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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-07

LONDON. February s.-The government
- receiyed dispatch stating that
,ha pr,tish have won two victories over
s,ave-,raders in Central Africa. and that
fourteen Arab chiefs have been taken
nrisOrars
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II

there is a better cure FOR Coughs and
throat and Lung Troubles. Croupy Chill
dren. and Hacking Coughs than DR..
pavid's Cough Syrup We never saw II.
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,n,..,,ration of Coal Trust.

ALBANY. y. Y. February e-Assam-
,,ynan Robinsons resolution providing
soy an investigation of the alleged coal
,s,,st nv the Attorney-General has been
adonted by the Assembly by a vote OF
~ ia ~
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RoxnI Area n un. Mecting.

There was a well-attended meeting OF
Mccarthy Council. Royal Arcanum, held
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r.. ror,hcoming Me.sase

will recommend for La Grippe cousnss
and all Throat and Lung Diseases ps'
Davids Cough Syrup
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-07

Dr Bulls Cough Syrup. the old reliable,
gill cure every case OF cough or cold.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-07

To cure a cold in one day take LhAa'Ne
Bromo Qu;nlne Tablets All arusss,s ~
t,,na The money II It fails to cure. &c
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as an OF the institutions. firms. and
sndiviauais who reqr sted Mr. Stewart TO
biG for them left the determination or
price with him. he called in a sort Of ad-
vis,ry committee 20 confer with him as
10 The price al which the aggregate bid
should be made. This committee con-
sisted OF President Edward King. OF the
Union Trust Company; William A. Read.
Of Nermiiye & co. ana Ernest Thalman,
81 l.adcnbcfg. Thalman Co.
"Mr stewart. owing 10 the large num-
bsr Of interests that placed their bids
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14

for their future the trunk lines and
the metropolitan seaport. Galveston
shipped out only 34,283 bushels during
this period last year, but this year the
exports rose to 4,722, ,S4O New Orleans
sprang into first place as corn ex-
porting point, rising from 3,975,716 last
year to 2o.2o5.546 this. While not SO
marked the movement of wheat
through these ports is significant of
what may be coming. Galveston sent no
wheat abroad last year during this pc
riod, and sent out .2,57S.32 this year
while New Orleans raised her exports
from 70S,772 last year to 3,OS7.673 this
Mobile, too, is entering the lists. a
news item noting recently the arrival
there of 1872 ears of wheat for ship
ment. When, however, we come to
scan the exports of provisions, hog,
beef and dairy products, the North
ern ports hold their own, no marked In
creases in any of the Southern ports
indicating that the influences that have
reached wheat and corn have yet de-
fiected any notable quantity OF provi-
sions from their customary channel.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
WHY THE GLASS TRUST.

Recently the country was assured
that the glass trust had been ir-
retrievably shattered Later adyices
show that they had only let go so as
ito spit on their hands" and take a
flrmer grip for the retention of the
gains allowed by the German tariff
and to secure greater ones from the
coming restoration. They agreed to
put up per cent of their sales as a.
fund to be used in crushing out any
sumo to engage in making glass. pat
terning after the nail trust lust now
engaged in crushing out competi-
tors. They appointed their sales agents.
orders and sell at prices fixed by the
joint executive committee, which will
lhave plenary power to fix prices and
enforce penalties on those who com
NIT the heinous offense Of selling the
product of a factory to any one bu,
the sales agents. Mr.. Dana may point
with pride to this as an instance of
what he terms the distinguishing
features Of the development Of our
modern civilization
An organ Of the glass trade in Pitts
burg, the National Glass Budget. last
March, in one OF those careless mo-
ments when even the stiffest protec-
tionists are off guard, made a state.
ment that, in view Of this reorganiza-
ton OF the glass trust, Is very illum-
mating. It said that the price OF
domestic window glass had ITO be kept
at a point where ''the worst equipped
and poorest managed nlisfft factory
can keep its neck above water, and un-
fair prices must be squeezed out Of the
home builders, who consume annually
between 10000 and 100000 boxes of
domestic glass, In order to fritter away
q portion OF 1t In the shape OF a bonuB
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
FIVE SUNDAY FIRES.
Four Were Close Together In the
Eighth Ward.

