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St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24

with men ready for action. Their in
tention is, in case the French COM
nence hostillties, to steam down and
ram the French gunboats. attempt to
board them in force and attack the
crews with fixed bayonets. The Ger
man gunboat Wolf has arrived hcrep
LONDON, July 24.-rhe Bangkok cor
respondent OF the Times says:
"On Saturday the French gunboats
were fixing chain arInor amidships.
The Siamese vessels also are preparing
for action. All have steam up. The
French legation processes to believe that
the gunboats cannot cross the bar until
high tide OF Wednesday, which would
leave time to complete an amicable set
tlement. The territory that Siam offers
to sacrifice covers the extreme point of
recently attempted French aggression.
The cesSion involves the evacuation of
the Siamese ports of Poowadene, Alt
open and Sumpang. On the river itself
the French have been unable in four
months to place single station except
ing KhOng, and that was obtained by
surprise. .4u
- rhe complete failure of Gov. Gen
eral Delanessan's attempted land
advance was the cause of the
naval attack now made through
Bangkok. L am credibly informed
that Russia recently sounded
Siam as to whether the latter was dis
posed to coneede the island Salang or
Junkcevlon, OH the eighth degree of
Dorth latitude, and west of the Malay
peninsula, for Russian naval station.
The naval authorities consider Salang as
of great strategical Importance"
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
HERE'S A RUM YARN
Claim That the Victoria Was
Sunk by PIotters.

Sunk by PIotters.
New YORK, July ga new and
startling theory has been advanced as
TO the cause of the sinking of the
British battleship Victoria by the
Camperdown. Irish revolutionists claim
that the sinking of the war
vessel was the result not of accident,
but of a deep laid plot which has for
its object the destruction, if possible, of
the British navy and the inf1iction of
dire injury OH England in every
quarter of the globe where
her flag flies. A circular, copy of
which a morning paper succeeded in
obtaining, and which has been promuI-
gated in Irish Nationalist circles, claims
for the revolutionists the honor of
striking such heavy blow to England.
Referring to Admiral TrFon's ma
noeuver, the circular, which bears date
July 10, says:
Admiral Tyron is not guilty of the
loss of the Victoria. He is q victim of
the sins of his country. The maneuvre
which he purposed the fleet should
perform would have been successfully
carried out had our brave brothers
In England's service not been equaI
to the opportunity afforded them and
given themselves willing sacrifice for
the cause of Ireland. For the better
protection of the interests we have at
heart. we will not announce whether
any or our brothers who were OH board
the Victoria escaped death in the waters
of the Mediterranean.
at is sufficient for you, for the pres
enJ, to know that noble deed has been
done, and that Ireland still has sons for
whom death has no terrorS when their
lives are asked for her sake. The spirit
of Emmett still lives, ,and the fight must
be carried on until England hauIs down
her flag in Ireland.
1--WE have sworn brothers now on
almost every English war ship. We
have them in the English regiments
at home and abroad, and where
ever the English flag floats, there
also may our men be found.
We are now in position which we
never before attained of striking
England in every corner of the globe
Thence forward, brothers. The fight
must go on increasingly. No op-
portunity must be lost of striking.
English, nor must we hesitate to use
against her whatever science and in
ventive genius may place in our hands,"
The circular is signed The EXecut-
ive," and is thought to emanate from
the physical force men.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
MONTANA LINES UP
With Mass Nesting and Silver
Address

BUTTE, Mont, July pa large mass
meeting IN the interest of silver was
held here last night, leading citizens
from different parts of the state partici-
pating. The meeting was addressed by
Hon. w. A. Clark, ex-senator San
ders, ex-Congressman Maginnis. Hon.
Lee Mantle, recently ppoint-
ed senator, and others. Much
enthusiasm was manifested, and a very
lengthy address to the people of the
country, formulated by the free coinage
association in the afternoon, was unau-
imously adop ted. Its arguments are in
line with those OF the address recently
adopted by the Colorad silver conven-
ton. 1t rehearses the various arguments
in favor of silver, and dwells on the
disastrous eff ectS its complete over
throw will have on the Western states
and territories, directly and indirectly.
The claim that the operations of the
Sherman act or the foreign fear of free
coinage is responsible for the recent
tremendous outflow of gold is vigor-
ously combatted, and the assertion
made that it is due solely and only to
the fact that the balance of trade has
been enormously against US, and, owing
TO this, the gold would have gone just
the same if there had been no silver law
IN existence.
With regard to the cost of producing
silver the address asserts fatty that
every ounce of silver produced in the
U nIted States costs more than S1.29 per
ounce. The Sherman law, it comedies,
is wrong in principle because il de-
grades silver into mere COM
modify to be buffeted about
by unprlncipled spectators. At the
same time the treasury notes issued
under its provisions have been of inesti-
mable benefit by increasing the circu-
lation at a critical time and thus pre-
venting disaster. To repeal this law
Internationally would be to de-
stroy silver forever and play
directly into the hands of the
adv coates of the single gold standard
and contracted currency. 1t would be
the cruelist blow ever struck at the
debtor class, for it would enormously
increase the purchasing power of gold
and correspondingly lower the value of
all products and of every other form of
property.
The Sherman law was never favored
by the advocates of free silver coinage,
says the address, but bad as it is, it is
now all that remains between the de-
sireS of the gold standard men and the
consumm alton of their selfish ends, and
must be retained in the interest of the
common people until something better
is adopted in it's stead.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
CHIGNECTO RAILWAY.
1t Is Likely to Cause a Canadian
Cabinet Crisis.

CaDInet Crisis.
OTTAWA, Ont, July 23.-Sir Charles
Upper, Canada'S high commissioner to
London, will reach Canada this week,
and it is said he will not again return
to London unlesshe can extract from
the Dominion government a pledge
that the annual subsidy of S12O,OOO
once promised to but afterwards
Withdrawn from the Chignecto ship
railway shall again be granted ON the
completion of that work. The CHG
necto ship railways inception, partial
completion and virtual abandonment
form the basis of a story which. in
smaller way, resembles the history of
the Pana ma canal and its scandal.
Millions of dollars were raised and
Squandered Oh this project during the
past twelve years. More money to COM
plete the work cannot be raised because
the vital item of yearly subsidy has
been withdrawn. Sir Charles mission
is said to be for the purpose of placat-
ing Minister OF Finance Foster,
with whom he had a serious quarrel
last winter over the Franco
Canadian trade treaty, and thus
induce the latter to unloosen the gov
ernmentS purse strings and save from
total abandonment the Chignecto ell
terprse, the rails and machinery of
which are rusting away at present.
Should Sir Charles be unsuccessful. it
is not thought probable that he will
return TO London and face the clamor
of the deluded Britishers who have
dropped heavily ON the enterprise.
Finance Minister Foster is supported in
his stand, it is said, by all the other cab
met ministers except Hon. Charles II.
Il hn min iC,taN Nf orf,, a
fisheries, now in Paris in connection
with the Behring sea arbitration. The
matter is likely to cause crisis i'll the
Dominion cabinet.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
DIXON VS.. PIERCE.
The Coming Coney Island Fight
Attracting Attention.

The Coming Coney Island Fight
attracting Attention.
New YORK, July 23.-The next fstic
entertainment to be held before the
CoDey Island Athletic club is scheduled
for Aug. Z, and will no doubt be one of
the most successful held under the
auspices OF the club. There are two
events OH the programme. The prin-
clpal Ole will he fight to finish for
purse of $500 between George Dixon.
the feather-Weight champion of the
world, and Eddie Pierce, a local feather
weight who has but recently entered
the professional pugilistic arena. In a
recent fight with George Sddons he
succeeded in standing him off for forty
rounds, and would have no doubt de-
feated him, but for the latter'S tricky
fighting and clever generalship. The
men are hard at work training
for the fight. and the sporting men are
looking forward to what promises to be
one of the best pugilistic treats that 1t
has ever been tneir good fortune to wit
ness between men OF their respective
weights. The odds at present ale in
favor of Dixon at about TO /, but it is
believed that these VIII materially de-
crease before the day fixed for the fight
arrives. The preliminary bout of the
night will be a ten-round affair between
Danny Mcbride and Tim Murphy, both
| New York pugilists of great cleverneSs.
| IL VIII be for purse of 81, ,0U0.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
SEEK RAMSAY'S SCALP.
OMAHA DIVISION or BALM TELEc-
RAPHERS WANTS CORE.
ROMoRs OF cROoKEDNEss.
Messrs. Ramsay. Thurston and
Deget Are Charged With Va
rious Offenses-Suspicion Ex-
cited Over the Failure Of the
Strike Fund to Reach $4,000.

OMAHA, July 23.-One of the most
profound sensations in labor circles, and
one which will directly or indirectly af-
feet every railroad telegrapher in the
country, came to light today in the dis
closure Of the fact that the Omaha divis-
ion OF the Order of Railway Telegraph
ers had filed charge to impeach
Grand Chief ID. &. Ramsay, Grand
Editor A. G. Thurston and Grand
Executive Committeeman George G..
Fleget. The charges were prepared
after an exhaustive Investigation. the
division having sent a member, Carl
Smith, to the headquarters at Vinton,
To-, to inquire into the situation, rumors
having been circulated at the last con-
vention at Toronto. The charges. it is
alleged, present thirty-siX specifications,
running all the way on the part of Ram
say from incompetency to dishonesty,
and taking in all sorts of offenses on the
way. The order was instituted eight
years ago at Cedar Rapids, To-, by A. o.
Thurston, as a non-striking organiza-
ton.
y
until it numbered nearly $4,000 MEM
bers, when it blossomed into strike
organization with Thurston as grand
chief, and Ramsey, then an East st.
Louis, ILL.,, as an assistant grand chief.
A few months afterwards Thurslon
was made by the executive committee,
of which Ramsay was chairman,
editor OF the orders paper, and Ramsay
succeeded to the grand chieftaincy, and
at the convention held in Chattanooga
in 1892 this arrangement was continued.
A special tax had been ordered for
a strike fund, the understanding being
that so soon as this fund reached
$4,000 the tax should cease. 1t
came dangerously near reaching this
figure several times, for the order num-
bers nearly $4,000 operators. But the
grand chief, it is said, was equal to the
occasion, and, although S51, 1886 was
paid into this fund last year at Toronto,
but S2,004.91 was shown to be on han d.
The Rock Island strike wiped
out over $4,000, the Grand Cen
tral Georgia strike over $4,000,
the Burlington. Cedar Rapids & North
ern strike over S 1900, and the Gulf
trouble $1,000. AT the Toronto conven-
tion Ramsay and Thurston were rein
stated, but the Omaha division was not
satisfied, and it started in to fight the
two leaders. One of the ablest lawyers
in Omaha was engaged, and today it
was learned that the charges had been
carried to the grand executive commit
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
One of the Mysteries That No Liv-
ing Man Can Explain.


II am an old man." he said slowly,
land Eve lived long time longer than
NEST men who have lived as long as
have, or there's mighty little in this
world that l ought to know that don't
know, but there is one thing | don't
know, and Pve been trying TO learn it
for fifty years, more or less"
Whats that?' intelrogated CANA
liel. who was yet beginner.
''Weli, my son, it is this: / don't
know, and [ don't believe l ever shall,
why it is that when ii man gets home at
3 o'clock i'll the morning and finds he
hasn't his night key in his pocket he
can ring the bell and thump the door
and throw pebbles up against the win
dows and disturb the whole neighbor-
hood, and keep on doing it for three
quarters of an hour or more before he
wakes anybody in the house, out if
he gets there at a. IN. and has
his night key in his pocket, and
slips it into the lock as still as a mouse,
and turns it without creak, and shuts
the door as softly as the dew falls, and
creeps up stairs in his sock feet as
stealthily as a cat, and gets into his
room as nolseless as the stars go to
their rest, he not only wakes up his
wife, but next morning everybody i'll
the house is asking him what he means
by coming in at that hour of the night,
and if he must come III then why
doesn't he make less racket and not dis
turb the whole country"
The old man in an excess of emotion
gasped once or twice and began to mop
his brow.
That's what l don't know. young
man." he went on, land I'D like to live
L. 4
have, to see if you can find out. but L
don't really believe you ever will"
iii try" briefly remarked Gamaliel.
and those who know Gamaliei have a
sublime confidence that he has made
noble beginning.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
THE CHINESE CHEATED,
And New the Signature of Their
Consul Isn't Good.

u
NEW YORK, July 23.-The treasury
department at Washington has in
structed Collector Hendricks that here
after the certificate of the Chinese con-
sui at this port will not be received in
proof of indentification of auy China
man who has gone from this country to
China and wants to come in
again. The effect of this order.
now made public for the first time, will
be that every Chinese merchant who
desires to 90 abroad and return will
have to do so at its own risk and will
have to take the burden of proof OF
identity on himself. This order has
produced CONSERVATION i'll Chinatown.
ana on Friday night the association of
Chinese merchants held a meeting to
consider it. They arrived at no
conclusion and will hold another
meeting, probably tomorrow night.
The reason of the new order was that
the certificates had been perverted from
their legal purpOse-had been used TO
evade the very law that they were TO
enforce. There can be little doubt that
about 200 Of these certificates were
annually issued by the Chinese consul
to the wealthier merchants of this city,
who used them 10 enable such of their
cOuntrymen as were debarred by law to
go TO China and to return.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
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TwENTY-rwo KILLED.
An apparently CowardIy Attack
on Steamer.

LONDON. July ga dispatch from
Singapore saws Oh Thursday night a
piratical outbreak occurred among the
Achinese passengers on the Dutch
steamer Rajah Kongsee, trading on tn e
east coast of Acheen. The Achinese
attacked the crew of the steamer. kill
ing the English captain, mate and
twenty-five Asiatic sailors, and wounded
fifteen others. They then quilted the
vessel, taking some of the passengers as
captives. The steamer with the wounded
is now in Dutch hands.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
DESTROYING TREES.
A Strange Pest Strskes Washing
ton State Timber.

TON SCdte IIInOer.
PORTLAND, Or, July 23.-Capitalists
of this city owning tracts of timber land
along the Hoquiam river in Chehalis
county, Washington, are greatly wor-
ried over the reports that a small
worm has made its appearance in
myrlads in that section and is devastat-
Ing the forest. Great fir, spruce and
hemlock trees are alike suffering. j.
NJ. Baker, of Montesano, one of the
most capable and reliable timber men
in the state, asserts that the worm is
destroying a tract of timber equal to
two whole townships along the Ho-
quiam river. He has just made careful
investigation of the timber on these
townships, and finds the hemlock all
dead, not one living tree left. OF the
fir and spruce. one-third is dead. one
third doomed, and the other third still
untouched. He says that if the worms
work as diligently this summer as it is
evident they did last, there will
not be green tree standing.
The section Mr.. Baker reports on has
been frequently noted as being one OF
the heaviest timber sections in Wash
lngton state. Twenty dollars an acre
was considered modest price for it.
The state authorities propose to make
further investigation and do something
to stop the spread of this pest.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
JEFFERsoN's ILLNESS.
1 ate Advices Say 1t IS Not Seri-
OuS.

New YORK, July 23.-The Times says:
There was story published i'll one
of the morning newspapers yesier-
day TO the effect that Joseph Jeffer-
son, the great actor, was dying at his
home in Buzzard's Bay, of Il cancerous
affection. AT the Players and else
where in the city the story was de-
nounced as canard 10y frienIs of Mir.
jefferson. 1t was looked upon as merely
continuation of the rum0rs regarding
JeffersOn's breaking down which have
been general along upper Broadway
for some time past. When last seen in
This city, on the occasion of Edwi II
Booths funeral last month, MIR. .Jeffer-
son was apparently eITjoying his usual
good health. His friends argue that If
he was afflicted with cancer he would
nave shown some signs of impaired
vigOr at that time.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
FIGHTING IN MANAGUA.
Five Thousand Men Meet in the
Battle Field

PANAMA, Columbia, July 23.-News
has just been received here showing
that hard fighting has been in progress
near Mateare, Nicaragua, between the
Leon reyolutiOnistS and the government
troops. Five thousand men were en-
gagged in the battle, the result of which
is not known here. Mateare is small
hamlet about twelve miles from Mana
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
THE Norser Half

New York World.
Mrs. Forundred-We need some new
rugs.
Mr.. Forundred-Carpets would be
more comfortable.
Mrs. Forundred-Rugs are more sty-
lish. You men are such animals. AL
ways talking about comfort!
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
Trus, Company Enio;ned.

CONCORD, \. H.. July 22.-The New
Hampshire Trust company. of Man
chester, one of the heaviest financial
Institutions In the state. has been en-
joined. Bank Commissioner Lyford
has gone 10 Manchester.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
FOUGHT A DRAW.
Nineteen Rounds of Resultless
Mill at Muncie

MUNCIE, Ind. July 23.-This morning
at O'Clock Kid Mccoy, of Indianapolis.
champion lightweight of Indiana. and
Ike Boone, a colored middle weigh
tighter of Lima, o., fought nineteen
rounds out in field in Madison county,
twelve miles west of Muncie. About
200 people witnessed the fight, which
was lively and heavy in every round.
The Kid had the best of the fight up to
the tenth round, but Boone was twenty
pounds overweight, and could not be
winded by Mccoy. In the last nine
rounds Boone hit Mccoy at will, and
woula have soon knocked his opponent
out, but the fight was called a draw in
the nineteenth round by the referee.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
Scraps OF Snort.

The Diamonds went to South st. Paul
yesterday to play the Cyclones. but
when they got down there the latter re-
fused to play. Then the Diamonds Of
fered them handicap Of ten runs, but
still they refused to play. The Diamonds
would like to get game with the Rivals
for next Sunday at the park.
Yesterday afternoon at White Bear
Lake the Rivals defeated the White
Bear Base Ball club by the score of 9 10
s. The batteries for the Rivals were
Srhimensky and DuciouS; for the White
Bears, heogi and O'Brien.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
For a Purse of 500.

SItVIdI 10 TIC UIODe.
SALTWATER, Mimi, July 23.-The
StillWaters turned the tables on the Y .
and BIS, of Minneapolis, today, and
won in a canter by a score of II TO s..
Clayton, of St. Paul, caught for tine
home team, and. though badly disabled,
stood his ground manfuiIy. The game
was for purse of 800.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
Contentment
is folly 70bsn .pOu might do better


What is the matter with your
time? A trifle fast? A little slow?
Always few minutes wrong?-
Does your watch cost more to carry
than it did to buy it? Repairs,
regulating, cleaning; a dollar or
two every time you bump it, You
might save it over and over in a
year; show just as much style and
always be Oh time, too, with the
new, quick=winding Waterbury.
Every jeweler keeps it. A Jew
eled watch. All styles for
everybody 81 to SIS buys it.
Ladies. gentlemen 5 or boys
watch: cased in nickel coin
silver or filled gold 90 to
I4-karat.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
sIA3lEsH sEEADY.

The Fasteners nave Plan OF
Attack haid Out.
LONDON. July 24.-The Bangkok cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle tele-
graphs under yesterdays date: 1.-The
Sidmese war ships. which are anchored
one mile FROM the French, are crowded
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
Glory for HaStjp1s

SpecIaI to the Globe.
HASTINGS, Minn., July %. The Park
leagues of this city went to Hudson.
Wis, today, and did up the base ball
nine of that town to finish, the score
being - to i'll favor of the Hastings
njOp
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
No Worse Than Others.

Puck.
Mrs. Norris You ought to be
ashamed of yourself, Robby; you're the
clean dress ou've spoiled today.
Robby-That's nothingi Look at
Mrs. Allister; she's had on f0url
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
Nicaragua Canal Meeting.

COLUMBUS, o.. July 23.--George L.
Niearagu a Ship Canal association, has
called a meeting of the members of the
executive committee or Chicago. Aug. 3.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24

HARRISBURG. Pa, July 23.-Tomor-
row Miller, the suspended catcher of
the Pittsburg club, will play second
base for Harrisburg. He will be signed
for the balance of the season.