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VOL. XXV.-NO. 34.
INTERSTATE COMMISSION
Walker D, Hines, of the Louisville &
Nashville, Contends It Has Ample
Power, but Is Trifling.
PERTINENT ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SPECIFIED
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 2.—That the
interstate commerce commission is Itself
to blame for the rate cutting which it
condemns in its last annual report is the
claim made by Walker D. Hines, first
vice president of the Louisville & Nash
ville Railroad company in a pamphlet
"which he has just issued. Mr. Hines has
inve-n special attention to this subject.
His contention is in substance as fol
lows:
The commission endeavors, as it nas
done for ytars, to excite support for Us
<lemand for more -power by describing
the prevalence of secret rate cutting. It
held new investigations at Chicago and"
Kansas City to disclose conditions which
it has known for years, delaying the
publication of its report so as to give the
iesuit cf these hearings.
The indisputable fact must be kept be
fore the public that the prevalence of
rate cutting is an unanswerable argu
ment against giving the commission more
power, because it is due principally to
the commission's utter failure to perform
its manifest duty.
COMMISSION'S POWERS
AHK MOST AMIM>K.
The i purpose of the law was
to secure publicity and the maintenance
of tariff rates. It is the express duty of
tho commission to keep advised and en
force the law. It has the widest possible
powers of investigation, including 1 tho
right t'i call for the production of all
books,"documents and papers, and it can
require the district attorneys of the
onited Stales to prosecute all violators.
These powers have been upheld by tiie
.courts.
: The commission, however, has not only
failed to devote its time and energy to
ciscovering and prosecuting 1 violators of
ithe- law, but it has by its supine aess
acquiesced in and encouraged them, and
has done all in its power to break do»?n
the force of the act and make it a dead
letter by constantly proclaiming that the
courts have made its enforcement im-
MISS ROOSEVELT
AS A PRINCESS
nUBSIDEST'9 DAUGHTER WILL SO
I!A\K AT CORONATION OP
KING EDWARD
COULD NOT WEAR A CORONET
But Her Station in Life Would De
mand That She Be Treated Hie
game ax the Daughter of a
Ruling; Monarch.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Notwithstand
ing that President Roosevelt will not
•penly confirm the statement that Miss
Roosevelt will accompany Mr. Whitelaw
Jteid and his suite to- the coronation of
King Edward VII., it is generally under
stood in the inner circles that he has con
sented.
It is stated on good authority that Miss
Roosevelt will sail with the party "of Am
bassador Reid on June 5.
According to her station as the daugh
ter of the head of cne of the greatest
powers in the world, she should be re
ceived with most distinguished honor.
Court etiquette will be cut of place, as
the young lady is merely in the suite of
Jfr. Reid, the special American ambassa
dor. The hard and fast rules of a mon
archy make it necessary that she should
he recognized completely or not at all.
Those who know foreign customs say
that Miss Roosevelt would rank with the
princesses of the blood next to those in
immediate station to a throne, and that
If she attends the coronation she would
wear a robe of crimson, or. as it is
called, royal purple, and would be dis
tinguished from the peeresses by addi
tional bands erf ermine and miniver.
Would Wear No Coronet.
The princesses will, of course, wear
golden coronets. Miss Roosevelt will !>e
conspicuous among this group by the fact
that her head will not he adorned by the
gulden circlet, balls and strawberry
leaves, because her father's dignity is
not hereditary.
According to court etiquette another
honor is in store for Miss Roosevelt, that
of lodging at one of the royal palaces.
It will be impossible for her to travel
incognito, as is often the custom of roy
alty. Immediately her presence is known
in London the fact will be recognized by
the royal family, and every mark of at
tention and honor will be extended to her.
Th< visit cf Prince Henry to the United
States is not exactly a pai-allel -case.
"While a blood relative of the kaiser, he is
no: directly descended from the reigning
sovereign. Therefore the honor paid to
BfJaa Roosevelt will equal that which
would be given to the eldest daughter of
Emperor William or the czar himself.
