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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
Fun and Fancy
Sarcasm.

Mrs. Nexdore-My daughter can play on
the piano now very nicely.
Mrs. Pepprey-Indeed?
Mrs. Nexdore haven't you heard
her?
Mrs. Pepprey-Oi wouldn't be likely
to hear her, you know, unless she were
to fall pff.--Philadelphi Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
Need MereD. Men or Less Wheat.

The wheatahnzk est IS moving north
ward, and now are cry for $4,000 men
comes from Minnesota. 1t really looks
as if the United States would have to
raise more men or less wheat-Indian-
apoliS Journal yfs'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
Ghosts Visit the Star.

Super-No, sir the ghost hasn't walked
Crittick-I saw s,the beading man with
wad today he must have got his sal
airy. - .a 81
Superior, yes; he's the star.
Crittick-W What you might call fixed
star, eh?e-Philadeiphi Ledger.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
One Ahead of Them.

"How did he get his title of colonel?'
HE got it to distinguish him from his
his wife's second husband, who was
ma Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07

The worst has been said about the
plumber. Three members of his tribe
have been accused of stealing Chicago
city water,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
Fad VIII wear Out.

The automobile fad is getting more
serious every day. and it is becoming
really hazarddt% for pedestrians to get
about. AfteH while it may be neces-
sary for eyerAbo5ly to have q horseless
machine in .9rsfr that they may be
with the. sas it was few years
ago, when thebI3ycle craze reached its
zenith. EvefN new owner of an auto
has desire t4SSfe how fast he can go,
but after while this wears off some
and in dueH Efime let us hope that
drivers of these machines will get down
to "a sober. tsehsibIe pace. Chicago
DroVerS' Joi1rs5A
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07

The state permanent school fund is
getting to be an important offs,aoet Of
"the money power" but nobody in Min
nesota is kicking about it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
Rrotherlx. Esgs Fron PhiladeIphia.

Mr.. Sargen tai needlessly alarming a
lot of peoplesAhh is. maigning a great
many honestsHaHen If not highly edu-
Gated, Immigrants by foolish talk about
the danger to American institutions of
a great horde of population drawn
from the scum of Europe. The fact
that a man frnmigrates to better his
condition creates the presumption that
he has some enterprise and some pluck,
and there is avery small part of the
immigrants who can with any degree of
propriety be called scum.-PhiladelpIi
Racord -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07
washington time & p. N st. Paup.
TD,.Il

*RiSe. -Fa1
The Mississippi will change but little in
the vicinity of St Paul during the next
thirtv-six holIs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07

The open doors in Manchuria seem
to have blown shut during the ex-
change of diplomatic notes.-Princeton
Union.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07

The man who amounts to something,
who does something, makes enemies
and runs up against opposition. The
good fellow slips throgh easy.-St.
James Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-07

The trouble with the negro educators
in this country is that they are trying
to make too many lawyers and doctors
out of the colored race. If they turned
out more farmers, carpenters and
brieklayers the race problem would
soon be solved. Hard work is cure
for many evils.-St. Cloud Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
Eight Men Burned nnd Injured--Tvo ofThem Seriously.

Eight Men Burned nnd Injurcd-Two
 ofThem Seriously,
 Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 11-A serious explosion occurred this afternoon at No. Il colliery, operated by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company, at Ply mouth, four miles from t5is city. Eight men were burned and injured, two of them seriously.
 Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 11.-Another mine explosion occurred to-day, but in this instance no one was injured. At the Dorrance colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company miner fired a blast which spread a flame, causing an explosion of keg of powder that had been standing in miners box not far away The flame from the powder also ignited large gas feeder, starting a fire which soon communicated to the brattice, or woodwork. in the mine. There were some five hundred miners, laborers and door boys inside They were hurried to the surface and no one was injured. This evening the fire was subdued.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
GROWN PRINCESS DIVORCED.
Decree Granted mt Dresden Idea of In-
 sanity to bs'NOurished.

