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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
HOUSE ROUTINE.
RjJlG introduced

Bills Introduced
H. F. so (Mallette, Rep of Mile Lacsa-To
repeal chapter Az, Special Laws 1889. re
lating to salary of probate judge of Mile Laes
county Passed under suspension of rules
II. f. 81 (Simonson, Rep. of Hennepin1~To
require county auditors and eomptrolIers to
furnish certificates as to tax and Assessment
sales and liens. General legislation.
H. r % tGuttersen, Rep, of Blue Earth
TO amend section 3,67s of General Statutes
1894, relating to meetings and elections of
common school districts. Education
II. f. So Larson, Rep. of Redwood)-To re-
quire payment of fees by foreign COMPANIES
Tor taking out Incorporation papers. General
legislation.
H. F. ga Oommen. Rep, Of Clay)-To pro-
vide for cutting noxious weeds on highways
Towns and counties
H. F. 60 (Foss, Rep, of Grant)-To proyide
for free distribution of sugar beet seed pur
chased by state under act of 1897. Agricul-
ture.
HI. F. sc (Wheaton, Rep, of Hennepin)-To
protect all persons in their civil and legal
rights General legislation.
H. F. 81 (Wallace, Rep, of Hennepin)-To
regulate the practice OF osteopathy in this
state. Judiciary.
Bills Passed
H. F. go (Mallette, Rep, of Mile Lacs)-Re
pealing chapter AT, Special Laws Of 1859. re-
lating to salary of probate judge of Mile Laos
county
s. F. Al Cooler, Dem, of Seott(-To change
the time for holding general terms of district
court for the Eighth judicial district.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
Tour of All Mexico.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way Will start a special sleeping car from
St. Paul and Minneapolis Jan. 2sd. 1894
which will be attached to special train leav,
Ing Chicago Jan. 9th, for a thirty-eight
days tour of all Mexico under managenent
american Tourist Association. Train will
run Sold through from and back to Chi
cago. I'M
1t is vestibuled and will consist of special
baggage car, private compartment sleep
e err Pullman parlor observation and IL
orary car. dining car and (whiIe in Mex
ico) the unique open, no-top observstion
car "Chililith," built by Pullman this wear
for American Tourist Association service.
This is the now famous ''BattIeship Spe-
eial, which conveyed the christening party
OF the man-of-war Wisconsin to California
In November, under the management of Mr.
Reau Campbell, of the American Tourist As
ISOLATION, acknowledged to be the best ap-
pointed train that ever crossed the CONT
nent.
The price of tickets covers absolutely all
expenses-railroad and sleeping car fares,
meals in dining car and at hotels, carriages
guides and Interpreters
For descriptive pamphlets, rates and full
particulars, address J. T. Conley, A G. P
A, c., NJ. & st. P. R'y, St. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
minnesota HISTORICAL society.

The annual meeting of the State Histor-
zeal society will be held at the capitol on
Monday evening, Jan. 49, The public ad
dresses will be given in the hall of the house
or representatives, beginning at o'clock.
The programme will include remarks by the
president, Hon. Alexander Ramsey; History
OF numbering in the st. Croix Valley" Will
liam H. c. Folsom, of Taylor's Falls
Another address relating to this great in
dustry of the state, on the History of Lum-
bering in the Upper Mississippi Region of
Minnesota is being prepared for one of the
meetings of this society during the coming
spring. by Daniel Stanchfeld of MINNEAPOLIS
who was the first lumberman. in the years
tS47 to 1850. on the Mississippi river and Its
tributaries above Minneapolis.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
GRAIN STEAL BLOCKED.
Clever SwindIers Weakened at the
Eleventh Hour.


