St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-06
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The board is investigating the reports of
petty theits In The naval academy at Annap-
oils, Nd
Mayor Low, in his annual message, saws
the Brooklyn bridge does not pay.
The floating ice in Grand river has damned
about fifteen miles below Grand Rapids.
Mich, aud above the jam the water is backed
up till it is as high as it has been for twenty
years. Efforts are being made TO break the
| jam
Mayor Grace, in his message, urges the
necessity OF spring elections, and that the
bureau OF elections be made independent Of
the police department.
| There was another outbreak OF Orangemen
at Bay Roberts, n. f., Sunday.
At Moorefeld, w. Va, the friends of the
rival candidates for county clerk are under
arms, and the town is in great alarm. One
candidate was elected al tue October election
and the other at the November election,
hence the quarrel.
The ordinance of the city OF San Francisco
which says that no Laundry shall do work
between the hours of 10 D. III. and O'Clock
the next morning. has been declared not un-
constitutional by the United States supreme
court.
The earthquake reported in the east Fri
day night seems to have been more general
than first reported. Reports are coming in
from different points continually giving &C
counts of the shocks felt.
| A. w. Carver, lessee of the Revere house,
the leading hotel OF Oshkosh, Wis, made an
assignment yesterday
Janisch, the Austrian actress, opened
short engagement at Hooley's theatre, Chi
cago, last night in Camille.
IF Ta;,,
cago, has been arrested for using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. He
profcssed to give, upon receipt OF
forty cents "a Waterbury timekeeper'' to
every one who subscribed Tor his paper. The
charge is that he gave instead of Waterbury,
watches cheap pocket compasses.
II is proposed at Portland, Me-, to hold
holiday meeting on the anniversary Of Long
fellows birthday, February z, to unVeil j
bust of the poet,
While a number of workmen were engaged
on a sewer in Kansas City, dynamite cart
ridge exploded, shaking things up pretty
badly and seriously injurng one man.
Many of the knitting mills about Troy, n.
Y, have resumed work.
Troops are gathering at Caldwell, Kas.,
to march on the colony Of 800 land boomers
in the Indian territory. They will leave
Caldwell Thursday.
| 1t is probable that the court of claims will
render a decision in the Pacific railroad cases
next Monday.
The secretary Of war Yesterday transmitted
to the senate the engineers report advising
the purchase, by the government, Of the
Portage lake and Lake Superior ships canal
for $3.50, 900.
Representatives Randall and Meade re-
turned to Washington yesterday, and ex-
pressed themselves delighted with the recep-
ton rendered them in the southern cities.
Jacob Michaels, prominent chnrch mem
Der of Hardenburg, Ind, having been dis
covered in forging an order for 500, shot
himself when the constable went to arrest
him.
Louis Feeder. night Waterman at Ryan's
spoke factory, Bloomington, Ind, was found
dead near his home, with his brains beaten
out. No clue to the murderer
DR.. John MAXWELL hung himself with
towel in the county Jail at Springfield. o. In
November he Murdered his three children by
poisoning, and attempted suicide at that
| time, but recovered aud was lodged in jail.
An old German of Texarkana came home
drunk, and finding himself locked out, tried
| to crawl down a chimney. He got stuck
about half way down, and could neither get
| out or in. There was a small fire in the CRATE
and he soon sulfOcated.
The latest reports from Valentine, Neb.,
in regard to some men freezing to death,
put the number at seventeen,
| Toe citizens of California in attendance at
| the Worlds fair, have adopted a memorial
10 the California legislature asking that an
appropriation be made for the purpose of
moae appropriately giving exhibits of that
state. To-day the exposition will be an
nounced as entirely complete and in perfect
| order.
The first of n series Of billiard matches be-
tween Schaufer and Sosson was played last
night in Central Music hall, Chicago.
The city council of Kansas City has passe
an ordinance for the construction of an eic-
waited railway between that city and Wyan
dotte, Kas.
The investigation of Marshal Lot Wright
was commenced at Cincinnati yesterday, and
some interesting facts brought to light in
regard 10 the deputy marshal business.
| Wright was on the stand almost the entire
session, and it required all his skill to keep
from being brought up short by the attor
neys. The trial Will be continued to-day.
Six hundred men and boys struck at the
| belmont colllery, MT. carmel, IA, against
reduction of 10 per cent. in wages.
Two hundred and fifty coke ovens in Ten
nessee have resumed operations.
The late lynching of two negroes at Clay
| ton, n. c., who were shot and thrown into
the river, receives a sensational interest by
the alleged reappearance of one of them in II
neighboring county.
julius d. Patsch, aged seventy-eight died
at Charleston, S. g., Sunday, He was the
first railroad engineer In the United States
| A general better feeling Is being expert
enced by the manufacturers Of the east, and
! factories that have been idle for some time
are starting up again in all directions.
| Jas. Mason, for fifteen years until 1882
| general counsel or the Lake Shore q Mch-
gan Southers railroad, died Sunday at Sara
toga, N. Y.
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