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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
WAS PRETTY WARM.
but With Evening Came a Droo of
the Mercury


Ofhcial notice was served on st. Paul YES
terday by the weather authorities that the dav
would probably bring a thunder shower o.,
Two, just to cool off the rather suItry ev
preston which Sunday left. The weather peo-
pie were evidently mixed in their dates. for
although at noon yesterday it looked as if
tnefe might be trouble brewing above in the
clouds, none reached terra firma, and the
neat was nearly enough to make the weather
a legitimate topic for conversation. When
sunday turned to Monday the mercury stood
at 70 fiat, but within few hours starred IN
the grade and all through the morning kent
on until high noon and high Thermometer
came at the same time. When the factories
and shops blew their whistles the thermo-
went enough of the humidity-which New
Workers are so fond of measuring-to make
rapid navigation thing to be avoided Flee
trio fans and spots where the Slight bre aze
found its way were at premium during the
early afternoon, and many busy man found
his office too for comfort and there
fore went to the ball game. 1t is. just as hot
the team started down the toboggan, the Their
mometer got in line, but so slowly that at
.. m. the mercury had dropped to So de-
grees.
Soon after the heat had evaporated from the
pavementS and from between the high build
ings the drop continued and long before mid
night it was plain that the bulb would rulI
same time a day back.
Sure enough, at midnight the record showed
Is degrees and the comforting assurance that
cooler weather is on the taps for today. The
fact that a cool breeze blew most of the day
and tempered the suffering of those who were
exposed to the heat, made some folks think
it not as hot as the thermometer register
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
FOUND AMONG THE LOGS.
Body of John GeriOck, Drowned
Near Smelling Bridge.

The body of a man found floating
among the logs Of a boom, near the
Crosby farm yesterday morning, was
identified as that of John Gerlock, who
was drowned by falling out of a boat
under the Fort Smelling bridge last
Thursday. Gerlock lived at the foot
of Cascade street, on the upper flats,
and was formerly in the employ of
the st. Paul Tent and Awning company,
several of whose business cards We're
found in his coat pocket in the boat
after the accident. He leaves a wife
and four children, who are in destitute
circumstances. when Gerlock left home
Thursday to recover some logs, which
had been carried into the river current
from his home, something over 81 was
given to his wife The oldest boy is
seventeen years of age, but has been
out Of employment for some time
Coroner Nelson visited the scene of the
finding of the body, yesterday after
noon, but found it impossible to get
the remains from the water on account
of the manner in which they were sur
rounded by logs. The body was left in
the river last night and will be removed
today by Mccarthy e Donnelly with
the aid of a steam launch.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
WEST ST. PAUL CLUBBENS.
Another. Man the Victim of officer
HnuIey's Stick,

Officer Hanley of the Ducas street station,
added another to the list of assault upon de-
fenseless citizens by last evening cutting an
ugly cash in Charles Meyers head with his
club The clubbing is the NOSE severely con-
demned by those who witnessed it, for the
reason that Officer Han!ey had the assistance
of Patro,man Hoffman in making the arrest,
and it is claimed the use Of his club
wholly unnecessary
MEYERS story of the affair is to the effect
that he and Officer Hoffman formerly
in the trading business together, and
on account of a disagreement have not been
on friendly terms of late. Yesterday Meyer
was having a horse shoG at a blacksmith
shop and Hoffman threatened him with ar
rest he Says unless another animal which
was tied to post and had stepped across the
walk was not removed. Meyer went into
Fred Lehman's saloon at State and Concord
streets where he says, Hoffman followed
him and ordered him to go to the station un-
der arrest Meyers friends would not allow
him to obey the policeman, claiming he had
done nothing. At this point Officer Hanley
entered the saloon and grabbed Meyer. Both
policemen dragged him to the street, when,
Meyer says, he offered to go quietly, but
claims that officer Hanley met his PROPOSE
ton with a blow from his club, cutting open
his forehead. Meyer released last night
upon the order Of Chief Goss, who was ap-
prised of the circumstances of the arrest. He
was required to leave his team as security to
appear in the municipal court today to an
swer to the charge of drunkenness and disor-
derry conduct lodged against him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
LODTMAN HEARD FROM.
An Alleged Swindler Under Arrest
in San Francisco.

