatures of Minnesota, South Dakota and some of the neighboring states are so constituted that co-opera tion between the Alliance members and one of the other parties is indispenable to the transaction of business. -The sit uation is triangular, and, unlike the rule in the popular voting, the plurality does not elect. There cannot be any fellow ship between the new party and the Re publicans without ignoring the essential principles of ; its existence. The Alli ance is a protest against the policies of the Republican party, and has no com mon point in any prominent ques tion involved in the last election. The campaign was waged,' and, so far as the' Democrats had a share, ex clusively waged, on. the tariff and the policy that has its embodiment in the force bill. The line between the Re publicans and Democrats on those issues was clean-cut and: impassable. The Alliance in its declaration put itself on the Democratic side of that line. The platform of the recent state convention of the Alliance in this state on these questions was as pronounced as any Democrat need ask. It . de nounced the force bill as "a dangerous and revolutionary measure, devised for partisan purposes," and "in- further,ex planation and condemnation says: ; "It will open . the wounds of ? the war; and retard the happy day of reconciliation and peace, and we bold that one of the greatest aims of the '/Alliance is the res toration of fraternal feeling and true concord to the people of this entire re public." yf9UBriBHfiSS@BQSp£E To consent, then, to any political co operation with its supporters would be at the sacrifice of patriotism and the interest of 4 the nation. Then, in regard / to the more active; question of McKin leyism,. the Alliance used this lan-., guage, which breathes the spirit of every Democratic utterance : We demand that the war tariff, which has too long survived the object of its creation, shall be radically revised, giving very ma terial reductions in the necessaries of life and placing raw materials on the free list, : to the end that we may' compete with the world for a market, and that such luxuries as whisky and tobacco shall in no measure be relieved from internal taxation till the high protective tariff has been wholly rid of its extortions; and we especially denounce the M- Ki.vi.ky bill as the crowning infamy of protection. wB&8&9 It would be a burlesque of principle for those who hold such opinions to give party aid to the supporters of the "crowning infamy of protection." It is believed that these recent declarations embody the views of the Alliance party in all the Western states. They have some theories that have not seemed es sential to many Democrats, but on the chief issues that the country had iv mind in its emphatic voting there is entire concurrence. PLANS OF THE ALLIANCE. There is a good deal of commotion in tiie East against the meeting of the legislatures of the Western states where the farmer element controls. Very large sums of money have gone from New England and the Middle states to Kansas and other places to be loaned on the security of farm mortgages, on the credit of municipalities and to quasi-public corporations, like railroads and gas and water works companies. It is feared that the Alliance will pass laws arbitrarily reducing the rates of interest, extending the term of stay laws, confiscating the property of rail roads and legalizing a general repudia tion of public and private obligations. We have not examined 'the Kansas newspapers on the subject, but we pre sume that the Republican organs there are adding to the general alarm and concern by harrowing recitals of the deep deviltry the farmers propose to perpetrate. . This is the attitude the Republican newspapers in Minnesota are assum ing, with a characteristic lack of patriotism. The Farmers' Alliance has a representation of a baker's dozen in the senate, and less than a third in the house, while the Re publican party has a total in both houses considerably larger than either of the other parties, besides controlling the executive and every member of the supreme court. It would not appear at first glance as though there were any very great danger under i such circum stances of revolutionary legislation. The Republican editors of the state, however, are bugling everybody who has a dollar in the world to get into line quickly for its defense under the lead ership of Mr. Merriam, their banker governor from St. Paul, and Mr. Searle, their banker candidate for speaker from St. Cloud. They keep shouting that the strongholds of capital are in danger •_ that tho Republican party is • the only real simon-pure money loaners' party going; and with tipsy aim they hurl huge bottles of ink, Luther-like, at a devil of anarchy which their hectic imaginatiou sees seated on the state house dome. .' All this is the veriest poppycock. The Farmers' Alliance in the state of Minnesota cannot enact a single meas ure in the present legislature without the assistance of the Democrats or Republi cans. Some Democrats or Republicans will have to vote with it on all trie laws it proposes in order that they may pass, and a Republican governor. will nave to sign them. If he disapproves, they. can not be passed over his veto without Re publican votes, because the Democracy and the Alliance combined have not a two-thirds majority of either house. But, besides all this, the farmers of Minnesota are not anarchists, thirsting for the destruction of property. They are property ■_ owners themselves, banded together for ; its preserva tion against the assaults of class legislation. The Democracy is with the Alliance ou almost all the great national issues, aud on many for which it fights in the state. We hope to see a great many of its principles vitalized in the shape of laws. A combination of the Democracy and the Alliance to this end is very desirable. The great trouble with much legislation heretofore enact ed for the