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VOL. XX.— NO. 212* BULLETIN OF n E ST. PftLJi, GI^OBE SATIRDAY, JULY 31, 1807. Weather fur Toduj — Fuir, Variable AVimls. P.4GE I. lOtiKrliincl AKMentM to Conference. Conimerelnl Afreney Review*. Col. Fred Grunt RmtKim. Miner** Km i«.ln«-il Kroiu Mnrchinjr. Seeretnry Sliormun Stroretl. Twin titles Get Low Rate*. PAGE 2. Selu-ffer on the Witnetis Stuml. PolitieinnH Make a Slate, PAGE 3. Minneapolis Matter*. Horrible Knte of a Child. AV eat her at Alaska. page: 4. £illtorlal. Girls Gala in VotiiiK Contest. Day of the Mlnnetonka Regatta PAGE 5. Brewer* Defeat Miller*. lit suits in the National. l)a>'s Snorting; EventN, Bext Route to the Klomdyke. PAGE «. Northern Paetfic Stocks Advance. Bar Silver, »%7 7-Se. Catih Wheat in i hioauo, 70 U- Us. World's Markets Reviewed. PAGE 7. Hail Injures Sototh Dakota Crops. 1. union) May Head the V P. Rallvt'iiy Gossip. Wants of the People. PAGE 8. Board of Health Budget Cut. River Trip of the Editors. EVEXTS TODAY, Met— Doris, 2.»0, 8.15. J.i-\liik t on Park— G. A. R. Benefit, 2. Hinnetonkn— Regatta, 0. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK— Arrived : Patrla, Marseilles; Columbia, Hamburg; Lucania, Liverpool; St. Paul, Southampton. Sailed: Rotterdam, Rot terdam. LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Bovic, New York. -^*- Money talks in all languages. .«. MoKinley Is on another "bust." It was made by a Columbus, 0., man. It now looks decidedly as if Sherman and Salisbury were trying to "hedge" their bets. .^. John Bull finds every little while that It is not an unmixed blessing to have so many children. There is a strong inducement to peo ple who go to Alaska to drink water. Whisky is $1 a drink. Haven't Senators Mason, Morgan and Chandler time to go over and free Cuba themselves this summer? — ♦ — ■ It is about a 100 to l Det that a rail way will run directly to Dawson City within the next twelve months. Yerkes has been asked to tell how much he is worth. If the tax collector has asked the question, Mr. Terkes doesn't know. The Klondyke hurrah doesn't relieve the American labor market much after all. The jobless fellows haven't money enough to get away. -^ A New Hampshire man is going to Alaska to lay out bicycle paths from Dyea northward. Nothing seems im possible to the enthusiastic Yankee. i^a. — Chauncey M. Depew has taken to the bicycle. The wheel is the great leveler of the last days of the nineteenth cen tury. Of course, Mr. Depew fell off. — Rain ha? ruined hundreds of acres of rye around Middletown, N. Y. Ken tucky is more fortunate. It has hun dreds of barrels of rye right within reach. A white whale was drowned in New York the other day. It has been the impression hitherto that it was work thrown away to try to drown a fish, big or little. The Prohibitionists are out of the ' fight in lowa. Their candidate for gov ernor has been found to be ineligible because he has not lived in the state two years. -«. The mean temperature of Sitkjs is al most exactly the same as that of Washington. The mean temperature of Dawson City is meaner than that of Northern Norway. Some mosquitoes should be arrested for assault with intent to do great bodily Injury. A mosquito bit a soldier at Governor's island bohind the right ear and he lost nearly a pint of blcod. At least, Mr. McKlnley is not going to let his or Mr. Hanna's relatives suf fer for v.-ant of something to do. An uncle of the president his been appoint ed assistant postmaster at San Fran cisco. Does Europe want cur icrain? Well, rather! Forty steamers were charter ed in one day to load cargoes for ports in the United Kingdom and Europe. This record has never before been equaled. They are wearing overcoats and run nlng grate fires at the Eastern sum mer resorts. This has been a queer old summer. A few clays ago nobody want ed anything more than a bathing suit and a fan. Two New Yorkers quarreled in a cem etery over a burial plot, and one of them shot the other dead. Common courtesy required that the winner of the battle should surrender the lot to his fallen adversary. The ocean greyhounds St. Paul and Lucania are racing across the Atlantic again. Isn't ther» some nation that can str.p this sort of thing. One of these days 1.000 passengers will go up in an explosion «uid down to awful death because of this urtmlnal foolish nes * •■ ; , | STHE SAINT PAUL GLOBE. BUSINESS IS ON THE MEND. In Spite of Adjustments Made Necessary by the Tariff Law All Northern Cities Report an Improvement. ST. PAUL SHARES IN Balance of Trade Conditions mor-wrr-iT- Plainly on the Right BENEFIT. side In All the Country Depending on the Wheat States Confidence Reigns Supreme — Trade Reports Agree That the Future Is Bright. NEW YORK, July 30.