Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-27
GEOBELETS.


The Chicago council have fixed saloon
licenses at $103.
Three men we're frozen to death neal
Thunder bay, Manitoba, last week.
A boy in Whitehall, H., choked to
death by swallowing collar button.
Five of the murderers of Prof. Palmer
in Egypt. have been sentenced to DEATH
In st. Louis $25O0OO have been sub
scribea for the proposed exposition in that
city.
Chicago is to have the Illinois state fair
for the next Two years, beginning in Sep
TENDER.
The United States steamer Ashuelot was
sunk off Hong Kong, and eleven of the
crew were drowned.
In safe deposit company's vault in st.
Louis, the United States has placed in
silver 100000.
The premier of France has asked
President Greyy to place the Orleans
princes, now in the army, on the retired
list.
Numerous heavy failures are reported at
various points, indicating unsettled and
troubled times in financial and CONNER
ciaI circles.
In these closing days Of the congress
sional session, immense ''jobs'' are sought
to be rushed through, as usual developing
most ingenious, stupendous swindles.
The oldest tree in the world, so far as
any one knows, is the DO tree of the sacred
city Andropoosa, in Burmah. 1t was
planted 288 3. c., and is therefore nov
2,170 years cid.
Katie Stokes, the famous circus rider
who was professional beauty and pub
lie fayorite only a few years ago, is now an
inmate of the Cincinnati house of correc
ton, sent up for drunkenness.
Upward Of million foreigners now re.
side in France, only 10000 of whom are
English, while 100000 are Belgians, 25O,OOC
and 10000 Spaniards. Thirty years age
the Germans numbered only 57,061, and
the Italians only 63,307.
The Chicago College of Physicians has
been sued by a student who was promised
a graduates diploma at the end of one
years study. The faculty decline to keep
the agreement, which was made, they say.
by an individual teacher.
The sheriff of Northampton county
Pennsylvania, not only took bride of $50
for the service of an execution earlier
than its proper turn, but defended the act
on the ground that his predecessors had
always accepted money under such cir
cumstancss.
There has been a court ball in st. Pc tiers
burg and the car led the cotillion. His
period of mourning is over. He resumes
his place at the head of Russian society
and will not long delay to take his place at
the head of the Russian people.
ReerdsIs confession" in the star route
trials has made a great stir, and has been
thought to make heavily against the &C
cused. But the witness has also Confessed"
to having committed perjury in his afida
Wits of last summer, and his whole per-
Torrance has damaged himself more than
the defendants, and affords no strength to
the prosecution.
A man at San Francisco masquerade
discovered that the waiter was taking ad-
vantage of the general inebrity to fill
emptied bottles with the remnants of
and selling them to the fud
died drinkers. He gave the fellow a whip
ping, and, on being next day arraigned on
a charge of assault, was discharged by the
with commentator.
The son of the late king of the Limba
territory, western Africa, is at present in
under the care of the Rev.
Booth, who is about to return 10 his work
as Wesleyan missionary in that district.
The young prince is said to be about six
teen years of age, an intelligent and con
sistent Christian youth. His uncle, the
regent, has agreed to build a new chapel
at his own cost for the Wesleyan missions.
While President Arthur has been COM
mended from the time of his accession to
the presidency as the most faultlessly
dressed man wherever he appeared, lis
sister, Mrs. McElroy, and her daughter,
appear to be Indifferent to matters of per-
,onal adornment, and prefer great SIM
plicity of dress. Although, as the ladies of
The White house, they are always the
observed of all observers" when they
appear in society they are invariably the
most plainly dressed of any ladies seen at
IN entertainment. They have attended
most of the large parties in Washing ton
and Miss McElroy, who is de-
outante, appears greatly to enjoy dancing.
Miss McElroy always wears black or black
and white.