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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
CALIFORNIA; WILD MAN.
He Is Thought to Be an Escaped
Lunatic and Has Great Cunning.

San francisco Examiner.
A wild man roams the forests near
Markham's Mills. in Sonoma county
Cal. The startling discovery was made
by AL Hutchings, mill hand, last Mon
day afternoon while hunting. Hutch
ings was strolling leisurely in the
bushes about two miles from the mills
when he heard cracking sound pro-
ceeding from clump Of live oaks. He
thought it was bear and stood for a
few second with his rifle ready to get a
shot at the supposed bruin, when it
emerged from the covering.
When the creature did make its ap-
pearance it presented a sight that made
Hutchings' hair stand on end. 1t was
nothing more nor less than human
being having wild, maniacal look an d
covered down to the knees with a
growth of long and shaggy hair. Hutch
ings stood as if rooted to the spot. The
weird-looking creature strobe or half
leaped out into the clearing and looked
about as if fearing some one was near.
Being evidently satisfied that there
were no intruderS in the vicinity the
wild man gave vent to deep, cultural
sigh and seated himself on his launches.
During this time Hutchings cautiously
retreated behind neighboring tree,
from which point of vantage he OBJ
tanned complete view of the freak.
Hutchings states that the wild man was
about five feet eight or nine inches in
height. The hair which fell from his
head was fully two feet long, very
matted and of reddish hue. His face
was Scantily covered with a growth of
beard of sandy color.
From the shoulders TO the knees a
thick hirsute growth covered the body
to such an extent that it appeared as if
the man wore wooden garment, so eff
fectually did it cover his person.
After sQuatting on his launches for a
few minutes the strange specimen of
humanity stretched himself out for a
nap in the blazing sunlight. Fearing to
rouse the wild man into active hostili-
ties were he to make his presence
known, Hutchings quietly slipped
away, leaving the strange son of Adam
to enjoy his repOSe in peace.
No one living in the vicinity of Mark
hams has ever seen the man before.
From Hutching's description, the
wild man is about forty years of age. 1t
is supposed that he is the same indi-
vidual who startled the country in the
the vicinity of Gualala about eight years
ago by his sudden and unexpected
debut.
1t is believed that he is an escaped
lunatic who has long been given UP as
dead.
Hutchings and three men intend to
search the country and capture the hui
man freak. if they can do so without
taking his life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
FEMININE "GALLUSES."
A Maiden Fair Wanted a Horse
shoe Nail to Hold Up Her Skirts.

A Maiden Fair Wanted a Horse
shoe Nail to Hold Up Her Skirts.
Detroit Free Press.
She was beautiful girl, upon whose
lustro US curls twenty summers had laid
their roses in showers of color and fra
GRANGE and upon whose fair shoulders
the decree of fashion had placed pair
of uspenders.
If any who read these lines have not
yet got themselves upon this fad they
should at once look up the latest fashion
plates.
She was radiant in her loneliness. and
the young man who sat beside her when
the shadows OF the evening fell was as
happy as she was beautiful.
1t was an iridescent combination.
He had proposed and been accepted.
and he had just concluded a wild, i'm
pulsiye embrace that now was tapering
OF gradually in tender. one-armed
hug as lingering as case of the grip in
a hard winter.
George" she murmured, twill you
do me favor?"
"A milIionp' he exclaimed, with
tropical luXuriance; "a million times
million, darling.''
Zone is enough, deary,'' she said.
with soft little smile of joyous con-
tentment.
What is it. darling?" he whispered.
drawing her closer to him,
will you lend me horseshoe nail?''
she lisped, blushingly. I'VE have
busted my gallus."
And Georges great heart yearned and
broke then. for he had come to the
trysting place without horseshoe nail.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
ITS FORMAL DEBUT.
The New st. Louis Park M.
E. Church Is Officially
Dedicated.
Official List of the County
commissioners and Leg
iSlative Districts.
Rev. Wilkinson breaches to 8
Large Audience at Lake
Harriet.
Smith, a Colored Man, Makes
a Brute of Him
self.

