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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
TUssLE WITH A THIEF.
Thad G. Jones Cut in a Thrilling
Fight With a Burglar.

Saturday Thaddeus c. Jones heard a
sneak thief prowling about his resi-
dence, 555 Grand avenue, about 10
O'Clock in the evening. Going to his
front door Mr.. Jones sighted man just
turning the corner Of the house. Wait
ing until he came upon the porch, Nlr.
Jones hailed the fellow. who responded
by drawing a revolver and swapping it
at Jones. The latter grappled the thief
and the two men had desperate Strug-
gle, Jones calling "Polce!" and the
thief ''MurderI' Mrs. Jones repeat
eddy blew police whistle during the
struggle. Before the officers arrived the
the thief had freed himself, and rum
ming to the corner of Oakland avenue,
turned and discharged his revolver at
Mr.. Jones. He then Disappeared down
Oakland avenue. Upon going into the
house it was found that Mr.. Jones had
been cut with knife in the fieshy part
of the upper left arm. The wound is
about two inches and a half long, and
was stitched by physician. The cut
Is painful, but not serious. The best
description that can be given of the
thief is that by hired girl in the John
son family, next door. The girl saw
the fellow proving about the house,
and says he is medium-SiZed young
man of about twenty or twenty-five
years, without Oyercoat, wearing a soft
SlOu2h hat. The theory of the police is
that the fellow is hall thief. The de-
tectiVes have the case in baud.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
SAVED FROM SUNDAY.

]. J. Hill offers to donate $4,000 to the
public library plan.
The weather is evidently preparing for
Grounding day." on Feb. 2.
This mornings meeting of the chamber Of
commerce viii be of the greatest importance.
A lamp explosion last evening in the stable
damage of about S35.
A large Pitlsburg delegation to the National
Builders association got in last night. and
made headquarters at the Ryan.
Rev. DR.. Chase, of Indiana, the lieutenant
governor of the state. and better known as
'the fighting parson," preached at the
Christian chapel yesterday.
John Pierson, colored corn doctor and bar
Der. and Bridget Kelly, white. were caught
in lagrante delictu by the police at AS &C.
dar street. They were locked up on charge
of disoruerly conduct
The careless piling of a lot of sacks against
an oven on the Third floor of the Berrisford
bakery. Fifth and Minnesota caused blaze
yesterday afternoon. The fire department
put it out in its inciplency.
At the meeting of the carnival clubs Satur-
day evening it was decided not to accept the
invitation TO go to Red Wing. and G. Somers
so informed Mayor Howe by letter. num-
Der of individuals will visit the little city
down the stream, however.
The three plays Clara Morris will give dur
ing her engagement have been wisely Sc
lected. Miss Morris appearing in three of
the roles she has become famous in-to-night
Camille" tomorrow Belot's "L'Article AZ
and Wednesday night Renee De Moray
Miss Morris and her company come direct
from Cleyelond, where she has been playing
the past week, giving seven performances to
the largest audiences of the season at the
opera house there.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27

