The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-20
NEWS CONDENSED.

AFTERNOON NEWS CONDENSED.
Racine, Wis.-The tanning plant of the
A. Platz Leather company was complete
ly DESTROYED by fire. Loss 100000: insur-
| ance, $4,000.
Christiania-The council Of state de-
clded to submit to the storthing royal
proposal for extraordinary grants for the
defenses of Norway.
Huntington, w. Va.-Guyandotue and
Twelve Pole valleys are threatened with
f1o DDS, owing to a continuous heavy rain
for the past thirty hours.
New York-Isaac L. Currier, trading
under the name Of I. D. Currier & Co,
bankers and brokers. made an assignment
for the benefit Of creditors.
London-It is announced in dispatch
from Paris that NJ. Delcasse, the French
minister of foreign affairs, who is ex-
| pected to arrive at st. Petersburg April
Y, will stay there only four days.
Dubuque. Iowa.-The committee on invi-
| tatbon and Senator Allison and Speaker
Henderson asked President Mckinley to
visit Dubuque G. A R. encampment the
first week in June. 1t is believed he will
| accept.
Nashington-The president has made
the following appointments: State-Sam-
uel A; Tapleton, of West Virginia, to be
consul Of the United States at Nuevo
Laredo, Mexico War-Howard A. CRUDE,
to be assistant surgeon of volunteers
with rank of captain.
Canton, O.-Physictans in attendance
upon MIS-. William Il. Day, wife of Judge
Day, former secretary of state, reported
her condition as somewhat improved
Ihey state that while the Improvement is
not yet soHictent to justify hopes of uIti-
mate recovery, 1t affords much encou1-
| agement.
,pottsvIlle, Pa.-Six hundred mine en-
Eloyes struck at the Raven Run, ,,hila-
aeiph1a Reading Coal and Iron com
p pa ceilier, on account of the dis
charge of two leader bosses, who were
ulsln1ssed, it is alleged, because they are
members OF the United Mine Workers
! of America.
l-ondon-J. Pie.pont Morgan started for
Paris In the best of health ana scco,,o
! panied by his son and grardchildren
Inc representatives Of Mr. Morsan de-
care that the story of his i.l-health Ca
! absolutely unfounded "
| Pensacola, F'la-The steamer Ko+ar-
qrecht has arrived with the crew Of ~
park NuStuin, which was wrecked at sns
ana abandoned. The Nust11in "a lied fro-1
1G Iirnba, March u, with a cargo Of
ana was abandoned when the Ko+en
drecht hove in sight.
Lonnon-The disabled Hambure-A
can line steamer Bulgaria. from NJ
r n1rh, a ApTll s, for Hamburg, which was
PeLer and fractured the shaft on Anri + ~
at sea, passed PrawI Point i'm the = -
/ llsn channel, slowly proceed ;ng under hsr
! port propeller to her destination.
Mattoon, IH.-W. B. Kennedy. q nronoi-
AeHe resident of Humboldt north Of this
city, is dead, aged eighty-three yes se'
Kennedy was a veteran Of the MexicaT N
and civil wars. He was a nersona1
friend friend and companion of Kit Carson, the
famous scout, and shared many of the
latter's thrilling experiences on the
plains. LILO
Berlin. Pa.-One of the largest coal
deals zeal ever made in Somerset county has
- 39S Seo peen co1cluded and embraces over
1 1 acres adjoining Berlin. The terri
tory was sold to the w K. Niver com
Eany, OF New York which operates mines
near Elk Lick, Somerset county. Develop
menus OF the new territory are to begin
! 81, 100000 u
San tranc1Sco-The transport Rosecrans
| Drought from Manila five men who had
oeen oeported by the military authorities
Among them was Santiago Maceo a. son,
OF the rate Cuban leader Antonio Maceo
While in the Philippines Maceo became
! a hrst sergeant Of the Macabebe scouts,
| the Filipino troops
| Berlin-A dispatch from St. Petersburg
I TO the Lozal Anzeiger says the STUDENTS,
! OF the great Kaluga seminary near Mos
! cow. INDUCED in series of excesses
Mnle en- eliminated in shooting at the bish-
| seminary. neither Of whom was hit Eff
teen students were arrested.
| Salt Lake Utah-The Utah Coal &. Coke
! company, New Jersey corporation. has
| nted Its articles here with an amendment
| increasing it's capital stock from Sf0 =
| 600 to $10,000,0oo and Changing
! it's name to the Utah Fuel company. Thts
| IS said to be reorganization Of all coal
| c0mpa MES owned by the same interests
! along the Rio Grande Western railroad.
Do rTut,o
| tives In the MeyeTsdale region at Elk
! Lick have returned to work after nine
weeks OF idleness. They struck because
men. but as all but two of the men dis
charged have been reinstated, they con-
| slider they have won a victory. The men
! at the mines Of the Smokebess Coal com
! pany, at Berlin, Penn are stiH out
| CleVeland-The officials of the Great
Lakes Towing company declared that
! they Will fight the pending strike of the
! tug, hremen and linesmen at lower Lake
/ Erie ports to finish. The company will
ers, 1t is announced, but has decided
| hereafter to place but one fireman on
/ each tug instead of two, as has been
| customary III the past.
| London-For the first time since the
death of the Earl of Beaconsfeld. Prir1-
! rose day passed without a royal wreath
! being placed upon the tomb in E51ghen-
| den churchyard The annual pilgTima ge
diqinut1on. and the statue of the earl
! of Beaconsfeld, opposite Westminster Ab-
! hey, was profusefy decorated.
! Belgrade, Servia-The new constitution
was promulgated and royal ukase Just
issued reappoints the cabinet ministers
who had formally rendered their resigna-
tions. All the state officials We're sim
llarly reappotnted. George SImics was
| appointed president of the new state
| council. OF the thirty senators appointed
| by the king, eleven are Radicals ten are
Progressives, four are Liberals and five
are Independents.
Detroit, Mich.-The Evening News says:
| city for the building of a steel and iron
plant at Sault Ste. Marie Canadian
slde), which will employ 10000 men. and
be capitalized at $50. 900. The deal was
closed In conference held at the Rus
sell house.
Mayking. Ky.-Joseph Johnston and
John Potter, two of the REYNOLDS feud-
lists, deserted from the barricade Of their
fellows in the mountains and surrendered
to Deputy Marshal Fulton They were
taken to Whitesburg Jail. A posse of 100
men Is being organized to capture the
remainder of the faction.
Milton, Cal.-John r. Gorham. foreman
of the Union Copper mine, shot and
Killed George 3. Mccarthy, a prominent
young man of Copperopls, and then blew
himself to pieces with giant powder.
Jealousy is supposed to have been thu
cause of the tragedy.
st. Louis. Mo.-The Post DIspatch an
nounces that syndicate of New York
and st. Louis capitalists, with a CAPITAL
stock of S5o0,c00 will erect in East ST.
Louis II rlant to snelt lead ore from th,,
Joplin and Webb City MOI, and Arkan-
sas mining districts. The projectors
claim they can ship the ore 10 East ST