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ESTABLISHED 1890 BHODES' LETTERS Farther Developments in the Minn* Beta Coal Cam'- n- tntesilgatlen Matter. Ill the Book* Taken bj- the Committee, fcccept the Letter Book, Returned. The Committee Conhlers That to Con tain Sufficient Evideaca—Interest* {ngr Reading. Br. Pjftffe, Inarch 18.—J. 3. Abodes, the manager of the coal combine at St. Paul, has recovered all his books taken by the legislative investigating commit tee, except the letter book, and this the committee considers suiuciently damag ing without corroborative evidence Mr. Rhodes swore out a writ of re plevin, and the sheriff of Ramsey county served it, or tried to. The com mittee, however, claimed not to be amenable to ordinary proceedings and refused to give up the books an til they had looked them over and found whether they contained anything of ral ue. An examination convinced theiu the letter book was sufficie&t- Int#*restiu« Reading. The letters in the book make very In teresting reading. Frofci a number of them taken at random it appears that on various dates Mr. EMdes advised several of tli coal companies in the two cities that they ought to cease Kupply ing coal to retail dealers who were not subscribers to the bure tu until such thnu as they became sab.selibera and paid their fee, that shippers were ad vis -d what prices to bid for different va rieties of coal for which the city hall and courthouse committee had adver tised, and that a number of the ship pers were advised to bid from 5 to 10 cents more than the recommendation. Came iuthe MalT. The morning mail brought to Chair man Donnelly an anonymous letter, ac companying which were a number of letters written by Mr. Rhodes and by C. McC. Reeve when he was secretary. These letters are in a general way not different from those found in the letter In some respects Senator Donnelly aad Mr. Walsh consider them even atron^er than the letters found in the copy book, however. Anion? the lot is letter issued'by Mr. Rhodes in the' early fall of 1 SIM notifying the dealers ill Minneapolis that on a certain date ther city was to ask for bids for fuel to the amount of some 0.000 tons of coal for the ensuing winter." He thereupon aet tlw prices which were to be bid Jby each Minneapolis dealer, and specified how the bids should be made. A Pennsylvania Threat. Said Mr. Donnelly to a reporter: I have a letter from a coal baron in Pennsylvania notifying me that the coal dealers in that state huve heard of the legislative in ventilation now under wa\. and give ua timely warning that unless we stop it tliis entire state will be shut out from the hard coal market of the season of 184*1-4. I have not yet answered the letter, but when 1 do I think 1 shall be able to satisfy the gentle man that we in Minnesota are not ac customed to being scared by threats like .• TWELVE MEN BURLEI*. An Avalanche in the Rockie*—Two Instantly Killed. WINNIPEG, March 18.—Word has reached here of a fatal snowslide on the Canadian Pacific railway in the Rockies. A snow shed and the tracks were car ried away and 12 men were buried two of them being instantly killed. M. JULES FERRY. The President, of the French Senate Is Dead. PARIS, March lb.—Jules Francois© Camilla Ferry, the celebrated French statesman and president of the seaateT is dead. An Opera House Burned. TOLEDO, O., March 18. —Shortly be fore 1 o'clock a. m. the oldest and lead ing playhouse in Toledo, Wheeler's Opera Hous was completely destroyed by fire. George Thatcher's Tuxedo played there during the evening and rung the curtain down on a quarter of a century of comedy, drama and tragedy. Fortunately the company lost none of its scenery or baggage. It i» not known how tha fire originated. Wants to Oust the Judge. ABKKDEEX 8. t., March 18.—The Eng'e affair keeps bobbing up right along. George S. Englojias begun pro ceedings to oust District Judge John E. Adams from office, Adams being the judge who gave the custody of the little Sngle girl to her uncle, Beecher Drury. ingle alleges undue oppression, 'partial ity ui'l unprofessional conduct on the, rt of the judge. Ratlin's Resignation Accepted. WASHINGTON, March 18 —The secre ry of the interior has accepted the resignation or' Green B. Rauin as^com risbiuiier of pensions and has desiDe lated Deputy Commissioner Andrew )avidson to take charge of that office itil the appointment by the president Gfuarai Banw'a naemmsr. a 1 V v y VIRCHOW*S VIEWS. The Noted Germ Physician Talks About the Cholera. NEW YORK, Mireh 18.