St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-20
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

r. G. Horr was nominated for congress in
the Eighth Michigan district.
Warren Quinn, aged ten years, was
drowned at Point Lookout, fashionable
Michigan summer resort.
Michael Walters, farm hand living near
Taylorville, H., aged forty-fve, committed
suicide by taking strychnne. 1t is said he
was well connected in Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Canada reported Excess
sively hot weather, the thermometer rang
ing from 80 to 95 degrees. A large number
of sunstrokes were reported.
The Sons of Veterans will hold their an
nual encampment at Philadelphia, August
81, 90, go and 80.
President Arthur is at the Fifth avenue ho-
tel, New York. He is unaccompanied by any
one, and is engaged in attending to private
business. He leaves for Newport to attend
the naval review in few days.
The Prohibitionists of Missouri met at Sc
dalia, and nominated state ticket and
adopted platform.
The Duke of Wellington was buried at
Strathfield.
Fire at Rosebury, Oregon, yesterday morn
ing destroyed a block of buildings, including
the United States signal service office. Loss
500, 600; insurance $4,000.
Louis A. Knott, under death sentence,
was taken from the Jail at Colfax, w. T.,
yesterday, and lynched.
j. T. Ripley has resigned his position as
assistant general freight agency of the Wa
bash road, to take the commissionership of
the Wabash 81 Burlington pool at Chicago.
The Republicans of the Sixth Iowa district
Yesterday nomina ted Frank 2. Campbell for
congress.
A. s. Pearce, colored, was yesterday NOM
mated for congress by the Republicans of
the Third Mississippi congressional district.
James Henderson, of New York, who
killed policeman Logan two years ago, was
captured yesterday morning while robbing a
store in New York city.
Mother Mandlebaum, af New York, yester-
day pleaded not guilty to the charge of re-
ceiving stolen goods, and the case was post
poned until the next term of court.
The pope will in few days enter formal
protest against the French divorce law.
The fifth annual convention of conductors
and brakemen's benevolent association is in
session at Montreal.
A fifteen -year-old daughter of farmer
named White, living near New York, was
Yesterday attacked and murdered while on
her way to market.
John Wallace, the pay master clerk at
Philadelphia, who pleaded guilty to the
charge of embezzlement, was yesterday sem
fenced to pay fine of $4,000, and to two
years and six months in the penitentiary.
| Vincent L. Bradford of Philadelphia, be-
| queathed his law books to the Washington
and Lee university, Virginia, to be added to
the books he had already given them. The
| entire collection will be called the Vincent
| L. Bradford Law library.
The Missouri state convention of home
protection and prohibition met in Sedalia,
Missouri, last Tuesday.
The grand lodge Of the Pennsylvania
knights of Pythias met in Philadelphia Tues
day, August 10.
! John Murthel, cigar maker living in
| Detroit, Mich, committed suicide yesterday
by jun ping from ferry boat.
| Paul HAYNES, of Pittsbnrg, fell into a tank
| of boiling vitrol on Tuesday night, August
| 10. at Oliver Bros mill where he was work
| ing. Two hours afterwards Clark Solen. of
the same city met with similar accident.
| The ninth biennial convention Of teachers
| Of the blind met in st. Louis, Mo-, Tuesday,
! August 10. This Is The first meeting of this
! body ever held west o. the Mississippi river.
The seventh annual convention Of the
American Microscope society began at Roch-
ester, n. Y, Tuesday, August 10.
The Democrats of the Fifteenth Missouri
! congressional district were unable to agree,
and one faction nominated William HI. Wal
lace, while the other will meet to-day to con-
slider the question. It is probable the dis
trict will go Republican unless the differences
are settled.
The Green6ack state convention Of Illinois
met at Bloomington yesterday, but nothing
was done except to effect an organization.
The Greenback convention Of Texas, met
at Houston yesterday. The day was con-
sumed in effecting an organization and con-
sidering the platform.
A young man who registered IS T. L.
Jones, Kansas City, at the Everett house, st
Louis, last Saturday was found dead in his
room yesterday, having committed suicide.
Marshal Jesse Ofutt, OF Franklin, KY,
! was killed yesterday By q young DESPERATE.