Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-08
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The governor of Louisiana has convened
the general assembly in extraordinary session
December 5.
A statue of Lord Byron has been unveiled at
MissOlonghi, where he died. The ceremony
was attended with great enthusiasm.
The fourth annual meeting of the Illinois
fat stock show opened at the exposition build
ing, Chicago, at 10 o'clock yesterday.
Three of the largest vessels in the grain
trade were laid up yesterday at Chicago, it be-
ing improbable to run them at present rates.
VIM. Tracy fatally shot Charles P. Miter, of
quarrel in a saloon, No. 1928 Broadway, last
night.
The cotton factory of the Hulnersville, Pa,
manufacturing company, operated by Arm
strong q Hawke, burned. Loss $25, 1000; in
surance, $4,000.
The opera house at Joplin, Missouri, burned
Sunday night. The building is an entire loss.
Several merchants occupying the ground
floors are heavy losers.
Daniel A. Cameron, while in a row with Ike
and Richard Hill at a colored church festival at
Oakland, Miss, Saturday night, was fatally
shot. The Hills were arrested.
Mr.. Herdic, proprietor and inventor of the
carrying vehicles of that name, was in Chi
cagO yesterday, and will introduce his car
riages into universal use in that city.
William Kuhl, who was in custody on
charge of being the desperate Lon Williams,
was released at Menomolie, Wis, yesterday.
The effort TO prove him to be Williams utterly
failed.
British board of trade returns for October
show an increase of exports of 2,539, ,021
pounds; and an increase of imports of 3,S71,-
cES mounds nnmnarpd with tho month
last year.
At Hammonton, n Y, the Hammonton
house burned yesterday. A guest from Newark
is missing. Others barely escaped with their
lives. Women and children were lowered from
windows by ropes. Loss, $35, 600.
A Pine Bluff, Ark, special says: W. F.
Bryan shot and killed desperate negro near
Garretson Landing, yesterday, named Alfred
Nicholson. The killing was in self-defense.
Nicholson was terror to the neighborhood.
On Friday night two men near Barlow City,
KY, named Carroll and Susbert, renewed an
old difficulty, when Carroll struck Susbert on
the head with club, fractur:ng his skull and
killing him almost instantly. Carroll is in
jail.
John Axtell, son of the superintendent of
the Lewistown, Ohio, reservoir, was fatally
stabbed Saturday night by an old hunter,
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saloon and was provoked by repeated insults
by Axtell.
The managers of the Press, at Philadelphia,
dismissed their corps of compositors yester-
day and put on new set, learning that the
former intended to strike Tuesday night if the
managers did not sign contract for year
with the present force.
Gov. Smith, of Wisconsin, by proclamation
announces Thursday, the oath inst, as
Thanksgiving Day. He also offers reward
of 5000 for the apprehension of the unkno wn
assassin of Samuel Kenyon, shot at his home
at Albian, on the Both of October.
Cashier Baldwin's examination has been,
postponed till Monday next and his bail in
creased to 100000. His friends are now trying
to find bondsmen. The defaulting clerk, March
bank s bail has also been increased to S10,00O.
Not finding 1t he remins in custody.
The schooner Della Haskin capsized in
squall off Nantucket, and the crew took to the
boats and pulled all right without making
any progress. After beiug in the boat twenty
four hours without food and proper clothing,
the mate and four men died from exhaustion
and fright and were thrown overheard.
Joseph N. Dubois, hide and wool dealer,
left Kansas City week since, and his where
abouts is unknown. He is alleged to be O
defaulter for about $75, 600. His method of
operation was to nd'drafts to houses in the
East, to which would be attached forged bills
of lading, and to underweigh and wet wool.
On Sunday evening, on the farm of Mr..
Perdac, four miles from Paduca, KY, 6-year
old son of the widow Edwards, was playing
near mule that was hitched in the yard,
when the mule turned and kicked the little fel-
low in the forehead, splitting open his skull
and scattering his brains in every direction.
He died instantly.
Rev. Geo. Granville Bradley, the new dean,
in his inaugural sermon at Westminster Abb
bey on Sunday, laid great stress on the COM
mon Inheritance in the Abbey which citizens
of the great republic beyond the seas might
claim, could they forget divided counsels and
unhappy memories. America had a trial this
year, he said, and had been drawn to the moth
er country by common griefs.
The training stable of Warren A. Russell,
at Danville, KY, was destroyed by fire, and a
number of valuable horses burned, among
them L. B. Fields fine stallion Austrol, by
imported Australia, dam Cora by Vendala; u
fine mare belonging to D. & ]. H. Warren;
a good buggy animal owned byJ. w. Wallace;
another owned by Wilson Dunn, OF Girard
county.
The annual meeting Of stockholders of the
held at Hannibal yesterday. Ninety-f1ve
thousand six hundred shares of stock were
voted. Directors elected are VIM. Dowd. II.
II. Cook, Myron Fl. Bush, Elihu Root, VIM.
j. Hutchinson, Horace Porter, John Blood
good, 8. G. Gorham and Jno. K. Duff. Jay
Gould, Russell Sage, Enoch Pratt, and julius
Halgarten, are the retiring directors, and they
retire by their own request. There was no
contest whatever.