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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
QUESTIONED MENDENHALL.
Lawyers Attempt to Confuse the
Defendant.

DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 13-This
morning Mendenhall continued to tes-
tify. He probably never went to the
school that he did not see Miss Hardy
and Miss Haire, though his business
was mainly with Miss Hardy. Mr..
Washburn's first question when the
witness was turned over to him, was
Indifferent enough. Then he came
down to particulars. The st. Louis
trip in 1880 was just after his mother
and sister and a. consumptive friend
had visited them two months. Did not
was then unimpaired. He did advise
her to see a doctor and wrote to
friends in ST. Louis.
Referring to Mendenhall's charge
that Mrs. .Mendenhall had once refused
to entertain some railroad men, Wash
burn asked, was the large railroad
party in 1869 or 1870, and was not it in
both years? There were parties in
both years and 1858, too. Was not Mrs.
Craig staying at your house at the
time? Did not DIR. Melander take his
meals there and didn't the Wood
bridges live with you? Witness re-
membered all those people had been
living with him, but could not remem-
her whether they were all there at one
time He didn't remember they were
ever without a servant. When his
brother Aaron was prevented by Mrs
Mendenhan from coming in 1889, he
had just closed his business. Wash
burn tried to make witness admit 1t
was first in 1891 that Mrs. Mendenhall
demanded he should give up his sister.
He was quite positive it was in 1857 or
1856 first.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
CHAIRMAN HARRITY CALLS THE
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COM
MITTEE.
WASHINGTON, JANUARY IS
TIME AND PLACE OF THE Ma
TIONAL CONVENTION WILL
BE CHOSEN.
COLLINS HELD-ovER MOTION.
Resolution Restricting the Con-
yentiOn AccOmm OdatiOns to
Be Disposed OF.

.LADELPHIA, Dec. 13.-W. F.
.Ity, chairman of the Democratic
/ onal committee, this afternoon
eedested the secretary of the COM
mittee to notify the members there
of to assemble in Washington on
Jan. 16 next for the purpose of Sc
lecting the time and place for hold
ing the next Democratic national
convention. Chairman Harrity has
received letters from commercial
bodies in fifty cities urging the ma
tional committee to select late date
for the convention. Business people
contend that long campaign unset
ties trade, and they therefore want
the political battle made as short as
possible. 1t is believed that a date
not later than the middle of July will
be selected.
The committee is to meet in Wash
ington at II a. m. The resolution Of
fered by Gen. P. A. Collins, Of Massa-
chusettS, in the Democratic national
convention of 1892, requesting the
Democratic national committee to
provide accommodations only for the
delegates, the alternates, the MEM
bers of the Democratic national COM
mittee and the members of the press,
will be acted upon. The resolution
is now in the hands of a subcommit-
tee of the national committee, COM
posed of William F. F.Harrity, of Penn
sylvania, who is chairman of the
committee; Bradley B. Smalley, of
Vermont; Arthur P. German, of
Maryland; Ben T. Gable, of Illinois,
and Edward G. Wall, of Wisconsin.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
HOWLING TEMPEST SWEEPING
THE COAST AND DAMAGING
VESSELS.
SHIPPING STORM-BOUND.
NO NEWS OF THE wHEREAROUrrA
OF PRESIDENT CLEVE-
LAND.
THE WEATHER BITTERLY COLn
Steamers Overdue at New York
and Other POrts-ROugh Elk.
periences at Sea.

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 13.-The low.
er section of the city was badly flood
ed today, the result of the terrific
northwest gales reigning in this re-
gion for the past week. The weather
bureau here has issued warnings to
detain all shippingin in the harbor. Only
two vessels cleared today. Many
small boats have gone adrift along
the Elizabeth river and its branches.
A fierce wind storm swept over this
section about 9 o'clock tonight, do
ing great damage throughout the
suburbs. On the main streets signs
were blown down and in the resi-
dence section window blinds were
torn off. The temperature has gone
down several degrees, and the wealth.
er is very bitter.
No news can be had of President
Cleveland. The telegraph wires are
down between here and Hatteras,
and no vessels have arrived from the
Carolina sounds, owing TO the heavy
gales.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
WORSE AND WORSE.
Official Reports OF the Butcheries
Are Being Compared,

