St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-06
SEC. FOLGER's BULLY.
Fight in the ArcLitect's Ofice-A Fair Clerk
Flies to the Secretary For Refuge.

right an the ATcHatect'SC Utce-A Futr CteTK
Flies to the Secretary For Refuge.
Washington Special March 1.
While Secretary Folger was engaged this
morning in debating letters to his private
secretary, he was startled by the sound of
feminine shrek in the hall and the wild clat-
ter of pair of French boot heels. Then his
door was burst open without any ceremony
| by pale-faced woman in black, a clerk in
the treasury, who came with the startling an
| nouncement that some Of the clerks were en-
gagged in numbering each other in the super
vising architects office. She announced in
a most tragic manner that she had seen with
her own startled eyes one mans throat cut
and that stream of blood was flowing down
through the lower corridor. After making
this announcement she showed signs of
fainting in the private secretary's arms.
The uproar in the architects Office was so
great for four or five minutes that none of
the colored aides-de-camp Ventured nearer
than the stairs above it. For time wild
panic prevailed throughout the treasury, and
public business was suspended for ten or
fifteen minutes. The occasion of all the up
roar was the formal leave-taking of Thomp-
son, the Chief Compiler in the architects
office. Thompson is a very tall, broad
shouldered, hot-headed Scotchman. He was
the especial friend of Hill when he was arch
itect Bell, the present architect, made up
his mind few weeks ago to remove Thomp-
son. The latter believed that
BELLS MIND WAS POISONED
againt him by some of the conspirators who
were anxious to have him out of the way so
they could secure promotion. He was en-
gagged by the Potomac Red Sandstone compa-
ny, but this soothing business fact did not
appear to satisfy him.
When he entered the Office this morning
he announced that as a farewell ceremony
he proposed to thrash all the clerks in the
Office so as to make sure of Furnishing those
who had slandered him. He began with J.
C. Blackwell and L. J. Fenton. He accused
Blackwell of slandering him, and in the
course of an animated conversation which
followed he knocked Blackwell down under
the desk. Fenton then threw a stone paper
weight at Thompson, anticipating by few
seconds the thrashing that was coming to
him by his turn. The throwing of the cube
fastened his punishment. In this last
struggle quart bottle of red ink was thrown
striking Thompson on the head, 1t broke,
and the red fluid streamed down the side of
his face and flowed down the corridor 1t
was the sight of this ink which so frightened
the female clerk, who ran screaming
murder to the secretary. After the two
| clerks had been laid out ON the floor Thomp-
son grabbed pole used for lowering window
shades and charged in the direction of the
other flying clerks, who took refuge under
desks or else stampeded down the corridors.
Thompson finding no one willing to con-
front him, very soon cooled off. He an
nounced, with chuckle, that he hoped this
would be a good lesson to future slanderers
and quietly resumed the duties of his desk
He was not disturbed again during the day.
His farewell appearance in the architects