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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
COAL IN HIS THROAT.
While Doing Before the Fire a
Negroes Open Mouth Is Terribly
Burned.

While Doing Before the Fire a
Negroes Open Mouth Is Terribly
Burned.
A curious accident, and one perhaps
without parallel, happened recently to
negro known as jabez Walz, employed
as servant by Rev. Richard Mason. of
Jackson, Miss. The negro was lying
doing before a large wood fire, and
had just opened his mouth to game
when log of wood suddenly snapped in
two. sending shower of glowing Goals
over the hearth and the rug on which
the man was stretched. One of these
Goals with unerrlng aim fell directly in
the mouth of WalZ and lodged in the
throat just below the uvula, completely
closing the passage. The unfortunate
negro, unable even to scream or to let
any one know what was the matter.
sprung up and rushed about the house
IN seaIch OF water, which, when he
found, he began gulping down and sue
ceeded in eXtinguishing the coal. This
done. he ehdeavored TO remove it from
his throat. and after nearly Suffocating
from it, finally pulled it out with his
fingers. BY this time he was so ex-
hauSted from pain and aSphyXia that he
tainted.
A doctor was Immediately summoned
by his employer, and an examination
of his throat was made. when it was
found that 1t was burned severely, part
OF the uvula being so badly charred as
10 neceSSitate the removal of the entire
organ, besides which the tongue was
burned nearly through in enc SPOT and
bliStered terribly all over. The sufferer
Was placed under the influence of opiates
and the roasted fragments cut away,
after which the places were dressed as
well as possible. His recovery is very
uncertain, for apart from his INJURIES,
which are considered serious, great diff
fculty will be experienced in nourishing
his Iody, that of full-grown, staIwart
man, as all food will necessarily have
to be injected, and this can be done
only in small quantities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
FOUR DAYS IN A WE'LL.
An Alabama Merchant the Victim
of an Unusual Accident.

An Alabama Merchant the Victim
of an Unusual Accident.
For some days past the friends of ].
NJ. Heiffel, well to do merchant of
Kramer, Ala, have been much worried
and alarmed over his continued and
mysterious absence, and after various
theories accounting for it had been
proven incorrect, considerable fears he
gan to be entertained that he had met
with foul play. The gentleman left his
home. which was situated mile or two
out of town, one Monday morning for
his place of business. Upon his failure
TO come home that night. and dawn
finding him still missing, his wife sent
TO his Office, only TO find that he had
never reached there the previous dav.
His friends quoted her alarm for day
or two by saying that her husband
had probably been unexpectedly
patience she could, Mrs. Heiffel
waited till Thursday afternoon in homes
of hearing from him, when, impressed
with the idea that some i'll had befallen
him, she hired number of men to
search the country about for her hus-
band.
Late on Friday afternoon he was dis
covered by one of the party lying with
a broken leg in an Old we'll some dis
tance off the road. He was so weak
ened by exposure and hunger that it
was some hours before he could tell his
story, which was that. a thunder storm
coming up as he walked to town. he
turned aside to take shelter in a ruined
house near by, and as he fastened to it
crossed without seeing the rotten boards
covering the well, which. giving way.
precipitated him to the bottom. Forum
ately the well was dry, save for a few
inches of water, which kept him from
suffering from thirst. He had quite
despaired of rescue, after for two DAYS
and anight eXhausting himself in futile
cries
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
AT TER THIRTY YEARS.
Romantic Union OF a Mother and
Daughter Long Separated.

