St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-27
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The state labor convention is in session at
Chicago.
At Ottawa, Sir John Macdonald is reported
seriously III.
The sportsmen of Ontario ask better OBJ
servance OF the game law.
Archbishop Gibbons advocates the saving
of the propaganda at Rome.
At New Orleans there has been break in
the levee opposite College Point
Heavy rains in Massachusetts, have swollen
the rivers and much damage has resulted
thereby.
The British troops are suffering fearfully
from the heat, aud will be soon rendered
helpless.
Jay Gould and party hive asaled from
Fortress Monroe in his yacht, Atlantic, for
New York.
The evidence in the Sharon-Hill divorce
suit at San Francisco, yesterday, was in favor
OF Sharon.
An ice blockade on the TiverDon, at Toronto,
had to be blown up with dynamite to save
the bridges.
The Rose Amber murder case will be
again investigated and the right parties are
said now to be found.
AT Des Moines, Ia, the house passed the
senate bill against bucket shops, to prevent
gambling in grains.
At Buffalo, N. Y, yesterday, the boat Hol-
lister, with wheat for Black Rock, is the first
attempt to open navigation.
The floods in the Mississippi are not getting
any lower, and the danger is increasing. The
whole country is an immense lake.
Fordyce, who killed Matthews, editor of
the Hot Springs Hornet, pleaded guilty to as
sault and battery and was fined 5000.
The house of commons, Canada, are pre-
pared, as soon as the people are ready to re-
ceive it, to pass prohibetory law.
In Sequatchu county, Tenn, Davis, q
wealthy farmer, who was beaten by tramp
he had sheltered, is dead and the tramp is in
jail.
Bismarck has directed the Bremen senate
to ask for admission into the Prussian Gus
toms union, and though unwilling they must
yield.
In jefferson county, Miss, 1900 people
are rendered destitute and homeless by the
floods, and theg overnmentis being called on
for aid.
A woman living with Orrin Farrell, at
Wellsville, n. Y, as his wife, while insane
shot and killed her two children and then
herself.
At Richmond, Va, the water is up so high
that goods are being removed from the stores
near the river. Above number of bridges
are gone.
In North Carolina, near Newton, cyclone,
yesterday, wrecked everything in its way,
and many people are homeless. Hailstones
as large as eggs fell.
In New York last night sailor named
Mcpherson, on the steamer Thites, of the
Greeley relief expedition, was drugged and
robbed in dive.
A wrestling match is arranged for be-
tween Ross and the Japanese. Two bouts
of catch as catch can, two japanese, and one
to be tossed up for.
lotto Newbell, an insurance agent, was ar
rested in New York last night on a dispatch
from Chicago, charging him with obtaining
money under false pretencss.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Memorial hall, in
which the authorities have gathered the flags
of all the Illinois regiments in the late war,
was dedicated yesterday.
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, publishes
card, saying he is not a candidate for gov
ernor, as Ex-Governor Oglesby was the most
popular one for the position.
Near Angela, N. NJ, road agents stopped
the mail, robbed the driver and opened the
letters. They built fire to await the coming
of the other coach, but fell asleep and it
passed.
At Lincoln, ILL.,, 1900 of TIE prominent
people of that section OF country held mass
meeting and denounced Carpenter as The
murderer of Fora Burns. Resolutions were
adopted calling on Carpenter TO leave Logan
county at once. Many believe that he is In
nQcant.