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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28
QUIET WITH POLICE.

The police were called upon last night
to quell disturbance in Liberty lane
near Price street, and two negro wom-
en- were arrested for being disorderly
and fighting In the street. One OF
stone by man, who was also engaged
in the ARRAY. but who made his es-
cape. The day was a light one and
only six arrests had been made at an
early hour this morning. All of the
prisoners are charged with minor vio-
lations
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28
SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY.

Suspected of having been engaged in
robbing vacant houses of piping and
fixtures Snead Herb, negro lad, is
held a prisoner at the police station
house. He was arrested last night
with property that is believed to have
been stolen, but for which an owner
has not yet been found. The detectives
will go to work on the case at once,
however. and endeavor to ascertain
where the property came from. For
this reason Herb will not be ar
raigned before Recorder Myrick in Po-
lice Court this morning.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28

Webster Davis. at one time assist
ant secretary OF the interior. now owns
fine farm not Gar from Kansas City
and Is leading the Independent life Of a
country gentleman. Mr. Davis appar-
entity enjoys his bucolic existence. for
friend who saw him IN Kansas City
last week says he is rugged and hearty
80 any Reuben.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28

Dear" said the ardent lover. 1.-THE
date you have set for our wedding falls
upon a Friday. You're not supersti-
tious about that l hope"
''Oh, no." replied the popular actress:
it'll never phase me if I'm married
on thirteen Fridays. "-Philadelp
Press.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28

NOTICE.

City of Savannah, Office Clerk of
Council, Savannah, Ga, Feb. 81, 1903
The following applications to retail
liquor during the year 1903 were read
at meeting of Council Feb. IS, 1903,
and referred to Committee of the
Whole. w. P. BAILEY,
Clerk of Council.
Mrs e. Il. Coles, $50 Indian street.
Moses Eicholz, West Broad and Rob-
erts streets.
Goodman Bros, As Farm street.
Maryweather & Williams, Mill and
Farm streets.
Josephine E. Stiles, 10 West Broad
street.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28
CITY BREvITIES.

The police patrol wagon Is now be-
Ing drawn by pair OF new horses
purchased with money specially apprO-
priated BY Council. The old horses
were Of no value 10 the police depart
ment aud have been sold.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-28
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
WOMAN HAS ENOUGH
OF ONE PHASE OF
DOWIEISM
SO II
Seeks Divorce From the
Father Of. the Notorious
Illinois Evangelist Cru
city and Inhuman Treat
ment Alleged She Was a
Rich Widow.

SHENANDOAH Iowa, Jan. 26.-Mrs.
E. j. North Dowie has filed suit in the
district court of this page county
asking for a divorce from her husband,
John Murray Dowie,. father of Evan
gelist Dowie, of Illinois She alleges
cruelty and inhuman treatment and
asks for alimony
Mrs. Dowie was a wealthy widow at
the time of her marriage with Dowie iii
1900. She owns large blocks Of bank
stock in Southwestern banks, houses
and lots and several improved farms in
Iowa. She has bo)en great church and
w. c. T. U. worker for years. She is
a member of the board of managers of
the Benedict home at Des Moines.
In 1900 Mrs. North Dowie went to
Chicago to investigate Dowieism and
there met the elder DoWie, to whom
she was married a few weeks later. She
is sixty eight years old and her hus-
band seventy three years old. Mrs.
Dowie is living with a son, Garfield
North, in Colorado. The suit will be
heard at. the February term of court
and it is understood there will be no
defense to the petition for divorce.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
| Will Cure You of
Rheumatism
Els. No Money Is Wanted.

