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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
JOB LOT LYNCHING.
Vengeance Taken for a Series
of Exasperating Robberies.

their lines and latterly they have prey
ed upon the citizens. The citizens
have taken the law into their own
hands in this locality before, but not
before to such an extent as today. The
Reno brothers were iynched together
at Seymour. IId., twenty years ago.
and the Archer gang, three in num-
Der, were strung up together at Shoals.
Ind, twelve years ago. There have
been numerous lynchings of one at a
time but the LOB lot' of five today
breaks the record.
JOB LOT LYNCHING
About 1 o'clock this morning horse
men seemed to come from all quar-
ters. They dismounted on a hill side
near Versailles. Little time was lost
for the details had been prearranged.
Quietly about 400 men marched into
town. The Jail was in charge of Will
lam keenan,, Sheriff Bushings
brother-in-law, the former being at
home on account of an injury. In
front of the Jail proper is the resi-
dence, and in that were Acting Jailor
Keenan, and Robert Barrett, William
Block and Wensett, deputies. Shortly
before o'clock there was a knock at
the door, and when keenan, and the
others opened the door they were con-
fronted with pistols by three masked
men, and asked to turn over the keys.
This they did, and then the mob filed
into the jail. Three of the prisoners,
Levi Jenkins and Shuller, were on
the lower floor, while Gordon and An
drews were in the upper tier. Levi
and Jenkins and Shuller showed fight,
and the former was shot through the
breast, while the skulls of the two
latter were crushed with a stool
Ropes were in readiness, and adjust
ing a Moose around the neck of each,
their feet and hands were pinioned,
and then the march began. They
were not carried, but, with several
men at the end of each rope, the five
prisoners were dragged a distance OF
200 feet to an elm tree, where their
bodies were suspended. 1t is said
Levi, Jenkins and Shuller were dead
before they reached the place. Death
resulted from hanging in the case of
Gordon and Andrews.
Andrews and Gordon had already
been wounded, having been shot sew
eral times while attempting to rob 3
store at Correct last Saturday night.
Shuller was in Jail for attempting
burglary, and Levi and Jenkins had
just been indicted by the grand jury
for robbery. They had failed to give
bond and were put in Jail last even
ing. The bandages that were on the
wounded men were found later this
morning along the street, where they
had been torn off as the men were
dragged along. Lyle Levi was an old
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
FATALITY IN THE BLAZE.
Business Block at Redficld, S. d., in
Ashes-LOss. $4,000.

REDFIELD, S. D., Sept. 15.-Prob-
ably the worst fire that has visited
Redfield during it's existence. started
from a gasoline stove at o'clock this
morning in a lodger's rooms in the
Anderson brick block. So quickly did
the flames spread that in two hours
the entire block was consumed. Lodg-
ers upstairs escaped from the building
with portions of the goods.
The fire started in a room occupied
by Howard Williams and wife, and
both were burned very badly. Mr..
Williams died later in the day as the
result of his injuries.
The loss of the block and contents is
estimated at $25,OOO Anderson's fur
niture house saved a portion of it's
stock The opera house and contents
are a complete loss. DR.. Boardman,
dentist, lost all his office effects A.
w. Greenman, dry goods and groceries,
lost almost his entire stock.
Insurance is as follows: Anderson's,
$500 on block and $500 on stock; Green
man, $1,000 on stock; little or no other
insurance. Altogether it was the
worst fire the city has ever sustained.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
TWO SIDES TO BRIBERY TALK.
RockefeIIer's Lawyer Tells of That
Telegram.

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept 15.-Yester-
day in the Merritt VS.. Harris case.
Henry E. Harris testified that J. p.
Cotton, the Rockefeller attorney, Of
fered him $4,000 for a certain telc-
gram, sent by Lon Merritt to M. nj.
Clark He did not say what the tele-
gram contained. This morning !. j.
Cotton went on the stand, and said
that the proposition was made TO him
by Harris, who came into his Office,
and told him that he had o. telegram
from Lon Merritt to Clark, which was
very important to him. This occurred
after the decision of the court OF ap-
peals, ordering new trial. The telA.
gram would have sustained the theory
of the defense in the big Merritt VS..
Rockefeller case as to the signing Of,
the contract forming the consolidated
mines, and would. If it could lave.
been produced. probably resulted III
verdict for Rockefeller Cotton seys.
Harris made a proposition to leave Tie.
telegram lying around where he could
find it, and when asked what lie ax-
pected in return, named S95.00G a. the
figure. Mr.. Cotton said rs spu-Ied the.
offer
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
Coal Strike
Is Off......