— Bradstreefs tomorrow will say: The unprecedented early fall demand for staple merchan dise which Bradstreefs announced last week has increased, and, although not conspicuous at some of the larger Eastern cities, it is notably so at points in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and in the large wheat grow ing states. A special investigation by Bradstreet's this week shows that In creased purchases by country mer chants in the region specified, based on the prospectively large wheat crop at home in the face of short wheat crops abroad, has increased business with Western jobbers from 10 to 15 per cent compared with fall trade at a like period last year. The total vol ume of this new business is not large, but it is unusual In this the dull month of the year, and it Is growing. A number of Western implement factories are unable to fill all their orders for near by delivery, and one order for shoes alone at St. Louis calls for $35,000 worth of goods. The depression among woolen manufact urers is less pronounced. The greatest relative improvement among the job bers and wholesalers in various lines is at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis, al though at other points, notably in Texas, there is a pronounced feeling of confidence In an early revival of demand which is already beginning to show itself. A number of large trunk line railways report that they are car rying more merchandise than one, two or three years ago. Fewer man ufacturing Industries — less than ex pected have been compelled to close owing to lack of coal on account of the strike, the principal check being due to higher prices for fuel. Iron and steel and the cotton goods industries are more unfavorably situated than almost any other. Practically the only decreases In quotations this week are for iron and steel; prices of oats and print cloths are unchanged. The list of advances is longer and more significant, includ ing prices of wheat flour, wheat, In dian corn, lard, sugar, live stock, cot ton, woolen goods, lead and nails. Ex ports of wheat, flour included, from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week amount to 2,343,021 bushels, compared with 1,978, --000 bushels last week. 2,648,000 bushels in the week a year ago, 1,460,000 bush els two years ago, 2,977,000 bushels three years ago, and, as contrasted with 5,622,000 bushels the correspond ing week of 1893. There is a sharp falling off in exports of Indian coin this week, the total amounting to 1,482,715 bus-hels, compared with 2,298, --000 bushel's last week, 1,495,000 bushels In the week one year ago, 594,000 bush els two years ago, 119,000 bushels three years ago, and as compared with 1,694, --000 bushels in the like week of 1893. There are 259 business failures re ported throughout the United States this week, rather more than the aver age in recent weeks. Last week the total was 220, in the week last year it was 294. and two years ago it was 221, but in the corresponding week in 1894 it was 220, and in the like period of 1893, 459. BI'SIXESS BOOMIXG. Without Exception the \orthern ( illcx Report nn Improvement. NEW YORK, July SO.— Dun & Cos review of trade tomorrow will say: Dispatches from almost every Northern city of importance report, without ex ception, improvement in business, and fiom Detroit to Seattle and Portland, splendid crop prospects. The task of adjusting the business and Industries of the country to conditions created by the new tariff law has progressed with gratifying rapidity and ease. Even the increasing" strength of the striking coal miners probably forwards the adoption of the uniformity plan, which promises to remove most of the causes of such struggles. Some confusion is caused by events seemingly contradic tory; by closing of large cotton mills CONFLICT SEEMS GERTftIN. Strikers and Deputies Likely to Gome Into Collision. PITTSBURG, July 31.— At midnight It looked as though the sheriff's proc lamation would be the biggest factor in bringing about trouble In the vi cinity of the De Armitt mines. A meeting of strikers was held at Oak Hills, and it was decided to pay no attention to the sheriff's proclamation, as It was considered to be an out rage. At the meeting it is reported that President Dolan, M. P. Carck and other leaders told the men that the | mandate of the sheiff was unjust and could not be enforced. The result of the meeting was that three meetings were arranged for, one at midnight, one at 2 a. m., and another at 4 a. m., and the men are now marching through the Turtle Creek region In three divisions to reach their meet ing places. The different times were chosen for the meetings as the best time to catch the working miners when changing shifts. Excitement is running high, and if the night passes without a conflict between the strik ers and deputies it will be considered a miracle. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 30.