An alarm of fire at lilo last evening
caHed the department to the residence
OF Frank A. tBarbeau, I06 Robertson
street, where an incipient blaze was
discovered in the basement, smoldering
In pile of rags and old papers. Little
damage resulted from the fire which
was extinguished without difficulty
upon the arrival Of the department
The blaze, which is supposed to have
been caused by spontaneous combus-
ton. seriously alarmed the occupants
or the house at first by the volume of
smoke caused. The merely nominal loss
was confined to the building, which was
insured for 81, 000
fire bugs were at work again early
yesterday morning and created consid-
cradle havoc in the vicinity of Western
and Como avenues Within the period
Of two hours four fires. all incendiary,
took place within an area of a few
blocks
The first alarm was turned in at :35
a. m. from box AS. The fire was in
the barn in the rear of COL Western ave
nue.. The stable, a one and a half story
affair, was owned by Joseph Stein
kamp, and was used partly as a store
house.
The department responded promptly
to the call, but found the place a mass
of flames upon its arrival. Mr.. Stein
kamps residence was saved after a
struggle, and just when the fire laddies
had won their first battle they were
startled by seeing flames 1eaping from
barn in the rear of 653 Elfelt street,
about two blocks from the Steinkamp
house.
Assistant Chief Cook Immediately
sent apparatus to the second blaze. The
detail had a hard time saving the ad-
joining residence, coupled by Joseph
Rothwell. The barn was a total loss.
A horse was cremated, and it's piteous
cries could be heard for blocks. At
1929 a. M. just as the companies had
returned from the two fires, an alarm
was turned in from box AT, and the
department found the barn in the rear
of 429 Sherburne avenue burning mer-
rily. The stable is owned by s. r.
De Grau and was used as a storage for
wood, coal and household goods.
Chief Jackson appeared on the scene
and directed the companies in their
fight against the flames. Before the
third fire was extinguished the two
chiefs noticed a suspicious light a few
blocks distant on University, and upon
investigation found that a barn in the
rear of 511 University avenue had been
set on fire, and it's insides were already
enveloped in flames. Before the fire
could be extinguished horse and the
contents of the stable were burned. The
property is owned by q. Bets. and the
residence occupied by A. L. Turner.
Chief jackson said to a G b re-
porter last evening that there was no
doubt existing in his mind but that the
fires were incendiary.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14

mastery speech beginning What q piece of
work Is man." should be spoken with rever-
ential sense Of the grandeur of mans Creator.
For while Hamlet finds no delight in mans
society, he cannot but express his admira-
tion of the creature, man. Mr.. Whiteside
reads this eloquent description too tamely He
can intensity it without ranting or sacrific-
ing princely dignity.
The colloquy with Polonius, in the second
act, is worthy of even more detail than Mr..
Whiteside bestows upon 1t, particularly in
respect to action. The speech beginning,
'Sanders, SIR is one OF those incisive OBJ
servations that will bear the most pointed
emphasis.
These are but triAing things, to be sure,
Dut life Is made UP of trifes. Such occa-
sional omissions to make the most of every
light and shade that Shakespeare has be-
slowed on this magnetic character detract
to Just that extent from the distinctness in
outline OF the entire picture. Mr.. White
sides sins of omission are not SO numerous
that he cannot gradually reduce them to e
minimum too small to be observable.
Tilted, as Mr.. Whiteside Is, with musi-
cal voice of resonant and sympathetic quality
and liquid tone.- distinct enunciation and pure
prenunciation-for that Is a gift-he is splen-
didly equipped for delivering the Shake
speareans blank verse. The Intelligence nee
essafy to impart correct emphasis is, of
course, Indispensable to any actor worthy of
the name
Whiteside Is not Booth, but he is White
side, and that is much to be proud Of much
better than being an imitator of any actor.
A telegram was received yesterday from
New York stating that Mrs. Jacob Lift gave
birth to a little girl baby, which died almost
Immediately. The mother is also reported to
be in danger. Mrs. Lift in professional life
was Miss Ruth Carpenter one of the most
beautiful and talented leading ladies' of the
stage.
Anna Eva Fay has succeeded in accomplish
ing something in ST. Paul that no other per-
former has ever done, namely to attract au-
diences that have crowded every part of the
AUDITORIUM for seven consecutive perform
ances. Mystery, novelty and packed to-
the-wall audience are to be found every even
ing at Conover hall. 1t is phenomenal-the
perfect furore that Anna Eva Fay has created
IN St Paul, nothing like 1t ever having ec-
Cured before. Standing room has been in
demand every evening the past week Miss
rays mail is enormous, over 1900 letters
| being received last week, 998 of which came
Monday. The engagement closes Thursday
! evening.
Ihe Nerdica concert, which has been so
expectantly looked forward to by the music
lovers of this city, will be given at the Peo-
pies church tomorrow evening.
The Baldwins who have been playing tn
crowded houses in Minneapolis during the
past week, will begin an engagement OF one
week at the Metropolitan opera house TO-
night. Their wonderful work in MINNEAPOLIS
mas created great deal of interest on the
\ part or non- believers as well as those who
believe in mind-reading.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
THE SOUTHERN OUTLETS.