PITTSBURG, Pa, Sept. 15.-The coal
miners strike, as far as the Pittsburg
district is concerned, is off, and the
g, 900 diggers will resume work tomor
row at the 65-cent rate. The decision
to ignore the ten-day clause, which
was a condition of the Columbus set
tlement;; was arrived at late this after
noon by a delegate convention Of min
ers representing the entire district.
There were only four dissenting votes
when the resolution to go to work at
once was voted upon.
The resolutions adopted create a
scale committee for the year; require
mines to close down on Oct. 1, where
the company refuses to weigh coal be-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
5 twenty-five thousand Men
s Will Return to Work
5 Today.

fore screening; determine to continue
camps at mines of New York & Cleve-
land Gas Coal company; assess work.
men per cent of wages for the ex-
pense and heartily indorses the uni
formity agreement. The principal
resolution, allowing the miners to re-
sumo at once was debated until late
in the afternoon, when President Do
Ian took the floor. He said the ten
day clause was an outrage and an eff
fort to please a few dissatisfied men,
His plea for immediate resumption
was so eloquent that the resolution
went through with rush, only four
voting against it. A wage scale was
agreed to- and the convention ad-
iourned.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
SAYS HE KILLED THE BOY.
MaxweIrs AccOmpIice Tells Her
Story on the Stand.

Story on the stand.
Special to the Globe.
BRAINERD, Mimi, Sept. 15.-David
Maxwell is on trial under an indict-
ment which charges him with murder
in the first degree, the victim being his
seven-year- son Willie. For the
crime Mrs Nellie Prayer is now serv-
ing life sentence at saltwater, she
having made confession at the March
term, later on duplicating Maxwell,
with whom she had been living for
over a year previous to the crime.
On the witness stand today she tes-
tilted that Maxwell, on the evening oe
Feb. 19, told her he intended getting
rid of the boy, and that he would
secret the body In the hay loft of the
barn and she must fire the building
and burn the body in order to conceal
the crime She stated that she refused
to mix up with it, but the next day
near noon Maxwell came in the house
and told her he had killed the boy and
that she must do her part in firing the
building and she did so. Mrs. Prayer
is very bitter towards Maxwell, and
sentiment is divided as to his guilt or
innocence. The case will occupy the
balance of the week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
MOVEMENT OF STEAMSHIPS.

NEW YORK-sailed: st. Paul., southamp-
ton; Teutonic, Liverpool; Kensington, Ant
werp. Arrived: Persia, Hamburg; Servia,
Naples; Lain, Bremen.
LIVERPOOL Sailed: Majestic. New York;
Rhynland, Philadelphia Arrived: Aurania,
New York.
SOUTHAMPTON-Arriv Paris, New
York
PLYMOUTH-Arrived Saale, New York
LONDON-Arrived: Massachusetts, New
York.
QUEBNSTOWN-Arri Germanic, New
York.
ANTWERP-Arrived: Pennsylvania, Phila-
delphia.
ROTTERDAM-Saile Spaarndam, New
York.
PENHAGEN-Arrived: Island, New
York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

considerable force The losses they
have sustained will probably deter
them from any bold offensive move
ment against Samana. Gen. Yeatman-
Biggs will content himself with hold
ing them in check, pending the start
of Sir William Lockhart, commander
of the Punjab frontier force, fort
night hence with the punitive expedl-
ton to Tirah.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
Reekeepers Met.

Special to the Globe.
WINONA, Mimi, Sept. 15.-The Southern
Minnesota Beekeepers association held their
annual convention in this city today in the
rooms of the county commissioners at the
court house Members OF the organization
were present from all over Southern Mime
sota A number of interesting papers
the industry under consideration were read.
The following officers elected for the
coming year: President, E. B. Huffman; vice
prsidens, John TurnbuI, W.sK. Bates w.
ii. Stohman, Fred Oech and j. w. Gates,
secretary. C. A. Gils; treasurer, Mrs Will
lam Berthe.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
GRAIN FIRM FAILS.

