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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
FULL OF FIGHT.
Novel Naval Battle Expected in
Brazilian Waters.

NoVei naval Battle Expected in
Brazilian Waters.
ST. THOMAS, West Indies. Dec. a.
AS this dispatch is sent. the Brazilian
cruisers Nictheroy. Capt. Baker. and
and America. Capt. Crossman, are pre-
pairing to sail under sealed orders for
some port in Brazil.
The Nictheroy arrived here Monday.
Nov. 81. and steamed outside Tuesday,
n Thursday, where some excellent
Hotchkiss target practice was done. The
u crews handled the new weapon in
the most admirable manner.
One of the Nictheroy's seamen, Fred
erlck Martin. died of pneumonia n
Will be buried ashore.
The America arrived here yesterday,
after a rough trip, and both vessels are
expected to weigh anchor tonight and
head for the coast of Brazil. The off
GERS and crews both of the Nictheroy
II the America feel fullsof fight and
most anxious for a brush with the enemy.
Cable messages are said to have been
exchanged here between the command
ers of the Brazilian cruisers and
the home authorities. and they are said
to have been notified that Admiral de
Mello has left Rio de Janeiro in order
to meet the two ships. This has
caused all the more enthusiasm among
the crews of the Nictheroy and the
America. Their destination is a secret,
and, it is reported, that they will o be
allowed to communicate with the shore.
1t is doubtful when any further news of
President PeiXoto's two cruisers will be
forwarded to the United States.
The Associated Press correspondent
on board the Nictheroy has been we'll
treated by the officers of the ship, and
anticipates witnessing the most novel
naval battle in the history of maritime
warfare.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
IN THE THEATERS.
"The Span Of Life" Opened to a
Big House.

Big House.
1.-THE Span of Life" is a very appro-
pirate name for the melodramatic per-
Torrance presented for the first time in
st. Paul at the Metropolitan opera
house last night. The reason for thus
naming the play has been considerably
discussed, but the name must have been
suggested to the author by the thrilling
incident which ccurs at the end of the
third act.
Most of the action of the play takes
place in Africa and England, the open
ing scene being an Intellectual effort to
blight the life of Richard Blunt, the
hero, who, with his wife and Child, fees
to the diamond fields of Africa.
To this place he is followed by his
enemy, Dunstan Leech, who has taken
up the calling of a slave trader. Aided
by Arabs, Leech seizes Blunt's wife
and child. By the husband and father
the captlves are set at liberty,
powerless to protect them. To escape
Leech and the Arabs the mother fees
through an African wilderness. In her
flight she reaches a gorge, aud finding
it impossible she resolves to kill herself
and child, rather than be captured by
her enemies. Three faithful friends of
her husband appear just at this time,
who have formerly been acrobats in a
circus, and they hit upon the plan of
INTERVENING themselves lengthwise,
and with their interlocked bodies across
the chasm make a bridge over which
the mother and child escape.
In the plot there are several very
strong situations. where the principals,
Joseph E. Pearce and Miss Carrie Rad
cliffe, make the very best of their OPP
portunities. The support is good
throughout, Dolly Harmer as "Pan-
cakes" and Willie Scott as "Nutty
Brown" being irrisistibly funny.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
ON MORPHINE DEBAUCH.
A Crazy Fiend Murders His limo
cent Children.

ERIE, Pa, Dec. 4.-Edward Cady. a
w~ell-known mechanic of this city. while
suffering from a morphine debauch,
planned the murder of his entire family
today, and but for the opportune arrival
of his wife, whose grief seemed
to disarm him, he would have succeeded.
Cady last evening gave his son Walter
a heavy dose of morphine and kept his
horrid secret until his wife de-
tecteu his crime. All night long
he tore through the house weep
ing for his boy, and in terms expressing
fear of public exposure. Early this
morning he succeeded in borrowing
a revolver from an "unsuspecting
neighbor. Then getting his wife
out of the house for a Moment.
began the revolving work of MUIR
dering his innocent children, when
his baby Hazel saw the revolver and
threatened to tell her mamma, but de-
sisted under a threat. Cady first dis
patched little Bertha, who was too
much engrossed by her school studies
to observe her fathers actions.
He then sent a ball through Walters
brain as he lay OIL the bed suffering
from the poison he had been given a
few hours prior. Cady turned to kill
his oldest son, a lad of ten years,
but the latter ran out escap-
ing the deadly missile and
called his mother. Baby Hazel was
the next victim to be added to the pile,
but Mrs. Cady's distracted cries caused
the murderer to pause long enough to
enable her TO snatch the child from the
verge of the grave. Cady glared a
moment at his wife, and then seeming
to relent. turned and fred a ball through
his own disordered brain.
The tragedy wa the bloodiest and
most revolving in the criminal annals
of this city. Mrs. Cady, the unhappy
wife, is a most pitiable object, and it is
feared she will lose her reason. Cady
was a man of forty-two. n had been
married eleven years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
VAN Allen STEPS DOWN.

