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St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19
Minnesotn ratcnts.

Special 10 the Globe.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Feb. 1S.-The
following Minnesota inventors received
patents this week, as reported by James
f. Williamson. patent attorney, 929-933
Guaranty Loan building, Minneapolis,
4l2 Pioneer Press building. St. Paul,
and 93l f street. Washington: B. d.
Adams, Minneapolis, lawn mower
Carlton W. Garfield, Winthrop, sliding
friction TOMS; William j. Fletcher.
Minneapolis, liquid cooler; Theodor
Heuninger. st. Paul, mOuthpiece for
musical Instruments: Lewis A. Rygg,
St. Paul, mechanical horse.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19

and firemen on the Louisville division
of the Pennsylvania system have fed
Grated with the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers. and the fight which the
Pennsylvania has been waging on their
operators and removing them because
they are members Of the o. r. T. is
likely to assume different phase within
few days. 1t is stated demand will
be made of Train Dispatcher Eggleston
to relnstate certain operation. and if he
ignores the request. trouble will follow.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19
PNEUMATIC MAIL TUBES.
Successful Test OF the System in
Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. Is. in the pres
ence of 100 distinguished persons the
first official trial of the pneumatic tube
for mail transit in America was success
fully given in the Philadelphia post
office yesterday. The tube runs from
the subpostoffice, 232 Chestnut street, TO
Ninth and Chestnut streets. a distance
of little over half mile. Postmaster
General Wanamaker, after declaring
that the system meant rapid communl-
cation between cities all over the
world. himself sent through Bible.
wrapped in an American flag, and
a message which he composed. 1t
reached the subStalion in one minute
and three seconds. or at the rate OF
forty-six feet per second. with a pres
sure of six pounds to the square inch.
A package of local newspapers was
then sent through. From the SubStation
came Il pair of shoes, q loaf OF bread
anu Shirt. As Il special test of the
safety of the tube, President w. NJ.
Kelly. of the Electric Pneumatic Tran
sit company, sent his gold watch iii a
shoe To the snOStatlon, and the time
piece was returned in good shape. This
result particularly pleased the postnae-
Ter general. In every respect the test
was success, and at Its conclusion Mr..
Wanamaker had nothing but words OF
praise for the new system.
Mckee !lankin's ship Comes In.
DETROIT, Feb. 1s.-The Journal an
nni.f,.e, thar Mckee RaAK!ti, whose
oa.,,a, = .1iar,,,J nT ~ Danitas's q
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19

the Lyceum theater in this city, will re.
tire from the stage. His company will
disband tonight, and the members will
be sent home at his expense. The rea-
son given for this is that Mckee Ran
kln's father, who is dying in hospital
at Windsor, Ont. has turned over all
his property. worth 100000. to his son.
who will hereafter look after it to the
exclusion of his theatrical business.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19
The Winona Bank Wins.

Special to the GLOBE.
WINoNA, Mimi, Feb. IS, - Today
Judge Start filed his findings in the suit
brought by the First National Bank of
Wjnona to recover from the stockhoid-
ers of the Winona PI0w company some
$4,000 due the bank by the PloW COM
pany. The decision was in favor OF the
bank. The court holds thatby its articles
of incorporation the PloW company was
net an exclusively manufacturing con-
cern, and as it was not its stockholders
are liable for double the amount of their
stool,
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19
Japan, OOIong,
Mixed and
English Breakfast
And sell it at
SOC Pound.

For two days we will give a
nice Teapot with every pound
purchased. All New York tea
drinkers know the "Sfork'
brand of tea, introduced 20
years ago by oneof the earliest
Japanese importers, and always
up to grade. Try it F!
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19