Dresden, Feb. 1.-The suit for di- vorce brought by the crown prince against former Crown Princess Louise of Saxony, was resumed in camera to- day, and after several doctors had furn- ished expert testimony a decree of di- vorce was granted. The decree reads: '"The ties of the marriage of the parties are dissolved on account of the adul- tery of the respondent with M. Giron, a teacher of languages. The blame at taches to the respondent who is ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings
 Although the special court declined to take into account the contention of the former crown princess lawyers that she was deranged this theory is fully ac- cepted by King George, Crown Prince Frederick and the Saxon court as the view to be put forth within the kingdom in future and that reasons of state re- quired the separation. The same rea- sons also require that the people shall be brough to believe that the princess acted in an unroyal manner because she was demented. This legend will be nourished until so far as Saxony is con- cerned it will become historic truth The conduct of the princess is consid- cred by the moranchists to be most de- ,structive to respect for the crown and the claim that every care must be taken to gloss over her misdeeds.
 Vienna, Feb. 11.-An interview with Dr. Zehme of Dresden, the lawyer of former Crown Princess Louise of Sax ony, is published here to-day. After denying that Professor Giron had been paid to break off his relations with the princess Dr. Zehne said M. Giron was mainly actuated by personal vanity The princess, he added was quite free at the sanatorium at Nyon, SWitzer- land, and was allowed to go on excur- sions to various places in the neighbor- hood.
 According to the zeit the princess would have left M. Giron when her brother, Archduke Joseph went to Gen eva, in an endeavor to persuade her to return, but for the fact that the French teacher threatened her with a revolver.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
Two Miners Love Their Lives

Duluth Minn.. Feb. 1.-Two lives were lost and ten men had narrow es- capes as a result of fire in No. shaft at Spruce mine. owned by the United States Steel corporation at Eveleth. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lantern which was left near the edge of the shaft on the second level, 150 feet below the surface. Ninety feet deeper in the mine twelve men were at work in a drift, which was being put through from No. to No. 1 shaft. There was no escape for them except by way of No. 3, in which the fire was raging. There was no ventilation for them, and they were in total darkness, the lights from their candles being of little avail. They groped to the point where the drift joined the No. 1 shaft. When they could no longer see fire above they began climbing the ladder.
 Ten of the men reached the second level. Two were overcome when about forty feet from the point of safety and fell back to their death.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
4 CURIOUS PEOPLE.
Fast Dying Out from Rum and Pa'na
 Wine

Wine.
 London, Feb. 11.-Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, who has just returned from the island of Fernando Pc, the island of Spain in the Eight of Biafra, vest ern Africa, gives an interesting de- scription of the curious inhabitants of the practically previously unexplored interior of the island. These are known as boobies" Very few of them have ever seen white man, and they never leave their primitive dwellings in the rocks except on organized drinking bouts. The race is fast dying out from the effects of rum and palm wine. The natives are mostly quite naked, except for a. curious straw bonnet. They paint their bodies with colored mud, are un- speakably filthy, for they never wash, but occasionally use a knife to scrape off the surface dirt, and create artifi- eial deformities by tightly enwrapping their limbs. The Fernando Pc natives are exceedingly timid and when sighted by the whites bolt into the depths of the jungle, where they set up fearsome walls. At certain hours each day the villages are quite deserted, every one, including the children, going off on a carouSe.
 The lieutenant adds that, although he searched for them assiduously, he could find no traces of the burial places of the natives of the island.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
TURF INVESTMENT FAKES.
Petition Filed Against K. J. Arnold 6
 Co.-Exct.ememt tn St. Louis.

St. Louis, Feb. 11.-As the result of a suit of attachment served on the John J. Ryan Co., Operative company on Tuesday, a run was started by the de- positors on number of cooperative turf investment companies here and to-day petition was filed in the Unit ed States court by creditors asking that E. J. Arnold & Co. be declared bank rupts.
 MT. Arnold telegraphed from Hot Springs tonight that he is not bank rupt and will settle with his creditors and that they will lose nothing. He is expected here to-m6rrow.
 The offices of E. J. Arnold & Co. were filled with frantic people to-day clamoring to withdraw their invest ments. In the offices of the John J. Ryan company similar scenes were en- acted. People filled the railways and thronged the streets before the head
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
REMARKABLE MURDER CASE.
Woman's Killing of Her Husband at
 Monticello, N Y.

