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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
Wnshington small Talk.

The examination of young men for ad-
mission to Annapolis academy has been con-
cluded In the list Of those who have sue
cessfully gone through the ordeal are Rob-
ert Samuel Furber of Minnesota and Arthur
K. Adkins of Montana. About 40 per cent OF
the candidates failed in one or more studies.
Of five who failed in arithmetic and algebra,
but passed a second examination, one was
George L. Sweeney of Iowa.
few nights ago number OF Yale soph0-
mores were elected as members OF the Junior
societies, and with the election the univer-
sity's new society system went into erect.
The names of three northwestern students
were in the list-Alfred Hoyt Bill Of Fari-
bault, Mimi, going into Zeta Psi, and Doug
lass Van Dyke and Edwin Reynolds Whit
comb of Milwaukee into Alpha Delta Phi.
A cablegram announces that l.. S. Swenson,
minister to Denmark, accompanied by his
family, will sail for home on three months
leave, June 10. on the steamer St LOUIS.
Mr.. Swenson Is a resident of Albert Lea,
Mimi, and this will be his first trip home
since his appointment several years ago.
BRYAN Mckinley is the name of an Indian
who was recently appointed tailor at the the
Fort Lewis Indian school in Colorado. The
position comes under the government civil
service and pays $500 year
Postmasters appointed to-day: Minnesota
Kennedy, Kittson county. j. A: Anderson;
Mildred, Cass county, C. B. BENJAMIN; Oak
wood, Beltrami county, e. B. Roe; Victor,
Polk county Ole Olson. South Dakota
Henry, Codington county, G. F. Fuller.
In Wisconsin four new rural free delivery
routes have been established, as follows: Elk
Mound, Dunn county; two carriers. c.. E.
Wright and ]. o. Jensen; postofices at Fas-
broke and Amy to be discontinued. Fond du
Lac, an additional carrier, A. H. Werner.
Richland Center, additional carrier, G. NJ.
SNYDER. West De Pere, Brown county; car
rier. E. A. Turriff A rural free delivery
route has been established at West Point, Lee
county. with two carriers, Oren Wilson and
l. NJ Wickham. The postofice at st. Paul
is to be discontinued.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
LOCAL PLANT TO EXPAND
Officers Of the American Bridge Company
Announce Their intentions as to the
GiIIctte-Herzog Establishment.

The great plant of the Gillette Herzog
company, whose. business has reached the
aggregate of nearly s2,OOO,O 900 year, is to
be enlarged.
The authority for this statement is no
less parsonage than Alfred j. Major of
New York, president of the American
Bridge company, who arrived in Mime
apolis in his private car this morning,
accompanied by August Ziesing, western
manager, Chicago; James Christie, me-
chanical engineer; G. 8. Belsterling, gen.
eral freight agent; Raymond Marks, trav-
cling auditor; and experts Adam Fox,
Benjamin Pickle and Marshall Williams.
The officials are on tour of inspection of
all the plants of the American Bridge
company. They leave Minneapolis to-
night for Chicago, and after investigating
the windy city plant will go to St. Louis
for additional information along the same
lines.
President Major talked freely of the
company's plans in Gsanection with the
Minneapolis branch to Journ al man
at the Office of the local concern this
morning, although keeping we'll within
his province as the responsible head Of
a great corporation.
''The Minneapolis branch Of our COM
pany," said President Major, ''is a very
valuable one. Its location in the great
city of Minneapolis with the vast country
to the west Of it, gives it great impor-
tance. There is no doubt but that the
plant will ultimately be enlarged. No,
I am not prepared to say more at this
time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24