In ita possibilities for the exchange of
international complications, the visit of
Miss Roosevelt to England far exceeds
in importance that of Prince Henry of
Prussia to the United States. T'ne op
p ; rtunitfea for a display of international
amity and cordiality aro greater in tha
fact that she is a young- girl, and the
felicitations will be much more subtle
charact< r.
Miss Roosevelt has asked this favor of
ber father as a birthday gift, on the oc
casion of her becoming eighteen years of
age. Her father, therefore, finds it dif
ficult to refuse her request.
Mnchias Goiiu; to Colon.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—The United
States gunboat Machias, Lieutenant
Commander Henry McCrea, which has
i the n.ivy yard here for the past
rr.onth, sailed this afternoon for the
West Indies to joil the North Atlantic
on, taking the place of the gun
beat Marietta, which is now at Colon,
to protect American interests there.
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possible whereas, not a single decision
has impaired the commission s power to
prevent rate cutting.
ACCUSED OF MAKING
UNTRUE STATEMENT.
As illustration of its-methods, it
states in Its last annual report that the
courts 'have held that to convict for pay
ing a rebate it is necessary to show not
merely that the railroad company paid a
rebate to a particular shipper, but it
must also be shown that it did not pay
the same rebate to some other shipper,
which as a practical matter is almost
impossible."
This statement is not true. The very
decision referred to distinctly holds that
the mere fact of paying a rebate from
the tariff rate is in itself an offense, re
gardless of what was paid by anybody
elee, and the act makes this offense pun
ishable by a fine, which may be as much
?s $5,000 for each instance, where the
tariff rate has been departed from.
HAS THE COMMISSION
BEEX TRIFLING?
The commission seems to have made
investigations upon the subject, not to
enforce the act, but simply to advertise
its contention that the act is not en
forceable. Moreover, no part of 'he new
power now asked by the commission
would have the remotest ' tendency to
prevent this late cutting, and this re
port shows that this is now the evil to be
contended v> ilh.
I make no atempt to excus c the rail
roads for violating the law, but I insist
that the commission's attitude is inex
cusable. Offended because the courts
overruled its erroneous assumption of
power in other directions, it has been
sulking for years—trying to create the
false impression that the act is worth
less and seeking to use the rate cutting
which it could and ought to have pie
vented as a basis for demanding radical
powers which would in now way tend to
correct it.
ALLEGED MURDERER
IS ROUNDED UP
ARRESTED AT SI PERIOIt FOR
KILLING IX NORTH DAKOTA
Has Dodged the Cffficers for Eight
een Months, hat Liquor Is Said to
Have Loosened His Tongue
to a Friend.
Speciisl to The Globe.
BISMARCK. N. D., Feb. 2.—After being
eighteen rronths at liberty and wanted
by officials for the murder of Simon
Welch, four miles from this city, ofli
cere here have received word that Ulric
Chilkoff is in custody of the police at
West Superior, and Sheriff Bogue and
State's Attorney Allen left this afternoon
to bring him Lack.
Chilkoff is an ex-convict, and is charged
with having murdered Welch at his farm
house in May. 1900. Welch was a miser
and believed to keep a large sum of
money in his house.
Suspicion was attracted to Chilkoff tro m
the fact that he was known to have
been endeavoring to gain the confidence
of the old man. When Welch's death
was discovered Chilkoff was at a grading
camp on the Wa.shburn road. Rumors
reached him that he was suspected, and
he left camp in the night, escaping
only a few minutes before the officers
arrived to arrest him. He boarded a
through freight train for Minneapolis and
has eluded the officers since that time.
Chilkoff was working in the lumber
woods near Super.or when arrested, and
is said to have confided his crime to a
supposed friend when under the influence
of liquor. The news was carried to the
Superior police, and the arrest followed.
WAS BUT HALF MADE UP
YOl \G MAN, PHYSICALLY DEFECT.
IVE, DELIBERATELY KILLS
HIMSELF AT BEMJDJI AND
HIDES IDENTITY.
