Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-20

keeper of the Municipal Corporation yard
to the effect that stealing has been going
on in the street department by carrying
more workmen On the pay roll than are
actually employed. Also that the time
book has been spirited away to prevent
discovery, and forced balances have
been made in the books.
The Call has an article on the
depleted condition of the city treasury,
showing that some funds are almost entire
ly exhausted, and no apparent means of
relief. Heads of departments are prepar-
ing to reduce the forces. Ex-Superior
Molineaux says the trouble is owing not to
the action of the late board, which did not
overdraw the accounts, but to the legacy
of deficiency received from their predeces-
sors, and from the action of the supreme
court ordering payment of disputed gas
bill to the amount of about 100000.
GREAT FIRE AT MooRHEAD.
MoORHEAD, Mimi, Jan. 19.-The Key
city block, brick structure which cost
$4,000, burned early this morning. There
were some forty persons living in the
block and all managed to get out safely,
though many had narrow escapes. Several
merchants who occupied shops in the
building lost their entire stock, on which
there was little or no insurance. Their
names are Stahl d Echart, Brown & Myle,
Plenis & Brooks, E. G. Neinstadt and E.
G. Holmes. The building was owned by
Bruins d Plenis, and insured for $4,000.
A TRAMP MURDERED.
ST. Louis, Jan. 19.-The dead body of a
was found yesterday near Craig station,
few miles from BelIeville, Ill. His skull
was badly crushed, leaving no doubt the
man had been murdered, but by whom is
not known. Nothing to serve as identif-
cation was found on the body, but it is
thought that the man was tramp.
REDUCING THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
BELAIR, Nd, Jan. 19.-Arthur Preston,
colored, aged twenty-one, was hanged in
the inclosure in the jail yard this after
noon for the murder of his colored mis-
tress, Mary Dorsey, last April by crushing
her skull with an axe. Preston made no
speech from the gallows, and maintained
perfect composure to the last.
ovERwoRKED SWITCH TENDERS
SYRACUSE, Jan. 19.-The Cincinnati ex-
press train going east on the New York
Central this morning dashed into the rear
of a freight train on the main track at
East Syracuse. Harry Stamp and Har-
vey Emmons, brakemen, 7 we're both in
jured, not fatally. No passengers were
hurt. The damage to rolling stock and
freight was considerable. The accident
was caused by switch tenders asleep on
duty.
OTHER FIRES.
NEwBERRY, S. c., Jan. ia fire here
this morning destroyed several stores.
Loss, $25,O00; insurance, $4,000.
ABELINE, Kan, Jan. 19.-Seven frame |
buildings occupied as business houses
burned early this morning. Loss about
100000; partly insured. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 19.-William Messing. a
blacksmith at Emerson & Fishers carriage
and buggy factory, while lacing belt this
was caught around the neck by
the belt and crushed to death.
NOT MUCH OF WIFE.
CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-In the case of Weber
VS.. Col. Abner Taylor for damages for Sc
ducing plaintiffs wife, the jury this morn
ing returned a verdict awarding Weber
one cent damages.
FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR STEAL.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19,-Council's COM
mittee on gas took testimony to-day to
find the market value of the tar manufac-
tured at the gas works, and after witnesses
had testified, Chairman Cunning prepared |
a statement showing that during 1881 there |
were 248,827 tons of coal consumed at the |
city's works, and that 68,427 barrels of tar
of forty gallons each was obtained from it. !
The city was paid one cent per gallon for
the tar and as 81 per barrel could be got
ten for tie tar, he calculated the city had |
lost 81, 900.
TRIPLE KILLING.
UTICA, n. ~, Jan. 19.-On Thursday |
night Harvey Taylor, of Richfeld Springs,
killed his wife and law, and then |
hanged himself. The bodies were discov-
cred this afternoon by Taylor's son-in-law
The women had their heads crushed in |
They were regularly laid out on the floor,
Will uduQS CIOSo0Q, IdC6S WdSnSQ anu I0SD |
tied. Taylor was found hanging in the
cellar.
FIRE IN COTTON MILL.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. ia fire in a |
card room of No. Atlantic mill, original
ing from the friction of machinery, to-day |
occasioned much excitement among the !
employees. The flames were subdued by |
the mill fire brigade. The loss is esti-
mated at over $4,000; insured.
SCANDAL SUIT ENDED.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.I
CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-The Weber-Taylor
scandal suit came to an inglorious and un-
end this morning for both
parties. It will be sufficient rehearsal of |
the facts to say, Ethat John D. Weber, a
real estate agent, began suit against Col.
Abner Taylor, well known and wealthy |
real estate agent, for $25,O00 damages for
The seduction of his wife, Mrs. Ella P.
Weber; that Weber's suspicion had
been aroused by the very costly
presents which Taylor had made his wife,
and that Investigation had revealed the
fact that Mrs. Weber was in the habit of
visiting Col. Taylor's sleeping apartments,
both in the day and night time, which con-