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United States Department op Agricult »n«. Weather Bureau, Washington. Sept. IS, 6:18 p.m. Local Time, 9 p. m.7:th Merid ian Time.— Observations taken at thesame niomentof time at all stations. : =i ~i = « ts2.B H a - 3* f ~ I * 53- §1 Tiace of c-gjE Place of 2«* «S Observation. s£. - a Observation, 2. £ 0, « rsi ■ $ ?& -» . . . . •* .rt • *? 1 1 • ' 7 St.Paul. ~ 29.64] 08 (Havre 30.98 48 Duluth . ... .. 29.691 72 Miles City.. 20.96 52 La Crosse... 120. (54 76 1 Helena 29.90 52 Huron 29.88 6•! Calgary Pierre 29.96 58 ! iMinnedosa. 29.90 46 Moorhead... 20.90 50] jMed'e Hat... 29.98 44 St. Vincent I .... Qu'Appelle. 30.02 40 Bismarck. 29.98 4- sw'tcur'eut 20.72 42 rt.Br.ford.. 30.001 50!. Winnipeg .. 29. 48 P. F. Lyons, Local Forecast Official, "Silvery'! voices are not popular at Washington just now. There is too much "ring" to them— silver-ring, as it were. - The Chicago papers are clamoring; for "a twenty-five-cent Sunday" at the fair. Sunday is already held too cheaply in Chicago, and we trust it will be sub ject to no further reduction. pp— There are over fifteen thousand chil dren who cannot find room in the pub lic schools of New York. But if they are to continue to live in that provincial borough they will scarcely need an edu cation. , The production of gold in Arizona now far exceeds in value the production of silver in Nevada or any other of the silver states. Arizona is evidently pre paring for admission to the Union on the ground floor. Senator Stewart has publicly apol ogized to a Washington editor for some slighting remarks he recently made with reference to the editor's paper. - Mr. Stewart's is not, after all, as hope less a case as it once seemed. There must be something wrong in the old adage to the effect that "death loves a shining mark." The fools who eat toadstools, thinking them mush- R rooms, have of late proved the chief vic tims of the destroyer's arrows. -^»- Pickpockets have been busy niching from the delegates to the world's re ligious congress in Chicago. If these delegates had obeyed the injunction of Christ and taken no scrip in their parses, the thieves would have had but a slender harvest. Massachusetts proposes to try the ticket-of-leave plan with her convicts. The system has some advantages, yet the majority of people will regard it with great distrust. It is not pleasant to reflect that your next door neighbor may be a paroled prison bird. Montana papers are clamoring for an extra session of the legislature in order that a United States senator may be chosen. If Montana cannot choose a better senator than a majority of those now holding seats in that body, it might as well be unrepresented. — ' Tom Reed is going to Ohio to help McKinley, but it is thought he secretly wishes his defeat, for Tom and Bill are rivals for the Republican presiden tial nomination in 15%. These two seem to be the only available candi dates in the party at present. -«•. One of the most serious losses by the Wisconsin fires will be to the cranberry crop. Thousands of acres of cran berry marshes have been burned over. Cranberry sauce with a Thanksgiving turkey will consequently be a luxury that only the rich can afford. — "Naturally enough," says the Mil waukee Sentinel, "the saloonkeepers, who are to hold a convention at Peoria, 111., have objected to the holding of a Democratic convention there on the same date." Yes, it is natural enough, for when whisky is running a town there is no room for Democracy. Re publicans and alcohol never clash; they simply coalesce. H Residents of Minnesota will peruse with interest an article from the Chi cago Herald— which appear* elsewhere in this issue of the Globe— descriptive of the Minnesota state exhibit at the world's fair. The article is from the pen of Col. Francis A. Eastman, a gen tleman of libera! culture and extensive newspaper experience, who is thor oughly competent to speak of what he sees from the standpoint of comparison. 1 he praise ne bestows., therefore, is of greater value than that ordinarily found in the columns of the newspapers. The many friends of J. A. Nowell will be pleased to learn that he entered upon his duties yesterday as the chief of a division iv the second auditors of fice of the treasury department at Washington. Mr. Nowell has for nearly a year -been the efficient and enleVtain ing Washington correspondent of the Globe, and he resigns that position to give his entire time to the duties of his new place. Prior to that appointment his entire services were "given to: the Globe. F. J. Mead, one .of the best known newspaper men of the' Nort hwest, succeeds to the position of \\ ash ington correspondent of this paper. THEY HAD PRECEDENT. There are some people s» unreasona ble as to criticise the two detectives who went to New York for charging $5 per day to the county for their lime, while drawing full salaries for the same period from the city. This is really quite unjust. The detectives have full precedent for plundering the county in the action' of the mayor, who served three or four days on the board of equalization, and because the board sat twenty-eight days charged $84 for his services. The detectives really put in the time for which they charged, while the mayor charged the county for the time he spent in aiding Mr. Maybell iv conduct ing his (Maybell's) business. Ix view of the bill rendered by De tectives McGinn and Mcl'etridge for railroad fare in going to New York to secure the man arrested by the Pinker tons, it is understood that the Western Passenger association will request them to pay for their transportation. A VETERAN IN COUNCIL. It is now thirty years since Lincoln, pressed as sorely by the demands on the treasury as by the rebel armies at the front, sent for David A. Wells to come and devise a system of internal taxes by which the revenues might be increased and the troops and contractors paid. Uow well ho did that work the present internal revenue system, but little changed as it came from his hand, well attests. Now again an administration pledged to a