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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
MUST PAY The TARIFF.
The Treasury Department
Imposes a Duty on Lot
terry Tickets.
This Will Stop Them From
Coming in the Mails From
Mexico.
Enos H. Nebekep, the New
Treasurer, to Assume His
Duties Monday.
Phoebe CouZins Appears Be-
fore Secretary Foster
Sunday News.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The lottery
companies received a black eye at the
treasury department which it is thought
will have the effect of driving them out
of business. Having been debarred
from United States mail, branches of
lottery companies which formerly did
business in the United States have been
established in Mexico. Under the law,
printed matter from Mexico cannot be
refused entry, and each month lottery
tickets have been presented at the Gus
tom houses along the Mexican frontier
for admission into the United States.
They have heretofore been admit
ted without question, but Assist
ant Secretary Spaulding has hit upon a
novel plan to prevent their coming into
this country. He has decided that there
is no law to prevent lottery tickets
from BEING admitted as printed matter,
but he inStructS the custom officers to
assess duty upon. them at the rate of %
per cent ad valorem on their face value,
under paragraph 423, Schedule NJ, of the
Mckinley bill, which provides for this
rate of duty upon ''all printed matter
not especially provided for" Tickets
OF the value of SO, under this decision,
will have to pay $3.50 customs duty.
This high rate of duty will, it is thought,
Being debarred from the United States
mails, from express companies and
transportation lines, the lottery COM
panies will find it difficult to dispose of
their wares in the United States. The
case came up in connection with the
importation of the tickets OF the JuareZ
Lottery COMPANY,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
MAKING TROUBLE.

There are spots on the sun. and often
freckies on the proud faces of the fair.
The promises of the season opening up
have been of the brightest for all the
variations that make existence enjoya-
bic and radiant. People are beginning
to look about for the heightened COM
forts of the warmer period. A medical
authority comes with the saddening in
formation that danger turks in the bot
tied beverages called ''prohibition
beer" These light drinks, he alleges,
are more detrimental, physically, than
raw whisky poured into the stomach.
The statement is that these beverages
contain salicy;ic acid to make them
keep, and this induces Brght'S disease.
The authority also insists that it is
much used in other bottled beers, and
in barreled meats and other preserved
foods. Harmful things are found even
in water at times. The sanitary and
health experts are constantly looking
for things to make people nervous and
uncomfortable about.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
THE ALTON STUBBORN.
1t Stands in the Way OF Passenge,
Rate Settlements.

H otanuS III inc w ay OF passenger
Rate Settlements.
CHICAGO. April 24.-There was a good
deal of serious discussion at the special
meeting of the Western Passenger asso-
citation to-day. The proposition of the
Chicago d Alton to discontinue the in
terchange of excursion tickets with the
Eastern roads while the boycott re-
manned in force. involved the suspension
of one of the association rules. A reso-
luton was introduced to eliminate from
the agreement that part of it providing
for an interchange of certificates
with connecting lines on eXcuT-
sion business. 1t was killed
by the negative vote of the Atchison
alive. The AtchiSon people explained,
however, that it was useless to alter the
agreement, as it was in the power of the
Alton road to prevent the future inter
change of certificates by simply declin-
ing to join in any reduced rates to and
from the territory east of Chicago. 1t
requires unanimous consent to adopt
these special rates. When the Alton
representative saw the point and imme-
diately gave notice that his road would
take the course suggested, the Rock
Island presented resolutions in the form
of memorial to the Eastern lines, re-
questing them to take some measures
for the protection of their Western
connections against the effect of the
Alton boycott. 1t was claimed that
the present condition of affairs was
detrimental to the interests of all the
Western roads, and that if continued it
would soon involve all the lines in the
Trunk Line, Central Traffic and West
ern Passenger association in diSas-
trous rate war. The Eastern roads were
therefore called upon to modify their
position in order to avoid such result
Chairman Finley, in spirited address
to the meeting, said the life of the asso-
citation was at stake, and that Western
roads must decide quickly what course
they were going to pursue. The repre-
sentatiyes of several of the roads spoke
i'll favor of upholding the Alton in its
course, and the Eastern lines were
sharply criticised for the extreme meas
ures they had adopted. No decisive
action was taken.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
THE BLAINE PUZZLE.

