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HIND Of TIE CZaR SEEN.
Ameer Inciting the RevoIts III India-Brtish
Troops Sent to the Frontier.

LONDON, Aug. 14-The officials Of
the India office admit that Afghan Of
fcials have been concerned in the
recent risings in India and the strong
relnforcements of British troops which
are now being pushed to the front show
that the authorities are fully alive to
the dangers existing. 1t is strongl;
limited that the long threatened Rus
sian intrigue has materialized, but
circumstances hardly warrant this as
sumption.
The Turkish newspapers evidently
inspired from the palace are printing
lurid pictures of the disaffection in
India, said to be caused by British
outEages, and, in short, there is a
regular propaganda upon the part Of
Turkey to create troubles for Great
Britain in Mohammedan circles, as an
offset to London's abetting the Arme-
MAN agitation. Gunboats are now
building in England for transportation
IN sections to Abu Han1id, whence
These boats are powerful. They draw
only two feet of water, steam fourteen
knots an hour and are armed with
hfteen-pounders and Maxim rapid-firc
guns. 1t is announced that the whols
f1otilla will be ready to move south
from Abu Hamid early in 1898. 1t is
positive, however, that Berber, the
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legged violation OF existing treaties, and
the paying back to the United States
treasury of the export premiums paid
by Germany.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, u S. A, has
been granted permission to view the
maneuvers. Meanwhile he has gone
to Stockholm and to. Russia.
AS substitute for the boerse reports
the central Office of the Prussian ag-
ricultural chambers beg to publish re-
ports of the figures of paid sales af-
fected in thirty Prussian cities as a
guide to farmers The Vossische Zeit-
ung promptly proved that these re-
ports are wholly erroneous and grossly
misleading. They do not find favor
with the agrarians Further growth
of particularism in Bavaria is found
sin the fact that distinctly Bavarian
party to replace the existing parties is
now in process of formation The new
party, which is encouraged by the Ba-
Varian premier, Won Crailsheim. COM
mences operations during the coming
autumn
From Duke John Albrecht. of Neck
lenburg, who has just visited Prince
Bismarck, the correspondent of the
Associated Press learns that the prince
disapproves of the emperor's visit to
the czar and the accompanying feat
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HIGH RECORD
FOR BANKS.
Large Aggregation of Loans a Sure
indication of the Revival
of Business.

NEW YORK, Aug. IA. - The New
York Financier saws: The bank state
ment for the week ending Aug IA re-
fleets more accurately than usual the
revival in business. The item of loans
shows a continued expansion, the total
now being $555, 10000, or $33, 900. 900
higher than any record made previous
to this year. In the past month loans
have increased no less than 81, ,00O, 0O0
and in sixty days the expansion has
been approximately $42, 100000. For
the past week no less than thirty
nine out Of the sixty-f1ve clearing house
banks swelled their loan totals, the
National City and Hanover National
leading with a combined increase Of
$3,35S,OO0. AS there are no special
causes to account for the fluctuations
in loans other than reviving stock ex-
change business, mercantile demands
and inquiry for rediscounts, the healthy
nature Of the business which the New
York banks are doing becomes appar-
ent. The interior movement is almost
at standstill, and great deal Of
money is flowing out Of New York in
response to legitimate needs In the
South and West Some of this money
is going direct, but banks in interior
reserve cities are supplying smaller
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The uliSSiOn Is His.
Hitchcock, of ST. Louis, Ac-
cepts the Post of Minister to
Russia.


ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14-Hon. Ethan
Allen Hitchcock. a prominent citizen
of st. Louis, whom President McKin-
ley recently appointed ambassador to
Russia, has accepted the position.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock is great
grandson of Col. Ethan Allen, who
captured Fort Ticonderoga 'in the
name of the great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress- His grand
father married the second daughter
of Ethan Allen and took a prominent
part in the early history of Vermont,
and was made United States circuit
judge for the Second circuit by Presi-
dent John Adams. Mr.. Hitchcock's
rather, Henry Hitchcock, was born in
Burlington, VT, from which place he
went to Alabama to practice law, in
which ne was eminently successful, be-
ing at the time of his death in 1889, the
chlef justice of the supreme court Of
that state. Mr.. Ethan Allen Hitchcock
was born in Mobile, Sept. 1885, where
he remained until 184O, when he re-
moved with his family to Tennessee.
