The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-22

out of the arrest of several negroes on
the charge of burning the barn of q
white farmer resulted in the death by
shooting of Clebe Montgomery (colored)
at the hands of white farmer Fur,
ther trouble is feared.
The late Sir Walter Besant left his bus
mess affairs entirely under the control
OF A. 2. Watt and appointed him execu-
tor under his will. Mr.. Watt is also Be
SAINTS literary executor, with the manu-
script of an autobiography, the existence
of which had not been suspected.
Arcola, IIl-Thomas Lyons warehouse
was destroyed by lightning Thursday
night: Over zoo tons of broom corn,
owned by the Union Broom Supply COM
Fany, were consumed. Loss between $751;
eco and 500, co., covered by insurance Sew
eral men in the building at the time were
stunned by the bolt.
London-A blue book just issued. giving
an actual return of the navigation of
the united kingdom, shows that British
shipping in 1900 decreased, inward ship
ping, by 26l9, "a 242 tons, and outward ship
ping by 2,903, 800 TONS while foreign ship
ping increased inward by 2,4S2,113 tons,
and outward by 2,470,576 tons.
Pittston, Pa.-Thirty acres of coal land
In this section sank several feet and
the surface is still going down. The cave
in occurred al the Ftdl col.iery, operated
by Elliot, Mcclure & Co. The 800 en-
ployes escaped. 1t is thought the shaft
will have to be abandoned The cavern
was due to "robbing' pillars.
Washington-Chief Postof1ce Inspector
Cochran received a cablegram announc-
ing that Thomas c. Vera, assistant post
master at MayagueZ, Porto Rico, was ar
rested for making use of cancelled post
age stamps. No details are given. Maya
guez is the third largest postoffice in
Porto Rico.
Chiea9go-George R. Lawrence, a pho
tographer, who attempted to take
birds eye view of the stock yards from a,
balloon, was thown from his car after it
had risen fifty feet. The accident was
caused by the breaking of cross bar
Lawrence struck web of telegraph wires
and was not injured beyond few GUS
The balloon continued it's upward fight
and soon disappeared.
Reading, Pa.-Over 600 men employed
in the car shops of the Reading Railroad
company struck for shorter hours and
increased pay Immediately thereafter
the boilermakers in the company's loco
motive shops struck. Their action, though
expected, caused the greatest excitement
in view of the present strike of :, 600 iron
workers of the Reading Iron company,
with whom they are apparently in SYM
pathy.
Independence, KAMA large amount of
minor damage was created here and in
the surrounding country by severe wind
storm. In the city trees were uprooted,
many buildings destroyed and the roofs
| of many large ones partly blown off.
II VI IL lIJIe LIlS people were pdu1C-SI. lChGJl.
In the country wheat in the shock was
| blown down for miles, but as there was
no rain, the grain was only slightly dam
! aged. No fatalities have been reported.
| Cleveland = There was no morn
| ing session of the conference
| between the Amalgamated asso-
! citation and the manufacturers, but the
! conferees got together in the afternoon
| and renewed their discussion on the an
! nual wage scale. Representatives Of the
| Amalgamated association, according to
| current report, show little disposition to
| agree to a compromise.
| Alturas, Cal-The grand jury of Modoc
| county, which has been investigating the
| lynching on May 80 of Calvin Hall his
| three sons and Daniel Yantis, for alleged
| theftS, has returned three indictments for
murder. Robert Leventon, Isom Fades
! and James w. Brown are the persons
named. 1t is understood that the evil
| dence was brought out by the investiga-
| ton showing that these three men were
| the principal participants in the events
leading up to the wholesale lynching.
Denver-George Estes, president of the
| Brotherhood of Railway employees, an
| nounces that the headquarters of the
! brotherhood will be removed from San
! francisco to Denver in the near future.
| This organization admits all railway en-
| ploy@ without reference to their partic-
ular Tine of labor. 1t is a Comparatively
new order but is said to have a large
membership among the railway employees
Of the West.