Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-20
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE,


Richmond, Va.
Samuel j. Medill was yesterday elected pres
ident of the Chicago Press club.
>Titsimmans & Co., of the Peoples bank,
Tecumseh, Mich, have assigned.
The makers strike at Milwaukee con-
tinues, and the situation is unchanged.
The mercury is twenty-four degrees below
zero in some sections of New Hampshire.
There was great decline of prices on the
Paris bourso yesterday and almost panic.
Martin Flanagan, sentenced to be hanged
to-day at Buffalo has been reprieved three
weeks.
Chicago is about to issue $3.50, 900 in twenty
year bonds, the rate of interest to be is or 5
per cent.
Vanderbilt told a friend yesterday he had not
sold share of the Reading, but had on the
contrary increased his holdings.
The census deficiency bill will have to be
modified to provide for paying assignees the
claims instead Of the clerk.
The Boston Cooperative association last
night, after several years. trial of co-Opera-
tive store, decided to wind up its affairs.
Mrs. VIM Barlow, former resident of Gin
cinnati, suicided at Columbus, o., yesterday,
by cutting her throat. Temporary insanity.
Thos. Ring, A years of age, salesman for
cided yesterday by shooting himself in the
head
The joint convention of the Iowa legislature
formally declared James F. Wilson elected for
the long senatorial term and J. W. McDill for
the short term.
The hanging of George Bohannan, which
was set for to-day at Rolla, Mo-, will not take
place, the supreme court having granted him
new trial.
The stock of Stetson g. Adam, heavy dry
goods dealers at Palestine, Kansas, has been
attached. Liabilities estimated at $50, 000 as
sets much lower.
McLaren & Co., wholesale boot and shoe
manufacturers, and BIcGovern, Tucker G. Nc
Donald, saw and planning mills, Montreal, have
suspended; liabilities $4,000, the latter $50 600.
The New York senate yesterday appointed
committee to Investigate the Spuyten-Duyvil
disaster. The house had six Intellectual bal
lots for speaker. Both branches adjourned.
The lower rivers are rising rapidly, the
gauge at Nashville showing two feet above
the rise of 1S47. Many families have been
rendered homeless by the submerging of low
lands
Gov Chittenden, OF Missouri, has postponed
the execution of Martin Paquette, who was to
be hanged near Madrid, Mo-, to-day, until
February Is, to enable the supreme court to
pass upon his case.
It is rumored at Montreal that the Quebec,
Montreal, Ottawa & Occidental railroad has
been leased to syndicate. The amount is
said to be four hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars annually.
Alphonse Narcotic, dry goods merchant
who had retail stores in Montreal and other
towns in that province and in Winnipeg, has
absconded. Liabilities, about 100000; assets
said to be large.
Graoorp Sforrop; Ttol;o,, roarohont pa
tersburg, Va, convicted of receiving and
selling stolen manufactured tobacco, was
sentenced to receive twenty stripes at the
public whipping post.
It is stated the sugar refining firm of Eccles,
Thoms & Co., of Baltimore, Nd, have been
embarrassed, and have submitted a PROPOSE
tion to their creditors to pay so cents on the
dollar. Liabilities $67 900.
VIM. Keudrick, first lieutenant of the AIilss
waukee police department died yesterday,
aged Is years. He had served as first lieuten
ant nineteen years and one was of the best
known and most respected citizens
Some 200 citizens of Chicago have signed a
call for an anti Mormon meeting Monday
night. tits intended to make strong pro-
test to congress against allowing polygamy
longer to disgrace American civilization!
Alexander Butler, colored, a laborer on the
extension of the new railroad from Macon to
Atlanta, Ga, was shot and instantly killed
in a row near Atlanta last night, in which
about twenty negroes were engaged.
William Frost, Republican, Boston, on
recount, is declared elected alderman in place
of Chas. 0. Written, Democrat, by thirty-six
majority. This gives the Republicans one
majority in the board and breaks the dead
lock.
Two bricklayers, names unknown, while
going to work at Irondale, ten miles south OF
Chicago, yesterday morning, were struck by
switch engine, their bodies dragged long
distance, and so frightfully mangled as to be
unacceptable.
John J. Thomas, formerly in the employ of
the Western Union Telegraph company, was
arrested yesterday at Newark, N. j., charged
with embezzling $4,000 of the company's
money, while chief operator for the company
at Mobile, Ala.
! In few days, it is reported, the Union d e
pot at st. Louis will come into the possession
TO Jay Gould, who is purchasing the stock
from the Cincinnati stockholders. 1t is re-
ported Gould intends erecting a handsome
new depot. Capital stock, SS,O0O,O0O.
The Boston Journal publishes the confess
sion OF Frank Goodman. that two years ago, |
while tramping from Boston to Barnstable, he |
killed his companion Phillip Brown. Good |
man says the crime weighs on his mind, and |
he has several times tried to commit suicide
At Chicago, La Ford, one of the grocers ac-
cused of selling butterine, was found guilty |
yesterday morning, but it being his first |
offense his fine was assessed at only $25. An |
appeal was taken. Lon Merrill was then |
tried and fined 1876, and Jos. Kastner called for
a jury. This case is still progressing.
The government has reduced the pay of Ia |
borers ON the Quebec, Montreal & Ottawa |
railway from one dollar to eighty cents per |
day. The men have refused to work or allow |
Others to take their places. Disturbance is |
threatened at Calumet, and the government |
has sent the chief of police and ten men to |
preserve the peace.
The Chicago Tribune announces that per- !
petual motion has been discovered by Prof. !
Joshua Garrett, who has been mechanic for I
many years, and is in no respect cranky. His |
system consists OF two cylinders working |
transversely in vacuum upon third. The |
model works until the bearings are worn out /
thus creating practically aperpetual motion. |
A notorious swindler known as August |
Walter, with half dozen aliases, was arrested |
in Baltimore last night on the charge of having,
swindled Rev. B. F. Schauer, provincial of |
the Redemptorate order, out of $500 by means |
OF forged checks. He had been several times |
to confession to Father Schaner, and in that |
way gained his confidence. Walter is just |
released from the penitentiary, where he served |
five years for obtaining Sa,372 on forged |
checks.
a vote was. taken yesterday in Cooper coun- |
ty, Missouri, on the proposition to compro- |
mise and refund the Cooper County, Tebo & |
Nesohia railway bonds at 80 per cent. of prin- |
cipal and accrued interest, and to reduce the |
rate of interest: The returns indicate the re-
lection of the proposition. In Bonneville the
proposition to refund the Bonneville township
Tebo & Nesohia bonds at IS per cent was car