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The age-herald., 1901-05-13
STRAW RIDE HAS
 SERIOUS RESULTS
Wagon of Party Struck By Car and Three Persons
 Are Killed

New York, May 12-Of twenty-six young persons who started from College Point, L. l.. last night on what is locally known as a Starlight" ride, two were carried home this morning dead, five are in the hospital four were allowed to leave the hospital after having their wounds dressed and every one of the remainder were more or less bruised. A collision with trolley car caused the accident. The dead are Michael Schneir and Joseph Pyckle.
 The merry-makers were on their, way to a hotel ten miles away where they were to have a dance. They were all in one wagon, the bottom of which had been filled with straw. It was almost midnight when they reached Distler's Hotel, on the edge of Jamaica. When in front of the house the driver of the wagon tried to cross the tracks of trolley line in front of an approaching car, but the car struck the rear end of the wagon. The vehicle was demolished. Pyckle was hurled into the air and fell thirty feet away, his head striking a fire hydrant. Schneir was also thrown into the air and landed head first on the macadam pavement. Both died in a short time. Miss Debovise sustained a severe concussion of the chest and hips, and was the worst hurt among the injured. The car was badly wrecked but none of the twenty-five pas sengers were injured.
 The motorman was arrested, though claiming to be without blame in the mat ter.
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BRAVE NEGRO DIED THAT HIS
 MARRIED FRIEND MIGHT LIVE

capped with slight burns about his face and legs. Though Phelps followed at his heels, his act of heroism cost him his life. Both men were being cooked" when Phelps jumped aside, Blythe time he had followed Stansbury up the ladder the flesh was dropping from his bones. He was cooked alive and with supreme effort dragged his scalded body from the man. hole. He lived for two hours in terrible agony, but did not let groan escape him.
 "It was Jims right to go first" said he quietly; "he is married"
 Phelps has been boarding at Stans- bury's house.
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INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS.

1-General Oates on Constitution.
 Mrs. Mckinley Ill.
 Fire in Detroit
 Strike of Machinists Expected.
 Farmer Kills His Wife 2-Montgomery Wants Hotel
 Letter from Nashville. 3Sermon by Rr. Wear. Baseball. Gravely Trial Fatally Shot. 4-Editorial Hotel Lobbies. Street Urchin. Three Steel Producers. 5-Markets. 6-State Editors. Foreign Markets Trades Council
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New Locomotives for AtchInson.

New York, May 12.-The, International Power Company has just closed an order for number of locomotives for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fee Rail- way, calling for the entire capacity of it's plant for the remainder of this year. These locomotives will be built in Provi- dence, R. l.. and Paterson. N. J.
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FEARFUL FIRE SWEEPS OVER
 SOUTH DETROIT $8OO,OOO Worth of Property Destroyed Before Flames
 Gould Be Stopped TANNED BY A SWIFT BREEZE Western Union Telegraph Company Lost 100000 Cedar Telegraph
 PoIes-Efforts of Bremen
 Were Almost Futile.
TANNED BY 4 SWIFT BREEZE

Detroit Mich. May 12.-Fanned by g 35-mile-an-hour wind, fire this afternoon swept the west bank of the Rouge river in Delray, a suburb to the south of De- troit for three-quarters of a mile and destroyed ss0oOOo worth of property. Fol lowing are the losses:
 salliotte and Furgeson, lumber mills, $50, ,000 covered by insurance; Brownlee & Co.'S saw mill and part of their stock of lumber. s45, ,OOO, insurance $15,O00; the Western Union Telegraph Company, loss on cedar poles stored in a yard which was swept by the flames, about ssoo0Oo insurance unknown; CarlSin, Stickney & Cram, loss on dredge which was tied up at Salliotte and Furgeson's dock $7O,0o0, insurance unknown: Maltby Lumber Co.,, cedar poles and saw mill, $5O,OOO, insur- ance s25,ooo.
 The fire originated at 1 o'clock in the Der mill. The building was soon in ashes and the fire swept across a dock to where a dredge of the Carkin, stickney and Cram fleet was tied up. This craft was burned to the waters edge.
 Great embers were picked up by the wind and dropped on the roof of Brown lee & Co.'s mill and salt block, and both these buildings were destroyed.
 Fire Boat Was PowerIess.
 The Detroit fire department sent three engines and the f1reboat Battle. Even the great streams from the ireboat were powerless to check the flames. which were rolling down the river bank for hundreds of feet.
 From the Brownlee property the fire jumped over into the large yard in which the Western Union Telegraph Company stored its cedar telegraph poles. The yard is the distributing point for ten states, and over 100000 poles were stored there. The fire swept through the eight acres of the yard in less than two hours, but the poles blazed until far into the night. The streams from the fireboat Bat tie were centered on this yard, but they had no effect in staying the flames The four inch streams were turned into steam almost before they reached the burning piles of poles.
 The plant of the Maltby Lumber Con- pany was the last one on the river bank and it was soon destroyed. together with a large stock of cedar poles which was stored in the company's ward.
 When darkness fell. the glare from the burning poles illuminated the sky for miles. The firemen worked on the fire all most all night, but it was only to keep it from spreading to other property, for they realized that it would simply have to burn itself out In the Western Union storage yard.
 While this fire was burning the lumber yard of G. A. Rauph & Company in Ecorse, about mile from Delray, was set on fire by sparks from a passing engine, and 3OO0OO feet of lumber was destroyed. The loss is about $75,OOO. covered by in- surance
The age-herald., 1901-05-13
Alexander Ross Dead.

Chicago, May 12.-Alexander Ross, who department under the elder Harrison's s administration, died here today from pneumonia Ross was well known throughout the United States for his ciev- CT detective work.
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EsTERHAzY ADMITS IT.
Paper in Brussels Publishes Very In
 terestIng Article.

Brussels, May 12.-The Independence BeIg publishes an article by Count Fer dinand Esterhazy before the French con sul in London admitting the authorship of the Dreyfus bordereaux and declaring that the bordereaux was written with the connivance of Colonel Sandher ex- chief of the secret intelligence bureau.
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Indianapolis, May 12.-William Phelps of Richmond Ky, and James Stansbury of this city, both negroes, were cleaning the inside of an eight-foot upright boiler at the Cerealine mills this afternoon when an employe turned on the steam, think ing the cock was tight. It leaked and the scalding steam poured in on the two men,
 The only exit was up a ladded to man. hole in the top. Both jumped for the lad der. Phelps reached it first, took one step and stopped. He jumped aside and shout ed: You go first, Jim; you are married"
 Stansbury sprang up the ladder and es-
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BIo Council Passing.

Chicago, May 12.-The new Chicago Building Trades League tonight voted to affiliate with the National Building Trades Council as its accredited branch in Chicago. National Secretary Stein
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Bomb expIoded,

London, May 13.-The Daily Mall pub- fishes the following from Malts:
 "A bomb was exploded at midnight against the residence of the archbishop, but no serious damage was done."
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families, and according to the number of the family.
 The militia is still in possession of the city, and will remain here so long as the committee of the association thinks best. The liquor men have approved the action of the Governor in closing the barrooms and have endorsed it by resolution.
 No more dead bodies have been found in the ruins and the work of cleaning up the streets is progressing rapidly.
 Street cars will be running to all parts of the city tomorrow with the exception of Main street, and this line will probably be ready to operate Wednesday,.
 The electric light plants are both in operation, and the main streets of the city will be lighted again in the next three or four days.
 There has been no disturbances of any kind. Only six cases of drunkenness have been reported since the day of the fire.
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bliss of St. Louis was present and assured the league that as soon as it's application was received the charter of the old Chi cago Building Trades Council will be revoked and the national charter issued to the new body. This means the passing of the last vestige of the Building and Trades Council which conducted the big strike last year.
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good citizens, capable of fairly under standing the issues of campaign and for what they would be called upon to vote. Such men are patriotic. When vol unteers are wanted to fight our battles they furnish their quota. Some have ac- quired property and pay their taxes, but the great mass of them are propertyless and utterly ignorant of the fundamental principles of government, and the ballot is a weapon which they know not how to
 use for their own good or the good of any one else. The ballot is an injury to such | men. But if you make intelligence and | good character the test of the right to | vote you present an incentive to every man, without regard to color, who aspires | to full-f1edged citizenship to acquire in- | telligence whether he has any book learn | ing or not, and to establish a good char
 acter among his neighbors; and no man l possessed of these should be denied the | right to vote in all elections.
 Such qualifications as I have briefly 1 stated above are practicable and would elevate and tend to purify the suffrage by eliminating the corrupt, the densely ig-
 norant and purchasable, who. under the
 present constitution, have the right to
 vote. Who will say that Booker Wash
 ington, Councill. Grant. Calhoun and hundreds of other citizens of Alabama shall not vote if they choose? No one can deny their intelligence and qualification. Shall they be excluded merely because they belong to the colored race? l say no. It would be both unwise and unjust. Make some such provision for suffrage as have indicated and there will be no reduction of Alabama's representation in Congress because there will be no legal
 reason for it. With such a provision en- forced there never would be any sort of
 Justification for ballot box stuffing or for counting votes otherwise than as they
 were cast This is a consummation de- youtly to be wished"
 Not Desirable.
 The convention cannot legally disfran- chise the negroes as a race If 1t were desirable. The enabling act prescribes the oath each delegate must take at the or ganization of the convention, to support
 the constitution of the United States The
 