amelioration of the condition of the oppressed has been that it has been rendered inoperative by the courts, which have declared it unconstitutional. The farmer's knowledge of his wrongs, put in shape by skilled constitutional lawyers, of whom there are many in trie legislature, ought to produce something which will stand and be effective. ELEVATOR MANNERS. A subscriber writes to inquire wheth er ha ought to take off his hat while riding in an elevator with a woman, The Globe is like a court of last resort, in that it is unwilling to decide any gen eral question. If our correspondent will write again, giving us the details of the particular ' experience which prompted his Inquiry, we shall tell him with accuracy and finality whether he ought to have taken off his hat in that particular case. As the question is likely to arise again, however,", we shall lay down a few general principles which will guide future inquirers, and perhaps enable them to save their postal cards for other purposes than address in'*' usy§s§BSi We should say. then, that, if our cor- ; respondent is engaged in running an elevator, and the building in which he works is reasonably warm, he should al ways take off his hat in riding in " an elevator with a woman, and keep it off. To do otherwise tends to apoplexy by overheating trie head, and to baldness, which is becoming alarmingly preva lent. If, on trio other hand, the elevator is cold and draf ty, he * should : keep his hat on, because to do otherwise would expose him to the risk of pneumonia or neuralgia. It may be laid down as a law of etiquette that apoplexy, : bald-/ headedness," pneumonia and neuralgia are more dangerous than a reputation for impoliteness. If our correspondent is not an habit ual occupant of an elevator, bat only an occasional? sojourner, now in one and again in another, we. can only say that all the rules of polite society are based ; on a compromise between '.. one's own comfort and that of . his fellows.' The well known case of eating with one's knife will illustrate our meaning. It is very convenient and effective to eat with one's knife, and a good deal can be accomplished in this way in a very short time. It can, not be said to be a very dangerous 'custom, either, to those who are skilled at it. But the objection is that it looks dangerous, and / subjects' one's friends to constant alarm. . We do not realize it ourselves, but those who watch us are in persistent anxiety lest, iii- our zeal, we shall miss our aim at THE SAINT PAUL,* DAILY GLOBE: r ILUK£DAY JMOENING, "JANUARY. 8, 1891. some time and cut our throats. On this ■ account forks are more Z popular for the j purpose because they do not suggest a 7 necessarily fatal outcome. The same idea prevails in elevator manners. If the journey is very, long arid fatiguing,' as in the court house ele vators, it might distress -a sympathetic; woman to see one use one's arm ras a hat rack for so many hours, and the hat had: better- be worn* on -the .head,* at least part of the time.? This is also the case when the elevator is \ filled with a disorderly crowd . As at home sociables, ■ one's, hat if misplaced might be lost or damaged; and if the woman. who is with us is a relative, who knows that it will be replaced at some curtailment of future additions to her own wardrobe, she might be sorry. On the other hand, if a woman who is riding with one in an elevator looks? pleased with her fellow passenger it is well for him to lay off his crown. It might hurt her feelings f he did not, and this is most ;of all to be avoided. .Aswe . have already said, we are not willing / to give ; a general decision on so important a matter, but we hope that what we have said will be suggestive. / . . THE LOCAL BANKS. Trie Financial News publishes this week some interesting statistics about the St. Paul and Minneapolis banks, which tell their own story.? Every bank in St. Paul made a semi-annual dividend in January, and every bank in Minueapolis except one. In St. Paul the Second National leads off with its usual semi-annual story of 7 per cent on its capital stock, and the Commercial brings up the rear with what is equiva lent to a : little less than 2% per cent. Between these are the First National, the Merchants' and the Capital, with 5 per cent; the Bank of Minnesota, Ger man-American, West Side, Scandina vian-American and Germania, with 4 per cent; the 5t. ... Paul with 'S}4 per cent and the Peoples' and Seven Corners with 3 per cent. In criticising this list it needs to be remembered that the Second National has a capital . of only $200,000 and the Capital of $100,000, while the German-American has to divide its profits among $2,000,000 of stock. Its volume of business . and aggregate profits, :as measured by a semi-annual divined of 4 per cent, are very much greater than the Second National when it pays 7 per cent or the Capital when it pays 5 per cent. The same paper contrasts the policy of the banks In the two cities during the recent stringency, as shown by their statements made Dec. 19. It' appears that in Minneapolis there was an in-, crease of money outstanding in the shape of loans of over 51,750,000 since the statements in October, while in St. _ Paul there was a decrease of over $500, --000. The St. Paul banks, at the same time, showed an increase of over, $100, --000 on hand in cash, while the Minne apolis banks showed a decrease of $236, --000. The Minneapolis banks also re ported a total increase of nearly $500,000 in rediscounts, agaiust $28,000 by the St. Paul banks. The general average of profits made during the past year by the Minneapolis banks does not differ materially from the results in St. Paul, but the effect of their action during the hard times in December does not appear iv the Janu ary dividend. The general course of the Minneapolis banks towards their customers, if figures prove anything, was much more liberal than the method of those in St. Paul. In