Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-21
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE,

The attorney general of New York decides
the governor can order special election to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Wagner.
Geo. B. Hawkins, night clerk in the Daily
Sentinel office, indianapolis, Ind, was accl-
dentally shot and instantly killed, early yester-
day morning by one of the newspaper car
riers.
N. Radley and Ed. Wilson were killed, at
Putnam, ILL.,, yesterday, in horrible manner
They were caught in a belt:whle fixing in the
Wood machine department. Both were bad
ly mangled.
A turnpike bridge in process of construc-
ton at Bradsfordsvi!le, Ohio, eight miles from
Cincinnati, fell yesterday. Six men were ON
the bridge. One was killed and the others Sc
verely injured.
A Greenburg, Ind, special says that Barney
Kourse's Touring mill at the village of Mill
hansen, seven miles south of Greenburg,
burned yesterday morning. Loss $4,000, no
insurance.
Texas advices say shooting ARRAY occurred
at Jacksboro Wednesday afternoon between
two young men named Lester Upham and P.
Walforth, in which Upham was instantly kin.
ed and his antagonist seriously wounded.
Colonel Finnegass, United States detective,
yesterday at San Francisco arrested Jno. T.
Best, clerk of the light house board of the
twelfth district, for forging the signatures to
government vouchers and embezzling $4,000.
Investigatigation has developed the fact that
the fire causing the destruction of the asylum
for feeble minded at Columbus, O., November
16, was started by 4. E. Ellsworth and David
Goodrich. The loss to the state was $780,
John Spence a soldier of the war 1912, who
died at Des Mcines Tuesday, aged IS years,
leaves three children, twenty-eight grand
children, forty-eight great grand children and
two great great grand children. Total de-
scendants. eighty-O one.
There are thirty cases of small pox among
the colored population of Portsmouth and
suburbs, Virginia. A colored seaman diediten
days ago, and the colored people not knowing
the disease was small pox, gave him big
funeral.
The engine of freight train broke down
last night near Goshen, N. Y. Nine cars
were demolished and four oil cars were burned.
Subsequently two freight trains in going
around the wreck, came together and were
wrecked. No one injured.
A contract has been signed for the extern
sion of the Houston e. Texas Central from
Fort Worth to a connection with the st. Louis
q San Francisco road. This will give the
Houston d Texas Central an outlet to st.
Louis and Chicago independent of the Gould
roads.
Five cases of smallpox were reported in
New York city yesterday. One case was that
of a man who travelled all the way from Iowa
suffering from the disease without knowing
it. The vaccination bureau is crowded with
persons desiring to be vaccinated.
In the senate of the New work legislature
yesterday, resolution was adopted providing
for the appointment of Joint committee to
consider the cessiOn of the Erie, Champlain
and Oswego canals to the national govern
ment, upon the stipulation that they shall be
enlarged.
Fire on Thursday at Belle PLANE, Iowa, con-
sumed seven buildings, and seriously damaged
several Others. Loss about 500, 600; insurance
one-third. Gore & Parlmie, hardware, lose
$12, 1000, insurance s., 900; Parisle, on building,
$4,000, no insurance; and Snyder & Co. fur.
niture, So, 900, partly insured.
A Little Rock special says a prominent
Delaware Indian, Runabout Six, while hunt
ing in the Delaware district with three other
Indians, got drunk along with his companions
and lay down to sleep by fire in a large heap
of logs. One of the logs in the night rolled
on Runabout Six and crushed him to DEATH
The New Orleans, Cairo t& St. Louis railroad
submerged to great extent between Grinda
and Canton. No trains nave passed south
over the road since the 18th. The water is
VIZ OVCt huOWu uuClC 1uc IdllTOSu
track is submerged near West Station eight or
ten inches, and the water is rising. 1t is still
raining.
Mrs. Betsy Bland, living three miles from
Lexington, KY, was assassinated yesterday
The sheriff went to the house and found the
woman dead in her room and terribly multi
ated. Suspicion fell on VIM. Austin, her
grand nephew, and he was arrested Mrs.
Bland was highly respected woman, IS
years ofage.
The dry goods store of W. Z. Bird, probably
the largest retail dealer in Des Moines, Iowa,
was closed Thursday. Clafiin & Co., of Newt
York, held the firms past-due paper to the /
amount of $4,000, and attached the stock
The Iowa National bank is also creditor to
the amount of $4,000, secured by mortgages.
The stock is valued at 100000, and book ,ac-
counts at $4,000.