— Legal proceedings are to be taken against the marching coal miners unless they dis band and go to their homes. It is evident that the marchers are making an Impression on the employes of the New York &. Cleveland Gas Coal com pany. Today there was posted In the SATUKDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1897. when many other works are starting, and by decline in some prices when others are advancing, but the balance is unmistakably on the right side. The most important evidence since the passage of the new tariff, which was generally anticipated a. week ago, has been the marked increase in foreign demand and the advance in the price for wheat, which has risen 4% cents during the week with Western receipts for the first time exceeding last year's, and Wt stern iallroads besieged lor cars. Atlantic exports were 1,718,738 bushels, flour included, for the week, and 6, --351,178 bushels in four weeks, against 6,917,865 last year. With heavy con- BONANZA CREEK VALLEY, FROM DISCOVERY CLAIM TO ELDORADO CREEK. tracts for shipment, exceeding 1,200,000 bushels on a single day, Liverpool re ports of shipment from America to Northern Bohemia, and with French markets excited, speculative sales have been of little influence. The fact that corn exports exceed last years, al though the price has advanced to 32.87 cents, is further proof that foreign de mands are substantial. With crop news still favorable, producers may probably realize something like $50,000, --000 more than last year on wheat, which means a great difference in purchases by agricultural states. Corn advanced 1.25 cents and cotton a sixteenth, though reports as to yield are good. The industrial sky is partly over clouded by coal and iron difficulties, and by the closing of some large cot ton mills. Having run for months far ahead of consuming demand on cotton bought at comparatively high prices, the mills see ahead a large crop and cheap cotton, and it is but the rational way to halt production, clear off accu mulated stocks at the season when vacations are common, and begin the new year on its own basis. The woolen manufacture answers wholesomely and moderately to new tariff conditions. With very heavy stocks' of free wool on hand, manufacturers are able, and, in the presence of large stocks of foreign goods, are obliged to engage the next season without advancing prices in proportion to the rise in wool and large contracts of tjhat nature have already been made. Selling of wool at Boston, where the speculation has been most active, is suggestive, amounting to 8, --848,000 pounds for the week and at three chief markets to 11,984.500. Sales for four weeks have been 46,100,200 pounds, 22.538,500 being domestic against 7,211, --350 in all last year. Failures for the week have been 236 in the United States against 281 last year, and 26 in Canada against 40 last year. vicinity of the Turtle Creek, Sandy Creek and Plum Creek mines a proc lamation by the sheriff commanding that all persons refrain from assem bling on the public highways of Alle gheny county or interfering with the peace. A meeting was held this morn ing which was addressed by District President Dolan. He attacked the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, saying that, owing to the inroads of electric railways and other means of rapid transit, the wages of the engi neers would drop sooner or later and then they would be asking assistance from other organizations. In other portions of the district the strike mat ters are quiet. After a long and weary night of waiting to learn the results of the meetings of the miners of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company, the camping miners were a disappoint ed lot of men this morning, for the ex. pected exodus from the Plum Creek, Sandy Creek and Oak Hill mines did not occur. The miners did not quit work as they promised to do last night, and all the mines were in operation today. The marchers, with their bands and flags, are accompanied by a large crowd of on-lookers, mainly employes of the Westinghouse works, who are confident they will witness a scrim mage. The deputies at the De Armltt prop erty number 125, the majority of whom are at Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek. Twenty-five deputies are distributed along the company's railroad between Turtle Creek and Oak Hill, it is ex pected that trouble, If it occurs, will be on this railroad about 4 a. m.,when the company's train comes down from Oak Hill to gather up the workmen to take them to that mine. WASHINGTON, Pa., July 30.— About three hundred men marched to Cook & Sons' mines at McGovern today, and are now established in Camp Vic tory. They are from the Millers Run region, and the mines at Pinley ville and Venetia on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The campers say the siege has just begun. | More than seventy-five men are at work at the Allison mine today, and' coal was run steadily from 6 o'clock until noon. Both the strikers and operators say there is no probability of an outbreak. WHEELING, W. Va., July 30.— The striking miners' organizers in the Wheeling district are making a des- SftN JOS& STRUCK BY CYCLONE. Seven People Killed and Three Injured in Illinois. SAN JOSE, 111., July 30.— At 7 o'clock this evening a cyclone struck the farm of A. C. McDowell, twenty miles north, and his house and barn were entirely destroyed. Seven people were killed and three seriously injurd. The killed: A. C. M'DOWELL. M'DOWELL'S GRANDSON. WIFE OF SAMUEL BROWNLEE. THREE OF BROWNLEES CHILDREN. MISS JESSIE GROVES. Severely Injured: Mrs. A. C. McDowell, her son, Charles, and daughter, Mary. BLOOMINGTON. 