St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
TELEGRAPHsC SPARKS.

R. Courteau s. Co., cigar markers, Mon
treal, have made an assignment with iabili-
ties OF over $4,000.
Friday morning the Southern Express COM
pany's safe at Brinkley, Ark. was blown
open and robbed of $4,000.
Archeluse Warren, working in the Solferino
mines, Nevadavlle, Col, fell 1900 feet to the
bottom of shaft. Heis dead.
The report that the Fifth Avenue hotel
New York, was being boycotted is pro
nounced by Gen. Mouller canard.
Thirteen Ohio National banks want an in
junction against county treasurers from col
lecting excessive taxes. The amount in
volved is $l,539,500.
The steamer State of Alabama, which
grounded in the lower bay, New York, Friday,
got off early yesterday morning and arrived
at quarantine at :05 a. m.
It is reported that there has been severe
mortality in Tongue Point asylum, Montreal,
from smallpox, which has never been re-
| ported to the central board.
| The circuit court and court of appeals of
| Kentucky have decided that Mrs NJ. Lucas,
whose husband was killed by mob at the
| Davis county jail, cannot succeed him
| jaior.
| Seventeen of the thirty persons who were
| present at the Weitzel Thanksgiving dinner
| in New York have been affected by trichinosis.
Little hope is entertained that any of them
| will recover.
| The New. Orleans exposition management
has received a dispatch from New York an
| nouncing the return from South America of
| Commissioner Barrows with large exhibits
| from Chill. Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
1t is estimated that it will cost the Dominion
| government 81, 900 to reimburse the grocers
and saloon keepers who obtained their Ii
| censes und IT the Dom nion liquor act. which
| the privy council has declared unconstitu-
| tional.
Another death from trichiuosis occurred in
| the Housmeyer family yesterday at Taren-
| tum, Pa. This makes three deaths within q
week. The victim was Henry. son, aged %
years. The five others who were attacked
| are doing well and may recover.
| 1t is believed the schooner Orphan Boy is
| alrift in Lake Huron and will soon be found
by the tug Sangatuch. The supply of provi.
| sions was small and it is feared that the crew
have perished. She carried 365. .000 feet OF
! lumber and crew of eight mon.
Four new cases of smallpox were discov-
cred Friday night in New York. three in the
| city and one in the lunatic asylum on Black
| wells island. They were all removed to the
| pest house Strongest measures to prevent
| the spread of the disease in the asylum have
| been taken.
| Information has been received from Prince
/ Albert. Northwest Territory, that there is nc
| been disseminated about that locality. Tho
Indians there are quiet and peaceable, as are
| all the bands at Battleford and the surround
| ing region.
| The distillery and stock of John Vandevere
| at Colts Neck. n. j., were seized Friday even
| ing, and sixty packages OF liquor, worth
| $500, and all the books. implements and
| machinery of the concern are now in the
| custody of the United States government.
A scheme is on foot to have water route
| from New York city to the Gulf of Mexico
by way of the Hudson river, Erie canal, Lake
| Erie the Ohio canal, the Muskingum river
| and thence by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
to the gulf. Gen. Warner will bring the mat
| ter to the attention of congress.
The premises of the McDougali Logic com
pany. wholesale ore merchants, were com
| pletely destoyed by fire in Montreal, with 6
| loss of S1e0,000. The Lockhart company
dry goods, and Adam Darling. chinaware, are
also heavy loosers. The total loss will be
$4,000 or S150,00O, which is covered by
| insurance in American, British and Canadian
| companies.
The assignees of the defunct Highland
bank, Highland, ILL.,, began distributing the
assets Friday by paying 10 cents on the dollar
A general rush was made by citizens and farm
ers. and some hitter words were spoken, bu
all seemed glad to get even so small part o1
their investments. About $50. 900 will be dis
| tributed in this city.