The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-20
DAYS NEWS SUMMARIZED

Weather for ST. Paul and vicinity: Fair
and warmer today; probably fair toner
row.
LEGISLATIVE
Committee on public accounts will in
| vestigate state auditor and public ex-
aminers offices and state fair manage
| ment.
Senator McNamee Introduces Chamber
| of Commerce city and county merger
| bill.
Committee on general legislation kills
bin to remove educational institutions
| from board Of control management.
Warning senators compromise On Lay
| bourn iron rebate extension bill.
House committee declines TO furnish
funds for fuel conspiracy investigation.
Clague bill confers wide police powers
| on state fair mana cement.
DOMESTIC
Convention of Minnesota Retail Gro
| GERS and General Merchants association
| ends. Simon Clark, of Duluth is elected
president.
| Gov. Cummings. of Iowa. will be can
| didate for Republican vice presidential
nomination.
| Statement Is made as to committee
places to be asked by Minnesota delega-
| tton in next congress.
There are $4,000 smallpox patients In
country.
Express train at Newark, N. J., runs
through street car and kills eight high
school pupils.
Governor of New Hampshire honors
requisition for Ames, but proceedings are
stayed till March s.
Filibustering almost leads to riot in
| Montana
WASHINGTON
Spanish war veterans and Spanish
| American war veterans finally effect cen
| solidation.
| Houses passes bill with amendment au-
| thorizing purchase of more submarine tor
pedo boats.
Joint high commission is again to con-
slider question of ship building on great
lakes, boundary of Rainy Lake section,
ETC.
President announces he will call spe-
cial session of senate if it fails to ratify
Panama canal and Cuban treaties.
Page Morris is nominated judge of new
| Minnesota district.
BUSINESS
Wheat is weak most Of session and
closes unchanged; corn and oats advance
| somewhat.
Stock market is depressed, with sensa-
| tional movements in Metropolis
Thomas K. Otis, Of st. Paul. is made
president OF American Grass Twine com
pany.
FOREIGN
Popes jubilee begins. Today will be
| principal day.
Powers present Identical note to Turkey
urging reforms
Emperor William breaks into Bible
| controversy.
Religious disturbances. are resumed in
France.
LOCAL
Story of an evening paper that ]. ].
| Hill had sold his two monster ships de-
signed for trans Pacific trade proves a
malicious canard.
| George Culver Rugg and Miss Elsie
| Douglas Pope were married by the court
commissioner prior to the formal cere-
mony at the home of the groom.
The famine relief committee issues an
| urgent appeal for more liberal contribu-
| tion to the fund.
State editors convene at the Com
| mercial club.
| Field Worker Orchard tells the Mime
| sofa Sunday School association that In
some districts in Minnesota fathers let
| their daughters wed men without any
| ceremony.
Swedish members of the legislature
are banqueted by the Swedish American
| Republican club
The st. Paul Carnival association is
organized to aid movement in behalf of
the public baths.
Democratic members of the council will
hold another caucus On the corporation
| attorneyship.
| MINNEAPOLIS
Sheriff Dreger reports that ex-Mayor
| Ames is now a hopeless imbecile
Julius Browald's body is found in wood
shed by his son.
SPORTING
Association of Minor Leagues to insist
that contracts and reservations be re-
! spected.
Member of Illinois legislature introduces
bill prohibiting football at state institu-
| tions
Joint committees of American and Ma
ttonal leagues to meet in Chicago Monday.