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THE WEATHER:
In St. Paul and vicinity today:
Showers and cooler.
VOL. XXVI.—NO. 269.
CORRUPTION IS
DUG UP IN DETROIT
Six Officials Are Indicted
on Charges of Defrauding
the City.
DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 25.—Six in
dictments were returned this afternoon
by the grand jury, which has been in
vestigating municipal affairs, and par
ticularly of public works, for the last
two months. Five of them were made
public in court and they name the fol
1< wing: D. W. H. Moreland, former
commissioner of public works, recently
removed from office by the council;
Herman Wartell and T. J. White, for
mer employes of the public works de
partment under Moreland; John Hock,
;i former department of works employe
and contractor; Henry Merdian, a con
tractor, and his associate, Robert Oon
v.ay.
Moreland is named in each of the five
indictments read in court this after
noon. Two of the indictments charge
him with conspiracy to defraud, and
the other three with misappropriation
and converting property of the city to
the use of others. In the first of the
indictments alleging conspiracy, it is
charged that Moreland, Merdian, Con
way, Wartell and White conspired in
March, 1902, to defraud the city of
$1,000 through the pay rolls of the de
partment of public works for street
sweeping and teaming, and in the sec
ond, that Moreland, with Wartell,
White and Hock, conspired in the same
month to defraud the city out of $1,000
through street sweeping and teaming
bills.
The other three indictments charge
Moreland, under a special statute, with
converting 1,735 feet of Medina curb
stone, valued at $800, to Thomas J.
Kennedy; with converting 1,052 cubic
yards of sand, worth $500, to Henry
Merdlan & Co., and with converting 400
yards of crushed stone, worth $409, to
John Archer and John Hock. The sixth
Indictment was not read in court, and
Prosecutor Hunt declined to state to
night whether or not it named any
persons mentioned in the other five.
Mr. Moreland came into court this
evening and when asked to plead stood
mute on advice of his attorney. The
judge, accordingly, entered a plea of
not guilty and fixed Mr. Moreland's bail
on all five indictments at $6,600. It
was given. John Hock was also in
court and gave $1,800 bail. Warrants
for the arrest of the other indicted men
were issued and placed in the hands of
the sheriff. None of them has yet been
arrested. Henry Merdian is ill at his
home and will be unable to be arraign
ed in court.
DES MOINES MILLIONAIRE
TIES HIS PROPERTY UP
It Must Be Held in Trust for a Century-One of His Children
Special to The Globe.
DES MOINES, lowa,.Sept. 25.— F. M.
Hubbell, of this city, capitalist and
railroad broker, today transferred his
entire estate, which is estimated to be
worth $2,750,000, to himself and two
sons as trustees to be held by them and
succeeding trustees for the benfit of
his heirs. He makes a provision that
no part of it shall be sold and that it
is to be held intact until twenty-one
years after the death of all present
living heirs.
The youngest is now seven and it is
figured this will bring the trusteeship
Features of The Sunday Globe
Tomorrow's Globe will present to its readers a rare collection of
good things, not piled up ad nauseum in blanket form, but the best
things in the news and from the pens of writers on current live topics
put into presentable form and illustrated. Among these features which
may be honestly commended are:
A Talk With the Janitor.
By Wilberforce Jenkins (Illustrated).
Being calculated to appeal to the flat dweller who knows the janitor and
may appreciate some exaggeration of his peculiar qualities. The article
is clever and the illustrations funny.
Ohimmie Fadden on Art and Things.
By E. W. Townsend (Illustrated).
In which the inimitable Chames plays on the emotions and says some
things and others quite worth remembering.
The Moscow Home of Count Tolstoy.
« By Marshall Lord (Illustrated).
Very little is known of the home and family of the great Russian sociolo
gist. Mr. Lord has talked intimately with Countess Tolstoy and tells in a
most interesting way unknown facts of the sort of life the countess has
spent with her genius.
Glasgow, the Most Drunken City in the World.
By Curtis Brown (Illustrated).
The chief city of Scotland is distinguished for its civic reforms but of the
life of the submerged ten thousand we know nothing. The story that is
.told is harrowing, but In no sense offensive. It deals with the unhaDDV
women and children who live on gin. umia^y
The Mail Service of St. Paul.
A canvass of the business men of the city elicits the fact that the estab
lishment of the Commercial station did not expedite the delivery of mail
The service is said to be worse than it was before.
Reminiscences of Mgr. Rauoux.
The Rev. George Pax tells how Mgr. Ravoux was made a bishop thirty
five years ago and was never consecrated. Some of the early experiences
of Mgr. Ravoux are recalled by the recurrence of the anniversary of the
founding of a church at Mendota.