reduction of taxation and obliged by the improvidence or unwisdom of its predecessor to increase taxes, invites the counsel of the same mau whom Lincoln called to his aid, aud the vet eran, a Republican then, a Democrat now. but a wise patriot always, responds to the call. Secretary Carlisle asked for Mr. Wells "opinion as tothe expediency, from a strictly revenue point ot view, of maintaining or changing the present internal revenue on distilled spirits, malt liquors and tobaccos." The reply cannot be more than briefly summarized. Mr. Wells would put the taxes at the revenue point; that Is. that point which would yield the largest rev enue without inviting evasion or fraud. As to distilled spirits he is of the opin ion that the experience of the country shows this point is reached in the pres ent tax. There are difficulties in the way of an increase which were brought forth in the discussion of the question last year and more strongly in the antic ipation of an increase by the distillers, who forthwith largely increased their output so that when the new tax took effect they could transfer to their own pocket the difference between the old and new tax on that output. He finds the tax on fermented malt liquors far below the safety line. The tax on beer can be doubled without in jury, and increase the revenue from *32,000,000 to $04,000,000 annually. The tax now is a little less than one-fifth ot a cent a glass, and its doubling would make the tax too insig nificant to warrant an attempt to make the consumers pay it. It would probably fall wholiy on the brewers.and the well-known profitableness of their business, inviting immense investments ot foreign capital, can and should bear it. Even if it fell on the consumer, it is still ono of the best possible forms of tax as it is purely a voluntary one which a man need not pay unless he will. Mr. Atkinson, in the article commented on by us at the time, also advocates this increase. The tax on tobacco' may well be re stored, as being also a voluntary tax, and also because the reductions made have been divided between the manu facturer and his workmen, whose unions were strong euough to grasp a share, and has benefited the consumor little or none. Tobacco may indeed be, as it often is. a necessity, but it is a need bred of habit not of nature, an indul gence not a material sustenance, and therefore a proper subject for taxation. Restoring this tax to that of 1882 will yield an increase of from $13,000,000 to 000,000. The infamous tax ou Su matra wrappers should be reduced to the level of the internal tax. The duties, Mr. Wells advises, should be reduced to nearly the plane of the interna! tax. The tax on imported spirits is $2 a gallon; on domestic. FlO cents. On malt liquors it is 20 cents a gallon; on domestic, 3 2-s cents; on to bacco, from 35 to .» cents a pound; on domestic. 6 cents. With these changes Mr. Wells believes that, on the basis of present consumption, the revenues will be increased from $181,000,000 a year to $245,000,000, thus meeting the appre hended deficit and leaving open the door to the contemplated reduction of customs duties. Charging for twenty-eight days' services on the board of equalization and only serving three is characteristic of our thrifty mayor. Eighty-four dol lars is not a large sum of itself, but taking that amount from the treasury when only entitled to 19 is a sample of the maladministration of Freddy Wright. If he can keep up this pace he may not need to go into partnership with Mr. Maybell. Stick a pin there. pp— THE ROLL. OP HONOR. Shortly after the close of the war. Gen. Grant, in alluding to the various propositions for pensioning the soldiers, expressed the fear that the cost to the country would, in the course of time, "become exceedingly onerous, and might involve au annual outlay of thirty mill ions of dollars. Gen. Garfield, then the leader of the house of representa tives, coincided with this opiniou, but declared that there was no probability of the pensions exceeding that maxi mum amount. Results have shown that neither o# tnese gentlemen had any ade quate conception of the amount that would be required for this purpose. The number of pensioners has increased from 232,104 in 1877 to 57G.068 in 1592, while the amount required in pensions reaches the enormous aggregate of more than one hundred and thirty million dollars. It will be seen, therefore, that notwithstanding the fact that thousands of the soldiers "are dying yearly, the pensioners are constantly increasing, as the following table will show: Year. Pensioners. Year. Pensioners. 1877. 232,104 l*s> 345.125 1878 'S.U.'.m i*m-, • . .-..365.783 IS7O 242.755 i»fi 400,007 18S0. 250,802 IHS3 . .. 452537 issi 208.8:*) is-'.t 4sirr:>s 1882 285.007 W.i'j. . 537,044 MS3 803.856 IS9I 8761 18M 323,750 ISO 2 870,063 There is something a little curious about these figures. They Sow con clusively the advancing age and infirm ities of the veterans, and the necessity that exists of providing for their wants. And although the cost is enormous—al THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1803. most appalling— there is no word of complaint that it is too great. There is a desire among men of all parties, that all unworthy recipients of the public bounty be purged from the pension rolls, but nowhere is there any inclina tion manifested to deny to any man who served bravely in .the ranks the means of comfortable maintenance in his declining 3 ears.