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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
EARLY BALL BIRDS
LOCAL PLAYERS ARE ON THE
- GROUND EARLY THIS
SPRING.
IT. PAUL READY AT DUBUQUE.
PRACTICE WILL BEGIN THERE
DURING THE WEEK JUST
10 COME.
SOME GOOD BASE BALL YARNS
Told of Players and Fans I'm One
Part of the Country or An
other.

For the first time on record, Twin
City professional ball players have be-
gun practice on their native heath be-
fore the 1st of April. The ST Paul
players, 1t is true, have not yet act
ually reported, except that Tony Null
lane is here, but the Minneapolis bat
ters are gathering. Werden and Lally
were the first of the old hands to re-
spond to Walter Wilmot's call Of duty
With them We're young Carney, whom
Barnes threw down last year; Harry
Howe, the Chaska phenomenon of 1885,
and another youngster named Thomp-
son. Wilmot himself put on a uniform
and the whole party flocked into the
sand lot of last summer, which at this
stage of the game looks great deal
like Chisago county did during the
glacial era. icy and hummocky.
The st. Paul park. for that matter
is about as bad. What with fam
beaux, and sky rockets, and skating
races that did not come off, it is a
scene of debris and desolation. 1t is
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
SCHALLER is AHEAD
LATEST SCORES IN THE HASTINGS
BOWLING TOURNEY AT FO-
LEY'S ALLEYS,
DAZZLE is THE SECOND MAN,
WHILE HAISLEY. CLAYTOR AND
MCMILLAN ARE TIED FOR
THIRD PLACE.
DAZZLE is THE SECOND MAN
FOUR NIGHTS, PLAY REMAIN.
And Then the Second Series of This
Interesting Tournament VIII
BE of History.

In consequence Of the absence of
Hergies and Friend, only twelve games
could be played last night in the tour
nament for the Hastings medal and
the championship at American ten
pins Schaller won both games, and the
leader, Haisley, lost his two. Thus they
changed places. Dahle is second, and
Haisley, Claytor and Mcmillan a tie
for third place. This week games are
scheduled for Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday, in order to give those play
ers that are back in games a chance
to make up, SO as to finish all together
the first part of the following week.
Below is a table of the evenings games
with strikes, spares and breaks in full:
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

The regular bowling scores of the week
were as follows:
On Foley's alleys:
Observation-Disclosures, 1911: Shugard 2O4: KIM
ball, 176; Meff, 154; Finehout. 147: James.
LBS; Ehrmanntraut, 154: Thone. 1877; Kaye
172: Macarthur. 169: Denney. 167.
st. Pauls-Schaller.2 .226; Beaubesn, 227 Do
ran. .21s; Mample. o26; Van Bergen, 245; Fales
1874: Hastings. 254; Martin. 16S Clayton 16i.
At Gruber's alley:
Seven Corners club-Abernit %: Glover.
203; B. Rex. 1885, Geise 1856: Kamp. 1s5;
Sweeney. 175: Casey, 1858; Bowler l67; Fad
16S; Smith. 156; Helm, 14S; Thera 145; Gaert-
ner, 133.
"Nonpariels 1S9; wilkins. 16s;
Burke, 100; Brown. 1888: O'Rourke, 49, Ed
wards 149; Jones. 145: Cohenstein 49,
On Weller & Sons alleys:
The Kegels--P. Yerrnes 22S: w PETER 1873;
NJ. Torrance. 1872; w. McBosche. 1873; N. Wei
ler 179; c. Gerber. 17S.
Interurbans-J. Yost ia; A. Kampmann,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
wheel and ches. Club.

The st. Paul Wheel and Chess club. CONS
posed SO far Of prominent West side youngl
men, was organized last Wednesday evening 4
with about twenty members. Officers wera'
elected as follows: President H. c. johnson !;
secretary. w. j. Doran; treasurer, Hans Mad4
son. The next meeting will be held next
Wednesday evening at the club rooms. cor.
ner State and Concord streets. 2 I
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
UNIVERSITY ATHLETE BUSY.
Great Field Day Expected-Base BaIl
and Football.