Any honest person who suffers from
Rheuma ism is welcome to this offer
/ am a specialist in rheumatism, and
nave treated more cases than any other
physician, think. For Is years made
1000 experiments with different drugs
testins all known remedies while search.
ing the world for something better. Nine
years ago l found a costly chemical in
Germany which, with my previous discov-
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| don't mean that 1t can turn bony
joints irto flesh again; but it can cure
the disease at any stage, completely and
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I know this so we'll that will filrriSb
my remedy on trial. Simply write me a
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If it succeeds, the cost is only IS 20 IL
it fails, | will pay the druggist myself-
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have 40 SAMPLES Any mere samnIe
that. can affect chronic Rheuma tisn1 IT1I5st
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use no such drugs, and it is folly To talxe
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My remedy does that even in the most
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L never found another remedy that Would
cure one chronic case in ten
Write me and will send YOU the order
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Wis ~ feaclne'
Mild cases not chronic, are often curea
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
MINNEAPOLIS

for eleven minutes, by the court house
clock. There is an ordinance that de-
MES the right Of any railway company
to obstruct the streets for a period ex-
ceeding five minutes.
Patroman Kerr is student of the or
dlnances He knows them backwards and
Is considered bit of a professor by the
rest of the rank and file. Kerr told
Hinckley to gather up his old train and
move on, but Hinckley was powerless
to obey the behest for the reason that
there was a blockade ahead Of him.
Kerr decided that the blockade con-
stituted no good excuse for violation of
so benificent an ordinance, especially as
there were forty or fifty horse rigs of
various descriptions waiting to get by,
while Conductor Hinckley was down
ahead of his train investigating the cauS-
es of the blockade
Kerr took possession of the caboose and
as soon as the conductor put in an ap-
pearance he found himself under arrest.
In the police court Conductor Hnckley ex-
planned that he was barred from obey
ing the orders of the patrolman. by the
'exigencies of traffic. but the court
little matter for the railroad company
to deal with. Hinckley was accordingly
fined IS, which he paid.
The city attorney asserts thSt the
blockading of crossings has become so
common that it was necessary to call a
halt, and that the case under considera-
ton furnished as good an object lesson
as another might.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27

Ohio sixty-four years ago, and came,
while boy, to Minnesota. Up to 1870
he was engaged in boating on the
Minnesota river between st. Paul and
st. Peter, and there became aequaint-
ed with James j. Hill. The two form
ed a company to engage in tranSpOrta-
ton from Caledonia to- Fort Gary, and
carried on a thriving business the first
year by means of fat boats. The sec
ond year steamer was built and this
was followed by several others. The
Hudson's Bay company was doing a
large business, and settlers were be-
ginning to farm.
Capt. Griggs at that time took up a
claim at Grand Forks and later plated
the townsite. From the lines of
steamers was gradually developed
what is now the Great Northern rail-
way system. Capt. Griggs lived here
until 1889, and was prominent figure
in the political history of the terri
tory. In the year named he moved to
Wenatchee, Wash, and there began
the navigation of the Columbia river.
He built up a splendid business, and
was the owner of several steamers at
the time of his death,
Special to The Globe.
BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 26.-Both
houses of the legislature this after
noon passed resolutions of regret on
the death of Capt Alex Griggs.
Mrs. F. c. Holley, state agent for the
prevention Of cruelty to animals, died
here today.
KENOSHA, Wis, JAN 26-Julius H.
Kimball artist, musician, veteran
yachtsman, and one of the first set
tiers of the village of Southport, died
at his home here today from erysipe-
las, aged eighty-f1ve years He was
well known throughout the Northwest.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
INJURED IN RUNAWAY
AT SALTWATER
Warden VOTERS Rig Concerned and
the Prison Matron Is Hurt.

