Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-29
NUMBER 70.

~1 oeiiot, ana expressed himself as sOrIy
St the indication of the informal ballot He had
Deen informed by members of the
Wofnngmens Union that Mr.. Druckhammer
was not democrat. We were here not to en-
uolse the Worklngmens Union nominations but
70 e. nominate Democrats. MIR. Hill has been
nAelong democrat and always worked with the
party. HE Republicans had endorsed Hill be-
cause ne was Efficient man. He
nad given up lucrative position
TO take the office of comptroller He should
De endorsed by this convention as a Democrat
ana an ehclent officer. The convention had
S 5nuo'seu Mr. Glenn, the workingmen's candi-
date, but they should go no further
FRANK Mead endorsed the sentiment of Mr.
Mcheeve and deemed MIR. Hills nomination
necessary to party harmony
AZ t1ls point the committee previously ap-
pointed introduced NJ. W. Glenn to the con-
vention as the present candidate and the
FUTURE MAYOR.
The announcement was greeted with cheers,
and Mr.. Glenn took position in front of the
chairman and responded in the following
Grant-ike speech:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvENTIoS-I recognize
and appreciate the honor you have conferred
upon me this evening by making me your NOM
1nee for mayor. If elected, can only promise to
use the little authority vested in me, to the
best of my ability, for the best interests of the
entire city.
COMPTROLLER AGAIN.
Mr. Glenn was again applauded, and the dis-
cusslon of the comptroller question proceeded
with.
Scion Arm strong also endorsed the name of
Mr.. Hill. The Office required competent &C
countant, and man conversant with the
finances of the city. Such man was Mr.. Hill.
The formal ballot was then taken and resulted
as follows:
Whole number of votes. Observation-Disclosures. 66
WIN. d. Hill 48
d. r. A. Druckhammer. Observation-Disclosures. 10
Mr.. W. B. Hill was declared the nominee of
the convention.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
Hon. VIM. Lochren moved that the chair APP
point committee of one from each ward and
one at large, to be committee of conference
to confer with the Workingmens Union, Re-
publican and ladies' committee already APP
pointed, relative to the school board. The mo-
ton was carried and the chair appointed IA
such committee: A. T. Ankeny, o. G. Merri-
man, VIM. Lochren, Edmund Eichhorn, Flank
J. Mead, Geo. 81. Hamilton and Isaac Atwater.
Frank Mead moved that the committee on
conference above named confer with the other
committees, and if board of education be
agreed upon, the candidates were to be con-
sidered the candidates of this convention, if
otherwise the conference committee, together
with the city committee, should place Demo-
cratic ticket in nomination.
The motion was adopted.
CITY COMMITTEE.
On motion the chair was instructed to appoint
city committee, which was announced as fol-
lows: A. A. Ames, chairman; c. McC. Reeve,
8. d. Rollins Henry G. Morse, A. T. Ankeny,
James Sweeney.
The convention then adjourned sine die
Campaign Notes.
Rand might have telegraphed his little speech
of acceptance from Washington.
Rand, if elected, ought to get pretty good
contract with the city for gas.
And now they do say that the ladies' mass
convention was called by the anti-Tousley ele-
ment and that the opposition forces occupied
the ground and compelled the callers of
the convention to retreat.
Prof. Tousley received the following endorse
ment from lady at the convention yesterday:
"It is worth something to the city to have such
a good looking superintendent" And she
really meant it!
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE
Gen. Grant visited the studios of American
artists at Rome yesterday.
Sir Bartle Fire, governor of Cape Colony,
thinks the Kaffir war is virtually over.
John Taylor has been arrested at Boston on
the charge of numbering his wife on the 18th
| inst.
The Liverpool spring cup was won yesterday
| by Hesper, Lancaster second and Winchester
third.
| The Japanese embassy, numbering So per-
| sons, including the president of the exhibition
commission, arrived at Marseilles yesterday.
The large barn, with valuable contents, of j.
L. Hendricks, and also the residence of 81. e.
Housh, Hardenburgh, Ind, burned Wednesday
night. Loss 81 800
| Mrs. Phoebe Atkinson, aged 10, who, it is
! tic sister, aged rs, Monday last, at Andover
| Mass, has been arrested at Boston.
| Gen. Tannis, who at Port Au Prince attempt
! ed to revolt and carry arms against the govern
| ment of President Camel, has fed and Secreted
himself in the Liberian consulate.
Father Grant, rector of the Scottish college
| at Rome, and organizer of the Scottish HER
archy proclaimed yesterday, died Wednesday.
He bequeathed his private fortune to the Cath
Ole church of Scotland.
The Maryland House of Delegates has voted
that the State is not responsible for damages to
| property destroyed by the strikers riots in
| Baltimore, it being an occasion when the laws
could not be enforced in due time to prevent
the destruction of property.
In the Ohio Senate yesterday House bills to
| compel fire insurance companies to sanction
policies upon application of policy holders at
short rates and to compel persons selling fer
tilizers to place upon each package an analysis
of its component parts, we're passed.
In an ARRAY at Elliottsville, Rowan county,
KY, Tuesday, between gang of fifteen men,
headed by Tults and Jake Brooks, arising out
Of a family feud. Brooks brother had his
throat cut from ear to ear, Jake was fearfully
beaten and number of others wounded.
The communist, Captain Garcin, sentenced to
death by default, on the charge of being ring
leader in the shooting of Generals Thomas and
Lecomte, who returned to Paris and was court
martialed, has again been SENTENCED to death,
but it ia thought probable his sentence will be
committed.
report comes from st. Alexandra, Canada,
TWENTY-FIVE miles from St. Adams, VT, that do
velopments strongly point to La Page, hung at
Concord for the murder of Josie Langmaid, az
perpetrator of cold blooded murder of two
women, mother and daughter, at that place
ten years ago.
The French chamber of deputies repealed all
the grants which had been restored to the bud
! get by the Senate, except the increased grant
, for invalids. The rejected grants include
those for naval chaplain general and TO,
scholarships at seminaries, which created specia
ll-feeling on account of their clerical tendency
Mr.. Sutton, the most conspicuous opponen
of the directors of the stockholders meeting
of the Pennsylvania railroad company, say
the question of legally contesting the right O
the management to organize the trust o
, funding scheme under the authority given a
the recent election, is under consideration, anc
: | will be definitely settled in few days.
! Funeral Of Judge Leonard.
Il NEW YORK, March 28.-The remains Of tn
. late John G. Leonard, member of the House o
e Representatives, from Louisiana, who diet
recently in Cuba, arrived at this port to-da.
in the steamship Saratoga, from Havana. TIL