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best hotels of dozen of the leading cities
OF the country.
His Enthusiasm Pales Not.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Ex-Commis-
sioner Thoman, of civil-service fame, is
still here. He goes to New York directly,
to look after some business interests he has
there. 1t is quite probable he may settle
in New York. He is still enthusiastic for
civil service.
II think that civil service ought to go even
further than it does now. 1t is good, but
believe might be improved
''In what way, judge?"
'By making it apply to smaller Offices, where
fifty or more persons are employed. l think
the system might be so extended as to reach
all offices where twenty-five or more persons
are employed. Then, as experience dictates,
there may be changes in the system which
will materially improve it,
.'You are a. firm believer, then, as pri-
vate citizen in civil service as you were when
q civil service commissioners"
''Oh, yes, quite as much so. I believe not
only in the theory but in the practice of civil
SERVICE and believe it will prove of great
advantage to the governmental service of
this country
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Childss Awful Fate.
Special to the Globe.

special to the Globe.
Troy, N. Y, Nov. 5.-Friday night
Willie McAllister, aged 5, and Johnnie
Townsend, aged 13, escaped from the
orphan asylum here. Yesterday Townsend
returned alone, but gave no information
about his companion until this morning,
when he said Willie was buried in a clay
bank back of the asylum. The boys
wandered about in the darkness Tuesday
night, and Willie went to the edge of the
soft clay bank, which caved off with
him and buried him up to the neck. Town
send became insane from fright and wan
dered about the streets until last night,
when he was captured. 1t was not until
this morning that he could be compelled to
tell where Willie was. People in the neigh
borhood of the bank heard cries there yes
terday, but paid no attention to them. The
body was found with the head sticking up
in the clay. He evidently died last night,
after having been held alive in the clay for
tWentV-four hOurs
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GEN. GRANTS LETTER.
what He Wrote That Caused Dr.
Sands to be Quickly Summoned.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-The current num-
Der of the Century magazine has in part
reproduction of letter written by Gen.
Grant to DR.. J. 81. Douglass while at Mt
McGregor, and in the text of this partially
reproduced letter the general made refer
ence to previous letter in like strain. The
prompting cause of this previous letter and
the letter itself follow: Gen. Grant reached
Mt. McGregor June 16, and that night he
slept ten full hours and well. The next af-
ternoon, day of the I7th, the general sat
upon the cottage piazza alone and in
deep thought Suddenly, as though
after mature reflection he had
formed resolution, the general
summoned his servant and started down
the steps and walked to the bluff of the
mountain, and there sat upon rustic chair
with eyes bent to the earth, his features
drawn and tense and an expression of sad
ness on his face. He had set himself to a
test of his strength. He wanted a basis for
personal judgment of his condition, and he
found himself weak beyond his expectation.
He went slowly back to the cottage and
reached his room discouraged and disheart-
ened, and wrote statement of his convic-
tions as to his own condition. This he
handed to DR.. Douglass, and it was the pre-
VlOuS letter referred TO In the generaFS re-
producted letter in the Century. 1t is here
given:
doctor, since coming to this beautiful
climate and getting complete sleep for about
ten hours, have watched my pains and COM
pared them with those of the last few weeks.
1 can feel plainly thatmy system is preparing
for dissolution in three ways:By hemorrhage,
one by strangulation and the third by ex-
haustion. The first and second are liable to
come at any moment to relieve me from my
earthly suffering. The time for the last can
be computed with almost mathematical GER
tainty. With an increase of daily
food I have fallen off in weight
and strength very rapidly for the
last two weeks. There cannot be hope of
going beyond this time. All any physician
or any number of them can do for me is to
make my burden Of pain as light as possible.
I do not want any physician but yourself, but
tell you so so that if you are unwilling to
have me go without consultation with other
professional men you can send for them.
dread them. however, knowing that it means
another desperate effort to save me and more
suffering.
DR.. Douglas that night sent for Dr. Sands.
who came next day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Germauyss Election,

BERLIN, Nov. 5.-As result of the cleo
ton for members of the Prussian diet, the
strength of the parties in the lower house is
as follows: Conservatives 140, Free Con-
servatives 60, Clericals 80, National Liber-
ais 70. New German Liberals A, Poles IA,
Danes 2, Guelphs 3. The German Liberals
were victorious in Berlin and the Bresten
Nationals in Hanover, and Clericals in
Cologne and Frankair. One National and
one German Liberal headed the poll in
Frankfort
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session of Methodist Bishops.