Every manly man will have a higher
regard for Ambassador James J.. Van
Allen after reading the correspondence
published yesterday in which lie de-
clineS to accept the Office of United
States ambassador to Italy, to which
he was recently appointed by President
Cleveland and confirmed by the senate.
Mr.. Van Allen does not deem it neces-
sary 10 defend his action in contributing
towards the success of the Democratic
party at he last presidential election.
He speaks of the circumstance from the
standpoint of an American citizen
claims that it was his right to assist a
cause whose success he believed 10 be
essential to prevent the ascendency of
that party which would be not only a
hIndrance TO national progress, but in
time a positive menace to the success of
popular government" He Furthermore
states that, if the necessity again arises
n the opportunity offers. he will pur-
sue a course in line with his past con-
Duct He resigns his office In order that
the president may be relieved from any
embarrassment which his appointment
has caused, not because he is conscious
of having performed any act that should
d~isquaIify him from holding it.
The presidents reply is equally frank.
Mr.. Cleveland regrets the step taken by
Mr.. Van Allen, because he is convinced
that lie would ably represent the Amer
lean government abroad, and because of
the high personal esteem in which he
hnldc TIM nrnl.nccndnr DO cenro J,i-,
that he would under no circumstances
have pursued course other than that he
has taken, and is still convinced of the
wisdom Of the appointment.
Thus ends the Van Allen incident,
that has been the Gauss Of SO much dis
cussion throughout the land. In a nut
she'll, the case is simply this: Mr.. Van
Allen desired the success of the Demo-
cratic party at the last presidential cleo
ton, and, like other good Democrats
and excellent citizens, did what he
could to bring about the desired result,
neither claiming MOI expecting recon-
pense for his outlay or effort. The pres
ident, knowing him only as a gentleman
Of good reDute among his fellows, and
competent in every respect to fill the
place, named him for a foreign Office, in
ignorance of the fact that he had con-
tributed any considerable amount to
the campaign fund, and Indifferent as to
whether he had done SO or not. The
subsequent developments in the case
did not affect the merit of the appoint
ment, nor cid they cast any reflection
upon the character of the appointee.
And, Notwithstanding the ado made by
the press over the transaction. notwith-
standing the denunciations and criti-
cisms of the press, and the ridicule
heaped upon Mr.. Van Allen, the senate
confirmed his nomination with substan-
tial unanimity. His resignation is. how
ever, a praise worthy act, and establishes
right to a high place in the public es-
TEEN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
HEPREsIDENro ON PENSIONS

I'll EPRESIDENr ON PENSIONS
President Cleveland's position on the
pension laws is SO clearly stated in his
message that there need be no excuse
for misconstruction. Livery fraudu-
lent pe%nsioner," he says, ''has become a
bad citizen; every false oath in support
OF a pension has made perjury more
common; and false and undeserying
pensioners rob the people not only of
their money, but of the patriotic senti-
ment which the survivors of a war
fought for tae preservation of the
Union ought to inspire. a BY no
means the least wrong done is to brave
and deserving pensioners. who GER
tainly ought not to be condemned to
such associations"
There is no word in this utterance to
which any honest man or any brave
veteran eau take exception. The senti-
ments are those of one sincerely desir-
Gus of maintaining the honor of the
hen who risked their lives for their
country, and who would defend them
from enemies far more to be dreaded
than those whom they overcame on the
field of battle. The welfare of the old
soldiers will be protected as long as
Grover Cleveland possesses the power
to extend his aid, and If can be no bet
ter guarded than by exposing and de-
feating the plans of those who seek
unworthily a place upon the pension
roll. which under all circumstances
should be made a roll of honor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
THE GALL TO DUTY.

