St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-07
MINNEAPOLIS.
THE AXE WILL FALL
The Tribune Transfer Completed
at Last.

A. j. Blethen's purchase of the Trib-
6une became an accomplished fact yes
terday. when the purchaser paid over
his money, received the stock, and gave
the foreman orders to haul down the
Haskell & Palmer colors that have
run at the masthead for year past.
Mr.. Blethen said last night to a GLOBE
reporter: 1.-THE deal is completed. The
Tribune is purchased by me for $3.50, 600,
and William Henry Smith, who has been
detained by the JohnstOwn flood and
who has now gone home Frustrated with
the nervous strain, will have a definite
time in which to decide whether he
will join me. The deal has not been
del yed through any fault of his. but
by the catastrophe mentioned, and was
Z finally fastened by the desire of the
elder Haskell, who has all along disap-
proved the sale, to close it up and re-
! turn home.
I "Of course it is matter of some
qualification to me that in year
after | was bought out by
the Haskell-Palmer combination
| return to the proprietorship of the
Tribune on my own terms, for they
came to my figure rather than that [
a triumph that was able to make them
listen to proposition to buy at all. 1t
couldn't have been done four months
ago. have paid $4,000 more for the
Tribune than it is worth, though on the
same basis on which l sold out, but it is
worth Sc, 1000 more to me than any one
else, because | have the prestige
OF having made a success of
it, and MANY of the business
men Of the city believe l am the only
man who can make anything of the
Tribune. The paper will be made
strong locally and editorially. and will
not exhaust it's energies on foreign tele-
graphic matter. in which there is little
interest here"
The staff, so far as completed by
Managing Editor Williams, is: Fl. B.
Hudson, city editor; Abbott Blunt, ex-
change editor; John H. Leonard, tele-
graph editor; George Caxen, night
editor; reporters. Luther Little, R.
H. K. Whitley, 0. E. Remey,
and the balance to be chosen.
This lets out w. H. Rogers, night
editor; B. Mullaney, telegraph editor;
ii. V. Jones, city editor; W. r. Sill,
paragrapher, and E. A. Henderson, ex-
change editor. c. NJ. Shultz will make
way AO1 OudI lCS all w llllttiuo dIiu Aio
new stock of glass eyes tomorrow, and
retire to contemplate his own faded
beauty. The rest of the resigned will
go at the same time. The editorial
department is being reorganized
under Mr.. Blethen's own eye. DR..
Albert Shaw has been called, and
will soon be home. Nicolay Grevstad
will retire from the editorial page to
commune with special Scandinavian
department, with which he will be pro-
vided. w. R. Sill, whose scintlllations
Oh the editorial page have done so much
to popularize it with the undertakes,
will give way to Abbott Blunt, but may
he retained in reportorial capacity at
Lake MinnetOnka. William Henry
Williams will succeed j. A. Werner as
foreman and j. A. Werner will succeed
William Henry Williams as assistant
foreman. Fred Logan and c. T.
Knight are let out in the local room.
These are about all the changes to date.
Col. W. w. Tryon goes with the build
ing and, of course. remains undisturbed.