Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Serious Collision Between Colored and
White Laborers In Shenandoah County,
va.-Locali Military Organization Ordered
to the Scene Of Trouble-Greenheld, tho
Wife Murderer, Observation-Disclosures
Record.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
LAKE C1rY, Mimi, Jan. 28.-V. r. Lee,
while gathering a load of corn stalks in
field near this city slipped and fell on the ice,
breaking the front ankle bone of his right
leg. His son Frank being with him he was
at once taken home and DR.. J. G. Adams
called in, who at once proceeded to set the
fractured limb, and at this writing q p. N.Y.
he is as comfortable as can be expected, al
though it will probably be several weeks be-
fore be will be able to be around again.
RACE WAR.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 2s.-Telegrams rs
ceived here this morning state intense excite
ment prevails in Shenandoah county in
consequence of the collision between white
and black laborers at the Columbia Furnace
mandatory, that county. Gov. Holiday
received a telegram from Sheriff Joseph
Stickley, of Shenandoah, asking assistance
to aid in quelling the riot, also one from
Capt. j. w. Magruder, Of the Woodstock
Military company, stating he received notice
of serious riot at the point mentioned, and
asking for orders what to do. The governor
Immediately replied to Capt. Magruder d.
recting him to place his company at the dis
posal of Sheriff Stickley and Comm onwealth
Attorney Allen for the preservation of peace,
and to keep him the governor)
advised of events. Other kilograms
received by members of the legislature from
Shenandoah Valley confirm the above re-
port. The trouble as far as can be ascer-
tanned, has its origin in the fact that John
w. Whistler & Co., proprietors of Columbia
and Liberty furnaces, ARE substituting colored
for white labor in their works. These works
have heretofore been almost entirely run by
white operatives who live and own their lit
tie homes in the neighborhood of the fur
naces, and have no other means of support
than their daily labor, while the negroes
who are replacing them are imported from
other counties, where no negro element pre-
walls to a greater extent than in Shenan-
doah.
CoNFEssES TO ARSON.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-Henry Morris, a
con7ict, confesses to having started the re-
cent fire in the Brooklyn penitentiary work
shop. He says be got the matches from
the clerk, Green, of the shoe company and
set the fire in two places, first in the loft of
the shop and afterwards in the building,
where certain combustible supplies are kept,
taking q two-quart can of benzine and
throwing it over the door, on the floor, and
lighting it. He said he didn't know why
he did it, but went up stairs to the shop and
waited to see what happened, and came
down with the other prisoners when the
alarm was given. Morris will be indicted
for arson. He is now serving six years.
term for criminal assault.
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
New YORK, Jan. 28.-The investigation Of
the Shepherds Fold was continued to-day,
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children rejecting the proposition of the
counsel for the Fold that an order be enter
ed placing the children in care of whatsoever
the court may name. Six children then re-
lated stories of the cruel treatment to which
they were subjected; short rations, severity
of punishment and hard work.
CONVICTION UNDER THE pADRoNE ACT.
New York, Jan. 28.-Antonio Giovanni
Ancarolo, the padrone convicted of inveig-
ling seven boys from Italy, has been SEN
fenced to five years. imprisonment. This
is the first conviction here under the pad
rome act.
IT WAS LOADED.
SYRACUSE, Jan. 28.-E!ias Gebhart, aged
16, clerk in hardware store, was instantly
killed by customer while buying pistol.
The revolver contained three balls. 1t was
not known to be loaded.
NOT MURDERED.
New HAMPTON, Ia, Jan. 2S.-The boy
who was believed to have been murdered by
his father, Elder Buck, the adventist, is alive
in an adjoining county, whittier he fed after
the beating his father gave him to avoid
repetition of the outrage.
TO HANG.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-J. Wyatt Stone,
convicted of the murder of his wife in Octo
Der, 1878, after an unsuccessful appeal to
the supreme court, was to-day re-sentenced
to be hanged on Friday, Feb. 81.
DOMESTIC TROUBLES.
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 28.-Chief Of Police
Benson killed himself in his private room
early this morning. Domestic trouble.
BALLOT BOX CORRUPTION.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 28.-Michael Crotty,
well-known local politician, to-day swore out
a warrant for the arrest of 8. w. Ramp,
county clerk, for violation of the Seitz law.
The specification is that Ramp placed money
in Crotty's hands, to be used to secure his
election. The arrest has not yet been made.
ANOTHER EFFORT FOB LIFE.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, JAZZ. 2S.-Orlando Green
field, wife murderer, who is sentenced to be
hanged Friday, was to-day informed of Gov.
Cornells refusal to interfere in his case. He