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4 PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. LEWIS BAKER. ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1887. '' __.___- GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daily (Not including Sunday.) 1 jr. in advance...lS 00 I 3 mos.. in advance.s2 00 6 _uos.,lu advance. . 00 | C weeks.in advance. 1.00 One month. TOc. - '~\:'_ ."_'"". '\u25a0". DAILY AND SUNDAY. 1 yr.. in advance .$lO 00 I 2 mos., in advance. s. 50 6 mos., in advance 500 | 5 weeks.in advance 1 00 One month 35c. SUNDAY ALONE. 1 jr., In advance..s2 CO I 3mos., in advance..soc C mos., in advance. 1 00 | 1 mo., in advance....2oc .81-WEEKLY—Monday, Wednesday and Friday.) I jr., in advance..?! 00 I 6 m 0... in advance.*- 00 tmonths, in advance.... *1 00. WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLOBE. 0 r.e Tear. .1. Six Mo., 05 cts. Three Mo., 35 cts. Re'ected communications cannot be preserved. Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE, St. Paul, Minn. THE ST. PAUL GLOBJ. lias Larger Circulation than that of Any Other . .paper Printed Worth west of Chicugo,and it is Stead- I ilyand Hapidly Increasing, Keeping j Pace with the will of the Great 1 i-iy of which the (.LOBE is Admit- tedly the Journalistic Representa- tive. Il lathe Best Advertising' Medium for Those who Desire to Reach All i lasses of Newspaper Readers in the _al .Northwest, and Especially in Minnesota and Dakota. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, Fob. 23.1 a. in.lndications: For Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Eastern Da- kota and Minnesota: Snow, followed by fair weather, variable winds, becoming northerly and lower temperature. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. St. Paul, Feb. 22 —The following observa- tions were made at 8:48 p. in.; local time. I Bail. | xi__. j %T~ I __ ! a< 9 d __» . Place of Observation. 2. \u25a0= |f|j § ° r i I ill I Duluth. * 30.35 " 16 *6 Clear St. Paul 30.33 22 +4.Cloudy LaCrosse I 30.30 28 .Cloudy Huron 30.21 20 .4 Lt snow Moorhead '. 30.25 15 +11 Cloudy St. Vincent 30.20 0 *2 snow Bsmarek , 30.32 —5 Clear . Fort Buford ' 30.81—11 *9 Clear Fort Assinaboine 30.31 7 *5 ( Clear Fort Custer ! 30.31'—6 *13 Clear Helena.- I 30.20 —2 +2 Clear Fort Garry.."..V. | 30.27 4] tgjHazy —Below zero. * Lower. •(•Higher. A CRUEL, MURDER. The story told in this morning's Globe >f the fiend in human shape who drove over a little girl on Robert street yesterday after- noon, and didn't even show so much hu- manity as to stop to inquire whether the child was hurt or not. will arouse a feeling of resentment in every humane breast which would justify the application of lynch law to the brutal wretch. The man, if he can be called by the name of man, was. seen by a policeman and a number of citi- zens, who will readily recognize him. The police authorities should at once institute a thorough search for him, and every good citizen will lend a willing hand to bring the fiend to justice. If the child dies, and its condition is so critical as to create the ap- prehension that death will ensue, there can be no question that the murderer deserves the rope. He was driving at an unlawful pace; he saw the helpless little child in the street in front of him and made no effort to check his horse, he drove her down and her head was crushed beneath the hoofs of the horse, and yet lie kept right ahead, with no touch of pity or metcy in',his fiendish heart. It is a case that needs to be made an example of. The Globe has uttered repeated warnings about the danger of last driving in our streets, but it has been unheeded. The' municipal law on the subject is plain enough, and yet it is unheeded. It is re- spected more in the bleach than in tlie ob- servance. This form of reckless violation of law has gone long enough, and if the authorities will not attempt its enforcement then the people of the city will. It has come io a pretty pass when our children cannot cross a street without being sub- jected to the risk of being killed any mo- ment by the reckless«drivers who monopo- lize the streets. m THE ELECTION BILL. X The Whitemax election bill, which has passed the senate and has gone to tlie house _____ approval or rejection, embodies many valuable reforms, yet it needs amending in several important particulars. The number of voters who are to be permitted under its provisions to vote at one polling place should be reduced from 700 to 500, or to even a less number, lt also provides for a superabundance of ballot boxes. But the feature in which it particularly needs to be amended is that which relates to the hours forkeeping the polls open. The existing custom of opening the polls at sunrise and closing at sunset is right. Election day should be a whole day and not a fraction of a day. The proposed plan of the bill to open the polls at 9 o'clock in the morning and to close at 5 in the afternoonwould practically disfranchise the working classes. The time is too short anyway to give the num- ber of voters who are to be included in one precinct to cast the number of separate bal- lots that are required under the proposed measure. But the particularly objection- ble feature is that which opens the polls after the day laborer lias gone to his work and closes it before he quits his day's labor. As much as election reform is needed in this state, it would be better to get along after the old clumsey fashion than to pass the Whiteman bill with this objectionable feature in it. Eliminate that and make election day to include twelve hours, and then make the few other additional amend- ments that are suggested, and we can see no reason why the measure would not be an improvement on the existing law. The main reform that is needed is some means by which the counting of votes can be facil- itated. SPEAKER CARLISLE. Speaker Carlisle was right when he expressed a reluctance to abandon his congressional career to assume the duties of a cabinet position. To a man who is ambitious to continue a career of public usefulness a cabinet office offers very little temptation. It is a good place for a public man to round up his official career. But -to be a cabinet officer these days is almost equivalent to being shelved for all future time. Mr. Carlisle is just \u25a0 hi the midst of his usefulness in con- j gressional life. He is already crowned with an honor which is equal in dignity j and superior in power to that of a cabinet j position. His re-election to the speaker- I ihip of the next house of representatives is j assured beyond a possibility of a doubt. ! His experience in that office makes his j services of incalculable value to his party ! and to the country. In fact there is no one ! iv congress to take his place, and his with- L drawal from that post at this time j would almost be a public calamity. ~lt j would at least subject the Democratic j party to risks that would be exceedingly | hazardous at this time. The president has shown a proper appre- 1 ciation of and respect for public opinion by | tendering the treasury portfolio to Mr. I Carlisle. It was done because Mr. Cab- i __ isle's well-known conservative views on i all important public questions are in accord with the lit-st sentiment of the country. He in a lan exponent of tile Democratic idea . on monetary matters and of the party's policy in regard to the tariff. It is possibly ; a public misfortune that Mr. Carlisle ! cannot accept a cabinet position, and yet it I would be more of a public misfortune if he j abandoned his present place. This instance i is an argument in 'favor of the proposed i constitutional amendment allowing mem- j bers of the cabinet to hold seats on the floor of congress. FRANCE WILL FIGHT. \u25a0 Hon. George H. Pendleton, who has for the past two years been the American | minister at Berlin, expresses the belief that j all of the European powers have pacific in- I tentions except France.": He knows that i Germany has no inclination to go to war with any other nation, but is of the opinion that she will be forced into a war with the French people. - France will have to fight to recover- Alsace and Lorraine within the present generation, or make up her mind to abandon claim to those, provinces forever. The rulers of France recognize the fact that when a new generation has grown up in France the feeling toward Germany which now prevails will all have died out. There will be no sentimental disposition then to go to war to recover territory which a former generation surrendered. Upon the principle of Striking while the iron is hot, France is compelled to tight now or never. This being the fact, it would be contrary to French nature if an effort was not made to wrest the two provinces from Germany. And the effort will be made at an early day. It is one of those things that will not bear postponement. Ia affokds us much pleasure to congratu- late our esteemed friend and contemporary, Maj . Will' J_. Hasklll., managing editor of tho Minneapolis. Tribune, upon his success in winning a most charming young woman to be his bride, and we feel like giving an especial fervency to our good wishes, because the ex- cellent judgment which induced the major to enter into matrimony was reinforced by the wisdom of the decision which led him, so happily, to make a St, Paul girl the object of his suit. i •\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0..-\u25a0\u25a0 " A good deal of nonsense is being written about Vakderbilt . arrogant extravagance in buildinga j acht which cost half a million, and will require $10,000 a month for running expenses. As that much money will be put in circulation am*_g people who need it and appreciate; it, Mr. Vanderuil. seems to be setting a sinning example to those million- aires who simply hoard their weaith. . The Detroit Republicans had their annual banquet last night and millionaire senators traveled in their special car from ashimrtou to be preseut. Representatives of Republi- can working-men were of course not invited. They are only taken into the fold by the millionaires when voles are needed. Father McGlynn hopes and looks for re- instatement and many sympathizers with the priestly enthusiast, who canuot help admir- inir his earnestness, whether they approve of his position or not, will wish for his success. Mr. Blaise has declined an invitation to another New York banquet. The man who has once been hoisted by dynamite isn't gen- erally very anxious to go to a place where it is likely at any time to explode. ;.' —— ; —, m It is really quite useless, all this talk about the capital removal. Common sense dictates that it should be in the center of a great city, accessible from all points, and reason points out that St. Paul is the city. The thrifty Yankee spirit doesn't admit of taking any chances where they eau be avoided. The Boston base ball club has insured for §10,000 the life of Kelly, its costly player, for whose release it paid. m We trust that among those alleged charges said to be on file against Gov. Swineford that an inordidate indulgence in Alaska's moat flourishing staple "hoochnoo" is not in- cluded. '-. ; m Mr. Donnelly had a bad quarter, of an hour In the house yesterday, but as he is a gentleman of wonderfully recuperative qual- ities, he will doubtless come up smiling to- day. ,:fr.';._. - f-. .— mm . The bill introduced in the house for the protection of birds does not take under its protecting wing the quails which the forty- day quail eater is in the habit of consuming. \u25a0 The relations between England and France, too, are becoming strained. Really, these small children should appoint the United States referee and cease their troubling. •- If Kansas City 'succeeds in entering the National league her real estate agents will take advantage of the opportunity to raise corner lots ten dollars a front foot more. The country could devote the amount of the annual. appropriation for the improve- ment of useless rivers and harbors to coast defenses and save money by so doing. '•. . V.'j),_. \u25a0' *\u25a0 \ Since a congressman, and a Missouri con- gressman at that, has succeeded in securing a charming bride, the nation's legislators can hardly be as black as they are painted. If Minnesota's entry in the Philadelphia waiting match displays the usual Northwest- ern go-ahead-ativeness. Panchot, of Hast- ings, will finish near the front. Bismarck, of course, came out on top in the German elections. He is the most suc- cessful machine politician on record, but his hold seems to be weakening. \u25a0 .— . The fast driver is again making himself dangerously,numerous. Ho should be sup- pressed at once, and no gentle means should be used in doing it. SE__- •m. The English house of lords is discussing gag. law, but what its individual members really need seems to be an acquaintance with moral law. *.•--. STRAY SUNBEAMS. The Washington papers are boasting that Queen Victoria owns real estate in the Dis- trict of Columbia. The old lady has had her eye on some St. Paul property for some time, hut our real estate men are too patriotic to Jet British royalty gain a foothold iv this part of Freedom's vineyard. ** There is an old legend to the effect that British gold has always been an influential factor in the District of Columbia. Our pro- tective tariff legislation couldn't have suited British commercial Interests better if the British parliament had the making of our laws. The: British motto is, "What hurts American commerce helps England." '-'"... *_* Henry George says the civil conflict of twenty years ago was a trifle in comparison with the contest that is cow being waged be- tween labor and capital. Mr. George evi- dent!y, sees through a irlass darkly. Ifhe had been down at the front twenty years ago, and had been singed by the fierce fires of war which waged all along the line, he would now have a more carreet conception of tho magni- tude of that performance. It is a peculiar fact that all the belligerent and bloodthirsty statesmen of this age are men who didn't smell gunpowder when there was a chance to get a whiff of it. Mr. Blame and Senator Ingalls are illustrious evi- dences of the truthfulness of this assertion. . st" But speaking of Henry George, it is grati- fying to observe that he is making rapid im- provements as a journalist. Recent issues of the Standard show that he can now reduce a paragraph to ' the space of one column. At first it took nine columns. -: '• _* The whirligigof Time brings many strange , things around in its revolutions, among which there is none more singular than the •pending lawsuit between Mrs. Kate Chase and ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling. There is no scandal connected with the litigation— thanks to the absence of Billy Spragce and his famous shotgun. Financial matters only are involved. ' . ' - \u25a0 - t" Conkling is said not to be making the great success at tbe bar that was anticipated. When he first appeared lawyers feared him . and clients flocked to him as if tbe magic of ; his name was going. to d. full duty for logic ;and legal lore. Lawyers say that his long career in politics has". not aided to make Mr. Conkling a great lawyer. His pouter-pigeon ~\ style of oratory doesn't count before a." lull bench. '\u25a0\u25a0 *_* ' '' P. T. Barn cm wants to be Prohibition can- didate for president in 1.8." If the old man will travel around with his circus and issue free tickets he will get some votes. The in- terstate law doesn't prohibit free circus passes. » _\u25a0* The British government is awfully mad be- cause the czar of Russia ordered a picture of the St. Paul ice palace instead of sending to Montreal for one. Her majesty's cabinet look upon it as a direct snubbing of the Brit- ish lion. Our jolly friend, the czar, will hold his ground, relying on the St. Paul tobog- ganers to back him. "v _.* The railroad officials say that it is cheaper to kill a passenger than to cripple him. The law limits the damages for killing a person to .000, while a man who only loses an arm or a log can recover $50,0.0. The law's incon- sistencies are marvelous. *** The habit of going out between the acts has been abandoned by the young men in New York. The habit was broken up by the young ladies, who adopted the. plan of pinnius- the coats of the young men to the upholstering of the opera chairs with good strong safety i pins. The young men were disposed to strug- ! gle against it at first, but now are perfectly i reconciled to sit still until tho curtain falls on the happy denouement in the play. The Kansas City Times says that the people of St. Louis are bigger fools than tho people of Kansas City. This is putting it pretty strong. But in conflrmation of Its assertion the Times says that St. Louis people paid speculators $20 and $25 for Patti tickets, when the highest-priced tickets could be bought iv the box office for $3. *** Now the St. Paul people will want to know why I~atti charges $1 an octave more for her voice in St. Paul than she did in St. Louis. It would bo unfortunate for Manager Abbey's reputation ifhe should lay himself open to the charge hippodromiiig to the queen of song. •*"\u25a0_, St. Paul and Minneapolis celebrated Wash- ington's birthday by burying the hatchet. Plant a sprig of cherry over its grave. *_* * Mr. Sherman's resignation need not be* construed into a purpose to accept a cabinet position under the present, administration. He simply wanted some one else to hold the book when he swore in next time. *\u2666* Mr. Eustis, of Minneapolis: "St. Paul is destined to become the third city in the Union. Itwill be after the Twin Cities are merged into one and shake hands across the dome of the new capitol ou Macalester heights." BSBj w_* .». John S. Prince—St. Paul and Minneapolis have nothing to do with locating the capitol more than the rest of the people of the state. Toe time will come when the capitol will stand on an interurban site. But we have not reached that time yet. Not yet. *** ' Dos-nelly's Soliloquy— What doth it profit a man to gain the organization of the legisla- ture and to to lose his own bills; or what have Igained by changing the speakership for the chairmanship of the railway committee? \u25a0 \u25a0 The Cooniest Member In the House. Fergus Falls Journal. Mr. Knox, who is trying to steal eleven towns from Otter Tail in order to keep Wa- dena county out of the poor house, is one of the "cooniest" members in the house. He is a very modest appearing young man, and the following is characteristic of him: Last ses- sion he wanted to get $5,500 for a road from Aitkin to Grand Rapids, a town in Itasca county. He knew that this was more than he could get in any square deal, so he intro- duced a bill appropriating $2,500 to build a road from Aitkin to Graud Rapids, and named a set of commissioners to build the road. He then introduced another bill appropriating $3,000 to build a road from Grand Rapids to Aitkin, and named another set of commis- sioners. The legislature passed both bills, and the state auditor was the fl _t to discover that both appropriations were for the samo road, although running in different directions. When Lnox was asked about it he simply said he needed the money and did not know any other way to get it. Trying to Keep From Freezing. ' Yankton Herald. "Papa, who are those men with buffalo overcoats on and fur caps drawn over their ears?" "They are members of the Dakota legisla- ture, my son." "But what do they keep their coats and caps on in the house for?" "Because, my son, this is the territorial capitol building at Bismarck aud the poor men are trying to keep from freezing. By and by they will all go down into the base- ment and fire up. Then they will feel better." "Ob!" _^ Can Sympathize With Us. Mitchell, Dgk., Republican. Minnesota's capitol building, which threat- ens to tumble down about the ears of her able statesmeu. was designed and superintended by the same architect who planned the non- descript shack which Dakota's legislators are shivering in this winter. \u25a0_\u25a0 AS INSANE PREACHER. He Shoots His Wife, Tries to Kill His Daughter and Attempts Sui- cide. New York, Feb. 22.