The Saint Paul Globe from Saint Paul, Minnesota • Page 1

THE WEATHER: In St. Paul and vicinity today: Fair and warmer. 4 VOL. 279. ALL THE POSTOFFICE IMDICTMEINTS ARE IN James IN.

Tyner, Ex-Postmaster General, Is One of the Victims of the Grand Jury, the Charge Being Indictments Were Returned Marks the Close of the Postal Investigation. WASHINGTON, D. Oct. new indictments were brought in by the supreme court grand jury for the District of Columbia today as the final result of the investigation in the postofflce department. Several of these findings were against persons who have already been indicted.

The new indictments involve James H. Tyner, the late assistant attorney general for the poptoffice department, and his assistant, Harrison J. Barrett; James. T. Metcalf, superintendent of the money order system: Norman Metcalf, son of James Harry C.

Hallenback, presi' dent and general manager of the Wyn' koop, Hallenback Crawford company, of New York, the firm for several years supplied the department with its money order blanks, and William D. Doremus, who is connected with a house which has been supplying a stamp canceling machine to the department. There were additional indictments against August W. Machen, former superintendent of free delivery; George W. Beavers, formerly chief of the salnry and allowance division; W.

Scott who was in charge of a substation at the Washington city postoffice, and State Senator George A. Green, of New York. In some cases there were several indictments against one person. Stated by the Department. Concerning the one indictment against Tyner and Barrett, the following statement was made by the department.

"Three indictments charge Tyner and Barrett with conspiracy and two additional indictments charge Barrett with agreeing, while still in office, to receive fees for sevvices rendered or to be rendered in cases pending before him as officer. All the indictments are founded upon the treatment by Tyner MAKES THREE ATTEMPTS TO DIE, BUT STILL LIVES Chicago Man Jumps From a Window, Cuts Wrists and Throat and Jumps in Front of a Train. Special to The Globe. CHICAGO, Oct. from a second-story window at the Hahnemann hosoital, cutting his wrists and throat with a pocketknife and then jumping in front of an out-bound Illinois Central train.

These are some of the unsuccessful attempts made by Peter Theis to commit suicide early today. SAID TO BE A FORGER Former Rich Man of Chicago Forced From Business. CHICAGO, Oct. A. McDonald, at the request of stockholders, today resigned the presidency of the Ship Owners' Dry Dock company, following his arrest on a charge of forgery.

A few years ago McDonald was reputed to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. He promoted the dry dock company, of which he became president, and his reputation for business integrity was of the highest. The alleged fraudulent note bore the name of J. H. Graham, of the Graham and Morton Transportation company, and it is charged that McDonald secured $6,400 on it from the First National bank.

The prisoner gave bonds in the sum of $7,500 to appear for preliminary hearing Oct. 9. MR. BISSELL'S CASE DECLARED HOPELESS General Is Dying of Internal Cancer. BUFFALO, N.

Oct. Postmaster General Wilson S. Bissell is said to be dying. He has an internal cancer. Dr.

Dew'tt Sherman, who has been attending Mr. Bissell, said after an all night vigil at the bedside of his patient: "Mr. Bissell is in a very critical condition. He lost steadily last week and yesterday his condition fell to an alarming degree." Mr. Bissell rallied during the day, but when Dr.

Sherman was asked if he would live through another day, he replied that "he was by no means out of danger." Drs. Roswell Park, John Parmenter and Charles Carey were called In consultation by Dr. Sherman this evening. All agreed that the case was hopeless. The unusual and unexpected rally whioh began this morning continued this evening.

Mr. Bissell regained full control of his mental faculties and conversed with members of the family. A relapse is certain to come within a few days at the longest. Wili Be a National Strike. NEW YORK, Oct.

was made tonight that the strike now being waged against tfce new iron league and the employers in the iron trade in certain sections of the country will be made a national strike, and Samuel O. Parks will not figure openly in the fight. The iron trade unions, chiefly represented by the bridge and structural iron workers, will fight, it is said, assisted by the National Bridge And Structural Iron Workers' union. The Only Democratic Newspaper of General Circulation In the THE ST. PAUL GLOBE.

