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AFTER YOU HAVE MOVED LKT THK PIBLiC KNOW WHERE YOU ARE LOCiITED. The Everj -morning Globe is THE BEST WANT DIRECTORY! VOL. XIII. "~^3» "Spcoonia Agcr<lu" .^&**^ |iouiiceira} Notice is hereby given that the jewelry business heretofore conducted under the firm name and style of The FINCH JEWELRY CO. Will be hereafter continued by the undersigned at the old location, 155 EAST THIRD STREET, ST. PAUL, MINN. All obligations of the Finch Jewelry Co. we as sume, and all outstanding accounts will be collected by us. Respectfully. LW. Arnold & Go. In withdraw ing from the jewelry business it is my pleasure to thank my many friends for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon me over past years, and for the many kindnesses ex perienced at their hands, and while so doing would bespeak for my successors the cordial support of the public, to which they are most certainly entitled. Respectfully, F. M. FINCH. Mr. L. W. Arnold, who has for the past year been identified with The Finch Jewelry Co. as its man ager, will be most happy at all times to meet his many friends and the pub lic generally, and will consider it a pleasure to cater to their wants in all that pertains to the jew elry line. Artistic Jewelry! SILVERWARE ■ .A.INID L W. ARNOLD 6c CO M 155 East Third St., ST. PAUL, MINN. *^^55jg§5S^^v TALK ABOUT TIGHTS, A Symposium of Views Con cerning" the Famous Mc- Hale Bill. . The Ministry Is Divided Against Itself on the Moral Side. Good Men Defend the Pink Silk and Others De nounce It, But the Ladies Are a Unit in Declaring- the Bill "Too Absurd." Oh, Jimmy Mcliale he had little t > fear. And never could waut if the crops didn't fail; He'd a house and a farm, and two hundred a year. And a henrt for to spend it had Jimmy Mc liale. The pet of his party.he knew what was right; An elegant speech he could make, I'll be bail, And for gettint? up bills he was clean out of sight; Oh, the broth of a boy was our Jimmy Mc- Uale. It's little he cared for the 6neers of tbe masses, Who called him a Way-back ana Bucfc wheat from Scott; Remarks like "McHale a ridiculous ass is." Could not change this farmer a tittle or jot. No abuse they could shower, no humorous Bally, Could cause him to swerve from purpose or quail; The bane of his life was tbe "chorus de, bally/ So he swiped it a hard 4 'uu," did Jimmy Mcliale, The present senate of the state of Minnesota is a remarkable body in many respects. It is remarkable, pri marily, that it ig the first time in the history ot the state that the Republic ans are not the dominant party; it is remarkable the number of farmers it contains, the v being in the neighbor- Br &*4 I AUTHOR OF THE BILL. hood of thirteen members who have rale I tl c meadow sweet with hay; it is remarkable for possessing two such unique characters as Donnelly and Kel ler, who may be dubbed the sublime and the ridiculous of the upper house; it is remarkable in having a doorkeeper who can hold his own with any •'scrap per 7 ' in a light to a finish; it is remark able in possessing a chaplain who knows more about the lirst command ment and how to observe it than Noah himself. But of all the remarkable features which the senate has, there i.re none that ho!d a candle to that prince of legislators, McHale. lie it was who introduced a bill forbid ding any actress from appearing on any stage in the state of Minnesota wearing what is known as tights. This bill, one of the most remarkable that has em anated from a most remarkable body, sets up that the wearing of tights 'is lewd and lascivious and tends to under mine the morals of human kind. When this measure was first broached in the senate it was regarded as a huse joke, and the wits and humoristsof this grave and reverend body were afforded a reg ular picnic in considering its provisions, l'he immortal Keller, the most pictur esque member on the floor, took a shy at it, and brought dawn the house with his ponderous Teutonic wit. The artful and wily Lienau took occasion to give it a vicious upper cut in the hope of putting it to sleep. But what was the amazement of all when the great Ig natius, who has a faculty for espousing anything that is grotesque, sprang into the arena, and by the force of his mighty intellect and well-rounded periods, succeeded in getting enough members over to his way of thinking to turn the scale in favor of the bill and make the name of Mcliale famous. No act that ever passed a legislative body has caused such wide-spread comment, and while it principally affects the theatrical profession, and those are the ones who are kicking hardest, neverthe less the whole country is discussing it for its very novelty. McHale, the au- m'iiai.f. ab a sample. thor, has been squibbed and teased from Maine to California and from Canada to Cuba, and La? been guyed unmercifully by every company that has trod the boards of our local theaters ever since he pushed his little measure iuto public notice. The Wilbur Opera company, now playiug an engagement at the Ly ceum theater, Minneapolis, on the even ST. PAUL, MINK. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1891.