Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-04
CITY GLoBULEs.
Pay your water bills ON or before Jan. 6.

Pay your water bills on or before Jan. 6, and
save per cent.
The live stock market is quiet. Seventeen
head of mixed were sold yesterday at $3.50.
DIR. Higbee lost his case of wee bit pills on
Dayton avenue, yesterday. He would like to
have the case returned as his patients are cry
ing for their medicine.
Wheat receipts were very light Yesterday:
70 cents for 81 lbs; IS cents for Sc lbs; so
cents Tor 81 lbs; As cents for So lbs; 40 cents
for 81 lbs; IS cents for 80 lbs.
The city treasurer has received payment for
nine liquor licenses to date. All licenses for
traffic under city ordinances are due, and par
Ties owing will save themselves trouble by
coming up promptly and settling.
The West Wisconsin bill poster is around on
his annual tour. He is putting up new sched-
ules, renovating old frames and ornamenting
office walls with stupendously printed circu-
lars, etc. The city hall got its share of orna-
mentation yesterday.
Last night some sneak thief got into Mrs.
Bocken6eld's boarding house on the corner Of
Fourth and Minnesota streets, and got away
with an assortment of old coats, pants, etc. No
arrest made yet, but the manner of work and
the kind of men who ibid it are pretty well
known to the police.
The Swede arrested, yesterday, by Detective
Bresett,s on suspicion of having stolen Stern
berg's beaver coat, comes down with a confess
sion. He says he did it, and put the coat aN ay
IN a second hand store jackson street. He
gives his name as Andrew Nelson, and AYERS he
is unacquainted in these parts.
A one-legged peddler has been frequentine
for several days the resident portion of the
city, selling pencils, penholders. etc. If the
lady of the house doesn't wish to purchase.
she's requested to give. If she does not, the
MANNED merchant treats her to considerable
abuse. The scoundrel will find the master at
home yet, and get suppressed.
The Union Bible class, for the benefit of Sum
day school teachers and bible students, meet
to-day at the Y. NJ. G. A. lecture room. at 80
P. NJ, and lasts for5y-fve minutes. Rev David
H. Breed, who is to conduct the exercises. has
such reputation in the city as thoroug h
bible student and an apt teacher, that doubt
less many will avail themselves Of the privil-
eyes of the class.
Yesterday Thomas G.. Cunningham. of Min
neapolis, before United States Commits
sioner Cordozo on the charge of violating the
| internal revenue law. The offense in the case
was delaying his payment of the special liquor
tax. The case was considered, defendant com.
| PEELED to pay the penalty and was held in 300
to answer to the grand jury. He was released
| on his own recognizance.
The third entertainment of the Library
course will take place next Thursday evening
| at the Opera House. As advertised. the Misses
| Banning will form the attractive feature OF
| the evenings pleasurable entertainment. The
well known evolutionary aud dramatic powers
OF these young ladies are too we'll known tc
demand extended notice. The mere announce.
ment is sufficient to command large audience
| AT a late hour last night fire was discovered
in small shanty near Dayton's Bluff, and
quite blaze was caused. No. engine turned
| out, but seeing that no damage could be caused
| and that the shanty was destroyed, they turned
| back. 1t turned out that the shanty was q
| tramps boarding house, ana had probably been
set on tire by the occupants in their frantic
efforts to keep warm with the thermometer at
! Is degrees below zero.
The party arrested by Officer DeCorsey
| the night before on suspicion of stealing
Sternberg's beaver coat, was released Yesterday
1t turned out he had been bartering off an
| overcoat, but not beaver one. Later in the
day Detective Bressett brought in Swede
whom he had arrested down at the st, Thomas
hotel as the thief sure and certain. Several
| bad given the man away as party who had
been trying to get rid of an overcoat.
A hack and pair of horses belonging to Peter
Berkey, barely escaped smash-up, yesterday.
just as the IL o'clock Saltwater train was pass
ing the St: Paul & Pacific depot the horses be.
came frightened, and dashed off towards the
incoming train. A railroad employee caught
the horses by the head, just as they were with
in three feet Of the locomotive. The carriage
is valued at $1,000, and the horses in proper.
tlon-thirty-s cents could have bought the
outfit, just before the railroader bravely
| averted the accident.
What appears considerably like an attempt
ed robbery showed up about Manufacturers
store last night. In the first place the store,
an unusual thing, in utter darkness.
officer Kenealy commenced to take a survey in
consequence. In making an investigation at
the rear of the premises, he discovered foot
prints in the snow on the shed-roof. Notifying
Capt Clark, they followed them up, and found
considerable tramping had been done around
the sky-light. thorough inspection dis
covered nothing more. Ingress to the build
ing had not been obtained, but evidently some
body had been feeling the way to burglary
and the robbery of the store. Look to your
sky-lights and back doors and shutters!