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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
KNUTE NELSON'S TOUR.

1t will be startling news for some of
the machine bosses when they learn
from this mornings GLOBE that Con-
gresham KNUTE NELSON has been
travelling around through the upper part
of the state concealed in box ear, in
which he has been holding secret con-
ferences with his we'll trained iieuten-
ants. The popular supposition was that
Mr.. NELSON was SO engroSsed in his
congressional duties at Washington that
he was utterly Indifferent to Minnesota
politics. But it was mistake. Mr..
NELSON is not built that way. Attention
to local politics is just as natural
to him as falling out of a boat,
Things have been getting cross
wise up in the Fifth district, and it de-
yolyed upon Mr.. NELSON to come
home and Straighten them out. KNUTE
NELSON never was man to go through
the country with brass band ahead of
him to announce his coming, His we'll
known modeSty causes him to prefer
transformations movements, and he never
was much on style. That is probably
the reason he preferred riding in a box
car in the genial companionship of
CHARLIE GILMAN to travelling in a
MANN boudoir enjoying the elegant at
tentions of Banker MERRIAM, or of being
paraded through the state under the
escort of Gov. MCGILL and staff.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
RIFLE COMPETITION.

Preparations are making for the an
nual rifie-shOoting competition of this
military department at Fort Smelling
next month. Comparatively few people
outside of military circles appreciate
the Importance ofthese contests. When
it is remembered that the prime service
of soldier lies in his ability to inf1ict
disaster upon an enemy-that, in fact,
being his reason for eXiStence-it will
be seen that no part of the soldiers
daily routine can equal in importance
the time devoted to instruction and
practice in rifle shooting.
Nine out of ten of the large number
of recruits annually taken into the
army have never had military rifle in
their hands. 1t is an unknown instru-
ment with them. Without thorough in
struction in the manipulation of the
arm, therefore, it will readily be sur
missed that absolutely no reliance could
be placed upon these recruits in time of
emergency.
And without the departmental con-
tests, where the expert rifieman may not
only enjoy brief season OF pleaSuring
but also some measure of glory, the
rifle practice performed at the various
posts would be gone through with in an
entirely perfunctory manner. The
competitions bring about desirable
rivalry, the spirit of which permeates
the entire army, and has an infallibly
beneficial effect in raising the standard
of Workmanship by all soldiers, veter-
ans and recruits, officers and men.
In no other way could such thorough
instruction in the soldiers most impor-
tant branch of knowledge be brought
about. Already the most intelligent,
the American soldiers, are fast becom-
ing the most expert marksmen in the
world.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
IRON WORKERS ARE IDLE.
The Great Strike Which Will
Affect 100000 Men Is Now On.

PITTsBURG, June 90. The iron work.
ers' strike is now on. and by tomorrow
noon the mills will be idle. The con-
ference of the wage committees of the
Amalgamated association and the iron
manufacturers this afternoon was short
and decisive. The workers. representa-
tives stated that the lodges had voted
upon the question of reduction and de-
cided unanimously to reject it. The
manufacturers then stated that they
would not pay the present wages. There
was but little discussion, and the con-
ference adjourned. The members of
the association went into consultation at
once at their headquarters, and will
have their scale presented to the manu-
facturers to sign or reject as they see
proper. Should all mills close down
fully 100000 men will be affected.
In an interview tonight M. n. Yer
ner, OF the Pittsburg Forge s. Iron COM
pany, said the shutdown would be COM
piete. The statement that the mills
We were closing, for repairs is untrue.
Ihey are closing because the man
ufacturers will not pay the present
wages. He said further that it was
impossible to predict the outcome, but
one thing was certain-the manufac-
turerS would not sign the scale unless
there was an advance in the price of
iron. They will not conset to arbitration,
and the wages must be $5 per ton or
nothing. The workmen are equally de-
termlned to stand out for the scale, and
from the present indications the strug-
gle will be protracted and bitter. In
this city q, 500 men will be thrown out
OF employment by the strike, and in
the West it is estimated that not
less 5000 workmen will be affected.
Among other interests affected by the
strike will be the railroad freight busi-
ness and coke trade. Suspension of
work in the mills means the banking up
OF blast furnaces, and as consequence
the shutting down generally of coke
ovens in the Connellsville region.
A BREAK IN THE RANKS.
Special to the Globe.
PITTsBURG. June ga telegram re-
ceived at Amalgamated association
headquarters this evening from Akron,
O.,annOunceS that the Akron Iron works
company employing about 500 men has
signed the amalgamated schedule. This
break in the ranks is considered quite
favorable.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
The Last Spike Down.
CARRIERS Will COMBINE.
The Fight Between Express Com