no IIidIlfC UNION Oh d hOC1er anu
Daughter Long Separated.
A singular recognition to which was
attached a most romantic story took
place a short time ago in Hutchinson,
Kan, when a mother met her only
daughter after separation of nearly
thirty years. 1t seems that in 1861 Mrs.
Ruth Banner, of Boston, was summoned
to the death bed of her husband, in
an Francisco. and possessing but
limited means, left her little daughter
Katie in the charge of a cousin, by name
Simon Hopewell. After Mrs. Banners
departure nothing was heard Of her for
some months, when Hopewell learned
from an acquaintance recently from st.
Louis that the lady had reached that
point; when going through the town
she was knocked down and killed by
runaway horse; so concluding that the
story was true, Hopewell carried little
Katie with him to Iowa, where he
moved shortly after he war.
Mrs. Banner, in the meantime, had
only been severely injured in the acct
dent spoken of, and was carried to
hospital, where it was soon found that
her brain had been affected by blow,
and from whence she was sent to the
county asylum as an unknown pauper.
Here she remained several years.
When the physician attending the asy-
lum discovered that her mind could
be restored by trephining the
skull, which had been crushed in
on the brain, he performed the
operation and cured her. AS soon as
she could beg or earn the money she
started for home, only to find her child
gone and none able to tell her where.
AS years went by she remarked, and
her husband carried her to Kansas to
live. a few days ago she was introduced
to a Mrs. Robinson at party, and, en-
tering into conversation. soon learned
that her name had been Katie Banner,
upon which she made herself known to
her daughter, and most joyful reunion
was celebrated
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
SALTWATER NEWS.
Events OF Day in the City on the
ST. CrOiy.

The log market remains quiet, very
little activity being eviuced by down
river buyers. Although several promi-
ent buyers have been in the city during
the past week no log sales are reported.
There is an abundance of logs in the
market, but buyers prefer waiting until
later on before purchasing. No boats
have been up from down river as yet,
but several are expected to-day..and to-
morrow. The r. j. Wheeler will inaug-
urate the season to-day by leaving with
a raft of logs for Joseph Zimmerman.
Gutenberg, 10. The Ravenna and
Menomonie will leave tomorrow, the
former going to FoIt Madison with
raft of logs for S. 4 j. c. Atlee, and the
latter to Dubuque, with raft of logs
for the LIE Sueur Lumber company.
Ira Stockwell, prominent lumber
man of Lyons, To-, is in the city looking
over the log market with view of pur-
chasing logs.
I Apparently everything has not been
smooth sailing in the "Ole Olson COM
panJ which appeared at the Grand
opera house here Saturday evening.
The owner of the company, j. II.
Skunk, resides in Chicago, and for some
time past he had reason to believe that
everything was not as it ought to be
financially. Mr. Skunk arrived here
from Chicago Saturday morning, and
was endeavoring to effect an amicabIe
settlement with the manager, E. II.
Mccoy. who. it is said, had kept back
several hundred dollars of the receipts.
After the performance Saturday even
ing, the unpleasant affair was settled.
Mr.. Mccoy returning the money, Nc
Coy was discharged, and will be sue
ceeded by Ed. r. Salter.
Secretary Mccarthy, of the Lily Lake
Driving Park association, will attend
meeting of the directors of the North
western TrOtting circuit at st. Paul
to-day. Mr.. Mccarthy stated yesterday
that twenty-one horses had been en-
tered for the stake races which occur
here July IA to II, inclusive. Six of
these are in the three-year-old trot, one
III the 2:19, seven in the 2:27, three in
the 2:35, and four in the 2:45.
Never within the past two years has
the advance sale of reserved seats at
the Grand opera house been as large as
it is for this evening, when Marie VAIN
wright appears i'll Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night"
The funeral of Mrs. William Cox was
held yesterday afternoon from her late
home on Oak street. The remains were
Inferred In Fairview cemetery.
The water in Lake st. Croix is rising
gradually and is now about seven feet
higher than it was when the lake froze
over last fall.
Driving on the northern rivers is pro-
crossing rapidly, there being a good
head of water in nearly all the streams.
Some of the new logs have already
reached Never's dam and will arrive at
the boom in about fourteen days.
Mrs. II. Durand returned last evening
from Berlin, Wis.,, whittier she was
called by the serious illness of her
father, who is now improving.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
ANCIENT MINE RECLAIMED
Boy Stumble Over Valuable
Property in Arizona.

