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master general. In the case of Deane,
Mr.. Ankeny states that he, too, was ex-
pmOt
TRACY IN A QUANDARY.
He Is Looking for a Place to
Build War Ships.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Secretary
Tracy is giving careful consideration to
the question as to what shall be done in
respect to the two 3.000-ton cruisers au-
thorized to be built by act of congress.
The department failed to secure bid
for constructing them within the limit
of cost imposed by congress. 1t was not
possible to reduce the requirements to
speed and increase the premiums, as
had been done in the case of the 1000
ton vessels, for the law had fixed these
specifically. There was little hope of
securing lower bids upon readvertise-
ment, so that aside from awaiting the
tardy action of congress the alter
native seemed to be to build
the vessels in navy yards. 1t is this
phase of the case that Secretary Tracy
is considering, and should he be able to
satisfy himself that the work can be
done in reasonable time and at mod
crate cost, it is highly probable that he
will decide to have il done at the navy
yards. Upon this first point it may be
stated that while the Eastern ship
building navy yards are now crowded
with work, Naval Constructor Hych-
born is prepared to recommend that the
Mare Island yard be given an Opportu-
nifty to show what it can do in the way
of building a modern man-of-war. Act
ing under the authority conferred by
congress, the construction bureau has
been actively increasing the plant at
that yard. Machine tools of the latest
type are being delivered rapidly. and
the acting chief constructor believes
that within two months the yard will be
able to undertake successfully the con-
structlon of at least one of the nineteen
knot cruisers,
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sELOVER TRIUMPHS.
The Charges Against Postmaster
Ankeny Are Sustained.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-The civil
service commission has rendered the fol-
lowing opinion in the case of the post
master at Minneapolis:
Tinted States Civil Service Commission,
Washington, Sept IA, l9S9.-John j. Ank-
eny, Esq, Postmaster, Minneapolis, Mimi.
Sir: This commission has received your com
municatiOn of Aug. q, replying to the com
missions letter to you inclOsing extract from
an affidavit charging Irregularities in APP
pointments at your Office in which you ex.
plain in detail the circumstances connected
with each of said appointments, so charged
10 be irregular. In reply, you are informed
that upon an examination OF your explana-
ton il is found that one o. A. Hazen:
who was employed in the mailing division
in September 1883, and who still continues
in the service, was Improperly employed
without authority under the law. or rules,
and that his services should be at once dis
continued; that as to the other cases, except
those of Schell, KTanZ and Deane, 1t is suf-
ficient to say that their employment for the
time they were IN the service prior 10 eX-
animation and certifcation YVES wholly I'M
authorized and improper. The employment
of Schell as substitute for clerk occupying
an excepted place was proper. In the case
of KranZ, who is employed in the registry
division, under the supposition that the
place occupied by him is an executed place,
it may be stated that the only excepted place
in the registry division is that of chief
Superintendent of the division. Kranz
IS therefore improperly employed. and
his services should be discontinued.
In the case of Deane, employed in the money
order division, the same may be said as in the
case of Kranz, unless Deane is employed as
money order teller, or in the actual handling
of money. In that case he would occupy an
excepted place. and his appointment be reg
ular; otherwise he has been improperly'a
pointed and his services should be discon-
tinued. The employment of any person in Il
place subject to examination, temporarily o.
otherwise, without regular examination, and
certification by the board of examiners. in
accordance with the requirements of the
rule is wholly unauthorized, and such prac-
tice, which appears from you statement to
have existed at your Office, must be diScon-
tinued As to the measure of blame that
should properly attach to you for these ir-
regularities. the commission will further con-
slider and report. HUGH S. THOMPSON.
Acting President.
WHAT ANKENY SAYS.
In answer to this Mr.. Ankeny says
HaZen had been in the pOstoffice service
for two years, and could be put in the
mailing division without an examin-
alton. In the cases of both Buckley and
KranZe the postmaster acted upon
letter received by him from Postmaster
General Don NJ. Dickinson, under date
of June %, 1888, giving the list of those
who were exempted from examinations
