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Crazed by Religious Excitement.

Special 10 Jne GlODe
FARIBAULT, Feb. 19.-Morristown, a
suburban village. is stirred up from top to
bottom over the case of John Donher, who
became insane through religious excite
ment. From a gentleman who resides in
MOrristOwn, the following particulars were
learned. Rev. Mr.. Gardner, an evangelist
has been holding a series OF revival meet
ings. Donher, who has heretofore made
no profession Of faith" was visited by
some OF the members and urged to attend.
lie did so, and in company with
his wife, became a regular attendant.
At one of these meetings he arose and
professed he had found his Saviour. and
asked for the prayers of the congregation.
This was the last service he or his wife at
tended. AS nothing was seen of either of
them for several days. Inquiry was made
of the neighborS, who visited the house
and found that he had barred and locked
all the l.dowS and doors and refused to
admit anyone. Being asked what he was
doing in there, he said: Il am praying
and fasting with my wife, that she may re-
ceiYe light and become Christian" The
next day it was reported that he had killed
his wife. A number OF citizens went to the
house. and being refused adnllttance, forced
open the door and entered. AS they did So
Donher fell upon his knees and commenced
praying and calling for divine help. de
was overpowered and a guard set over him
while the rest of the party searched for his
wife. who was found in an adjoining room,
and acting in very strange manner. She was
supposed to be insane also, but latter events
have demonstrated that her strange conduct
was caused mostly 10y fear. DOnher was
taken before Judge Mullen, who committed
him to the Rochester asylum.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-20
Fergus Fails.

@. H. Foss of Henning has sold his hard
ware store and intends moving 10 Wadena
b. o. Kempfer, the murderer of Attorney
Smith. has had his bail fixed at $4,000 and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-20
ADrssrPATED PREACHER.
Rev. Father Quinn Dishonoring
tho Cloth.


Rev. Father Quinn Dishonoring
the Cloth.
Nrw YORK Feb. 19.-'The Rev. T. G.
Quinn of Osceola, Wis, was found drunk
on Broadway this morning. His nose was
bleedjng and his watch. Valued at $50. was
stolen. as well as $50 in money. He told
Justice Welde he was on his way to Europe
and could not account for his Illuminating
condition. lie was temporarily committed.
AT HIS OLD TRICKS.
Special to the Globe.
FOND DU LAC, Wis, Feb. 19.-There
was Father Quinn stationed as pastor Of
.he Catholic church in the town of Osceola,
his county, about ten years ago. But he
remained at that charge less than one year
Oh account of his habits Of drink. He be-
came very dissipated during his stay there.
but upon pledges TO reform, and has he was
really a man of intellectual promise. he was
subsequently given another mission for a
short time to afford him a trial. His OBJ
jectionable habit returned upon him with
full force, nOtwithstand the clemency and
opportunity Offered him. and he was soon
suspended from the priesthood by Arch
bishop Henri. Later Quinn became no
tOrious for drunkenness. lie made efforts
10 palm himself oil as priest ana 10 reau
mass at different parishes throughout the
state and finally throughout the country.
Representing himself to be priest he
would appeal to the
CHARITY AND COURTESY
Of other priests and the church, and where
not known. obtain not only shelter and aid,
but be invited to participation in religious
services. he afterWard succeeded in ingra-
tiating himself upon pastor IN this city,
who did not know him. and took part m
religious exercises. But as he became bet
ter known he mad TO widen his circle,
which he seems to have done. He last Wis
tied Fond du Lac in the Summer OF 1884.
when Rev. Father Ryan the poet priest, was
conducting special services here. Gentle
men who knew him discovered his presence
before he had met the eloquent Southern
poet, and that he might not become dis
turbing or distracting element, interfering
with the work, they induced him To leave
The city after he had remained here but one
night. Quinn must be a man from az
20 40 years of age. He is short Of stature
and slight of build. with a good address.
The church with which he has once con-
lected should be relieved of any response
sility or accounting for his course.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-20
ANNelli % F1NN " : . . . . . . :" . . :
BUILDING PERMITS.


