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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
THE GREEDY RELICS.

An important event of the carnival sea-
son is the arrival of the GREEDY relics,
which were deposited in the palace grounds
yesterday, and full description of which
appears in this mornings GLOBE. 1t is
gratifying to observe in this connection that
the usual amount of red tape business was
dispensed with by the government and
when the reqnc . was made that these relics
be loaned to the ice carnival association it
was promptly granted and the various arti-
Giles forwarded without a moments delay.
There is singular appropriateness that
these relics should be placed on exhibition
in the first ice palace that was ever erected
in the United States, and it must so
have occurred to the war department at
Washington, hence the promptness with
which they were forwarded. They are
special objects of interest TO all visitors to
the palace grounds. They tell story of
the rigors of an Arctic climate of which we
have no conception. They are the mute
but touching records of heroism and suffer-
ing unsurpassed in the worlds history
Each article is a understanding thing to
look at, and yet it was the witness of
horrors of which our ears could not bear to
hear the telling
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
FORTUNATE RESCUE.
A ships Crew Escape from Their
Burning Vessel.
Special to the Globe.

Special 10 the GLOBE
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE four-hundred-
ton schooner c. NJ. Newins, bound from VIII
mington TO New York with rosin, tar and
turpentine, had been blowing through a fog
all day Wednesday,, and was twenty
miles east-southeast from Barnegal at p. m
The fog that hung over the cabin forepeak
seemed to be getting unnaturaliy thick and
black and in a moment it was discovered that
the ship was aire. The men made rush
to get down and save their clothes and money
but the smoke poured up Dlacker and uglier
than before and they were glad TO retreat.
In an hour the flames had burst
through the deck. light gale was
Just beginning to blow, and through the
fog, which grew thinner. the twisting flames
were seen by the crew of the pilot boat Ed
ward Cooper. The crew of the Hewins mean
while. reckoning that it was about time for
the fire to reach the barrels of turpentine,
abandoned the schooner for their small boat
saving only what they had on,
and had padded OFF into the
their lives, because, as the captain said to-
day, there was precious little hope of that
with heavy sea and rising gale. but because
they chose to drown rather than be blown
up. Luckily in making OFF through the fog
they struck out i'm the right direction
and almost ran into the pilot boat,
which was coming TO their rescue.
AS the pilot boat made for New York
the turpentine barrels began to explode
aboard the schooner, and she went to Davy
Jones lBker. The seven rescued men are
Capt. A. NJ. Hawkins, William c. Bask, the
mate, James Bradley, the cook, and G. Oben,
II. Rochermy, c. Schoebler and J. Haverbulb,
seaman. Floyd & Nevins, owners of the
schooner, lose $4,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
SPARKS yTNDICATFD.

In the midst of the heavy fire of bitter
criticism which is being fired upon Land
Commissioner SPARKS it must be a source
of great qualification TO that much-abused
official to receive such glowing testimonial
of Endorsement from distinguished polit-
ical opponent as that which the Hon. E. b.
Washburn of Illinois recently gave Gen.
SPARKS. Mr.. WAsHBURN was for many
years leader of the Republican party in
congress and was also the American min
lister to France. Mr.. WAsHBURN SAYS that
he is not even personally acquainted
with Gen. SPARKS and that they
are as far apart politically as it
is possible for any two men to be, but that
he has watched his course in regard to his
administration of the land Office and makes
the voluntary tribute to Gen. Sparks hon.
esty and ability by saying that his decisions
are just and in accordance with law. In
stead of being the subject of newspaper
assaults Mr.. WAsHBURN is of the opinion
that the land commissioner deserves the
commentator of the country for his &C
tions. Mr.. WAsHBURN furthermore says
that the general land Office, for the last
fifteen or twenty years, has been the most
corrupt department that ever existed in
any government on the face of the earth.
He thinks the land-jobbers and the land
grabbers have had full sway long enough,
and it is about time that they were rooted
out, and is especially gratified that it is an
Illinois man who has the courage to attack
these stupendous abuses and to attempt to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
THE HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
As Busy rs n Bee- Evolving Pretty
ConceiIs for the Home.

