Daily globe., 1881-01-18
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE,

Floods are reported as doing great damage
in the Spanish provinces.
The river at Wheeling, w. Va. closed yester-
day. Weather cloudy and cold
About thousand piano and furniture makers
of New York city are on q strike.
The steamship LCity of Richmond, at New
York yesterday from Europe, brought 9100,.
900 in gold.
A bill has been introduced in the Arkansas
legislature imposing a tax of $500 on com
| mercial travellers.
The Democrats of the New York Legislature
have decided to support Francis Herman fol
United States Senator.
Gen. Grant was the recipient of a serenadt
and reception at the executive mansion, AL
bany, n. Y, last evening.
The Democrats of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture in caucus yesterday nominated W. A. Wal
lace for United States Senator.
Alfred Selwyn, son of the well known Bos
ton manager, died of pneumonia at the Sher.
man house, Chicago, last night.
railway accident is reported at Wakefield,
England, in which seven persones were killed
and from thirty to forty wounded.
Gov. Alvin Hawkins of Tennessee was in.
augUrated at noon yesterday. He is the first
Republican governor in Tennessee for ten
years.
Jacob Huntzinger, president of the Miners
Trust bank, of Pottsyille, Pa, has been order
ed by the court into the custody of the sheriff
for trial.
Cree Indian arrived at Winnipeg from
Cypress Hill, reports two weeks ago six hall
breeds and thirty Crees were killed in an en-.
counter with the Sioux.
The boiler in ]. F. Balls brick works, New
Cumberland, W. Va, exploded yesterday, seri
ously injuring c.. Stillwell, engineer, Willis
Pagan and ". c. Dunbeary. Property dam
| aged S25,000.
| Samuel Smart, of Columbus. O., young
| man of good family, who inherited a modest
| fortune which he speedily dissipated by drink.
| ing and gambling, suicided by shooting him
| self through the head Sunday night.
By an explosion of naptha in the Wheeler &
| Wilson manufacturing works at Bridgeport
| Conn.,, Samuel Nayle, engineer, was probably
| fatally burned, and II. F. Fowler, John Devo-
| ney and Patrick Dovlan were badly burned
| The Vickou girl, the only survivor of the
| Oshkosh tragedy, has so far recovered as to bt
able to make statement. She says her father
| killed her mother with club, supposed he had
| killed her, and then fired the house and barn
in which he perished
Advices from Madison, Wis, of the Sena
! torial contest, claim that Sawyer's friends will
| go into the caucus with sixty votes, insurine
his nomination on the first ballot. Keyes,
| however, claims to hold his own, but the
chances appear decidedly in Sawyer's favor
| Judge Chambers G. Patterson died at Terre
Haute, Ind. yesterday, after several weeks, ill.
ness. He was judge of the circuit composed
| of Figo and Sullivan counties and was a pro.
| found iurist and highly respected citizen He
leaves widow, two sons and a daughter.
George Hines, aged 80, of Grayson, Stains
lauS county, CAL, being rejected for second
| time by q girl named Lizzie >Keene, aged 1S
| drew pistol with q threat of killing her,
/ when the girl seized shot gun conveniently
| near and shot Hines through the heart, killing
! him.
| The Democrats of the Massachusetts legis-
| lature have unanimously voted to make B. F.
| Butler their candidate for United States Sena-
| tor against Davis, the Republican candidate
Should no election be had on the first ballot
| it is understood the Democrats will be ready to
combine with any anti-Davis Republican, OF
any man who may be proposed.
T.. s. Senator David III. Armstrong, of Mis-.
| souri,, while sitting in the reception room OF
the Planters Hotel, st. Louis, last night, he
was assaulted and knocked down by Major
Boland, recently appointed, but not confirmed
member of the police board of that city. The
affair grew out of alleged reports derogatory
to Boland by Mr.. Armstrong.
The Democratic caucus of the West Virginia
| legislature took one ballot for candidate for
| United States Senator last evening with the
| following result: Mathews 8, Brennan Z.
Hereford, present incumbent, IA; Camden 80.
W. R. Pendleton 2. The session was stormy.
1t requires SO votes to nominate