The treasury bulletin of the principal
articles of domestic export for the ten
months, ending with October, fur
nishes an explanation for the uneasi-
ness of the trunk lines east from CHI
Cago over the new channels in which
the product Of the farms of the West
are seeking foreign markets. 1t also
accounts for the agitation in New York
for greater shipping facilities and
cheaper methods of handling the grain
transhipped from cars Of canal boats
to transatlantic freighters.
This all becomes plain when the ship
ments in these periods from ports
North and South are compared. Dur
ing the ten months of 1895, terminating
In October, there were 43, no. 115 bushels
Of corn exported and 1oo, ,es0;111 in the
same time in 1896, an increase of e7,-
S79, 1896 bushels. Boston barely held her
own, sending abroad 4,501 PIP bushels
last year and 4.7S4, ,112 this. while New
York fell from 1918, 732 to 15, ,462 ;13O.
shipments Of 6,033,27 last year to 49,
OLE, ,331 this; Newport News rose from
S,9O7, ,658 to 1864, ,7S9, and Norfolk and
Portsmouth from 2,279,954 to 1O,351 9S3
These we may assume were shipments
largely from the central West
It is when we come to the exports
from the two Southern ports of Gal
weston and New Orleans, the former
of which has but recently perfected
communication with the great corn belt
to her north. that we find the increase
that has astonished and made uneasy
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
PATR0LMAN HAGEN SLUGGED.
His Lips Split While Making an Ar
rest.

Henry 5Gaques, youth eighteen
years of age, was locked UP at the
Central police station under the alias
of Henry West, yesterday afternoon.
on the charge of disorderiy conduct
preferred by Officer Hagen, of the
Margaret street detail. In making the
arrest Officer Hagen met with an acci-
dent, through an effort Of the prisoner
to escape, which prevented him from
remaining on duty. Two Of the patrol
mans front teeth were knocked out
and his lips badly lacerated.
Gaques and a brOther-in-iaw visited
@ vacant house on Mississippi street
about l o'clock to inspect the build
ing, it is said, with q view of renting
it, The owner of the building, who
lives near by, saw the men enter the
house, and called Officer Hagen to
effect their arrest for breaking into
the premises. The officer placed young
Gaques in custody. but as the pair
stepped out on the porch the prisoner
made a break for liberty and threw
the patrolman to the ground a dis
tance of six feet. Officer Hagen clung
to his prisoner, but struck the frozen
ground on his face, sustaining painful,
but not serious injuries.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Forecast for Mon
day: Minnesota-Generaliy cloudy, with local
SHOWS in northern portion; southerly winds
Wisconsin-Generally fair; light to fresh
variable winds.
Iowa-Generally fair, with increasing eloua-
mess; slightly warmer; winds shifting to
southerly.
South Dakota-Generally cloudy, with local
SHOWS in northern portion; southeriy winds
North Dal0ota-Partly cloudy, with lgnt
local SHOWS; colder Monday night; southeriy
winds, shifting 10 northwesterly.
Montana-Lecal showers; partly CLOUDY
weather; colder in northern portion; westerly
winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau Washington, Dec. 13, GAS
p. m. Local Time, p. IN. 18th Meridian
Time.-Obseryations taken at the same mo-
ment Of time at all stations.
TEMPER ATJJRFS
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
RAILWAYS AND sPofLs.

