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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
MINORITY ON ROADS.
Objections Stated to the Majority
Pacific Refunding Bill.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The minority
report on the Pacific railroad bill was sub
mitted to the house today by Representative
Hubbard, of Missouri. 1t deals exhaustively
with the financial conditions of the COM
panies concerned in the proposed funding
plan. 1t argues that the majority bill should
not be adopted for three reasons: First,
the committee has not learned enough of the
affairs of the debtor companies to be able
to tell the house what it is best to do. Sec
ond, the companies made offers before the
committee and are undoubtedly ready to con-
cede terms very much better for the gov
ernment than those embodied in the BILL
Third the propositions in the bill are neither
good nor safe for the government,
Assuming that the sinking fund provided
in the majority bill would pay the Union Pa
cific debt in eighty-one years, the report as
serts that the company would pay $1O0, 900 900
IN principal and interest, while under the
company's first offer 1t would have paid in
interest during the same time on s95. .Ooo 0oO
4 per cent bonds, $113, ZOO, ,0O0 The offer the
committee rejected is said to be s4s. 900 600
better than the bill, under which. II is held
the Union Pacific company will practically
never pay the government dollar in money
The additional argument is made against
the committee bill that it is in conflict with
the prlnclple or the antitrust law and will
Greats " Two Oh the greatest railroad monopo-
lies In the country; that it is contrary IN tbe
constitution ofCalifornia and that of Nebraska
which requires that stock be issued for values
only. 1t is said that the Union Pacific re-
organization committee. having assembled
tnree-1ourths of the first mortgage bonds is
pressing for foreclosure which would bar
the governments secondary lien. To prevent
tn1s' the Morgan-Brice bill is recommended.
ne report concludes that the secretary of
the interior having held the povernr,on+
claim is good, it should not be discounted
over 20 per cent --'e0
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
GOT DRUNK OPPORTUNITY.
Spree of an Insurance Adjuster ThnG
Saved His Company a Fortune. \

Spree of an Insurance Adjuster ThnG
Saved His Company a Fortune. 4
New York Herald.
81 have no patience" observed well%
known insurance man yesterday, with people,
who keep insisting that there's no such thing
as luck. Chance rules the world and the in-i
surance business. Have you ever noticed thati
the most promising risks are the first to mulctI
a company, whereas the old rookeries that
ought to have burned to cinders twice inl
every twenty-four hours stand out against thel
shocks of ill fortune? Well in my busnessI
adjusters who go about the country looking
over risks assumed by the various agents of
an insurance company are presumed to have al
soft thing, and so they have, so far as the
travelling money and the extras go. They live,
high, but their employers hold them to a.
strict accountability, and whenever loss oc-1
ours they get all the blame. Now, there's
where the majesty of luck comes in. cer,,
tain New York company sent fellow know
down to Jacksonville, Fla, couple of years
ago to look over the risks there. He got drunk
on the train and had been steadily inebriated
for twelve days when met him in Jackson.
vile hotel. He explained his mission to me-
and asked what he had done. Of course, he
hadn't even been near the agent.
Look here said I, you'd better go and
see your IldH, uTunk as you are. 10 10 LH0
Office anyway and cancel something just to let
the home Office know you are alive
'I didn't see my friend for several days
after that, and when I did encounter him in
the barroom of the hotel he was drunker,
than ever. took him outside and asked him
If he had followed my advice.
g Why, yes, ne responded, quickly. went
down there and Cancelled every blankety blank
risk on the books
'I tried to reason with him, but he would
not listen. 1 besought him. if he valued his
place, to let me straighten things out, but he
only leered at me and returned to his LIQUOR.
Well, sir, that very night Jacksonville had
one of the greatest fires in her history. and
my drunken friends company was saved by
my drunken friends idiocy from loss Of
s1S00OO. They didn't do a thing to him but
give him a fat job and present him with a
magnificent gold repeater, in which was In
scribed the glorious history of his shrewdness.
And yet l suppose some people wouldn't cali
that dumb luck
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
RAILROADS WILL TRY TO SCALP
THE SCALPERS INSTEAD OF
VICE VERSA.
MILEAGE BUREAU DEVISED,
WHICH. 1T is THOUGHT, WILL CIR
CUMVENT THE RED-kNIVED
GENTRY.
NO MORE 1NTERoHANGEs NOW.
Withdrawal of This Feature One of
the Most Important Changes
Made So Far.

