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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
THE COUPLING PIN MUST GO.

Railroad Commissioner COFFIN. OF
Iowa, not only struck the nail on the
head, but drove it home, in his
speech to the brakemen in Armoly
hall Monday evening. when he said
the need for improvement in the
method of coupling ears is such an abso-
lule necessity that public sentiment IS
outraged by the refusal of the railroad
companies TO adopt the automatic brake.
The figures presented by Mr.. COFFIN
showing the frightful mortality among
brakemen was a horrible revelation TO
those who had not previously given the
matter any attention. In the state of
Iowa, with its less than 5000 miles Of
railroad, within the last ten years 2,224
brakemen have been killed. These are
the official figures. furnished by 4 MEM
Der of the Iowa state railroad commits
sion, and they read more like the details
of some horrible massacre in a land Of
barbarism than statistical information
furnished by an official of an American
state. which boasts of its advanced civ
iliZatiOn. If there is a more horrible
story IN the annals Of the Sioux masSa
cres, or the cruelties practiced in the
land of the lIOttentOtS, we have failed
to hear of it, And what has occurred
in the Iowa railroad business has been
duplicated in almost every other state.
The figures are not at hand, but if they
We're complied, we have no doubt
that they would show a slaugh-
ter OF not less than $4,000 brake
men in the United States within the last
ten years, or more than have Deen killed
in all the wars of the earth during the
same period; and all because of that
mean, parsimonious policy of the rail-
road corporations of the country, which
induces them to prefer this useless sac
rifice of human life rather than incur
the small additional expense that would
be necessary TO supplant the old pin
coupler With the improved automatic
brake. Mr.. COFFIN is right when he
says that the great, powerful public
will demand this much Of the corpora
lions. 1t is possible that the railroad
managers have not themselves realized
the enOrmity of their parsimOny in this
particular. The average railroad man.
ager is so accustomed to hearing the
news of a brakeman being killed some
where out on his line that he has grown
Indifferent to it, because of the fire.
Quency of the occurrence; Just as the
general of an army IS not impressed
with the death of common soldier who
has been killed on the picket line. at
does not swell the news of the battle ;
not an officer lost, only one of the men
moaning out alone the death rattle .
But the great body OF the people have
Sympathies, and are touched with a
humanity that has not been blunted /;
and as they read these appalling figures,
relating to the horrible casualties pro-
duced by the use of the oid-fashioned
coupling pin, storm OF popular indig-
nation will be excited which the rail
road managers cannot stand before
They will be forced TO yield to the de-
mand for the automatic brake. How
much more graceful it would be for
them to adopt it before the storm comes.
a word to the wise is sufficient.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
MARINE MATTERS.

DULUTH-Arriyed: Winslow, Rhodes, Graf
wick. Fryer, North Star, Northern King. Buff
falo Florida, e. j. Johnson. Cleveland, Peer
less. Chicago, Myles, st. Francis, Kingston.
Cleared Empire State. Northern Light,
Buffalo; Peerless, Chicago, Cheney, Negau-
nee; Yakima. Two Harbors.
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
New York Arrived: Steamship Ems,
from Bremen; Furnessia, from Glasgow.
PHrLADELr Lord Glide, from
Liverpool.
London.
Observation-Disclosures Ellec, from New
York.
LoNpos-passsd: The Lizard Bohemia,
from New ork, for Haunt burg.
BALTIMORE = Arrived: America, from
Bremen.
York, for Glasgow.
SASTos-Saiied: Ashbrooke, for Calves
AUCKLAND Arrived -zealandia, from San
Francisco.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
HANNAHIs COMPETENT.
A Widow Wants Her Daughter to
Lick Stamps.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 15.-Asa
Kidder. postmaster at Farm Hill, Mimi,
was killed Sept. 26, and his widow Han
nah, acting postmaster, recommends
their daughter Amanda for the post
mastership, and ClarksOn has written
Congressman Dunnell for his opinion.
Three postoffices which became presi-
Dental in Montana in July are still
hanging fire. jeremiah Hannsey holds
the fort at Sulphur Springs. Mont, and
Delegate Carter has asked for delay
in the case. Thomas Baker, at
Granite. and Ed McSorly. at
Boulder Valley, are still holding
over, and Delegate Carter has made no
Recommendation for appointment of
successors, although several patriots in
each place are clamOring for appoint
ment. Commissions were issued to-day
to the following postmasters: Francis
Lang, E!yslan, and Sivert HarSted, Ber-
gen, Mimi: William II. Lyon, Ch0teau,
Mont, and William Russell, Ely, Oak.
Also the following presidential COM
missions: Henry F. Dinsmore. Hudson;
Simon Lord, Edgerton, Wis; Wheaton
Fuller, Little Falls; Lyman TOndrO,
Rochester. Mimi; Luther Boice, Lewis
ton, Idaho.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
SOCIALISTS IN SEES sION.
They Say Things Are Coming
Their Way

