Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-27
CITY GLOBULEs.
The fire department committed called to

The fire department. committee is called to
meet at the city hall to-day at clock P. NJ.
The committee on city ordinances will meet
in the city clerks Office o'clock satur-
day. -
The police payroll for September has been
handed to the city comptroller, for the month
of September. 1t foots up to $2,491.
The city clerk was engaged yesterday in
drawing orders for the September salaries Of
the police and fire departments and all city
employees.
Wheat Shylock Washburn has been in Du-
luth all the week scattering the proceeds Of bis
wheat-grade steals in saloons and groggeries,
and in distributing railroad passes.
The recent rains have resulted in a slight
rise in the Mississippi, the mark yesterday
showing twelve inches, rise of an inch and a
half in the last twenty-four hours.
Mississippi Red" who was consigned to
jail last week, is hard party to deal with.
he was sentenced to the rock pile, but defeats
the aims of justice by declining to work A
bread and water dieD, since his incarceration,
dUesn't bring him to terms.
Under the tax law passed last winter the
county treasurer has collected, for the present
quarter. So, 900 delinquent taxes. This amount
stands against the yearly levy o lessen 1T, as
all expenses attending the collection. of delin-
quent taxes are paid by an additional "a cents
penalty for each description.
While the fifth ward special committee was
| in session yesterday, their grade deliberations
were cut into by the deep shores Of sleeper.
On looking around a recunbe bent figure seen
| under the gun-rack. He was aroused, and by
| main strength taken below to the lookup to
phoro off, wit Il
| Yesterday forenoon, a little girl, aged
| years, daughter of Nathan Smith. was run over
! in front of her fathers residence; corner of
| Sixth and Jackson streets. by vegetable wag-
! on: The careless driver was a lad about Is
| years old. The little girl happily escaped in
| jury, except a few bruises
Gavernor Pillsbury has received the following
additional contributions in aid Of yellow fever
sufferers! CIV. Putnam, collection of a church
at Anoka, SOTO; j. O. Morrison, employees
of st. Paul & Pacific railroad company, SlS9;
Hon. q. P. Van Valkenburgh, Austin, MIMI
| proceeds of concert, $20.10.
Wednesday afternoon w. a. A. Knoet strolled
into Farwell Brothers store on Third street,
and strolled out again. He was weightier by
! ten packages of emory. paper when he went out
than when he made his entrance. Farwell had
no equivalent to show for the $S worth of prop
erty. Yesterday morning the theft was report
ed at police headquarters ana officer Gibbons
was sent out to find lost property and man.
| The former he recovered at Hills secondhand
store, and soon thereafter got in with the man,
! He is locked up at the station.
| Frances Olson nee Hutchlns is locked up at
police headquarters for larceny. She is one of
the help at the Merchants hotel, and only a
| week ago she caught pilferng small sums
| hpr MT an
great contrition and the promise not to be
| guilty again, she was let off. Yesterday the
| kleptomaniac tit came over her again, and she
! stole skirt or some other article of female
attire, and was caught with the garment on
| forgiveness having failed before, she was re-
| ported, and arrested by the police as a fit sub
ject for the House of the Good Shepherd.
Col. Kiefer, county clerk, received a letter
yesterday from Vienna, and it may be termed a
family affair. Each member had dotted down
a paragraph or two. And the remarkable fea-
ture was, that each piece of chirography was
| perfect in symmetry. even and exact as a
| copperplate. The letter contained inquiries
from gentleman and his family in regard to
| locating in America. One Of the writer's is the
Austrian governments official photographer, and
besides, he has had the contract with the Porte
to furnish all war maps and to do all official
| printing for the Turkish government for years.
Col. Kiefer is expected to say, Minnesota is the
| place.
The carriage horse of Albert scheffer got up
a little excitement yesterday afternoon. The
animal was being driven along Second street
| in the rear Of the Ingersol block. when he
TOOK fright by the whiff1etree dropping upon his
| heels, Not liking his heels interfered with,
the horse gave the whif1etree the grand bounce.
Governed by the laws of gravitation. the Whit
fetree returned to It's starting point. and again
the horse resented the familiarity. This lit
tie game was kept up until the driver had be-
come demoralized and tumbled, or was thrown
from the buggy, and the horse had detached
himself from it in somewhat collapsed con-
dltion, after which he made run down Third
street to in front of the bank of Dawson & Co.,
in his tumble suffered few slight bruises,
and the buggy will require the expenditure of
| $l5 or $40 to put it in as good shape as previ-
| GUS to the circus.