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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
SUICIDE COMPACT
Carried Out According to Agree
ment by "a New York Woman

Carried Out According to Agree
ment by a New York Woman.
NEW YORK, May .-"Fischer-Louisa
and Henry. Funeral from ]. Edward
Winterbottom & Co.'S funeral parlors, 638
Sixth avenue, Thursday This notice,
which appeared in the newspapers mark
ed the fulfllment of an extraordinary
death compact made between a husband
and wife, the particulars of which were
made public after the bodies had been
committed to the same grave. Mrs.
Louisa Fischer committed suicide at 221
West Twentieth street. and her friends
and neighbors attributed the act to pow
erty and to brooding over the loss of her
husband, Henry. Mr.. Fischer shot him-
self last December. 1t now appears that
both the suicides were committed IN ac-
cordance with an egreement made be-
tween the two.
prosperous restaurant keeper but hard
times overlook him, and after a success
sion of disasters he found himself with
not dollar except what might be real
lied on a life insurance policy for $1,000.
Realizing that he could no longer sup
port his wife, to whom he was devoted.
he conceived the idea of destroying him
self SO that she might have the money
that was only obtainable on his death
He told her of his plans, and she did all
she could to dissuade him, but to no pur-
pose.
He explained to his wife how to get the
insurance money and then said: Prom
Use me that when it is all gone you will
follow my example and kill yourself.
will be waiting for you in the other
world"
She gave her promise and he then kissed
her and bade her good-by, saying: I'VE
shall meet again before long"
Going to his room he placed a pistol to
his head and fired once and fell dead His
wife caused his body to be cremated and
had the ashes placed in a costly vase,
which she always kept near her.
After she had collected the insurance
money her one idea appeared to be to
spend 1t as rapidly as possible. She hired
an apartment, furnished 1t lavishly, and
entertained all the old friends of her hus-
band and herself.
Mrs. Fischer called on some of her
friends last Saturday and babe them
good-by. She told them that she was
about to die. That afternoon she sent all
her furniture except her bed to the house
of friend and in the evening called on
the undertaken and told him to be ready
to prepare her body for burial the next
day.
She turned on the gas in her room that
night and was found dead in the morning.
Beside her body stood the urn containing
the ashes of her husband, and beside it
lay the deed for the plat she had pur-
chased in Woodlawn.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
WALKER FURNISHED BAIL
MEDICINE MAN IS ARRAIGNED
FOR VIOLATING THE STATE
MEDICAL LAW

Three Other Prisoners Are Brought
Into Court on Indictments Re-
turned by the Grand Jury Fri
day.
Pleas Of not guilty were yesterday en-
tered by four persons arraigned before
Judge Lewis on secret indictments re-
turned by the grand jury Friday. George
Walker, of the Walker Medicine COM
pany, is charged with pfacticing medicine
without license. Bail was fixed at $3.50.
Walker furnished sureties and was re-
leased. Frank Herman, indicted for forg-
cry in the second degree, was released
upon $500. John O'Connor, charged with
grand larceny in the second degree, could
not give bond and went back to the
county Jail.
Allen F. Hall, alias Allen P. Fenwick,
accused of grand larceny in the second
degree, was released upon his own recog-
nizance. The young man was directed by
Judge Lewis to report to the county at
tOrney each Friday until his trial comes
up. Hall is indicted for the alleged theft
OF gold watch belonging to Miss Spang-
enberg.
George Tessier, indicted on the charge
of grand larceny in the second degree.
will wait trial in the county jail.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
$500 Linen T1d-Bits.

