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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
GEN. GIANTS REMAINS.
The Senate Resolution Regarding
Their Removal.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Senator Man.
derson will make an effort during the
coming week in the senate committee
on military affairs to call up Senator
Plumb's resolution for the removal OF
Gen. Grants remains from New York
to Arlington cemetery. Mr.. Henderson
believes that Arlington is the proper
place for the great soldier to rest. and
that there will be little opposition to the
projected removal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
THOUGHT HIM A BURGLAR.
An Ex-senator Fatally Wound ed
While Nearly Nude.

RoCKLAND, Me-. Jan. 3.-A sensa-
tional shooting affair occurred here
Thursday night. Ex-senator Stephen
j. Gushee, politician widely known in
the state, was shot and badly wounded
by young man named Weed. Weed
says he started on a hunting ex-
petition on Thursday and an
nounced that he would be gone
several days. On that night, however,
a severe storm arose and Weed decided
to return home, which lie reached about
midnight. Upon entering his room he
was stunned to find therein a man
nearly nude. The interloper made
dash for the window, and Weed says he
then raised his gun and fired at the re-
treating figure. By the flash of the
gun he recognized the man as ex-Sen-
ator Gushee. The affair has caused a
sensation
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
they stayed away. They learned the
news soon enough.
Denied by Furnnan


Tonight Judge Furman emphatically
d. Md that DIR. Graves had made the
above confession to the deputy sheriffs.
Dr. Graves refused to say anything in
regard 10 the matter excepting that he
IS entirely innocent, and desires to be
left undisturbed in his cell at the Jail.
When Dr.. Graves was searched at the
Jail last night before being put in his
cell, three or four small walls were
found on his person. They contained
cOOriesS fluid, which the doctor said
was entirely harmless. This incident
led to story that DR.. Graves had at
tempted to commit suicide. This is de-
MED by his friends. He is confined in
cell made of open iron work, and the
guard on duty can see every move he
makes. A constant guard is kept over
him. Judge Furman says he will do all
in his power to procure another trial for
the doctor. The judge claims that the
doctor is poor man. and that had he
had enough money to procure the nee
esSary witnesses the verdict would have
been different.
May Voluntarily Confess.
DR.. Graves does not feel hopeful of
securing new trial. The record of
Judge Rising stands berore him con-
Stantly. The man who sat on the bench
luu COHuuClcu MS IIldl HdS NEVER 1eU
had case reversed in the supreme
court, and he has exercised extreme
caution in the present case. Within
five days Dr.. Graves must appear be-
fOle the bar of the district court and be
sentenced to death, and he must suffer
the extreme penalty within thirty days
unless granted respite by the supreme
court. and it is not at all likely that
this body will reverse the decision.
Lawyer Daniel r. BalIou will be ar
rested on his arrival in Chicago. charged
with being co-conspirator in the death
OF the late Mrs. Barnaby. Early tomor-
row morning. it is stated, Judge Rising
and District Attorney Stevens will visit
the county Jail and take confession
from DR.. Graves. John II. Conrad said
that DR.. Graves would voluntarily tell
the entire story of his connection with
the late Josephine B. Barnaby. The
mother and wife of the convicted muir
derer are seriously i'll, and grave doubt
as to their recovery is expressed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
QUAY FOR BLAINE.
He Says the Secretary Could Be
Easily Nominated.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 3.-Senator Quay
spentp of the day visiting here, leay-
ing tonight for Washington The
senator does not take much stock in the
rumors of Gen. Ayers candidacy for
the Observation-Disclosures. ~ don't be-
lieve Gen. Alger will be a candidate.''
was his assertion. There are only two
names spoken of in connection with the
coming nomination, Harrison and
Blaine. If the convention were held
tomorrow | think President Harrison
would be nominated if Blaine were not a
candidate; if Blaine's name was pre-
sented he would be nominated by ac-
clamation, but there is no telling what
may occur between now and June. lam
confident, though, that Blaine Will &C
ceptthe nomination if it is given him."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
Mills Leaves for Texas.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Representa-
tive Mills has so far recovered his health
as to be able to undertake trip to his
home in Texas, whittier he started to-
day, accompanied by his son. He wi.t.
be absent from the city probably ten
days or two weeks.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
Col. Mears Dead.