The Fight Between Express Com
panies Likely to Terminate Soon.
NEW YORK, June $50 much under
billing and cutting of freight rates by
the various trunk and transcontinenta
lines of railroads has been going on of
late that it became advantageous to all
shippers to send even small packages of
goods by freight rather than pay the eX-
press rates. In addition to this, a great
rivalry has been going on for some
time, between the several express COM
panies doing business in New York, and
west-bound freights have now become a
great bone of contention between the
express and railroad companies and,
every one is striving to capture the
lions share of the business, almost re-
gardlesS OF prices. 1t is said that
shipper can almost name his own terms
on freight, either by railroad OF express,
and that ii the company offers a certain
figure another will almost surely beat
it. This state of affairs is a boon to
shippers, though not very profitable to
the railroad or express companies, and
it is stated that freights have often been
carried at an actual loss. The fight
between the express companies has
been particularly bitter. Prob
is the United States express company,
and under Mr.. Platt's management,
desperate fight has been waged for
years for Eastern business, with ulti-
mate success. The United States COM
pany was shut out from the Pennsyl-
yania roads recently On protest of the
Adams company, but Mr. Platt estab-
lished line to Philadelphia by way of
the Jersey Central road, and now the
war between these two companies is
raging hot along the whole Jersey coast.
There is an effort on foot now, however,
to bring this state of affairs to sudden
termination by forming an agreement
between the American, United States
and Wells-Fargo companies to restore
the rates to their former basis. The
Adams has been invited to join issues
with these three companies, but it is
said the managers of the company re-
fuse to have anything to do with such
an agreement.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30

have almost unanimously agreed that
the faster the ship the safer she also is.
This conclusion is reached for various
reasons, principally because with the
steam steering apparatus now in use
ship can be easily controlled at a high
rate of speed, and with her high power
can be kept in a favorable position even
during the heaviest seas, while at the
same time her superior speed, lessening
the time of the duration of danger, en-
ables her also to run through a storm
area to place of safety more speedily
than her slow companion.
But there does not seem to be any
reason for timidity even on the slower
vessels. Statistics show that the loss of
life through steamships is less than that
through railway trains. For the casual
traveller ocean travel is as safe as travel
on land
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
NATIONAL PRESS.
The Issue Joined.

Philadelphia Record.
There is nothing in the character or ante
cedents of the Chicago nominees to divert the
American people from the main issue that
has forced itself to the front in this cam
paign. While the Republican candidates for
the presidency and vice presidency are re-
spectacle citizens, no glamour of military
glory and no brilliancy of public service sur
round their names to arouse the enthusiasm
of partisans. Nor is there any personal or
public scandal attached to their records to
excite the hatred of political opponents. In
their safe mediocrfty they will lose no votes
which the Republican party can claim on the
strength of its organization, and they will at
tract no votes which the party has repelled
by its platform of policy. To that large body
of intelligent and independent voters who
hold aloof from both political camps and
make victory incline in accordance with
their judgment of what is best for the public
interests, neither Mr.. Harrison nor Mr. Nor
ton can make any effective appeal. AS par
tiSaIs themselves they can depend only upon
their party organization for sympathy and
support.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Chips From the Ties.

