St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-11
TICKS FROM THE WIRES.

The American schooner Annie G, which
sailed from San Francisco two weeks ago for
the Mexican coast has been seized at Altata,
Mexico, for attempting TO eyade the payment
of customs dues.
The officers of the Anthony Loan and Trust
company of Anthony, Kan, deny the state
ment that the company has gone Into Hquida-
ton, although Ii is admitted that such O
course may be adopted later.
Gov. Lee, Of Virginia, has resDited Simon
thirty days. He was to have been hanged on
Friday for committing rape on a white
Child about twelve years of age.
Oscar N. Kyle. OF Florence, Mass. treasur-
er and manufacturer Of the Florence Ma
chine company, Northampton. Mass, COM
mitteed suicide yesterday by hanging him.
self i'll his barn. 1t is thought he was insane.
DR.. Hugh NJ. Sutherland, of Ill East
Fiftieth street, New York, died at the New
York hospital yesterday morning from the
effects of morphine. He took the poison
Wednesday afternoon in Union Square park.
The strike Of the block coal miners at
Brazil. Ind, has entered in its sixth month
and the idle men seem as determined as ever.
Some OF those at work are being induced to
quit, and the strikers still demand arpitra
ton.
At secret meeting Of the members of the
old French colony in Montreal it was decided
to invite Gen. Boulanger to take up his resi-
dence among his com patriots in Canada until
his star in France shall again be in the as
cendant.
The Northwestern branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society, In session at
Grand Rapids, Mich, Yesterday, elected the
following officers: President. Mrs. j. r.
Hilt. Evanston, H.; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. L. 2. Crandon, Evanston, Ill.
At the annual meeting of the Aurora, H..
Watch company last night II. II. Evans, who
is the assignee, was empowered to sell the
factory at the best figures he can obtain,
after which the company will surrender its
charter The property will be sold to Chi
cago syndicate.
The grand jury at Scranton, Penn, yester.
day returned indictments for enlightenment
and larceny against Cashier Jessup, who
wrecked the Scranton City bank by misap-
propriating 100000 Of its funds. 1t had
been stated that Jessup would escape trial by
reason OF amicable settlement.
DR.. F. l.. Burden, ex-chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee and prom
inently mentioned as the successor of Col
lector Sattonstall, of the port of Boston, had
stroke of paralysis Wednesday night at his
home in North Attleboro, Mass, and has not
recovered his power Of speech.
John Eisenberger wife beaten, received the
punishment Of the lash at the whipping post
III tbs Baltimore, Nd, city jail last evening
Thirteen distinct purple wells. with the skin
broken, showed that the whipping was seri
Gus. Eisenberger is the fifth TO be whipped
under Maryland's law of 1882.
The Women's congress at Denver yester-
day elected Julia Ward Howe president; Isa-
bella Rowland, of New York.secretary; Hen
rietta Wolcott of Massachusetts, treasurer;
Sophia Hoffman, of New York, and Char
lotte Pierce, of Pennsylvania. auditors. Vice
presidents were chosen from all the states.
The boiler in John Davis shingle mill at
Lindsay, Ont, exploded at 6 o'clock yester-
day morning Engineer John Poles was the
only person in the mill at the time and was
Iii Tho mill rxrao olr lnu cd tn tl1n
ground. The explosion is supposed to have
been caused by lack Of water in the boiler.
A northbound freight train on the Rich
mond Il Danville road broke in two yesterday
morning soon after leaving Danville, Va,
and the rear section cOliided with the cars in
front resulting i'll a bad smaSh-up Brake
man Farley, of Manchester, was killed, and
Brakeman Owen badly injured about the
head.
II. NJ. S. learns. which grounded near
Wayne island while on her way to Esquimat
bay, B. c., Sunday, has been fioated and is
preparing to start for Esq1imalt. A survey
of the vessel will be made and if necessary
she will be placed in the dry dock Official
inquiry will be held as to the cause of the ac
cident.
