The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-26
NEWS CONDENSED.


guarding the property Of the company
New York-The executive committee of
the american Bankers association has
decided to hold the annual convention IN
milwaukee, some time during September.
I1ondon-The fire on the British steam
April Is, for Boston. which returned TO
Queenstown on fire. is now under CON
troll.
Uniontown. Pa.-Mark Thomas HAYES
was hanged here. He walked TO the scat
fold unf1inehingly, and was pronounced
dead in ten minutes. He refused religions
consolation.
Springfield, n.-A bill was introduced
IN the senate making It misdemeanor to
give future options in markets. to spread
Iaise reports concerning stock values, or
to corner a market.
schooner is capsized four miles off this
city. Particulars cannot be obtained nm
I'll the life saving crews, which have gone
to her relief, return.
New York-The directors of the Pressed
Steel Car company have declared the reg
uiar quarterly dividend on preferred
stock OF 1N per cent and a quarterly
oIVldend or l per cent on the common
stock
London-Sir Ellis Asmead-BartIett M
T., was summoned to appear at police
court for assaulting lawyers clerk who
had endeavored to serve him with q
bankruptcy noFice for 44S2. A fine of los
was imposed
-; Albany. y: Y...Gov. odell has signed a
Dill providing for registration OF auto
mobiles and allowing them to run on
any highway at a speed not to exceed
hfteen miles an hour outside of incor-
porated cities and villages
Rome-The center OF Wednesdays
earthquake shocks was in the neighbor-
hood Of Palombara Sabina The walls Of
houses were fssured and rendered untn-
habitable and the people were panic
stricken and spent the night in the open
air.
Colon. Colombta-ContractO McDoa-
ADDS efforts to induce Porto Ricans to
emtgrate to Ecuador have been unyuo-
cessruI. The steamer Catanfa has arrived
here with only ninety-stx Porto R1canS
on board. Her future trips on the same
errand have been abandoned.
Farmer. N. Y.-The banking house Of
Leroy e. Partridge, or Ovid made an
assignment The liabilities and assets ars
not yet made public. The bank Was cap
ttalized at s1560O0, and was the chief de-
pository of the Seneca county treasury
and OF Willard State hospital.
Buffalo, n. Y.-Thfrty marine engineers.
who have been running on salt water
boats arrived in Buffalo from New York.
Ihey were brought here by one OF the
big steamship companies, the object be-
ing to use them on the lake steamers In
place Of the striking marine engineers.
st; Petersburg DeIcasse, the French
minister of foreign affairs, and Count
lamsoorff, the Russian minister of for
e1gn affairs went to the palace at the
Zarkoes-Helo, where the czar entertain-
ed them at breakfast. There were no
other guests.
Canton, O;.Mrs. Maria G. saxton aunt
of Mrs. Mckinley, is dead Mrs Saxton
was with Mrs. Mckinley at the White
house for several weeks after the first
inauguration. She was the widow Of the
Iate Tnomas Saxton, who established the
Canton Evening Repository.
CincinnatLThe meeting of the book
committee of the Methodist Episcopal
church was held here to elect an editor
for the Northwestern Christian Advos
cate at Chicago, in place of the late DR..
Arthur Edwards Owing to the large
number Of applicants no decision was
reached at the morning session.
New York-Thomas NJ Rasin. of this
city, filed petition in bankruptcy in the
United States district court showing la
bilities Of S2eS,Go0 and assets consfstins
of 500 in cash. The petitioner formerly
was member of the firm of Rastn q.
Gess, OF Spokane and Seattle wash,
between 1890 and 1893, when it failed
Athens, Tenn.-As the outcome Of a re-
cent temperance crusade here, the ONCE
Of the McMinn Citizen was raided durlna
the night The presses were overturned
and the type was dumped into stream
nearby. The Citizen published temper-
ance editorials during q recent election.
This Is supposed to have caused the raid,
st. Louis, Mo.-The Worlds Fair ma
tional commission held q short meeting,
ana ad1ourned after transaeting merelT
routine business. President Carter said
the commission will be here in June to
hold another meeting and consider the
question of a site and other matters in
conjunction with the local Worlds Fair
company.
st. Petersburg Russian govern,
ment has forbidden the exhibition az
MOSCOW of Repine's hfe-size portrait Of
Count Leo Tolstoi. representing him In
the costume of a peasant and barefoot-
ed. When the portrait was recently ex-
h1bfted at st. Petersburg the public paid
unusual tributes to the picture and sur.
rounded it with flowers
Falmouth, Eng.-The Russian bark
More, from Wilmington, N. c., March q.
ana five members of the crew of the
Norwegian ship Parthena, from MobiIeI
for Liverpool. Ten others OF the Nore's
crew had been transferred to the Nors
Wegian schooner Vardik, Capt Henrik
sen, bound from Lagu11a> for Stettin
Chattanooga, Tenn--Assistant Post.
master Charles H. Drexel, at Tarpou
Springs, Fla, has been arrested, accord
ing TO the reports to the postoffice in-
spectors here He is charged with being
short in his accounts to the extent OF
LEGO and with having dynamited the
safe to cover his guilt. Drexels fatha1
10 S1HplOyeO III the pOSIOulco department.
at Washington.
Milwaukee, VISA Journal special
from Marinette. Wis, says the Viewer
hauser syndicate has acquired 7o,OO0 acres
or yellow pine land in Sabine and Vernon
counties. Louisiana. The conSfdera ton
was about $3.50, COO Isaac Stephenson and
the estate of A G. Brown, of MarirR {e
were the principal owners. This deal also
includes section OF pine land owned
by Mr.. Stephenson individually.
Galveston, Representative Of tha
New York Chamber of Commerce in
srected Galveston. Chartered steamers
took the party down the hay and out into
the gulf. The government tetties were
inspected and the party was shown the
immense terminal whaFves. Later thew
were driven through the section of tha
city devastated by the great storm last
year. In the afternoon they left for San
Antonio.
Lansing, Mich.-The supreme courA
handed down an opinion In the case Of
ID. w. H. Moreland vs. the Detroit BOARD
Of Public Works, involving the consfff1,.
tionaMty OF bill passed by the Iegfsla.
ture abolfshtng the present board and
providing for one-man board instead.
the governor to appoint the first fncurn.
bent When the bill was signed bv Tne
governor he at once appointed Mr. More~
iano. The court holds that the apuofnt-
nent Is votd. but the act abofishare the
board ana instttuting superintendent oA
pubic works Is regular The court eie-
cades that the appointing power should be