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-The board Of the
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church,
now in session in this city, approves the ap
peal of the Freedman's Aid society for a
quarter of million dollars year for Chris
tian education in the Southern states,
among both white and colored people.
Every pastor of the church is urged to raise
his full apportionment for this cause, and
churches and members of large means are
called upon to contribute with increased
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Cinnamon Make a Raid.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.-Information
has been received here that N. L. White,
foreman of the Mcpherson ranch, three
miles east of Orange, Los Angeles county,
was attacked by about sixty Cinnamon in
the vineyard while packing grapes Tues
day. White knocked several of them down
and defended himself till eight men work.
ing near by came to his rescue with shovels.
All the Cinnamon then fled to their camp,
where they fortified and armed themselves
with pistols. The boss Chinaman called on
Mcpherson Bros. and asked them to dis
charge the white men, which they refused
to do. Several of the Cinnamon were dis
charged, and the rest went to work. The
affair has created intense excitement among
the white people in that section.
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Politics in Hreland.

DUBLIN, Nov. 5.-The Nationalists of
Wexford, in convention to-day, selected
Messrs. Barry and John Redmond as their
member of parliament in the coming cleo
tion. Mr.. Parnell, in speech. said that
coercion had been crushed out and the
coercers hurled from power; that there was
no longer a vestige of peddling of mu-
inequalities, as Irelands legislative indie
pendence was drawing near.
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Recommends New Guns.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Adjt. Gen.
Drum, in his annual report to the secretary
of war, invites attention to the subject of
the obsolete arms and ammunition in the
hands of the state militia or stored in the
several armories. 1t would, he says, seem
a most wise measure if, at the approaching
session of congress, a general act was
passed providing for the immediate eX-
change, when requested, of all obsolete
arms now in the hands of the militia of the
several states for improved Springfield
rifles, calibre 45, and appropriate ammunition
therefor. He recommends that proof be re-
quired with the application, for the detail of
a military professor at any military school
that has at least $50 male pupils above the
age of Is years are usually present. He
finds that in some cases the number runs as
low as sixty. He recommends that non
commissioned officers and privateS on the
retired list be paid a gross sum in money in
lieu of the present pay and communication OF
allowances and he submits a table embody-
ing proposition to pay them at rate
varying from S36.40 per month for chief
musicians to S23. 80 for anti-ifers. He also
calls attention to the difficulty of securing
clerks acquainted with army forms and
recommends remedies. He calls special at
tention to the value of the work done by
the prisoners in military prisons.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Belittling Gladstone.

LONDON, Nov. 5.-Archdeacon George
A. Denison. NJ. P, of Taunton, in an elec-
ton speech last night, said:
''I have known Mr.. Gladstone forty-five
years, but would not trust him with brass
farthing. The Wings nightly, before sleep
ing, express the hope that something will
happen to Mr.. Gladstone before morning.
Somebody in the crowd at this point
cheered for Mr.. Gladstone, and Archdea
con Denison retorted.
.sYou might as equally cheer for the devil. -
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Ruined and EIeid Captive.
Special to the Globe,

Special to the Globe.
BosToN, Nov. 5.-Lizzie Merchant, aged
Is, was found last night Gagged in dark
ened room of house Of ill-repute owned
by the notorious woman Parton, alias Bell
Dow. She had no clothes save the bed
ding, being deprived Of ordinary garments
to prevent her escape. She says she
was enticed to the house three months ago,
drugged, ruined and has been confined in
one room since, subjected to frequent in
dignities, owing to her resistance, and
severely beaten every time she attempted
to escape. A discharged inmate reported
the case to the police and the girl was
rescued
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Proposed by secretary whitney.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov 5.-Navy officers
are awaiting the publication of Secretary
Whitney's report with the greatest interest.
Although no detailed features of the re-
port are known, it is well understood
by officers who are near the secretary
secretary intends to take very radical
position regarding the organization of the
department., as well as the management of
the service. 1t is believed he will urge the
abolition of the eight bureaus into which
the department is divided, and the substi-
tuition of some system that will bring the
service into closer relations with the Secre-
tary. This will probably result in the sub
stitution of three aides to the secretary for
the eight Semi-independent bureau chiefs,
one side being line officer, one a con-
structor, and one an engineer or ordnance
officer. One thing is quite certain, the sec
retary will exert himself to have
an end to the present system of
maintaining two bureaus altogether
independent of each other, and each
trying to be independent Of the secretary,
one devoted to the construction of hullS and
the other to the construction of engines.
A ships hull and engines constitute one
naval unit, and the worthless character
of most of our naval vessels
is due to the fact that
engines havs been built without reference
to the ships they were to go in, and boilers
have been built without reference either to
engines or hulls, and hulls have been de-
signed by men who had nothing to say
about the machinery that was to pro-
pei them. Each bureau has blocked the
other, and each bureau has laid on the
other the blame for every failure. 1t is
difficult to say which bureau is farthest
behind the times and the most hopelessly
circamscribed by its own traditions and an
tideluvian customs. Other secretaries have
seen what the state of things is, but then
have been unable to suggest remedy.
MI. Whitney will press on congress deli
mite and nteIligible, as well as a compre-
hehsive scheme, of improvement. The
bureau system, which prevails in the de-
partments. is carried out in every navy
yard, resulting in the employment
of more officers than are needed,
and an endless amount of red tape.
The abolition of the bureau system will al
low the duties of various navy yard officers
to be consolidated with the result of in
creasing the efficiency and reducing the ex-
pense of the navy yard staffs. For years
the policy of the heads of the bureaus
has been to keep the secretary
as ignorant of the departments, and as de-
pendent upon them as possible, and the
consequence is that the secretary has been
mere dummy for the admiral of the navy,
or two or three of the bureau chiefs who
have managed the departments
because the secretary could not
do anything without consulting
them. For the technical details the secre
tary will always be dependent on the naval
officers, but the abolition of the bureau
system will make it much easier for him
and the navy itself to come into contact,
and for the secretary to make himself felt
in the service.
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stead,s Conviction Certain.