If Mr.. BLAINE would take his sport
ing friends into his confidence as to his
programme in the presidential contest,
the chances for them to wager money
would be improved, and. as result.
they might be liberal contributors to
the campaign funds. The evidence so
far is almost entirely circumstantial,
and about as conclusive for one side as
the other. If he is in humorous mood
over the matter, he no doubt does a
deal of laughing inside, as the first pres
ident was alleged to do, over the wise
speculations of those who affect to solve
the conundrum as to his intentions. A
New York paper reports an interview
in which his friends were understood to
be given some sort of acQuiescence to
their demands that he should not spoil
their work by finally refusing 10 be q
candidate. He is certainly not dlscour-
aging any who care to throw up hats or
express any kind of faith in regard
to the matter. CHAUNCEY DEPEw, who
is counted something of a mind reader
among Republican leaders, no doubt is
correctly reported as stating that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
OLD WORLD FIGURES.

A census was taken in Germany in
December, and the results are now be-
ing reported. The population of the
empire is believed TO be pretty accu-
rately stated at 40 APO, 500. This was an
increase III five years of about 1855, 100,
and in the decade OF nearly 4,230,00O
The first half of the decade was the pc
Rod of the enormous emigration to the
United States. and to this is attributed
the comparatively small increase. This
country has had large accessions to its
population from abroad in the past five
years, but Germany contributed less
than in the two or three preceding half
decades. In no five-year period since
the unification of the empire has Ger
many Swelled its numbers as it has since
1885. The percentage, however, was
a trifle greater in the last halt of the
preceding decade. The rate was 5.5 per
cent, which is much less than half that
of this country. The fact also appears,
as here, that the drift is to the cities.
Berlin gains about 10 per cent of the en-
tire increase, and ten cities have half
the whole accession to the population of
the empire. This movement to the
great centers is more marked even than
in the United States. 1t is one of the
prevalent features of the age that the
urban population is gaining enormously
upon the rural element. 1t is not noted
that any country is exempt from this
1u!e.
AS compared with the other European
nations, the German empire makes by
far the largest display of the prosperity
indicated in the human multiplication,
with the exception of Russia. 1t has
added about 200, GOO to its numbers in
the decade. In the same period the
closest estimates give ustria-Hungary
less than 100000 increase, and France
has become almost stationary. 1t is not
claimed that it has added 100000 to its
numbers the past ten years. The fig
ureS are not yet known of the census of
Great Britain taken this month, but the
estimates do not exceed 3,600,000. Italy
has gained about 2.100.000 in the decade,
but will be checked in its increase if the
shipments to this country are kept up.
Russia has long lead of all the Eu-
ropean nations in population, and is
multiplying with a rapidity that may
afford some of the others formida-
BILE computations in the not dis
tant future. Its birth rate is above
that of any of its continental neighbors,
and has added over 100000 to the
population in the decade. But it has
lost very little by emigration. In its
European numbers alone it outcounts
France and Italy. The theory is held
by some of the social philosophers, that
as people advance in civilization and
mental development the natural
increase becomes less. Russia works
into their theories well. 1t lags far in
the rear of modern civilization and
progress, and has the highest birth rate.
On the other hand, Germany is in the
van in culture and intellectual activity,
and, but for emigration, would nearly
equal Russia in the ratio of develop
ment of numbers. Its census affords
data for laudable pride in this evidence
of prosperity and greatness.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
ANENT STREET CARS.
Census Figures Show That EIeC
tricitY Is the Cheapest Power.