The indications now are that the Western
roads will soon have conflict with the rail
road commissioners similar to that one now
in progress with the Iowa commissioners
The Minnesota commissioners have come to
the conclusion that the present Minnesota
tariffs are too high, as compared with the
Iowa and Illinois rates. On the 11th OF next
month the managers of all the roads in this
state are to appear before the commissioners
in st. Paul and show cause why the rates
should not be reduced.
The 500 road will run excursion trains to-
morrow as follows: Leave st. Paul, from
the depot at the foot of Broadway, at 9 a.
M, p. m and p. M, for Vadnais Park;
round trip fare, so cents; for Bald Eagle
lake, White Bear beach, round trip fare, So
cents; for Marine, Osceola and st. Croix
Falls, S1.25.
The 500 road has fixed upon the following
rates of freight from New York and Boston
to ST. Paul and Minneapolis. to take effect
Immediately: From New York, 60. So, 43.
32, %, 20; from Boston, 60. so, 40, 30, "a,
20.
H. K. Cole has been appointed soliciting
freight agent Of the Northern Pacific road.
with headquarters at 173 East Third street.
st. Paul.
The general offices of the Fremont, Elk.
horn d Missouri Valley, and the Sioux CITY
& Pacific road have been moved to Omaha.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
FAST SHIPS SAFEST.

The hundreds of Northwestern people
who annually go abroad cannot fail to
be interested in discussion now going
on as to the safest means of ocean trans
portation.
One who might give the matter only
casual attention would be inclined to
think the slower ships safer than those
ocean. greyhounds which race across
with the speed of express trains, yet
from expert testimony it appears that
such is not the case. The captains of
the various ocean steamers, recently
asked for their opinion in lhe matter,
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
EXPlATED HIS CRIME.
A Polish Wife Murderer Launch ed
Into Eternity by the Hangman.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June 29.-Peter
Hronek was hanged to-day at p. IN.
for the murder of his wife on April II,
1886. The prisoner has borne up bravely
and denied any intent to commit the
crime. He rested easily last night, and
arose this morning at 6, ate a light
breakfast, and after religious consola-
ton was conducted to the scaffold, ac-
cOmpanied by his religious advicers.
He preserved his firmness to the last,
exhibiting only slight symptoms of
weakening after the usual preliminaries.
The trap was sprung at l 10 p. m, and
in seven minutes Hronek was pro-
nOunced dead and the body cut down
and taken to the cathedral of st. Peter
and Paul. He will be buried by the
side of his wife in the Polish cemetery.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
ON HIsroRIC GROUND.
Political Celebrities and Grizzled
Veterans Encamped on Gettys-
buro Field.

Political Celebrities and GriZZied
Veterans Encamped on Gettys-
burg Field.
Special to the Globe.
GETTYSBURG, Pa, June 29.-All in
coming trains to-day were crowded
with veterans and visitors, and the town
is rapidly filling up. This evening Gov.
Greene, OF New Jersey, with his private
and military staff, state officials and
oyei 1000 veterans, arrived and were
taken by train to Roundtop and thence
to camp on the wheat field where the
Jersey troops are quartered. Gov. .Rusk,
OF Wisconsin, with state officers, veter-
ans and military, came later. Likewise
GOV. Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
Gov: Rusk will go into canvas quarters
Oh the college campus. Gov. Ormsbee,
OF Vermont, is expected during the
night. Headquarters of the Pennsyl-
vania q. A. r. camp were established
this morning on East Cemetery hill.
Advanced details from large number
of posts to-day report to Assistant Adjt.
Gen. Stewart. Tomorrow is set for the
New Jersey and Wisconsin dedieations,
but from bad weather and other delays,
material changes are likely to occur.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
NAMES OF TRUST.

There are other trusts, and the daily
papers every week report the formation
of new ones. Combination is the ten.
dency OF modern business movement.
lt is not avoidable, we suppose, but at
the same time it is wrong that the tax
ing power of the government should be
perverted to promote schemes of eXtor-
tion and the creation of millionaires.
The resolution of the Republican
platform, referred to by our corresponds
ent, condemning trusts, simply illus
trates the capacity of that party to look
one way and row another. 1t condemns
trusts, you say; but put the question of
reducing tariff duties that create trusts,
and the e. o. p. flies to the rescue OF
monopoly. To get rid of the surplus it
whisky. but hold sacred the tariff bounty
that promotes the steel rail trust and
gives Mr. Carnegie his million and
half income year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
A Lunatic's Murderous Antics.

