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THE WeATHER Minnesota —Partly cloudy and warmer St. Paul and Vicinity—Showers. Wednesday, rain or snow in northeast portion; Thursday partly cloudy, colder In west portion, increasing northerly winds becoming northwesterly by Thurs day. VOL. XXVIII.—NO. 81 KUROPATKIN TAKES A NEW COMMAND POPULAR TRIBUTE MOVES HIM TO TEARS He Is Made Commander of the First IManchurian Army, Changing Places With Linevitch, and the Two Men Bury Their Enmity—Russian Army Without Bread, and This Is Held to Make Peace Imperative ALL UP WITH RUSSIANS Special Cable to The Globe BT. PETERSBURG, March 21.—Prince Ukhtomsky declares that peace is imperative, because there is no bread for the army, all the grain accumulated at Harbin having gone to Mukden or been trans ported south by the Chinese. The Russian press demands the abolition of the post of viceroy of the far east and of the committee on far east, tacitly recognizing the loss cf Manchuria and consequent futility of the war. ST. PETERSBURG, March 21.—Gen. Kuropatkin has been appointed com mander of the first Munehurian army. He is considered by many, In spite of his reverses, the best general and fore most strategist of the Russian army. Sinking all feeling of personal bitter ness because of his supersession and nil the oldtime enmity between himself and Gen. Linevitch in a patriotic desire to be of service to the fatherland, the former commander in chief volunteered to remain in any capacity with the army which he had so long commanded. The tender has been accepted by Em peror Nicholas and- gratefully received by the new leadtr of the army. The change cxucUy reverses the old order BATTLE OVER SETH BULLOCK IS NEAR Senate's Latest Rebellion Against the President Bids Fair to Break Loose Globe Special Washington Service 1417 G Street WASHINGTON, March 21. —Strained relations are likely to result between President Roosevelt and the South Da kota senators and representatives if the president persists in his intimated intention to appoint Capt. Seth Bullock as successor to Marshal Kennedy of South Dakota. It is not so much any objection to Bullock personally as it is the principle of the thing that has Blirred up the delegation. In this as other states the members of congress think the preshdent is too little disposed to consult with senators in matters of appointment. Of late it has become quite customary for sena tors to pick men for positions like these, and the appointing is a mere for mality amounting to acquiesence by the president in the choice of the sena tors. Mr. Roosevelt is disposed to pick up old friends and land them in good places without asking leave of the sen- It is only a question of time when the . latent rebellion of the senators will break loose, for they declare under their breath that they do not propose to give up patronage without a struggle. —■Walter E. Clark. DULY MUTUALIZES Equitable Life Stockholders Take the Saddle NEW YORK. March 21.—A plan for the gradual admission of the policy holders of the Equitable Life assurance society to a share in the control of its affairs was adopted by the directors today. The plan provides for an amendment to the charter so that 28 of the 52 directors shall at the ex piration of four years have been elect ed by the policy holders and the re maining- 24 by the stockholders. Un der the new plan 7 of the 13 directors annually elected will be chosen by the policy holders and 6 by the stock holders. The new method of control ■will thereafter become effective after four years. The adoption of this plan is the out come of an agitation by President James W. Alexander and others for the rnutualization of the society which be gan several weeks ago. Mr. Alexander pointed out that the control of the so ciety rested in $100,000 stock capital, a majority of which was under the con trol of James H. Hyde, the vice presi dent, and that such a power in the hands of one man was fraught with danger. The board of directors voted on Feb. 16 that the policy holders should be given a right to vote for di rectors and appointed a committee of seven directors to arrange the details. The committee was composed of.Valen tine P. Snyder, James W. Alexander James H. Hyde, Gage E. Tarbell, Cor nelips N. Bliss. T. Dewitt, Cuyler and Chauncey M. Depew, and the commit tee today reported the plan which was adopted by the director*, together with the amended charter. THE ONLY DEMOCRAI v u/xilj NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE NORTHWEST THE ST. PAUL GLOBE of affairs, when Kuropatkin was the supreme leader and Linevitch directed the first army. Authoritative news of this remark able step was known in. Manchuria much earlier than in St. Petersburg. Gen. Kuropatkin, having paused on his homeward journey at Harbin, started southward the afternoon of March 20. amidst a most remarkable farewell from the residents of Harbin and sol diers who are on the way to flll out the mi ■!« of the depleted army. The send off was a mere foretaste of what awaits Ofrn. Kuroputkin at the front; and his self-sacrif.cing determination and the Continued on Fifth Page CANADIANS TACKLE THE SMUGGLERS Move Mounted Police South and Prepare to Fence Boundary Line Special to The Globe WINNIPEG. Man., March 21.