Census Figures Show That EIec-
tricity is the Cheapest Power.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-Superin-
tendent Porter. of the census bureau,
to-day made public bulletin upon the
subject of the relative economy of
cable, electric and animal motive
power for street railways. i The bull
letin covers statistics of fifty lines Of
street railway, ten of which are oper-
ated by cable, ten by electricity and
thirty by animal power. The total cost
Of the ten cable roads. including equip
ment, is given as S26,351, 416. The
total number of passengers carried
was 101, 995, 695, at a total cost of
s., 2S6, 461. The operating eXpen-
SEES per car mile were therefore IA. II
cents, and the operating expenses per
passenger carried 1922 cents. The length
of all tracks including sldings is given
as nearly 143 miles. The total cost of
the ten electric roads, including equip
total track mileage of 67.22
miles. The total number of
passengers carried was S,031.214 at a
cost of 1926, 1861, or 1921 cents per car
mile and 80 cents per passenger car
ried. The total cost of the thirty ami
nal power lines, together with equip
ment, is given as $50, 7SS, PIT, with 552
miles of track. The operating expenses
of these lines for the year were Sc, $780,
O19, carrying 100, 434, 1888 passengers
The expense per car mile was therefore
1916 cents and the cost per passenger
carried 3.67 cents. The expense per
car mile on cable roads varies from 9.39
cents to 21,19 cents: on electric roads
S.34 cents to 1904 cents; on animal roads
from go cents to 2T.02 cents. Of the
electric roads under consideration nine
are operated by the trolley system and
one by the storage battery system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25

BLAINE will not be a candidate, but
HARRISON will be nominated. lie adds,
too, land will be elected" This state
ment throws doubt upon his sincerity,
bat it may be remembered that he
Speaks as Republican oracle and be-
longs to- the rainbow school. "a banquet
orator may be allowed much license
where his subject requires rose-tinted
views. The late Congressman Dun
NELL, of this state, is quoted in the
Eastern papers as coming direct from
Washington with the definite and posi-
tive conviction that BLAINE will, lin due
time, pull his name out of the ring, by
reason firstly of his confidential rela-
lions to his chief, and secondly for fam
lily reasons. The nature of the latter is
left entirely to inference. His daughter
in-law has just taken up her residence
in South Dakota i'll order 70 obtain di-
vorce from JAMES &. Jr., who has
been shipped to Spain by way Of
England. Whether this incident comes
into the family reasons" or not is not
told. Nor is it intimated that the patri-
clan govt is in the category. The ap-
parent mystery as to his purposes may
be Calculated more clearly from the
Democratic standpoint on account of its
impartiality and freedom from personal
bias. Mr.. BLAINE was a candidate
when defeat was vastly more improba-
bic than now. He does not want rep
etition of that experience. The only
inducement for his candidacy will be
faith in the reciprocity lymph. That is
as yet but the bread upon the waters.
Its returns have not begun to be gath
cred. 1t is not clear yet how much
capital can be had out of the thing that
will wear through a six months cam
paign. Mr.. BLAINE will only saw wood
for the present.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
FAIR APPROPRIATIONS.

The Republican papers in Wisconsin
berate the Democratic legislature which
has Just adjourned. for its. meanness in
appropriating but $4,000 for the state
display at the worlds fair. The Mil
waukee Wisconsin calls it ''picayune
Democratic legislature" that "had no
conception of the grandeur and dignity
of Wisconsin" The $4,000 for Wis
cOnsin is almost exactly the same as
$4,000 for Minnesota. In this state it
a Republican theory that is to be elab-
Grated in an address that the legislature
was lavish in its expenditures, and this
appropriation for the worlds fair will
quite likely be cited as an Illustration.
But there should be no partisanship
thought of in connection with the fair.
1t is quite probable that both states will
find their appropriations insufficient for
the exhibit desired, and add TO them at
the sessions just preceding the fair.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
The Humor Passed Him By.

