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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-23
THE MATE IN IRONS.
He Threw a Seaman Overheard
After a Quarrel,

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-When the
American ship Robert l.. Belknap
dropped anchor this morning off Bed
loe's island. after long passage from
San Francisco, half dozen sailors
jumped over the side into small boat
and hurriedly pulled to the battery.
They were greatly excited and seemed
glad to be liberated from the clipper,
which they characterized as the '.hOt-
test' they had ever sailed i'll. They
stated that the first mate had been in
irons for nearly two months. While off
the Horn the mate quarreled with a
seaman, and the latter was thrown over
board by him and drowned. The mate
was considered a severe character, and
never allowed the fOrecaStle hands
any peace while at liberty. He often
picked guarrels with the men and NAL
treated them on the slightest prov0ca-
ton. The Belknap is under command
of Capt. Staples, who is considered a
hard master and has been in the habit
of carrying with him brutal officers.
The vessel left New York year ago
for San Francisco, and on her arrival at
the Golden Gate her crew told pitiful
story of cruelty Gil the part of the cap
tain and officers. The Belknap is con-
tidered the finest clipper i'll the Amerl-
can fleet.
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John Russell Arrested in
Washington on a Requisi-
tion by Gov. Merriam.
He Is Wanted for Seduction,
Under Promise of Mar
riage, at Saltwater.
A Quar- ell Over a Woman in
Florida Results in a Fatal
Stabbing.
Bloody Butehery Of Five Per-
sons Criminal Neglect in
Pennsylvania.
Special TO the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
TACOMA, WASH, Dec. 22.-JOhn Rus
sell, who kept logging camp east of
this city for the St. Paul d Tacoma
Lumber company. has been arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Campbell upon requisi-
ton papers from the governor of Min
nesota. The complaint for the issuance
of the warrant states that defendant
seduced, under promise of marriage in
1886, Maggie Clancy, of Saltwater,
Minn. He was tried and convicted of
the crime in June, 1887, and fed from
the state pending an appeal TO the SUI
preme court, which was afterwards de-
cided adversely to defendants case.
Russell. who:has wife and children re-
siding in this city, has accumulated
property during his three years in this
country and is a man of industrious
habits. He will be taken back to Min
nesota by James S. Hughes. the officer
who brought the requisition papers.
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Cannibals Make a Meal Of
Four Of the Crew Of the
Schooner Enterprise.
Learning the Particulars,
British Steamer Shells the
Cannibal Village.
The French Capital Gets Ex
cited Over a Couple Of
Silly RumorS.
Pedro and His Family Not to
Be Allowed to Return to
Brazil Soon.

SAN FRA ANCIsCo, Dec. 22.-The Syd-
ney Herald of Nov. says that accord
ing to letter received from Capt.
WOOdhOuse, of the trading schooner
Elma Fisher, the boat steerer, Nelson,
of the schooner Enterprise, of Sydney,
and three of the native crew of the En-
terprise were killed and eaten by the
cannibals of the Solomon islands. The
Enterprise was trading among the ISL
ands, and the natives from Hammond
sland, one of the Solomon group, in
duced Nelson and the others to go
ashore to make some purchases. Once
on shore they were knocked on the
head, and it is reported that the bodies
were then roasted aud eaten, The let
ter states that III, M. S. Royalist shelled
the villages on the island on Capt. Hand
learning the particulars.
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cavalry, in recognition Of that general!
military jubilee.
DESERTED HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. Brooke, of Frankfort, Ind :.
Eiopes With an Agent.