A runaway occurred on Sixth avenue
and Broadway, the rig belonging to
Henry Wolfer, warden at the prison.
The rig was occupied by Miss Thomp-
son, stenographer, and Miss McKin-
ney, matrOn at the prison. The latter
jumped and was cut and bruised about
the head and had a thumb broken.
Miss Thompson was uninjured.
Mrs. Amelia Schultz, who resided
with her daughter at Oak Park, died
late last night. She was eighty years
of age.
Mrs. Louise Mckay Leslie, who is
spending the winter in st. Paul, gave
a recital last evening in the First
Presbyterian church, and it was one
of the best musical events ever listen
ed to in this city.
Warden Wolfer has announced the
appointment of Thomas w. Alexander
to be captain of the cell room, posi-
ton he occupied prior to his appoint
ment as deputy warden under ex-
Warden Reeve.
Gilmore Lowell, proprietor of the
Sawyer house, will retire from the
management of that hosiery, having
sold the furniture and fixtures to W..
w. Stranahan, of Crookston, Mimi,
who will take charge of the hotel next
Monday. Mr.. Lowell will retain the
ownership of the building.
The mill at South saltwater, owned
by the David Tozer company of this
city, is being enlarged and repaired.
and next season will be equipped with
band, gang and rotary saws. New ma
chinery is being placed in the mill and
an addition is being built. Tozer &
Nolan are also charging and repair
ing their mill and are building a raft
ing shed to be used for custom saw
ing.
The death of Mrs. Mary Goggin oc-
CURED yesterday at her home. She
was eighty years of age. Mrs. Oscar
Joy and another daughter survive her.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
ENJoINED IN DETROIT.
Fourteen Coal Exchange Members
Withdraw, CREATING Bad FEELING.

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. ga pre-
hminary injunction was issued by the
circuit court here today on applicable
Of Prosecutor Hunt against the De-
troit Coal Exchange, an organization
OF thirty local coal dealers. 1t restraints
the exchange from acting as an organ
1zaton to fix the minimum price of
coal Judges HOsmer and Rohnert dis
sented, stating that it appeared to them
criminal proceedings should have been
instituted instead Of proceedings in
equity. Judge Frazer, in announcing
the decision, said that the court had
decided that the statutes against cor
porations and trusts had been violated.
Fourteen of the largest dealers of the
city have resigned from the exchange.
leaving the smaller dealers to settle
with the law. January 8, at a meet
ing of the exchange, one of the larger
dealers offered a resolution resembling
the clause in the bylaws providing
Tor the fixing of a minimum price of
coal. 1t is on this bylaw that prose-
cut1on of Hunts case is principally
based. There was opposition to re-
sending the bylaw, and when the res
oIution was voted down the fourteen
largest dealers promptly resigned from
the exchange. Their action has en-
gendered a very bitter feeling in local
coal circles
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
UNKNOWN MAN MISSING.
overcoat, Coat and Hat Found Near Mill
SIulce Indicate Murder or Suicide.

SlulCe Indicate MURDER OF .SulCIQes
A coat, an overcoat and, a hat, found
yesterday morning in front of the Con-
lSOlidated Mill B, Fifth avenue south and
First street, lead the people to believe
either a murder or suicide has been
committed. Who the owner Of the gar
ments was where he came FROM, his
crime-if there was one-are all COM
plete mystery.
In the overcoat were a pair of golf
gloves, two handkerch4efs!, = embroidered
with the initials "A. II. K sPtaand a trans
fer from the Eighth and Central line
punched Sunday at $50 p. m. Inquiries
showed that Johnson, the conductor who
gave the transfer, remembered the re-
cipient, on account of his peculiar actions.
He also recognized the chinchilla overcoat
and hat.
Early on Sunday evening a we'll dressed
man of medium height wearing a mus
at Chicago avenue and Eighth street and
said he wanted to go to Minnehaha Falls.
He repeated this request several times,
but when the car stopped at First avenue
south. the transfer point, he refused to
get off and remained in his seat until 1t
reached Washington avenue There he
left the car and walked to Nicollet ave-
nue. block away When the car started
again, he ran to catch 1t, but failed. This
was the last seen OF the queer Individual
The clothing was found near the swift
running sluice or canal, which furnishes
the power for the mill. 1t Is thought he
or he may have been robbed and6his body
thrown in there to hide the crime, as NJ
money or Valuables were found in the
pockets
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
LOWRY SHES AT INTERVIEWER.
Is Reminded of Story When Asked About
Senatorial Ambitions


