St. Paul daily globe., 1894-04-18
TELEG kkEVITIES.

Street cars are held up and robbed at
San Francisco.
Congressman Jerry Simpson is re-
ported much better.
The lite OF 2S7 patents expired yes
tefday. an unusually large number.
Seegman & Co. will ship s500.000 gold
by Saturdays steamer from New York.
Ernest j. Knabe. the weil-known
piano manufacturer, is dead in BaitI-
more.
The Behring sea bill was read yester-
day in the house of lords for the third
time. There was no debate Oh the
measure.
Ex-President Harrison delivered by
fifth ami last lecture at Stanford uni
|, yersity yesterday. 1t was upon Estate
Institutions"
William Pell. for many years pilot on
st. Louis and Ttnnes5ee river packets.
diel at the Cairo Marine hospital from
kidney trouble.
| Representative Storer, OF Ohio. has
| introduced in the house the Nica.agu
! canal bill as presented by Senator
,, Morgan to the senate.
/ lil-feeiing against nOn-union lake
/ firemen caused two assaults at Butfalo.
!; John Bergman will die from Knife
/ wound i'll the stomach. So; i12i'ii
j The Vanderbilt flyer made run fr m
! Cleveland to Erie, ninety-iye and che
! halt miles. in ninety-five minutes. IN
/, Guiding q our-minute stop for water.
! The senate has confirmed the NOM
+ nation of james NJ. thompson. uf
! Arkansas. to be supervising inspector
1 of steam vessels for the Sixth district.
7 On May 10 the state of Massachusetts
will pay off the last of its war loans.
| The entire loan, Known as the bounty
loan. and dated May 10. 1865, amounts
to SS,492, 14S.
Hon. Wooman J. Holloway, ex-cOnsul
to Stratford, Ontario. died at his home
at South Bend, Ind., after an illness OF
| eighteen months. lie was born i'll 1926
near Springfield, O. *a<
q. II, Harden, who made tour of the
world. died at Strong City, Kan. last
night. He measured exactly seven feet
, six inches in height. His death was the
result of consumption.
A special dispatch to the LONDON
: Times from Montevideo says that the
) revenue returns for the first quarter OF
, 1894 exceed the amount necessary to
, meet the obligations of the government.
Mayor Stuart, of Philadelphia. has
sent letter to the secretary of the Uni
versal Peace union, declining to allow
that organization to float its flag over
Independence hall in place of the ma
tional ensign.
3 |: Louis Piante. wanted in Toronto fol-
robbery, was held for eXtraditiOn, de.
spite his confession of arson. made fol
the purpose of being detained at Denver
for trial. and the papers have been for
warded to Washington.
, At Nashville. Mich, the bank O
Barry d Downing was robbed last nigh
of 81, 0OO belonging to the proprietors,
s S400 in stamps kept there bY the post
S master, and probably other sinalle
amounts in priv ate boxes.
At Saginaw, Mich, yesterday, Hon
:, A. 3. Wood, ex-state senator and {
i prominent citizen, was found dead il
v his barn at noon, having committed
S suicide by hanging. .Despondenc.
I. caused by financial reverses is assigned
4 as the cause.
Ralph Gillette, one OF the best-knowl
r insurance men in the country, died a
Hartford. Conn.,, yesterday, age;
: eighty-two years. He organized ant
# was president OF four insurance com
ii panies successfully. the City Fire
Charter Oak, Union and the Stat
e Mutual Fire Insurance company. O
e which he was preside mt at the time 0
e his death.