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NEWS OF A DAY IN BRIEF.

Boston-The gunboat Vici1sbur1 went
OUT OF commission at noon today
Roanoke, Va.-The German Baptist as
soclatlon held brief session today and
adjourned sine die. "i'N
Cairo-Two cases of the plague have
In all. 49, i'Ni"s 1our
Tacoma, Wash-The largest stanp min
IN The world has been started nv n n
Wills, at the Treadwell mine, on Doug
lass island, Alaska
BelVidere, N. joel Till. a prosnerous
farmer, fatally wounded his wife LAST
night. and then blew out his brains w ~
shot from his revolver 'ii
Washington-The president TODAY 20
celved In person the delegates to the
spring council of the Royal ArcaniII,-
VINO are meeting in this city and ala
me the members of the. Sheiflan Safer
ttnoop, 81 Flttspurg, who are participat-
ing In the national peace Jubilee
Ishpeming, Mich.-F. B. Baird, the we'll
known furniture man of Buffalo. has oh
tanned twenty-fve-year lease of fhe
East New York property, including the
mine and 100 acres of mineral land sit
uated within the corporate limits of Ish-
peming. u i'ii-
Pittsburg, Kan-The threatened gen
erai strike of coal miners in the M g.
ed by an agreement between the opera
TORS and the executive committee OF tie
United Mine Workers of America
Phiiadelphia--The forty-first general as
Semoiy of the United Presbyterian
S Sinnr OF North America began its ses-
preached by the retiring moderator. Rev
pr; T. e. Ferguson. The reports Of tie
boards of church extension and home
missions were presented.
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TO BE THOROUGHLY PRoBED.

The people of the state will cordially
by Gov. Lind that the most recent charge
of misconduct directed against the Of
ficialS charged with the care of our insane
must be thoroughly investigated. The
state cannot afford that any such i'm
putation should rest on It's good name as
is involved In the charge that the most
helpless of our afflicted classes are sub
Jected to physical Entertainment
There have been many scandals of this
character In like institutions elsewhere
III the United States, and conditions have
been shown to exist most shocking to all
our conceptions of humanity. Cur own
public institutions have long been run on
the plan of the least possible information
being given obtainable from officials con-
sistent with the securing of the most lib
eral public allowances for their mainte-
nance.
The governors message outlined the ap-
plication of certain principles to the ad-
ministration to such institutions as would
result in an increased accounta bility on
the part Of the officials in charge 1t is
time that such increased accountability
should be established. Enough has been
shown from time to time to establish
/ that the substantial and often the ex-
elusive control is assumed for all prae-
teal purposes by the officials Immediately
| in charge, and that the boards have few
duties to perform of a practical character
short OF the auditing and payment Of the
bills. No doubt the evil is inherent in the
system of board control especially when
the members of such boards are private
citizens who volunteer their time and Ia
pors free of expense to the state. But,
we believe, whatever the truth or I'M
truth of such reports as those which have
prevailed may be, that some moro eff
fective system Of outside supervision
should be devised than at present exists.
We sincerely hope that the charge made
against the officials of st. Peter hospital
may be found to be without foundation.
The charge has been made. however, and
it is not the first charge Of the kind that
has been ma6easince tho close political
corporation which has prevailed in the
management Of these institutions for
years under Republican control has been
broken into 1t must be Investigated to
the very bottom The difficulties in the
path of discovering the truth of such a
charge, If 1t is true. will naturally be
great. But we believe that the governor
can be depended on to devise such means
of making that examination so exhaus-
tive and convincing that the public will
be thoroughly satisfied whatever the re-
suit of the inquiry may be.
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PLATT AS A PROPHET,

