Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-03
MAJOR NICKERsON's CASE.
Special Telegram to the Globe.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-Whatever the war
department is doing in the case of Major
Nicker5on is being kept very quiet in
order that its plans may be carried out.
Major Nickerson is as subject to orders
from the war department as any officer on
the active list. He is required to report
his whereabouts every month, and in case
he neglects to do so for three months he
can be dropped as deserter. The de-
partment can order him before a court
martial at any time, and if he fails to
appear before the court he can also be
dropped. 1t is reported that
Major Nickerson has sailed for Europe.
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
Special Counsel George Bliss and w. w.
Ker arrived here to-day. 1t is said that
they continue to draw their large per
diem from the government. It is under
stood that they have evolved a new
scheme to keep their pay running. That
is the preparation of the civil suit
against the late star route defendants.
They propose, it is said, to enter suits in
the judicial districts where the defendants
reside for amounts which they are alleged
to have stolen from the government. If
this scheme is carried out the expense Will
be fully equal to that of the criminal trials.
Dorsey will have to be sued in New
Mexico, Brady in the district of Columbia,
Vale III Missouri, Miner in Ohio, and the
Saulsburys IN New Jersey. This will af-
ford tirst-class field for the employment
of special counsel.
MARRIAGE SENSATION
A young man, G. c.. Merritt, of
Baltimore, who has recently come
into a large fortune by the death
of his father, married here last night
respectable woman many years his
senior, the keeper of an employment
agency. The woman had taken care of
him for years, when he was rather wild,
and after he had been disowned by his
father. He did not even know that his
father was dead until she informed him of
it after visit through Virginia to find him.
His present wife, a few hours before the
wedding, is reported to have said some
droll things, among them this: 'Three
weeks ago last Monday he walked in this
Office and said: well, here 1 am what
do you want Said 1: Your father is dead,'
and he tainted right off. I had no more
idea that he was going to ask me to marry
him than have that you will before you
leave the office she continued, with faint
effort to blush. at was last winter that
l said to Dundore, (Dundore is the woman
who was partner in the employment
agency that cub of yours is trying to make
love to me-" swell, never you mind, How
ard,' said she, "some of these days that
boy will have more money than you ever
had, or ever will have" mo indeed
continued Mrs. Howard, 81 didn't have any
idea that he wanted to marry me until he
asked me to. I have almost backed out
several times, because people will say 1
was fortune hunter, and that l inveigled
him into marrying me-" The fortune of
the boy is estimated at from 100000 to
$25O,000.
BECK UPON THE TARIFF.
Senator Beck has prepared and pub
lished an interview with himself on the
tariff. 1t is in rejoinder to the statements
of Senators Sherman and Morrill,,
printed soon after congress
adjourned. In it Beck insists that the
tariff issue is to be fought over again in
the next congress and that it will be the
vital question of the Democracy in the
speakership and presidential campaign.
Beck, it is said, submitted his statement to
several Democratic senator's before he de-
cided to publish it. The interview draws
the line sharply between his school of the
tariff and that represented by Randall. It
indicates very clearly that the Democrats
will soon have something else to talk about |
than want of harmony among the Repub-
licans. Senator Kellogg, after reading it,
said: "Beck has made mistake for his |
party Any such radical declaration of |
a tariff campaign as that will lose the Dem
ocratic party three congressional districts |
in Louisiana" Mr.. Beck charges that the |
bill submitted by the tariff commission |
was a burlesque on legislation. He |
generally reiterates the aggressive |
points of his speeches. He declares fatty |
that it will be his purpose to seek to re- |
open the tariff question next winter and to |
remove The taxes which were imposed b. !
the conference committee against the ex- /
pressed will of both the senare and the
l. ouse, as shown By their recorded votes, on