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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
THEFRaNCHIsECoMPRoMIs

Through the intercession of the 'cIti-
zens' committee the city council has
at last obtained Mr.. LOWRY permission
to pass franchise ordinance. Although
there is little ambiguity in the report
of the subcommittee, we gather from it
that Mr.. LowRY's gracious concession
in this matter is made on the condition
that the city will never hereafter under
take to question the exclusiveness of
his existing franchise, and will not
within the next ten years assess tax
upon the street railway property in ex-
cess of 5 per cent of its gross earnings,
or if that does not suit the city fathers,
then the scheme to tax gross earnings;
shall be abandoned forever. In con-
sideration of these benefits Mr.. LOWRY
agrees to build no more horse car lines,
but that all future extensions shall be
operated by cable, electricity, gas, or by
some pneumatic arrangement.
1t is matter of conjecture as to what
action the city council will take on this
proposition. If 1t be conceded that Mr..
LOWRY is the absolute owner of the
streets of this city, and that his CON-
pany has the right to occupy them to
the exclusion of everybody else, then
his apparent magnanimity in agreeing
to any change in the provisions of his
original charter must be duly appre-
ciated. If the city council, however,
should be of the notion that the city
still has some rights which Mr.. LOWRY
must respect, then the probable
ity is that no attention will be
paid to this gratuitously construct
ed compromise. The sO-called COM
promise recalls the story of the white
man and the Indian who were trying to
divide the spOilS of the hunt, which
consisted of a turkey and crow. The
white mans proposition to the Indian
was, Il will take the turkey and you
may have the crow, or you may have
the crow and I'll take the turkey"
Such is the substance of Mr.. LowRY's
compromise with the citizens commit
tee. He has never said turkey once
to the city council. Still, as long as the
city railway company are of the impress
sion that they have an exclusive fran
chiSe, it would not be reasonable to eX-
peet them to make any valuable conces-
SiOnS. When the courts have passed
upon the questions at issue, the city
council will be prepared to act intelfi-
gently in the matter. and not until then.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
1T Is ALL RIGHT.

President GILMAN, of the Johns Hop
kins university. denies that the financial
condition of the great institution has
been embarrassed or its efficiency i'm
paired by the cutting off of the income
derived from the Baltimore & Ohio
stock. The accumulated income of
former years and the income from in
YeStments outside of the railroad are
available and ample for all present pur-
poses. He publishes statement, which
shows that the present efficiency of the
university is assured for at least the
next three years, and by that time the
trustees will have Strengthened out the
Baltimore & Ohio complications. The
alarming rumOrs that have been set
afloat were evidently put in circulation
for stock-jobbing purposes to affect the
Baltimore & Ohio shares, and the news
papers have innOcently aided the stock
jObbers in their nefariouS scheme by
giving circulation to the rumorS. The
national character of the institution en-
titles it to the hearty sympathy of the
American people, and any attempt to
impair its efficiency, whether by stock
jObberS or others, will be universally re-
garded as piece of vandalism.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17

ton. Ives had erased the signature
of Mr.. Zimmerman from some of the
certificates in order to deceive Mr.. Burns,
who was the registrar of the American
Exchange National bank. where the
stock was registered according to Gus
tom. Ives had said to witness: I'VE
must not let Burns get onto this or we'll
get up a tree" About Aug. 25 Mr..
Burns called at Ives office and asked to
see the old certificates for which new
ones had been issued and registered.
Witness and Ives managed to Temporal
rily reaSsure Mr.. Burns, and that night
Ives and Woodruff sat up late and pre-
pared what they afterwards showed
Burns as the old certificates. This work
was completed at II o'clock at night.
AS fast as the bogus certificates were
finished they were hurried over to Mr..
Burns, who was waiting for them. This
scheme seemed to quiet the suspicious
of the bank officials, which had been
aroused. Witness had acted as Secre-
tary at meeting of the stockholders
held Feb. 25, 1887, at which the direct
ors were authorized to purchase the
balance of outstanding stOck-1 1876
shares-at $50. Witness further testi-
fled that only four shares of the unau-
thOriZed stock remained out to date, and
that these four had been burned by
Ives direction. The balance of the
session was taken up in the examina-
ton and Identification of books bearing
upon the case. The trial will be re-
SUmed Tomorrow morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
THE LEAVEN WORKS.