- - v.._ A fact having a bearing upon the vet erans is also worthy of note: The Grand Army of the Republic, which in lsrr boasted of but 27,171) members, contin ued to grow steadily till 1890, when its maximum membership — 409,489— was reached. Since that date it has steadily declined, and reports submitted at the Indianapolis encampment of last month show a membership of but 397,223, a falling off of 12,21X5. This decrease is not due to deaths alone. A large per centage of the loss can be attributed to the disgust of the veterans with the partisanship that has of late years char acterized the organization. The fact is becoming apparent that the Grand Army has been prostituted to unworthy pur poses,' and many of the veterans are quitting it to escape a surrender of their independence. The old solaier is not an old fool, and cannot bo cajoled into act ing as a catspaw to pull chestnuts out of the fire for unprincipled demagogues to devour. Before the committee on claims al lows Mr. Maybell's bill of S«17.10 it should ascertain where he got his sta tionery. The law says no city officer shall, directly or indirectly, be a party to furnishing supplies to the city. Turn on the search light. Daily News, Sept. 18. THE CROOKS' CARNIVAL. The Daily News has at last succeded in arousing some attention to the lack of vigor of the municipal administra tion of St. Paul in dealing with the criminal classes. The Globe has taken up the tight against the crooks, and pro poses to atone for inefficiency of the police authorities by opening a detective bureau. It is to be hoped that the Daily News and the Globe together may accomplish a good work in driving out the aggregation of thieves and bur glars and bank robbers aud "sure thiug" gamblers who now congregate in this city by the tacit consent, if uot the actual protection, of men who seem to have a "pull" upon the city authorities. it must be confessed that the reform ad ministration, with its imported chief of police, has not come up to public ex pectations, lt is a case in which reform does not seem to reform. As the Globe says: "Since St. Paul reached the pro portions of a large city there has uever been a time when so many ot the crimi nal classes found here 'a haven of rest as at the present moment." What does Mayor-Wright propose to do about it? The gas now burns at full head all night in the office of the chief of police. This is a good idea, It will be much cheaper to pay the gas bill than ex pend $500 to bring back the man who cracked the safe, if the Pinkerton's should happen to catch him. -p^ NOT NEEDED IN THE BUSI NESS. Cloquet Pine Knot. If something is not done for their pro tection the St. Paul police force, chief andall, will be burgled and carried off by wicked robbers. They stole Cbier Garvin's safe— or its contents— Monday night, but did not take the chief, pre sumably because they do not need him in their business. The detectives might out in a little time in ascertaining in whose name Freddy's side partner put in his secoud bid for the school supplies. _«*. IS THERE A CONSPIRACY? It is very evident, judging from re cent events at Washington, that there is a conspiracy in existence there hav ing for its purpose the defeat of the silver repeal bill, the bill abrogating the so-called force bill, which provides for the control of elections by federal supervisors and deputy marshals, and all measures looking toward tariff re vision. The existence of this conspir acy is demonstrated in 'more ways than one.laud so wide-spread and powerful has it become that it threatens to de feat utterly the purposes of the admin istration, and to fasten upon the people for an indefinite period these three out rageous systems that have brought financial ruin, industrial paralysis and political slavery in their train. The conspiracy consists in an agreement by which those opposed to silver among the Republicans pledge themselves to per mit the defeat of the repeal bill, provid ed the Democrats will agree to leave the federal election law and the tariff alone, It was in pursuance of this agreement that, in defiance of the expressed desires of President Cleveland to have one thing accom plished at a time, the Tucker bill re pealing the supervisors of election act was brought into the house and the work of tariff revision undertaken by the ways and means committee. And it is in pursuance of the terms of this compact that debate -in the senate on tbe silver bill is permitted to drag its weary length along, from day to day and from week to week, and it is openly threatened that if any further move is attempted in the house on the Tucker bill, several of the senators, hitherto favoring the silver repeal measure, will cast their votes against it. If these reports are well founded— and events certainly lend them color there is danger of the utter failure of the special session to accomplish good. The situation demonstrates anew the wisdom of President Cleveland in in sisting upon the accomplishment of one reform before attempting another. Each of the measures should stand upon its own merits. Each involves a distinct and separate principle; each has a to tally differing effect upon the govern mental policy. The success or failure or either one should not be dependent upon the success or failure of the oth ers, or either of them. That it is the purpose of the Demo cratic party to reform-all three of these abuses no one denies. The silver pur chase act has brought widespread dis aster upon the country, and even its author and many of its promoters are now arrayed agaiust it. The tariff, too, is a system whose evil effects have been felt far and wide, but the underlying principle of that system is totally unlike the issue involved in the silver question The supervisors of election law is a purely political matter, involving the right of citizens to a free expression of their opinions at the polls, and, inci dentally, the right of the several states to regulate their own internal affairs. -Neither has any bearing upon the others, aud it is not only foolish but criminal to link them together. There is but one matter of paramount importance before congress, and that is the silver purchase bill. President Cleveland has expressed the wish that this be disposed of before other subjects are considered. His wished are entitled to respect, for they are dictated by mo tives of public Dolicy. No measure of acknowledged importance should de pend for success or failure upon any other measure, no matter what its nature. The ..public will watch. tlie progress of events at Washington, ami if a conspiracy such as is charged shall be proven, those concerned in it will be visited with such marks of papular dis approval as