—Dr. Hans Virchow, son of ProPesso Rudolph Vir chow, the distinguished professor of anntomy a*, the University of Berlin, and himeelt one of the best of Ger many's cholera experts, arrived here on board the Lahn. The professor goes to Chicago, whore he is to represent his government as a commissioner of pub lic education at the world's fair. The professor received a verj oordial wel come. A Talk About Cholera. When cholera was mentioned he teemed recoghize an old foe, and began to talk freely. "It is my opinion/' said be, "that you Americans have less to fear that the dis ease will be brought here from Germany this year than last. We are doing all we can to make it impossible for it to break out in Hamburg and others cities whiclr it devastated last autumn. At Hamburg we are building new waterworks, and these will soon be completed. The city water will be taken from a point up the Elbe. Examination has disclosed the fact that the water is pure there and contains no germs of disease. Care will be taken that it in no way Incomes infected, and after its arrival in the city it will be subjected to a filtering process which will, we hope, make it impossible to do injury." '"Then you do not agree with Dr. Von Peteukofer that cholera was due, not to bad water, but to other influences?" Due to Foul Water. "I believe that the disease was brought about by foul water taken from the Hirer Elbe and furnished to the citizens of Ham burg to drink. I have no criticism to pass on Von Peteukofer. He is welcome to his own theory. The Elbe was made a sewer for several cities along its bank ,, and by the time the water was received in the pipes at Hamburg it was absolutely unfit to drink. That it contained the germs of the disease that caused so many deaths I have not the slightest doubt. I say that the water from which Hamburg will de rive its new supply is pure, because it has been tested. The City of Halle has been supplied with it, and the death rate there is very small comparatively. "Is the German government taking measures to maintain a strict quaran tine^' YesTexperience of last year has Been a Warning to Us AU, and you may depend upon it that the utmo* precautions will !e taken, not only to keep cholera out of Germany, but to prei.c it its introduction elsewhere as the result of our own negligence. We know more a'xmt cholera now than we did six br *4#hf mwth* «£r If men can learn any thing by experience',-eer-*#inly we ought. Whib in tid.s country it is the profes sor's purpose to mako a study of the health regulations and methods of in struction in Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago and othf^r universities. He hoies to 11 t. buck some very valuable information. WILL HtJTtT THE PAIR. Chicago's Exorbitant Prices Being Noised Abroad. WASHINGTON, March 18.—A dispatch ha? bf»n received at the state depart ment from Thomas W, Peters com mercial agent at Plauen, Saxony, call ing-attention to a misrepresentation of the condition of affairs at Chicago which, if not corrected, ha says, will result in material loss to the world's fair. Mr. Peters says that letters from Chicago are being printed in the dis trict he Occupies and widely circulated, warning Germans that if they come to the world's fair they must be pre pared to put up with inferior and insufficient accommodation, for which exorbitant prices are to be charged. He •uggests that the hotel and boarding house keepers in Chicago advertise throughout Europe their (schedule of rates to be in vogue during the fair to counteract the influence ot these publi cations. The suggestion will be sub mitted to the world's fair officials. Will Offer Cars TOLEDO, O., March 18.—General Manager Ashley of the Ann Arbor, has issued orders to have freight cars of fered to the Lake Shore and Pennsyl vania railroads to see what attitude the officials and brotherhood will as sume. Chief Arthur of the brother hood, talks as if the men on all local connecting lines would stand by the strikers. He has not ordered a general strike but that the men will act without any explicit orders. .Up to noon the cars had notkbeen offered. Abandoned Their Shipt HAEIFAX, N. 8., March 18.