The Democrats who doubt the expedi-
ency of putting the party squarely and
unequivOeally on tariff reduction plat
form are becoming very rare. Theirs
has been a marked getting together"
on that line since the presidential cleo
ton. 1t is conceded that Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND defeated himself by his pro-
nounced stand on that question. Yet
at all Democratic conventions there is
growing unanimity in following his
lead, and his name excites greater en-
thusiasm than ever before. 1t shows
that the educational work is going On
bravely. The blunder last year was in
presuming that protection would be
strong in the manufacturing districts
and weak with the farmers. In the
former the refOrmers made marked
gains as result of the discussion of the
question, while the farmers gave the
votes that continued the high taxation
and MONOPOLY systems.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
A BOOMERANG.

That was not on the line of wise prac-
teal politics for the Republican man
ayers to send out to the Montana voters
the allurement of a tariff on hides. 1t
simply excited ridicule among the intel
ligent cattle growers. while the i'm
mense leather industries of New Eng
land are inclined to resent the trif1ing
with their interests. One of the papers
of that section says that under the oper-
alton of free raw material a boot and
shoe and leather industry has been de-
yeloped that in the number of hands
employed surpasses any other manufact-
uring industry except that of cotton
goods. 1t has been able not only to
supply the home demand, but to COM
pete successfully in the markets of the
world. The Republican scheme pre-
scented the cattle men antagOnizeS this
great industry, and would involve it in
serious disaster. But it is only for local
use, and will not be heard of after the
election
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
ANTIQUE POLITICS.

If our friends out in the state of
Washington would move up little in
the scale of progress, they would give
better evidence of their fitness to be-
come members of the federal family.
Judging from the tone of the campaign
speeches and the discussions that are
being conducted through the press, the
principal issue in the first state cam
paign is to determine whether the Re-
publicans or Democrats were RESPONSE
bic for the defeat of the Crittenden
compromise i'll 1860. That was very
interesting topic twenty-nine years ago,
but what possible bearing it is to have
on the relations of the new state to the
federal government we are wholly I'M
able to see. There are so many live
issues of actual Importance that have
sprung up since the Crittenden COM
promise engaged public attention we
wonder that our Washington friends
haven't heard of them. They ought to
read the newspapers, if for no other
purpose than to keep the political par
ties of the Pacific coast out of the grave
Yards
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
DIVORCE LAWS.

tits conceded generally that there is
urgent need of uniformity in the laws
about marriage and divorce, but there
is much difference of opinion as to
whether this should be effected by con-
gress or the state legislatures. There
are serious, but it is thought not in
superable difficulties, in securing con-
cert of action in the separate states; but
for the national body to assume to regu-
late the matter is a new step in CEN
tralization. 1t is believed that there is
too much tendency in that direction of
late. Still it may be the only practical
BILE mode of relief from the great evil.
1t was at one time suggested in a
Methodist conference that each state be
invited to send commissioners to an in
terstate convention to draft uniform
law. 1t could best originate with some
legislature. Agitation and discussion
will go on until there is some remedy
devised and action secured.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
A JOURNALISTIC GHoUL.

The animal kingdom would not be
complete without the hyena. and so it is
we account for the occasional existence
of ghouliSh instincts among the news
papers. An instance no less notable
than it is lamentable of this disposition
to beSmirch the memory of the hOnOred
dead is furnished by the Portland Ore
gOnian, whose editor seems to have held
a grudge against SUNSET Cox which
he was afraid to ventilate until the
keen-wItted statesman had been laid in
his grave. The Oregonian enjoys the
singular distinction of being the only
newspaper in the world that had an I'M
kind word to say of Mr.. Cox after he
was dead, or to cast an unjust reflection
upon his memory. tits not an enviable
sort of nOtoriety for newspaper to en-
joy, especially as MI. Cox knew and
was known of more people than any
public man of the age, and none knew
him but to love him. The Oregonlan
can rest assured that it will have no
imitators, not even among the most Bit
terly partisan, for its exceptional viru-
lency only serves to demonstrate the
eleanness of American journalism.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
MARINE MATTERS.