The Romantic Story of a Little
Southern Girl Who Was Kid
mapped.
Ashrille Egis.
About five years ago James J. Arnold.
a son of old Parson Arnold, well known
in Shelby and adjoining counties of Al
ALBANIA, while visiting his stepmother,
Mrs. Nancy Arnold, of Calera. Shelby
county, had four-year-oId daugh-
ter, Mafiaia j., stolen from him.
MIR. Arnold learned that his child had
been seen with the woman who called
herself Sarah j. Colbert, and who had
undoubtedly taken the girl away. In
quiry at the railroad Office at Calera re-
vealed no hint as to the direction gone
or the objective point of the child
stealer. The child's mother had died
when the former was an infant. but
there was small brother and sister
still living, home companions at the
time of the abduction of the girl.
A search for the stolen daughter
proved fruitleSS, and five years had
elapsed. In the meantime the father
had moved to Mississippi and returned
again to Tuscaloosa county. where he
lived when his daughter was stolen, and
where he has resided for the last two
years since his return from Missis-
sippi. In 1887 John G. Arnold, who had
assisted his brother IN the search for
the lost child, received postal card,
dated Jan. IA. from Key, Ala, and
signed u. M. Bridges" informing him
1.-THE parties" he inquired about got
their mail at that Office. From this clue
only the brother continued his search
by inquiries and correspondence in the
effort to discover the whereabouts of
his lost niece.
Nearly three more years were thus
spent in trying to unravel the mystery
of the stolen child, when at last what
appeared to be fruitless effort was re-
warded by substantial clue to the girls
probable whereabouts. The father re-
twenty miles south of Tuscaloosa
City, to trace up the information
he had obtained. On reaching
st. Clair he followed the wind
Ings of the CooSa, via Greensport and
Hoke's Bluff, entering Cherokee the
county he set out for. He had learned
that a little waif girl had been left with
a McAlva in Cherokee, about fifteen to
eighteen miles above Co.oma. A de-
scription of the child convinced Mr.. Ar
mold that she was his lost daughter. On
reaching McAlva's his convictions were
confirmed as soon as his eyes looked
upon her features.
McAlva said the girl had been left at
his house by woman calling herself
Sal Wheeler, who was found to go also
by the alias Sal Colbert, and who after
ward came back after the child, he re-
fusing to give her up. but let her have
the latter's clothes, which she de-
manded. The girl had been called
Emma by the woman who stole her, but
retained the memory of her real name.
MahaIa is now about nine years old,
and of pleasant features, bright and in
teligent face, and by no means of an
unpreposSing appearance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
THEY BEAT THE RECORD.
A Community Made Up of Cen
tenarians and Giants.


tenarians and Giants.
Baltimore Sun.
''Back in Montgomery county, eleven
miles from Laurel. on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, and twelve miles from
Rockville, is the little village of Sandy
Spring, a Quaker settlement whose
population is but seventy-fve persons,
get which IS noted for the length of time
its inhabitants live and the stature
they ATTAIN" said Robert. Ell. Moran.
Now, | am not what you would call a
little nor young man. l am seventy
seven yeaIs old, am six feet in height
and weigh 200 pounds, yet | can not
hold candle to some of the chaps who
live there. The old people there
are dying off, though. Now there
was the Penn family. Mary lived
to be 100 years old. Edward
died at 104. Lizzie was 103 when she
died, and Joseph 101. Joshua lived to
be niuety-nIne years and ten months.
Mary No. 2 was ninety-eighr, and
another Mary was eighty-nine. William
town. He died at l13 years. The
Bell boys were triplets. They were
Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego. Every
Ole of them was over 100 years old,
and the smallest of them was six feet
four inches in hight. Both the others
were six feet five inches. Then there
were two men, one named Davis and
the other Thatcher, both of whom were
over one hundred. Isaac Moore iived
to be one hundred and two. Mrs. Rus
sell dided at one hundred and four.
Mrs. Kirk was one hundred and one.
Billy Matthews and Will Mccormick
were each one hundred and one when
they died. Billy Simpson was
100 and Mahlon Chandler is now living
at 100. Now for the big fellows: Ed
Penn was feet and Josh was feet 2.
Robert Sullivan was feet 5. He had
two sons, Will and George. who were
feet 4 and 6 feet s., respectively.
Mahlon and Nelson Sullivan were
brothers, and each was feet
4 inches high. There was Rich
ard Sullivan, whom we use to call Long
Dick. He was six feet four. He had
two sons. Ed and Perry, who are still
living, both six feet two. DR.. Artemas
Riggs was six sect five inches in height.
weighed 2O9 pounds, without an ounce
of superfluous flesh, and was one of
the best men in the county. There
were three men, who were named Will
lam Brown, and we had to nickname
them to distinguish them. There was
Big Bill Brown, feet 8; Long Bill
Brown was feet 5, and Little Bill
Brown was feet ~; Isaac Moore was
6 feet 2. but his son Nathan went him
one better and was feet 8. Perry
Lizear is still living. He is over eighty
years old. is six feet two in his stock
ings, weighs 220 pounds, is straight as
an arrow, and one of the best men in
the county. l tell you what, if you
have any children and want them TO
live long and grow big, just send them
to Sandy Spring."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
MAY PROVE FATAL.
A Serious Cutting ARRAY at a
Swede Ball on the
Bluff.
Scandi navian NationalitieS
Engender a Bloody Little
Fight.
A st. Anthony Hill House.
holder Has a Scrap With
a Burglar.
The st, Paul Press Clubs An
The st. Paul Press Clubs An
nual Election and Ban
quet.

