Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-22
ALL AROUND THE GloBE.
The fruit store of Demorest & Co., New
leans has burned,

Idle In consequence of strike.
The ocean steamship lines have reduced thei
| rates for hrst-class. passage to see. war O
| rates.
The Congregational college in Montreal vii
apply to parliament for power to grant de
| grees.
A dispatch was received from Hong Kong OF
yesterday, reporting that the French had cap
tured Sontay.
At Buffalo it was decided that the will of Mr.
Fillmore, made on January l5, 1879, is the one
to hold.
John Quinn is charged with attempting to
barn thssPoughkespsis hetel, and held to the
grand jury.
| The entire business portion of the town of
Neehes, Texas, was burned yesterday. The less
is heavy.
! The Lutheran church at Rochester, Pa, was
burned yesterday morning. Cause Unknown
Loss Sl0,ee0.
| Bismarck opposes secret voting. He approves
of universal suffrage so long the voting will be
| done openly.
! Evans, the New York forger, was taken from
| London, Ont, to New York last evening by de-
| tectives.
The Chicago Congregational club last evening
celebrated the anniversary of the landing of the
Pilgrim fathers.
For 81, 5O0,c coo Capt. Eads agrees to give thirty
| feet of water at Galveston bar. He requires
| some time to do it.
Willie Badge, of Bradford, Pa, aged four
years, fell into boiler of scalding water and
was boiled to death.
In New York, Amandie Bigott, who killed
his mistress, Harriet Remand, was sentenced on
yesterday to life Imprisonment.
1t Baltimore, Nd, Daniel White, colored,
was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment for
killing Joseph James in August last.
In New York G. 4. Andrews has entered suit
against Ksin, Prince and others for obtaining
meney from him under false pretences.
Capt. Gordon, the child abductor, at Jersey
City, has been sentenced to five years in the state
prison with hard labor, and fine of 81, 0se.
The dry goods and cotton merchants Of New
York are appealing to the sinking fund commits
sions for an increase of the water supply.
Cardinal Jacobini has Instructed the Papal
nuncios to request the powers to take measures
for the protection OF Christians in the east.
The American bishops have agreed upon the
attitude to be adop. ed by the Catholic clergy in
the United States towards the Fenians.
Charles Weaver, prisoner In sanbury jail,
Pa. has given the names of his accomplices in
numerous burglaries in that section.
Silas Lane, colored, who was to have been
hanged on yesterday at ROLAND Forks, Miss,
has been respited by the governor for thirty
days.
Barring, British representative at Cairo, has
telegraphed that he desires to come to London
to consult the government concerning Egyptian
affairs.
From Madagascar news comes of the Horas
chiefs trying to abduct the queen of Sakalouas.
The French proven ed it by their gunboats and
rifemen.
Another neck social en- yesterday in which
Jim Taylor was the central figure. He murdered
sarae Chappell at Galveston, Texas, and the
rope finished him.
At Georgetown, s. c., Jerry Csz, colorcd,
was hanged on yesterday for the murder of
innocence to the last.
The Republican journals at Rome were pub
ished on Wednesday with black borders in
memory of Overdank, the bomb maker, who
was hanged q year ago.
1.-THE police commissions in New York have
passed resolutions favoring the institution of a
system OF telephone signals similar to those in
Chicago and other cities.
Admiral Courbet telegraphs that three officers
and sixty men were killed and ten officers and
enc hundred and seventy nen were wounded in
the affair before Sontay the 18th.
The strike OF the sailors assd freInen of the
steamers at Marssilles, France, is becoming seri-
GUS. They object to outside labor being en-
ployed to do the work, especially foreign labor.
Two large iron manufacturing establishments
at Hollidaysbarg. Pa, shut down on yesterday,
account of lack of orders. A large humber
of hands are thrown out of employment.
The Democrats of st. Louis have had another
meeting to take steps to have the national con-
ventiop held in their city. They are making
every provision to have it a success should it be
held there.
At Grafton, W. Va, on Thursday evening,
Carter Smith, celorea barber, quarrelled with
mulatto, Gee. McDaAisls in his shop, and
stabbed him to the heart with scissors. He
died in FIVE minutes. Smith escaped
The king of AbyssiHia is massing troops at
Athna, and is threatening Eassowsh. 1t is
stated that about the LIST of December, Abyssin-
position containing 500 men.
General James Lengstreet had a suit decided
against him in the New York courts for "a, 500
Loogstrset claims that the transa ction was real
~ in the form Of wager ON a cotton check, and
no measy had passed between the parties.
Tn. excitement caused by the return Of Tom
Bufsrd to Louisville is on the increase. The
other judges the trial are afraid taat they will
receive dsss of cold lead In the same manner
as Judge Elliott did.
In Belgrade, ct the feast of St. Nicholas,
King Milan pardonsd 400 peasants, who were
engaged in the Late revolt. Several sentences
were passed upon clergymen and teachers who
were guilty Of rebellion.
A csnserdat has been arranged at Calcutta,
by which native, except district judges shall
exercise criminal jurisdiction over European OF
British subjects, who entitled to trial by a
majority of European jurors.
Calvin Eaton, constable Of Seabrook, n H.,
YVES shot BIZ Edward Dec on Thursday night.
They net On the read and greeted each other
pleasantly. When parting Dec shot Eaton
twice in the back inf1icting fatal wounds.
Robert Hubbsrd whs shot himself on Thurs
day, at Cshleskill, N. z, is under indistmen.
for pretending to be an officer and holding a
farmer, while two other pretended officers as
sa.lted the farmers wife. Hubbard is expect
ed to recover.
John Shipley, Jr., OF Halifax township, nsar
Harrisburg, Pa, recsnrly forged check for
sI85, in his fathers name, sAd got the money.
He then left, and although he had largo faaiiy &,
young Lady disappeared from Halifax at the
same time.