Boy Stumble Over Valuable
Property in Arizona.
There was made last week near Santa
Rosa, Arizona,a discovery which prom
ises to be invaluable both from a
financial and archaeological standpoint.
being that of one of the long-sought
mines worked by the ancient MeXicans,
and from which they obtained their
enormous yields of silver. Two boys of
twelve and fourteen, sons of Ignatius
Lopez, wealthy ranchman Of the vi
entity. were roaming about the spurs of
the Mohawk range, when their dog.
seeming a wild animal of some sort,
plunged into good sized cavity, which
was partially closed by large rock and
soil. The lads followed and found
themselves in vaulted chamber, or
sort of vestibule, rudely cnt out
by human hands. Communicating
passage, descending at a steep
incline, but after few yards
the boys found themselves in water.
which deepening every foot, compelled
them to turn back.
They reported their find to Lopez,
who accompanied them to the place
and became satisfied that the entrance
led to a mine. which. becoming flooded
by some subterranean stream, had
been abandoned. He endeayored to
keep the discovery quiet. but it soon
spread, hundreds flocking TO the cave to
view it, A company is being organ
lied to work it on shares, if it is found
possible to drain it, which local en-
gineers are inclined to think can be
done. The ancient MeXicans, OF course.
having but crude and inadequate ap-
pliances, had Immediately abandoned
it. 1t is hoped and believed that the
arch@ologists may find much of in
tereSt in its depth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
MEASURING A BILLION.
Congress Expended Enough
Money to EncircIe the Earth

Congress Expended Enough
Money to EncircIe the Earth
Four Times.
The New York world estimates that
$1,000. 100000 congress spent more money
than all the workers in the ''protected''
industries can earn in three years. 1t
certainly spent more money than would
have paid off the entire national debt.
affirms the Boston Globe. 1t spent as
much money as the entire wheat crop
of the country for three years would
amount to. If the money were in 81
bills, and the bills placed end to
end. they would reach almost half
way from the earth to the
moon. They would encircle the
globe four times at the equator. If an
expert cashier could count 100 of these
bills minute, and work ten hours a
day without pause and Sos DAYS
year, it would take him nearly fifty
years to count the whole. If the whole
sum were in gold and loaded in freight
cars. filling each car to its full capacity
of 10000 pounds, it would require a
train of 100 cars to transport the gold
from place to place. In silver, about
1,50O freight cars would be required.
From estimates like these the people
can get some faint and inadequate no
ton of the inconceivable amount of
money the billion-dollar congress spent
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

of singular taciturn disposition, so
that it was some days before he was
missed, but his shanty was observed to
remain closed. and search being in sti-
tuted he was found in his bed burned
nearly to crisp. while the mattress
and clothes were only slightly scorched.
The room was in perfect order, and
no trace of fire was found on the
hearth, which was swept clean, and as
Hardcastle was known to have been
unique among negroes in never smok-
ing the whole affair seemed shrouded
in mystery. DR.. Everhardt was called
upon by the authorities to make an in
vestigation, and gave as his opinion that
it was case of spontaneous combus-
ton. In this he has been supported by
several other prominent physicians,
who agree in declaring the circum-
stances admit of no other explanation
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
1T COSTS TO SMOKE.
Some Instructive Figures Extract
ed From a Kansas City Doctors
Record.

Record.
DR.. F. B. Nofsinger, Kansas City's
postmaster, does not smoke very much,
but he has, nevertheless, sent number
OF greenbacks up to the clouds during
the past thirty years, says the Times of
that town. The doctor is comfortable
sort of man, and likes to enjoy the good
things going. He does not smoke more
than five cigars a day-he thinks
more might be injurious to his
health. This makes total of $50
per month, or 1.SOO in a year,
which number multiplied by 80, the
number of years the doctor has been
given to the weed. gives grand total of
$4,000. These cigars retail at 10 cents
apiece, but DR.. Nofsinger buys them by
the hundred, and in that way the eX-
pense is but cents to the unit. AT Z
cents apiece the $4,000 cigars smoked in
thirty years would cost So, $50. Had
these been purchased at 10 cents apiece
the expense would have been $500.
And in consideration of the fact that
the postmaster is pretty good kind of
fellow, he must have given away about
$1,000 worth. Rather snug sum of
money. the moderate smokers cigar bill
for thirty years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