LA CROSSE. Wis. Jan 13-A bold
attempt to steal twenty-one cars of
wheat was nipped in the bud by clever
detective work and prompt and decisive
action on the part of officials of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
way. The grain was mostly the prop
erty of the S. Y. Hyde Elevator COM
pany and the W. W. Cargill company
OF this city, and the cars were divert
ed from their original consignees by
the substitution Of bogus waybills. 1t
appears Just about the time the deal
was nearing contamination, the swind-
lers weakened. Had the perpetrators
been successful in carrying out their
clever scheme. it would have made
them $4,000 richer. Supt Wflbert r.
win and Freight Claim Agent H. r.
Elliott are now engaged on the case.
They have stopped all loss either to
the railroad company or TO the original
Shippers. and expect to have the en-
tire gang of fraudulent waybilI work
ers under arrest SOON
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14

said that the large number Of Shylocks
who infest the city and make loans
at exerbitant rates of interest upon
furniture and other personal property
will be forced out of business. The OBJ
ject of the measure is to establish a
municipal pawnshop, where wage earn
ers may borrow money at the rate Of
/ per cent a month on such securities
as are put up for collateral in the
ordinary 10 per cent paNnshops
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
he report was hanging in the bal
AFTER FEED OFFICERS.


The retrenchment and reform COM
lnittee reported the StockweH resolu-
ton asking the state oil inspector and
clerk Of the supreme court to report
their fees, with a substitute requiring
similar reports from all the state off,
GERS receiving fees. 1t was adopted.
SENATE SIDE SHOTS.
When the Democrats view their scant array
on the senate Judiciary committee they must
blame the architect who built the capitol.
Some Democrats and Populists hope that
Cass Gilbert has been iudicious in his allot-
ment OF space In the new building for the
Judiciary committee is generally considered OF
some Importance
1t is worthy of note that the bill for the
by the successor of its once most valiant
champion. The sugar beet and bounty bust
ness was made an issue in the campaign in
Stearns county.
There was something of sensation when
Secretary Langum read Senate Mccarthy 8
bill ITO appropriate $751; eco for extraordinary
expenses incurred during the Bear island
trouble" As matter of fact, the bill ap-
propriates only $1,000.
1t is evidently the intention to carry the
Omaha exposition exhibit appropriation along
with the omnibus bill. Senator McGill, who
introduced it. asked that it be referred TO
the committee on finance, rather than TO
claims.
Senator Miller's bill making sleeping car
companies common carriers need not inter
fere with the porter's privilege Of holding his
hand out.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
MUNICIPAL PAWNSH0PS.
Chicago Merchants Club Makes q
Novel Proposition.

prominent business men of this city
have been invited to attend banquet
to be given tomorrow night by the
Merchants club for the purpose of con-
sideFing in detail the question Of es-
tablishing municipal pawnshops In the
city. A bill has been prepared under
the direction of the club and will be
introduced in the legislature next week.
BY the passage OF such a measure it is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14

Stephen Little, of New York, the expert
matters, in an interview in the New York
Town Topics upon the general railway con-
ditions in the West and the character of
our train service as compared with Eastern
States, pays a glowing tribute to the cele-
brated Pioneer Limited trains of the Mil
waukee road They are pronounced truly
the only perfect trains in the world" and
Mr.. Little found the dining car service equal
to anything obtainable at the Waldorf-As-
toria or other famous New York hostelries
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
COMING TO ST. PAUL.
Maj. Bement Reaches San Francisco
en- His Return From Manila.

4
Gn His Return From Manila.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.@There
We're eight sick soldiers on the trans
port Senator, which has just arrived.
Among them are Privates Newgard
and Terry. Of the Thirteenth Mime
scta; Sergeant Shou. Fourth United
States cavalry, and Col c. P. WhippIe,
OF the ordnance department, T. s. a.
Among the passengers on the Senator
is Capt. Frank Warren, who is home
under orders. ard is said to be the
bearer of important dispatches to
Washington.
Maj. R. B. C. Bement, a member of
Cen. Merritt's staff, returned on the
Senator, on his way to st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
VIOLENT GALE.

Storms I'm Germany Do Considerable
Damage to Property.
BERLIN, Jan. 13-Reports received
here late this afternoon, describe vlo-
lent gale raging in Northern and East
ern Germany, and thunder storms and
terrentiaI rains in Southern Germany.
At Stuttgart a large scaffold was blown
down and a man killed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
Aeker Post Installation.

An open meeting for the installation of off,
GERS of A ker post, G. A. R., will be held thii
evening at Central hall.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
P0cAHONTAS COAL.

