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THoMPsoN's BIG SHORTAGE.
1t Is Predicted 1t Will Reach
$4,000.

BINGHAMToN, n. Y, May 27.-In the
judgment of leading citizens there is
shortage in the accounts of G. A.
Thompson. cashier of the Owego Ma
tiOnal bank, to the extent of 5000.
Others more conservative state that
it will not exceed $4,000. The excite
ment is greater than at any time since
1855, when the Bank of OwegO col
lapSed for SS0,000. ThOmpson'S Spec
ulations. which are the cause of the
banks failure. appear to have been
confined to his dealings with the big
four" through James F. Dee, the Owe
go correspondent of the exchange. Dee
still insists that Thompson was not con-
cerned in the Rock Island in which
$4,000 is involved. The fact that
Thompson was some years ago bitten to
the tune of $4,000 in wheat is pertinent.
He has lately transferred considerable
property to his creditors, and deeds of
other property, executed some time ago,
have recently been placed on record.
BE is vice president of the Nebraska
Banking and Loan association, doing
business at McCook, Neb., and owns
property in New York and Brooklyn.
The amount on deposit at the time the
bank doors were closed was ABOUT $780,
UUU, OF Wnlcn SlZ,UOO belonged 10 tlld
stockholders and directors. Hon. G. f.
Parker, county Judge of Tioga county,
and one of the stockholders. states THAI
he has not the slightest idea that the
bank will be reorganiZed. James L.
Dee states that his career as a broker in
OWegO is at an end. Bank Examiner
Geteman. of Albany, refuses to make
any statement. and Thompson is equal
ly non-committal, except to declare that
if pushed to the wall, he will expose
two of Owego's most substantial citi-
Zens, who are implicated in the short,
age
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
Payment shall be made also for all such
buildings destroyed during their occu-
patton by the United States troops.
RIVERS AND HAkBoRs.
The House Hammers Away at
the Big Appropriation Bill.

The House Hammers Away aC
the Big Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-The house
went into committee of the whole (Mr.
Allen, of Michigan, in the chair) on the
river and harbor appropriation bill.
Mr.. Houk, of Tennessee, offered all
amendment providing that John Cow
den and his associates may, Oh certain
conditions set forth at length in the
amendment (at their own expense), con.
Struct an outlet for the flood waters OF
the Mississippi river from a point about
ten miles below New Orleans to the
gulf of Mexico through Lake BOrgne,
on such lands as they or any OF them
may own or acquire. such outlet to pc
no less than che mile in width. with an
average crOss-Sectional depth OF ten feet
below gulf level and of sufficient capac-
ity to discharge the flood waters OF the
Mississippi river at that place and TO De
provided with proper levees or embank-
ments from the river to the lake, TO
preserve the lands Immediately above
and below it from inundatiOn. MI.
Coleman. of Louisiana, cOntended that
the Lake Borgne outlet would inJure
the city of New Orleans and he protest
ed against any project which would I'M
pede the prosperity OF the Crescent City.
Mr.. Dunnell. of Minnesota. Mr.. Houk
of Tennessee. and Mr.. Holman, of Louis
lana, spoke in favor of the outlet sys-
TEN. Mr.. Grosvenor. Of Ohio, MI. Hen
derson. of Illinois, Mr. Robertson,
of Louisiana, and MI. Blanchard,
of Louisiana, attacked the amendment;
The amendment was lost. Several
amendments for individual improve
ments on the Mississippi river were
lost. Mr.. Tarsney, of Missouri, offered
an amendment providing that the $780,
600 appropriated for the Improvement
of the Missouri river from its mouth to
Fort Benton shall be expended under
the direction of the secretary of war In
accordance with the plan recommended
by the Missouri river commission. Re
jected. MI. McCreary, of Kentucky,
raised a point of order against those
portions of the bill which prescribe
penalty for the maintenance of oDstruct-
i've bridges across navigable waters.
Pending decision the committee rose,
and the house at 5: :25 adjourned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
ON SILCOrT's TRAIL.
The Winter Quarters of the Wash
ingtOn Defaulter.

