Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-18
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Lewis H. Morgan, the historian, is dead.
Ex-Judge Henry E. Davies died in New York
! last evening.
The Michigan relief fund in New York now
amounts to s14S,477.
Ten thousand pounds in gold were with
drawn from the bank yesterday for Amer
lea.
The dams on the Oran railway, near Aigiers,
Africa, have broken, and many lives were
lost.
DR.. Isaac T. Hoges, well-known in connec-
ton with arctic explorations. died in New
York, yesterday.
fire in B. Roths kid glove store, in Cincin-
natl yesterday, caused damage of $4,000,
mostly in stock.
The fund promoted by the lord mayor of
London, for the relief of distressed Irish ladies
row amounts to $1,000.
A cablegram announces the loss Of the
schooner Royal Blue Jacket. The captain and
four of the crew were drowned.
Fowler's plow works, at Leeds, Eng.
burned yesterday. Loss 100000. Three hum
dred persons out of employment.
1t has been ascertained that fifty-four per-
sons were drowned by the bursting of the
dams on the Oran railway in Algiers.
The authorities in Paris will not allow the
ly reconstructed, as it is a wooden building.
Daniel Kelly, near Tecumseh, Mich, at
tempted to cut his throat yesterday, and failing
in this he hung himself. No cause assigned.
The German reichstag yesterday refused to
vote sum for the establishment of training
institute for non-commissioned officers in
Alsace.
The Chinese counsel at Havana sailed for
New York yesterday, for the purpose of assist
ing in The preparations for the departure of
the Chinese envoy at Washington.
A Berlin correspondent says the proposed
visit of the king of Italy to Berlin would ap-
parently be unwelcome during negotiations
between Germany and the Vatican.
The tow boat Robin Hood, owned by Peter
Conrad, of st. Louis, was burned and sunk at
8 O'Clock yesterday morning, at Greenleaf's
Bend, fifteen miles above Cairo. No lives lost.
Dallas, Tex, special: R. A. Chambers,
merchant tailor, was shot and killed by Alfred
Freeman, photographer. The cause of the
homicide was intimacy between Chambers and
Mrs. Freeman.
s. NJ. FELTON,, Jr., general superintendent of
the Hannibal & Little Miami road, has re-
signed TO accept position as general manager
of the New York & New England, beginning
January first.
In Chicago last night Alice Beadohy, color
ed, wife of one Miffert, white, shot him
through the brain, icausing instant death.
Both were of unsavory repute, and had lived
unhappily for some time.
A fire in New York last night caused loss
of $3.50, 900 to A. & E. Wallache, fancy goods,
and $4,000 to Dresser Bros. & Co., clothiers,
The building was damaged $4,000. All the
losses were covered by insurance.
Holloway, the defaulting paying teller of
41,n D. 10 hoo hos al- f1a
state insane hospital, and will be brought up
for examination as soon as the hospital au-
thorities say he is in proper condition.
Dr.,Farrington, of the United States pleuro-
pnuemonia commission, after inspecting the
cattle at ali the dairies and distilleries in and
around Cincinnati during the last ten days,
finds no trace of pleuro-pneumonia among
them.
A reward of 5el 200 Is offered for the con-
victiOn of the thieves who stole the registered
letters containing diamonds from Hatton Bar
den postoffice, and free pardon to any one of
them giving information against his accom-
plices.
The cotton, stock and produce exchanges in
New Orleans have appointed committees to
wait on the governor and senate and protest
against the abortion of a bill passed by the
house whicI SViss license tax on dealers in
futures.
A bill wa in the federal court in Chi
cago, yeste 'lav .ftacking the title of the
Indiana, Hin. & Iowa railroad company,
formerly the Pl, mouth, Kankakee s. Pacific,
on the ground of fraud in its sale to the pres
ent owners.
The Chicago Driving Park have decided to
offer stakes and purses for the summer meet
ing aggregating S15,550. The races will last
from the oath of June to July 4. There are
2S events, of which II are stakes, the entries
closing January Is.
The Unitarian church of the Messiah, st.
Louis, which was erected at cost of $4,000,
all of which has been paid, was dedicated
Friday evening. Rev. ]. L, Jones, of Chicago,
and Rev. DR.. H. W. Bellows, of New York,
participated IN the dedication.
A formal denial is given to the report that
the bishops who went to Rome to attend the
recent canonization ceremony were questioned
by the pope upon the adeisabilty of his leav-
ing Rome. On the contrary, the bishops were
much struck at the pope's reticence in this
matter.
The Dutch government will send the steamer
Atgp on cruise to every spot and island
where it is possible the missing members of
the crew of the Dutch steamer Koenig Der
Netherlands, which foundered while on a voy-
age from Batavia for Amsterdam, may have
taken refuge.