St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-19
TERSE TELEGRAMS.

New York's worlds fair guarantee fund
amounts to S3, ,986.646.
An extensive German Catholic pilgrimage
to Rome is being arranged at Berlin.
Setenteen deaths have resulted from the
explosion Ill the powder works at Hanan.
Germany.
dispatch from Zanzibar reports the
burning of the camp of Lieut.. Buck, OF DR..
Peters expedition, by the natives.
Two thousand bales OF cotton and a guam
tity of oil cake were damaged by fire in the
hold of the steamer Orkla at London yester-
day.
The pope will receive Sir John L. Simmons,
who comes on mission with reference to
ecclesiastical affairs in Malta, with the fullest
state ceremonial.
The conference of Methodist bishops at
Kansas City resumed yesterday the appro-
priation of the fund for foreign missions.
The committee will adjourn tomorrow.
German company has been formed to
acquire land in South B0rneO for the pur-
pose of cullivating tobacco. The company
has capital of 100000 marks.
The PesIher Lloyd publishes a semi officia
denial of the reports that the Austrian cab
met would enter into an agreement to recog-
niZe Prince Ferdinand as the ruler OF Bull
garia.
The comptroller of the currency has au-
thorized the Dawson National BANK OF Lex
ington. Neb., and the Second National Bank
of Elkton. Md. to begin business with capi-
tails of $4,000.
Scarlet fever has broken out at the sol
diers' orphans home, Xenia, o., and a num-
ber of the children have been attacked by
the disease. which is rapidly assuming cpl
demic proportions.
President Carnot has conferred the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor upon the Ger
man officers who were concerned IN the
transferenee Of the remains of his great
ancestor to French soil
IoeS ,srrhf
nominated Thomas Y. Hart for mayor. Gen.
Isaac S. Burrell was renominated FOR street
commissioner The selection of candidates
for the school board was left in the hands OF
a committee.
A man named Jesse Walters disappeared
from Findlay, o., five months ago, and 1t
was thought he had gone to Johustown, Pa.
Yesterday his dead body, CT skeleton, was
found hanging i'll the woods near Flndlay.
The coroner decided that he had suieided.
Fire was diseovere yesterday in the dry
goods store of Rothschild Bros, at Salina,
Kan, aud before it could be controlled, de-
stroyed S3O;OtO worth OF goods, and dam
aged the building to the amount of S3,0UO.
The loss is covered by insurance.
The bioodless bodies of man and his wife
and their three sons were found yesterday in
a well. near Foggia. Italy. All the members
of a family residing in the vicinity have
been arrested on suspicion OF being con-
cerned in the affair." vendetta had existed
between the two fami lies.
While party of four boys were rabbit
hunting near Atlanta, a small village in In
diana. yesterday, the fourteen-year-old son
of j. Fl. Orr, an Arcadia druggist, had his
head completely blown off by the acciden al
discharge OF a gun in the hands of David
Dickover. lad about the same age.
Charles Calkins, blacksmith living at
Derby Lane, VT, was shot three times by an
unknown person yesterday while alone in
his house He is still alive, but cannot re-
cover. He was seen sunday night In com.
pany with one William Blanchard, Of
Charleston, VT
The body of John McCauley, lifeless and
terribly mangled, was found on trestle of
the Toledo Peoria d Western railroad just
across the river from Peoria yesterday. How
it came there no one seems to know. and foul
play is suspected. He was run over by an
East and West going train. His parents live
at LOda, Ill.
The pope has received in solemn audience
the Grand Duchess Catherine, of Russia She
brought with her an autograph letter from
the czar. 1t referred to the appointment OF
the Russian bishops. whose names Will soon
be announced. The ezar also stated that 1t
would give him great pleasure to have the
red hat bestowed on the archbishop of War
saw.
Amid the booming of cannon, dipping of
flags, waving of hundreds OF hats and hand
kerchiefs and cheers from as many throats,
Admiral John G. Walker and his squadron,
Comprising the ships Chicago, Boston, At
lanta ana Yorktown, with bunting flying and
in all the gay panopiy of war, sailed majes-
ticaliy down the North river, New YOrk.
Shortly before noon yesterday.
1t is stated on good authority that Rt. Rev.
Bishop Tuigg, of the Pittsburg diocese,
Roman Catholic church, has resigned and
that Rt. Rev. Bishop Phelan, coadjutor, will
be appointed to fill the vacancy. Bishop
Tuigg has been an Invalid for several years.
He had hoped his health would again permit
him to take charge Of the affairs of the dio-
eese, but he has finally decided to retire.
The supreme court of Missouri has affirmed
the Judgment of the criminal court sentenc-
ing William Mitchell to be hanged on Aug.
5, for the killing Of "VOiceless Mike Kill
risky. Mitchell, in an interview, said that he
was ready to be hung IN week. He is sup
posed to be insane, and his friends Will at
tempt to procure pardon from the governor
on that ground.
Sixteen students of the military academy
of medicine at st. Petersburg have been ex-
PEELED for attending O. funer :. service for M.
Internationally, the nihilist who died re-
Gently. For some days past the authorities
have been investigating what they believe to
be plot against the emperor. The result is
that several persons, who were supposed to
be connected with the plot, have been ex-
PEELED from the capita.
A colored man was found dead yesterday
in a box car loaded with bales of wool which
mond & Danville railroad. The car was
loaded and sealed at st. Louis about nine
days ago. When found the negro was stand
ing on his head between the wool sacks.
There were no bruises or marks of violence
about his person, and all the circumstances
of his death are mystery.
An east-bound freight train on the Michi-
gan Central railway was dltched at Stevens
vile, Ont, Yesterday. owing to a switch hav-
ing been designedly misplaced by unknown
persons. The train was running thirty miles
an hour. The engine was turned upside
down, burying Engineer Reardon, his fire.
man, and Brakeman Murray in the ruins.
Reardon is badly injured. Murray is hurt in
ternally and will die.
The Independence oil deal IN the Ohio
field reported a few days since has been
completed. 1t embraces the reorganization
of the Geyser Oil company with capital
stock of $1,000 O, and leases 80. 600 acres of
valuable oil land. The principal movers in
the deal are Ohio and Pennsylvania oil men.
A pipe line to some convenient shipping
point is contemplated, and it is probable
that refneries will be erected in the field.
Gen. Sir Frederick Middleton, command
ing the forces of the Dominion, is now on
his way to British Columbia where he goes
TO thoroughly inspect and report upon the
defenses of the Canadial Pacific coast. The
British government is not satisfied with what
the Canadian governments has done in the
direction of increasing the efficiency of their
military strength or the coast defenses of
that province, the whole militia force on the
Pacific not totaling 500 men.
At last the county treasury vault has been
opened at Manhattan, KAN, and it has been
discovered that J. M. Fortner. the abscond-
ing treasurer, took all the county funds with
him when he went to Canada Mrs. Fortner,
wife of the treasurer, gave the county COM
missioners the combination to the lock of the
steel vault, which, when opened, was found
entirely empty. The amount Of the embeZ-
element is placed at S4O,O0
NOVEMBER.
Blithe Strephon and Fair Chloe stray
No longer where the wavelets play,
Nor hand in hand the meadows rove,
Or, meath the arches of the grove,