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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-15

porticos of the houses on the streets
through which the presidential party
passed were ladies and gentlemen. who
saluted the president as he passed. To
these the president bowed and smiled as
he raised his hat. Thousands of people
lined the streets and cheered.
This afternoon a committee Of school
children called on the president and Mrs.
Mckinley and presented them with a
large tray of violets having the word
Welcome" in white in the midst of the
purple pillow bordered with green. Mrs.
Mckinley entertained the children. They
We're the only callers during the day, no
tice having been given that the president
Is here for rest. This evening the gem
tlemen of the presidential party enjoyed
their cigars In the starlight on Senator
Hanna's spacious front piazza.
Residents of the place who met the
president four years ago here and saw
him again today note that he is paler
and thinner now. The presidential party
consists OF President and Mrs. McKin-
ley, Vice President and Mrs. Hobart ard
Master Hobart, Senator and Mrs. Hanna,
Miss Hanna and Miss Phelps, DR.. j. N.
Rixey, and Mr.. George B. Cortelyou, as
sistant secretary to the president
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been established for the purpose of en-
listing men to fill the regular army up to
the maximum of 65.000 allowed by the
new army law:
Allegheny Va; Charleston, S. c.; Chi
cago, Dayton, o.; Fort Wayne, Ind;
Knoxville, Wash; st. Paul, Mimi; Min
neapolis, Mimi; Sterlingi H., and Wheel
ing, w. Va. In addition4to these stations
the war department will have offices at
every place where volunteers are mus
tered out to enlist such men as wish to
remain in the army. Gen. McKibbon, one
of the officers who was ordered mustered
out yesterday, was at the war depart
ment today and, discussing the subject
of enlistment of volunteers said that
many were willing to enlist, but all first
desired to go home with their regiments
and see their families and friends.
Gen. Corbin said that there would be
no difficulty on that point. after the men
left the muster-out camps.
An order has been issued by the war
department increasing the age limit for
enlistment from thirty to thirty-five
years. The youngest age at which a man
can be enlisted is eighteen years. The
results, so far, for the enlistment Of
troops, is very encouraging. All the men
appointed second 1eutenants in the ar
my yesterday will have to pass eXamina-
lions before they are commissioned. They
will take rank according to the examin-
atoms which they pass, the men from the
regular army taking precedence over
those appointed from civil life.
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WINES DAMP Ems HOPES
ACTING CENSUS DIRECTOR GIVES
OUT A DISCOURAGING STATE
MENT TO APPLICANTS
SUPERVISORS TO APPOINT
officials Receiving Over 5000 Per
Year-Special Agents Not Needed
Before I9OO-Enumerato Will
Not BE Employed to Exceed Thir-
ty Days.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Acting d.
rector of the Census Wines today gave
out statement designed to offset the be-
lief that a large number of census ap-
pointments will be made at once. 1t says
that under the census act not more than
sixty places are provided for above the
grade of class one, with a maximum
compensation of $1,000 per year, and that
one-fourth Of these are staff positions,
for which none but experts need apply.
Applicants for clerkships of higher grade
than class one are expected to entor
lower classes and be promoted on merit.
All employees at over 5000 per year, 1t Is
stated, will undergo an educational test.
Applications to the director for appoint
ments as enumerators are stated to be
useless, the supervisors, who get $1,000,
appointing them. Enumerators' employ
ment will not exceed thirty days, with a
compensation of about $3.50. Special
agents will not be needed before June,
1900 TheyAwill be paid not to exceed So
per day, with travelling and subsistence
allowances and their qualifications should
be akin to those of a good ordinary COM
mercial traveller Of a wholesale house.
All applications should be accompanied
by recommendations, and the number OF
employees will average about one to every
county in the United States. The state
ment concludes:
Young and vigorous men and women,
In the prime of life, will have the prefer
ence over the aged and decreptt, whose
poverty may move compassion, but whose
practical utility for the purposes of the
census office Is on the wane or at an
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THE DEATH WATCH.
Rudyard kipIing Told of the VIgiIs
Passed by Reporters.