It's Liabilities May Reach Million
Dollars.
NEW YORK, Sept Is. = Seymour
Bros, grain brokers, this city, assign
ed today The firm had Offices in
various parts of the country. The
firms standing was good and it is said
to have done a large business. The
assignees said it would be impossible
to give an estimate Of the assets and
liabilities until an inventory had been
taken. 1t is reported, however that
the liabilities may reach nearly 81 ,00O,-
900. 1t is said that the firms failure
was caused by heavy dealings in
wheat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
St. pauI Boy Sentenced.

TURTLE LAKE, Sept 15.-Thomas Clark.
Is years old, formerly of St. Paul, has just
bc-en sentenced to states prison for three
years for burglary The crime was committed
in the village of Amery, Polk county, on
the night of Aug. II, by breaking open and
robbing the store of Christ Peterson & ca.
The trial was before Judge Vinje, OF this cir
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The common law defines highway as
~agluring at the mountain and ending
at the sea. In Pennsylvania this def
milton must be changed to a way that
begins at the mines and ends in muir
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

Nations to the right of us, nations
to t;,a l.,f5 Of lis. nations all around US
appear % be building torpedo boat de-
s!raYers anG sichr but only Turkey and
tlA Asri,l!s seem e have courage
> SSIrss!lr:l IL aa.cA aailjron and canister.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
wntery Grave In cistern.

Special TO Inc Globe.
three-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Cove fell into cisterp this morning about
o'clock and was drowned, Mr.. Cove :s Q
Norscman and was away ram a"r.c IN at
tendance at thr Nasscp fair. Mr. aad Ara
Gave axe formerly :ram IiulmVa
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
FRONTIER FIGHTING.
1t Continues, But Is Probably Not
Very Important.

LONDON, Sept. ia ditpatch from
Bombay received tonight reports that
the fighting continues around Fort
Lockhardt and Fort Gulistan, but as
no official news on the subject has been
received it is believed that the fighting
cannot be very important, the enemy
having displayed the customary tactics
of retiring whenever confronted by a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
BULLETIN OF
THE ST. PRUI GIOBE
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1G, 1897.
Weather for Today
:, Fair, Decidedly Cooler.

PAGE 1.
Fire Loss of $4,000 at MOOrhead.
Southern Cities Panic-Stricken.
Big Strike is Ended.
Five Lynched in Indiana,
PAGE2.
Days Social Events.
Robertson Golden Wedding.
Capitol Contract Signed.
Oil and Drug Men Banquet.
Railway Wreck Near Seventh Street.
PAGE 3.
Minneapolis Matters.
ST. Paul Woman Sees Hayward.
Steamer Excelsior in From Alaska.
PAGE 4.
Editorial.
Manchester College Reopens.
Mai. Mclaughlin on Indian Service.
Gossip in Hotel Corridors.
N. Y. Democrats Repudiate Silver.
PAGE 5.
Buckeyes and HOosiers Break Even.
National League Results.
Results In the Golf Tourney.
Days Sporting Gossip.
Quiet Reigns at HazletOn.
PAGE 6.
Stocks Make High Record Prices.
Bar Silver, 55 3-4c.
Cash Wheat in Chicago, 94 Use.
Worlds Markets Reviewed.
PAGE z.
Heavy Shipments of Flour,
Railway Gossip.
Evidence Damaging to Luetgert,
August Exports Break the Record.
Onceseekers at White House.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 8.
How AIIemannia Can Reopen.
Judge Green Disbarred.
ShufeIdt on the Stand.
MOrfOrd's Defense begun.
News of the Courts.
EVENTS TODAY.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The King of Siam has concluded not
TO arrive in this country at ALL He
thinks he is referred to too f1ippantly
in America. By, by, Chulalongkorn.
We will try to get along without you.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

in East st. Louis fisherman was
arrested !or winkirg at pretty girl.
Hal4 he w-lnbed at girl who wasn't
pretty 80 no doubt would have been
sent 10 ire probate court to have his
head examined.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The Thanksgiving turkey is strut
ting around as though he did not know
we had bone to pick with him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

A fellow up at Dyea, Alaska, threat
ems to discover a lake Of bicycle oil.
On with the dance. And let some
body unearth a rubber mine while
you are about it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

81. sAau, IS good strong name,
vi..es rot only the rlillions OF good
people helieve IN. S5Et whlch stne mil
..:lnairea alce show desire to ue 10.
--Cncn 80 Tnte- Ocean. This, OF course
r.fera 70 The railway, but MINNEAPOLIS
wo:.', .ike il iicss t':a same.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