W1NoNA-Boats up: Lafayette Lamb. R.
Harris. Dan Hine, Natrona. Lily Turner.
Juniata, Scotia, Sea Wing, Douglass Board
man, c. j. Caffrey, United States Alert, Lee
claire Belle Robert Harris Down: Pitts
burgh, United States Alert, Douglass Board
man, Bella Mac, W. j. Young Jr., Sea Wing,
Lily Turner, r. Harris Gardie Eastman C. j.
Caffrey, Dan Hine, Natrona. Lafayette Lamb,
Musser, Lady Grace. Water two feet, six
inches.
SAULT STE. MARIE-Down-p. m.: Raleigh,
Adams, 1920; Rannie, Negaunee, Cheney.
Ames, II 40; a. M: North Star, $40; John
Mitchell. H. j. johnson, 800; Ohio, Lock
wood, $50; Roanoke. IL: p. M: r. R.
Rhodes, $40. Arrived-Down, Andrew
Johnson Up-a. m: Fayerte, Brown, $50;
Iron Chief, Iron State. 1910; Ketcham,
1l:oO; D. m.: Missou,a, 1910; Japan,
1910; Wilhelm. Atwater. Mears William
Cristhwaite, Midnight 2:l5: Neosho, 2:4O;
Ramona. NJ. B. Grover, Thomas Quayie,
4:1O.
WAsHBURN-Arrived: City OF Fremont
and Winslow, Duluth: India, Buffalo.
Cleared: City of Fremont, Portage; India,
Duluth; Winslow, Buffalo, -four.
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
New YoRK-Arrived: Devonia, from Glas-
cow.
GLAsGow-Arrived: State of Pennsylvania,
from New York.
Observation-Disclosures Elbe, from New
York, for Bremen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
TANNERS USES.

That NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and cOnsid-
erably abused man Corporal TANNER
has not lived altogether in vain, al
though his principal use is somewhat
similar to what the temperance lect-
nrer makes of the soto be held up as
a horrible example. The ex-pension
commissioners fate is a terrible warn
ing to all who attempt to be honest in
politics. TANNERS personal integrity
has never been questioned. He handled
large sums of money while tax collector
of the city of Brooklyn, and accounted
for every dollar that passed through
his hands. During his brief career in
the pension office more than S40.0OO,OOO
was paid out Oh warrants drawn by
TANNER, yet no one accuses him of
disappointing dollar. His otfense
was simply and solely in attempting to
carry out the ante-electiOn promises of
his party That his policy was ruinOus
to the country, and in less than year
would have bankrupted the treasury, is
not denied But that was not TAN
NER's fault. His policy was outlined
for him by the party whose representa-
tive he was, and the only trouble with
him was that he was too honest for the
politicians who sought to control him
and who now want to make a seapegoat
of him that their sins have been found
out.
The leaders of the Republican patty
treat the Grand Army Organizati ton
pretty much as they treat the colored
people in the South. For the purpose
of securing votes they make many PROM
ises without any intention of fulfill
ing them. Notwithstanding that under
the CLEVELAND administration more
money was paid out in pensions to the
old soldiers than the Russian govern
ment expends on its standing army. the
Republican leaders claimed that the
Democrats were pursuing a niggardly
course toward the veterans, and that if
! the old soldiers would turn in and help
to elect HARRISON the treasury vaults
would be opened and the surplus
! poured out in stream for the benefit of
the veterans. Corporal TANNER was
| one of the old soldiers who believed
| that his party was sincere in this pro-
| fession, and when he was placed at the
| head of the pension department deemed
! it to be a sacred duty to fulfill the
pledges made by his party. There is
| where he missed it. He has been
Inundated in the eyes of the nation
| simply because he was too honest to
comprehend the insincerity of modern
| politics. Those in authority deemed it
wise to make horrible example of
him in order that there might be no
more public exhibitions of Republican
insincerity. Still, his sacrifice has
served good purpose in opening the
eyes of the country, and of the old sol
diers particularly, to the election tricks
| that are constantly being played.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
THE WILD, wOoLLY WEST.
1t Has Strong Desire to Capture
the Worlds Fair.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. Sept. 16.-A mass
meeting composed of board of trade
men and citizens was held at the
Pacific house tonight to take action for
the purpose of calling convention of
representatives at st. Joseph to give
public expression to the demand of the
West to secure the worlds fair for
one of the Western trade centerS
as against the East. A lengthy resolu-
ton was adopted, aud arrangements
made TO have them printed and diStrib-
uted. The call for the convention pre-
sents arguments in favor of holding
the worlds fair at some one of the
gheny mountains. 1t calls attention to
area that would b9 traversed by the
visitors. who If the fair is held in the
East, would barely penetrate the
outer edge of the republic, and would
gain little knowledge of the country and
its vast resources. The resolution
presents in glowing language
the advantages to both the visitors
and country that would inevitably follow
from its location at an interior point.
The strongest argument made is that
the mileage of all the railroads of the
East and South in 1888 was less
than 1900 miles, while in the
West there was nearly 10000 miles
of road completed and in operation.
This affords ample accommodation to
the travellers. The Western roads need
the great benefits which would be con-
ferred upon them, says the resolu-
tons, by having the exposition at some
point easy of access to the millions who
patronize them, and also the people of
the seaboard states. The West
should not always be compelled to
journey to the East. says the resolu-
tions. Let the East come to the
West but once and take look at the
great empire living on this side of the
Alleghenies The date OF the convention
was set for Oct. 2. Chicago has already
sigDitied its intention of sending
a strong delegation, and it is expected
that st. Louis and other Western can
didates for the exposition will be heard
from as soon as the working committees
there can be communicated with.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
Fpightful Wreck on the Read
ing Railroad at Tioga
Junction.
A Passenger Train Of Seven
Coaches Collides With q
Switch Engine.
Two Persons Killed Outright
and Others Seriously
Injured.
Federal Judges Uphold the
Murder of Judge Terry
by Nagle.