FORT SHERMAN, Idaho. Jan. S.-Col.
Frederick Mears, Fourth infantry. us.
A., died here last night of gastritis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
CARA visited MEXICO civ.

The greatest apprehension that Presi-
dent Diaz feels concerning the move
ment is that Cara has confederates in
the higher officials of the republic, and
that there is secret organization
among the discontinued classes of the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04

By the experience of others,
and secure a wide circulation
for your ad. by placing it in
the columns OF the Daily and
Sunday GLOBE. Money on
the investment
IS REALZZED.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04

Business instincts tell you
that you will be forgotten I'M
less the people hear from
you. The best way to reach
the people is through an ad.
in the GLOBE. Try it. for it
is to your
BESTMTEREST.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
CAP AND BELLS.

Countless promising careers. which
all the deep-laid plots of enemies had
not ayailed to thwart, have been eter-
nally blghted by the foolish zeal of
friends; and if the Walter A. Wood
company is to survive the hySterical
cackllng of its local organ, it must have
the vitality of the primal elements. In
one short week to have been the sub
ject of three pOnderouS leaders is an
ordeal none but the Stoutest would be
equal to. The wayfaring man would
imagine that to have created a new
torrid zone" in which the perferyid
heat of myriad furnaces is ever to
blaze with resiStlesS fury. revolution
iZing society and driving all organ
lied industry elsewhere into the bank
rupt court, was an achievement suffi
cient for an entire season. But when, On
the very next morning, our new manu-
featuring project comes up with gilt
tering eyeba!ls, prepared to embark on
an interurban law suit before it is old
enough to shed its pin feathers, the
whole sporting world stands aghaSt at
its gameness. The GLOBE, however, is
very proud that in the midst of such
stirring times, when history is thus
making with the velocity OF Water
bury watch Oh spree, it is able to
keep its own head clear and steady.
And, at the risk of appearing eccentric
and out of sympathy with the spirit of
this pyrotechnic age, it suggests that
the public be allowed brief vacation
from all such deep aud dangerous agi-
tation. AS well-wisher of this great
enterprise, it is of the opinion that a
brick building or two will be a more
gratifying sight to this community than
a whole hemisphere of new zones" of
assorted shapes and temperatures,
and that the stout arms of its work
ingmen will be doing more glorious
service over the ringing anvils than
they could hope to accomplish by thou
sand victories in bloody war with orr
sister city abo0t patent or anything
else. The directors of the Wood COM
pany are men of great ability; are
backed by enormous capital; have made
a good beginning. and are going to give
their energies undoubtedly to serious,
intelligent and concentrated labor.
There is not the shadow OF doubt that
the immediate and the final result will
SurpaSs the most ambitious dreams of
the interested. Is it not too bad that
amid so bright auspices they should be
constantly and repeatedly pictured on
the boards in periods of ill-advised
rhodomontade, as though cap and bells
were their normal attire?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
A STRIKING EXHIBIT.

In the tariff debate in the house, per-
haps no effort OH the Democratic side is
more notable than that of Mr.. BRYAN,
OF Nebraska. A young congressman. es-
pecially from the West. has not usually
been able to do much more thanto speak
TO empty benches and have his effort
printed in the Record. But this young
Democrat, from Il state that has not
been given to sending Democrats to
Washington, has come to the front with
a bound. AS he is but thirty years of
age, he will be good man to keep in
mind. The point in his speech that
secured most attention was his array
Of facts and figures to show the
effect of the protection policies
upon the agricultural interests. Sta
tistics gathered from official sources
were adduced to Yindicate the state
ment that the legislation of the Re-
publicanS had been detrimental to the
farmers. in the earlier time. if the
farmer did not acquire much wealth,
he owned the land he lived upon, and
seldom had much mortgage incum-
brance on it. Mr. BRYAN shows not
only that the mortgages have multi
piled, but that great numbers have lost
their farms and become tenants of q
land-owning class. This has been a
growing tendency, and is most coll
spicuous in the last decade. ASS West
ern illustration, in ten counties in Kan
saS, from 1880 TO 1899, the percentage
of renters increased from IL to 49,
Taking these as sample of the state.
it is found that out of nine farms
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
OUR SILVER PLANK,

