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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
GRAND JURY INDoRsED.
The Kansas City Press Justifies
the Action of the Mob.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 6.-The Star
says: The bandits and Malta who seek
refuge on our shores are shot like ami
mails of prey in Italy. There is no rea-
son why they should meet with any
more consideration in the United States
than they receive in the land of their
nativity. 1t is to be deplored, of course,
that any combination of events i'll Amer
lea should render it necessary for a
judicial body to cOndone a lynching, but
the report of the New Orleans
grand jury proves quite conciu-
Sively that such 4 condition
of affairs exists in that city,
and it is plain proposition that the
staying of the Hennessy assassins was
not only justifiable, but that it was the
only means of redress under the cir
cumStanceS.
The Times says: 'Secret assaSsina-
tions and secret corruption of justice.
What is worse? Open tyranny is better.
Bloody assiZes would do less harm than
condition under which no man knows
when or from whence a deadly blow
falls; under which a society OF thugs
strikes down i'll the open streets officers
OF Justice who have tried to do their
duty. There can be no defense of mobs,
except in special instances where a
whole people is required to deal with
crime. The grand jury report will set
tie in most minds the conviction that
the time had come in New Orleans when
the people as mass was called upon
to enforce its laws.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
STILL IN THE FIGHT.

FelineS are spoken of as having nine
lives. 1t is not certain that the Louisi-
ana octopus, as the lottery was termed
i'll Dakota, may not display much of the
feline vitality. In the recent action of
the supreme court of its state possibly
will be found the crucial passage of its
career, and the start to neWnesS of life,
The decision of the court, by a majority
OF to ?, was unexpected, and will be
followed, probably, by renewal of the
charter by the state of Louisiana. This
will relieve it from the most serious
danger that threatened it. The court
decides that the action had by the legis-
lature was sufficient to get it before the
people for decision. The secretary
of state is required to recall
his own action in deciding the
proposition a failure and provide for its
presentation as an amendment to the
constitution, to be voted on at the cleo
tiOn next spring. This has been the
great end sought by the lottery. 1t has
had confidence that the vote of the peo-
pie could be had in its favor. 1t was
unwilling to accept the Democratic
party or the white element alone as the
arbIter. It's strong reliance is the col
ored vote. The contest over this oues-
tion will convuIse the state for the COM
ing year, but it will be a great and
pleasant surprise if the ballot box is
proof against its seductions That is
very improbable, however. The war
on the octopus by the general govern
ment, and especially its denial of the
use of the mails, has greatly re-
duced its business, and unless it
is able to devise new methods and
recover its ground, it will be unable to
pay the state 81 100000 or more a wear
for its permission to live. 1t NAV
anticipate that assaults upon it will
spend their force, and vigilance be re-
laXed, when it will organize new meth
ods of reaching its confiding contribu-
tors. In the meantime the United
States supreme court will determine
whether it is righttully denied the use
of the mails. Its advocates insist that
the anti-lottery act abridges the freedom
of the press, and is unconstitutional in
assuming criminality by act of congress
without trial by jury. 1t will hardly
get much comfort out of the court, and
If it passes the ballot box ordeal in
Louisiana, predictions of its demise
may need revision.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
THE NEW ORLEANS AFFAIR.

The report of the New Orleans grand
jury. to which tie GLOBE gave several
columns yesterday morning, has the
merit of length, whatever else may be
said about it. Logically, it is magnifi-
cent example of non-sequitur. 1t says
that the jury which tried the Italians
had probably been subjected to i'm
proper influences in reaching its verdict.
and therefore concludes that the murder
of the accused in the parish prison was
juStifiable. The diSinterested observer
would probably hold that a more proper
inference would have been that the jury
ought to have been shot. 1t is not very
clear why the sin of the men who tried
them should have been visited on those
whom they acquitted.
This New Orleans matter, however, is
not thing of logic, but of solid neceS-
sitv. The state OF Louisiana, under our
system, is an Independent state as far
as its internal troubles are concerned,
and it has the right to work them out as
it will. 1t has in its midst lawlesS ele-
ments which it has to suppress, and if
violence seems to it the best weapon for
biiO pun pOoCs IL ID ilOOOQJ . poO
its own. Order must be preserved, and
crime must be put down. The method
of submission to the conclusions of the
regularly constituted courts is more
generally popular in the North, but the
North has no such classes to deal with
as confront the citizens of New Orleans.
The value of human life and the sane
tity of legal tribunals fade away where
it is necessary to wrestle with organ
lzed gangs of assassins and brigands.
The intelligence and character of a
community must govern it. and laws
are prescribed simply to accomplish this
purpose. If they do not succeed in
doing so, any other machinery may be
substituted, even if it is the shotgun.
This is good Anglo-SaXon doctrine. and
the people of Louisiana are following
the example of our forefathers when
they declare that this is their creed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
APATHETIC TRAGEDY.