and Barrett of the business of the socalled bond investment companies. "It is charged that it was the duty ot Tyner and Barrett attorney general and assistant attorney for the postofnce investigate the methods of concerns charged with improper use of the mails, and in case of guilt, to report to the postmaster general and recommend the issue of a fraud order; that in this connection they investigated the business of the bond investment companies and learned that they were all carrying on a business that involved -fraud or lottery or both; but that instead of recommending to the postmaster general the issue of an order that would prevent the delivery of mail or the payment of money orders to those concerns, and would thus break up their business, Tyner and Barrett conspired to give them unobstructed use of the mails, in order that Barrett might profit thereby. Law Partnership. "It is charged that Barrett had entered into an agreement with J. H.

Nelms, of the Baltimore bar, for a partnership in law, to become effective Jan. 1, 1901, the object being to share in the profits which might arise from representing bond investment concerns before the postoffiee department, that in pursuance of conspiracy with Tyner, Barrett investigated the schemes of the concerns and wrote and signed the report thereon; that this report declared the business in its existing form to be illegal and not entitled to the use of the mails, but that its basic principle was sound and that it could be made ovej- ao as to bejegaj; and that Tyner and Barrett procured the signature of the postmaster general to a letter written by Barrett, stating that a reasonable time would be givtn to those companies for making over Continued on Fifth Page. The man is now again at the Hahnemann hospital, and, although his condition is critical, the physicians say there is a chance of his recovery. The supposition is that Theis, after making his escape from the hospital, had proceeded toward the lake with the intention of drowning himself, but seeing the approaching express train he threw himself in front of it. MAN GOES THROUGH A THRESHING MACHINE Horrible Fate Befalls Herman Schroe- der in Nebraska.

Special to The Globe. OMAHA, Oct. Schroeder fell into a threshing machine on a farm twelve miles northwest of Papillion. He was throwing bundles of grain into the machine from a stack, when he slipped and fell, striking squarely in the opening of the grain separator. The body went clear through the machine, fragments of it going through the elevator.

THE NEWS INDEXED. PAGE I. Elevator Man Arrested. New British Cabinet. Postoffice Investigation Ends.

Minneapolis Crank in White House. Schwab Charged With Fraud. PAGE 11. Will Hold Flower Show at Mozart Hall. Globe's Protest Against Waste of Money on Roads Bears Fruit.

Twenty-five Thousand Acres of Swamp Land Reclaimed. Decrease in Attendance at State Public Schools. Grand Jury Begins Its Work. Y. M.

C. A. Night School Opens. PAGE 111. National Grain Dealers in Convention.

Minneapolis Matters. News of the Northwest. Northern Minnesota Methodist Appointments. PAGE IV. Editorial Comment.

Russo-Japanese Tension. PAGE V. City League Bowling. Selby League Bowling. Races.

Baseball. PAGE VI. Foreign Affairs. PAGE VII. Of Interest to Women.

Short Story. PAGE VIII. News of the Railroads. Wants. PAGE IX.

Markets. PAGE X. Teachers' Federation Meets. Second Warders Oppose Pest House. Pleads Guilty to Running a Blind Pig.

Big Game Seizure Called Highway Robbery, i TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, PAGES. Sir Think I'll Go Home Before I Lose This One. WHO WILL TAKE SIR MICHAEL'S PUCE? King Prefers Sir Henry Howard as Ambassador to the United States. LONDON, Oct. 5.

the government is endeavoring to maintain their resolve not to consider the question of a successor to Sir Michael Herbert at the "Washington embassy at present, there is reason to believe that considerable wire pulling is already go- ing on and several women prominent on both sides of the Atlantic are becoming interested in the matter. It is known that, after the death of Lord Pauncefote, the appointment of Sir Michael Herbert was opposed by several well known New York people and a prominent English woman, then vis- Continued on Sixth Page. GIRL IS KIDNAPED Will Be Made to Learn Beggar's Suspected. CHICAGO, Oct. playing in the sti'eet in front of William Franey's home, Friday afternoon, Minnie Lynch, six years old, was kidnaped, it is charged, by her own brother, Thomas, thirteen years old, and taken to the home of Mrs.