— TWENTY PAGES. ing of April 12. gave vent to its feel ings in the matter in a most ludicrous manner. Jn the presentation of the "Chimes of Normandy," tisrhts were tabooed on every hand, and the chorus and the maidens in the amazoninn march kept their nether limbs out of sight with bloomers and lone skirts. Even the lees of the tables and chairs used in the stage setting were clothed in loose-fitting garments. Miss Susie Kirwin, the star of the company, waxed wroth in speakina of the bill: •"The old grauuies who have come in here from the rural districts," she said, "are making an exhibition of them selves before the whole country. Many of them, apparently, never saw an amazonian inarch before they came to St. Paul. They are trying at one fell swoop to drive all theatricals out of Minnesota. Hardly a performance can be presented nowadays without tights, which arc not half so suggestive as some of the Grecian Bostumes one sees on the stage. 1 looked in on a ball at the Den nison hotel, St. Louis, last year and got a glimpse of some of the low-cut dresses. If dresses can be legislated to the shoe tops, they ought to be legislated to the throat." Miss Kirwin's sentiments are similar in tone to those offered by the whole theatrical profession, from the manager down, but Mr. Mcllale, the father of TT§%s§3i BEFOKE THE BILL. this unique measure, is in nowise dis turbed by this howl of displeasure. He is the father of three daughters, whom he says he does not want to witness such indecency as is nowadays put upon the American stage. The trend of general opinion seems to be in opposition to the provisions of the bill, although there are not a few con scientious and respectable men who be lieve, as Mcliale does, that some check should be put upon tbe display of fem inine nudity, which tends to lewdness and demoralization, especially among the youth of the land. '•What do the ministers think of the measure?" is a question which has been asked from time to time since the dis cussion of the bill began. For the edifi cation of Globe readers, the following interviews with local clergy on the sub ject are presented: THE LOCAL CLERGY. What Eminent Divines Say of the Anti-Tights Bill. Rev. Edward C. Mitchell, Pastor Swe denborgian Church— l think there is a great need of reform in the matter of spectacular exhibitions, but the Mc- Hale effort was crude, isolated and in adequate. In such matters there are two leading questions: First, are cer tain things necessarily evil in them selves; and second, are the people suf ficiently pure-minded to use these things innocently and without abuse? "To the pure, all things are pure," including "the nude in art," when appiied in purity. But in many exhibitions, whether of pictures or human beings, the whole tone of the display is inten tionally made to appeal to the impure elements in man's nature. And gener ally those who seek such displays do so for the purpose of cater ing to their impure feelings aud thoughts. For instance, many of the pictorial advertisements oh the street bill boards are intentionally corrupting. And they are disgusting and ought to be suppressed. But there are many beautiful pictures in the win dows of our art stores which are good in their influence upon pure minds. A very slight chance in the tone or ex pression of a face or form will entirely change its practical character and in fluence. And so it is difficult to frame a law which will accomplish the needed reform without interfering with inno cent and useful things. No crude, spasmodic, isolated effort will exert a permanent influence for reform. A general and concerted movement is needed under wise leaders with well digested plans constructed for perma nent reform, and which, while restrain ing such displays as would cater to the lower nature, would also develop in the community a higher and purer taste. Aud these things cannot be done in a day, and per haps not in a generation. But it is time to begin wise measures which shall duly respect all rights of all men and yet protect the community, and espe cially the young minds, from disgusting and corrupting influences. Many men need to be protected even from "them selves. 1 think no one who closely ob serves the trend of popular activities will deny that there is a great need of a wholesome and permanent bracing up of the morals of our city for the develop ment of a higher and purer tone. Under the idea of protecting the free dom and rights of all, we have come to permitting too much license to cor rupting influences, which menace the spiritual and natural freedom of our community. In the present state of the world good and innocent tliines need more protection and encouragement than the questionable things. And In any com munity those who lead decent and use ful lives have a right to demand civil protection against all demoralizing and corrupting influences. With these views 1 have twice called upon the mayors of our city, then in office, andjin the name of our growing children, pro tested against the demoralizing influ ence of the street bill boards, but in neither case did I receive any encourage ment to hope for aid in that direction. Might not a conceited movement now secure better results ? Tlie Stajje Is Immoral. Rev. John Wright, Pastor St. Paul's Episcopal Church— Doubtless the Mc- Hale bill is too severe ever to be car ried into effect. Many historic plays have to be represented" in