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VOL. XX.— NO. 299. BULLETIN OF TK^ ST. PflrUL, GkOBG TUESDAY, OCT. 2G, 1597, Weather for Today- Local Hams, Cooler. PAGE 1. Tales of Prison Cruelty Confirmed. New Facts in Cisneros Affair. Atlantic Coast Storm-Swept. Ireland's Joan of Arc. Reason for Delay in U. P. Sale. l-'ijili t inji Expected in India. PAGE 2. Conß-rcK'ntionnlists Discnss Race. Work of Local Con. Men. Col. Donan Talks Klondike. PAGE 3. Minneapolis Matters. Coroner's Jury Blames Moschik. Military Rnle Needed In Alaska. Hardships on the Klondike. News of the Northwest. PAGE 4. Editorial. Spain's Reply Not Yet In. Day's Social tiossip. PAGE 5. Nineteen Victims of the Big Wreck. Frauds in Indian Claims. News o* the Capitol. Day's Sporting Events. Foal Claimed for Cooper. PAGE 0. Heavy Drop in U. P. Stocks. Net Losses foJr the Entire List. Bar Silver. 5Sc. Cash Wheat in Chicago, 1)2 I-2c. World* Markets Reviewed. PAGE 7. Soo Make* a New Flour Rate. Railway Gossip. Fever Case in Ohio. Official* Skeptical on Irish Famine. Wants of the People. PAGE 8. Lee Lnn to Be Depotrieil. News of the Courts. County to Lease the Morgue. EVENTS TODAY. Met— Captain Impudence, 8.15. Cirand— Superba, 8.15. High School-Drew School Benefit. 8. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK— Arrived: Furnessia, Glasgow; Bovic, Liverpool. LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Cufic, New York. BOSTON— Arrived: Pavonia. Liverpool. ANTWERP— Arrived: Frieeland, New York. GIBRALTAR— SaiIed: Aller, New York. Arrived: Ems, New York. The value of the straw vote in New York is greatly impaired by chaff. . m Ex-Senator Washburn isn't going on the stage, is he? His diamonds have been stolen. George W. Hugg has been sued for divorce at Fargo. That XV must stand for "wouldn't." But the chainless bicycle is not tooth less. It eats up a goodly chunk of money at the first sitting. If Weyler prefers, Spain would prob ably be willing to allow his transfer to Fort Sheridan, where the company Is more congenial. One party of Klondikers existed four days on soup made from a rawhide strap. And it is early in their nine months' winter yet. This warm weather induces the hor rible fear that old Boreas has struck It rich on the Klondike and will not visit St. Faul this winter. If the fortunes of any more million aires are lying around locse, California has women ready to lay claim to them as soon as they hear of them. Luetgert's second trial will begin next week— if. out of Chicago's two mil lion people, twelve men can be found who haven't formed an opinion on the case. The king of Corea says he would like to hunt elephants in America. Evident ly he has been taken around to "see the elephant" in the big cities of the East. The members of the nameless contin gent are beginning to arrive from the Klondike. But the public will not hear of nor care about them and their lack of luck. The wreck of the New York Central train reveals the fact that there are eight Chinamen "from the Canadian border" whom Uncle Sam will not have to deport. . -*»_ Tn the specifications for bids for put ting electricity into the St. Paul public building some arrangement should be provided for putting a little into the contractors. "Western farmers can use corn for fuel, but in doing so they earn the - everlasting contempt of the Kentucky colonel, who can't understand such waste of liquid. "Don't go to the Klondike by the back-door route," says Missionary Mc- Donald. Thar- is good advice. To do co would brand you at once as a Sun day saloon visitor. Even Karl Decker isn't to be pea.ee ably allowed the glory of the rescue of Senorita Cisneros. Now comes a Washington correspondent who claims that he "thought of it first." -«■> If Spain really wants the United States to help her let go the bear, she is pulling the right string in trying to force a recognition of the belligerency of Cuba by protesting against filibus tering. A Chicago elevator man had to break the elevator cable to make a young lady passenger fall in love with him. The fall is said to be certain, but the method is not recommended except in extreme cases. Eleven million dollars in gold came Into the United States from Australia during the past year, and no gold hunting Klondikers had to go after it either. After all it is better to remain at home and send your farm produce after the gold. THE SAINT PAUL GHS6BE. USED A TABLE LEG TO BEAT THE CONVICTS John Smith, for Sixteen Years a Foreman in the Penitentiary, Tells How Lemon Abused the Convicts. BACKS IT UP WITH AN AFFIDAVIT. Gov. Clough Says He Will Have the Charges Investi gated — He Blusters a Little About It — Actual Findings of the Former Investigation All Right, but Don't Repeat It. "It is worse than the Globe has given any idea of," is an expression that has been heard a good many times by a good many people since this paper began last Saturday to print some of the secret history of the Minnesota state prison. People have come to the Globe office and made the remark and have offered to add the weight of their