San Francisco dispatch of a recent date
says: William Lodtman, said by the police
to be a notorious Eastern swindler was ar
rested in Hammersmith &c Fields store on
Suffer street. The detective subsequently
visited Lodtmans room in the Russ house
and met his wife. When they informed her
of her husbands plight she seized a revolt
yer and attempted to send a bullet through
her brain. Detective Wren grasped her arm
and prevented her using the pistol Lodt-
man is charged with passing forged checks
on shopkeepers. He admitted that the drafts
he presented in this city were bogus. but
denied that he had been operating else
where. The man Is said to be we'll known
to the New York police as notorious swind-
ler.'
Lodtman, it will be remembered, played a
bogus draft engagement in ST. Paul year
ago last winter He is polished. educated
man, a German. who had travelled all over.
He claimed first to have come to st. Paul
in the interest of an Eastern magazine.
Later he told around that he was to become
the Northwestern manager of the Associated
Press. In the meantime he was getting
drafts cashed on New York that were re-
turned unpaid. Some Of these he made good,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20

Bishop Potter's remarkable speech In Lon
don for national extension and the annexa-
ton of everything in sight contained this
Biblical argument, according to the report OF
our own correspondent
Let us Illustrate the wisdom OF the Israel
ties and occupy the land I"
The Israelftes occupied the land, and forci-
bly,, although Cruden's Concordance does not
put us the track of any Biblical phrase
exactly corresponding to that which is attrib-
uted to Bishop Potter.-New York Sun
Evidently the Sun thinks that no bishop
would quote except from the Bible, else it
would have gone elsewhere than the Con-
cordance for Bishop Potter's quotation. The
Sun will find 1t in the chorus Of song.
popular in the army during the war, a
negro melody, which ran:
Look out dere now for Yves gwine to shoot;
Look out dere, don't you understand?
Babylon has fallen. Babylon has fallen;
Yves gwine to occupy de land
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20

interest in the contest, and While, each
of the contestants hopes to be able to
land one of the trip prizes, there is an
incentive to be among the first eight,
for while only four will make the
Eastern trip the next highest four will
each receive a high-grade wheel of the
latest model.
Among the women contestants MISS
Theresa Guthunz, of Habighorst & Co.;
leads the list, with 4,63S votes register
ed, of which 2,493 were cast yesterday.
Miss Harriet Finn, of Schunemann &
Evans, is a close second, with a total
up to date of 1871. Miss Birdie Ben
ner, of the Golden Rule, is third in the
race, with 3,1O6, and Miss Maud Gould,
of the Omaha offices, is fourth, only 200
votes behind Miss Benner.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
= SINGULAR INDIFFERENCs.

One Of the singular features of the
Cuban contest is the Indifference Of
the Spanish-American republics. While
congress is echoing with the speeches
OF the Morgans and Lodges, the Mills
and Chambers, while the press is all
but universally urging action that will
give form and force to the sympathy
of our Northern race, neither the peo-
publics allied to the Cubans, not only
by ties of race, but by their own
emancipation from the same rule, have
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
WAR CAUSED BY A SINGLE WORD.
Six Years of Strife the Result of IA
TrihinE Verbal Omission.

In 1854 Polish nobleman became obnox-
lous to the laws Of his country by reason Of
a crime says London Answers. He fled to
Sweden, whereupon John Cassimir. king of
Poand, wrote to Charles Gustavus, king Of
Sweden, demanding the extradition of the
criminal. The king of Sweden, reading
the dispatch, noticed that his own name and
titles were followed by two etceteras, while
the name of the king of Poland was followed
by three. The missing etcetera so enrageS
the king of Sweden that he at once declared
war against Poland This war was carried
on with great bitterness until 1860. when
peace was signed at Olivia, near Dantzig
A contemporary writer, Kochowsky, poured
out his lamentations on the war in these
terms: "How dear has this etcetera been to
us! With how many lives have these two
potentates paid for these missing eight lot
ters With what streams of blood has the
failure of few drops of ink been avenged!'
In article of the treaty it was explicitly
laid down that the custom of shortening titles
by ''etceteration" should still hold good but
give the other three etceteras
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
Two Drownings at Glencoe.

