Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-14
New York Bank Statement.
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Navigation of the Hudson is again suspend
ed, ice having formed rapidly Friday night.
The Cincinnati chamber of com merce has en-
dorsed the Aldrich direct importation bill now
IN Congress.
At Canton, O., yesterday, John Samuel, MUIR
derer of Christian Spuher, was sentenced to
be hanged June 25th.
Mrs. David Griffin, of Norwich, n. Y, made
her will Friday and persisted in the flames of
her house yesterday morning.
Wallenstein leads Parole IN the betting on
the Lincolnshire handicap and is said to have
beat Parole in trial of speed.
Sir Garnet Welsley has accepted the post
of Quartermaster General at the Horse Guards
and will return to Eng land in July.
Salonica in Turkey, outside the towns, is
dominated by thirteen bands OF brigands who
plumber both Mussulnan and Christians.
The letting of contracts for steamboat mail
routes for the southeast, has been postponed
until April lst, and bids will be received up to
that date.
Dahlstrom, 4 Hamburg engineer, has re-
ceived concession from Germany for con-
struction OF a ship canal from the German
ocean to the Baltic.
The Republican convention of Arkansas, to
nominate Presidential electors and select dele
gates to the Chicago convention will meet at
Little Rock, April rs.
Turkey has resolved to return to gold STAN
dard, so far as to require its taxes to be paid
in gold. As this depreciates common currency
of the country the poor at once lose half their
earnings.
The famine in Armenia and kurdistan, Tur-
key, extends over LOCO square miles of terri
tory, from ell of which comes appalling ac-
counts of the suffering and deaths of the
starving people.
raThe dry goods house of Stephen Mcfarland,
GAS Eighth avenue, n. T., was damaged $780,
900 by fire yesterday, and Andersons tea store
ad ioining, suffered to the amount of 800 900.
Both fully insured.
dispatch from Admiral Rogers, at Panama
reports that the Peruvian government has dis
missed the officers who arrested Surgeon Rus
sci and the Midshipmsn Garmon, Z. S. N, in
one of the mountain villages of Peru.
The residenceaof Richard Johnston. farmer,
near Dennison, Crawford county, Ia. was
burned Friday and two daughters persisted in
the flames. Mr.. and Mrs. Johnston and seven
others of their children had narrow escape.
The Chicago Times of yesterday published
reports concerning the winter wheat crop from
eleven States, which indicate an increased yield
of about sixty per cent, although there is
complaint of lack of snow and unfavorable
weather may vet work disastrous changes.
The United States having sued Harrison
johnson, ex-special agent of the treasury de-
partment, resident of Mississippi, for 510S.-
600, on account of cotton consigned to his Off
cial care, his property in New York city, real
estate and securities, was yesterday attached
for the claim.
Two convicts, one sentenced to be hung aad
the other to imprisonment and man under in
dictment for poisoning, escaped from the
Frankfort, Ky, Jail Friday night, by prying
out stone from the ceiling, making hole in
the brick gable and then dropping down the
outside wall.
The Austro-Hungarian minister of commerce,
yesterday, in introducing bill providing for
the construction of railway through Arlburg
mountain, said the construction of the road
was necessity to assist home production in
competition with the enormous produ ctions of
America and Russia.