The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-18
AFTERNOON CONVERSATIONS.

OnpT0C0QSnC6Q nOOUS nave occurred
the southwestern portion of Cape Colony,
resulting in great destruction of houses.
bridges and railroad property. Twenty
i've persons have been drowned.
The six officers of the German imperial
yacht Hohenzollern who went to Niagara
Falls last week returned yesterday. -Four
other officers will go to the falls today
and viii return on Wednesday.
John Griffith. well known civil engi-
neer of Philadelphia and a man OF
wealth, committed suicide at his home in
bennington, suburb, by blowing out his
brains with a shotgun. He was forty
years of age.
A west-bound freight train on the Lake
Shore railroad went through a bridge
oyer the Xermillion river at Vermillion
Monday. Twenty cars went into the riv-
er, but fortunately no one was hurt. The
engine and the first ten cars passed over
safely
A. special to the Daily News from
capped from Shelby farm Bolivar county,
Monday morning by saving their way
through the cage. Sergeant Nance has
wired to Jackson for additional blood
hounds to join in the search.
Henry G. McEldowney, president of the
Crion Trust company, of Pittsburg, his
wife and three children were rescued
from their burning home at Homewood
avenue and Wightman street at an early
hour Monday morning by neighbers.
"A Od1lllS TODD6TY was at
Clinton. Iowa, at an early hour Monday
morning, when two masked men, at the
mGzZleS or revolverS, held up Flanagan
gambling establishment and robbed
twelve inmates of money and ValuableS
amounting to $1,000.
Five men blew open two safes in the
street railway company's Office at North
ampton, Mass, at an early hour today,
afler oVerpoWering the Watchman. They
secured $3.50 in cash and $500 in checks
In their haste thew OVPrInntSpd S5H0 IN
one Of the safes
A c0urt-martia1 at Hanover. Prussia
condemned Herr Falkenhagen, an officer
of the army reserve, to six years i'm
prlSOnment in q fortress for killing Lam
dreth Won BennigSen in a duel Jan 16
in the emperors hunting park at Syringe
as the result of a quarrel growing out
Of the conduct of the wife of Herr Won
Bennigsen.
All the employees Of the Singer Sewing
machine works lat South Bend Ind,
numbering 1,600, went on a strike Mon
day. The strike was started by about $50
shapers quitting work because of the al
!eged eXacuons of a foreman brought
here from New Jersey, and shortly after
ward the other employees followed out of
sympathy.
Lieut.. Clarence M. Furey, of the Sec
ond infantry, committed suicide at the
United States barracks at Columbus at
noon Monday. He was standing in his
quarters surrounded by brother officers
at the time. and withoSf a word pulled
a 45-Colt's revolver and shot himself in
the temple.
Mrs. Charles Purdy has returned to
Toledo from the KIcndike with for
tune During her four years residence
In the Klondike, besides keeping a board
ing house and hotel, she bought and sold
claims aggregating millions Of dollars,
ano when she finally picked up stakes
and came away it was with over 81, ,000,-
900 in gold dust.
MI
been operated upon for suppuration of
the middle ear on the right side The
operation was made necessary by cold
which affected that part Of the ear. The
moved. The young musician probably
will be in MS usual health within ten
days.
Santos Dulnont is already at work pre-
pairing his plans for the rebuilding If his
airship, wrecked on his last attem t to
cross the Mediterranean, says a Journal
and American dispatch from Mona CO.
Efforts to grapple his motor, the sink
ing ing Of which was the most serious loss OF
the disaster, have all failed, and he
has ordered a new and more powerful
one. That he will ultimately cross the
sea is regarded here as a certainty, run
only mis- death will stop him.
On their determination to stop the viola
ton of speed laws by automobilists and
the frequent accidents, twelve arrests
have been made in different sections of
New York: AS most of the chaffeurs
were locked up for the night the police
believe they will succeed in breaking up
the tendency to fracture the statutes
Led by the tWelve-year-old son of the
rector, forty boys, comprising the choir
Of st. Clements Protestant Episcopal
church,of New York city, have gone on
strike, and at the Sunday morning
service hooted and jeered the four men
soloists who furnished all the vocal
music They had preceded this by ston-
ho chanel SATURDAY.
were routed by the police.
Frank NJ. Reckwith was lodged in iail
at Bellefonte, Pa, Sunday night for the
murder of his wife yesterday morning at
Reclzwith went to Sandy Ridge on a
visit BeckWith told her to be home nor
later than midnight. The woman failed
to return and BeckWith walked eight
miles over the mountain, and finding
his wife, killed her.
George Ertel, inventor and manufactur-
er Of incubatOrs, and hay presses, died
Sunday night at Pinta, Ariz., on a train
crossing the desert en- route to Quincy
He was suffering from Bright's desease
and had spent the winter on his ranch in
California. Lately he had grown worse
and was being brought home to die The
deceased was born in Germany seventy
two years ago. He amaSsed a large
fortune by his inventions.
A permit was issued in Chicago Sun
day for the construction of what is
planned to be the largest office building
in the world. The building is projected
by the First National bank officers. and
will house, when completed, 5000 people
The building will stand at Dearborn and
Monroe streets, and will cost S3O00. .O9O
Work will be begun in the spring.
Private adyices from St. Petersburg
state that work is progressing rapidly on
the extensive American plant under con
struction there to manufacture machin-
cry for the Russian government. The
plant will cover twenty-eight acres anG
employ 1,500 men. American labor saving
devices will be installed. EVERYTHING
other than the castings, which are to be
imported from the United States, viii
be manufactured at the new works.