St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-13
THE WORLD OVER.

1t is announced that a joint meeting of
base ball association and league representa-.
tives will be held at Indianapolis Dec Is for
the purpose of settling differences between
the two ORGANIZATIONS.
Workmen digging the Harlem ship canal
at the upper end of Manhattan island. n. y.
while at work sixteen feet below the river
bed level, III an incipient peat formation
have found the tusk of a mRstodon. 1t is
four feet long and SIX inches in diameter al
the butt, and must have lain where found
through many centuries.
Every parish in Louisiana save one has
elected delegate TO the Democratic state CON
vention. A careful review of the situation
shows that the faction favorable to the lot
terry viii be i'll control.
The lawyers for Dr. Graves on trial for
murder at Denver, will endeavor to prove
that Mrs. Barnaby died from pneumonia ana
not from the effects of arsenic administered
by the accused or any one else.
Mrs. Irwin Mcdowell widow of the late
Maj. Mcdowell. who commanded the Federal
forces in the first battle OF Bull Run, died in
New York city yesterday.
The tennis match between Tom Petit the
Boston champion, and Peter Latham, the
Englishman, was won by the latter who got
three games out of five. The match was for
500.
Trenton rock was reached in the natural
gas fields, twelve miles from Salt Lake. Utah
yesterday, and flow of gas with q pressure
OF l45 pounds TO the square inch is the re-
suit The gas reservoir is apparently ex-
haustless,
The demand for 10-cent pieces and pennies
at the treasury is so great that it cannot be
supplied. Treasurer Nebeker has ordered
10000 l0-cent pieces from the San Francisco
mint in order to meet the demand.
1t is stated that the Republican govern
ment of Brazil has made a formal offer TO
provide for the interment with suitable hon
ors, in Rio Janairo of the remains of both
the eX-emperor and ex-empress, provided
the family so desire.
w. H. Edwards, United States consul at
Berlin, has discovered in the national gallery
fine painting of Columbus, which he is try
ing TO secure for the Chicago exhibition.
Among the students whose names have
been enrolled at the Berlin university this
term 300 are III the American music schools
of the total number of students 800 are Amer
lean.
Nine. Modjeska is seriously if not danger
,ously i'll al the Continental hotel in Phila-
delphia.
johnny Van Heest and George Lovinge
have been matched by the California Athletic
club for finish fight in January. The purse
is $3.50.
Bavarian mirror manufacturers have
agreed to cease production for three months
owing TO large stocks being held on hand fer
which there seems TO be no market This
action will deprive hundreds of working
people or employment.
Russia has bought &C, 600 tons of cement in
Silesia TO be used in the construction of for
tifications in various places Oh the Austrian
frontier.
Lieut.. Gov. Schulz. of Manitoba is serious
ly i'll and is not expected to recover. He is
one of the pioneers of Manitoba and was an
pointed governor in 1857.
The French chamber of deputies Yesterday
voted grant of 200o00 francs for the relief
of sufferers by the st. Etienne colliery ex-
plosion.
The treasury department has directed that
sanitary inspector be stationed at Rouse's
Point New York, during the prevalence OF
smallpox in Canada, for the purpase of pre-
venting the introduction and spread of that
disease in the United States.
AT the close of business yesterday the
treasury department had redeemed So. 20S.-
$50 4la per cent bonds, leaving S. 90, $50 out
standing.
The English court of appeals has granted
the application of the Marquis of Ailesburv
for permission to sell Sayernake forest for
300, 000
The first graduating class of the scholar
ship Saratoga has held its commencement
The. graduates numbered ifty-one boys, who
take precedence as the first pupils sent out
by the Pennsylvania medical school.
Secretary Foster is reported better and
stronger than at any time since he was taken
sick. and his friends are very much encour-
aged at his improvement. He is still weak
however. and will hardly be able to make his
Southern trip for several weeks.