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St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
MORSELS OF MERRIMENT.

Thin men are best fitted to engage In
match race.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
A man who has been pretty thoroughly
corned gets on his ear easily.-Merchant
Traveller.
The Indian summer has done fairly
well, bnt it cannot be spoken of with
out Observation-Disclosures Transcript.
A statue to Wilkie Collins is to be
placed in Westminster abbey. 1t will
be recognized even though No Name be
inscribed upon it.--TeXas Siftings.
1t is the professional sandbagger,
more than any other member of society,
who is anxiously watching for the COM
ing man.-Baltimore American.
A conveyance of real estate signed
Sunday is not legal, and yet we were
always taught to believe that 'better
the day, the better the deed. ."-YOnkers
Statesman.
An experienced young man says 1t
takes only one letter to tell the differ
ence between the summer and winter
styles of cOurtship, viz: gate-grate.-
Norristown Herald.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
PERSONAL POINTERS.

Emperor William of Germany recent
" discharged an attendant who had
been reading a French novel.
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Isl
ands will come to the worlds fair of
1892 if he can borrow the money.
Private Secretary HalfOrd is anxious
to return TO newspaper work after he
has recovered his health at Fortress
Monroe.
President Harrison is writing his mes
sage to congress. 1t probably will not
include the list of his relatives ap-
pointed to Office.
Secretary Rusk says that he would
not be president if he could. If Jere-
miah means this he should stop telling
good stories.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has refused to
write poem for a prominent magazine.
He said tnat he felt that it was time for
him to stop.
Representative Cannon was the first
candidate for the sp9akerShip TO open
his campaign. He claims forty-hve
votes OH the first ballot.
Senator Quay has gradually come TO
the conviction that the president wants
TO cast him into the soup. Quay calls
this c0nsommete ingratitude.
Robert Browning is coming to this
country Eext spring. Boston is to be
congratulated. Perhaps he can help its
Browning clubs in guessing what some
of his poems mean.
president Carnot and Minister Reid
have become warm friends in Paris.
1t is rumored that the former has prom
ised to visit this country under the
guidance of Mr.. Reid at some future
time.
Sir Julian PauncefOte reads every day
accounts of base ball games. He has
not mad an opportunity yet to learn the
game by observation, but he takes a
warm interest in the sport, and is anx-
ious to become an expert as base ball
crank.
Buffalo Bill has had delightful time
in Paris. He has been made social
lion and has played his cards with sue
cess. He has acquired the knack of
making small talk acceptable and has
learned how to fiirt. He entertaiDs
handsomely and is quite conservative
about his invitations. His Nebraska
friends would not recognize him. All
his clothes are made in London, and he
is eultivating a French goatee. AS he
strolls along the boulevards it is inpoS-
sible to believe that he was once scout
on the Western plains.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
THE PLUCKY AMERICAN GIRL

In this craze among rich American WON
en- Tor buying husbands from the fan1i
lies of the impecuniOuS European nObil
ity, it is absolutely CRAFTY ing to learn
there is at least one American girl with
enough good old-fashiOned American
horse sense to be able to protect herself
against the rapacity of these European
fortune-hunters. Miss CALDWELL, the
Kentucky heiTess, whose wealth and
beauty had made many a conquest at
the European courts, finally decided
that her family reputation would suffer
no violence by matrimonial alliance
with a descendant of the first NAPo-
Icons greatest field marshal. When
the young Prince MURAT came wooing,
the Blue Grass beauty sized him up in
true American fashion, and resolved in
her own mind what she could afford to
pay for him. Her fortune was ample.
but she did not propose to pay more
than the property was worth. She ac-
cordingly made an offer, which
was enough to enable an Amer
lean gentleman to live in ease and
elegance. Like sensible woman,
she did not make an offer of
spot cash in the lump. but
proposed it in the way Of
annuity, yet ample enough for all rea-
sonable purposes. The impecunious
prince jumped at the offer, and accord
ingly all the arrangements were made
for the wedding. The trousseau was
purchased, the wedding invitations is
sued, the clergymen were summoned to
celebrate the rites, and just as every
thing was in readiness for the final con-
summation of the nuptialS, the prince
kicked. He thought it an opportune
time to press his demands for cash
payment large enough to liquidate his
gambling debts. He imagined he had
a einch on the Kentucky girl, for he
never supposed that woman could en-
dure the humiliation of backing out
after the wedding gown had been pur-
chased. There is where his ignorance
of American pluck betrayed him into an
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
nARRIsoN's vINDICTIvENEss.

