The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-19

question will come before the general
convention of the church at San Fran
cisco next month for final settlement.
Milwaukee, Wis.-The Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolu-
ton prohibiting any person not a regular
Iy accredited member from trading on the
floor. Heretofore licenses have been is
sued to clerks in the employ of traders
having memberships which permitted the
clerks full privileges. The resolution goes
into effect at once. About forty clerks are
affected.
Chicagc-Mayor Harrison requested that
all business be suspended today from 2:30
D m. to $50 D. m. He asked that only
such work as was absolutely necessary
be done. Ministers of the city are re-
quested to see that during this cessation
or the c1tyS pulse in honor of the mem
| DRY of the nations dead, that all bells
| toll and everything be uone to make it "A
mourning city.
Berlin-The Society for the Protection
| of the Business Interests of the Rh.neland
! and WeStphalia has adopted a resolution
lmal duties on grain. Action of this kind
is now growing so frequent that minimal
duties may be regarded as doomed. In
Pomerania the peasants organization has
peSun series of meetings against any
increase in the duty on grain.
Madisonville, Ky.-The union miners
opened fire on the guards at the Reinecke
mines, where strike is in progress, and
between 200 and 800 shots were eXchang-
ed. The non-union men were on their
way to the mines. and returned to town
as soon as the firing began. The nom
union men declare the will go to work
II given arms with which to protect
themselves. One man was wounded.
Constantinople-A ministerial circular,
occasioned by the disturbance in Mush
and Erzeroum, shows that the sultan
greatly fears a European combination
against him. The circular demands tram
guilty throughout the empire, with secu-
rity and justice for members of all races
and creeds. Disturbances are to he
promptly suppressed without invoking
the assistance of the inhabitants of the
provinces in which they occur.
San Francisco-Reliable advices from
Point Barrow, Alaska. up to Aug. II, re-
port the total failure for the past season
of the foe whaling done by natives at
Point Barrow and Point Hope, leaving
the natives destitute and creating a
shortage in the whalebone market Only
one small whale was caught at Point
Barrow, and none at Point Hope. The
failure of the season is attributed to the
heavy ice drift leaving no opening for
the whale to pass close to shore.
Boston-Judge Lawton, of the Middle
sex county probate court, has decided
that the will of the late Marie J Mar
snail, of Weston, is invalid on the ground
that the testrat TX was Of unsound mind
and incapable of executing a testament
tary paper. Miss Marshalfs will provid-
ed for large requests to the Hampton
normal institute at Hampton, Va, and
groes at Tuscogee, Ala. A score of other
institutions were to receive small lega-
cieS
Simla-Fighting has occurred at Peiwar
kotal (pass) at the upper end Of the Ku-
ram valley, between the ameer's troops
and the Jarg1S, tribe which has long
complained of Afghan oppression. Some
hundreds of the tribesmen moved across
the British border, camping, on the hills.
The ameers troops surprised them, cross
ing the boundary in pursuit. The local
British authorities warned the Afghan
officer in command that he must pre-
vent his men from transgreSS:ng the
frontier.
Cincinnati. Ohio-At Southgate little
village near Newport, KY, j. II. Badger,
credit man for the Robert Clarke Pub
fishing Company of Cincinnati, was shot
and instantly killed at 8 o'clock a. M
shot in the back, the revolver being so
close as to set fire to her clothing. She
is not dangerously hurt. Mr.. and Mrs.
Badger heard noise and started down
from behind a door, fired the fatal shot
and escaped.
Shanghai-The Germans report that the
governor of Shan Tung has demanded the
withdrawal of all the German troops
now outside the colony of Kiao Chow.
The Germans are, not DESTROYS of Offend
ing the governor, but are at the same
time unwilling to comply with his de-
mand, so the German governor has gone
to Pekin to consult with the German
minister there. German and Japanese
companies are being formed for the pur-
pose of trading on Tung Lin lake (the
largest lake in China).
Berlin-The listing committee of the
Berlin boerse has rejected protest
against listing the forthcoming Russian
loan. The protest was made by German
holders of certain Russian certificates,
VINO claimed that they were unable to
government. NJ. de White, Russian min
lister of finance, wrote to the committee.
pointing out that the Russian courts
were open 10 any persons protesting, and
thereupon the protest was rejected by
the committee
Philadelphia-After a ride Of three DAYS
on horseback through the wilds of Idaho.
and four and half days On railroad
Tram tfaias' United States Senator, Penrose ar
rived home at midnight and left in the
morning for Canton to attend the funeral
of President Mckinley Senator Penrose
nad been on a two months hunting trip
In the West, and he started for the East
the moment the news of the shooting of
the president was conveyed to him. He
is accompanied on his trip to Canton by
Attorney General John P. Elkin
San Francisco-The Standard Oil com
pany, which controls the Pacific Coast
OH Refining works at West Alameda, has
acquired about fifty acres at Point Rich
mond, contiguous to the Santa Fee rail-
road, and communication by water and
the Chronicle says will erect the third
largest refinery in the United States at
that point. Over 100000 will be spent
on the new plant, and when it is com
pleted the Alameda refinery will be
abandoned. All of the Oil owned by the
company in California will be refined at
the new works.
London-An alarming situation exists
at Grimsby, where a mob of locked-out
hShermen attacked, wrecked and set fire
to the new offices of the Owners Fedora
ton, where the owners of the fishing fleet
were holding meeting. The owners es-
capped, but the police were powerless to
quell the riot. A strike has been in prog
ress among the fishermen at Grimsby
for several months. Four hundred steam
fishing boats are idle and thousands of
fishermen and their families have heen
suHerlng great hardships
Detroit, Mich-The supreme lodge
knights and Ladies of Honor elected the
following officers: Supreme protector. :.
b. Lockhart, Toledo, Ohio; supreme vice
protector. c.. F. McCullagh, Brinklev.
Ark; supreme secretary, c. w. Haryey'
indianapolis; supreme treasurer, George
A Byrd, Indianapolis; supreme medical
examiner, DR.. L. D. Witherill, Union
City, N. Y; supreme chaplain, Mrs.
Amanda c. Lohr, Cairo, ILL.,: supreme
guide, Mrs. Lillian A. E. Harding. Som
erv1lle, Mass; supreme guardian, B. W