There has not in recent times been
more pathetic tragedy than the death
of the Rev. DR.. boutwell,. which is an
nounced this morning. DR.. boutwell,
was clergyman of Brooklyn. A few
weeks ago one of his children fell sick,
and, as he had more influence with it
than the other members Of his family,
he took it on his lap to give it a spoon
full of medicine. He put the cork of the
bottle in his mouth while he poured out
the liquid, and, as he did so, another
child of his, three years old, ran up to
him, crying: "Oh, papa. give me some,
too" 1t happened that the medicine
was of some patent kind and bore on
its label the legend that children
all cried for it. The coincidence of the
advertisement and the little tots want
Ing some struck him as being so alb
surd that he laughed, and.a he laughed,
the cork in his mouth slipped down into
his left bronchial tube. He did not
think anything of it at the time, went on
with his work, preached several sermons
without Inconvenience, but after week
or more began to be troubled. Had he
attended to it in time, it might have
been extracted, but when he finally
went to physician, it was too late. He
was a handsome man, six feet or more
in height, and of commanding physique.
He bore his fate with great courage and
died like man, but in great agony.
The terrible result of so gentle do
mestic incident is pathetic bey ond ex-
preston.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
ATHENS NEEDS.
rWritten for the Globe I

Athens and Sparta, which together held
All Greece against the Persians. were at outs
When Corinth, on the sea coast at the base
Of rocky hills behind it, grew apace.
Athens was troubled When, the priest who
served
The shrine Tou-P Politou, the wise men asked
hundred Of all schools of thought and
creed
For her best good, what most does Athens
need?'
When Wisdom never was so purged before,
And Athens never seemed so sick as now.
From all the learned doctors ne secured
-Four hundred separate ailments to be cured
The remedies were treatises and pills.
Which Athens was to read, their neighbors
take,
And all the other states of Greece digest.
When now they asked poet. in their jest,
yellow. what most does Athens nee-ig''
Now he
Was pulling pursley with his boys. '.she
Lest this vile stuff nature and scatter seeds,
That should keep my tnrnips free from
weeds.
Brewer Mattocks.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
The Italian Consul Is Hot.

New ORLEANS, La, May 6.-M.
Pasquale Corte, Italian consul in this
city, being interviewed by a reporter.
said that he was not satisfied at all
with the conclusions arrived at by the
grand jury, and became very much ex-
cited in discussing it. 81 had taken pains
to bring before those gentlemen y
said Mr.. Corte, sail the documents,
papers and informations in my posses
sion, relative to the record Of the men
implicated in the Hennessey murder.
now find that the grand jury has not
used my information as | had given it
to them, and that much that | did say
was only partly made use Of. The oath
of secrecy as to what transpires in the
grand jury room precludes me from
l will send copy of the report and ac-
count of my actions to the home govern
ment very shortly"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
PUBLIC NOT IN 1T.
Meeting of the Advisory Board of
the Western Traffic Association.