NEW YORK, March 14.-Rudyard Kip
asked Mr. Doubleday a number of CUES
lions. During the conversation Mr..
Doubleday happened to mention the
death watch which the reporters had
kept on Mr.. Kipling, using their own
expression. The poet was interested at
once and asked for all details. He said
it was his first experience and would
try to avoid a repetition
by the way continued Mr.. Double
day, they are little bit slack now that
you are getting better. Can't you do
something to stir UP a little news for
them?"
Mr. Kipling was silent for some mo-
ments and then he replied:
At cannot think of anything unless to
go through everything again. You can
depend upon 1t 1 have no wish to do
that"
Since his illness was first made public
more than 500 messages of sympathy and
expressions of good cheer have been re-
cetved by Mr.. Kipling. Some of them
are in verse. Mr.. Klpling will not con-
sent to the publication of any of these
letters. AS might be expected some OF
the verses are hardly classical and some
saees from honest hearts, according to
Mr. Kipling's ideas, and as such they
will be treated.
Dr. Durham remains in constant at
tendance at Mr.. Ktpling's side and DR..
Janeway makes one call each day. DIR.
Durham thought tonight that he would
permit the sick man to sit up in two or
three days more If the improvement con-
tinueS.
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WILL SUPPORT OTIS.
The General Acted on His own He
suOnsibility Concerning Prisoners.

WASHINGTON, March 14-Gen. Otis,
In forbidding further negotiations be-
tween the Spanish at Manila and the IN
surgents touching the surrender OF the
Spanish prisoners held by the latter, act
ed upon his own authority. The govern
ment has not sent him any instructions
upon this point, but it will unQuestionably
support him to the extreme in any &C
ton of that kind he may take. 1t is
said at the state department that there
have been some exchanges between the
United States and Spain, through indi-
rect channels, touching these particular
prisoners, dating back to the signature
of the protocol last August. The United
States government undertook finally to
secure the release of the prisoners. 1t
never contemplated trying to secure their
release by ransom, but simply through
the suppression of the insurrection, and
cannot be held by any requirement of
international law to do more than has
been done to secure the release of the
prisoners. There will be no relaxation OF
the efforts in this direction, but, as the
United States campaign in the Philip
pines is being conducted with all the
energy possible and as the release of
the prisoners depends upon the issue of
that campaign, there can be no complaint
of failure on the part of the United States
&c. meet it's obligations.
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FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
The Quatermaster's Departm emit
Awards Transportation Contracts.


Awards transportation Contracts.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE quarter
masters department in the army building
today awarded contracts for the trans
p.rtation of troops ordered to the Phil
ippines as follows:
For the transportation of eleven COM
panies of the Ninth infantry from Sack
etts Harbor, n. Y, and one company
of the same regiment from Oswego, n.
Y, to ogden, Utah, at $3.50 per capita
for officers and men; horses at $3l2S0 a
car; and for the transportation of four
companies of the Ninth from Fort Nj
agara to Ogden, Utah, at $3.50 for Off
GERS and men; horses at $317.SO; awarded
to the New York Central railroad.
For the transportation Of the Twenty
first infantry from Plattsburg, n. Y,
to Ogden, Utah, at s22.10 per capita for
officers and men, horses at $426.SO car,
to the Delaware & Hudson Canal conf
pany. For the transportation of four
companies of the Thirteenth infantry.
now at Fort Columbus, and two batteries
of the Sixth artillery from New York to
Og'-n. Utah, at $3.50 per capita, horses
at S:T5. 40 a car, to the New York, Onta
rio &, Western railroad. The Ninth in
fantry will begin to move at noon Fri
day. Dates for the moving of the other
troops have not yet been agreed upon.
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Resolutions Welcome the Return of
Peace and Condemn Alger.

Resolutions Welcome the Return Of
Peace and Condemn Alser.
PROVIDENCE, r. L, March 14.-The
Democrats of Rhode Island held their
annual convention and Hon. George w.
Green, mayor Of Woonsocket, was nom
mated for governor. The convention was
attended by a large number Of delegates
The remainder of the state ticket was
nominated by reclamation as follows:
Lieutenant Governor-Robert P. Wade,
Gloucester.
Secretary Of State-Miles McNamee, of
Providence.
Attorney General-George T. Brown, of
Providence.
General Treasurer-Albert Walker of
South Kingston.
The resolutions welcomed the return of
peace and expressed gratitude to the SOL
diers and sailors for their services dur
ing the war with Spain, and condemned
the incompetency of the war department,
which, as alleged, has resulted in SO
much privation, suffering and death
among the soldiers Secretary AIger
and other officials held responsible were
emphatical1y condemned.
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THEY GO BEHIND DOORS
A VARIETY OF OPERATORS MEET
TO ADVANCE THEIR
INTERESTS
WOULD NOT BE INTERVIEWED
Coffin Manufacturers, Makers of
Glass Bottles and Indiana Coal
Men Form Trusts Embracing
Millions of Dollars of Capital
Prices Certain to Go Up In the
Near Future.

CHICAGO. March H-Coffiin manufac-
turers, makers Of green and flint glass
bottles and the owners and operators or
the coal mines in Indiana met here to-
day for the purpose of increasing prices
on their products. Each of the meet
ings was held behind closed doors, and
inquiries for information were met by the
officers and members Of all these as
sociations with a refusal to disclose any
thing.
The object Of the manufacturers and
coal mine owners was admitted to be to
advance their interests both in prices and
regulating competition. The bottle man
ufacturers met in the Grand Pacific hotel
in separate rooms, the green bottle man
ufacturers and the flint bottle manu-
facturers belonging to separate organiza-
lions. The present conditions Of the mar
ket were discussed at both sessions. A
joint meeting was then held and the
manufacturers Of both kinds of bottles
agreed that they could secure better
prices. A plan for joint organization
was submitted and will. be acted upon
later.
A preliminary meeting of the coffin
manufacturers was held In the same
hotel to arrange for the convention Of the
national association Of that industry to-
morrow morning. Increases in all lines
of trade are viewed by the members as
sufficient reason for an increase in the
prices of collins.
Ten owners Of large mines in Indiana
attended the meeting Of coal mine opera
tors. At the close of the meeting it was
said their action would not have as much
effect this winter as in the future. While
prices VIII be advanced before the pres
ent winter ends, the advance will not be
as great as the operators expect to make
1t next fall By that time they expect to
have an organization which will control
the Chicago market and be able to die
tate prices.
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STRIKERS ARE ARMED.
Italian Miners in Colorado Break
Open an Armory.

Italian Miners in Colorado Break
Open an Armory.
DENVER, Col, March IA special to
the Times from Lake City, Col, says that
armed Italian strikers prevented other
miners from going to work in their places
this morning at the Hidden Treasure and
Ute and Ulay mines. The sheriff may
call on the governor for troops to main
tain order The strike was declared on
account of an order requiring all miners
without families to take their meals at
the mine boarding house.
The armory was broken open last night
and all the arms and ammunition there
were stolen, presumably by the strikers.
The county commissioners will hold a
conference tomorrow with the mine SUI
perintendents and will notify them that
unless they will agree to discharge all
Italians they will be left to settle their
difficulties as best they can. The mines
have employed 200 Italians If these are
discharged, Sheriff Deck will endeavor
to protect other men who may wish 20
work in the Hidden Treasure and Ute
and Ulay mines.
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HORRIBLE STORY TOLD BY sAU-
sAGEMAKER BECKER, SELF
CONFESSED UXORICIDE
CUT THE BODY TO PIECES
POLICE FOUND A PORTION OF A
HUMAN LUNG IN A
BARN
BOILED BODY IN A KETTLE

The Man Now Makes n Second Con-
fessiOn, More Revolving Than the
Head With a Hatchet Sufficient to
Cause Death-PoIice Refuse tn
Disclose Whereabouts of Bones.
CHICAGO, March 14-August Becker.
the sausage maker who has been under
arrest for four weeks on a charge of
numbering his wife, made a full confess
sion tonight. He said that he cut his
wife to pieces and burned the remains in
a stove.
Becker, when first arrested admitted
killing his wife, but declared he pushed
her Off Randolph street viaduct into the
lake and that she was drowned The
police have never placed any reliance in
the drowning confession and have kept
up their work on the idea that Becker
had killed the woman in his house and
made away with the body The finding of
portion of a human lung three days ago
in Becker's barn put strength In their the
DRY, and late tonight they induced Becker
In his confession Becker said he had
killed his wife by striking her on the
head with Ratchet in the kitchen Of his
home. He then cut the body to pieces
and boiled it in a large kettle. After
watching the disintegration of the re-
mains for several hours and when
nothing was left that resembled a human
body, Becker says he took what remained
and burned 1t in red hot stove, the fire
having been prepared by him. The bones
which would not burn he buried on the
prairie near his home. Jan. q is about
the date Becker says he committed
the murder. He says the crime was not
premedttated but that he Quarreled with
his wife and struck her on the head with
the hatchet Only one blow was needed
to cause death and after that had been
| struck, the sausage maker says, he
thought of the way to destroy all chances
| OF detection. The piece of lung and
! portion Of calico which were found under
| the barn, and which the police believed
| to be strong evidence against Becker, he
| says could not be any part of the body
of his wife, as he is certain that he de-
stroyed every particle of flesh, and he
maintains the dress she wore was also
entirely burned.
| The police will look for the woman's
| bones tomorrow. They refuse to tell at
present the location Of the spot where
| Becker says they are buried.
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Gen. Lloyd Wheaton, who commanded
the American troops in the taking Of
Pasig and in the engagements preceding
the capture of that Philippine city, was
an officer in the regular army when ap-
pointed to his present position at the out
break of the Spanish war He has a splen-
sixty-one years ago, he entered the army
as a volunteer in 1861. He began his mill
tary career as a sergeant. in which ca
pacity he served four months and was
discharged. He re-entered the volunteer
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-15
SHEET STEEL COMBINE.
1t Starts Out With IA Capitalization
of $5O,OOO,OOO.

P1TTSBURG, Pa, March 4.-It de-
veloped here today that ex-Judge w. IL.
Moore, Of Chicago, the successful pro-
moter of trade combinations, has HAD
placed in his hands the engineering Of
a combination Of sheet steel manufac-
lures. 1t is stated that options have been
taken on a large majority of the plants
including all except one Of the larger
concerns. This company Is expected to
soon come into line, when the consolida-
ton will be complete. The capital of the
combine is put at S5c,0Oo,G00 equally di-
vided into preferred and per cent cumu-
lative common stock. Headquarters
will in all likelihood be in Pittsburg. 1t
is believed the tin plate and the new
sheet steel combines will have a trade
agreement, but will be separate or
CARNATIONS.
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To stop the Philippine War.

BOSTON, Mass, March 14.-An appeal
to the people Of the United States urging
"all lovers of freedom to cooperate
with them in an endeavor to persuade
the government to suspend hostilities in
the Philippines and confer with the Fill
Pine leaders, with a view to preventing
further bloodshed by recognizing their
independence upon the guarantee Of pro-
lection to property by the natives, has
been issued over the signatures of more
than a score of prominent men. Among
the signers are eX-Gov. George S. Bout
we'll of Massachusetts; ex-senator
George F. Edmunds, of Vermont; ex-
Secretary of State John Sherman; Sem
ntor Donelson Caffery, of Louisiana; w.
Bourke Cochran, of New York; Henry
U. Johnson, of Indiana; Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor; Charles Francis Adams,
of Massachusetts,; Edward Atkinson. of
Massachusetts,; Carl Schurz, of New
York; Herman Won Holtz, Of Chicago
university; Patrick A. Collins, Of Massa-
chusetts; Andrew Carnegie, of New
York; Rev DR.. Charles Parkhurst, New
York.
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NOT VILLAMEL'S BODY.
Remains Found Near Santiago Not
Those of the Spanish Admiral.


Those of the Spanish Admiral.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The secre-
tary of the navy this afternoon received
the following telegram:
Portland, Or, March 14.-Remains found
in chair about four miles west of Santi-
ago, as reported in today's papers. not
those Of Villamel, but Of Spanish sea-
men. Report follows by mail.
Proctor, Assistant Engineer.
The officer from whom the above mes
sage was received was an engineer on
board the Gloucester which was the in
strument that destroyed the Inflated
Pluton, on board of which Admiral Villa
mel started from Santiago. He was in
charge Of the landing party which went
to the succer Of the Spanish sailors who
managed to reach the shore from the
sinking vessel and were being fired upon
by the Cubans. While bringing the par
ticular seaman down to the shore to take
him aboard the Gloucester the seaman
died, and his remains were allowed to
sit in the chaiC>in which the body had
been conveyed. The department officials
believe that Villamers body lies at the
bottom Of the sea.
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NO FRICTION.

