St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-04
BREvITIEs BY WIRE.

Gems. Alvenslieben and Henduck, of the
German army, are about to resign.
The river Neva has risen seven feet owing
to hurricane. ST. Petersburg is flooded.
Brooklyn opened negotiations yesterday
for the worlds cham pionship series with
Louisville.
The Englishman arrested at Neussargues
yesterday on the charge of being a German
spy has been liberated.
Cholera has reappeared in Toledo. -Four
cases of the disease. one of them fatal, have
been reported at Jarez.
The works of the Mansfield, O., Carriage.
Hardware company burned yesterday. Loss
$4,000: insurance, $4,000.
The pork packing house of Leikauf & Son,
in TT. Wayne. Ind, was destroyed by fire last
night. Loss, $25, 900; insurance, $4,000.
A dispatch from Athens says that the sui
tan will issue an trade confirming the reiig.
ious immunity and privileges of the Ar.
menians.
Senior Ferrao is now meeting with more
success in his efforts to form a Portuguese
cabinet, but he will be obliged to exclude
Progressists.
The court officials are preparing a pro-
gramme for a nauonal celebration of the
silver wedding of the car, which occurs
Nov. 9, 1891.
One thousand men at Armstrong; ship
yard, at London. have struck as a protest
against the employment of strangers to re-
place the joiners on strike.
Irwin Kern. who has been on trial at
Frankfort. Ind, this week for crushing the
skull OF Harvey Kratzer, at Marlborough,
MaS /, has been acquitted of murder.
The proprietor of the Berlin Volks Ze1t-
ung has dismissed Herr Mehring and col
league, DR.. Ledebour, on account OF the
publication of the Schabelsky scandals.
James A. Mckenzie, of the worlds fair
executive committee, was yesterday elected
deputy grand master of the Masonic Grand
Lodge of Kentucky. Charles H. Fiske was
elected grand master.
Col. A. d. Bullock, for many years a resi-
dent of Cincinnati and one of its most widely
known business men, died suddenly of apo-
plexy, at his home. while dining last even
ing. He was in his sixtieth year.
Elaborate arrangements are being made for
the entertainment of the English and Ger
man iron and steel men OH the occasion of
their visit 10 Birmingham. Ala, this month
Special railroad trains Will be provided and
excursions to fifteen or the most important
mining and industrial points in the iron dis
trict
Commissioner Marshall Mcdonald, of the
United States commission of fish and fish
cries. has addressed q communication to
officials at the worlds fair national COM
mission headquarters, with respect to the
proposed government exhibit of fish and
fisheries at the exposition in 1898. He saws
the United States fish commission hopes to
make an exhibit at the exposition. President
Palmer has issued a call for meeting of the
national commission, TO be held Oct. ID.
The constitutional convention i'll Missis-
sippi commenced Yesterday consideration of
the educational committees reports. There
: are two reports. the principal differences be-
ing on the separate school districts of cities
aud towns. the minority report wanting them
retained as they are while the ma jority prac-
tically wants them abolished.
Knoxville, Tenn, is already putting on
holiday attire for the veterans reunion
which occurs there Oct. z, 8 and Q. The re-
reunion is of the blue and gray who took
part in the battle of Fort Sanders and all
other old soldiers have been invitad to par
{ ticipate. G. A. r. men are crowding in from
points as far " est as Dakota and Nebrasks.
Hon. George Bancroft. the venerable his
torian, quietly spent mis- ninetieth birthday
Yesterday at his residence OH the ..cllff'' at
Newport, r. l., where he received scores of
congratulatory kilograms and letters. besides
many calls from his personal friends. He
appeared quite bright for one of his age but
each additional year now shows plainly
upon his still erect form.
So much disappointm and dissatisfac-
ton have been caused by the fact that the ar
Engagements for President HarrisoD's stay in
st. Louis provide for so brief a time that a
dispatch was sent to Secretary Noble last
night requesting him to urge the president to
prolong his visit until Saturday night at 10
O'Clock, when arrangements have been made
to convey him to Indianapolis by special
train.
President Harrison, accompanied by Secre-
tary Halford and his daughter. occupied a
box at Albaugh's thes ter in Washington last
night Witnessing Sol Smith Russell's "a
Poor Relation" in which play Mr.. Russell
impersonates the poor inventor, Noah Vale.
LONDON Oct 1.-THE Standard, comment
ing on the probable effects of the Mckinley
tariff law, says: I'VE need not fear the
death, or even the diulinution. of the English
iron trade with America if we only initiate
the ayidity of the Americans to take aGvan-
tlce of every Improvement in manufactur-
ing"