St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-02

previous presidential campaigns. She has
made a special study of the situation in this
state. and feels confident that her husband
will be reelected.
George Holman, the veteran singer, man.
ager and actor, proprietor Of the once well
known Holman English Opera company,
died recently at his home, in London. Ont.
aged seyenty-tour. He went mn the stage in
1886.
EX-Lieut.s Flipper, whose ears once became
of almost national importance when he was
a cadet at West Point. is now an explorer
and mining expert. He has recently re-
turned to Ell Paso, Tex. from a trip down
the Yaqu river, from its source near the Ari-
IONA line, to Nasaea-
:. j. v. williamson the millionaire of Phila
delphia, is about to found an institution
similar in many respects to Girard college.
He has determined to begin operations at
once. and, though feeble i'll health, hopes to
finish it during his lifetime. The cost is
estimated at over S5,0OO.O 900. 1t is to be an
institution for the education OF boys in all
departments of mechanical labor. Mr..
Williamson has appointed seven trustees 10
manage the business whose names are car
fully kept from the public at present.
Willis j. Cook. the noted telegraph opera
tor, and familiarly known as ''Bif,'' died at
the home of his parents in Sandusky from
blood poisoning, resulting from malarial
fever contracted at Aspinwal!, where he was
the chief operator in the service of the
Panama railway. Cook was known far and
wide as one of the greatest experts of the
craft, and several years ago was in the service
of the Associated Press at Washington ON
their New York and Washington circuit
His remarkable feats of telegraphy there
made him famous among operators through
out the country. Cook was in the thirty
seventh year of his age.
H. Grafton Delaney is the wealthiest young
man and considered the best catch in
Washington. He is about thirty. and his
yearly income from an English estate is be-
tween $4,000 and 100000.
c. NJ. Curtis, of Kansas City, wears in his
scarf a blue-white diamond worth $500,
that once belonged to Jim Fisk. Mr.. Curtis
is not hotel clerk, as might be supposed
He is just plain, every day assistant cashier
in bank
Frank Godfrey, now the state printer of
Michigan and man of considerable fortune
when boy of twelve years walked into
Michigan's capital and slept the first nights
in barn in sight of the present huge smoke
stack of his printing office.
The crusade which Mrs. Cleveland began
against the hustle has ended III smoke. The
fact is that Mrs. Cleveland has herself de-
serted the standard of the anti-bustlers, and
has resumed her tournure. This fact was
ascertained by a Washington reporter, who
was curious to know whether the presidents
wife had permanently abandoned the hustle.
He had among his acquaintance young
woman who works i'll dressmaking estab-
lishment patronized by Mrs. Cleveland. AZ
ter screwing up his courage to the sticking
point the reporter asked the young woman
bluntly few days ago: docs Mrs. Cleye-
land wear bustle?" Yes was the answer.
Alexander Fl. Stephens landed property
near Crawfordville, Ca, was sold at auction
few days since. The six acres lying near
the cemetery were bought by the Crawford
vile town council at S35. The "home place"
400 acres. was sold for sos. The Num-
place. containing 32o acres, was sold for
S625. The Kent place, 100 acres, for $3.50.
The health Of Mrs. Secretary Villas is
greatly improved.
Mrs. Towhom who has been housekeeper
at Warwick castle. England, for great many
years. has just died. leaving a fortune Of,
S35O,oG0. All of this money she bequeathed
to her master, who is not wealthy.
George Reynolds of Anna. o., is seventy
SIX years of age and has never made a bet.
He is now anxious, however, to wager 500
that Cleveland will be our next president.
He is inclined to think that this unprece-
dented desire to bet on his part must be the
spirit of seventysix.
George Gould is beginning to be afflicted
with his fathers tormenting complaint of
neuralgia.
Mrs. Langtry told an Omaha reporter that
she loved nothing better than to attend to
her household duties, ana that she delights
in mending her own clothes.
MIRA Fannie Hodgson Burnett has signed a
contract with a New York Weekly paper to
write a story, for which She viii receive
$4,000. the largest sum ever paid woman
for any single story. Amelia Riyes CHAMBER
is under contract to write story for another
New York weekly, for which she is to receive
$1,000 There are some who say that Mrs.
Burnett might have gotten even Larger sum
for her story had she demanded it. Amelia
Rivcs, it was said some time ago, had been
offered S25. 900 for story. This was when
1.-THE Quick or the Dead" was OH the top
wave of popularity.