A pretty and endurable ubstitute TO
blankets, considered by some superior to
them, on account of their light weight, are
being made this winter by the handy house
keeper. One is made out of twelve yards
of muslin and about six yards of nice thick
cotton for padding. OF course the COM
fOrter must be stretched on quilter and
the ends nicely fastened. 1t is quilted by
tying with worsted or narrow bits of rib
bon every four inches, and the edge is fin
ished by erOcheting with worSted the same
color. These quilts are very warm and Or
namental.
Old umbrella covers of silk should be
saved, and will be found very useful for
dress facings and patching. The silk is
generally durable and does not cut easily.
Ornamental bits of pottery are made out
of earthenware. prettily painted Those
painted entirely yellow or blue. and tied
with large bow of ribbon, are considered
handsome.
A solution of borax and water will re-
move most of the spots and discolorations
from cloth dress. 1t should be applied
with an old tooth or nail brush. which is
used as a scrubber, and then brushed with
a dry piece of cloth.
The bits of roast fowl left from dinner
may be made into very savory dish for
luncheon. The meat should be removed
from the bones and chopped to mince.
then seasoned with salt. Twice as much
nice mashed potatoes should be put with it.
and the whole formed into little round balls
and fried brown in butter. Send TO the
table hot with few sprigs of parsley or
celery.
A little fine soap should be shaved into
warm water and made into lather for
washing fine laees. The laces should be
rubbed between the hands, and instead of
wringing should be pressed, then laid be-
ween flannel and ironed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
THE ICE CASTLE.

The keen northwest winds of the last
two days have dispelled the summer of our
discomfort and the ice castle is itself again.
Never has the beautiful structure shone
with more enchanting loneliness than it did
last night with the varied colOred lights
giving it the tints of the rainbow. 1t was
lOvelier than an artists dream. Nature
herself never painted so fair a
picture. One popularity of our ice
palace is that the more it is
seen and studied the more it is admired.
1t is something one never grows tired of,
but with each succeeding glance new
beauty unfolds itself until the spectator
finds himself lost in spell of enchantment.
When the thaw came and robbed the castle
of IFS transparent purity we almost imag-
ined that its beauty was 10 be destroyed.
But when we saw it lay aside the clear.
shining livery of its youth and wrap itself
in snow-white mantle, which made IL ap-
pear as venerable and hoary as the centu-
ries, we at once detected that it was one of the
tricks ola masquerading carnival with the
expectation that by assuming this grotesque
appearance it would disguise itself. But
the mask was torn off by last nights illu-
mination. The illusion was dispeled and
the castle grew young again, and smiled
with beauty which eclipsed all its
former loneliness. To the spectator who
looked upon the castle last night, clad in
its russell mantle, there could have been no
other conclusion than that
'Twere easier far TO paint the hues of heaven
When morn, Respondent with new glory,
wakes,
Or steal the varying tints by sunset given
To the gold-crested wave, the while it
breaks,
Than to embody the harmonious grace
That, ever-changing, fitted DER its face.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12

