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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08

All the country west of the eastern
base of the Rocky mountains
requires irrigation, except part
OF Washington, Oregon and
Northern California. west of the Cas-
cade mountains. and small areas In
Eastern Oregon. Washington and North
ern Idaho. The report charges the geo
logical survey with diyerting S1S0,000 OF
the money appropriated for irrigation
surveys to typographical survey. The
committee submits an estimate OF
areas under cultivation. From this 1t
seems that the area under ditch is l3,-
$4,000 acres, Of which 4,O00.000 IS In
California and 5000, coo III Colorado. The
amount cultivated by irrigatlon is 7,565,-
600, of which 3,30o,0O0 Is in California
and 100000 in Colorado. Projects
under way last year and
partially completed will bring
the acreage under ditch up to 15,0oo,O00
acres. The total value Of the reclaimed
land is nearly s700,000,000. Allowing
for the reclaimability of 1G0.000.O00
acres out of the 1000, 100000 of arid land,
and we have as a result total real 'es-
tate value of $500, 100000. Seven
tenthS of this whole area is now
the property of the United States:
The committee in the bill reported
heretofore recommended the transfer
of the subject to the department of ag-
riculture. Mr.. Reagan submits the
minority report. disagreeing with most
of the conclusions of the majority, and
recommending congressional action
diametrically opposed. The MI
nority says that the arid lands
embrace an erea of 100000
square miles. of which 100,00o,00O acres
can be redeemed for agriculture by
using the total supply of the perennial
streams. The minority recommend the
adoption of system Of measuring the
waters used tor irrigation to prevent
waste. They urge the necessity OF pro
tecting the forests which are being
rapidly burned also the pasturage lands.
The irrigable lands should be segre-
gated and declared such, and the right
to use water on them established, anu a
prohibition put on the use of water on
other lands. Irrigation districts should
be established, and farmers on these
lands control the catchment areas With
all their values. The minority believe
the recommendation to discontinue the
Topographic work of the survey unWise,
and also think experimental boring 1or
artesian waters unWise.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08

firms check for s1,937.55, the differ
ence between the amount of the bill
and draft. Barnett then went to
piano house and bought piano, pre-
senting the shoe firms check in pay
ment therefor. In the meantime the
shoe dealers became suspicious of their
customer, and search revealed the
fact that they had been warned to look
to look out for swindler answering the
description of Barnett. Detectives were
notified, and Barnett was caught just as
messenger who had gone from the
piano house to the bank was about
placing the $1.637 cash into his hands.
Barnett is wanted in Chicago. where he
represented hsmself as John Davis, and
passed a draft on M. d. Wells & Co. for
$3.50, receiving 1918 in cash. The Chi
cago police sent out description OF
him, which was instrumental in causing
his arrest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
TO THE Guis.LorINE.
The Streets the NIournful Process
sion Used to Pass Through.

The Streets the NIournful Process
sion Used to Pass Through.
Saturday Review.
A never-ending procession Of victims
passed down the Rue st. Ho more to the
Louis XV.-wheie the principal guillo-
tine had been erected. There were
guillotines, however, in several other
parts Of the city, and it was no uncom-
mon matter for person going out shop
ping in the morning to eetWith three or
four professions of unhappy beings pro-
ceeding to execution. A Well-organlzed
band Of furies usually accompanied
them. shouting and bowling insults and
cries of "Death!" Early in 1874 protests
were made by residents along the lines
of route to the guiilotlneS that sensitive
persons were beginning to avoid those
streets and that this did great harm to
their commerce. They therefore petit
toned that the routes should be at least
occasionally changed. Later on another
request was made to the national as
sembly concerning the unhealthy con-
dition of the Place de la Revolution, lit
orally stepped in blood, which emitted
a horrible and dangerous stencil.
Strange, however. as it may seem,
many of these executions, notably those
of important perSOnageS, were attended
by great numbers of apparently respect
able people. and the Moniteur con-
tanned many advertisements to the effect
that ''So-and-so hires out chairs to wit
ness the guillotning of, say Louis XVI.
or Nine. Roland, or, indeed, of any con-
spicuous person, at SO much an hOur.''
A contemporary engraving repre-
senting the execution of Louis
XVI. shows us crowd of well-dressed
people comfortably seated in their
chairs, placed OH high and well-built'
wooden stand. and not few of them
are using their opera glasses. Duval is
shocked when he records that during
the massacres of September "on dansat
en- banheue." In fact. the gay and vol
atile nature of the Parisians could not
be wholly suppressed, and some by no
means badly-intentioned people made "a
sort of fete of the tragic events which
were perpetually occurring.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
F1REMEN WE'RE HELPLESS.
The Loss by the Singer Sewing
Machine Fire Is $2,OOO.OOO.

