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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.

To-day the Democratic clans will have
gathered at st. Louis, and all the pre-
liminary work for the convention will
be completed. There has never been a
national convention the assembling of
which produced less excitement than the
one that will open in st. Louis to-mor-
row. With the possible exception of
the convention which nominated Gen.
GR-.NT for the second term, there has
never been convention whose results
were so definitely settled in advance as
this one. Both the candidate and the
platform were fixed in the public mind
even before the call for the convention
was issued. Some little interest attaches
to filling the second place on the ticket,
but even this will not arouse public
curiosity to very high pitch. 1t is
matter of but little consequence who is
nominated for vice president. Let it be
THURMAN or GRAY or STEVENSON OF
BLACK whose name may grace the
ticket, the main point VIII have been
carried when GROVER CLEVELAND is
renominated for president, and tariff re-
form is made the chief plank in the
platform.
The st. Louis convention will differ
materially from the Democratic conven-
ton at Chicago four years ago in one re-
spect. In glancing over the list of del
egates to the St. Louis convention it is
observable that comparatively few of the
names of the old-time leaders appear on
the rolls. The list is principally made
up of new men, Or at least men who
have never had national prominence.
The convention at Chicago four years
ago was congregation Of intellectual
giants who had gained national fame as
party leaders. 1t was acOnyentiOnwithOut
precedent in American politics, so far as
the ability and prominence of its men,
berS were concerned. The causes which
called forth this outpouring of great
party leaders at Chicago four years ago
do not exist at st. Louis to-day. De
warriors feel that their mission is ac-
compliShed. The management of the
party has been turned over to the
younger soldiers, many of whom will
win their first laurels at ST. Louis.
1t is an encouraging indication of the
progressive condition of the national
Democracy to observe this infusion of
young blood. 1t bodies well for the fut-
ure success of the party, and is addi-
tional assurance that President CLEvE,
LAND intends to surround himself with
advisers who are in thorough sympathy
with the progress of the age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
THE MAN IN THE CASE.

Since woman was created there has been an
awful Stir
About the part she plays on earth-all blame
is laid Oh her.
Let any wickedness be done, at any time or
place,
And saints and sinners do declare, a woman
in the case!'
Some fool to suicide inclined blows out his
little brain,
Now. mark my word-a womanr' every
prophet Will eXclaim.
Or If some fool another fool dispatches from
this life,
It's significantly mentioned, He has pretty
wife,
If man, thief by nature, steals his en-
ployer blind,
And goes alone to Canada, the girl was ''left
Or if he's seen a-talking with the woman OIL
the way,
1.-THE woman in the case goes, too" the daily
papers say.
Now this thing makes us women all too miser-
ably feel.
But for our dire existence, men would never
Kill nor steal;
In fact, if Eve to Adam the Lord had never
given,
This earth had so continued a suburban sort
Of heaven.
1t occurs to me, however from another point
of view,
Had we ne'er been given Adam, we could
have heaven, TOO.
If the world were only women, we could
keep it free from crime,
For doesn't the ''old Adam" work the mis-
chief every time!
1t was Eve who gave the apple that has
brought us all our Woe;
But with no one there to take it, she could
never have done so.
Though men viii kill and steal for u.s. be-
cause we are SO dear,
You should mind they fix our value by their
own existence here.
When you come to think it over one con-
clusion's very sure,
Had they never been created we would ne'er
have sought TO lure
Their poor souls from paths of virtue; they
from blame are not exempt
Dc we lead them to temptation, they have
tempted us to tempt.
With this new light on the subject, rather
singular it seems:
But instead it's plainly plural in reality it
means,
When the blame for any action to its foun-
tain head You trace,
You will ever find woman and man are
III the case.
Flora Mcdonald
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

