St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-22
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on Page 8.
CORRIDOR GOSSIP.

One of the many prominent Mime
sotans at the Merchants last evening
was Capt. W. II. Harries, of Caledonia.
Capt. Harries is one of the survivors of
the famous Iron brigade, Of which Gen.
f. S. Bragg was commander, and went
through the entire war in that famous
band. Capt. Harres enlisted as prl-
Vate at La Crosse, Wis.,, at the outbreak
of the war. and for distinguished serv
ice, although mere boy, left the sery-
ice as captain of his company. Soon
after the close of the war he located i'll
Houston county. where now he is buSily
engaged in the practice of his profess
sion-the law. He is what might be
called an Old-line Democrat, and has
fearlessly advocated his principles at
any and all times. He presided over
the Rochester convention of two years
ago, which placed Hon. Thomas wilson
in the field for congress, and also helpeu
10 nominate Hon. E. Nj. Wilson for gov
ernor a month later. He is one OF the
large number of gentlemen who add
honor to the Democracy OF the FlrSt
district of Minnesota.
81 have Just been attending the an
hual G. A. r. encampment at Minneap-
Oils said Capt. Harris last evening.
Il was engaged in committee work at
the time the pension discussion came
up or ! should have had word to say
on the matter. Two years ago the Re-
publicans told the old soldiers that if
they would only elect Gen. Harrison
president they could have anything
they wanted. and now l hope
the boys will hold them to
their promises. The encampment,
1 thiuk, was largely against Gen.
Alger on the pension question. Lieut..
Gov. Chase, of Indiana, undoubtedly
sounded the popular sentiment. My
idea is that the encampment ought not
to have discussed pension matters at
all, passing resolution inStructing the
pension committee to do the best thing
possible under the circumstances. This
continual agitation of that question is
nauSeating to large number of people
who are taxpayers and men of in
fluenCe.'
Editor Charles G. Whitney, of the
Marshall News Messenger, was shaking
hands with St. Paul friends yesterday.
Mr.. Whitney is a newspaper man from
way back, having learned the business
from the bottom up on the Lawrence
American years ago. He now runs one
VI JllC bCcb IuCdl DuDClS III UllO oldOC d.iu
is deServedly popular in his county, as
well as among his old comrades. He
and f. ID. French, of Redwood Falls,
will represent the Second district at the
national encampment of the q. A. r. at
Boston next October.
If there's one subject more than an
other that Senator Buchanan likes to
talk about, it is his magnificent Fifth
district farm. The senator came from
Bucks county, near Philadelphia, Pa,
and has liking for fine farm buildings.
II have typical Bucks county barn on
my farm" said the senator yesterday.
''lt's painted white with red trimmings
and is fitted out with basement exact
ly like the old-fashioned Pennsylvania
bank barns. | have been experiment.
ing in sheep-raising for several years
past and believe | can make money in
that line. ain now building quarters
for 1000 sheep and propose to have that
number on my farm in the near future"
Senator HiXon came down from
Grant county yesterday and spent the
afternoon in taking in the sights of the
Sanity City with Senator Wood. of
Rice county. Later in the day these
two statesmen were reinforced by Sen
ators Compton, Ives ami ex-Representa-
tive O. B. Turrell, of Redwood county.
c. n. Cosgrove, the prominent LIE
Sueur stockman, was registered at the
Merchants yesterday. Mr.. Cosgrove
is one of the owners of the COSgrove
stock farm, which is one of the finest
stock farms in the entire state.
Ii. w. Mitchell, of Duluth, placed his
autograph on the Ryan register yester-
day.
Judge Mead, of Mankato, and DR..
Collins and A. w. Daniels. of st. Peter,
were Merchants guests yesterday.
Ex-Speaker Graves, of Duluth. and
Hon. Leon E. Lum, of Brainerd, were
In the Capital city yesterday.
CAPITOL CHAFF.