St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-02
HART WAS HIT HARD.
Caucasian and COlored ROuSt-
abOutS Collide With Prob
ably Fatal Effect.
The White Man Brains the
Son of Ham With a
Board.
Minnesota Yeomen Buck the
Elements, the Irvine Trust
and Tom Lowry.
Guibert and His Grille Grille
Brought Back From Chi
cage Under Escort.

CdSO OuuCI GSCVIUs
a single gang-plank and two roust-
abouts going in opposite directions
were the irritants which produced a
vicious and possibly fatal row on the
steamer Sidney about o'clock yester-
day afternoon. The steamer was lying
at the wharf receiving her cargo, and,
at the time the fracas occurred, the
men were loading flour. A big white
man going down the gangway with two
sacks was met upon the plank by a
burly negro. A dispute ensued as
to which had the right of
way. The vilest invectives known
to the modern English tongue were
passed, the immediate maternal
! ancestry of birth was questioned strictly
in accordance with the forms of lower
deck etiquette, and the negro closed the
argument by smuggling the white man
between the eyes. The man with the
-four fell to the deck, and the descend
ant of Ham passed on about his bust
ness. The white man had no idea of
being done up so easily, however. Sc
four feet in length. he emulated the eX-
ample of Marv's little lamb by waiting
patiently about until the negro appeared
again. AS the eolored man came
down the plank again and stepped upon
the deck the man with the board
smashed him over the head for about
three bases, jumped to the wharf, and
started down the river for st. Louis, evil
! IDENTITY bent on making it a home run.
The negro fell heavily to the deck. UNI
| conscious, an eye almost knocked from
the socket and the flesh laid bare to the
bone three inches above his right eye.
The central patrol wagon was called
and he was removed to ST. Joseph's hos
ptaI, where he was attended by DR..
Hoyt. In addition to these
decorations it was found that
his skull was fractured, and
were about even. He shipped at st.
Louis under the name of Raymond
Hart. The police Immediately began
search for the white man, who was lost
sight of during the excitement. A care
full search was instituted in the lower
part of the city, and several mounted
officers were sent down the river. Sergt
McFeteridge succeeded in capturing
him near the fish hatchery and brought
him to the central station. where he
meekly registered as plain John Smith.
His left eye was badly blackened,
plainly bearing the marks of the colored
mans fist. He will be held for trial
until his victim RECEIVERS or dies.
On A MUTUAL BASIS.
Farmers Will Insure Against
Cyclones. SympathiZe With
Strikers and Buck the Irvine
Trust.
The executive committee of the Min
nes0ta Farmers Alliance held session
in the Clarendon hotel Yesterday. The
principal object of the meeting was to
organize hail, cyclone and tornado
Insurance company, also a mutual life
company for the farmers of the state.
AlonZo WardaH of Grant county, Dak.,
was present and told the results of the
system in Dakota. The company is run
on a mutual basis with membership
. fees and an assessment OF % cents per
acre. During last year the Dakota
company insured 566,314 acres and paid
S733, 529.17 in losses. A company was Or
ganized to do business in Minnesota on
similar plan. Articles will be
filed to-day and the directors elected
are: G. W. Sprague, president: Alonzo
Wardell, vice president: J. j. Furlong,
secretary; Joseph Keenan,, treasurer:
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, j. S. Shields,
Andrew Richmond, Hon. M. Nachbar,
r. J. Hall, Judge J. D. Sheehy and e.
w. Haigh, directors. The life insur-
ance company will be branch of the
national affair. and the other will insure
against losses by hail, cyclones, lorna
does and similar catastrOphes. Both
will be directly under thesupervision of
the Farmers Alliance, as will be seen
from the names of the directorate. In
addition to setting these important
schemes afOat, the following resolutions
were passed: 80
Whereas, A portion of the workingmen of
St. Paul and Minneapolis are now suffering
from attempts to reduce the rate of their
wages below living figure, so as to collect
interest OH watered stock on street car lines,
which represents plumber and not capital;
and
Whereas, The same system of watered
stock upon the railroad lines of the state is
crushing out the prosperity of the farmers
of Minnesota therefore. as the representa-
tives OF the agricultural population of the
state. We hereby eXtend,t to the workingmen
of the city our hearty sympathy in their
present struggles. and express the hope that
they will peacefully triumph and secure a
fair days wage for fair days work.
Whereas The farmers of Minnesota are be-
ing .plunde red by the Irvine trust or Ma
tional Cordage company of vast sums an
nually: and
Whereas. The convicts in the Saltwater
penitentiary are lying idle, sup ported by the
taxpayers of the state largely farmers; and
Whereas, There is no reason why the pris-
oners should not be put to work to manu-
facture the Irvine used by the farmers out of
hemp ana fax raised in the state; and
Whereas, 1t is alleged that the board of the
state prison inspectors has refused to take
any action which will prevent the conyicts
being hired out for small price per day to a
great corporation, as in the past; therefore
Resolved, That Gov. Merriam is hereby re-
quested, in reconstituting the said board of
state prison inspectors to appoint majority
of the same from the ranks of the farmers OF
the state, of men who are known to be favor
able to the use of the convicts. or at least a
portion of them in preparing Irvine for the
haryeStS OF the state out of materials raised
in the state.
Resolved, That we do hereby recommend
the Farm Stock and Home, of Minneapolis,
as newspaper, published in the interest of
farmers and ably iEdorsing and maintaining
the principles underlying the Farmers alli-
ance, and we do hereby adopt the same as
medium of communicable with the subor-
dinate alliances of the state.
The following were present at the
meeting: G. W. Sprague, Fillmore; j.
j. Furlong, Austin: &. W. Haigh, Man
kato; Hon. Ignatins DOnnelly, Min
niger: Senator Nachbar. Jordan; SEN
ator Shields. Darwin; Judge j. D.
Sheedy, Austin; Joseph Keenen, Aus
tin; Andrew Richmond, Saltwater.
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