Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-08
GLOBELETS.


ID. T. Olin was sentenced at Platts-
| mouth, Neb, last week to be hung in March
for murder.
Lord Selborne, lord high chancellor of
England, has been created earl in honor of
the opening of the new court of justice.
Northern Wisconsin has six inches of
snow, which is a great encouragement to
the loggers, who are driving their work
vigorously.
Rear Admiral Hughes has been or
dered to take command of the Pacific sta
ton, relieving Rear Admiral Beech, who
will go On the retired list in January.
Hon. Nelson Fl. Van Voorhees,, of Ath ems
Ohio, died Dec. 4. He was recently
member of congress and served several
terms in the Ohio Legislature as speaker of
the house Of Representatives.
Joe Howard estimates Vanderbilt's
wealth at S2OOOO0,0OO The late Thurlow
Weed, who wasn't one-fftieth so rich, is
said to have been ten times as liberal in
his gifts to charitable institutions.
Congressman Orth is not so much of a
dying man as was reported. He is able
to sit up most OF the time, and the indica-
lions are rather more favor able than at
any time for two weeks past, although
there is no material change.
Henry Hellman, a farmer near Brooklyn,
Ia, last week, went to his kitchen, stood
on barrel. swung rope over the rafter,
tied it about his neck, sung out good by''
to his wife (who was in bed,) kicked away
the barrel and stran yled. Temporary in
sanity.
The most unfriendly criticism made up
on Winnie Ream's bust of Garfield, exh ibit-
ed at the monument fair in Washington
last week, is that it is too much like a bust
and not enough like Garfield. The eyes
look swollen and the face bloated as if
from recent spree.
A Paris, Tenn. dispatch says: A young
man named Forrest was arrested the other
day for killing his mother and grandfather.
The murder was committed on the night
of Nov. 80. by knocking out the brains of
both parties with an Ak. It is supposed
that the young man had quarrel with his
mother, killed her and then the grand
father, who was cripple, as he was the
only witness to the deed.
Achmet Vefyk Pasha was recently dis
missed in disgrace from the governorship
of Broussa Vilayet. Chester A.. Arthur
was one time dropped out of the collector
ship of the port Of New York with equal
suddenness. The one is now president of
the United States. The other has Just been
appointed grand vizier of Turkey. Decid-
eddy the way to rise is to get kicked out.
The government of Colombia, at the re-
quest of that of Venezuela, has determined
to deliver to the latter republic the men
who were arrested in Colon, accused of
having committed acts of piracy in Vene-
zuelan waters. Under this decree those
now in prison in Colon are to be handed
over, and the steamer Cantabro or Colon.
with all her arms and equipments, is to be
handed over to the Venezuelan authorities
The overseers of Harvard college have
voted to revoke the degree OF any graduate
who participates in any dissolute behavior
in commencement week. Their right to
do SO is questioned, the decisions in some
what similar cases indicating that when
degrees have been once conferred the di-
ploma can not be withheld. Lawyers say
that the courts would compel the college
to desist, if applied to on a writ of quo
Warranto by graduate who had been
punished in this manner.
Mrs. Cora Richmond, spiritualist
trance speaker, gave Chicago audience
an account of the people who lived on the
lost continent, now covered by the south
ern Atlantic. The Atlanteans had clear
faces, rather darker than the typical Anglo
Saxon, with full eyes, varying from dark
blue to extreme light blue, and with forms
whose stature resembled those which, we
are accustomed to suppose, belonged to
the ancient Spartans- of athletic
vigor, muscular strength and nervous en-
ergy, and six feet and half feet in height
on the average. Mrs. Richmond obtained
her information from the spirit of ma
tive.
Mr.. d. Whitcomb, business man of
Cambridge, N. Y. died mysteriously, and
on Thanksgiving day, Nellie Shaw, beau
tlful young lady of seventeen years, and
member of one of the best families of the
county, died with the same symptoms. A
post mortem examination of Miss Shaw's
body revealed the presence of corrosive
mercury in the stomach. Shel had been
associating for some time with Whitcomb,
who was divorced man, and the story was
abroad that Miss Shaw's relations to Whit
comb we're more than intimate, but the
post mortem examination established her
good name. The general belief is that
both took their own lives by agreement
in view of the legal bar to their marriage.
Tha national league of professional base
ball clubs has awarded the championship
of 1882 to Chicago. The appeal from the
action of the Cleveland club, suspendine
Doscher was dismissed. N. E. Young was
reelected secretary. The Worcester and
Troy clubs resigned, and were made homo
rary members. A minute was made of
the death of President Hubert.