GRAND FALLS. P. O., May ~
Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Silcott, of the
United States congress, and French
Canadian woman have been staying in
st. Louis parish, in the Saguenay re-
gion. Mr. Mayberry, of the Grand
Falls hotel. learned of this from the
lumbermen, and after some delay in
getting advice from Washington. he
started with warrant for their
arrest. He returned to Grand
Falls late Saturday night and said that
the couple had flown. Three days be-
fore he reached the place the woman
sailed on the Quebec steamer, and when
he arrived Silcott was not to be found,
and none of the natives knew where he
was. A little hut twelve miles III the
woods, which the couple had occupied
all winter, was empty. Mr.. Mayberry
learned that SilcOtt bought lot of lum-
Der and had the hut built. 1t was near
the camp of some lumbermen, who sup
piled the couple with most of their food.
The lumbermen said the couple had
plenty of money. Mr. Mayberry had
no doubt that the man was Siicott.
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THE JoHNsTowN FLOOD.
Memorial Services en- Its Coming
AnniverSary.


JoHNsTowN. Pa, May 27.-General
arrangements have been made by the
churches Of all denominations for
memorial services on Saturday next,
the anniversary of the great disaster.
At 9 O'Clock a. N. mass will be said at
st. Johns Catholic church, for the re-
pose of the souls of those members
whose life went out with the flood of
May 81, 1899. Rev. Father James p.
Fehaney, the pastor, will conduct the
services. In the evening the Mystic
Choir of the COnemaugh Valley will
hold divine service IN honor OF
the departed brethren at the Luther
Christian church, officiating. At ST..
Columbia's church, Sixteenth ward. at
10 a. M, Father Farren will conduct
solemn high mass as tribute to
their members who lost their lives
in the deluge. The services at this
church will be the most impressive Of
any to be held Oh the occasion of the an
niversary. Several priests from abroad
have been invited to participate. In
the afternoon the Mineral City band
will conduct services at Grandview
Rev. d. J. Beale, ID. D., of the PreSby-
terian church, whose heroic services
subsequent to the flood have been
noted in the papers so often; Rev.
Fl. L. Chapman, D. D.. Of the First NJ.
E. church; Rev. Fehaney, of st. Johns
Roman Catholic church, will make adj
dresses in Grandview, in memory of
the unknown dead" those whose rest
ing places are only marked by a rough
board, on which is the number given
the body when the undertaken failed to
establish its identity. AT st. Joseph's
German Catholic church. high mass will
be celebrated at $50 O'Clock, and on
Monday, Rev. Father Trantwine will
commemorate the great event in St.
Mary's Catholic church, while on Mon
day the archabbott of st. Vincent's con-
vent will be here to celebrate pontiti-
cal requiem for victims of the flood.
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Changed the Policy.

Dies MONIES, To-, May 27.-In the case
of Alice NJ. Grace-Brown VS.. the Anci-
ent Order of United Workmen. grand
lodge of Iowa, the supreme court has
affirmed the judgment of the Delaware
district court. The father of the de-
fendant took out beneficiary policy in
favor of his daughter, his wife being
dead. He afterwards married and had
the policy changed and made payable to
his wife. Upon his death his daughter
brought action to require the grand
lodge to pay the policy to her, claiming
it was in the nature of gift and that
her father had no right to make it pay
able to any one else. The district court
held to the contrary, and this finding
has been sustained in the decision just
rendered.
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"oRIGINAL PACKAGES"
They Get Attention by a House
Committee.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Several bills
were acted upon favorably by the house
committee on commerce to-day, among
them the bill to delegate to each state
the right to prohibit the importation
within its borders of liquor in orig
inal packages. This bill is aimed at the
recent decision of the supreme court
allowing liquor in original packages to
be sent to prohibition states. 1t is in
the same form as the bill under cOnsid-
Grafton in the senate to-day. A favora-
BILE report was also made on a house
bill to permit states to regulate the sale
of oleomargarine, and granting them
power to prohibit its sale within their
boundaries, F. D. Curtis, of Syracuse,
representing the New York State Dairy
mems association, appeared before the
committee and argued in favor of the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
IS HE A BIGAMIsT?
Strange Story of an Olmsted
County Farmer.
Special to the Giope.

