St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-27
THE WORLD OVER.

The national convention of the
Daughters Of Liberty has elected s.
r. Stevens, bank clerk of Marlboro,
Mass, as national councillor, and A. E.
Burkitt, of Waterbury, vice councillor.
All other minor officers elected were
Eastern ladies.
State Railroad Commissioner Hager,
of Kentucky, has resigned, and Secre-
tary of State Matt Adams has been ap-
pointed in his place. Willis Ringo has
been appointed secretary of state in
Adams place.
Clarence Hobart defeated o. S. Camp
bell yesterday at Newport, 4. l., in the
match for the tennis championship of
the United States. Hobart won three
straight sets by score of 2-6, rs, rs,
10, 6-2.
At Sandy Creek, Oswego county, New
York. at a depth of 1,O2O feet, the Iarg-
est vein of gas ever struck in Sandy
creek was tapped. 1t blew the tools i'll
all directions. The noise of escaping
gas can be heard for miles. The drill
ers had to stop work.
Because of the refusal to do away with
a sewage nuisance, the Altoona, Pa,
city school board has had the entire city
councils and the mayor arrested. They
all appeared before an alderman and
were released. The matter has occa-
stoned trouble for years and will now go
to the courts.
A violent thunder storm has passed
over Charieville, County Cork. Ireland.
The rain was the heaviest seen in that
district in the last thirty years. The
corn ard hay crops are rotting In the
fields, and it is feared that potatoes will
prove failure.
The Chilian cruiser Presidento Pinto
has arrived at Kiel. 1t is the COM
mander's intention to take some Arm
strong guns aboard, but it is doubtful if
the German government will grant per.
mission.
The granting of permission to the
starving peasantry OF Russia to use
the imperial forests has led to many
burglaries and depredations on the i'm
perial farms, the famlshing people fight
ing and in some cases shedding blood
over the spoils.
Exported grain other than wheat from
Russia are not allowed to contain more
than three per cent of rye or one per
cent of bran. Reports from Odessa say
there is talk there of prohibition of the
expectation of maize.
The public movement for the purpose
of establishing steamboat line from
Chattanooga, Tenn, to st. Louis. in
which 100 men are asked to subscribe
81 900 each, is now an assured success,
the list having reached eighty.
Mrs. Elizabeth Beatty, who was a
maid of honor in the court of King
George ", of England, died at her
home in Elizabeth, n. j., yesterday
age eighty-two.
Republican State Committeeman S.
Y. Evans White, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
who has for many years been leader
in the councils of the Republican party,
has made up his mind to go out of poll
tics. He will devote all his time to
business.
The American Bar association held
their fourteenth annual meeting-the
first in New England-in horticultural
hall, Boston, yesterday. Nearly 200
members were present.
Four women have been arrested at
Szenttamas. Hungary, on the charge of
poisoning their husbands and selling
poisons to other women for similar
purpose. Orders have been issued to
exhume the bodies of many supposed
victims.
The Norwegian collier Frey, bound
from an English port for DrOntheim,
caught fire and burned to the waters
edge near Bergen Saturday last. Eight
of her crew were drowned. Seven were
saved.
Robert D. Ray, chief justice of the
supreme court of Missouri, died at IL
o'clock yesterday morning at Carol
ton, Mo, He was victim of la grippe.
Judge Ray was born in Kentucky in
| 1917 and went to Missouri in 1889.
The Worden Furniture company's
factory at Grand Rapids, Mich, was
totally destroyed by fre last night.
Loss $40, 600, chiefly furnitue in stock;
insurance $4,000.