St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-11
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

The cruiser Philadelphia has arrived
| at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Southern California bank at Los
Angeles, Cal, resumed business yeSter-
dry morning,
| The Lafayette hotel, belonging to the
| Wabash and Big Four at Lafayette.
Ind, was destroyed by fire yesterday
| afternoon.
The total number of fourth-class post
masters appointed yesterday was 1876. of
| which 40 were to fill vacancies caused
by designations and death.
The Elmira On. " Savings bank re-
opened for business yesterday, paying
| its old depositors a dividend of 25 per
cent. AS soon as possible another diyi-
| dend will be declared.
Secretary Herbert has directed a
court martial to assemble at Mare
Island, Cal, on the Doth inst, for the
trial of Paymaster j. S. Sullivan,
charged with embeZzlement.
Mrs. Bancroft. the well-known actress,
was thrown from cab in London yes
terday and run over. She received in
Juries that neceSsitated her removal to
hospital.
: The discussion of the ninth clause of
the Irish government act. which relates
parliament of Irish counties and bor-
oIghs, began yesterday in committee
OF the whole of the house of commons.
The missing yacht Sea Gull. which
was supposed to have foundered near
Chicago with nearly dozen people in
sunday nights storm, has turned up all
right. She landed in an out-of-the way
place IN the southern part OF the city,
and suffered no damage.
Latest advices are to the effect that
the steamer Bawnmore, which struck a
rock off Point Gardo, CAL, and was
about to sink, has been flowed into Gas
par bay, on the Mendocino coast. She
is very much damaged vessel.
The excursion steamer Eldorado ran
aground on Horseshoe reef, near Buffalo,
early yesterday, and for a while it
looked as though the accident, which
was in itself slight, would prove dis
astrous, but the passengers were all
safely landed.
The New Haven steamboat Richard
Peek, whose highest ambition is to show
her heels to some other boat, the Pur-
itan of the Fall River line, has had her
pride lowered by MIR, Hearst's little
yacht VamooSe, who beat her in race
OH Long Island sound.
One million bushels of grain came to
Kingston, Ont, from the West last
week. The receipts were the largest
ever received there in one week, and as
result many of the large grain carriers
are lying there waiting to be unloaded.
Oswin Mayo, vice president of the L.
E. Wells Packing company. committed
suicide at his home, in Chicago, by TAX
ing dose of rat poison. His business
affairs are said to be in good condition,
and 10 cause can be assigned for the
act.
Enlisted men in the navy will now
nave the privilege of purchasing their
discharge. Secretary Herbert Yesterday
issued an order establishing rules and
regulations for the purchase of dis
charges, as authorized by the last naval
appropriation bill.
1t is generally believed at Leaven-
worth. Kan, that the sympathy strike
among the coal miners is at an end.
Yesterday morning miners went into
the two mines. The men resumed
work at the price offered when they
first went out-S0 cents a ton for mine
run coal.
Reports to the South Chicago police
station indicate that three men who
were seen clinging to an upturned row
boat Off Cheltenham Beach Sunday aft
ernoon, and who were supposed to have
been drowned, were picked up by the
occupants of boat and brought safely
to land.
The statue of P. T. Barnum at Sea-
side park, Bridgeport, Conn.,, was dis
figured Sunday night by being covered
with red paint. The granite steps of
the pedestal were covered with inscrip-
tions derogatory to the character of the
! deceased Snowman. There is no clue to
the perpretator of the deed.
Jerry O'Donnel was to have been
married at Calumet, Mich. but at the
time set for the ceremony a requiem
mass was being sung for him. He died
very suddenly. ODonnell was the one
who was sent to the penitentiary for
three years for trying to bribe the jury
i'll the Cronin case at Chicago.
The New Zealand Loan aud Mercan-
tile Agency company, limited, the offices
of which are in London, failed yester-
day. The capital of the company is
94,500,000. Three-QuarterS of the loss
will fall on people IN Great Britain. 1t
is feared that the company has been
carrying on wide speculations in Aus
tralia.
Rev. DR.. John S. Penman, rector of
the Presbyterian church at Irvington,
n. Y, has resigned his pastorsbip. He
says he has done so because of his ina
billty to longer sustain and subscribe to
the system of doctrine" of his church.
DR.. Penman was one of the commission
erS to the general assembly at Washing
ton. He voted with the minority in
favor of Dr.. Briggs.