TIoGA JUNCTION, Pa, Sept. 49,
About 7:05 p. m. the train from Elmira
south, carrying seven coaches, ran into
Fall Brook engine at this station,
causing fearful wreck, killing and in
juring in all about twenty-five persons.
The train was coming down heavy
grade, and owing to a slippery track
and the refusal of the air brakes to
work, the engineer was unable to stop
the train at the station, and it
rushed by, crashing into one of
the Fall Brook heavy Jumbo engines,
completely demolishing both. The en-
gineer and fireman jumped for their
lives and escaped with slight injuries.
The smoker and three passenger cars
were smashed into kindling wood. The
wreck caught fire, and it was with diff
Guilty that some of the passengers we're
rescued from the burning wreck. The
flames lit up the heavens for miles
araund, and people rushed to the
scene from all parts to render what
aid they could to the injured. A
message was sent to Elmira asking for
medical aid and train in very short
time. In the meantime doctors from
and given all possible assistance
Stretchers were quickly provided and
the wounded were carried to neighbOr-
ing houses. The names of the dead are
Eugene Daighue. newsboy; Harry Oil
yer, of Union, n. Y. The wounded are
Ed Bostwick, Lawrenceville, ankle
Sprained, hands scaided; William
Walker, Leon, Bradford county. Pa,
badly scalded and scalp wounds; Will
lam AspercOStly, Scranton. Pa, travel
ing for f. Fritz, scalded; John Same
pool. Lambs Creek, nose broken, in
jured on head George Mechanic. Tioga,
Pa, nose broken, back injured; Mrs. e.
n. Wright, Spokane Falls, W. T., left
leg broken; J. B. Judd. Blossburg, con-
ductor, wounds on head, left shoulder
broken; Charles Pierce. Pine City. n.
Y, left leg broken; Mrs. Wallace
Pryor, Lawrenceville, slight confusion;
Miss Estella Ryan. head slightly in
jured; Emeline Darling. Lawreneeville,
slightly injured; Alfred Seeley, Trow-
bridge, Commissions; Herbert Campbell,
Mansfield, Pa, scalded. Supt. knibloe
and other Erie officials are here. Men
are at work clearing I'D the wreck
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
PATS WISDOM.