two clerks in the registry division be-
ing particularly specified by the post
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tiSmal name-nOt Robert. His father
and mother each came from honOred
anceStra. His father was a native Vir-
ginian, and his mother a Miss Fristoe,
of Tennessee. One of his direct am
ceStOrS on his fathers side was Lee, who
signed the celebration of Independence.
Capt. Pete You niger. his fathers uncle,
and Judge Richard FriStoe, his mater
nal grandfather, were both conspicuous
at the battle of New Orleans, the latter
afterwards naming Jackson county,
Mo-. in honor of Old Hickory, and also
serving as the first judge and legisla-
tive member of his county. Bob was
student and at twenty years of age was
better verSed in history thanis the aver
age man at thrice that age. During
seven years of his Imprisonment he
read Systematically and by course the
approved medical text books, thoroughly
mastering the theory of medicine and
keeping along with current medical
thought by subscribing to various peri
Odlcals. Bob's demeanor, after being
hopelessly ill and after the governor
killed all hope of his release, never
changed. except that he assumed an I'M
natural cheerfulnesS in the presence of
his sister and brothers. He never even
made comment on the governors
action, and died as he had lived for
thirteen yearS-without complaint
and with not a harsh criticism of the
motives of any human being.
GENERAL SALTWATER NEWS.
The board of prison managers in spe.
clal session yesterday spent a good part
of the time ''filibustering." as one Of
the managers put it. The proposition
made previously by the Thresher COM
pany for the employment of part of the
convict labor was at length rejected,
and the board entered upon the fOrmu-
latiOn of a counter proposition for the
company's consideration. The man
ayers will meet again to-day when the
terms of the latter proposition will be
fully decided upon and submitted.
Manager Fogle, of the Thresher COM
pany, and d. M. Sabin were present
during part of the session.
The man, Martin Devlin who. in
being gently elected from saloon
Monday night. fell on the pavement and
hurt his head, Is not suffering from a
seriously fractured skull as at first sup
posed.
The funeral of W. S. Conrad, held
yesterday afternoon from the family
residence, was very largely attended.
Rev. A. D. Stone, of Ascension church,
conducted brief services, after which
the interment took place at Fairview
cemetery.
The funeral of Henry A. Jackman
will be held at 2o'clock to-day from the
family residence in Saltwater town.
The county commissioners yesterday
chose Michael Moffatt chairman, and
in the afternoon drove to the poor farm
with Poor Commissioner L. G. Clark.
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BETTER THAN BLUECOATs.
First Fruits of an Organization
of Vigilantes in Missouri.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE recent
murder of John Placht, the Fern Ridge
farmer, on the Olive street road, caused
the truck farmers and others who have
to travel the suburban roads to and
from the city to take steps for
their own protection. They resolved to
act on the idea of ''eVery man his own
policeman" and accordingly there was
organization of vigilance committees for
the purpose of making defensive war
against the robbers and footpadS that
infeSt the highways. Since the kill
ing of Placht few men have
Yentured to travel any one of the
suburban roads without being armed
The first fruits of this order of things
were gathered to-day. Oscar Lime was
on his way home from st. Louis about
4 o'clock this afternoon when a des-
perate young negro named Martin
Griffin met him and in true highway
man style demanded his money.
He showed bold front and
the negro fed. Mr.. Lime then spread
the news of the attempt to rob him, and
soon a posse was arranged and in pur-
suit OF the negro. They followed him
from the Olive street road to the Clay
ton road. near the farm of Levi Defoe.
where they overlook and called upon
him to surrender, which he refused to
do. The pursuerS emptied double bar
relied shotgun into him. filling his face,
head and shoulders with shot. They
then wanted to hang him to one of Mr..
Defoe's trees. but upon Mr.. DefOe
strongly Directing and advising them
to uphold the law, they promised to
take the darby to doctor. Careful
inquiry fails, however, to locate him,
and the probabilities are that his body
is now swinging from some tree. Great
excitement prevails in the entire neigh
hOrhOOd
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WORSE THAN DEATH.
A New Orleans Girl, the Vic
tim of a Demonical
Negro,
Half CraZed by Imprisonment
and Subsection to Con-
slant Outrage.
Every Man His Own Police
man" Works Well in st.
Louis.
A Mother and Her Four Chill
dpen Cremated in
Coal Oil.