shall terminate forever their official career. - ' •-' _ ' .South American revolutions never last long, and those. New York mer chants who have increased the price of coffee because of the pending unrest in Brazil may find the market flooded any day, for the ship that brings the news of the end ot the revolution will proba bly be loaded to the guards with coffee. Fifty percent of the prostrations from heat in Chicago one day last week were Ohio men. The fervid heat into which that state has been thrown by the elo quence of McKinley ana Neal ought^ have accustomed the inhabitants to, tfio mild temperature of a September- day by thu lakeside. Why does the ways and means com mittee summon only those" interested in maintaining the tariff to give evidence before it'? If the pending inquiry is to bean impartial one, those who are in jured by the tariff should have an equal show with those who derive benefit from it. John Jacob Astor, who is worth over a hundred million dollar, contrib uted 2.000 loaves of bread to the poor of New York the other day. Bread costs about three cents a loaf, and the great hearted man must have expended $50, unless he got the bread at wholesale prices. Let the Tucker bill be laid aside until the regular session of congress. No elections in which federal supervisors can interfere will occur for a year to come, and there is no occasion for haste. Kill the silver purchase law first, and all good things shall be added in due time. Senator Higgins, of Delaware, an nounces that he doesn't like the Dress. He thinks it shouldn't interfere with the business of statesmen. Why this should concern Higgins is difficult to understand. His business is not inter fered with. The proposition to annex Hawaii to the United States seems to be a dead issue. We have no use for any more nondescripts iv congress. Peffer and Jerry Simpsou are sufficient for present requirements. The mills are starting up all over the country. The senate windmill, how ever, nas been grinding too loug, aud should be shut up. These are 773,431 Odd Fellows in the United States. The Kansas Populists are not enumerated. The Globe Detective Bureau is a great success. .--'"•/• PRONGS FROM THE TRIPOD. The country is ready for a prohibitory tariff on senate spouting.— Pittsburg Post. _ Our belief is that emphatic defeat, just at this time, is better for silver than a shabby, make-shift compromise.—An aconda Standard. Tiie pull-back senators are still dis posed to regard the country as occupy ing the position of the eleven obstinate jurymen.— New York World. i The upper house in the British par liament is the house of lords; the upper house in the American congress is the house of words.— New York Post. Fusion between the Populists and Democrats is like asphalt paving mixt ure—the difficulty is in getting the proper proportions.— Denver Times. Henry, 1 M. Stanley' evidently* doubts the Emm Pasha death rumor, else he would be engaged in telling great stories of his own valor.— Washington Post. r Another gas well has been discovered at Findley. O. If the vein is followed ud it is believed it will be found to have its source in the Uuited States senate.— St. Joseph News. The Tucker bill is of very small con sequence compared with the bill now betore the senate, and it can be easily laid aside if the Republicans seek to use it as an obstruction.- New York Times. Jerry Simpson is as mild-mannered a man as ever attempted to scuttle the ola political parties, and the impression that he eats a plutocrat every morning for breakfast is erroneous.—Washing ton Post. Public opinion does not affect the sen ate as quickly as it does the house, but even the senate is reached by it. That body cannot dally with the repeal ques tion much longer.— St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Mr. Cleveland will not have to refer to the family Bible to find out what year that baby girl was born in. It was the same year that his extra session threw off a few remarks on finances.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Any sort of a compromise would have the moral effect of a great victory for the silverites. Hence the president is right in insisting ou unconditional re peal before any futther legislation is talked about.— lndianapolis News. The senators should be taught that they are servants— paid servauts— uot masters. Let the demand for repeal be so loud and so urgent that they will be brought to their Philadelphia Inquirer. Congress ought to decide quickly that it will not prostrate industries any further. But if it intends to make war on home industries at all. the sooner its exact purpose is disclosed the better for all parties concerned.— New York Tribune. The next boomer movement will be on the Ute reservation. The poor In dian might as well make up his mind that he has lost his grip on anything and everything on this continent that a white man thinks worth having.- St. Louis Chronicle. We don't know whether to give the credit to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, but the president's babies are happily named. Ruth and Esther go we'll to gether, and they are short, sensible and non-partisan Richmond Dis patch. In opening his Ohio campaign with a speech on strictly national affairs. Gov. McKinley indicates clearly that, like lngalls, he proposes to use his state asa stepladder wherewith to climb into a more profitable job in Washington.— Philadelphia Record. A few days ago Andrew Carnegie ex pressed his disapproval of Democratic interference with the hign protective tariff, and now one William McKinley, of Ohio, echoes the sentiment, It is also understood that Satan is preparing a proclamation reproving sin.— St. Louis Republic. —. The duties on sugar, tea and coffee need not be reimposed. The deficit can be met with an income tax, which will not only till the hole already made in the treasury, but enable the Demo cratic congress to cut deep into many other import taxes.