cCHICAGo, Oct 15.-The morning ses-
sion of the Socialist convention was de-
voted to the reception and discussion OF
committee reports. Among the resolu-
lions adopted was the following:
1.-THE convention is of the opinion that the
conduct of deposed members of the eX-
ecutive board, as well as the management OF
the party organs, and their unfriendly attl-
tude toward trades unions and the slurs cast
upon all who did not follow them were IN
furious to the interests or the party; and,
whatever technical mistakes may have been
committed by the New York section, the
convention only regrets that the board OF SUI
pervision has not sooner interfered: and
the conyention-iS of the opinion that those
members of the executive as we'll as the chi
cago section have placed themselves outside
of the party.
A resolution was also brought i'll and
adopted indOrSing the resolutions OF the
Paris International Congress of Work
ingmen, which met in July. The new
executive committee was instructed to
open negotiations with the other social
iStic parties and organizations of the
world, looking TO the formation of an
international organization. The con-
vention will finish its la0OrS and adj
jOurn sometime tomorrow. The dele
gates expressed very general satlsfac-
ton over the results of the convention
thus far attained. They seem to feel
that things were looming their way"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16

taking them at their face value and for
the sake of argument admitting their
correctness, they only show that the
total saving to the state in the matter OF
criminal expenses for period of five
Years is not equal in amount to the loss
of business suffered III year by sim
gle one of a score or more of Iowa
towns that could be mentioned, on &C
count of the enforcement of the prohi-
bitory law. If the advocates of prOhi-
bition would confne their arguments to
the moral side of the question, they
would get along better. No one at
tempts to deny that is the
source of much misery, nor that drunk
enness is the prolific cause of crime
and poverty. Still. it is not the use.but
the abuse of alcohol, that is responsible
for these miSeries, and when legislation
ceases its vain epdeavOrs to restrict the
use of it and directs its power to cor
Tecting the abuses. the liquor problem
will find a satisfactory solution. But
as long as the prohibition advocates id
sist upon manufacturing figures and
statistics to prove that the liquor traffic
is hurtful to the prosperity of COM
munity, they simply place themselves
before the public in the position of a set
of cranks. who have more zeal than in
telligence, and more Digotry than judg-
mPnt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
BOEiNG'S ROPE
Stretched Across the Duluth Gov.
eminent Entry.

