Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-06
A FIRE BUG CAUGHT.


Especial Telegram to the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. "a few days ago J..
R. Bennett, man who has always stood
well in the community, was arrested on q
charge of burning the building in which he
resided. Mrs. Bennett, comely young
woman twenty years old, was also arrested.
The building was heavily insured, and it
was Benefits idea to burn it and then go
to Chicago to live. Yesterday his wife
made a full confession, acknowledging
that her husband fred the building for the
purpose OF securing the insurance. The
confession has created the greatest excite
ment known here for some time. Bennett
is quite well known il Chicago, where his
relatives are said to reside. He is forty
years old and his wife twenty. Mrs. Ben
nets's father, a beneyoient-looking old
man. arrived in town from Ohio last night
THE PILOT BOAT BUN DOWN.
SrAPLETox, L. l., Dec. ga fishing
smack has arrived with wrtckage picked
up of Fire island, belonging to pilot boat
Columbia, No. s. It is now deemed GER
tain that the Columbia was the boat run
down by the steamship Alaska. All the
pilot boats have their flags at half mast.
No. was built four years ago by Pol
lion at.a cost of $4,000. She sailed on
Saturday with four pilots on board and
crew of siz.
The names of the pilots are Christian
Wolfe, Thomas q. Metcalf, Ralph Il. No
bic and charles Arnold. The boat keeper
was VIM. White; cook, John Forbade.
The crew of fourteen men were foreign
ers shipped for the cruise. Wolfe was
forty-three years of age and leaves wife
and six children. Metcalf was fifty
seven, and leaves wife and two grown
children. Arnold was thirty-fYs and mar
ried, Noble was fifty and widower,
White was twenty -seven, and the cook
thirty, both married.
VESSEL BURNING.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 5-Fire was dis
covered this morning in the hold of the
British four-master Lord Devonshire,
latsly arrived. Cargo chiefly coal. The
ultimate results are uncertain. Owners,
TaliIon Sons, Belfast.
BURNED TO DEATH.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 5.-Three negro
children were burned to death in Columbia
county. The parents went to church and
locked the children in the cabin.
TRACKS BLOCKED By sMAsHUP.
STEUBENvILLE, Ohio, Dec. Both
tracks of the Panhandle road, near Walk
er's Mills, are blockaded by wreck. The
rear section of freight train ran into the
preceding section. Nobody hurt.
DROWNED.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 5.-Before light this
morning Bee-line locomotive, while back
ing two fats, plunged through an open
draw into the river, and Amos Chew, eng
ineer. was drowned. George Whitmarsh,
fireman, jumped TO the dock and escaped,
The accident is supposed to be caused by
the engineer not observing the signal
lights on the bridge SWING to let steam
barge pass. The fireman was oiling the
engine. Chew leaves q family. He has
been IN the company's employ for twenty
years.
PARls, Ont, Dec. 5.-The premises of
Jas. Muir, dry goods, James MoRae, shoe
maker, and Charles Newell, fruit dealer,
were burned to-day. Total loss SIS, 1000.
HAVANA, Dec. 5.-The dry dock was
burned last night.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec 5.-The whole
sale drug house of Pendleton, Thomas &
Co., North Market street, was partially
destroyed by fire this morning. Value of
stock $4,000; insurance $4,000. Loss
estimated at $4,000, divided among
twenty-five companies, mostly Hartford,
New York and English.
THE sELF-CoNFEssED MURDERER.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.-John Koop, the
self-confessed murderer of Amanda FIuch
in the woods near Perth, Amboy, n. j., was
indicted by the grand jury there and sent
TO trial.
SToNINGTeN, Conn.,, Dec. Six of the
Nenquetetk women are probably guilty of
breach Of peace, in forcibly entering the
school house, ana were bound over in 5000
bonds each for trial at the January term
or the superior court, and the other women
we're discharged.
DANVILLE, Va. Dec. Green Miller
vas shot by Policeman Williams last night.
Miller was beating his wife ana Officer
Kennedy attempted to arrest him, when
Miller resisted and choaked Kennedy
Williams came to the assistance of Kerne-
d., when Miller turned upon Williams
and beat and abused him. Miller finally
agreed to go to jail with Kennedy if Viii
hams did not accompany them. Seeing
Williams following them, Miller lushed
upon him and was shot. probably fatally.
University in Trouble
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The financial troubles
of the Chicago university took a new