The Methodists of the city added an
other church to their already splendid
list yesterday, when the new edifice at
st. Louis Park was formally dedicated.
Services were held in the forenoon,
afternoon and evening. and a well-filled
church was the order on each occasion.
The morning services were presided
over by Bishop j. n. Fitzgerald. He
delivered an eloquent sermon. and it
will probably be his last in this section
of the country, for the latter part of this
week he leaves for his Southern home.
The musical programme was an excel
lent one. Miss Kelly presided at the
organ, and among the musical numbers
was solo rendered by Miss Grace Fitz-
gerald. The dedicatory sermon and
services occurred in the afternoon at
$50. Rev. John Stafford preached the
sermon. and the impressive dedication
ceremonies at the close were conducted
by Bishop Fitzgerald. The organ music
was effective, and the vocal solos by the
Misses Hayward and Milford especially
good. The evening services consisted
of sermon by Rev. Benjamin Longley
and vocal solos by Mrs. Ii. E. Sloan and
Miss Craze Fitzgerald.
The new church is a handsome one,
located at the corner of Lake and Broad
way streets. The pastor is Rev. David
Iice, and the associate pastor Rev. s.
+. KerfoOt. The church society has
twenty members, the Epworth league
thirty-five, and the Sunday school sixty.
The movement to build the church has
been recent one. The contractor has
pushed the work so that it has been
completed in sixty-one days from the
time the corner stone was laid. 1t is
handsome structure, veneered with red
brio :. its size being 36x5l feet, with
graceful spire on the southeast corner.
The cost of the lots on which it stands
and the building was S3,604.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
Adventure With a Madman,

St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Il had an unpleasant adventure with
a mailman once" said E. G. Clayton, of
Columbus, o., now at the Laclede. 81
was visiting an old college chum who
lived in the country. One evening I
walked down to the saloon, some two
miles, to get my mail, was delayed, and
it was almost dark when took the road
home. l had gone perhaps mile when
a powerful man, without a stitch of cloth
ing on him, sprang into the road in front
of me, muttering and gestieulating: l
recalled in all instant a report l had
heard in the village. that a dangerous
maniac, en- route to the asylum. had
escaped from his keepers and was sup
posed to be in hiding in that neighbor-
hood. l had read much of the power of
the human eye, and | tried it on my I'M
welcome visitor. but failed to strike the
right combination. He advanced to-
ward me, muttering incoherently and
working his powerful fingers Spasmodi-
cally, as though he already had me by
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
ADJUSTMENTS.

The late P. 7. Barnum has been fire.
quently quoted as saying, 1.-The average
mule is more Intelligent and more re-
sponsive to patient teaching than the
horse" Prof. Bristol, whose trained
horses he exhibited last evening at the
Bijou. is somewhat of the same opinion.
In addition to the beautiful and cleverly
educated equines constituting the pro-
feSSor'S troupe are two wonderfully
smart mules, Denver and Dyna-
mite. The former exhibits an enviabIe
and enjoyable fund of humor. The
mule has well developed sense of the
ridiculous and exhibits it. He is a
clown of the entertainment. and In his
fun making toward the latter end of the
evenings performance is ably abetted
with the cunning pranks and astonish-
ing agility of Dynamite. The enter
tainment is an unusually interesting
one. 1t really becomes duty on the
part of parents and educators to give
the children under their care an
opportunity OF witnessing an instructive
lesson in natural history. One of Prof
Bristol's horses, Comanche, plainly
| illustrates his power to reason. The
| horse, directed by his own intelligence,
| and mounted upon spring board.
actually balances two horses, one of
when STANDS upon either end OF the
board. Comanche certainly under
stands to a degree the relations of
cause and effect. Prof. Bristol
| has some twenty trained AMI
mails embracing number of
| eXquisitely groOmed and pretty horses.
diminutive ponies. and the two clowns
referred to. All of the animals exhibit
| proficiency, and the results of pains
taking, intelligent and kindly treat
| ment. One of the most interesting
features of the entertainment is the zest
with which the actors in the most re-
! markable cast that ever appeared OIL
I the stage of the Bijou act their parts.
| They apparently enjoy the exercises,
music, and the sincere applause of the
| spectators.
1.-The Dazzler" will burst forth in all
| its briliiancy at the Grand tonight,
where it will continue to ''dazzle'' dur
| ing the week, with matinee Saturday.
| The company is an excellent one.
"Mrs. Tom Thumb" makes her initial
/ appearance in this city at the Lyceum
| this afternoon, in musical comedy.
Several of the members of the company
are midgets. There will be a matinee
every day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15