Veterans of the Police and Fire Departments.
Men who have distinguished themselves by their long service in the pro
tective departments of the government of St. Paul.
A resume of the social news of the week, and gossip of society. This
department is unrivaled for its thoroughness.
A foreign special page that covers the events of the old world thor
oughly.
All the news that is worth printing and many readable things not class
ified as news.
ORDER YOUR SUNDAY GLOBE TODAY
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE.
DISOBEYS ORDERS
AND LEAVES TRAIN
Engineer Had a ''Hunch" That
Robbers Were Awaiting
His Charge.
WOONSOCKET, R. 1.. Sept. 25.—Be
cause the trained eye of Engineer
George W. Boss recognized in the awk
ward swing of a lantern the work of a
novice, he pulled the throttle wide
open and drove his train swiftly by a
danger signal set dead against him and
frustrated what is believed to have
been an attempt to hold up the boat
train at Plummer's Ledge, a lonely spot
a mile north of Whitin's Station, on the
New York. New Haven & Hartford
railroad last night.
Four cars full of passengers, uncon
scious of probable peril, were landed
safely in Providence, and the engineer,
who had assumed an awful responsi
bility, went to the office of Supt. A. R.
Vt'haley to report that he had matched
his Judgment against the ironclad or
ders of the road and won.
That there was a deliberate attempt
by ten men to hold up the train there
is little doubt, but little was known of
the affair until tonight, when Deputy
Sheriff Bacon was called into the case
by Supt, Whaley, and. fully armed,
took his place by the side of the engi
neer and accompanied the train from
Worcester and Providence.
SETS GROSSCUP RUMOR
COMPLETELY AT REST
Northern Securities Official Says Coun
selship Has Not Been Offered to
Judge.
A report has been persistently circu
lated in and out of Chicago to the effect
that Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of the
United States circuit court, has been
offered the place of counsel for the
Northern Securities company. The ru
mor was not verified in Chicago and no
reason could be assigned for its spread.
It was stated on the authority of a
high official of the Northern Securities
company last night that there was no
possible foundation for the rumor. The
place had not been offered to Judge
Grosscup and there was no ground
whatever for the story.
"As a general thing we pay no atten
tion to these rumors," said this official,
"but this is a case where justice to
Judge Grosscup demands that an ex
plicit denial should be made and the
story set at rest. It is utterly base
less."
Is a Countess.
to a close at the end of a century. If
at that time there are no living heirs he
provides that his wealth shall go to
the state for the erection of a univer
sity in Dcs Moines. He has three chil
dren—the Countess Wachtemeister,
now living in Paris; Fred C. Hubbell,
of Dcs Moines, and Grover C. Hubbell,
a student in Tale college. Fred C. has
two children.
If at the end of the 100 years there
are any lineal descendants the property
is to be divided share and share alike.
He inserts a disinheritance clause for
any one who becomes a spendthrift. He
provides that his $150,000 residence on
Grand avenue shall be maintained by
the trustees for the eldest living de
scendant.
The Only Democratic newspaper or General Circulation In the Northwest.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 19O3.—TEN PAGES.
/Tan *o r \
THE SIGNAL FOR THE DRAWBRIDGE.
STOCHMARKETSHOWS
MM IMPROVEMENT
But United States Steel Con
tinues Weak, Without Any
Adequate Explanation.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—The stock
market as a whole showed very decid
ed Improvement at today's close and
sentiment was apparently more cheer
ful. Nevertheless, the same influences
that have made more directly for lower
prices during the past few months were
again in evidence —namely, the extreme
weakness of United States Steel issues.
The common and preferred shares, as
well as the 5 per cent bonds, began the
day with new low records, recovered
in part on good support and in the
early afternoon burst "wide open" on
a fresh bear raid. Id the final deal
ings, while the balance of the list was
showing a very firm undertone, an
other attack on the steel issues oc
curred and the stocks closed with net
losses of % and 1 per cent for the
common and preferred, respectively,
while the bonds closed at 71% after
touching a new low record of 70%.
Dealings in steel were enormous, to
tal sales aggregating over 175,000
shares, about one-fifth of the day's
business. These stocks were offered in
big lots throughout the day. Trading
in the bonds was also in tremendous
volume and completely overshadowed
all other issues in the bond list.
No particular reason can be advanc
ed for the continued weakness of the
steel securities, aside from general dis
trust regarding conditions in the in
dustrial world and the apparent lack
of support, except at critical periods.