ApropOs to the story that Mrs. Lo-
GAN is being snubbed in administra-
ton circles in Washington because of
her friendship for ALGER and fidelity
TO TANNER comes the apparently we'll
founded rumor that the president has
clearly drawn the line against the Gres-
hamites in the matter OF distributing
federal patronage. 1t is an open secret
that the two Illinois senators have had
no influence with the HARRISON ad-
ministration since its advent to power,
but it was supposed that this was ow-
ing to the fact that Senator CUILOM
has presidential aspirations, and the
president was discreet enough not to
provide the ambitious IllinOiSian WITH
the means of attaining the object of his
ambition. But Congressman TAYLOR,
of Chicago. who recently went to Wash
ington and laid siege 10 the White
house, in expectation of forcing
the president into appointing Mr..
CAMPBELL collector of the port in his
town has raised the siege and comes
back with the report that no Gresham
ite need apply for Office under
this administration. 1t is queer that
a man of such wonderfully vim
dictiye disposition as Gen. HARRISON
manifests should ever attain the high
position he has reached. He exhibits
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
SIX STEEL STEAMERS.
The G. p. Il. Will Have New
Fleet on the Lakes.

Inc u L. IL. VIII nave u new
Fleet on the Lakes.
CHICAGO, Oct. GA Canadian Pa
cific line of six steel freight and pas
Senger steamers will be running be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and Glad
stone and Owen sound before the
marine season of 1890 is far advanced.
A syndicate has been formed to furnish
the money for the boats, without other
aid from the Canadian Pacific than the
erection of elevators and the required
terminal facilities at Owen sound, with
an agreement regarding the division of
rates, the contract covering period of
years. The steamboat line asks that it
be given Baltimore division of through
rates on export business, and Phila-
delphia division on Canadian traffic.
The aim is to get through lake and
rail rate to Montreal as low as that now
given to Baltimore. The boats for the
new line will be built by Congress
man Wheeler, of Bay City, and will be
given speed of sixteen miles an hour,
with the view of attracting large pas
senger traffic between Chicago and Can
adian points, particularly during mid
summer. as direct lake route to the st.
Lawrence and Thousand islands resorts.
By the connection with the $500" road
at Gladstone, the steamboat line will
give direct water route to Owen Sound
for st. Paul-MinneapOlis traffic, and
save the long rail haul from Gladstone
eastward bv way of Sault Ste. Marie.
In fact, the water route is almost in the
shape of an air line as compared with
the rail route. Marine men in Chicago
believe that Canadian Pacific line into
Chicago Is certain to come. but doubt if
il will be so soon.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
FACTS BOILED DOWN.

John Masgatt, aged seventy-six years,
of West Ellsworth, Me-, drove forty
miles last week to be initiated a Good
Templar.
A Hannibal, Mo-, man has killed 910
squirrels since the first of June, but
probably he has not done much of any
thing else.
The wine list on the bills of fare used
in dining cars on railroads crossing Iowa
has this notice at the bottom: mo
LIQUORS sold in the state of Iowa."
The grave of a woman buried in Co
hoes, n. Y, eighteen years ago, was
opened recently and the body found
petrified. The features looked as nat
ural as if the woman had just died.
A plague of monkeys afflicts TaDjore,
in Southern India. The creatures do
so much mischief that an official mon
key catcher receives rupee for each
monkey captured.
1t is proposed to bring in bill at the
next session of the British parliament
to put restraint on improvident mar
riages. the great proportion of such mar
riages being made by those under twen-
ty-five years OF age.
The monuments of antiquity at
Athens were cleansed from the dirt
and srubbish of ages for the recent
royal wedding. In doing this several
entire streets of the modern town have
had to be pulled down.
In HOulton, Me-. lives lady who
never wore an article of jewelry, piece
of lace nor a collar, even in the days of
cOurtshiD, which experience she has
passed through more than once, having
married twice.
The fish are getting so numerous
around the docks at Port Tampa, Fla,
that they jump out of the water and
land on the wharves. A kingfish weigh
ing seventeen pounds was captured by
Capt. George Warner in that way on
Tuesday.
James Lukens, an old cOlOred man of
NOrristown, was taking walk through
tho woods near that town about week
ago when his dog, large brindie eur,
pOunced upon an enormous hawk In the
bushes feasting upon a wild pigeon.
The dog seized the hawk by the right
wing in his teeth and broke it. In
stantly the hawk showed fight. 1t bit
the dog about the eyes and nose,
scratched him severely all over the
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
IMPENDING WATER FAMINE.