— St. Louis Post- Dispatch. For five weeks or more congress has kept the wires hot with frothy rhetoric, and the prospect now is that there wili be no let-up on senatorial courtesy gabble. But.there is a day of reckoning in the dim, but not very distant future, when a good many men with senatorial dignity may find themselves buried under a landslide.— Bee. - Baby Ruth ami Baby Ruth's baby sister are all right They are a nice, sweet, blessed pair of babies, just like many another pair— just .like many thousands of other, pairs, God bless 'em, ami may they never know the world of rot that has been written about them.— SiouiL City Journal. PLOT OF THE ROBBERY. LIBERTE, A FIREMAN. GIVES UP THE iff WHOLE SCHEME \/£7--. :•*&'.• _• - - - : : 77-' -- OY TIIK= IMILWAV KOHBKHY. iv- '■■-. . 1 :"-" ' rj H ' _ '' . ".. =r\"-*s*; "rry General Manager Philbin, of the Mesaba Road, Tell* an Inter esting Story — Several Train man Implicated— Ths Missing Money Located ami the Thieves Arrested— Twelve Implicated. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 18.— General Manager Philbin. of the Mesabe road, returned this morning from Marquette, and tells an interesting story of the Rapture in Marquette Sunday evening" t>f the robbers who held up the Mineral jrange train Friday morning. The case "Against tne robbers, says Mr. Philbin, was worked up from- a clue furnished by the engineer of the train. - The man who covered him with a revolver while the robbery was going on showed a familiarity with the working of the engine that proved that one of the rob bers, at least, was an old railroad man. The engineer was uuable to see the man's features for the mask which cov ered them, but recognized the man's voice, and in his report stated that he was sure the man had formerly been employed on the road. Suspicion fell upon a young Frenchman named Liberte, who was formerly a fire man on the Mineral Range road, it was discovered that he had been' missing from his home in Marquette for two days at the time of the robbery, ani that Wednesday "he borrowed a revolver which he returned Saturday. Saturday search was made for him, but he could not be found. When the officers inquired at the house they were told by his mother tiiat she did not know where he was. The man ager of the South Shore evolved the plan by which Liberte was captured. The young Frenchman only a week or two before had applied for a position on the road as wake man, and the call boy was sent to his house as is done when a man is wanted for any The boy left word that Liberte was wanted to go out on a train and that he was to bring his dinner pail ready for work, Liberte's mother denied he was at home when the boy called, b ut a few minutes before the time set for the de parture of the train Liberte came to the office of the general manager and was arrested by the marshal, who was in waiting. - . ■-. * ' -77 lUri'jUl- Liberie at first denied all knowledge of the affair, and it was decided to take him to Houghton. A special was made up and he was put on it with the offi cers, but before the train was out of the" yards Liberte weakened and said that if the officers would take him back to Marquette he would make a full con fession. In jail at Marquette he told a tale which implicated tho express mes senger Hogan, who was in charge of the money, Jack King, the wrestler, a brother of Hogan's who was formerly an express messenger, the baggage mas ter of the South Shore road at Mar quette, a Marquette saloonkeeper and a liveryman of thesame place. The two latter were not present at the time of the robbery, but knew of it and gave aid to the gang. According to the story told the express messenger was one of, if not the ringleader of the plot, lt is believed that he furnished the informa tion as to the train the money was on, and pointed out the place where it could best be flagged and then robbed. He made a pretense at resistance to de ceive the rest of the train crew, but gave up the money willingly. Liberte stated that after the mouey was taken from the car it was put .* .-.pi..-- - '• INTO a think i and checked as baggage from Houghton to Marquette. The baggage master at Marquette, while not originally in the plot, knew of the couteiits of the trunk very shortly after its arrival, and in this way was made a party to the crime. Liberte. after he had made his con fession, showed the officers where the trunk was to be found, but when it was opened the contents had been removed and secreted in some other, place. Liberte declared that he knew the money was in the trunk when it left Houghton, but that he did not know what became of it. Afterwards he told the officers where a portion of it was likely to be found, and some of it was recovered last night. There. was good reason to suspect that the remainder was concealed in a cellar near the Mar quette depot, and . when Mr. Phil bin left Marquette at midnight three places were ; being watched, and Liberte said that the money would be found iv one of the three places. Although he did not admit it, the hints he gave the officers as to the probable location of the money lead them to believe that he knew all about the removal of the money from the trunk after its arrival at Marquette, and they had no doubt of their ability to induce him to tell where all of it could be found. The officials of the South Shore road believed that of the money they had not yet recovered when Mr. Philbin left, that not more than $3,100 would be entirely lost. The developments of Sunday night were kept a secret in Marquette and nothing was known of it there until today. There are altogether - about twelve men implicated In Liberte's con | fession, and up to midnight all but one of them were under arrest. The story was kept a secret so that all might be captured before they could be alarmed by any of the arrests or by the news of Liberte's confession. zr_r.-77--z-r-T.- * $30,000 Recovered. Hancock, Mich., ; Sept. 18. — The money package containing $30,000, put up by the Superior Savings bank of this place, was found in possession of Fire man La Liberty, lie claims that the remaining $40,000 was stolen from him. This makes $44,000 recovered thus far. Nearly All in Jail. Marquette. Mich., Sept. IS.