Railroaders Federate.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 1S.-The engineers
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

and went on swimmingly till 1857, when
they repeated the catastrophe with like
results, and again in modified form at
the opening Of the war, in 1861, and still
again in 1874, from which we had never
recovered till the present fasco in finsn-
cial affairs. And has the recent develop
ment OF our Gmproved banking system, as
was supposed, "the best system the
world ever saw" you know, added any
charm to the theory on which the whole
structure is built? The design Of the
National banks was to furnish cur
rency to the country, but Senator Vor-
hees, in a debate in the United States
senate last week, declared "that in their
vaults to-day, lay hidden millions and
hundreds Of millions Of dollsrs-not less
than two thirds of the whole amount Of
currency dedicated to circulation on the
books of the treasury" So that instead
Of their furnishing US q currency, they
are boarding that which We would other
wise have. 1t has always been 30, as
Senator Plumb demonstrated in his
speeches on the subject in the senate Of
1888, and again in 1890. Is anyone par
ticulRrly ensmorsd Of such g contriVRnce
for supplying the country with q cur
rency?
Another development Of the system.
When Senator PETER in the senate the
other day simply proposed to enquire
whether the national banks Of New
York and Boston were not Vio-
lRting the law in refusing to pay de-
positors in currency mot coin, observe),
Senator German sprang to the floor and
declared that ian attempt to enforce
such payment would close every bank in
the east and cause the utter ruin Of the
country" to which several other sena-
tors agreed and therefore desperate ef-
fort was made to get rid of the resolu-
tion, and our own Topeka Capital came
to the rescue and asked if PETER didn't
know that il that resolution was en-
forced by the comptroller of the cur
rsncy it would lay out every bank from
New York to California, and proceeds to
abuse and berRte the senator accord
ingly. Aye, aye; there you are, are youP
II q western bank plays such fantastic
tricks in the sight Of high heaven, it
goes to the wall, as We have numerous
but when it comes to the
consequential and festive east, then
sauce for the goose don't prove sauce for
the gander. At any rate it proves that
this "best banking system ever devised
by the wit Of man" Can't live in obedi-
ence to the law, but in addition to
other crimes, it has been guilty, as we
all know who have had dealings with
its, Of receiving exorbitant and un-
lawful rates of interest at all times since
the day Of its creation. And human
nature Is the same, whether organized
by the, states or national government
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20
COMPLIMENTS TOgENATOR VOORHEES,

EDITOR ADvoCATE:--In our last, we
gave some remarkable examples Of the
capacity Of the National bank scheme,
when worked by the shrewd, cunning
and unscrupulous operators, as 1t has
been in q variety Of cases, too many to
enumerate and in ways too various to
undertake to elucidate, and wo
have further well authenticated
evidence Of the plethoriC dividends
and profits accruing from this
government psmpered vocation, il it can
be so-cSlled. For we had not finished
our exposition Of the enormous cost Of
the system Of production and the burden
it entails upon the bottom strata Of 90
ciety, 90 to speak-since those upon
whom the burden falls in the first in
stance, can shift it to the next lower on
the ladder, and so on down until it rests
on the shoulders Of the farmer and toiler
who are at the bottom of all things, and
the recipients Of the ever changing
burden Of discounts, taxes, interests,
rents and all other expenses Of those
above them. And we produced the re-
ports Of the banks themselves to show
the enormous profits that capital in that
line was making, while farming has to be
content with 2 and 8 per cent. in good
times, lin these times with whRtY) and
all other industries Of the country with
similar return.
But we suspend the discussion OF the
National system, to pay our respects to
q most extraordinary statement made by
Mr.. Voorhees, in the United States senate |
q few days since, in his advocacy Of re-
turn to the old state bank system Of
currency, that nothing had ever been
lost to the people and the country by
that system, and he challenged proof to
the contrary. A strange allegation for
an old Andrew jackson democrat to
make, and stranger still in the light Of
truth and facts as expressed by Mr..
Woodbury., secretary Of the treasury
under President Jackson, on purpose to
discledit the system with the people by
exposing the baseless fabric which had
so often collapsed and involved thous-
ands, and among them the innocent as
we'll as the guilty, in irretrievable ruin.
Let the senator turn to the report made
to the house Of representatives Of the
twenty-sixth congress, on April 8, 1840,
under a resolution Of the house that the
secretary Of the treasury furnish state
ment Of the condition Of the state banks,
ETC., and read there the official record Of
the depravity and rottenness Of the whole
system. It is q terrible exhibit, filing
1878 octave pages. One specimen case
must speak for hundreds in the report,
though varying in character, device, de-
ceit, fraud and rottenness with the varied
ingenuity and contrivance Of their Ru-
thors and inventors. Page 52l states
that it appears from the testimony Of
the officers Of the bank as well as Of the |
commissioners, TO take stock in the bank |
Of Grenada, that said bank was organized
in plain and palpable violation Of its
charter, which required that the stock
taken should be paid in gold and silver
or the notes of specie paying banks.
One Royal produced q certificate Of
specie deposit from the Brandon bank |
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