An economical coal for domestic or steam
use. Orders promptly flied by Pioneer Fuel
Co., 81 Robert Street
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
BREEZE IN THE House
A FLING IN A MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
PAPER CAUSED SOME
COMMENT
TWO SETS OF RESOLUTIONS,

MaIiette, of Mile Laos, Secures
the Passage OF a Bill in the Sup
port of Which He Was Getting u
Who Opposed Him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS

lee EAeELLENlE Vi SYRUP Of FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
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to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
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only, knowledge of that fact will
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14
FREE SUGAR BEET SEED.

Mr.. Foss (Rep.), Of Grant, provided
in a bill introduced and referred to the
committee on agriculture for the dis
tribution of sugar beet seed, which was
purchased under the act of 1897. The
state treasurer is directed to distribute
free of charge all the seed in his GUS
tody. In the disposition of the seed the
treasurer is to distribute it as equally
as possible throughout the agricultural
sections of the state
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-14

S-N-AI OF HE W HIP
Mr.. Jacobson (Rep.), Of Lac on;
Parle, cracked the party whip by say
ing if the delegation from Mile Laos
favored the immediate passage of the
bill the house had neither time or dis
position to oppose 1t.
Mr.. Yale Rep), of Winona, called
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17

morning the knights will, at the
first session, be called 10 oruer
by the state commander, VINO uIl5
der a rule Of the Supreme TENT passesu
since the previous session selects tne o. o.,
ficers who are TO assist him dnrlng Ile
session. Their term of office Will pc oniy
for the session Previously they held OIL
flee for two years. Then the STATE coih-
mander will present his report snoWing
what has been done in the state ou[ing ing
the past two years. The reading OF tnls
and the discussion thereon Will take up
the entire forenoon .+i,,o. ~
Last evening the representatlVes ot
both orders were the guests OF ArgoU1diue
and Oakland tents and Carita ana OAK
land hives in tie Maccabee at an open
meeting and reception held In the MAG MAG
cabee Temple at Franklin ana 1WelIIn
streets in Oakland. There were present
besides members of the two orders large
number Of their friends by invitation
The hall. which was decorated win S tnS
coIors Of the order, American nagS ana
living plants, also the motto or each OF
der. and the portraits of n. 3: BoynI5oIR1' n
the founder, the State commander ana -;
P Markey, the supreme commander. was
crowded to its limit. There were many OF
fbe members from the local tents ana
hives; Frank W. Smith OF Reddingi nne
State record-keeper, number OF pepu-
ties and the State commander OF the
ladies.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17
FIVE MEN KILLED
At HOT SPRINGS
Deadly Combat Between
Sheriff and Police.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, March ia
shooting affray occurred here at $50
o'clock this afternoon, which resulted
in the death Of five men and the serious
wounding of two others, one of whom
is not expected to live. The killed are:
THOMAS TOLER, Chief of Police.
]. E. HART, city detective.
THOMAS GOSLEE, police sergeant.
JOHN WILLIAMS, son of Sheriff Will
liams.
LOUIS HINKLE, driver of a brewery
wagon.
Ed Spears was shot in the neck and
may die.
The shooting was the result of feel
ing growing out of the Mayoralty con-
test. The Sheriff was a warm sup
porter of the Democratic nominee, Whlle
ToIer, Hart and GOSlee were support
ers of the opposition candidate
Feeling ran high and early in the
afternoon shots were exchanged IN
front of the City Hall between the
Sheriff and his son John on one side
and Sergeant Goslee on the other, but
no one was injured.
After this both parties determined to
have it out. Toler, Hart and Goslee
were together, walking south on Cen
tral avenue about $50 o'clock, when
they met Sheriff Williams and his two
sons, John and Coffey, and Ed Spears,
a deputy sheriff, in front of Lemps
beer depot
The quarrel was renewed. No one
can tell who fired the first shot but in
a moment there was general fusillade
in which forty or fifty shots were ex-
changed. When it was over Toler, Hart
and GosIee and Hinkle, a nOn-cOmbat-
ant, were dead, and John Williams
mortally wounded. He died about an
hour later. Louis Hinkle attempted to
separate the combatants at the COM
mencement and was shot in the head
and died instantly.
The Mayor Immediately after the
shooting appointed Judge L. D. Biding
Chief Of Police, who had a posse of
deputies sworn in at once. There is lit
tie factional feeling outside of those en-
gagged in the shooting. Order was easily
restored and the city is now quiet. The
Sheriff and his son COffey are under ar
rest and no further trouble is antici-
pated.
The Mayor said in an interview at 9
o'clock that the whole affair grew out
of the intense feeling on the Mayoralty
contest.
'I have ordered all saloons in the city
closed and everything is as quiet as
usual and there will be no further
trouble"
Sheriff Williams in an interview at
his home at 10 o'clock said that there
was an attempt made to assassinate
him this afternoon by a policeman on
account of his friendship for Bedding,
the popular candidate for Mayor.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17