— By to night practically all the men who had to ao with the robbery of the Mineral Range express last Friday of $70,000 are in jail, or under espionage, and up to date about $14,000 of their booty has been recovered. This morning George La Liberty, a former fireman on the South Shore & Atlantic road, was ar rested here by the police, under order of the sheriff of Houghton county. La laberty had lost his place in the recent reduction of hands on the railroad, and has been associating with some of the tough characters who bad been suspect ed of the. train robbery. He was taken to Houghton handcuffed, and after he had made a desperate attempt to get away and had been successfully held he made a clean breast of the whole affair, .and was brought back to Marquette. The men now under arrest are A. S. Cannon, of Hancock, a young man of good family, whose trunk was used to carry away the money: John King, an athlete; — Cheliew. a saloonkeeper, of Negaunee; Michael and John Shea, saloomsts here: Tom Winters, baggage man; Moses Lojtin, brakeman on the tram robbed; D. W. Hogan, the mes senger on the robbed car; Ed Hogan, saloonist ; W. Shoup. hack driver, and — Butler, an habitue of Chellew's place. Bank Resumes. r Denver, Col., Sept. IS. — Judge Graham late this afternoon issued, an order permitting the Rocky Mountain Dime and Dollar Savings' bank to re sume business tomorrow morning. This bans suspended July 17 during the panic. it is in excellent condition now. Factories Opening. . ■ Salum, N. J., Sept. IS.— This . week I will witness a general resumption of work in the giass factories of this city. The Alva works are -already in .blaze, and this owning two factories started up at Cravens' works, to be followed in a few days by two more, and a bank of four tons capacity. The four factories at Cravens will have '■ a capacity of •twenty-one pots. -vr - __'--'■ Iron Mills Resume. • Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 18.— A Bel laire, 0., special says: The Bellaire, Riverside and Wheeling Iron and Steel companies works in this city and Ben wood, W. Va., started today after five weeks' shut down .at a reduction of wages from 20 to 30 per cent. Work will be continued while orders last, giv ing employment to 5.000 people. Nebraska Bank Opens. Omaha. Neb., Sept. 18. -The National Bank of Ashland, at Ashland, Neb., resumed business this morning in an exeelleut condition. This bank closed its doors on July 0, owing to the failure of its parent concern, the American Loan and Trust company, which re sumed a mouth ago. SAINT PAUL. .RUSSIA AS A BACK NUMBER. Interesting Chat With a Former St. Paulire Now From Odessa. "George A.Freudenreich,Odessa,Rus sia," upon the register of the Windsor hotel, naturally attracted considerable attention yesterday. Upon inquiry it was discovered that the bearer of the name is an old St. Paul man who served through the War of the Rebellion, and who. has lived in Odessa the. past fourteen years. He is the Swiss consul to Odessa, he being a Swiss by birth, and is the general wholesale agent of the MeCormick reaper com pany for Russia. He still owns the farm in Douglas county, this state, which he bought before he went to Russia, and his wife and children live in St. Cloud, after having lived with him seven years in Russia. He has fin ished a visit to his family and leaves for Russia tonight. He said last evening: "•The farm machinery trade of Rus sia is not up to the expectations of American manufacturers who have tried to introduce their improvements in that country. Labor is so very cheap there that they have less need for means of cheapening the cost of producing than Americans have. 1 deal only with retail merchants. There are no Rus sians engaged in the machinery trade. All my customers are foreigners to Russia. You will probably be surprised, when I tell you that while Odessa is in the center ot the broadest wheat-growing countries of Russia, there have been but three good crops of wheat there in the fourteen years of my Russian citizenship. There is but one country in Russia where the . wheat crop is a reasonably sure thing, and that is the loc.ility kowu as the Rostow & VladicKafkaz railway. The two names are of cities located at the extreme ends of the railway. In this locality there is never a crop failure. "To give you an illustration of how far benind America Russia is, let me tell you that Odessa is a city of 334,000 people, a railroad center, the grettest wheat-exporting city in the world; and yet there are but four passenger trams entering or departing trom the place daily, and two of these are mixed trains. The people know nothing of electricity, and the horse car service of the place has been an institution of only twelve years standing. Russia is very far behind the time, and it would uot answer for me to at tempt to tell them of the wonderful things whicii exist in America, for they would not believe me, "and, besides, they would become prejudiced against me. 1 will not pretend to describe to you the pitiable condition of filth and ignorance the Russian common people are in. The Nihilists made a great mistake when they murdered the predecessor of the present czar. He was at the time of his death formulating a constitution for his people, and trying to elevate Russia to a plaue with the times. He recognized the fact that his common, people were behind the times, and pro posed to lift them out of the mire. If the present emperor is not so liberal with them, he may be excused, lor he has had a sad experience at the hands of these very unwise people. "1 intend to come back to America for good as soon as I cau make arrange ments to suit my financial desires. But 1 will probably stay there several years longer." SOREN LISTOK'S RETURN. The Ex-Consul to Dusseldorf at Home Once More. Loren Listoe, who was appointed consul to Dusseldorf, Germany, by President Harrison last November, has returned with his family to St. Paul. Mr. Listoe accepts the fortunes of poli tics very philosophically, though he says he anticipated he would be allowed to serve at least one year. He was