—A1l the northwest mounted police posts located within a radius of thirty miles north of the American boundary will be moved to the boundary line to pre vent the persistent smuggling which is causing annoyance to the authorities. The Canadian government will also make an effort to fence the entire boundary line in Alberta and Assini boia to prevent cattle straying over from United States ranches, which practice, it is believed, is encouraged by Americans, who round them up fat and marketable in the fall. New police outposts will be established on the boundary south of Wood mountain -and Willow bunch. FUNERAL PARTY IS WRECKED ON TROLLEY Agsd Man Returning From Wife's Bu rial Is Among the Fatally Hurt LANCASTER, Pa., March 21.—While descending a steep hill on the Lancas ter & Southern railway, near Martin Forge, twenty miles south of this city, this afternoon, a trolley car bearing \ funeral party got beyond control of . \e motorman and was wrecked against a \ embankment at the foot of the hill. Not one of the twenty-one persons aboard escaped Injury. Thomas Cum mings, aged 80, whose wife had just been buried, was so badly injured that he will die. The injuries of several others are serious. The car had borne the party from this city to a cemetery at Mount Nebo church and was re turning when the accident occurred. THE (NEWS INDEXED PAGE I Hog in Control of Sewer Senators Sore at President Manitoba Watches Smugglers Setback for Joseph Chamberlain Commercial Club Plans Auditorium PAGE II Farmers' Exchange Convention PAGE 111 News of the Northwest Minneapolis Matters PAGE IV Editorial Comment President on Canal Commission PAGE V In the World of Sport PAGE VI Hartmann Inquest Today Erie Official Discusses Rate Regulation News of the Railroads PAGE Vli Of Interest to Women PAGE VIII Commercial snd Financial PAGE IX Paying Wants PAGE X Legislature WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1905—TEN PAGES MILL CITY GIRL MARRIES SCION OF NOBILITY IN LORD ROSSLYN W* t - ■ wife- .ligj| Ei ■JUL ' *&a E> El bß> ty^^^lß fl ~ J BB? Bbß Bb\ fl / i R^^ b - Bbb^E ' Jr **$ *w3kSb! 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Robinson, born in Minneapo lis; . heroine of a half dozen -world talked of love af fairs, in one of which a crowned head of Europe fig ured; an actress of beauty and repute, has been married to the fifth earl of Rosslyn; himself fa mous for his - ec centricities, con sisting In his. at tempts to break the bank at Monte Carlo and to break onto the stage.-:; . - News of the wedding, which was - quietly " sol emnized in I»ndon. came to St. Paul from New York yesterday and awakens much in terest here, as Miss Robinson, now .the Countess Rosslyn, is well known here, not only through her several appear ances in this city on ''the stage, but even before she en tered upon her stage career when she was a popular belle' of Minneapo lis. • ■'■- - ■ She was born in Minneapolis - about 30 years ago. .-Her parents . conducted the old . Grand Opera hotel on First avenue south, between Sixth ana Seventh streets. Twelve years ago she and her sister Margaret went to / New York ci<y to begin their stage ca reers. Both were immediate successes," but with her greater beauty and pow ers for acting. Miss Anna soon out shone her less brilliant sister to such an extent that relationship with tho reigning beauty soon c became'/.'Miss Margaret's premier claim on.fame.v-;: Miss Robinson appeared in' St. Paul several: times, first with the Litt stock company at. the Grand, later- with va rious of the i Hoyt farces, where she succeeded to the leading roles made va cant by the death of Caroline Mlskel Hoyt. Her last appearance here was with Frohman's "Shenandoah.'' Had Many Suitors Shortly after her return to New York she departed for Europe to play a long engagement in London town. But long before her departure from this country she had come to be known as well for the attention which she at tracted among well known men of the country as for her art. Among the suitors for her hand had come Stewart M. Brlce, son of the late senator from Ohio. In London she became on the Instant the reigning belle of the stage. Titled and wealthy men were suppliants be fore the altar of her beauty. King Leopold, the roguish old ruler of the Belgians, was in London and tbe transatlantic cables were fairly burned up in felling America of the ardent court which he paid her. He rained diamonds and bouquets, and atten tions, and proposals of marriage on •£•—«.-•-"%* -s^B& T'-- ' ""^*^Sv - *te < ~~ ->{-*■ -*-^E»- s- BB' BKm AT M ■ *^HB^BP '- i!^R *!» A*>" ■-» cVfl Ibwvßi BJBBfc-i<- ■**>c~jmW~ J/&%' tF^mßk^"*- -<£■* >k^ - \ I* \ffr ' vbßßßbbbt?