St. Paul daily globe., 1884-04-22
ALL AROUND THE. GLOBE.

IN the situatlon.
At Kansas City yesterday snow was falling
the greater part of the day. There has been
a heavy rainfall in the southwest for the past
week.
Inclement weather has caused postpone
ment of the races by the new iocky club.
Two hundred and fifty horses are on the
track.
a fire at Alton, H., yesterday, destroyed
the globe store. Loss over $50, 900; insured
for SIG, 900.
A waterspout and windstorm demolished
the house of a farmer named Bond, near
Lockwood, Dade county, Mo-, on Friday
night, killing one of his children and iniur-
ing several other members of his family.
The Grand Trunk railroad employees at
Montreal and Stratford have accepted a re-
duction of five per cent. for six weeks.
Rugg, the Long Island murderer, has been
denied an extension of time, and the court
in New York ordered him to plead, and pro-
ceeded to get jury.
The exposition in Louisville, KY, of south
products, is intended to be made still more
extensive and attractive than last year.
At Mauch Chunk, Pa, Mrs Elizabeth
Ruse, was found guilty OF voluntary man
slaughter for the killing of Wm. F. Eli, of
Yorktown.
The bank at Effingham, H., was closed all
day yesterday, the President F. A. Vongassy,
leaving town on Saturday night, and his
whereabout is unknown His accounts are
short from S25, 900 to $4,000.
DR.. Harrington, convicted at Jersey City,
for conspiracy TO defraud the American
Legion of Honor, was sentenced yesterday to
two wears in the state prison.
Pepper the broker, who embezzled bonds
from Dr. Merrill, of New York, yesterday
pleoded not guilty, and bail was fixed at
$4,000.
The Indian rising in the Canadian north
west is officially denied.
Gen. Badeau has arrived from Havana
at New York, but will give no indication as
to his reason for resigning the consul-gener-
alship.
The Massachusetts house rejected the SEN
ate order for biennial elections Of the legis-
lature.
III Philadelphia, the second annual exhi-
biton of the Women's Silk Culture associa-
ton began yesterday. The exhibition was q
wonderful improvement on last year, and
the manufacture of silk will be shown in all
its stages by the aid of machinery.
A movement is on foot in Philadelphia
among the manufacturers and merchants to
establish an exchange modelled somewhat
after the exchanges of Great Britain.
The striking shoemakers of Munden & Co.,
Philadelphia, are returning to work at the
firm s terms.
Fred. and VIM. Horstmeyn and Lewis Gill
bert, convicted of pool selling In Philadel-
phia for horse races, have been sentenced
four months for the first and six weeks i'm
prisonment for each of the others.
English detectives are returning from
France where they failed to link any of the
Irish-Am erican suspects with the dynamite
plot. Without positive proof Of implication
in these plots the French authorities will not
interfere.
Dr. Nachtigal, lately German consul at
Tunis, will be sent to the Congo river to Or
ganize German consular service in that re-
gion. Germany and the other powers are de-
termined to have share of the Congo trade
with Britain and Portugal.
King John of Abyssinia wishes direct dip
lomatic relations with Britain. He also wan is
English officers for his army, and for the
British government to help in keeping his
army up. 1t is not at all likely they will do
the latter.
The coal miners in the north of France
are again on strike, because the mine owners
would not employ the leading strikers of the
late troubles. They will appeal to the gov
ernment for aid.
General Graham and Sir Evelyn Barring
have started for London. 1t is not expected
that Barring will return. Graham is sum
moned to England to explain military affairs
in the Soudan.
AtDayton, Ohio the railroad strike is over,
and the employees are being paid as rapidly
as the money is earned.
The Cleveland board Of education organ
ized last night, and the contest was between
those in favor of free supplies for the pupils
and those against. The free side gained by
Ia to 9.
The jewelry store of B. Zallus, at Cumber-
land o., was broken in on Sunday night and
the safe blowu open. The thieves got 5000
in cash and $500 worth of jewelry.
Mrs. Robert Burke, colored, was sitting
yesterday in front of an open fire place, at
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, holding her three weeks
old babe, when the flames caught her dress
and the clothes were burned off both. The
woman will die, but the babe will probably
recover.
large number of delegates are arriving
at Cleveland of the Republican state conven-
ton to be held on Wednesday and Thursday,
to nominate a state ticket.
Castillo, Stimson & Co.. leather merchants,
Montreal, have failed for S100,000; assets
nominally the same.
Joseph Allen was arrested in Hamilton,
Ont, last night on the charge of being the
r1rir, ciD in ha a. To
Mich,, last fall. He will be taken to Jack
son.
In Philadelphia cooking main was raided
by the police last evening and large seizure
made. Twenty-six men, fonr birds and the
paraphernalia of the pit were among the
spoils. All were fined, some heavily, which
most Of the men paid.
Wamsbyville, Ohio, was nearly destroyed
by fire yesterday. Loss 500, 1000.
Mrs, Catharine Herman, aged so, died
yesterday in the Bellevue hospital, New York,
from the effects of injuries inflicted by a
daughter of Mrs. Brady.
At Shreveport, La, Josiah Rinfro was shot
by an unknown party last night.
In the case of Vim. Neal for the murder of
the Gibbons children at Grayson, KY, out
of panel of sixty persons, only four Jurors
have been selected.
AT Ducks Creek Valley, in the vicinity of
Mocksbury, Ohio, there is great excitement
over the late find of oil. The Lang well tor
pedoed on Saturday, is running $50 barrels a
day, and the Mills 81 Mullen well in the same
vicinity is running more.
An immense labor demonstration is an
nounced at Buffalo, on Wednesday. Ex-
Gov. Butler, Mayor Powderly, of Scranton
and Martin Foran, of Chicago, are announc-
ed as speaker.
By party vote the N. Y. legislature ad-
journed over the state Republican conven-
ton at Utica. Twenty-eight of the assembly
are delegates.
The meeting of the New York state Demo-
cratic committee called for Thursday is