The residents of this city are greatly
relieved by the statement made by the
members OF the board of water works
that out water supply is not jeopardized
by the long continued drOuth. A re-
cent examination of the lake system,
which furnishes this supply, resulted in
the gratifying discovery that there is
water enough for all present and pros
pective emergencies, and there Is no
possible danger of the supply being ex-
hausted during the winter. There are
many localities. however, out through
the state, and, in fact, throughout all
the Western country, where the pros
poets are not so encouraging. In many
sections there is an impending dam
ger of water famine. For the
last three years the rainfall has been
far below the average. and during the
last summer there was little or no rain.
In consequence those who live remote
from lakes or running streams are now
really threatened with the calamity OF a
water famine. The eisteIns have been
exhausted. and the wells are drying up.
And if the coming winter should be as
the last one was, a SnOwleSS winter,
there will be actual suffering IN many
communities. If there should be a
good snowfall the snow could be gath
cred and melted, and by this shift the
danger could be tided over until the
spring thaw came and the fountains be
replenished by the melting SHOWS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: FRIDAY MORNING.

body. and finally drove him Off whim-
pering with his tail between his legs.
Lukens took a club and killed the
hawk. The bird measured seven feet
from tip to tip of its wings.
A Maine girl put note and her nd
dress in box OF toothpicks, requesting
the finder to write to her. A Kansas
City man got the box, opened cor
respondence and few days ago started
East to see if the young lady was the
sort of woman he wanted for q wife.
The advertising columns of the Lon
don newspapers have recently an
nOunced that nine cannibals from Terre
del FuegO would be fed three times O
day in view of the audience at the
Aquarium. The family now In London
includes woman about fifty years old,
her SOIL, a tall and not bad-lOoking specl-
men of his race. his two wives and their
ave children, ranging in age from one
to sixteen years. The thing about the
Onas which most stimulates scientific
interest and popular curiosity Is the
fact that they are regarded by some
authorities as the lowest stratum of un-
civilized humanity that has yet been
dis covered.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
SIGNS OF HARD TIMES.
The c., H.V. & T. Cuts the Salaries
OfItS Force.

COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 31.-Dullness in
the coal and iron trade has made it diff
cult for the Columbus, Hooking Valley
& Toledo road to meet the interest on
its bonds, and resulted In the Shaw
party giving up control of the road.
President C. G. Waite. who succeeded
John w. Shaw, Is determined to
put the road on a paying basis,
and his eminent abilities in that direc-
ton is what made him president of
the road. In order to do this, it has
been found necessary to reduce the sal
aries of employees. The Office of car ac.
cOuntant has been discontinued, and o.
II. Guard, superintendent of telegraph,
will assume the duties Of the position.
The salary of officers and heads of de-
partments has been reduced, also the
salary of most Of the clerks receiving
over $50 per month. 1t is announced
that few designations will result to-
morrow. The extent Of the cut of sal
cries will probably be made known to-
morrow.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
EVERY ONE AN oEFIoER.
Blue Bloods of the Army OF ths
Potomac Organize.

