St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-30
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS
Negotiations for Sale Of Even
ing Tribune to the Jour-
nal are Pending.
Maj. N. F. Warner and Wife
Entertain the First Min
nesota Veterans.
Rev. D. s. McCatlin Installed
AS Pastor of Bethlehem
Church.
Criminal Cases in the District
Court. Mississippi River
Navigation.

Per odical newspaper upheavals come
TO Minneapolis as regularly as the
seasons. Already four of the brightest
and best newspaper men in the Twin
Cities have handed in their designations
preparatory to removing to Detroit,
Mich. But that is not all, nor nearly
all. 1t is now possible, and even prob
able, that the evening newspaper field
in Minneapolis will shortly be
occupied by but one journal where now
there are two. The Journal company is
negotiating for the purchase Of the
Evening Tribune. Should the projected
deal be closed the Evening Tribune
will, of course, be dropped. Its sub
Scription list will be transferred to the
Journal, and only memory will remain
of the Evening Tribune.
The life OF the Evening Tribune has
been varied. 1t first came into exist
ence little less than four years ago as
the Evening Star. Later it absorbed the
notorious Daily News. The name of
the sheet was Star-NeWs for time.
Later the tail end uf the name was
dropped and the Star re- ned its twink
ling. Two years from The date of its
first appearance, the Star and the Morn
ing Tribune were consolidated.
1t took the name of Tribune-Star
then and held it for some six
or eight months. But the word Star
was an eyes0re to A. }. Blethen, then
Star plants. His soul was wrapped up
in the Tribune, so the evening paper
become simply the Evening Tribune.
and throughout its varied career-varied
in more ways than one, for that paper
has run the gauntlet from out and out
free trade to McKinleylSm-this paper
has been, almost always, both bright
and neWSy, and that is what leads to its
downfall.
1t is whispered in some quarters that
a. j. Blethen, when at the head of the
Tribune, was jealous of the evening
edition. 1t was always a better news
paper than his pride, the Morning Trib-
une, hence his feeling toward it. On
that account, it is said, the paper has
not done as well recently as it should. 1t
suffered much as does child whose
brother is the prime favOrite of the
parents. The new management that
has taken hold of the Tribune finds the
morning paper heavy load without
the addition of the evening, SO Mr.
Murphy Is anxious to sell. The Journal,
with all its boasted strength and popu-
larity, has always found lively op-
ponent i'll the Evening Tribune, as in
its predecessor, the Star. So the
Journal company is not averse TO
ridding itself of such a troublesome
competitor, provided it can be done at
a reasonable price. The Journal has
already made an offer for the Evening
Tribune. But it was too small. The
negotiations are still i'll progress, how
ever. In the course of few days, or
weeks at the furthest, the sale will
probably be made. The Tribune com
panv is anxious to sell; the Journal is
ready to buy. The consideration is all
that stands between them.
1t is said that one bar to the consum-
nation of the deal is the desire of the
Tribune to exact a certain promise from
the Journal. The Journal company has
long thought Of jumping over the bars
into the morning newspaper corral. The
Tribune fears such move 1t desires
the Journal to promise to keep out of
lmorning journalism in the event of the
Evening Tribune being sold to it. The
journal people are 10th to make such
q promise.