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CHANGED HIS MIND.

The Slayerof Eelieor Penrose Brcakx
Jail After Giving Himself Up.
MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 27.--A Tribune
special from Lake Crystal, Mimi. says:
Your correspondent interviewed Joseph
Mccormick, the self-accused slayer OF
w. j. Penrose OF the Butte Mining
journal, and in less than an hour after
the interview he had broken Jail and
escaped. He refused at first to talk Of
the affair, but finally gave in substance
the following particulars:
Penrose had been elected to the legis-
lature on a labor ticket, pledged to
secure certain reforms for miners
He was suspected of having sold out
the interests that elected him and
upon his return to Butte he was
notified to leave the country, and
was gwen six weeks IN which TO do 1t.
On the night of the ast day Of the six
weeks he was shot. Ills death was de-
creed by the Miners uEian, and the
slayer was selected uy lot. aicCormick
was not at the meeting, LuG was in.
duced to do the job by business man
of Butte.
Why he should break Jail after giving
himself up is mystery. unless his
streak of remorse vanished of sudden.
The facility with which he slipped ont
of the strong iron cage shows that he II
q desperate of no mean accomplish
mania
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Clu bbed Into Submission.

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.--Fred L. Badler
and Officer Shea had desperate en-
counter with Ernest Mosley. Badler
comes from Monroe, Wis A chase
ensued in which the officer joined. Cit
izsns took up the race and the thief
was finally overhauled. Then hand.
to-hand struggle ensued, but Mosley
was finally dubbed into submission.
He was bound over to the grand jury.
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TROUBLE BEGINS.
Scarcely o street Car I'm Operation
on the ST. Paul Electric
Lines.
The Men Were Agitatlng Strike and
the Company Locked Many
Out.
No Strike Has Yet Been Form~Ily De-
clared- Minneapolis Lines
Running.

ST.. PAUL. Oct. 27.--The street Car
strike or lockout Is partially on in the
Twin Cities When the employees Of
the company showed up at the barns
for work in the morning large num-
ber or them were discharged and all
the electric cars in this city. except the
interurban. were stopped. A sympathy
strike was very soon inaugurated on
the Sslby avenue cable line, and only
few cars en- that line were running at
noon. "A meeting OF the street car men
is now being held at Labor Hall. Min
neapolis cars are still running, and
probably will continue to run till after
the meeting now in progress.
Goodrich's Statements
General Manager Goodrich an
nouaced that the company had dis
charged about 90 men in Minneapolis
and about double that number in ST.
Paul, the discharge to take immediate
effect, and those men were not per.
mitted to 20 to work. The dis.
charged men are presumably all union
men, but Goodrich said that was not
the cause OF their discharge. The
company had selected the ''trouble
makes" and withoutinquiring whether
or not they were union men. had sum
marily discharged them. I'VE simpl,
met the issue forced upon MS" said Mr.
Goodrich, land took the initiative" " Al
to what would follow and what courst
The company might pursue, he declined
to say at this time.
During the afternoon there was some
talk Of asking the company fer arbitra
tion, but it is at present impossible Z
tell what will be done. The men admi
the company's action was . surprise +
them and that they were taken at
disadvantage. There is no present fea
OF any disturbance which would re
quire police interference.
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DISCUSSIONS HAVE CEASED.
Last of the Worlds Congresses at
Chicago Ended.


Chicago Ended.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The worlds con-
crosses are over. The last session OF
the last congress was held Wednesday.
There will be several evening addresses
and lectures. but the regular congresses
have ceased. The real estate men
closed the worlds fair auxiliary work,
devoting their fnalsession to discussion
of the Tcrrens system of real estate
tenure and transfer. Hon. DIR. Arthur
Renwick of New South Wales discussed
the Torrens system as used in Austria
liza and J. Herbert Mason of Toronto
spoke on the system as used in Ontario.
A. NJ. Pence of Chicago read strong
paper against The system, and the Hon.
Harvey M. Hurd spoke OF the system
as recommended and modified by the
Illinois state commission.
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Demanding an Extension OF Time.

CHICAGO, Oct. a. Some Of the lines
In the Central Traffic association have
asked that the present low rates to the
worlds fair be continued, and that the
sale OF tickets be extended from Nov. ].
the date now fixed tor discontinuini
the sale. until Nov. s. The proposition
has been submitted TO vote, and 1t
will be several days before the matter
lis settled.
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Had d Terrible Time.

SAN Francisco. Ger. 27.--After a
stormy passage OF 1876 days the ship
Undaunted has arrived here from Phil.
adelphia. A few days ago the ship was
reihsured at 25 per cent The UE.
daunted had terrible lime rounding
Cape Horn. and for days could make no
headway.
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An Editor at Rest.

New RICHMOND, Wis, Oct 27.--Ed-
ward Payson Huntington, q newspaper
man we'll known throughout this sec
tion, having the greater part of his life
been connected with or editor OF the
various newspaper enterprises in
Northern Wisconsin and Southern Min
nesota, died here after lingering ill
ness with consumption. He was aged
2H years
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For Cheaper E'ueI,

ST. PAUL, Oct. THE Minnesota
Coal company. which had its origin in
the citizens committee movement to
secure cheap coal, has filed its articles
Of incorporation with with the secre-
tary of state. The incorporators are
Richard A. Walsh, John Weigel, }. M.
Hawthorne, Charles s. Butts. William
Rodger and T. FL. Kirk.
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school For Convicts.

SALTWATER, Mimi, Oct. 27.-The
prison night school has been graded
similarly to the public schools OF this
state, and the attendance has increased
until it now numbers l5S. Some of
the higher studies have been taken up
during the past few days. and the war.
den ID arranging matters SO that all
convicts who desire to attend the school
can do SO
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Confession His Business.

SLEEPY EYE, Mimi, Oct. ~. The
man Mccormick, who gave himself up
to the village marshal at Lake Crystal
as the murderer of Editor Penrose OF
Butte, Mon, 10 the same fellow who
got few days care and attention here
as the self-confessed murderer of one
Callihan at Salt Lake City. The fellow
is fraud, pure and simple. and it il
now known that he has worked limo.
cent country constables and sheriffs In
this same way for months past.
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Koe.tirg Pleads Not Guilty.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 27.-John B. Koet-
ting, cashier of the defunct South Side
Savings bank, was taken before the
municipal court during the afternoon
and arraigned on 10 different indict-
ments which the grand jury had re-
turned against him. Toeach of these
indictments he pleaded not guilty.
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sued p. H. K. For slander.

WAsECA, Minn., Oct. 27.-P. III. Kelly
Of st. Paul is here as defendant in q
suit for slander in the district court.
The suit is brought by Thomas Bohen
for $o5, 200. Bohen was chairman OF
the Democratic county committee and
had charge oi the campaign here last
fall. In reporting to the state Demo
cratic campaign committee he was &C.
cused by Kelly Of misappropriation ol
funds.
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Approsedl . Esreish ht scheiule.

6AH FRANCISCO. Oct 27.--The state
railroad commissioners have approved
the new local freight schedule pre-
pared by the Southern Pacific COM
pany. The schedule is what il known
as the western classification and makes
reduction OF about IL per cent on
freight rates.
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court ofricers Censured !.

ELLENDALE, N. D., Oct 27.-H. O.
Barratt, who has been in Jail here for
the past two months on a charge OF as
sault ON his servant girl, was released
ON his own recognizance without fur
nishing any security. He is missing
ana it is thought he has left the coun-
try. The feeling is very strong against
the district attorney, and the justice
who granted the release is censured.
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Actor Coghlan weds.

ST. Louis, Oct. 27.-A special from
Indianapolis, Ind, to The Post Dispatch
says: Charles Coghlan, the actor, was
married last night to Kuehne Bever-
ridge, the actress and SUPPRESS, also a
member OF his company. The pair left
for louisville.
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An Indian Commits suicide.

CHAMBERLAIN, s. D., Oct. n. Robert
Mcbride. considered the most reliable
Indian on the Sioux reservation and
known by every person along the Mis-
souri, river above Yankton, committed
suicide at his home on the Crow Creek
reservation by poisoning himself. He
was civilized, but was hard drinker.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 27.--Gus Canton of
Manawa. Wis, was run over and
killed last night at the Sixtieth street
crossing OF the Fort Wayne tracks.
Canton was 10 years old and proprietor
of general store at Manawa
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Nnw YoRE, Oct x7.-The 600 men
who were .at work on the new building
OF the Mutual Reserve Fund ut Duane
'stTeet and Broadway. and the new
POstal Telegraph building at Broadway
and Murray street. struck work. The
strike, which Ia directed against sub
contractor who refused to discharge
non-nnion men, may extend through
ont the city.
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The Ferris Wheel.

CHICAGO, Oct. ~. "A reliable state.
ment is made that the big Ferris wheel
has paid for itself, paid the concessions
to the exposition company and has a
surplus of over 500, 900 to distribute.
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Methodist Bishops Meet.

MILwAUKEE, Oct s7.-The semi-an-
nual meeting of the board Of bishops Of
the Methodist Episcopal church of the
United States opened here during the
day and will continue in session until
Monday Bishop Charles II. Fowler Of
Minneapolis presided and Bishop An
drews acted M secretary.
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CHICAGO az Rarcelona.

WAsHINGToN. Oct. 27.--The navy de-
partment is informed of the arrival OF
the flagship Chicago ar Barcelona,
Spain, and of the sraiser San Francisco
ct Key West, FlA
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Chaplain Haddeway Dead.

WASHINGTON, Oct 27.-Rev. Hadde-
way, chaplain of the house OF repre-
sentase4 ID dead. IL has been sug-
gested that the house adjourn ont OF
respect to his memory.
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One Dollar CUT.

TACOMA, WASH, Oct. .7.-The Cana
dian Pacific announces a 81 cut in frs.
class passenger rates between the
coast and Chicago, making the rate
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Hay Burned.

TREMPEALEAU, Wis, Oct. T.-Two
thousand dollars worth of hay was de-
stroyed by fire ON the bottoms six miles
below here.
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After q Long Illness.

MONTICELLO, Minn.. Oct. 27.-A. T.
Barker is dead after a long illness.
Mr.. Barker was here before the war,
and has done much toward the growth
Of the place.
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wheeling Notes

wheeling Notes.
W. c. Marion. of the Indiana Bicycle
Company, is in Chicago.
The Zigzag Club went to Martinsville
yesterday morning. starting from the club
house at o'clock.
South Africa will send rider to the in
is l.. 8. Meintjes. and it is said that he
knows how TO ride
l.. NJ. Wainwright. of the Central Cycle
Company. left for Chicago last week, where
he will have charge of that firms exhibit
at the fair. It is the only Indianapolis
'cycle firm which is represented there.
Sanger the Milwaukee crack. sailed for
England last week. He will enter the En-
glsh and the French races. and will rub
up against Zimmerman a time or two.
These two men have been at loggerheads
for so long, and there have been so many
matches reported to have been arranged
net ween them. that it is TO be hoped that
one of them will come back ready to ac-
knowledge that the other is the better
man.
Keep on your own side of the road. and
that don't mean the left hand side either"
Is what the present regulators OF things
are trying to enforce. The perverslty OF
human nature does not seem to be moro APP
parent than in til man who will 60 I'D the
wrong side of the street and energetically
try to run into everything and every body
he meets. This applies to the riders of
bicycles and the drivers of teams. and
there is q universal petition going up on ell
sides that they will learn better before
some untoward accident hustles them from
this SD here of usefulness.
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extends during poetioal seasons. for which
this artist had striven solely. This in
tensity found no time for the manicures to
which other works are usually subjected,
and consequently ignored the finish that
might have gwen them their last passport
90 q Rreat gallery. This Is said as pertaining
TO his earlier work, as of late yearg be has
corrected that haste. and accomplished East
most envIable results. In she latter part
of last March Mr.. Gruelle sent
collection of pictures to Mr..
Fisher. Washington, ID. c., dealer.
During the preceding autumn Mr. Gruelle
had spent about three months around
Washington, making water color sketches.
and this dealer requested the exhibition.
He had been advised by the dealer TO paint
some pictures in oil. as his opportunities
would be greatly limited by the material.
meaning water colors. and Mr. Gruelle
managed to send nine paintings of Wash
ington scenes in oil, with about thirty
sketches in water colors. Although they
were on exhibition only one week SIX oils
and seven water colors were sold. One of
the oil paintings wens to the collection OF
Chief Justice Bradley. which IS one OF the
finest private collections In Washington
city. made up OF the best modern French
masters The picture was hung In royal
society with one of Corot's pictures on one
side and one by CaZan on the other side. An
other oil went into the Kaufman collec-
tion. which is also fine one, In which
nearly all modern masters are represented.
Mr.. Kaufman is the proprietor of the
Washington Daily Star and is a ooDnoiseur
of art of recognized ability.
MIR. Walters, of Baltimore. whose collec-
sion 10 known all over the world. and who
has given thirty years of his life TO the &C.
emulation and study OF pictures. bought q
water color and gave MIR. Gruelle an order
for q painting In oil to be executed this
summer. also giving Mr.. Gruelle absolute
freedom in the choice of subject, wishing
him TO express his own feelings IL his own
way. Mr. GTuelle 10 the first American
artist whose work ever interested or at
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tracted Mr.. Walters. and this is considered
In itself q victory worth living for. Mr.
Gruelle netted on the whole from this sale.
which was conducted conservatively. Q
tribe over 3. 600. besides opening up On ave-
nue. for further triumphs.
Notwithstanding this success Mr.. Gruelle
feels that 1t simply opens the door TO future
attachments. and that It places upon him q
responsibility the gravity of which he fully
appreciates. and he will labor incessantly
and arduously to thoroughly sustain, il not
excel. the prophecy which such q success so
clearly proclaIms shall be his. The kindly
sympathy. patronage and encouragement
Dir. Gruelle has received from the people of
this city remains source of gratitude to
him. and he feels that whatever success hs
may have received elsew here he is their
debtor still beyond his power to tell.
In looking through Mr.. Gruelle's studio
In the ingalls, Block number of note
worthy pictures are found. Some of
his best water colors painted last season
refresh the observation-cast.a as they are.
IN spirit of happy abandon here and
leaves. One of the most characteristic of
shese is view In deep ravine where q
little stream spills its mirth through O
summertime of ferns. with it's cool murmur
over clean rock. In this delicate little
sketch all the tenderness of lazy June
day Is felt Another finds a pathway along
stream where hazy atmospheric eff
are III keeping with a row of weeping will
lows. whose foliage dip their tresses in the
waters OF the stream. These and many
others. all representing some distinct phase
or the seasons. comprise the valuable brio
a-brac of his studio.
From the earliest remem bered point Of
my life" said Mr.. Grueile, 1.-The one idea
that OF becoming an artist-seemed to pre-
dominate my being. In memory / see this
hour little slate far back in the mists of
memory on which drew the head of Wash
inRton. My mother hung it on the wall
proudly. and always entertained the idea
that some day / would be great painter.
With that end in view. and having to work
at something. at the age of twelve years
apprenticed myself TO house and sign
painter. Before this while at school,
of art a profession for herself. She at
tended the Cooper Art Institute, but, fail
ing In health. gave il up. Drifting into
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MISREPRESENTATION. sehls,cher a. Lea
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private properties are being scOurged OF
decay ing su distances. and withal the town
Is nearly through with its early spring
wash, and will emerge with a clean body, u
radiant complexion and a healthy cheek.
No city has probably ever been put into q
better garment of cleanliness neatness
and cheerfulness for the reception of O
gathering body than is Indianapolis al
ready assuming.
Naturally Indianapolis presents at this
time washer day appearance. but any
thing 10 preferable to the inertia which at
times attacks a city, and at last throws it's
business into state of lethargy not to be
broken until the final triumph OF chaos
The Citizens Street-raIlway Company has
added an impetus to the spirit of tearing
M and putting down that has spread over
the city as rapidly as goes the erysipelas.
One night last week gangs of men even
worked by the light OF the moon all night
long on their mission, laying rails here and
there. Suddenly journeyer would come
upon a pile of dirt. and would be COM
PEELED TO take another street. which
could be pursued but short dis
tspce before another such an obstruction
would he encountered. until the town
looked like gopher camp. Red lanterns
twinkled from every quarter. Coming upon
these eruptioDs. there would be found
about tw enty-tive feet of rail- laid. the dirt
thrown furIously either way. few red
lanterns posted and the place deserted.
The city is. in fact. in such q condition
that the chances are helmip ally
against an intoxicated mans ever getting
home alive If he starts late in the night.
Transfers are in demand. and will have all
they can do for months to come Sewer
excavations are being made. and, in fact,
erything seems to be doing at the same
time.
The shovels and picks had rusted indeed,
And grown quite weary OF sitting still
In the cold back room with the clover seed.
They were tired of doing nothing at all,
And often talked when the night was late
OF plans for the coming summer and fall
Their handles were specked and the rusty specks
On their cold steel faces and fingers were
Distressing signs to their intellects.
At last however. there came q day
For cleaning streets and laying rails,
Go the picks and shoyels went on display
They babe goodbye to the clover seed
And were shouldered up In an instant more.
Set free by the Board OF Public Speed.
And now their faces and fancies are
Cheerful and busy laying track
For every coming electric car.
The Mayor and Common Council, and
The Board OF Public Works, they say,
Are also digging and shoyeling sand
And to.ling away on a main line sewer
Which they hope may carry q barrel OF votes.
And make their reelection sure.
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the W est she taught the school attended.
To her / owe a debt of gratitude. Many
times she was compelled to punish me for
drawing during study hours. hut after thew
were over she invariably came TO me and
spologized. giving me encouragement and
creating In me an ambition that has never
since waned. painted signs for about
nine years, and gradually dIifted into pic
lures. At this time received my first or
der for a landscape. When 1T was
about finished lady from the East
brought one of the first ohromos issued by
Prang. of Boston. My patron seeing il. at
once rescinded the order, and seeing my
painting wanted me to paint her Q chrome
instead. as the Eastern lady told her they
were all the rage in Boston, and guess L
painted several chromos afterward.
From my home in Illinois. / landed in
Terre Hsute as a house painter In very
despondent condition. / went to work on
the Terfe Haute House on a swinging scat
fold which as an entirely new experience
to me. All day Iona. in front of this place.
an organ grinder played the 'Miserere' and
that did not help me much. drew my
wages, quit, and came to this city as sign
painter. And here met that dear old art
ist, Uncle Jacob Cox. Then 1 went TO Gin
clnnatl. and promoted myself TO painting
landscapes on safes.
Again LANDED here in 1882 as O would
be artist. The first year in Indianapolis I
realized the muDificent sum of SIS for my
work here. About five years ago | took
up water colors. Ny first exhibit at
Lieber's was put on sale at IS each, where
most were sold. Gradually my prices III
creased with the demand. until within the
last two years have created an apprecia-
tion which / trust may not be wholly un-
deserved.
'Of the future 1 cannot say other than
that / shall work to develop the powers
which believe are mine."
A series of articles will follow this in the
Journal descriptive of the different home
haa~ afr
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The Premature AIarum.

Philadelphia Press.
A Germantown lady was coming homo
the other afternoon with a small alarm
clock that she had been having repaired
when she concluded to drop in at the ser
vice st ST. Luke's. She was walking down
the aisle when all at once there broke ont
q noise like slightly mutfied cable car
gong at Seventh and Market on busy
afternoon. Every head was turned IN the
direction of the newcomer and she was al
most paralyzed. It was that m-clock
that had gone off premRturely. The sequel
OF that little clocks indiscretion can bet
ter be imagined than described.
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might declare itself TO be. when worked
out famous picture, with fame the insti-
gator of the efforts required to enthuse its
production. but always invariably the
subject which appealed TO him. He paints
through sympathy and lows. rather than
through or by spirit of ambition.
1t has been felt that some of his efforts
were weak In technique. but at the same
time the possessors of these pictures have
found in them that feeling of sympathy
and appeal which nature most beautifuIly