St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-08
BREVITIES BY TELEGRAPH.

The White squadron sails for Gibraltar.
Gen. Safferling has been appointed Bava-
RAN minister OF war.
The Canadian tariff increase bill was read
q third time last night
Twelve more Philadelphia builders yester-
day put their men 70 work.
w. Y Sweinhaut. lumber, Pottstown, Pa,
has failed Debts $4,000.
Hon. J. P. Dolliver. of Iowa, will be Memo
rial day orator in New York City.
New Pensacola. Fla. fishermen have
struck for one cent pound advance.
Rheumatism confines Senator Edmunds to
his bed. II Is thought his condition is not
serious.
The New York assembly last night passed
a bill making liable furnishers of willfnl libel
to a newspaper.
Chief Bwana- Herr declines to return to
Saadani unless all consuls at Zanzibar guar
antee his safety.
A commission to report the feasibility of
uniting New York and Brooklyn in one was
created yesterday at Albany,
The postal express to do business in every
hamlet ON earth. on 100000 capital, was
born in New York yesterday.
Two thousand tons ice were stolen by food
in Kennebec river at Augusta. Me-, yester-
day: $4,000 tons more in danger.
The builders trial OF the new cruiser Phil
adelphia yesterday resulted in twenty-one
knots per hours with f54 pounds of steam.
The bleached bones of little Annie Ulrich,
missing from Wilkesbarre, Pa. three years.
were found yesterday on the Upper Lehigh
mountains.
The Italian government awaits the action
of the chamber of deputies i'll the matter of
reform of the charitable institutions. 1t is
believed the senate will yield.
The preface to the German army bill refers
especially 10 the increasing arnaments of
France and Russia as placing Germany in
serious numerical inferiority.
The F. A. Kennedy company, extensive
cracker bakers. of Cambridge and Chicago,
have sold out their business. presumably to
a syndicate II is said the firm received
81 SOC, 800 for the business.
Justice Peter Mitchell New York City, is
again trying to lndict Editor Godkin, Of the
Evening Post, for libel in printing that
Mitchell had been the receiver of slolen
goods, aad studied law behind a liquor.bar.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says the
ezar refused to see four Finnish delegates
who came to lay before him certain grier
ances. The empress, however, received the
delegates graciously and promised to con-
slider their complaints.
The decennial convention OF delegates
from the leading societies and colleges of
pharmacy in the United States met in Wash
ington Yesterday. The work of the conYen-
revision Of the pharm acopeia OF collection
of formula used by PHYSICIANS in their pre-
scriptions Several committees, including
the one On revision, was appointed.
The annual meeting Of the Mexican Cen
tral railroad stockholders was held in Boston
yesterday. Less than twenty five stockhold-
ers were present. The old board of directors
were reelected. Mr.. Rust criticised the de-
lay in the issuance of the annual report and
tried to get information as to the cost of the
Tampico division, but. Treasurer Reynolds
stated that the accounts were not closed.
The Socialists have introduced bill in the
German reichstag demanding a working day
of ten hours. They have elected delegates
on all the committees. The government
labor bill empowers the bundesrath by ali
imperial order to extend the prohibition of
Sunday labor also to make exceptions TO the
general provisions of the bill. One month
after the bill has passed, all employers must
placard their factories with the new regula-
tiOuS.
Premier Crispi, In confidential note to
King Humberr, of Italy, on the May day
demonstrations, states that GO foreign agi-
tators were expelled from Italy; that GOO
Italians distributing revolutionary pamphlets
were arrested; that 5000 suspects were pun
ished Or warned; that 500 soldiers possessing
manifestoes were punished; that no dyna-
mlte or arms were seized, and that on the
whole. Italy was less troubled than other
countries.