noti fied on May 14 that his place was want ed, but was allowed to remain at his post until the 10th of August. He concedes that Assistant Secretary of State Quincy was selected to make changes In foreign appointments, and he did the work promptly and thor oughly. While political friends regret his recall, a host of acquaintances, re gardless of politics, are glad to see him in his old home. The health of Mr. Listoe and his fam ily is excellent, and he has greatly en joyed his brief sojourn abroad. He is not certain whether he will again re sume newspaper work, but in auy eveut expects to remain in St. Paul. GROCERS' ORGANIZATION. St. Paul Merchants Will Further the Movement. A special meeting of the St. Paul Gro cers' association was held last night at the corner of Exchange and Third* streets. A delegation from the Minne apolis association was present, consist ing of F. S. Pratt, J. P. McGaughey, Fred Lorenze, A. H. Knight, P. W. Wirth and K. B. -Evans, who came to | interest the St. Paul people in forming I a state organization. Mr. McGaughey I made an eloquent speech, in which he reviewed the work of the national asso ciation in Chicago, and the work done in the Eastern local organizations. It was the purpose, he said, to form a state organization here, and be enterprising enough to be the first Northwestern, state in line, lt had been partly planned ,to hold a state convention in Minneapolis on Sept. 28. Each local organization will be asked to send five delegates to a meeting called on that date for the purpose of forming a state organization. A call has already been sent out to the other cities in the state. It is intended to hold the meet ing in the Exposition building, where they could have the benefit of the music and other entertaining features. There would be a wagon display and parade in the streets during the afternoon, and at night a banquet at the Nicollet or some other hotel. The St. Paul associ ation was asked to join in the parade in addition to sending delegates to the convention called to organize a state association. The meeting last night named J. 11. Tenvoorde, C. 11. Rappe, J. Furlong, A. P. Moss and 11. Hinkens as a committee to co-operate with the Minneapolis as sociation in making-arrangements for | entertainment and makiug a success of i the convention. The St. Paul associa- I tion will elect its delegates at the "regu lar meeting Monday night. . A Small Fire. An unoccupied dwelling near the cor ner of Livingstone and Lucy streets. ' owned by C. D. Lawton. was destroyed by lire last night ..There is no water in the immediate vicinity, and consequent ly the lire department could be of no assistance. The fire was of incendiary origin. Loss estimated at $1,500, with no insurance. CAMP RELEASE MONUMENT Erected to Commemorate the Rescue of the White Captives. At a full meeting held in this city, the ICth instant, of the state committee appointed to build a monument on the site of Camp Release, the secretary, Hon. 11. E. Hoard, of Montevideo, was authorized to invite proposals for the construction of a granite monument to be finished by the 15th of June next. Of several aeslgns to be invited one is for a monument eight feet square at the base, not less than thirty feet high, of uncut or rustic granite in solid layers, and as massive as can be furnished for the sum of $2,100, on a suitable founda tion of granite and cement eight feet deep. The plans, with samples of the stone, are to be delivered at the office of Gen. C. C. Andrews, 112 Germania Life building, in this city, by the 15th of October. The following inscription, though not formally adopted, was agreed to in sub stance. ERECTED BY THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO COMMEMORATE The Surrender Here. Sept. 26. ISC2. Of a Large Body of Sioux Indians and The Release of 107 White Captives, Women and Children, And of 102 Half-Breed Captives, The Result Mainly of the Victory Over the Hostile Sioux at Wood Lake Gained Three Days Previously by Minnesota Troops Under Command of Gen. Henry 11. Sibley. All Being Incidents of the Great Sioux Outbreak and Massacre or 1862. (On another side of the Monument.) battles: Redwood. Aug. 18 (1862.) Fort Ridgley. Aug. 20-22. New Ulm, Aug. 23-24. Birch Coolie, Sept. 2. Wood Lake, Sept. 23. STATE HOUSE PICK-UPS. Miss Hatch, of the attorney general's office, is in Chicago doing the world's fair. State Insurance Commissioner Smith is home from the world's fair and again at his post of duty in the eapitol. Public Examiner M. D. Kenvon yes terday turned over to State Treasurer Bobleter $I^o. fees collected from build ing societies. The state superintendent has aD pointed a teachers' institute for St. Louis county, to be held at Ely Oct. _. The instructors will be Sarah E. Sprague and Mrs. E. K. Jaques. The Fox-Wisdom Lumber company, of Willow River, Minn., yesterday filed a lien with the secretarvof state against the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Rail way company to secure a claim of $645.12 for material furnished. New Incorporations. The following articles of incorpora tions were filed with Secretary of State Brown yesterday: Mississippi Rod and Gun club, with headquarters at St. Raul, and the pur pose of cultivating the arts of sports men with rod and gun; the buying and acquiring of lands and erecting club houses for permanent headquarters, and the mutual improvement and' social culture of its members. The terms of admission to membership are the unani mous vote of the club and the payment of the admission fee to be fixed by the by-laws. The capital stock is fixed at $2,500, in shares of $100 each. The in corporators are Dr. .1. A. Quinn. George C. Pound, E. M. Keeley, Ed S. Bean, 1). B. Finch. The Minneapolis Specialty Manu facturing company, capital stock $40, --000; limit of liability, $20,000; business, manufacture of cast iron and wooden ! specialties. Incorporators, F. M. Rut ten, Charles 11. Sievers, Edward Brun hoff, diaries Lehmaun. Amendment of the articles of incor- 1 poration of the Boston Northwest Real Estate company, the headquarters of which