testament to what has al ready been published. The Globe this morning prints a few more state ments. John Smith, of Ellsworth, had sixteen years* experience in the prison and tells a little along the line of bru tality shown to prisoners. And, to make it that much stronger, makes an affidavit to the truth of what he has to say. And there are others. Up to this time the Globe has used the statement of men who have been employed at the prison. There are scores of others who have suffered the brutality spoken about, and, so far as any of them have been seen, are willing to tell what they know either to Gov. Clough or any board of inves tigation. "I do not want to be quoted per sonally," said one of them, "but, for the sake of the men who are in the prison, I will go before any board of investigation and tell what I know and saw. Of course, the poor devils who are behind the walls will not say anything, because they know they will have to pay for it all in the treatment th?y receive later. And you do not know the petty but mean disposition of Lemon. I will say that he never ill-treated me, but the only reason he didn't, I think, was because he knew I had influential friends, and that he might hear of it again. I told him once that he couldn't act the tyrant with me, for I would get to my friends some day. And I told him chickens would come home to roost. And they will. It is no use to say that a man has to resort to beating and clubbing and cruelty, even among the worst men at the prison. I knew two guards who had some feeling, good fellows who wouldn't abuse a convict, even under strong provocation. Theirs was a word of kindness, not a cuff or a kick, and they got along better than the men who acted otherwise."* Another man seen yesterday had something to say about a certain guard whom he had seen pounding a convict who occupied a cell next to that occupied by himself. There are a score of others, and the prison au thorities may hear from a whole lot of them. A peculiar thing about all the information that has come to the Globe is that each man doubts the knowledge of Warden Wolfer as to what is going on in the prison in this line. If the warden continues to read his Glob c. he will learn a whole lot about it during the next few days or few weeks. NOT BRUTAIi NOR ANYTHING. But tlie Recommendations Were of Another Shade. A local paper last evening printed what purported to be an interview with Secretary Hart, of the state board ot corrections and charities, which, to say the least, was misleading. It said the committee appointed to investigate the charges against the prison officials in 1«90 'found that there was no brutality or excessive punishment meted out to prisoners. There are different opinions as to what constitutes an excessive punish ment. It appears that Timothy O Meara. for example, has a different idr-a on this subject than Deputy War den Lemon, and it is probable that the relatives of Charles Hahn, who sits brooding in a cell at Rochester till death ends his monotonous terrestrial existence, would hardly indorse the Stillwater measurement of what con slitues an "excess." The committee did find that Deputy Warden Lemon had struck John Lynch over the head with a billy so hard that his head had to be dressed in two places by a physician, and that he also struck Frank Anderson to compel him to move along, and the committee jus tified, as the public no doubt did and will, these assaults, which were at least in a measure in self-defense. In its report the committee said: "The committee finds that brutal and cruel punishments are not inflicted. The punishments inflicted under the present warden, as already described, are se yere but. in the opinion of this com mittee, are neither brutal or cruel." But almost in the next breath, on page 14 of the printed report of the committee, it recommends the follow ing changes in the prison code, each of which was due to some of the revela tions of -the investigation which the legislature started, but was unable to finish: "We recommend: "That the chaining of men to the door be continued only during work ing hours. "That when men are chained to the cell door the hands be placed not more than breast high, instead of the height of the chin. "That a plank be provided about fourteen by seventy-eight inches, rais ed on cleats an inch thick, for men to sleep on when in punishment to pre vent injury from sleeping on the floor. "That punishment be inflicted, here after, in the separate building known as the solitary and built for that pur pose, instead of being in the cell room as at present. This arrangement • • • TUESDAY MORNING, |>CTOBER 26, 1897. FORMER GUARD ADDS BIS TESTIMONY. will obviate the necessity of using a gag in the cases of noisy men." GOV*. CLOIGH WARMS UP, But Soys He Will Have an Investi gation. "I will have the charges made hy the Globe thoroughly investigated," said Gov. Clough to a Globe reporter, at his home in Minneapolis, last evening. "They are either all right or all wrong and I intend to prove the matter." When first spoken