St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-20
TIPS FROM THE WIRE.

Baron Wissman, the explorer, has gone In
sane.
The cruiser San Francisco will look after
our interests in, Chilli.
The small city of Alamosa, Col, has been
almost totally destroyed by fire.
Rations will still be sent from Omaha to
Pine Ridge for ten days at least.
Capt John MCGOWAN, U. S. A, aged eighty
six years. Is dead in Elizabeth, n. j..
The Chinese government will participate
in the worlds Columbian exposition. II
Senator D. Cady Stanton, son Of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, died at Missouri Valley yester-
day.
The grating of skin from $50 Knights
Tenn plar upon a brother is said to be a sue
cess.
1t is reported that John L. Sullivan has
signed to fight Slavin for the worlds cham
pionship.
Gen. Schofield wires that Fort Lowell will
| not be abandoned until the question is tur
| ther investigated.
| The strike of station agents and telegraph.
| ers on the Chicago, Milwaukee st. Paul
| road is losing ground.
| E. II. Horner. the New York lottery swind-
| ler appears to have had agencies all over the
| country in different cities.
| A company with S3,000.000 capital has beer
| incorporated to construct tunnel between
| New York city and Brooklyn.
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| take charge of the foreign division of the
worlds fair bureau of promotion.
| Secretary Nobleis in receipt of letters from
Sioux missionaries protesting against then
transfer to the war department.
| John Barker, of Syracuse. N. Y. fired five
shots into the body of his wife and escaped.
| The wounds are probably fatal.
| A street duel in Holbrook. Arlz.. resu lted
| in the death of Robert Boyle, O cowboy. r.
| f. Ketchereides fired the fatal shot.
| James N. Eubank was hanged in the Jail
yard at San Jose, CAL, yesterday, for the
murder of his daughter Ida, Dec. 22.
| Sadullah Pasha, the Turkish ambassador
| who attempted suicide in bath tub, died
yesterday from his injuries at Vienna
Job Pritchard, an ex-deputy sheriff, wal
| shot and Killed near Hot Springs, Ark bJ
his brother-in-law, DR.. E. N. Carpenter.
| Mrs. Lucy Cook, aged seventy years. o1
| Burgin, KY, fell asleep before the fire, and
| her clothes igniting, she was burned TO death
| Arthur Davidson, wealthy Chicago con
tractor, was probably fatally injured by
| toughs whom he refused to treat in a salooi
John Mcmahon. champion colar-and- elbow
| wrestler of the world. has been challenged
! by James Cowley, of Texas for from $500 te
| $1,000 side.
In honor of George Bancroft the flags or
| public buildings in cities through which tht
| funeral will pass will be half-masted, by or
| der of President Harrison.
Senator Sanders has introduced bin max
! ing 1t an offense punishable by fine and i'm
prisonment for any person to sell or lenC
arms and ammunition to the Indians,
T. M. Todd, Chicago real estate dealer
| thinks he is marked for assassination. Fol
the third time within two weeks bullet wa.
| fired through his sitting room window
The town of Covington, Neb-, is unde
guard of policemen armed with rifles to pre-
vent repetition of incendiarism which
a. fxr-ith loc
Eva L. Hamilton. or Mann, who is contest
ing the will for awidow's dover in the estate
| of Robert Ray Hamilton, refused on the wit
| ness stand to testify where her child wa.
| born.
While Polish christening was in progress
| Pa. Mike Teruski walked in and shot tht
mother of the child. He narrowly escaped
| being lynched.
| Two young men, Laurence Casey and Rich
| ard Caskens, receive fatal njuries in Chicago
during an alteration with party of drunken
| Greeks The Greeks were only captured 81
the end of small riot.
Augustus P. Dunlop. publisher of Dunlop'i
| Stage News, was arrested yesterday in iibe
suit for $40 900 damages, brought by Harrison
Grey Fiske. proprietor of the Dramatic Mir
ror. Bail was fixed at $4,000.
| seph & Grand Island division of the Unior
Pacific will institute O suit to restrain tht
Union Pacific from removing it's genere,
offices from ST Joseph to Omaha.
Two stations on the Council Bluffs df7i
sion of the Chicago. Milwaukee 4 st. Pan
railway, in Iowa, have been closed beoaas;
the townspeople boycotted the new agent
employed IN the places of the strikers.
Senator Power has introduced a bill {.
limit the compulsory requirements Of de
| posit of United States bonds with the treas
urer Of the United States lby national bank
having capital Of not more than $4,000 {,
| $1,000 of bonds for each and every baak.