Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-17

DID NOT CONFESS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.T
MILWAUKEE, March 16.-A startling m
NOR was circulated on the streets this
morning to the effect that Capt. Baur,
Schiller's father-in-law, had confessed to
the burning of the Newhau house before
ne died. But his friends deny its truth.
SHOT HIS WIFE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, March 16.-John Duff
fly and wife were quarreling this morning
pistol shot was heard by the neighbors,
who rushed in and found the woman diving.
with bullet hole in her breast. She lived
but few minutes. Duffy said she shot
herself, but is not believed.
LARGE DEFALoATIoN IN CALIFORNIA.
SAN Francisco, March 16.-The exami-
nation of the books of the harbor commits
sioners to-day showed John S. Gray, secre-
tary, defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
Gray said he could make it good and was
given until p. N. to do so. He left the
office and has not been since seen.
AN EDITORS QUARREL.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 16.-To-day Col.
Thornton, publisher of the Post-AppeaI,
went to the Office of j. H. Norwood, pub
Usher of the Union. A quarrel ensued,
when Norwood called the foreman and
they forcibly elected Thornton. Pistols
were drawn, and Thornton has begun an
action for assault.
THE DUKES CASE.
UNIoNTowN, Pa, March 16.-N. L.
Dukes,th murderer of Capt. Mutt, is at his
mothers home near German township. A
reporter visited him this afternoon, to
whom he expressed great satisfaction as to
the verdict He also stated he contempla-
ted claiming his seat in the state legisla-
ture, and to remain in the county and
practice law.
Another dispatch: J. w. Amalong, one
of the jurors who tried Dukes, was attack
ed on the street of Belle Vernon this
evening and so badly beaten that his life
is despaired of.
DEFALCATION AND SUICIDE.
CHATTANOOGA, March 16.-Ro5ert Jen-
kins, local agent of the Singer sewing ma
chine, has killed himself because of def
cheney in his accounts.
O'NEIL ACQUITTED.
CLEVELAND, March 16.-Daniel O'NeiI
was acquitted to-day of the charge of muir
der, the court holding his killing of Henry
Cassidy justifable self-defense. Cassidy
went to O'NelPs saloon and demanded
whisky. was refused and tried to stab
O'Neil.
FATE OF A FoRGER:
BosToN March 16.-Geo. W. Cushman,
who last summer obtained money from
the Concord school of philosophers by
forged checks, has been sentenced to five
years in the state prison.
SMALL DAMAGES.
New YORK, March 16.-The Jury in the
case of Matthew F. Neville, who sued the
proprietors of the Fifth Avenue hotel for
$4,000 for being elected from the hotel,
have allowed him $3.50 damages.
THE DEsPERADoEs KNOWN.
LITTLE Rock, March, 16.-The despe-
radoes who murdered Conductor Cain of
the Ft. Smith railroad, have been pursued
to Washington county, where they sepa-
rated and are going north into Missouri. 1t
is now known that they are the johnson
brothers and Herndon, noted desperadoes.
OWENS THEFTs.
ST. LOUIS, March 16.-Accordinc to the
position of Oby E. Owen, defaulting teller
of the Third National bank, it appears that
he distracted from that institution about
100000, between 1875, when he began his
thisving operations, and the time he was
arrested. This money was all sunk in the
butter and cheese business and speculation
in cotton and grain. He will be sentenced
tomorrow. 1t is expected he will get be-
tween five and ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
RAILROAD BONDS CONTEMPLATED.
CLINTON, Ill, March 16.-It was discov-
cred this afternoon that the Dewitt rail-
road bonds, issued in 1880, had been ex-
teusively counterfeited and put on the
market.
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE,