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4 THE DAILY GLOBE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT THE GLOBE BUILDIXG, for.. POUBTH . AM) CKDAR STREETS. BY LEWIS BAKER. ST. PALL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATE Daily iNotlnclitiinu Sunday.) 1 vrin advanee.JS On I 3minndvance.S2.oo oin in advance 4 00 | 0 weeks in adv. lou One month 700 DAILY AND SUNDAY. 1 xt inadvance.SU) <»0 I 3 mos. inadv.«-2 50 oin in advance ■" 00 j■■ weeks in adv. 100 one month ssc MMIAV AI.uNE. 1 in advance.. s2 Oo I 3 mos. in adv.. .soc 6 hi. in advance. 100 \\ mo. in adv.... '-'Oc TKi-WEEKiT-{Daily- Monday, Wednesday Pand Friday.) 1 jriu advance..s4 00 | tiinos. in adv.. §- 00 ii months in advance ...SI 00. WEEKLY ST. rACL GLOBS. One year, ?1 I Six mo., 65c | Three mo., 35c Rejected communications cannot lie pre fceived. Address ail letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE, St I'uul, Minn. fuS.'er; Advertising ■ Office, Room 21, Tribune Building, New York. Complete files of the Globe always kept on hand for reference. Patrons and friends are cordially invited to visit and avail themselves of the facilities of our Eastern Office while in New York. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, Aug. 25.— Iowa: Scat tered showers; variable winds; cooler and fair Thursday. For Minnesota: Fair, except local showers in the - southern portions; slightly cooler; northerly winds; cooler and fair Thursday For South Dakota: Fair Dy Wednesday afternoon: northerly winds, be coming variable; no decided change ii tem perature: continued cool and fair Thursday. For North Dakota: Continued cool, fair ■weather Wednesday and Thursday. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. j=* ; =•= ■ " J i ! 5 Place of c'-jSoj Place of ;3- 3g Observation. 3£. 1- Observation. s£. 2.3. re -5 _: J a a I ■ v.t\ S : 5 : • ? I : : 7 _— __ ■ — — St. Paul . 29.M 66- Ft. Custer. . . 30.02 62 Duluth 2!>.92j fiO | Helena 130.20 60 LaCrosse... 29.98 68 Ft. Sully ! Huron '30.04! (i- Minnedosa. :i0.06 50 Moorbead... 30.08 64 Calvary i 30.14 69 St. Vincent. l . 50 Winnipeg. .|:t0.04 56 Bismarck.... 30.10 04 jtfAppelle.;. .it: 56 Pt. Kuford.. :iO.l»! »a>i)Me«re Hat..30.1( C 2 Local forecast for St. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity: Winds mostly westerly, with continued "fair and cooler weather during Wednesday and Thursday. V. F. Lyons. Local Forecast Official, FAIK AND COOL. "Weather Bureau Office,st. Paul. Minn., Aug. Synopsis of the weather for the past t vreuty-fcur hours : The moderate storm area that was central over Minnesota this morning has moved northeastward over Lake Superior into Canada. The barometer is highest over Montana, and is above normal (30 inches! everywhere over that portion of the British possessions above Montana, and thence eastward to and including Manitoba. Nearly all of Minnesota and South Dakota is under the abnormal pressure area. The tem perature has fallen from 4 to IS deg over all of the area mentioned during the last twen ty-four hours, with winds mostly west to northwest, and generally lair to cleßr weath er, except from La Crosse northward to Du luth, where cloudiness and occasional show ers have prevailed. Similar conditions have prevailed here and there over Montana and South Dakoti. The high barometer and westerly win Is referred to above are the ba- Bis for forecasting fair and cool weather for the next two days. P. F. Lyons. Local Forecast Official. ■ -•>; THE STORY OF A DAY. Milbank, S. D., has a large fire. Banquet captures the Monmoulb. handicap. ; Starving Russian peasants are in a desper ate mood. Scalpers get a great rake-off on the harvest excursions. Twelve heats are trotted in a race at Inde pendence, 10. Senator Stanford is brought out as a candi date for president. President Baker resigns his position as a Echool inspector. The president of Nicaragua banishes a lot of rebellious leaders. Adelbert Gohen refuses to testify against bis brother at Fergus Falls. Harrison makes a dozen or so speeches to ?N'e\v rorkers and Verm outers. Henry, the alleged Duluth postoflice de faulter, is arrested in St. Paul. The city railway company is to complete the Fort Suelling extension forthwith. The Twin City Amateur Base Ball league Is organized at the Nicoilet house, Minneap olis. President Fitzgerald, of the Irish National league, calls a meeting for Chicago Oct. 1 and 2. The state statistician makes the Minnesota wheat average twenty bushels to the acre against thirteen last year. AVHITE AND HILL. The proposed nomination of Ax- Dbew D. White for the governor ship of New York has set the curs who write editorials for liepublican newspapers yelping at the heels of David B. Hill. No eulogies are too extravagant to be showered on ihis man White, who is described as a scholar in polities and a paragon of virtue, culture and intellectual force. A sight for the gods, tkey declare, to see such a one running for ©like against Senator Hill, "the darliag of the saloons, the triend of the corruptionists because tarred himself with the same stick, the hope and pride of all the dangerous and worthless elements of political society, the ganibltr whose only object is per f.jnal success." To read their comments you would think iht_- content would be one between LuciFKß and the archangel Gabriel. Very sad. too, isn't it, that Lucifeb could beat the archangel in the foremost state of the Union by 50,000 majority . stuff, however, is the cheap gab bling of men writing against time to nil Bpace which had better be 'eft blank. .Mr. White is an estimable gentleman of courteous manners and attractive personality. He is a graduate of Yale college, has studied and lived abroad, has had ample means all his life, and married a rich woman, through whom lie increased his fortune. He has read a number of books, and was for a time president of Cornell university, to the affairs of which he gave seme amiable but rather perfunctory attention. He has written a little himself, and is the author ot a dreary series of essays now publishing in the Popular Science Monthly under tiie blind title of "Chap ters in the Warfare of Science." He has never done any harm in his career that has been reported, but not a single constructive work, either in affairs or literature, can claim him as its author. He has made absolutely no impress on the thought or the men of bis times, be cause it is not in him to do so. If he were poor, he would be the principal of a youug ladies' boai - »L As he is rich, in.- is a dilettante in scholarship aiui politics. It is one of tue encouraging features of American public life that such a man would not stand the ghost of a show at the polls against David B. Hill. ilill was a poor boy who never went to col lege, and hardly to school: who did not marry when he was young because his earnings were needed to support his widowed mother; who has fought his way up, step by step, because he had good habits, boundless energy and amazing ability, lie is a born leader of men, resistless In a conflict of character against character, quick to see the point of a problem and ready with its solu tion: great general in organization, who has massed the Democracy of New York in a solid phalanx, unbroken and unbreakable. When the people of the Empire state read his state papers and say to themselves that such profound and vigorous documents are the product of a brain which through poverty has trained itself through its own efforts to this pinnacle of strength and capacity, they are for him, heart and soul. No enemy of David B. Hill's has ever been able to convict him of a dishonest or a dishonorable act. He is almost as poor now, after a life of work, pi he was when he was a boy. His only of fense is that he is a Democrat. But that, too, makes him popular in New York, the banner state of the Democ racy. MR. HAHRISO.VS PLiAV. M. I?. Habbisost, of the world's fair commission, makes a very sensible sug gestion when lie says that Minnesota should co-operate with one or two other states in the erection of a building at Chicago in ISU3. It is very remarkable that the idea has not been advanced before, and it is altogether a happy thought and a credit to its author, if every state and territory ia the I'niou, and every pricipality and power under heaven besides, builds an independent headquarters on the exposition grounds, a* seems to be the generally favored plan, there will be a bewildering maze of strnctures.througli which a visitor can find his way in nothing short of a lifetime, and in the confusion of which he will lose his in terest and his ambition. Suppose one of these many buildings should belong to Minnesota alone, who, in the midst of such competition, wonld ever go into it? Everybody from Minnesota, to be sure, would; but why should the strangers from New York or from Cali fornia? And yet, without patronage and attention, our display, no matter how complete and admirable it might be, would tell the story of our resources and strength to an audience but little more encouraging than could be fouud at one of our own local fairs. But if Massachusetts and Florida, or any other two states like them, should unite with Minnesota according to Mr. Harbison's notion, how much more in teresting ana satisfactory the result. The building materials from three di verse quarters could be employed with the most delightful elfect in the con struction of an exhibit hall, and the ex hibit itself could be made most attract ive. The tropical products of Florida, grouped with the fruits of our rich northern prairies aud the output of Massachusetts' mills and factories, each distin jt iv itself, anil yet each supple menting and emphasizing the other by the light and shade of con trast and comparison, would command the interest and study of the siglil-seer as no independent display could hope to. Every Floriclian and every Florid ian's friends, every son of Massachu setts—and there are millions ot them scattered the country through— and every loyal citizen of our own grand commonwealth would spread the tid ings of what the allied exhibit had to show, and give it a prominence and popularity which would be at once grat ifying and profitable. The Gloije does not believe that the commissioners are inclined to hoist the ensign of surrender or to halt iv the work which they have undertaken. They are able and experienced men of the world, accustomed to encountering difficulties and accustomed to surmount ing them. They will go on in spite of the complications of the situation, and will solve the problem iv a way which will bring credit to the state. They can take much encouragement from the re flection that they have already in this idea of Mr. llakrison's de vised one of the most promising projects which has as yet been any where advanced. The Globe predicts that it will be extensively copied, and that many groups of states will be found uniting in the erection of com mon buildings. They will economize by such a move, add to the beauty of the occasion and proclaim aloud to the world the wonderful truth of our na tion's diversity and unity. Over one country, which embraces the equatorial heat of Florida, the compact and well settled urban life of Massachusetts, and river bottoms of Minnesota, clad in summer with the gladdest verdure, and in winter with deep mountains of ice and snow— over this one country floats a common flag, for whose honor 00,000, --000 people stand ready to die. CHEAPER ELECTRI CITY. It would be a daring prophet who should attempt to anticipate the bound ary of the electrical force in the econ omy of life and the universe. If there is any important function in any part of creation that it does not have some part in, it is not easily recalled. Later scientists believe it is the force that holds planets and worlds in their orbits, and that it pervades the entire universe, doing the work assigned it. For the uses to which it is put by man, aa yet the processes of summoning it to its tasks are costly and cumbersome, al though they are being constantly facili tated and cheapened. The problem of the penetrative minds is to further simplify and reduce. The mysterious potency is all about in inexhaustible abundance, waiting for the summons to do service for man. it is believed the methods of securing it are awkward, crude and needlessly expensive. Experiments are reported beintr made in Pennsylvania, the success of which will initiate a rev olution in its production. It is claimed tliat the electrical energy can be drawn from the earth, and power, neat, light aDd whatever else is now had. be gath ered. The idea seems to be that there are in the earth, in some sections, cur rents of electricity similar to the rivers. By tapping one of these there will be a perpetual flow of the force, which can be utilized for all purposes. In the Pennsylvania test it is claimed that one of these centers of the force was struck, and tne results are iegarded as encour aging to the theory. If Bismarck really clears fI.OOO per week in the poultry business, it is more profitable than running the govern ment. Mr. Haves, of Ohio, will do well to visit him and see how it is done. Kansas City and St. Louis are hav ing a beer war, which juts the prices down from ?7 to ?4 a barrel. Still, the consumers have to hand out their nickel, and the glasses are half foam, as usual. Ix a New York weekly paper office seven girls in succession have been married from one desk, succeeding each oilier. Nosy girls are willing to work without pay at that desk. These have been 1,000 more business failures in the country the past year than the year previous. It was the first year of the McKixley tariff. The protection sheets have a great fancy for black turned rules in connec tion