The Loss by the singer Sewing
Machine Fire Is $2.OOO.OOO.
Z ELIZABETH, N. j.. May 7.-Never be-
fore was the city visited by fire SO
gcaIamitous as that which occurred last
might. in the destruction by fire of the
great factory of the Singer Manufactur-
ing company. At five minutes before
II O'Clock bright light was seen Oh
the upper floor, but before an alarm
could be sounded the flames burst
from windows on the north and
south sides OF the great structure, and
when the fire companies reached the
spot, the clouds seemed touched by the
flames. The scene was awe-inspiring.
Thousands of persons rose from their
beds, awakened by the clang of the
bells, and soon great tide of excited
humanity was vending its way toward
the scene of destruction. John L.
Andrews. of the Park hotel. nearly OPP
posite the front Of the factory, was the
first to see the ire and give the alarm.
Hibernia steamer was first to start for
the scene, but it sunk hub
deep in mud hole, within
amounting to s562.45. In payment
thereof he presented draft purporting
to be drawn by G. E. Casey, cashier OF
the Farmers National bank, of Pawnee
City, Neb., to the order of James Smith.
on the Hanover National bank, New
York. In exchange he received the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
FEIED BY FRENCHMEN.
officers Of the Squadron of Evolu-
ton BanGueted at Aigiers.

ALG1ERs, May 7.-The officers of the
garrison here to-day gave dinner to
the officers attached to the American
squadron of evolution. The terraces,
barracks and reception rooms were
brilliantly illuminated in honor of the
visitors and French and American
flags entwined were profusely dis
played. In the center of a group
of flags in the dining room was
superb shield upon which was
inscribed: 1.-The officers of the AIgierS
squadron to the officers of the American
navy" The principal courtyard had
been rooted in and was made to serve
as ball room for the occasion. Gen.
Bayard, in the absence of the COM
mander, received the guests and pre-
sided at the banquet. The chairman
gave the toast, "The Fraternity of the
Two Republics" to which Rear Adj
miral Walker responded. During the
banquet the Zouave band played "Hall
Columbia and the "Marseillaise." The
governor and most of the prominent
people of the city were present.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
But He Couldn't.

Detroit Free Press.
A couple of men who were playing
cards in Michigan avenue saloon the
other day got into dispute, and one of
them brought his fist down upon the
table with the exclamation:
Il can lick you out of your boots in
two minutes.o
81 guess you can," replied the other.
II can lick you and the whole family
behind you."
"Oh, no."
eyes. l can"
'I-don't believe it."
"But | know can."
The mild-mannered man turned to
the crowd and asked:
Father. Bill, Jim, Tom. Heury, Wal
lace. Stephen, George. Andrew, do you
hear that? Mother and Ann and Betsy
are not here, but | guess we can do
him."
And the ten jumped onto the beaster
and had him yelling for mercy inside OF
a minute,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
"rHE FARMERS FRIEND"
How Meiiette Has Done Damage
to South Dakota.