the costume of the age in which the events trans pired. Any other attire would be ab surd. At the same time the drift of the Mcliale bill is to be commended, for there is a most demoralizing tendency in these days toward an immodest ex hibition of the human form. The the ater sisfii boards in some instances are too disgusting to look at. The atti tudes of the figures, the scantiness of dress, and the lewuueas of the scenes represented, are in the liigest degree immoral, and beget in the minds of youth, thoughts and passions that in flame and degrade. That a community can tolerade these semi-nude pictures on walls and in shop windows "shows a surprising indifference to morality, and the sooner there is some legislation pro hibiting these vulgar and flaunting ex hibitions, the better for the purity of public morals. Approves the Bill. R. F. Maclaren, pastor Central Pres byterian Church— You ask my opinion of the Mcllale bill from a moral and re ligious standpoint. Truly moral and relisrious men do not permit their own wives or daughters to appear in public in tights; neither do they consider it to be consistent to pay their money to in duce other men's wives and daughters to appear before them in the same, scant costume. If females should appeal on our streets in the attire of the ballet there is little doubt but that the police would request them to go home and put on some clothes, and if they should re fuse it is probable sufficient force would be exercised to compel obedi ence. The entire community would en dorse the action of the police. R is equally reasonable that females should be legally prevented from displaying themselves in public halls. I think"Mc liale is all right. The Bill ol No Moral Benefit. S. M. Crothers, Pastor Unity Church —In answer to your question I would say that 1 see no moral benefit arising from such legislation as tl at of the Mc- Hale bill. I agree with that wise Puri tan, John Milton, that: "They are not skillful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by remov ing the matter of sin. ... it would be better done to learn that that law must needs be frivolous which goes to restrain things uncertainly and yet equally working to good or evil." "Honi Solt," Etc. Rev. W. S. Vail, pastor of Univer salist Church— The point at which the Mcllale business seems to we to be radically weak, is its lack of discrimi nation. 1 can imagine a play like "Theodora," in which the leading character is most properly clothed, but notwithstanding the elegant and prop er robes is a poisonous influence to the young and unformed mind by her lack of all those moral principles that hold society together. To apply the dictum of Kant, 1 would say that "if all living people held the opinions she held, civilization would not survive the wreck one hour. Such plays I consider proper objects of public attention, al though 1 think the cure is rather in the eradication of the desire for them by elevating public opinion, than in an attack by law. "Twelfth Night" would be condemned by the dress of Viola if the bill became a law, an d yet if a man witnessing the performance of that play with Modjeska or Marie Walnwright in the leading part should condemn either as immodest, I should feel obliged to quote the adage "£vil to him who evil thanks." Tiev. Marion D. Shutter, of Minneap olis—The Mcllale bill is too sweeping. I think it would be well to abolish the ballet altogether, but if the bill iutends to prohibit such women as Agnes Ilunt ington and Marie Wain v. right from tak ing the part of men and dressing ac cordingly, or if it is intended to inter fere with the ordinary costume of the chorus girl, it is a piece of prudish non sense. While the seator was about it he ought to have gone a little further. If he was bound to go as far as he did, while providing for covering the chorus girl's ankle, he ought to have made pro vision for protecting the society wom an's neck. THE FAIR SEX OPPOSED. Lovely St. Paul Women Roundly Denounce the Idea. The McHale bill! The Mcllale bill for breakfast, at lunch and with the soup at dinner. The Mcllale bill on the street cars, at the theater, at the shops and in the porch after church. The name of Mcllale is tiresome to me, ana the thought of his bill fills me with intense mental weariness. Ossa and Pelion on top of the whole affair would not remove it far enough trom my sight. Women are not, as a rule, at all interested in legislation. Even the women who want equal rights of suffrage with men are not entertained by the spectacle of a lot of men making unintelligible and endless bills, with a jumble of technical terms, and a thou sand ways and tricks one doesn't see head nor tail to. The men themselves are not entertained. They don't pay any more attention than they are com pelled to pay, and have a fondness for the cloak room that is quite marvelous. The only people who pay attention to the doings of the legislature are the reporters, and they wouldn't if they were not paid to do so. For once however, women are interested in a pending bill, a bill which nine women out of ten designate as "perfectly ridic ulous," and the tenth woman calls "sim ply horrid." The worst thing about the bill is the way it is expressed. The ultra-modest author dares not use the word