Thomas Lowry returned yesterday from
a visit to New York and Washington
During MIR. Lowry's presence in Washing
ton the dispatches from the capitol indi-
Gated that as result of conferences held
there the street railway magnate would
be a candidate for the United States
senate in the next election
In discussing the statements telegraph
ed from Washington, Mr.. Lowry said that
there had been no conferences on the
subject of his becoming a candidate for
anything.
so far as all that is concerned" said
Mr.. Lowry, Il have not changed my at
tltude since leaving Minneapolis If 1
happen to run down to Washington for
chat with old friends or on business
matters bound, it is no sort of guarantee
that am building private wires for po-
litical futures.
We'll, have you decided to be a can
didate. for the senator"
Il didn't say anything of the kind. I
defy you to point out where l have said
anything that remotely resembles such
a declaration. Why. 1 haven't been in
town twenty minutes.
The point is not whether you have said
1t, but whether or not you will now say
Say it now? Why should I say it
now? If a man wants some breakfast on
the Fourth of July, he won't yell for it
now, will he? That reminds me of a
story There was man lived down"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
INTERESTS OF THE
COAL MINERS
Government by Injunction
Considered by Indianap-
oils Convention.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 26.-In
the United Mine Workers convention
today the report of the telIers on the
elections of national officers by the re-
Gently taken referendum vote was
made. John Mitchell had no opposition
for president, and w. B. Wilson had no
opposition for secretary treasurer.
Vice President T. E. Lewis Ohio, was
reelected over T. D. Nichols, Penn
sylvania.
When a vote was taken by the min
ers on the next convention city, In
dianapOlis won easily. o. -
The special committee on defense
fund, appointed at the suggestion of
President Mitchell recommended the
raising of a large sum. 1t did not deem
1t advisable at this time however, to
establish a national defense fund, but,
owing to the unOrganized conditions of
the miners in many of the districts, it
was thought best to continue the 10
cents per month assessment for an
other year. 1t advised that each dis
trict accumulate certain sum until it
became sufficiently large to meet any
crisis.
AS to lnjunctions.
The committee on injunction rec
commended the appointment of COM
mittee of two to be sent to Washing
ton to watch all injunction proceed b..
1ngS. After going into a history of
the origin of the writ of injunction,
and showing now the Magma Crata of
England and the Declaration of indie
pendence had been adopted to give ev-
cry man freedom and guarantee the
right of trial by jury, the report dis
cusses government by injunction ad
Versely.
The report of the committee on con-
stitutiOn suggested many changes, the
most important of which was a change
in the voting representation of the dis
tricts so far as the power to inaugur-
ate a general suspension of work is
concerned. Heretofore every ristrict
his had one vote, irrespective of it's
size, and two-fifths of the districts
could vote to suspend work in all of
the districts. Under the amendment
adopted there shall be one vote for
every 200 members of the district or
fractional number of that number. 1t
Will be possible for each district board
member TO vote only according to the
size of his district. Under the new or
der it will require about three-fourth
of the districts to order a general
strike. The report was adopted.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
BABY 10" MOFfITT
TO co ON STAGE.
She Will Talk on Chicago.
Love, Justice, and Per-
secutiOn." '' .