BEMIDJI, Minn., Feb. 2.—A peculiar
suicide occurred here Friday night, when
an unknown young man who had ar
rived that morning took a dose of
strychnine. Nothing indicating his iden
tity was found, except the following
strange note:
"Expecting to end my existence to
night, I write these lines in explanation
of the deed. On account of a peculiar
physical defect my life has been one of
misery, both to myself and to those with
whom I have lived. This defect, of
course, is something for which I am not
to blame and also something which I
can never get rid of. So I think I am
fully justified in taking this course, in
fact I think it is my duty to my fellow
man, as a firm believer in the Christian
religion. Wish no effort to be made to
find relatives."
He was about twenty-five years old,
six feet tall and dark.
ALLEGED SWINDLER IS IN
PHYSICIANS IX SEVERAL STATES
THE VICTIMS.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—James B. Agnew,
who claims relationship with the well
known Philadelphia family of that name,
is under arrest here, charged with swind
ling several hundred physicians in Il
linois, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota and
Wisconsin out of small sums of money.
He- is charged with having fraudulent
ly obtained cash subscriptions to a Chi
cago medical publication, with which he
had no business connection. Agnew came
to Chicago from New York.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1902.
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HUSH, HUSH, HUSH; BEHOLD THE THOUGHTFUL VAN,
TO TURN ON
THE LIGHT
DEMOCRATS OF THE HOUSE ARK
READY TO OPES UP WHCiLE
TARIFF QUESTION
TWO REPORTS ON TAX REPEAL
Minority Will Agree With the Ma
jority Determination to Repeal
War Taxes, but Will Also
Discuss Other Points.
OLEOMARGARINE BILL TO PASS
WASHINGTON", Feb. 2.—The majority
and minority reports on the bill reduc
ing the war revenue taxes are practical
ly completed, the purpose being to re
port the bill to the house after a meet
ing of the ways and means committee
tomorrow.
Chairman Payne's majority report is
foreshadowed in his recent statement
when the bill was agreed upon. It deals
mainly with the extent and details of
the reduction, which is said to be the
largest single reduction of taxation ever
made by a nation.
The minority of the committee confer
red today, and will meet at 11 a. m. to
morrow to sign the final draft of their
report. It will concur with the majority
in supporting tax reduction, but will
discuss the general question of tariff re
vision; and in the debate on the floor
the Democrats will open up the whole
subject.
The question of Cuban reciprocity is
also to be debated at length, as members
on both sides of the house are anxious
to define their positions.
The friends of the oleomargarine bill,
which has been made a special con
tinuing order for tomorrow, have no
doubt of its passage. They regard the
vote on the adoption of the special or
der last Friday as practically a test
vote. The bill is practically the old
Grout bill imposing a tax of 10 cents a
pound on products colored in imitation
of butter and to make retail dealers who
color oleomargarine subject to the same
penalties as the manufacturers.
Something Doing in Senate.
For the most part the senate will di
vide its time this week between the Phil
ippine tariff bill and the bill increasing
the salaries of members of the federal
judiciary. The salary bill is in charge
of Senator Hoar, and will be considered
in the morning hour of the senate each
day until It is disposed of, while the
Philippine bill, which is in the hands of
Senator Lodge, will continue to have
right of way as the unfinished business
after 2 o'clock of each day.
The salary bill wiil be the subject only
of running debate, but a number of set
speeches will be made on the other
measure. Among the senators who will
be heard during the week are Messrs.
Teller, Turner, Carmack and Culberson.
It is not probable that the debate on
the Filipino bill will be concluded dur
ing the week.
The friends of the judicial salary bill*
hope to conclude its consideration at a
comparatively early day. They say that
Senator Stewart's amendment increasing
the salaries of senators and members of
congress will be unceremoniously voted
down.
Monday Senator Hale, from the com
mittee on appropriation, will report the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill and
ask to have it considered on the follow
ing day. The amendments in this bill
providing for the entertainment of
Prince Henry and the expenses of this
country' incident to the coronation may
lead to some discussion, but no doubt
is entertained of the final favorable dis
position of those items.