Admiral Won Diedrich's Retirement
Had No Political Significance.
NEW YORK, March 14-An official Of
the German embassy, speaking of the
cabled reports in reference to the retire
ment Of Admiral Won Diedrich from the
command of the East Asiatic squadron,
says there certainly is a misconception
as to the causes leading to the admiral
retirement. He states that the admiral
was appointed to the Asiatic command
for prescribed period. and that his tour
Of services was completed after leaving
Manila and Joining in the celebration in
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support I am anxious to know what you
think Is likely to be the attitude Of the
party in New York state on this Ques-
ton of the coming national convention.
NV own impression is that the feeling is
Overwhelming in the party in the South
and West in favor Of a practical reaffir-
nation Of the Chicago platform.
I would be glad to know what In your
opinion is the feeling Of the party in your
state on this question, and whether the
state is likely to send a delegation to the
next national convention ready to CO.
operate with what seems to be the wish
Of the majority, or whether a course SINH
lar to that pursued in New York in 1895
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-15

forces as a lieutenant in July, 1861, and
was mustered out as a colonel in 1866. In
the same year he was appointed captain
in the regular army. Gen. Wheaton was
For gallant and meritorious services in
the siege of Vicksburg, and brevet colonel
for brilliant service in the attack on
Fort Blakeley, Ala. He fought in nu-
merous battles, and with credit in all. Be-
fore entering the service he was a civil
engineer, and with the learning he need
ed for the practice of that profession was
perfectly qualified for the army.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-15
FEBRUARY STATEMENT
OF Imports and Exports of the Unit
ed States by Bureau of Statistics.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Feb
ruary statement Of the imports and ex-
ports of the United States issued by the
bureau Of statistics shows as follows:
Innorts of merchandise during Febru
nry, 1899, s6o,2eo,o82, Of which $2S.o72179
was free of duty; increase over Febru-
airy, 1898, about s7,1ss,ooo. Exports of
merchandise, 500, 1854, 149; decrease, N,ooo,-
ooo Imports of gold, $5,14S,9Oe; decrease,
1000, 1000 Exports Of gold, s324,S9; de-
crease 100000.
Imports of silver, s1,427,O27; decrease
s65s, 900; exports Of silver, A,562lse; in
crease, 100000. For the eight months
ended February %, 1885, there was an In
crease in the imports Of merchandise as
compared with the same period IN 1888
Of s33, 512, 234. Increase in the exports OF
merchandise $50, 195, $50; increase In the
imports of gold, s3s,657, 433; decrease in
the exports of gold, S2o,211; decrease In
the imports of silver, $1.Se1, GIG; increase
in the exports Of silver, $573,o76
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wHIsKEY MEN COMBINE.
Corporation Comprises Some of the
Largest Blending Companies.

NEW YORK, March 14.-The Mer-
chants Distributing and Distilling COM
pany has been Incorporated under the
laws of this state with a capital of S.
900, 900, of which half will be common and
the other half preferred stock. The new
corporation comprises some Of the larg-
est whisky blending and distributing
companies in the country, including the
Merchants Distilling company, of Terre
Haute, Ind; Duffy Malt Whiskey COM
pany, Rosskam Gerstin company of
Philadelphia; Gottschalk company, Of
Baltimore, and Cook & Bernheimer, Luy-
ii & Bros. and E. Heller & Co., of this
city. Another big Eastern rye distilling
company has also been approached, and
is expected to pool with the new COM
pany.
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Carlists Seek soldier Support.

MADRID, March 1.-THE presence of
300 soldiers, repatriated from Cuba, at
the TIE Deum celebrated yesterday in
memory of the Carlists who were killed
in the colonial wars, eXemplifies the IN
trigues of the Carlists to gain the sup
port Of the disbanded troops. An IN
vestigation shows that the Carlists paid
five pesetas to each soldier attending.