Senator Thomas C. Plat has stopped
long enough in his career as a reformer of
the municipal concerns Of the great met
ropolis to indulge himself In prophecy.
There can be politics even in prophecy.
as this virtuous. statesman has made
plain.
Mr.. Platt is In favor Of the nomination
| Of President Mckinley. He accordingly
prophesies his denomination and re-elec-
ton. The wish. no doubt, is father to the
thought with Senator Platt Under ordi-
| nary circumstances statesman of PIatt's
| proportions and characteristics would
have a candidate of his own. He usually
has. The time when New York, whether
represented by Plat or some other equal
ly great statesman, did not have a can
didate Of its own for presidential honors
is so remote that the memory Of man
hardly runs thereto. That condition no
longer exists; and. 1t will be noted, that
full twelve or fifteen months ahead of
the event, the respected leader of the
reforming imperialism of New York has
pledged the support of his followers to
President Mckinley.
There is, of course. bond of the pro-
foundest sympathy between Statesman
| Platt and the embalmed beef administra-
ton. 1t would be surprising If there were
| not. Neither he nor Quay has ever been
| offered cabinet position. Yet 1t is to
| be remembered that as able and as con-
| cededly incorruptible a man as either of
them is now secretary of war under
| President Mckinley.
But does that fact explain the mort
gage already given on the New York dele
cation in the next national Republican
convention? Well, hardly What other
explanation is there? There is Col Theo-
dore Roosevelt. sometimes cow-puncher.
sometimes reformer, and sometimes rough
rider, but now governor, in name, Of the
| imperial state whose political destinies
the Hon. Thomas C. Plat carries around
in his vest pocket or in some other equally
small and commodious receptacle for his
| personal possessions.
| What is the matter with Theodore?
Well; Tom Plat knows. He is too young.
for one thing. Recently an unkind New
York daily had a little picture. It's title
was 'Platt Has Caught His Mustang. -
| Theodore was the mustang Platt had
| caught his mustang, sure enough In con-
nection with the franchise tax bill. Then.
why not ride the mustang, even to the
presidential goal? Tom Plat knows He
knows the mustang, and he knows that
| 1t is popularity of that distinctive
| American product that, while he may be
caught, he has faculty for not staying
caught. For drawing his political bur-
| dens Mr.. Plat is quite content to have
| the services of a safe Percheron Ohio
bred animal whom he can count on The
| mustang is all right. but he Is kicker.
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a CURSE AND A RnRnDN.

1t would be well for the establishment
of lasting peace and good will between
the Northern and Southern sections could
the address delivered Monday before the
Congregational club, of Boston, by Gov.
Northen, of Georgia, find circulation in
every household In the land. There would
then be speedy ending put to the
thoughtless and often criminal assaults
made on the South as the result of the
race difficulties which occur there from
time to time.
1t would be instructive to learn what in
fluence it was which enabled an account
to be published in every daily newspaper
In the country Of the burning of that
negro in Georgia recently, which brought
out In such vivid coloring the details of
that brutal exhibition, while carefully
leaving in the shadow of silence the an
palling facts of the crime which secured
to the negro such horrible fate. That
story found circulation everywhere. The
later full, unprejudiced and convincingIv
truthful recital by the Rev DR.. Hepworth
of the facts of that case, made from his
investigations on the ground, has been
read perhaps by 100 persons, where 1,OO0.-
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LET THE BOYs DECIDE.