leg, but allows the rich, warm blood to mantle his prudish cheek, and says "neither limb or limbs." The "neither limb" is entirely superfluous, for no woman with only one leg would be very much tempted to appear in tights. But what do St. Paul women I say about it? What they think was quite evident from the way in which they flocked to see the "Crystal Slip per." Wives and mothers, sweethearts, sisters, consuls, all were there — the best and purest womeain St. Paul, who found no occasion for blushing at ' K {^^^^ <^ AFTEIU.TIIF. JSIT.L. the stage costuming. What they said would fill volumes. Each has something to say. "Why fancy," says one society woman, "from ttie way the bill is worded the plain walking skirt must give place to crin oline, for the prevailing mode makes the shape of the 'nether limbs' quite apparent." "Air. Mcliale is no doubt fitted by ex perience to speak of the abuses of cos tuming in certain theaters," says an other. "My experience being limited, I can only say that 1 think that the bill Is an outrage, and that Mr. Mcilale owes an apology to the pure women on the stage whom he so grossly insulted. His discussion of the bill wad disgusting, and he is to be pitied for having so base a mind." Mrs. Cushman K. Davis was very good to look nt as she incidentally talked of. the bill in her entertaining way. Her gown was a princess affair of" bright blue plush, with steel gray puffs on the sleeves and a quaint gray plastron. "I really think it would be a pity to de prive the ladies of seeing the ballet," she said, "for we're quite as fond of it as the men are. A beautiful humau figure is the most beautiful thing m the world, and 1 like to see a finely ' foiined man or woman on the stage I just as I like to see a magnificent thor oughbred horse on the street. I have I never seen any harm in the wearing of • tights, and I am quite sure there are ; modest and pure women who wear : them. 1 don't think all actresses should be classed alike, for many of them are j very good women, indeed." At Senator Davis' house, not long ago, there was quite a spirited discus sion of the notorious bill. The princi pal opponent of it was Miss Moore, a charming young woman from Washing ton, who is to spend the summer with Mrs. Davis. She is of Louisiana fam ily and birth, a fact which she betrays in several charming ways. Her com plexion has the coloring of Southern blonde women, her mouth heats the Euglish language kindly, rounding off its rough corners with a faint South ern accent, and her slipper is of a size utterly impossible to Northern women of her height. Her eyes snapped. •'! think the bill is— absurd," she said. "It is the most charming thing imaginable to see a beautiful form. There is no rea son why a woman should not wear tights if the role demands it. There are plays and operas where a man's part must be played by a woman. Siebel, in "Faust," is always sung by a woman to preserve the artistic completeness of the opera." Miss Moore is herself a musician, and has a very flexible soprano voice. "The bill will deprive us of all the plays where a girl wears a boy : s disguise, for trous ers certainly show the shape of the 'nether limb.' Hoops will be all that are left to us, or bloomers, which are much more suggestive than tights." Mrs. Cook, of Summit avenue, thinks the bill a disgrace to Minnesota, and says it has made us the laughing stock of all the country. Mrs. J. L. Lathrop Jr. thinks it an insult to the common sense of the state. Miss Blakely thinks it too absurd to be seriously talked or. Some one said to a young woman who is studying Delsarte that her costume must be changed and Delsarte shelved. "Oh, no, indeed," she retorted, "Del sarte, you know, is not tight— its loose." Mrs. L. N. Scott lausrhed when 1 men tioned the bill to hen "J really think the other end of women's attire, and that, too, not altogether on the stage, requires more legislation than tights. It will simply kill theaters in Minne sota. It is the actions, and not the cos tuming, that suggest evil thoughts. Hamlet in a mother hubbard would not be more absurd than comic opera in long gowns. "Paul Jones," "Joan of Arc," Cora Tanner's play. "Fascina tion," "The Limited Mail," "Faust," "As You Like It" and "Twelfth Night" are only a few of the puro presenta tions the bill would prohibit, while other plays, immoral in plot and read ing, woulu be forced into popularity." Mrs.William Wallace sat in a patch of April sunlight and denounced the bill. "It is really absurd. The author repre sent--; ill women who|wear tights or men's -.■lothing as immodest. There is not a more modest woman than Acnes Ilunt ineton or Jessie Bartlett Davis. Emma Abbott, against whom no word was ever spoken, wore tights, and so did Mary Anderson." A pale woman with bright tinted, beautiful hair, and exquisitely fitted gown, that just accentuated the blue of her eyes, was coining down the steps to the waiting Victoria. It was Mrs. A m'hale ballet. Lane K. Stone. She stopped and smiled. "I think it ridiculous that men of sense who are sent to make the state's laws should waste their time in such nonsense. 1 feel almost as if I could write an editorial about it my self. It is very unjust to class all actresses who wear tights with the low est of their sex. There may be, and no doubt are, immoral women on the sta.ge, but the majority of actresses are as good women as the majority of women off the stage." 