Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-12
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The New Jersey legislature organized yester-
day.
Gov Crittenden, of Missouri, was naugu-
rated at II NJ, Monday.
Southern Texas was visited by the heaviest
snow storm ever known, Monday.
The sale of tickets in Cincinnati for Bern
hardt's four nights exceeds S11 900.
The ice in the Mississippi river opposite
Louisville, KY, broke away yesterday, doing
some damage to boats
Thomas Thornton has been arrested at Maid
Stone, England, for murder committed at
Chillicothc, Ohio.
Another appeal is made in New York for aid
to the colored refugees in Kansas, whose dis
tress is pronounced a fatal reality.
The building department of Chicago reports
3,S6S buildings erected during the past year,
costing over $4,000, 600 in the aggregate.
Robert McQuaig, financial secretary and
treasurer of the Planters Union, Chicago, has
run away with all the funds of the concern.
Fire at Bartlett, Tenn, yesterday, destroyed
the stores occupied by Shore & Bros, w. D..
Blackwell and Wright & Money. Loss,
$4,000.
The Ohio legislature has passed a law pro-
hibiting pool selling in that State, with pen
alties of fine not exceeding $500 and i'm
prisonment.
The famous Tontne building, formerly
known as the Tontine coffee house, Wall
street, New York, was sold at auction, yester-
day, for S13S,5O0.
Four banks of Baltimore, it is stated have
been mulcted to the tune of $4,000, by ad-
vancing money on forged certificates of the
safe deposit company
The sale of tickets for Sara Bernhardt's sea-
son in ST. Louis commenced yesterday morn
III \ {In o10 &c o1a Co.. fba 1nx
worth had been disposed of.
Sarah Bernhardt was received by a
very large and fashionable audience on the oc-
casion of her first appearance in Chicago, Mon
day evening. She was twice called before the
curtain.
Hon. viii. Cumback has Withdrawn from
the Senatorial contest in Indiana, in favor OF
Gen. Ben. Harrison's unanimous nomination
in the Republican caucus, and his consequent
election.
Mrs. Alice Williams, of Kent county, Mich,
devout Catholic, while suffering from tenn
porery alteration, cut her tongue nearly out
with razor, as q sacrifice to the Lord. She is
in critical condition.
The Williams College alumni, resident at
Cleveland, Ohio, and vicinity, to the number
of about fifty, held reunion Monday night
A feature of the proceedings was an address
by President-elect Garfield.
A kerosene lamp explosion at the residence
/ of Wellington More, Reading, Pa, burned the
| building, two of his children perishing in the
| flames, baby months old, and Sallie, aged
IA. Mary was rescued fatally burned.
President Elect Garfield was waited upon
yesterday by delegation of prominent colored
men from Alabama, complaining of the treat
ment their race was receiving in the South
Garfield promised his administration should
do all in its power to improve their condition
Charles NJ. Phelphs, ex-State treasurer OF
New York, convicted in October, 1875, OF
forgery and larceny on three counts, and SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment on each,
died of consumption in the State penitentiary
yesterday. He would have received pardon
in a few days.
Col Conley, of Chicago, has accepted the
challenge of Mr.. Rose, of Los Angeles, Gala, to
trot his 3-year colt Sweetheart against any colt
| one year older for $4,000 Col. Conley &C.
| by Dictator, and specifies that the race shall
be trotted over the Chicago Driving Park track
| July 9th, he allowing Mr.. Rose 81 900 for ex
penses.
| In the suit of Miss Genevieve Ward against
Lester Wallack and Thco. Moss, of New
| York, for damages for the production of hel
play of "Forget Me Not, the court yesterday
decided to grant defendants an extension o.
twenty-five days, upon presentation of bond
binding themselves to pay Miss Ward 81 ,00(
per night for every night the play is produced
provided Miss Ward establishes her case.
This will give Miss Ward, should she win the
suit, about $4,000. The bond is to be pre-
sented at II o'clock to-day, or the play with
drawn from Wallack's theater, where it is nov
being produced.