President Cleveland closes his long
message to congress with a call of DEM
ocrats to their duty that is as strong and
clear as a bugle note.
He reminds Democratic representa-
tiyes and senators that pledges have
been made to the people which it is
their privilege and their duty to redeem.
He urges them to be true to their trust.
He warns them that merited dismissal
will follow the forfeiture of the pledge
by their dereliction.
He appeals to Democrats to release
themselves from the selfishness of their
local interests and be representatives of
the nation, not of localities. He asks
them to reverse in this the Republican
principle of ~aggregating the S%elishness
of industries really or imaginatiyely
favored, with all its narrowing and de-
basing effects. 1t is an appeal to patriot
ism, as Republicanism IS an appeal TO
selfishness and greed.
He makes the bill reported bv Mr..
Wilson's committee al administration
measure. Without qualification he
adopts it and urges its passage. He
lucidly states his guiding p~rinciple-the
release from or reduction of taxation of
the necessaries Of life-making the con-
ditions of the great mass of the people
easier. He clearly states the effect in
the widening of the markets of our man.
ufactures, with the resultants of steadier
employment INT diminished cost of
living for the workingman. He shows
fbot fh q tpYro fOctnrinn nc
lies not in decrease, but in enlargement
of opportunities. He condenses in a
few lines the whole argument for tax
reduction.
Those Of US who would have had the
new tariff go much farther in the line
of reducing protection by taxation can
find reinsurance in promise of adher-
ence to the principle of a tariff adjusted
solely to the ends of revenue, and that
the present measure is not considered a
finality. If we cannot have at once all
we wish for we are willing to take what
it is deemed wise and best to give pres
emily, assured that when the beneficial
effects Of this measure are felt we will
all move on farther In the direction of
free exchange of commodities.
So Democrats who. moved by local
interests, feel that the bill goes too far.
and we who think it goes not Ear
enough should meet-on the middle
ground of the Wilson bill and stand &c
gether for it, trusting in the wisG ons, tho
nnselfshness and the craftsmanship OF
Its trainers. Thus, with "a long pull, a
strong pull. and a pull all together" we
will reverse the selfish policy that has
dominated the country to its hurt FOR .hir-
ty years. and start it along on the path of
a prosperity which will not be disturbed
and Unbalanced In its distribution by
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
Hanktns viii Not Buv.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. A special to the
Republic from Memphis, Tenn. v
George Hankins, the horseman, arrived
here today from Chicago, accompanied
by Veterinary Surgeon j.. A. Boyett.
who proceeded to make an examination
of Yo Tambien, now in Quarters
here. The result was COM
municated to Mr.. Hawkins, who
when questioned said that the
report was such as to decide him not to
buy the mare at the price asked, S1S,-
600. Further inquiry developed that
there was something about the mares
left knee and hip which Mr.. Hankins
did not like, but when questioned he
refused to say more than that he did
not feel warranted in paying so much
as S1S,0 0 for the animal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
GOVERNMENT

For ST. Paul's Building $1OO, 600.
and the Mississippi River ST.
625,OOo.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The book of
estimates for appropriations for the ifs
cal year of 1894 and 1895 was sent TO
congress today. The amount estimated
necessary to carry on the government
for the fiscal year is S411, S79. OIL. as
against estimates for 1884 of 1921, 6l2,-
215. and appropriations for 1894 of 1872
1885, SIG. The estimates for 1895 are made
up as follows:
Executive. s203. 2SO; legislative. s.. 9oS.-
723; state department, Sl.S53,6 3S; treas
ury department. Sl20. 455. $50; war de-
pertinent. S55,277 499; navy Departments.
S2S.SSS, TIA; interior department. $780,
229. 220; postotfice departments IS, 397. S66:
department of agriculture. 81, 233. sag:
department of labor. s161, SIC; depart.
ment of justice, Sc. 273, 345
The sum OF S43, 900 is asked for to paw
the salaries or an examining force OF
thirty clerks IN the civil service com
mission. The work of the examining
branch has been more than doubled by
The extensions of the classified service.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
PRINCETON
Victorious Football Team Given
Great Reception.