to, Gov. Clough said that, he had not given the matter much thought, that he had read the articles in the Globe, but not very carefully or thoroughly, and he did not know just what he would do. He afterwards said that he had inter viewed a number of ex-convicts, since the articles first appeared, and that they had all spoken very highly of the prison — they "all loved Deputy Lemon." "It's a farce, a damnable farce!" continued the governor, warming to his subject and raising his voice so that the neighbors over on Third street wondered what was up. "I know, you know and everybody knows that we have the best prison in the country. I know it is managed right, because I have visited it, and every body in the state knows it, too." "Could it not be possible that every body in the state, ourselves included, does not know exactly all that is go ing on inside the walls?" suggested the reporter. "Well, Warden Wolfer does," was the answer; "I tell you Frank Lemon isn't running that prison, Warden Wolfer, is. Not that I have anything to say against Mr. Lemon, for I think he is a first-class man, but Mr. Wo!fer is the boss." "Do you think Mr. Lemon struck any convicts on the head with his cane?" was asked. "I don't say that he didn't, but it might have been necessary." "Has Warden Wolfer notified you that he demands an immediate inves tigation?" "No, he hasn't yet; it's only three days since the thing was first pub lished. But if I find it is my duty I will send a man over to investigate; it NEW YORK. Oct. 25.— Miss Maud Gonne, who has come to America in the interest of the Irish cause, is cne 01 the most inter- esting young women that ever came to these shores. Her life has been- one of love of country, the poor people of her country ana romance. She now lives in France, where she edits a newspaper de-voted to war for justice to Erin, and where the imaginative Frenchmen have given her the title of the "Joan of \rc of Ireland."' She is a convert t3 Irish nationalism from the camp or tne unionists, and she declared upon reaching America that there was J>«t one object in life for her— the rights of the commoners o. ner native country. • . ' Miss Gonne is hardly what would be expected of her basintr .the expectation upon hr-r ancestry and the surroundings o. ner eanv days. She is the daughter of Col. Gonne, who was an attache of'the English embassy in St. Petersburg. She was reared in the society which would accompany such a position, but as a young girl the stories of the life of OTonnell, the liberator, came under ncr at- tention, and at the age of nineteen years she had resolved to de£te her energy and years- to the cause which bad been his. «ne was born in the picturesque gap of Dunloe in the County Kerry,. Ad as a bit of a girl had been a witness to the McGratn e\ietiou on Lord Bantry's estate. „ .. n . tt Col. Gonne died about the time she picked her work in life" Ad left her an orphan with a fairly good fortune. Darnell, uayiu and O'Leary looked upon her with suspicion for a time, fearing %er because cf the record of her ancestry for its ofe 01 me aris- tocracy. She had an opportunity to show her loyalty during the '"Fal^ar.agh evictions," where she fought so Myall? for tne peas- ants that a warrant was issued for her arrest. She went to Fran"<> and it is no one else than she who is responsible tor tne man sentiment there. She appears on the Bois, riding horseback, and Ahe sight gave rise to her French title. She has been »« tne acqve battle for eleven years, has worked among the lowly in London and the dungeons and organized many societies tor we improv emem of the Irish peasantry. will be a man, too, In whom the en tire state will have confidence." "Will it be Secretary Hart, of the state board of corrections and chari ties?" inquired the persistent report er. "I don't know who it will be; it may be more than one man, but it will be a committee the people of the state can repose confidence In." "Has any complaint ever come to ATLANTIC COAST STOR^-SWEPT. Damage Done by the Gale Estimated at Thou- NEW YORK, Oct. 25.— High tides and higher winds that drove the sea inland have caused an immense amount of damage along the New Jersey and Long Island coast during the past twenty-four hours. Many buildings erected on the sand at the summer resorts were knocked to pieces and carried out to sea, and coast line railroads have suffered much loss and delay by reason of the storm. The highest tides in years, supplemented by wind which blew at the rate of from thirty-five to seventy miles an hour, prevailed today, and when the high water reaches its maximum to morrow evening greater damage is ex pected unless the gale abates. From down the Long Island coast the heavi est damage is reported. CAPE MAY, N. J., Oct. 25.