moment a great international credit bal
to this country by Europe, is not well
founded. AS a matter of fact, the United
States is at this time in reality, through
the operations of the foreign exchange
market, borrowing from Europe, although
this debt, represented by long sterling,
will be settled later in the season, as our
grain and cotton crops, which are still
to be harvested, are shipped abroad. One
banker who was interviewed, said that
there had for a long time been a great
deal of misinformation circulated regard
ing the existence Of this big so-called in
ternational trade balance in favor Of the
United States. Said he:
Since about April some of the largest
banking houses here having dealings with
Europe have drawn very large amounts of
sixty and ninety-day bills of exchange, and
they are still drawing them. These bills are
not drawn against balances abroad, but are
ia the nature of loan bills. Such bills are
regularly drawn every summer, but this year
they began to be drawn earlier than usual,
about April 1, although usually they don't
balance existed abroad, the bills drawn would
be demand bills of exchange, not long bills.
In figuring the balance in favor of this
country on the basis of the net exports of
merchandise over the net imports of mer
chandise, there has been no taking into ac-
count of the very large amount of money that
rich Americans residing abroad spend there,
the money OF course being drawn from this
country. In this category are such men as
William Waldorf Astor and Bradley Martin,
and such women as the Countess de Castel-
lane and the Duchess of Marlborough
Spending Fortunes Abroad.
There is a great number Of such rich for
eign Americans living in London, Paris and
Italy. and to them can be added great many
more Americans of less wealth who also live
abroad and who spend a very large sum in
the aggregate For example, there are living
in the city Of Dresden alone 5000 Americans.
Besides all this, there is the amount, which
has been calculated at 500, 900 900 yearly,
which is spent by American travellers in Eu-
rope In addition, there is the amount of the
freights and insurance on our shipments
abroad which we pay to Europe. The net
balance is very much smaller than the
amount which the statisticIans have been
figuring it at.
A great many Of our dividend and interest
Welding securities have been sitting on only
about a per cent income basis. and this
fact has induced foreign holders OF such secu-
rites to part with them. They have also dis
posed of many non-dividend-paying American
securities, such as Reading and Erie shares,
which have advanced in price largely in the
American market. If actual figures could be
obtained, it would be found that a net bal
ance at the present moment does not exist as
a bankers balance-that is as actual cash
balance. 1t might be worth noting that il
the amount owed by Europe on the export
balance Of merchandise had TO be paid by the
United States in cash Europe would be
drained Of cash and the very market for our
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
"GIVE THEM A FREE RIDE"
PREMIER ROBIN NOT SCARED
Legal Movement of the Opposition
BeIittIed-DeIay Raises Hopes
at Winnipeg.

Special TO The Journal
Winnipeg. Man, May 24-Premier Rob
lin, in an interview regarding the legal
action taken to prevent the consummation
of the railroad deal, was inclined to be
facetiOus. He said:
These people are not satisfied with the
rebuff they experienced at Ottawa. but
they now wish to make their overthrow
all the more complete by going into the
courts If they would only keep quiet
everything would be all right, but we will
not bear them any grudge.
I'VE will give them a free ride over the
road when it is under our control and for
get all this unpleasantness. OF course, I
am not a lawyer and cannot speak on the
legal aspects of the matter. but l do not
think that this latest phase of the situa-
tion amounts to much
In Northern Pacific circles, the news of
the threatened further tie-up is not re-
garded with favor 1t is said the railroad
is just about tired of the constantly re-
curing delay. If the transfer takes place
it will be at the end of this month, and
if the Manitoba government has not en-
tered into possession by that time, bets
are offered in this city that the deal will
fall through. James Fisher, one of the
Northern Pacific solicitors, has gone to ST.
Paul
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24