recover for the benefit of the people at large
some portions of the public domain which
had been obtained from the government by
railroad companies. Mr.. WAsHBURS is
very emphatic In the expression Of the wish
that the president will not allow an honest,
faithful and incorruptible official like Gen.
SPARES to be bounded out of his place by
the men whose action he has exposed.
A recent Washington letter gave an inter
esting account of how land was taken up
and settled In Colorado under the late adj
ministratlon of the land Office. The works
of the company which supplies the city OF
Denver with water are situated upon land
obtained through titles issued upon fraudu-
lent homestead entries. 1t is stated that the
company could not afford to buy scrip.
which is necessary TO locate any large blocks
of public land, so they employed number
Of the agents of the company TO make
fraudulent homestead entries. The way it
was done was this: A toy house, two
stories high, neatly painted. 16 inches by "a
and 30 inches in height, was made. 1t had
a handle upon the ridge-pole of its roof.
The would be homesteader would take this
houoS III Onc Hdnu anu DldnkSl ONcl MS
arm. He would then proceed 10 quarter
section, set up his house and lie down by
the side of it in his blanket and spend the
night there. The next morning he would
dig up the land for few feet with a spade.
After that he would go directly to the reg
ister's Office and make oath that he had
taken up a certain quarter section of land,
had erected a house two stories. 16x24,
leaving it to be inferred that he meant feet
instead Of inches, that he had slept there
and that he had made improvements upon
the land. When the title was issued to him
the house would be handed over to another
homesteader TO repeat this process on
other quarter sections. In this way the
company acquired large block of land.
The only justification of the registers wink
ing at this fraud was the fact that the land
was desert land and would never have been
taken up by a regular homesteader, and
that while it was valuable for the water
works company it would not have been to
any one else. The entire community under
stood the performance and seemed to regard
it as huge joke.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
TODAY.

If the baImy zephyrs which famed our
ice castle last week caused any abatement
in the carnival enthusiasm among our peo-
pie. it is all over now. The tide has come
back and the spirit Of enthusiasm is at a
higher pitch than ever before. The appar-
ent calm of the last two or three days has
only been been the stiffness of the ele-
ments when they are gathering force for the
storm. This has been looked forward TO as
the big day Of the carnival. Public
expectation has been strained to-
ward it because it was to be.
more than any other, a national
day. 1t was to be the day when all the
patriotic impulses of our nature were to be
aroused by the presence of our war veter-
ans. 1t was the day set apart for the
Grand Army of the Republic and was to
be especially commemorated in honor of the
boys who wore the blue. In anticipation
of this an unusually large crowd of stran-
gers have assembled in the city. They want
to see swhat the people of city who,
within one month, organized and set in
motion carnival of such immense proper
tons as ours has been, can do when they set
themselves to make big blowout. Our
own people are fully awake TO the import
ance of the day, and will make it one to
be remembered in the years TO come.
All business will be suspended at noon to-
day. The stores and the banks and the
shops will be closed. The entire popula-
ton of the city will be on the streets.
There will be procession this afternoon,
and .pyrotechnic display tonight worth
seeing. No stranger who is within our
gates to-day will ever regret that he came
here.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
Cigarmaker,s strike Ended.

NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-THE strike OF the
cigarmakers was virtually ended to-day. and
tomorrow the men will assemble at their va
rious headquarters and proceed 10 work. The
present condition of the price-list is signed
by committee of three of the Central Labor
union, by seven of Progressive Union No.
and by five of the Manufacturers. IL was
agreed that the hours of labor until the LIST OF
May shall be nine hours per day, and after
that time eight hours per day, at the dis
erection OF majority of the hands. Only
union men are 10 be employed after May
i, the Progressive union agreeing TO
furnish all the hands required to carry on
business. The manufacturers agree 10 re-
employ all OF their hands who were locked
out during January, provided they return
within tweuty-four hours after work is re-
sumed. Instead OF wholesale discharges in
dull times the bosses are 10 reduce the work
ing hours The agreement covers fourteen
factories The InternatioEals will go TO work
in all factories save three-McCoy & Co.,
Levy Bros. and Brown & Earle. The Inter-
nationals claim that on the standard cigar,
four and oRe-half inches, there is now a re-
duction in the factory of Brown & Earle OF
IS cents. Levy Bros. OF so cents and Mccoy
x Co. OF 70 cents per 1000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12

howell on the prairie, near Thirty-flrst street
and Western avenue. is the dead body of
woman prepared for burial and in the next
room Is the daughter of this woman dying
from the effects of the same cause
that killed her mother-ack of
food and medical aid. The dead woman was
the Eife and the dying woman is the daugh-
ter or Patrick Flaherty. a laborer. He has
not dollar which he can call his own. though
the supreme court of Illinois has said that he
has good title to property in Chicago worth
over $4,000, after years of litigation between
Flaherty and wealthy resident of this city now
dead. The question of ownership of the land
reached the supreme court, where a decision
was rendered in favor of Flaherty in Septem-
Der last. But the heirs of FIaherty's oppo-
nent transferred the claim to a resident OF
New York, who then secured possession of
the property in the United States court at
Chicago. This case is now pending and will
be reached in about two years. Flaherty is
too cid to work.
Attorneys acting for Flsherty have brought
suit against the heirs in question for $4,000
damages for vexatious litigation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
Coke Region sIiII unsettled.