Governmental ownership and opera
tion of railways by republics has not
thus far proved a profitable undertak-
ing. We referred recently to the aban-
donment by Mexico of its attempt to
run the Tehuantepec railway, and its
lease to Pearson & Co. for a long term
of years. Now Brazil is negotiating
with an English syndicate to take over
her Central railway, constructed some
years ago at a cost of 0000, 600, on a
ninety-year lease, at a rental of 81 ,000,-
X 600 year. The bill has passed the
lower house and is expected to pass the
senate, and it is understood, if this
goes through, that all the other gov
ernment lines will also pass under
control of private parties. The history
of the operation of the Central does not
fully establish the incapacity of repub-
lican governments to operate railways,
but it does vindicate the claim that
they cannot until the spoils system is
absolutely obliterated, and public busi-
ness placed upon a strictly business
basis.
For some years after the compile
ton of the Central it earned an in
come of .$16,8909e0 annually, several
millions of which were clear profit
But of late years, since the establish
ment of the republic, the road has been
the victim of the spoils system, en-
ployment being given on it as a re-
ward for political activity without re-
gard to fitness, the gpartisans of one ad-
ministration succeeding those of another
with every change, as we have seen
happen here with the administrative
offices of the federal government in the
good old days of the machine From
| paying a profit the road, under this
kind of management, came to be a
burden, its deficit averaging some $2,-
000,600 annually. So Embedded, how
ever, is the spoils system, that instead
of finding a remedy in removing the
cause, the Brazilian congress proposes
/ to get rid of the railway.
If it is objected that comparison be-
tween the ability of the Spaniard and
the American to manage great enter
prises is not "a fair one, and that we
could accomplish what they fail in, one
has only to turn to the experience oft the
Australian provinces with their gov
ernmental railways to find that men of
our own race are not eminently sue
cessful in this extension Of the func-
tions Of government. Their roads are
not run at a loss, to be sure, the re-
turn on the investment ranging from
81 pei. cent in Tasmania to 2.73 in New
Zealand and 312 in South Australia,
but this is accomplished only by freight
rates that would raise the hair and
dander of our people did they prevail
here. The ton-mile rate in Tasmania
is 1888 cents, in New Zealand 5.S8 cents
and in South Australia 262 cents, as
compared with an average in this
country Of SO of cent, and a fraction
over / cent on our Western roads. The
cost Of construction, also, exceeded our
average, being over $4,000 a mile
against our 5000.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14

to jobbers in a vain attempt to keep
out 6oOo9c to 100000 boxes" of foreign
glass The domestic manufactures. II
proceeded, "by their very combination
are forced to hold glass at such poin,
as viii allow the worst situated most
crudely equipped. and poorest managed
factories to keep afioat, and they con-
stantly build dilzes so that not a single
farthing from all the tank improve
ments, mass production, mechanical
handling of raw materials and econ
omies resulting from the application of
labor-saxing machinery. which have so
markedly distinguished the last decade.
shall ever dribble out to the consumer"
With these incontrovertible facts
before u.s. 1t went on to say. there
would be a fresh outcry from manu-
facturers and workingmen for pro
lection against the more progressive,
turers to give suck to the babes who
have the best and cheapest fuel and
the worst equipped factories on earth;
protection to 1900 glass blowers. large
ly Of foreign birth, who are earning
from four to ten times as much as the
average American craftsman, so as to
keep 64, ,o00, ,0e0 people constant contrib
uters and tribute payers to the most
short sighted combine that ever grew
fat at the expense of the unprotected
common people who foot the bills"
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
MODIFIED THE PLAN.
Daily Newspaper Writers Insist ON
Further Concessions

A meeting of writers for the daily
newspapers was held yesterday after
noon at the Press club rooms to con-
slider the proposition made by the club
to the daily workers. There was a
considerable discussion of the reorgani-
Zatien scheme, but the proposition was
considerably modified !befone it's ac-
oeptance, the daily writers insisting
that they be given a majority of the
members of the beard of directors,
the president secretary and financial
secretary, and that active membership
be limited hereafter to those connected
with the press directly
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS

barometer, 1894; thermometer, 81; relative
humidity, &c. wind, east; weather, clear;
meximum thermometer, 81; minimum ther-
memeter, SO; daily range, IL; amount of rain
fall or melted Snow in Last twenty -four
hours, o.
Note-Baremeter corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. f. Lyons, observer.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
WANT sIore .rrrigation.