From the National Democratic Platform of
1876.
We denOunce the present tariff, levied
upon nearly 1000 articles. as master
piece OF injustice, inequality and false
pretenSe. 1t yields a dwindling, not
yearly rising revenue. 1t has impov-
erished many industries to subsidze a
few. 1t prohibits imports that might
purchase the products of American
labor. 1t has degraded American COM
merce from the first to an inferior rank
on the high seas. 1t has cut down the
sales Of American manufactures at home
and abroad. and depleted the returns OF
American agriculture-an industry fol-
lowed by half our people. 1t costs the
people five times more than it produces
to the treasury, obStructS the processes
Of production and wastes the fruits of
labor. 1t promotes fraud and fosters
smuggling, enricheS dishonest officials
and bankrupts honest merchants. We
demand that all custom house taxation
shall be only for revenue.
From the National Democratic Platform of
A tariff for revenue only.
from the National Democratic Platform,
1854
Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa
ton. n The Democratic party is
pledged to revise the tariff in Il spirit of
fairness to all interests.
Sufficient revenue to pay all the eX-
penSeS of the federal government, eco
nomically administered, including pen
sions, interest and principal of the pub
lie debt, can be got under our present
system of taxation, from custom house
taxes on fewer imported articles, bear
ing heaviest on articles of luxury, and
bearing lighteSt on articles of necessity.
We therefore denOunce the abuses of
the existing tariff, and, subject to the
preceding limitations, we demand that
federal taxation shall be exclusively for
public purposes, and shall not exceed
the needs of the government economic
ally administered.
From President Cleveland's Annual Message,
Dec. q.
The simple and plain duty which we
owe the people is to reduce taxation to
the necessary expenses of an econom-
zeal operation of the government aid to
restore to the business of the country
The money which we hold in the treas
lry through the perverSion of govern
mental powers. These things can and
should be done with safety to all our
industries, without danger to the OPP
oortunity for remunerative labor which
Dur WOrkingmen need, and with benefit
20 them all and all our people, by cheap
ening their means of subsistence and
increasing the measure of their COM
Forte
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
-FOUR UNACCOUNTED FOR.
A Caye-in at the ST. Lawrence
Mine, Butte.

Special to the Globe.
BUTTE, Mont, June 3.-To-day at a
few minutes to 70 o'clock, noon, large
cave-in occurred in the ST. Lawrence
mine, commencing at the 500-foot level
on the hanging wall and letting in the
mountain clean up to the 2OO-foot
leyel. Thirty men had come out
at 10 O'Clock on account of the
squeeze and the balance of the men
came out few minutes before the cave.
1t was found when the roll was called
that four men were missing, viz: Pat
Harrington, Con Murphy and two men
who had commenced to work. Men are
now at work from the Anaconda mine
and going to the relief of the
entombed miners. The latest from the
mine is that two of the men have given
signals with hammers on the walls,
which are heard by those who are dig
ging through the cave-in. Whether
they can rescue them in the next
twenty-four hours is hard to say. The
st. Lawrence is one of the largest cop
per mines i'll the city and employs 600
men.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
Four Men Imprisoned in the
st. Lawrence Mine at
Butte, Mont. SID
The Call Newspaper Office
Completely Burned Out
at Winnipeg.
TWO Persons Drowned at Du-
1uth--A Big Storm in
Arkansas.
Special to the Globe.

special TO the Globe. -AG
ANoKA, Mimi, June 3.-The quiet
Sabbath was disturbed by a bad acct
dent, in which John Griffin, son of
Michael Griffin, of st. Paul. was in
stantly killed by being thrown from a
work train on the Manitoba road at
noon, his head striking a tie on the
Northern Pacific track with sufficient
force to break off the end of the tie. He
was aged about twenty and unmarried.
James Veltullo, an Italian, had his col
lar bone and leg broken; John Burke
and Ole Forest, serious wounds on the
head: Peter Naughton and Emil Thorn
had their ankles sprained; Walter Cone
and Charles Locke were injured about
the knees. 1t seems they are replacing
the rails Oh the Manitoba track, and
last night every other spike was re-
moved. When the work train, coming
along at speed of fifteen or twenty
the track the rails spread and the wheels
ran Off on the ties and several of the
men were thrown Off with the above re-
suit. There were about seventy men
on board the engine, fiat car and ca
b0oSe. The injured were cared for by
DrS. GiddingS, Aldrich and Marquis. A
special train with Supt. Rice and Dr..
Murphy came up from st. Paul this aft
ernoon to visit the scene of the acct
dent and take the wounded men down
to the hospital at ST. Paul. Coroner
Sherman will hold an inquest tomorrow
forenoon over the body of Griffin, and,
II possible, develop the facts in the case.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
The Mapieton Fire.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
FARGO, OAK, June 3.-Twenty fire.
men responded to the call for assistance
from Mapleton last night. AS evidence
of the promptness with which the Gull
was answered, it is stated that word was
received from Mapleton at 1905. An
alarm was Immediately sounded, and
the train bearing the firemen with the
apparatus left the yard at once,
and arrived at Napoleon at 1850.
forty-fve minutes from the time
call was made the fire department was
at work, and on arrival the depot was in
flames with the telegraph poles between
the same and the burning elevator.
Connection was made to a pump on the
engine of the especial" The depot
and two warehouses of the Northern
Pacific were saved, together with a
number of tons of cool belonging to the
company. In the elevator burned was
a large quantity of grain, which was
saved, but in condition good only for
feed. sd
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
DIED FOR LOVES SAKE.
The Sad and Romantic Story off
Jennie Abrahams, q Suicide.