Special to the GioDe.
CHATFIELD. May 27.-About forty
years ago William Gardner, now living
in Olmsted county, about four miles
from the city of Chatfield, left Ireland
and his wife and two children and came
to America. first settling on Long ISL
and, New York, where he staid nearly
ten years. Some thirty years since he
came to Minnesota, and bought of G. Y.
Jennings, Of Chatfeld, the farm he now
lives on, in the township of Elmira. At
that time he had with him the woman
with whom he has since lived as his
wife, though it seems he has at times
told his neighbors he had another wife
in Ireland. They have prospered, and
Gardner has added to his acres, till now
he has a farm of one and one-fourth
sections, and five more children,
thre of whom are married and
settled on lands he had furnished them
for their homes. Last Friday an elderly
Irish woman came to his hOuse and
claimed to be the wife he left in the old
country so many years ago, and in COM
pany with her was a stranger some
forty years of age, who says he is a son
of the old lady, and that Gardner is his
father. 1t was a surprise party for
Gardner. He was unable to re-
eognize his former wife, if wife
she ever was, nor could she iden-
tify Gardner. 1t is said that the
very unwelcome visitor has brought
with her the necessary documents to
prove her marriage in Ireland to Will
lam Gardner; that she caused his arrest
last Saturday, and that he went before
magistrate and gave bonds for his ap-
pearance at the next term of court.
Gardner and the wife with whom he is
and has for the past thirty years been
living, are each at least seventy years
old, and having been so long in the
community, are universally known.
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INTO A THOUSAND PIECES.
The DIR. Justin Dynamite Gun EX-
plodes With Awful Force.

PERRYvILLE. N. Y, May 27.-A large
number of people from all over the
state of New York came here by the
special and regular midday trains to-day
to witness the public experiment of the
DR.. Justin dynamite gun. The weather
was fine all the morning, but at noon
the clouds began to lower with pros
pect of rain later. Much interest was
shown, and everything pointed to an
other successful experiment.. Inc can
non was fired at p. H., and exploded
into thousand pieces. Nobody was
hurt but there were many narrow eS-
capes. Huge masses of iron were thrown
hundreds of feet. A piece of the can
non, measuring about four feet through,
came flying through the air and landed
within three feet of the Syracuse Herald
correspondent, who was watching
the proceedings from behind a
tree. Another large piece went
in the opposite direction, tear
ing a large chunk from the counters OF
a temporary refreshment stand ABOUT
500 feet away. The keeper of the stand
was inside, and the missile grazed his
head and scattered the contents OF the
stand 1t is said that the dynamite did
not explode the gun, but the charge OF
powder. Among the visitors who ar
rived this afternoon were Lieutenant
Commander Washburn Maynard and
Lieut.. l.. p. Dawson, of the navy, and
Commander T. F. Jewell, of the United
States naval station, all from Newport.
Five hundred people were present. The
cannon used weighed 23,500 pounds.
The bore is twelve feet long and nine
inches in diameter. The target was
bluff about one-third of mile from the
gun. DR.. Justin and his assistants this
morning loaded the six shells with dyna-
mite. Two of the shells were charged
with eighteen pounds each Of dynamite
and four had twenty-five pounds each.
Young Wing, representing the Chinese
government, was there during the day.
SYRACUSE, May 27.-The premature
explosion of DR.. Justin's dynamite shell
inside of the cannon at the Perryvllle
experiment to-day has caused some
speculation as to how it may affect the
development of the invention. DR.. JUS
tin is. however, confident that the cataS-
trophe was due largely, if not entirely,
to imperfect metal in the cOu-
struction of the shell, which allowed the
outer steel shell to break and let the
dynamite explode. His hackers, Messrs.
Patten and De Witt, of Canasteo. say
they will procure another gun and go
on with the experiment of throwing a
magazine of dynamite by force of gun
powder. The explosion to-day caused
the greatest CONSERVATION among the
many spectators, and it is considered
almost a miracle that no one was Killed.
The tWelve-tOn cannon was scattered IN
fragments over the space of half mile.
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CONFESSED HIS CRIME.
An English Murderer Gives HIM
self Up in Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 27.-John Williams, of
Leeds, Eng, thirty-one years of age, is
held at the central police station as the
confessed murderer of Emma Roberts,
alias Jones, in November, 1879. Sunday
evening Williams walked up to po-
liceman and told the officer he was
guilty of murder. At the station where
he was taken he made confession to
the effect that early in 1879 he met
Miss Emma Roberts, alias Jones,
a domestic in the employ of a
coal merchant named Greenwood in
the city of Leeds. After keeping
company with Ler six months he pro-
posed and was rejected. Visiting her a
month later Williams renewed his pro-
posal of marriage and was refused. He
then knocked her down with his fist
and beat her head into an unrecogniZa-
Bile mass with hammer. Williams left
Leeds Immediately, going to Man
chester for two days. From there he
went to Cardiff, Wales, and shipped as
a sailor before the mast. Two years
ago he landed in Chicago, and has been
making living as sailor on the lakes
since that time. Williams said the girls
parents lived at Westphen Grove,
Harpery. near Manchester, and that his
own parents, now dead, lived at Kilk-
gate, Leeds. The authorities OF Leeds
have been telegraphed for information.
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CHESS AND CHEAT.
Very Discouraging Reports From
Winter Wheat Fields,