After taking an academic course in
New Haven, Conn.,, he came to ST.
Louis In 1851, and engaged in business
up TO 1860, when at the urgent request
or relatives in China he left for that
country to accept employment in the
OLD established firm of Elephant & Co
Mr. Hitchcock has since been actively
engaged in business as president of
several large manufacturing and rail-
road corporations, which positions he
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most important point on the Nile, may
be seized before, long, without waiting
for the naval reinforcements.
After the AngIo-E Egyptian forces are
gathered at Abu Hamid, Berber, Swa-
kim and probably KaSsal, the final ad-
vance on Khartoum will occur Serious
fighting is expected before the NAH
dfsts are routed, hence the necessity for
British troops to supplement the Esyp-
tians. 1t is reported that the Khalifa
has 25O,000 soldiers under his command,
but this is probably exaggerated
The Spectator, discussing the provo
cative and unfriendly tone of Ameri-
can politicians of both parties towards
England" says: 1--WE are obliged to
write as we never dreamed of being
forced to write about a country only
less dear to US than our own. But we
should fail in our public duty if we
did not point out in the strongest man
ner the grave risks which are likely
to ensue from this attitude Unless
the United States assumes a very diff
ferent tone the gravest crisis is certain
to ensue. Public opinion in England
has greatly changed during the last
few months, and even if Lord Salisbury
is anxious to politely ignore such IN
discretions as Secretary Sherman's, the
people would not permit it, and here
after American demands, if urged in
unfriendly language, will be resisted
unanimously by the nation, no matter
what the risks may be. If America
does not keep a better watch over her
politicians they will hurry her into
a conflict with this country, whereof
no one is able to see the end"
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store with fake watch to sell. while
Victim waits for time card.
s,a scene ne Victims finds out he. has been
swlndled and tells the first policeman he
meets. Policeman advises him to take the
hrst train out of town.
Directly under the observance of the
police department the above events
have been Of daily occurrence. A
new fake" auction store has been
opened at the place mentioned and
unsophisticated strangers in the city
are Systematically robbed by a gang
of local confidence men who operate
the joint who are presumably well
known to the police Each of the
sWndlers plays his particular part and
no unsuspicious victim who has been
1nVeigled into the place is allowed to
escape until he has parted with his
money, however much or little he
may have possessed. The game has
been carried on under the very noses
of the police who pass the resort at
all hours of the day. But the place
has not been disturbed and the pit
fall on one Of the busiest and most
frecuented streets of the city con-
unues to entrap the unwary. The
popular belief is that the place has
been under police protection. One of
the gang conducting the place was a
prisoner in the police court but a few
weeks ago, on a charge of swindling
by means of flake" watches, while
another is known in police circles as
a professional confidence man and
gambler. Several other members of
the outfit are known to every member
6AfQNfiuo
partment as ''grafters," whose only
occupation is the swindling of the un-
suspicious.
The appearance of the alleged
store" should be enough to warn the
veroant stranger against dealing with
ITS inmates. With only a bare coun-
ter inside and several shelves par
TALLY filled with cheap cotton shirts.
overalls and paper valse or two. it
is, apparent that little legitimate busi-
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Negotiations Entered Into With france,
Belgium and Other Countries to De-
mand Submission TO Rfbiffation.
VIOLATION OF TREATIES ALLEGED
kaisers Visit TO Russia Criticised in Germany, Though
1t Is Believed That His Object, an RiIianee
F8ainst England, Was Ftffansd.

BERLIN, Aug. 14.-Acting upon the
advice of Baron Won ThielnEan, the
former German ambassador at Wash
ington, who has just been appointed
privy councillor and the representa-
tive of the imperial chancellor in all
the financial affairs of the empire, the
German government is entering into
negotiations with the governments of
the other countries injured by the new
United States tariff, especially France
and Belgium, for the purpose of eff
fecting an agreement to demand the
submission of all disputed points to
court of arbitration. In Germanys case
the disputed points are mainly the al
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the confidence men joined the officers
for short conversations, seeming to
have little fear of interruption to their
plans. Fully half an hour the police
men loitered about the pitfall and
then accommodating vanished.
