St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-29
BREvITIES BY TELEGRAPH.

The municipal authorities OF Augsburg,
Bavaria. have rendered the freedom of the
city to Prince Bismarck
The Hartz district of Germany has been
visited by heavy falls of snow within the last
few days, the average dephth now being over
two feet.
The coroner's jury has rendered verdict
of murder against Nellie Piercey, charged
with killing Mrs. Hobb at South Hampstead,
England
new German-African company has been
organized. Its object is to plant colonies in
South and Southwest Africa and in Morocco
and Tripoli.
call for national convention of the
non-partsan National Women's Christian
Temperance union a. Cleveland O., Jan. %
to 81, has been made.
The st. Paul Western association directors
held a meeting yesterday afternoon and
elected NJ. J. Roche to represent the manage
ment at the Omaha meeting on Saturday.
The annual heavy gun target practice at
Fort Adams, r. l., was finished yesterday.
The United States training ships Portsmouth
and Jamestown, have arrived at Newport
from New York.
The defeat of the Greek government in the
elections is attributed to popular pique at
the decline of Greek influence in Macedonia
and other parts of Turkey, for which the
| ministry is blamed.
Surprise is expressed both in London and
| Scotland that Mr.. Gladstone did not refer to
the American tariff in his Edinburgh
speeches, as he had written to correspond
| ent that he would do so.
The board of United States general ap-
praisers has sustained the protest of Charles
| G. Lang, of Chicago. relative to the rate and
| amount of duty fixed by the collector of
| Chicago upon imported sealskins.
| Mr.. Balfour is now in Westport, Ireland
1t is reported that he was deeply impressed
with the scenes he witnessed in Achill and
| with the general wretchedness of the peas
ants and the prospects of famine.
Julius Dornsife, aged twenty three, a son
| of ex- Mayor Dornsife, of Kansas City, COM
1 mitted suicide last night in San Francisco by
| taking laudanum. Dependency was tine
| cause of his committing the rash act.
! The London docks com mittee has caused
| 5000 beds to be prepared in the sheds ada
| cent to the Albert and Victoria docks for the
1 accommodation of non-union men il the
| event OF strike of the union hands.
By the financial report of the exhibition re
1 Gently held in Edinburgh deficit of $50,
| 0O' is shown. This more than absorbs the
| guarantee fund of e26. 900. The affairs of
| the exhibition have, therefore, been placed
/ in liquidation.
1t appears that the wholesale conversion OF
| some 300 Jewish students to Christianity in
| the University of Odessa was due to the re.
| lection of their petition to the Russian gov.
| ernor to be permitted to continue their
1 studies as Jews.
| Lord Salisbury in an interview with the
| Portuguese charge de affaires i'll London,
| showed disposition to negotiate fresh
| treaty with Portugal, with reference to
| Southeast Africa. modus vivendi during
| the negotiations is under discussion.
The tin plate manipulators Of Wales are
/ combining to exclude from access to theiI
| factories Russians and other foreigners who
1 may seek to learn the secrets of the trade, a
large humber of Russian experts having re-
| Gently been sent to Wales for this purpose.
| The king of Belgium arrived at Potsdanl
| yesterday. He was received at the station by
|
| of Connaught, Grand Duke Vladimir, of Rus
| STA. and full military staff. After embrac
| ing each other the monarchs drove to the
| castle. escorted by the guards.
| Mr.. Gladstone has written as follows to
| Nine. Patti with reference to her recent con-
| cert: 1T was great treat to hear from your
| Italian lips songs of my own tongue rendered
| with delicacy of modulatlon and fineness
| of utterance such as no native in my recol
| lection has ever reached, or even ap
| preached"
| Chief Secretary Balfour and John Morley
have been snbp9naed as witnesses at the
| trial of Mr.. Harrison, member of parliament
| for the middle division of Tipperary and 9th
! eIs. OH the charge of assaulting policemen at
| the opening of the Tipperary conspiracy
| trial. 1t is expected that the trial will be
| held either at marlborough or Omagh.
Counsel for Cal Wood. sentenced to death
| by electricity for killing Leander Pasco, his
| fatherln-law, in Warren county, New York,
| has served papers on the warden OF Dame
| mora prison for a stay of execution. Wood
was to have been executed during the weel
| beginning Nov. g but the stay will compel 6
| postponement until the appeal is settled
A disastrous prairie fire has swept over the
bottoms of the Platte river in Nebraska, be
| ginning yesterday afternoon and burning fal
into the night 1t is said to have been set by
an engine OH the Fremont Elkhorn & Mis-
souri, Valley road at a point four miles cas-
of Fremont. About LOCO tons of hay
valued at 81, 900, were destroyed, with no i'll
| Surance.
Last evening a saloonkeeper named Roach
who was known as a ward politician in Sar
| Francisco, became engaged in quarrel with
man named Allen. Allen drew revolver
and fired at Roach, infiicting a wound from
which the latter died i'll a few minutes
Allen Is under arrest The cause of the quar-
/ rel is not known
The third part of Ta1leyrands diplomatic
correspondence, under the title of lie Minis
tere de Talleyrand Sous lie Directoire j" i:
published in Paris. 1t covers the period from
July 90. 1897. to July %, 1899. The CORE
spondence is preceded by memorandum
written by Taleyrand in London in 1892 or
the relations of France with other states o.
Europe.
Mr.. Gladstone. in an address to the work
men of the Pumpherston oil WORKS, at Edin
burgh, yesterday, extolled free trade. He
said that the results of the last fifty years
legislation had been that trade had multi
piled five fold; that the population hat
doubled, and that the material, social. mora
and political condition of the country hat
enormously improved.
| 1t is reported from Constantinople that the
| Austrian and British ambassadors to the
porte have demonstrated with the sultan OIL
the cruel treatment Of Armenian prisoners
several of whom, including the young Ar
menian who attempted to murder the arch
priest. Succ&ias, have been tortured to death
in the prisons of Constantnople.
The Chemical National bank. of New
| York, has recovered Judgment on comics
sion of S46,5lS against Isaac S. and Ralpl
Plant and Samuel Kahn, composing tn,
| Mercantile Cloak company, doing business a
| 3g4 Broadway AS the note was made Oct
~ and judgment Immediately confessed. i
| suggests an effort to give one creditor an ad
| vantage. l. ;. Plant is said to be the owne
of the Hotel Vendome. No assignment ha'
been filed.
| The Dutch government has asked the Bel
| gian government to submit to the power
which signed the Congo treaties propose
that they jointly contribute a fixed annua
| sum TO make up the amount which tn,
Congo stale would be likely secure through
import duties, and that in the meantime a.
| a subsidiary measure the Congo state b.
| authorized to collect duty OF % francs pc
hectolitre on alcohol.
! fatal runaway accident occurred IL
Washington yesterday, by which Margare
CAN'T. widow of the late Lieut.. CAN'T, of the
navy, was killed and her daughter. Miss Glare
CAN'T. very seriously injured The two la
dies were out in their own carriage. with
colored man driving, when the horse which
was somewhat fractions toak fright and be
came unmanageable. The ladies, fearing TO
their lives. jumped out of the carriage, witt
the result above stated.
The Kreuz Zeitung states that the German
| government has granted ten years tradins
monopolies i'll the Cameroons county, Africa
as follows: To the Woermans, at Batanga
to Swedish merchants i'll the region above
the Victoria settlement; to Jansen aud Thor
maehlen, in the region northeast of tn,
mountain range, and to Zintgraff in the sec
ton bounded by the left bank of the Benue
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