Daily globe., 1881-12-11
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The second Monday in January has been
assigned for the hearing of the Sprague di-
vOrce case.
The 2-year old child of Wm. Roberts, of
Mary City, Iowa, ate bread sailed with rat
poison, proving fatal.
Snow commenced falling at Burlington, Ia,
last night, and was showing hard, with pros
pect of fall of several inches.
The Wabash railroad officials state that the
loss to the company by the falling of the st.
Charles bridge will be about Sl30,000.
Mike O'Neil, of Chicago, was arrested at
Yankton yesterday charged with being acces-
sorry to the murder of David Ranck, at Pierre.
R. d. Rice. contractor for street improve
ments at Fort Smith, Ark, received 5000 from
the city Friday, and left for parts unknown
without paying his teamsters.
The stables of the Atlanta, Ca, street rail-
way, together with several small buildings
adjacent, were destroyed by fire last night,
and a number of mules burned to death.
The Wabash railroad officials have requested
the state railroad commissioners to make
thorough examination of the broken st.
Charles bridge before the debris is cleared
away.
Jos. Budd was arrested at Yankton Friday
night for the murder of C. @. Borst, near
Pierre, in 1877. He will be sent to Deadwood
for trial.
The dead body of George Wapp, a we'll
kaown citizen of Memphis, was found in an
old unoccupied building in that city, yester-
day. He had been missing from his home for
six weeks.
The well known stallion Kentucky Wilkes,
bought by its present owner a year ago for
$4,000, received injuries while running away
Friday, at Boston, which it is feared Will
render him useless.
Nothing new was developed in the Molly
Mcguire triaal, yesterday, except the efforts
of the defense to prove an alibi. The web of
circumstantial evidence built up by the pros
ecution has not been seriously attacked.
The north botnd passenger train, on the
G. 6 A. road, near Bloomington, H., struck
broken rail yesterday. and sleepers, jumping
the track, fell on their side, and were dragged
several feet, but without damage to any pas
sengers.
A shooting affray occurred on the street in
BeltOn, Texas, yesterday, between City Mar
shal Holbert and Deputy Marshal SWEET, on
one side, and Ellis Chalk and E. Methem on
the other. SWEET was killed and Holbert
wounded.
The striking coal miners of Bellevllle, H.,
have asked that committee of business men
of BelIeville, not concerned in the coal trade,
be appointed to settle the differences now ex-
isting between the miners and operators by
arbitration.
In the divorce court at London, yesterday,
decree of nisi was pronounced in the suit
brought by Alfred Mundy, of Chipley hall,
Derbyshire, against his wife and the Earl of
Shrewsbury as correspondent. The suit was
not opposed.
After long and bitter contest ovor the will
of Edwin P. Christie, founder of negro min
strelsy in 1862, and the will of his son, E. B.
Christie, a decision has finally been rendered
by which the heirs of the widow of the former
are entitled to some $500,
At Paola, Kansas, few days ago, C. G.
Armstrong, young man recently from Gin
cinnati, while out hunting shot himself
through the head, evidently with suicidal in
tent. As he was in prosperous circumstances,
no cause can be assigned for the act.
to by Frank J. Bowman, attorney, against
Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the Post Dispatch,
st. Louis, were thrown out of court yesterday
on motion to quash. The judge ruled there
was not sufficient cause of action stated.
Gertrude DYker, aged 20, was waylaid by
Ellsworth GREETING, at Willbourn, n. Y,
yesterday afternoon, and ravished. Soon af-
ter her brother met Cretting and killed him
with shot gun. Young Dyker then escaped,
but the desire to capture him is not great.
The trouble between the Granite Manufac-
turers' association CT Boston and members of
the Workmen's union, caused by repeated in
reference with the business of the manufac-
turers by the Workmen's union, eliminated
Yesterday in a general lockout of the union
men.
The supreme court of Missouri yesterday
affirmed the sentence of the trial court in the
cases of Michael j. Kotovosky, convicted of
the murder of his sweetheart, and Chas. Ellis,
(colored), for the murder of Mack Sander, and
granted stay of execution until January,
when both Will be hanged.
In Chicago yesterday, Jno. Stanners, for the
murder of Lizzie Cleveland, got 20 years in
the penitentiary. This makes eleven convic-
tions of murder in the criminal court in that
city since September. Three were sent up for
life, one was sentenced to death, and the rest
for various terms in the penitentiary.
Aspecial from Brownsville, Tex, says that
Isabel A. Almes, noted political magnate at
Chamamoco, Mexico, has just committed
wholesale butchery- Going to a rancho he
commenced to beat woman there savagely,
and one who interfered was killed by the
desperado. At the rancbe he visited Almes
shot and wounded no less than seventeen pco-
pie before his murderous career was checked.