National Baptist anniversaries, San
Francisco, Cal, on May rs to 80. 800
Pacific Rocky Mountain Scenic Route %
Lowest rates.
Mystic Shrine at Buffalo, N. Y, June IA
and Is. Lake and rail or all rail route.
Rates the lowest.
Young Peoples Society Christian En-
deavor International convention, Detroit,
Mich, July to TO- Lake and rail or ali
rail routes. Lowest rates.
Bass fishing season opens May Is. Week
end excursion rates every Friday and
Saturday, good returning following Mon
$500 Lines" summer tour book now
ready. 1t tells where to spend a vaca-
ton of a day, q week or month. Send
cents in stamps for postage.
800 Line ticket office, 1893 Robert
street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

practically supporting the country for
years We are the greatest coffee drink
ers OF the world. In 1897 we used $50, 00O.-
GOO pounds of coffee, which was 10000 600
pounds more than was consumed in all
Europe. We have increased our con-
sumption during the past year at the
rate OF more than a pound per person,
and we now use about fifty pounds an
nually for each person in the United
States. The amount spent for this cof-
fee Is enormous. During the past ten
years we have paid out $S75, 200, 000 or
sSfOoO,OOO per annum, for coffee alone
The bulk OF this money has gone to Bra
I'll. Some Of 1t has found it's way into
the pockets Of the coffee planters, a large
part has gone into the hands of the ship
pers and dealers, and II per cent of the
export price has been paid to the govern
ment. Brazil charges an export duty of
II per cent on every pound of coffee that
IS shipped. This, of course, paid by the
consumer, and such of our people as en-
gage in coffee raising will have the ad-
vantage Of II per cent over Brazil to start
with, for they will Of course not have to
pay duty. Some years ago there was
talk Of taxing Coffee but the demagogues
taxing poor mans luxuries, and coffee
was admitted nominally free. 1t was not
allowed to be free, however, for Brazil
at once put on an extra export duty, and
the poor mans luxury was taxed Just the
same. The only difference was that the
Brazilian government got the money and
not Uncle Sam.
BRAZIL LAND AND COFFEE.
Coffee Is raised in nearly evarv ono nf
the provinces of Brazil. The country pro-
duces the bulk of the worlds crop. It
raised 100000 bags last year, and it is
planting new fields now. I described in
former letter my travels through the
state of San Paulo, the richest coffee
raising region of the world. The states
north Of San Paulo also produced vast
amounts, and Rio Janeiro, back Of the
capital, is one of the chief coffee centers.
The kinds of coffee produced here are
known in the United States as Rio and
Santos coffee. These names come from
the ports at which the coffee Is shipped.
The Santos coffee is grown almost en-
tirely in South Central Brazil It Is car
ried over the railroads to Santos and ex-
ported from there. 1t comes from q cooler
climate than does the coffee which ia
raised further north, and Is generally
considered to have a milder and finer
flavor than that shipped from Rio. It Is
estimated that we take about so per cent
OF the Santos crop and about 70 per cent
OF all shipped from Rio, so that the bulk
of the coffee used in our country is Rio
coffee.
AT both Rio and Santos the great coffee
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

G. Palgrave, the well-known Oriental
traveller, says that two-thirds Of the Mo-
cha crop is consumed In Arabia, Syria
and Egypt, and that the rest is almost
altogether taken by the Turks. The cof-
fee Is sifted over grain by grain, and the
best Is taken out for the Mohammedans,
The Rio coffee which is sold az Mocha
Is largely made up of the little round
beans which are found on nearly every
tree. In many places they grow near the
end OF the stalk, and they are to some
extent imperfect berries, coffee cherry
containing one instead of two berries.
They are known as pea berries by some
Of the dealers.
There Is another class of berry which
IS nat. Some of these are very much
like the Java and are often sold as such.
SO that many a man when he thinks he
Is having real Mocha and Java may actu-
ally be drinking 7-cent Rio or Santos. al
though he pays So cents a pound for his
so-called Mocha and Java mixture.
PAINTED COFFEE
This statement will probably be denied
by some Of our grocers. They will tell
you that they can tell Mocha and Java
by the smell or the color Of the grain.
Don't you believe them. The coffee as It
comes from the plantation, the simon
pure genuine article, is often far different
from that which goes away on the ships
have visited here in Rio enormous es-
adjustments who make business Of
painting coffee and dressing 1t up for the
markets. In South Africa. for instance
the people want black coffee beans. It
seems that the coffee they have been
buying Is of that color. The bags that
come from the plantation are filed with
olive green beans, They are turned into
a great mill and rolled round and round
IN contact with ,colored powder Just
what 1t is, the Lord only knows. but
when the beans come out they are as
black as any coffee that can be grown
in Africa. Other grades are given a.
tinge Of yellow by the use of other
colors, and others are vanished in DIFF
ferent shades of green. Some of the
coloring stuff Is unhealthful and the men
use gloves when they handle it. In ono
Portuguese house I saw them coloring
$4,000 bags for the Cape of Good Hope.
and in another they were coloring cof-
fe for the Argentine market This Ia no
fiction. I saw it myself, although I am
told that the most of the coffee sent to
the United States goes there in its nat
ural color.
And what is the natural color Of cof
fee? That 1 saw on the plantations and
the most of that which comes here To
Rio Is of a rich olive green. It grows
slightly yellow as 1t becomes older. and
the older the coffee is the better coffee
it makes.
IN THE COFFEE FACTORIES.
These big coffee factories are interest,"
ing places. Some of them are as full
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