spite of St. Paul's very large banking capital,- it was often impossible in December for very responsible men to get the accom modation they needed, not because the banks did not have the money to lend or because the security offered was un satisfactory, but "because their : ' policy was to hold all the reserve they could accumulate on account of a rumble of disaster they heard in the distance. Solvency and success in the business world are based so largely on confidence that it is surprising from one point of view that there were not/some, large failures in trie city when the banks were shaking their heads in response to re quests for usual discounts. It is a proud commentary on the stability of our bus iness houses that without an exception they weathered such a storm, coming at so inopportuue a season. WATCHING IT. The Cleveland Leader speaks of the jury amendment to the constitution of this state as "one of the most interest ing changes in the system of court prac tice which has been made in any partof the United States for many years back." It refers to it as "a radical innovation," and anticipates such satisfactory results that ; the practice may be extended to the criminal trials. /ln regard to this it says BOBWBB|fIBOEp9BI That is : the field in which reform is most needed, for it is in trying to save villains from punishment that unscrupulous lawyers are most likely to "fix" one or two scoun drels in a jury. If a system like the one which is about to go into force in "l inuesota had been in operation in the Illinois crimi nal courts when the murderers of Dr. Cronik were tried, the result would have been that at least three of _ them would have gone to the gallows. Then, it ;is probable, one at least would have turned state's' evidence in trying 7 to save his neck, and the greater vil lains who kept in the background while their tools and dupes ; did the work of butchery might have been brought to justice. It is the general rule that when > only one or two men refuse to join the rest of a jury in rendering. a verdict, the majority is entirely right, and the small opposition due to crank- . mess" or deviltry. Jury /reform •is sorely needed everywhere, and all experiments in that direction will be watched with hopeful . interest by lovers of justice. Should the innovation prove as bene ficial in operation as its friends antici pate, there will be strong effort , to ; ex tend it to trie criminal practice. / MORE PRICES RAISED. Among the manufactured articles that have been trying to hold? to old prices in spite of ■ the McKixley bill, is paint, including color arid varnish. • Norton Brothers, of Chicago, on trie, first of the year called in their price lists to ad vance prices. They state they : had held out at former figures, hoping for a re action, in tin plate, which causes the higher prices, but it has not come. AH the manufacturers of, articles sold- in tin cans have had more to pay tor their cans, and naturally push it on to the consumers. The house builder has to stand the increased cost of paints, oils, ? varnish, lumber and other articles used in his structure. He will add/to his rents if he can, arid divide with his ten ants when lie is able. /Trie McKixleY; Dui'deus are apt to reach those least able .to carry them. THE GOOD WANTED. A casual : analysis of the statistics of immigration? the past year : shows the ? need of more effective dis criminative measures. Not? counting 'the Chinese/who ooze in from Canada and Mexico, it is apparent that- in a largely increasing ratio the accessions are from the countries that send more cheap contract labor than families to -become permanent and useful residents. For the last fiscal year. the British isles nt! 07,818 1 males and 54,936 . females ; Germany, 50,923?; males, ';■ andj 41,504 females; v Sweden' and Norway, 23,131 males, and 17,809 females. -About three-. fourths as many women as men means 1 the prevalence of home seekers / for. families. This is r the ! sort ; of immigra tion for -..which*? the gates ; are ways' spread ; wide. There can - not -be too . much of it. But the incoming crowd grows mainly in other quarters."/ In the period Italy, Russia, and/Austro-lluri-' gary sent ahout 102,000 ; men and '; 39,000; females. This means ' that they are very largely single men, or those who leave theirs families -"to come over tind - make money to take back to their homes. They are often' imported in spite of the • law,* to '■ take '*• trie ' placa of ? American citizens with families : to support, andr, paid ; starvation wages. The , need of- 1 more effective measures to do the win nowing business is riot often questioned. CITY BUILDING. ln no former year have there been so ( many? magnificent structures erected in the -; larger : cities ; as in 1890. The city that has riot kept generous pace in this respect has been voted slow, and not in the rapid lines of -development. ?" In the January number of the North American Review Henry Clews, the noted finan cier, comments upon this fact, arid at tributes to it a part of the agency in the late stringency. >In - the 3 hour of T need the money was not available for bank ing; "purposes. In - illustration "of ? this ■ prevalent tendency he gives the figures of New York city! In/1890 the build ing growth : absorbed $6,500,000 /per month, or three-times- as . . much as in . 