with their figures. They are sug gestive mortuary conditions. THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 7891. GLOBE TOWER SHOTS. The Chicago correspondent of the New York Press has discovered a Dutch plauter from Sumatra who is coming to this country and raise the Sumatra wrapper because Me Kinlcy put a tax of S3 a pound on the leaf, if unstemrned. What magnificent possibilities this opens. Now let us put a tax of $1 a pound on Mocha coffee and drive the Arabs to this country to raise tne aromatic berry here. Put a swingeing tax on bananas and forthwith get all the planters from the trop ics here with their plants. What's the use of paying anything the South Americans choose to ask us for cocoanuts when it is only a mat ter of a little tax between that and having them grown here? And what dull-witted fellows those Cubans are that they, too, haven't begun to raise Havana cisars here in stead of ou the island of earthquakes and revolutions. Keally, about all that is left to be done la to put a' tax on the equator to get it to move in and share the blessing of being taxed out of its boots. * ♦ * The Shah of Persia boils his monied men lnoil to make them comedown. Republican bosses only hold the manufacturers of this couutry over the fire and "fry" the "fat" out of them. How much more refined is the civ ilization of the Occident. • » » Shnyue— who's Shayne?— is stumping Ohio for McKinley and gets off that old gag about the simultaneous happening of panics and reductions in the tariff. He dilates on the hard times of '37 and '57, but slides over all mention of that little affair we had in the panic line beginning with 1873 and lasting the decade out. Shayne and the tariff editor ot the Minneapolis Tribune must have been trained in the same school of casuistry. • * > McKiuley boasts of the prosperity of this country under protection. Once on a time there was a McKiuieyke who was a farmer. He conceived the idea that his horses ju the pastures didn't get fat because they roamed about so much while feeding 1 , so he forth with hobbled them fore and aft. The poor horses had to work somewhat harder to fill their stomachs, but they did it all the same, and the forerunner of McKiuley boasted to his neighbors how prosperously fat his horses got when hobbled, and urged them to adopt his plan. It never occurred to him that his horses got a living iv spite of his hobbling. #.»••■* Who put that flea in McKiniey's ear? He Is actually praising Mr. Cleveland, saying of him that "no one has spokeu with greater ability than he"' on the coinage question. And yet this is the same McKinley who, only last February, said of Mr. Cleveland that "during all of his years at the head of the government be was dishonoring one of our precious metals, discrediting silver aua en hancing the price of gold." # • * The staunch and vociferous supporter of Harrison and McKinley, the up-the-river Tribune, proclaims that protection cheapens everything it touches; that "them are not three atticles that can be mentioned in all the catalogue, the manufacture of which is fairly tinder way iv this country under a pro tective tariff, where the price has not gone down from 30 to 70 per cent. These are the facts!" Without more than mentioning that potatoes, flaxseed and other articles of agri cultural manufacture are protected, and have gone down in price under it, we be? to sug gest to our c. c. that it may not be aware that it is flying directly in the face of its political god«. Both Mr. Harrison and Mr. McKinley are strenuous in denying that protection cheapens. In a speech made by the former in Chicago in March. lh*B, he said he was '•one of those uuinstructed political econo mists who do not believe in cheapness. Ido not believe in cheap coats, for, to my mind, a cheap coat means a cheap man under it." In the campaign of JB!tJ, at Kalamazoo, Mr. McKinley said: ''Well, now. they say you would have things cheaper if you only had a Democratic tariff. Cheap ! I never liked the word. Cheap and nasty go together. This whole system of cheap things is a badge of poverty, for cheap merchandise means cheap men. and cheap men means a cheap country, and that is not the kind our fathers builded." We trust that, ou reflection, our c. c. will conclude that things aren't so blarsted cheap after all. THE LORD'S DISCIPLES. It doubtless is a surprise to most people, but there are several apostles of Schweiu furth in the Twin Cities. Accidentally sev eral letters to and from "heaven" have fallen into the hands of a Globe reporter. The former bear the signatures of proselytes and the latter the signature of the avowed Christ- One reads: * "Rev. G. J. Schweinfurth— My. Lord and My God: Unto thee I come with a full con fession of all my ways; yes, my old, strong, fleshly desires have overcome me again, and I so far forgot God and all things good, as in a frenzy it seems, not of my own mind. I tried to satisfy my passions on a beast. My thoughts were all wrong for days and days — on things devilish— which I had no con trol. I worked on from day to day as a ma chine. So my thoughts were all weakening, and all my evil nature came In like a flood upon me, and in an evil moment I gave way. I had just been making a vow to Thee that I would triumph, that I would cast off the old things of darkness and deatn and come forth into a better life. But I am not worthy of anything good, for as soon as I begin to rise some evil like this brings me down. Then I don't seem to care for anything or any one. "But that heavy load is upon me. and shall Igo down into despair degenerate* Oh! I will not: I cannot! 1 must arise ana awake from this low-bred conduct. Oh ! My Father and my God, have mercy on me. Oh ! Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul. I believe in Thee; I have faith in Thee. I will pay my vows unto the Lord. All evils compass me, but in the name of the Lord will I de stroy them. 1 will praise Thee for Thou art worthy to be praised. I will give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for Ills mercy en dureth forever, Oh ! forsake me not utterly. Oh ! let me no£wander any more from Thee." These letters indicate that the disciples of this strange faith are not a few in Minneapo lis. The above was written by a woman, but the following is from the pen of a man, who emulates John the Baptist, in that he goes forth preaching the gospel of his new con version. And it seems that one of the Min neapolis proselytes have gone to join Schweinfurth in heaven. "My Lovins; Father— Thou who hast come to save unto the uttermost every one who will loot unto vhee: I was made glad to-day when caliing upon Mrs. II to learn that the word had come for Mr. B to arise and go unto his Father's house. How deep, how marvelous and wonderful is the love of our God, that it will go out after the wan dering lambs, seeking to save them from tho power