NEW YORK, May 6.-The advisory
board of the Western Traffic association
began its session at 1Oo'clock this morn
ing at the Windsor hotel. All the lines
were represented except the Southern
Pacific. Mr., Hughitt presided. Mr..
Leeds, of the Missouri Pacific, was at
the hotel. but not in at the meeting. He
expects to be heard by the board. Jay
Gould was present for the Missouri Pa
citic. The meeting will be called
upon to decide as to whether
some of its rules and bylaws are
to be dead letter or not. If they are
to be enforced, then the prospects are
that the association will goon and carry
out the purposes for which it was
formed. The general feeling this fore
noon among the members of the advise
ry board was that everything would be
harmonious, and that the decision of the
meeting would be to enforce the rules.
Col. John McCook said that all the mem
berS were enthusiastic over the univer-
sal good traffic which prevailed. Gen
eral Manager Leeds, of the Missouri
Pacific, who originally made the cut in
the sugar rate, is at the Windsor, and
has statement regarding his action,
which he wishes to make to the board if
it will hear him. He probably will not
be called upon TO make his state
ment to-day. This case of Leeds is
the real bone of contention of
the meeting. If Mr.. Leeds is dis
charged, it makes the position of the
traffic manager insecure If he cuts rates;
if Mr.. Leeds is not discharged then that
section of the constitution relative to
the matter of cutting is dead letter,
and the association will go to pieces.
None of the members present would
discuss this question, The meeting was
called TO order promptly at 10 O'Clock.
The only road not represented was the
Southern Pacific, but as Mr.. Huntington
is in entire sympathy with the objects
of the meeting, his absence excited no
comment. At ! o'clock recess was
taken for an hour. 1t was said then that
the only business transacted at the morn
ing session, was the consideration of the
proposed changes in the rules and regu-
lations, recommended by a committee
of which Gen. A. F. Walker is chair
man. Gen. Walker urged the recon-
mendations. No information could be
obtained as to the proposed changes.
Marvin Hughitt, who presided at the
morning meeting, gave out this state
ment at the close:
'"Ihe advisory board met this morn
ing, all the roads but the Southern Pa
citic being present At this session we
only considered changes in the rules
and regulations recommended by the
committee. The reason the Southern
Pacific is not represented is that Mr..
Huntington is too far away to get here.
l knew that he would not be here"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE
In the Oil and Lumber District of
Long Island City.

In the Oil and Lumber District of
Long Island City.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Fire started in
the Doncaster iron foundry at West
avenue and Flushing street, Long Island
city, at II o'clock tonight. en-
tirely consuming the building with its
contents. The Clark and Sampson feed
mills next door also took fire, ana were
burned to the ground. The flames then
spread to the immense lumber yard
across the street, which covers seven or
eight acres. or thirteen city blocks.
Several different firms occupy this
ground, among them being that of II.
S. Whiting, II. S. Burroughs and the
Export Lumber company, owned by
William r. Grace Il Co. At midnight all
of the lumber in these yards was burning
with no possible hope of saving any of
1t. This Immense lumber district is sit
uated on the north side of Newton
creek. Just across the creek are many
oil refnerieS, and a terrible cOnflagra-
ton will follow if they become ignited.
Fortunately the wind is blowing the
other way and this will not occur
unless it changes and carries the flames
across the creek. To the north of
the burning district is the new station
of the Long Island railroad. and, as a
high wind prevails in that direction. it
will probably be burned. The firemen
are directing all their efforts to save this
property. All the locomotives OF the
company are in readiness to pull out ali
the cars in the yard if the depot
should begin to burn. The loss
cannot be estimated at this time,
but will considerably exceed a million
dollars. The fire lights up New York
and Jersey City and the surrounding
country for many miles, and presents a
magnificent spectacle. There was a
great deal of shipping in Newtown
creek which was tOwed out into the
Oil company. which concern controls
the immense works on the south side of
the creek.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
XoT THAT SORT OF A HILL.

1t is assumed by Republican paners
that the report that Gov. HILL, of New
York, will run for governor again this
year reflects the definite purpose of
the versatile and aspiring New York
statesman. The situation is not inyit-
ing for this programme, which is taken
as involving no purpose to serve another
term as governor, but to advertise him.
self as a presidential aspirant. The
country has not responded to the effort
to inaugurate HILL boom. WAITER
SON was right, if he was too kindly gen
erous i'll his counsel, when he pointed
out the true role for the governor. He
is governor and senator now. That
should for the time pacify his aspira-
tions. The country is not quite salts
fed that he has the amplitude to fill the
presidential chair. AS a senator from
the largest state and a pillar of the next
administration, he could in the four
years persuade the party that he has the
qualities and solidity for the highest
post. Unless he has been misiudged
he is too Sagacious and well balanced to
seriously purpose another race for gov
ernor, as an aspirant for president. It
could but lead to his political ruin. If
elected he would not be nominated tor
president and would be compelled to
resign either as governor or senator.
But he would probably be defeated. as
he could not expect the friends of Mr..
CLEVELAND to support him in order to
prevent the nomination of CLEVELAND
for president. Defeated, the end of his
public career would be in view. He will
hardly be found the blunderer the Re-
publican papers would have him made
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07

required prompt cremation. 1t is to be
hoped that misapprehension will be
found in this case. The imputation is
that Mr.. BLAINE has been induced to
do the acrobat act in the controversy
with England for the benefit of the
North American Comm ercial company,
which has monopoly of the seal busi-
ness, and which consists of STEVE Ell
KINs and other trusted personal friends
of BLAINE. Setting out with the claim
that the seal killing must be stopped
for a time to save the business from ex-
tinction, he now evades the offer of
Lord SALISBURY to unite in stopping
it for year. If it appears that this is
done simply III the interest of ELKINs'
monopoly, explanation is desirable for
the credit of the administration.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
STAND BY THE ALTON.
Ticket Agents West of Kansas
City Give the Alton Business.

KANSAS CITY, May 6.-From an
authoritative source it is learned that
the ticket agents over the entire coun-
try west of Kansas City have formed a
sort of an agreement to stand by the
Alton and route all the business they
possibly can over that line. The West
ern agents are mostly telegraph oper-
ators and belong to the Order of Rail
way Telegraphers. The organization
is complete. 1t has now become boy
colt versus bOyeott-the Eastern roads
boycott the Alton, and the Western
agents boycott the Eastern roads. A
tug of war, with everything in favor of
the agents. So pronounced has the sit
uation become that the travelling pas
senger agents of the Eastern lines in
the West are becoming disgusted and
many of them are talking of throwing
up their positions. Everywhere they
go the agents of the trunk lines say
they meet with rubuke. WesIeIn ticket
agents tell them they can not expect
business until they 'let up on the
!. Alton" This is ding-donged at them
continually.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
THE STORY OF DAY.

Italy is liable to be shaken by revolution
a. any moment.
The grand lodge of the A. o. T. W. is in
session at Red Wing.
Il. o. Messier and Frank Hart are to walk
1000 miles for $1,000 side
H. II. Kohlsaat buys a controlling interest
in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Standard Oil company is said to be
trying to crush its competitors.
Louis Bets is identified at Minneapolis as
the notorious bigamist, Lithgow.
The New Orleans verdict is creating much
comment i'll both Europe and America.
The Western association games are won py
Lincoln, Kansas City, Denver and Mime
apolis.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
Determination to Justifv

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 6.-The Post
Dispatch says: ''The report of the
New Orleans grand jury charged with
the investigation of the lynching
of the eleven Italians in thai
city shows in every line that the
grand jurors took up their task
with an antecedent determination to
justify the lYnching and thank the
pro minent and law-abiding citizens"
who openly boast that they organized
the mob and led it to its work of death.
The lynchers themselves could not have
written more earnest and labored de-
fense of their slaughter of eleven men
as most praise worthy public service,
rendered necessary by the failure of the
trial jury to convict the smaller number
indicted, tried and acquitted.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
The Milwaukee Sentinel

MILWAUKEE. Wis.,, May 6.-The Sem
tinel says: The presentation makes a
case of strong circumstantial evidence
that the talesmen were approached by
friends and agents of the accused Ital-
ians, and the common conclusion will
be that some of the jurors were bribed.
The character of O'MaIIey. vi no was en-
ployed by the Italians, is shown to be
very bad, and if jurors were not bribed
1T was not his fault. But the report of
the grand jury would have relieved the
public curiosity outside of New Orleans
if some conclusive evidence as to the
connection of the italians with the mur-
der of Chief Rennessey had been given.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
TARIFF BANoUETs.

There is system in the high tariff
banquets being held in the East.
They are not prompted solely by
hunger, thirst or the attractions of
mellow sociability. They have been
held in Boston and New York, and one
as soon to be had in Philadelphia. 1t
has been asserted by one high in protec-
ton councils that the tariff work of the
last congress would stand unimpaired
for ten years, however fierce the at
tacks of the Democratic hosts. The
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
BEN OUT WEST.
The President Visits the Thriving
Cities of Washington.

