Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-24
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Terrible Punishment of Terrible Crime
by TIE xas observation-disclosures Record OF
Mfsdeeds and Mishaps.
FIRE AT CHIPPEWA FALLS.

FIRE AT CHIPPEWA FALLS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.I
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Feb. 23-At
o'clock this morning Mike Barnaby's house,
on his farm two miles from this city, was
burned. Total loss, $1,000; insured for
$500 in the Connecticut Fire Insurance COM
pany, of Hartford. Work of an incendiary.
TEXAS HORROR.
GALVESTON, Feb. 23.--Neaos special from
Jefferson: Reliable information from near
Linden, Cass county, gives The following
Mrs. Clarke, respectable married lady,
living in the Garry neighborhood, was yes
terday brutally outraged, then murdered.
Three men were arrested. One of them
confessed the crime. He was horribly mu-
tilated by the mob, his clothing saturated
with coal oil and set on fire, and afterwards
hanged. Intense excitement prevails.
PREMATURE EXPLOSION.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 23.-WhiIe the Fifth
Ohio battery, from Dayton, Ohio, were firing
salute to-day in honor of the opening Of
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, August
Herman had one of his hands severely in
jured by premature explosion. The thumb
was shot off and the hand badly lacerated,
and the bones of the forearm were frac-
tured.
DEFAULTING POSTMASTER.
CHEYENNE, Feb. 23.-Gen. Adams, special
agent Of the postoffce department, arrived
here to-day, in accordance with orders from
Washington, to investigate the affairs Of the
Cheyenne postoffice, resulting in the dis
coyery of deficiency in Postmaster Glafckes'
accounts of about So, 400. His sureties were
placed in charge of the Office, and will make
the deficiency good. Gen. Adams further in
vestigated the charges of Major Glafckes'
connection with the Great Western Distri-
button company, ard finds them sustained
by proofs satisfactory to him. Major
Glafckes is publisher of the Cheyenne
Leader, in whose columns the recent assaults
on the character of Gov. Hayt and other citi-
zsns appeared. Gen. Adams returned to
Denver to-day, from whence he will pro-
coed to Washington with his Ute prisoners.
SUICIDE.
TOPEKA, KS, Feb. ga. i. Benton, who
registered from Chicago, shot himself at the
Fifth avenue hotel, between and 10 o'clock
this morning. He has light hair, light
moustache, and an extension of light whisk-
ers, and is dressed in dark business suit.
GIL FIRE AT CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 23.-At 3 o'clock this
afternoon The bottom fell out Of still con-
tanning 5000 barrels of crude oil, at the
Standard oil works, No. 1, on Broadway.
The oil caught fire and communicated the
flames to another still. The burning oil
flowed down Kingsbury run, threatening de-
struction to the Standards works. Five
hundred men were put at work and a IN
constructed across the run, combining the
fire in narrow limits and saving the property.
Loss estimated at $4,000 on machinery and
81, 900 on oil.
TORNADO IN TENNESSEE.
MEMHH1s, Feb. 23.-Wednesday night a
tornado visited Cedar Chapel, a small town
in Harden county, sixty miles northwest of
Memphis, which did serious damage, blowing
away several houses, seriously injuring sew
eral persons. Three dwellings took fire dur
ing the storm burned down. Loss about
$4,000.
KILLEr BY A FREIGHT TRAIN.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23.-Ferdinand Z. Nor
cross, telegraph operator and station agent
at Carlisle ILL.,, on the Ohio g. Mississippi
railroad, was run over and killed by freight
train this afternoon.