—Rev. Charles W. Ward, rector of the Protestant Episcopal church at Englewood, N. J., in what seems to have been a - fit of mental aberration, shot his wife early this morning, fired once without effect at his little daughter and then turned his pistol upon himself. A part of the wife's face where the bullet struck is paralized, and doctors fear that the wound will result sooner or later in lock-jaw. The clergyman himself had put the muzzle of the pis- tol close above the right eye and meant to fire upward into the brain. The ball struck in sideways instead, pene- trating only an inch and a half, lodging against the right temple bone. His condi- tion to-night is serious, but less dangerous than that of his wife. The rector is un- doubtedly insane. A Twelve-Round Rattle. Philadelphia, Feb. 22. Twelve rounds with kid gloves were fought, at Bridgeport, Monday morning. The princi- pals were George Harris and Harry Miller, both of this city, and the fight was for a purse of '; $400. The referee gave the fight and purse [to Harris. The men were both badly used up, and had to be carried to their carriages. Miller's face was swollen to al- most twice its natural size, and the skin torn off in* six places, while his body was covered with blood. Harris suffered somewhat from loss; of blood and his lips were terribly lacerated. One eye was completely closed and his front teeth are gone. '\u25a0 m, Seized by Portuguese. London, Feb. 22.—Advices from Zanzi- bar state that Portuguese's men of war, by order of the governor of Mozambique, have seized the sultan's steamer Kilva; at Tongi and towed her to Mozambique. Austria's Representative. Vienna, Feb. 22.—Dr. E. Schmitt Yon Tavern, counsellor of the Austro-Hungarian embassy at Berlin, has been appointed min- ister at Washington in the place of Baron Yon Schaeffer, who has for some time been absent on leave. . ~.\ '\u25a0 » Randy Will Return. London, Feb. 22.—Rt. Hon. Henry Matthews, secretary- of state for home affairs, in a speech at Birmingham to-day, intimated that Lord . Randolph Churchill would rejoin the government after the adoption of the budget. Gen. Johnson's Wife Dead. Washington, Feb. 22.— Lydia McLane Johnson, wife of Gen. Joseph Johnson, commissioner of railroads, died at her residence in this city this morn ing of paralysis. ; '\u25a0•'. •. Steamship Arrivals. New York —The Fulda from Bremen.. Havre—The Normandie from New York. ABANDONING THE KNIGHTS. Workmen at Jersey City Reinstated i In Their Old Places, On Renouncing Their Allegiance to the Great Order. :..'.Newark, N.J., Feb. 22.— tobacco workers arid cigarmakers' assemblies of the Knights of Labor of this city have decided riot to obey the order of the general assem- bly of the Knights. The order was adopted in October of last year, and provides that all persons engaged in the cigar trade who are knights and members of the Interna- tional Cigarmakers' union shall with- draw from tlie union. . This is the old fight between the union and the knights in regard to the use of the labels of the two organizations. The union claims that the admission of the Progressive cigarmakers to the. knights has injured their trade in this city, as it allows the sale of foreign in opposition to home made goods. . A State Convention. Troy, N. V., Feb. 22.— state conven- tion of Knights of Labor was held here .to-day. Two delegates were present from each of the District Assemblies Nos. 40, 49, 60. 03. .05, OS. 75, 85, 91. 104, 147. 149. 152 and 104. The convention is not for the purpose of forming another state working- men's assembly, but to discuss matters per- taining to the Knights of Labor and to solidify the order in the state. The con- vention may decide to agitate the question of'forming another state assembly of the order. . - The Stove . liuiii! ... St. Loins, Mo.. Feb. 22.— manu- facturers of stoves in this city replied yes- terday to tlie demands made last Saturday by the Stove Moulders' union that the wages of moulders be increased immedi- ately 15 per cent. The reply states that the condition of the trade does not warrant so great an advance at this time, but promises tiie men that on June 1 next, an advance of 10-per cent, will be made. It is supposed thai a strike will be averted by the men accepting this proposition. Abandoned the Order. Jersey Crry, ._. J., Feb. 22.—About fifty of the striking coaltrimuiers were taken back to-day by the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western Railroad company. The men, before they were reinstated, promised to quit the Knights of Labor. Trouble Feared. South Amboy, N. J., Feb* 22.—Trouble is apprehended here to-morrow with the strikers from the soft and hard coal docks. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the strikers who drove back to New York the new men who,came down here last week-to go to work. . JAMES K!S«___._. LOWELL. He Promised Chicago a Lecture on American Politics, But Puts Them Off With a Talk About Hichard 111. \u25a0-.\u25a0.;;;;: Chicago, Feb. 22. James Russell Lowell was greeted at Central Music hail this afternoon by a brilliant audience, as- sembled to hear him deliver an address on "American Politics." Every seat in the hall was taken long before the time Mr. Lowell was expected. On the platform was a distinguished array of gentlemen, includ- ing ex-cabinet members, federal and state judges, generals.and lesser military officers, bishops ami other ecclesiastical digni- taries and many of the foremost representatives of the comm ercial interests of Chicago. On behalf of the Union league club, Gen. George W. Smith, introducing Mr. Lowell, explained that the address was the first of an annual series under the auspices of the club, the idea being to in- augurate, if possible' a revival of the gen- eral recognition of the birthday of Wash- ington and cultivate among tlie people a higher political culture. Mr. Lowell, on coming forward, was greeted with pro- longed applause. He said: Ladies and Gentlemen: When Ireceived the invitation to speak here to-night, and in- deed, until a short time ago, 1 had an impres- sion I was to speak as one of a course. It was an erroneous-impression, I know, but it was a sincere one. I was offered my choice of two topics, polities or literatureand at first I chose politics, but I now appear in a new capacity to announce a change of pro- gramme. After having written an address on politics, when I came to read it over 1 felt that I stood in a very delicate position. I was to address a mixed audience, an audience composed of both parties. I was not speaking in my own person but as the representative of a club composed of both parties. Now I believe I have been in the habit at times of speaking my mind pretty strongly, but I found this was an occasion on which I was placed in a delicate position, where I could not express myself with entire franisness, as one speaking in my own person. You all know, of course, quite as well as I do, that a text is a mere brutum fulmeu without direct and immediate illustration, and 1 have observed, as 1 dare say you have, that direct and immediate illustrations seem to have some personal . applica- tion in them. ; Direct applications and Illustrations seem to have gone to the school of the prophet, Nathau, and if they do not say in so many words "thou art the man," they always seem to imply it. It seemed to me 1 had better throw up my political dis- course, though with great reluctance, be- cause I could not make it to my mind, and I shall fall back on the other limb of the choice offered me--that is some literary topic. Iam the more convinced of the wisdom of the choice since my arrival in Chicago,for it would cause me the greatest possible regret if any word of mine should mar the cordiality of a welcome which will be one of the pleasantest recollec- tions of my life. I shall therefore ask you to listen to a few words of criticism and then apply them to the play of "Richard III." and the absence of certain things in , that play seem to indicate to my mind that it is not Shakespeare's work." The speaker then proceeded with a dis- sertation on "Richard III,"making no al- lusion to politics. American or otherwise. To say that tlie audience was greatly sur- prised is to put the situation very mildly.- A few people left the hall, but the address re- ceived from the majority of the audience close attention, and at its conclusion Mr. Lowell was loudly applauded. An elaborate banquet was tendered to Mr. Lowell to-night by the Union. League club. Covers were laid for 325 guests. The principal speakers were Congressman-elect Jem Baker, Gen. Lucius Fairchild and Mr. Lowell. The remarks of Mr. Lowell were of an. informal character, but were wholly devoted to a discussion of the various phases of. politics in this country. . The . burden of the speech was that the so-called "practical politician" and the corner grocery politician must go. He did not give any further explanation for changing the subject of his afternoon address, and none has been definitely ascer- tained, although the matter was the sub- ject of much of the conversation of the banquet. JUfflflfl _• " * A Horrible Confession. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22.—A con- fession horrible in details was made by the colored woman, Hannah May Tubbs, who was arrested Monday. She declared that Wakefield Gains, whose limbless and head- less trunk was found in a pond, was mur- dered in her house on Richard street in this city by John Wilson j or Wallace; that the victim's remains were . dismembered - by Wilson: that the brute made away with the . head, legs and arms; that .she . carried the trunk of the body to Eddiiigton and threw it into a pond. Jealousy on the part of Gains and Wilson regarding a pretty mullatto girl named Annie Richardson was the motive for the crime. Wilson was captured to- night here. The confession is horrible in its details. It seems that Gains attacked Wilson and there was a . terrible struggle, from Which Wilson emerged a corpse. Then in a perfectly cold-blooded way Wil- son dragged the body from the cellar and cut it up with a butcher's cleaver..; He got the woman to take away the body, vwhile .! he disposed of the head. and legs. .It is not known where the latter are. . m T _'V -- . Washington's Bithdar. \u25a0 Washington, Feb. 22.—The president drove out to Oakview this morning and re- mained there all day examining : legislative matters. To-day was '.generally observed in this city as a holiday. All the executive departments and many business houses THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1887. were closed. Both houses of congress, however, were in session, h Several street parades took place during the day. The first was composed of veterans of the old volunteer fire departments' of this city and Baltimore, who subsequently participated in the celebration in Alexandria. The National rifles, the Washington light;infantry corps, the Capital City guards and the High School cadets also paraded during the afternoon. Ibe Washington Continentals made a pil- grimage to lit Vernon, where appropriate services were held, including addresses by Representative Herman, of Oregon, and others. The Oldest Inhabitants association: also celebrated the day in an old-fashioned way. .. - i New York, Feb. Public buildings, banks, exchanges and business houses are closed.; and Washington's birthday is gener- ally observed here. MR. SHERMAN RESIGNS. ~ ~~' '\u25a0 '\u25a0' Continued From First Page. that there would be negro uprisings and in- surrection., and, while many did not be- lieve the reports, they became apprehensive after the killing of Bolton.; In consequence of these reports the sheriff,, with a passe, went from Brenham to the scene ofdisturb- ance "and found there was nothing what- ever m the report." interjected Mr. Spooner. ._,_,. .\u25a0\u25a0•'•. VI believe he found there was no upris- ing." replied witness. Coming down to the MATTER OF threats sent to various parties, witness testified to receiving such a letter am. to being shown others." Witness received the following ad- dressed to himself: You are hereby notiflei that you are to be shot on the first favorable opportunity, pre- sented. You arc the instigator, of all the trouble in the county. \u25a0* * .* * For to die you shall before many suns rise and set. If it is not done by one way it can by another. This is no bluff, but facts. Others may surely followyou to your fate. ; \\u25a0}:, , Justice. Bob Sloan, a negro supporter of witness, received the following: Dear Sir: We have got two of the Demo- cratic chickens, and you and- Algie Hunt is our next choice. We expect to kill Demo- cratic negroes until we get two for every one they have killed. \u0084 ..Dead. Witness believed the letter sent him was the work of some political enemy. .In con- clusion witness refuted several charges per- sonal to himself which had been . made by preceding witnesses. With response to Hack worth's charge that witness was re- sponsible for the robbery of the school funds by forged vouchers, he said that three of the five forged vouchers were forged with the name of his predecessor and only two with his name. The statements made in speeches to tlie negroes that the country had lost this money (between S2OO and .800), was false. The treasurer had made good out of his own pocket those vouchers he had accepted, and Col. Giddings, the banker, had lost those he had cashed. Ad- journed until to-morrow. Coinage and Precious Metals. Washington, Feb. 22.—The acting sec- retary of the treasury to-day sent to the speaker of the house, communications from the director of the mint, the comptroller of the currency and the assay commission, urg ing amendments ot the laws governing the annual assay of coins so as to provide for holding future meetings of the commission at Washington, the selection at random by an officer of the mint bureau of the coins to be tested and the payment of a per diem compensation to the members of the com- mission. The existing law is said to fail to furnish sufficient evidence of the qualities of the coins for the reason that it allows the selection to be made by mint officers. The report of the director of the mint con- taining statistics of the production of the precious metals in the United States for the calendar year ISSO was transmitted to congress to-day. From the report It appears that the pro- duction of gold during ISSG exceeded that of any previous year since 1880, and almost equaled the production of that year. This amounted to _ 5.000,000 in 1886 against $31,800,000 in 1885, an increase of over $8,000,000. The production of., silver, as near as can be ascertained, was 549,895, - 930. The amount of gold- bullion im- ported into the United. States was §17,947.- --518. and the exports §27,862, t.7. The importations were made almost .exclusively," since August last. There was also im- ported gold coin of the value of §23,301,603, and gold coin was exported to the value of $13,393,863. The total exports of gold bullion and coin wa3 $41,281,276, which corresponds almost exactly with the amount imported into the United States, so that there has been a slight gain by tlie move- ment of gold to and from the United States during the calendar year. The Public Reception. Washington, Feb. 22.The president's reception to the public generally to-night was the last of the season's series, and was a pleasant affair. Long before 9 o'clock a crowd had assembled outside the the White house, and as soon as the doors opened a steady stream of people poured in, two abreast, which continued to flow steadily onward from that time until a few minutes before 11 o'clock, when the last person in line passed through the outer door. The good-natured crowd was one representative of almost all classes of people and all styles of dress. Most of the ladies were in street costume. The garb of the gentle- men ranged from the conventional dress suit to a box coat and reefers jacket. Col. Wilson, United States army, made the pre- sentations. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland were assisted by Mesdames Manning, Endicott and Lamar. " The Fortifications Bill. Washington, Feb. 22.—The conferees on the fortification appropriation bill held a meeting this morning, at which fair pro- gress was made in the settlement of points of difference. The meeting was character- ized by a spirit of conciliation and mutual concession that leads to the belief that an entire agreement will soon be 'reached. One of the conferees after; the meeting re- marked that lie felt satisfied a bill would be reported not later than to-morrow which would fully meet the demands, of i the country and prove eminently satisfactory: in its terms. _/,;;_t.. %C-_'.- A RIOIEK'N SI__.TE.iCE. He Gels One Year in £ rison for Stoning a Street Car. Boston, Mass., Feb.' 22.—Patrick Car- rol, a. pleasant, good-looking young man, was arraigned in the Cambridge municipal court yesterday on a charge of throwing stones at a Cambridge horse car during the riot of Sunday evening. "I am guilty, judged" said he, "but I .was drunk and did not know what I was doing." .