New ORLEANS, Sept. H. Louise
Shoemaker, a pretty blonde girl of
fifteen, disappeared from her parents
residence over year ago, and no trace
of her could be found until to-day, when
Sergeant Kenny, hearing that white
girl was kept prisoner in the rear of a
barber shop on Felicite street, kept by
Gus Reed, negro, went to the place
and broke open the door, which was
locked. AS he entered the room he saw
the frail form of Miss Shoemaker,
naked, except for a tattered undergar-
ment. Her face was pale as death and
her eyes shone with insane fear as she
rushed toward the sergeant, and cling
ing frantically to him, cried piteously:
Save me! Save mew Kenny with
difficulty persuaded her that she was
now in friendly hands, and the half
crazy girl finally became quiet. Assist
ance was summoned, clothing provided,
and the girl properly cared for. She
states that Reed had kept her locked up
for over a year, subjecting her
to constant outrage. Reed was soon
arrested and locked up. The girl is
much emaciated, and apparently half
starved
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BANK wRECKER FAULKNER.
His Trial Will Begin at Buffalo
To-Day.

BUFFALO, n. Y, Sept. 17.-The trial
of Gen. Lester B. Faulkner, of Dams
vile, charged with wrecking the First
National bank of that village in 1887,
was to have been begun before Judge
Cox in the United States district court
which convened here to-day, but was
postponed by the absence of important
witnesses until tomorrow. The case Will
probably be conducted by Mr.. Stanch-
field, of Elmira. The Hon. George
RaineS, of Rochester. will probably act
as counsel, and make the summing up
speech. Assisting them as local counsel
will be the Hon. William f. Sheehan
and District Attorney Quinby. 1t is
worthy of note that Charles j. Bissel, OF
Dansville, who during the early
troubles of Gen. Faulkner acted as his
personal lawyer, has deserted the cause,
declining to be further connected with
the case. The forces of the prosecution
will consist of United States District
Attorney Alexander; Mr.. Lockwood,
who tried the case for the government
in Rochester, w. B. Hoyt and S. Nj.
Welch Jr., assistant United States dis
trict attorneys under Mr.. Lockwood.
The exact charge against the prisoner
rs conspiracy and making false reports
to the comptroller of currency.
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DENVER TO ROCHESTER,.
A Woman Making a Long Trip on
Horseback.
Special to the Globe


WNoNA, Mimi, Sept. II. - A
small, black-eyed woman, about
thirty-fve years of age, giving the name
of Mrs. Mepsted, arrived in the town of
Warren on horseback on the evening of
the 18th inst. and stayed over night at
the home of Henry Wheeler. She was
up bright and early the next morning
and on her way to La Crosse, which she
expected to reach that day. She had
left Denver, Col. June %, on horseback,
and was on her way to Rochester, n.
Y, expecting to 90 as faT as Chi
cago with her horse, and the rest
of the way by rail. She made
the trip two years ago from Rochester
to Denver. having her horse shot dead
under her by deer hunter within
thirty miles of Denver. On the last
trip She used a saddle, but this year
she had a blanket on the horses back
instead. She carries a revolver and gun
with her and when she started had
large st. Bernard dog, but he went mad
and she was obliged to shoot him. She
had a quiet way about her which was
attractive and was as quick as fash in
her movements.
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GRUBB Is CHOSEN.
Jersey Republicans Nominate 8
Candidate for Governor.

TRENTON, N. j.. Sept. T.-Taylor's
opera house was thronged at noon to-day
with enthusiastic delegates to the Re-
publican state convention. On the
stage, under bower of flags and bunt-
ing, sat the prominent representatives
of New Jersey Republicans. The Re-
publican heroes who have passed away
were represented by portraits. Grant
looked out from one side of the stage,
Garfield from the other, while sus-
pended overhead was the portrait of
Lincoln. The delegates filed in shortly
after IL o'clock and, after the band had
rendered patriotic tune. Garrett A.
Hobart, chairman OF the last conven-
ton, raped for order. He made a few
remarks explaining the situation and
urging the delegates to work with
energy through the campaign. A tenn
pOrary organization was then effected,
as follows: Chairman, Jos. II. GaSkill,
of Burlington; secretaries, j. Herbert
Potts, of Hudson, Il. w. SanderSOn, of
Burlington, Richard B. Reading, of
HunterdOn. and Augustus S. Barber, of
Camden. Gen. Grub was chosen as
the nominee for governor on the second
ballot and the nomination was made
unanimous.
The platform was then adopted. 1t
indorses the national Republican plat
form and President HarrisOn's admins
tration; favOrs the Australian system of
voting ;.declares the present system of
taxation of corporate property and
franchises for state purposes the policy
of the party. and demands greater
economy in all departments of the state
government. The temperance plank
10 fn1IOUc.
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PENNSYLVANIA DELUGED.
ClOudbursts DO Great Damage in
the KEYSTONE State.

