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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-14
THE FOOTPADS.

The footpads seem to have made their
temperance in st. Paul. Perhaps
they are the advance guard of the army
which has lately been overrunning
Kansas City, and, having depleted that
city, come to fresher fields. Atany rate,
several of them are here, as at least two
cable car conductors and several belated
pedestrians can testify.
There is only one way of dealing with
the footpad effectively, and that is to
exterminate him just as one would
other vermin. The police are doing
their part toward protecting the public,
but it is obviously difficult in the eX-
IRENE for 125spatrolmen to cover ade-
quately thirty square miles of territory.
They can not be everywhere.
Consequently, pedestrians who find it
necessary to be out late at night will do
well to make some provision themselves
for dealing with the footpad evil. I'm
less it is nipped in the bud it may grow
to the proportions it has reachedin Kan
sas City and Chicago, where despite the
most energetic efforts of the police, citi-
zens are ''held up" and knocked down
at their very doors. A shot or two well
aimed, however, and a consequently
disabled footpad, will do much toward
breaking up this midnight industry.
The footpads should be made to real
ize the fact that here in the Northwest
there is healthy prejudice against CIV
ing up ones personal property upon de-
mand to the first conner, and that if nee
essary the prejudice will be reinforced
with the revolver.
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tian's great kindness in aiding in the
enlightenment of Chicago people-a
consummation devoutly to be wished,
any one will admit-the Chicago papers
have been endeavoring to laugh MIR.
DoNNELLY's lecture and the lecturer
himself oscorn.
Why Chicago should have constituted
herself a champion of SHAKESPEARE
does not appear, unless in vague way
she fancies he is a distinguished Eng
lishman who may some day visit the
Garden City and write a book embody-
ing his impressions of America, in which
she desires to figure well.
Ordinarily it would be thought that
Chicago would look with exceeding ia
yor upon BACON champion. 1t may
be, however, that in learning that MI.
DoNNELLY intended to pose as the spe-
cial champion of BACON, Chicago in
telligence may have conceived the idea
that in some indefinite way, a joke, or a
piece of sarcasm was intended at the
expense of the city'S culture, and ac-
cordingly felt it its bounden duty to re-
sent the insult.
At all events, Mr.. DoNNELLY was
jumped On with both feet, and if the
common acceptation of Chicago's huge
ness in this respect is correct, this is a
calamity not to be considered lightly.
Notwithstanding this adverse criticism
Mr.. DoNNELLY has secured columns of
valuable advertising regarding himself,
and incidentally of his forthcoming
book.
AS that. in all probability, was the OBJ
ject of his visit to the city of the barba-
rians, perhaps, after all, Mr.. DoNNELLY
is not in need of a great deal Of sympa-
thy.
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THE EASTERN STORM.

The East is being treated to taste OF
the ubiquitous blizzard with a ven
geance. The storm in severity exceeds
anything which Dakota has ever known.
None of the details which Eastern peo-
pie have been in the habit of reading of
as pertaining to the Dakota variety Of
blizzard have been wanting. On the
contrary, they have been intensified.
Dakota has yet to experience biz
card so severe that people freeze i'll the
streets of her cities, yet numerous cases
of freezing to death have occurred in
the streets of New York, where pre-
sumably assistance was not far distant.
Though railroads have occasionally
been blocked in the Northwest by super
abundant snow. it will be difficult to re-
call an instance where storm has
ragged of such intensity that traffic in
the two cities had to be entirely sus-
pended; yet that is precisely the dis
agreeable experience New York is now
undergoing.
The truth of the matter is that severe
storms of any kind are not Characters
tic of any one section of the country to
the exclusion of any other. Given the
necessary meteorological conditions, they
are as likely to occur in one place as
another. In the matter of billiards. the
East, never losing an opportunity to
scott at the West, has been inclined to
attribute to Dakota monopoly.
1t is now learning that such is far
from being the case, and it will hardly
add to the acceptability of the lesson
when it fhrther learns that in much
maligned Dakota the trees are budding,
the birds singing, the farmers plowing
and the spring already well advanced.
Lessons of this kind may be intensely
disagreeable, but they are sometimes
Salutarv,
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JUDGE LYNCH.
"A PRISONER Taken From Jail and
Hung by Masked Men.

