The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-29
EVENTS OF A DAY IN BRIEF.

London-The house of commons today
adjourned until April 10.
Dubuque, Io.-Archbishop Hennessy is
much better, and, with absolute rest, it
Is said. will completely recover.
St. Joseph. Mo.-Four inches of snow
fell here last night. This is the heaviest
snow so late In the season since 1875.
Philadelphia-Isaac Sheppard & Co..
iron founders. have granted their en-
ployes an increase of 10 per cent In
wages.
st. Johns. N. F.-The sealing steamer
Leopard. with II, 600 seals; Vanguard, wi h
$4,000 seals, and Neptune with 80, 600 seals,
arrived here today.
Montreal-Sir William Mcdonald, the
millionaire tobacco manufacturer, has
made another munificient donation, said
to be 100000, to McGill university.
New Yorl1-Notice was sent out today
by the American Hard Rubber company
that an advance of per cent had been
ordered in the prices of all hard rubber
goods.
officer. left today for Cuba, going by way
of Miami, Fla. He will visit Havana. Pi-
mar del Rio and Matanzas, examining
the telegraph lines.
San Francisco-Among the arrivals on
the steamer Australia from Honolulu was
Minister H. M. Sewell. Mr.: Sewell will
remain in this city for few days before
leaving for Washington.
Washington-Assistant Secretary OF
War Meiklejohn has received an official
report from the customs service at Ha-
vana. In commercial sense the report
shows f1attertng conditions.
Cincinnati O.-Henry Varwig, of Wood
lawn, O., manufacturer of beer faucets.
| filed in the United States court volun-
| tary petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities
$4,000; nominal assets S16000O.
London-A dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Vienna says there are 10000 cases
of influenza in the city of Brunn, cap
ital of the province of Moravia, Austria.
and that the death rate is enormous
Chester, Vt.-The maple sugar harvest
in Vermont is believed to be total fall
ure this year, and. If the worst fears of
the sugar men are realized, the indus
try will be crippled for some time to
come.
Chicago-Fifteen hundred employees of
Norton Bros tin can factory, in May
wood, struck today. A year ago the COM
pany ' reduced the wage scale 10 per cent.
and the strike is for resumption of the
old scale.
New York-The United States trans
port Crook arrived here tonight, having
on board the bodies of the soldiers who
died during the campaign in Porto Rico
and the bodies of GIL of the soldier dead
from Santiago
Peoria, Ill.-Mrs Minnie Hawkins was
arrested today and bound over to the
United States grand jury. She is ac-
cused of forging her dead husbands
name to pension checks and securing
money on them.
Harrisonville, Mo.-Word was today
taken to E. Bates Soper, sentenced TO
hang tomorrow for the murder of his Vile
and two children, that Gov. Stephens
would not interfere. Soper said that ne
was not disappointed. Ef
Jefferson City, Mo.-The house has
passed bill placing slot machines in
the same class with other gambling de-
vices. The crime of maintaining these
machines is made felony punishable
same as other felonieS.
London = Joseph H. Choate, United
States ambassador, who has been con,
fined to his room with a severe cold, and
been compelled to cancel his engage
ments for the immediate uture' Is
trihe better this evening.
Middlesboro. Ky.-The worst flood
know in years passed over this section to-
day Ali of Middlesboro south of Cum
berland avenue and east of the Louisville
&, Nashville railroad is submerged from
seven to eighteen inches.
Commissioner Hermann.
of the general land office today recon-
mended TO the. secretary of :he interior
at Weare Alaska, to Rampant City, sixty
miles further up the Yukon.
Biddeford, Me-The restoration of the
wages of loo employees in the York cot7
ton mills. Saco, Is announces TO .pegin .in I
affect 1000 hands in the I.aconia- and
Pepperell cotton mills, of this city.
New York-Easter lilies will form no,
part of the Easter decorations this year
rs ST. Johns Protestant Episcopal church
In Jersey City The Rev DR.. e: L. Stod-
dard. rector Of ST. John has tabooed the
fragrant and beautiful flower for hygienic
reasons. ,.-,- sassf s..
London-The British steamer Drum
mond. Capt Hills from Pensacola Marcn
4. while bound up the English, channel
Yesterday, stranded near Beachy deao
owing to thick fog. She fioated TO-DAY.
Her damage, If any. has not yet been
reported