The following permits were issued by the
building inspector yesterday:
Ira Gardner. history frame blacksmith
shop. side Reaney st, bet Mendoza
ana FOREST NOOu
G Heneberg. history frame kitchen,
side Waverly Place, bet Saltwater and
Westminster --------.--.------.- SOO
c Davis. 2-story frame dwelling,
side Gates ST. bet Howard and Wood
bury ...................... 1.cOO
NJ u Miller & Co, kitchen and repairs to
dwelling. n side College av, bet Rice
and St Peter ..................... 1000
MD Miller & Co. kitchen and repairs to
2-story dwelling. side College av, bet
Rice and St Peter. ................. 1000
T ID Jones' 2-story frame dwelling,
side ST Anthony av, bet Albion and
Pomong avs 49,: ................. $500
Carl Carlson, 1-story frame kitchen. n
side ST Anthony, bet Louis and Jo-
settle. ...................... 100
Total. So, 400
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Stand by the record this State has made I'm the
councils of the Nation in all this long night Of re-
construction and restoration Of National credit.
stand by the men OF your state who in Congress
anu Cabinet have shed un3lGing luster upon your
name. To your State has been assigned mOrethau
once IN Congress the post Of leader when great
questions have been made and settled. To the
strong and uncrring craftsmanship of your sons
Of the peerless PIumed Knight Of the gallant old
state of Maine, the people Of this country owe -
debt they cannot pay
December ?, 1880. the Republican Presiden-
tial electors of Ohio and other distinguished
citizens visited PTesident-cect Garfield at his
home in Mentor, on which occasion Gen. Gros-
venOr was chosen spokesman OF the party to
convey to Mr.. Garfield their congratulations on
the successful issue of the campaign lust
closed
Although a new man in Congress. Gen. GrOs-
venOr during the last session made rapid strides
toward a place in the front rank along with
those who are marked as leaders. When no
arose TO his feet he always bad something to
say, and never failed 10 command the attention
OF the House. His speeches, logical and pun
gent, rarely fell upon christening ears. As an
advocate of the claims of the soldiers and the
widows and orphans he has no superior in the
House. His elOquenCe WIS often heard IN their
behalf He was ceaseicss and Hntring in his
efforts to secure recognition for them. The
failure of many just measures relating 10 PEN
sons was not due 10 any lack Of diligence and
earnest advocacy on the part of Gen. GT0svenor
and scores Of other true friends Of the soldiers
1t was simply because the adverse vote was too
large. In the reports of Congress; OnaI pro-
ceedings numerous extracts from Cen eros
venors speeches were published in these col
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p To extend the arrears limit TO Jan. 1,
1855.
B. To pension the dependent parent where
pensioner leaves neither widow nor orphans.
l. To pension survivors of rebel prisons,
without requiring proof that their disability
resulted from their imprisonment
s. To pension all honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors who are now disabled
and dependent on their own labor for sup
port, or who are G. years old.
G. To equalize bounties.
If necessary to spend every dollar of our
surplus income to carry out these recon-
mendations, it should be done at once and
unhesitatingly.
Even then the sum will fall far short of
the aggregate amount paid the bOndholders,
whose contribution 10 the preservation OF the
Nations life was infinitely less than that of
the men in whose behalf we now appeal.
The bondholders were paid to the uttermost
arthing-as they should have been, even
though ii required the imposition of heavy
taxes upon war-wasted people 1t cannot
certainly be regarded as unreasonable TO ask
that the money for which the country has
no present use be applied TO the discharge of
q debt of honor of far more sacredness than
that owed the bondholders.
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hating press of the country, were upon the
point of rushing through.
Mr.. Horr's exposure of the fallacious
scheme was so efficacious then that in the
present Congress the soldiers enemies had
TO invent a new device. this time known as
the Morrison resolution " to create special
tax to pay pensions. Such propositions as
this always reused in Mr.. Horr an exhibition
of his best vim rs a matchless debater, and
when he had scarified the cuticIe and uncov-
cred the real inwardness of the enemy's
project, it was invariably covered with
derision or allowed to stink into obscurity.
The veterans of Mr. Horr's district owe it
to themselves and to their comrades all over
the country to see to it that he is returned
to his old place in the next Congress. 1t is
not in every district that there is such an
opportunity to secure the representation of
the soldier element by the election of such a
well-tried Member of the House. Make no
mistake, comrades. Your interests are at
stake in every seat of the 5Oth Congress. If
a majority are your friends your cause is
Won, and this cause should he your only
politics and decide your ballot. Let there
be unity among the soldiers as there is
among their enemies. That accomplished
once, and the battle is won.
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NOT ALL WE WANT.

The recommendations of the National
Pension Committee do not contain all
that the soldiers want and which common
justice demands that they should have. But
they contain what it is best and wisest to
ask at this time The fact cannot be denied
that there is a very large portion of the
people of the country determinedly opposed
TO pensions of all kinds. There is another
portion that favor moderate pensions, but
believe that the soldiers have already been
treated very literally. The opposition Of
these classes must be encountered at every
suggestion of any liberalization of the
pension system. They have doggedly
fought every proposition to increase pensions,
and what has been gained for the soldiers
has been gained piecemeal. If all that they
receive to-day had been asked for them in
the first instance there would have gone up
such howl of hostility that the whole
thing would have been defeated out of hand.
The only thing TO do was what has been
done-ask for little at time, and all unite
in asking for the same thing. five can get the
recommendations of the National Pension
Committee through during the coming ses-
sion of Congress, it will not hurt in the least
the chances of getting additional legislation
from future Congresses, but will rather help.
Therefore, let us all join in the effort to do
that which will at once take every disabled
soldier from the pg0rha=sc and put him
! again in his own home After that we can
concentrate upon whatever else the National
Eucampment as body may think wise to
] ask of Connress
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LET PARTY COUNT FOR NOTHING.