-, "Have pity on me and his babies," cried Mrs. Carroll, "he is all there is. between me and the poor house." . . . >. In pronouncing sentence Judge Orcutt said: . ;~_f . . - If there is one thing which has been settled in the criminal courts of this country it is that drunkeuness is no excuse for crime. A man is just as liable for a . crime committed while drunk as while sober, although the fact - of . his condition may -sometimes'-., weigh in mitigation of sentence. In this case, how- ever, it might have been an assault with, in- tent to kill. The man who throws a stone of the size that this man did at a'cat* in which are many passengers, ladies and children might have caused death, may fairly be called guilty of au assault with intent to kill.. Al- though the result does not turn out to be serious, it is the same offense. It Is a serious one and should be punished severely. It has come to a pretty pass that people in a civil- ized community cannot travel in railroad cars witnout running the risk of an attack of tbis kind. In this case I propose to impos° a sen- tence that the defendant will remember and one which will be a lesson to others who may have an idea of committing a like crime. Carroll was sentenced to one year at the house of correction.' ~ _ "Will Keep Them Busy. Fergus Falls Journal. . - Tbe members of the house have at last got their $10, apiece for postage. It i will keep some of the members, who ; are not accus- tomed to the use of the pen, pretty busy to use up that amouflt during the remaining twenty or so days of the session. Murder and Suicide. Baxgok. Me., Feb. To-night Fred George, of Orono, went; to - the house of a man named Mcintosh at Great Works, where Geo; ge's wife is stopping. Going inio the kitchen fie 'shot his wife and " then himsel.l both" dying instantly. . ; ri. GREETING TO GOV. HILL .;.; Continued From First Page. | prove that the 7,000,000 farmers, and the j'5,000.000 church members, who want pro- hibition, will go with this new party, if they willput in their platform the doctrine that the "open saloon must go." That doctrine was bound to be popular in this country. .He begged the convention to i not try to revive the greenback party, | but he wanted this party to do more than | the Prohibition party and take the wind out lof the sails of the Prohibition party. He | closed by saying that if that was done the ! party would have the prayers of every | woman in the whole country and of every j man and child who has felt the sting of the curse of open saloons. His address was | frequently and heartily applauded. E. P. I Smith, in reply, said ifthe party shall . . \u0084 KIM. THE PKOHIBITIO.V PARTY they will drive 300,000 votes bade into the Republican party, The committee on permanent.organization reported for Presi- dent A. J. Streator, of Illinois, for vice president Richard E. Trevellick. of Michi- gan, and the following additional vice presi- : dents: •...'-. . J. J. Woodalls, of Alabama: C. E. Cunning- j ham, of Arkansas; J. R. Buchanan, of Colo- i rado: A. J. Martin, of Connecticut; E. J. Curtiss, of Idaho; J. Kane, of Iowa; E. M. Lovin, of Indian Territory: S.V. ; R. Heath, :. of Illinois: J. H. Allen, of Indiana; P. P. Elder, of Kansas: S. Shaw, of Kentucky; William Murray, of Massachusetts; M. B. Ely, of Mississippi; D. M. Thompson, of Wisconsin: 1. D. Chamber- lain, of Nebraska; W. G. Brown, of New Hampshire: O. Preston, of New York; J. R. Wiuston, of North Carolina; John Sicks, of Ohio; E. W. Pike, of Oregon; J. P. Lane of Pennsylvania; J. K. Miles, of Tennessee; Holmes . VV. Barton. I of Rhode Island: R.J. Hedge, of Texas; J. j N. Ludley, of West-Virginia; Dr. Hubert Severance, of Wisconsin; George V. Smith, of Wyoming; Lee Craudall, of the District of Columbia, and J. O. Dean, of Dakota; seere- I retary, M. D. Shaw, of Missouri; assistaut I secretary, W. D. P. Bliss, of Massachusetts; j reading clerk, George H. Lennen, of New i York. The report was unanimously adopted and Mr. Streator went to the chair WITHOUT THE HELP OF AN ESCORT, the suggestion of one being scouted by the chair, Who said workingnien should scorn j to ape the fooleries of effete aristocracies. I Mr. Streator began his address by saying: ! !..'Gentlemen." A lady delegate asked, "What about the ladies?" to which the chair responded, "and ladies of the con- vention, particularly the lady from Wis- consin." Having thus started he , proceeded to say that the object of this convention was to organize a party for the common good of the whole people, to guard tlie Weak against the strong. He wished it understood that this party was not the party of anarchy, though it was a fact that anarchists were not much heard of until there was an undue number of millionaires. Now, it was the duty of this new party to guard equally against the ex- actions of the one class and the robberies of the other. [Applause.] His address was devoted largely to advice in regard to the tilings to be avoided in making the plat- form, and against the blandishments of politicians after the party had been organ- ized and started into public notice. The committee on rules and resolutions reported trie order of reports to be made by the the standing committees .placing the report of the committee on platform next to last, tlie naming of the national committee to be last, each delegate to have one vote and the votes to be announced by the state chair- man. All . . ;.: ; -7 SPEECHES to BE LIMITED to five minutes and no delegate to speak more than twice upon any ques- tion. Mr. Weller, of lowa, wanted the vote taken by organizations so each organization should have as many votes as it was entitled to. He moved to amend accordingly, and explained that, as an instance, he repre- sented an organization entitled to two dele- gates. He had been authorized to cast the vote of the other delegate and wanted to be permitted to do so. lt was equitable to distant states. This was sharply opposed as giving opportunity for questionable conduct in casting votes by proxy.'" The amendment was lost by a . strong vote and the report was adopted. C. A. Power, of Indiana, who said he was not . a delegate, but a guest, asked leave to pre- sent a memorial on behalf of a Union sol- dier. Leave was granted, and Mr. Power took the stand, when Mr. Shaw, of Missouri, arose to a question of privilege for the protection of the convention. He called attention to the fact that the Union soldiers were invited to send delegates here, and they should have been represented. Sev- eral others objected, but the chair ruled them out of order. Mr. Power then went, on to say that he was appointed to come and ask for a piank in the platform to strike out the present pension laws and make an equitable adjustment of ."... \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0. the SOLDIERS' CLAIMS, by. which the soldiers should be paid the difference between the paper they received and.tlie value of gold. The plank -he de- sired to have inserted was that every sol- dier's discharge should be his pension certi- ficate.. The memorial was sent to the com- mittee on resolutions. Quite a number of resolutions were offered and sent to the same committee without reading by Gen. Bur- gess, Mrs. Martin Todd, of Michigan, ad- dressed the convention. She began by say- ing that if the words of James G. Blame, spoken in Pennsylvania last September, were true, there was no cause for the conven- tion. He said that the workingman "had prosperity behind him and prosperity before him." But. she said, the words of Gen. Logan contradicted in a manner Mr. Blame, when in excusing himself for not speaking his workingnien\s speech any longer, he said: "The people do not . elect senators and presidents, and therefore 1 must make my speech to those who do." Taking this as a test, Mrs. Todd went on to .say the work- ingman, even with the ballot in his hand, had not been electing the officers of this government for years . He had been dis- franchised by the machinations of grinding monopolies and the wage system of this country. She pointed out j \u0084,:- THE KEMEDY for all thisa junction into one party of all classes of laboring men. Hitherto fac- tions had split into pieces every working- man's effort at union. Organization alone would give him power. Recurring to the evils of the present times, she said plunder was obtained through special leg- islation, through courts, through officials, through militia, through Pinkerton's —what shall I call them," she asked. [Cries of "Assassins,*' "murderers," "murdering thieves.' ] "I leave the saying of the bad words .to the gentlemen," said the speaker. She thought Henry George did not go far enough, in that he did not see the evil of the money system. She declared that under its /.working a man might be a slave on free land. Mrs. Todd closed with a fervent appeal for immediate and harmo- nious organization. She was heard with intense gratification aud given a rousing vote of thanks., After a long and noisy discussion about opening the hall to citi- zens,. the convention. at 1:45 p. m. ad- journed until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. THE SOU THE SOCIETY. The ._ember* Likteu to a Post Fran* ' dial _ all. by Gen. I' _ ing. New York, Feb. 22.—The first annual dinner of the Southern society of New York was given here to-night and attended by many representatives. Speeches in re- sponse 'to toasts were made by and letters of regret received from Mayor Hewitt, Ed- itor Grady, of Atlanta, Senator Butler, W, L. Trenholm and others touching upon phases in the history of the South and the restoration of good feeling since the war. The principal speech was by Gen. Thomas Ewing, who said: "Ohio and her sister states of|the Northwest are proud and happycto be reminded of their kinship with Virginia," remarked Gen. Ewing In opening. He then traced the relations lip of the sections and added: "Whenever Vir- ginia sits at the head of the table OHIO CLAIMS A SEAT as one of the family." Other utterances fol- low: "Ibelieve that, in spite of the infinite distresses of the war, the liberation '. of the slaves, the .temporary overthrow of j.. the industrial system ..of the South, . and the needless losses and humiliations . of reconstruction, there I is more of respect and fraternal ; feeling' be- I tween the South and North to-day than; ever | before since the . slavery agitationv be_un thirty, years ago. "Gentlemen, the/ North craves a loving and lasting peace . with' the South. It asks no humiliating concession.. It | recognizes as a chief cause of the ; war the I constitutional question of the right of seces- sion, which question until settled by tho war had neither a right nor a? wrong side to it. Our forefathers simply evaded it in framing the con.tituti on, believing if it were settled either way the union of all the thirteen states could not be accomplished. _ So they left the question of the right of secession In the lap or the gods—committed It to the chances of the future, and then the war; came on and settled it forever." The Northern people are not so mean, fanatical or foolish as to com- plain of the South that it believed then, and believes now, that It bad the right side of that question of constitutional construction. How could we respect the South if it wore to say now that it was not sincere; then? Or if it were to pretend that the cuffs and blows of the war hud CHANGED ITS CONVICTIONS as to the true interpretation of the constitu- tion as origiually adopted? Surely, with the authority of Jefferson and Madison in favor of the Southern view, and Washington and Hamilton in favor of the Northern, each side can admit at least tbe sincerity of the other. It is enough that North and South alike agree that the question has been settled by war al> solutely and forever in favor of the Northern construction. The; North, t too, recog- nizes the fact that all .the pro- voking causes of . the war grew out of slavery, for the establishment of which the North and South and England were all responsible—if, indeed, such tre- mendous facts as the establish ment and over- throw of slavery here are not part of the plans of the Almighty as to which we are foolish to parcel out responsibilities." Gen. Ewing belie, that the republic had solved the problem of self government, but there was a tremendous question yet unsolved which was rising unbidden in this and every uolightened nation.: It was the question of- the proper distribution of current earnings between capital and labor. The means of SOLVING THIS PROBLEM in the United States fell chiefly, within the powers over the revenue, the currency, the police and private corporations. "The solu- tion will not be promoted in America, at least," said Gen. Ewing, "by anarchical assaults upon public authority, nor by con- j fiscation of real or personal property, j nor by intimidation of industrial workers^ nor, on the other band, by police interference j with the right of free assemblage, nor by bands of hired banditti under the pseudonym of j detectives, nor by the stool-pigeons of cor- ; porations sitting as legislators, but the people ! at the ballot box, and through the enactment j of such laws as will tend to adjust distribu- | tion ol the wealth which labor and capital i combined created. Let uf>. gentlemen, and all others who have borne the heat and burden of civil war, commit it and its issues to the past, and join the incoming generation in settling this greatest of industrial ques- tions In such way as shall be just to all am? best for the masses or the people." A FRIGHTFUL FALL, A Dozen Men Hurled Down From a .Lofty Scaffolding Five Killed and Two of the Others Mortally Hurt. Altoona, Pa., Feb. 2-2.—A terrible ac- cident happened at Beilefonte at 8:20 this morning. A gang of bricklayers employed by the firm of Wintering & Dixon, of Pitts- burg, were engaged in laying stacks afl Valentine's furnace, when the scaffolding on which they stood gave way. precipitating twelve men to the bottom of the stack, a distance of sixty feet. Five men were killed and two others fatally injured. The scaffold had been weighed down with some 8.000 bricks. Ail the men killed were single, and residents of Pittsburg. . - A California Cyclone. - \u0084 ,7/, Oroville. Cal., Feb. 22.— 5 cyclone passed near here last night, and for a dis- tance of six miles carried everything before it, destroying fences and cabins. Its breadth was about forty feet. It is the first ever reported west of the Rocky mountains. THE WHITE RIVER HORROR. The Railroad ConiniiHMioners Find no One Responsible for the Acci- dent. ' White Rivee Junction, Vt., Feb. 22. —The board of railroad commission lias made a public report on the recent Ver- mont Central disaster. They fix the number of passengers on the train at 77 and the train hands at 12, or 89 in all. and give a list of killed and wounded, which does not differfrom that already given in these dis- patches, and say: "._.._,_'.;;_ At a point 510 feet from the abutment at the south end of the bridge, while the train was moving at a speed of less than twelve miles an hour, the rear sleeper—Pilgrim— was thrown from the rails, but kept to tho road bed : until it came upon the bridge, when the rear end swung to tbe right side of the track to the deck of the bridge, thence to the frozen river below, a distance of forty- two feet, drawing with it the other sleeper and the two coaches in front. They find that the train had been prop- erly slowed up before reaching the bridge, that at the first .warning of danger the con- ductor pulled the signal to stop and that the engineer applied the air brakes promptly, but seeing the rear sleeper falling, released them, opened the throttle and thus saved part of the train. They find that the broken rail had defects which were not visible and caused the sleeper. Pilgrim, to leave the track, and probably broke the axle. They recommend the^use of steam and electricity to heat and light cars. A Train Wrecked. Special to the Globe. '\u25a0]'$: . Altoona, Wis., Feb. 22.—The Dulnth way freight on the Omaha was* ditched by a broken rail about two miles south of Bloomer at 11:30 p. m. to-night. The conductor, G. W. Proctor, the brakemen and two passengers are injured. The wrecking train has just departed. No further particulars can be learned at this writing. \u25a0_ The Canadian Elections. Toronto, Feb. 22.—Returns received up to midnight show that 99 Conservatives, 79 Liberals and 4 Independents have been elected. Sir John Macdonald has been elected for two constituencies. All . the cabinet ministers are re-elected. A num- ber of places are. yet to be heard from, but Sir John Macdonald's government will probably be sustained by from 10 to 15 majority. In the old house the government had a majority of 76. Hon. Edward Blake, Sir Richard Cartwright and Hon. Peter Mitchell, leading Opposition- ists, are re-elected. The contest was keen and exciting, but passed off quietly. ' _> . Fought to a Finish. New York, Feb. 22.—Dan Gallagher knocked out Dick McLaughlin, both Brook- lyn middle-weight boxers, in a fight in a barn at Maspeth, Long Island, this morning. The men fought with bare knuckles for a purse of $100 and to settle a dispute as to the respective merits of Paddy Smith - and Jem Mitchell. In the first five rounds both sparred cau- tiously. Mac got first blood on Gallagher's nose. Gallagher returned a blow that split Mac's lip. 1 here was. hard fighting in the fourteenth and fifteenth rounds. In the twenty-first round .- Gallagher laid Mac senseless with a blow on the jaw. Time one hour and twenty-three minutes." The Walking Hatch. Philadelphia, Feb. 22.— attend- ance at the walking match has been good ; all day, and ' the walkers, with ... two or three., exceptions, appear.to be in good shape. . There are still twenty on the track, and their < scores at 10 o'clock to-night were as follows: Alberts 193 miles, Vint 193, Hart - 191, Will- iam Day 188, Noremac 183, Bennett 177, Strokel 179, Panchbtt 178, "Eson 166, Sam Day 1.65, Cox 158, Miller 153, Golden 151. Burrell 149, Dillon 144. Tilly 137, Adams 133. New hart 125, Kramer 105, Guer- rero 65. V..5 \u0084>.',;" .-',: . ... —— mm ', What the Pope Will Get. ... , \ Rome, Feb. 22.— is reported that for the pope's recent friendship, Germany has consented to act as mediator between the Italian government and the Vatican. The Vatican's proposal is that a part of Rome, including the Leonine city and. a zone ex- tending from the Vatican to .the sea by Civita Vecchia, shall become the absolute property of the pope. mmm. Shot Himself Fatally. Special to the. Globe. _^^_-__SGf9_f :. Hallock,. Feb. 22.—Andrew Olson ac- cidentally; but fatally, shot himself through the lungs while out hunting on Friday.7 \'
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A CRUEL, MURDER.The story told in this morning's Globe

