Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-04
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Gen. Merritt sailed for Liverpool Saturday
The Greeks have occupied Karditza and
Phanaria,
Lorenzo Delmonico died at Sharon Springs,
Friday, aged 6S.
1t issrumored that the King of Wurtemburg
has been converted to Catholicism.
The millers of Des Moines. Ia. have become
excited and are paying S1.25 for No. wheat.
| The Thi I'd National bank of Chattanooga,
| Tenn, began business Saturday with capital
of S125, 900.
Guiteau was hanged IN efigy Saturday
night in Niagara square, Buffalo, in presence
of 5000 people.
n The corvette Dido, which went in search of
survivors from the wrecked steamer Teuton,
has returned to Cape Town, having found
nothing
At tine London wool sales Saturday e,100
bales of Port Phillip and Sydney woods were
sold. There was a fair spirit at the sale and
prices were firm.
The postmaster general of Canada has mott
fed Postmaster General James that additional
measures have been taken for return of the
American mail bags in use in Canada.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says it is rumor-
ed Count Iguatieff is to be created vice chan
cellor of the empire, Count Ihonvaloff sue
ceeding him as minis ter of the interior.
At Philadelphia VIM. R. Dickerson and
Zach Muanarsdalen, convicted of being con-
cerned in the Whitaker will forgery, have
been sentenced each to a fine Of 81 600 and i'm.
prisonment for ten years.
Up to the close of business Saturday there
had been $5,649, 900 in coupon five per cents
under the 103d call and $12 ,222, $50 in regis
tered five per cents. under the 1O4th call
received at the national treasury for redemp-
ton.
The loss by Friday nights fire at Chicago
is not yet definitely ascertained, the losers
| being unable to state exactly the damage to
their goods 1t is believed, however, to bt
smaller than first reported-probably about
$4,000.
Paris letters to London papers say that large
preparations are being made for sending rein
forcements to the French troops in Africa
They also say the regiments now in Tunis are
being decimated by typhoid fever, and that thu
French author ity in Aigiers is at low point
The trustees of the Cincinnati Southern
railroad have decided that the bid for lease o.
that road made by Fred. Wolff of New York
Representative of the changers, was the bes
and highest. Their action has to be con
firmed by the board of sinking fund commits
| sioners. .--.,---.---.---.
At the Lenawee county mich. soldiers re
union, held Wednesday, Col. Amos Soper, O
Clayton, aged 81, was introduced to the au
dience as the only Lenawee county survivor OF
the war of 1912. He went home the next da,
sick, grew rapidly worse and died in twenty
four hours.
English correspondents at Tunis say Gen
Corread was compelled to retreat because h.
was in danger of being cut of, ard that dur
ing the retreat his column was continual,
harrassed by swarms of Arabs. They alst
| renresent the other French column as in s
critical position near Zaghourn.
Conrad Franble's house at Baldwin, Wis.
| was destroyed by fire Saturday morning. Tn
fire first broke out at midnight and wa
thought to be extinguished, but again brok
out few hours after. The furniture ant
J household goods were saved. Loss $1,000
insured for 5000 in the Continental.