1 dream of Mcllale and tights. Every man I see I fancy is a little tight, and the voices of all the women of St. Paul calling the bill "perfectly ridiculous" rings in my ears. 1 have found but two women who consider the bill a master piece of wisdom. One is an actress who objects to tights on hygienic grounds, and the other is a woman who considers the ballet very, very wicked. She has never seen it: but that doesn't matter, for she knows it is wicked, just the same. There is to an ordinary woman something vei f humiliating in the idea that the most beautiful creation of all nature is inherently vulgar and only suggests evil thoughts to the be holder. Prudery is only immodesty masquerading, ana to the pure all things are pure. L,et Mr. McHale and his followers hie themselves to some vast wilderness and endeavor to fu migate their moral selves, and remem ber that the universal verdict of St. Pa.il women is, "Evil to him who evil thinks." In Conclusion. It will be seen from a perusal of the above interviews that there is a variance of opinion as to the merits of the Mc- Hale bill. Perhaps the best criticism of the measure is niade by Mr. Vail, who says: "The point at which the McHale business seems to be radically weak is its lack of discrimination." The bill is entirely too sweeping iv its provisions, for its rigid enforcement will banish from the stage many of the gems of Shakespearean and operatic plays. It is very doubtful if Mr. Mcllale had any such object in mind when he drew the bill that bears his name. The proba bilities are that he had in view the sup pression of the ballet as witnessed in nearly all spectacular performances. If such is the case, and it is reasonable so to presutne, it were better had he di rected his legislation against plays of the kinds spoken of. The interviews, however, bring out this fact in a most emphatic manner, that the indiscriminate use of the biil boards of our city for the purpose of plastering them over with immodest, immoral and lewd pictures is nothing less than criminal. Had Mr. McHale drafted a bill that would have relieved the community from being obliged to be met at every wheel and turn with this disgusting panorama he would have done something that would have cut oil a far greater source of evil than the wearing of tights upon the stage. GRIME OF A MOTHER. Mrs. Frank R. Hyde, of Sioux Falls, Kills Her Two Daughters, And Then Makes an Unsuc- cessful Attempt to End Her Own Life. A Young German Kills Him self and Sweetheart on Board Ship, Because He Couldn't Fart With Her op Afford to Marry Her. Special to the Globe. Sioux Falls, S. D m April 18.— This evening as Frank R. Hyde, the county abstractor, entered his beautiful home he was horrified and appalled to dis cover his wife lying on the kitchen floor unconscious and bleeding from wounds in the arm made with a razor, his daughter Clara lying dead in her bed, and his infant daughter Josephine in the throes of death. On the parlor table was a letter written by Mrs. Hyde, in which she stated that she had poisoned her children because she believed that they were gradually grow ing insane. Hereditary insanity had prevailed in her family, and rather tnan be a burden to her husband she had de cided to take the lite of herself and children. SHOT HIS SWEETHEART, And Then Put a Bullet in. His Own Brain. Hobokex, N. J., April 18.— A double tragedy was enacted shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon in the steerage of the steamship Eider, just as she was about to leave the dock of the North Lloyd Steamship company for Bremen. Rudolph Monaclier shot and killed his sweetheart, Catherine Ohnaeker, and then shot himself through the head. Both died together. Monacher came away from Garmany sometime ngo. lie was bethrothed then to Catherine, but they were too poor to be mar ried in Germany, so the young man came to this country to seek his fortune. The understanding was that as soon as he was able to support a wife he should send for Catherine. A few weeks ago, having saved up a sum of money, Monacher sent for Catherine, and she came over on the last trip of tho Eider. Monacher met his sweetheart at the pier, but instead of the happy-faced lover whom she expected to meet her, Rudolf was downcast and sorrowful. In response to her amious questions, Monacher told Catherine that since he had last written to her he had not done so well in business as he hoped; in fact, be was not able to support a wife yet. This was a bitter blow to both of the young people. They repaired to Monacher's lodgings, where Catherine was made welcome by her lovers friends. They young couple dis cussed the matter ever and over again, but the more they talked the more hope less their prospects seemed to be. Fi nally it was dcUidid tint Catharine would have to go back home again to Germany. Passage was engaged for her in the steerage of the Eider, which was to sail to-day on her return voyage to Bremen. Among the passengers who passed upon the deck of the Eider this afternoon were Catherine and Rudolph. Their parting was more than sad. It seemed as if he could not let Catherine go, and Catherine