Special to the Glove.
DULUTH, Mimi, Oct. 15.-ShOrtly
after | O'Clock this morning Ferryman
Charles Winters and two assistants,
acting under orders of William BOeing,
eluded the vigilance of the police and
succeeded in stringing a rope across the
government entry. 1t was discovered
shortly afterwards and Immediately cut
by policeman. AT about Z o'clock the
line was again stretched. Thirty min
utes later the propeller Winslow
steamed into the canal and her captain
was warned not to break the rope, but
he paid no attention to it and the big
boat passed the obstruction easily. The
rope was again stretched and an hour
later the tug Spirit, with two scowS,
attempted to go out into the lake, but
was brought to StandStill by the rope.
Some unknown person on the tug cut
the line and the tow proceeded. Shortly
afterward the cOnspirators succeeded in
Spiklng long piece of chain to the side
of the canal timberS, and announced
their determination of attaching the
rope to the end of the chain in such
manner as to prevent its being cut from
the side of the canal. A special detail
of police is Oh the watch, and will arrest
any one attempting to place further OBJ
structiOnS in the canal. The general
belief is that Mr.. Boeing has valid title
to the lots, and that he will force the
city of Duluth to pay his full claim foI
the valuable property taken without
his consent and used for long term of
years. That Don M. Dickinson is Mr..
Boeing'S attorney carries good deal OF
weight. A large number of transfers
to Mr.. BOeing of valuable lots adjoining
the ones in dispute were recorded yes,
terday.
TOLD IN BRIEF.
At 9 O'Clock this morning Officer Sam
Thompson arrested j. j. Elliott, the
contractor. and ten of his teamSterS ana
a timekeeper for taking gravel from the
leave or license. 1t seems that Mr..
Rogers has been very much annoyed by
parties helping themselves to his prop
erty. and determined to put stop to 1t.
Mr.. Elliott says it was ''mistake," and
the matter will probably end with ces-
sati OH of the trespass.
The auction sale of seats for the OPEN
ing of Temple Opera, on the Dist, took
place at the Spaulding this evening.
Bidding was quite active, and Manager
Haycock will reap substantial benefit
as the result of Duluth's appreciation.
Eastern parties who have in view the
purchase of the Duluth street railway
service are again in the city.
George Thomson and Miss Maitee
Cole, of ST. Louis, were married last
evening at the residence of Col. }. B.
Gezzie, Rev. G. S. IL. Dunn officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomson will make their
home in New Orleans
Rev. Thomas Billing and family
passed through Duluth to-day Ell, route
to Tower.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
CONTRACTORS FAVORED.
Builders of the Baltimore May
Test the Vessel Again.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. - Secretary
Tracy has notified Messrs. Cramp, con-
tractors for building the Baltimore,
that the vessel may have an
other trial. The conditions have not
been made public, but it is
said they do not wholly agree
with those proposed by William CraTp,
in his conferences with the secretary.
An order has been sent to San Francisco
from the navy department, reconvening
the board which superintendent to recent
official trial of the Charleston built by
the Union Iron Works company of that
city. In its report upon the
trial, the board. after stat
ing that the vessel had been
constructed in accordance with the con-
tract, said that certain changes and i'm
proqements ought to be made. This
ambiguity Secretary Tracy wants the
board to explain. and has asked Com
modore Benham to call the board to-
gether for that purpose. The order re-
converting the board does not cOntem-
plate another trial of the Charleston.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
SHEVITCH APOLOGIES.
The Socialists Did Not Mean to
Hiss the American Flag.

CHICAGO. Oct. 15.-Sergius E. Shev-
itch, the leading spirit of the socialist
national convention nowin session here,
said to-day in reference to the flag cpl
sode Sunday afternoon:
81 do not think Our people meant to hiss
the American flag at Sundays meeting.
know there was some kissing when the flag
was raised, but think it was done because
they wanted the speeches to begin and were
impatient at the delay
Very little was done during the day
by the convention. The quarrel be-
tween the factions in New York was
taken up and a resolution passed repri-
manding Rosenberg, Bushe and the
other deposed members of the executive
board. A resolution was also brought
in and adopted, indorsing the resolution
agreed upon by the Paris congress last
May. The committees on platform,
constitution and resolutions were at
work all day to-day and will report to-
morrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
PARTISAN CiVIn SERVICE.


The Independent, bipartisan senti-
ment Of the country, that really believes
in the need of business methods in the
public service. has a good deal OF con-
fidence in the gentlemenwho compose the
civil service commission. 1t IS believed
that they are quite as honest as men
who are such sturdy partiSans can well
be in endeaYOring to place the service
on solid and enduring ground and I'M
prove and extend it. They would en-
trench it so strongly with non-partlsan
walls that the clamor of the greedy and
mercenary would be unavailing. 1t is
intimated that The commission will ask
a larger appropriation of the coming
congress for the extension and greater
efficiency of its work. This will afford
a test of the sincerity of the Republi-
cans about the capitol and the
White house in their pledges of re-
form. 1t is gwen out that the pol
icy will be to staTve the commission.
The means to make It's work cOmprehpn-
sive and efficient will be denied. The
members of the commission are under
stood to claim that unless they are given
more means to work with, and are sup
ported by the administration, the law
had better be repealed. The machine
workers and party leaders generally
would be glad to see il wiped out. but
the party management would only dare
to do that when it has fallen into great
disrepute from inefficiency. There is a
large voting element in the party that
is in earnest in support of the reform.
One of the most prominent OF this class
in Massachusetts, AUGUSTUS Russ, an
original Republican and an old anti
slavery man. publishes letter to his
Republican friends reciting facts that
make up an Indictment of the admins
tratiOn Tor falsity to its professions and
violation of its pledges in favor of civil
service reform. He insists that the oc-
casiOn is one that demands the defeat
of the party in Massachusetts as re-
buke to the administration, especially in
view of the fact that in the late con-
vention a specific Endorsement was
given the president. Mr.. Russ wants
the Republicans beaten, but will not
vote for the Democratic candidates.
His partisanship influences him. and he
holds that the refusal of the Republi-
cans to vote at all will be an unmis-
taxable indication of their dissatisfac-
ton. Others will go further, and
emphasize that rebuke by voting the
Democratic ticket. But while the
president fails to satisfy the civil serv-
ice element, his faltering and slOwness
iu getting the hungry crowd in is max
ing the spOils wing rampant and almost
irrepresSible. A small man in large
place is apt to be joStled.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
Merely Matrimonial Mart.

