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The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-20
PITCHER KNORR RELEASED.
He Gsve Bogus Address "a Manager M M
ray and Failed To Receive Contract.

He Gsve Bogus Address "a Manager Mur-
ray and Failed to Receive Contract.
The Providence management has re-
leased Knorr, who was fsrmcd out to Now
Bedford the latter part of last season.
When Knorr went away he gave his ad-
dress 20 Q certain place In Kentucky, and
o contract was forwarded TO him ct that
place, but In course of time IL was re-
turned, there being no postofnce st the
place mentioned by Knorr. Nothing was
heard of tho player till Q few days ago,
when he wrote to President Draper asking
what disposition would be msde Of his
case, a. he had heard nothing. Under the
circumstances Il was thought only fair TO
give the player his release and give him IN
opportunity to sign elsewhere.
Ru.se Signs with New YORK.
New York. April 2o.--The Journal this
morning says: Amos Rusie, the great
baseball pitcher. has signed n contract
Tor the season VI iSe7 rendered him by
the New York Baseball club. and viii
report TO the team for duty forthwith.
tusies contract calls for q salary Of
s24oo for the season.
An Essy MARI.
TAUNTON, April 2o.--Boston University
came to this city yesterday and played the
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-20

His Brown 3, Holy Cross 10. ErroS-
Brown 4, Holy Cross 3. Batteries-Brady
and 0urney, McKenna and Brennan. Um-
pdre-0affney. Time-1h. 5lm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07
CONFESSIONS OF CRIMINALS.

The confessions of criminals are
sometimes very remarkable, not the
confessions of atrocious crimes after
the actors have been convicted and
they realize there is absolutely no hope
of escape from the gallows, but confess
sions of crimes they have committed
and with which they have not been
charged, nor even suspicioned. Two
such cases recently occurred, one in
Baltimore the other in New York.
In the Baltimore case a young man
walked into the Central police station,
and said: Captain, 1 am in trouble,
and my conscience has hurt me for
some time. I am the bookkeeper for
-. wholesale tobacco dealers, and
within the last two years 1 have stolen
81, 900 from them, and 1 want to give
myself up
The captain was astonished. and
could scarcely believe what he heard.
He sent for the young mans father
and employer. When they came the
young man again told his story, and
both were shocked. A charge of en-
bezzlement was entered against the
young man and he was then locked
up.
The New York case is even more in
teresting and the confession of guilt
was even more heroic.
A package of diamonds had been
stolen and a colored girl, a servant in
the house from which the diamonds
were taken was charged with
the crime, and the evidence,
circumstantial, was very much
against her. She protested her
innocence, but her protest was that
of an obscure colored girl and had no
weight. The real culprit was a man
whose portrait was in the rogues gal
lery of the police station. The thief
knew of the charge against the girl
and that he alone could clear her of
it. No suspicion attached to him in
any quarter and his pockets were lined
with the proceeds of his ill-gotten
gains. If he, thief, took an honor
able course and freed the poor girl, it
meant a long term of Imprisonment
for himself. He, a criminal, with his
portrait in the rogue's gallery, deter
mined to take the honorable course.
He walked into the police station and
accused himself of the crime. At first
the police were more than incredulous,
but he soon convinced them of his
guilt, and was taken into custody.
Surely men who can do such things
as these when it means so much to
them, the loss of liberty and all that
the word implies, cannot be wholly
bad. They are of the class that is
termed the unfortunate criminal, and
their honorable action appeals to all
honest people. They were penitents be-
fore they became prisoners. What
is the duty of society in such cases?
Who can say?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07
THE TARIFF HEARINGS.

The accounts of the tariff hearings
that come as news each day do not do
full justice to the subject. The people
the demands, demands of plumber pure
and simple. The people are not so
much interested in the tariff as are
the direct beneficiaries of it. Here is a
specimen of what the demands of some
are:
w. f. Overybury, of New York, said
that he spoke for the first company,
and the only present company engaged
in the manufacture of chlorate of pot
ash in the United States It established
it's plant about six mO>thS ago, shut
down after running four months, and
is now looking to congress to protect
it by a duty of cents a pound so that
it can start up again.
How many hands did you employ?"
he was asked. About So
Q. How much capital have you put
up?
A. About s15O,0OO.
Q. Why did you suspend work? A.
Because the price has gone down
steadily ever since we began business.
1t used to be 13 or IA cents a pound UP
to 1884. 1t has now got down to
cents.
@. Who supplies it at cents? A.
The foreign manufacturers. They sell
it at home for cents. but here for Z,
because they can afford to send us
their surplus when they can enter it
free.
c. What proportion of this cost of
manufacture here goes to labor? A
About 2I9 cents a pound.
q. Would not the proposed duty raise
the price TO the consumer? 4. Not
above what he has been in the habit
of paying. He used to pay IA; a duty
of cents would raise the 7-cent price
to u cents, which would fall inside of
the old accustomed rate.
@. What is the raw material prin-
cipally used in making chlorate of pot
ash? a. Chloride of potash. We i'm
port it from Germany. 1t comes in
free, and we should prefer to leave it
free.
Q. Why cannot you afford to keep
your works running, even at the pres
ent market price? A. Because it is
less than it cost us to make the chlor-
ate.
Q. How much does it cost you, in
Guiding every item of expense to make
a pound of chlorate? A. In round num-
bers, cents.
Q. For what purpose is chlorate of
potash used in the arts? A 1t is used
in calico dyeing, in blasting powder, in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07
INTEREST IN WoLCoTT'S MIS-
SION.