One of the day's many rumors had it
that a firm prominent in the original
Continued on Seventh Page.
SAY THEY SEE GHOST
Section Men Disturbed by Spir
it of Man Killed by Cars.
Special to The Globe.
ST. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 25.—Does
the ghost of Herman Neitzell walk?
If you ask any one of the five men
comprising the section crew of the
Great Northern just east of Sauk Cen
ter he will answer in the affirmative
and involuntarily shudder as he makes
reply.
Neitzell was killed by the cars two
weeks ago between Sauk Center and
Melrose. It is believed that seven
trains passed over his mangled re
mains before they were found by the
section crew in the gray of an early
morning and taken to Melrose, where
an inquest was held. The grewsome
sight that met the gaze of the crew ha 3
not been forgotten, for they say that
every day they see the ghost of poor
Neitzell walk down the railway track.
Neitzell was a young carpenter liv
ing at Evansville, and it is said that
there is positive evidence that he
bought a ticket at Evansville for Mel
rose, and that he had $20 in money in,
his clothing. When his mangled re
mains were examined at the improvis
ed morgue at Melrose, under the di
rection of Coroner Hilbert, not a cent
rewarded the searchers. The fact in
dicates robbery, and the theory pre
vails that Neitzell was held up and
robbed and then thrown from the train
to conceal the evidence of crime.
Tramps are naturally suspected of the
deed.
And now the section men maintain
that the unquiet spirit of the murdered
man haunts the place where he met so
horrible a death. They say that in
the early morning, and toward even
ing, as they approach the place where
the body was found, the man's wraith
may be seen walking steadily down
the railway track until he comes to
the place where he met his end and
then it suddenly vanishes into noth
ingness. The section men are intelli
gent and their statements are founded
on an absolute belief in what they say.
Money cannot hire them to go over the
track alone at any time during the
day and when nightfall is coming down
the whole crew manifest an uneasiness
in approaching the spot that is thrill
ing. The section men make no effort
to explain. Seeing is believing with
them, and they do not care to investi
gate too fully.
STRIKE OE MASTERS
AND PILOTS ENDS
Agreement Is Made With Lake
Carriers' Association In Which
Employes Have Advantage.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 26.—The
negotiations looking toward a settle
ment of the differences between vessel
owners and the American Association
of Masters and Pilots came to a suc
cessful conclusion this afternoon. The
Pittsburgh Steamship company receded
from its position relative to Capt.
Frank Rae, of the steamer Clemson, and
his mates, who are not members of the
association. The remaining griev
ances of the men were waived for the
present time and arrangements were
made for the holding <5t a meeting after
the close of the present season of navi
gation.
The agreement entered into between
the Pittsburg Steamship company and
the association is:
"First. —Capt. Frank Rae to be re
lieved from command of the steamer
Clemson at once, the vessel to be
manned with members of the Masters
and Pilots' association. That in the
event Capt. Frank Rae will file an ap
plication for membership in the Mas
ters and Pilots' association within fif
teen days from date the board of di
rectors and the committee having in
charge the negotiations of a settlement
of this controversy pledge themselves
to use their best efforts to have it fa
vorably acted upon prior to the meet
ing of the Masters and Pilots' and the
Lake Carriers' associations, to be held
during the winter.
"Second —All members of the Mas
ters and Pilots' association to return
at once to the samt positions they oc-
Continued on Seventh Page.
TWO WOMEN DROWN
Mrs. Perkins and Daughter
Perish While Crossing River.
Special to The Globe.
DUNDEE, Minn., Sept. 25.—Mrs.
Perkins and daughter, of Bingham
Lake, were drowned while trying to
cross the Dcs Molnes river, three miles
north of this place. The team was
also drowned, but a boy, about twelve
years old, whe was with them, was
rescued by a man living close by the
river.
THE NEW£ INDEXED.
PAGE I.
Turkey. Appoints Reform Commission.
; Minneapolis Millers Refuse to Arbitrate.
j Two Minnesota Women Drowned.
; Day in Wall Street.
Strike on Lakes Ends.
Corruption in Detroit.
PA£E 11.
Michael Says Gas Franchise Is Worth
$500,000. ,
) Hal Packer Charged With Bigamy.
Three Men Hurt by Fall of Scaffold.
First Warders Make General Complaint
PAGE ill.
Minneapolis Matters.
News of the Northwest.
Minnesota W. C. T. U, Convention.
PAGE IV.
Editorial Comment.
Affairs Abroad.
Progress of Ziegler Expedition.
PAGE V.
Baseball.
PAGE VI.