recently, in most unexpected manner,
for in cleaning a chicken for dinner the
cook discovered small round object in
its craw, which, on being cleaned. was
found to be the missing diamond. The
supposition now is that the ring fell
from the lady's hand while she was in
bed, and, the clothes being shaken next
morning, it fell from them into the
yard, where it was found by the hen,
which, pecking the stone from the set
ting, swallowed it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
DIED.

CAMPBELL-In st. Paul, at the family resi-
dence. $40 Nelson avenue, Sunday. April
daughter of Catherine and the late Peter A
Cam pbell. Funeral from above residence
at $3.50 a. m. Tuesday, April 81. Services
at st. Josephs church at 10 o'clock
MESSING-In st. Paul. Florence Messing
aged two years and ten months. Funeral
from Assumption church Tuesday, 9
O'Clock. Friends invited
Benin St. Paul. at 10 a. m. Sunday, April
49, at the family residence, 81 Winnipeg
wife OF Michael Egan Funeral from above
residence at $50 a. m. Tuesday, April 81
Services at st. Patrick's church at 10
on
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
WARNING TO DRUNKARDs.
Spontaneous Combustion Carries
Off a Rum-Soaked Negro,


Off a Rum-Soaked Negro.
The supporters of the much disputed
theory of spontaneous combustion have
received fresh grounds of belief from
the case of Milton Hardcastle, of Bal
timore, whose remains were recently
found nearly consumed In his
shanty on the outskirts of that
city. Hardcastle was an old negro of un-
known age, enjoying a small monthly
income left HIM some years ago by his
former owner, Col. Eustace Hardcastle,
and which went almost entirely for
whisky. 1t is said that the negro con-
sumed a gallon and half 4 day, and
would often buy and drink the pure al
cohol in large quantities, often for
days at time partaking of no other
nourishmept He lived all alone, being
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
CHICKEN THIEF.
Valuable Diamond Found in the
Craw of a Hen.

Some time ago the household of a
gentleman, well-known in commercial
circles of Gravenhurst. Ont, was very
much upset by the loss of a valuable
diamond ring belonging to a guest-a
lady from New York. Suspicion at
once fell OH a servant, who was en-
ployed as housemaid, but upon her con-
tinued and earnest denial of the theft
she was retained, as the gentleman,
from sense of justice, did not wish 10
discharge her on mere suspicion. A
few days after the ring disappeared it
was found under the lady's window.
with the solitaire stone, however, miss
Ing, having been pried out of the set
ting. 1t was supposed that the thief
had removed the diamond to keep it
from being identified.
The mystery was solved, however,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
MIR. =. Nj. Sayford.

Who has been for some time engaged in
Evangelistic work in various colleges,
will begin series of special services at
the House of Hope next Thursday even
ing, the Esd inst. All persons interested
in these services, of whatsoever church
or denomination, are cordially invited
to attend them
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
Use Pillsbury,s Best.
Receives the highestaward everywhere

All danger of drinking impure water
is avoided by adding twenty drops of
the genuine Angostura Bitters, man.
ufactured by DR.. Siegert & Sons. At
all druggists.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Cheapest and Best Assortment
Of Carriages, Phaetons, Buggies and
Wagons of every description in st. Paul
at Kings Carriage Rooms, corner Fourth
and Minnesota streets.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

Prof. D. S. Jordan. the newly APP
pointed president of the Leland Stan
ford University of Calf ornia. will re-
ceive yearly salary of $4,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

Fine Summer Sausage. 15-1Sc.
Have Sugar Cured Hams and Bacon.
F. W. Luley 81 Son, 3S2 jackson street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

Senator Palmer, of Illinois. is a man
of only moderate fortune, his estate be-
ing estimated to be worth 100000
The St. Johns herald., 1891-07-23