One of the graduates of the Kelley
institutes has hypnotized jags. He
just gets drunk in his mind without
bathing his internal economy with
Bourbon.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The police of Stockholm occupy quar-
tars furnished with hot and cold baths
and q, piano, with free singing lessons.
?'he police of Stockholm ought to be
good for almost anything except police
t7IIiV
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The president was back at his desk
In Washington yesterday making ap-
pointments He wasn't able to see any
Ohio men, however.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

Put another page in the dictionary
Klondicitis is now defined as a disease
produced by famine and scurvy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

Possibly Mr.. Doran would make a
capital mayor for Mendoza. That
town isn't large.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

Hows this? The biggest strike in
the Deadwood district this year is
known as Lucky 49,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

Indiana is no better than Texas.
Five men were lynched in a bunch in
the Hoosier state yesterday morning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16
EVENTS TODAY.

Met-Trip to Chinatown, SIG.
Grand-HOOsier Doctor, S.15.
Lexington Park, Rase Ball, 2.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The 'possum and the sweet potato
are coming up the pike hand in hand
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

1t is paradoxical, but true, that the
silver forces of Nebraska are nearly
silverless.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

The South hasn't the yellow fever
any more than some of the New York
papers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-16

DR.. Andrews is a pretty fair slayer
himself.
Evening star., 1897-05-08

and Fontainbleau. the greatest OF French
race tracks. The really peculiar thing Is
how an aristocratic club. a club In the
true sense. understood in England and
America. comes to have such a proud voice
In the matters of turf kept up for the
great part by racing stables whose proprie-
tors 1t will not admit to Its deliberations.
Its Dual Character.
The key to the mystery Is to be found in
the double character of the Jockey Club
membership. At the beginning, In the early
days of Louis Philippe. there was but the
Society of Encouragement for the Amelio-
ration of the Equine Race, a collection of
sportsmen and breeders, for the most part
arfstocratic. but with notable plebeian ex-
ceptions, the names of Delamarre and
Lupin, cast at them today, bear witness.
And then out of the Society of Encourage
ment there grew the Jockey Club, a club
not aSocicty-encouraging no ameEoration
but that of its own club membership. This
membership. although absolutely Identical
with that of the society. has always had
it's officers, its tendencies and its traditions,
never necessarily Identical with those of
the society. Here is-note-a large group
of men whose bond IS that of a common
love of sport and common social place. In
such a group it very well may be that one
half will have stronger leaning to mere
club life than the other; while a floating
vacillating handful, holding the real bal
anee of elective power, will be wooed by
both parties in the times of stress. 1t then
Evening star., 1897-05-08
Employees as Stockholders.


A scheme which has been in operatio
for twenty years in Whitwortn's gunmak-
ing establishment at Manchester has now
been extended to Elswick with a slight
change IN the return, and an official an
nouncement is made as follows: Deposits
of not less than Is. and not more than FL
of the depositor's weekly wages will be re-
celved from persons in the employ of the
company each week. Those employees who
are paid quarterly will be allowed to de-
poslt UP to t. weekly. For each individual
the amount of such deposits shall not eX-
ceed zoo IN the case of employees receiving
weekly wages, and 400 in the case of en-
ployes receiving quarterly wages. Interest
will be allowed on such deposits at the
fixed rate of per cent per annum payable
half-yearly, and in addition a bonus will
be paid, on the declaration of the COM
panyS dividend, at the rate per annum Of
half the difference between the fixed rate
of per cent and the dividend.
Sums that have been deposited with the
company for a less period than three
months prior to June 80 next preceding the
declaration of the annual dividend will not
be entitled to the bonus. Sums that have
been deposited for period longer than
three months, but less than twelve months
prior to June 80 in any year will receive a
proportionate amount of the bonus The
bonus will be credited to each depositor
should he so desire it, and will be added to
the principal due to him as and from the
date of payment. Deposits withdrawn will
be entitled to interest at the rate of per
cent per annum from June 50 last preced-
ing up to the date of repayment of the de-
posit But no interest or bonus will be al
lowed on sums Of less than los, or in re-
spect Of any period being a fraction of a
calendar month Arrangements for easy
Withdrawals are made
Evening star., 1897-05-08
Cooperative Applause.

