The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31

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Polish, Italian and Dutch. One million
campaign posters of three different sorts
have also been printed and distributed
and 100000 Autographs of Mckinley and
Roosevelt issued.
This has been year of scares and ca
tastrophes. We have looked upon famine
in India, the wars In South Africa. the
Philippines and China, the great steam
ship horror INF NHw York. the prodigious
desolation ait sGalveston, and minor
events have stiI@ed our emotions from
day to day. On Monday forty three per-
sons We're killed. and more than 100 in
Iured by am Explosion and fire in New
York
Most readers are familiar with Byron,s
famous song. Maid of Athens The
maid In question: was Theresa Maori,
daughter of the English vice consul at
Athens, who, afterwards married a man
by the name OF Black She was born In
1873, and died Oct. 81. 1875.
The return Of a regiment of London SOL
diers from duty IN South Africa was the
occasion of So much frenzied joy in Eng
lands capital, Monday that more than
loVV persons were hurt more or less in the
crush, of whom go or more were taken
to hospitals
On Oct. 81, 1873 the Cuban filibustering
Jamaica by the Spanish gunboat Tornado
and taken to Cuba. The Virginius had
peen lifted out in the United States Sc
efetIy and left Kingston, Jamaica, Oct.
%, with a large party on board. The
chlet OF the expedition was Gen. Wash
lngton Ryan. Ryan and two Cuban
cnieIs with him were summarily exc
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Fry, OF the Virginius, thirty-six of the
crew and twelve Cuban volunteers taken
on board We're executed at Santiago. Out
OF 10y men ~in the party only eighteen
escaped punishment. This event created
| great excitement in the United States.
ana was the beginning of the end OF
Spain in Cuba.
A grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince
christian Victor, major in the army,
died the other day at Pretoria.
The Democratic national committee at
Chicago has already sent out $1,000, 0c9
copies Of 118 different sorts of campaign
documents. They have also sent out
$4,000 copies of Mr.. Bryan's indianapolis
speech and 100000 copies of his st. Louis
speech, and 100000 copies of the Chicd-
go Labor day speech. Twelve million
campaign newspaper supplements have
also been sent out or will be before the
end Of this week is at hand. There are
1,800 speakers under the control of the
national committee and $500 committees
There are ON an average 4,506 speeches
every night, $4,000 every week, and 15O. COS
will be the grand total of Democrats
speeches made during the campaign.
On Oct. 81; 1861, France, Spain and
England formally entered into an alliance
which led to the unfortunate Macmillan
episode in Maxico.
1T is reported that large proportion
Of the apple crop of the country has been
destroyed by winds, worms and other
| malign causes. If the partisan editors
! and campaign orators were logical, they
would fear that this circumstance would
cost Mckinley a good many votes. But
| not being logical, they insist that he is
responsible for good crops only, not for
poor ones. "-Portland (Or.), Telegram.
Oct 81, 1917, Is the date of the appear
ance of Luther's Thesis at Wittenberg,
and therefore the practical beginning of
the Reformation.
Thursday, Nov. %, is to be Thanksgiv-
| ing day, according to President McKin-
| 1ey'S proclamation. Mr.. Mckinley says
we are to be thankful to Him who holds
| the nations in the hollow Of His hand"
for all things, prosperity, the preserva-
/ ton of our people in China" for the
! devotion and hImanity of cur armies
and navies,'' and ''for concord and amity
with other nations and for righteousness
and peace in all our ways"
Tonight is Halloween It's Observance
| is relic of pagan times The old lead
/ fNNrA - 1t
| VerSal walking abroad of spirits takes
place. In England apples and nuts are
eaten and a general good time Is had
| by the young peoples The girls put seeds
on the stove. naming them after their
| lovers. If a seed cracks or jumps, the
lover is not faithful; if 1t begins to blaze
| or burn he has regard for the person
making the trial. Another sport of the
evening is placing apples in a tub oe
water and then taking turns at trying to
catch the swimming fruit with the
mouth. Parties are frequently given on
| this night in America, and these and
other sports INDUCED In. The spirits
moving abroad at night in this country
are boys who bang doors, misplace signs
and do all kinds of mischief. In the
Catholic church it is the vigil of All
Saints" time of fast and abstinence.
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The people of Porto Rico had free trade
with Spain, Cuba and all Spanish terri
| tory. Now they have no free trade with
| any country. L They had fourteen repre-
sentatives in the Spanish eortes. They
| are to have one non-voting delegate to
| cur congress- They had local self-gov-
| eminent with Spanish governor. Now
| they have the following officials from
the United States ito whom they pay the
| salaries attached: Governor, $1,000; seere-
tary, $4,000 attorney general, s., 600; treas
urer and auditor, $4,000; commissioners of
| education and Interior each, $4,000; chief
| Justice, So 0003 three associate justices,
each 50, 500; marshal So, 900; district judges,
| $1,000; district attorney, $4,000; district
marshal, So, 600. Colonies give the presi-
| dent nice lot of offices to distribute over
| people who supposed they were going to
| govern themselves.
| Today, Oct 81, Is the anniversary OF
| the birth In 1881 of Richard B. B. Sheri-
| dan, the celebrated Irish orator and dra-
matist; of Theodore Dwight Wool
| sey, in 1901, for a quarter of a century
| president of Yale college; of William
| Cowper Prime. In 1925, prominent Amer
| lean Journalist and author; of Gen. Jo-
| seph R. HawIey, in 1926, editor, lawyer
| and statesman~and president of the Gen.
! tennial exposition;s of DIR. Benjamin w.
| Richardson, in 1923, the first physician
to use ether spray to allay local pain
IS AT THE THEATERS.
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