Special TO the Gl0De,
HUDSON, Wis, Oct. 15.-The item in
last nights Dispatch to the effect that
the wife of prominent Hudson official
had eloped and was then in st. Paul,
Guiding the search of her husband, is
not true. the man being a transient
horse trainer, who has stopped in Hnd-
son not over three months. Not long
ago the Pioneer Press told how Mrs.
Cassaday had died in Hudson of malig-
nant diphtheria, when no such woman
lived here and there had not been sim
gle case of that disease. Certain st.
Paul papers are III the habit of making
Hudson a sort of Gehenna for the social
fifth which properly belongs to the great
cities of Minnesota. No such condition
exists, for Hudson has no relation to
these cities except that of a sweet haven
where people can come and marry with
out a license, an opportunity of which
they often avail themselves.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16

the time, demented when he demanded
that the contractor should water his
bills % per cent for his benefit. Being
sane, he is now allowed TO resign his
position on the administrative board.
No suspicion of his insanity was had
until the exigencies of the FORAKER
campaign made it desirable. If he was
insane, he should not now be made TO
suffer for it. But the theory is con-
venient one, and could be given wide
application. The gentlemen who have
retired to Canada with money not
earaed by the sweat of the brow were,
perhaps, temporarily insane, and those
who write unfortunate letters that are
not burned may be irresponsible from
this cause.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
MINNEAPOLIS.
AT THE COURT HOUSE.
Decisions Filed, Actions Begun
and appeals Taken Yesterday.

Decisions Filed, Actions Begun
and appeals Taken Yesterday.
Judge Hicks passed yesterday in lis
tening to the Haven-Van Valkenburg
case, which was up on Monday.
In the case Of Samuel Trebby VS.. the
Northern Pacific Elevator company,
Judge Lochren yesterday ordered a
verdict for the defendant.
Judge Rea devoted yesterday 10 an
endeavor to untangle the intracacies OF
the mechanics lien case of w. Il. Best
VS.. A. M. Sprague.
The case of Mr.. Shotwell was called
III the district court yesterday, but was
put over until Nov. Is.
Judge Won Schlegell yesterday de-
cided to reject the claim of John
SchWab, the municipal court officer. for
81 800 against the estate of Schwab's
uncle. The case will be appealed.
The followir 6 new actions were COM
menced in the district court yesterday
j. E. Mcdonald VS.. f. A. Magberry,
with the Bank of Minneapolis as gar
nishee.
Mr.. Mcdonald alleges that the de-
PENDANT falsely represented himself to
be physician and surgeon. and as such
performed medical services for George
E. Mcdonald, a minor son of the plain
tiff, for which the defendant charged
and received the sum of $50. The
plaintiff now seeks to recover the
amount. and has garnisheed the Bank
of Minneapolis.
David Bradley & Co. commenced a
suit against Henry Bergman on two
promiSsory notes amounting to S1,0l1.20.
George l.. Chase commenced suit
against D. B. Chase and others to secure
partition of interests Of the parties
named in lot 8, block As, town of Mime,
apolis.
Notices of appeal We're filed in the fol
lowing named cases: MOSler, Brown q
Co. VS.. W. H. Adamson; Francis Berg
strom VS.. w. A. Hatton; File Berg VS.. s.
p. Sabin; and in the matter of the pro-
batting of the will of ID. A. DOrman, in
which D. c. Merriman, executor, ap-
pealS from the order of the judge of the
probate court admitting the will to pro-
bate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
SOUTH DAKOTA COMMENT,
Must Be Good Indians.