1t makes no difference whether candi-
date for Congress be Republican or Demo-
crat, Greenbacker, Labor Reformer or Pro-
hibitionist, if he will not explicitly promise
TO support the recommendations of the Ma
tional Pension Committee of the GAR, he
should not receive single soldier vote.
This is the paramount issue before the
ex-soldiers and sailors of the country. No
other question now before the people, or
likely to arise in Congress, approaches it in
importance.
If the comrades 60 about this with the
proper earnestness and unaminity, they will
not only secure the pledges of q majority of
Representatives of the 5Oth Congress, but
they will also so impress the Members of the
present Congress with their earnestness that
there will be no difficulty about securing
the passage of the desired law at the coming
session.
The enactment of such law will be the
surest and speedieSt way of bringing sub
stantial relief to the greatest number of
needy comrades.
twill at once give aid to every disabled and
dependent veteran. In such cases there will be
no delay, no long and tedious circumlocution
no weary years of hunting after additional
evidence" no calls for testimony of regimen
tai Surgeon, of two reputable comrades or a
commissioned officer. All that il will be
necessary for a comrade TO prove is that he
is the man named in his discharge, and
that he is now disabled from performing a
full days work.
Any comrade can see at glance what this
will do. 1t will at once raise every disabled
soldier from want and wretcheduess to q
condition when he will be assured of enough
to support life for the remainder of his days.
AS we all feel bound to help disabled COM
rades, their widows and orphans and depend
ent parents with our own money, and to
appeal to the communities in which they
| live for contributions to aid in maintaining
them in comfort, so we should all feel equally
bound to insist that the man who asks for
our votes to seat him in Congress should be
willing to vote public money to discharge
the Nations debt of honor to the men who
saved its life.
A man who will not vote for these recon-
mendations is worse repudiator than one
who would refuse to pay the debt the coun.
try incurred to those who bought its bonds
during the war, and he is lacking in the
qualities n Legislator should have NJ
soldier should vote for him on any account
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COoSs.-Sept. a. at Spring HILL Kan. Mai Israel
A. CoOns, aged -. lie bonn in Fairfield County
o. He stuffed M the Ohio Medical College and tie
Starring Medical college, graduating from the lat
tersiu lSi2. He praciicCd medicine in Dayton. O.,
and vicinity until 1861, when lie entered tile army
surgeon of the IA ohio la the three mont serv-
of the 3sth Ohio and served two and q hsif YEARS,
most of Che time as Brigade surgeon, and for q
short time was Medical Director of "A DIV siOn. lie
had charge OF n hospital ut stone River. He re-
signed on account OF disability contracted in the
service, aud from which hc died In 1869 ne re-
moved from MlddlctOwp, o.. TO Spring Hill, klu.,
where he practecd until his last sickuc : lie WAS
buried BY cen. Curtis Post, No. l0i of which he
has been aH active anu esteemed member since
lSSL
HAMMoND.-Col. John #. Hammond died at
POughkeepsie, sept =. iie was born in Columbia,
:. G., in $50, and entered the army Assistant
surgeon Win The rank OF First Lieutenant IN 1877,
his first service being la the MEXICAN lie was
promoted at various times, being hrevcUed Ilcu-
tenant Colonel in ISIS for faithful and s---s.-.,,.s
Service aud g~Gsiv!.ss .ss.s commission in iS16
He was retired in iSSL
ERADFoRD.-Serg't Geo. : p Bradford, C. = A.,
who Tor manyycarS has had charge Of tbe fort ON
Clark ) Point New Bedford. was stricken with
apOpexy ON Thursday morning. and died IN tho
afternoon. He WAS born ia quebec IN lo22. lie
enlisted in the army Ia 1916 aud ever since has
manned in the service. lie served at tito invest
ment of Vera Cruz and was also ia The battles of
Cerro CsOrIlO, COntFert JherOb,tsCo and the city
OF Mexico. When the war ended lac was ordered
10 garrison duty at Vera Cruz. lie next served in
Florida against the SGminOles, and sub-cQueutiy in
Texas. During the civil war he Drill Master
AT Fort Hamilton, y, y, and had charge &c tIo
non-cOmuI-slOned officers school at Fort WARREN
BLAIR-AJ West Jefferson, o.. Chas, ". t.;..r
lie served in the Mississippi squa1roa cf tfc aavy
under Admiral Porter, IIe lost his left aTaI IN
action at Clifton, Tenn.
FLoYD.-DuneI Floyd Sergeant, sSih Us. G. T.,
died recently at West Jefferson, o.. lte WIS
worthy member OF Wilson Burrows Post. go, De-
pnTtmeut of Ohio.
KELrNER-At FinJilay, Hancock Co. o.. salo-
Mus A. keltner. aged IS. He lost his rsnt lcS NJ
Savannah. Ca, Dec. 10, 1854 He was a member ox
Stokes Post, No. "a, Department Of ONO.
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THE GAR. WATCH.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has had splen-
did success in sending out its watches. 1t
has distributed thousands throughout the
country, and in no case have they failed to
give the highest satisfaction. Indeed they
cannot do otherwise, for we guarantee them,
and will refund the money if we do not
furnish first-class timepieee in every
respect. Any one who receives watch
from us which does not do its work as well
as any watch should, should at once notify
us, and if after few days trial it does not
come up to the mark it should be sent back
to us at once, and another will be sent in
its place. In spite of all care in testing and
inspecting, imperfect watches viii occasion
ally slip in, where thousands are sent out,
but these should occasion only temporary
annoyance, for perfect ones will be at once
sent to replace them.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE SUR
PLUS?

WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE SUR
PLUS?
In letter Enclosing an editorial from a
Western paper ON the disposition of the sur
plus revenue Comrade John II. Frizell, of
Butler, Mo-, asks:
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Can any one give
a good and sufficient reason or any reason why
part of the surplus should not be used in complying
with the recommendations Of the National Pension
Committee Of the GAR?
We answer: No! emphatically No!
Not only part, but the whole, if necessary,
of the surplus revenue Of the United States
should be applied TO the relief of the disabled
veterans of the Union.
1T is disgrace that any man who served
the Nation faithfully in its time OF necessity
should now lack bread, or clothing, or shelter,
while that Nations Golfers are OVERLOOKING
with idle money.
This is not matter Of charity or gen.
erosity-it is one Of simple justice These
broken-dOwn men gave the Nation in its
hour Of direst need what it needed most
direly-brave, willing young hearts, ready
for any sacrifice that would uphold her
glorious banner and save her life. They
, staked everything they had for her, and
bought with their courage and self-sacriiice,
their blood, limbs and shattered health,
every particle Of the prosperity her people
have since enjoyed There would not he a
dollar Of surplus revenue TO dispute about
now If the broken-down men had not broken
themselves down following Grant and Sher.
man through the swamps Of the Mississippi
in beating back Hood under Pap 4" Thomas
or in following Meade from Gettysburg t.
Appomattox. Instead the people would b,
grooming under as onerous a burden of taxa
ton as now afIlicts the people of defeated
France.
The country owes il 10 the men who broke
themselves down in preventing it from being
biohtu WV II a NOiialyAA tb4I lflONAsiou Ioi All'
remainder Of their days. Whenever it fail
TO do this il makes a shameless Reputation
Of most sacred debt. It's highest and mos
urgent duty to-day is toward these much
deserving and disabled men, and every die
tate Of honor demands that no veteran shall
suaer want and misery while there is an un
appropriated dollar in the Treasury.
The recommendations of the Nations
Pension Comnliieoe point out with the great
est disUsctncss what is the immediate dut
: ef Che Government They show what homo
and right demand should be done at ono,
without debate or delay. That is;
]. To continue pensions to all widows an
dependent relatives, without demandin
: proof that the prisoners death was cause
by his service.
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THE comrades in Illinois are making it
very warm for Congressman William MOrri-
son, who was the only public man in Wash
ington who treated the National Pension
Committee of the GAR. with disrespect
during the visit of that body to Washington
in the interest of the soldiers Of the country.
Speaker Carlisle, the Pension Committees of
both Houses, and all the influential men of
both parties received the Pension Committee
with the respect that was due to men who
spoke in the name of the $4,000 members of
theGrand Army of the Republic. They were
all particularly courteous, gave the Commit
tee an attentive hearing, and approved of its
recommendations. Only Mr.. Morrison acted
the boor, and did it in so gratuitous and I'M
necessary way as to make it seem that he was
seeking an opportunity to insult the soldiers
of the country. Retribution will probably
overtake him in the shape that he most
breads. Though his District gives Demo
cratic majority of about $500, it looks
likely that he will be defeated, for the
soldiers and their friends in his party are
arraying themselves against him. This is as
it should be. No matter what mans poll
tics is, if he is not friend of the soldier he
should be defeated.
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