The great fertilizer factory of g. Ober, Sons
& Co., established in 1857 at Locust Point,
Baltimore, Md burned Yesterday noon 1t
consisted of three large buildings which cost
$3.50, 900. The fire started in the acid stor-
tBt TOOIn Dy spontaneous COmDuSIlOu. Inc
buildings will be almost total loss. $4,000
worth of stock was destroyed.
Henry Hoar, Of Ansonia, Conn.,. and L. D.
Van Anrum, of GlOversville, n. Y, members
of the freshman class of Syracuse university.
were bound and taken to a swamp three
miles east OF the city by party of sophie
mores Wednesday night. Hoar's mustache
and hair were cut, and the two men were
forced to walk back to the city.
Prof. Otto j. Klotz, chief astronomer of the
department OF the interior at Ottawa, has ar
rived at Victoria, B. c., from Alaska During
his stay he visited the famous Muir glacier,
which has attained celebrity Dy accounts of
silent city, mirage reported seen i'll the
ice. The story of the mirage of Muir glacier
Prof. Klotz pronounces humbug.
Customs Inspector Blanchley several days
ago shot Mexican who was trying to Snug
gle bottle OF toguila into Ell PaSo from Paso
del Norte. The wounded smuggler is in
critical condition and, on the strength Of a
complaint that he was shot down without
proyocation, the Mexican authorities speak
of making it an International affair.
James Draper, OF Worcester, Mass, overseer
of the National Grange Patrons of Husbaudry
yesterday issued the itinerary of the visitors
from the Eastern states to the.meeting Of the
National Grange i'll Sacramento, Cal, in No
Yember. The price of tickets to Chicago
from Boston will be S18 from that point to
San Francisco and return 500. Tickets
good for six months.
Evanston, ILL.,, is again disturbed. The
annual freshman sophomore cane rush agita-
ton has given some unknown vandal excuse
for covering the white stone steps and portals
of the university hall with red paint The
trustees have taken steps to capture the mis-
creant, and both professors and students
have publicly denounced the deed. The
sophS have challenged the freshmen. and in
dications are that the proposed fight will be
bloody one.
At a meeting of II. L. Farnham Post No.
ass, G. A. r., at New York, last night reso-
lutions were adopted roasting Senator Ingalls,
and other jawsmiths and condemning any at
tempt 10 make use OF the Grand Army of the
Republic for political purposes or as an en-
CINE TO aid in dissipating The surplus that has
been accumulated in the government treasury
by unwise and unnecessary taxation.
Wednesday night, while Miss Lathen, of
Oswego, N Y. was returning from her home
to the house OF Frank Humiston, where she
is employed she was seiZad by an unknown
man and dragged to the river bank near by.
Her screams for hel p alarmed her assailant
who choked her into insensibility and threw
her into the river. Her cries had been heard,
and she was rescued by several citizens. Her
assailant esca ped.
William Wallace the principal in the
much-talked-of October pork desl' in
Chicago, has taken thesfght from the county
10 the United States courts. Yesterday he
fled bill in the clerk office of the United
States circuit court. against William G. Sew
erin. president OF the board of trade, direct
ors OF the board OF trade, the committee on
provision inspection and Swift q Co. In the
bill the allegations are the same as have al
ready been made public.
Several stockholders of the Sutro Tunnel
company have served notice upon twenty
five Comstock mining companies, enjOining
them from hereafter paying any royalties or
dues of the Sutro Tunnel Company Union
Trust Company of New York, or Comstock
Tunnel Company Of New York. The stock
holders will seek to nullify the recent in
tended absolute sale of the property and
franchise of the Sutro Tunnel company,
which is estimated to be worth Sl0,000O0O.
The United Typothetae convention, in ses-
sion at st. Louis, Yesterday elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Col Horace T.
Rockwell, of Boston; corresponding secre-
tsry. 6, S. Cushing, Boston; treasurer, A. o.
Russell Cincinnati. Boston was chosen as
the place for holding the next convention
and the date fixed for first Tuesday in Sep
TENDER. A resolution favoEing the passage
of state and national laws making it obliga-
tory upon apprentices to serve period of
five years was adopted.
Eight years ago Henry Brubaker. living
near Fort Wayne. Ind, very mysteriously dis
appeared He left a wife and six children
behind, and no trace of the missing man