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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
THE STORY OF A DAY.
r Winchell is dead.

Alexander Winchell is dead.
Gen Sibley's funeral is to occur to-day.
Murderer Regan is sent to prison for life.
Failing to get $500 Stepniak refuses to lee
ture.
A phenomenal sleet storm passes over the
East.
Single tax gets black eye in the Mime
sofa house.
Billy Hawkins challenges Tom Ryan to a
finish fight.
South Dakota and portions of Minnesota
get big storm.
Ingalls, throws up the job of president pro
tenn of the senate.
The Lawton brothers take their real estate
quarrel into court.
Two thousand people are at Ashland ready
TO file on 300 claims.
A Chicago firm attaches a st. Paul book
seller for large sum.
kranthoff, of the Western association. sus-
tains Allan W. Thurman.
The Heilpern jury, after deIiberating forty
eight hours, fails to agree.
Streeter comes within eight votes of being
elected senator from Illinois
Both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature
protest against the passage of the silver bill.
The Minnesota veterans elect officers and
endorse James Compton for surveyor general.
Prohibitonists and those favoring the capt
col removal in South Dakota talk of combin
Eng.
Editor Duncan, of London, has to give
S325O0 for breaking Miss Gladys Knowles
heart.
The chaplain of the Minnesota senate lee
lures the senators on profanity in speech
seaking.
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman says Gen.
cherman was a Catholic up to the outbreak
Of the civil war
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
THE LIEN CRAZE.

We have been getting stark mad on
the subject of liens in this state curing
the past few years. If there appears
blotch anywhere on the body polite,
everybody shouts out that the lien law
should provide a poultice for its heal
ing. You can not get the better of
man in an argument or a bargain in
Minnesota. nowadays, but what, in the
moment of your triumph, he will turn
around and scare the life out OF you by
threatening to file lien against you
unless you let up on him. There have
been more victories snatched from de-
feat by this sort of tactics than could
be named in a volume. Anybody can
claim lien for anything under the sun
at the present time, and nobody knows
how to foreclose one. The whole COM
munity is hanging, like variegated
MoHAAIMED' coffin. between heaven and
earth, all plaStered over with uncom-
pleted liens: and the wards at st. Peter
are rhronged with raying maniaes Of at
torneys, who thought they understood
the law, but have learned, to the sorrow
of their keepers, that they did not. 1t
has been left for Senator LIENAU, how
ever, to suggest the latest and Sublim-
est wrinkle in this mad craze. Would
anybody believe it, but he really has
introduced a bill into the state senate
which provides that servant girls shall
have right of lien for unpaid wages OH
the household furniture of their en-
ployers? This distances all past and
possible future competitors. Step right
up here. Senator LIENAU; we give you
the prlze. You beat the world. You
are out of sight! Your chiyalry is as
great as your daring. The cook, the
scullery maid. the second girl and the
woman of all work have champion
now. On with the good work, Put
tin pan on your head and take broom
in your hand, and rout your enemies.
The GLOBE has not seen your bill. but
if it is not too late and has not already
been done, make an emendation or two
and have it perfect. Divide your pro-
teges into classes. Give the cook lien
on the pots and pans and cold victuals;
give the second girl a lien on the beds
and chairs; give the laundress lien on
her employers wearing apparel, and
give the maid of general houSeWork
lien on everything. This will he logi-
cal, and will put premium on general
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
CURRENT NOTES.

Mrs. DiX-"Why does your husband
call you his good resolution Mrs
Hicks-'He says | am always broke
-Munsey's Weekly.
Every second you call to the wait
ress, Another glass Of beerr D. ''Wcu,
what else can say to such a stupid
looking w9mau?'-Fliegende Batter
Miss H&rtiy-Very, very sweet in
deed! Is it your own arrangement?
Tie Professor Well-largely. | scored
the pedaling -Harper'S Bazaar.
No matter how slight citizens I'M
poItance may be, he feels when he gets
into street car filled with ladies that
he is man Of standing Washington
Post.
Johnnie-What is an egotist, papa9
Papa-It Is person, my son, who tells
you about himself those things which
you want 50 tell lin about yourself
Washington Star.
Herr Deuttler-Wuiter, Champagne
und glasses? WATERBURY. sir? Herr
Deutcher-Seial Zwei, you blag
rascal. You ueedn't t'ink you i'm 1T
vas! DOnnerVetterr-Yale Record.
Mrs. Bellows Ito daughter Cora
Why did YOU throw kisses at Blr. Jimp-
son across DE aisle at church to-day?
NOId NCOID Ildt u LlS - WASH neat
enough to reach lim.-Aew York Her
ale.
go away. You are drunk, said the
citizen to the begEar. II amt nothln'
of the kind, was the wrathful reply.
''D' you suppose I'd be out a-wUrkin on
SIGH cold day as this if | was good an
drunk pr indianapolis journal.
AlgerHOn ION the steamer, saving
good bye to Ethel, in whose eyes he i'm
AGNES he sees prospective Snow,
keep up, little girl, keep up. Ethel
Keep up? Now tell me, do you think
dOWn?-BostOn Courier.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
THE BELL MONOPOLY.