GOT EVEN WITH DADDY
SUPPOSED HO'OSIER, MAID WAS A
WIFE FOR MONTHS.
Special to The Globe.
MARION, Ind., Feb. 2.—Miss Frances
Wilson, a petite and pretty young lady
of Fairmount, this county, created a
surprise yesterday by s/nnoucing that she
was married last June to T. L. Bakf-r, a
prominent young man of Hartford City,
the wedding having occurred at Louis
ville. The young woman is the daughter
of John ii. Wilson, ex-postma?ter, and
one of the county's best known politici
ans and business men.
A year or so ago, Mr. Wilson married
a second wife, the first intimation his
family had of his intention being a news
paper announcement of the wedding.
The daughter planned her secret mar
riage as a means of getting even. The
young couple were to have been married
on Sunday, and the lamily and invited
guests were greatly surprised when
the announcement of the last June' 3
wedding was made.
PILGRIMAGE TO
JACKSON'S TOMB
MADE, BY ADMIRAL SCHLEY AXl>
WIFE, WHO ARE COMPELLED
TO HOLD AS IMPROMPTU
RECEPTION.
NASHVILLE, Term., Feb. 2.—Admiral
and Mrs. Schley braved the cold today
for a visit to the tomb of Andrew Jack
son. The trip to the Hermitage, twelve
miles out on the Nashville, Chattanooga
& St. Louis road, VvV.s made in a special
train. Arriving there the party was
taken in charge of a committee of the
Ladies' Hermitage association and es
corted to the brick church where Jack
son worshiped. There services were
conducted by Rev. T>. C. Kelley, a Meth
odist minister, -<vno v !th the rank of
colonel, commanded a bnga.de of Confed
erates under Gen. .Nathan J. Forrest.
After the services, which were largely
attended by people of the "Hermitage
District," the distinguished visitors were
forced to hold something of a levee, the
congregation tiling by and shaking
hands.
A luncheon at the old Jackson home
under the auspices cf the Hermitage as
sociation followed iii.d then came an in
spection of the historic mansion, which
is kept as Jackson left it. Keenest in
terest was displayed by the visitors in
all pertaining to the home life of the hero
of New Orleans. The last point visited
was the tomb in the garden, where the
soldier-statesman and his wife ileep side
by side.
The return to the city was by way of
the Confederate Soldiers' home. Tonight
Admiral and Mrs. Schley attended
Christ church.
EMACIATED MURDERERS
BROUGHT TO BAY IS THE WOODS
AMtn CAPTURED.
BROCKWAYVILLE, Pa., Feb. 2.—Half
naked and nearly starved, Thomas Mada
iena and Bennie Poli, the Italians, wanted
for the murder of James Heekin, at
Shawmut Saturday, Jan. 28, were brought
to bay in a lonely woods near Grenshaw,
two miles from this place, last night,
and captured.
The two Italians have been pursued and
searched for since the night of their
crime, and the commissioner of Klk
county and the Shawmut Mining com
pany had offered a reward of $1,090 for
their capture. The murderers had been
hiding in the woods since Heekin was
murdered. They declared last night that
they had nothing to eat for four days
and were nearly famished. When four
Italian deputies under Squire Keys ap
peared they were too weak to offer any
material resistance and were easily over
powered by the posse.
STATC OCTO
LONG STANDING DISPUTE BETWEGX
STATE AXD D. & I. R. IS
SETTLED
FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND ACRES
Tlie Tract Secnred Was by Mis
take Included in the
Land Grant of the
Road
LOCHREN TO MODIFY DECREE
State Auditor Dunn has just completed
negotiations with the Duluth & Iron
Range road whereby.a large amount of
valuable mineral land has been reserved
to the state and the consequent saving
to the state roughly estimated to be
nearly $1,000,000. This land has been in
litigation for some years between the
State and the railroad company and Mr.
