Daily globe., 1881-01-17
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Drift ice has stopped the navigation of the
Rhine.
The press club of Chicago gave its first an
nual banquet Saturday night.
Billy Leroy, mail robber and "road agent, y
was arrested at Denver Saturday.
Drift ice in the Thames may prevent the
Hanlan- Laycock race tomorrow.
McVean's hub and spoke factory at Dres-
den, Ont, is burned. Los, $25, 900.
The Texas g. St. Louis railroad has reached
Corsicana, Texas, 203 miles from Texarkana.
Chas. B. Hays, q victim of the chemical ex-
plosion, at Newburyport, Mass, died Wednes-
day night.
Hogs slaughtered at Chicago since Novem-
ber, 2,OS4, ,O00 or 4S7 900 more than in the same
time last year.
meeting of colored republicans at Nash
Vile Saturday, recommended Jno. NJ. Langston
for place in Hayes cabinet.
Bank clearings at Chicago last week, 1884,
1000, or 10000, GOO more than i'll the cor
responding week of last year.
Twenty-Five stores in Durham, N. c., were
burned Saturday. This is the third large fire
in that place since December l.
A Philadelphia dispatch reports that all the
coal companies but one will resume full time
in work at the mines this week.
The residence and greenhouses of Edward
Suder, florist, Toledo, O., were burned Satur-
day. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Some Of the undertakers Of Albany, n. Y,
have been arrested for charging the county for
burals, the expenses of which were paid by
relatives.
The Emma Mine litigation has been compro-
missed, and Baron Grant, Trenor w. Park and
the English stockholders have reorganized the
company.
John Ring, lard reflner, St. Louis, has made
an assignment for the benefit of creditors, and
John A. Sloan & Co., of same city, are prepar-
ing to make an assignment.
A dispatch from Copenhagen reports that a
theater at Cronstadt has been destroyed by
fire. The director of the theater and seven
Others perished in the flames.
Owing to scarcity of coal, caused by a
strike of miners, several English mills and
foundries have stopped, and distress among
working classes is apprehended.
There are already forty eight entries for the
O'Leary belt contest, beginning at New York
the oath inst Rowcll and Vaughan are in
training in England for the special O'Leary
match.
The merchants club of New York has ap-
pointed q committee to go to Washington and
advocate the adoption of a new general bank
law. Dy leoOluIlOi tHc LO"Cil
is favored.
There is a coal famine in some Iowa towns,
the supply being entirely exhausted. 1t seems
impossible to get transportation for more. In
Marshaltown the schools have been closed for
want of fuel.
The English court of appeals has ordered
the release of Revs Dale and Enright, on tech
nical grounds, and without reference to their
claim that they are Independent of the secular
power in matters of conscience.
Alex. Rodenow, representing himself to be
the agent of the Rodenow manufacturing CON-
pany, of Boston, manufacturers of snide
watches, has been arrested charged with using
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
A telegram from Georgetown, Col, says the
dead bodies of Knox Pinckard and coiored
servant have been recovered. VIM. M. Pinck-
ard was found alive and not seriously injured
after being buried in the snow for hours.
The Charleston, S. c., News and Courier,
from reports received from different sections
of the State, estimates that of the cotton I'M
picked in December, fully one-half has been
totally lost by the wet, cold weater, while
the remainder has been badly damaged.
In the suit against the corporation of New
York city by the Peoples bank to test the le-
gality of the State tax upon shareholders, the
court has issued temporary injunction en-
Joining the corporation from any attempt to
collect such tax until the further order OF the
cOurt