Sioux Falls Press.
Judging from the widespread news
paper comment Bishop Hare must have
created q sensation at the meeting OF
the Protestant Episcopal convention in
New York last week by the statement
i'm his address that the Sioux Indians in
the new state Of South Dakota number
only 5000 TO 10000. while the white
population is 350.000. and yet there are
more Indian than white communicates.
While this is probably true, there is
nothing surprising about it, as especial
effort has been made with the guile
less reds, and they all are, to a greater
or less extent, governed by the action of
their chiefs in this as well as other mat
TORS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16

Mitchell. after stating that man may
abandon his application for two years
without abandoning his invention. anu
that until the invention has been two
years in use or sale the inventor has
lost no part of his inchoate property,
says: sit follows that to grant the pres
ent application would be to uncover to
the scrutiny of the public many inven-
tions which are still the property of the
applicants, and which will ultimately
mature into patents protecting such
nrnInrt1. y
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
The British Minister Is Pre-
pared to Do Business
With Blaine.
He Will Endeavor to Settle
the Fisheries and Beh-
ring Sea Troubles.
Millions Asked by the Chief
Of Engineers to Improve
Western Waterways.
Noble Squelches Minnesota's
Claim to Swamp Lands in
Duluth District.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-Sir Julian
Pauncefote. the British minister who
arrived here to-day, said this evening
that he expected within two or three
weeks to call upon Secretary Blaine,
when he would breach the Canadian
fisheries and the Behring's sea seal
questions, which were in dispute
between the two countries. His pre-
vious visit, he said, had been such
trying one that he had not communi-
Gated with the American state depart
ment with regard to the diplomatic diff
ferences between the two countries, but
he was prepared to do so now. He
would not, of course. give any indication
of the desires of his government in these
two matters
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
For Free Whisky.
Grand Forks News.

Grand FOLKS News.
The apparent maj for free whisky
in the state is claimed to be from 500 to
1,5OO. This result Is due to the fact that
the high license people were all too
busy getting on the hypocrite's band
wagon to look after the material
question. The News urged the i'm
portance of work three months ago. 1t
is TOO late now. The only thing to do is
to let it come. The fellows that will
walk out of the country first will be
the snivelcratS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
UNDER THE DRAG.
One of the Biggest Firms in Texas
Fails for a Million.

WACO, Tex, Oct. 15.-The firm Of
Leasing, Solomon 81 Rosenthal, whole
sale dry goods and cotton factors, state
that they are temporarily embarrassed,
and to-day made sale of their stock of
goods and store to II. B. Claflin q Co.,
of New York, their principal creditors.
Their other assets have been placed in
the hands of trustee, who is empOw
cred to collect and pay other creditors
of the firm. The liabilities are placed
at about $3.50, 1000, with assets estimated
at $1.2O0,00O. 1t is believed in business
circles here that the firm can pay all
their liabilities in full if given time to
realize on their assets. None of the
banks or other business firms in this
city are affected by the failure, if such
1t may be called. The firm had been In
business here over fifteen years, and
had an interest in several other bust
ness enterprises in this city and state.
All of these are protected and will go
ahead as usual.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16

derstand her system of doing business
pretty well. The Judgment of a keen
old Indian on weather prospects is more
trustworthy that the aggregated fore
casts of all the professional weather
prophets in Christendom. The weather
prophets say an open winter. The In
dians say rouSer. The Argus-Leader
goes with the noble red man, and will
buy its coal in quantity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
SHERMAN AND HIS TOOL.
Buffalo Grain Thieves Pleaded
Not Guilty.

BUFFALO. n. Y, 15.-Stephen F..
Sherman and E. c. Loveridge were ar
raigned in the court of Oyer an d Ter
miner this morning on indictments
found against them by the grand
jury. Sherman is charged with stealing
$4,000 bushels of grain, with issuing
fictitious warehouse receipts, with issu-
ing duplicate warehouse receipts and
with not canceling warehouse receipts
when the goods were ordered out of
the warehouse. Loyeridge is charged
in two counts of grand larceny in help
ing to steal the $4,000 bushels of grain.
The accused pleaded not guilty and
were admitted to bail in the sum of
sl2,5OO each. They will be tried during
the present term of court.