clung to him in despair. finally the officer called "All ashore." The vessel was about to sail. The last farewells were said and the people be gan hurrying ashore. Amid the bustle and confusion Rudolph and Catharine were not noticed. Ther had retired to one side for their final parting. Sud denly Rudolph was heard to exclaim in German "It's too hard. We will not endure it; we will not be separated." The next moment there was a pistol shot, which was followed by another. Directly afterward two dead bodies fell to the deck. The horrified bystanders rushed to the prostrate bod ies. They leaned over them. Streams of blood were pouring from ragged wounds and dyeing the deck. Both were stone dead. Rudolf and Catherine died together. Rudolf had first shot his sweetheart, killing her instantly. Before the report of his first shot had died away, and before any one had realized what he had done, he had fired a second time, shooting himself in the head. His second shot was equally deadly. He died instantly without a groan. The two bodies were picked up and taken to the morgue in Hoboken, where they now lie. The blood was quickly cleared from the deck and the Eider proceeded on her voyage. It now transpires that the couple had eloped a short time ago from Geemp sliein, Germany. The woman's name was Mrs. Katrina Bart, and she left a husband and two children in Germany when she eloped with Monacher, who was a German infantry man. The woman had longed for home and chil dren, finally repenting of her action, decided to rejoin them. With this pur pose in view she secured passage in the Eider. Monacher accompanied her to the steamer and tried to dissuade her from leaving him. Upon her final re fusal the tragedy ensued. COKERS ARE RIOTERS. The State BfOitia May Be Called Into Service. Scottdai.e, Pa., April IS.— Hardly had the soldiers left the 'region before the fears of the citizens were realized, and gangs of cokers again turned loose their lawless passions of hate and re venge. Throughout the region, all last night, the earth fairly trembled with a succession of shocks following the ex plosion of dynamite bombs. At Leisen riug, No. 3 of the Frick works, a crowd of strikers gathered on the hill, and at one time thirty bombs were exploded simultaneously, tearing great holes in the earth, breaking wiuilows in many houses, and frightening the people for miles around by the terrific roar. No one was ii*ured.however, and but little actual damage wifs done, the strikers contenting themselves with this por tentous warning to the workers below. Monday the companies will post notices that unless the men return to work by Tuesday, they will no longer be looked upon as employes. This means cheap labor will be imported, and as several hundred eviction notices will also expire, the strikers have a hard week before them. At Leiseuring Deputy Sheriff Crawford and posse were serving writs of ejectment, they were captured by an angry mob and harshly treated. Ono deputy, named Sanner, was knocked senseless. An effort will be made next week with a large force to evict the strikers, and trouble will fol low, as hundreds are to be turueil out. To-day Secretary Parker, of the labor organization, ordered a lot of 1,000 tents, winch will be used for sheltering the evicted persons. Many of them will be pitched at Morewood, where the first evictions are to occur. Otheis will be set up at Summit, Trotter and Lei senring. At this writing; the men cer tainly have the best of it, although they fear the effects ot evictions, and imported labor next week. Out of 16. --12S ovens in the region it is estimated that 12,451 are extinct and 3,077 active. Only one-seventh of the active ovens are working under the terms of the new sliding scale. A special from Union town, Pa., says: The outbreaks of the rioters at LeisenrinfC, Kyle and Leeth to-day, in which was demonstrated the weakness of the civil authority in the face of such mobs as committed the depredations at these places, have forced Sheriff McCormick to do what he has done his best to avoid — that is, to call on Goy. Pattison for military aid. Early this afternoon he tele graphed the governor a bvief statement of the facts of the riots, stated that he was unable to maintain order, and asked that the state troops be sent to his as sistance. The governor replied asking if the civil power had been exhausted, and requesting fuller details. The fol lowing is the text of Sheriff McCor mick's reply to the governor's telegram: "In reply to your telegram, say that tho power of the county is exhausted. Owing to the dangerous and turbulent character of the rioters, and lawless men. I am unable to secure a posse ade quate to the exigencies of the moment. In defiance of all my powers, mobs release offenders in the cus tody of the law, and disregard all admonitions in my power to give. lam absolutely powerless to give the security the parties in clanger and who are threatened are entitled to an<t desire. The peace of the common wealth is sorely threatened." The message then gives full details of the rioting. Adjutant General McClelland this evening telegraphed to Captain Frasher, of Company C, asking for full information of the situation. Excite ment is at a high pitch over the pros pective ordering out of