and the sorrowful would have every
possible care, and the high places of
sin become holy ground. 1t is because
Christ appeals to all which is noblest in
man, all which can be for his good, be-
cause He speaks plainly about that
which is OF present practical worth,
which can meet all our needs in every
calm of our being and eXper fence, that
plead for Him today. Some men
have not in this favored land yet heard
of Christ as He is. They see Him
through the cOlored glass OF religious
party teaching. They listen what the
various rabbis say, and often hear Babel
sounds in reply and are confused. Be-
broader than church, higher than creed.
He is that sent of God to men, to
set moral things in true lights,
to tell us what is good and to
show how we are to do If. He is never
found installing the transient for the
permanent, the thing of less for that
OF greater value, never cringing to
power for temporary advantage, never
with the popular against the right and
true side. In His clear vision all is in
Just proportion, and all have exact
value; so man AS being with mind, life
and eternal destiny rises into grand
Ness. lie is 10 Oe set on nlgn by a SAL
Walton which is an honor to God and to
man. The hope of the world is Jesus
Christ. and as true form is character
istic of all high art, so is the principle
of righteousness in every true thought
of the Savior of the gospel story. /
speak to you in earnest words and plain
when tell you there is no hope of set
ting right the things which are wrong
except on lines either stated or implied
in the words of Christ. / am told the
working people are getting away from
churches, creeds and dogmas. Well, if
they hold to Christ and His words. and
make them the rule of life, work will
be plenty, wages honest, peace will
reign and prosperity flourish as a
branch. This concerns US all here now
and prospectively. 1t will also prove
our eternal good"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
Supt. Porter Gives Out Some
Figures on the Eleventh
Census.
The Methodists Lead All
Churches in Membership
and Edifices.
Roman Catholics Next and
Showing Extraordinary
Growth.
statistics Of Negro Churches
Indicate That They Are
Becoming Stronger.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.-Supt. Porter,
In an address he prepared for delivery
at Asbury Park today, makes public the
preliminary figures OF the church sta
ustlcs of the eleventh census, which are
both curious and interesting. There are
Shown to be in the United States nearly
loO separate and distinct church organ
lzatlons, holding to widely different
creeds. They vary greatly in practice,
and represent all possible variations of
church policy. There are dozen diff
1erent branches of the Presbyterian
family. There are some denominations
that will answer only to the simplest.
for example, the Brethren. Their
various churches claim to be simply
Brethren. Four of these are
branches of what are popularity called
plymouth" nor is there any designa-
ton which they have adopted in which
these four bodies of Plymouth Brethren
may be distinguished from other breth-
rem. There are two Reformed churches,
known as the Reformed Church in
America and Reformed Church in the
United States" Some of the denomina-
lions were never numbered before, and
1t required the utmost
Powers Of Persuasion
to induce them to submit to the process.
Sects have been founded and enumer-
ated who claim less than 100 communi-
cants. Here are seven sects which
altoge Their number only about 1000
members. and yet own church edifices
worth $4,000; Shakers, Amana-
tetles Mennonite. Harmony, Sep.
aratists. New lcarian and Altru-
lists. All societies observing the
communion whether found on a relig-
gious or secular basis, are embraced in
the returns. Two of those are non-re-
llglous. the lcarian and the Altruists.
out are organized to apply a social
principle. After the seven denomina-
tons and the Lutheran, Methodist,
Presbyterian, Roman Catholics, Bap-
list and Episcopalian have been ac-
counted for, the other 1913 religious as
soclatlOns represent less than Is per
cent OF the church edlfces, and thew
own less than 10 per cent of the aggre-
gate of the church property. Some of
the subdivisions of the Baptist church
are peculiar. 1t is too difficult to define
the difference between the Seventh Day
Adventists and United Friends between
the Mulhead Baptists and the River
Brethren; between the Primitive aud
the Free Wills, between the original
Free Wills and the OLD two sects in
General and the General Free Will.
There are also the regular South. the
regular North and the regular colored
Baptists. The society of Friends is
divided into the orthodox and Hicksite,
the Wlldburite and Primitive branches.
+ There are seventeen or eighteen differ
ent branches of the Lutheran churches
in this country. The following table
shows the number of churches in the
United States today as compared with
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
A COLORED BRUTE.
He Abuses a Young Boy in a
Shameful Manner.