Ludwig had left another will The ~
formation comes from Charles III. Ender-
ton, of Winnipeg, Man, who writes that
he will await the supreme courts decision
in regard to the other will, when he will
file the document he claims to possess
Mr.. Epderton saws that the will in his
possession is of later date than the one
b"qneathing the property to Tobln and
that he is made executor under its pro-
visions. He says the will was made by
Mrs. Ludwig and given to him for safe
keeping.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

When Mr.. John r. Hastings put aside
his title Of general superintendent of the
Chicago, Burlington & Northern railroad
the other day and with 1t the RESPONSE
bilities that went with it, a railroad
parted company with its best friend.
For years he had spent his time watch
ing 1t develop into one Of the finest prop
critics, mile for mile, in the Northwest.
He had helped to construct the road, SO
he was familiar with every foot of
ground it covered. He had had some
thing to say about its improved train
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

son, of New Orleans.
Though resident of New Orleans, Mr.
Walsh usually spent the summer months
In this city and in this way became In
terested here in real estate.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
NEW WILL TURNS UP.
Another Claim Made to the Estate
of Mrs. Kate Ludwig.

of Mrs. Kate Ludwig.
Complications are arising In the set
tlement of the estate of Kate Ludwig.
When the woman died a will was present
ed for probate, beQueathing her home and
personal effects to the value of about
$1,000 to Joseph ]. Tobin, who had board
ed with Mrs. Ludwig for several years.
This will was knocked out in the probate
court and Tobin took an appeal to the
district court. Here the probate court
was sustained and the case Is now In
preparation for presentation to the SUI,
preme court.
But Judge Bazille, of the probate court
received notification yesterday that Mrs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
Christian Enaeaxorer..

The 800 Line has succeeded in ar
ranging a lake and rail and all rail route
to the G. E. convention in Detroit, Mich,
July to 10 that will give you the most
delightful trip for the lowest rate. Get
particulars. $500 Line" ticket office, SeS
Robert street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
LOST ITS BEST FRIEND
BURLINGTON & NORTHERN ROAD
WILL MISS GENERAL SUPER
INTENDENT HASTINGS
so WILL ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES

Story of a Successful Railroad Man
Who Rose From the Ranks-Be-
gan His Career as a Soldier When
Fifteen Years OId-Then Went to
Work on the Cleveland & Toledo
Lands at the Top.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

Get Your Fishing Tackle Ready.
Bass fishing season opens in Minnesota
May Is. The 800 Line" fishing folder
catch. Ticket office. 1913 Robert st.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
COFFEE KING THERE
ALL ABOUT THE GREAT CROP
WHICH SUPPORTS THE PEO-
PIE OF BRAZIL
WORTH $14o,O0o,oOo A YEAR
States-Behind the Scenes i'm the
Coffee INSTRUMENTATION the Ber-
ries Are Polished and Painted Up
for the Markets - Mocha Coffee
which Comes From Brazil.

