Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-12
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The Mary boro, Ont, Touring mills burned
yesterday. Loss $50, 600; insurance $4,000.
John G.. Pink has been sentenced at Boston to
be hanged March 14th, 1879, for the murder Of
Mrs. Berry.
Five stores were destroyed by fire at Eaton
Rapids, Mich, yesterday morning. Loss &c.
600; insurance SO, 500.
A fire in the Central building at Great Mills.
N. H., caused loss of $24 200, distributed
among number of occupants. Insured.
At Augusta, Me-, the Republicans elect the
mayor by 242 majority, but the Democrats
gain control of the government carrying five of
seven wards.
The steamer Euphrates from Philadelphia for
Liverpool has put in at Fayal severely damaged
in fearful gales. She must discharge and re-
stow her cargo.
special from McMinnville, Tenn, states
that Miss Carrie Beaumont has been awarded a
verdict of $4,000 damages against B. @. Scott
for breach of promise.
In mass meeting at Omaha, last evening,
to consider the branch mint location. COM
mittee OF seven was appointed to visit Wash
ington and present the claims of Omaha.
Cubans residing in New York and neighbor-
hood have resolved to send men and means to
their faithful compatriots who still struggle
to win the independence at their native
island.
John Cunning was dangerously shot in
party riot in the east end of Montreal Sunday
night. Joseph and William Gardner, George
Kelley, William Chester and George Beatty, all
PrOtestants, have been arrested
Mr.. Hodges, while walking along y road
about a mile from Memphis, this evening, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Another gentlemen with Hodges was also
struck and dangerously injured.
The new Quebec government had a cabinet
meeting yesterday. Writs for the reelection
of ministers have been issued. Messrs. Pac-
hard, Marchandaud, and Chauoean, will prob
ably be elected by reclamation and Jolly bya
good majority.
The Home savings bank of Boston suspended
yesterday, a temporary injunction having been
obtained. For two years the deposits amounted
to Sc, 1852 Since then they dwindled to
SO, III, 43l. Of this amount 81, 34l 534 are in-
vested in real estate loans.
Saturdays storm damaged the levees below
New Orleans to considerable extent. Crevasses
are reported at Jesuit's Bend, eighteen miles
| below the city, and at Dr. Wiliamson's thirty
five miles below the city, both ON the right
bank. No estimate of damage has been made.
The Virginia House delegates yesterday pass
ed bill to take the sense of voters of the State
| as to calling constitutional convention in
November next but the bill was subsequently
virtually killed in the Senate by adoption of .
| motion to indefinitely postpone its considers
| ton, yeas 81 nays s.
Hon. Edwards Plerrepont, late minister to
the court of St. James, writes that he is mot a
| candidate for the judicial Office so long and 30
eminently filled by Judge Blatchford. have
| not sought or desired the place, nor could
accept it if rendered me. I am about TO re-
| sumo the practice Of the law
Judge McAllister, of Chicago, yesterday
| morning, in a habeas corpus case, decided that
| the city ordinance prohibiting the sale of
liquors to minors conflicts with the State law
and with the city charter, both of which make
a like prohibition, but with a variation as to
| detail, and that the ordinance is therefore
| void.
well dressed man jumped into the river at
st. Louis from barge Sunday evening and
was drowned. He left memorandum on the
barge containing the following: Whisky did
this. Take compassion on my little boy. d.
LAWN The writing and paper were identi-
fed as belonging to Dominic LAWN, well-to-
do peddler who had been a spree for several
days.
An engine and seven cars of freight train
bound north on the jackson, Lansing & Sagi-
NAV railroad yesterday morning ran through
the bridge at Marsh creek, between st. Charles
and Saginaw, Mich, killing the fireman, Chas,
Thayer, and badly injuring the engineer, SiIas
Hill. The accident was caused by the giving
way of dam above the bridge, which washed
| out the embankment.