St. Paul daily globe., 1891-03-11
TIPS FROM THE WIRE.

United States Minister John T. Smith is
dead at Toxic. Japan.
The state Prohibitonists of Rhode Island
have nominated full ticket.
Buffalo, Y. Y, is visited by S225, 900 fire,
destroying the Burt building.
Gold has been discovered on the farm of
John Mllmau. near CoateSvllle, Ind.
The Magee Furnace company. Boston, suf
fered a $4,000 loss by fire last night.
a large portion of the city of Augusta, Ca,
between canal and river. is under water
There is a strong probability OF q general
strike and lock out of Milwaukee plasterers.
In New York the suspension of HAYWOOD
rs Prince was announced on the stock ex-
change.
The city of Augusta, Ga, is i'll darkness.
high water having interfered with the cleo
tric light
The funeral of Bishop Paddock will take
place at Trinity church, Boston, Thursday,
at 80 p. IN.
John Glover and his wife, Sarah, were
struck by railroad train near Holly Oak,
Del, and killed.
Edward Rogers, at Saginaw, Mich, fatally
shot Hattie Mores, and subsequently com
mitted suicide.
Prof. Virgins, the Canadian weather
prophet predicts storm of unusual violence
on the Atlantic coast.
At jackson. Tenn. Scott Bradford, colored,
was shot fatally. the assassin firing at him
through window.
In drunken row at Carthage, Tenn. Ed
Turner, white, killed daughter of Thomas
McClone, colored.
Daniel P. Goulding, a clerk in the East
port, Me-: postotfice has been arrested for
depredations OH the mails.
Gov. Hill, of New York has commuted the
sentence of Frank Fish, convicted of murder
to imprisonment for life.
The Italian Politz causes another sensa-
uon III the court room at New Orleans by
falling TO the floor and yelling
The Citrus fair opened last night at Los
Angeles, Cal, promising to be the largest of
the kind ever seen in the state
At New York the consolidation of the
Lackawanna Coal and Iron company and the
Scranton Steel company is effected.
Sidney Lewis the young fellow who shot
and Ri led his father. Judge Lewis, in Hardin
county, Ky, is in Jail at Knoxville. Tenn.
The condenser IN an ammonia manufactory
at Glasgow, Scotland, explodes, killing seven
people, including the manager of the works
At Augusta. Ca, Henry C. Lamar and Miss
Louise King Connolly were drowned while
rowing in the canal, two miles above the
city.
The city council of Chicago has taken
away the interest on the public money from
the city treasurer and fixed his salary at SlO,-
600 per year.
known lawyer. was shot and probably fatally
wounded by II. Clay King, an Arkansas
cotton planter.
A lively fight occurred yesterday in the
Arkansas house of representatives, in which
inkstands, spitoons and other articles were
used as missiles.
Maj. Gen. Schofield was in Chicago yesler-
day visiting personal friends, and left last
night for New Orleans where he Will meet
the secretary of war.
P. 7. Sherman, son of the late general
writes to the statue fund committee. asking
rpScInd To
the surplus to the family.
AT Dover, Del, LOuisa huntington. aged
seven years. has identified james Thorough
good as her assailant. The penalty for this
crime in Delaware is death.
The handsome residence at "Yaddo," the
Saratoga country seat of Spencer Trask,
banker of New York and Chicago, has been
burned. Loss 100000; Insurance. $4,000.
The family of George Potter, Boston, Mass.
consisting of wife and five children, were
overcome by coal gas One son, aged twenty
is dead. The others are expected to recover.
In the national pool tournament at SYRIA
cuse, \. Y. the championship now lies be-
tween Deore and Powers. The defeat of
Clearwater yesterday puts him out of the
race.
Gov Boyd of Nebraska, has fled an ans
wer in the quo warranto proceedings insti-
tuteG by eX-Gov. Thayer. The answer holds
that Gov. Boyd is citizen 10 all intents and
purposes.
Al Chicago. MIS- Norton, the 1aSnlOnaOle
dressmaker. has proved her claim that she is
the mother of young Harry Ferguson the
bell boy who lately fell heir to a large amount
of money.
The failure of Dudley, Hall & Co. tea mer
chants has been announced in Boston The
firm was the second largest tea house in the
United States, doing a business of over
81 600, 600 q year.
Bill Crawford under sentence 10 hang
next Saturday, at Decatur, H.. refused to go
into court in FeT that stay of execution
could be secured. He says he is guilty and
should be hanged.
The attorney for George Hathaway. who
was recently convicted or the killing OF ex-
Alderman William Whalen. is endeavorine
to procure a new trial, alleging a conspiracy
on the part of the police.
At Pittsburg, Lew Springtell, a bridge
builder from Cincinnati, fell from the new
California bridge over the Allegheny. dis
tance of sixty feet. and was SC badly Injured
that he died while being taken to the hos
pital.
Revenue Collector s. X. Rollensou and two
deputy marsbals have arrived at Fort Smith,
Ark. having in custody William Pelham,
Robert TTuelove. james Tabor, George Ban
croft William Clarkson aud J II Hale all
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