to South Dakota.
Special to the Globe.
CHAMBERLAIN, s. D., May THE
effects of the recent begging tour OF
Gov. Mellette are already beginning to
be felt. Citizens, regardless OF poiti-
cal alliances, say that the governor has
done more, to depreciate the value OF
farms and stagnate business in South
Dakota than good crops and bureau OF
immigration can offset in the next two
years. By his course the prosperous
sections of the state must suffer
as well as the unfortunate. All
sections. are banded together as
the home of poverty, hunger aud suf-
fering. and all must suffer together.
Eastern people do not distinguish tie
difference between localities. That GER
tain sections Of the state are in an al
most destitute condition cannot be de-
MED, but that those sections are and
were perfectly able to take care OF their
own unfortunate people, without pa
rading before the people OF the c0un-
try condition of destitutiOn, all fair
minded people admit. The general
opinion among the citizens here IS that
there was not county III the state that
was not able to purchase the amount of
grain necessary to tide over the seeding
season, and that all local means should
at. least have been exhausted
before going before the coun-
try with cry of poverty,
for which sufficient time was not al
lowed by the governor in his anxiety to
make great play for the farmer vote.
The worst effect OF his work yet felt is
in recent order of Eastern loan com
panies notifying their local agents not
to grant extensions OH mortgages out
standing, and ere long it will result in
many farmers losing their homes. The
farmers will suffer more through the
action of Governor MelIette than by
drouth and failure of crops. and the de-
moralization will extend not only to
destitute regions, but all over the state.
And this is the man who poses as the
farmers candidate for United States
senator. 1t was fine play, but what
will the great mass of farmers have to
CIV ahOut ito
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Walter Did Not Return.

Special TO the GIobe.
FFReus FALLS, May 7.-Walter Live
ly, aged fourteen, son of A. F. Lively,
well-known citizen of the township of
Bluffton, started out to look for cattle
on the night of May 5 and has not since
been seen. 1t is feared he has met with
an accident and is unable to return. He
took with him a mare, colt and dog.
The colt and dog have returned. A
party of twelve searchers from New
York Mills and fifteen from the village
of Bluffton started out this morning to
look for him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08

Metaux trial to-day. the public prose-
cutor sought to show that NJ. Secretan
had tried to forestall the copper supply
in order to control prices. and that he
production. This, the prosecutor said,
decisiveIy proved that speculation
caused the disaster He demanded the
conviction of the accused, though he
said they could make only moral repara-
tion,a the harm that had been wrought
was irreDarabe.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Failed to Get a Quorum.

Special to the Globe.
FARGO. N. D., May THE Nom
Partisan Prohibition alliance met in
Fargo to day. Arne Pr Haugan, of
Grand Forks, was made chairman, and
w. a. franklin, of Walfpeton, seere-
tary. The desired number to constitute
a quorum not materiaIlzing, the day
was devoted to the discussion of num-
Der of subjects. The w. G.. 7. u. met
in conjunction with the alliance in the
afternoon, and it was decided that here
after the two organizations shall work
in unison. Committees to draw up
plans for campaign work were named.
and it was thought best to hold another
meeting some time in June next.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Prominent Minnesotian Dead.

Special to the Globe.
RED WING. May TT. X. Simmons.
one of the most prominent Scandinavia
ans in Minnesota, died this afternoon at
his home here after long illness, aged
tifty-eight years. He had been resi-
dent here since 1856. He was promi-
nent business man. being identified
with many of the leading enterprises
here. He was the senior member of the
banking firm of Pierce. Simmons 81 Co.,
and had been prominent in politics,
having for many years been member
of the county board. In 1886 he was
chairman of the Republican congress
Sional committee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
STOLE A sM.LI. FORTUNE.
Real Estate Agent Lancaster En-
bezzles $4,000.

Real Estate Agent Lancaster En-
bezzles $4,000.
Z PHILADELPHIA, May 7.-Real Estate
Agent Eilwood Lancaster, who con-
Quoted f1ourishing business on Wal
nut street, is fugitive from justice.
He is charged with the embezzlement
Of funds entrusted to him to invest.
The amounts variously estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000. A sheriff's
capias for his arrest is in the hands of
private detectives, who think they will
soon get their man. His victims are
mainly of the poorer classes. The
heaviest loser is William E. Flemings.
ar employe of Charles 5. Caffey & Co.'S
carriage warehouse, 17l2 Chestnut
street. His loss is more than $4,000
the hard-earned savings of a lifetime.
Lancaster, who is thirty years OF age,
left a wife and four children in almost
destitute circumstances.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
TOOLE IS A BENEDICT
Nontana's Governor Weds the
Pretty Daughter of Gen.
RoSecPanS.
Secretary Proctor Seeks to
Head Off Frauds Among
Flood Sufferers.
Opening of the Great Debate
on the Republican Tariff
Bill.
McKinley Explains the Meas
upe and Mills Picks 1t
to Pieces.