While there is a well defined purpose in
certain directions to exploit the home
coming of the Thirteenth regiment in sus-
tainment of imperialism. there are many
considerations which will outweigh that
circumstance in sustainment of the view
that our boys ought to remain in the
service until they are mustered cut in the
capital of the state of which they are
citizens.
The people of Minnesota are proud of
their soldier boys and of the record which
they have made for themselves in the an
nails of the Philippine wars. They nat
urally seek some fitting occasion, to
give general expression to this view. The
1t optional with the members of the vol
unteer regiments to remain in the service
until they are mustered out at home,
or to leave the service at Gan Francisco,
tends, however, to lessen the prospect
of our people being allowed to give pub
lie expression of their thankfulness and
admiration. The Inducements offered to
the average young man of casting aside
the restraints of military msnd at
the earliest possible moment, and in one
OF the most inviting sections of the coun-
try, combined with the adequate provis-
ion for his return nome at his leisure
and In his own way, are concededly very
lsgreat. 1t is doubtful, indeed whether
we ought ordinarily to expect young
men in such a situation to hesitate for a
moment in accepting the option of Sc
curing their freedom at the earliest pos
sible moment
The decision of the war department in
the matter is made, no doubt, in a spirit
| of Hberality to the soldiers. Young men
as a rule care very little for tho plaudits
which would naturally be bestowed on
them by their friends and fellow citi-
| itary restraint that it will indeed be a
great sacrifice if they should decide to
| ask to be mustered out at home. We
| hope, Of course. they will do so. But
| for the advantages which they will be
called on to relinquish, We hardly have
any right to expect them to view the
situation as we view it. The North Da-
| kota regiment made the choice of being
mustered out at San Francisco. The ex-
ample will no doubt be generally followed.
whatever the decision of our own boys
| may be.
Perhaps. after all. the true attitude to
! occupy in the matter is to leave the boys
the utmost liberty of action. Whatever
they do in the matter will in the end be
the most acceptable to those who look
| rather to their comfort and welfare than
to any mere selfish consideration.
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morning contemporary, while accus-
ing the G o b of "a deficiency of in
formation" concerning the proposition to
buy Admiral Dewey house by private
subscription. manages to shed consider
able misinformation anent the Sailors
Snug Harbor," at New York
There" continues the esteemed con-
temporary, 1.-The old sailor is not only
housed. fed and clothed but he has the
choice of whatever employment he de-
sires, in superb gardens, or on the wide
farm. or at some indoor occupation; or
he may do nothing, at his pleasure, with
no one to crfticise''
The first question naturally occurring
to one acquainted with the present man
agement Of the Sailors Snug Harbor Is
what old sailor does our contemporary
refer to-" It's quite true that the home
contains a number of superanuated ma
riEes who have secured the proper 'in-
fiuenee" necessary. to admit them within
the sacred confines of the harbor But
they are very few compared to the vast
majority of houseless, hopeless, wander
ing sailors who can no more gain an en-
trance into the home than they could
into the presence of Queen Victoria. The
Snug Harbor is a private corporation,
run for money-mal1ing purposes and
which has succeeded admirably in the
undertaking. 1t has millions of dollars
IN surplus capital and millions more in
vested in real estate. AS an eleemos-
ynary institution, however, 1t is a Ia
mented failure. The only keys which
will unlock its doors to the disabled ma
rines are political infl 1ence and money.
Several years since an old sailor, one of
the nations blue jackets, stood before a
public judge in Chicago, charged with
the violation Of some petty ordinance.
1t developed in the course of the trial
that he was one of the survivors Of the
Nipsic, which was wrecked in the ter
ribie tornado at Apia, Samoa. He was
asked by the judge why he did not seek
refuge in the Sailors Snug Harbor. His
reply was to the effect that the insti-
tuition was conducted solely for the bene-
fit of the favored few and that it would
be impossible for him to gain admittance.
This is not the kind of a sailors home
suggested by the Globe The nation
needs refuge for disabled and SUPER
animated marines under control of the
government, open to all sailors in need
OF such an institution and which might
appropriately be named in honor Of Ad-
miral Dewey Such Snug harbor''
would be not only worthy charity. but
still worthier recognition Of the superb
services of our great admiral than would
g house and lot
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WHY THIS UsEIEss poTHERr