Tim Doolan and his wife wan night,
Were drinkin' av the crayture,
Whin something started up fight
And they wint at it right an tight,
According to their nature.
O'Grady and mesilf stood near,
Expecting bloody murther.
Says he to me: Let's interfere"
But /, pretending not TO hear,
Moved off little further.
Lave off. We prute.' says he to Tim;
No man would sthrike lady"
But bolh the Doolans turned on him,
And in whist the two av thin
Were wallopin' O'Grady.
That night whin was home, in bed,
Remembering this token,
i took the notion in my head
That the wisest word liver said
Was the one that wasn't spoken.
Washington Post.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
WOODRUFF TELLS HIS STORY.
III. S. Ives COnfide lie tial Secretary
SuueaIS on the stand

I'll. s. Ives COnfide ntial Secretary
Squeals on the stand.
New YORK, Sept. 16.-The trial of
Henry S. Ives was resumed this morn
ing. After brief examination of As
signee Cromwell, who was appointed
when the firm of ii. s. Ives & Co.
failed, on Aug. IL. 1887, the important
witness for the prosecution, E. Wilson
Woodruff, confidential secretary to Ives,
and later secretary of the c.. I'll, Il ID.
railroad, was called to the witness stand.
Ives face was a study when Woodruff
was called, His face flushed pereeptibly,
but he made no other sign. Woodruff
detailed his acquaintanceShip with Ives.
He testified that, at Ives request, he
made out blocks of stock to the c., III. 81
ID. road in the names of various parties;
that Stayner said they were too light;
that Ives signed them. He said that the
stock ledger was destroyed by Ives or
der, because if it fell into outside hands
the Overissue would be discovered. The
witness said that he kept record of the
fraudulent issues of stock in small
book, which he produced and read from
to the jury Woodruff testified that Ives
had told him that as the company itself
controlled majority of the stock the
officers of the company had everything
in their own hands, and that no trouble
could come to them through the over
issue of the stock. Subsequently Ives
had handed to witness $500 new
shares for the purpose of canceling old
stock; 1000 shares of this lot of new
stock were not recorded, because there
was not sufficient old stock for cancella-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
MAHoNE's DIsCOURAGEMENT

Although MALONE has been a con-
spieuous figure in national politics for
a good many years, this is really his
first appearance in running for Office.
Before he quit the Democratic party he
was several times an unsuccessful can
didate before the state conventions for
the gubernatorial nomination. After
he Joined the Republican party he
bought the legislature and elected him
self to the United States senate, but
this is his first trial trip as candidate
before the people. And he finds his
new experience as distasteful as it is
novel. 1t is so different from buying
legislatures or bOSSing the party ma
chine that he is already discouraged by
the perpleXitles that beSet his pathway
In the first place, he never realized what
a mean man he was until the pop
ulace sat in review on his record. He
has been a candidate less than a month,
and yet in that time it has been demon
strated to him that he has been the
inventor of the tissue ballet, that he
was the originator of the Kuklux Khan.
that he lighted the fuse to the first gun
that was fired in the late war. that he
was an intimate friend of JOHN WILKES
BOOTH, and is supposed to have been
privy to the assassination plot; that ne
suggested to the Confederate govern
ment the plan for disseminating small
pOx among the Union soldiers. that he
was the arch-fend who contrived the
fortunes of Andersonville, that he was a
silent partner with Ben BUTLER in the
spoon business, that he has been cheek
by jowl with NAPOLEON IVES in wreck
ing railroads, that he played the read
juster racket on the Virginians for the
purpose of defrauding the bondholders,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
TWIN STATE TALK.

Hon. w. n. Roach, the first governor
of North Dakota. believes in looking
after bis farm interests himself, and can
be seen most of the time in working
''togs' working the brown into his
hands. Mr.. Roach has filed and now
fills important and trying offices in this
county, but when public duty is DER he
loves to HE himself to the shade of his
own grove or to his own fertile fields.
When now he is called to lead the new
state of North Dakota into its first evo-
luton his hand is ION the plow," SO to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
HACKED TO PIECES.
A Buckeye Farmer Murdered by
His Niece.

EVANSVILLE, o., Sept. 16.-Frank
Amos. one of the most prominent citi-
zens of Morgan county, was murdered
at his home in the western part of this
county by Mrs. Hampton. his niece,
who literally hacked his face and head
to pieces with a butcher knife, which
she had carried for weeks avowedly for
that purpose. Amos was picking ber-
ries in field with his wife when the
attack was made. She and man who
was passing on the road were attracted
by his cry of murder, and reached him
only in time to see him breathe his last.
and to see Mrs. Hampton and her
daughter run away. The murder grew
out of a lawsuit, in which the testimony
of Amos threw the costs on Hampton.