>f the fiend in human shape who drove overa little girl on Robert street yesterday after-noon, and didn't even • show so much hu-manity as to stop to inquire whether thechild was hurt or not. will arouse a feelingof resentment in every humane breastwhich would justify the application oflynch law to the brutal wretch. The man,ifhe can be called by the name ofman, was.seen by a policeman and a number of citi-zens, who will readily recognize him. Thepolice authorities should at once institute athorough search for him, and every goodcitizen will lend a willing hand to bring thefiend to justice. If the child dies, and itscondition is so critical as to create the ap-prehension that death will ensue, there canbe no question that the murderer deserves therope. He was driving at an unlawful pace;he saw the helpless little child in the streetin front of him and made no effort to checkhis horse, he drove her down and her headwas crushed beneath the hoofs ofthe horse,and yet lie kept right ahead, with no touch ofpity or metcy in',his fiendish heart. It is acase that needs to be made an example of.The Globe has uttered repeated warningsabout the danger of last driving in ourstreets, but it has been unheeded. The'municipal law on the subject is plainenough, and yet it is unheeded. Itis re-spected more in the bleach than in tlie ob-servance. This form of reckless violationof law has gone long enough, and if theauthorities willnot attempt its enforcementthen the people of the city will. It hascome io a pretty pass when our childrencannot cross a street without being sub-jected to the risk of being killed any mo-ment by the reckless«drivers who monopo-lize the streets.