CONSTANTINOPLE Dec. 13.-At
the meeting of the ambassadors the
reports received from Armenia at the
di1Ierent embassies were compared and
thoroughly discussed, with the view of
enabling the different representatives
to compile full reports on the subject
for the use of their governments. 1t is
believed that if the result OF this con-
ference is published it will show an un&
paralleled state of affairs. The mis-
cry and distress in Armenia is said TO
be more severe than the most vivid re-
ports have made out and the number
of people massacred is said to be great-
er than anybody here really believed.
Letters received today from AIeppo say
that there is serious fear there OF a
massacre of the Christians unless the
powers intervene promptly to prevent
1t. News was also received today from
Zeitoun that the Turkish troops from
Marash are surrounding the ArmenI-
ans, cutting off their lines of commu-
nication and preventing them from OBJ
tanning reinforcementS, provisions, and
the supplies of arms and ammunition
which are understood to have been for
Warded to them from many parts of
Turkey. 1t is believed that the Arme-
mans will be starved into submission,
although their friends say they have
provisions enough stored in the town
to last them until spring and that the
Turks will have to pass the winter Ill
the snow around Zeitoun.
A Turkish official who is familiar
with the situation at Zeitoun said to-
day that the Armenians there were in
clined to surrender to the Turks, but
they distrusted the promises of the lat
ter that their lives would be spared It
they laid down their arms. s
1zZet Bey, the first chamberlain of
the sultan and recently his great Ia
vorite, has been replaced by Hadjialia
Bey and Emit Bey at the palace, but
the last named was arrested in conse-
quence of the charges brought against.
him by Said Pasha. The British vice.
consuls at Van and Sivas, who have
been here for some time past await
ing their eXequateurS, started on
Wednesday for their posts without
them.
The panic Of yesterday at Stanboul,
Galata and Pera subsided, after two
hours of excitement, without serious
results. 1t was started in Stamboul by
a personal encounter between two Ar
menians, during which one shot was
fired, and the Christians of the three
places were stricken with fear by ru-
mors that massacre was in progress.
The fears disappeared when they learn
ed that nothing of the kind occurred.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
QUAY,s REFORM PLANK.
Pennsylvania Republicans Re-
OF Push 1t,

Pennsylvania Republicans Re-
OF Push 1t.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 13.-At
the meeting of the executive committee
of the Republican state committee it
was agreed that Senator Quay's reform
plank should be submitted to the state
committee, endorsed by the state con-
vention and passed through the legis--
lature, and should also be demanded of
the national convention. AS result
of the conference it is said that Sen
ator Cameron will probably head the
list of delegates -at-large and be chair
man of the Pennsylvania delegation.
1t was also agreed that an informal
recommendation be made that the dis
trict delegates be elected prior to the
23d of April, and be assembled at
Harrisburg ON that day, and if pos
sible an agreement be made by which
the vote of Pennsylvania shall be cast
solidly for the candidate of her choice
on first ballot. If the agreement is
concluded at Harrisburg a resolution
will probaly be passed by the state con-
vention instructing the eight delegates
at large accordingly. If the conflicting
opinions cannot be reconciled, the
further consideration Of the question
will probably be postponed until the
delegation meets at st. Louis and the
solid vote of the Pennsylvania dele
cation will probably be cast on first
ballot for Pennsylvania.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14

