Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-26
CITY GLOBULEs.
Sheriff Becht il improving.

Sheriff Becht Is improving.
A crashed buggy at the corner of st. Peter
and Tenth streets was awaiting an owner at
midnight last night
Peter Brown, the man who injured his wrist
in the Scheibe saloon fight, has been trans
ferred to the hospital.
The prisoners convicted at the present term
of the district court will probably be sentenced
on Tuesday morning.
John Hennessy the prisoner in the county
Jail who was supposed to be suffering from
the jim-iams is getting better, and is still in
jail.
The Georgia minstrels are to occupy the
Opera House on Tuesday evening. They are
said to be unsurpassed by any minstrel show
travelling.
mansard roof had TO be erected on the bill
board opposite the post Office in order to accom-
modate the cuts of the giants forthcoming with
the next circus
The cistern, corner OF Rice and Viola streets,
contains 1000 barrels, and required No. l en-
CINE to pump leisurely for four hours through
1850 feet of hose, laid up hill
If the Odd Fellows do not want their block
to be seriously damaged they should fix the
water spout in the rear of the building. It is
likely to seriously injure the wall.
The Great Western band give an excursion to
Bass lake tomorrow. Trains leave the foot of
jackson street at $3.50 A. m. and 80 p. H., and
returning leave the lake at 6:l5 p NJ.
The erection of the poles to carry the wires
to FIRE alarm box No. 50, at the pillow works
was completed yesterday. end the stretching of
the wires Will be commenced on Monday.
Monday will close the criminal trialssln the
district court for the present, the attendance
of County Attorney Rogers will be demanded
before the grand jury ON Tuesday morning.
large number of witnesses from various
parts Of the State have been summoned to
appear berore the grand jury on Tuesday to
| give evidence in the school book bribery case.
| The annual meeting for the election Of a
! board Of managers for the Protestant Orphan
asylum win be held at the House of Hope
church, on Wednesday, May %, at 3 o'clock
| p II.
Yesterday, the smouldering sawdust of the
refrigerator fire was, at length, being pulled
apart, and a hydrant stream was being poured
upon it, the only eftectual means of quenching
fire of it's character.
| stone building Minnesota street, oppo-
site the telegraph Office, is very unsafe, the
wall at the rear being cracked from roof to
basement and bulged and spread, threatening
| to fall at any moment.
A complaint was entered yesterday after
noon relative to George Anderson, the man re-
Gently removed from the cityi hospital to the
jail, the object being his commitment to the
| st. Peter insane asylum.
man of the name of Pythoff, employed in
the planning mill, corner of Sixth and Cedar
streets, interfered yesterday evening with the
business end of saw, and sustained injuries
to one of his hands, which were attended to by
| DR.. Staum.
There is great complaint among those in tn.
Sixth ward who try to keep neat and tidy
door yard, that pigs are allowed to run at large
They are voted greater nuisance than any
number of COWS, as no fence can be built t
keep them out.
Mr.. Fertig returned from his farms at Han
cock yesterday morning. He reports crop.
looking better than he ever saw them at this
season of the year. The rush of immigration
through Hancock the last two months he says
| has been immense.
VIM. Burk, of Brainerd, accused of selling
whisky to Indians, appeared yesterday before
Judge Nelson, of the United States district
four hours imprisonment. The fine was paid,
and Burk will be liberated to-day.
Mrs. Mcdonald, the mother of the bow who
was shot at the Neill school ON Friday, was al
the municipal court on Friday with view Of
| making complaint against the Luckert boy for
criminal carelessness in the use of firearms
For some reason she left without making com
plant.
! Haverly's minstrels played to large business
last evening at the Opera house and gave gen.
eral satisfaction. The company is very strong
| in numbers and gives q creditable perform
ance. Marsh Adams and Pete McGlone caused
immense fun for the younger portion of the
/ audience b1 their eccentricities. The iokes
were generally fresh and good and in no way
vulgar.
| The tornado, heretofore noted in the tele
/ graphic columns of the GLOBE very nearly
struck Minnesota. On Thursday, the steame,
plying upon the St, Croix river was nearly up
set by the gale. A passenger says that the sue
ton abaft the boat was such as nearly to over
come the efforts of the machinery, and tha
half panic, for the time being, seized TIL
passengers.
In the district court yesterday John Carr wa
tried and convicted of an assault with dan
gerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm
In this case the dangerous weapon was a larg
boulder which he hurled through the windoy
of Sheehee's saloon some weeks ago, after hav
ing been elected from it. The missile strucl
John Borden, inficting an ugly wound.
Emanuel Harris, colored barber, was 0,
trial yesterday in the district court, Charge
with an assault with razor upon August Fish
er. The evidence showed that after bein
elected from Fishers saloon he was pursue
and struck by the LATTER and then retaliated b
slashing his assailant with the implement O
his profession. He was convicted of simpl
assault.
The statement of the Luckert boy that b
received the pistol from a boy named Roche
and that he did not know it was loaded whe
he shot the Mcdonald boy, is evidently wron
in one respect. The Roche boy had no interes
or ownership in the pistol. He had the pistt
the previous day fixing it with his jack knit
SO that it would shoot and returned it to til
boy who owned it without any cartridge. ]
, fact, he had none to put in.
Now and again, paragraphs appear relatiy
to the number of prairie schooners passin
) through the streets of the city. The traffic j
| the direction named is really bagatelle con
pared with that which finds its egress by raj
| It is no unusual circumstance on the mornin
! western-b bound trains Of the st. Paul q Pacif
railroad to pass outward with from twenty-fi,
to thirty carr. LOADED with Stock farming in
plements and tents and other shelter for Il
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