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THE ELECTION BILL. XThe Whitemax election bill, which has

passed the senate and has gone to tlie house_____approval or rejection, embodies many

valuable reforms, yet itneeds amending inseveral important particulars. The numberofvoters who are to be permitted under itsprovisions to vote at one polling placeshould be reduced from 700 to 500, or toeven a less number, lt also provides for asuperabundance of ballot boxes. But thefeature in which it particularly needs to beamended is that which relates to the hoursforkeeping the polls open. The existingcustom of opening the polls at sunrise andclosing at sunset is right. Election dayshould be a whole day and not a fraction ofa day. The proposed plan ofthe billto openthe polls at 9 o'clock in the morning andto close at 5 in the afternoonwould practicallydisfranchise the working classes. Thetime is too short anyway to give the num-ber ofvoters who are to be included in oneprecinct to cast the number of separate bal-lots that are required under the proposedmeasure. But the particularly objection-ble feature is that which opens the pollsafter the day laborer lias gone to his workand closes it before he quits his day's labor.As much as election reform is needed inthis state, it would be better to get alongafter the old clumsey fashion than to passthe Whiteman bill with this objectionablefeature in it. Eliminate that and makeelection day to include twelve hours, andthen make the few other additional amend-ments that are suggested, and we can see noreason why the measure would not be animprovement on the existing law. Themain reform that is needed is some meansby which the counting of votes can be facil-itated.

SPEAKER CARLISLE.Speaker Carlisle was right when

he expressed a reluctance to abandonhis congressional career to assume theduties of a cabinet position. To a manwho is ambitious to continue a career ofpublic usefulness a cabinet office offersvery little temptation. It is a good placefor a public man to round up his officialcareer. But -to be a cabinet officer thesedays is almost equivalent to being shelvedfor all future time. Mr. Carlisle is just \u25a0

hi the midst of his usefulness in con- jgressional life. He is already crownedwith an honor which is equal in dignity jand superior in power to that ofa cabinet jposition. His re-election to the speaker- Iihip of the next house of representatives is jassured beyond a possibility of a doubt. !His experience in that office makes his jservices of incalculable value to his party !and to the country. In fact there is no one !

iv congress to take his place, and his with- Ldrawal from that post at this time jwould almost be a public calamity. ~lt jwould at least subject the Democratic jparty to risks that would be exceedingly |hazardous at this time.

The president has shown a proper appre- 1ciation of and respect for public opinion by |tendering the treasury portfolio to Mr. I•Carlisle. Itwas done because Mr. Cab- i__ isle's well-known conservative views on iall important public questions are in accordwith the lit-st sentiment of the country. Heina lan exponent of tile Democratic idea .

on monetary matters and of the party'spolicy in regard to the tariff. It is possibly ;a public misfortune that Mr. Carlisle !

cannot accept a cabinet position, and yet it Iwould be more of a public misfortune if he jabandoned his present place. This instance i

is an argument in 'favor of the proposed iconstitutional amendment allowing mem- jbers ofthe cabinet to hold seats on thefloor of congress.

FRANCE WILL FIGHT.\u25a0 Hon. George H. Pendleton, who has

for the past two years been the American |minister at Berlin, expresses the belief that jall of the European powers have pacific in- Itentions except France.": He knows that iGermany has no inclination to go to warwith any other nation, but is of the opinionthat she will be forced into a war with theFrench people. - France will have to fightto recover- Alsace and Lorraine within thepresent generation, or make up her mind toabandon claim to those, provinces forever.The rulers of France recognize the fact thatwhen a new generation has grown up inFrance the feeling toward Germany whichnow prevails willall have died out. Therewill be no sentimental disposition then togo to war to recover territory which aformer generation surrendered. Upon theprinciple of Striking while the iron is hot,France is compelled to tight now or never.This being the fact, it would be contrary toFrench nature ifan effort was not madeto wrest the two provinces from Germany.And the effort willbe made at an early day.It is one of those things that will not bearpostponement.

Ia affokds us much pleasure to congratu-late our esteemed friend and contemporary,Maj . Will' J_. Hasklll., managing editor oftho Minneapolis. Tribune, upon his success inwinning a most charming young woman to behis bride, and we feel like giving an especialfervency to our good wishes, because the ex-cellent judgment which induced the major toenter into matrimony was reinforced by thewisdom of the decision which led him, sohappily, to make a St, Paul girl the object ofhis suit. i •\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0..-\u25a0\u25a0 "

A good deal of nonsense is being writtenabout Vakderbilt . arrogant extravagancein buildinga jacht which cost half a million,and willrequire $10,000 a month for runningexpenses. As that much money will be putin circulation am*_g people who need it andappreciate; it, Mr. Vanderuil. seems to besetting a sinning example to those million-aires who simply hoard their weaith.

. The Detroit Republicans had their annualbanquet last night and millionaire senatorstraveled in their special car from ashimrtouto be preseut. Representatives of Republi-can working-men were of course not invited.They are only taken into the fold by themillionaires when voles are needed.

Father McGlynn hopes and looks for re-instatement and many sympathizers with thepriestly enthusiast, who canuot help admir-inir his earnestness, whether they approve ofhis position or not, will wish for his success.

Mr. Blaise has declined an invitation toanother New York banquet. The man whohas once been hoisted by dynamite isn't gen-erally very anxious to go to a place where itis likelyat any time to explode.

;.' —— ;—, mIt is really quite useless, all this talk about

the capital removal. Common sense dictatesthat it should be in the center of a great city,accessible from all points, and reason pointsout that St. Paul is the city.

The thriftyYankee spirit doesn't admit oftaking any chances where they eau be avoided.The Boston base ball club has insured for§10,000 the lifeof Kelly, its costly player,for whose release it paid.

mWe trust that among those alleged charges

said to be on file against Gov. Swinefordthat an inordidate indulgence in Alaska'smoat flourishing staple "hoochnoo" is not in-cluded. '-. ;

mMr. Donnelly had a bad quarter, of an

hour In the house yesterday, but as he is agentleman of wonderfully recuperative qual-ities, he will doubtless come up smiling to-day. ,:fr.';._. - f-..—— mm .

The bill introduced in the house for theprotection of birds does not take under itsprotecting wing the quails which the forty-day quail eater is in the habit of consuming.

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The relations between England and France,too, are becoming strained. Really, thesesmall children should appoint the UnitedStates referee and cease their troubling.

•-IfKansas City 'succeeds in entering the

National league her real estate agents willtake advantage of the opportunity to raisecorner lots ten dollars a front foot more.

The country could devote the amount ofthe annual. appropriation for the improve-ment of useless rivers and harbors to coastdefenses and save money by so doing.

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\ Since a congressman, and a Missouri con-gressman at that, has succeeded in securinga charming bride, the nation's legislators canhardly be as black as they are painted.

IfMinnesota's entry in the Philadelphiawaiting match displays the usual Northwest-ern go-ahead-ativeness. Panchot, of Hast-ings, will finish near the front.

• Bismarck, of course, came out on top inthe German elections. He is the most suc-cessful machine politician on record, but hishold seems to be weakening.

\u25a0 .— m» .The fast driver is again making himself

dangerously,numerous. Ho should be sup-pressed at once, and no gentle means shouldbe used in doing it. SE__-

•m.The English house of lords is discussing

gag. law, but what its individual membersreally need seems to be an acquaintance withmoral law. *.•--.

STRAY SUNBEAMS.The Washington papers are boasting that

Queen Victoria owns real estate in the Dis-trict of Columbia. The old lady has had hereye on some St. Paul property for some time,hut our real estate men are too patriotic toJet British royalty gain a foothold iv this partof Freedom's vineyard.

* *There is an old legend to the effect thatBritish gold has always been an influentialfactor in the District of Columbia. Our pro-tective tariff legislation couldn't have suitedBritish commercial Interests better if theBritish parliament had the making of ourlaws. The: British motto is, "What hurtsAmerican commerce helps England."

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Henry George says the civil conflict oftwenty years ago was a trifle in comparisonwith the contest that is cow being waged be-tween labor and capital. Mr. George evi-dent!y, sees through a irlass darkly. Ifhe hadbeen down at the front twenty years ago, andhad been singed by the fierce fires of warwhich waged all along the line, he would nowhave a more carreet conception of tho magni-tude of that performance.

It is a peculiar fact that all the belligerentand bloodthirsty statesmen of this age aremen who didn't smell gunpowder when therewas a chance to get a whiffof it. Mr. Blameand Senator Ingalls are illustrious evi-dences of the truthfulness of this assertion.

. st"But speaking of Henry George, itis grati-

fyingto observe that he is making rapid im-provements as a journalist. Recent issues ofthe Standard show that he can now reduce aparagraph to ' the space of one column. Atfirst it took nine columns.

-: '• _*The whirligigof Time brings many strange

, things around in its revolutions, amongwhich there is none more singular than the

•pending lawsuit between Mrs. Kate Chaseand ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling. There isno scandal connected with the litigation—thanks to the absence of BillySpragce andhis famous shotgun. Financial matters onlyare involved. ' . ' -

\u25a0 - t"Conkling is said not to be making the

great success at tbe bar that was anticipated.When he first appeared lawyers feared him

. and clients flocked to him as if tbe magic of; his name was going. to d. fullduty for logic;and legal • lore. Lawyers say that his longcareer in politics has". not aided to make Mr.

Conkling a great lawyer. His pouter-pigeon ~\style of oratory doesn't count before a." lullbench.

'\u25a0\u25a0 *_* • ' ' 'P. T. Barn cm wants to be Prohibition can-

didate for president in 1.8." If the old manwilltravel around with his circus and issuefree tickets he will get some votes. The in-terstate law doesn't prohibit free circuspasses. »

_\u25a0*The British government is awfully mad be-

cause the czar of Russia ordered a picture ofthe St. Paul ice palace instead of sending toMontreal for one. Her majesty's cabinetlook upon it as a direct snubbing of the Brit-ish lion. Our jollyfriend, the czar, will holdhis ground, relying on the St. Paul tobog-ganers to back him. "v

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The railroad officials say that it is cheaperto kill a passenger than to cripple him. Thelaw limits the damages for killinga person to

.000, while a man who only loses an arm ora log can recover $50,0.0. The law's incon-sistencies are marvelous.

***The habit of going out between the acts hasbeen abandoned by the young men in NewYork. The habit was broken up by the youngladies, who adopted the. plan of pinnius- thecoats of the young men to the upholsteringof the opera chairs with good strong safety ipins. The young men were disposed to strug- !gle against it at first, but now are perfectly ireconciled to sit still until tho curtain falls onthe happy denouement in the play.

