Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-20

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next political campaign in Ohio, and will
have decisive influence in determining
results.
CLEVELAND, Quo, millionaire suicides
seem to have literary proclivities. A few
years since Leonard Case, millionaire, a
bachelor, committed suicide, bequeathing
in his will a million dollars or more, to es-
tablish an academy of applied Science"
Now another millionaire, Amasa Stone,
has suicided, but fist having been guilty
of 'The Rape of a College," Some three
years ago Mr.. Stoue turned his covetous
eye on Western Reserve College," located
at Hudson, @. beautiful and retired rural
hamlet. He offered the faculty and trus-
tees an endowment of over half q million
dollars if they would remove the college to
Cleveland, give it the name of his deceased
and only son. AS money answereth all
things" the President, faculty and trustees
eagerly caught at the golden bait, and the
college was removed. The college build
ings at Hudson were left desolate, the re-
monstrances of the people of Hudson whose
property would be damaged or ruined by
the removal was disregarded, and the col
lege founded in the prayers and by sacri-
fees of the old, devout pioneer western re-
serve divines of the first half of the present
century, who labored in season and out of
season to found collegiate, theological
institute to the glory of God, was removed
and took on a secular character in the
metropolitan city of Cleveland. Mr.. Stone
advanced $4,000 to provide for the erec-
ton of new buildings for "Adelbert Col
leJe," and promised an additional amount
OF 100000 and over for ample endowment
but before the latter sum was advanced
the millionaire shot himself, leaving the
baffied faculty and trustees with an "Adel-
bert" college elephant on their hands,
as complete a wreck as the abandoned
Hudson institution, unless other Cleveland
millionaires come forward to the rescue.
in which case they will probably want the
name changed to that of their own sons.
They will want to wipe out the unsavory
name of a suicides son. If the faculty and
trustees had been prudent and careful
whole amount pledged as condition pre-
cedent to removal, and not trusted to the
mere word and breath of a millionaire.
But dazzled by the glittering proposition,
they grasped greedily at the prize which
in their hands has proven to be but an
'apple of Seldom"
Il.
ton of the United States held its annual
meeting at the Grand Pacific hotel in Chi
cago on Wednesday of last week. The
Rev. Father j. M. Smyth, a bright and tai
ented young Irish priest, who has been in
charge of the Catholic colony in Greeley
county, Nebraska, was present in attend
ance on the meeting. In July, 1876, Fa-
Their Smyth was ordained priest, and the
following year he went to Greeley county,
and there offered the first mass that had
ever been celebrated in that county.
There were then only twelve Catholic fam
lies In the settlement, but since then the
number has gradually increased, until now
there are about 200 families attending
church. A reporter for the SUNDAY Inter
Ocean interviewed Father Smyth, who said
If man has the consumption, he should at
once move to Greeley county. 1t has the
best climate in the world. The only peo-
pie who die there are doctors and lawyers.
The cause of the death of these professional
gentlemen is in every instance starvation.
for they cannot procure enough money
to sustain life, because the people will
not get sick or go to law with each other.
The people are happy, prosperous, intelli-
gent, and contented. The od-houses are
all disappearing, and in their places are
being constructed substantial frame build
ings. Last year we built two churches and
a pastoral residence at cost $1,000.
Well, no, they would not compare favora-
bly, in architectural design and finish with
the magnificent churches here, but they
are very good for what was few years