Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-17
NUMBER 1874.
OPEN CONFESSION
BILL W4sHBURN THE REPREsEyrs
TIE OF TIMBER THIEyEs.
An Authoritative Statement ms to wb.
ol'ated "ashburn-"such Fellow az
schurz' to be Busted by our Wash-The
indicted Timber Thieves Rally to Wash
burns support.
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Inc nomination of Gen. w. D. Washburn
Tor Congress is matter over which every
lumberman can afford to rejoice. Their i'm
'neolate ana direct interests involved in
the proposed legislation for the nert two
years, make it a matter of tirst-class imnort-
aiice 70 unein to secure an able and jealous
advocate IN the national halls. The Canad-
iaiis VIII continue to press their schemes
ior Wlplng out the lumber busi-
ness IN the Northwest thronob
the fraud called reciprocity. The
rivers ana harbors are to be preserved and
improved. The great project of the bniId.
ing OF reservoirs on the several streams
must De pushed on to their completion. The
lumber tariff on imported woods has tn he
watched and defended. If tie departments
at Washington are TO be occupied by sucb
fellows as Scharz, there is needed in Con-
gress man who will denounce $ outraoes
The important matter of inter state com
merce IS to be carefully and thoroughly adj
]usted, and thousand wrongs made RIGHT
which do now most or;evons,,
Cypress the lumbermen in the distribution
OF their product. In these particulars and a
hundred other WAYS have the lnmharne,
direct interest, and for the discharge of all
and singular of these duties there is no man
IN thls district more fully qualified than
Gen. w. ID. Washburn, who is thoroughly
identified with the business and perfectly
acquainted with all it's necessities. His
nomination is largely due to the influence of
the lumbermen of the district, who rallied
to his support with hardly dissenting voice.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FLoATER.
BALTIMORE, Md, July l6.-This morning
the dead body of a man was found floating in
the water outside the bath house at Ferry Bar.
From his effects it is supposed that deceased
Is z. Rhinehart. agent for the German Catholic
paper mah,&frieN'M, published by Bensinger
Bros. Cincinnati.
DROWNED.
ST. LOUIS, July ia young man about
twenty-four years of age, from Memphis. go
ing under the name of j. Il. Mcdonald, sun
posed to be an alias, was drowned while bath
ing last night. His father is said to be a
Hquor merchant at Memphis. The body is
held for liberalization.
FATAL FIGHT.
PHIA:EL-~ IA, July l6.-Charles A. Min
payer ana a ian named Springer were proba-
bly, fatally injured yesterday during fight
among the T. rtlsans of rival claimants to the
ownership o. a yacht.
NICE LITTLE FRAUD
CINCINNATI, July 16.-About l o'clock this
afternoon we'll dressed gentleman called for
two drafts on New York for SO and $40 each.
at the house of Espy Heidelbach& Co. Tickets
were made out by the clerk and, as he was
very busy. sent the party around to the ex-
change clerk desk with the tickets, instead OF
taking them himself, as is customary. The
stranger prefixed figure nine before the
ten, and seven before twelve then
presented them to the exchange clerk, and
drafts We're made out for 1910 and $7l2, and
handed to the party, who Immediately disap-
peared. The fraud was not discovered till the
teller returned from dinner Both drafts were
upon he Hanover National bank of New York
JEALOUS WRETCH
TAUNTON. Mass, July 16.-In Louden last
night, VIM. Brock shot and killed Pat O'Keefe
and wounded Eliza Ridden. jealousy was the
cause.
BOUND OVER For MURDER.
LINCOLN, Neb., July 16.-Orlando Coster was
to-day bound over at Seward for the murder of
Geo. T. Munro of Arkansas City, Kansas. Mum
70 came to Seward two weeks ago and stopped
with Coster, to whom he tried to sell his team
of horses. Last week Munro's body was found
floating in Blue river. An inquest was held
and the evidence elected points directly to
Coster as the guilty person, he having other
property belonging to the murdered man in his
POI session and told several different doubtful
st cries how he came by them.
MURDER.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 16.-Geo Leggett,
professional gambler, was shot and almost
instantly killed by John III. Achey, at Chaplin
Cores saloon, this afternoon. Achey was
arrested, and is in jail.
Removal of Nez Perces to the Indian Ter
ritory.
LEAyENwoRTH, Kan, July 13.-Gen John
McNeal, inspector of Indian affairs, in company
with II. W. Jones, Indian agent, arrived yes
terday from the Indian territory for the pur-
pose of removing Chief Josephs band of Nez
Perces prisoners, now in camp at Fort Leaven-
worth, Guapaw agency, Indian Ter, about
eighteen miles south from Baxter Springs, and
adjoining the territory now occupied by the
Modocs. The removal Will take place in a few
days.