St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-06
GLoBELETS.

John Browns widow died in San Francis
co, February 30.
The decrease in the public 0ebt since June
3, is SCI, 1914, 074.
Ten fence cutters have been arrested at
Castroville, Texas.
Rodney D. Wells has been appointed post
master at st. Louis
The national debt less cash in the treasury
is now 81, 483, sol, 143.
national wool-growers convention is to
be held at Chicago, May z.
The New York banks hold $4,000, in ex-
cess of legal requirements.
Neutral tribes on the borders of Afghanis-
tan are asking Russian protection.
The report of the civil service commission
sent to Congress fills 81 printed pages.
Several Of the reformatory buildings at
Ionia, Mich, have been destroyed by fire.
The English house OF lords has passed a
bill to prevent the importation Of diseased
cattle.
Judge Hieton has bought the Stewart
building of Mrs. A. T. Stewart for 81, 1907
O00
The high tides along the north coast OF
Long Island are causing much damage to
docks.
In the late Sandwich Islands elections, the
government candidates were generally de-
feated.
The Greenbackers of Maine have called
state convention to convene in Augusta,
April 80.
The total coinage of silver dollars under
the act of February, 1878 to March 1, is $780,,
125, 119.
Gen. Ressr has been offered the position
of chief engineer of the Nicarauga canal
company
Over s1,O17, 100000 taxes on distilled
spirits have been collected by the govern
sine 1862.
Over 2, 900 persons signed the temperance
pledge during Francis Murphy's Boston
ministrations.
The railroads in Northern New York and
Canada have been having much trouble with
snow blockades.
A Chicago manufacturer of bogus butter
testifes that half the product Of his industry
goes to New York
The Washington grand jury have failed to
indict the pension agents lately disbarred for
crooked practice.
The production of steel rails the past year
was 1850, 1894, being about 20 per cent less
than the year before.
John Wills, farmer of Benton county,
Mo-, was called to his door the other night by
two men and shot dead.
Sixteen buildings were recently damaged
in Harrisburg, Pa, by and explosion of dyn-
amite stored in a shanty.
Naval cadets Jastremrki, Parker and Max
ley have been expelled from the naval acad-
envy at Annapolis for hazing.
The German government will ask for 49,
600, 900 marks with which to construct tor
pedoes for the Baltic sea board.
Marshall T. Polk, the ex-treasurer of Ten
nessee, recently convicted of embezzlement
died, Feb. 90, at East Tennessee.
Robert Sanders, a notorious Texas horse
thief, for which large rewards has been Of
offered was arrested at Fort Smith
The Spanish newspaper Ell. Progreso, pub
lished at Madrid, has been confiscated for
printing articles insulting to the King.
a convention of Northern colored citizens
is to be held at Pttsburg, April 29, to dis
cuss the condition of the colored race in the
South.
The French government promises to as
sist in tracing the dynamite fends even to
the extent of searching all vessels arriving
from America.
The Catholic school building at Kershena,
Wis, was destroyed by fire the other night.
Seventy pupils and six sisters escaped in
their night clothes.
Chicago papers claim that Henry Irving's
engagement in that city was the largest ever
played in America The receipts for three
weeks were nearly $4,000.
Stump-speaking is the latest mania among
the English nobemen. In one recent edi-
ton of the London Times fifteen columns
were devoted to speeches alone.
Ben Johnson and Allen ingalls,, the resur-
ectionists who sold three murdered mems
bodies to a Cincinnati medical college, have
been tried for murder in the first degree
A steel pinion weighing eight tons was
cast at the Calumet Iron and Steel Works in
Chicago last week. 1t is said to be the
largest casting ever successfully turned out
in this country.
Stock-raising is quietly becoming very
Important industry in Louisiana. 1t is
claimed that the state has great advantages
over the far western ones in that the winters
are not so severe.
Alfred W. Mckinney, of Troy, N. Y, died
in Florida, and his wife carried the body
home for burial On arrival last Saturday,
it was found that the box only contained an
empty casket The body had been stolen en-
route.
The New York senate committee investi-
ting food adulteration has obtained
sworn testimony that the bogus orders for bo-
gus butter received by New York dealers,
some from Albany and Saratoga, and that
boarding houses are the best customers.
1t is stated that the number of mich COWS
in Great Britain on June 1, 1888, was 8, 1885,
52S. The same authority says that not more
than 1900, 900 are in milk at any one time,
and the yield is about $50, 900, 900 gallons,
this is about one-ifth the number of cows in
the United states.
In Paris the municipal schools are now
visited regularly twice month by medical
inspectors, who also are required to attend
in urgent cases. 1t is hoped by these means
to limit the spread of contagious diseases.
There are 1876 of these doctors, and they re-
ceive $3.50 year each.
George H. Williams,a millionaire lawyer
of Baltimore, is a defendant in a suit brought
by his son to recover 100000 transferred,
change for an annuity OF 50, 500. The youth