Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-28

yesterday, his incorrigibility being utterly be-
You'd ordinary means of correction.
The guests of the Metropolitan. gave very
pleasant impromptu party to their friends last
night, about one hundred being present.
Buses will leave bridge square to-day at reg
ular intervals for Lake Como and return, and,
if the weather is fine, there will be hosts of
passengers.
A meeting was to have been held yesterday
by the board of abatement, but, owing to the
want OF quorum, those present had to- ad-
journ without transacting business.
The dog licenses are due, and the slaughter
of the innocents will commence May l, if
the owners do not waltz up to the city treas
urer's office in the meantime and ante up.
Dennis Duane's double D initials are typical
of the offence with which he was charged yes
terday in the municipal court-drunk and dis
orderly, which resulted in two more ds-dis-
graccd and discharged.
The board of control was engaged yesterday
in settling up the current months bills, which
amounted to s1,5576l, distributed as follows:
Poor relief, S727.28; poor house, $423.47; and
county hospital, $406.S6.
If Frank B. Clarke, the agent of the West
Wisconsin railroad, keeps on at his present
gait, he will soon be transferred from the doc
tors list to the cooks. He was yesterday en-
abled to spend q short time in his office to the
delight of his world of friends.
Messrs Dawson, Salisbury and G. D. OXEN
returned last evening, from piscatorial visit
to tho trout streams, out along the st. Paul d
Duluth road, bringing home very fine catch
of the speckled beauties. Guy" took in one
which weighed fully two pounds, and resem-
bled to marked degree the famous Yellow
stone or Montana trout.
The parents of Frank Hannigan, who reside
in LIE Sueur county, have notified the police
that he is missing. Frank is sixteen years DID,
large for his age looks healthy and has red hair
| and a speckled face. He wore when he left
overalls, red boots and bingham shirt with a
rufled bosom. Information is requested re-
specting him by the police at the city hall.
There were four of them yesterday in the
municipal court, and they were all O'Brien's.
bench, and there were Michael o. Brien, ST., and
Michael OBrien, Jr., on the penitent bench,
and there was John D. O'Brien in the counsel
ors bench for the prisoners. The senior and
junior o Briens were charged with ''wading
into James Flynn, of which they were ac-
| quilted.
Strange are the freaks of humanity. Mrs.
| Croft, as noticed in yesterdays GLOBE, was
consigned on Friday to the St. Peter insane
asylum, under the commitment of the Judge
of probate. She was accompanied thither by
her daughter, at whose request the adjudication
| of the mothers insanity had bee-, secured.
Yesterday, that Identical daughter brought
back Mrs. Croft to this city, and travelled hither
by the same train as that by which the sheriff q
officer returned who had committed Mrs Croft
to the insane asylum.
For about two hours yesterday Third street,
from the bridge to the elevator, and St. Peter
street to the Windsor hotel were completely
blocked with wagons loaded with wheat, and a
steady stream of wagons continued to pour in
all Gay from 8 o clock till 4P.M. The lowest
price paid was $1.10, and there were one or two
lots sold for $l.14 and $1.15-one cent higher
than the highest price paid in Chicago and half
cent higher than in Milwaukee yesterday,
Chicago opening at 81. IA and closing at $1.l3s
Milwaukee opened at $1.13M and advanced to
| $l.14L.
The three Houlihans, Bridget, John and
Michael, and John Mccarthy, the quartette Of
Chestnut street assaulters Of Michael Stapleton
one week ago yesterday, were up before the
municipal court yesterday. Michael was
charged with the serious offence Of assault with
dangerous weapon, dray pin, while the
! others constituted sort of second fddlers in
the family orchestra of pugnacity They all
escaped condign punishment by the skin of
| their teeth, but somebody in shilallah town
will get into serious trouble one of these DAYS,
| 1T the denizens of that western Dom brook do
not cease being so 'blue mowldy for batting
G. P. Hawley was charged yesterday in the
municipal court with obstructing with his
hack the Jackson street crossing between the
passenger and baggage depots of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. This was the
first charge made under the lately enacted or
dinance governing such cases. City Attorney
Murray prosecuted, and succeeded in establish.
ing the charge, but asked that small penalty
only be inflicted as the case was novel. The
court, while acknowledging the case was proved
to certain extent, thought it best to discharge
the prisoner, but it won't be safe for another
hickman to try the same game while Office,
| Calvin is around.
| Mrs. Mueller arrived yesterday from Phila
delphia with her three children, one an infant
and the eldest about ten years. She came il
search of her husband, VIM. Mueller, who LEFT
her in November last with the intention O.
settling in this vicinity, where his brother
August was understood to reside but VIM
! Mueller has not been heard of since. Mrs
Mueller is entirely penniless, and even had t.
pledge her baggage to secure the fare of herself
and family from La Crosse, Wis, to St. Paul
but the baggage was subsequently returned
August Mueller is supposed to have resided il
st. Paul, and is said to have obtained divorce
1 some time ago. Any information in the mat
ter regarding the missing man should be con
| veyed to police headquarters.