Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-28

Willet street, went on an excursion up the
East river to-day. Fighting occurred most
of the way up. One man, Andrew Distell,
was killed. and two wounded. Policeman
Croley fired five shots into the crowd. Joseph
Beyner was arrested on suspicion of shooting
Distell.
DROWNED.
BUFFALO, July 27.-John Mahoney and
James Sullivan were drowned at Black Rock
harbor to-day while fishing. Mahoney fell
into the river. Sullivan IN attempting to
save him was grasped by Mahoney, and pull
ed to the bottonf. Both married.
INCEND1ARY FIRE.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, July 27.--An incendiary
fire this morning destroyed good part of
the machine shops of the Hartford foundry,
where valuable work, including much heavy
gearing for the Grant locomotive works, was
in progress and all more or less injured.
Total value of machinery, stock and tools,
$4,000. Loss, $4,000 to $25,OOo; insur-
ance, $19,96S.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, July 27.-This morning
a man named Henry Hartman attempted
to murder his wife and then commit suicide.
He had just been released from the house of
correction, where he had been kept six
months in default of bonds to keep the
peace with her. On finding her place of
residence Hartman entered, seized pair of
scissors and inflicted several deep gashes in
her neck. She managed to escaped from
him and raised an alarm. He then gashed
his own throat SO terribly that he cannot re-
cover. Mrs. Hartman is not fatally injured.
The wouldbe murderer was removed to the
Passavant hospital.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUCCESSFUL SUICIDE.
LOUISVILLE, July Special to the
Courser-J ournal, Gainesville, Tenn, July
81: A report has reached this city of ter
rible tragedy at or near Dauer, Tenn, yes
terday. William Burchett, former citizen
of Gainesville and carpenter by trade, was
married not long since to Mrs. Yates, widow
of ]. H. Yates, formerly a policeman and
sexton of the city cemetery at this
place. Mrs. Yates had daughter
by the former husband. My informant states
that Burchett in fit of frenzy yesterday
shot his wife, Miss Maggie Yates, his stop
daughter, who was grown, and then shot
himself. Burchett died almost Immediately,
but at last accounts Mrs. Burchett and Miss
Yates were alive but in a very critical con-
dition. No cause is assigned for the act.
Burchett had the reputation of being
quiet man. Friends believe that he must
have been laboring under a fit of temporary
insanity.
ROW AMONG STRIKERS.
FALL RIVER, Mass, July pa serious
ARRAY occurred at the Slade mill this after
noon. Some striking spinners allege that
while passing the mill they were shouted at
by working spinners in the yard, whereupon
they stopped and disturbance was
created and a crowd of five to ten
hundred people soon gathered. Deputy
Sheriff Burlington, on duty at the mill, said,
''As an officer of the commonwealth order
this crowd to disperse," but the crowd failed
to do SO, and Burlington "as seized by a big
fellow and rather roughly handled. Stones
were thrown by the mob and shots fired, one
of which grazed the head of working spin
ner inside the yard. BY order of tho sheriff
the fire was returned, and one man in the
crowd, striking spinner, struck
on the hand and in the hip.
The disturbers assert the first
fire came from the yard. The police were
telegraphed for, but the crowd scattered be-
fore their arrival. The whole affair took
place on the private property of the corpora
ton. Another crowd of seventy-five strikers
collected in front of Mechanics hall, tonight,
two miles from the scene of the disturbance,
and made threats against the spinners at
work there. A constable says several slung
shots were carried by the strikers, but none
used. The police were telegraphad for and
the crowd scattered.
CREMATED.
SAErrLE, w. T., July 27.-Fire last night
originating in the American hotel burned
the Centre block and crossing Ninth street
swept it on both sides. Buildings burned
are mostly business houses. The loss will
be heavy, not yet estimated; insurance light.
SEEING THE SIGHTS ON SUNDAY.
BANGOR, Me-, July 27.-Secretary Sher-
man and company and General Key and par
ty took dinner to-day with Senator Hamlin,
after which they were taken in charge by a
number of prominent citizens with carriages
and driven about the city. Sherman leaves
tomorrow morning for Mount Desert.
KILLED. BY LIGHTNING.
BRocKv1LIE, Ont, July pa terrific
thunder and hail storm this afternoon did
considerable damage to buildings by light.
ming. A tree on the American side of the
river was struck, under which the wife and
child of George Hutton had taken refuge
The child was killed in the mothers arms
and the latter fatally injured. A man named
Larocque was also killed on an island short
distance up the river.
FIGHT WITH RoUGHs.
BosToN, July 27.-An excursion party of
400 people visited Marblehead to-day. A
large proportion of the number were roughs,
who Immediately on landing proceeded about
town insulting women, robbing people and
committing other depredations. The p,lice
interfered and serious row ensued. One
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