 vention also declares that the conven- ton shall not make a constitution which
 conflicts with that of the United States.
 The 18th article of the later says that no
 state shall make any law which denies to any man the right to vote on account
 of race. color or previous condition. If
 the suffrage clause of the new constitu-
 ton denies the right of all of the negro
 men in the State to vote. 1t will be be- cause they are negroes. Such a consti tuition would subject the State to the loss of four out of nine Representatives in Congress. and reduce the right of the State in like manner in the Electoral Col lege for President, and could not be sus- tained in the courts. Neither of the new constitutions of Mississippi and South
 Carolina anywhere mention the negro or
 undertakes to prescribe his race or deny
 his right to vote. The latter State has
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A SHORT STORY.

A man embarked in business. He didn't advertise.
 Now he Is out of business.
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THE WEATHER

SHOWERS MONDAY PROBABLY FAIR TUESDAY. FRESH WESTERLY WINDS.
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tcontinued on Second Pase.l
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'The disfranchiseElent of the whole ne gro race would be unwise and unjust. They constitute large majority of our State population-over S00,000 Among them are many honest industrious and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-15

nearly two hours, but finally adjourned
without reaching conclusion. The pro-
vision for extension demanded by the
council is one forced on the Imperial
Manufacturing company by the board of
aldermen.
While agreeable to a demand to extend,
if sufficient amount of business could
be- secured the company was unwilling
to place in the hands of the council a
power that it was held could be used to
ruin any company.
Mr. Benson pushed his contention. but
it was not shared in by the rest OF the
members 1t was finally adjusted by the
adoption of provision calling for ex-
tensions in the district asked for by the
company, when demanded by the council.
Mr.. Benson held that other parts of the
city were entitled to service, and while
not wishing to permit an abuse of power,
he thought there should be some pro-
vision by which intending patrons in suf-
fcient number could be accommodated
Mr. Catlin, who was present for the
company, practically admitted that the
company intended to derive it's revenue
principally from the business district, and
did not care to go beyond that unless a
guaranteed amount of business could be
secured. Extensions would call for the
erection of additional costly heating
plants and the construction of mains That
would entail an expenditure of So an
inch.
In view of the fact that the company is
capitalized at S500,00O, of which 100000 is
claimed to be paid in, and the company
intends to construct within a given time
not less than a half-mile of mains, Mr.
Catlin's latter statement set some of the
members to figuring. For the half-mile
one member computed that the cost
would be nearly $375. 900, not taking into.
consideration a central heating plant,
which would bring the cost up to fully.
s50O,O
The committee will take up the petition
for an ordinance next Monday, but from
the outlook it will be some weeks before
the company is even sure that it will
be accommodated. The application for
the franchise now dates back nearly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-15
NOTES FROM THE COURTS.