The Chicago Herald makes an acute
and interesting comment OH the silver
platform of our recent Democratic con-
vention. The party. it will be remem-
bered, in substance declared that the
governments sole function in such
matters was to ascertain the relative
values Of the two precious metals and
to adjust from time to time, in response
to fluctuations in the market, the ratio
according to which their free coinage
would be permitted. This is all very
fine, says the Herald, but what does it
mean? Ii divergence is detected,
shall the amount of metal in the more
precious metal be reduced, or the
amount in the cheaper dollar be in
creased, in order that equality in value
may be maintained
Our critic is of the opinion that to
clip the gold dollar would be to legalize
public and private reputation, and it
does not believe that the Min
nesota Democrats intended to in
dorse any such rascally programme.
There is no doubt but that this
Is GIuGs H0 ScHtlucHG vi lll0 IT,
cent convention was unanimously in
favor of honest money, and its state
ment of principles was designed to ex-
press this idea. 1t is to be regretted
that the report Of the committee on res
olutious was presented at so late an
hour i'll the afternoon that its provisions
could not be debated or even considered
by the whole body of delegates. A
bimetallic currency is an imp0sSbility
except by virtue of an international
agreement. If all the great powers bind
themselves to keep the two metals at
any convenient ratio which they may
unitedly determine on. it can probably
be done. But any other plan will be
utterly futile.
The simplestcourse for the Minnesota
Democrats would have been to declare
briefly for bimetallism, and for an inter
national agreement that bimetalllsm
might be secured. In this way they
would have phrased their views accu-
rately and directly. Accuracy and di-
rectness are important qualities in the
construction of platforms.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
SKIN AN INCH THICK.
Patrick Woods Strange Disease
Seems 70 Battle Medical Skill.

Patrick Woods Strange Disease
Seems 10 Battle Medical Skill.
The case of Patrick Woods has evil
IDENTIFY baffled medical skill, says the
New York Tribune. For over seven
years his skin has been growing harder
and thicker every day, and finally, on
Dec. 10. the authorities of Bellevue
hospital decided to send him away to
Randall'S island. where lie Gow is un-
der the treatment of DR.. James Il.
Healy. Woods had formerly been
painter, but an attack of something
like rheumatism compelled him to give
up work. as his arms and legs became
so rigid in a short time that he could
not trust himself on the ladders and
scaffoldS.
He went to Bellevue hospital Nov 10,
1884. Since then he has been under the
treatment of number of doctors who
have since become prominent in the
medical profession. Their efforts and
special study of the case have done
little or any good to arrest the progress
of the strange disease with which he
was attacked. DR.. Herman Nj. Briggs
was then in charge of the ward to
which Woods was first ASSIGNED. and
since that time DR.. Carlisle, DR.. Charlton,
now of Savannah; DR.. Silver. now OH
the visiting staff of Governors Island
hospital; Drs. NOmmack, Lingley,
Maurey, Greene, Williams, MeAlpine.
George Briggs, Stone. Cooper, Flint
and Pulley have studied the case.
Woods has always had good appetite,
and, strange to say. has never been
treated for any other trouble. not even
a cold. DR.. Pulley, at Bellevue. who
last treated him. says mis- skin must
now be at least an inch thick.
His treatment has changed under the
different doctors, but there is no record
of what any of them used. For the last
four months he has been rubbed daily
with goose grease. To all appearance
Woods is a healthy man of about $50
pounds weight. By moving his legs off
the side OF the bed he could sit upright,
and he has full use of his fingers. but
as he never complained of pain or need
ed any thing but ordinary attention, it
was decided that the time devoted to
him at Bellevue hospital could be de-
voted to acute cases with more satisfaC-
tory results. The doctors think that
Woods will live about two years longer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
AN ANNEXATION TEST.

