St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-07
LACONICs BY LIGHTNING.
Yesterdays Interesting Events
Throughout the World Told in

Yesterdays interesting Events
Throughout the World Told in
Paragraphs.
DR.. Godfrey says the people now i'll at
Biloxi, Miss, are not suffering from yellow
fever.
The Moniteur de Rome denies that Able
Ulysse Mort is now or ever has been charged
with mission to America.
The citizens of Nashville, Tenn, desire that
the widow of Gen. B. F. Cheatham be ap-
pointed his successor as postmaster.
Neal Conway, the dancer, has been taken
to Bellevue hospital New York, again. He
is said to be dying with consumption.
Bernardino Biendell, the Italian anti
quarian, is dead. He was 81 years of age.
The Prince of Wales has returned to Lon
don for the purpose of being present at the
departure of his brother, the Duke of Con-
naught, for India.
WALTON cholera returns: Towedell An
nunziata, 3S cases, "a deaths; San Marie, in
Lamis. 20 cases, IL deaths; Naples. 2 cases;
other districts, 81 cases, 81 deaths.
The British treasury minute appointing a
commission on the currency question, limits
the scope of the commission to an inquiry
into the causes of the depreciation OF silver
and the appreciation of gold.
The Greek gypsies who were refused trans
portation to the United States by all the
steamship lines, have left England by way of
Hull and gone to Hamburg, whence they in
tend to secure passage to America.
Hugh ]. Mohan. of California, who was
recently appointed special agent of the
labor bureau, has resigned, in order to take
the stump for the Democratic party in the
coming campaign in California and Nevada.
Hon. Arthur G. Sedgwick, the special agent
of the United States government, has COM
pleted his investigations at the City of Mexico
and has gone to Chihuahua, having obtained
permission from the Mexican government to
look at all the records in the Cutting case.
A strike of all the IRON moulders at Pater-
son, N. j., is in progress. The men ask for
uniform wages of $3.50 per day. Three
hundred men are out and in consequence of
their action 500 helpers are out OF employ
ment. The strike causes considerable en-
barrassment to the iron and locomotive in
dustries
Fire Commissioners Purrey and Smith, of
New York. made a long explanation to Mayor
Grace on Saturday at his country seat at
Great Neck, L. l., touching the charges made
against them recently of their unfitness for
the Offices they held. The mayor said to-day
that he was fully satisfied with the explana-
tions made to him.
Father Biet, superior Of the Catholic mis-
sion in British Burmah, recently went to
visit we'll known uSurer. While the priest
was in the money lenders house, three
Burmese broke in to steal the usurer's money.
He resisted them stoutly and they killed him
with knives. The robbers then turned upon
the priest and murdered him because he had
witnessed their deed.
The New York emigration commissioners
met and debated the question of allowing the
alleged pauper emigrants, who came to New
York on the steamer Wyoming, to land.
They examined the pecuniary condition of
the Mormon emigrants and permitted those
of them to land who would not become a
charge to the city and county.
In the suit of The City of Pittsburg against
DIR. David Hostetter for the recovery of DAM
ages for breach of contract on the part of
Andrew Hartupee, contractor of the new city
water works, a compromise was affected by
Dr. Hostetter agreeing to pay the city S143,-
500. Hostetter, who was surety for Hartu-
pee, has paid to the city altogether over
S4OO 600.