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.
Senator D. Cady Stanton, son Of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, died at Missouri Valley yester-
day.
The grating of skin from $50 Knights
Templar upon a brother is said to be a sue
cess.
1t is reported that John L. Sullivan has
signed to fgh. Slavin for the worlds CHAM
pionship.
Gen. Schofeld wires that Fort Lowell will
not be abandoned until the question is tut
Their 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-
Ter, appears to have had agencies all over the
country in different cities.
company with S3,OO0,OOO capital has been
incorporated to construct tunnel between
New York city and Brooklyn.
DR.. Thomas Weston has been appointed 10
take charge Of the foreign division of the
worlds fair bureau of promotion.
Secretary Noble is in receipt of letters from
Sioux missionaries protesting against their
transfer to the war department.
John Barker, of Syracuse, N. Y, fred five
shots into the body of his wife and escaped.
The wounds are probably fatal.
A street duel in Holbrook, ARR. resulted
In the death of Robert Boyle O cowboy, J.
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. ~.
Sadullah Pasha, the Turkish ambassador
who attempted suicide in a bath tub, died
yesterday from his injuries at Vienna
Job Pritchard, an ex-deputy sheriff, was
shot and killed near Hot Springs, Ark, by
his brother-in-law, DR.. E. N. Carpenter. :
Mrs. Lucy Cook, aged seventy years, of
Burgin, KY, fell asleep before the fire, and
her clothes igniting, she was burned TO death.
Arthur Davidson. a wealthy Chicago con-
tractor, was probably fatally injured by
toughs whom he refused to treat in salooI
John McMahon champion colar-and- elbow
| wrestler of the world, has been challenged
| by James Cowley, of Texas for from $500 ia
| 81 900 side. I
In honor of George Bancroft the flags on
| public buildings in cities through which the
| funeral will pass will be halfmasted by or
| der of President Harrison.
Senator Sanders has introduced a bin max.
| ing it an offense punishable by fine and i'm.
! prisonment for any person to sell or lend
| arms and ammunition to the Indians,
| T. NJ. Todd, a Chicago real estate dealer.
| thinks he is marked for assassination. For
the third time within two weeks bullet was
| fired through his sitting room window.
The town of Covington. Neb., is under
| guard of policemen armed with rifles to pre.
vent repetition of incendiarism which
threatened it with destruction last week.
Eva L. Hamilton. or Mann, who is contest.
| ing the will for widows dover in the estate
| of Robert Ray Hamilton, refused on the wiz
ness stand TO testify where her child was
| born.
| While Polish christening was in progress
| at the house of John Garlick, in Galatzin.
| Pa Mike Terush walked in and shot the
mother of the child He narrowly escaped
| being lynched.
| Two young men, Laurence Casey and Rich.
| ard Caskens receive fatal injuries in Chicago
| during an alteration with party of drunken
| Greeks. The Greeks were only captured at
| the end of small riot.
Augustus P. Dunlop. publisher of Dunlop's
| Stage News, was arrested yesterday in libel
suit for $4,000 damages, brought by Harrison
ror. Bail was fixed at $4,000.
| The minority stockholders Of the st, TO-
| seph & Grand Island division of the Union
| Pacific will institute suit to restrain the
Union Pacific from removing its general
| offices from ST Joseph to Omaha.
! Two stations on the Council Bluffs diyi.
| sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee Il st. Pauf
| railway, in Iowa, have been closed because
| the townspeople boycotted the new agents
| employed In the places Of the strikers.
Senator Power has introduced a bill to
| limit the compulsory requirements of de-
| post of United States bonds with the treas
| urer Of the United States iby national banks
having capital of not more than $4,000 "a
$1,000 of bonds for each and every bank.