St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
SALTWATER NEWS.
Farmers Alliance Meeting-Her-
bert Stout's Insanity.

The regular quarterly meeting of the
Washington County Farmers Alliance
was held at the court house yesterday
afternoon. Most of the afternoon was
spent in discussing the prison binding
Irvine plant and the feasibility of using
the home product III preference to East
ern-made Irvine. All of the farmers
were very much in favor of using the
prison-made Irvine, providing it can be
Richmond, Campbell and Thelander
were appointed committee to look into
the matter and to see how cheap the
Irvine could he had.
Herbert g. Stout, a United States
prisoner serving two-years sentence
at the prison for rObbing the mails, was
examined as to his sanity yesterday by
DR.. c. III. BOardman, of st. Paul, and
DR.. B. }. Merrill, of this city. The re-
port of the physicians has not been
made public. but Stout will probably be
taken to the United States hospital for
the insane at Washington, ID. c.
Between the hours of 7:30 p. m. Sun
day and Z a. m. yesterday some unknown
person or persons effected an entrance
to the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis d
Omaha freight depot, on lower Main
street. aud broke open the safe, taking
therefrom S46.S1 in silver coin. Over
$500 in checks, which had been placed in
the safe Saturday evening, were
left unmOleSted, and the cashier, q. {.
Gardiner, deeming the safe in a very
poor condition, kept the currency in his
pocket over Sunday. The knob on the
com blnatiOn lock was screwed Off, and
the drawers were pried open with
chisels. The burglar or burglars en-
tered by raising window on the east
cir rl,r trfr1 fhn win N
StreWed a lot of papers lying on the col
lector's desk all over the floor. Chief
of Police Shortall was notified of the
burglary, but up to late hour last
night no clue had been secured.
Hon. George II. Seymour proposes to
plant several acres of sugar beets this
spring as all experiment OH his farm,
few miles northwest of the city. lie
will plant the beets in different kinds of
soil, simply to see in which they thrive
| the best. Several others have also sig
nitied a willingness of planting sugar
beets this season, and if the experiment
| proves success a company may be Or
| ganiZed next fall for the manufacture OF
beet sugar.
The election of city officers to-day
| promises to be one of the most exciting
ever held in this city. Both parties are
that its entire ticket, from mayor to
aldermen, will be elected. A great deal
of cutting will he INDUCED i'll without
regard to party affiliations. Mayor Du-
rant is confident that he will be re-
elected by a handsome majority.
Azlda Beaudry was pardoned by Gov
! Merriam Saturday, and left the prison
the same day, having served seven
years OF life sentence for being an &C
complete in numbering her husband.
Mrs. Beaudry was in poor health, and
has gone to Canada to see her aged
mother, who is also failing rapidly.
The celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the organization of the
Grand Army drew large audience at
the Methodist church last evening, Null
Ter and Cook posts attending in body.
Entertaining speeches were made by
Revs. Bull and Harrington and Hon. j..
n. Searles.
Thomas Thompson. one of the experts
having in charge the setting up OF the
binding Irvine machinery at the prison,
left last evening for Chicago. The ma
| chinery is all in excellent working order
| and the manufacture OF fine grade OF
twine is progressing very satisfactorily.
Lake st. Croix is open above the
bridge, and it is expected that opera
tons at the ST. CroiX boom will begin
the latter part Of this week. A small
crew will be put Oh at first, but by next
Monday they expect to increase it ma
| terially.
The annual meeting of the Saltwater
Gun club will be held this evening,
when officers for the ensuing year will
be elected.