Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-26
GLOBELETs,

Several cases of trichina have occurred re-
Gently at South Bend, Ind.
Prairie fires were visible in all directions from
Winnipeg, Manitoba the evening of the 18th
inst.
Never before, at this time of the year, was
there SO little ice in the straits of Mackinaw as
now.
Hannibal Hamlin is an old public func-
tlonary, having been forty-thrce years in Off
cial life.
The st. Joseph, Mich, fishermen are taking
from eight hundred to eleven hundred pounds
of fish daily.
Chief Joseph has taken new wife and di-
vorced the old one. There was a lack of cere-
mony in each case.
The Grange cooperative store at Forest,
Ohio, has made an assignment of 81, 500 worth
of goods to meet $4,000 liabilities.
Gov. Hampton's first veto was of bill re-
storing the chain gang, and the South Carolina
House sustained the veto 102 to 10.
Registered at Hot Springs, Arkansas: d.
Keller, Winona; s. E. Flettery, Rochester; and
W. II. Mcmillan, Minneapolis, son of Senator
Mcmillan
The West Side Relief Association of New
York city has, within few weeks past, dis
covered eight hundred and eighty families lack
ing the necessaries of life
Gen. o. 0. Howard en- route to Washington.
reports the wandering band of Indians in his
department as being inclined to be hostile, but
he does not anticipate general outbreak
DIR. Allen +. Pick. the tall physician of Cleve-
land, Ohio, Che was six feet ni.e inches high,
died on the 22d, after short illness. He
served as surgeon under Walker at Nicaragua
Suppose we all agree to stop saying hard
times, and begin to note the many evidences
OF reviving business and increasing wealth,
which are to be seen in every part of our ia
vored State.
The new Pope, it is said (by correspondent
OF the New York Herald) was long kept from
being cardinal by the jealousy of Antonelli,
and could never get near the late Pope until
Antonelli died
The government pays 800 a day to army off
GERS in Washington for housekeeping, besides
$3.50 day for providing the same officers com
forts it would not allow them if they were in
service on the frontier.
Virginia once had native African for its
Governor. 1t was in colonial times, in l76O,
and Alexander Spottiswood was his name. He
was, however, an African of English descent
without trace of negro blood.
The reading of Ben. Buffers dispatch, de-
claring the silver bill delusion and snare,
WAS the sensation of the Toledo convention. 1t
ls interpreted to mean, among other things
that Ben. will favor resumption repeal.
The Mclean county, His, grand jury last
week brought in 76 indictments-l4 for larceny,
II for burglary, 16 for gambling, and one for
murder, the last being against Klusty, for
| whom another man was recently arrested in
Minnesota.
At Kansas City, Friday morning, a colored
woman was attacked by furious dog and in
her fright, backed in front of moving switch
engine which ran over and killed her, leaving
her body frightfully mangled. OF course the
dog escaped.
traveller, who arrived late few nights ago
at the Scott House in Forest, Ohio, gave to
Henry Friend, night clerk, package contain
ing $3.50 to keep until morning. Friend kept
it and left town with it next morning before
the traveller was awak.
| The Rhoderick Dhu mine near Deadwood,
u. T., has been bonded to an agent of Califor-
MIA parties for $4,000 This makes mining
territory of two miles by one, in the Black
Hills owned by Californians, who have bought
it for about 100000.
! Respectable citizens Of Portsmouth N. II.
have made affidavit to the fact that the navy
yard house bosses there have put a considera-
bic number of red-oak knees in the Ticonder-
oga-for the purpose, probably, of bringing
! her back to the stocks again in short time.
Ex-Minister Boxer thinks the Russians went
| into the war with Turkey conscientiously and
says that many of them yet look upon it as q
holy war. He also says there is a large party
of Turks, at the head of whom was formerly
Mahmoud Pasha, who were always in favor OF
peace and an alliance with Russia.
| Rande, the st. Elmo desperate, escaped the
full penalty of murder because the crowd
which was pursuing him when he turned and
killed one of them was not legally authorized
to arrest hun, and because it did not appear
that he intended to kill any one particular per
son. Therefore he goes to prison for life in
stead of being hung.
John Chamois, salesman for the Goodyear
rubber company in st. Louis has been arrested
for stealing from his employers. His thefts
according to his confession, began with small
sums in 1873, and had amounted altogether tt
about $4,000, and were for no other purpose
but to save for provision against old age. His
bank account corroborated his confession.
The agent at Sabula junction, Iowa of tn.
American express company, was knocked dow
Friday morning and robbed of pouch contain
ing several money packages, one of which
amounted to $4,000. The robbery occurred n
4:3O a. M, just after the departure of thu
Chicago through train. and was perpetrated b,
men who came in on the train and advanced or
the agent as the train was moving out.
An old and respected couple of Hamilton
county, ILL.,, named Riddle, were riding hom
from their market town the other day, when
without provocation or warning, the man sud
denly drew hammer from some place of con
cealment about his person, and began rainin,
blows with it upon his wife's head. Forum
ately. she fell out of the wagon before receiyin!
/ fatal injuries, and some farmers near by cam
quickly and arrested the crazy man. His fit o
insanity was his first, and had not been antici
pated.
At a festival reception of the Brooklyn, N
Y, Young Mems Christian association, Thurs
day night, while the large company were laugh
ing uproariously over sallies of wit by popu
lar preacher, Mrs. Mcdowell died of sudden i'll
ness in one of the ante-rooms to which she ha,
been conveyed, and her daughters, who wer
taking part in the entertainment, were quietl
taken to her. Then the witty minister hushe'
the laughter, solemnly announced the fact, of