An aged woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Krohn,
was examined in regard to her sanity in
probate court Yesterday and ordered
sent to Rochester. She was committed
to that institution about four years ago,
but was discharged as cured. The pres
thing oversa week. The complaint was
made by her husband Lewis Krohn. The
woman is seventy years of age.
Judge Jaggard said yesterday that an
unusually large, number of assignees
Were reporting to him at the present time,
which shows he thinks. considerable
movement in the real estate market. The
movement of the aSsignees of property
are in way barometers by which the
general movement of the real estate BUSH
ness can be gagged.
Andrew Jackson, colored, who was re-
Gently freed from the bonds of matri-
mony by the courts of this county, has de-
cided to make one more venture upon the
troubled sea of married life, and to that
end applied for and received a license to
marry Miss Alice West, from the clerk
OF the courts yesterday. 1s
Henry Aides yesterday began suit
against the street railway company in
Justice Bakers court to recover dam
ages to the extent of $780, It is alleged
that the conductor on the car he boarded
refused to take transfer proffered by
Aides, claiming that he had not changed
cars at the right intersectirig point
Judge Lewis yesterday. handed down
two decisions in tax judgment cases by
the county treasurer In the case against
A. P. Wallieh the application of the treas
urer for Judgment is denied. Judgment
Is ordered for the plaintiff however in
the case against George w. Oaks.
In an order filed yesterday Judge Lewis
directs verdict for Attorney General
w. B. Douglas in the matter of the Ale
MAMMA mi liability to the state. The amount
is $3.50. 80, and the court orders that it be
paid forthwith.
Nellie NJ Thompson was given a de-
cree of divorce from her husband E. L.
Thompson, by Judge Lewis yesterday
Desertion was the charge the case hav-
ing been opened some time ago and con-
tinued.
Judge Lewis Yesterday filed an order
in the case of Ellen M. Healey against
Annie Casey. ct al. naming George w.
Blood as referee to sell certain property,
the title of which is involved in the case
Judge Brill yesterday filed an order
overruling the motion of the plaintiff to
demur in the caseeof Robert P. Hughes
against NJ McCrossen.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-15
WORK ON MEMORIAL
MOVEMENT STARTED TO COLLECT
FUNDS FOR NATIONAL TRIBUTE
TO M'KINLEY
COMMITTEES TO BE NAMED
Gov. Van SAINT Meets Delegation
From 6. a. H. Yesterday-Plans
Have Not Yet Been Def
niteIy Formulated.

A meeting in the interest OF the Nc
Kinley memorial fund was held yaster
day afternoon at the office of Gov. Van
SAINT, and preliminary steps were taken
toward the formulation Of plans for the
work of securing contributions in this
state The plan, iii pursuance of Which
this meeting was held, originated in
Cleveland, Ohio and contenplates the
Serectol of a monument or the 1nstalla-
ton of a memorial of some other char
acter either at Canton or Washington,
d. C, Gov. Van SAINT is an honorary
vice president of the national associa-
ton, which has the project in charge,
and the session of yesterday was of the
nature of a conference with a committee
of Minneapolis gentlemen appointed by
Judge Ell Torrance, commandments
of the G. A. r! There We're present
William Henry Eustis, who is chairman
OF the Minneapolis committee; r. II.
Forbes, secretary, and c. S. Cairns. j.
- w. Olsen, state superintendent of public
instruction, was also present.
The work accomplished at this meeting
was almost entirely Of q preparatory ma
ture and the work can scarcely be said
as yet to have taken definite form. 1t
was decided that Supt. Olsen and Supt.
Irwin Lewiston, of the st. Paul public
schools and S. J. Race, of Redwood
Falls, shall have central supervision Of
such work as is done among the school
children OF the state, but just what the
character of that work Will be has not
yet been decided 1t was also decided to
appoint q large state committee with a
local chairman in each county, but the
select N of that committee has not yet
been completed Another meeting will
Z be held at an early date.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-15
DISCOUNTS ECONOMY
M'CARDY,s CONSTITUTING OF CHAR
TER AN INCENTIVE TO
EXTRAVAGANCE
IT IS soUNDLY DENOUNCED
All Unexpended Funds Are Credited
to Departments and Amount
Deducted From Annual
Appropriation.


