St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-06
A cessation OF TRADE.
Practical Suspension Ct Business on the
Chicago Board of Trade on Ac-
count of the Riot.
Bulls and Bears Alike Leave the Pits
Deserted to Discuss the Ruin
Wrought by Anarchists.
-...-,ations Entirely Nominal, at
About the Figures OF Tuesday
sentiment of Brokers.
Wall Street Holds Up Brayely Under
Adverse News, but Trad1n.
Very Limited.
A CESSATION OF TRADE.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.


Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 5.-The markets were in
state of suspended animation to-day. Very
few people cared to trade, and the grain ana
provision pits were nearly deserted many
hines during the morning hours. The pro-
vision crowd very soon abandoned all at
tempts to do business. A handful of the old
standhyS stood around the corn pulpit, and
small number Of regulars patiently stood at
their posts in the wheat pit. They had moth
n ng to Int DO he ald themselves enped5ea in
in readiness for action. A little business
was occasionally attempted in wheat and at
long intervals a change in quotations would
be recorded, but the traders kept very qulet
most of the time. 1t goes almost WITHOUT
saving that the riots and strikes were the only
thing talked of. Discussion of the matters
was not to he thought Of The labor trouble
overshadowed everything else in Importance.
The crazy anarchist riot last night, IN Whlch
q half dozen
POLICEMEN WERE KILLED,
and thirty or forty wounded by wild mob of
Infatuated Bohenlians and others recruited
from the slumS of Europe, mas aroused the
whole community to the highest pitch OF eX-
citement. Law-ablding men OF every sta
ton in life unite in denunciation of the men
who have been the cause OF the bloodshed.
The drift of criticism on the floor of the eX-
change turned toward Mayor Harrison, and a
great many members were disposed to hold
him reSponslblein measure for the trouble IN
this city, though the fair-mlnded conservatives
thought it unjust to single him out for con-
oemnatiOn The purpOsey designed indif-
ference of the authorities to the mouthlngS
and rant Of the communistic leaders have
been construed into Official encouragement OF
that sort of thing, and the lake front meet
ings of criminals TO rail against society and
the laws have been permitted to be held with
out police interference or protest. The Cos
pei of hate,
ROBBERY AND MURDER
has been preached openly for months and
years Icy the men who have been most con-
spicuous during the past week by reason Of
their incerdiary utterances. They have
talked to their followers from platforms
erected in the public parks OF tie city, and
have called upon the laboring men to enforce
their vague demands with knife and torch.
The red flag Of the commune has
been unfurled upon our streets
scores of times, and the awful
doctrine of butchery and chaos as means
of social evangeliZatiOn showed from the
house tops. That no one political party or
its representatives can properly be held re-
sponsibIe for the existing deplorable condi-
ton of affairs, will probably be admitted by a
great majority OF thoughtful men. 1t is the
natural result of the trucking policy so COM
mon to
POLITICIANS AND DEMAGoGUES
are reeping as they have sown, would be a
simple statement of fact. If they had rigor
Ousiy diScountenanced the anarchist move
ment. and releutlessly suppressed the leaders
us public enemies, the slaughter of Monday
and last night would not have occurred.
Preaching that falls harmlessly on the ears in
times of peace arouse all the savage in
stipcts of mobS of excited and brutalized
men, and drive them to the commission of
frightful crimes. which IN their cooler
moments they would not dare attempt.
The harangues of the ''blathersktes,' who
have been led to believe they would not be
moleSted, have made their followers uncon-
trollable. The foregoing is not, strictly speak
ing, market review, but it refers in way
to the subject that engrOSSed attention on
change to-day, to the exclusion of everything
else. Rumors of every Imaginable descrip-
ton were in circulation on the street, but
the
FIRST RELIABLE NEWS
was obtained from the papers which issued
extras every half hour or so. Excited knots
OF men were scattered about the exchange,
discussing the situation and giving express
sion to their views. Sentiment was substan-
TALLY al one way. 1t was that the authorities
must summary deal with ali persons en-
gagged in riotOus demonstrations or in
citing lawlessness, and crush the mob
spirit at whatever cost. The police
were accorded unlimited praise for the
nerve they have shown in collisions with
anarchists The news OF the arrest of the
miserable scoundrels, who have been urging
the communists and anarchists to arm them
selves and begin the work Of destruction, was
received with demonstrations Of satisfaction.
The discovery in the Office of Spells, editor of
anarchist newspaper, OF the forms" upon
which were printed the
DISTURBING AND INCENDIARY CIRCULARS
distributed lately, was builetined. and the
hope expressed that the law would hold that
Individual and his associates specifically re-
sponsible for last nights slaughter. No rea-
son was given for suspending business, but
by common consent trading WAS practically
brought TO Il standsti not only on the board
but in many other exchanges throughout the
city. Prices hardly moved to-day. Fluctua-
tons were within the nominal conservative
limits and neither outside news nor inside
manipulation produced the slightest effect.
There was scarcely enough doing to establish
quotations. The afternoon witnessed d con-
tnuation of the forenoon's inactivity.
Changes in quotations were too slight to note.
PETER BERKEY. Pres. F. W. ANDERSON, Cashier.
CIV. GRIGGS, V. Pres A. c. ANDERSON, Asst. C.
The ST. PAUL NATIONAL BANK,
CAPITAL. 100000.
Corner Fifth and Jackson streets