and Football.
Athletic interests are booming at the uni
Verslty these days, and ever since the snow
ielt the campus would-be record breakers
nave been out training Especially in the line
OF field and track work has enthusiasm been
raised Dad" Edward Moulton, the far-fam-
ed trainer has been stirring up the boys.
ana the result is that large number have
sishlned their Intention to go in for the
games. The prospect is good for the best field
DAY ever held at the institution. Base ball is
to receive considerable attention. Games will
be played this season with all the smaller
SCHOOLS OF the state, and a game may be ar
ranged with Madison.
Manager Putnam, of the football team is
at Madison trying to complete ARRANGEMENTS
for a game with Madison next year. The
questions to be agreed upon are the amount
to be paid for the game and the place Min
nesota wants 200 to go to Madison and
would as soon play at Milwaukee as at Mad
tson.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
90 Per Cent

OF the travel Is expected via the 500
Line to Minnesota and North Dakota,
east Of Oakes and Minot, on March
31st, only $4.00 one way, and on April
sth $500 round trip. Apply early at 39S
Robert ST.. Hotel Ryan.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
TILLIE THE WINNER.
The Contest for Women Riders at
Detroit Closed

DETROIT, Mich. March 2s.-Tillie An
derson. OF Chicago, maintained her prestige
tonight by winning the eighteen hour fe-
male bike race, which has been in progress
in the Auditorium all the week. Jennie
Brown, Of Syracuse finished second May
Allen, of Liverpool, third. Pear Keyes, Of
Rochester, and Lizzie Williams, of Omaha
quit the track at the end of the seventeeth
hour. to give Anderson, Brown and Allen a
change TO make better time. Tillie Ander-
son broke her former record For eighteen
hours by eleven miles. Brown lowered the
same record by nine miles and Allen by
six miles. The prizes of the FIVE leaders
range from $3.50 to $50, the others who COW
cred over 200 miles receiving salary and
expenses.
Chess Match
between W. Steinitz and j. Schifers began
in the Kommerz club at Rustow on the
River Don, Russia, on March T. Steinitz
won the first game, a Ruy Lopez, which
was opened by Schifers after forty-one
moves. The second game, a Guico Piano,
was also won by Steinitz in forty-one moves.
WflmOt Nine Is Alive.
The Wilmots have organized for the coming
season and want to meet clubs whose members
are not over eighteen. The team consists OF
Rau, Dolan. Kelly, Connolly, Martholar F.
Kaufman. Hoppe. H. c. Kaufman, 36 East
Elizabeth street, s manager.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

144; w. Gordon, 14S; G. Haungs, 2l2; H. Lo-
gan, 16S; P. Hermes, lsS; d. Napier, 10; ~.
Weller, 1s4; p. Fisher. 16S; F. Reed l63; c.
Gerber, 1872; j. Kyll. 1913; Charles Gerber, 1851
J. Hickey SO.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

singular how Ice that never was good
enough for a skating race after the
.21st Of January will cling with such
~tenacity to the frozen ground
H indianapolis and Detroit are having
trouble with the Sabbath observance
people. In the former town the minis
ters are holding mass meetings and
stirring up a great scandal over the
prospect Of Sunday base ball, while
in Detroit Vanderbeck's only show
seems to be to play at Mt. Clemens,
several miles out of the city, and the
people of that suburb are almost as
finicky about it as they are in Detroit
proper.
In spite of the fact that the Western
league rules prohibit a team from
carrying more than fourteen men on
the salary list, Kansas City has enough
for two complete teams, and today will
split and play an exhibition game.
They are called the Regulars and the
Colts for convenience only,as Bill Klus-
man, needless to say, is a colt in no
other sense. The lineup will be:
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

King. Dd11lelS, Sa1idnan barnett,
Weithoff and Nichols will all take
turn at pitching, SO that the public
can get an opportunity to size all the
players up in one game.
TONY MULLANE'S START.
Count Antonio Mullane will con-
tinue in the box for Comiskey's St
Paul team, as Jack Glasscock will cap
tain the nine" says Frank Bancroft
TONY has a fondness for the initial
bag. and would like to forsake the
central position, but that arm of his
Is too powerful yet-powerful in the
Western league, anyway. The story
of how Tony came into prominence is
interesting, and has never been pub
iished. 1t was In Akron, many years
Rgo, that the count made his debut
He was poor, out of luck, and out of
friends when he struck the Summit
City of Ohio, but he had an idea that
he could pitch ball. Jack Nable was
the regular pitcher Of the Akron team
and soon after Tony had been given a
trial the Chicago team ran down from
Cleveland for an exhibition game.
''Nagle's arm psHs sore, he said, and
30, with great ySse tance, Antonio was
put in the box for the Akrons. Big
sam Wise, Charley Morton and several
other old-timers were on the Akron
Team at that time, but they found
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

The meeting of the COLUMBUS Cycle club
will not be held until Thursday next.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Contrary to report Jack Pickett will cap
tain the ST. Paul team this season. instead
of Jack Glassocck. Comiskey is satisfied
with the work of Pickett.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Boston people are patting themselves on
the back because the Beaneaters secured
Willie Mains to help out in the box. He
pitched three innings against the University
of Virginia Saturday. and not semblance OF
a hit was made off his delivery. There will
be a howl about June l when Willie begins
IN fall down
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
GOLD WAS GOOD.