Monticello, N. Y, Feb. 11.-At the hearing in the case of Mrs. Lafayette Taylor, charged with the murder of her husband, Peter Yerkins, an uncle of Mrs. Taylor. testified to-day that she told him the horrible details of the kill ing of her husband and burning of his body as calmly as though she was speaking of the killing of chicken.
 Yerkins said she came to his place at Ulster Heights on February 1 to sell him horse, as she wanted the money to pay bill. She said: q am going to leave Taylor and go to work in beard ing house at Woodbourne. You need not fear Taylor any more, for I have fixed him with the red dog"
 Yerkins said he exclaimed: You don't mean to say you have murdered him, do you?' to which she replied: He came in drunk and raised trouble I shot him once and the ball glanced off. I shot him again and he fell on the floor. I then burned his clothing and put new paper on the wall in places where the blood had spattered. burn- ed the body and fed the bones to the chickens" ' . z .zss 554, .e.. ....... < Mrs. Taylor was accompanied on hei visit to her uncle by her daughter, May Dekay,. who yesterday confessed tc having witnessed the murder.
 According to Yerkins' testimony Mrs. Taylor told him that she had read of family that did not get along very we'll and that the woman killed her hus- band and burned the house. She also told Yerkins that she burned the bloody carpet and all of her clothes that were spotted with blood, and turning to her daughter, remarked that Peter would not give her away, for if he did it would mean the electric chair for her" She also asked Yerkins for some paint to paint over some blood-spots.
 The hearing ended this evening, and Mrs. Taylor was ordered confined in jail to await the action of the grand jury at the May term.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
sharls+y Beaten at Wrestling.

Cleveland, Feb. Il. - Pugilist Tom Sharkey was not able to withstand Wrestler Dan McLeod's attempt to throw him three time within an hour tonight and Mcleod was successful in fifty minutes. The first fall was the longest of the three, and took Mcleod half an hour to down the sailor. After a rest of fifteen minutes the men went to the mat again and Mcleod had Sharkey flat on the mat in thirteen min utes. The third fall was in twelve minutes. Sharkey did not attempt any aggressive work, simply laid on the mat and baked in so far as he could the eff forts of the champion to throw him.. Twenty-Five hundred people saw the contest, which was advertised to be for purse of s1,5O0 and side bet of $500.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
GERMANY STILL HOLDS OUT
IGNORES HER PRETIoUSAGREE-
 MENT WITH MR. BOWEN.

Insists on Cash Paymcmt-Mr. Bowen
 WnH Not Yield Pending Decision of
 The Hague-Grsat Britain and Italy
 Said to Have Renounced Any Respom-
 sibtiity for Germnmy,s Action.
 Washington, Feb. 11.--Germany has ignored her previous agreement made with MT. Bowen by Count Quadt, her charge d'affaires, and has insisted on a cash payment of $S4O,OOO or a lien on the customs receipts of one of the Venezue- Ian ports until this amount is paid. This information was communicated to Mr. Bowen tonight by Baron Stern burg, the German minister. l..s-.r.. >
 Mir. Bowen informed the German minister that he refused to yield the re- ceipts of any port prior to The Hague's decision, saying that would be prefer ential treatment. As to the cash pay ment of $340,000 demanded, MT. Bowen left that matter to the German minis ter to determine, saying to him that if Germany can afford to make a public confession that it does not stand by agreements signed by it's duly accredit- ed diplomats, he (Mr. Bowen) is willing that they shall receive on the day the protocol is signed the total amount ask ed in the original ultimatum. The re- sponse has been cabled to the German foreign office.
 Great Britain and Italy have renounc- ed any responsibility for the action of Germany and expressed their regret. Through their representatives, they have informed MT. Bowen that they will stand by all agreements they have made with him and will not be influence ed by the action of Germany. Both the British and Italian protocols provide for a cash payment of $27,500, and for the submission of the question of preferen- tial treatment to The Hague. They contain recommendations for the re- newal of all previous treaties of amity and commerce and the Italian commit nication has an article providing for the payment of the Italian claims which already have been adjudicated without further arbitration, after her commits sion has arbitrated the other claims. With the exception of the demand for an increased cash payment the protocol of Germany in all essential respects will conform to that of Great Britain, but will be somewhat more concise. All three protocols, it is understood, will provide for the immediate return of all vessels seized by the blockading ships. It is stated that the action of Ger many in asking for $340, ,0O0 instead of a misunderstanding of certain steps in the negotiations which had passed on ; by Count Quadt before the arrival of Baron Sternburg. MT. Bowen holds, that Germany is bound by the act of its representative. In the original ul- timatums addressed to President Cas- tro by the British, German and Italian governments a cash payment of 1,700, ,000 Bolivars each for Great Britain and Germany and of 2,6OO,O0O Bolivars for Italy was demanded. Soon after Mir Bowen's arrival here paper was sign- ed at the British embassy by the three representatives of the allies, the Brit ish and Italian ambassadors and the German charge, Count Quadt, and MT. Bowen to the effect that the allied powers would accept a cash payment
 (Continued on Seventh Page.)
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
OLYMPIC GAMES AT ST. LOUIS.
Everything Settled Tor World Contests %, at Exposttion.