The Kansas City Times says that the peopleof St. Louis are bigger fools than tho peopleof Kansas City. This is putting it pretty

strong. But in conflrmation of Its assertionthe Times says that St. Louis people paidspeculators $20 and $25 for Patti tickets,when the highest-priced tickets could bebought ivthe box office for $3.

***Now the St. Paul people will want to knowwhy I~atti charges $1 an octave more forher voice in St. Paul than she did in St. Louis.It would bo unfortunate for ManagerAbbey's reputation ifhe should lay himselfopen to the charge hippodromiiig to thequeen of song.

•*"\u25a0_,St. Paul and Minneapolis celebrated Wash-

ington's birthday by burying the hatchet.Plant a sprig of cherry over its grave.

*_**Mr. Sherman's resignation need not be*construed into a purpose to accept a cabinetposition under the present, administration.He simply wanted some one else to hold thebook when he swore in next time.

*\u2666*Mr. Eustis, of Minneapolis: "St. Paul is

destined to become the third city in theUnion. Itwill be after the Twin Cities aremerged into one and shake hands across thedome of the new capitol ou Macalesterheights." BSBj

w_*.».John S. Prince—St. Paul and Minneapolis

have nothing to do with locating the capitolmore than the rest of the people of the state.Toe time will come when the capitol willstand on an interurban site. But we havenot reached that time yet. Not yet.

*** 'Dos-nelly's Soliloquy— What doth it profit

a man to gain the organization of the legisla-ture and to to lose his own bills; or what haveIgained by changing the speakership for thechairmanship of the railway committee?

\u25a0 \u25a0The Cooniest Member In the House.Fergus Falls Journal.

Mr. Knox, who is trying to steal eleventowns from Otter Tail in order to keep Wa-dena county out of the poor house, is one ofthe "cooniest" members in the house. He isa very modest appearing young man, and thefollowing is characteristic of him: Last ses-sion he wanted to get $5,500 fora road fromAitkin to Grand Rapids, a town in Itascacounty. He knew that this was more thanhe could get in any square deal, so he intro-duced a bill appropriating $2,500 to build aroad from Aitkin to Graud Rapids, and nameda set of commissioners to build the road. Hethen introduced another bill appropriating$3,000 to build a road from Grand Rapids toAitkin, and named another set of commis-sioners. The legislature passed both bills,and the state auditor was the fl _t to discoverthat both appropriations were for the samoroad, although running in different directions.When Lnox was asked about it he simply saidhe needed the money and did not know anyother way to get it.

Trying to Keep From Freezing. '

Yankton Herald."Papa, who are those men with buffalo

overcoats on and fur caps drawn over theirears?"

"They are members of the Dakota legisla-ture, my son."

"But what do they keep their coats andcaps on in the house for?"

"Because, my son, this is the territorialcapitol building at Bismarck aud the poormen are trying to keep from freezing. Byand by they will all go down into the base-ment and fire up. Then they will feel better."

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Can Sympathize With Us.Mitchell, Dgk., Republican.

Minnesota's capitol building, which threat-ens to tumble down about the ears of her ablestatesmeu. was designed and superintendedby the same architect who planned the non-descript shack which Dakota's legislators areshivering in this winter.

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AS INSANE PREACHER.He Shoots His Wife, Tries to Kill

His Daughter and Attempts Sui-cide.New York, Feb. 22.—Rev. Charles W.

Ward, rector of the Protestant Episcopalchurch at Englewood, N. J., inwhat seems to have been a - fitof mental aberration, shot his wifeearly this morning, fired once without effectat his little daughter and then turned hispistol upon himself. Apart of the wife'sface where the bullet struck is paralized,and doctors fear that the wound will resultsooner orlater in lock-jaw. The clergymanhimself had put the muzzle of the pis-tol close above the right eye andmeant to fire upward into the brain.The ball struck in sideways instead, pene-trating only an inch and a half, lodgingagainst the right temple bone. His condi-tion to-night is serious, but less dangerousthan that of his wife. The rector is un-doubtedly insane.

A Twelve-Round Rattle.Philadelphia, Feb. 22. — Twelve

rounds with kid gloves were fought, atBridgeport, Monday morning. The princi-pals were George Harris and HarryMiller, both of this city, and thefight was for a purse of '; $400.The referee gave the fight and purse [toHarris. The men were both badly used up,and had to be carried to their carriages.Miller's face was swollen to al-most twice its natural size, andthe skin torn off in* six places,while his body was covered with blood.Harris suffered somewhat from loss; ofblood and his lips were terribly lacerated.One eye was completely closed and hisfront teeth are gone.

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Seized by Portuguese.

London, Feb. 22.—Advices from Zanzi-bar state that Portuguese's men of war, byorder of the governor of Mozambique, haveseized the sultan's steamer Kilva;at Tongiand towed her to Mozambique.

Austria's Representative.

Vienna, Feb. 22.—Dr. E. Schmitt YonTavern, counsellor of the Austro-Hungarianembassy at Berlin, has been appointed min-ister at Washington in the place of BaronYon Schaeffer, who has for some timebeen absent on leave. .~.\ '\u25a0

»Randy Will Return.

• London, Feb. 22.—Rt. Hon. HenryMatthews, secretary- of state for homeaffairs, in a speech at Birmingham to-day,intimated that Lord . Randolph Churchillwould rejoin the government after theadoption of the budget.

Gen. Johnson's Wife Dead.Washington, Feb. 22.— Lydia

McLane Johnson, wife of Gen. JosephJohnson, commissioner of railroads, died ather residence in this city this morn ing ofparalysis. ; '\u25a0•'. •.

Steamship Arrivals.New York—The Fulda from Bremen..Havre—The Normandie from New York.

ABANDONING THE KNIGHTS.

Workmen at Jersey City Reinstatedi In Their Old Places,

On Renouncing Their Allegiance to

the Great Order.

:..'.Newark, N.J., Feb. 22.— tobaccoworkers arid cigarmakers' assemblies of theKnights of Labor of this city have decidedriot to obey the order of the general assem-bly of the Knights. The order was adoptedin October of last year, and provides thatall persons engaged in the cigar trade whoare knights and members of the Interna-tional Cigarmakers' union shall with-draw from tlie union. . This is the oldfight between the union and the knights inregard to the use of the labels of the twoorganizations. The union claims that theadmission ofthe Progressive cigarmakersto the. knights has injured their trade inthis city, as it allows the sale of foreign inopposition to home made goods.

. A State Convention.Troy, N. V., Feb. 22.— state conven-

tion of Knights of Labor was held here.to-day. Two delegates were present fromeach of the District Assemblies Nos. 40,49, 60. 03. .05, OS. 75, 85, 91. 104, 147. 149.152 and 104. The convention is not for thepurpose of forming another state working-men's assembly, but to discuss matters per-taining to the Knights of Labor and tosolidify the order in the state. The con-vention may decide to agitate the questionof'forming another state assembly of theorder. . -

The Stove . liuiii! ...St. Loins, Mo.. Feb. 22.— manu-

facturers of stoves in this city replied yes-terday to tlie demands made last Saturdayby the Stove Moulders' union that thewages of moulders be increased immedi-ately 15 per cent. The reply states thatthe condition of the trade does not warrantso great an advance at this time, butpromises tiie men that on June 1 next, anadvance of 10-per cent, will be made. Itis supposed thai a strike willbe averted bythe men accepting this proposition.

Abandoned the Order.Jersey Crry, ._. J., Feb. 22.—About

fifty of the striking coaltrimuiers weretaken back to-day by the Delaware, Lacka-wanna & Western Railroad company. Themen, before they were reinstated, promisedto quit the Knights of Labor.

Trouble Feared.

South Amboy, N. J., Feb* 22.—Troubleis apprehended here to-morrow with thestrikers from the soft and hard coal docks.Warrants have been issued for the arrest ofthe strikers who drove back to New Yorkthe new men who,came down here lastweek-to go to work.

. JAMES K!S«___._. LOWELL.

He Promised Chicago a Lecture onAmerican Politics, But Puts ThemOff With a Talk About Hichard111. \u25a0-.\u25a0.;;;;:Chicago, Feb. 22. — James Russell

Lowell was greeted at Central Music hailthis afternoon by a brilliant audience, as-sembled to hear him deliver an address on"American Politics." Every seat in thehall was taken long before the time Mr.Lowell was expected. On the platform wasa distinguished array of gentlemen, includ-ing ex-cabinet members, federal and statejudges, generals.and lesser military officers,bishops ami other ecclesiastical digni-taries and many of the foremostrepresentatives of the comm ercial interestsof Chicago. On behalf ofthe Union leagueclub, Gen. George W. Smith, introducingMr. Lowell, explained that the address wasthe first of an annual series under theauspices of the club, the idea being to in-augurate, ifpossible' a revival ofthe gen-eral recognition of the birthday of Wash-ington and cultivate among tlie people ahigher political culture. Mr. Lowell, oncoming forward, was greeted with pro-longed applause. He said:• Ladies and Gentlemen: When Ireceivedthe invitation to speak here to-night, and in-deed, until a short time ago, 1 had an impres-sion I was to speak as one of a course. Itwas an erroneous-impression, Iknow, but itwas a sincere one. I was offered my choiceof two topics, polities or literatureand atfirstIchose politics, but Inow appear in anew capacity to announce a change of pro-gramme. After havingwritten an address onpolitics, when I came to read itover 1 felt that I stood in a verydelicate position. I was to address amixed audience, an audience composedof both parties. I was not speakingin my own person but as the representativeof a club composed of both parties. Now Ibelieve Ihave been in the habit at times ofspeaking my mind pretty strongly, but Ifound this was an occasion on which I wasplaced in a delicate position, where Icouldnot express myself with entire franisness, asone speaking in my own person. You allknow, of course, quite as well as I do, that atext is a mere brutum fulmeu without directand immediate illustration, and 1have observed, as 1 dare say you have,that direct and immediate illustrationsseem to have some personal . applica-tion in them. ; Direct applications andIllustrations seem to have gone to theschool of the prophet, Nathau, and if they donot say in so many words "thou art the man,"they always seem to imply it. It seemed tome 1 had better throw up my political dis-course, though with great reluctance, be-cause Icould not make it to my mind, and Ishall fall back on the other limb of the choiceoffered me--that is some literary topic. Iam themore convinced of the wisdom of the choicesince my arrival in Chicago,for it would causeme the greatest possible regret if any word ofmine should mar the cordiality of a welcomewhich will be one of the pleasantest recollec-tions of my life. I shall therefore ask you tolisten to a few words of criticism and thenapply them to the play of "Richard III."andthe absence of certain things in , that playseem to indicate to my mind that it is notShakespeare's work."• The speaker then proceeded with a dis-sertation on "Richard III,"making no al-lusion to politics. American or otherwise.To say that tlie audience was greatly sur-prised is to put the situation very mildly.- Afew people left the hall, but the address re-ceived from the majority of the audienceclose attention, and at its conclusion Mr.Lowell was loudly applauded.

