Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-02
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Negro RavIsher of Kentucky Lynched-
Mother and Child Cremated In an In
diana Dwelling House-Suspicion of Muir
der-Flres and Other MIshaps.
MOTHER AND CHILD CREMATED.

| Mother ana Cnllu Crotnuteu iu dH HI
diana Dwelling House-suspicion of MUIR
der-Fires and Other Mlshaps.
MOTHER AND CHILD CREMATED.
CINCINNATI, April 1.--Gazette special says
The dwelling of Mr.. Hollaway, three miles from
Silver Lake, Koscinsko county, Indiana, burn
ed this morning, and with it Mrs. Hollaway and
child, a year old. 1t caught fire in the absence
| of MIR. Hollaway. The failure of the woman
and child to escape gives rise to a suspicion oi
| murder.
TEN BUSINESS PLACES BURNED.
| HoULToN, Me-, April Fire starting in s.
A. Gray's building, Main street. spread rapidly,
| and the flames were not suppressed until ten
business places were burned. Total loss
| $40, 900; insurance, $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA BLAZE.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-Fire at Twelfth and
William streets to-day caused loss to Conove,
Co. of $4,000; insurance. $4,000. Loss to
the Novelty Paper Box company of $4,000
Beckiver Bros, machinists, $1,000, and j. FL.
johnson. $2,0O0-all insured. Building almost
destroyed.
INCENDIARY CREMATION.
New ORLEANS, April 1.-The Times San An
tonic special reports the incendiary burning OF
the Brown county court house and Jail, destroy
ing the records and cremating several prisoners.
Loss estimated at 100000.
FOUR YEARS.
MILWAUKEE, April Warren Neuhaut, of
Bosoobel, pleaded guilty in the United States
court at Madison of robbiHg the Mt. Sterling,
Wis, postoffice, and was sentenced to four
years IN prison.
DROWNED.
TERRE HAUTE, april IA party of twelve,
in wagon, were thrown over an embankment
two miles west of this city, drowning two
ladies, Miss Otterman and Miss Hanna. The
body of the latter has been recovered.
FALL OF A sCAFFoLD.
Troy, April by the breaking of scat
fold ten men engaged in the erection of an
iron bridge over the Hudson at Lansingbury
were precipitated into the river. distance of
147 feet. Three were badly injured and an
other lost an eye.
LyNCHED.
LOUISVILLE, April Ben. johnson, charged
with raping Miss Annie A. Ball, in Clark county
was taken from Jail at Winchester early Wednes-
day morning and hung in the court house yard.
THE FIRE RECORD.
Fort WAYNE, March 3l.-A fire last night
damaged Kane & Bros block, $l5 600; II. j.
Trentnan & Bros. wholesale crockery stock,
$25, 600; Noll Bros. & Co., Wholesale millinery,
$4,000; insurance, $43, ,000.
CONFIDENCE MAN SHOT.
CINCINNATI, March 31.-A man calling him.
self Frank Howard, and who had operated in
Charleston, West Virginia, as confidence
man, was shot and killed OF Monday at Peyto-
ma, on Coal river, West Virginia, by man
named Atkins, who claims he did it in self-de-
fense.
FREIGHT TRAIN THROUGH BRIDGE.
CINCINNATI March 31.-The west bound
freight train on the Cheshire & Ohio rail-
road had the front trucks Of the car in the
middle of the train thrown from the track by a
bad rail, when just entering the bridge over the
Wyandotte river. A span of the bridge was
knocked down and eight cars fell to the river
shore, where they were burned. Tae engine
had safely crossed the bridge. Loss, $40,
LEADvIILE SHOOTING.
DENVER March 31.-Tke Tribune and Ne,us,
Leadville: Col. F. Z. Prentice, last night,
quarrel growing out of On alleged insult offered
by Prentice to a lady who Dixon was escorting
home.
FOUND DEAD IN THE RUSHEs.
CINCINNATI March 31.-Yesterday boy baby
whose identity is unknown, was found dead in
the rushes on the bank of Licking river, eight
miles from Newport, KY, with wound in his
head. He appeared to be about month DID,
and was a child of rare beauty. The jury
found the child came to its death from a wound
in the head by some blunt instrument, but at
whose hands no evidence was presented.
Texas Pacific Railroad.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The Senate committee
on railroads gave hearing to-day to ex-
Governor Brown. of Tennessee, vice presi-
dent of the Texas Pacific railroad company, in ad-
vocacy of the pending bill to extend the time for
completing its road. He informed the committee
that the road will be completed to Ell Paso by the lst
of January 1885, and when that point is reached the
company will have constructed 822 miles OF its main
line, and be operating 1,044 miles of railway for
which it will not have received acre of land
dollar of money from the general government al
though the government has the same privilege to
regulate rates for transportation and the same right
of priority of use of all portions of the road for mil
tary and postal purposes that the United States
Joys in regard to the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific roads, which were hberally aided from the
start He pointed out that the remainder of the
lne viz, 778 miles from Ell Paso to San Diego, is
the only portion to which the land grant attaches.
The ten years fixed by Congress for completion of
the road to San Diego will expire In May, 1882, but
the company claims that inasmuch it suspended
operations only by of the panic of 1873, and
the general consequence of that panic; and as 1t
will have invested $50 100000 of private capital in
Ell Paso the justice of Congress may be confidently
invoked to authorize such an extension OF time as