liberately killed. Aslanian says that
the prisoners were attacked with rifle
butts and bayonets by the soldiers, un-
der the orders of officers. This contin-
ued for forty-eight hours. He believes
Z that 300 people were killed and 800
s wounded in that time. Women who
were weeping and imploring at the
gates for permission to see their hus-
bands and sons were roughly repulsed
by soldiers. Aslanian was in irons and
catechised regarding his supposed as
sociates who had come from America
for revolutionary purposes. On plead
ing ignorance of this he was tortured
and beaten, causing great agony. This
was repeated on eleven different oc-
casions. He was placed in solitary con-
finement for a fortnight and other
prisoners were similarly treated. When
the delegates from the embassies came
to inspect the prison they displayed
the marks of their beating. But" AS
lanian continued, fearing vengeance,
I said they were due to rheumatism
and begged for my release. Four days
later was liberated
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
AMERICAN SOCIETY WILL UN-
DERTAKE RELIEF WORK IN
ASIA MINOR.
URGENT CALL FOR FUNDS
MILLIONS ARE REQUIRED TO RE-
LIEVE THE WIDESPREAD 3
DISTRESS.
AN AWFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS
Official Accounts State That the
Conditions Are Even Worse
Than Reported.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. - The,
cided to accept the duty of distrib-
uting the relief funds for the Armen-
ian sufferers, and has issued the fol-
lowing statement:
Owing to the unanimous and urgent
appeals from the friends of humanity,
representing nearly all of the people Of
this country, the American National
Red Cross has decided that it must ac-
cept the sacred trust of endeavoring to
relieve starving Armenians in Asia
Minor. According to conservative eSti-
mates there are 350,000 utterly desti-
tute people in that country, who will
have to be assisted six or eight months
(until the next harveSD. Fully realiz-
ing the difficulties and dangers to be
met, the Red Cross will start for .Tur-
key as soon as sufficient funds are
placed at its disposal, or guaranteed, to
insure success.
Funds may be sent to Miss Clara
Barton, president and treasurer of the
American National Red Cross, Wash
ington, D. c. Authorized agents to re-
ceive funds and materials will be pub
lished in a few days. The Red Cross
also suggests that goods, grain and
other material may be sent by char
tered steamer.
American National Red Cross. 3
l. u.
The society has had this plan of re-
lief under consideration for some time
but, it is stated, was reluctant to as
sumo the dangers and responsibilities
involved. Miss Barton feels that it
will be the most extensive relief work
ever undertaken. Letters and tele-
grams have come from all directions
urging that the work be undertaken
Rev. F. D. Green, the writer on Turk
ish questions, the heads of mission
ary and relief bodies, editors of lead
ing Christian papers, as we'll as public
men and political individuals, have
asked that the Red Cross assume the
duties of distributing the funds.
MILLIONS ARE NEEDED.
The information reaching the soci-
sources in Turkey, places the number
of destitute between 100000 and 500 600,
mostly women and children. Such
widespread want, Miss Barton says.
can be met only by relief funds rum
ming into the millions. 1t is estimated
that the cost of relief per capita will
be much heavier than in the case of
the Johnstown and Sea Island suffers
ers, owing to the inaccessibility of the
sufferers. The Red Cross party, in
Guiding Miss Barton, will leave i'm
mediately after being assured of a
sufficient sum to carry forward the
work. The start must be made ait an
early day, as it will take five weeks
to get to the distressed district, and
the demands of the suffering people
are urgent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
New Boats for Ore Trade.

DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 13.-Facts re.
garding the contracts let by Rookie
feller and the Minnesota Iron company
for new vessels are as follows:
Twelve steel ships are to be built ON
the individual account Of John D.
Rockefeller and two for the Mime
sofa Iron company. The Rockefeller
fleet will consist of seven steamers and
five tow barges, while the Minnesota
company's vessels will consist of
steamer and a tow barge. One whale
back and barge will be built here, the
other vessels at points down the lake.
In a season of navigation, these four
teen ships can carry 100000 gross tons
of freight. They are all intended for
the Duluth-Lake Erie ore trade, and
the Rockefeller boats will ply eXclu-
sively to this port, while the other two
will go to Two Harbors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
VIA BOSTON.
Grain Shippers May Change Their
SeabOard Terminal.