EiOpes With an Agent.
3 FRANKFORT, Ind. Dec. 22.-Mrs.
Nora Brooke, wife of David Brooke, a
prominent school teacher Of this city,
has forsaken her husband and, it is
thought, elOped with George Stougges,
fruit tree agent, who resides in COlum-
bia City, this state. Mrs. Brooke left
home Dec, with her little daughter, it
being understood that she was going to
make visit to her aunt at WinOna,
Miss, returning with her husband
when he should go after her during the
holidays. Several days passed and the
husband received no letter from her as
to her safe arrival. He became ANXIOUS
and wrote to her aunt. He received
reply Wednesday stating that Mrs.
BrOOkie had arrived at Winona on
the Sd inst, but on the 9th told
her aunt that she had received letter
from Dave" stating that her boy, whom
she had left at Frankfort, was danger
ously i'll, and that she must hasten home
at once. On receiving this information
the truth dawned on the husband, and
he at once connected his wife'S strange
actions with the first fruit tree agent,
who was bOarder at the BrOokie house
while canvassing this county short
time since. To-day Mr.. Brooke re-
ceived in an envelope the following dis
patch, clipped from the Memphis Ava
lanche:
Newport. Ark, Dec. 15.-TwO weeks
ago man giving the name of John
Adams, accompanied by a lady and
child, stopped at the Commercial hotel
at HOXie. The woman was elegant, re-
fined and beautiful. He introduced
her as his wife. Board was en-
gagged by the week. In about a
week he had business at Minturn
about six miles distant. At the last
moment she found that she must go
with him. The child they would not
take, as they would be back that even
ing or the next. Two days passed; they
did not return. A letter with a Minturn
date, but bearing the Little Rock post
mark, came. In this the lady said that
she and her husband we're at Minturn
and would be back in two days, and
then tmOnished the landlord to take
good care of her little girl. A week has
passed since then, but they have not re-
turned.
1t is now believed that the woman de-
serted her home and husband tor this
man. and at Hoxie he forced her to de-
seft the child also. The little girl is
about two years old land of course unable
to give any account of her parents.
Brooke has little doubt but that the lit
tie girl at HOXie is his daughter, and is
now on his way to that place.
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WILL IT COME OFF,?
The Fight Between Jem Smith
and Slavin Is Booked for
To-Day,
But Sporting Circles Are No,
Specially Enthusiastic Over
the Outlook.
There Are Signs That the
American AssOeiatio 4 Will
Fill, After Al.
Gaudaur and Teemer Anxiou.
Gaudaur and Teemer Anxiou.
to Row for the Worlds
Championship.

LONDON. Dec. 22.-It is stated that
the fight between Slavin, the Australian
pugilist, and Jem Smith will take place
tomorrow forenoon in racquet court
at Bruges, Belgium. 1t is considered
doubtful in sporting circles that the
fight will take place at all. There has
been something dubious about all the
arrangements, and if the intention was
to work up an advertising and hippo
droming scheme, the very best possible
plan was adopted for that purpose. Still
there is so much uncertainty about
sporting events that no one is rash
enough to say positively that the fight
will not come off, and there is large
party of believers in the genuineness Of
the affair.
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WITHHELD FROM PEDRO.
He Is Not Told OF PROVISIONAL Gov.
ernment DEGREES.

LISBON, Dec. 22.-Dom Pedro and the
ex-empress of Brazil to-day babe fare
well to the queen and beverage queen
and started for Coimbra. The duke of
Oporto and number of Brazilians wit
messed their departure. The ex-empress
was deeply moved. The news of the
provisional governments action in issu-
ing decree suppresSing the allowance
to the eX-emperOr and fOrbidding the
return of the imperial family to Brazil,
has been withheld from Dom Pedro by
the advice of his physicians.
Rio JANIERO, Dec. 22.-The decree
relating to Dom Pedro, besides sup
pressing his allowances, orders the con-
fiscation of his property and forbids the
return of the imperial family to Brazil
for two years. The city is tranquil.
LONDON, Dec. 23.-The Brazilian
legation here announces that the ilaess
of President ia Fonseca is not serious.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-The steamer
Lassell arrived here to-day. She left
Rio de Janeiro Dec. 1. Capt. Randle
said that everything was quiet during
his Stay in that port. The people
seemed recOnclled to the new order of
things,
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DEATH OF A CHARACTER.
Ex-Congressman Mattison Passes
Away at Utica.

