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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
GAIN KILLED THEM
FIVE MEN SHOT DEAD AT A
KENTUCKY POKER
PARTY,
THE MURDERER ESCAPES.
BLOODY BATTLE IN A SMALL
ROOM IN A DISTIL-
LERY.
VICTIMS LAID OUT IN A ROW
Each of Them Had a Bullet
Through His Head or His
Heart.

CINCINNATI, o., Sept. 2O.-A spe-
c1al from Mckinney, KY, says: News
of one of the most terrific battles
was reported today from Adams &
Trowbridge's distillery, in Pulaski
county, seventeen miles south of this
place. Lee Mckinney says that last
night six men, one of them named
Cain, of Mintonville, engaged in a
game of poker in little 12x12 room
at the distillery. A dispute over the
game arose and shooting began.
Cain alone escaped, and is credited
with killing all the others. Most of
the slain were either shot through
the head or heart Cain, it is re-
ported, is evading arrest, though the
officers are hot on his trail The
five dead men lie side by side in
the meal room of the distillery await
ing Identification and the order of
friends.
The Commercial Gazette having
wired to it's Lexington correspond
ent for a verification of the above
story, received the following reply:
wv. R. GOoch wires me from Nc
Kinney that Lee Mckinney came di-
rect from the scene of the killing,
saying he saw five men dead. They
are William A. Goodloe, a promi-
nent lawyer of Danville, KY; two
Swope brothers, live stock dealers
of Boyle county, and two men whose
names he could not learn"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21

ward and forward. 'Three," and the
men change their hold from the neck
to the body of the bottle, and bang,
/ bang, bang, bang, go the other ends
on the board. 1t looks, and sounds, as
If every bottle must be smashed to
pieces AS matter of fact few break.
The wire masks prevent these frofn
flying in the mems faces.
When the wine has been lying long
enough, and all the thick part has
gathered against the cork Cfor the bot
: ties are tipped little to allow of this),
the cork Is taken out and the wine in
the neck of the bottle containing the
sediment flies out. The bottles are
then handed on to man, who, with a
very ingenious machine by which sew
eral bottles can be worked at once,
adds to the wine a little sweet liqueur,
to replace the sugar which has shot
out in the sediment For the driest
champagne only l per cent of liqueur
Is added, for the sweetest II per cent.
The bottles then go to the corker, who,
with another ingenious little machine,
drives in tremendous corks as large
round as a child's fist. He then passes
them to the wirer, who, with a third
machine, wires down the corks at the
rate of 100 an hour. The bottles are
then given necklace of gold or silver
foil, and the champagne is finished.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
WILKES VS.. WILKES.
The Defendant Once Shot a ST.
Paul Man.

The Defendant Once Shot a st.
Paul Man.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Mrs. Paul
l.. Wilkes, who is known in theat-
rical circles as Virginia Paul, has
brought suit against Paul l.. Wilkes
in the city court of Brooklyn for alb
solute divorce. Mrs. Wilkes was Miss
Rita Hone, daughter of the late
Philip Hone, a wealthy liquor dealer.
She married Archibald Mackey, a
society man, and in 1892 secured a
divorce from his in Sioux Falls on
the ground of cruelty. Two days
afterward she married Wilkes, whom
she had met in Sioux Falls, and who
was the son of eX-Supreme Judge
William A. Wilkes, of Sioux Falls.
A few days after the wedding Wilkes
shot and almost killed a ST. Paul
dry goods salesman whose name was
George Shepherd. The cause of the
shooting was an insulting remark
which Shepherd was alleged to have
made to Mrs Wilkes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkes spent the fol-
lowing season in Europe. Wilkes
had dramatic ability, and while in
London he took the leading comedy
part, Capt. Redmond, in Jim the
Penman," at the Princess theater.
On their return to New York young
Wilkes entered the office of his
father-in-law, Philip Hone. Mr..
Wilkes said to reporter: 1.-The
course which my wife has taken is.
l am confident, due to the influence
OF her family. 1 am well aware
that | am not entirely blameless.
Our married life was most happy
until after our return to New York"
Mrs. Wilkes was seen at the Acad-
emy OF Music, where she is playing
in the Sporting Duchess" She
said; This suit is brought by rea-
son Of my husbands infidelity. NV
family has had absoltely nothing to
rdo with my decision"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
WHERE is MUNCEYs
Disappearance Is Mystifying the
Police.