of the euemy that would destroy them, body and soul. The dear boy has been made to feel that it is hard to tear himself away from Thy people. To-day some of my men told me how they had felt concerning hi m, and it gave me an opportunity to preach a sermon to them, and I believe It took hold of their hearts. They are made to feel there is something wonderful in our gospel that will thus hold on to a soul who has once confessed thy name. There is a beauti ful side to him, and I know and feel that Thy love will couquer his heart. Truly. Thou art a frieud to the friendless. I have just hurried home to help get him off this evening. Ha went out to send a dispatch, aud we are now looting for him back, as it will soon be time to start for the depot. Chester just comes saying he has returned, so I must go. Lov ingly thiue for service iv the kingdom of eternal blessedness and peace." The following was written by a Minneapo lis woman: •My Heavenly Father: I come to Thee this afternoon with adoration and praise. lam thanking Thee for the healing of disease in my body. We had words on that line with Scriptures from Deut, and it impressed me very much, and I thought upon it a consid erable. I did not think about it as to myself, but In connection with You ; thai You could do it, I felt very confident. All at once some thing said to me, 'You are healed of the dis ease of the body that has troubled yon for tho last six mouths,' and sure enough I fell well. Praise to Thy holy name, I am Thin*, wholly Thine." ■ . ....._. The Globe Forum A Sympositim of Opinion of Current Siibjects: The financial outlook for St. Paul, in the near future, Is brilliant in the extreme. For sixty days to come, we shall feel more or less of the stringency which always accompanies the process of "moving the crops," and which will be more noticeable this year than usual, because the crops are so much heavier and tho prices higner. But when once th» golden stream is turned back into its legitimate channels, and comes flowing in again, wo shall certainly witness a stimulus to all business activities, and to all proper investments, such as we have not felt before for several years. I think that manufacturing and real estate will especially feel this stimulus. St. Paul is just ready for, and. I believe, just on the verge of the Greatest manufacturing "boom" she has ever known. It is a most gratifying and signlfl cat fact that, even in the midst of the depression of the past year, such intelligent bus iness men, and substantial, conservative citizens as George Farwell, M. R. Prenderga6t and Bernard Kuhl have been willing to Invest their money, the results of twenty or thirty years of hard, successful work in mercantile enterprise in this city, in new manu facturing industries. It is a fact unprecedented in our history. It is both au inspir ation and an example. It sets other men thinking. When this golden stream begins to flow back into our banks aud business treasuries, I have no doubt whatever, that a due proportion of it, which has heretofore been withdrawn to build up Duluth, West Superior. Little Falls, Tacoma and Sitka, or has been dumped into bonanza farms, or scattered among the bulls aud wolves of the stock exchange, will go into industrial in stitutions, old or new. The field is illimitable and the results are certain. Additional em ployment will bo given to skilled labor, a legitimate and steady demand will be created for real estate, aud an impetus will be given to our growth that wili be felt for years. The financial outlook of North Dakota was never better. The wheat crop is the largest and best in ten years. As au illustration, one of our Fargo men has used five pounds of twine to the acre this year, while he has never used more than three pounds any season before. Not only is this year's straw big, but the heads are long and filled to the tip. The end kernel is just as plump as any. The wheat is heavier than usual. It weighs sixty-four pounds to the bushel, against the former maximum weight of sixty-two pounds. There is no boom talK iv North Da kota, but all branches of business are good. There is more building this season thau for four previous seasons combined. Farm lands are now selliug at prices 25 per cent in ad vance of the prices at which they were of fered six months ngo, and everybody is very sanguine as to the state's future. H. C. Pixmlet. 4-t+ I am strongly m favor of the establishment of a park on the western shore of Lake Phalen, and hope that the plans of the park board will be carried out in that quarter. I believe that the best manner in which we can acquire parks is to divide the city into three districts, making Wabasha street and the river the boundaries of two districts and the West Side an other di strict. Sow if the people East of \\ abasha want the Phalen park, the cost should be assessed on all property bounded by the River and East ofWabasha. In the same way if a park is desired on the slopes near Fort Spelling, it will be paid for by the property West of Wabasha street, and a park across the river would be paid for by the West Side property. Large parks are a benefit to the entire city, and by the plan I suegest, the cost would not work a hardship on anyone, for the assessments would be spread over a term of ten years. W. Pitt Murray. it-*- Considerable damage is being done to fruit trees this summer by caterpillars. Groves that have been planted out in Faribau't and other counties, especially walnut and willow trees, have been literally stripped of foliage by the pest«. and as a consequence many trees have died during the drouth, aud the growth of many others have been stunted be cause of the loss of leaves. In my sec tion of tne state the cultivation of iruit trees is very extensive. Faribault county is espe cially noted for fruit culture, and we are sorry that the caterpillar has become a pest. Sim P. Child. The iuterurban mail route has becom pop ular in a remarkably short time, so much so that nearly all letters between the Twin Cities are now sent by the street cars. The success met with during the first three weeks uf the trial was so gratifying that I was able to prevail on the department at Washington to extend the service to more cars. At pres ent all street care leaving each city between 7:30 a.m. and 4p. m have boxes attached for carrying letters. This is as late in the day as there is any practical use in carrying the letters at preseiit. as there is no night de livery of letters by carriers in either city. Since the inauguration of the interurbau line the postmasters iv the two cities have ar ranged for a special delivery of letters in bus iness parts at r> p. m. This was done for the purpose of delivering Twin City letters. NOIIMAN PffßKHra. HERE AND THERE. Policeman .lira Hainey, iv the course of his official duties, la frequently called upon to serve court papers. One