UTICA, N. Y, Dec. 22.-Hon. Orsa-
mus B. Mattison, of this city, died to-
day, aged eighty-four years. He was
representative in congress from this dis
trict in the 31st, 33d, 34th and 35th con-
crosses. While in congress in 1861,
Mr.. Mattison was charged with declar-
ing that a large number of members of
congress were purchasable. The affair
caused great excitement in congress
and throughout the country. A resolu-
ton ordering his expulsion was offered
in the house, but. after long and bitter
debate, it was finally tabled. Before it
could be called up again Mr.. MattiSon
resigned his seat. About this time
number of congressman and other prom
inent persons in the National hotel in
Washington were poisoned. 1t Was be-
lieved to be pro-slavery plot to murder
PreSident-elect Buchanan and seat Vice
President Breckinridge. Mr.. Mattison
was one of those poisoned, and came
very near dying. In fact, his health
was affected permanently. During t he
later years of his life he engaged in sew
eral disastrous BUSINESS enterprises
and died comparatively poor.
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Took EVERYTHING in sight.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 22.-Warren
FL. Hedstrom, mailing clerk in the
postoffice here, has been arrested for
opening letters and destroying their
contents. In his pockets were two de-
coy letters and eight other letters which
had been mailed at Buffalo Saturday.
One letter hail in it check for SIS that
a boy had sent to his mother. He'd
strom's stealing had been going on for
months and he must have taken a large
number of letters. He would take any
letter, tear it open, and, if it contained
no remittance or only money orders or
cheeks which he could not use, he would
destroy the letters and contents.
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SOMEBODY STOLE MONEY,
But Was 1t the Priest or His
Trustees?

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Dec. 22.-Father
Alexander Michanowski, of st. An
Anthony's Polish Catholic church, and
the board of trustees of the parish are
at loggerheads, and the bishop has been
asked to remove the pastor. The trus-
tees claim that the priest has misap-
propriated the fund of the church. In
his sermon to-day Father Michanowski
said that Anton Plavocki and Roman
Janoski. two Of the trustees, were not
good Christians, and added that they
had stolen money which they had col
lected for the church. Two policemen
were in the church during the services
and their presence probably prevented
a fight, as the accused trustees were
Yery angry,
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PARIS IN PAROXYSMS
Over Two RumOrs Affecting Aus
tria and Greece.

LONDON, Dec. 22.-There was sud-
den and mysterious sensation in Paris
to-day over report that the king of
Greece had abdicated. Since the sud-
den change of government in Brazil
Europeans are ready to accept almost
any report of revolution and change of
dynasty. no matter how unheralded or
ineXplicable. The old notion that gov
ernmentS that have not been seriously
opposed are secure from immediate
overthrow received severe shock when
Dom Pedro fell. The report i'm regard
to Greece, however, proved unfounded.
Hardly had it been dispioved befure
another sensation was caused by ru-
NOR that the emperor of Austria had
committed suicide. This also proved to
be canard. The Parisians are conse-
quently in such a skeptical mood that
they are not disinclined to believe any
news whatever. Just who has been
amusing himself by hoaxing them is
not known. 1t is singular that the false
reports were not current in any other
caDital
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township. The defendants were dis
charged.
ROBBED GRAVES,
Washington Shocked Over Two
Midnight Discoveries.


Midnight Discoveries.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The grave
robbers have been at work in this city
again, and tomorrow, DIR. a. G. Adams,
a demOnstrator at one of the medical
colleges, will be brought into court on a
charge of being concerned in the affair.
Last Friday night the police stopped
carriage near the outskirts of the
city and found in it two bodies,
one white and the other colored. The
driver and two other men with the vehi-
ce escaped In the darkness, leaving
their horse and carriage behind. 1t
was at first supposed the bodies came
from the potters' field, near by, but the
body of the white woman has since been
identified as that of Mrs. Cheek, wife of
gentleman living on South Carolina
avenue. in this city. Her body
was to-day reinterred IN the Con-
gresSional cemetery, from which it
had been carried away. An eXamina-
tion of the body showed that the ears
had been foully mutilated and the fin
gers bruised by the force with which
the robbers had stripped the body of
some costly rings in order that they
might not be held on the serious charge
of larceny if caught with the body. The
law in this city. it is maintained, makes
no provision for the punishment of res
urrectiOnistS. The husband of Mrs.
Cheek. however, threatens to shoot on
sight those concerned in the affair.
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DRAGGED AWAY A SAFE.
Remark able Robbery in a Con-
necticut Town.

