St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

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badly damaged by fire and water.
Owens and Mercer, stock brokers, New
York, are unable to meet their liabilities.
The gales of yesterday and Sunday did no
damage on the lakes as far as heard from.
Huntington, the Cincinnati capitalist,
died suddenly last night at the Grand
hotel.
Siam is to send exhibits to the Worlds
Cotton exhibition at New Orleans next win
ter.
Capt. Montgomery, a well-known boat
owner of Detroit, died yesterday after a short
illness.
At King, Ont, the extensive ~tannery of
Davis & Son was burned yesterday. Loss,
$40, 900; insured for $40, 600.
Mapleson refuses to take the New York
Academy of Music unless he receives $780,
900, and $40, 900 is expended in repairs.
A. 81 w. Smiths tobacco warehouse and
factory, Halifax, N. S. was burned yesterday.
Loss on stock $50, 900, insurance SO, 600.
Russia attributes the gloomy outlook there
on account of the competition of the United
States, Canada and India in the wheat trade.
AT the diamond fields, Cape Colony, Afri-
ca, there are fears of a bloody strike. The
men are searched each evening On leaving
work.
At Selmsgrove, Pas fire burned last night
a number of stores and stables. Loss about
81, 500, insurance light. The fire was in
cendiary.
Mayor Behan, of New Orleans, before re-
firing from office tonight, sent a protest to
Mayor Guillotte, claiming the latter was
neither legally elected nor returned.
Geo. H. Cargill, local manager Of the
Drew Mercantile agency, at Des Moines,
Iowa, has left for parts unknown. He has
been dealing in options.
The steamer Assyrian, with provisions for
the French forces in Madagascar, was
wrecked at Providence Island, in the Indian
Ocean, 240 miles north of Madagascar.
A meeting was held last night at the Cooper
Union to protest against the spoilation of the
Propaganda. Dana, Reid, Jones, Evarts and
Tilden were among the presidents of the
meeting.
A German woman, about eighty years Of
age, was found murdered on the roadside,
near West Falls, New York. Two men sus-
pected are being sought for by the indignant
villagers.
The president of the reichstag yesterday
announced that ne had received the express
sion of coincidence from the Columbia lodge
of Freemasons, San Francisco, on the death
of Lasker.
Two thousand miners, who have been on a
strike at Irwin Station, Pa, have resumed
work. The Westmoreland Coal company
are yielding to the demand to remove the one
inch screen.
The United States ship Portsmouth arrived
at Providence, R. l., from st. Thomas, with
the quarantine flying. 1t is supposed that
yellow fever is on board, but no information
can be obtained.
At the Vienna observatory a new comet
has been discovered. 1t appears like a star
of the twelfth magnitude. 1t was first dis
covered at midnight on Saturday III the con-
stellation Virgo.
Ward & Foster, Of the New York produce
exchange reports that the firms name had
been forged to certificates for 81, 800 by w.
j. Phillips, Of the firm of Phillips 81 Co., who
suspended a Gay or two ago.
France will demand that England give
pledges that she will neither annex or estab-
lish a protectorate over Egypt, and if she re-
fuses to give pledges, France will abstain
from the Egyptian conference.
DULUTH, Mimi, April 2S.-After the con-
cert of the Hampton students at the Grand
Opera house tonight, Ed Hawkins, pianist,
and Miss Fannie G. Franklin, star of the
troupe, were married at the parlors of the
Bay View house by Rev. A. W. Ringland, of
the Presbyterian church of this city.
Two men, named Richards and Smith,
were yesterday arrested near Berne, Ind,
suspected of having murdered Amos Bockes-
TO last Friday morning. They were taken to
Decatur and lodged in the calaboose, there
being no jail at that place. Advices from
Decatur at l a. m. say a mob took the pris-
oners from the calaboose about IL O'Clock
for the purpose of lynching them. The pris-
oners begged SO piteously that the mob
weakened and returned them to the authori-
ties unframed. The prisoners will be
brought to TT. Wayne this morning.