The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-22


NEW YORK, April 21.-Private char
| liable institutions which are maintained
IN part by public funds will hereafter. re-
celVe only as much money from the city
as they are able to raise from private
| sources, if Comptroller Grout can have
| his way. The Inauguration of this re-
| form, which will not go into effect until
! next fall, will save the city nearly $1,000
| 600 year, and will, the comptroller be-
| heves, be an impetus to private giving,
which seems to be greatly needed.
Government Wins Important Suit.
An important decision has been handed
down in the United States circuit court of
| appeals III favor of the government in a
! suit against I. A Walsh, who construct
! ed the big wooden dock at the BROOKLYN
| navy yard.
Il The government sought to obtain $17o,-
900 it had expended in completing the
| dock, which it had contended had not
! been properly constructed The dock was
! accepted by the government board and
| S4OO,GO0 was paid tor it. Later at the be
! ginning of the Spanlsh-American war the
| defects were discovered. On the first
trial Of the case the court held that the
| government could not recover because
| OF the daily inspection. the trial and final
acceptance of the dock. This decision
| mas been reversed and a new trial or
| dered.
| John D. Crimmins one Of the con
tractors bondsrnen. pledged in the sum Of
| $4,000, contended that he was not bound
| by any changes in the contract of Which
he had no knowledge.
| Clara Morris Return to Stage.
1t will probably interest many theater
J goers to learn that Clara Morris is seri-
| ously contemplating return to the stage.
] II the present idea is carried out Miss
| Morris will abandon her old repertoire
! and appear in a new play-possibly one of
her own Clara Morris career was more
| than usually picturesque, and to attain
her position in the profession she had to
! surmount many difficulties. In the series
| OF lectures she is delivering at present
! she tells the interesting story of that
| realm Behind the curtains which to most
persons is full of interest and mystery.
Dislike Sales by Health Board.
| Barlow S. Weeks, representing one of
| the journals of the drug trade has pre-
| scented to Mayor Low d petition signed by
| about 1,1G0 physicians, manufacturing,
! wholesale and retail druggists and tax
| payers" asking that the sales Of vaccine
| virus and Of diphtheria and other anti
| toxins by the department Of health be
| stopped. The reasons submitted at the
| head Of the petition were three-that the
! sales of these products imposed on the
| department PSYCHOLOGISTS additional du-
| ties Which were repugnant to the scien-
| tific mind; that it was contrary to the
| principles of political science, and I'M
| just to mercantile interests; and that it
| diminished confidence in the board of
health. Let the gratuitous distribution
| OF virus and antitoxin continue" they
| conclude, but stop the sales''
New York Jack the Ripper Free.
Amer Ben Ali, alias George Frank. alias
| Frenchy,' convicted on July 10, 1891, Of
murder in the second degree and sen
fenced to state prison for life, for killing
| Caroline Brown, better known as "OId
Shakspere," in a room of the East River
| hotel at Water and Catherine streets
on the night of April a. 1891, has been
pardoned by Gov. Odal. "Frenchy" IS
row confined in the state hospital for
criminal insane at DanneIaora. The
crime Of which this illiterate Arab from
Algiers was convicted occurred at the
time that Jack the Ripper was abroad
in Whitechapel, London, and followed i'm
mediately after Supt. Byrnes' assertion
that such q criminal could not remain
twenty-feur hours uncaught in New YORK
@F'renehy' was convicted on circumstan-
tial evidence
HOsE Says Democrats viii Win.
James >. Hogg, ex-governor Of Texas,
returned from Europe in high health ami
spirits on the steamship Teutonic He
admitted on the dock that he had refused
to wear knee breeches at reception Civ
en- by the king of England.
"Of course I refused to wear such an
outlandish attire, = he said, land so ought
all good Americans. It's perfectly rlcicu-
lous to see a count or an earl dressed up
in his cockade of rooster feathers, with
his sword, knee breeches, tight-htting silk
coat and all the rest of such fummery''
AS to the next Democratic presidential
candidate, he said eXcitedly:
81 don't care who they put up-Bryan,
Hill or any one-but as sure as l live our
next president will be a, Democrat Does
the Republican party think it can take
such men as Schley, Miles and Dewey
and rake them fore and aft without pay
ing for it? Do they think they can
slaughter our best men and then smooth
the whole thing oyer when election
comes7" &
jerome Against Liquor Laws.
District Attorney Jerome, in an ad-
dress to the Mems Club of the Judson
Memorial Church, appeared in the role of
a prophet Of doom to the present admin
istration in this city and asserted that
another reform administration would not
be elected in the next generation unless
the present liquor law was repealed.