St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-13
TERSE TELEGRAMS.

Eighty-eight immigrants arrived at Castle
Garden Thursday.
Eugene franklin. colored, 10Y years old.
and Armenia Wilson. 102 years, are dead in
New York city.
DJudgments for $500 damages against
the New York city elevated roads were yes
terday docketed.
A Huntsville. n. j., heifer has veritabIe
COW pox, which is said to be the third case
ever known III the United States.
Andrew J. benson, one of the hest known
of the early settlers of Chicago, died yester-
day of pneumonia, after q short illness.
steak thief last night stole satchel con-
tanning So 900 in negotiable paper, while it
was in care of Sheriff Watson, of Mercer
county. W. Va
E. N. Dickerson. the great patent lawyer
and lately the leading counsel Tor the Bell
Telephone company, died at his residence in
New York City Wednesday night.
Expert cracksmen entered the Office of G.
A. Whvland & Co., commission merchants,
Chicago, on Wednesday night. opened tn
safe IN the most workmanlike manner, and
carried off about $4,000 worth of securities,
most of them negotiable.
William Neil first knocked Fletcher Gentry
down with rock. at Norburne, Mo-, We'd
nesday night, and then drew out a revolver
and shot him. the bullet entering the abdo-
men. Gentry will probably not recover. Neil
fed and has not been arrested A feud has
existed between the two men for some time.
More Irregularities in the accounts of
schalfenberg, secretary OF the Milwaukee
school board, have come to light. He was in
the habit of pocketing the money collected
from nonresident pupils as tuition fees. and
the amount due at the time OF his death was
about 81, 90.
A steampipe burst in the new Northwest
ern depot at Milwaukee Wednesday night Just
after its opening. William Winner. the en-
gineer, L. A. Carr and Nj. Case. electricians.
and Herman Botcher, machinist. were ter
ribly scalded. The last may die.
While attending q birthday party at the res
idence of Claus Hanson. near Tuscola, H.
Peter Study and David kr0w, two prominent
German farmers became engaged i'll quar-
rel. during which krow was stabbed seven
times by Stoily and his throat cut. His
wounds probably are fatal. The guests be-
came panic-s;ricken during the fight with
the exception of Krow's wife, who finally
separated the men and stood between them.
The Investigation into the cause of the
theater disaster at Johnstown. Pa. was con-
cluded Wednesday night shortly before mid
night, and a verdict rendered that death was
caused in each case by suffocati0n in jun
resulting from g panic, precip1tated by
false alarm of fire IN Parke's opera house
during performance. The jury also found
that owing to the insufficient number of
exits, the narrowness and faulty construction
OF the only one to the house, the building is
entirely unsafe.
Rev, DR.. Reilly, treasurer of the Irish
National Land League. yesterday cabled
SIS, 900 TO DR.. Kenny, treasurer of the Irish
League for the use of the tenants defense
fund. DIR. Reilly, in an interview, said: 1.-THE
need of funds for the league was never more
urgent. The Irish people are entering upon
the last stages OF their agitation. A deSper-
ate struggle is on between the tenants and
landlords of LELAND. The landlords recog-
nize that their tenure is doomed"
It Is believed that Joseph G. Ditman, the
we'll known retired paper manlIfaclu and
president of the Quaker City National Bank
of Philadelphia, was drowned in the Schuyl-
Kill river Wednesday evening. Mr.. Ditman
was in the habit of driving spirited pair of
horses in the afternoon along the river drive
in Paramount park. He started out from home
as usual yesterday afternoon and during the
evening q park policeman found Mr. Dit
mans carriage upset on the river bank.
Laura Stivers. q seven-yearold girl, was
assaulted in the woods near Cleveland, Tenn,
Wednesday by white man named Will Car
din. posse of citizens caught him last
night. He was fully identified by the child
and was taken to field and lynched
Two hundred and fifty families in Morton
county Kan, are in destitute circumstances
and unless immediate aid is given them
many win die from the want of food and
clothing.
John Martin, aged eight years: Ambrose
Donnelly, aged ten, aud Bert Sheldon, aged
twelve, broke through the ice while skating
on mill pond at Ironton, Sank county.
wis Martin and Sheldon were dead when
their bodies were recovered ten minutes after
the accident, but Donnelly was resuscitated
and may recover,