Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-12
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

rising.
Oscar Wilde delivered his farewell lecture yester-
day afternoon In New York. His audience was for
the most part ladies.
The liabilities of G.. G. Davis. of Boston,
manufacturer of leather board, are 4,OCO;
nominal assets $4,000.
Sir Hugh Allen presided at a farewell ban
quet at Montreal tonight to retiring United
States consul General Smith.
The Nebraska state legislature met to-day
for the purpose of redistricting the state.
Lively differences are manifested.
The steamer William Barentz has started
from The Hague, Holland, for the Arctic in
search Of the Lieut.. Smith expedition.
Scotch miners are brought out to take the
place of the strikers at Halifax, N. S. The
Breton miners have Joined the strikers.
Two brothers named Fenton and man
named Gray were drowned at Chebolgue Har-
Dor, Nova Scotia, by capsizing boat, yester-
day.
The postofice at Bucy1us, o.. was entered
by burglars yesterday and robbed of stamps,
registered letters and money to the amount of
$4,000.
The Boston & Albany Railway company is
about to reduce Is per cent. of its shop en-
ployes on account of dizziness of freight trans
portation.
Jacob Miller. messenger of the American
express, who was hurt in the railroad accident
at Metamora, Ind, Wednesday, died yesterday
at Cincinnati.
The postmaster of Nauma, county Meath,
Ireland, yesterday shot a man named Conneil
dead in self.defense. The man attempted to
stop the mail car.
The railroad commission bill has failed to
pass the New York senate, the regular Demo-
Gratis refusing to vote and leaving the body
without quorum.
Yesterdays proceedings of the Congrega-
tional association of Ohio, at Toledo, was
devoted to hearing reports of the different
branches of the church work.
Reports from northern Wisconsin state that
heavy snow storms are prevailing and several
inches have fallen. A slight snow storm oc-
CURED yesterday at Milwaukee.
The annual session of the grand lodge of
Knights of Pythlas of Arkansas, began yes.
terday in Little Rock; owing to the detention
of railroad trains, few delegates are present.
Covers were laid for 400 at the Brewers
banquet tonight. Speeches were made by
Senator Voorhees,, Representatives Young
and Butterworth, Count Buest, and the acting
commissioner of internal revenue.
a fifty horse power boiler exploded at Red
Rock, SIX miles east of Bradford, Pa, yester-
day, ipjuring M. D. Thompson so severely
that it is thought he cannot recover and doing
considerable damage to oil property.
VIM. Klemt, of Louisville, KY, aged Is
years, machinist, jumped into the Ohio
river yesterday, cause unknown, and drowned
himself. This is the second river suicide and
third in this vicinity during the week.
Bennett Dixon, the husband OF the woman
who eloped some two weeks ago from St..
Louis with the boy John j. Curtiss, and who
fhn r1,1fr Had
petition for divorce in the circuit court yester-
day at st. Louis.
Mrs. May Stern, aged 80, was found yester-
Coy afternoon hanging by q rope from the
rafters in the attic of her home, in Cincinnati.
She was first discovered by her children, 10
and 7 years of age. The coroner rendered a
verdict of insanity.
VIM. Boden's saloon at Ocean, eighteen
miles from Fort Wayne, Ind, was blown up
by dynamite last evening. Dynamite was
thrown down the chimney. The contents of
the building were wholly destroyed. No clue
to the perpetrators.
The Poughkeepsie IN. " Methodist Epis-
copal Zion Church conference has appointed
a committee to inquire into the conduct OF
the steward of q river steamer who refused
permission for clergymen to eat at the table
with other passengers.
A severe storm of wind and rain has been
raging on the northern and western portions
of Lake Ontario for the past thirty hours.
Several houses, used as summer residences on
an island off Toronto, were washed away and
many wrecks are expected.
Hulda Matchmaker, II years of age, has
been domestic in family in Milwaukee.
She went to Watertown, Wis, where her
parents reside, and committed suicide by
drowning. She left note, stating her lover
had rejected her and she could not live.
Hon. John Darby, one of the oldest and
best known residents Of st. Louis, died at his
daughters residence a. Pendleton, Warren
county, Mo, yesterday, He was born in 1903
and was the Oldest member of the st.
Louis bar, and had been four times mayor of
the city.
No less than eight vessels have gone ashore
or been badly damaged on the west coast of
Lake Michigan during the prevailing north
easter. The list includes the Petrol, Van Val
kenberg, Lottie Mason, Harvey Bissell, Louisa
Mcdonald, j. L.. Green, Jessie Winter and L.
NJ. Higge.
David Hall, an old man, took a room at
hotel in Terre Haute, Ind, Wednesday even
ing and fired bullet into his head and another
in his temple. Yesterday morning, being still
alive, he fred two more shots into his aldo.
men, and then sent for a physician, to whom
he said he was tired of living. He died yes
terday.
The stock and bondholders of the Massa-
chusetts Central Railroad company met yes
terday and appointed several large stock and
bondholders as committee to Investigate the
affairs of the corporation and prepare def
mite and detailed statement of the same and re-
port at the meeting June 1, with such recon-
mendations as If should deem advisable. One
million dollars are needed TO complete the
line.