Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-04
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE,


VIM. H. Ainsworth, the English author, is
dead. Age ".
The old Vanderbilt homestead on Staten
Island burned yesterday morning.
Cornelius Sweitzer, of Biddeford, Me-, left
an estate of $25O,OOO for public purposes.
The car has subscribed 100000 roubles for
the relief of the victims of the Warsaw riot.
1t is stated that Sarah Bernhard receives
100000 for her engagement in st. Peters
burg.
fire department since 1874, died yesterday of
pneumonia.
A Cape Town dispatch states that T. a.
Burger, ex-president of the old Transvaal
republic. is dead.
The funeral of Col. Henry McComb took
place this afternoon, and was largely attended.
Senator Bayard was present.
louisville, Ark, had a destructive fire yes
terday. Fourteen houses were burned. Loss
1000 and insurance Sc, 500.
Another ten per cent. dividend is to be paid
depositors of the defunct savings bank of Chi
cago, making 40 per cent. in all.
A freight engine on the Savannah, Florida
& Western railroad blew up yesterday, killing
the engineer and scalding the fireman.
G.. w. Shoemaker, ex-chief police of Terre
Haute, committed suicide at the Spencer
house yesterday, by taking morphine.
The report that President Roberts contem-
plates retiring from the management of the
Panama Railroad company is officially denied.
Five prisoners escaped from the city Jail at
Cairo, ILL.,, Monday night by knocking down
and stunning Jailer Martin. They are still at
large.
Issac Patterson, an old resident of Indian
apolis, and founder of the Patterson Metho-
dist church, was found dead in an outbuilding
near his residence this morning.
Years ago Brigham Young built fine large
lodging house in Salt Lake City. Recently it
has been richly furnished. He and the twelve
apostles received in it New Years day.
John R. Grant, wealthy citizen and proini-
nent business man of Detroit, for many years
principal owner of the Detroit copper smelt-
ing works, died Monday night, aged Is.
The st. Adams, VT, hotels all closed, owing
ance people are petitioning them to reopen,
as the closing is destroying the business OF
the town.
A young woman, supposed to be named
Brady, died yesterday in New York pho
tographer's gallery. The photographers wife,
Helena Muller, is arrested on suspicion of
malpractice.
The barbed wire case of Washburne & Moen
VS.. Coon ct al, were compromised at Keokuk
yesterday, and decree was entered for plain
tifIs. The farmers association will continue
the legal fight.
A member of the Brooklyn, N. Y, board Of
aldermen, who voted away streets to the ele-
waited railroad company, over the mayors
veto, and in disregard Of an injunction, has
been arrested for contempt of court.
The Massachusetts legislature convenes to-
day. No organization caucuses were held
last night and President R. Bishop of the SEN
ate and Speaker e. J. Nosls of the house, will
be reelected without opposition.
The contestants in the late pedestrian con-
test in New York, were partially paid to-day
by John Ennis. Fitzgerald received $500,
Noremac $500, and Hertie $500. He promises
the remainder to-day. He says he lost 81, 600
by the affair.
At Fredericktown, ILL.,. Sunday afternoon,
Thos Miller, white, shot negro girl named
Annie Robinson, inficting a fatal wound.
The girl was crossing Miller's lot, on which
the Robinson family had been forbidden to
trespass.
Three cases of smallpox were discovered in
one family, at Lakeview, a suburban town of
Chicago, yesterday. The father is an express
man, who has been driving his trade about this
city during the three weeks the scourge has
been affecting his family.
Baldwin, the defaulting Newark cashier, has
made lengthy statement or confession. He
denies ever having appropriated the money to
his own use, and says that in 1872 CHRISTOPHER
Nugent induced him to make the firm of Nu-
gent & Co. secret loans. 1t is substantially
| his original story reiterated.
Oscar Wilde, the utterly utter aesthetic in.
dividual, reached New York yesterday. He
was promptly interviewed, and expresses him.
self delighted with the country. His opinion
is based upon what passengers on the ship
told him coming over. He promises to come
west and remain long enough to see us all
ugh.