An elaborate banquet was tendered toMr. Lowell to-night by the Union. Leagueclub. Covers were laid for 325 guests. Theprincipal speakers were Congressman-electJem Baker, Gen. Lucius Fairchild and Mr.Lowell. The remarks of Mr. Lowell wereof an. informal character, but werewholly devoted to a discussionof the various phases of. politics in thiscountry. . The . burden of the speech wasthat the so-called "practical politician" andthe corner grocery politician must go. Hedid not give any further explanation forchanging the subject of his afternoonaddress, and none has been definitely ascer-tained, although the matter was the sub-ject of much of the conversation of thebanquet. JUfflflfl

_• "*A Horrible Confession.Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22.—A con-

fession horrible in details was made by thecolored woman, Hannah May Tubbs, whowas arrested Monday. She declared thatWakefield Gains, whose limbless and head-less trunk was found in a pond, was mur-dered in her house on Richard street in thiscity by John Wilson j or Wallace; that thevictim's remains were . dismembered - byWilson: that the brute made awaywith the . head, legs and arms;that .she . carried the trunkof the body to Eddiiigton and threw it intoa pond. Jealousy on the part of Gains andWilson regarding a pretty mullatto girlnamed Annie Richardson was the motivefor the crime. Wilson was captured to-night here. The confession is horrible inits details. Itseems that Gains attackedWilson and there was a . terrible struggle,from Which Wilson emerged a corpse.Then in a perfectly cold-blooded way Wil-son dragged the body from the cellar andcut it up with a butcher's cleaver..; He gotthe woman to take away the body, vwhile .!he disposed of the head. and legs. .It is notknown where the latter are. .

m T _'V --. Washington's Bithdar.\u25a0 Washington, Feb. 22.—The presidentdrove out to Oakview this morning and re-mained there all day examining : legislativematters. To-day was '.generally observedin this city as a holiday. All the executivedepartments and many business houses

THE ST. PAUL DAILYGLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1887.

were closed. Both houses of congress,however, were in session, h Several streetparades took place during the day. Thefirst was composed of veterans of the oldvolunteer fire departments' of this city andBaltimore, who subsequently participated inthe celebration in Alexandria. The Nationalrifles, the Washington light;infantry corps,the Capital City guards and the High Schoolcadets also paraded during the afternoon.Ibe Washington Continentals made a pil-grimage to litVernon, where appropriateservices were held, including addresses byRepresentative Herman, of Oregon, andothers. The Oldest Inhabitants association:also celebrated the day in an old-fashionedway. .. -i

New York, Feb. Public buildings,banks, exchanges and business houses areclosed.; and Washington's birthday is gener-ally observed here.

MR. SHERMAN RESIGNS.~ ~~' '\u25a0 '\u25a0'

Continued From First Page.that there would be negro uprisings and in-surrection., and, while many did not be-lieve the reports, they became apprehensiveafter the killing of Bolton.; In consequenceof these reports the sheriff,, with a passe,went from Brenham to the scene ofdisturb-ance "and found there was nothing what-ever m the report." interjected Mr.Spooner. ._,_,. .\u25a0\u25a0•'•.

VI believe he found there was no upris-ing." replied witness. Coming down to

the MATTER OF threatssent to various parties, witness testified toreceiving such a letter am. to being shownothers." Witness received the following ad-dressed to himself:

You are hereby notiflei that you are to beshot on the first favorable opportunity, pre-sented. You arc the instigator, of all thetrouble in the county. \u25a0* * .* * For to dieyou shall before many suns rise and set. Ifit is not done by one way it can by another.This is no bluff, but facts. Others may surelyfollowyou to your fate. ; \\u25a0}:, , Justice.

Bob Sloan, a negro supporter of witness,received the following:

Dear Sir: We have got two of the Demo-cratic chickens, and you and- Algie Hunt isour next choice. We expect to kill Demo-cratic negroes until we get two forevery onethey have killed. • \u0084 ..Dead.

Witness believed the letter sent him wasthe work of some political enemy. .In con-clusion witness refuted several charges per-sonal to himself which had been . made bypreceding witnesses. With response toHack worth's charge that witness was re-sponsible for the robbery of the school fundsby forged vouchers, he said that • three ofthe five forged vouchers were forged withthe name of his predecessor and only twowith his name. The statements made inspeeches to tlie negroes that the countryhad lost this money (between S2OO and.800), was false. The treasurer had made

good out of his own pocket those vouchershe had accepted, and Col. Giddings, thebanker, had lost those he had cashed. Ad-journed until to-morrow.

Coinage and Precious Metals.Washington, Feb. 22.—The acting sec-

retary of the treasury to-day sent to thespeaker of the house, communications fromthe director of the mint, the comptroller ofthe currency and the assay commission, urging amendments ot the laws governing theannual assay of coins so as to provide forholding future meetings of the commissionat Washington, the selection at random byan officerof the mint bureau of the coins tobe tested and the payment of a per diemcompensation to the members of the com-mission. The existing law is said to fail tofurnish sufficient evidence of the qualitiesof the coins for the reason that it allowsthe selection to be made by mint officers.The report of the director of the mint con-taining statistics of the production of theprecious metals in the United Statesfor the calendar year ISSO wastransmitted to congress to-day.From the report It appears that the pro-duction ofgold during ISSG exceeded that ofany previous year since 1880, and almostequaled the production of that year. Thisamounted to _ 5.000,000 in 1886 against$31,800,000 in 1885, an increase of over$8,000,000. The production of., silver, asnear as can be ascertained, was 549,895, -930. The amount of gold- bullion im-ported into the United. States was §17,947.---518. and the exports §27,862, t.7. Theimportations were made almost .exclusively,"since August last. There was also im-ported gold coin of the value of §23,301,603,and gold coin was exported to the value of$13,393,863. The total exports of goldbullion and coin wa3 $41,281,276, whichcorresponds almost exactly with the amountimported into the United States, so thatthere has been a slight gain by tlie move-ment of gold to and from the United Statesduring the calendar year.

The Public Reception.

Washington, Feb. 22.The president'sreception to the public generally to-nightwas the last of the season's series, and wasa pleasant affair. Long before 9 o'clock acrowd had assembled outside the the Whitehouse, and as soon as the doors opened asteady stream of people poured in, twoabreast, which continued to flow steadilyonward from that time until a few minutesbefore 11 o'clock, when the last person inline passed through the outer door. Thegood-natured crowd was one representativeof almost all classes of people and allstyles of dress. Most of the ladies werein street costume. The garb of the gentle-men ranged from the conventional dresssuit to a box coat and reefers jacket. Col.Wilson, United States army, made the pre-sentations. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland wereassisted by Mesdames Manning, Endicottand Lamar. "

The Fortifications Bill.Washington, Feb. 22.—The conferees

on the fortification appropriation bill held ameeting this morning, at which fair pro-gress was made in the settlement of pointsofdifference. The meeting was character-ized by a spirit ofconciliation and mutualconcession that leads to the belief that anentire agreement will soon be 'reached.One of the conferees after; the meeting re-marked that lie felt satisfied a bill would bereported not later than to-morrow whichwould fully meet the demands, of ithecountry and prove eminently satisfactory: inits terms. _/,;;_t.. %C-_'.-

A RIOIEK'N SI__.TE.iCE.

He Gels One Year in £ rison forStoning a Street Car.

Boston, Mass., Feb.' 22.—Patrick Car-rol, a. pleasant, good-looking young man,was arraigned in the Cambridge municipalcourt yesterday on a charge of throwingstones at a Cambridge horse car during theriot of Sunday evening.

"Iam guilty, judged" said he, "but I .wasdrunk and did not know what I was doing." .-,

"Have pity on me and his babies," criedMrs. Carroll, "he is all there is. between meand the poor house." . . . >.

• In pronouncing sentence Judge Orcuttsaid: . ;~_f . . -

Ifthere is one thing which has been settledin the criminal courts of this country itisthat drunkeuness is no excuse for crime. Aman is just as liable for a . crimecommitted while drunk as whilesober, although the fact - of . hiscondition may -sometimes'-., weighin mitigation of sentence. Inthis case, how-ever, it might have been an assault with, in-tent to kill. The man who throws a stone ofthe size that this man did at a'cat* in whichare many passengers, ladies and childrenmighthave caused death, may fairly be calledguiltyof au assault with intent to kill.. Al-though the result does not turn out to beserious, it is the same offense. It Is a seriousone and should be punished severely. It hascome to a pretty pass that people in a civil-ized community cannot travel in railroad carswitnout running the risk of an attack of tbiskind. In this case I propose to impos° a sen-tence that the defendant will remember andone which willbe a lesson to others who mayhave an idea ofcommitting a like crime.

Carroll was sentenced to one year at thehouse of correction.' ~

_ "WillKeep Them Busy.Fergus Falls Journal. . -

Tbe members of the house have at last gottheir $10, apiece for postage. It iwill keepsome of the members, who ; are not accus-tomed to the use of the pen, pretty busy touse up that amouflt during the remainingtwenty or so days of the session.

Murder and Suicide.Baxgok. Me., Feb. To-night Fred

George, of Orono, went; to - the house ofaman named Mcintosh at Great Works,where Geo; ge's wife is stopping. Goinginio the kitchen fie 'shot his wife and " thenhimsel.l both" dying instantly. . ;ri.

GREETING TO GOV. HILL.;.; Continued From First Page.

| prove that the 7,000,000 farmers, and thej'5,000.000 church members, who want pro-hibition, will go with this new party, ifthey willput in their platform the doctrinethat the "open saloon must go." Thatdoctrine was bound to be popular in thiscountry. .He begged the convention to

i not try to revive the greenback party,| but he wanted this party to do more than| the Prohibition party and take the wind outlof the sails of the Prohibition party. He| closed by saying that if that was done the! party would have the prayers of every| woman in the whole country and of everyj man and child who has felt the sting of thecurse of open saloons. His address was

| frequently and heartily applauded. E. P.I Smith, in reply, said ifthe party shall .. \u0084 KIM. THE PKOHIBITIO.V PARTYthey will drive 300,000 votes bade into theRepublican party, The committee onpermanent.organization reported for Presi-dent A. J. Streator, of Illinois, for vicepresident Richard E. Trevellick. of Michi-gan, and the following additional vice presi-

: dents: •...'-.. J. J. Woodalls, ofAlabama: C. E. Cunning-j ham, of Arkansas; J. R. Buchanan, of Colo-i rado: A. J. Martin, of Connecticut; E. J.

Curtiss, of Idaho; J. Kane, of Iowa;E. M. Lovin, of Indian Territory:S.V. ; R. Heath, :. of Illinois: J. H.Allen, of Indiana; P. P. Elder, of Kansas: S.Shaw, of Kentucky; William Murray, ofMassachusetts; M. B. Ely, of Mississippi; D.M. Thompson, of Wisconsin: 1. D. Chamber-lain, of Nebraska; W. G. Brown, of NewHampshire: O. Preston, of New York; J. R.Wiuston, of North Carolina; John Sicks, ofOhio; E. W. Pike, of Oregon; J. P.Lane of Pennsylvania; J. K. Miles,of Tennessee; Holmes . VV. Barton.I of Rhode Island: R.J. Hedge, of Texas; J.

j N. Ludley, of West-Virginia; Dr. HubertSeverance, of Wisconsin; George V. Smith,of Wyoming; Lee Craudall, of the District ofColumbia, and J. O. Dean, of Dakota; seere-

I retary, M. D. Shaw, of Missouri; assistautI secretary, W. D. P. Bliss, of Massachusetts;j reading clerk, George H. Lennen, of Newi York.