—Two of the crew or the schooner Unexpected have arrived here. Their vessel was abandoned at sea. She was dismasted in a succession of heavy gales and for nine days the hulk was tossed helplessly about the ocean. First Mate James Brown and Joseph Bosquers were car ried overboard with wreckage and lost. The other man were taken off by the steamer San Freed after suffering nn told hardships. Vanderbilt Worsts. CLIFTON. S. I., March 18.—The condi tion of Captain Jacob H. Vanderbilt has taken a sudden change for the worse. /Since Wednesday night he has refused to take nourishment which has caused him to become so weak that the end is likely to come at any momer**'*• Couldnt Heal Himseffl WALKER, MO., March 18.—Dr. J. N. B. Dodson, one of the oldest and prom inent citizens of this place committed suicide by hanging. He was despondent .Y .-V pyipinn"i-p vjft) MADISON. SOUTH DAKOTA SATl Iil)\Y, MAUOH 18, 1893 ALMOST USELESS. Disclosures Regarding the Condition •f the Boilers of the Big Battle ah!p Monterey. Said That Two of Them Were Prac tical!/ Ruined at the Trial of the Vessel. She Lie* Useless llntill New Ones Are Supplied-Navy Official* ia a Qnaftdarj. •Kr*W V«f»K. March 18.—The ISwetf says: It has been known for eome time in well pes:fell nrival circles that the nav depftrlnsen: officials have been using every resource to secrete from the public 6erictis defects which developed in the recen' trial tripofthe new United States coju.t detense battleship Mon terey. Riirid orders were issued to all offi •eiM present in the oc casion of trial forbidding them to dis close or make public what theji saw, have prevented the real facts of the case being got at until this comparatively late date. The Monterey was tried in San Fran cisco harbor over ton weaks ago. The g». rnim-nt requirements specified the development for four hours continuous steaming of a stipulated horse power. The s'ipnlated horse power the Monterey fulled to develop. It was further stipulated that for every horse power in excess of the required number developed, the builders should receive a bonus of $100. Likewise it was stipu lated that for every horse power short the contractors should forfeit $100. The result of the offi ial trial of the Mon terey disclosed the fact that the Union Iron works of S '.n Francisco, the build ers of the vessel, would be compelled to forfeit to the government $30,000. Decided to Poplcct the Loss. The contractors gave out to the pub* lie, owing to the heavy expend attend ing the trial, they had decided rather than run any ri k of a second failure, to forfeit the $30,000. At the same time the navy department, with the appar ent de:-ire to stop speculation on the part of the public, alleged its anxiety, in view of the Hawaiian complicatiotts, early to commission the Monterey. All further trial trips were, in consequence, called off and the Monterey now lies at the Mare Island navy yard in a con dition, which can be authorita^.yely stated, practically unfit for service Where the Trouble I.ajr. The Moneterey is fitted with a gang of Ward tubulons boilers, and in ad dition with two Sco.tch toilers. In pro viding the Monterey with two Scotch boilerc. it was proposed ordinarily to run the ship under Scotch boilers alone. The two 1 oilers were considered suf ficient to generate steam for eight knots per hour speed. With the gang of Ward boilers, in addition to the Scotch boilers, maximum speed of 10 knots per hour could be obtained whenever de sired. In the placing ©f the Scotch nnd Ward boilers aboard, the two pipes were connected in one battery, all boilers having a commcn main steam pipe. The Ward type of boilers, it should be known, are designed to stand, for short periods, intense pressure. They are further designed to generate a fun heal of strain from a 30-minute firing under cold water. The Scotch boilers, on the other hand, are built to develop large volumes of steam, but are seldom ca^ed to maintain steam pressure of over 200 pounds per square inch. On the occasion of the trial of the