WASHINGTON, n. c., March -
About O'Clock this morning the steamer
Beta, on her way to this place, blew
signal to open the draw to the bridge.
The bridgekeeper responded, but found
an obstruction in the way. The draw
could not be opened sufficiently for the
steamer to pass, On investigation it
was found that there was a rope hang
ing from cross beam of the draw with
heavy weight attached. When pulled
up llfelesS body was found at the end
or the rope, to which was attached
hotel card with the inscription, Justice
at last" The proper authorities were
promptly notified, and the body was
left to dangle till daylight and until
coroner'S jury could be empaneled.
Inc body proved to be that of Will
lam a. Parker, who was tried ror the
assassination of Gen. Bryan Grimes,
some seven or eight years ago. He has
been heard to boast of the deed on sew
eral occasions when in liquor. 1t seems
yesterday for drunkenness and disor-
derry conduct he was consigned to the
lookup, place partitiOned off in the
rear of the engine house, with three
cells. An old cOlOred man at night
looks after and attends to the wants of
the prisoners, he sleeping in an adioin-
ing cell. He deposed at the inquest
that about a. M, he was awakened by
a slight noise, and noticed that the light
left burning was out, and before he
could realize what was the matter he
was confronted bya least a half-dozen
masked men, who told him to keep
quiet on pain of death. They APP
preached the cell in which Parker was
confined, wrenching of the lock, and
carried him outside. He was heard to
cry out, murder" once or twice. 1t is
not known who the lyncherS were.
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HOTEL THIEVES.
An Organization Among Employees to
Rob Guests.
A WOMAN TELLS THE STORY.
She Tells Romantic Story Of Her.
self-..General Criminal
News.

CHICAGO, March IA few days ago
the police were notified that detective
was wanted at house on the North
side. Officers went there, and in mis-
cradle tenement found woman OF APP
parently refined and cultured nature,
who told them strange story. She eX-
planned that there existed an OrganlZa-
ton amongst certain hotel employees
which made business of systematic
ally robbing hotels and their guests.
She gave the name of the man with
whom she was living as Frank Emmett,
as one of the gang. The police found
him to be trusted Waterman at the
Sherman house. He and other en-
ployes of that hotel have been arrested
andOsteps are being taken to hunt down
the thieves in other large hotels here
who include both male and female help.
Several wagon loads of goods have been
recovered from various places, includ-
ing all classes of hotel linen, tableware,
guests clothing, etc. The woman who
gave the first information to the
police gave the name of Mrs. James
W. Murray, and tells a roman
tic story of her life. Her maiden name,
she claims, was Kerns, and she was the
daughter of one-time Lord Mayor of
Dublin. She was educated in the finest
manner abroad, and her mother and
several sisters are living now in En-
gland. She was married in 1869 to James
w. Murray, then wealthy shoe
dealer in Limerick. In the second
year of their marriage they came to
Philadelphia, where he is now mem
Der of large manufacturing firm. They
did not get along we'll together and she
left him, after which he procured
a divorce on the ground of deser-
ton. During a long period of i'll
ness in New York She was be-
friended by Emmett, who was her only
FREUD, and since her recovery been liv-
ing with him. She would have married
him but for the fact that, as Catholic,
she is still the wife of Murray. Pride
prevented her from making her unfOr-
tunate condition known to her relatives
in England,
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DiabolicaI Deed,

COLUMBIA, S. c., March 13.-The
bridgekeeper of Broad river bridge and
his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Buff, who are
both seventy years of age, were viciously
attacked by two men last night. John
FELTON,, a negro who lived on the place,
had his throat cut and was killed. The
murderers were intent on robbing Buff
of several hundred dollars in money
supposed to be in his possession. After
robbing the place the murdererS satur-
ated the bedding and floor with kerosene
oil and set the building on fire and fled.
They would have burned their victims
had Mrs. Buff not recovered and escaped
from the house and assisted Buff from
the flames. 1t is not believed he will
recover. William Johnson, a white
man. has been placed in Jail on sus-
piciOn.
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Becoming Interesting.