vi e@hs4Os
CHICAGO, Oct. S1.-The Western So
ciety of the Army Of the Potomac wa.
organized tonight with membership
of fifty prominent ex-rnembers of that
division OF the army. A committee on
constitution and. bylaws appointed two
weeks ago at preliminary meeting,
reported, and constitution wai
adopted. The society is to ulH,
mately include in its member
snip survivors Of the army of the
POtomac in the West and Northwest.
Its headquarters are to be in Chicago,
but the regular quarterly meetings may
be held In any city. The object of the
association is the perpetuation Of social
relations formed during the war and
the collection and preservation of the
record of the battles. campaigns and
skirmishes Of the army. Gen. Walter
Q. Newberry presided at the meeting.
Beginning with the January meeting,
the society will meet quarterly. At the
annual meeting and banquet, to which
distinguished soldiers will be invited,
an Grafton will be delivered. Preceding
the first quarterly meeting, monthly
meetings will be held to complete tha
organization. Officers were elected this
evening as follows: Gen. Walter @.
Newberry, president; vice president,
Capt. L. K. Schoenberger, Second corps,
Col. Charles K. Mcintyre, Fifth
corps: Col. Freeman ConnOr; Sixth
corps; Capt. George T. Burrows. Ninth
corps: Col. j. b. Clark, cavalry
corps. Gen. w. r. Robbins; secretary,
Capt. Richard Robbins, u. s. A; CORE
spending secretary. Capt. A. WOlcOtt;
treasurer. Maj. Charles Northrup: sur
geOn, DIR. Liston IL. Montgomery; chap.
lain, Rev. William White Wilson; ex-
eeutive board. Maj. G. U. Wickersham,
Capt. Henry G. Hibben, II. 2. Thomp-
son, DR.. J. G. Grey, Col. James Wood,
Col. E. r. Knox, Col. NJ. B. Berg. Col.
S. r. p. ShurIey. Capt. j. E. Weir.
Corps vice presidents not selected are to
be selected at the next meeting, the
third Thursday in November.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01

n littleness of character out of keeping
with the station he fills. Judge GREsH-
ANS candidacy was conducted through
out on an honorable plane, and there is
no reason why his friends should be so
thoroughly oStracized as they are by
this administration. The elder HARRI-
SON started in on his administration on
about the same line that the grandson
has adopted, and although his career
WAS brief, it was of sufficient duration
to wreck the Whig party. 1t will be
matter of interest TO watch the
success the present incumbent of
the White house has in the
same direction. 1t Is reported that
the president has expressed his belief
that it is better to keep Democrats in
office than to fill their places with
GreShamite Republicans, and the way
that political affairs in Illinois are rum
ming gives confirmation to this report.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
Chjps and Ties,


H. E. Minor. has for some time been chief
passenger agent for Jack Whelan, has re-
signed that position to accept similar one
with Bothman & Lohrbauer, l73 East Third
an increase in salary, and the general opin-
ion is that the RED Front has secured
first-class man, as he Is the Oldest passenger
agent in the city, and not only has good
trade of his own, but is a hard worker and
understands the business thoroughly.
The Twin City Passenger association holds
its regular meeting to-day. The principal
subject to be discussed is the Chicago d
Atlautic's Eastern rates. The present rate OF
that road to Montreal and Boston Is 5000.
while that on other roads is S2S.70. The 9.
& A. asks that it be allowed to reduce the
rate to S297 or that the other roads raise
theirs to 5000
J. E. Phalen has been appointed division
superintendent of the Missouri division OF
the Northern Pacific E. r. KnowltOn, who
has filled this position up to date. has been
appointed division superintendent OF the
Wisconsin Central.
F. NJ Morse has been appointed contract
ing freight agent of the Kansas City. This
is the place vacated BY the resignation OF W.
II. Adams Mr.. Morse is now in Mr.. Brooks
Office but will take hold of his new place to-
morrow.
The Eastern Minnesota Is contemplating
putting on night train to Duluth, on which
they will run Wagner sleepers. A general
hope Is expressed by Duluthians that il viii
not leave st. Paul earlier than IL or IL 80
p. m.
Peter Simons enters upon his duties as as
sistant to Jack Whelan at the 'Blue Front
to-day, and wants all his old friends to call
around and see him whether they want to
buy tickets or not
The official announcement of the appoint
ment of W. Fl. Newman as third vice presi-
dent of the Chicago & Northwestern was re-
ceived in st. Paul Wednesday.
W.T.. Alexander, general traffic manager
of the Manitoba, who was taken sick sud
denly on Wednesday afternoon, is reported
as recovering rapidly.
Col. A. C. Dawes, general passenger agent
Bluffs, and of the Hannibal & st. Joe. was in
the city yesterday.
Col. P. P. Shelby, assistant general traffic
manager of the Manitoba, returned from the
West yesterday looking none the worse for
wear.
j. Francis. of Omaha, general passenger
agent in Nebraska of the Burlington & Mis-
souri, Valley, was in the city yesterday.
J.J. Hill, president of the Manitoba, and
A. L. Mohler, general manager, returned
from tee West on Tuesday evening.
Peter Murphy, late street passenger agent
of the Albert Lea, assumes q similar position
for the Kansas City to-day.
C. S. Fee, general passenger agent OF the
Northern Pacific. arrived home ftOm an East
ern trip yesterday.
j. C. Forester has been appointed contract
ing freight agent OF the Northern Pacific at
San Francisco.
The 500 line will receive no more west
bound lake and rail freight after Nov 2.
Benson station, on the Manitoba road, was
destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
Cut tin Passenger Rates.