CHICAGO, June 29.-Considerable ex-
citement was created this evening at
the panorama of Jerusalem at the Time
of the Crucifxlon" by the antics of j. Il.
Mcconnell, of Hinsdale, Ill. The
young man entered and stood some time
looking in daZed way. Then he faced
the central figure of the painting.
dropped on his knees and began to pray.
Suddenly he arose to his feet and
shouted: Satan is trying to mount
with the angels" He then drew revol-
yer and commenced firing at an imagin-
ary devil onthe roof. Two policemen en-
tered, and he fired at them, saying that
unless he killed the first five police
men he saw he would be hurled to hell.
The insane man was overpowered and
taken to the armOry. He claims to be
ON his way to visit an uncle in Penn
Sylyania,
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Sheer Hypocrisy.

LIE Sueur Sentinel.
What has the Pioneer Press to say to its
readers Tor its years of advocacy of revision
and material reduction of the protective tar
1if, now that it is changed front and indorses
the Republican national platform, which
says the tariff levied during war times shall
stand unchanged and unchangeable? Will
the Pioneer Press have the frankness to tell
It's readers that it has been lying to them for
many years past-that it has been a lying
hypocrit cor will it have the courage to tell
its readers that it told the truth in the past
and is now lying for pay from the protective
tariff mopopolists? Which will ii do?
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
SOME PECULIAR PEOPLE.

There was young doctor of Skye,
Whose patients seemed destined 10 die;
But he left them one day,
To go fishing, they say,
And they all got well, just for guy.
There Is an old man in Duluth,
Who made up his mind In his youth
That he never would lie;
Now he's longing to die,
He's so tired of telling the truth.
There is a young girl in Cohoes,
AS fair and as fresh as q rose;
But she ciphers in Greek
And she speaks Volapuk,
And she'll die an old maid, l suppose.
There was young man in japan,
Who wrote verses after this plan;
But the populace rose.
AS you may suppose.
And they wiped out that wretched younua
man. -SomerYille journal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30

ing for that. They are too accustomed
to charges of insincerity to mind the
proving of one more against them. But
they will have a difficult time of it ex-
planning the difference between the
temperance resolution and the free
whisky clause.
Each one is bid for votes, and one
nullifies the effect of the other. Be-
tween two stools the plans of the
managers, failing of support from either,
are sure to fall to the ground.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
STATE PRESS.
This Certain.

Northfield Independent
One thing is certaini the fight on the tar
lff question is not to be between protection
and free trade, for protection is as much an
element of the Democratic platform and po-
sition now as it was Of the Republicans in
1884. And Intelligent voters all know it and
cannot be deceived about it. 1t is a question
about abandoning all revision of our present
war tariff and making all its extreme protec
ton features permanent, if not the stepping
stones to higher things.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
From Over the ocean.

In arescript addressed to Prince Bismarck,
dated Tuesday, Emperor William refers to
the profound shock caused by the death of
Emperor Frederick following SO soon after
the death of Emperor William /. and ex-
presses thanks for the universal expression
of sympathy and veperation for his dead
father.
The presidents of the two houses of the
Prussian diet yesterday presented to En-
peror William the address of those bodies in
reply to the speech from the throne. The
emperor. in expressing his thanks, made no
reference to political questions.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Summonses win Not Issue.

LONDON, June 29.-The courts have
refused to grant an application for sum-
monSes against Mr.. Matthews, the home
secretary, and Sir Charles Warren, chief
of the metropolitan police, for prevent
ing meetings in Trafalgar square. The
judge decided that no right existed for
the holding of public meeting which
interfered with the free passage through
the square by the people.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
POLITICAL SLAVE TRADERS.