Great Reception.
PRINCETON, n. j., Dec. 4.-Old Mas
sau's campus is wild with excitement
tonight.
Early In the evening a big procession
was formed. The seniors drew the
victorious football team in a large tally
no draped in orange and black, while
a wagon loaded with fireworks
preceded the parade. filling the
air with their brilliant lights at short
intervals. The music of the bands could
scarcely be heard for the cheers and
songs. About a dozen banners foated
III the air bearing the score. slurs on
Harvard and the University of Pennsly-
yania. aud he names of the members of
the championship team. Many promi-
nent alumni were present and made
short addresses, congratulating the team,
the students and the college.
The crowd then gathered for the bon
lire. The twenty-five cords of hard
wood. together with the lighter material.
arose in the air as high as the elm trees
about the campus. Capt. Trenchard
started the great c~onflagration, and then
arose such a din that one could scarcely
heal himself think. The members of
the team were carried on the shoulders
OF the students around and around the
hre, and the old campus fairly roared
with the yelling, cheering and fireworks.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
Harrison viii Not Talk.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4.-Ex.President
Harrison was asked tonight if he had
read the presidents message and re-
piled that he had just finished its peru
sal, but declined to talk upon it for pub
lication.
The %impropriety of an ex-president
discussing publicly a presidents mes
sage" said he, sis veryspalpable, and
l do not care to do Sc. | am a Repub-
lican and President Cleveland is a Dem
oc1at; consequently we differ radically
In our views and opinions, and his sug-
gestlons and Recommendations are not
IN accordance with my ideas. l notice,
however. that he goes down the line of
the departments and treats of them
fully. Its length, too, is greater than
the average message"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
INQUEST.
The Coroner's Jury Have Not
Reached a Verdict.

LITTLE FALLS. Mimi. Dec. An
v%estlgation since the arrest of Welter
for the murder of Kosanke shows that
he had quite a drinking bout on Friday
night, and spent several dollars of the
kind of money that Kosanke had been
saving. such as pennies. souvenir pieces
ana old dated coins. Some blood was
found OF Welter's clothes.
A brother of Kosanke arrived from st.
Paul last night and returned with the
remains today. The coroner's inquest
is now in progress. The autopsy shows
shows that either of the three methods
employed in killing Kosanke would
have been fatal. Either the blows OH
the had, the stuffing of the handkerchief
down the throat or the %strangling with
the rope would produce death.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
From the silver Papers.

The Denver Evening Times. speaking
editorialiy Of President Cleveland's
message. says: Weighed in the bulance
Of the interests Of the people, the presi-
dent is found wanting. The present
financial laws appear to suit him, X
cept that a little more should be done
for Wall street and the single standard.
He suggests that the secretary OF the
treasury be given more'authorlty in the
matter of forced issues. and that an
official may issue bonds whenever Wall
street demands it, regardless OF all other
interests and conditions.
He swallows the Wilson bill regard
less of the November verdict. There
are wise suggestions in the message.
The Times does not blindly condemn it
as a whole, but holds that in matters
nearest the breasts and int ereSts Of the
people Mr.. Cleveland favors the few
rather than the masses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05

st. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.) will
say of President Cleveland's message
to congress: 1t is Oh the whole a
clear, well-written and business-like
document, and, except on the Hawaiian
and tariff questions, will prove fairly
satisfactory 10 the country. The Ha-
waiian matter is destined to
make trouble for the administra-
ton, and Mr.. Cleveland appears
to have a foreboding of this,
but he proposes to adhere to the policy
which he has marked out for himself.
His views on the financial question are
wide. 1t is toe Don to Judge accurately
What sort of legislation the suspension
of silver purchases will make necessary,
but we should, as he advises, ''resoluteiy
turn away from alluring and temporary
e%Xpedients, determined to be content
with nothing less than a lasting, compre-
leuSiye Dlan."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
The Denver Republican will sa,