Copyrighted, 1899, by Frank G. Carpenter.
RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, April 81 have
spent a day among the coffee shippers
of Rio Janeiro. This is, next to Santos,
the greatest coffee port of the world.
Millions of bags are here shipped every
year, and the chief business of Brazil S
vast coffee crop is done here. Rio ia
Metro lives upon coffee. For that matter
it Is the mainstay of Brazil. In 1895 the
total exports of the country amounted
to $lS0,000, and of this $4,000, 900 came
from coffee. The rise of a cent a pound
means prosperity or the reverse to those
people, and the enormous fall the past
few years has made things tight in Bra
zil. Just how much the fall has been few
people know. The truth is that coffee
has been steadily dropping for the past
SIX years, and today 1t is not worth
much more than one-third what 1t was in
1893. With our new possessions In Cuba,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines
1t is still likely to go still lower, for 1t is
expected that the Yankees will establish
large coffee plantations, and, if so the
Brazilians will have to look elsewhere
for market.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
A Daily Sleeper to West Baden and
French lick Snrin~.
lch Lick Springs

Commencing April 24th, the Monon will
run special sleeper to the Springs dailv.
leaving Chicago at $3.50 p. m. l.. e. SEES.
sions, N. w. Pass. Agent. Minneapolis.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
LEFT PROPERTY HERE.

Will of Vincent ID. Walsh, of New
Orleans, Filed for Probate.
The will of Vincent D. Walsh, u former
wealthy planter of New Orleans, La,
was filed for probate yesterday. The as
sessed valuation of property in Ramsey
county by Mr.. Walsh is $135.67O. The will
leaves this property, also large interests
in the South, to two nephews of the de-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

houses OF the United States have their
agents, who buy the coffee of the dealers
and ship 1t direct to their houses in New
York, Baltimore and Chicago. They have
large establishments for preparing the
coffee for shipment, and some of the
brightest coffee men of the United States
are mere watching the markets and buy
ing by the thousands of bags.
HOW COFFEE is BOUGHT.
Coffee is handled in different ways at
the two great ports. During my stay in
Santos l spent some time among the deal
ers and watched them shipping the vast
quantities of coffee which come to that
port. The coffee is put up in bags of 1872
pounds each, and in this shape 1t is sold
to the exporters. The buyers in Santos
deal directly with the planters agents.
taking the coffee as a usual thing in lots.
In Rio the coffee comes to commission
men. They dispose of 1t to the wholesale
coffee dealers, who grade and put 1t into
the bags for the exporter. In this case
the coffee has passed through three hands
before it starts for New York.
Since the remarkable fall in the prices
OF coffee, however, the big exporters have
sent agents out among the platners and
they are now buying their coffee direct.
AS 1t has been the consumer has had to
pay a half dozen or more profits on every
pound of coffee. In the first place he has
had to keep the planter, then the COM
mission merchant in Rio, then the whole
sale dealer in Rio and the New York
managers agent here. He has had to
pay the cost of shipment to New York,
the wholesale dealer or rooster there, the
commercial drummer, the railroads and
lastly his retail dealer at home. With
all this he is able to buy coffee for Is
cents and less pound, the same coffee
costing here not more than cents, and
delivered in New York at CT cents a
pound.
If he is particular about his coffee he
will pay from 35 to 30 cents for some of
this same coffee which sells here for a
trifie over the amounts above mentioned,
the only difference being that the beans
are of a little different shape or larger
size and they have been graded into GER
tain so-called well-known varieties.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
MOCHA AND JAVA.

7 have already written Of the Mocha
coffee Of Brazil. A large part Of the Mo-
cha used in the United States is grown
here. Indeed, there is practically no gen.
utne Mocha coffee in our markets. The
Mocha coffee fields OF Arabia are so small
that very few of the berries are sold out
side of the Mohammedan countries. w.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
BRAZIL AND UNITED STATES.

1t is an outrage that Brazil has not
done more for the United States. She
should give US the bulk of her trade and
all her fat contracts, for we have been
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-11-16
WAT EReURr'S LARGEST INDUSTRY
Tannery Plant Of {. &. Warren D-strove.
bY Eire-A Mnn som, M hnt Enrneh

