Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-08
NUMBER 1923.
CITY GLOBULEs.

| l,096.49.
] United States prisoner Furlong, confined in
the county jail for some time, on the charge of
selling whisky without paying the special tax,
was released yesterday.
| The people of st. Paul cannot afford to let
the boom project fail. Some enterprising men
should take the matter in hand and canvass of
few hours would secure the necessary funds
to construct it.
Elevator 'sA'' now runs Is out of the "a
hours, receiving and shipping wheat. Not
withstanding the shipments there are now some
tning over 100000 bushels of grain in store,
nearly all wheat.
Is it not about time to remove the old and
dIlapidated sidewalk on st. Peter street in
front of the State arsenal and replace it by a
ne" one! In Its present condition it is dis
grace to the city.
Inc cold snap of Friday and Friday night
made the Ice men happy in the expectation of
speedy rlpening of the crop, but the moderat-
ing weather OF yesterday again plunged them
INTO the cave of gloom"
new five run Touring mill is soon to be
built at Lake Elmo, on the Saltwater road.
The mill is to be granger cooperative affair
MIR. u. w. Lehman is largely interested in
pushing the business to speedy completion
Some Minneapolis job printers canvassed st.
Paul few days ago, and obtained a large
amount of work from our business men. Isn't
that nice way to build up a citvs As the
GLOBE owns no job office, this remark is not
personal.
Yesterday Hannah Walsh a Minneapolis mat
ron, was picked up off the streets again Of
hcer Rouleau did the muscular to get her into
the station. few days ago she was cautioned
TO go west, old woman, by JUDI Flint and
promised faithfully to do so.
Yesterday, Mr.. Henry Van Haven, super
intendent of the Keifer stock yards had his
heart gladdened by the arrival of his family,
(six IN number), from Faderland. They came
over under the difficulty of not knowing or un-.
derstanding word of English.
The county treasurer, yesterday, paid over
S2,ooO of county commissioners warrants is
sued for sundry claims accruing during Novem-
Der heretofore such warrants have had run
OF thirty days before payments but hereafter
ramsey county Will pay as she goes.
The citizens of the Fourth ward desire those
of the other wards to visit the Rice street i'm
provement and see what Alderman Griggs has
done Tor his constituents. On an Inspection of
that work we are satisfied that Rice street is
one of the best constructed highways in the
city.
Yesterday about nightfall John McIntosh's
horse ran away on Robert street. He finally
succeeded in upsetting the buggy and throwing
Mcintosh out. He struck head first against the
frozen ground, and received an ugly cash on
the forehead. The wound is painful but not
necessarily dangerous
About II o'clock, last night, Capt. Clark de-
tected suspicious unknown examining Mitch
ellis horse and buggy, in front of Rogers
block. He lnuuired the man's husIness and
was told his business was none of his (Clark's)
On business. To convince unknown to the
contrary, he was run in.
Yesterday and the night before, a gang of
Winnipeg connection railroaders were making
things lively about the Minnesota home
They We're going it at the rate of mile min
ute Officer Cook Friday night, put some of
en- to bed with his club, and Yesterday Capt.
Clark and Detective Bresett had to down
brakes" on their exhuberance.
Yesterday Messrs. Bigelow, Flandrau & Clark,
attorneys for the Mercantile Trust company in
the suit brought by the Merchants National
bank to recover 541, 600 out of which Etheridge
swindled them, filed application in the dis
trict court for a transfer to the United States
circuit court The application is based upon
the grounds that the defendant in the above
entitled suit is a nonresident of the State of
Minnesota.
The election to settle the legislative tie in the
Belle PLANE district of Scott county, will be
held Saturday next. A good deal of anxiety
for the place is being shown same eight per
sons having already announced themselves as
candidates. either subject to or without a NOM
ination. The Democratic nominating conven-
tlon is to be held Wednesday next, and that
body should act with such wisdom as to leave
| no doubt of the result of the election Satur-
day.
| Hanauer Lichtenauer & Co.'s business
loomed up in court again yesterday. After
confessing judgment as stated in yesterdays
| GLOBE, yesterday morning they filed an inden-
ture making over to Julius Austrian all their
stock, notes, realty, etc., as their assignee.
Yesterday the sheriff was engaged in taking an
inventory of stock, and the amount on hand
will keep him engaged all day tomorrow. Gen
eral talk mas summed it up that the firm is
deeply involved; their Indebtedness probably
footing up to figures IN excess of 100000.
Yesterday afternoon family "onpleasant
MIS- occurred in the Werner family residing
near the harvester works. VIM. Proetz, a
| step-son, with innumerable step brothers of the
werner variety u was the prime cause of the
| disturbance. The affair resulted in a knock
! down. Old man Werner took the tumble, and
Proetz helped him to it, Then Henry Werner
waltzed up for his apple-pie and was dealt
large slice; then the Werner family combined
against Proetz. Discretion becoming the bet
lu,U
not until he had mauled the old man and up
| set the equilibrium, fluid and solid, of other
members of the household
The will of Ereka G. ?. Holmes was filed in
the probate court yesterday. 1t provides for
the distribution of the estate, personal and
real, equally among her nine children. after
deducting $400 to be divided among the four
Youngest TO offset 800 given to each of the
five older children. The share falling to Victor
| Ferdinand PetSrSOD-ODo no
be paid over to him but is to be kept for his
children. The will says that ''the omission to
| give my son Victor Ferdinand Peterson any
thing is Intentional" Howard Hill is made
executor to the will.
Yesterday about II 80 o'clock A. NJ, small
pony hitched to a small wagon made things big
with the probability of coming destruction, on
the corner of Fourth and jackson streets. He
was hitched to the sidewalk and for a time
| was placldly serene. Something started him
with spasmodic suddenness. Ho wheeled
ABOUT IN circle, the wagon conforming to his
cratic whirls. Buggies and other vehicles in
the immediate vicinity were jumbled up con-
fusedly, until which was the wagon hitched to
the pony none could tell. When the mess was
Strengthened out, it was found that DR.. Stones
buggy was smashed, the little wagon emptied
OF all contents, and the pony looked like he
! mad passed through thousand battles and in
Vulnerable skirmishes.
Talmage, of Brooklyn. and Swing, of Chi
cago, are not more successful as lecturers in
their respective cities than would be the Rev.
| u. Il. Breed in Minnesota If he were ONLY to
| care to become SO. The few lectures that the
| reverend gentleman has delivered have been
| most popular. His lecture upon Florence at
the Opera House, some time since, was consid-
cred superior to that delivered In the same
| place by Swing. Tomorrow evening the gem
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