According to JOHN SHERMAN'S post
convention statement the abolition of
slavery did not put stop to the traffic
in negroes. 1t is true the old slave
marts of the South, where the negro
trader once auctioned off human beings
under the hammer. are no longer visi-
BILE. The slave traffic has been trans
ferred from Southern to Northern soil,
and the bartering is done in the secret
recesSeS of the caucus room. JOHN
SHERMAN says that he would have been
nominated at Chicago but for the fact
that ALGER bought up the negro
del gates from the Southern states, and
thus robbed him of support that he
was legitimately entitled to. Having
been himself the original purchaser of
these votes, Mr.. SHERMAN doubtless
looks upon the Michigan candidate as a
criminal of the deepest dye. So far as
the public is concerned, it is matter of
Indifference whether SHERMAN or
ALGER sunk the most money in the
negro traffic, but it is matter of grave
concern to know that such corrupt prac-
tees should prevail in national con-
sCllClOil NC llidttG Ulit SuUJtCU vi
open discussion among the defeated
candidates. 1t is notable fact that
these same negroes who were bought
and sold in the Chicago market like
sheep in the shambles voted solidly for
HARRISON in the wind-up, and the
logical inference is that the HA RRIsON
managers were the last and largest
bidders.
1t was not in Chicago alone that this
sort of vote traffic has been indulged in
this year. There are evidences of it
right here in Minnesota, not buying
and selling of negroes as there was at
Chicago. but the buying and selling of
white men. Take the st. Cloud con-
greSsiOnal convention for illustration,
where it is matter of open notoriety
that one county was bought and sold
three times. In this connection it is a
matter of some interest to estimate the
value of a county's vote in dollars and
cents, and what conditions affect the
market. AT st. Cloud, according to cur
rent rumor, the price paid for a county
was $3.50. At Red Wing the other day it
is said that the vote of one county was Of
fered to Capt. REED for $50, and he
refused to buy. These varying prices
indicate that the cash value of coun-
tvs vote is governed by attending cir
cumstances, and there can be no fixed
schedule of prices unless all the candi-
dates get together and agree to estab-
lish regular vote exchange. If the
Republican party keeps in power in this
state much longer, it will have to come
to that or the candidates will all become
bankruptS.
Never mind. The political atmos-
phere is going to be cleared of all these
corrupting influences. The masses of
the people have endured this brazen
corruption until endurance has ceased
to be virtue. They are quietly getting
together in determined effort to over
throw the party which submits to the
domination of bosses who make no
secret of being engaged in the traffic of
buying and selling human beings, white
as we'll as black
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Very Objectionable.

Bra1neru journal.
Without considering at this time the weak
points OF the platform upon which Gen. Har
rison is required to stand as the nominee of
his party, the hopelessness of his canvass is
sufficiently apparent from the fact that
among all the candidates who were men
toned as the possible choice of the conven-
ton, not one besides Gen. Harrison himself
would be so Objectionable to the wage work
ers of this country
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Ingalls, Suggestion Adopted.

Philadelphia Times.
The addition of Levi P. Morton to the
ticket as the candidate for vice president
fills out the practical idea recommended by
Senator ingalls,, of an Objectionable man
from the West for the first place. with 'ssome
fellow from the East with call upon Wall
street. Mr. Morton represents the moneyed
interest, and is expected not only to care for
the campaign fund, but to reasSllre the timid
business men who always dread change -
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Minds His Business.

Fergus Fails Journal.
Gov. McGiil hasn't got time to electioneer,
but he is always found at his post doing his
duty. The manner in which he has treated
the grasshopper questionin this county has
made him hundreds of friends. He has made
no blow or bluster about it, but has gone
about 1t as he does everything else, In plain
business-like manner without any whoOp or
hurrah. The farmers of this county will not
forget him, even if some of the politicians do
go back on him.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
THE LOGIC OF 1T.
New York World.

New YORK " ORD.
A freer trade means cheaper manu-
factures. Cheaper manufactures mean
q wider market Awider market means
more work. More work means a
greater demand for labor, and therefore
higher wages. Higher wages means
better times for American workingmen.
Philadelphia Record.
The question raised by the Chicago
platform is whether the American peo-
pie will accept the base bribe of cheap
whisky as an alternative to reduction of
taxes upon the raw materials of their
labor and the necessaries of their fami-
Lies.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
Henry Clay's Quick Responses.

InulandpOIlS JOur1aI.
On one occasion, when Henry Clay was in
the middle of one of his powerful invectives.
some one in the gallery hurled horseshoe at
him. barely missing his head. He coolly
picked it up after a glance at the gallery and
remarked: ''Mr. President, at first thought
this was delicate piece of irony, but find
upon examination that our enemies are going
to ride rough-Shod over u.s.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30

The presence of the Chinese in
our country, although it might be
advantageous as furnishing a set
of cheap and efficient labOrerS,
carries with it such disadvan-
tages that they more than coun-
tervail all the benefits we could
derive from their presence. - AL
len G. Thurman in Senate, 1879.