"We are going to improve all OF our
plants. The Minneapolis plant, being SO
far removed from all the others, will nat
urally be enlarged owing to great coun-
try contiguous to It that must be taken
care of. So that instead of the Gillette
HerZog branch shutting down as a result
of what is sometimes called trust DOM
tnation, it will be enlarged to meet the
growing demands of the business"
President Major declined to go into de-
tails, explainedthat after all he was
only an executive officer whose business it
was to execute the will of the board OF
directors. He said that he expected to
VISIT Minneapolis often in the future, as
the company had decided upon line OF
policy which would make it imperative for
him to visit all of the plants frequently.
Mr.. Major will thus give his personal at
tention to many pieces of important work
being accompanied on his travels by q
staff Of structural iron experts.
ReVerting to the absorption OF the Gill
lette-H -Herzog plant by a great industrial
trust like the American Bridge company,
and It's effect on the buyers of structural
iron and steel, President Major said:
There is no doubt but that under our
present method Of operation the con-
sumner will get his material at less cost
than formerly. The consolidation of many
Individual concerns under one head has
removed much needless and expensive
competition which enables US to do our
work at considerable saving. And the
fact is we are satisfied with a fair profit,
and that is all the consumer will ever have
to pay our company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
FARM TOOL COMBINE.
Plans Reported Working Out Very
Slowly.
MINNEAPOLIS FIRM INCLUDED
Some of the Largest Concerns De-
cline to Give Options ON the
Basis Proposed.

New York, May 24.-The Journal of
Commerce says that the plans for con-
solidation of manufacturers of farm ma
ehinery appear to be working out rather
slowly a considerable number OF the
companies have given options TO the or
ganizers of the consolidation, but on the
other hand some of the largest, concerns
have declined to give options on the ba-
sis proposed. Unless the large interests
are brought into the deal there is some
doubt as to the success Of the plan. Among
the companies giving options are under-
stood to be the following:
Deere & Co., Moline, H.; Deere & Mansur
company, Moline, H.. Moline Plow company,
Moline, H.: Grand Detour Plow company,
Dixon, H.; Rock Island Plow company, Rock
Island, H.; Morrison Manufacturing com
pany, Fort Madison, Iowa; David Bradley
Manufacturing company, Bradley, H.; b. r.
Avery & Sons, Louisville, KY; Bucher &
Gibbs PlOw company, Canton, Ohio; South
Bend Chilled Plow company, South Bend
Ind; Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing conf
pany, Madison, Wis; Kingman Plow com
pany, Peoria, Ill; Sattley Manufacturing
company, Springfield, H.; Pekin Plow COIN
pany, Pekin, H.; Peru Plow and Wheel com
pany, Peru, H.; J. Thompson & Sons Man
ufaeturing company Beloit, Wis; Minneapo-
lis Plow Works, Minneapolis; Union Malea-
ble Iron. company, Moline, H.; BettendOrf
Metal Wheel company, Davenport, Iowa.
The proposed plan is issued to stock
holders of the companies giving options on
preferred stock of the new company to the
full amount of the holdings as shown by
the appraisement and in addition bonus
of so per cent in common stock.
1t is reported that the company If
formed, will have a capitalization in the
neighborhood Of 100000. The under
writer's are to furnish a working cash
capital of 81, 600, 900, receiving therefor
s5,O0O,OO0 each of 7 per cent non -cumu-
1atfve. preferred stock and common stock
The options are in the hands of the United
States Mortgae and Trust company Of this
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24

goods would be interfered with. as the people
who are our best customers could not buy.
The whole matter of settlement is worked out
through the foreign exchange market Eu-
rope stiII undoubtedly holds a great many Of
our securities, as well as interests in various
American investments which yield an income
to their holders. This is an additional item
that has helped to offset the so-calIed inter
national trade balance. If Europe owed us
money. it is certain we could not have been
exporting gold and at the same time have
been drawing long bills of exchange. The
balances are custom mouse balances merely,
not actual cash balances.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24

said to have attended Mrs Judd, were
arrested last night and later released
under bonds
Mrs. Judd died a week ago at Dowie's
Zion" after sixteen hours of suffering.
Her infant also died, and on expert medi-
cal testimony before the coroner that the
ordinary treatment given by medical
practitioners would have saved her life
easily, Judd the two nurses and Dowie
are now held to await the action of the
grand jury.
For Dowie and Judd bonds were fixed
at $4,000 each, while the women were
released on sureties of $1,000 each.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
DOWTE PINCHED
Arrested for Responsibility
for the Death of
Mrs. Judd.