PITTsBURG, Feb. 11.-Several meetings
were held in the coke regions to-day, two
of which were secret. Nearly 1000 strikers
assembled this afternoon to determine on a
course to effect release of the men arrested
yesterday for participating in the Brad
ford riot. The strikers say none of the
parties arrested were there and they protest
against the men being committed to Jail
without hearing. A large meeting was
held at Mt. Pleasant this morning. composed
mostly of Hungarians from Norwood.
They have been unable to obtain their share
of donations and therefore appointed a
soliciting committee of their own and estab-
lished commissary. The presiding officer
made an incendiary speech in the Hungarian
language which was loudly cheered.
Superintendent Vandusen of the Bee
son works, an independent company,
offered his miners the advance of
10 per cent, and it is expected that the men
will return TO work Monday. An evening
paper publishes sensational story from
Mt. Pleasant, to the effect that the So
cialistic agitators from Chicago and New
York rave been successful in inducing
nearly all of the Slavonians in the region to
join secret organization similar to the
Molly Maguires, and that recently, es-
pecially during the past week, large guam
titles OF firearms and ammunition had been
shipped into the coke regions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
DIR VETERANS.

AS we look upon the war veterans who
will march through our streets to-day we
will perhaps realize how far we have drifted
away from the war days. The men who
went out into the war were the young men
of the country-they were the flower of the
land. But there will be no young men in
the Grand Army procession to-day. 1t will
be composed of men who are past middle
age, most of them we'll advanced on the
sunset side of life. They are the few sur
vivors of the thousands and hundreds Of
thousands who went out TO battle for their
country. More than twenty years have
elapsed since the war closed and these
Grand Army men were mustered out of
service. Those that were in the prime Of
life then are now old men with grey locks
and lettering steps. Those who were young
men when they received their discharge
from service are now middle-aged-the
heads of families and well settled in life.
Twenty years hence how few of those who
parade our streets to-day will be left. Thus
it is We are made TO realize the flight of
time and how it is that our life is but a
Yapor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
Murdered for So.
sneoisI to the Globe.

bpeCldI 10 Lnt 6IUUt
ToccoA, Ga, Feb. 11.-At an early
hour this morning some early risers were
Mortified by finding head upon the side
walk in the northeast part of town. The
neck bore evidences of repeated stabs and
fearful mangling. After a half-hOurs
search the body was discovered about
square off, covered with wounds. The
head was identified as that of Alexander
Mauldin, the thirteen-year-old son OF re-
spectacle lady. She had sent him the
night before to the home of relative with
81, and supposed he was still there. The
money was gone, indicating that robbery
must have been the object. Great excite
ment exists.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
Il. SheaNIurderessl

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE coroner's in
quest in the case of the late Mr.. Bartlett
who, it is alleged, was killed by chloro-
form administered by his wife, was re-
sumed to-day. Mr.. Dyson in his testimony
declared that Mrs. Bartlett asked him to
buy chioroform, with which to quiet her
husband. who was restless at nights; that
he bought it in small quantities at three
different shops, pretending that he wished
to remove stains from clothing with it; that
he asked Mrs. Bartlett after her husbands
death what she had done with the ehlOro-
form; that she replied that she had never
used it. Mr.. Bartlett willed his property
to his wife and appointed Mr.. Dyson ex-
ecutOr. Mrs. Bartlett was arrested this
evening. Mr.. DYSON was bound over to
appear as q witness
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
HAwKEYE LEGISLATURES.
How the Iowa LaW-uakers are
Spending Their Time.

