St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
FEEEGRAEsH1C SPARKS.

Henry w ara Beecher had MS pocket picked
of $500 gold watch in New York.
Canon Farrar delivered a lecture on Dante
in fremont temple Wed nesday night.
The governor of Arizona has submitted his
annual report, which indicates prosperous
condition OF affairs in that territory.
By an explosion of natural gas, in Pitts
burg. Peter Mccarthy was fatally injured
and Michael Wood quite seriously burned.
An official report to the Montreal board of
health says there are 700 houses in that city
infected with smallpox, of which 3O5 are
placarded.
AT meeting of the Montreal civic finance
committee u statement was submitted show
ing that $4,000 have already been spent to
put down the smallpox epidemic.
Those well Informed on the subject predict
the termination of the naierS' strike at the
next meeting Of the nail manufacturers,
which will be held in Cincinnati on the 10th
inst.
John e. Owens, the comedian, who has
been sick for some time with an affection of
the liver, causing his friends much anxiety,
was Wednesday so much improved as to bear
a ride without fatigue.
Henry Mosler has been invited by the Art
association of Cincinnati, through Gen. A. S.
Goshen, to exhibit paintings in the art
museum of that city, and they are being
packed for that purpose.
a plan has just been completed at McKees-
port, Penn, for the purpose of converting
natural gas into illuminating gas, and for the
making of a water gas. The productive
capacity of the plant is $4,000 feet of gas per
day.
A serious gas explosion occurred at Fagar
Notch, Penn, in Shaft No. z, Wednesday.
Richard James, John Davis and Patrick Pligh
were terribly burned. James suffered seri-
ous injuries, his hands being burned to
crisp.
Charles Herman of Buffalo, N. Y, whose
wife was found Wednesday morning with her
throat cut from ear to ear, has made two
statements, practically admitting his guilt.
The statements are not yet made public by
the police.
The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin,
in its monthly summary of fire losses, esti-
mates the waste in the United States and
Canada in Octo Der at So, $50 900, which is less
by So, ,250, 600 than the average OF October fire
losses for ten years past.
A petition from New York has been for
warded to the postmaster general, asking
that regular and punctual mail service be
re-eStablished between the United States and
the regular mail connections of Mexico. Gen.
tral and South America, via Celon and Pa
mama.
At the National horse show in New York
Wednesday,, in the competition between
matched pairs of mares or geldings, four years
old and over, the first prize was awarded to
Breeder J. Trow wbridge, Ell Paso, ILL.,, and the
second to Breeder James Turner of Grin
nell, Ia.
The large fiy-wheel in the engine room of
the finishing works Of Samuel Lea & Sons,
Philadelphia, burst. Portions of the rim
passed through the walls OF houses adjoining
and into occupied rooms. The only casualty
was TO babe, whose head was cut severely.
The engine room was completely wrecked.
In Chicago ninety-seven special delivery
messenger boys delivered SSH letters under
the new system last month, and returned 352
to the Office, being unable to find the persons
addressed, The boys made 1902 trips of
eighteen minutes average duration. The
sales of special delivery stamps aggregated
ST. ,0S2, of which $73S.4S was paid to the car
riers. The average pay of each messenger
was S7.61.
A national association of watchmakers and
jewelers. was organized in Chicago. A con-
stitution was adopted, one article of which
binds the members to purchase only from
such jobbers as are eligible to become or
who may be members of the association. The
object of this is to break up the wholesale
dealers habit of selling goods at retail at
wholesale prices.