tHe CH1cdgO Irlbune.
One night Sara Bernhardt was playing
Fedora" to a crowded house. The poison
scene, as usual, elected a tempest of ap-
plause from the audience; but ere the clap
ping of hands and the stamping Of feet had
completely died away loud peals of laughter
burst forth from the upper part of the
theater. The sober-minded people in the
boxes and stalls gazed reproachfully at the
eoisterous gods" but in a moment they,
too. began to laugh, for in the front row of
the balcony, and in full view of all stood
two one-armed men. who, unconscious of
the amusement which they caused. were
energetically cooperating to prolong the
applause by clapping their remaining hands
together.
Evening star., 1897-05-08

HAVE B i F o r E
me two autograph
letters Of Abraham
Lincoln which have
never been publish
ed. They were writ
ten six years before
he was elected Pres
jdent of the United
States, just after his
first great campaign
wit h Stephen A.
ID o glas. during
which he made a ma
ffannl rAnr,foftan
Evening star., 1897-05-08

their families. their alliances. their patri-
monies and their debts: a most respectful.
good-old-servant press-the Figaro and
Gaulois-garralous and indiscreet at times,
but never meaning Ill., Ives by recording
their displacements and their doings; and
the "potins." or the gossip stories. of the
clubs" form part of the most red repub.i-
cans daily reading, though in secret. For
''the clubman' in Paris is no other than
tie born Gr.stocrat. and the four clubs are
merely a rearrangement of the male Four
Hundred. which is several thousand
The Jockey Club, the Cercle Of the Union
Simple and that of the Union Ar.issique
and the Cercle of the Rue Royale are four
earthly paradises of u most peculiar tint
of atmosphere A lover of paradox might
say that any Partisan serioasly aspiring
to membership may count with confidence
on his reception into one of them in the
due course of time. What he would real
ly mean. of course. is that no Partisan
Evening star., 1897-05-08

didate refused. although the same man had
already beea accepted by the Jockey Club
Neither of the two sponsors took offense,
and the Due de San Arpi1o remained on
the committee. At the Jockey Club, faith
ers have had their sons refused 1t is thus
a vicious circle is maintained
They refused my candidate. I'll refuse
theirs! And so the slapping and hair-pull-
ing nourishes, to make Partisan clubs the
very peculiar Institutions that they are.
STERLING HEILIG
Evening star., 1897-05-08

life.
Electfn1 Members.
There are clubs. like that of the Union
Artistique, where the members are too
numerous to vote. The candidate would
have to submit his chance to those who
might happen to be present on some day,
and who would not be those of the day be-
fore or the day after. And how could all
the members interest themselves IN finding
out tho situation OF the candidate? 1t has
been wise thing, therefore, to delegate
all power to a committee which informs
itself. questions the sponsors, and accepts
or puts off without talk.
At the Union, at the Jockey Club and at
the Rue Rcyaie, ever since the club has
reached the number of 800 members, they
have ballot for the candidates, and one
black bail always aruuis several white
cnes. But the honor of the candidate is al
ways out of the question. Sympathy alone
is understood to come into play. and the
sponsors cannot take il i'll that their candi-
date is put off because he is nor "sympa-
thetic' to certain members. The rebuff
may seem harder tc bear for the members
of the committee in whom the club has
shown its confidence, as in the case of M.
de Giers aud the Comte de Tufenne. But
even here the turning down OF their man
does not touch them directly, since small
minority and the least caprice are enough
to cause 1t.
Evening star., 1897-05-08
Revision Needed.
From Punch.

From Punch.
Wilkins-"Such idioms as Between the
devil and the deep sea- though very express
sive, are not exactly up to date
Simpson-"They'r not? Well, how would
you improve on the one you quoted, for in
stance?"
Wilkins-"Well, I think a more modern
plan would be to say Between the trolley
car and the scorcher.'
Evening star., 1897-05-08

gions of the earth's
surface concerning
which greater mis-
conception exis 8
than the regions. ly-
ing antfpodally to
one another, which
stretch poleward be-
ycnd the arctic and
antarctic circ lie s
Both of these tracts
in the popular mind
are the embodiment
Evening star., 1897-05-08
Good Answer,

Good Answer.
From Harper's Bazaar.
"Why do you Americans talk through
your noses?" asked Lord Toplofty.
'I don't know" said Hicks. Possibly be-
cause our ancestors didn't all have hats to
talk through, like you English
Evening star., 1897-05-08

At the Jockey Club as well as at the
Union. an unknown person who Is well
presented by popular sponsors has more
chance Of being received At once than q
Partisan who Is well known. well received