Dunn has been engaged for nearly a year
in an effort to effect a compromise with
the railroad company.
The Duluth & Iron JEtange road was
many years ago granted 600,000 acres of
swamp land by the state and made its
selection which included 45,057 acres of
valuable mineral lands which had been
already selected by the state for state
institutions. This land was granted to
the road on the basis of ten sections of
swamp land for every mile of railroad
built. The company's title became some
what clouded by reason of alleged failure
to comply with certain conditions of the
gTant, and the suit resulted.
Jan. 8, 1900, Judge Lochren of the
United States court decided that the
company's title was valid and attached
to its decree was a list of lands to which
the company's title was declared ab
solute. Over a year later it was discov
ered that this list included by mistake
45,079 acres of land held in trust by the
state for the benefit of state institutions.
An investigation developed that the error
was a clerical one or a misapprehension
on the part of the attorneys. The prob
lem, however, was a difficult one for the
state, because the time for the appeal
from the decree had expired. Proposals
were then submitted by the state officials
to the railroad company for an adjust
ment and after long negotiations these
have been accepted.
The proposals made by the state, and
which have been agreed to by the railway
company are: 1. The company is to re
lease ail state institution land included
in the judges decree. 2. The state is
to make no more selections of land in
St. Louis and Cook counties until the
company's grant is filled. 3. The state
agrees to deed to the company all clear
lands it has heretofore accepted, except
state institution lands. 4. The company
agrees to make its selections within six
months after the land has been certified
to the state. 5. The state and company
agree to urge the interior department to
complete surveys In St. Louis and Cook
counties.
The final act in the agreement will take
place today in Judge Lochren's court
when the Judge will modify his decree in
accordance with the stipulations decided
upon by the state and the company.
The attorney for the Duluth & Tron
Range company was Frank B. Kellogg
and the negotiations on behalf of the
state were conducted by Auditor R. C.
Dunn.
Badger Centenarian Dead.
■-■ MILWAUKEE, Feb. ' Michael
O Brier, who would have been one hun
dred-years old had: he lived until Aug. 14
next, died today, at the home of his
daughter.". Mrs. Singleton, on Potter ave
nue. Mr. O'Brien was a former well
known lead miner, having been interest
ed- for • many; years in a section , known a:
the "Kew Diggins,'* near Wyorrrng. Wis.
)ir."CT.'!cn's longevity .was .said tto be
due to regular habit* of living.
PRICK TWO CENTS—{ On Trains. .
TWO MILLION DOLLAR
LOSS DV FIERCE FIRE
People of Waterbury, Connecticut,
Spending an Anxious Night in
Watching Roaring Flames.
MUCH OF THE BUSINESS PART IN RUINS
WATERBURY, Ccnn., Feb. 2.—ln the
hardest gale of the winter, Waterbury
struggled tonight with a fire that de
stroyed a large area of the bu««:iess sec
tion of the city and threatened to wipe
it out completely.
The blaze started in the upholstery
department on the third floor of the store
of the Read & Hughes Dry Goods com
pany, at 108-120 Bank street, and that
store and many adjoining buildings were
reduced in a few hours to smoldering
embers.
An estimate of $2,000,000 as the amount
of property loss on buildings and con
tents was considered conservative by in
surance men. The origin of the fire is
unknown, and it was not discovered until
it had gained tremendous headway. At
6:15 p. m. three employes of the Read
& Hughes company were in the store, an!
when they left they noticed no odor of
smoke about the main floor.
FLAMES BURST OUT
QUICKLY AND FIERCE;*.V.
Fifteen minutes later flames were seen
to burst with great force from the win
dows on the third floor and almost si
multaneously from the basement. Be- j
fore anybody could ring in an alarm
the whole interior of the building was a
mass of flames.
When the department reached the j
scene iiames were issuing from every
window of the building and it was evi
dent that the structure was doomed and
the entire business se.ction of the city
was imperilled.