cpccla 70 the GiOoe-
DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. l1--While both
houses of the general assembly are moving
quite slowly in matters OF legislation so far as
the floor is concerned, the committees are
holding long sessions late into the night.
Affairs are in peculiar situation so far as
schemes Of various kinds are concerned. The
deficit OF nearly 81, coo, 900. which the Repub-
OF careless appropriations two years ago. is
embarrassing all those who have any plans for
spending money in hand For instance, pc
utions have been showeredin perfect storm
asking for the establishment OF state SOL
diers' home, and the soldiers OF both houses,
without dissenting voice, have agreed there
should be such home in the absence of one
in the state under national control The
trouble is 10 get the money. The senate
committee on ways and means have Just had
printed a special report in which they state
that without giving any OF the existing state
institutions a single dollar for new objects.
IL will take two years AZ least 20 catch up with
the present revenues, and take up the out
standing indebtedness The facts puzzle the
advocates or the
STATE SOLDIERS HOME,
but do not deter them The committee OF
the house on that subject will report q bill TO
establish one and recommend an appropria-
ton Of 100000 in the expectation that the
general government will supplements il with
some kind or aid. Temperance edu-
CallOu WIS OlSpoScQ OF Us 10 the puOllc
schools by having the senate bill requiring
the truths of alcoholic and narcotic poison
taught in the public schools railroaded
through the house under the restraints OF
the previous question IL came out of the
committee OF the house with no other amend
ments than few unimportant ones, Just as
1t came from the senate, and went through,
only few Democrats voting against it. Many
OF the latter voted for il under some pretext
aud some who voted against II
did so with the declaration that
il was unsatisfactory 10 them as the bill
came from the committee and W as put on the
track for its final journey. 1t has cropped
out that there was little scheme behind all
this anxiety 10 legslate for the benefit of the
young of Iowa IL is stated on the best pos
sible authority that it was originated with
several school-book publishing houses, which
had text books prepared 10 meet il,
and that they flooded the homes
Of susceptible wives and anxious
mothers with printed petitions which fell on
the house on that subject last week The
Democrats could not afford to make any COM
bined opposition TO the general principles of
the bill because while in this state the most
of them favor license legislation. they have
presistently proclaimed the duty of securing
temperance among the people by educating
the young and controlling the incorporate by
moral and not cOerciye Influences
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12

bring suit against the city TO recover
Sl0.OOO,OO0 or the possession of the
lsnds that were formerly marsh and
also the lands under the Harlem river and
those between high and low water mark The
suit Ia to be brought in the name of Col
Samuel Waldron. who lives on part OF the
property occupied by his ancestors
since the time of the original
grant, Col. waldron said to-day that
the suit win soon be brought in one Of the
lower courts in New York, and that money
has been contributed by the descendants OF
Baron Waldron in twenty-six states OF the
Union to fight the case in every court to the
court of appeals
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-12
Anti-ghinese Agitation in Portland.

POLAND, Or, Feb. 11.-There are fears OF
trouble here next Saturday or Sunday similar
to that which occurred at Seattle this week.
A large convention of anti-Chinese organic
ations, trades unions, etc., have been called
for Saturday, and Burnett 6. Haskell, who
styles himself "0rganiZer OF the
International Workmens association, and
delegate from the Confederated Trades ana
Labor organization of California, Arizona and
Nevada" has arrived here. and by common
consent has been placed at the head or the
movement to expel the Chinese by force. 1t
is thought an effort will be made to ship
them to San Francisco by steamer.
There are 5000 Chinese in Portland
THE trouble. if inaugurated, it is feared will
be on a much larger scale than the Seattle
riot. Fifty-four Cinnamon at work in the
mines at Carbonate on the Rhyallup branch
of the Northern Pacific railway were driven
ont to-day and are now at the station await
ing transportation TO Tacoma and thence to
San Francisco.