St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-24
TIPS FROM THE WIRE.

Gold is at PIC premium at Buenos Ayres.
Sir Edwin Arnold has left Japan for Eng
land
Heavy gales and snow are impeding rail
way travel In Turkey.
Charles Bradlaugh has had a relapse, and
his friends are anxious
Texas will take no part in the worlds fair
sho uld the force blu pass.
1t is reported in Edinburgh that the great
Glasgow strike has been settled.
Prince Roland Bonapart denies that he in
tends TO wed his cousin, Princess Letia
At yilarica, Ca. W. P. Driskill shot and
killed r. T. White, his business partner.
Petitions are being circulated in Paris for
commutation of Eyraud's death sentence
Contractor Benjamin G. Nudge. Lynn,
Mass. owes $4,000. can't pay, aud will close
up.
Cardinal Simor, archbishop of Grau and
primate of Hungary, is dead at Grau Aus
tria.
Gen. Whichcote a veteran soldier, who
fought at battle of Waterloo, is dying in Lon
don.
Small pox is becoming raging epidemic
throughout the central and southern parts of
Texas.
Linton of the Players League, has with
drawn his Injunction against consolidation
in Brooklyn.
Two Hungarians were killed by the fast ex
press on the North Pennsylvania road, near
Bethlehem, Pa.
The young stallion Certainty. owned by
William Simpson, of New York city, is dead
He was valued at S20,0O0.
ThIrty-two counties in Western Nebraska
are in sore distress Congress is asked for an
appropriation of Sl,000,000.
Prof. Gatchell, of Ann Arbor, Mich, has
duplicated Mind Reader Johnstone's safe
opening trick in every detail.
Wilson & McGinnis. general merchan is,
Huntingdon. Can, owe $4,000, and have
ST., 600 assets: hence assignment.
The first spadeful of earth taken out for
the Columbian exposition will he dug ON the
lake front, Chicago, next Tuesday.
Nothing has yet been heard of William C.
Duncan, who stole $30, 600 worth of diamonds
from Lewesohn & Co., of New York.
The British government has sent $50 tons
of potatoes and meat to be distributed among
the suffering poor of Kiidysart. Ireland.
Valuable paintings and rich furniture in
the palace of the crown prince, at Copen-
hagen, were yesterday destroyed by flames.
New York merchants are unable to reach
by cable any point nearer than $50 miles of
Valparaiso, Chilli, owing to the revolution.
/, George Harris, of Newberne, ILL.,, persists
in fasting with suicidal intent. 1t is now
twenty-seven days since he has tasted food
The miners of the United States, involving
some 10000 men. propose to make vigor-
Gus demonstration for eight hours on May 1.
1891.
= Joseph f. Donoghue, champion skater. has
arrived from LIVERPOOL An informal re-
ception was rendered him by the Manhattan
club.
G. G. Hallet wholesale stoves, New York,
owes about $4,000 and has turned over his
business to the Fuller & Marion company, of
Trey.
&. At Pittsburg. Pa. Charles orkes. of Chica
go, worked the gold BRICK swindle GU
Charles Bauer, of Allegheny City. to the tune
of $500.
S John Kaiser. a prominent Pittsbdrg, Pa,
tailor. committed suicide in a city hospital.
Hedrank carbolc acid and expired in fear
ful agony.
The Berlin authorities refuse to employ
needy mel, at street cleaning, for the reason
that no extraordinary distress exists among
the people.
At Uxbridge, Mass. several persons were
rescued from flooded buildings by boats,
which were rowed through the main streets
of the town.
''Old Hutch,n the veteran Chicago grain
operator declares he is able to manage his
own business without the aid of conserva-
tor for his estate.
Mrs. Jacob Krow, of Evansville Ind, worth
SlO0, OO0. drowned herself in cistern through
fear of losing her property and having to go
to the poorhouse.
As a precaution against anarchist demon
STATIONS the Partisan police arrested num-
Der of men lettering in the neighborhood of
the Place de I Opera.
Two hundred miners near Evanston, Wyo.,
have narrow escape from suffocation owing
to the burning or the fan house which SUP
piled fresh air to them.
A. o. Beekwith proprietor of the Vinta
stock farm. near Evanston. Wyo.. has sold
his three-year-Old trOtter Faust TO a Mon
tana syndicate for $4,000.
Alexaldet Ramsey, prominen. farmer o.
Hendricks county. Indiana. committed suif
eide by hanging himself with trace chain
He feared he would go insane.
AT Tahlequah, I. t., John Brown was shot
through the heart by. City Marshal Lee Wiley
provoked the quarrel with Wiley.
In the city of Mexico it is understood from
special dispatches from Chill that President
Balmaceda threatens to resign, but that his
adherents advised him not to do SO.
Stephen F. Sherman, of Buffalo, n. Y,
convicted of grand larceny in connection
with grain transactions, has been sentenced
to five years in Auburn state prison.
At Pittsburg. Pa. William Foulke emptied
the contents OF a double barreled shot gun
into his wife. with fatal effect. The deed
was committed in religious frenzy.
The Arkansas legislature has decided by
concurrent resolution to take no action re-
garding exhibits at the worlds fair until
after congress decided the merits of the force
bill.
William Fl. Buttner the fraudulent divorce
lawyer of New York, has withdrawn his plea
eff not guilty of forgery and substituted a
plea of guilty. He was remanded for SEN
tence.
AL Barbourvslle, Ky, E. P. P. Moore,
charged with numbering Harvey Steed two
years ago, aud with killing David Campbell
recently, shot himself through the head.
causing instant death.
Charles Messenger, the alleged mail robber,
dpfjQH 81 nf
has been captured in the mountains of
Tucker county, West Virginia. He has been
jailed at Parker's Ferry.
. The second trial of Provenzanos. at New
Orleans. for lying in wait. shooting and
Wounding, resulted in his acquittal This is
thought to be favorable toward conyicting
the real murderer of Chief of Police Hen
Messy.
Father Malone pastor of the Roman Catho-
lie church, South Denver, Col. and editor of
the Colorado Catholic. slipped and fell on
the pavement in New York, and was seriously
injured.
Il AT Cincinnati o.. the towboat Silas P Coe
took fire about O'Clock Yesterday morning
and was totally destroyed. The Waterman,
Carney. employed on the boat, was burned
ito death. The loss was $4,000; insured for
81, 0O0
II The will of DIR. Charles F. Heuser, of Balti-
more, stipulated that his heart should be cut
out and held up to view in the presence OF
witnesses then replaced and his body Gre
mated. This was done. Dr. Heuser had
horror of being buried alive.
AT Richmond, Ind, the jury in the case of
eJames A. Woods, attendant at the Eastern
hospital for the insane. charged with kicking
T. j. Blount, patient to death, returned
verdict of voluntary murder, fixing the pen
atty at twenty one years in the. penitentiary.
Celestine Martel. an Alsatlan woman. is on
trial at Chicago for the murder of Patrick
Brennan Dec last. She claims that Bren-
nan called ON her, assaulted her, and that
she shot him in self-defense. His friends say
Brennan had a large sum of money and was
killed for it.
A Cfincher.
Spare Moments.