Every Saturday evening the Scandi-
navians of the East side give a ball.
That of last Saturday was a lively af-
fair, and one man may lose his life
through participating in it. There are
frequently tough fights, but until the
latest ball no serious rows have oc-
CURED. 1t took place in the boarding
house at the end of the bridge on
Arcade street, across the railway
tracks. A young man named August
MOhl, a Norwegian, got inro an alter
cation with several Swedes, and from
words the parties soon came to blows.
The Swedes set upon Mohl. and during
the fracas he was terribly stabbed with
knife, receiving three cuts in the
head and an ugly wound in the back,
which narrowly missed penetrating the
lungs. Covered with blood, Mohl was
rescued by the police and taken to his
home at 6S4 Wells street, where his in
juries were dressed by DR.. Coggswell.
The officers are searching for Mohl's
assailants, but so far have failed to To-
cate them or CLEAN any information
which warrant them in making an ar
rest. Mohl is single man and lives
with his parents. Hopes are enter
tanned that he will recover.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
AN EIGHT-HOUR RULE.
Is a Delicate Subject With the
Master Builders Asso-
citation.
And the Same May Be Said
Of the Local Laws Now
in Force.
The Builders Are Gathering
and the Convention Will
Open To-Day.
Officers Are on the Ground,
But Few Care to Be In
tervieWed.

Everything was quiet about the con-
tractors and builders headquarters
yesterday. No Sunday programme had
been arranged, though many of the
visitors spent the day in sIeighriding
about the city. Most of the delegates
now in the city attended church in the
morning, after which, about noon, re-
ception was held at the rooms. There
were but few arrivals yesterday,
the majority of the delegates
being billed to arrive this morning.
President Scrlbner, of the National as
ISOLATION, was seen yesterday by a re-
porter for the GLOBE, and questioned
as to what action the association would
probably take regarding the proposed
adoption of the eight-hour day in the
building trades, also with reference to
the proposed abolition of the lien laws
and the Endorsement of "Sub-contract-
ing' by the association. He stated
that it was impossible to in any
way anticipate the action of
the association on any of these queS-
oughly discussed, but as to what final
OF prophesying correctly.
This mornings session of the
convention will open promptly
at 10 O'Clock in the hall of the builders
ana contractors board of trade. Up to
last evening only 100 out of $50 delegates
had arrived, though it is probable that
the remainder will reach the city on the
early trains this morning. The proceed
jugs this morning, following an open
ing address by the president, will consist
in the appointment Of committee on
credentials, after which recess will be
taken until afternoon, when the COM
mittee will report. Following the
report of the committee the
roll will be called and re-
solutions will be in order. Next will
come the appointment of a committee
to appoint the time and place for
the holding of the fifth an
nual convention and to nomi-
nate officers for the coming year.
The reports of officers for the past year
will also be received as well as those of
standing committees and special COM
mittees. To-morrow's session will be
devoted to the discussion OF the import
ant measures mentioned above.
In talk with Secretary William FL.
Seward, of Boston. as to what, in his
opinion, would be the action of
the association on the ques-
lions at issue, that gentleman
stated his inability to say anything on
the subject. In his opinion, nothing
should be said until the questions had
been before the association.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27