Chicago, May 24-John Alexander
Dowie, "overseer of the Christian Catholic
Church." was arrested here to-day pur-
suant to the action of the coroner's jury
which has declared him "criminally re-
sponsible" for the death of Mrs. Emma
Lucy Judd. H. Worthington Judd, dis
cipIe of Dowie and husband of the al
legged victim, also arrested, appeared at
the criminal court building in company
with Dowie. Both men were taken be-
fore Judge Tuley, who admitted them to
bail Henrika Bratsch and Mary B.
Speicher, maternity" nurses, who are
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
Eleven Months, Struggle Ended.

Pittsburg, May 24-The strike of window
glass workers in Belgium and France has
been declared off and the strikers will
return to work at the manufacturers
terms Simon Burns, president Of the
National Window Glass Workers asso
citation, and general master workman OF
the nKights of Labor, received cable
gram to this effect to-day. The men have
been on a strike for eleven months for REQ
ognition Of the union and an advance in
wages, and during that time the glass
workers of this country have sent them
$35, 900. The strike affected 5000 men ia
Belgium and 1000 in France.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
CARWORKERS
Officers Observation-Disclosures to Be
at Buffalo.

Buffalo, May 24.-The delegates to the
convention of car workers of North
America have completed their organiza-
tion by the election of the following Off
GERS:
International president, A T. Fish, Buffalo;
first vice president, P L. Anderson, Chicago;
second vice president, B. A. McCluskey, New
Orleans; third vice president, E. c. Potts,
Dover, n. J.; general secretary and treasurer,
T. d. Wheeler, Buffalo.
1t was decided that the general and
main headquarters shall be in this city
The organization will be known as the
International Association of Car Workers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
BoiIermakers Out.

Easton. Pa, May 24.-The boiler-makers
employed in the Lehigh Valley railroad
company's shops here, about one hundred
in number, struck to-day because they had
been ordered to repair a locomotive
wrecked on one of the upper divisions Of
the road The boiler makers at Buffalo
and Wilkerbarre, where repair work for
the upper division is done, are on strike
and the local men declare they would be
faithless to their fellow workers if they
worked on the locomotive.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
Wholesale Discharge.

Pittsburg, May 24.-Notices we're posted
to-day at the plant of the American Steel
& Wire company, Neville island, that on
May 81 every man employed in the plant
would be discharged and that on June
all the forces would be reorganized. 1t is
understood that many of the present en-
ployes will be left out by the recorganiza-
ton. A new blast furnace will be COM
pleted this week and will be put into op-
GRAFTON on June l. This will give en-
ployment to at least 400 more men, making
the total number employed about 700.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
MAN WITH A WOODEN LEG RUNS AMUCK
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
TRAVIS WINS
He Beats Reid at Rye Three Up and
One to Play.

Rye, n. Y, May 24.-In the first half of
the Travis Reid golf match the latter had
the lead, being one up at the turn. Travis
won the tenth in 8, a distance of 945
yards. This evened the match and the
next two holes were halved in fives.
Travis won the first two and the fifteenth
and sixteenth were halved in fives and
fours, respectively. Travis won the
match on the next hole, the seventeenth,
a distance of 512 yards, in to Z, defeat
ing Reid by up and one to play.
The match between Douglas and Mac
donald, both ex-amateur champions, re-
suited in an easy win by Douglas by 5
and + to play. Sidney Carpenter beat
Matthews by 1 up after a very even game.
S. Seely beat Devereaux, Emmett by
up and to play. The pairs in the semi
finals this afternoon will be Travis VS.
Seely and Douglas VS.. Carpenter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
BRITISH MINING HORROR
Explosion in a CoIIiery Containing Hundred
Men and There Is Little Hope of Saving
the Lives Of Any.

