St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-22
THE FLIGHT OF A WING.
The Sensation Caused by the Mysteri-
ous Disappearance of a Hitherto
Respected Merchant,
An English Evangelist Gives Conf
Dental Talks of Character that
Ought to be Suppressed
He Was "0n the Make" but After Fleeing
the People Of st. Louis Abuses
Them.
Model Set Of City Politicians Who Seorn to
be Thought Members ofa
Ring.
Correspondence of the Globe.

| Corfes sponuence OF the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 20.-The mysterious dis
appearance of Mr.. D. L. Wing, well-known
merchant, is the sensation of tine week,
which is not dispatched with the ordinary
verdict ''another good man gone wrong"
Mr.. Wing was generally regarded as very
prosperous man few months ago, and now
he is missing under the most suspicious cir
| eumstances. Mr.. Wing is well known
among the millers of the Northwest. who are
ALSO probably, acquainted with some Of his
business transactions. On Dec. %,
1884, trial balance of the Planet
| Milling company, which was in the
hands of Mr.. Wing, showed Its profits to be
$685. 900. A few days ago II cents was found
to be the amount in the treasury, and this
was the condition Of things when Mr.. Wing
was last heard from. On the Oath of last
June Mr.. A. H. Stonebreaker leased the
Wing mill for sl5, 900 year. He then by
an arrangement with D. L. Wing subscribed
for 99S shares in the Litchfeld Qll.) Milling
company, on an understanding that Stone
| breaker was to put ups, 900 and Wing
$4,000. Wing did not put up his stock
| money nor did Stonebreaker either, and the
| accounts opened with a fictitious S50,000
capital stock, which fiction was continued. AS
the books now stand no one can explain them
but Mr.. Wing and no one knows where to go
to get him to explain them. Since his disap-
pearance it has been found that railroad
claim Of $4,000 is put down as an asset by
Mr.. Wingthat is not worth anything, that some
milling copper stuffs set down by him at
22,0O0 are Only worth SO, 200, and that
! claim Of Sl0,624 against Mr.. ]. r. Tolleson
! Of Atlanta, Ga, has already been paid Set-
| eral business men from Atlanta, Ga., and
. railroad men In the s S,uth are in the city and.
threaten to have Wing prosecuted if he does
not put in an early appearance and close up
| accounts satisfactorily.
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| 1t is safe to say that no city in the Ua ion
! presents such q truly good condition OF
thugs political as st. Louis. A set of city
officers wIlrbe elected in My and the can
Vass now opening will be model one. The
| taint of "ring" to candidate is political
death now, and the aim Of the would be-
servants of the people is TO impress every.
one that they are relying on the respectable
| merchant vote for election to the various
Offices.
The theater patronage has fallen Off seri.
ously during the plst week. Between Lent !
and the grand Italian opera the managers
! seefh TO be suffering. Lotta succeeded the
grand opera at the Olympic, but has only -at..
| tracted ordinary audiences. 81
For many months The statutes Of Missouri
have been constantly violated by the Mis-
| souri, Pacific and the Wabash railroads, which
are parallel and competing lines
! under the same management The
Pacific Express company's officers are also
| officers of the railroad com panies, situation
| of affairs also in violation Of the laws vf the
| state Gov. Crittenden, to whose election.
the railroads contributed handsome purse.
.luring his term Of Office permitted this to
! continue without even a protest Since
| Gov. Marmaduke took the executive chair,
| however, Attorney General Boone has taken
the matter in hand and instituted quo war
| ranto proceedings in the supreme court
against the offending officials of both rail-
roads and the express company, demand
| ng that Jay Gould come into court and show
| why he should continue this arrangement
| Hx&
| A few months ago 'Rev." Henry Varles,
an English Evangelist, came TO this city. He
was shown through the public buildings by
| bilt utSOS VI Tue muuNIpaI NtpdIiUttuiS-
Judges received him on the benches He
was entertained and dined by Receiver
Thomas e. Tut Of the Wabash system. He
met with great favor among the ministers
and was the especial guest Of Rev. Walter G.
| Douglass and the Young Mems Carlstian
association. The Rev" Varey's topics bad
| titles peculiarly interesting tn his bearers
| Confidential talks to unmarried young
men" the duties Of married men towards
| their wives, aud similar subjects. These lee
lures were free and bordering OH filthy. The
-xcuse, however. was that the work was
simply an advanced ministerial undertaking
having sin in the abstract to discuss it and
| its results in real life. Before the
Rev. Mr.. Varey left town, however. his
! schemes developed. Among other things he
! placed on safe here a lot Of pam phlets on sub
| iects similar to bis lecture. The discovery
was also made that Mr.. Varley had an
arrangement with Il physician W whom be
/ referred hunters Of young men, who were
/ charged high fees. It now develops that
Rev. Varley sent to London a report Of bis
| visit to Missouri and st. Louis from which the
| following are extracts. His report under
date of Dec. 13, 1854, says: ''1his city IL
| one Of satan's seats. Containing nearly
| 500, 900 souls. l should say it is one of the
| most Goddess IN the face Of the earth. The
| capital of slave state aud not very far from
! the free states you can understand
| what defnoralizing influence slavery had In
! the past and how its legacy of wiekedpess
| still marks its population. The original
! population was mainly Of French; their iD1u-
| snce still holds and certainly not in the Dir
| rection Of righteousness. Enormous quaDti-
| ties Of whisky are drunk here,aud every form
Of gambling, licentiousness sDd iDtemper-
I ance Is rife. have been informed that not
more than 5 per cent. Of the business men
have escaped failure in the past twenty years
| The churches are substantial and some Of
them are very costly, but the spiritual life is
dwsrfed and poor. The externaiism of
| Christianity sbouuds, but the condition Of
| things spiritually is simply appalling. The
| preaching Is snowy and So per1ciai; prayer
meetings are barren Of fervency and com
munion. Tne mass Of the people are utterly
Indifferent 10 the claims Of good. | s0fne-
times think the Lord may Dc trying our faith
/ in this stronghold Of egiL'' This report is nov
the topic of discussion among the church
going people, whn are heartily disgusted with
themselves for having put themselves out 10
entertain Tarley.
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