Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-12
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Feaf1ul DESTRUCTION BY Orm OF W1nd
and Hail in Crawford County. Ark.-One
Man Killed and Many Persons Injured
Bank Burglars In Ohio Foiled by Time
Safe Lock-Four Members of the Chicago
Board OF Trade Arrested for Doctoring
Barley-Lively Blake In New York-11is-
cellaneous.
! THE MISSOURI TORNADO.
ST.. LOUIS, Nov. ll.-Advices from North
western Arkansas say a tornado passed through
q part of Crawford county, last Saturday, de-
stroying nearly everything in it, course, kill
Names of the killed not given. The storm
seems to be theEsame ono that struck several
towns in this State on the same day.
swINDLED BY WOLVERINES.
BOSTON, Nov. ia gang of swindlers ara
operating through New England securing notea
of farmers in payment Of wares never deliv-
cred, the notes being disposed of promptly at q
discount. 1t is charged that the operations Of
the gang are directed by wealthy business men
| in Michigan.
| s1ANDEE AVENGED.
| A Rosa dispatch says J. g. Hill WAS killed on
Saturday night at Forestville and Hamilton
Litton was wounded in disturbance between
him and a family named Travis, growing out
of alleged slanderous remarks made by Hill
about Miss Travis. The boys are in Jail here.
! NEW YORK FIRES.
| New YORK, Nov. l1.-A fire broke out shortly
before noon to-day in buildings Nos. 414 and
At Blocker street, which extends to Hudson
street and faces Arlington Square. It is occu-
pied by a number Of manufacturers. Tho
flames were discovered issuing from the fourth
Hoor. used as a cabinet shop, by j. A. Thomas.
ALI the fire engines in the district were called
out, but the flames spread rapidly to the differ.
| ent floors. At 1:30 the fire. was got under cons
troll after inficting losses aggrsgating Ga, QUO,
mostly covs:ed by insurance.
ARKANSAS CYCLONE.
| LITTLE Rock, Ark, Nov. liza terrific storm
passed over portion of Crawford county, on
Saturday last, about n. NJ, at Van Buren,.
Hail fell in unprecedented quantity. Hail
stones were found in the streets two by three
seemed to be natural dome. sixteen miles
north. The track was half mile wide, and .
clean sweep was made of everything.
In the path of the storm trees were twirled
like straws, houses unroofed and overturned,
and in places not even q saplint was left stand
of sight man named John Newton was
killed by his falling house, and quite num-
| Der had their legs arms broken or otherwise
| injured.
| BUHdIARlLEO.
MOUNT VERNON, O., Nov. l1.-Chase Wallis
dry goods and grocery store at Sparta, near
Mount Vernon, was entered last night by bur-
glars who blew open the safe and carried away
| 81 600 in currency, after damaging dry goods
to the amount of 81, 900. The burglars made
| goo6 their escape.
| MARYLAND SHOOTING.
SALISBURY, Nd. Nov. 11.--Wm. 81. Earring
ton, recently elected county commissioner of
Wicomoco county, was shot and instantly
killed to-day by J. Wesley Turpin, during a
quarrel. Both were farmers. There is said to
have been an old feud between them. Turpin
| not yet arrested.
| Ex-BANK OFFICIAL INDICTED.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11.-Edwa1d @. Palmer
late president of the Louisiana Savings bank
was arrested, to-day, upon two indictments,
by the grand Jury, ono charging him With the
! embezzlement, in June, 1879. of $47.437 of
money belonging to the bank, or deposited
therein. the other with publishing false reports
! and wilfully concealing the fact as to the con-
dition of the bank to deceive the public.
Palmer was imprisoned in default of 81, 900
bond. Palmer declares his arrest an outrage.
caused by hatred, jealousy and spite, and is
| glad that it is now impossible to prevent an
impartial investigation, whereby the other side
| will be shown up.
| Fo1IED BANK ROBBERS.
DAYTON, Nov. 1l.-A gang of masked thieves
last night obtained admission to the residence
of the cashier of the National bank at German
town, and forced him to accompany them to
| the bank and open the doors. They broke into
the store adjoining the bank and obtained the
key to the vault and opened the outer door of
the cafe, but were unable to get into the money
| drawer, which contained S575, 0G0 in bonds and
money, it being secured by a time lock and
the drawer being burglar proof. The robbers
being fooled secured what they could of the
cashier, two watches and some jewelry, md
been obtained.
| GRAIN DOCTORS ARRESTED.
| CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Bernhard Lowenthal and
three members of the board of trade were ar
rested to-day and put under $500 bail, on tho
bleaching. The arrested parties claim it Is .
| blackmail scheme.
| sLETrAUER BROS.
slettauer Bros. furnished statement, show.
ing their liabilities a1,519,s61, and assets
1914. 929 1t is under stood the creditors strong
ly object to accepting their offer of fifty cents
| on the dollar.
| FALL OF A WAREHOUSE.
BUFFALO, Nov. 1.-THE ends of the large
brick store house of Kellogg l. McDougall.
linseed oil manufacturers, situated on the isl
and, Buffalo harbor, having about 1000 bush
ella of fax seed stored in it, fell out with ter
| riblc crash this morning, the fax seed and
brick flying in all directions. The bulk of the
contents will be seriously damaged. Loss is
estimated at $1,000; insured. No one injured.
SHOT HIS MISTRESS.
KANSAS CITY, No., Nov. 11.--This afternoon
Berry Brewster, son of ]. P. Brewster, prom
inent halter of Chicago, shot and probably
fatally wounded one of the female inmates of
| a house in the north part of tho city. Brewster
gave himself up aud was placed under ar
| rest. It is stated that the woman was formerly
q servant in the Brewster family and claims to
have been married to the son. Brewster claims
the shooting was accidental. The girl thus far
refuses to make q statement. It is the general
opinion that the act was the result of Quarrel
between them.
TOPEKA, Nov. ia washout occurred on
the Kansas Pacific road, near Wamego KS, to-
day. An engine and two baggage cars were
| thrown into ditch. No serious Injuries to
passengers. Track has been repaired.
oouNTERFErrER ARRESTED.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 1.-THE Commercially Mar
iette special says: Jefferson Flowers, supposed
to be an active counterfeiter of coin in West
Virginia, has been arrested and is there in Gus
tody.
Jay Cooke Paying In Full.
Much to the surprise of the public it is an
nounced that the Jay Cooke estate is now alb
to pay dollar for dollar of it's indebtedness
The boom in Northern Pacific and other stocks
OF which he was large holder, produced this
fortunate result.