St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-02
BREVITIES BY TELEGRAPH.

The council general of the department of
Seine-lnfereiure, at Roueu. has refused its
assent to n scheme to render the Seine nayi-
gable for sea-going vessels to Paris.
Judge Pryor. of Newcastle, KY together
with his sou, has made an assignment Liza
bilities. $1,000; assets about half that
amount. Indorsing caused the failure.
Edwin Norton. of Chicago returned home
from the East, but, contrary to expectation.
would neither affirm nor deny the report
that he with other Chicago capitalists is
about to establish large TIN can mauufac-
tory at Baltimore.
A maniac confined ia the asylum at Limo
ges, France, stabbed to death two of the
Warders there yesterday and then jumped
from window, crashing through t6e glass
roof of the court yard lie was BADLY injured
and was captured without difficulty.
Orders were issued al the navy department.
yesterday putting the san Francisco into
commission Nov. 2i. Capt Atkinson will
command the San Francisco. and the officers
who have been heretofore detailed to her for
special duty were formally ordered to her for
regular duty.
The people at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, have
peutloned the war department not to remove
the United States troop stationed there. The
soldiers at that point, had determined to
transfer them, but in view Of this request,
has deferred action for the present.
Capt. J. r. Mcconnell has been detailed
office to proceed Immediately TO Tuscon,
Ariz., TO testify on behalf of the government
III the case of the United States against Fred
Smith, late receiver OF the land Office. Smith
has been indicted for appropriating public
moneys.
Commander-in-Chief veazey has called a
meeting of the executive committee of the
national council of administration G. A. II.
M Detroit on the tn day OF November The
next national encampment is TO De held in
hot Ity n ia &c ~
board is called at that place for the purpose,
among other things, of making preliminary
preparations for the great union.
% The war department has approved the pro-
jeet of Capt. William A. Marshall. engineer
of the Hennepin canal for the expenditure
OF the S5U0,0o0 appropriated by congress
for beginning the work. It has been decided
to confine the work 10 the construction on
the west end dam OF the mouth of the Rock
river which, it is thought, viii absorb all the
money now available.
Herbert Ward, i'll a lecture in London, on
his experiences in Africa, with the Stanley
expedition, said that Jameson literally died
OF starvation and priyatioh Both jameson
and himself had to live on mouldy biscuits
and rice full of maggots, while stores of
luxurles were reserved for the advance
column. Maj. Bartielott added Ward, in de-
priving himself and his associates of these
luxuries, might have been Quixotic, but ne
certainly did his duty.
At Versailles France a woman was
acquitted of the charge OF numbering her
husband, the verdict OF the jury being re-
ceived with applause by the spectators in the
court room. 1t was shown during the trial
that the defendant. whose name is Guerin,
traced her husband to villa, where he kept
mistress. Calling him out she stabbed him
to the heart as he crossed the threshold
The dying man, as he fell to the ground. ex-
eisimcd KISS orr child for me All is
over. The jury gave its yesfliet of aequittal
wi.hVa; hesitation.