111., July 30.— A special from Sab Josle. 111., thirty five miles west on the Jacksonville di vision of the Chicago & Alton, gives SECRETARY SHERMAN SCORED. Text ol the Sensational Letter or Prof. Elliot Made Piiblic, CLEVELAND, 0., July 30.— Prof. Henry W. Elliott, of the Smithsonian institute, tonight gave out the text of his recent sensational letter to Judge Day, assistant secretary of state, regarding the seal fisheries. It is as follows: In the Morning Recorder of this city ap pears the text of a letter to Lord Salisbury dated May 10, 1597, and signed by John Sher man, secretary of state, on the fur seal ques tion. This letter is precede 1 by an account of the great embarrassment which its publi cation has caused the" president. Inasmuch as I have a closer personal knowledge of this present question than any other man liv ing and vastly more extended, and inasmuch as I am the author of the modus vivendi of 1891--93, which, is the only creditable step taken by our government towards settling this seal dispute since it began in IS9O up to date, I desire to say that. after a careful perusal of this letter of May 10, above cited, the presi dent has reason to feel greatly embarrassed, because it lays the state department open to a crushing reply, and you will be in the same mortifying fix that Blame found him self In during 1890, when the Canadians sim ply crushed his letter by the data which they promptly furnished in rebuttal. Inexperienced and ignorant men should not write such letters dealing with data about which they know no more than so many par rots. John W. Foster is utterly ignorant of the truth in regard to the Salient features of this seal question on the islands; that let ter of May 10 is, like all other preparations from his hand on this subject, full of gross M'KINLEY'S DAY. United States Military Post Visited by the President HOTEL CHAMBERLAIN, N. V., July 30.— The day has been delightful here. About 10 a. m. the president and Mr. Porter took a long walk about the parks surrouding the hotel. About 4:30 the president and Mrs. McKlnley, Gen. and Mrs. Alger and Mr. Porter drove to the United States military post. As they passed the guard house, a guard of twenty men turned out and saluted the president with the call of the bugle, presenting arms. The peo ple of Plattsburg knew nothing of the intention of the president to visit the village, and he drove through the streets without demonstration of any kind. Numbers, however, doffed their hats and their salutes were re turned generally by the president. The party drove through all the principal streets, and Mrs. McKinley was much revived by the fresh air. Shortly after noon the Twenty-first Regiment band rendered a concert at the hotel. The president and Mrs. MeKinley enjoyed the music from the veranda. Among the president'^ callers today was Judge Raymond, of Illinois. Vice President Hobart will .be here Tues day night. — m OCOXTO CASE IVBCIDFJD. Final Decree Handed Down by .Indue JenkliiH at Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE, Wls.,"July 30.— Judge Jenkins today handed down the final decree in the long-drawn suit of the National Foundry and Pipe Works. Ltd., against the Oconto Water com pany in the federal courts. The de cree Is in accordance with the opinion of the court of appeals. Andrews and Whitcomb are given a "first lien upon the property, which is located in the city of Oconto. The order subordinates the claim of the pipe company, which was made preferred by Judge Jenkins, to the lien of the mortgage.-ahd brings It In after a number of unsecured perate effort to counteract the effect of the refusal of the men in the two mines of the Boggs Run Coal com pany to come out. PITTSBURG, Kan., July 30.—Repre sentatives of five of the fifteen coal mining companies in this district met here this afternoon with the special committee appointed by the miners at their convention held last Saturday and discussed the grievances of the miners. The meeting was secret, and lasted two hours. No decision was reached, but another conference will be held on Friday, Aug. 6. CENTREVILLE, 10., July 30.— At a mass meeting, which lasted all day, the miners of the low coal district of Southern lowa, seven hundred to eight hundred in number, passed reso lutions demanding the 1892-93 prices, and if acceded to they will continue work unless the state be called out for a general suspension. It is be lieved the operators will grant their demand. meager particulars of a tornado this evening at 7 o'clock. It passed through the farm of A. C. McDowell, two and a quarter miles north of that town, completely destroying the house and barn. Seven persons were killed. They are A. C. McDowell and his grandson, the wife of Sam Brownlee and three of the Brownlee children and Miss Jessie Groves, a neighbor, who was spending the day at McDowell's. The following were seriously injured: Mrs. A. C. McDowell, her son Charles and daughter Mary. Miss McDowell is but slightly hurt. After leaving McDowell's farm the storm ro.