Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-16
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Smallpox is on the increase in Chicago.
The blockade IN the straits of Mackinaw has
been cleared.
John E. McDonough, the actor, died at
Philadelphia yesterday morning.
Joseph Peters and John q. Jamison escaped
from Jail at Lebanon, Pa, Tuesday night.
Bishop William May Wlghtman, of the
Methodist Episcopal church South, is dead.
The levee at o. K. landing, about fifteen
miles above Helena, Ark, broke Tuesday even
ing.
James Burns, brakeman In the Piqua, O.,
yards, was run over and killed yesterday, while
coupling cars.
The National Glucose and Grape Sugar as
ISOLATION is In session at Chicago for the pur-
pose of perfecting an organization.
Chas. STAFFORD has been nominated by the
Republicans to fill the vacancy caused by the
The body of the late Kokun Hua, professor
of Chinese at Harvard University, has been
closed in leaden casket and sent to China.
The body of young man, a Bohemian, I'M
known, was fonnd by haysta:k in Omaha,
yesterday. He had slot himself through the
heart.
A special from Erie, Pa. reports the arrest
of Leroy Hills, on the charge of a heinous
crime committed on l3-year-old girl he had
adopted.
Max Tamm & Co.'S glue and curled hair
factory, in the st. Louis suburb Rock Springs,
burned Tuesday night. Loss $4,000; insur
ance $1,000.
It Is stated among railroad men In Ottawa,
Ont, that Mcintyre, of the Pacific railway
syndicate, has sold his interest In the company
to W. H. Vanderbilt.
The difficulty which some thought would
lead to hostile meeting between Senator's
Smith and Riddleberger, of Virginia, has been
arranged satisfactorily.
man named Terry McNally fell through
hatchway from the fourth to the second floor
of Fletcher & Sharp's block, at Indianapolis,
yesterday, and was killed.
A special from Akron, Ohio, reports a col
llsion on the Valley railway between switch
engine with fat car and a locomotive with a
pay car, resulting in killing brakeman.
The revenue cutter Richard Russ returned to
San Francisco yesterday. She cruised In the
vicinity of West Point and twenty miles be-
yond, but found no indications of the reported
wreck.
At Jefferson, Wis, Mrs. J. j. w. Meyer,
wife of the proprietor of the Meyer house,
committed suicide by drowning In the Rock
river. The cause is attributed to domestic
grievances.
- lively WdI IL uSiuk NaScu de 2tCHiusOu,
Kas, between the Atkinson & Santa Fe and
Missouri Pacific Railroad companies, for
grounds In the heart of the city adjoining
their tracks.
Ward McConkey, one of the Dead Mems
Hollow outlaws, in Pennsylvania, who muir.
dered George A. Mcclure, near McKeesport
last August, has been convicted of murder In
the first degree.
At meeting In Philadelphia yesterday,
called by the mayor, TO make provision for
Jewish refugees from Russia, the sum Of
| S. 900 was subscribed, and another public
| meeting will soon be held.
1t is reported that the town of Columbia,
Brazos county, Tex, is inundated by water
from the 9razos river. Many inhabitants have
fed. Others have taken refuge In a church,
and are supplied with food by boats.
The ship Glenniorag, arrived yesterday at
New York. reports having fell in with boat
containing eleven Of the crew and two of the
passengers of the steamer Bahama, and
brought them to port. 1t is believed the rest
of the crew were lost.
Sir Henry Parkes addressed special meet
| ing of the New York chamber Of commerce
yesterday, on The commercial relations exist
| Ing between this country and Australia. He
gave the geographical situation of the six
different colonies, and predicted in a few years
tbs group would become vast empire and
great power.