Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-07
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The Democrats have organized both houses
of the Tennessee legislature.
Another snow storm, with freezing weather,
occurred at st. Louis Thursday.
Large quantities of buckwheat are being
shipped from London to Ireland.
There is movement in California to have
Garfield appoint Mcdowell secretary of war.
Robt. G.. Robb, captain in the United States
navy and afterwards in Confederate service. is
dead; aged n.
Geo. B. Carpenter, prominent in musical
circles of Chicago, died Thursday morning of
congestion of the brain.
Mrs. Brown was convicted yesterday at
indianapolis of the murder of her husband and
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
Safe burglars stole two checks for 5000, and
800 in silver, Wednesday, from the Portland
packing house, St. Louis. The night before
there was over $4,000 in the safe.
Frank N. Brown was shot and killed yestcr-
day, in New York, by his father, especial Off
Ger. Brown was beating his wife and the son
interfered. The murderer was arrested.
Capitalists interested in the Milwaukee &
Northern railway have decided to make an
effort to push the line of their road from
Green Bay clear through to Lake Superior.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, in his mes
sage urges more thorough enforcement of
the liquor laws, and favors the proposal to
give property holding women the right of
suffrage.
The New York Press club gave dinner last
night, at which Mayor Grace, Gen. Grant,
Gen. Sherman, Henry Ward Beecher, and other
prominent men were present. Gen. Grant
made an amusing speech.
Chas. H. Reed, Chicago, purged himself of
contempt by filing Thursday afternoon in the
probate court report in the case of the Irwin
family, of whose estate he was administra-
tor, and he was discharged from custody.
Dr. E. Wright, Chattanooga, Tenn, died of
pneumonia Thursday morning. He was a
member of the Tennessee State board of health
and inspector of the board of health of 1879
He was the Republican candidate for governor
in 1878.
The supreme court of Tennessee having de-
cided that Stewart, Democrat, was elected to
the legislature from Polk and Bradley coun-
ties, the Republicans give notice that they
will contest his election in the United States
circuit court.
Elisha w. Hydam, police commissioner at
Troy, New York, was badly beaten by Joseph
EgOlf, the mayors private secretary, yester-
day A police officer held Hydam while he
was beaten, and the mayor looked on without
interference.
Pittsburgh yesterday in behalf of a portion of
the stockholders of the Reading road asking
the postponement of the election of directors
fixed for next Monday. The motion to post
pone was denied
The Suncook, New Hampshire, strike con-
tinues and the excitement increases. Hun
dreds paraded the streets Thursday with clubs
and screaming, but the police checked the
demonstration. Nearly all are French Cana
dians. 1t is thought the mills will be closed
in few days.
A boiler explosion, Thursday night, in the
big pudding mill, at Allentown, Pa, killed
one man, fatally injured five, and badly injured
five others. The boiler, which was forty feet
long and three feet in diameter, was rent in the
middle and the two pieces thrown in opposite
directions, distance of 200 feet.
At Coolvale, near Fort Scott, Kansas, Miss
Davis was passing an open fire, when her
dress caught fire. Her mother tried to help
her, and both were quickly enveloped in
flames. When Mr.. Davis came home he
found the daughter dead, without a shred of
clothes upon her blackened corpse, aud his
wife diving in terrible agony.