Three of the confidence operators, in
shirt sleeves, kept watchout for
suckers" during the afternoon. When
stranger approached from the direc-
ton of the depot one of the men would
nail him and rush across the street to
engage him in conversation and almost
pull the unSuspecting one into the den.
A young fellow who has been arrested
before on the charge of swindling, did
the, steering" and attempted to be-
guile victims into the net. So open
were his actions that people who are
acquainted with the Wiles of con men
stopped and watched his bold pro-
cedure. Every pretense was tried on
those passing the "store." The per-
son accosted was cordially shaken by
the hand, slapped confidential}y on the
shoulder and while standing in as
tonishment found themselves dragged
off on the sidewalk in the direction Of
the sWindling resort
One well dressed old gentleman was
spied by the CON men half a block
away. The "steerer'' ran after him,
and taking his arm, started to lead the
itfdl DUCK UP the street. Inc ola man
objected and mildly tried to free him
self from the fellow, when there fol-
lowed long conversation, the swindler
using every artifice to induce the
stranger to so back to the "store." The
old man finally went his way and the
'steerer' searched for another victim
party of three young men, passed
the place on the opposite side of the
street, going toward the depot. Each
carried a valise, having the appear
ance of country visitors. One of them
wore badge as though a delegate to
some gathering. They looked like
ready money" and the "steerer'' went
after them. Catching hold of the
valise belonging to the man with the
badge the "bunco'' man pointed to the
store" and tried to get the stranger
to go with him. Reading the lettering
on the badge, he represented that he
had railroad tickets to sell to the point
where the countryman was going. At
last the travellers companions almost
Continued on Seventh Pr &c
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correspondents with funds. and will
oraW on their New York balances later
on. In fact, some of them are doing
SO now 1t has been a foregone con-
cluslon that the demand for money
VIII cause rise in rates, and quota
tlons may be expected to reach a..
slightly higher level than obtained at
present.
Even a $3S,OOO,OOO surplus reserve
must shrink rapidly in the face of
heavy local borrowing and losses to
the interior. On the other hand there
is no longer any doubt that gold i'm
portations will begin soon-perhaps be-
fore the end Of this month. This will
OF course, constitute an extra SUNNY
of funds and may supply some of the
osses that otherwise might occur For
eign bankers do not attempt to esti-
mate the total of this falls imports
but private opinion places it at $50. 900 :,
900 and over. The gold will not be
drawn out this year as last, for hoard
ing, but will go largely into the treas
ury. 1t Is noticeable in this connec-
ton that the banks of New York hold
only $11, 100000 less gold than legal ten
ders. The present total, 1872, ,612 300 is
$40, 100000 larger than reported just one
year ago. With an active market this
fall and winter, gold may be forced into
circulation both from the treasury and
from the banks.
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victim is met by horde of hotel run
ners, some of whom are also alleged
to plug" for the con men. If he es-
capes being taken in tow by one of
nected with the auction" store ap-
proaches with some suave remark
and enters into conversation with the
prospective victim. Ascertaining
Where the stranger is going the
steerer" discusses the leaving time
OF trains over the road mentioned by
the ruralite and finally suggests that
it would be greatly to the advantages
OF his companion to have a time card
over this particular road The un-
suspect1ng visitor is pleased with the
interest displayed in his welfare and
When his companion, having by this
t- time lead him to the door of the
iahe JOINT, asks him to step into his
pace OF business for a moment to he
provided with a time card, he willing
ly assents.
Get this gentleman a time card -
shouts the 'steerer,'' and the man re-
Gently discharged in the police court
IN the apparent capacity of a clerk
rushes into back room to look oveT
the assortment of time cards.
While he is gone the "stalP' makes
ms appearance, usually in the guise OF
falrly prosperous individual ana
calls the supposed proprietor of the
pace aside. His conversation, how
ever is purposely distinct to the
stranger. He is very much in need OF
money to get to the bedside of a dying
mother and desires to pawn his valua=
pie gold watch. 1t cost $15O, but the
man is forced to pawn it because Of
his urgent need of funds.