Special to the Globe.
GLENCOE, Mimi, July 19.-The remains
of George Asher, a prominent young farmer
who resides about four miles west Of town,
and who, while bathing on Saturday in
Buffalo creek, seized with cramps and
drowned, were inferred in the West side GEM
etery this afternoon. The deceased was
thirty-four years of age. and was engaged
year-old boy named schaddock, the SON Of a
widow residing in the east part Of town.
was drowned this afternoon within sixty feet
of a crew of men who were Engaged in
erecting a bridge across Buffalo creek a
wire fence across the stream preventing them
from reaching him before he sank. The
body was recovered after remaining two hours
in the water.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20

The inability of communities of the
American people to govern themselves
after a century or more of experience
is the most striking phenomenon of
American life today. 1t ranges from
the highest affairs of state to the pet
test local question, and from the most
powerful and dignifed representative
bodies to the average city council. We
can understand it where seIf-interest
is at work. We do not need to know
why the welfare of the public is not
considered in a tariff bill, for example
because we known who writes those
schedules, and why senators and rep
resentatives vote for them But when
it comes to petty affairs of local
regulation, where there is nothing to
be made or lost, there is exhibited the
same complete incapacity to deal with
even a small question on it's merits.
Here, for instance, are the people of
Minneapolis wrestling with the same
old question of the regulation of the
bicycle. They have plenty of expert
ence to point out the way. Not only
that, but, for a wonder, the press of
the city is practically a unit on the side
of common sense. 1t is shown that ac-
cidents from the use of the wheel do
not compare in frequency or serious
ness with those arising from the use of
other vehicles. 1t is shown that the
agitation for new and repressive re-
strictions is based purely upon a theory
not borne out by experience, and SUD-
ported chiefly by those who, not using
the wheel themselves, wish, out of mere
churlishness, to incommode those who
90. 1t is shown there, as it has been
everywhere, that the sole danger to the
public arises from a failure on the
part Of the police administration to en-
force rules against reckless riding. 1t
is admitted by every intelligent per-
son that, if the scorcher is squelched
and if every wheel is ridden at a mod
crate rate of speed, it makes not a
particle of difference whether it carries
Minneapolis, as in every city in the
country almost, there is no attempt to
enforce the salutary rule, but a propo-
sition to substitute for it new regula-
tions about carrying lanterns and
other details which will not touch the
question at all.
They are having the same exnerienca
that we have had. No representations
OF the facts, no amount of petition
ing executive authorities have succeed
ed in getting them to move for the SIM
preston Of reckless riding. The coun-
Gil fools along with ordinances that
are powerful only to annoy, Just as If
anything except a little common sense
were needed to deal with this petty
question. The same rule holds all along
the line. AS we said at the outset, the
utter incapacity of the average Ieeis-
lative body to consider any public
question on it's merits is a singular and
alarming feature Of our time. What
between the Venal element in public
life and the element that is merely in
conceivably and incurably stupid, the
Improvement of legislation and the adj
Vancement Of the peoples affairs go
forward with such painful elaboration
that we are often tempted to ask
whether the real movement Is not in
the direction of retrogression.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
KANSAS TO THE FRONT AGAIN.
A Cat and Rat Business That Nears
Perpetual Motion.

