Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-21
CITY GLOBULES.

neither is that of st. Paul street mud.
Three minor bills, of merely local import
ance, yesterday received the Governors Off
cial signature.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly will lecture before
the Temperance Reform club this evening.
at the rooms on Seventh street. near jackson.
Elsewhere will be found an advertisement
asking for bids for building bridge at Sank
Rapids. It will pay bridge builders to at
tend to the matter
The Ekman subscription list is still open
at Classen's, on Bridge square. Several of
the charitably disposed have already given of
their substance, but their is still room for
more.
An extra session of the board of public
works was held yesterday morning, at which
We're present President Timme and Mr.. Fl.
NJ. K1ce. The Como avenue improvement
was the point of consideration.
boy named Lark, who resides on DAY.
toms bluff and is employed in Dodge & Lar
penteur's printing office. had one of his little
fingers involuntarily amputated yesterday by
being caught in printing press.
wagon and span of horses belonging to
MI. Martin Bruggeman, brewer, employed
On the river in getting ice, got into the
water yesterday morning by the ice giving
away. After many strenuous efforts the
team was at length extricated from it's peril
GUS position not much the worse for it's en-
forced cold bath.
In response to the petition presented to
Governor Pillsbury on Monday, Johanson,
yesterday, received an unconditional pardon.
and was liberated at noon from the county
jail. The joy of the late prisoner was almost
uncomfortable, and his greeting by his family
and friends were equally felicitious.
Anybody who considers himself s.cuss on
wheels can have an opportunity of testing
his speed. Robert Glenn, who was at the
last State fair, challenges any one in Mime
sofa anywhere near his weight, to run a race
with him for an amount between 300 and
$500. Glenn weighs 260 pounds, and can
be heard from at IS Robert street.
Many men lately have applied at the Office
of the Society for the Relief of the Poor,
asking for food and lodging, who report that
they have been discharged from the narrow
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say there is no iron to go on with, and when
they were discharged, there was no money
to pay them with.
Applications have already been made to
| the grasshopper committee under the new
law, by 4,545 persons for seed grain, amount
ing in the aggregate to 146, 500 bushels. The
counties from which the largest number OF
applications has come, and which have suf.
fered most by grasshopper devastations, are
Meeker, Kandiyohi and Stearns.
The special common council committee on
legislation had two hours session yester.
day afternoon, and held an informal con.
vention upon the reduction of salaries az
proposed by the retrenchment committe Of
the chamber of commerce. The resolution
from the common council, respecting the
board OF public works, published in yester
days GLOBE, was also under consideration
No definite action was taken on either of thu
subjects, and the committee adjourned.
Prof. Lacy, Of the State university, las
night delivered highly interesting and elab
crate lecture in the room of the chamber Of
commerce, upon the effect of forests on tn.
rain supply. Including the learned lecturer
and HE GLOBE reporter, the audience mum
bered exactly one dozen persons, which woull
seem to indicate that the subject of forestr,
has declined in interest with the people o
this city. The professors effort was eminent
" worthy of better patronage.
just after the performance of the Hessia1
band commenced last evening in the Oper,
House, lad named Barney Goldstein, aget
about - years, who resides on Ninth street
fell down the stairs and sustained fractur,
of his right leg. Goldstein was among a lo
of other gauains who crowd the stairway ant
entrance to the Opera House on the occa
sion Of any performance to the discomfort o
parties attending, and his injuries resulted
from his hurry to get away from the prem
ises when he was ordered off.