Jennie ADfananS, q suicide.
Friends, family, home, native land
and even her religion Jennie Abrahams
gave up for loves sake and then killed
herself because her great love was re-
jected.
1t was sad but romantic story that
had its ending with the young girls
death last week in Philadelphia.
Miss Abrahams was young, Strikingly
pretty, tall and slender, with intellect
ual features. Her home originally was
in Berlin, Germany, where she lived
with her widowed mother and several
relatives. They all belonged to the
Jewish faith and this young woman
was the eldest child and pride of the
family.
John Ligien, who lives at No. 40
Hamburger Stras5e, Berlin, had for two
years been Jennie's sweetheart He is
journalist, connected with the
Deutsche Presse of that city, and would
have been well received by Miss Abra-
hams family had he not been a Christ
ian. Jennie, however, cared nothing
for the difference in their faith. She
told him, and also told her relatives,
that she would make their faiths one,
for she would become Christian.
Last August she made her decision.
She determined to hold it. Mother,
brothers, all her relatives in Berlin,
pleaded and argued with her, but she
was infieXible. Taking with her the
little money she had saved from her
spending money, she left home secretly
and went to Hamburg. There she
found the steamer Leasing about
to sail for Havre and thence to
New York. She paid her passage
as an emigrant, and in September,
1887, found herself in Hayre. There
she telegraphed to her lover, saying she
had sailed for America, and bidding
him, if he loved her, to follow on the
next steamer. He answered that at the
time he could not arrange affairs to do
so at once.
Jennie, on her arrival, went to the
house of her aunt, Mrs. Neogarten
Girard avenue, Philadelphia. Some
how, the oftener Jennie wrote John the
less he answered, and he showed no
signs OF coming to America. The
girl thought it was because she
was a Jewess, and then she exc
Grated her family and faith and
heart. IN this great hour of despair and
trial the poor girl tried to procure laud-
anum to end her sadness. After the
1st of May Jennie was watched. She
would cry out. ''See, John, [ am now a
Christian" and she would take Cath
Ollie cruci6X from her bosom and kiss
it.
a few days ago, in one of her fits of
blues or crazy spells, she threw herself
from the second story window into the
side yard and received the injuries
from which she died In Jefferson hos
initial
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
SHERIDAN NO BETTER.
And His Physicians Fear He May
Be Forced to Succumb.

BE FORCED to SuCcumD.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-After a day
during which he showed quite an i'm
provement in health, Gen. Sheridan's
condition this morning this morning is
again not favorable, and grave appre-
tensions are felt lest he should have an
other alarming attack of heart and lung
trouble. There has yet been no
recurrence of the hex9tPoubles, but
there have been changes b his pulse,
respiration and tempcW&9re since s
p. m. such as have been on one or two
occasions premonitory symptoms of
dangerous attacks. Prompt measures
were taken to prevent the recur-
renee of the trouble, and it is
hoped they may be warded off.
The tendency of the trouble to recur is
dIscouraging to the physicians and a
constant source of alarm to the family,
and shows that although considerable
period may elapse between at
tacks, yet their return is al
ways to be dreaded. The general
IS very weak and no stronger, if indeed
quite as strong as before the last at
tack. Each attack heretofore has been
worse than the preceding one, and it is
feared the general may finally become
SO weak as to be forced to Succumb.
At 2:30 Gen. Sheridan is reported
resting comfortably, with little or no
change in his condition since midnight
Doctor Pepper, of Philadelphia, has
been sent for again. He left Philadel-
phia at midnight, and will have a con-
sultation with the generals physicians
early i'll the morning
WASHINGTON, June A a. m.-Gen
Sheridan does not seem to rest we'll and
has had couple attacks of coughing
since the last bulletin.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
GOULD VERY ILL.
The Railway Magnate Not Ex-
Dected to Live Two Months.