Tha fire started in a drizzling rain w»t»i
a rapidly rising wind and with;
the increasing cold the rain turned to'
snow. The wind was at first shifting
but it settled toward the east and car
ried destruction with It.
The first building to catch from the
store was a tall structure to the west
ward occupied by the Salvation Army
barracks and a Turkish bath. A momentj
or two later the flames leaped back to '
the eastward across Bank street and
wiped out the Ryan & Fitzmaurice block,
Cannon & Webster's drug store, Davis'
cigar store, and the store of J. B. Mul
lings & Sons.
APPALLING OUTLOOK
BRINGS OUT MILITIA.
They burned rapidly througn to South
Main street and jumped across that
street, shriveling the buildings like paper.
At the same* time thg flames caught the
Masonic Temple and traveled from the
Salvation Army building to the reai* of
the Franklin house on Grand street, and
the entire blick, consisting of seven or
eight handsome five-story buildings, with
MEXICAN DISASTER
GROWS IN HORROR
ONE HUNDRED AND SIX MINERS
WEKE ENTOMBED BY THE EX
PLOSION AND ALL ARJS GIV
EN UP FOR DEAD.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Feb. 2.—The lat
est information from the Hondo, Mex.,
mire explosion shows it to have been
fully as serious as at first reported.
There was a total of 106 miners at work
in the mine when the explosion occurred
and all of them are dead The majority
of the victims are Mexicans and China
men, very few Americans having been at
work in the mine.
Every mule in the mine was kiHed,
three dead ones being taken from the
debris today. The work of clearing away
the wreck in order to get to the bodies
is being rushed as rapidly as possible,
but there is no hope that any of the HHJ
men will be rescued alive.
The explosion was occasioned by strik
ing a gas pocket. The mine is the prop
erty of the Coahuila Coal company, K.
M. McKerney being superintendent. The
names of none of the victims have been
learned here. The loss to the owners of
the mine is very heavy. _
WHITNEY WILL RETIRE
NOTED NEW YORKER WILL NOW
ENJOY HIMSELF.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—William C. Whit
ney, financier and ex-secretary of the
navy, after about twenty-five years of
far-reaching activity in the world of af
fairs, has decided to retire from business
life. He confirmed this statement tonight,
saying:
"Yes, I have decided to give up work
and settle down to enjoy the rest to
which I think I am entitled. It always
had been my intention to withdraw form
active business when I reached the age
of sixty. Now I have passed the limit.
I am out for good."
Mr. Whitney said he had shifted the
burden of his many interests to the
shoulders of younger men. He also inti
mated that he could not be tempted to
enter politics agian.
Right Newspaper Spirit.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 2.— W. F.
Thompson, former proprietor of the Yu
kon Sun, is leaving Vancouver for Ot
tawa and New York to endeavor to per
fect arrangements for the use of the
Marconi system in transmitting mes
sages to Dawson. The government tele
graph line to Dawson is down so much
of the time that it Is declared to be
practically a failure.
Hidden Gold Found.
MARSHALL, Mich., Feb. 2.—lt is said
that relatives rf James Lee, a pioneer
resident of Calhcun, who died yester
day at his home in Fredonia township,
have found $6,000 in gold buried in a
tin can in the cellar of hia residence.
thirty tenements, and the large and com
modious headquarters' of the Waterbury
American .were in ruins before midnight.
After 9 o'clock the militia was called
out to preserve order.
There was serious talk of blowing up
buildings to prevent the spread of the
flames, but the fire was temporarily un
der control at 10:30 o'clock. It had been
checked on South Main street and indi
cations were that it would content itself
on Center street with burning out the
long block that contained the Franklin
house and the American office.
OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE
WAS CALLED FOH.
Shortly after midnight the fire, which
had apparently been brought under con
trol, broke out in new places, and the
efforts of the lecal firemen, combined i
with the aid given by fire fighters and
apparatus from Hartford, Torrington,
Bridgeport, New Haven and Naugatuck,
seemed powerless to stay its progress.
The blaze was wiping out the business
portion of the city, all the fire being
confined to that part of the city, though
tl.e residential section was in danger
by sparks driven by the furious wind.