CHICAGO. May 27.-The Farmers Re
view will publish the following: REL
ative to winter wheat. our Illinois cor
respondents continue to report condi-
ton declining. Many are the COM
plaints of chess and cheat, and several
correspondents report damage by Hes
sian fly. Indiana averages. show
Slight Improvement in condition since
our last report. In Ohio condition has
not changed materially during the past
two weeks. In Missouri the weather in
portions of the state has been
favorable. and considerable i'm
provement has taken place in
those localities. Wheat is heading
irregularly, however. and there are
complaints of chess. Kentucky reports
of condition show decline of several
points. In Kansas, wheat has been in
iured considerably by drought. and IN
few counties by hail and Hessian fly.
The average of condition in that state
is apparently 10 per cent lower than it
was two weeks ago. Abundant rains
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
IS OPIUM MEANT?
A Resolution of Inquiry in the
Senate.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Mr. Cullom
offered resolution calling on the secre-
tary of the. treasury for information as
to the authority under which merchan-
disc in bond, appraised or unappraised,
and goods of domestic origin are per-
mitted to be forwarded between the At
lantic and Pacific ports of the United
States over the Canadian Pacific rail-
road. such merchandise as arrives at
Vancouver. B. c., being transhipped
to vessels or cars; and whether or not,
in his opinion, such transportation and
transhipment on foreign territory
is consistent with the safety of
the revenue and the laws governing
the coasting trade of the United
States: also TO report by what author
ity merchandise other than the products
of contiguous countries is permitted to
enter the United States under consular
seal and proceed to destination without
entry or examination at the port OF first
arrival. He explained that there was
good deal of doubt as to what the law
now authorized the secretary to do IN
the premises, and he thought that the
senate ought to have report from the
secretary before any legislation was at
tempted. Mr.. Washburn intlmated that
the resolution covered an intended raid
on the Canadian lines of transportation
In favor of the trunk lines in the United
States. Mr.. Cullom repelled MI. Wash
burns suggestion.
The resolution went over without
action till tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
THE ICE HOUSE FIRST.
Attempt to Burn the Town Of
Bowling Green, ..

Bowling Green, o.
TOLEDO, o., May 27.-Early this
morning an incendiary attempt to de-
stroy the town OF Bowling Green, the
county seat of Wood county, twenty
miles south of here, was partly success
full. This is the third lncendiary fire
within two years, and all serious confla-
grations. At 3:3O this morning large
ice house in the edge of the town was
discovered in flames. Soon after the
alarm was given fire broke out in the
center of the town, by which several
buildings were destroyed. During
the progress of the fire several explo-
sions occurred, scattering the frag-
ments of buildings in every direction, a
number of persons receiving cuts and
bruises. 1t is estimated that the loss on
plate and other glass throughout the
town will foot up $4,000 or more. The
total loss by fire is estimated at S35, 800,
with total insurance of $4,000 scat
tered in all the leading companies. The
fire department fought the blaze in the
business section exclusively, and the
ice house was allowed to burn to the
ground. There is intense excitement
over this work of firebugs, and no one
can account for these persistent at
tennis to DESTROY the town.
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have lately fallen in many parts of the
state. and the condition will doubtless
improve during the coming week, In
Michigan some Improvement i'll cOndi-
ton has taken place Relative to
spring wheat, correspondents generally
report that termination and growth
have been much retarded by drought
and cold weather, and the stand is very
uneven. Abundant showers have fallen
in the last few days, however, sufficient
for the present needs of spring sown
grain in Minnesota, South Dakota and
Iowa. Nebraska still suffers from
drought. We summarize as follows the
reports of correspondents relative the
condition of wheat:
Winter Wheat-Illinois, 67 per cent; In
diana, 66; Ohio, So Kentucky, 81; Missouri,
81; Kansas. 80; Wisconsin, II; Michigan, 81: :
Spring Wheat-Iowa, 93; Nebraska, SO;
Minnesota, Sc; South Dakota o.; Wiscon-
sin 93
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
SAVED HER SISTERS LIFE.
Extraordinary Presence OF Mind
Displayed by Young Girl.