June 1, instead of May 1, is the date set
when the mileage bureau of the Western
roads, which is expected to knock from under
the ticket scalpers the last plank that the
railroads assert is keeping them from going
to the wall and closing up their Offices, will
go into effect.
The arrangement of the details of the new
plan is in the hands of a committee, which
will report at meeting which is set down
for Friday in Chicago. The postponement
of the date of effect is the result of imprac-
ticability of adjusting the final arrangements
in time, and the scapers are hailing the
prospect of additional thirty days in which
to think up new ways to outwit the railroads
with ghoulish glee.
Some of the features of the new mileage
bureau will be very much in the nature of
surprise to the scalping fraternity in the
Twin Cities and this territory generally, as
1t provides not only for the refunding of mile
age book covers by the chairman, but for
wholesale tests of the local markets and out
going trains, including 1000 and 2OO0-mile
books and general oversight of all adverts-
ing mileage issued by the roads in the West
ern Passenger association.
The brokers, who are said to be rather wor-
ried about the new plan, are talking about
combining on the 1,OOO-mile books, and hand
ling nothing else, but the railroads have in
cluded these books in the bureau, and the
books will be signature-punched descriptive
books.
Agents and train conductors will be re-
quired to strictly enforce the restrictions
placed around this transportation, and
penalty clause provides that wherever such
books are taken up either in brokers' Offices
on trains, the road issuing the same will
be required to refund the amount Of the un-
used portion of the book. Advertising mile
age found on the market the road must re-
deem at full value.
So extensive are the tests of the market to
be that the chairman expects to keep pretty
close tab on the mileage sale daily, and it
appears if the railroads have made a
hard game for the scalpers to beat. At all
events, the action of the Eastern roads in
Withdrawing the interchangeable mileage,
and of the Western lines in establishing a
mileage bureau, complete will all the trim
mugs, is likely to cause a deal of anxiety
among the scalpers and brokers in Chicago,
St Louis, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and other large cities in the West, where the
festive Schemers abound.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
WOMEN BARRED OUT.
jackson Trial Evidence Not Fit for
Their Ears. 1

NEWPORT, KY. April 27.-Not only was,
every available seat in the court room filed
today, but standing in narrow passages was
permitted. Ten witnesses were examineds
ffty-two up to the present time. Much time
was devoted to debating by counsel Many
questions during the day offered by the conn.,
monwealth were ruled out. The number OF
objections by the defense overruled was too,
great to enumerate. Twice during the day.
the jury was required to retire during the
debate For the first time during the trial.
the court gave notice to women to retire be~
cause the letters of Will Wood to Scott jack,
son were not proper for them to hear. tt
has been the policy of the prosecution to,
bring out the bloody garments of the dead
girl every day since the beginning of the
trial, and today was no exception. The testi+,
mony of today's witnesses was largely to,
strengthen links in the chain that has been
already forged. !
The defense brought VIII Wood on the,
stand to interrogate him about two letterS
written by him to Scott jackson. Here il,
was that the women were required to retire.
The letters are too coarse to be printed. :.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
Wheat Opened Steady, Reacted and
Closed Lower