The Denver Republican will say to-
morrow edltoriaily: If President
Cleveland acted in good faith when he
cited that measure Qhe silver repeal
bilD he should have taken occasion in
this message to congress TO urge the en-
actment of legislation that would make
good the bi-metallic declaration of the
the repeal bill; but inasmuch as it is
evident now, as it has been all along,
that he regarded that declaration as
mere boncombe. well-informed citizens
will not be surprised as his latest utter
ances Oh this subject.
J The Republican will say there is
every likelihood that the facts in the
/. Hawaiian case will justify the position
assumed by the Administration and will
declare the president destroys his argu-
] mept III favor of the Wilson bill when
he says: The local interests affected
by the promised reform are so numer-
Gus and varied that If all are insisted
upon, the legislation embodying the re-
form must inevitably fall.n - -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05

interest, If not superior Importance, is
what President Cleveland has to say
about the finances. His observations
will prove highly disappointing to those
who expected he would give out
some proposition for the revision of
monetary and banking system of the
country. He confines his remarks to a
report of the situation without offering
any suggestion beyond the counsel to
do nothing until further development
shall determine what is best to be done.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
A JUDGE DIsREGARDED.
Cedar Rapids Council Adopts the
City assessment.

CEDAR RAPIDS, To-, Dec. 4-The mo-
ton OF the city to dissolve the in
junction restraining the city from
completing its assessments and making
a levy came up before Judge Giffin i'm
chambers at the city hall this morning.
The attorneys for the city denied
that the court had any jurisdic-
tion. JGdgs Giffin decided the
injunction did not restrain the city from
t~ransacting any Of its regular business,
and would not prevent a levy made for
taxes of 1893, III case an assessment had
been made, and that in issuing the in
junction he had sopposed no assessment
had been made. He also overruled the
motion denying his jurisdiction, and
further consideration was postponed
until next Monday.
The city council tonight, acting under
counsel of the city attorney, disregarded
Judge Gitfin's injunction, and by a vote
of 10 to 2 adopted the city assessment
II voted a levy for 1874 of 81 mills.
The total valuation Of the city under
the revised cash assessment exceeds
SAG, 900, coo. and the levy will yield a
revenue OF oyer $780, 00.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
Written in SC. Louis.

The St. Louis Republic (Dem.) will
say tomorrow: Mr.. Cleveiand's first
message to the congress elected with
him cannot be called dictatorial. His
recommendations are couched in mild
terms. and while earnest and uneQuiy-
oeai, do not dogmatize. On two points
only is he emphatic about what he
thinks congress should do.
The two points are economy in appro-
priatlons, and vigor in dealing with
tariff reform.
1t the message outlines any special
policy. it is that he will be content from
the hour when his pen traces the name
of Grover Cleveland at the bottom of a
tariff reform bill. to be judged by his
cOuntrymen as an administrator.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
A Burlington Blaze,

BURLINGTON, TO-. Dec. 5.-Fire today
destroyed the large stock barn of Nat
Bruen, near this city, and burned thir-
quantity of other property. The fire
was discovered by Mrs. Hughes, wife of
the trainer. who attempted to a the
big racer Republican, and barely es-
capped with her life, the stallion falling
dead at her feet from suffocation.
Among the horses burned were Repub-
lican, 2:191a, valued at $4,000; Shell
mont. 2:2411a, $1,000; Sam Keith, 2:24I,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
Working Against rammanx.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The political
movements headed by Judge McCrea,
the Steckler Bros. and other anti-Tam-
manyites. took definite form tonight
under the name of independent County
organization" The purpose of the
movement, 1t was explained at the meet
Ing, is to unite men of both parties and
OF all shades of political thought i'm
order to overthrow the nomination of
Tammany Hall in this city. Its efforts
will be entirely local. National and
state political organizations will be en-.
tlrely ignored. At a meeting on Dee. IA
the platform of the party will be pro-
mulyated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
ToDAY's WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-For Wisconsin:
Fair in eastern. clearing in western portion;
winds becoming northwesterly. For Mime
Sofa: Fair; slightly colder in southwest por-
ton; northwesteriy winds. For the Dakotas:
Fair; colder; northwesterly winds. For
Iowa: Fair; probably slightly warmer in
extreme eastern portion: colder Tuesday
afternoon or night; northwesterly winds.
For Montana: Generally westerly winds;
fair.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRIcULT-
URE, WEATHER BUREAU, WASHINGTON, Dec.
4, 6:4S p. H.. Local Time, s p. m. 10Th Merid-
ian Time.-Obseryations taken at the same
moment of time at all stations.