St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22
AT The HEAD OF The LAKE
Albert Lewis, Accused of Murder, Now
in Jail.
THE HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
Something About the West Superior
Plant---Eotes Gathered Here
and There.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, March 21.-Albert Lewis, OF
Barnum, who is accused of killing Frank
Burke, a stranger, on the 18th of March,
is now at the county Jail. Lewis is an
misunderstanding mulatto, apparently
about forty years of age. He made his
home in Duluth from 1860 to 1885, being
engaged at the Windsor hotel and later
at the Merchants. He was also in bust
ness for himself. Lewis claims Burke
came to his place for room, and that
he told him he had none. Burke insisted
on getting a room, became violent, at
tackled him, and, in self defense, he
raised pine stick and struck Burke
several times with it. He did not think
Burke could have been fatally injured
by these blows. He thinks Burke fell
and received more severe injuries after
leaving the place. Burke was a section
hand on the st. Paul & Duluth road,
and no relatives have yet turned up to
claim the body.
THE WEST SUPERIOR PLANT.
Manager Wemyss, of the West Supe-
rior Land and River Improvement COM
pany, with engineers of the company,
has been prospecting for two days to
locate the new steel plant of the com
pany at West Superior. People about
West Superior and Duluth have at last
stopped all conjecture i'll regard to the
plant and take it as an accepted and
very satisfactory fact. Manager Wemyss
states that 81, 800, 900 has been subscribed
to build the works, and 81 100000 addi-
tiOnal has been subscribed for working
capital. Of this amount the Land and
River company took 100000. In about
ten days the names of the directors and
officers, who are mostly New York men,
will be given to the public. There are
thirty men now employed on the f0unda-
ton to the new hotel at West Superior,
and at a meeting of the chamber of COM
merce yesterday a committee of three
was appointed to confer with the pail
and tub factory people with reference
TO the establishment of pail and tub
factory on the other side of the bay.
RANDOM NOTES.
Duluth thought it had Tascott, but
the latest reportorial find is that boodler
McGarigle, of Chicago and Montreal,
distinguished Duluth by his presence
last Friday. Two board OF trade men
claim that they know him and one news
paper man says he talked with him, but
agreed not to mention it until Tuesday.
McGarigle said he had been in Milwau-
kee and Duluth twice lately and once at
the $500"
Superior people who have been using
Cushman telephones are disguised with
the decision in the Bell telephone case,
They had recently notified the Duluth
Telephone company, which has Bell in
strumentS in Duluth, to take their tele-
phones out. Now it looks as though
they must use the Duluth company's
telephones or none.
Sheriff AL Free. of Tower, arrested
George Foster about twenty miles from
st. Paul to-day, on the Eastern railway
camp, for forgery to the extent of $114.
committed in Tower last fall. Sheriff
Free has been pursuing Foster through
he lumber and railroad camps fol
months.
Secretary Phelps writes that with M
B. Harrison he visited capitalists III
Richmond, Va, who talk of locating a
steel locomotive plant in Duluth, and he
says they talk very favorably of it. Mr.
Harrison more confidently telegraphs
that it is an assured fact.
A meeting of Scotchmen will be helG
at the Bay View tomorrow night tx
form local organization.
A couple of Polish worlIingmen were
badly cut by drunken men in row a
Tower Monday.
The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
has contracted for $50 freight cars al
Lafayette, Ind.
The North American Telegraph com
pany will establish an office at West
Superior.
Rev. c. L. Codding, of Towanda, Pa.
will make Duluth his home for tn,
future.
DR.. and Mrs. Mccormick and son lief
to-day for an extended visit at Pbila
delphia.
Persons with money to invest will do vel
10 turn their attention to Duluth and Supe
rior. NJ. B. Harrison, COZ Duluth Nationa
bank building, Duluth, has large list o
property in both places for sale.