Special to the Globe.
WINNIPEG, Man., March 13.-The pO-
itical situation is becoming decidedly
interesting, and in view of Sir Johns
manner towards Greenway, people are
highly indignant. One of the newspa-
pers says to-day: SIT can be called
nothing short of calamity that the
government of Canada should announce
its intention of persisting in policy
which robs the farmers to build castles
for the Canadian magnates; plumbers
them on the preteXt of maintaining in
ter-provincial trade which our high tar
if is sufficient to confine to Canadian
channels. 1t DEGREES that grain
must rot before the monopoly of mag
mates is lnterfered with, and perpetuates
a system of tyranny and groSsest injus-
tice, to which neither Canadians nor
Britons can submit without sacrificing
their manhood and heaplng disgrace
upon their homes, their traditions and
their country"
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Strictly Moral.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-The grand
jury to-day returned an Indictment
against Cyril P. Benedict for the en-
bezzlement of S7,46O from the Adams
Express company. He was Immediately
indicfment and was sentenced to three
and half years imprisonment in the
Albany county penitentiary. Benedict
has been trusted employee of the COM
pany for more than twenty years and
for long time has been in charge of the
company's branch Office at the United
States treasury. He is about fifty years
of age ,and heretofore has been regarded
as strictly moral, upright man. 1t is
believed that he lost the money dealing
in stocks.
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BUGGY WORKS BURNED,
The Buckeye Buggy Works En-
tirely Destroyed by Fire.

COLUMBUS, O., March 13.-The main
building and works of the Buckeye
Buggy company, located in the northern
part of the city, burned tonight. The
building was 81 by IT'S feet and seven
stories high. The flames were discov-
cred in the top floor. and are thought to
have originated in the varnish room.
The wind was high, and t the he flames e
Structure enveloped. 1t was a total
loss. The company is composed of John
r. Hughes, Frank Hughes. o. F. and A.
Wilson. The building was worth about
$50, 600, the machinery $4,000, and there
was about 100000 worth of stock on
hand, a portion of which was finished
work. The total loss is about $50, 900:
insurance, 100000 in a pool agency.
The names of the companies cannot be
secured tonight. The fire spread and
burned few other small buildings.
The Indiana, Bloomington 81 Western
railway freight house was damaged, and
the Exchange hotel badly scorched.
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Buried Unidentified.

Special to the Globe.
HASTINGS, Mimi, March 19.-Coroner
William Cadzow, of Rosemount, upon
viewing the remains of the dead man
found near the Point Douglas ferry
deemed it unnecessary to hold an in
quest and ordered the body to be placed
in the vault at Lakeside cemetery, and
it was taken there this afternoon. He
found no marks of violence upon the
body. though the mans face and head
did present a somewhat ugly appear
ance, several severe flesh wounds being
noticeable, which were caused by the
man, while in an intoxicated state, fall
ing upon the ice. 1t is asserted that he
worked the past two months for Edward
Du Shane, of Rayenna, though his name
is unknown.
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KANSAS STYLE.
An Armed Mob Forcibly Removes
the County Records to Another

An Armed Mob Forcibly Removes
the County Records to Another
Town.
IoHEKA, KAN, March 13.-It has lust
been learned that the Rush county seat
war broke out again Saturday last and
has assumed most serious aspect. In
defiance of the positive mandate of the
supreme court, the people of La Crosse
have again taken forcible possession Of
the county records and removed them
Walnut City. About O'Clock i'm the
afternoon of Saturday last fiftv-five
teams and about 200 men. among them
being all the county officers. except the
superintendent of schools and the board
OF county commissioners, entered the
Town or Walnut City unheralded, and
driving up to the building occupied by
the county officers, proceeded to load
the records, safes and all the office fix
lures and paraphernalia into the
wagons. The crowd was boisterous
ana demonstrative. A number of guns
ana countless number of revolvers were
displayed, and the mob declared its
intention OF laying the town
OF walnut City in ashes if any resist
allce was 0Hered. No resistance was
UUiloleu, however, ana after two hours
the records were all loaded into wagons
and carried away. When the mob
reached the city limits, on the way back
TO La Crosse with the records. they fired
yolley and awakened the echoes with
yells., The ground on which the re-
mloval of the records is made is an al
Tentative writ of mandamus issued by
Judge ). j. Osborne, of the district court
OF flush county, obtained on the repre-
Sentatlon that an election had been
held' the returns of which had not been
canvaSSed, resulting in the choice ofI,a
Crosse as the county seat of Rush
county. The result of the alleged cleo
ton, however, is disputed by the Wal
nut City people. Chief Justice Horton
expressly stated in his decision in the
recent case that the county seat should
be located at Walnut City, and there re-
main until the county seat fight be def
nltely settled, and that any further de-
lays, subterfugeS or interferences, even
the intervention of the courts, would be
deemed contempt and the offenders
summarlly dealt with. Representatives
OF Walnut City are now here for the
purpose OF invoking the aid of the gov
ernOr ana the supreme court.
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POTITJCAL COOUETTEs.