"a price on extrava gance," is what
President Wheelock, of the park board,
characterizes the provision of the charter
which demands that the balance on hand
to the credit of any department at the
close of the year shall be carried over
and credited to the fund of that particu-
lar department. and deducted from the
annual appropriation.
1t was at the meeting of the conference
committee yesterday afternoon that Mr..
Wheelock made the remark, supplement-
ing it with, "Of all the provisions of our
charter I think this the most idiotic.
There is no incentive to any department
to save money"
DR.. Ohage aired his views in a similar
strain, remarking that by dint of econ
omy he had saved $1,000 on the baths,
which he hoped to use in the improves
ment of the place. If my appropria ton
is reduced that much next year I want to
be credited with what I have saved in
dignantly remarked the doctor.
Nearly all the departments were under
the, impression that any moneys remain
ing in their funds would revert this year
to the general fund, and Mr.. McCardys
statement, corroborated by the legal de-
partment, came as surprise.
According to the ruling, should the
police department save $4,000 by dint of
great economy, that much would be de-
Quoted. from the amount it is permitted
by the charter, $751; co., The balance would
be carried over and credited.
In the minds of many this restriction
works a great injustice, and it is possible
that the charter commission at its meet
ing this evening will be asked to provide
a reform
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-15
DAILY DIVORCE. RECORD.
Mrs. PhiIomene Forth Set Free
From Cruel Husband.

Mrs. Philomene Forth was divorced
yesterday by Judge Lewis from Lewis B.
Forth. According to the complaint they
We're married in Minneapolis in June.
1889. Almost Immediately after the mar
rage, Mrs. Forth alleges, the defend
ant began to maltreat her, frequently
beating her with his clinehed fists and
calling her vile names. Even when he
was sober he was net a. model husband.
she complains. and when he was drunk
he just seemed to take delight in break
ing up the furniture, tearing pictures
from the wall, calling her vile names.
threatening her life and beating and
kicking her. On one occasion he informed
her that the butcher knife was in excel
lent condition. and that. he was tempted
to use it upon her.
Forth set up a general denial to the
charges of the complaint and said that
she had treated him with great cruelty.
He is a mechanic and earns SITS, a day
when he works, but is not steadily enl-
ployed because OF his love- for the cup
that cheers. He WAS arrested recently
On bench warrant for refusing to pay
his wife 81 week temporary alinony.
He paid up, however, and was released.
There are three children, two boys aged
eleven and nine. and a girl aged six.
The court ordered an absolute decree.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-15
QUESTION OF 0LEO
CONGRESS MUST SETTLE TT OR
e4,a,BUTTER INDUSTRY WILL
SUFFER
SO SAYS DAIRY COMMISSIONER
Sentiment of western Buttermakers
Unanimously in~EayOr of circuit
Bill-Hope to Win
This Time.


THE sentiment of the dairy interests
of Minnesota and of the entire West is
unanimously in favor Of the passage Of
the Circuit bill, or at least an enactment
embodying the principal provisions Of
the Grout bill, = said Dairy Commissioner
Mcconnell yesterday. 1.-THE life of the
american butter industry lis at stake,
and something must be done to preserve
it. Some sdairymen favor the substitu-
ton of "a new bill which shall be even
more extreme. but the general sentiment
lis that the Grout bill should be intro
duced again and pushed through. We
Believe the right kind of fight will win
this time. but it will be no easy fight.
We are opposed, by. powerful agencle s.
1.-The .ialeemargarinea companies and many
allies, the fat cattle dealers, hog dealers
and cottonmen of the South. ait has
long been recognized as essential that
one OF two things be done, either that
loleomargarine be sold. AS ssuch. or be
compelled to compete directly with but
ter i'll prices All measures to prevent
the sale of cleo under the guise of butter
are partially Ineffective SO the only
thing to do is to impoSela tax ON oleo
high enough to force the market price
up where is has to compete with butter.
Although We are not represented at the
Dubuque meeting, we are justgas inter-
ested in the measure as any other state.
This department secured the introduce
ton and passage at, the last session of