Gold, in the meanwhile. was stick
Ing to his work most greedily, and,
calling upon the dark blues to hit her
up again. The Oxford boat Tapped up
to and passed the Cambridge craft.
Up to that point the race had been as
pretty one as ever was pulled. 1t
was nip and tuck, Itktle being to choose
between the two crews. both laying
down to it in grand style and with
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

1t is claimed now that the reason Boston
did not win the pennant last season was be-
cause Mccarthy and Nash were at outs, and
that there was clique to keep the young
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Manager Manning, OF Kansas City, has
conceived plan of arranging the flags
which will fly from the grand stand. In the
center will be the stars and stripes, 10X14 in
size, and on each side along the peak of
the stand will be flags bearing the names
of the eight cities of the league SKIP in size,
the same as at Milwaukee park.
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CQ9uQltieS

Seven persons were killed by a train
wreck in Kansas.
A welcome rain quenched the fires
threatening Nestoria, Humboldt and
other towns in Northern Michigan.
Edna Farson, five years old, fell in
New York and her teeth cut her tongue
almost in two. She bled to death.
A freight train on the Burlington
road crashed into a passenger train Mt
Krum, Iowa. Flagman Henry Mahr
Of Burlington, was crushed to death,
but Ito one else was injured.
Earnest Archer, aged twenty-four, of
LaGrange, Ind, accidentally shot him.
self while out hunting. He was show
ing his companion some marks on 4
tree with the butt of his gun, when it
exploded.
\ brief telegram received at San
Francisco by William Olson, the YES
sci owner. contains the announcement
that three vessels were lost ut the
same time, within q short distance OF
each other, in the Gulf of California,
near Alfalfa.
While experimenting the raising of
Il Democratic flag pole at Norris, ILL.,,
Harry II. Baldwin was knocked of the
crosstree by the topmast falling upon
him. He fell to the ground, a distance
of ninety feet, and was instantly
killed.
Several men started in a skiff recent
ly to cross the river from Canton, Mo-,
where they had been attending IL polit-
ical meeting. When about fifty feet
from the Illinois side the boat upset
and John Reed, George Withrow and
John Sims were drowned.
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accident" swindlcrs.

The extension of electric traction has
brought upon the scene a particularly
dangerous and offensive swarm of ras-
Gals who prey upon the street railroad
companies by bogus claims for personal
injuries received in real or imaginary
accidents. They are fostered by a tribe
of disreputable attorneys, who make a
practice of communicating with all
persons whom they can identify as
concerned in any street railway mis-
hap, and often without instructions,
issue process against the companies.
Some Of these legal sharks have a regu.
lar staff of detectives, who prowl about
the depots and termini Of the lines
on the lookout for cases. False wit
nesses are easily procured, and juries
are usually liberal in the matter Of
damages, the greater portion of which
are swallowed up in the attorneys
COSTS" The evil has become so great
that the street railway press is suggest
ing the formation of a mutual protec-
ton society of some kind. 1t is pro-
posed to keep a register of the names Of
claimants, and interchange information
as to persons who. it is more than sus-
pected, make a trade Of the business
and travel from city to city for the
purpose.
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The London Chronicle says that 4
learns from a good source that the
Y and Lord Salisbury have agreed
upon a policy for the ultimate deposi.
ton of the sultan.
Consent has been given L. the Chi
nese government for the building Of a
branch Of the Silesian railway across
North Manchuria with the presumption
clause giving China the right to pur.
chase the branch after thirty years.
The crisis in Crete is by no means
ended. The entire population of the
interior of the island is still under
arms, and the leaders have announced
that they will renew hostilities unless
the Turkish garrisons are withdrawn
nom Crete.
A second explosion occurred at Bulu-
wayo, H'atabeleland, a large powder
magazine being destroyed. Five white
persons We're killed and many serious.
ly injured. Scores of katfirs camping
in the vicinity of the powder maya
zinc were crushed to death by the fly.
ing fragments Of the huge rocks.
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The Nations Capital.