KANSAS CITY, June 3.-Jay Goud is
undoubtedly very sick man. Every
effort is being made to keep his true
condition from the public and the re-
suit is that very conflicting reports
are being sent out. The result of
careful investigation justifies the asser-
ton that Mr.. Gould is dangerously
i'll. The Gould party returned to this
city from Omaha last Friday morning
dUith the express intention of returning
at once to New York. At the union
depot he was seen by several who are
familiar with his face, and all agreed
that he is very worn and haggard-lOOk-
ing. When the train arrived, Dr.. Mum
went to drug store and got prescrip-
ton filled. He stated that Mr.. Gould was
suffering from brain and stomach
troubles and was afflicted with IN
Somnla, which had been growing worse
ever since he left New York on Thurs
day night. He could not sleep at all
a titful dOze. A consultation was
held by Drs. Mum and Outten,
and it was decided that it
was best to go to Colorado
instead Of returning home, in the hope
that several days of the mountain air
would be beneficial to the patient. The
train arrived at Council Grove, Kan,
at shutdown, and was side tracked in
order that Mr.. Gould's nights rest
might not be broken. The party left
late in the morning and spent Saturday
night at Greeley, on the western bof-
der of Kansas. This morning they
started for Pueblo, reaching there
late this evening. Mvices from all
points along the line show that there
has been no improvement and that there
has been an accession of nervousness.
An old acquaintance, who had seen Mr..
Gould while at the union depot, said
that it was his belief that he could not
live two months, as he had mover seen
such breaking down as was shown OIL
every feature of Mr.. Gould.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04

vate schools, in primary and adj
vanced Institutions, has the same
degree of excellence and consistent prog
ress been maintained. This is, of
course, due to the harmonious co-opera-
ton of teachers and taught, for in the
West as in no other section of the coun-
try, save perhaps New England, do the
youth of the land realize the practical
value and necessity of a thorough edu-
cation. 1t is because of these good re-
suits, and of their promise for the future,
that tie present commencement season
in the Northwest is especially note
worthy.
The Northwest has many things to be
proud of, but in nothing can she justly
take more pride than in her schools.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
A GROWING BOOM.

The THURMAN boom has got such an
impetus the managers of the st. Louis
convention may have hard work to keep
it from getting away from them and
landing the old Roman at the head of
the ticket. THURMAN is ,tolerably big
man in the estimation of the average
American citizen, and the older he
gets the bigger he seems to grow.
Ever since the railroad and Stand
ard oil influences combined to drive
him out of the senate the great body of
the people have been longing for an
opportunity to square the old man.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
DROWNED AT DULUTH.
Two of a Boating Party of Four
Drowned at Duluth.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, June 3.-Duluth's
first drowning of the season occurred
here at 7:30 this evening. Frank May
nell, who came here about two weeks
ago to take position in the pool room
of George Langdon, and J.W. Tonguey,
a sporting character of the town, were
out sailing with Minnie Shoemaker
and frankie Haven, two women of the
town, when their boat was overturned
while Maynell and Minnie were chang
ing positions, and both the latter were
drowned. Maynell came from ChiG.go,
was about thirty years of age, and feayeS
father, mother and several brothers
there. His body has not yet been recov-
cred. The girl also came from Chicago
short time ago, but no one here was
able to give any of her former history.
Her body was recovered after it lad
been in the water but short time, but
life was extinct.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
A BAD ONE CAPTURED.
An Early Arrival at st. Louis
Taken In.