$50 they have discovered perpetual,
motion out in your state, Col Blue"
said Maj. Picker to the representative
at-large from Kansas, as they took
seats in the house restaurant for an
oyster feast.
''They have discovered all the other
crankisms out there, so L am prepared
for any new allegations. "Elucidate!"
replied the colonel, sententiously.
why, a man from Kansas has just
been telling me that a firm composed
of moneyed men has bought lot of
land in Kansas and will stock it with
1000 black cats and 5000 rats 1t Is
estimated that the cats will increase
to $1,000 in a year or two and black
cat skins are worth 81. The rats, he
says, will multiply five times as fast
as the cats. The rats will be used to
feed the cats, and the skinned cats to
feed the rats and if that isn't mighty
near perpetual motion, I don't know
what is."-Washington Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

No business was transacted at the park
board last night. Only two of the members
attended and as this was not quorum an adj
journment was taken.
A barn in the rear of j. A. Dillingham;
residence, 500 Rondo street. was damaged by
hre to the extent CT 500 shortly after il
o'c:ock last night. The origin of the fire Is
unknown There was stock in the barn.
though number of chickens were suffocated.
Chief of Detectives Schweitzer and Supt
weber, OF the st. Paul branch OF the Pink
The trip is one for pleasure and the s,euths
will be gone ten days.
DR.. A. B. Ancker, superintendent of the
city and county hospital, has gone East on a
short vacation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
SALTWATER NEWS.
Federal Prisoner PardOned by the
President.

Clay Peters, a United States convict has
been pardoned by President Mckinley. Peters
sent here from Oklahoma territory in
1895 to serve four years for perjury.
The board of county commissioners met
yesterday and adjourned until Aug 2.
L. L. Manwarng has presented a handsome
gold medal to the North Hill Gun cub, to be
contested for. 1t must be won three times
in succession by member of the club before
it becomes his property.
A trial of q street car with a Patton storage
battery will be made here the latter part of
this week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
VIII SUPERVISE the Girls.

Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, CT Cambridge
City, Ind, has been engaged to take charge
of the new girls department at the state
agricultural school at st. Anthony Park. Mrs.
Meredith is a woman of education, who, after
the death of her husband fifteen years ago.
managed her farm with such success that
its fame became more than local. She pos
sesses rare executive capacity therefore
combined with a thorough sympathy with and
knowledge of things agricultural She has
been engaged in the farmers institute work
for several years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
A Dizzy YiIdiz Kiosk Jo..a

What is your pleasure, OH ruler of the
faithful asked the prime minister, "as to
the selection of an ambassador to express to
the British people our love fT the inhdels3
l presume it should be at least a pasha"
The sublime Porte nodded 81 think" he
ot0rved. that for that"
He whooped loudly for the musicians 81
lenca
1--WE Mustapha Bey. Yes
rude shout betokened their sycophantish
appreciation.-New York Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
CH1CAGo's PRACTICAL MAYOR,

Other cities may have councils as
are not as extensively advertised.
Other cities have mayors, as Chicago
has had, who do not know how to
handle such councils. Chicago has one
now in Carter Harrison who knows
how to deal with them and has the
courage to do it. When they passed an
ordinance which granted public fran
chise to the General Electric company
to construct and operate a railway, he
vetoed it. The law requires the assent
to the application for such a charter of
specified number of the property
owners along the line. This was Sc
cured on the pledge of the company to
put in an underground trolley. Having
secured the requisite assent it
CREASED enough aldermen to get a
charter through allowing an overhead
trolley. For this and other reasons the
mayor vetoed the measure. But the
company proceeded, as other compan-
les had to jam the bill through over
his veto. 1t bribed where needed and
gave it out that the council would
override the veto. Then this very
practical mayor went to work in a very
practical way, considering the material
he had to deal with. He did not sit
down on his dignity and let the hood
low, n
weak spots. Some were saloon keepers.
These were promptly notified by the
police that they would have to walk
within the laws or their licenses would
be revoked by the mayor. Others ran
gambling dens and these were notified
that the mayor would shut them up
if that veto was overruled. This is
simply fighting the devil with fire, the
only weapon with which he is assail-
able. Without this contingent of bcod-
ling and gambling aldermen there were
not enough votes to pass the ordinance
over the mayors head. The measure
failed = and Chicago people again re-
joice. The Republican Herald is moved
to say of this Democratic mayor that
1--WE may thank our stars for the pres
ence in the mayors office of an Honest
Man With Club The Tribune gives
him credit grudgingly, unable to for
get the dire disasters it predicted if he
were elected.
The second Harrison is an improve
ment on the first, and he was "the
best mayor the city ever had I'D to
his day. Less a demagogue than his
father he learned under him the
methods of Doodle aldermen and hood
ling corporations. He learned the
weakness of the boodlers and where
the strength Of the mayor was. He
knew that they have but one sensitive
nerve and that is their pocket nerve.
Much as they love Doodle thew value
more their saloons and gambling dens
that give them the political hold that
makes Doodle possible. They therefore
preferred to forego the brides of this
company rather than run the risk of
ties. We have had occasion to admit
the disappointment in our own exnee.-
tations of what kind of a mayor would
develop from this experiment with "the
son of his father" He has shown him
self conscientious executive, enforc-
ing the civil service law, so obnoxious
to the gang, to the last letter in the
last sentence. And now he has proved
his capacity to grapple with and throt-
tie that most insidious form of NUM-
c1pal corruption, wealthy and I'M
scrupulous corporation on the one
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20

The city railway company has undoubtedly
the two vocalists, Miss Vina Reddington and
Henry de Lorme The vocal work consists
Of contralto and tenor solos and duets in
the rendition of both German and English
ballads. The Danz-Seibert orchestra has
been rendering the instrumental music this
week. and giving much care to the selection
of its
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
Sugar DiGerentInI.

WASHINGTON, July f9.-The treasury de-
partment, taking 1914 pounds of raw sugar,
testing SO degrees, required to make 100
pounds of hard refined today made public
statement estimating the sugar differential as
follows: Act of 1894, 1892 cents. House sched-
ule, 1888 cents Senate schedule, 1888 cents.
Conference schedule, 1892 cents per hundred
pounds.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20

only to renew the work. He finally went to
Milwaukee and telegraphed his wife that he
to come on at once. She did So leaving their
trunks for an unpaid board bill at their
boarding house on Smith avenue. Lodtman
was quite a billiardist, among his other &C
complshments.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
On Pleasure Bent.

The G o b has planned a Jolly
Journey for party of four. They go
East via the Great Lakes. Visit Nj
agara Falls, Buffalo. New York City,
Boston, Newport, Brooklyn. Jersey
City and other points Of interest. Are
you eligible. See Display AID.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
Carleton Gets the Wells Library.

Special to the Globe
NORTHFIELD, Mimi, July 19.-The library
of the late DR.. George H. Wells, of Plymouth
church, Minneapolis, has been given to Garlic
ton college, and is now being placed in the
beautiful Scoville memorial library. 1t con-
sists of about 1.40O volumes on theology,
history, biography and travel. The books are
the gift of Henry G. Wells, of Dover, Ill,
a brother of DR.. Wells, and will be a valuable
addition to the large library already owned by
Carleton.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
soHooLMA,AMs AT SCHOOL.
Over One Hundred Attending u Rush
City Institute.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
RUSH CITY, Mimi, July 19.-The state
training school for teachers now in session
here has LOG teachers in attendance, with
more coming; conducted by Mrs. Jaquis, of
Crystal Lake, assisted by Prof Colgrove and
wife and Miss Linton, under the supervision
or County Superintendent Modn. Prof.
wells, of Saltwater, delivered his lecture
to the school and citizens in the opera
mouse one evening this week on the Life
pie Of the town also gave a hop in the same
place one evening, while small picnics by
bicycle parties have been in order at the
lake is contemplated, with several social
functions
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20

The closed season on elks shows what ben
ehts may accrue from such law. Minneap-
oils is completely filled with the antIered host
this week.-Princeton Union
Judging from the unrestrained talk of Min
neapolitans and the subdued comments of the
papers, We take it that the Elks there
thought the season was a kind of Doc Ames'
wide-open one.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-20
Defender Jury Disagreed.

0PeCIdI 20 IIIe GIUDt.
, BISMARCK, N. D., July 19.-The jury in
the case of Defender, tried for the murder Of
members of the Spicer family, disagreed, and
were discharged after being out sixty hours.
The vote stood eleven for conviction to one
for acquittal, and eleven men could not bring
the othe; man over. Judge Sauter then or
dered that the trial of the other cases be
removed to Burleigh county, and they will be
he'd at Bismarck next November or Deem
ber