Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-03-24
THEY PAID DEARLY.

THEY PAID DEARLY.
How Chicago's !" BoodlinK,' Aldermen
: BLEED Corporations Seeking Favors.
CHICAGO, March q. Referring to the
grand jury investigation OF '.boodling'
methods practiced by members Of the
city council, the Tribune calls atten-
ton to the following significant facts
which, it says, it is in position tc
prove conclusively:
Fifty $1,000 bills were drawn from
the Illinois Trust and Savings baak
by manufacturing concern few days
after the passage of the compressed air
ordinance.
"A man interested in street railway
franchise says he went to certain
alderman to make legitimate offer OF
q large sum to the city for franchise.
The alderman said he had talked il
over with the boys and that il would
cost the company SIS, 900; but that the
money must go ITO the aldermen and
not to the city,
In the presence of witnesses an
alderman demanded $1,000 as the price
OF getting an ordinance out of a com
mittee's pigeon-hole.
There is said to lie from $50, 900 to
$3.50, 600 in certain hands to be paid
certain aldermen provided the mayor
signs the Yerl1es omnibus ordinance.
The sum of Sl,750, offered as a bribe
and accepted on the advice of counsel,
has been turned over to newspaper
by Alderman Roth to be used as evil
dence.
ut costs a good deal of money some
times to bny the city council" said an
attorney who is closely connected with
the states attorney. 1.-THE Northern
Pacific had all the worst Of it in the
last three big deals the aldermen have
made. The figures for those three
sales of city franchises are just these:
Northern Pacific. $3.50 OOC
G Geoioniic Gas
Soupiesseu All i...... l5u,OU
Those are the amounts the mem
bers OF the council received in those
three deals, and some of them will
wish soon they had never seen cent
of it.
A lawyer of this city when in his
cups confided to an acquaintance that
he had paid eleven $1,000 bills to as
many aldermen in connection with the
Northern Pacific ordinance
An alderman said in committee meet
ing that an offer of $4,000 ito the
city for a franchise was .perpetrat-
ing blackmail upon the aldermen
The principal evidence on which the
grand jury is working, and which is
expected to prove, beyond doubt, that
bribery entered into the granting
of the Northern Pacific franchise,
is the allegation, and the Prose
cution has the evidence for the
grand jury. that on the 2sth day of
July, 1891, Alderman Powers, William
O'Brien, and another one met in the
Offices of the Fidelity and Casualty
bank safety deposit vaults. They
went to one of the vaults from
which the three above named took a
number of envelopes on which were
written the names Of various alder.
men. The envelopes, which were
opened by the three aldermen
while in the vault, contained num-
Der Of bills each. The envelopes were
taken by the three aldermen to the city
hall, where they were distributed, as
seen by the witnesses who will be
brought before the grand jury, among
the aldermen in the council chamber
The Northern Pacific franchise had
just been passed.
IVES is KING.
The Michigan Billiard Expert Easily DE.
feats Jake schaefer at the Balk-Llne
Game for the Worlds Championship
. CHICAGO, March 21.-Frank Ives de.
feated Jake Schaefer. in the 14-inch
balk-line billiard game at Central
Music hall Saturday night. Schaefer's
score was 400 when Ives had reached
500. The conditions of the match
were 500 points up for $500 a
side, the winner to take the gross
receipts and the loser. to pay all ex.
penses The worlds champion ship
emblem at 14-inch balk-line was also
involved. The match has been the talk
of the country for weeks past and
many delegations from outside cities
were in the hall when play commenced.
Schaefer lays his defeat to the fact
that the balls used were not true, rem
dering it impossible for him to eff.
fectively employ the delicate stroke
which has made him SO famous, and,
while his opponent, of course, used the
Same implements, their false shape
did not hinder him from scoring
points, because his style of play was
not such as could be materially af,
fected.
1t required over four hours to finish
the game which consisted of forty-nine
innings. At the close the score stood
Ives, 800: Schaefer. 499. Ives average,
16 16. 40; Schaefer's average, 10 10. 4s.
Ives best run, 95; Schaefer.s best run,
As. George Slosson has challenged the
winner for a match for the worlds
championship and $500.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BABY.
a Remarkabl. Ohio Child's Life wa.
Spent in the Cradle.
UPPER SANDUsKY, O. March o1-
There died Saturday night at Wharton,
in the western part of the county, one
Of the most remarkable of creatures,
an infant aged 2osyears The child,
or young man, was the son of Austin
Borden, and during all the years
CT its life was nothing more than a
mere babe. It developed in no respect
and died in its. cradle 1T could neither
talk, walk. nor recognize anyone, an6
was as helpless. when it reached it.
manhood as the day it was born. Doc.
.ors were completely bafled and coult
do nothing, and for twenty nine year.
its death has bcen patiently waited.
DESTROYED TEN LIVES.
Terrible Explosion OF Nitro-Glycerine al
Susa, Italy.
TURIN, March 81. An explosion
Friday Of nitro-glycerine at Susa
about 81 miles west of this city
DESTROYED ten lives. The exact
cause of the explosion is not known
1t is thought, however. that a lieu
tenant of the Italian army, whe
lodged in the house where the calan