The police have been asked to assist
in a search for C. E. Muncey, young
man who arrived in the city Tuesday
from Fargo, with his two months
bride. Mr. and Mrs. Muncey were on
their way to Wisconsin. to visit rela-
tives Upon their arrival they took
rooms at IA Fourth street south.
Wednesday evening Muncey told his
wife that he was going to a K. of P.
lodge meeting with a friend, who is
employed in South Minneapolis bar
rel factory. Since that time nothing
has been seen of him. There is no do
mestic trouble, according to the wife.
Muncey had ON his person $500 in
cash, all their available funds, and
also the checks for their two trunks,
which were at the union depot. Thurs
day might the trunks were opened and
the contents found intact All of Mrs.
Muncey's clothes were there, and if
his disappearance was voluntary he
only took with him the clothes he
wore.
Thursday Mrs. Muncey reported the
affair to Superintendent Of Police
Smith, and she secured money enough
from the city to pay her way to her
Wisconsin relatives, leaving last night.
She is about forty years of age, and a
prepossessing matronly lady, while her
missing husband was much younger,
being about twenty-five or thirty years
of age. The wife fears foul play.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
The Contagion of Ideas.

Popular Science Monthly.
AInrmatlon, pure and simple, with
out reasoning and without proof, is
oone or the surest means of planting
an idea In the popular mind. The
more concise it is, the more free from
every appearance of proofs and dem
onStratiOn, the more authority it has.
The religious books and the codes of
all ages have always proceeded by
!, Simple affirmation Statesmen called
upon to defend any political cause,
ana manufacturers advertising their
2 goods, know what lit is worth. Yet
1t has no real influence, except it is
constantly repeated, and. so far as
possible, in the same terms. Napoleon
said that repetition was the only Sc
rious figure in rhetoric. BY repeti-
ton, an affirmation is incrusted in the
minds of hearers till they at last ac-
cept 1T as demonstrated truth. What
us called the current of opinion is
sfprlned, and then the potent mech
anism of contagion comes in. Ideas
that have reached a certain stage in
fact, possess a contagious power as
intense as that of microbes. Not fear
and courage only are contagious
ideas are, too, on condition that they
are repeated often enough.
When the mechanism of contagion
has begun to work, the idea enters
upon the phase that leads to success.
Opinion, which repelled 1t at first, ends
by tolerating and then accepting it.
The idea henceforward gains a pene-
trating and subtle force which sends
1t onward, while at the same time
creating q sort of special atmosphere,
a general way Of thinking.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
N. II. CLARKE FAILURE PROM
IsES TO CAUSE ENDLESS
LITIGATION.
CREDITORS CANNOT AGREE.
ONE FACTION MUCH OPPOSED TO
THE PLAN OF SETTLEMENT
ADOPTED.
WELSH
.SH CHOOSE OFFICERS.
Rev. Daniel Elected Moderator
General News of the Mill
City.

If the creditors of N. P. Clarke who
are not disposed to join in the latest
plan OF settlement, and have their
claims assigned to Messrs. Henry F.
Brown and II. c. Akeley, carry out
their threat and institute suits, with
the view of having declared null
and void all the transfers and as
signments of property which Mr..
Clarke made during the six months
or so Immediately preceding the fail
ure, then it means an endless
amount of litigation. 1t was stated
yesterday by a prominent Minnea-
polls business man, who, while being
a considerable creditor of Clarke, be-
lieveS that the big lumberman did
a proper thing in settling with the
poor people who were depositors in
Clarke's bank at st. Cloud, that Mr..
Clarke consulted the best legal talent
in StearnS county before he took
any action in the matter, anticipat-
ing a good deal of trouble and some
opposition, perhaps, to his plans
There appears to be a pretty friendly
feeling toward Mr.. Clarke in ST.
Cloud, where the creditors were
given pretty good chance. What
trials in court may result from this
unfortunate case will in all prob
ability be tried in Stearns county,
where the conditions, at least so
far as sentiment is concerned, are de-
cidedly in favor of Clarke. AS has
already been stated, the liabilities
are about $550,000. The creditors who
are disposed to be philosophical, and
make the best of a bad job, have
signified their willingness to assign
their claims to MesSrs. Brown and
Akeley, and in that way allow the
assigneeship to continue. This sat-
isfied element among the creditors
represents probably in the neigh
borhood of $425.O00 to $450,O0 of the
liabilities. Those who are
acquiescing in this plan are not con-
cerned especially in the opposition
which the other creditors have
raised to the plan. When the claims
are assigned to Messrs. Brown and
Akeley the creditors simply take
the guarantee of those two gentle
men for 80 per cent of the claim in
one, two and four months, and then
take Mr.. Clarke's personal note for
20 per cent, which goes to. make up
the so per cent which forms the basis
OF settlement. The action of the dis
satisfied creditors will not interfere
with the rights or interests of the
other and larger class, except that in
case the fighting creditors happen
to be successful in their litigation,
they may make it difficult for Mr..
Clarke to pay the 20 per cent, for
which he is to give his personal note.
However, there is a feeling among
the majority of the creditors that
there is very little probability of the
warning creditors being successful in
the courts.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
BLO0MER ACCIDENTS.
They VIII Happen and Sometimes
Prove Rather Uncomfortable
and Annoying.
Eastern Argus