The president has appointed Fl. A.
Emery Interpreter ut the ii,ited States
consulate at Che Foo, China.
The controller has appointed William
A. Douglass of Buffalo, n. u. receiver
Of the First National Bank OF Spring
vile, n. Y.
The Indian bureau has received II tel
cgram from Tusgogec, Ind. Ter, where
election trouble was feared, saying
that the counting of votes is progress
| ing and that everything is quiet.
The president has appointed William
IL. White Of Virginia to be United
States attorney for the Eastern district
Of Virginia to succeed Francis X. Las
sitter, no took too active Il part IN poll
tics.
The merchant marine of the United
States on June 30, 1896, according to
the completed tabulation of the bureau
of navigation, comprised 222,O2S vessels
of 4,7O3, $50 gross tons, a decrease OF
$50 vessels, but an increase Of GS,OUO
tons ovcr the previous year.
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EVIL DOinES.

Miss Laura Bendolan cimmitted sui
eide at Fremont, Neb. A love affair is
thought to have caused the act.
Josiah J. White, a New York broker,
is under arrest, charged with breach of
trust.
Walter NJ. Castle of. San Francisco,
whose family is n Of the most prom
inent in the city, is under arrest in
London, charged with shoplifting.
George Ward, aged 81, of East Sasi-
nav, Mich, is missing at New Orleans,
and the police fear he has met with
foul play. He came to this city to at
tend the carnival.
The mysterious johnson" charged
by Alfred Bercham with being the prin-
cipal in q tobacco smuggling scheme
uncovered in Detroit on June . last,
was arrested by Special Agent o. L. L.
Wood and taken to Detroit.
A young woman of Arkoe. Mo-, has
been arrested for the murder of Mrs.
John Baumley near that place recently.
1t is said that she vas in love with Mr..
Baumley, and is supposed to have MUIR
dered the woman out Of Jealousy and
so that she could marry her husband.
The young lady confessed.
Two years ago Constable Fred Win.
mani incurred the ill-will of the uni.
versity students. He heard they intend.
cd to kill him and went crazy over it.
To-day he struck his brother John OH
the head with a stick of stove wood
crushing the skull. He has fled and the
brother is dying.
Asa G. Cutter, a former trusted en-
ploye of the Hannah & Lay company
al Traverse City, Mich, has been ar.
rested, charged with making threats
against the life of Perry Hannah, Sc.
nior member Of the company, and
Traverse City's millionaire merchant
and founder Of the city. Cutter pleaded
rot guilty.
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People in Print.

Henry Clay, aged seventy-four, an
officer in the Union army during the
late war, and a scholar OF some ccleb
rity, died at his home in Elkhart, Ind.
Col Robert 2. Todhunter, n Of the
oldest and wealthiest breeders OF trOt-
ting horses, is dead at Lexington, Ky.
He bred many famous horses.
Miss Virginia Fair denies absolutely
that she is to marry II. Maitland Ker-
scy of New York. The report OF their
engagement comes as a rumor from
the Eastern metropolis, with the addi-
ton that Kersey is nov endcavoring
to secure Il papal dispensation.
]. NJ. Barrie, the well known Scotch
novelist, accompanied by his wife, ar
rived in New York city on the Campo
MIA. They will go Immediately to Can
ada as the guests of Lady Aberdeen.
Mr.. Barrie has come to America for a
siX-weeks' rest.
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May supersede Dancing.

Ballroom cycling is talked about.
Should this gain ground what a revolu-
ton it will bring about in dress! "She
wore a wreath Of roses the night when
first we met" also a knickerbocker suit
in white corduroy velvet, trimmed with
1eweled passementerie and golden
leather boots. A Joy indeed to the
mother of several daughters will be
the cycling ball, as she can take all her
girls and see them all wheeling around
with the fairest and wealthiest, rivals
they know, and attracting quite as
much notice, maybe. How immensely
pceferable to the melancholy dance,
with it's limited number Of couples and
many young walfowers. -
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patue sccn In New York.