F. at Exposttion.
 St. Louis, Feb. 11.--fsEverything set tied. You have Olympic games, is the wording of 8 cablegram received to-day from Michael Grave, World s fair com missioner at Paris. France, by Louisi- ana Purchase exposition officials. The meaning of the cablegram is that the Olympic. (not Olympian- -misnomer) games which originally were intended to be held in Chicago in 1904 will be held in St. Louis during the Worlds fair, the international committee having so decided that the special committee was appointed by President Francis some time ago to take up the question of se- curing the Olympic games for St. Louis during the Worlds fair. A number of meetings were held with the Chicago gentlemen in the charge of the games. In furtherance of the project the Ath-# letic Union of St. Louis sent a special committee to New York to confer with the main body of the Amateur Athletic Union in relation to securing the Amer iean athletic events in 1904 for St. Lou is. Through the aid of A. G. Spauld- ing, of Chicago, and others prominently identified with the matter, decision was made favorable to St. Louis all though dependent upon the ultimate decision of the international committee on. the Olympic games, to which the whole question was finally referred.
 The Worlds fair officials state that a gratifying feature of the situation has been the attitude of Chicago commit tee, which has manifested the utmost friendship toward St. Louis in the 1lrl- dertaking. szs
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
$10, 0,00O,000 ISSUE
Authorized by the Directors of the Erie
 Railroad Company.

Railroad Company.
 New York, Feb 1.-The directors of the Erie Railroad company to-day yot- ed to authorize the issue of $10,000, 900 vertible into common stock at 50 after April 1, 1905, and before April 1, 1915. The bonds will be secured by mort gage on other property of the company and there is also the provision that subsequent bonds may be issued from time to time not exceeding $50000, ,000. These later bonds may be made con- vertible into common stock at a price to be named when issued. :
 The official statement issued by J. P. Morgan & Co. proceeds. to say: <@ j
 "The S10,000,000 of bonds now to be issued are to be offered for subscrip- tion pro rata to the holders of trust certificates for first and second prefer red and common stock of the company at the price of S7 1-2 and interest. An underwriting syndicate is to take such bonds as are not subscribed for by the turst certificate holders.
 
 pany have for some time been carefully Investigating the important needs of the company for additions and im- provements to it's property and the pro- ceeds of these $10,000,000 of bonds to- gether with the amount of net earnings properly applicable to this purpose will be applied to meet the requirements for all Improvements at present deemed , desirable, the most important of which are the following:
 "The construction fo new and modern ferry houses at Chambers and Twenty third streets; the purchase of new fer ryboats, the building of new modern depot and ferry houses at Jersey City and the arrangement of tracks and terminals at that point; the construc- ton of new line through an open cut over Bergen Hill so as to avoid the use of the present tunnel for pas ! senger trains; important improvements at stations along the suburban lines and various Improvements along the line including construction of second and third tracks; provision of tools and Improvements for the shops; and the purchase of about 5000 new freight cars, fifty new passenger coaches and ! one hundred locomotives" -.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
FIRE IN ILLINOIS ARSENAL.
Heavy Loss nt Rock Esland-A Store
 House Gutted.


