Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-03

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and went for his valise containing the re-
mainder of the property. Returning to
the office the coat was gone. In the ex-
citement folloing he laid down his valise
and it quickly disappeared.
ANOTHER LIGHT-FINGERED STATE OFFICIAL.
SAN FRANcrsco, Feb. 2.-Charles D.
Bunker, commissioner of immigration, a
state appointive Office, was arrested to-
night on three warrants, each charging
him with felony in appropriating to his
own use sums collected as fees of Office and
due the state aggregating $4,000. Bunker
furnished bail in $4,000. His Office has
recently been the subject of investigation
| by Legislative committee. Bunker and
his friends claim that full investigation
\ will show that he has made no misappro-
priation.
FACTORY BURNED.
ALBION, N. Y, Feb 2.-The Curtis Man
ufacturing compahy's buildings were dam
aged by fire $4,000; insured.
LETTER CARRIER GONE WRONG.
Troy, N. Y, Feb. 2.-Wm. E. Perkins,
an old letter carrier, has been arrested for
robbing the mails.
sPECULATED AND FLED.
New YoKK, Feb. Edward W. White,
of the firm of Gilchrist, White & Co., ship
chambers, of South street, has fled, after
having for the last two years systematicals5
| y used the credit and money Of the con-
Germ for his own private speculations.
PLANNING MILL FIRE.
TOLEDO, Feb. 1.-The extensive planning
mill of Vim. Paeron, on st. Clair street,
caught fire at o'clock p. m, and was to-
tally consumed. The fremen had hard
fight to save the contents of large lum-
Der yard adjoining, but succeeded. Seven
firemen were injured. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, being especially heavy
on account of the unusually large stock
on hand. Insurance $4,000.
A RELIGIOUS SUICIDE.
NEwooMERsrowN, O., Feb. Fletcher
Reed, young man living near Putnam,
Muskingum county, got up before daylight
yesterday morning in fit of religious ex-
element and going to straw stack near
by set it on fire and jumped in the flames,
after he had cut his throat with razor.
His remains were mass of charred bones
when found.
MURDERER SUICIDES.
New YORK, Feb. John Kenny, a bill
poster, who to-day was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life for the murder of John
| Lennon, car driver, tonight killed him
self in his cell in the Raymond street jail,
Brooklyn, by shooting himself through the
IL j. ,o4
known. He left letter to his brother in
which he accuses his partner, Murphy, of
appropriating over $4,000 of his, (Kenny's)
share in the bill posting business.
Of the witnesses in the case, Kenny
| writes:
''Nolan is a frst-class bum. I will be
dead before you receive this. So sure as
there is God in heaven, and just as sure
as there is, I will appear to this gang.
(Signed), JOHN KENNY"
When the startled Jail officials reached
the cell, Kenny was gasping, having fallen
back on his cot. Physicians we're sent for,
but before they arrived he was dead. He
had opened his shirt and placed the re-
volver directly over his heart.
SCARLET WOMAN DECAMPs.
TORONTO, Feb. 2.-The WON an, Leish-
man, who charges the Rev. Beattie with
criminal assault, has decamped. Her his
tory, it is alleged, did not bear inquiry.
MYsTERIoUsLY DISAPPEARED.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 2.-H. T. Plumb, a
travelling salesman from New York, mys-
teriously disappeared Jan. 6 from the hotel
here. His overcoat and dress coat were
found in a canyon near by covered with
blood. The body has not been found be-
causa of snow.