The mission of Senator Wolcott to
England and Europe is, it seems,
arousing much interest in England.
This fact of itself is quite encouraging,
for in all such affairs as that upon
which Senator Wolcott has gone
abroad apathy on the part of those
who are visited is the one thing above
all others that is to be dreaded. There
appears to be no apathy in English
financial circles as to the mission of
the Colorado senator
International action on the question
does not necessarily depend upon the
action of England, but if that country
will take the lead among European ma
tons in any movement looking to mu-
tual agreement for the free coinage
of silver, it viii hasten such an event
more than the action of any other
two countries could. The only thing
that will, in all probability, induce any
such step on England's part will be
her direct interest in the question
through India. There is no doubt
that the closing of the Indian minis
to silver has been detrimental to Eng
fish interests OF all kinds in that coun-
try.
Our dispatches yesterday stated, dis
cussing the object of Senator Wolcott's
mission and the chances for its sue
cess, that so far as England is con-
cerned, an international conference
is impracticable unless a definite basis
of action is proposed in the form of a
new ratio between gold and silver. If
such be the case a definite basis should
be afforded for an international con-
ference, if for no other purpose than
that there might be something to talk
TO. If England can be won over to a
conference on the monetary question,
there Will be no difficulty whatever in
inducing other nations to join in one
Nothing whatever can be predicated
of the success or failure of Senator
Wolcott's mission at this early date.
It will at least serve the very good
purpose of bringing home to the va
rious European governments the fact
that the people of the United States
are terribly in earnest on the silver
question, and that if Europe will not
lend them any aid in restoring silver
TO its proper place as a monetary
metal, they will eventually take indie
pendent action themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

friction matches, and other lines of
manufacture.
Then said Mr.. McMillin, who till
this moment had kept rather quiet,
you are asking us to tax the whole
people of the United States more than
90 per cent on an article of very wide
use in order to accommodate an in
dustry which employs just so opera
tives?''
Here is plain proposition that all
the people of the United States shall
be taxed for the benefit of a single
small industry that employs not to ex-
coed half a hundred hands. If the
foreign manufacturers of chlorate of
potash can furnish it to the American
people at cents a pound and the
only company in the United States
cannot furnish it for less than II cents,
it is hardly proper or just or decent
to, ask that the price of chlorate of
potash shall be raised to all from
cents to II cents that one small COM
pany may fatten upon the increased
price. So far IS we have seen this is
the finest example of impudence' of
tariff demands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

the whole people are interested and
take a pride. Even the most radical
non-conformist takes pride in the
cathedral of his town though he may
lock upon the ritualism of which it is
the home as being the very symbol of
an that is anti-Christ. His pride is
wholly in the grandeur of the noble
pile. To place these cathedrals under
the care of a national commission for
the purpose of keeping them in repair
and of restoration when needed, would
be eminently proper. Such a step
would do no violence whatever to any
vested rights, because the Church of
England being a state church the ca
thedrals are in reality state buildings.
Their use would be the same as at
present, and even in the event of discs
tablishment would continue the same
as now.
The restoration of these gothic piles
has been a source of much apprehen-
sion to the English archaeologists and
architects. Whenever the question
comes up whether such and such
cathedral shall be restored there is a
controversy in the press that stirs the
whole public that is interested in such
matters, the great apprehensions in
the minds of those who are competent
to determine what shall be done al
ways being that it will be improperly
and bunglingly done. With a national
commission in charge, repairs and
restoration would be properly done and
at the proper time. It would always
have the funds for such purposes at its
command, while at present when such
work is undertaken popular subScrip-
tions, always a precarious means, have
t. be relied on. All students and lovers
of gothic architecture will wish that
the English cathedrals may be put I'M
der the care of national commission.
They would then become very much
the same as what are called in France
historical monuments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Yesterday our morning contemporary
said it did not, as a rule, believe very
much in the sense of justice or appre-
citation of high purpose of modern
legislators. Our evening contemporary
is inclined to take exception to this
confession of want of faith in modern
legislators, and says that to insinuate
that the legislators of modern times
are deficient in the sense of justice or
appreciation of high purpose, is to
deny a patent historical fact. To
certain degree we are inclined to agree
with both our contemporaries. For in
stance, the Tribune can justify it's
stand by citing the first state legisla-
ture in Utah, which was Republican;
while the News will be able to cite the
record of the second state legislature,
which is Democratic, as a complete
vindication of its position.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07
CARE OF cATHEDRALs.

