St. Paul daily globe., 1889-12-24
TERSE KILOGRAMS.


President Carnot, who is suffering from the
Influenza, is slightly better.
The number of miners who are on strike
in the Charleroi district Of Belgium is $500.
Emperor William has entirely recovered
from his illness. and has resumed his recep-
tions.
Influenza is spreading rapidly in London,
and ii is reported that several cases have re-
sulted fatally.
All the vessels composing the American
evolution squadron are now at Lisbon, the
Yorktown having arrived there yesterday.
The Novoe Vremya of st. Petersburg states
that Bulgaria has purchased from Austria
10000 rifles and 100000. 600 cartridges.
Nine business houses in the village OF Lees
burg. Ind, were burned Sunday. The losses
aggregate $25, 900, with $4,000 insurance.
The rumor of the betrothel of Duke Ernest
Gunther. of Scheswig- -Holstein. Germany. 10
Maud, the third daughter OF the Prince OF
Wales is repeated.
Sagasta, tour other ministers, the president
of the Spanish cortes. many members of the
cortes. and Miss Nevada AID other artists
have the influenza.
Barnays Hamlet" played in his own the
ater at Berlin, with Marie Hook as Ophelia
and Waller Conrad as PolonIus, has proved
an enormous success.
The steamer P. Calan6 eollided with the
ship Thorbeck ". and sustained some dam
age the extent of which is not yet known.
The latter vessel sank.
DrjFofster, manager of the Burg theater,
in Vienna. dropped dead while walking in
Semme-Ring forest. His death was caused
by stroke OF apopiexy.
The Zines Berlin correspondent says the
official circles il that city know nothing OF
any invitation to the kaiser to arbitrate the
Apgle-Portuguese dispute.
The cotton compress at Fort Worth. Tex,
with ten carloads of cotton on track and
about 2,0Ua bales on the platform, was de-
stroyed Sunday morning. Loss. Si5o,000.
Au attempt was made on Saturday to wreck
the Marseilles and Bordeaux express trains.
Robbery is supposed 10 have been the motive.
The police are sanguine that they will cap
ture the miscreants.
Horsetheves are making miserable the
lives of Stevens county, Kansas farmers.
They come up from No Mans Land and run
off ali stock in sight. Arrangements are in
progress for series of lynchings.
BY caVing of earth at the new Newport
News and Mississippi Valley lrailroad depot,
at Memphis, Tenn, yesterday. Walter Bod
kins and an unknown man were killed, and
John Mclaughlin seriously injured. The
men were all laborers.
Though Emin Pasha is recovering from the
effects of his recent accident at Bagamoyo,
the German doctors who are attending him
say it will not be safe to remove him from
that place inside of three weeks.
The British armor-elad Sultan. which in
last March struck rock and sunk in Comino
channel, near the island of Malta, and which
was subsequently raised, arrived at Spithead
yesterday, under her own steam.
The Office of lottery company at Szedged,
in Hungary, was entered by burglars Sunday
night. who forced open an iron safe which
was regarded as burglar proof and secured
quantity of specie. The robbers made their
escape.
pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting TO
blackmaii the family of Judge Lewis, of the
supreme court of New York, was yesterday
sentenced by Judge Daniels, of rie county,
to the penitentiary for one year.
By the fire which destroyed the German
theater at Pesth. 264 persons are deprived of
employment, many of whom are suffering
for want of food and proper shelter. The
other theaters in the city are giving perform
ances for the benefit of the sufferers.
Cotton from the steamers SueZ and Pawnee
from Savannah. has been burned on the quay
al Genoa. Fifteen hundred bales were dam
aged by fire and water. The cargoes of the
steamers Annie and I.etambro, from New
Orleans. are also believed TO be destroyed.
1t Is reported that Austria and Hungary
have agreed TO resume specie payment two
years hence, and to introduce at the same
time the decimal systematic main coinage
to be in gold, silver being used only for small
coins. Each country will raise the necessary
funds by loan.
The Bigley hotel at Alpsyille Pa, on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was destroyed by
fire Sunday morning. The large building was
originally constructed by Capt. Nicholas j.
Bigley, as a summer resort, at a cost of S29,-
OdO but was failure. The building was oc-
cuped by q number of families, all of whom
escaped. 1t was insured.
The self-styled Rev. William Fl. Ramscar,
who was last week convicted in the general
sessions court, in New York city. of an as
sault upon seventy -year-oid John Layerty in
his ''Old Gentlemen's Unseetarian Home'
was yesterday sentenced by Recorder
Smyth to one years imprisonment in the
penitentiary and to pay 500 fine.
A majority of the coal miners in the Mo-
nongahela valley resumed operations yester-
day at the half cent per bushel advance in
the mining rate demanded by the miners. A
few mines are still Idle, but all will be in
operation in ten days. The resumption will
give employment to nearly 5,O0a men, who
have been on strike for two months.
William Eubanks of San Jose. Cal. a wild
over about forty-fve years of age shot and
killed his sixteen-year-old daughter at Los
Gatos, Sunday. He then attempted to COM
NIT suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor, but will probably recover. 1t is al
legged that the cause or the deed was the
girls refusal to give her father her wages.
Mr.. Gladstone. Mr. Parnell and the other
chiefs of the Gladstonian party will meet in
London before the session OF parliament
opens to settle upon the course to be taken
by the party in parliament. This will be
based on the lines of the agreement made by
latter's visit to Mr.. Gladstone at Hawarden
last week.
Sh ortly after midnight. yesterday morning,
kerosene lamp exploded in the apartment
of Mrs. Kate Houston. 167 West Sixtieth
street, New York, and set fire to her clothing
and to the clothing Of her two-year-old
daughter Both were terribly burned. The
mother, who was but twenty-five years old,
died this morning and the child will also
die. Mrs. Houston and her husband quar-
relied soon after their marriage, and had not
since lived together.
Peter Raymond and John Lewis were
drowned i'll New river, near Hinton, W. Va,
yesterday. The two parties named, in COM
pany with Luther Butler, were taking a small
boat loaded with corn down the stream, their ]
idea being TO sell it to obtain money for the
Christmas holidays. In passing Lick creek
shoals, the boat was capsized and the three
occupants thrown into the water. Butler
succeeded in reaching the shore, but both his
companions were lost.