Monterey the evident inability of the vessel to develop the required horse power caused the contractors to push the firing of the Ward boilers. So well was the firing conducted that before the firemen were aware of it the steam pressure had jumped to 250 pounds to tlie square inch. A Narrowly Averted Disaster. The elf ct of the intense steam pres sure on the Scotch boilers was at once apparent crown sheets began to release, the staples parted and in another in stant the boilers would probably havei gone with crash, tearing the ship to? pieces, but for the immediate shutting off of all of the steam connections with the Ward boiler. At the same time the fires in the fur naces of the Scotch boilers were hauled, the safety valve raised, and thus a cal amity averted. Then an examination disclosed the fact that the Scotch boilers Were Literally Rained. To fire up the Scotch boilers again at other pressures under a hundred! pounds meant the certain destractionjof the Scotch gang. To replace the two Scotch boilers meant en expense of more than $30,000. The contractors decided to pocket the loss and let the disabled boilers stand. In this condition the: Montery exists today. No fault could be found on trial with the Ward boilers of the Monterey. The Monterey, unless provided with a couple of new Scotch boilers, is prac tically unfit for sea. and just what will be done in her cane no one at the navy department appears to know. NEW YORK, March 18. Charles QW don Saxe, only surviving son os the lute poet, John G. Sax.\ died at the Hotel Brunswick of uneumonia. I -UOVr J\. .no •f*m CH V t, V l' V' X. II y., 7 _.„ imar iriio A\H CORRECTIONS. sheet vl 'lv staie boar! were is.-r.ed in psmhlct form. The re port J* devot «1 largely to statistical in formltiou. The board recommends th district j:,.! sy ten. It projKses that the Stat.- board of corrections and charities e uthcr zrd to designate not mom ih :n two county jails in each juduibvl district for the detention of priswi^ers t)i! the counties in the dis trict, it is recommended that dis trict $nl recaive 14 cents each day from the treasury for keeping such priM.«i. rd and 43 cents per dieiu from the oounty fnmis-.insr the prisoner. The also recaj amends that the county on.mis.sionars be authorized to provide Mgnlur lalor at district jails if deemed practicable. The board is of the Opinion that no jails should be des ignated as district jails unless they pro vide separate accommodations for sus pects, convicts, women and children, with a cell ior prisoner and suita ble provisions for heat, light, ventila tioa and '•le'.in ine&s. AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. Projifrrtv Damage at Brisbane Amounting to $15,000,000. SAX FRANCISCO, March 18.—The Australian -vs which arrived on the steamer Aiamel i print graphic details of the great floods at Brisbane and its% suburbs in February. In the City oft Br is ban? and its suburbs the damage* dono by the floods is estimated at $13. 000,000. There was a fall of 6.7 inches of rain in ti-rxj day.'-, and three steam ers were tin ., ted out o? the river and landed high and dry in the botanical gardens. The towns of Bundamba, Ips wich and Godna were all under water and the .'Dj ie b-.d to flee to the hills. Sevan *ne?i were drowned in a mine at Ip.^vieh. Fonr persons in one family werodro n^d. Wh?n the Alameda left Sydney ti e li^ois had subsided and the gov^rnin nt wiis providing for the relief oftheVlcBiitute. TILL] POPUL.AH VOICE. It Bfay Cry Down Recorder Smythe'a Decision. N«W YORK. -J arch 18.—The Com mercial A• v*riis ?r says: Recorder Smythe's adverso decision may not mean den*, for Carlyle Harris. A mass meetffr? is 'to held in MadTsdh'^quan Garden next week and a popvd-tr de» miiud will made on Governor Flower for a full and free pardon. One of the most famous lawyers in New York4-it may be Choate—will presides Howe & Hummel have already re* ceive.l letu-ra from hundreds of th# leading lnwyors. politicians and philan thropists O- the city. All of thesj sug ge-c ih vfc ti») iK)[mlaar voice will cry down Recorder Smyvhe's decision. Charged with Forgery. HiNCKXin Minn.. March 18.