Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-10

| inquiring for Mollie DeJarnette, and at his
request the two went to private room. Re
peated pistol shots followed, the police broke
into the room and the girl was found on the
| floor, her brother standing by, pistol in hand.
He immediately confessed shooting his sister,
averring he had done it to wipe out the dis
grace of the family. The girl was shot five
| times. Two shots were fatal. She protests
her brother was right in taking her life and
begs he be not punished. Before the brother
was taken to prison he and his sister en-
braced. The brother is a telegraph operator,
age 90. The sister is II years of age.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The secretary of the
treasury has ordered an investigation of the
disaster to the steamboat Narragansett which
was in collision with sister boat, the Ston-
ington, of the Stonington line to Boston
whereby many lives were lost.
TIE STOLEN SECURITIES.
New YORK, July 9.-Wm. McFebban,
stock broker, 80 Broad street, was arrested
to-day, charged with being one of the men
who knew of the finding of the $1,000 worth
of bonds lost by Brayton, Ives & Co. He
in his hands, having been retained one night
by him for examination at the request OF
Jerome and Patchell and other accused
parties, but he further states that he advised
their return to the owners.
New YORK, July 9.-Wm. .McGibbon, broker,
No. Broard street, arrested for completely to-
day with Jerome and Patchell in the alleged
raising of stock certificates valued at $87 900,
the property of Brayton, Ives 90, was ar.
raigned in the toombs police court this after
noon. He said he took charge of the certih-
Gates at the request of Jerome and Patchell.
He had afterwards returned them and advised
that they should be given up to Brayton, Ives
& Co. Jerome made affidavit that he gave the
certificates to McGibbon, and that the latter
retained them with illegal interest. McGibbon
was finally held in $4,000 bail for examination,
FALL FROM FOURTH STORY.
BALTIMORE, July 9.-James B. George
wholesale boot and shoe merchant, was in
stsntly killed this morning by fall from the
fourth story window of a warehouse on Sharp
and Bard streets, while fixing shutter.
BLACK HILLS DEFAULTER.
DEADwoop, D. T., July Capt. J. NJ.
West, superintendent and contractor for the
Black Hills Placer Mining company, which is
building eighteen mills and erecting extensiv 6
hydraulic warks at Rockeryille, is short about
$4,000 in his accounts with employees, of
whom there are nearly 400. The companies of
which Alexander Shaler, of New York, is presi-
dent, will lose nothing on account of the
shortage, and will take ho,d of the fumes and
work to complete them as speedily as possible,
as the ground is considered most valuable and
the enterprisei is the largest ever undertaken in
the Hills, the estimated cost being $3.50, 600.
Vests deficiency is accounted for from the
fact he lsVished money on fast women, of
whom he had been keeping two Or three, and
for the reason of his heretofore excellent repu-
tation introduced them into the best society
daughters, nieces, etc. The affair has
created a profound sensation, as he has high
ly respectable family living in Boulder,
Colorado.
FATAL CROSSING.
LANCASTER, Pa. July 5.-This morning while
Phillip Schum, leading merchant of this city,
and his wife we're crossing the Pennsylvania
railroad near Solungs, the carriage was struck
by the Niagra express west, and both occupants
killed.
DROWNED.
MIDDLETowN, o., July 9.--Geo. Potter, a
young man from Corfa, N. Y, visiting Mrs.
Brock, his grandmother, was drowned while
bathing in the Miami river
ELEVATOR BURNED.
OMAHA, Neb., July 9.-McCormack & Co. S
elevator. containing $4,000 bushels of oats and
1000 bushels of wheat, burned at midnight.
Fire probably iucendi ary, as it was the third
alarm since o'clock last evening. Loss fully
fifty thousand dollars. Cannot get the insur-
arice tonight. Melto Rogers & Sons warehouse
filed with stoves, adjoining the elevator, will
probably go, which will increase the loss
probably seventy-fye thousand dollars.