TACOMA, Wnsh., May 6.-The presi.
dent and party entered the state of
Washington IN a driving rain storm,
which greatly interfered with the ar
rangements for his reception at various
stations along the road. At Tacoma the
train was met by the governor of ths
state, the mayor of Tacoma and COM
mittee of citizens. The line of marc3
was handsomely aud appropriately
decorated. Addresses of welcome were
made by Gov. Ferry and the mayor OF
the city, to which President Harrison
briefly responded.
SEATTLE, Wash, May 6.-The presi-
dental party made the trip from Ia.
coma to Seattle by boat, being well
coined aboard the palatial steamer, the
City of Seattle, at Tacoma, at IL a. IN.
Elliott bay was covered with vessels
and boats of every description. The
reception by the Seattle committee
aboard the steamer was without formal
ity, save few remarks by Mayor
White, to which the president replied.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

About 1,400 hundred saloon licenses and
800 dog licenses have been issued in Milwau-
kee for the ensuing year. 1t isn't every city
that can get along with less than one canine
per saloon.
The report Of the New Orleans grand jury
is as sensible as it is long. 1t is not likely to
cause any euxberance OF joy among the
Italian people, but its characteristic Ameri-
can tone will be approved by every one in
this country, from Jim Blaine down.
This man O'Malley, who is so comprehen-
sively sized up by the New Orleans grand
jury, might look real pretty with halter
around his neck.
The Helena Journal prints two columns
about strife and bloodshed among the poor
laboring men, and heads it Lovely May
Day." The sentiment is what might be ex-
pected from the editor of the paper-Russell
b. Harrison
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
SHIPPERS DON'T LIKE 1T.
Tbs Blind Pool Anticipated by the
Traffic Managers.

CHICAGO, May 6.-Chairman Blan-
chard, on behalf of the committee of
eighteen appointed in New York, is
communicating with Chicago shippers
for the purpose of ascertaining what
date will be most convenient for them
to attend a conference on the subject of
dividing the live stock, dressed beef
and provision traffic among the various
lines leading eastward from Chicago.
The date proposed for the meeting is
May IA. The shippers, as rule, do not
take kindly to the plan, and will prob
ably refuse to lend their aid to the oper-
alton of ''blind pool" the effect of
which would be to deprive them of any
advantages in the way of secret conces-
slons that may come to them while the
railroads are competing for their patron
age
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07

The method coming in vogue in New
York to suppress disorderiy houses is
reputed to be very effective. The own
ers of the property, in place of the ire
sponsible inmates, are given terms of
imprisonment. This aids to keep the
party posted as to the character of the
tenants.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
Passenger Matters.

CHICAGO, May 6.-The passenger de-
partment of the Central Traffic assocla-
ton began its monthly meeting to-day.
The initial session was devoted chiefly
to the fixing of excursion rates for large
meetings and conventions to be held at
various points In the territory of the as
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07

IT Is stated in Eastern papers that
the numbers who will cross the water
for summer tour promise to surpass
all precedents on account of the i'm
proved facilities and reduced rates.
Many of the Eastern people are more
familiar with the countries across the
ocean than they are with the unsur-
passed natural wonders of their own
land. Some of the railroads very alb
surdly advance rates for tourists, and
thereby aid to send them abroad.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07

methods at New Orleans is certainly
not pleasing one, and indicates that
while it may have been necessary to
strike terror to the dangerous class of
the community by the arbitrament of
self-constituted court, there are still
other and equally dangerous elements
that would also seem to require heroic
treatment.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07
One More Denial.

Special TO the Globe.
WINNIPEG, Man., May 6.-Assistant
General Supt. Graham, of the Northern
Pacific. in an interview here to-day, de-
MED emphatically that the Northern
Pacific is negotiating for the sale of
its Manitoba lines and termini to the
Canadian Pacific railway.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-07

SUPT PORTER, of the census, is to
visit the Pacific coast, but he will hardly
care to go by way of st. Paul if he is
looking for ovations. Omaha is about
the only city in the West that feels any
enthusiasm at his work. Kansas City
would not even offer him river water
for a beverage.