II
So the bank was organized, and Roy
all elected president. The testimony
further showed that books Of subscrip
tion were opened at Carrollton 70 neigh
boring town. and subscriptions to stock
received some time after the bank had
been in operation, and one Plummel
took most Of the stock there in the name
of himself and others, and in payment
exhibited q certificate from another bank
payable to the order Of it's president, but
this certificate was never in possession
Of the superintendent, who took the
stock at CaErollton, Plummer retaining
it, and proceeding to other points to use
it in taking stock. The subscribers to
stock thus taken convened at Grenada
and organized another bank, Of which
said Plummer was elected president.
But q compromise between the members
Of this double-headed monster soon took
place, and Royal was retained as presi-
dent, at salary Of $1,000 a year. After
running long enough to rope In the COM
munity generally, it ls unnecessary to
state, that following the general rule, 1t
exploded. Royal decamped, and his
victims were left poorer and wiser for
their experience.
But I refer the senator to another
and still more important report Of the
secretary Of the treasury to the senate OF
the Twenty-sixth congress, (second ses-
sion) giving the loss to the country from
the bank system up to that time, as over
$365,OO0,O0O. It is a very long and de-
tailed report, the conclusions Of which /
had meant to copy, but l commend them
to the attention Of the present senate as
any return to such system
rs therein described.
Senator, ask your fellow member Nor
rill, OF Vermont, who is old enough TO
remember it, about the failure Of the
Windsor bank, Of that state along in
the forties, and the mass Of fraud and
corruption there brought to light, which
would disgrace even heathen nation.
On the eve Of the failure, one director
sent his son with bales of their bills to
purchase whole districts Of state lands
in Maine. Another, loaded with bills,
picked up Canada notes for which he
drew specie in Montreal. Another with
the bills purchased the pension warrants
Of old soldiers by the hundred Finally
after its bills we're all out, and all it's
valuable lands and effects assigned and
beyond the reach of its bill holders and
creditors, IL exploded of course. As to
the original stock, it was non est IDVSntus-
remained but worthless piles Of
uncurrent bills in its stead, and when en-.
quiry was made as to it's means and its
administration, it was found that the
president was indebted to the institution
thousands of dollars more than the en-
tire capital.
Ask Senator Morrill, about the old
GuildhRll bank also, where two schemerS
obtained q charter for that bank with q
capital of $4,000, which was to be de-
posted in good faith before the bank
should begin operations. The two took
the whole stock when they hadn't 800
in the world. They borrowed Of q neigh
boring bank the $4,000, which, in COM
pliance with the law they deposited in
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

amples OF this kind. We are suffering
now in Kansas from a similar experience
Here is q whole county Ginn) in thu
dumps from Losses summing up into thu
hundred thousands, sponged up By
crafty, cunning schemers, who had thu
means for so doing furnished them by
authority Of the state.
Why, senator, you cannot have forgot
ten the experience Of your neighborine
state Of Michigan, known as the wildcat
era of banking there. Their law required
that the applicants for a bank should de.
posit with the state treasurer deeds and
mortgages on real estate as security tc
double the amount Of their capital
probably, and they went to work
Gangs Of genteel knsves banded together
in different localities, playing into the
hands Of each other, and by putting up
lots Of wild land, bid it off at enormous
prices. And this constituted the basis
Of their banking system, as l have always
understood it. Indeed, the facts tend to
confirm my information. For if the
MANIFOLD banks spawned into existence
at the time were not based upon some
such fraudulent foundation, they
wouldn't all, as if by common consent,
have gone overheard in few months
after their creation. But this is the
history, with slight variations, Of every
effort to establish banking institutions by
the states. They have invariably dissp-
pointed their designers by disgraceful
failure and the rum Of all who were
their credulous victims. Even the "New
York Safety Fund System" devised by
Martin VsnBuren, and which was sup
posed to be bomb proof, was no excep-
tion. AS viii be seen from the reasoning
of Jefferson, hereafter, there can not in
the nature Of things be an exception to
the rule and practice.
Turning to older and more staid COM
munities, the expansions and contrsc-
tions, the failures and suspensions Of
banks, the usury and deceit, the fraud
and iniquity praoticed day and night,
publicly and privately by the banks Of
New England have been just as incon-
scionsble and outrageous, though not
quite as open and sudscious, as those Of
the wild and woody west. For at Boston
in 1886, as if by private consent, the
manifold banks there and thereRbouts
failed for $13,O00,000, which fell mostly
upon the working classes; and thus the
crafty schemers were enabled to build
and Rdorn; palaces, clothe their families
Gin purple and fine lnen," and live
sumptuouSly every day on the toll Of
poorer and probably more godly men.
But it was reserved for 1887 to cap the
climax Of broken faith, violated promises,
bank explosions and financial cyclone
that swept away its victims by thousands
and hundreds Of thousands throughout
the Union. And New York opened the
ball. A hRlt-dozen bankers, with Mr..
Fleming as chairman, met in q little
room in that city, and resolved that
necessity required them to suspend specie
payments. In ten days this iniquitous
resolution was adopted by all the banks
throughout the states and Canada, and
their bills with the solemn promise to
pay the bearer on demand, " were repudi-
Arizona republican., 1893-02-09
Eratcrnal NEiscellany.