NEW YORK, April 27.-Flour-Receipts,
16,3OO bbls; exports, 4S,5OO bbls; lower. Rye
flour dull Buckwheat dull. Cornmeal
quiet. Rye quiet. Barley steady. Barley
malt nominal. Wheat-Receipts, 22,20O bu;
exports. 5000 bu; No. hard, 749s@75%c
afoat I. o.. b.; options opened steady, but
sold off under big worlds shipments, closing
&c lower on April and 1sGAc lower on other
positions; No. red April, closed at 727c;
May, 7O9s@7l4c, closed at 70Hc. Corn-Re-
ceipts, 215,500 bu; exports, 43,9OO bu; No. 2,
371sc; options closed unchanged; April closed
at 57Ac; May, S5ss s@35%c, closed at 35%c.
Oats-Receipts, 81, 500 bu; exports, IS, 800 bu;
No. 2, 251sc; options closed at 24Ac; May dull
Hops quiet. Hides steady. Leather steady.
Wool quiet Beef steady. Cut meats firm
Lard lower. Pork easy. Rosin firm. Tur-
pentine steady. Rice firm. Molasses steady.
Lard steady. Tin steady. Speter quiet
Cottonseed oil slow. Coffee quiet; options
opened steady and closed firm, with prices
unchanged to 105points net advance; May,
1275Q12. soc; September. n.45@11. .55c; spot
h1o quiet; No. z, 43A91Sc. Sugar firm;
refined quiet.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Duluth ana Superior Grain.

DULUTH, Mimi, April 27.-wheat- ]
hard. cash, 64c; April, 64c; May, 64c;' July,
Soc; No. northern, cash, 624c; April, 62s4 c;
May, 62%c bid; June, 6S3sc; July, 69a4c; No.
8, $3.50 to $3.50; rejected, 55ssc to $3.50; to
arrive, No. hard 64c; No. northern, 623l C;
rye, SEC; No oats, 19c; No. oats, 1S1kc;
flax, S91sc. Receipts-Wheat, 103, ,976 bu; oats
4,796 bu; rye. $50 bu; barley, 16,029 bu; fax
4,745 bu. Shipments-Oats, 1,079 blu. Follow
ing is a statement of the stock of grain in
store at Duluth for the week ended Satur-
No. 1 northern, S,221, ,s1s; No. q northern,
1,756,443; No. spring, 429, ,265; no grade,
S,OS5; rejected and condemned, 3442S; spe-
cial bin, 1,554, SOB; total wheat in store, l.,
CSC, ,042 bu; decreased during the week, 372, ,9S9;
corn in store, LAG, 500; oats in store, 1000, ,346
rye in store 232, ,S46; barley in store, 549, 1863;
fax seed in store 2,335, 800.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
MINNEAPOLIS MARKETS.
Large Speculative Trade, Price,
Ruling Strong.

There was quite large trade in specula-
tive wheat at around Gle for the July deliv-
cry. The general sentiment favored higher
prices owing to more rains in the Northwest
still further delaying seeding operations The
cash wheat market a little mixed. All
kinds of prices were being paid for spot stuff,
while the market for the wheat to arrive,
which is now the important part of the cash
wheat market, was practically dead.
Receipts of wheat were 800 cars; shipments
of wheat were 40 cars; Duluth receipts of
wheat was 100 cars. Flour output week end
ing April IS, 264,S65 bbls.
Following are closing quotations: No. 1
hard, on track, 61ssc; No. l northern, April,
tember closed at 60%c.
Cash sales, by sample and otherwise, in
cluded the following: cars No. l northern
Gle; cars No. 1 northern, 60%c; 700 bu No.
1 northern, to arrive, 61c; cars No. north
ern, 60c; car No. northern, 59c; car No.
2 northern, to arrive, Coo; cars No. 3, 59c;
rejected, / lb off, 59c; car rejected. 1k lb.
off, bin burned, 5Sc; car No oats, seedy
TIC; car No. oats, tic; car No. white
oats, poor, TIC; cars No. northern,
choice, 611kc.
FLOUREFirst patents are quoted at $3.50
$50: second patents, $S@3.10; first clears
81. IS per bbl second clears, $2@2.1O; red dog
-four is in slow demand at $S.oo per Ton. fiour
HAY-Coarse and OF color, S4g5 per ton !;
medium, s6@e.5O; good to fancy. S7Qs; timo-
thy. sS. 5009.50. Receipts. 1H TONS
CORN-No. yellow, 26@261Ac; No. 8, Esq
251hc. receipts car; shipped, none. ,.a
oATs-No. 8 white, 17%91Sc; No. j. ITO
17slc. Receipts, 10 cars; shipped, 2.
RARLEY-No. 8, 2702Sc; low grades, 23@
25c. Receipts, car; shipped, none.
RYE|No 2 rye nominally 31%c. Receipts,
mi RIITTER - Creameries = Extra faultless
goods. 13@131ac; frsts. lacking in flavor. al
most perfect, 111k@121kc; creameries. seconds,
1Oc; creameries, thirds. 7@sc limitations flrsts,
Extra, perfect goods 121z@13c; firsts, lacking
in flavor, sweet. 1Oc; seconds. 6@Sc; thirds,
5@sc; roll and print 5@sc Ladles.Extra.
&C. frsts, Sc; seconds, sc; packing stocK' oc'
grease butter, clean, 21k@3c.
EGGS-Strictly fresh, S1a@S34c; seconds, 6
@7c cases returned, 15c less.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
AGAIN AT ODDS.
Western and Central Passenger Men
Do Not Agree.