Recently morning paper, whose latest
spasm was tactical, demonstrated how
niggardly the dairymen are because the
cost of inspection would amount to but
one sixteenth Of cent on each quart of
milk. Our health guardian takes his
cue from this andr plays it farther He
would have the dairymen pay the herd
health inspection without protest by sug-
costing that they raise the price of milk
from tested cows by giving nineteen
quarts of milk for a dollar instead of
twenty. d He demonstrates to them that
they will actually increase their profits
by so doing to the extent of fourteen
cents on each sixty quarts of milk sold
by thenls
1t always takes two to make bargain
and sometimes more This is one of the
sometimes. We doubt If the dairymen
will be bambeozled by this attempt to
get them to come under the fifty-cent-per-
COW provision. Everybody does not buy
dollars worth of milk tickets at one
time. Plenty Of customers find it hard
enough to spare the nickel or dime for a
quart or~two daily The doctor forgets
that everybody is not fatty salaried
Should the dairymen charge such Gus
toners six cents a quart would the GUS
toners stand it? And how about the
wholesalers who get supplies from out
side this bailiwick? VIII they meet the
rise? Then there are the consumers of
milk who will probably have something
to say before this bargain is closed It
is coolly proposed to go into a combine
with the dairymen to raise the price of
their milk twenty per cent in order to
raise the means with which to pay a sal
airy to lot of inspectors" who are
skilled only in waFd politics and couldn't
tell a reaction from a collie or determine
the specific gravity or solid content Of
percentage of fat milk, although they
know precisely how Kiefer delegates can
be got from almostEany ward in the city
what nave these thousands of consumers
TO say to this proposition to victimize
them?
And all this useless pother might have
been obyiated had the ordinance provided
either that the services of the COW in
spectors be paid as are health officers
for other inspections out of the health
office fund. or, as was suggested by the
G o be, by making it the interest Of
milkmen to have their herds tested. ANY
dairyman would pay the inspection fee
II he could get an official label for his
cans and wagons that his herd was free
from disease. because the advertisement
thus obtained would be worth more than
the cost of it. But the council chose to
adopt the health officers plan and there
Will be no compromise-onz the sixtieth-of
a-cent-quart plan or any other The mat
ter may as well be tested first as last
and a precedent established that viii
teach officials that even. milkrnen have
some rights in this republic which they
cannot suppress - 5'iA 9.a5
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EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS.
Judges Complete Their Work and
Announce Their Awards.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, May 24.-The
judges in the educational exhibit, which
will be feature of the international
Y. M. c. A. convention, finished their
work today. In the junior department
of the association at Cambridge, Mass,
won the award in Sloyd; Detroit in ele-
mentary carpentry; Milwaukee in free
hand drawing; Cleveland in sketch club
and also camera club and reprinted mat
ter; Detroit in forging. In the railroad
association the Pennsylvania railroad de-
partment, Philadelphia, won the award
in its reading room, library, pennman-
ship, printed matter, music and stenog-
raphy work; Kansas City, Mo-. in me-
chanical drawing; Two Harbors, Mimi.
in the work OF camera club. Cities under
25O0G. Owosso, Mich, won in the exhibit
of literary work; printed matter, card Of
facts and congress; Jackson, Mich, in
mechanical drawing and elementary
and Wilmerding, Pa, in mechanical
drawing, both elementary and advanced.
In cities over $4,000 Brooklyn won In
literary work, Chicago in reading room
exhibit, Los Angeles in its literary So
ciety exhibit and Dayton in it's congress-
Boston carried off the honors in archi-
tectural drawing.
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conceived the purposes of our people;
mistaken, let us hope for our country 3
honor. in their distrust of the intentions
of our country's administrators; but how
can we, In the face of what we know Of
what was done. blame them II they felt
themselves deceived; if they saw in our
forces nothing but Successors to Spain $
minions, and in oufpforered aid but an
other instance. with which history teens.
of nation that came to help and stayed
to keen? --sk e5ff-e
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CHINA MUST YIELD
THAT rs THE ULTIMATUM ISSUED
BY THE RUSSIANS TO THE
TSUNG Ii YAMEN
WILL BUILD THAT RAILROAD

M. de Giers Says His Government Is
Unable to- Assent to Chinas Re-
fusai, and VIII at Once Send "a
Corps of Engineers to Survey u
Line to Connect the Russian Man
churian Road With Pekin.
PEKIN. May A.-The Russian minister
here, M. de Giers. has notified the Tsung
Ii Yamen that Russia Is unable to accept
the Chinese refusal of railroad conces-
sion, and that she will send engineers
forthwith to survey a line to connect the
Russian Manchurian railroad with Pekin
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-25
Freight Steamer Burned.

BUFFALO. N. Y, May 24.-The steam
er Cuba, of the Buffalo and Green Bay
Freight line, was badly damaged by fire
tonight while lying at the Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western freight sheds at
the foot of Main street. She was loaded
with sugar, salt and other package
dued. 1t was necessary to pump the hold
full of water. The boat now Hes on the
bottom OF the river. The loss will reach
$50, 1000. The fire was caused by the break
Ing OF lantern.
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AT THE THEATERs.
METROPOLITAN