In the nineteenth annual report of the directors of the Geological Society of Philadelphia, attention is called to the unprecedented de- struction of many of the more val uable and important animals of the native American fauna, and to the need for immediate adoption of every means which can be employ ed to save them from complete ex- tinction. The directors think that a good deal may be done in furth- erance of this object, both in zoo- logical gardens and private pre- serves.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-07-23

The Swiss univers ities are evi- dently the Mecca for woman stu dents. The four schools of Zurich, Basel. Bern, and Geneva have 183 fthese on their rolls, 72 being in Zurich alone, which first opened it's lecture rooms to women. Of these, 132 are in the medical department, 45 in the philosophical, 6 in the law. The Russians are represented by 107 women, Switzerland by on- ly 15.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-07-23

In new process for the manu- facture of phosphorus by electricity used by the Phosphorus Company, at Wednesfeld, near Wolverhamp- tom, England, says the London En- gineer. the raw material and coke are all fed into specially designed furnace, reduced to vapor by cleo tric heat, and the yapor condensed into marketable phosphorus, the elaborate chemical material hither- to needed in dealing with the raw materials before putting them into the furnace thus being dispensed with. The estimated consumption of phosphorus throughout the world is only two thousand tons per year, used chiefly for match making.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-07-23
Lost in the Mountains.

Chas. Winters was broughtin in on
 the stage from Pioneer Wednesday
 night in partially demented con dition. He was found the day previous by Messrs. Vornburg,
 Steffe and Reaves about three-quar- ters of a mile from Pioneer. He had left Vornburg's camp at Fl Captain 21 days before, and during all that time had wandered aimless- ly about Pinal mountains and with out food except such wild fruit etc. as he was able to find, a diet not conducive to corpulency: and those who remember his former rotund figure scarcely recognize him now, so ematiated has he become. When found he was scarcely able to walk and in a few days, at furthest, must have succumbed to starvation. He seemed indifferent as to his fate and expressed preference for the cool shade of an adjacent bush to going to camp with his rescuers. He was so weak that he had almost to be carried to Pioneer. Upon his arrival in Globe he made raid up- on a Chinese hash house, and ate with such voracity that the Chinese attendant had to compel him to de- sist, for fear he would choke him. self to death.-Globe Silver Belt.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-07-23
L0Oted the Camp.

Nearly every building in and about Reymert, in which the own CTS had left the bulk of their furni- ture and effects in the expectation of returning so soon as work on the mine was resumed, has been footed by Papago Indians. All evidence points to the probability that this thieyery has been going on tor sev- eral weeks, until every untenanted house has suffered more or less.
 On Wednesday Jesse Brown went from Pinal to Reymert and found that the bulk of his house furnish ings had been carried away, and that fresh trail led from camp to- wards Florence. He followed it and finally came upon two Indians camped along the Gila river below Florence several miles, and identi- fled a loi of his goods among their effects. He came to Florence and with Deputy Sheriff Pete Boscha re- turned to their camp, and arrested them. Through one of their squaws Boscha learned that the other h. dians had likely camped further down the river and he proceeded down about two miles and found two others just unpacking their poodle, and arrested them. A big wagon load of plunder was taken and sent to town,a portion of which is in the sheriff's office, ,and consists of miscellaneous household goods, cooking utensils, carpets, ceiling cloth, sofa pillows, dinner pails, cups and saucers, lace curtains, la dies clothing, etc.
 The story first told by the arrest edIndians was that that they bought the goods from two Yaqui Indians, but by little strategy Boscha got full confession from them and has clear case against them. They are now Tn the county jail.-Flor- ence Enterprise.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-07-23

The scheme for insuring railroads by the year for losses resulting from damages to rolling stock by colli- sions and derailments, which was started two years ago and was men, toned in the Railroad Gazette at that time, was reported some weeks ago to have ignominiously failed, We understand that the roads which made contracts for a year have not renewed them, and that no new ones are being made.