Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-23

Gleason, severe injuries about the legs anu
back; Mary Doherty was badly injured
about the face and head.
DIED FROM A LAUDANUM SPREE.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 22.-Dr. j. A.
Peters, editor of the ST. Louis Druggist,
was found in dying condition by pri-
vate wetchman on the sidewalk about
o'clock this morning. He was removed to
a saloon near by, where he soon died. The
body was then taken to the morgue. DIR.
Peters came here from New York last Sep
TENDER to take editorial charge of the
Druggist, and has a wife and two sons IN
the East. He was addicted to the use of
laudanum, which he is said to
have drank in large quantities. week
ago last Monday he disappeared. and was
not heard of for week. When discover
ed he had been on one of his regular mar
cotic debauches. After his temperance
he was extremely nervous and badly dis
ordered. This probably induced him to
leave his boarding house early this morn
ind for walk, which resulted in his
death, the cause being his late spree. DR..
Peters was about fifty years old and
during the war, was surgeon in the
army.
THE GRAYsoN MURDER.
GRAYsoN, KY, Feb. 22.-The reason given
to the sheriff by the foreman for the
prompt recess of the jury was the illness
of one of the jurymen. Opinion is divided
as to an ultimate hung jury or verdict of
guilty early in the morning. Kenner spoke
about an hour on the chief points to COR
roborate Ellis confession. The case was
given to the jury at just o'clock. In a
few minutes they returned to the
court room, unable to agree, aud the judge
announced recess till morning. Craft
clearly showed some signs of nervousness,
fell in amid the guard and marched to the
camp The crowd dispersed into knots,
specializing on the probable result of any
agreement of the jury. Allis very quiet
! The instructions in the Graft case were
presented to-day. The afternoon was oc
cupied by the address of Burns, for the
defense. At the night session
Kenner, the commemorative attorney,
spoke. strong guard from the Second
battalion was at the court house at all
three sessions. The court room was
crowded all day, and many walked about
town. The crowd, in which many were
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quiet expectancy. A mounted detachment
is out tonight, and an order in camp for
taps until they return. A detail went from
the court house with the prisoners. There
is more compressed excitement than since
the arrival of the troops.
THE GORGE AT ALTON.
| ALTON, ILL.,, Feb. 22.-The gorge reached
here between 5 and o'clock this afternoon,
on about foot rise, but passed through
the harbor without doing serious damage.
The lumber wharves in the northern part
of the city were rubbed sharply and in
some sections the raft was broken. The
piling of the elevators which stand on the
river bank was also scraped roughly and
the coal dump of the Belt railroad, on the
east side of the river, was considerably
battered, but the total loss is not more
than $4,000. About 100000 feet Of the
raft that was broken up by the ice at Alton
slough day before yesterday caught here
this afternoon, but 100000 more feet of
the same raft was swept past the city and
is now on the way to Cairo and below.
THE BRAIDwooD DISASTER.
BRAiDwooD, ILL.,, Feb. 22.-The work of
pumping out the Diamond mine continues.
Two more large pumps are being placed
in position. 1t has been asserted by those
in authority that the pump in the shaft
will never be worked again. AS soon
as the bodies are recovered it will
be abandoned. Hugh ]. Jewett,
president of the Erie Railway company,
principal owner of the Diamond Coal COM
pany, writes to Superintendent Fordyce to
use every available means and spare no
expense to recover the bodies of the VIC
TINS The water has been lowered forty
feet The weather is turning cold, and
fears are entertained that the pumps will
freeze.