Del. Sept. IA cloud
burst in upper Newcastle county and
Chester county, Pa, last night. and
heavy rains this afternoon, have caused
great damage. Three bridges on the
Wilmington & Northern railroad, above
Coatesville, Pa, are all or nearly all de-
stroyed, and more are expected to fol-
low. No trains have been able to reach
Reading, Pa, from this city, and none
have arrived here. Several extensive
waShOutS have also been made, and
those localities will have to be trestled
before trains can be run. On the Ian
denburg branch of the B. & o. railroad,
near Brandywine Springs, a big wash
out made it necessary to transfer pas
sengers. The heavy rains will increase
the damage already done to crops in
this section. The Wilmington & North
elm Railroad company reports the storm
the most damaging that it has ever eX-
perienced. Men have been working all
day. and will continue all night in an
endeavor to get the road in order for
traffic Tomorrow.
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BETRAYED HIS TRUST.
EmbeZzlement Cuts Off Railway
Official from Promotion.

EAST SAGINAW, Mich. Sept. H.
Robert Laughlin, superintendent of the
East Saginaw, TuscOla & Huron rail-
way, rendered his resignation Saturday.
Informal talk as to his probable sue
cessor brought prominently forward the
name of Charles NJ. Rice, general freight
and passenger agent of the road, a
young man who has worked up from an
inferior position and in whom unlimited
confidence had been placed. Realizing
that the change contemplated would re-
suit in the selection of an auditor and
an expose of his books, Rice confessed
to defalcation of $4,000. Rice gives
no explanation of his conduct, only adj
hitting that he needed the money and
took it, expecting to return it in the
future.
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JUST LIKE JOHNSTOWN.
Another Dam Bursts in Penn
syIvania, Doing Great Damage.

WEST CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE
breast of the large dam belonging to the
Kennebec Ice company, of Wilmington.
Del, located at Hibernia, this county,
burst this marning, and a tremendous
amount of water rushed down the
Brandywine, overlooking the banks and
sweeping everything before it, The
large bridge which crossed the Brandy
wine just below the dam was swept
away. and several frame buildings were
carried down to Coatesville. Several
of the streets of Coatesville are four feet
under water. The people living along
the stream were warned by the sound
of the rushing waters and escaped to
the hills. So far as heard from no
lives have been lost. The flood has
made the creek road impossible. In
places the meadows are covered to the
depth of eight to ten feet. The break
was caused by last nights heavy rain.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-18
CHOSE THE SMOKE ROUTE.
Tired of Life, Woman SuffOcates
Herself in a Chimney.

New York, Sept. 1.-THE body of
Mrs. May Kenny, who has been missing
ten days, was found to-day in a Chin
ney of the house, No. 173 Cherry street,
where the woman boarded before her
disappearance. Her husband, a patrol
man, died recently, and Mrs. Kenny's
mind seemed affected by her grief.
She attempted to commit suicide
by jumping from a window, but was
prevented. She then disappeared, and
evidently descended into the chimney,
and allowed herself to be suffocated by
the smoke. The body was discovered by
chimney sweep, who had been sent for
because the occupants of the house com
planned that the draft of the chimney
was defective, and they could not make
their fires burn we'll. The clothing had
been burned up, and the body was
charred and decayed so that it weighed
only forty pounds, though Mrs. Kenny
had in life weighed about 125 pounds.
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NOBLE Is SEVERE.
He Refuses to Reverse a Decision
by His Predecessor.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-In the case
of Hessong VS.. Burgan, which origi-
mated in the Garden City (Kan.) land
office, the secretary of the interior has
denied the motion which was to review
a former adverse decision by the COM
missioner of the general land office.
The secretary holds that while the stat
ute fails to prescribe any definite pro-
cedure whereby the rights of conteSting
settlers upon the Usage Indian trust
and diminished reserve lands in Kan
sas shall be determined, yet upon both
principle and authority he has full
Jurisdiction TO determine that the prior
right shall be in one who duly complies
with the law and regulations thereun-
der, rather than in him who. although
the first actual settler on the land,
failed to comply with the requirement.
relative to the time of making proof and
payment. This decision reverses that
made by Secretary Villas in the case OF
Epley VS.. Trick, which held to the con-
trarY opinion,
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NOW A PIANO TRUST.
Prominent Manufacturers Organ.
iZe for Protection.