Eastern Argus.
Natives OF and visitors to Long
Island had something to talk about
Sunday. 1t was rapidly approach
ing the hour of dusk when one young
man called out to some companion on
the piazza:
Say, get on to his nfbs on the bike
He'll get a. header coming down that
hill like that"
On came the rider, and descending
the hill there was a distinctly fem
mime Shrek as a body shot over the
handle bars of the bike. This. of
course, aroused the chivalrous nature
of the boys, who naturally ran to the
scene of the wreck.
What's the matter, young feller?"
asked one of the boys, soothingly.
"Feller, nothing" the rider replied.
She remained sitting on the grass, for
it was in reality she" and the bows
beat a hasty retreat
There was great excitement, and a
crowd gathered, among them being
several ladies. There were tears in the
fair bloomerite'S eyes as she flashed a.
message with them toward the group
of three ladies that had gathered at
the scene os the mishap. 1t must have
been mental telegraphy, for the ladies
apparently understood, for they felt
in their bodices for something that
looked like pins.
turned their backs and walked away,
while the ladies surrounded the young
rider. who had not arisen from the
grass. There was short convention
among the ladies, and in a few mo-
ments a somewhat d;sarranged pair
of bloomerS were seen disappearing
over the hill toward the East End.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
SENATOR K5i6A TALKS. s1L
Year OF Plenty for North Dakota


Year of Plenty for North Dakota
Farmers.
Senator Roach. of North Dakota, is
at the West. He has been visiting
friends at st. Louis Park, and stopped
day over on his return.
I'VE are so busy securing the abund-
ant harvest up In our state just now
that we have very little time to talk
politics. l am something of farmer
and have spent the past season on my
farm in North Dakota, and I want to
say to you that l have never in my
life seen nature in so super-generous a
mood as she has been this year We
all remember the crop of 81 and that
of 81. Those We're exceptional years in
our history. And yet the product of
the soil in the entire state of North
Dakota in both of those exceptional
years, in my opinion, would not equal
two counties of the Red river valley
this year" The senator's face as
sumed a thoughtful look as he con-
tinued:
And yet the farmers, and the work
ers and business men of the West are
poor. No man of my acquaintance will
have anything in this year of abund-
ance to pay for luxuries. Our money
comes in driblets to gush Eastward
again in a f1ood-to pay interest, and
debts of all kinds which have accumu-
lated year after year during the panic
season.
There is something wrong I'M our
system of civilization, but 1 am not
wise enough to discover just what it
Is. But the outlook is better, on the
whole The DTo1ucerS feel ancOlIra oed
and all our people have their gaze
fixed on the future
"Yes, the silver sentiment is strong
in North Dakota, and it looks as
though that would be one of the issues
which will serve to reshape the lines
Of political parties in the future"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
DANIEL is MODERATOR.
welsh Presbyterians Select Him
for the irh Office

Yesterdays session of the Triennial
Assembly of the Welsh Presbyterian
church, which is holding it's national
convention at the Welsh church, corner
Oh FRANKLIN and Seventeenth avenues
south, was devoted almost exclusively
to consideration of committee reports
and the election of general officers. A
committee reported favorably on sew
eral minor changes in the church lit
urgy, which were adopted after some
discussion. The missionary committee
made most encouraging report on the
condition of the church throughout this
and other countries, and recommended
liberal appropriations for the mainte-
nance of missions. 1t was deemed ad-
visable, after q lengthy discussion, not
to extend the field for missionary work.
The officers as elected by the con-
vention for the coming three years are
as follows: Rev. John Daniel, mod
orator; Rev. John Hammond, clerk;
Rev. T. s. Griffith, of New York, treas
urer: Rev. William NJ. Jones, of Lake
Crystal, Mimi, secretary and superin-
tendent of missions; John Lewis,
Thomas Morris, T. S. Griffith, J. w.
Edwards, w. e. Jones and Robert
Williams, trustees of the missions;
Rev. R. E. Williams, Rev. H. P. How
ell, Rev. w. A. Jones, Owen r., Morris
and Robert Hughes, board Of direct
ors.
Last evening an open meeting was
held, at which short addresses were
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
Odd Question of Law