Cleveland, Oct. 14.-Word has been
received in this city concerning the
whereabouts of David II. Paige, who
has been for a long time a fugitive in
South America, owing to paper forged
with the name of the late millionaire,
John Huntington, and used in trying
to back up Paige's big New York aque-
duct contract. Paige has been seen i'll
New York within the last month and
may be there. A Cleveland man who
gives this information is personally
conversant with the actions and in
tentions of the holders of the forged
papers. He says that while many of
the notes have been bought in by
agents of Paige. others are held by
men who will have an Indictment re-
turned in Ohio against the fugitive the
moment they know where to lay hands
on him.
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Mr.. Talbot,s Position.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. IA. = A. II. Tai
bot, law partner of William J. Bryan,
to-day gave the following signed
statement to the Associated Press:
81 see that it is stated in the press re-
ports that I have :bolted' Mr.. Bryan,
my law partner, now candidate for
president on the Democratic ticket. 1
have always been and am now a Re-
publican, but no man has a greater
admiration OF higher regard for MI.
Bryan than l have. His honesty, in.
tegrity and patriotism cannot be ques-
toned. l have not bolted Mr.. Bryan,
and any statement to that effect is un-
true.''
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CzAn1NA WILL HELP.
Tier influence to he Used for the Ar
meninnH.

Tier influence to he Used for the Ar
meninnH.
London, Oct. 14.-The czarina, pre-
vious to leaving Balmoral castle Tor
France. received a delegation OF IA
borers who called upon her to ask Tor
her support for the suffering Arme nas
rs. The audience, however, was
Granted on the condition that nothing
Should be said about it until her maj.
esty left England. The delegation it
nov appears, urged the ezarin a to 40 40
sultan, and her majesty replied that,
so far, she had interfered but little II
politics. although she was ready to do
anything in her power to help bring
about a crusade against the existing
conditions at Constantinople, adding:
"A more womanly or Christian action
than helping to alleviate the suffering
of the poor Armenians is hardly con-
ceivable. Rest assured of my heart
felt interest III the cause you have at
heart" a.-..
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FILIBUSTERS ACTIVE.
They Keep ON Leaving Florlda
With Great Regularity.

They Keep on Leaving Florida
With Great Regularity.
Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 14.-NotWith-
standing reports to the contrary. no
actual information has been received
here that the alleged tilibustering tug
Dauntless has succeeded in landing its
cargo on Cuban shores, although it has
had time to do so since it left Palm
Beach last Friday night. The Daunt-
less when she left here, it is believed,
undoubtedly started on another fill
clustering expedition and government
officials in Jacksonville say they will
make it hot for the little boat when it
returns. The cruiser New York has
Just returned off the st. Johns bar.
and resumes its vigilance over fill
busterers. The revenue cutters Mer-
rill and Boutwell, are in the port M
the Winona is in the vicinity of Bis
cayne bay, but with all their vigilance
the Cubans manage to send tilibuster-
ing craft to Cuba at intervals.
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Her Hubby Wa. There Instead

Her Hubby Was There InsteNd.
Washington, Oct. IA. Gwynn +.
Tompkins, a sporting writer and turf
man. who has gained some %notoriety
by the disappearance Of his Wife, a
writer under the non de plume Of
Helen Dare, and Her subsequent di-
vorce, followed by her recent marriage
to a California turfman named Nor
man Brough, was shot and painfully,
though not seriously, wounded in West
Washington to-day by John Collins, a
district government employe. 1t is
said that a note from Tompkins ask
ing Collins wife to meet him to-day,
fell into the hands of her husband.
who met Tompkins at the appointed
hour and used his revolver Oh him.
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STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO,

LUCAS SIS.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of +. j.
Cheney L. Co., doing business in the City of
Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case of catarrh that. cannot be cured by
the use of Halls Cntarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
nv presence this 9th day of December, A.
D. 1856. q.
(Seal) A. w: GLEASON:
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous.
surfaces of the system. Send for testi-
monials, free.
il. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
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Send for

Minneapolis, Oct. IA. = For the last
four days the Nicollet National bank
has not been able to open its big vault
wherein are the cash assets Of the
bank, the money to carry on it's rou-
tine daily business having to come
institution. Locksmiths and safe-lock
experts galore have been at work on
the n~ew-fangled combinations but all
to no purpose. 1t is thought that one
of the automatic bars has fallen out
of place. and it may be necessary to
adopt very radical measures to gain
this morning that the vault would
have to be cut into.
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A brave act was performed by three
labore7s in New York a few days ago.
A companion fell into the river ut q
point where the sea wall is high and
unapproachable by a swimmer. They
promptly formed themselves into a hu-
man rope and the foremost was let
down head first to the water. where he
seized the drowning man. and in that
position sustained him until a boat ar
rived.