ST. LOUIS, June 5.-Peter F. Quinn,
alias Frank Gilmore, was arrested here
yesterday by Detective Ersline, who
has been following him for several
months. Quinn is alleged to have en-
beZzled $4,000 from c. &. Dickson, a
prominent contractor of Pittsburg, Pa,
while employed as confidential clerk.
The fugitive had been traced to Cali
fornia, where the detective lost him and
abandoned the search. On Friday,
Quinn was recognized among the early
convention arrivals. and was ShadOwed
until Mr.. Dickson appeared in reply to
a telegram, and identified his late clerk,
who was arrested and sent back to
Pittsburg without the formality of a
reuuiSitiOn.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
NORTHWESTERN SCHOOLS.

The approach of the time for the clos
ing of the schools for the summer holt
day and the preparations which are
making for commencement call atten-
ton to the fact that this has been an ex-
ceedingly successful year in North
western schools. Not only has a larger
number Of students been enrolled dur
ing the past year than ever before, but
the standard of instruction and scholar
ship has been raised to point never be-
fore reached.
In keeping with the progress which
has marked every other department of
Northwestern life, the schools have
steadily increased their efficiency and
now deservedly rank with any in the
country. III both pu3Iic alG pri-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
STATESMAN" SHERMAN.

If some one would only force upon
Candidate SHE RMAN the conclusion
that the war is over, and that this is a
government not for the South but for
the entire Union, he would be doing the
country service. 1t seems to be the
special province of the peculiar school
of craftsmanship" of which SHERMAN
is the most shining light to keep alive
in every way possible the fires of sec
tional feeling.
Belonging to by-gone political era.
SHERMAN has never been able to realize
that new generation has grown up
and is taking part in the administra-
ton of national affairs-a generation
which, unlike SHERMAN. is willing to
let the dead past bury its dead, and
which is content to busy itself with the
affairs of the present.
SHERMAN, in short, in his proper per-
son illustrates the politician as distin-
guished from the statesman. A notable
instance of his predominating trait was
given in the senate few days ago,
when, after the most approved style of
SHERMAN craftsmanship, he denounced
VuC ptNolNlClIO lOl fOlOIiS SAbl
appropriation for a public building in a
small Pennsylvania town, and declared
that, had the appropriation been for a
Southern town, the president would not
have dared oppose it.
There now comes to hand, very ap-
propriately given, the lie to SHERMAN's
assertion-a veto from the president dis
approving of bill appropriating $780,
600 for the erection of public building
at Columbus, Ga. But perhaps SHEER
MAN will declare that this is not a
Southern town. AS yet he has discreet
ly kept silent upon the subject, but his
sophistry has in the past gone to even
more absurd lengths.
In some respects Candidate SHERMAN
makes US very tired.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
BY ACCLAMATION.
Continued From First Page.
The platform was then adopted by

IHo pIatiOTHi Was CIIeH auOpteu Dy a
viva vOce vote.
The first ballot for presidential can
didate stood: Cleveland, 1872; Bayard,
10; Mcdonald, Sc; Randall, rs; Thur
man, IS; Carlisle, 81; Hoadly, 8; Hen
bricks, l; Tilden, L; Flower, 4. On the
fourth and last day of the convention
the second ballot resulted: Cleveland,
6SS; Bayard, s11l; Hendricks, 451s !;
Thurman, 4: Randall, d; Mcdonald, 2.
The nomination of Cleveland was made
unanimous on motion of Thomas A.
Hendricks, who was subsequently NOM
mated for vice president. The popular
vote cast for the presidential electors
was as follows: Cleveland. 4.911, OFT !;
Blaine, 4,S4S, 1884; Butler, 1873, S25; St.
John, Isl, 800. The total vote cast in all
the states was 10,04S,061.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
RED TAPE FOLLY.

There is a good deal of red tape fool
ishness. but nowhere is it more conspic-
uously ridiculous than in the postoffice
department. During the big blizzard
in the East last March mail carrier i'm
a New Hampshire city who had "a beat
OH the outskirts of the town was caught
in the storm and lost his way. After
crawling through snowdrlfts OH his
hands and knees for several hours, and
nearly perishing from tie cole, he finally