A queer instance of the contradic-
tlons of law came up in Judge Bel
uens court room yesterday in a hearing
OF the suit brought by T. M. McCord
against w. G. Lockhart, to recover
SzVO due on promissory notes. The de-
tendants answer stated that the notes
were given for gambling debt. in pav-
ment for options on the wheat marker
and he therefore asked to be relieved
from paying the notes. He also put in
counter claim for $780, which he
claimed to have lost in speculation with
McCord. When the case came up yes
terday morning the plaintiff moved a
withdrawal. but the defendant opposed
the motion, reversing the usual pro-
ceedings. The court granted the mo-
ton, on the ground that the defendant
had no grounds for recovering the
money lost, and hence the counter
claim was of no consequence.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
is GIBRALTAR IMPREGNABLE
A French Naval officer Declares
Modern Vessels Could Pass 1t,

A French Naval Officer Declares
Modern Vessels Gould Pass 1t.
Kansas City Star.
There has probably never been a
fortress which has been considered so
thoroughly impregnable as Gibraltar.
For centuries its natural resources
have been made the most of. and the
mere mention of it's name has suggest
ed unconquerable power. 1t comes like
startling announcement, therefore.
to read in the Matin that the strat tegic
Importance of the fortress has been
greatly exaggerated, and that it can
no longer be considered the key to the
Mediterranean. A French naval off,
Ger declares that it had that position
in the time of sailing vessels, but that
today, even if all the fleets of Great
Britain were assembled in the strait
and all her guns masSed on it's land
batteries, any ship, whether war YES
sells or merchantmen, whether sailing
separately or in numbers, could pass
and repasS the strait without running
any risk of being stopped on their way,
provided this were done at night. BY
day, the same writer maintains, YES
sells wishing to pass would not need to
trouble themselves at all about the
coast batteries, but only about hostile
ships at anchor in the roads or cruis-
ing in the straits.
British naval officers have been i'm
pressed with the French view of Glib
raltar's value. Naturally enough, they
cannot agree with it, though several
of them admit that the fortress is not
the stronghold it was in the days of
unarmored war vessels and short
range guns. The French expert saws
that the rock is still impregnable. so
far as capture is concerned, but that
the value of it's position is lost. The
precipitouS cliffs on the east are as for
bidding as ever. The bastions and
forts and batteries are still there, and
the summit 1,40O feet high, is naturally
point of tremendous vantage. So
long as the British continue to pro-
vide the fortress with the most modern
guns in place of the gradually aging
ordnance, such theories as this in the
Matin can be looked upon only as
novel and entertaining fancies, which
are not supported by the facts.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
AS TO WATERWAYS.
President CrOcker Has Complied
Statistical Information.

Archbishop Ireland has written Pres
ident o. A. Rowland, of Toronto, that
although he has been too ill to pre-
pare an address, as is provided in the
waterways convention programme, he
will attend and deliver something of
an impromptu order upon the topic
assigned to him. Chairman Crocker,
who, as head of the executive COM
mittee, will have considerable to do
before the convention convenes, will
leave for Cleveland tomorrow evening
Capt. John Reno is also very much
interested in this waterways project,
and he will attend the convention.
1t is probable that at least two of the
other gentlemen appointed as delegates
from Minneapolis will attend. Mr..
Crocker thinks the convention will be
large enough, and practical enough to
at least cause a very general waken-
ing up on this line. He says the con-
vention will unique stionably be very
comprehensive one, and that the re-
port of it's doings will make very val
liable literature upon this important
subject. Mr. Crocker has a good deal
in a statistical way to back him in
his movement. 1.-The great Suez canal,
about which we hear SO much, said
Mr.. Crocker yesterday, SHOWS a tom
mage of something over 100000 tons
for 1894. 1t is estimated that Lake Su-
perior alone will this year furnish a
tonnage of over 16,000,000. The partic-
ular friends and advocates of the Mic
araguan canal figure on tonnage of
6,000,0 600, while its enemies contend that
the annual tonnage is very consider
ably less than that. The friends of
the proposed Eastern canal claim 3d.
0OO, 600 tons as a years business, and
the. railroads allow two-thirds of that
at the start The tremendous business
of the great lakes can be appreciated,
perhaps, from the statement that the
tonnage which passed Detroit last year
was 26, 100000 and this year it will be
very much larger"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
MINNEAPOLIS,
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.