E. Burns to be coached, as the police believe, for the life of a beggar. Yesterday afternoon, when Detectives Weisse and Mahoney, of the Desplaines street police station, w.ent to the house in Sangamon street they found it deserted and were told that the woman had gone to Indiana, taking the two children with her. Another boy, Frank Lynch, sixteen years old, is also believed to be with her. The police say Mrs.

Burns is known also as Mrs. Barrett. The father of the children was overwhelmed with grief when the detectives were unable to discover them for him and said he would swear out fugitive warrants for the arrest of Mrs. Burns. He said she had enticed his children from him one at a time and before the disappearance of his daughter already had taught the two boys to be becgars and peddlers in order that they might earn a livelihood for her.

The police were surprised at the statements made by Lynch, but he was positive that the grirl had been kidnaped by her own brother. He also insisted that the lad had ben prompted to the kidnaping by Mrs. Burns and that the woman was near at hand to assist him in carrying the child forcibly if necessary. Sheriff W. C.

Young. Sheriff Young and Deputy Nugent, Leaders in the Fight Which Wiped Out the Bandits MINNEAPOLIS CRANK SEEKS PRESIDENT He Lands in Insane Asylum- Threatened Roosevelt's Life Months Ago. Peter O. Elliott, of' "Minneapolis, who was arrested in the White house yesterday while armed and who was supposed to have hostile intentions on the president, is known to have threatened the life of the chief executive while in Minneapolis. At the time the threat was made it was thought to be nothing more than the mouthing of an irresponsible imbecile, but since the attempt io gain an audience with the president yesterday, it is now believed that Elliott went to Washington for the express intention of carrying out his threats against the president.

Continued on Sixth Page. IS SAID TO BE SHORT Manager of Farmers' Elevator at INellsvllle Is Arrested. Special to The Globe. CROOKSTON, Oct. C.

Melsness, one of the prominent men of Neilsville, this county, was arrested at Larimore, N. and brought to this city on a charge of embezzlement. He has managed the Farmers' elevator for several years and has been very prominent in county affairs. He was arraigned on the charge of embezzlement today and waiving examination was bound over to the grand jury, He is said to be short nearly $15,000. The money was lost in wheat options.

Melsness alleges that used the money as an employe of the company and did none of the business in his own name. He run the company In debt some $5,000, for which the commission company has sued. Melsness secured employment as a wiper in the round house of the Great Northern at Larimore and saya that he will return the money as soon as posible. He was released on bail and has returned to worlf. Putting an End to Slavery.

MANILA. Oct. legislative council of the Moro provinces has passed an anti-slavery law wsich prohibits slave hunting in all territories under its jurisdiction. It also provides for the confiscation of all vessels engaged in the trade. WRIGHT COUNTY'S STRONG MEN.

RECEIVER ACCUSES SCHWAB OF FRAUD Smith Makes Damaging Reply to Suit Against United States Shipbuilding Co. NEW YORK, Oct. Smith, receiver of the United States Shipbuilding company, today filed his answer to the actions recently instituted in the United States circuit court against the company and himself as receiver by the Mercantile Trust company and the New York Security and Trust company, the former to foreclose its mortgage as trustee for a 5 per cent mortgage bond issue of $16,000,000 and the latter to foreclose its mortgage, also as trustee, on a bond issue of 410,000,000. In this answer Mr. Smith accuses Charles M.

Schwab, D. Continued on Sixth Page. COLLECT BY FORCE Castro's Men Making It Hard for Foreigners. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct. Emissaries of President Castro, of Venezuela, have arrived at Cludad Bolivar, Venezuela, with orders to collect forcibly, not only the taxes, but the custom house duties already paid importers from May, 1902, to August, IHO3, the period during which the revolutionists occupied that city as government de facto.

The amout demanded is about $1,000.000. The foreigners, especially the firms of Blohm German; Palazzi French; Boccardo Italian, and Dalton American, have refused to pay, claiming that the duties had been already legally paid. Menaces and vexatious tactics are employed against the foreigners. Herr Sprick, a German, refused to pay back duties, and a cargo of rum belonging to him, which was being landed from a steamer, was seized by the government and sold at public auction for almost nothing. The German merchant in this manner lost $25,000.