Although not twin brothers nOr social
intimates, in their politics Hon. W. d.
WAsHBURN and Hon. WILLIAM r.
MERRIAM have points of resemblance
quite perceptible to mortal eye.
There is positively no divergence of
sentiment between them in the course
which they have marked out for adj
herence to in the qualification of their
respective political ambitions. The way
of the one leads to the presidency; of
the other to the governors tinSel
throne.
1t is as political coquettes that this
Siamese couple purpose to dazzle the
eyes of the vulgar herd and walk on
their PROSTATE bodies to public office.
BIushing and simpering, half with
shame and half with fear of discovery
of the trick, MI. WAsHBURN filters out
that seeking the peoples good he would
remove the tax from whisky and tobac-
co, and maintain high protective duties.
Almost coincident with this the an
nouncement is made that the Mime
sofa Republicans will present his name
for the presidency.
Mr.. MERRIAM, cOquettishly flirting
his skirts in the face of Mr.. SABfN,
kicking delicate foot at Mr.. LANGDoN,
showering largess upon the farmers,
denounces low license, declines to vote
for high, winks at tariff reform and en-
braces protection.
Thus ogling and Sinking, these two,
with glitter of diamonds and the clink-
ing of gold. show their painted faces to
the people and seductiyely solicit their
| favor.
1t is inconceivable that either of
these gentlemen is sincere. They CAN
not be as foolhardy as to imagine that
anything but straightforward dealings
are the best. If MI. MERRIAM is allied
to the interests of R. B. LANGDoN (as
is strongly asserted), or if he is now a
| partner of Mr.. SABIN; if he is high
license OF low, for taxation or against it,
he should manfully declare himself.
The same advice applies to Mr.. WASH
BURN, whose advocacy of free whisky
| is not reliShed.
Abandon your coquetry, gentlemen,
and let the people see whether under
your silks and satins there is honesty of
purpose, OF the deceit of a juggler. 1t
is not a year In which the kiss of JUDAS,
nor the embrace of DELILAH, can be
safely practiced.
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AIlison's Wire Pulling.

Special to the Globe.
Dies MONIES, To-, March 13.-Ex-GOv.
Packard, who was governor of Louisiana
when Hayes was elected president, but
who has resided in Iowa for several
years on farm near Marshalltown, is
being proposed as a delegate to the ma
tional convention. The reason for this
is that Senator AllisOn's friends in
Iowa believe that Gov. Packard
still has great influence with
Republican workers in the South,
and especially with those Republicans
who will probably be sent as delegates
to the national convention. If the gen
Grafton of political carpet baggers that
flourished cOntempOraneOusly with
Packard still contest the destinies of the
party in the South, the ex-governor
would doubtless WELD considerable in
fIuence with them. Talking him up for
delegate now indicates that Senator Al
lison's managers have designs upon the
South
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Quiet Elections,

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, March 19.-The town
of Towers election to-day resulted as
follows: Chairman, Daniel F. Denton;
supervisors, w. II. Phillips, E. P. Mar
com; town clerk, Amos S. Shepherd;
treasurer, William Hutchinson; as
SCISSOR, George II. Vivian; commissioner
of highway, J. B. Lorraine; justice, of
the peace, j. F. Brown; constable,
George Beaconfield. Town of Two
HarbOrs: Chairman, n. G. Nelson;
supervisors, A. d. Headley, William ID.
Lawrence: town clerk, Z. }. McGee;
justices of the peace, John Kinsella,
A. De Lacey Wood; treasurer, u. A.
Schulze; assessor, Charles nj. Flothe;
commissioner of the highway, John
Swanstrom; constable, Thomas Kellogg.
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BLOWN FROM THE CARS.
A Brakeman Is Blown From the
Cars in Pennsylvania.