TO the Editor of the Globe.
There appeared an article in your is
sue of Tuesday last under the heading,
1.-The Sage's Portrait" which, while it
purports to criticise my portrait of
Senator Donnelly. really conveys false
impression OF it, that in justice to N.Y.
self l desire to correct. | quote the
lines:
''Mr. Donnelly is in repose. His right arm
is pictured as thrust heart deep into his but
toned coat. and his FACE wears an expression
of mingled photographer cheerfulness and
physical distress"
From the above lines one would nat
urally infer that the picture is one of
the ordinary Photographic productions
SO profuSely exhibited on the streets of
st. Paul, or that photography was re-
sorted to in the execution of the work.
And secondly, that the expression is an
assumed and distorted one, and there
fore does not represent the great orator
as he is known to the public. | wish to
state that the portrait was painted for
Mr.. Donnelly's family and wholly from
life, and that the expression caught was
not intended for ''Donnelly of Com
merce,' or 'Donnelly Rampant" but
one belonging to him in his most con-
genial moments, and highly satisfactory
to those who know him best.
n. r. BREWER.
st. Paul, April %.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
ENOS is READY.
He Will Take Charge of the Treas
ury Next Monday.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Hon. Enos
II. Nebeker, of India ma, recently ap-
pointed United States treasurer, reached
Washington this morning. Later in the
day he called on Secretary Foster, with
whom he had a brief interview. Mr..
Nebeker also filed his bond for the faith
full performance of his duties. He will
not, however, enter upon the duties of
his Office until next Monday. as
all the sub-treasuries and de
pOsitOry banks make their settle
ments Saturday, and he thought it best
for the convenience of the office to wait
till the settlements have been made.
The count of the cash and securities in
the treasury, which is always made
upon the incoming of a new treasurer,
will commence next Monday. The com
mittee appointed to superintend the
count is composed of E. B. Daskam, of
the public moneys division, who will
represent the secretary of the treasury;
A. L. Huntington, the chief of the loan
division, who will represent Mr.. Illus
ton, the retiring treasurer, and George
Robertson, a chief of a division in the
Office of the comptroller OF the currency,
will represent Mr.. Nebeker.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

Monday evening May II, there will be two
well-known fakirs in Colorado Springs. Be-
sides the play by that title Ben Harrison will
be there. They say that one is as much of a
farce comedy as the other.
A snake charmer at Chicago hotel came
near having the dear life squeezed out of him
by big python that he went to bed with the
other night The reptile should have exer-
cised little reason in displaying its affec-
ton. ~
A Kalamazoo man who is held for forgery
has eaten nothing for six days, but smokes
cigarettes continuously. And yet he lives. Il
{
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, in her Washington
lecture the other night emphatically de-
clared that marriage is not failure. The
opinion of Mr.. Belva Lockwood on the same
question might be different.
Rome got good, strong smell of powder
Thursday morning. We will now hear less
about the New Orleans affair."
Philadelphia paper gets scandalously
familiar and refers to Chicagos new mayor
as Hemp" Washburne
Mr. Depew has had q brand Of cigars
named after him. We suppose Depew will
be pulled more than ever now.
Mr.. Blaine's esteemed favor of the 18th
inst. cost the Italian government just S937 so
In cable fees. 1t is evidently Mr.. Blaine's in
tention to bankrupt Italy before she has
time to declare war.
A Dubuque policeman is Dragging because
he arrested a deer with a lasso the other
night Davis and Haney, the vigilaEt St.
Paul coppers arrest dears every night with
out the use of lasso
Foraker's mouth is really the only mark of
greatness about the man.
The governor of Oregon says he's just as
good man as Ben Harrison, and won't go
10 the state line to meet the president The
governor has evidently gathered his estlma-
ton of Ben's worth by reading accounts of
the late Cincinnati meeting.
y
Ret Clarkson says he has no personal
choice for president. 1t is very Kind of Mr.
Clarkson to waive all claim to the right of
naming our next executive. The people
Will now have voice in the matter.
The mayor of Des MONIES, who was elected
as Prohibitionist went out with an alder
! man the other day and got beastly drunk.
Such is life in a prohibition CITY,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
LITTLE LOCALS.

Commissioners Dale and Aberle and City
Attorney LAYER, composing the committee
on bylaws of the new park board, met yes
terday in the office Of the latter. The COM
mittee viii report at the next regular meet
ing.
Mrs. Nj. j. Bixby of Owatonna, is in the
city i'll search of her ten-year-old boy. John
Bixby, who ran away from home last week.
The lad is blind in one eye, and lame. He is
believed by his parents to have come to st.
Paul.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner Dearth-
One of the worst laws of the whole session
was that which permits the farmers to or
gan:ze insurance companies that are virtu-
ally out of the control of the insurance de-
partment.
The report that Moore and Glover will
meet in a siX-round contest is exciting some
interest among sporting men. Moore is
clever man among his class, and Glover is
good enough for the best of them in his, at
least when he is in shape
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
BURIAL OF M'HALE.
Written for the Globe.1