The rescuers at the Universal colliery
are working with the greatest difficulty
owing to the lack of air. Five bodies
have been recovered. The wreckage OF the
pit is complete, almost precluding hope
that the imprisoned men can have sur
vived. There are Is miners missing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
STEAMER BEACHED
Was Loaded with Passengers, All
of whom Are Safe.

Ogdensburg. N. Y, May 24.-The excur-
sion steamer Empire State, one of the
largest of the Folger line, has been
beached near Brookville, Ont, and is rest
ing with MEN feet of water in her hold.
The steamer had 500 excursionists on
board from Prescott and Brookville bound
for the queens birthday celebration at
Kingston. The fremen left the port
holes open and water rushed in, extin-
gushing the fire. The boat was beached
and her passengers landed safely.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24

London. May 24.-An explosion occurred
this morning at the Universal colliery at
Senghenydd, in the RhOndda Valley.
About hundred men were in the pit at
the time of the disaster, and there is lit
tie hopes of saving the lives of any Of them
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
MACHINISTS AT LEISURE
LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION
American Car & Foundry Company,
Detroit, Grants q Nine
Hour Day.

Washington, May 24.-President OCon-
nell of the National Association of Machin-
lists received dispatches to-day recording
the fact that at Detroit, Mich, the Amert-
can Car & Fountry company, which en-
ploys seventy-f five machinists and 5000
other employees, has granted the demands
for a nine hour day without reduction
in wages, to not only the seventy-hve
striking machinists, but to all other en-
ployes. The same action was taken in
Rochester, N Y. by the Eastman Kodak
company, which has made a like conces-
sion to the forty machinists and the 1000
other emDloyes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
In Conference.

New York, May 24-Representatives OF
the manufacturers of the metal trades in
New Jersey, New England and New York,
held a conference in this city to-day to
consider the best means of stopping the
strike of the International Association or
Machinists. N. R. Payne Of Elmira pre-
sided A delegation of nineteen manu-
facturers from New England were pres
ent as we're also manufacturers from New
York and New Jersey.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
RELICS OF SPAIN
Two Hundred-Year-OId Cannon and
Muskets Unearthed.

MuSketS Unearthed.
Net0 York Sam Special Service
Ell Paso, Tex, May 24.-Workmen while
excavating under the old Jail at Juarez
unearthed two old-fashioned cannon and
smaller weapons used by the Spaniards
during the sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
turies. The cannon are of the brass muz-
zle- loading style used at that time. There
are seven muskets of the antiquated type,
besides two other firearms known as ar
quebuzes, which weigh so much 1t was
necessary to use a brace to support them
when firing at an object.
The jail underneath which the relics
were found is one of the oldest buildings
in the northern part Of the republic OF
Mexico and was built more than 300
years ago. According to tradition 1t was
used during the time of the Spanish rule
as a barrack for the soldiers Of the king,
but they were forced TO flee to escape a
fierce outbreak of the aborigines.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
SHIRTS AND CUFFS

Combination With S2O,OOO.OOO
Wad Proposed.
Troy, n. Y, May 24.-The leading shirt
and cuff manufacturers of the country are
to combine with a capital of $20 600, ,OOO A
committee has been appointed to appraise
the property for the constituent eompan-
les, which are said to be: The National
Shirt and Collar company; International
Shirt and Collar company Cluett, Peabody
& Co.; George P. Ide & Co.. Holmes & Ide;
Wilbur, Campbell & Stevens, and two 9TH
er concerns.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
TORRID IN SPAIN
Ministerial Crisis May Follow the
Election Disturbances.

Madrid, May PA ministerial crisis is
imminent as result of the election dis
turbances.
Barcelona, May 24-Although BARGE
Iona elected three republicans and four
regionalists, the government has placed
only monarchists at the head of the polls
The greatest indignation and excitement
prevails and the situation is so grave that
the civil governor has resigned. Should
the government persist in proclaiming the
monarchists elected, serious disorders
among the Catalanders are regarded as
inevitable.