Of^lnterest to Women;
Short Story.
PAGE VII.
; Senator McC umber Would Amend Ir
rigation Bill.
News of the Railroads.
PAGE VIU.
Weekly Trade Review.
Globe Popular Wants.
PAJSE IX.
Markets.
PAGE X.
Discouraged Man Killed by Cars.
j Dogs Assessed at $5.
New Guns for National Guard.
MILLERS REFUSE
TO ARBITRATE
Declare Ultimatum In Letter to
Mayor - Employ "U" Stu-
dents in Strikers' Places.
The solution of the big milling strike
resolves itself into the possibility of the
millers securing men to take the strik
ers' places. There is no doubt that they
mean to endeavor to replace the strik
ers with a new set of men, no matter
what the cost for the present.
The latest confirmation of this atti
tude is in a letter from the millers ad
dressed last night to Mayor Haynes.
The mayor, in response to the re
quest of a delegation representing the
strikers, had written the millers urging
them to accept a settlement by arbitra
tion. The strikers had offered to leave
the reasonableness of their demand for
an eight-hour day for the flour loaders
to a committee of five representative
citizens to be appointed by the mayor,
and he wrote the millers:
"To my mind, this offer is strickly in
line with the modern and wholesome
tendency to adjust alt disputes through
the rational medium of conciliation rath
er than by forceful means.
"This is especially true as applied to
vast business industries such as your
own, the prolonged cessation of which
necessarily entails so much distress and
loss upon the various other business in
terests of the city as well as upon the
many families directly concerned.
"While I feel that your acceptance will
impose a somewhat delicate task upon
myself, still, I sincerely trust that you
may see your way clear to accept, and
thus prevent what may otherwise prove a
Continued on Third Page.
MRS. MAYBRICK RICH
Will Be Heir to $7,000,000
When She Leaves Prison.
NEW YORK. Sept. 25.—According to
the statement of her lawyer, Daniel S.
Decker, today Mrs. Florence Maybrick,
when she conies out of prison in Eng
land will be heir to about $7,000,000.
While her mother, the Baroness de
Rouques, lives Mrs. Maybrick will be
dependent on her bounty, as this es
tate must be held together; but on her
death it will become the property, out
right, of Mrs. Maybrick.
The hearing that was to have been
held today before Referee John H.
Judge, at No. 29 Broadway, was post
poned until Oct. 6 to ask an accounting
of the two trustees of her grandfather's
estate. It was expected that something
like $40,000 would be recovered by
these proceedings, and the general im
pression was that this would be all that
the Baroness de Rouques and Mrs.
Maybrick had left after the tremen
dous expense the mother had gone to
to free her daughter.
The statement of Mr. Decker, there
fore, created surprise.
"We have already recovered a good
part of the lands in Virginia," said Mr.
Decker, "because they were deeded
away without proper authority. Darius
Blake Holbrook, Mrs. Maybrick's
grandfather, owned immense tracts
there and In West Virginia, and we
have recently found that he also own
ed valuable property on Fourteenth
street, near Broadway, this city.
Darius Blake Holbrook was associ
ated with Cyrus Field in the laying of
the trans-Atlantic cable, and when he
died was one of the richest men in the
South. He left his entire fortune to his
daughter, who was then married to
William H. Chandler, with the rever
sionary interest to her daughter, who
grew up and married James Maybrick,
of Norfolk, Va,, and Liverpool, England.
For the murder of her husband Mrs.
Maybrick was sentenced to death,
which sentence was afterward com
muted to imprisonment. It was an
nounced a short time ago that Mrs.
Maybrick would be released from
prison in 1904.
Curtis Jett Is Sentenced.
CYNTHIANA, Ky.. Sept. 26.—Curtis
Jett was brought into court today when
Judge Osborne decreed that he be
hanged "between sunrise and sunset
Dec. 18, for killing James Cockrill at
Jackson, Ky., July 21, 1902."
PRICE TWO CENTS.
TURKEY MAKES A
BLUFF AT REFORM
Mixed Commission Is Announced to Execute the Pro
gramme of Reforms in Macedonia— Various Nation
alities Are Represented Thereon—The Porte Follows
This Up by Ordering Mobilization of More Troops.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 25.—The
composition of the mixed commission
to carry out the programme of reforms
in Macedonia is officially announced
today. Hilmi Pasha is president of the
committee, and the others members are
Khulussi Bey, president of the munici
pal council of Salonica; Rikola Roheff,
Bulgaria, and Noumie Nikursuh, Greek,
both members of the court of justice at
Monastir; Niko, Servian, member of
the court of justice at Uskub, and Kut
so Yani, Roumanian.