One of the candidates for the DOmin-
ion parliament in Toronto is asking an
election as a champion of annexation to
the United States. His address pro-
ceeds upon the assumption that this
country is so eager for the extension Of
its borders in that direction that it will
accede to almost any terms. In his al
Turing programme. when the provinces
consent to become states of the Union,
the general government will assume the
enormous public debts, dominion, pro-
vincial and municipal, and, in addition,
enlarge or construct various great canals
to admit ocean vessels to the principal
lake ports. There may be other exac-
tons, but these are the principal
ones. Possibly the debts of individuals
may be included in the general assump-
ton, and people who want pensions be
recognized. A platform of that sort
ought to have elements of popularity in
it. The gentleman is quite right in
holding that it has been great blunder
to attempt to make Canada part OF
Europe instead of America. 1t would
be the best thing for that region to cut
the strings that reach across the water.
and ask admission to the Union without
any bonus. Uncle Sam would not be so
ungraciouS as to refuse the offered hand,
but he is not at present inclined to
make any very costly deals III real estate
encountered with people and Chinese.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
SQUANDERED MILLIONS,
The Rise and Fall of a Far West
ern Boom CITY.

The city of Meadow Lake was once
known to everybody, says the Sierra
vile Cali Mirror. To all. however. it
Is now mere memory, this deserted
city up in the faStneSs of Sierra county.
Meadow Lake was originally a sink
hole about seventy-fve feet deep, and
was about fourteen feet in diameter.
A large dam was erected below it in
1851, the water held back, and this
lake was formed. While building the
dam the workmen discovered that
much of the rock contained deposits of
pure galena, and. thinking they had
struck 1t rich, were not slow i'll making
the discovery known. In the year 1865
the excitement commenced and every
other man met was going to Summit
City, as it was then called. Snow was
shOyeled off the ground as soon as prae-
tlcable, and the work of building was
commenced. In a. few months
city arose and every available foot of
ground was put into play. AT this time
the population of the town had reached
about 1000 and was rapidly increasing.
Quartz mills were i'll operation
and blasts were going off in
thirty or forty tunnels and shafts
all the time, making a constant
roar. Several small mining companies
were obliged TO give up the hght,as not
cent had been taken out and thousands
put in. Still.nO one was discouraged, and
TO all doubling ears was sounded Tx
celSior! Wait till the Excelsior
cleans upw and nothing more was
heard from morning till night but
the booming of blasts and the cries of
Excelsior! Hurrah for ExceIsiorI"
At this mine the stamps were crushing
ore all day, ali night. and every day in
the week-grunting, grooming to work
out the precious metal. The Excelsior
cleaned up, and the news was carried
to the anxious, waiting crowd that the
run was unsuccessful and that the at
tempt would not be repeated. In an al
most unbelieyably short time the town
was deserted; almost a panic resulted.
Houses were left with the contents eX-
posed to the storms of an approaching
winter; houses with their shelves
packed with merchandise remained I'M
disturbed until later, when they were
robbed and burned by enterprising cit
liens OF neighboring localities.
The road winds around the lake; the
ruins of houses become more frequent
until you emerge from the timber and
the city lies before you. Now, as one
rides down the main street the horses
step On a board and voices are echoed
back by the old wooden buildings with
harsh metallic ring. Near the center
of the town stands tall flagstaff, bent
with storm and winds. Sign poles are
still standing in front of the buildings,
and open doors reveal the contents or
emptiness OF them. On every hand lie
ruins of hundreds of frame buildings,
and here and there whole blocks of
buildings DESTROYED by fire. A careful
count reveals the fact that torty-three
houses are standing. 1t is a pitiful
sight, this city, on which millions of dol
lars were expended.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05

three are worked by tenants, and of
those held by the owners four out of
the nine are subject to an incum-
brance amounting to 81 per cent of the
value. This is not peculiarly West
drn condition. In Ohio data had been
gathered from ten counties in the south
western part of the state. With those
as a basis. the renters have increased
in the decade from 25 per ceet to 81 per
cent. In that state, out of eight farms,
three are held by tenants, four are free
from debt and one is incumbered 81 per
cent. In eight prominent counties in
New ork the rented farms had ill
creased from Is per cent in 1880 to "a
per cent in 1890. In Massachusetts the
per cent of increase was still greater.
The per cert Of renters decade ago
has become ii per cent, with the ten
counties as basis. These illustrations
are similar to those in other states.
They show that agriculture has been
becoming SO Improbable that farmers
have been unable to hold the land. The
exhibit is certainly very striking one.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
NOVEL PATENTS.
All Sorts of Devices for the Bene-
fit of Mankind