— One of the fiercest northeast gales of years has swept the lower Jersey coast and up Delaware bay for the past twenty-four hours. Many vessels have been strand ed and there is an unconfirmed report that a ship went down off shore this morning. A fleet is riding at anchor within the harbor unable to proceed either way, and the meadows are so inundated that railroad travel to the coast resorts is practically suspended. The tide here is abating somewhat to night, but the wind is maintaining a velocity of thirty miles. Portions of the board walks have been swept away, as well as cottage porches and fences, and the damage is estimated at thousands of dollars. - The schooner Elizabeth Lee, Phi'a delphia, for Gloucester, Mass., broke from the tugs which held her today and drifted on the point of Cape Hen lopen. She is in. a bad position and may go to pieces- at any moment be cause of her. cargo of coal. The crew was taken aboard the tugs. A number of dredges and barges, are also ashore. At Bower's Beaoh, Del., Wil'iam Spencer and his wife are in the second story of their cottage, which is sur rounded by water, and help cannot reach them. Many animals have been di owned there. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.,Oct. 25.— The storm prevailing is probably the mo.-t severe in many ye'srs." In point of high tides, it has not been equaled, it is stated, since 1844. The damage done thus far does not equal that of the storm of 1880, but if it does not abate soon, it promises to exceed it. The principal damage ' accomplished has been by the wind! It blew over at least three houses In course of con struction and -a row of two more is threatened tonight. The three railroad beds have been washed out for a con siderable distance/ thus shutting the city out of train service either way. HIGHLANDS, N. J., Oct. 25.— Owing to the heavy wind and sea tonight the fishing village of Seaside, formerly Par kertown, is under water. The villagers MISS M.UDE GO\XE, "THE IRISH . JOAX OF ARC." your ears before of Deputy LerSgfirt brutality?" F^ "Never! This is all old straw that the Globe is trying to thresh over, and it's a farce, a f-a-r-c-e." AFFIDAVIT OF A FOREMAN. John Smith is now a well-known Continued on Third Pose. sands of Dollars. are rowing through the streets in boats. The government trestle was badly damaged. The trestle connects the mainland with Sandy Hook, and all freight for that place, including the big guns there, pass over it. About 200 feet was lifted off the piling and washed to one side, and it will be some time before it can be repaired. A large piece of Kay's new bulkhead was washed away, and the property there is in danger. The bulkhead was built last winter at a large expense. The sea rolls through the inlet across the river and breaks over the land on the west shore continually. The sand bar is closing the west channel, and, if the storm continues, the Shrewsbury river will be closed to navigation. OCEAN CITY, Md., Oct. 25— The storm of the last two days was the worst ever experienced in this section. The wind attained the proportions of a hurricane, and the surf ran four feet deep across the beach into Synepuxent bay. ' The large porches of Congress hall, Trimpers, the Eastern Shore ho tel. Cropper's pavilion, Atlantic hotel and Meyer cottage are completely wrecked. The immense fish pond of the Ocean Fishing company was car ried out to sea. The Cambridge hotel was nearly wrecked. MILLVILLE, N. J., Oct. 25.— The big tides in the Maurice river have flooded all the oyster houses at Maurice river station and several houses have been blown over on the mews. The oyster beats are dragging on the meadows and much damage is being done to the vessels. Telegraph wires are all down, and the people are mov ing their furniture out in boats. The Ocean City, Sea Isle and Maurice river branches of the West Jersey railroad are all submerged. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.— From 3 p. m. yesterday to 2 p. m. today only three vessels arrived in port. The Princess Anne passed in during the night, the Veendam anchored in quarantine about 8 p. m. and the Furnessia anchored outside the bar at 10 a. m., coming up this morning. The Long Island coast, for a distance of six miles be tween Far Rockaway and Roekaway beach, was more or less damaged by the tide today, which was the highest in some years. The Edgmere hotel property was damaged to the extent of $25,000. Last year this property suf fered heavily from storm. Communication by rail between Far Roekaway and Arverne, three miles away, was entirely cut off, while the tracks at Rockaway park and Ham mels were washed out. At Rockaway beach the waves washed clear over the great iron pier. The piles be neath a number of pavilions were car ried away, and there is danger of the structures being washed into the ocean. gc^gP¥sjCE TWO CENTS— jffyglsayK." IHISTHEDmUSI.tIUII Reason Why the Government Will Ask for a Delay in the Sale of the Union Pacific. GEN. COWIN CALLS ON JUDGE SANBORN. Stated That the Government Desired at a Future Day to Make a Motion for Postponement— The Attorney for the United States Qavernmsnt Re ceives Important Advices as to the Day's Devel opments—Reorganization Committee Willing to Pay the Entire Debt and Take tha Road -This Hay Relieve the Government of the Necessity for Asking Delay. From developments which