St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-25
BREvITIES BY TELEGRAPH.

English parliament will reasonable on No
yember %.
The total seal catch of the twenty-seven
schooners that left Victoria, B. c., this year
Tor Behring sea and Northwest coast was
3o,5lG. making value of about S404. 600.
Conductor w. G.. Dunn was killed yester
day by collision of his freight train at
Musklngum station, o.. with some sand cars
on tue Columbus, Shawnee d Hooking road.
GEX-Queen Natalie has informed the Servian
regents that, failing an immediate settlement
regarding the personal relations betw cen
herself and her son. King Alexander, she
will appeal to the skuptschina for satisfac-
ton.
Thomas McCaffrey, bartender, shot and
killed Robert O'Brien III Hands saloon,
l6O7 Wabash avenue, Chicago. yesterday.
The shooting was the outcome of an old feud
between McCaffrey and O'Brien. MeCafrev
was arrested.
The Brooklyn sugar refinery has closed
down, and 900 men are thrown out Of en-,
plovment. 1t is rumored that with the single
exception OF Havemeyerss refinery, all the
Brooklyn refneries will be closed down.
About =, 900 men will be affected.
The business portion of the town Of
Lenvenworth, Ind, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Eighteen houses, includ-
ing six stores and the Hawn hotel, were
burned. The loss is estimated at $4,000,
and the total insurance only $4,000.
The Alaska Commercial company has COM
menced suit against the North American
Commercial company to recover 500, 1000,
the value of 1000 saaiskias recently dis
charged by the revenue cutter Rush, and
which were claimed by both companies.
Six men are in custody in Chicago on sus-
picion of having been the murderers of
Michael Brazell at Desplaines Station, ILL.,,
Wednesday night. Three of them have
proven apparent alibis. and the others claim
to know nothing whatever of the affair.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentu cky, it is now
feared suffered 0apVnrOuS internal INJURIES
in his runaway accident near Versailles, Ky..
Thursday. He was very sick yesterday, and
his friends fear the outcome At best he will
probably lose the use of his left arm entirely.
The sultan of With has refused to submit
to British authority or make reparati0n for
the late massacre. Instead of that the sultan
IS perfecting preparations for renewing hos
tilitIes. He is being joined by hundreds Of
natives from neighborIng tribes and a con-
test is unavoidable.
The case of Aid. Tierney, who was indicted
for bribery i'll connection with the building
of sewers in Detroit Mich, and the first of
the several aldermen indicted to be brought
to tIiai, was given the jury yesterday after a
long and tedious trial of about ten days. The
jury was cut all day and announced that 1t
could not agree.
Capt Schley, commander Of the United
states steamer Baltimore, gave a luncheon
on on board the ship at Lisbon yesterday to Mr.
Wllbor, secretary of the American legation,
and number of other gentlemen. He sub.
seQuently exchanged visits with Admiral
Andrade and port authorities The public
has been permitted to inspect the ship.
Thomas B. Carson, of Monticello, H.,
Democratic candidate for the legislature, has
begun $4,000 damage suit against j. c..
Myers, of Clinton, the present Democratic
member, for stating over his own signature
that Carson had offered Myers S2uO bride
while in the legislature. Myers is the chair
man of the Democratic central committed
a. r. Bancroft. one of the Oldest settlers of
Lyon county. Kansas and at one time
sheriff, shot himself through the heart yes
terday with a shotgun, and was found dead,
partially in the barn door by his daughter,
shortly after hearing the report of the gun,
winch he had borrowed, as ne said, for the
purpose of shooting rat. Thursday he took
out two accident policies on his life for
$4,000, good for twenty -four hours e
That the Catholic clergy In their opposi-
ton to the pnhiic school intend to poll the
full strength in the approaching election in
Wisconsin is best evidenced from the regis
tering in the Sixth ward IF Milwaukee
twenty-five friars of the st. Francis Capu-
chin convent. Never before have the Ca pu-
chin monks IN Milwaukee mad sufficient In
terest in an election to go to the polls, but
now they intend to east their full strength
against the Bennett law.
The trial of the action for divorce brought
by Capt. O'Sbea against his wife, in which
Mr. Parnell is named correspondent has
been set down for the middle of November.
Counter allegations Will De MADE against
Capt. O'Shea by his wife. Mr.. Parnell has
retained as his counsel in the case Sir Charles
Russell and Herbert II. Asquith, both of
whom defended him before the Parnell COM
mission.
Albert W. Oxuard, treasurer Of the Johns
town. Pa, Lumber company, and son of the
late Edward Gxnard, prominent oil dearer
of Pittsburg, disappeared several days ago
and his whereabouts are a mystery. An ex-
animation of the books shows large discrep-
MT 90 mt r1nxx hp crix,
The shortage will reach at least S30U0O
Oxnard left his wife and child behind him.
Joseph Wood, thiriy-five years old, and
Carl Barg, aged fortv-siX years fought duel
in New York yeste rday, with iron crowbars,
| i'll blacksmith's shop on Park avenue. The
battle was fierce and tasted for some time.
! 1t was ended only when both men sank to
the ground with fractured skulls. They
were removed to the hospital in an uncon-
SciOuS condition.
Pat Taylor, engineer of the Inflated No. )
| train in the tunnel wreck on the Cincinnati
| Southern road. died yesterday at Somerset,
| Ky. This makes seven victims of the acct
dent. Conductor Walton, of the freight
| train. who gave the order to go ahead and
| thereby became responsible for the collision,
| is still missing. 1t is known he was not
| killed i'll the wreck and it is thought he Is in
| hiding.
Messrs. Huntington, Stanford and Croker,
representing the Southern Pacific Railway
| company, have signed an agreement pre-
sented by a committee of citizens from
| the Pacific coast counties to complete coast
| line of railway from San Francisco to Los
| Angeles by closing the gap i'll the line be-
| tween Santa Magarita and Ellwood. Cal. BY
| the terms of the agreement the railroad is
! given.a right of way through santa Barbara
and San Luis Obispo Counties and the work
| of completing the line, it is estimated, will
| be completed in seventeen months.
| Yesterday morning. as the south-bound
| train on the Santa Fe pulled out Of Socorro,
| n. M. two men were seen to step OH boa I'd.
| After the train had passed San Antonio.
| these strangers entered. the Pullman sleeper
| and locked the doors, then drew their guns
| on the porter and conductor and relieved
| them of their surplus cash. Then they IN.
| trnduced themselves to the passengers, going
! through most OF them and making quite q
| haul. They jumped from the train ON the