St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-13
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''Billy'' Burns, a notorious burglar. has
been captured by the police of Detroit He
! has served ten years in state prison and is
| likely to get another decade.
| Daniel Noll, an insane incendiarv. has been
sent to lunatic asylum at Reading, Pa.
William A. Rook, wealthy grain dealer of
Newark, o., has disappeared. His city prop
erty, valued at $4,000, has been attached.
Edwin Pritchard, a prominent logging
jobber of Lake City, Mich, was shot and in
stantiy killed by Thomas GoodnOw, who is
still at large.
Charges are made in the newspapers that a
valuable privilege was secured by a gas COM
pany in Chicago by bribing the council.
q The National Society of American Florists
is in session i'll Cincinnati.
Natural gas has been struck at Port Col
borne, Ont, at depth of 425 feet, which is of
sufficient quantity to light the town. The gas
was burned on the public streets Tuesday
night.
Malachi Herring was shot from the brush
near Scullyville, Indian Ter, Tuesday
evening.
The Loyal Orange brotherhood passed reso-
| lutions at Toronto yesterday censuring Col.
Ouimet for harsh treatment of private men,
bers of the Sixty-tifth regiment.
The Buffalo Lubricating Oil company has
instituted suit against the Atlas Refining
company for $4,000 for the alleged failure to
deliver eco barrels of oil.
Funds for ii Grant monument at Ft.
LeayenwOrth are being raised in Leaven-
worth. Some So, 900 has been raised
Charles Wright, the noted botanist. aged II
years, was found dead in his bed at Wethers-
field, Conn.,, Tuesday night.
Many of the Unioh Pacific shopmen say
they cannot support their families at the pro-
posed reduction.
The Peoples party of New York will meet
in New York city Sept. o.
Nv,
to receive Whelan, the Fenian, as consul at
Fort Erie.
Active military preparations continue in
Afghanistan. The villages and gardens in
the environs of Herat are being demolished
so as to prevent their use for covering the
movements of Russian troops in case of hos
tilities- England Will pay for the property
destroyed.
Lord Dufferin is actively engaged in
strengthening the friendship of the Indian
chiefs.
There are ten cases of cholera in the su-
burbs of Odessa.
The Temps (Paris) wants exemplary pun
ishment inflicted on the murderers of Chris
tianS in TOnQuin.
France talks of q settled government in
AMMAN and TonquiE. The French troops
who have seen two years service there will
be relieved
Russia has dispatchee fifty torpedo boats to
the Black Sea.
1t is reported that the italian government
is preparing to send 10000 troops to Africa
during the coming autumn.
Emperor William left Salzburg for Germany
yesterday. Cordial farewells were exchanged
upon his departure.
Brigands are ravaging Epirus, Greece.
They have carried off several ladies and de-
mand heavy ransomS for their release.
Mrs. Joseph Fischer of Milwaukee brings
suit for the recovery of the bodies of her
twins, which died two weeks ago. and have
since been under medical examination
A leprous Chinaman has been discovered in
Chicago.
Bauer, whose wife died insured for 600
is vouched for by the Equitable Life Insur
ance company, and an attempt will be made
to show that claims are being fraudulent!
withheld.
Ninety young ladies took the veil yesterda,
at Walkesbarre, Penn.
A Judgment for $31.3sS against Grant 4
Ward was yesterday entered in favor of Elmer
Whitaker.
Herbert B. Brooks was yesterday arraigned
in New York for stealing $4,000 in bonds
from his aunt. The bonds were found in
tact
John Donahue were buried beneath q fall of
earth in stone quarry. The former was
disemboweled.
The Baptists, Congregationalsts, Metho-
distS, EpiScopalians, Protestant Episcopali-
ans, the Reformed Episcopalians, Presbyteri-
ans, the United Brethren, the Cumberland
Presbyterians and English Lutherans each
held Sunday school congress at Chautauoua
yesterday.
A petition is being circulated in Massachu-
setts appealing TO Secretary Bayard to use his
influence in behalf of Riel, on the ground
that he is an American citizen.
A committee of Chicago physicians hos do
cided that the Chinaman thought to be of-
fieted with leprosy has merely case of ma
hgnaDt scrofula
Suits aggregating 1884, 900 have been filed
against the Texas & st. Louis Railroad COM
pany.
Fire last night in the fifth story of No. 1877
Duane street, New York, occupied bv Green
q blackwell, candy manufacturers, caused
loss of $4,000; fully insured.