1t is said that a widespread demand
has arisen in England for the transfer
of the care of the cathedrals from the
deans and chapters to a national COM
mission. Now the deans and chapters
OF the various cathedrals claim and
exercise exclusive right over the
church property. Thus far they have
exercised their right with moderation
and discretion while the cathedrals
under their charge have had their low
ing care.
There are many things in favor of
having the cathedrals placed in charge
of a national commission. They are
in reality national monuments in which
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07
Did YOu Ever

Try Electric BitteTs as a remedy for
your troubles? If not, get a bottle
now and get relief. This medicine has
been found to be peculiarly adapted to
the relief and cure of all female conf
plants, exerting a wonderful direct in
ffuence in giving strength and tone to
the organs. If you have loss OF appe-
tite, constipation, headache, fainting
spells, or are nervous. sleepless, excit-
able, melancholy or troubled with dizzy
spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine
you need. Health and strength are
guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents
and S1.00 at z. c. NJ. 1. drug dept.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

rUtah's mineral production for the
year 1886 is estimated by the most re-
liable authorities to have been S15,-
S97, 266, or S1,S77,307 more than it was
the preceding year. And this, not
withstanding the refusal OF the people
to try the experiment of boosting so
cents worth Of silver up to the dollar
notch" says the Omaha Bee. If the
policy voted for by the people of Utah
lad been adopted, the states mineral
utput would have been worth more
nd the property of the people in
very state in the Union would have
cen made more valuable.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07
TALES OF THE DAY.
Sambo's Penitence.

Crypt: A Washington man who sus-
pected a colored man in his employ of
tampering with his private stock of
whisky allowed the demijohn to become
empty. and. instead of filling it again.
pat the liquor in bottles in a cupboard
and labelled them Poison One night
as he came home from the theatre. he
caught the colored servant in the act
Selling the bottle in mock terror, the
employer exclaimed:
Great heaven Do you know what you
are doing? Don't you see what that bot
tie contains IS marked poison?"
The colored man held it off and looked
at it. Then he smelled it, and. with q
look of melancholy, replied: '"Tain't poi
son. sub. Is done been fooled ag in.
How dared you tamper with it,
whether you knew it was poison or not?''
Boss. il was dis-a-way. Fun de way
yoh acted bout dat demijohn in de cellar
| done thought you had yoh 5 PIGEONS OBJ
me. an it made me melancholy. for sho'.
Is been tryin' fob mos two weeks now
ter commit suicide out'n dat bottle''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

THE HERALD is n franchise mem
be< OF The United Press, and re-
ceives the complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate intelligence
of all current events In fse whole
world. With its special wire and
operator in it's own Office THE HER
AID is daily In Immediate possess
sion of the latest news up 4iII the
hour OF k0IrE TO press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

The decision of the Smithsonian In
stitution authorities to present the sui
tan with life-sized figure of a Sioux
Indian may be regarded as a delicate
compliment or as a fine bit of satire.
If it is intended to suggest that when
Americans are murdered they should
be. soalped. it is quite likely that the
sultan win profit by the idea.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Members of the Cuban junta are
now calling upon Major Mckinley at
Canton. They have reached the con-
clusion that so long as Mr.. Cleveland
is president they may say. as they
enter the White House: "An hope
abandon, We who enter here"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Under no circumstances should he
be elected to the council is the vef-
dict of the Municipal Voters league of
Chicago on Martin B. Madden. Yet the
chances are that Martin b. Madden
viii be sent TO the United States SEN
ate to succeed General Palmer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

When the new congress meets Judge
Holman viii resume his old place as
the watch dog of the treasury. And
still the rushing of the GROWER in
Washington viii go on.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

The flibusters seem to have no
trouble in landing. in Cuba wherever
they want to. In case of trouble with
Spain, Uncle Sam should lose no time
in engaging their services.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