day be was given a snbpueua o:i a man that was wanted as a witness in a case before the municipal court, llaiuey walked nearly a whole day in a futile effort to locate his man. The people at tho house the city directory pave as his residence knew nothing about him. Finally he met a man who had been intimately acquainted wiih the object of his search. "You arc looking for John illauk, are you?' 1 quoth the man with a quizzical look. "Yes: I have a subpoena for him," returned the policeman. ••Well, that's a good one, sure, 1)0 you think you"ll serve it?" "If he is in St. Paul, you bet I'll serve it." said the copper, chafing under what he con strued to be a reflection upon his vigilance. "Well, I*ll eive you all the information I cau," pleasantly proffered the man. "All that there is eartnly is over there," and he pointed grimly towards the cemetery: "but I fancy you'll find it a mighty unpleasant job to reiich him. And all there is immortal— that is if you don't believe in Bob lngersoll's doctrine— is. well I'm neither necromancer nor seer, and I can't tell you whether his soul is in heaven or sheol." '•What? You don't mean he's dead, do you?" cried the cop, and his jaw fell six inches. "That's precisely what I mean." The policeman hadn't another word to offer. He returned the paper with indigna tion to his superior officer, who had given it to him to serve. -I "Richard Sneider lives up at Forest City," said a state official to a coterie of friends yes terday. "Several years ago he was acting as a juror in a case of some importance, and when the case was submitted to ttie jury Fri day afternoon and they had retired to the jury room for deliberation, he found himself opposed by eleven stubborn, pig-headed jury men. In vain he attempted to convince them of the error of their judgment. Saturday night came. The judge sent word that if they agreed upon a verdict by 12 o'clock (midnight) Saturday night to send for him, otherwise, if they agreed upon the verdict any time after midnight, to adjourn and re turn a scaled verdict to the court Monday morning at 10 o'clock. In the meantime the sheriff was instructed to keep them confined and to feed them only upon bread and water until such time as hunger compelled them to agree, or until further orders from the court. About 3 o'clock Sunday forenoon, despair ing of convincing the eleven stubborn 'good men and true,' and being hungry and desir ous of spending Sunday with his family, 'Dick' surprised his fellow jurors by ple&s antly agreeing to unite with them in a sealed verdict. The jury separated and went to their homes. 'Dick' chuckling to himself and saying, as he wended his way homeward, 'I guess I've Rot 'em.' Monday morning at 10 o'clock the jury were all in their places. The sealed verdict was handed to the judge, and, alter it was read, the attorney for the de feated client made the usual demand that the jury De polled. When the name of Richard Sneider was reached, he arose and said: "Yer honor, I did agree to that veraict Sunday mornin', out I have been thinkin' the matter over and have changed my mind. I cannot agree to that verdict now." The court, jury and litigants were dum founded. After a silence of some moments the judge, who had been glaring at Richard, administered to him a red-hoc rebuke, and the jury was discharged. Dick had gained his point by the strategem of "'changing his mir.d.' -I ■'And I know* pretty good one on Judge Brown, of Willmar," resumed the official after a moment's pause. "When Judge Brown, 'Col,' Brown, as the boys call him, was about twenty years of age he was drawn upon a jury in an assault and battery case— The State of Minnesota vs. John ijrnith. The evidence showed that the prusecuting wit ness was equally guilty with the defendant, and the jury returned a verdict to the effect or rather attempted to, but got things woe fully mixed by finding that both plaintiff and defendant were guilty. His father, the ven erable Judge Brown, was upon the bench at thd time, and he quaintly asked his eon if hit legal studies had taught him that he could find the State of Minnesota guilty of assault and battery. Young mown, who was foreman of thrfjury, blushiugly acknowledged his ml| take, and changed til* verdict accordingly. Bnn A. Castlb. *-*-*■ The Veteran Letter Carriers' association has addressed a circular letter to the press of the country In regard to a bill the associa tion proposes to submit for the action of con gress, to provide for the retirement and pen sion of letter carriers after twenty years' service. Letter carriers are precisely the same as ordinary employes in other busi nesses. Their average pay is better than tne average pay of men employed in mercantile pursuits. It is SiSOO the first year. §800 the second and 51,000 the third. Their labor is cut down to eight hours a day. aud they are given fifteen days' vacation every year. There is no person connected with the postoffice so well paid in proportion to the work he docs as a letter carrier. I see no reason why any carrier should be absolutely retired, but I think that after fifteen or twenty years' service he should be retired on half-pay to some position about the office which a super annuated person can nil. William Lle. I feel now as I felt on the 29th day of April, that S"iO,OCO is an absurdly small appro priation for the world's fair exhibit. I did my utmost to get §100,000 appropriated for the purpose, but the Farmers' alliance blocked it. They held a caucus and decided that 550.00 D was enough, and they went fur ther. They incorporated a provision prohib iting any portion of the money from being expended in the erection of a building. I was opposed to this sort of legiflation and I felt very much like voting against it, but I swallowed the dose and voted for the entire appropriaten bill rather than holding an ex tra ■vssion. We taiked the matter over. If the gill was defeated we saw that v.i extra session was unavoidable. Now what I want to emphasize is that 5100,000 could have been appropriated for the Columbian ex hibit, and through a judicious system of pruning the aggregate appropriation bill would not have been one dollar in excess of What it is. The appropriation for the Fergus Falls asylum was simply out ot proportion to the needs and with the other appropriations. Less thau half the omount would have been more than that institution needs. Agaiu, I have no confidence in the theory that the members would come here and pass an ad ditional appropriation, and then adjourn wit liout expense tor services. lam opoosed to the extra session plan. Hzhkt Feig. For years after all one had to do to get a good cuar was to ask 'Col.' Brown what he thought of the state of Minnesota as a pugilist." =f= Hon. John H. Ives was once a prominent lawyer of this state. He practiced in the courts of the Fifth congressional district principally, and his