DENVER, Col. Dec. 13-The American So
eiety Of Irrigation Engineers have adopted
resolutions opposing the idea of government
action In the building OF irrigation reseryirs
and canals, out advocating government
commission to look over the territory and
make .suggestins for tho aid of the states in
the work. The permanent headquarters were
established In Denver. The convention has
adjourned.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14

host. We have made our agreement
matter, and by that agreement we
shall stand. If Venezuela does not
choose to accept it, we shall proceed
to settle it, as far as we are concerned,
An understanding reached by the Unit
ed States and Great Britain combined,
in conformity with the highest instru-
ments for securing justice known to
modern civilization that is, a resort
to arbitration, is pretty likely to be
carried into effect, whether the cor
poral's guard known as a Venezuela
government accepts or rejects it.
An infinity of trouble would come
upon us in our future relations with
the great powers of the world were
we to hold ourselves in any way re-
sponsible for the action of South Amer
icRn republics, or to consider ourselves
bound to uphold them, right or wrong
Let it be understood that we maintain
the Monroe doctrine as policy of
the government of the United
States. and that, while for our own
self preservation we will not permit
the absorption of American territory
by European powers, we will equally
refuse to intervene if it becomes nee
essary for those powers to chastise
some contumacious little republic that
arm to shield it from the consequences
of its own folly and misdoings. AS far
! as the United States is concerned, the
Venezuela question is settled. Nene-
zuela can do as she pleases about it.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
STARRING FOR WIND.

1t has happened a great many times
III the political history Of this country
that mountebanks have been made to
appear men by the force of judicious
and long-continued newspaper adver-
tising. We could make up a long list
of men who have been prominent for
years in public life with no other title
to their position than the fact that they
were able, by persistence and ingenuity,
to keep their names we'll to the front
ir the public prints. This seems to
be the ambition of the "silver sena-
tors" at Washington, and it will be
a foolish policy if the Republicans
lend it a helping hand. The truth is
that Teller and Dubois and Pettigrew
and the rest of them are politically
stranded. They took the bolters risk,
and they should accept with equani-
nifty the bolter's fate when the people
decide against him. If their original
scheme had not miscarried they would
be the big bosses of the country today.
That scheme was planned in the United
States senate chamber and was care
fully arranged for years beforehand.
1t looked to the formation of a free
silver party in this country made up
Of recruits from both Democratic and
Republican ranks. 1t was the most
gigantic political combination Of re-
cent political history 1t was backed
by the mine owning interests, and it
contemplated the capture Of the ma
tional Democratic convention, the
nomination of Mr.. Teller and the con-
troll of the government of this country
thereafter by the members of the SEN
atcrial junta. All these men were in
it, and they had as allies Senator
jones and some Of his associates.
Part of their plan succeeded and
part miscarried They did capture the
Democratic convention, but they could
not force upon it the nomination of
Teller That together with the defeat
OF Mr.. Bryan, has left them in des-
perate predieament. They are between
today to be either Republicans or
Democrats. They are not willing to
ally themselves formally with either
party, because they flew at high
things and are not content with the low
estate that must heneeforth be theirs.
Therefore they are sparring for wind.
! They are waiting for something to
turn up that will give them another
pull upon the political machine. They
are posing before the people as repre-
sentatives Of a great cause, and they
do not see that the world is moving
swiftly onward and leaving them be-
should be quietly ignored, If their
party in the senate should allow them
to go or stay as they please, but make
no treaty with them, they would drop
out of sight completely before four
! years are over.
This is certainly the only wise course
to adopt. These men have had much
more than their fair share of notoriety.
AS we said of Mr.. Towne the other day,
they are not great, but only much talk
ed about. Stop the talk and the bal
loon will collapse. 1t strikes us that
there is much more important business
before both the political parties of
this country than considering the fu-
ture place or party faith of the free
I silver Republicans who Staked their
political future upon an issue and a
conspiracy and lost. If they are let
severely alone they will drop out OF
the ring
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
ursu Heet In WISCONSIN

T. B. McDonough and NJ. n. aNeedham have
been matched to fight twenty rounds at Hud-
son next Saturday night. John Rowan has
been selected referee. A number of st. Paul
sports will go over to witness the contest
The party will leave here at 40 O'Clock.