Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-20
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.


Samuel Hoffman was killed by the cars at
Racine, Wis, last night.
The steamer Rio Grande, from the Delaware
breakwater, is off Sandy Hook
At Philadelphia yesterday the steamship
British Crown was fruitlessly searched for the
Dublin assassins.
John H. Wymer, wealthy influential citi.
zen Of Junius, Wis.,, committed suicide yes
terday. Cause unknown.
Fourteen hundred emigrants arrived from
Bremen yesterday at Baltimore and left for
the northwest in the afternoon.
A reception was given to the Missouri
Press association yesterday, at Austin, Tex,
and it then resumed its journey.
A letter has been received at Galena from
Gen. Grant. stating that he and Mrs. Grant
will visit their old home in June.
W. q. Yates, at AWHILE, Va, was found
guilty yesterday of the murder of P. A. Ather-
ton. near Sycamore street, February2.
Mrs. John Martin was fatally and her two
children seriously burned yesterday morning
by an explosion OF an oil stove in Chicago.
The wife of Capt. James Mather, of Louis.
vile, local inspector of hulls and an old time
boatman, died at sp-in6eld, Ill, Thursday.
Judge E. M. Adair, of the Choctaw nation,
died suddenly of heart disease few days ago,
while going to court in the Indian territory.
- The trial of Gen. Curtis, indicted for receiv.
ing money from office holders for political
purposes was begun yesterday in New York.
In the Harvard college class boat races the
senior crew won by half length over the
junior crew. Time, 12:43, distance two miles,
William Goldsboro of Cumberland, Md,
was arrested on charge of criminal libel on
William M. Price, in connection with the
Morey letter.
The body of Walter Stoner, clerk of the
noon from the office of that boat, in the Ohio
river near Evansville.
Rawle's letter of acceptance to the public
nomination for judge Of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania has been received by the chair.
man of the convention.
The Delaware State Temperance alliance
yesterday passed resolutions condemnlng Sen.
ator Logan's bill for applying liquor taxes
for educational purposes.
A Clinton, Illinois, special says it is not be.
lieved there that Patsey Devine's pal has been
discovered in st. Louis. He has, according to
all accounts, left the country.
sale of fine stock from the herds of Dye
& Stillwell, Troy, Ohio, at Dexter park yes
terday, resulted in disposing of seventy-two
head at an average price of 1882.
John Ritterstorff was found guilty yester-
day in Detroit, of the murder of Henry Good.
man. The crime was committed last January
and was of revolving character.
D. NJ. Ditman, recently from Maine, was
crushed to death yesterday in Kansas City by
the elevator in the printing house of Ram.
sey's mill where he was employed.
At the new pulp mill at Niles, Mich, yes.
terday, Fred. Merritt was caught in belt
thrown against beam, crushing his shoulder
SO that he died shortly afterwards.
A young man, named j. G. Thompson, oil
highly respected family of Jefferson, Ohio,
hanged himself yesterday In barn. The body
was found and cut down by his aged father.
No reason for the suicide is known.
The annual banquet of the Northwestern
association Beta Psi fraternity was held at Chi
cago last evening with the Omega chapter of
the Chicago university. The tables were laid
in the form of the letter Omega and were
beautifully decorated.
The steamer NJ. s. Thanahouser was sunk
during Thursday night at West Franklin,
Ind, and is total loss. One life is reported
lost. The boat belonged to j. II. Morris &.
Co. and was not insured. Her machinery was
about to be transferred to new hull, now
being finished.
The body of Henry W. Kendall was found
In meadow near the county poor mouse Gem.
etery yesterday morning IN Syracuse, N. 7.
of resurrectionist's tools was found near the
body. 1t is supposed he was engaged in body
snatching. He cannot live.
Mrs James A. Lay died at Sandwich, ILL.,,
yesterday, having tasted four weeks. She
labored under the delusion that she was en-
ciente, and that If she tasted till the child's
birth, which she believed would occur in a
few days, the offspring would be a second
prophet Elijah. A post mortem showed it
was complete deluslon.
At Edwardsville, Ill, yesterday, during a
tight rope performance, one of the ropes at
tached to chimney gave way and the per-
former fell on the heads of the crowd below.
Six boys were injured, two of them, Eddie
Berger and Chas. Weber, fatally, their skulls
being fractured. The tight-rope performer,
although badly hurt, left town.