shingle swung to and fro in the breezes at Crookston. Mr. Ives was then a stalwart Democrat, and the famous state convention held in the old rink on fourth street, between Wabasha and St. Peter, selected him as its candidate for attor ney general to enter the arena aud do battle with Gen. Clapp. of Fergus Falls. This was in 1886. It proved the most notable campaign in the history of the Democratic party ap to last fall, when the McKiuley bill influenced thousands to join the Farmers' Alliance movement. It was the campaign when Dr. Ames was tho standard bearer. Mr. Ives and Dr. Ames stumped the state to gether for a time, but the campaign was too short for both to make a complete tour of the state, and they divided, Mr. Ives devoting most of his energies to the northern part of the state. Mr. Ives removed to Kansas, and was at tacked, together with '"Sockless" Simpson and the other statesmen of the state, by the Farmers' Alliance fervor, and he accepted the nomination there for attorney general, and this time he was elected, lie is now Attorney General Ives, and. with that honorable title sitting gracefully upon him, he is visiting his whilom home and friends. Yesterday he paid Gen. Clapp a visit at the capitol, and the greeting was of a most cor dial nature, for, although they fought each other with an earnest zeal in 1886, their per sonal friendship was never shaken. THE CHILIAN" HOSTS. Both Armies Are Resting and Watching. New York, Aug. 2C— The following dispatch appears in the Herald this morning: Valparaiso, Chili, Aug. 25— Neither of the armies now confronting each other along the shore of Valparaiso bay seems disposed to renew hostilities just at present, and outside of some desultory and unimportant skirmishing there was no fighting to-aay. As near as can be learned, the commaudinggen erals of the two armies are watching each other closely and maneuvering for position. Gen. Canto, it is ceneraliy believed among the people here familiar with warfare, has realized the fact that it is well nigh impossible to capture Valparaiso by a direct attack along the lines he apparently had in view when he commenced the attack at Vina del Mar Sunday and was unsuc cessful. It is altogether probable, there fore, he will change his plans of attack by making a detour back into the country in order to g.tin a position from which he would nave a better chance to make a direct attack on the city without exposing his troops more than i 9 absolutely neces sary to the fire from the heavy artillery in the forts and which will iv some measure neutralize Ealma ceda's superiority of numbers. Canto is generally conceded to be a wary gen eral as well as a determined tighter,aud if this is his plan of operations it may be several days before the armies again join battle. .President Balmaceda and his officers are not novices in the art of war and do not propose to allow tne insurgents to take a trick unless they earn it. He is strengthening his army as much as possible, and there is an impression that his idea is, if possible, to cut off the enemy's line of retreat to his ships before he gives battle, and then he hopes to give him a crushing blow which will wipe him out of exist ence and thus end the rebellion. This appears to be about the situation, and until one or the other of the com manders has got into the position for which he is striving it is probable that there will be no hard fighting. The city was quiet to-4ay. All Dusiaess and traffi«are suspended and the people here find lltUB to talk about but the probabilities of the coming battio. ROTUNDA RIPPLES. Monroe Nichols, better known In political circles as the "Mat Quay of Duluth," was in the city yesterday on business, and found time to gosEip with the politicians iv the Merchants" lobby a good part of the after noon. Mr, Nichols has lately been appointed register of the Duluth land office, and is now preparing to tnkehold of the work of his new position. It will be several weeks, however, at least, before he takes the reins iv hand. "I do not care to take charge of the office," said Mr. Nichols," uutil the big Hyde-Mc- Donald case, involving 330 acres of mineral land, worth a million or two, is decided. Then, again, it will take a little time to pre pare my bond; so you see it may take seve ral weeks before I qualify." "What is there in the report that you are connected with the Minnesota Iron com pany, Mr. Nicnols?" "Nothing whatever," answered the Zenith City politician. "All reports of that kind are absolutely false, and are inspired by ene mies of mine. I was mdorsed by men of all shades of political opinion and representing all Interests. Many of my staunchest sup porters are opposed to the Minnesota Iron company, and if I was their man I could hardly have received their indorsements. I shall take hold of the office as the friend of no man or clique, and aim to perform my duties to the satisfaction of all who have business to transact with me." Mr. Nicholas Is one of the prominent Zenith City Kepublicau leaders, and in the last campaign held the positiou of chairman of the Republican committee of St. Louis county. Soon after the inauguration of President Harrison he was strongly indorsed for receiver of the land office. These recom mendations ex-Congressman Oomstock disre garded and secured the appointment of a relative of a prominent official in the interior department. I $ $ This action of the Moorhead statesman made him decidedly unpopular in Duluth, and came near costing him a renomination a year aco, the only reason he was placed in the field at the Little Falls convention being because there was no other candidate. The Duluth delegation was headed by Mr.Nichols and was the largest in the convention. In speaking of this gathering yesterday, Mr. Nichols said: "Had there beeu any other man in the field Mr. Comstock would not have been the can didate. In tact, one might say the nomina tion went to him- by default. Comstock is a good, honest man, but he knows nothing about politics. He came to Duluth later in the campaigu and learned something. He ought to have learned these tilings earlier." "And do you remember the tariff plank adopted at the Little Falls convention?" asked Mr. Nichols, with a smile. '"I never have heard, either before or since, anything like it, and especially, coming, as it did, from a Republican convention. -Zeke' Kendall and I were sitting together when that resolu tion or plank was read. I was surprised, and I turned to 'Zeke' and suggested that we go out and let them adopt such a tariff plank if they wanted to. I understand it was written by Guuderson, of Douglass county, who insisted upon its going into the plat form. It was- certainly a very remarkable tariff utterance for a Republican congres sional convention to make." $ « $ R. C. Garland, of Washington, D. C, Is spending a few days in St. Paul. Mr. Gar land is