1880. In Boston the, call for money to put into building was such, as stated by a Boston paper, as to cause the recall of some of the Western invest ments. -It will, no doubt, be found in most of the cities that the rage for fine business structures has been unusual," and perhaps in excess of the advance in other " respects. This may be a.fortu nate tendency if not carried too far. .. It adds to the attractions of a community, and builds cities, but should never be at the expense of the productive activities. There cannot well be too great develop ment in this direction.?. There will bo much in the air of 1891 for the grasp of the vigilant and enterprising. GOOD OUTLOOK. The disturbance in the financial cur rents the last few months of 1890 may be presumed . to have left some impress upon the record of the year. It added materially, no doubt, to the list of busi ness failures; yet the aggregate for the year,- as shown- by R. G. Dun & Co., is but the trifling number of twenty-five greater than" the year previous. This is really a falling away as a percentage of the parties in business, as they increase by thousands each year. ' There were \ about 11,000 failures, with an- increase of $41,000,000 in liabilities; but this was mainly due to a few big speculative failures, not materially affecting sub- The record shows that the stringency of the latter part of trie year had little permanent effect, and that the financial conditions' are favor able for a good year to come, in a busi ness way. aEHSHfttf Red Cloud showed his good sense in the statement that the wrongs of his people have been disregarded "because trie Indians have no newspapers of their own to speak for them." In the Indian Territory the Indians 'have had news papers for many years, and have things about as they want them. Red Cloud's philosophy is broad, and reaches back out of historic sight. No people has ever survived comfortably and durably without newspapers, and it will be diffi cult to find one that has ever lost its liberties, or anything of much value, with live newspapers watching. Still, the field for; newspaper -men in the Sioux region is not / especially inviting just now. ~- *" •■-?■-■_■ ."^'- *•- The impressions among the wheat growers: in North Dakota vdo riot seen); to "be shaped by t^he^ theory. that the great harvester trust is to" be formed in order to reduce prices to them. ; . If .they are reauired/to pay $35 or so more for their harvesters, they might bear in mind that they have had in the senate one who voted lor the policy that af fords trie great opportunity for trusts; and some are so peculiar as to be will ing to send him back." In Nebraska the Alliance manage ment is exciting the antagonism of both the Republicans and Democrats, by at tempting to put Alliance men into the state offices. ! The Democrats elected the governor by I,loo, "arid- the Bepub licans the other state officers by some what larger pluralities. With One Bull, Short Bull and John. Bull all shaking their fists at Uncle Jonathan at the same time, isn't there cause for the old gentleman to quake in his boots just a trifle? They all appear to be under the influence of the ghost of Sitting Bull; /?Vy .}"//? > Tiie Y. M. C. A. in Chicago is erect ing a building fourteen stories high. In one of the lectures by CoI:PLUMMEB,of the Dakotas, an impressive picture ' is drawn of a great disaster that came to some aspiring people l" who would climb heavenward in this way in an early time. __--__ —tß—__f_-WBm A millionaire who has died at Den ver provided that his remains should be cremated. He was a friend of A. T. Stewart, arid would riot have his body stolen. Possibly he would be unwilling to aliow his ashes to be used iv making soap or for sprinkling icy /walks. The ; effort is to throw out votes enough in Omaha to let in? the Alliance men, on the claim that the Prohibition workers at the polls ;in that city were rudely treated. There is bad feeling," and apparent need of chopped ice on ; some party heads.; - The Democratic governor of Massa chusetts has been obliged to have deeds to real estate made in his name be fore he can ■ be • inaugurated governor. That is one of the ancient requirements that has not been rubbed out of the statute books. ffIHBH Two more of the eight charming daughters of Chief Justice J Fuller are to be married. The exaltation and felic ities of courtship are ? becoming numer ous in the family. , •Omaha has elected Tmomas Lowby pfesTden ; of its new Democratic { city council/: Perhaps there is something in a name to suggest municipal push. "■;•' The McKinley act advances the cost of red paint, but as a peace measure it is a failure.' The red men are putting it on thicker" than ever. The Prohibition state organization In : Indiana has thrown up the sponge. It had become too dry for use. -.:'■: Concord is just i now I the center of more discord than any settlement-: east of the Sioux reservation. y vy*"""". ; The debris of some New ; Year's reso lutions may; be found- in the police wagons these evenings. ? ?; -Brink of the grave— the opening sen tence of one of ? William M.'Eyarts'. ■speeches;' ; :?'?''?. ?';-?? : y-'y? "'The house = should either organize "oi. make an appropriation Tor the third house. " **" -f GLOBE TOWER SHOTS. The state of . .Montana sets a brilliant ex ample ? of? political '■; enterprise. Her, Demo cratic house of representatives carries along a Republican understudy. ?* The .Republican: senate 'majority., has dropped thol red-hot force bill? but quite a number of i them are still blowing their fin-; gers. ? ; ' „£. Democrats are getting together this year in that "p'roducealthe utmost disgust Siftpartisan Republicans.* 'It is given out in a' S&Dgealect state that they are quite likely to S "mocrats are getting together a presi inner that produces the utmost disgust rtisan Bepublicans. It is given out in a ealea state thai they are quite likely to together long enough to elect a presi des to succeed Dry-Nurse Harrison, '" r^tfraerS'may be ho very extensive presi dential boom for Gen. Miles, but his earnest recommendation that a squad of mendacious, peculative Indian agents ' be . removed has knSfcked the wind from Dr. Harrison's little . second-term : globule. . . .i- ■ .•-"-*♦ « _ The Alliance member of the Minnesota \ legislature who votes with the Republican f party- in that body proves' false to the con-, fslitttency?; that sent him there. This is not ' written from a Democratic standpoint, but a oudensat ion of the universal Alliance opin ion.fis expressed by the stay-at-home farmers of tHis state. Let it be remembered that but ; for the active, malignant corruption, of ; the Republican party in Minnesota there would have been no Farmers' Alliance. _ ■-..