is iv St. Paul, by increasing the capital stock from $250,000 to $500,000. Signed by the president, J. Q. Adams, and the secretary, Charles E. Cutting. Rev. R. A. Camahan Dismissed. The presbytery of St. Paul met yes terday for the purpose of formally dis missing Rev. R. A. Caruahan, who goes very soon to his new charge in Detroit. Mich. In dismissing Mr. Caruahan, Rev. Drs. Egbert, Edwards, Hill and others expressed their regret at his withdrawal from the presbytery, and wished him Godspeed in his new un dertaking. The meeting yesterday morning was a special one, and, in ad dition to discussing the dismissal ot Rev. R. A. Caruahan, the presbytery acted upon the matter referring to the resignation of Rev. R. E. Hawley, of Knox Presbyterian church. Macalester Park, by appointing a committee with power to act. This matter will be nnally disposed of at the next meeting. Boys' Brigade Drill. The Boys' Brigade of America. in con nection with the House of Hope church, held its second drill last night in the guild room of the church. This organ ization, of which D. M. Grant is presi dent, A. E. Konantz captain, and Cor poral C. W. Richardson, of Company E, zr-t-T-J-" S.-r.~.^r~.-r'-i/W£ fit, it".* r^i'irft l'.l'j .m j .^^PEFT^^P&QR&H- '-. -..**" ON OUR IMPROVED CREDIT PLAN I A little money down and the balance to suit you, by the week or by the month. ' a CHAMBER SUITS. . . S/i 50 ! CHAMBER SUITS. . . |2j 00 i CHAMBER SUITS... 13. 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The object of the brigade is to teach boys to discipline themselves. , The only condition upon l which a boy between the ages of twelve and twenty-one is received is that he is a member of the House of Hope Sunday school. Attendance last night, thirtv three. Want Wilcox Again. The last quarterly conference for tho year in the First M. E. church was held in the church parlors last evening. Besides the usual routine business and officers' and committees' reports, a res lution was unanimously adopted re questing the bishop to send Rev. C. b. Wilcox back to this church for another ; year. This action had' already been taken by the official board of the church. Stewards for the coming year were elected as follows: 11. N. Hodgman, Wesley Leavitt, H. 11. Mann, A. W. Dunning, Charles Paulk. C. W. Rice, , 10. D. Wheeler,' J. K. Morehous. J. 11. Fitz, B. S. Coweu, ,J. A. Parker and A. C. Hickman. District steward is A. W. Dunning, and recording steward Wes ley Leavitt. The trustees for the next ; year are H. R. Brill, H. S. Fairchild, C. . E. Riggs, R. L. Miller, C. F. Loweth, F. R. Maim and W. M. Hoi brook. Ascension Harvest Festival. The Chinch of the Ascension, corner of Clinton and Isabel streets, will be the scene of a service of more than usual interest Wednesday evening. The har vest home festival ot the parish will be held there, beginning at 8 o'clock. A ; number of the prominent clergy of the city take part in the service, which will be choral throughout. A chorus of ■ about fifty voices, being the combined choirs of the Ascension and Messiah, have been in training for some time for this special service and will render some choice selections. An offering for tha poor will ba taken up. Early Morning Blaze. At 2 o'clock this morning a three-and a-half-story frame house occupied by Mary Clarady, No. 482 Burgess street, was destroyed by fire. The loss was $800. No insurance. IN THE THEATERS. Hoyt'3 great comedy, "A Texas Steer,* pleased another large audience last . night at the Metropolitan opera house. . All the old favorites in the piece still succeed in giving a magnificent rendi . tion of this excellent comedy work. Tim Murphy in the character of Maverick Brander could not possibly be improved by another comedian in this country. | "A Texas Steer" will be presented the balance of the week, including a special matinee at reduced prices. : m+- One of the bright particular colorings in "Crazy Patch" this week at the Grand is Miss Mitchell, who lends most mate rial aid to the effectiveness of the cast . by her comely face and figure and her i artistic talents as well. She is particu larly good in the scene with the young ; doctor, where she displays her •'bash ful" disposition. "Crazy Patch" is full of delightful little- bits, and is just the sort of an entertainment to create an I evening of amusement of the truly i laughable sort. -+t+ ; j Liberati and his famous band will ap | pear at the Auditorium next Thursday . and Friday evenings, with a matinee ! j only on Saturday. In addition to the ; world-renowned cornetist, other soloists • of world-wide fame have been secured 1 for the entertainment. Mile. Amelia Rippi. Mile. Parepa, Signors Pesci and Proverbia are among the leaders in • grand opera not only in this country • but in the world. They have been en gaged at a large outlay, and will appear at this concert. The band, consisting as it does, of over fifty pieces selected from the recently disbanded Thomas orchestra, and the pick of the old New YorK organization, is said by those who ; have heard it to stand without a peer in this country. The expense of secur ing such attractions is necessarily great, but the A iio itoriu in management be lieves that the only way to achieve suc cess is through excellence of entertain ment. Reserved seats are now ou sala at the building. Wfc Two Smart Women. New York Weekly. Mother (anxiously)— l am told that your husband plays poker every nignt at the club— plays for money, too. Married Daughter— That's all right. He gives me all his winnings. "What? Do you—" '"'And he always plays with Mr. Nex door!" "What difference can that make?" "Mrs. Nexdoor makes her husband give her all his winnings, too. and then she gives the money to me, and 1 hand her what my husband won from hers, and so we both have about twice as much money as we could get out ut them otherwise." How He Did It. Washington Star. "I have a sure way of cetting mos quitoes out of a room," said the melan choly man at the seaside boarding house. "How do you do it?" asked several people at once. . "I go out of doors myself," he replied.