Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-12
|PUGILISFIC PEN-DRIVERS.

One Milwaukee Journalist Assaults and
Beats Another-How the Stock of the st.
Paul Road Was Depressed by Means of
Private Information.
MILWAUKEE, March ia sensation in
| journalistic circles, as well as elsewhere in
this city was produced Saturday night by
the report that bloody encounter had
| taken place between the editors of two of
the city papers. 1t seems that ever since
the revolution in the Sentinel Office eight
| months ago, when nearly all the old edi-
tors and printers gave way to new ones, a
feud has existed among certain newspaper
men here. This feud took
| q new turn when Mr..
in whose interest the change was man
aged, was relieved from duty in connection
| with that paper. He acquired an interest
in the Journal, and Immediately began
seres OF attacks on the very men who
had been his best friends. Saturday
| the Sentinel republished from New York
paper long article attacking the credit
& St.Paul Railway company. This morning
| the same paper published an editorial
denouncing its copied article as stock
jobbing effort at humbuggery. Saturday
afternoon the Journal published a long
article, bitterly attacking Mr.. Bergin, city
editor of the Sentinel, for alleged attempts
to bear st. Paul securities, and reproduced
Of of hu 10
brokers' firm in New York. In one of
these letters, purporting to show that the
st. Paul company were short of funds, ETC.,
Bergin wrote: 'The owners of the Sentinel
are railway men and bankers, so
we are unable to show up all these things
in print" In another letter, Bergin says:
"You may think l was hasty in my declar-
alton of Mr.. MitchelPs condition. have
channels of information Which work for
news that I cannot always print, and
thought that important as bearing on st.
Paul stocks. To be sure, he was at his
Office on the day following but forced
himself to it, owing to the rumor that it
was feared among New York men, that he
would have the third shock this week
and there was great excitement among the
higher officials" The whole tenor of the
letter was in the line of attempting to
show that the prospect was that Mr..
Mitchell would die soon, and that, on gen
eral principles, the financial condition and
management of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul company we're in bad shape.
The Journals comments on the matter
were by no means complimentary to Mr..
Bergin, toward whom the paper has here
tofore manifested hostile disposition.
The following are copies of the letters
complained of:
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 24.-Superintenden
Atkins says privately that the st. Paul
management has decided to build the road
to Kansas City, but will not begin work
just at present, owing to financial compli-
cations. In other words, he says the st.
Paul company has 600 miles of road more
than they can handle, and although not
| really embarrassed, yet they at times fall
short of ready cash, and
this explains the contemplated strike
of the one thousand employees here who
| could not get their Christmas pay. When
the fact of the contemplated strike was
published IN the Sentinel, the company's
stock fell, 1 believe, some three cents The
| owners of the Sentinel are railroad men
| and bankers; so we are unable to show up
| all these things in print. Mr.. Atkins says
| the employees of the local offices had
to go two months without their
pay recently owing to the press for money.
He propecies that inside of two months
there will be great furry in st. Paul
stocks owing to the same trouble. If you
request will telegraph in advance of the
threatened trouble, even before we publish
| it. F. F. BERGIN.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. &c, 1S83.-X
you may think was hasty
my declaration of Mr.. Mitch
ellis condition. 1 have chan
nels of information which work for news
that can't always print, and thought that
important as bearing on ST. Paul stocks.
To be sure he was at his Office on the day
following, but forced himself to it owing
to the rumor. 1t was feared among rail
road men that he would have the third
shock this week, and there was great ex-
citement among the higher officials.
T. f. BERGlN.
Last evening Mr.. Bergin, accompanied
by Mr.. Cary, managing editor of the Sem
tinel, visited the Journal Office and an
nounced his intention of chastising Mr..
Nieman. This he proceeded to do, and
lively battle ensued. Both men are feather
weights physically, and neither has
any pretent1ons to pugilistic Prov
| ess. Bergin succeeded in pun
melting Nieman severely, when the
latter caught Up a walking stick, and
possibly would have broken his opponents
| head had not bystanders interferred.
Ths Journal Immediately published an
extra giving It's version of the affair and
| Nienan swore out warrant for Bergin's
! arrest. The warrant was served and Ber-
gin released on parole to appear in court
| on Monday morning. Bergin claims that
the most damaging statements in his let
| ters to the Wall strset firm were made on
authority of Superintendent Atkins.