The sale of seats and boxes to SEQ Rich
ard Mansfield the first half of next week
at the Metropolitan begins at the box
Office this morning promptly at 9 o'clock.
There Will undoubtedly be an unprece-
dented demand for seats as Mr.. Mans
held Will appear only three times. pre-
senting each evening his now celebrated
creation CyraEo de Bergerac. The seats
this morning will be sold only in small
quantities, not more than ten being sold
TO any one person. This Is to prevent
spectators getting control Of large guam
titles. More of the professional specu-
lators have appeared in st. Paul as yet.
but they have followed Mr.. Mansfield
nearly all season and the management Is
disposed to give the public every pro-
lection against their extortions. At the
Same time no favoritism will be shown
to mall orders. Those who come to the
ticket office window will have choice Of
all seats and not until the line has broken
will any mail or telephone orders be at
tended to. Mr. Mansfield and his large
company will arrive by special train on
Sunday evening. Mr. Mansfield's super
master Is expected tomorrow to begin tho
training of the extra people 1t will re-
lulre about fifteen hours to place the vast
quantities of scenery in place after ar
rival.
Manager Scott takes pleasure in an
nouncing that he has induced Mr.. Lift to
give ST. Paul return engagement with
Sporting Life of four nights and matt
nee. commencing Thursday evening, June
l. This will be gratifying to the thou
sands of play-goers who were unable to
gain admission to the Metropolitan dur
ing the engagement which closed last
night
GRAND
''Uncle Toms Cabin tested the capac-
ity at the Grand yesterday afternoon and
last evening. Davis e. Busby's magni1-
Client production of this old play seems to
please local theatergoers immensely:
Shiftless Topsy. Little Eva, Uncle Tom.
and Lawyer Marks, the donkeys, and
bIoodhounds are all favorites. There will
only be four more performances, including
ladies' and childrens' matinee Saturday.
at 2:39.
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OLIVER TRAGEDY.
1t May Result I'm Another Georgia
LynchinE.

OLIVER. Ga. May A-It now develops
that the tragedy which resulted in the
killing of Frank Evans and the probably
fatally wounding of j. B. Proctor by
Samuel Perry. a negro, last night, near
Cemeron. was the result of verbal abuse
of Mr.. Proctor's children by Perry's wife.
Her language was resented by Frank
Evans. A moment later he was shot and
Instantly killed by Perry, the woman's
husband. Mr.. Proctor than interfered, and
was shot twice. Mr. Proctor's son was
also shot at, but not hit. Thomas Lee
rushed toward the negro. and was shot,
but not seriously.
Perry then ran, though shot at by the
posse which had gathered, escaped to
the woods. The negro woman had al
ready escaped during the excitement. She
was captured this afternoon. in a swamp
near Halcyondale, nd it is not improbble
that she will be lynched.
Perry Is still at large, but it being pur-
sued by a posse. and If captured will be
lynched and probably burned.
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LOCAL WAITS FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, May PA. ]. McCar-
dy, of st. Paul, eX-department command
er of the Minnesota Grand Army, was
here today on his way TO New York
Judge Advocate General Lieber still has
the papers in the Leonhauser court-mar-
tial case and says he will not turn them
over to the secretary ofw ar until next
week.
Supervising Architect Taylor announced
today that he will inspect the sites OF
public buildings at ST. Cloud and Fergus
Fails, Mimi, and Aberdeen, 8. d.
The secretary of the interior has APP
proved the bond of George l.. Evans,
Redwood Falls, Mimi, as dsbursiDg
agent for annuities due the Medawakan-
ton Sioux Of Southern Minnesota.
Secretary Hitchcock today ratified the
recommendation of TamS Bixby and has
appointed NJ. d. Kenyon, of st. Paul,
appraiser of land for the five civilized
Z ibes of Indians.
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MISSIONARY WORKERS.
Closing Address Delivered by Dr..
MOsher, of Minneapolis.


HARTFORD, Conn, May 24-At this
mornings session of the seventy third
annual meeting Of the Congregational
Home Missionary society, Gen. Q. o. How
ard. the president. delivered his annual
address on THE Power of Little Things
Secretary j. P. Clark, d., of New York,
read paper on What Next?"
At the afternoon session, the first hour
was devoted to the church building So
ciety. Rev C, B. Cobb, D. D., and Rev
Charles D. Richards D. d.; of<Philadel-
phia, and Rev. f! D.. Hall, of New Brit
aim, Conn.,, delivered an address in ats
behalf.
The closing address Of the session was
delivered by DR.. s. v. s. Kosher. Of Min
neapolis, superintendent Of the Scandf-
navian. department, on, the work of that
department. rs. ,sa s-....
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
woman's department was held, Mrs H.
5. CasWell, secretary, presiding. Mrs
Caswell reported In substance that the
woman's organization contributed about
$4,000. There is a falling off this year
Of $2e, l53 to the combined societies. The
societies combined are credited with $144.-
725. and women have contributed to the
society independently of the unions $78.-
929