Odf6 IN fcnQSyIVauld.
PITTsBURG, Pa, March 13.-For sew
eral years there has not been such an
absolute dearth of telegraph communi-
cation with the east as there was yes
terday and last night. Though intensely
cold, Pittsburg suffered little from the
storm of Sunday night. Eastward the
blizzard rolled down the mountain side
and through the Juniata valley, scatter
ing fences, breaking telegraph wires,
causing great loss in various ways. 1t
was bad night for the Pennsylvania
railroad train men. Many of the trains
were compelled to take to the sidings
and wait until this morning. A short
distance east of here last night a brake
man was blown from the top of a car,
but was not dangerously injured.
Train men pronounce it the worst storm
ever known in these regions. One
train man said: "Between Phil
adelphia and Downingtown, the
wind almost blew the cars off the track,
the air was piercing cold and the beat
ing wind made it almost impossible to
stand out in the storm. The snow was
so heavy and so thick that you could not
see three feet in front of you. Telegraph
poles, trees. FENCES ana OGner InlngS
were blown across the tracks and our
train made very little Roadway. For
miles east Of bennington every tele-
graph pole on the road has been blown
down and the wires scattered all over
the tracks. One of the poles blew down
as the train was moving along slowly
and knocked the smokestack off the en-
CINE. The latter ran into network of
wires, which wrapped themselves
around it, and we had to stop for a long
time to get released. We suffered ter
ribly trying to get away from the wires
and were almost frozen" No trains have
arrived from the east since last night.
Everything is blockaded with snow. All
the freight trains are snow-bound and
there is little or no prospect of their get
ting out for at least twenty-four hours.
At some places the snow has drifted as
high as five feet and there are miles and
miles of freight trains waiting to get
through.
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To Be Retired,

BERLIN, March 13.-Most of the older
generals and field officers of the German
army, and many friends and comrades
in arms of the late emperor, who refused
to sanction their retirement, will soon
be put On half-pay and retired from ac-
tive service. Officers of the husSars,
headed by Crown Prince William, Wis
visited the cathedral at noon, filing be-
fore the body of the dead emperor. The
influx of strangers into the city is very
orpat
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MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
They We're Pretty Generally Held
Throughout the State.
OUR TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS
Women Not a Success as Wire Pullers
..-General Democratic
Victories.
Committee Meeting.

Special to the Globe.
OwAToNNA, Mimi, March 1S.-The
Republican congressional committee
for this district met at the Arnold house
in this city this afternoon. Present,
III. o. Bassford, of Mower; 81. A.
Eckholdt, of Olmsted; DR.. A. G. Wedge,
Of Freedom; James O'Brien, of HouS-
ton; Geo. B. Arnold, of Dodge; and j.
M. Dirnent, of Steele. Members from
Winona, Fillmore and Wabasha were
absent. The committee decided to hold
the convention for the purpose OF elect
ing two delegates and two alternates to
the Chicago convention, at Owatonna,
ON Tuesday, May Is, at o'clock, p. M,
and to hold the convention for
the purpose of placing in nomina-
ton member of congress from this
district, to be held at Rochester on
Tuesday, July TO-, at 2 O'Clock p. M.
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instincts were appealed to, this is the time
1t would at least be proper for the chamber Of
commerce or some other Representative
body to send telegram to Mayor HEWITT,
conveying our sympathies for our blizzard
stricken friends in the East, and making an
offer Of assistance.
~
Laying all jokes aside, there is something
most phenomenal in the weather disturb
ances of this season. 1t has been winter
of billiards, and one section OF the coun.
try has been just as liable to blizzard
visitation as another. There are those VINO
read in these phenomenaDcommot OF the
elements sign that the world is coming to
an end. They believe it to be part OF the
fulfllment of prophecy. 1t is just as well
that it should be SO, for an earth with a per-
petual blizzard knocking things to pieces On
its surface hasn't any place in we'll regu-
lated planetary system, any way.
~
Some one who has been gathering matri-
monial statistics discovers that the example
of conjugal felicity which Mr.. and Mrs.
CLEVELAND present to the country is having
a good effect. Following the line Of their re-
cent pleasure trips, the statistician finds that
the matrimonial market has had most phe-
nomenal boom all along the line. compar-
ison of the marriage records i'll the counties
on the line of their journey from Washing
ton to st. Louis and back with the marriage
records for corresponding period prior 10
the departure of the distinguished couple
reveals the interesting fact that there has
been an increase of 81 per cent in Hymen' S
hJ1cin