St. Paul daily globe., 1890-09-24
BREvITIES BY WIRE.

The coal laborers at Gibralter have gone ON
a strike.
Patrick O'Bren, M. P. has been arrested
in Dublin.
The queen of Roulnania will visit Queen
Victoria at Balmoral
Gen. Boulanger's forthcoming reply to his
detractors will consist of a book containing
about 200 pages.
The German Kreuz Zeitung says that Gen.
Du Vernos has positively decided to resign
as minister of war.
A revolution has taken place in Munipur.
The maharajah has fled and his brother has
assumed control.
Natives of Vitu, Zanzibar. have massacred
a German merchant named Kuenzel and
seven German employees.
Three persons were killed and eleven in]ur-
ed by the explosion of petroleum lamp in a
house at Berlin Monday
Checks amounting to SIS, 900 drawn on
Middleborougb firms have been stolen while
in transit from London.
The Baltimore, which took the remains of
Capt Ericsson to Swenden. sailed yesterday
on her return to the United States.
Advices from Cairo state that the Egyptian
cotton crop is expected to show heavy
yield. The quality of the product is excel
lent throughout.
Senior Ferrao. who was summoned to Lis
bon TO form cabinet has reluctantly ac-
cepted the task, and has started from Rome
for the Portuguese capital.
Two thousand miners at Troppau, Austrian
Silesia, have gone on strike Trouble is
feared, and troops have been dispatched to
the scene to preserve order
Horace Mercer, aged seventeen, killed his
father Monday night at his home near Oar
danelle, Ark The father had whipped the
son for misconduct in the afternoon.
The anti-lottery law passed by congress
last week has had wonderful effect on The
New Orleans postoffice, and its business has
been so decreased that a large reduction in
the force has been made.
Nine tanks in the Standard Oil works at
Cavan Point. Jersey City. were destroyed by
a fire which broke out after midnight The
loss is estimated at 100000. The fire was
the result of an explosion.
Excitement has been caused in the vicinity
of Mantiche, Austria, by the discovery OF
enormous deposits of quicksilver there.
There is rapid influx of people, and great
speculation i'll land values.
Michael Haggerty, who was so seriously
wounded in pistol duel with Jim Connor
ton last Saturday night at Chicago, died at
10 o'clock yesterday morning. Connorton is
improving, the physicians say, and will live.
All the trades and labor unions of Mel
bourne will meet on Thursday when 1t is ex-
pected they will decide upon the course TO be
followed in consequence of the delay of the
employers in arranging conference with
the men.
The South Africa expedition has reached
its goal and selected site near Mount
Hampden, Matabeleland. The country is
fertile and well watered. The position was
reached without loss of life.
Forty-eight seamen have been sent from
Hamburg to Southampton, England, to take
the place of unionists. Trouble is expected
when the men arrive but if the movement is
successful general wedding out Of the
union men will gradually take place.
Monday afternoon cyclone swept over
the town of Dresden, Tex. The French MOTEL
was unroofed and the Cumberland Presby-
terian church blown to atoms. Two negroes,
Orvin Jackson and Frank Hunt, were seri-
ousIy injured. The tornado devastated
strip of country fifty yards wide and three
miles in length.
Baron Won Scudler. member of the privy
council and also master of ordnance in the
army of Austria, has brought an action of
libel against the Vaterland, the organ Of the
feuda! aristocracv and the clerical party, for
asserting that he had accepted Dribes. The
suit has caused a sensation in Vienna.