Venezuelan merchants who refuse to pay, having no protection, are imprisoned. A reign of terror exists everywhere at Ciudad Bolivar and consequently trade is paralyzed. President Castro's representative at Cludad Bolivar was quoted as saying: "Germany and the other foreign powers obliged the Venezuelan government to pay millions. Now it Is Venezuela who forces the Germans and other foreigners to reimburse her." Deputy Sheriff John Nugent Jr. PRICE TWO CENTS, BRITISH CABINET IS RECONSTRUCTED Alfred Lyttleton, Famous Cricketer and Football Player, but No Statesman, Succeeds of Devonshire Resigns, Which Is a Very Heavy Blow to Cabinet Is Not Expected to Last Long.

LONDON, Oct. new cabinet is composed as follows: Mr. Brodrick, formerly secretary of Mar, succeeds Lord George Hamilton as secretary for India: Austen Chamberlain, postmaster general, succeeds Mr. Ritchie as chancellor of the exchequer; Alfred Lyttleton, recorder of Oxford, succeeds Joseph Chamberlain as secretary for the colonies; H. O.

Arnold-Forster, secretary to the admiralty, succeeds Mr. Brodrick as secretary of war: Graham Murray, lord advocate of Scotland, succeeds Lord Balfour of Burleigh as secretary for Scotland; Lord Stanley, financial secretary of the war office, succeeds Austen Chamberlain as postmaster general. The three-week cabinet crisis has ended in a manner more rdemarkable and dramatic than that of its inception. Mr. Balfour's new ministry affords a measure of the enormous difficulty he has had to contend with in the task of reconstruction, and its composition seems to indicate that the premier himself can have little belief of Its durability.

The most sanguine supporters of the government tonight express the smallest hopes of such an administration living many months and the prevalent idea is that there will be a general election before parliament reassembles. The withdrawal of the Duke of Devonshire is a heavy blow. Had he remained the government might possibly have survived another parliamentary session by avoiding legislation dealing with the fiscal problem, but with him goes the support of the strong party of Liberal-Unionists of the country. Balfour Is Blamed. Mr.

Balfour's extraordinary letter reproaching the Duke of Devonshire with breach of faith is the theme of universal surprise and comment. Though it is generally admitted that it is difficult to understand why the duke did not resign when Mr. Ritchie and the others seceded, it Is recalled that he publicly announced long ago ST. PAUL MAN JUMPS FROM CAR WINDOW John Gangle Takes Leap While Train Is Running at Full Speed and His Injuries Are but Slight. Special to The Globe.

GRAND FORKS, N. Oct. Gangle, a resident of St. Paul, Jumped from the flyer window while the train was running at full speed, near Blanchard, and escaped with slight in- DOES LIKE SULTAN Antl-Chrlst of the Doukhobors Sustains a Harem. Special to The Globe.

WINNIPEG, Oct. Veregrln, the anti-Christ of the Doukhobors, runs a harem at Yorktown. Gradually the news has leaked out, and the knowledge that this place exists has aroused a storm of indignation among the English-speaking people in that vicinity. George Byrnes, a farmer living on the outskirts of the Doukhobor colony, has seen the relic of Mormonism, and gives the following description of It: The harem consists of a crude building, made of unhewed tamarac logs. Five small windows light this dwelling, and at the north end there is a rough door, which fits badly in the aperture which has been left for It.

In the dwelling there are fourteen girls, ranging in age from thirteen to twenty years, and many of them are wee slips of things, such as may be seen at any time playing in a school yard. Many of them are forced into this shelter, but there are a few who go there willingly. The people who live around the colony are much disturbed over the state of affairs which exists there, and several meetings have been held to discuss what shall be done. Yesterday a letter was written to the local government, asking aid to suppress this relic of the olden times. BLOODHOUNDS CHASE FEMALE CONVICT DOWN She is Found in a Tree Exhausted and Nearly Nude.

VALDOSTA. Oct. ten hours today Blanche Smith, a woman convict, was chased by bloodhounds. The woman succeeding in eluding the savage dogs until nearly nightfall, when she was forced to climb a tree to escape being torn to pices. The guards found the woman sitting in the fork of the tree perfectly exhausted, while the were lying about the trunk.