Rush City" will complete most
successful engagement at lheBijou with
a matinee and evening performance.
j. f. GervaiS, a window trimmer.
was sent to Rochester yesterday for
inebriety, at his own request.
q the IA farewell performance of Hoyt's
a Milk White Flag will be given
at the Grand this afternoon at Z
O'Clock sharp.
Herbert Skinner, who threatened to
assault his wife, Addie Skinner, was
yesterday morning placed in 500 bonds
to keep the peace
Frank Wood, living at 2S17 Central
avenue, was adjudged insane. His de-
menua was caused by a spell of sick
ness, which left him subject to cerebral
hemorrhageS.
There Will be a Gospel temperance
5wenty-slXth street, at $3.50 p. m. Sun
day. AdresS by Rev. George F. Wells
Ioplc; The Relation of the Church
to the Liquor Problem"
Another wife beater was rounded up
Thomas D, Bristol. His I wife is3I Alma al
complained that he had assaulted her
Thirty days straight at the workhouse
was the punishment imposed
Sherlm Hawkinson yesterday came
oyer oyer IRON lsanu county for Frank
tlSher, who has been in the county
IAN since last February. charged with
the murder of his father The grand
jury meets there next week
Mary Day, who has not been seen
IN the poEce court since her famous
encounter with Mrs. Hollenback, was
arralgned yesterday morning. on the
charge OF disorderly conduct. She de-
nlea her guilt and was held for trial
until today in S15 bail.
The street railway companv will in
sutute a regular Sunday service to
Columbia Heights to accommodate the
immense travel, beginning tomorrow
Each alternative car on the Eighth
ana Central avenue line will meet the
extension car for the reservoir
Ihe Associated Charities will hold
ITS annual meeting Monday afternoon
az o clock at the general office. Sol
second avenue south. New directors
are to be elected, the report of Sec
retary +. A. Fay is to be heard, and
other routine business is to be consid-
cred.
Judge Belden has decided that Frank
j. Kline and nine other university stu
dents must pay j. H. Bradley, a col
pred cook who fed them $3.50 for back
BOARD, Notwithstanding that the entire
ten testified on the stand that the grub
FURNISHED them ''smelled to heaven" {"
al the defendants are members of a
Greek secret society.
me management of the Grand had
intended to devote the whole of next
Meek TO the presentation of Edwin
Mllton Royle'S new play. Mexico"
put IN the past few days the requests
Tor another production of Friends
nave been so numerous that it has
been deemed advisable to divide the
week between these two strong plays.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-21
CLAIMS RIPARIAN RIGHTS.
Broker HedderIey Files Papers
Against the New Water Power

Company.
The ST. Anthony Falls Water Power
company seems to be treading on other
toes than those Of the dWellers along
the flats. A. H. Hedderley, the we'll
known broker in the Eastman block,
claims riparian rights on the west
bank of the river along the entire dis
tance covered by the operations of the
new dam, and on Thursday, through
his attorneys, he served a notice on
c. A. Piilsbury, as local representative
of the company, informing him of the
claim. 1t was thought at first that
he might take advantage of the right,
if such it proved, to obstruct the work
on the dam, but this he denies. He
was seen yesterday, and explained that
he had only served the paper to pro-
tect his property rights, as a legal
precaution. The land which he owns
is unoccupied, and has never been
plated, being classed as unimproved.
Mr.. Hedderley's statement is as fol-
lows:
'I own riparian rights on the west
bank of the river starting in from
Eleventh avenue south, and running
to short distance below the Northern
Pacific bridge. had my attorneys
serve notice on Mr.. Pillsbury, inform
ing him as to those rights, so that he
could not proceed in ignorance of
them. It cannot result to the detri-
ment of the new dam scheme at all,
for the reason that they had law
especially enacted by the last legis-
Iature giving them the right to con-
denim any property damaged. The
movement is simply a business pre-
caution on my part, to protect my
rights and not allow the company to
proceed in ignorance of them. There
Is no difference between Mr.. Pillsbury
and myself, except as to the question
of damage
No application has been made for an
injunction, and it is likely that the
matter will end in condemning the
Hedderley property, as provided by
the special enactment.