The commission will sit temporarily
at Monastlr. An irade has been issued
ordering the civil and military authori
ties to obey the commission's regula
tions.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 25. —Simul-
taneously with the issue of the irade
appointing the mixed Macedonian com
mission, the report comes from Con
stantinople that the Porte has ordered
the mobilization of two additional divi
sions of Asiatic troops. The irade has
created little impression here. The be
lief prevails that the sultan is acting
solely in view of the approaching meet
ing between the Russian and Austrian
emperors and with the hope of con
vincing them that he is anxious to
maintain peace.
A dispatch from Rila says that the
insurgents, encouraged by their recent
successes, are abandoning a strictly
defensive attitude and are preparing to
take the offensive. The insurgents are
CHILDREN WON'T STAND
FOR COLORED TEACHER
Pupils In a Chicago Public School Rise In Revolt and Their
White Teacher Is Reinstated.
Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO.Sept. 25.—A revolt of school
children in the Oak Ridge public school
followed the assignment of a colored
woman aa teacher in the sixth grade
in the absence of Miss Catherine Ralph,
the teacher regularly employed there.
A number of pupils left the school at
the noon hour and a general defection
waa prevented by Principal Vander
water only by imprisoning the leaders
In the basement during the recess.
UNIVERSITY STUDENT LEADS FLOUR MILL STRIKERS.
John M. Finley, President of the International Union of Flour
and Cereal Mill Employes.
A young man of twenty-five, recently
a university student, is at the head of
the strike of the flour mill employes of
Minneapolis.
Not that he called the strike, or had
more to do with its inception than oth
ers, but as president of the union he is
looked upon as the leader.
It is a position of grave responsibil
ity. The strike, which involves the
shutting down of seventeen flour mills
which annually produce one-sixth of
the flour product of the United States,
if long continued, must have a marked
influence upon the world's food supply.
Over 1,600 men are out of employ
ment and the livelihood of 5,000 others
will be Indirectly affected, while the
proprietors of the great mills that are
accustomed to grind 75,000 barrels of
flour daily must suffer a great financial
READ THE GLOBE.
The Only LIVE News
paper in St. Paul.
reported to have ample stocks of pro
vision in their tamp in the Perina
mountains.
HOW ENGLAND STANDS.
Premier Balfour Speaks of the Omnip.
otence of Russia and Austria.
LONDON. Sept. 25.—Premier Bal
four, in a letter to the archbishop of
Canterbury, Dr. Davidson, discusses
the Macedonian situation. The letter
s a reply to the archbishop's action
in drawing attention to the growing
uneasiness among churchmen at the
apparent apathy of the powers, "while
unspeakable atrocities are perpetrat
ed in Macedonia."
Mr. Balfour says lie is in entire sym
pathy with the feelings of horror "ami
indignation, and fully understands the
desire to give expression in public
meeting to the sentiment of ivc
tion which recent events Justine-!
Balfour then proceeds to analyze the
situation. He says: "We have not to
deal with a simple question of mis
government, or oppression, by Turkish
officials, but with a problem compli
cated by the fact that the Christian,
population of Macedonia is rent in
fragments by differences of race ag
gravated by differences of religion,
and in addition to the Ills inflicted by
a corrupt and incapable administra
tion, and an ill-paid and undisciplined
soldiery, and by a detestable system of
taxation, we have to reckon with all the
ills which in a population not imbued
with western ideas of humanity rival
Continued on Seventh Page.
Miss Ralph was again placed in charge
of the grade this morning. The teacher
Objected to by the school children is
Miss Mary Crutchfield. The appear
ance of the colored woman in the room
In which she had been assigned met
with indications of disapproval on the
part of the children. At recess two of
the boys, who had been overheard
planning to institute "a strike" on ac
count of the substitute teacher, were
callared by the janitor as they de
scended the stairs and shut them up in
the basement. Another little boy was
imprisoned in the principal's office.
loss, besides a depreciation of their
trade.
Mr. Flnley was born and bred in
Minneapolis. He worked nights as a
packer in the Pillsbury B mill while a
student in the high school, afterwards
attending a business college, and later
the state university. He would hay»
graduated from the university this
year, but withdrew to become presi
dent of the International union when it
was started a year ago.
He has been acting as an organizer,
and that the union is now establishes
in seventy-two milling centers outside
of Minneapolis indicates that he is a
man of energy and force.
He is the editor of the Eight-Hour
Miller, now in the eighth month of Its
publication, which is devoted to the
principle for which the strike is being
waged.