western and Centr0l FaSsenger Men
Do Not Agree.
CHICAGO, April 27.-There is trouble be-
tween the lines of the central passenger
committee and those of the Western Passen-
ger association. The Western men have for
long time contended that the Eastern roads
did not divide the business from their ter
ritory in an equitable manner, and some
of the Western roads have felt much ag
grieved over the small amount of business
they have received. They have found it,
they say, a matter of self-preservation to
keep their orders in the territory of the East
ern roads, as, if they did not do so, they
would not get any competitive business from
that part of the country. The central passen-
ger committee has now discovered these or
ders, and it's wrath is at a white heat 1t
has demanded of the Western Passenger as
sociation that it forbid it's members to put
any orders in the territory of the Eastern
roads. The matter has been docketed for
the next meeting of the Western Passenger
association. Some of the Western roads de-
clare in advance however, that the OBJ
noXious orders will not come out of the
Eastern territory until some better arrange
ment for the distribution of business is
made by the central passenger committee
than the one it now has.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28

The following were the closing prices of
other stocks reported by the Associated
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
olivia Loses County Seat.

MORTON, Mimi, April 27.-The records of
Renville county are all being moved back
from Olivia to Beaver Falls on account of
the decision of the supreme court declaring
against Olivia on the county seat removal
question and denying a rehearing of the
case. Olivia is probably turned down" for
ever as factor in the county seat question,
and when the proper time comes RenyiIle
Bird Island and Morton are likely to be the
contesting towns. This will not be for near
ly four years, however Real estate and
other property in Olivia has deprecated.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Drink at PiIlsbury

oWATONNA, April 27.-This morning three
members Of the senior class were expeIled
from Pillsbury academy for violation of the
RUE OF the school relative to liquor drinking.
fourth student was given the alternative
Oh expulsion or reduction to ranks and to
uriil with the awkward squad for the re-
mainder of the term. He chose tha Ia+tar
All the young men were high in the miIitarr
department of the school. They bought the
whisky at prominent restaurant here.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
LOCALS WILL GO.
Twin City Men VIII Attend the
Frisco Meeting.

Al intimated in this column day or two
ago, Chairman Caldwell, of the Transconti-
mental association, has issued call for the
next meeting, copies of which were received in
st. Paul yesterday The gathering, which is
conceded to be one of Importance, will be held
in San Francisco, as predicted, on May 13
when a full attendance of all member line
representatives is expected
This is the first meeting to be held on the
Pacific slope for three years, and the reason
for the change is said to have been the wish
OF the Eastern officials to have present at the
meeting several of the men from the far West
who have not found it possible to attend the
last few meetings. A majority of the score of
lines interested are west of the Missouri river
and it is supposed that the meeting will be
a big one.
Several matters on the docket are of more
than ordinary Importance.
Officials of the three lines in the Twin Cities
will go West to attend the meeting
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Talk About Flour Receipts.

meeting of the Chicago-St. Paul lines
interested in the lake business, together with
representatives of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, was held yesterday after
noon in the office of Freight Agent Clark of
the Omaha. That gentleman stated to a
G o b reporter that the meeting was for
the purpose of discussing a style of stamp
which the lines would adopt in accordance
with a rule of the Trunk lines association
for use on receipts used in connection with
the shipping of -four.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Real Estate Transfers.