the son of ex-Attorney General Gar land, who resigned from the senate to accept a place In President Cleveland's cabinet. Young Garland has opinions on political questions, and especially candidates, and, unlike his distinsjuihhsd sire, is not slow to express them. In discussing possible Demo cratic nominees next year, he gave it outcold that Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is likely to be a pretty strong candidate before the Domocratie national convention. '•In my opinion Gov. Hill is throwing his strength to Senator Gorman," said Mr. Gar land, "and this explains the Gorman senti ment, which is growiug so rapidly in the Empire state, as well as in many other parts of the East. The Cleveland meu, too, feel kindly toward Senator Gorman, and I regard him as a likely candidate. Ex-President Cleveland has lost strength lately, and I think a part of this is due to the fact that he has written too many letters." i $ $ W. E. Seelye, of Brainerd, is a surveyor, and his profession has taken him into the land around the source of the Father of Waters, and accordingly made him exceed ingly well acquainted with the topography of the country. Mr. Seelye was in the city yes terday, and discussed the claims of Capt. Glazier and J. V. Brower quite extensively to a little group in the Merchants' lobby. "I am classed as a supporter of Capt. Glaz ier's claims," said Mr. Seelye in the course of his conversation, "but this is not the case. All I ever sa^l was that Elk lake existed, and that it had an outlet. I have surveyed over that whole country, and learned something about it in the best way possible. I think iv the main Brower is right, bat I expect the Glazier party to bring him down a peg or two. There is a large party, and they will discover lots of things and all swear to them. This will not prove anything, but, as there are a number of well known people in the party, it may have some effect. They will, at least, torment Brower to some extent." 5 $ 5 Hon. H. G. Stivers, of Brainerd, dropped into the city yesterday to consult with the Northern Pacific in regard to several matters of importance to Braiuerd. He was accom panied by Judge George W. Holland, of the Fifteenth judicial district, the two going northward on the evening train. After meet ing the railroad officers, Mr. Stivers ad journed to the Merchants' and spent several hours chatting with political friends and opponents. In discussing the outlook in the new Sixth con gressional district Mr. Stivers said that Hon. F. E. Searle, of St, Cloud, would in all probability be the Republican nominee. Modesty forbade tne well-known Brainerd statesman from naming the Democratic nomi nee. When thiswas mentioned he changed tne subject and began todicenss the crop out look, saying that frost had done no harm in Crow Whig county, and that the crops will be better than estimated. $ $ ? Judge tlo!!aud is the able successor of the late Judge Sleeper on me bench of the Fif teenth district, having defeated his predeces sor in ISBB after one of the hardest-fought battles in the history of the state. About two years ago, it will be remembered, Judge Hol land was thrown from his carriage, and re ceived injuries about the head which were for a time thought to be fatal. A strong con stitution suved him, but his recovery has been very slow. The last few months have done more for him than all that preceded them, and it will not De long until he will be himself again. $ $ $ Editor L. P. Hunt, of Manknto, the super intendent of the Minnesota exhibit at the world's fair, was in the city for a short time yesterday, conferring with Messrs. Furlong, Harrison and Monfort. of the commission. Mr. Hunt is still confident that the money needed for the exhibit will be raised in some manner, if not by an extra session. $ $ $ William Anglim. of Crookston, one of the Democratic wheel horses of the western, or Red river valley, portion of the old Filth dis trict, was registered at the Merchants' yester day. Mr. Anglim does not think that any great damage has been wrought by frost in his section of the Red river valley. Business is picking up, he states, and a lively fall and winter trade is anticipated by the merchants of the towns and villages. $ $ * Francis F. J. Hopwood. a member of the London board of trade, was an arrival at the Ryan yesterday. Mr. Hopwood is making a careful examination of American railways, having come out from England for this pur pose. After going over to the coast he will journey back to the Atlantic seaboard over the Canadian Pacific, thus gaining as much information about Canada as possible. <^»» Swift Punishment. Oukat, Col., Aug. -Lee Q nan, a Chinaman, attempted an assault on the daughter of Col. Shaw this morning. The fiend was at once arrested and put In Jail. Excitement ran hleh an day, and early this evening as the officers were . attempting to take the Chinaman to a place of safo-keeping, he was shot twice. He will die before morning. The child's father is sup posed to have done. the shooting. : . CARVED BY A SAVAGE A Peoria Negro's Bloody Work May Get Him Lynched. Interrupted in Murdering a Woman, He Turns on the Officers. A Tacoma Bank Teller of Quiet Habits Skips With $9,000. Maimed and Mangled Bodies Still Being 1 Unearthed in New York. Peoria. 111., Aug. 25.— George Berry, a negro, ran amuck in the streets of Teoria to-day aud viciously stabbed and slashed three persons, all of whom are in a critical condition to night. This afternoon he quarreled with a negro woman in a house on Water street. The woman fled when the fiend drew a knife, but he overtook her. knocked her to the ground, aim began cutting her in a savage manner when two police officers appeared on the scene. Sergeant Sloan, knowing the desperate character of the negro did not propose to take any chances and tried to shoot him, but his revolver missed fire. Berry then sprang on him with all the fury of a wild animal and seriously cut the officer about the face aud head. Policeman Camp bell, who went to Sloan's aid, was also seriously injured. Leaving his three victims weltering in their blood, the desperado ran ud the street, thrust ing viciously at every one he ran across. He was stopped by Officer Stever, who succeeded in knocking him down and arresting him. If any one of his vic tims dies the murderer will probably be lynched. TOOK $0,000 AND WENT. A Tacoma Bank Teller Departs in Disgrace. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 25.— Edward Albertson, secretary and teller of the Fidelity Trust Company bank, is a de faulter and fugitive. He made a clear steal of something like $9,000 in cash, taking it from the vaults Saturday. President Wallace said to day: "We have not the faintest clue as to which way Albertson went. His rno .tive is likewise a mystery. He was probably the most quiet man in Tacoma and seemed entirely wrapped up in his wife and babe. We all had the utmo.st confidence in him." Mrs. Albertson is prostrated. FINDIXO THK LiOST. The New York Death Pit Not Yet Reached. New York, Aug. 25.