St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-26
BRIEFS OF NEWS.

Floods in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
have done vast amount of damage.
BY the premature discharge of a blast, at
Morgantown, Pa, two men were instantly
killed.
George Gresham, assessor and collector of
Salt Lake county, Utah, is a defaulter in
$4,000.
j. I. Voire, saddler, Louisville, KY, was
run over and killed by a train yesterday near
LIE Grange.
A fire in SLOW & Co.'s wholesale saddlery
and harness establishment, New Orleans,
caused loss of $4,000.
France is still excited over the Egyptian
question and wants its share in the influence
on the banks of the Nile.
1t is the intention of the British govern
ment to sehd 1900 Egyptian and 500 British
troops to the relief of Berber.
Richard Currie, who in Boston, on Dec.
81 last, shot and killed his wife, has been
sentenced to states prison for life.
Louisiana has gone $4,000 Democratic,
every office in the state being captured. New
Orleans carries the ticket by $4,000.
AT Meridian, Miss, there was a heavy
frost and some ice yesterday morning, and
many farmers will be compelled to replant.
The Okla Indian troubles at Okla, Quebec,
have broken out again. Part of the French
PROTESTANT ministers buildings were torn
down.
Sam Ward is recovering from his attack of
fever in Rome. Efforts to induce him and
his nephew to join the Catholic church have
failed.
The steamer Bear, of the Greeley relief
har Nau
York for the Arctic region at O'Clock yes
terday.
The amount of stealings by Abbott the
defaulting bank cashier, at last accounts was
$4,000, and he had borrowed besides
$4,000.
At Monroe, La, Mullican was found guilty
of the murder of John A. Rogers and wife.
His accomplice, Clarke, will be tried to-
morrow.
In the suit of Mark D. Hanover against the
Louisville Coaaier-Jou17oal company for libel,
verdict of six cents for the plaintiff was
rendered.
The Canadians Pacific is about to reduce
its force in the locomotive department, a
hundred men, owing to the depression of
business.
President White, Of Cornell University,
Ithaca, N Y, delegate at large, will favor
the candidate who will favor civil reform
freely and faithfully.
At Catasque, Pa, on the Lehigh Valley
railway, two heavy coal trains collided,
and one engine was badly damaged and
fifteen cars shattered.
The Cornellsvlle coke producers associa.
ton threatens to reduce the price Of coke to
Is cents per ton, if the outside producers do
not stop cutting prices.
A gas well of more capacity than any in
the country has been discovered at Wells
burg, w. Va, yesterday, at depth of 1885
feet. 1t rushes through a six-inch pipe.
George Mangan, st. Paul 81 Manitoba
machinist, riding on hand car at Emerson
last night, was struck by an engine and in
stantly Killed. His parents live at Aurora,
Ill.
Navigation on the Canadian canals opens
the first OF May. Freight rates on lumber
are reduced 10 per cent The rate to Alba
$500.
The unwilling of monument at Frank
fort, KY, erected to the memory of Judge
Elliott, killed by Col. Buford for giving an
adverse decision, took place yesterday in the
presence of thousands.
Chas. Barthwaith, of Philadelphia, who
confessed to setting fire to the stable of
James Young in 1880, which occasioned the
loss of 800, 600 of property, has been tried
and found guilty. Sentence was deferred.
At Troy, n. Y, Chas. McAvery was bitten
by dog six months ago Last night symp-
toms of hydrophobia appeared He barked
like dog, snapped and scratched all who
came near him. He was but recently mar
ried.
In the case Of Francis j. Fogg, Of New
York, against General Clinton B. Fisk the
latter was adjudged guilty of contempt to
court for refusing to submit to an examine
ton as party before the trial, fined $500
and ordered into custody.
Twelve business places and two dwellings
in West Salem, were destroyed by fire yes
terday morning. 1t was supposed to be in
cendiary, as ten days ago the saloon keepers
in the neighborhood received anonymous
letters telling them that their places would be
burned before long.
The Sycamore cotton mill, No. 1, Fall
River, Mass, was totally consumed with its
contents last night. 1t was the work of an
incendiary, as when the fire was first discov-
cred. the cotton in the basement was on fire in
three several places. The mill employed 500
hands, and notwithstanding the strike was
running full time. Loss, 100000, insured
for $500, 600 in fourteen companies.
Has Willing.