Z. A. Smith is big hulking colored
man who mlsbehaved himself yesterday
morning, and as a consequence was
locked in cell in the central station.
Saturday, young boy named Charlie
Smith, about fifteen years of age, came
to the city from st. Cloud. He has
always. more or less, been employed
around horses, and is of the opinion that
he can ride running horses as well, If
not better than the majority of the
city with view of securing employ
ment as jockey. In the afternoon he
visited the track and returned to the
city in the evening. He had failed to
secure room, and being unacquainted
with the city continued wandering
about until late hour. During his
waLderings he was met by the colOred
man Smith, who offered to share his
room with him. He told the little fell
low that he had room in a fashionable
part of town and could spare him bed.
Charlie was tired and, not knowing
where to go, accepted the colored mans
apparently kind offer.
He went with him to the room and
1.-The fashionable part of town" proved
to be Fish alley. About o'clock he
him with huge revolver. Smith made
the young fellow get out of bed, and
with the revolver to his head forced
him to become a party to the most
bestial orgies Imaginable. The little
fellow screamed at the top of his voice,
and Smith becoming frightened, un-
locked the door of his room and ran
away. Charlie found his way to the
street, where he met Sergeant Mealey
and told him his story. The sergeant
went to the room and found the door
locked again, whereupon he forced it
open with vigorous application of his
thick-soled boot. But Smith had es-
capped, and it remained for Sergeant
kirkham to find him several hours later
and lock him up at the station. The
boy Identified him as the brute who had
so shamefully treated him. Smith has
a bad record. He is the lover Of COL
ored woman Mrs. Smith. who robbed
several men last week and then fed the
city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
SWEATING GOLD COIN.
The Pacific Coast Is Fostering al
Infant Industry.