— From midnight uutil the city awoke to its business life the scenes witnessed by the watchers at the fatal fire on Park^ place proved that the worst tears as to the extent of the awful catastrophe were to be fully realized. The bodies that were recovered during that time, and the horrible possibilities that lurk in the misshapen shadowy visions of human forms, crushed and jammed amid the bulk of machinery and weighty tim bers, assured the police and firemen that the worst evidence is yet to come. The greater number of the unfortunate victims will be found underneath the debris yet to be removed. No such mangled remains of human ity have been recovered during the search as the specimens shown during the night. Bodies mutilated beyond all recognition, and so fearful to look upon that even firemen turned away, weak ened by the sight. The Italians, for the first time since they were employed, did good work in gathering up the ghastly remains of the victims. The body of Frederick \V. Trippe, proprietor of the drug store at No. 76 Park Place, was found at 9:15 o'clock. It was so badly mangled and burned that it was at lirst impossible to tell whether it was that of a man or a woman. Finally friends of Mr.Trippe recognized a diamond ring on his finger, and a gold watch with the initials "F.W. T."on it, that was found beside the body. The body of William H. Ellis, of the firm of Ellis & McDonald, 76 Park Place, was taken out of the ruins at 11 o'clock. It was burned and mangled almost out of resemblance to humanity and the clothing was also unrecogniz able. In a pocket was fouud a pocket book containing various papers bearing the name of William H. Ellis, which served to show that the body was his. Mr. Ellis was forty years old. W. T. McDonald, Mr. Ellis' partner, is miss ing, ana is supposed to be among the dead. A derby hat was pulled from a net work of beams and two or three bodies were seen. They could not be reached until a great mass of ironwork was re moved. Clerk Mandlebaum. of the cor oner's office, who has made a careful in vestigation, said at 11 o'clock that there was not less than twenty persons buried under Peterson's restaurant. The back wall, which is still standing, grows more threatening. The firemen fear that when the iron work is re moved the wall may fall in. It was in almost a tottering condition at noon, and the workmen were keeping a sharp lookout. Before noon Capt. Eakins said that if the wall did not fall the work of removing the presses would be so far advanced that the bodies beneath the sidewalk, if there were many, could be easily reached. We thought there were fifty corpses in the cellars. That would make a total of ninety. This estimate may be above or below the right number, but consider ing the number of missing of whom nothing has been heaid, the list of killed is not likely to fall short of nine ty, and probably it may happen that persons liviug out of town, who have not been reported missing, may have been in t!ie restaurant." Supt. Brady, of the department of buildings, stated this afternoon that he visited the scene of the Park place disaster, and from what he could learn he was of the opinion that the catastrophe was caused by an explosion of naphtha or some other ex plosive. He was satisfied that the upper floors of the building were overweighted and had direct evidence to that effect. At 2 a. m. this morning iifty-two bod ies had been taken from the ruins in Park Place. At that hour thirty-eight had been positively identified and one partially. A TEXAS LYNCHING. Andy Ford Summarily Disposed Of by the Rope. Gainesville, Fla., Aujr. 25.— Andy Ford, a partner of the famous Ilarmor Murray, was lynched here last night. After the 9:30 o'clock train arrived, the jailer was roused from his sleep by a knock at dooi. Asking who was there, he was told that a special deputy sheriff had arrived on that train with a pris oner and they wanted to put him in jail. He admitted them inside, when a rush was made for him by the crowd, which forced him to give up the keys. No more was known until daylight revealed the body of Ford hanging from a tree near by. Mr. Sims Is Wanted. Washington, Au?. 25.— Solicitor General Taft to-day authorized United States Marshal Walker, of Alabama, to procure a posse and if possible capture "Bob" Sims, known as the "Prophet," who is now in Choctaw eounty.Alabania, a fugitive from justice. -n^.JU»m.rju. ■— . M^gi»M»M«MMgg Will be given to any lady who buys a Seal Sacque of us before Sept. 10th. The reward is yours the moment you close the deal. For the price at which you can purchase the garment (moderate ly speaking) is fully $50 less than you can buy later, and thus you get your reward in advance. Speaking seriously, we don't know just what is the matter with the Seal Garments this summer. We know that our whole stock is marked at prices (in plain figures) which we could sell the whole Stock in one lot at wholesale. WE know that in many cases garments are offered at far below pres ent cost, yet you ladies seem indifferent on this article. We are rushed very much on all other lines but Seal. Well, so be it. If you don't be lieve us, and choose to wait, you will surely pay the penalty. Don't for a moment think that re tailers will get "weak kneed" on the article. Seal is all right, and prices stiff and firm, sup ply small and dealers needn't fret at all when they have a stock (paid for, as ours is). No bet ter interest can be got on money. $300 for a 30-inch Jacket will sound high this winter, but that's about the price they'll bring, when NOW you can get them at $185 to $225. FUR CHS Are selling rapidly. Yes terday we had our store so full of people looking for and buying these articles that we had to apologize over and over at being unable to give the ladies proper atten tion. Our immense as sortment and special prices seem to have made a decided impression,and we are sure now that every lady that can have a Cape is sure to do so. Shop all you please and then come here. You'll be sure to buy of us, as we have got THE goods and at LOW prices. Astrakhan and Krimmer Articles of all kinds in gar ments—Capes and Wraps all sure sellers. We are sell ing 1 ten or twelve garments daily of this kind, and we know we have more of an as sortment than all the other dealers put together, and that our prices are lower. For instance, Astrakhan Jackets $40 Astrakhan Reefers $50@560 Astrakhan 42-mch Sacqne.sso Krimmer Jackets $50 Krimmer Reefers $55@565 Plush garments are passe and out of date. Furs are the style, and for $ 40 to $75 you can get some elegant things this year. The early buyers get the cream. Why not se lect youp goods and take ad vantage of our INSTALLMENT RANSOM jlistid HORTON!