Iron Works Land Co to Railway Build
ing and Loan Ass. part Of Iron Works
Plat ........ ...... ........ ...........s5 .115
w T McMurran and wire to J Dew
ereux- Jr, 1t II, blk 1, Weide's
Fifth add ...................... ........ $50
Globe Building and Loan Society to
Mary Wilson, 1t g. blk II, West st
Paul and 1 Syn add No 1.......... 450
Moses Bixler and wife to L A Bixler,
It Is, blk SO, Ramaley Park........... 100
Moses Bixler and wife to Sarah E Blk
ler, 1t T. blk 25 Ramaley Park. ...... 100
Margaret Timmons to j Hawkins,
1t 7, Brandt's rearr blk 38, West
St Paul Proper :...........:........... $500
Rose Corrigan and husband to Mary
NJ Keogh, Its and 5, blk g. Searls
Julia r Homes to Bridget Holmes, und
u 1-3 Its 16 and Il, blk 23, Mackub-
in and Marshall's add. ................. $3.50
Transfers. s; consideration su, ,567
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28

supt F. E. Rice, of the Pullman Palace
Car company, returned yesterday morning
from an extended trip in the West.
o. Fl: Dingman, agent of the Great North
ern at Winnipeg, was among the outside rail-
road men in It. Saul yesterday
General Passenger and Ticket Agent Fred
H. Lord of the Chicago Great Western road
was in St. Paul yesterday.
Receiver E. Fl. McHenry and Counsel c.
w. Bum, of the Northern Pacific were in
Milwaukee yesterday where the foreclosure
suit Of the Northern Pacific company was up
in the United States circuit court.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Spur to ST. Cloud Quarry.

Great Northern officials are making a sur
vey for a route for spur from st. Cloud to
a quarry in the west side Of the town.
A week or more ago committee of St.
Cloud men urged upon General Manager
Warren the necessity Of spur about ! 600
feet long to the quarry. The matter was re-
ferred to Division Superintendent Britton,
who will report to the general manager upon
the latter's return from the West. The pro-
posed spur is to cost about $1,500.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
MtnneaporIs horse Market.

Barrett & Zimmerman report: Four car
loads of farm stock received from Iowa Sun
day morning, and several large consign-
ments of general purpose horses and drivers
received this morning from Southern Min
nesota There is an upward tendency In
prices upon all classes of horses. Repre-
sentative sales
W.T.. Price
1 pair farm mares, four and five
years, sound 2So0 Sloo
pair drivers, FIVE years, sound,
1 pair team horses six and seven
years, service sound. ............. 1920 1870
1 gray horse, six years, service
so horses. 500 to i,6OO lbs, three to twelve
years old, sound, and service sound, SIS to
S125 a head.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
"TRANsH ROAD RIVALRY.
1t Lends Happy ROmances to Cur
rent Literature

The rivalry between the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern roads over the matter of
fast time to the Pacific slopevis In measure
responsible for the following story, which is
somewhat absurd, but is none the less unique:
Last week 1t was reported that a Great North
ern train had struck a pig which was
amhlfng along the track, and had literally
hurled the porker over the freight house at
EEleraldo. Northern Pacific partisan heard
the tale and then said That's nothing to
what happened on the Northern Pacific yes
terday. The train coming down from Win
nipeg ran over a pig at Gilby The train was
running so fast that all but the last car
ran over the animal and cut it in two be-
fore it tried to move The front half of the
pig raised up, and being caught by brake
beam, was carried nearly half mile down
the track before it fell off. Well, sir, you
might not believe it, but the front end of that
pig just ran back half mile to where the
hind end was.''
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Free and ComfortabIe.