The report was unanimously adopted andMr. Streator went to the chair

WITHOUT THE HELP OF AN ESCORT,the suggestion of one being scouted by thechair, Who said workingnien should scorn

j to ape the fooleries of effete aristocracies.I Mr. Streator began his address by saying:!!..'Gentlemen." A lady delegate asked,

"What about the ladies?" to which thechair responded, "and ladies of the con-vention, particularly the lady from Wis-consin." Having thus started he ,proceeded to say that the objectof this convention was to organize a partyfor the common good of the whole people,to guard tlie Weak against the strong. Hewished it understood that this party wasnot the party of anarchy, though it was afact that anarchists were not much heardof until there was an undue number ofmillionaires. Now, it was the duty of thisnew party to guard equally against the ex-actions of the one class and the robberies ofthe other. [Applause.] His address wasdevoted largely to advice in regard to thetilings to be avoided in making the plat-form, and against the blandishments ofpoliticians after the party had been organ-ized and started into public notice. Thecommittee on rules and resolutions reportedtrie order of reports to be made by thethe standing committees .placing the reportof the committee on platform next to last,tlie naming of the national committee to belast, each delegate to have one vote and thevotes to be announced by the state chair-man. All . . ;.: ;-7

SPEECHES to BE LIMITEDto five minutes and no delegateto speak more than twice upon any ques-tion. Mr. Weller, of lowa, wanted the votetaken by organizations so each organizationshould have as many votes as it was entitledto. He moved to amend accordingly, andexplained that, as an instance, he repre-sented an organization entitled to two dele-gates. He had been authorized to castthe vote of the other delegate andwanted to be permitted to do so. lt wasequitable to distant states. This wassharply opposed as giving opportunity forquestionable conduct in casting votes byproxy.'" The amendment was lost by a. strong vote and the report was adopted. C.A. Power, of Indiana, who said he was not. a delegate, but a guest, asked leave to pre-sent a memorial on behalf of a Union sol-dier. Leave was granted, and Mr.Power took the stand, when Mr. Shaw, ofMissouri, arose to a question of privilege forthe protection of the convention. He calledattention to the fact that the Union soldierswere invited to send delegates here, andthey should have been represented. Sev-eral others objected, but the chair ruledthem out of order. Mr. Power then went,on to say that he was appointed to comeand ask for a piank in the platform tostrike out the present pension laws andmake an equitable adjustment of

."...\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0. the SOLDIERS' CLAIMS,by. which the soldiers should be paid thedifference between the paper they receivedand.tlie value ofgold. The plank -he de-sired to have inserted was that every sol-dier's discharge should be his pension certi-ficate.. The memorial was sent to the com-mittee on resolutions. Quite a number ofresolutions were offered and sent to the samecommittee without reading by Gen. Bur-gess, Mrs. Martin Todd, of Michigan, ad-dressed the convention. She began by say-ing that if the words of James G. Blame,spoken in Pennsylvania last September, weretrue, there was no cause for the conven-tion. He said that the workingman "hadprosperity behind him and prosperity beforehim." But. she said, the wordsof Gen. Logan contradicted in amanner Mr. Blame, when inexcusing himself for not speaking hisworkingnien\s speech any longer, he said:"The people do not . elect senators andpresidents, and therefore 1 must make myspeech to those who do." Taking this as atest, Mrs. Todd went on to .say the work-ingman, even with the ballot in his hand,had not been electing the officers of thisgovernment for years . He had been dis-franchised by the machinations of grindingmonopolies and the wage system of thiscountry. She pointed out

j \u0084,:- THE KEMEDYfor all thisa junction into one party of allclasses of laboring men. Hitherto fac-tions had split into pieces every working-man's effort at union. Organization alonewould give him power. Recurring to theevils of the present times, she said plunderwas obtained through special leg-islation, through courts, through officials,through militia, through Pinkerton's —whatshall I call them," she asked. [Cries of"Assassins,*' "murderers," "murderingthieves.' ] "Ileave the saying of the badwords .to the gentlemen," said the speaker.She thought Henry George did not go farenough, in that he did not see the evil ofthe money system. She declared that underits /.working a man might be aslave on free land. Mrs. Todd closed witha fervent appeal for immediate and harmo-nious organization. She was heard withintense gratification aud given a rousingvote of thanks., After a long and noisydiscussion about opening the hall to citi-zens,. the convention. at 1:45 p. m. ad-journed until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

THE SOU THE SOCIETY.

The ._ember* Likteu to a Post Fran*' dial _ all. by Gen. I' _ ing.

New York, Feb. 22.—The first annualdinner of the Southern society of NewYork was given here to-night and attendedby many representatives. Speeches in re-sponse 'to toasts were made by and lettersof regret received from Mayor Hewitt, Ed-itor Grady, ofAtlanta, Senator Butler, W,L. Trenholm and others touching uponphases in the history of the South and therestoration of good feeling since the war.The principal speech was by Gen. ThomasEwing, who said:

"Ohio and her sister states of|the Northwestare proud and happycto be reminded of theirkinship with Virginia,"remarked Gen. EwingIn opening. He then traced the relations lipofthe sections and added: "Whenever Vir-ginia sits at the head of the table

OHIO CLAIMS A SEATas one of the family." Other utterances fol-low: "Ibelieve that, in spite of the infinitedistresses of the war, the liberation '. ofthe slaves, the .temporary overthrowof j.. the industrial system ..of theSouth, . and the needless losses andhumiliations . of reconstruction, there

I is more ofrespect and fraternal ; feeling' be-I tween the South and North to-day than; ever| before since the . slavery agitationv be_unthirty, years ago. "Gentlemen, the/ Northcraves a loving and lasting peace . with' theSouth. It asks no humiliating concession.. It

| recognizes as a chief cause of the ; war the

I constitutional question of the rightof seces-sion, which question until settled by tho warhad neither a right nor a? wrong side to it.Our forefathers simply evaded it in framingthe con.tituti on, believing if itwere settledeither way the union of all the thirteen statescould not be accomplished. _ So they left thequestion of the rightof secession In the lapor the gods—committed It to the chances ofthe future, and then the war; came on andsettled it forever." The Northern people arenot so mean, fanatical or foolish as to com-plain of the South that it believed then, andbelieves now, that It bad the right side ofthat question of constitutional construction.How could we respect the South if it wore tosay now that it was not sincere; then? Or ifit were to pretend that the cuffs and blows ofthe war hud

CHANGED ITS CONVICTIONSas to the true interpretation of the constitu-tion as origiually adopted? Surely, with theauthority of Jefferson and Madison in favorof the Southern view, and Washington andHamilton in favor of the Northern, each sidecan admit at least tbe sincerity of the other.It is enough that North and South alike agreethat the question has been settled by war al>solutely and forever in favor of the Northernconstruction. The; North, t too, recog-nizes the fact that all .the pro-voking causes of . the war grewout of slavery, for the establishmentof which the North and South and Englandwere all responsible—if, indeed, such tre-mendous facts as the establish ment and over-throw of slavery here are not part of theplans of the Almighty as to which we arefoolish to parcel out responsibilities." Gen.Ewing belie, that the republic had solvedthe problem of self government, but therewas a tremendous question yet unsolvedwhich was rising unbidden in this and everyuolightened nation.: Itwas the question of-the proper distribution of current earningsbetween capital and labor. The means of

SOLVING THIS PROBLEMin the United States fell chiefly, within thepowers over the revenue, the currency, thepolice and private corporations. "The solu-tion will not be promoted in America, atleast," said Gen. Ewing, "by anarchicalassaults upon public authority, nor by con-j fiscation of real or personal property,

j nor by intimidation of industrial workers^nor, on the other band, by police interferencejwith the right offree assemblage, nor by bandsof hired banditti under the pseudonym of

j detectives, nor by the stool-pigeons of cor-; porations sitting as legislators, but the people! at the ballot box, and through the enactmentj of such laws as will tend to adjust distribu-

| tion ol the wealth which labor and capitali combined created. Let uf>. gentlemen, and

all others who have borne the heat andburden of civilwar, commit it and its issuesto the past, and join the incoming generationin settling this greatest of industrial ques-tions In such way as shall be just to all am?best for the masses or the people."

A FRIGHTFUL FALL,

A Dozen Men Hurled Down From a.Lofty Scaffolding

Five Killed and Two of the OthersMortally Hurt.

Altoona, Pa., Feb. 2-2.—A terrible ac-cident happened at Beilefonte at 8:20 thismorning. A gang of bricklayers employedby the firm ofWintering & Dixon, of Pitts-burg, were engaged in laying stacks aflValentine's furnace, when the scaffolding onwhich they stood gave way. precipitatingtwelve men to the bottom of the stack, adistance of sixty feet. Five men werekilled and two others fatally injured. Thescaffold had been weighed down with some8.000 bricks. Ail the men killed weresingle, and residents of Pittsburg. . -

A California Cyclone. - \u0084 ,7/,Oroville. Cal., Feb. 22.— 5 cyclone

passed near here last night, and fora dis-tance of six miles carried everything beforeit, destroying fences and cabins. Itsbreadth was about forty feet. It is the firstever reported west of the Rocky mountains.

THE WHITE RIVER HORROR.The Railroad ConiniiHMioners Findno One Responsible for the Acci-dent. 'White Rivee Junction, Vt., Feb. 22.

—The board of railroad commission liasmade a public report on the recent Ver-mont Central disaster. They fix the numberof passengers on the train at 77 and thetrain hands at 12, or 89 in all. and give alist of killed and wounded, which does notdifferfrom that already given in these dis-patches, and say: "._.._,_'.;;_

At a point 510 feet from the abutment atthe south end of the bridge, while the trainwas moving at a speed of less than twelvemiles an hour, the rear sleeper—Pilgrim—was thrown from the rails, but kept to thoroad bed : until it came upon the bridge,when the rear end swung to tbe right side ofthe track to the deck of the bridge, thence tothe frozen river below, a distance of forty-two feet, drawing with it the other sleeperand the two coaches in front.

They find that the train had been prop-erly slowed up before reaching the bridge,that at the first .warning ofdanger the con-ductor pulled the signal to stop and thatthe engineer applied the air brakes promptly,but seeing the rear sleeper falling, releasedthem, opened the throttle and thus savedpart of the train. They find that thebroken rail had defects which were notvisible and caused the sleeper. Pilgrim, toleave the track, and probably broke theaxle. They recommend the^use of steamand electricity to heat and light cars.

A Train Wrecked.Special to the Globe. '\u25a0]'$:. Altoona, Wis., Feb. 22.—The Dulnthwayfreight on the Omaha was* ditched bya broken rail about two miles south ofBloomer at 11:30 p. m. to-night. Theconductor, G. W. Proctor, the brakemenand two passengers are injured. Thewrecking train has just departed. Nofurther particulars can be learned at thiswriting.

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The Canadian Elections.Toronto, Feb. 22.—Returns received up

to midnight show that 99 Conservatives, 79Liberals and 4 Independents have beenelected. Sir John Macdonald has beenelected for two constituencies. All . thecabinet ministers are re-elected. A num-ber of places are. yet to beheard from, but Sir John Macdonald'sgovernment will probably be sustained byfrom 10 to 15 majority. In the old housethe government had a majority of 76. Hon.Edward Blake, Sir Richard Cartwright andHon. Peter Mitchell, leading Opposition-ists, are re-elected. The contest was keenand exciting, but passed offquietly.

' _> .Fought to a Finish.

New York, Feb. 22.—Dan Gallagherknocked out Dick McLaughlin, both Brook-lyn middle-weight boxers, in a fightin a barn at Maspeth, Long Island,this morning. The men fought with bareknuckles for a purse of $100 and to settle adispute as to the respective meritsof Paddy Smith - and Jem Mitchell.In the first five rounds both sparred cau-tiously. Mac got first blood on Gallagher'snose. Gallagher returned a blow that splitMac's lip. 1here was. hard fighting in thefourteenth and fifteenth rounds. In thetwenty-first round .- Gallagher laid Macsenseless with a blow on the jaw. Timeone hour and twenty-three minutes."

The Walking Hatch.Philadelphia, Feb. 22.— attend-

ance at the walking match has beengood ; all day, and ' the walkers,with ... two or three., exceptions,appear.to be in good shape. . There are stilltwenty on the track, and their < scores at 10o'clock to-night were as follows: Alberts193 miles, Vint 193, Hart - 191, Will-iam Day 188, Noremac 183, Bennett 177,Strokel 179, Panchbtt 178, "Eson 166, SamDay 1.65, Cox 158, Miller 153, Golden 151.Burrell 149, Dillon 144. Tilly 137, Adams133. • New hart 125, Kramer 105, Guer-

rero 65. • V..5 \u0084>.',;" .-',: .... —— mm • ',

What the Pope Will Get. ... ,\ Rome, Feb. 22.— is reported that forthe pope's recent friendship, Germany hasconsented to act as mediator between theItalian government and the Vatican. TheVatican's proposal is that a part of Rome,including the Leonine cityand. a zone ex-tending from the Vatican to .the sea byCivitaVecchia, shall become the absoluteproperty of the pope.

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Shot Himself Fatally.Special to the. Globe. _^^_-__SGf9_f:. Hallock,. Feb. 22.—Andrew Olson ac-cidentally; but fatally, shot himself throughthe lungs while out hunting on Friday.7 \'

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