—A man dresssd £S a luiubttman tried to pass a checiTBupwosed to have been signed by Geor e Wylie. a resident of Wil.ow Riv»r, but it turned out to be forged. Several for .red checks have been passed in this vi iuity of late and Marshal CriU'.T piac the man under arrest. He gave his name as Frank Hart, but his real name is supposed to be Charles eeler. A companion was also ar rested. XKWS IN BRIEF. Matters of More or Ijess ImporUnc* Tersely Touched Upon. Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, will sail for England Wednesday. On the recommendation of Sanntor Davis, W. It. Ro'ob, of Long Prairie, Minn., has been appointed pension ex amining surgeon. It is reported that William J. Scan Ian. th1? well known Irish comedian who is now an inmate of the Bloocaingdale insane asylum, suffering from paresis, will not live more than a week. The liabilities of the Beaupre Mercan tile company, which faile 1 at St. Paul last week, foot up to ^517,^88. Cred itors will not get more than 25 cents on the dollar, LATEST -TAKKRT KfSPORT. St. l'aol UitfoM Stock Yards SOUTH ST. PAUL. March 18, ISM. HTO8—10? higher. Range at prices, f7. i5"® CATTLE—Quiet, bnt Bt-»'1y fair demand Prime steer.-, g«*»d steers, £.•'i !.)) prime cows, /ixvl cosv.s, 0 common to fair t-ofttt, light vtal calves, $3.0(%g4.*X) tioavy calves, utocken*, feeder*, IgL&uQSMi fiulls. Sl,& Si i E K P—Firm. Kev-eipts-t.Uttls, IM* hags, ISO eahrsft 10. Bheop, -i. Minueapolia Grain. MINNEAPOLIS. March 1& 1MB. WHEAT— M«y opened, f49i-, highest, lowest, July opentxl WJifo 87^e hik'iie»t, lowest, cliwed, Oa 1'raclc—No. i ijaH. 1**. 1 MorUwru, flic No.- Northern, 81e. Chicago Live Stock. '('HICAOO UNION STOCK YARDS, I March 18,10U&. I OA1TTJ6—Firm. HIMiS Strong, lOo higher. Heavy, |7.40 fr 7.75 mixwl aiul mediun, $7^0^7.65 light, »7.15&:.«. 8KEKP~Firm. Keceipta: Cattle, 400% hogs, M^OQO RIMSP, Chicafo Grain and Provisions, i CmcAGO, Marca 18. ittU OIKNINO PRICED. WHEAT-Maj, 78.4.- im a k, L~ v V ^, ,5 Makes M-ite Board uc tfcd at ions. fer. r.vt AJici 18. —The advance i'frh be-tiMial report of the i eorv etious and charities OUR y Father Time making a ten strike with Smith's Filled Cases bowling out all com petition. liAMOLlXR We have a basket full of watches to dispose of com prising all kinds and sizes in solid gold, filled, silver and nickle. LOT'S WIFE was the MAID OF SALT, but when she was MADE OF SALT they had not discovered Lyons Rocl Salt, which you can get for your eatthr- GROUND ROOK SALT or pickling meat also a full line of tha GASOLINE, KEROSENE, FLOUR & FEED C. J. BUTTON, South Egan Avenue, MadiaoB THE KHOK. fM Beware ff when jroa W.LD* J„ly, TWlSty*•-*\ CORN -May, 44c July, 44}^, ,, A." !4KT DECORATED FILLED CASES Frank Smith, 'life •TS W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE m»\kp. Wm*OUSt Am In ttowdd fortbtpiios W. L. Douglas shoes sate sold evenrwiier*. »*ttylwdy anoaUl wmm ttem. it is a duty yoa Toot p-^iwlug w npinnl tfew MM vmbi at Ut« prl wttMd ttora, mm tbooaands oaa wttiJy. 49t Take He Substitute. JSM THE FAIR, PumilCUBiy, Madtsrm & D, v. \. r\ i t-a/t- PK1CE PIYECENT8 JEWELER AND DRUGGIST, il $ v. v. /Sv iBASKlltt,VOLL£€TiaSISl KT^, 1 llffT W. D. Firre, Presldaat. W. A. MACE AY, M. E. Firm, Vice Prtflldeaf. G. L. MCCALLISTKR, Cask left Assistant Cashier FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus, $61,500, A General Banking Hud* uess Trauiacteil. foreign and Do mettle Exchange Bought emit Sold. Collections a Specialty. Safety Deposit Vaulta. Steamship tickets by *31 line* to all psiat* la Bnrop«. EP^MoDcy loaned on real cotate lor B*44Pta capltftllctf. fCORKKMPOXhENTM: Chcniical Nfttiontil Hank. New York. Union Trni»t Ciirnpany, (.'hicairo. Chemical National Kan!:, Chicago. NatHx.rtl Bank of ('ointn«rce, Minneapolis. OBJ Kalli* National Hank, Sioux Fall* S (. IKKMTA1KAKT. Star Restaurant AND I A full |^)od8 ROOM. •apply, ol fresh baked WOOD'S PliOSPHODINX The Great Eacllah Remedy. -'1 Promptly and pcrmaMBt jr eareealllonaMof Arnow i WttUhum, i iVA Mktaunu, jijWM atorrtua. Imii tencvandoB orlttetme*. n st-ribed OWT 86 eitfctn of Abu. Feen i years in thousand*of OMes la the on/y Ketiabis and Him tst Medicine known. JrQKKiat tor WOOD*» PBOS raoDDiB It he offer* or soi di« Madison by F. C. Smith, Wood, R. Woods k Co., O, Twaatl wUggU9tt |lY6rjWMI^ V io®» 5 (f I •Jm k( m' 'V-"" y I