Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-25
4 POOR HOUSE HORROR.

Startling Discoveries BY tho Unexpected
visit OF an Examining Committee-Paup-
ers Confined In Pens In the Cellar, Naked.
Starving, Their Cells Reeking with Filth
--Serious Collision on the Great Western
Railway--Eneineer, Fireman and Seven
Emigrants mi Observation-Disclosures Crimi-
nal and Casualty Notes.
POOR HOUSE HORRORS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. PA committee
appointed to examine the poor house of this
county, made an unexpected visit yesterday.
Descending to sub-cellar, a sight met their
gaze which astounded them Here were
found i've pens constructed of heavy planks,
with plank doors which had small apertures
In the center. Crouched in straw
upon the floor or grouped shud-
dering in the farthest corners were
naked and half clad human beings who
had been left there in abiect misery and de-
spair by their keepers. There was no light,
no ventilation and no sanitary conveniences.
In one cell lay a man stark naked. The bot
tom of the cell was covered with filth and
straw, and the floor was dirtier than tia. in
hog pen. His shrunken. cheeks, hollow eyes,
sunk deep in their sockets, and his ema-
ciated, feeble form, told of the shameful and
degrading treatment this poor helpless hu-
man being had been subjected to-.
another cell contained e. negro
whose condition was like that
OF the being described above. The
doors OF the cells were made of heavy plank,
and in the center was small aperture
through which food and water were probably
passed to the inmates. So vile was the place
that the committee was forced to beat hasty
retreat to upper and purer air.
POLITICAL FIGHT IN LOUISIANA.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 24.-Ilme. special,
Franklin, La, Nov. "a: The object of the
attack upon Newman's house on the night
of the 18th, was to shut his mouth as to the
visit paid him three nights before by party
said to be Willie Wilson, parish attorney
pro tem, who in the middle of the night de-
manded the election returns, saying he had
just received telegram from the attorney
general authorizing the delivery Of
the returns. The attacking party
knew the returns in the interior had
been sent to New Orleans, but as Newman
continued to talk of the visit paid him, it was
determined to put him out of the way. It is
known that Tom Wilson came to his death
from pistol shot in the head made by one
OF the attacking party. The wound in the
arm was caused by Newman. learn on the
highest authority that the Democrats in the
lower part of the parish are determined upon
an investigation. Newman is clerk of the
court. day or two after the election the
ballot boxes of Saint Mary's parish were
taKen from the court house and DESTROYED by
unknown parties. Newman had duplicate
poll lists that were wanted to cover the evil
dences of fraud in the election.
FOUND GUILTY.
DEADwooD, d. T., Nov. 24.-The jury in
the case of the Territory VS.. M. L. Conk, for
the murder of Mrs. Minnie Collision, re-
turned verdict at 4 o'clock this morning of
guilty. Mrs. Collision was discovered on the
morning of the goth of August last, in bed
Win her skull beaten in. Conk's counsel
give notice of a motion for new trial.
POST OFFICE NIGHT wATcHMAN ARRESTED.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.-Jacob Roos, for
many years night watchman about
the post Office, was arrested at
1880 this morning by special agents, having
just taken from the carriers room about one
hundred letters and carried them to private
room for the purpose of opening them. He
has been under suspicion for some time on
account of the mysterious disappearance of
business letters the past few months. Roos
made clean breast of his guilt, confessing
to stealing large amount of money in let
ters. he was at one time we'll paid clerk
IN the railway mail service at CINCINNATI.
RAILROAD COLLISION.
HAMILTON, Ont, Nov. 24.-The New York
q Chicago express collided early this morn
ing at Winona station, on the Great Western
railway. One engine and two cars wrecked.
The driver, fireman and seven German emil
grants on the st-bound train were injured.
and taken to the hospital.
SILVER THIEVES.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24.-Joseph Toothman, an
employe of the freight Office of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, Sedalia, Mo-, and John
Cornley, a car repairer, were arrested in that
city yesterday charged with stealing three
bars of silver bullion valued at $4,000 from
cars between that place and Kansas CITY the
early part of last month.
SUICIDE BY DROWNING.
WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. 24.-Charles
Schwlner, young man who has been an in
mate of the Wheeling hospital for some
time past, last evening committed suicide by
yI0rN1to into $hn