Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-09
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

| According to advices from Bonny, Western
| Africa, yellow fever caused terrible havoc II
| senegal
| Fire in the round honse of the s., c. L.
railroad, in Covington, KY, yesterday, inflicted
| probably $4,000 damage.
| At an influential meeting of the Contra
| Chamber of Agricut ure, Lon1on, yesterday
| I motion in favor of fair trade was rejected.
| Col. ]. R. Powell, of Silver City, Miss
| killed james Robinson, his manager. Cause, a
| dispute over the settlement of the years bust
| esS.
Henry B. Stone has been appointed general
| .uneiirtendent OF all roads operated by the
| 'hictgn. Burlirg'on & Quincy Railroad com.
| oany east of the Missouri river.
| The Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio
roads did not follow the advance on frelghts
| made by the Vanderbilt roads, but decided
that it would not be expedient at present.
In the Christiancy divorce case yesterday
| Christiancy, of Leavenworth, testified that the
letters submitted by Giro,as received from Mrs
Chrstiancy, were in the hand writing of Mrs
Chrstiancy.
A. W. Pennington, member of the Govern
| ment Cattle commission, arrived at st. Louis
to-day on tour of ms pectlon, to ascertain if
pleuro pneumonia exists among cattle to any
great extent.
Chas. Miller shot on Monday by VIM Tracy,
| saloon keeper of New York, died yesterday.
| Both sporting men. Jas. Germly. who hand
ed Tracy the pistol, was arrested. Tracy has
surrendered to the police.
The city council of Des Moines, Iowa, has
granted the petition of the Des Moines board
| of trade, asking that Shenerman Bros, who
IRE to open their wooden mills there, be ex-
| empted from taxes for five years.
At Milwaukee, yesterday afternoon; G.. s.
Rhodes, s. g. Meat and s. G. Weller, con
uctors on the Wisconsin Central railroad
and all experienced men, were arrested tor al
| legged fraud upon the company.
A Berlin dispatch says, in the second ballot
| for members Of the reichstag, Dr. Falk was
victorious at WORMS by a sweeping majority.
Most of the second elections up to the present
time, have resulted in favor of the Liberals.
DR.. G.. Barnum, an old and prominent ply
stefan at SchOnlcraft, Mich, laid himself on a
iissecting table on Sunday and shot himse'f
through the heart. He had suffered long
time from nervousness and diseases of pain
full nature.
Parker Civilson, state inspector of mines,
gives the following as approximately correct
figures of Iowa's coal industry for 1881: Mines
IN operation, 457; men, 6,176; number of tons
# coal raised, 1000; value per ton on
dump, 50.
Charles Nader, who murdered Phoebe
Bernard, at Tffin, o on Thursday last, was
t'ken to Toledo, yesterday, and lodged in the
county Jail for safe keeping, an attempt at
lynching having been made at Tlffin, while the
prisoner was confined in Jail at that place.
At Marietta, O., VIM Newkim, known as
All Kim, Chinese missionary student, in the
second year of the preparatory department of
Marietta college, committed suicide by ch oral
'r chloroform, Monday night, and was found
lead in his bed. His trouble was disappoint-
ment in love affair with servant girl.
Edward A. Wolcott, young man of Owen
port, was the subject of surgical operation
yesterday. It was deemed necessary to save
his life, as Wolcott has been in a coma'ose
tate since Friday night, when he was struck
With the cover of an ordinary cracker box by
J. j. Lauer Lauer was arrested to await
changes in Wolcot's condition.
Reports from New C-labar, Africa, indicate
that another war is imminent there between
King Ashantee and Wellbraid. Several san
culinary contests have already occurred be-
tween followers of both parties. The power
full chiefs, Okojuribo and Jaga, intend to join
n the hostillties, the former siding with
Wellbraid and the latter with King Ashantee
E. L. Burnham has offered the city of Drs
MONIES ninety acres of land adjacent to Col
'OSC ulONC iOi PuOAtS pai ~, t'o'iOSU INC Stfy
viii give him an annuity of 1000, and on the
death of himself, the amount to be reduced to
Sl.500, terminable on the death of the sur
vivor; five acres IN addition to 60 to the city
on the de ,th of both, when the land becomes
the property of the city.
A man giving the name of Samuel Solomon,
but who says he has Travelled under the name
of John Godfrey, was arrested at Cincinnati
yesterday on {. warrant sworn out by VIM.
Carter, of Torout ), Canada, who claims that
the prisoner is L. Friendleigh, wanted in Chi
cago on charge of having concealed $4,000
worth of goods from his creditors when tax
ing the benefit of the bankrupt law several
years ago III that city.
The trial of LEROY, at Maidstone, England,
for the murder Of Gold, came to close yes
terday. The conrt room was deDsely crowded.
A remarkable number of women were pres
ent. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge's summing
up for the prosecution was strongly against
The prisoner, and tended to show discredit on
the point on which the defense relied that Le-
troy had not pawned the pistol, and showed
entire disbelief in the prisoners assertion that
n third person was present in the car at the
time of the murder. The accused was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged. LEROY
protested innosense.