Jr. the panic caused by the fire there
ver« many rumors of accidents and fa
talities, but at the Waterbury hospital
at 1 o'clock it was said that no accidents
or deaths had been reported there.
At that hour the fire was still burn
ing, though as viewed from the hospital,
which is on an eminence commanding a
view of the city, it appeared that its
vigor was abating. Hope was expressed
that the worst of the fire was over, and
that it would be soon under control.
NAMES OF LOSERS,
AMOUNTS OF LOSSES.
Losfcs reported on buildings burned are
as follows: W. H. Camp block, in which
was located Ried & Hughes' store. $75,
--000; Masonic temple, $50,000; O'Connor
block, $35,000; Greenberg & Buckner, $30,
--000; Old American block, Charles Miller
owner, J35,(C0; Johnson H;ck. J40.000; Jones
Morgan & Co., cloihiers, $aO,Ot)O; J. is. JMiilJ
ings & Son., clothiers, S 100,000; Camp
block, in process of demolition, J50.C00;
New England Engineering empany $75,000;
Franklin house, totally destroyed, $40,000;
Turkish bath, \V. G. Schlegel, proprietor,
.-"Jean Jacques block, $-W,COO; Mrs.
W. C. Bannon's block, occupied by Anson
Sellew company, $7o,000; George E. Judd,
block, occupied by La Palme-Hoffman
company, $35,000: Ashworth block, occu
pied by B. C. Church company. $30,0U<);
Waterbury A.merican, loss on building,
$50,000; Schlitz Brewing company, ?3;'.
--000; Conlon Bros., $50,000; Edward 14c-
Graw, two blocks. $65,000; Melgs block,
|4©,000; Whittlesey block. $20,000; Boston
Furniture company, $40,000; Bronson,
block, $35,000;
TWO SUSPECTS
ARE ARRESTED
MINNEAPOLIS DETECTIVES GATH
ER IN A. J. STANLEY AND WM
HARRISON ON SUSPICION OF
MURDERING MAYER.
At 2 o'clock this morning Officer Rhodes
and Detectives Brackett and Malone, of
Minneapolis, arrested A. J. Stanley, alias
Fairbanks, and William Harrison in that
city on suspicion of being implicated in
the shooting of Officer Mayer in the real'
of Jossrang's saloon Friday night.
The Minneapolis police refuse to give
their reasons for believing that the men
were mixed up in the affair, and say the
suspects are being held pending further
investigation.
At the central station in this city no
information could be obtained as to
whether these men art suspected or not.
_—^egy. ; •.
tiearmakers Back; to Work,
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 2.—At a conference
between a committee of the striking ci
sarmukers and the officers of the Ameri
can Cigar company here, in whose fac
tories the recent cigarmakers' strike is
effective, held today, an as.reement was
reached by which all the men will return
tc work tomorrow morning. A compro
mise for the present was reached.
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BULLET IX OF
IMPOKTANT NEWS OF THE DAY
Weather Forecast for St. Paul:
Fair; Probably Warmer.
; 1—52,000,000 Fire at Wnterbnry,
Murder Suspects Arrested.'
Interstate Commission Hit.
House Democrat)* Loaded.
•Minnesota Gets Rich Lands.
~ Biddle Boys Were Riddled.
2—Police Hot After Murderers.
Whitney Indorses Tax Code.
Weiss Criticises Child*.
Dr. Smith at Metropolitan,
dipt. Pond on Hawaii.
3—News of the Northwest.
- Wife Sues for $25,000.
4— Editorial Comment.
1~ Theatrical-Reviews.
Notes of Industrial World.
C. D. O'Brien on Tax Law.
New York: Letter.
—Bllzeards Spread Far-
Sporting: Gossip. '
©—.News of the Railroads.
- Globe Popular ' Wants,..', -
. Henry Clews' Review.
■..'■ Government Statistics.
Redemption Advertisements.
Daily Short Story. -.
School Board Report.