CHicAGo, Oct. 31-The Pennsylvania
railroad has taken the iniative in MAX
ing round trip rate to the Catholic
congress at Baltimore much lower than
the figures heretofore announced by the
Central Traffic, Trunk Line and other
railway associations. The reduction
amounts to 1886 on tickets from Chi
cagO, and makes the rate S17.5O instead
of s23.35. The rates published hereto
fore have been on the basis of fare
and a third for the round trip. The
new tariff is placed at single fare half
rate for the journey to Baltimore and
return, tickets good going Nov. z to II,
inclusive. The Baltimore 81 Ohio road
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-01
CLUBBED TO DEATH.
Martin Burke's Confession OF the
Killing of CPonin,

III
WINNIPEG, Oct. 81. = To-day AS
sistant States Attorney Baker. of
Chicago, and Lawyer Howell elic-
tied new, and, if true,
important information from Gillette. a
late fellow prisoner Of Martin Burke.
Gillette said that Burke told him Cronin
was dubbed the moment he stepped
through the door of the Carlson
cottage. "He was very strong"
said Burke, at the same time
applying very impolite epIthet to the
doctor. ''and it was bigger job than
we had expected" Burke said that
after the murder they put the body in
box and drove to the lake shore: not
meeting their confederate, they threw
the body into the lake from the
shore, but the water was shallow and
they were fearful of its being washed
ashore. so they put 1t in the box again.
The body bled profusely. ana they had
to cover up the blood stains by shovel
ing soft sand upon them. Then they
took the body back and dropped Il
into the catchbasin where it was found,
Burke also said that man who worked
at McGinnis' fish and oyster depot, West
Randolph street. was to have taken q
hand in the murder, but his heart failed
him, and he backed out at the
last moment. Burke said he him.
self rented the Carlson cottage and
put the furniture in. When they got to
the catchbasin they could not get the
body in, and had to double 1t up. While
working at it they got scared by some
passing wagon, and had to leave it, but
returned and finished the job. Burke
said that when the police of Winnipeg
searched him they found everything bul
the check for his baggage. That they
missed, and his baggage went on to its
destination. Gillette pressed Burke to
tell him why they had censpired
to kill Cronin. He said he had
sQuealed on q man who was
short in his accounts, and was a
traitor, and had been false to the cause,
and~it had been decided he should bS
put out of the way. Baker and Howell
are quite satisfied that the story is true
in every detail. Gillette, who is retir.
ing into the solitude of Stony mountain
penitentiary for ten years. would have no
object in stuffing his interyiewerse
Mills and Heffner have practically the
same story and the question is how to
get them to Chicago. Heffner is tough
and Mills very little short Of lunatiA
Still they can undoubtedly give very iTns
portant evidence If they can De gos %
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