^B^^^*'^^^^Be*£^_ - jmb* /^f ** The Drawing Shows the Present Positions of the Retreating and Pursuing Armies LORD ROSSLYN AND HIS BRIDE her, but she ultimately rejecter him. After this she declared her inten tion of retiring from the stage and she was as good as her urord. She went to Paris to I've, remarking: "Jn New York they step on your toes in the street can or drunken cabbies drive you to the wrong street. Het-e In Parl« counts •nd barons pelt you with diamonds and flowers. I am going to stay in Paris." Her statement was right concerning the pelting proclivities of the counts and others. She became known as "La Belle Americane." one of the best dressed women in Europe, the posses sor of a pint of diamonds, a regiment of rejected suitors and another regi ment of suitors still dangling in the air of beautiful uncertainty. They were such characters as the duke of Manchester and the comte de Oauetz. Cracked the Bank, Too She took a trip to Monte Carlo and the croupiers there still shiver,involun tarily, at the mention of her name, for she came the nearest that any woman ever did of carrying the bank roll of the institution bark to Paris with her. In May, 1901. she fell off the yacht of a noble admirer in which she was crulning: in the bay of Nice. The noble admirer immediately plunged into the water after her and rescued her. A little later she refused his earnest plea for her hand in marriage. Her fads became the fad of faddish Europe. She put gloves on her poodle and no poodle on the continent was THE RACE TO HARBIN considered properly attired after that If he were not neatly gloved. Her en- tertainments were ever novel and ele gant and took rank before those of any other American woman In Paris. She received the homage of men as a mat ter of course and continued upon her joyous way unmoved until the earl of Rosslyn declared himself. Just how she happened to succumb to his entreaties the dispatch does not tell, but those who have Interestedly followed her variegated career since she departed from Minneapolis wisely shake their heads and declare that there's some romance back of the sud den marriage. He's a Picturesque Lord He is James Francis Harry St. Clair- Erskine, the fifth earl of Rosslyn and member of one of the oldest English families. He saw a bit of the Boer war as a correspondent for the London Daily Mall and from 1890 to 1897 he was captain of the Fife horse guards. At the present time he is editor of the Scottish Life. But his fame does not rest with hid military or literary achievements. Prin cipally it is with his exploits on the stage, where he appeared for several years under the name of James Ers kine. imbued with an ambition to make a lasting name for himself. He was then, as his wife has ever been, quite a fad in a manner. He might have made money In the profession if he had not Continued on Fifth Page PRICE TWO CENTS R!VKc^ts CLDB SHAPES PLANS FOR AUDITORIUM FOUR SUGGESTIONS PRE SENTED BY COMMITTEE Directors of Commercial Club Take First Real Step in Attempt to Secure Mammoth Hall for St. Paul —Ways and Means Will Be Dis cussed at Second Meeting, and Mass Meeting to Sound Sentiment of Representative Citizens Is Pro posed The first real development in the plan to secure an auditorium for St. Paul was taken last night at the big gest meeting of the directorate of the Commercial club since it was formed. Four plans were considered, each dif fering from the other in some material particular, but the one that attracted the most attention was the first sub mitted to the meeting. This was to build a giant building to accommodate four of the semi-public organizations of St. Paul and the great convention hall. It was paoposed that the Commercial club, the public library, the Masonic temple and the T. M. <". A. be brought under one collonsal roof which would also cover the auditorium. The committee that has been consid ering this plan showed that there was about $280,000 in the treasuries of the four organizations for the specific pur pose of building homes for them. It was suggested that this be used. The plan contemplates a building covering a whole square of ground. The building, according to the ideas outlined last night to be rectangular ONE SMALL HOG IN CONTROL OF SEWER Half Sized Pig Has City off South St. Paul Thorough ly Frightened A scrawny half sized hog. with a han kering for notoriety and a strong ob jection to meeting with anything but a natural death, resented his imprison ment in a Swift & Co.'s pen at the stock yards in South St. Paul yester day and leaped over the fence. Once outside he fell through an open man hole and the latest advices from South St. Paul indicate that he is still en gaged in a personally conducted tour of the city's sewer system. The stock yards employes were thrown Into a furore of excitement shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday aft ernoon when the. hop's escape became generally known." Little knots of men gathered around every manhole in the stockyards and around many through out the city watching for the hog. Lan terns were attached to long ropes an-1 lowered into the sewer while the men above glued their eyes to the bottom. After an hour's vigil the hog was sud denly espied by a watcher near the Swift packing house. His Hogship Is Sighted "Hi! There he goes:" he yelled. "Where away?" came the query from the manhole a block away. "Due west. He's makin' ten knots an hour." Sudden activity became the rule at the next manhole. One man grasped a coil of rope and quickly made a noose which he lowered down the hole, while another leaned over revolver in hand. "There he is!" "Hang!" The man with the rope gave a sud den jerk. "I've got him," he gasped. A squeal drifted up from the lower regions; the rope grew taut. The next moment the man with the rope was