St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-20
THE news is SOLD.
Clarence E. Sherin Comes to
the Front as the New -
Proprietor.
H. P. Hall Will Go to Chicago
With Press News Assoc
citation.
A New Election Ordered to
Settle Company A Dis
pute in Duluth.
Patriotic Pupils Celebrate the
Birthday of George Wash
ingtOn.

The Daily News has changed hands
sales and deals that have been flying
about, this announcement will create
little surprise, and the only interest will
be IN the purchaser and the future
course of the paper. Clarence e. Sherin
last evening announced that he was
now the owner; and in last evening"
edition of the paper his name foated at
the masthead as publisher and prOpri-
etOr.
mo, | represent no syndicate nor
company" he said, last night. But
bought the paper myself and will con-
tinue TO publish it. 1t will be lrdepend-
ent in politics, and after this week will
appear daily as an eight-page paper.
Ii. Z. Hall retireS, and there will be no
other change in the personnel for the
present"
Mr.. Sherin is son-in-law of James
Middleton, the East side banker and
capitalist, and it was the popular re-
port on the streets last night that the
purchase price came from his bank ac-
count and that S25, 900 was the cost of
the transfer. The sale was probably
made from the Commercial bank, by
President Albert Scheffer, who has al
ways had ShadOwy sort of interest in
the company and whose bank was car
rying most of the company paper
not be aScertaiued, but enough of the
stock passes into the hands of Mr..
Sherin to give him absolute control, and
from this time he will publish and con-
duct the paper. He is quits young
man, only twenty EIGHT years of age,
who came here from Toronto six years
ago. Three years of this time he put III
upon the Dispatch and three upon the
News, both being i'll the advertising
line. He is a bright, enterprising and
aggressive young man of business, and
will make the News go if anybody can.
Harlan p. Hail. the veteran newspa-
per man, will retire by the sale. 1t is
believed he will go to Chicago to take
charge of the Western department of
the Press News association, Of which
corporation he is a director. He will
carry with him the well wishes of the
entire fraternity in the Northwest.
The history of the News, while not
voluminous, has been eventful, and its
rather brief career quite cheekered up
TO the present time. 1t made its first
appearance on Dec. Is, 1887, owned by
McCracken, Duncombe d Painter. The
laSt-named was son of Judge Jones, of
this city, and is now in newspaper work
at Seattle. Duncombe was the
son of John T. Duncombe, the
wealthy and well-known Democrat
of Fort Dodge, To-, and has
long since returned to that
city. McCracken was well, nobody
seems to have known much about the
antecedentS of McCracken. The News
was not run long under this triumvirate.
1t was not bowling success as jour
nalistic venture, and when, in July,
1888, offers to purchase were made by
Messrs. Kelly and Doran, they were met
more than halfway. The sale was
made, and McCracken and Duneombe
retired from the scene. E. W. S. Jingle,
son-in-law of p. I'll. Kelly, was put in
charge, with Painter in the business
office. Ted" Jingle launched out like
meteor, but it turned out a Sky-rocket
affair, and the stick soon fell. 1.-The source
of supplies was cut off, and the follow
ing year Ii. p. Hall became the pur-
chaser at very cheap figure, while
Jingle and Painter followed the course
of empire and brought I'D at Seattle.
Since that time the paper has had ups
and downs, but more downs than ups,
and rumorS OF change have been FREE
quent for the past two months.