Remark able Robbery in a Con-
necticut Town.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn.,, Dec. PA gro
ceIy store situated on the corner of
East Main and Walter streets. occupied
by the Village Store company, was
broken into early this morning and a
small safe weighing 500 pounds was
taken out and dragged by a rope
through the variOug streets to the
north end of town, over a mile
away. The burglary was commit
ted within a stones throw of the
Second precinct police station, and was
discovered by an officer. who, with 9TH
ers, followed the tracks of the safe until
the y found it in the cellar of the house
occupied by Patrick Riel. On search
ing the house, John Connolly and Ed
ward Burns. two crooks, were found
asleep in one room. Each had loaded
revolver grasped in his hand, and there
were a number OF dynamite cartridges
in their pockets. They were arrested,
together with Riel and his wife. The
safe was not broken into.
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FIVE BUTCH Erred.
Terrible Tragedy in the Village of
Niles.


NILES, o., Dec. 22.-This community
was thunderstruck this evening by the
discovery of one of the most wholesale
and bloody butcheries that has ever oc-
CURED in this section of the state. The
victims, five in number, are Charles
Shelar. wife, and three children, and
the crime is supposed to have taken
place at an early hour this morning.
When the inhuman deed was discovered
at about 5 o'clock this evening,
all five bodies were stiff and
cold in death, with their throats
cut from ear TO ear. Shelar
and his wife were lying together
across the front of the bed and the three
children were on the floor in different
parts of the house. Shelar was mill
man and had steady employment, but
of late drank heavily, and it is rumored
that he and his wife did not live hap
PLY together. The theory advanced is
that Shelar, in fit of madness, cut the
thrOats of his wife and children and
then his own. The weapon used was a
razor, and was purchased by Shelar of a
hardware dealer Saturday evening. The
street i'm front of the house has been
densely packed all evening with an ex-
cited pOpulace, all eager to get glimpse
of the CHASTITY spectacle.
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SAILORS DROWNED.
They Are Capsized in Attempting
to Make shore.

They Are Capsized in Attempting
to Make shore.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.-Charles
Stevens, first mate. and William Hig-
ginson, second mate. of the ill-fated
ship Durham, which was amaged by
fire at Port Costa last week, and in the
hold of which two men were suffocated
by foul gases last Friday, were drowned
in the bay this afternoon. Stevens and
Higginsun, together with four others,
started from the ship in small boat for
the shore. High wind and tide were
prevailing at the time, and in attempt
ing to run near a barge an
chOred in the stream, their boat
was capsized and Stevens and Higginson
drowned. Both men are natives of
Liverpool, and HigginsOn leaves wife
and several children in that city.
LONDON, Dec. 23.-The missing boat
of the steamer Prinz Wilhelm l, which
was run down by an unknown sailing
vessel off the French coast, has arrived
at LIE Treport. The boat contained
thirteen persons.
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Stole a Valuable Letter.

DENVER. Col, Dec. 22.-Joseph Wood
ward, delivery clerk in the Denver post
office, was arrested last night while at
tempting to pass check for 81, 100 made
out in favor of Henry Bohm, a jewelry
dealer of this city. To-day Woodward
confessed he had taken the check from
an Immediate delivery letter addressed
to Bohm. The postoffice officials say
this kind of robbery has been going on
for several months. Another arrest will
probably be made tomorrow.
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In short Order.

New ORLEANS. Dec. "a fight this
afternoon between Andy Bowen, cham
pion lightweight of the South, and
James McHale, champion of Pennsyl-
vania. was one of the shortest on record.
After few seconds preliminary spar
ring Bowen struck McHale on the jaw,
knocking him down. 1t was fully fif-
teen seconds before he was brought to
time. Under strict ruling the fight had
already been won, but McHale came
up groggy, and Bowen struck him
another lick, knocking him out.
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Deserted the League.

PITTsBURG, Dec. 22.-Manager Han.
lon, of the Pittsburg players league
club, entered into negotiations Saturday
with Vlsner, of the Brooklyn national
league club. The results were SO salts
factory that Visner consented to play in
Pittsburg next season, and Manager
Hanlon sent him check for $500 adj
vance money, which he accepted.
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lamp was knocked off the table. The
burning oil fell upon little four-year-
old girl of Mrs. Wegley, and in an in
stant she was enveloped i'm sheet OF
flames. She ran out of the door, the
flames reaching three feet above her
head. Water was thrown on the little
one and she was rolled in blankets, but
she was SO. badly burned that she died
this morning.
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Negroes Flight in a CHURCH.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 22.-For some
time bad blood mas existed between two
factions Of the First Baptist church
(colored), in this city. and the trouble
eliminated this evening in fight be-
tween the members, in which Mike
Benjamin. c. Patterson and William
Jackson received severe wounds from
razors. Jackson was SO badly cut that
fears are entertained as to his recovery.
Twenty arrests have been made, and
warrants are out for twenty-five more
of the fighters.
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Killed by Influenza,

