The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-06

JS"to' NiSLl three
months Imprisonment in Jail and to pay
the costs of prosecution.
me British army budget for 1891 pro-
vides $40, 00,OO0 This sum also provides
Tor the transport home of troops. for
war gratuitfes, etc. The number of men
provided for is $50, 900, being 23O, COG above
the normal army establishment and due
TO the war in South Africa and the
operations in China.
The president has new and profitable
Offices to fill. Under the treaty of Paris
the United States assumed responsibility
TOT the payment of the claims of citi-
zens of this country against Spain grow
Ing out of the Cuban insurrection and
about $35, 900 Is demanded by ECO diff
ferent people and corporations who have
HE'D claims, many for personal injury
imprisonment and expulsion from the
Island, but the greatest amount Is de-
manded for the property DESTROYED or
cenfiscated by the Spanish authorities or
insurgents. commission of five per-
sons is to be appointed within thirty
days, with salaries of $1,000 each, to de-
eide upon these claims. They are to be
assisted by clerk at a salary Of 49, 500
a year, an assistant attorney general at
$odOG year and as many law clerks at
salaries OF $500 month as may be need
ed.
In the opinion of the New York Times
There are dema gogues in congress-
They talk all the time about the inter-
ests and welfare of the plain people
How can they justify the remission of a
portion of the tax on beer and tobacco
entirely in the interest of manufacturers.
How can they justify the remission of
inc stamp tax on bank checks, paid by
persons sufficiently well off to have bank
accounts, and of which nobody com
plains, while retaining the. tariff duties
on iron and steel, an industry that now
commands the markets of the world, and
IN which combination has Just been
formed with over $100e, O3O, OG0 OF share
and loan capital?''
The Republican majority in the Ne
braska legislature seems unable to agree
upon United States senator There are
a dozen candidates and the deadlock has
lasted over month Admitting that
personal considerations are playing a
part in the contest the nature of tina
struggle is such as to lend color to the
charges that the struggle of rival cor
porations to secure a representative in
the national senate is being fought out
in state legislature
Mrs. Nation is ffty-four years old.
Her maiden name was Carrie Moore.
She was born in Clay county, Kentucky.
Her first husband was DR.. John Gloyd of
Holden, Mo-, who died a year after mar
riage, of delirium tremens. Her second
husband is David Nation, who was an
editor at Warrensburg, Mo. lie is now
seventy-three years old. Thsy live at
Wichita, Kan.
Prof. N. S. Shaler, Harvards famous
geologist, predicts that there will be an
influx Of gold within the next forty
years which is likely to produce serious
economic complications He bases his
statement On the recent improvements in
mine dredges. which make it possible to
work thousands of square miles Of geld
bearing territory which cannot now be
prohtably mined. According to his esti-
mates, there are from 1900 to 5000 square
miles of alluvial plains in America which
will bear vast quantities of gold under
the new dredging system, and he has
stated that 1t was practically certain that
the quantity of gold in the world will be
quadrupled within the next forty years
The quantity would, he said, be increased
ten-fold were it not for the fact that the
price OF labor will increase with the in
crease of gold and make the working
of the rock beds and more expensive
mines impossible. He thinks that there
will be $50, 600 000.000 worth of gold taken
from the earth within the next century
Silver he believes. will ultimately come
to possess international value, as it is
buried not in alluvial plains, but deep
Down in the earth, where it can only be
mined at a given rate.
March came in like lamb, but it is
roaring around now like a lion, and so
young, too.
Ex-Gov. Pingree of Michigan. is in
England, en- route to South Africa After
reading the latest American papers, he
commented: 'If the latest invention of
Messrs. Morgan and Rockefeller does not
kill the grand old party nothing this
side of purgatory ever will. " English
men whom L met are fond of talking
about an Anglo-American alliance [ tell
them that the United States is twenty
one years old and learned to walk alone
some time ago." 1T is not surprising
that Cuba has broken out; it is the new
est white elephant in our imperialistic
5 zoo; oa1 America is making the
Philippines. 1t would pay US to give
somebody $2O,O00,OO0 to take them off our
hands,"
Charles Keighley, the richest man in
Vineland, N. j., has just been appointed to
and accepted the superintendency of pub
lie works in that city, at a salary of 81
month. ST believe in the municipal
ownership of all public utilities, including
the lines of communication and transpor-
tation,'' said Mr.. keighley, 'but think
the best way to that end is to begin with
the smaller affairs
A woman in Seattle Wash, after read
irg one of Marie Corellfs novels, arose
and killed her husband. Under the ruI-
ing of Judge Terry, Of Chicago, in sem
fencing the Haymarket anarchists to
death, she is guilty of murder. He ruled
that while the particular individual who
threw the bomb was not identified, vet
the leaders in the movement were re-
sponSible for setting in motion the
causes that resulted in some one throw
ing the destructive bomb. 1t has been
said time and again that some kinds Of
fiction is deleterious, but now that homi
eide follows the reading OF such "swash-
bucklfng" books as Miss CorelIis it is
time that The Hague peace commission
ers establish censorship over publica-
tons of that nature.
Between Oct. l. 1899, when the Boer
war began, and Jan. 81, 1901, horses,
mules and other supplies to the value of
,692 were bought in this country
and exported to South Africa, almost
wholly, We suppose, for the use of the
British. In that period 1862 horses and
mules We're shipped
A feature of the publishing world this
season will be an outpouring of books
dealing with Queen Victoria and her
successor, Edward VII 1t is estimated
that between forty and fifty volumes of
the kind have been written at various
times within the last dozen years, and
many of these are being reissued. In adj