NEW YORK. Sept. IA convention
of the prominent piano and organ man
ufacturers in the United States was
held in Clarendon hall this afternoon
for the purpose of forming a protective
organization. r. NJ. Walters was elect
ed temporary chairman and Henry
Behning Jr. temporary secretary. The
following committee was appointed to
consider and perfect the organization
and induce members to join it: George
A. Steinway. James Vose, A. FL. Fisher,
Conoyer, John Mclaughlin, T. P.
Brown, w. A. Kimberley, Henry Behn-
ing Jr.. August Baus and r. NJ. Wall
ers. The convention then adjourned
until Oct s.
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And They Don't Like 1t.


WINoNA, Sept. 1.-THE fremen have
returned from Minneapolis and are very
indignant at their treatment. All they
have to show is sheet of note paper
certifying that they won the first prize
of 500 at the hose race Sept. II, and
$50 Sept. II. Another sheet declares
that $3.50 is due the Winona fire depart
ment running team, but fails to suggest
where it is to come from. The boys
paid all their own expenses, won both
races and had their trouble for their
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Four Prospective Jurors.

CHICAGO, Sept. 17.-At the time OF
adjournment of the trial of the Cronin
suspects this evening there were four
Jurors in the box against whom no legal
disqualifcations had been discovered,
and which had been rendered to the
state by the defense. The states at
fOrney asked until tomorrow to con-
slider the aeceptability of these jurors,
and it is not improbable that some OF
even all of these four gentlemen may
be ultimately accepted and sworn in.
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SPECIALISTS IN SESSION.
The American Association of OBJ
stetricians and GynecolOgists.


stetricians and GynecolOgists.
CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 17.-At the
Burnet house to-day the first session of
the second annual meeting of the Amer
lean Association of Obstetricians and
GynecOlOgiSts was held. There was a
large representation of doctors who
have made their mark in these depart
ments of the profession. All the large
cities were represented. At 10 o'clock
the meeting was called to order by
President Taylor, of this city. DR.. G.
G. COmegys then delivered short but
comprehensive address of welcome,
which was responded to in the same
manner by DIR. Montgomery, of Phila-
delphia. The business of the meeting
was then commenced by the reading Of
a paper on ''Congenitilsinus of the
Urachus; Abdominal lncision, with
Recovery" by DR.. A. Vanderhaver.
The meeting will continue three days,
and during that time twenty-siX papers
will be read and discussed. The an
nual election of officers of the assocla-
ton will take place Thursday afternoon.
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Iron Barons to Visit Duluth.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 1.-THE United
workers, seventy in number, will visit
Duluth, remaining from the 21st to the
oath of September. They will make an
excursion to the Vermilion iron range.
The association begins its tenth annual
meeting at Milwaukee to-day. On the
2Oth the delegates will visit Ashland,
spending the 25th at Hurley.
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Northwest Postal Changes.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Mattie Shaw,
postmaster at Westport. Pope county.
Mimi, resigned on account of i'll health,
and names J. c. Cooley for the position;
George Arnson, postmaster at Barrett,
Grant county. resigns in favor of Toilet
Nelson; the postmaster at Muddy Mon
tana has resigned in favor of A. K.
Presley. Postmasters appointed to-day:
Minnesota-John dickson, Madison,
La Qui Parle county, vice Jacobson, re-
signed; Joseph McMurtrery. Window,
Cottonwood county, vice Stealman. re-
moved. Montana-Charles F. Little,
GlendiYe. vice WidmeYeT. resigned.
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Window Favors a Negro.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Secretary
Window to-day appointed Robert H..
Terrell, of Massachusetts,, chief of the
navy pay division of the fourth audi
tors office. vice Mr.. Martin, of Ala
bama, resigned. The new appointee is
a colored man. He is a graduate Of
Harvard university, and is at present
engaged as a teacher In the colored
normal school of Washington. Terrell
is the son of Harrison Terrell, the faith
full servant of Gen. Grant, who was
with him during his last illness, and
is now messenger in the department.