The woman escaped from the camp early this morning and the dogs were immediately put on her trail. She took to the canebreaks along the river, and by doubling on her tracks kept the hounds at fault. When "treed" she was almost nude, her clothing having been torn from her by briars and canes. Much Indignation is expressed because the hounds were put on the worn' an's trail. READ THE GLOBE Tho Only LIVE Howspatten in St.

Paul. that he considered it his duty to hold office as long as possible in the interest of free trade, and the curiously plaintive and bitter tone of Mr Balfour's reply is regarded as altogether unjustified by the One consequence of the Duk- of Devonshire's retirement is extremely unfortunate for the government. It will bring the leadership of the house of lords to the unpopular Lord I.ansdowne. No successor has yet been appointed to the Duke of Devonshire several minor government offices remain vacant. Of the new appointments annou tonight, the most surprising is Hi Hon.

Alfred Lyttleton as Mcretar) tor the colonies. Mr. Lyttleton is a man of acknowledged ability and a good speaker, but he has had no ministexperience whatever. He is known to the colonies ah a cricketer than as a politician. He and his brothers were famous cricketers Eton, while Alfred and his brother Edward displayed even greater pro at football, racquets, etc.

Alfred lyttleton was always an enthusi; cricketer and he has taken several teams on colonial tours. He was also for fifteen years the champion tennis player, and has won international football honors. Personnel of New Ministers. Alfred Lyttleton is related to Mr. Balfour by marriage.

He has been twice married. His first wife was a daughter of Sir Charles Tennant and his second is a daughter of Archibald Balfour. He is a cousin of Herbert Gladstone, and his brother, Sir Neville Lyttleton, is commander of the forces in South Africa. Mr. Lyttleton presided over the commission sent to South Africa to deal with the Boer claims, and he also took a prominent part on the Reid Newfoundland arbitration.

Although his appointment is likely to be keenly criticised, the new colon in 1 secretary is almost sure of a hearty Continued on Sixth Page. Juries. While he was being cared for in the depot he escaped and ran into the fields, and It was some time before he could be rounded up again. He was on his way from Seattle, where he has been buying land, and had about $1,500 on his person. LICHT AT LOW COST Thomas A.

Edison Perfects Val- uable Invention. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. a selling price of not more than $450, which he Is sure will be lessened, Thomas A. Edison will within a reasonably short time be prepared to place on the market a "charging machine," to use his own name for It, by means of which the possessor of a moderate income will be able to procure a power to run an automobile, light house and provide means of accomplishing numerous other things for which electricity is available. At his laboratory in West Orange, N.

the inventor described the utility of his machine. Mr. Edison was quietly enthusiastic In discussing his achievement, but frankly pointed outobstacies which will cause an indeterminate length of time to elapse before the public will be able to enjoy the latest fruits of the "wizard's" genius. "It has always been my desire," said Mr. Edison earnestly, "to bring the uses of electricity within the reach of men of moderate means.

I want to see the homes of men and women who work for nominal salaries and whose Incomes are small lighted by electricity. "I want to reduce the most of such pleasures and pastimes as are afforded by electrical power to the size of the pockets of the moderately poor. I want to see the world happy and contented, and in fulfilling that desire I shall devote every energy I have to bring these pleasures, now belonging solely to the rich, within the reach of the poor." Mr. Edison pointed toward a shed which stands in the laboratory house. It approximately, fifteen feet 4i length by eight feet wide and sufficiently high to permit a man to stand upright within it "If you owned a little house," he said, "with a little shed like that one in the yard you could, at a trifling cost, keep a runabout automobile, supply it wfth power, light your house and furnish your own electricity all from beneath the roof of that little shed.

You would be absolutely independent of the electric light companies. "The batteries can be stored and restored as often as necessary with the little machine at the farther end of the shed. A child or a maid servant can operate the charging machine. "The expense for charging them, after you are once supplied with the batteries and the machine for generating the electricity, will be less than running the game number of lights with kerosene oil. The batteries are practically Indestructible.

lam convinced from their action during a period of one and a half years that they are three times better than any automobile that is made. I mean by that that they will wear out half a dozen automobiles, besides lighting the house while they are doing it" The nickel-steel-alkall storage bat- Continued on Sixth Page. I.