Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-24
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius has assumed
| large proportions.
Christopher Becdedorf was killed by cars at
Milwaukee yesterday.
Hanlan's representative has signed articles
for a match with Boyd for $500 a side.
Granville Murry, journalist, and author of
'The Member For Parls," died in Paris.
At Albany, n. Y, yesterday, sleet storm
broke down telephone and electric light wires.
Stringent rules for greater security in thea
tres against fire, to take immediate effect, have
been adopted in Berlin.
| Levi Bishop, prominent lawyer and citizen
of Detroie for the past thirty years, died yes
terday morning after lingering illness.
| The Monroe county, N. Y, Land League
contributes 81 900 to the special fund promised
| by the recent Chicago Irish convention.
| William 81. Howard, assistant treasury
clerk, in the post Office, at Atlanta, Ga, has
| been arrested on the charge of robbing the
mails.
| In Birmingham, Ala., Thursday night,
| Check Clerk Plosser, in the Office of the Ala
| bama Great SoNthern railway, was killed by a
man named Neal.
A messenger lost in Wall street yesterday
afternoon loan envelope from the Bank Of
Commerce, New York, containing 1000 stock
certificates which are negotiable.
A Pullman car conductor was caught by
customs officers at Montreal, yesterday, tax
ing tickets into the city without entering them
for duty. The tickets were confiscated.
The aggregate of large subscriptions by the
citizens of Cleveland for the Garfield monu-
ment fund amounts to $54 200, and the small
contributions to $4,000. Total, $s1 200.
of hac
cred against Auditor Palmer, of Newark, N
j. Palmer says that Frank B. Allen, the law
yer, had no connection with the forgeIies.
The members of the Ohio State Board of
Public Works, investigating the accounts of
Assistant Secretary Fred w. Newburgh, have
discovered additional fOrgeries in the treasury
for $500
Isdore Herman, in the worsted goods busi-
ness at New York, owes $4,000, and gives
preferences for S63, 900. His failure is due to
speculative operations outside of his legiti-
mate business.
All the prisoners confined at Hermando.
Miss, escaped Thursday night. Among the
number was Ed. Nellus, coIored, under ssn-
tence of death for the assination Of Rufus Ar
mistead in July, 1880.
Tha annual report of the Lake Shore Rail-
road shows gross earning of $l7,97O,-
600; net earnings, $6,65i,000 surplus after
paying dividend, interest, ETC., only $16,6SO,
against 81, 1928 1862 in 1880.
Ike Central Pacific railway of Wyoming
has fl led papers of organization at Cheyenne,
with capital stock of SIS, 800, 600, in 1876 900
shares, which represents the contemplated
cost OF construction and right of way.
The Industrial iron works, owned by T. L.
Rick, at Memphis, Tenn, burned early yes
terday morning. The fire originated In the
rhnr bo -, br,;
and foundry. Loss, $1,000. Fully insured.
The United States circuit court has issued
an order restraining the Iron Mountain Rail-
| road company from substituting the Wagner
sleeping cars in place of the Pullman cars,
until the matter has been settled by the court.
In the Mollie Mcguire trial at Uniontown,
Pa, yesterday, the defense closed their testi-
moDy at II o'clock, after which the prosecu-
ton introduced some testimony in rebuttal.
The arguments were commenced in the after
noon.
Among the callers at New York yesterday
upon President Arthur were Generals Grant
| and Hancock, Ex Senator Conkling, Postmas-
| ter General James and Hamilton Fish, Jr.
| The president was at home in the afternoon
and evening.
Jas. W. Miller, the prisoner who escaped
| from the penitentiary at Pittsburg, Pa, on
Thursday, by secretlng himself in shoe box,
| is still at liberty. Two eX-convcts have
been arrested for aiding and enabling him
| in his escape.
| The address of the Philadelphia Independent
| Republicans has been completed Its main
recommendation is to send good men to the
State convention soon to be called, SO that
proper nominees shall be placed before the
public for their suftrages.
| The Iowa State Free Trade League met at
| Des Moines yesterday, and adopted an address
| to the people of the state. The platform de.
mands Immediate and gradual reduction of
import duties, steadily continued, until every
protective feature is eliminated.
The steamer Granger and cargo burned yes
terday, of Charleston, s, c., just after enter.
ing the harbor. By running the steamer along
SIDE OF ship at anchor the passengers and
crew were saved. Loss on cargo, $40, 900; no
insurance. The vessel was insured for $l5,.
600.
| Articles of incorporation of the Oceanic
Steamship company We're filed in San Fran
cisco yesterday, with a capital stock of
$3.50 900, for general freight and passenger
business between San Francisco and the
Hawaiian islands and other parts of the Pacific
Ocean.
Stewart, the notorious train robber, incen-
diary and bank robber, has been arrested at
| Houston, lex. IL Is said he robbed the Chi.
cago q Alton train of $4,000. The detectives
haye been looking for Stewart for seven years.
He will be taken to Kansas City where ten in.
dlctments against him.
John F. Simpson, on trial in Detroit the
past two weeks for the murder of his wife,
was found guilty. The couple had previously
had difficulty and separated. and Simpson
had threatened to kill her. Neither had borne
| a very good character. She charged him with
the offense in her dying moments, alleging
that he laid IN wait for and shot her.
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