 House Gutted
 Rock Island, H., Feb. 11.-Shop CA" the principal issue storehouse at the Rock Island arsenal, was destroyed by fire tonight with it's contents. The latter included cavalry and infantry equipments of every description and one million rounds of Krag Jorgensen smokeless ammunition. The contents were worth $1,500,00O. The building was a massive structure, three stories high, erected twenty years ago at a cost of $400,000.
 The flames in the great government institution endangered property worth many times the amount lost. The fire was under control by 1 o'clock this morning, at which hour Major Blunt, the commandant, made the estimate of the loss given before.
 There were no casualties so far as known.
 The Rock Island arsenal is the larg- est in the United States, comprising ten immense building and covering thirty acres of ground. It represents an expenditure of $12,000,000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
New Chair for Dr. Bow ditch.

Boston, Feb. 11.-Dr. Henry Pickering Bowditch, for many years professor of physiology in the Harvard Medical school, was to-day elected to a new chair-the George Higginson professor ship of physiology.
 The Harvard board of overseers to- day voted to concur with the president and fellows in their votes establishing the Fales professorship of Sanskrit, the Charles Eliot professorship of land scape architecture and the Nelson Rob- inson, jr., professorship of architect ure.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
SCREENING TROLLEY CARS
WINDOWS PROTECTED FROM
 STONE THROWING.
An Experiment by the Waterbury Trol- ley Company Aimed at Breaking Up the Habit-Strikers Bring Passenger With the Cars.

Waterbury, Feb. 1.-The feature of the trolley situation in this city to-day was the experience of a car on the North Main and Bank street line on the windows of which was stretched heavy wire netting. This was put outside the windows that the few stones which are still thrown at cars may not break the windows, or, at least, may not injure the passengers by the flying glass which falls inside the cars when windows are broken. Other cars will possibly be equipped in the same manner.
 General Manager Sewell of the Con- necticut Railway and Lighting compa- ny, stated to an Associated Press re- porter tonight that the scheme is sim ply an experiment as yet, and intended to break up the sporadic stone-throw- ing game which is practiced by the small boy.
 As car was loaded with factory en- ployes at noon to-day outsids of the Holmes, Booth & Hayden company s plant a boy reared himself above the fence and saluted the car with a missile which went through window. The boy was not caught, as few of them are. The management feels that the most of the trouble given to the cars now is from the irresponsible youths of tender years.
 Aside from such small attempts as this, the running of the cars in the city and in the suburbs is uninterrupted, and the passengers to-day were quite numerous on all lines, both men and women riding. The wet weather un- doubtedly drove many to the cars. The strikers say to-day that they have well-perfected plan to bring passenger automobiles to the city to compete with the cars, but refuse to divulge any particulars regarding the scheme
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
REED SHOOTS PLAN.
Will Go to Washington and Take His

Salt Lake, Utah, Feb. 11.-senator- elect Reed Shoot of Utah. it is an- nounced, will go to Washington next week. His credentials as senator to succeed Senatro Rawlins will then be presented.
 '.The protests against my being seat ed in the senate will make no differ ence in my plans," said MT. Smoot. II expect to take my seat, and I do not anticipate any serious interference. I see no reason why there should be. Nothing can be brought against me, ex- cept that I am member of the Mor- mon church."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-12
DELAWARE DEADLOCK.
Anti.Addiclks Men Hold Another Con.
 ference-yesterday's Ballot.

Dover Del, Feb. 1.-The ten regular republican assemblymen who are hold ing out against the election of Addicks to either of the two vacant senatorships had another secret conference to-day. There was a long conference, but noth- ing was decided beyond a continuance of their support of Congressman Ball for the long term and Henry A. Dupont for the short term.
 In the joint session at noon to-day the vote showed no change. It was as follows:
 Long term-Addicks 20, Ball s, Hig- gins ?, John H. Rodney 19.
 Short term-Addicks 19, H. 4. Dupont s, T. c. Dupont 1, H. A. Richardson 2, John R. Nicholson 19.