WASHINGTON, May 7.-rhe marriage
of Miss Lilly Rosecrans, daughter OF
Gen. Rosecrans, to Gov. 1oole, of Mon-
tana, was quietly solemnized at the par
sonage of ST. Matthew's church at II
O'Clock to-day. The wedding was pri-
vate, with only Gen. Rosecrans and a
few intimate friends of the bride pres,
ent. The governor and his bride will
leave the city this afternoon for a two
weeks soiOurn at the SeashOre, and
then go to their home in Montana.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
CoIorcd Walters Are Wratby.

CHICAGO, May 7.-Nine hundred col.
ored walters held meeting tonight
and decided to strike in the morning iP
their employers did not yield to de-
mand for shorter hours aud better pay.
All present signed the strike agreement.
Every large restaurant where co!0red
waters are employed was represented
at the meeting. The white walters and
a few of the colored men have enforced
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
eHoDY,s WARDS ABUSED.
children Whipped and Ghoked by
Inhuman Teachers.

Providence. R. l., May 7.-ln the
Investigation at the state house to-day.
after some general testimony about the
Whipping of children, Miss Emma j..
Carr, former teacher, gave evidence
in regard to Harry Phare, who died
and was buried without a prayer the
same night. The boy became i'll; Sup
erintenaeut Haly said to her that all he
needed was "a dose of cayenne pepper
to get up his gumption." Healy told
Miss Carr that she was not to whip the
children while any one WAS around, but
was to take them to the cellar, see that
the windows were closed, and, If they
attempted to cry. choke them. Mrs.
Elizabeth B.. Chase. phiIanthrophist
of Valley Falls. through whose lnstru-
mentality the home was established,
testified. and blamed the board of edu-
cation for the condition Of things.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
sCALDED AND MANGLED.

Locomotive Men Blown Into
Eternity by Boiler Explo.
sion.
WELLINGTON, Kan., May 7.-Just as
a freight train on the Atchison. Topeka
s. Santa Fe was crossing small bridge
q few miles east of this place this even
ing the boiler exploded. John Mack. of
Chanute. the engineer, was crusheda and
scalded to death. The fireman, name
unknown. was scalded and mangled in
terrible manner. His recovery is
doubtful. The force of the explosion
destroyed the bridge. and sixteen cars
of cattle were precipitated in the creek,
fifteen feet below. The loss to the
railroad company will be considerable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
St. Cuthbert, the woman-Hater.

St. Cuthbert, the woman II ater.
st. Cuthbert would have no female
creature about his place at tLandisfarne,
not suffering even a COW. saying:
"Where there is cow there must be
woman, and where there is woman
there must be mischief" In the cathe-
dral at Durham. dedicated to him,
black cross in the pavement marked
the spot beyond which no woman
was allowed to. pass. In 1888
Edward Ill. and his queen went to
the priOry at Durham and lodged to-
gether. In the middle of the night
monk broke into their room aud rudely
awakened the royal pair, saying to the
queen that st. Cuthbert loved not the
sex, and that she must up and 60. The
queen tumbed out of bed and spent the
rest of the night in the church, praying
for pardon to the patron saint. whom
she had offended. In 1417 two servant
girls dressed themselves as men and
.impiously approached the saints
shrinr.n only to be severely handled by
the authorities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Panic i'm a Colliery.

LONDON, May THE Abram colliery
at Leigh. a few miles southwest OF
Bolton. caught fire to-day. Excitement
for while ran high, as $50 men we're
working in the pit at that time. Prompt
and intelligent action, however, re-
suited in the rescue of the $50 men.
every one of whom was brought OUT
safe and sound.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Nichols May Escape Prison.

Special to the Globe.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, May o.
Judge Marshall has granted the motion
for new trial in the case of the state
against A. o. Nichols, who was found
guilty of the crime of rape last May,
and sentenced to ten years in Waupun.
1t appears that within the past year the
supreme court of this state declared
that the statute under which Nichols
was convicted was null and void. which
left Judge Marshall no alternative but
to grant the motion, aud no doubt the
prisoner will get off without further
punishment. The friends Of Nichols
are tubiIant.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
The Boom Open.

Special to the Globe.
LITTLE FALLS, May THE boom at
this place is now open and the big
log drive of the Mississippi and Rum
River Boom company is rapidly passing
the sluiee of the Little Falls Water
Power company's dam. The present
section of the drive contains several
million feet, and its rear will probably
pass the last of the week. Other sec
inns will then follow
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Dabomeyans Demoralized.