John Daily is reputed to be worth
100000. In considering the cost of
maintaing his place, the rent is prob
ably $1,000 year; ten dealers, at $500
a year each, $4,000: walters and
attendants, say $4,000 yearly; liquors,
$4,000 year, and cooks and the cost of
setting their nightly repasts, $4,000
yearly. All this means an annual out
lay of $4,000. 1t is also to be taken
into consideration that the several per-
sons interested in this establishment
count their yearly profits at anywhere
from S25, 900 to $150.000. Just why, then
patrons of this place is hard to deter
mine.
supper is served, gentlemen" Is an
nounced nightly AT IL O'Clock. 1t would
be hard to imagine more sumptuous
repast. There are always several kinds
of roastS, game in variety and alum
dance-in short, everything that the
most eplcurean palate could desire.
The faces at the table form an interest
ing study.
The losers, with detected air, take
everything that's offered, as a beggar
might take aims. The walters know
these, and. unless they are regular Gus
toners, waste little time in serving
them. Then these unfortunate be-
ings stink out of the place, curs-
ing their luck, moralizing on the evil
effects of gambling, and finally uttering
the oft-repeated and as often broken
VOW, that they Twill never gamble again
as long as they live"
With the winners, generally in the
minority, of course, the case is different.
They are not trying to eat "a thousand
dollars worth of ham, for they are
ahead of the game, and feel disposed to
treat the whole house. Their laughter
and jokes are as death knell to the less
fortunate ones. The walters are all at
tentiOn to these, for they Will tip lib
orally, and nothing seems good enough
for man who has "brOken the bank"
1t happens Often-alaS. how ofteni-
that winner, after his supper, will re-
turn to the wheel or the faro table '.just
to drop flyer, you know" and in nine
cases out of ten this one will soon ap-
pear at the street door with hollow eyes
and sorrowful looks, with the same
anathemas, the same moraliZing and the
same old, WORKOUT resolutions.
There is no income large enough for
a gambler, and there is no vice that
takes firmer. stronger hold on its vic
tins than does this lust for play. 1t is
argued that stock speculation is no
more dangerous than faro, and
that the latter even offers a better
show for the money invested. This
may or may not be the case, but it is
certainly evident that stock brokers
office does not have the demoraliZing in
fluence that surrounds gambling den.
Amau may gamble with 81. This
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27

ring at the bell will he answered by
polite cOlored individual, who will first
scan his visitors through small pigeon
hole in the door, ami then, if satisfied
with their appearance, will open the
door with an obSequiouS bow and
"Good evening, gentlemen"
Inside there is a large. well-furnished
parlor, an elaborate dining room and
but visitors, as rule, make for the
upper stories as soon as they enter, and
so, without wasting any unnecessary
time, let US proceed at once to the top
story. On reaching there one glance is
enough. The tiger is before you.
This floor has been fitted up regard
less of expense. At one end of the large
room is a faro layout. This is regularly
patroniZed by certain class of sports
who scorn the allurements of 1.-THE
wheel" The chips vary in price from
so cents to S25 each.
Nat Goodwin is an inveterate faro
player, and plays fol- high stakes. If
Nat is i'll luck, he stands In a big winner
in short order. but if the cards are run
ming against him he usually quits the
bank with 81 900 due bill tucked away
in the drawer.
A number of well-known business
men are seen here off and OH, and many
check payable to the order of CASH
finds its way into the nav of this
rapacious beast. The baccarat table is
not so well patrOnizeo, but it helps to
make the room look attractive. The
same may be said of the dice game,
which the gamblers appropriately name
s'haZard."
A great source Of revenue to the bank
is 1.-The Wheel" or the roulette table.
This is generally surrounded by the
'amateurs." The chips are usually %
cents each. College students get rid of
much of their pocket money betting
against the wheel, and many.a Yale and
Princeton student remembers his last
visit to the metropolis with sorrow on
this account. The odds given OH rou-
lette vary from ''even up'' to thIrty-siX
for one. and although scarcely one in
1000 ever comes out ahead at this game,
there are young men in this citywho are
kept constantly in.debt and trouble, or.
worse still. have been driven to petty
detalcation through the fascination Of
the roulette table. 1t is said that one
young mau, who has an income of St2.-
600 a year, drops $4,000 of this amount
every year at Daly's in this manner.
The dealers and attendants at this
place are always polite and courteous.
Liquors are always ION tap" and are
free. There is a fine supper served
every night at II o'clock, but of this
hereafter.
Does it ever occur to the numerous
gudgeonS who ''patrOniZe' this eStab-
liShment that it is their money that
pays for it all-that cigars at $50 apiece,
sandwiches at an equal cost or whisky
at SO drink are IuxurieS at once fool
ish and unnecessary?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
SLANG ON ROSY LIPS.