PARIS, Dec. 22.-Dr. Damaschino, a
leading physician, is dead. His death
was due to influenza and weakness of
the heart. This is the fifth death from
intiuen!a since the outbreak of the epi-
demic. three deaths from the disease
having occurred at the st. Cyr academy
and one at the Polytechnic school.
LONDON, Dec. 22.-Among the victims
of the influenza epidemic are Count Won
Taafe, the Austrian prime minister:
Archduke William of Austria and Prin-
cess Stephanie, widow of the late Crown
Prince Rudolph. The queen of Sweden
ha IS also been attacked. The disease is
spreading rapidly in Western Europe.
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THE PAWNEE BANK FAILURE.
How Bad the Smash Is Is Not
Known.

PAwNEE CITY, Neb.. Dec. 21.-The
Nebraska State bank. of this city, which
assigned Yesterday, had as officers d.
f. Hampstead, president, and S. E.
Smith, cashier. who came here two years
ago from Mendoza. ILL.,, and purchased
the bank, which was then we'll estab-
lisned. Hampstead built residence and
organized an electric light company, of
which he is now president. Smith
went to baling hay as an outside issue.
The bank building, Hempstead's resi-
dence and his share in the electric light
plant are turned over to the creditors,
Hampstead only reserying $1,000 resi-
dence, allowed by law. The bank
transacted business up to noon, when
the president closed the doors, saying it
was the best thing he could do. The
total liabilities are unknown. The
property turned over is estimated to be
worth between S40,0 and S50,0O0.
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Owing to severe Weather.

LISBON, Dec. 22.-The man-of-war
Yorktown, of the United States squad
ron of evolution. had not arrived here
up to noon to-day. Admiral Walker re-
ports that her non-arrival is due to Sc
we're weather. The Chicago exchanged
salutes with the land batteries and Ad-
miral Walker paid an official visit to the
Portuguese officers. The latter subse-
quently returned the visit. The squad
ron will remain here ten days and will
then 60 to the Mediterranean.
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EMPLOYEES GET A DIVIDE.
Profit-Sharing Tried by a New
England Firm.

FALL RIVER, Mass. Dec. 22.-The
first six month of profit-sharing with its
employees announced by the Bourne
mills last May, will end next Saturday.
1t is believed that about 800 hands will
have share in the division. During
the past six months the Bourne has
paid per cent in dividends to its stock
holders, and it remains for the direc-
tors to decide whether 6 per cent of the
amount thus paid, or more. shall be di-
vided among the help. The directors
to say that they consider the profit
sharing great success, but they will
issue circular to the help this week,
announcing a continuation of the
scheme until Jan. 26. 1890. The en-
ployes appear well satisfied with the
scheme.
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BER PASSAGE ROUGH.
The Steamer Britannia in a Heavy
Sea.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-The steamer
Britannia arrived to-day from Liverpool
with 66 cabin and 172 steerage passen-
gers. She had an unusually rough pass
age, and for five days was surrounded
by storms, which caused the waves to
wash over her decks. The bridge was
washed away and two lifeboats were
stove in. A sailor had one of his legs
broken and several other men suffered
slight injuries. The storm caused great
alarm among the steerage passengers.
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English MONEY Inyades Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO. Dec. 22.-An En-
glish company recently made an offer
for the government telegraph lines,
which was refused. The same COM
pany now asks for concession of line
to the Guatemalan frontier, with
branches through the country east and
west. Ii also proposes to establish lines,
throughout Central America.
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Nr;d.Winter Thunder Storm.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 22.-This city
was visited by the singular phenomenon
of mid-winter thunder storm early
this morning. It started about 8 o'clock
and continued an hour, during which
the thunder peals were terrific and
lightning almost continuous. The
storm was accompanied by high wind,
which blew at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. Signs were torn down, windows
and wires broken. Several small
buildings partially collapsed. The
white caps on the lake were the highest
seen in long time.