on his back. sliding for the open hole. A companion grabbed him Ju«t as he reached the edge. The man with the revolver became excited and dropped it down the manhole. All three men grasped the rope and tugged hard. The next moment they rolled on the ground. The rope had broken. The pig disappeared. He was sighted on two other occa sions, but managed to elude the ropes both times. Later he developed an as tounding sagacity, for he would be sighted going in one direction, and aft er all rushed in the same direction for the next hole, he would calmly turn and retrace his route. City Engineer Alarmed The stock yards people and the city engineer do not treat the pig lightly. If the pig manages to get into-the main sewer, becomes wedged in the pipe and dies, the city will face a serious condition of affairs. Slaughtering and the stock yards industry' generally will have to be suspended, and the city will also be badly affected. The sewers are constructed of pipe but a few feet in diameter and a man would b^ unable to walk through them. Consequently it would be a difficult matter to remove the carcass of the hog. Should the rewer become blocked 3,000 men would be thrown temporarily out of employment. A suspension of the stock yards irvJustry for a few days would also affect the prire of meat, and people throughout the state, or at least in the Twin Cities, would suffer—all on account of a j lg headed hog. *L nCAtrTHE GLOBE THE ONLY LIVE NEWSPAPER IN ST. PAUL and oblong. In each corner of the build ln,g one of the organizations could b© located and in the center a giant au ditorium to be placed. Have City Donate Park The second plan was to press upon the city the advantage that would fol low the donation, of Rice or Smith park as the site of a building to be erected by public subscription, and to be used solely as a convention hall. The third was for the Commercial club to build a suitable structure, the upper floors of which could be used as the home of the club and the ground floor for a large auditorium. The fourth plan under discussion last night was based on a proposition of Probate Judge E. W. Bazille, who of fered to the auditorium all or as much M was deemed necessary by the com mittee of the old state capitol lot as a site for the auditorium in case the contention of the Bazille heirs that the property should revert to them is sus tained. The lot upon which the cap itol stands was given to the territory of Minnesota by an ancestor of Judge Bazille with the single condition at- Continued on Fifth Page FREE TRADERS WAX MOST HILARIOUS Claim Balfour Has Virtually Deserted Chamberlain and His Policy LONDON, March 21.—The cabinet meeting today discussed the fiscal sit uation in the house of commons and decided that the government will not use pressure upon its followers In re gard to the opposition's resolutions framed to commit the government on the fiscal question. As a result the res olution announced for the night ses sion of March 22, expressing the oppo sition of the house to a tax on im ported manufactured articles will prob ably be carried by a comfortable ma jority, 'but the opposition will be un able to reap more than an indirect po litical benefit. The decision of the cabinet was backed up by Joseph Chamberlain's followers tonight when at & meeting of unionist tariff reformers It was de cided not to participate in the debates or divisions on the resolution, the vote on which will, however, be interesting because It will be a "go as you please." The government having decided that the "fiscal question Is not a critical party issue, whips will not be sent out. A majority for the resolution will not be considered a defeat fey the govern ment. This move on the part of Premier Balfour is the political sensation of the hour and is being -hailed with great Joy by free traders, who claim that It Is a definite desertion of Mr. chamberlain by his former cabinet associates. SKULL HAUNTS HER Dcs Molnes Woman Has Creepy Experiences Special to The Globe DES MOINES. In., March 21. — Aroused to a pitch of nervous excite ment by groans she thought emanated nightly from her cellar. Mrs. Mary- Francis of this city started to give the cellar a thorough cleaning. She scraped her hoe against some object protruding from the earthen floor. She pulled vig orously and dislodged a human skull. After her momentary fright had passed she dislodged a number of bones of the human body. Including vertabrae. The skull and bones were thrown out in the back yard. "Did you ever have a skull haunt you?" said Mrs. Francis. "Well, this, one haunted me and seemed to have a will of its own. It didn't act as though it cared to s.tay in the yard. On the contrary, something impelled me to go to It and every time I looked at it I felt something whisper to me to bury it again quickly in the cellar. Finally I decided to do this and then- in my cellar the bones are resting. No more gronns Feem to rise from the base ment and if there be spirits with bones this one is now at rest. Now we joke and laugh about the man In the cellar' and believe we have a protector with us always." The only solution for the mystory yet advanced is that the skeleton was buried there by a medical student who roon.ed In the hOOM some years ago.