Waterbury. Nov. 1.-THE large tanusry
buildings owned by c. c. Warren. Nar,.
burned to the ground early this morn ng.
The fire was discovered by tire night
Waterman AboIt quartz. past three, aud
hc at one aroused the otlgineer thinhlrg
they could eNtiuguish the fire without
other aid from the fire department. When
they returned to the building it was in u
sheet of flames ard finding their efforts
would be useless, the Watcuman endra,-
cied TO entt1' the engine room 10 give an
alarm. by the large steam whis, le but
found it impossible ca account of the hro
which had very rapidly spread over the
building.
The tire alarm was given and in about
IL minutes two streams OF water were
playing on the building. The urst Of tho
hose company from the street werc ".
NJ. Gibbs. VIII Atherton ami VIII Lovely.
who dCew the hose cart to the building
about one mile, unaided, and had
stream, on the building very soon after tho,
hose company at Mill Village. which Vas
stationed worry near the buildings. Tao
hose company worked until about O'clock
The alarm was given about half LAS
three. The building and machinery and
al the skins except those N the Nal5
were entirely destroyed Th' loss will
amount to about Sino,D, but WAS fully i'll
SUred. Mr. Warren ScfuSeS to talk .n re-
gard To the loss, amount of insurance cr
about rebuilding. Olin King VAS quito
badly burned about the face. while at
tempting TO save the building.
rhe house near the tanucry and all the
back on the outside Of the buildings was
saved
II is Thought that the Gre was caused ny
IoutaucouS oombusuou or from the - an
pipes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-11-16
SONS OFTHEA EAMERICAN REVOLUTION
Oncers Reelected at the Annual Meet
Ing Yesterday Afternoon in This city.

The 10th annual meeting of the Vermont
Society of the Sons of the American Rev
outiou was held yesterday afternoon N
the pdrlors Of the Van Ness House at J 30
O'Clock. Cen. J. J. EstcY, vicc-prcs idrn ,
presided in the absence Of Gov. t.. =.
Smith, who Is the president of the society.
Tho reports Of officers were received. The
subject Of publishing a year book of tho
society to include the genealogical record
of each member and reports of annual
meetings for the past ten years was ld-
vOrably acted upon. The matter was re-
committed to the new board of managers
with instructions to publish such "A book
providing sufficient number of copies
were subscribed for to warrant its publ-
cation The society voted to appropriate
500 tor this purpose.
on motion of Col. r. J. Kimball the Of
hccrs, exclusive of the board Of manager,
were reelected. They are as follows:
President-Gov. Edward Curtis Smith.
st. Adams.
Notwithstanding Jacob Estey.
Brattleb1ro
Sccrctary-CharIes Spooner Forbes. 81.
Adams.
Treasurer-Clareuce Luclus Smith. Bur
Registrar-EIenry Leonard Stil'son Ben
ninEton.
observation-disclosures Grenville Benedict,
Burlington.
Chaplain-Rev, Norman Seavcr. Mont-
pclicr
y committee Of three was named 10y the
chair to present names Tor the board of
mauEerS for the ensuing year and dele
gates to the natiOnai congress. This COM
mittee consisted of Robert Noble T. NJ
Mansur and II. l.. Stilson. They rrprrt-
ed the following board of managers. who
were elected: r. Stewart Stranahan Of
s.. Adams, Hon. G. :. Page OF Hyde Park.
l.. Bart Cross Of Montpelicr. Major A. B
Nalectine of Bennngtosl, Col. II. W. Hail
of Burlington, j. w. TitcOmb of st Johns
bury, Col +. d. Proctor of Proctor and
W. II. Dubois of Randolph The delo-
gates elected to the national congress are
Gov. +. c. Smith, eX-ofiicio, Gen. Julius j..
Estcy, eX-ofiiCiO, COL K. J. Kimbau Of
Randolph. H. u. Ranlett of St Albans and
Hon. |. \. Woodbury. of BurliGgton
1t was voted to have the Vermont society V
represented at the unveilng Of the statue
of Gen. Lafayette in Paris on July (, 1860.
and the prcsident Of the society was en-
powered TO appoint one or more delegates
for that occasion.
Col r. j. Kimball offered an amendment
to the constitution, which will be voted
upon at the next annual meeting. provid-
ing for the election of all officers hien-
nially, instead Of annually, bceinuinc in
1909
The report of the treasurer showed a
balance of Sl46O in the treasury. The so-
clety has 2J4 active members.