Not only Mrs. Grundy. but all refined
and modest people have held up their
hands and lifted their eyebrows in as
tonishment upon perceiving how the
pride of her land-the American girl
adapted herself to the whms, provin-
clallSmS and slang of the lower range
of the male family. To particularIze:
The conforming of dress to that worn
by her brother in many details; the en-
gaglng IN like pursuits and
pleasures: the chewing-gUm craze,
smoking cigarettes and the glib
tongued slang; and now that
monitor of modesty-Mrs. Grunnv-
opens her eyes wider. and holds her
hands straight above her dizzy head, to
know that 1t is not uncommon for not
only the shop and factory girl, but even
the society angel. to give expression to
downright cusS words-plain profanity.
This last deprecatory practice of sin.
common to the rabble, street loafrr and
such, is not reStricted to the fair ones
while in the exclusive society of each
other, but growing bold with custom it
is not uncommon to hear such words as
''d-n it, escape from their rosy lids in
the social circle, and even upon
the streets of st. Paul. Can it
OS u uO Ihts GHcSS several mutations
are but steps in the descending scale
which will bring the sexes to common
plane socially aid politically? And will
the present century not close ere the
angels of this country are brought down
to stand upon common ground with the
being who was created a little lower
than the angels? 1t is gratifying to
remember that, however many may, in
the years to come take a stand upon
that plane, yet there will also remain a
goodly number of the sisters of our be-
loved Columbia, who, with true mod
esty, will ever walk on the higher plane
by conforming to the true wolnanly
character aud abstaining from the
foibles and disgraces of her less circunl.
spect sisters, and will consequently
nave fewer wrinkles and more beautiful
races as they grow into gray woman
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
SAINT PAUL.

Postmaster Lee says there are in the
st. Paul postoffi2e men who have been
there twenty years. True. But it they
had been Democrats, how long would
theyremain under an incoming Repub-
lican administration?
Lillian Lewis and Clara Morris will
each essay ''Ar,icle Az Tuesday, and
it is said it is no advertising sch9me,
either.
1t is almost time for little action on
the electric street car lines that were
last fall to have been lin operation be-
fore the snow fiies.'
Col. jim Hill will give $4,000 for
library. even if he has to smoke cheap,
25-cent cigars for the rest of the year.
There are several prominent men in
st. Paul who would willingly give $1,000
to the Republican campaign fund, but
refuse half that amount to an auditorium
fund.
Nellie Bly's trip around the world
was very Interesting and occupied sew
enty-two days. One of the local papers
could achieve fame and fortune by send
ing bright reporter to follow the
course of letter mailed in st. Paul and
bound for Minneapolis. 1t would take
longer, of course, but the experience
would be much more variegated.
No, Constant Reader, 70. The ice cut
out of the Mississippi river is not for
the purposes of family use. 1t is pure
as police reporters dream, but it is
only for beer-cOoling purposes.
If Col. Kiefer is elected mayor Off he
Isl MOritz Deenstag is to be his secre-
tary. Moritz swears he will ''do up''
the city hall people and claims, along
with Me Pottgeiser, the credit of
'bringing Kiefer out" Both are ar
TOgating too much to themselves. Col.
Klefer has been out for long time
now.
The burgerveriens now being organ
lied in the different wards are the same
as those in the last spring election. The
members claim that the organic alton
has no political significance, but is
sincerely an association of American
citizens who find it more convenient to
express themselves in German"
l.. n. Scott and wife left yesterday
afternoon for trip to the Pacific coast.
MIR. Scott will combine business with
pleasure. The genial George Sy monds
will manage the Newmarket during his
absence.
1t is reported that eX-Fire Chief John
I. Black VIII again be chief of the fire
department. Not as long as Chef Jack
son maintains his present high standard
and is surrounded 10y as efficeut set
OF fi1emen. Not in hundred years."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
No Dentists Needed in Labrador.

Lewiston Journal.
Little Miss krarer, the Eskimo, called
on E. Il. White, the Lewiston dentist.
on Tuesday, to have her teeth fixed.
She told in her own way to Mr.. White
that probable she was the first Eski-
mo that he ever attended profession
ally, and he agreed. She remarked
this curious fact that only since coming
to civilization, where dentists live and
thrive, had she ever needed the attend
ance of one, and she said naiveiy: "Is
there anything communicating in the
profession?" Her father lived to
be nearly fifty, and ne never had
decayed tooth. None of her family or
friends were ever troubled. She never
heard of an Eskimo who had anything
but sound teeth. Mr.. White found Miss
Kraer's needs. from dental point of
view, to be quite as great as those of
any average American girl. all of it de-
veloped, she declared, since coming to
America.