CHICAGO, Jan. 26-"Baby Jo'' Mof-
fit is going on the stage. She is
afraid that this will hurt her case in
the appellate court, but Il must live
and l haven't any money" she says,
and therefore she will take the $500 a
week offered by a downtown museum
and will appear there for the first time
next week in a lecture on Chicago
Love, Justice and Persecution. 49,
Miss Moffitt will sing, too. She has
selected Under the Bamboo Tree" to
show her vocal accomplishments. Man
ager Hedges naively suggested that a
song built on the Omar suggestion of
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and
thou" would be more Appropriate, but
she demurred. iH ~iTfv1 e'
Il haven't any one of these" she
said. That's why I'm going on the
STAGE
Miss Mofitt came into the public eye
couple of months ago when she sued
William Wallace Pike, son of Eugene
S. Pike, capitalist, and brother of the
former alderman, for separate main
tenance, claiming common law mar
riage. @- e-,- ,-r.----e.-
She has just returned from New Or
leans She went back to the old home
to get copies Of certain records which
she intends to use in her case Attor-
ney P. H. Bishop will submit these
when he makes his petition for appeal
before Judge Clifford next month. He
claims they will show the truth of
Miss Mofhtt's testimony and the falsity
OF that given by other witnesses at the
hearing.
The fact that Mrs. Pike,-he al
was calls his client that's going on
the stage will not affect her appeal On
the contrary, it shows that she is a de-
pendent woman. She has no other Wav
q fI0n of
last night.
Miss Mofftt claimed to have made a,
marriage pact with Pike in the cafe of
the Masonic temple one night, about
the middle Of March, 1898. She testi-
fed on the witness stand:
Billy said he wanted to marry me.
but that his father would disinherit
him If he did. We talked of going to
81. Joe or to Milwaukee, but he was
afraid 1t would get in the papers any
way. Finally he said:
10, if you promise to be a good and
true wife to me and we put our hanG3
together on it we will be just as much
married as though we had the cere-
mony performed by a preacher or
priest 1 told him that I trusted him
and would agree to this. Standing be-
side each other with hands clasped, we
said the solemn words
20, will you be my wife?' said Billy.
Yes, Billy, 1 will be your wife, I
answered.
10, will you accept me for your
husband?' he said then.
Yes, Billy, I WILL said 1, and then
We finished our dinner"
Miss Moff1tt met Pike at a farewell
supper given by William Hale Thonp-
son, the alderman, to his brother.
Percy, just before the Iatter's mar
rage This was given in February,
1898, at the Monroe street restaurant
and ended with Gale Thompson. an
other brother of the alderman. going
with Pike to a fiat where Miss Mofitt
and Alice Morris lived. Miss Mofitt
testified that Mr.. Pike was taken to the
fiat for the night because he was very
ILL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
SELLING LIQUOR 70 INDIANS:
Agent Walker Rebukes Saloon Men
Dates for Payment of Indians.

Special to The Globe.
CASS LAKE, MINI, Jan 26.-Maj
George L. Scott, acting Indian agent at
Leech Lake agency, has issued the fol-
lowing itinery for the payment of the
Chippewa Indians: Leech Lake agency,
Jan. 27; Cross Lake, Feb. 2; Red Lake,
4th, 9Th and 9th; Cass Lake 7th; Bena,
8th, 9Th and 10th; McGregor, 18th, re-
turning to the agency on the 14th and
continuing payment until all the Indians
are paid. The amount per capita is,
stumpage money, $40. 40, and annuity,
SIS. IL, a total for each Indian Of $24 81
Maj. Scott, to make it plain that he is
still on the warpath against the selling
of liquor to Indians. has issued a strong
letter to the Walker saloonkeepers He
concludes by saying: 5,.,..--
II have patiently borne the imposition
of having a drunken mob of Indians thrust
by the saloon element of Walker. 1 have
endeaVored to remedy this without adopt
ing coercive measures. and creating fric-
ton between the village and. agency but
matters have grown worse instead Of bet
ter and to tamely submit to this imposi-
ton longer would be cowardly and tc
stop short of any lawful methods available
would be criminal negligence con my part
unworthy to the Indians, dishonest to tho
department. and unworthy of the uniform
l wear" -"
This has come as severe blow to those
IN walker who have tried" Intellectually
to hide the strained relations between the
indian agency and the liquorF dealers and
village and county authorities at Walker
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-27
Help Themselves 10 CnaI

STRATFORD, Iowa. Jan 26-Stro+-
ford citizens are indignant ct the ar
rest of over thirty persons for holding
up a North Western coal train here
yesterday and Selling several cars of
fueL But little coal had been shipped
TO Stratford for weeks and a famine
existed: When the train stopped fer
water 500 persons with wagons, bas-
kets ana coal scuttles We're soon at the
tracks. A car was broken into end
the citizens helped themselves. When
the raid was over only few tons re-
manned in the cars. The railroad of
nc1als notified the sheriff at Webster
City, who Immediately left for STRAIT
1ord and made the arrests. Trouble is
expected when the prisoners are
brought to trial. All were granted bail.