ku00StTys
San Francisco Examiner.
Sweating gold coin is becoming quite
an extensive industry on the Pacific
coast.
Certainly 1t is annoying for mer-
camille house to send quantity of
eagles and half-eagles to the subtreas-,
ury to be changed into silver, and have
the Jealous servants of Uncle Sam
stamp across their face in deep, inef-
faceable letters, eight But this is
just what happens lots of times; and it
is all due to the sweating" industry.
Sweating" is the name applied to a
process by which the manipulation con-
siderably enricheS himself. A number
Of gold pieces are placed together in a
and ratified. BY that means small
particles of gold are detached from the
coins without their appearance being
in any wise disfigured. 10 the eye they
look just as though they were perfectly
good, of full weight and perfect manu-
facture. But the eXQuisitely fine scales
used at the sub-treasury tell different
tale.
Each $40 gold piece is several grains
lighter than it ought To- be, and these
several grains multiplied by the num-
Der of pieces in the chamois bag re-
dound to the profit of the sweater, for
industrious gentleman dumps them out.
puts them carefully away. and then
bolls the chamois sack so that all the
loosened particles accumulate. Then
he melts and MafketS them, and going
out exchanges his sweated gold pieces
for others of different denominations.
In that manner the merchants of San
Francisco are robbed, for that is what it
amounts TO. Some of them, however,
knowing of the fate their gold coin is
likely to meet at the subtreasury, send
nothing but greenbacks and gold notes.
This is the reason that greenbacks are
gradually getting to be in greater de-
mand.
For good many years past the law in
regard to this matter has been inoper-
alive, but within a recent period the
authorities in Washington have decided
that it must be strictly enforced. To
that end rigid orders have been issued
that all gold money found to be below
the standard weight must be stamped
eight" across the face.
Private individuals and merchants
are not the only ones to suffer from this
regulation. On several occasions the
postoffice authorities and those in au-
thority at the custom house have sent
gold coin to the subtreasury to be
changed into silver of smaller denom-
nations. 1t has been found to be of
light weight and has been threatened
with DETACHMENT. But owing to the,
objections of federal Off cials it has been.
returned to them unstamped.
Although this law may appear to be a.
harsh one, it is not regarded in that
light by the United States officials.
They say that if it were not in exist,
ence the incentive to coin sweating
would be too great and flood of light
weight coin would be let loose on the
public.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15

the throat. To the right was forest.
and into this l plunged at the
topp of my speed, the mailman
in full pursuit and uttering unearthly
cries. 1 was swift runner, and for
time l distanced him. My strength be-
gan to fail me, however, and felt sure
that he was gaining on me. 1t was
quite dark in the woods, and, utterly
exhausted. crouched down beside a
tree. hoping that he would pass me UNI
seen. He came up. stopped. and l felt
a heavy hand on either shoulder and his
hot breath in nv face. / sprang up and
grappled desperately with him, but it
but the shaggy coat of my big New
foundland dog, that had gone out to
search for me.o
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
OFFICIAL CALL.
Democratic Congressional Con-
vention at Normanna Hall,
Thursday, Aug. 20.

VentiOn aC NOrnanna Hail,
Thursday, Aug. 20.
The Democrats of Hennepin county vii
meet in convention, through their regularly
constituted delegates, at Normanna hall
corner Third street ard Twelfth avenue
south. in the city of Minneapolis on Thurs
day, Aug. s5 1892, at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon. for the purpose of placing in nomina-
ton candidates for The following Offices:
Auditor, register of deeds sheriff, clerk of
district court, judge of probate court, county
attorney, treasurer, county surveyor, coroner,
court commissioner, county superintendent
of public schools, 1 commissioner from the
First district commissioner from the Third
district. commissioner from the Fifth dis
trict candidates for the legislature from
the Twenty ninth legislative district, from
the Thrtieth district 3 from the Thirty first
district, from the Thirty-second district .
from the Thirty-third district 3 from the
Thirty-fourth district. and such other matters
as the convention may deem proper.
The total number Of delegates shall be 41a,
the basis of representation being the vote
cast in 1890 for Hon. Thomas Wilson, Demo
cratic candidate for governor, each voting
precinct being entitled to one delegate at
large and one for each fifty votes Tor major
fraction thereof SO cast. On this basis towns
and villages will be entitled to representation
QC fOll
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
Gust Peterson's adventure.

Gust Peterson, of Ashland, was sand
bagged and robbed Of his watch and
other jewelry by two colored men early
yesterday morning. He was brought
into the central station, and told very
pitiful tale to Capt. Helm. who instruct
ed the officers to keep lookout for the
robbers. At $3.50 Patrolman Mailman,
of the north station, arrested two col
ored men who answered to the descrip-
ton given by Peterson and locked them
up at the central station. They gave
their names as Luther Saunders and
Moses Brown.