- # * - Prof. Koch indulges in? a horseback ride . i every afternoon at 3 o'clock. • On , his return the other day it was observed that his horse moved with a slight "lymph. '^Bn * •» * The Minneapolis Journal has, an editorial on "The Secret of Our Growth." It was hardly expected that the Journal would give away Supt. Porter in this raw style. * » - It is true that Gov. Merriam did not select many new men to complete ' his list -of ap . pointees. Gov. Merriam knows the value of political veterans in a hot campaign, and never, . no, never, goes back on • the -'Old Guard." * * ~ .Is there nothing new under the sun? Yes, one thing. Go up to the state capitol and you will find an Alliance secretary of, the senate taking charge of official communica tions from a Radical Republican governor. That is something new— Minnesota. ' . . * # • Coupled with the statement of Senator Ed munds that "it is immaterial what people .think", comes the announcement that His Crystallized Frigidity i from Vermont has sworn off. whisky drinking. It is useless for him to say "it is ; immaterial." The people will continue to think real hard on this par ticular point. _\~m * * » Official position in the cabinet is said to have cost John Wauamaker, $2,000,000. Generous man. But the cottage cost only §10,000. BQHBHI • »"*.*-* A Georgia justice of the peace has tacked on an amendment to the oath taken by liti gants, by which he swears each party to "pay all costs, so help you God." . He thus secures a dead cinch on court fees, and is prepared to give pointers to Jay Gould. ':■"- * •* -'*.'•' The Tacoma Morning Globe comes to us in the shape of a handsome New Year ) annual of twenty pages, with cover. It con t ains, aside from an excellent and exhaustive re view of the flourishing city of Tacoma, a large number ]of photogravure pictures of local scenes, and pictures of nearly 100 of ,Tacoma"s prominent citizens. The annual.. -is a credit to the bold enterprise lurking be lilud'thecorporate uam.3 of the Globe Fub lishfng company. ■"'. , . : ■ . * * * .- - ■■..'' , _) ■■■ .' ....•..-. .... The Grand Forks, N. D.. Plaindealer, 'pub lishes a New Year's annual which is an illus- ; trative tribute to the ability of its proprietors and a credit to the city. The historical,'de scriptive and statistical information are full, : accurate and profusely i llustrated. ; : •-.;- * ■ * - ..■ l\ A New York paper says: "There are nine miles in this city which are frozen into . win rows of snow, topped by paper, rags and de bris."^ But what is the use of cleaving up a City where life is one eternal blizzard? -" - ' . -**3HwyiJL!yg*ii.v*|»i'<t Armies of cigarette fiends are going to va- . rious lunatic asylums, but they are not going • fast enough. " It was a ; half-burned cigarette 'that fired .the' -Fifth' Avenue theater. New i.York, ! and hardly a week elapses : that . some dude does not imperil valuable property by casting his beastly, odoriferous opium torch in dangerous proximity to combustibles. * * * ... The high. protective New York Press pub lishes, with illustrations, a description of a neat trick ■■ performed with a bottle and an umbrella. It forgets to add, however, that,, owing to the McKinley bill, it costs a good deal to perform this trick with one's own property. DO YOU KNOW THAT Fortune telling by the foot instead of the hand is the latest? Calvary. Episcopal church, New York, has opened the Gaiilee coffee house? : Forty-eight languages are spoken in Mexico— and telephone girls are scarce? \ The native population of Alaska num bers only 40,000, of whom 17,000 are Es quimaux? /y?/?/: '■■- Uranium was unknown a century ago, but a lode has been found in a mine in Cornwall, England? It sells for $12,000 a ton. BffiggW BBSS A prize worth winning has been of fered by. the East Indian government? The prize is $25,000 for. a practical ma chine for decorticating ramie. The number of telephones now Under rental by trie American Bell Telephone company is 478.725, an increase of 38,885 over the same time last year? : i Miss Ford ham, a well-known English bicycle rider? has ridden a safety. wheel -1,900 miles at the rate of seventy-six miles a day, and hopes to cover 2,000 miles before the season closes? "■l The city gas works of Berlin brought $1,750,000 clear profit ; into ? the . treasury, during: the last- financial /year, despite the unusually heavy expenditure for new gas houses and conductors? • '; The. only Chinaman in the regular army. of the United States is Edward Cohota, a private in Company H of the Fifteenth infantry, at ■ Fort Sheridan, 111.? He served through the war as a ntPcr/,-^*^^g^^jggMMyM Four hundred out of every 1,000,000 of the residents of (: Saxony, in Germany, commit suicide? In Leipsic the propor tion is the highest in the world, reach ing 450 per 1,000,000. In London it is only 85 per 1,000,000. ;_,. ;?. .?".' y " ? Mrs. -Belle Wooster Biggins, ot Sulli van, Me., has had nineteen years of sea life.'and has sailed to every, part of-the globe? ! She is an expert in navigation, ' and cohld take a ship to any port, for eign or domestic, should it ever hecome necessary. - A repent invention is an electric min eral ore detector, by which it is claimed : that; the presence :of ore i may be in stantly detected?,? By this means a com paratively inexperienced person is able : to tell -whether the sample /contains ore or not. - NeW? York city has 1.357 electric lights at an annual cost of $90 each? New Or leanafAas 1,010 at $130 each Philadel ■phia^as 800 at $177 each; Toledo," 0., lias 4Cfe at $100 each Scrauton, Pa., has* '332 af J9O each,' aud - Springfield, Mass., has 309 at $83.30 each. ""• * j Russian "Full Liberty." Springfield Republican. V-.I '-■'. ; Wo : do.; not ; know who make up the ."American colony in? St. Petersburg," and presented the czar a few days ago resolution's of . gratitude -for? the "full liberty" they, have enjoyed. But it is snre that the members of ? this colony must have taken pains to subscribe to , tho ' most \ colorless ;; newspapers in the United States,* or . they would - have ■} re ceived them,*- ''blacked'^, as Kennan de scribes," or with large portions cut out, for that is what is done *to the leading American papers and magazines that cuter the Russian empire. Full liberty should certainly entitle an American iv ; Russia to t- receive • his full newspaper, but in fact it does not. And supposing these favored sycophants of the "Amer ican s colony" do ; have "full < liberty,'?