St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-01
GLOBELETS.

Strikes among the cotton operators of
Massachusetts are increasing.
Bucks bust of Longfellow was to be I'M
yelled in Westminster March /.
| The Great Eastern steamship is to be
used as coal hulk at Giberalter.
Mitchell the pugilist has arrived from Eng
land and is anxious to meet Sullivan.
The Crooked Lake Indians in British
America still defy the mounted police.
Mrs. Haight, who murdered her husband
at Utica, n. Y, has been sentenced to hang.
Lieut.. HARDER has been rendered public
reception at his home in Youngstown Ohio.
The steamer City of Chicago, sailed Feb,
&c from Liverpool with 100000 in gold
coin.
Russia offers to reduce her armament on
the German frontier, if Germany will do the
same.
The Mapleson performance in Chicago for
the benefit of the sufferers by the flood, netted
50, 500.
An iron bridge fell at Louisville KY, just
after a train had passed. An abutment had
Deen weakened by the noou.
A deficiency of 100000 rubles has been
found in the administration of Turkestan,
covering period of fourteen years.
The German newspapers in their violent
attacks upon Minister Sargent seem deter
mined to make martyr of that functionary.
Russia invites England to join in con-
structing canal from the sea Of Aral to
India in the trade interests OF both nations.
The vault of the bank of Commerce, To-
ronto, became filled with gas, and an explosion
took place when light was taken into it.
James R. Partridge formerly connected
with the diplomatic service of the United
States in South America. committed sui
eide in Spain.
1t seems from the English census returns
that tailoring and shoemaking are the favor
tie trades with the deaf mutes, but four are
put down as commercial travellers and one is
cabman.
Smith Meyer, the Washington architect,
says that the entire United States capitol
building is half an acre smaller than the
French national library, and therefore the
the capitol is absurd.
The Nashville american states that the
| handsome sum of SO, sec, 900 is invested in
manufacturing in the four principal cities of
| Tennessee. Nashville has $4, S99, 900, Mem
phis 50 ,694, 900, Chattanooga S2,079, 900, and
and Knoxville 81, 102, 800. 1t is probable
these figures will be doubled in less than FIVE
years.
| The Denver Nears characterizes the stories
of Senator Bowen's poker playing propensi-
ties as ''grand old lie." 1t says the Sena
tor is neither high nor good player. In
| Denver he is regarded as ''sucker," having
| lost $40 for every one he ever won at poker.
| The Washington poker sharps, it says, would
skin him in week if he had a mania for
playing.
Last July Morris Ritterman, while looking
up at an ascending elevator in building
owned by E. H. Roper in New York, was
struck in the eye by a falling bottle, which
destroyed the organ. He sued Roper for
S25, 1000. The latter alleged carelessness on
the part of the plaintiff, but the latter stated
he was told to stand under the elevator by the
janitor, and Wednesday the jury gave him
5000 damages.
The treasury of the German empire has
just undergone its annual inspection.
Every year three important financial officials
visit and verify the imperial funds kept in
the julius Tower, at Spandau, and divided
into four sections-that intended for the eX-
peuses of Notifications, the share for pen
sions and invalids, that set apart for build
ing the Parliament house, and the war por-
ton, which now amounts to $30,000,O00.
The third camp of Confederate soldiers in
existence has been formed in Independence,
Mo-, under the name of Sterling Price Camp
No. 1. Like the other organization, its OBJ
ject is to aid disabled Confederate soldiers,
and to perpetuate the memory of dead COM
rades. The first organization of the kind is
the one at Richmond, Va, and the second at
Butte, Montana. The latter works in har-
mony with the local post of the Grand Army
of the Republic, the two organizations raising
money jointly for INDECENT and wounded
soldiers on both sides during the war.
The oysterpacking business in Baltimore,
Md, employs about sixty-tive firms. The
largest raw house in the city opens II, 900
bushels per day. The aggregate product of
all the packers is s14, 100000 year. From
20, 900 to $4,000 men and women are en-
ployed in shocking, and the women are said
to be expert shuckers and to earn from 81 to
50 per day. A local authority says that the
supply of oysters is diminishing, and that
they are deteriorating in quality; oysters
that five years ago would not be used for the
raw trade are now being bought and ship
ped.