Transfers, s; consideration
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
North Dakota Takes the Albert Lea

The delegation of North Dakota politicians
who will represent that state in the national
Republican convention at st. Louis have de-
cided on the Minneapolis & st. Louis as their
official route, and have accordingly booked
themselves and their friends via it's line to
travel. OF the local bodies going to st.
Louis, the Union Veterans league will also
take the Minneapolis G st. Louis.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
After His Recreant Wife.

SIt cal TO the Globe. y
ST. CLOUD, Minn.. April 27--CharIes Muir
ply, who has been in the city for the
past few days from st. Paul. where he is
employed as motorman. looking for clues
OF the whereabouts of his missing wife. has
discovered that she eloped from here last
week with Charles Lee. who deserted wife
and two children. They were traced as far
as St. Paul:
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Chicago.

CHICAGO, April 27.-Cattle-on basis Of
$3.4O@4.2O for common to strictly choice lotsl
with bulk of sales at $3.60@4.10; cows and
ones bringing IS. Hogs-Common to choice;i
$325@3.5O packing lots. SS.45Q3.50; ehoics'
mixed, S3.65; light weights, $3.5GQS:SO. Sheep,
Lambs $3.50@4.75, chiefly at $3.90q4. .65ji
common sheep, $325@3.65. Receipts-Cattles
5000; hogs, a, COO; sheep, Il, 900.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Sale of Village bonds.

Special to the Globe.
PRESTON MIMI, April 27-Eighteen
thousand dollars of village bonds water and
electric light, have been sold to N w. Har-
ris C Co., of Chicago. They paid premium
OF S636 for them. The next best bid was
$4c8.6O premium by the st. Paul Fire and
Marine Insurance company. The bid of the
First National bank, of Portage, Wis, was
S4So premium. Fourteen bids were received
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, April 27.-Cattle- Receipts,
1000; shipments 200; Texas steers, 81 500
3.65; Texas cows, 81 .90@3. 65; beef steers SS.10
feeders, 81 .5O93 10; bulls, $1.90Q3. Hogs-Re-
ceipts. $500; shipments, 600; heavy, $SQ9;S
packers and mixed, SO 20@3 50; lights, So 30
@3 371s; Workers, So 35Q3. .S71A; pigs, SGD
3.271b. Sheep-Receipts, 5,400; shipments
none; lambs, So. .2O@S7O; muttons, 2.2Oq3.5O.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet, unchanged. Wheat-No. Q spring.
625sc; No. spring, 6234c; No. 2 red, $3.50
66%c. Corn-No g., 2sAc Oats-No. e. i9Hc;
No. 2 white, Zoe; No. 8 white, 1917 @20hc
Rye-Nor S5A@37c.; Barleys=No. 2, nom
inal; No. 8, f. O.. b.. 2S1s G36c. Flax Seed
No. 1, 92c. Timothy Seed-Prime, SO 25. Pork
Mess. per Dbl, sS171k@S.25. Lard-Per 100
lbs, S47214@4.75. Ribs-Short sides Qoose)
$.10G4.20. Shoulders-Dry salted (boxed),
412@4ssc. Sldes-Short clear (boxed), 40
45sc. Whisky-Distillers' finished goods, per
gal, s1.22. Sugars-Cut loaf, unchanged Re-
ceipts-Flour, 5000 bbls; wheat, 5000 bu;
bu; barley, 21,00O bu. Shipments Flour, 26,-
600 bbls; wheat $4,000 bu; corn, 273, 900 bu;
oats, $4,000 bu; rye, 5000 bu; barley, 49,
600 bu. On the produce exchange today the
dairies. 9@1Sc Cheese quiet, 91A@101kc. Eggs,
91a0D10c.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
New york Minins stocks.
New York Money.

NEW YORK. April 27.-Money on call easy
at 21a@3 per cent; last loan, 2, closed 21a per
cent. Sterling exchange firm and higher,
with actual business in bankers bills at
s4.SS% for demand and $4.S7%@4.S8 for sixty
days. Posted rates, $4.S81zQ4. 1914. CONNER
cial bills, Sassy. Bar silver, Csc. Silver GER
tifcates 68A @6S2c.