the militia, but it is the universal sentiment that it is the only safe thing to do. No additional details have been secured of the blow ing up of the water tank at the Kyle works by dynamite this morn ing. None of the perpetrators of the outrage have been discovered. One of the most daring and lawless acts of this lawless strike took place at Leith this afternoon. In order to dis perse the threatening mob there, Depu ties Smith and Rice arrested one of them, a young man named John Shaf fer, and started to bring him to iail. His companions attacked the deputies, beat them with clubs and stones, and rescued Shaffer. Deputy Smith was severely injured. He received a number cf ugly bruises on his body and a deep gash in the head with a knife. It is also feared that Deputy Sanner, who was injured in the riot at Leisen ring No. 2 this morning, will not re cover. The 11. C. Frick Coke company secured a preliminary injunction against John McSloy and thirty-two others engaged in the riotous proceed ings at Leisenring No. 2 last night and this morning. They set forth that these men marched up and down where the men were working, brandishing revolv ers, and intimidated and drove the men from the works, then assaulted the dep uties. PERHAPS ANNIE ROOXEY. A Circus Clown's Song Precipi tates a Riot. Kxoxviiyive, Term., April 18.— A cir cus and Wild West show.which came to this city last Monday fora week's stand, has gone, and in future will leave this city off its route. Thursday night the large audience which was present be gan to jeer some of the performers. As the audience became more and more ex cited it worked it way into the space reserved for the show. All attempts to force the crowd back were fruitless, and several fights re sulted. Finally a clown mounted a block and began singing a song. He had sung one verse when some one hit him square in the face with a brickbat. He fell senseless to the ground and was dragged away by his companions. By this time everything was in an uproar. Women screamed and a mad rush for the exits was made. The police- were powerless. Scores were knocked down and trampled on. The manager of the show got on a stand and attempted to quiet the mob with a speech, but ii was useless, and he, like the clown, was knocked down. At thi9 point the riot spirit took command. Everything in sight was seized and wrecked. The band in struments were smashed flat. The sea's were torn down and broken. Some one cut the ropes, and the big tent came down with a rush, burying '200 or more people in its folds. A" rush was then made for the dressing rooms, which were also torn down, leaving the actors and actresses half-dressed in the open air. The side shows were next at tacked and wrecked. After wrecking everything in sight, the crowd went away, and the show people, aided by the police, gathered their traps together and left on a midnight train. Some twenty people were hurt, but none seri ously, however, except the clown, whose nose was broken aiid lower jaw frac tured. A Maniac Motner. Fort Wayxe. lnd., April 18.— The wife of George Murphy, of Lee town ship, near here, placed a revolve against the head of her sleeping five year old daughter this morning and sent a bullet through her head, killing her instantly. Mrs. Murphy, who is crazy, then turned on the other members of the household, but was overpowered and disarmed. She says her daughter will be better off now. About a year ago Mrs. Murphy attempted to take the lives of her children. Killed His Brother. Hopkinsville, Ky., April IS.— ln Union county two brothers named Haynes, aged fourteen and sixteen, re spectively, yesterday became involved in a quarrel over opening a gate, when the olaer one cut iris brother, so badly that he died soon afterwards of his in juries. The one that did the deed is al mest crazy with the remorse and grief, and has to be watched lest he kill him self, Sheehan Indicted. Chicago. April 18.— The grand jury to-day returned an indictment against Dennis Sheehan, a Democratic judge of election, for forcibly breaking open the ballot box in the Twentieth precinct of the Nineteenth ward on election day. The penalty for the offense is a fine or imprisonment in the penitentiary from ouu to four years. The Kipper Did It. New York, April 18.— At 12 o'clock to-night the body of a woman with her throat cut from ear to ear was found lying on the side walk at the corner of Ninety-sixth street ana Fourth ayenue. The identity of the woman is unknown. The police have under arrest a man by the name of Botts, of Baltimore, whom they 6ay is the murderer. IF YOU HAVE REAL ESTATE TO SELL, OK WANT TO Bl¥, ADVERTISE IN THE GLOBE, IT IS (XOSKLY READ BY ALL WHO SEEK INVESTMENTS! N T O. 109. DIED AT THEIR POSTS. Six Postal Clerks, Two En* gineers and a Fireman Killed Instantly. Collision of the Lake Shore Fast Mail and the Toledo Express. Engines and Cars Knocked Into Splinters, but No Pas sengers Injured. The Collision Said to Have Re* suited From Disobedience of Orders. CUVi.axd, 0., ApiillS.