Pennsylvania has $4,000 Patriotic Sons
of America, and the roll is still increasing
largely.
The newly elected grand master of the
Order of Birth Abraham is member of
Brooklyn City lodge, No llS.
The total amount paid to members of
the United Friends who have become per-
manently disabled since the organization
of the order to Sept. % was Sl79, 100, and
to the beneficiaries of deceased members
s., 729, S0S53, a total Of s., 90S ,09S53
A member of fraternal order can
scarcely commit greater blundel than to
decry a sister society. To spend time TO
convince man that another society is I'M
worthy of confidence is worse than wasted
time on the part Of the member, for if he
succeeds he has only weakened confidence
in all societies. as the average man knows
that substantially there is not much differ
ence among the established orders.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-09
Apples IN Western New York.

Now that the cold winds of winter are
beginning to blow over us, the apple
buyers are quietly storing away quaint
ties Of fruit to put on the market later
on. This years crop has been fairly
good one for an off year, and the price
of apples during the winter will be
within reach of every one, it is said.
Despite the unpromising outlook during
the summer months, growers have pro-
duced enough to supply the home de-
mand.
Erie county is behind in her annual
production perhaps, but Niagara, Or
leans, Genesec, Monroe and adjoining
counties will make up the deficit. In
the western states apples are said to be
scarce, but in the eastern, particularly
Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
quite a quantity have been bought up.
The exports this year will be light.
Commission merchants say the year has
been especially good for pears and
quinces.-Buffalo Express.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-09
A Slave Tradcr,s nurIcd Gold.

A search for buried gold IS being con-
Quoted under peculiar circumstances by
q man and woman, eleven miles ont on
the Nolensyiiie pike, The parties en-
gagged in the search are Z. G. Beardsley,
Of Pittsburg, who claims to be state
geologist, and Mrs. l.. A. Cook, of New
Orleans. Tho story goes that Mrs. Cook
had dream that slave trader buried
$lSj,00O in sod in earthen jugs during
the war, and that this fact and the loca-
ton Of the gold were revealed to Mrs.
Cook in Il dream. The parties are stop
ing at a local hotel, and visit the sup
posed location Of the buried treasure
every d&y.--Cor Atlanta Constitution.
Arizona republican., 1893-02-09
j. 4. BARTLETT.