«e and went over the town of San Jose. At Mason City lightning struck the spire of the Presbyterian church and set it on fire. errors. His dullness in making up the Amer ican case in 1892-93 cost us that shameful humiliating defeat which we met with at Paris in 1893. Had be been bright and quick witted he never would have met with such disaster. Taking this commonplace man up now after this record of flat failure is stamped all over h:'.s anatomy and putting h'.m in charge of your sealing question will only thrust you deeper into the mire than he and your prede cessors have been placed before by the bright men over the Kne at Ottawa. I am moved to write you on this point be cause a senator of the United States rec?nt:y said to me that Foster had assured the pres ident that the information which I gave the British in IS9O caused the defeat of the Amer ican case at Paris in 1893. The meanness and untruth of this charge will be quickly seen by your turning to my report of Nov. 17, 1890, which contains thiis information. Mr. Foster and his stupid associates tried to sup press this report because it contained the proof of my authorship of the modus vivendi of IS9I-93, which he meanly stole from me — plagiarized in fact, but he was unable to sup press it. And now that he comes forward again to figure in this question. I Intend that he shall be required at the proper t:me, and before the proper tribunal, to give a full account of his wretched record as the agent of the United States before the Bering sea tribunal at Paris in 1893. This whole sealing business, from the day that the trouble began hi 1890-91, up to date has not been in the hands of a competent man for one moment. It has been and is no-w the sport of the Canadian, and the languid contempt of the British queen's council is all that it receives when it comes up there. creditors. The title to the land oc cupied by the waterworks in Oconto is ordered to be conveyed to the Ocon to City Water Supply company, as the successors of Andrews and Whitcomb. George W. Sturtevant Jr., is decreed to be liable in a sum not to exceed $99,000 as the successor interest to the stock of Charles Garland, who sub scribed for ninety-nine shares of the capital stock of the Oconto Water com pany, and upon which he paid noth ing. Mr. Sturtevant accepted the stock at the same price Mr. Garland paid. He is ordered to pay the claims of the Chapman Valve and Maunfacturing company, Sherwood, Sutherland & Co., Dickinson & King and Cook & Hyde, which were unsecured. Then he is to pay the liens of the National Foundry and Pipe company, and of R. D. Wood & Co. TRIBESMEN EASY TARGETS. Many Xntlves Killed In n Mght At tack on Mnlnkand. SIMLA, July 30.— Dispatches from Camp Malakand report another night attack by the tribesmen last night (Thursday). The natives fought des perately for several hours, but were repulsed at all points. Fires had been lighted about the camp, and in their glare the tribesmen were easy tagets for the British riflemen. Many f e ll, and in the light of the flames the na tives could be seen removing their dead. It is reported that the mullah was badly wounded, and that several of his principal chiefs were disabled. The British lost one killed and seven teen wounded, among the latter being Lieut. Costello, who was wounded the second time. He had received a slight wound during the day attack on Wednesday. The forces of the mullah had been augmented by a strong gathering of the natives* on the hills to the right of the British position. The theory is that the Bon erwals have risen. The situation is now somewhat relieved by the arrival of reinforcements .under Col. Reed, from Nowshera. PRICE TWO CsNtfß^ff T »sffi- THOSE EXCURSION RATES. Additional Particulars About the Concessions Se cured From the Railroads by Twin City Jobbers. TWIN CITIES GET Country Merchants *iso SAME AS CHICAGO. Profit^ t A^e. Plans and By-Laws of the Big Organization Which Is Expected to Prove Beneficial All Around- Revised List of Officers. The vigor with which the jobbers of St. Paul and Minneapolis have taken hold of the merchants' excursion busi ness bids well for the success of the movement. This had its origin in New York, was taken up in Chicago, and, when adopted in both those commer cial centers, made it almost necessary for the Twin City jobbing interests to take some steps to protect themselves and at the same time advance the in terests of that class of merchants with whom they seek to carry on business. In both New York and Chicago, when the matter was first agitated, the job bers got anything but hearty co-opera tion from the railroads. In St. Paul and Minneapolis, if the roads felt the least lukewarm in their support, it has not been evident without any un due show of energy, although the wholesalers have been at work for some weeks, the railroaders held but one meeting, as far