The proprietor" explains to the well
dressed young man that he has no IL
cense to transact a loaning business
L
watch for. The "stall' finally con.
cludes he will leave the time piece for a
loan of 500, but the proprietor refuses
TO 90 business with him. The Clerk
mas meantime returned, and, overhear-
ing part of the conversation and whis-
perlng a few words to the countryman.
as the STALL starts to leave the store
calls him back. -
Perhaps this gentleman will buv
your watch" says the proprietor,
Indicating the stranger Then, while
the victim examines the timepiece. its
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ures as calculated to raise hopes in
the Russian mind which Germany later
may be unable to fulfill, especially in
the matter Of further Asiatic con-
quests. Relative to the state of affairs
in South Africa and the role played
by >the British secretary of state for
the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain.
in recent events Prince Bismarck
sharply condemns the latter and fears
continued British duplicity.
The visit Of the emperor and empress
of Germany to Russia and the recep-
tion accorded them there, is regarded
in this country with divided feelings.
Many people blame the emperor for
humbling himself unnecessarily before
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ness could be transacted. In the
front window several brass watches
hang on spindle. while an accordion
and a violin, several dozen handker-
chiefs and pair of shoes disguise the
true nature Of the place. The game
worked on the suckers" is as old as
the hills. but finds victims as readily
as fly paper catches insects on a sum-
mer day, but even the fly has more
of chance with the tanglefoot than
the countryman who falls into the
hands of this gang.
Steerers for the joint haunt the de-
pot and the proprietors of several
cheap hotels in the vicinity are said
to be 'fn with the game" to the ex-
tent of tipping off, rural guest
who might prove good plucking.
Early each morning the steerer sallies
forth to meet the incoming trains.
Issuing from the depot the selected
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pared and published a digest OF all the de-
elslens OF the supreme and high court of err
rta r1rs or the state from the admission of the
state in the union up to 1870 He was a
member of the Mississippi convention of
1861, by which the ordinance of secession was
passed and voted for and signed that instru-
prominent part in the civil war. casting his
i iot with the South. He left the convention
rsIi, nan 10 become captain in the Twentieth
regiment of Mississippi volunteers He rose
to the rank of brigadier general of sta4e
troops before the close of the war. He
also served at a later period as colonel of
tne Fifth cavalry of his state
;, Al the close of the war he returned to his
Jaw Jaw pFactlce in Carroll county In 1879 he
was appointed to the supreme bench and soon
afterwards elected chief Justice in which "a
pacity he serving when first elected IN
me senate of the United States in 1881 He
nao nae been twice reelected to this important
once and II he had been permitted to serve
ms ms entire term would the 4th of March
lSs9' have completed his eighteenth year in
the senate 80
Probably there has been no man in tbs
senate during the present generation who had
made greater research into constitutional oues-
uons or could discourse more profoundly upon
mat instrument of government. Senator
George was ranking member of the commit.
tee on agriculture, and he served as chair.
man of that committee in the Fifty-third con-
gress, but he devoted more of his time TO
the affairs of the committee on judiciary of
which he was member, though holding a
less prominent place there. He had taken
especial interest in the preparation of the
substitute for the bankruptcy bill, providing
for voluntary instead of involuntary bank
ruptcy, and had been expected to particinatc
actively in the consideration of the bill in
the senate. "
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, Aug. IA
Congressman Ashley B. Wright was
found dead in the sitting room at his
home on Summer street at 10 o'clock
tonight by his wife. Mr.. Wright re-
turned to his home about o'clock
feeling well. At 10 o'clock he was
found dead, the body lying on the
floor. Physicians attribute the death
to apoplexy.
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BULLETIN OF
TIE ST. PHUl GlOBE
SUNDAY, AUG. 10, 1897.
Weather for Today
Fair, NorthvyesterIy Winds.

PAGE !.
Gamblers and Con Men in st. Paul.
Loans Show Great Increase.
FlirtatiOns of the Season.
Germany's Anti-Dingley Crusade.
Death of Senator George.
Princes VIII Duel Monday.
Hitchcock Accepts the Mission.
PAGE =.
EquaIizers Raise AsSessments.
j. E. kreniI<'s Narrow Escape.
PAGE 3.
End of Globes Voting Contest
PAGE \.
Editorial.
Harvesting on I',e NJ. p.
PAGE 3.
Day of Assumption.
Hearing in Section 22 Cases.
Indians Nigo- sly Protest.
PAGE G.
Commission Furniture Store Sinned
PAGE Z.
News of minneapolis
Faure's Visit to the Czar.
Coal Miners VIII Wait.
PAGE s.
indianapolis Defeats st. Paul.
Columbus Shuts Out MINNEAPOLIS.
Eleven-Inning Game at milwaukee,
Detroit Defeats Kansas City.
Base Ball Training.
PAGE 8.
n1a
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value is dwelt upon by the clerk and
proprietor, the latter of whom goes
out with expressions of regret that he
must pass such bargain because his
license will not permit him to transact
the loan.
Finally, the ''stall" concludes to sell
his watch outright. He must have
money and will take $50 for it. The
clerk takes the countryman aside and
urges him to purchase the watch, as il
is a great bargain, while the ''steerer"
also boosts the game about the value of
the watch. If the victim refuses, he
is induced to make the purchase with
his own money as the agent of the
"store," under promise that he will be
given back his money and $40 or $15
additional for his trouble, as soon as
the proprietor comes back. If the vic
tim has a watch of his own, he is in
duced to make a trade with money
to boot. The character of the men Sc
lected to be fleeced almost always in
sures success, and in nine cases out of
ten the stranger parts with his money
Then the final touches are put on
the bunco game. The proprietor re-
Dukes his clerk for making promises
to~the stranger, and declares he should
have known better than to take
chances on coming into possession Of
a watch which might have been stolen
II would certainty cause MIN TO lose
his license if he took the timepiece, as
a description of it must be made to the
authorities, and the proprietor abso-
lutely refuses to return the stranger )
money. He tells the victim he is about
to leave the city and that in ;another
place there is no danger in his having
the watch, SO, after all, the sucker
is led to believe he has secured bar
gain This is the real intent of the
game, and in the usual course of
events, the victim leaves the city with
a watch worth So, for which he has
paid anywhere from $40 to 500, if he
had this much money about him.
WATCHING THE PLACE.
One afternoon last week reporter
for the G o b e spent several hours
in Smith park, opposite the fake re-
sort, watching the operation of the
swindlers. At the corner of Sixth
street, within fifty feet of where these
men were endeavoring to .inveigle
strangers into their place to be robbed.
stood two policemen. Several times
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The InterIake Races.
Results of Yachting at White Bear.


The Interlake Races.
Results of Yachting at White Bear
PAGE 10.
Preparations for State Fair.
Today at the Churches.
After Senator Davis Scalp.
PAGE IL.
The Trout Fishing Season.
PAGE IL.
Books of the Hour.
The Week at the Metropolitan.
Gossip of the Secret Societies.
PAGE IS.
Business Mans Announcement.
PAGE Ii.
Social News of ST. Paul.
Society at the Lakes.
Mermaid and Bicycle Girl.
PAGE 10.
A New Era in Sleeves.
Race of Mustached Women.
Stylish Bathing Costumes.
PAGE 10.
Stories of the KIOndike.
Glimpse Of 1000 Years Ago.
PAGE II.
In the World of Labcr.
Bar Silver, 55c.
Cash Wheat in Chicago, "a 1-2c.
Stocks Firm and Higher.
PAGE IS.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 10.
Wants of the People.
Suburban Social News.
PAGE 20.
The ChevaIier d'Auriac (Story).
A Midsummer Nights Dream.
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has resigned in order to accept this
appointment abroad.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14-J. A. Porter,
secretary to President Mckinley, has
sent the following dispatch from Hotel
Champlain, New York, to the Asso-
ciated Press: Nathan A. Hitchcock,
of st. Louis, has been offered and has
accepted the ministership to Russia,
and will be appointed imediately"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-The ap-
pointment of Mr.. Hitchcock to the
Russian embassy created no sur
prise here, for among Missourians
the selection had been for some time
regarded as a foregone conclusion. He
succeeds Clifton r. Breckenridge, of Ar
kansas, who had been a representative
in congress when he was sent to the
st. Petersburg post. Mr. Hitchcock Is
warm, personal friend of President
Mckinley, and is said to have been a
candidate. AS a manufacturer he is
well known in business circles through
out the country. He mas had occasion
to come to Washington frequently in
connection with tariff matters. On
one of the earlier of these visits he is
said to have first met President Nc
Kinley, then member of congress. and
the acquaintance then formed has since
developed into the closest friendship.