SeabOard Terminal.
BOSTON, Mass, Dec 13.-The nu-
merous reports in circulation at the
chamber of commerce, custom house
and business circles that the princi-
pal grain exporters of Chicago, st.
Paul and Duluth were anxious to
secure Boston as their seaboard ter
minal have been investigated by the
Standard. Floyd Smith, Western
shipper, confirms the report, with the
qualification that if Boston improves
her harbor and provides dockage fa-
cilities, go per cent of the export
grain will go from this port. He says
that, while New York rates are rea-
sonable, poor service has been MAIN
tanned for two or three years past,
to which Western shippers object.
Transportation by rail to Boston
makes little difference when eighteen
hours by fast steamers to Liverpool
can be gained. E. E. Leland, of
Chicago, says the grain trade will
be taken from New York and divid-
ed between Newport News and
Montreal unless Boston secures it.
A Western syndicate will endeavor
to erect elevators here and have
freighters run to Liverpool, London
and Hamburg.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
MILWAUKEE WOMAN DEMANDS
THE CUSTODY OF HER
CHILD.
SEEKS REDRESS IN COURT
QUEER CASE OF KIDNAPPING
WITH a MOTHER AS PRIN-
CIPAL ACTOR.
TRAIN MANS PREDICAMENT.
Robbed While He Slept and Left
Penniless at Wi
mona.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 13.-On
petition of Mrs. Lizzie G. Danforth,
who recently secured a divorce from
her husband, Court Commissioner
Harper today ordered Dr. Harry w.
Danforth, one of the best known
physicians in the city, and his moth
er, Mrs. Nancy A. Danforth, to show
cause tomorrow why the son of the
petitioner should not be placed in the
custody of the mother. She alleges
that the child has been retained by
the doctor and his mother in their eX-
elusive custody since July IS, 1895,
and that they refuse to allow her
to visit him. Further charges that
the boy has been taken to Merriam
Park, Mimi, for the purpose of es-
tranging him from his mother, and
that she writes to him every week,
but she believes the letters are in
tercepted by her husband and his
mother, and that the letters never
reach the boy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
SALES TO DRUGGISTS ONLY.
Wisconsin Law Restricting th'
Trade i'm Patent Medicines.

Wisconsin Law Restricting the
Trade in Patent Medicines.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 1S.-The
state board of pharmacy today gave
notice of it's purpose to enforce law
of the state to which no attention has
been paid in the past, requiring gen.
eral merchants who sell patent medi-
cines to print the formula thereof on
the bottles and to sell only medicines
prepared by registered pharmacists re-
siding in Wisconsin. This will have
the effect to cause manufacturers of
patent medicines outside of the state
to withdraw from business, excepting
as regards sales to drug stores. The
board states that prosecutions will be
begun in cases reported, but that there
will be no interference with the legiti-
mate sale of patent medicines, and that
the new move is made with the special
view of preventing the sale of adul-
terated drugs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
Lumber for ST. PauI.

WASHBURN, Wis, Dec. 13.-in the
circuit court in this city yesterday the
criminal case in which Nick Flynn
was charged with the murder of Will
lam Sullivan at Iron River last June,
came up for final settlement. Three
motions were made and argued, one to
set aside the verdict and for a new
trial, one in arrest of judgment, and
one to certify the case to the supreme
court, but all three were denied end
the prisoner was sentenced to fourteen
years in the states prison.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
JARvIs-CoNKLIN ASSETS.
All Are Sold to the New Company
for $7O2.OOO.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-In compli-
ance with the order of Judge La
combe, the judicial sale of the assets
of the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage
Trust company took place at the
real estate exchange in this city
today. The assets consisted of bills
receivable, mortgages on property
located in Missouri, Kansas, Oregon,
Arizona and other states West and
South. The assets, which were sold
in lots, realized $7O2, 2,525, the pur-
chaser being the North American
Trust company, of which Samuel M.
Jarvis, formerly the president of the
Jarvis-Conklin company, is the pres
ident. This sale is practically re-
organization Of the old company.
The new company, which is capital
lied with $250,O0O, will issue stock
for $702, ,525, which is the amount bid
for the buying in of the assets today.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
HURLEY WIDE OPEN.
Three Score of Indictments Most
Iy Against Inmates of Dens.


ASHLAND, Wis, Dec. 13.-Hurley's
grand jury has broken the record, re-
turning twenty-seven indictments for
the arrest of siXty-seven persons. A
summary of the indictments follows:
J. ]. Defer, chairman of the county
board, indicted for malfeasance in Of
fee; Charles LIE Clair, Ed O'Neill, alias
Mack, Chris Strong, Robert Sewell,
Joseph Getzall, Al Spencer, John Will
Jams, Bert Cranda1l and Charles Ross,
indicted for being keepers Of houses of
ill-fame. Fifty persons, men and wo-
men, were indicted for being inmates
of such houses. Six persons were in
dicted for being proprietors of gamb-
ling houses, the notorious LIE Claire
being on the list. The grand jury was
in session for twelve days. Attorney
Sleight, of Ashland, represented Iron
county in the fight and will help to
prosecute the three score victims of
the law. A number of arrests were
made last night and most of the rest
made today. 1t is likely that Judge
Parish will call a special term of court
in February or March to try the cases.
The investigation showed that Hurley
is wide OPEN" Some think more so
than it was during the boom days of
1889. when it was the scandal OF Amer
ipa
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
TARIFF QUESTIONS.
Quaker Changers Submit Four to
the Point.


the Point.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Dec. 19.-The
Pennsylvania state grange at its final
session today passed a resolution re-
questing the American Protective
Tariff league, of New York, and the
Home Market club, of Boston, to
answer the following questions:
First-Can a tariff on imports direct
ly or indirectly protect the home mar
kel prices of agricultural staples as
long as the surplus is sold for export
and the export and home price Of
these are the same?
Second-If it cannot, must not this
unprotected industry pay for the cost
of protection of the protected indus
tries?
Thirds not such a system of pro-
lection injuriously unjust and inequi-
table to the producers of agricultural
staples?
Fourth-Will not bounty on the ex-
ports of agricultural staples for the
protection of their prices in the home
market be just and equitable so long as
protection by a tariff on imports is in
operation?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
Flynn Sentenced.

DULUTH, Dec. 13.-The feature of
the lumber business at Duluth within
the past ten days has been an increas-
ed demand for the local product at in
terror points. Mitchell & Mcclure and
the B. B. Richards Lumber company
have just sold 100000 feet to St. Paul
parties to be shipped out by rail DUR
ing the winter, nearly all of it going
direct to the st. Paul yards of the pur-
chasers. Shipments have already Les
gun.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
NO PLACE FOR INGERSOLL.
Students Want Him but the Fa-
Guilty Objects.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Dec. 13.-The
senior law class of the state uni
versity a few days ago appointed a
committee to extend an invitation to
Col. R. G. Ingersoll to deliver an ad-
dress commencement week. The fac
ulty brought great pressure to bear
on the students to secure with
drawal of the invitation.
"We are awaiting developments"
said the chairman of the committee
this afternoon, "and though we ex-
pect to send the invitation, we have
not yet done So"
1t was given out by the university
faculty today, unoficially, that In
gersol1 will not be permitted to have
a place on the university commence
ment programme.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
DEATH-DEALING BLASTS.
Four Men Surely Dead and Four
Others Missing

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 13.-By a
premature explosion of powder and
dynamite four men were killed at La
Folette and four others are missing,
whose bodies are being searched for in
the mass of earth and rocks knocked
down by the explosion. The names of
the first four are:
ANDREW BALES, aged twenty
NEAL DABNEY, aged twenty-five,
La Toilette
JOHN WEBB, aged twenty-one, Mid
dleSboro, KY.
- PRICE, Jellico, Tenn.
The explosion occurred on the works
of the La Toilette railroad, near La
Toilette. Three kegs of blasting pow
der. had been placed in a sixteen-foot
hole, and four sticks of dynamite were
added to the deathly charge. After
waiting at safe distance fourteen min
utes for the blast to go off, the men
were ordered to readjust the fuse. Just
as they. re-entered the hole, however,
the terrific explosion occurred, and the
earth and stone for many yards around
were dislodged and thrown into a con-
glomerate mass with the unfortunate
victims
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
STATUS OF THE NEGRO.
Adopt an Address
to the Country.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 13.-An ad-
dress to the country was adopted by
the Afro-American conference this
afternoon. 1t says that the status
of the colored race in the United
States bears close analogy to that
of denisens more than to the hon.
orable and indefensible rights of nat
i've born citizenship, and that in most
states of the Union citizenship is
farce, which, in default of absolute
protection, should be exchanged for
the panoply of some more paternal
form of government. A plan of per-
manent organization was presented
and finally adopted at tonight's ses-
sion. The name selected Is the
National Federation of Colored
Men" D. A,Straker, of Detroit, was
elected president.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-14
NOT GUILTY OF MURDER.
End of n Trial of u Woman Be-
longing to n wealthy Family.

WELLSBORO, Pa. Dec. 1S.-Mrs.
Charlotte Howell was tonight acquitted
of the murder of Miss Libbie Knapp.
Mrs. Howell is the wife of Chauncev
Howell, of Tioga, and a member Ga
well-known New York family. Her
two brothers, Dutton by name, are
among the wealthiest merchants of the
latter city. The commonwealth
charged that the prisoner had poisoned
Miss Knapp because of jealousy. There
is no question that the girl was muir
dered, but nothing positive has been
brought to fasten the crime on any one