During the first fifty years of the pat
ent Office there were only 12,412 patents
granted. Last year 22,0SO were Issued.
Their variety is wonderful, says Har-
per's Young People.
The approach of fy-time suggested
an idea for cow-tail holder A clamp
like clothes-pin catches the bushy end
of the tail, and two cords, with a snap
attachment, fasten the tail to the cows
leg, to post or to milking-StOol. The
same day that the Nebraska man got his
patent for cOW-tail holder a man in
Maine got one for the same purpose.
The Maine mans tail holder is of a sim
gle piece of wire coiled so as TO connect
the tail with the cows leg. "a candle
for killing insects" is mixture of in
sect powder and tallow, or something
else that will burn, nodded round a
wick.
The wife of President jackson is said
to have once accounted to the British
minister for a bad cold in the head by
telling him that 1.-The gineral had kicked
the kivvers Off the night before. But
there seems to be no longer any excuse
for people who ''kick the kivYers of, :"
as clamp and spring are now pat
ented for attachment to the bedStead.
By this simple device the covers are
fastened down. The spring give suffi-
cient play, so that there is no danger of
one getting choked i'll the act of turning
over.
ANY one might guess that Kentucky
man is entitled to the credit attached to
the invention of combined inkstand,
pistol case and burglar alarm" No
Kentucky editors desk should be with
out it.
A hand-car which moves along the
tracks and mows weeds fifteen feet
away is one of the innovations in rail-
road machinery. 1t will do very well to
go with the rotary snow plow as an
Illustration of automatic intelligence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
"STEVE" ELKINS.

Opinions of the Behring sea question
and the next presidency can be briefly
stated. Both ElkiaS and Harrison will
lose their skins.-St. Louis Republic.
Steve Elkins, in political interview,
says he has great hopes of West Vir-
gipia. A man named Malone once had
great hopes of East Virginia. Louis
Republic.
Ii Steve Elkins will loan this country
his SealSkin oyercoat for q battle flag
we will march to Alaska at once The
old stars and stripes would not be en-
biematic enough i'll such a war as he
proposes.-St. Louis Republic.
If we are to have a war to preserve
Steve ElkinS' seals. why not make it a
capital offense to kill beaver in the
United States? That would cost good
deal less human life, and the beavers
are just as worthy of being preserved as
the seals. If we are to have William
the Conqueror's game laws for the bene-
fit of the Alaska monopoly. why not
extend them universally? Louis Re-
public.
Secretary Elkins' scheme for reviYing
the grade of lieutenant general ought
to be promptly knocked in the head.
The country has had no lieutenant gen
eral since Sheridan died, and has strug-
gIed along manfully under the depriva-
tion. Indeed, there is reason to believe
that, il there were fewer major gener
ads, brlgadier generals, and even colo
nelS, the sun would be just as bright,
the general degree of prosperity just as
high, and the useful members of society
quite as numerous as nOw.-ChicagO
Times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
BETTER ROADS.

The gentlemen who appeared before
the county commissioners Yesterday to
argue for better country roads are
champions of a worthy cause, and de-
serve to be listened to. At this season
of the year the rural districts tributary
to st. Paul are practically embargoed,
because all the avenues of approach are
nearly impossible. One mile of distance
is trayersed with five miles expendi-
ture of energy, and, if the April rains
continue, the ducks will be the only
travellers. This is one of the penalties
of life in new country, and we cannot
do everything at once. But we can do
little year by year, and. perhaps,
little more than We have recently al
tempted. Every outlay made for these
purposes is we'll invested. A roadbed
properly laid and composed of good
materials, even though it may require
additional expendi ture at the outset,
quickly pays for itself by the reduced
cost of maintenance. The whole state
must soon take up this subject and pro-
vide means for such improvements.
We must not permit little thing like
mud to stand in the way of our prog
ross