Not a sigh was heard. or funeral note
AS his coprse to the graveyard we hurried
Not a person wept for him who wrote
The bill which with him we buried.
Weburied him openly. in broad daylight,
The sods we were silently turning:
We would not bury him at dead OF night
For our hearts his ideas were spurning.
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sadness,
But we intently thought of the bill that was
dead.
And our hearts o'erfowed with gladness
No useless coffin enclosed his form
Nor III tights, nor in lace, we wound him /;
But he lay like a senator. a victim of scorn,
With his ''bloomers" wrapped around him
And all of our heavy task was done
When the clock struck the closing of day,
And we knew the bald-heads were on the
run
For front seat in the parquette.
Lightly they'll talk of the bill that's fed,
And Ger his cold ashes upbraid him,
But little he'll care after he's dead,
About tae tights the ballet are arrayed in.
St. Paul, Mimi, April rs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
a GOOD THING.
Three CoIored Murderers Dropped
Out OF Existence.

COLUMBIA, S. c., April 24.-Waites
Martin, colored, was hanged to-day in
the Jail yard for the murder, in January
last, of Alice Mcleod, white woman
with whom he was living. Martin
made speech from the gallows, saying
that he did not intend to kill the woman.
and that he felt sure of going to heaven.
The drop fell at HIP, but the knot
slipped and his neck was not broken,
and death ensued from strangUlation.
AT 11:22 he was pronounced dead, and
the body was cut down and placed in
the coffin. The execution was wit
messed only by the authorized number
of persons. Bill Miles, colored, was ex-
ecuted this morning at Pickens for the
murder of Jake Griffin. The dispute
which led to the murder begun over a
nickel that Griffin said Miles owed him.
Edmund Holiday. colored, was hanged
to-day at Manning for the murder of
Jonn W. Dubose, white. The hanging
was private, under the laws of the
state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
THE STORY OF A DAY.
Count Won Moltke is dead.

Count Won Moltke is dead.
New York has a genuine Jack the Ripper"
Rome is terribly shattered by the great ex-
plosion.
The Gillian revolution is growing very
serious.
The Great Northern denies any intention
to cut rates.
Kemmic whips Scully in two rounds at
Minneapolis.
The Sioux Falls Granite company goes into
the hands of a receiver.
The Western association games are won by
st. Paul and Kansas City.
Mrs James g. Blaine Jr. refuses to be in
terviewed by Sioux Falls reporters.
Mrs. Kate D. Edgerton sues E. d. Edger-
ton, Of Helena, for divorce and $4,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
Federation of EMPLOYEES.

ST. LOUIS, April 24.-There will be
an important meeting of railway en-
ployes in this city next Sunday. includ-
ing representatives of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood
OF Railway Conductors, Order of Rail
way Conductors, Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen; Brotherhood Of Rail
way. Trainmen and Switchmen's
Mutual Aid association. Delegates will
be here from all over the country. The
object of the meeting is to form a ma
tional federation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
Miss Couzins in Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The trouble
among the lady managers of the worlds
fair begun in Chicago has been trans
ferred to Washington. Miss Phoebe w.
CouZins. who has been deposed as secre-
tary of the lady managers, had an audi
ence with Secretary Foster to-day in re-
gard to being reinstated. She brou ght
with her letter from Charles H. Jones,
of st. Louis, who urges upon Secretary
Foster the retention of Miss CouZins,
and, in fact, he made legal argument
to the effect that the lady managers can
not depose her; that the comm ssion
only can do so.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
WARMING

Moths are dangerous, and
many valuable furs are
ruined by them. Ladies
don't exercise sufficient
care; try to store their own
furs and save a few dollars,
and many times bring the
furs to us moth-eaten. Re-
pairs cost many times more
than storage would. Now
is the time to
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fiuencing passenger transportation
should be made penal offense.
Furthermore, if the practice is defens-
IDLE by poor railway management, why
has no other railway given its indorse-
ment in this issue to the principle of
paying commissions? IL is because the
western companies are permitted by
their own rules to pay, but it is the gen
erai belief that the Alton company alone
defeats the general cessation of this
perniciouS practice