LONDON, Nov. 5.-Sir Richard Webster,
the attorney general, to-day finished his adj
dress to the jury in the trial of the defend
ants in the Armstrong abduction case. The
court adjourned until Saturday. 1t is gen
orally believed that the conviction of Mr..
Stead, editor of the Pail Mall Gazette, Mr..
Bramwell Booth of the Salvation army and
Mrs Jarret is certain. The attorney gen.
eral concluded his address with a severe de-
nunciation of the conduct OF the members
of the Salvation army in suppressing Eliza
ArmStrOng'S letter to her mother
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Bought a Telegraph Line.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The plant of the
Postal Telegraph company, including all
the fixtures and all the wires underground
and overhead within the District of
Columbia. was sold at auction to-day by
United States Marshal McMichael. to sat-
isfy deed of trust. The only bidder was
Mr. Hillyer of the firm of Hillyer & Rails
ton, for Mr.. S. C. Elliott, the plaintiff in
the suit who bought the property for S4,-
600. The Judgment against the property
was for SO, 900. 1t is said the underground
wires alone cost the company $40, 900.
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liberality to this work. The eighteenth an
niversary of the Freedmans Aid society of
the M. T.. church will be held to-morrew.
The Missionary society of the M. E.
church was in session to-day Bishop Bow
man presided, and delegates were present
from all parts OF the country. A resolution
was passed in which it was voted to raise
81, ZOO. 600 for missionary purposes during
the coming year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Explosion Of Boiler in Pork Packing
House at Evansville, Ind, Eleven Men
Being Injured.
A Little Wanderer From an Orphan Asy-
lum Buried Alive by the Gazing Of
Clay Bank.
Shocking Story of a Young Girl Who
Had Been a Captive in an Un-
sayory Resort.
Arrest of the st. Louis Dynamfters-.
Sudden Flight of a Michigan
Bank Defaulter.
Eleven Mem Scalded.

EVANSVILLE. Ind, Nov. 5.-A very
serious boiler explosion occurred this after
noon at the pork-packing house of William
Aiken q Son. The boiler was lifted into
the air $50 feet, tearing away the rear cor
ner, where it started. then passed diagonally
over the building. two-story brick, falling
IN front, over 200 feet from the starting
point The following persons were scalded
and otherwise injured:
r. FL. and III. B. Aiken, John Siedenthal,
Nicholas Meher, B. NJ Zabb, John Jack, Will
lam Haines, Richard Armstead Jacob Cast
ner, James McCool and George Hyde. R.
Aiken and John Siedenthal are dangerously
hurt.
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workinsnnen for Hill.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Representatives
of the Knights of Labor allege that the
public press in assigning reasons for the
Democratic victory in New York, has quite
overlooked the Importance of that organiza-
ton as factor in the result. One of its
officers, who is also in the government ser
vice and spent some days in New York and
Brooklyn in the interests of the organiZa-
ton says its members there voted almost
with unanimity for Hill.
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Set His Hotel on Fire.

OTTAWA, III, Nov. 5.-Fire broke out
early this morning in the Exchange hotel,
and burned so briskly that the guests were
compelled to escape from second-story win
dows The flames were speedily eXtin-
guished and the discovery made that the
building had been fired in five places. The
Andrew Steinke. was at once
arrested for arson and lodged in jail. The
building was insured for 81. roo.
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Arrested the Dynamiters.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5.-The police authori-
ties gave out this afternoon that they last
night arrested David Keenan,, W. P. Sears.
P. S. Burns, M. Weathers and Master
Workman Pinkerton of the Knights of
Labor, all street railway men, for being en-
gagged in the recent explosions of the street
car tracks. They have confessed.
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His Death.Bed Confession.

WuLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Nov. 5.-Patrick
Curran, prisoner in the county jail here,
on the charge of incendiarism, has made
confession to the effect that he murdered
man named Martin, near Howard, Centre
county. Both were counterfeiting, he says,
and he killed his victim in quarrel. Cur
ran is 81 years old, and iSon his death bed.
He also confesses to other crimes commit
ted in Ireland
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
A Blind woman Burned to Death.

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 5.-Mrs. Mary
Stoner, blind woman at Benton Ridge,
Hancock county, was burned to deaih to-
day, her clothing taking fire as she was
working about stove. Her husband, also
blind, was severely burned while trying TO
save her
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Roach,s ship yard to Start Up.

CHESTER, Penn, Nov. 5.-Orders have
been received at Roach's ship yard to start
ND next Monday morning and the machinery
is being PIT in order. Naval Contractor
Steele, who will have charge of the compile
ton of the cruisers arrived at the yard to-
day. About three hundred men will be put
TO work
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One Governor to- Another.
Special to the Globe.

ALBANY, N. Y. Nov. 5.-Congratu-
latory kilograms and letters are received in
great numbers by Gov. Hill at the executive
chamber. Among them are the following:
Goldsboro, N. c., Nov. Accept hearty
congratula tons on your splendid victory.
EDWARD J. FLYNN.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Nov. 4.-The empire
state of the East, November, 1884, and its
epilogue of 1885, is the prologue of the future
Of country united
JOHN S. MARMADUKE, Governor.
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HOnOrS to Hill.

Special to the Globe.
ALBANY, n. Y, Nov. 5.-Gov. Hill was
serenaded by the citizens of Albany at the
executive mansion this evening. In thank
ing the gathering, Gov. Hill said:
Fellow itizens of Albany: Accept my
thanks for the honor you do me by this DEM
onstration, in addition to the approval which
my candidacy worked from my neighbors in
my home at Elmira. trusted in the DEM
ocratic party and believed in its princi-
pies; this sentiment was the grand key
note of the campaign. 1t stirred every
Democratic heart in every portion of our
great state and men rallied with old-time
enthusiasm displayed in the campaigns of
Seymour and Tilden. Our victory will en-
courage every faint hearted Democrat in thi
land. 1t will strengthen the hands of our
president and aid him in his effort
for the purifcation of the pubic
service. One thing may well be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
Wild ThreafS.

BERLIN, Nov 5.-The National Gazette
in an editorial on the Carolines question
warns Spain that German patience is nearly
exhausted and unless the tension is relaxed
a rllptl1re will enSue
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The cabinet meeting was attended by all
the members except Secretaries Manning and
whitney. Arrangements were made for spe
cial conferences between the president and
the Individual members of the cabinet in re-
gard to the treatment of topics to be consid-
cred in the presidents message to congress.
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The Postmaster Will.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The president
to-day appointed the following named pres
idential postmasters:
W. S. Hanmaker, Finlay, O., vice G. E.
Dewolf suspended; G. M. Shell, Kansas
City, Mo-, vice I. S. Case, commission ex-
Dired
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Fire at Fayetteville, N. c.. destroyed the
Fayetteville hotel.a a three-story building. Loss,
10000; insurance, $1,000.
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Wants More File Space.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The register of
the treasury, in his annual report to the Sec
retary, suggests the construction of fire.
proof file rooms covering the whole interior
courts of the treasury building, now grass
covered areas, by which means, he says, the
department will have about $4,000 cubic
feet of additional file space.
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Reorganizing the Naval Board.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Capt. William
P. McCann has been appointed president of
the naval advisory board to succeed Ad-
miral Simpson. Commander Crownin-
shield, who was recently detached from the
lighthouse board, has been ordered as a
member of the advisory board to succeed
Lieutenant Commander F. NJ. Barber. The
board organized yesterday and to-day be-
gan the work of arranging to complete the
steel cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta.
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Killed i'm a Family Quarrel.

EAST SAGINAW, Mich. Nov. SIN a
family quarrel in Tittabawsasse township.
this county, to-day, William Decker 1s
years old, shot and fatally injured his
step-father, Homer Stanton. The boy gave
himself up, and claims he did the shooting
in self-defense He says that Stanton was
pounding his mother when he interfered,
and his step-father then pitched into him,
whereupon he shot him.
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"A Woman9s Guilty CURIOSITY,

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Nov. 5.-Mrs. Catharine
Trump, postmistress at the village of Corn
ing, has been arrested, charged with OPEN
ing letters out of curiosity and reading
them for the purpose of keeping herself
posted in regard to the business secrets Of
her neighbors and the affairs of the young
people of the community. She admits her
guilt, and in justification alleged she did not
know that she was committing an offense
for which she could be punished.
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said to have been disregarded. Defects in
the laws governing the territorial organiza-
lion are discussed at length.
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Twenty-Two Persons Drowned.

LONDON, Nov. 5.-The Norwegian bark
Aquala has foundered at Gatsenburg.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned.