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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
ONLY the BONES LEFT
CHASTITY Evidence of the MUIR
der Of an Entire
Family.
FIVE KILLED AND CREMATED
Father, Mother, Two Daught-
ers and a Son the
Victims.
BANKERS NARROW ESCAPE.
San Fra nciseo Crank Is His
Own Victim--Tragic
Suicide.
FIVE KILLED AND CREMATED
BANKERS NARROW ESCAPE.

ARDMoRE. /. T.. Feb. 9.-News was
brought tonight from Bayou, fourteen
miles northwest of here, OF what ap-
pears to be the murder of the family of
M. M. Tucker, consisting of himself,
wife and three children. The skele-
tons of the victims were found Ill the
ruins of their home. which had evident
ly been set atire to cover up the crime
of robbery and murder.
The murder, if murder it was, was
committed Wednesday night, but was
rot discovered until today. Fred Will
son, who had often threatened the dead
man and has now disappeared, is sus-
pected. The fuckers. father. mother
and three children, two girls, aged re-
spectively eight and twelve years. and
boy aged six, lived OH small farm i'll
a cabin two miles from any other hab-
itation. Their sudden talling-out in
their usual intercourse with the neIs IL
boring farmers caused an investigation
to be made. On the spot where
the home had stood nothing re-
NAMED but the blackened cinders.
In them were the charred bones
of the five victims. The theory of acci-
dental fire is secuted, and robbery and
murder. with the subsequent use of the
tUrch to cover up the crime, seems the
most probable. Near the fireplace lay
the bones of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker,
while those of one OF the children, pre-
sumably the boy, were in the fireplace.
The other two lay where the bed had
stood. There were not enough of the
remains to show by what method they
had met their fate, but it seems impos-
sible they could have burned while
asleep. The position of the skeletons
would seem to explode any such theory.
Suspicion points to Fred Wilson as the
murderer. 1t was known that he had
threatened Tucker, the cause being
that few months since Tucker caused
his arrest Oh charge Of seduction, his
alleged victim being one of the now
dead girls. Wilson was discharged, the
government failing to make out its
case. On termination of the trial
Tucker told friend S he feared Wilson
wOuld kill him.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
FEARS NO RIVAL Line,
Van Horn Laughs at Talk of
a New Canadian Trans
continental.
WAR ON GRAIN RATES
Threatens to Develop on the
Eastern Trunk
Lines.
WAR ON GRAIN RATES
U. P. CONTINUES OBSTINATE.
Its Action on Transeonti-
mental Affairs Awaited by
Southern Roads.

New YORK. Feb. 9.-Sir William Van
Horn, the president of the Canadian
Pacific railroad, who has been in En-
gland for some time past, returned to
America OH the Teutonic this morning.
In response to some questions regard
ing the cable dispatch statements con-
cerning the proposed line extending
across the continent as rival Of the
Canadian Pacific, Sir William laughed
and said: The plan is too absurd to
talk about. The statements which
see have already been cabled from the
other side, to my mind cover the ground
pretty well. AS has been stated. the
ber of little Canadian roads into one and
call it rival road of ours. These roads
are off shoots of our main line which we
did not build. as in our opinion
the amount of traffic would not justify
such an expenditure. These small
roads are built by the Quebec govern
ment, it being the policy to open up and
develop numerous parts of the country
in this manner. They branch off OH our
road at such angels and so far apart
that l cannot possibly see how they
could be united into one continuous
line"
Sir William thought very little
danger would arise from the prospectus
issued by the organizer of the enter
prise, G. N. Armstrong, who states
that the Canadian government has
agreed to assume payment of the entire
interest on these bonds, as the policy of
the Canadian government is so directly
opposed to anything OF this kind as to
be very we'll known and therefore few
investors, in his opinion, would be at
tracted by the scheme.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
IT WAS BABY FARMING
A Betrayed Young Woman
Tells a Story Full Of
Sadness.
INVESTIGATION is WANTED.
Thrilling Runaway on a
Crowded Thoroughfape
Its Results.
IVER LARSON A LULU.
A Pretty Girl Declares She
Married Him Under
DureSS.
INVESTIGATION is WANTED.
IvER LARSON A LULU.

The notorious Mrs. Lund, of Wash
ington avenue south, who has run
baby farm i'll Minneapolis since time
imm emorial, is in hot water again.
Lena Gran. a pretty young woman
about twenty years of aye. complained
to the authorities yesterday and told a
story of cruel treatment at the Wash
ington lying-in hospital kept by the
woman mentioned. She claimed that
her baby was taken away from her aud
ard she was refused sight Of it
and for a long time did not know
whether it was dead or alive. Her
own treatment by the midwife she de-
scribes as thoroughly inhuman. The
girl claims to have been Seduced under
promise of marriage, and was urged to
go to Mrs. Lund by her betrayer. who
assured her that the place was respect
able, and that she would be well treated.
Her betrayer did not come to see her,
and she was left entirely alone for fve
weeks. Finally friends of the young
woman succeeded in tracing her, and
week ago Mrs. August Walgren, OF "a
Lyndale avenue north, visited the un-
fortunate young woman and Induced
her 10 leave. Upon demanding her
child, Miss Gran was informed that she
could not have it, and that she might as
we'll leave it where it was, as it was
dying anyway. 1t was only after threat
enipg the woman with an Investigation
on the part of the authorities that the
midwife consented TO deliver the child
to its mother, but first demanded S35 for
board and care. This was paid. and
Thursday afternoon the child was taken
to the home of Mrs. Walgren. The
chld's body was found to be greatly
emaciated; its limbs were scarcely larger
than drumstickS. and it had evidently
received no sanitary care for days. The
case has been referred to Humane Agent
Tatro. Prosecution, it is said, Will
follow.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
WAR IN GRAIN RATES
Threatens to Materialize on East
ern Trunk Lines.

ern Trunk Lines.
CHICAG o. Feb. 9.-The recent reduce
tion OF the grain rate between Chicago
and the Atlantic Seaboard from 25 to 30
cents has not had the expected results
of preventing all demoraliZ ation,no are
the lines needing with any great care
the positive inJunctions of Chairman
Blanchard, of the Central Traffic asso-
citation, that hereafter the grain rates
must be rigidiy maintained. The re-
cent cut in the rates Oh flour from Min
neapois and st. Paul to Chicago has
had the effect of making the lines east
of Chicago shade their tariff sheets in
order to hold on to their share of the
business. 1t was intimated very
strongly by the st. Paul-C Chicago lines
that they had no intention OF cutting
rates, and often paying to the Eastern
roads the same percentages as before.
The eastern lines were quick to take
the hint. and as result there has been
a beariSh feeling in east bound grain
rates from Chicago that is likely within
a few days to bear fruit in the shane Of
open cuts. The severe weather Of
the last ten days has operated more
to hold in check the desire TO
get under 20 cents than any other rea.
son. The total amount of grain received
by the Eastern roads is about the same
as last week, but they have not carried
it away as rapidly as before. 1t was
being moved with more celebrity today.
however. AS soon as the weather
moderates and the roads are as open
for business as before the blizzard tied
them into hard knots, the 20-cent rate
Oh grain will grow sheky at the knees
and wabble along the spine. Chair
man Blanchard's order is not weighing
very heavy at present. 1t will grow
lighter as spring advances.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
ONLY THE CRANK KILLED.
San Francisco Banker Has a Des-
perate Struggle for Life.

perate Struggle for Life.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.-lsiah H.
Hellman, the well-knoWn Fl nancier and
president of the Nevada bank. had
narrow escape from death this MORN
ing. He had left his residence to walk
down to the bank. as is his custom, and
had not proceeded far when man,
who had evidently been lying in wait
for the banker, stepped out from
doorway and pointed a pistol at He'll
man. The latter quickly struck al the
revolver with his stick which the
would-be-assassins grasped. After
brief struggle Rellman turned and
ran toward the corner. The man fired
twice at the rapidly retreating banker,
but his aim was bad and Hellman was
unhurt. Then, apparently salts
fled that one or the other OF his shots
had taken effect, the man deliberately
shot himself.
Heilman quietly walked back, picked
I'D his hat, which had been knocked off
in the struggle with his assailant, and
returned to his house before continuing
his walk to the bank. He undoubtedly
owes his life to the use CT the stick.
That the bullet missed the mark at such
close range is remarkable. The sui
eide was taken to the receiving hospital,
where he died in the afternoon. His
name was William Holland, curbstone
broker, who was arrested about six
weeks ago charged with presenting a
forged check at the Nevada bank. When
taken to the bank for Identification, the
teller was at first doubtful, but finally
said Holland was not the forger. He'll
man also failed to identify him, put
Holland considered the arrest, although
made without publicity, reflection
upon his integrity. and brooded over
his fancied disgrace. finally determining
to be revenged on Hellman and then
end his own life,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
| GROW like MAGIC.
How Fortunes Are Made in
New YOrk'S Standard
Oil Building.
RETIRING ROCKEFELLERS.
Seraps of Paper Go UP in
Smoke After Secret Com
mittee Meetings.
RICH MEMS PLAIN OFFICES.
How the Resources of the
Powerful Trade Combina-
- - tion Are Managed.

There is gray, severe building tow
ering up from the foot OF Broadway that
seems to be perpetually saying II at
tend strictly to my own business" One
can see at a glance that it is an office
building; yet its stately entrance way is
rarely crowded. says the New York Re-
corder. There are no signs upon its
walls; its windows are not lettered. 1t
preserves an air of mystery. The only
outward clue to the solution of it is i'll
the rubber doormat. for in the intrica-
cies of its design one can decipher the
letters IS. o. Co." The building looks
toward the North river. and over the
vast oil yards and refneres of the Kill
Won Kull. 1t is the headquarters of the
most powerful and best-managed trade
eombi nation i'll America-the Standard
Oil company. 1t is here that the Rookie
feller brothers toll and spin millions.
Despite the fact that John D. Rookie
feler is beyond doubt the richest man
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10

democratic if anything. He is smooth
faced youngster i'll the very early twen-
ties, and, il reports may be believed, he
is not likely to enter the company.
Some meager idea OF John ID. Rookie
feller'S personal wealth may be had
from the story that three or four years
ago his securities filled three large tin
boxes in one of the biz safe deposit
vaults.
His country place is at Pocantico
Hills, near Tarrytown, where he rents
a roomy, old-fashiOned mansion. Here
is one OF the most beautiful regions in
the valley of the Hudson, and Mr.. Rock
efeller is preparing the plans for an
elaborate estate and Semi-castle there.
Tarrytown is also the summer home
of William Rockefeller, and his stone
mansion and lawns cost him round
two millions. Like his brother. he is
also an enthusiastic bicyclist, but his
riding is cOnfaed to the environs of
TarrytOwn alone. His taste runs more
to pets-cats, dogs ana horses. With
out having anything like a kennel or
stable, he yet OWLS several very valuable
beasts, both canine and equine. During
the summer season he seldom comes to
the city on Saturdays. His enthusiasms
are chiefly rural.
William Rockefelleris is q amuchyounger
looking man than John d.. though there
Is not very much difference in their
ages. His physique is sturdy, and he
thoroughly enjoys life. He also is gray
haired and mustached. trinity built and
weighing about 175 pounds.
Whether it requires quiet, unostenta-
tous, self-contaiued men to manage
vast enterprises, or whether the Rocke-
feilerS simply were fortunate i'll aSSoci-
alton with men like themselves in These
respects,i it is fact that the inner circle
of powerful business men who work
together in the management of the
Standard Oil company are all of the
same type. H. H. Rogers is the patron
saint Of Fairhaven, Mass. He has spent
a million dollars on schools. libraries
and municipal improvements for the
town, and has succeeded in doing it
without attracting any special attention
to himself. Tie is the man who drove
AddickS from the control of the gas in
terests in Brooklyn
John d. Archbold is another quiet
member Of this remarkable group of
men who have built up the create ST
business corporation i'll America, and
have managed it with a genius tn at has
enabled them to reduce the cost OF
production of one of the necessares OF
life. and at the same time to amaSS
millions for themselves. Like the
others, lie cares little for display and
much for clear-cut, busincsS-lke work.
Henry NJ. Flagier is better known,
perhaps, as a Florida magnate than in
any other way. IL is told that his chief
pleasure in New York used to be TO
invite his former pastor, the famous
DR.. Paxton, to his house to dime, and
after the cloth was cleared to sit by the
hour cracking jokes with that preacher.
whose resources as an enIertaiDl ng
guest were untqualed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
COARSE CRIB CRACKING.
All Attempt to Burgle a Feed Mil

All Attempt to Burgle Feed Mill.
Amateur burglars made an unsuccess
full attempt to blow the safe of the North
Star Feed mill, corner Second street and
Eighth avenue south. Friday night.
The first intimation of the attempt at
safe blowing was when two cleaners
went to the mill at 5 o'clock in the
morning and found that door had
been pried open. Further investigation
showed that the Office door had
been smashed in and On the office
floor were found a brace and
bit, files, lantern. couple of ham,
mers and several tools. Two holes
had been drilled in the safe door above
and below the combination. and eXplos-
ives had been ignited. One OF the
doors was partially blown from its
hinges, but the burglars had not sue
ceeded in reaching the cash drawer.
Later it was discovered that the tools
found Oh the floor had been stolen from
Simon McCarthy'S blacksmith shop on
Second street, which had been broken
into the same night.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
DIVORCE FOB DUREss.
Iyer Larson's Way of Winning a
Helpmeet.

Bessie Larson, pretty Norwegian
girl of twenty years. told sad story in
Judge Ponds court Yesterday, which
resulted in her being granted a decree
of divorce from liver L. Larson. The
girl said that she married lver under
threats and dureSs. For some years
Larson has been, or claimed to be. ell
amored of the girl. and had re-
peatedly told her that ii she
did not marry him he would
shoot her. BY these schemes he had
reduced her to such state of terror
that she at length consented to be mar
ried to him on promise that he would
leave her and bother her no more.
After the marriage he departed for
the Wisconsin pineries, and his unWil~
ling bride was lett in peace. Not long
ago Larson came back and began Sys-
TEN of petty prosecutions and threats
toward his wife, which Bessie stood as
long as she was able, and then placed
her case in the hands of an attorney,
with the result that the unhOly knot
was united.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10

windows. The brothers are widely
separated during the day, William
ROckefeller'S office being on the second
floor, far at the back. They see each
other only at committee meetings, which
are frequent, no day going by without
at least half dozen of them. They
are members of all the important bodies
that manage the affairs of the company
and the trust. and they devote the most
or their time to the details OF these.
They are seldom to be found at their
desks.
Marble and mahogany are the fittings
of the building throughout, and the
ROckefellerS' "dens" are not whit bet
ter furnished than the offices OF their
clerks. John d. Roekefellers private
room has large mahogany rolltop desk,
ticker and comfortable couch. lis
floor is covered with dark moquette
carpet, and Its walls are plain, I'M
adorned white. His two private secre-
tarieS sit outside, but within easy call.
1t is almost case Of Jetfersonian sim
plicity. Ner can this room be called his
"Drivate" Office, even. for Mr.. Ward
well. the company'S treasurer (and the
noted temperance advocate. as welD has
his desk but short distance off.
Villa III Rockefeller'S sanctum is,
likewise, unadorned. He has but one
private secretary. and this individual is
hardly overworked. Few people get
through the outer rooms Of either of the
brothers. Business matters invariably
go to the heads of departments and
from tem filter through the appropri-
ale committees. The Roekefellers do
not touch the great public. They are
barred Ill and impregnabe to the outer
world.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10

than paid for itself. The sixteen re-
fneries are at Bayonne (where 10000
barrels for refined petroleum are also
manufactured each day., COmmunipaW,
four at Hunters Point, Parkersburg,
w. Va; Baltimore, PHILADELPHIA, Pitts
burg. Oil City, Olean. New York, Buff
falo, Lima, Ohio; Whiting, Ind, and
Franklin. Pa. The refineries at Louis
Vile, Cincinnati and st. Louis are sup
piled By tank cars.
The st. Louis company has, IN addl-
ton, two refineries in MeXico-one in
the City of Mexico itself, the other in
Vera Cruz. From New York are cOn-
trolled the refinerieS in Cuba, the oil
being shipped there in its crude state.
. There are two refneres i'll London,
Paris and Rouen, from which oil is
shipped direct to every port in China.
Japan, Java aud the East. For its eX-
port trade the company OWNS outright
nearly one hundred tank steamers, kept
continually cruising,an it is constantly
engaging other bottoms to I'LL the orders
it receives. The figures of the total out
put are not obtainable. They are one
of the many secrets locked In the breasts
Of the executive committee.
There are forwarding branches die
rectiy under the control of the New
York offices at San Francisco and Den.
yer as well. Besides the barrels made
at Bayonne the company manufactures
its own cans at Hunters Point, and Its
own wooden cases at OSwego. 1t turns
out the bulk of its OWN machinery, and
it's force of trained mechanics is larger
than that of any railroad system III the
country. About the only thing it does
,,ot N, otya 10 tho statlOntrV used in its
many departments.
All easy and kind master is the
Standard Oil company to its employees.
The clerks and heads OF departments
are paid large salaries. and are, to a
great extent, the masters of their own
time. They must be al their desks Il
little after 0. have full hour for lunch
con. and call leave at the exact stroke of
5. The workmen in the refneries and
man ufacturiug establishments are con-
siderately treated and paid ample wages,
tnliv up to the market. No instances of
oppression are noted and strikes are
practically unknown. In the main Of
flee it is possible for man TO attain an
income OF s6. 00Q.
The Two Sanctums.
The Rockefellers themselves are the
uuietest, most unOstentatlous OF men.
II is this that has made accurate person
alities regarding them so few and far
between. Both are essentially home
men. New York society sees next TO
nothing of them. Their homes in town.
though handsome and eXqnIsltely fur-
nished, are not gorgeous or elabofat .
enough to rouse comment iii The me-
tropolis. They entertain hardly at all,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
ALL DEFENDS ON U. P,
Southern Transcontinental Lines
Ready to Join the New Cons
snittne


Ready to Join the New Cons
mittee.
CHICAG 0, Feb. 9.-The affairs Of the
Western Trunk line committee continue
to brighten, and it is now believed the
worst of its troubles are over. A con-
ference between the TranscontiDental
lines, at which both the Rio Grande
Western and tine Union Pacific will be
represented. will be held during the
coming week at the Office of Chairman
Caldwell, and it is the general opinion
that it will end in such a manner as 10
permit both roads to become members
of the committee. With the Union
Pac fic OH the inside 80 per cent Of
the di thcuty Of forming the committee
will be ended.
The Missouri Pacific Will come in Oil
the heels of the Union Pacific, and the
Missouri, Kansas u Texas will, 1t is ex-
pecied, follow suit at once. With
these three lines and the Rio Grande
Western DIS members, the committee
will be able to at once begin operations.
This, however, is the rosy side of the
matter. If the Union Pacific flies off at
tangent again, as it has done so many
times already, the patience of some of
the other lines will hardly hold good
against the temptation to punish IL for
the trouble it has caused.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
Fast Mail From Chicago.

CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-Tomorrow morn
ing the Chicago, Milwaukee u st. Paul
ad will shorten the fast mail service
between Chicago & St. Paul and Mime
apoIis. The train will leave here at a.:
m. and will make the run to. st. Paul
in eleven hours and to Minneapolis
in eleven hours and forty minutes.
One baggage car and three mail cars
will be used until Portage, Wis, is
reached At that point one passenger
coach will be added TO the train. On
arriving at st. Paul. direct connection
will be made for Duluth and the train
will reach that city at 6 D. IN. The
running time between here and Mil
waukee will be one hour and forty five
niinuteS
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10

coal, salaries, lubricating oils, manufac-
turing.
But so autocratic IS the Council Of
Six" that these minor committees have
become little more than board of recon-
mendatiOn. The men who compose
them are magnates in the commercial
world, whose names are synonyms for
wealth and power. but their rule only
has weight when the cachet of the ALL
powerful executive committee is placed
upon it.
Ii is an autocracy of marvellous power.
The guardian of its secrets Is a sable at
tendant, whose position is the most re-
sponsible that could be imagined. He
does not, indeed, hear the discussions
OF the council. and only when its men,
bers have risen does he come forward.
His duty is then to clean the table, the
floors and the waste baskets of all the
papers, reports and notes that have ac-
cumulated, and to burn every scrap.
Thus not single council secret ever
leaks out, nor is there possibility of
any line of policy being divulged pre-
maturely.
A Mighty Property.
What the twist of finger of either
Rockefeller moves this way or that is d
property so vast rs to be well nigh un-
thinkable. The "trust." dissolved three
years ago III consequence of legal pro-
ceedings in the state of Ohio, despite
the efforts of Joseph II. Choate (and Mr..
Choate, by the way, is said to have re-
ceived $4,000 simply for arguing the
case), was capitalized at $50, 100000. Its
stock. even in liquidation. sells now at
about ITO, the value of the various plants
thus being S150.G00,000. The combine"
has no debts, all obligations TO the last
never carried single line of insurance.
Its property consists of nineteen huge
re6neries under its direct control in
this country, besides others abroad.
Sixteen out of the nineteen are on the
famous "pipe line," which, despite the
interest on the capital invested. has re-
duced the cost OF transportation I'M
measurably, and has many times more
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-10
Skinped With $1,000.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. "a hand
some Englishman named A. Harcourt
has suddenly disappeared from the
city, carrying with him $1,000 worth of
diamonds from two trusting jeWelry
firms. He also forged several checks.
He recently came from New York with
strong letters of recommendation from
Eastern houses and secured position
with tine Hall Safe and Lock company.
He was successful as a business man,
and on his letters secured two lois of
diamonds from different jewelers. to
carry as side line. With these, VAL
ued at 5000, he has disappeared and
detectives are locking for MIN every
where.