come raving maniac and murdered his
niece. Next he seriously wounded his
wife, and then sent bullet into his own
brain. All this at their home in Hampton
place, San Francisco
This is an old story-this Of great heroes,
after all their troubles and dangers are ap-
parently over, dying by their own hands or
in a petty quarrel. Thus did Give, the
illustrious baron Of Plassey, who began
life as merchants clerk and became the
conqueror of India, die by his own hand NJ
the age of forty-nne. Thus many heroes
of the late civil war have made way with
themselves, and the list of men who
fought Indians in the far west or rs vigil
lantes turned OF" the condemned robbers
and murdercrs and aftcrward fell into
hopeless melancholy and made away with
themselves, is an appalling one. Very few
systems are capable of standing such pro-
longed strain and the subsequent reaction.
Bartlett was fireman OF the famous Jean
nette and after escaping from the wreck
was interchangeable in the search for Lieu
tenant De Long. He was always fond OF
talking Of his experiences in the arctic
seas, and would tell with animation the
many thril.ug incidents Of that wonderful
journcy-ho" he stood alone with Guchne
on the ice aal saw the Jeanette 20 down;
how he was iutrusted with the long dis
patch which Niudcmanu and Noros had
prepared for the American minister at St.
Petersburg, AMI how at last he had deliv-
cred it into the hands OF Melville. He was
at the finding q ali the dead bodies Of his
comrades except those OF De Long, DR.
Amber and the Chinese C.ak, Ah Sam.
The story Cf lis trip af:er he separated
with Melville o, CA,s Carta, nOrtheastr.ly
to Point Bar,iH, then by the Lena Delta
southwark to GuuomOvialOCke, whore he
again fell in with Melville, is volume in
itself Of daring and adventure that few
men would care to undertake.
Some months ago his friends perceived
That his mind was affected and warned
his wife; but she thought it only tempo.
rary-Guc t. an attack Of the grip. A few
days bafOre the tragedy lie complained Of
q horrible pain in his head. Miss Lolita
Carpenter, niece Of Mrs. Burtl.tt and Il
native Of Indiana, had come to live with
them, and by Ter pleasant and sprightly
ways had made many friends lie called
h'r into the room where his wife lay on
the bed, and with the expression, Now
we may as well all die together" drew Il
pistol and aimed it ut her
She spoke Is quote. above, and the next
instant was corpse. lie then shot his
wife in the ll,5ay part Of the right shout
der, and the next Instant placed the mu2-
Elc Of the revolver to his right ear and
fired a third shot. Death was iustantaHe-
ogs Of course, Mrs. Bari lett will recover
Il.rc is li.t.a to add to this distressing
gt.g'.-s-ly that there WAS not "A connie
Arizona republican., 1893-02-09
|. o. o. r.
Tho First Chief Patriarch In Amsriaa.
Notes Of the Order.

Tho FIRST Chief Patriarch In America
Notes Of the ORDER.
The first chief patriarch in America was
John Boy. He WIS also the first grand
patriarch.
The grand secretary Of Illinois received
$1,000 capitation tax during the first ten
days of October.
The colorcd Odd Fellows, known as the
United Order of Odd Fellows, have mem
bership in the United States OF fully $780,
900.
Report comes from Maryland that the
past six months have been the most pros
porous in that state within ten years.
The third Monday in September, 1893
will be Odd Fellows Day at Chicago.
The veterans Of Massachusetts have just
celebrated their anniversary in glorious
style. Over &OG prominent members OF the
order sat down to an elaborate banquet
The usual ceremonies were followed.
The lot on which the Odd Fellows hall
ut San Francisco stands cost the order
Sl25, 600 The cornerstone of the building
was laid May A. 1881.
Brooklyn is to have French speaking
lodge. The City of Churches is always
alive to the interest and welfare of the
order.
Seventy-nine lodges failed to make cleo
ton returns to the grand lodge last year
Something should be done to wake up
these lodges.
few changes have been made in the
secret work. In due time all lodges will
receive proper instruction.
In Missouri all Odd Fellows halls are
exempt from state and county taxes.
A museum of antiquities has been found.
ed at Baltimore by the brethren who appre
ciate the value Of Odd Fellow relics
Arizona republican., 1893-02-09
A PLEA EoR MOTHERS.
An Amendment offered to the Advice of
Woman Lecturer.

An Amendment offered to the Advice OF
Woman Lecturer.
A few evenings ago a Boston women
journalist, who writes the essays about
boollmarks, gluten bread, dress reform
corsets and the like for the woman's
column Of Sunday paper, read lee
ture to a parlor full of Harlem women.
Her subject was How to Bring Up
Children"
One thing that she insisted on was
that children should be taught to 'do
things" to be prepared for emergencies
For example" said she, Il would
teach a child what to do in case of n
fainting fit. say to my girls:
"'Girls, am not much of Il hand at
fainting, but if | do take a notion to
faint some day when you are about, get
me some water. Pour it on my head
and face. Cold water, girls. not hot
water.
I'm sure that if the unexpected
comes, and fall in fainting fit some
fine morning, the girls, if they happen
to be near, will know what to do and
will DO it promptly"