But Conboy was not in class by him
self. There were others, and policemen,
too! The men patrolling beats were tar
gets for everybody, and every shot was a
bullseye.
At first people thought it was one of
those little furries of hail that are not
infrequent here, and paid no attention to
it. But as the particles kept increasing in
size and quantity until the sidewalks and
pavements were covered, everybody in
stinctively stopped and scraped up a
handful of the stuff. 1t was the most
natural thing in the world to toss it at
somebody else, and so the game became
general. Everybody joined in and every
body suffered more or less damage-that
is, everybody but the umbrella repairers.
They are getting up a petition for hail
storm regularly every week. To have
them more often would bankrupt the
public. Umbrellas were looked upon as
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17
S. P. CONN0R.

the elevator. Usually when performing
this duty he was assisted by one OF the
other employees, but last night he at
tempted to do it without assistance.
Peter Clos had been helping Connor
about the cellar short time before the
accident. Connor remarked to him that
il was about time to close up and went
toward the elevator. A few minutes al
terward Clos heard a noise that sounded
like the gasp of dying man and, going
to the front of the cellar to investigate,
found Connor tightly wedged in between
the floor of the elevator and the iron
doors Clos and S. NJ .gIssing, another en-
ploye. lowered the elevator and placed the
diving man on the floor. A physician was
summoned, but Connor died before any
thing could be done for him.
The proprietors of the wine cellar knew
nothing of the dead mans family as he
had been working for them but short
time Late last night a son appeared at
the Morgue and Identified the body.
Some of the employees of the wine COM
pany stated TO Deputy Coroner La Combe
that the elevator had been out of order
for some time, but others are of the opin-
ion that the accident was due to the fact
that Connor pulled the wrong chain.
Deceased resided at ITO Howard street.
He was sc years old and leaves a widow
and several grown children. He was a
wine expert and had recently returned
from Napa. where he had been connected
with vineyard.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17
HOW RAIN HELPS
THE PLACER MINERS

REDDING, March f6.-News of re-
markable cleanup in placer mine on
Indian Creek. Trinity County. has just
been received in this city. A run of sixty
hours was made and $500 in gold taken
out. or a little more than $40 an hour.
The claim is owned by Tom Bergin and
James O'Neil. Bergin is Sheriff of Trim
ity County. They have held the property
for several years, and until this last
storm were unable to work the claim for
lack of water. The fall of foot of snow;
with subsequent heavy rains, has hiled
creeks bank full and many claims , that thai,
have lain idle for two years are being
worked to their full capacity. Berg1n ana
O'Neil's strike has caused many locatlons
to be made on Indian Creek from Its
source to its mouth.
From the activity that now prevails on
the creeks and along the Trinity RiVer
it is predicted that rich harvest OIL g2b5a tb
will certainly result. This is now the
third season since there has been any
considerable activity among the placer
miners, although the larger hydrauIlGf hE ulG
properties with expensive ditches ana
ppine lines have been made more or less
active. With the mountains covered with
a second coat of snow the miners OF Irln-
ity have reason to be enthusiastic.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17

keeping with the occasion. They poured
forth with an eloquence that stampeded
the prisoners across the court and made
strong men shudder. 1t was marvel
of oratory, though not such as is seen in
print. But it had the merit of sincerity.
The trouble began out by the Larkin
street entrance to the police station about
2 o'clock, when the weather took another
fall out of Forecaster " illson (and other
citizens) by pulling out the hail flag and
pelting the city for twenty minutes with
frozen missiles. Michael Joseph watched
them come down for a time, but when
he saw the ground gradually whiten he
could not resist the temptation to ''thry
jusht wan fur luck" He was getting
along all right and having most en-
joyable time until a boy across the street
mailed an -in-shoot by special delivery
and made him regret that he had yielded
to the tempter.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17
HIS CRUELTY WAS
MORE THAN CRUEL
MRS. WILSON IS GRANTED A
DECREE OF DIVORCE.
She Tells a Sad Story of Abuse by
Her Worthless and Inhuman
Husband.