Extraordinary Presence OF Mind
Displayed by a Young Girl.
Special to the Globe.
SEATTLE, WASH, May 27.-By the
heroism and presence of mind exhibited
by little Annie Johnson yesterday, her
sister Mary was saved from death by
drowning. The two girls, nine and
twelve years of age respectively, ac-
companied Clara Buell.. aged sixteen,on
an excursion on the lake. They con-
Guided to go bathing. The three girls
walked out on tree extending out from
the shore. Clara lost her balance and
fell in the water, dragging the two sis
ters with her, their hands being clasped
in the struggle. Clara got over her
depth. Annie, who was close to the
shore, endeavored to pull them back,
but the two elder girls sank. Mary's
hand became released from Clara's, and
on reaching the surface Anna caught
her sisters hair and pulled her to the
bank. Mary was insensible, and Anna.
with extraordinary childish wisdom, put
her lips to her sisters mouth and began
respiration, and continued doing so
until, just as help arrived, Mary re-
gained consciousness. The body OF
Clara was recovered to-day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
They Are am Democrats.

NEWPORT, r. l., May 27.--After the
usual preliminary exercises, the two
houses of the state legislature assembled
in Joint session at noon. and, after or
ganizing, took a recess until 2 O'Clock.
Upon reassembling, John w. Davis was
elected governor; W. G. t. Wardwell, of
Bristol, lieutenant governor; Ziba o..
Slocum. of Providence, attorney gen
eral: E. d. McGuinnesS. of Providence,
secretary of state; and John G. Perry,
of Kingston, general treasurer. The
proclamations were made from the bal
cOnv of the state house.
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1T MUST BE FLOODED.
A Pennsylvania Mine a Seething
Mass OfFlameS.

WmKEsBARRE. Pa, May 27.-Work-
men in Shaft IA. of the Pennsylvania
Coal company at Port Blanchard, which
caught fire about a mouth ago. but was
thought to have been extinguiShed,
broke through pillar this afternoon
and found the interior a seething mass
of flames. The smoke and gas drove
them back in confusion. The fire is
burning fiercely tonight, and thou
sands of tons of coal will, it Is feared.
be consumed before the fire is brought
under control. All further operations
in the mine have been abandoned. At
a meeting of officials which was hur-
riedly called tonight it was decided to
flood the nine. This will throw several
hundred men and boys out OF employ
ment, and destroy thousands OF dollars
worth of property.
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Porter Indites a Bluff.

WASHINGTON, May n. -Supt. Porter
to-day issued the following circular. adj
dressed to supervisors of the census:
You will please instruct enumerators in
cases where persons refuse to answer the
questions on the population schedule relat-
ing to physical and mental disabilities, or the
questions relating TO farms. homes and mort
cages. to enter in the proper column the
words, refused to answer" No further
steps will be necessary on the part of the su-
pervisor or enumerator. and all legal pro.
ceedings will be instituted by the Washing
ton office through the department OF justice.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
MILES WILL CATCH THEM
The Murderers of Hardie to Be
Run Down.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.-Official
news of the murder of Attor ney Henry
Hardie by hostile Indians. near Tomb.
stone, Ariz., has been received at army
headquarters, and Gen. Miles has is
sued orders to pursue the Indians and
to use the same tactics as were used in
the pursuit of Geronimo. That will
place troops at Lowell, Grant and
Huachuaca, Ariz., and Fort Bayard.
N. NJ, who will close in on them. The
hostile band consists of Kid and his
party, who were sentenced to ten years
i'll military prison, but after serving
few years were pardoned by President
Cleveland and returned to their reSer-
vation. The civil authorities then tried
them and sentenced them to be hanged.
While being taken to Yuma penitenti-
ary, they murdered the sheriff and eS'
capped to Mexico. They have commit
ted innumerable depredations in that
country since their escape.