St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-31
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n. II. otepnensOL, BON Oh commissioning .:
NJ, Stephenson, of Menomonie, Mich. died
Sunday night.
Six hundred and thirty-two thousand five
hundred and Gfty-four silver dollars were
coined In the United States last week.
Eight hundred and thirty-four foreigners
landed at Castle Garden yesterday.
ExMethcdist Minister james II. Wright,
but recently Richmond, Va, letter carrier
Is under arrest as mail robber.
Last evening Miss Dolli, Brown, aged sew
euty-one, died while kneeling In prayer ut
her bedside at Middlctown, N. Y.
| a Jersey City church on Sunday cleared OF
n large Indebtedness, and last night II special
meeting was held ut which the mortgage was
burned before the congregation.
/ NJ, G.. Patterson, of Decatur ILL.,, who had
the S4i 800 contract for the BRICK work OF
the new building at the soldiers orphans
home mt Bloomington, is mysteriously miss
ing ever since last Tuesday evening. IL Is
believed that he has been robbed and MUIR
dered
The Academy OF Music in course OF cree
ton on Thirteenth street and Washington
avenue, ST. Louis Mo, fell in a heap at 10 80
yesterday morning: The building had gone
up Us high rs the Third story. Fifty work
men were In the buiding, but only one, Will
lam Leford, was injured, he having "a rib
broken.
The general term of the Fifth department
OF the supreme court OF New York yesterday
Ter the murderer condemned to death under
the new law providing for the execution OF
criminals by electricity. which the court
holds TO be constitutional. Judge Dwight
writes the opinion.
Gertrude Rapp. granddaughter of George
Rapp, the founder of the Economic society,
died at Economy, Pa. Sunday evening, aged
elghty-one years. John Wirth, another mem
Der, aged seventy years, was stricken with
paralysis and Is not expected TO recover. TIE
death of Miss Rapp reduces the membership
of the society TO twenty-nine.
An incendiary fire i'll Horny sherry Il Co. s
lumber yard at Vesper, Wis, sunday even
ing destroyed l,500,uO0 feet of lumber
valued at $25, 900. The loss is partly GOV.
cred by insurance. About twenty rods of
sidetrack belonging to the Wisconsin. Pitts
vile u superior Railroad company was
ruined and three Milwaukee d. st. Paul fiat
cars were burned.
An appeal for aid comes from the people
of Sherman county, in the western part of
Kansas. The cold snap which prevailed in
this section Saturday seems to have devel-
Oped into blizzard out West and anywhere
from Il foot TO three feet of snow covers the
ground. The appeal has created no surprise,
as IL was expected with the first severe
weather. 1t was known that the settlers on
the treeless prairles were unequipped for
winter.
The coroner's jury investigating the rail
road accident at Laurys. Pa, on the night of
the 2lst inst, in which Engineer Musick. of
the Lehigh Valley railroad, was killed by his
engine running into freight train. has rem
dered verdict placing The responsibility for
the accident on Prosper Warg. engineer, and
Benjamin LeutZ conductor of the freight
train. Warrants for their arrest have been
issued.
The bands of Pentecost faith healers, who
have infested Lincoln, Ill.,, for nearly year
past, commenced Saturday night their an
nual gathering, which will continue three
days. Over eighty of the sect, including the
founders, are in attendance. THESE people
have recently heen driven from several
towns. the citizens of which have become
incensed at their methods and attempts to
entice young girls away from home TO travel
with them.
A desperate named Jacob Gregory. at a
country dance in Mcdonald county, Mis-
souri,, became involved in an alteration with
Norman Hagar. ut whom he fired shot in
the darkness. The bullet missed Hagar and
struck Adolphus Grifliths near the heart
Gri'liths, VIII, was highly respected Young
man, spoke only few words before he died.
Gregory mounted horse and made good his
escape, and at last accounts he was still at
large
What amounts to panic exists among the
farmers of Davidson and adjoihing counties
III Middle Tennessee. A splendidly organ
lied band of horse thieves have been operat-
ing there for months without let or him
drance. 1t is estimated that within the last
six months siXty-two horses have been stolen
and run into Kentucky businesses where it
is next to impossible to follow them or the
thieves. Not one of these animals has been
recovered. 1t is supposed the thieves nave a
regular underground route into Cincinnati
where the stolen horses are sold. Gen. +.
W. jackson, OF the famous Belle Meade
farm, Col. John Overton and the Cockerills
are preparing farmers association, which,
with an abundance of money to back it, will
employ adequate and competent force to
annihiiate the robbers.