PARIS, May 7.-Official dispatches
patches from .Kotoncu say that the
bombarding of Whydah has demoralized
the Dahomeyans, and that they are in
clined to accept the terms of the.
French. Forty-siX naval fusileers and
1856 marine infantry have embarked at
BIcsX for Dakar and KOtonOu.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08

fre on the northerly side are cracked,
and will have to be rebuilt. The loss
of intricate machinery and patterns
that cannot be replaced cannot be es-
timated. The floors of the building,
constructed of brick and iron, remain
intact. The company's officers approxi44
mate its loss at 81. .0O0.O90 which is COW
vered by insurance in fund especially
provided and set apart for that pur-
nOco
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
SCRANTON Is sINGED.
Fire Destroys a Carriage Factory
and Many Dwellings,.

rIfc destroys Il Carriage dCtOEJ
and Many Dwellings,.
SCRANTON, Pa, May AT 8 o'clock
this evening fire broke out in the works
of the Bloom Carriage Manufacturing
company on Eighth street. The flames
spread rapidly to adjoining property
and destroyed eighteen private dwell
ings, the pattern shop and boiler house
of Finch'S foundry and the screen works
of Brock & Ross. For two hours the
fire ragged with great fury. being famed
by a strong wind. Most Of the families
in the burned dwellings were able to
remove their effects, thus lessening the
loss. One block of twelve houses was
carried away completely. Every fire
company in the city was summoned to
the scene, and at 10 the fire was under
control. The entire loss will reach
100000. only part of which is covered
by insurance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
seven Successive Terms.

Special to the GLOBE
DEADwooD. S. d., May 7.-Hon. Sol
Star was yesterday elected mayor OF
Deadwood for the seventh successive
time. His popularity is shown by the
fact that there was no opposition.
Kellar, Treber, Comey and j. Il. Ed
monds were elected to the city council
The vote cast reached nearly I,400.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Conversion of Egypt's Loan.

PARIS, May 7.-Tigrane Pasha, the
under foreign secretary, and Mr.. Palm
er, the khediye's secretary, have noti-
fed the French minister of foreign af-
fairs that Egypt assents 10 the French
conditions for the conversion of the
Egyptian loan. The result gives gen
eral satisfaction, and it is hoped the
powers will concur.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
strikine Coopers surrender.

CHICAGO, May 7.-The strike inaugu-
rated two weeks ago by the coOpers at
the packing houses came to an end to-
night. when. at mass meeting. the men
by unanimous vote decided to go back
to work at the old scale of wages and
hours. The decision was reached after
a lengthy discussion, and was result
of the failure of the, men employed by
Armour, Swift and Morris to go out.
Nearly all of the men who spoke at the
meeting were of the opinion. and in
many instances had been assured. that
they could return to work at their old
piaces. 7
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
Floods in Trnckee Valley.

TRUcKEE, Cal, May THE warm
rains of the past twenty-four hours
have melted the snow ana sent the
water in an Irresistible food in the
Truckee river. The dam at the marble
works near Verdi went out to-day, also
dams at Camp 20. Marti creek and
Rocky run. The railroad emhankment
at Rocky run is in serious danger, and a
large 1orce has been working OH it all
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
GUIoN GOES WRONG.
A Famous Shipping Agent Steals
Trust Funds.

New York, May Ut was to-day
discovered that William n. Guion, the
old and well known shipping man, is
defaulter to the amount of $4,000. The
bonds stolen by Mr.. Guion formed part
of securities, amounting in all to. $780,
o80, which were deposited with Mr..
Guion by the Bristish-American Assur-
ance company, of Toronto, Can. in ac-
eordance with the law which requires
foreign insurance companies dong busi-
mess in this state to keep certain pro-
norton of their resources here for the
protection of their local customers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
BoodIer sayies Gives Bail.

NEW YORK. May 7.-Ex-Ald. Henry
L. Sayles, of the 'boodle" board of
1854, came to the district attorneys
Office to-day accompanied by his brother
Sol SayleS. He furnished $4,000 bond
to await the issue of his case, his brother
being the bondSman.