^ ! why ; should % they thank . the ; czar? Do ( Russians ?iri; America feel bound to thank the -president and congress" that: they have .full liberty? The presenta tion /of "such an address to the czar is essentially an irfsult*to-him instead of a : compliment, and -is ian example of boot-licking on the part of its signers. LAUGHS FOR ALL. y Jones— How high Foozles cairies his head of late. -._ ' : _ ." ?/,'." /; 'C Brown- Yes. It moved- up with the rest of the tinware when ..the McKuiley bill became law.— Washington Star. y "- ■ ' -.*-* • . i Uncle Jerry RuskTias had his hair cut. This takes him out of the presidential • race. No granger?- who goes to Wash inptou and becomes a dude can get the Farmers' Alliance - nomination in .'92.— Boston lobe. -"ipBBSHH __$____— —_Wlß——_— * * ___t . "Why T were not Shadrach. Meshach ! and Abednego harmed when ; they were cast into the fiery furnace?" asked the teacher. And a short-haired boy with a bad eye spoke up and said it was because they stood in with each other.— Chicago Tribune. /'?•» . » * : . Photographers ought to be very fond of flowers. BflBS - Shattuck— l don't see why. Keedick— Because : they are so famil iar with poses.— Chicago luter Ocean. ■ * * Mr. Figg— Has it occurred to you that young Timmins seems to be coining here pretty often? Laura— Why— never - thought of it in that light.-: It seems to me that he went away rather often.— lndiapapolis Journal. * * * "Young Scadds has married' a poor -girl whose face was her only dowry." "It runs iri the: family. His sister is married to a foreign count, who brought her nothing but his cheek."— Puck. "They tell me that Miss Rizzle calls you an upstart," said a young man to Gus de Jay. "Yes; but I can't blame her, don't you know. 1 had sat down on a pin just at that time, don't you know."— Washington Post. * * Cholly Cholrcondeley— l visited an i old aunt to-day, whom 1 had not seen since I was a baby; and she wemarked that 1 was much changed. Do you no tice it, Hawold?. Hawold Hawwington — No! How ; stwange I— Jewelers' Circular. O'BRIEN WILL LEAD. Parnell Agrees to Abdicate the Leadership. LoNDON.^Jan. 7.— Advices received from Bouloghe-Sur-Mer state that upon Mr. O'Brien's personal entreaty he was empowered to ask Justin McCarthy to retire from the chairmanship of the anti-Parnell section of trio Irish party in favor of John Dillon, M. P., or it is understood, the conference agreed that if Mr. O'Brien preferred to do so he (Mr. O'Brien) could serve as chairman. According to the same ad vices, Mr. O'Brien and Mr. McCarthy are to have an interview at Boulogne : to-morrow, when the final settlement of the? subject will be made. Mr. Glad stone is understood to have secretly ap proved .the plan decided upon, and trie Parnellites are said to be pledged to abandon Mr. Parnell if he proves insincere in the pledges given. John. Dillon has cabled from New York his approval of ? Mr. ? Parnell's temporary retirement from trie chairmanship or the Irish par liamentary party in favor of Mr.O'Brien, The .negotiations with? Mr. McCarthy will follow. Mr. Gill is announced to have said that he was not at liberty, to speak on the subject of the conference, except so far as to say that a peaceful settlement of the matter in dispute may be expected. Later Mr. O'Brien said: I have nothing to add to the communica tions that have already, been made to the newspapers, except that, in view of all there is at stake for unhappy Ireland, and' in the interests of friendship aud good will be - tween the two people, I respestfully entreat our friends in a portion of the English press to exercise patience while we are discussing most difficult and delicate matters with our brother representatives of Ireland. — <*-i ■ ; _ AT SPRINGFIELD. The Democrats Easily Organize the Illinois House. " Springfield, 111., Jan. 7.— The Thirty-seventh assembly of Illinois con vened" in regular session at noon to day," the galleries of both houses were crowed and the great est interest was manifested iv the out come of the peculiar political complica tions. Naturally the greatest interest was centered in the house, where the Democratic majority was just suffi cient .to organize. The full house, composed of seventy-seven Demo crats, seventy-three Republicans and three farmers, responded to the roll call. -The house was organized .by the ■ election of Clayton E. Crafts (Dem.) for speaker by the full party vote. The senate was called to order by Lieut. Gov. Ray, and Senator M.W. ; Matthews (Rep.), was chosen president - pro tem pore by a vote of 27 to 24. ■ HARRISON'S COUSIN. A Relative of the President Dies Suddenly in New York. New York, Jan. 7.