— A fright, ful wreck occurred on the Lake Short railroad at Kipton station, about fortj miles west of Cleveland, early this even< ing, in which six postal clerks, two en gineers and a fireman were killed. The fast mail. No. 14, bouud east, collided with No. 21, the Toledo express, just aa the hitter train was about to cull on (he side-track to let the fast mail pass. Tlia fast mail was running at full speed, and the force of collision was so great thai both engines, three mail cars and on« baggage car were completely wrecked Following is a list of the dead: EDWARD BROWN, engineer of So. 21j Toledo, O. CHARLES A. TOPLIFP, engineer of No. 14. Toledo. O. F. J. NUGENT, po=t»l clerk. Toledo, O. ' CIIAKLES UAMMIL postal clerk, Ely ria, O. X F. CLEMENS, postal clerk, Clevelnml.O. JOHN J. BOWERFINE, postal clerk,' Elyria, O. JAMES M'KISTLEY, postal clerk, Con neaut. (>. FIREMAN STALKY, of No. 4. C. 11. M'DOWELL, postal cierk, Elyria, O. Injured: Danzig, son of section fore« man ; struck by wreckage and badly hurt. None of the passenger cars left tha track, and none of the passengers re ceived serious injuries. It was the cus* torn for these two trains to pass ac Kid*' ton, the Toledo express taking the side track tor the fast mail, which usually wont through Kipton without slacken ing its speed. The Toledo express was a few minutes late this evening, and had just come to a stop at the switch when the fast mail " came in sight There is Sear<*bly Any Curve at the station, but on one side of the track was a line of freight cars, ami on the other side the station. These uiighi have obstructed the vision of the engin eer of the fast mail, lie applied the air brakes when lie saw that a collision was inevitable, but the speed ot the train was not checked materially. The engine of the Toledo express was knocked squarely across tho track and that of the fast mail reared in tiie air, resting on top of the other. The fast mail consisted of three mail cars and two parlor ears, and the Toledo express of five coaches and two baggage cars. TJie first and second mail cars were tel« eseoped and smashed to kindling wood, and the third crashed into the first two and rolled over on the station platform, breaking the windows of the building. Tho two baggage cars of the Toledo ex press were knocked from the track, hut did not turn over. The force of the collision was so groat that of the sixty* four revolving chairs in the two parlor cars only tour remained attached to tho floors, all the others being broken and hurled about in confusion. The passengers were thrown to the floors and badly shaken, but nons were seriously hurt. The passengers of the two trains at once began the work of rescue, and with a corps of physicians from the . town, ministered to the tew who were,., injured. All but one of the dead were beyond human assistance as soon as the collision occurred. The bodies were all Horribly Crushed and mutilated, arms and legs being: torn off, and the corpses were almost beyond recognition. Charles Topliff, the en« gineerof the fast mail, remained bravely at his post and was found with his hand " on the throttle, dead. His hands and face were so badly scalded that the blackened flesh dropped from the bones when his body was taken out. Fireman Staley, of trie fast mail, jumped from the train. The Door postal clerks had not a chance to escape. They were caged like rats, : and the telescoping of the cars crushed the life out of them without a moment's warning. Passengers who were on the fast mail arrived here at 10:30 to-night and brought the lirst authentic news of the wreck, there being no correspond ents or other facilities for • getting the news from Kipton, which is a mere* hamlet. These passengers say that tha cars and locomotives were piled in a heap higher than the station. It is dif« Gcult to locate the blame for the acci dent, as both the engineers are dead. It is said, however, that No. 21 was or dered to stop at Überlin, but went on ta Kipton, which is six miles further west, and had not sufficient time to make thf side track. LITTLE ROCK BLAZE. Half a Million Dollars' Worth ol Property Destroyed. Little Rock, Ark., April Little Rock suffered another terrible loss by fire to-night. The fire originated in the large dry goods establishment of Gus Blass & Co., occupying the old Grand Opera house block which was burned to the ground about three years ago and rebuilt within the last eighteen months at a cost of ?50,000. The building, four stories, was one of the handsomest on Main street, and the linn carried a stock valued at $300,000, the largest retail dry goods house in this sectioi. of the country. Buildings occupied on the south" side by B. Levinson, wholesale liquors and cigars, and on the north side by Smeetman. the florist, .and A. Kuttner, millinery goods, were also destroyed. The file was discovered at 11:30 and burned with such rapidity that by 12 o'clock not a wall remained standing, falling on all sides with a terrible crash; but no one was caught under them. It is ascertained that Blass' stock was worth ?400,000, with an. insurance of $200,000 with local agencies here. The total loss will not fall below ?500,000. They Must Be Very Wet. Wheeling, W. Va., April 18.— Five men, four Americans and one Italian, were drowned in Laurel creek, near Addison, AVebster county, Friday. They were crossing the swollen stream on a. foot log. ween it turned, and all were - precipitated into the water. None of the victims are known by name and the bodies have not been recovered. - Jj