St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-02
SAINT PAUL.
THE GOSSIPEK.

OF course, now that another celebrated
criminal has been captured, hundreds
of people can be found who will declare
on their solemn oaths that they were
well acquainted with him. BLACK
Bart the hlghwayman who gained
such a notoriety throughout Wisconsin.
and created such reign of terror
among the travelling public, was only
caught day before yesterday, yet there
is a man in this city who has already
come forward and claimed Intimate ac-
workmanship with him. In fact, this
man saws he was born in the same town
with BLACK Bart''--Which, by the way,
was in Germany - while those VINO
know the former are willing to swear
he was born in Cork and never
heard of the rObber until he read about
him in the papers. Why men care TO
have people think they once knew rob
bers and murdererS is mystery, unless
it is of course that they expect to be in
terviewed by newspaper reporters and
see their names in print. When the hue
and cry was raised for Tascott, the Chi
cago murderer, there were at least
dozen people in this city who averred
that they had met him on the street
after the murder had been committed.
Several BARRIERS had shaved him.
another man had sold him a cigar. and
fourth had met him on the street and
been importuned to purchase ring. So
wags the world and the tongues of the
the people in it, ''whO once shook Ithe
hand of John L. Sullivan"
Gen. Harrison Allen, of Fargo. Oak,
is a guest at the Merchants. Gen. Allen
is very distinguished looking gentle
man, and commands good deal of at
tentiOn wherever he goes. His hair IS
almost white, and it hangs down in a
Sort of caressiRg way over his should
ers. he does not seem to feel bad over
his recent defeat for the nomination of
governor of North Dakota; in fact. he
seems rather pleased than otherwise.
He SAYS that Mr.. Miller, the nominee, is
a thoroughly capable man, and he
thinks he will be elected. Gen. Allen
is one of the stauneh old Republicans,
and has been a sort of a father to the
party in Dakota. The general has
amassed considerable wealth. and is
thought great deal of wherever he is
known.
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How in the world anybody could
dance yesterday afternoon, as hot as it
was, Is puzzle, yer there were nun
dredS and hundreds of men and women
who danced at the labor picnic and
seemed to enjoy it. 1t was very anus
ing to stand off in one corner of the
dancing pavilion and watch the spruce
young fellows, with freshly stiffened
collars, and pretty young girls, with
nicely staTched muslin dresses, start in
tor a waltz, ana then watch them, fif-
teen minutes later, emerge from the
may whirl. The spruce young mans
collar would be as limp as rag and his
face the color of a freshly boiled lobster,
while the pretty young girls muslin
dress would look more like her mothers
dish rag in distress than anything else,
and her face would be full of stTeakS
from being mopped with a handker-
chief. And vet they seemed to enjoy
it, and probably wished the next day
that Labor Day would come at least
three times a week.
George H. Sargent, former st. Paul
newspaper man, who is now editor of
the Grand Forks Independent, is in thu
city. That Mr.. Sargent's editorial work
is appreciated by the Republicans of
North Dakota is evinced by the fact
that, after Il residence of three months
in the state, he was recently elected
secretary of the Republican State league