St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-23
TELEGRAPH1C SPARKS.

Jacob Rhine, Iaborer 60 years of age, was
killed at Massilon, o., by a cave-in of a sewer.
Mr.. Asa Emerson, Kentucky's pioneer,
celebrated his 102d birthday. He has been in
good health until recently.
Henry Huntley, aged Il. living at Marian,
Ala, became displeased at his sister, aged 20,
and killed her with gun. He was arrested.
The bucket shop of T. Friedman on Broad
street has suspended owing S33. 500. The ad-
vance in oil and stock is assigned as the
cause.
The county court house at Baker City,
Or, was burned, together with a large num-
her of valuable records which cannot be re-
placed.
Nelson Stewart and Anderson Davis, coll
ored, who robbed the residence CT s. 6. Strick-
lem, in Charlotte, N. c., were sentenced by
Judge Mears to be hanged Nov. q.
z Many descendants Of the Huguenots met
yesterday afternoon in the Church Du St.
Esprite, New York, to celebrate the bi-ceu-
tenary of tho revocation OF the edict Of
Nantes.
Another break has occurred in Lawrence
Barrett's company, miss Minnie VAIN
wright having gone to New York to join her
husband, Louis James, who left the company
at Kansas City.
The carriage makers convention at Boston
has closed. The repert of the committee on
cooperation against over-productiOn was
adopted. The next meeting will be held in
New York city. The convention then ad-
journed.
At Darlington, S. c., fire caused a loss of
$50, 600, distributed among J. A. Pearce, John
G. White, A. Nochman, S. Marco and NJ Hin
ley. Their loss is on stock. Hayward Sc
Josey and Houston Sc Woodham lost buildings
/ and stock.
At meeting Of the directors of the West
ern Union Telegraph company, DR.. Green was
| reelected president, and Gen. Eckert general
manager Col. Cleary Of Chicago was elected
q vice president and made member of the
executive committee.
The American Antiquarian society held its
seventy-third annual meeting in Worcester,
| Mass. Yesterday. Hon. George T. Hoar was
| reelected president and George Bancroft and
| Stephen Salisbury vice presidents. The other
| officers were also reelected.
| It is reported that $50 French-Canadfan
families left Montreal yesterday for the
| United States, and that twenty-five more FAM
lilies will leave to-day to obtain employment
in factories in the New England states.
| In the suit brought by John s. Goldsmith
| against Jay Gould to recover S25.OO0 alleged
| to be due for certain information furnished
Gould in 1882 in regard to the doings of the
''Order of the Golden Carter" the jury
| brought in verdict in favor of the defend
| ant.
i The Presbyterian State synod met at Troy,
N. Y, and resolutions deploring the publica-
| tion of Sunday newspapers and asking pas
|
! them were adopted. y resolution was also
adopted urging opposition to the freedom-of-
worship bill.
The report that John Russell Young is lying
| at the point of death in Philadelphia is denied
! by his friends. Mr.. Young has been suffering
| for some time past from malaria, but is row
better, and his physicians say he will surely
recover. He is able to be out of bed and walks
| about the house.
The bodies of the eight victims Of Sunday
nights railroad collision near Jersey City,
were buried yesterday afternoon on Hart's
| island by the emigrant commissioners. The
bodies of the Grommer family were not for-
warded to Battle Creek, Mich, as it was sup
posed they would be-
Mary Ann Booth, widow of the late J.
| Brutus Booth and mother of Edwin, ]. Wilkes
and Junus A. Booth, died of pneumonia at
the residence of the last-named to-day in
New York, aged SO. She will be buried in
Baltimore. She was widely known among
theatrical people and much loved.
NJ, G.. and W. II. Barker charged with the
murder of Harvey Keith at Bloomingdale,
Mich, have been found guilty. NJ. G.. Barker
was sentenced to state prison for life and his
brother for twenty-five years. The murder
for which they were tried was an atrociOus
one, Keith being horribly mutilated.
The widow and other heirs of Robert Treat
Payne who by his will gave S50,000 to Har-
ward college to found an astronomical pro-
fessorship, have fled an appeal against this
clause on the ground that Mr.. Payne was not
of sound mind and undue influence was used
in securing the framing of the will.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coon
says that neither the president nor Secretary
Manning have considered the Warner silver
BILL and that he believes tits seriously consid-
cred by no one save Mr.. Warner himself. Mr..
Coon further stated that both the president
and Secretary Manning are opposed to any
further coinage of the silver dollar.