It is said that Senator Wolcott will
be royalty received by the English BIZ
metallists. It is not at all improbable
that he viii be received by royalty it
self
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Madrid Impartial says that in Cuba the
Spanish are fighting for a glorious
past That is precisely it. Spain fights
for the past, with all its wrongs and
tyrannieS. The CubanS are fighting for
a glorious future of liberty. 1t is CON
test between the sixteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

1t is said that now the ambition of
Hetty Green's son is to be a railroad
king. Three months ago his ambition
was TO be an American governor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

LAWYERS. ATTENTION!
The He-uld Will print your Briefs
with prOmptness and accuracy. We
solicit your patronage. Telephone
us, Ee. 857, sno we will send for
youx manuscript.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

There are thoughts that seem to
come from heaven, says the song.
And then again, there are. thoughts
that do not seem TO come from heaven.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Chicago Tribune: Over the Line Fence
You don't have no Christmas at your
house Your dads pawnbroker."
That's all right. He'll have most o the
Christmas things you've got at your house
fore you've had EN- MONTH"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Detroit Free Press: What did you
stop that clock in your room for, Jane?
so-ne sort of fit every mornin', mum
jest when 1 wants to Sleep
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Yonkers Statesman: Would you please
help me?" said the poor beggar to the
pedestrian. Il have a wife and five
children at home. and an installment tc
pay on my bicycle tomorrow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Minneapolis Times: If Mr.. Madden is
elected to the senate from Illinois the al
legged resemblance between Shelby Gull
LON and Abraham Lincoln will be more
remarked than ever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Boston Transcript: Robert-''I am GER
tain of her constancy. She tells me thai
she loves me with all her heart Rich
ard-"Yes, but how would it be in case Of
heart failure?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

San Francisco Examiner: There seems
to be some Spanish official in the
Philippine islands who can work a type
writer almost as rapidly as anybody on
WeylerS staff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Punch: Sportsman Ito Snobson who
hasn't brought down a single bird all
Snobsor-"Oh dear yes. I've often shot
at his house" Sportsman-'Ever hit it?'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Willie Waldorf Astor is said to have
the govt This is the best evidence yet
that he is a full-hedged Englishman
now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Puck: Between Waltzes: Molly-'.Ht
sad the world had been a desert to hin
till he met me-" Polly-"That explains
why he dances so like a camel, L sup
pose
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

London Figaro: Womanly Intuition
Il don't know" cried the excited femin-
inc voice in the darkness. whether you
are my husband or a burglar but I'm
going to be on the safe side and shoot"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

General Weyler has bought a new
typewriting machine and is turning
out victories with unprecedented fire.
quency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Platts chances to be senator from
New York are said to be very good.
He surveyed and plated his ground
long ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

The crash of that old Toronto firm
cannot in any manner be attributed
to the agitation for free silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Truth: No Time for Half Measures
Nervous Prisoner-"Had l better get hold
of d lawyer. do you think? It's three
years il they convict me- Friendly Con-
stable" Humph, in that case you'd better
get hold of a juryman."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Fiiegende Batter: Absent-minded Pro-
fessor-''Delighted to meet you again
after so many years miss Elderly
Lady-"No longer miss, Professor am
married" Professor Well
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

General Weyler may be lacking the
sinews Of war, but at present he is
well supplied with Money.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

A great many people are needlessly
agitated over the fear that the agita-
ton will be kept up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

A poor excuse is not better than
none for excuses have to be made for
the poor excuse.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

In politics it isn't so awfully far
from the sublime to the slime.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Cleveland Plain Dealer: ''Why did
Blinkersdorf leave Boston?" HE claimed
room for him?' NO room in the narrow
streets. He's SO bowlegged, you know
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Much isn't heard OF Mark Hanna
these days. But from this it should
not be considered that he is idling
away his time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

The Inauguration of President Nc
Kinley will give a tremendous impetus
TO the tin pie-plate industry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

So soon as Major Mckinley is inau-
gurated all the ofice-seekers will be as
wild as March hares.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Convict labor has ceased in New
York. The work that makes convicts
goes on just the same.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

II half the railroad rumors were true
it might be said that all railroads lead
to Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

Before McKinley's cabinet is finished
a great many politicians Will have
been carved upon it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

CHICAGO Record: Mr. Garner, the cele-
brated student of monkeys dialect, is in
Chicago. 1t is supposed that he has
come here to make special investigation
of some of the gentlemen in the council
chamber.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-07

1t is by no means an easy task to
get onto the curves of a political
rounder.