Judge Daingerfeld has granted Julia A.
Wilson a divorce from Charles w. VIII
son, shipping clerk of ]. a. Folger &, Co.,
on the ground of extreme cruelty. That
the sympathy of womankind will be ex-
tended TO Mrs. Wilson for her misfortune
in having been her husbands wife" there
can be no doubt When Mrs Wilson took
the stand on her own behalf she told
story, which was corroborated In detail
that shows Wilson to be the possessor
Of an tnhuman disposition almost beyond
ina gination.
Il married my husband in September Of
1886, said Mrs. Wilson. land almost i'm
mediately he began to abuse me. In De-
cember Of 1897 I made known to him that
l was soon TO become a mother. He i'm
mediately demanded that I see that he
was not hurdened with child. I refused
TO consider his cruel inhuman demand.
and then his anger overcame him. He
said that he would torture me every min
ute OF nay life unless ] did as he bade me
/ refused, and then time after time he
would tell me that my child would be an
idiot, that it would come into the world
detormed and forever a sorrowfu1 burden
upon me. His words became a torture to
me, ard the effect of the nervousness his
words caused me I was afraid would re-
suit in proving his statements only too
true; but my fears were groundless
Shortly after this he came home in
toXlcated one evening and Immediately
Went IN Seafch or MS razor, saying that
ne was going to cut his throat and end it
all Knowing where The razor was,
hurriedly got it and hid it under the
stair carpet When he found his razor
was gone he went in search of a knife.
and when got in front of him TO prevent
him carrying out his purpose he jammed
me against the doorsiu and choked me
severely: Finally he abandoned his
was still worth the living
Many times, he would come home and
ask me to go to dinner with him.
would start downtown and when a block
from home he would say that he didn't
care 10 go with me. and I would be
forced to walk home alone and go to bed
without any supper
Finally my child was born. He did
not come near me and never inquired as
10 my health or that of the baby Then
he would leave me for days and the end
was, that, broken down in. health, enact
ated and worried, L was forced to go to
my mothers home to liye."
Mrs. Wilson'S story was corroborated
by witnesses and decree was promptly
granted.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-17
8. a g: :s. 50 g g 8

fruit interests are placed beyond the danger
line. Grain conditions had reached the criti-
cal point without show of injury The rain
comes in the nick of time, giving bright
promise of great crop yields. More rain is
coming Heavy clouds bank the horizon in
every direction; the wind is southwest, bearing
strongly southeast.
RIVERSIDE, March 16.-Long- delayed rain
began falling here at a. to-day, and during
the day heavy showers have followed close
upon each other The indications at p. m.
are good for a continuance of the storm ana
heavier showers. About a quarter of an inch
has fallen thus far, which gives about 80 OF
an inch for March and S.3 for the season, Re
ports from towns in the San Jacinto and Perrls
valleys all tell of a good downpour. The pros
poets for good crops are now practically as
sured Late sown hay and grain will yield
full crops and early sown will be greatly re-
vived The storm will he worth a great deal
TO irrigators. whose water supply has been
diminished by the past dry year.
SAN BERNARDINO, March 16.-Much-need-
ed rain began falling about o'clock this
morning and has continued without Interrupt
ton The grain and hay crop in this county
will be greatly benefited by it, although much
grain has been badly withered by dry weather
and prevailing north winds If the ordinary
rainfall of previous years comes in April there
will be half a crop of hay and grain. Inc
mountain streams. sources OF supply OF lrult
districts have not been so low since lSfh, put
fruit ranchers and water corporations are sup
plementing the supply with winter irrigation
and developing sources of supply with
plenty of water. there will be the usual crop
of oranges and other fruits except in Localities
that suffered somewhat last year.