Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-15
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Rev. Gould, eminent Baptist minister, Lon
don, Eng, is dead.
The city of Boston yesterday executed a
contract for 100 electric lights.
The Riddleberger adjustment bill, has be-
come law by the signature of the governor
of Virginia.
At Williams, Iowa, fire Sunday morning de-
stroyed most of the business houses in town.
Loss $4,000.
The National Starch Association is in ses-
sion at Chicago, discussing the interests OF
the business.
The Catholic bishop of Montreal has served
notice to quit on all tenants of church property
selling liquor.
The National Zeitung printing Office and
residence OF the publisher at Neustadt, Ont,
burned yesterday
Gardner's laundry, Troy, N. T., and $4,000
dozens ofcollars and cuffs burned yesterday.
Loss $22, 1000; insured.
The correspondence relating to the confer
ence of the South American republics was
sent to the senate yesterday.
The fall Of q scafolding at the Carrolt0n
market, New Orleans, killed two workmen
named sebreck and Ketwegg.
The mayor Of Philadelphia has called pub
lie meeting to provide for the Jewish refugees
soon to arrive from Europe.
At Bipghampton, N. T., ye gerday, the
Democrats elected James K. Weeder mayor,
and majority of the board of aldermen.
Only one small failure was repor}ed on
Change at Chicago, and that, it is stated, will
probably besonly temporary embarrassment.
James Wyman, st. Louis law student,
committed suicide yesterday by taking NOR.
phIne. The cause was disappointment in
love.
Thomas Davis and Wm. Connory quar-
relied over game of cards In John Sheehan's
saloon, Cohoes, N. T., and Davis was proba.
bly, fatally stabbed.
nArrivals from the st. Frances river, Louisi-
ana, report great damages from the flood iu
the river. Families and stock are being re-
moved from the low lands.
The report of secretary of internal affairs Of
Pennsylvania shows that the taxable value
of the real estate of the state to be 81 ,640,.
69s,27s. Exempt property, $lO,6lO,624.
The federal court at Corsicana, Texas, sen.
fenced q white man and black woman, con-
victed of cohabiting, to fine Of ss5 each, to
be worked out at the rate of s. a month.
Business at Little Rock, Ark, is nearly at a
stand still, owing to the river landing being
under water. Railroad tracks in the vicinity
are under water and trains have been aban-
doned.
The Washington Street Methodist church,
Troy, N. Y, is trying L. L. Ireland, class
leader, on various charges. While his wife
was giving testimony she was struck dead
with paralysis.
An s-year-old boy died at Point st. Charles,
Canada, from the excessive use OF liquor.
The coronel's jury brought in verdict of
wilful murder against the persons who gave
him the liquor.
The lower Mississippi river is at focd
height and still rising at Memphis and other
points. Several small breaks in the levees
are reported, but SO far no serious damage
has resulted.
The ice on the Hudson, at Albany, was
breaking up last night. Dow's grain elevator,
opposite the city, is reported carried away.
The ice gorged at Dow's Point, and the water
is over the banks.
The sentiment at the Georgia State Agricul-
tural society held yesterday, was decidedly in
favor OF planting more grain and less cotton.
The prospect for the small grain crop through
out the state Is excellent.
The board of trade Of Portland, Oregon,
yesterday adopted resolutions asking their
delegation in congress to use their best efforts
to prevent the forfeiture Of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad land grant.
Robert F. Kedzie. professor of chemistry In
the Mississippi agricultural college, SON Of
Prof. r. C. Kedzie, Of the Michigan State az
ricultural college, Is dead. His remains will
be inferred at Lansing, Mich.