Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-10

and was SO terribly mangled he died at noon to.
day. He has mother living at Mount YER
non, Ohio.
The bodies of Weaver, hyde and Bernhard
special train this afternoon, and Irwin will
probably be forwarded to Ohio tomorrow.
| Somers 10 receiving every possible attention at
the Gait House, st. Charles.
| The coroner's jury heard the testimony of
Conductor Kirley and Mr.. Strohm this morn
ing, and adjourned till tomorrow.
Kirley swore he has taken hundreds of
much more heavy laden trains across than the
one under which it broke, that it had recently
| been Inspected by competent persons and pro-
nounced sound and he could give no reason for
the accident. Mr.. Strohm simply related his
experience. The damage to the bridge is esti-
mated at about STE, 600, value of cars and stock
| about S25,OO0 A temporary wooden truss
will be put up as soon as possible. In the
meantime tho track will be laid to the ferry
| landing and passengers and freight transferred
| by boat.
| - COLLISION IN CHESAPEAKE BAY.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 9.-The steamer Falcon,
Capt. Kirby, left this port yesterday afternoon
for Charleston with full cargo and seven pas
| sengers, when off Barren island, about ten
| miles south of Sharp's island, collided with the
| three-mast schooner, D. @. Tyron Capt. Nick
erson, laden with ice from tho Kennebec river
for this port. At 10:15 the schooner sighted
the steamer and kept on her course under a
leading breeze and steering point west of north
just before they met the course of the steamer
was changed and she ran across the course of
| Che SCHROEDER, when a collision occurred at 10:3O
| The bow Of the schooner struck the hull of the
steamer on line OF the mizzen mast, crashing
| through and destroying the upper works. As
soon as they could be loosened from each other
Capt. Kirby stecred for shoal water the coils
sion having occurred in water of twelve
fathoms, but before he proceeded half mile
| the steamer went down. All tho boats
of the Falcon were stove, though her
| llfeboat was made available, and tho women
and children were first put into it, and then
the mate and passengers, and sent to the
! schooner. Before the boat returned the Falcon
had gone down, and her officers and crew,
twenty -hVe IN number, climbed into the rig
glng, where they were rescued. The schooner
lay by till daylight, when she continued on her
course, and arrived here at fvo this afternoon.
The passengers lost all their clothing except
what they had on. The schooner was damaged
$500. The Falcon was about 600 tons i;urthen,
belonged to the Charleston steamship & Rail
road Company, and was worth 1926, COO or
$3O,OoO Her cargo YVES valued at abous
S3O,OCO but much of that may be recovered.
Che sank in seven fathoms of water, and her
mastheads and topmasts are visible
LAND sw1NDLE.
DENVER, COL, Nov. 8.-Sidney A. Grant, late
of Cincinnati. and A. T. Aulson were arrested to-
day for conducting fraudulent scheme through
the mails under the name Of tho Denver Land
company. Taken before the U. 8. commits
sioner they waived examination and were com.
mltted, bonds not being given, and probably
will go to Jail. The scheme was planned in
Cincinnati. Stereotype plates were prepared
and have already been inserted in over 500
first class newspapers and periodicals in the
Northern, Eastern and Middle States. Grant
came to Denver to secure land for the purpose,
and bought nearly a thousand acres in the sand
hills, 4O miles north of Denver in another coun-
ty, which was plated and corded as North
Denver. Although known here only days,
perfect avalanche of mail coming for s. a.
Grant and the Denver land company, the fraud
was denounced by local newspapers and bitter
ly condemned by citizens. The postmaster
reported to the department, and last night re-
celved orders to deliver no registered letters
and pay no money orders to Grant. The ar
rest was made by Special Agent Fl. Hall.
ADsCoNDED.
CHICAGO, Nov S.-Mason q. Hatch,
young man, who has been we'll and
favorably known in business circles here, and
who is treasurer Of the Northwestern Travelling
Mems Association, and one Of the editors of
the Northwestern Traveller, is missing under
circumstances that make it probable that he
has absconded with So, 600 of the associations
money, and forged receipts for the payment Of
moneys. kilograms from Troy, New York,
state that he has been in that city in condi-
found. Hatch had some money left him Ivy his
father recently, and it is not believed the as
ISOLATION will lose anything.
LEGENDARY ARRESTED.
WHEELING, W. Va, Nov. 9.-On Friday even
irg last Thomas Check was arrested at his
home in Jacktown, Pa, for setting fire to
Bethany college, in Brooke county, this State,
some weeks ago, which caused the partial de-
struction of that edifce. The arrest was made
by Deputy Sheriff Curtis, and the prisoner was
brought to Bethany Saturday morning. The
people turned out in great numbers, and were
In such state Of mind it was feared that the
people would take the law into their own hands
and summarily end Cheek's fate by lynoh1ng.
The sheriff accordingly removed Cheek to this
city, lodging him in the county Jail last even
ing to await his preliminary hearing.
On Main street were totally destroyed by fire
at o'clock this morning. The fire originated
IN a bake oven in the rearof the cottage occu-
pied by man named Bowers. Loss $4,000,
on which there is an insurance of 5000.
DESPERATE KILLED.
RAwL1Ns, Wyoming, Nov. 9.-This afternoon
Francis Murray, government teamster, while
intoxicated, shot and fatally wounded Charles
Capman, of Los Angeles, Gal. Murray then
reloaded his carbine aud revolver, with the in
tent of clearing out the neighborhood of tho
government wagon corral. He had fred several
shots at citizens and soldiers when Sheriff J.
Il. Rankin came on the scele, who, seeing it
impossible to capture Murray without great
danger to himself and others fred on him
with doubie-barrelled shotgun, killing him
instantly. The coroner's jury exonerated the
sheriff. ca
DROWNED.
drowned in the Merrimac river, this afternoon,
near Lawrence Mills. MIR. and Mrs. Peter Lit
tie and two children and Mr.. and Mrs. James
brown were rowing from the Centerville shore
to Little Canada when the heaving of the boat
frightened them, and in the confusion they
overturned it. Mr. Brown swan ashore: Mrs.
Little and one child chung to the boat and were
rescued; MIR. Little and Mrs. Brown, his sister,
and boy, aged two, son of Little, were
drowned. Bodies all recovered.
THE STARCH DUST EXPLOSION.
KANSAS CITY, No., Nov. 9.-Owing to heavy
rains little progress was made in excavating the
bodies recovered. At the roll call of employees
this morning all were accounted for except six.
Three have been taken out and three are still
in the debris. At the coroner's inquest to-day
the preponderance Of testimony was to the eff
feet that the accident was caused by the explo-
sion OF starch dust.
RESCUED.
New YORK, Nov. 9.-The bark Petit Zodiac,
which arrived here to-day from Gloucester, via
the Delaware breakwater, has on board four of
the passengers and two of the crew of the
steamship Champion, which sank near the en-
trance of Delaware bay Friday morning. The
names of those rescued are Joseph Mitchell,
Martin Brooce, w. G. Carney and Benjamin
Foster, The latter eolored.