St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-11
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

The directors Of the Lake Erie & Western
Railway company yesterday reelected Calvin
s. Brice president and l.. NJ. Schwan vice
president secretary and treasurer.
Ten thousand dollars, it was announced
Yesterday has been offered for the firsJ coin
of the worlds fair half dollar series. The
fair officials expect still higher bids.
George c. Ger, who was engineer of the
Monitor in the engagem ent with the Merri-
mac during the late war, recently died at
Charleston, s. &.
At Canton. o., early yesterday morning
two electric motors met in collision. I'M uring
two motormen and several passengers
Capt. E. E. Wood. of the Eighth cavalry
the present assistant professor Of Spanish
has been appointed professor of modern Ian
guageS at West Point academy, with the rank
of colonel.
Owing 10 the overcrowded condition of the
Michigan asylum for the insane all patients
are now refused. Eleven hundred appli-
cepted.
The American Society of Railroad Super
intendents held its twenty-tirst annual m eet-
ing in New York yesterday ii. Stanley
Goodwin. general Eastern superintendent
Lehigh Valley railroad, was elected presi-
dent.
At Belgrade. at a Radical meeting of
Petrovacs Yesterday. local official named
Milojko fired a rifle at NJ Pashitch. formerly
Servlan premier, but the bullet missed its
mark. Milojko was arrested.
President Heureaux, of San Domingo, has
offered the remains of Columbus to the
United States government as security for a
loan Of Sl00,d0J. The offer was declined.
Nicholas Smith. United States consul at
Three Rivers. Que, sent report to his gov
eminent rejecting on the sanitary condition
OF that place. The report found its way
back to Three Rivers. and Mr.. Smiths resi-
dence is now guarded by pollceme II.
George Shiras Jr.. the new associate Justice
StatQS no
oath OF Office yesterday, il being the opening
day of the october session.
Yesterday in Pittsburg Chief Justice Pax
son charged the grand jury in the treason
cases against the Homestead workmen. 1t is
considered unfavorable to the defendan
The arrangements for the Colum bian ban
quet at the Chicago auditorium Oct II are
complies. Among those who will deliver
addresses will be Hon. William Louis Kelly,
of st. Paul.
Destructive prairie fires are raging in Okla
homa. a railroad bridge and several houses
have been destroyed.
Solomon Hirsch, minister from the United
States to Uruguay has left with Secretary
roster his resignation OF the office. Mr.
Hirsch was appointed from Oregon.
The Parnellite convention in Dublin passed
resolution in favor of placing the Paris
fund i'll the hands of committee consisting
of three farnellites and three anti-Parnell-
ties.
At Lawrence, Kan. last evening Fred Bis
sell shot ami seriously wounded E. Higgins
and Jack Cracroft. students of the Kansas
university. because they walked across his
land, which he has warned students to keep
off.
At Scranton, Pa, the Wightman Electric
Motor company, of which j. r. Mckee Har-
rison's son-in-law, is the president, has as
signed.
At Quebec. Judge Chaven rendered judy
ment yesterday committing ex-Premier
MERCER, of Quebec. TO stand tine trial on all
OF the charges OF malfeasance brought
against him by the attorney general.
Mrs Sarah Sidman, Rockland countv's
N: " only centenarian, died at her home
at Hboma. Her age was 100 years, months
and u days.
The report of the Kansas board of agricult-
ure places the average YIELD of winter wheat
per acre 1910. and the total Yield, 90 055. $50
bushels. The yield per acre of spring wheat
is 453 bushels, and the total crop is l,502, 926
bushels.