came to the surface yesterday it apepars that the United States government ls not to lose nearly a dozen millions of dol lars by the sale of the great Union Pa cific system, which is slated to occur early the coming month. Gen. John C. Cowin, who came to town from Omaha as the special attorney of the govern ment in this case, called on Judge San born, of the United States circuit court of appeals, and stated that the govern ment desired at an early date in the future to make a motion for the post ponement of the date set for the sale. Judge Cowin filed no motion, affi davits or other documents, but simply gave notice of a future motion. Seen last night at the Ryan, the general ex plained that, although matters might so shape themselves as to make such a motion unnecessary, it was the plan to appear before Judge Sanborn today, make the motion and have a time set for a hearing on the case. Gen. Cowin received during the day a number of lengthy telegrams from Attorney Gen eral McKenna. ex-Gov. George Hoadly, who is a special assistant to the at torney general, and from other inter ested parties in New York and Omaha, keeping him posted on the situation. The postponement, if one is asked for, will be for at least six weeks. In speaking of the application which will probably be made today, Gen. Cowin intimated that the leading rea son to be urged by the government for delay is that a higher bid than that first talked of by the reorganization committee can be secured. For this reason., it will be seen that the com mittee will undoubtedly oppose the mo tion for postponement. At the same time, advices from the East late yes terday were to the effect that the com mittee stood ready to make an offer for the property exactly equal to the amount of the lien held upon it by the government. If this is the case, either the com mittee may be prepared to offer the whole amount, which approximates $60,000,000. at the date set for the sale, or the application of the government acted upon favorably by the court, and the money forthcoming later. In any event the matter has gone now to a point where $8,000,000 has been added to what it was understood the reorga nization committee was willing to bid for the property. The interests of the committee will be looked after by Winslow S. Pierce, a prominent New York attorney, who is expected to reach here in a day or two. If definite news is received this morning that the committee will come up with the full amount at the sale, as now arranged for, the government will probably allow their application for postponement to go by the board. OPPOSED TO DELAY. L T . P. Reorganization Committee Make* an Annonneenient. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.— The Union Spain Is Impotent. Ex-Minister Taylor Appeals to th- American People. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.— Hannls Tay lor, for the last four years American minister to Spain, and who has just returned from Madrid, is about to ad dress an elaborate communication to the people of the United States on the Cuban question. He has reached the conviction that Spanish statesmanship is impotent to solve this problem, and he feels it to be his duty to lay before his countrymen his testimony upon the whole subject matter, in the hope that it may aid them in taking wise and just action. In his communication, which will be published in the Novem ber number of the North American Re view, he reviews the matter from ev ery standpoint, basing his statements upon the observations which he made in the course of his negotiations with the Spanish government. In summing up the situation he suggests a plan whereby the United States may speed ily bring the Cuban war to an end. FURIOUSTIGHTIRG Expected Today When the English Wili Again Aivanca. SIMLA, Oct. 25. — Official dispatches from Khangarbur received today say that the advance upon the Sempagha pass, on both sides of which the in surgent tribesmen are collecting in great force and where the next furious fighting is expected to occur, will be resumed tomorrow. The position taken up by the enemy is of tne strongest de scription and can only be assailed in front and over broken ground. The tribesmen are expected to make a most determined resistance to the advance of the British troops. It is also ex pected that the Peshawur column will j have warm work to do, as 4,000 Afridis Pacific reorganization committee made the following announcement: The attorney general has noiifled this com mittee that he proposes to ask the court for an adjournment of the foreclosure sale of tho Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific railway property to December 15, so as to postpone final disposition until after congress shall have met. This action is no doubt taken to free the administration from embarrassment. The reorganization committee has, however, reached the conclusion that interests of tha security holders, represented by I', and of the syndicate furnishing the funds to finance to reorganization, demand reorganization without any further* delay. In