as is known, and agreed to work with the Twin City wholesalers in the interest of the two towns. The formation of what has been named the Twin City and North western Merchants' association has been accomplished and with a slight change or two is as apeared in this paper yesterday. The list is: President— E. A. Young. St. Paul. Vice President— George Partridge. Minne apolis. Secretary— W. W. Heffelflnger, Minneapolis. Treasurer— Joseph McKibbln, St. Paul. The executive committee, consisting of five jobbers from each city is made up as follows: Richards Gordon, D. R. Noyes, Rudolph Ros-um, A. H. Lindeke, and Cyrus Kellogg, St. Paul, and F. G. Winston, T. B. Janney, T. W. Stev enson. C. C. Webber and W. S. Nott, of Minneapolis. According to the opening paragraph of the by-laws the general object of the new association is to advance the mutual interests of jobbers, manufac turers p.nA retail merchants of the Northwest by bringing the retail trade into closer touch with e ach other and with tlve jobbers and manufacturers of the Twin Cities for the purpose of bc-tter acquaintance. interchanging ideas on all matters of general interest, and working in harmony for the promo tion of the prosperity of the Northwest. The membership of the association is to consist of two classes, first the sustaining members consisting of the jobbers and manufacturers of the two cities, and next the general members embracing the traveling salesmen for Twin City jobbers and manufacturers and any retail merchant recommended ENGLfiND GIVES fISSENT. Seating Conference to Be field Early THis flimimn. LONDON, July 30.— The British for eign office notified Ambassador Hay this morning that Great Britain accept ed the proposition of the United States for an international conference en the Question of pelagic sealing in the Ber ing sea, to be held in Washington dur ing the coming autumn. John W. Foster, the United States special commissioner on the sealing question, will sail tomorrow by the New York, from Southampton. In th 3 courS2 of an interview with the correspondent of the Associated Press, today, Mr. Foster says: "Wherever I have been, at St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris or here in London. I have been received in the most cordial manner. Whatever may be the feeling in the United States about the often repeated antagonism to our government, displayed by foreign powers. I have seen nothing of it. Everywhere I have had evidence that the foreign governments wish to meet any questions raised by the United States in the spirit of the utmost frank ness and open-mindedness. Perhaps it is needless for me to say that this Is most gratifying to me officially and in my private capacity. "The British government has agreed to accept our proposition for a sealing conference. I am now returning to make an immediate report to President McKinley. I had a long and fairly candid conference with Mr. Chamber lain, and last Sunday I pased the day with Sir Richard Webster, the attor ney general, who is the adviser of the British government on the points of law involved. My statements met with the frankest and most impartial con sideration." Regarding the annexation of Hawaii, Mr. Foster said: "As it could not be ex pected that any other foreign power would be permitted to occupy the isl ands owing to their strategic impor tance, the proposed annexation will be acquiesced in by the European govern ments, although the position which it would give the United States in the Pacific would not 7 be welcomed by nations seeking supremacy in that quarter of the world. My personal views on this question are well known in the United States. Nevertheless it is ex tremely gratifying that the necessary expansion of the United States will not be the cause of European difficulties, and is appreciated as the logical out come of American destiny." GRAXT RESIGNS, No Longer a Member of the New Vorlt Police llonrcl. NEW YORK, July 30.— C01. Fred D. Grant today gave out a statement, in part as follows: I have forwarded to Mayor Strong my resig nation of the position which 1 now hold as a police commissioner. I will not recede ono step by acquiescing In the methods of ob taining evidence against disorderly houses, which the majority of the board favor and have decided upon. I believe firmly that these methods must eventually make sneaks and liars of men, who, to be proper guardians of the life and property of our citizens, should be trained to do only what is honorable and upright. I decline to be a member of the board as an obstructionist, neither ■will I remain as a dissenting minority, when for membership by any sustaining member, and approved by a execu tive committee. Proprietors and edi tors of Twin City newspapers and trade journals, are also made eligible for membership. The cards of membership will be issued by the various assistant secretaries. Rather an important change in the plan as first announced, was that agreed upon yesterday relative to the dates when the roads agree to carry members of the association for