— A gentleman giving his name a3 George Hollenbacri, of Chicago, went to the West Thirtieth street police station to-night, and re ported ? the death of his friend, Frederick Harrison, also of Chicago, whom he said was : a third cousin of President Harrison. The gentleman came to New York on business several weeks • ago, and was stopping at 156 West Twenty-second street, where Mr. Harrison became ill of Bright's disease, and expired . yesterday. . Not knowing .what to do in the emergency, Mr. Holl enback went to the police for service. They sent word to the chiof of police at Chicago to notify the dead man's rela tives there. . -___ ? ma justice devens dead. :, ... . ... jjBP^BBBPB He Was the Attorney General of President Hayes' Cabinet. , ? Boston, Jan. Associate Justice E. Charles Devens, of the Massachusetts "supreme court, died suddenly this even i ing :at his bachelor apartments, 12 Ashburton .".place, of heart failure. Judge Devens was seventy-one years old./ /In 1877 he resigned his judgeship to accept the position of attorney general of the United/States under President Hayes, and at the close of the latter's term of office,' was reappointed in 1881 ; to the Massachusetts : supreme bench by Gov. Long. ;S9fIPVHMBHfIR9&Rs The Minneapolis Delegation. *■'- President Harrison and Manager Catharin ; headed. a party of members of ; the Twin City Athletrc club, of Minne apolis, which leaves to-night for Chica go, there to join the Chicago. New York and California delegations,' which leave Sunday ? afternoon in a " special '■ train over the Illinois \ Central , railroad for! New Orleans. The party, which will be made up largely of representatives 1 of athletic clubs in the cities named, will ; reach the Crescent city in time to wit ' ness "■ the 's meeting -of McConnell .' and Seully, welter weights, on Monday even ing before the Audubon club, and the great Dempsey-Fitzsimmons match be fore the Olympic club for $12,000, the largest purse ever? hung up in America for a boxing contest. Perfectly Clear Now. Chicago Mail.? y " i When ; Charles Francis Adams was 'president of the Union ; Pacific - railway he had v the motto "God Hates a Liar" conspicuously displayed in his - private ; car: r This _ is i probably what Jay Gould referred to when he-said the road had been managed in a way that set at defi ance all the precedents of railway man agement. yy' '•?'.. y BANKER KEAN'S GRIME Held to the Grand Jury for Receiving Money-While ; Insolvent. He Robbed Royer When He Took the Poor Man's Money in December. Another Gang of Chicago Crooks Work a Stockyards Saloon for $1,500. A Bay City, 111., Suitor Kills His Sweetheart and Com ■h:-i mits Suicide. ; Chicago, Jan. 7.— " S. A. Kean robbed Royer when he took his money Dec. 17, knowing he was insolvent- and could not pay it back, and he should not re ceive any- more consideration in this court than any other thief," said Attor ney Charles Hughes iv court this after noon. Hushes represented one Royer, a type of the numerous smail depositors iii Kean's insolvent bank. When "the lawyer spoke he turned and faced the banker whose failure, with liabilities of $1,500,000 has caused so much comment. Mr. Kean sat amongst his friends on the benches in the rear of the room, and Hughes, dramatically shaking a linger at him, continued: "But his lawyers -say he is a banker, a man of breeding, a man who has been held high in the estimation* of the pub lic, and hence should not be humiliated like a common criminal by being held to the grand jury. What rights has he as banker that any poor unfortunate fellow has not who comes into this court charged with a crime. I demand of your honor to allow this matter to be in vestigated by the grand jury. Whether he is indicted or set free, then your duty is performed and you cannot be blamed for holding him."' Justice Hamburger, in deciding the case, said that, however unpleasant the duty, he believed that there was proba ble cause for the supposition that S. A. Kean knew he was insolvent when he received Koyer's money, and lie would therefore be compelled to hold the banker to the grand jury in the bonds of $3,000. The testimony showed that Royer made a deposit about three hours before the bank closed its doors for the last time. Mr. Kean's attorneys caused a sensation by and for the- de fense the charge was so trivial. They contended that the crim inal charge against Mr. Kean was solely to force him to settle with Royer. Attorney Hughes read a decision by the appellate court showing, he said, that a hanker is in law assumed to know at all times whether he is solvent or not. Then came another scene. Referring to the celebiated Peruvian extradition case, the lawyer slowly said: "Kean sent Ker, a dishonest cashier, to the penitentiary and spent $10,000 to do it. Now he ought to go there him self, for he has robbed the poor." - After the decision holding Mr. Kean to the grand jury, the banker promptly furnished the required bail and was re leased. - JLS USUAL. A Fool Lover Kills tho Girl He Adores. Metropolis, 111., Jan. 7.— News of a tragedy that occurred near Bay City, Pope county, has just reached here. -Charles Rose, a young farmer aged twenty-seven years, has been paying at tention to the daughter of a neighboring farmer, Miss Mollie Welsh, aged eigh teen. Rose was forbidden to visit Miss Welsh by her parents, but while the parents of Miss Welsh were absent at ; church Rose visited the house and in | duced the young woman to take a walk with him. They had proceeded but a short distance when he asked her if she was willing to die for him. She replied yes, and thereupon he drew a pistol and fired, the ball taking effect In the girl's face, inflicting a probably fatal wound. Young Rose then returned, locked him self in a room and blew out his brains. A PASTOR'S CRIME. It Is Revealed Through the Death of a young Girl. Springfield, 0.. Jan. 7.— ISBC Elder J. M. Clark, colored, pastor of the Baptist church in Dayton, and Carrie Moss (now his wife) murdered Clark's first wife at Yellow Springs, O. She was given soaked parlor matches, Rough on Rats, and these fail ing, arsenic and quicksilver, in a pie, from which the woman died. The body was so swelled that it was with diffi culty placed in a coffin; but, as the hus band was a minister, no suspicion was aroused. The woman Moss was then living in criminal intimacy with one Taylor (white), and the latter's daugh ter, Effie, assisted in tho murder. The girl Effie became too in timate with ono Dr. Steinberger, who got her money, some $2,500, away from her by worrying her. Monday she suicided, after telling the story of the Clark-Moss crime. She said she was afraid to tell before, for fear she "would be hung between two negroes, but bad been iv hell ever since." Steinberger swore out a warrant against Elder Clark and his present wife, and they were arrested this morning. There is great excitement at Yellow Springs. KILLED HIS WIFE. Which Was a Very Cowardly Thing to Do. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 7. —Robert De Rose, aged twenty-seven years, last night shot and killed his wife, Elizabeth, aged twenty-two,' at a lodging house on Ellis street. De Rose was a guard at San Quentin penitentiary, but was dis charged about a month ago for allowing a prisoner to escape. His wife and three-year-old child lived at San Quen tin, but about three months ago came to this city. The wife, however, did not join her husband here when 'he came, but was engaged as a chorus girl at the Bijou theater, and there became intimate with an actor named Mitchell. She roomed in the same house with him, and last ..- night when De Rose called at the house to see his wife, she was in Mitchell's room. De Rose went to the room, and seizing Mitchell's pistol, which was on the tabic, shot his wife in the back. She died in half an hour. De Rose was arrested. ~ THE SUCCI ACT. It Is Successfully Performed Upon ■';.";'■:* Truculent Prisoners. Chattanooga, Tcnn., Jan. 7. — Twenty-seven of the worst prisoners in the county jail, who had revolted and refused to enter their cells from the ; corridor, have been starved into submission. At 11 o'clock yester day morning twelve submitted and at 's o'lock in the afternoon, the other fifteeen, hungry and cold gave in. The janitor and assistants, armed with Winchesters, had been on duty in the meantime at commanding posts, : but i they were not- needed. ..The gang was : headed ?by Bud .;- ('onion in for ' the murder of deputy sl eriff. Gordon and several of them .would not stop at noth ing to gain their freedom. ; Chicago Crooks. Chicago, Jan. 7.— The stockyards district was this morning again the scene of a .; daring; daylight robbery. Two men with -masks on entered the '! saloon of James F. Murphy," at the cor- I ncr of Winter and Root streets, and . tortured the proprietor into revealing to them the combination of the safe.. That secured, they took $1,500, and left Murphy bound hand and foot and tied to a post. Murphy recently- fell heir to ;. $50,000, and the robbers evidently hoped to get it. FOUGHT WITH HATCHETS. Three Men Fatally Assault Land, lord Bruce. Chicago, Jan. 7.— Robert Bruce, a , lodginghouse keeper, was murderously assaulted by three men last night, and received injuries that will cause his death. Bruce quarreled with Abraham Bailey, Billy Wanu and (ins Birdie a few days ago. and had ejected them from '. his place. They left swearing vengeance, but did not re turn until last night. Bruce was in his place when they entered and the quar rel was renewed. Each man was armed with a hatchet, and one of them dealt Bruce a terrific blow on the head, who staggered against the wall, and, holding out his hands, begged for fair play. For answer a second "of his assailants ad vanced upon him and dealt him another terrific blow on the head. Bruce then fell to the floor, and while lying pros trate the third man dealt him a blow. The miscreants then made their escape. Dropped to Death. Buffalo. N. V., Jan. -To-night the Broezel house was the scene of a most terrible suicide. Some months ago the people in the hotel were shocked by having a man fall from the fifth story window to the pavement and again to-night the same thing occurred, the victim this time being Samuel ('. Tib bits, formerly proprietor of the Tibbits hotel, of Batavia. lie weighed 250 pounds, and all his bones were broken. End of a Grudge. Mom:i»i:vii.i.k, Ala., Jan. 7.— A trag edy, the result of an old grudge, has oc curred here. Frank Ilixon and John Ross met and began firing at each other. Then Dan Ross came to his brother's as sistance. The battle ended in the death of John Ross and the wounding of hi* brother and Ilixon. Treasurer Nolan's Case. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 7.— Tit the Nolan case this morning the aHi da vits alleging prejudice against Judgo Edward were admitted as sufficient, and the court stated he would call in a spe cial judge to try the cases unless the at torneys could agree on and elect a judge. The case was then set for April 20. Self-Defense Claimed. Four Wobth, Tex., Jan. 7.— James Dayton, manager of the Arlington Heights Electric railway, was shot this morning by James 15rotlierton, engineer at the power house. It appears that Brotherton acted in self-defense. Day ton will die. Patent Divorce Sharks. New "Yokk, Jan. 7.— William D. Hughes and William Buttner, the bogus divorce lawyers, were indicted by the grand jury to-day. Hughes is indicted for forgery, and Buttner for forgery and grand larceny. Gamins Debts Paid. ; Lake Charles, La., Jan. 7.— Joseph S. Reed, a prominent citizen, brother of the sheriff of this parish and of tho mayor of Lake Charles, suicided to-day. Heavy losses at the gaming tablo prompted the deed. l'aloalto Sold. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 7.— A special from Franklin, Pa., says: Miller Jb Sibley, of this city, have sold to J. C. Linwood, of Lima, 0., the four-year-old filly Paloalto. The price received is $10,000, and the bay mare Alfart-tta, val ued at $00,000, by Alcantara, dam by Al mont. Stationery,]^ Stationary Quite the contrary. Wo are closing out ours (except fine - society stationery) at prices that daily leave new gaps in our formerly crowd ed shelves. Good-bye to the stationery business, as far as we are concerned, and we'll speed the parting as much as cut prices will do it. 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