Those who have been subjected to the
expressions of tine telephone monopoly
are looking hopefully to an early, at
least partial, emancipation. Some of
the patents have expired, and others of
an Important character are approach
ing their dissolving period. But a
monopoly that has millions in it, is not
going to release its hold or open the
field to others while it can find means
to hold to its fairness. 1t is rumored
that BELL and DRAWBAUGH have a
combination In prospect that will rec
ognize the patent of the latter and give
seventeen years further life to the mo-
nopoly. But even with all the patents
out of the way it would be very difficult
for others to get into the field. The
monopoly is constantly adding to the
strength of its position. In many cities
the wires are being put under ground,
and the long-distance service is i'm
proved. Various other devices and ar
rangements will come into play, and it
can afford to freeze out any company
that has not millions behi nd it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW.

When HORACE GREELEY established
the annual Tribune almanac he made it
a standard authority in political status
tics. 1t is still taken as reliable. Its
figures are needed to realize the full
proportions of what Senator INGALLS,
has spoken of as a ''mOst stupendous
and overwhelming disaster" in referring
to the voting of the year past. 1T is
found in these tables that the Demo
Gratis had majorities over the Republi-
cans in tWenty-nine states, amounting
to the enormous total of 1.019,619. while
in the other fifteen states the Repub-
lican vote exceeded that of the Demo
Gratis by 100,53 leaving margin Tor
the Democrats of 919,0SS. As an indi-
cation of the real political status, the
aggregate is not very far ont of the way,
but in detail some explanation should
be had. The figures are taken from the
head of the ticket where there was a
state ticket, and in other cases the con-
gressional vote is used. Discounts on
the Democratic side should be had in
two or three states. Pennsylvania is
given asa Democratic state by 1854,
Oregon by 5,133, and Massachusetts by
9,053. Those were the majOritieS that
elected Democratic governors, but the
Republicans elected everything else by
substantial majorites. There is fair
chance for the Democrats to carry Mas
sachusetts next year for president. but
Oregon and Pennsylvania are as hope
lessly Republican as Maine and Yer
mont. But in the Republican list are
Iowa, Kansas. Minnesota, New Hamp-
shire, North and South Dakota. no
more than two of which are at all likely
to 20 with the Republicans next year.
1t is not insisted that the Demo
Gratis will carry them all. The Alliance
party has the best outlook for at least
two or three of them. But the average
is not far out of the way. Two-thirds
of the states are in the Democratic lines,
and the popular majority of 100000
has never been equaled, and only APP
preached in 1872, when the Democrats
pretty much abandoned the field. GRANT
then had but Isl ,4S1 more votes than
GREELEY. In 1910 the first HARRISON
had out 10000 popular majority, and
PIERCE in 1852 was ahead of SCOTT
only 202, 00s, although he carried all but
four states. The conditions may be
somewhat changed in 1892, but Repub-
lcan success is about the most improb-
able outcome suggested by the almanac
figures.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
TO THE UNATTAINABLE.

Dear, how many the songs bring to you
Woven OF dream stuffs. pleasure. and pain,
Al the songs of my life sing to you.
And you hear. and answer again.
Though no rhyme do your dear lips say to me,
Yet, my poet. sweet songs you bring;
hen you smile then the angels play to me
Tunes to the silent songs you sing.
All my soul goes forth in song to you,
All my deeds for your sake are DONE
AL my laurels and bays belong TO you,
In your name are my battles won.
> lust by living you make my life dear to ME.
Though your lips never speak my name;
IT'S your hands thatin dreams appear to me,
Bringing me all that / ask Of fame.
What though here you are wholly lost to me,
Though you never Will know or see,
Theughlife's pain be ttss worship cost to me
Am not richer than gref. kings be!
Have Isnot You, in the hottest heart of me
You. insthe eyes which see you alone:
Shall not rise 10 your soul .whichi- part of me
Till yoa shall meet ma an know ynur OWL.
--t.Jt1 siiiA.i liIgIZIn..
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
MORRISON DISSENTS.
The Interstate Commerce
Commission Hands Down
: a Ruling.
-
The Issue Decided, However,
Is Purely Local in It's
Character.
Master in Chaneery Boyasen
Takes Testimony in the
Monon Case.
Extension OF the Mason City
& Fort Dodge to Council
Bluffs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The inter
state commerce commission to-day made
public an opinion prepared some time
ago by Commissioner Schoonmaker, in
which is announced the decision in the
ease of the Kaufman Milling company,
OF ST. Louis, Mo-, against the Missouri
Pacific Railway company and nineteen
other railroad companies. The rate on
flour from points in Missouri and Kan
sas to points in Texas is five cents
higher than the rate OH wheat trans
ported between the same points, and
has been from to Is cents higher fGr
fifteen years ormore up TO 1886, when the
differential was fixed at five cents. Rates
on both commodities are grouped with
ont reference TO distance. The con
plant claimed that rates OIL wheat and
flour should be equal. The commission
decides that under the conditions exist
ing III the territory i'll question a rate OF
five cents less per 100 pounds OH wheat
than Oh flour is not unlawful, but thai
a ditferential exceeding five cents nof
l00 pounds works uni uSt dlScrlmnatlOn,
and is unlawful. The decision only m
plies to the present situation in the ter
I4IOly III QuNoLlOlii tllOl IIOG IIICIltlCt. ~
lay down permanent rule for the future
nor to apply elsewhere. Questions
may arise i'll case uniform clasSif-
cation is established are reserved.
and the principle is laid down that a5
present an exception to a general rule
OF aSSlficatiOn or rate making may D3
Justified by adequate considerations in
view of diSSlmilar conditions in differ
ent portions of the country, and whsn a
rigid application Of general rule
would be injurious to important public
interests. The opinion also states that
the power OF congress to regulate COM
MERGE among the states is absolute, and
rates on such commerce may be regu-
lated by federal authority with refer
ence to trade conditions and crcum-
stances of localities without infringing
the rights or immunitieS OF such com
MERGE under the constitution. Commits
sloner Morrison filed IL dissenting Opin-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
HILL FOR FREE SILVER.
New York's Governor Put Himself
on Record Last Fall.

PhllaQelphla Ledger.
Gov. Hill put himself on record on the
silver question last September in a
speech in Brooklyn, when he criticised
the silver bill passed by the Republi
can congress as merely temporary
expedient. 1t will give permanent
satisfaction nowhere. 1t puts
heavier strain upon our re-
sources than free bi-metallic coin
age without foreign cooperation would
do; obStructs our progress toward that
end which we all desire to reach, the
free coinage of silver under proper
international ratio This may mean
great deal or very little. according as
one reads it. Muititudes of people are
in favor of international bi.metallsm
who are opposed to this country estab
fishing free coinage alone and unSup-
ported.
The governor went on to explain,
however, that ''in one act a Republican
congress has thus uSurped more than
doubtful power, which, if lawful, it
has worse than unwisely used; has re-
pulsed popular demand for re-
storation of our monetary unit,
which, till 1878. was bimetallic,
with free coinage alike to silver and
to.gold, and has interposed new him
drance to a single and fixed weight
ratio of parity for the gold and silver of
the worlds commerce, which IS IA
ti0nal solution of the silver question,
if commerce remains international and
universal This seems to put the gov
ernor in line with free-silyer sentiment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
GOOD MORNING, MR. MERRIAM

Good morning, Mr.. MERRIAM. We
have not seen you for a long time. Have
YOU been out of the city, or only busy at
the bank? There has not been much in
the papers about'you Of late. 1t is very
important for a public man that he
should be talked about, and that he
should have enemies as well as friends.
There are two classes of people who
help ones progress, those who condemn
him unjustly and secure popular SYM
pathy for him. and those who praise
him with discrimination and enthusi-
aSm. Just see how much good Gov.
CAMPBELL got from the ISLANDERS FORA
KER and HALSTED started against him.
We think that perhaps you are making
mistake, Mr.. MERRIAM. You are get
ting too popular. The masses grow
dreadfully bored with virtuous people
after little while. Reflect On the fate
of ARIsTIDEs, who was almost as well
liked as you are, and who still was os
traoised because he ceased to be inter
esting. Would it not pay for you to do
something startling which wonid call
peoples attention to you, and get one
half running you down and the other
half applauding you to the skies?
The GLOBE throws out these hints
only by way of suggestion. You, of
course, know all about such things al
ready. There is nothing which makes
for stateScraft which you have have not
thought out. No doubt you are lying
awake nights meditating on some awful
profundity. Please hurry up, Mr..
MERRIAM, and let us have it. The
newspapers are getting to be dull read
ing in these days. Senator DEAN is
going to stop the prize fights and there
will not be a circus along till the spring
comes. Please stand Oh your head,
dear governor, or do some other start
ling trick. You owe it to the people
who elected you to relieve in some way
the monotony Of their lives. What shall
it be? Will you sell all that you have
and join the Farmers Alliance? Or
will you abdicate, like CHARLES the
Fifth, now in the time of your fullneSs
of power? Or will you take off your
mask and come over into the Democ-
racy? You know that in your heart of
hearts you are CLEVELAND Democrat.
Why not have the courage Of your con-
victions and come out from the party of
monopoly? We do not want to appear
to bride you, but if you will join the
Democracy. when the next Democratic
president is elected IN 1892 the GLOBE
will back you for all it is worth for the
secretaryship of agriculture. Anyhow,
Mr.. MERRIAM, do brace up and be in
tereSting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
A KANSAS RENEFACIoR.

Did not the invention come from
Kansas, there would be some hesitancy
in crediting the statement that substi-
tute has been devised-an improvement,
in factor the favorite fruitage of the
gentle bird that does duty about the
barn. lncubators have made it posi-
Bile to dispense with the maternal labor
of the poultry, and now if a better egg
can be produced cheaper than the most
frugal hen can afford, the sphere of
that estimable and industrious little ac-
cessory of culinary economy will be
much circumscribed. The Kansas City
Times has turned its scientific force
loose. and made the invention subject
of-exhaustiye research. It has visited
Prof. SToR.$ at Parsons. Kan, and
vouches for the story. The gentleman
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
NOT SETTLED.

The question raised by Mr.. CARLISLE
in the senate, relating to the electoral
college in its vote for president in 1892,
is not disposed of by the act of congress
providing that the number of electors
shall equal the congress that comes into
life on the inauguration of the new
president. The constitution provides
that the electors shall equal the repre-
sentation the states may be entitled TO
in both houses. The court, it is pre-
sumed, by the CARLISLE theory, will
hold that the constitution refers to the
existing congress and not one with no
legal existence when the electors enter
upon and conclude their duty. This
question has not been raised heretofore.
because the difference would not affect
the result of the election. Now there
will be twenty-four electoral votes in
volyed, and presidential elections are
often determined by fewer votes. There
is no apparent way Of settling the ques-
ton except by judicial decision.
:HE Democrats elected to state offices
in { lst-n.ci i.trt r. StiI i-n.,t ont NV 4,a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
WHO CUT THE RATE?
Atchison Officials Deny Certain
ReSDOnSibiIity

CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-Oficials of the
Atchison and the Jacksonville South
eastern roads deny that they are in any
way responsible for the making of a
round trip rate of 81 on the occasion of
the excursion from St. Louis to Chicago
next Saturday. The agreed rate was
$50 for the round trip, but the Chicago
IL Alton notified Chairman Finley yes
terday that it would be compelled to
make 81 rate, having discovered that
such reduction had been made by the
Jacksonville Southeastern. General
Passenger Agent Kent, of the latter
road, wired the AtchlSon officials to-day
that the accusation was false; that the
81 rate was the result of an agreement
between the Alton and the Wabash,
and that he had not even met it. Chair
man Finley has authorized all lines to
meet the rate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
To Go Through to Ogden.

SIOUX CITY, To-, Feb. 19.-Priyate
dispatches from Now York state that
the New York owners of the Pacific
Short line have sold that property to
the A. S. Garretson syndicate, which
secured an option on it two weeks ago,
and that the line is to be built through
TO Ogden under traffic contracts with
the Chicago, Rock Island IL Pacific and
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
which companies are having war with
the Union Pacific.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
An Imnortant Outlet.

CHICAGO. Feb. ia dispatch from
Fort Dodge, To-, says that the stock
holders of the Mason City d Fort Dodge
railroad met this morning and so
amended the articles of incorporation
as to permit of the road being extended
from Mason City by way of Fort Dodge
to I.ehigh, to which point it is now CON
structed, and thence to Council Bluffs.
This extension will give that section Of
Iowa an important outlet to the South
west. The principal owner of the Fort
Dodge road is James j. Hill, president
of the Great Northern.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
Before the Commission.

Special to the Globe.
EAU CLAIRE. Wis, Feb. 19--The case
of the Eau Claire Board of Trade against
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and
eleven other Western railroads, for dis
elimination in freight rates, to come be-
fore the interstate commission, had its
initiation to-day with taking dispositions
before j. E. Koran, notary public. IL.
I'll. Hayden, of this city. and NJ. kellogg,
of ST. Paul, represent Eau Claire, and
S. l.. Ferrin, of st. Paul. and Burton
Hanson. of Chicago, the railroads, and
Thomas Hedge, of Burlington, the
doWn-river lumbermen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20

housework and help keep down domes-
tic expenses. Please will not somebody
else introduce bill giving the shoveler
lien on the beautiful snow which he
shovels, and the coalheayer lien on
the coal which he heayes? And then
will not somebody move an appropria-
ton for new insane asylum?-for we
shall all be in some such place soon If
this lien business does not stop.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20

Republicans by technicalities and par
tisan brutality. One of them, the comp
troller. had 5000 more votes than the
Republican, and 1862 over all, The
Republican house has been forced to de-
clare him elected, but the usprping gov.
ernor keeps him out by shabby pre-
texts. Laws are silent in war, and that
seems about the case when Republicans
are in Office.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20

sumes none of the debts or Other &bili-
ties of the lessor, and reserves the right
TO terminate the contract on two
months notice. As the Illinois Cen
trail owns substantially all the stock OF
the Dubuque q Sioux City, it is evident
that the end soughtis merely to simplify
accounts and reduce expenses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
Another line Taken In.

CHICAGO. Feb. IA vote of the
members of the Western Freight asso-
citation on the application of the Sioux
City d Northern for admission to mem.
berShip has been taken by Commissioner
Midgley with the result that the road i'm
question is now a member. As part
of the Great Northern system it is also
member of the Western Traffic asso-
clatinn
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20

THE town adjunct to the Farmers
Alliance in Kansas, called the Citizens
Alliance, is very strong element. In
Wichita, for instance, it has eleven
lodges and $500 votes, and has put up
ticket for the municipal election soon to
be held, and expects to elect it. The
Alliance stamp seems to be the only one
that goes now in Kansas politics.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20

cncy than demanding that the city shall
be reduced to the condition of cow
patch or weakening its position before
the world by false and malicious attacks
on its credit and solyency.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
TO-DAY.S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Forecast till p
m. Friday-For Wisconsin,: Rain or snow
slightly warmer; southerly winds. For
Iowa and Minnesota: Snow; southerly
winds, becoming variable; colder Saturday.
For North and South Dakota: Snow; winds
shifting to colder northWesterly; fair Sat
urday
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
Leased to the Illinois Central

CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-It was given out
at the Illinois Central offices to-day
that the Dubuque & Sioux City road
has been leased to that company.
While the lessee agrees to pay as rent
tie net earnings OF 1hs property il as
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
APP preparation With String to 1t

Omaha NOrI d-HeraId.
Now that the force bill is safely
sheysd, Alabama's Legislature makes
an appropriation to the worlds fair.
the money will probably have a string
attached to il II the biil is ever revived.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-20
Northern Pacific's Dividend.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-The Northern
Pacific directors to-day declared the reg
ular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent.
They also decided to resume work on
all projected extensions and push them
to completion.