the re duced rate of a fare and a third for the round trip. The dates as they now stand, are Aug. 16 and 17, and for the second excursion Aug. 23 and 24. The fact that reduced rates will be in effect just before and at the time of the annual state fair, Sept. 6 to 11 will practically give the merchants of this state and surrounding territory three excursions to St. Paul at just the time when they are doing their buying in the fall. The reduced rate which will be grant ed on the certificate plan, membership tickets in this case acting as certifi cates, will apply not only to Minne sota, but as well to Wisconsin the northern peninsula of Michigan, lowa, Nebraska and North and South Da kota. Merchants coming to St. Paul will be asked to pay full fare to either St. Paul or Minneapolis, in either of which city return tickets will be sold them for one-third of the full fare rate upon presentation of the member ship ticket. All lines in the territory named are in the agreement. No mem ber outside of the sustaining members will be asked to pay any money what ever towards the support of the asso ciation. It is expected that many mer chants who have made it a practice to buy their goods from samples shown by traveling men will come to the com mercial centers and buy their mer chandise from the stocks. The good results which will follow alike to retailer and jobber or manu facturer from this personal contact need not be dwelt upon. Any retail merchant in the territory is eligible for members-hip as is any buyer in his employ or even his wife, if she cares to come to St. Paul or Minneapolis. The association, which has had sev eral informal meetings, plane to meet hereafter annually first in one city then in the other, and the fact that the representative business men of St. Paul and Minneapolis have been work ing as a unit for the association augurs well for its substantial and permanent success. An organized plan for tho issuance of membership cards to those who are entitled to and wish them will be immediately be set in motion, and the jobbers will then watch the pro gress of this movement which certain ly has been started off under the most encouraging auspices. methods are enforced to which I am con scientiously opposed. Mayor Strong late this afternoon an nounced his acceptance of Col. Grant's resignation, which takes effect at the close of business tomorrow. Replying to Col. Grants letter, Mayor Strong says: Relating to the particular subject upon which you dwell as the reasons for your resignation. I sincerely regret that you have not found it consistent with your views a"ii principles to evince your dissent from iTj position of your associates by the record of your vote, while continuing to co-operato with them upon other matters, not connected with the question upon which you so radically differ from them. However, your resignation has evidently been well considered and Is so worded as to leave me no other alternative! other than to accept. It is therefore accepted. EXCITEMENT PREVAILS. Trouble Between I'ninu and Xo-n --l niiMi 'Workmen, SCOTTDALE, Pa., July 30.— Wild ex citement prevailed here at 10 o'clock tcnight. This afternoon as the after noon turn of non-union men who have taken the places of the striking iron workers at the Scottdale iron works, were going home, one of thorn, sn.kl to be a man named Painter, became in censed at the remarks of some boys and deliberately fired at them. A larp-cs crowd started after the non-uni >n man, who fired four or five shots into the crowd before he reached the Geyer house, where he boards. CTBAJf HOAX. Americana Snirt to He Conftncil at Moro Castle. WASHINGTON, July 99.— The Elate department has received from a Phil adelphia tobacco firm a ncte found in a bale of tobacco from Cuba, stating that three Americans are confined hi Moro castle and are unable to commu nicate with their friends outside. Thd note will be forwarded tc Consul Gon eral Lee at Havana, but the officials do not attach much importance to the note from the internal evidence- of ltd bogus character. The American con sul knows all of the very few Amori can prisonei-s in Moro, and it Is pointed out that, while the men are described as young men, later on in the noto they refer to honorable discharges from the United States army in 1865. JOB FOR AXDUEWS. He Is to He at the Head oil v »w University. PROVIDENCE, R. 1.. July SV-Dr. F. Benjamin Andrews, who recently resigned tlio presidency of Brown university,' lias accepted the presidency of a new university U> lie founded by John Brlsben Walker, and to bo known as the Cosmopolitan university. It is to be modeled after the Chautauqua school, and will be conducted^ by correspondence. Conference nt Kiel. KIEL, July 30.— Since his arrival yesterday morning, the emperor has summoned 1):-. Miquel, Prussian minister of finance, and Baron Ton Derecke yon der Hors!, Prussian minister of the interior, to come here for the purpose of making a report on the rejection of the law of associations by the upper house of the Prussian diet