this situation the committee contemplates, so as to gain prompt possession of the Union Pacific line, to oppose any adjournment of the sale of tho main line and to bid it in, if need be, for the full amount of the government's claim, the additional sum involved In this being $12 000, --000. A3 to the Kansas lines the foreclosures of the first liens upon the subsidized divisions of the Kansas Pacific railway will be ener getically pressed, and when these foreclos ures shall have been accomplished, the reor ganization of the Kansas Pacific lines will be completed as claimed. Allotments made under the plans to Kansas Pacific holders and amounting to about $15, --000,000 in new bouds and $20,000.W0 in pre ferred stock, will remain reserved for the reorganization of the Kansas line. The amount of new first mortgage hinds tc be Issued for the purpose of the reorganiza tion of the Union Pacific main line wil". not exceed $70,000,000 and preferred stock $55, --000,000. No change in the plan of reorganization ia involved in the foregoing. THERE ARE OTHER BIDDERS. Attorney General McKenna Has In timated an Much. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.— Attorney General McKenna was shown this statement and was asked if he had no tified the committee of his intentions as stated, to which he replied that he had; that Gov. Hoadley, special counsel of the government in the cases, was di rected last week to make the communi cation to th" reorganization ccnunlit' c. He also said that the application woiJjl be made to Judge Sanborn at St. Paul for the postponement of sale, not of the main line only,- but-oJL the, Kansas divi sion lines. He further said that the government had been very attentive to the. situation and very desirous to have a sale open to all bidders— onti that could not be complained of— and for that reason desired the postpone ment to enable bidders to prepare ami' had reasonable assurances that then would be bidders other than the reor. ganization committee at the salp. The attorney general declined it state .what other propositions had bee i r« ceived. or by whom made, but it la certain that the sum expected to be realized is considerably in excess of the guarantee offer of the reorganiza tion committee. That guarantee, the attorney general said, remains in full force, notwithstanding the postpone ment of the sale. No serious opposition to the consum mation of the sale on the part of 'Ti gress is anticipated by the department. Attorney General McKenna was with the president for a quarter of an hour, presumably in reference to Union Pa cific railway affairs. The attorney general said after having tbe pies d. t that th : re were no d velopme: ts w'r.i li he wished to communicate to the pub lic. In other quarters it was stated that a determination might come at any moment in the near future, and that in all probability the meeting of the cabinet tomorrow could brii g al out a definite understanding, and probably a final conclusion on the government's course. have collected at Barkai and Mainai, near Bara. Cairo, Oct. 25.— A column of troops commanded by Gen. Hunter, it is an nounced in a dispatch from Berber, <.n the Nile, has started to drive Osnnn Digna, the great Dervish general, from the Atbara river. But, the dispatch adds, it is feared Osman Digna will not wait for the Anglo-Egyptian troops to attack him. Details just obtained of the revenge of the dervishes upon the Jaalin tribe, caused by the refusal ot the latter to join the forces of the khalifa against the British, show it to have been terrible in the extreme. The left bank of the river between Berber and Mommeh was practically depopu lated. The dervishes butchered every male member ol" the offending tribe and took the pretty women to their harems, after sending 150 selected virgins to the khalifa. The dervishes, in addi tion, threw many women and children into the river. EALARGI.N'ti THE PLANT. Steel nar.e;e W'orlii* ISeed More Itoom and More !■:.>> i>!t». vs. WEST SUPERIOR. Wis.. Oct. 25.— The American Steel Barg« company will thoroughlyequip the yards wi.h the latest appliances and labor-sav.ng ma chinery, add new departments and al together make the shipyard one of the most complete upon the lakes. A ma chine shop, 150x85 feet, furnished with machinery for any job of repairing to marine engines and boilers, will s>> in at once, and the company will later make Its own engines. The company Will get steel this week to begin the ships to be built for next teas >n's tr.ide. One of the new pieces of machinery is a punch and shears which will take a sheet of steel and punch an inch and one-half hole fifty-four inches from tha margin. Firmer Hlneo Railroaded. HANNAH, N. D., Oct. 25.— D. W. Hints, well known as the originator of the plan for a farmer's railroad, has been recaptured aiid taken biok to the state lr.sune asylum, from "wh'.^h he escarped two weck3 ago. He had printed and posted in L&ngdon some biil.s an- Bouncing that a lecture would be given by Farmer Hines on the "Dark and Bright Sides, of an insane Asylum."